The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 13, 1947, Page 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1947 _ Submarine Base ; Beamijnations fen probational appointment e positions of and operator, water plant, deen announced by .the/ of U.S. Civil Service Ex- ners at the Naval Submarine | | Registers established as a_re- It of the current examinations ill-be used to fill vacancies in hese positions which may occur Naval Activities in Key West. ites of pay for oiler begin at 2 per diem. Intermediate rate $8.80 per diem and maximum $9.28 per diem. Rates of pay operator, water plant, begin at $9.12 per diem. Intermediate pate is $9.60 per diem and maxi- um is $10.08 per diem. Application forms may be ob- ined from the Recorder of the rd at Building 91, Subma- tine Base, from the Secretary of Board of U. S. Civil Service xaminers at any first or second post office, or from the ional Director, Fifth U. % ivil Service Region, Atlanta, rgia. Copies of the examination an- incement, with full details of ties and qualifications of the ge are posted at the Key | fe st post office and at Building #1, Submarine Base. ' Applications must be on file with’ the Recorder, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, Naval Submarine Base, Key West, Florida, not later than danuary 8. Key West In Days Gone By AS TAKEN FROM FILES : OF THE CITIZEN OF DEC. 13, 1937 (Qdvvvusnaveavauosgsruanaeagcageeeaconasoaangeznannnn Residents of Monroe county pow receiving old age pen- sions number 302, the State Wel- fare Board reported today. La Casa Marina will be for- mally opened for the season on Christmas Day, Manager Peter Schutt announced today. The chilly spell that struck Key. West a few days ago is still eontjnuing, with the mercury registering 65. Public schools in Monroe coun- ty will be closed Friday for the Christmas holidays, and will be peopened on January 3, Melvin E. Russell, superintendent of public instruetion, announced to- day. Reginald Trumball, who was in business in Key West for sev- eral years, and now is a resi- dent of Miami, arrived yester- day for a short stay in Key | West. Mrs. John French Hunt of Boston is visiting Mrs.. C. D. Harrington, 1201 White street. Key West Drama Club met last night in the home of Mrs. | Eva B. Warner to arrange for a Christmas Community Tree. Gravy (Sam Goldsmith) _re- ports in his golf column in The Citizen today that James (Red) Milligan got a hole in one on the 150-yard fourth yesterday while | playing with Bob Spittswood, Dick Metz and Hicks Kerr. Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph: a “Beyond the Alps lies Italy and beyond the Florida Keys lies Key West.” TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS (Know America) Drew Pearson, coiumnist, born in Evanston, Ill., 50 years ago. Col. Char W. Furlong of Cohasset, M. famed explorer, author and lecturer, born in Cam- bridge, Mass., 73 years ago. Alvin C. York of Ball Tenn., hero of the first War, promoter o feducation for Mall. mountain: children, born Fen- tress County, Tenn. 60 years ago. Dr. Bancroft Bentley, president of Simmons Colleg Boston, born in Boston, 53 ye Ulric Bell, | newspa an, born in Louisville, Ky., 5 ago. Edwin A. Nicholas, president of Farnsworth Television and Radio, Fort Wayne, Ind., born in Cleveland, 54 ye: ago. Mare Connelly of New York, playwright, born McKeespert, Pa., 57 years ago. Eire occupies about four-fifths of the island of Ireland. <a eR NEES | Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND maces, COFFEE and CUBAN Try A Pound Today: | boon to World| >, Citizen. | | \ | | | | | \ | of Public Health at the busy Monument and Wolfe Sts. | mowers. They’‘re sheep. more’s brick buildings and cla! of bacteriology. | The animals were brought who had been setting up pub- lic health policies for countries under American occupation. “Let ’em out,” he said. “It’s a shame to make them eat hay with all that green grass going to waste.” It wasn’t long before young Johns Hopkins house doctors— like neighbors who borrow lawn- mowers—were asking to borrow sheep. But Dr. Turner was reluctant. The sheep were the source of a valuable serum used in the study of influenza, and research would be. hampered if the tradition of forgetting to return lawnmowers prevailed. So would be borrowers were tactfully told each would have to catch his own mower. This might involve gamboling around the Public Health building’s lawn with a net in one -hand and abunch--0f-earrets-—i professional dignity. _ Inegenral everyone seems well pleased with the scene. The sheep are happier and healthier. Their contribution to science re- quires an occasional blood dona- tion, and Dr. Turner thinks they recuperate faster for being in a better frame of mind. Not the least be: the many commuters who wait on the sidewalk th transfer tickets in hand. There is no bet- ter antidote for the jangle of a metropolis than the sight of sheep nibbling clover at your feet. “It soothes the iciaries are spirit,” one | man commented. Of course the animals are a children, who—unlike Little Boy Blue—remain the fence. The Johns Hopkins grounds. keeper in pleased, too. He ha: one less lawn to mow. | Japan Wants | TOKYO.—(AP).—The Japanese | government wants to lure tour- ists back to Japan—particular- ly free-spending Americans. It is considering a program to spend 3,000,000 000 yen rebuild- ‘ing and modernizing hotels and | the transportation system to | vided Japan with a major source |of revenue. F Officials hope 200,000 tourists a year can be attracted and be- lieve closer relations with the United States as a result of the | occupation will help to draw Americar Read the Classified Ads in The | LS | ww : When OPEN—It’s | When CLOSED—It’s | CONSTRUCTED OF HEAVY GREEN GRASS makes red blood for science at busy corner. ALTIMORE.—Lawnmowers that don't have to be pushed are keeping the lawns trimmed around tle Johns Hopkins School But you can't borrow these luwn- The decision to install this pastoral scene amid , balti- gray-haired Dr. Thomas B. Turner, head of the department | for research work. At first they were boarded out in scattered back yards, or confined indoors. But freedom came with the post-war return of Dr. Turner,*. ae other, while trying to maintain} wide | awake with their faces glued to | | U. S. 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