The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1951, Page 8

PAGE niGHT (SRB BRaeeBereeee Dlservations Of An Adopted | conch” By COMDR. RAY W. BYANS, Retired BRU B BeBe eoes 1 wonder if the merchants and citizens of Key West, as well as the County Commissioners truly appreciate the Jatent and as yet undeveloped “hinterland” market which the Island City poss in the Lower Keys. stretching fiom the Big Pine Toll Gate al! the. to Key West Possibility lies there in dz nferchandise buying power development takes place hemes are built for “winter all-year round residential hoses, Blowly, here and there, former psiible areas, so called, are rae deyeloped and Key West- ers can confidentially look for- ward to the construction of new hemes in the not too far future The largest single development so far Sea Side Villages on Sugar Loaf Key, opposite Perky the development taking place under George Sykes of Miami for the owners, the Crane Interests. And we must not overlook the What a ly and and pur- Hudgins Development on Sum- metland Key, as well as the Big Pine lots which have been on the market for some time, but now moving Strange to say this potential rich area is passing picee by piece, largely into the hands of outsiders, and not Key Wester These ovleiders recognize th winter and all year around value and it proximity to. the Key West market. Truly a pro phet is without honor in his own country The lack of electricity, which will be remedied within a couple of. years by the extension of the power line—and es. pecially the lack of lateral road are the chief draw back pat ticularly the Jatter. Some good waterfront property is still avail able but difficult to move — be cause of road inaccessability What a contrast to the Upper Keys where good lateral roads are plainly evident at varyir tervals all the way from thon on to Key Largo. There is hope that the in Mara County Commissioners will recognize the growing road needs of the Lower Keys and act accordingly this winter when funds become avail able, The land will move and people will build where roads exist, The residents and property owners of the Lower Keys will WeMappy to learn that a staff weitet from the Miami Daily News is in Key West and on the Lower Keys preparing a series of articles covering the Lower Keys—similar to the articles ap pearing a week ago in the Nev on the Upper Keys. Speaking of the and ‘the need for lateral roads, I am reminded of the rought ice frozen roads of Iceland on which I trAveled for many months dur ing my duty in Iceland in 1943 and 1944, on my ‘inspection trips to Naval bases and camps. A tor tuous trip always——-somewhat like the rocky road I now travel over from our cabin home to the main Highway No. 1—except that herc we lack the cold and the The Iceland road Lower Key ice was an old tell the truth?” when| AP Newsfeotures Chapter 2 hig large wall clock read two a.m. The straight chair under the blaring center light was hotly lit. like a stage. Jigger sat cramped in the chair, his middle taut, his legs rigid with fatigue. The detective began, “Ready to! digger met the hostile eyes steadily. “Who was she?” ‘ Never met the lady before to- ” Jigger said tiredly. mies was a sound of crinkling paper. “I'll describe her for you, seeing that your memory’s so Brunette, age 22 to 25, Height, si Weight about 126 The detective's tones be- “She was he had ‘been taking y, without a care in the before her big moment happened. Nothing fancy, Jigger; just a housecoat over her birth- day suit.” The tone baited, “Now, suppose you finish it up, huh? F’rinstan like? Was it pretty, huh, before you messed it up- xed it SO, that there'd be no identification.” “A faceless corpse!” Jigger winced. “I’m not your man,” he said drearily. “All I did was haul a trunk; you fellows ought to be- lieve that and go on from there.” “Who'é you haul the trunk for?” Jigger shrugged. He'd answered the question over and over again. You're in trouble, Jigger.” “Just for taking a trunk job! It could happen to any hackie.” The face blossomed into a smile, “You're not just any hackie to the Department.” digger ‘said bitterly, “I get it, Make the character fit the crime.” The detective said evenly, “Okay, the character, since you mentioned it. Let's begin with J. Howard Moran, disbarred Illinois attorney.” “The garages are full of ex- professionals. Why the fuss over m Vaeucs the Department thinks you hack as a front.” The tones Sharpened slightly. “Hackies work their shift, check in, then go home. They don’t get talked about; they don’t get known around town as a angle man, fixer, pri- vate ey they don’t get chummy with bookmakers, racketeers, big bankroll bos “And police officials. Don’t over- look them, huh?” Jigger grinned. This was his first inning in the six hour tableau The detective was struggling not built up mountainous and vailey trail idened and filled in by| the military forces stationed} there. And the road leading out! from Reyjavik, tne capitol of Ice: land, was possibly as old as the nation itself, if was founded in the ninth century The name “Iceland a mis-namer, for it is not entively a land of ice, as i Greenland. The name. Iceland was given by the famous viking} Floki the Raven whc iled from Norway in #87 or thereabouts and! wives and children and. their fol- Tat ead aaa Ge aauea cane ed, such percentage to take car ‘Por Mar aie anding on the west coast found) lowers and: families, riding their of mainte and lights 1. - they did, and for the only time in The zs the Fjords filled with ice. The! little Icelandic ponies, , pitched! (CY 41d. and for th i Christianity | The, Proposed 16 cents taxon] Phe inaugiiral. trip of the Aix cene was so dismal, so bleak and] their tents, made ahd proclaimed # nation’s history did Christianity each dollar admission will raise Fauld iam ae cold; that he Aawied. the «-taundry baisinee laws to the people. as-|>&¢ome, adopted by law, peace-| the admission price on each $1.000| Cato Delivery purchasing service : i DEOr fully and without shedding al 4... 3¢ vas Je ‘today f Key West Iceland, or Land of Ice, and 80) sembled in the plain-below—-the| OO) al Wom ticket to $1.39. wes: made ‘today from Key Wes it remains to this day speaker reading the law from the ae eee eee ay tee. |_, Why? Because there is a 3 cents! to-Marathon The Iceland Parliament, the! Logberg, the Law*Moutit, a’ ridge igadacs Bie ject! Pee state tax, 20 cents federal tax and! “Articles are purchased in Key ident \caidation ae the! of Tock overlooking the plain and esi the 16 cents city tax. will bring] west.” that are. undbiainable in f sistative | pody | in the! on which spot. stood—so located the: tex slone to: 80: cents, Wr all | re aa brcirer ats «that wh iad pe the bea of by nature that the acoustics di- Do You Kiow That tion there is the proposal to charge se A a bea 0 tha Whulévad fous duties wou will Hata deasting which I spoke last week, ‘was ; 2 a parking : neuriere ¢ commun 5 Thing some 30 miles from) the Gaw Mount, me the| inches. Only this week, I received a let-! service, brought with him greet Herne, Auaing, Swae. 31 4 Faia es Ne Reykjavik lich place I visited) peeessiry sounding board’S0 that - ter from Earl Mann, president of| ings from the Key West Chamber during my tour of duty in that} the voice of the speaker was! The bhie-gum tree of Australia| the Atlanta Crackers (Southern! of Commerce and. from Mayor H} Stag Shaving Sets make an ideal gift... far away land. Except for a little/thrown to the people in the val-| grows to a height of 400 fect Association), baseball team, that! Louis M: J. Eisner 3 church ahd parsonage. ins. t8| lay below — he will bring his Crackeys here for! A reception committee headed |] and what Dad hasn't a sweet tooth? Our te valley gnd a hotel and eating} “prom this Law Mount one June| “The Panama Canal Zone hag an j at least three years if the city can| by W. Parrish presided) on ra place for visitors, the scene is day in the year A.D. 1000, the! arca of 554 square miles meet what Pensacola and every! Blythe's arrival. All deaer eae stock of Candies is complete. the same today as it was a thous-| speaker, a pagan lawmaker of) —* oe other city gives.a team which|were under the direction of the i j and’ years ago when the Althing| great*wisdom, Thorgeir by name,| “Lynwood, Calif., improves at) trains in Florida | Marathon Chamber of Commerce. : ‘ met for the first time to enact] after meditating. for. three days| city. expense any private lot. of-| A park, water and caretakers oe : HARMACY laws and establish u legislative) and nights in his booth witha! fered for publie parking for at| for the field are some of thé re-| William Roughead is Bnglund’s | . 2 body ; sheepskin flung over his head to least three years. quirements. Yet, under the pro-| leading writer on crimes of real Mg The road from Reykjavik) keep out the light, proclaimed to posed ordinance a, fee ~ will bel life. He has produegd more than The Rexall Store brings one to the entrance of the the people assembled below that) JapancSe newsboys used to} charged for these services twenty volumes on the subject, gorge, & narrow clift between in the future the people of Iecland} wear jingle balls at the hip attach-| The Crackers will bring 50/and in addition has’ edited the ||| 1114 TRUMAN AVENUE TELEPHONE 177 huge fantastic roeks, down which| should worship the White Christ,, ed to the sash, and as they r: ran the players, coaches and officials here.) transcripts of many famous Brit- the road suddenly dips, leading| and that all should be paptized, | bells sounded the “Extra This is in addition to newspaper] ish and Scotch trials, to the green and fertile (at the| their pagan. temples-were -pulled men, photographers, and the| —— time I saw it) plain below—green| down; and he ad the following; The term “‘gpinster” originated | familes of the baseball players. It and fertile during the day lighted) words to them: in the Middle Ages, when most |is conservatively estimated that} summer months. The valley is A-PARADE OF CHINESE PRISONERS SGT. WILLIAM TRIMPE, FORT DODGE, Ponies past an Allied tank, May 28, on east-central Korean front. IA, ,, what'd her face look} leads his collection of Corpse on the Foun VA By JOHN ROEBURT ger sat cramped in the chair. | to be’awed” by départmental ri- mors. of Jigger’s “in” .with ranking personages-—an wrung as ransom for Jigger’s detatled knowledge of dereliction among higherups. i ¢ detective, disappeared mo- mentarily, then returned holding a trip card. He read, Street. Time ended: 6:52. that your final call last, night?” “No. The trunk was.” “It's not enters ‘Didn't get around to it; never completed that trip. You fellows brought me in.”~< TH detective .regarded him thoughtfully. “We checked on} your description, inquired every- where, and found no such person. Besides, the building has no reg- ular suver. Just a traveling janitor. A quiet family. man, nothing like your description. He swore he had nothing to do with a trunk, or with you. How do you explain that?” “Can't. Anyhow, the description I gave you fellows was more of a gues It was raining cats and dogs, and I. merely got | a quick impression of the man.”. Jigger | looked at the detective demand- ingly. corpse, and where'd. she come Jig, | in the apartment? C slothes, finger | prints, laundry . “96 oe | lived in.” “Who was the faceless st TU ESDAY, JUNE 5 TRE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Father Sends ‘Letter Of Thanks To Mayor Eisner ‘Lethal Line-Up Blasts Reds In Korean Hills “She came out of the grouna- Samucl Ruskin of Chicago lost floor rear apartment in the 96 |a ht n the plane crash off Charlton building, we nk Ke Ween Sin Cuban! There's no name in the be Seka ca tenant across the hall stated she i , aes heard a trunk being dragged o e Das g letter about the time you took the jc to Ma or The detective continued Thank you r kind in- telling you things, to show dulgence and also your expre on the level, that we're not ion of condolence trying to make the character fit “I received the wallet and the crim: omé time ago, for wh “How about the renting a Get him out of bed too?” © pe-son responsible “Same story. The apartment was engaged three months ago. It nking you again, and also was done over the phonc; ; NO | the people of your city, I lease. Rent was prepaid by money es cenal order forwarded by an Anne EADS . Brown.” Jigger’s remark was an paAMNe! in ticipated. The plainclothesm ——$_$— an shook his head. “Name's of no use —yet. Might as well be Madame X. No phone listing, no record anywhere.” “Where was the trunk addr ed to?” “General Delivery, Chicago.” “How about some identification ‘eople’s Forum P) Wirephot ALLIED SELF-PROPELLED 105MM HOWITZERS fire frcm positions near Inje in a blazing at Clean as ah ound's to (aie fair and canfine the letters te tack on Communist forces in the hills on the Korean central front. Gun casings litter the ground e 200 words, write on one wide . Z “The real estate corporation of the paper only. Sicnature of in mute evidence of the intensity of the barrage. Everything went with the apart- ment— furnishings, lights, gas, linen. “Maid service?” The plainclothesman “We thought of that. the writer must letters and will lesm requested Tes Aged Man Attends His Own Funeral Service Maid came ABOUT STADIUM im once a week—let herself in, | Pditor, The Citizen then let herself out. Swears she Having bevii one of the citizens never got a glimpse of the tenant: of this city that fought ‘or years stated the place scarcely looked to get a ‘stadium for Key West, I Jigger frowned thoughtfully, | @0 not desire to see the operation “How long had the brunette been ‘of the Stadium get off to a bad dead beforé I was grabbed with tart the trunk?” The cit s desirous of naming The candor died suddenly. The |, greqcs, S desiveus of naming pincltheenihA eaid: wernt a Stadium committee to operat “We'll get to that.” He looked at | the stadium, Yet, there is propos- the trip'card. “There's a time gap | ed an ordinance which sets up the unaccounted for on your card.” (entire operation of the stadium | The plainclothesman looked clos before the committee is named, ly at Jigger. “Your garage dis I do not feel that the pateher’s time card shows you SOR: pulled out at. 3:30 in the after. | sioners will approve the ordinance noon. Is that correct?” written because this will be Jigger nodded. poor bus'ness. T wasn't working. Weather had | that 1 want the taxpayer to get my sinuses going. What're you } Ps ) driving at?” dollar for dollar. If in the opinion The policeman said forbidding- , of the commissioiners and city “Wait and ser. manager the amount expended for Te reply Produced an invol- | tho stadium should be liquidated! ioose Wheehd we pene What | (although the golf course and Bay-! nto a, noose? Ie shivered super. | Yicw Park original outlet was| sly. It could happen to never liquidated from fees) I am cabdrivet from? Or don’t you answer ques- tions!” , watered by the River Oxara.and terminates in a béautiful range of| perpetually snow covered moun tains. Had the early . Icelanders looked all over Iceland, I doubt that they could’ have found a more logical and lovely spot, pro- tected from the chill winds af the Arctic and retaining the summer warmth. On this tovety tains called the the spot, the “Gordors, Chief- | each ruler of his district, with their “This is the beginning of our ear evn one 2) (P) Wirephoto captured Chinese Red Animals were soon put to ‘work carrying personal belongings for Trimpe’s buddies during an advance northward. who lived outside the | for it 100 per cent provided a sys-| conventions pf the community. tem for liquidation is set up. (To be continued) The stadium cost was approxi-} ‘; {mately $45,000. I contend that Laws: that all men shall be | through the sale of advertisements; #! > ‘ ‘ i Christian :here in this land and | be placed apsias. the gtadigm ; “4 | and concession privileges that $6,- believe in God the Father, the | ho , year, or more can be raised. Son and Holy Ghost; but leave | This can take care of the liquidat- off all idol worship.” Rane serving The ‘Ivelanders; so history UP) Wirephote ~, J.N. GERNHARDT (left), 75, sits solemnly at his own funeral’service in Burlington, Colo., and hears himself wulogited by the Rev. S. H. Mahaffey. Open beside him is his expensive copper cas- ket, Gernhardt says he decided to have his funeral before death to be certain the service would ling of the be conducted just in the way he wanted it. A percentage should be charged rec-|} "Two wells can be made avail om sat “asi by a ee ian t& be! able with a small motor to. take > ; baptized. They disliked ould water) care of the sprinkling system, N me I 5 o | intensely, but | eyentually «the! thereby eliminating a Jarge water ew Fure lasing difficulty was overcome by the! jj | practical suggéstion that they’ all vice Begun should retire to the nearest hot ‘by. the city for games to be play-| weaving was done by unmarried women this will mean an additional $70,-| 000 a year to this ANYTHING CONCERNING city AUTOMOBILES SEE THE — In the proposed law is the tax = aia When the Spanish came to Mex-| for admission, posting of a bond, q WINS ico they erected a Christian! by the team asking for the a | = Church upon every temple of dium, paying for lights and opera-| IEE pagan worship. tion of the field for the night, or! — day the event is held | The fluoridation of water to re ach Jones, of the High School) ~ duce tooth deeay has been adopted ates this is more than any other by at least 95 American cities or| city in Florida is asking for High towns school football and will mean, if USE | — enacted, that High school football THE Jacksonville Florida named | will be played one year only, be- after Andrew Jackson, the first|cause contracts have been sign- governor of the territ \ ed, and games must be played. known. to the Indians as Cow's, A business like manner for Ford, a name adopted by the earl-| operating costs for a year. This iest settler plus the liquid x of the debt Aaa overa 10 year period should con Scheduled for 1952, “€ the) stitute the stadium committec Lady What She Wants” is itle | budget. Income should be as near of a forthcoming book celebratir as possible to the outlet the famed Marshall Field & C If the city has to expand one or of Chicago, on its centennial two thousand dollars a year to versary. provide recreation for its citizens) that is not a bad investment. It is The United States, b treat the keeping youngsters in good wholesome reacreation, as well as giving our winter and summer e itors additional recreational, which is badly needed here EARL R buying Florida, had inherited the rights of Spain, and through the Louisiana treaty, the heirs of France upon North American continent. a oe SUBSCRIBE TO THE CITIZEN Telephone 51 Classified Advertisement Dept. Key West Citizen became the ADAMS. y June 5 1951, eons Se TARN NARUC