The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1952, Page 7

* million Warren Denies Drake Charge — Of Pressure Governor Says He Never Has Applied Any Pressure To His Appointees TALLAHASSEE (®—Gov. Fuller Warren Tuesday denied ever apply- ing “‘political pressure’ to any ap- pointee of his administration. He suggested that Road Board Member Trusten P. Drake, Ocela, was “overwrought” from ‘heavy strain’ when he charged Warren with attempting to secure the building of two roads that would benefit the DuPont interests in Florida. Warren said in. a formal state- ment that “Mr. Drake and every ether appointee of this adminis- tration know I never have applied Pressure to them about any mat- ter. Pressure is not and never has been my method of dealing with people. If I can’t get a thing done by persuasion and friendly discus- sion, I don’t want it done.” Drake said Monday that Warren, Supreme Ccurt Justice B. K. Rob- erts and Ed Ball, Jacksonville banker, had tried to get him and Road Board Member Marion Nel- son, Panama City, to construct a new link in State Road 40 which would bypass Silver Springs and run through property owned by the DuPonts, and a 15-mile stretch cf highway at Port St. Joe that would benefit the St. Joe Paper Co., a DuPont enterprise. “Mr, Drake was my faithful friend for nearly 30 years,” War- ren said. “As a Road Board mem- ter he has worked very hard. Re- cently he has been under heavy strain. Apparently he became over- wrought. I do not believe that he— under normal conditicas—would have made the untrue and unfound- ed statements he is reported to have made.” The governor, said he’had ob- jected to the Road Department in- augurating, any new highway work in Marion County because Drake's home county had drawn a “‘dis- proportionate’ amount of proposed construction in the 1952 road budg- et. Drake proposed to spend nearly five millien dollars this year for roads and bridges in Marion Coun- ty, which has a population of only 37.973, while he planned to spend only $1,003,900 in Orange County in. 14,134 people live, War- only ‘about three ars for highway work in Volusia County, which has a population neatly twice that of Ma- rion, the governor added. He con- tinued: “During the past three years nearly four million dollars has been spent by the State Road De- partment in Marion County. Mr. Drake’s proposed expenditure of nearly five million dollars for roads and bridges in 1952 would make a total of nearly nine mil- lion spent in Marion County for four years, while Orange County, with a population nearly three times as large, would receive only about 2% million for the 4-year period. “T felt it my duty to object to such a disproportionate expendi- ture in ome county of the gas tax money which is paid by the people of all the 67 counties. “I deeply regret that Mr, Drake saw fit to attack me because I did my duty to the people of the other counties of Florida.” Warren declined to make public the text of the memorandum he sent Road Department Chairman Alfred MeKethan ordering a halt | to new construction work in Marion County. “An inter-office memorandum is not a public record. It is generally regarded as not being preper to publish an inter-office memoran- dum,” he said, After Tear Gas Battle Student Council Federation Key West High School Host To 7th District | Key Boo hs FRIDAY. MARCH 21, WAS THE°THIRD MEETING THIS YEAR of the 7th District Student Key West was the host school. Usually these meetings are held in the afternoon and all of the schools return home, but the Key West Student Council felt that they would like to make this meeting different. quently, they invited them to spend the night and part of Saturday Council Fedceratibn. | By A. de T. Gingras (PAGODA, by James Atlee Phil- lips, detectvie novel, published by Macmillan Company, New York | City, 165 pages.) The dust jacket on this book des- cribes the tale as muscular head- \long fiction, and it is that! An American pilot gets a job with an airways.company and be- gins managing the transporting of guns and ammunition for the Bur- meses government in its fight against a rebel faction. The hero, Joe Gall, tangles with everything from an Eurasian night club singer to thieves who steal his planes and pilots. Most of the action is in Rangoon jand all the scenes of the book are | backdropped: by the strangeness of | Burma and the east. A glamourous girl.squats ca a rug eating lichee nuts, another appears slumberous {and part of the starlit night on a *alcony, shouting brown boys fly butterfly shaped kites in the dusk, a huge pagoda looms festooned with streamers of fcz. Planes, roar all through the book, powering their way through the | skies, taxiing in and out of the | airfield. And there is fighting in the skies with mortar shells ‘churning | up geysers of earth west of the air- port.” And it is a queer battle. It goes on for three hours and then suddenly stops..The American pi- lot, Joe Gall, orders a pot of tea and thinks it a proper way to fight a war, “shoot them while it's cool, and then everybody kncck off for the day.”” And then he runs into murder, Burmese water festivals, Pagoda. The author knows his airplanes and his Burma, and he also knows how to maintain a fast pace in a story. (LET'S MEET, THE BALLET, by Dorothy Samachsca, non-fiction, illustrated with photographs, pub- lished by Henry Schuman, New York, City, 202 pages.) + The dance: is the oldest art form known to man. As he observed the beauty and voetry of motion in ani- mals, in-the wind in the trees, in the running. and leaping «: crea- tures Jike himself, he began to in- vent special ways td concentrate poetry in movement. ,in the dance. Primitive~ tribes shave danced from the beginning of recorded his- tory - the Egyptians, ‘Babylonians, Helrews, Greeks, Romans, Indi- ans. Sometimes they danced for the sheer pleasure of-it, and sometimes because they: thought it would please their. gods or spirits and ‘bring rain, win battles or protect them from lighting. . "i wis ‘Sor aboot the Citizen Staff Photo Nine of the twelve schools and snipers in the shadows of the , jolumbus was discovering Amefi- | ing the book. ' ca. as ‘ Here, for example, is Mr. Water Most people, ballet without | Rat growing enthusiastic about his Conse- any particular to know its | apartment gn the mud flats. ““Whet- | history, the ‘technicalities of its sent representatives. These boys and girls were housed in the homes of the Key West High Students, They started to arrive about 9:30 4. m. on Friday. They were met at the Stock Island bridge and escorted to the high school where they registered and received conch shaped identifi- cation cards. Then each group was taken on a tour of the school by members of the “Guides Committee.” Lunch was served in the annex by the Home Economic department, under the di- rection of Miss Katherine Lowe. Special guests included Mr. Horace O’Bryant, superintendent; Mrs. Lorraine Thothpson, (ex-sponsor of the Key West Student Council) Mrs Margaret Wellons, Registrar; Mrs. Minnie Fryzel, secretary, and Mr. Schweitzer, principal West style, consisting of picadilla, plantain and*Key lime pie. The business meeting was held in the auditorium where Hoke Holcomb, the chairman of the entertainment committee had a very enjoyable program of music and dances arranged. After the meeting the visitors went with their hosts to rest before attending a picnic at the Monroe Beach. From the beach many of them went to the ball game and the others attended the Lunch was strictly Key presentation. or the work that goes into the formation’ of a ballet troop. They are ‘not awfully sure j what arabesque. means or pas de deux. They. are satistied to enjoy the twirls and the.leaps and let it go at that, But) there are others who are more curious. They want. to know about the ¢omposer, , the |ecstume designer, the ~choreo- | grapher, and éven the “angel” of the company. They want to know ‘the lines between: classical ballet, jthe character ballet, the ethmic ‘dance afd the modern dance. This took gives all this informa- radio programs (1929 to 1938), Wednesday, Mareh 2%, 1982 THe KEY WEST CITIZE RAFAEL R. DEL VIZO (center), formerly with WQAM, Miami, as director of Latin Americ now with RHC-Cadena Azul and CMQ-CMQ-TV. was a colunmnist on Havana, and Miami papers, At the left is Juan Lopez and on the righ Julio Cabanas, Jr., San Carlos officials. Page 1-B Cuban Announcer-Newsman Visits In City Citizen Staff Photo Del Z Otherwise the world of “The | apartment in the mud flats of the | under the earth. author's use of personification in his depiction’ of these small animals . + .that is, the manner in which | he attributes human qualities to them. It is always a question how | far an author ¢an go gracefiilly in ; this direction. This reviewer was | not the least disturbed by the ani- | mal figures wearing trcusers an‘ | hats, sitting at'tatles, having doors | on their cupboards, and saying how-do-you-do when introduced. But then they started eating ham | sandwiches and drinking ginger- | beer! There is something that be- longs peculiarly tc the human ani- mal about hath between two slices | of white tread, and a bottle of soda | 4 her in winter or summer, spring or autumn, it’s always got its fun and its excitements. When the floods are on in February, and my cellars and basement’ are brim- | ming with drink that’s no good to} me, and the brown water runs by my best bedroom window; or again | when it all drops away and shows patches of mud that smells like | and } | weeds clog the channels, and 1} | plum-cake, and the “rushes can putter about dry shod over most of the bed of it and find fresh | food to eft, and things careless people have dropped out of boats!” And here is Mr. Mole’s impres- | conreseg on their way to school |"Q@RMER RESIDENTS reakfast one mcrning at he Bad- “y ger’s house in the wildwood. |4MAZED AT GROWTH lor world. Mr. Toad lives alone | Laurence, Mr. Water Rat has his tachelor | S°D- river bank, Mr. Badger's mascu- | acquaintance \ line quarters are hidden in the | known here during World War Il) paper writer, wildwood ,and Mr. Mole baches it | when Wills was in Key West with in the dark subterranean passages | the navy. Another interesti i }said, at the growth and change resting thing is the ot the cliy: GEORGE McCRACKENS \ENTERTAIN DAUGHTER Former residents of Key West,; Mr. and Mrs. George T. Me- Wird in the Willows” is a bache. | Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Wills of | Cracken of 319 Grinnell street Mass., are visiting | are entertaining their daughter, with his servants in Toad Hall: | with Mrs. Charles M. Richard- | Gladys McCracken of Detroy ‘ | Michigan. The returnees are renewing! Miss McCracken, now in the with old friends} public relations field, is a news- She expects to visit in Key | West for at least a week. The visitors are amazed, they | Subscribe to The Citizen junior variety show at the high school. There was dancing from 10 until 12 on the patio of the high school to the rhumbas of the Coral Isle Serenaders. On Saturday morning they all met at the high school and Mitchell Appelrouth and hi tion in very readable form and with excellent pliotographic illustra tions. And it also tells the cutline com. tatives ballets, and includes inter- mittee took them on a sight-seeing tour of the island after which Key West bid a tired byt | view chapters with several impor- happy group “au revoir’ until they all meet again at the state convention in Gainesville \tant ballet figures. Eugene Roberts, president of the Key West High School Student Council and Mrs. Olive (WIND IN THE WILLOWS by Bond were in charge of all of the arrangements. Alexa Washington Celebrates With Birthday Party Miss Alexa Washington, daugh (@) Wirephoto | N. W. First Court, Miami HARRY HESS, 61-year-old lather, struggles with police after he was forced from his house in a tear gas battle at Pasadena, Calif. Police arrived after neighbors reported a shooting. His estranged wife, Nina, 56, was found shot and dying in the back yard. Hess was booked on suspic unarmed. ‘ion of murder after he emerged ea bs |ter of Mr. and Mrs..William A Washington, celebrated her 11th j birthday with a party at her j home, 1403 Olivia street, at 4:30 Sautrday afternoon, Refreshments were served } games played enjoyed by the party-goers. A girl's prize was won b Catherine Griffin. Roy W. Ed wards took the prize for boys Alexa received = many gifts, At the celebration were y, Francis and onic . Zoe Knowles, Charles and Marslia King, Carolyn Todd, La- jverne Pope, Roy W. Edwards, | William Washington, Joan Lowe, Gail McLeod, Sandra Curry, Kathy Zimmerman, Orletta Stir- rup, Catherine Griffin and Lee | Griffin, Jr. (MRS. AMY ENJOYS YAMILY: REUNION Mrs. ‘Truman Amy, 423 Simon ton street, enjoyed a reunion 1 two of her sisters this week- and a good time lovely Alicia, end. She has been entertaining onc sister, Mrs. Helen Day of Glen | Rock, New Jersey, for the past several weeks. Over the week- end, the two ladies went to Mi- } ami, Florida to visit with a third er, Mrs. Carl De Puy, 13331 Mrs. Day will go on to he: home in New Jersey after the ‘visit and Mrs. Amy will return to. Key West. | Mrs. Day said that she was de- ‘lighted -with the city and hopes to return. “| Kielhorn said, tut he gave these | Kenneth Graham. Reprint of ani- mal fiction for children. Published ~~~ | by Grosset and Dunlap, New York | City, 350 pages.) i ‘ Ss Navy Samp! ¢ ioe bearer sometimes revives | well-deserved reader interest in an De ean Water Depth | excellent book which has not been 1 | brought sufficiently to the attention At 10 000 Feet ‘of parents and teachers, 9 Wind in the Willows is one of the WASHINGTON (®— The Navy | most delightful books ever written has sampled Arctic Ocean water | for children. Kenneth Graham has to a depth of 10,000 fect, Civilian | caught the feel of the world in Scientist William V. Kielborn re- which small animals live. It is the ported to a news conference. ' world we see when we peer under Kielhorn returned to Washington | bushes, or lie down on our sto- after the series of landings on the |machs on a forest floor or river North Polar ice carried out by |bank and stare at the moss, the the Office cf Naval Research with | bluebells and the patted down pla- planes flown from the Air Testing | ces where small animals have lived Center at Patuxent, Md | aud slept. Kiethorn said the purposes of | The characters who move mcst the program, known as Project | prominently in the book are the Ski Jump, are to get géneral in- | Water Rat, tbe Mole. the Toad, and formation for Navy operations tc | the Badger. Now there are several aid in rescues and eventually to | interesting things about these fel- help commercial aviation plan use |lows. For one thing they all seem of the North Polar routes. ‘to be gentlemes The party made three landings | course of the book thev do no even on thin ice, never more than six | appear to be feet thick, within abcut 700 miles | by the of the North Pole. The closest land | tion in was some 400 miles to the east and | girl moles they see strolling under the nearest U. S. base of epera- | the willows, nor in the aftermath tions was Point Barrow, Alaska. | of families. Only Otter, Detailed analyses of the results | minor characters, turns of the current study of the North |little son, Portly, who Arctic water are being prepared, | Alsc some |come to sing carols in preliminary observations. } courts where the The water inrmediately below the | lives, and a couple greedy young ice is very cold, about minus 30! degrees F. dred feet, te just above freezing. This layer is about 2,000 feet thick. Below it the | water again becomes colder. |sen ' The water beneath the ice showed virtually fe current, leading Kielhorn to the observatics ' picture stories of about twenty represen- | thought that he had never seen so An inexpensive reprint of a chil- | sions of winter in the wildwood: | , “The country lay bare and entire- ly leafless: around him, and he | far and so intimately into the in-/ | sides of things as on tha’ winter | day when Nature was deep in her | annual slumber and seemed to | have kicked the clothes off. Copses, dells, quarries, and all hidden places, which had been mysterious j mines for exploration in leafy sum-! mer, now exposed themsel¥es and their secrets pathetically, and, seemed to ask him to overlook their | shabby poverty for a while, till) thhey could riot in rich masquerade | as before, and trick and entice him | jwith the old deceptions. It was pitiful in a way, and yet cheering | —even exhilarating. He was glad | that he liked the country unde-| corated, hard, and stripped of its | finery. He had got down to the bare bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple. He did; not want the warm clover and the play of seeding grasses; the screens of quickset, the billowy drapery of beech and elm seemed | best away; and with great cheer-| fulness of spirit he pushed on to- | wards the Wild Wood, which lay | before him low and threatening, | like a black reef in some: still southern sea.” A “dressed” chicken means that | the feathers have been removed; a ready-to-cook or “drawn” chicken means that the head, feet and in- sides as well as the feathers have | been removed. | (FOR SALE| Newsprint 4 . | Regular CRUISES TO MEXICO + Miomi+ Havana + Vere Crus — 74 Days, from $135 Leaving Miomi MARCH 26th + APRIL 3rd PHONE MIAMI. See Your Travel Agent or 3 - 5363 SILVERSTAR LINE ' : Arnold Bernstein Shipping Co. t1.c., Gen. Agents PIER 3 — 858 Biscayne Bivd.— M:ami 6, Fle. 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