The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 5, 1953, Page 4

Page4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, February 5, 1953 The Keiy 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 L. 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 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. LL Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida ——$—$—$— —$—$——— $< ___ Subscription (by carrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 tities iene ata te Sh ne ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION EES IEEE EERE DELLS Ta EA IR TRL OA The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of localor general interest, but it will not publish 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 Govermments, Community Auditorium. eee MEAT PRICES, SUPPLY DOWN The Department of Agriculture recently announecd expectations that the average American would eat about 142 pounds of meat in 1953. This estimate is-about three pounds below the average consumption of 1952 and the Department explains that while meat supplies this year are equal to those in 1952, an increase in population will make the supply per individual less. The. Department reported a fifteen per cent jump in beef supplies, which might tend to depress beef prices somewhat in coming months, It also reported a drop in pork supplies, which is expected to offset the increased supply of beef, The most interesting part of the Department report was that which dealt with the housewife’s share of the blame for high meat prices, which have prevailed despite declines in live cattle prices. The Department partially backed industry charges that the average,, housewife bought more expensive cuts of meat than in former years, thus helping to hold prices up. os In-spite of this'trend, a further “softening” in retail beef prices was predicted in the coming months. THE DISCOVERY OF LETHIDRONE Chemists of the Wellcom Foundation in London have produced a chemical, called Lethidrone, which is thought to be a long-sought antidote for the narcotic effects of morphine and other related drugs. Symptoms of morphine poisoning reportedly are relieved in seconds after admini- stration of the new drug. Lethidrone is supposed to be non-habit-forming and is expected to be used for purposes other than as an antidote for narcotics. It is expected to be used to diagnose addic- tion, to make the relief of pain in childbirth a safer pro- cess and for other things. The interesting part about the new chemical is that chemists do not know how the antidote produces its ef- fects. The new chemical is similar to morphine in its mo- lecular structure but behaves in different ways, since it is non-habit-forming and disperses the narcotic in the cells of the nervous system, when administered. A fire department is not always appreciated by those who have had no fires, Advertising in The Key West Citizen is a sure way to increase sales but it is not a haphazard way. A LOOK BEHIND THE BLUEPRINT CURTAIN BS ey AN? 7LAN BOYLE SAYS} NEW YORK #—Men have al- ways been used by women as step- ping stones to security. But today many men are getting tired of feeling they are being step- ped on needlessly. Or, perhaps, “trampled” describes it better, One of the things heating up the cold war between the sexes in! America is the public discourtesy of women. More and more men are unwillingly becoming convinced that more and more women are downright impolite and bad-man- nered. The girls themselves, look at it the other way. They claim male gallantry and chivalry are wilting like a tulip in a hurricane. Who's to blame? Naturally I am on the woman’s side in this and any other argument (it’s safer that way), but men do seém to have a point. “If a dog carries a market bas- ket home for a woman in his teeth, she will toss him a bone or give him a pat on the head,” said one male critic. “But a man has no such inducement. A woman has no gratitude for any small favors he does her. She takes them for granted. : “A man doesn’t like to be taken for granted. I'll give you an ex- ample. “The other day at lunch I saw a.fur wrap drop to the floor from the back of a woman’s chair. I went over, brushed it off and handed it to her. She took it, hung it again on the chair, and turned away without a word, a nod or a smile. “I guess she figured I had been put on earth years before just so I could grow up and run over and pick up that jacket for her at the exact moment. I had a wild urge to throw the jacket back on the floor and jump on it.” He said he didn’t do this because he wasn’t sure whether the other men in the restaurant would beat him up or break into admiring applause for his courage. Many men complain that such chill ingratitude is commonplace with modern women, that they have lost the feminine art of show- ing appreciation. Most world trav- elers agree that European women have retained this virtue of their sex to a greater degree than their American sisters. “Here women are polite in their own homes but away from it they often act like boors,” one man said. “They save their good man- ners for their own fireside. “If you hold the elevator door open for a lady in her own apart- ment building, she will smile gra- ciously. But meet her at a tobacco counter and she will elbow past you to order her pack of butts first EUR ' FOR OPEAN DEFENSES NO PARKING PROBLEM.—Cindy, a four-week-old cocker Army’s New yy JIM BECKER CENTRAL FRONT, Korea #— The U. S. Army’s new Coldbar suit has received jits first test in com- bat and a patrol leader who wore it gave it hearty endorsement. | “It’s amazing,” said Lt. William E. Aaron Jr. of Lyon, Miss. “These new suits kept me and my men warm in spite of zero weather.” Plans call for the brown-colored plastic suit, named ‘from a_ con- traction of ‘‘cold barrier,” to be is- sued to 3,000 infantrymen of the 32nd Infantry Regiment for mass tests. Aaron and his patrol engaged a Communist patrol the night of Jan. 16. Tests under combat conditions were continued for several days. The suit is worn next to the skin without undergarments of any kind. It is covered by regulation cotton twill field trousers and jackets to prevent snagging the spongelike material. If the suit is snagged it can be quickly patched with special tape issued with each | garment. The plastic suit creates a vapor body warmth*in and outside cold out—like the.vapor barrier boot first used last year. The Coldbar suit weighs about four. to five pounds—eliminating eight pounds of ordinary winter combat gear. The man wearing the new suit is in a perpetual “‘steam” of his own perspiration, but Aaron said the slight discomfort was more than made up by its warmth. An Army team headed by Maj. John W. Irving is su i the Coldbar test. Irving says the suit will keep a man warm in tempera- tures as low as 50 degrees below zero. Due to its multicellular design, the Coldbar gives a buoyancy that will keep a man afloat even when weighted down with weapons. The small amount of water that seeps into the suit through ankles and wrist holes reaches body tempera- ture in less than a minute. The new and highly successful Mickey Mouse boots have been is- sued to front-line soldiers. They seal out the cold and prevent frost- layer next to the skin which keeps bite. Coldbar Suit Is Put To Test ' Meanwhile, gasoline bunkers and tents have on a quota basis to cut at A L is 8 eebl “We get enough of everything— except sleep and rotation points.” Price Controls |Large Family Can Live On It's A Job May Meet With |$50 Weekly, But Lingering End WASHINGTON (#—Federal wage and price controls were on their deathbed Wed., and the orly re- maining question seemed to be how lingering a death they would have. The present control law expires April 30, and President Eisenhower told Congress he dees not want it extended. He has legal authority to end the controls earlier. Harry Weiss, 2xecutive director of the Wage Stabilization Board, put out infornation Tuesday that “a decision has been made to ter- minate wage controls immedi- ately.” The White House cracked down. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty ‘said the Weiss statement was ‘an unwarranted assumption of author- ity.” He said Weiss had authority + |only to give wage board employes notice they might be out of jobs by March 5. Such notices did, in fact, go out ;to more than 2,000 Wage and Sal- ary Stabilization Board employes. More were expected to be issued by the various agencies enforcing controls. Hagerty declined to say whether wage curbs might be ended be- fore the April 30 deadline, He said the termination date “is now under consideration.” Meanwhile the machinery of con- trols was being dismantled and there were predictions that a sheaf of price decontrol orders on such items as beef, furniture, children’s clothing, household appliances and Possibly restaurants would come lout within a few days, The wage and salary boards sus- spaniel, doesn’t seem to have a care in the world as he peers | pended the processing of all cases, from a handbag into which he fits snugly. The jet black puppy is the pet of Mrs. Sherrill Holtz of DeKalb, I]—(#) Wirephoto. Effect Of Price Decontrol On Cost Of Living By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK (#—What will price decontrol do to the cost of living? Merchants believe that most of the things you buy in their stores will move only slightly either way. Most pressure right now is toward price cutting rather than price boosting. Businessmen, however, may find a long list of materials they buy are likely to rise—mostly in the metal fields, but including prob- ably oil, some machinery, office machines, and such specialized things as surgical instruments. Such price rises in materials would increase the costs of mak- ing consumer goods and—if con- sumer demand is high enough— this cost could be passed along to you later as higher prices on many durable goods. At present, however, the tend- things as cars—and not pass on cosst. The timetable of decontrol wor- Ties businessmen most right now In the period of uncertainty some sellers may withdraw from their products to rise in price once |they get free of controls may hold ency is to cut prices on such | |the markets. Those who expect | Is Asked Now Both consumers and business- men noted President Eisenhower's price predictions—‘‘some up, some down.” They expect the first decontrol measures very shortly will free those products likely to be down. These include consumer items now selling well below price ceilings— like meat, some clothing and tex- tiles still under controls, and some consumer durable goods. These also include such raw ma- terials as natural rubber, lead and zine. from controls are those bouncing against the price ceilings. These include copper, steel, aluminum, petroleum, and some machinery. And such consumer items as cig- arets, washing machines and of- fice equipment. But while these wait out their turn in the dying days of controls, there will be a lot of jockeying | |among producers and manufactur- | ers. Resetting prices in a free and | jopen market—-which in many cases | jincludes world markets as well as | {those jz the United States—will | be a tough job in many cases, | after the long period in which the} Last products !ikely to be freed | awaiting further orders. Buy-American Act Repeal Is Asked WASHINGTON W—A suggestion ‘\that President Eisenhower ask Congress to repeal the Buy-Ameri- can Act was made here by Rep. Frank Smith (D-Miss). He recalled that Eisenhower in his State of the Union message to Congress advocated “availing our- selves of facilities overseas for the economic production of manufac- tured articles which are needed for mutual defense.” | The act, passed many years ago, | requires the government, in pur- chasing supplies and materials, to} \less the cost is excessively above \that of similar foreign products. Temporary Post WASHINGTON (®—Both houses a second under secretary of state. The Eisenhower administration asked for the extra under secre~- tary to reorganize the department The job is going to Donold Lourie of Winnetka, Ill, president of the Quaker Oats Company. U. S. FLEET UNITS DOCK IN SICILY | 'buy American-made products un- | lof Congress now have agreed on} creating a new temporary post for | By EARL ARONSON PITTSFIELD, Me. @—Can you rear a family of 12 young daugh- ters and their grandfather—plus two dogs, two cats and a guinea pig—on $50 a week? Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks are doing it—but it isn’t easy. The couple, both 37, and their family live in a remodeled school- house four miles outside this vil- lage. Brooks earns $50 a week in the picker room of a woolen mill. “Living on $50 a week we don't have pies and cake every day,” says Mrs. Therees Brooks. “We do try to have it at least on Sunday. “Everyday living on this amount requires a lot of thinking and mak- ing stretchy dishes,” she said in an interview. The heartiest meal is supper when all 15 are at home. “We have potatoes, one-half peck a meal, plenty of vegetables and milk. We have either meat or fish once a week and use about four or five pounds. For breakfast we have cooked cereal, requiring about a half package, canned milk, toasted biscuits or graham rolls (36), coffee and cocoa. “At noon the four little ones (the girls range in age from 14 months to 15 years( grandpa and I eat at home and have what is left over from the previous supper, warmed up. Mr. Brooks and Eunice, the oldest daughter, Maine Central Institute, carry their lunch. The other seven eat at school, three working during the noon hour-to pay for theirs.” The family practically lives out of the garden in the summer, “We raise string beans, peas, several kinds of greens, carrots, beets, turnip, cabbage, squash, cu- cumbers, lettuce, radishes and | sweet corn,” Mrs. Brooks related. “We put up in jars as much as we can spare for winter consump- tion. Also, all the older girls and I pick as many berries as we can— strawberries, blueberries, ra: ries and cranberries, also ce: them for winter use. Then, go clamming at the coast, some home to steam, fry make chowders,” Great smounts of vegetables H ‘ : : z s 3 © L Old piece of cloth 4. Regions 9%. Part of the mouth 12. Greek letter 13. Thick M4, Guido's highest note 15. Healed with ointmen: 17. Parts worked with tha feet 19. The linden 28. Dried 21. On the ocean 3%. Nervous twitching uu Lget cotton | | i | 3 Fe H 2# a student at jradar ii | e f F il & H i Hi + i 4 if : i EE I i | i E . rs pricing and distributiing of mate-| AUGUSTA, Sicily w# — Thirty mn closely controlled |units of the U. &. fleet in the Mediterranean are visiting this | “You simply ‘can’t get women ‘down their current sales. If this jte wait their turn in line. Ordinary |happens there will probably be courtesy seems beyond their un- | ¢ries of shortages. aterials will stil] Italian harbor. | derstanding. Whatever they want |— ——— under i of foreign gov-| They include the aircraft car- is more important than what you strength to push their own way ernments, and American business-itiers Midway and Tarawa, the want—and it bas to be done right | without help through a rev men will have to work out price |cruisers Newport News and Roan- jaew: If men acted in public as | door. They will lose their fear that | arrangements in a half-free, half. joke, two auxiliary ships, 15 de women do, you'd have chaos — men are trying to wet abead of | contrailed market. istroyers, a landing ship. eight jfist fights everywhere. them But the cost of living—after 2» /transports, four tankers and four There is some truth im this, of! Once they relax and regafn few more weeks—is going to be |Mine-sweepers |course, overdrawa as it may be. confidence in themselves w nh set in the marketplace once more. The ships will remain here until I feel, however, ‘bat it is ouly a | again will return the words ° That is, it will depend upon the |Feb. 14. ; pasting phase women's you” to their vocabulary. isupply of goods avaiable and the present insecurity. They aren't ac-| “But I can’t wait that long,” ob- customed yet cular item—plus that important |cathedrals usually were dedicated te having equal | jected one cynic to whom I ex-| rights, and are unsure of their |plained my theory. “Why not just |factor, the number of dollars you|to Mary, the mother of Christ own have in your pocket jbut the rose window the power. | put women back on their old pedes- All they need is a little time— The changeover period from chapel of Trinity College. art }tal—st gunpoint if necessary—and ‘say a couple of centuries. By then (then tiptoe away and leave them contreis, though, may be a little | ford. Comn.. honors the micthers ‘rough, jof Trinity students and alumni in FR SABE BRB ENS RVRK MERE BEREEer we a ae “THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT THING FOR S$ DA they will realize they have the |there?”