The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1953, Page 4

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ec Monday, March 30, 1988 daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub- Meher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monro¢ County & P. ARTMAN ; SORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Metter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5663 —<$—$— Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press ig exclusively @ptitied to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it @ not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Flotida Subscription (by carrier) 25e per week, year $19; By Mail $15.60 “ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICAZION ‘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. Ess ON FLORI ASS IMPROVEMENTS FOR |KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Apartments 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion, 3. Airports—Land and See. 4, Consolidation of County and City Governments. &. Community Auditorium, SS peepee 325,000 SCHOOLROOMS SHORT A recent survey, made public by the Offiee of Educa- tion, showed that 325,000 schoolrooms aré needed in this country. U. S. Commissioner of Education Ear] J. McGrath, commenting on the survey, said that present state building programs will not make up the deficit. Mr. McGrath suggested a Federal-aid program which would provide matching funds for states in the building of new schools. Such a program has worked successfully in the field of hospital construction and also in the field of highway construction. McGrath further stated that there was not a_ single state or territory which did not have a school housing problem. He advocates abandonment of obsoleté school houses and the construction of néw plants, based on the anticipated need as indicated by the number of babies born in recent years. The 83rd Congress may or may not take action as Commissioner McGrath proposed. However, the new sug- gestion—for the construction of the nation’s elementary and secondary public schools—has merit. Such a match- ing fund would not carry with it Federal control or diréc- tion of the policies in actual school operation. Many states seék to avoid Federal inroads into school operations..and this plan would not necessarily carry with it this objec- tionable feature. In Spring there is nothing prettier than Spring. 4 It is attractive to be a little bit odd, or just a trifle ‘crazy’, i For some reason human beings like to maké a& living without working. Why can’t Hollywood directors film a picture out overdoing everything? with- Confessed fellow travelers, who say they saw the light just recently, do not impress us as the most observant or intelligent people in the country. Have you ever paused to reflect upon what you spend most of your time thinking and talking about? A good in- dication of mentality is available here. fa number, LOOKS GOOD, BEING DEVELOPED RAPIDLY Polio Vaceine Won't Be Ready This Summer HAL BOYLE SAYS By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter NEW YORK ‘#—The new polio vaccine looks good and is being developed rapidly, but you won't get it this summer. The creamy white vaccine has worked well in 90 persons—mostly children—but it has a long way yet to go, Dr. Jonas E. Salk of the University of Pittsburgh said last night. The vaccine is made up of all three types of virus which can cause human polio. The viruses are killed, and emulsified or ho- mogenized in mineral oil to step up their ability to create antibodies eo polio, without causing in- This vaccine, disclosed last Jan- uary, gave all 90 perrons protective against al] three types virus, Salk reported in the jour- nal of American Medical As- sociation. Not one got sick. { By every expectation, it would actually make them throw off any epidemic or invasion by live polio virus. The vaccine protects mon- keys that way. Humans, of course, are not intentionally given a dose of virus. The next step is to try it on more and more persons to make sure it is as good as it looks, Salk explained last night at a sci- enee-press dinner of the National Foundation for Infantile Paraly- sis, But Salk, 38, said, “We have not yet had a chance to decide on what the next steps will be.... We still have work to do before we can go out on a broad scale.” Twenty years ago a vaccine was used widely with tragic results. Some children died, some were paralyzed. In those days little was known about the mysterious po- lio virus, and it was not known that there were three dangerous types. Tests of the new vaccine “will not be rushed too rapidly, nor de- layed unduly,” said Basil O‘Con- nor, foundation president. Enthusiasm about this vaccine is plain. But it isn’t known just how long the vaccine can protect. It! is apparently good at least six to eight weeks, maybe years. (Gamma Globulin, the antibodies from blood donations, protects only about five weeks. It is the immed- iate bet for a polio preventive this summer). Scientists would like to test any WILMINGTON, N. C. (#—A mil- lion flaming azaleas have drawn 100,000 visitors here for one of the Southland’s greatest festivals of flowers. Every front yard is aflame with prideful bloom in this mecca of nature lovers. The queen of the annual four-day show is lovely Alexis Smith of Hollywood, pretty as an azalea with two stems. But where there’s a queen there ought to be a king. And the king of the flower festival here, pardner, is a pint sized Hopalong Cassidy ealled Bobby Benson. The grownups come to admire the azaleas and the burning red- bud, but the kids have got a bad case of hero worship for Bobby. Bobby has achieved the dream of every American boy. He became a famous cowboy before reaching his teens. Young Mr. Benson at the ripe old age of 12 is radio’s top cow- hand, His exploits as boss of the B-Bar-B Ranch are broadcast by 550 Mutual network stations, more than double the number that carry such older horse opera standbys en Autry and Hopalong him- self. Bobby gets about 7,500 fan letters a week. He packs two plastic handled gats. He may be no faster on the draw than Roy Rogers, but has one clearcut edge over every other rival in the profes- sional cowboy field. He is the only one who can sing soprano. “But my voice is getting deeper every day,” said Bobby, who has baritone yeatnings. Many a child star is ruined by adulation. But Bobby has never let his honors go to his head, al- though naturally he is proud that jhe is the only junior deputy of the National Safety Council and has had a statocruiser named after him, Some people live to be seven- | oad 4 ty and never even have a heli- copter named after them. Bobby started his cowboy career at ten, and before you could say Tom Mix or William S. Hart he was famous. But already he has old age troubles. “Tf I tell the truth, I can’t travel | half fare on the railroads and air- planes anymore, because I am twelve,” he said, shaking his blonde head seriously, “and I do! have to tell the truth.” Like ,most of the great gunmen of the old West, Bobby, who comes from Connecticut, has steel blue eyes and a rangy build. He has a golden palomino horse called Amigo, “I've only been thrown by a horse once in public,” said Bobby, then added honestly, “‘of course, I've fallen off a few times by myself just trying a fancy trick or two.” Bobby, for all the fact that he is getting to be a financial main-| stay of his Uncle Sam, does morn- ing chores aroud the house to earn his Saturday afternoon movie mon- | ey. He is an avid comic book read. | er, and his favorite subject in| school is ancient history. The choice of a life occupation is no worry to Bobby. “IT want to stay a cowboy and have my own ranch in Florida he said. “And ride my own range, singing baritone.” BIBLES POPULAR LOS ANGELES (7) — Old Bibles are interesting, the Hurit- ington Library has discovered. It set up an exhibit of old, and odd Bibles in November, planned to close it in January. But the pub- lic showed so much interest the exhibit has been kept open. Subscribe to The Citizen } probably months, | vaccine first on 2,000 to 5,000 or. more children, to be certain it's They know there’s no perfect drug. no perfect vaccine, because humans have too many individual differencés. Many react strangley to a drug that is perfectly safe for everyone else—iike people who | get reactions from penicillin er} from eggs or chocolate. t | Ninety persons is just too smal | Polio experts figure that only one child out of every 180 will develop paralytic polio dur- ing their 1 BSS ea ae | Mayor Likes Pancakes } LETHBRIDGE, Alta. (?) | Mayor Harry Veiner of Medicine Hat entered a pancake-eating contest here and finished in a tie with Bob Kitson of Lethbridge | for top henors. Each pelished off | 40 peheokes. HE Fo! 4 | j ON OLD BALDY—An unidentified UN infanfry- | more of Audrey Hepburn in “Gigi,” |an otherwise undistinguished play | RKO after a firm drought of many |months....The continuing evacua- Amnesty For Red Prisoners Is Announced By THOMAS P. WHITNEY MOSCOW # — Prime Minister Georgi M. Malenkov’s government announced a sweeping amnesty program Sat. to free Soviet pris- oners serving five-year terms or less—providing their crimes rep- resented “no great danger to the state.” , The amnesty decree, issued by the Presidium of the Supreme So- viet, said the pardons had been made possible by a decrease in erime and by the consolidation of the Soviet state system. The de- cree was published prominently in Russian newspapers and broadcast by Moscow radio. The full amnesty program ex-| tends to most persons serving | five years or less in prisons, cor- rective labor camps and other places of detention. Those serving | more than five years will have their sentences reduced by half. The pardons specificaliy do not apply, however, to anyéne serving more than five years for counter- revolutionary crimes, large-scale theft or embezzlement of public property, gangsterism or premedi- | tated murder. Some prisoners will be freed re- | gardless of the length of their sen- | tences, They inclide women with | children 10 years old or less, preg- nant women, minors of 18 or less, men of 55 or more, women over 50 and persons suffering from in- curable illnesses. Prosecution will be halted, mean- while, in all cases falling into these categories and in cases in which the major sentence would be five years or less. | The decree also called for a re- | examination of the USSR’s crimi-} nal laws and ordered the Justice Ministry to submit recommenda- tions for changes. | The decree said the government ! deems “it is no longer necessary to retain in places of custody per- sons who, have committed offenses representing no great danger to) the state and who show by their! conscientious attitude to work that they are fit to return to honest | working life and become useful | members of he community.” The amnesty was the second pro- claimed by the Soviet Union since | World War II. Shortly after hostili- ties ended, the government an- nounced a broad amnesty under | which a large number of criminals | were freed and prosecution was | halted on many cases under trial. In an editorial, the government | newspaper Izvestia described the decree as “a manifestation of the | strength of the Soviet structure.” Hollywood Talks Of Many And Varied Things By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — Talk of the town in Hollywood this week: The cascade of new announce- ments about 3-D, the latest en-| trants into the field being Joseph | Schenck and Michael Todd....The | good impression created by the} preview of the 20th-Fox Cinema- scope, which shapes up as the} process to beat....The blast against “irresponsible comments and criti- | cism” by J. L. Warner, whois} pinning his studio’s hopes so far on | pictures requiring glasses. i The beautiful acceptance speech | by Shirley Booth when she re- ceived her Oscar....Bob Hope's fine | job of emceeing Hollywood's big- gest blowout....The great over-all public relations job accomplished by televising the academy event. The amazing box office spurt! enjoyed by the winners The personal triumph at the Bilt- ..The shooting of two pictures at} tion of stars, directors and pro-| ducers from MGM, with 20th-Fox } expected to follow suit....The blow | to Warner Workers—the announced 90-day vacation from production on lot Dick Powell's recovery from his serious illness and his hit as the director of “Split Second”’.... Vivien Leigh’s nervous apse, a gra parallel to her a “A Streetcar | Named Desir ne hint that} perhaps the s f her picture} may have contri....ed to her break- | down. | The televising of local hearing of the House Un-American Activ ties Committee, which can ev more suspense than thrili shows....The signing Bolger by ABC, with b the TV network will go after m top names... The continued exce! lence of the “Mister Peeper” TV show, which is beautifully cast j The flop of “Bwana Devil" in its! second runs in Los Angeles....Roz Russell's triumph in “Wonderful Town” and Bette Davis’ foldo in) “Two's Company” cn Brosdwzy./ FOR CRYIN OUT LOUD By CHARLES G. MENDOZA T am in a quandary tonight. Mrs. Jack Perez of 1321 South . Street wants me to supply her with an- swers to some questions that have been bothering her. Mrs. Perez might not know it but I have more answers in my system than red blood corpuscles. No wonder I am anemic! Questions never have bothered me. What I find particu- larly vexing is that I can whump up more answers than the question demands. Sometimes (in despera- tion) I even answer answers. This is fun. I do it for laughs. Some people don’t know it but most questions may be answered in a multitude of ways. There are no }such things as standard answers. People who have convinced themselves that they know the jright answers are usually called authorities. I have another name for them. These authorities know that they know they know what they know. I know that they don’t know the know of knows that they profess to know. If you don’t believe me, I will proceed to answer Mrs. Jack Per- ez’s first question by enlisting the aid of an AUTHORITY. Mrs. Perez wants to know what con- stitutes a Conch? That is, as ap- plied to Key Westers. The au- thority I have used to answer this question is Webster’s New Inter- national Dictionary, the latest unabridged edition. An authori- tative work written by authori- ties. On page 553 of this diction- ary I found this answer as appli- cable to Key Westers: 5. Colloq. (a) Any person born in the Baha- mas. (b) One of an inferior class of whites in Florida and vicinity. That is the answer. The answer of one of our highest authorities. Take it or leave it. Therefore, Mrs. Perez, the fact that you Have lived fourteen years among us Conchs and haven't been accepted as one of us should be a feather in your cap. Who in the heck would want to belong to an inferior class of people? Remember, however, that this isn’t my answer, Can you blame me for no having any faith in authorities? ‘Your other question “When will I stop being a stranger?” has fascinating possibilities. question like this prompted Thomes Wolfe to say this in his foreword to “Look Homeward, Angel”; “Which of us is not for- ever a stranger and alone?” Which of us, indeed! We are |ushered into this world, naked and alone. As we grow, we learn to cling to others, to depend on others, to try to immerse our selves in others, but always feel- ing fenced out, solitary, alone. The soul has a lonely quest in its journey through life as it seeks BOND CALLS TAX CHARGE ‘DIRTY TRICK’ WASHINGTON \® — Vernard F. Bond says it is “a dirty trick” to say he visited Democratic national headquarters in 1948 to confer about a tax case and made a $1,000 contribution. Joseph Sherman, a former Wash- ington newspaperman and part- time party headquarters worker, testified before a House ways and means subcommittee earlier this week that Bond made such a pay- ment. Sherman said he arranged & meeting between Bond, who lives in nearby Fairfax County, Va., and T. Lamar Caudle, then head of the Justice Department’s Tax. Division. Crossword Puzz ACROSS a. 1. Feminine name 4. Valley 8.Jll-mannered child 12. Entirely 13. Pitcher 14. Nerve net- work 15, Destruction of Py gil fl RBS SRSKS BA SEs atten tataemeeanel | Ligyd of London, ose of the great jissurance houses of the world jares from a coffee house where bromars met to discuss business. | man, his face covered With bandages, is led towerd an ambu- lance by two medics at the base cf Old Baldy im Korea. The infantryman was wounded igus fighting that 2 , © months. {4} Wirephoto via Radio from Tokya. . | refrigerator Add a istic chopped | Any leMover cocked peas in Pimiento to them «& wits | bot mashed pot pie plate and bs the eves oF ad mite the last exit through must pass alone. As along its and F i i F HH Fe g% R eg a i § ii i fe ll i i : if ii 3 goks Hy ith i a? g ’ i 33 3 sini Big ui is eF esstei¢ s 2 J stranger complex. If lived here foustegn and have reared tat ny ‘Ali