The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 17, 1951, Page 4

Friday, August 17, 1951 » Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN [BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH By Fred Lasswell SHHH #8 ('™ GiTTIN' DIVININ' TWIG! HAW-HAW-HAWIH! I NEVER HEERED NOTHIN’ SO LAFFABLE IN ALL AY BORNED DAYS TH VIBRATIONS NOW-UH-- YE GOT PERZACTLY --UH-- ONE LONESOME NICKEL 79, IN YORE POCKET nay By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed HARDROCK wagsnrrve Y HEWAS THE WHO'S’ THAT ? LAST MAN WHO j TRIED TO HELP ME. NOW GO! SO, CISCO, YOU_ WON'T LEAVE TOWN? SO YOU WANT TO BE A DEAD GRAVEYARD... BY THE HEADSTONE OF THE LATE HARDROCK MCGINITY! fo oF be fo al 5 ‘é E / a ‘ ae TTA/ STOP THEM 2 é HERE'S TO THE / eres HOLD) MINE aes aang Pe aigtogien nt ; WINNER ~AND ) ) PUNCH--ING HE BONE AT } FORTUNE .! HE'S A a TOE GHT FOR TEDO! apes annals YOU IN Tete \ A DOGFIGHT.’ MOORS OMe SNe 1 , Ar’ J ” A 4 LETS MAKE A , aaa SES e CAREER” i TOAST.” ree ES he Et re fir m By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly 0. BYE Wi | SURE WOULD THEE MANN 22 Ron To see im! vir >} | WHA'S HE DOIN’ NOW?22 ou DONT BOTHER ME NOW. | YAM CATCHIN’ UP ON HISSELF A JOB AS A 1 FOOTBALL COACH f AA AGN 117, George McManus WHAT IN r THE WORL I NOW -WHATS GOIN’ ON ? WHAT ARE THOSE PAINTERS DOI’ IN THE NG IT UP GARAGE? (J ae A WAY HE EACH WILL REQU { uM T- ‘ uy DIFFERENT STALL Ss is AND MOTHER MEANWHILE, IN THE LEFT - ] FIELD STANDS... AND TH BUGSLL WIN, #*@... SO TLL DOUBLE-DOG DARE YA T’RUN OUT AND SHAKE HANDS WITH OZARK IKE BEFORE TH GAME ENDSZ THINK 1A, oy we New Addition In Police Department AN ACCIDENT PREVENTION CAR has been added to the regular police car st white with green insignia and trim. Shown with it are, left to right: City Carbonell, Police Sergeant Buster Cerezo and Municipal Judge Hilary Albury. . Chapter 26 “HERE, here, Betsy,” Peter said gently, “stop drowning mel! You're crying all over my nice clean shirt — and you know how easily white shirts get dirty. Snap out of it, youngster. This whole thing is a mistake. You're imagin- ing things.” ‘ “No, Pete.” She sat up and mopped her eyes with a sodden scrap of a handkerchief. “Celia— that’s Marcia’s cook — told Esther this, morning that Marcia was leaving for New York. I went over to see. Marcia was getting packed, and — well, I guess I said some were the truth, Pete. She's lower than anything that crawls, for walking out on you.” “Betsy,” said Peter a trifle wryly, “If only I could convince you that I am old enough ‘to manage my own affairs—" “You never seem to realize that I’m old enough to manage mine.” Peter grinned. “Well, this fan- tastic tale you are telling me, my pet, certainly doesn’t make you seem very grown up, if I may say so.” ‘ “You may say anything to me you like, any time, anywhere, and I'll love it,” said Betsy. “Because T love you.” “Betsy, you're forgetting some- thing.” “I don’t think so.” “You were just giving Marcia a nice. going-over for breaking her engagement to me because it suited her convenience. Aren’t you for- getting that you are engaged to Bo?” Peter pointed out. “Oh, but that’s different.” “Why is it? Just because I'm blind?” There was a moment of silence, and then Peter said, “Don’t you see, Betsy! I don’t want any spe- cial favors just because I’m blind. “If I had been in love with Mar- cia, my heart would be — well, maybe not broken, but at least permanently damaged. I acknowl-! The Girl Next Door By Peggy Gaddis edged a little while ago that my first feeling was one of relief. I think I was just grateful to her because she treated me exactly as she treated the other fellows. I guess I let myself be fooled into thinking it was love. The first time I kissed her and held her in my arms, there was a queer, let-down feeling. And I of leavin; a New be Marcia’s: Finally I had the uneasy suspicion that I had deluded myself, but I couldn’t see any way out. Now do you begin to see why I wasn’t up- pretty hateful things But. they ae the engage- t?” “And I killed her, because I ce Be she'd hurt And I was glad.” “Betsy, you said Peter helplessly. FROFESSOR HARTLEY was coming back from the house, moving surely, alight. “It's all right, Betsy. She's not seriously injured,” he said. “She has a bad bruise on her temple, and Centerville, of living in ork apartment, among strangers, who would inevitably AP Newsfeatures you, migh get home “diGhe, sent the car rush they were in B dreaded the thought You’ve done a disgraceful thing. that you might e¢: Marcia?” : friends, not mine. with kill her.” “Betsy!” Edith you terribly! lawless little idiot!” swiftly, his face what was the ea battered herself to that had she was knocked out for a few} Be minutes. But the doctor has just left, and he said she would be able to travel by latest.” “Thank Heaven!” said Peter. Betsy drew a deep, hard breath. “TI guess I was mistaken, I didn’t minded injuring her— even killing her. But now—oh, I’m so ashamed of myself!” “I should think you would be,” announced Peter. think I “Td better Hartley I'll see him again soon.” Brushing Peter's hand aside, drive, a car slid to looked up to see Edith behind the wheel. Edith was obviously angry, but her voice was quite steady as she said, “Get “You needn't have come for me, Mother.” she went running across the lawn and down the She was walking slowly along the street toward home when tomorrow, at the ,” o'clock. go. Tell Professor pened, her. restraining lion. the curb, and she in, Betsy.” (To be e Today In History 1807—Historic Robert Futon’s | trip up the Hudson in steamboat | “Clermont”—round trip in five | days and actual time under way 1835—Quebec-built “The Royal | William” sails from Nova Scotia —first to cross the Atlantic under steam all the way. 1859—-French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope with a man on his | back. | 1863—The Brotherhood of Lo- comotive Engineers organized. 1896—Discovery of gold in the Klondike, Alaska. 1903—New York publisher Pul- itzer gives Columbia $2 million to establish a school of journal- ism—and leading to the Pulitzer prizes. 1915—Leo M. Frank, who fig- ured in great murder case that day, kidnaped from Georgia jail and lynched by mob. 1943—Allies complete conquest | of Sicily in 38 days. 1950—Gen. MacArthur urges all UN member nations. to send troops immediately. Today’s Birthdays Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson born Shelby Co., Ill, 66 years ago. Lieut. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, retired, wartime atom bomb chief, born in Albany, N. Y., 55 years ago. Cardinal Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Roman Catholic prelate, born in Nashville, Tenn., 64 years | [O. | Monty Woolley, actor, born in New York, 63 years ago. Rear Admiral Calvin M. Bolster, Tribune, born Arlington, S. D., |50 years ago. ; Mae West, Brooklyn, N. Justin W. Rexall Drugs, Los Angeles, born |*tY Says the sturgeon Evanston, IIL, ing a rarity except Quincy Howe of New York, LEAVES actress, born in} Y., 59 years ago. | aie Dart, president of | The National 44 years ago. | waters. Overseas Transpo rtati Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service | between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAIL CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M, Ar- tives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock Mid- “T was.a litfle a do af you SHE did not speak stairs, and then she I can’t tell you how shoe or how disappointed I Betsy shivered, out er usual dev esty, “I think maybe what I am going to Betsy tried to grin, a success. “I guess n better give me back that brought me.” hard for a flippancy from her real feelin; For a moment Edit something very close her eyes. She could glanced a she said, “ on, I suppose. You'll getting | dressed. It's Betsy looked at her most six?” she repeaters “The moonlight pien the Evanses are gi and Bo. Remember? for you at. six-thirty, 's face clouded W h, but must I “T think so—don’t For a moment their and it was Betsy’s that first. She nodded mise “Yes, I guess so,” she 4 An_hour later she help Betsy into his she-were something in cious. Then they drove: very picture of care! ! author and news | born. in Baston,, 51 Y EX.