The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 13, 1949, Page 2

Dear To Whom kt Applies: About the only time some of the reeltente of Key West go to church is at thet feneral. This is, perhaps, a bit too ete THE ORACLE WHEN GASOLINE WAS A NUISANCE Pitty veers or ve ago the oil industry hed probleme. One of them was a nuisance called gascline, which was a by-product of Gererene production. It wasn't good for meet of anything and the oj) companies hed « tough time getting rid of it. Been kerosene, which was the main- ay of the business, presented difficulties. oftele types of kerosene had a heavy and eopteecent eviphur «mel!. Customers took t calling & “skunk oi!” Finally, the in- @eary came up witha new refining methed, and the smell was eliminated. As time went by, and it became ap- ferent that the horseless carriage was here ip G4). warcline was no longer a drug on He market. Some visionaries even felt that | would eventually outsell kerosene. How- A, « production problem remained. It o @iffiewlt te produce enough gas of high ay at alow price. So the oil people ef some more research, and discovered a room to take care of that. Poday, a typical large oil company maker 2.000 different products, many of which Have nothing to do with driving and whricating machinery. There are 250,000 > ia stations throughout the country, fempeting for the motorist’s business. Ang there are thousands of producers and reffe®re in competition with each other. : ——fhat's the way one industry has wae, in less than a lifetime. This is the type ef enterprise that has yiven safer ser- ioe W customers and built American in- destry ae TL od MAN, 22, CALLED A “YOUTH” We have called attention to the criti- eal attitude adopted by some of the na- tion's thinkers toward modern youth which denounced for various alleged short- “Youth” is blamed for much and gets ® bad mame because of the habit of some eowepepers and radio commentators to refedte individuals between twenty and ‘hort years as “youths.” + @man was accused of a view erime. He was 22 years old. The hewdiines read, “Youth Accused, Etc.” Peidently, “youth” is a relative term. By reference to acentenarian 22 years is yoot® but when referring to ordinary peo- ple © men 82 yeare old is an adult if he ovet gets te be one. A man ie getting old when he realizes thet he is getting old. The Citizen published an advertisment of the City Electrie System on July 28 that A reader of Citizen whe at Big Pine Key cut out the advet and sent it to The Citizen with the comment that electricity is what is needed at Big Pine to bring about He shdiild have added that an 9 eked we eR oe ri apeee Force, and the possible elimina. | home in Tampa had tion of the Marine Corps. jed by a fire. When the Unification Bill was! toed before the House several dzys} Harry Gwyn, fprmet resid: ago, Congressman Vinson, Chair- | arrived today from Miami to visit man of the Armed Services Com- / relatives and friends. mittee, told us that he and the | 7 ! Committee had placed certain; chain has rural eleétrification, and: the lower chain should %e similarly supplied with what is thé greatest mvention in the world — electricity, that is, the harnessing of it. | have declared that harnessing electricity |control. Vinson said, “Now, this | i F limitati the Secretary is the world’s greatest invention, others |#™!t#ton on , y SP€- | cuit court for an injunction to have argued that this or that is a far great. |{u'2l¥ Prevents him from tak- | stop the building of a small struc- zo : ing any combatant function as- Ghe at Davia “iscat Eka ten er invention. Some have said the radio, the |signed to the Army, Navy or Air | Boulevard. to be used as 0 “bent airplane, television, radar, the radio tele- Force and abolishing it, trans-' hoy” Fi ze ferring it, consolidating it, or plies SecaY phone, or the teletype is a greater imven- [reassigning it. So he cannot Pink siips, called 403's by WPA tion. They did not stop to think that the | abolish the Marine Corps. He can- | employees working on relief in}. basic force of all these inventions is elec- ae abe tie eek ncaa ; Key West, were handed out to pe oc ce. jut naval | 220 workmen today. Each man tricity. Splitting the atom and the produc- | aviation into the Air Force. He | ae ecsrued a ake knew it tion of atomic energy by fission also de- cannot put the marines in the; meant he would be laid off for pend on electricity. Army.” 130 days. But the Big Pine resident’s chief con- After the members of Congress, } meee . ex-Army GI’s and officers, ex- Business men and residents ge-! cern about electricity is not its outstand- i ing wonder as an invention. . His theughts Navy men and Marines had care- | nerally are protesting vigorous]: fully studied the provisions point- against the increase in tolls on the are confined to the light and ‘power Big Pine will receive if rural electrification is ganization would apply to the cir- iff : ed out by Chairman Vinson and | Overseas Highway . bridges... The were further reassured by Vin-' increase was agreed on at the Jast son’s speech, the Unification Bill { meeting of the commission held at 258 5) He he eh 44 othe was passed and sent to the Presi- | Pigeon Key. pareg t extended there. ste ae dent for his signature. So, while| gee ak iy eee = scream That will be the main ' factor in the |the bill is designed to bring; Glenwood Albury and family, ing up Cherry i progress of the lower chain of Keys, and The Citizen trusts rural electrification about economy and efficiency in| former Key Westers, arrived to- many ways, and certainly there | day from Fort Lauderdale to visit is plenty of room for that, and/relatives and friends. £3 . Yaee iance, 2ccentuatin; dress. - gf od Cherry moved en soon will be installed in that locality. we all want that, it nevertheless — the crowd until she bs —_ i ts . will not endanger the size or ef-| Mr. and Mrs. Ashby Nelson of | Gumbicr“agiin the sone ending as ex RELIGIONISTS MUST OBEY LAW OR— j‘€<tiveness of the Marine Corps, | Tampa arrived today to visit Mr.{ she disappeared into the dark- is rye fe Sets» a the Navy or the Air Force. Nelson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.} ness amid thunderous applause. Last week the House passed | William Nelson, Pine street. “She's simply wonderful, Dave. i con More than two score young men are |H.R. 5598, which isa bill of —-- She, cya makes you feel lie de as w serving prison terms for refusing to |£ft_ concern to all disabled] | Mrs. Rex Weech returned today | 30U'T® part, of any, atmosphere 0 nat ena -— Ge ‘ i ~_ | veterans and their families. It is | from a visit to New London, Con- "Dave nodded. “Shel certainly, corm tue be register for the draft and their plight is designed to eliminate some un-| necticut. sven the Zodiac Club its yy th on . - the excuse for sentimental appeals for |fair discriminations which now * oo Su exists in our pension laws. The} Today The Citizen says in an way the law had been — veterans j editorial paragraph: of World War I who contracted| “Many congressmen favor eco- prior to January 1, 1925, neuro-jnomy in all matters excepting Rew micas later, the singer foined them. clemency from the government whose laws they flagrantly flouted. The argument is made that religious Uncle Sam produced more tt : Paes psychiatris disease, spinal men-| those affecting their districts. Ve” 11 million bales of cotton, 30 Your Graces freedom is imperiled by the insistence | insitis, tuberculosis, and other TOD AY S | tion pounds of wool, and 975 s +. of the government that conscientious ob-|cimilar diseases were pre Mail The Citizen to Relatives lion pounds of rayon in 194 eT jectors to war register in accordance with |sumed to have connected dis- —_— 7 ‘ ; abilities. But — and here was the Louisiana produces more ¢ and CUBAN the act of Congress. It should be noted unfairness — even though the LEGALS : j than any other state in the w TRY A POUND that the initial act of registering did not | disease was 100 percent disablii < Cn mgm : This order to be published once a les for in-] week for four consecutive weeks in a we passed the other day SSTATE OF VLOMIBAW EN CHAN-| WITTIAM BENJAMIN (BEN: | last war, conscientious objectors served se ; : totally disabled, to which they Gath Ecriox| the three major golf’ titles last persons from thirty-six states have signed | The bill would also fix definite ORDER oF PUBLiChonE F * old law, the Veterans Adminis- self so that process cannot be CONSTRUCTION CO. termined in each individual ease. | before September 6, 1949, your ap- That is an interesting argument. As to | “ith Sound medical principles. {° Open’ and the ments from $138 to $150 2 month | Published in Key Went, Florida BEN HOGAN Hogan started @ Ever-Plastie b laterite i os JER CNCUTT. ci Newsfeatures’ mean that the men would be compelled jthe law permitted , ides e ELEVENTH JUDICIAL Cancety sun to become belligerents and that, during the | eft Payments. The bil which] IN AND Fon MONROE coUvTY, permit these veterans to get the ‘ _ Cane Ne. 11-955 HOGAN, born Aug. 13, 1912, at the nation in other ways. entire 100 percent pensions, if{!VAN W. WATSON, Stephenville, Texas. Winner ,of! v vi A group of 400 clergymen and other are entitled. FRANCES creetia Pe ol year—first man to do it in 26 ment wa years — Hogan a protest, alleging that the conviction of ; Payments for tuberculosis - TO: FRANC! son, | ® 4 Me has been out of these men throws into doubt our herit- {tents of either war. Under the known, and who conceals her- the game since! age of religious freedom. In addition, |tration gave benefits based on yoottmanently served upon her. 4 the signers of the protest, intimate that | the extent of the disability it de-|,..107 2tg Ieaulred to file in the F : i: $ H - the young men should be signally honor- |r. new bill would remove the pearance to the bill of ” compiai : e E . ; * . . ‘ + "t for d Ce, iM be ed for “faithfully following their consci-|variable determination and eS-|{2ken as confessed and decree pro Profeional xclusive Dealer for Monroe EE tablish fixed rates in accordance confessed will be entered against Open, the U. S. f ; S. “ “™_” The bill also provi e ons Western Open. religious freedom, one should understand {creasing total disability pay-{|The Key West Citizen, a newspaper : is is s viol j Ordered this sth day of If while a shi 3 that this is not an excuse to violate the Rit crobixionaic Meheades 1671 eee ee : golf while a shopboy at the Glen | law of the land. As the late Alfred E.|the nine degrees of partial dis. | Sea) EARL R. ADAMS, ore Comtey Club eg 4 Smith declared, there is no power in the Also, there is an increase ! py siinroe Coun 5 ihe Gakhurl. Tecan & Gulfspray Shower-F me beoseate = * Bes Ry: (sd) Florence : st, . a : institutions of any church “to interfere {in the wartime rate of death ee : Country Club, the Century Co’ compensation for a widow with|rHoMmAS s. CARO, $100 to $105 per | Solicitor tor the Piaintift. $25 per month for eis mal child, instead of | yy 9 the $15 presently authorized. a try Club at Purchase, N. Y., and} the Hershey, Pa. Country Club. | ————— Left-handed, Hogan } CIRCUIT COCRY OF THE {right-hand grip in his yor as STATE GP PLOMIDALse| When he could not afford left- AND FOR MOSHOE . IN} handed clubs Czechs Still Carry “— ne CAROLYN JARE with the operation of the Constitution of the United States orthe enforcement of ; the law of the land.” Certainly, as to the following of one’s conscience, we must admit that this is an ideal policy for every individual, but it is @ Ventilated \wning-“hetters STUAR ea nowhere guaranteed, in statutory law or azi Cards Veiievebes cs DIVORCE: Political GLASS amd 4144 WINE Holy Writ, that this canbe done without ‘ jrOners fa) Deteneant cma . °° being subjected to prosecution or penal-}| PRAGUE—(#)—Although | liv-\ OR ci oar Announcement ~ ty. Ifone is convinced that a law of the |'"% woes he pieeeiucabinis ti phone rv 7 al . ée land is wrong, one may well disregard it 1946, eet oe still Pi ite For City Commission as a matter of conscience, but with the full official identification | vin the ALBERT G. ROBERTS bear the stamp of or before the stika have an official e end of 1950} will have been! After that | ( tion papers with! h text and the/ gnia will be inval-| pepiene Pissntift's knowledge that the state has the right to enforee the penalty provisions of any viola- tion of its laws. SKYLIGHT JALOUSIE the best " “NOT CONFINED TO LOW-BROWS” The nation is propably plagued by “professors” and “experts.” They man- Deputy € QUINALDO, JE r. age to make a specialty of almost every TADAY’S Domestic, Cuben end ® ’ conceivable subject. Their curiosity knows ANNIVERSARIES no bounds. (Know America) | aN AND POR MoNBO While some of the special studies have | _1818—Lucy Stone, champion of! '* “™*°ER")S sem Cane A cari fis, j q liberty, pioneer suffragette, lectu- | DOROTHY BROWN Ww. resulted in significant information for Ger isticen int Bek Getiun aes she Plaintiff, other people, some of them seem to rep- | chusetts. Died October 18, 1893. | Frank HENRY WALSH resent wasted time. For example, what | 1839—Michael A. Corrigan, Ro- ze ORDER OF PF j Last Times Today _—— rece | | 1) ecarcrorti C55. ConsTavETION an Catholic bishop of Newark, > Fi ‘ about the college professor who announces | ™* : een trite \ er — | —— = J., archbishop of New York, A : >: the completion of a fourteen-year study of |born in Newark. Died May 3,, yon". oxen, conectignt,, || Coming: JOHN LOVES MARY . ~ : . Meacan. Jack Carson. W: Se eee ees ce wien | Pierce eiataet, commauns, tor "Soren sae tungiows tess” “ ” . _— years ago) Dwight | Ulric he 2 oy or At ‘ roll,” =a other accomplishments of W. Tryon, noted New York andi 4° Ti ius. cikecion ine Aes AIR American burlesque queens? New Bedford, Mass. artist-teach- | tio therein will be taken as exne er, born Hartford, Conn. Died Ju- | The gentleman made some portraits ter: eache, published Goce | eee eee ¢ of burlesque performers some years ag. “ eoesst |=, week for tour commseutive weeks ‘3 4Z0 | “ 1951—Felix Adler, founder-|i2 The West Citizen. a new i and “became fascinated by the subject.” jleader the Society for Ethical P2"founty Morden Miraculous Journey thereu ‘ “ A culture, New York, civic worker, and ORDERED this 22nd with f a en of ee ee: a pues born in Germany. Died April 24, | (Sealy EARL R. AD! RORY CALHOUN, ATDREY | LICENSED ‘ ey 7 Ke te jem ° i | { ' 1933. Clerk of the Circuit Court, | LONG and VIRGINIA GREY 1860—Annie Oakley, famous} BS hy Can es | Coming: GRAN CASINO 2313 Patterson ¢ DON | day of July, A.D. 1949 his revelations, which surprises nobody, sabe “ | ii i ill ci p Cle x peng tice burlesque is not con- ae geet peseaagres Y. Porter IV., wie ee ag ie aon — y Ki TELEPMONE oe fined to low-brows,”” November 3, 1926. sey Bollcltor for PIGIMCIEE. ss is4s Julio VUlareal