The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Che Key West Citizen Port Oa neon © a UE A hae EER LES Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- | tisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L, P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. Member Florida Press Association ana Associatec Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00. single copy 5¢ ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. Page 2 Monday, May 12, 1952 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED of the promotional material in ie BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing PP avilion. Airports—Land and Sea. ry Consolidation of County and City Governments. §. Community Auditorium. Conch Campaign Material ‘ SHELLING OUT FOR A CAUSE, Bill Kroll, manager of the Key West Municipal Aqua the Business and Professional Women's Club with 400 conch shells which will be distr members attending the State BPW convention in St. Petersburg on May 17. The shells will be part the campaign to elect Mrs. of the BPW and thus set the next State convention in Key West. are Mrs. Marion Starke, outgoing BPW president, Mrs. Harvey, Bill Kroll and Mrs. president elect of the club. Besides conch shells, St. Petersburg delegates will turtle soup donated by Jack Thompson of the White House given by the Leonte Valladares book hop and Roberts’ Office Supplies. Cfhompson Enterp: HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE KANSAS ( on ¥ That is the situation in our fam- ily. | = years we have tried to moth- | on Mother’s Day is hard to mother. She is used to pampering her five children and let then pamper her. Somehow she has got the whole idea of Motner’s Day confused. To her it is a kind of test of her met- tle as a parent. Year year the kids uy to figure out y | atier lease her. But it. aE | ends up with mama doing 2 for { r we are going to| to dinner and cele- | r “You never Citizen Staff Photo GEORGE K. SALT, left, and Foster Alter, right, spoke to Key WE’LL KEEP MEACHAM FIELD AND 78 ae BUILD MORE LAND AS WE NEED IT Wins Award That was cheering mews published in Friday’s Citi- | | Of ei zen that the CAA had allocated $76,000 toward the pur- ferme chase of Meacham Airfield by Monroe county. The reten- i tion of the airfield has been consistently advocated by The Citizen and by a vast majority of residents, | Those who had opposed keeping the field in Key West and establishing a field on a nearby key gave as their chief reason for their position the acute limitation of land in our Island City. But that contention is fallacious, ' It runs head-on into facts that transpired in Key West long before anybody residing here was born. This island is far different in topography from what it was when John Simonton came here in 1820. At that time a lagoon extended from w here the old Marine Hos- pital used to stand in the Navy Yard, off Fleming street, to a point at Duval and Front streets. Only a few strips of Jand existed at that time on the northwesterly side of Caroline geet. For instance, The Citizen and The Art- man Press Buildings stand on built-up land. To get 16 tire strip of land on which the former William Curry Sos Building is situated, persons and vehicles passed over'a bridge. Part of the lagoon was filled in by driven into it by a hurricane, and owners of lo ing the lagoon filled in the remainder and acquired own- | ership to the land they made. , “PORTRAIT eran The next land-building project of consequence WAS! 36» 4 py G ae the construction of Pablo Beach, which ran along James | street on its northwesterly side to White street and alons g Grinnell street from James to Caroline, an are > ble wide and two blocks long. The late John Lowe, sand and _ silt } adjoin- Citizen ake a one Jr., the man behind that project, and he beautified the filled- In land with hundreds of coconut palms. | Then Henry M. Flagler, in extending his railroad to Key West, built Trumbo Island, and in recent years the government built a large area on the northwes of the island. Since then Dredgers Key has and hundreds of housing units, them have been constructed. | As Key West grows economically, more land will be built as the demand for it becor 1 will come when Cow Key, Stock Island a be a part of Key West territorially. cuts into Key West from its northeasterly e filled in and built on, side of the island. | Let us keep Meacham Field; when more land fs need- ed, we can build it of mar! that lies in the sea around us. | zi | “Let me have was been some of occupied, Lea t Bite Th on exhibit at } Cinders “found Yn ate that the Ro the time they ogcupied the coun. Ty. \ ‘ day a will and Boca ¢ And that |agoon that be as was the lagoon on the westerly d will “You must coope often mea: my way,” e, 8, Have you giv yint of blood yet? If not he you a transfusion, nat do so. y enough to donate, The man who spend ; the man wh y West can add to t f pre gu ara r s this w e a record r of F W one e k er give adv v A In offering e, never ex One of t ’ at l HOLLYWOOD Likes AF Life NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—~Movie Maker Mark Robson is heading for the South Seas to film a real-life island epic—or as real-life as the censors will allow. Director Robson is the kingpin ; of Hollywood’s first major invasion of the South Seas in decades. His Aspen Productions will film one of the James Mic r stories from “Return to Par * on the Island of Upolu in Western Samoa. A cast and crew headed by Gary Cooper is being exported from here for the project Robson scouted over a large por- tion of Pe before finding the locale he felt was suitable. One e of his main problems now will be to keep picture suit for censorial t S. “We want to in¢lude the native dances,” the director remark t it may difficult bec xy. One of their islands one of to get the native women to clothe th selves above the They have been largely successful, “But in many of the sr lages, such as the one we going to use, the women still little c ro for m ty. usual dress is the lava-lava waist. ce The men wear it around their waist e women do, too. It ortable for them th and often is more c way. It not uncommon to women bathing completely nud the ocean. Robson will be filming “Re! to Paradise” in the small vil ‘haul be & ae | st High s in observance of “Career ant she beginar tot Both men are als e University of Miami, Wilhelmina Harvey State President heise She Poin aut tow much | Aer ie : pother il is to go ou ie 1s sure | { S| ii In the picture, left to rig lthe rcstaurants will all be too | believe they have the feeling of mailed to me. She had underlined lanche Miller, | crowded on Mother's Day anyway, | Security I had when I married in ink this sentence receive ¢ | “Lu te you w “she says.| AS mom da¢ started hose oni child, don’t you know i [rit up a cn keeping on $15 week, this theory | ‘ere’! be another. day ris aN is hard for ne to accept. But she} ‘The Monmouth Oaks for. three- Says everybody ked harder and , year-old fillies had its first running felt more secure at Monmouth Park in 1871, than they do today. 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