The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 25, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen ——<—$—$< $ Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- tisher, from THe Citizen Building, corner of Greene And Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County t, P. ARTMAN Publishex CARMAN D. ARTMAN - Business Manager ——$———— Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter —————————— TELEPHONES §1 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 otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news olishea here. « pi os Wember Florida Press Association and Associate. Dailies of Florida ———— Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ee The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, out it will not publish communications. Page 2 Monday, August 25, 1952 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY CITIZEN (REY°WESTERSE AND OTHERS PROVE WISDOM OF NOT OVERWORKING THE HEART Death of Charles Theodore Albury from a heart at- tack at the Poinciana fire last Thursday prompts The Cit- izen to ask this question: Are the fifties the most danger- ous years for heart attacks? Offhand, we recall that Ev- erett (Ike) Russell, Charles (Bud) Garing and Willard Russell were in their fifties when they were stricken. Seemingly, they had been in good health till they received warnings that their hearts had been overworked, What has been true locally in that regard has been true also of men throughout the country who died of heart attacks while in their fifties. Reports of the deaths of some of them were published in The Citizen and other newspapers in recent months. The most outstanding was Fulton Oursler, a senior editor of Reader’s Digest and a prolific writer, and if you wish to know what led to his heart attack, read what his friend, J. P. McAvoy, has to say about Oursler in the Digest for September. Oursler, a hard worker from his youth, continued to drive himself when he reached the half century mark. In- deed, he worked harder after 50 than he had ever- work- ed, so much so McAvoy tells how he appealed to Oursler to “let up” a week or so before he was fatally stricken. The appeal to him “not to try to write everything” was made ata Dutch Treat Club luncheon; two weeks later, at ‘club luncheon, McAvoy and other friends spoke in hush- ed tones in expressing their sorrow-over Ourslér’s passing. If the fifties are the dangerous years for ‘heart at- tacks, then the reason for that cause or condition is not hard to find: man continues to be as active at the half- century mari as he had been before then. A case in point is McAvoy himself. He was driving himself just as hard when he became 50 as he had in his preceding adult years. What happened? He was stricken with a heart attack, and considers himself fortunate that it was not fatal. What was the first “remedy” his doctors ordered? Lie in bed on his back for a month, At first he fretted over the enforced rest, but he came to regard it as giving him a new lease on life, Since then (he is now 59) he has been studiously careful not to overtax his heart. As The Citizen remarked in an editorial a year or so ago, McAvoy says he never stands when he can sit, never sits when he can lie down. Of course, some men have driven themselves so hard, particularly in not getting sufficient sleep (your heart’s pumping, forever pumping, is at its slowest and the least taxing when you are asleep), they died of heart attacks in their forties, while others ward them off till they reach their sixties. But normal hearts that are not abused will continue to perform their functions in the seventies and eighties and occasionally longer. Life centers in the heart, a tough and long-lasting organ if it is not abused. SLICE OF HAM A HOLLYWOOD NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD (#—After nearly breaking her leg on one, you'd | think Rosalind Russell would lose | her enthusiasm for movie locations. But not Roz. “[m simply wild about lo- cations,” said the actress, who talks at a rate just under the speed of light, “Why, do you know that in 39 pictures I had never been on location before? They always said I would go, than at the last minute they’d send doubles. “Now I'd like to do all my Pictures on location. Just pick up and go to Spain or Mexico or someplace. Pictures are so much more real when they’re filmed in the actual place of the story. It’s stimulating to the actors.” Miss Russell shows remarkable perseverance, She just returned from locating with “Never Wave at a WAC” at Camp Lee, Va., training center of the Women’s Army Corps. The sheat was so intense that shoes would sink in the marching area black-top. “When we first got there, the girls in the cast went through the drill,” Miss Russell related. ‘The heat. was over 100 degrees and climbing, but we drilled six hours a day for three days, We didn’t mind {t at all, until we discovered we were using muscles. we had never used before.” In one scene, she took a tumble, and it was feared that she had broken her leg. Tests proved other- wise, but she has a large, Z-shaped wound that will leave @ perman- ent scar. She was back at work without upsetting the production schedule, The WAC picture is part of Miss Russell’s determined campaign to escape being typed as a profes- sional woman. “Some time ago, the Business and Professional Women’s club of San Francisco wanted to give me an award,” she said. “‘They wanted to know how many professional woman roles I had played. I had them counted up and they came 19! I’ve been an executive, law- yer, doctor, psychiatrist, judge, advertising woman, newspayer gal, etc. How long could I go on shouting into telephones?” Her determinatiin to shake such roles was part of the reason she undertook her first return to the stage in 15 years. She toured in 11 cities for six months with ‘Bell, Book and Candle.” She admitted that Director-Author Josh Logan talked her into it. “He saw a stack of play scripts I had been reading and asked how long I had been looking for a play,” she said. “I told him two years. ‘You'll be looking another two years,’ he told me, ‘and still you won't find one.’ “He explained that stars like Katharine Cornell and Helen Hayes have plays written especially for their talents. ‘We wrote ‘Mister Roberts” so it would be tailor- made for Henry Fonda,’ Josh said. ‘They thought Mary Martin was crazy to take the road company of an Ethel Merman show, “Annie Get Your Gun.” But she proved she could do it, and she broke records. After that, we wrote “South Pacific” with her and Ezio Pinza in mind.” After his arguments, she accepted the road tour, “And now I've got a couple of fellows writing a play for me,” she said proudly. Meanwhile, she may return to Broadway in a musicalized “My Sister Eileen.” “I can sing a bit and do a time step,” she reported. “My last New York show was a musical, ‘Garric Gaities.’ ” ACROSS: 1. Persian ruler 5. Vulgar 8 Hair net 12 Apple-like 13. Luzon tribes- man 14 Part of a church 33. Fit for culti- vation 35. Acidity 36. Island in New York har! lilt Me g i as 15. Unexampled 18. Plant of gourd f E rleliy ity Sept RRS B RES fa} e Crossword Puzzle Chief Deputy Sheriff's Hobby Is Collecting Rare Books Citizen Staff Photo TOMMY DIXON, of the Monroe County Sheriff's Department, has rare collection of Nineteenth Century Books, Chief Deputy Tommy Dixon Has Collection Of Rare 19th Century Books Here Hayden’s Death Due To Drowning TAMPA (® — Robert Charles Hayden, whose body was found | floating in Tampa Bay, was a vic- tim of accidental drowning, tiie detective bureau reported. Hayden, 53, cook at a Tampa drive-in res- taurant, had been drinking heavi- ly, Detective Bob Tidwell said. ° ° ere Giannini Dies WINTER PARK #—The day he arrived in Florida to make his home, Mario C. Giannini, 50, sut- fered a heart attack and died. Shortly after he got off the train Sunday he was stricken. Giannini | recently retired as dean of engi- neering of New York University. Rettie Made Dean TAMPA # — George Rettie Jr., Ft. Lauderdale will become dean of students at Florida Southern College Sept. 1. Rettie succeeds J. A. Battle, who is on leave of absence to study for a doctor’s degree, Interesting Notes Frost kills of corn, all varieties Spitsbergen sits athwart the east-west. air routes across the North Pole. In 1950 North Carolina’s pro- duction of milk was 409 pounds per person, PIAIGIE} E ju | BSIP ATR) JAIN] [ty RI ARIPIAIN[E| VElRIAIGIE/O NEW EIeIe AUTOGRAPHED U. S. GRANT MEMOIRS, 1885 AMONG THEM Gun-toting sheriffs are not gen- erally thought of as bibliophiles, but Monroe County’s Chief Deputy Tommy Dixon proves the exception , Dixon has some rare book items that book collectors would love to see. | The treasure chest of 19th cen- | tury books in excellent condition | came to the Dixon’s from Mrs. Dixon’s uncle. He left them to his niece after keeping them at his home at Chicamauga Battlefield in Tennessee. Rarest item in the collection is probably the autographed ‘Per- sonal)-Memours of U.S. Grant,” Vol. 1., 1885. The Civil War gen- eral signed this copy thus: “These volumes are dedicated to the American soldier and sailor, U.S. Grant, New York City, May 23, 1885." Another item of interest to book lovers is an 1884 edition of “Uncle | Tom’s Cabin” with illustrations of | the epic-making book which made the name of its author Harriet Beecher Stowe famous ‘through- out the world. Topsy and Eva, as well Simon Legree have become household words in the nation, be- cause of this book first published in 1851. Chief Deputy Dixon is eager to: place the books in the hands of ; collectors who have the facilities | to care for them. Right now the books show little ravages of time, but D:xon fears for “ »ir future. The rest of the Dixon collection which he hopes to dispose of to interested buyers is as foll Napol on and His Cam> A complete history of “onaparte’s great military operations through- jout Europe with the rst por- jtant incidents of bis privat~ and/ | political life. With Mlustrations. | | Phila. John E. Potter E. Potter | and Company, 617 Sansom Street | Undated Signed on flyleaf L. P. Tribble. Napo!-.n Bonaparte, including Lives of Napoleon The Great, of | Louis Napoleon, and of The Prince Imperial, by Henry W. De Puy, New York. Hurst, and Co., 122 Nassau Street, Copyright 1882. Life of Sitting Bull and History | of the Indian War of 1890-91, by | | W. Fletcher Johnson, profusely il- | | lustrated; Edgewood Publishing | company, copyrighted 1891, by H. | | W. Stringer. | Duchess,” New York F. M. Lup- |ton Publishing Co. 72-76 Walker j Street. undated | Bleak House by Charles Dickens, | | Chicago M.A. Donohue and Co. | undated. | | Our Own Country. Its History | and Achievements, Monarch Book Co. Phila. Copyright 1895, W.E j Seuli. | Our Society, A complete treatise | of the usages that govern the most | refined homes and social circles, by Alice E. Ives, Mrs. H. W. P-sch- | er, C. M. Williams, Rt. Rev. Bishop Feley, Rose ~ Cleveland, Darling B- vers, Derr: Mich:, 1991. Remarks By Bill Nye (Edgar w. Nye) With over 150 illustrations. | Copyrighted 1891, Edgar W. Nye, | and Foutz, Chicago. | Wooed and Married, A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey N.Y. F. M./ Lupton Publishing Company, 65 Duane Str-- tated. | Dlustrious Life of William Mec-j| Kinley. Our Martyred President, He was A Little Rebel, A Story by “The/|. . HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK w—There was no one on the beach except the fat man and a quartet of teenagers playing catch with a tennis ball. The four youngsters—three lean boys and a golden-haired girl— were like a Grecian frieze come to life, but their laughter somehow disturbed the fat man. “Noisy kids,” “Probably can’t wait until the sun goes down so ey can _ start smoking marijuana. When I was that age, I worked all summer. But today—all kids are useless.” A shower of sand sprayed over his relining form as the girl leaped to catch a mis-thrown ball. “Sorry, Popsie,” she said. “Go away!” shouted the fat man, angrily. “‘And don’t call me Pop- sie.” “Okay, Popsie,” she laughed, and leaped away. He watched the four play a moment longer, and knew in his heart why he. felt grumpy toward them. It was because they were lithe and young. Making vague sounds like a dis- contented walrus, he picked up his fat bald head and his sad fat stomach and waddled heavily, to the ocean’s edge. The waves were. high, and he hesitated. But then. he found a pause between the | _ breakers, waded in and started swimming. “ah, this is it,” he sighed. The water hid his shape. He felt strong and young again. He turned on his back and floated . . . for a long time ... . dreaming with open eyes as he looked up at the windy sky. A wave suddenly broke over him. sputtering, the fat man swung around. The sea was choppy, and the shore looked a long way off. He began to swim toward it, but it came no nearer. He swam harder. No progress. The fat man realized he was caught in an outward current. Fear washed through him and he began to flail the water wildly with leaden arms. A face swam jnto view. It was one of the boys’he had seen on | the beach. They looked into each others eyes and saw they were both in the same plight: The boy approached him warily, afraid the fat man would grab him and drag them both down. “Think I can make it... to shore,” he panted. “Keep trying ... Tl get help.” As the boy swam away the fat man felt his own life going, too. He wondered about what the local |: paper would print about his death . . He wondered about his wife . .. And then all wonder left him. a blind blob of flesh slogging in a blind sea. He no longer could feel the reflect move- ments of his arms and legs. He had lost the direction of the shore. Then through the gathering fog of numbness the face of the boy swam again into view. The fat man thought he was dreaming. But behind the face came three more faces—the girl and the other two boys. “Here, climb on this,” the boy said, pushing forward a rubber play raft. Like eels the four teen- agers surrounded the fat man, lifted him on the raft. He hugged it as if it were his mother. They began to push the raft through the waves, expertly guid- ing jt slantwise toward the shore. As each wave broke over him the fat man swallowed part of it. They neared the beach. A great : | towering wave rose behind them. “Now!” shouted one boy. “Give it everything!” The fat man kicked feebly. The green, foam-crested wave picked raft—and tumbled them in a heap into shallow water. The fat man felt his forehead grating against the sandy bottom. The hungry sea clutched to pull him back, and he had no strength to fight it. Then hands grabbed him and dragged him up on the hot dry sand. He opened his eyes and saw a sky that framed four tanned anxious young faces. The girl ran’ and got some paper napkins and | he muttered | nance?” | He was a the Planning THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB Many people believe that John Carbonell, City Commissioner and local theatre. owner used his in- fluence to keep a “Drive-in” thea- tre from being erected on Roose- velt Blvd. Just to keep the record straight let me ae pmreat ts among these suspicious individuals. i therefore, ents with the opportunity of going to a show without the additional ex- pense of rae baby-sitters. From what ation I’ve been -| able to gather, the cost of operating a drive-in is comparable standard theatres so of local picture houses need “cut-throat” price war. Either Stock Island or Blvd. offer an excellent site such a venture. I agree with ; bonell’s audience looked twice at him to find out if he was joking. After all the general appearances of the situation suggested that only Carbonell stood to gain by such an exclusion. No one could give him a clear- cut answer. A little later in the | e aft eit g drive-ins. “The reason Sirugo doesn’t want a drive-in theatre on the Boule- vard,” Claude said, “is because he himself is going to put one on Stock Island.” ! ate ceil a3 il Your Grocer SELLS that Geog STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE: and CUBAN —TRY A POUND TODAY——- JACKSONVILLE ( — Mrs. Dor- othy Berkowitz, 40, Yonkers, N. Y., injured in. a two-car crash on the outskirts of Jackson- ville Sunday. 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