The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 20, 1952, Page 7

‘ Had A Million ’ Bucks To Spend MONTGOMERY, Ala. i) — A million dollars in the bank-and a and the inclination to spend That was the happy prospect that confronted Thomas Linton Mc- Cullough when he retired at 75. So McCullough, a large cotton plantation owner, set out on one last glorious fling. Not a thing in the world to worry about. Life on a lavish scale with money flowing like wind through his fingers to back up the jaunt! When he reached 80, he went off for another “last fling,” this time by plane to Mexico and South America. It lasted three good years, When he got back to the United States, he still had time on his hands and money stacked in the Dank for another “‘last fling.” And ‘nother. And still another. Then one day came the startling Tealization for McCullough that he had time but no money left. Sixteen months ago the last trickle of the million dollar fortune had slipped away, and McCullough faced life anew-on a $50 a month eld age pension. “My one mistake was that I outlived my money,” McCullough said not so long ago, ‘‘but it’s an error I’m going to go on making just as lone as I can.” At long last, of course, death had its day. When McCullough died Monday he was 97. Appliance Repairs And Service SLECTRICAL CONTRACTING Keichings Electric 72 Years Experience . . Service Day of Night _ All Work Guaranteed FREE PICK UP AND DELIVERY P. 0. BOX 631 PHONE 2286-W KEY WEST, FLA. ee Strunk Lumber Yard Pre-Inventory Clearance Sale- ABOUT 1500 FEET OF 1X 3."D" FLOORING, BXCELLENT LUMBER, REGULAR $190 M SELL FOR ~ $140.00 M S'SINGLE SASH, 6 LIGHTS, 2/9X976X1-9/8, REGULAR $5.11 “SL00° Each. © UPSON CEILING TILE, 12X12, WATERPROOF, REGULAR 11% SQ. FT. be Sq. Ft. STRUNK LUMBER YARD | 120 (MONTON ST. PHONE 816 (New Casually “ List Announced WASHINGTON # — Announced U. S. battle casualties in Korea reached 126,726 Wed., an increase of 839 since last week. ‘The Defense Department's week- ly summary based on notifications to familities through last Friday reported’ killed in action 19,894; wounded 93,829; missing 13,003; total 126,726. Safety At Sea Treaty Signed WASHINGTON W®—A new inter- national treaty for safety of life at sea went into effect Wed. for the United States and 17 other maritime nations. ft specifies safe- ty equipment and regulations for ships. Thirty-four government: . signed the agreement in London in 1948 but only 18 have ratified it. The State Department said that others must act in the next twelve months or their ships when in American ports will be subject to U. S. statutes governing safety equip- ment. The new treaty supersedes a 35-nation 1933 convention. NO PUPS, NO PENCE SELB YABBEY, England (»— The Rev. John Kent announced in the parish magazine last month that his dog Lassie was going to become a mother and her puppies would go on sale shortly at 2 shillings, 6 pence (35 cents) each. Today the vicar said it was all a mistake. | “Lassie had us all fooled,” he explained. “She is just a well-fed , dog.” | NEWS JACKSONVILLE (#—Lake Coun- ty Deputy Sheriff James L. Yates has been cleared by a federal grand jury of the accusation he violated the civil rights of two Negro prisoners who were shot, ‘one fatally. Sheriff Willis V. Mc- Call was exonerated last week by the grand jury and earlier by a coroner’s jury. | The prisoners—defendants in the Groveland rape case—were being ‘aken by McCall and Yates to a -aring at the.time of the shooting. muel Shepherd was killed and alter Lee Irvin wounded. Sheriff McCall said he shot when j the pair tried to escape. Irvin said the shooting was unprovoked. MIAMI (®@—An order was signed Tuesday awarding Miami 11 mil- lion dollars in federal funds for 1,000. units of low-rent public hous- ing for Negroes, according to J.T. Knight, executive director of the Miami Housing’ Authority. “This means we can acquire all of the property now and it means we may be able to. build the entire 1,000 units within the fiscal year,” Knight said. MIAMI (®—Two-women escaped thro windows Tuesday when fire destroyed a two-story frame ‘ténément building*in the downtown Negro, .area. Viola Dennis, 32, jumped from | 358. a second story window. Lillian Jackson, 32, scrambled through a ground floor window to safety. Neither was hurt. Lt, Tom Wins- ton, investigator for the fire de- partment, estimated the loss at $25,000. | BRADENTON (@ — Constable ‘Henry Johnson, former major ‘league baseball player, has posted $200 bond on a charge of hunting at night with a light and a gun. State Wildlife Officer R. N. Cook said the constable was hunting rab- Legs,’ Arms, Broken Associated Press Wirephoto CLEVELAND. —Policewoman Cecilia Rogers said yesterday parents of Rosemary Poling, four months (above), cannot ex- plain how the infant received fractures in the legs and right arm. On Sept. 30, she said, the child was treated for a brain hemorrhage. Rosemary’s condition was reported as good. Her father, Charles E. Poling, 21, has been arrested on a charge of neglecting his son Alfonso, 17 months. : BRIEFS | bits by automobile light in a pas- ture stocked for game by the fed- eral government, Johnson pitched for the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Athletics. and the Cin- cinnati Reds. © ST.PETERSBURG (#—The Fior- ida Federation of Art will hold its annual convention and exhibit here for three days beginning today. BELLE GLADE ® — Wesley Clark, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Clark, drowned Tues- day in a roadside canal near his parents’ home. The child strayed away from home about noon and the body was recovered from the canal two hours later. MIAMI —Pan American World Airways and the Air Line Pilots Association Tuesday announced an agreement whereby captains and co-pilots will get a pay raise of 10.75 per cent, retroactive to. June L The agreement, effective Nov. 1, will be in effect through April, 1954. Former monthly pay for captains depending upon the type of planes flown, ranged from $951 to $1,263. Under the new contract, the month- ly scale ranges from $1,020 to $1,- Co-pilots’ average pay range of $655 to $700 a month is increased to $704 to $890, Pan American has about 510 ac- tive captains and 890 active co- pilots. About 1,2 persons a year are drowned in the»United. States. in accidents involving small boats. The ratio of males to females in the adult population of the United States has been decreasing steadily for about four decades. 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