The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 24, 1952, Page 2

‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, March 26, 1952 Che Key West Citizen Published daily (exeept Sundsy) by L. P. Artman, owper and pu tisher,trom {he Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets, 4y Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN Editor NCRMAN D. ARTMAN ~~~ Business Manager entered at Key West, Flaridajas Second Class ‘Matter TELEPHONES 6f-and 1996 : Member of The Associated Associated Press is@x« iy -nntitled.to use for reproduction of all.news d ctedited to it cr net otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. « Member Florida Press Asrociation-and Associated Dailies of _, Subseription (by carrier). 25¢ per week, yeat $12.00, single copy 5c Page 2 DVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN “ON APPLICATION ie Winx Ghisea is an Spas ishaon cad Tavitdh dlagpigicy ot Sale ime whe. Gitizen is an open forum and invites disewssion of pub and subjects of local -or general interest, but it will nef publish “‘anopymous communications. 1, More Hotels and Apurtments. , ** "9" 2. Beach and Bi Pavilion. * 5 1. Airports—Land ang $a. Consolidation 6s and 5 Community Pe ended 2 : CITY COMMISSIONERS CAN'T TALK yh ABOUT UNFAMILIAR QUESTIONS f “"Y "Be prepared,” the Boy Scout slogan, applies- to fiany things in life, and among them:is # subject brought “up for discussion. Nobody ean talk intelligently. concern- cinganything he knows nothing about, and jt is because ‘of that truth that a City Commissioner has requested The Citizen to publish an editorial about the sudden introduc: ton of questions by the public at City Hall meetings. with “which the commissioners are not familiar, «The Commissioner in question said every member of é board is anxious to serve the public and, in an effort { attain that end, invites comment, suggestions or com- i | ~plaints at the meetings, But, he added, jn a good many j _ gases, somebody complains about this or that and leaves the Commissioners flatfooted because they know little or 1 | ‘“mothing about the matter on-which they are asked to act, po a. Such “pop out of the box” questions, on which im- ‘omediate decisions are sometimes demanded, often have caused delays at commission meetings. The commissioner "Gugeests that any Key Wester, who has a complaint hc vawishes to air on public questions, write to the commission, explaining his complaint, so that an investigation may be maprte and a @ate.set to diseuss the matter, Such a jetter, it was pointed out, not only will ‘save time: but also put ““{é commissioners in a position to learn the details of the “complaint or the suggestion, as the ease may be. ool! “‘Aeting without notice not only gpplies to the City * Cdmimission but to the County Commission also. Many a hime a delegation from some place on the upper Keys has appeared at a County Commission m tion on something with which the Commissioners were ey unfamiliar. As a result, a committee: to investigate the question and sét a dat * tidii’s reappearance before the commission. That incon- venience could have been avoided hai the delegation _ Written the Commissioners and given'them an opportuni- iy {6 make an investigation. ai Ny : Too often also, particularly ‘at City Commission ‘meetings, time has been wasted by men in the audience “talking in scintillant generalities, sometimes tinged with politics. Many a meeting has gone ‘on till sanisht r © “ite by a play of words that were of no: goncern t tie . bity’s welfare, - i as Comnijasioners, city and county, are public servants. odbt that eiFeumstance does not justify a waste of their time ‘in useless talk. t6 be appointed for the delega- Must people are a little smarter than they seem. thoughts and moods before you announce them. yee tore ee ee “HE ALWAYS ig to request, ac- jane LOU May not know it but your: dog. can sense your agreement on 2 Korcan armistice, | has owered a curtain of secrecy aroufid the stalemated negotiations on Héw to exchange prisoners of | war? : UN: negotiators asked the Com- | munists to join today in se- cret talks which might break the | long deadlock. 4 Aa official Allied. spokesman said | U. N. negotiators felt preliminary | seussions concerning off - the - cord sessions should “be con- sidered for the time being at least in a gnasi - confidential status.” He declined to tell newsmen what | the U. N. proposed. ‘The prisoners exchange talks were postponed for three hours Monday at the request of the U. N. Command. There was no ex- planation. The session adjourned Both -sides have indicated unof- jicially that ccf - the - record ne-) Promjse agreement on the thorny issue of whether prisoners should he given the right to reject re- patrjation. This is the only issue biezking agreement on prisoner exchange. ‘The U. N. Command said last week. negotiators would be able session since their remarks would not be aired in the press. Off - the - record negotiatinos ‘vould’ mean a virtual news black- vut on the priscner talks. Only the | final ‘agreement — or lack of one —would be announced. | Agtually, however, newsmen vever haye teen allowed to attend and. Snly portions of the reccrd hav been opened to corre- sporidents . . N@Ws of the negotiations has conié’ ‘from official spcxesmen, the delé¥htes themselves and from the sial U. N. Command commun- ique’"" SeVeral times the first word of a mijor development has come ‘rorh‘ Communist cczrespondents at 2anifitinjom, Last week the Red xe" en hinted that a truce might 2 sii by mid-April. i ther group of staff officers working on truce supervision may | aut 'ffie final stamp of approval on detailed maps of 10 pocts of ;maps of four North Korean igs lay and Col. Don Dar- ow ‘Said “we have general agree- aent‘in areas on their side. . . Ve ‘ow id wean it up temorrow.” WILLIAM C, BARNARD 9 ,(@—Gen, Matthew B. Says the stakes in. the armistice talks are world ed supreme commander interview he prays con- Americans will be ex- ef while pitch and negotiators ° munist deceit and stall- gWay Goneeded that the pro- poe phasis ae now in their month — t one’s patience, but added: tience is a necessity. The stakes in this case are not only the lives of Allied prisoners in Communist hands, but world peace itself. I think ‘our people realize the sitdation in which we find our- selves ‘teday. A situation so po- tentid grave calls for the most soul'- searching objective analysis of wilat you intend to do and what your. objectives are. “Far reaching, almost incalcu- ben, shag could flow from some of our people ad- bee ¢ clirrent situation, But feng do not bespeal. of dbdjective analysis.” | The" S?-year-old commander de- sevibed as. “‘most disturbing” Rus- sia’s charges that’ the Allies are vagin pie artis in North ‘orea — charges repeated. ly by-bigh U. S. officials. “It.is completely in ‘accord with the deli‘ erate and repeated em- ployment of falsehoods c! Soviet lea .” Ridgway said. is all }a@ part of the big lie. The result | is moge hatred and more animosity and’“Tess chance of getting the world, situaticn straightened out.’ He added that the Communisi charges show “they will stop at nothing to stir up things whict could lead to bitterness and war.” The colorful combat general went jo Korea in December, 1950 to t veer the retreating Eighth Army after Gen. Walton H, Walker was killed in a jeep accident. He.infused the dispirited Allied troops” with renewed courage an det@finihation. They stopped the ese Reds and North Koreans and then started rolling them Tadgway, a hand grenade dar : from right shoulder an: aid Kit on his left, was a fi at the rapidiy. } President Traman’s reel + Gerferal MacArthur in April, 1951 Progected Ridgway from the batt) frogt to Tokyo as MacArthur's sac cesfor - Nidgway recently was asked it he Would like te take over Risen hower's job if Tke leaves the Ey ropean pout. Ridgway smiled: rahiast question. TH go where timated that Americ: @ 1,150,000,000 acres «{ an inerease of about ‘Geres Since 1935, at 5:10: p. m .(3:10 a. m, EST). |" gotiations might lead to a com- | —-~——-—— —~ CLAUDE A. GANDOLFO » speak freely in an executive} _ JOHN M. SPOTTSWOOD For Clerk of the Criminal Court Political Announcements DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, MAY 6, 1952 (HAL For State Representative BERNIE C, PAPY By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK «—James Lemley sa raiiroad engineer who has driven trains two million miles it }fearly 40 years and never hit 3 | SAYS “For Re-Election’ For State Raprecnttitive PORTER j. ¥. | motorist. Te ee coo. , | ye just. Reem: lueky,” Qe amie. For State Attorney | is record ic unusual. Almost HELIO (MONI) GOMEZ. equally wausual is the fact that in traveling a distance equal to 80 jwips around the world none of ‘his trains has ever been hit by 2 | motorist. For in about one-third of jthe nation’s grade crossing acci idents it is the motor car that crashes into the train. “T sure would like te keep my cecord,” said Lemley, a. gent: man of 69 who retires next Sep- tember, “But these accidents art up to the motorist. How can you make them comply with the red warning lights? A train can't | off the irack.”” The railroads for some years have waged an intensive safety leampaign tc reduce grade cros> ing disasters, which account fo about 5 per cent of all auto fatali ties. ° To see the protlem from an en gineer’s standpoint I rode in bi }eab the other day with Lemley He pilots the Baltimore and Ohio’ crack passenger train, “The Reya For State Attorney J. LANCELOT LESTER For Clerk of Circuit Court EARL R. ADAMS For County 3: HILARY Lb. ALBURY Fo: County Judge RAYMOND 8. LORD For County Tax Assesscr FRED J, DION Por County Tax Assessor For Cou! Tax Collector GEORGE G, GOMEZ For County Tax. Collector HOWARD E. WILSON (For Re-Election) Blue,” from Washington, D. C., tr . Jersey City, N. J. For Sheriff The 9-car train is pulled by < LOUIS M. J. EISNER 4,000-horsepower diesel locomotive - — land reaches a speed of 70 to 80 For Sheriff miles.an hour in the 223-mile trip. It turned out that the chief pro: - lems of Lemley and his fireman were to see that the track was ¢lear—and to warn motorists. “There are about 200 grade C, SAM B. CURRY For Clerk of Criminal Court erpssings along the way,’’ Lemley said. Exactly 1,600 feet before each crossing stood a concrete whistle Post. At each post Lemley tugged jféur times ca the whistle cord— two ‘longs, a short, and another long. And the whistle—it is really a horn—moaned with a sound au- dible for miles. "Phe train bel’ riavs before each HARRY DONGO For County Commissioner JOE ALLEN First District For County Commissioner J. M. FERNANDEZ, JR. ergssing, too,"’ explained the en- “JOE” gineer. “But the scind travels for- First District ward and you can’t hear it here —+—————— | in the cab.” For County Commissioner femiley, a white-haired man with CLARENCE §S. HIGGS a ; Third District For County Commissioner . Third District CHARLES W. WELLS For County Commissioner Fifth District ~ Por ‘County saith thoes "GERALD Hi ADAMS *: Becond District a a For Member ef School Board WM. BILLY Second POREAEIB | For Member School Board JULIO CABANAS, JR. For Re- For Sehool Board H. EARL DUNCAN Fourth Di-trict For Justice vi the Peace TRA F, ALBURY First District For Justice of the Peace R. D. “Zett” Zetterower Third District For Constable HARRY LEE BAKER First District For Constable HARRY H. JOHNSON First District For Juvenile Judge EVA WARNER GIBSON Pe b ; : STARTS TOMORROW ADULTS: MATINEE 8% Triumph aLL ; two grandchildren, has to pull that {s much they themselves can do | Human beings blink their eyes | whistle cord 800 times-by las. But | to halt them, |boss, Wilson H. Stevens, B. & O.} 'at different rates. ranging from —_ he did it at least another 100\times | ‘When I climbed down from the | 25 or more times a minute t for himself—to signal back to wav- | cab later, Lemley said, almost about one a minute. ng kids, farmers, and house-wtves | apologetically: Ges a x dancing ‘laundry on the line. \ 4 | «yay know, I’ve been lucky— | He “You get to Know quite a few |just lucky, that’s all.” | people along the way ever the) 4 ‘trainman then mentioned a| years,” he said, smiling. case in which a motorist at a It gives you a lift to hear>the | crossing crashed into the caboose | singing rails as you zoom along i: {atthe ‘end of a 100-car freight | a locomotive cab. Fobegan to. wn- | train. derstand the feeling railroad ater | We still can’t figure that dyiver | have for thejr wark.~ *{out,” he said, scratching his head. | With us in the cat rede Lemley’: \ WHATEVER YOUR NEENS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS | COME TO THE TROPICAL TRADER Phone 100: In Arctic rescue work, the Air | Force has successfully parachut- | ed dogs in tests to aid “stranded” | men. road foreman of engines,:a forme: engineer himself. As a big dumr truck suddenly trundled across tit tracks ahead of us in violation of} fi the ‘red warning lights; I asked 7 re what would happen ifthe tract has suddenly stalled: t “We'd hit’ him,’ ‘We could s dewn—but we couldn’t stop 3 “Pve hit ‘em myself. It gives | you a completely helpless ‘feeling You keep waving at the driver trying to tell him to. get out,What do you think of? Well’’—he hesi- ated—‘‘l've had five children my- self. All I remember thinking abou | 718 Duval St. » i said Stevers when I saw there was going to be an accident was’’—he hesitate: :gain—I just hoped there would ot be ary kids in the ¢ar.” There was a long silence among he three trainmen as we roared on down the rails. Trainmen hate to talk about grade cressing acci- ents. because they don’t-feel there STRAND conditions Last Times Today CALLAWAY WENT THAT WAY with weMURRAY AND HY MeGUURE SELLOUT d Audrey PAONROE «coco Last Times Today ww . 2 GLORIOUS WEEKS IN THE l CARIBBEAN AND SOUTH AMERICA LEAVING MIAMI APRIL 12th « e newest in luxury cruises ‘a finest foods, wines =, 'e air conditioned nightclub \s, lounges, 3 bars e swimming pool, entertainment |, Coming: T! Walter Pid TRAIL OF THE Sete saute ever toae + Miami + LONESOME PINE || tcoving miom march 26m > ami Sea See Your Travel Agent or SILVERSTAR LINE Arnold Gernstein Shipping Co. tu<., Gen. Ag: YONDA nicalor) GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH Coming: M. Frank, Baré Lyndon ai Cecil B. 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