The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 31, 1952, Page 12

B ‘ Page\2.. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, January 31, 1952 (| ~ 1BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH Ae rH’ BUH-BUH-- \ \chwW DON'T BUST . =,” YEP-- me | | TH BUH-BUH 4 : av’ Tu’ aby | |B-B-BABY fi! 4 8 BLood vissec, T SHORE HAD SNUCK OUT FER | . ME_A GOOD NAP A LEETLE DAB RIOOLES : O’ SUNSHINE ME ANT HIM 1S UNSEPPERBLE te je tt | [SAY--WOULD YE LIKE “4 1 T SHORE AM !! TO HOLD TH' LEETUE i c Ww: WUZ UP TH! WHOLE ‘ BLESSET NIGHT Wie | [FELLER WHILST I y Sut BABY RUN IN TH’ in . HOUSE, ia SNUFFY ? te v4 i od tt a de it 43 z oo itera FEF Se ae a ie. ¢ ot Es , : =™ ( YOU HAVE DROPPED | [THIS TOWN AINT IF YORE STILL HERE, VY GRACIAS, SENOR, . } YOUR WEAPON, SENOR,| | BiG ENOUGH FOR \ YUH BETTER BE READY THANKS FOR z BOTH OF US. BUT NEXT TIME er TO.DRAW OR DROP! INVITING ME TO. ; 'LL BE READY! AT, SUNDOWN, } YOUR TEA PARTY. 'LL BE WALKING EAST DOWN THIS HERE STREET! ay THAT HOMBRE, HE'S FIRE -FAST FILCHER/ - HE'S MEAN! E — THAT'S THE TIME SHS'S GOT A Dare WITH CHUCIE WE GOT A PosTcarRD FROM THE TWINS’FOLKS,/ THEY'RE HAVING A FINE — TIME AND WILL. VES THIS 1S Erra /— Z| . | OH, HI MELLOW MAN /— TONIGHT, 2 == 1'D DEFINITELY ADORE GOING To THE MOVIES WITH you, BILL! lu RUN UPsTaies THIS MUSTBE Bit! AND GET A CoAT’ THE GUY WE DATED FoR Her’ J LET HIM IN./s) STADRANTI 'HAT_HOMBRE CHALLENGED CIGCO, Stay... > YOU LICKED HIM SpA RESTA “! THE CISCO KID! \Y¥" FROM FILCHER! YOU DON'T HAVE By-Fred Lasswell | NOW WHAT AR THose TNO MONSTERS UP To ? BE SO SusPicious, DEAR! and tuning up the plumbin | Boyle Bemoans Fate Of Old i'n {he'd have a final cup of ‘Fashioned Handyman In Phis 2°", Age OF Specialization ser | rn } an as jthe other hand, he wouldn't take | Reealls Day Of “Pete” ¥ ae | too mueh either. Sometimes ait he | Phe Mechanical Wizard |.ups had to stay out of bis way. wanted was a dollar and an, old | : a é But he was gentle with children, | pair of dad’s trouse Who Could Fix Anything | toved to talk with tham, and some.| fle was, in every way. the, most . - times let them handle the brush dignified and independent human | But The Radi for a few reverent strokes. But) being | ever knew. I never saw | By HAL BOYLE he would then go over the area|him under the influence of liquet, NEW YORK (P—One of the cas-| 2gain ras Saar be wipe pug] Wiens driping, ne, ee hs { area your childis lope at anyone} fro: e homes kep ‘epair. juallies ot the ie of specialization | could really do it as well as he.| One day our new radio went is the old-fashioned handy man. | Pete led an inward life he, Dlovey. Pete had never tried to Remember. him—Old Jim. Old] shared with nobody. His strength |fix a radio, but he thought his Joe, Old Charley? Doesn't he make| was his love of tidying up other hands could heal any broken me }you homesick for yesterday? people's homes; his weakness was| chanical thing. At the end of a | __& generation ago every Ameri-|a quiet passion for strong drink. | long. sweaty day, however, the ra | can community had a handy man| {it was always a mistake to pay | die still refused to function : jor two to do the odd jobs that/him any money before he com-|_ Old Pete finally gave up at dusk {somehow’ the man of the house} pleted a job. If you'did, he might! He drank his final eup of coffee never found time to get. around t isappear in the middle of a paint-|19 morose silence, and wouldn't @ | Where have these kindly old butler | ing job—leaving your house half-| answer us children at all when metchants vanished? They don't} brown and half-white fora couple! We asked. “Why don't the radio seem to be around any more. Aad tat weéks, But he always came|talk any more, Pete? Can't you they have left a void in our way| back, looking pale and rocky, and/ fix it? of life. |finished what he had started. When he went out the door, he The handyman in our neighbor-| . He had a sixth sense about know-| left, our house forever, and | never hood when I was a boy. was “Old! ing when he was needed, As. long| afterward saw him in the neigh- Pete.” And he was typical. He|as the house was in good repair, |borhood. The blow to his pride was had an intense pride'in his ability | Pete never showed up. But let | ‘oo great. In his way Pete was a to fix. anything that’ broke, he} something go wrong—and the next| Perfectionist, a handyman whose would never name a price, he re- morning there was Old Pete knock-' like we seldom see these days, fused to be bossed while he worked |ing at the door. | Pe (it had to be done his way or not} » Mama would cook him breakfast Buil . « R ir at all), and he wouldn't work/ and heat up the coffee and say, L epa pene oe sore deas about | M3, 1m glad ‘you came, Pete, « ete had unalterable ideas about|the ‘kids broke another window P : Is ed what kind of work he would marie se ermits Ssu : wouldn't do, He would repair aj" “That’ third step in the back} Ernest Hopkins, 1214 Catherine lawnmower, but John D, Rocke-| stairs is. getting rotten,” said Pete. | street will repair the side of a build=: feller didn’t have enough’ money | «] guess I'll put in a new one.’’|.ing with sheet rock at a cost of = to.make him mow the grass. He| ‘That was. another thing about} $700, Building Inspector Ralph Rus- felt that was beneath a Jack Of}him. He-was never just. satisfied | sell announced: today. : all trades, | with fixing what you wanted. He| Santiago Valdez, 1108 White street When it came to painting yout|always found something about|is making additions to a building house, Pete would make only one} your houge he wanted to fix him-| estimated at $600. Vincente Molina, | concession—he would let you name | self, 1123 Margaret street is making $100 your colors. After that the grown-| After putting in a new. window-! in repairs to a porch. By Jose Salinas and Red Reed | ————_--—--—-____- Lastadaincs : cee VICTORY CASH MARKET™ 1028 Truman Ave. We Deliver TEL. 1080 SMALL TENDERIZECD : - 5 ah Ail ~~ [MAR GOLD = 49e [taro . 2% « BABY FOODS. 3 = 20c Wesson Oil 59% /RICE 2 2% WITH ORDER OF $10.00 OR MORE SUGAR 5-19¢ FIRM RIPE Bananas 2.-19¢ VEL 25c|TREND 35¢ RCE jena ARMOUR'S EVAPORATED