The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1951, Page 2

eee EOE DANSON G INST OL RIE GALE TENN IPL EERE: ttn men “*PaGe*Two oe ft Citizen | Published Dany Except Sunday, by i Sunda ORR R Dasiness Manccer | 20 Fret The Citizen Butldini * Corner Greene and Ann ets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and oe Monroe County \atered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter MEMBHKS OF Th ASSOCIATED Pitss The Associated Press is exclusively entitl 4 te ee for reproduction of ali cane dispatches @ dited wit orsnot otherwise credit fi this paper, wad the lical news published here. z —-- One Year Six Mont! Months ¥ ADYRT SING TATss Meade Known on Applica’ SPRKCIAL NOTICE *.// 4, vA reading notices, cards of thanks; Fenolytions @ rexpect, obituary notices, poems, etc, will be ban rat the sate of 10 cents a Tine. entertainment by churches froin ich enue ts to ve derived ate 5 cents a 1 né. 7hs Citinan te. ap open sarum nd Invites diss sugsipn, of public issues jand “subjects of loca or S.aerd! interest, but it will hot publish anonyn vus senmpnications. vol HOW TAX-EXEMPTIONS HELP. ‘INDUSTRY 1S try to understand just what a bonanza the tax-exemption can be to a big corporation, investing millions in expansion programs declared to be for the defense emergency, ~ Representative Porter Hardy, of Vir- ginia, calls attention to one company -which received a tax “certificate of neces- sity.’ It plans to spend, $73,000,000, to be written off in five years instead of,; the “usual twenty. Mr. Hardy figures that the “company will not only pay no additioy@) | taxes under the write-off plan but that the government will actually lose the ‘taxes now being paid. : . More than the tax, exemption, the tompahy which plans to manufacture oil pipes, has been approved for a $50,000,- 000 RIP. €. joan and a $23,000,000 de- fense loan. Thus the overnment will pro- "Vide all the money for the expansion. and “grant a tax exemption which will enable ...the company to pay it back, out of profits, . within five years. : This is a startling record but there is history behind it. The company’s present .. plant .was built by the government during ithe. last war but never got into operation during the conflict. It was subsequently bought by the company for $7,000,000. ‘We do not mention the name of the company because it did nothing that was ‘illegal and only what hundreds of other hig companies did in taking advantage of laws that allowed such promotions under the guise of . defending the nation.’ ‘The instance is another case of taking the gov- ernment “out of business” at a loss and ‘than guaranteeing ‘private enterprise’’ the capital necessary for expansion and profits. It seems that the government car- ried the load, except when the profits were distributed. . LULL IN BUSINESS MAY CONTINUE 4 “Phe economic experts are beginning to predict that there wiil be a lull in busi- ness that might continue into the summer. They point out that consumers, months ; ago, bought heavily because of the fear of } inflation and that, consequently, they met their needs ahead of time. “ Phere are other evidences that those. who’ bought merchandise at any price, feel- ing stire that they would not run the dan- ger of inventory losses, may face unpleas-' » ant experiences before the'end of the year. The premature conclusion that there would be a tremendous, scarcity of:,..con- sumer goods, promoted by mantifacturers : ‘with large stocks on hand, led many mer- » chants to buy heavily and tooverstock: s+ The motive behind this heavy. buying for. expected future sales was, of course, to make a profit out of advances which were “sure” to occur. Just now, the buyers seem to be getting the whiphand, with the Hossibility that sellers are overloaded and unable to readily dispose of merchandise on hard. ff this is the case, the probability , lis that the btiyers will get some bargains in the next three or four months. |.denced.in 17 years of : centage of deaths in eIt is time for the. people of this coun- | POnE YoU TAKE A CHANCE . linitihinebaeee Repetition of a story, day in and day out, kills interést. It’s the samé old thing and, unless those who play a part in it are well known, few people read the story. Fifty years ago an automobile was as glamorous as an airplane is today. When anybody was killed in. an automobile ac- cident half a century ago, newspapers played up the story about it. But since that timte cotisiderably more than one mil- ilion people have lost their lives in auto- tmobile: accidents in the United States, ac+ dourits of most of whigh did not appear in “newspapers. 4 Today almost an average of 100 per- sons ‘daily lose their lives in automobile ac- cidents; and an average“Of more than 100 die as 4 result of accidents-in homes. But the public hears about only a slight per- | centage of those fatalities. But practically all airplane accidents are reported. They make what newsmen call “good copy,” particularly when the fatalities are as many as occurred off Key West in the collision of the Navy training plane and DC4 Cubana, a_ subsidiary of the Pan-American Airways. We were so appalled by the crash of the planes, caus- ing the déath of 43 persons, we gave little thought to the fact that it was the first ac- cident that a Cubana ‘airliner had exper- tvice between Mi- atmi.and Havana, The énly way the comparative per- tomobile and air- plane accidents could be determined would be to ascertain the nfimber of cars and planes that are in op 4 ‘ation. The number of cars in the United States runs to 35,000,- 000 or more, while no estimate, so far as have heard, has been made of planes in service. But of this we may be certain: " the few hundred airplane fatalities get more space in newspapers than the ap- | proximate 35,000 automobile fatalities in the course of a year. Some people assert! they would father travel by plane than automobile, others say the reverse, but how about the record-setting fatal acci- identy.in Homes that Ho not result from tray: ling, ; is Aig ddcchanism isj perfect; neither is the human element in operating a plane or‘a car'perfect. But the motor in an auto- mobile is a. vast improvement over the motor in the horseless cartiage, ‘ahd there is little comparison in the engine in an airplane today with the one the Wright ‘Brothers used to make their flight at Kit- ity Hawk. Then Orville or Wilbur Wright used to raise a hand tp find out how hard the wind was blowing before making a flight. If thé breeze was more than 10 miles an hour, they kept out of the air; today hurricane riders in planes buck winds as high as 150 miles an hour. President Truman flew to Wake Is- land to meet MacArthur; MacArthur flew from Tokyo to Washington; internation- ally known mien throughout the world travel in planes. They take a chance, as they would take a chance if they traveled in an automobile, a steamship, a train, or if they remained in their homes. ‘Self-control is a ‘virtue that individ- uals recommend to their friends. Courtesy is enjoyable, even when steering an automobile. Try it, and see how you feel. BLAME STATIC ON PLANETS If you are troubled with radio inter? ference in the middle of July, you can blame the disturbance upon the planets Saturn, Jupiter and Mars, according to Mr. John H. Nelson, who has made a twen- ty-year study of the daily clarity of radio transmission over long distances. For some unknown reason, or at least not understood by Mr. Nelson, the cor- relation between the positions of the planets in their orbits and the sun produce a situation that causes violent electrical disturbances in the earth’s upper atmos- phere and interferes with the reception of | your favorite radio program. There is no theofy in current astro- physical studies that accounts for the in- terference in the earth’s electrical field. The’ phenomenon, it is said, is not due to gravitational effects or tidal “pulls be- tween planets and the sun, but, neverthe; less, it has been observed for a number of years. The sun, it seems, when it becomes the target of the planets’ alignment. re- sponds to the combination in such a way as to alter the earth’s atmosphere, which, in turn, changes the radio transmission characteristics and produces static in i your home. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN iGI Insurance Free: What’s To Do Now? By ROGER BROOKS, Captain, USN (Ret.) ie: NO. 2 The new free insurance does| not and cannot ‘cancel the policy provisions contained in your| present U.S. government or na- tional service life insurance. These are a matter of contract} between you and the government as long as you keep your policy in foree—keep up your allot- ment. USGI and NSLI both have several advantages over the new| free insurance, which it is best to know thoroughly before letting them go—merely to get some-! thing else free. The principal advantage of the old types of insurance are: (1) Choice of beneficiary greater. (2) Many’ choices of settlement are offered, such as lump sum, life income, ete. (3) Coverage can be permanent, to carry into life. | ae (4) Plan can other form. (5) Disability is, provided for... | (6) Higher interest _rates are used. USGI 3% %, NSLI 3%. (7) Dividends are paid The new free insurance offers: | People’s Forum | @eeecccessccccvccesecoes | ie, iWiiinan :Abebeemsbe: expres- sionx of the views of its read- reserves the items which nsidered libelous or unwar- The riters should be we the letters to write on one side Sigmature of j of the paper onty. the writer mast ac letters and wi lesm requested MISSES KEY WEST Editor, The Citizen: I am now and have been for the past year teaching at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas. I would like to receive a copy of The Citizen for a month. I only want it for a month because I will be going away for the summer. Next fall I,will start again for the entire year. I hope this note finds you and your family in the best of health. Give my regards to all the boys of the Jr, Chamber of Commerce and all others who remember me. I sure do miss Key West and jall the good friends that I had made} there. rg al to get The Citizen soon, Ay. bbe t FM. NAT PEPPER. be changed to an- Key West, Fia., , May 1, 1951. is ROOSTER CROWING ; BRINGS FINE ONTARIO, Calif. — (4). — The (1) Beneficia limite ‘er. cock that crowed in the morn tain relatives. imited to cer~. or oved the undoing of Iselabo B. (2) Settlement is made ‘only in Julaton, 42, of Salinas, Calif. 120 monthly installments. He stopped at a gas station at (3) Coverage is for only your 5:45 a.m. and a couple of passing term of active plus 120 policemen were attracted by the service y days. , lusty crowing or a rooster. The (4) Only one plan is available officers said they found six (term). Ss 5 yeni game cocks in the back of Jula- (5) No disability provision (ex- ton’s truck. He was fined $25 for cept that if you become disabled illegal possession of fighting birds you are eligible for a new type of and the fowl were confiscated. NSLI—und — (6) Interest rate (7) No dividends n conditions). Ys 6 24% , BRIDGE FOR SALE | SANTA BARBARA, Calif— The new free insurance is of- ().—Wanna buy a bridge? The fered in the amount of $10,000. But if you keep your old insur- k _ for sale. It’s a 1200-foot steel ance, the amount of free insur- span, built at a cost of $174,992 in ance you get will be reduced ac- 1917, which crosses the Santa oe oot instance, if you ynez River north of here. It was ave $5, of NSLI—and wish to jade useless when the highway keep it—the free insurance added jt served was rerouted. ne ee te ber (enough to, The supervisors don’t expect nake a total of $10,090). |anyone to buy it for transporta- However, in such a case, the tion to another site. They hope Dew Indemnity Act provides that someone will be interested in sal- the protection costs of the’ old vaging the steel. type government insurance that you keep will be paid for you, if ° you ask for it. But if you ask for Interesting Notes it, “you lose r dividend under the old policy | Diamonds are cut to enhance; Suppose you have National their brilliance. Service Life “Term Insurance” Kes SeR now. Here are the choices you' The name of the country Ecua- can make: | dor is Spanish for “equator.” (1) Keep the old policy and pay, Sa j the premiums as before. By this Diamond engagement rings means you keep all the advan- were used in the Middle Ages. tages of your old policy, including we Tea dividends (amount not known), The brittle star, a cousin of the ant oa mene See \ stantial found on the bottoms (2) Keep the old policy andask of all the seven seas. the government to pay protection —- costs Us Ba the full cast, qedinay ue poly would cost | Since term Insurance is pure pro- (net) at age 35. tection). This preserves the ad-' If you keep your present term vantages of your old policy “ex- policy under conditions (1) or (2) et dividends, which you will above, you keep the right to a ni r rece - 4 i }no longer receive. The govern- vert to ordinary life or other ment will renew it, if the term permanent coverage—and escape expires while you are still in ser- the rising cost of term insurance i e cei ae A will meet under condition ive up the old policy and (3). get the full $10,000 of the new in-| Next time we will take up the surance, at no cost to you. In this problems facing those with per- case, within 120 days after leav-!manent types of NSGI and NSLI ing the service, you may take out coverage. new five-year term insurance. Briefly, this new insurance is re-! —_—_—_——chorseetecoee newable but not convertible. Each STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE time you renew it (every mre years) your rate is higher—in- COFFEE creasing sharply as you pass mid- MILL at j dle age. All Grocers By comparison, when you are age 38 this new term insurance ! will cost you more than the NSLI' AP Newsfeatures Chapter 8 | ooked at his watch and} We'll have to pep it up,” he said. “We've got two more apartments to investigate, and, if the lie in them are as screwy as tie others we've talked to, we'll be here to all hours.” He pressed the button of 1-A, Charles Edelson’s apartment, and waited. He jabt it again, shook his head, and crossed the hall to buzz 1-B, The door opened to re- a young couple in evening 3, obviously on the point of aving the building. “Going some place, Mr. Den- i Phelan asked. tino’s eyes did a rapid sur- vey of Ph s bulk, then passed swiftly ov eant Jenkins and ne. H “Wha low, hard vi “Cm Lie tive Buré: lan announce “There’: bech_a murder in tt building and I'll have to deta you for a few minutes.” Lieu Phelan s:rode into the ap: and Dentino, with some r . followed, | “Now, ithe . “where were y Phelan | t did you seven?" county supervisors have one up! o.p INN GETS REPRIEVE [A FIEND IN NEED By MILTON K, OZAKI “What do you mean when you say you ‘attended to some busi- ness?’” “My auditor called about five- thirty with some tax reports. He was here for perhaps half an hour, during which time I went over the forms with him, ¢hecked his cal- culations, and discussed various business details with him.” Phelan’s eyes strained in their}, sockets, but he swallowed care~ fully before asking: “What's his name?” Hite 5; “Lawrence Straw. : + HELAN’S breath escaped in a loud rush. “Do you mean to say Lawrence Straw.'’was here from five-thirty to six?” “Why, yes.” Dentino, sensing Phelan’s excitement, qyickly add- ed: “Way?” “Does Straw make a practice of | ” coming here to see you? : “Yes, of course. I don’t ordinarily go to my place until nine-thirty in the evening, and I'm there until about seven in the morning. Straw, naturally, doesn't work the same hours I do, so he calls at the club ring the day, does whatever ork is n ‘'y, and reports to see the reports he day,” Phelan ordered. , Dentino went into an ing room and returned with eaf of printed forms which he ded to Phelan. f Phelan . handled the refully, as though they al ‘Security. linois Unem-/| loyment Compens Tax Withheld on ‘ax. Claim f ‘from him .” His face polite andj . Income Dentino, with one hand raised in protest, stepped towar d Jenkins and tried to repossess them. “You can't have them!” he exclaimed. “They've got to be filed tomor- row!” ‘ Phelan waved him back. “You can file them as soon as they re photostated,” he promised, They'll be back in plenty of time. “But why—?” A worried frown cut‘ across Dentino’s forehead. Phelan turned: abruptly im and controlited i Claire, who had remained near the ae ready ‘to leave. “Did you see dwrence Straw leave here?” Phelan demanded. “Why, yes.” “What did he say when he left?” “Why, nothing except —let’s * She puckered her fe d. he he where was say 0.” She shook her head and the golden blonde ‘luff rippled like a bed of yellow tulips in a high wind. “Just a minute, Lieutenant,” | Dentino interrupted. “Why the in- st in Lawrence Straw? You id you were investigating der, but surely my busines have nothing to do—” he paused abruptly. “H. something hap- to Straw?” aw was murdered this after- jnoon some time between six and thirty,” Phelan told him blunt- ly. Dentino swayed on his heels as though he had been pushed, and Miss Clai her, red lips n_ covered her mou I. “He was all right when he left Phelan pointed not all right. now, and scmething happened to him al- most immediately after he left He could have been here han you admit. In fact”— Dentino accusingly—“he n here, right hers, (To be continued) American Long Toms “Serenade” Reds In Korea ail front in Korea. = positions: The barrage turned the Communists away from Seoul and saved the South Korean capital from falling into Red hands again. LONDON.—. (). —The George and Vulture Inn, mentioned sev- eral times by Chatles Dickens-+ Pickwick Papers, has won.a stay of execution. The Court of Com- mon Council: has rejected"@ pro- posal to turn the old hostel} ints Offices. 2 a “5 The inn is in the business and financial center of London, where, the council noted, there already is a shortage of eating and drink- ing places. | The George and Vulture is on the site of a 14th century, inn known as the George. The vul- ture got in later. Palm nuts are a main source of food for the natives of equator- ial Africa. | with ! 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U.S, cannon on the western These Long Toms joined other artillery in pouring continuous fire into enemy pest 2 323 Goa WE COST TSSSHeSeseeors Ser erUre see scesr nes