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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Lt. (J.G.) J. D. Sidey, US! LTJG. John D. a graduse of Training Sct Sidey, the Instructor recently re the S. Fleet Son West, Florida, an instructor in ported to School, Key duty anii warfare. red the Navy in on board the s ie (DE-263) as a sonarman 4 transferred to Naval School, Chicago, H- State iversity jioned En- erve, Ad Florid: the U commis al Re the Miami, rted to ‘ommanding the YP 239° wa: kinawa, | S YP 1948 he served officer of the nd as a Naval tor-Instruc w discharged worked for is a retail esentative. Lt alled to active served on entered al Center, for treat entitled to European- f and} ibbon: Flying Saucers Over Miami Beach Air Force wil d photographs of light seen over Mi Tuesday night USNR, *& for | Reserve | North- | hIG | anced | | will be elatorate. Officer. |and Democratic National Commit- Thursday, July 31, 1952 Serious Drought, \Hot Weather | Affect Southland By The Associated Press No immediate relief—soaking rains~appeared in sight today for the parched farm lands over wide areas of the South and in New | England. And, more hot weather, with jtemperatures skirting between the | 90s and above 100, was in pros- pect for the Southland. No heavy rains have fallen in some parts of the South for several months | Temperatures of 100 and higher were forecast today for Northern Alabama for the 13th straight day |The hot and humid belt extend over Eastern Texas and the Gu ! States northward to Tennessee and | Official U.S. Navy Photo| WASHINGTON ® — One thing | appeared certain today about the | national political races this year: | The campaigns will be the costliest and best financed of any ever | | staged in the United States. Total expenses probably will run well into thé millions of dollars, because (1) the price of campaign- | ing like everything else, has soared and (2) the campaigns themselves Chairmen of both the Republican‘ lready have made it clear re out to win—regardless of Technically, federal laws fix a >} upon the spending ef a major po- tor at! top limit of three million doltars | litical party | of loopholes. For example, there is no limit upon the number of national com- mittees that may support a presi- | dential candidate. And each such committee is entitled to collect and spend a full three million | Further, there is no limit on | amounts that various state and | regional committees may spend on But the laws are full e | tickets that include candidates: for | ! | President, vice president, governor | jand other state officials, senator, | representative and so on down the line. | Arthur E. Summerfield, new chairman of the Republican Na- tional Committee, parried ques- tions of reporters here Wednesday on how much Republicans would | Spend, or were paying “new cam- paign staff officials. Summerfield explained that his campaign strategy, in behalf of | Presidential Nominee Dwight D. | Eisenhower and other Republican | | candidates, is to first shape a win- | jning plan and organization—and then figure the costs Earlier Summerfield ha lined broad plans for the gn to elect Eisenhower President and Sen, Richard Nixon of California vice president } He sai ation. eadquarters | would take over Noor of the Was! He also liste bat i sp s in all parts a the nation om, Sen. Taft © top-flight GOP ial GOP units ture and and simi. | second was giv en tem paign ¢ cam Stevenson John presi t Sen vice | Democrats > available in Another d up to} } an t} noted ¢ NOG AMBLING IN KW, ‘tore » Page haa ithe USS Virginia. Damage to crops in the areas have mounted into the millions of | dollars. Thunderstorms were reported early today from the Southern Ap- palachians eastward to the Atlantic Coast and along the Gulf Coast. Massachusetts and Connecticut took action for some relief from the drought which has had most | of New England in its costly grip for a month, The long dry spell has cost ‘}ers so many millions of ¢ ‘| already that an agriculture man was led to place the rainfall at a million dollars an inch. Connecticut tobacco growers. with the support of potato farm ers, will attempt to take up where nature left off by bringing rain through artifical means. The Connecticut Iley Cigar | Tobacco Associates—faced with an | expensive crop loss—have author. ized a Cambridge firm of art rainmakers to do their job as as conditions are practicable. A special meeting will be held at the Ellington, Conn., tonight at which tcbacco growers | and potato farmers will be asked to back the project. Worcester, Mass., County farm ers also asked permission to “seed” the clouds for rain. The State Weather Control Board will consider the petition in a public hearing. Massachusetts State have sent a plea to Washington to put the state in the disaster class Lt. L. A. Jones Official U.S. Nav,y Pt Lieutenant Loring A. Jones, USN son of Mrs. Delores Jones, F mont, N. Y., has recently ¢« ted a four months cour Weather Flight at the Weather Training Unit Key West, Florida, } consists of advanced fli in instruments and night signed to qualify the pilot rier All Weather Squadr< He will report to | Squadron T Station, Atl ; duty involving flyin Lieutenant service in A cadet in the y March 183, he was naval aviator after c prescribed fi Corpus Ch Following f ned at € Piight instr mant Jones was subse ed aboard the USS W sin as Senior Naval ships aboard w as Senior Naval Hunti USS Houston issouri ten pla: iply Office, P October 168 un He is married Marie Louise delphia. Pa < Regis 3 ; ty. Prior t entering th ie attended Villanova Philadelphia, Ps varsity swien where } the Sheruf Town Hall % officials § Civie Leade Charles Carr Dies RSBURG | — Charles ic relations um Corpo- ad former gen- ; director ration of A’ eral mana Times, a quarter of a cen- r this year he became an r to the St. Peters- U. OF 3 MIAMI fiami will red Tennes wri aud Ar s. Similar bams and other nd some other nd got only in in July d for heat ; m Tues-} climbed e other five ed in Jur 3: | Cost-Of-Living To Be Boosted WASHINGTON —Price Stabi- ' lizer Ellis Arnall predicts the new} steel price boost will cost the av- erhge American family about $100 a year in higher prices, Arnall said in a television (NBC) interview that the $5.20 per ton price boost he’ signed. reluctantly | Wednesday would touch off a new jround of inflation. He made it clear the steet in- lerease was not his own choice, | but was ordered by Acting De-| |fense Mobilizer John R, Steelman. | Arnall said it was “a very, very bitter pill for me."\. Earlier in the day price control Officials had said the cost of liv- ing, already at a record high, is almost certain to climb even high- er because of “‘inevitables inereas- | es” in some major industries. A top official said the higher steel ceilngs probably will force | the government to drop its. hold- the-line price policy and center ef- forts on keeping apparently inev- itable increases as small a5, pos- sible. He said it was hoped es semblance of stabilization can be| salvaged.” Officials were reluctant -to. dis- uss the new policies being con- idered, but they said the -situa- ion may call for a complete re- ision of stabilization ‘st This decision, however, probably will await President Truman’s re- | turn to Washington Aug. 5. Any | drastic changes probably will have | to get his approval, an official said. ‘The first jet fighter to be equip: ped with an afterburner obtained. a speed increase of 100 miles an |hour over earlier models without afterburners. LIBBY'S | FACTORY PACKED GAR 9 WITH ORDER OF $10.00 OR MORE Reomumemmcmme DOG FOOD |Teme SAUCE | 3 = 19¢ | HUNT’S T COFFEE 7 BUTTER re ARMOUR’S EVAPORATED Tam 0’ Shanter Golf Tourney Starts Today CHICAGO # — Golf’s greatest show on earth, George S. May’s | $120,000 Tam O'Shanter marathon, opens today with 185 pros, ama-/ teurs and women teeing off in the $30,000 All-American Tourney. The All-American, a 3-in-1 medal play event over 27 holes actually |is just a gay overture before the |*R | curtain lifts on Tam’s - $90,000: “Werld Championship : of Golf” starting a week from today. Although 129 American and for-.|; | eign pros are swinging for the All- | American top prize of $30,000, they | will mainly have sugar. plums of the $25,000 first, $12,500 second, and $5,000 third “World” prizes dancing in their heads. In the All-American amateur di- | vision are 29 contenders, headed i by defending Champion Frank | Stranahan, Toledo, O., while 28 | gals, among them 11.pros, will j shoot for the All-American» wom- en’s open crown vacated by ailing. Babe Zaharias. The winning femi- nine pro collects $1,000. Promoter May, who wears. daz- | zling shirts, has rounded up a field jhe deems complete without the presence of Ben Hogan and British Open Champ Bobby Locke. May, in effect, told Hogan and Locke to stay away when they asked for appearance money in the’ All-American, But it’s possible, when the lads start parlaying pars. | and birdies for the big ‘World’ dough, Locke and Hogan may be in the thick of the fray. 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