The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 9, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 9° Wednesday, July 9, 1952 The Key West Citizen ———— Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmin, owner and pub- tisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Oniy Daily Newspaper in Key West arid Monroe County & P. ARTMAN . Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN ________..6§=§=§=§=_-_ Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Ciass Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not oterwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. ‘ember Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida Subscription (by cartier) dhe per week, year $1200, single copy Sc 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, out it will not publish anonymous communications. Page 2 {IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion | Airports—Land and Sea. ‘ Consolidation of County and City Governments. Co.umunity Auditorium. FORMOSA WARNINGS Senntor Lester C, Hunt, Democrat of Wyoming, and chairman of a Senate Armed Services sub-committee, has warned that the Nationalist Chinese cannot hold the is- land of Formosa without U. S, aid, much less launch of- fensive action against the China mainland. This was Senator Hunt’s conclusion after he had a confidential briefing on the Formosan situation from Gen- eral of the Army Omar N, Bradley. Senator Hunt told re- porters that he alone took the responsibility for issuing the statement that the nationalists were not in a strong position and even said he realized General Bradley would take a dim view of his statement, Nevertheless, he and another Senator said that the public was entitled to “an honest and factual” report on the actual situation on Formosa. Senator Hunt’s warning is a timely one and if his conclusions are well drawn, the picture on Formosa is discouraging to the United Nations. Whereas, it had been hoped the Chinese on Formosa had the manpower and military, discipline and strength to ogtan attack on the Chinese majniand, Senator Hunt Prctieves that instead of 600,009 Dattle-worthy troops, the Nationalists have only about 375,000, troops in all — many not even having shoes or uniforms. If Senator Hunt's appraisal is accurate, it also means that there is little hope that Chinese Nationalist troops can reinforce the United Nations in South Korea, since an attack on Formosa {s not considered an impossibility, and these troops might be needed to defend Formosa. Senator Hunt's analysis of the Nationalist Chinese strength on Formosa is certainly a contrast to the rosy picture painted by some observers, who pictured some 600,000 Chinese Nationalist troops ready to spring into action the minute the United Nations gave the word. It is easier to criticize those in public office than to Mrs. Gene Otto And The Bo Tree UNDERNEATH THE SACRED as the Spanish Elm, Mrs, Otto Citizen Staff Photo BO TREE. known in Key West finds a moment of quiet—advo- ated by the Buddhists who hold this tree in high esteem. PUG CG OCVC CCCI GCTVCGCGVCRGCC CCC CCC CSCC CC VES THIS ROCK BILL 1a There is small chance of a crime commission operating successfully if it were confined to the city alone. Our peculiar geographical location and the closeness of both county and city governments, makes a COUNTY crime commis- | sion the only workable solution. The time is right however, for such a program to be put into oper- ation. There are high-calibred men, both amongst new and old resi-' dents, who would be willing to work to such an end. The financial angle would probably be our big- gest worry. Here in Monroe County, as else- where in the U. S., there are two principle types of criminals: (1.) The petty crook known us- vaily to both law enforcement of- ficers and the public allke. (2.) The “white collar” crimin- al who operates on the fringe of the law and is quite often a res- pectable member of the com- munity because the lic ad- mires political dexteri as well a8 wealth. The latter type of criminal is the one who is bringing grief to the; entire nation. He never takes any chances but operates through petty crooks when there is a need for OF OURS bERAADRARHAARAARRALBO HAAR HAARAA HAD nized by the way the public uses a smear word. And “Statesman” has taken of an archaic meaning. Disregarding crimes of pas- sion, there have been relatively few investigations, much less convictions, with regard to ille- gal activities here in Key West. In, this respect, we're neither better nor worse than the rest of the nation. A properly organized crime com- | mission, directed by leaders who are really interested in communi- ty advancement over and above | their own personal ambitions, could clarify the situation. This column should not be mis- understood. There are many good and honest men holding down po- litical offices and most of our businessmen are reliable. But the nature of our times is such that we must be constantly on guard to make sure that outside influences are not allowed to change their ac- tions. With millions of dollars being spent to build better schools, hous- jing facilities, health and sanitation peconcss: etc., there is an excellent opportunity for corruptness to get }a start. If we were to organize | citrus and walnut groves. Its heart }|each fronting on a balcony over- the work, “‘politician’’-- it is almost Dog Bites Barraeuda-Shy Reporter While * HOLLYWOOD NOTES By JACK QUIGG (For Bob Thomas) | HOLLYWOOD wW— Some 20; | miles from Hollywood and Vine, nestled in rolling hills at the far end of the San Fernando Valley, lies a little publicized paradise where the movie industry cares for its needy sick and aged. The setting is a 60-acre tract of lis a cluster of low, modernistic buildings surrounded by lawns, lily ponds and beds of dazzling flowers. The landscaping requires the attention of six gardeners. For the sick there is a $1,350,000 hospital and a convalescent home. | The hospital has 40 private rooms, looking a garden. It employs a resident physician ind has specialists on call. Pa- | tients are treated, without cost, for | as long as necessary. Some have ‘been under care for as long as eight years. | For the aged — minimum age | is 60 for men, 65 for women — there is the Motion Picture Coun- | try House. No “‘poor house’’ this. | Its 30 “‘guests” occupy rrivate cot- tages, similar to those of luxury \Hovort hotels. Like the hospital | Fooms, the cottages have pi windows fronting on gardens, The are comfortably furnished and have private baths and maid serv- ice. There are double cottages for married couples, A central building contains a large library, a sumptuous, tele- vision-equipped lounge, and a din ing room which serves food de- scribed recently by three visiting Britishers as the best they tasted in this country. The guests receive not only room and board but clothing, a weekly allowance, movies twice a week, station wagon service to Holly- | wood and occasional tcips to town |to see touring plays. Guests are encouraged to live | as they would in their own homes. There is no bar, but drinking in rooms is not frowned upon. Some tend private gardens. A few of the women sell needlework. Names of the guests are kept confidential, but it is no secret that ;many well known personalities of yesteryear have spent their final days in the home. Maurice Cos- |tello, Matinee idol of silent films, died there. Current residents in- | elude writers, two once-prominent actresses, and a former leading | man. | Both the house and the hospital | are supported by the Motion Pic- jture Relief Fund, which helps more than 7,000 film workers year- |ly. Hospital revenue comes from | }salaries in every branch of the| |industry. Those earning less than $200 weekly contribute % of 1 per |eent, those earning more give 1 | per cent. About 60 per cent of the | |industry is signed up, but any} | worker of four years experience She Cyeles On Dry Land Up Simonton St. INCIDENT MAKES HER LEARY OF SO-CALLED MAN’S BEST FRIEND By SUSAN McAVOY “Your chances of being bitten by a barracuda are no worse than be- ing bitten by a dog” a spear fish- ing friend told me Monday He was trying to allay my sus- picions about the barracuda I see on our spearfishing expeditions out at Sand Key or Western Dry Rocks. + “Just try to think of a barracuda as a dog when they swim by you. Maybe one in a thousand wi make a pass at you.” Yesterday morning I was riding on my bicycle from an assignment up Simonton Street. I was at the corner of Southard when a large brown dog came barking out into the street. I had no fear because I told myself quickly. “Just think of him as a friendly barracuda. One in a thousand, he won't bite.” My thoughts were amputated by a pair of upper and lower teeth sinking into my leg. “Stop- don’t do that!” I cried at the dog, .stunned by his attack. I kept riding, though I trembled with shock and fear. I was so up- set I didn’t even get his license or find out his owner. Returning to the office my log swelling slightly. my colleagues, always helpful, told me that I'd be alright, maybe, but I should get a tetanus shots. “Report the dog to the County Health Department. Send your leg up to the State Health depart. ment,” they said. I forewent the later advice but did report the large brown dog, about as big as a Boxer, but with a pointed snout. Then I began my detective work. I called various families in the neighborhood and asked them eraftily: “Do you have a large brown | dog?” { Uniformly they answered no and | that they didn’t know one. So I am appealing to Citizen readers. If you see a brown dog, | the size of a Boxer, but with a pointed nose, please let me know, so he can be checked for rabies or hydrophobia or whatever. Mean- while I am going out for my tetan- us shot. In the last three months a Por-| tuguese Man-of-war and a dog have bitten me, and four scorpions | have scared me. The barracuda from this vantage point on dry land seem like friendly harmless creatures, but I don’t think I'll crowd my luck on an immediate | expedition to the underwater world, I'll wait a few days. Indians established great irriga- tion works in the Southwestern United States long before the com- | ing of the White Man. | | of quiet consternation, so far hey | have found no substitute source of income. | The relief fund is headed by Jean \is eligible for aid. Hersholt, in his 16th year as presi | BLANKETS CLEANED Today’s Business Mizror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK @—The machine- loving farmer goes right on buying gadgets. Farm machinery output and sales set records last year. De- lier this year, due in part to metal shortages, the industry thinks sales :should hold up as long as: ;1. The farmer has an income high enough to allow him to buy backsavers. 2. Metal shortages dwindle—as they were before the crippling | Steel strike. 3. The American people go on demanding more — and better — food: Two and three - quarter billion dollars worth of tractors, hay bal- will |ers, cotton pickers and the like were sold last year. This great urge to mechanize since the war has sprung from more than just the farmer’s aching back. The farmer has had money, for one thing. A farmer can’t buy ma- chinery unless prices of his prod- uets are high and he is in the chips. Growing weather has been good in most sectiuns. It’s small comfort to an individual farmer if the price of corn is high, but his own corn a failure. However, with government - supported prices — the farmer can, and does, buy machines. Farm labor costs have gone up rapidly. Farm hands have been mS aoe 8, et Be |turns to machines to cut costs, The Northern Trust Co. of Chi- cago, which keeps a sharp eye on the goings - on in its farm belt, estimates in its July Business Comment that farmers are selling their products for 180 per cent |more than they did before World | War II, but are paying almost 300 per cent higher wage rates. Farm machinery costs the farmer 94 per cent more than be- fore the war, but many farmers find it profitable. Use of machines is one of the chief reasons farm output per man hour has gone up 64 per cent above the prewar rate. Fewer farmers are producing more food. It’s lucky they are, because Americans are consuming 11 per cent more food per person than they did before the war, and there | ——<—_—_—_—_—_—_—————< Your Grocer SELLS that Good STAR * BRAND spite a production let - down ear- |: NEW PO STAMP WASHINGTON — The Post Office Department has announced its proposed special 3-cent stamp to’ commemorate the 500th anni- versary of the printing of the Gu- tenberg Bible will have its first day’s sale in Washington Sept. 30. are many more millions of mouths to feed. This population increase and high standard of eating is likely to continue as long as na- tional income holds up. notes some fear demand for farm ma- chinery may slough off, but it thinks “the basic factors underly- ing the large postwar sales of farm equipment are still present.” For one, farmers’ net income rose to almost 15 billion dollars last year (although it may be slightly less thit year), For another, larger crop goals this year should call for more ma- el 5 Food production ts expected to grocery Americans may economize on oth- jer things but they still are, as a whole, eating more than before the war. year’s record output and sales. | QLABBY same AAR * Burl A Continveus Fleer Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous SALLY & MARCBLLA LYNN AND GOGO GABE, CATHY CARROL, SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS Dancing To SLOPPY JOE'S Thurs. Nite Talent Nite Do You Sing, Dance or Entertain? Big Prizes Last Times Today THE FIGHTER RICHARD CONTE, VANESSA and CUBAN +—TRY A POUND TOVAY— | | Sterilization, Sanitation and Moth Proofing Ready to be put away for the Summer at NO EXTRA CHARGE Special Rates to Commercial Firms. POINCIANA DRY CLEANERS BROWN end LEB J. COBB (Mexican Rebel) Coming: LOVELY TO LOOK AT Howard Keel and Kethryn Grayson MONROE corso Last Times Teday WALK SOFTLY, STRANGER JOSEPH COTTAN and VALL! Coming: ALONG THE GREAT DIVIDE Kirk Douglas and Virginia Maye f actual violence or open defiance of the law. Crime And Politics It would appear that the coun-| bud. try’s principle trouble in fighting} Think about the subject. Since a workable crime commission, any | U8 Simonton $t. Tel, 1086 get and perform the duties of that office yourself. such action would be nipped in the |. Support for the country house | dent. Its principal activities are has come from the Screen Guild | providing immediate medical care | Players Radio Show, which had/|to the needy, and making loans Bey Pe re until 4 left the ord those in financial difficulties. | : jor gi last month. Stars a It extracts a promise from the crime is tthe direct connection be-| Tampa and Key West are so much studios had contributed services | recipient to hour when he is able. | tween the criminal, unethical busi-j alike, and because we're near for the show. Its demise has | The percentage of return, however, | nessman, and politics. Investiga-}enough to see the good that the thrown fund officials into a state ‘is low. 3 "I tors out of Washington have shown Hillsborough Crime Commission | . ‘that our entire government struc-/has already done in its area of | ——~———-~~ ture has been inflitrated by | operation, tomorrow we'll discuss crooks. This has become recog-| that organization. « Most people have the desire to be friendly, though people sometimes lack the personality to demonstrate it. As the weather gets hotter, and pitchers thinner, home runs will occur more frequentiy and no-hit games less frequently. esa ll Zeer From heed te toe you enjoy complete relaxation in the new 2-pesition Berwe You can't feel anything but comfort~ not even your own weight—when you relax in a Barwa. Lie back in the “Feet High” position; your circulation is stimulated; your taut nerves untie. Use a Barwa in the garden~in your den (as a perfect television chair)-in your The first obligation you have as an intelligent mae fs to refuse to believe criticisms of other people until you prove the accuracy of rumors spread. SLICE OF H rossword P ACROSS 1. Moves the ar 32. Glut AA mountain Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 4 Moved ver FOR HOME or COMMERCIAL USE... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear. 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