The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1953, Page 3

}down last month to civilian life , in his home town, Vaux Hall, N. J. Ex-Soldier Rockets To Fame As Result Of Song Recording By BOB FHOMAS HOLLYWOO operator in an electrical: plant. in| Plied for a civil service job with two-year stretch aS ‘an Army | €d° popping. D —Home from a/draftee, Richard Bowers settled; One day he :ame home from CORRECTION Ported that someone had tele-. In yesterday’s Gulfstream advertisement the Phoned him from: California: Dick! price of COCA-COLA was listed at $1.80 a case. thought it was merely one of the | Army buddies he had-known in Japan. But it turned. out. to be |: Fred Raphael of the Walt Disney music corporation. After a fe minutes of conversation, Dick was on his way to fame and fortune. The 25-year-old Negro was lifted from obscurity because .of a This was an error. ; side of the continent. A chaplai It Should Be 80c A Case ape Pe continent As stepped off a naval ship with a record he had picked up in Japan. It _was- called’ “Gomen-Nasai” (“Forgive Me’). The haunting, Japanese-shaded tune retells the ic:‘Madame Butterfly”. theme ‘of}an American serviceman who | asks forgiveness from the Japa- | pmese girl he is deserting. q Taylor took the record to a Los Angeles dise jockey, Ralph- Storey, who introduced-it on the radio. The disc caused a stir and. was re- Played many times. It started a Tush in the music industry to find out: who owned the rights to the tune and who. recorded -it. Investigators. in-. Tokyo -finally cleared up the mystery. The music was written by Raymond Hattori a Japanese: composer. The. lyrics were the work: -of,-an ex-soldier, Benedict Mayers, ‘now’ a professor af political science . at Roosevelt College, Chicago. The voice on the | fecord was that of Cpl. Richard Bowers. Columbia Records, which made the disc in Japan, quickly waxed it for this. country: Some 6,800 platters were sold in the first two days in Los Angeles. Variety Te- | ported the record: ‘jhould clean | up_in the U. S. market.’* When Bowers was finally located in New. Jersey, he was instructed to report to the Disney office in SOLIS THE WATCHMAKER New Address Is 816 White Street Sul, my dear, its so easy to have a lovely home with -@ modernization loan from the CITY LOAN-CO.” ————— © It’s common sense to keep up your home and if you need extra cash to make repairs. the most logical place to get it is at CITY LOAN Co. CITY LOAN CO. OF -KEY W EST 524 SOUTHARD ST. DIAL 2-5681 ANNOUNCEMENT The: Fed+rul Communications Commission has available channels for the extension of Radiotelephone service (phones in autos, ° Atnucks, etc.) for the general public of Key West, Florida. Class/of service: Miscellaneous Common Carrier (Public Utility) Minimum investment for individudl.or group — $10,000. ° Requirements: Business expérience, good character and fiyancial stability Interested parties write American Radiotelephone Co., Inc. St. Petersburg. Florida for personal interview and details. THIS IS A NON-COMPETITIVE MARKET PROTECTED BY THE FCC ' TONIGHT! ALL LADIES WILL BE ADMITTED TO THE TRACK ABSOLUTELY FREE!! Sth Feature Race ... Ladies Handicap KEY WEST KENNEL CLUB NO MINORS ADMITTED ;He got a job as a drill press |~ the Newark suburb. “Hé: also. ap- |. the government. Then things start-|- chance happening .on: the other © Taylor ¢ BEAUTIFUL GARDEN IN MINIATURE is one of the worth- while displays to be seen at the Tropical Flower Show opening Saturday evening at the Elks Club Annex.—Citizen Staff Photo. about once a month over the past)operating off our coasts. If year and added: Jare beyond the three-mile “There is no reason to assume there is nothing we can that foreign submarines are noit'it, under international law.” Friday, February 27, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Seen Off Calif. SAN FRANCISCO A fishy man’s report of seeing an Page nkng "| submarine surface off the Nor |New York. Disney’s, which man- ages entertainers among its many other functions, signed him to a contract. The handsome singer’s future life began to shave up. He signed a pact with Columbia Records for eight sides a year, unusual for a newcomer. Columbia Pictures flew him to Hollywood to sing ‘““Gomen- Nasai” in a picture called “Mission Over Korea.” When I talked with him here, he seemed to be taking his new life in stride. He is now caught up in a whirl of TV and radio appearances to plug the song. He said that he had sung before only on an amateur basis. He spent 19 months in Japan as a clerk-typist in personnel. He re- corded nine sides for Japanese labels, thing to come of them. Chain Store Tax Repeal Is Asked By Fla. C. OF C. but sever expected any- JACKSONVILLE (#—Repeal of Florida's $400 a year license fee for each chain store is being sought by the State Chamber of Commerce which criticized the tax Wednesday as ‘admitt<dly puni- tive and unfair.” Such a license fee has “no valid excuse in this age of enlighten- ment,” chamber directors said in a resolution. The fee was enacted 16 years ago when independent stores op-- Posed the chains on grounds they were being driven out of business. Independent stores pay a $10 an- nual license fee. The resolution said the fees dis- criminate against chain or multi- ple stores which are among the largest customers of Florida prod ucts. Chain stores, it said, buy 250 million dollars worth of Florida produce yearly including 70 per cent of the citrus, give employ- ment to 20,000 in the state; and spend over 110 million dollars an- |nually on salaries and for other | purposes in Florida In other actions, the directors: | Asked the 1953 Legisiature to amend the citrus code tc require that fruit meet minimum standards of quality when sold directly from stores, packing houses and road- side stands. Proposed that congress appro- priate $125,000 a vear for research in citrus decline diseases, one of the worst enemies of citrus groves. ANTI-AMERICAN BOOK Leader Meets With Salvation Army Committee Here Brigadier Gordon G. Mae Gilliv- ray, Divisional Secretary, Salv: tion Army returned to Jackson- | ville yesterday. He met with the newly formed Salvation Army Committee, which had been ap- pointed by Major Wharton: Mrs. Wilhelmina G. Harvey, Judge Lord and Arthur Mulberg. . The nearest Salvation Army Corps is in Miami. Brigadier MacGillivray’s headquarters for Florida and Eas- | tern Georgia is in Jacksonville. This newly formed committee will represent the Salvation Army at the USO Committee Organization Meetings. AIR OFFICE BOMBED TUNIS, Tunisia “?—The office of Air France was badly damaged} today by a bomb placed in a. cor- ridor, No one was hurt by the explosion which police blamed on extreme Nationalists urging inde- pendence for this French North | African protectorate. i published a weighty book today designed to show how the United! WARSAW, Poland & — Poland} ern California coast at dusk day touched off a wid Navy, Coast Guard and Air Fo hunt, the Navy disclosed today, A Navy spokesman said unknog sub contacts have been ROUGH MUCK Delivered to Key West at $10 Per vers PHONE 48-0144 MIAMI, FLA. L C)R USED CARS WARRANTEED MAY BI ‘ ’ AIRED BY ANY AUTHORIZED NATIONAL S.E.LWA°RANTY DEALER IN THE UNITED STATES 'S. E. 1. 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