The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1947, Page 3

UGGUEAAHOAOUASSEOUSUEDASHLAUONLAUUUHRN The OBSERVATION POST BILL LEE “CUUOVUNOnESUaveuaetagnsanaeangncansnaeeuneusnna” ‘Mrs. E, V. Kinsman, whose husband is associated with Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Pittman in de- veloping Key West’s only hydro- phonic farm at 2nd street and Staples avenue, was in a local op- tician‘s office. getting her eye- glasses adjusted. “Do you know Dr. wor Miami, Mrs. Kinsman?” the doc- tor asked. “Yes, he has done my work for years.” “Well, 1 think he’s crazy,” the doctor said. “The darn fool thinks he can grow vegetables without soil, by simply feeding the plants chemicals. He’s sure crazy.” Mrs. Kinsman laughingly told him that she and her associates must likewise be “crazy,” be- cause they are doing on their farm just what the Miami doctor believes can be done. She care- fully explained the process to the local doctor. "You don't say,” exclaimed the doctor. But the look in his eyes told Mrs. Kirisman that he still had an item of doubt about the whole farming venture. Incidentally, the Pittman-Kins- man combine now has about 1,100 Se LLL cucumber plants that are 18 inches ‘tall—all grown in fresh water and gravel and fed by ‘chemicals. The plants are grow- ing about. 1% inches a day, and the farmers expect to harvest cu- cumbers in about four weeks. >, Sen, ee It was raining crawfish and sparrows a week ago Sunday morning. There was a crowd of us in the Southernmost Phar- macy at Duval and Fleming when a woman entered the store. We noticed she stood for a minute looking out at the heavy rain. \ +O, GID ante sot PUBLIC SCHOOL ACTIVITIE! Division Street Elementary School’s Perfect Attendance Record The first six-week period of the Fernandez, Barbara Meggs, Ervin second semester of the present! Higgs, Pedro Gomez and Charlie school year at Division Elemen-! Diaz. tary School, Division and White; 5-B, Constance Walker, teach- streets, ended March 7. er—Oneil Alaverez, Eloy © Rod- “The weather as a whole,” Prin-|riguez, Ondina Chacon, Myrna cipal Earl E. Hamilton said to-|Goehring and Geraldine John- day, “has been cooler than the; S0n. average for Key West, and, aheaes | 5-A, Louise Evans, teacher— fore, the average daily attendance |Glynn Archer, Richard Herrick, was lower than usual.” aniel- O’Brient, Priscilla Cruz, Mr. Hamilton: made the above! S¥!via Fernandez, June Hubbard, | Nancy Pellicier, Maria Placencia, remarks in releasing the perfect! f attendance record of the school, | Jackie Sheader and Mary Sweet- for the six-week period, which; sia ; follows: oh Hattie Lou Hamilton, Ist Grade, Miriam Carey, teach-|teacher—John Cruz, Chas. Hort, er—Sandra Ann Nelson, Faydette | Ralph Rash, Kermit Roberts, Thompson, Frances Watson, Con- | Stephen Trevor, Blanche Alli; nie Orr, Frank Almyda, Michael ve ee te Barbara Armour, Roger Cherry, Eulogio ingo, Peggy ift. Perez and James Bertucci. 6-A,. Florence Mickler, teacher Ist Grade, Susie Gardner, teach-!5 150Mas Cornell, Jay Holladay, - G D er—Enelio Hopkins, Henry Gar-|Tery Pikty sagas eee ee cia, Ellen Bishop apd Gloria Chae l\Clarabelle Garcia Clara Gard- con, ner, Francine Johnson, Evelyn Ist. Grade, Mary Sweeting, | Nettles, Consuela teacher—Walter Fleming, Kath-'ma Watson. leen Cates, Robert Knowles and | ~ ’ | 6-A, May Sz s. teacher—Bar- Aurora Gomez. pe Aleaipsis scare: ine ns Valdez and Nor- | bars : : ara Adams, Jeanne Canova, Ist Grade, Dorothy Curry, | Marlene Park, Marie Spencer, teacher—Guss Alfonso, William Mary Lou Gardner, Patricia Lew- Higgs, Priscilla Murphy and Son-|in, Robert Sawyer, John Castro, ja Mae Lee. | Jackie Fox, Dean Teitler, Claude 2-A, Eva Arnold, teacher—Ed- | Roberts, Candido Barcelo, Peter ward Boza, Joey Curry, Nolan | Knight and John McKillip. Drudge, Ray Edwards, Wm. Earl} ; Hamilton, Billy Hibbitts, Robert} Syit For Divorce Higgs, Jimmy Mora, Josephine} Arnold, Rachel Diaz, Katherine | A suit for divorce was filed Hodges and Penelope Rosam. yesterday by Anthony Sottile 2-A, Eulalie Jones, teacher— | against Minnie Sottile in the of- Thelma Albury, Donna Newlan,| fice of Circuit Court Clerk Ross Barbara Taylor, Oswaldo Alfon-{| C. Sawyer. Robert Valdez and Bules so, areas Thite 7 pee McCoy Promoted Pa vn Leota Somers, teacher—} Charles Everett McCoy, son of andra O’Briant, Leo Bishop,| Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. McCoy, Raymond Garcia, Douglas Jenks 517 Bahama street, has been pro- } imoted to private first class at and David Lewis. Then, shaking her head, she 3-B, Evelyn Bell.‘ teacher— beat oo reached down and took off her {Manuel Acosta, Louis Aquiar, ppeand ee aia shoes. She wore no stockings. | Lancewood Lowe, Stanley Peter- Mase hea : Bs r Corps She tucked the shoes beneath (son, Ygnacio Valdez, Margarita p ’ : her coat. “Well”, she said to us, "I've got to get to St. Paul’s Church. So here goes!” So’ temarking, she stepped--off the gutter, which; was | running full of water. She waded through the ankle-deep flow to the opposite curb on, Fleming. She kept right on through the rain to St. Paul’s. “Well, ’'m a sonofagun”, John K. Clemmer, manager of the store exclaimed. “Can you beat it?” “Oh, we all do that’ when we want to get some place in’a hur-| ry during a heavy rain”, an old resident of Key West told us, when we told her the story. * Harry Jordan of Ann street has} been blind for some time. He! spends a great deal of his time | around fire department headquar- | ters. All the firemen know him| and help all they can. | But Harry highly enjoys the | friendship of little Shirleen | Stone, two-year-old daughter of | Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Stone, who | live in Greene street, next door | to The Citizen office. He values Shirleen’s friendship above all others, for the little girl is nearly always on hand to greet him when he stands across from| the fire station. “TI would like to cross the street | to go to the fire station,” ie tells Shirleen. Taking his cane in her little | hand, Shirleen looks both ways, | to see if there is any moveaeny4 of cars or trucks. She tugs on} the cane and Harry steps off the} curb, confident, there is no traf-| fic. At the fire station, Shirleen| raps the cane against a bench. “Thank you,” Harry says. “You're welcome,” - the lisps. Shirleen looks for traffic again, and crosses the street to her home. Harry is led across Ann street by a fireman. Jordan crosses the sidewalk and “looks” for the clothesline with the hooked end of his cane. He hooks the cane end over the line and it "leads" him to the door of his home. ai Grounds around the Monroe County Court House and_ the County Jail are well kept. Pris- | oners at the jail are responsible. Under the direction of Alberto) Camero, prison guard, the grounds | are daily raked and put in or-| der. The prisoners have just plant- ed two gardens. One, at the left of the Court House, is planted in marigolds and the other, at the right, in zenias. The yard around the jail, over} which Marcus Mesa has control, | is likewise a Mass of flowers. Marigolds abound. It makes right pretty spot. H | | 9} ' | girl | | | | } | a Washing machines came _ into general popularity at the time of| the first World War | |Patsy Smith and Charles Perez. |-—J. H. Brady, Harry Mengo, Ted | Caraballo, Wilma Felton, Donna Lee Gaskin, Alice Jenks, Margaret } Marrero, Joyce Roberts, White and Dale Stirrup. 3-B, Josephine Doughtry, teach- | er—Manuel Casas, Daniel Cates, | Duane ‘Demeritt, Jose Diaz, Sid- ney Kerr, Gloria Solomon and Rose- Mary Watson. 3-A—Gladys Pinder, teachér— Mario Calero, John Fleming, Ken- neth Schrader, Wayne Tynes, Mary Lou Knight and Pauline Rudy. Raymond Gram Swing, radio commentator, born Cortland, N. Sandra \Y., 60 years ago. Peter the Great of Russia once jeiones in a Dutch shipyard. DUVAL CAFE 224 Duval Street Corner of Caroline 3-A, Jphunie Shaffer;. teacher| ... { SERVING ‘ Bishop Sable, Thoias.Gibbons;} @ BREAKFAST @ LUNCH Stuart Yates, Blanch Santana,| and Sandwiches of All Kinds OPEN DAILY and SUNDAY from 7:30 Ann Chambers, Manager DUVAL BAR Serving Beer, Wine and Liquor Newlan, Sandra Thompson and; Rum and Coke Rose Marie Teft. me ie 4-A, Frances Cochran, teacher ' —Mary Ann Arnold, Jeannie Gar- cia, Fay Williams, Walter ROMERO’S | ms Avcher’ dune’ Bosnia ate | ELECTRICAL SERVICE Siler, Mery Claudia TWasic. fe nen, Seawese. mae a ee ee We Repair and Rewind | ‘ 4-B, Marjorie’ Roberts, teacher Bir- | man, Michael Cates, Leeberg, Knowles and Dan Schoneck. O’Briant, Charles Peterson, Ralph Placencia, Ronald Sawyer, Myrna | All Types of Lou Saunders, George Stewart} ELECTRICAL and Shirley Walterson. MOTORS 5-B, Amelia Cabot, teacher— | Work Called for and Delivered PHONE 1184 JUST ASK for BRITT Jack Papy, David Roberts, Wil-! liam Roberts, Mario Roque, | George Russell, Bennie Whitak-| er, Betty Jean Bowery, Diana’ quences Our Drivers Have Outstanding er. Records of Service! It is men like our drivers who make compan- ies like ours. Our Drivers Are Courteous and Considerate of Their Passengers Pee BUS FARES Revlon 2and3 dC 10 City Hospital, Stock Island and l 5e Boca Chica’... They are well informed about things of interest and importance along their routes. They endéavor to make every ride on our buses a pleasant journey for you. Poinciana and Naval Hospital Key West Transit Co.,Inc. J. W. Sellers, Manager Phone 1057