The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1953, Page 8

¥r ~ KEY WEST IS MY BEAT : Russia Rejects * Page 8 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, March 25, 1953 ‘Conservation Unit |Historical Greats SANTA BARBARA, Calif. $62,300,000 IS FIGURE IN KAISER DEAL 41 States To | Call Youth Of 19 Next Month | By RAY HENRY WASHINGTON ® — Forty-one states will drait 19-year-olds for | military duty next month, and two others may. have to, an Associated Press survey showed Monday. For 14 of these 41 states, it will | be the first draft of 19-year-olds | since World War It. } The survey of state selective! service directors also found that | - all but two states—Alabama and | South Carolina—probably will be | taking 19-year-olds in May. The | Alabama director said it will be June, perhaps later, before any will be drafted in his state. The South Carolina director said he} didn’t know when. | The other three states that won't | take 19-year-olds in April are Maryland, Vermont and Virginia. New Jersey and Tennessee direc- tors said ‘‘maybe not.” | Thirteen states plan to call 19-| year-olds to fill at least 50 per| cent of their April draft quotas. Probably the biggest number will come from Illinois where the state director estimated the “bulk” of a 3,254 quota would be 19-year-olds. Pennsylvania will need about 2,500 of a 4,081 quota. California comes third with about 2,000 of 3,164, The April draft quota for the whole country is 53,000. | The present draft age is 18% | to 26. Draft boards have been tak- | | Willys-Overland To Change Hands In Purchase By Kaiser-Frazer NEW YORK Kaiser - Frazer Corp. plans to buy Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., for an estimated $62,300,000. The deai will make Kaiser-Frazer the world’s fourth largest auto company, with as- sets of more than 200 millions. The purchase, announced here Monday by Kaiser-Frazer, is ex- pected to be completed next month. It is subject to approval by Willys- Overland common _ stockholders, who will meet April 24. Kaiser-Frazer said it was finan- cing the purchase with 72 millions By SUSAN McAVOY | in private capital from various ! |sources, The estimated purchase price includes the assumption by Kaiser-Frazer of certain liabilities. ' Edgar F. Kaiser, president of Kaiser-Frazer and son of Henry J. Kaiser, said the sale will give Kaiser-Frazer production facilities to boost it among the world’s big- gest automobile companies after General Motors, Ford and Chry- sler. Willys - Overland and Kaiser- Frazer put out a total of 242,461 cars and trucks last year. Their combined total sales are running at the rate of 600 millions annually. The purchase will give Kaiser- Frazer a complete line of automo- biles and utility vehicles. The Wil- lys-Overland output of the famed | Jeep, Jeep station wagon and Aero Willys will be added to Kaiser- Frazer's low-priced Henry J. and the Kaiser and Frazer lines. Kaiser-Frazer is financing the purchase with $37,600,000 put upj ing first the oldest men they have. Keine Henry J. ue ae Until January state directors had fh, nding company; be ay tf been ordered to take no 19-year-|the Transamerica Corp., a ban Marina for his tip that led Bob Miller whose tip led to the fund campaign for Baby Jasper Walker, suffering from a brain ailment, “never had it so good” as last weekend. The 18 year old sailor off the shipmate Eugene Kelley, chose the night and day at the Casa Marina for Miller's prize. Bob, a taciturn young man, was USS Howard Gilmore and his | ota pheiing corporation; and 20 mil-; The reason some states are) taking 19-year-olds and some} aren’t results from the variation | in available manpower to fill their quotas. The actual number of 19-year- olds the states need to fill April quotas, the AP» survey showed, | varies widely. Massachusetts, with a 1,262 quota, will need “substantially all” | 19-year-olds, as will Arizona with a 243 quota, the District of Colum- bia with a @18 quota and Oregon with a 350 quota. Eleven states—Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ne- braska, Missouri, North Dakota, ; West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wy- oming—say a small percentage of their quotas will be 19-year-olds. In the following states, over 50 | per cent of the !isted quotas will | be 19-year-olds: Arkansas, 940 quota; Michigan, | 2,527; New Hampshire, 151; Ne- vada, 48; New Mexico, 280; Rhode | Island, 197, and Texas, 2,876. | In the following, about 25 per | cent of the quotas will be 19-year- olds: Florida, about 850 quota; Tdaho, | 248 quota; Kansas, 749 quota; Ken- | tucky, 1,350 quota and Louisiana 892 quota. North Carolina expects | to take 700 of a 1,672 quota; Okla- homa, 500 of 1,300 quota, and Colo- | rado, 100 of 336 quota. No estimate of the number was made for Connecticut, Delaware, Towa, Montana, Ohio, South Da- kota, Utah or Washington, but each | of them will be taking some 19- year-olds. ' lions in a loan from the Bank of America National Trust Savings Association. Fifteen millions of the new fi- nancing will be used to reduce the $48,417,000 in Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation loans owed by Kaiser-Frazer, Kaiser said in a statement. The purchase is being made by the Kaiser Manufacturing Corp., |a wholly owned subsidiary of Kai- ser-Frazer. It will operate the Wil- lys - Overland assets separately, ‘changing its name to the Willys Motor Corp. Ward M, Canaday, president and chairman of Willys-Overland, has been invited to become chairman of the new firm, whose headquar- ters will remain in Toledo, 0. Kai- ser-Frazer’s main plant is at Wil- low Run, Mich. Services May Cut Uniformed Personnel WASHINGTON '# — The secre- taries of the Army, Navy and Air Force are under orders to show | how their services can get along with fewer personnel in uniform. Secretary of Defense Wilson has issued a directive putting the re- sponsibility on the three secre- taries. He noted that Congress had ordered a survey with a view to manpower reductions, especially in housekeeping and administrative billets, A hippopotamus normally Stays under water three or minutes, not only hard to reach to get the prize to, but hard to reach as he ate up prize luncheon and dinner at the hotel. Ellis Finch, photo- grapher caught up with him in the Cai Marina away his second huge meal on the house. The slim youngster also took advantage of the Casa Marina beach club, sunning and swim- ming to his heart’s content. Though he was invited by the Women’s Hospital Auxiliary to their grand ball Saturday night, Bob could not be reached aboard the Gilmore with that news. So he contented himself with the big Sunday at the Casa Marina, checking in with Gene before-the buffet luncheon, which isa re- gular weekly event at the. hotel. Informed beforehand of the at- tire required by the fashionable hotel, Bob and Gene got out of their whites, and into coat and tie for dinner. Hotel manager Emmitt -Conniff |told us today: : “They had a wonderful time - jbut I didn’t see them with any jof our pretty girls out here.” NEW By SENATOR SMATHERS WASHINGTO3;:— The Ser | expects to have before it week a resolution, passed over- whelmingly by the House last week, to create a new govern- ment department—the Depart- ment of Health, Education and Welfare. I expect to oppose this mea- sure. It seems to me the principal accomplishment of such a law would be to add to government bureaucracy, and it was this sort of thing that the people were fighting last fall when they voted General Eisenhower into the presidency. I cannot see where creating a new cabinet post, a big operating overhead. pyramiding a new group of gov- ernment bureaus, will add any- thing to the services the people dining room; Sunday. night after he had put} US. Protest Of Shooting By THOMAS P. WHITNEY MOSCOW W—Russia has reject- ‘ed a U. S. protest against a shoot- ing scrape involving an American plane in the Far East. A Kremlin |note said the American craft made 5 two “premeditated” violations of |Russian newspapers Tues., Siberian territory and fired first. The Soviet rejection printed in coun- termanded that the U.S. gov- ernment take steps to prevent fu- ture violations of Soviet borders | by American planes. | (A Moscow radio broadcast said ithe reply was delivered Saturday jto the U. S. Embassy in the So- | viet capital.) The American protest had de- clared the March 15 incident—in- volving an Alaskan-based B50 bomber which the Air Force re- ported on weather reconnaissance —occurred 25 miles off the coast of Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. It said a Soviet MIG15 shot at the bomber, which then returned the fire. The U. S. Air Force said Pineither plané was damaged. | The Russian reply said it had been “established” tat the bomb- pier made two flights over Soviet ‘THAT HAPPY LOOK on Robert G. Miller’s face comes from the huge. buffet lunch, afternoon at the Casa Marina beach, and huge Sunday night dinner at the famous hotel. Bob was winner of Key West Is My Beat’s night and day at the Casa to Baby Jasper Walker's suc- cessful medical treatment. Bob and his shipmate, Eugene Kelly, were guests of the Casa Marina for the night at the hotel and the sumptuous meals.—Citizen Staff Photo. So Bob did not cop an heiress while he was King for a day, or at least so Emmitt says. Who knows at this very moment the young sailor off the Gilmore may be lining up at a pay station to call a lass he met at the Casa Marina yesterday, such are the ways of men young and old. Anyhow Bob’s prize night at the Casa Marina leaves just one | prize for readers of this column |who send tips leading to news- beats. if you want a night and day out of the ordinary - one that will considerably brighten your week, send or call in a tip lead- ing to a v le news story, about events or people, and try for the prize — a night at The Key Ambassador with dinner and breakfast at Raul’s. And again speaking of the Casa Marina. A Miami correspondent Leslie Simmons writes; “Seems like there has been a definite Miami -Key West trend jlately. A half dozen guests at the Biltmore Terrace hotel, Miami Beach, after their planned stay, had manager John Stubblefield make reservations for them at {the Casa Marina. They explain- jed, said Simmons, that they thought they should see all of | Florida and figured Miami and | Key West was “It.” | Even a Californian is heading !for Key West. His name is Billy Gray, now playing a return en- |gagement at the Clover Club, | Miami. He always vacations here after his winter season night club | stint. GOVT DEPARTMENT MAY BE FORMED SOON four } Health Week, May 3-9.....My jorchid of the week to Nina Haw- jkins, Editor of the St. Augustine ined for her kind editorial a- bout me and the Florida delega- tion. St. Petersburg Band is coming to Washington for Cherry Blossom Festival... . 1 have put in a bid to the Capitol , Architect for a flag flown over the Capitol; when my turn comes on the flag list I am turning it over to the American Legion hospital for crippled chil- dren at St. Petersburg. .. . .help- ed straighten out some visa dif- }ficulties recently for a Cypress |Gardens actor, Alfredo Mendoza, with who among other things was a! and| “double” for Esther Williams in| the picture she made jcently. there re- which has} territory March 15—the first at Cape Krestovoi, in Southern Kam- chatka, and the second near the village of Zhupanovo, northeast of the Soviet base of Petropavlovsk. cases enabled the crew f the (American) aircraft to carry out visual reconnaissance on a large area excluded the possibility of a loss of orientation and confirmed that the above two cases of viola- tion of the state frontier of the USSR were of clearly premedi- tated character,” the Soviet note declared. It claimed that the U. S. plane |shot at Soviet fighters that had |taken off when the second alleged violation occurred and “for the purpose of self-defense one of the | Soviet aircraft had to open fire.” The “‘infringing’” plane then turned and headed east from the Siberian coast, the Russians added. The U. S. had said that two Soviet MIGs suddenly appeared near the bomber as it was flying off Kamchatka about 100 miles northeast of the Petropavlovsk base. One jet stayed overhead but the other swooped down firing. The American tail gunner fired only after the Russian fighter opened with its guns, the U. S. Air Force declared. The American protect had de- manded disciplining of the Soviet pilot. It also called on the Russia: to prevent recurrence of such in- cidents. | “Good weather which in both} To Borrow Boats TALLAHASSEE &® — The State | Board of Conservation was given |temporary authority today to bor- |row three boats for use in its law enforcement work. Conservation Director Charles |} Bevis said the board can’t afford ito buy new boats at present but ;needs them for patrolling the West | Coast. Two of the boats will be | borrowed from conservation agents | who own them and cne will be lent by the Hillsborough County Sheriffs | office. The arrangement will run until HEAD CZECH—Antonia Za- potocky, 68, was unanimously | elected new president of | Czechoslovakia by the Czech | Parliament. Zapotocky, who | has* been the prime minister, | succeeds Klement Gottwald, who died a week ago. TWIN SIZE Hollywood Beds Protest Jazzing Tribal Song i MALACCA (®—A traditional Ma- | lay song adapted to Western music has drawn protests here. } Malays have taken exception to song sheets of “Terang Bulan” printed in Australia describing the tune as based on a tribal melody. The Western version of the song is called ‘“‘Malayan Moon.” The Malays claim the song is a traditional melody, the anthem for Perak state for years. MALES ARE JUNKMEN OMAHA. 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