The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 10, 1947, Page 3

MONDAY NOVEMBRE 14 1947 i GaN WE rel Settee areata! Honoring a distinguished record inw war and peace which extends, Tip KEY WHST CITIZEN back to the American Revolution, the United States Maring Corps*celebrates .its 172nd ew on: November. 10, Florida Publication Gives "Marine Corps Will Celebrate PAGE T THREE | Triple Trouble _ Comes To Woman | ALTON, ll.—Mrs. Ellp Rice, 74, believes now that. croubles ' never. come singly. On a reeent ,Monday, a heating steve in her ‘home exploded, Tuesday; a teg broke off a kitchen table and spilled ber dishes on the floar. On Wednesday, when’ the same stove exploded again, Mrs. Rice ' went to the hospital for treat- , ment for minor burns. " _ HIGH SCHOOLS GIVE - _| DRIVING INSTRUCTIQN PROVIDENCE, R. I.—-AP).— , Rhode Island schools are going. in for practical instructions of high school pupils in driving. ‘The : Automobile Club of Rhode is- :land,. which boosts the program, boasts that none of the 1,000 pu- ‘pils who have: had high sehool ‘driving . instruction have been ‘responsible for an accident in | the state. | Dual control cars are sedabe in , the class. work and arrangements are such that the school must devote at least 10 hours every he to behind-the-wheel _ ip- struction to ‘be ‘eligible for use Answer To Forum Writer 172nd Anniversary Today 5". 7% Senet MUNI - GO - ROUND COL-* UMN SCOLDS CONTRI! | Woman Lost. BUTOR TO CITIZEN'S! Calls Fi PEOPLE's ronuM alls Firemen OAKLAND, Calif.—wien Mrs. In the November issue of the| Edith K. Hanlon realized she Florida Municipal Record a con-| was lost, while walking on a tributor to The Citizen’s Forum] dark street at night, she saw a is given a “going over” in “The| fire box and pulled the alarm. Muni-Go-Round.” The lead coil-| UP roared fire trucks and the umn states: Fire Chief who had rolled out “Are the City Fathers blind? | 0° @ mice, warm bed. Explain- Or numb? Or don't any of them ing the situation, Mrs. Hanlon auto manufacturers cooperate. in T= nation’s most highly honored military organization—the the program: -* United States Marine Corps—celebrates its 17nd Anniver- -— sary on November 10. | Moths attack pure woo]. gar- On the eve of the 173rd year of their existence, ve Marines ments and will also eat. the ‘can look back ona year of comparative peace. ' With their re- wool in organization to peacetime stren: Sam's “Leathernecks” and property throughout the} far corners of the earth. ' The i72nd, vear marked an im- ; portant chapter in the annals of glorious Marine Corps history. The year saw the complete re- organization of Fleet Maripe } | i ‘ serve in history! % | | fabrics -that: combine gth virtually completed, Uncle woo! with other yarns, such as have assumed their familiar role as rayon or cotton. guardians of American rights¥ ‘Republicans Likely To Pass Own Relief Bills use the city streets?” was bundled into a police patrol Forces , . . saw the forming of | WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT OF THE CITIZEN “Ph car and taken home. the largest Marine Corps Re- ! Pring. Gemnanits a lady writing | VENTURES NUMBER. OF PREDICTIONS iti wat i ee Apply To Wed General A. A. Vandergritt, papers—which we shall not ppty 10 We Commandant of the Marine | ON SPECIAL SESSION OUTCOME identify beyond the southernmost published in Applications for marriage _ li- the United States. |censes were filed with County “Continuing, the lady records | Judge Raymond R. Lord Sat- damage to a front spring, shock urday by Thompson V. Jones,'48, absorbers, shackles, muffler and | and Gladys Gage, 24, both of exhaust pipe—‘All this from so | Fort Lauderdale, and by Miguel remarking it's} Corps, explained the reorgoniza- | tion of fleet components . .. “to | provide fur the possibility ‘af, atomic warfare .. to give in- | creased flexibility to the strik- | ing forces.’ The Marines are ready for any eventuality. | By EDWARD H. SiMS’ Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen ASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—With Congress convening next Mon- day, November 17, a few predictions are in order on the is- sues which brought about this special session. It is only natural to assume the G.O.P. will have a program i ey 9. pee much bouncing and knocking | a 2 ead 4 al —_ In its Reserve, the Marine. to check spiraling prices of their own making. Several of their around, pf 712. Gathering street 845, ©". Corps now has 54,000 “Citizen | leaders have announced as much. But it is generally agreed “The City Fathers could vote | = : Marines,” scattered across the! President Truman got in a good * $2,000 to fix the golf course | . after all, many more tourists | will be using the city streets! than the golf course .. , also," Seek Divorces Petitions seeking divorces have a right to drive on smooth! Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer by streets?’ “‘Perhaps,’ she concludes, ‘if Joseph L. Valenzuela, ‘event of another national emer- don’t the yeople who ‘live here! were filed Saturday with Circuit! gency. Delphina H. Valenzuela against | training nation and saplementing the reg- ! ular establishment. They could be mobilized immediately in Today the Marine at posts and Corps is stations and by|throughout the world. Marines political move by calling the 2+ a). If the bill follows genér- extra session himself. =| 'ally the lines of the Marshall And, after all, it doesn’t mat- ‘plan, he will almgst be forced j ter so much who actually gets't sign. That would seem’ the the credit, as long as a success - ‘strongest move for Republican ful program to halt the rising: leadership, cost of living is begun. It is: ‘logical to predict the G. O. P,, From the remarks of many re- turning Congressmen here, Eu- feric bee 8s all of us who have had damages | | Catherine Coleman against Oliv- jare still in China—as part of a| which controls both houses, will ; SECS RE EOLA PE SIRES ON oa to our cars from these terrible! streets, presented our bills to the City Commission, they might take some action’.” | ‘ * ce * The “Muni-Go-Round” — then, asks The Citizen’s Forum writer: “Who's going to pay the Com-! mission for all the bouncing and knocking around they get from the citizens?” The “Muni-Go-Round” cditor also asks: “How many biocks of ! street can be rebuilt these days with the $2,000 the Commission tossed down the 18th hole?” The: writer, in conclusion, states that the one sure-fire method of educating the citizen! on municipal affairs is to “elect him to city office.” Division Street School Meetings | For Wednesday Postponed from tomorrow be- cause November 11 is Armistice! Day, the meetings of the Division Street School’s Room Mothers and the Parent-Teachers Associa- | tion are scheduled for Wednesday afternoon. | Room Mothers will gather for their session at 2 o’clock and the P.-T. A. meeting is scheduled for an hour later in the auditorium | upstairs. | A special effort will be made! at the P.-T. A. session to enroll as many members as possible to attain the goal of more members | Co,, than as of last April. CARD OF THANKS .ZITCTAC TTR, Our sincere appreciation is ex- tended neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy shown us, and for floral tokens of remem- brance in the hours of anxiety and bereavement occasioned by the recent illness and death of our beloved father, the late C hicho Perez. ; DARIO PEREZ AND FAMILY. nov10-1tx _ aAAACRORA SNA iL NE, Your Grocer SELLS That Good | STAR * BRAND : amenicey COFFEE 3 CUBAN on CVE A Pound Today er Cojeman. H TRIANGLE IS *S O 8” OF THE SNOWBOUND Pivision_has COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.— the West Coast. (AP).—A triangle stamped in the snow will be used by isolated ranchers in this area to signal their distress to airmen. The snow “SOS” was con- ; ceived at a meeting of ranchers, fliers and the El Paso county Red Cross disaster relief commit- tee to meet emergencies like last winter when scores of farm houses were snowbound in a se- vere blizzard. The outline of the triangle dis- tress signal will be emphasized with ashes or other material that will contrast with snow. U. S. Engineers Work On Dnieper Restoration MOSCOW.—(AP).—The Dnie- per power station which the ; Germans left a mass of ruins is rapidly regaining its original Ca- | pacity. The third of the nine turbine | and generator sets making up the complete equipment of the more than half-million kilowatt sta- tion is now being installed and will shortly be put into opera- tion. j The Dnieper power station is; apparently the only place in the; Soviet Union at which American | engineers are working. Both: General Electric and Newport; News Drydock and Shipbuilding | have specialists assisting in} | installation of equipment. ‘ JOB PR Modern machinery and efficient methods enable us to offer you superior printing service at fair prices. Consider us when you place your next print- ing order, eeovcce 5. saa eseeseeumens 'Force West Pacific, with head-j own party. Girl Scouts To _ celebrate Armistice Day by going j ;on a tour of interesting places Phone 51 and Our Representative Will Call The Artman Press THE CITIZEN BUILDING \ een cnn rope is undoubtedly in a bad way—and most Congressmen ; - p ‘who have visited resi quartters at aemanen. The rin, Of course, President Truman july pare — Seng iii Ss — Mecci? te et the veto power, easily sus-| aid. There will be fight over ‘it By Ae Pee ,tainable in the Senate, which inevertheless. There are those can kill the Republican-spon-| who earnestly believe we are sored bill. Should he ‘ill a good playing a thankless and hopeless ed at Camp Lejeune, North Car-! bill merely because it is not a’ game when we dish out money olina while the Third Brigade} Democratic one, it is also logi-'t Europe. ‘ has been formed on the Island , cal to predict he will lose what-| as to the time Congress will of Guam. Marine aviation in-}ever political advantage he. go home. it is expected to ‘be cludes Air, Fleet Marine Force. ; gained by calling the extra ses-j| around December 15th-20th. Pacitic, with headquartters at | sion. ' Among others, the leader of the Ewa, Territory of Hawaii; Mar- Therefore a Republican bill to! majority party, Sen. Robert Taft ine Air, West Coast, with head- | check runaway prices is likely; wants to get back home and at- quarters at El Toro, California;! to be signed by the President at tend to other business. The elec- and Air, Fleet Marine Force, At-{ this session. j tions are still scheduled for next lantic, with headquarters at | On the foreign aid issue, a, year. Cherry Point, North Carolina. | Democratic bill is nein ata Other than foreign aid and Marines throughout the world | following the recommendations{some measure to control rising will pause during their vigorous | of Secretary of State George] prices, little else is likely to -be training schedules on the ténth,| Marshall. However, to pass it | accomplished. Many’ bills ‘will be to commemorate the 172nd Anni- | will need the support of many} brought up, but the leadership versaty of . their Pree | Republicans, especially in the! will probbaly postpone an ali- Corps... Appropriate ceremonies, | House. Since the foreign aid is- | out fight on most of them until featured by cake-cutting exer-|sue is more doubtful as to its’ January and thereafter. cises and highlighted by the Com- | effects on the American voter, | mandant’s birthday message, will | the G. O. P. is.more likely to! Store electric cords away mark the observances. | let the Democrats take the res-' from heat. Never wind a cord ponsibility. j around a hot appliance, or heat | There is at least a half chance! an appliance with the cord jhere though, that this bill will; around it. Keep cords away Tour Key West also be Republican in origin.: from hot radiators or stoves.” | And President Truman may sign} —_—_——_——— ; a a bill. He may be put into} France is about three times the | the position” of that, or nothing | size of Missouri. new command, Fleet Marine j pass a bill engineered by their The Second Division is station- Girl Scouts of Troop 5 will} ——EEe in Key West. There are many girls from other cities in the | troop, and much can be learned | by them, as well as the Key West girls, about activities here. The girls will meet at Wesley House on Varela street at 2) o’clock Tuesday. Enjoy ar. overnight "TRIP ABROAD" ° J IMPORTANT NOTICE! Service suspended for approximately three weeks. elective October 26th. NEXT SCHEDULED SAILING FROM MIAMI NOV. 19, 1947 In order to improve and maintain the Pelatial 8. 3 Florida in top condition for your comfort and saiety, it is being dry-docked for thorough reconditioning. INTING See your Travel Agent for information, tickets aud reservations, or inguire at P & O Ticket Office, Municipal Pler No. 2, Telephone Ticket Agent. 9-7601, Miami; or any F. E. C. & OCCIDENTAL vue DEWINGIIDAD vy THE ae ae ~COMPANY STEAMSHIP