The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 4, 1952, Page 3

Citizen Staff Photo CROSS COUNTRY WOMAN PILOT, Mrs. Jerry Gardiner, center, poses with her passenger and helper, Cecile Boergermann, and her hostess, Miss Caroline Morrison, during a visit this past week to Key West. Tall, pretty brunette Mrs. Gardiner flew her four passenger, one engine Bellanca to Key West from Connecticut where her husband has a flying field. It takes 13 hours flying time. Her companion, Miss Boergermann, a secretary from New York, said that she was thrilled with the trip which is her first long journey by air. Mrs. Gardiner has paid a Key West visit five times by plane. The girls said they came for a vacation and rest but didn’t do much resting be- cause they had so much fun visiting with Miss Morrison, daughter of’ Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Mor- rison on the Naval Station. They stayed four days, leaving this weekend for the return flight. A year ago last summer, Caroline was navigator for Jerry in a cross country flight in the Na- tional Transcontinental Air Races for Women. But this past July, Mrs. Gardiner didn’t enter the contest. She was too busy having her second son who was born July 4. The first child, a year and a half old, is already an experienced flyer, passenger status, so far. A LETTER FROM BILL LANTAFF Dear Neighbor: Last week your Congressman had the pleasure to address the 18th annual meeting of the Southern Association of Student Councils at Miami Beach. In witnessing this gathering of some 900 students from 14 states one could not help but realize that here was truly a representative group from which we will obtain our future citizens and leaders. It is my honest opinion that the schools serves as a laboratory for good citizenship. Participation~in ,« Student, government is an excellent training ground to equip an indivi- dual to serve his country as a better leader and citizen tomorrow. It is not my belief that student council activity offers the one and only medium through which good citizenship can be and is developed. | There are other school and out- | side-of-school settings which also contribute to citizenship training and they should continue to do so in an increasingly effective manner. However, I believe that a student council properly organized ands su- pervised offers the best of these opportunities because its objectives are educationally justifiable, and its methods and procedures are psychologically sound. It is a motivated and functional miniatufe democracy, one which represents student interests and activities and all students, and a plan which more closely resembles adult de- mocracy than anything else. While a student ¢an well obtain the knowledge of the theory | of democracy through text books and capable instruction, his student government participation brings the instruction to the student with | practical application. The student learns by doing. Student council activity also offers training to res- pect law and order, intelligent res- pect for authority, creates self di- rection, intelligent leadership and x. fellowship, eooperation, and morale. All who have studied the art of government have been convigced that the fate of countries depends upon the. education of youth. We witnessed the exploitation of youth by the Nazis and now by the Com- munists. Why, then, should we not do everything we can to interest our American youth in our govern- ment and encourage their training to become good citizens hd lead- ers. Good government is dependent | upon good citizens. Student govern- | ment in the schools gives us the | opportunity to train our youth to- ward that goal. Sincerely yours, BILL LANTAFF American Plane Crews | Are Best Inf Korea WELLINGTON, N. . (®—Ameri- cans are on top in the Korean air war because of the quality of their air crews, Air*Chief Marshal Sir William Dickson, who takes over as Britain's chief of air staff next January, said in an interview today. Man Claims He Caught Whale On Anchor Hook EASTBOURNE, England (®}—One fish story—about the man who flung a boat anchor into the sea and hooked a two-ton whale—has been cut down to size. First, an expert from the British Museum came along and said the monster Vivian Gell and his | friends dragged in wasn’t a whale at all, It was a 14-foot basking | shark. | Then, before Gell could collect 10 pounds ($28) that an animal dealer offered for the catch, hun- dreds of sightseers hacked the fish | to pieces yesterday and carried it away for dog and catfood. WHERE CRAFTSMANSHIP COUNTS . . Making a better impression Your business sta- tionery is your in- troduction to new clients. Make the best impression! Let our crdits men give you better printing at modest cost, Call us today! . COUNT ON US! PHONE 51 THE ARTM AN PRESS ACROSS FROM CITY HALL — GREENE ST. SEA SECRETS Q. To what depth does sea life | exist? A. Life in the sea is found normally all the way to the bottom, adjust themselves to perpetual flashes of light produced by ser- tain deep sea animals), icy cold waters, scanty food supply, and low oxygen content. Lack of light alone rules out the plants, since they require light in order t» grow. Even in water ~where oxygen is practically nonexistent, such as in the depths of the Black Sea, anaerobic bacteria are found in great numbers in the bottom sedi- ments. A recent Danish expedition to the Philippine Trench off the | east coast cf Mindanao found evi- at depths of nearly 7 miles, Q. Are polar bears considered to be sea creatures? A. Polar bears (Ursus mariti- mus) probably cannot be consider- ed to be tru® sea creatures (as are sea otters or seals), since they are aot particularly modified for an aquatic existence. Despite this, polar bears are often encountered shore, The normal habitat is on } and about Arctic ice floes where their protective coloration renders them difficult for their enemies to see. The food,of polar bears con- sists of fish and larger game, such jas seals. Q. Do jellyfish swim? A. Yes. Although jellyfish lead a planktonic, or free-floating exis- tence, they are capable of swim- ming and usually swim constantly. At the surface their movements are usually aimless, and they make no effort to avoid bumping inte other objects or each other, as they rhythmically contract the edges of their bell-shaped swim | ming disks. Their swimming pot ers enable them to descend to deeper water at times, or to re- appear at the surface a short time later. Often mistaken for jellyfish are the saclike Ctenophores whose swimming movements are so slow as to make them appear merely to drift alon; the tide. Q. Why does u”™ follow the name of a J A. Many ¢ second World names painted on Japanese ships of two words, the seco was “Maru” (pros The word “Maru “ship” or ° used to distinguish me: commerical vessels fro and other craft. The orgin and exact meaning of “Maru” is un certain, but it appears to have been derived character mea or circular. Q. What are tudes”? A. This is the name applied by seamen to a 35 degrees la Adantic, which i irregular wea War not the sid yc ce the “horse lati tous of al although the organisms here must | darkness (save for the occasional | | dence of simple forms of sea life ; swimming a long distance from | NOTES — By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — Notes and comments on the Hollywood scene: When Howard Hughes bought control of RKO, there was'a gag making the rounds. This was at a time when Hughes was tinkering | with his huge flying boat and mull- ling his monster helicopter. Con- | cerning his new purchase, the ail- ing RKO studios, people were say- ing, “He'll never get it off the | ground.” Well, now Hughes is out of the RKO picture and people are again | wondering if that long-embattled | studio will ever get off the ground. |Signs were hopeful when. new. | money bought out Hughes, but that situation erupted. Now they’re try- ing to pick up the pieces and get | RKO running again. The job will take a couple of years at the least. Some of the Huglies epics are | finally seeing the light of day after |being on the shelf. “Montana | Belle” was previewed this week, jJane Russell made the Western | epic in 1948 for an independent out- fit. Hughes bought the picture out- |right and it has been gathering ; dust until now. | - Now what about “Jet Pilot,” the | John Wayne-Janet Leigh film that was started three years ago? Yawn of the week goes to the Ava Gardner-Frank Sinatra bust- ups and reconciliations. Can’t think of anything less momentous unless it’s whether Rita and Aly will ever get back together. .. . Don’t worry about Amos ‘n’ Andy disppearing from radio and TV. Although their creators, Correll and Gosden, have said they want to retire, their characters will carry on. CBS owns the complete rights. . .°. Walter Pidgeon takes over as new prexy of the Screen Actors Guild Nov. 9. No one will be hap- pier than the incumbent, Ronald Reagan. The latter stayed out of the presidential campaign ‘“‘be- cause people claim I’m talking for opinions.” He wants to be a private citizen again. WRONG APPENDIX IS REMOVED IN BRITAIN LIVERPOOL, England (#—Roy Thomspon, 10, went into a hospital here to have a metal splinter taken from his hand. David Thompson, also 10,. went appendix out. The hospital staff is trying to figure out how it happened that |the appendix that came out be- longed to Roy. When they discovered the mis- take, the horrified surgeons quick- right appendix, BOYS WILL BE BOYS ) SAYS ENGLISH FARMER | HUNSTANTON, England w — Boys will be boys—so Hunstanton farmer Edward Walker has taken | out an insurance policy to cover any damage his sons Digby, 6, and , Verden, 3, may do during the next 15 years. For 10 shillings—$1.40—a . year, | the insurance covers Walker up to | 10,000 pounds ($28,000). writer in the days of the sailing ships described the horse latitudes: “Gale and dead calms, terrible thunderstorms and breezes, fair one hour and foul the next are the characteristics of those parallels”. There is considerable disagree- ment as to the origin of the name “horse latitudes”, but one theory held to by certain historians is that the region derived its name from the fact that vessels carrying horses from Europe to America during Colonial times were detain- | ed in these latitudes and had to; | throw part of their livestock over- board for lack of feed. Another theory states that the name is de- rived-from the boisterous and un- ruly winds encountered there. tual Broadcasting Syst Sates & P.M. J TOP COMMENTATOR 1 COMPLETE COVERA” ad ternate wind and calm, One carly , the guild when I voice political | ; to the same hospital to have his | ly wheeled David ‘into the operat. | ing theater and whipped out the | Action Sat. By STERLING SLAPPEY Associated Press Sports Writer Eight games-two of them slight- ly faded intersectional affairs — will be played this week by South- eastern Conference football teams. Two and three years ao when the Georgia Tech;Army and the Georgia-Pennsylvania games were scheduled, they were supposed to be hot stuff. Since then a lot of glamour has been knocked off. The Cribbing affair cut Army | from a mighty power. and the Cadets still are rebuilding. Penn hasn’t shown as strongly as ex- pected. The 14-7 loss to Penn State Saturday was a shock. , And then there is, Georgia - undermanned, crippled and playing a schedule no team could be ex- pected to navigate without beat- ings. Georgia has lost three so far and doubtless more to come. The Tech-Army game is in At- lanta and the Georgia-Penn game*| in Philadelphia. Both are Saturday afternoon. Of the four actors in the two in- tended football melodramas, only Tech is living up to its advance billing. The Engineers are unbeat- en, untied and apparently about to accept a bowl bid, probably to the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Other interconference games are Chattanooga - Alabama at .Tusca- loosa; Mississippi-Houston at Hous- ton, and Vanderbilt-Miami at Mi- ami. Vandy’s game will be Friday night; Mississippi plays: Saturday night, and Alabama Saturday aft- ernoon. SEC games are Mississippi State at Auburn’s Homecoming, Tulane at Kentucky and Tennessee at Baton Rouge against L. S. U. Florida is idle but the Gators deserve a rest. Bob Woodruff’s son and needs only six more to set son and need only six more to set an all-time Florida record. The 1952 output is tops for the SEC. After a weel: of rest Florida goes back to work against Tennessee, Miami and Kentucky. Last Satur- day Florida got from behind a 14-0 lag against Auburn and won 31-21. A solid round of victories over out of league teams last week end | moved the SEC’s intersectional and | interconference won-lost percent- | age to a fat .774 for the season. The mark is 24° victories, seven defeats. Tech made the most notable con- tribution Saturday, a 28-7 victory over unbeaten Duke. Tennessee | chipped in with a 41-14 slaughter |of North Carolina. Kentucky was supposed to lose to Miami but won | instead, 29-0. No one expected Vandy to win by any such 67-7 score Overt Washington and Lee. But Bill Edwards’ hard working crew did the trick. Other scores were Alabama 34 Georgia 19; Mississippi 28 L. S. U. | 0, and Tulane 34 Mississippi State 121, The volcano Solfatara, a small one at Pozzuoli near Naples, has |not erupted since the year 1198, says the National Geographis So- | ciety. | _ DISTANCE 1 \ CALLS * Go Through { "FASTER Give the operator the out- of-town telephone number whenever you can. Then she doesn't have to call “Infor- mation” in the distant city,’ and your call goes through faster. souTH TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH cOomPant za HOILYWOOD|SEC Sets Top | LIFE ABROAD By R. SATAKOPAN NEW DELHI — A religious sect maintains.a bird hospital here capable of handling 400 feathered patients. The Delhi Jain Bird Hos- Pital attends sick or injured birds brought to it and sends out patrols to pick up strays in need of care. Its service is free, but one rule of admission stops many keepers of bird pets. Once a patient is on his feet ‘he goes free and not back into a cage. Founded 20 years ago, the Jain Bird Hospital is supported by India’s most nonviolent sect of Hinduism. The Jains preach and practice nonviolence. They walk and sit with extreme care to avoid harming an ant or worm. | The Jains, however, are among India’s wealthiest people. Their religion ordains that a part of this wealth be earmarked for. temples; hospitals and homes for the poor, The bird hospital has an eight- man staff, most of them retired Jain doctors whose avocation is attending birds. It supplies a surgi- cal ward, special apparatus for checking the temperatures of its bird patients and even special electrical appliances for the treat- ment of paralyti¢e birds. Jain staff workers treat even these birds not only with kindness but with respect. “Our Jain religion says that even the meanest worm has a soul as great as man’s and must be re- vered,” said one bird doctor. His Hindu colleague, who believe in transmigration of souls, went a step. further. “Who can say?” he asked. “These birds may be our fathers and our grandfathers, born as birds for their accumulated sins of the past.” MISSOURI TOWN HAS ACUTE WATER DEARTH GREEN RIDGE, Mo. ® — A critical water shortage was report- ed today in this Central Missouri town of 350 population. The town has no water system and the residents depend on wells and cisterns, many of which have gone dry. Some persons are hauling water from Sedalia, 12 miles away. Tuesday, November 4, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 HAL BOYLE SAYS By HAL BOYLE MADRID & — More snapshots from a touring typewriter: Spain today has become the mecca of Europe for vacationing Americans for two reasons: 1. A visitor from the U. S. gets fewer black looks here than in any other European country. Juan Lo- pez, Spain’s man in the street, may think Joe Doakes from Du- buque is crazy—but nice crazy. 2. This is one of the few places left in the world where the Ameri- can buck still has its oldtime mus- cle. A 1952 dollar still is worth 100 cents here—and will go as far as it did back home before the war. This amazing discovery that his dollar has regained its health causes many an American tourist to go on a wild buying jag, stock- ing up on $60 tailor made suits— made in two days—and beautiful ladies’ leather handbags at 10 bucks that cost at least double that on Fifth Avenue. This low price scale holds for all native-made articles. But for- eign luxuries, most of which are smuggled in and are sold on the black market, are ultra-expensive. Thus the visitor seeking to wet his whistle’ can get a fine bottle of mellow Spanish sherry for 75 cents —but may have to fork out a dollar for a signle shot og Scotch whisky. This naturally results in more and more and more Americans here reconsidering the medicinal virtues of sherry, Although the main tourist season is over for the rest of k Madrid still is thronged. by late- staying Americans and hotel rooms are all but unobtainable. « “Porteros”—the hotel key jock- eys here—have a magnificent dis- dain for the English language. If you seek to find a friend lodging at a hotel, it is all but impossible to locate him as the portero’s invari- able answers is “Mister Doakes? Mister Doakes—he’s checked out.” Recently an American lady who had lost her pooch approached a hotel portero and asked ‘‘Have you seen my dog? Without even lifting an eye, por- Fs MEET THE MAN (Your Greyhound Agent) .. Who otters . 1 tero replied suavely: “Mister Dog? Mister Dog—he checked out.” High level Spaniards are annoyed at America because of the delay in the U. S. giving financial aid to the Franco regime. But this attitude hasn’t filtered down to the average citizen, “The Spaniards are proud of be- ing an old cultured ” one longtime foreign resident here said. “They look on most Americans as noisy but rather likable children. They also like the expansive nature of Americans. You hear a lot about how badly American tourists be- have in Europe. But most of the Spaniards seem to think the Amer- fcans behave better than French or British visitors. Of course, one reason may be they spend more.” Tipping is a major worry to the American visitor abroad who is never quite sure whether he is giv- ing too much or too little. He wants to do right by everybody but doesn’t like to be regarded as a sucker. : Tn this dilemma, many American tourists remember Europe as a nightmare wilderness of ruined castles surrounded by a forest of outstretched palms, all reaching for his pocketbook. But ‘the. wages are so low in Spain that tipping puts no strain on you at all. Tip the taxi driver five pesetas—7-cents—above the fare clocked on the meter and he salutes you as if you were a king. If you want to tip a quarter—10 pesetas— you have to do it gradually for fear he will drop dead behind the wheel in sheer joy. That is almost half a day’s pay for many Spanish workers. Madrid Spanish have a lighter attitude toward life than Barcelon- ians, who are serious - minded, thrifty, and have the same reputa- tion in Spain that the Scotsman does in the English speaking world. As one “Madrileno” put it laugh: ingly: ‘In Barcelona they take three bites to eat a grape.” About 69% million people of the United States live in 157 urbanized areas which include cities of 50,000 or more and their suburbs, AMERICAS Wost pOpULAR TRAE Way GREYHOUND BUS DEPOT CORNER SOUTHARD & BAHAMA TELEPHONE 242