The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 27, 1951, Page 2

O mm Mr, oe hang Page @ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tie Key West Citizen ‘Published dgily (except Sunday) by L. sisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets | ae yOnly Daily Newspaper in Key We: t_ and Monroe County wednesday, Jpne <7, 195) es Artman, owner and pun | ~. P, ARTMAN “7 CNGRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Managei Matter oviated Press is exclusively entitled to use for repraduction of « ©xnet..otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Member Florida Pres sciated ' Dailies of Plorids copy 5 NIN ON APPLICATION Subs ription fib carrier) $12.00, single The Citizen is an open forum and i ussion of public and subjects of local or ‘general interest, anonymous communications. issues IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and S: Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Anditorium. Editox dispatches credited to it it will not publish, What’ sin The Othe: “CONTROLS VITAL TO PREV NT INFLATION =. Nearly everybody in the United $ dent Truman down, from Presi- is in agreement that the welfare< States, this country is threatened by the danger of inflation and | that if a run-away dollar wrecks our economy, munists would win the whole without. shot!” the “com- “firing world” a ‘ The President recently spoke to the people of the na- calling attention to the fact that the Defense Pro- duction Aet, a major anti-inflation control, expires on June 80th. In April, the Chief Executive had sent Congress his, preposals for new legislation on the subject, proposing un extension of the Act, rengthen it. The proposals went to the Banking Committees the two Houses, which held six weeks of hearings, taking testimony from more than hundred No great hurry was evident and the probability is that stop- tion, with some of one witness 28. fap legislation will extend the existing program until Con- | gress can complete action on the matter So far, actording'to the economists, we have ‘had on- a foretaste of inflation. The psychological upsurge. of | utumn has run its course, largely defense Splints. were in the tooling-up stage and serious civilian “ophortages had not appeared. } The situation will be much more severe this factories getting into mass production and_ civilian sup- plies reduced. With more money in circulation, as the goy- ernment pours out its defense spe nding, there will a» Matuxal tendency to bid for available which means higher prices. As price », the cost of living ‘goesup and a cyle of advances runs up the price of every- thing, including what the government is buying for de- fense. Two methods may be used to prevent or restrain the inflationary tendency. One the imposition of direct ceilings on prices and wages and the other through measures to hold down purchasing power by taxes and savings and restricting credit. both. methods are being used but whether they sufficient to withstand the strain the next two years, when defense spending and war production will be in full £ear,js doubtful. “annoawent: We do not pose ag an economic expert but we are ty hecause fall, with bea supplied, increa is is will be of ““wermitestre that the experience of the nation, during World | Wan II andtheteafter, makes it. good sense to make it pids~ “sible to avoid excessive Price controls » Beene to He ecessary and, despite the complaints of thos ffected Dy. “the regulations, play a vital part in prevents dng-the spread of inflationary dangers This is a free country, if - Autoiiobile at a high rate of speed, the traffic price) increases, you want to operate your but don’t complain if cop gets you, SLICE OF HAM YA GOT SEASICK, IT'S NO EXCUSE FOR NOT SALUTING NAVY OFFICERS.” amendments to } increasing | In this country, | . | Kremlin—yes |- | hs This Rock Of Ours” | \By BILL GIBB | The people of this town have |their ‘yearts.in the right place, Their donations toward helping |Edison Knowles—the young man with a badly multilated jawbone |—has proven this. Dollars are still coming in and The Citizen will | continue to act as intermediary as | long as you folks continue to con- | tribute. Edison is due for a long jof plastic surgery but thank | many charitable folks at home, |knows he will be able to come back a whole man Incidently, I can tell you a little laa of his story now that the | ball has started to roll | Arthur Curry who drives a taxi |asked me a couple of we: {if I would work through this |umn to help. Edison get transpor- tationyexpenses) to the hospital | Until then, I had never met Edison but his case obviously perate. An operation had cured cancer in his jaw, but a later au tomobile accident coupled with the previous operation had left his face terribly disfigured. It was col- de parently dislike me so intense | politically speaking, that it wa better to keep completely out of the picture. Arthur and Edison both agreed with me and Edison came down to The Citizen where | 1 introduced him to our editor The story is the editor's there on. He ep to me a hours later and “Bill, I wa | to help that boy s a result, h newspaper stories and the gener osity of Key West people have re. sulted in new hope and spirit for Edison Knowles. You people have | rightto feel proud of living in a community that never hi fellowman down. | BUT While “Key °\ Westets . deserve, prise’ fot. thei. humanity,.they from few nt jshould be given.a good, swift kick! jin’ the pants fF theif coddling | and pampering of the pinkish ele | ments that are growing up in our | midst. | We're a long ways from the And it’s true the Korean battlegrounds are far dis |tant. But right here in Key West there are Communistic sympa thizers and adherents that can and want to help deliver a death blow to these United States I'm writing this not to create jfear or to attract attention but to warn every soyal citizen not j become entangled as a ‘dupe jany pinkish social gathering. The criteria for judging such a gather at ing is not the open or even sug-} of gested advocacy but the subtle dev communism ion from nor imal working and playing exis tence. I can not mention more at | the present time. | LETTER ‘PARTMENT | Here is a quote from an old jtimer Who hasn't been in Key West since the railroad came to town. Sort of before my time. by Furthermore, I admire your backbone in making your stand in your home town where everybody knows you and all! about you, I have often thought a fellow is better off among strangers, but usually a commun- | ity has a greater percentage of fairminded people who admire | courage and ability to get ahead jor at least the effort, than the | j other sort of knockers and crepe | hangers. Key West of course in} |the old days was pretty much a| family tewn and away from other | contacts. They had ideas of their own, but down undereath it was) pretty-much a religious commun- |i and ‘any narrowness was due | | as I saw_it to lack of contact with Hund tol in| JUDGE PAUL BARNS of Miami has received permission from the NPA to erect a modern CBS commercial building in the 600 block on Duval street. City Commissioners at a recent meeting condemned the wooden structure: tougher Be t a weekly ooking <ed eage’ The mington 1829. an, English Died. 64 who, for his fortune no hard J or nown what v come the Smithsonian Institution, a mob in Carthage a strufgle for him to even eat andj‘? outside world. You must re- JEEP TAKES ON Washington hold the fodd in his mouth long|™member w pea BAM! g i enough to chew. jand in days 0 radio or Alt a aggers basal teas I wanted to make an appeal to| ‘vel to:spread) world news: The} \ CATRO, iil.—(/P).—A tough jeep| HOR Some, 6,000, the public through “This Rock of |local paper was our big contact) charged an Army tank, and it] "S44 Mormon four ue sy ee ees real je gla Wen * and some Proved only that tanks are still! Smith, and his brothe il Bureau {anor € ¢ they never The tank was parked outside a 1884—The ead ah, es wt the KEY|Cairo garage, where an Illinois WEST ; F National Guard outfit keeps it,! partment one DERET GAG when the jeep came along. Not) 1934 y Key West Citizen reade nly did the jeep lose the match, t ee! th me way today about, its driver also lost—$100,:That; 1942—The F 1 ! was the fine Magistrate Max Be- ae vill fixed for reckless driving. Nazi spi The ent area of Germany “ —————————— 1950—T: plit te € of occupa The monetary unit of Canada is| and naval 200 square miles the dollar. Local Boy Serv ing AN AIRBASE IN KOREA—Sgt. Kenneth P, Larson, Key West. Florida. member ot the Fifth Air Force’s 67th sance Wing, is charged with the maintenance of airmen’s records for his squadron. He is shown above record file which is kept on each member of the unit. South Ko: n B. I in Florida. uman orders U. forces to fight wi army, Ohio. popt incorporated der, r, killed created. nistration established Josep! nla a by bor Statistics, later to become the De of Labor, -The Federal Housing Ad first breaks the news of the secret landing of W ith American Fift h Air hance be ae c the envelope over to Bo: o it, She takes a | ne Post O: ffice “Wi 1er liy We reak with the y, and scurried throug next his offer, ion became valise, the Observation ng under waited quietly she Sie sot : moodily into the field i (To be continued) ag Today’s ; ‘ ERS cneien. AMiversaries an is ch ng b ape 16962-Sir William Pepperell, a Instead of lounging aror colonial New Englaid merchant, tweeds, his trousers saggin knees and his pockets bulging at the seams, he will soon be strutt: Massachusetts c justice and then studying , first native- born Amé@rican created an Eyiglish ef ing about looking like a crack! baronet born Kittery “Point, guards officer. Maine. Died there, July 6, 1759. In short, he, will be wearing 806—Paul F. Eve, leading sur- the “military look.” The “Tailor | geon-professor in the South of his and Cutter,” trade paper for Bri-|day, Corifederate chief surgeon, tain’s tailoring industry, weleom-| born neat Augusta, Ga. Died Nov, ed the change. The newest suits}3, 1877. for men are based on military pat-| 1846—Henry E. Abbey, New terns with tighter fitting ackets | York theatre and operatic. im- with a slash up the back and na |pressario, born in Akron, O} row trousers without cuffs. | Died Oct. 17, 1896. The new style, according to the) 1959 Lafcadio Hearn, famolis magazine, is a reaction from the! author-genius, who lived many of the war. “Drape exaggerated | tang Died in Japan, ‘Sept. 2% itself into an early grave and the|*” bright and eeagberated fashions | May Irwin, actress, bort :| made popular by Hollywood pant-| Whitby, Canada. Died Oct, 2%) ed themselves to a standstill,” it| 1938 said. | 1872—Paul Lawrence Dunbar, ! famous Negro poet, beloved of his | people, born in Dayton, Ohio. Died. Feb, 9, 1906. a Toda x Horeca } Here is a loving, and -trustfal nature, which may not have much knowledge of :h weal and so is.very liable'to be deckiv- ed. It is a feminine nature though capable of considerable power. But the affections are too warm and the pi ons too stormy for such an incautious disposition, une less carefully controlled. cabrataa dio Platinum has beeh used since the middle of the 18th century and was named by the Spanish “platina del Pinta.” | You can RELI sat be tire DIAPER RASH =. th soothing, medicated LYCO-BO- Skea by nospitals for over 20 years, Noe i ieritat for all minor fast Last Times Today Inside The Walls Of Folsom Prison with DAVID BRIAN AND STEVE COCHRAN Coming: GO FOR BROKE Van Jobnein And Warner” Anderson DENNIS. O°K) MeDONALD. 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