The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 23, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen ee Published 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 | Ul. P. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN "Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively | entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news | gublishea here. SS Member Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c | Monday, June 23, 1952 | Business coca ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION | The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue ‘end subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish a a Airports—Land Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. | & Comunity Auditorium. | sl ce i RES ROE KEY WEST IS WORKING RIGHTLY TO CURB JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Little publicity and not much talk or comment, ex- cept among active groups, has been given an important movement that has been going on in Key West the last year or so. The movement is readily brought to mind if if we consider how long a time has passed since juvenile delinquency has flared-up in this community, Why is juvenile delinquency far less now in Key | West than it used to be? The answer is found in the activi-| ty among adults in providing pastimes for boys and girls. Though Key West is progressing now as it has never pro- | gressed before, that condition has not made groups of civic leaders forget the importance of providing whole- some diversions for youths in Key West. The Citizen published a column story last Friday about the latest arrangements that have been made to provide pastimes for teenagers. The Key West Youth Center has decided to continue its series of social affairs in Wesley House for the Senior Group, ages 15 to 19, and the Junior Group, ages 12 to 15, under the direction of | Mrs. Ruth Wright and Miss Margaret Hughes, teachers in the public schoo! recreation program, of which Coach Winston Jones is director, School Superintendent H« O’Bryant and the Board of Education of Monroe County are cooperating. Other wholesome amusements, including sports, have been provided for Key West youths. Every normal boy and girl has surplus energy, much sometimes it surprises adults, even though they ex- ace 80 perienced it themselves in their youth. If that energy finds outlets in supervised recreational activities, we may be sure it will reduce juvenile delinquency Often it is said that boys and girls of t are worse generat rls of two or three than the boys and g 1 But adults, as a rule, in every generation say that ab a preceding generation. Youths Key We days had no provided for the forced to look for their own, which ofte: in trouble. While it was as true then as it is no is the primary place to train children, strive to keep their offspring out of m immeasurable to attain that end by civic vide programs for the entertainment of youth Even an adult, who is unable to look forwayd to do something he wishes to do, gets into t palls on him. But if he is normal, pleasure because, without it, there What may pass for leisure is ennui recreations were involved then hat the home parent eader rouble when time work is hb can not Looking for something to do is as true of preteen- agers and teenagers as it is of adults. P ildre ertaining and wholesom THE INFANTRY WANIS1IS BACUUKAS |research, said it is seriously con- PRESIDENTIA By STERLING F. GREEN WASHINGTON (P—A presiden- | tial board today recommended that the United States scrap laws which | prevent other nations from selling | America the raw materials she needs for war and peace. The United States should make a cellar - to - attic search — at home and abroad — for sources of materials, said a formal report by jthe President's Materials Policy ¢ Commission. This country already is unable ; to supply her own needs, the board said, and by 1975 may be com- pelled to import one - fifth of the material it consumes. The report recommended that stockpiling be put on a permanent basis. The commission, after 18 months cerned — but not “alarmist” — over the shrinkage of America’s natural resources. In the face of foreseeable de-! mand for the next 25 yea: report said, this shrinkage is aj definite threat to the nation’s liv- ing standards and national secur- ity. The group labelled the high | tariff system obsolete and said the buy - American act of 1933 is “a | relic of depression psychology...a self imposed blockade.” It proposed that the government given power to cancel tariffs whenever the need for a foreign material becomes critical. The buy - American law forbids federal purchasing overseas unless U. S. supplies are unreasonably | priced or inadequate in quantity | or quality. A more recent law bars even stockpile - buying abroad un- | less the domestic price is 25 per cent above the foreign market. | The commission recommended | that the federal government un dertake a long - range program of resources discovery and develop- ment here and overseas. Among other things, it proposed that the states and private firms be offered financial incentives to seek out new sources of materials and to conserve available natural re- sources The report mentioned such in centives as special tax benefits to prospectors in this country and abroad The 5 - man commission headed by William Paley, chairman of Co- lumbia Broadcasting System. urged that Congress pass a score of new laws, Through five bulky volumes de livered to President Truman the Paley Commission hit one recur rent note: America cannot go alone om its materials policy The situation is less a matter of dwindling resources than a protiem of economic growth, the rey said The commission predicted that L BOARD (RECOMMENDS USA BUY WAR MATERIALS ABROAD *. Joins Viking Division ¥3 SGT. WILLIS G, BETHEL of 1106 Pearl street, Key West, has been assigned to the 47th “Vik- ing” Infantry Division in train- ing at Camp Rucker, Alabama. The husband of Mrs. Annie Bethel, he was formerly with the 165th Military Police in the Far East Theater. His unit, the 47th, was called into active service in January, 1951, A Minnesota-North Dakota Na- tional Guard Division, the 47th is now composed of men from all 48 states and three terri- tories. by 1975 the need for raw materials would increase 50 to 60 per cent — to support a doubling of national production and a population growth {of 42 million, to a total : aterials persons. | “The threat of the | problem lies in assiduously rising costs which can undermine our | standard of living, impair the dy- !namic of American capitalism and weaken the economic foundations of national security,” the report said. “These costs are not just dollar costs, but what economists refer to as real costs — meaning fhe hours of human work and the amounts of capital required to bring a pound of industrial ma- terial or a unit of energy into use- ful form.” The report said the problem can be met only by co - operation with the other free countries, whose rate of growth probably will out- strip our own. Glia Kal Or Wennd Over 1,000 Commies UNS I ®— Powerful Allied ns of 1,000 to possibly more © men speared into Chi munist lines on the W ‘est he strikes since e k wounde k - ied quick and destr ns enemy te’ Re 4 with heavy fire from a weapons, mortars and ar ta g forces. some ba str harrassed h a sure e ar x ills se the s ent fighting in recent In Biggest irike Since Last Fall lines all along the rest of the 155. mile battleline Allied fighter bombers were out in force today, concentrating on Communist troop and a $s on the western fr lay's big raids against Red in West Korea were inched 24 hours after the Chinese i pay me not to write. | from the expression ‘,when he has read THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB ‘Blue Monday” again! These are the kind of days that make me wish I was working in the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture's public relations bureau. I’m not sure exactly how that outfit works | but judging by the way they handle toad, is caught in a transcontinen- thea farmers, the less ‘copy’ a writer turns out, the bigger salary he would draw The above conclusion was reached because of the present po- tatoe shortage. Someone told me the other day that the U. S. was importing canned Irish potatoes from Europe. This I don't believe! We may be fools enough to pay farmers not to raise produce or to destroy what they do raise. But surely to gosh, we're not such own food stocks On second thought, it might not be a bad idea to approach Mr. Artman, editor and publisher of The Citizen, and find out if he will Certainly, his face of my stuff or listened to the public's complaints about ‘This Rock. certainly and surely he ought to be willing to pay me a pretty good salary just to stay away from the typewriter and devote myself to the ofice broom and mop. Taxi Drivers Taxi drivers wield a little to much power around this town. Our civic leaders, which to a large ex tent means our politicians, are semingly afraid to cross them | We are probably the only town jin the U. S. that does not require ;Some sort of liability insurance on |public conveyances. If you're rid- |ing in a taxi and accidently smash |Up somewhere, you're just out of luck insofar as collecting damages are concerned. Your only recourse |would be to go to court and you |know without being told that, in most instances, only the lawyers come out on top when folks start fighting in court. Our City Commissioners realize the above conditions. Cer- tainly the matter has been brought to their attention enough and al- ways, they refuse to pass an or- \dinance requiring liability insur. | ance because it would cost the taxi owners a little extra money, I've thought and thought over the situation and I'm inclined to believe that somewhere along the jline, the local chaufeurs have con- |vinced our politicia that they, | (the chauffeurs,) are responsible | for all election returns Most recent fuss ed by the taxis involved S visiting | Key West by Greyhound bus | I’ve no objection to Frank Bena |vidas, taxi driver, raising ‘cain about being put out of his parking Place in favor of the bus. But he should not ha arguing with a passenger { bus. It | really gives our to k eye. In the recent bus ta I'm on some | taking the posit her jone have a the street jin prefere citizens They are in bu should supply their ows king spots | This was suggested by a local businessman. i — ‘Waterman Dies | TAMPA (#—Joseph H. Water. f Cor i Ft hurled a against t sion and Filipin and Pork ( futile bid t heights. Crossword Puzzle At New stoeieres 2&X?'$ fools as to re-import our | surely | HAL | BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE {| SANTA FE, N. M. \#~Elmer, | New Mexico's most famous horned tal tug-of-war. He is being pulled northeastward | by a group of Massachusetts school - children who earnestly want him as a pet. He is being |P held firmly in place in his native Southwest by two New Mexico state statutes regarding horned toads. Under these laws Elmer can’t be exported. He is restriced from the broadening influence of travel by a kind of reverse tariff. The whole question has the state ‘government mildly concerned, as no official in an election year wants to be caught failing to en- force even a statute designed only to keep a voteless horned toad on its home sands. The issue arose when third grade pupils of the Davis School lin West Newton, Mass., wrote and asked for a horned toad “What do you feed a horned toad?” they asked. “We will take very good care of it. We will pay |the postage if you sent it.” { The inquiry passed through due channels of government to the Bureau of Business Research at) the University of New Mexico. The bureau parried the query by writ- ing back and telling the third grad- ers that horned toads were out of season, that is the weather wasn’t warm enough for the harmless lit- tle lizards to crawl from their des- ert hideaways. The determined Massachusetts kids immediately sent a letter saying: “We would be happy to accept the horned toad. Our school closes June 20 but our teacher will take jeare of the toad this summer.’’| That rather put the Bureau of | Business Research on its pride. | It located a toad named Elmer, | a gentle, thoughtful - faced toad steeped in New Mexican traditions and rather resembling an un-| combed Ralph Waldo Emerson. The bureau was all ready to fly | | At Fort Dix | PRIVATE LOFTON LER. son of M O. Butler of 2 Key West, has jc i Infantry Division at New Jersey. P t the s Doug): i Dorothea, resides street. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS It's about time for Key West to have a new Junkman RAGS, LEAD, BRASS, Copf Old batteries and Scrap Call Mr. Feinstein Phone 82 800 VIRGINIA ST ‘him East — an airline had alerted a beauteous hostess to make the little beast’s trip enjoyable—when an over-eager bureaucrat discov- | ered the whole project was illegal. As a matter of fact, it was an| |-official of the State Game and Fish | Department, which usually worries | about elk, bear, deer, eagles grouse, and trout — but not Elmer or his relatives There are probably more horned toads than voting citizens, and al ways have been. Nobody fretted much about them until some novel- ty manufacturers started encasing baby horned toads in plastic and ing them to tourists as sou qutraged Legislature in 1941 hwith passed a law prohibiting ng, selling or out-of-state ing of the gentle toads. It a second law providing as ty a $10 to $100 fine or a 10. passe jail sentence two laws rather put Gov who would like to as a good will envoy in a difficult po sidered elevating I r n the status of horne to t rank of ambass nk I can I'll have to cor torney general on that The feeling is rather chance gener E see = = a ee : = BLANKETS CLEANED Sterilization, Sanitation and Moth Prooying to be put away for the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE Special Rates to Commercial Ficme POINCIANA DRY CLEANE 718 Simenton St Tel. 1986 ———aaS Ready FOR HOME or We Are Pre Cube « a fy XU! COMMERCIAL USE... ared To Furnish You th Clear, Pure ff ee IVISION) (TT EA We Service All Makes of Care Specialiging in. 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