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

THE KEY WES? CITIZEN The Key Weet Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub usher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ~. PB. ARTMAN ee Editor SORMAN D. ARTMAN pies Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to i not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local new: sublished here. Page 2 Saturacy, suly 28, 1! Business Manage) Member Florida Press Association and Associated Dailies of Floride Subseription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $ 00, single copy 5 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue: and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish | anohymous communications. Ess ON FLOR! Ass IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 4. Airports--Land and ‘Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. §. Community Auditorium. —— WE HAVE HAD A COSTLY LESSON A story in The Citizen Tuesday about conservation is $ e i (By The Associated Presa) | far more important to us than we may realize at f 'st | Army Medical Department | glance. The story told about Circuit Judge Stanley Mil- | Anniversary { icdge’s refusing to grant a restraining order in suit brought by W, W. Hunt against Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, Monroe County Conservation Agent Joseph Knight and J. J. Loftus, ehief conservation agent.in Dade County. ‘The law prohibits erawfishing or goggle fishing with- in one mile of United States Highway No. 1. The law is de- | signed to provide sanctuary for’ crawfish and fish within that area. Its purpose is to give them a place to spawn and multiply without molestation. Conservation, whether on land or in the sea, prevents extermination. Older Key Westers know what'the absence of such a | law did to the thousands of turtle that schooled all year | round in the waters of the Florida Keys: The turtle were eo plentiful Key Westers thought it was impossible to ex- terminate them. They were caught in nets, struck with pegs and captured when they crawled up be&ches to lay It may surprise younger Key Westers to learn that it was a common thing to capture’turtle that crawled up along eur south shore to lay their eggs. In those days we had a fairly good beach from the southeasterly end of White street to the head of the island. In turtle-ldying sea- son, groups of Key Westers watched on the beach at night for turtle to crawl upto lay their.eggs. Few turtle got back | safely to the sea, But the worst factor in wiping out turtle in this area | was that, if a turtle succeeded in laying her eggs on the beach and escaped to the sea, a search was conducted to find her nest, and when it was found the eggs were dug up | and sold or eaten by the finder. The. practice of digging up eggs was carried on at all the beaches in the Florida. Keys and ‘also at Cape Sable. Nobody seemed to realize that the eggs were laid to pro- duce more turtle, and that if the eggs were taken there could not be reproduction. S The law to stop turning turtle on beaches in Florida ov disturbing their nests came too late to save turtle in the a | | | * UOfticers tion the hundreds of hospitals in the United State: rmy And yet, ir way it might be ja party occasion—a little digni- |fied, rubber-sole dancing in the | corridors, maybe |of operating the medical 3ut the medics date their birth- jday from that first courageous day of co-operation in the war of | independence a bien by agati ‘Entei Mae co * Piste Ultisen Citizen Staff Photo SAN CARLOS INSTITUTE OFFICIALS introduce the Cuban Naval Officers to some of Key West's places of interest. Here are Jose Cartaya, director of the institute: Capt. Diego Valdes Gonzalez, the ship's doctor; Capt. Wilfredo Diaz Calderon, Mr. Julio Cabanas, Jr.. president of the institute: Juan Lopez, the vice president, and Lieut. Osvaldo Sanchez Lima, outside The Citizen's offices. In The Background July h is just another day in the 176th birthday of the edical department—it was July 27th, 1775, when a group of doctors first went to work on a regular basis with Continental troops in Boston Those doctors were civilians, and it was a considerable time be- fore the Army reached the point as a part of the military es lishment Either way, civilian or uni- formed, the Army medics have played a heroic part in our his- tor) y have, incidentall: done e the cau: of medicine qui tary duty Long-suffering humanity owes debt to men like Walter Reed and Benjamin Waterhouse and George Sternberg. All army doctors. Walter Reed, Major Reed, directed the experiment that led to the conquest of yellow fever. Waterhouse was the man who in- troduced smallpox vaccination to| this country. General Sternberg | i Jed ¢ father of bac- } in America 1 thes been especially suited to the | |In_ the yellow of the conquest of most famous Army } medical triumph, the objective was case fever waters of.the Florida. Keys. The turtle were practically exterminated in this area many years ago. One may. sail through the waters in the Florida Keys week after week | without seeing a turtle. Key West now gets its supply from the Mosquito Islands and other places, as fay away as the | beaches in Mexico. What happened to turtle has come near happening to the delicious stonecrab, For many years we have had a law protecting stonecrabs, but the one-time ‘price of 50 cents x dozen has gone up to $6 a dozen, and often they are not available at that price. : Western Germany and Japan are about to be wel comed as members of the civilized nations—this is to make some of our war heroes turn over in their SLICE OF HAM ina | \S.NAVy RECRUITING OFFICE enough graves tive officer from Boca Chica wed) w fever was carried by a mosquito. Then,.the Army pro-] ;| ceeded to eliminate, the, masqyi. of the Panama Canal and the rehabilitation of Cuba Walter Reed and his heroie vol nteer pigs proved that! | compietion guines | ye toes from the areas. where /thett | watasgigock te do: | fever Is confiried emote jungle | regions of South America—where not Teach 3 dic has me crucial data in| of fields—particu-' health. A century s were not kept way they are n the military | it was poss conclusiyv le hea science does Army c provided | a wide in », Vital ark Ove It we say Thursday?” she said to | projects the Army} ° job. It had the financial resources | to carry on the experiments. And | t had the motive to do the job tos ‘To Sarong: Today enw ; The Chapter 10° OSING a year out of life?” «Peter repeated, interested, Marcia nodded, as though he could see her. “I am going to be a ‘I reat singer,” she announced. “I have a very fine voice. But I made a/ fool of myself and overworked it. | Now I have to take a year to rest up, and to let my voice mend. | I could have gone a long, long way this year, if I hadn’t been a fool!” She mentioned her voice and her future as casually, as frankly, as Lege she were speaking of| some other person. There was no attitude of false modesty, no pre- tense ot deprecation. She was ob- viously quite grim in her belief in her voice and its future. “That’s a rotten break,” said) Pete. ‘ell have to cheer each other | up.” Marcia smiled. “I've offended the town’s best people by confess- ing that I look on my year in| Centerville as little less than a prison sentence. I suppose it’s an| affront to their civic pride—just as though I wouldn't consider a year in Shangri-La a prison sen- tence, under the circumstances!” She stood up to go. “ThensI} shall expect you for dinner—shall Mrs, Marshal}, Pete echoed his mother’s en- thusiastic acceptance of the invi- tation and, as Marcia and Betsy drove away, Betsy said enviously: “You made him laugh! And you've coaxed him to accept an) invitation away from home. No-| body else has been able to do either cf those things.” | “That's because he’s sorry for | | me y stared at her. “Sorry for | d not sorry for himself,| pe’ Marcia added, “That's the) whole keynote of Pete's charac-| He can be sorry for others.! ter Practical | Approach i | | tion of Malaya at the Internation- al Séout. Jamboree at Salzkam-| mergut, Austria, next August. | They've been told to forget about sueh Malayan graments and take instead warm pajamas as _ sleep- ing attire From 1776 to 1789 the United! States were a confederation, after 1789 it was a federal union ———— ble | Select the service wat selec’ | War ! TI cords of y medics] its men--U.S Marin | 1917—The War Industries Board | ive thus filled an important gap| ‘has USAR heat —__... | created i history. And of course} more formidable as to firepower,| 1919—New Yark convicts and} more recently, Army application| for one thing {fines $i0 the first person under| vas add-} It was in World War II, of|the Federal Prohibition law —p & medical} course, that the Army medics} 1 The Grain Marketing; T were able to make use of the sul-| Corporation, biggest farm cooper: | y gets around|fas and the antibiotics for the} —~—— — — , td edical officers | first time in history, The techni- | .useemee. peal be « ding authorities | ques of using these wonder dru i c jiseases like malaria.} have been advanced Secale: STRAND ‘Conditioned this time, of course,| by the army’s huge log of experi-|{——— been in-/ ence. And the Army has also been! Last Times Today the Army the funda-} of the medi on this scor done a fabulous recent years. | eep the enemy ican soldiers everything else In t r war, of all the att alt eaching medi tt nly two and one been lost. In have oidier is woun-| medics get to him, nan 97 per cent} the the record} rvival of the| > circumstance: » enemy was E were 96 per wounded differer were credited with new techniques in surgery—and even in the adminis-} tration of “shots”— injections for the prevention of disease. A new system has been developed to el iminate the painful hypo. So in 176 years the Army med- ics have covered a lot of ground, in raising and maintaining the} health of the army. The American} soldier is perhaps the world’s] healthiest fighting man—largely | because not even the generals dare | » disobey the medics The doctors in the Army are no longer civilians—they are full- fledged afficers—First Lieuten- ant or better. But it’s a funny thing — Doc.” They're always doctors first— and then maybe they'll remem-| ber rank you can still call them son.” | demanded, indignantly Girl Next Door By Peggy Gaddis AP Newstentures {but he’s got too much c@urage to!so much with this woman who | be sorry for himself! That’s why| was ten years older and who | he’s—well, such a marvelous per-| seemed hard, if not a little bit | common? a “Are you telling me?” Betsy; But Betsy, did not notice Edith’s | hesitation and raced off upstairs. aoe laughed, “I don’t have, When George came in a little to, do 1?” As she let Betsy out at the drive her household book before her, that led up to the Drummond) the ink drying on her pen. house, Marcia said, “Of course,| “Surely it can’t be that bad,” dear, you know I meant you are! protested George in mock dismay, to come to dinner, too, on Thurs-| noting his wife's troubled face. day. You understand that, didn’t; “Don’t tell me the grocer is about you?” |to foreclose the mortgage on the Betsy’s eyes brightened, “Well,/ old homestead? I'll pay him a no, I didn’t. But I'd love to come. | little hush money tomorrow.” Thanks a lot.” Edith did not even try to ri Marcia smiled, waved her hand,| to his valiant attempt at gaiety and rolled on down to the drive} She only looked up at him, and that led up to the Cunningham! said uneasily, “I’m afraid Betsy place. Betsy went swifty up the| is getting a little too fond of Mar- walk and into her own home. cia Eldon, “So?” George was cautious. FLDITE, doing household accounts} “Well, we really don't know a “4 at the desk in a corner of the | thing about her.” living room, looked up and called,| George grinned. “We know she's “Is that you, Bets?” |the first person who's been able “Who were you expecting, dar- to perk the. kid up since Pete ling—the Sultan of So-What?”| came home,” he reminded his demanded Betsy saucily | wife. F Edith’s eyes widened. Betsy,| “Yes, of ,course I’m terribly | being gay and slangy! “You look as if you'd been hav-| older than Betsy. And we don't ing fun,” she exclaimed. |know anything about her—ex- “Yes” Betsy acknowledged.| cept, of course, tht she's a friend “Marcia and I went out to see| of Lucy Cunningham.” Pete—and, Mother, he laughed| right out loud three times! He ate| ped an arm about six of Callie’s sandwiche nd he “And is that bad?” he wanted and Mrs. Marshall are going to| to know. have dinner witn Marcia Thurs-| “I’m not sure. It’s been such a day night, I’m invited, too! Isn’t| long time since I've seen Lucy. that grand?” She got to her feet, and patted “It certainly is, darling. I'm so| George’s arm affectionately and | glad Pete’s getting better.” ae “I'm a fool, of course. A hen The shadow of misery flashed r acr Betsy’s face, but the next| Betsy trom growing up, and that moment it was gone, and she was| can’t be done. I'll see what's hap- saying, almost too cheerfully, “Oh, | pening: to dinner.” I think Marcia was good for him.| She went out and George's eyes She’s—we'l ne’s a swell per-| followed her, a troubled look in son. I'm crazy about her. Aren't] their depths. Then he tried to as- you, Mother?’ Edith hesitated. After all, she] going to be. all right. But the reflected, what did any of them) troubled look was a long time in { about Marcia Eldon? | going away. really Know (Te be cantinued) Was it wise to allow Betsy to be! lative to date, officially dies—no' enough farmers invested Today In History 1868 Conclusion of historic | 1932—Army breaks up the B.E. Burlingame Treaty with China—|F. camps in Washington, D. C. U.S. Minister Anson Burlingame,} 19q45—U. S. Senate ratifies the trusted friend of China, also nego-| y, N, Security. Charter. tiates treaties with several Eur-| . opepn. nations, in Ching’s , behalf} 1868—Rafitication' of ‘Be. fats menhaiment to the Corstitution’ —citizen’s rights not to be abrid- ged 1874—Philadelphia’ Frank S. Baldwin granted patent on his Arithmometer, one of the coun try's first adding machine: 1898—Ponce, Puerto Rico, sur renders to General Miles in the war 1914 ia-Hur Au war on S beg THE THING with KENNETH TORRY AND MARGARET SHERIDAN Coming: MY FORBIDDEN PAST Robert Mit « and Ava AIR COOLED Last Times Today COLT 45 Coming: HOUSE OF FRANKENSTINE Boris Karloff and Low Chaney ALSO HEAVY |later, Edith. still sat at the desk, | grateful, only—well, she’s a lat | George grinned again and drop- | er shoulders. | with one chick. I'm trying to keep | sure himself that everything was | Long Distance MOVING Heavy Machinery - Boilers - Pipe - Long Steel Ships’ Gear - Contractors’ Equipment Leonard Bros. TRANSFER | 2595 N. 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Walker says ‘ are 50 or more boat owners who| fe confessed killing his step- ‘on | iso docked there. Now they) ggughter Betty Jean. Hansen kil | have no pl 0 doe r te a | ts. Mabe gee t ; d ss or to maul near Burbank, Calif, July 5. oa ing }up their boats for painting and} Th lice chief said Kristy. |repairing except on privately, pei ea hhis_gun went off. while” Be ar vade* che Fak t that this| he and the girl quarreled after |property belongs to the citizens| he forced ‘her 10 . leaves Ber . eS mother’s home at Newhall, Calif. Officers throughout the® west had been hunting for= Kristy. Today’s Horoscope Today gives a strong character given to scientific methods andy capable of carrying out difficult research to the ultimate end, There may develop a vein of cuns jof Key West, they sold it back to} the so the state could as-| ume the blame. How clever! Well all we can say is this, they} |did this work behind our back: }Sout when time come: boat men and their many | friends and sympathizers will not} | cast their votes for these commis- | ioners state oa election hese A CITIZEN July 23, 1951 iS F ning. and sometinges cupidity- Toda y Birthdays which should be carefully, kept in . | restraint. Joe E. Brown, actor-comedian, | »born at Holygate, Ohio, 59 years | SUNDAY, JULY 29 ago. bag fs Cyril Scott Fletcher, president | Properly: - directed, this is & strong character. Intelligent in the direction: of’ its. aims, sometimes: winning by force of careful, sys- of the Ford Foundation’s unit for dult education, borm in Austral- gia, 47 years ) Pig | Cranston Williams, general man-! tematic planning. But it-is some-)™% | ager of the Amer. Newspapers | times necessary that the ‘energ) ; Publishers Asso., born in Augusta, |2¢ turned’ toward: work and: not Ga., 56 years ago. allowed to’ dissipate themselves, toddard, president |i" contention. i ¢ jof the Union Pacific Railroad, born | in Auburn, Nebr years ago. Stanley P. nett, managing jeditor of the Cleveland Plain ler, born Danville, Ind., 59} Ss ag6. Rudy Vallee, actor, crooner, | band leader, born Island Point, Vt! egy « POUND TODAY—— | 50 years ago PES tks S SPSS EE This baby has only the future to look forward to. He justly deserves the, se- curity, the best education and many advantages that our way of life can provide. Thrift is the surest way that most people can guargntee an adequate amount of money to see that their i have a “passport” to.q way, ; Site that we as-Americansictane. _proudly. call ur own. A life that is safe and enjoyable. 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