The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 14, 1952, Page 3

} Third Annual Next Executive Officer Of USS Redf in' Commonwealih Company Wants Oil Rights In Everglades Park But Director Opposes Old Maid’s Day Friday For Gilstown By MARTHA COLE DENTON, Tex. —Bet you had forgotten about Aug. 15. It’s Old Maid’s Day! In Denton, Tex., in the whole big state of Texas. Anywhere there’s an old maid with the good humor to admit it and a good friend to celebrate it. The old maids have been so suc- cessful in their self-proclaimed day that they want to share. This year—the third annual year of celebration—the big day’s found- er and patron saint says they should help out a sister old maid. The founder—she’s who else but Miss Dorothy Babb, North Texas State College Latin teacher of the upswept gray hairdo and the twin. kling eyes. The one who gets in troduced the year round as THE : old maid, “I’m just about worn out with it all,” said THE old maid, fiftyish |, and smiling. H “Some of us got to thinking we ought to help out another old maid.” i Now the other old maid is Miss ; Amelia Anthony, 37, who founded ; Girlstown, U. S. A., out on the | West Texas prairies just a few | years ago. Miss Anthony sent her best wish- es to the Aug. 15 celebration in Denton last year and became a member in good spinster standing. “We thought people who wanted to give a gift to an old maid could do it by making a donation to Girlstown in the name of some old maid,” Miss Babb said. “Why just this week I got a $5 check for Girlstown.” The old maids in Denton haven't made any definite plans about helping Girlstown yet. They’re going to have a party at Miss Babb’s house Aug. 15 and talk about it. They’re gonna have fun, too. Miss Babb has gotten stacks of letters in recent weeks from old maids who say they’re being feted in their hometowns, too—in Okla- homa City, Louisville, Durham, N.C. And, now a gift for Girlstéwn, a home at Whiteface, Tex., for girls who need a home and love. Qfficial U.S. Navy Photo LT. LEAHMAN J. HOLT, USN, will soon be detached as an in- structor in pro-submarine warfare at the U.S. Fleet Sonar School, Key West, and will report for duty as Executive Officer of the U.S.S. Redfin (SSR-218). . In early 1944, Lt. Holt received his commission as Ensign in the United States Naval Reserve at the Midshipman’s School of Notre Dame University. He then attended the Diesel School at Cornell University, and Submarine School at New London, Conn. Other schools, ships and stations he attended and served, include Submarine Division 142 (relief crew), U.S.S. Dragonet (SS-293), Sonar School, San Diego, U.S.S. Seacat (SS-399), Line School, Newport, R. L, U.S.S. Requin (SSR-481), Instructors School, Norfolk, Va., and Sonar School, Key West. He is authorized to wea the American area, Asiatic Pacific area with two stars, European Occupation Theater ribbons, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Submarine Combat Pin with two stars. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Holt, Wetumpka, Ala. Ut Holt is married to the former Lessie Brock of Climax, Ga. They have three sons; Leahman, Jr., age 5, Richard, age 3, and Ed- ward, age 1. TALLAHASSEE (®# — Common- wealth Oil Company thinks it should have priority if drilling for oil is ever permitted in Florida's Everglades National Park. But National Parks Director Con- rad L. Wirth, Washington, doesn’t think it would be a good idea to drill for oil in the park area. He said it would drive away wildlife and ruin an area which has no duplicate anywhere in the country. Wirth was the principal oppo- nent against Commonwealth’s ap- plication at a hearing Warren said he wanted to think about the mat- ter and said he may be ready to vote on it at the regular Cabinet meeting next Tuesday. The Cabinet agreed to take the application un- der advisement and reach a de- cision at the earliest possible date. Commonwealth, which holds some oil leases in the park area, argued that there would be no point in spending a half million dollars or so in developing oil fields if other companies would stand an equal chance of reaping the bene- fits. Oil rights are retained until 1958 Speech-Making By DON WHITEHEAD SPRINGFIELD, Ill. P—Adlai E. Stevenson ‘teamed up today with Vice President Alben Barkley for a speech-making preliminary to his big presidential campaign kick- off on Labor Day with President Truman. Stevenson, Democratic presiden- tial nominee, and Barkley were slated to speak at the Illinois State Fair where GOP vice presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon of Cal- ifornia told Republicans Wednes- day Stevenson is a candidate of “the bosses.”” Barkley and Stevenson will have a ohance to answer that charge and make a few observations of their own in their appearance be- fore a Democratic rally. The formal Labor Day opening, of the Democratic drive to put Stevenson in the White House will find the Illinois governor speaking at noon in Detroit while President Truman appears at 9 p.m. (EST) in Milwaukee the same day. Their Sept. 1 speeches will be sponsored by labor groups in those cities. Beyond this opening day's strat- egy, the Stevenson command was reported to have adopted no firm Two Jailed In 'Husband’s Death BLOUNTSTOWN (® — A widow | and a primitive Baptist preacher from Altha were jailed Wednesday after he told police of a 10-months- old agreement to kill her husband and his wife. The preacher was Jess W. Ayers and the widow his stepdaughter, || Mrs. Flossie Pumphrey. Her hus- || band, Luther Pumphrey, died sud- | denly in his car Oct. 14, 1951 after ]| returning from a short trip. Ayers’ vy Ww GREEN LIGHT = FOR PROGRESS Electricity does more jobs—and does them better—than any other form of energy. It’s a green light for community progress. It’s the green light for industrial expansion so products can be made more efficiently and cheaply. It’s the green light for better services... brighter streets and schools. And it’s the green light for more comfortable and convenient homes . . . for better living. Communities with a plentiful supply of electricity move forward. You live in such a community, with the green light for growth and progress. |] | bershop Wednesday wife is Mrs. Pumphrey’s mother. Police Chief Ottis Sims said he | was reading a newspaper in a bar- when Ayers | approached him, asked if he was | through reading and told this story: | Ayers said Mrs: Pumphrey gave | him a note which he took to a Marianna drug store, brought back some white tablets which he gave to Mrs. Pumphrey Oct. 13, the day before Pumphrey died At Pumphrey’s funeral, Ayers | said, Mrs. Pumphrey told him she |had done what she promised to do but that “you haven't done what you were supposed to do.” Ayers did not say why he did not keep his agreement. Ayers repeated the story for C ty Judge Hanna B. Gaskin and then was placed in Calhoun County Jail on an open. charge Chief Sims, also a deputy sheriff, went to Altha, arrested Mrs. Pum- phrey on a warrant charging pre- meditated de: effect the death of her husband, and jailed J.C. Tucker viewed Ay h suspicion. He said to indicate hing but f said it s attorney | Power Steering takes over the effort of turn- ing the front wheels—makes it a one-hand body ical would be exhumed for cher analy- Mrs. Pumphrey made no state- ment. Ayers said they were mate for 18 years and that “I loved her better than anything I do but I have been so worried just had to tell - inti under terms of agreements by | Which private landowners gave up | their holdings to the federal gov- | ernment. Representatives for Common- | wealth, which wants the Cabinet |to sign an agreement giving it | drilling priority, said tests show a strong possibility of striking oil 40 miles west of Miami and said development of an oil field in the area would do no harm to the park. Commonwealth Attorney Thom as H. Anderson, Miami, said he thinks the park has been “‘over- played and overrated. I don’t think people are going down there to see a bunch of swamps and man- groves which make up the ever- glades.” Joe Moore, also of the park serv- ice, replied he did not think visi- tors would enjoy looking at bird life through the legs of a derrick. Wirth said if oil was found it would prove profitable to the dis- coverers but said ‘‘man does not live by bread alone.” 1 Stevenson, Barkley Team Up To Defend Party’s Cause In Preliminaries campaign plans except the general agreement that Stevenson will car- ry the main burden of the attack against the Republicans. Campaign strategy, speaking dates and itinerary are expected to take shape within the next 10 days after Stevenson’s special strategy board meets here this week end, drive. There’s the might There's its hushed Dynaflow Drive. | sion of Power Stee | ing in small space. operation, At Lackland Field GARLAND L. 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