The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 19, 1949, Page 2

— cece People’s eeneceeeeoee — Twa letters about the names of Key | ° Weep ha ep Eee | ' i teem Aan Mreete Oaty Daily Newepanee in Key Went and Citizen in the last few days. Evidently, the writer of the s fe ‘ ‘ be \d ’ TURSDAY JULY. toe | ter was not familiar with the h ij oS Chapter 24 |sod eck into nis pocket concentration op tw teal ond mnmann oF THN sesec - ae poese a significance of the names of streets ned ofthe pe om | Comat eee ple ye eae ame chner and he finally decided cover his, envent L. leaps 4 | ANNA MARC #ONED - ‘apatches credit: mentio Those ham heseoman jon ward, 8 ng vp we . treme ye ee ge a ey ned names were given Key | (er = | one hand grasping the door frame | et, te Berasaem mse Peele | teves wore duty 1% 1900, % Miatepemn Shes the lates news published bore West streets by the founders or early set.) j ws though for sppast,,"Wou “8 the saw him-—a vague faure a d it, Stugt” no send charghy. [SEO SO geri forme = —— tlers and were the names of their wives of | Fe ee bane tock ae renee Oe eee) See eee = ee ee ee Ree “Vea - ue 1 te. ap the other ore uae we H5ee | their daughters, Editor .The Citizen Why?” stream. Ry — — Oa tee eel ye % Every city in the United States as old | There is talk again about! | She straightened with some Curtous, Jeff pad stated et ye aeenn + inom ne tats ats Se . changing the names of some of | ing of an ——e -—) ds SO vee thom ooo * — * % | of older than Key West has street names (one ne chamte for the| “Nothing Nothing at all, As you) ‘owed the: ae the hands of th oe porn meena of historical importance. Attempts to | better in anything is always de-| {2%, Stag yas careless; 0 care | igy, oa Made Knows on Application change them would evoke general com. | srable wat | Ge y ay bot “That what?” eS oan He waded to the od eed = sas : plaint. For seme reason, a similar attitude | gone in a way that will not be| “Never mand, ft a| dle of the stream, the water gpm. | standing | th - od is not entertained by Key Westers genera!- Jeading or confunag, era | idea Good night, Good me bo Me armpits, rae him ane ; a. = ly. Just let somebody evolve a notion and, be => Divisun Street | . The search was roomed, ne _— oonh commen = 7% ed bh 4 7 | was chang » Truman avenue. mt ly on “rown mon . ~ exprem it sufficiently often about the | chich was very good. because we| crew sees them and together | feeling about with his feet Lary a changing of the names of our streets, and |<id it to honor our President, | with Jeb and Jeff end Glena and |deliberately, submerged, hoes a i . the gvfrds mov fr _ it won't be long before large groups of a ! Rng me an literally tout by toward Cou- long that Jeff wenmvced whet had | Th af Key Westers will fall in line with his pro- | >. till have Divieton’ Stnece> , $2%, Until fully the distance | become of him. The water vppis ‘<@ | Do we ave Divison Street ad been covered without a sgn | and his head came into -@! 5 le posal. | The answer should be no, and yet of the missing bex or its thief |erected himself slowly = of - Citizen readers may recall that, short- | ** 9" — — mee AR B. Ee sel eo the | object S Boones — . ‘ > n The jzen almost every day, | pid ¢ ly after David King became city manager, | and the name on the public} rong trail ae ee and the Raney shiect he he suggested giving Spanish names to all stil reads Division Street pgm oe and on | was the specie box! MPR. VEMENTS FOR KEY WEST streets in Key West. But The Citizen hit | “T's stranger come to town and| lose Sptsmabeie SeinG | WT WAS clever, devilishly clever, | the ground. ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN | | that notion on the head and killed it | wanted to find Devision Street, 1] Me rode ity toward Braco rar vet fp The eave be ——ae H » x as « suc. onde he " ould be for | then cut away west hed been 7” mudd f jowever, The Citizen was not as suc. ; wonder where phen mom tor | ne found humeelt oe the | the stream where there would '~ r 1. More Hotels and Apartments. cesful in opposing changing the name of | jhorcushfare aay Pe “4 the steep bank by the creek eo betraying masta, ond ve men . - 2% Beach and Bathing Pavilion Division st Tr wae l Wien uman avenue. | the thie? had turned the wagon|had taken the box and let it sink . q _ sion street to Truman avenue. The | When we decide to change the| in search of a crossing It was|some yards away from the eros ' os Airporte—' Land Sea. Citiaen inted out ) et | t ane vite dark by this time, so he u Its weight would hold it there we 4 Consolidation of County and ae Gee < that Division stre: tie ty, it should go by that on his horse, dre | antl the grit filled stream would + City Governments. played an outstanding role in Key West - there w and squatted on his heels to roll | hide it frye view, 4 pew in Civil War days. Army engineers, aided or oe sod a ” i ae thousandth | eft gay net "ieee. bs by free Negroes, built Division street so . ry. "8 | tume could the thief have hidden gun and began inching toward ’ } - a nat be f he hadn't transported | the ford on bis stomach a Lt a — oo not have to pass nt of r tt “f 4 mane t sad? - Jett cons the Reouh asp of rough the populated part of the city (« i O'Bryant, wt Suddenly he heard the slow/hacksaw blade He crept st | suse Maas adh eaeh of Auesie, atvest) 7 ‘ - wigement nd| thump of hoofs tle put tobacco! closer, trusting to the fellow Te be amtmaed und thinkin ' ~~ alae i" | in going to and from the Army Barrack he an oltant t tant the a. - “ . . 4 > er Ve bey t paar — —_ —— and Fort Taylor, One night, while the city |» D Street Schoo! chang: | Your Herosco ~—< Your Grocer SELLS That Gung | Beast With Five slept, the sommanding residents were preparing to Taylor, ordered the soldiers, equipment, to abandon the officer, fearing | ong with cian to attack Fort | suggest Truman avenue sch Rh thelr [* Sree ES Barracks and ; i go to Fort Taylor by way of Division street lion ae vg te ae Key West, Florida to be ready to fight against the anticipated | °"", “ {| Dear Flores: attack. When Key Westers arose the next J VIC PRIT . Reing suspected of murder and]! morning, they learned the Barracks had | Key West. ¥ i ™ § ling 14 hours incomunicado in a been evacuated during the night and that | July '8 1% | jail is an experience you will not ‘iy forget very soon. Your Key West Fort Taylor was prepared to resist ar ROTEST FROM BOYS TOWN attempt to capture it. The atempt was not | pyc. 7 “a ‘tte and Tampa friends «sympathize with |) made ‘ ; cea you in being made the victim of police The Citizen suggested, when the pro t a magazine racke sing | abeurdity. posal was made to change the name . . : Boys Tow ‘| THE ORACLE Division street to Truman avenue, that the sieies nl ole agg oe name of Bayview Park be changed to Tr | States st our knowledge or! man Park, or the name of a comparatively | “* ‘ " ECONOMY IN HOUSEKEEPING recently built street be changed, but the h if ¥ ‘ne ae ol y protest was of no avail—the men behind |©olumns you would warn your | It is quite true, as Dr. Robert L. John- | ine proposal were unconcerned in the his- }'*2*"s © beware of any mage son, chairman of the Citizens Committee | torical significance of Division street. pais ea saa ay. — = a om the Hoover Report, asserts, that the | tsoe th Boys Town general pyblic knows very little about Senator Robert A. Taft says he would ji ¢ . +: ze e es the “housekeeping activities” of the Fed- | ike to vote for @ policy that would com. | k N eral Government and therefore, the pub- | Mit us to war if Russia attacks Western | , n ix not in a position to understand the | Europe. Why then is he against the At |" oe s+ a importance of recent steps designed to | ‘antic charter? } the mmis being about some effici (Wise of supplies Yor various government President Truman ha in the pur wey “HOW TO LOSE A WA agancies of ordered a gen In a late issue of U. S. News & World ve eral house-cleaning and inventory of gov- | Report, David Lawrence has a long edi- | \, - . . . ermmental property, under authority of | torial on the national defense. Its alarming Town t the reorganization Act, recently passed | —#"d accurate—title is “How To Lose 7 bp Congress. He wants the heads of all War.” It deals in large part, with our pre F 0 ‘ executive agencies to survey their excess | ett tendency to put all our eggs in the Air | us r property and real estate and to ; t future requirements in a iti high cost terest of promoting greater saving ~ The new law facilitated the small lot” bu their Force basket, on the theory that big bomb- | ® : . on © to avoid | rs carrying the A-bomb and other ad - a aga n the in vanced weapons can decide a war by them 4 » © De creation That theory was held by some during | ssties one | a General Servic Administration, [| the last war, and it was ed wrong. If | @iich has the function { the Federal | We should adopt it and it should be proved |" = Werks Agency. the Bureau Federal | ¥fong once more as everyone exce; . | Supply, Office of Contract Settlement, the | Air Force partisans think it will — tb War Assets Administration and the Na- | country could be placed in a desperate, |” | tienal Archives establishment. It will at- | and perhaps an imposible positios | , rw tempt to bring + ther the purchase of Mr. Lawrence chooses as an example pplies, the construction ome build- | the decision of the Secretary of Defense “a ings and the management of other public abandon the construction of a ver rye | Pirks aircraft carrier by the Navy, though th While it does not include all programs |] ship, which he says would be unsinkabl: and functions now being carried it by | had twice been approved by Congress and | yy we various executive agencies, the President } the President. Then he say It isn't mer RB t hae called attention to the purpose of the | ly the desire of the Navy to build a pa _ legislation and, so far a racticable, or- | ular type of ship that isthe heart of the dered them to procure, utilize and dis- | controversy. The basic principle at i c " , pose of property in accordance ith the | whether the Navy can run the Navy and | * + act and the regulation i under it the Air Force can run the Air Force and authority the Army can run the Army Moder RA Rbd abd bbbbssssssssseas —_—_ — ~- naval experts are convineed that in a fu- | Political ADVICE FOR QUICK ACTION ture war the carrier, which would g _——_ mobile bases throughout the world, w Announcement We understand som: Americ are | be the principal offensive weapor The Air Force zealots are telling the Navy what direction its developments For City Con.mission gardiess of the views of the men wh at G bedy is to be cau- | experience and training are best able receiving letters urging that they stecks in gold-mining or shall take } invest in | -drilling cor | porations Our advice to ¢ tious in’ investing e ‘ ally in | judge what is wise and necessary TRIUMPH what maybe something liky id ng. | On the solution of this issue. the life If the pressure of the letter of solicita- | of the country may some day depend. 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