The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 3, 1953, Page 6

Page 6 : THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, January 3, 1953 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 Publishe: NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-566] and 2-5662 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. THE CASTING DIRECTOR Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION 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. ‘THE QUESTION OF WAGE CONTROLS President Harry Truman’s recent announcement that he would replace resigned industrial members of the Wage Stabilization Board, and another statement from the Chief Executive that economic controls should be extended be- yond next April 30th, show that there is a wide area of disagreement on the need for wage and other controls. It will be recalled that all seven members, represent- ing industry, quit the Wage Stabilization Board this month in protest against the President’s action in over-ruling the Board in granting a coal-mine wage increase. Mr. Truman has been charged with having made a deal with John L. Lewis shortly before the election, as to the wage increase in the coal-mining industry. Whether or not these charges are,correct, the President’s action did appear to a rather weak one since he, himself, admitted that he was granting the increase partially to prevent dis- sension at the outset of a new Administration. Whatever the reasons, the Wage Stabilization Board was disillusion- ed, as were both business men and many millions of citi- ‘zens. In this connection, it is interesting to note that Roger Putnam, Economic Stabilization Administrator, is stepping down from this post in the near future. Putnam was not in favor of granting Lewis’s wage demands . Since Mr. Truman granted these wage hikes, consid- erable sentiment has developed opposing some or all, con- trols, Perhaps the strongest opposition has developed against the Wage Stabilization Board. Even labor unions have come out in favor of an end to economic controls. The United States Chamber of Commerce has openly urged all business ‘men to refuse posts on the WSB and both the Chamber and the National Association of Manufacturers are in favor of ending both ‘wage and price controls. It is probably accurate to say that opposition to all economic controls is at a higher pitch today than. it has been since the beginning of the Korean War. Whether or not some controls are needed, Mr. Truman’s action—in allowing the coal miners a steep wage hike—did not do the case for controls any good. On the contrary, Mr. Tru- man’s action seems to have hurt the case for controls, since he disagreed with too many men in his own Administrat- tion, who were dedicating their entire efforts to the prob- lem of controls. The prospects for continued controls re- cede a bit as a result of the Truman action, despite the President's call for continued controls a few days ago. “SLICE OF HAM SWHAT ARE YOU DOING DOWN THERE & KEY WEST IS MY BEAT {Still On Strike By SUSAN McAVOY Key West and Tarpon Springs will be the location for a forth- coming 20th Century Fox film on the sponge-diving industry, a tip to this column revealed today. The director of the film will be a house guest of a Key West resi- dent in February. At that time this column will publish full de- tails on the film. For now the only information re- leased is that the film will be shot in technicolor here and Tarpon Springs. The reader who turned in the tip said she will give us the word when the director comes to town. Key West lost the sponge indus- try to Tarpon Springs early in the century when a blight hit the growth. Though sponges are still available for intrepid divers, and those who wish the arduous task of curing them, the industry itself has fled, During the last thirty years of the 19th century, sponge diving was a booming enterprise here. One of the leading storehouses for the sponges was located on Greene and Simonton Street where a concrete garage is going up today. Scoop of the Week Winner The flying trip of the Ambassa- dor from Pakistan to the United States was called into this column by Bernice Gregory of El Rancho motel. Miss Gregory gleaned the news from the Ambassador’s chauf- fenr who waited in Key West for the high ranking official and family while they made a trip to Havana. Miss Gregory deserves the Scoop- of-The-Week prize for calling in the tip to The Citizen. She has not as yet chosen her prize from the list offered. NEW YORK (#—I had a horrible dream the other night. I dreamt that every person in America ac- tually kept the New Year’s resolu- tions he had made on January first. Here was the result four months later: The nation was completely upset. The sudden wave of overwhelming virtue had dislocated normal life in school, home and industry. The country faced the greatest depression in history. Every saloon was closed, every tobacco shop had shuttered its doors, and liquor store proprietors jwere peddling candy. | Bartenders stood in breadlines. Racehorses were applying for jobs pulling milk wagons. All race- jtracks advertised: “Reopening |soon as America’s biggest outdoor jrolier skating rink.” | Cobwebs hung in the windows of finance companies as no one was taking out a loan. Honorable Mention: E. L. Ludwig, Key West Trailer Park, wins honorable mention for calling in the name of the first Monroe county resident to pass free through the upper toll gate following midnight January 1. He was Donald Pease also of the park. Mrs. Earl Pinder wins honorable mention for her tip to this column on the arrival of Wolcott Gibbs and Burgess Meredith. The former is a playwright and dramatic cri- tie for The New Yorker. The latter is the well known actor-director. Both arrived at the Casa Marina yesterday. This column had learn- us doesn’t get a prize. Try again. Mrs, Burt Garnett called to tell us of the presence in our city of Chester Potter, proprietor of the snooty Dover Inn, New York State. She too wins honorable mention, Prizes Offered To Tipsters An aerial round trip to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, im Col. Pen Edgar’s seaplane. A night at The Key Ambassador with dinner and breakfast at Raul’s A day on a yacht either trolling, spearfishing or just sightseeing around Summerland Key, New- found Harbor Keys, and over the Gulf. A night at the Casa Marina with dinner and breakfast. A day of beautifying at Martin's the Hairstylist, with permanent wave, manicure and facial. Call or write in your tips on newsworthy events in Key Wests in Key West or the county and win one of these prizes. Make Key West your beat by keeping your eyes and your ears open. . HAL BOYLE SAYS had run downstairs to get morning coffee or missed work because of “one-day pneumonia.” So most businesses had all the employes they really needed to get the job done. Department stores were empty. No one was- buying on the install- ment plan. Night club owners had turned their joints into Chinese restau- rants—and were taking in each other’s laundry to cut down ex- penses. All the top dance orches- tras had become wandering street bands. theater, silence in every bowling jalley. People were sternly living jup to their resolution to “stay |home more often.” | Husbands, mindful of their |wives’ old wail, “You never talk |to me any more,” were talking so much that their wives were say- ed of their month’s vacation ear- lier, so Mrs, Pinder’s kind call to Darkness reigned in every movie | Garbage Men Are BALTIMORE (#—The strike of garbage collectors and other muni- cipal laborers went into its third day with the only hopeful sign a scheduled resumption of negotia- tions today. Some 3,300 laborers, including street cleaning, street repair and other workers are out, demanding a 25 cent-per-hour pay increase. The city, after alengthy negotia- ting session yesterday, held to its position of no general boost. Garbage and refuse in the na- tion’s sixth largest city. began piling up at an estimated 1,000 tons a day and the health com- missioner, Dr. Huntington Wil- liams, warned of disease risks if garbage is deposited in sewer out- lets. He urged residents to drain gar- bage thoroughly, pack it tightly and keep it in a cvol place.- Schools are to be reopened Mon- day, at least on a limited basis, authorities announced. Some jani- tors and firemen are involved in the strike. WEIRD INJURIES OCCUR IN RICHMOND RICHMOND, (#— Richmonders suffered some weird injuries in the first hours of 1953. Here were the causes of some mishaps, as listed at the Medical College of Virginia Hospital: “Hit mirror at home with fist.” “Struck in head with Christmas tree.” “Boy friend hit patient on head with stick.” “Brother dropped lumber on head.” And finally: “Hit in eye with bale of hay.” them across the street. They want- ed to carry them across. No pedestrian jaywalked. No taxi driver tried to run the red lights. Traffic cops were going to psychiatrists and moaning, “I feel so unnecessary in this civilization, doc. There’s no reason to bawl anybody out.” There weren’t even any Sunday drivers--they were all driving on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Some 512 veteran Internal Reve- nue Bureau agents had dropped dead of shock after checking 24 million income tax returns with- out finding a single error by a taxpayer in favor of himself. No one had gossiped, said an unkind word, or taken advantage of another human being. Profes- }sional reformers, comedians, pun- dit columnists and judges were in deepest melancholy. For there was nothing to criticize, ridicule or sit in judgment on. Everyone had gone to see his doctor at least once and everyone had either had his teeth fixed or arranged to visit his dentist. The ; }appointments ran into 1959. The nation had never been} jhealthier, most people had never | Banks |ing, “Oh, shut up for a change.” |been individually wealthier or bet- | bulged so with money that depos-|In fact every husband came home |ter bebaved. But the stock market | itors were paying them interest /at night so regularly that every |had plummeted to a record low, just to keep it. Automobile salesmen jtheir hands im dismay in show- }rooms stocked with new models. |But there were no new prospects as everyone had pledged to “make ithe old car last another year.” } Hopaiong C. had gone into Ithe garage bi ees because chil dren had quit watch vision sereen. Teachers threatening to so hai han we do ran ha We can't keep up with them In offices and factories po were one the tele- f | wife was doubly suspicious that he mance with his stenographer. | Wives were dutifully carrying nise to get up every ir husband's bands were beg: stay in me so adie.” morning to ki jthe backed-up savings had created | wrung |was carrying on a daytime ro- financial chaos, and everyone was {worried and fearful. saying: | | “If people change their habits this fast, there is no telling what lyou can put money in as a long | term investment ard feel safe. They might even start cobbling their own shoes.” j I woke from this dream in a ¢ cold sweat of terror. And the mor- to longer were content merely to help 5 ‘y too much about those New Year's resolutions. if dy kept them, they'd ruin} the ce |The Southernmost Corner By CHARLES DUERKES Another Yule has passed and a new year has been launched with due ceremony. Citizens around and about the land are getting back into the groove of being their old, usual selves. They have count- ed their gifts and their blessings, totaled up their bills, made mental notes concerning who not to send greetings a year hence and are re- garding, with slightly bloodshot eyes, the next important calendar date. March 15! Good old March 15 will cause more headaches than a whole flock, of New Year parties rolled into one. Meantime most of us have been reading various versions of the most important news highlights of the past year and quite a passel of learned predictions of things to come in the months ahead. I took a vacation during the holi- days and did not get to wallow in printed retrospect or to do any crystal ball gazing. This I must do, lest I lose my rate. In my books the news highlight of the past twelve month was the bodacious hoop-tee-do abour Mari- lyn Monroe’s old job of posing in the altogether for a calendar, plus the fact that she doesn’t like to wear anything ‘neath her dress ex- cept perfume. Bad news highlight of the year was the fact that 1 couldn't get me one of those calendars. Another highlight of the year 1952 was the weather. Why, there was weather in every nook and cranny you can name! I cannot understand why other columnists failed to mention it. Then of course there was the big election. Most interesting as- pect of that donnybrook, to me, is the influence on milady’s hair-do. Mamie’s bangs, bless ’em. It will take some time before we feel the effects in administration changes, but Mamie’s bangs instituted a vital landslide in a most progres- sive direction even before the re- turns were in. The bangs drove those insane poodle cuts out of office. The only place a poodle cut ever looked good was on a poodle. Putting on the dog may be just fine, but that canine cut made most dames look like holy terriers. Woff! Of course, 1952 gave us a smid- geon of Christmas Spirit. It pre- vailed. It crops up every year and holds brief sway. Then it is packed away with the tree ornaments un- til another Yuletide. Looking ahead into the coming | year you can expect more busted New Year resolutions than you can shake a stick at. Look for an invasion by inhabi- tants of another planet. Look all you have a mind to, but you won't see any interplanetary tourists un- less you're loaded to the gills with giggle soup. Ask any good astron- omer why. The coming year will bring a lot of marriages and a lot of divorces. Especially in Hollywood, where you’ve got to indulge in both, if Spottswood Promises A Clean S THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB It was a pleasure to hear this week that Police Lt. Jimmy James and Officer Bienvienido Perez had received commendations from the FBI, Selfish pleasure and self-con- ceit, I'll have to admit, because this writer -either through news stories or “This Rock of Ours” -- has called attention to the effi- cency of both of these men in the past. Because of his youth and the peculiar political set-up at City Hall, Lt. James has upon occasion acted rashly. Given a leader such as former Captain of Police, Harry Lee Baker, James could soon de- velope his personality and ability and rank with any law enforce- ment officer in the country. Officer Perez has always been one of our best policemen here in Key West. He is stern but friendly. He was at one time Chief of Police and I'd like to see him in that capacity again. Perez is a capable man wno can readily distinguish right from wrong and no one, including President Eisen- hower, is going to corrupt his moral honor and sense of fair play. Police Chief Joe Kemp is sup- pose to’ retire in the near future. It might be well to point out that the new police chief should be a man who can work cooperatively with our new sheriff -- John Spotts- wood. Also, the new leader should be a man who can build up an *esprit de corps among his men. Many of our officers are “rookies” in so far as police work goes. Officers Lounders, Hall, ete., can be termed a rookie due to their short amount of experience and their previous occupations. As recently as last year, Lound- ers was a garage mechanic -- Hall was a short-order cook. Without benefit of a police school where they could get concentrated train- ing, both men have performed their job to a fair degree of effi- ciency but until such a training school is instituted, only years of experience can instill in them a knowledge of the difference be- tween the letter of the law and the spirit of the law. Some years ago I took a book outlining police methods as taught you want to keep your name in the paper, unless you pose for a calendar while you have nothing on except the radio. You can also look for one of those Marilyn Monroe calendars. If you find one, please send it to me. On the serious side, don’t look. Things are serious enough. 1953 will have the usual goon mobs of crazy, irresponsible driv- ers. Too many people will be maimed and murdered on the nation’s streets and highways. The slaughter will go on until we get traffic laws with teeth in them. Traffic slogans are all right, but they are too much like signs read- ing: “Wet Paint.” If you have to use a slogan, try. this: “Drive carefully. The life you save may be MINE!” in the Northwest Police Aca‘ re I had studied it throughout « months of Public Safety Office? training and I thought the KW de partment might be interested in it. To the best of my knowledge, mer Police Lt. Ray Atwell wi the only one who had time bother with finding ovt what the best police college in the nation teaches. ing fire portection and fighting te the various fire departments be- cause that was the field I chose to specialize in following my police training. The city firemen never let an opportunity to study such literature slip by them. Even Chax> lie Cremata and Chrarles Torres, Chief and Assistant Chief of the fire department will ask questions and advice of their men. They realize that only in that way, whether they follow the men’s ad- vice or not, can they expect-the various officers, the men, and the job to combine into a fighting unit. Perhaps that explains the differ ence between the two departments -- the police and the firefighters, get new sewer lines. Perhaps there will be no more “King’s Canyons” ~- an expression which the Manager didn’t appreciate when Ellis Finch and myself used to bandinage him about the holes in the streets last summer. This time when the laid, I hope they bring in a petent engineer from the who will brook no from the local big-wigs. Too of us remember the WPA that were as often as not ed across egg or orange crates order to give the line the right Sons To Go With Wildes On Trip SANTA MONICA, Calif. ~The two sons of actress Jean Wallace and her former husband, Franchot Tone, have the court’s permission to accompany her and her present husband, actor Cornel Wilde, on a movie-making trip. The junket will be to French Morocco and possibly to England, Spain or Mexico. The y. are Pasqual Franchot, 8, and Thomas Jefferson, 6. Superior Judge Orlando H. Rhodes said the trip was in the financial interest of the boys and of the mother. However, he ruled. yesterday they must return before the last half of the year so they _ can spend vacation with their father, 7 ‘The University of North Caro- lina has had three Olympic track team members. They are Harry Williamson, Bill Albans and Chuck Simmons. weep a