The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 6, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CiTIZEN The Key West Citizen ———— Published daily (except Sunday) »y L. P. Artmaa, owner and pub- tisher, from The Citizen Building, eorncr cf Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County LP. ARTMAN Publisher NCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 —_——$— Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively exititled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or uot otmerwise credited im this paper, and also the local news publishea here. —_———— Member Florida Press Association and Associatec Dailies of Florida — Subscription (by carrier) 2fc per week, year $12.00, single copy 5c ——<——< 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, but it will not publish anonymous communications. Fe aS EE ER ae 5 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. eres comity and City Governments. Community Auditorium. TOO MUCH FLUORIDE With most communities in the country now adding fluoride to their water supply, to prevent tooth decay, the town of Chester, Virginia, has come up with a different problem. Its problem is getting the fluoride. out of the water. Page 2 Wednesday, August 6, 1952 L 2 a 4 5. county health department officials have to dilute the water go that it will contain.no more than two parts fluoride to one million parts of water. That’s enough fluoride, in the opinion of county officials, to prevent tooth decay. A Chester dentist, Laurence C. Matthews, who has advocated water fluoridation, was reportedly surprised to learn:about the situation in Chester. Dr. Matthews report- édly said that tooth decay among children in Chester was about as bad as anywhere else, NEW CARS FOR 1953 ‘Reports from Detroit indicate that the automobile industry fs getting customer-conscious and will. make. a strong bid to attract buyers in 1953. It is beginning to look as if the big automobile producers will make more changes in next year's models than in any year since the end of World War II. Chrysler is expected to put its new cars on the mar- ket. in October and it is understood that there are major changes in the*body designs of all eur!’Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto and Chrysler. Dodge is expected to come out with a new V-8 tyne engine, 140 horsepower. General Motors is offering air-conditioning units in the new Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles. Both Buicks and Chevrolets are expected to change to the V-8 type engine. Ford expects to introduce new cars in November. While extensive body changes are not expected for the new Lincoln, Mercurys and Fords, the Mercurys and Fords may have new and more powerful engines. Hudson expects to offer a new body and also a new car in the light, six-cylinder field. Studerbaker bodies are to be re-designed completely. Packard is offering power- steering and power-brakes, In other words, it looks as though there will be plenty ‘of competition as the 1953 season approaches. The accent, which has been on power in recent years, is turning to- ward comfort and the prospects are that there will be plenty of cars to go around. Curiosity is the key to all knowledge. Landlords rarely worry about their tenants as long as the rent is paid promptly. Prosperity cannot abound in an area populated by people who make low incomes. When you do a favor for a person, you might think that you are entitled to one in return. _SLICE OF HAM mt “HE'S MAKING THE MOST OF THIS SOUTH SEAS CRUISE! There is so much fluoride in the community well that | GOV VV IV OFT VT VICI V GIGI ICI I II VIFF ISIC GIGS THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB (2444 64444444444444444444444444444444 The “‘Navy Wife’? who wrote to The Miami Herald’s Voice of the People last Sunday paid this col- umn a nice compliment and it was appreciated. Several people have reported reading the letter and for a few of them it was confirmation of their worst thoughts. . . “Crusader!” they hissed. The ex- pression in their eyes placed me about six feet lower in the ground than a snake’s belly. “This Rock of Ours” really isn’t crusading. It is merely trying to point out needed improvements. If the present residents of Key West don’t make these improvements, future ones will. The idea that any community, or country for that matter, can sit back and expect bowing down to for its past accom- plishments must be wiped out. Key Westers and “Conchs” have a right to be proud of the fact that this was once one of the larg- est towns in Florida. The Civil War history, cigar manufacturing, sponge industries, all of these things help lend our town glamour if a person sits in a rocking chair and daydreams. Historical glamour isn’t sufficient for everyday living though. The mother who is raising young- sters can’t be thrilled by the fact that we’re unique because we lack sufficient water for normal house- hold needs. » The sailor who is ordered to live in Key West comes prepared to make the place his home for two or three years. He is willing to accept backward conditions if the people will let him help improve them. However, before a person is allowed to express an opinion on the island, not only the person himself, but his grandpa and his great-grandpa must have been a dyed-in-the-wool conch. Every small community puts up a resistance to change: In the long run, modern science and greater knowledge on the part of outsiders pushes it aside. At present many outsiders are leaving the island rather than | bother trying to make these neces- sary changes. The political situa- tion confuses a lot of them. Spot- zoning often makes it practically impossible for others to build the kind of home they desire. The time will come when some guy will just happen to like “The Rock” well enough to fight all such inconveni- ences until he wins. It happened in England, remem- ber? — The folks decided they needed a Magna Charta and per- suaded King John to give it to them. In early American: history, the Indians resisted progress but today we have the United States of Ame- Tica, Key West will grow too. Our geo- graphical position might have pre- vented us from keeping abreast of the times but if we keep trying, we will improve. Rent Forum | Humpty-Dumpty (These questions were selected from those often asked of the local rent office. If you have a question about the rent stabilization pro- gram, address it to: Area Rent Of- fice, 216 Federal Building, Key West, Florida.) Question: We have lived in this apartment about 2 years. During this time, with the consent of our landlord,’ we have re-finished the floors, painted the woodwork and re-papered three of the rooms, at our own expense. Now the landlord wants to evict us so that his daugh- ter who is to be married soon can move in. Can he do this? We think he should evict one of the other tenants who hasn’t spent so much on their unit. But if he does make us move, is there any way we can recover from him the expense we have been put to in fixing this place up? Answer: You have really asked several questions in one. If your landlord is acting in good faith and actually intends for his daughter to move in, he can petition our of- fice and secure a certificate relat- ing to eviction to evict you. All that such a certificate does it to let him exercise whatever rights, if any, he has to evict under the state law. We can do nothing about his evicting you instead of another tenant. He has the right to select the unit he wants. Regarding your rehabilitation the unit and any ‘chance for you to recover the ex- penses for such, we are sorry to say that here, too, we have cau- tioned tenants time and again not to rehabilitate rental units or make repairs unless he makes an ad- vance agreement with his landlord regarding the rehabilitation and gets it approved by the rent office. Generally speaking, the legal pro- cedure on this, if the unit is in Truck Driver AMSTERDAM, N. Y. & — He was hauling eggs, so Vernon Thom- as, 32,Charles City, Iowa, braked the tractor-trailer he was driving when he saw a rough patch of pavement ahead. The truck skidded and over- turned. Thomas was not injured, but he’ll never put his cargo to- gether again, is tition our office for a rental reduc- |‘ tion, Question: On the date that this area was declared critical, I was renting a 5-room house under a lease which entitled the tenant to use the garage right behind the property, As tenant did not own a car, both he and I have used the garage for store purposes, My ten- ant has now purchased a car and insists that I move my things out of the garage so he can use it. If I do so, can I charge him $5 a month extra for the garage, which is the usual garage rent in this neighborhood? It is my belief that because he did not use the garage on the date the area was declared critical, that the garage no longer goes with the house. My tenant says that the garage went with the house regardless of wheher he had a car or not. Answer: Your tenant is correct. The very fact, as you stated your- self, the lease covering the unit in question, on the date the area was declared critical, provided for a 5 room house with garage in rear, would be the final answer that ‘the garage does go with the house’ and therefore, you cannot secure a rental adjustent to cover such garage when it would not be an additional service. The tenant is Tow entitled to use of the garage, and if in any manner you keep need of repair, painting or decorat-| him from using it, he may peti- ing, and the landlord fails or re-; tion our office for a rental reduc- fuses to have the necessary re-| tion because of a decrease in ser- pairs made, is for the tenant to pe-| vices, Cros rd Puzzl 4. Sunken fences Ly 9. Note of 39. At libe the dove 40. cee 12. Kind of sill i Ran ener. : God oF pitas 4 Partake ‘of 8 meal 45. Choir $3 Trouble” rd 15. Aeriform 16. 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He j isn’t even mentioned in their plat- | forms, and he can walk a plank | for all they care. But Dr. Jordan, one of the coun- | try’s ‘top female physicians, has come up with a concrete program , to make the tired businessman feel less tired, For years the tired businessman has been a misunderstood figure, subject to public laughter and the loud leer. Everybody suspected that he was really a gay dog worn out from too much play rather than too much work. It got so that even. the owner of a hamburger stand became afraid to complain about his fallen arches for fear he would be labeled as a social climber trying to pretend he was “a tired businessman.” But Dr. Jordan has put the stamp of medical authority on the fact that the tired businessman really is tired. And her prescription is: He ought to take it easy and pam- per himself more. Specifically, the ingredients in her prescription for businessmen over 50 include: (1) The habit of taking one or two relaxing drinks a day; (2) restful one-month vaca- tions twice a year; (3) a leisurely noon lunch, followed by a nap; (4) moments of relaxation between business appointments to break the tension of the work day. These are sound, sensible recom- mendations. The only quarrel the average fellow will have with them this: “Why wait until I am 50? Let’s start living that way now.” There is some justification for this viewpoint, as all impartial surveys show that the ordinary person who starts earning his liv- ing at 21 begins to feel tired be- fore his 22nd birthday. Often a sensation of ennui can be noted even before he draws his first pay- check. After that time merely deepens it. What Dr. Jordan may have in- | advertently done is open the door to a great revolution in the Amer- ican business office. Since the office is a man’s work- a-day home, it should have all the facilities of a well-appointed home and social club—a bar, a library, some card tables and pinball ma- chines, and a few comfortable couches. I don’t know whether Dr. Jordan has made any research into what makes the tired businessman tired. But I have. My theory, based on long ob- servation, is that the average char- acter in the office zoo, be he boss or hired hand, by the limitations of the human animal actually can work hard only five hours in his eight-hour day. The other three | hours he spends pretending to be, busy—rustling papers, walking back and forth to the water cooler, fidgeting at his desk. It is these three hours of acting that cause so much tension and send the businessman home so tired he is even ready to talk back to his wife. A three-hour daily stint on the stage is an ordeal even for a professional actor. What kind of a strain must it be then for the millions of amateurs in American offices? The real way to cure the tired businessman is to take this burden of pretense off his back. Some- body ought to set up an experi- mental office in which everybody hits the job hard from 9:30 until | noon, and from 2 p.m., until 5 p.m. The rest of the time they would be free to lunch, take naps, piay gin rummy or make love to; each other. 1 don’t know how long an office set up on that basis would stay in business. But nobody would go/ home tired. And the boss would have to pay them double even to force them to take a vacation. By RELMAN MORIN (For Hal Boyle) NEW YORK (#—The flying sau- | | cer story, you know, is by no | means a new one. | About 30 years ago, a man named Charles Fort rounded up! and published a whole series of reports about mysterious objects in the sky. He said his sources, mainly, were newspapers, and he cited the names and dates of the | papers, in case his readers were | interested in checking the refer-| ences { Some accounts were well over | 100 years ago, before the age of airplanes before very much} | was known about balloons. | } The reports of sightings, accord- | ing to Fort, came from many dif- | ferent parts of the world—from | | North Carolina, from a ship en route to Bermuda, and a whole spate from the north coast of Eng- land. In fact, that section of the the | British Isles was, in its day Teday’s | Business fAirror By SAM DAWSON _ NEW YORK ® — The Treasury is still taking more than half of what a manufacturer earns—but it isn’t getting as much money as a year ago. That is because other costs of doing business are rising. There isn’t as big a pile of gross earn- ings for the Treasury to get at— even though sales volume is up for many companies. The Treasury, however, expects to make up any shrinkage in cor- porate taxes by larger collections from individuals, as wages and salaries rise and the Treasury takes a deeper dip into personal income. Individuals, of course, also really pay the corporate taxes in the long run, since they are covered by the higher prices charged on manu- factured goods. Surveying operations of 460 com- panies for the first half of 1952, the National City Bank of New York finds that the Treasury is getting 59 per cent of their com- bined gross income, the same per- centage as a year ago. This includes a 52 per cent cor- porate income tax, plus the excess profits tax which some of the cor- porations also are assessed, aver- aging off for the 460 firms at 59 per cent. Among them they are putting aside $2,849,000,000 for taxes out of first-half gross earnings of $4,861,- 000,000. But the Treasury is getting 433 | million fewer dollars from them} this year than last, or a drop of 13 per cent. It comes about this way. Combined sales receipts of the 460 are running 5 per cent ahead of a year ago, for a gain of about 1% billion dollars. However, labor and other operating costs have in- creased 9 per cent, for a total of 2% billion dollars. That leaves the 460 companies 732 million dollars less to pay taxes on than the year before. ‘ So the federal tax payments will be down 433 mil ind their net profit after taxes will be down 299 million dollars. How operating costs are cutting in on profits can be shown another way. A year ago the companies were averaging 6.9 cents profit margin on each dollar of sales. This year they net 5.7 cents. The federal govesrnment isn’t the only one taxing corporations and individwals. Add, state and local tax collections, and the total gov- ernment take far exceeds the for- mer peak set in World War II. The grand total for the 1952 fis- cal year is about 87 billion dollars, compared with 70 billion dollars in 1951. Corporations ‘pay about 23% bil- lion of this in income taxes. In- dividuals put up more than 30 bil- lion dollars for income tax pay- ments Sales, excise, property, cus- toms and other taxes make up the rest. The cost of being governed—at the federal, state anc local levels— thus exceeds the cost of food, a cording to the bank. It estimates this year’s food bill in this country will be around 60 billion dollars. The bank concludes: “Taxes must in the last analysis be borne by the people, who now pay more for being governed and defended than for eating.” southwestern part of the United States seems to be today. Some of the descriptions quoted by Fort are almost identical with the ones we read today. . . “An object of great luminosity, moving at high speed” ... “It moved backward and forward across the sky, apparently without turning” . . . “The object hovered, motion- less in the air, above a house.” I should think this would be very reassuring to the Air Force offi- cers in Washington who are col- lecting data on the saucers and trying to explain them. (Mam.- Gen. Roger M. Ramey said the jother day about one-fifth of all the reported sightings ‘remain to be explained”) If people saw, or thought they | saw, objects in the sky a century or more ago, these questions im- mediately arise: Were observers subject then, as now, to the same hallucinations? Why didn’t the saucers’ crews | ever land? Surely, the world must have been a happier place in the 19th century than it is now. Where have the saucers been during the intervening time? Did we somehow get mislaid on their | inter-stellar charts? impressed Charles Fort very much, one way or another, while he was Citi Writer Estimates Statisties If “Flying Saucers” ———_— By FRANK CAREY Associated Press Science Reporter WASHINGTON (#—If those al- leged “flying saucers” were ships from outer space, they’d have to be manned by chaps with tolerant wives. Roundtrip travel to the earth from Mars and Venus—the only two planets in our solar system given even an outside chance of supporting life — would involve nearly three years for the Mar- ; tians, just over two years for the yer And they’d have to spend that much time away from the wife and kids even though they had spaceships capable of traveling at a 25,000-mile-an-hour clip. Just suppose, for a minute, that | study ind Mars and Venus were populuted by some kind of intelligent beings capable of launching a spaceship— saucer-shaped or what-have-you— and that they wanted to do some fancy spying on the earth. Here's what they’d be up against: While Venus is “only” 25 mil- lion miles from the earth at its closest approach to our planet— a breeze, you might say, for a spaceship travelling 25,000 miles an hour—there would be much more to the problem than that. Venus makes such a “close” ap- proach only once in every 470 days; meanwhile, in its orbit around the sun, it gets. as far away as 160 million miles from the earth. Moreover, while Venus and the earth travel in the same direction around the sun, Venus hurtles | along at a 22-mile-a-second clip, while the earth moves at 18% PS: FoR tig Really Exist Iran Might Sell Oil To Soviet BUFFALO, N. Y. & — An Yram ian government official indicated here Monday night that his coun- try might sell its oil to Soviet Russia if Iran were unable to dis- pose of it otherwise. Manucher Nakhai, director gen- eral of the Iranian Ministry of this oil situation, and we must sell it for our own welfare.” Nakhai, 37, was here on tour to lustrial conditions in the - United States. problem if they can afford to do all the nocturnal cruising around the earth that has been credited to them. Sea ean pi SE RUGS CLEANED AND Stored Free of Charge IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 30 All Formal Garments chemically miles a second. This means that any take-off from Venus—and the return take- off from the earth—must be made several WEEKS in advance of the time the two planets would be closest to each other, 1 That is, the Venutian spaceman wouldn’t aim right for the earth; he’d direct his spaceship at a point where it would eventually “ren- dezvous” with the earth, Estimates have been made that, for minimum fuel consumption, a roundtrip between Venus and the Earth would require 146 days for the actual trip, a 470-day wait at the destination point until the planets were “close” again, and then another 146 days for the flight home, or a total of 762 days. As for the Mars-to-earth-and-re- turn junket, the figures go like is: Closest approach of the two plan- ets: 35 million miles. 258 cruising days on the outgoing voyage, a wait of 485 days at des- tination point, and another 258 days going “home.” Total, 971 days. That would mean that inter- Penetary a ae have to some place to hide the stopoyer, gies Of course, a spaceship with a limitless supply of fuel wouldn’t have to undergo the so-called “waiting period.” It could take off even when the objective planet was ; at its maximum distance—160 mil- | lion miles between earth and Venus and 248 million between earth and Mars. But, of course, that would mean a longer time in flight. Coming back again to the al- leged “flying saucers’—and the big “IF” on whether they are something manned by interplane- | tary space-navagators—here’s an- | other thought: They've certainly licked the in- terplanetary fuel consumption CARTOON SLOPPY JOE'S BAR * Burl bs Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous SALLY & MARCELLA LYNN AND GOGO GABE, CATHY CARROL, SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS Dancing To MARK STANLEY'S TRIO Thurs. 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