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

ore ~ on NOB Commander Lt. Ralph Frederick Merrill has recently reported for duty as aide to the Commander of the Naval Base, at Key West, Florida. He had ' marine USS Odax (SS-484) as ex-' ecutive officer from July of 1948 His Naval service started in 19- 40 when he entered the Naval y- lost polished, Academy in 1943 with a B. S. de- Official U. S. Navy Photo | ang bombarding of Cherbourg. His | ®7€ vivid, but they are Ensign Scott L. Smith, USNR, | SHIP was then converted to a high’ dowed has recently been transferred |SPeed mine sweeper and sent to’ studies, from Fleet All Weather Train- |t€ Pacific. Here, they took part) Scenes of ing Unit, Atlantic, Key West, | im the battle of Okinawa, but later cinating is to Composite Squadron Thirty. |}Ad to scuttle the Emmons as she] Movement three, Naval Air Station, At- |W Severely damaged by Japan-/ caught lantic City, N. J. He was a stu- ;°S¢ Suicide planes. bry left £ dent in the All i Occupation duty in Japan follow-| 22 ian Weather Flight ed at the end of the war for 14.| the He entered naval service in | Merrill. He then became First Lt. peddlar 1948 as an apprentice seaman and later Executive Officer aboard| With a round ba: and served with the Naval Re- |e USS C. K. Bronson (DD-668), serve Training Unit, Seattle, | St¢ was decommissioned in Char- Wash. until selected to enter "46. buil , and, cadet in the Navy V-5 program. | school at New London, Conn. early| ing. Other entrie: ignated a naval aviator after eompleting the prescribed year flight training course at Pensa- cola, Florida. He married the former Betty He is a graduate of Queen Anne : 5 St., Mobile, Alabama. They have High School in Seattle. two daughters Mary L. age 8 and His parents Commander USN (re-| serves as life guard at MEMPHIS, Tenn. (® — Four sets | tired) and Mrs, Albert G. Merrill of footprints leading to a pond— | Feside at 65 Oriole St., West Rox- and none returning—were mute bury, om. evidence that the girls waded to|foot-deep pon by divers within their deaths ner here Wednesday. |90 minutes after the mothers The tracks in the soft mud, go-| screamed the alarm. ing to the wate~ hole, from four| Drowned were Norma Crunk, 12, neat piles of clothing, were found | and Joyce Crunk, 9, daughters of by two worried mothers who feared | Mr. and Mrs. William Crunk, and the worst—and were right. ~ Bobbie Jean Hudson, 7, and Gloria Bodies of the girls, two of them | Dean Hudson, 9, Negroes, daugh- Negroes, were pulled from the 12- | ters of Dorothy Hudson. ich reflects GO ALL-ELECTRIC the Modern Way SAVE 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 lowar cost. Coal or wood may be cheaper than elther electricity. hak wa est een also cost much less than an automobile. You use electricity for convenience, safety. and of control, for its many uses to en kien aoe poy hve pe ose ay en ody aia 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 *¥ wk ElectricSystem New Aide Assigned|Key West Artists’ Street Fair Vibrates With Creative Talent By DOROTHY RAYMER of design, sense of pattern, color tion, orginality, ‘and a vast surge of pro-|ly study of a vine against a r- is evident in the exhibit by ing fountain-like background. More formerly been attached to the sub-;the Key West Artists group which conventional is the bird and pussy- in a Street Fair at Clinton |Willow study in cinnamon and this week. Eleven artists | White. He is expected enter a the show and two new | Painting which might be termed as qomincamibye mateo ‘embers enrolled with their en-|‘‘outof-this world” literally since Drone mmongeray ens apa Academy. Graduating from the juence, new slant 1 tn a Acie, en |Our how oe Wi ites with vi , humor and} ©’ e shows gree he boarded the destroyer USS] wnat is known in newspaper par- | Picture of a lighthouse in simple Emmons (DD-457) and participat-|lance as “human interest’. His | Colors. More detailed and accom- ed in the invasion of Normandy| beach, boat and waterfront scenes plished is reproduction of the old by his drawings of facial | Gulf with the brick patch work and aracter work and street |a tree showered with sunlight, Havana, Cuba. Most fas-| Another clear realist is Eduardo in which suggested |Henriquez who works in oils. A situations are |water spout at sea, Morro Castle, i impressionistic |a Mexican volcano background It’s a spot in Hava-|and a nude figure’ car- a gir! on rollerskates in|rying a jar to a jungle pool are foreground, an cart, a man|is his interpretation of near an entrance labeled Cafe So-| Strength of line and color is le-3 ¢ (this figure is also in a sin- | shown by Lucille Inslee who uses leston, South Carolina in July of| Sle separate drawing); a line of |chiefly a casein aguas toa a * ar ae roof, a wo- {nana tree study is one e SNe vig pemation | Lt. Merrill entered Submarine] man at work hanging out a wash-|in the show. She has only Key are a nude and|West scenes this time Ss In November 1951, he was des- | in +49 and became a designated sub-|a Key West vignette, a cat slink-|done equally strong work with mariner in June of that samejing by a garbage can and trash | Mexican influence. Newcomer Lois Dimmick has | Two of them are of submarines in Jane Weinacker of 211 S. Catherine|done a still life with cream and |a color-photograph style. He is ex- fawn-gold tones which is a strik- | perimenting in “The Concert Mood an is A A ee ing form study of a pitcher and a | in Color” accenting basic patterns . Ann W. age 4. At present they are| sliced papaya. A second initiate to and primary shades, with a sil- Four Girls Drown living at 45 Rest Beach, Key West.|the group is Lewis Strong who | houette in black. Ambassador among other jobs. His McLeod gives pro- | done with arrogant panels of color, jue and beautiful in | angled owen and cubes of bright creative | and imaginative quality in a ve ‘it is a dream’s eye view from a space ship porthole with a flight into a new realm. He is attached oversha-|canning factory ruins near the orange | among his offerings. Atmospheric his head | crab vendors. Gene Baughman has five entries. “Ruins of fo Old Cigar Factory” is the ire MeY | with an interesting treatment in classic design with only two colors, gray and blue. More detailed but still in the reaction of simplicity balance and arrangement of fab- light on a clump of | ;; the Kars ix sles ric, plates and a Chinese image. canes Ski Skewis shows the Dali influ- ence in an interpretative work of @ nicety | tone. Full of buoyancy is the still- life of a vine in a bottle against a brilliant chartreuse background. The note of Surrealism is also evident in one of Larry Karns’ near-perfection paintings of a girl, S| a treetrunk, streamers of filmy Bi | fabric flung as if in abandoned rejoicing. Karns posseses almost ef- fortless ease and the most variety fii | of any of the artists. He is delight- S| | fully unpredictable using casein, and oil, touches in realism, theab- stract school and has a three di- mensional effect with a great vari- ance in perspective. His latest /, work is predominently done in green and white. Unforgettable is the picture entitled “Audubon Slept Here.” It’s like a woodcut in color. Then there’s an old Key West cottage surmounted with a glow- ing cloud bank and in the fore- ground a trail of liana from a tele- phone pole slashing across the view. Doug Brown of the Navy com- bines casein, pastel and pen to produce some of the most striking action and character art in the ex- hibit, He uses a rich umbra for background except for one in gray. There’s one of two Indians in front of pueblo, a rumba dancer, cafe habitues and one of a woman un- der a nightclub light which seems to give out sparks. He has been a commercial art student. Most prolific artist is Lee Albert who covers Key West scenes with | a comprehensive eye. She is in the process of evolution in developing JULY 4th TO BE (Continued From Page One) incoming and outgoing passenger traffic. The motels and hotels are ex- pecting a flurry of rush business which will inaugurate Key West's S| | summer season. Key West baseball fans will | form a Conch cavalcade of 40 cars | with 200 persons who will go up to | Miami Friday for the big double S| | header at Miami stadium. Perucho | ' Sanchez “Mr. Grass’ organized the cavalcade. It will fly Key West | banners, and be accompanied by | | a Cuban rhumba band. +| | Louis Carbonell, president of the mi | Key West baseball club will go with the Conchs, as well as Jim Cobb, sports editor of The Citizen. | County officials will accept a | flag from the American Legion at | flag raising ceremonies at the new + | flagpole in front of the county || courthouse. This event takes place +| | at 10:30 Friday. of Officers and men at the Navy f | will observe the three day holiday. 7 The USO club is holding its Inde- Bi | pendence Day dance Saturday, not || Friday. On the 4th. however, free j | watermelon on Whitebead street at might | Charter boats expect the busiest S| weekend since May with many Mi fishing parties going out. Private | yacht owners are planing the day | out at sea. -H The 176th anniversary of the | United Sates’ Declaration of Inde | pendence from the mother country | Great Britain, finds the nation leading ail other countries in the world im political and economic S power a ie the nearly two cenuries of independence the U. 5 bas forged Bf to the forefront of existing nations S| This has been called “The Ameri | can Century.” just as the 19th cen- tury was the British Century. er ix Rey § & i i Hy HT li fr “Fe The first insignia to fly over this island is supposed to have been a used conch shell. visitors smash and new that not and by jonly did Key use the sort of a conch shell as but they During : F i z i too long of a into right now. ” Uses Coneh shells can be made into horns - they are dried out, the tips broken off, and used with or a LF Rag i ili is a tortoise shell-like claw used to aid in locomotion as well as to help seal of the shell itself sort of door -- when dan- This i shelter. 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