The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1953, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, March 25, 1953 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County & P. ARTMAN BORMAN D. ARTMAN — - Publisher Business Manager 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 @ntitied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it @f not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. $$$ Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year $12; By Mail $15.60 ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICA‘1ION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. 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, _ eee NEW LIVING COST INDEX The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics is now measuring living costs with a new index, based on the price of 300 items, ranging from cigarettes to surgery. | The new index replaces an older one, which included} prices from 200 items, as sampled in thirty-four cities. The new index samples prices in some forty-six cities and towns, in sizes ranging from over -7,000,000 (New York) to towns of 2,508. It has been several years in pre- paration and pricing specialists were sent.inte homes all over the country to get a complete record of the kinds, qualities and amounts of food, clothing, furniture and goods and services bought each year. The amount spent for each was also noted. sees That investigation showed the average family spent 80.1 per cent of its total expenditure for food; 32 per cent for housing; 11 per cent for transportation; 9.7 per * cent for clothes; 4.7 for medical care; and 2.1 per cent for per- sonal care. It was also learned that over five per cent was spent on recreation and reading, and another five per cent for goods and services, which include tobacco and alcohol. | The new index is supposed to give a more accurate Picture of the changing cost of living in the United States. Ewan Clague, Commissioner of the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, says that the new index will be | the most comprehensive available to Americans in the last twenty years. TAX SENTIMENT IN MARCH Sentiment for lower taxes always rises sharply in the month of March, when the average American fills out his relief seems to be in sight, the burden of paying the high- er rate seems even more severe than it did before tax cuts became probable. About the only satisfaction Americans can after having paid the heavy taxes for 19 realize, 52, is to soberly appreciate the fact they are living in the finest country in | the world and that conditions are much worse in areas, and much worse for many Americans who fight for freedom in Korea, and possibly give their lives. | Now that the threat to free enterprise from big gov- ernment has been removed, it will be endangered by mo- noplies and trusts. SLICE OF HAM CHAPEAU ONi most |Isla en 1515, titulo que must |tonces ostentaba Baracoa y g026|qe madera. A las SANTIAGO DE CUBA Esa es la bella capital de la Provincia de Oriente. En esta ciudad se conservan reliquias va- liosas, que sus moradores jamas |dejaran que de alli sean llevadas. Cuando se intenté el traslado de los restos del Apostol Marti, para la Capital, los santiagueros for- maron un comité, cuyos inte- grantes, durante muchos dias y noches, hicieron guardia junto al pantedn que guarda los restos del gran cubano, dispuestos a perder la vida, si necesario hubiese sido, defendiendo el derecho de los orientales a conservar alli en el Cementerio de Santa Ifigenia, los restos bien amados del Maestro. Santiago de Cuba fué fundado en el afo 1514, por el Adelantado Diego de Velazquez, al hallar muy cerca de la desembocadura del 'rio Pasadas, un lugar encantador, por la fertilidad de sus tierras, para mantener las relaciones con la antigua Gobernacion de las In- dias, que radicaba en la isla de Santo Domingo, o la _ Espanola. | Esto le determino a trasladar a dicho bello lugar, su_ sede _resi- dencial, que antes estaba en- clavada en la ciudad primada de mas destacados ciudadanos esta ultima poblacion para que en su compafia se transladaran a fundar la nueva ciudad que sur- acompanaron, al sojuzgador }Mexico, Don Hernan Cortés, Gonzalo de Guzman y otros sefi |res de capa y espada y asi fué fundada la citidad de Santiago de Cuba, hoy capital de la provincia de Oriente. El Adelantado Velazquez, co- menz6 a darle forma a la ciudad, que fué declarada Capital de la hasta en- je tal perrogativa, hasta que por Cédula de 8 de octubre del el Rey d a divi- | } spe ias por I io de Cuba, pero ultima a la pri- ciudades, d, con su ac- de armas, le” fué n 1522 y por Bula Papa Alejandro sede | distintas, bana y dido e: Pontificia del | VIT, fué declara j pal da de tre las Baracoa y al efecto, llamo a los| de} | gia, contandose entre los que le} tax returns and comes across with the goods. Now that tax | 2 NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO tranquilidad, siendo sus promo- tores, entre otros, los sefores Ca- 'gigal, Alonso de Arcos y Juan Bautista Vaillant. El centro de la ciudad se carac- jteriza por los grandes desniveles jde su estructura. Muchas de sus tipicas construcciones coloniales, tienen base en las faldas:de sus {lomas y de ellas parten tortuo- ‘sas callejuelas. Algunas de ellas, como la nombrada PADRE PI- |COS, tiene en uno de sus extre- j;mos, una esealera como de: veinte |ra continuar hasta el otro extre- j}mo de dicha calle. La provincia Oriental y sobre todo, cerca de Santiago de Cuba, hay lugares de verdadera im- portancia histérica, como el Fuer- te del Viso, la playa Siboney, Puerto Boniato y el Caney, fa- moso por sus frutos, que son bien conocidos y buscados a lo largo de todo el territorio nacio- nal. Tiene, entre otras cosas de in terés para el viajero, el Cemen- \terio de Santa Ifigenia, que guar- da celoso los restos de muchos de los grandes y excelsos patrio- tas de Cuba. Entre ellos, Céspe- des, Marti, Estrada Palma, Bar- tolomé Masso y otros, que con verdadero respeto y devocién, vi- sitan anualmente, peregrinos del |patriotismo, que Hegan a Santia- |go de Cuba, desde los mas re motos lugares de la Republica. La poblacién de Santiago de ‘Cuba es muy culta y hospitalaria. Sus habitantes, al hablar, tienen un simpatico dejo, que los di a eco nocer, donde quiera que se en- cuentren. Tienen sus modismos tipicos, muchos de ellos, muy | 8raciosos por lo raros. Por ejem- plo: al cubo le dicen “balde,” aunque este no sea de cuero o pantuflas le llaman “cutara” y asi sucesiva- mente. Pero los orientales en to- da época dieron muestras elo cuentes de su bravura en el com- ®-\bate y de su acendrado ‘patrio- tismo. | Ellos adoran su provincia y ‘aunque muchos emigran hacia La Habana, jamas dejan de ha- blar de su “terrufie” con un amor, que es emotive y que les hace simpaticos a la vista de todos. Hay que recordar que Oriente aii ntl NEWSMEN REPORTED CAPTURED |peldafios, que hay que subir, pa-}sobre The Boys In The Back Room fué la cuna de aquella excelsa familia integrada por los Maceo. Alli nacieron Flor Crombet, Gui- llermo Moncada y muchos mas, cuyos nombres estan grabados en oro en las paginas de nuestras luchas libertarias y a cuya memo- tia rinden todos los cubanos su respeto y devocién. Es una ciudad interesante para el viajero. Circunda parte de su localizacién, la bellisima Sierra Mestra, y al cruzar por la calle de Marina, tal parece que las montafias van-a caer sobre la 8 jaen su seno gigantesco. Santiago de Cuba es algo que deben conocer todos los cubanos. No solo por su interesante historia y su pasado glorioso, sino por sus grandes’ bellezas naturales. Y todo, porque alli esta donde se venera la Santa Virgen de la Caridad, patrona de todos los cu- banos. Het, die : if fel i F i : i E Best wishes. Cordially, CHESTER B. BAHN, EDITOR The Film Daily Ew attire Appreciation Editor, The Citizen: This is to express my apprecia- tion of Miss Raymer’s excellent arrangement of the “Dorcas Wel- fare” story. It wes well tioned, and neatly summarized. Of course I have been led to appreciate her work by other things that I have read of hers. Thank you, and may your good work go on. Sincerely MRS. C. M. NICHOLS ~ | sponser a dance at La Conche BY CHDKA REDs— uchard Applegate, left, Medford, Ore, and Domsid Dixen, right, ’ York City, both newspaper and radio correspondents, * armed va 2 sviling beat captured by © Chinese Communist vessel near Hong Kong, according to the Royal Mavy. © iS @ correspondent fer the Nations! Broadrasting Dixon is a staff writer fer the International News FAWTU Course! Completed By . Naval Officer Lieutenant Junior Grade James | P. Oberholtzer, USN, son of Mrs. jie chemeeee: Pabitobe Bonnie Lou Oberholtzer, 2031 N. fous New Jersey, Indianapolis, Ind.,'- it is impossible to satiate their has qualified for Carrier All curiosity. However, this Weather Squadrons by virtue of will attempt to jasc ee by j starti avaianche in your the All Weather Flight course direction of all the gleanings I which he recently completed at | have gotten from li in all of Fleet All Weather Training Unit,'my thirty-three years. The only Atlantic, Naval Air Station, here ‘eriterion I have for separating He will report to Composite |the warp from the woof in this Squadron Thirty-Three, Naval Air estry of experience being ex- Station, Annapolis, Md., in 1946 | hibited for your delight must de- and graduated from there with!pend on my personal reactions. a Bachelor of Scieace degree in|(How in the world did that sen- June 1950. Following his gradua-|tence get in there?) In other tion, he was assigned as a deck|words, I write as I please, half officer to the USS Toledo opera-; hoping to please you. If I wrote ting off the coast of Korea. The | just to ple you and not to Toledo was used to shell enemy | please myself, where would that positions and pave the way for|leave me? You have to be sel- the Inchon invasion. After his Ko-/fish about a few things. rean tour of duty, Lieutenant Ob-} For example, —sea-cucumbers erholtzer was selected to receive | ...0, Sine: 2 flight training at Pensacola, Fla., appeal to me. Since they si where he was designated a naval |t0 me, I want them to appeal to aviator in August 1952. you. If I didn’t tell you about sea- FOR CRYIN’ By CHARLES This business of writing a column is an intriguing pastime. It keeps you ever alert for titil- lating tidbits with which to feed I spend in logy major g about people He is married to the former | cucumbers you would continue to} Miss Patricia Logan Whittington, }ignore them. Your life would daughter of Mr. Robert J. R. then be drab because it would be Whittington, 3 Chancery Square, | devoid of sea-cucumbers. There- Baltimore, Md. They have two /fore, it is my plain cuty to bring children, Michael Robert (1%) / excitement into y life by ae and Stephen Hadley (33 months). | quainting you with these fascinat- Lieutenant Oberholtzer is an jing creatures. alumnus of Shortridge High} 1 know that this aquatic animal School, Indianapolis. As an under-/jooks unappetizing but do you graduate student at Annapolis,|,now that he is ly delicious Lieutenant Oberholtzer was 2/Gourmets all over the world member of the Navy cross-coun-| highly esteem sea-cucumbers | as try team which he captained in|, ‘culinary del We should do the 1948 season. He formerly held |the game. A lad the indoor record for the mile in} shoud eomplem s-and the Southern Conference and was) srunts nicely. My nephew, Sid recognized as the Ivy League In-| yephid, has invited me over to door Champion 2f this event in his house Thursday night for din- the season of 1947-48. iner. The will 2 RTA ASE | consist and sea-cuc K. W I sent gtits “your palate, S mbers sh 1 excite your eee ee Days Gone By mal From The Citizen Files , of course, {form eulc eripti noyance or unwe | promptly jternal o tentacles make possible don’t th more des- slightest an- frightened, sea-cucumber 1 of his in- intes- ‘ything one life either But when be At if he the a 20 YEARS AGO TODAY James Roberts was appointed tax collector-assessor by the city council at a meeting held 1 evening, succeeding Fred J. Di who recently tender i cucumber is because he elf of his in- empty interior just column | OUT LOUD seems to give the sea-cucumber ideas. The little monster - ly starts to regenerate new ternal organs. Before long a complete organism again | inside out! Bravo for the sea-cu- jcumber! I only wish I had that | ability. Every year I would like to open my skull, pluck out the old brain with all of its rooted sorrows, throw it to the birds, }and start growing a new one... ; The Mail Bag ‘ Hari Kidd, artist, raconteur; writer, and all-around good -fel- jlow, wrote me a very jand encouraging letter. May |publicly thank Mr, Kidd for. his kindness and for the sweet, fra- grant bouquets he threw my way. | Mr. Kidd also suggested a real lalapaloosa. -Chamber of ‘Com- |merce please note. To quote from | Mr, Kidd's letter: “How about asking the Navy to paint the lo- |cal Blimps as ‘Happy Fish.’ look almost like fish already.-. All they need is a -couple. large, round fish eyes, anda |broad happy fish smile! Add |these a couple of gay Vermilion. ‘colored fins and everyone who jooked up and saw such a happy sight would be filled with wonder- |ful lightheartedness for the | whole day! And, incidentaily, it hould be a very joily symbol of Key West -- the huge Blimp-Fish could be the one that Got Away!” Odds and Ends. » If you have a ‘toothache, your pain may be relieved by the chemii- | cal known as dimethylaminophenyl- | dimethylpyrazolondiethylmalonylu- rea. My good friend Jack Hayes, | will gladly pronounce this word jfor you. He is a noted ‘authority on hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalian- istic utterances. Try him if you don’t believe me, | 1 took my four boys to the cir- cus. There we saya menagerie of animals. However, you guess- jed it, no cow... | Condolence Department We wish to exvress our consi- deration and sympathy for the plight of our young, enterprising -| sheriff. We know that: he cannot turn to graft and corruption in order to make ends meet. We ate sorry to see so meny, letiers in the Peoples Forum lambasting jhim. This columa will sup ert John when John is in the ; and A promises. that he wi « for one! tently mad A turn out to be,a moct ¢, sheriff, We would like io ¢ j Succeed, wee nation to become effective March | ~ 3L ia Senator Asks Russia To Back Peace Overtures WASHINGTON phrey (D-Minn) Tuesday to back jovertures by ea dropping cepting Indian for Korea, is, he said, would offer a quick st of the Iatest peace talk from me of Premier nd enable the d to judge whether Soviet “mean What they are say- The second monthly leaders | council of Troop 5, Boy Scouts, | was held Thursday night in the home of Scoutmaster J. A. Bo- za, 910 Georgia St. S. S. Cuba returned from yesterday afternoon 4 «¢ with 53 passengers. Of this ber eight were aliens. ® — Sen. Hum- tenged Russia up new peace ing tension in anti-Semitism truce pro- ch Emergency Relief Council | workers were disappointed to- day when funds failed to be ceived by them for their work of two weeks ago. William Demeritt, Jr., won the Mrs. Malcolm Meacham golf tro. phy yesterday over Robert Spotts- wood in the 1 finals. 10 YEARS AGO TODAY Formal opening of the |uso for women, located in |house known as “Trade Wind a member of \at the corner of Caroline and relations committee, [val Streets, will be held Tuesd that from past experience, | April 6. | Marry Harris is due in Key | West today to take up his du- | ties as County Commission | member. in | ent came as to talk with { West Ber. his reaction to the " from Moscow. the said “we Crossword Puzzle | Action started tod. | Jacksonville, and | will result in prov | with larger quant sed and evapor: and other comme Lost and found: Lost - Gas Ration “A” book. Please return | te Leroy Davis, 805 Geptiste | Lene. | Mrs. Rosie F {been visiting Mr Pinder, 915 Angela jlast five weeks jmorrow for he: | Te cap the climax of the Wer | Bond Drive, the Junior Wo- | man’s, Club and the Junior | Chamber of Cor March 1 Hotel Wednesday AGED APPLICANT FOR CITIZENSHIP \have every right to be ¢ about accepting any change Soviet approach until we caa evidence of their validity,” Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala) said on a radio broadcast Mon. night he hi | lieves the U. S. should “look close- ly into the possibility of a meeting with the Russians. He said President Eisenhowér had adopted a “fine attitude” in saying that he would ge halfway * toward meeting the Russian lead- jer. There would be nothing to lose |by holding a conference, the Als- 'bama senator said. it | CONGRESS ‘FOR EASTER Ri | WASHINGTON # — The | will get only a short Easter recess: trom Thureday, AGPS-A/Sagipeeen® April 6. ; J j That decision was made. Mon- day by the Senate Republican: Pol- licy Committee. ‘| The House plans to take a week longer, from April 2 until» April) 13, Os wo ita) a ar OMB Ee Solution of Yesterday's Puate 6 fall 1. The end cown ,