The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1951, Page 2

Fage2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN = The Key West Citizen. *ublished daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artrian, owner and pub isher, from ‘The Citizen Building. corner of Greene and Ann Streets ____Snly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monive County + b. ARTMAN _ ss Edito: WORMAA D. APTMAN Businese Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Cl te TELERHONES $1 and 1935 Member of The Assuciated Press—The Associated Press is excl sively mtitied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches Credited Ww 1 -« NOt Otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local new rub! here, ee dember Flotida Press Association snd Associated Dailies of Floride -wécsaption (by caviier) 25¢ per week, yeas ‘$12 00, Bi oi ‘spam dae: ak ei ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOW pr rwanda arrest the-Crtizemtis an open fovum and invives discussion of public issue inds stabjects ot Jocay.o. general interest. but it will not publis! NORVENOMS Spmamunicatio: 3 Gitecdey Ore oy single copy ON | APPLICATION 5¢ IMPROVEMENTS $FOHK XEY WEST ALVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN : 1. More Hoteis and Apattments. * 2. -Beach and Bathing ravilion ir 3... “Aurports—Lant-and Sea. ~ =. 4. “Consolidation ci County and City Governments i 2 od. Comixiunity Anditoriuin. -t - = oo — pe THE WISE KEY WESTER 2 Key West is growing faster than even ‘‘Trends,” the Chamber of Commerce bulletin notes, and-the reason for that is because thé notation is a month old. But the Cham- — H. bebe: AU’ Will ‘Try Air Corps Men As Spies Say S Detailed Radio Are Spying By The 4sso-iated Communist Hu ary the public hopes of So’ Minister Andrei Vv nounced Friday nig Americ plies in News Th their face. State Soviet e Depart men would be rel Belgrade ies kinf d planes rhutes, ys. Portable Evidence Of Press obedient to et Foreigr ky, an No soon |Mary Aine Christ Child li Window The State Department waited for | official word of the Hungarian note delivered to the American legatior | beg i is not blamable tor that circumstance. The only. way,|in Budapest, before commenting But the families of the four mei | were quick to éxpress their indig {nation and. grief. my God,” on can keep up with Key West's fast growth is to record itsgforwatd strides from ds ay to day. s «Here is an apt instance of the rapidity -of that gr@wth, “Trends” reported that the Key West Post Of- tice’s veceipts for last month totaled a little more than $16,000, an excéss of almost $5,000 over November of last year, But the post office, the first 15 dé of this month; took in more money than it did all of last month. Of course, the approach of Christmas has something | Plain things like this to a to do With that condition, but a large volume of the re- “Oh, Christma old fold David s daughter cried y le ¢ her in Glens wil ual for t Leslie anc ause “you as vu try Mrs. Swift »w blow aptain-hus Falls for eir 5-year 1 3-month don't ex ceipts this month was not connected with the Christmas | the 31-year-old flight engineer trade, Further, Postmaster Hollon Bervaldi says indica- tions are that December receipts may reach an all-time monthly high of $35,000. + What is true of the increasing postal receipts since “frends” was issued is also true of increases in the use of elactricity and the traffic on the Overseas Highway. bek of incoming cars to a Key Wester who owns an auto- m@bile. It is easy enough for him to see that traffic here is how far heavier than it was a month ago. There are more cars:in Key West now than there were in the midst of ‘gur last winter season. What will be their at the height of this season? The Citizen does not like to appear to be trusts that this advice will not be sermon. Every adult Key number “preachy,” taken in the nature Wester knows that these are harvesting days. Everybody is harvesting but not evidence of spare parachutes, de everybody is keeping his fair share of the harvest. We pied Nain a 5 abe aarti know Key Westers who think these lush times will last said this is normal emergency forever, and for that reason are spending as much or clay in military transport | 2 | planes mdre than they earn. The United States answered the | But many Key Westers, earning more now than they |notes with demands the men be | freed | have ever earned before, are taking care to be agninst the coming of that “rainy day,” toscome as two and two are four. Good times times move in cycles. At no time, in the history world, has good times continued forever and at has hard times kept in the saddle. aT He is aywise Key Wester. who x 1 | as sure bolsterec which is and of no the time is. saying his money, Without titting; while good times dre Hate een Ailey | = 2S vee » Business ethics will improve when the).pyblik ap- plguds a Man for not making profit his sole Sint dn all | transactions. * “ If you seldom convince friends in d one of | two things is wrong. Either you can’t calmly present your ideas, or you don’t see ussions, the other side of the SLICE OF HAM argument to have | | | | | But Mrs. James Duff nee 9 the plane, said “We'll have nc Christmas.’ Sh 1 at her home in Spokane “Jess is certainly no spy. He's a mechanic.” | In Shawnee, Okla., Capt. Hen derson’s sister, Mrs. Jimmy Barn. well, up” Vishinsky told the this week th hard | Saboteurs said her parents were over ne’ It is hardly necessary to mention the increased num- trial. The captain's father s of the men 1 said he hoped “torn impending D. H Henderson declared: “I don’t see | how they can ,be tried as spies. | After all, they were in uniform and carrying out orders Hungary kept secret the fact the men had been forced down for seve days, while American planes searched Italy and Yugo slavia for wreckage of their plane. Hungary sent two notes to the | United States, on Dec. 3 and Dee. ll, charging the four airmen with cloak-and-dagger activity on the | 2d Nations | spies and “due attention will be given to them by our military and justice ties.’ The Hungarian note did not call them spies fe authori- however, or, gabo | | | | | | | | r \ \ | | | | WEW SMYRNA REACH m—The | fight against a proposed toll turn- | pike betw Jacksonville and Mi- ami will be led by a paid exeeu- five director of the Florida Free Highways Association Representatives of that group and the Florida East Coast High. ways Associat decided here Friday to create ba post. Du ties were de ed full-time directio: f e onal eam- paign to ‘al mean- ing of the pr pike.”’ Coastal hich would be bypassec turnpike have { proteste ri und instead want U.S. 1 State Road A1A improve 0 $380 Robbery In Day ytona Beach DAYTON H Police reported ery in a busi: hess sect c noon Friday. They s ‘ a con tracte money at € ¢ in his truck a revol ver in his reed him to drive to an i area | Pelt ed to a tree {| with his le managed to | free himself police. His } truck doned in a t ious when it be jeep fat. Heat the fat t and fry for a min t batter dipped den-br | | Bae | oner tet Bet THE VIRGIN MARY and the Christ Child pictured in colored cellophane adorns the large window > wai backing the Smal} stage in the music room at the Poinciana Elementary School. This large religious . | from Fort Pierce. eee storage lease at Camp Cr s created by 7 fourth and fifth grade students at the school under the direction of the Fall nee beans: Monniee HY in juvolved “political favoritis instructor, William V. Black. It forms a beautiful’ backdrop for the school’s | @rea well-over peak harves’. official favoritism_ Poinciana Pupils Decorate THESE SEVEN Poinciana Elementary Schoo] pupils created an outstanding picture of the Virgin Mary dow ht: mon and and Corr 1 Bi ‘ at the Not All Clear Window | and Ye else as vi grow’ light frosts in Florida cused only Ellender said in New O1 jslight damaze to snap beans, cu- that the prob would not b cumbers and squash. ceuera) investigation of the The report for Florida truck cutiure Department but woul see e | erops: confined to charges made by Citizen Staff Photo Fall snap beans: Harvesting at’ |iams and Senator Kem. (RB, peak in Everglades; Wi Wi most! | ford; | Coast | Wit | expe Wi vesti e\. Fa vest * jharvi Fa ‘ally Wii | weat! age: and |. Wi Fal ers Citizen Staff Photo Wi | crop Letters ‘Santa Claus her Santa: hop-a-long wallet; also boots. M | brother 5 *! things. I am in the second oa | My brother is in the first grade, | Rains Hit Growth Of Calif. Crops ORLANDO i%—Fiorida and: Tex- December, killing frosts slowed {delayed harvests in California | A report by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Florida Ag- ricultural Experiment Stations said uary. | Myers and Dade. Wauchula and Manatee ‘| Myers and Pompano. | glades, Zellwood - Sanford - ;glades and Central Florida Wauchula and Manatee. T u want a hop-a-long watch, Involve Profits Of More Than $100,000 q From Leased Surplus @ Government Buildings _ the will want me| so good. he can’t write | anything yu can bring you want to. ANTHONY ULCHAR 614 Grinnell St Key West. Fla $$$ me WASHINGTON —@—Two * rich-quick” deals involving partment of Agriculture emp | may get « public airing early. year by a Senate committee, One involved profits of than $100,000 from leasing goverment buildings * Crowder, Mo., and, then, s a ing them to "another governm agency to store grain, “T other was an pool” formed by federal emplo r, 16 speculate in oi and gas rij on land formerly owned by 4 uncer gages held by the cult Departinent. egetable crons had favorable ing weather the first half of but heavy rains and growth and light in Dade, Light volume Sen. Williams told’ the inter lima beans several months ago that ‘thes inter cabbage: Light volume, ly from Everglades and San- some from Hastings and We it areas. inter cauliflower; Harvesting cted fairly active early He said the ‘Agri partment’s € common poration (CCC) “paid> 20 months use of the ‘ead space which was leased by for less than $1,000 per mio Williams said he was. 1 estimate the profits: of vestment pool’’ dealing if, Increased _har- light in Ever- inter celery ing in Zellwood; ar sweet corn Everglades rights, but that the, mostly harvested; light in Fort ns Bovernmént Jands if ing taxpayers ‘several dollars annually.” Williams identi volved in the grain storage | as A. H. Myers, Kansas: vestment broker and the Kansas City and Boards of Trade; John Stark, sas City grain manj. Paul wards of Joplin; Dan Me Kansas City, former internal revenue; and ley of Webb City, M state director of the Mis Williams said the oil and~ deals involved some govern officials who were handling same leases. He explained that when ers owed mortgages or Mf cucumbers: Late fall har reduced considerably by cold; Ruskin esting practically finished. ll eggplant: Harvesting gradu- increasing, mostly from Fort nter escarole: Recent warm her and fog caused some dam- volume increasing from Ever Oviedo Manatee - Ruskin. inter lettuce: Light in Ever- ll pappers: and Pompano; Light in Fort My- very light in inter potatoes: The Everglades will probably be dug in Jan- The Christ Child from colored cello phane to form a beautiful outline on a large win- | wary; oldest Dade plantings are re- | government-owned © farm)” school. The pupils, from the fourth and fifth grades at the school are, from left to | portedly about a foot high. they did not acquire the ne Boaz, Albert Clairmount, Billy Russo, Timothy. Carey, Michael Powell, Bill Solo- Fall squash: Good supply from | rights to gas and oil.:. bby Jean Coreil Pompano, Dade and Fort Myers-| Williams said nine} Immokalee. employes, most 3 | Winter strawberries: Maturity the Farm Credit ‘married Pfe. William G. Sasser, |from a four day Christmas Holi- | generally delayed; light harvesting. | formed the pool tp. |! Then came the prisoner of war day. | Fall tomatoes: Manatee - Ruskin | and oil rights... list, compiled by the Communists; Pieces to the jigsaw came spin-| crops damaged by cold winds and z ‘and described by U. S. officials ning in Friday night from Sikeston | fog; light in Dade; harvesting prac-; “Syalbard”-"Land + 'as “definitely not official.’ Among; and from Cullman, Ala. |tieally completed in Fort Myers | Coast'’-is the ancient About Real Mrs. Dixon Officials Suggest That Mrs. Could Hardly Privately Sasser Confuse WASHINGT( puzzle of the first. soldier-husband, ported dead of the In the ‘Dixon, orea rnment Serial Nos. IN UP bride whi Reds in is a A lot of piee- missing in the jigsaw says her offieially re apparently is a pris- | Korea. midst of the dilemma is ear r-old eves Dixon a er ah \s orted her f Husband,’ Pres W Serjal puni 12266334; wes: re ast May and that the gov- paid her his $10,000 in-|This may have to wait until Dec urance benefits: In September she |.26, when Pentagon workers return ORE as ” HA. in |The | was paid and. the 3,198 American names was that of Pfc. Walter B. Dixon, serial number RAIT 4 “That's my Walter,” Mrs |ser said when she read the new papers. “It’s his name and serial | number.” But the Army was just as con. fused as Mrs. sser According to its records, Pfe. Dixon never had a wife. Listed as his next of kin, the Army said was Mrs. Lorean G. Storey of Sikeston, Mo. It was to her the Army sent its first report that Dixon was dead Mrs. Storey, who now lives at! | Houston, Tex., may be able to fit} i) the puzzle together. Hy The Pentagon | it telegraphed her that Dix-| list. ,olficia) “confirm tha’ Dixdft's insurante-every it was, to whom. Mae tne ei nga ‘| Korea. ' i (VA) try to get back the $10,000 A clipping from the Standard, dated last summer when Dixon was reported killed, ter. It quoted her as saying he disea married an Agnes Laseter in At-; lanta last year. | In Cullman, Ala., J. L. said he is the father of Mrs. Sas- ser. He said his daughter Mary | Agnes married Pfe. Dixon five, days before the soldier shipped out | for Korea. Laseter said he understood Dix- | on was reared by a sister, a Mrs. | Lorene Storey. He suggested the | possibility that Mrs. Storey might | have passed any insurance ne along to his daughter. The Pentagon is doing its best | | to. solve the riddle. It ip ig to| reported a prisoner, and -(B) why Army records don’t. show ‘he wa marr z Officials suggest Sikeston | and Immokalee. The report identi- | areas. caused damage by making fied Mrs. Storey’ as Dixon's sis-/ it difficult for growers to control | The Alaska National Laseter | cludes Eskimo Scout Battalions. poo a |FOoR SALE| | Second Sheets 36u FOR for $Oc | Math privately that SSS ‘ for Spitsbergen. said fog in some se. ard in- Newsprint vital importance to every! heating person. Hetps and mone UNddindl Be Press Mrs. Sasser. could hardly confuse serial numbers, since ‘they are Te: quired on all.mail, to soldiers ia} The insurance angle is smn | piece to the puzzle. If the Pfc. Dixon reported killed is still alive, | will the Veterans Administration Mrs. Sasser said she received. The VA.said it was not sure but it probably would not demand repayment if it would cause undue hardship. Foner KEY WEST Naval reopening his office Lakeland. Florida Station Legal Cifficer, Li rade) James T. Watson, USNR, has returned to inactive Official U. S. Navy. Photo enant vith the law firm of Oxford and America’s growing population and expanding industry now re- quire about double the amount of coal mined in 1900. STRAND ....Biicnce Last Times Today TWO TICKETS TO BROADWAY Tory Maw rn “isp aaNet (th echulestae) Coming: MR. UNIVERSE Jack Carson and Janis Page Last Times Today ing: AT WAR WITH THE ARMY Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis | emnmsmeciran cnt | | Ne ee THE FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK Hoots on the roof . . . sleighbells a-jingle .. . some- one unloading a pack! What grownup can forget the Christmas days of his own childhood! 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