The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1953, Page 8

FLASH GORDON ‘THIS ROPE IS LONG ENOUGH TO GET TeHE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, January 8, 1953 YES! THE ORB IS ACTUALLY LIKE AN EYE THAT CAPTURES THAT'S NOT SO mucH! FLASH AND L SAW LOTS OF FLOATING MACHINES DURING } SHOW THEM OUR ADVENTURES! Bub sis af 'YOU HEARD THE CHIEF COME ON! ‘EM BACK. EVEN IF DON’T FIND AWITCH OR THE LIVING DEAD--I"M GETTING PLENTY OF EXERCISE-- J ME DOWN To THE LAND OF THE JUNGLE WITC °T TH! TRICK j Vv Toozy ow ba GRICKE -- ay Eu ve os THAT MAGGE'S AWAKE LONG EI TO EAT- _—— ref we UW THE IMAGE OF EVERYTHING BENEATH IT! IT THEN RELAYS. THE IMAGE TO MY ORI B- VIEWER!... OBSERVE! 8 By Lee Falk and Wilson McCoy You L. THE CHIEF ) SA VBOD! / TOO PAI ID EVER' i f By John Cullen Murphy HONEST, CHIPS...I THOUGHT HE HAD YOU IN THE Seve ez ALMOST BREATHING... a BUT NOT FOR LONG, IF WE BM DON’T GET HIM TO THE K-K-KETCH HIM, RIDDLES &! K-K="UH-> ) 3 avert Pe Oy CHIPS R ME? I’ By Fred Lasswell WAAL!! I Don'T CALL lf THAT PERLITE |! TAKIN’ qi A NAP RIGHT IN. TH’ MIDDLE OF OUR TRICK-- CRICKET #! By George McManus TO HAVE YOu. =e) HI,LIZ.’ you MISSED THE cHar.ie?! \| youve || HURT HM WA : | By Paul Robinson aig Fancy Ideas Added To °53 Housewares By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK #— Furniture and appliance men are going out after your dollar this year with a lot of fancy new ideas: Refrigerators with slip covers; plastic walls that can be mmved about or dropped out of the way into slots in the floor; electric ranges with French friers; refrig- erators that flip out ice cubes on demand; combination washer and dryer; ranges with dishwashers built in; and stainless steel topped coffee tables, and plastic dressers that defy cosmetic stains. These marvels are being shown at dealer meetings around the country or are on display this week at Grand Rapids’ 75th anniversa- ry show and Chicago’s Winter Home Furnishings Market. Manufacturers seem confident you'll go on spending on your home at the same snappy rate as in the last six months. Also they expect to furnish a million more new homes this year. Some report the market for bet- ter-grade goods is on the up-tick, because ‘“‘everybody’s optimistic and has a full stomach.” But families with less than $4,000 annual income are buying a bigger and bigger share of home appli- ances, says Parker H. Ericksen, director of sales for the Bendix home appliances. He predicts they will buy three times as many au- ‘tomatic washers this year as they did in 1948, Plastic walls that drop into slots are foreseen by Gordon Brown, vice president of the Bakelite Co. He says a housewife could store several different color schemes this way and change a room's looks as often as she changes her mind. International Harvester Co. is showing fabric covered refrigera- tors to its dealers. The fabrics can be changed as easily as a slip cover, whenever the house- wife wants a new color:scheme in the kitchen. Republic Steel is entering the steel kitchen market, with models to be built at the Berger Manu- facturing Division at Canton, Ohio. So many manufacturers are jumping into the booming room air conditioner market this year that some retailers at the Chicago market expect competition to be extra keen this summer. But Cloud Wampler, president of Carrier Corp. thinks 475,000 will be sold this year, against 400,000 last summer. General Electric is showing 190 models to dealers. ‘Tele-King is breaking into the busi- ness with three models. Numerous others are entering the field. | But all the emphasis on the new doesn’t overshadow the traditional. As many or more new offerings of period-style furniture are on dis- play at Chicago as of the modern, which seems to be entering a s' bilization period with extreme de- signs being dropped. Makers of the extreme styles find a critic at the Chicago mar- ket in Raymond S. Reed, execu- tive vice president of W. & J. Sloane, New York store, who com- plains of “spindly wrought iron legs supporting baby grand pian- os.” He contends that modern design- ers, having learned that iron is cheap and easy to fabricate, are now “shaping it, twisting it and bending it like a pretzel and forg- ing it with everything except chlo- rophyll.” Says Reed: “You now sit on chairs which combine all the com- forts of an over-sized coal scuttle, the soft feel of a window screen and the basic ingredients of a picket fence.” Eisenhower Says Press Conference Plan To Continue NEW YORK \#—President-elect Eisenhower was quoted Tuegday as saying that of course he = td to hold news conferences after he takes office. Hugh Baillie, president of the | United Press Association, con- ferred with Eisenhower at his Ho- tel Commodore headquarters and told newsmen afterward that he (Baillie) had brought up the sub- ject of news conferences. He quoted Eisenhower as having told him, “Of course, there are go ing to be press conferences.” There have been reports that Ei GYPSY JOE WOULONT HANE TOLD ANYBODY THAT I WITH HIM. PROMISE OF DELIGHT Chapter One ‘HE only exciting thing about working for the East-Mid- Tands Technical and Manufactur- ing Company, Anthea Grainger thought, was the position of its Office, in a high wharf building on the South Bank below South- | wark Bridge. The only comfort- able thing, and perhaps it was too comfortable, was that her father was a director and managed the London end of the business. _ Anthea was leaning by the win- dow watching a steamer loadin; at the wharf below, her smal eager face lost and a-dream. A week ago summer had set in, hot days and cloudless skies. Weather for blue sea or green fields, but not for traveling to the city, working all day in an office, and traveling back in a crowded train at night. She could, of course, go home with her father in the car, but she hated doing that. ; There would be a storm this evening. The great river pano- rama, St. Paul's floating over the piled buildings of the City, and the Scamuens 2 White Tower up- river to her right, all gleamed in the curious, forbidding light. Mr. Grainger’s secretary, Miss Smithers, came in and carried some work over to Anthea’s desk. She had been with him for years, and resented Anthea’s presence in the office. Nothing could rid her of of the suspicion that Anthea was being trained to supplant her. She glanced disapprovingly at the slim, small figure standing by the window, gazing down at the river below. Anthea turned, caught her expression, and the stir of rebel- lion and resentment which had been growing in her heart flick- ered into a little flame. She put her little brown straw bonnet on the back of her smooth brown head with a jerk that nearly pulled the brim off, picked up her gloves and bag and stalked a a the elevator the two other ists were waiting, gossiping together. As usual Soke voices faded at_her pupae. Anthea glared. “Please don’t stop,” she said acidly. “I shan’t report every word you say to my father.” The two girls stared, blushed, one of them giggled nervously. Anthea could have burst into tears. Jim Darwin, who handled the advertising, and lived on the same street.as herself, was wait- ing at the bottom of the elevator. At the sight of his rather stiff, tall figure and pleasant face, an- ger and suspicion rose in Anthea again. Jim often took her out. Did he take her because he liked her, or because he was seeking Promotion? .He came forward in his faintly diffident manner, and said, “I waited, Anthea: I thought I might Tun you home.” “T think I'd rather go by train.” Jim looked dismayed. “Anthea, there’s going to be a storm. It’s silly to go by train, when I've got the car. You'll get drenched on the way from the station with- out a raincoat or anything.” An ominous roll of thunder over the Bennett Asks For New School Funds WASHINGTON (#— Rep. Ben- nett (D.-Fla.) is asking Congress to ‘provide funds to build schools | for Negroes and Indians He has introduced a bill under which the federal government | would reimburse states for con- | {struction costs of schools attended by either. He submitted similar | bills to the last two Congresses. He told a reporter that the pur- pose of the bill is to equalize edu- cational facilities between non- white and white, primarily in the South, although it would affect all { sections. “It is the only way,” he said, “that the South can finance a pro gram which would bring about an immediate equalization of school facilities.” Under the plan, grants would be made to the states for school construction based on the number of Negro or Indian children in at- tendance. He said his bill has nothing to do with segregation. But he did point out that the Supreme Court has ruled that the states must provide equal educational oppor ‘tunities for all and that the South is not able to do this without fed. jeral help. senhower may not meet with news men as frequently and on as regu: larly a basis as has been the prac tice of President Trur>nn the late President Franklin D Roosevelt did Truman, with some exceptions, jhas held news conferences once a jweek. Roosevelt met with news men twice a week. nd * BRUCE REMEMBERS OUT HS BARGAIN... MADE A DEAL SHOULD MARRY! Read ‘T By Mary Howard She raced homeward, hand clutching her hat, head dipped against the wind. city steeples almost made Anthea relent, but just then Miss Smith- ers came out, and though she smiled at Anthea ingratiatingly, there was something about the look in her eyes that suggested she was thinking; Oh, of course Mr. Darwin is offering her a lift home. I go the same way, but of course I’m quite a different kettle of fish. It doesn’t matter if I get soaked! Anthea looked at Jim, her brown eyes suddenly dreamy again. “Jim, supposing I were someone else .. . I mean one of the other girls in the office, would you still want to take me home?” Jim looked a little bewildered. “But if you were someone else you wouldn’t live on the same street,” he said, and then fatally, “Look, Anthea, if you get soaked your mother will be furious with me. She thinks you ought to come home with me or your father ev- ery day, and I agree. It’s ridicu- lous to pay a fare to stand all the way to Summer-hill. . . .” His voice trailed off. The dreamy look had disappeared from Anthea’s face, her cheeks were rather pink, and her dark eyes angry. “No, thank you, Jim,” and merching off to tue station, al- most as though he had said some- thing that was... well, anyway, there was absolutely no reason for her to behave like that. N the train, packed to suffoca- tion, squashed between a ga- rage mechanic in oily overalls and a very stout» gentleman who obviously suffered from the heat, Anthea was beginning to think so herself. There was no reason at all to suppose that Jim only liked her because he worked for her father’s firm. . Anthea hesitated in the sta- tion doorway, one of a group of people anxiously peering out at the empurpled sky. If she waited and the rain came down she might be marooned for an hour. She decided to run for it—her home could not be more than three hundred yards away. She turned the corner and started to run, light and fleet in her flat-heeled shoes, and like a spiteful fury on her heels the storm came down in a crack of lightning, and a spitting shower of great hail stones. She raced homeward, hand clutching her hat, head dipped against the wind, the big wet spots striking her shoulders through her thin blouse and jacket. She heard a motor horn just behind her and slowed down, thinking her father or Jim might have overtaken her, and hoping it was her father. But it was a big cream Buick with an Ameri- can license, and the hood up against the rain, that slowed down to a stop beside her. A strange man. Every instinct of training and environment told her to go on and get wet. Common sense and the rebellious sense of ad- venture which had possessed her all day told her to get in, The glass at the side was down, and she saw a brown face and a pa‘r of amused blue eyes. 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