The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1953, Page 4

Pese4 = THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ——_- é The Key West Citieen cae Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Usher, trom The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County &. P. ARTMAN —_. Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively @ntitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it @r not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news Published here. a 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 he Giten in aS 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. ge 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. . —————— — — KEY WESTERS DON’T RESENT BEING CALLED CONCHS Few people resent being called by their nickname, We don’t know of any Key Wester who is displeased be- cause he is called by his nickname, but we know of many who, if you called them by their right name, would not be immediately aware you were speaking to them. We need walk only across the street from The Citizen office to the No. 1. Firehouse to mention the nicknames of three of several firemen who likely would not respond if you hailed them by their Christian names. There’s “Grandpa”, for instance, an up-and-doing young man, whom we have known for many years, but do not know his right name. And we don’t know oldtimer Mimi’s given name, though we have known him for two-score years. We do know that Wrinkley’s right name is Earl, but we have not heard anybody call him by it. All of which leads up to a statement in Holiday Mag- azine that Key Westers resent being called “Conchs”. We don’t know who gave Holiday that tipoff, but we do know he didn’t know what he was talking about. For Holiday’s information, we may mention that Key West’s baseball team and High School football and basketball teams are called Conchs. We are proud of that name, Holiday, because it sig- nifies the will to do, courage to fight when it is necessary to fight, kindness to strangers “within our gates” andi hos- pitality which still has the warmth of bygone days. We esteem the nickname “Conch” so much we tack “fans” on it sometimes, as the people in Philadelphia, where Holiday is published, do in referring to themselves as Philadelphians. When our delight, in being called Conchs, overflows, we tell the world we are Conchkonians. Some people are hypersensitive about their nick- names and trivial or “fawnsy” affairs they think reflect on their dignity. But such people include few Conchs, who seldom put on “dog.” It has been said of them for more than a century, “You've got to get up early in the morning to fool a Conch.” So anything that is frilly, or smacks of “putting on”, outlines a cold question mark in their eyes. ’ Conchs don’t think they are any better than other people; neither do they think other people are better than they. Be pleasant to them and they will be pleasant to you, multiplied a hundredfold, but if you coldshoulder them, they won't be aware, so far as you can detect, that you exist, ‘ Finally, The Citizen advises the editor of Holiday, when he publishes any other information that includes the traits of Key Westers, to say that Conchs are proud to be called Conchs, because from that name has been derived | a wholesome heritage, too long to explain in an editorial. jlargest city celebrated its 300th By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON — President Eisenhower reportedly will ‘ell the U. S. Seventh Fleet to let the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa attack the Chinese Communist mainland, This would not prevent the fleet from blocking any at- tempt by the Communists to raid Formosa. Such a White House order to the fleet would be official blessing to something which has been going on anyway for more than a year on a small scale: While Chiang Kai-shek’s main body of troops is on Formosa his forces have been making commando - like raids on the mainland from 30 islands off China’s coast. Even with the fleet pulled aside it’s doubtful Chiang could increase the size of such raids for some time. His delegate to the United Nations, Dr. T. F. Tsiang, says large-scale operations against the mainland could not be made for a year or two, and they could be done then only with American help. At the same time an Associated Press reporter on Formosa wrote over the week end that the Com- munists at present do not appear capable of invading Formosa, which is separated from the main- land by 90 miles of water. He said they could make air raids on the island and that Chiang, who has some planes, could do the same to them, And the Nationalists who have some small boats, could help the U. S. blockade the China coast if a blockade should be undertaken. On Formosa Chiang has at the Most 600,000 troops, not all of them ready or equipped for a full in- vasion of the mainland. He prob- ably couldn’t attempt it, when Teady, without U. S. help. The unanswered question, even with the issuance of a White House order to the fleet, is the unpre- dictable one: How. deeply can Chiang get involved in fighting the Chinese Communists without get- ting the U. S. more deeply in- nial volved? The most immediate effect of this reported first get-tough effort of the Eisenhower administration may be more psychological than anything else. It will give the Chinese Communists, who have been concentrating their forces and attention on Korea, something else to worry about. Since they don’t know whether this is just the first of a series of American moves to end the Korean War, they can’t tell where the next will hit them, The purpose of this, or any series of similar decisions, would be to put pressure on the Communists to quit fighting. When the North Korean Commu- nists invaded South Korea in June, 1950—no doubt with the help and blessing of the Chinese and Rus- sian Communists — no one knew where they would strike next So when he decided the U. S. | should intervene on the side of the South Koreans, former President Truman announced: “I have or- dered the Seventh Fleet to prevent N. Y. CITY CELEBRATES 300TH NIVERSARY NEW YORK (~The world’s; i birthday Monday. The city started life as the Dutch colonial town of Nieuw Amster- dam, incorposated Feb. 2, i653 | The anniversary ceremonies got! junder way Sunday with an ad-j "IT'S THE PHONE COMPANY SiR | WE DIDN'T PAY {AST Gress by Prince Bernbard of The | Netherlands in historie St. Mark's . The Prince The World Today any attack on Formosa. As a corollary to this action I am call- ing upon the Chinese government on Formosa to cease all air and sea operations against the main- land. The Seventh Fleet will see that this fs done.” But that was at a time when Communist China had not yet it- self intervened in the Korean War: Since then Chiang’s men may not have made raids on the mainland from Formosa -but have from is- lands near the China coast. Whether or not the figures are reliable, the Nationalists claimed that in the 12. months ending last October their hit and run raids against Communist China had in- flicted 41,727 casualties and en- abled them to capture 3,025 pris- oners. The Formosa patrol of the Sev- enth Fleet; whether or not Eisen- hower issues his expected order, has not been a complete blockade. The warships do not patrol the Formosa Straits daily. For months they have been making infrequent runs in the waters between For- mosa and the Chinese mainland. CHAS. BROWN IS NAMED ADMINISTRATIVE ASS’T TALLAHASSEE ( — Charles R. P. Brown, 36, Ft. Pierce law- yer, will join Gov. Dan McCarty’s staff Feb. 15 as an administrative assistant. He will receive $8,400 a year. Brown has been the law partner of John -M. McCarty, the gover- nor’s brother. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE DELHI, N. Y. WA million- dollar fire Sunday gutted “Ak- nusti,” the 65-room colonial man- sion of New York financier Robert L. Gerry. The origin of the fire was not determined. Many valyable art objects were lost in the 39-year-old, two-story country house. Included were colo- and early English antique furniture, silverware, Oriental Tugs, paintings and a collection of Currier and Ives prints. No one was injured, PARENTS CLAIM RIGHT TO TEACH KIDS AT HOME.—Mr. and Mra William appear in court in Los Angeles, Calif Mrs. Turner told the judge ure of watching their minds and personalities dev right to teach at home when the family lived in Buffalo tinued. At left the seven chijdren of the Turners look ov tos i. Toll Roads Are Proposed For All Over The State LAKELAND (® — Jess Yar- brough, Dade County commission member, has proposed. that the State consider construction of toll roads in many parts of Florida to alleviate traffic problems. Meeting here with directors of the County Commission Associa- tion, Yarbrough said if such tour- ist centers at Miami, Sarasota, St. Petersburg and West Palm Beach do not have good roads entering their areas, tourists will pass them up. PY crheough advocated construc- tion of the East Coast Turnpike. He opposed ideas advanced that some main traffic arteries be four laned. If U. S. No. 1 Highway is four laned, he said, the State Road De- partment would spend its budget for 10 years on that project alone. If highways U. S. No. 1, AIA, U.S. 27 and the Tamiami Trail have four lanes it would cost the equivalent of the State Road Agen- cy’s budget for 50 years. He said most motorists usipg the highways are from outside Florida and they, instead of coun- ty residents, should pay the bulk of the costs for building and main- taining such highways. The directors discussed a pro- Posed legislative program to be presented at the Association’s state meeting in Tallahassee March 5-7, Ridgway Denies Rumor PARIS #—U. S. Gen. Mathew B. Ridgway has denied as “wholly unfounded” press speculation that he is fed up with his job as supreme Allied commander in Eu- rope and will quit. “T have not had in the past any such ideas and I do not now have them,” Ridgway said in a com- munique Sun. night from his head- quarters near Paris. Without naming sources, Paris newspapers have published a num- ber of reports since President Ei- senhower's election that Ridgway would quit his job and be replaced. she can te NEW YORK — wW—Should dog owners be allowed to list. pooches as dependents for income tax pur- Poses? Pleading for removal of the tax on excess profits. Commuters want|one of the oldest known breeds. Egyptian excavations have proved that several thousand years before the Christian era, greyhounds were used in sporting events by hunts- men. Ancient Rome .also has left records wherein dogs of the grey- hound type were used for recrea- tion. Our modefn version of grey- hound racing really had its start during the reign of Queen Eliza- beth in the 16th century. It wa: to deduct their railroad fares from taxation. Housewives want the same privilege for theil rbeai costs, contending it's their business to stay pretty. - Everybody has been crying’ for tax roe psi dog owners. Now some of m are setting up a howl for help too. J Their big yelp is that the upkeep of man’s most faithful friend costs more today than it did to Taise | a kid a generation ago. “My wife paid $300 for our |i French poodle at a department store,” said an acquaintance of mine. “Imagine that—buying a dog at a department store! And she cost exactly three times what my Own parents paid for me. . “We named the poodle Simone. We took her to a vet and he de- cided she had to be inoculated, de- incipient anemia, and then sent to an obedience school. | “She came back with a frustra- tion complex and bad tonsils. Have to have them out as soon as I can afford it, “Most dogs think they smell sweet enough if you pump them full of chlorophyll. Not our Simone. She sulks if we don’t spray her with perfume, Got to touch a little behind each ear, too, just like my wife does. It is hard to keep a dog happy these days. “Altogether I have forked out more for Simone in food, elothing and medical expenses than it cost me for a year at college. She also has chewed up about $1,000 worth of furniture. “Why shouldn’t the government allow me a measly $600 dependency | deduction for her?” He also argued a dog had as much right to be listed as a de- pendent as has a baby—on the ground that a dog might bite a burglar, whereas a baby would only smile at him. Other dog owners don’t press this point, realizing that a pooch with a really genteel upbringing today is too snobbish to approach a strange, shabby intruder with- out a proper introduction. But they have. another argument, “Your dog now often determines |ing expense of paperwork that threatens to push them out of the profits column into the red ink. So they listen to the talk about the coming mechanical brains. your social standing,” one man said. “‘And the trend now is toward more dogs. The more you take out for a walk on a leash the more important your neighbors think you are. “They have to be matched dogs, of course, and bluebloods. If you go for a stoll along Park Ave. with less than a matched pair, the gossip starts that you aren’t doing so well, and your wife is wearing last year’s mink. Ie “Certainly today dogs are as much a legitimate business ex- pense to some people as the money a salesman spends to entertain buyers.” It looks like Congress will have to show real statesmanship to deal with this tax relief problem. For some dog owners are com- Plaining their pets cost so much they are being forced to give them up for cats. And the cat owners have a meow, too. They say cats are so expensiv ethey are getting rid of them and buying canaries. Something has got to be done to make the cat and dog lovers more happy. They've got enough votes to put the bite on any poli- tician. It is believed that St. Peter was martyred in Rome in 67 A. D. Turner ( charged with refusing to send their school age ch i better at home, and “wants the plezs- She said a New York court upheld her three years ago. The case has been con- ‘er an airplane book st their home, Left answer question ‘which you might ask. Here is a r little piecemeal information that Corporations are i [ye gathered. especially in Ireland, until the pre- sent century. Thomas Edison’s dis- covery of the practical use for electricity led another man to the invention of a mechanical lure for greyhound tracks. “Rusty,” as the lure is often called, can be con- trolled to keep his distance from jthe dogs and thus make racing a more exciting, though bloodless, }ii sport. the fear that bombing raids could wipe out essential records of their dealings and contracts. So they are hiring *r building expensive hideaways for their files. shucked—according to a study Te- ords Management Council—if busi- nessmen would throw out the great mass of obsolete records threaten- ing to engulf them. ganization which has worked with such organizations as the Rocke- feller Foundation, the Hoover Com- mission, the American Historical and Economic. History Associa- tions, and New York University in helping corporations 1nd govern- ment agencies separate the essen- tial from the valueless records they hoard. office space valued at 150 million dollars a year and outside-office | ords ‘THIS ROCK OF Any rt i$ 4 reli fitee any ii F Hi 5 5 It seems that the greyhound is g 4 down and kill it. Coursing had been practiced for centuries but during Queen Elizabeth’s time, some no- blemen got together and came up with a scheme in which a given | area was enclosed by a fence. Live wormed, operated on, treated for 'lures were still used but spectators could now watch the dogs without having to also take a cross-country horgeback ride. ri ii i 5 i i Coursing continued in popularity, aE Hi * i Why are. greyhounds used in- stead of other types of dog? The greyhound provides a com- bination of two inborn instincts Businessmen Look Askance At ‘Mountain Of Records To Keep By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK @®— Cost-conscious businessmen are beginning to eye those mountains of records that threaten to push them out of the office. A lot of those files could be filled with waste paper, they suspect. FR And they shudder at the increas- H To this has been add of late 5? = & al F: & i i if ii u Some of the load could be i : / j : z i 8 ? leased today by the National Rec- z : F é r ile iit Kd HW bie lil te i fH The council is a non-profit or- F ty fe ? i i & =. 8. Hy = ® = i i nlf Corporate’ records now occupy uf pak ACROSS 1. Browned bread 6. Droop 9. Vigor 12 Zeal 13. Exist 14. Anglo-Saxon i money 15. Tapering 18. Kind Beene: ras se SEB SBRAGAB RF BE ETBERNS iflew here to join city officials in to right around Muriel. 14. who is holding Bruce, six months old: Johnny, $; lopening New York's festival year. Peter, 8; Billy, 9, Mary, 10, and Annie, 5. —P) Wirephota, MONTH'S Bi I"