The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 27, 1953, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, June 27, 1953 The Key West Citizen eee 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 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 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 Pe aL eae ean 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 More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium, iS DA ER CONGRESSIONAL PAY RAISE? An active effort is now being made on Capitol Hill to _ vaise the pay of senators and congressmen by $10,000. This would make their income $25,000. Presently, it is $15,000. The $15,000 salary now enjoyed by senators and con-| gressmen is actually equivalent to more than that. Mem- bers of Congress enjoy special tax exemptions because | they must maintain homes in Washington and their home state. Many business men must do the same thing, al- though they enjoy no such privilege. In addition, members of Congress enjoy other special | financial advantages. They may mail out letters, cards and speeches from their office, free of postal charge. They en- joy a special telegraph and telephone allowance. They buy stationery and office equipment at low prices and furniture is furnished them free of charge. They | enjoy other things, such as low-cost, government-subsidiz- ed hair cuts, groceries and meals. They have other allow- ances, including a small travel allowance. Therefore, the $15,000 salary paid members of Con- gress is more than a $15,000 salary. Admittedly it is not equal to the $10,000 salary, which was in effect in 1939, in buying power. However, this Congress is faced with an unbalanced budget, with the apparent necessity of keep- ing taxes high and with the duty of economizing on gov- ernment expenditures. It does not, therefore, seem logical to increase the salaries of lawmakers by a flat $10,000.) That would give them greater buying power, plus special | tax exemptions, plus larger secretarial allowances, than) . they enjoyed in 1899—which is taken as a base period. While we have no objection to members of Congress getting more money for their services, we think the time inopportune for such legislation. Moreover, we point to the fact that many members of Congress enjoy independent incomes. Since they are not required to be in Washington all year, many members, especially lawyers—realize as! much profit from their home-state businesses as they do by being members of Congress. The law permits congress- men to keep income from their home-state profession, re-|a backyard fence sent shock waves | | gardless of the fact that they hold public jobs. Altogether, then, we are not inclined to favor a flat $10,000 increase for members of Congress at this time, HYDROGEN BOMB PLANT OPERATING Chairman Gordon Dean of the Atomic Energy Com- mission recently told a congressional committee that “some of the facilities” at the Savannah River, South Carolina, plant are now in operation. The chairm.n said other facil- ities would begin operation soon, “at frequent _ from now on.” Dean’s testimony was the first confirmation that the | huge AEC plant, built to produce hydrogen bomb mate- rials, had started operation. In addition to commenting on the production of hydrogen bomb materials, Dean reveal- ed that secret underground atomic weapons were rapidly being filled to capacity. Dean told the House Appropriations Defense sub- committee President Dwight D. Eisenhower's request for $1,096,000,000 for the AEC for fiscal 1954 is request which has been “pared to the bone.” He noted this was $496,800,000 less than the budget proposed by the preced- ing administration. While Dean supported th tration’s budget, he made it evident he thou economy budget and one whic calculated risk. The AEC chairman's testimo United States now is making a ma hydrogen bombs. His words leave bomb is either now being const shortly, and that the current race atomic energy field is a race to pre sites a the ce hydrogen b The best movies are those wh life. The ms find, some day, that money 1 who puts mone s By WILLIAM J. CONWAY CHICAGO, (#—By the end of the Fourth of July holiday next Sunday night, there will be many more dead and maimed by automobiles than by fireworks. So this seems a good time to pose a question: How was the holiday’s annual fireworks death toll reduced from 466 to two in 50 years? It’s an achievement that be- comes monumental when you com- pare it with efforts to bring the new mass killer, the motor vehicle accident, under control. Look, for contrast, at the grim record of July 4 traffic deaths. They hit a peak of 491 in 1951. Last year there were 366. The steady reduction in fire- works fatalities was brought about by shock, education, law and changing custom. That's the answer in simplest |terms. But to get everybody ori- ented let’s take a backward glance at how the day has been observed since the Declaration of Independ- jence was adopted July 4, 1776. John Adams, one of the found- ing fathers, said the occasion ought to be “‘solemnized with pomp and | parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, belis, bonfires and illumina- tions, from one end of the conti- nent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.” The Adams format was altered with the passing years, There was jan added starter—death. Fire- | works, pistols and cannon killed! | hundreds. Glimpses of a child with freshly | bandaged eyes or a bloody stump jin place of a thumb or the dread | | word, “‘lockjaw,” whispered across | through neighborhoods. The American Medical Associa- tion provided mass shock treat- ments in the form ‘of reports on| the Independence Day carnage. |The AMA report for 1903, for ex- | ample, was 466 dead and 3,983 | injured, | History was taking an ironic twist. More lives were being lost in celebrating freedom than in winning it. intervals BUC SA | Fireworks Killed Two In 1952 Reduction Of Fireworks Toll Is Big Achievemen Early in the 1900s newspapers! and many aroused citizens spoke! out for a “safe and sane’’ cele-| Thoughtful parents indoctrinated their youngsters at home. | fireworks. These were good as far as they went but they went only | as far as the city limits. i The most effective legal action has been taken by states, Laws prohibiting the sale and use of fireworks except in authorized pub- lic displays have been enacted in 27 states—26 of them in the last! 16 years. The results of these safe-and- sane movements cart be traced to the AMA count of the Independ- ence Holiday fireworks deaths. | They slumped from 446 1 to 215 in 1909, to 30 in 1915, to 18} 1952. Maybe you live in a state with | a control law and you were jarred | awake on the morning of last July | th by blasts and crackles. Those were firecrackers all right. Nobody concerned with the prob- | lem knows how many tons of them | are set off in areas where legal | bars have been raised against them. ! But the National Fire Protection Association, a prime mover in the state control-by-law field, provides this information on the bootleg trade: “Such fireworks are {mail order in response to comic |book and magazine advertising. Shipment is made by railway ex- ress of motor carrier. “Fireworks also are sold from roadside stands set up in areas Joutside the jurisdiction of state | fireworks. laws or (city) ordinanc- es, and goods purchased are smug- gled home by the purchaser.” } The association says |tion, now pending in |would “put an end to these pra | tices.”” Rep. Mar: itt Church }(R.-TL) has it uced a bill {Congress to ban the shipment of KLEY c- ASNT itt ~ fireworks in! sale is pr Anothe were wont to st and amuse them. American age preie take their chai Meanwhile, fireworks d: | The Citizen weicomes in 1938, to six in 1944, to two in| MOm* of the views of its es where in the public education campaign.|the horse and bu Many cities adopted curbs on) ¢rackers, powder and NOYTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO de abril del ano le la Semana San- on verdade- sitado, en estividad del San- un gran luci- e en la que el del Ejército de Monteblanch, sade, todo mo- da empresa de r. habia sido de iento para los mo. Las iglesias 2 ano frecuentadas por io superior a la capaci: templos. La ofic ba al Mariscal naturalmente, ) el interés entre las mu- aderas y en gran parte cion, que habia sido ue todas las fuerzas na la procesion mandadas por en persona y esion del Santo Entierro lesia de San Francis- dia, desde muy blico empez6 a la pequena Plaza isco, para presenciar | da de las fuerzas mnilita- | Eran las tres en punto de aquel- jla memorable tarde, cuando hizo | jsu_ pre }eaballo esentacion la cabeza de las Ss militares, en dicha Plaza. a ellas y en un_ soberbio color dorado, venia el their | Mz iscal con su Estado Mayor. Forum | iN 1203 | —— | OL ex pres | read- ers, but the editor reserves the cht to delete any tiems whieh considered libelous or anwar- w of the the writer must less requested is and write on ene paper only. Signa necompany erwise. Protests Discrimination Editor, The Citiz Last n cowardly a sold by | s victim mate of ye took i Ih the | letters and will be published un- essed the mos ver DEATH IN COLLISION | El sol de sobre sorte, teria oral del Te —Media derech. marca te la_ tarde, el pecho del llameaba Mariscal al ol gran nume- praciones alli prendi- frente al infan- eniente Gen- ocho com de av ‘on, El 1 era quien daba las voces de | Pero aquella fué la primera vez ando, Los redoblantes y aban- . fueron los primeros en posiciones, despues la tro- Ja voz imperativa niente G marchen! .. . con sus armas al ron un movimiento .a primera y segunda quedaron situadas cer- aceras, pero continuaron ando el paso. Las restantes, alin ose frente a ellas. 10 quedé ya situado, voz de nuevo, del Te- General, ordenando: ~Alio!. .. Presenten armas: en su lugar descansen. La EGYPT BECOMES A REPUBLIC Mien Sot cused ultitud, apinada aceras y el cen- les. En la puerta mas, Llegada 3 de escucharse el e de las campanas, se on las pue del templo. om iba a salir. La mul- linada rumbo to arecer, lo fué . Se detuvo unos s en los umbrales de la » a todos lados y par- Plaza. La muche- samente, le abrid adose en dos alas, por ar. changes its form of Anw ag a 3 Pst prensdent li- | eral cuando dijo: | sudorosa, | no sabia qué, de las tropas y de sus jefes, pero |Ensign Paul Is Assigned To New ‘Detachment Here su vez el| Ensign Robert F. Paul, USNR, of Santo Entierro. Aparecieron los | Boston, Mass., recently reporied monaguillos y el Padre Batista|for duty in connection with the quedo parado en una esquina de/ establishment of the new Mine la Plaza, cerca del Estado Mayor. | Warfare Evaluation Detachment A un lado, le quedaba el Teniente. at Naval Station Annex. General; al otro, un sacerdote. La| Prior to reporting here, he attend- multitud, al aparecer el Santo En-|ed the Self - Contained Under- tierro, se lanzo al medio de la) water Breathing Appratus School calle. La mas completo desorgani- | in Washington, D. C. zacion, se generaliz6 en aquellos| Ensign Paul was graduated from momentos. Nadie se atrevia a dar the University of Mass., Amherst, un paso hacia adelante, porque las | Mass., after receiving a Bachelor tropas ocupaban toda la Plaza. | of Arts degree in 1951. }donde debia pasar a en su vida, que al Mariscal don |Luis de Monteblanch, le habian |desobedecido, precisamente frente \a Sus tropas. Gestos como el que acabamos | de mencionar, fueron muy frecuen- ‘tes en el Padre Diego José Batis- ta y Rodriguez de Orellano, sacer- |dote cubano de nacimiento y |mambi de sentimientos, demostra- | | do en todos los actos en que le to-| jcase actuar, de acuerdo con el ritual de su sagrado ministerio. Ante tan grande desconcierto, el| He enlisted in the Navy in 193 Mariscal de Campo, picd su cabal-| and served aboard the destroyer gadura y dirigiéndose sobre la/| Dahlgren for nearly three years. ‘multitud, le ordend, empinado |He was discharged as firecontrol- sobre los estribos, al Teniente Gen-| man second class in 1046. eral | Remaining in the Naval Reserve, —Oiga usted, Teniente General: he was recalled to active duty in veya usted a organizar la proce-|JUly 1951. A year later he attend- sion... Newport, R. I, and in July 1953 Y rapido, tras esta exclamacién, | W@S commissioned Ensign in the que detuvo a Don Antonio Ordonez, | Naval Reserve. . es el Padre Batista, que habia escu-| He then attended various officer's chado la orden del Mariscal, se | schools ‘on Gunnery and Ordnance jadelanto hacia el medio de Lessard receiving orders: to Key calle y en tono autoritario, le grité | Si fuertemente al Teniente General, | a Po he haciendo caso omiso del Mariscal | y2 maica Plain, a bs de Campo: 4 a Oiga usted, sefor Teniente Gen- leral. Todo el que concurre a esta Procesion esta bajo el mando de HOI LYWOOD mi estola. .. Y dirigiéndose al 4 sacerdote que tenia a su vera, le “ NOTES Vaya usted, Padre Soleilac, | organice la procesion. . . . Y el sacerdote, se dirigid a la! By BOB THOMAS multitud y suavemente, sin mal-| tratar a ninguno de los alli presen-}_ HOLLYWOOD (®—A few months tes, comenzo a organizar debida-|ago, Peter Lawford was feeling mente las filas de los que habrian | mighty: low. {de tomar parte en aquella proce-| His father had just died, and \sién del Santo Entierro. Peter had left MGM after 10 years. | El Mariscal de Campo Don Luis | No pictures were in the offing for jde Monteblanch, con el rostro em-| him, and he wondered if his career purpurado por una reprimida cole-| Was all washed up. Then some- ira, sin saber qué hacer en los pri-| thing happened. |meros momentos, ordend la mar-| His friend, Tony Martin, was ap |cha de la tropa, délante del Santo | Pearing at the orange festival in Entierro, como era de costumbre | 5" Bernardino, The singer in- y la procesion continué su recor- —— Peter to eae him te |rido, sin ningan otro incidente dig- be sage cinerea <= ” }no de ser mencionado, en esta bre- poh rine pray-se dint P |visima relacién de hechos. psc to it, Mt cde gr would cause much of a reaction. The response was tremendous, “I suddenly discovered that the last 10 years weren't lost after all,” says Peter. The English-born actor, whom 1 have known sinle the days when he was trying to switch from the ater usher to actor, now has his old confidence back. At present he is enjoying a leading role opposite Judy Holliday in “A Name for Herself.” He is whipping up a night club act and is going east Porque, no transcurrié mucho for a TV whirl. Among his other. ‘tiempo, sin que aquella escena de | plans is a picture deal in Europe rebeldia contra los gobernantes | next fall. espafioles, se repitiera en las mis-| Sitting on the tag end of his |mas calles del histérico Bayamo. | 20s, Peter is able to view his past Precisamente, fué en el dia de | triumphs and mistakes. He said he Corpus Christi y Yrente al Gober- sa not regret leaving his old home ‘nador Udaeta primero y después | }t. ante el General Segivnundo Rey-| | “It was hard to get used to at tor, cuando este valiente sacerdote, | first,” he admitted. “The studio reclamando su derecho como tal,| had done a lot for me, and after hizo que una gran multitud, pasara | 10 years of security, it’s rugged to b 1 pabellon espafiol, |8° it alone. I could have stayed apierreicicnipelehs Pano’, | on, but at a cut. Months before cubriéndole de lodo, ante la vista |" - — | contract was up, I had a valiéndose de una ordenanza Vigen- | with Nick Senanee te, que ordenaba que al cruzar el| sacerdote portador del Santisime, | lo hiciera por sobre la bandera, | whose contracts were ending. para santificarla de esta manera “I decided not to stay. It wasn’t Pero aquella tarde, habia llovido y | because of the money. After all, obligo a todos a cruzar por sobre it doesn’t make much difference la bandera. ... | after taxes whether you're earning | $2,000 a week or $1,000." British Envoys Tour In Russia MOSCOW ‘*®—Two members of the British Embassy staff left the Russian capital Friday on a trip to Lake Baikal, deep in Siberia. It {was the first time in recent years jthat official Western representa- tives have been allowed to travel | that far in Soviet Asia. | The Britons sre the embassy’s air attache, Air Commodore V. C. | A. Jobnsen, and its secretary, O’Brien Teare. Their departure came only three days after the : | Russians announced a relaxation of ; travel bans for foreigners in many parts of the Soviet Union. | | Lake Baikal, the largest fresh water lake in Asia, is 2,600 miles east of Moscow, near the border jot Outer Mongolia. The Trane | Siberian Railway skirts its north- ern edge. Nearby ix the city of | Irkutsk. 2 major transportation and | industrial center of Eastern Sibers ja. 2 DIE IN EXPLOSION | TAMPA W—A pleasure boast ex- Plosion Thursday caused the death of two persons and serious injuries to ancther is the Hillsborough River A. B. Chances, 2%. Pleat studio at less money. That happening to most of the actors Mrs killed and AH. Chancey received | serines facial | The 22foct boast tlewly in the mi shen the explosom’ oc . three persons were throws inte the river. Mra. Chancey’s body was recovered § after search The Chanceys bac pur- chased the boat oniy the day be- iste he sccicent. . Gacars- al Al-Gadat (top), a member of the 2 proclamation of the newiy- of Council of Ministers. He was acai prime micuter (/ aternetonal)