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\DVERTISING RATER 99c WIL. GIVE YOU A 3-LINE CLASSIFIED FOR 3 DAYS 2e tle 0c 9c 8c per line for one day per line for three days per ne for six days per line for twetve days per line for twenty: tour days Minimum of 3 hines per insertion DEADLINE: 11 A.M. DAILY In case of error, The Citizen will be responsible for only one nsertion. Contract Rates On Request en @ ~Apartments For Rent SEA ISLE COURT Windsor Lan off Truman Ave. 3-room furnish- ed apartments. Maid service, quiet area, off street parking. Reason- able rates. dee20-tf FURNISHED Efficiency Apart: ment, electric kitchen. Children welcome. By week. 909 Elizabeth St dec20-tf FURNISHED apartments, 3 rooms and bath, maid and janitor ser-} vice, linens and utilities furnished Coral Hotel Aparmtents opposite Post Office. nov24-tf ATTRACTIVE new one and two bedroom apartments. All elec- tric kitchens. Private entra: off street parking. By week or son. 1125 Washington St APARTMENT , OR SEASON, E FUR- NISHED. 1511 TRUMAN .AVE decé-tf MODERN efficiency apartment. near Navy Yard. Couple only. No pets. Price organization. 411 Fleming St. Phone 124 dec22-tf ONE-BEDROOM modern apart- ment. Phone 1035 between Six and seven dec24-5t TWO-BEDROOM furnished apart ment and cottage adjoining beach. 1400 Duval St dec24-3t 3--Cottages For Rent COTTAGE fcr rent. Sea yearly. Post Office Inn deei0-tt aal or riouses For Rert WHY PAY RENT- Let us build you a C.B.S. home with F.HLA, i Sunshine Construction West, Inc. 2220 Fogary Phone 598. dec4-tf icing at Kev Ave., 4A—Hotel Rooms ROOM in new Duplex. Private bath and entrance. Twin beauty: rest bedding. 1208 Flagler avenue. dec21-3tx > --hooms For Rent TROPICAL Hotel, targe roqms, $12 single, $18 double. All year around rates. 114 Duval decd-ti LARGE room available for two weeks; off street parking. 800 Virginia St dec22-2t 8—Maie Help Wanted Ex- Ap- BAR MAIDS and waitresses perienced or inexperienced. ply Stock Island. dec21-3t Weaver's hite) to work days. South Hotel dec2d-tf MAN ern solartum. Inquire at rina Hotel dec2i-3t inted at once, Apply Sea 15b—Chtistimas Gifts SS WE HAVE A NEW SHIPMENT OF TRICYCLES, $5.25 UP. JUVEN- ILE AND 26” BICYCLE , $39.! 5 UP. JUNIOR FIRE TRUCKS WITH ! LADDERS & BELL, $22.90 AND MANY OTHER WHEEL TOYS. OVERSEAS CYCLE STORE 1030 EATON ST. PHONE 1380, dec7-15t 17—Personai Sarlices eee Notary Public NORMAN D. ARTMAN Citizen Office dec4-tf | Cee a ee as |FOR SALE six Consecutive is Delivered to your door, 25¢ week ‘ly. Phone 51 Circulation Dept NOTICE BRIDES TO BE HAVE your wedding and announcements the Artman Pre: i | pr Phone ated 51 by tf | 18—Special Ser = SNOW CAP BL brighter, softer, whiter Try a bottle from your groce decl6-tf vices BROKE duplicated one day. Frames immediate |Special discounts to Navy person inel. Dr. J. A. Valdes, 619 Duval St. Upstairs cele” iJOHNSON & CURRY, Builders and Contractors. Free estimate: on new CBS homes, ‘and roofing. Phone 1 remodeli XM dec7-tf |WE make keys while you w | Key West Supply Co., 211 | monton St. dec3-tf | TYPEWRITERS; Adding a | hines; Sold, Rented, Roberts Office Supply St. Phone 250. \ 18A—Massage LADI body Hotel, 19—Public Notices GOVERNMENT controls and regu lations are constantly changing Only your local newspaper pub. lishes complete local application of these controls. Subscribe to The Citizen today. Phone 5), Circulation Department for home delivery 22—Lost i — Gentlemen m: Ca Solari Scientific Marin deci8-24t sa PLEASE return pocket book left in car, Keep money; return pa pers, badly needed. 611 Olivia dec21-3tx RED ANGARA Cat. Green eyes and harness. Affectionate, family pet. Call rear, 712 Eaton Street dec24-1tx 24—-Business Opportunities WELL ESTABLISHED busines | for sale. Selling due to sick ness. Inquire 604 Truman Ave Phone 1641 nov29-tf 2-—Keai Estate For Sale ARE YOY thinking abovt a new C.B.S. home? Planning an addi- tion to your present building? Jalousies for your windows Call C.B.S. Construction Co. between 2-6 p.m. Free, estimates and con tract prices. 517% Duval St Phone 724-M. nov29-tf Completely furnished. Large j landscaped lot. Centrally located. | Half cash. Phone 517-W. dec21-7t | 26—Lots Fer Sale TWO CORNERS 1.) x 100 on Ist MAID Street. Call 598. dec?-tf Shell Mc 18 South. St.: Phone | 2 igi. 1193-J dec2itt 28-—Printing 9—Female Melp Wanted | Make The . a ES ARTMAN PRESS rienced waitresses. Apply | your headquarters for the finest oncha Hotel Dining Room. ir zrinting. Phone 51. dec24-3t decd-tf 10a—Salesmen Wanted 31—-Garden-Lawn Supplies NEW FOOTWEAR SENSATION! |CHROME Budgie cages (Para- HUNDREDS extra dollars for you! keets) with built in play pen Flexiclogs, new, patented wooden sandals that actu- with your foot. Inter- Sell hing: ally changeable straps, Neoprene crepe soles. Friends, neighbors buy on sight. Send for FREE Sample Out- fit now! FLEXICLOGS, Box, Box HE-3, New Holstein, Wis . 16—Personay onal note will sell Duke DeKeno, ¢/o dec21-3tk HAVE for $500’ cash Adv. Sound Truck Read the Classified Ads $750 per Key West Garden and Lawn Sup dec21-3t ply. Phone 1019. 33-—Miscelaneous SCREENED DOORS. Custom built Size 34 x 82. 321 Simonton St dee 4-t | 1 WE have a com ° window glass of all kinds. Key West Supply Co., 211 Simonten St. dec3-tf MOTOR bike for sale. In good condition, $200. One pair shoe | sxctea, 411 William St. deci8-6tx sues of The Key West Citizen. | invitations | dec21-tf | MODEST MAIDENS Trademark Registered U. S. Patent Omfice | | | | 2-24 A rewstatin ‘) Avan- i { "YOu CERTAINLY MADE SHOPPING EASIER FOR ME TODAY--- CARRYING ALL THOSE “THINGS AND YOUR CHECK Book! # 34- -Househoid Itemr 42—-Dogs-Cats-Pets 36—Bicycles and Tricycles! 50—Legal Notices \ DEPOsr? ViLL HOLD ON ouR| Don NOTICE UNDER FICTITIONS ATT XMAS LAY-AWAY PLAN, SCH-| IS HERERY GIVEN that & ADMASTER BI-}} ened. desiring to engaqe TRICYCLES, WAGONS, the _fletitions S AND OTHER CHIL. | intends t DRENS WHEEL Goons. WEI! y ne BUY, SELL, TRADE, REPAIR County AND RENT; PICK UP AND DE-| ted! er ; L R. PHONE 1380 OVERSEAS! LE STORE, ae 1030 EATON ST. decl3-10t GIRL’S 20 inch bieyele. 7: ington St People’s Forum dec22-2tx 38—Automopiies For Sale 1940 Itixen weleomes expres- the views of its read- the editor reserves the CHEVROL T coupe. 707 lete any ftema Francis Street decl8-6tx a 39—Trailers For Sale of the paper the writer nm lette nd w tena requested accompany the be published una- erwine, WE CAN SAVE you trom $300.00 to $500.00 on any trailer. Our prices are the lowest in Fla, Come and see us, Free overnight lodg- ing, Free delivery to Key West, Harper Tyailer Sales, 4850 N.W. 17 Ave. Miami, Fla. Phone 89-6887. nov28-27t “PARENTS SHOULD BE REMEMBERED ALSO” Editor, The Citizen This is not a criticism, simply a friendly reproof of so many young parents of today When the Christmas tree is be- decked with beautiful gifts for Jun: ior and sis and Bud why not also remember your parents a_ little DORR THATLER SALES has opened a down town sales place in Key West MANY NEW MAKES oF i TRAILERS .. . MANY more generously? USED TRAILERS You are prone to say “But Christmas is for Children,” while Small Down Payments, We Have Our Own Financing We Are Florida's Oldest, and Largest Dealer in your hearts you knew this is not 80 f Every body loves to be remem bered at this blessed time of year. | Buy from a able dealer 5 4 ; Small down payment, year t B Sy We So SE Sol yourselves | pay. Come in and see, buy right proudly boast of the beautiful gifts | o you received from each other. | Dorr Trailer Sales But far to often your own fath } 710 Duval St. and ers and mothers have to take a | 1156 N. W. 36 St.. Miami back seat, and apologies are ex q dec5-tf } pressed such as this: “You know | ————} mother we are still making pay }26 FT. TRAILER, sleeps 4. Elec-| ments on our Cadillac and Junior | tric Refrigerator, fully furnished. | simply had to have a new bicycle |} Porch, awning, poreh furniture, | so all we could give you this year |fenced in yard. Mastic Trailer! js this handkerchief’ And to | Park. 645 United St. C. Clemmes. | dad they say ‘‘We hope you like the | Phone 91 dec21-3tx |the socks dad, we didn't forget you.’ | | 1950 ELCAR Special. 27 ft., $2,000.| So mother who has worked all Perfect condition. Call at City | her life caring for you through all | Serv Station, Stock Island. |your babyhood and adolescence { dec21-3t | going with out many things that Spespegeaminemestie hes jyou could have more, and dear | 41—Boats and Motors }old dad who has kept his nose to eine a | the grindstone to give you not sim Ww fastest 18 ft. Hig- ply necessities. but many luxuries, gins run-about, 112 H.P. twin are pushed back on the shelf for jearburetor. Grey marine engine, grandchildren. |complete with trailer. Perfect Is not the. tie which binds you | condition. Can be financed. Phone to your parents as closely woven | 439. dec2t-6t as that which binds you and your j — _ ‘children together? CABIN CRUISER. 24ft, ready to, Then why not show them this go, $600. Phone 146. one day of all the year that you've dec21-tf not forgotten. An Observer | mp The country’s 44 miliion motor- ists paid an average of $82.36 in taxes to own and operate their care in 1950. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CITIZEN For Sale ran - CANARIES, Love Birds, Para STORM of Neariy-tu Curniture | Keets, Parrots, Toucan, Toucan arene pak Avenue, Poinciana ‘ettes, Monkeys, Gold Fish, Tame ee ae. mes d sell new! scarlet. Macaw. (Can talk). The jand used furniture dec6-tf | pet Shop, 814 Caroline St. Phone | — 9258 decl8-6t G. E. Electrie Regrigerator. Good ndition. Phc 1305-M. 10 to 12 _ mornings, 4 to 6 evenings ' 45—Transportation decl2-12tx seh Secs saaa NEW HOME ah, Storage - Moving NEW HOME sewing machine.! is_anb CITY TRANSFER Cheap. 704 Passover Lane Phone 488 de | E. V. Kinsman « | dec24-tf so—Wanted To Buy | —--—— science cea ; ‘ |49—Moving YOUR OLD battery is worth $ $< Sata) =) at DICKS’ TIRE SERVICE. 929 HOUSE MOVERS Truman Ave. Phone 77 }CALL Garnett Ph. 1054-Mo far dect tt! estimate dec2s-tf (Lie Down in Darkness by Wil- liam Styron, novel, published by R ult Bobbs Merrill Company, New es Ss ‘York and Indianapolis, 400 | pages.) In parts of this book William )Styron has written some of the \ finest descriptive and narrative rrose which has appeared in the American novel in the past ten lyears, Two passages are out- |standing. They are the descrip- |tion of love coming into the | summer afternoons of a_mental- \ly and physically crippled girl, Go wandering through the city | in. Charlottesville, Virginia, and : ferly, | Greenwich Village in New York Searching their dreams City slow, uncertain feet. | The author uses as his unify- s plum. red-cheeke? old |ing device the funeral procession ladies who remember Lost childish voices raised Christmas morn on en |e jearly twenties who committed suicide in New York. The body Who, wistful, peer at trains and | arrives at the railroad station in teddy be: |Port Warwick, is transferred to Destined for little boys but/the hearse, and the procession lately born. jproceeds to the cemetery. The Bless thin old ladies with cour- | girl's ageous smile Whose bright eyes holly and the tree, But who will sit alone bare room With some stray cat for com ' pany | Bless bent old ladies come from} conquered lands, Who nevermore will see murdered sons; Oh, let the ancient carols comfort mother, father, her father’s j mistress, the family clergyman, the |and the Negro servant, are in two cars behind the hearse. Mr. Styron then goes back into a \lifetime of events which preced- Jed the suicide. He does this mostly by showing selected scenes from the lives of the people attending the funeral, and seek in some their } er back to the funeral: procession through having the hearse break them down, stop at a gas station, and And drown their bitter me-) get involved in_ traffic. mory of guns The author has great powers Bless tired old ladies, homeless, pinched with cold, « brief shelter of characterization and is an ex- cellent story teller. The people he selects to move in the novel Wt on the | | | | | | y stairs; are vividly alive and the »eader |r ream of a kettle boiling} is eager to know the cause, of ~ of a bed ‘the tragedy which broods over And kitchen curtains drawn | their shattered lives. | inst the stars But unfortunately, the cumu- | Bless all old ladies who, at/jative effect of the novel is one Christmastime, of spiritual squalor. The father Go roving through the town, is Joving, dissolute; the mother, white haired and shy Searching their dream, their hearts half-sad, half-gay, Their brave eyes eager, their hats awry! No Chances Taken With Scrone Stone LONDON (#—England is taking mad, lonely, brooding upon her hates; the daughter, beautiful, emotionally twisted. a creature of drunken-nights and joyless amours. There is no nobility in these figures. The reader is im- mersed in a bath of pity and hor- ror. And it is only in the highly emotional form of Christianity of the Negro servants and in the completely acquiescent relation- ship of the congenitally stupid and simple daughter Maudie to | and no chances on Scotish marauders |e; mother, that Mr. Styron walking off with her stone of | shows any slant of light in the Scone this Christmas. darkness. William Styron, in this picture he gives of the south, has a band of some of the best in southern literature. Faulkner, Caldwell, Robert Penn ae Maybe they can’t all wrong. ong. But this reviewer haa only one comment to repeat. In 1943 Sunday night detectives began a | in Westminster | Abbey | where Scottish Nationalists last Christmas seized the stone from under the King’s coronation chair, Actually the stone is now con- watch KEY BOOKS By A. de T. GINGRAS jand the bitter melancholy of} By JAXON | Potter's Field where the un- known dead of New York are little old ladies who, at) buried. mastime, 5 | The scenes of the novel take hats awry, their coats; place mostly in Port Warwick, threadbare but neat, | Virginia, with briefer interludes of Peyton Loftis, a girl in her| intermittently brings the read-| {the Chinatown ‘beat in any! | American city. This tale shows a Forecast ned charming Chinese-American, ~Key West. and Vicinity: family tangling in a mild sogt of Seattered showers today | way with the fringe of these | day morning otherwise. | events. | weather Nod —_— to. The story is told through the | fortheasterly ai a eyes of Molly Chan, a twelve | tod and moderate - year old Chinese girl who goes ® to both the American and €hi- nese. school, Her. father, a man- darin born in China, keeps a} shop in Portland, and there are six little girls in the family, In- to this group comes a twelve year old boy cousin from China who is to be their elder brother. The story of Elder Brother's orientation into American urban life and into the sisteriy affec+ | tions cf “heroine Molly, guides the plot line of the book. > The® in the back, the} violence of tong war butcheries, the poison’ served in teacups of Chinatown fiction emerge only | Re as a pastel backdrop. The whole "Key West, Fla, business is tempered for the PUr- | Opservations taken af. | |in the north portion: ‘night, otherwise clear Jacksonville through Straits and the, East Gentle to mostly easterly. and winds becoming mo easterly Tuesday. { | ported: delicate palette of thi 9:00 A.M, EST. pre-teenagers. And that subject | Penipareeucel should make any fiction Writer's | Highest vente cr geazas guild _ nervous. Charlie Chan, for example, yoo) might feel justified in at least a | Normal dagger thrust in the direction of} the author. The family in the) book is named Chan. Father) Chan is a mild, sweet fellow slightly’ baywindowed and bald. ing like any father who com- | Deficiency this month mutes on the 8:15 or works down | Total this year i at the Naval Base. Molly bullies Deficieney this year .. hima ‘little, teases him, and im} i general their relationship is a_ | Lowest last night | i ae 8: 8:3 cup-pulling one. Now Charlie has | spent’a fictional lifetime show- | ing that he is a genial fatherly fellow with his Number One sons | and Number Two sons. And he! has suéegeded in. giving a slight- n taste to a lot of his murders, but Mr. Chan in this book belies the name of Chan! | yy :And Dr, Fu Manchu! Mrs. iy Fe better not run i fim any dark night. She has put | breakfast cereals and new babies | and’ the sixth grade into Chi- | nese laundry tickets and the smiell.of incense. She’s taken the | * flame out of. the dragon curled) onthe Chinese kimona, and the | mystery out of the vegetables in| chop suey. The child of the turn of the century who crossed the | street to avoid passing the mot- tled glass of the Chinese laundry, their mother who sent the boys ofthe family to pick up the laundry, and warned them to hurry in ahd out and keep their eves on the door, their father | who cautiohéd of Chinese ways that are dark and tricks that are has suc~ readers different from his own, isn’t that what everybody is from the side “aa ee adioactive cobalt is pealee au a Lory aaa eg ee fiuat Penn Wa 5 "At | . bey, but authorities are being care- Heaven's Gate” was published, | ful just the same. eet w. The 336 id block of masonry she wrote in the 0 u ba temeae ts al sonry | Dost, “. . .. one is foreed to con- | treatments. ywas brought to England be Ed- ward I in 1296 from the old Abbey of Scone in Perthschire, Scotland. It is regarded by Scottish Nation- alists asthe “stone of destiny”. The stone was returned to Brit- igh authorities last April. , TEMPERATURES | AT 7:30 A.M., EST clude that if Mr. Warren has given us a representative section of humanity, the only vil rt action of which the ‘race cossibly be capable would remove itself quietly from today of William Styron’s “The Down in Darkness. A Junior Selection (Elder Brother by Evelyn Atlanta 33) ey Lampman, fiction for - | Augusta 30] dren 10-14, Doubleday Pua illings jing Company, 21 BES. + Soeeain bt xe ction writer's isingr $\ might have just cause to Boston 37) the author of this book b ae 24 come Chinese laundry and to arleston 2*| smell of incense strat Denver 20) with a Chinese cue. For yeal ated ; ‘storytellers have . built up ~ = oe af whole cult of the mystery of # Galveston 2 cast and things Chinese, Jackeoncilie 5q, Mrs. Lampman without @ gary qualm shatters the Kansas City 75, shivery myth. KEY WEST S | The pattern of pop rp * growth in the United ‘ Meridian 35 shows foreign groups moving it 7, to certain sections, Miami _34| taining for several ti oe ‘al the vestiges of their racts New Orleans 51| Rational identities. ‘The i New York 41) towns of our coastal and @ Norfolk 5o(cities are a familiar illustratio Oklahoma City 22\ of this growth pattern. Pensacola 47| ae a places her Pitts’ story in _ On Ronseue 2 Chinatown of 1908. The ‘place St. Louis 19 was at that time athrob San Antonio 55 tong wars, the dowager-! San Francisco 47,0f China had her tong Seattle 27 fingers in all Chinese-American Tallahassee 48 events, and volicemen’s wives! Washington 35 wept when their husbands got tat se Re ec earth and thus allow it to be ime) \herited by self-respecting — ite}. sects.” This comment is as. a5 Sib-, chil-) "| PRA LAPUA pli ay

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