The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 25, 1949, Page 9

SE een ee ented i Examination for probational | appointment to the positions of , Automoti notive Mechanic, Carpenter, Electrician, Electronics Mechanic, ; i Ordnance, Explosive, and Riger, | “| j announced by the Svard of U. S. F »; | Civil Service Examiners at the i . Naval Station, have been amend- - ed to change closing date of ex- aminations. | Because a sufficient number of ! applications have been received, | “* « . | Ea * 2 a -| WARMTH AND FRIENDSHIP HERE: | By BILL LEE “Of course I-realize they, meant | : This is the saga of Bill Hoffman | well,” Bill says, “but just the | and his search for health, warmth & it ia eubarelting to: Secell and friendship. It is the story of 4 G reese Oe how he is finding all three in the | S@me@body help you on a bus, o1 Island City of Key West. {run eut and stop traffic so you | Bill Is A Totally Disabled Vet; Treated Normally Here to reach La H ad @round alone. Key West In Days Gone By Retary International, with Se- testian Cabrera, Jr., in charge of the program, was discussed at the tumeheon today of the Key West Rotary Club. West Lions’ Club last t passed a resolution, recom- ming that a fish market be eunstructed here. The bedy of John W. Curry, 81, former Key Wester, who died in Tempa, has been brought to Key Weet for funeral services and taarial Mies Mary Ellen Mahoney and brothers, Jack and Bill, who had been wietting their uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs. Jack Baker, left to- day for their home in Omaha, Nebraska Summer ducted in ) the direction of Mrs. Eva B. War- ner of the WPA recreation de- pertinent Mrs Waldo Johnson of Miami vewting her parents, Mr. and Aaron Diaz Mrs. Yerda Martinez left this morning for Tampa to visit rela- tives and friends. M Herman Holtsberg left Wednes- for New York on a stock- buying trip for his store in Key West Mrs Ethel Roberts and daugh- ter. Miss Gladys Roberts, who hed been visiting in Miami, re- turned yesterday Today The Citizen says in an editorial paragraph. Most people can give good ex- ‘ for failing to do what they don't want to do.” THE LOW DOWN HICKORY GROVE I don't too often agree 100 per cent with Uncle Harry on how he deducts our type of Govt. could be ne-over into aiontee new raped er color or type. He has too man; folks at his elbow that I don’t know too much about-if they pro- ved they know for sure what they are talking about-or have been a howling sucess on their own hook before thes landed there at Uncle Harry's elbow. But to prove that I am not 100 cent biases I agree with hing our boss-man said to a per everyt p of youngste Howse recent-like-they P {Going-To Tokyo. rs calling at the| “ e@perator’s voi ia, “there a0 answer. Shall CALCUTTA —(#)— Baby ele- phant Indira, gift of Prime Min- ister Jawaharlal Nehru to Tokyo children, is now here as guest of the West Gengal government. She is awaiting shipment to Ja- pan, She was captured three years ago'in a Mysore forest and train- ed in the jungle to carry wood from place to place. She is now 15. A feeder and a trainer will travel with her to Tokyo. Sports Shorts The youngest U. S. golf champion was Bob Gardner who was 19 when he won the first of his two titles in 1909. The finalists in the 1904 U. S. amateur golf championship were Dave Egan, who was 20, and Fred Herreshoff, only 16, the loser. Francis Ouimet won his _ first U. S. amateur golf championship in 1914 at ‘the age of 21 and’ his second 17 years later at the age of 38. ° Harry | .McIntire, Brooklyn pitcher, hurled 12 no-hit innings against Pittsburgh in 1906, but lost the game, 1-0, in the 13th. | ee | Re-Armed, brother of Armed, champion money winning geld- ing, began his racing career with a victory at Belmont Park. UCLA, Portland and San Jose State replace SMU, Michigan State and Nevada on Santa Clara’s football schedule next fall. The 1909 Pittsburgh Pirates, | who won 110 games, hold the | major league record for games won in a season. The lowest won-lost percentage ever compiled by a major league pennant winning team was the .578 of the 1926 St. Louis Cardi- nals. The Belmont Stakes in the old- est of the three races that make up racing’s triple crown. —_— $$$ $$$ —_—— ‘were members of the American Legion Boys’ Forum, What did he say, says Henry. He told the boys, I says, that “everybody in the country seems to know how to do the president's job better than he does.” That is how the paper told it. So, since we both agree thereon, 1 will put in my car and tell him one good thing te do-and pronto. | It is this, cull out a one-half mill- pee from the Govt. payroll which {now numebrs 2,111,331. And all yoy readers-wherever your dom- icile-do your bit-help the boss out with suggestions. All of us togeth- jer, we can maybe get the country | back on the beam. Yours with the low-down, JO SERRA. i amateur ” “That's perfectly all right, Miss Martin, I quite position,” he After examination. he said: “She's fering from something very much like. acute indigestion. ant. the worst of the attack past, so there’s nothing to worry about. I'll leave you some pow- ete ive her, and in a day or so Tepl picked up a small night table beside jose are the ones Dr. tonight. He really me, but I didn’t & 5 i iF aT be g to be only one idy went on. “If he must have. unscrewed one of the cap- and tasted a bit of the pow- tie “I wonder,” he said looking at the- little white mound on the palm of his hand, “if you would me take this box with me. I'd like to examine these more closely.” “By all means,” Derria replied. “You don’t think it was the cap- sule that made Sarah sick?” > “Right. now I can’t say. In any eeente TH let know. If you like TH GaNe y tomorrow and see how she’s getting along, though I hardly expect it'll be necessary. Just give her that stuff I left with you.” “Thankyou,” Derria replied. “Ti show you out. Doctor.” And she preceded him down the stairs. “<< " (fe be continued) “TODAY'S | BIRTHDAY By AP Newsfectures’ | | {SEAN THOMAS O’KELLY, born | Aug. 25, 1882, in Dublin. Second president of Eire, he started his civil service career as librarian in the National Library in Dub- lin.. He was an early member of the Gaelic League under the late | . Dr. Douglas Hyde, whom he later succeeded as president of his country. In Gaelic his name is O’Ceallaigh. In 1902 he join- ed Arthur Grif- fith and other nationalists in founding the SEANO'KELLY Sinn Fein par- ty..He came torthe U.S. in 1915 to raise funds for the Irish re- volt in which he helped plan the Easter rebellion of 1916. He was elected the first speaker of the Dail Eireann in 1918 and in 1945 won the presidency. Interesting Notes Three members of the 1936 New York . Yankees-Ben Chapman, Bill Dickey and Red Rolfe-have managed major league teams. Tony Langan, former city golf champion of cuse, is the cap- tain of the racuse University golf team this spring. The Mamba Leo (Affairs of Today), a newspaper im Tengan- yika, Africa, has a circulation of 15,000. a Njord, in Norse mythology the god of wind and rain, lives in Noatun (“ship town”), one of the heaventy residences. Production of maple sugar in 1948 was the lowest on record according to the Britannica Book of the Year. It’s a good idea to have two sizes of rotary egg beaters in a kitchen. The small size is handy for beating a single yolk or egg white or for other small quanti- ties of food. A delicious dessert can be made by lining sherbet glasses with lady fingers (split or halved), then filling the glasses with chocolate tapioca cream and top- ping with whipped cream and maraschino cherries, Mail The Citizen to Relatives Bill Hoffman is a totally dis- abled veteran, but the cheerful grin and bright outlook he poses- uectane your | ses belies the suffering of his pain} wracked body. Though totally disabled, Bill Hoffman is determined to ca for his wife and 6-year-old daugh- ter and give them an adequate problem was solved when the announcement caine through re- cently that VA-FHA loans for been approved. Bill lost no time taking ad- vantage of the GI deal, and was the first veteran to apply for a home loan. His house will be ready in a few weeks, when Sun- shine Construction Co. completes it at 2415 Flagler avenue. Warmth is something Bill Hoff- man must have. He suffers from a of this island is a blessing. But there is another warmth that Bill has found here that is equally important. That is the the acceptance he has received here. He says he spent time in Palm Springs, Hot Springs, Miami and many other famed resort places, but in none of them has he re- ceived treatment as a normal, everyday American as he has here. place to live. A great part of his} that has left his body twis' crippling injury and the sunshine | fies with pain. ¥ eer | ‘can cross. the street. I know I , lookylike I need help in hobbling around, but I just want to be treated as an ordinary guy.” West that is exactly the-way he was treated and still is, i i words, Bill expresses it this way: “Here in Key West I’m just. an- 'other guy, and while everybody {is extremely friendly and’. ready nobody seems to pity me.*:They. just give me a_ smile an@a_ bi hello and let it go at that? Yes’ sir, 'm in Key West to stay.” Bill Hoffman. «spent 11 months: overseas, and during = that time was exposed to the terrible wintery on the Belgium front.’ It's was }there he contracted the ‘injury But ‘he’ spends, all the time he can in: the sun; and it is beginning tovhelp. ** ; All he wants now, is to get thi jouse ready to move into. In warmth of human kindness and| he and his wife looked ‘over thé| -Mf amd Mrs. Sam Story don't model on Patterson avenue they signed up the very same ‘day... The houses are being erected here by Sunshine Constructio: Co, and the pre cut sections. are, manufactured in the Flury and Crouch of. West Palm Beach. 4 : Stratton “Story Ex-Chisox Still Hurling AP Newsfeatures GREENVILLE, Tex.—Monty Stratton keeps on playing baseball Goes On; and showing what a one-legged man can do. Stratton has become a national figure through a motion picture “The Stratton Story,” which was bulged on the life of a man’ whol. overcame a handicap with courage_and faith. The story is well-known® ‘now: gfe ees | SUDStantially’ the ‘same, the“aver- Stratton vost his leg in a hunting acident in 1938 to cut ‘short a brilliant league career. The form- er White Sox hurler got an arti- ficial leg and practiced pitching for years. Finally, he played ina semi-pro tournament and was so good that Sherman of the clas “C” East Texas League signe him. He won 18 games that sea- son — 1946. He pitched the next season for Waco in the Big State League. spent a year making the picture of his life. It brought him about $100,000. Recently he pitched for Seguin in the Texas Semi-Pro tourna- ment and with 4,500 fans jam- ming the park turned in a six-hit- game in the such a crowd. In Stratton’s second appear. ance his team fell apart and lost the game because of errors. Strat- ton plans several other performances in this area. says he will remain in baseball for some time. tournament drew Record-Breaking Summer Class At Univ. Of Florida GAINESVILLE, Aug. 25 (FNS). —A record-breaking second sum- mer session graduating class of 543 candidates at the University of Florida is scheduled to receive 456 degrees in commencement ex- ercises in the new gymnasium at 8:00 p. m., Saturday, September 3. The large number of candidates compares with 372 who received degrees during the same period last year. Many of the candidates are public school teachers of Flor- ida who retyrned to complete work for advanced degrees. Included in the degrees received are 341 bachelors, 64 law, 138 masters and 3 Ph. D. Two students, Richard H. Allen and William Robert McCown, will receive bachelor and law degrees. William M. Scruggs, Jr., will re- ceive both the BSA and BSE de- grees. Commencement speaker will be Richard W. Ervin, Attorney Gen- eral for the State of Florida, who will speak on The Part Education Plays in Developing Moral Val- ues. to be The U. S. ami Jionship has twice been won by foreign players-Harold H. Hilton of England in 1911 and C. Ross Somerville of Canada in 1932. Ray Ainsley’s 19 on the hole in the second round of 1938 U. S. Open is the highest score ever recorded for one hole | in that tourney. ter as his team won 11-0. No other | eur golf champ-| 16th} the | 9WwWWWWVVWWYOYVYYYVYVVYYVY | back at any drug Then Hollywood called and he} 4 GETS NEW POS Rear Admiral Felix L. Johnson (above), of Leonardtown, Md., former director of naval public information, will be new direc- tor of naval intelligence. suc- seeding Rear Admiral Th 6. Suglis, Houghton Lake, Stone Shaped Like Florida 'For Memorial (Special to The Citizen) ST. AUGUSTINE, Aug. 25.—A coquino stone, cut in the shape of | Florida, was expressed today 'from here to Warm Springs, | Georgia, where it will become one of 48. stones to comprise the “Walk of the States” on the grounds of the Franklin D. Roose- velt memorial. The stone, six inches deep, is 20 inches from tip to tip and is the {gift of J. A. Reyes, a stone con- tractor. | Coquina is composed of small j shells adhering compactly togeth- er by means of a natural cement- ing formed during the ages. agent Well, when Bill got to Key. In his’) ; to do anything for me, they don’t’ veterans, homes in Key West had { unless Tuk ra it: Nobiody: stares knew it was just the ticket, and | ———= factory of | *™ MAAAAAADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS Political Announcement j | For City Con.mission i ALBERT G. ROBERTS ek Pee (®) Photo TWO -AND - A - HALF YEAR OLD: Rebert Lynn Storey of Whippet’ Barony near Charles- ton, S, C., t¢ats back in his fav- orite.-easy chair. and takes a déep drag on’ a cigar. This pre- hi 15 months. He switched’ to cigars three _months later. “Last.week he de- manded i cigars. - i { Unemployment mpensation = Hits High Mark tApectar to wae Citizen? TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Aug. 25. —The average. weekly number of Florida récipients for unemploy- ment compensation was 21,257 during Jast month, the highest sinee- August, 1940, when the average.was 21,800, Raymond E. Barnes,. chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission, reported today.” While the’ weeks compensated during thése two periods were age monthly employment in cov- irms has increased 55 per- cent, going from 253,171 in 1940 ta 390,952 inthe last year. Popu- lation increase in the state during this period amounted to 24 per- cent, Qn the basis of the latest avail- able figures compiled in May the raté of insured: unemployment in Florida is lower than that in the nation;.the Florida rate being 4.8 as compared to’6.3 for the country asja whole... Payments. for unemployment compensation last month totaled $1,245,785.as compared with $907,- 5§3 in: August 1940. - Although there was little dif- ference: in ‘the number of weeks compensated, ‘this. increase is due chiefly, Barnes said, to the fact that wages. are higher. ‘Aimend Closing Date Of Exams Examinction for probational | appointment to the position of Aircraft’ Mechanic, General, an- nounced by the Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at the Naval Station, has been amended to change closing date of examin- ation. Because a sufficient number of applicants have -been received, notice is hereby given that appli- cations for the position of Air- craft’ Mechanic, General will no longer be accepted by the Re- corder, Board of U. S. Civil Ser- vice Examiners at the U. S. Naval Station, Key West, Florida after the close of business on Septem- ber 1. Copies of the original examina- tion announcement No. 5-4-7 (49), with details of duties and quali- | fications of the position, are post- ed at the Key West Post Office and at Building 91, Naval Sta- tion. For a first course, tomato juice and stuffed celery sticks are usu-| ally very welcome s {tomato juice with salt, 2 ground pepper, and a little celery | salt. Use cream cheese to fill the celery and flavor it various ways: mix it-with anchovy paste, or with | minced canned pimento, or with chopped: chives, of with finely | chopped salted peanuts. Be sure to dry the celery stalks thorough ly before adding the fillings; then cut each stalk in one-or-two-inch | sticks. ° | FOR ATHLETES FOOT | e ii the imbedded germn ON CONTAC IN ONE HOUR | You MUST be ph STRENGTH for a (foot oder), Itehy reaseos "GARDNER'S PHARMACY Seen ee ee a | West Post Office and at Building notice is hereby given that appli- cations for these positions will no longer be accepted by the Re- corder, Board of U. S. Civil Ser- vice Examiners at the U. S. Naval Station, Key West, Florida after the close of business on Septem- ber 8. Copies of the original examina- tion announcements, with details of duties and qualifications of the positions, are posted at the Key 91, Naval Station. E. S. Rosam Gets uns. rena « eS Journeyman’s | (anove), executive exeetany of a | organization which persian Certificate shelter at Kansas City for sive Elmore S. Rosam, who has com- } animals, hes been seperted pleted an apprenticeship at the| missing. Associates slit ake U.S. Naval Station under Navy’s| cently had received apprentice program, was award-| phone calls “to stey out of Te ed a journeyman’s certificate as, dependence.” She werent at & amachinist and an adult high} group which protested t <i school diploma by J. L. Gadberry,' council of President Themes Comdr., USNR, industrial rela- tions officer in a short ceremony | in Building No. 91 at the Station. | Rosam, who entered on duty as an apprentice machinist at the Naval Station on November 17, 1941, had his training interrupt- ed by service in the U.S. Navy from October 23, 1942, until Octo- ber 29, 1945. He has assumed the duties of a journeyman machin- ist. Your Grocer SELLS That ui STAR * BRA AMERICAN cf und CUBAN 44 TRY A POUND PLACE YOUR REFRIGERATION OF 4 REAL ICE BASIS and You Will Get GUARANTEED Hetrigereties Geevtee REAL ICE “ise te te PORE, Healthy end Safe Thompson Enterprises, Ine. (ICE DIVESION) TELEPHONE NO. 8 KEY Wes? frLonme ryyvvvi Titiiiitiitir aAesassssad Overseas Trans tion Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Seeviee —— between —— MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA SEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule: (No Stops En Rotte) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (&% CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. 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