The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 ‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, June 25, 1953 The 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 ‘ NORMAN D. ARTMAN Publisher 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 entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it er 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 $15.50 —— ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION $e The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue and subjects of locai or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. 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. 5 Community Auditorium, WE ARE BUSY BUT NOT TOO BUSY TO REVIEW OUR ECONOMIC STATUS What is your guess about the continuation or regres- sion of the present good business conditions in Key West? You may be sure that whatever your guess is, it is as good as anybody else’s. The question simmers down to the cer- tainty that nobody can foretell the future of business or any other condition. An oldtime Key Wester, in advocating caution, de- | clared that the business pace in Key West today is similar | to what it was at this time in 1925, when the “sky was the limit” in the sale of real estate, But he is wrong. In the first place, prices were far| higher then than what they are now; secondly, construc- tion of buildings was at a low ebb then; in the last four years it has been the greatest in the history of Key West. The late William R. Porter, after the 1925 crash, re- marked, “there’s one thing they can’t take from us—our Boulevard.” At the time “they” were taking everything else, even proceeding against Monroe County because it} had defaulted on its bonded indebtedness. What was true of Monroe County, in that regard, was true of every other county in Florida, excepting a few. They included Liberty County, which had no bonded indebtedness then, and has | none now, but neither did it have any progress then nor has it any now. Citizen readers may recall that shortly after the con-| clusion of the Second World War, Key West had a_ busi- ness recession, as a result of which foreclosure proceedings were instituted against 32 homes in a local subdivision. But, with the beginning of the Korean war, the foreclo-| sures were adjusted, building, on a far larger scale, was resumed, and general business conditions since then have ' become better than ever before. The danger that faces Key West, as it does every other part of the country, is excessive installment buying| of homes and many other things that have jacked-up the} American standard of living to its highest plane in the history of the United States. Economists have pointed out, as has been noted in| The Citizen, that debts of installment buyers in this coun-| try exceed 300 billion dollars. Those debts will be paid, if the buyers continue to be employed, but what will happen | in the cases of those who lose their jobs? The answer to that question may be found in the foreclosure proceedings against the owners of the 32 homes who had no income to} The Pump Won’t Last Forever! HAL BOYLE SAYS Churchman, Two’ Politicians Hold Key Positions In Fight To Carry Out By OVID MARTIN and DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON #—Three men— a churchman and two politicians— hold the key positions today in the administration fight to carry out President Eisenhower’s campaign promise of a new farm program for American agriculture. But this high command may be split wide open in the months ahead. The churchman is Ezra Taft Benson, secretary of agriculture and long-time leader in the Mor- mon church. These three are, in effect, the ranking Republican generals in the farm world’s civil war—a con- flict centering around the admin- istration’s ideas on the best way to increase and stabilize farm in- come. Their strategy ard leadership will determine in large measure the kind of program Congress will | adopt when the present law re- quiring fixed high support prices for basic crops expires next year. The basics are wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, rice and peanuts. But in the showdown fight, Ei- senhower may find one of his gen- erals at odds with the other two. And here’s why: Benson and Aiken are in strong agreement that the fixed high sup- port price program developed un- der the Truman administration should be changed to a program of flexible price supports. But Hope—who comes from a wheat state—is waving a ‘go slow” sig- nal. Where Benson and Aiken are highly critical of the present high- level supports, Hope thinks this program has worked well and that support programs should be ex- tended where possible to other crops. ’ As yet, Benson and his aides have developed no specific recom- mendations on a new program, and | none are likely before fall. But Benson has outlined a fairly Farm Program every indication he has the full support of President Eisenhower. | On price supports, he said re- cently: | “I doubt very much if any gov- jernment can, by high, rigid sup- | ports, prevent some adjustment in |prices, unless we step from one commodity to the next and then |to the next, until finally we have | {control of all of taem. When: we jhave that, we will practically |have state socialism, and I do not more than you do or I do.” Benson believes high price sup- ‘ports tend to “freeze” crop pro- | duction. In other words, if a farm- jer is guaranteed a profitable re- jturn for growing corn, then there | able crop even though corn sur- |pluses do pile up in storage as is |now the case. Benson also thinks the fixed high |and world competition. as prices are supported at high levels, there is no pressure on |farmers to increase efficiency and better seed varieties and farming | practices in order to be in a better overseas markets. In other words, he says, high | supports subsidize inefficiency. As a farmer, Benson never ac- jcepted a government subsidy pay- ment himself. But he says there should be some price support |structure to protect the farmer |they experienced 20 years ago. | Judging from Benson's speeches, | Policy statements, interviews, and jtestimony before congressional | gram that runs in this direction: jing from 75 to 9 per cent of Parity. Parity is a return estimat- satisfy the installment payments when they became due. clear picture of the direction in|ed to be fair to both the farmer But whatever befalls us, we will have the houses, as which he wants to go and there is , and the consumer. Under this flex- Mr. Porter pointed out about the Boulevard, and “they” | can’t take them out of the city. Somebody or bodies will} own them, and they will come in handy to accommodate | tourists. Whatever happens, tourists will continue to come | to Florida, and Key West will get its share of them. The church is a place for sinners, not saints. | Money is whatever you make it—in your life. This is the season for beauty contests, and contest judges. Sieeietiieiaeriaaninsiainaniechecataacla Our advice to you this week is to take care of heart, and live a while. your The ole’ swimmin’ hole can be the last place you will visit on earth—unless you are careful. Labor is never a burden to the man who work; but has anybody ever seen the ? Promoters who complain that television lowers atten uance at sports events seldom mention the television rig fee. It may be dangerous to have a great amc money but, personally, we have decided, if the presents itself, we will try to be brave and givk it occas KLEY believe that farmers want that any | jisn’t much reason fer him to shift | to a more-needed but less profit- | | supports tend to price a commod- | |ity out of the market in demestic | The secretary says that as long | lower production custs by using | Position to compete ir home and! from economic disasters such as | | groups, he favors in general a pro-| 1. Flexible price supports rang- | jto discourage raised to encou }ed crops. | | 2. A greater voice for farmers | | shifts to need- and commodity groups in drafting programs to fit their particular needs, [sa This would mean, Benson , decentralizing federal con- {trol with emphasis on controls at |the state and county level. 3. Expanded efforts through pri- vate enterprise and government to |build up foreign markets which ‘have been g badly in the past year. This would call for ex- panded sales efforts and efforts to remove trade barriers at home and abroad. 4. Shifting to the Agriculture De- partment some of the authority jand responsibility now held by the State Department in the field of foreign trade policies. 6. A concentrated effort by gov ernment, farmers and food hand- lers to find w to cut market. ing costs. Costs e risen s ly in recent years and cut dee |into the farmer’s share of the con- }sumer dollar t for food. 7. The pos: use of jmarketing agreements, ice in- surance and a two-price system for exports. The two-price would mean one € at a world price would competitive level in foreign mark- ets. Aiken stands close to Benson in the fight and farm sentiment 1s the admins e wider insi the present fz we find sor is confident so: be found. recent spe is found th | farmers Aiken was asked and other admi favor a flexible now when the flexib 1930s wasn't consic “In those days,” he sa supports were fixed per cent of p: “do better it was he why of the da success | that I QUEEN ELIZABSTH Il LAUNCHES ASCOT SEASON. * QUEEN ELIZABETH Il and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, wearing a topper, wave from their open h as they drove five miles from Windsor Castle to the races at Ascot, By RELMAN MORIN (For Hal Boyle) NEW YORK (®—Took a plane| e with a bush pilot in Mexico, |a while back. This is not a habit- forming experience. 1 a little yellow bug with t as long as the span of Ss arms. blister in the roof suggested that plane might have been a light bomber from the last war, but of t be sure. I do not re- n any in which a fasten the door. call havi rope was used t There was no radio in the ship,! ion this pilot! but then, in the covers, it would have been simply s bi ge. There is no place adio to, Our boy flies jungle and moun- exclusively, He d not feel at home riding a or even putting down y. Any old el and un- is okay with him. st the man to take e in Southeastern ot f ala. Some seven miles or e is a wonderful , two or three ex- emples, and the ruins of a It would be worth seeing ff you had to go through the on your hands and knees. year, the body of a king pyramid, a dis- > importance to > around in the anished civilizations in the question of nection ever existed yans and the an- Maybe even the of Atlantis? interests Mexi The regular will put you prac- ¢ most of the great Palenque, doing. sites to en-} pilot was the h-in— t the passe . not You can’t take any- a lightweight tooth- h ere were some seats bolted to F each other in the bucket seats. You have the cockpit on the i landing. There was no n the cockpit, v ‘h permit- Tt f a first- the wide- » by past. ver solid t has a few streaks of he plexiglass | probably | from. the border] ive at Ascot, England, to open the race meet and the consequent social season. The royal (International Radiophoto) acquire them. Or else, perhaps, they all came at once when he was trying to get down through a ceil- ing like that in mountainous ter- rain, Our flight was to have taken | about 50 minutes. | Sure enough, some 45 minutes after takeoff, the captain nosed the | bug down into the clouds. As usual, it was like flying through a bowl of milk—except that nobody was below to calmly radio data and di- rections for a ground controlled | approach landing. Some 30 seconds later, he turned her nose up again, and gunned the motors. The plane burst out above |the clouds. He kept on his north- easterly course. From time to time, he glanced at his watch. Once or twice, he flipped the switches on the fuel | indicators. The needles were not | encouraging. Finally, he went into the clouds | again. This time, he kept going, | and presently broke through. We were over a plain, and all he had to find was a level stretch to put down on. He picked an avenue be- | tween some trees that looked about }as wide as a bowling alley, And | there we were. In that type of flying, he ex- plained later, you must more or jless smell your way through the | mountains. The first time he start- jed down through the clouds, things | didn’t smell right. | Next time, on that run, I ride with Jimmy Durante. | QUIRINO TO U.S. MANILA ® — The government | said that President Elpidio Quiri- ‘no will fly to the United States {Saturday for medical treatment. An announcement said the 64- | year - old president — who suffers from bursitis of the leg—will go to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Balti- | more. Quirino, a candidate for re- felection in the November presi- dential election, will travel aboard | a regular Philippine airliner. ' Vic Vet says 7 POST-KOREA VETERANS WHO WANT TO CARRY GI LIFE INSURANCE TO REPLACE THEIR FREE INOEMNITY COVERAGE OURING SERVICE MUST APPLY TO VA WITHIN 120 DAYS as [e572 Waren ah SDMINESTRATION Shee Z COUPLE DROWNS FT. MYERS @— An automp- bile plunged into a canal on the Tamiami Trail 22 miles east of Naples late Tuesday, drowning a Sarasota couple. The Florida Highway Patrol said the car was occupied by Richard Leroy Wiliiams, 63, Sarasota, and a woman believed to be his wife, The automobile was traveling toward Miami, witnesses said and had just rounded a curve when it crossed the highway and plunged into the canal. RIOT DEATHS HONG KONG (#—The independ- ent but pro-Nationalist newspaper Sing Tao Jih Pao said that more than 50 workers in China's Tak- amshan mine fields were killed by Communist guards during a recent riot. The newspaper said the riot-be gan June 3 in the Kwangtung Prove ince mines as a result ot dissatis- faction over poor food and treat- ment. TORNADO RIPS TOWN LINDSAY, Mont. —A tornado, described as “traveling in a@ cle,” ripped through this tiny ern Montana town last night, injur ing one person. ‘The railway depot as reported demolished and three houses afd three grain elevators damaged, pe To Chief BURCHARD POOLE, USN , attached te Airship Development Squad- ron Eleven, was recently advanced to Aviation Electronic Chief. Commander H. € Spicer, Jr. Commanding Officer, congratulated Chief Poole st the presentation ceremony. Posie, a native of Colum- bia He received boot training at the South Carolina entered the naval service on October 6, 1962. Naval Traising Station, Norfolk, Virgims. During World War I] Poole served at NAS, Pensacola, ida, U., Copahee. NAS Vero Beach, Florida, NAS Banana River, ida. NTTC, Memphis, Tennessee and ZP-2 Poole reported to 1 from NAAS Glyneo, where first five years of naval service be served ip ZX-11-1. During the Poole and bis brother Robert served together. Robert Poole also ALC, was advanced to CPO the same day Burchard received bis COMAIRPAC. While is Key Avenue x. C and theie three sous, Joba, advancement. Robert is serving West Poole resides af 715 Flagler & his wife, the former Margaret Waugh, of Charlotte, Ronald, 20d Larry