The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 27, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, January 27, 1953 The Key West Citixen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. PB. 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 — NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue Ess TLON FLORI ASS 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 RISE OF TELEVISION David Sarnoff, chairman of the Board of the Radio Corporation of America, recently announced that the number of homes equipped with television had increased from 15,000,000 at the beginning of 1952, to nearly 21,- 000,000 at the end of the year. This increase amounts to a gain of about 40 per cent. It is estimated that more than one-third of the popu- lation in this country is unable to receive television trans- mission. However, this situation is likely to be cleared up rapidly, since Mr. Sarnoff reported that, compared to 117 television stations on the air, at the end of the year, con- struction permits have been granted to 185 others. It seems likely that, considering the number of new stations which are expected to go on the air this year, the sale of new television sets ‘will increase over the remarkable fig- ure of 1952. ; In fact, the year 1953 will be the greatest television year yet realized, with the greatest number of stations and the greatest number of viewers. By December 31st, 1953, it is likely that the 35 per cent of the population which now is outside the reception capabilities of present television transmission will be reduced to a very low figure. The year is expected to mark the end of the television drought in all large areas and make the country truly and thoroughly “televised” from coast to coast. Misnomer: Inside information. When in doubt about a controversial point, say nothing. * A good friend is one who doesn’t eare how much |tins money you have. It’s often easier to charge goods than to pay for them and that fact remains true even after the bill arrives, un- fortunately. And then there are people who think the world is coming to an end in the near future, who remind you to make ready for the event. It never pays to tell other people how to live their lives; if they don’t have as much sense as you do they won't take your advice and if they do they don’t need it. THE CURTAIN RAISER Mrs. Strahorn Is Employed As La. Welfare Worker Mrs. Laura M. Strahorn-has re- Pe cee! J poe — Lay 3 cently hired Y familiar ey Westers wi Ronee papeaeeratiag oma SS ae oe BY DARIO Baby Plus Cake Pan Lots Of Commotion ; to be admired later by the Ame- BAYONNE, N. J..W—Take an| ‘oes for his idealistic persever- inquisitive three-and-a-half year gel old, his nine-month-old baby. broth. | ice. His birth was to decide er and a deep cake pan, stir to- gether and what have you got? Answer: A baby with his head stuek in the cake pan, a scared mother and grandmother, 2 frantic call to the police, and a trip to a iterprise was reserved for Jose Mar- ti, who was conscious, since his school days, of his election for the great mission. From then on, he imposed upon himself the task, with a firm re- to cultivate, wherever he aid the indepen- to appraise m. To preach the wn gig re ie mith. Michael Basile was the three- and-a-half year old. David Basile or baby brother. It happened in order to break the chains which Cee rowan’ Cent auip-anip | enslaved the land of his birth. And with his shears and off came the | build, from a starving and cake pan. abused colony, a republic conse- David calmed down and was ‘tated to Progress; Liberty-Demo- taken home for a nap. Mrs. Irens |¢Tacy and Justice. Basile and her mother-in-law, Mrs.| Except in the French Revolution, Charles Basile, calmed down. Mi-|n0 historical center was as suit- chael didn’t have to calm down. | able as that in which Jose Marti He was never excited. was formed, to develop those hid- den forces which humanity holds EXPLOSION IN BRITISH |?* im reserve, and which are not SHIP KILLS CREWMAN seen but in the days of excitement and peril. He lived at one of those PORTLAND, Eng. A—A stoker- mechanic was killed and three times when the game of public life other naval ratings injured in an can not be freély displayed, and when the stake of human activity osion. jler |i5 increased by the hours, when nal gener agioyg ori | every oy te expression is tain’s newest destroyers. y The ship was preparing for sea. The history of the Americas is ‘The explosion was followed by a |Tich with heroism. Jose Marti glit- fire which burned an hour before | ters in this history with surprising- being brought under control. ly many facets. He was like a The Duchess is the seventh of | beacon, pouring light from every Britain's crack new Daring class| angle, and a master in politico- destroyers. Almost up to cruiser | Social science by intuition. He dis- standard, they are jampacked with | dained the ungrateful ostacles that the Royal Navy's latest anti -)he found in the rocky path of his submarine and anti - aircraft de-| mission, but continued serene to the accomplishments of his self- imposed duty. Some great liberators were mili- tary geniuses, such as our Great vices. ITALIAN AIRLINER CRASHES IN FLAMES ROME #— Ao Italian airliner |¥43 ® great lberator, but here crashed in flames in the moun-|COmparisons end, for be wes a He spent most of his life away Jose Marti’s Centennial @. GARCIA honorary consul of several Latin American republics. During this roving struggle away from his country, he conjured vehemently - quietly in the solitude of his ex-| istence, the precise moment to strike the alarm of the final re- volutionary uprise to free the land of his ideals, the consummation of his mission. In this incessant wandering from port to port he visited New Or- leans, Tampa and Key West, (Ca- yo Hueso) several times. Each time he pleaded and begged for the cause of “CUBA LIBRE” for the sovereignty of another Latin American republic. On one of his many trips here, he stayed a longer time, the sandy shores of this beautiful island awakening his most emotional idealism. From our beaches he often look- ed to the South, where the pearl of his illusions Jayed subjugated by the Spanish yoke. It is here where he often sat on the soft. sand of the South Beach, when the skies resembled a dome of blue, pink and mauve; when the sun sunk slowly into the séa, like a bail of fire plunging into the horizon, spreading its yellow rays in a radius of hope and dreams while a carpet of molten gold across the turquoise blue vanished into a bleak grey mist which closed down upon the smoldering ashes of his imagination. It is from these shores that he made the final jump to Santo Do- mingo to join the invading Army of Maximo Gomez, to enter Cuba by Playitas, and to sound “El Grito de Baire,” and to be killed in action a few days later. It is to Key West (Cayo Hueso) that he wished to will whatever was left of his heart... . By MALCOLM 8B. JOHNSON ORANGE SPRINGS (#— Florida school teachers who have been talking about annual pay raises of as much as a flat $560 had some disappointing news from the influential Legislative Council Mon- day. The Council wound up a week- end meeting here by proposing a | maximum increase of $350 from |state funds for the 75 per cent jof teachers who hold bachelor's i degrees; jall others | Instead of the flat cost-of-living limerease which teachers have sought, the Council recommended | gnd turn all trustees’ duties over est salaries by the pay raise be written into a NO FLAT “COST OF LIVIN HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK #—Once upon a time when most guys starved themselves to get that beanpole look and the gals dieted to get toothpick thin there lived a happy fat man. as The time is now. The man is Herman Hickman, the roly-poly, ex-Yale football coach who has be- come one of television’s biggest Personalities. Herman’s career is proof that whoever said “Nobody loves a fat man” must have been underweight and jealous. While other hefties count their calories, he counts the dollars he makes out of being pleasingly plump. “I guess I’m up to about 300 now,” he beamed content- edly as he dipped into a four-inch luncheon serving of lamb stew. “But I have trouble finding a Place to weight. I either have to goto an ice house or a coal yard.” His gusty enjoyment of living overflows in several directions— eating his own cooking, reciting poetry, smoking cigars, and telling ae, tales df his Tennessee home- His philosophy of life can be summed up: “Keep interested in everything—but don’t spread your- self too thin.” But Herman himself is gaining weight on a schedule that would turn an average man into a skele- ton. In addition to a daily tele- vision program for the Robert Burns Cigar Co., he cooks all the meals in his home, is writing a book, and sandwiches in about 100 after dinner speeches a year. His raconteur touring takes him all over the country. He talks to all kinds of groups — Boy Scouts, coaches, insurance executives, and women’s clubs. “I enjoy an audience of women,” he said, “because they like to hear * Herman gets a lot of fan mail from women, and says: “I must look comfortable. They never suggest that I reduce.” It might be because some women still like to see a man as robust, cheerful and friendly as Hickman. His own wife, Helen, has never tried to put him on a diet. “I guess I started her out right,” he said. “I’ve been do'n¢ all the cooking for 20 years. We put up a kitchen first, then built a house around it. . “Helen eats as much as I do, but doesn’t put on a pound. She’s awful good about letting me mess up the kitchen, and then cleaning up after me.” Herman is proud of being presi- dent of the Connecticut Amateur Chefs, and likes to ‘‘mix the Con- tinental and Southern styles of Here is the menu for one of the recent “snack meals” he con- cocted for his fellow amateur chefs: (1) Italian ham wrapped round Persian melon slices; (2) Jellied consomme with sour cream and chopped chives; (3) Chicken Brunswick stew, made from the meat of a four- pound hen stewed with onions saute, fresh lima beans, corn off the cob, fresh tomatoes, Italian red peppers and garlic. Served with his own home-baked corn- bread. (4) Pecan pie and Italian coffee. Hickman is known as one of the better dressed fat men around town. But he has no particular advice on how fatties can. drape themselves to look slimmer. “If a man is only 40 or 50 RAISE eo THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB The yachtless Yacht Club must have a yacht of fun -- (phew! that pun smell as bad as some of Dot Raymer’s. Maybe we had better stick to semi-literate English). Is the Yacht Club an exclusive organization which limits its mem- bership to a certain social strata? If so, why was it allowed to locate on the public-owned waters of Gar- rison Bight? Especially in view of the fact that no decent size yacht can maneuver in that vicinity. Being sort of a low-brow indi- vidual, I’ve never dared to ap- proach the members of the Yacht Club for an answer; however, also being a columnist, I know there are dozens of people in Key West who are curious about the club. It would be to the latter’s ad- vantage to make their aims and ideals better known to John Q. Public — Raymer's Society Page is a good medium. Pelican Club Personally, I’ve been _ thinking that it would be a good idea to reorganize the Pelican gang, (beg your pardon), I mean the Pelican Club. We could take about a square acre of Garrison Bight and after the next hurricane, secure enough drift wood to build a fairly res- pectable clubhouse. True enough, the old time Peli- can gan -- I mean Club, used to dive for liquor that rum-runners would hide off-shore. They were a respectable bunch of men however, because in taking the rum-runners’ hidden rum they were simply aid- ing the Coast Guard and Prohibi- tion Agents who were engaged in the same task. Nowadays there is no rum for a newly organized Pelican Club to dive after. That is a minor item as long as we could secute the land in Garrison Bight. After all, does the Key West Yacht Club have any yachts? The ideals of the out- fit are what count and there may come a day when Prohibition will return. With a well-founded Pelican Club already in existence, we could immediately aid the govern- ment by taking the rum-runners’ caches. Who knows, perhaps the Postmasters May Be Deprived Of Lifetime Tenure WASHINGTON ® — House Re- publicans, shy on patronage for 20 years, are casting a jaundiced eye at a law which bars them from control of thousands of post- master jobs. The law, enacted 15 years ago when Democrats were calling the shots, had the effect of giving postmasters lifetime Civil Service tenure. It didn’t bother the Re- publicans at the time because, as the party out of power, they were not able to reward the politically faithful with patronage jobs. But it's different now that a Republican occupies the White House and the GOP controls Con- gress. Normally, postmaster appoint- ments are the patronage of House members of the dominant politi- cal party. In districts with no | House members of the dominant pounds overweight, maybe he should avoid big checked patterns,” he said. “Striped suits might help him hide his size. “But when you're 125 pounds overweight, there is only one way to dress—so you're comfortable.” Herman is about the most com- fortable looking man in Manhattan. to really start an all-out drive better boating facilities. Again I say, for its own the Yacht Club needs to known its ideals. Knowing the men who are members, I'm sure that they plan to have more than a gossiping, social organization. Occasionally, this column 3 z F & ; fil ceives letters a r Maximum Raise For Teachers May Be Set At $350 by virtue of increased academic the salary allotment of the teach-,the present allocation of $3,600 te standing and raises from local | funds, while the cost of living has increased only 13 per cert. The present average salary of $3,237 still is more than most oth- Jer’s rank in order to assure teach- ers of receiving the maximum ben- lefit from increased state fund al- }locations to the counties. | Tighten the penalties for failure $3,700. Rank Two, a year's work |a bachelor’s degree, from | to $3,200 | Rank Three, a bachelor’s de jer Southeastern states are paying lof counties to follow the law which | gree, from $2,550 to $2,900. their teachers and is “close to the | requires them to hire teachers for | Rank Four, at least three years median family income for the na-|95 per cent of the instructional jof college, from $1,600 to $1,900. tion,” the report said. Other school law changes rec- ommended by the Council would: Cut off all state funds from jun- jior colleges, kindergartens, auto | driving {summer recreational ing grades 1 through 12 Abolish by constitutional amend- ment the office of school trustee to county school boards units for which they receive state funds, The Council shied away from a {suggestion that ichanging the homestead tax ex- posal Teachers who now earn the high- virtue of college |training beyond a bachelors’ de. Rank Five, at least two years instruction courses and cmption clause of the constitution more than the state programs |to permit taxing homes for school | provides if they we and smaller raises for and put the emphasis on support- | purposes. It said there was little | with local money. lchance for adoption of the pro- j The Council approw jot consolidating all the jlecting functions of the ler's Office, Beverage Depa: | Racing Commission and M: revised salary formula under the! Amend the constitution te abol- | gree would get the least raises un- hicle Department inte a |ranks teachers on their education- al , jwho head the legislature's own |school superintendent and empow- George Washington Jose Marti/ minimum foundation law which |igh the elective office of county (der the legislators’ plan. Members of the Council said partment of Revenue. Ti the four agencies now collect ler each cornty school board to they felt there is too much of 0/95 per cent of the state’ tains of Sardinia Monday 10 min-|™en of thought, not one of action. | ‘The senators and representatives hire a superintendent j utes after taking off for Rome. The} |fate of the 15 passengers and four |from Cuba. After graduating im /fact-finding body es‘imated it will /crease their pay-scale Provide that teachers crew members sbesrd was not im-jlaw and philosophy at Saragosa.|take about 20 million dollars ex-jby actually earning advanced col ig, tad seviag around Central be in these United Mates - the ‘of promige and jand finance normal growth of the as bandmasters, athletic coathe: Mountains nearly seven miles east | hospitality to all who seek tefuge. of the Sardinian capital of Cag-|In New York City he worked as a |e raises they school system. | The Council's research staff re- jyeare of training. Such specialists s) |spresd in the present rank sys-| tem. They expressed doubt that only tit is particularly beneficial to at-|sbout 13 per tract too many teachers with mas- ot Bext two years to lege degrees, not by equivalent |ters’ and doctors’ degrees to the {grade schools. The council proposes this scale A Miami research firm led the consolidation would cent is costs. Details of the plan were left tered aw The Council adopted a land vocational education instruc-/of increased allocetions to coun-| mittee recommendation tors would remain under the pres }liari. Police said the plane had | reporter and transistor for the New | ported Florida teachers have had ent system. jbeén seen diving in Siames into | York Wérld, and kept books for ja 22 per cent average salary in- mouniains. commercial firms while acting as ‘crease during the past four years |teachers at least #9 per cent of beyond a master’s degree, from , tities. to pay all Require counties ties for teacher For salaries k One teachers, year of who more of college the state’s universities be der a single administra’ bet retain their names ai