The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, May 12, 1953 The Key West Citizen —— sg 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 L. P. ARTMAN Publisher Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONE 2-5661 and 2-5662 NORMAN D. ARTMAN Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or 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 $15.30 ADVERTISING.RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of loca: 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. L 2. 3. 4 5. ON MOOSE BURGERS, ETC, A newly-organized Fairbanks, Alaska, corporation recently petitioned the Department of the Interior in Washington for permission to capture ninety five female moose and five males, The moose would) be turned into a reservation in Alaska and allowed to breed, just as beef steers are bred in the United States. The men who made the proposal say they hope to build up a new industry which would be onthe order of the present beef industry. Thus the public would be offer- ed moose steaks, moose-burger and moose roasts. Alas- kans are reported to feel that moose.is delicious meat, and that the operation might be a success. Although we claim to know Very little about it, we are generally in favor of any new source of edible meat, and would like to see the experiment tried, if it is deemed practical by authorities in a position to know. In the peti- tion, the Alaskans pointed out that new industry is needed in Alaska and that moose-ranching might become a new source of income. It is certainly an interesting suggestion. We have yet to taste a moose-burger, although we are game for a try when the time comes. The sheep and goats separate nicely when !: comes to the green folding paper: That fellow who predicted the end of the world last year hasn’t been heard from lately. Most people, when confronted with their favorite meal, make a spectacle of themselves. Despite your belief that you are absolutely essential in your job, the world would get along nicely without you. Churches are merely human organizations trying to help humanity; they make mistakes but they aim in the right direction. It is fine for us to enjoy religious freedom with the right to worship as we please, but it does us liitle good un- less we really worship. It is easy to find an excuse for what one does not care to do, but the self-controlled individual attempts to do what conscience requires. BUCKLEY “LHOPE THIS HORSESHOE BRINGS ME LUCX- MAYBE A PROMOTION! CONGRESS PAY BOOST | IS TOUCHY QUESTION Lawmakers Are Not Talking In_ | Public About $10,000 Raise By JOE HALL WASHINGTON (# — The touchy question of a $10,000 salary boost for members of Congress has been tossed out for Senate debate, but most lawmakers weren't: talking about it publicly today. Speaking off the record, the sition. of.many of them was: (A) it’s wholly justitied, but (B) it hasn't got a chance now, ~ However, one veteran supporter of a congressional pay raise, Rep. McCormack (D-Mass), formerly the House floor leader, said forth- rightly: “I think it’s what we're entitled to. I’m for it.” The bill approved yesterday by the Senate Judiciary Committee would give senators and represen- tatives a $25,000 annual salary. They now get a $12,500 salary and a $2,500 expense allowance, which are lumped together as $15,000 of taxable compensation. Up to $3,000 may be deducted for income tax purposes as Washington living ex- Penses. Tied in with the congressional hikes would be $10,000 salary raises for federal judges and smaller pay increases for U. S. attorneys and their assistants and some of the key assistants to the attorney general. Some senators said privately they thought the congressional boost was being offered under good auspices. They cited these: It is bound up with an increase for federal judges which man y lawyers long have urged; 1953 is not an election year; the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Mc- Carran of Nevada, is a Democrat, which takes some of the heat off the new Republican majorities in ae aces this, these sources said many members are sure to look askance at the bill because of the economy promises made by many members. “1 don’t think it's timely,” said Sen. George (D-Ga), who added he thinks members of Congress are underpaid. McCarran, who introduced the bill and headed a subcommittee which held hearings on it, said the measure would not be called up for debate right away. “IT want senators to have some | time to think it over,” he said. | Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich), who| comes up for re-election next year, “The bill had beeter be WATER ESTIMATES DUE TO BE CHANGED GRAND RAPIDS. Mich 7» — Geperais oad ‘stir iiches gue dispesals and other gad- gets have thrown off all the con- sumption estimates of American ningham brought that out here at a meeting of the American Water- works Association. for water developing every year Cities no longer can rely on normal increases of population in planning future water supply.” said Can / gingham, who is superintendent of | %@ Oklahoma City water works. screened carefully — very care-| fully.” Rep. Burdick (R-ND) said hej; was against it. “I think members of Congress should get more,” he said, “but the way to do it is to reduce taxes. | Then everybody will benefit.” ! The judiciary ‘committee, in al report on the bill, said taxes and inflation have taken such a toll in recent years that a $25,000 salary would amount to caly about $500 more in actual) purchasing power thas the $10,009 the lawmakers got 1939. The total cost would thus be $5,330,000, but} the committee esti- mated that since income taxes would be paid on the boost, the net annual cost to the taxpayers would be $3,638,258. For the judi- cial increase, jt would be. about $2,200,000. \ ——__— The Viking Age of Scandinavia lasted from about 800 a. d. to} about 1050. 4 ~|this item about nicknames while Panty Raid At Michigan College. EAST LANSING, Mich —About 600 rioting male students staged another panty raid at Michigan State College last night, smashing | windows and breaking down doors to invade two girls’ dormitories, Coeds at Mason Dormitory ral- lied and turned a fire hose on the invaders, Hastily summoned East Lansing and campus police suc- ceeded in driving the students out of the dormitory, but a few left waving trophies of coeds’ panties and brassieres. The rioters then tried to the Williams Dormitory, but only a few managed to get inside\be- fore reinforced police were able to disperse them. About half a students were arrested. Before there were clocks in land, the King’s cock crower emnly crowed the hours ar the King’s palace, but he ‘operated since 1714. Although many battles been fought on Swedish soil, has been no large-scale infasion of country since about 2,000 b. ¢. kM AAA Mh hiked de hidded dd THE CONCH OBSERVES Secret Red Record Held By Chennault By SID McPHID TOI IGPISIIOIOMIIL LIM 4 Better Known As If I gave you a’ ticket calling for your visiting cvery city in the country, I doubt if you would find one, size for size, excluding local service men and newcomers, where there are as many nick-! names as there are in Key West. ! Few of us are without nicknames; probably four out of five of us are | better known by sobriquets. “Bet- | ter known as --,” ia parentheses, | is used often by candidates in our | elections. | I think nicknames, as a rule are indicative of chumminess,, of | hail-fellow-well-met friendship, and | that is the reason we have so many of them in Key West, for no other place, so I believe, is so closely knit in good fellowship as is this two-by-four rock of ours. I evolved the idea of writing conversing with a friend. yester- day. I mentioned the right name | of a resident, and the friend said: “I don't know whom you're talk- ing about.’” “Aw, go on! You mean to tell me you don’t know King Kong’s uncle, Eighty Minutes After ‘Twel- | p | “Sure, I do! Why didn’t you tell me before you were talking about | ole boy Eighty?” The Ladykiller Back more years than I care to enumerate, the best small-town reporter I’ve ever met told me he got most of his néws of human. interest nature, or was put hot on the trail of it, by standing on a busy corner listening to people talking as they passed by. He said further he was “‘put wise” to what he considered the best story he ever wrote by overhearing, while standing at a corner, snatches of a conversation among a man and two women as they were passing him. I took advantage of what the small-town reporter told me and found that it worked admirably, particularly in getting «grist for a column I ground out daily in those days of my perfervid youth. But I found out I had to be not only a good listener but also an analy- tic listener. It requires that type of mind to separate the wheat of interest from the chaff of common- place. I missed many a good story, as I learned later on when I re- called. remarks:I had heard but didn’t think enough of them at the Pred to determine their implica- Some utterances, though, are so striking, so full of punchfulness, | they elicit the attention of the most indifferent listener. Such were the fragments .of a conversation I overheard between two women about a self-imagined _ ladykiller. One of the women spoke in so soft.a tone, barely a word, now and then, carried through the 10 paces that separated us, but I heard several compieted sentences spoken by the other woman. “He thinks that all that’s neces- sary to turn you into a volcano of love is to smile at you.” “Huh!. . . Surely hates himself . ¢ other night. . .so ridiculous. . , whether to laugh cr cry.. ” “He said, ‘Isn’t this a lovely afternoon?’ and I said, ‘Yes, and a good afternoon, too, so good . - afternoon,’ and left him standing | from which he obtained the there, looking foolish. utes. But he said the minutes “But he was as confident as passed on to him through even the next time | met bim Gall | Si friends. : Williams Finishes Airman Course At Lackland Field Kenneth Don Williams, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Williams, 809 Ashe street, is completing his AF basic airmen indoctrination course at Lackland Air Force Base, the “Gateway to the Air Force.” Lackland, situated near San An- ” was approved by Joseph Stalin. Laos was. invaded earlier this month by the Communists, who made sweeping gains early in the drive and began withdrawing with- out explanation, Chennault, former leader-of the famed Flying Tigers in World War II, would not identify his. is his first name and middle name too. He’s like a rubber ball -- the harder you throw him down the higher he bounces up.” { It has occurred to me thatthe’ hardest man, young or old, to dis- | illusion is he who thinks the girls are crazy about him, I know old warhorse, and 1 don’t me Siggy, whose sun is low in the west, who thinks his presence among women fills them with ad- miration. It’s: in bis blood, has been ih his blood from his youth, | that he is a ladykiller. Doubtless | his last conscious thought will be* contemplative of the heart-tearing j sadness his passing away will, cause the dear ladies For a man to think he had a dozen girls “going,” or that they breathlessly hang on his every word, is the worst form of ego- mania. But that type of egomania is not onesided in its application to sex. Some women think they hit hard on eight cyclinders and generate a couple of hundred horse-pulling power among men. The poor dears, like the self-esteemed lady- KENNETH DON WILLIAMS tonio, is the world's i ir 7 -4 Ut Yesterday, while chatting with Pete, the piscatorial philosopher, he said: “Sidonious, I thought all the|] @ youmongy and younay folks in Key West had passed away with the last generacion, but I found; out I was wrong Jast Tuesday. Four of us were sitting here when up stepped a couple of carryovers Announcing a superb new Dodge CORONET ‘SIX’ A new high in luxury at, a new low price! ol! 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