The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 18, 1952, Page 2

Page Z THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Che Key West Cittsen —$—————— $$ ____ Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmin, owner ana pub tisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ano Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Munroe County & P. ARTMAN NCRMAN D. ARTMAN —— Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Ciass Matter was TELEPHONES 61 and 1935 ‘ember of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otverwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishea here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida} Se Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ——_—— The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue aad subjects of local or general interest, out it wil) not publish @monymous communications. EAS SS Saas EEENSaE SESE SEER! IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ag BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and A; ents. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Coumunity Auditorium. ‘ a eT A TREATY WITH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND The United States, New Zealand, and Australia have entered into a Tripartite Security Treaty, This treaty grew out of demands by Australia and New Zealand for U. S. assurances against new Japanese aggression, The name Anzus (for Australia, ‘New Zealand, and the United States) has been adopted to label matters dealing with the treaty. The State Department has been careful not to give the impression that this Pacific treaty ean be compared with the North Atlantic Treaty Organi- gation. ; The defense of the Pacific is much more complicated than, the defense of the Atlantic. The members of a Pacific | alliance are strung out over a 10,000 mile area, while NATO deals with mature countries in'a relatively com- pact land area. Most of the countries in the Pacific have ineffective land forces and no sea power. There is also strong anti-Western and neutralist sentiment. Another thing that should be remembered is that it * would be virtually impossible to work out an effective Pa- cific defense pact without including Japan as a member. Most of the nations of the Far East are unwilling, how- ever, to enter an alliance of which Japan is a member, : In as much as there are shooting wars going on in the Pacific, it is almost academic at present to consider a Pacific defense pact. Besides fighting the Korean war, the United States is furnishing about one-third of the economic and military supplies being used by the French in the In- do-China war, and also substantially assisting the British in Malaya. The United States is also aiding the Philippines, In- dia, and Indonesia to assist them to become internally strong. The United States is also committed to defend the Philippines, Japan, and Formosa in case of attack. Thus the possibility of a Pacific defense alliance is still regarded as remote and premature, The Tripartite ~ Treaty with New Zealand and Australia is important, however, as another link in the chain of defense commit- ment aimed at containing Communism. Television will soon be where radio is today. This is about the time mothers conclude they'll be glad when the “dear little things” are back in school, The main purpose of education is to teach people to think. We are a little bit suspicious of people who have everything arranged and accomplish their work on sched- ule. ® The theory of relativity can be applied to everyday living and happiness, proving that all of life’s problems | are’relative, and that happiness is mental relativity, not | physical wealth, AM aS “GOT. TIRED OF SALUTINGI” Monday, August 18, 1952 ' Publishe: | TOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD —It took tele- vision and a busted marriage to do it, but songstress Peggy Lee has finally been snagged by the movies. The blonde Miss Lee is playing thé leading role opposite Danny Thomas in “The Jazz Singer.” What’s more, she has signed for two pictures a year for Warners with an option for another. This is a gal who has turned down, offers before, so I asked her why the change of heart. . “Yes, I’ve had offers before,” she admitted. “I guess I talked to MGM three different times about it. Finally I told the casting di- P| rector, Billy Grady, that we should call the whole thing off. ‘You're aa moe your time and mine,’ said. THIS ROCK GVV VV VCC CCC CCC CCVVIITe OF OURS BILL GIBB ARAMA BAAARAAAAAAABAHALAR SHEERS RH ROMA (Note: If this column bears any resemblance to Eleanor Roose- velt’s “My Day”, it is purely un- intentional and fictional. Serious- ly, many of the column’s read- ers are oldsters whe can’t get around like they used to. Dozens of them have inquired about my family whom they knew in years gone by and the easiest way to answer is with a column on the subject.) The Island of Cuba is probably in for a rough time tonight. My aunt, Helen Gibb of El Paso, Tex- as, and my mother, Zuma Light- , flew over there this mern- ing. (I use my mother’s maiden name because Key Westers only re- member other people by the name they knew as a child.) Both vacationists are youngsters in their sixties and I wasn’t too “One of the reasons I didn’t want | sure that they could take care of to do movies was that I was mar- | themselves. There are many temp- ried (to Dave Barbour) at the | tations in Cuba — nightclubs, bars, time. I was already involved in | free drinks at distilleries, ete. Hope a) _— $1,000 DAMAGE EACH to this Hudson and to a 1948 Pontiac occurred when the Pontiac driven by Vernon L. Smith, USN, tried to pass the Huc 3on which was turning into the Arthur Sawyer Road on Stock Island, this week. Florida Highway Patrolman Marvin J. Wilder charged Smith, who was slightly injured with reckless driving, and improper passing at an intersection. Anthony P. Kampitch, USS Seagull, driver of the Hudson, tried to get out of the way of the pass- ing car, but was smashed in the rear, pushed through an abutment and into the water. John \ Joseph Dooling, USN, passenger in Smith’s car suffered slight abrasions ‘on the forehead, as did Smith. Kampitch escaped uninjured, Trophies For Model Airplane Meet too many things. I knew that if I added movies to them, it might be the last straw that would break up the marriage. As it was, the marriage broke up anyway, “Another reason was that I just couldn’t face it. Getting up before an audience had always been tor- turefor me. I guess I’ve always been shy. I always had to give myself a pep talk before I went out to sing. I said to myself that if I gave in and didn’t meet the challenge, that I wouldn’t be able to do anything in life. “So I always managed to get myself out on the stage. Once I started singing, I felt fine.” I wondered how a girl witch such fear of audiences could get started in the singing business. “Ever since I can remember, I had a desire to sing,” she ex- plained. “I had a driving urge to express myself in song, and it pushed me on, even though I was scared to death of performing be- fore people.” Peggy also credits television with helping to conquer her un- easiness. She spent a year or two in the East on various shows. “It was a grind, but the expe- rience was valuable,” she com- mented. “I was on several times a week, and we did everything. ‘| We had a lama on the Steve Al- len show and I grew very fond of it. One day I was singing a song to the llama on the air, but it kept snuggling up to me. I real- | ized it was stealing the closeup, as Oca Citizen Staff Photo ON DISPLAY at Gulfstream Food Department store are these shining prizes awarded winners at the Meet at Meacham field from 8 a. m. to 5p. m. Sunday. Sponsored by the Key West Ex- change club, the meet drew entries from through out the state. Child Drowns ST. PETERSBURG — Five- year-old Larry Tshantz was ex- ploring an inlet in Tampa Bay dressed in his prized Indian suit and feathered headdress, his | cheeks smeared with war paint and a hatchet in his belt. | A playmate reported the lad | stepped off a moored cabin cruiser | into 10 feet of water. His body | was recovered Friday. | HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE " types,” said the director, so I gave it a*push and said, ‘I’m ‘ as strong as you are.’ I kept on singing.” Peggy was brotght to films by Michael Curtiz, who is currently directing her. He visited her sev- ‘ eral times while she was singing at a sunset strip night spot. As he explains it “I realized that God had given her an unusual ability to express warmth and sin- cerity in song. So why shouldn’t’ she be able to do the same with spoken words?” Some eyebrows were raised when Peggy was signed by War- ners. The queen of the lot is an- other blonde singer named Doris Day, No. 2 box office draw among the female stars. (No. 1: Betty Grable). But Curtiz asserted there | would be no conflict between Misses Lee ‘and Day, who are both his discoveries. “They are entirely different “Doris life of any party, too, for women | will still think you are attractive— | and your wife won’t mind, because she knows you no longer are tempted. a (Editor’s note: Boyle must be dreaming.) ~ they get back safely. It was my mother’s first trip in a plane. For a week she argued against it, giving every excuse imaginable. The only reason she finally agreed to go was because I told her, “Well, I guess you're just too old and feeble to make the flight.” Wild horses couldn’t have kept her out of the plane after those words! Women are sure funny. Although history should furnish them with proof that the passage of time creates age, a woman will main- tain at sixty that she has the same vitality as she had at twenty, For men now, age is a luxury. No longer do they have to pretend that they enjoy mowing the lawn, ete. They can settle back in a rocking chair and tell the kids to do the grass-cutting — explaining how hard they used to work when they were youngsters. First Trip To Key West This is my aunt’s first trip to Key West though several other peo- ple from El Paso have stopped in to see me. Her principle amaze- ment is the salt water. That is natural because if you’ve ever been in the desert country of Texas you know that water is about as scarce as the few drops that flow from 2nd floor Key West showerbaths, El Paso, Texas, and Key West, Florida, are as different as day and night. Yet a lot of Conchs have lived out that way on@ time’ér an-| other, And vice versa. Ojder Key Westers may be in- terested in knowing that Florelle Lightbourn. Brown is still in El Paso and enjoying good health. It was her husband who was assigned to the old Army Barracks as a surgeon. He turned in. such a scathing report to Washington about unhealthy, crowded condi- } tions for local troops that the War | Department promptly transferred several thousand men out of town. Conchs still abuse him as being a malefactor to Key West prosperity but since the poor guy died in a Mexican expedition under Persh- ing, I doubt that the local talk is _ likely to hurt his feelings. Jim Gibb, my father, is presently tax assessor for the City of El Paso. He has never forgotten his old Island City Bank days and is the refreshing, bubbling kind of extrovert—-the All-American girl. Peggy is the deep, thoughtful in- trovert with a great deal of feel- ing.” | NEW YORK #&—Nobody likes to | get caught in the middle—and that | applies to middle age, too. \e Americans as a people are par- ticularly reluctant to face the fact of middle age. “I ain't as young as I used to ACROSS 1, Authoritative . commands 31. Threw lightly 35. Small hole 37. Silkworm 38, Fish sauce 41, Snug room 42. Obstruction 43. Goddess of love and beauty 45. Collection of maps 47, Subterfuge 49. Small wild oxen 52. Steep, as fax 53. Cravat 54. Cheek 55. Support for a golf ball 56. Old vo og ic 3. Device for removing moisture 6. Distant ). High mountain Make of no effect Falsehood No: Scotch . Mother-of- Pearl . Enlarges | ingly, and lets it.go at that. He is reconciled to the thought that in time he will be old, But middle- aged?—never! In his mind he | stays a youth until his second | childhood. This seems a shame to me. For | if one is really middle-aged, ad- |‘mits it publicly, and acts his age, Const ey | he can get a great deal more out ‘or yi Sabsiary ica beclogg than by imitating college Pye cupfike | . Middle age js like baldness. It ; is better to relax and enjoy it than Accumulate j try to comb it over and hide it 19. Jubilant | from your friends. Devoured | Solution of Saturday's Puzzie DOWN 1, Enthusiastic devotee: slang 2 Feminine name 3. Old 4 Takesa different direction The ERS forefinger h Venoe traved . Small fish . City in lows . Guided . Hewing tools die-aged is that you can still savor most of the tempered pleasures of youth—and demand maay of the privileges of the elderly. You can keep a foot in both camps. And it can be a pleasant straddle. When you are middie-aged you are still young enough to do any- | thing you really want. but you have a perfect excuse to get cut of any hectic foolishness that no longer | appeals to you. You ca dance or play poker as late as you choose, but when you go fishing the next morning you can point at your graying temples and let the young people row the beat Middle age is an advantage fi- nancially and socially. Tell your boss, “Well, chief, 'm middie-aged at last.” and he will have to give you a raise in pay, figuring = man of your maturity ought to be mak- | a steady warmth, blowing neither | be,” the average man says grudg- ! -ered young. | of the sports page, and you feel | fore. The big advantage of being mid | Yes, middle age is best. It is the period with no drawbacks. It is like a banked, fire that gives too hot nor too cold. If more people realized this, they would gladly confess to middle age. But many are middle-aged and don’t know it. How can you tell? It isn’t exactly a matter of years. A dog is middle-aged at six, but a college president of 45 is consid- The real test is inner, not chron- ological. Here are a few sign-posts of middle age: You turn first to the obituaries in the morning newspaper, instead wees In HIS FUNNIEST vaguely cheated if somebody in- teresting hasn't died the night be- You pay more attention to the weather, and are sure the sum- mers are hotter than they used to be. You reach for an umbrella if the sky is the least bit cloudy. You don't listen to your wife any better, but you obey her more. When you come to a flight of tairs, you think of the stairs and | | not what is waiting at their top. You don't sit down. Your knees anbuckle and you sag. Your best friend is no longer | rour dog, ‘but your bottle of sodium carbonate pills. You take your shoes off at every % Joaquin Pardave "WEBB 2 writes often requesting information about the City Electric Company crowd. He was a 32 degree Mason in the local consistory and I think still maintains his affiliation. Jack Gibb flew into Miami a few weeks ago for the Shrine conven- tion. He is Recorder at the El Paso Temple and spends most of his time flying all over the con- tinent. Bill Gibb still works for Southern Pacific. He recently returned to El Paso after a trip through the Northwestern part of U. S. and Canada. His biggest pleasure in life is making a loud noise with a drum in the Shriner’s Drum and Bugle Corp. Al Gibb died a few years ago. The Gibbs get scattered from one end of the country to another but the clannish blood of the Scots is never lost. Trouble for one means trouble for all. I sometimes won- der if they shouldn’t get together and form their own “Ladies From Hell” brigade — skirts, bagpipes, and all. Read the Classified Ads FERAL ARO RUGS CLEANED AND Stored Free of Charge “IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 90 All Formal Garments chemically processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured. 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