The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1947, Page 4

; ite AS daca Bho MS sic: aor eg ee aes oh: eS sdk AS t pe ot Fhe f ’ eEy ay 2 . aga Ae Cee a * ‘ = & ; there with her’ eyes, closed: time trafn fare is paid, hotel » the outside world began +0 pene-| "price staggered, but he said: im, 4 do but wait,” he had ‘if it takes that much—to pay you €enter, Amelia and Thomas OUTSTANDING . Streets: Approximately 30 wpe RECORDS ‘ bers were present, including the ,CRpRVICE?! officers. The entire group Was OF SERVICE! Ce ey ee eee me ane “THE KEY WEST CITIZEN) i: By Frank Riordan ‘ ; 3s and added cryptically, “ang * Chagien 2? brother, it will cost dough.” | her spirit returned to Bruce’ Wier body from its wandering,| Through Bruce's + ogphown Sy Nola awakeried: into ‘a ‘hush Went do you mean by ‘do nee k world.:For a long while she **& couple of thousand—be the tion of the year; and Austin Ham- mond _ had. apparently tapped an unending source of hit ee for Gail to pour out torridly into the microphone. Pictures of her— alone at first, later with Austin bills,| Hammond hovering near — filled the fan magazines; and the gossip columnists in the newapene were having a field day spec at- ing on how sone it would be be- fore Gail and Austin terminated their public romance by matri-™ mony. 5 Only one of them thought of Nola. Sentithental Peg Todd wrote in her column in one of the Los Angeles papers: - “Maybe it’s romance—but seems to this old spinster just. another case of the faithful wife getting the brush-off after she’s helped her man to the top. But,.then, it must pay; because Gail is on her way now to Hollywood, with , all of Homer Gregg’s band in tow, to star in a musical ex- travaganza.” Karen Thayer read the article in her apartment one night as Bruce sat at her desk boning up for the term paper he had: to write. . ‘ She opened her mouth to speak, decided: not to; and instead she handed him the newspaper op- ened to Peg Todd’s column. “Your old girl friend,” she commented, “is on her way to Hollywood to make _ ‘pitchers’. Does it surprise you?” It did surprise Bruce; but it was nothing at all compared: to the shock he felt when two nights later, as he sat at the dinner table with T’nette wondering why she was going into such detail regard- ing the day she had spent clean- ing the guest house, the door bell rang. As he hurried through the house the doorbell clanged inces- santly; and he was angry when he reached the front door and threw it open. “Happy New Year—even if. it _ and im and everything.” trate the haze en ing her.}. to get ill you?” 2. became senate: ohsd great 5 es the Was Whey catered = pe id she] the new year; and the succeeding her to see ‘wt days shuttl inf one another was. But shé'’saw nothing. Nothing somberly, until the wonderful at all—except the same blacknéss| -oment came en’ Nola was that was present when her eyeS| apie to leave the hospital and go were closed...) 2 _. |East with Austi .. In panic she raised her hand to} She bade Bruce and T’nette a rip asidé +thé black veil; but an-|lighthearted farewell, thanked other hand caught, hers, held it/them both for everything, never ght, and she heard Austin’s}dreaming that Austin had not aid one, cent agg expense of “They’re sure everything is go-| her hospitaliza ing to be all right.” ® : _— wa one oy one left LEE in the dar ad gone : Memory flooded in upon Nola.| motte turned to Bruce and el Julie!” she cried. * “I would never have been hap- There was bitterness in her py again if Nola had lost her sight hhusband’s answer: orever, And to think Austin “A bruised knee—that’s all it) wrote that song just in time to ‘cost her.” . % pay the bill”. _;. Christmas—which should have ’ been happy—came and went as| |-. WAS weeks later before just anatase in the series of days T’nette lea d the facts in an ‘which T’nette and Bruce spent inceherent letter from Nola apolo- ‘waiting for Npla to come out of| §!7!né for three full pages for her coma. Steve Christiansen had|4UStin. s brutishness. “We've reached the parting of the ways Be ee teakete Bruce | i seems,” she concluded, “but be- re I let him go I shail extract “But there’s not a thing we can oe dime, every penny he has— So they waited. ack. 5 ‘(he day before New Year’s| T’nette hid the letter so Bruce ** Eve Bruce and T’nefte were out| would not see it. She racked her in the patio pruning away the] brain feverishly for ways of econ- “last, once'gaudy now faded poin-| omizing; for even though she did settias. They heard the telephone|not know how much Bruce had ring. Both of them grew tense. |Spent, she felt it had probably Bruce caught up the réceiver.|bee> @ large sum. And her first ienatte ane Ein Stuns cade heard | Move was to dismiss Mrs. Lyons. him say, “I'll be right in” Me- But the money situation tor- chanicali: he’ returned. the tele- tured Bruce. By the first of May h v3 deste eeedl he knew he would have to find a CRRRS SOEs oe See job and earn a lot of money dur- “Nola’s blind,” Bruce said tone-|ing the summer if he hoped to lessly. ary re-enter schoo! in the fall. Onel. , = “Subdural hematoma,” Steve!thing was definite: he did not}}S practicaliy the first of June! explained to Bruce when he|have a chance of pinch-hitting in|}Somebody shouted: and been reached the hospital. “There is| Homer Grege’s orchestra for the| Poured into the house, the whole only one man who has a China- summer, Homer. didn’t need 8 ri tng me azy Posen Romer man’s chance restoring her| pianist. His band had swept the Wess - sight.” of iS . Santry: though not because of|Hammond and String Jackson. “Can we get him?” String Jackson. (To be continued) = - “He’s in ortlan,™ Steve said! Gail Lake ‘was the radio sensa-| (Copyright 1947 by Frank Riordan) aie pertain * tae rt te A i le ee A EL TS LT WOTRUEEDENAUEDOERONGDEOSEONNGDOGQOODGADONACOIOUAEOSEGAOUEOASEAIONIONE | | through Wednesday. Weather K W | The Weather ;partly cloudy with a few show- cy est n ‘al over northeast portion this see ; | afternoon. ; . Days Gone By FORECAST | sackegeville through ie eh Key West and Vicinity: Partly 2° Sree: enile. to : moderase aie commen | cloudy this afternoon, tonight variable bey co gue ied wear ter OCT. 7, 1937 jond Wednesday; not much‘ ioudy with a few widely scat. * ines a use change jin temperature. Gentle, UUAASAURUEUUARORSOMERRSGETAGGA SETHE ESET, moderate variable. winds. | tered showers. - ~ County commissioners, at a‘ Florida: Partly cloudy through | REPORT “meeting last night, decided to;Wednesday except mostly cloudy! Key West, Fla., Oct. 7, 1947 purchase two offerings of Monro2/this afternoon and tonight in! (Observation taken at 8:30 a.m., county bonds, each for $10,000. | Tallahassee area with occasional } Eastern Standard Time, One offering was 69% per cent, ain. Few widely scattered | City Office) and the other at 70 per cent, Showers over south and central | Temperatures with interest. ' : portions Wednesday afternoon. | Highest yesterday 022 hs 82 pie dato | East Gulf of Mexico: Gentle to’ Lowest last night 72 0 Ny bied ~ M.-cAdbury today... an- occasional. moderate variable Méan 22 77 nounced: his candidacy for mayor | winds, mostly _ northeasterly, Normal bere on ap aera in the election to be held next >. Sage Pea recipitation,. = snontti He hea in serving as Joining the swimming pool off Rainfall, 24 hours ending *, city auditor since, 1930 jthe Boulevard. 8:30 a.m., inchgs — 3.2 +1, 0 - Ree Che SBE ali Relative dumidity ’ Mrs. Etta Sanchez, of Tampa, ! 76% Robert J. Lewis .last night ap- ' rae ’ A led to the aqunty ian. formerly Miss Etta Archer, of | Tomorrow’s Almanac ets for the position of deputy iKey West, is visiting her father, | (Eastern Standard Time) sh artel te: Meindl jen the “Monroe ‘Henry D. Archer, 744 Windsor Sunrise —..0.... 6:22 a.m. county ferries. The commission- Lane ‘ : [osreadliagg pe rte aa pm. pet ria action on the siti Mrs. Benjamin Roberts, who Moonset —......... 2:33 p.m, 3% ; ‘had spent a month here visiting | ES nc nn. | ber family, returned yesterday | TID ‘ Key West Rotary Club has ap ‘to her home in Miami. Toméenew plied to the State Road Depart-} Naval Base ment for permission to erect a! (Eastern Standard Time) Rotary sign on’ Stock Island. er. ne Clpene mare ae on } } jogeearel grag 294 - | (Tomorrow—Naval Base) SBR Ur nh ; “It begins to look as though it High Low The New Y ee ocih cece sis Bee ce in ‘will need a few thousand more} 3:12 a.m. 11:17 a.m. the World Series siibiedicy. bY : Italians to win the Spanish war.” | 6:12 p.m. 11:55 p.m. ee ee ee 2 aes mens se a ee et ene the same score as they won the’ first game, 8 to 1. Members of Troop 52, Boy Scouts of America; will hike to the Boulevard Friday and camp | overnight at Camp Taylor, ad-; — | Colored PAL | Group Meets, ’ The colored PAL council met. 8t 7 p.m. last night at the PAL OUR DRIVERS HAVE appointed as a membership com- mittée. , Unanimous opinion of those who attended was that the mem- bership should be 600 or 700 in 90 days. Already:a show 1S In the. making by the teen-agers for the near future. It \will be en- titled; “Hollyweod Revue.’ Claudius: Lang, : chairman of the committee of the baton twirl- ers, of which there are 30 chil- dren; ‘announced’ that the uni- forms of green and white, the }. PAL colors, would be ready in the’ near future. Rath Present at the council meeting: were L. A. Gabriel, treasurer; ’ A. L. Saunders, president; S. Kel-. ly, secretary, ‘and Mrs. Annie Laurie, R. Sands, Anthony Wel-! ters. C. Lang, Mrs. R. Pinder, Mrs. | B. Thompson, Mrs. B. Key. | - The meeting of the central) They are courteous and con- siderate of their passengers; are well informed about things of interest and importance along their routes. They endeavor to make every ride on our buses a pleasant journey for you. It is men like our drivers who make companies like ours. Yt. “wnat ts Good! BUS FARES Pcie Ae Downtown Buses, 5 Is Good Routes 2 and 3 __. For Me!” Poinciana- and Naval Hospital -. 10e City Hospital, council of PAL was held at 8) Stock Island and p.m. at Parrish Hall of St. Mary’s' Key West Transit Co., Inc. Boca Chica __. 1l5e Star of*the Sea Catholic Church. | J. W. Sellers, Manager Ry Coming events for the PAL or-j{ — Phone 1057 (3)