The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1951, Page 2

or an us ne ae? i: Remo FUE Wee wmne somreys Saturday, Augosi li issi THE KEY WES? CITIZEN . Ghe Key Pest Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. ff man, owner and pub from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and-Ann Streets T'll tell you aisher ate of June 29, confine te _Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe’ Gaunty une? : erga it aes a The writers should be pter 271, Flor-| , =e Edita 1949, permits an’ and NORMAN D. ARTMAN ae __ Business Manage: paper tur to bulkhead and Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter leftere and ill be ps , him title to the’ —-— lens requi a athery er it has been done TELEPHONES $1 and 1935 ae gee a a Spee a “ember of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusivel CRITICIZES GARRISON ued to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to BIGHT EDITORIAL t ‘otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local new: 1 shed here. Member Ficdida'Paess Assocation and Associated Dailis of lorids| 1051, an Garrison! Hit no provision for se- he material with which Attorney General Rich- vin under date of July 951, stated follows: cted the land office in as Subseription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5 d conveyed Gar- rustees of the Internal Im-) { | and am advised that | } ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION First he City of Key The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue: /78'**" € > purposes only and subjects of local or genera! interest, but it will not publist '* fe eue ae RS However the time. of this anonymous communications. ance it was not known by istees of the Internal Im- erent Fund that there were t lying — be- and the ige of Garrison Bight.” “I am further ad- : i t the City of Key West Pec Sa that in the event an owner bordering on Gar- ht desires an area of Ess ON FLORIDA - Ass . Laheiaiyal! si ed land fronting his IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED kee ecre e the City of Key West! BY THE CITIZEN i 2 hvey to the Trustees of al Improvement Fund; ¥. More Hotels and Apartments. Pe : é d 2. Beach and ages eave : = aim Deed, that parti- 4. Airports—Land and Sea. : area, in which event’ the 4 Consolidation of County and City Governments. : tees could iene convey . ‘this: ‘ § Community Auditorium. : 1 to the upland home owner.’? COC COO LL F your editorial it » would aos tae on eem that it is not how impors WHAT’S MEACHAM AIRPORT WORTH? If the 840 acres, including Meacham Airport, owned the Key West Improvement Company, is worth $1,000,- as: has been noised around since the city trying to acquire the airfield, why is it assessed for only 53,0007 Hefe is another question, As that is the amount for ant treet end but how im; owner of _ the Interesting? You know your, jitorial sounded just a bit. bir ted. Look, Editor, why not'let’s »adminded about this thing. ‘street-end’ make and when the city has been » you ery eet-ends’ : of ; : F . ; sims all street-ends they . can which it is assessed, then is it not only fair but generous side ith, side? | eee ond of Pinon: oie also for.the city to offer $100,000 for 264 acres, less than spice a ‘you find so important, gratlé one-third of the acreage? That offer for less than one- j.¢ the waterfront blocked If we nates fae the ake ae so gar P ” ine ’ nD: iby, |gument that — street-ends 5 third is $37,000 more than the assessment for the entire F! 3 a alk ae ania: e BB f ve ai oll streal onde tata te tract Gert Merge 5 criminate—it just isn't dem- i * are truly int sted in reet re ; Let us think clearly when we speak of city, county, cnas from a purely civic stand atic, you know! Sincerely, tate, of nation. Too many of us believe in socking the na- point, don’t you think that your IARGARITA L.: MITCHELL tion or any of its subdivisions when a question of dollars piesgieers h a eit a/arian il Pomme a "Weuale : is involged. We overlook the fact that we are socking our- | Whole facts, You cry out August 10, 1951 elves, for the government is the people, even when it nar- end’ why not ‘street end nt vigiaty ‘opportune rows down to a city or special district, and the govern- ait solaieae ae aed abi clond te “gies point-of-view.” ment’s money is the people’s money in the form of taxa- tion of one kind or another. Let us assume that the owners of the acreage in ques- tion established or tried to establish in court that it is worth $1,000,000, would not the city and county be justi- fied in @isemting it for that amount? If it is worth*that? WDER uum to the owners, than neither the county nor city asses- | or coufd be censured rightfully if the ass ssment is raised By RAYMER to the amount the owners say the land is worth. Ai of ar : American He Says Russians Knew Japanese War Plan But this sound reasoning may be beside the point, | recruiting po : for The Citizen does not wish to be trying to anticipate oe a Eee It what aetion will be taken by the company on the city’s : reads in old fast i in offer of* $100,000. which the small I ef src The Citizen’s concern is in the city’s acquiring the nage ae day Nett 2 Meacham Airport. As time passes, air travel increases. In -juded 10 year’ from now, with the city’s owning the airport, ar- : “All . ae ¢ so iS } af : rivals ij and departures from Key West will be many ee dita Sueiitaited times more than what they are now. in the GLORIOUS CAUSE of Asta city grows, it must look forward to the future to} their Country and make their {it he said, | se: | | Vinson, represents one of the more NAVY FIRE F.GHTING CREW DEMONSTRATE FIRE FIGHTING APPARATUS DURING DRILL In The Background (By The Associated Presa) CARL VINSON = ies ‘ : , Representative Carl Vinson of} [7 Venn ee ves Georgia summoned newsmen and , Mor Cet betes in fronted: the issued a new call to arms. And in} yya, among other things: is today vulner- | { | | | | Chapter 21 into the deepening twilight, as he and Gus went up the drive. “This country r y S. r fi down able to air attack--no matter how| | Mrs. Marshall, fighting jmuch strength we may be able : so ie Segre gee gon |to assemble on the ground or the] ing'to remind herself that dark- we cannot hope to defeat) BWriet power unless we have su \perior strength in the air.” This coming where, met him at the door. ‘She statement, from ntle reminder that he was startling switcheroos in the his-| for dinner | tory of Congress “Mrs. M he sole her | | ‘There hasn't been a conver-| Sally, his arms about her, “I have sion like Vinson’s since the late | "2% Anes ‘ | ; “Oh—then someone has told Arthur Vandenberg abandoned | | .>'perhaps 1 should have warn isolationism. Carl Vinson is the " ed you Peter looked puz: what?” he demanded. “That Betsy is engaged,” man they used to call “Battleship Carl”—the biggest of big-Navy men He fought unification for y because he believed it might re- jduce the Navy to a status of} | wretched equality with the Army jand Air Force. iously fant? Why, that’s absurd!” “Darling, we all keep trying to tell you that Betsy is quite grown protect Gnterests that will conserve that growth. The Fertunef, an opportunist | At that time, Vinson was chair-| up—she’s ‘almost nineteen—and : ufferi on bi ecg eps man of the House Naval affairs) Bo Norris is twenty-four. people of Key West-have reason fe Ue thankful that oux{/ER of TWENTY soni committee. And of course unifica-| _ Peter grinned. “Oh, well, then, City Commissioners are determined to acquire and im- | France) now laying int | tion might conceivably have elim-} T'll give m Be ah ein ne ee rove Meacham Airport. eh hone cue =m | inated his committee job. It did psi este on he waa ie ia Sees «Carma : “\| ultimately eliminate the job—but | ;,. rer ssked hincee . oe PAUL JONES, | ae, | | not Vinson. He is the chairman of | “°l.Vo) mean, about Betsy's en: Mogt reformers are satisfied with themselves March 29 f ala | the armed services committee. He yagement? Nope, my news is M4 miffion be author t : now presides over the whole kit) gbout my engagement!” ; , 2 to any able Seaman t 2 and kaboodle—Army, Air Force ee Marshall stood very ati Théee of ind— P| i F {into Continental Service, an Le se, the Navy. Vins and Peter, his “arm about her, Thtee of a kind—golfers, fishermen and proud par. Sum not to exceed FORTY DOL: al Peres aia he Nav inson| and the! tte shoek that sed ent : : y. Seas) ¥ | over her. Before she could chec LARS and to every ordnary Sea} ;. @p-Wirephoto And as we see by his newest} the words she vhad. said, “Oh, ee we oe Tete oie, }#4b man, -ailandimans } Sum Hi ‘ | planis,, he got ‘air.minded in’ the} Peter, ot Marcia?” fou cs eee 2 _ sg at exceeding Twenty Dollarf to be) MITSUSADA | YOSHIKAWA. | process. He “has even beéen*seen Péter’s arni dropped from her ee can never tell, arp the way a woman smiles at dethictéd trom theie-tutare: puize!. jenan's tep-iavestigetingoMfi. |in the company of infantrymen waist and he stood straight before pu y y " Sig it n far ‘ a é& aie at} her, = lea . you, what she is thinking of you. money.” Signed by y By } : cer, tells congressmen in Wash- | What Vinson wants is a colossat his ety setting a little. . pn —_ — cock, the “invitatic PE )| ington that Russians knew a | Air Fotee—much bigger than my i “fm happy beyond words, ee] ent] succes: eC Ls ee | vetime air force ever proposec Mother, to tell you that Marcia Reading books is not always easy but it’s better than ahs al Sane j Paul a before Pearl Harbor of aig aire Barca, “adi Lira other, to y at Marcia making mistakes through a lack of information Jones, captured &/ M.S. D! 1 bie imiea ah fg Poa pat Pi thought rush to urge an Air Force ; = i) ae ae Sas harrassed British shipping ae i led States. He is testity- | carly twice as big as that recom- | ;nowledge in the business of get- 7 3 : ) one year late ing before the House Un-Ameri- ntended by the administration. |ting elected and re-elected. No- Che best laid plans in the world will not produce ae an Activities Committee in- | Now—he wants 163 wings. A wing) body can serve the nation in con- dollars unless they are backed by energy and hard work. TOWN MOSAIC: TI mall f vestigating operations of a Rus- | represents units of varying size, gress unless he knows how to win female dressed uf depending on the types of planes. | at home. And Vinson is a master 4 noth ian spy ring in the Far East. physical fitness of the ORC i Reserves Corps) has valuated as 90 percent pny- ly big whee lums from De MALE CALI Bets are | whether or not 1 Read fit yond New York City while on en leave A card and a letter] elect the service that selec” ‘from Hamilton, Canada, state men—U.S. Marines. eee ta tenn= + PPO e ee eres an: shee -goer Me | legislature. It will have about 30 heavy bomb-| in these arrangements. practice back in Milledgeville. The conversion of Vinson to air Vinson’s first public office was| power is at least jokingly credited that of solicitor of Baldwin coun-| to W. Stuart Symington, war time ty, but then he branched out and | Secretary of War for Air. By un- served two terms in the Georgia| known cajolery, Symington got Mr. Vinson to go up in an air- This gave him the required | plane. The rest is history. | has consented to marry me,” he| She would rejoice in his happiness, | announced stiffly. “I may as well| but that would not prevent her | add that I feel that makes me one jot the luckiest men alive.” li place, and drove away] oider!” Mrs. Marshall put both| Mj i m sorry, dear. That's not im- ness meant nothing to him and | marry me is the fines that he was merely idling some-| ever happened to me.” tried to disguise her sharp relief| you. And for me, too. Wh at sight of him, to hide it behind| makes you happy, darling, r late} happiness for me. You know that,” ed. “Told me} she | spilled in a flood so brilliant that s| blurted it out, watching him anx-| now and then a mocking bird “Betsy Drummond? That in-j| and tr | Mexico's frontier priest in 1850,/ | | } } Vinson is regarded by his coll-| agnostic, born in Dresden, N. Y. ' | | | | | | ren dre i t outward bound for! ers, or.75 fighters e He was first elected to congress ane ieather, £ i i and London, in Ontario, Vinson didn’t forget the Navy,’ ;, 1914—entering the 63rd con. ng e the st f E the ack over the border | never fear. He also wants a total! 0... pis experience as a national F ori, Mich., on-a tour of three super-carriers—not just’ )..ijator thus covers two world Ew mes Ten years | one. wars and some’ major political thy ve house me over from England Unification may be new, but) ov onte of our history. snd R f i 1 in RAF training! Vinson’s call to arms i not = ating t Thought it Writes he, “To my surprise has b a ene ee bigs ils ie eagues as the best-informed man} Died July 21,1899. va at first i: that 120 of the original| forces, chiefly Navy, ™ : in congress on military subjects, : i that I came to Canada! his 37 years in Congress eo appillengene The 1 ery ems it: + : ‘anada/ "He has been chairman of the| For one thing, he has specialized ORO NOR Be ante ant back here married now Naval Affairs committee since |—frankly concentrating on ‘mibi- — : Tr es - 1932—and of armed services since | tty problems. then again-next day vt complaint was the cool tem- it was formed a couple of years| This has made him at once ad- big, straw «tringed : ire at 69 degrees when he’ |.” anf he is régdrd&d’ by mili-| mired and feared among the mili- S Bowger We he, beag iystropics wear wigh him) Ay M Washington as. the tary officets who have to deal ompletely + I ‘< piss 2 And thease eine man in determining what the| with congress. Combined with when she pours over a book ding like Whit, * tha] FP" vd forces will get and what a talent for congpromise, the spec- mag that kat singer, Frank Rogers, ee ont ial knowledge makes Vinson one yah 10. Ow West sen aang Vinson is not a blue-water man of the most influential men in; Helen Stet i t nager (and myself), 1. heritage. He is a native of the’ congress. Miami t with her pa f heat rash! . .. It's) oan town of Milledgeville, inj At 67, Vinson still puts in a ents, the J. J. McWeen y time now for the Comdr. orth central Georgia, nowhere | tough day at the office—especial- S.W. Seventh ech's to be imaging’ 65, the ocean. He was born there | ly in these times of, mobilization. wants to i H Muller has joined the 7 years ago and it is still his) In addition to the regular duties The ma Players Lovely | home. of a congressman, he runs one of the be ‘ ve ubout talent, she'll be a fine “pe went to the local schools and | the biggest committees, which has nightc to the group Well, then to Georgia Military college | some of the heaviest responsibili- nights an FI eekend and time to get and Mercer University in Macon.) ty. The committee has 35 mem- had a le la ove party line. He took his bachelor of laws de-| bers, and a staff worthy of a cor-| club ow! su maa gree in 1902 and went right into) poration. ME || The Girl Next Door By Peggy Gaddis “But, Peter, she’s—well, she's haking hands over her mouth. | portant, is it? After all, if you are/ | fond of her—” “I’m deeply in iove with her, Mother. That she’s willing t thing that “Then—I'm terribly glad for said Mrs. Marshall bed But there w still a hint of constraint betw them, though | Peter grinned at her and said, “Thanks, Mom!” | | |] YING aw that night, Peter ¢ stared into the darkness. There was no way for him to know | that, outside, silver moonlight | awoke in the old. magnolia tree led an experimental melo- {dy. The air was faintly cool and dewily sweet with the scent of | the garden; but to Peter, locked | in a darkness never to be broken, the night was all black. He, was emotionally tired and he had a queer feeling of let- down. Puzzled, he tried to explore | the reason. Was it simply because he had been in such an ecstasy of happiness since Marcia kissed him, that his emotions could no longer bear such a peak of de- light? It must be that, of course. He wouldn't let himself dwell on the disappointing way his mother had accepted his news. He told himself that she would instinc- tively have resented his parriage, to anybody in the world, corrected himself ~ s would not resent it. She was mut} ‘too loyal and too devoted: fort! But she would feel a sense of loss, {that he was going to be married. | 'Today’s | Anniversaries | 1812 — Joseph P. Machebeuf, | French-born Roman Catholic! priest in Cincinnati in 1839, New| lone missionary in Colorado in the 1860's, born. Died July 10, 1889. 1833 --— Robert G. Ingersoll, Union soldier, famous lawyer and 1862 — Carrie Jacobs Bond, { } composer of many popular song: i born Janesville, Wis. Died in Hol{ lywood, Dec, 28, 1946. 1865—Gifford Pinchot, Pennsyl- | vania governor, noted exponent | of forestry conservation, born in‘ Simsbury, Conn. Died Oct. 4,' 946, | 1867—Joseph M. Weber, of the famous Weber and Fields vaude-| ville team, born in New York.| Died May 10, 1942. ’ 1900—Charles W. Paddock, fa- mous sprinter-runner, Marine Corps captain, born Gainesville, th Died in piane crash, July 21, 943. ———__ STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILL at All Grocers AP Newsfeatures emotional — /FOR SALE feeling bereft. He felt a twinge of compunc- tion at the thought that he and ould not even be liv: here in Centerville. Marcia wor study in New York. Eventually, perhaps, when things grew less troubled in Europe, they would travel there, and she could study. to| There was comfort in the thought of being with Marcia | her ambitions, would take -her, arcia But his mother .| and she must have realized it the »| moment she knew it was Marcia going to marry. That was the reason she had cried 4 out in prot It she disliked Marcia; nobody could possibly dislike Marcia; she was wonderful, His heart stirred a little at the memory of her, w in his arms, her fac kisses—yes, the reason he had that let-down feeling was due to exhaustion. could live for long on such peaks of ecstasy. It was nec come down into the qu to breathe and rest! His Pignene 8 He wa come engaged, though he hi admit that the thou cht was aia startling. He woul of her as the long-legge red-haired brat who had dogged his footsteps until he had turned * on her in fury and ordered her to leave him alone. But she was a grand youngstei grateful things she had tried to do for him, even if some of them had rubbed is already raw nerves Most, of all etal ase hom he was honestly to: her he (To be continued) New: Second Sheets | 500 1: 50c¢ —-THE—— Artman Press CITIZEN Coming: ALL THE WAY John Garfield and Shelley Winters wi MARIE WILSON AND JOHN Coming: ROPE OF SAND Burt Lancaste; 2 Venrcia PAM i) working out beauti- Fun y ¥-was marrying the bay w ealy- Huet in” Pebwn was ag toemarry: a. This w. a pretty grand old world, alte | of depression, in the knowledge | all. wherever would be alone, ouldn’t be that vand vibrant lifted for his Nobody sary to t valley ‘ung to Betsy. glad she had be- always think , coltish and he was for the many was grateful for sprint BUILDING HE RAN ith ND