The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 21, 1952, Page 2

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen — Published daily (except sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN NORMAN 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 local news published here. Page? Friday, November 21, 1952 Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach an’ Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium. FIGHT ON, COMMISSIONERS, TO KEEP : GARRISON BIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE To assure the preservation of the Garrison Bight for the people of Key West, the City Commissioners began to “go places” at its meeting Monday night. One resolu- tion, unanimously adopted, provides for the purchasing of a strip along the Roosevelt Boulevard to “preserve the scenic beauty of the area for the people.” The Commissioners may feel confident that the In- ternal Revenue Board of the State of Florida will favor | Key West or any other city in the state in the sale of lands by the board. The Citizen bases that statement on} the principles that have governed the board since it was| created. At present, in the sale of land to private inter- ests, the board conducts auctions and sells to the highest bidders, but sells lands at a nominal sum to cities or coun- ties, when that land is designed to be used for public pur- poses. It was in that way that the City of Key West bought from the board'200 acres in Garrison Bight. There shoul dnot be any let-up in the Commissioners’ determination to preserve Garrison Bight for all of the people,of Key West, instead of permitting it to-be grad- ually eaten away by private interests, which already have gone too far in encroaching on the waters of the bight. As The Citizen has remarked often, Garrison Bight is a potential yacht basin that compares with any other in the United States, Let us be thankful that the city still is in a position to keept he bight for the people. The ac- tion by the Grand Jury and the many letters published in The Citizen show that residents are aroused against the inroads that have been on the waters in the bight. The Commissioners may be sure that they have the support, in their efforts to conserve the bight, of all Key Westers, except a scattering few. ‘ It was wise that the Commissioners adopted the sug- gestion that a proposal to develop the bight be submitted to a referendum. In that manner, the Commissioners will | receive the almost solid support of the people of Key | West when they are given an opportunity to express their sentiment at the polls to improve Garrison Bight for pub- lic purposes. Some marriages which originate in Heaven wind up in divorce courts, We hear a lot of praise for that halfback these days and none for the scholar, who will, however, come out on top in the long run. SLICE OF HAM | ministration has urged allocation | |new freight cars each quarter. {amount ever made in a single} LEFT WITH THE ‘DISHES nes Railroads See |Actor’s Life Is A Game Problem With Freight Loads By T. E. APPLEGATE (For Sam Dawson) NEW YORK @-—Railroad men worry whether they'll have enough | cars for all the freight they'll be asked to haul in the next few months. The year’s peak loading season, when crops move to market and materials shippers try to beat the cold weather, is waning. But weekly carloadings still run | ahead of the level a year ago, and calls by shippers for cars are ex- pected to stay at a high level well | into 1953. In the face of this, th® railroads have available fewer serviceable cars than the total with which they started the year. This is partly because the steel shortage has cut into the produc- tion of new freight cars. The rail- roads have some 90,000 new cars on order, but deliveries fell to 3,762 in September and rose only to 5,347 in October. Roughly a third of the cars now | in use are more than 25 years old. These are wearing out faster than new cars are being built. So in recent months the rail- roads have been retiring more over-age cars than they have been able to replace. \ Heavy repairs also put a drain | on the car supply. On Oct. 1 the railroads had more than 104,000 | cars awaiting repairs, against about 95,000 at the start of the year. | Both the new car builders and} the repair shops need steel, de- livery of which was delayed by‘ last summer’s long strike in the steel mills. Their calls for plates and structural steel clash with re- quirements of military production for the same items, now among the hardest to get of any steel products. The picture isn't all dark, how- ever. Steel output is being pushed along at a record pace, with Oc- tober’s 9,790,000 tons the largest | month. The Defense Transport Ag- | of enough steel to produce 38,660 And the new freight cars, when the railroads get them, carry much larger loads than the cars they replace, and with greater efficien- cy. No railroad man likes to see’ a large car shortage develop. It can mean loss of business to competing forms of transport, aS well as loss of freight revenue which is the bread-and-butter of the railroad industry. Income from freight hauling is | counted on to offset the losses the carriers suffer in their passenger business. An Interstate Commerce Commission study indicates the 680 ' million dollar defieit the railroads curred in passenger-service op- erations in 1951 absorbed about 42 per cent of the net railway op- ing income from freight serv- ice, SOVIET YELLS “FAKE” MOSCOW W—Pravda Thursday called the reeent U. S. hydrogen bomb tests “blackmail.” It was th Soviet comment on the nic Energy Commission pent Sunday that suc earch ent }and continues Of Chance All By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD #—“The actor’s life is a crap game. It’s all a matter of chance whether you make a mint or end up broke.” This realistic statement comes ‘from the distinguished character actor, Leon Ames. So far the crap game has paid off for him. But he has taken steps to safeguard his future, just in case his luck doesn’t hold out. Ames is the envy of his fellow actors. He has protected himself against a highly unstable profes- is on by a series of wise invest- ments, The most notable of these jis an auto dealership in Studio City, in the San Fernando Valley a few miles from Hollywood. “My brother-in-law, Wayne Gos- sett, is the brains of the organiza- tion,” the actor remarked modest- ly. ‘He -handles most of. the busi- ness details. But I help out when- ever I can. I attend budget meet- ings and so forth. I also sell a lot of cars to friends.” When Ames first started the auto agency five years ago, he was the most popular man on the MGM lot. That was at a time when new cars were scarce, and many of his fellow workers badgered him for a sale. He reports selling 102 cars to MGM employes. How did he land the agency? “Seven years at MGM,” he ex- plained, “I admit it: I never could have gotten into business unless I had been earning that nice salary for seven ‘years. I’m grateful to the studio for that, but I wasn’t sorry when they didn’t want to sign me again. I don’t want any more long-term studio contracts.” Aside from his present dealer- ship, Ames is angling another and is involved in a sash balance fac- tory and other enterprises. So far, he ‘hasn't been forced to relyson these interests as his sole income. “I figured out the other day that I have had only five weeks vaca- tion in the past 12 years,” he com- mented. “I’ve been working almost continuously since I opened out here in the play, ‘The Male Ani- mal,’ in 1940,” Ames went on to the lengthy New York run of the show and then signed up for his service at MGM. After leaving the studio, he free- lanced successfully and then de- cided to take a flier at the stage. He signed up to star in the Chi- |cago company of “The Moon Is Blue,” expecting to last a few months in it. The show played 56} weeks in the Windy City, grossing $1,100,000 during the run. Even | though he had a percentage of the profits, Ames was just as glad to! see the play close. He has returned to Hollywood working at his steady pace. His current flicker is “Love Song” with Jane Wyman and Ray Milland. Surveying his finantial indepen- dence, he reflects: “I'm giad I didn’t make the big money when I was a kid. I prob- ably would have thrown it away because I didn’t have enough sense, But maturity has made me realize the nature of this crap game—the life of an actor. “For five years, I was a member of the board of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. I saw many once- famous names on the roils. That made me stop and think.” Those who inspire such reports,” sid an editorial in the leading viet paper, “evidently suppose e ogen’ blackmail will than did the atomic.” The Time Fund For Medal Of Honor Winner SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. #— It’s, not every young bride and groom who get $30,000 to start housékeeping on. But then, not every bridegroom is a Medal of Honor winner. The fund has been pledged to San Bernardino’s own hero, Army Lt. Joseph Charles (Chuck) Rod- riguez, 24, and. his sweetheart, Rose Aranda, 22, of Colton, Calif. They will pe married Saturday, with, a reception to follow in the high school cafeteria, the only place big enough to accommodate all the townsfolk who wish to come, | ‘The couple will leave on a Mex- ican honeymoon arranged by Southern California Spanish-lan- guage newspapers. In Mexico they will be entertained by President Miguel Aleman. When they return home Dec. 17, a citizens’ committee intends to hand them a check for $30,000. The “House for Chuck” campaign will swing into high right after the wedding. Rodriguez, now stationed at Nor- ton Air Force Base here, won the Medal. of Honor in Korea as a private first class. He was cited for ‘‘an incredible display of valor” in charging up a hill to wipe out five enemy gun positions, killing 15 Communists with hand gren- ades. News Briefs SANTA ANA, Calif. —Convict- ed of murdering a 15-year-old babysitter last August, Billy Rupp Jr., 18, has been adjudged sane at the time of the crime, making his death sentence mandatory. Rupp, a Yorba Linda, Calif. beekeeper, was convicted st | Thursday of the sex slaying of Ruby Ann Payne. The jury deliber- ated only 22 minutes Wednesday on his insantity plea. Rupp was accused of molesting | jand shooting the Payne girl while | Perry Dyer, his employer. HOLLYWOOD # — Isaac E. | Chadwick, president of the Inde- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association since 1924, died Wednesday of a heart attack. He was 68. Chadwick joined the film indus- try in 1910. He was born in London ‘and was graduated from Cornell | University. At one time he headed his own film company in Holly- | wood. MELTON MOWBRAY, England Whiskers has retired after {five loyal years as the chief taster jin an amimal» food factory and jhad a medal hung around his | One factory executive said of jthe ginger cat: “He had a better }personality than his junior assis- | tants. Hf whiskers turned away in | distaste from 2 new product, we had to scrap it.” enema ts | SKATING NIGHTLY | 8:00 — 10:30 | SOCIAL AND PRIVATE i PARTY ARRANGEMENTS i 420 Southard St. Tel. 9116 Truman Tam GOP On Public Health Bills WASHINGTON — The Repub- lican victory at the polls, President Truman says, was no mandate to the government to cut down on its public health activities. Truman said President-elect Ei- senhower’s administration will find itself “far behind the times” if it tries to stop what he called the social and economic progress made under the Democrats. And, in defense against what he termed politically inspired attacks on his public health program, he declared that “‘anyone who inter- to stop the efforts we have been making for social and economic progress is blind to history.” Truman’s defense of his record, and call for further government action in the controversial field of “despite repeated suade the Congress to gram of federal aid to medical education.” Tremors Felt day reported earth tremors which rattled windows, made , hanging pictures sway on the walls and shook houses. No damage was re- ported. The source of the tremors, ac- companied by low rumblings, was not discovered. In 1886 Charleston was struck by one of history’s major earthquakes which did damage estimated be- tween five and six million dollars. The series of tremors reported Wednesday occurred during the early afternoon. Reports came from the Isle of Palms, Sullivan’s Island, Mt. Pleasant, lower reaches of the Charleston peninsula, Folly Beach and surrounding areas. Zsa Zsa Answers Corinne Calvet SANTA MONICA, Calif. w—The glamorous Zsa Zsa has struck Sued for one million dollars slander damages last August by Corinne Calvet of the movies, Zsa Xsa Gabor filed a demurrer. yesterday and asked the court to strike from ‘Miss Calvet’s com-' plaint several statements she said are conclusions rather than facts. Miss Calvet claimed Zsa Zsa, wife of actor George Sanders, “falsely and maliciously” told a Hollywood columnist that instead of being French, Miss Calvet is a Cockfhey English girl. This Zsa Zsa denied. Her attorney asked the court yesterday to strike these statements from the Calvet com- plaint: . That Miss Calvet is known “throughout the world as a French actress;” that she “truly possesses the attributes portrayed by her in screen roles; that Miss Gabor’s allegedly slanderous statement was made for the purpose of causing it to be published throughout world, and that it was made with actual malice and was defama- tory. SAILS FOR FLORIDA LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands, (—Mrs. Ann Davidson, the Eng- the Atlantic alone in her sailing boat, Felicity Ann, departed for Florida Thursday. She arrived here from Casablan- | she was caring for the children of | winds. Dr. J. underway {s the construction of sidewalk in the vicinity of seph's School at Simonton ginia Street, Bids To Be Aske On Sidewalk Wor Contractors’ bids will be called for in the near future for the con- struction of new sidewalks in the city, City Manager Dave King an- nounced Thursday. Specifications for the work, which includes the removal of the exist- Friday And Saturday THE BIG SKY with KIRK DOUGLAS AND &. 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