The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 1952, Page 2

Wednesday, May 14, 1952 Oke Key West Citizen ee RE AER a ES AS Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owher and pub- ‘isher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene Arid Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West und Monroe County LP. ARTMAN Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES §1 and 1835 ember 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 Page 2 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN es Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c patil 28a a iia Si at ARERR» TSE SS ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION —<— The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘end subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish @nonymous communications. FLORIDA ass ess ON’ THE EXPORT OF BASEBALL One of the little known programs of overseas aid is the United States effort to transplant baseball in Egypt. Under the Fullbright Act, one Joe Nygaard, former base- ball coach of a college in Minnesota, went to Egypt in a cultural and scientific exchange capacity. e has now organized seven baseball teams and has a National and American league operating in Egypt. Both Egyptians and Americans compose the teams in both leagues. The greatest Egyptian backer of the project is Hussein Kamel Selim Bey, Dean of the Faculty of Com- merce at Fuad I University. The University Official re- cently came back from a tour of the United States sold on baseball. He urged Nygaard to sponsor a baseball project and both have cooperated wholehearted in the effort. Reports reaching the United States from Egypt indicate one of the Egyptian teams is expected to win the baseball title of Egypt this year. All of which may prove nothing — al- though the friend-making capacity of baseball should not be underestimated. Perhaps the day will come when the world series will be just that — a world series — and that would represent a considerable good will achieve- ment. The most satisfying thing in life is to be able to help some deserving person. A RE EER aa eal earn One of the most brutal organizations in modern so- ciety is the college sorority, And who can remember the old opera house, when it was the gayest spot in town? If money were the only goal in life we know some rich people who would be mighty happy. The lion and the lamb may lie down together some day, but Democrats and Republicans are different, Honest exercise and diet are important to health, but neither will counteract the telling toll of too much nerv- ous strain, It is remarkable that five-cents candy bars are still five cents, even though they have undergone drastic sur- gery in recent inflationary years, HAL BOYLE _ SAYS By HAL BOYLE ABILENE, Kan. (#—This cele-} brated old cow town is looking forward. with somewhat worried Pride to the return next month of ‘one of the local boys who made; good. He used to work at the creamery here, where other employes taught him how to shoot craps. There wasn’t much of a crowd at the railroad station to see him off when he went East, years ago. But Abilene, a town of about 7,000 population, is expecting 50,- 000 to 100,000 visitors to help wel- come back its favorite son—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Residenfs here aren’t sure whether the event will tear the town apart. But it is no secret that most hope it will springboard “Ike” into a Republican_presiden- tial nomination. During the 2-day homecoming celebration starting June 4 Gen. Eisenhower will lay the corner- stone for a museum to house his war trophies, address a throng in Eisenhower Park, hold a news con- ference and review a mammoth Parade containing 36 floats sym- bolizing his career. “Ike” definitely has replaced Wild Bill Hickok as the No. 1 hero of Abilene. Hickok was the peace officer who brought law and order to the town fh the wild and woolly days when it was America’s top cattle shipping center and its sa- loons outnumbered its business houses, Summarizing home town senti- ment for Eisenhower, Charles M. Harger, 89-year-old publisher of the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, said: “If you want to know how the people here feel about Ike, go out on the street gnd call him a bad name—and see how quick some- thing happens to you.” Above the Main Street floats a giant sign saying: ‘Eisenhower for President.” It has fallen down, or been blown down, four times since last November. Now it is firmly cabled to two banks. “We've spent $150 to keep that sign up,” said Henry B. Jameson, young newspaper executive here who served as a war correspondent with Eisenhower’s forces in Eu- rope. “‘It’ll stay up now even if the bank walls fall down.” Despite the sign, Jameson, one of the committee members in charge of the Eisenhower celebra- tion, said that “his welcome home }is not set up on a political basis. We have Democrats on the com- mittee.” The planners are expecting at least 10 state governors for the festivities. Among the scores of special trains will be two from Texas—one containing 115 Texans, the other containing the horses they will ride in the parade. Some 700 peace officers from all parts of Kansas will be brought here to handle traffic. One of the more delicate issues involved is how long Gen. Eisen- hower plans to remain in this first visit home. “Naturally, we want him to stay on as long as he can,” said one resident, and added dubiously: “But I dont see how the town can handle the crowds for more than two days.” The mecca of most visitors here is Ike’s old family home. The Ei- senhower boys turned it over to the Eisenhower Foundation after the death of their mother in 1946. It has been kept just as she left | it. Her dust cap still hangs from a rocking chair in the room in | which she died. On the wall of the second-floor bedroom where Eisenhower slept as a boy is hung the old-fashioned motto; “Thy will be done.” J. Earl Endacott, executive di- rector of the Eisenhower Founda- | tion, said 100,000 people had visited the home in recent years. They came from every state of the Un- jon and 76 foreign countries. “One of them,” remarked En- dacott, “was an ex-cannibal from a South Sea island.” Just how he became an Ike fan nobody knows. But in Abilene to day it's enough to be an Eisen- | hower supporter. You don't have | to explain your past. Although rocks of the Cam-| brian geological era, are the first! in which fossils appear in ab fossils ks of prev that life existed on fore that canis RAS SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque * Continveus Floor Shows & Dancing Featuring The Antics Of Palmer Cote’s And His Follies ReVue With “RAZZ-MA-TAZZ” Dancing To SLOPPY J e s An Admission er Minimum Charge | AT CHANGE OF COMMAND ber, 1941. of the Pacific Reserve Fleet. HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD # — Notes and comment on the Hollywood scene: One of the main topics of con- versation around town is the ru- mored shakeup at 20th-Fox. Ad- vance reports indicate it will be unique in studio reorganization; top executives will be dropped, not merely press agents and secre- taries. Adding fuel to the reports is the fact that Studic Boss Darryl Zan- uck took off for Paris with little | Notice. Presumably the axe will fall during his absence. There are many theories as to why the shakeup is due. Most critics agree that 20th-Fox puts out the best pictures of any studio in town. But apparently box of- fice receipts have not matched the critical acclaim. One reason may be that the pictures cost too much; 20th-Fox has never gone over-| He served in the USS S-33, six patrols patrols in the USS Cero in the Japanese Empire, New Guinea and Aus: in the USS Dentuda in the Foochow, China area. A graduate of Jamaica High School in January, athletics, football and swimming, and student activities. Brooklyn College-and the University of Alabama, ggaduating in | Commander Schocken is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis R. Jamaica, Long Island, New York. He is married to the former Mi. New York, and they have a son, Douglas David, three and a half ye: Prior to reporting to Key West for.duty, Cdr. Schocken was attached to the Mare Island Group thing. I mean the news that Tyrone Triumph Power is leaving his exclusive con- \ tract with 20th-Fox. He had been| Coffee the king of the lot for more than Py jis years, longer than any other | Mill board on the economy slashes CEREMONIES aboard the submarine USS Sennet (SS-408) on Saturday, May 3, Commander Julian I. Schocken, USN, relieved Commander Henry L. Vaughn, USN, as Commanding Officer. Cdr. Vaughan has been transferred to the U. S. Submarine Base at New London, Conn., as head of the Enlisted submarine School. Commander Schocken, a veteran of twelve years naval service and eleven submarine war patrols, served in the carrier WASP (CV-7) before World War II and in sub:narines since Septem- in the Kiska-Attu area of the Aleutians; four tralia areas; and one patrol 1935, Comman Schocken was active in He also followed the same pursuits at en, 85-22 Homelawn street, Martha Tepstein of Jamaica, 's old. that have been evident at most! more pictures in the next two other studios in recent years. | years. The reason for the break Here’s my own guess as to what is simple: Ty can make more the outcome will be. I think'there |moola elsewhere. He goes right will be an increase of musical ac- | to Universal-International where | tivity at the lot. The 20th-Fox out- | he'll be drawing 50 per cent of | put has not been too strong in| the profits on the picture he the musical vein. About the only | makes | song-and-dance stars at the studio{ Incidently, Ty’s schedule is a! are Betty Grable, Dan Dailey,|reeal change of pace. First he) June Haver and Mitzi Gaynor. | mak “Mississippi Gambler” for | Contrast this with MGM’s huge | U-I. Then he reiurns to 20th-Fox | list of musical performers. The |for the Biblical drama, “The MGM formula may well be copied | Robe.”” by other companies. That lot has | That reminds me of a story Alan j studicusly built up a roster of ; Mowbr tells to stars, directors, dance directors | he'll accept any film offer. He had and musicians who can turn out, been working for weeks with Lau- a steady stream of musical en-| rence Olivier and Vivien Leigh in tertainment. The results have been hat Hamilton Woman,” Mow- such box office winners as “Show | bray repcried to Columbia to play Boat,” “The Great Caru “An Support in a Three Stooges com- American in Paris” and “Singing | edy! in the Rain.” It’s the end of an era or some- | =e a STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEB| star has remained there. | | at ALL GROCERS illustrate how | - | 218 Simonton St. \Teday’s — | Business ” Mirrer By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK — The list of billion dollar businesses grows ~; Slowly but steadily—with a strong | assist from inflation. At least 24 companies (indu als, utilities and. railroads) repo assets of more than one billion dollars, two having just joined the | Tanks. To e you can add at least |21 banks, 13 insurance companies and one consumer finance com- pany. Assets of a manufdcturi company, of course, are not strict- {ly comparable to the resources of a financial institution. aren't the only thing that corporations now report git totals. At least 27 com- jenues last year, eight of them newcomers to the list. Postwar inflation of prices plays a large part in these business figures, High income and estate taxes | whittle steadily at the great family | fortunes of the past, making it} hard to say how many, jif any, | individuals could be listed as bil- lionaires. | But the reports of the large cor- | porations show the steady growth since the war of the billion-dollar sales and billion - dollar assets | group. In 1939 there were only 12} companies with billion-dollar as- sets, against 24 today. Only two) had billion-dollar sales, against 27) today (28 if you include Ford, | which doesn’t revort its sales). | As the big corporations grow, | the number of one-family-owned | giant companies becomes relative- | ly fewer. Most of the largest com- | panies now have huge lists of stockholders, The Bell Telephone System tops | the list of the non-financial giants | with assets of almot 10 billion dol- | lars. Westinghouse Electric is low | man with just over one billion in| assets. | There are six oil companies in| the billion-dollar class: Jersey | Standard, Indiana Standard, § ‘| cony-Vacuum, Texas, Gulf and} California Standard, in that order. Six railroads — Pennsylvania, } Southern Pacific, New York Cen tral, Santa Fe, Union Pacifie and | The White Uniforms WE CLEAN are distinguished and above the) average because they are scientifi- cally cleaned and mechanically} processed by experienced and skiil-| ed workmen. POINCIANA CLEANERS Phone 1086, The new deal calls for only two _ feral Balumore & Ohio, in that order— list assets in 10 digits. Consolidated Edison of New York | Pacific Gas & Electric and Com- monwealth Edison (the last a new- | comer this year) are billion-dollar {asset businesses. ; General Motors and Ford (the jlatter on bi of its 1950 report, jthe last it has made) are well {above the billion dollar level. | U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel belong in the group. So do the appliance giants, Gen- Electric and Westinghouse lectric (the latter a newcomer.) | DuPont and Sears, Roebuck com- plete the list. Of these 24, nine do not appear ; among the '27 companies reporting | billion-dollar revenues. They are: Southern Pacific, New York Cene tral, Santa Fe, Consolidated Edi- m, California Standard Oil, Pacif- jie Gas & Electric, Union Pacific, | Baltimore & Ohio and Common- | Wealth Edison. | Sales giants who-do not appear }in the assets group are: A. & ) | Chrysler, Swift, Armour, Safeway, panies took in more than one bil- | Montgomery Ward, International » {lion dollars in sales or other rey- | arve: ter, Shell Oil, Republic St National Dairy, J. C. Penny and Goodyear, ; The chrysanthemum probably has been known for 2,000 years, Dr. J. A. 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