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AR ee . SO-CALLED AUSTRALIAN |NEW YORK CASHES IN ter is its main building at 42nd street and Fifth avenue, a late Coca-Cola To 4 Renaissance structure of Vermopt; pp. ¢ 2 oe ee marble. It -has 110 reading, lec- ‘Begin Nationwide OF : |ture; anil exhibition rooms. _ 4 3. “OAK” NOT AN OAK Uke many plants introduced into Florida from the tropics world that are locally misnamed, the.so-called Australian is not an Oak at all, nor is it distant! or Oak family, being Of the Cre the several species intro- into Florida G. robusta is the one commonly known—a tall tree, often 60 feet or soe in height, with trunk diam- eter df two feet or more. The fol- ie bright glossy green on the side and ashen gray under- presenting an ever-varying and ing color effect when by the wind. The narrow = leaflets, about three in length, alternate on the leaf-stem, are smooth on the lower edge, but notched on the upper edge with one and some- two subsidiary leaflets therefrom. Bailey des- thip Crevilles species as of the most popular of houses it is not grown to} Sent an unbearable burden, to a plants, and therefore little known of the great size which attains in its native forest. Ac- to the subtropical part of Australia, rising to 150 of rather rapid growth and drowth to a remarka- rH i is elastic and durable, larly for staves of for furniture. The golden yellow flowers attract honey- birds and bees through months of the year. The are copiously produced and rapidly.” H i it if years ago Dr. Henry introduced G, robusta garden at Gotha, west of of which he wrote: the autumn of 1896 I set out plant of Grevillea robus- and the next year severaPmore The largest one is at over 60 feet tall, and in in flower it looks from the @ittanee like a huge flame. The peculiar bunches of blossoms are untike any’ else we grow in @erdens and each blossom is of honey that the bees be , but for some reason I never seen many of them the flowers. The honey is Sweet to the taste. The Gre- form a large and rather tree with fine, much-divi- my specimens. People call it Aus- felian Oak and Silk Oak—mis- gemers, because it belongs to the Protaceae which is not _tlistantly related to the are numerous specimens . fobusta throughout Central Gouth Florida. Many were originally in the grounds Tampa Bay Hotel. There is ® ¥ery tall one in the southeaster- ty corner of the courthouse in Fort Myers and a half fine speciments in Estero. banksii, a much fed-flowering tree, is sel- @neountered in Florida. A were originally planted te the mall or park strip extend- ing through the town of Avon Pack and o local nursery formerly bept them in stock LEUT, WOODSON (Continued From Page One) with, U. 8. Navy, presently resid- ing in Norfolk i from Western, High Geheel, Washington, D. C, in 1996 and from Virginia Polytech te Institute, Blacksburg, Virgin- tea tm 1040, Li nant Woodson @itered the Navy in March 1942, peeriving bis wings and a com iesten es ensign at Pensacola in Drtcerber iva fe 1943 and 1944 Lieutenant ‘Weeteon served 14) months of oversees duty as a pilot in Bomb Squetivon One in Hawaii and Witerd the aircraft carrier USS Varktown He bas beer Orem, 4 Aw Yat Citation Campaign Medal awarded the Navy dential rican Area Asiatic- Pacific : | Aves Campaign Medal and | star, | ond World War ol SENATE COMMITTEE Continued From Page One) ettiefied with some of Lilienthal’s getivities or lack of them The senate committee gave Lil- Ratha Hl 4 o'clock this after gum to produce the documents. ue subject matter relates to thls country's dealings with Great Melia regarding atomic energy and how far the United States has m meking disclosures to Britain ebout the way the @temec Bernd is produced 11 Vietory Med Aeros «@ MO-mile stretch of wilderness in Labador there is be iewed to be @ solid trough of iron ore funning anywhere from 10 to OP mth ‘ leas there are said to be some 200 spe-' es ranging from shrubs to — trees, and mostly natives “ { should not assume—that our gov- to von Mueller, it is indi- : 54 hence one of the most; twees for desert culture. kept busy as long as} related to the known bot ally as. Crevillea Congressional Grist Mill By REP. GEORGE SMATHERS —_— Several weeks ago I wrote in this column about the size of our federal government — how the Executive Branch employs over two million people. Truly, ‘our government is today the world’s largest business, and each of us, as a stockholder in that business, has the right to expect—but we ernment well be run as economi- cally as possible. The maze and galaxy of exist- ing governmental agencies pre- conscientious Chief» ‘Executive. President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized this when, in 1937, he , “The executive structure of the government is sadly out of date. . ... Neither’ the President nor the Congress can. exercise effective supervision and direc- tion over such a chaos of estab- lishments, nor can overlapping, duplication and_ contradictory politics be avoided.” Two years ago the Congress created the Hoover Commission to study the Executive Depart- ment and to submit plans for bringing order from chaos, econ- omy from waste. The very thor- ough, studies made.by the _Com- mission revealed in detail what had been generally realized— that our government is full of duplication and_ contradiction, carelessness and inefficiency—all resultng in gross waste. For example, two different government agencies, the Army ‘Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, each drew up plans for the building of a reclamation | project at Hell’s Canyon, Idaho. | Each set of plans cost the tax- payers a quarter of a million dol- j lars. Strangely enough, the plans differed in many essentials and ‘by over $75 million as to the cost ef construction. On = one recent occasion the Congress appropri- ated money fora middle west project on the assumption it would cost $44 million—it finally s{/cost $131,800,000. The Hungry Horse Project in Montana grew from an estimated $6,300,000 to an’actual cost of $93,500,000— more than 15 times the original estimate, In a single county in Georgia it was discovered that there were \47 employees of 7 separate fed- eral field services advising 1,500 cotton farmers. onstruction costs of govern- ment hospitals run as high as $51,000 per, bed as compared with an estimate $16,000 per bed for voluntary or private hospitals. The revealing list of findings by the Commission is too lengthy to set out here, but it suffices as evidence that something needs to be done to correct the situa- tion. The House ahd Senate have both passed bills which would authorize the President to reor- ganize his Executive Branch; the diffecences in these bills must now be resolved so that one au- | thorization bill will be passed by the Congress. We should lose no time in taking advantage of the} findings and recommendations of the Hoover Commission for it will ultimately mean money in 'your pocket and mine. If we re- jstore order and competency to jour government—to borrow from Shakespeare — as day follows night, so will economy follow ef- ficiency. EIGHT-MONTH JOB MANILA —(AF) —The Com-| mercial Pacific Cable Co., has completed the 8-month job of re- pairing its cable line at a point | 450 miles east of Guam. r project, at a depth | was one of the deep- | est ever accomplished, company | officials said. | ‘The break occurred last Sep- ltember on the rim of an extinct | ‘undersea voleano that { was not | |known to have existed when the | cable was laid between Midway | | and n in 1903. The repair ships Restorer and | ‘John W. Mackay located the | break and diverted the cable avound the crater at a depth of 1.7 miles. FEVEVOCUVTUVUVOVUVUTYYTY STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | TRIUMPH COFFEE MILL at | 4 Grocers ON IDEA. BANK fx INFORMATION FONT—One of the large #eading rooms in New York’s Public Library where millions of books are stored. By GEORGE TUCKER, AP Newsfeatures Writer ¥ NEW YORK—Have you got a picture of a spinach leaf in The New York City Libragy ) had’ its beginnings in Johm. Jacob Astor, an immigrant boy, who founded one of the coun: try's first great fortunes: confided to friends. that he wanted to leave $400,000,000° for the construction of a mqm- Ee ng Green ate walk suave pedaddgud/' Sola’ hin of: j than 100 ears ajo, in 1838, to tea of a greadjlibary.’ Astor died. print. in 1848, andjon, January.-10, tie New York Evening’ Post ted: i er “The opeing ef ithe Astor Li brary, in Latayette“Place, to*the nasses, was ‘the great ‘everit® in this city, yesterday.” - In another part of the James Lenox, a great collector‘ of , ‘lorids the Bible, Milton, Shakespeaye,| Newspaper News and Radio Di- and “Americana, was assembling , gest. treasures from every part of the world. These. included a Guten- berg Bible and the manuscript in’ Washington’s hand from which the famous “Farewell Address” was taken. ‘ Lenox colletted these so’ quiet-. ly that when in 1870 he gave land and’ $300,000 for a building,. and presented his library in trust ‘to’ the city, his name was bafély known. i t Meanwhile Samuel Jones Til- den governor of New York and has nationally circu! : ° Ady. Campaign | “ NEW YORK, JUNE 1 (FNS)— The Coca Cola Company in Junc is launching a long range nation- wide advertising program in act ty-eight. trade publications with copy cued to an educational ; theme ‘aimed to ‘encourage the propersuse. of trade names in| ,Believed to be the first such ign ever conducted by a ‘national advertiser, the series of monthly insertions will appear in ted pr blica- tions in the advertising and pub- lishing field as well as 35 addi- tional regional magazinés and bulletins including the Florida . The series of advertisements, using black and white illustra tions with copy, has been prepar: ed for editorial staffs on the working level in the nation’ newspaper, magazines and pcri-+ odical fields. The Coca-Cola ads will tell the story of trade-marks, and the le- igal protection accorded them in such a manner that industry as a whole should benefit. responsible; largely for. the’ de-] - cline of Tammany’s Boss Tweed; was preparing a surprise of ,his own. He'left'an estate of $5,000,- color that you could give the New York Public Library, oF of | 00 for the establsihment of “a a camel that has shed its hair? The library could use these. It has a collection of 6,000,000 pictures, organized into a quick reference encyclopedia,’ avail- (free library and reading room.” The corporate history of The New York Public Library, as it , But with all and its millions of. books it re-| mains the city’s. unchanging “busy-body,” solving lover’s quarrels. and pdinting young adventurers to new.horizons. Recently a juvenile went to the able to anyone without charge. It also needs pictures of d guinea pig's skeleton, the Main Street of a midwest town in 1919, a popaver, and the type of costume worn by women surgeons in 1890. These pictures are consulted®: by business firms all over the! United States. Some time ago a movie com- pany selected a depressing picture of a sharecropper’s family for costume ideas. A Russian writer saw it and used it to illustrate the maldistribu- “tion of wealth in U.S. ‘It turn- | ed up later as the high-light of | a charity fund drive. Then a birth control agency borrowed it to show the results of uncon- trolled fecundity. The picture collection is one of about 200 departments special- izing in practical and unique information which makes the New York Public Library and its 65 branches ahd sub-branches the busiest busy-body in public life today. Its millions of books are in 3,000. languages and_ dialects. | It “~has musie scores in Braille, unregisterd foreign inventions, | and’ an unsurpassed collection of technology and scientific lore. A man who was looking for an honest painter’ walked into the library recently and began study- ing the great works of art. He was there for days. Finally he! uttered a triumphant cry. He was standing before Botticelli’s “Pri- mavera.” He was an othopedic surgeon. “Look,” he s point- ing to Primavera’s fe a bun- ion.” Asan institution that plays mother, cupid, and baby sitter to about 4,000,000 people every year, its librarians have to be on their toes. The library eStimates that it| answers nearly 3,000 questions | a day. Typical questions: Who is | the patron saint of dentistry? | What wild flowers in New York | state are protected by law? | Library attendants have to be good. guessers, too. One ' little girl spent hours unsuccessfully , checking cards in the reading | room files, Finally she asked, ! “Have you got Miserable People | in glish?” It turned sout that | she wanted “Les Miserables.” | | | | | \ | While adventurers check the map department for to} buried treasure, and while his torians trace vanished civiliza-| tions, business men and econo- | mists keep a wary eye on titles | demanded for trends For instance, in recent months there has been a sharp clews decrease in the demand for books on home auto repair and interior decorating has in- creased, There is fresh interest in coins of the world inspired largely by returning GI's. The patent department has in creasing popularity. Only five per cent of foreign patents are tesis | tered in the United States: : remainder. are free to wishing to copy them them in manutacturing. Librarians in the patent de partment rememberssone: stead: reader whose findings, translate into an invention of his own. ‘brought him nearly .'a, millior dollars. Another cashed in on an idea for a coat. hanger and. the anyone or use ‘royalties are pouring in. The Library’s main ‘nerve cen- OUOUEAAUUUOUOAUEOOA SAHA ARADO LUO | Se Rel 1S YOUR PRIVATE AFFAIR when you use VENETIAN BLINDS! a twist of the wrist you add charm.and enchantment to window treatments. Venetian blinds areas practical as they are beautiful! CALL—PHONE 1042 —KEY WEST— VENETIAN BLIND CO. AWNIN JALOUSIES VE AN BLINDS 123 Duval Street (3) SOUUELHAOUERAALTOUUGAAUADEAEETA OTE ADRS HAVANA! Come! Sail of the Antilles through starlit seas to the Pearl The liner S.S. FLORIDA sails y from Miami at 6 p.m. every Monday and Thursday. Dance aboard ship! 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