The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 24, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, July 24, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH ¢ mayor BaRLOW--\ FIDDLE-DEE-DEE!! HOW MUCH IS IT NAR Seno BOING To COST aie \ TIGER (ASR TO PARK MY TRAILER sa HERE IN ee HOOTIN' MORE ROBBERIES IN TOWN- EUT THEY GOT A DESCRIPTION OF THE CROOK- POPEYE, LL SHOW YOU AROUND ICICLE pat / I'M SORRY, (/ —ANO BASEBALL IS A PaTHER - MARGIE — IT WONDERFUL GAME /— BUT PLEASE DONT )\ ISNT THAT HE'S WASTING HIS TIME MAicE ME Give /I DON'T LIKE UP WHITEY’ SO THIS {s n Aut TH WAY, 7 PITCHERS’ JERRYS.. LEFTY” . SPADE Has ALLOWED ey A PITCHER 'S TOO OLD— THEN HE'S OUT— HAS TO FA START OVER AND AFTER THE FIRST GATTER FLIES OUT TO /° OZARK IN LEFT. FINOING THE DOOR OPEN, WA WALKS W: \/ GE Him up! Wy PICK A BOY WITH A SOLID FUTURE.” Chapter 22 Neen more was said until Danny summoned them to lunch and then Paul spoke of the fishing. Danny said there was a storm coming in from the south. Paul ignored him. ee you care to come along, “Tll come along for the ride, if you like. You do the fishing.” “Better take the long oars, in case you need them,” Danny cut in and again Gardiner ignored him. Danny rsisted, his eyes upon Melisande now: “When you hear the thunder roll over behind Forrester you come flyin’ home. There's lots of ironstone in these hills an’ it brings the lightnin’ jose.” They waited until the sun sat high above Mount Forrester be- fore they shoved off the rowboat. Paul took the oars and bent him- self hard to the unaccustomed exercise and the boat made time against the flow tide. Meli- sande sat in the stern dangling an ‘arm overboard and feeling the water slip through her fingers. “The water smells of summer.” she said. “Even the air smells of it. How grand it is to be alive in the summer.” Gardiner fetched up the stern of the boat against an outjutting tock at Point Harvest, where the stream was quiet by the shore, but where the channel in the middle | T° raced now, with the turn of the tide, out towards the sea, The channel was narrow but it was deep, too, and very swift and a light boat would be out of control in no time in the turbulent strip. He fastened the stern rope se- curely against a shore rock and re- turned to the oars. He maneuvred the boat to a point midway in the channel and threw out the bow anchor. It hit the water with a sharp plop and the boat positioned at right angles to the shore and securely kellicked at bow and stern. He heaved a sigh of relief and shipped the oars. Presently both lines were ready and baited. Paul paid out his own line through the starboard row- lock and the current carried it away almost as fast as he could release the gut. They sat, then, and scarcely spoke, From behind Forrester the first sullen murmur of thunder wounded the still air and at the sound of it Melisande began to look anxiously about her. One cork cylinder spun a few times against the floorboards of the boat. Gardiner leaned down and carefully felt the line. It be- gan to slide jerkily through his fingers and then he slowly pulled it taut. By the resistance weight he knew he’d caught his first fish. It was a bream, and at the glisten- ing sight of it Melisande gave out a sharp exclamation of astonish- ment. Gardiner heaved it aboard and it flopped and squirmed round the girl’s feet, and she greeted the development with a series of little alarms which changed to scorn and finally to triumph as she reached out a tentative forefinger and stroked the silver scales. “It’s really a battle of wits,” Paul said triumphantly. was almost dark now and the edges of the water were al- ready lost in gloom and only in the centre of the bay, where the — was mirrored, was there any ight. ‘he southerly whistled about their heads and disturbed the sur- face of the waters until the wavelets churned boat-high and occasionally even slipped over the gunwale to flood the boat to a depth of six inches. Paul took a tin and began baling out the water. “Perhaps we'd better go, Paul. See—it’s dark—and there’s the storm.” Her companion grunted assent. “What's the drill now?” Meli- sande asked. “I mean with the pea “Get this bow anchor up first.” So saying, Gardiner took a firm two-handed grip of the sodden rope and began to pull and the boat itself. moved forward a few feet: but the steel prongs were fast held in the debris of weed and ‘boulders that fined the sea bed and no amount of pulling would budge them. He made a new attempt. For purchase, he stood athwart the gunwale, his feet eighteen inches apart and his back bent towards the rope. In this position he tried again and for a full five minutes he strove to break the anchor free of its im- pediment. “We'll have to cut the rope,” he said, finally. It was at the moment of his speaking that a wave, bigger than any other, caught the side of the boat and jerked Gardiner from his precarious foothold. He gave out a yell of dismay and fell awkward- ly into the current. Melisande sprang from her seat, her face white and her breath as fastheld Gardiner felt the currant grasp him bodily and twist him away from the boat, and then he knew that Melisande was beside him in the swift channel. her hands grasping, reaching, st and her eyes wide and fear-filled. “I had your hand—you pulled me in—!” he heard the roar of the wind and in an instant he felt Melisande’s arms round his hips, her fingers clutching deeply into his flesh and her breath com- ing in heavy, staccato sobs. The weight df her body and held him down and only the force of the current kept them afloat. Fortified by the overpowering fear that gripped him, his arms jerked down and tore away the hands that clung so desperately to his waist. He fought the bands clear, felt the girl’s weight slide away, heard the muffled cry of dismay and then he turned sideways to the current and struck a diagonal course for the shore. The current smothered the shout of shame that rose to Meli- sande’s throat as she felt Gar- diner’s hands clawing at her own, forcing them to release their grip. A furious passion to beat the current took charge now, and she tried to lift her head from the wa- ter and keep it high, but air-pres- sure forced her down, down—— She fought to the surface again and jerked round until she was floating upon her back, her arms widespread for balance. Heartened by the ease with which she floated, now that the original panic had gone and the value of keeping low in the water was evident, her brain cleared somewhat and began con- scio to think. Out re, a half-mile distant, were the headlands and through these the waters of the bay rushed to the ocean. To drift thus-wise much longer would be courting certain death by drownings Quite suddenly, Me! je lifted her head high out of the water, Stra thing, it was not forced back by the pressure of air and the strangest thing of all was not that she was breathing regularly, pus hap ey Tah ering and she‘lay st stari - ingly upwards. Her and hands relaxed their stiffness and the fingers fell upon soft, yielding sand and dug deeply into it, and her posterior rested upon the cool stuff. Then she knew without troubling to think about it, that she was lying upon a sand-bar and that somewhere along the sand-bar there was the shore, (To be continued) as the sea anchor. sy dp op p&p fp bp bp bp bp fn bb bn bbb bobbin bn bh hl bh bbb bh bd btn Of Interest To You, But... —_—_———_—_—_——————— Too Late To Classify By RUSSELL KAY AMADA AAADAAABALS OO Oe All Florida is moving ahead so! considering the'limited funds avail- fast that unless a person “visits able, speaks well for Chairman Al- every section frequently he just fred McKethan and his co-workers. can’t keep up with what is going| Being a tourist state we annually on. I recently made a trip to West | attract thousands of visitors and Florida for the first time in several | each year finds more and more years and it was really an eye| Cars and trucks using our high- opener. ways. Our investment in these Don’t you folks in South Florida ever get the idea that your area is the only one making progress. | Take a few days off and give your- self a vacation trip through the western part of the state. You will be. entranced with the | natural beauty of this magnificent | section of vast velvet green wood- | ed areas, red clay hills, and sup- | erb waterways. Take a trip over | the Gulf Coast Highway. You will be astounded at what is taking Today’s Business Mieror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK \#—In ‘the cartoons | you tell the summer bachelor by \the sink full of dirty dishes, In reality you spot him quicker by | watching him shop at the grocery. | He’s the one reading the labe so carefully and weighing the ca: in his hands. He thinks he is doing a mathematical job on compara- tive values—weight vs. price. He is sure his vacationing wife doesn't, and probably even couldn't do this. Scornful women shoppers, who elbow him out of their way to pick up the can he has just re- | jected, know his wife has other | standards of value. And the women suspect the summer bachelor ig | just trying to divine what actually place along the coastal area from Apalachicola to Pensacola. | Panama City was a revelation. | It is growing like a weed and the beautiful gulf beaches with their sparkling turquoise and emerald | waters are attracting more and more visitors each year. Long stretches of beach that were noth- jing but sand dunes a few years | ago are now built up for miles both | east and west of Panama City. Ft. | Walton that I recalled as a very | small community is now a bust! | ing, hustling city I hardly recog | nized. RUSSELL KAY roads has paid big dividends, for these visitors contribute millions of dollars in the form of taxes we would not otherwise receive and that more than offset their use of our roads. The day is coming fast, however when Florida will have to start a lor.g-range planning program of construction. Hl we are to { I made the trip from Tampa to Panama City to attend a meeting | of the Alabama Press Association and had not planned to journey any further west. I was so impressed | with what I saw that I took an T ‘ extra day to drive via the coastal keep up with the natural gre |route to Pensacola and return Of the state, and at the same via the inland route through Mil- provide safe and rapid trar |ton, Crestview and Marianna to n for the ever increasing » Tallahassee. visitors, we will find 1 , that we plan for the fu This section of the state is so different from wat we see in r We are going to need a | South Florida that it was like a an Sak Wei outs j trip to another state. Un : ee < get out into this part of the countr express travel tha every so often you forget how at tractive it really is Summer tourist travel to the area is heavy and there were more | out-of-state cars than local cars ugh the coperation of jon the highways, particularly in nama City News-Heraid the beach section. It seemed that press group enjoyed a d: ul just about every car we passed tour of St. Andrews Bay on a bea was from some other state with Al- tiful and commodious yacht pro abama, Georgia, Louisiana and vided by Avondale Mulls Texas all well represented and plenty from other states as well. ings and the John HP | Right now I wast to commend ization provided one of t the State Road Department for the elaborate receptions and he splendid maintenance job it has bours I have ever experienced | done as well as in ¢ c party being staged on the beso | of new highways 1 water front grounds of the | to keep a highwa nauguration of a fr av long Tange program can this be ac hed was gratifying to have t ege of joiming the good enndlition and the accomplishr is in the can—an old story to them |—and hoping for guidance from the label, or heaven, as to how jhe could prepare the contents Men are becoming increasingly [numerous in grocery stores. At |some hours at least 50 per cent of the customers are men, mostly buying whet their wives have or- | dered. Real bachelors often are knowl edgeable. But the summer bache- lor is a thing apart, Watch him in the vegetable de- partment, waiting to catch the scornful clerk's eye, and carefully holding the sweet potato he picked for its rosy color (unaware that means it’s probably a yam). Five women have already re jected it because it has soft ends and signs of being rotten in the core After three women shoppers have come up, pushed in ahead of him and departed, the summer bachelor hy o into the clerk's hands The cle relief and thanks pr ence for summer bac rs, who don't know + but keep grocers Prosper: But when it's a mer bachelo sally that sink r, the sum- cleans ap Major t 'w the credit of the department, plc of Panama City in welcoming *