The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1947, Page 5

MeAndrews Succeeds Price East Coast Director man if he would eppeiniment. Price is | Prestdent of the Chamber of | | Hit i fo Newman, of Jackson- witie. last mght in whieh Newman | et he would visit Key West | SRhie the next 10 days. @an weleomed McAndrews-to the Serd, The executive director | 1H probably be accompanied on he tip by RB. Boynton, vice Preertiom and treasurer. officials will @ee start the bell rolling for a emberhip drive and advertis '@ fend in Monroe Cougty. Th drive hae started in 13 East Coast ountiese The organization is eoehing $160,000 as an advertis- @ fend te attract tourist travel! © the east coast of Florida and © premete the state as a whole. | Four Clases «of membership | ere effered: (1) Sponsor—$100 to $948 for businesses which depend | om the tourist trade ” major or SaTurDay, PEBRUARY 22, 1947 K BODIES OF POETS ~ Bl Hod FROM NAZIS IN. —(AP)— The re- mains saa et Germany’s two great poets, Goethe and Schiller, have been returned to their original resting place in the royal vault of Weimar after having been found hidden in an air-raid shel- ter in Jena. At the orders of Fritz’Sauckel, | who was the Nazi leader in Thuringia, the coffins were taken from their underground vault-by SS men in the closing days of the war, allegedly to protect them from damage by bombing. At Jena an air-raid alarm forced the guards to seek shel- ter in a bunker. A German doc- tor and nurse of the Jena’ Uni- versity clinic used the opportun- ity to save the remains by hiding them in a hospital bunker be- hind medicine cabinets where they later were found undam- aged. Who Knows? 1. When did the Philippine- American war begin? 2. When was the Weather Bu- reau established? 3. When was Thomas A, Ed- ison born? 4. When was the battleship Maine destroyed? 5. What is the 16th Amend- |THE ABOVE MAP, shows. how ment to the U. S. Constitution? 6. What is the size of the na- “I will not accept 9, What was the peak of spend- we source of in we; (2) sus- { teiieg—-850 for those in the “me- | traffic from Highways 1, 17 and 1 debt? team “volume” group, the small |% aren ae ice aa! a Whe said: rw “ . | a di pall es 3 “ ee res a then over the East if nominated and will not serve “teller volume” group, Coast Highways Association sys- if elected?” Soho emetior retail merchants, | tem to Key West. Clem Price is’ wetley se@rrtee etehons: (4) par-| Key West's representative on the ing in World War 1 and World ‘opehee-—410 for businesses in- association’s board of directors... {| War 11? Greetiy affected by the tourist tewde and for individuals The advertixing fund will be wed t promote the east coast | aye as the best route to vacationiand. Pre: dem Chalmers D. Horne of Jac! wane ithe Rivers Automatically Broadcast Their Levels VINITA, Okla.—(AP),—Auto- ~| matic gauges and radio transmit- “|ters which turn themselves on wently said the associa- tons ediverteing efforts would | broadcast daily reports to keep eet te diverting visitors engineers of the Grand River (fom any section nor will th rected im the future.” The) levels of three major streams continued, “We | flowing into the big northeastern epreventation by lead-.| Oklahoma reservoir. He cftieens from all of the 13 east! The gauges broadcast tewerd Meewiation he how have coded oa? oy *, from Fernandina | signals over the radio from 7 Ve perches on bridges, spanning the eccce: at Elk river in Missouri, the Spring P near Quapaw, and the Neosho le’ F near Commerce, Okla. cop 8 orum Transmissions are recorded in eeeeeesccocccoce field headquarters at Pryor and at the Pensacola dam, where the information is used in computing { I be| Dam Authority posted on water | } ies |the “head” that will be available hydroelectric turbines. | TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Edna St. Vincent Millay, famed COMPLAINS - z poetess, born Rockland, Me., 55 Badrten The Citizen ‘years ago. This is my first attempt at US. Senator Owen Brewster, writing you and I hope that it is ‘of Maine,“born! at-Dexter,.M Me., 59 the last concerning an unpleasant ee ttuation Frank D. Fackenthal, acting The people of Key West have pr lent of Columbia Univ., New best for a long time York, born at Hellertown, Pa., 64! to make the best of this situa- years ago. tien, but it has now become so Keith S. McHugh, vice presi- mut of hand that something must dent of Amer. Tel. & Tel., New York, born at Ft. Collins, Colo., 52 years ago. ; Peter Hurd of San Patricio, N. artist, born Roswell, N. M., tone their be done. I am ima to the behavior of persenne! in our community. Does the wearing of a white ™. hat or blue jumper entitle the ) ‘S ago. ; insult our women, de- Lowell Mellett of Washington, iidwatke and-eribark Soluminlst, born Elwood, Ind., 63 ma wi ogre of ronduct? Years ago. n wild oe ieeaue "Davia Dubinsky, president of ei the Ladies Garment Workers, New York, born in Poland, 55 of course, wearer to grade our Bad enough (when that seemed to be an e> cuse for « u) iS a de use for everything), this attitude J aa1s ago, of the Navy is If the fps brass hats” or our police depart- York, | ment won't do something unbesrable Lawrence Fly of New ab awyer, former chairman of Out the Federal Communications Com- ding, mission, born in Texas, 49 years peace-loving citizens will; the ago, result will be that a few gutter- loving would-be Errol Flynns will find themselves a military secret: somewhere in the Flor-| ida Keys like the Sheik of Araby no pants on The “brass hats” worry them- sick over the failure of a wabbie coming out of a movie wnd failing to square his hat to several of our law their e there. St. Paul's Church, always open and inviting to rest and meditate. | Where is there another city with acchurch on its busiest street, open to the public, which is neither molested nor defaced? | Never is there a street more the nth fraction over his right interesting than Duval; the eye, but overlook the fact that charm of the Casa Cay his shipmate across the street the home-like complacency of can't wait until he can enter the ine La Concha; but to know your proper place to perform a deed. | natives—that is something to re- Perhaps this letter will have ‘ember! some effect, but I doubt it. Please “y came away from your sanc- withhold my name from public casey emer and younger: wi tion, but if name is re- the memory of more happiness quired, put \ the aS mn in years. RESPECTABLE CITIZEN. pene ees wig Key West. Fia., | JESSIE GILLMORE. Feb. 19, 1947 Boston ,Mass., to see if they washed wives Hueso; some SRP \Feb. 17, 1947. COMMENDS re Editor, The Citizen CE TTT RAITT Il wonder how «many people 9 themselves: “I owe a gratitude to ELECTRICAL SERVICE Key West.” Many people have tried to write about it, but they have missed the solidity of your peo- ple: the restful way’ of living one We Repair and All Types of ELECTRICAL Rewind MOTORS learns from them; the zest of Duval street, with its flow of hu- Call—JUST ASK for manity; sailors with pockets bulging with money to spend, many of them look so young Phones 585 or 1184 ou are tempted to look hehind \quqa—0aameeeneemmee 10 Who is president of the C. Hae Bag The Answers . 1, Feb. 1899. 2. Feb. 9, 1870. 3. Feb, 11, 1847. 4. Feb, 15, 1898. 5, The income tax amendment, proclaimed Feb. 25, 1913. 6. About 3,650,000. 7. $260,000,000,000. 8. Gen, W. T. Sherman, in a telegram to a delegate at the 1884 Republican convention. 9, In 1919, $18,500,000; $100,400,000. 10. Philip Murray. in 1945, $5,000 LEGACY TO 15 DOGS LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Mis Aline Barnsdall, who died Decem- ber 18 at the age of 62, left her to drive the. power plant's five|fortune to her daughter, her two grandsons and her fifteen aid - daughter,..Mrs...Aline.. vine, of Culver City, one-half of her property, $100. 000 in cash and $600 monthly al-! lowance. The grandsons get $50,- 000 in cash each, plus the other half of her property. A $5,000; trust fund was set up for the dogs. 'THIS COUNTY CLERK | candy is back on the counter in reece CROW VEGETABLES _ WITHOUT] if 100 Cucumber r Plenty Growing Fast In Pre Grav SOIL; | EXPERIMENTING " HERE AAppeseashhhssesseseee AAases ed ‘By BILL LEE ‘Science of raising garden truck by hydroponics—that is, water, culture—is being tried on the old Tift Dairy Farm at 5th Street and‘ tl Staples Avenue and if. suecessful. may put Key West on the map/of agriculturally. beds a total of yield a crop sufficient to supply all of Key West with the succu- lent vegetable. Everett V. Kinsman and Rufus B. Pittman are experimenting in! the new field of hydroponics, or soilless culture. Each of the 50-foot concrete beds accommodates two rows of, the plants, or a total of 1,440 plant- ing feet. Fresh water gravel is the media for plant support. The plants are fed a chemical solution, which is held in a tank with a capacity of 5,000. gallons and flooded. into the beds daily by means of .a connecting- flume. This nutrient solution is controll- ed at the plant and contains all the major and minor elements ne- cessary for complete plant growth. Such chemicals as potassium nitrate, calcium nitrate, ammon- ium nitrate, magnesium sulfate, treble superphosphate, ordinarily taken from the soil, are daily fed the plants. The first experiment with ed planting is with cu- It will be recalled that cucumbers were 100 per cent de- stroyed by the mainland frosts of | the last two weks. Seed - plant- ings of the cucumbers are now under way and if all goes well} the hydroponicum should show a good stand of 1,100 plants in the 'near future. Kinsman and Pittman say that} if the first experiment should prove successful it may be the forerunner of a new field of. ac- tivity in Key West, where the! climate permits of year-around i growing. Rain does not affect the growth of the plants. Neither does the SWEETENS VISITORS MAYFIELD, Ky.—(AP)—Free the _ office ” of of Graves County Clerk Nathan Yates, Yates has made it a practice to | treat visitors, except. when war- ‘time scarcities prevented, since ‘he went into office. He nas ‘handed out candy, salted pea-! There in 12 50-foot concrete|planters,.that Key West, with its 1,100 cucumber forst-free climate, offers unlimit- plants have been set out and if yea opportunities in this hew plant a relatively short period should; culture. lack of rain. Sunshine plays an bes tures part in hydroponics. t bg ter particular season when frost losses of crops are felt fhout the state, by reason the law of temperature, it is by the confident Key, West Details of the planting of the cucumbers were studied by the writer at the old Tift Farm. The plants are 15 inches apart. Wher- ever the seed is dropped a bit of cord goes up to a wire above. A total of 6,000 feet of cord was strung in the hydroponicum. The chemical solutions fed the plants showed unusual growths in a small wooden bed in the rear of the Kinsman home at 11th Street and Staples Avenue. The growths included tomatoes, pep- pers and flowers. They were all of large sizes. Fresh water gravel is 9 re- quisite because it is neutral—it gives nothing and takes nothing. Salt water gravel, on the other hand, is unfit for use because of its high lime content, which ad- versely affects the 15 to 20 chem- icals used in the solutions. Seventy tons of this gravel were brought into Key West by the Kinsman-Pittman combine. It was nearly all of it taken from Okeechobee. There is consider- able gravel left after the plant- ings undertaken at Tift Farm. The crops from the hydroponi- cum are to be sold to local whole- sale dealers at fair prices. Later! it is planned to plant such crops as’ tomatoes and strawberries—if \the present experiment with cu- cumbers proves successful. And the experimenters sincerely be- lieve it will. Hydroponics is not a new | thing, but during the war ex- tensive experiments led to an im- provement in the science. It is said now to be absolutely fool- proof—and the art of soilless cul- ture offers Key West at least food for thought. nuts, jellybe: and even pickled eggs and cheese and crackers. He also has given away pen- eils, service flags, hunting and fishing licenses to persons over 65, book matches_and_ notebooks. Less than a century ago the number of buffaio on the great plains of he United St much in excess of toda ates was human population in the same area. AE LTC yo F 2612 HARRIS AVENUE Chas. Aronovitz DEPARTMENT STORE Key West’s Largest Store [4 whirling skirt, wider than . j your Pink f WHIRLAWAY / anticipates your dreams, A gives you a full, sweeping, smartly puffed sleeves. Rayon crepe. Sizes 9 to 15. You tan still | 4. dugned by Qhrrus Carnuie: 572 95 pret | As advertised in \ “seventeen” arms can reach. Flattering rounded neckline, with navy, grey with red, aqua with cocoa broun. ie. : i Lettuce ; crisp cottons brighter and gayer : | than ever. Srart \ new styles j —eye | catcher colors. 5 Come in i for j 4 "|PRIEST SEEKS_—- . ISOLATED PARISH _ HILO, Hawaii. —(AP)— The plane took off smoothly and just as smoothly landed again: about an hour later. It had seen a dizzy twirl of spins, stalls, pylon sights, spot landings and other maneuvers while it had been in the air. Father C. A. Gombold, popu- lar ~ priest from St. Joseph's! Ne church in Hilo, who pteviously | the he episode, advising had passed written tests had | to be completed tests for a private fly- | who can ing license. Now he is prepared; for the day when he can realize | EEG one of his earliest ambitions: to; “™™ get isolated duty in China, Africa or’South Ane he a The priest—who so! in seven hours—will seek a com-|_ Largest and pe, tiny ort mercial proficiency rating. 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