The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 20, 1952, Page 8

Page & ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘KREMLIN’S DESIRE TO Potato Shortage Generates As Much Heat As Kill The Pigs Program Of Early 30s By OVID A. MARTIN * WASHINGTON (® — This year’s | potato shortage seems to be pro- | viding just about as heated a de- | bate on the federal farm programs | as did the government project of | Killing little pigs to raise pork} Prices in the early 1930s. Officials say there’s consider- able criticism of ceilings on po- | tato prices and a lack of price supports. The pig-killing program raised such a furor that, every time meat has become scarce since then, the | Agriculture Department has been! flooded with an avalanche of mail harkening back to those days. That plan, sponsored by Henry A. Wal- Jace, then the secretary of agricul- ture, was designed to boost hog prices by reducing pork supplies. The current potato shortage de- veloped largely because farmers cut production 20 per cent last year. Most of this reduction came in the late potato crop—that por- tion which goes into storage for use during the winter, spring and early summer. Farmers reduced their output after Congress directed the Agri- culture Department to withdraw Price supports. Congress did away | with supports because they had | cost the government more than, 600 million dollars over a 10-year period. t Fearing a possible price collapse, | farmers turned to more promising crops. When it became apparent that | stocks might not be large enough prices started moving upward. The Office of Pri Stabilization Stepped in with ceilings. But until * corrected, inequites in ceilings as applied market by market served to divert supplies to some markets and away from others Tie shortage has been aggra- vated by black markets which have given some consumers more than their share. Price SI r Ellis Arnall urged M y that the public fight against black marketing by refus. ing to pay more than ceiling prices. Arnell predicted the shortage w0u'd be relieved in the next four to six weeks by the movement of new potatoes to market. This early crop is growing mostly in Florida Alaiiama, Texas and California. But the shortage is. not likely to be fully overcome until the in- termediate crop is harvested. This is grown in Midland states—the Carolinas, ‘Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Maryland and New Jer sey. CHARGED WITH B& E (Continued From Page One) Ingersoll watch and the lock that he broke on the door. The pinch bar with which he drole the lock was found in the back of the store and his flashlight Was found on the meat chopping block City police responded immediate: dy to the call by ¢ a and rou @d up the man in a minute or so TRIO THANKS GOD (Continued From Page One) long, we might as well stay with it until the beat picked us up. I could just see the mast of the Ju- niper over the horizion.” it was lucky for Parnell and his crewmen that they did not | try to the swim. In the choppy se: they would undoubtedly have drowned in the attempt Coast Guard men told them later. They waited until the Juniper, 11 miles away from their raft reach- ed them, “We lasted until we got up on deck, then we sort of collapsed. You felt as though you could move but then you couldn’t when you tried to, “Parnell said. The exhausted boys slept fitful- ly Sunday, eating as much as they could after their enforced diet. Sun- day night they turned in and woke 13 hours later. “There was no panic among us at any time,”’ Parnell said. And I could believe him looking at his strong young face, and at the calm boys with him. “We never lost hope. Though on the first day out it was tough when we spotted a boat- and thought it saw us. But it must have thought ws were just fish- ing. It stayed near the hull of the Parnell but did not come near us. Saturday night was the worst night. The sea was choppy and the boys had difficulty staying on the three oil drums. Despite their sight of the man- eating shark early in their vigil, Parnell said they did not fear that sharks or barracuda would go af- ter them. This was true despite | that fact that two of the boys at all times were half immersed in | water, dragging their legs along, oft quoted as the way to attract hungry barracuda. “We were so busy trying to stay on the raft that we didn’t have time to worry about the sharks and barracud: had to keep a perfect balance at all times, This meant we did ‘not sleep at.all the 44 hours we were ‘on the raft. We dozed maybe,” said Parnell, “but one of us had to be wide awake at all times.” Faith was with all three of them constantly. They never doubted that they would be found, though hungry, thirsty and chilled. They had radioed the Coast ard first on Wednesday that were running short of fuel. ell who had been fishing off Yucatan, then tried to get back to Mexico to get in shallow water to anchor up. “4 didn’t know my fuel was going into the front bow tank. At 9 a.m. Thursday | decided to re- turn te Fiorida. But then she ran out of fuel completely. | turned on my last 55 gallons of fuel - and then noticed four feet of wa- ter on the floor boards. | radioed Life Raft That Saved Trio Tuesday, May 20, 1952 13th Street Road Mo Cost $7,000 The 13th Street road Dredgers’ Key to Poinciana will be cohstructed from funds to be earmarked for same in the next city budget. City Manager Dave King esti- mated the cost at $7,000, and that the road will réquire 6,000 lyards of fill. It is expected that ‘the land will be donated to the lcity by the Key West Improve- ment company since construction from values greater in the area. King estimates that an area KWI company. TRUMAN TO MAKE (Continued From Page One) afternoon 2:30 p. m. EST) at a jubilee convocation, the final ma- jor event in the academy’s sesqui- centennial observance. Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chair- man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also was to speak. Mr, Truman left Washington by | train early today, the Coast Guard at Tampa that we were out of fuel and sinking.” The Coast Guard at Tampa ra- dioed Key West and St. Peters- burg Coast Guard of the boat’s dis- tress, This was 9:30 Thursday night. An hour later the Juniper left Key West for the rescue. Coast Guard, Navy and Air Force planes took up the air search which cover- ed an area of 21,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico. The largest part of their grati- tude goes to the Coast Guard, Par- nell said: “You call the Coast Guard as we did - and-they look and look and don’t give up. They are really on the job. We can’t say enough for them.” Parnell was grateful to the skip- per of the Jniper M. S. Squires and his executive officer, G. N. Nelson. “He treated us just as if he were my daddy. He got us razors, soup, |comb, and did everything for us, Nelson did,” Parnell said. Parnell showed us the pin-up girl, hand painted on silk that last- ed through the 44 hours on the raft when even food and rum went overboard. “She’s important- that pin-up girl- she’s been on all my trips with me, sort of good luck, I guess.”” Lowe and Reese are not eager to ship out again. Reese, son of Mr. and Mrs. John | Reese of Tullahoma, Tenn. is head- ing for home on June 15. Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Lowe of Punta Gorda will stay ashore awhile. Meanwhile Skipper Parnell is go- ing ‘‘cattle hunting.” “I want to be a cowboy. I don't want anything more to do with the sea,"’ he said. The Parnells Sr. have two other shrimp boats. They operate fish docks and restaurants in Punta Gorda and Mayport, a town near | Jacksonville. Mrs. Parnell said that though the family has operat- |ed boats for ten years she is glad | her son is not going out to sea any | | more, i of the street will make property | 160’ by 947’ is needed from the | In Objectives In Korea WEST POINT, N. Y, (#—Presi- dent Truman said today the Krem- lin’s desire to dominate the world | is obviously unchanged, “but I be- lieve we are wel! on the way to preserving our freedom without war.’ “The plain fact is,” Mr. Truman said, ‘that the Communists have | utterly failed in their objectives in | Korea. “The Communist aggression tack has made the United Nations stronger and more vigorous and | has demonstrated that it can and | will act to defend freedom in the | world.” He added: “But we must also be alert and ready to meet treachery or a re- newal of aggression if that should come.” If it should come, the President said, the Communists will run | against a solid wall of free world | resistance — with the growing | might of this country and its new atomic weapons in the key defense Position. Mr. Truman’s speech was pre- convocation of the U. S. Military Academy. The President came \here by train to deliver it in the | role of commander in chief of the armed forces. This role, providing civilian con- trol over the military, is “nailed down” in the Constitution, Mr. Tru- man noted, And in what could | have been an allusion to such | steps as his dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur — he went on to say: “Many Presidents, including the | Present one, have demonstrated that those words in the Constitu- tion mean what they say.” Fresh from a conference with Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, who called at the White House soon after flying into Washington from Tokyo on his way to succeed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander in Europe, Mr. Tru- man spoke at unusual length about the Korean truce negotiations. He declared as firmly as ever that this country will not accept the Red demand for repatriation of all captured Communist soldiers whether they want to be repatriat- ed or not. “It would be a betrayal of the ideals of freedom and justice for which we are fighting,” the Presi- dent said, “‘if we forced these men at bayonet point to return to their ex-masters. “We won't do it. “We won't buy an armistice by trafficking in human slavery.” Mr. Truman cautioned against any relaxing or letting up in the | Western defense effort. Likewise | he denounced — as he has repeat- edly in recent weeks — the threats | in Congress to cut hi | foreign-aid budgets. | While the free world is well on | the way to preserving its freedom | without a world war, he said, “no | one should assume that the possi- | bility of war has become remote ee The ‘WEATHERMAN Says Observations taken 209 ALM. Key West, F ) Deficsency ths year 1 failed to shatter the United Na- | sides of s tions. Instead, the Communist at- | perm: military and | CITY COMMISSION (Continued From Page One) way from Truman Avenue to lw | United S in a Sc g permitt tion, with ed on both sides ling parki: paying the frightful cost of world | of street. Fleming Street ll be a two way street ¢ between Thomas and D: reets, which shall be one with _ traffic; | moving in ar ly direction, with parki don both reet ¢ all be des of Fle- d on t ming Street between Duval ’and White Streets, except thct park- ing will not be permitted on South side cf said street between 8:00 A. M. and 6:00 P. M. every | day except Sunday. Bahama street f Southard, one wa Othe. business transacted: Gave Key to City to Korean veteran Sgt. John Dion, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Dion, 512 Simonton street. Reiterated siscussions that took place and’ actio.. suggested when petition regarding ‘noises’ was read at the last regular meeting. City Manager Dave Pared for the 150th anniversary |King stated that one of the places where noises are said to emanate from after 11:00 o'clock nightly closes every night at 10 o'clock. Instructed Dave King to have the Sunshine Construction com- pany clean their property in the vicinity of 2205 Harris avenue. Two residents had complained | that the area needed filling and cleaning. | Granted a % underground easemcat to the Florida Keys Aqueduct commission. 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Passed on first reading the codification of the ordinances of the City. City officials hac spent nearly five days a ting the specialist publishing firm in their huge undertaking. The company | had done similar work for other | cities in Florida. | Asked that a sign at the cor- ner of First and 5th street be re- moved as it was causing « traffic | hazard. The sign erector agreed to remove the sign today. Were told that electrical and plumbing examinations would be held in August. 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