The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 26, 1952, Page 3

Church Sets Sunrise Rites Thanksgiving Under the auspices of the South- teamost Subdistrict of Methodist Youth there will be held at 6:30 a.m. Towrsday a service of wor- ship im the vackyard of the First Methodiet (Old Stone) Church. The program ie under the direction of Mrs. J. Paul Touchton, who has wide experience in church drama- tics. The story of a Hebrew Thanks- ving festival of the family will presented. This was the occa- sion of the Feast of the Taber- nacles, or Succoth. The characters are as follows: father and mother Mr. and Mrs. Brice Wooldridge, children Merle Deland, Joyce Sim- mons, Max Foster, Jr.. and Shar- ron Ann Gravel, servants Frank Betancourt and Ione Arnold. Rabbi Abraham Schwartz will speak to the group on the modern Jewish Thanksgiving or Feast of Succoth. The Rev. Eldon Simmons will speak of the American Thanks- giving tradition. After the worship service break- fast will be served. Miss Delia Touchton, president of the Subdis- trict, has announced that the gen- eral public is invited. Those ex- pecting to stay for breakfast should call 122. Passion Play Actor Approves Arrangements LAKE. WALES (#—The man who plays Christ in the oldest of all passion plays slipped into Lake Wales over the weekend and liked what he saw of the arrangements for his winter season here. He is Josef Meier, representing the seventh generation of his fam- ily to take part in the passion play which had its origin in Leunen, Germany, in 1242. - Meier brought his troupe to the U.S. in 1932, soon after Hitler came to power. He won acclaim for his summer presentations at Black Hills, S. D. Several months ago a group of Lake Wales citizens formed a non- profit corporation to provide suit- able staging facilities and to bring Meier and his troupe here for the winter seasons. After loans are Ley Memorial To Have Services On Thanksgiving On Thanksgiving Day morning -- Thursday, November 27 -- Ley {Memorial Methodist Church, Tru- man Avenue and Georgia Street, | will hold its Annual Thanksgiving fers an opportunity to put into words and actions the feeling that are in our hearts at this Thanks- giving time. You will enjoy this service. The choir will render a special Thanks- giving Anthem, and appropriate the Church organist, Mrs. Thomas | Whitley. In addition to these, the congregation will sing the great Thanksgiving hymns, “We Gather Together” |mous), “Come Ye Thankful Peo- ple, Come” (Henry Alford), and “O Lord Of Heaven And Earth” (Wordsworth). f The pastor of Ley Memorial Chruch, the Rev. Eldon Simmons, will deliver the Thanksgiving ser- mon. He has chosen Thankful -- Say, Be, and Do’ as the topic. “Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor . . . Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude.” --- Henry Ward Beecher. IN COMA SIX YEARS HMAILTON, O. (# — It was little Danny Neil Lissal’s ninth birth- day Monday. But Danny knew nothing about it, just as he’s known nothing about his birth- days since he was 3 years old. | Danny, Hamilton’s best known hospital patient, has been in a coma since he was hit by a truck in front of his home of Dec. 21, 1946. He was taken from Mercy Hospital here to Children’s Hos- pital in Columbus, O., last year. Physicians consider his case hopeless. repaid, all net proceeds will go to charity. The premiere will be presented Jan. 9. When Meier was last here five months ago the chosen site was only a sinkhole in an orange grove a mile and half from town. Today it is a nearly completed $100,000 outdoor amphitheatre, seating 3,- 000. He will use 38 professionals and 200 townspeople in presenting the dramatization of the events of the last seven days of Christ’s life. Meier came here between tour- ing performances at Birmingham and Nashville. Ley Memorial Methodist Church “The Church with a Welcome” CORNER of TRUMAN AVENUE and GEORGIA STREET ELDON SIMMONS, Pastor Thanksgiving Day Service 10:00 A.M. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Subject: “THANKFUL — SAY, BE, AND DO” WELCOME! Worship Service. This service of- | organ music will be provided by | including | (Anony- | ‘Downtown Churches To ‘Hold Services The downtown churches will hold ja union Thanksgiving service, | Thursday morning at 10 o'clock | at the First Congregational Chruch. The Rev. Harold H. Link will preach the sermon using as his subject, “A Challenge to Thank- fulness.” The choir of the host church, under the direction of Gerald Saunders, will sing the anthem, “Give Thanks to God, | America!” by Nolte. Mrs. W. R. Dean will be at the organ and will use as her prelude, ‘“‘Come, Ye Thankful People” by Rogers and for the offertory number, ‘‘Offer- toire” by Ritter. The Rev. J. E. Statham will |give the invocation and read the | scripture lesson and the Rev. J. | Paul Touchton will offer the pas- toral prayer. The Rev. Chas. H. Meeker will preside. Churches par- ticipating are First Baptist, First Congregatior.al, First Methodist, Fleming Street Methodist, and Temple B’Nai Zion. R.R. Business Offers Chance For Women By DOROTHY ROE AP Women's Editor | Note to girl career-seekers: | Want to be a pioneer and see the | world? Then go into the railroad | business, young woman. This seems like a gooc time for girls to make good in the tradi- tionally male stronghold, because the first and toughest barriers al- ready have been broken by an in- trepid and distinguished group of women who now hold down such jobs as vice president, assistant to the president, passenger traffic manager and such on many of the nation’s top rail companies. I recently returned from the annual convention of the newly named American Council of Rail- road Women at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., where I collected some new conceptions of the oppor- tunities for women in this field. The railroads, you see, are en- gaged in a valiant fight against the encroaching competition of air- lines, buses and private aut: mo- biles for the traveler’s dollar—and they have realized that they’re going to have to use women to win. The members of the American council are the real pioneers in the business. They faced shocked ineredulity from male co-workers when they first got their railroad jobs. There’s Miss Olive W. Dennis of Baltimore, for instance, who was one of the country’s first women engineers and who. has piled up a distinguished record with the Bal- timore and Ohio. There’s Mrs. Edith J. Alden of | Chicago, new president cf the coun- | cil, who occupies the executive job of secretary and assistant treas- urer of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company and who has spent most of her adult life in railroading. The Burlington also has Miss Velma McPeek of Chicago as sup- ervisor of passenger train service. Among the younger group of bright young women is Miss Mary E. Buchanan of Los Angeles, who | job for Union Pacific and now has been advanced to a sort of am- bassador-at-large for ‘the line, traveling all over the country and Jule Pox fale For Sub Dives By DOROTHY RAYMER Music will come easier to the USS Harder, New London, Con.,- nbased submarine, but it will prob- ably be harder on anyone who doesn’t like a juke box. The Harder has the “unique distinction” of having the first submersible juke box in the history of the Fleet. The gadget is in the crew's mess and is the kind used in restau- rants, bars and any other spot where they may be installed. Whether or not the manufacturer had his eye on service for sailors isn’t known, but the phonograph is a Seeburg Selectomatic which spins platters of 45 rpm speed, operated by dropping a nickel in the usual slot . . . unless, of course, you might have a slug handy. The Harder crew might be harder up... for they decided to charge | started out in a public relations | ince. a nickel for six plays. It would have been a free service but the “cats” want to collect funds to buy more records and establish a music library. So far they possess 200 records. More on the way since about forty-seven smackers have been collected to buy ‘“‘wax-works.” The ehoices are bought by a spe- cial committee. No one was avail- able to query concerning whether or not the theme song might be “Snorkel Aweigh,” ‘‘By the Sea” or “The Lighthousekeeper’s Daugh- ter.” Most certainly the duty officer would rule out “Asleep In The Deep.” The juke box has a sort of auto- matic Dr. Gallup attachment. It takes a poll of the number of times a melody is played. When the tune dies down in total playing over a period of time, the “popu- larity meter’ is consulted and the committee installs a new piece. You’ve all heard of pens that write under water, but this is the first time anyone has heard of a diving juke-box, although there are plenty of them in “dives.” The USS Harder was commis- sioned last August. There will prob- ably be a run on purchase of juke- boxes now instead of snorkels. The big deep question is: What will the sonar departments do when and if! they pick up a hot tune under the waves? 3CROLL TO WRITER LOS ANGELES -—Screen writer Paul Jarrico says he was awarded a scroll commending his refusal to tell the House Committee on Un-American Activities wheth- er he ever had been a member, of the Communist party. The scroll*was introduced Mon- day at the trial of suits concerning RKO Studio’s refusal to give Jar- Tico screen credit for the movie “The Las Vegas Story.” Jarrico testified that the scroll] was given him by the Citi- zens Committee to Preserve Amer- ican Freedom. The document bore the signature of A. A. Heist, com- mittee chairman, drumming up trade and prestige. Mrs. Ann Stevenson of Washing- ton, D. tant to the vice president for the Chesapeake and Ohio. She gets around on every train on the line, smartening up decor and service. These are just a few of the women who have made names for themselves in a business once con- sidered exclusively a male prov- There are going to be more of them every year, because the rail- ways have discovered that it takes a woman to sell a woman, Py ae Mr USCAP treads are extra thick, top quality USCAP tread is applied only te sound tire bodies USCAP tread is applied only under striet shop procedures approved by U.S. Rubber Company tire engineers a I'M A HORSE TRADER Hits New His" -» holds the title of assis-/ i} | Today’s opus might well be en: |titled “Ear On The Ground’ be. cause it concerns one Yukon Eric | last month, found his ear in just ‘that position—but it was no longer {attached to his head. Our friend Jimmy Gibbs put in on Saturday saying that there was someone there whom he thought we should meet—since we are both interested in ears. I am interested in ears because of this effort and Yukon Eric is interested in ears because a 285-pound behemoth known as Waldek Kowalski, in a fit of anger, proceeded to peel his left ear from his head like a leaf from a cabbage. We went to the Sun and Sand Club and talked with Eric, who makes his living (and a good one) beating up on various and sundry other bemuscled characters for money as a professional wrestler. Aside from his missing ear, which makes him stand out in a crowd like a latter day Van Gogh, Eric is a fascinating person. He has a singular lack of respect for convention which springs from his free and easy boyhood on the banks of Alaska’s Yukon River. We met soaking up the sun and the stares of a goodly number of Key West’s weaker sex. He was attired in lumberman’s boots and dungarees. We later learned that he had never been measured for a suit, which seems like a pretty civilized cus- tom to us. Eric is a large man. He weighs 275 pounds although he is but 5’11” tall. His chest is shaped something like the bow of a shrimp boat and his biceps are developed to the point where he cannot lower his arms to his side. All of which, coupled with quite a bit of strength, makes him quite well equipped for his profession. We wonder how a lad from deep in the Yukon country managed to find his way into the wrestling the larger cities. He told us that he was .born the son of a Swedish, Sea Captain and an Eskimo mother, near Fair- banks, Alaska, and that from the time he was able to heft an axe, he was working in lumbering camps for a living. It seems that the good life left the lads with an excess of exuberance, even after a hard day’s labor, so to while away the evening hours, they would participate in a cute little pastime which they named quaint- ly and simply “‘scuffling.” And it Wrestler Is Rouch | pag |who, on an evening in Montreal | a call from the Sun and Sand Club | him on the beach where he was | On Coconut Trees ee oe | Spending Spree “ar To 3 Ground) By JIM COBB annaeneaarnaan—as| ;meant exactly what it said—they simply spent their time beating up| on each other. And when they tired of this, they | would lift any little old 200-pound ; boulders that might be lying | around the camp or uproot pine | trees just for the sport of it. When Eric discovered that he could outscuffle the toughest scuf- flers, lift the heaviest boulders and uproot the th'ck-st nine trees, he | san to cast about for new fi. | to conquer. A three-minute bout with a 700 | pound bear at a Fairbanks carni- val convinced promoters that here | was,a boy with promise. Throughout 15 years of may- |hem, Yukon incurred all kinds of | linjuries of wich the loss of his | lear was the climax. The ear incident occurred when | jhe was all embroiled in a match | with the Kowalski fellow who has | something of a reputation for being : mean hombre. When the cad managed to loosen | }our boy Eric’s ear, it flew across | the ring and the referee, who was | laccustomed to stuffing odd items | |that the paying customers toss in- |to the ring (orange peels, peanuts, lete.) into his pocket for want of a better place to store them, auto- matically disposed of Yukon’s ear in the same manner—much to his later distaste. Eric is spending a couple of weeks in Key West for rest and | recuperation after which he will go back to the wrestling wars where he intends to “take Kowal- | ski apart” because “he done me wrong.” We predict dire things for Waldek, poor Ind. “I don’t like to bear a grudge,’ Eric averred, ‘‘buc when I go back to the north I’m going to get him.” He is currently practicing his pet hold which he described to us as a “Kodiak Krunch.” We asked him what is a odiak Krunch and he told us: “First I scoop my opponent up. Then I jiggle him. It hurts them and they give up. It usually doesn’t tae long. I also have a good bear hug. I got it from lifting those pine trees back in Alaska.” For all his fierce demeanor, bulging muscles and worldly suc- cess, ™'c has maintained the sim* + human values of the Y try. When his career is aé is going back to the pl: of northern Alaska to hunt and fish and live the simple life. As we left him, he was casting speculative glances at one of George Key's coconut trees. Teads To Jail BALTIMORE #—A former OPA investigator who went on a spree with $5,400 and wound up a week later in the gutter with 37 cents was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday. William T. Rinn, 47, admitted in court that he stole the money from a Baltimore cab company office where he was cashier. He said he spent a good share of it on a party that moved from BIKE-RIDING PROF SEES 90 YR. MARK ATHENS, Ga. — David L. Earnest, the bicycle-riding profes- sor, observed his 90th birthday Tuesday, retired but not tired. University of Georgia students | always look with interest at the | former professor of education as he pedals over Athens’ hills. Earnest gets in a little extra | exercise by touching the floor with | the palm of his hands twice daily. TEST ee SY | Wednesday; Novelber 26 18 THE NEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 Baltimore through Ocean ¢-ty and Salisbury, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. 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