The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1946, Page 3

es sos TUBSDAY, DECkBER 1,098 Lg : Detroit: Favored To Train, | Set Up Farm Here; Havana | Man Wants 10-Club The entry of Key West into the Florida-International Base-' ball League, which .appears fail- ly Certain, will assure the selec- tion of Key West as a spring training site by some major — club, it was learned today. baseball figure making the UILAR prediction told The Citizen’ that! = >i ? = POSTE the Detroit Tigers have the in Ree = <r sidé track. It was pointed out, MILLION DOLLARS WORTH that the average major league [OF PUBLICITY : club would jump at the chance FOLLOWING | THROUGH island, especially if have Key West as a farm. 'nicipal Stadium Committee, Such climates as Tampa's, it tast night to apply for a Key West vas explained, is all right dur-' franchise in the Florida-Interna-| July - img the day but as soon as the ‘tional League ... . If this goes sun goeq down the players be- }0Ver: it will be one of the biggest | ein wetting kinks in their muscles #4vertising features for the city from the chilly weather. We'bave ever: Hind: Meanwhile, it developed that! Information before and after one reason behind the move to! the alle wh be poet Nias be have Key West in the Florida- uae aod teak RL International circuit is the do- eee ripscaa baer angie ged is ef Mavene besctaR rien tates will be broadeast and pub- | have the Cuban capital repre-} ished. It will be a million dol-; RE gel aind cue worth of publicity for Key sented { instead of | West, so let’s get behind the club one. The single Havana club in'and help put it over. b league leaves too many non-} With Tampa, Havana, Miami, playing days for Havana's fans.!Miami Beach, St. Petersburg, Ft. Admission of a second Havana! Lauderdale and Lakeland in the team would make the league a‘ league, Key West will be the key nine-club affair. Key West would stop for the teams going to and make it an even ten teams.|coming from Cuba. | Merite Acosta, owner of the Ha-} Just think what this will mean vane club, has been one of the! to the city itself, the Chamber of! most vigorous of those urging! Commerce, Junior Chamber of | Key West to enter .the league. ; Commerce, Rotary Club, Lions The other clabs are Miami, Mi-}Club and other civic organiza- ami Beach, Lauderdale, West! tions: I know they will be 100 Palm Beach, Tampa, St. Peters- patsent behind -thig, movement | burs tad Letetans. -. } Which will mean so much to the Key West backers would es- Reed City, pecially like to have Detroit operate the local club as a farm because its efficient farm sys- tem, Such an arrangement would sive Key West a better ball club Corporal Pent Visits Parents Technical Corporal Robert H. |Cupid Slows Up Here; 141 Fewer There was a substantial de-|have beem discovered in cease in the number of mar-|berian Soviet Republic of Tuva.- An expedition from the U.S. Judge Raymond R. Lord in Mon-|S.R. Academy of Science, report- roe County in 1946, as compared|ed Moscow radio, silver, copper, In 1945 ‘there were 639 mar-|}and 26-foot deep coal seams: riage licenses issued. This con-} —— — trasts with 498 issued in 1946.} August —.. Until today, 36 such licenses had | September riage with been Licenses issued by months for | November - December 1946 Russia’s licenses issued by County 1945. issued in December, October and 1945 follow: 1946 1945[ January —____ 42, 62) Total 45 r The Citizen. stated Monday in! February - of training on this sun-bathed}a featured front page story that | March it should | Rey Hamlin, chairman of the Mu-| April - left} May - June 75}men in heartiest wishes to you and yours for a wonderful happy year! LONDON. —(AP)=-New. min- Licenses In "46 eral riches adding to Soviet 66} It is believed the falling off in 55{ the number of marriage licenses 65; issued this year is due to the 62 | large decrease in the number’ of 56 Key West. yast natural found irom ore, col scctnesaactaaeassSNaiC "| 639 | the armed services in Papapesseasanegegeeswessscsseen ESTERS ATTA GSSSETESTTSSSTSTSEBSTST ESET Revival Services, » Key West's holiday week re-|giam army in 1947 will have Py bs being eee ae 73,500 men—24,900 professional oF ‘ongressman 5 ~ , of Georgia, will go info i thing} one AO secre day. here when the “Billy Sunday of Congress” speaks at the Poin-|Senatorial Commission for Na- ¢ciana Baptist Church tonight. Upshaw will conciude his Key West appearance Sunday after-| Methodist Church on “Home, the noon when he speaks at the First Foundation of Civilization”. Welcome nd help materially from the fi- nancial angle as well as provide the Tigers with good material. TODAY HISTORY (Know America) 1775.--(150 years ago) more incorporated a city. 1833.—-Obed Hussey, then of Cincinnati, patents one of the uccessful repeaters. 1879.—-At Menlo Park, N, J., Thomas A. Edison first demon- strates, first.,.gystem | of , street lighting jp whith, the jneandes- cent lantpilis used: | packed: trains Balti- Pent, who had been spending the Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pent, 1108 Olivia street, has left} | for his post at Camp Lewis, Washington. Corporal Pent has been in the} Army nine months, and has nine / more months to serve before he receives his discharge. Two-thirds of Africa is in the northern hemisphere. i Belgium’s 1947 Army _ PAGE TE New Year's Butrothat Of RUSSELS, —(AP)— The Bel-}. cording to a report from the tional Defense, This Is Our 102nd New Year With You! joke Oust Announced Tomotrow.. will mark’ more’ couple’s engagement, as of tha date, was: armounced today by Ags ‘ We Wish to Extend to Our Friemds and Patrons § AYRE iS x / “We Have It—We'll Get lt—or It’s Not Being Mcde” Wm. Curry’s Soris Co. | KEY- WEST, FLORIDA \ SaasaesaacaaseaasaeaeaeassseeRSe run 4tyniaht to Menlo Park to we it 1908.—Wilbur Wright ‘makes fivying history by flying, in Foance, for almost two and a half houree-74 smdles. ThesgLindberghs, secretly 1935 teeing! wpgptry. reach, safety, of ‘éngland 1936 —Washington Limitations. Treaty of 1922 and London Pact of 1930 both end—and world powers start ship rearmament 1940.— Navy cancels war games as fleet held in Hawaiian wa- te * unit 1941.—Japs land at will at Manila's gates 1943.—Hitler's message to his people reads there will be no vietors and losers, but merely irvivors and annihilated.’ 1944--Allies bomb Berlin wily. Gen, Patton opens new counter-offengiye-drive into Nazi flank 2) 1945.—Selective Service states draft fails to get enough men. An xecutive order ends War Labor Board and creates new Wage Stabilization Board. Today’s Anniversaries (Know America) 1815.--George G. Meade, sol- dier-engineer, Union general, vic- tor in the battle of Gettysburg, sol- a rugged, efficient character, born in Spain (of American par- ents). Died Nov. 6, 1872. 1g17.—James T. Fields, noted Boston publisher and author of his day, born at Portsmouth, N. H. Died April 24, 1881 3.--Tasker H. Bliss, soldier, diplomat, chief of staff ld War I, born at Lewis- burg, Pa. Died Nov. 9, 1930. 1869—Stephen B Leacock, Canadian economist, beloved hu- born in England. morist, writer, Died March 28, 1944. KEY WEST PREPARES (Continued from Page One) Building closed this afternoon until Thursday morning in ob- servance of the holiday. The Post Office and other Federal. offiges also planned to be closed to- morrow Neen Eres Your Grocer SELLS That GOOD AR * BRAND and CUBAN Try A Pound Today!! The amount of money paid out to fur. nish you with telephone service is in creasing faster than the. amount taken in. That’s because telephone wages, services, and new building costs have all gone up tremendously, while telephone rates have remained as low or lower than they were many years ago. Telephone earnings today are not only | the lowest in history but are dangetously i low despite a record volume of business. | Reasonable earnings are required to safeguard the full usefulness of the tele- phone for you and your community. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company INCORPORATED . od Ze Tagen materials, ugnvagsusnanauuezgnannasatiettt eraungenatesnnvauticoTsustH¥e To You and Yours Ring Out Ye Bells of Joy «..- As in the centuries past ..- the bells of New Year once again peal their story of happiness and joy to all mankind. . Each chime rings with hope and a promise of better things to come. echoes and Each silver tone re-echoes in the hearts of men as the New Year dawns. May vacua eesnents¥atUetstee8e aa ereernsstete the joy and happiness of the New Year remain all the year long. Louis Muniz and A, Alexander, VICTORY CASH MARKET Key West's Largest Food Market 1028 DIVISION STREET eeseeruna uta etnteanacaaecentanncoanatneeeta eeeseenteterneessetniaterrstin, than New. Year’s Day for Miss Christine Sanchez, 1417 Olivia street, and John L. Ogden; Jn, $21 Division street. The youns Mr. and Mrs, Sariehez, parents of