The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 19, 1952, Page 7

The Remarkable Progress Of Psychiatrist Key West; A Tribute To The Faith Of Its People Here — By JAMES J. McKNIGHT *. My first view of Key West was) _ fi the dock of Misiory in May, 905 1¢ teiad| ansterred To Atlantic City me as only a 14 year old youngs- ter can be thrilled by the sight of the Southernmost City of the United States familiar to him only through pirate tales of the dread “Brethern of the Coast.” The entire trip from New York to Key West had been a momentous one. It was my first ocean’ voyage. The change in color of the water from the murky brown of the North At- lantic to the deep blue of the Gulf of Mexico was fascinatin; but the dazzling bright multi- color, crazy quilt appearance of |. the Key West harbor waters was breath taking, Altho years later{ 1 was to view other waters from! the decks of Destroyer Escort, Vessels and Attack Transports of | the Navy in far off places— North Africa, New Guinea, Ha- || waiian Islands, the Philippines and Okinawa—during the grim war years—none ever: equalled, by comparison, the great first im- pression of the tropical waters surrounding Key West! It was a very happy day for me when I walked down the gangway from the Henry R: ENSIGN JAMES M: FORD, JR., For Duty At Hospital Lieutenant August S. Yochem, Jr. (MC) USN has reported to the U. S. Naval Hospital, Key West, Mass. Bachelor of Arts Degree from Franklin College, Franklin, Ind na. In 1948, he received his Do tor of Medicine degree at the Ui versity of Louisville, School of Me dicine. Dr. Yochem ‘entered the Navy general practice of medicine at Corydon, Indiana. He continued in} that field until 1951 when he be-| gan psychiatric residency training, at Indianapolis, Indiana. Lt. Yochem is married to the} §\ former Miss Evelyn June Seely of |} Marysville, Ohio. They have one child, Joseph Stuart Yochem, 18 months. Lt. and Mrs. Yochem are temporarily residing at the Saltair é -Ofti¢ial’ U.S. Navy Phote| Apartments, Key West. for duty as Staff Psychiatrist. Lt.| ‘ Yochem comes to Key West from! » the U. S, Naval Hospital, Chelsea, | Lt. Yochem is the son of Mr.: : and Mrs. A. S. Yochem, Sr. of| © Corydon, Indiana. He attended In-| diana University, and received his under the V-12 program in 1943. He | was released to inactive duty in| 1945 and in 1948, he entered ‘at| | fmm | a 2 WHEN A TRUCK OWNED BY THE OVERSEAS TRANSPORTATION. COMPANY was forced over near the it to the curb on Truck Fells Palm Tree 3 Reynolds street Monday, it struck an overhanging palm tree and knocked und. Damage to the truck was estimated at several hundred dollars. Officials of the | | | | | | . ae Citizen Staff Photo | | “Bad Check” be a felony for chronic offenders. | . Reduce the 127 bureaus to 26 departments. This would be ac- ezuela are covered {complished at a saving of tens of | grass and dotted | thousands of dollars. 3. Make publie the relief rolls, |. — | When these rolls are putlished in ‘of 15 percent is gen |the newspapers, a minimum drop {all states passing the law Wednesday, March 19, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN : Want Relief § Rolls Publicized Verne Barnes, Orlando, field se- ' der, |eretary of the Florida State Re-j Monroe county, | tailers Association, is in Key West | sons who are jin the interests of the association. The FSRA this year will ask the for one year and county for | State Legislature to pass the fol-| months at the time F |to register to vote, are q supervisor law. It would} to do so. trees. Attorney General Ervin has advised n Pinder Advised Rich, twenty-one of age and residents of The Orinoco _ plai with erally had by Company, Ine. between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY EX- ‘ m4 sa 8 * 1 me Mallory because mother, famil-| USNR, has-recently been tréns- . Reprieve Won company 88 that the trees amount to a real hazard and it is sometimes necessary for the pre lgerg Fhasigery EBay PM. Ax iarly known to her~ close busi-| ferred to Composite Squadron drivers to go down the middle of the street to avoid them. According to witnesses, the truck ht, ness associates as “Mury J.” -was| Four, Naval Air Station, At: | VICTORIA, B. C. @ — Some 80{ that did the above pictured damage was four and a half feet from the curb when it struck the tree. LEA’ MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT waiting for us on the Mallory lantic City, N. J.,from Flect.All’’|survivors of a 3-day cat shoot on eee SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o'clock Mid Line pier, Together we walked ; a Victoria estate won a reprieve |~— = Sy caeae — — | Weather Training ‘Unit, Naval Air Station, Key West, where he was:a student in the 'four down Duval Street and stopped at Lopez’ Delmonico Restaurant for our first meal aghore in four! because a man’s. marksmanship ‘was questioned. Legion Presents cracy with life under forms of gov- ‘and’ in situtations that he can un ! ernment where the worth of thejderstand. All characteristics are night and arrives at Key West at 6:00 o'clock A.M. Local Schedule ks ; Night The cats had belonged te the “ individual is lost in the supremacy | not taught in each book, but all are | (8! At All Int Points) days. It was-a good meal, too, but thonths All: | Weather, Plight late Mrs. W. F. B. Berger, wealthy Democracy Series of the state. \ecvered in the. series as a whole. | LEAVES KEY DAILY (EX I was too excited'to eat and my| course. | ; “| widow. She had ordered them de- oy ore To understand democracy, child- ‘The books are carefully graded. | CEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock bhai and I me nnd to we “Ensign Ford'is a former éb- 4 stroyed because no on would con- | Set T S ¢ | | ‘yen must know what it is and how | The materials used to develop the | Bice oat ae at Miami at 4:00 plore our new hometown. listed-man Who was seletted for |tract to feed them when she was , ; f sgh ‘characteristics are those which | Hopred to view the tall skeleton | Jsted-snan who was sole ted ber tees ‘ 0 S¢ehoo it operates. In this. series. demo- | Children at each grade level wil LEAVES, MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT Shae _ or bg pall a He was . designated: a: aval | Inspector Ben Maggs of the So-| A set of Democracy Series has racy as a way cf life is identified | understand and appreciate. The | ) soled above everything else. sym — TTT TDD. Overseas Transportation Fast. Dependable Freight and Express Service aviator in August, 1951, :at {ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty | been presented {o the Poinciana through definite aspects of demo- | books attempt to help children ap bee fey at Key West at 5:00 es P of faith in the future of Key sk ie a le {io Animals promised to destroy |Elementary School by the Arthur cracy. These are clarified through | preciate tha ways of democrac: ; West of Carl E. Auduchon who) Pensacola; Florida...“ + /lthem for Mrs. Berger. Sawyer Post No. 28, American Le- | exposition and through dramatieal- | nat them in practice in their died a few months after the hotel He is a native of San Diego,"| He reported ‘killing more than| gion. The important aim of the | ly told st The series teaches | lives, and to. develop.the en Free Pick-Up and Service Was opened. Z Califorfiia. 0 6" it | 120 cats since Friday. But he said | books is to teach the children to bow democr operates in m and determination necessar; : < maces rind. to. eepisy to me) +, | Monday he was “through.” respect d atic ideals and‘ tols and in court rogms, tut parti- | to sateeuard our democracy, | FULL CARGO j ICE about ‘the great harker of Key foot of White street andthe old| The trouble began when a wom-| Practices. This is accomplished | cular attention is paid to the opera- , The books are published by the et | West which could float, at that Fortress is a unique show place | an living in the neighborhocd chal- | through the presentation of stories ‘ which everyone looked forward ti er ent Auaile. “and ree tion of democracy in the | Maemillan Company of New York. MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Francis Sts, ime, entire ic ‘ . ‘ lenged Maggs’ bag of 120 cats. | of the earnest men and women who | room, ia the school, on the s activity is part of the Amer- | Y res -of © tourists | leng pit is 0 u ic i iy PHONES: 92 and picts siphtel ce bet U. 8. discs chiaied a Solr. She-insinuated he couldn't shoot ‘founded our nation and of stories ,grourds and in the home-in short |icanism program of the Americai | peace . : and how she hoped to see a great : repair base established here. Aj 1 recall the great salt. marshes, few days later she took me out| along Flagler avenue ‘which are to see the freight ‘cars being|now rapidly disappearing under pushed aboard the great P & O} the fill beirig dumped’ into then steamship ferries and the pas:| daily to provide sitesfor. beauti+ sengers alighting from the FEC} ful modern up-to-date homes, “Havana Special” to board the| And there was a tiine when i P & O passenger liner SS Cuba| modern Model “T” Ford — for Havana, predi that some-| first car —-I gota thrill facing day people — w - able to} street cars along Flagler ‘avenuc travel on similar fe and driving my first date: out to " ler the great: road which skeptics once called “Flagler’s Folly; There was great excitement. in those days in Key West and the old and famous. Jefferson Hotel was sold for a big price and was about to have its face lifted— modern Spanish style stucco to’ take the place of the old wooden exterior, Other buildings ..were ef very bo undergoing the same process and) fs : 1 soon it was expected that quaint |» a ae: woud rarely zonerete viaducts built by Henry Key West and all Florida was at | sha “presse eA Ne the height of the great Florida famous Overseas Highway mak- boom. People were making ing Key West much “more ac- money aed ee and dae te ; 2 just as ree ly—and: then the - bubble burst and the dreams of Deiclcahy’ ittectdbe tion “ builders of yesterday. were fold- steady march forward. - >. ed away to become a reality in J World War IT “demonstrated Jater years, but in different way: and under circumstances other | 2eyond any question of doubt the than any could forsee at tha! oe ake oe faa Key thers time. . J jnd the dream o! progressive I recall rather vividly those | eaders of the city of'a great port years of 1925 through 1931 be-} »ecame a reality when thd Navy cause they were my teenage} ’esan to develop the natural fa- years and very exciting and happy { ‘ilitits and Key. West bécame the ones. Saturday night on Duval Hotlhepenie oo an ea: weekly event te ¢ warfare which “was to aay veer aan “he Atlantic of the’ menace of the Nazi submarine antl turn. the ‘ide of battle of World. War II. * Pearl Harbor found ime « visit- ng my mother in Key West ard - | answering the call for war work- ment on Saturday night. In ad-J srs at the Naval Operating Base. dition to their best finery, people} In September 1942 I enlisted in wore their best smiles and the] che U, S. Navy at the Recruiting talk was meson pods future— near in _ Post ore full of hope ai lence. iding here and was transfer- Tt has been a long time, astred tothe Naval Air Station, one reckons time,. since. those} Miami, in the y of Opa-locka, days but I recall them quite] Florida, where I now reside and clearly and I remember when] am enguged in the newspaper Sunday afternoon baseball at} publishing business. My visits, to a bit Sas hares ba ar Key et sis tradi and: each dreds of local fans i marvel at th hi Jadoo and the Nebo: brothers ae 1 tind. They are peer ah ox , boon voi “Brae ye parent to those who live here, West Athletic Club at the foot of | perhaps, but they are great Unes dancing and bathing were bes ive tains in Rey Weak ao the chief activities at the old La} nore ure “being built wlmost ‘ Y dance and bath i Breeze wooden daily. Had T any idea that 1 pavillion at the foot of Simonton ed 5 x street, now the location of the | P°S* wrene of, the | wiedibcn, 4 = “9 newspaper columnists generally beautiful Sun and Sand Club f cet 5 . nded. by ultra modern attribute to themselves, I would peor ? | venture to- predict that one day motels. s-wi i : In those boom years the streets {reat hotels will line Roosevelt . Boulevard to tower high in the and sidewalks of the Martello/"° 4 us ‘ Subdivision were constructed to|Sky. But ae S possess stich remain as 8 mute memorial to the | Wisdom Shay bd — only say hopes of its developers until re-|that 1 know it will happen be- cent years when homes began to /c#use the natural beauty of Key mushroom up and the, weed] West~its ideal climate—and the grown sidewalks were cleaned |pitit of its people cannot be and cleared—when East Martello ied. : Towers was a place. which we| There has been no bunk or kids explored in awe or hid away | ballyhoo attached to the growth from distovery while playing/Of Key West—it hasn't been de- hookey. It is now a part of the|veloped 80 much by man as it beautiful County Beach at the}/has by a chain of historical = the Roosevelt Boulevard ‘was. com-. pleted during’ those; ‘years’ aiid the’ Overseas Highway, series of wooden bridges -beg necting up the Keys. ‘Then’ came. the disastrous and ‘tragic hurri- cane ba washer oagat si | road bridges and* it to hundreds’ of veteran * re And although those, for the most. part, were the depression yours, and people had to ‘tighten their belts and keep them tight, there was no evidence of | after | pest’ because of the war cntirely , | Significance: — and challenged him to produce the evidence ‘he was hitting the feline | fugitives. events shaped by the hand of | God. If you were to ask mc, and you -haven’t (but T'll tell you any way) just what the growth and | progress of Key West can be at- | tributed to, I would it hasn't | or the large military installations | the Navy has constructed in this | area; nor is it due to the schem- | ing. or planning of any particular | individual or group of individ- uals, Builders may point with | pride to the products of their} handiwork; the President of the United’ States by vacationing | ‘hete may have attracted national | ‘attention to Key: West and the history of Naval Warfare may it great historical but the things which man cames here ‘to enjoy —the healthful climate — t tropical beauty, and the r sourcés military learders have found ideal for . training facili- | ties — deep, clear waters and | ‘round the clock flyable weather | —these things were always here | before the first Indian or white man ever set his foot upon the Island City. The natives of Key West en- joyed these natural resources for centuries and in them placed their trust and faith—not only for a living for themselves but a future for their ‘children and this trust and faith ould not be shaken, That: which ‘has made Key West progress was made by God and now that the tourist and the government have founc it—may they use it well, The native Key Wester — commonly called a “Conch” may be becom ing a minority in this modern booming Key West but I remem- ber what a kindly old Conct fisherman once advised me year: ago, when as a young reporter for the Key West Sunday Star, * was peddling © around tow gathering news and solicitin subscriptions—“Take it easy sor what's here today will be her tomorrow. You'ean tell othe people what we're got here bu they won't believe it until the: see it.” He was so very right. 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