The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1952, Page 6

Pase & THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, June 25, 1952! ——— Save VA Office Smathers Acts | In Effort To Fate Of Key West Contact Office In Balance As Congress Weighs Spending THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB 2 AAAD4444444444444444 4444444444444 4844 The town is divided into two;town cannot agree on gambling, hostile camps now -- dog track| then the young people will have | every reason to suppose that none proponents versus dog track oppo- | of the moral laws that we live by nents. Might as well pitch my hat! are worthy of consideration. in the ring and say that “This Definitely I’m against Rock of Ours” is definitely against |track but it has a better than 5 __ jn | even chance of being permitted to operation of the dog tracks iM operate for the simple reason that the dog, Senator George Smathers has | Key West, Stock Island, Miami, or indicated that he bas taken steps any other place. its promoters are spending large sums of money to win the local | in an attempt to prevent the clos- ing of the Key West Veteran’s Ad- | ministration Contact Office aecord- | ing to word received by Command- | A dog track means gambling. | There is no other reason for its existence. And although the- gam- bling is legal, being sanctioned by people’s vote. Money has always | talked. Without a doubt, the present | backers of the dog track. financial jer Vance C. Stirrup of the Arthur | Sawyer Post, American Legion. The Post had earlier adopted a resolution against the suspension of the local VA operation. Smathers said: “The Indepen- which the funds for the Veterans Administration are contained has been agreed to in conference, but the Conference Report is not yet available so that it is impossible to the final figure may be. I have been keeping in touch with the Se- nate Appropriations @ent Offices Appropriation Bill in. determine at this itme just what} Committee, | ‘have detrimental effects upon the; abiding citizens the State of Florida. it will still | backers that is, are honest, law- They come o public. town well-recommended financially Three classes of people are very | as well as morally much alike -- gamblers, drunk-| Can they contro! the outside in- ards, and dope addicts. They all) fluences which their project will suffer from uncontrollable urges to| bring to Key West? go “hog-wild’” once they get) 1 don't think so. Nor do I think started upon their own particular| they would even try since they vice. ._, | have every reason and right to as- Put a dog track with legalized: sume that the Jaw enforcement gambling on Stock Island, and/ agencies of the county are set up .you’re simply going to whet ne for that purpose appetite of many immature adu’ ts} the ie es ’ | people of Key West can de- as well as children, for gambling | s+ the plans for a proposed dog in any and all of its forms SWIFT'S PREMIUM — TENDER GROWN FRYERS . SELECT WESTERN Pork LoinROAST « 49e SWIFT'S PREMIUM CELLO +] time what the conferees recom- ~ 4| favor of specific budget cuts. I am Citizen Staff Photo T CHNICAL CLRGEANT EARL S. KEIR“ ~*AD and his w'‘e visiting Earl's 1 thirty-day leave. Keirstead | in 1946, and has been in Tait Has Air Of Confidence ‘bout Possible First Ballot Victory In GOP Convention J By The Assoc J Press “Don't ask me how aft nds to profit by any such ers claim no more California's 70. Hence, ng for nomination second ballot, a to wait it out lay, His back ubli- | 4 datt nist st or deci Ws rren votes have a lot to mecratic convention e, had a few fuesday on the Republican Paul Dever of Mas- keynote speaker for the told ce. Gov tts nocrats De ie, N. M., he believes Eisen the r would be easier to beat than mic Taft in the general election. His reason: What he called “Eisen- € r’s obvious ignorance of do- ng candidates particularly in behalf of adequate funds for keeping the Contact Of- fices in operation. The bill passed the Senate with an increase over the house passed bill of 68 million | dollars for administrative, demici- Mary, medical, hospital etc. ser- vices which includes the Contact Offices, but as above stated, it is | not possible to determine at tl mended. However, in conference, the Jensen Rider, was dropped in therefore getting in touch with the Veteran's Administration immedi- ately in behalf of the Key West Contact Office, requesting that it be kept in operation, and I will let you know further from me.” Body Recovered CORAL GABLES # — Police Tuesday night recovered the body | of Steve Bay, 2, from the Coral | Gables Canal on the Biltmore Golf | course. The child’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Bay, reported him | Naturally, Key West will get its share of undesirable characters who mix legal gambling up with | other ways of making a living such as crooked ‘bookies’, petty racke- teers, graft, etc. If you want proof of this statement, read about what is happening in other cities. New York, Miami, Tampa -- all of the cities are not only having a strug- gle fighting crooked gambling, but their law enforcement agencies have become filled with grafters so that the fight is almost hope- less Young People Our young people deserve some consideration. What kind of conflict of emo- tions are we going to set up in| their minds if, while the churches | and schools teach that gambling is | not a desirable form of recreation, we adults try to prove by example | that they are all wrong? And if the| schools, and decent citizens of the Property Given JACKSONVIL track but to do so, they will have | missing and police found his little) was given property red wagon near the bank of the! parks Tuesday, one near Talal canal. Policeman William Kerr | County. hower 50 or more | wsmen in Albu- | saw the body in the water and | recovered it. } If you serve salad as a separate course, be sure to accompany it |with bread and butter, rolls, or | crackers | | H 95%. Nomination requires 616, a | majority of the total 1,230 dele- | gates. Harriman, in a speech at Ta | coma, Wash., Tuesday night, jealled for a housecleaning in Con |gress of “men masquerading as | Democrats.” Such men, he said, give the Democrats “a phony ma- | jority in Congress.”” | At Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday Rus- sell hotly denied a charge by Gael Sullivan, Kefauver’s campaign manager, that he had aided a lconspiracy to “stop Kefauver.” Sullivan had said backers of Rus- sell, Harriman and Illinois Gov Adlai Stevenson had huddled over Hiram Faver, St. Augustine Cir- cuit Court Clerk, presented to the State Parks Board a 700-acre St., John’s tract to be used as a park and game refuge, a memorial to Faver’s parents, when the Legis lature provides funds for its de-| delopment Mrs. Alfred Maclay gave the Killearn Gardens, which the hoard accepted provided the ney general’s office approves te in the deed about upkeep of the | gardens WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s TOYS COME TO THE TROPICAL TRADER 718 Duval St. Phone 1000 | to get out and vote at the coming election. Are you willing to go to that much trouble? B. P. W. President | If the United States ever elects |a woman president, it is going to be Mrs. Wilhelmina Harvey. How that lady can be so active and keep going in this summer heat is |a puzzle to everyone who knows her! | She represents Key West and | Florida business and professional women in Washington, New York, and Boston during the next few weeks. Certainly the town and state could not have chosen a more lovable or capable person. By Dick GOANY A $0-CALLED * BUTTER: FLY” ENDS UP A * BUSY BEE” Our Sales Clerks Are Not But- terflies They‘re Busy - Boes And They'll Welcome Your Business. DICK'S TRE nh SERVICE {nts Ph. 778 929 Truman Ave YOUU'BE PLEASED» ation were in | such a plan | d was in the| Stevenson, who insists he is not ” I Russell of |running for anything but governor ( Ne xico; Mutual; again, had the makings of a draft Se A tor Averell! movement in the 50% delegate 1 t nd Sen. Es- | votes now listed for him. He got ke nessee in Lou | 20 of the 26 votes put together Tuesday by Indiana Democrats eA Press tally shows One other is for Kefauver and five f h 246, followed | are not committed, but claimed R snd Harriman's | for Stevenson. Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast. Dependable Freight and Express Service between MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West j ; Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY B2- CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Ar- phe at Miarss at 12:00 o'clock Mid night LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 ecloek Mid sight and arrives at Key West ot 6:00 o'clock AM. Local Schedule (Stops At All Intermediste Poists) LEAVES KEY DAILY CEPT SUNDAYS) A.M. and arrives at Miami at 4:00 o'clock PM. LEAVES MIAMI PAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at $:00 o'clock AM and arrives at Key West st 6:08 o'clock PM Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaten and Prencts Su. 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