The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 3, 1952, Page 2

Page2 THE KEY WESTCITIZEN Wednesday, December 3, 1952 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except suriday) 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 P NORMAN D. ARTMAN 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. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ora incerenipcsinanep pesenoeee teeters ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION PRE eA NCIS AN SMES LS GD RSE ae SE OL a LESS II 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 and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, IKE’S FEMALE APPOINTEES It is interesting to note that President-elect’ Dwight D. Eisenhower has appointed two women to top jobs al- ready, and that he promises to recognize the capability of women in all ‘fields, It is also interesting to note that the first two female appointees were among a list of seven- teen names submitted to General Eisenhower by a com- mittee of the American Association of University women. The AAUW named a committee to recommend the list to Eisenhower and the committee sent in. the seventeen names shortly before Ike named two to major posts. The two chosen by Eisenhower were Mrs. Ivy Priest, of Bountiful, Utah, and Mrs. Oveta C. Hobby, of Houston, Texas, These appointments were pleasing to the Status of Women Committee of the AAUW, since that committee had proposed both in the list sent to General Eisenhower. General Eisenhower's recognition of women, in this respect, is not a new thing. The last two Democratic ad- -ministrations have called on members of the fairer sex to perform top. jgbs ae peers at‘varioug times. These jobs have-intMtided Cabinet posts andy at present, there everal women filling top-level jobs in the De- fense Department and other major departments. Perhaps one of the reasons why these women usually come through is the fact that few of them are picked for top posts and the few chosen are naturally thought to be top candidates in the entire country. Whatever the rea- sons, most of the ladies who have been given top govern- ment jobs in the last two decades have made creditable showings and ‘satisfied the men who appointed them. In so doing, they have paved the way for the appointment of other women to top governmental posts. ' Not everything that is cut to half price is worth buy- ing. Every business, to the outsider, is a source of easy and large profits. A friend is not always the man who tells you how wise and good you are. One-eyed automobiles on the highway help to pro- duce the accident record. Personally, we know of few housewives who do not think they are overworked. MUSIC \\t un AMERICy \\) Be iy mts IN Ra Q THOMAS WOLFE’S HOME |New Program HONORED AS SHRINE ASHEVILLE, N. C. FINALLY MOVES TO RECOGNIZE GREAT NOVELIST By SUSAN MCAVOY It was a hot July morning at) 7 o'clock, 1947 when I last saw Mrs. Julia E. Wolfe, mother of the now celebrated novelist Tho- mas Wolfe. She was sweeping off the front | steps and walk of 48 Spruce Street, | Asheville, N. C., where much of | Tom’s first novel “Look Homeward, | ” takes place. » Wolfe was then about 82. | Her erect posture, black hair and | photographic memory, all inherit- | ed by Tom, made her seem a lot Then she was renting rooms in “The Old Kentucky Home” as it was named, for one dollar a Today that same home, a ram- shackle and deteriorated house, has been made @ shrine to the late, great author. An old friend of mine, Don Shoe- maker, editor of the Asheville Citi- zen, another Wolfe fan is president of the-Thomas Wolfe Memorial Association which now ‘has 700 members from all over the world. This news makes me very happy because in my opinion, Wolfe is the greatest novelist the United States has yet produced. And like many great men, he was for years not only unhonored in his home town but almost dis- honored, Back in 1943 and 1944 when I spent a total of four weeks with the mother of the dead nove- list, I could not even get a copy of his books at the local public library. ¢ Today as Tom’s world-wide fame has made its impact even on his beloved Asheville the Pack Mem- orial Public Library has started a collection of Wolfe memorabilia, | and even puts it on exhibit. When I first went to Asheville | on a holiday in July 1943, I was like a Shakespearean scholar in Stratford-On-Avon. I walked around | the streets of the town clutching | my copy of “Look Homeward, | Angel" identifying the streets, the | houses, the famous square, Mount) Pisgah, the other scenes described | photographically in his great novel. My greatest pleasure and pur- pose of the two visits was sitting | on the porch every night with Mrs. Wolfe and hearing ber pour forth & steady stream of comment on every aspect of Tom's life. So good was her memory, and so | talks sometimes for ward.” Mrs. Wolfe was net re- Peating the book or herself, she was the real thing from which Tom's memerable portrait ef Eli- 2a Gant was drawn. The Asheville outcry against was his reporting aad life of bis town. @ one of the small bu' | growing group who placed him at | jie top of American novelists. This was four years after his untimely | death at the age of 38, Wolfe proved to be, in my opinion, the most evocative of all prose writers. His ear caught every tone of | E. Richey in the Marshall Islands | Forget about the runways them- every voice, his eye caught the color of America, whether it was | the green of a park bench, or the rust on a nail in < railroad tie. The sounds and sights of the country he loved became beloved to any devotee of the wri Whether it was the jungle Brooklyn, the m ity ef the North Carolina mountains, or the graciousness of an estate tower- ing over the Hudson river, Wolfe viewed the scene, digested it and poured it forth on payer in mag- nificent language more fitting for @ poet than a novelist. . Criticized by many ex as “vérbose, repetitious, formless,” he nevertheless won his way to the hearts rather than the minds of the generation of the 1930's early forties. Unlike the bleak proletaria writers of the depression days, Wolfe could still see the richness gheeg es Gal e5co AFRice,, CRIDS TROUBLE. ANGLo. HASSLE a | Gives GI's | LOS ANGELES (#—Pfe. Riehard jwants to hear hilbilly music from | Vero Beach, Fla. Cpl. Thomas F. |Futch in Korea is listening for | {familiar sounds of Jacksonville. Maj. Lloyd M. Miller ard wife, |Nan, in Germany ask for voices they remémber from West Palm | Beach. foverseas are typical of those ar- |riving daily at Armed Forces Ra- |dio Service in Los Angeles. They jare in response to’ the pro- | gram, “Way Back Home,” which jdaiky presents communities | throughout América on 60 armed jforces radio stations scattered around the world. Already heard world wide since Aug. 17 when the series of greet- |ings, news, music and other fa- | miliar sounds of home began have | been, Gainesville, Lake City, Or- ‘Familiar Music | These requests from Floridians | of life in our country, which was not dimmed for him by living in a leaky basement in the poorest |Tampa will be presented in De- part of Brooklyn. cember, Winter Haven, Miami and Though I never knew Wolfe 1/ Orlando in January and Leesburg determined after reading and read- | and Palm Beach in February, ing his novels, short stories and his | Sounds of Ft. Pierce, now on superb, “Story of A Novel” to|hand in tape form in Los Angeles roe everything I coulc about him | are aw g transcription, sched- through the family, friends and} uling and overseas flight. On, ‘ a | State cities not yet heard by Therefore when I was given a/troops abroad but pre pre. vacation from The Washington | paring to record their ‘ood Star in 1943, I took the first train | will debuts are Belle Gi Mel- up through the winding mountains | bourne, DeLand, Jacksonville, to Asheville. I had plannec to stay | Jacksonville Beach, Ft. Lauder- with the Don Shoemakers. The jdale, Live Oak, Palatka, P2nsa- second day there, however, I called jcola, Panama City, St. Petersburg Mrs. Wolfe and said: jand Sanford. “This is Susan Anthony, Mrs, | Hurdreds of let are being Wolfe, are you still renting | received from U. S. service people rooms?” jwarmly praising the project and She said: emphasizing its m e value. “Why goodness me, | saw you| One such letier is from Airman in a woman-suffrage parede in jJames W. Waters, Pa a City, 1913." who writes from Ok “No you didn’t, that was my (lieve me, you great-aunt you're thinking of - the most, we and she was dead seven years | the day. Mar in 1913,” 1 replied. 2 from their t “Well child, it was around then. way they » Yes, you can come and stay he on that it it’s a dollar 3 night, but ' ha te go out now to use up my sh. ration stamp before it expires. } Come over later.” }mosed as fp I arrived bag and baggage and | Seattle t moved into the room occupied by | w \landé, Tampa, Clearwater, Sara- sota~ and Miami. Tallahassee and | Tom’s first boyhood love in “Look jin Homeward, Angel.” Mornings. 1 spent swimming at the Asheville Country club. At five | I would dine in town. Ai 6, I took up my rocking chair post and rocked along with Mrs, Wolfe a found it necessary to ask her only One question. That would start her off on an avalanche of recollections about Tom. We interrupted grew nosed. called for h him on the Mrs. Welfe toid me that ryshed by train to Ch she met the train. a dying man, covid strained by porte ing th last she where though t be re- om rush our Frank Wolfe Tom's, didn't say was probably be had trained him For the firs real story told it to an ¢ at Scribner's, was not re- by Mrs. Wolfe fopkin and nations one tent that de Now that I’m no longer connected with National Air Lines perhaps I can make a few remarks about our. local a ion set-up which | won't be considered biased.- Cer- tain thoughts have been churning over inside of me for a long time and they’ve got to be expressed even if they hurt the County Com- missioners’ feelings, Meacham Field bears closer re- | semblance to an overgrown weed | patch out of a Lil Abner comie book than it does 't modern airport that a growing town lil ! needs. In more conci v | langua irfield - | There -- I've gotten that out and I feel a little better. No criticism is being leveled at Geor: io, Manager of Mea- cham Field. He is in a tough poli- | tical situation and probably does the best he can. The Meacham squabble has been gcing on for months and only a fool like my- self would dare stick his neck out to be chopped off, I’m told that the runways them- | selves are safe enough, Uncle Sam makes sure of that fect or the com- mercial planes carrying passengers wouldn’t be allowed to take off nd land. At thi i it i gers and equipment are endanger- ed when they use the field follow- | i hower of rain. Deep puddl pilot forced to go} igh them from fifty to seventy er hour. The wrench and fect on the airplane can | icated by you yourself! in an mobile. Simply drive at high speed into a. deep puddle of water on the street -- allowing only one side of the car to enter the water while the opposite tw wheels stay on dry land. The on! difference in the situation is that jan automobile has four wheels j while an airplane only has two to! provide stability. | SHABBY SURROUNDINGS selves, though. Perhaps that is aj subject for technical men, Let’s | consider the grounds. themselves. | Weeds and high grass are ram- pant, While I was working for | National, one customer came out }and wanted to fly to Miami. He | asked me where the field was and {I pointed out the window. He look- ed outside, glanced pack at me to see if I was joking and then clear- ed his throat, saying: “I don’t think I'll make that trip. I've seen | safer looking cow pastures where at least the cows kept the weeds | mowed down!” The. County has equipment or | could borrow it from the State’ so | that some of the high weeds that border the runways and fields | could be mowed. One day with a| News Briefs BOVINGTON, Eng., (®—An 18-| old Royal Armored Corps | trooper will appear before a court martial Dec. 2 on a charge of offering information which might be useful to an enemy, the War | Office announced. | The soldier, T. E. Dewick, al | clerk to the technical adjutant of a | driving and maintenance school, al- \legedly offered the information to an unauthorized organization. De- wick wa$ said to be a member of the organization, which was not named in the War Office announce- ment, WASHINGTON W—Sen. Jenner (R-Ind) says he would favor re- jviving next year a $21,700,000 project to build a new Senate of-; fice building. Jenner is expected to serve as! chairman of the rules committee Republican-controlled | y senators long have i more space and } in pri- gs at their own # — Changes in| n laws probably as the hearing beginning will be conducted by of election committee meets ) said the sound and ructive recom STAR * BRAND and CUBAN ~-TRY A POUND TODAY—- STRONG ARM BRAND COFFES Triumph @ Coffee >) Mill ale ocegs THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB tractor and mower. and Meacham would take on the semblance of | a first-class airport whether it is or not. Under present conditions, the weeds are not only ugly but they provide an ideal spot for mosquitoes. ne That is another sore poiat. While I was out there I’ve heard passen- gers say they would never return to Key West because of the way the mosquitoes ate ther up while they waitea for plane departure time. Cutting the weeds and spray- ing would give arriving and de- parting passengers happier memo- ries of “Our Rock,” Commissioner Joe Allen has at- tempted to help me with the situa- tion. He is a busy man however, and the job of cleaning up Mea- cham is going to require all of of the County Commissioners. Eventually, a modern terminal is going to be a necessity out there. I'm positive that both NAL and “Q” will be glad to cooperate and SKATING NIGHTLY 8:00 — 10:30 SOCIAL. AND PRIVATE PARTY ARRANGEMENTS 420 Southard St. Tel. 916 RUGS CLEANED All Forma! Garments chemically processed. All work guaranteed and fully insured. 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Continuous Performance San Carlos AIR CONDITIONED Mat. 2 & 4:06 Night 6:12 Thurs., Fri., Sat, WARNER BROS. cecesnr Mat. 3:30 Night 6:30 & 8:30 Thurs., Fri., Sat. First Run in Key West with William Holden and James Stewart