The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1949, Page 10

fl! 5S oe . ~~Horse racing PAGE TEN ida Gets Florida Much Revenue . * From Racing. TALLAHASSEE, May 5 (FNS). is @ tremendous. revenue producer in Florida and ; no one is more cognizant of the fact than the state itself. Since 1931, the state has collected mote than $85,000,000 in parimutue! revenue from all forms of racing. Of this amount, hotse tracks accounted for more than $55,000,- 000; Hialeah, being the oldest in point of operation, has contribu. ted more than 50 cent of the aggregate, with al, Gult- stream and Sunshine Park ac- coutting for the balance. Gulfstream Park tang down the eurtain on Florida’s long horse racing season recently. Overall attendance and wagering will show only a slight drop for the 1948-49 season, which began last Deeember 1, the State Rac- ing Commission reported. Gulfstream is the only one of the four horse tracks in the state to show an increase in both attendance and parimutuel play. Sunshine Park at Tampa/had improved attendance but betting dropped $937,487, the Commis- sion re . Tropical | Park, which opened the season at Mi- ami in December, had a decline of $4,618,340 and Hialeah dropped off $2,144,194. TODAY IN HISTORY (Know America) UISA’S LETTER The art of getting along with T sometimes think it would not be a and writing and ‘rithmetic. y We all know capable men and /women who are honest and de- pendable, but who never seem to getithe breaks when it comes to promotion. There are others Who, while lacking in these vir- tues, seem to ge« swimmingly along until they reach the top. T almost every case you will find that, this latter class are meh and women Whom people Vike personally, They are cordial and friendly but their best ‘trait is in keeping off other folks’ toes. They positively do not belong to the class who pride them- selves on being frank and telling others exactly what they think. And we cannot call them hypo- ‘evites. They are, however, great believers in tact. If they fail to agree. with their companions on some questions, rather than have a row, they discuss other sub- jects instead. They never ask theif friends why they buy such unbecoming clothes, or infer that they are spending too much money on their new house or ears. They realize that such things ere not their affairs and povitely let them alone. ' A‘ter all, tact is really only a form of courtesy. If we teach eur. chil to be kind, to never offend other people unless it be a Question of morals or : charac- ter, we need not | TODAY'S BIRTHDAY By AP Newsteatures ARCHIBALD PERCIVAL WA. VELL, bern May 5, 1883, at Col- chester, England, son of a Ynajor general. Now Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, he was educated at Winchester Col- lege and Sandhurst. became a subaltern in the Black Watch in time to serve in the last part of the Boer War. In 1908 he had won his second med- al on the fron- tier of IWdia. in France he rose from colonel to full general, com- manding the Middle East in 1940, When he drove the Ital- _ WAVELY ‘ _ worry about ians from Sidi Barrani in Egypt their getting on with other folks.|and captured Tobruk in Libya. 1828—The American Seamen’s Yours, He became supreme commander Friendly Society, New York, LOUISA. | for the Allies in the Far Pacific, founded. was made field marshal, then Address Your Letters to: “LOUISA’, BP. O. BOX 532, Orangeburg, ‘S. C. viceroy of India and now is a } constable of the Tower of Lon- don. 1831—The Detroit Free Press, an historic newspaper, begins issue. 1834—60 pioneers under Wyeth leave Missouri to make Oregon American. 164%—-The American Medical Association founded in Chicago. 1862—Invading French army driven back to the coast by Mex- jeans—the battle of Cinco de Maya, armually observed in Mex- «oO. 1920—Sacco and Vanzetti ar- rested in Brockton, Mass., opén- ing up famous case. 1925—John T. 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