The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 7, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 The Key West Citizen sr free neat emer ENNRERG,.< Ea DAs Ane eee ‘@ublished daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Sear iy teow ny Weleda oe &D. ARTMAK Publisher OMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter omber of The Associated Associated Press is exclusively ‘entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it Meee ec eee n ne ec LaUa Er Serr ERaREERENE NERO oy ye ae Pea Pe Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ema tamer uma Teemu SUNG ITT aE eee The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue end subjects of letal or genera) interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. - ALL BLAME FOR CURTAILED WATER SUPPLY SHOULD NOT BE PLACED ON CONSUMERS _ City Commissioner John Carbonell proba! was right when he asserted, at the commission’s meeting Mon: day night, that the so-called emergency water ordinance, had it been adopted, would have been unconstitutional. When a man buys something, he can’t be compelle: by the seller to use it in a certain way, or not to use it this way or that way. That question has come up, time and again, before the United States Supreme Court, and al- ways has been decided in favor of the buyer’s doing what-. ever he wished with anything he bought, assuming he did not do anything that was illegal otherwise. The court has even ruled that a producer can’t compel a buyer to sell an article at a fixed cos Cases that are familiar to lawyers and to many laymen also concern the selling of real estate. Sellers have issued deeds contained restrictions against reselling of land to anybody of-this or that racial strain in an attempt to keep out of given areas so-called “undesirable.” In every case where a buyer resold to a classified “undesirable”, the court has upheld the validity of the sale. So, if you buy water, what right has a city, under the guise of “emergency”, to stop you from washing your car or wetting your lawn with that water? The car-washing clause of the proposed ordinance was a joke. An experi- enced car-washer does not wash his car with water, as used to be done many years ago. Wiping off a car with a wet rag or sponge, rinsed frequently in half a bucket of water, and then putting “elbow grease” into a dry rag or chamois is the best way, aside from special preparations, to make a car shiny. Commissioner Carbonell made another suggestion that he could have amplified into demonstrating the way to end the water shortage. That way is for the Florida Keys Aqueduct System to provide an incentive to consum- ers to save water. Commissioner Carbonell said the com- pany should fix the minimum rate at $1 a thousand gal- lons, instead of $3 for 3,000 gallons. Many consumers, though they exercise no care in using water, are still un- der the present minimum. Were the minimum fixed at 1,000 gallons, they woula have an incentive to keep it, or at least under 2,000 gallons. As things now are, low-gal- lonage users have no incentive to keep under the mini- mum, But Carbonell later was informed that the company must charge a $3 minimum, as that amount is specified THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June 7, "4 Teday’s Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON YORK (—Hot weather a speedup in business flr g i 1 i Eg ! g 8 e ; a8 Fe 5 | i | i if ls : B ¢ i e Eg if g pt 4 a8 af: 2 F Re, Eg << ae £5 EE 1 B : used = CONCH These Women 0 How Father CHOWDER Has Changed by RAYMER Yesterday was a heartbreaker. T lost the set of an antique family ting, handwrought in France. The gold band of fluer-de-lis held a heavy old-fashioned topaz of the rare, deep, deep brown-yellow shade. It’s been in the family for over 150 years. We think it went the drain here at the office, but just i ++. but it is an heirloom which can’t be replaced. Les Rohde of the Olympia Theater writes again from Miami and says he can bring down a five act show and will play for a the acts would be perfect for a special entertainment .for any eeeclation, civic or Navy spon- ‘SO! L. At Rotary Thursday, Chet Cold every time Joe Pearlman sounded the official bell on the president's table . . . and that was often due to much fun at the “Aristocrat’s Table.” Paul Sher finally tilted (not a pinball machine) too far pfatyrte i 338 5 FFE Paap ire ge wi i H i ef : [ i sf 2 be E =| Hf & F i i dit cE E spot and crease proof claims. But Denner has few kind words for the man who goes tieless in hot weather — or any other time. “When a man takes off his neck- tie,” he says severely, “his stand- ards of dress have begun that slow and painful decline that wili even- tually sweep clothing, shirt, jewel- ry and hat sales along with it to destruction. ” Named Director TALLAHASSEE W—Dr. William R. Stinger, former Bay County public health officer, will become i. s 3 iL § 5 E it it took about half yur to get the big fellow on Smoked sailfish is excellent for hors d'oeuvres, he The Davis’ are leaving Key West for another assignment. Also on the out-going list are Capt. and Mrs Malen* Durski who head for Hawaii. With Capt. E. H. Eldredge and “Rusty” and Ned leaving, too, f , | it's going to be a week or two of adios with regret. Betty Buckley, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. C. C. Adell and Caroline Morrison, who were at the Daw- son farewell, promised to con- tribute some ideas for plays to be given later at the Barn. OLD LETTERS found by Alex Lubinsky and turned over to this column showed that back in 1910 Key West was very much in the shipping business with orders of tarred hemp rope and fittings wanted along -with ash and spruce oars, English “Crown” | handmade chain, sisal, jute and | cotton rope and a product called Russian bolt rope. Give the Rus- flinched like a slap-happy boxer | balls. By CYNTHIA LOWRY (®) Newsfeatures Writer With Father's Day in the offing, it seems a likely time to find out receiving from his adoring off- ‘Spring. The first gentleman we ad- expressed a strong de- for 104% feet of drainage the price of a laborer to help dig trenches in which to put said tiles. Another fellow yearned for two yards of bluestone; another, for) saw; another wanted a metal lawn rake and still another wanted a new pair of blue dungar- ees. The last man interviewed got a dreamy look in his eye and spoke This. about a post-hole digger. , it must be admitted, was not a scientific sampling which reached into all segments of the Population. It was, on the con- trary, taken among fathers in the undér-45 group living in their own houses in the suburbs. A couple of urban fathers contacted expressed interest in photographic. development material and golf- All of the answers, however, served to emphasize the change which has occured in the father business since the days when Father was routinely called “Papa,” sported a formidable Pair of sideburns, got about in a horse and buggy and generally was regarded as the lord of the castle. I’m an ardent reader of the memoire and it is my impression that almost every upper-middle class father of the Victorian period was a man of vast dignity, of age beyond his years an dthe disciplinarian of his family. Papa presided over his dinner table. Papa was regarded with awe and! some degree of fear by his off-\ . Papa was the person who made the decisions in the family, whether it was the vacation to be spent in the mountains or at the shore, or whether littie Willie was lying about the disposition of his Sunday School money. Today, Papa is Dad or Pop, and most of the time deliberately deports himself as a sort of genial older brother of his kids. That is, | when Pop isn’t playing the role of! family handyman. Far from acting! as a court of last resort in the solution of family problems, Pop} is very apt to leave major de-! cisions to Mom, who is in closer touch with the situation and who, besides, has read all those books on’ bringing up children. I remember hearing stories of a! not-too-remote male ancestor who | ruled his large family with the) ‘traditional Victorian rod and} | whose wife habitually addressed him formally as “Mr.,” rather) than by his first name. The thing! | that impressed me most was the} fact that he usually was served a different menu from the rest of) the family. For breakfast, for in- stance, his pleasure was small game birds or perhaps a little} HAL . BOYLE SAYS} By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK #—Dairy notes by a@ pavement Plato: Lucky Joe College! Graduation day means the end of midnight panty raids on soror- ity dormitories for Joe, but this year he has compensations. In the past his sheepskin diplo- ma has just been a dust-catching souvenir. But in 1952 it is the open sesame to financial success. The world isn’t waiting for Joe College to build a better mouse trap before beating a.path to his door. It is beating his door down in the hope he can build any kind of a mouse trap. Big business scouts have been standing in line to pick off the cream of the college graduates, offering them $400 a month and up to start. Usually I write a letter of ad- vice to the June graduate. But not this year. Not after reading’ of one bright young fellow who is step- ping into a $10,000 a year post. What most older men would like is a letter of advice from him on how he did it. Ten thousand dollars? Even professional baby sitters don’t make that kind of money today. But many a Joe College is go- ing to have to postpone accepting the golden offers that come his way. There ts an earlier bid for his services put in by an elder member of his family — Uncle Sam. There is a story going around about an old-fashioned husband who thought his wife was spend- ing too much time watching tele- vision. He put his foot down and flatly forbade her to run the set | on during the day. The following evening he came home and caught her sitting in front of it. He bawled her out. The next evening when he ar- rived she was dusting the house like crazy. But, suspicious, he touched his palm to the televison screen. It was still warm — she | had just switched the thing off. | Sternly he bawled her out again. “I came home a little early the | next night,” he said. “And guess what? There was my wife down on her knees in front of the tele- vision set blowing on the screen like mad and trying to cool it off.” Speaking of problems with wom- | enfoik, a friend of mine had one with his very young daughter. She had joined the Brownies— the knee-high version of the Girl Scouts — but after a while decided | she wanted to get out. “Well, honey, if you really are sure you don’t want to belong any more, just quit,” said her father. “It isn't that easy,” said the little girl, dolefully. “They let you!- - keep the blouse and skirt — but they make you rip the buttons | off.” The father had an eerie vision of his daughter, standing forlornly | at dawn before massed lines of | other little girls as she was | steak. The rest of the family) stripped of her rank and drummed contented themselves with Ppor-| out of the organization. ridge, eggs and other traditional) p g§ she’s still a Brownie. Just fare. If the gentleman were alive) couidn’t stand losing her buttons. | today, he'd be content with the) The pcre man’s philosopher | director of the Florida Crippled | sians enough rope . . . and hang Children's Commission June 9. |non-conformers. One letter to The position has been vacant! William Curry’s Sons Co., Key since January when Dr. W. W. | West, dated 1909, quotes, “As Davies, former director, resigned. | you undoubtedly know the price Dr. Stinger’s salary has not been | of cotton is very high and the determined, | price of manufactured cotton Dr. Stinger, a graduate of the | goods advancing steadily.” An- University of Pittsburgh Medical other letter in very finely done School, served as Bay County | script writing was from Chicago health officer in 1950 and went/... and the office named was from there to Johns Hopkins Hos- | “Florida Keys Sponge and Fruit pital where he earned a degree | Co.” asking the price of man- as master of public health. hole covers, slates and lumber Toutine breakfast of the nation,) ‘but chances are he'd rush off like; so many of his modern brothers to catch his train sustained by a ' gulp of orange juice and a sip of} coffee. ' Times, indeed, have changed. | Whether the decline of omnipotent Papa, a sort of benign ogre in a) jhard hat, into Dad, the grass-| jeutter, screen-tutter-on, leakq- faucet fixer, third-baseman and} quarterback on the neighborhood | | team, is progress can ‘only determine by posterity says: wuat gives most wives tension | is lack of attention. American dogs are barking ex- citedly among themselves about a } new canine food soon to be put} on the market. It tastes like a| Postman’s ankle. NEW YORK w—He didn’t seem sike the same man. Millions of Americans must have felt that way as they watched the startling contrast in Dwight D. TRACKERS SPOT REDS IN JUNGLE By A. L. McINTYRE SINGAPORE (7) —Britain’s “secret weapon” against the Communist terrorists in Ma‘ ya is a brown-skinned native from white the land of the former rajahs. A sturdy little man whose un- canny jungle sense puts fright into the Red insurgents, he is the Iban tracker, from Sarawak, on the island of Borneo. Tban trackers were . introduced certainly. He hunchec deeper into his raincoat. . .read grimly faster. The flags at his back hung limply. A local character wandered back and forth behind him, pausing now and then to say “H’'ray” and clap his hands. What was wrong? Eisenhower's stubborn face had lost its famous grin. It wore instead the weary | dignity of an infantryman on a long march. But there was no dig- nity in the situation around him. Rain had wrecked his opening bat- tle. When he ended, an Eisenhower supporter, watching him via viedo in a Long Island home, turned off his set and said sadly: “oh, he’s lost it, he’s lost it. The weather ruined him.” Eisenhower himself may have | gone to bed figuring he had hardly eut down the distance between him and the presidency. But any good soldier is an all-weather cam- paigner. The next day he made a major counter-attack, In a. well lighted local theater Eisenhower faced hundreds of newsmen and let them pitch questions at him by the dozens about his candidacy. He batted the answers back like table tennis balls. -. Tke looked like Ike, he acted like the old, self-confident Ike, He looked trim and fit in a gray suit ‘that fitted him. as well as his uniform. ~ This was what he liked—thinking fast on his feet. He laughed gen- ially, socn had the newsmen join- ing in, sometimes applauding his quick extemporaneous answers. He was completely at ease. He shrugged, tugged at one ear, rocked back and forth on his feet threw out nis hands in forceful emphatic gestures. “My passion is the public in- terest,” he said at one point. He was never at a loss for words. He used “‘sky-hooting” to describe rising costs, said Americans were living “on a high plateau of ten- sion.” At the close, asked “How do you like this routine?” he grinned, then said earnestly: “When I put my hand to any plow, I know only one rule—to | work as hard as you possibly can . I don't want to lie to you and say I love all this. I do say that I am in it now with heart and soul. . .” All in all, the Eisenhower debut provided the political world with two lessons: (1) If a candidate wants to look well on television, he'd better get in out of the rain, | (2) Ike bounces back fast. Sterilization, Sanitation and Moth Proojing Ready to be put away for } the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE! Special Rates to Commercial Firms. | POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS 218 Simonton St. Tel. 1086 into the anti-terrorist campaign right from the start in 1948, When word first reached the famous longhouses of the Ibans im Sarawak that Britain needed their services in the fight against the Communist rebels, these men hastily put aside families and homes and volun- teered to come over. { Today, there are 264 Ibans | Serving with the security forces. {Descendants of the head-hunters of old who menaced foreigners trespassing their domains, the Tbans serve for only seven months in Maliya.. When they jTeturn, they are replaced by j other volunteers from the long- houses. Many Ibans are eager to sign on for 1 second stretch of serv- ice in Malaya. But the absence ef so many men ‘from oa single longhouse at a time affects its economy. The permission of | chiefs therefore has to be sought if they w nt to return. Immed atzly the Iban zolun- | eer lands in Malaya, he dis- | -ards jein cloth anc spear and put: on jungle green. Two weeks training in the handling | of modern weapons and patrol routine fits him for his first assign sent in the jungle. A special feature of the Iban — his .ong hair — has to be vut of the way when he's on jungle patrol. Some Ibans sacrifice their shaggy mane for the mili-crop Others roll it up into a pointed contour at the back. The Iban is a firm believer in ;the superstitions. To preserve him ag.ir’ the perils of the }jungle, he has lower-design tattoos on arms, legs a. * back. Some of these are capable of “frightening” away evil spirits and even tigers, he claims. He can interpret every movement in the jungle fas aess. and reac a message in every footprint and broken bough. Stooping patiently, he keeps after footprints for hours and miles, with his compatriots of the jung:e patrol following be- hind. His usefulness to the pa- trol is doubled by his ability to tell how long ago footpriats were made. SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burlesque * | Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing Featuring The Antics Of Sally and Marcella LYNN | Tall. . . torri + Terrific MINTA CRUZ, Mex JOAN CAMI and a host of others | Dancin g. To BEACHCOA Never An Admission er Minimum Charge Last Times Today BELLES ON THEIR TOES |] MYRNA LOY, JEANNE CRAIN, DEBRA PAGET AND EDWARD ARNOLD (in Technicolor) Coming: ABOUT FAC’ Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken and Dick Wesson MONRGE cooreo Last Times Today WHEN WORLD'S COLLIDE RICHARD DERR AND BARBARA RUSH (in Technicolor) Coming: THUNDER ON THE HILL Claudette Colbert and Ann Blyth | Eisenhower's first two major tele- | ‘iicieeca in the bond indenture. is 27, is married and has | and “all sizes of sails Chances are, however, the mem barber shop bandits were arrest: iff's deputies Friday and with armed robbery. y were Samuel David Gar- | rett, 21; Harvey McGee, 25, and Harry Long. Garrett and McGee were nabbed at Pensacola night spots and Long was arrested in lephone booth at a downtown H. Clay Mitchell, chief invest! gator for the sheriff's office, sai the trio Thursday held up a su- * £ : off Long, engaged in a fist fight Long and a customer, and wrecked the barber shops ' CLEAN FOOD | Hf you want to keey your fami j well, be sure that food is kept Tefrigerated during the summer “ft will be invited to address the | American Legion national conven \tion here from Aug. 25 to 28. | The announcement came from Convention Official James C. De Marest. Legal Family HALIFAX, Can. W—Mr. and Mrs. David Nicholson received their law degrees together at Dal- housie University recently, and there may be a third barrister in the family some day. David. Jr. was born while his mother was. completing her studies. New TV Station WASHINGTON @—The Geric Investment Co. of Fort Law dale, Fla., asked the Co: tiens Commission Thursday to au thorire a new television station there on UHR Channel 17. Tt ls believed that the Eskimos ed north of Lake Supericr about 2,008 years ago and moved “i north from there, PENSACOLA (#—Three alleged | Democratic presidential candidates | emerge, if at all, as ‘the slightly ed | — as well as President Truman— ‘pymorous figure who fell off the ladder when he was trying to get leaves out of the gutter, whose | towering rages were directed at , the failure of the power-mower to start. As far as adolescent discipline is concerned, these future stories j won't even have any scenes wheré a young wrong-doer is summoned into the study for a dressing down, or into the wood-shed for! stronger action. Most houses jaren't big enough for sanctuary used by Papa alone, and obvious. ly a garage isn't the proper sur rounding for a walloping. Besides wallopings are slow in coming | back. (646 To Graduate TALLAHASSEE — The 646 members Florida State Uni versity’s largest graduating class in history will receive diplomas tonight at outdoor commencement l exercises in Dosk S. Campbell Sta \ | dium Dr. Walter D. Cocking. editor school executive magazine, wil! deliver the commencement ad | dress, member them. One saw a retiring general at his worst. The other) saw Ike at his best. | Everything conspired against Eisenhower in the delivery of his opening address, read from a Prepared text in the rain to} a drenched hometown Kansas | throng. It was a visual dud, a picnic that failed to come off, a ‘etdown after long months of plan- | Eisenhower fought hard, but this man who had led millions was} Sow 4 one-man army on a sodden piatform. The bad lighting made | him look years older—and tired. The wind whipped thinning hairs across his balding top. Ke spoke vigorously at his text through heavy glasses. 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