The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 26, 1952, Page 8

f } Pags2B THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Wednesday, March 26, = fates It be the greatest test of elling pean since before World War ii 2. ZAnd the biggest custc.ner of all— tthe federal government—may hold we key to whether business. will as Pood as many leaders expect. “'Thege are the prospects dis- -elosed: by an Associated. Press na- «fib ping d on the, status and look for the natic:a’s’ business. ‘or a variety of. reasons, sales us far in 1952 have fallen. be- «Retailers know buvers fave mon- available. Large accumulations hind the admittedly swollen sa More wel ‘Poodle Cut’ ie susie ei ‘0 scare-buying early 1951. “ savings Ab But the big “problem is to the constimers q spend a little faster. Continued igh personal incomes, which fed- eral defénse exnenditures could as- {sure, would make the selling: job sensier. re sean The pace of defense 5 iB | Gnilitary deliveries “now run around twe: billion-dollars a month) ‘dan ‘mean the difference in ma ygtates between prosperity or har patra py nt pi + Of, itan Los it{work in aircraft plants. Their stamer is Uncle Sam. Albuquer- @ ‘gets nearly two thitds of its ae from the federal ement. In Utah 23\ ner cent c: all ececks, wench work for arama i"dgencies, most.for the feder ‘ernment. In Kansas, aircra ‘out | 4 ‘A slowdown of Ait Force spend otra? is has naps 5 kee mi =the my ; aa idle ae 8 not taken up the cutbacks. > + Government: orders are syobndustry. vr In the natica i : poten ind ae are higher than Buf sales of retail stores have edisappoititing. Here are the reasons advanced ty busi: i | surveyed : ba At!Pittsburgh it was fear of the T Pinel of a steel strike. fogust¢mer is overcautions, ‘after 2 das «year’s buying spree. A food kelley there contended it’s not so ~ uch resistance to prices as in- bility to stretch the dollar to cover igher costs, + In New Mexico and many other states, heavy income tax’ burdens et much of the blame. Price-cut- gesilés in Ilinois were traced need of business men to get fish.to meet tax payments. 4 The weather was a tig factor in : de gap in the slumping pad i tuk Some Cclorado stores’ said the i Louliiatia’ nierchiints ‘find’ profits ry Wirephoto MRS. HARRY TRUMAN now wears her hair in crisp, closely the cutreritly popular “poodle cut.” This closeup’ of the Pres dent's wife, who: - always has | favored a . short coiffure, is one of the Pictures taken’ of her. latest Cardjina, In Baltimore a 19° - day gol strike had its effect: akes the retailer: optim- iade a all these setbacks? Well, in South Dakota merchants think aster business will be good | ause ‘that normally | eee the largest manufacturing | rilas. is: pa ‘by will help sales, tea “hard selling” iit store ex- for it.”” Stas retailer says de- stores “are going + to te fight for business,” and a : declares: necessary .if. business i: Pace , its'ow! oe sve ih latter says buyers today are “mese sole y | sihee coe set of World! War IT.“ lower because of higher caxes and operating F cost of various vromotions that are cyably one basit reason for Rese rd belief they will have a tecord by the:end of 1952 is confidence, that again, as in past years, thev can vroduce potent sell- ing» arguments. when « competitive pressures demand. Of coursé, defense - bolstered in- > states: winter storms in *Maine, blizzards in South Dakota’, ES “i te Na f sually mild weather in’ North + comes will help. But’ the prop of | defense industrial activity is not -in some states as being | of major importance. Sect eel Ee See Cee eee eat . . * » ‘ * . . verd in th calibes matehes, two special prizes in the Mic-Winter Pistol Matches at Tampa, Florida. Tae pistol matches, Secor! largest in the country, drew some 400 competitors, including Rex Helton, machinist’s -mate, first class, USN, won a grand aggr ti; A+ C. Smith, seathian, USN, won a .22 caliber pistol and was the highest ter of the tedm, Lt. Tom Little, USN, is ‘THE NAVAL STATION PISTOL TEAM won the Sharpshoote: the team captain. J. B. Shields, USN, are the other members of the five mzn. team ei Helton, Smith and Ellis * U. S. Fleet Sonar School. ~Smander J. P. Conway, USN, Both schools are in The Naval’ Station’ Pistol Teain was chosen’ in accordiince with their are stationed at ey West. of the Naval Station. cut ringlets in one version of | comfortable | from states all =f *t think business | ted gs You have to | | A VETERAN OF WORLD WAR II and the Korean Campaign, fe than’ at afly time | | SCIENCE |. NEWS + FRANK CAREY | associ ated Prezs Science Reporter | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, WA \kind of drive-in ‘hospital equiv alent’’~-where you're in and out” jthe same day 1 for child- | bi an me riiially all the alization needs of a rural community, a country destor said | oday. | Dr. BD. G. Miller Jr. Mee “yan towp, Ky., said Le converted two small country stores into such a j setup and was able to meet the | requirements of but about 2 } 2er cent of his patients. | One of only two physieisns in a “low-inene” Kentucky county of approximately 12,000 population Dr. Miller said he, two nurse: a laboratory technician and an |ceptiorist handled 10,672 “off calls for everyihing except major surgery. In addition, he himself made 536 visits to he.nes, riding in a jeep | For Duty At Sonar Lt. Edward W. B. Jeffes, Jr., as a staff office Group in Japan. He served in 1948 until January, 1951, off Korea. ! In 1945 Asiatic Pacif! ® he Served aboard sweeping. sity of Texas. tions medal, Barre, Pennsylvania. sonarman, third class, USN, and Theater ribbon with one battle star. assignment was @ommand of the AMS 43 for post-war mine for round-trin distances of as much , ‘as 50 miles. The office and home visits, he | told the American Academy of General Practice, represented 2,389 iidividual patients. Atid he said that such an ar- rangemert could allow a singlé rural physician anywhere—with @ few ‘capable assistants and proper though sometimes improvised: equipment—tc' meet all but a few of the needs of .a community be several thousand people. He said such arrangements could take the place of actual hospitals built for rural communities with ;partial federal aid under ghe Hill- | Burton Hospital Constructic.: Aet “We maintain,” he said, “that! {low income rural counties aré | building too many Hill-Burton hos; |pitals. These communities ean it’ afford the maintenance of such high-cost hospital A doctor's off osnital equiv alent,” he said, can be equippec ‘for a‘ out $25,000—provided the doc tor uses such things $25 ofie lime dental chair as an. eye-ear rose-and-throat examining chair and various Army surplus supplies | There are no beard and room jckarges at Dr. Miller's “‘hospita’ equivalent.”’ If a natient stays long jenough for meals, their relatives go out and buy them. i Korean Vé bteran Reports Sehool Official U.S. Navy Photo USN, recently reportec. for duty at the U.S. Fleet Sonar School, Key West. When the Korean Conflict started, Lt. Jeffes was serving abcard the destroyer USS Collett, attached to a Bombardmént the Japanese area from March, participating in bombardment action the YMS 249 and earned the His next He received his commission as haigt in March, 1945, after attending Carson Neuman College, Tennessee, and the Univer- He has earned the American Theater ribbon, the Asiatic- |. Pacific area medal, the Victory medal, a Letter of Commenda- } tion (Combat “V") the China Service ribbon, the Japanese Oc- | eupation medal, the Korean Campaign ribbon, the United Nat and the Navy Commendation medal. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. B. Jeffes, of 3107 Wheeler street, Austin, Texas. | His wife is the former Miss Mary Jo Wallace, of Wilkes Lt. and Mrs. Jeffes have a son, W. W. B. Jeffes, III, one and a half years old. They reside in Key West. Offfelal U. S. Navy 4 indivicual med: three teams from Cuba. prize, a2 jewel Bulova’ Wrist-Watch. scoring a 839 x 90, J. D. Ellis, chief enginieman, ie. Advancee Untierse2 Weapons School, and Lt. Little and Shields at the performance in elimination shoots arranged by Com: THE purty, slippery, sucking mud! of mien are still tthe nist ‘These: Aiméri- to vantage of native inven- tions to lighten their load. And they are carrying their » burdens on Korean: A-frames. 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