The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 5, 1952, Page 10

“Page 10 — ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, July 5, 1952 Presidential F Race By JACK BELL CHICAGO @#-—Sen. Robert A Taft's Texas-borne surge toward # the Republican presidential nomi- nation faced a blistering challenge today from supporters of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. J. Russell Sprague, New York national committeeman and an Ei- | senhower backer, predicted in an } interview the general will win by a 50-vote margin a convention test on the question of barring disputed delegates from voting on the seat- Committees Agree To Boost SS Payments WASHINGTON # — A Senate- House conference committee today agreed on a bill boosting insurance and assistance payments under So- cial Security by about 540 million dollars a year. The revised bill—drawn to bene- fit about eight million persons im- mediately—carries a 2-year limi- tation, however, on the increased grants to those in the assistance categories. The bill now goes before the + | House and Senate for final action. ing of contested groups. | ¥For Taft, any such result would represent the first major setback J in a week of pre-convention activi ties which has seen him—backed |p by Gen. Douglas MacArthur and supported ipdirectly by former President Herbert Hoover—sweep to within 74 votes of the needed nomination total in the Associated Press tabulation. This scoreboard includes con- | tested delegates awarded to Taft by the Republican National Com- mittee. Since the committee’s de-| cisions are being appealed, only the events of next week can de-) termine juse how high Taft’s total | will be. ‘ As of now, the count showed: | Taft 530, Eisenhower 427, other | candidates 131, still uncommitted 118. To win, a candidate must have 604 votes. The Ohioan increased his lead Friday when the Republican Na tional Committee voted 60 to 41 to accept the Senator’s personally | devised compromise of the explo- | sive dispute over 38 Texas dele-| gates. Despite repeated cries by Eisen- hower’s supporters that a ‘steal’ | had been engineered in the Lone” Star State, the committee voted | o give Taft 22 of the delegates | and assign 16 of them to Eisen- hower. This was exacly what Taft had proposed earlier in the day and | what Sen. Henry Cabot Lodgeo' Massachusetts, national campaign manager for Eisenhower, had re-| jected as’ a “compromise with | fraud.” ae | Lodge, Sprague and other Eisen- | hower leaders made it clear auick- ly that they had only begun to/ fight, They said they will carry | their high voltage protests to the) Credentials Committee and to the convention floor itself. This indicaed it might be sever- al days before the delegates would get around to voting on a nominee, | with television cameras looking at the cast kept off the screens in Friday’s committee meeting. | The first big test in the conven tion battling will come on Lodge's | proposal to bar any contested dele- | gate from voting on any contest over a convention seat. | Sprague said the Lisenhower backers concede in advance they can’t prevent the delegates seated temporarily by the National Com mittee from voting on this Lodge proposal. All told the National Committee has handed down decisions in 9% contests—and the bulk of the win ners are for Taft. But Sprague said that even so the Lodge motion | would carry by 50 votes. This would put the Eisenhower forces in a much better position when the question of seating the contested delegates came up, first in the convention’s Credentials Committee and then in the con vention itself. Under Lodge’s rules change. Credentials Committee members | from states where there are con. tests could not vote. Sptague said this, in effect, would change the complexion of the committee, giv- | ay Eisenhower a one-vote margin it David S, Ingalls, Taft's national campaign manager, has said the Ohioan'’s backers don't want any delegate to vote on his own seat ing. But they contend the con tested delegations can vole on the ‘THERE 1S A KEY Official U. S. Navy Photo Lieutenant Junior Grade John H. Alvis, USN, son of Mr. and Vestus Alvis, Rochester, as, has recently completed a four months course in All Weather Flight at the Fleet All Weather Training Unit, Atlantic, Key West, Fla. The course consists of advanced flight training in instruments and night tactics designed to qualify the pilot for Carrier All Weather Squadrons. Lieutenant Alvis will report to Composite Squadron Four, Nav- al Air Station, Atlantic City, N. J., for duty involving flying. He entered naval service in July 1944, as an apprentice sea- man and was subsequently ap- pointed to the United States Na- val Academy, Annapolis, Md. Lieutenant Alvis graduated from the Academy in 1949 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Following his graduation, Lieu- tenant Alvis served for a year aboard the destroyer, USS Or- leck in Far Eastern waters. In July 1950, he was selected to en- ter flight training at Pensacola, Fla. He was designated a naval aviator fifteen months later. Lieutenant Alvis graduated from Rochester High School, ster, Texas and attended Te A & M College, College Station, Texas, for a year pri- or to entering the Navy, Before he received his appointment to Academy, Lieutenant Alvis was a V-12 Reservist stu- dent at Tulane University, New Orleans, La, seating of groups states The National Committee took the Taft compromise on Texas Friday after rejecting, 58 to 43, a substi- tute motion to seat a pro-Eisen- howef delegation from Texas. Some votes were cast on that test that may forecast action on the nomination next week. Arhur Summerfield, Michigan national committeeman who is credited with being able to swing a substantial bloc of his 46-vote from other | delegation to either major candi- d voted down the line with the mhower forces. His action was backed by that of the committee- | woman from his state Similarly both California mem- bers of the committee supported the Eisenhower view, a possible forecast of what might happen if Gov. Earl Warren should decide he has no chance for the nomina- tion Members from Pennsylvania and Maryland—holdout states in the nomination battle—split their votes down the middie This indicated to most of the Republicans that Eisenhower's forces will have the backing not only of the general's committed delegates —but ny of those sup- porting other candidates and some It hikes from the present $50 to $75 the amount of earnings a #| recipient of Social Security insur- ance payments can receive without losing his benefits. It provides for an increase of $5 or 12% per cent, whichever is larger, in monthly payments to retired persons already on the rolls. And it calls for another for- mula to be applied to persons who Tetire in the future, with about the same results as to benefits. In addition, the bill carries a $5 a month increase in the federal share of payments to the aged, the blind and disabled persons. A $3 monthly increase is provided in aid to dependent children, St. Peter’s Observes Patronal Festival St. Peter’s Episcopal Church with the Reverend Father John H.|p Reece, Jr. Sicar fittingly observed its Patronal Festival on St. Peter's Day. Sunday, June 29. The celebration began with a Choral Mass at 7:00 a.m. with the Rev. Fr. Elisha Clarke, Jr., Sicar of St. Matthew’s Church Delray as the celebrant. At this time there was a corporate communion of all the members of the Congregation. The Rey. Fr, Arthur B. Brumnick former Priest-in-charge of St. Peters was the celebrant at the 00 a.m. a.m. there was a Solemn High Mass, with the Sicar as the|f celebrant, Fr. Clarke as Deacon and Mr. Glenwood Sweeting of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church as Sub- Deacon, Fr. Clarke was the preach- er at this service. At 3:30 p.m., there was a service with proces- sion for the children of the Church School. At 5:00 p.m. a Parish Tea was held in the Parish Hall. A very in- teresting program was rendered to an-over flowing audience of Par- ishoners and friends at which time the Rev. Fr. Arthur Drumnick was the guest speaker. The day was climaxed with Solemn Even-Song, Procession and Benediction of the Blessed Sacra- ment at 7:30. The church was fill- ed to its capacity when the Vicar Chanted Even-Sang assisted by Fr. Clarke of Delray. Fr. Armfield of St. Paul’s, Key West and Fr. Wil- liam Fard, Chaplain to the Epis- copal Students at the University of Miami. Fr. Ward was the preacher and officiated at Benedication. On Monday and Tuesday even- ings June 30 and July 1, a war of the Roses was held in the Parish Hall, the Highlight being a Baby Contest on Tuesday evening with the following babies as the win- ners. Sylvia Knowles, 1st prize raising $101.57, war Clarke, 2nd prize raising -10. Jacqueline Cleare, 8rd prize rais- ing $55.50. The grand total from the contest of those who are undecided—in next week’s rule change test. There was no doubt that Eisen- hower himself put it store in the possibility that batle over the contested delegations would help him along toward the nomina- tion. At Ames, Iowa, on his whistle stopping way to Chicago, the gen- eral said the struggle over seats | between “is a straight-out issue right and wrong.” He added that “it is not a business of buying : Photo by National Studios ALERT AND INTERESTED QUARTETTE are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Houck, 516 Prospect Lane. They won first prize in the group class in a contest sponsored by National Studios recently. The lad in the striped sweater is Johnnie, aged three who has to dress differently so that he can be identified from his twin brother Chris, shown holding the baby of the family, nine months old Wayne. Veteran of the assembly is Mike, shown standing in the background. He’s all of four and a half years old and looks as if he enjoyed posing. Official U. S. Navy Photo Lieutenant Junior Grade Char- les P. Coulter Jr., 96 North- woods Road, Manhasset, N. Y., has recently completed a four months course in All Weather Flight at the Fleet All Weath- er Training Unit, Key West, Fla. The course consists of ad- vanced flight training in in- struments and night tactics de- signed to qualify the pilot for Carrier All Weather Squad- rons. Lieutenant Coulter will report and the War of Roses, one thou- sand one hundred one dollars and to Composite Squadron Four, Naval Air Station, Atlantic City, N. J., for duty involving flying. He was appointed to’ the Unit- ed State Naval Academy, An- napolis, Md., in June 1944 upon graduation from Vermont Ac- ademy, Saxtons River, Vt. While at Annapolis, he played on the varsity soccer and Lacrosse teams. Lieutenant Coulter’s first assignment following his grad- uation in 1948 was aboard the USS Littlehales, a coastal sur- veying ship. He saw subsequent service aboard the oiler, USS Waccamaw and the ocean tug, USS Allegheny before enter- ing flight training. In October 1951, he was designated a nav- al aviator after completing the prescribed flight training course at Pensacola, Fla. Lieutenant Coulter is married to the former Miss Helen Louise Hicks, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Leslie Hicks, 315 Dog- wood Lane, Manhasset, N. Y. The Coulters resided at 1904 Venetia Street in Key West. VICTOR HOTEL Tel. 5-0041 Overlooking The Ocean at 12th St. Miami Beach & Television & Solarium $s] 5 0 a He Per Person Per Day Double Occupancy seventy two cents ($1101.72) with the white side being victorious. | Fr. Reece the Vican, Mrs. Gladys | Dealy captain of the Red Side,| Mrs. Doris Gatagher captain of! the White Side and the planning committee want to thank all Par-/ ishoners and friends most gracious-| ly for making the festival a grand | success, | Dr. J. A. 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