The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 14, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH ce / OH, LAWSY ME be / (T'S TOO ALL-FIRED LONESOME BEIN' NIGHT MAYOR-T THINK "LL AST RIDDLES TO SWAP i WIE ME TOMORRY AN’ LET “eg ME BE TH’ Day MAYOR Ss, (ke 22 = ) THAT AFTERNOON NAP I HAD WAS SO REFRESHING / JARVIS- / WHAT? SHE'S STILL ASLEEP?-- I've BEEN PHONING HER FOR TWO . HOURS / HAVE HER CALL Me WHEN SHE WAKES DUKE WOLFF |S ON THE PHONE.’ AN IDEA THAT BEATS SUDDEN SHOOTIN’ ALL TO BLAZES! AIN'T YOU GOING TO KILL CISCO, BULLETS-- AFTER WE WENT TO ALL THIS RISK AND g7) A DOUBLE PLAy... HORNBLO AND TH RAMS ARE | FIRED A STRIKE TO TH’ LEFT- FIELD. Saturday, June 14, 1952 BALLS 0’ FIRE! WHY DI ME SAY (T WUZ OFFISHUL BIZNESS PP TH NEW NIGHT MAYOR I'M SORRY- MR. JiGGS DOZED OFF FOR A MOMENT- HE'S HAD A HARD DAy/ WHAT ?!-- WELL- TELL THEM TO: WAKE HIM UP RIGHT AWAY / HE HAS SOME NERVE - FALLING ASLEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY! (A v HE GAVE e HONEST, DUKES BoUSHtORES— HOW'D I DIDN'T TELLHER, SHE FIND OUT ABour HONEST.” ME KIDDING HER ALONG TO WIN A BET? THREE TRAILS, AND ALL TOO ROCKY FOR HOOFPRINTS, NO TELLING WHICH WAY WELL, THERE ARE THREE OF US. WELL EACH TAKE A FORK. THE ONE WHO FINDS HIM CAN SEND UP A SMOKE SIGNAL FOR THE OTHERS, BUT OZARK % COULD HAVE h NAILED HIM MAKE YOUR THROW, Chapter 18 Ak Hattie was watering her} plants on the sun porch when the postman came ambling up| the drive to the lovely old house. “Mail for you,” Mr. Powers cried. He stuffed the letters into the box nailed beside the front door. He walked down the path to the gate and went off, whistling, along| the road which carried ‘across the hill to Lily Goldsborough’s estate. Aunt Hattie, looking at him, sniffed. They would have to| retire him soon, She made a men-| tal note to suggest to the Town! Commissioner that Pittsfield could use a new postman, but, as usual, the mental note was forgotten by| the time she had finished water- ing her plants. She made herself some break- fast and ate it in the dining room. Once her niece had asked her why she went to the trouble of eating such a little meal in the dining room, and remembering that, she scowled as she poured cream into her second cup of cof- fee. Jane had never been able to understand so many things. Her remark that day to the effect that life should always be lived graciously had gone completely over the girl’s head. Just as her remarks to the effect that a girl didn’t have the right to come| between a man and his wife had oe wai esac § over her head day they'd had the bitter argument. She sighed. She missed the girl, missed her terribly. Dif- ficult though it had been to man- age without her during the war, she had somehow found it possi- ble to console herself with the knowledge that she was with! others who needed her more. But now there was no consolation. Now the girl was gone for a purely sel- fish, despicable reason and would, in all likelihood, remain away forever. It was that thought that caused her to look about the dining room with distaste. The dining room, the gardens, indeed, the house itself, had been kept up as much for the girl as for! Today’s | Business Mirror By T. E. APPLEGATE (For Sam Dawson) NEW YORK (#—Basic charges for rail travel could te lowered if | an experiment with reduced coach fares on Eastern railroads is suc- cessful this summer. | Any such move would reverse the higher trend that followed ris- ing costs of operation after World War I, Fifteen rail systems in the East | plan to offer reductions of 25 per cent or more to small groups and families traveling between June 25 and Oct. 22. It’s a frank bid to fill up vacant space on train coaches. If this happens, one rail execu- tive said today, “It céuld prove a real turning point in fares.” Facts gained from actual ex- | perience are needed before any general move for fare reduction can come. The cost of running a train is about the same whether it carries a full load of paying customers or | just a flock of empty seats. So if you can be induced to leave the family auto at home and ride the coaches at reduced rates, the | railroads can cut down or elimin- | ate huge losses they now suffer from operating passenger trains.’ These losses last year totaled some 681 million dollars on Class I rail- | roads (those doing gross business of a million or more annually). Should the attraction of reduced fares put passenger service on a paying basis, as Eastern rail offi- cials hope, it will be good news not only for all who travel also for shippers whose fri payments have to cover pr passenger losses These freight charges enter into the cost of nearly everything you buy. So possibilities of the fare ex-! periment are pretty broad. They extend far beyond the East ern territory. Although Urion Pacific has a similar p | fect in Idaho only, Weste: generally have not adopted the ex periment. But they will be watch- ing its outcome close! Here’s what the Ea | are offering, sub | the Interstate C }sion and various | sions | Groups of three or mor | traveling tog round - trip ticket, : only, at 25 per ce: s. F with children wi jsimilar or ¢ those under ling free | those 12 to 15 at half fare. ( |S to 12 now pay half fare over 12 full fare. There are some exceptions in | the plan, nota! state | Washington runs. pl The New York Ce announce the re | F. H. Baird, the }tant vice presiden | traffic who | posals for “it will bring back persons who hitesa Importation Asked The Nice Long Vaco? By William Neubaver herself, She had wanted the girl to have a good hime of her own one day, which was v she had never spared herself any expen: insofar as the house was co) rned; when Jane was read ettle down in the communi "d have a sound house and tiful gardens of her own. And now .. . rising, she washed the dishes, placed them awa then went out to the porch and opened the mailbox. She had been doing that eagerly every morning since the willful to girl had left Pittsfield. Always} there had been hope that the girl would have had a change of mind. But day after day she had rum- maged through the box in vain. “If you leave you are dead to me,” she had said, and Jane had apparently taken her at her word. She went through the mail quick- ly. A bill from the grocery store, a telephone bill, an electric bill, a letter from an old friend who had gone to California for her health—and a letter from Jane! G Bane, misted her eyes and fogged the lenses of her glasses. For one of the few times in her life she cried out with pleasure. Her hands trembling, she scurried into the house and sat down at the same desk between the win- dows that she had used the after- noon she had decided, after all, to do her duty. She sliced the envelope open with the mother- of-pearl letter opener she had in- herited from her grandmother, and again she cried out with pleasure when she discovered that Jane hadn’t written one of her maddeningly brief notes this time. Humming, she went back into the kitchen, heated up the remainder of the coffee, then sat down on the wicker sofa in the sun porch and settled back for a good half-hour of reading. And iit was a letter that didn’t let her down. It began in a chatty, rambling way—in itself an indi- cation that this was one letter that was-really going to be dif- ferent. As she read, Aunt Hattie became acquainted with Mike AP Newsfeatures O'Reilly, Ken Wensloff, Evelyn Moore and Dr. Bruce Hall. She had the chance to ex over her niece’s stunning victory in the swimming meet and also had the chance j niece, thr | which surr > wander, with her h the lovely woods nded Camp Joy on all sides. Fi y, she had the }chance to weep with her niece Jas her niece read page seventy- | five of a ci in di and learned that George, grateful to an over- | worked nurse who had saved his | life, had attempted to give that overworked nurse the romance | and recreation she se d so des- | perately to need. It the end of a dream, Aunt Hattie read | through her t ; it was the end, | you might of'a certain night- | mare. Just that, the romance was over, over for good. Worn out emotionall: | Hattie replaced the pa in the jenvelope and sat rocking agi- tatedly on the porch. About the | gardens swarmed scores of bees, but althouth she had always been very fond of bees, they being industrious creatu too, she searcely noticed them. Nor did she notice a ruby-throated hum- ming bird which came with a high trill of excitement to feed from the throats of the nastur- ‘Blast him!” she said furi- ‘Blast him, blast him, blast !” Now her opinion of Jane underwent a big change. Now she saw her niece in the position of being abused and cast aside, and she longed to havé a pointed talk with the man who had hurt her. But presently her anger ebbed. Presently she could see his side of the argument, Helped, he in turn had endeavored to help. It had been an utterly stupid way to try to help a person, but at least his motives had been good. And Jane was lucky to be out of the ‘nightmare at last, Yes, Jane was very lucky in- deed. When you clung to a dream, a childish dream of romance, you usually ended up as an old maid. (To be continued) Aunt “Salty Shutterbug” Official U. 8. Navy Photo ABOUT HIS BUSINESS of recording events tn pictorial fashion i, Jr., PH. ward W. ¢ American, Sis 10 is currently attach- bmarine tender, even ring the ice had a definite ling battle Accused Of Arson TAMPA officers al, Tampa police at 3 ? A tot f ersons, including i arrested of suspects, nditioned a far ery t coaches