The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, January $0, 1953 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County iP. anmman —____________________ Publisher pS ol RE ta ah SS BY NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 jE SEARLS lapse area ae aber oe 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. pL PANS SESS: An arc ec at a Pe Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 i RPA Bt aa a el dh ary ese: oes ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Fa SR RR SR TS a a i a ALR The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish @nonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Apartmenis 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea, 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. & Community Auditorium. STEVENSON’S ROLE ’ Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, out-going Governor of Illinois, has not yet made definite plans for the future al- though he is reportedly planning to retain the titular lead- ership of the Democratic Party. In this role, he may face a bid for more conservative elements within the Democra- tic Party to take control. : The Democratic Presidential nominee is moving to Chicago, where he willset up an office, although whether he will practice law or not immediately is not clear. On tap for him this year is a trip to. the Orient, including Korea, and it is said that only after this trip will he finally determine his course for the next few years. There is no indication that Governor Stevenson is stepping down from his position as No. 1 Democrat. On the contrary, he has said he wished to speak out on vital issues from time to time and there is evidence that he and Stephen Mitchell, National Committee Chairman, are de- termined to complete a reorganization of the party and National Committee-and maintain the Party’s liberal tack. Mr. Stevenson is soon leaving for a vacation and the British West Indies is reported to be his destination. He is expected to leave for the Far East about the first of March and in the ensuing days, he will make at least two major speeches. A glance over this schedule will convince most observers that Governor Stevenson is still politically-mind- ed and is planning to assume an active role in the Demo- cratic Party. He seems certain to be the No. 1 caretaker of the Democratic Party’s fortunes in the next four years. Tt amazes us to see how seriously some people take themselves, Most people are quick to listen to, and believe, gossip, unfortunately. Too many political speakers appeal to the emotions rather than the intellect. It’s about time for another song telling us where the wild geose goes and why. : One of the marvels of our age is that the United States continues to go its way without any form of univer- fal military training, while depending on a draft and its veterans to supply armed services manpower. “LET'S SEE HOW HOLLYWOOD'S WINNING THIS WART™ * Atomie Energy For Peace Use May Come Soon The World Today By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK #—Atomic energy to run industrial power plants and light homes is possible within two years—one authority predicts to- day—if Congress and the Defense Department would permit it. <A big utility company goes him one better and says it may be ready within one year to build an atomic power plant and feed its juice into existing electric lines in the Detroit area. The Atomic Energy Commission itself says today such plants may be financially feasible “in a few years.” And in England government opf- ficials report they are so far along with plans to build an atomic pow- er plant for industry that they are looking for a site for it. ‘ Setting his sights on the distant future, an official of an American industrial concern foresees that someday the world’s power require- ments may’ be met entirely with atomic energy. In that distant day —in the opinion of Dr. George Curme Jr., vice-president of the Union Carbide and Carbon Corp.— coal and petroleum would be used chiefly as chemical sources of in- dustrial products. Detroit Edison Co., which is teamed with Dow Chemical in studying the problem of atomic power, predicts it might be ready to build such a plant within a year. Heat from the plant would produce steam to run a conventional tur- bine. Existing Detroit power lines would be used. And Detroit Edison thinks the electricity could be pro- duced at a competitive cost. If Congress would approve such a plant, one could be built within two or three years for around 35 million dollars to supply electricity for a city of 100,000—this on the word of Sen. Henry M. Jackson (Da.-Wash.) who formerly served on the House Atomic Energy Com- mittee. He told delegates of the National Rural Electric Co-opera- tive Association meeting in San Francisco that they ought to look into the idea. The Atomic Energy Commission, a little more cautiously, puts the time limit at “a few years.” It thinks costs of guch a plant could be made competitive if the large reactors now being perfected would furnish both power and “‘weapon- grade plutonium . . bought by AEC.“ In other words, a tie-in with the A-bomb would be neces- sary to offset costs of producing electricity. Development of such reactors “made longer forward strides” in the last six months than “in any other half year of the decade,” the AEC reports. It adds that the nation’s capital investment in atomic energy is —_ approaching 7% billion dol- rs. In addition to the Detroit Edison- Dow Chemical team, the commis- sion has four other industrial teams making studies of atomic power: Monsanto Chemical and Union Electric, both of St. Louis; Commonwealth Edison and Public Service Co. of Northern Mlinois; Bechtel Corp. and Pacifie Gas & Elecetric, both of San Francisco and Pioneer Service & Engineering Co. of Chicago and Foster Wheeler Corp. of New York. STATION ASKS POWER, KILOCYCLE INCREASE WASHINGTON # — The Com- Municatiens commission has been! asked by station WWPF, Pa- lgtka, Fis., for authority to move from 800 to 550 kilocycles, and to increase power from 23 to 30 watts, By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON W—In office only 10 days, President Eisenhower ai- ready has had a bumpy time of it with Congress, where his own party is in control. He has not had a break with the lawmakers. He has not suf- fered any major defeats or re- verses at their hands yet. But they have refused to rubber-stamp his suggestions. Most of his trouble has been over men he picked for high of- fice. But the groundwork was laid this week to make it easier for Congress to block any LEisen- hower attempts at reorganizing or streamling the government. His first bump was the nomina- tion of Charles E. Wilson, former president of General Motors, as secretary of defense. When Wilson told the senators he saw no rea- son to sell his G. M. stock, the Senators said “Whoa.” They pointed out he might have to pass on government contracts with G. M. if he was secretary. He said he could do it impartially. That wasn’t the point, they said. They reminded him: There’s a law forbidding a government of- ficial to do government business with a firm in which he has money interest. They made it clear he couldn’t be secretary unless he sold his stock. After thinking this over, he said he'd sell it. They approved him. But among men he had picked to be his top assistants were two in exactly the same fix as him- sel. They were Robert T. B. Stevens for Army, secretary and Harold E. Talbott for secretary of the Air Force. Both have financial in- terests in firms doing business with the government. Wilson seems to think he has a plan to keep them from dealing with their old firms, let them keep their holdings, and still get Senate approval. But unless they sell, they may not get that ap- proval. Eisenhower reportedly had want- ed to make Val Peterson, former Republican governor of Nebraska, U. S. ambassador to India. But Nebraska's two Republican sena- are Ubelous or anwar- ranted. The writers shewlé +e and confine the letters to Ge pues only. Saeuonere ot paper 3 writer must accompany the letters and will be published o- Publicity Wanted j Editor, The Citizen: | I wish you would please start | giving some of the guppies a little jpublicity. The Trumpetfish (SS- 425) left Key West twice in the last few months and has had no word of their cruise in The Citizen It left Thursday at 3 p.m. for Charleston, S. C., where it will ia dry dock for a period of five jmonths. I have a busband on it jand think it should be publicized tas much as the larger ships. How about i? MRS. M. E. CARR go; ADDED BOYLE SAYS HOMETOWN, U. S. A. (#—After dinner Wilbur Peeble, like any oth- er awerage American husband, us- ually disappears behind his even- ing newspaper. The problem of his wife then is to find some way of getting his attention—short of setting fire to him. This particular evening Trellis Mae decided on an experiment*to see just how deep a coma her little man could get into. So, as soon as he we comfortably settled in his easy chair and had started reading the newspaper, she said gaily: “Well, Dear, I finally slew our maid this morning. You don’t real- ly mind do you?” Silence. “Wilbur!” said Trellis Mae, cup- ping her hands so her voice would carry better. “I said I slew our maid! Are you angry with me?” “Uh-uh.” “I knew you would understand. I just couldn’t stand her uppity airs another day. She won't criti- cize my draperies any more.” “Thass nice.” “When she bent over to pick up the vacuum cleaner, that’s when I let her have it,” said Trellis Mae dramatically, “I smashed her over the head with a table ‘lamp. It was awful —— the sound {tors, Hugh Butler and Dwight Gris- jwold, are said to have told Eisen- hower “Nothing doing.” They could prevent Senate ap- proval of Peterson simply by tell- ing the other senators he was “obnoxious” to them. Butler was re-elected last year but Peterson had tried to beat him for the job. Eisenhower finally made Peter- son one of his administrative as- sistants at $15,000 a year, a job which didn’t need Senate approval. Eisenhower picked Dr. James B. Conant, outgoing president of Har- vard, to. be U. S. high commis- sioner in Germany. There may be a Senate fight over him too. Some Roman Catholics are criti- eal of Conant because they say he attacked the parochial school sys- tem in a speech last year. Co- nant’s friends claim his remarks were misinterpreted. Eisenhower’s fellow republican, Sen. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Cath- olic who said he had received a “tremendous number” of com- plaints about Conant, may argue against Senate approval. Another Republican, Sen. Mundt, a South Dakota Methodist, drew a bead on Conant from an unex- pected direction. “‘Too bookish” to be high commissioner, Mundt said. When President Truman wanted to reorganize a government agency he sent his plan to Congress. Un- less either House disapproved, the plan went through. House or Sen- | ate could block it by a specified vote. The same situation faces Eisen- | hower. But all 15 Republicans on, a House committee voted to make it easier—by lowering the required vote—for the House to block Ei- senhower than it was to block Truman in such cases. All 14 Dem- ocrats on the comittee voted on Eisenhower's side. In the Senate a committee ap- proved a bill—with Republicans and Democrats voting for it—to do what the House committee wants, Sen. McCarthy and Sen. McClellan, Arkansas Democrat, pushed this idea. Since in each case it was only a committee acting, nothing is final until the full membership of both houses vote on the proposal. Wanted Man Is Found Post Haste OKLAHOMA CITY #~—-Detective L. L. Filso took the description of a fugitive over the telephone Wednesday, looked out the window | and did » double take « j “Read that description again,” | he told Capt. Mark Bain, who was \relaying information passed along jby Pensacola, Fla., authorities. “A man just walked by that looks like our man.” | The repeat confirmed his sus- picior and Filson stepped outside bis home and arrested the man Officers said he identified himself / as Honor Robirison, 32, wanted in} {Pensacola on two charges of as-/ iseult with intent to kill. + | Twenty minutes after the pickup order was received from Florida, / Robinson had waived extradition. | Three former winners have been | nominated for the $50,000 McLes-| nam race at Hialeah They are} |Spartan Valor (1952), Gangway (1931) and Three Rings (1960). © it made.” “M-m-m-m, m-m-m-m-m,” mum- bled Wilbur. “I had to stifle a scream when she fell,” said Trellis Mae, lifting her voice again. “Wilbur, she lay there crumpled up like a... like a sack of potatoes.” “Potatoes?” said. Wilbur, turn- ing to the sports page. “I had some for lunch. Fried. Too greasy.” “My problem then was to get rid of the body,” said Trellis Mae, her vexation rising. “Just then the doorbell rang. It was the grocery boy. For $20 he agreed to take the maid’s body in his cart and dump it in the river. I helped him carry it downstairs. It was so heavy I had to go to bed affer- ward and rest. I was simply ex- hausted.” “Thass too bad.” “Her shoes wouldn't fit in the cart. So I kept them. She’d told me she paid $19.50 for them. Imagine that! I kept her new hat, the one she bought only last week. And it’s just my size.” “Thass fine.” Trellis Mae decided her experi- ment had gone far enough. Exas- perated, she went over and snatch- ed at the newspaper hiding her hus- band’s face. “Wilbur Peeble, you're absolute- ly impossible!” she stormed. “You haven’t heard a single word I said to you.” “Whadda ya mean—I didn’t hear you?” replied Wilbur, picking up his paper again. “Can I help it if the maid-broke a table lamp | and the grocery store tried to over- charge you? “And how come you buy a new a letter from:a newcomer to Key West suggesting that the Boy Scouts select as one of their pro- jects for the coming year the cleaning of a narrow strip of beach at the southern end of Simonton St. Unfortunately, a couple of lines of type were deleted and the sug- gestion was rather incoherent. | Bernard Frank, Monroe District | Scout Commissioner, says: “In your column last Thursday you quoted a letter concerning a Seout project at the City Beach. {Pve discussed this with some other people in Scouting. None of us had a clear idea of what was being | proposed. However, I should like |to point out some information re- garding cooperation and activity of the Scouting Program in Key West and the local financial support of the program. Please understand, of course, that whatever the degree of financial support by the com- munity, Scout participation will not | diminish. “In my fifteen years in Scouting, in may different communities and in almost every position of rank and leadership, I have yet to meet a group of Scoutmasters, Cubmas- ters and Skippers like these we have in Key West. Not only do these Arthur Bozas, Tom Buells, Tony Martinez and Roosevelt Sands spend untold hours participating in the Scout Program of their units and molding the character of their young charges, but they have had an active part in any and all com- munity projeets, drives and cam- paigns. Rarely has the publie been considerate enough to give these leaders sufficient time to schedule these extra jobs into their pro- grams. I doubt that there is a more. conscientious group of lead- ers in or out of our community. “If you feel thatethere is an un- dertaking which would be witain the scope of the units of Key West, you are invited to participate in our next Scouters Roundtable. It will be held on Monday, February |2, at the Lions Club, 1009 Semin- ary Street at 6 p. m. sharp. Al- though these leaders have rugged schedules before them during the | Last week ‘This’ Rock” quoted | | | THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB next two months, you will find them willing to listen, and sible, participate in a community good ; “Now so far as the com ing in Key heey ok pas ap wholly de] lent upon lavy through hapa Carnival for financial ion) than the as Kiwanis, Lions, ets. It is a _ shame that they have to depend upon financial aid from the Navy Charity Carnival. As for the Simonton St. beach strip it seems to me that clean-up job belongs to our City Sanitary Dept. -- not to be cleaned just once and left but to be maintained reg- ularly throughout the year. I’m surprised that Logun’s or the Sun and Sand Club have. not already put pressure on the City concern- ing this situation. After all, it is a detriment to their business as well as a disgrace to Key West. Navy Charity Carnival Bernard Frank mentioned the Navy Charity Carnival and it is a subject that this column has meant to get around to for a long time. This annual Carnival is devoted wholly and solely to charity. The money taken in is divided up amongst various organizations where it will do the most good. No other charitable drive can even ap- proach the Navy’s when consider- ed from the angle of over-all helpfulness to all people, ages, and groups. Let’s all pitch in and make the | carnival a huge success. How about it, huh? | ACROSS Of that girl Make suitable 9. Implore . Rubber tree . Rescuer Braziliaa macaw . Yawn . Likes . Command |. Greek letter 22, Unite ini . Fodder pit |, Old e: 37. Symbo: for sodium 38. One: Scotch 39. Comparative ending | ing rock | - $4. Light boat American humorist jon | Insect + Washes light! a ‘ashes lightly 5 |. 38. Cube meters ye ead . American wildcat OWN | 1. Embrace | hat and new shoes right now with | me worrying about how I’m go- ing to pay my income tax? Some- times I wish I couldn't hear you.” He picked up his newspaper, and turned the pages savagely. “That isn't what I said at all!” | shouted Trellis Mae. “I was just testing to see if you ever really listened to me. What I said was that I slew the maid by busting a lamp over her head, and I kept her new hat and shoes because I needed them.” “Well, thass all right this time,” said Wilbur, already deep in an editorial. ‘But don’t buy any more. 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