The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 23, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen ———— Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artmsn, owner and pub- \isher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P, ARTMAN BCRMAN D. ARTMAN Business Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 51 and 1935 @lember of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it os not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news publishes here. Member Florida Press Association and Associatec Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION lage 2 Saturday, August 23, 1952 GOOD STREETS ARE AMONG KEY WEST’S / (MOST VALUABLE ASSETS _ hat was pleasing news from Manager Dave King about the city’s intention to repair certain streets in Key West. Good streets are essential to a city’s progress, par- ticularly to Key West, ‘which, on a proportionate basis, is growing faster than any other city in the South and has a population of 26,483. Not much longer than 10 years ago, our population was about one-half of that number. While we feel that neither Manager King nor the City Commission wishes to discriminate\in improving Key West streets, yet the question has occured to us many a time, Why has Seminole avenue, which runs along La Ca- 8a Marina property, been permitted to remain in so bad a condition-for so many’ years? ‘ The owners of La Casa Marina are among the city’s largest taxpayers. Nobody can question conscientiously e beauty of the hotel or its grounds, There are many Ue hotels in Florida, but none of them ig .more attrac- e than La Cass. Marina. It is a credit to the city and al- ways has been a credit since it was constructed. And yet Seminole avenue, which is only the length of the hotel land, is full of ruts and bumps. re Key Westers may recall, for we fumed and denounc- ed at the time, when a circuit court judge, now no longer on the bench, spoke of our handsome Post Office Build- ing as a “‘string of pearls around a hog’s neck.” That was untrue, but it is not so far from the truth to say that Semi- mole avenue is something of a hog wallow fronting a beau- tiful hotel. So The Citizen suggests that, when other streets in Key West are listed for improvement, Seminole be includ- ed in them, We have sound indications now of what the coming tourist season will be in Key West. Probably, it will be our most successful season. At present the number of tourists in Key West exceeds the number at the height of the season a decadc or so ago. A great many of the tourists who will be here then will come in their automobiles. Tourists, as well as home- town folks, like to ride on good streets. Let us try to make ft a point to have Seminole avenue paved when they come to town in record-breaking numbers. Keep abreast of the issues and read both sides of ma- Jor questions, The Citizen tries to assist you by giving you the facts, BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK #-—Some weeks ago A. P. Cooke, editor and pub- lisher of the weekly Plant City (Fla.) Courier, leaned some bad news about one of his readers. The reader was himself. Should he print the news or keep silent? Cooke hestated, thein sat down and typed out his regular column, “Just Roaming.” “The word cancer is an ugly word,” he began. “It is, to most folks, a cruel word, a despairing word because the very thought of it brings despair to anyone ‘close to one so afflicted. “I have just been told that I have a carer in the tissues of the mouth, but I am not despair- ing. : “You see, medical people say that early detection is half the battle, and medical science has advanced rapidly in the treatment of this affliction.” Often he, like his readers, had dropped a dime into the little boxes that appear on store counters “Cancer strikes one of every five.” “I thought—if I ever gave it a thought—that I was one of the other four. But I was wrong, “I have become a statistic. . . not altogether a pleasant thought Cooke then told his readers how a dentist had first noticed the sus- picious lump in his mouth, how his doctor had diagnosed it as cancer, and of his intention to fly to New York to see the specialist his own doctor recommended. “If I can, I will keep you in- formed. . . Meanwhile, good luck and God be with you until we meet again.” his arrival here Cooke. met further bad news. The specialist recommended immediate surgery. Cooke had to make up his mind in 20 minutes whether to be oper- ated on two days later—or wait another week. As he hesitated, the specialist: said: “When your garage is on fire, put it out before it burns up your car.” o “Operate,” said Cooke. The next day he was in the hospital, and the day after that he was operated on. He spent more than four hours under the knife, required three blood transfusions, but 12 days lat- er he left the hospital. Today Editor Cooke has a happy ending story for his readers, The stitches are out of his jaw, he feels the surgeon is. as optimstic over the results of the operation a he is, and he is on his way me. Before he and his wife left, 1 visitéd with them on a park bench in Greenwich Village. “T feel as if I had been through a tremendous nightmare,” Cooke said. “The hospital code word for my type of operation is ‘Com- mando,’ and I can truthfully’ say that after going through it you feel like you’ve been on a commando raid. But now I feel like I’ve got a life expectancy of 80.” He expressed gratitude that his own doctor had told him promptly the full truth of his ailment. “It’s a hell of a shock,” he said. “But it was almost as hard or my ‘doctor to tell me as it was | for me to hear it. He hated to. “But I’m glad he did tell me. Pussy-footing. . . bumfoozling. . . doesn’t do any good. It’s like the specialist said about your garage. If it’s on fire, you want to know | quick.” Cooke is also grateful for many newspaper editorials and letters from his readers praising him for | ACROSS 1 Call tor 5. Addition to a building SLICE OF ; man from the store extolled theif | poised,‘ for items of significance Crossword Puzzle ba Schultz Death Ruled Accidental TAMPA —Police have listed as accidental drowning the: death of Benjamin Fred — Schultz, 50 whose body was found floating in Hillsborough River here. Detective Sgt. OC. Beynon said Schultz, a- Tampan, apparently fell from a moored fishing boat after a drinking party. Schultz was cook on the boat. HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—Ever have one of those days when everything goes wrong? I had one this week. I should have realized the portent when the fan belt on the family transport snapped on the way to the office. Lots of other things happened, too. The copy boy was in a foul mood and growled at me. Two promis- ing interviews were canceled. And the house payment check was due. I should have known enough to go home to bed. But the necessi- ties of.a daily column would not allow, so I toured a couple of studios. Nothing. Roy Rogers had gone for the day, and Trigger didn’t want to be quoted. Marilyn Morfroe was reported out playing catch with Joe DiMaggio. By some fancy footwork, I was able to elude Shelley Winters, But I had an ace in the hole. It was a telegram which claimed to be a “passport to Heaven.” Some department store was toss- | ing “the most unique fantastic men’s fashion show ever present- ed.” Although ungrammatical, it sounded promising. I had always thought that a male fashion show would be good for a column some lay. So I trundled to the swank eat- ery and drinkery where the event was taking place. The hors d’oeuvres were wonderful, The fashion show was a dud. I was expecting to learn the an- swers to all the urgent male fash- ion issues. Is the belt-in-the-back coat returning? (I saved one of mine, just in case.) Can you year | a Tartan plaid to the opera open ing? What is happening to spats? The fashion show turned out to be a promotion for new kinds of material. You know—those suits you can put in the washer and ties that shed gravy like a duck | drips water. At this fashion show an agency displayed all these items, from shorts to overcoats, while a virtues (The clothes, not the mod- els). I listened carefully, pencil About the only thing I garnered and Marshall | Thompson, who were described as movie stars, modeled suits of some amazing new fibre. They didn’t take them off and put them in the washer, as the announcer suggest- ed they could. But they turned. around and showed that the coats were slit up the back. The announcer seemed proud of the fact, and that’s about the only significance I could get out of the whole affair. I guess the coat slit | has returned. Now if I could only | oe — to revive the belt in the | ack. . 6 the forthright article he wrote about his own cancer case. { “It was fine of you to boldly and frankly tell of your illness and warn others of the need for | The Citizen’s Inquiring Photographer THE QUESTION: What is your opinion regarding the proposed establish- ment of a dog track in Monroe County? INTERVIEWED: Citizen Staff Photc AL.RECINE: I think a dog track would be a bad influence on the youth of Key West. It would be a bad thing for the sailors in Key West, especially the younger ones to spend their money on gambling at a dog track. Citizen Staff Photc ROBERT AYALA, restaurant worker: The establishment of a dog track here would bring prosperity to the city. It would put money in circulation and provide work for Key Westers. People are bound to gamble and why not make it legal? vigilance,” wrote a Florida judge. | “There has been too much ‘hush hush’, . Articles like yours will help greatly in the early detection | and treatment of this disease.” | QOGRe oan WAIVE le | elo strive EIN[AIT iE REWAIT EIR) “Ga & Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 5. Sin 1. Strokes 6. Prevaricator 2 Di 7. Halt 3 River in New, & Freshet Mexico 9. Geometric curve 10. Tropical bird 11. Seark 16. re EES RUGS CLEANED | 218 Simonton St. C.uzen > 101 _Teday’s gathered facts from other cities where there are dog tracks and we will present this when the proper time comes. Citizen Staff Photo FLONEY PELLICIER, cab driver: Naturally a dog track on Stock Island will help my business but even if it didn’t, 1 | would be for it. Besides bring- ing people to the city it will hold them here for a longer time. There is not enough amusement: here now. I think it is a good idea. | Business Mirror By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—You get a break in one direction. Then you get slapped down from another. That’s the Story of the rising cdst of liv- ing. And the assault on the pocket- book may be stepped up in the fu- ture by sniping from several direc- tions that have been quiet of late. The family shopper finds the price of some meats a little easier to pay. But eggs go up, and so do fruits, vegetables and dairy prod- ucts. So the family food budget ends up by being a more painful dinner-table topic than it was a while back. Z Sure, you get a break on cloth- ing prices, which are lower than they were a year ago. But whatever you save there is more than wiped out by rising costs in. other lines. Rents -continue thetr slow ad- vance in many places. Doctor and | hospital bills are higher. Auto drivers pay more for in- surance, For. example: In New | York City next week motorists must pay 7 per cent more for pro- | tection against bodily injury claims and 18 per cent for property dam- age. The price of coal,coke and fuel oil is higher in many places. And John L. Lewis’ negotiations with the coal mine owners seems to forecast a further rise in the price of coal. | All of these things add up, little | by little, to raise the over-all cost of living. Some more of the same is in sight. Apparel prices are running well below a year ago. But the price tide has already turned in many , of the raw materials involved. Raw } 2) other observers. Oat bo dtn ttn intial THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB 0222444044444444444444444444444444446 If you’re a normal, person, you } including fires, hurricanes, etc. probably sometimes speculate on how you would preter to pass out of this life. My choice would be the way of Theodore Albury, last‘ Thursday afternoon. Albury, who knew't well enough to be : of strenuous work,éstill ‘could not resist the urge to help fight the fire. He pitched im with younger men and stayed there until the fire was “blacked out”. “fter. rds he was.laughing and joking with this reporter as they walked out to the sidelines to talk with City Manager Dave King and . Mr. King was probably the last he wasn't that kind ‘| man to talk to him. King had just +| turned his head to say something to Paul Sher and when he looked back at Albury, he was on the ground. Theodore Albury died in the line of duty, I think he was happy right up to the last moment of consciousness. He was a member of the Hook & Ladder Volunteer Fire Company. Lucky Key West -Key West is: blessed by having the type of residents that live with- in its boundaries. We're just like most other American cities with this exception. Many thous: of Navy men live here and all of them are trained for emergencies. That this t--'-‘ng has helped the town is evident in various minor catastrophies that have hit the town wool started up again last spring after its drop:to pre-Korean levels. The price of clothing will be lower this fall, because it is made of lower prices. But next year the higher priced wool may set the price pf suits. Rayon and acetate yarns are ad- vancing in price. Many cotton fab- rics are too. It may take months, but sooner or later that is due to hit the retail store level. House furnishings are lower than they .were, with bargains to be had in electrical appliances and in household fabrics. But this week carpet makers are advancing their prices, after. months of lowering them. Bed sheet prices are advancing at the mills. Appliance makers are won- dering if they can raise prices to make up for the rising cost of metals. Some 1,800 fabricators and man- ufacturers have asked the Office of Price Administration for higher ceiling prices because of the recent price hikes in steel, aluminum and copper. And OPS plans to’ let usdts. of metals pass along to consumers this increased materials cost. Some OPS officials think that for the nation as a whole the price tags might go by nearly one billion dol- lars a year, The meat industry thinks that this fall may see lower prices on beef—but possibly higher on pork. Eggs, fruit, vegetables and dairy produce may follow seasonal ups and downs. Prospects are still good for a large grain harvest. And the family pocketbook may get some help from that quarter. But chances are that services— the fees, fares and rates you pay— may go still higher. And rising costs of materials and labor may send many manufactured goods higher. One way or the other, that take- home pay will continue to melt away. in the past. Also, there are more trained firemen here than any place Ihave ever visited. Give fellows like Chief Charles Cremata and Harry Baker the equipment and they can furnish both the men and tne knowledge to combat any fire. Both men are very eff "--+, Water Shortage ‘ In spite of recent rains, the water shortage gets worse and worse. Navy and Civilian personnell keep calling ‘‘This Rock of Ours” about the situation. Wish there was something that the column could do. I've checked and found out that the Keys are also running into difficulty getting their connections on the water line. Installation of pumps and the use of abandoned cisterns seems to be about the only solution. Of course that doesn’t help the people’s feelings who must con- tinue to pay exorbitant rates for water that they never receive. Waldo Hernandez The former owner of the Marine Motel, Waldo Hernandez, sent me a card from Paris, He says, “Sights are magnificent but legs are giving out. We've rented a car to see the continent. England first— Hope everyone in Key West is fine. All’s well here. See you in October.’s Waldo and his wife, Sara, have looked forward to this Furopean trip for a long time. He was par- ticularly interested in getting down into the Holy Land for a thorough sightseeing tour and had planned to spend a year abroad. Evidently his plans have been cut short, The islands of Indonisa stretch southernmost mainland of Asia to the northern tip of Australis. 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