The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1951, Page 2

RO AAR RI ORES eee SO emma VACE"IWO _ Dhe Rey West Citizen } aetse an Panllonoe ess Manager _. Corner Greene Lee Goreots aly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County — utered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter ee eeeeTTNTFTFSFF MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Awsoclatee Press is exclusively entit! a tc | ure, we appreciate the efforts of any man ‘we for reproduction of all ne’ ispatches ci dited * * . it ong yt-oth ine credited fn this paper, and:| or group of men that result in providing Peles are i OF a a the greater volume:of work. In this par- Qme Fede soig MENTION BAST axe tieula? instance,’. our thanks go to Rep- Pures Manel tao = 240 | resentative Bill Lantaff from this congres- BA ao —— 482 | sional‘ district, who; in a letter to David ADVERTIVING RATES E. McCurdy, 3635 Avenue E explains that lait: MARR Rown ob Avpliggtion he had called on Admiral Kline of the SPRCEAS BOTICH : Bureau of Yards and. Docks and had been 1 rend oJ s Stas . o” repent, bituars, notices, ‘Dosmatic willbe assuréd that additional activities in the -targed for wt the sate of ts a line. Now s fare 5 cents a) ne, | The-Citlzen ts an open fofum and’ invites dis- suscion of public issues and subjects: of loca oF svooral interest, but it will not publish anonyn ous som munications, "BASEBALL CZAR SHOULD BE Baseball's high commissioner, Albert D. Chandler, of Kentucky, will not serve after his present term expires in April of next year. Nine of sixteen club owners in the National and American Leagues voted! for his reelection but twelve favorable votes were necessary. We are not familiar with the reasons which led’ Sorié club owners to :aake war on Mr. Chandler. Nevertheless; we are strongly of the opinion that baseball needs: a high commissioner and, it seems to us, that the-official must be beyond the reach of a minority of five club owners using their veto power: ; _.Publie confidence in sports has been jarred: by. recent revelations about fixed basketball games. There is general con- cern over the mounting commercialism of inter-collegiate football. Baseball, as the nation’s leading pastime, cannot afford to have any finger of suspicion pointed at it. ..: About the best way to make sure that the, game upholds the fullest American traditions is to have a high commissioner, who can afford to be impervious to the pressure of club owners or anybody else. BYRD: URGES SENSIBLE PROCEDURE Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, wants a “single-package” appropriations bill,.so that Congress can act intelligently onthe spending program of the nation. The “single-package” approach . to appropriations was employed during the second session of the last Congress but hag been abandoned this year as. unwieldy and slow. : Senator Byrd calls attention to the prospect that the nation will have an over-all expenditure of between $75,000,- 000,000 and $80,000,000,000 annually af- ter the fiscal year 1952. He does not see how Congress can intelligently pass on the. issues involved through a piece-meal consideration of a dozen or more separate bills, “brought in one by one over a period of six months or more.” The proposal is a business. in which to apportion public funds. If there is any reason why the Congress should not adopt the procedure, we do not know of it. Consequently, we hope that the Con- gress. will take proper action to. make the Byrd plan a permanent procedure. ike one, If.compétitior is the life-blood of our economie system, it is time for a transfu- sion. = Life can be very simple for those who have sense enough to go in for the simple life. Newspapers with paid circulation are uefa read, even therein,, The generation of emotion’ may serve some hitman purpose but we doubt if it produces anything more than mistakes. oF unto the advertising | _ FASTER THAN WE KNOW The more workin Key West the big- ger the payroll, the bigger the payroll the greater the volume of business in the community. That truth, though self-evident, | pleasing to all of us. In sensing that pleas- Key: West Naval ‘Base will ‘provide em- ployment for 81 more men. | Citizen, the additional work does not mean | that that many extra mien will be employ- ed; as some» workmen at the base are not | does mean their employment will be ex- tended and, wherever needed, others will be given work. | Lantaff states he was further assured that the DE’s, which are now operating from Key West, wilt be assigned to the base here for interim.overhaul, instead of, | as has been done heretofore, taking these craft to other naval bases to have the work done. E : All of which proves that Key West, i though progressing as it has never pro- P| gressed’ before, has not'yet reached its péak of expansion. And what is true of Key West is true also of other communi- ties in Monroe county. Marathon, Taver- nier and Islamorada are up-and-coming communities; bursting at the seams with ‘their comparatively fast growth. Several times, movements have been started in Tavernier with a view to its incorporation, and similar movements have been discuss- ed’ in’ Marathon during the last four or five years. The Marathon movement is is | Ifowever, as Was explained to The | now putting in a full week’s work. But it | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN AP Newstoatures “This Rock Of Ours’ By BILL GIBB Tomorrow is the day the Coun- y Commission will go out to Meacham Airport and se ral condition of the ru ce none of them »xperts, and since to y tompletely ignored t recom mendations of the CAA authori- her men of recogn: would do just to the golf cour: and spend the afternoon batting a little ball around. The entire situation is disgus ing. Are we going to have to wait now on’the point of being realized. As an | AP’story in The Citizen said a few days ago,a bill has been introduced in the le- gislature to incorporate Marathon as a town. The Florida Keys, with Key West. in the lead, are progressing at a rate that has never before been experienced in their history: They are deserving of their rapid grpwth, with such outstanding attractions tof having the only frost-free climate and the best’sports fishing’ in the United States. Believe it or not, few. residents of Key West are fully aiware of our rapid growth. Take a ride around town some day and what you last saw as ‘vacant lots i now have houses on them. TEST OF HONESTY COSTS BANK $112 A bank in Atlanta, Ga., depending upon public honesty, recently put a large fishbowl! of coins in the lobby and invited customers to make their own change. After trying the experiment for five weeks, and losing $112 in the last two, the bank was reverted to the ancient and hon- orable custom of counting its coins in con- nection with the art of making change. Assuming that the officials of the bank are men of ordinary intelligence, we likewise presume that’ the fishbowl-idea was a publicity stunt. We'can hardly ima- gine that mature individuals would expect ‘that, among the thousands who circulate freely in neighborhood, honesty would be the absolute rule. We are thoroughly convinced that the vast majority of human beings are honest and utterly unwilling to take advantage of any opportunity to steal money. Never- theless, the percentage of crooks, grafters and thieves is high enough to assure that any such experiment, as that reported from Atlanta, will be a losing proposition. SPEND MORE THAN INCOME Figures recently released by the De- partment of Commerce reveal that the forty-eight states of the Union spent $13,- 183,000,000 in the fiscal year 1950. The amounts to about $89 for each resident of the nation. The states, of course, spent more than their income. Total revenue of the com- monwealths amounted to $11,863,000,000. This was a new high but not enough to cover the spending program. There is nothing basically wrong with | the spending of $89 per capita by the state governments. In fact, some of the political | ills’ that’ beset this country are due largely | to thé failure of the states to function ef- ficiently andthe timidity of State Legis- ' ators: to:levy the taxes necessary’ to carry | out the furietions demanded by the people y im this modern era. Jor a crack-up to kill a dozen or 30 innocent people before our doliticians will follow the expert advice offered by CAA? Why can’t the County Commis- sioners see that the population of Monroe County is Key West? That we need. the air- port here, not up on some barren rock that will only help the sur- rounding land-owners? If any cone of you voters fail to remember -the present attitude of the County. Commissioners when election time rolls around, then you deserve to go back to the old WPA days. You can dig sewer lines again, fill them up, dig them again — just to receive a,small dole from the government. For if the present conditions » continue, he town can’t advance—it must go backwards. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs when three or four men can ignore human safety, and public denefits, simply by asserting their 2wn personal opinions. Representative Bernie Papy I wish Representative Bernie Papy was back in town. At least he has the “guts” to stand up and ‘ight like a man., The County Commissioners won't, even at- tempt to defend their actions. They apparently have the idea that as long as they can Keep the airport situation, im a muddled state, they have’a chance of win- ning their objectives. Jelly Fish E There are all sizes and kinds of jelly fish, in the water and out of the water, around Key West. If you're a local person, ‘there. is no need of telling you this. However, new residents “may sometimes be injured through carelessness and ignorance. You will probably encounter most of your jelly fish on the beach. Washed about by the tides, they give you a queasy feeling just to look at them. I wrote a feature a few months ago under the name of Bill Benn. It was about potential local dangers. (Seems like that is all I ever write about). With new resi- dents arriving, it might be well to keep these people informed. I'll try to revise and bring. the story up to date. Richard R. Deupree, chairman of Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, born in Norwood, Va. 66 years ago. % : _—_ THREE HOTELS IN RATES REASONABLE ° © Ford Pershing Miller Hotel Hotel Hotel 60 NE. 3rd St. 226 N.E. Ist Ave. 229 NE. Ist Ave. 80 Rooms 100 Rooms 80 Elevator Elevator Rooms Solarium Heated Clevator ed| thanks and appreciation centered in} MIAMI Located in thé Heart of the City with BATH and TELEPHONE 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION People’s Forum | | Cocecccovcccecscosecose:s | letters and will be publish: less requested otherwise. | THANKS CORONERS | Editor, The Citizen: | Among those for whom I think | should | be expressed for their fine but | heart-breaking and nerve-shatter- ing work in the recent air colli- ion between the Navy plane and Cuban airliner that took 43 lives, | are Coroners Roy Hamlin and Ira | Albury. ‘i MRS. HUGH WILLIAMS. 729 Truman Ave., | Key West, Fla., May 6, 1951. SEES NO HARM Editor, The Citizen: What is the matter with the Key West businessmen anyway that they object to the. way our Chamber of Commerce advertis- es? J. D. McAndrews went so far as to say the Chamber’s advertis- wrong element. Poppy cock! the school teachers who are a sailor lads. For, if they do, the bar rooms and gambling halls will not be patronized so much. Our sailor boys don’t want the bar girls or the come-along-girls for wives or sweethearts, but are forced to associate with them if they want feminine companion- ship. I would like Reverend Ray to give a better reason than he did give for not putting our fine navy foremost in our advertising. Their’s is a noble profession; no grander boys. are to be found in the world! These boys come from all parts of the U.S.A. What’s wrong with a school teacher seeking a husband from ameng them? Any sensible girl wants a husband, a home and children. She is more interested in that than in “Spanish spoken on the Streets” or even the history of Key West — she gets enough history the other nine months of the year! Why not let the business men run their places of business, the preachers run their churches, and the good old Chamber of Com- merce advertise as it sees fit! AN EX-SCHOOL TEACHER. Key West, Fla., May 5, 1951. RS ATT AA STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH: COFFEE ‘ E MILL at All Grocers at POPULAR PRIC: ane compan wonder acs te C. F. Chandler, U. S. Signal Corps, , J The business men are afraid equipped plane. class of clean minded, normally} ;un from New York to Liverpool, decent young: women: will’ come} sunk off coast of(/Iréland, "by et here to associate with our fine] German sub, with loss of some } MONDAY, MAY 7, 1951, teeta cence ea et = }—a prize package if lever saw one. “When eset going es = And there was Maud McGregor | the mercer thcen 5 with her disturbing gray eyes- Had attemp ] E i ds. ine she really been listening to Rich- ‘Your guess i goo é ard Starr Flecker read for, two Got any sugges' ‘ea rs - hours? Possibly, I decided, but 1 haven’ t seen all t! . oan = not probably. Still, why would a Eitese Crenine him, “while you like Flecker, be playing] have.” | ‘i Paani ‘3s physically unat-| “You've seen everybody essen- tractive a specimen’ of woman tial,” Phelan assured me. “Edelson hood as Maud McGregor? operates a hash, house on South And Dentino and Cyn ' Claire. } State ere and he was there all When Dentino talked, he was like} evenin a crapshooter keyed to the, rattle ag eee about the couple. on the pics aes eng And, ‘ie’ Cyn ae Dougles? They seem « okay. ire we i . as used to| He operates a sp io. entertainer ordinarily is, why had} wo 5 eines thee Gent s ti ll the talking? | three months. le says y Te ee to rae: she'd “been too| cycling about five o signa eo quiet, too unobstrusive — maybe| by the back way because they Keep even too scatterbrained. their eyeles on the porch. They Lawrence Straw had planned to| rode through Lincoln Park _an call on June Hanson—no, it was then stopped to visit with some John Faraday. Why should Straw scene go the way Beck. Bosnuies ave told June Hanson his name|the janitor. s8 ¢ r ee alee when, sooner or later,| hearing the Dumps = —_ she'd—. Hey! I tried to revisualize | cycles on the Hacks Spy abou June opening the door to Phelan.| the time they sy talaga She'd said: “John-Faraday? hadn't - aa ance jarbara she—wi i i up|her-name?” known John Faraday, then. Other- |The Gold Coast Club threw a . ag wise, when she saw us, she’d have | party at the Beas aes known that neither Phelan nor night and she was emt the girls, Jenkins nor I was Faraday. There-| | “Ata stag party? at does she. fore, Faraday hadn’t' been i his eras auth to see June Hanson and June 2 ae 3 ee a liar, Still, she'd identified he Treat joon e . d, = Straw as John Faraday. ‘ng ple Lips ye ainely "i, looks ‘HE alarm clock started to bang Us es ike. cur best candidate is i i t ei = M. ahd,| Professor Thomson.” | pecting. ceoean “raat half- figs ute Aer eed toot closed eyes, I saw that'sunlight}the pipe out of ms me a was drifting into the room in that} pointed it at Phelan. ‘You Te baal soft, quiet, saw-dusty way that|ing @ ee ina error!” Caldwell stick; stretched | Snappt Tea the ciel “amount, “Can you offer a better suspect?” then looked through the closet for Phelan asked. 2 a suit with something resembling] “Perhaps,” Caldwell said coldly, a press. and, Leap his pipe in his —— T hadn't even gotten around to| With an abrupt, angry gesture, he my second cup of coffee, when the stalked out of the door. Knowing: doorbell rang, and there was Lieu- what that meant, } groaned. ape about the murder. tenant Phelan, as big and fat as} save Lieutenant elan a dirty abShere was Elaine Ruhl, the|ever. Caldwell smiled benignly as| look as I followed. blonde across the hall, for instance \ Phelan came in. (To be continued) Today In History \Today’s Horoscope 1755 — King’s College (later; This day promises one Columbia University) organized | subtle and steadfast of purpose. in New York. There is a combination, too, of 1800—The Territory of Indianajcjear reasoning and mental as-) retired chief engineer of the U.S, organized by Congress—the white] similation that will go far in|Bureau of Reclamation, born in population some 5,000. making the career. Make the’ Butler, Ind., 66 years ago. 1840—Terrific tormado in Nat- h chez, Miss., takes toll'‘of 327 lives in and about city; almost every building damaged or ‘démolished: 1867—U. S. diplomatic ‘relations with the Vatican ends, when Con- gress makes no appropriations for such; begins again, unofficially in} recent years. 1912—Aeronautie Pilot, AP Newsteatures Chapter 9 x ly six when he * Dentino exclaimed, his ooise shaken. “I remember it— ositively! — because we both looked at our watches and :.e said ne had to hurry as it was six a'clock.” “Did he ever refer to hi f as John Faraday in front ci you?” “No. Why should he?” Dentino’s eyes flickered. “Say, are you sure it's Straw who's been killed?” “Have.a look,” Phelan: invited grimly, motioning Jenkins to show them the body. Dentino and Miss Claire went into the hall. they returned, both looked shaken. ’s him all right,” Dentino said. "f understand it!” d Straw ever mention know- ing other tenants in the building?” “Why, yes. He mentioned once that he took care of Mr. Edelson’s books.” “The fellow across the hall?” “Yes. He runs a large restau- ea DS “How w lifted his shoulders. “Well!” Phelan snorted finally, “that seems to be all right now. Ill want to talk to both of you later.” And, after_a quick tour of the apartment, Phelan thanked them and sent them on their way. I looked at my watch, saw that it was five minutes to nine, and accelerated up the stairs to Profes- sor Thomson's apartment to tell Caldwell that I was off to the lab. “I have to feed the dog,” I ex- plained to Thomson. “The dog? Excellent!” Thomson didn’t know what I was talking about, but, in his bright, enthu- siastic way, was absolutely in favor of it. “You'll be back?” “You bet,” I said. “Don’t let Dr. Caldwell leave without me.” During the trolley ride to the lab and back I got to thinking most of your advantages for there is danger of some misunderstand- ing and any false - sense of ee security will be fatal. Walker R. Young of Denver, FLY NATIONAL ' Capt.' 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