The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 2, 1952, Page 3

New Tank Unveiled By Army By ELTON C, FAY NEWARK, Del. W—The Army Tues. unveiled what it called the first completely new medium tank to be developed since World War Ii—streamlined, more powerful, and almost as easy to handle as & new automobile. Designated the M-48, or “Patton 48,” it is being produced at the Chrysler tank plant here and at two other arsenals. Officials sai sizable deliveries are expected be- fore the end of the -year. The tank, in the 45 to 50-ton class, has several notable new features: 1. A lower silhouette than any other American tank of corre- sponding size. Present U. S. tanks have been criticized because their height makes them easily spotted. d 2. An egg-shaped, sloping ellip- tical hull and turret. This makes it harder for an enemy shell to | get a “bite” into the armor. Photo By Ellis Finch Darlene Stevenson, blonde, blue- eyed beauty will be sponsored by the USO Camera Club in the “Miss American Legion Contest” next Saturday. 10 Die In Japan TOKYO ® — Heavy rains in Western Japan the past two days caused the death of 10 persons and flooded 9,682 houses, provincial * police reported today. YES! WE HAVE Records 99 1/3 — 45 — 78's COWBOY t» SONGS | wee FROM BACH TO BOOGIE ALL MAKES POPULAR PRICES COME IN AND EXPERT RADIO REPAIR PROMPT SERVICE Lou's Radio AND Appliance LOUIS CARBONELL OWNER Phene 1507 $22 DUVAL ST KEY WEST woke | fire, 3. Wider treads than present medium tanks. The wider the tread, the better the tank can operate on muddy roads, in swampy terrain or in snow. 4. A 90-millimeter, high velocity gun with a quick change tube. Using only simple tools, the liner of the gun barrel can be changed in the field in minutes instead of sending the tank back to rear areas for replacement of a whole | |mew gun when repeated firing has | worn the rifling of the tube. 5. A .50-caliber machine gun on top of the turret which can be aimed, fired and loaded from with- \|in the tank. No longer does the “| gunner have to stand with head ;| and shoulders exposed to enemy The tank is named for the late Gen. George S. Patton, famous World War II commander and a leading exponent of armor. An earlier model medium tank also had been named for the gen- py It is called simply the “Pat- Today’s Business Nitierer By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (®#—Businessmer believe that watering down of con- trols should boost few pri¢es and play a trifling part in adding to pay checks. They hold that government con- trols already have been superseded in most instances by an older law —the law of supply and demand. Some jubilant builders think more homes may be started when, and if, mortgage terms are made easier. But the new controls law has a safety valve. The President }can slap mortgage curbs back on \if runaway home building threat- ens to exhaust materials needed in defense work. And housing cred- it agencies say Dec. 1 is the earli- est any changes in the rules could be made. Business reaction to the new law, with its fewer teeth, is largely that controls are petering out any- way. Food supplies, in general, are adequate and most prices have fallen below the ceilings, Clothing prices are also below ceiling, and most of the textile and ‘apparel industries have al- ready been decontrolled. Rent controls can be retained, if the local community wants them. And anyway in spite of controls, rents in general have gone steadily but slowly higher since the war. Most of the effect of the new law will be concentrated, as in the past, on raw materials—chief- ly metals—that are in short supply and therefore allocated to defense industries. But even here, the end of many of these scarcities is in sight. “Under direct controls, you can never really lower wages,” Gard- ner Ackley, economic adviser to the Office of Price Stabilization, said at an economic forum of the National Industrial Conference Board. “You can only hold them or raise them. If any prices are ever to come down, they have got to come down by market forces and then be caught before they start back up again too far.” But the chances of prices rising again soon seem slight to the Fed- The Patton 48 will use a 4-man | eral Reserve Bank of New York. crew, one less than present me-/|It says in a study released this dium tanks—a tank commander, ; week: “Inflationary driver, gunner and loader. seem to have receded for the pres- Power steering and other fea- | ent throughout most of the world. tures practically eliminate driver- | Prices are once again being tested fatigue, the Army claims, insist- | by consumer resistance.” ing the new tank “handles almost | As for food prices, the house- as easily as a new automobile.” | wife is given a large part of the The power plant is a V-12, 810- } credit by Paul S. Willis, president horsepower, air-cooled Ordnance- | of the Grocery Manufacturers of pressures } Pennsylvania Man Reports For Navy Duty Here Gerald R.: Metz, quartermaster, first class, U. S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Metz, Route No. 5, Chambersburg, Pennsylva- nia, was recently promoted to Chief Quartermaster. Metz is serv- ing on board the submarine U. S. S. Chopper at the submarine oper- ating base in Key West. Metz attended Chambersburg High School in 1937 and entered the Navy in September 1939. He volunteered for submarine duty in 1950 and was sent to the Submar- ine School at New London, Con- necticut, for instruction. Since graduation in February 1951 he has served on the Chopper. Metz is married to the former Miss Alta M, Lehman of Cham- bersburg. Reports To U.S. Chopper For Duty Billy Dale Groff, electronics technician, first class, U. S. Navy, husband of the former Miss Irene Tetreault, Taftville, was recently promoted to chief electronics technician. Groff ‘is serving on board the submarine U. S. S. Chopper at the submarine operating base in Key West. He, Mrs. Groff and their 6 year old daughter, Ann, are now residing at 1320 Royal Street in Key West. Chief Groff is a veteran of three successful combat patrols during the last war on the submarines U. S. S. Balao, U. S. S. Greenling, and U. S. S. Toro. He reported to the Chopper for duty in May of 19- sl. Ex-Senator Dies PHILADELPHIA # — Clare Gerald Fenerty, 56, former Re- publican congressman from the Pennsylvania Third District and a judge of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court since 1938, died Tues- day. The first stable for White House horses eventually became a school in 1821 for the poor children of Washington. HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK #—Some American husbands, complaining that matri- mony has made them worms, threaten their wives darkly: “But remember—even a worm can turn.” Other, more practical men, know this is idle nonsense. What can a worm do even if he does turn? Nothing. There have been cases of rabbits biting bulldogs, but who- ever heard of a worm busting a robin in the beak? A group of sensible husbands, realizing a turning worm gets no- where but does thereby gain some exercise, have banded together in a kind of a worm of the month club. The club, national in scope, is called “The Worms Turnverein,” and its motto is, “I am the master of my soul, subject to my wife’s control.” The club crest is a small worm squirming backward and forward at the same time without Progress under a women’s high Connecticut, | heef The purpose of the organization, as outlined in a membership ap- Plication that came to me in the mail, is “to protest unsuccessfully against woman’s inhumanity to man, against wivés’ enslavement of husbands.” To be admitted a husband must answer in the negative when asked, “Are you happy?”. The membership committee consists of Radiocasters Gabriel Heatter and Lawrence E. Spivak, and A. Frank Katzentine, Miami, Fla., attorney. Most husbands probably would find themselves eligible to join these joyous souls, who meet year- ly at Miami Beach in a session known as “The Diet of Worms.” Here are a few of the rules and regulations: “Any member who wins an im- portant and final victory over his wife in anything is automatically expelled. “Members are expected to ad- here strictly to an unpleasant diet prepared by their wives in the so called interest of their health. Any member who more than once a 4th OF JULY HOT OFF THE GRIDDLE Continental engine, already battle- tested in Korea. Judge Rules Against Vote Law Protest FORT MYERS (#—Circuit Judge Lynn Gerald has thrown out an attack on the constitutionality of the state’s absentee voting law. James M. Whatley, Immokalee, who lost out in the second Demo- cratic primary to Lewis J. Thorp, Everglades, when the absentee votes were counted, attacked con- | stitutionality of the law. Without ruling whether the law is constitutional or not, Judge Gerald held Tuesday that since results of the first primary which put Whatley and Thorp into a run- off had been determined on a basis of absentee votes along with | others and Whatley had not at- | tacked the law then, he had no | Standing to attack on the basis of | | the second primary. | _Whatley’s attorney was given 10 days in which to file an amended bill. He also seeks to have the absentee votes thrown out on other | grounds, including charges that Registration Supervisor G. C. Luther of Collier County failed to | comply with the law in issuing and recording them. “Malik Objects UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. ww Russia's Jacob A. Malik began a sitdown strike today against de bate on U.S. demands for an im- | Calling his new tactic non-par-. ticipation, Malik told the Council America. “We have an adequate total sup- ply of food,” he says. “And when | we do, then free competition, un- hampered by red tape, plus the expert shopping by the American homemaker become the best con- trollers of prices.” Willis calls continuation of con- trols over the food industry “a needless burden and expense to business and the taxpaver.” Weakening of wage controls will mean little, businessmen contend, because with consumers resisting | Prices as they are, management can’t pass wage bosts along any more in the form of higher prices. From now on, management is likely to be tougher at the nego | tiating table. And many business- men contend that wage controls | have been weak all along. Judge Fired HONG KONG «@ — Shanghai newspapers reaching here today | reported the firing of two judges whose ruling jumped the Commu- | jnist track. | One judge had refused a divorce | to a woman whose husband, in the United States when the Reds came | munist China. “their love had not come to an | | end.” He was fired for “failing to | |comprehend the revolutionary point of view.” The second judge convicted a | shop assistant for stealing money. | Later the shop owner confessed | the theft! and the judge was dis- | missed because he had “ignored the poor while helping the rich.” Dr. J. A. Valdes Specializing in Eye Examination and Visual Traini COMPLETE SERVICE On DUPLICATION of LENSES 2 YEARS EXPERIENC IN THIS COMMUNITY into power, went to Nationalist For- | mosa instead of returning to Com- | The judge held SPECIALS COOL COTTON SEERSUCKER Tornado Casnalty 70, a neardy- farmer, was killed Tuesday night when a_ tornado lifted his house from the foundation and dropped it 200 feet away, up- side down and a mass of splintered wreckage. The twister flattened buildings on a score of farms and tore out an estimated 40 miles. Tuttle, 15 il of here, was also hard eal like mother be put on pro- jon. “Any member who at any time found to have all his buttons his shirts, and socks without led. “Any member who isn’t dragged to some useless function under useless protest at least once a week shall be suspended for 30 days. 4 member whose wife fails to say at least once a week that the attentive eye he casts at a | pretty young thing is a sign of | on-rushing senility will be placed on permanent probation. “Any member whose wife packs his bag for a trip he takes alone will be unanimously expelled. “Any member whose wife does not make exhorbitant financial de- mands on him regularly shall be put on two weeks probation. “Expelled members can be tak- back into the fold only after long pleading and after an inspection by the Diet of Worms in organized session; such inspection must re- veal (A) a general deterioration in appearance, and (B) a thor- oughly cowed demeanor.” So far I haven’t mailed in my own application to become one of “The Worms Turnverein.” I have a secret suspicion the club was instigated by a smart wife. 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