The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 5, 1947, Page 5

Ma Spermpay. u MARCH 5, 1947 A Carbone! weird F | In ‘oa yaate Sendey:' headin Pg sey co ern Tennis Matches Che fey Cote Corn Maring | ee ge amd fark March cu Raul’s Club on Roosevelt Bou- levard by the Sea, offers a ig plete new floor show nightl; aaa the entertainment of Key West- ers and winter visitors. -. Later, the academy was estab- lishéd at Curtis Bay, M@., and finally at ifs: present location i The headline attraction is a Ne wlLondon, Corn. vemt Baetere Peedoamat chase en Sit ohere the temetight in | Cuba Bombshell in the person of Peete ater ot Ta! ; Elsa Valladares, a Cuban singer Cee Mie, many Key Wea ‘of outstanding popularity. She ee a a } appears at Raul’s Club after long Pattee be He Thee eLty Cran gon jengagements at the better night | Peete D Cortenett in actin spots i Havana and Nags? @ er Gmitte “3 Beach. She sings in Spanish and Whethe ' . thas a delightfully pleasing per- fans wes paar | sonality and teatly knows. the Met ent scepter hat Goemvesen comes to delighting | her 4 oe ss . — Raul’s Club serves dirtier: he hor & & he feurt | nightly from 6:30, and supper } © quater f the a Tied [from 19 o'eloek, Cuisine by Dut- | eee Tt ' | ty’s bgp — ne aad Ais alte | Stanley, estra wi syl- an een ‘via at tHe’ piarid, make up the! : aeity ° ; got | musical part of the show and for! = . a ‘the dancing pleasure of cus- | ae én ~ } ’ een jtomers. Rawl’s Club annownce- | ‘ oe © petition. ment appears in today’s Citizen. | 7 Bob Lyle, Floride’s leading sports broadcosier, tells Ow sO on : | ‘about all the happenitigs in the world of sports, ones by tt gga nel ebntgh =“) oa about the games and the players, the scores and Tes “ H r again: a se Sais Calae thake- cuted op-._@ how they are’ made. Hear his interviews with er - — erated with the Navy for the; | outstanding personalities. ag bse first time. As U. S. ships raided | | Freneh vessels, Coast Guard cut- | Watiy for the match ¢ YGNACIO CARBONELL, Key West tennis champion, who will play| ters acounted for 18 of the 22) = ~ : * | im @ doubles match with Jack March, Eastern Professional champion,| total captures, and assisted in: 4 ie < lost playea “@@4@ Jay Cohn, Casa Marina pro and twice National Boys champion, | the capture of two others. 716 ON YOUR DIAL ° . , Sunday at i 5 ivi sas a a y at the Casa Marina courts. Carbonell has been giving Cohn/| Deon Cornwell of New York! Your aoe os } cg oppeeiag sARC HH 5, or of tite a teer haracter in German Cemetery irks Norwegians om ‘ AP The ™ an soldiers " me the war in n the so-call- “ honor” Pieterg on Oslo, are going ’ eport from the “ y ay s Pe aslead athe ‘had, | beed gions, living in the o« the cemetery | some Nee opposition daily in singles. \and London, famed mural artist, } } « Cuban Radios Tell Of Key West ;| Fishing Tourney; Queen’ s Picture Jose Marti Week, set aside as a! ; Part of the 1947 Key West In- , ternational Fishing Tournament in honor of the George Washing- | ton of Cuba, Key Westers reported hearing | announcements over Havana! radio stations Tuesday afternoon and evening of preparations be- ing made for the approaching | visit on March 14 of John Car-} bonell, appointed ambassador from the City of Key West and the fishing tournament to the Cuban capitol to’ invite govern- bn im Louisville, Ky., 55 years — J . e « e e foc ine of th Taken With City Commissioners —_ com 3 be Word received here today in-orated store windows during weld have good “cates tremendous interest Jose Marti Week. | © power im art. The most among Cuban citizens in the| Decorations must carry the! “ be simplicity, coming celebration April 6-12 of | combined theme of Cuban-Amer-| ican friendship and sports fish- | ing. Prizes will be awarded for |the most attractive window, the’ the most unusual. Commissioner Carbonell was! given the key to the city at last | night’s city commission meeting, | ‘along with his warrant and | credentials. The short céremeny | was attended by Virginia Kelly, | | fishing tournament queen, and} ‘Doris Boza, hostess for Jose Marti Week, who was Gressed'| jin charming Spanish costume. The warrant was given Car- bonell by Mayor William W. De- "I would like to tell you why Increased Rates on Telephones are Necessary” ment officials and others here to: Pos . ed the greves to take part in the fiesta. | meritt in the name of the city co 4 on fe grounds that Lee Mason, Fishing Tourna-! of: Key\:West.| The; queens. were ’ » of bemer i incon- ment director, announced today | photographed with, members of th thet ef the Norwe- that three cash prizes would be} the Commigsion agd City Man- | ‘ awarded for the three best dec-! ager O. J..S. Ellingsqn. us Today, more than ever before, Florida. needs adequate, year 1946, Southern Beli’ earnings are today the lowest ’ ‘ ge iti eel hateaat Pah aff dependable telephone service, and it is our purpose to pro- in history. bhid i furnishing more serviced in Florida than sitar ' “ i ta eg gi pein haproved tags ae al ' ; sa . ANY BUDWEISER ON THIS TRAIN? yi Ee rs e To meet the day to day cost of providing i Both local and long distance calls have reached an service to present customers. time high for this state and more and more people want telephones. We installed 84,600 new telephones in 1946. But, at the end of the year we still had 52,000 orders on hand for felephone service. Our study of the state’s growth in- dicates that the demand for more service from present as well as new customers will continue to increase. To raise new money on favorable terme for additional facilities to improve sem ‘ vice to present customers and expand it, These are the reasons we have asked authority t alee rates for local service and for most long distance calle witlt+ in the state. The requested rate increase will not produce all the added revenye that current costs indicate is needed but Will at ford immediate relief. Whether the requested rates wil prove sufficient will be determined by operating experienes under the new rates. The increased income under (he sew rates would amount to only 10% per cent of our tetel Piee ida revenues. In face of the greatly increased costs of ge viding service, this is moderate, We must go ahead with a huge expansion program and we are preparing to spend about $65,000,000 in the ses’ five years on construction work to improve and expand tele phone service in Florida. We must proceed with thie eet struction work, despite high costs, in order te meet Gementie ‘ for service. Florida is now in a period of its greatest growth and expansion, a growth that will bring the state more preaperl ty than it has ever known. Good and effective teleghene service is essential to this progress and the Telephone Geum pany must be in & position to supply it, We believe, therefore, that our request for increased ratap is sound and in the public interest, 48 Soy Although the cost of everything we do to provide service keeps going up, your telephone rates generally are lower today than 20 years ago. Because of this, the amount of money we are paying out is increasing faster than the amount we are taking in, despite a record volume of busi- nés¢, Since 1940, the costs of providing service in Florida have climbed 181 per cent, while revenues have increased only 129 per cent. Total payroll costs have increased 243 per cent since 1940. Wage rates in Florida have been raised during the past two years by $3,788,784 om an annual basis. This was in keeping with national policies and trends and to assure com- petent personnel to provide adequate service. We now have 6,600 Southern Bell people providing service in Florida. Wages account for about two-thirds of our operating costs. With America calling daily for so much more Budweiser than the world’s largest brewery can produce, you 0 ! The cost of erecting telephone buildings is up 75 to 100 per cent and the overall cost of providing telephone facilities is up 50 to 65 per cent. obviously can't get Budweiser every time you ask for it. But, every sip tells ' The rapid advance of costs in comparison with revenues has caused our rate of earnings to go down. In 1940, the Company was earning 6.08 per cent on the amount of money invested in the state. In 1946 our earning rate was only 2.66 per cent. This rate reflects the latest wage increases but doés not include the small effect of refunds on past Federal income taxes. Such refunds will be available only im the you why it's well to keep calling for it. We are making it available equi- tably if not abundantly. So, to get your share, don't say ‘beer’, say SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY INCORPORATED NO BUSINESS CAN GIVE ADEQUATE SERVICB WITHOUT ADEQUATE EARNINGS