The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 4, 1952, Page 8

Page 8 ‘THE KEY WEST CITI. ZEN Monday, August 4, 1952 Devastating Drought Creates Feeling Of Horror And Ruin GA,, S. C., ALA., KY., MISS., AND TENN. SUFFER MOST ATLANTA (®# — The specter of drought, one of nature’s least spec- tacular but most devastating hor- sors, stalks most of the South and fe stretching its searing hand into New England. Parched fields and pitiful, shriv- eled crops offer mute but terrible testimony to “‘one of the most seri- ous economic disasters this coun- fry has ever seen.” This grave summation came from Knox Hutchinson, assistant secretary of agriculture. He head- ed a group of frm experts which met at Nashville, Tenn., Friday to seek means of relieving millions of farmers who face ruin because of the rainless plague. Little rain has fallen in two months in most Southern and New England states. Mounting damage estimates have goared past the 500 million dollar mark in the South alone. Of neces- sity, these estimates are inconclu- sive and farm officials in most states are hesitant about putting Josses into dollars. But the federal government has stamped “disaster” on six states in the South and on Massachusetts and Maine in far-off New England. Other states may soon be added. ‘The designation paves the way for hard-pressed farmers to seek mil- lions of dollars in federal aid to purchase feed for cattle, keep their herds intact and finance planting of new crops. Assistant Secretary Hutchinson told the Nashville meeting: “This adds up to a major dis- aster because of the wide area involved and because of the inten- sity of agricultural destruction The «+» for the next 12 months is very, very distressing. It is a major blow to the total of pational agricultural production.” This staggering blow to the re- gion’s economy threatens to set back a thriving young livestock industry which, in a few years, has become a major source of in- eome for Southern farmers. ‘Their pastures burned out by the heat, many growers have dumped underweight animals on the mar- ket, liquidating their heads and taking heavy losses because of de- pressed prices. Throughout Dixie, the desolate Picture is one of hopeless despair: “Worst drought in memory «+. Worst since the depression droughts of 1930 and 1982... Noth- ing like it since 1925 .,, Worst since the weather bureau started keeping records in 1895 ...” Georgia, South Carolina, Ala- Dama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee are disaster states along HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK —There is a pe- riod in the lives of most boys when they want to’be a cowboy, a fire- man or a cop. When I was that age I had a different ambition. I wanted to grow up-and be a “Saturday night sport.” It seemed like life could hold nothing finer. You don’t see many Saturday night sports any more. Like the village blacksmith, time has passed them by. But to me they will always have a memorial glam- or, because they were the heroes of my childhood. Just what was the Saturday night sport? Well, he was the forerun- ner of the cake-eater, the drug- store cowboy, and the modern-day corner wolf, But he was much more than these. He had a flair, an aura of temporary splendor about him—the nonchalant air of a dead-game guy ready for any adventure, During the week the Saturday night sports of my childhood were just ordinary fellows grubbing out a living. One was an undertaker’s assistant. One was a grocery clerk. One worked in a cleaning shop. Another had a steady job with the city. But every Saturady night they crawled out of, the cocoon of the commonplace. They met at the corner barbershop and took turns lolling in the chair like million- aires while Verne, the barber, gave them the works—shave, hair- cut, massage, and tonic. All the time they kept up a line of rapid-fire chatter, knowing in- side stuff about baseball, babes, and politics. I was selling news- papers on the corner then, and I used to love to come into the bar- bershop and sit quietly and listen to them. Every once in a while one of them would toss me a nickel for a two-cent paper, and say, ‘That's all right, Sonny, keep the change.” It wasn’t the three-cent bonus that thrilled me—although in those van- ished days a fellow 9f my years didn’t sneeze at a three-cent tip— it was the offhand magnificence with which they did it. J. P. Mor- gan couldn’t have shown more aplomb in buying a yacht, When they were all barbered and shined, these corner dandies would nudge cach other and say: “Well, sport, let’s go out and paint the town a new color.” This rather puzzled me, because when I woke up the next morning with 27 counties in Arkansas and Some in Missouri. Not in the cate- gory, but suffering nevertheless is North Carolina, where State Com- missioner of Agriculture L. Y. Bal- Tentine estimated losses at roughly 200 million dollars, Louisiana and Florida have re- Ported less serious damage. Recent Yains have eased the situation in Louisiana, a parched belt, 100 miles wide, in the northern part of the state has suffered some- what. Damage in Florida was con- fined to corn and tobacco crops in the state’s northern’ section, Negro Woman Shoots State Sen. Nominee LIVE OAK WA large contin- gent of state highway patrolmen kept an all ~ night vigil against possible trouble here after a Negro woman shot and killed C. Leroy Adams, popular doctor and Demo- | eratic nominee for the State Sen- ate, Sunday, Sheriff Sim Howell said he ar- rested Mrs, Ruby McCollum, 37, and rushed her to the state prison at Raiford at a 90 - mile ~ an hour clip when several cars. fol- | lowed him. He said he did not | know whether the cars were chas- ing him or whether their occupants — merely curious. crowd of about 100 gathered fn the block where Adams’ office the county courthouse and the jail sre located, then increased to about 200 earty Sunday night after the approximately 25 highway pa- trolmen arrived from Tallahassee and set up a portable radio station fn the sheriff's office to commu- Bicate with their score of cars. Adams, 42, was shot twice from behind as he stood at his desk in his downtown office and once again after he had fallen to the floor, in what was apparently a dispute over a medieal bill, the sheriff said. He said Mrs. McCollum, wife of | @ fairly well-to-do Negro farmer | and mother of three children, ad- | . mitted the shooting but did not give a reason. A murder charge was to be placed against her today. Three other Negro women pa- tients in the office at the time of the shooting said there was an ar- gument over the size of Mrs. Mc- Collum’s bill. The sheriff said four spent shells were found in the Negro woman’s revolver and that Adams was shot once near the heart, once in the left shoulder and again in the side. Police Chief Worth How- ard said the doctor was found clutching a $100 bill in one hand and a fountain pen in the other. At one point after Howell re- turned from Raiford, a delegation from the crowd was taken through the jail to prove Mrs. McCollum was not there. There was no de- monstration. The sheriff said the gathering indicated “more or less curiosity” but that the state patrolmen would stay the night to prevent any pos- sible demonstration after dark. Howell also ordered all beer and liquor establishments in the coun- ty closed. Adams practiced in Live Oak, town of about 4,700, for many years and won the Democratic nomina- tion for state senator last May, He had no Republican opponent and a special primary probably will be called to nominate a successor. Dr. J. A. Valdes Specializing in Eye Examination and Visual Training COMPLETE SERVICE ON DUPLICATION of LENSES 20 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THIS COMMUNITY We Use Bausch and Lomb Eye Glass Prescription OFFICE HOURS: 9 te 12 A. M. C. Of C. Invites BPW Women And Families Here More than 4,000 members of Flo- idz’s Business and Professional women’s clubs are being invited by the Chamber of Commerce to bring their families with them to Key West when they come here for their conference on August 23rd and 24th. Chamber Manager Harold Laub- scher is keeping his staff busy sending out cards to all state BPW members which say: “We'll look for you in Key West, August 23, 24 at the BPW State the town was still the same color. Sropped off atthe barbershop for sto) off at the bar! a er eat and the Saturday night sports would be gathered there again. They were dapper in their Sun- day suits, straw hats and two-tone shoes, but they had a tired look around the eyes. “Well, sport, what kind of a night did you have?” They’d ask each other. And to hear them talk a fellow’d think each of them had been drinking champagne with Theda Bara, the vamp queen of the silent screen, They were wonderful ars. To brag was all right according to their code. The one thing a fellow didn’t do was complain. If you had hard luck, well, sport, that’s life. I worshipped these Saturday night sports, and could hardly wait to grow up so I could join this crew of corner cavaliers. But somehow time tamed them, and when I did grow up they didn’t seem clever and gallant and reckless. They just seemed like sad lost men desper- ately trying to forget their inse- curity. Had they changed, or had I? Anyway, I never got to be one of them—a real Saturday night sport. . Well, sport, that’s life, isn’t it? your BPW conference. For more information about the na- tion’s Southernmost City, accom- modations, and recreation, write the Key West Chamber of Com- merce.” The cards which are being sent out list the transportation of air- lines and busses for the Keys, the toll bridge, and side trips to Ha- vana. Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher for the New York Giants, was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. 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