The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 17, 1952, Page 10

Pace TNE XBY WEET OFTITEN Wodnesdey, Decomber 7, 1952 SORRY.’ WE'LL HAVE TO HOLD You TRL WE AND AMONG THE FASCINATED AUDIENCE...» GOOD NIGHT JUDGE YouR DAUGHTER 1S WAITING FOR you! BLOB-GLOB By Dan Barty|ror THE PSEUDO-BLOBS By Lee Falk and Phil Davis RIGHT HEIGHT |] THE QUESTION IS-- AND SHAPE WHICH ONES IF WE NAB. THE WRONG [| ONE, THERE’LL BE ARIOT! By CHARLES G. MENDOZA This column is not meant for normal people, nor necessarily for the abnormal. This is for Key West fens, BEMS, and Pseudo-Blobs. If you do not understand any of this glob, turn to the comics or go to bed, you’ve simply not a science- fiction fan. Key West is beginning to mature in more ways than one, and wherever maturity is taking place naturally you will find many stf readers. This column will be devoted primarily to their needs. Start the letters rolling in because Key West has already organized a science-fiction group and we want all the fen to participate. There are many wonderful surprises ahead if we give this thing the right impetus. I promise to utilize most of the ideas and innovations you mail in. Hold fast to your dreams, the good Lord gave us an awful big amount of universe for our ideas to spin in. Now as your columnist you must begin to adjust yourself to some of my peculiar penchants and idio- syncracies. One of these is poetry. And the Christmas spirit has caught up with me. So I am going to give you an original Christmas sonnet, Shakesperian at that. This is in keeping with Christmas ideals. Lest we forget the message Christmas brings The heart must yearn again for thoughts that stem From that most holy night the King of Kings Was born to light our way in Bethlehem Dim not those stars that blazon- ed forth his birth Nor drown hosannas with the clink of cash, The joyful tidings bringing peace to Earth Meant wealth of soul ~ for money is but trash, Or sticks with which we beat the drums of strife. The solvent aim is measured in the skies By noble deeds that we perform in life While blazing trails that lead to paradise. If you forget what Christmas «Means today Ask of the Lord when you next you kneel to pray. One of the fen in Key West is desperately trying to get ahold of A. Merritt's “The Girl in the Golden Atom.” If you have any clues please telephone me at my home. = I have “The Books of Charles Fort.” If you wish to borrow this book, the line forms to the left. I don’t think there are many copies in Key West. I also have many science-fiction and fantasy magazines on hand. Let’s start up a good circulation of magazines and books among the fens, also of ideas. ee In my next column, I will name the founding members of The Key West Society of Pseudo-Blobs and the aims of this organization. If you wish to join, let me know. By Fred Lasswetl| Atomic Secrecy Hampers Progress UPTON, N. Y. (#—Gordon Dean; chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, says he believes it is time to consider removing some of the secrecy wraps from nuclear reactors (atomic piles) to aid power production. The science of reactors, he adds, “has reached the stage of devel- opment where such extensive se- erecy as we now have will almost certainly hamper progress, if it hasn’t begun to already.” Dean’s suggestion that some atomic secrets be disclosed, so that American industry could go By George McManus|\OZARK IKE YES, ONG’ T w THINIONG /— Hi You A DATE F. THE DANCE Yer? hooked up with you thorny peck- exwoods. Th? old man always told me—” “Kinda hate to go off an’ leave th’ old woman here, but this ain’t ae for womenfolks to mix in That had been the departure, That and Clay’s final hard-grip- ping Bandelssp: with Blair. and Toni, in homespun trousers and a buckskin jacket, determined to ride astride rather side- saddle, and winning her point to the * tense amusement and satis- faction of the men. All in all, it had been a Half a dozen today?" “Clay, you aint got 8 ... “Clay, you ain’t got a chew of tobacco you could spare, have you?” ,.. “Colonel, you gonna have to transfer me to some other troop. These yellowbellies have heard all my stories an’ they don’t believe none of ’em.” Halfway down the column he found Sarazan, still unshaven, Fetal two copes. who had ough tfully lashed wrists together and run rawhide ropes from the lashings to their own saddle horns. Clay frowned as he rode on, wishing Berit wee possible to execute emptorily and have done with it. was sound, it was safe, it was ward pnd that wen tee ond of ake WAS past three in the morn- ing when he felt someone shak- someone was pering insistently. “Colonel, Web. rs figure sprawled on eee ee “How long ago? asked hoarsely. “Cain’t tell. Might have been four hours or so. Walt here,” he jerked his head at the figure on the id, “took over the guard at about eleven. When th’ next watch come to relieve him, he found this. He lost some time comin’ to tell me about it, an’ I reckon I’ve lost some time noti- fyin’ you, Could of been an hour ago—could have been just ‘fore mee “All right.” There was nothing to do now except accept the fact— accept it and try to ward off the disaster that gapea before them. “Get Miguel Garcia over nere and get his in the saddle. He’s ie a couple of trackers in his out- it and iy Maas eee able to strike’ a trail. "t catch him—” And then Garcia and his men to] were loosed, ranging out over the broad valley, probing Zor Armed Forces Manpower Need Easy To Fill WASHINGTON (#—The lady boss of U. S. military personnel says the armed forces can meet their manpower needs for the next year and a half with only a minor tightening of draft rules. Mrs. Anna Rosenberg, assistant secretary of defense in charge of personnel, said Sun. night the De- fense Department plans to keep its present strength of 3,600,000 men and women through June, 1954, without drafting fathers or Korean veterans. She told television interviewers this could be done through a draft- of 620,000 from the Selective Serv- ice pool in the year beginning next July 1. The armed services will discharge 1,100,000 during the year, she said, and the balance can be met through volunteer enlistments. “We will probably have to tight en some of our administrative rul- ings,”’ she added. Mrs. Rosenberg agreed with questioners that the armed forces are not making full use of their manpower. But she said the mili- tary does not have as wide a choice of its workers and has only two years to train and use them. ahead and harnes the atom for peacetime power, was made in | speech at the dedication of a! $3,500,000 cosmotron, the world’s | most powerful atom smasher. . Ys Cross Ww t S38 FBR il e 4 nett 8 #2 82 SSERS BAR RBENRR RBBRSF SS Paes ee