The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 7, 1952, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, July 7, 1952 The Key West Citizen ann ene 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 Publisher Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter : TELEPHONES 61 and 1995 22=2=~” ‘Wember 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. —_——— Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida ——————— Gubscription (by carrier) 2c per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION —— The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish KEY WESTERS WHO ARE WARM HAVE EASY WAY TO COOL OFF Key Westers have many reasons to be thankful dur- ing these torrid days, Whenever they feel inclined to com- plain about the heat, they need only compare the tempera- ture here with that in some other parts of the United States. If they do, then they will be pleased that they are in Key West and not in any of the many wafmer cities. Key Westers, though they be annoyed by the warmth during the day, can st least begin that day in a cooled-off condition. All they have to do is what tens of thousands of people do at summer resorts, such as Atlantic City, the Rockaways, Asbury Park and scores of other places on the seashore — take an early morning swim. And any day Key Westers feel bedraggled when they finish their work, they may find quick relief by g0- ing in swimming. Where to go? Anywhere. Just drive straight from work in any direction and you are sure to meet the sea. Take a dip, or drive home to get members of your family to go swimming with you. If you do, you may be sure you and they will feel refreshed. A few days ago The Citizen published a series of stories about the housefly nuisance at Dredgers’ Key. Residents there are not now bothered by flies, neither are they bothered by the warmth to the extent that residents elsewhere in the city are bothered. As Dredgers’ Key has would think that the warmth there io wey mo shade trees, one bs i = WOU ANNWRURG ANU ARS AA. WR AR Nok when residents are indoors. They are like passengers on a ship under awnings on a warm day, cooled by ocean breezes, for the wind at Dredgers’ comes from the sea and does not have to travel far, only a few score yards in most cases, to blow through the homes. When night comes, you would not want it any cooler than what it is on Dredgers’ out of doors. A good many residents there eat dinner, as some call it, or supper, as others call it, in their yards, with breezes from the sea | keeping the atmosphere at a pleasing temperature. This | “boat” is anchored seven-tenths of a mile out in the sea. If you are imperturbable, as Dr. Fishbein, in a Citi- zen story, advised you to be if you want to live long, the warmth in Key West will not bother you much, But if you talk about the heat — “Whee, what a day!” —, you will become agitated and fume and sweat about it till you are heated more by your own emotion than by the tempera- ture. Take the weather in its stride, and it won't bother you one-tenth as much as it will if you try to buck it. If you drink and drive you are not only thoughtless but selfish. Nobody has yet refused a raise on the grounds that his or her services are not worth the extra money. SLICE OF HAM Without Aid Of Mirrors The Citizen wetcomes expres- sions of the views of its renad- “Cistern For Every Home” Editor, The Citizen: Those old timers who used to run around Key West, barefoot and probably be quite horrified if they could look down on their posterity today and envision a modern Key Wester waiting for official permis- sion before he could get enough | water out of a pipe with which |to shave, and maybe make a cup of coffee. Accustomed to pure cis- tern water, he might not consider the Chlorinated stuff that comes }from north of Jewfish Creek as | anything to drink unless it was | properly modified. For, the old timer knew how to | provide food and drink for his |family from the bountiful provi- sion offered by the earth, sea and the heavens above. | He had found it to be a fact |that enough rain fell on the roof of his house to provide enough of \the best drinking water in the { world, if he had the sense and energy to consider a cistern as be- ing as necessary as a house. So with the house he built the cis | tern to catch and hold the water | until it was needed. Sometimes he had to be a little economical in its use; but, at any rate, he was not renting a meter whether any wa jter ran through it or not | If no house could be built in Key West unless, at the same time, a cistern was built, the city would not be facing a water fa- mine for the next four years at least and if the time ever comes gg the Base needs all the wa- ter that can be pumped at Flori-/ | da City, there would be no need | to ration the people of a city that | is destined to increase in popula | tiom and every room of a one-story a gets its share of rain wa- ter. When cistern water was our — water supply, it was remark- ed that diseases of the digestive tract were rare in Key West. Of course, if your building code | sige for an ut hese every house. it would probably slow up building. But if a water famine should develop, you might mot need as many ings as you now have. Perhaps “Tt is la- ter than you think”. STEPHEN C. SINGLETON | } I have watched with keen inter | est all tems appearing in your paper relative to the new Ball Team and the Stadium. Applause and thank you's have teen Banded out from all direc , bene However the most important |Gonors bave been entirely neglect jed. Namely our Momree County School Board "I wederstand that the bleachers with gold rings in their ears would | THE 18th CENTURY HOWITZER is examined by (from lef: to right) Gerald C. and Lawrence C. Duggan and Peter and Paul Koch. PEOPLE’S FORUM which are being used at these home games are the property of the School Board and have been loaned to the Ball Team for use at their games. This being the case I feel that SweH round of ap- | «coo ot SOU. AREA ieee observer ‘Casuality List WASHINGTON (®— One Florida | man has been killed and six others wounded in Korean fighting, the Defense Department announced to- day. All were Army men Killed in action: PFC. Moody, Shady Grove | Wounded: Pvt. Clarence Atkins Jr., Pensacola; Pvt. Leroy C. Har- rell, Miami; Pvt. George C. Mc- |Larty Jr., Pahokee; Second Lt Max Nussenbaum, Miami; PFC Thomas M. Snow, Panama City; PFC. James Thomas, Palmetto Joey "Interesting Notes Tasmania was first discovered when two Dutch ships under Capt. Abel Tasman were driven onto the coast by gales in 1642. Stephen Foster, the composer ho won fame for his songs about the South, was a Northerner. He was born in Lawrenceville, Pa 11 Traffic fa |Fatalities In © ; Monroe County While there have been no fatal accidents within the City limits of ty, with 11 traffic fatalities, ranks seventh in the state for the great- est number of highway deaths prec aghemersste wh jie State Department of High D Safety. * However, when the number of vehicle miles travelled in the county are considered, Montoe ranks third in the state with. only Osceola and Jefferson Counties showing a better record. There was only one death for each 26.9 mil- lion vehicle miles travelled in the county. Osceola, with 35.5 and Jef- ferson with 31.9 were the leaders in this respect. Okaloosa showed the poorest record per vehicle mile with a fatality for each 2.2 vehicle miles. With a total of 6,879 persons in- jured throughout the state in traf- fic accidents, Monroe County ac- counted for only 43 of them to rank 42nd in the state. Dade Coun- the state in this respect. And in Monroe County there were only 135 accidents involving Personal or property damage to give them a rating of 47th. Again Dade County leads the state with 4724 reported accidents of all types. Lafeyette county, with only three accidents holds the best record in the number of accidents reported. Key West’s traffic record com- pares favorably with other urban areas in the state with only 64 pro- perty damage mishaps being re- Ported to date. Traffic mishaps throughout the state, according to the figures ap- pear to be on the upswing. with 20,899 accidents on the books. For the same period last year, there were 17,669 accidents investigated. So far this year there have been 332 traffic deaths in Florida as compared with 298 in the compar- able period in 1951 showing an in- crease of 11 percent. ‘The safety department pcinted Official U. S. Navy Photos a Two Sets Of Twins | Aboard Bushnell | By William Frazer, | Naval Enlisted Correspondent, U, S. $. Bushnell. Citizens of Key West should be | | warned about seeing double on Du- | yal Street. It may not be due to | \ the Summer heat. They may 9 Ye ow ante) st) sit | : ty with a total of 1635 injuries led | $50 oe Sessions Soon Our last Senior C. A. P. Meeting had quite a few pleasant surprises. First: An invitation from Nation- al Headquarters to participate in a Cadet Summer Encampment Training Program. Place: Tyndall Airforce Base, Panama City, Fla. Time: August 3-17. Open to all Florida Wing Cadets. Cadets will be participating in regular air- ? | Headquarters, Washington, D. C. also announced that some 8,000 Cadets, both male and female have been scheduled to participate in this phase of the Cadet program. Cadets will represent all units in Primarily one of accident preven- tion, to successfully attack this problem it is necessary to obtain certain facts, i. e. HOW; WHEN and WHERE traffic accidents oc- cur most frequently. Reliable in- formation, they say, can only be Secured at the scene of an acci- | dent. According to the department, this is the reason for enacting leg- islation providing for compulsory accident reporting. The point out that it is necessary for any motorist involved in an accident casing injury, fatality or damage amounting to more than to report the mishap to the State Department of Public Safety, Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND wa cusan COFFEE and CUBAN -—TRY A POUND TODAY—. BLANKETS CLEANED Sterilization, Sanitation and Moth Proofing . Ready to be put away for the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE Special Rates to Commercial ) be looking at one of the two sets of twins npw serving on board the } U.S. S. Bushnell. ih Wherever the boys go heads turn | |} and people stare, Once, it proved | i embarassing but now they accept || ) it as the natural course of things. Aboard the ship they have been put in different divisions in order that they may be readily identi- fied and called by name. The twins are Gerald C. and Lawrence C. Duggan, of Pontiac Michigan, and Peter and Paul F of an airmen for'2 weeks and leai what makes airforce aviation tic! | RAGS, LEAD, BRASS, COPPER Old batteries and Scrap Metal Call Mr. Feinstein Phone 000 VIRGINIA ST. LYNN SISTERS SALLY AND MARCELLA DOTTIE COOK, MARIA, CATHY CARROL, SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS To SLOPPY JOE'S BEACHCOMBERS Never An Admission er Minimum Charge Air STRAND .,.ihi/00: Last Times Teday THE LONE STAR with CLARK GABLE and AVA GARDNER (Western) Coming: THE FIGHTER Richard Conte, Vanessa Brewn and Lee J. Cobb air MONROE ccouso Last Times Today BORN TO BE BAD with ZACHARY SCOTT and JOAN FONTAINE WALK SOFTLY, STRANGER Cotten and val Jeceph Coming: SAN CARLOS Koch, of San Antonio, Texas. Two sets of twins serving aboard the same ship, even one as large as the Bushnell, is a rarity in the Navy today. During the Bust sit at Norfolk the twins made a tour of the old Yorktown battle- fields of Revolutionary War days. They are pictured standing beside | a howitzer, one of the guns which the Colonial forces used in forcing the British to surrender. | One of the least known, and | best locations for dredging for sea shells is off the Gulf ‘coast be tween Pensacola and Panama City, says the National Geogra phic Society. rossword Puzzle ACROSS Frequented Diaces Build Cry out band of tree 29. Intermission 32. Sin . neapple Linger in etpectation That which s Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie & Meager © Pais ""$ recent vi- TODAY AND TOMORROW! STANLEY KRAMER STANLEY KRAMER povdecer of WE ARE NOW “Cyrano de brings lo lhe sereen THE PULITZER PRIZE THE N.Y. DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Marving the distinguished American actor, Winner of the eademy Suard for *The Best Years Gf Car Lives” FREDRIC MARCH WED: SPANISH PICTURE: TIERRA BA STUDENT TICKET 35¢ DAY AND NIGHT Mc THL 6 Pm. ADULTS: Ste end te CHILOREN: