The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 26, 1953, Page 12

First Hurdie Cleared Administration To Continue EPT Extension Tilt By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTON — The Eisen- | s er administration headed today fato a bruising House floor battle @ver extension of the excess prof- Ms tax—after triumphantly smash- a committee blockade against the bill. Under strongest administration , bap eh the House Rules Commit- decided last night to bypass the tax writing House Ways and Means |very foundations of our legislative item.” | At one point, Reed voiced a veiled jthreat to resign from the House, in which he has served 35 years. epublican Leader Halleck argued that Reed was the will of the Presi- dent, the will of the House and the | will of the people by calling off all v and means committee to block action. Committee and force an extension | bill directly to the House floor. The voice vote was reported to have been 7 to 4, with Democrats solidly opposing the move. It was the first victory in a long, bitter fight by the administration to ex- tend the tax—now cue to expire Bext Tuesday — for six more Months. The rules committee acted in the flece of cries from Chairman Dan- fel Reed (R-NY) of the ways and means committee that the move Was unconstitutional and unprece- dented and was destroying “the leit to get action, d. clear immediately yn in the House eaker Joseph W. Martin (R-Ma indicated it might be Monday. The <dministration braced for a storm of hot protests, even more ainst the procedure involved than against the tax it- self. The first vote of the House will ng the procedure. Should the adm ation lose, the Page 12 —____ THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, June 26, 1953 HAMI LTON Motor Sales See The New 1953 NASH On Display ' 707 Whitehead Street NEWEST G-E REFRIGERATOR ! Phone 2-6341 bill again would be blocked. House GOP leaders said they were confi- |dent that when the chips were down, they would win. Reed said he would not concede that a major- ity of the House “wil endorse this | unprecedented grab for power on | the part of the rules committee.” Normally, the rules committee | clears a bill for House action only after it has been approved by a legislative committee. Halleck in- | sisted there were precedents for | the bypassing, but this was sharply | disputed by ways and means mem- bers. Reed said that since 1806 every | revenue bill by law has nad to be cleared and started through Con- gress by the committee he now | heads. Rep. Jenkins (R-Ohio) told the rules committee that, under jthe procedure now adopted, “We | | won’t need anybody else but you.” | Speaker Martin told reporters he | still hoped the ways and means} |committee would decide itself to | turn out a tax extension bill. He | added he would be willing to wait |until as late as Wednesday before forcing a floor test. if there were any signs the tax committee might | act. One influential Republican ways jand means member said he saw | litle chance now of cooperation be- tween the committee and the House jleadership or the Eisenhower ad-| ministration—on this or other is- sues. | Reed has shown increasing irri- tation over the refusal, since Feb- |Tuary, of the GOP leadership to \clear his bill to cut personal in- come taxes by 10 rer cent on July | 1. The rules committee had mere- \ly been sitting un it, but yester- day it voted to kill the measure. The move to override the ways ; {and means committee, one of the | | oldest and proudest groups ir, Con- | gress, obviously lett wounds which | | would take a long time to heal. | As the hearings opened, informed |GOP sources said two Republican | rules committee members——Reps. | | Clarence Brown (Ohio) and Reece | |(Tenn) were balking at the ad-} | West on Thursday, June 25, ‘came in a closed session, by voice! only three days ago by Rep. Sad- {vote and the stands of individual |lak (R-Conn). It would extend the | members were not recorded. Joe Pineda Will Be of Key West sponsors the local Ke - Expected at the three-day con- vention, July 2-4, are 2,000 high school boys from forty-seven states and five Canadian provinces, They will elect International officers, de- | ministration move. | During the hearing: ported, Reece was | phone conference with the White | | House. Later, Republican National | Chairman Leonard W. Hall was | ; said to have sent word to Rules } |Committee Chairman Leo Allen| | (R-IIl) that Reece Lad agreed with | the administration’s position. | Apparently he was the man who| swung the scale. Brown reportedly | did not vote. But the final decision | it was re-| ied to a tele- | FAMOUS: DE LUXE FEATURES ¢ AT A PRIGE YOU CAN AFFORD Model LK-95K 9S eult j ji j if 1 i 1 it's really true zero defrost re! have see it toda velop administrative policies for the coming year, and discuss the The bill cleared by the rules com-| firms making iess than $100,000 mittee is a measure introduced | profit a year. JOE PINEDA To Key Club’s National Convention The Key Club of Key West High School is sending a member to tenth annual convention of Key Club International at Los Angeles | next week. He is Joe Pineda, imm tax for six months but exempt Local Delegate ediate past president who left Key y Club. Army Economizes WASHINGTON i®—The econom- izing Army plans to have seven : Notes | Boca Chica, was discussing Safety | |ally graphic term when, in de-| | scribing how people liked -speed, | jhe said, “. . .the lust for speed.” | Safety By BILL GIBB Key West Police Officer Member Nat. Safety Council Dick Splaine, meteorologist at problems, He used one exception- Glance at your dictionary andj you'll see that “lust” is described as being a “passionate or over- mastering desire.” Could there be | any better way of describing the | emotions of reckless speeders who | disregard the rights of all other! humans simply because they can-} not resist the temptation to push their car's accelerator to the floor- board? Modern society is gradually be- ginning to recognize that the lust / for speed can be placed in the same category as its counterparts; | the lust for murder, the sexual | lust that leads to depraved acts of | violence, the lust for power that | ignores the rights ot others. In every case the end result is the same -- death or injury to innocent | folks with seldom any remorse on! the part of the perpetrator. | Something must be done about the horrible and terrible tragedies | that are a daily part of the traffic scene! It is a travesty on justice that a man may be jailed for car- | rying a concealed weapon but tens of thousands of people may feck- lessly wield a murder object such as an automobile with little or no, fear for the consequences. As Officer “Tim” James, KWPD, says: “Stressing the 3 E’s of traf- | fic safety -- engincermg, education, | and enforcement of Jaw -- is neces- | for the convention. The Kiwanis Club | sary. But the ultimate solution to | traffic safety lies with the driver. “It is the driver who must be made to realize that staying with- in proper speed limits isn’t a mat- ter of legal procedure but one of self - preservation. It is the driver who is driving too fast who must} |just as deliberately slow down. | school and community — services | fewer replacement training centers | Somehow, someway we must im-| conducted by more than 1,000 Key Clubs, according to Glynn Archer Jr., president of the local club. For the members who register on Wednesday, July 1, a trip to see the Hollywood Stars play Sac- ramento at the Hollywood Baseball Park has been planned. Tickets to the various radio shows originating in Hollywood will also be made available for the early registrants. The convention will open Thurs- day morning with a ‘Kickoff Brunch” at the Biltmore Hotel at which time the Key Clubbers will be welcomed to Los Angeles by ‘Roy Hagen, President of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Reverend Bob Richards, Minister of the First Church of the Brethern, Long Beach, California and Oly- | mpic Pole Vault titleholder, will twe appliances in onc! A range freezer and a no frigerator, So different you to see it to believe it. Stop in and vt REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER COMBINATION 2 GREAT APPLIANCES IN 1 CABINET you preservat BIGGER, ROOMIER THAN EVER AT THESE AMALING FEATURES! ROTO-COLD REFRIGERATION gives MO! fres. ection — better food SEE IT WST-COLD keeps foods garden- b—even when unco d SPACE MAKER DOOR SHELV TODAY! DION & JOHNSTON ner DUVAL and OLI VIA STS. TEL. 2-2000 speak on ‘Heart of a Champion.” |The afternoon will be devoted to panel and committee conferences. Thursday night is Keynote Night ‘and the major address of the even- ing is by Richard L. Gustafson, International Trustee. The evening also includes a symposim on ‘“‘Pro- blems of Today’s Youth.” be on Key Club educational and; organizational subjects. Nomina- tions for election of the internation- al officers and the finals of the oratorical contests are on the agen- da for this meeting. As many of the Key Clubbers will be visiting Los Angeles for the first time, Fri- day afternoon will be devoted to tours of Los Angeles and the vicin- ity. The tours will include the mov- ie studios, airports, industrial areas, downtown shopping districts, and drives along the Pacifie coat- line. During the evening there will be a topnotch talent show and the International Contest Awards Seo also be presented. Radio and television star, Ralph Edwards, creator of the famous radio show “Truth or Consequen- ces’’ and who recently started a new show “This Is Your Life,” was a prominent Key Clubber while hé was attending the Oakland, Califor- nia High School, Edwards will speak to the Key Clubbers on Sat- urday The convention will close on Sat- urday with the election of new in- ternational officers, and a farewell luncheon for the retiring president, Frederic A. Youngs, Jr. of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. H. Park Arnold, ¢ of Kiwanis International cominent lumber dealer of Glendale, California will speak at this luncheon. afternoon session will include ation of the new officers ng the evening, the Key ers will attend the American Independence Day Fire- Display at the Los Angeles Key Club has a Club, and the high school Key West are organized n develop leader- ts af commun- ‘ect the ener youth inte constructive More than 25,000 Ameri Canadian bovs sew belong onal Key Clubs |will be closed and two more}; jin operation by Jau. 1. It announced yesterday that six merged. Training centers to be closed are those of the Signal Corps at Camp} San Luis Obispo, Calif., Quarter- master Corps Replacement Center at Ft. Lee, Va.: Chemical Corps at Ft. McClellan, Ala.; Transpor- tation Corps at Ft. Eustis, Va., Engineer Corps at Ft. Belvoir, Va.; Field Artillery at Ft. Sill, Okla, The Military Police and Signal Training Centers at Camp Gordon, Ga., are to be consolidated. Camp San Luis Obispo is being closed entirely, but the Army said that in other cases only the spe- cified activities will be discontinued at the camps and forts involved, Barbados in the West Indies is about an eighth in size of Rhode Island but has 210,000 inhabitants, press reckless drivers that SPEED- | ERS LOSE.” | So once again, this column runs its slogan for the month: “SPEED KILLS. TAKE ITj EASY.” | STYLES WILL CHANGE KANSAS CITY, ® — President Eisenhower will have a gradual but very obvious effect on the kind of clothing men will buy in the! next few years. | This prediction came from Paul D. Gilbert, South Bend, Ind., past president of the National As-| sociation of Retail Clothiers. And those men who do imitate the President's manner of dress will be superbly well dressed, but conservative, Gilbert told the American Home Economics Asso- | ciation convention, Geese were considered sacred at | making it one of the most densely Populated areas in the world. some times and places in ancient | Egypt. Hot Dogs Pastrami, Schave ' | Take Some Home Today! What You Want, | If You Don't See | Friday morning the sessions wit | To Tempt Your Appetite Fresh Shipment Corned Beet Beet and Borscht Herrings In Jars | Ask For It | Land 0’Sun |] TRUMAN and GRINNELL STREET For Party or Dessert, Let Us Supply Your Ice Cream Needs Luncheonette PHONE 72-9186 | | | at It’s Always Cooler in SUMMER APPAREL from Lewinsky’s Arrow Sport Shirts NEW MESH $3.95 Up Van Heusen Sport Shirts $2.95 Up 4} ae 2%} Polo Shirts = For Casual Wear— OPEN WEAVES Palm Beach Slacks — $10.95 Van Heusen Swim Trunks — $2.95 Up Walking Shorts $3.95 Up Florsheim Shoes $17.95 and Up @@ For the Brands You Know! 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