The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1953, Page 4

Page# THE K The Key West Citizen Published daily ( iisher, from The C: Only Daily ¢ Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets swebaper in Key West and Monroe County 5 Business Manager 13 ” West, Florida, as Second Class Matter HHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 ‘iated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively production of all news dispatches credited to it dited in this paper, and also the loc# news Member of The A: entitled to use for or not other published hers farrier) 25¢ per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects offlocal or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous ¢o#jmunications. ROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Hi, Consolidation of County and City Gove:nments, PN rene BERLIN, 1953 ving the first week in February a record nember of 8 (from the Russian sector) were processed in the reception center in West Berlin. On one day alone, efugees crowded into the reception center, hoping s pepe Communist domination. Sor every refugee who manages to register in the Berlin reception center, ten, who would like to flee, #fremain behind. Unless a refugee can show that he est Germany. The steady flow of refugees into West Berlin is ca ht conclusive proof of the failure om the Communist tem. It is undeniable proof to all-the world that, giver thoice, the average’ citizen will take democraéy in favor communism, even at the price of having to leave home. Because of the deadly propaganda effect of this holesale exodus from the communist sector, the Russians re believed to be contemplating new measures to isolate Vest Berlin. Some observers expect another blockade, sim- lar to the one which the U. S. Air Force defeated with the | Syow-famous air-lift: The last blockade and air-lift proved that the United States was ready to fight to -protect its “'Erights in Berlin. ’ 2 It is highly doubtful, after this example, that the _f Soviet Union will now move for a showdown in the German capital, It seems clear that the situation in Berlin is highly irritating to the Russions and that they would do anything short of war to end Allied occupation there, Until the Reds are ready to precipitate war, however, it seems there is little they can do about it. f i { ; : j No man is quite as important as-his children think he is.” A critic is one who cannot do anything but tell others how to do it. This is the time « easily mislead you, ed catalogs can The growth of a municipality depends upon individ- uals who do not seek personal credit. If you’ve never tried a Key West Citizen classified. you will be surprised at the results they accomplish. SLICE OF HAM i EY:WEBT CITIZEN Wednesday, February 18, 1953 Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO e UN PEQUENRO PARAISO ellos magnificos para la salid del Pocos cubanos conocen de este |Cuerpo humano. La. temperatura bello y saludable lugar, donde el|4e-esas aguas, varia entre ‘los €2 cuerpo obtiene vitaminas y el es-|¥ 98 grados Fahrenheit. Piritu sé solaza ante el espec-| Esas aguas son recamnendadas, taculo de ese interesante lugar. | desde tiempos inmemorisles, por Se trata de Isla de Pinos. Su |!08 mejores facultativos, para et capital Nueva Gerona, es una pe- prep artritis y. trastornes quefia ciudad, donde todo el mun- |‘! tubo digestivo, aparte de sus do se esmera por agradar al vi-|€Stupendas condiciones ‘como. ‘Ja- sitante. Una, ciudad donde ni los|*ante, anti-espasmédico y algo de vendedores ambulantes, ni los bille- | ©8880. ; ¢ teros, molestan al forastero, que} Hay rincones en Isla de Pinos, Nega alli en busca de salud para|que dan la sensacién al viajero el cuerpo y bienestar para el es-|de encontrarse en una porcion del Piritu. Paraiso terrenal, de. que. pos El viaje a Isla de Pinos, es de | blan’ las viejas téologiss y los l lo mas interesante, sobre todo, si|bros sagrados. Bellezas naturales, Surgidero de Bataba: se toma en Ia Estacion Terminal | Viajero. Naranjgles de en La Habana, a las siete y|dad extraordinaria, cuarto-de la tarde, y se llega a/|fruto amarillea, dé Batabané a la vera de las nueve|de que estamos y cuarto. Alli se toma el pe-|Po donde el oro: quefio vapor nombrado, PINERO, |entre los verdes o el “Cristobal Colén,” ambos | ® ofreciendo toda clase de como-|un tama didades al viajero, pese a su pe- quefiez. El viaje se hace durante|de u las horas de la noche, bajo un cielo tachonado de estrellas, a la clara luz de una ~ Luna tropical, entre Cayos, bordeando pequefios | prueba. islotes, cuyas sombras, al pro- yectarse la Luna sobre ellos, dan la sensacion de grandes fantas- mas, sobre la tersa superficie del|ia famosisima Caribe. Se entra a Nueva Gerona, través del rio Las Casas, bello azul, a ratos tan estrecho, que viajero puede arrancar ramas las orillas. Ese viaje, desde desembocadura, hasta muy del muelle de Nueva Gerona, ta seguido de cerca por «las ninas, que tropiezan con el y siguen nadando, en busca de desperdicios. Cuando el barco se acerca a Nueva Gerona, se em- pieza a admirar a distancia, el bello panorama de tafias azules, en las que el mar- mol, la mayor riqueza del lugar, azulea al recibir los rayos del Sol, en las horas mafianeras. Alli, al desembracar, solo se encuen- tran manos amigas, dispuestas & ser util al viajero, Sus calles, bastante bien pavimentadas, advierte en todas partes, la abundancia de marmol, de todos colores, ya que los baches de sus calles, son arreglados usando fragmentos de marmol, los ban- pia, ° : I ie in ifs in i it | he alla PM Soa IE Ri ak ah ARS are t Es} if ti i : By i ; 7 jl gs. 2 ef < F 3 1 « li i i iu 3 E i i i [ f mo el hermosisimo Hospital, en el cual sus neveras, y todo el equipo, es de armel cubano, dando la sensacion de una enorme riqueza, de la qe desgraciadamente, ¢a- rece Isla de Pinos, por la falta de latencién de que ha sido objeto de {parte de los gobernantes. De alli, por una earretera mo- derga, se va hasta Santa Fe. El lugar mas bello y saludabie de! la Isla. Alli en el magnifico Hotel SANTA RITA, el } jeuentra confort. ‘buena atencion. En gana salud por minutos, mientras el espiritu se orea, ante la serena tranquilidad y belleras naturales ese extraordinario panorama, Alli, junto al Hotel, estan de las los. te de de Pinos. Sas aguas impregnadas exigene, gases de acido carboni.' ico. clorure de sodin. sulfate de STAR PERFORMANCE — rt. DAY OF PRAYER Firmly believing in the great power of prayer the Key West Council of Church women will feint the 18,000 Christian com- munities in this land and 14 nations in the world day of pray- er ebservance on February 20. The service will be held at 7:30 p.m. in First Methodist Old Stone’ Church. Everyone wel- come, : mz TODAY'S “MIRROR a warning by Dwight . Michener, director of research the Chase National Bank of New York. Michener lines up arguments for his belief that the major force of the postwar boom “may be largely behind us.” Home building and plant expan- sion have been abnormally large in recent years, suggesting to Michener that leaner years are ahead. He says: Postwar inventory buildups are now due to slow down. Total A i | i i i ul i i [ debts i | i °F Be g ® if | i : SF i : F it fe; [ § ae t i } z int Fee be eege i fi a5 d : i He Gl ein (HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK i®—A little more than two years ago the heart of America was touched by one of the most unusual military opera- tions of the dreary Korean War. As Red Chinese massed for their successful assault against Seoul, a fleet of big U.S. transport planes landed on a field outside the city. They were quickly loaded with nearly 1,000. frightened, bewildered Korean orphans—war waifs picked from the city streets—and flown to Cheju, an island off South Korea coast. “Operation Kiddie Kar” or “The Great Kidlift”—it was known by both names — dramatically saved hundreds of innocent small lives. Gifts for the children flooded to Korea from all parts of the United States, thanks largely to Lt. Col. Russell L. Blaisdell, an Air Force chaplain who had conceived the rescue project. ‘ But what has happened to the kids since then? How are they faring two years later? I am indebted to Nancy Lowe Gray, a Far Eastern reporter, for bringing the picture up to date, as follows: Cheju is now nick-named “‘or- phans’ Island.” {t is a refuge for 2,000 homeless children, housed in 14 orphanages, Other youngsters still arrive by fishing boats and other small craft. The first group flown over from Seoul are learning to become self- sufficient. Instructors are teach- ing them arts and crafts. Small girls eagerly kmt and embroider with the skill of old women. They also make colorful dolls from tive clay, paint them and sell them for souvenirs, Most of the children were r: ged, vermin-ridden, ill and hi starved. But today they are clean and regularly fed. Those blinded or maimed in war mishaps are given as much therapy as funds permit. A United Nations welfare agency is helping rehabilitate them This last Christmas Chaplain Blaisdell and Mrs. Peggy Harris of New York City, director of serv- ice clubs for the Japan Air De- fense Force, organized a drive for funds and clothing for the orphans. The heart-warming result was a “Christmas airlift” of four tons of supplies, ranging from bubble gum and rattles to sewing machines, blankets, shoes, clothing and toys. | “The orphans love a United Na- tions uniform,” said Mrs. Harris. “We had to hold back the tears as small arms and smiles reached out to greet us in every orphanage. “The only kindness these chil- dren have ever known has come from military personnel. Most of them were picked up from the streets, where they lay either wounded or dying from starvation. “All this happiness was made possible because GI's, officers and dependents alike gave time and chaplain now plan an “Easterlift” for the chil dren. Hundreds of American sol- diers in the service clubs of the Far East theater are collecting old clothing, repairing broken toys. Many of the salvaged children of ‘Orphans’ Island” had been mascots of U. S. military outfits. It is pleasant to chronicle that many American Gls, who often felt lonely and forgotten in Korea, still after two years have not them- selves forgotten to remember the lost waifs they originally befriend- ed. It gives us on the home front a reason to search our own hearts, too. Are we ourselves measuring up to our troops? WILLIAMS FLIES AGAIN WITH MARINE AIR GROUP 33, Korea &—Marine Capt. Ted Wil- liams, baseball star, went to bat against the Communists a second time to- day on a bombing mission--one day after his first mission ended in a s | crash-landing. COLDER IN KOREA SEOUL #—Light snow swept the Korean battlefront today and the temperatures dipped to eight below zero in the eastern sector. fk | sé former Boston Red Sox} THIS ROCK OF OURS By BILL GIBB A local citizen was complaining about severai well-known hoodlums | j from up the state being allowed to vacation here in town -while things cool off in their own home cit; “Can you find out if they have registered with the police?”, he asked me. “And if they haven't, why don’t the police pick them up? They know that these racke- teers are in town.” “Why bother youself with the situation?” I told him. ‘Maybe that is what we need. If we can get enough out-of-town crooks to fight the local crooks, maybe they will wipe each other out.” The local citizen was shocked. “You don’t-know what you're talk- ing about,” he shouted. “Our local crooks are nice guys and they work quietly. We don’t want a bunch of hogs from the outside coming to Key West and maybe have shooting and everything. Well, fellow - you certainly sum- med up the local attitude toward public morality. It isn’t what a guy does but where he comes from that makes him a criminal to Key West. It may sound like fiction but a few years ago the local gambers went on a strike because a cer- tain “club” imported: its house- men from out of town. It was a serious situation since many law abiding citizens were unable to en- joy their favorite umbrella, dice, or poker game. Indignation reach- ed such a point that the outside gamblers were driven back to the mainland and told never to dark- en Key West portals again. The very idea of strangers coming in and depriving our own sweet and lovable gamblers of their oppor- tunity to prey on suckers! No Sir! Honest Key Westers have grown used to the smell of their own crooks and they don’t want outsiders in town. Oh well, I imagine even a skunk prefers its own perfume and dis- likes having strange animals in its den, burrow, or whatever a skunk uses for a home. Very Little Gambling There is very little gambling going on at present. None that is opened to the general public, It would be next to impossible to completely wipe out all of the little games that, while often run- ning into big money, are conduct- ed more or less on a sociable #E li FY i i f i ree F z { i an i : ge a g 28 £ i “3 HE FH i He i A eEee PICKETS HALT WORK | OFFICIALS BRIEFED ON HUGE AEC PLANT |ON ATOMIC PROGRAM AUGUSTA, Ga. (®—Construction| WASHINGTON i — on the huge Savannah River plant | conference of administration of the Atomic Energy Commission was halted when 27,000 fellow workers refused to cross picket lines set up by striking painters. An AEC spokesman said 780 AFL painters went on strike here in a wage dispute. The painters were employed by the Interstate Paint- ing Company, a subcontractor to the E. E. du Pont Company, which is building the hydrogen materials plant in Aiken and Barnwell Coun- ties, South Carolina, MERCY AIRLIFT TEHRAN, Iran ® — American fliers stepped up taeir mercy air- lift of food, clothing and medicine today to the earthquake-crumbled jud town of Torroud, where an estimated 800 to 1,400 Iranians died last week. Two more C-47's from the U. S. Air Base at Dhahran, Saudi Ara- ossword Puzzle § 29. Diminish 31. 33. animel 35. Diminutive 1. Be unsue- cessful 6. District im London 38. Three-legged #. 12. Crescent shaped