The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 17, 1953, Page 4

Wednesday, June 17, 1953 he 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 1. P. ARTMAN Pubi " HORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONE 2-566] and 2-5662 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 $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issu: ‘and subjects of locai or general interest, but it will not publi: anonymous communications. age 4 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 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 Sea, 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. $. Community Auditorium. —$——— “REFUSED” IS THE WEAPON THAT KNOCKS OUT UNETHICAL BUSINESS HOUSES The United States Post Office is powerful, but it is not powerful enough to make anybody accept anything he does not want. Jim Cobb had a story in The Citizen about some out-of-town business houses sending merchandise to people who did not order it, with the expectancy of their keeping and paying for it. Such a practice is unethical on the part of a business man, as Cobb said, and is a humbug to people who receive the packages, unless they refuse to accept them. Incidentally, the practice has been going on for many sears, The best way to hit back at’ the sender is to refuse to accept a package, which makes him pay postage both ways. That has been done scores of times at the local post office. The Citizen knows.a Key Wester who refused packages from at least a dozén business houses, and was *, not bothered further by them. For that matter, an addres- Bee can even refuse to accept a package he has ordered $ Ford Motor Company To Spend Half Billion $ In Expansion By DAVID J. WILKIE AP Automotive Editor DETROIT ##—The Ford Motor Company, which has spent nearly a billion dollars in expansion and modernization in the last five years, plans to spend another half billion in the next two years. That. was the message Henry Ford II gave recently to a private management conference, held in connection with the commemora-| tion of the company’s 50th anni- versary. The statement emphasized the long way the Ford Motor Company has traveled over what it calls “the American road,” in the last half: century. It was 50 years ago Tues. that the Ford Motor Company was in- _by parcel post, or refuse to sign a return receipt for a reg- istered letter. : After the 1925 boom crashed, thousands of suits for ‘foreclosures of mortgages were filed in Florida. Mortga- gors, in some instances, when they were unable to serve mortgagees otherwise, served them, or tried to serve them, with summonses by registered mail. But some mortgagees were wary and refused to sign for a letter, usually sent in a No, 8 envelope. When that happened, the letter was re- turned to the mortgagor, or his attorney. .Ten years ago, The Citizen published an editorial about a group of men in Chicago who called themselves, “Friends of the Veterans.” They sent out a small tag with liscense-plate numbers on them—it was an easy matter, through Tallahassee, to learn the number of one’s tag—, and requested that a “quarter or more” be returned to them for the tax. Officials in Tallahassee investigated the practice and learned that veterans organizations got only 17 cents out of every dollar the Chicago group received. The most effective way to stop being humbugged by the unethical business houses, is to refuse to accept a pack- age sent out by a firm from which you have not ordered anything. Faith in one’s self is the foundation of success. There are seldom any sins committed in church. Most people will do anything for money, ~xcept work. Service clubs sometimes do not live up to their desig- nation. A gifted mind is one that easily discovers plausible excuses. Generals sometimes minimize the possibilities of di- plomacy. Money is not as important as a lot of young people think it is. The theory of never saying “rio” to children leaves | us a bit cold. | Smartness is never synonomous with vulgarity and improprieties. Not every man who praises democracy believes in his own doctrines, The more prejudice a man has, the louder he talks about his tolerance. In the course of time, we believe every advertiser in Monroe County will understand why The Key West GA- zen is the real result-getter. corporated. Of a proposed $150,000 capitalization, only $28,000 was paid in by 12 stockholders. The payroll for seven workers in the two-story, barnlike rented plant amounted to $85.23 for the -first week of operation. More than 168,000 workers are paid more than 17 million dol- lars weekly. The Ford empire is spread around the earth. While this marks the actual 50th birthday anniversary of the huge industrial empire founded by a 40-year-old man with a deter- mination ‘to build low-price trans- portation, most of the formal ob- servances already have been held. Highlight of the annifersary year commemoration was dedication last month of the Ford Motor Com- at dinners over the nation. During the remainder of the summer Ford personnel, and their families in the plants, and at installations abroad, will hold ‘‘open house”. The fantastic story of how the original $28,000 invested in the com- pany grew to assests of more than 1% billion dollars; bow the timid 12 original stockholders quickly were engulfed in a golden flood of dividends and of Henry Ford’s effect upon the world and na- tion, has been told many times. Not so well known is the decline into which the empire fell during the latter years of the elder Henry Ford’s life. This is tacitly admit- ted in a news release issued by the company "in connection with the celebration. * In part it said: “During the de- pression of the 1930s Ford had/i0st its position at the head of dustry. The company’s 0] procedure, with control cen’ in a few hands, was as out as the Model , Plant facil were inadequate; working tions needed improvement. The sales staff had disintegrated during the war (World War II), and need- ed rebuilding from the bottem up. “Henry Ford II tackled the job of building an automobile company all over again. He brought new blood into executive positions and branch under a decentralization Policy. Each division and each plant in the big company was giv- en new authority and responsibility that was unknown under the old seamen jeanne PEOPLE’S FORUM | Phe Citizen welcomes expres- | stems of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the | right to delete any ttems which | are considered libelous or au: the writer must 2 letters and will leas requested EDUCATOR’S QUESTION | Editor, The Citizen: | There is a question which is | growing in concern to every mem- |ber of the teaching profession in | Monroe County. “How do you hold ja job on the staff of the Monroe County Public Schools?” Doing an | admittedly satisfactory job on a professional basis seems to have \less and less bearing on getting a person re-elected. | In the ordinary school system, ‘if a person satisfies the parents, pupils and general public that they | are efficient, teaching what they are hired to teach, administering | their school in a professional and |orderly fashion, producing a cons- tant improvement in the areas | they are supervising or wurning out | ‘creditable athletic teams which are an honor to the community -/} | then they can expect to be retain- ed. Let's look at the record in Mon- years. Principal Earl ; was released at the end of over a decade of fine service, at the end of what everybody considered his |best year. There is no question {about his ability as a fine elemen- | tary principal to administer a good | school and turn out well trained, | thoroughly educated pupils pre- pared for going on to high school. Ask the majority of the parents who had children under Principal Willard Fowler at the Harris School how satisfied they were ° . with his ability as a good school Be Given Fliers administrator, I am beginning to | wonder if most of the detrimen- By VERN HAUGLAND jtal things I was told about Fow- WASHINGTON ®—A radio-radar | ler were not the old smear techni- beacon device, smaller than two!que as has been tried on me. matchboxes, will be manufactured | Ask the teachers who worked un- in this country for fliers to wear|der him what they thought of him on their lifejackets. }as a Principal. Admittedly he was The miniature transmitter-recei-|Jike Caesar, an ambitious man ver includes batteries, microphone-! who was said to have aspired to a loudspeaker and aerial that extends | higher office, but he turned out to 31 inches. It is designed to guide | well prepared pupils and satisfied rescuing planes to a survivor drift-/ the majority of the parents, yet he ing in the sea and let him com-| was allowed to leave in embarras- municate with them when they | sing circumstances. come. close enough. Is there any reason why Mrs. Life Jacket With Radio-Radar To roe County during the last four) Hamilton | U.S. rights to manufacture the | 3%-pound device, called “Sarah,” | have been acquired by Simmonds Aerocessiores, Inc., Tarrytown, N. Y. from Ultra Electric Ltd., London, The first sales have been | made to Grumman Aircraft, Beth- | page, N. Y. Grumman plans to use the equip- ment in its own flight testing pro- | m. Sarah also has been demon- | i} strated to the Air Force and the y Field Forces, and the Navy is made tests at its Patuxent, | 4 Md., Air Center. | ’ A flier adrift at sea, wearing a| Mae West life-jacket to which Sarah is attached, merely pulls a wire ring. Thereupon a cover fliés off, the yellow steel tape aerial snaps open and the transmitter starts sending messages for as- much as.65 miles, and up to 60,000 | feet. The signals may continue for | 19 hours. { In the searching airplane, a three-inch television screen re- { Elna A. March was not retained as a teacher in the Elementary School when she is considered by every- one who has seen her teach to be one of the best teachers in the system. Even the Principal who |released her for “unprofessional attitudes and conduct” admitted he had never seen her do anything unprofessional or known personal- ly of her showing an unprofession- al attitude, I suspect her undoing was the fact that she was the wife of a man who is the target of a campaign aimed to drive him out of the County, and her salary would help him stay in Key West. Ask the parents of pupils who have been in her classes, or ask her fellow teachers if she is not a worthwhile addition to the teaching staff of any County elementary school. In spite of the Superintendent's assertion at a Board meeting that “someone in Tallahassee’ had pany Archives, set up in Fair Lane regime.” former home of the elder Henry ene ceives the Sarah signals as green | told him his worst mistake was to pips or spikes pointing out the di-| have hired me 4 years ago, I have Ford, in nearby Dearborn. The home has been converted into a gold mine of information about one of the most fabulous industrial fig- ures in all history. Tuesday a two-hour television show was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company to commemorate the anniversary; today the remod- eled Ford Rotunda Building in Dearborn, emphasizing the theme “progressive research and engi- neering,” was reopened as a public showplace. Today the company will be host to its dealers and their wives Long Ticket MEXICO CITY #—Mexican Air- lines figures one passenger from Chicago is going to need a special carrying case for the ticket he’s bought for a trip through the Carib- bean, Central and South America. The airline said it had sold a ticket three yards long to William A. Miller. He plans a business pro- motion tour of 37 cities. The ticket cost 137,000 pesos— $15,820. BUCKLEY rection the plane must fly. When the search plane pass over the downed pilot, Sara signals disappear from the sereen. The man at sea then can speak to | the airplane pilot through his tiny | microphone, and can use it as a loudspeaker to hear the pilot. Watching Numbers Popular Pastime In Soviet Russia By THOMAS P. WHITNEY | MOSCOW # — One of the more popular pastimes in the USSR is “watching the numbers.” The “numbers” in question are the serial numbers of Soviet state bonds. Periodic drawings are held for all eight outstanding bond issues of the government to determine who wins prizes in cash. Instead of paying out a fist in terest rate, the Soviet government chooses to give bond buyers a chance to win prizes over and jabove the face value of the bonds. } The prizes vary according to the specific conditions cf the issue in | question, but in the case of all jissues the prize is a minimum 100 per cent of the face value of the bond held. The largest prize awarded amounts to 100.000 rubles jon a bond of face vaia | rubles which a | particular b ; the biggest p | rubles. | In practice this system of lottery | prizes oa state bonds means that jpracticaliy every adult bas @ | chance to win a prize. Becacse of the thorough nature of the bond iseBing ca ¥ ‘ecr- ly every r & pes * some Savi Most imp comiral and local jin my files a number of letters from Dr. Sam H. Moorer, Direc- itor of Instructional Field Services, State Department of Education: Dr. Thomas D, Bailey, State Super- intendent of Sehools; Dr. T. S. Sry- gley, Director of the Department lof Instruction and others in the | State Department of Education in |Tallahassee commending the im- ‘Ann Blyth, James ‘McNulty To Wed HOLLYWOOD (# -— One of the |provement in the Monroe County Public Schools which have taken place since I came to the County. I make no claim to having done anything alone to improve the} schools, but I can show statistical | evidence of many good practices, much improvement in academic achievement on the annual achieve- ment tests and ‘the introduction of good technics such as the | testing of hearing, sight, mental! j ability, etc., which somehow came} | by coincidence during the past jfour years and not before. I hum- bly submit that I have brought | honor to the County ‘school system by serving as President of the 10th District of the Florida Education | Association, then Vice President of the same District including Bro- j ward, Dade and Monroe with over }4000 teachers represented: by being selected as Chairman of a number of State Committees of the Florida Education Association, |(elections, Credentials, ete.); by | being the first educator of Monroe | County to be elected a Director of jthe State organization of over ; 18,000 teachers; the Florida Edu-| cation Association, representing | Dade and Monroe Counties. As there is said to be less than three | tin every 10,000 people in America | who are selected for their accom- plishments in their chosen field to be listed in “Who's Who in Am-} erica,” I felt I had brought honor to the Monroe County Public Schools to be asked to send my. | biography to the publishers of that |well known reference book which lists me as “Educator and Au- thor.”” I am also listed in “Who's Who in American Education.” Yet apparently I am not good enough | to be retained on the County school staff - in the opinion of some. The present non-understandable mel of re-electing staff mem- | bers reaches a new low in achieve- ment in the firing of a man who {proved his ability as a coach by bringing the first State Champion- ship in Baseball to Key West High School. Coach Paul Davis came to} me some time ago and told me he was not being re-hired. He’ heard it first in Tampa at the |State Teachers Convention last | March when a fellow: coach aaked him why he was not returning as coach to Key West H. S. This other coach had been informed by local authorities that there was an opening for a coach to replace Da- vis, according to my information. I then wrote several letters to Prin- cipals whom I knew recommend- ing Paul as the kind of man whom I would be proud to have on my staff. In my files is a letter from one Principal telling me he is glad to offer Davis a position on his staff, It makes a person wonder just what qualities are looked for by the County School Office when personnel is re-hired. It is more dangerous, to be popular and well- liked than it is to be mefficient, Russell was considered OK for re- employment for four years, then suddenly considered unfit with lit- {tle warning. Why the sudden | change? There are many fine, efficient staff members employed, wonder- } ing what assurance they have that they will not be next, unless it is lestablished that doing a satisfac- tory job, contributing to the edu- cational progress of pupils and the |} school system, and doing things | which bring honor and credit to the schools and the city (like winning ‘a State Championship) are consi- dered worth insuring a person's re-employment. It is strange that those doing the re-hiring have such fan unusual method of evaluating ability. Sincerely, Leland S, March Heat Relief NEW DELHI, India #”—Diplo- mats in India’s sweltering capital | appear to be bowing to the heat— lat Jeast until dinner time. Offici-| 1 Safety Notes By BILL GIBB We've used such slogans as “Speeders Lose”, “Speed Kills - Take It Easy.” There is another one that might be appropriate: “An Open Road Doesn't Mean Open Up.” As mentioned the other day, speed control is a form of -self- control. The National Safety Coun- cil discusses the subject in this manner: 5 Speed control is keeping your faculties alert to all condifions that affect your driving - maintaining only a ‘speed consistent with other | conditions, If speed alone were the danger, what about pilots who fly jet planes at speeds as fast.- or faster - than sound? When you think of speed, you must think of other factors, other conditions which are operating. What about road conditions? Cer- * tainly 50 mph op a straight, well- paved, uncrowded highway may not be a dangerous. speed. But speed of 50 mph oa an unpaved, narrow, unknown dirt road may be a way of flirting with death. How about weather conditions? Rain, fog, snow, ice - all demand a lower speed than a clear. day with visibility very. high. Your vehicle? = worn brakes ive in one in which every mech- anical factor is perfect. selves. Any combination of them, or all five of them, may be operat- ing simultaneously, Your speed will have to be adjusted to such ¢on- ditions if you are to drive in ac- cordance with sound principles of speed control, give up its gimmicks? life, says pioneer Bryan Foy. Most film ¢rities ‘have Plained about the tricks objects appear to come Poy is new You can yo-yos, because he has found fanciest weddings of the Hollywood | ally, it's okay to wear tieless sport| champion you jsummer season will unite actress ' Ann Blyth and Dr. James Vincent MeNulty June 27. Miss Blyth, 24, and Dr. McNulty -year-old obstetrician brother of ctor-singer Dennis Day, obtained their marriage license Monday. James Francis Cardinal Me- Intyre, archbishop «4 Los Angeles, will perform the ceremony at St. Charles -Catholie Church, North Hollywood. The wedding and re- ception guest list totals 700. Day will act as best man. MARITAL RIFT ENDS HOLLYWOOD w—Jack Webb, producer and star of the television program “Dragnet.” and his actress wife, Julle London, have reconciled. “We had a chanet to sit down and talk things over,” the actress s2id Monday in engouncing the end | of a three-monm s¢paration. “I believe we ironed evt our troubles and understand each other better than ever.” The Webbs were married Jaly 2, 1947, ts Las Vegas. print the List of win- s @ ftw days after the has been. bid te Best newspapers Soom lists are om read Paces Ca sot papers. shirts by day | cocktails. The new regime was advised in circular to the diplomatic corps from its senior member, Egyptian | Ambassador Ismail Kamel Bey. He jreported that the “logic af it jseems to be bringing the: \ around,” but stressed that * obligatory.” i “If any wants to be formal, | they" just be out of step,” he j added. Diplomats here customarily have and light suits _ | | { i i } i worn neckties throughout the day ' and dinner jackets at cocktail par- jties, despite New. Delhi's 110-de- | gree mid-summer temperatares. j <vnangeeeeraponescennee | Air Search For Uranium | PHOENIX, Ariz. (5) — Search for uraniem in Arizona is bein, aided by an alr sarvey of prospec: | tive uraniom fields. The survey is} being made by light sireraft equip- | ped with devices with detect radia- tion as high as 200 feet. Already | nearly 3.009 square miles of Coro-/ sinc County in morthern Arizona | have been surveyed and mapped. The map is brought up to date oc / the 14h of each month. The work | ia being dome by field geologists of the Atomic Energy Commitee. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CITIZEN wilt al don't with bow believe in it finding down their noses at this kind , ~ Sinte was started in 19 t. & Wiitery Alr Transport vice bes carried more than mifiiers pewrrgess, 2% medica of carga. peltes ont Ji ee -