The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 22, 1953, Page 8

Page & THE KEY WEST CITIZEN FLASH GORDON TIME- VIEWER -- AND HAVE RECORDED MANY OF THE MORE SIGNIFICANT SCENES ON CRYSTAL CAPSULES! POST GUARDS TOPSIDE! PUT ON OUTFITS? Hmm-THAT ANSWER EXPLAINS NOTHING. DOES chs gid SO SMART-ALECKY YESTIDDY, I GOT A GOOD NOTION M2. JIGGS HAS AN IMPORTANT ENGAGEMENT AT SEVEN THIS MORNING -- VLU SET THE ALAgM aT SX TO BE SURE CHARLES” L UTTERLY YER.IM A SUCKER FoR TEST LOVE SCENES,’ *SPESH WHEN MY GIRLS IN 'EM / LL HANOLE THIS - NO FIGHTING ~! Thursday, January 22, 1953 +. AND THE SCENE APPEARS AGAIN! NOW, RAY -= WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THAT SCENE? MY HYPNOTISM, DOESN'T WORK ON ANY OF THEM. AM TINA MADHOUSE NO--I THINK IT’S YOU WILLTELL ME) AMANDRAKE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY- By John Cullen Murphy BURIED TREASURE, INDEED! IN THE MIDOLE OF BOSTON, AT THAT! REALLY, THAD- By Fred Lasswell NE BETTER SET DOWN / DON'T AN! GIT AHOLT OF dg YORESE’E,’ PAW-- IT'LL MAKE YORE STANI By George McManus By Paul Robinson TRYING TO HIJACK MY GiL,HUH 7 ~ ALWAYS TAXING THINGS THAT DON'T THAT REDINOS STOLEN ANY WILL BE ACTING DEFENSE CHIEF.—Wilfred J. McNeil, as- sistant secretary’ of defense, became acting secretary when President Dwight Eisenhower took office. He'll be defense chief pending settlement of controversy over confirmation of Charles E, Wilson, retiring General Motors Corporation head. McNeil’s home is in Washington.—() Wirephoto. People’s Forum ‘The Citizen welcomes ‘expres- sions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items whieh a be published un- less requested otherwise. TRIBUTE TO K. W. Editor, The Citizen: This letter comes as a tribute of praise for the beauty of your little town, and especially to re- eognize the generosity of one of your citizens. I do not know him by name, nor would I recognize him if 1 saw him~—but this is the story. Having only a limited time to spend in Florida, 1 made a rush trip one afternoon to Key West. It was the highlight of my entire vacation. Just as we stopped at the Greyhound Rest Stop on one of the keys, the sun was sinking behind the horizon. The afterglow, the full moon, the starry southern skies~ ‘all were beyond any imagin- ed pleasure. Then the next morning I arose early and went to the beach. The tide was coming in so strongly I did not go in swimming, but I waded in enough to feel the salty spray and the majestic force of the breakers. Before I left, the kind gentleman at the beach house asked me if I would like to have a few shells. (He had seen me trying to pick up squid and sea urchins and jellyfish.) Of course, my first que: tion was, ‘How much are they’ “You may have them, as a re- membrance of your visit.” I was startle almost into sus- Picion, for tourists get allergic to souvenirs after a short while. But here was a stranger giving me a souvenir! Later on at the beach near Miami I found other shells, some larger, some more colorful. I have them all in a “treasure box” on my desk. When I look at them, they recall many memories, but pone more precious then one of un- selfish charity. So I decided tb write just a note of appreciation for the charity of one of your good citizens. Because of him, Key West holds an un- forgettable place in my memory. May your splendid little town prosper! Sincerely yours, A Midwestern Tourist AID OFFICIAL RESIGNS PARIS ‘#—Paul R. Porter, No. 2 man in Europe for America's economic and military aid program has resigned, the Paris office of the Mutual Security Administration announced. Porter is deputy for economic affairs in the office of William H. Draper Jr.. U. S. special rep- resentative in Europe. The an nouncement said bis resignation would take effect “in a reasonable ling appointment of a THE CISCO KID PROMISE OF DELIGHT Chapter 13 E showed her where th. -- tionery was kept, and she sat down at her desk. He stood look- ing down at rer for a moment, loving her sweet, fresh simplicity; then suddenly he leaned on the desk and took her hand, ate her smiling protest that she work to do. “Have you told anyone about us?” he said. “I told m; really told; telling her.” “That’s all right,” he said quick- ly. “She has a right to know. An- thea, don’t let Bianca know.” Her glance was puzzled, a little troubled. She would not have dis- cussed her feelings with Bianca in any case, * "I know it sounds odd,” he said, “and I suppose it is. We're an odd household. Bianca has been wii us so long, and she has always been very good to me. I'm very fond of her. But she’s a menace where her own sex is concerned. I often wonder if one of my fa- ther’s marriages might have been permanent if Bianca hadn’t inter- fered. She made their lives un- bearable, undermining them and interfering with them in a hun- dred petty ways.” “I can understand that,” she mother. Well, not was provoked into him putting up with it... she’s part of his youth. But she has nothing to do with you or me.” “I know. And I wouldn’t put up with it. But she doesn’t work for me, sweetheart. She’s a queer creature, she’d give her life for us, but she is uncontrollably jealous. If she thought we were in love and or going to be married, she’d set about making your life mis- erable.” Anthea’s beart gave a queer lit- tle lurch, said. “I mean I can understand) By Mary Howard “Are we?” she said. He glanced at her quickly, the blue eyes watchful and guarded though his arm was still round her shoulders, and his lips very near to hers. “Did you hear me?” he said lightly, and straightened up, saying wryly, “I thought a proposal was something you worked up to. I didn’t think it would creep up and catch me un- awares like that.” Anthea put a carbon and copy sheet behind a piece of paper and screwed it into her machine. She knew that Joe was standing watching her, with that half- Ne on his face, and her cheeks e crimson and her eyes full of tears. She said furiously, “I'll for- get what you said. In fact, you didn’t say it.” He said coolly, “And what do ou mean by that? That you don’t love me, and you don’t want to ‘th | marry me?” HE stared at the shorthand notes on the back of the first letter, but the words swam lazily together, and her fingers on the keys seemed to be covered with thick woolen gloves, fumbling and slipping idiotically. She stopped, and looked up at him, her brown eyes bright and de- fiant, her lips trembling. “I didn’t say that, and I didn’t mean that,” she said. She thrust her hands under the desk to hide their trembling. The whole after- noon, which had begun so suc- cessfully, seemed intense, charged with emction. She stumbled on, hating him and hating herseif. Downstairs they hear come and drive him into town. choked, “and I utterl; that sort of thing. I think it’s bet- ter for a woman never to marry Mario's deep voice shouting for Joe to “You made it sound as if I | were angling for marriage,” she despise rather to take second best. If- love is omy one side then it’s bet~ ter that marriage should never be spoken of between lovers. Posses- sion of someone you love is not worth having at any price, but only when there's no question of price . . . when it’s equal, and spontaneous, and . . .” She began to stammer, her sudden angry eloquence failing her. She fin- ished lamely, as Mario again roared impatiently from down- - stairs, “And free.” Joe stood still, looking down at her, his face curiously sombre. “That’s true. I wonder if you know how true?” He turned, call- ing to his father that he was com- ing, and said imperatively, shall see you this evening? I'll call for you about eight. I must go.” He bent, touching her hair with his lips. “Don’t be sad.” Sad? She was not sad, but she was nervous and shaken. She was in love with Joe. She set to work on the letters, deliberately thrusting all other thoughts out of her mind. She wrote out formal, grammatical letters framing Mario's brief in- structions, and when they were finished went through the unpaid bills which Mario had given her together with his check book. She wrote out checks, and typed the envelopes, leaving them ready with the letters for his signature when he returned. She gave a quick look around the room, then went downstairs into the dining room. The desk was still open, with the papers spilling out on the floor, just as Joe had left it. She set to work sorting out the papers, sitting cross-legged on the floor with the wastepaper basket beside her, ready for anything that was use- less or out of date. (To be continued) Most Christmas By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (®—Merchants re- port that much of the record Christmas’ and post-Yule buying thas been done on the cuff. Some retailers are going out hard for this kind of business. And in the New York area one personal credit firm is running a mobile unit from neighborhood to neighborhood to make it conven- ient to borrow. Makers and collectors of install- ment loans predict a still further swelling in ‘the total of consumer credit—which the Department of Commerce notes today. is at a record high of around 23 billion dollars. The Commerce Department sur- vey says consumer debt jumped three billion dollars since March and that the proportion of buyers using credit appears to be expand- ing. Executives of credit agencies contend this isn't harmful, because the country is prosperous — and debt totals always rise when times are good. The argument that it is okay runs this way: A million more people have jobs And | lee Buying Was “On The Cuff” Now there are about 26 million families, or 65 per cent of the total, in that group and carrying the largest share of the 16 oillion dollars of debt. : The average debt of the families is much higher now than in 1935. But Dietz argues that in 1935 the average income within the group was closer to the $2.000 end of the bracket, and is now much higher— meaning the group is ‘tin excellent financial condition to carry the bye they have contracted for.” But ‘like’ many bankers, Dietz warns merchants against over-pro- motion of credit selling. He says that ‘too tiberal-terms to dubious customets “are snares which en- trap fot only the over-o~ istic purchaser but also the ‘ie mistic store owner.” ACROSS 1. Jumps 5. Help now than a year. ago, The average factory weekly paycheck has gone | up 13 per cent in two years. The | total of wages and salaries—the source of payments of most install- | ment debis—is now around 200 billion dollars a year, nearly three | times what it was before World | War Il. The percentage of total | personal income after taxes owed | now as before the war. The Commerce Department’s observation that the proportion of buyers using credit is expanding |brings out an answer by the head jof one of the largest consumer eredit companies—Arthur 0. Dietz, | president of C. f. T. Financial | Corp. | He contends: Consumer debt is spread out among more families (and more prosperous families) than before the war, and is there fore no threat to the economy | ‘This spread is due to a general levelling off of incomes in recent years, and the rise of many lower. jincome families up the pay lad- |der. | Middle income families—Those jmaking between $2,000 and $7,500 ja year—are the mainstay~of the installment debt industry, Dietz holds. | He reasons that in 19%: lof the 1’ billion dollars of ment debt was distributed among 133 million midd or 45 per cent of the total number ‘of American families, ~ a se KEYS... WATOH PENCIL STUB... POCKET KNIFE. Ny HE ANT GOT IT ON Him. for time payments is not as high | 8. Box 12. Melody 13. Kind of antelope Pulled apart forcibly Diminish Stunted animal Genus of the linden tree . Minute orifices Old French coin Temper Learning . Cry out Ancient Zoroastrian 55. Read scriptures |. Makes into la w . Witticism . Think alike 44. Lasso . Savage and merciless Examined cy touch 50. Heavy cord Monkey Donate ane pseu ‘a3 OLD GRADS MEET ITHACA, N. Y. ®—Old grads in Korea now can rendezvous at the Cornell Club of Seoul. The university sdid Tuesday it had issued its 82nd alumni club charter to a group of 13 Cornellians serving with the military in Korea. R. Seldon Brower, general alum- ni secretary, said the new club described its organization meeting as “an elaborate affair in swank Kimchi Joe’s Rice Paddy Inn” near a Seoul ordnance -depot. NEW PTA BUILDING CHICAGO W — Ground was broken Wed. on Chicago's North Side for a $750,000 headquarters building of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers. The new building, which is ex» pected to be ‘compietéd by the summer Of 1954, will be two ‘and three stories high with provisions for another story. Cost of the building is being met with contributions from Parent - Teacher Associations and mem- bers. About $500,009 has been con- tributed. \ARIT RST! 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