The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, Mareh 29, 1953 The Key West Citizen eee eee eee Published daily (except Sunday) by L, P. Artman, owner and pub- iisher, 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 Managet Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Aszociated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dikpatches credited to jt or not otherwise credited in this paper, ahd algo thé local news published here. tl Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Flotida Subscription (by carrier) 26¢ per wéek, year $12: By Mail $15.60 ae SS a i ARNG eS SE eal A eG A ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICALION i pret ca in ep Se The Citizen is an open forum and invites diseussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publiin anonymous ecommunications. FLORIDA ASS Ess TLON IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCGATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, A RISE IN CONGRESSIONAL PAY? . The question of higher pay and larger expense ac- counts for all members of Congress is alive once again in Washington. One of the reasons it has been brought up at this time is furor which was caused in the 1952 election campaign when it was revealed that some of the c&ndi- dates had accepted money from private sources. The question of higher.pay and larger expense allow- ances is nothing new in Congress. The Congress periodi- cally votes itself increases, although there is some question whether the increases have kept pace with the increased cost of living in recent years. The latest raise came only a few years ago and the present base salary is $12,500 a year for Senators and Congressmen, in addition to an ex- pense allowance of $2,500, which has been tax-free, but upon which taxes will have to be paid this year. Thus, sal- aries this year will be $15,000, taxes to be paid on all of it. Members of Congress are given a travel allowance, but this does not cover all the trips they make bétween their homes and Washington and could be liberalized with good effect. Some Congressmen supplement their earnings by putting members of their family on the payroll and this adds to the $15,000 income earned by these members. It is interesting to note here that Senators, representing an en- tire state, incur more expénses in operating their offices than do members of Congress, though the salaries are the same. In any adjustment, it would not be out of line for the) differences in duties of Senators and Congressmen to be taken into consideration. The $12,500 salary, (or the $15,- 000 salary as it stands today) should be maintainéd. Ex- pense allowances and travel allowances, however, should be increased in keeping with the times. Theré is no reason some of the expense allowance should not be tax-free and this allowance should be greatér for Senators than for Congressmen. The average voter would probably approve a reason- able bill along this line, one which would not increase sal- aries but merely provide these pubic servants with moré practical expense allowances. Progress is not achieved by following the crowd. We are in favor of the six-weeks vacation and some businesses have found it pays dividends. ~~ que ser ’ No Shortage Of Ammunit ion Here WORPIS-—a NOTAS CUBANAS ALARMAS INNECESARIAS Cayo Hueso es un pueblo de trabajadores. Aqui lo mismo tra- baja el rico, que el pobre. Todo el mundo dedica, por lo ménos, ocho horas del dia a diferentes labores. Légicamente quienes trabajan, reeten deseanso, E) descanso es la mejor y mas util mediciha, para el cuerpo cansado | por la diaria brega. | Pero, es él caso que aqui pocas | véces se puede dormir a pierna | suelta durante las horas de la noche y ello, de ninguna manera tiene justificaeion. A veces, a las dos de la ma- drugada, cuando todo duerme: y hal uh silencio ocnfortante en. to- da la ciudad, sale ung arnbu- lancia tocando desaforadamente la sirena, despertando y alarman- do a la poblacign, que tras el natural susto que eso ocasiona, le es muy dificil volver a conciliar el suefo interumpido. Ese sueno de media noche, que es mejor de todos, el que mayor bien propor- ciona a nuestro cuerpo. No se comprende el por qué a} }esa alta hora de la madrugada, | cuando el transito citadino esta en calma. Cuando solo alguna que otra m@quina recorre las alles, esd ambulancia salga “pidiende paso,” sonando ferozmente la si rena, y dando al traste ¢on el |mere@tido descanso que a esa ho- ra disfruta la poblacién trabaja- dora. Nos ¢ | jli¢amos esa alarma, du- rante las horas del dia, en que el intenso transito de la Ciudad, negesita ser avisado por la fa, para que dejen via libre a los que van eh busca de un enfermo, o de la vietima de algin acei-} dente. En ocasiones, esa ambulancia! va en busca de un cadaver y a pesar de no tener necésidad de ir “volando,” leva la sirena gritan- do una pesada alarma, que im- presiona y que desvela, a los que no tienen la culpa de que haya un cadaver mas en este mundo Bien esta que él servicio de in- cendios, que requiere prontitud en llegar al lugar del fuego, haga sonar su sirena a cualquier hora. Le que va a realizar, en todes los eases, es una obra util, bene- ticiesa para teda la colectividad, al localizar habilmente un fuego, e impedir que aleance mayeres propercionés. Pers, esa ambulancia que si va en busea de yn enfermo, a media nocho, no necesita para nada, ha- } Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO Hace tiempo que muchas per- sonas se han acercado a nosotros, pidiéndonos que hablasemos de esta innecesaria alarma, que su- fre la ciudad, casi todas las noches. A ratos, tambien la sirena de la policia nos hace saltar de la cama y pensamos cual es el ob- jeto, cuando se va a perseguir a} un delincuento, o se va actuar en una tragédia callejera, de ha- cer sonar esa sirona, que solo sirve de aviso carifioso para los qué-estén faltando a la ley, para que pongan piés en polvorosa y cuando Hegue la autoridad, no encuentre otra cosa, que los cu- Tiosos, que presenciaban el lance y las trempadas de los conten- dientes, Todo .es0, a nuestro fuicio, po- dria evitarse, en beneficio de los que duermen, buscando en el re- poso. tranquilo, la recuperacién de las fuerzas perdidas, durante las echo o mas horas de labor, | rendidas en el dia. Por eso, tratamos hoy de este asunto, esperando que esta voz, que es acaso la ms humilde to- das, sea escuchada por los que pueden y deben de evitarle a ja ciudad, esas innecesarias alar- | mas, en las horas de noche. En ciudades, como Miami, La Habana, New York y otras gran- des urbes, donde lo mismo de dia que en la noche, el transito cita- dino es grande, se justifica plena- mente el toque de esa_sirena, pero en pequefias colectividades, como la nuestra, donde todo el mundo rinde una labor durante las horas del dia, viene a ser algo asi, como una inconsciente descon- sideracién, que la tenemos que sufrir todos vy que pedria y de- la_ media beria de evitarse, ya que ello no conduce a nada, ni mejora la situacion del enfermo en cuya busca va la ambulancia, ni resu- cita al infeliz que y& cadaver, es conducido a la capilla funeraria, para proceder a su embalssa- cer ese enorme fuido desconcer- | | tante ¥ atormeritador. Minutos! mas a ménos, no iafluiran absolu tamenté en nada. en Ia situacio: de aquei infeliz a quiem van recoger. En cambio la poblacié entera se a, muchos saltan de la céma. s¢ asoman al po oa la ventana vy miran afuera, tratando de ver lo qu ecurre. Y en muchos casos. se j trata de una amabie seoora que esta dando a luz y que hay que Uevaria al Hospital o la clinica, } cuyo problema, de suyo interes- ante, por lo que representa en el} aumento de la poblacién, solo in- | teresa 9 ella. a! padre de lp cria- bares mast ce O necésitan gria del hogar i a la ale ‘@e rus papas . os } mamiento y adecuada preparacién | para recorrer la estacién final, | alla en el camposanto. Nos parece que en esto, como | en otras cosas, todos deberiamos | de actuar. Cada uno, valiéndose | de sua amistados y de sus dere- chos de ciudadano, para lograr que anomalias que no se jus- tifican, desaparescan de nuestro escenario, concediéndole a + los pacificos y buenos habitantes del | Cayo, el respeto que merecen, en algo tan importante y tan necesa- jTio, como lo es pode rdormir | | tranquilos, sin ser molestados por ruidos innecesarios. Ojala que hayarnos dado en | el blanco—lo que dudamos—y } | que estas modestas lineas, sirvan| | en parte, para redimirnos de cosas | tan molestas y tan inutiles. Siempre se contribuye al bien} de los demas, aunque las voces | de la defensa, se pierdan, apaga-j das por el ruido ensordecedor de | esas sironas, que tal parece, al ‘escucharse en las horas de la me- | dia noche, que van anunciando desolacion ... FAWTU Course Completed By Naval Officer Ensign Lenwood S. Muennink, | USNR, has recently been trans- | ferred from Fleet All Weather| Training Unit, Atlantic, here, to| Composite Squadron Twelve, Na: | val Air Station Quonset Point, R. | I., where he will report for duty | involving flying. He was a stu-/| dent in the All Weather Flight | course here. | { in April 1950 as an aviation cadet | jin the Navy V-5 program. Inj |July 1952, he was designated a| Subseribe to The Citizen | iooting homes. naval aviator after the prescribed flight training course at Pensacola, Fla Ensign Muennink is married to the former Miss Betty ‘Harrison daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer |Harrison, Eufala, Ala. He is the )son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew C, Muennink, Hondo, Texas He graduated from Hondo High completing “Dragnet” Is 'TV Success Not True To Form By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD #—“Dragnet” is | one of those unusual shows that | Sg has become a success even though it doesn’t employ many of the| standard TV techniqués. | In its brief year on television, | the show has been heaped with honors. The TV. Academy last | month gave it an Emmy as the best action-mystery show, although it has little action and not too | you much mystery. But it’s no mystery to “Dragnet” fans that the show ranks among the leaders in the| audience surveys. | To find out some of the reasons for this success, I had a chat with | Jack Webb, who plays Sgt. Joe! Friday, and asked him how he| accounted for the reception “‘Drag- net” has received. | “Maybe it’s because we really make it authentic,” he remarked. “A lot of other shows set out with the idea of doing an authentic job, | but something goes wrong some-| where glong the line. The producer or director decides to throw out the real stuff in order to make a | more dramatic show. | “Sometimes we fee! the urge to/ do so, too. But we try to be true | to our original intention—to present | cases as they actually happen. We |, don’t use the movie method of | flashback, nor do ve tell the story from the viewpoint of the criminal. We show how two policemen — | since they usually work in pairs— | pin down the facts on a crime.” | Webb, an Air Force veteran who | was born in Santa Monica almost | 33 years ago, said “Dragnet” was | originally aimed at the policemen themselves: | “T figured if we could appeal | to the police of this country, we'd have a big enough audience to} start with,” he observed. “So we! did everything we could to make the shows authentic. All the details | were checked by the Los Angeles | police, and we got the stories from policemen, who were paid for their help. “Oddly enough, the police didn’t | take to the show at first; our fans came from the general public. Ij that a show was finally doing a real picture of their activities. Now we get mail from chiefs of police all over the country. Some of our films are used te indoctrinate | guess policemen couldn't believe rookies in Los Angeles, New, York and other cities.” Webb admitted he takes a rib bing from the way the “Dragnet” chara@ters display their lines in a quiet monotone. It coesn't faze him. “When we went on the air, there were a lot of shows full of shoot ing and shouting,” he said. ‘We decided the public could use a show that didn’t make so much noise We keep close tab on the mail, and if there’s enough objection to some of the things we're doing, we change. “We try to get some real action into every 10th show. We're limit ed in chases, however, because can’t have a siren on rad or TV. New York City won't them, because it might create air raid panic.” | | | | To fancy up an apple pie when guests are coming, shape soft yellow cheese into small bails Roll the cheese balls in paprika and tuck two small pieces of green leaf in the top of each He entered the naval service Circle the apply pie with the per-| been probing deeper into Burma. ky cheese balls before serving. School, in 1946 and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Gas Engineering from Texas Agricultural and Industri al College, Kingsville, Texas. He was a junior gas engineer {c Lone Star Gas Company Worth, Texas, before entering Navy. SABRE JET FIRES ROCKETS FROM NEW LAUNCHING PLATFORM Sabre Jet, wheelhouse of K img plaifoem un plane fuselage for better stre revealed by the Air Fi gest bomber. the anne out seeing the enemy —UP) W ce an air fi # knocks neement « eeu FIRE SWEEPS BOSTON CHURCH.—Crowds watch as firemen to prevent flames from spreading to nearby homes as ges in the Christ Temple Church of Person@l i ton, Mass, The fire fighters were successful in preventing ad, but the church itself was destroyed. No omé was believed to be in the structure when the fire started. The church is located in the heart of the congested Roxbury areg. —(@) Wirephoto. BURMESE ARMY CHASES — CHINESE NATIONALISTS (Editors Note: The following ex-——— clusive account of Burma‘s trou- | ——aieeeeinsisintinieioeiie | People’s Forum bles with Chinese Nationalist guer- ee ma RR RN rillas was written by Associated sont a? ers, bat are eguaudgrss et Soe weve of the, ai letters am@ = leas req MONGHSU, Burma (#—The Bur- Press Correspondent Robert B. Hewett after a Jeep trip over bumpy, dusty tracks inte Mongh- su. Hewett, a veteran foreign cor- respondent and the only American newsman in Burma, has been on a 600-mile tour of the operations area.) e Army is busy chasing Chi-! NEWCOMERS QUESTION n Nationalists in this area of , Editor, The Citizes: Northeast Burma. There is bitter-| I hope someone céa ness ir nese—and sus} me about a matter picion of the States be-|me quite puzzled. cause the Chinese fight with Amer-| Last week my husband, ican a ‘ ‘in the Navy, was The Chinese are part of the |questioned a! (ten amy” of Gen. Li Mi, {Plates on our Car, whieh tery force that has been se- out-of-state plates. We were training and recruiting in|the impression that & —— By ROBERT B. HEWETT e who is and the* remote Burmese mountains | Were good. until the and forests along the borders of| month, at which {ime we Red China, Indochina and Thai-|¢¥ery intestion vee land jrida license. 1 not Several years ago: the Chinese|ing the fact Co ts pushed Li Mi and and about 2,000 of Chiang Kai-shek's | WS most troops out of China’s Yunnan Prov. | tive, and» we ince. In Burma, they have been | !ency. supplied with American - made} When my s in a secret agent drama | the County complete with n drops. ing Burmese sources estimate the Nationalist guerrillas now number 10,000 to 12,000, counting recruits from Yunnan, refugees and some|¢ Chinese living in Burma. Sup-| posedly the force is being built up for an attack on Red China, | but the troops meanwhile~ have They have created panic in some sections, seizing’ rice stocks and | ¥ have always under jimpression thet oe bd > This town, 60 miles from Red A. as oceupied by nearly |leges were .sel ine. Most of | Place in the United §tgtes 1 This month | possessions. If this is not ny struck back, then I am under the wrong the Chinese with- | Pression or this orgpnization nsu without a represents itself - whieh I en in later en-|lously doubt. I was aot jthat local goverament hed ted its libera-| privilege of making exeeptions jooded dancers | this type. st in the town| Regarding Z hus feudal ruler, of Travelers’ Chedks ~ 1 Hman Hpa, came tounded. For a eity like ce wives and 24, West, which depends ha -/ cotch whisky. ;on wages business inder the impression that | tence, seems a very ns are directly responsible |lew. Most peeple who 3 arming of the Nationalist |TY these checks for 5 well as “Why do not you Americans {faced with such arming them?” he asked this |strange territery, must be reporter. “You car see what |bly disgruntled. they're doing to our villages.” Wil someone please enlighten Curious e Minister U | me? ee ne question in | TIME FOR ACTION ATHENS au abiiter ¥ Gi mese Army eced that there US. aid, a ciale 50 coms, raft, attracted only by S sexy American ss¢ looting Théy are the hands of, for welltrpined, the Chunese Naosalsts here. One ese Commeanist who are