The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1952, Page 2

Friday, June 13, 1952 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN - Ohe Key West Citizen f 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 \ P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter ” SELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Deen en een ne inn EEEEE ==" ann UEnEEENE EEE "aan ES ‘Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively extitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it ‘@ not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. / cc ae ‘Member Florida Press Association and Associate: Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c PSS el A SE OES EATS EES . ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION sciniaaasitettns sence net ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish ‘@nonymous communications. Hee ee eee eee nee ene EEE Page? BASEBALL'S MONEY TROUBLE While baseball is still America’s national pastime, it is in financial trouble, In 1950 only nine of the 16 major league teams made money. The story for 1951 was even worse, with the pro- spects for 1952 no better. In 1950 the New York Yankees made more money than any other team: 497 thousand dollars. The Boston Braves lost more money than any other team: 316 thousand dollars. Gate receipts alon. are not enough to keep a team going. Selling radio and television rights and peanut, hot dog, and other concessions keeps some teams from going in the red. The Yankees are an example, in that they made $416 thousand from radio and television rights, and $441 ‘thousand from the sale of peanuts, hot dogs, etc. Baseball players are well paid by the standards of other businesses, and that means the costs of running a baseball club are high. The average salary in the major Jeagues today is over $13 thousand as compared with less than half-this amount in 1943. Baseball attendance has been slipping in both the major and minor leagues, and most observers place the blame on television. The drop in income from gate re- ceipts is partially made up in the majors by selling tele- vision rights. In the minor leagues attendance is off 33 per cent, and there is no compensating income from sell- ing TV rights. FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE Early in March the dread foot-and-mouth disease broke out in Canada. Now Washington officials in the Department of Agriculture are concerned because the di- sease is moving southward and now is only fifty miles | from the United States-Canadian border. . The nation’s meat supply is probably in greater dan- | ger than it has been in many years. An outbreak of this | disease could cause a critical meat shortage in many areas. The last time that this country was threatened with the foot-and-mouth disease was in 1929 at which time there was an outbreak in California. The threat today is to the great Midwest live stock area. Should this area be- come infected it will necessitate throwing up quarantines and barring the movement of live stock across the area. The late Theodore Roosevelt had the right idea about pacifists and hyphenated-Americans. SLICE OF HAM THIS ROCK BILL By BILL GIBB Summer time is really with us now and everyone is saying: “It has never been this hot in Key West before.” It is rather a fami- liar tune. Seems like last winter during each Norther, the folks all clajmed that it had never been that cold in Key West before too. Man’s brain may be a wonderful device but it certainly doesn’t function very well in so far as me- mory of weather is concerned, Rev. W. J. Ashworth / The town fs. going to miss Rev. & Mrs. W. J. Ashworth. He has been pastor of the Fleming Street Methodist Church for the past three years and is leaving today for a new assignment in Titusville, Fla. Though I’m not a member of the Rev. Ashworth’s church and did not know him too well, he always impressed me .s being an extreme- ly sympathetic and kindly nan. Certainly he went out of his way io assist me in every way possible with Saturday*s church page. In saying “Good-bye to the Ash- worths however, we should not fail to extend a hearty greeting and welcome to the new pastor of Fleming Street Methodist Church, Rev. J. E. Stathan, formerly ch: lain of the VA Hospital in Lake City. May he find this “Rock” to be a pleasant place to live. And I’m sure he will discover that it offers a wonderful opportunity for ministe- rial work -- no slams expecia!'v di- Drive Carefully School is out now. Thousands of children have been turned loose to play: Child— like, a good portion of these are going to be darting the streets, eare- lessly riding bicycles, or otherwise HAL BOYLE _ SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK —A lot of late- shopping ladies are feverishly ask- ing themselves: “What can I get my husband for Father’s Day?” And they tear through a depart- ment store like a 2-legged tornado in quest.of a suitable necktie, bath- robe or pair of slippers. If the average father wore only what his womenfolk gave him, that’s how he'd go to work — clad only in a necktie, a bathrobe and new slippers. Naturally a fellow appreciates | these things. Who ever had enough haberdashery? But, ladies, along with that neck- tie you present your husband this Sunday, why not hand him a real surprise? Why not give him back his bathroom? There is no gift a man would rather have on Father's Day than |a bathroom — his very own bath- room. Ladies, you may object: “But dad already has his own | bathrom.”” Does he? He may in name —but never in fact. Whether you live in |a log cabin or a marNe palace of 100 chambers, the odds are he really doesn’t have a bathroom he can enter and leave at his leisure. I have never met a married man who felt he had a bathrom he could honestly call his own, except when the rest of the family was | away on vacation. | The chances are that if they de gned a house that was all plumb- ing except for the kitchen, father | still wouldn't have that bathroom. | Here’s what happens: A family jin modest circumstances makes |some money and builds a home |that has a bathroom for every |member — and one left over for jthe guests. | “This is your bathroom, dear,” |Mama tells Papa lieve it. After all these years, his secret dream has come true. No more people pounding on the door j and calling “Hurry up” every time | OF OURS GIBB aARRBAR AR EAA BD Presenting the auto driving pubiic with accident hazards. The fact that you, as an automo- bile driver, may not be legally res-| © Ponsible if you hit one of these careless children will never release you from the sorrow and remorse of such an accident. Plan now to drive carefully. When you see a group of children along the sidewalk, SLOW DOWN! Children’s actions when engaged} intently in play are about as pre- dictable as cattle. Let’s try to keep this an accident-free summer. Garrison Bight ‘ While we’re on the subject it might be worthwhile to mention| that parents whose children go around Garrison Bight should war> them about damaging the boats in the area, Police officers and boat owners are having a struggle trying to keep youths off the larger boats. Moreover, the young people have al bad habit of cutting small skiffs loose from their anchorage and after paddling around in them, either turning them loose to drift with the current or swamping them. No one can be blamed but the parents for this type of action. A stern lecture or a little closer ob- servation of the children is all the preventive medicine needed. Short Takes from editor & publisher, June 7, 1952: Quote in the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal-- | “There’s no job harder than a sousewife’s,” she said. And --- From the political news in the Buffalo (N. Y.) Courier-Express: “He now finds himself in the uni- que position of being clasped to old-line COP bosoms.” Germ War Protection ALBANY. — (#).— New York | State is mobilizing animal, crop} and insect experts under a civil defense program to protect food and livestock against possible germ warfare. Measures have been taken to spot and stamp out animal and plant diseases that might result from enemy biologicai warfare attacks. The program objectives in- clude investigation and research, immediate surveying of newly reported outbreaks of plant or animal disease, and the develop- ment of special methods of de- tection. Norman Guilty Norman, Tallahassee dance hall operator, guilty of first-degree murder. But the jury recom- mended mercy, making a life sen- tence mandatory. Judge W. May Walker deferred sentence pending a hearing June 18 on a defense motion for a new trial. Norman, 42, was accused of | shooting to death his employe, ; Mrs. Evelyn Cox Bryant, 27-year- | old divorcee, in front of the dance |hall March 1, He claimed the shot | | was fired accidentally. A witness | ‘testified the two had argued about 1 | "| On Fortr?«htly Trip To Tortugas Westbo, Coast Guard j THE 83 FOOTER MAKES THE TRIP to Dry Tortugas Coast Guard Station which operates the Dry Tortugas Light, 68 miles | west of Key West, every two weeks. gerhead Key and Fort Jefferson, on Garden Key. Guard men and one civilian man the station at Loggerhead Key. Here she is between Log- Four Coast Teday’s Business Riirror By T. E. APPLEGATE (For Sam Dawson) an argument in building circles today on whether new home starts in 1952 will top the million mark for the fourth straight year. Builders have hit this pace through the spring — surprisingly, in view of vificial estimates six months ago that the total would not run much’ over 800,000. But now some of them have shifted to a cautious attitude. in part this may be due to dis- appointment over the Federal Re- serve action in lowering slightly the required down payments on new houses under Regulation “X.” Many thought such controls should have been drcpped entirely, as the House Banking Committee has pro- posed. _ Also a factor are a few signs, including price cuts on older houses and more trouble in selling new ones, that actual demand for the building industry’s output has Slacked off a bit. These developments were cited by George W. .Warnecke, New York building financier, in expres- sing doubt that present volume of building will continue through the rest of the year. He believes many builders Pushed housing projects in the early months this year and now Plan to sit back and see how they sell, before committing themselves further. While Warnecke says there is that some large insurance com- panies and banks have filled their investment portfolios and now are doing only a replacement business in mortgages. Most analysts don’t think this week's easing of Regulation ‘“‘X” will have much effect on the pace | of tuilding. They reason that a home buyer still will have to find a lender willing to issue a mortgage on the somewhat more liberal terms. And this may prove difficult. Along this line, complaints this are i like ; money just before the shooting. i ae ut sate | } Some Eskimos in Greenland live more than 600 miles north of | {the Arctic Circle. | cross between a warehouse and a | railroad station | He can't be-j A friend of mine, vexed sorely | by this problem, made an inven- | tory of the situation. | | “I went into my wife's bathrooza | and counted 77 different articles in it,” he said. ‘Then I went into | what is supposed to be my own ' bathroom and counted 35 articles. of which exactly six belonged to jme. The rest were my wife's “I can't go in my bathroom to wash after work without hea her rap on the door and s ‘There's something in there I have to get. Hurry up, and come out.’” he starts to shave! How can life! That's what every man wants, hold greater luxury ladies — a hathroom of his own | It may truly be his bathroom |If you can't give it to him on jfor a week or a month. But then Father's Day night at least jhe comes home one day and finds deed it to the maid's dress hanging there. | and testament |The next day it rains and he re- , something to look fowar turns to find a drying umbrella | jin his bathtub. | Soon he learns his son bas turned mother has hung up all clothes in it while she cleans out a closet. Guests never seem able to find the guest bathroom but they can always find Everybody leaves a belonging or dad's bathroom got your own bat he wails. “Why don't you it up? and wife does no good a res the feelings n. Why is he so ky? the room into a publie library, | daughter wants to dry her hair | ATTENTION PLEASE DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR OLD JUNK RAGS, LEAD, BRASS, COPPER Old vatteries and Scrap Metal Call Mr. Feinstein Phone 826-W 800 VIRGINIA ST. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at , ait GROCERS Many pers with instal) tomobile: app credit controls on thos were dropped. Now son want to buy hom ability to n ments Lower heme prices @ When fe NEW YORK (—You can get} |Shrine Execs. ‘In Session MIAMI (®- National executives { | of the 665,000 member Shrine or- ganization open business sessions today prior to their annual 6-day | | convention which gets under way | Sunday. | The pre-convention gatherings of | imperial office ., past imperial of- ficers and committees will con- | tinue through Sunday and will | formulate recommendations to be | |passed on at Imperial Council sessions beginning Wednesday. Matters to be decided include |recommendations of Imperial Po- tentate Robert Gardiner Wilson Jr. | for revision of the Shrine’s invest- | ment of its monie and moderniza- | tion of its 17 hospitals for crippled children, and applications for three jnew temples. | Allentown, Pa., St. Petersburg, | Fla., and Wilmington, Del., have | | asked to be added to the 164 active | | temples of the Shrine. ‘Is Eleetrocuted MIAMI (» — J. E. Hopkins, 48. | year-old appliance repairmen, was | lelectrocuted Thursday when he walked into a flooded washroom | carrying a faulty “drop light.” Police said the insulation on the | light cord was worn through in | spots and Hopkins apparently | grabbed one of these spots while ‘trying tO repair a leak in the washroom at the rear of a store. | late lagging demand, but not much, ! likelihood of this is seen. | Myron Matthews, vice president of the Dow Service, building cost TALLAHASSEE @ — A Circuit | ample financing for well planned | analysts, says many builders have Court jury deliberated 2% hours | homes and apartment buildings in | indicated plans to hold sales prices | Thursday night, then found James | attractive locations, he points cut | where they are, while “throwing |in some extras’’ to attract buyers. | | As to actual building costs, en- | tirely separate from sales prices, | Matthews predicts they will hold steady for the rest of this year and advance mayte 5 per cent All of this hasn’t shaken the op- |timism of many leaders that 1952 home building volume will ap- proach 1,100,000 units. One of these is David P’D. Ken- nedy, president of Kentile, Inc., producer of resilient tile flooring. He cites higher per capita earn- ings, rising birth rates, no material continued government g and better de assuring high vol. shortages “Consumer demand for better living more than offsets such fac tors strikes, the depreciated dollar, all the electioneering and war talk,” he says. as 5 | early in 1953. } Navy Arrivals | Two veterans of World War I have reported to the Na are Dallas W. Hart | Chattanooga, Tennes: ward J. Wertz, Machi and Shore Patrol Headquarters. Hart line who saw action in World War TI in the Philippines also made a World Cruise with the Valley Forge (CV-45) in 1947. His last sea duty was aboard the destroyer USS John Hood (DD-655). He married the former Miss Bet- ty Swope of San Francisco, Califor- Fifth Avenue Chattanooga, Tennes- see. | Penna. served in the Asiatic-Paci- fie area during World War IU. 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