The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1952, Page 3

? # . ; SOCIETY ... PERSO! “Don’t Be Blie, Its °52” Is Slogan Featured At Viele Party /,... “Misery loves company” was the adage Lt. and Mrs. J. W. Viele | were thinking of when they planned ‘théir “hangover party” held this afternoon on their lawn.at 6 Rest Beach. | ures offered by the Vieles were — of course —- “hair of the dog that bit you” (old fashions and highballs), along with aspirins, ice bags; vitamin pills and — hors d'oeuvres. Guests were greeted with the ~ = slogan “Don't Be Blie, Its °32"| Family Spends hich above their ‘ae 1 A wi was displayed Hol y Wi t h outdoor bar. Decorations were \ pink elephants and the various - pos nd the warys| Lt. Mrs: Spry | A Viele, saa gear ee: Te-!\ £; jg dnd Mrs. Warren L. Spry, mong quinn attending .|914 Watson street, entertained sev- | can and Mrs, G. M. Bends eral out-of-town relatives and! and houseguests, Mr. and Mrs.|friends during the Christmas holi- C. A. Ruiz of El Paso, Texas, ba days. Comdr, and Mrs. ¥..G. Morris, t.| ‘Their guests included Mrs. Spry | and Mrs, D. B. Millar, Lt. and{ parents and brother, Dr. and Mrs. | Ms. William Johnson and house-| William T. Cramer and William guests, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Bar-|Cramer, of Ft. Meyers, Fla.; Lt. ker of Washington, D. C., Lt. and'$pry’s parents and sister and bro- | ue. John S. Grischy, Lt. and ; ther, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Spry gether on a bed in and Mrs. Don Henderson, and Lt. Gg) and ‘Mrs. Ed Page. New Year Greeted At Fort Taylor ' And Aeropalms More than 200 merrymakers rreeted the New Year with gaity and enthusiasm last night at the Fort. Taylor Officers’ Club. At the stroke of midnight. the band played “Auld Lang. Syne” and the jubilant crowd . blew horns threw serpentings and donned bright-colored paper hats in a spirit of. celebration. The club was full of _ parties traditionally ushering out the old year and welcoming in the new. A_ buffet dinner was served, beginning at 7 o'clock. Dancing was from 9 p. m, until 2 a. m. to the music of the Fleet Sonar School band. Decorations included pie oe as hu ance f ‘ suspended frortt™ Stbotstcart ter. A silver sleigh and rein- deer centered the buffet. At Aeropalms, another group of naval officers and friends rathered to welcome in 1952. The club was crowded with .an en- silver, above the large, thusiastic group of merrymakers, | After ringing out the old and bringing in the new with a flurry of confetti, serpentine, the sing- ing of “Auld Lang Syne” and the sound of horns and noisemakers, a breakfast of scrambled. eags, bacon and coffee, was served, Ruby Crawley’s band played for tie dancing. . Disabled American Veterans Name Meeting Dates Emilio C. Noreisa, adjutant of Key West Chapter No. 33, Disabled peel Veterans, xnnounces that regular meetings of the chap- ter will be held at 8 p.m. each first and third Tuesday of every month. The m will be held at the “Orden Caballero De La i. ene 422 Ave street. ates se meet for next three months are: Jan. 5 Feb. 5, Fee. 19, March 4 and March 18, ‘1 Mich., and Ens, Robert. Spry a and Marjorie Spry, Grand Rapids, ; Va,; and Lt. Spry’s aunt. ; ‘Mrs. Harry Fenby of Lansing, Mich; and Miss Jelene Seefeld of Grand Rapids, Mich. The group attended last night's New Year's Eve dinner-dance at the Fort Taylor Officers’ Club. known ornithologist, will speak here Friday. This is the. first. of Several of the guests left today a derles of mation ~ for their homes and Miss Marjorie | SPonsored by the Monroe County Spry left for Denison University,! Audubon Society. 3 Granville; Ohio, and Miss Seefeld; He will give a matinee lecture is enroute to Michigan State Univ- | entitled *‘Wildlife in Action’ at 2 ersity, Lansing, Mich. o'clock Friday at the Truman Ele- Mrs. Fenby remained here for | mentary School. The evening. movie a longer visit and Ens. Spry, who} and lecture to be presented’ at is attached to the destroyer, USS! 8 o’clock in the Key West High Noa, stationed at Norfolk, will re-| School Auditorium, will be entitled main here two months to attend | “In the Hills of Gold.” the A.S.W. School at the Fleet] Dr. Pettingill was born in Maine, | Sonar Sehool. graduated from Bowdoin College and received his Ph.D.. in orni- MRS. CROSBY f HOLIDAY GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Lon Cribbs of Lov- \ ell, Wyo., are visiting here with Mrs. Cribbs’ sister, Mrs. Grace Crosby, 1417 Ashby street. i (ALS... NEWS OF INTEREST ITEMS OF INTEREST TO EVERYONE HEADING FOR THE SAC K — Four pups get to- community for Chihuahuas and a feature of Mrs. Wade E. Marks’ kennels in Youngstown, O. Dr. Olin S, Pettingill, ,Jr., well-»% CONCH CHOWDER by fAYMER The wedding Sunday of Joanna Roberts to Spencer C. Kraeger was enhanced with the Christmas de- corations over at the Memorial Chapel on the Naval station. Jo- hanna wore blue to match, not only her own eyes, but those of the groom. . .Best man, Jack Stewart, and the groom picked me up at the Marine gate and we spent about five minutes giving the brush-off Mr. and Mrs. Cribbs arrived in time to enjoy a tropical Christmas. SGT. H. ROBERTS RETURNS TO BASE Sgt. Hilburn Roberts, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Hilburn Roberts, 1428 Virginia: sieeetuins returned to Tyndall Air Fore: se, Fla., after spending a 30-day leave here with his parents. Sgt. Roberts has been stationed at Tyndall AFB for the past two years. He recently re-enlisted and jis expecting to be transferred. L, A Craveners DR. OLIN S. PETTINGILL thology from Cornell University. He is now associate professor of z zoology at Careton College, North- Give New Year’s _ |iiela. Minnesota and the Univer- sity of Michigan Biological Stat- ion at Cheboygan, Michigan. He Cocktail Party is a recognized authority on the Lt. and Mrs. L. A. Cravener) American woogeock, is well known teelebrated thejr fifth wedding]as a wildlife photographer, - and anniversary yesterday with al}has done natural science cocktail party at their home, 626] graphy in many parts. of the William street. The party pre-| United States, Canada. and Mex- ceded the New Year's Eve din- ico. ner-dance at the Fort Taylor-Of-} For two years Dr. Pettingill en- ficers’ club. gaged in one of the most interest- Paper hats, horns, noise mak-| ing ornithological researeh , pro- ers and serpentine decorated the | jects of our time: the whooping Cravener home for the party ne project co-sponsored by the | Guests present inc!uded:|National Audubon Society and the Comdr. and Mrs. F. F. Penney, | Fish and Wildlife Service. The work Lt. Comdr. and Mrs. A. B. Cat-jentailed a far-flung quést for this | | lin, Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Peter Dun-| species, now one of the rarest’ of {ean, Ens. and Mes. G. Schnaedel-}| North American birds, from the lbach, Mrs. W. E. Barclay and Lt. | gulf coast to the inner reaches of | Ged and Mrs. R. H. Blount. Canada, and back again. His find- SE ings have been of great signifi- ‘Edith Cummings cance in the fight to save this (Is Guest In diminishing species from extinc- tion | Tickets for the lectures may be obtained from members of the Coming Events \Seribner Home J xonroe county Audubon Society to Kraeger. . .uh-uh. . .just brush- ing away lint that had collected on his suit. At the reception, Jack an- nounced celebration was in order for more than one occassion, . It was his birthday. . .And the or- ganist said that she was observing her fifth wedding anniversary. That seemed to set off a series of similiar announcements: Guests Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Otte said they had been married exactly four months that day, Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Riley added that they had been married exactly aie year and four months Decembér 30, so Photog- rapher Robert L. Dirks was kept busy snapping smooch poses. Lt. Comdr. W.S. Lammi, who leaves for Monterey, Calif. on Thursday, revealed that he and his wife Caroline are expecting a new lambie pie- in about four mon- ths . . . Surprise: a guy with the Celtic name of Earl McCorquodale, VX-1 Sonar Seaplane Base, rattles off French with appropriate shrugs. Blackie, Johana’s dog was also at the wedding, feasting on rose-and- green colored sandwiches, cake and other goodies, but ignored the punch bowls. . .He was the only guest present who did. .. Contin- gent of Phillips, Read and Swin- ton-Bland arrived just in time! BLACK CATS are supposed to be bad luck, or are they? Anyway, I have been adopted. .Saturday night while preparing Flanders Roll for guests, a half-grown black tommie padded in through the open door, seated himself noncha- lantly on a chair and waited po- litely to be served. This morning he was still around. His name is ; Adonis Diesel Picklepuss II: Ado- nis for his ebony beauty, Diesel for that inside smooth purr when he’s pleased, and the last mono- Tuesday, January 1, 1952 _ Shop Hopping with JAXON A lot of things have happened sinee the baby 1951 showed his rosy little nose in the joints and bistros up and down Muin Street U.S.A. and one of the nicest that has happened to me is the begin- ning of a pillar yclept “Shop Hop- nins.” We sincerely hope that the beginning of 1953 will see us hopping. along merrily in the same spot at the same time each week. xk * You be the world’s worst and your chicken gumbo. could be a killer: but vour guests would still lick their plates clean .. . that is if you bought the sforemen- tioned plates at the Gift House. isn’t it? Well, you see the girls. just got in the Charles' Adams and Helen Hokinson plates that have the | side solitting cartoons glazed on, Oh well, laughter is good for the digestion and evervone will love the cartoons. Make your next dinner a success. Gift House has ‘em! x * * One of my favorite recipes is from Beantown . . . all about beans of course. I cook mine — first, two. pounds of, beans with ja ham hock, then add half cup of condensed milk, half cup of brown sugar, teaspoon of dried mustard, teaspoon of black pep- ver and two tablespoons of cat- sun. After they’re baked they're spicy and good, served hot or cold. x &k * Mrs. Thompson down at the Children’s Corner doesn’t think much of the baby New Year. and for very good reason! She pointed out to me that he ap- pears each January Ist at 12:01 A.M. attired only in a few yards x *k * More news from the National | Newsletter: It says that vou can't! bill a visiting mother-in-law for her board . . . at least it was so suled by the Supreme Court of Vermont. I don’t think there has ever been a test case of this sort in Key West. The article goes on to say that “it would, be a crime against nature and humani- | ty to give to all the courtesies, favors and visits that are ex- changed between parents and children the mercenary quality of dollars and cents.” Mmmm . .. this will be quite a blow to some people. x* * * I met Mrs, Maitland Adams and her charming daughter Barbara in the Beachcomber Jewelers yesterday. They were | i | tinuous showing of Fishnet. Before you go, ‘t forget fo stop and see the one man show of water colors by Wil- liam Greene of Key West... . of Key Wert scenes. They are so enchanting, and now any- one can own an original paint- ing. his prices are SO VERY reasonable. x * Ever since I was a very little girl, I have been- scolded for slumping, and encouraged to sit straight, walk straight, and never let my shoulders go at all. Now I read that a Texas Doctor says its HEALTHY TO SLUMP a bit, and he maintains that backaches are more likely to come from stiff posture than from slumps, THE KEY WE T CiTIZEN PHONE: Citizen Office, 19€8 |New Year of 1952 would see th@/ the stardust out of her eyes. She is Walk as if you were climbing a hill, he says, and sit with the spine slightly curved. Please Doc, won't we all start looking simply awful if our bodies as- sume an “S” shape? x * * Last week this column re- ported seeing a beautiful skirt at Mar-Ed’s .... hand painted, of a fish biting a man. This week of course we look on it (ugh) differently ... . but the skirt is STILL wonderfull _ However, all unpleasant me- mories aside, Mar-Ed has the whole marvelous Joan Roberts of California line of sport clothes. Hand painted skirts, stoles, slacks, shorts and blous- es. The material is that new rough weave and the colors are for fiesta. One of the love- liest windows I've seen at the Mar-Ed shop is the one of the all-yellow Joan. Roberts clothes, . FIREMAN’S FLIGH T—4< recruit plunges from fives story building toward gliding sheet held by other trainees during exercises at the new Italian fire brigade school in Rome where the country’s firefighters are being trained, Louisa’s Letter Dear Louisa:- jwork and put away these peddlers I. have been reading so much | vice. ‘ ~ | The city of Los Angeles” has about teen agers using narcoties | made the effort to do just this by that T became worried and the | stricter law enforcement and: Lupe mothers of our school children had derstand that the officials a survey made, We found that! have been very successful, : ‘was no problém here. | ‘Three-fourths of the young ) We-wondered ther our small} 2ddicts come from r these ten by tenners all over the | / We was nee whatiier tl and from homés that are country. They exchange ideas/ i agg | broken, or worse. That, of course, about buying and menus. They wy eed ihacer: most of the less) i esn't mean that there are fot ex; also pledge to resist unreason- MOTHER, Tenn. ceptions for some of these young- able prices and cut their OWN] Answer: siers do come from decent homes, living expenses at least ten per] he problem of teenagers using Children who live in good: homes cent this new year. This sounds] yo rcotics is mainly one for the | 2nd have interested and loving par- like the weaker sex has at last larger cities. Of course, a thing|¢"'s are taught the dangers of such decided to do something about like that will spread to athailer | habits and even though they. be; the inflationary government \ we | places if left unchecked and the of-| 0" # dare or because of associa now have, and in the way they | ficials of these larger places should | With bad companions, | their par- know best, by talking. If youJaccept ihe responsibility for this | ents ill probably discover the want to participate or learn more | disgraceful situation and set to| ‘rouble before the case becomes a about the group, write House- | hopeless one wives United, 2915 Foxhall Road 7 Ve Watkins. Be. | HOLLYWOOD » | My husband died a month ago NOTES and my iwo ciadren want me to n sell my house and live with @ach (By Tae ansociated Prens) jone six months of the year. I love |my children and my in-laws bet Doris Day has been in pictures)! am ir years and still hasn't gotten| as ! afraid I will be dissatisfied many x * The most wonderful idea in years is the new “ten-by-ten” groups that are forming all over the country. Ten women phoned ten other women to talk about living expenses in Washington, D. C. Those ten women called ten more, until finally there were | LOUISA. par Louisa:- Donald, Sue Staff at Donald’s Beauty Salon- wish you a Happy. and also a Pretty New Year! x &k * f We had all hoped lived in this place for The children <o not like for me that this} so, end of all strife and peace constantly amazed and delighted tween the Nations of the Earth, by the things that happen to her. jbut it is not so. We go on, some} “«] guess I'm just a home girl of us jyst half-people, with our] at heart,” she remarked. gown Mrs. Adams was plan- ning to wear New Year's Eve. I’m sure all her friends must have seen and admired her choice. Barbara was looking for ear rings. She chose some of the very large rhinestone ones so. smart this year, Mrs. Dickson was busy as the proverbial bee at the jewelry counter and Key West ladies were probably as dazzling last | principles upon which this coun-| me are my home and family. My try was founded so many years! career has been just frosting on the ago. Somehow when the clock cake. I've never broken my neck struck this year, the lights didn’¥}to get ahead; nice things just seem so bright, or the smiles a8} happen to me. merry. The’ cocked hats sat a lit-| “| started out in the business tle straighter, and even th@/}singing with Les Brown's band. I drunks were not as drunk. And}did it not because I wanted to somewhere above the din of/be famous, but because I really “The | loved ones away fighting for the things that are really important to | night as anywhere in the U.S.A. ithe noisemakers and the shouts liked to sing. * * * of the celebrants, I could hear| ‘‘Pietures were the same way TUESDAY, JANUARY1— Sea Finigee Cootiette Club 371 = meet at 8 p.m. at the VFW me. WEDNESDAY, JANYARY 2— Dade Lodge No. 14, Masonic Group will meet at 8 p.m at the Scottish Rite Temple, Kev West Bridge Association will meet at 7:45 o'clock in the Coral Room of the Over- seas Hotel THURSDAY, JANUARY 3— Elks Lodge will meet at 8 p.m. at the club. Monroe County Hispital Wom- an’s Auxiliary § ing group will meet at 2 p.m. at the hospital. V. F. W. Post No. 3911 will meet at 8 p.m. at the V. F. W. home. Key West Garden Club will 8 p. m. at the Wo- Club on Duval stre Officers Ciub of Fern Chapter, No. 21, Order of the Eastern Star will not meet Thursday | as previously announced. It will be held January 10 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, street FRIDAY, JANUARY 4- Key West Amateur Radio Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the National Guard Armory. Fern Chapter, No. 2!, Order of Eastern Star will have in- stallation services at 8 p.m. in the Scottish Rite Temple, Simonton and Eaton street. Audubon Screen Tour lectures by Dr. Olin S. Pettingill, Jr, 1209 George! | Miss Edith Cummings of jor from Faye’s Gift Shop at the | Boynton Beach, Fla., formerly of | LaConcha Hotel | Key West, will return to her home | orrow after several days visit | J’ Ty P. Roses Clee sera! daze |E. J. T reacys, Sr. B.G. Seribner, 27-1 Poncions| Holiday With le . Son And Family place. Mr nd Mrs. cer because he has already ap- pointed himself as head watchcat, growling fiercely at other prowling felines. He also has a mean streak | . he claws when about to be put jout for the night like A.D.P. The First. -but I don’t mean Al | Douglas Palmer. . .I mean another jcat T owned E. J. Treacy, Sz..| HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU Calif. arrived| ALL! This is in big type. so that 20 to spend the! you only have to open one eye to istmas and New Year's holi-| see it that is, if you feel like cay with their son and daughter-|an eye-opener today. or even w, Lt. and Mrs. E, J. Treacy, | like opening your eyes at all. . . children, Sandy, Jan} Max Marmorstein is still counting eir home, 14-2) those hundreds of Christmas cards} } and his secretary has her work cut cvs, Sr. and, Jr. at-) out for her recording the addresses st night's New Year'sifor next year's mailing list ce at the Fort Taylor Of+ That's popularity for you -Evenj Club {notice how much the ventilators vi iting in the south, the | atop the Palace theater building re- Treacys are planning a; Semble huge helmets of the » Kavana, Cuba, and to! knights of old? Official navy} bike labels are fascinating. .expec- ially the one with P.W.O. on it | Doe Taft thinks it might stand for Pk ro Women” or “Prisoner of i | War” office. . ‘There's also a Hop- n Enjoy Dance joloag Cassidy label. . .The rash! i. of roller skates on the streets in- At La Concha | |dicate that Christmas was just Monroe County Cerebrai. Palsy | round the last corner ...and there; Fund was considerably rither:to- | ate a lot of skinned knees and el-| day following last night’s benefit | bows to prove it. . Who was it said, ; dance beld in the Rainbew Room | “Chern about is fair play’. .. Note | at La Concha Hotel. | to the cat for today: Stop stamping A crowd, estimated at more than) Your feet 100, danced to the music of Gerry BT eae, aE i The | Pinder's orchestra, and enjoyed a) The northern part of Mexico's! ry floor show | Lower California has enjoyed a/ Shortly after the band ushered | decade of such phenomenal popu- atjin the New Year some 12 door |!ation growth that it is now seek- y prizes were awarded lucky ticket|img promotion to Mexican state- holders | hood. Miss Cummin, three years ago. Boca Chica 2 station. She was al the Key West Bu fessional Ww “Conch Talk” Miss Cummings i with a hibiscu Beach v | ewewwwwww ew veverwrs A SON. KARL W.. Il Lt. and Mrs 2019 Staples parents of a | son, Karl Wi o'clock las jthe U the More Than 100 } Mrs. Kunz | dren, Rodney jage 4 Mary Reynolds, a filly « jobacco man W.N. Reyno! in 3 wned by le ithe Hambletonian | third heat when the les |bled nearing the finis trailing filly swept o the | } am at2 p.m. a j and at 8 p 1 ' West high sch All foods are $0 much nicer for | I like working in them and I like | f angel choir. Per- oe OE et gt the people I work with. But I've just a little flavoring added. Such! praying for ¢ } y God is 7 roe pte sy a pod al a >| pape ae, d tomorrow will be |never had a dramatic lesson in .}humanity, an . a a namon in the whipped cream|a brighter day All our sagen pe ed and I've never been con- F . F ! i a also our | cerned about my career. t kis % d,;mas wishes for you are a : paecie oe broiled chicken make |New Year's wishes. Let us all Her philosophy is based on bes your cooking long remembered.|join Him Prayer —(Jaxon. |feligion. A religious adviser, ba 01 er: A e fa The very newest in all cookery is | Advt.) cause they are trying too hard to the addition of a dash of “Ac- ‘sueceed. Have you ever noticed oa in pea This + see of |how hard it is to drown? A drown. all new products magically brings out the natural flavors in any jing person struggles hard to lose food. Doesn't add a thing or take T . New River this life. But how easy it is to |relax and live!” away a thing. x *k * | Source Found Easy-going Doris carries her be. Add Happy New Year's item: NEW YORK. —(?)— A NeW | jiefs to her relations with the stu- source of the Orinoco River, 40jqi9 She was against playing in Arts and Things .. . our infant — miles business of only three months. | ported t of its previously re-| “alexander, the Big Leeiuer,”” be urce, has been found by/ cause she had to play a sob-sister has already found the need to | 4 French-Venezuelan expedition. | role, expand. New shadow boxes, the American Geographical So-| “ye glways thought I should ciety has announced. |play happy roles, and | told the The Orinoco emerges 4} studio so," she explained. “But tiny trickle from the side of 2) when they remained firm and my 75-foot cliff in a 3,600-foot moun- | refusal would mean a suspension The Venezuelan - Brazilian | and lots of unhappiness on both new dis- ‘boundary is determined by the| sides, 1 agreed to do the part items. | source of the river | Doris: doesn’t drink or smoke and | The expedition headed by {She refuses to appear in cigarette fish- | Maj. Franz Antonio Risquez of | ads. the Venezuelan Army and Prof.; “The publicity would be fine zw order Jose Cruxent, director of the!she explained, “But I couldn't do any- |Museum of Natural Science in; it. There are too many young zirls Caracas. The report of the dis-jwho imitate everything stars do jcovery was received by radio[I know, because I did the same ifrom the expedition. j thine when I was a kid.” The 27-year-old blonde leads a MARINE FORECAST quiet life. She is, in fact, the de- Jacksonville through Florida |spair of the magazine writers. | Straits—Moderate easterly winds | They strive vainly for angles of jover south portion and gentle var-| conflict in her life. When all else jiable winds over north portion. | fails, Doris’ hairdresser suggests: | Mostly clear through Wednesday. | “Tell ‘em about how you broke i in as g i i i ‘aE a pies geez! gi i east and southeast winds'and gen- ‘about the only setback she's ever erally fair through Wednesday. had. }to live alone. I am comfor | well off. What do you think I should |do 1 am undecided. GRANDMOTHER-N. Jersey answer: Don’t. sell your house. If* you wish, try living with the ehildren for a few months or a year and | see how the plan works. I petion- | ally, think you may be giad to have your own place to come back to. | On the other hand, if you do find living with the children and they are pleased to have the house can be sold later ony! | it is a large dwelling, you mi: | vide it, renting out part of Mut congenial people and keeping small apartment for yourself. *,* It is nice to have a place of own to come back to, be it ever so LOUISA. Address your letters to: “Lovisa, P, 0. Box 532 Orangeburg, S. C. is Tidwell, New York foot- hack, led the nation’s offense as @ ants ians in total fback Doak Walker of the De- is set a new scoring fe- a@ rookie when he ecap- 1950 National Football Ray Noble, second string cateber on the New York Giants, makes hig. home in Havana, Cuba. — veyor belts with speeds an hour are used in mining operations. j . City POAN East Gulf—Gentle to moderate j your leg when you were 15.” That’)