The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 13, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN pear, eeprecue te, 1952 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 | LP. ARTMAN — Publishes | 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 entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the iocal news published here, Vember Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florid: Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12.00; By Mail $15.6 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issu and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publis: anonymous communications. —<—————_— Page 2 IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. 7 Consolidation of County and City Governments. Comunity Auditorium. me CITIZEN HEADLINE EVOKES THIS QUESTION: WHAT IS BEST WAY TO WRITE A STORY? As a rule, the less a person knows about writing the more he thinks it is easy to write. He reads a story in a} newspaper, considers it good but does not give a passing thought to the writer’s perception and knowledge of hu- man nature that made it good, How good a story is depends chiefly on the way it is presented. A good story falls flat if a writer fills it with digressions and irrelevancies, Slip-ups of that kind are called “padding” in a newspaper office. A good newsman knows that padding reduces a story’s pulling power. Good American newsmen give the gist of a story in the first paragraph. In Cuba, as a rule, you have to read| the final paragraph to find the main point in a story. But the Cuban way in presenting a story is not al- ways wrong. A story on The Citizen’s front page last Tues- | day proved the truth of that statement. It was a human- {nterest story, under the headling, “Happy Captain Brent Dies.” But you had to read the final paragraph to find out when and how the captain died. Henry R. Luce hit on the idea when he started Time more than half a century ago, and has since stuck to it, that the best way to tell a human-interest story is to keep the punch for the last paragraph. You read a catchy headline in Time, as you read the catchy headline in The Citizen; read the first paragraph, which grips you, as the first paragraph in The Citizen gripped you. The second and succeeding paragraphs build up your suspense, and you read on to the finish, as you did the story in The Citi- | zen about Captain Brent. That story is a model for the suspense story, easy to write, ‘but it is hard, hard. Consider the headline. Had “Happy” not been in it, you would not have bothered to read the story, because you might not have heard of Captain Brent. But “Happy” clutched and held your at- tention. It was no longer Captain Brent's death that inter- ested you: your concern was in finding out how a happy man came to die, You read the first paragraph, and your interest was heightened when you were told about his “quickening pulse” over the prospect of seeing his wife and son. second paragraph informed you it was the second time in his 80 years he had come home from war, and the t paragraph revealed he had flown almost 100 missions in the second World War. The build-up continues in short paragraphs. read down to the one before the last and learn of the of headphones, which he had used in his air had for his son Michael. And then the final paragre that tells how he was stricken while his happiness was ir full bloom. Oh, yes, it is easy to write! Rewrite that story and find out how easy it is. Yo : a It looks | The hird | Three Car Crash County. 4 ! Oe eh hhh td hhh bbb tte dp bp bbb ttt ttt) } THIS ROCK OF OURS BILL GIBB 42244 6444444444444444444444444444466545 Time is drawing near for the referendum on the dog track ques- tion. For the first time since Pro- hibition days, there seems to be unity amongst the churches and small time gamblers of Key West. They aren't working together but each, in his own way, is fighting to keep the tracks out of Monroe Neither deserves criti- Granted that the ultimate ideal of the church leaders is to save ‘| men’s souls and is therefore worth- 3 3 cual Citizen Staff Photo THE TANGLE OF SMASHED CARS (above) resulted on Catherine street last week when an auto driven by W. C. Cobb, a Navy man, attached to the USS Orden, caromed off a parked car owned by M . Donzel E. mmi ons of 1214 Catherine street into another which was the property of Edward J. Beasley of 1215 Catherine street. Cobb was charged with reckless driving, causing an accident and driving while under the influence of intoxicating beverages. In addition to the smashed cars, the porch of the house at 1214 Cather: THE PROWLER-PEEPING TOM M: s being fought successfully by the sed citizenry, In the United States there are! re than 5,000 comp: S operat g about 8,000 coal mines, Sy ine street was damaged. Key West’s Public Enemy No. 1 IENACE in th Police Depart nthetie rubber prod’ undertaken by the Unite [ 1942, Crossword Puzzle ACROSS Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN ! SCIENCE NEWS By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Reporter NEW YORK (#—Shots in the arm promise to clear up eye ca aracts without surgery, it was an- nounced tod cience, journal | of the American Association for Advancement of Science. Several bad! blinded persons ave regained “practical normal vision” after a series of the shots. | Cataracts are a fogging of the lens of the eye. The injections are protein mate- rial obtained from the lenses of | fish eyes. Just how they act to clear up human cataracts is not yet known. The new discovery was nounced by Drs. R. F. Shro, A Jacob R. Ginsberg, and Mendel | Jacobi of the C. Institute, South Kortri York. substitute British sv g plastic lenses for the damaged hu man ones. | The injection treatment looks Promising, says the describ. ing tre. They get three injection. : In the first 14 pat str the eye less After 30 tients who 02 May Be Worst ‘Polio Year Yet NEW YORK (® — The National | Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said here that 1952 may be htis country’s worst polio year. The foundation said the incidence | Tate so far was 76 per cent above | |last year and 4 per cent above that | for the same period in 1949, the |year of this country’s worst polio | epidemic. By the end of last week, the foundation said, the number of cases this year had climbed to 27,359, the highest ever reached by this date. The foundation said the 15 states hit hardest are: Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Tex- as, South Dakota, New Mexico, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Ida- | ho, Wisconsin, Michigan, Washing- ton, Mississippi, Louisiana. Israeli Farmers Plow Large Strip JERUSALEM \—A 75-acre strip i territory claimed by both Israel and Jordan has been | plowed by Israeli farmers without interf der e by ards Arab Legion bor- a squad of tractors moved » the disputed territory within sight of Jordan troops with dr- mored cars. The farmers with- r completing their tick- | 1 protested against pre. pts to plow the area, d Nations representa- e supervising the Pale- have ruled is Israeli ] team, after three games, d allowed only ns during the streak. The STARLIGHT CLUB 712 DUVAL ST | while, (I guess) — still, the small- | time gamblers are fighting for a | noble purpose too — food and liv- ing expenses for themselves and their families. Institute legalized gambling in | Monroe County and both the churches and the gamblers are | going to lose customers. In a sur- prizing number of cases, the same customer frequents both places. The column stated long ago its | principle reason for being against dog tracks — namely, that our |law enforcement agencies haven't shown themselves proficient en- ough to handle outside drifters. The Sheriff's office has done nothing about a certain house of ill-fame here in Monroe County. Here again, my objection isn’t to the house but to the fact that no other place of this nature has been allowed to set up operations with- out immediately being raided. It is an odd situation and seems sort of unfair to me. Before you go to the polls to vote on the dog track, ask your- self if there is a possibility of the legalized gambling leading to undercover corruption. If the an- swer is “yes”, vote against it. If “no”, for it. Amusement The island needs amusement but what’ has it done with the God- granted gifts that we already poss- ess? Are our beaches fit to be called by that name? How much money went into the pier that is now washing away on Monroe County Beach? The shuffleboard and courts at Bayview Park? Why can’t they be lighted free-of-charge at night for the entertainment of our youth and tourists? SLOPPY JOE’S BAR * Burlesque * Continuous Floor Shows & Dancing Starring The Fabulous MARCELLA LYNN AND JEANIE CHRISTIAN, CATHY CARROL, IN THE SENSATIONAL MARI JUANA DANCE AND SANDRA LANE AND A HOST OF OTHERS: Dancing To MARK STANLEY’S TRIO Never An Admission or Minimum Charge tennis | Wouldn't it be possible to have a street dance once a week — say at Clinton Place near the Aquari- um? There are many things that could be done without involving financial indebtedness. The trouble as I see it, is that only the plans requiring huge amounts of money appear interesting to promoters? Why? A beautiful example of this last is provided by the “bridle path’ that edges South Roosévelt Blvd. Key Westers were so anxious to get WPA money and spend it that they absentmindedly forgot there weren't ten horses on the island. A pavilion or auditorium would have been more practical. The tale has even been told of how the first plans spelled the word “bridal path”. There might have been justification in this last spelling as to why the town con- sidered it appropriate. A dash of curry powder will pep up condensed tomato soup. This soup will be good to serve with a chopped-vegetable sandwich for a summer lunch. Ee ae ee RUGS CLEANED AND Stored Free of Charge IF DESIRED UNTIL NOV. 38 All Formal Garments chemically processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured. 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