The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, June 16, 1953 Thy 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 L. P. ARTMAN HORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONE 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively @ntitied 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) 25¢ per week, year $12, by mail $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ' BY THE CITIZEN - More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. : 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments, §. Community Auditorium. EISENHOWER ON TAXES President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech to the na- tion on defense and taxes reflects a high degree of person- al courage. The President, despite campaign pledges from the Republican Party to reduce taxes, has regretfully realized that these tax cuts—which will eventually be made—should be postponed. Therefore, he proposes: 1. The excess profits tax on corporations be extended for six months beyond June 30. 2. The five per cent reduction in income taxon corpora- tions, schedule to take effect in 1954, should be repealed. 8. The reduction in excise taxes, scheduled to take effect next April 1st, should not take place, pending further study. 4, The increase in old-age security tax, on both em- ployees and employers, should not go into effect next Jan- uary 1, a8 planned, 5. A reduction in personal income taxes should go into effect January Ist. This program clearly reflects the President’s view that business must bear the load of continued heavy taxa- tion, while the individual, and the payroll worker, be granted first relief. He also stresses the fact that the Ad- ministration believes taxes are currently too high and must come down. However, the President feels that with anoth- er deficit atmost certain in fiscal 1954, it is yet too early to make genera! reductions. . The President’s tax program is a logical one, which should appeal to every thinking citizen. It is only too ob- vious that, despite the saving of 8.5 billion dollars in. re- quests for next year, the budget is still unbalanceable, Since tax collections are down from estimates, this makes it clear, beyond any doubt, that the President’s tax recom- mendations are in the best interests of the country as a whole. The President’s speech on defense and taxes was élear and went straight to the issues, whic the American people are intelligent enough to appreciate. CONSUMER WEALTH SHARPLY UP The National Industrial Conference Board recently reported that wealth held by consumers in the United States had increased more than fifty per cent since the end of World War II. The total consumer wealth in the country now is estimated at more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars. Consumer wealth includes such assets as cash, real estate, business interests and insurance. One of the most interesting reports by the board was the estimate that over half of all families in the country own their own homes. The proportion runs about fifty per cent for middle in- come citizens to about seventy-five per cent for upper bracket citizens. Over three-fifths of the middle income families have mortgages on their homes, about seventy per cent of all families in every bracket have bank accounts or a cash equivalent. Perhaps the most important report was one -that four-fifths of the families which earn under $5,000 a year own nearly half the national wealth. This seems to dispel the notion of many that most of the wealth is owned by business tycoons. It also ex- plains why lower wages, or a recession, which deprives the lower income citizen of his normal margin of buying power, over and above living expenses, can quickly result in serious consequences in the national economy. A lot of worry can be wasted on other people Why is it there are always so many people who need money? Advertising is not all there is to selling but it is a great help. Don’t attempt to talk sense with anyone who doesn’t HAL BOYLE SAYS NEW YORK (#—Would you like a job that gave you a full year with pay, every 10 years? go firm has just put this inducement A traffic cop said: “If I ever got off my feet for a full year, they’d never be able to get me back on this corner unless they put me on wheels.” And a bookkeeper replied: al “I am getting along fine in my job because nobody krows just how much I do. The truth is I don’t do ,, anything. It has taken me years to arrange it. I don’t claim my boss is ,any relation to Albert Einstein, but if I ieft on a year’s vacation it wouldn’t take even him more than six months to figure out | why there was iess confusion in the office.” % Several others polled were rough- times | ly of the same opinion. It could be summarized, as follows: ‘ {| “Let's be sensible. Who wants to give an employer a full year to brood over how really vital you are to his personal welfare?” And this was the attitude of a housewife: “If wives had to put up with their husbands at home for a full year—even only once every 10 years—it would cause more di- with pay, so you | Vorces than all the blondes since ted enow drugstores started selling golden er saree: wark 10 hair rinses. Woman’s ~ is in 4 ense? | te home, and a man’s place is at er “ aogier veal his job, at least untii he is too old after you got the and .tired to criticize her house- wouldn’t come back | keeping.” your 10 years. That’s ay trusts noboty ey (dd Family Home are a few other typical re") VANCOUVER, Wash. i — A “Supp work mother robin is raising a family gated Si bos: sopterapgpiony atop the loudspeaker at the Van- . “Pl be home |Couver barracks provost marshal’s the bum the | office. to have free. y luck.” little money ben-} organization hires fmmediately give iit FP ae 3! z i g 5 | BB 2a is i ” |. She and her four 2-week-old babies apparently aren’t ruffled at all by the 13 bugle calls that are blasted through the loudspeaker al- ason I work | Most every day. ant NOT YET “Have you any children, Mr. Smith?” “Yes, three daughters.” “De they live at home “Not one of them — they are not REEZS g with g | Chief Retires After 31 Years Active Service Aviation Electronics Chief Julian L, Akers, USN, of the Fleet All Weather Training Unit; Atlantic, NAS Key West, Fla., was officially retired recently. He had served the Navy actively for 31 years. His retirement was marked by ceremonies held at the Naval Air Staiton, Friday 29 May, in which he led an inspection of the Elect- Tronics Division. Chief Akers form- erly was senior petty officer of the division, Captain J.-C. Toth, Commanding Officer of the squadron, high-light- ed Chief Akers career in an add- ress to all hands. Chiet Akers enlisted as a Sea- in November 1922 at St. Louis, Mr.,-and received his “boot” training in San Francisco, Calif, first duty was aboard the USS Melville, Since that time he has served aboard numerous ships and ‘stations in the United States and abroad. He is authorized to wear the American Defense Medal, Ameri- éan Area, European - African - Middle Eastern Area, Asiatic-Pa- cific Area and World War II Vic- tory Medal, Chief Akers is married to the former Miss Hazel Marie Wyatt, of Greencastle, Ind.‘ They will make their home in Greencastle. Prior to entering the Navy, Chief Akers attended high schools in Farmington and St. Louis, Mo. He is a member of the Elks Lodge in Ballard, Wash. Mexico Is Busy After Tourists By LAURANCE STUNZ MEXICO CITY w— Mexico is busy locking the door before any more tourists are stolen. There's a flutter and flurry of meetings among the men who make their living off the tourists— all because the tourist traffic, lyear things were worse still. Only a per cent as many visitors are about what caused the reduction in | Clean-up Work Is Planned To Combat Polio By REX THOMAS MONTGOMERY, Ala. — An urgent garbage, trash and barn- yard cleanup campaign is under way in. Montgomery to combat the nation’s worst outbreak of polio thus far in 1953. - But the first response has been discouraging, and Dr. A. H. Gra- ham, Montgomery County health officer, warned that the “people must co-operate” in the drive to stamp out breeding grounds for disease-carrying insects, particu- larly flies. Forty-four children and two adults have been stricken with polio, the heaviest toll recorded here at this time of ‘year. Twenty- eight of the victims have suffered partial or total paralysis, but there has been only one death so far. Parents have been advised to keep children out of crowds, espe- cially the younger ones, since at least two-thirds of the polio pa- tients have been 6 or under. Minis- ters have urged the smaller ones to skip Sunday school for a wie. and some public places have ck their doors to pre-school age boys and girls, Dr. Morris Schaeffer, director of the virus laboratory of the U. S. Public Health Service here, sai Montgomery with a populati 105,000 is the hardest hit commu- nity in the-nation on a per capita basis. The tolf here is greater than the rest of Alabama put together. Without any proof that polio is borne by any one carrier, public health officials nevertheless are concentrating on the cleanup cam- paign, together with a block-by- block city-sponsored insect spray- ing project. While it may be just coincidence, Dr. Graham says, tke fly problem is worse this year than he has ever seen it in Montgomery. There are about 11,000 dogs in the city, about 60,000 chickens, 300 horses and 300 cattle, the health officer pointed out, and “‘the basic fact is, wherever you have manure you have production.” Montgomery has been too lax in enforcing its garbage restrictions too, Dr. Graham said, ‘tand we’re cracking down on that to eliminate another breeding place for flies.” Whether flies aloye can cause a severe outbreak of polio, this much is certain, says Dr. Schaeffer: Scientists know that the virus present in sewage, and some types of flies can becOme contamina’ with it, . Cabin Cruiser Burns, One Drowns BOSTON #—One youth was pre- sumed drowned and five men were being treated for injuries Monday after a cabin cruiser carrying a fishing party of 23 men exploded and burned in Boston Harbor. The missing youth is William Parsons, 15, the only one aboard not employed by the Whittemore Rev. Thompson Says “Tithing Is A Great New Rediscovery Of This Christian Generation” By GEORGE W. CORNELL NEW YORK —The big ohuret ‘Booked In Murder Colby College Sr. denominations are taking ap econ- omic lesson from the ifttle ones. It involves the art of passing the jcallection pate—at which some af WATERVILLE, Me. ® — While |tbe smallest denominstions have classmates joined here in. com- | Proved themselves far superior. mencement, the happy climactic) 4 movement has mushrocmed day of college life, Colby College Tecently among many major coed, Harriet Sart, 21, conferred | Church bodies to try to follow the with parents and counsel about her | *@™ple, at least partially, of their charge. The tiny, blonde, Nahant, Mass., senior was booked for murder after discovery yesterday of the decom- posed body of a baby in a stored trunk bearing her name. Joseph B. Campbell, county at- torney, said Miss Sart would be arraigned in Municipal Court to- day. Campbell quoted Miss Sart as saying she gave birth to the baby girl unaided in her single room at the dormitory and put the infant in a trunk which was stored in the dormitory basement. Campbell would not say when the child was born or died, pending an autopsy report. A rawhide cord of the type used for shoe laces was wrapped arvund the baby’s neck, Campbell said. in the basement. ; Campbell said the girl missed only one day’s classes—the day the child was «born—and gained only seven pounds while carrying it. . Sit-Down Protest UCHINADA, Japan W—A_thou- sand residents of this Central Japan fishing village staged a sit~ down protest Monday against continued use of a nearby U.S. Army firing range, Kyodo news agency said. They cl fenced-in and that presence of American diers raises a morals problem the village, from which most the able-bodied Japanese | villagers. \Lives After Fall NEW YORK! WA 2-year-old boy fell 13 stories Sunday. lived. pending arraignment on a murder | The discovery was made by ais janitor tracing an unpleasant odor | bustling littie brothers. The key to the new programs is an old idea—the tithe. “Tithing is a great new redis- covery of this generation of Christ- ians,” said Rev. T. K. Thompson, head of the stewardship-benevo- Rence department of the National Council of Churches. “Virtually all the major denom- inations have started vigorous tith- ing programs.” He said federal income tax laws are partially responsible, The Old Testament ‘injunction jthat a tenth of what each man earns should be set aside as “holy odists, averaging $194.79 per mem- ber a year; Seventh Day Adven- tists, $158 per member; Wesleyan fethodist, $142.21; Brethren in Christ, $124.31; Chureh of the Naz- arene, $111,76. ca the tithe has been out of fashion; Roman timated: at $35 = & ; ! i i i : a [ : i i : 3 & i F i i i H it i | dollar-bearing visitors. Among the | teasons advanced by officials are want to learn. Pretty soon the young things will be dazzling you with new, airy spring clothes—and a young man’s fri =f ? T YOUR PENCHL AND PAPER READY FOR THIS will get around to the basic facts of i"+ Supplies of gasoline along the ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OFFER “towrist routes are pet always am ome Ot a West Coast read, | 4