The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 28, 1951, Page 2

St: False Leo P sae: $e ee pce rs * 3 49¥lige 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN _ = " i. Che Key West Citizen . Wii ydaily fekeept Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- | \2N@r, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Apn Streets Oniy Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County “a. P, ARTMAN NORMAN D. ARTMAN A. Entered at Key West, Florida, as TELEPHONES $1 and 1935 © - ember of The J Press—The Associated Press is exclusively | bai ‘use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it empties rietwies exedited in this paper, and also the local news pcos ~~ anal cues mecenfeniber Florida Press Association and Associated ®ailies of Floride iption (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5 eal = og sew, ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION SS" The.Litizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues = ardesubjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish = anyymous communications. > Wt rene eter FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED '¥ THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Reach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land.and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governmerts. Community Auditorium. IMBROVEMENTS Spex cL ae ‘TYPE OF CIVIC PUSH ascv «We should keep in mind the proposed construction of strat jetty across the greater part of the mouth of the Key *West Bight: Scores of instances may be sighted to demon- Strate the importance of a jetty at that point. Over the years, many a boat, including three and one four-mast schooners have been damaged bec they had no protec- “fon from terrific winds and waves sweeping from the northwest. But let us view the proved nec vent ‘times. Since Key West 1 shrimping industry, several shrimp boats, entailing the loss of thousands of dollars, have been damaged in the bight because there was'no place there to anchor them for pro- , téetion against winds and surging se The former FECR pier at that point affords some protection, but still the SMM the from the head of the pier to Curry’s Wharf is far ~~-Too wide to make the bight safe for shipping. The only way . y tal be attained is to close the opening to the width eentranee to the Garrison Bight, or, say, 10 feet or so Phen ave would have a harbor that would afford z i n from storms for shgimp, and other y of a jetty in re- le the base for the , ‘vic organization and many leading residents ey West heveswavocated the construction of the jetty, eiting anything is of _no conseyuence in itself. There must be concerted and continued action in making a EOS, reality. When the jetty project was first pro- == P94ed in a story in The Citizen, its approval was general == lsedlly. Indeed, the support of the project was enthusiastic, pee the enthusiasm has died down and the construction of roposed jetty has been almost forgotten. “ "Carry on” isthe nucleus of success in any calling, as te » t =a Wauiton Churchill and other leaders declared during the = eand second World Wars. While German bombing my plifies. were blitzing England, Churchill’s voice was heard, soe alinge the eries of horror, “We'll carry on to victory.” ~~ What was true in that instance is true also in every Where endeavor is concerned. We get nowhere if our @ leavoring is fitful; we accomplish things only if our en- pa Voritig is persistent. That's the type of civic push we nee to get the proposed jetty built; that's the type of push that has paid off in progress in many a city. Definition: Lame Duck: af becoming a’cooked goose. A politician in the process Well-pignned mivertising works for regardless of the state of busi * sRemember the time when everybody rushed out of déors to see alone airplane flying overhead? Who’s the smart one who said: “A giant sign could vetf well he erected over Communist China reading: ‘Washington Slept Here?’ ” ate “SL ICE OF HAM Thursday, June 284951 CHOWDER By RAYMER What did you collect when you were 12 years old? Besides bumps, bruises, scratches and slang phra- ses, that is? I started a collection of horse pictures and books as well some scars as a result of assorted falls from my riding mare. My grandfather gave me the hors a bridle and said: “When you learn to ride well you get a sad- dle!” In three months I earned a McClellan army saddle and the right to say I learned the hard way. NOW COMES A LETTER from a 12 year old who collects some. thing much more civilized. In for mal style, Tom Hamilton of Mad ison, Wisconsin has addressed a request to the Chamber of Com merce here, This is it “I am twelve years old and am making a collection of match books from various cities of the United States and have had diffi culty in locating any from Key West, Florida. 1 wonder. if you would be so kind as to mail me one or two nyatch books (without plete my collection.” The lad doesn’t want to set the world on fire. Besides postal au thority says matches in envelopes are dangerous. So if any publicity minded benefactor has any such match covers, please ship them off to Tom Hamilton, 2012 E. Mif- flin Street, Madison ANOTHER NOTE sent to the Chamber of Commerce asks about dogs and television, t of the most constantly discussed themes anywhere, Dog r ial and clear . . so far, is more of a decption here + and that’s Ch. of Commerce honesty . . . I was in a dog daze trying to find a home for a smal white male dog, a year old But Mary Lee Gr: will be glad to know that he is now happy with children for play- mates. ing on Key Westers who -wi jumping, puddles the ' other morn- ing durihg'the rain . . |b leaped from street to sidewalk all the way to the courthouse at every cross- ing, muttering “Fit weather for ducks!” . duck (as the old saying goes) there was one! .. . a fat, sassy duck with an_ iridiscent back and red markin, round his bill . .. He’s a Muscovia, they tell me who lives across the street from the jail and comes visiting every morning to preen himself on the lawn ... Asked for com- ment, the duck made a wise quack. | NOMINATIONS are in order for top male rumba experts round town . .. Cookie, compdi barkeep and Yggy Carbonell, that movie man who keeps on the move like an animated cartoon, is Mr. Ever Ready in person when it comes to fancy capers of the dance . . . The Swiss may have clock movement all wound up, but leave it to Los Cubanos for real reeling action. . . And how is a- Me LLU LLL ESLE LL PLELeESreeber ferrite elitiiiiifi teil tiie tenes YOUR sacroiliac? ——— LUCKY LINE VANCOUVER —(/P).—Repairing the roof of his three-story house, 82-year-old Duncan Murray tied ane end of a rope to the chimm: and the other to himself. He co! lapsed while working but the line held him dangling until a neigh- hor rescued him. Your Grocer SELLS that Goo STAR * BRAND aa cusan COFFEE ——FRY A POUND TODAY— matches) from Key West to com- | » Wisconsin. | ption is cord-| . TV reception, | m came to| the rescue and friends of Chico} BALLET DANCERS haye Poth . . And just as I got to} the sheriff's office, lord love al green | TW AVUVV EVV UEWYwEVWENY | KEY. WEST ee OF Days Gone By | Taken From The Files Of The Key West Citizen MADAAAAAAAALASSAALBAAAAS 10 YEARS AGO | Key West postoffice tomorrow umes the rating of class”; but the only change as the public is concerned will be that the money order and postal} aving windows will be open one | jhour later and close one hour} earlier | Young men of Key West who |reached the age of 21 October 16, | 1940, or who for any reason failed to register for army duty at that time, will be registered tomorrow at the federal building, | The Clyde-Mallory freighter Colorado is due in Key West to- morrow morning at 4:30 o’elock, jthe line agent announced today. |The ship is bound for Tampa} from New York Warren Bett , 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gwynn Bethel, 810 |Fleming street, dropped 15 feet ‘om an almond tree two days } ago and is still unconscious in the Marine hospital. A small fire in the Southern- most drugstore on Duval street, this morning was extingu employees, The fire | laundry room of the store and did! | little damage. Miss Catherine “Johnson left | with her parents today for Nor- |folk, Va., where she will be mar- jried to Joel Etheridge. + Fibs utili, former émpioyt Jot The. Citizen, * accompanied: by [his family, were arrivals (ih Rey. West today trom St. Petersburg’ |where they now make their | home. From the editorial pages of The Nitizen: Trade in Key West and jhe » develop business in your own so that prosperity will remain here for a long time. ‘Suburbs Taken In | CHICAGO—+{#).—The 1951 | Municipal Yearbook reports that | 382 cities of 5,000 or more popula- tion anexe burban property last year. That's a record. The lcity that took in most territory, j near ly 3 square miles of it, was e, N.M. | | | } | Telephone 51_ Classified Advertisement Dept. Key West Citizen Increase Taxes jurged the Senaté today to vote ; Seven-billion, | measure voted bythe House. |to add three-billion dollars to the | jthis three-billion dollars tobacco and other items also would | | house on it. Hudson said ‘he didn’t ja city-bred mechanic. who thinks | ‘Southernmost ‘Corner By Charles Duerkes Any person connected even re- |motely with law enforcement | will tell you that “ignorance is }mo excuse in the eyes of the |law,” in case you do not know | that already. | As far as you know there is | no law against tossing a dead rodent into a room full of Con- | gressmen up in Washington, let jus say, but if you go up there land start heaving deceased rats {about you will find that there is la law applying to such hilarious jaction, that the cops will not |consider it funny, that a judge will definitely frown upon such |procedure and that, in spite ot |your ignorance, you will doubt }less wind up in the pokey. | ‘That is why I fail to understand | the lenient attitude that has been | displayed for lo, these many years |toward persons engaged in Com- |munist capers. Much time and | money has been spent putting the | finger on these stinkers, but they | sit calmly before the investigating leommittees and say: “Golly, I | didn't realize what I was doing,” lor words to that effect. In other \ words, they plead ignorance and tare dismissed with a pat on the | wrist. WASHINGTON, June 28.—(/).| . The recent lineup of Hollywood — The Truman celebrities who pleaded ignorance to their Communist leanings is a sickening case in point. Any of these sharpies, and why waste space naming them, are far from ignorant when it comes to turn- ing a fast buck, or haggling over contracts, or furthering their car- eers. They are able to read well enough to even understand the }small print down at the bottom of the contract. Th are intelli- gent enough to read the news- papers, they know about the Con- stitution of the United States and they know that Soviet Russia is out:to clobber us, but good. The Hollywood Reds reap as- tounding financial harvests, live better and have more liberties than any other nation on earth Senate Urged To. administration for a bigger tax increase than the ; 200-million dollar |. Treasury Secretary Snyder ask- | ed the Senate finance committee | house figure. He ‘suggested that! come chiefly from individual income taxes and excise levies The House bill itself-would boost | income taxes 12-and one-half per cent. Excise taxes..on gasoline, be raised. In calling. for an overall tax in-| crease of about J0-billion dollars, snyder criticized the House figure as threatening to put the govern-| x ment in the Red, He said also that | Offers, and yet they align them- the smaller figute threatens to| Selves with a party that is out to add to inflationary pressures. | overthrow the very system which —— |gave them everything they ever NON. £ = 1 Such astounding ignorance is HOUSE COSTS | unbelievable. It smacks more of MONEY insanity than of ignorance and if the authorities fail to toss them DES MOINES—().—Here’s the| into the bastille for being dumb sad story of a man who was.tax-| then they should be committed to ed for a house that didn’t evist| the looney bin. and now’can't reeover the money.) A? admittedly great actor, like The county board of supervis-| Ferrer, who comes here from for- ors has turned down the petition | eign shores and is hoisted to the of Leonard C. Hudson, Jr., of Des|Pinhacle of success and fame, Moines ‘for a refund: The county| WoUld, one would imagine, feel assessor in 1949 intorrectly listed Hudson's vacant lot as having a grateful. But apparantly Senor Ferrer hates all this capitolistie balderdash and would like to see ' it abolished. The great negroe baritone, Paul Robeson, a man with a good ed- ucation, a man who rose to fame and fortune to be regarded as a credit and an uplift to his race, turned to Communism with open armis and purse. Can he plead ig- norance? ‘He is not an ignorant man. Maybe he is just plain nuts. Coinmunism,- and its threat to our way of life is no new thing. Over twenty years ago I used to stand in Union Square, or at Col- umbus Circle, in New York, and listen to the Commies rant, and tave. A lot of -people laughed, some people listened, and the whole thing sent a chill of fear up.my spihe even then. The orators were seedy looking, at 3 the time, and the greater discover the error until after he paid $118.71 in taxes on the prop- erty last year. | Board members held that Hud- son is not entitled to a refund be- cause he failed to file a ptotest before the M: 1949; deadline. ———— GETS AWAY TO WAKE LOS ANGELES. —(4).— If :you long to “get away from it all,” lend an ear to Hank'Lucchesi, 32, he has found the idea) place. He says it's Wake Island, the _ his- toric. dot in the. mid-Paeific where marines made a> gallant stand in. World War Il-and .more: recently the sité:of, a’ conference ita ah Son! ape recently i teturned from nine ‘montlis ‘pp. \thé \iskind —he calls it ‘the’ rock”——where he worked for ‘dn airtine. “There's plenty to’ do; he says. “The ‘sport. fishing from motor Iqunches is great. It’s one of the healthiést spots “in thé Pacific. If they ever lick the common. cold it'll be the. health- iest place on the globe.” i their audiences were a ach a br agama shabby lot. There the universities, though, among the crowds, and many people who ‘probably could plead ignorance to anything. My friend and I used to have a game to drive the speakers nuts We knew that most of the spielers memorized their lousy speeches All Communist propaganda is Master Plumber on Premises PREE ESTIMATES r Repairs, Alterations or "Oldest Kerosene Lantp in Key West . Is Shown By Johnny Roberts JOHNNY ROBERTS, oldest member of the Key West Fire De- partment shows oldest kerqsene lamp to newest member of the / department, M. W. McHugh. The 93-year-old lamp was brought to Key West eight days after the birth of Roberts’ mother, the late Sophia J. Roberts. who was born September 30, 1858 and died February 6, 1943. pretty well catalogued ,and phras- ht blocks. We would aracter get rolling good, and then one of us would yell question. The spieler woulc 1 ly stop to. try and answer, by the ‘time he had gabbe he would go back to his speech Nine times out of ten the Comm} would forget where he left off so just to be sure his audience didn’t miss anythir he w sf start away back toward the be nt wishes ‘te ap} vin by allowin to run lose, T am fog n the old’ saw nee is no exd 2 people’. + rant to ens ajority of good Ams patty cake n who eithes membership ginning and repeat nych of wha’ party or wh he had said before. Then we/claim they ignorant. about would. catch him aga almost at} such matters. 4 process the same spot, and would be repeated That was fun and’some of the not STRAND... “Thursday - Friday - Saturday GO FOR BROKE with VAN JOHNSON AND WARNER ANDERSON Coming: STRANGERS ON A TRAIN capers were funny, but it is funny anymore. From these Union Square soap boxes, which we were told to laugh off so they wovid fade away, has grown the r Strous platforms upon wt Robesons, et al, stand tod: If arsonists were at work the nation they would be ¢ and jailed. Communists are at work across the nation and they are worse than arsonists. 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