The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1952, Page 2

'Y WEST CITIZEN June 1? 1952 e Key West Citizen Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Daily Newspaper in Key West and Moniroe County ARTMAN Publisher HOAMAN D. ARTMAN ——— Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 ‘Member of The Ascociated Press—The Associated Press is @iitled for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it es caarntss eacttied dn thie poner, and also the local news publishea here. Er Er Wember Florida Press Association and Associate: Dailies of Florida NN Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c —[DVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION and invites discussion of public issue Soak or Guan toot but t will cot publish x __ | of bucks for another bottle. KEY WEST’S PROGRESS CONTINUES TO MARCH ON AND ON AND ON Key West's prosperity continues to march on and on, as figures, in various activities, of each month of one year are compared with any given month of an im- mediately preceding year. That growth was set forth in the latest issue of Trends, the Key West Chamber of Commerce monthly newsletter, that was quoted in a story published in The Citizen on Tuesday. : Since the Chamber began to issue Trends, an in- crease in each activity has been shown, except an oc- casional falling off in the construction of buildings, a de- erease that does not reflect adversely on our progress, be- cause of the extraordinary expansion in one year in that activity when building permits exceeded more than $10 million. : Otherwise, the advances go on, sometimes to 80 great an extent we often ask ourselves if they will ever stop. Let us consider the continued increase in traffic on the Overseas Highway, during the months of April and May in 1950, 1951 and 1952. : In April, 1950, the number of passenger automobiles passing over the highway totaled 29,109; other motor vehicles, 5,374; passengers, 57,275; tolls, $58,134, the same order in 1951, 38,245; 5,877; 65,703; $66,038, Quite a decided uptrend, but still the increase goes on. In April of this year, the figures, in the same order, were: | 88,558; 7,389; 47,529; $72,257, What was true of April in those compared years and months, also was true of May for those periods. That stride of still more and more traffic on the Overseas High- way has been going on for several years, and similar in- creases, with some exceptions, have occurred in the Key West Post Office. How much longer can they keep up? Nobody can answer that questions with certainty. Many Key Westers thought the downtrend would start long before now, but they were mistaken, as other Key Westers who think the uptrend will go on forever will be mistaken. The Citizen feels that the best advice it can give Key Westers in these lush times, is slangy in its conception, but punchfully understood by every American—“Keep your hat on”; “Don’t bite off more than you can chew.” Business man, as well as residents generally, who adhere to that advice, will be well fortified against adversity when the downtrend sets in, as it will set in, and always has set in. Economy has its cycles, good and bad, and the man, who is caught “holding the bag” is he who splurges when the cycle is good. Most reformers are satisfied with themselves. Something to remember: breaks up a happy marriage. SLICE OF HAM in | The divorce racket never | 1 GUVIIVIVVVV CIV eC COTTE ee [THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB ons Mobb hbshhhbhhhhbbhhssssebesas Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. | saaaaae. The other day we mentioned the] Such cliches are only good if Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anony- mous. “Sounds like it might be one of these ‘holier-than-thou’ outfits,” I mentioned to the Chairman. “Hardly,” he replied. “A belief in God is essential to the pro- gram but it can come after a per- son joins AA, and when it does ar- it belongs only to the person concerned and is his private opin- ion - his and the church that he might belong to, of course. “You're more likely to hear stor- ies on the following order at an AA meeting: “A couple of drunks were walk- ing down the street toward a pawn shop. One was toting a vacuum cleaner, intent on securing a couple “Do you think we're doing right,” said the other. “Your wife might need that cleaner.” “Naw,” replied the first. “I | pawned all the rugs yesterday.” Heartaches Through a joke like the above might create a laugh amongst non- alcoholics, among those who have suffered the ‘tortures of the damed’, it can only tear the heart-strings. Too many of those present at an AA meeting have Probably been guilty of pawning much more than a mere vacuum cleaner for another drink. Many of them have, before coming to their senses, swapped happy homes, their wives, children, and all their Possessions for the oblivion of a al- cohol and a skid-row bum’s life in the worst part of town. Cliches The AA’s use quite a few appar- ently trite expressions. Trite to the average person but exceptionally useful to the alecholic, For in- stance, they stress the “Take it easy” motto. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” “Get out of the driver's seat and let God do it.” “Live as best you can durjng the present 24 hours and do not let worry or remorse over the past or future blind you to the present.” HAL BOYLE | SAYS} By HAL BOYLE | NEW YORK (#—The place where |1 work is full of desks but this | |stranger in the soiled white shirt | naturally had to walk up to my | lesk. “I been up all night,” he said belligerently. “You don't expect me to stay up all day, too, do you?” “No indeed,” I murmured. | “Well, I'm going to stay p until {I get the rules clarified,” he said.' “Does a baseball fan have legal rights or doesn’t he?” “Of course, he does.” “They can’t throw a fan out of | the ball park just for hollering, can | they?” “Oh, no, indeed.” | “That's what I told them after they threw me out of the park Hast night,” said the stranger. “I knew I was right all along.” And he walked out of the office, completely happy. My visitor was obviously slight. ly screwball, and I fell to think |ing: “Why, out of all the ears in |sight he could bend with his tale of woe, did he pick on my ears: |The only answer I could find was that in me he instictively recog nized a kindred soul. | Screwballs seem to love me, and I must confess I find them fas cinating, too. Looking back on 20 | years of newspaper work, I expect I must have spent at least 15 of them listening to screwballs Every newspaper office is visited by an almost daily parade of mild ly daft crackpots, and the man assigned to the chore of hearing them is sometimes known as “‘the }screwball editor.”’ I always loved jthis this work myself, although at makes some reporters nervous particularly if the visitor is carry ing a small parcel that could out to be a homemade bomb. | My trouble with crackpots is that I usually end up on their side. If an addled inventor shows up with {plans for a fiying submarine, he | has no trouble at all convincing me submarines show! remember the fel to launch a crusade to get ras berry - flay stamps h. seemed $0 se ie to me that I sat down and helped him draft a letter to the post office | have »w who wa wing My favorite screwball, however was a lady ne to know as week ery Ui childr teased her. The letters address 2 ame year so I felt I . lady real well When the iette ‘ they are constantly practiced. The purpose of many AA meetings is to remind those present of their need to always work to better themselves. Serenity Prayer The Alcoholics Anonymous Group has what they call their serenity prayer. You've probably heard it before: ke God grant me the serenity to accept things | cannot change, courage to change things | can, and wisdom to know the differ- ence. Even the non-alcoholic can gain a lot of peace out of that prayer when things seem to be gcing wrong. Percentage of Success Doctors and church leaders ad- mit that their success in dealing | with alcoholic cases is practically nil, The Chairman of the local AA’s tells me that AA has been success- ful in arresting approximately fifty percent of alcoholic cases that ask for help. Twenty-five percent more | make the grade after a relapse sometime during their member- ship—this relapse may come three months, three years, or twelve years after joining the Group and is based primarily on the failure of the member to actively partici- pate in group activities or to his | neglect in rememtering that he cannot get in the “driver’s seat” without disastrous results, Twenty-five percent of those with whom AA works, never make the grade. This may be due to the fact that their brain has been hopeless- ly damaged. Or they may be athe- ists. Or they may not sincerely want to quit drinking. At any rate, the group known as Alcoholics Anonymous is doing a wonderful job. They can be con- tacted through the telephone direc- tory, Chamber of Commerce, City Police, The Key West Citizen, Pastors of almost any church, or any other community organization. Outside of Key West any group of like nature can supply information as to the location of AA. Waynes Separate HOLLYWOOD — Actor John Wayne and his wife, Esperanza Bauer, have separated and she has returned to her native land, Mexico. Her lawyer, Jerry Giesler, | ays she still hopes a permanent separation may be averted. The couple married in 1946. They have no children. 5 a a ANE En SOs eae finally ceased, I missed them for a long time. It was like losing a Ter xy 's Business Kiirvror By SAM DAWSON | | NEW YORK (?—The American love of good food is making farm- ing one of the nation’s fastest | growing industries. | Despite all the grumbling about |food prices, Americans are eating jmore and better food than did |their parents. Since prosperous | 1929 the food consumption in this }country has doubled, the Federal | Reserve Bank of Cleveland con- | cludes, after adjusting food dollar |volume to price changes. Neither | the auto hor home building indus- tries can show a unit volume gain jequal to that in agriculture as a “growth industry.” If the population continues to grow at its present rate, and if Americans ‘ind the money to main- tain their present |standards, the market for Ameri- can farm products in 1975 will be | twice what it was just before Pear! | Hartor, the bank figures. { Only if the birth rate drops and ; Americans go back to their diet standards of 10 or 15 years ago, | will the future demand for agri- |cultural products fall below pres- ent high capacity to produce, the | bank says. Taking a shorter - term view, |the American Institute of Food Distribution says almost all retail food store operators expect to go |right on, the rest of this year at jleast, selling more food than last | year. They credit the continued | heavy spending of prosperous con- sumers. } | Chief factor in recent years has been the ability of lower income groups to enlarge their buying of food, both in the amount they buy {and the better quality they can, afford. | The sharp increase in total food | Sales in this country is due in part |to the big baby crops which push | population totals higher. But other |factors are more important. | Chief is the change that has} come over the national diet. Since the Depression years the lower- | priced bulky and starchy foods jhave lost ground, relatively, to meats, eggs, milk, fresh fruit and vegetables. Over the years Amer- icans also have tended to spend more of their income on choicer meats and better quality vege- jtables and groceries. | | All of this can change quickly ; if ineomes drop, due to unemploy- ment or other reasons. Families quickly trim food budgets when the pay check shrinks. | Also they shift away from cer- ; tain fods when they get too costly. | ! Navy Medies Give Accident Info | Accidents are the leading cause| jof death in children from one to) Methodist four years of age and most of these accidents are preventable whether in the home or outside. While motor vehicle accidents stili lead the list, burns which occur} mostly in the kitchen, are a close second. Poisoning, which ranks | third is entirely preventable. The Pediatric Department of the| U. S. Naval Hospital has found) new poisons to include the follow- ing: | Iron (Ferrous Sulfate) over-do- sage, coldwave neutralizers, ring- worm remedies. “Teething Pow- ders” (Aconite), and insecticides. The old well recognized poisons such as lye, kerosene, acids, sleeping pills, and arsenic still cause untold disability and death, in the children of our nation year after year. Countless times a sim- ple label on a bottle in a medi-| | | napa We Service All Makes of Cars Specialiging in. CHRYSLER PRODUCTS Bill's Southernmost Garage BILL TYLER, Owner Whitehead St., Corner Angela |Univ. Receives |‘Idea’ Books DALLAS. F presented a se Books of the Western W Oe Sec sald, to 2 SLOPPY JOE'S BAR every great non-te * Burle: e * man, were pr sity President William J. Br Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing Featuring The Antics Of SALLY and MARCELLA LYNN OW businéss firm LY mated that " Tall... torrid... Terrific needed to obs MINTA CRUZ, Mexican Bombshell JOAN CAMPBELL and a host of others Dancing To SLOPPY JOE'S BEACHCOMBERS Thurs. Nite Talent Nite Do You Sing, Dance or Entertain? Big Prizes Fun For Everyone contained in the boo! HAGERSTOWN, Md. .?—Former Gov. W. Preston Lane Jr. has re jected a chance to become the na tion’s civil defense administrator at $17,500 a year. Lane said that other Never An Admission er Minimum Charge commit high dietary | cine chest could have saved a/ments would make it impossible life. | for him to accept the post to which | average in history. Their Prevention is the most important} in treatment. Anything potentially dangerous should be kept out of| the reach of little ones. If some poison is ingested, the doctor} should be notified immediately. Swallowing of milk or water fol- lowed by vomiting is helpful when! done early. Gagging with a finger) in the throat or drinking soapy} water will usually induce vomit- ing promptly. We cannot prevent all accidents) of course, but we certainly can re-! duce the number and severity of | them and thereby protect the sate- ty and health of the children. The Washington team of 1888 posted the lowest team batting team mark was .207. cludes. The baby crop will be a secondary consideration. The more money Americans as a whole make, the better they'll eat. And the higher their standards of diet, the greater will be the | demands on agricultural capacity. Gi President Truman was reported ready to name him STRAND coniitiones Thursday - Friday - Saturday THE BATTRE OF APACHE PASS with JOHN LUND, JEFF CHANDLER AND BEVERLY TYLER Coming: DEADLINE, U.S.A. Humphrey Bogart and Ethel Barrymore (Newspaper vs. Crime) MONROE <couep Thursday - Friday - Saturday || COMING AROUND THE MOUNTAIN It's about time for Key West to have a new Junkman RAGS, LEAD, BRASS, COPPER Old batte and Scrap Metai Call Mr. Feinstein Phone 826-W 800 VIRGINIA ST. ta enim BLANKETS CLEANED Sterilization, Sanitation, and Moth Proojing Ready to be put away for the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE with Special Rates to Commercial BUD ABBOTT AND Lou Firms. COSTELLO (Comedy) POINCIANA Coming: WEEKEND WITH DRY CLEANERS FATHER 00 Seen Tel. 1086 | Van Heflin and Patricia Neal ALL-ELECTRIC the Modern Way iriend, and I never learned wheth. O8€ €xample was the cutback by er death had taken Mary or they ,™@2Y families in meat buying had just shut her away. |when meat prices were at their | highest. A more recent one is the I suppose the most interesting shying away from potatoes when SAVE screwball was “Operative X-37.” He was a distinguished - locking young man laboring under the de- lusion he was an FBI agent en- gaged in counter - spy work. Every few nights he would slink up to my desk and whisper, “Op- erative X-37 reporting.” I would give him a typewriter and he'd write a detailed account of the spies he was shadowing, then slink out mysteriously. One evening “Operztive X-37" showed up with his sister. While he was pounding out his report, she said “My brother is harmless, I hope he isn't too annoying.” {they temporarily became collec tor’s items. Another large factor in increased food consumption has been the great strides in production made by American agriculture in recent jyears. Increased mechanization of farms and the constant advance in farming methods — aided by fairly good growing weather in recent years — has enabled American agriculture to show an increase in capacity matched by only a few of the newest growth industries Without this capacity increase food prices (high as they are now) would doubtless h gone much higher during the i ted years “Not at all,’ I told her. “But he American personal income totals only shows up at night. What does Will determine whether ulture he do during the day?” continues to be the h indus ‘He keeps office hours she ‘Ty it has teen for th st 20 said. “He's a psychiatrist years, the Cleveland bank con rossword Puzzle ACROSS 31, Immerse Rule of action 32. Aches individu cuese L ‘ Port C WORK... TIME MONEY Old fashioned, inefficient methods cost you more—but modern, easy-to-operate, time-and-labor-saving electric conveni- ences mean better living and easier work—at lower cost. Coal or wood may be cheaver than either gas or electricity. A bicycle or a pair of walking shoes also cost much less than an automobile. You use slectricity for convenience, safety. ease and nicety of control, for its many uses to save lebor, make noney, produce better products, and to improve your standard of living in the community. Use electricity exclusively. It does jobs ™% better... more economically. Use it freely... because it does more work for less. THE MORE YOU USE, THE LOWER THE RATE CHEAPER NOW THAN EVER BEFORE xk kK k &