The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 26, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, July 26, 1952 BARNEY GOOGLE AND SNUFFY SMITH 'LL GIT RIGHT RIDDLES BARLOW !! HOW DAST YE WATCH THAT THAR HUZZY TIGER LIL DO HER WILD AN’ SAVAGE-LIKE SUNGLE : MAGGIE SAYS THAT DOG HAS SENSE - TH’ ONLY SENSE HE HAS IS A SENSE OF SMELL- HE 16 ALWAYS NEAR a ICEBOX~ THAT WAS ALMOST A WILD PITCH / WHATS THE MATTER WITH HIS CONTROL TONIGHT ? BUSGY...ANOD ONE DIVES IN’ TROUGH! ARE THEY REALLY cscot Went ro ee BACK TO TH’ WOODPILE, HONEY POT OUP IN THE PITCHERS BOX WHITEY'S GIRL ADORES THE CATCHER GOES INTO BASEBALL ! SHE ALWAVS COMES TO WATCH HIM SURE FEELS| Fine/“LeT's By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed | By George McManus By Tom Sims and B. Zaboly 1S WRONG 4 — MARGIE ISNT b NEW wave of terror hurtled across Melisande’s tired brain. las there no end to the tortures of this miserable night? But she was far too weary to resist now. joking, Paul.” It was ld think of. “In my valise over there,” Paul went on tonelessly, “you'd find a certificate of provisional discharge. rm supposed ‘0 be alri But to-night, ! wonder. I wasn’t - sane off Point Harvest to-night.”| able margin of error. Neverthe- “Why didn’t you tell me about a keep a watchful eye —that—before. Paul?” ag ayy nue wt “I thought it’d turn against * sleep. The clock me. I trax scared you'd not'want| 09 the mantel chimed the hour to marry. me.” of four. The first grey streaks of “You said iad rele within dawn outlined the windows of the oui lea you married me lounge: and down by the bay some we nocturnai fisherman was waking “That's probably true.” the echoes with the scrape of oars Pre — & peliave, Paul. Ex-| against complaining rowlocks. wha’ man, anyway?” = irporihon ‘AS he made to leave the room, “I wish I could answer that one. he remembered what Meli- But I can’t. - suppose I’m, com-| sande aad said about a parcel. ple! ego-centric. You were} What could suc. a parcel contain? moral, sane, clean. steadfast. 1 was} Who would be it? opposite of all those. So I married} There were sev ers of you. You'd lift me up. Others| wrapping and beneath that a would have dragged me further| pink chocolate box. Puzzled, he — tpon tie frayed, brokeny wilted ie?” upon the wi ee thing that lay embedded in a set- “Yes. And others as well. Bu ‘of cottonwool. you were different.” white rose! “Let's not discuss it any further} His mind slammed back to the to-night, Paul. We're both worn! business of Wade's Hole and out and don't know what we're] jerked to a stop upon the remem- ee brance of this rose falling at, his' Melisande shrugged and closed] feet upon the-edge of the drop her eyes. and of his boot raised to kick the “Danny got the mail from the! flower into eternity, along with ee launch while we were away,” she| the body of Kate. said, “The papers are in the} This rose—! lange “Also a small parcel for} How could such a thi be? you. Good night.” Kate was dead in Wade's Hole and pg ie tog ey OS wil ips. en he blew out) lay dei too. ing else was the-lamp and hurried towards the} an absurdity. lounge. as to be an explanation .He spread the pers vel of this faded flower ... had to... him on the floor. There were two| had eo tO... morning an? two afternoon edi-| Onl; ve sent it. tions. Commencing with tne ae And Kate was dead. most edition he began a tight] Fresh argument. Kate was not search of every news item. The} dead. Which. was too bloody silly four newspapers completed, hej for words. But admitting even the went through them again, and yet| most outrageous absurdity, if again, gaining fresh confidence|Kate were not dead, then wi with each new reading. hadn’t he already been They had not yet found the/for attempted murder? They'd body of Kate. It was a comforting} had.almost a week. thought. The Songer the body} Only one. ibility remained went undiscovered the less danger | —somebody else had sent the rose. of the police s ‘ing what The name of Taylor sprang to his were wont to foul play. tongue; but here again there could HOLLYWOOD) The Veterans NOTES | Corner Be Ane: TAS Here are authoritative answers HOLLYWOOD — The U:°S.! from the Veterans Administra- government this week was suing} ¢i,, to three queftions of interest to force studios to release their | 4, former servicemen: Pictures to television. But the 4 Titaaohiis anda jor companies still presented a| @- I am a school teacher . GI strong front against the new me-| World War Il veteran. I took dium. Bill training last summer, and I Still holding firm was conserva- , expected to continue _ this sum- tive MGM, which has made no} mer. But I became ill and will attempt to release its stars or pic-| have to stay in bed for a couple tures to-TV. (Sole exception: Red| of months. Will I be able to go Skelton.) This week MGM Boss| ahead with my studies next sum- Dore Schary told the Holly wood} mer, or will I lose out because I Advertising Club why the studio} skipped a summer? : will not allow its contract players| A. You will be permitted to to appear on the home screens./ continue with your GI studies “First of all, there are legal) next summer, since this summer's problems involved,” the executive | interruption has been for 4) said. “We do not know what the | season beyond your control. Of attitude of the talent guilds will | course, you must continue to be be. Secondly, we want control of) employed as a teacher during | a star's performance. We have | consecutive regular school years. built up the reputation, prestige | and power of our star list because; @Q [ama peacetime veteran, be no —— explanation as to why he should do such a thi Taylor—being Taylor—would obey his first impuise to inform the police and let the social mech- le) anism take its proper co! 5 urse. ee. thing emerged clearly from e maze of uncertainty—he could Rot go on living with tiie eee e uncommunicative, incoheren’ obscure and altogether eee bo! of a new and terrible Crossing to the bi he aastily y extracted a sheet of pee and a ns Leaning uit worrying. Paul.” He left the note on the centre table where it was i against the dark wood. Within a few hours from now he would know whether Kate were alive or dead. There had to be know! of this, else reason would i entirely and that would be the end. There could be no other The rowboa. would take the opposite shi was a road. qhe rowboat! = — ardiner stood transfixed at thought. There was no rowboat now! Suddenly he felt as the walls of the world were close ing in upon him, malevolently = lating him upon a narrow strip auto: tie. slewing, Baile here int e cleari le hun; carelessly trom 1 his left hand: ey stood less than ten feet art. “I thought Id sit by the water, Tt looks cool down there.” Danny’s eyes smi ered over. “You're carrying a rifle, Dan- “There _was a fox barkin’, over Forrsster. Rare in I went Danny lowered the riffe butt te the ground an¢ leant against the He went -. T came back Sor . Daylight’s the best a ‘em up. Like to 8 “T may have to go to town.” “You can’t do that ‘less we get the boat, Best to come with me, Danny got a fox whistle from the house and a rifle for Gardiner. (Te be continued) a Today’s Business mess Mireear By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK? (~The buying power of the dollar is at a new low. The cast of living is at a new And some folk suggest that this should shed a new light on many of the facts of life —.even includ- ing the price of shares on the stock market. To look at the painful facts first: The government's consumer price index in June pushed above the previous peak reached last Jan- uary. Based on this index, the buying power of the dollar has slipped to around 53 cents — that is, the dollar will buy only a little more than half as much in goods and services as it would in the 1935-39 we have protected our stars. That's | having gone into service after | period. why MGM has more stars, and/ World War II and having been In these terms its buying power why its stars have lasted longer. | qicharged before Korea. I have a| has been below 60 cents ever since “The lighting, cutting and cam-| sorvice-connected disability for |the post-war inflation got rolling, era angles on TV are not up to which I draw compensation. May movie standards. We cannot afford I have this disability treated by oo are 8 cg a Or ae | VA on an outpatient basis? . ‘ | , ay . “Also, we think stars would wear| ‘4: A veteran may be furnighed out their welcome if they appeared too often on TV. We have proven : r in the movie business that stars rr disability, feria oe like Clark Gable and Spencer Tra- | 4uting wartime or peacetime cy cannot remain popular if they appear in five or six pictures ev-/ id ‘ ery year. Anyway, there are not Q Is it possible to pay GI in- surance premiums in advance, | rather than on a monthly basis? A. Yes. If you pay in advance, tion chart lists 339 feature pictures | you save a certain amount every being made. But six are shooting | year. Payments in advance may Now to take a cost-of-living look at the stock market: The Associated Press average of 60 stocks is at its highest point outpatient treatment by VA for|in 22 years — expressed in con- any compensable service-connect- | ventional dollars. But translate stock prices over | the years into cost-of-living dol vice. ‘lars — that is, value them in terms of what a dollar would buy at the time — and the AP stock average [now would be below the 1946 bull | market peak and also the 1937 bull | market peak. Some brokers, who make a living from selling stock to the public, in London, and one apiece in the | be made either quarterly, semi- Fiji Islands, Paris, New York, | annually or annually. Rome, Mexico, Kanab, Utah, and} Fort Lee, Va. Thus a third of the, (Veterans living in Key West films are on location, mostly out; who wish further information of the country. Is it any wonder shout their benefits should con- film workers are groaning’. . -/ tact the VA Office at Room 218, John Houseman, who is produc: post Office Bidg.) ing “Julius Caesar” here, says be | eng | Senn GU ee. te Couple Killed By Roy Gotto version in Rome. “Orson is # great —_———_——_ }from Adel, Ga., was found shot bd a) Chief Is Cleared was murder and suicide. Atlantic City Truck Driver August | yi75, Dallas Pilcher Bennett Rev- Sues. Revills had teen worried over fam- charge of running 2 red light, den Ir. | JONESBORO, Ark # — ‘The que, was on the way to a hospital | months in Korean waters nnouncer of projects,” Houseman| HIGH SPRINGS @® — A farm pss a couple who recently moved here | to death at home Friday and Dep uty Sheriff Lyle Brogdon said it DAYTONA BEACH # — Dade) 1, deputy sai’ E Revills, City Police Chief Leon Hudson and | > ghot hig bride of six months, E. Hamm were cleared Friday i | ny. 46 then himself. He said mem- the traffic death of Mrs. Marjorie 1°, ce the family told him the A coroner's jary ruled the June | ay sersirs and ions ued 39 accident was unavoidable Pa bt precip wy baad placed against the Dade City Pe'| ice cic, aso was cinises ¥°-| Saint Welcomed day by City Judge J. Robert Dur-/ Mrs. Gasque, mother of Daytona | Saints and the Angels weleomed Beach Baseball Pitcher Edgie Gas-|bome a sailor who has served 2% to see her newly born granddaugh- Welcoming Edward Saint. 72. ter at the me of the crash. were bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. like to point this out. “When adjustment fs made for the changes in the cost of living and the declining value of the dol- lar, share prices are In an unex | ploited range” — that’s the wa | the brokerage firm of Francis DuPont & Co. puts it. In other words, Inflation — whether you look at it as the high cost of living or as the shrinking | of the buying cower of the dollar | is still around, if not so urgent ap | it was. And brokers consider stocks {are still a good hedge against @ \Heads Teachers LEESBUR Gu — M. R. Every, Leesburg. was @ected presidems of the Florida Vocational Agriew> ‘ture Teachers Association at the final business session of the state conference Friday. Other officers: Grover Howell, Bartow, executive secretary; O. Z. Revell, Vi vice president; Herbert Browa, Trenton, secretary, and Harvy | Paulk, Malone, treasurer, Richard Saint, and Mr. and Mrq, | Titten C. Angel. The Saints and Angels are coum ihe. ae