The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 30, 1953, Page 3

Tuesday, June 30, 1953 Maratho By JACK Marathon— Independence Day, will ‘have double significance to members of the Marathon Volun- teer Fire Department. They will be celebrating their own indepen- dence. And, on July Fourth night, in cooperation with American Le- gion Post 154, they will offer the public the most elaborate two-hour fireworks display in Marathon’s history. The Marathon Volunteer Fire Department is now an independent civic organization: Title to the Headquarters building was turned ever to the organization by Fred Center, Chamber of Commerce President, Thursday evening, June 2%, Title to the building was for- merly held by the Chamber of Commerce. Volunteer Fire Dept. President, Art Baker, and Fire Caief R. O. Bushea announced that contribu- tions made by Marathon residents has enabled the Dept. to purchase 100 nine, twelve and fifteen inch mortar bombs. Each shell, when detonated, will rise 150 to 200 feet in the air. It will spread multi-hued fragmentations, and illuminate the sky so as to be visible within a Padius of nine miles. It is estimat- ed that the extreme area of visi- bility will be between Pigeon Key on the Seven Mile Bridge, and Grassy Key. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN n News M. LEVINE jeach buried in the ground, sur- | rounded by sand-bags, will face the Gulf Side. Boats must remain 200 feet offshore. The fire engine jand equipment will stand by for | any emergency. | The 10 man firing squad will be ee command of William Macon. |Each firing crew will consist of jthree men, on a rotating basis: A |loader-caller, a mortar shell car- |rier and a fire operator will com- | prise each crew. In addition to |Macon, the squad will include: | Art Baker, Dick Fitch, R. G. Bu- shea, Hans Schmall, Don Fox, As- |sistant Fire Chief, Karl Loesch, | Harry Graver, Al Koonitz and An- | thony Ardolino. | Macon is also Vice President of |the Fire Volunteers, Dick Fitch is |Secretary and Don Fox is Trea- surer, Marathon — It is ne often that a local Little Theatre Group is af- | forded the opportunity to draw on | its own experiences for the plot of ‘a play. But, such may be the for- tunate circumstances for the Ma- |rathon Little Theatre Group, bas- ed on what, to date, seems to be a rather baffling situation. The most appropriate title for |the dilemma of Marathon’s thes- | pians could be, “The Case of Miss- ‘ing Makeup” - a real life who- A cordon of Legionnaires and|qdunit. The story goes back to last Boy Scouts will be thrown around | February, when Marathon’s Little an area 150 feet from the firing | Theatre Group gave three success- line, Spectators will not be permit-|ful performances of Everybody ted to enter the firing area, The} Works but Father. One of the mortar tubes, three quarters of! stars of the show, who doubled as |director of makeup for the ama- teur actors, was Edythe Combs. In keeping with her surname, Edy- the Combs is Marathon’s leading Hairdresser and Beautician. She has the unique distinction of main- taining her beauty establishment in a trailer, adjacent to her home. Following the show, Edythe took charge of the extensive amount of makeup, estimated to be worth be- tween $40 and $80, It was packed in a corrugated box about three feet high and Edythe carted it a- round in her car for quite a few weeks. Although a firm believer in the slogan, “the show must go on,” Edythe could see no useful pur- pose being served by the case of makeup kits resposing in the back Telephone Conversations cleorer than ever with the new “Phone Magnet” featured in the “REGENT” | HEARING AID 7 ‘1O-DAY MOWEY-BACK GUARANTEE! Keys Optical Service 423 Simonton Street Bone Conduction Devices Gt moderate extra cost. Page Sjrector, she visite? the Sue M. Moore School, where the Principal, Gerald Guthrie is a member of the group’s board ‘of directors and his wife Beryl Guthrie is Marathon Little Theatre Group’s President, It seems that Mr. Guthrie agreed that the school couldn’t have been a better selection to store the makeup kits. He, apparently, was quite busy at the time of the visit. Nevertheless, it seems, he dashed out of his office, called to two boys standing nearby, to help Edythe get the corrugated box out of her car, and that was it. Edythe and Mrs. Goggin, when the box was removed, went their respective ways. Nothing more was said, un- til recently when discussing a pro- | Posed play at a meeting, someone asked about the makeup. To date jthere has been no answer. Neither Mr, Guthrie, nor anyone else seem- ed to know who the boys in ques- tion were. Vice President, Georgeila Zetter- ower, who is pinch hitting for Mrs. Guthrie, while the: group’s presi- dent and her husband are away at Florida State University, where Mr. Guthrie is completing work towards his master’s degree in ed- ucation, has helped every person who might have some idea on the matter, retrace their footsteps. But, all clues seem to lead up to, and stop, on the patio of the Sue M. Moore School Building. As far as can be determined, the two helpful boys, followed their Prin- cipal’s instructions.. They helped Edythe Combs remove the box of makeup from her car. They set the box on the school patio. Then, the unidentified youngsters must have gone on their merry way, while the unmarked receptacle for the- trical trappings remained where it was placed. . .perhaps for several days. There are those who seem to have a quite realistic solution to the baffling mystery. In true Sher- lock Holmes fashion they have in- spected and studdied the area where the theatrical makeup box was last seen, They have watched the flow of traffic around the area. The climax seems to be as startl- ing- as the thought is. horrifying. Being an unmarked box in a ra- ther frayed condition, it seemed to be an open invitation for removal by'a gentleman who, periodically, looks for just such items when he makes his appointed rounds in that school area. For lack of a more adequate rea- son to believe otherwise, the de- duction seems to be that the con- tainer of items that bespeak of the very glory of the theatre went to its untimely end surrounded and bage collector and entombed in the local garbage dump. Some are still holding out a faint glimmer of home that the missing kit may be in the posses- sion of a member who has not at- tended meetings of the Marathon Little Theatre Group lately. Should the stuff be found, it will make for a logica’ last act curtain scene . . where the principles in the cast will kiss. . . and makup. Marathon - Sixteen year old Lou- is Russell, Jr., is the first High School student in the history of Marathon to be selected to repre- sent the Marathon area at the American Legion Boys State, cur- rently in session at Florida Univer- sity, Tallahassee. Louis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Russell, Sr., was selected for Boys | State on the basis of recommend- ations by Edward O, Schweitzer, Principal of Key West High School, where the youth will be entering his senior year this fall, and Ger- ald Guthrie, Principal of Mara- thon’s Sue M. Moore School. He was selected for outstanding scho- lastic and leadership qualifications. Marathon American Legion Post 154 is sponsoring the Florida Boys State representative. Louis, whose nickname is “Bunky’” was provid- ed with a round trip bus ticket, spending money and tuition pay- ment by the Legion Post. He is the eldest of three children, and has a sister Judy, age 14, and a younger brother, Charles, age 10. One of 20 Marathon teen-agers who travel 100 miles each school day to attend Key West High School, Louis has written his class- mates that upon his return he will conduct a seminar to recount his experiences in the ‘49th State” as Florida Boys State is popularly known. He will also be guest speaker at a meeting of American Legion Post 154. Dan O'Connell is Post Commander, and John Castell is Adjutant. MOONLIGHT CHAIN REACTION DALLAS, TEX. (7) — The dif- ference between “laughter” and “slaughter,’’ a speaker told junior of commerce members at a lun- cheon here, is the letter “S” -- which, he added, “‘stands for sel- fishness.” Louis E. Throgmort, vice-president of Republic Nation- al Life Insurance Company, was the speaker. He described America as “a na- tion built on moonbeams -- volun- tary desires to create -- and not bound by chains of force, “Break a chain and there’s nothing ‘left, but cut a moonbeam and it still remains,” he said. t DEMOCRATIC LEADER PLEADS Urges No Politics At This Time; Says Dulles Plays ‘Santa Claus’ Part By JACK BELL WASHINGTON (® — Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Tex- as pleaded for foreign policy unity today in the face of a blistering attack by Sen. Langer (R.-ND) on the administration’s $5,318,000,000 foreign aid bill. Johnson said in an interview he knows of no ‘crippling’ amend- ments to be offered by Democrats to the measure to continue the Mu- tual Security Administration pro- gram, and he added: ; “The less partisanship we dis- play at this critical time, the bet- ter it will be for the country, If we ever needed unity on foreign Policy, we need it now.” The Senate today enters its sec- ond day of debate on the bill—al- ready approved by the House at @ $4,998,000,000 level. Langer told the Senate yesterday the measure is “a fraud on the credulity of the Amcrican people” because he said U. S. allies self- ishly recognize “right and duty only to themselves.” : Langer declared Secretary of State Dulles has “played the part of a big, bluff Santa Claus” on a tour of Europe. He contended the of supporting European colonial Policy in Asia and thus has caused some Asiatic areas to regard the Russians as their liberators from such policies. Langer traditiona!!y has opposed what he calls giveaway pro; 2 Senate leaders were confident measure will be approved by a substantial majority. Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee argued yesterday that with Russian control of European satel- U. S. has been put in the Position j lites “crumbling,” this was no time for the U. S. to retrench on its foreign aid program. Johnson said he and Sen. Taft of Ohio, the Republican leader, had agreed to co-sponsor an amend- ment aimed at wiping out a House- a provision which automat- ically would withheld about one billion in aid funds until Western European countries ratify treaties for a unified army. The Texas senator said the amendment would leave any such action up to the discretion of the President. Wiley said he was thinking of an amendment which would give the President ahthority to trans- fer up to 50 per cent of the funds earmarked by Congress from one area of the world to another. He said conditions are changing so fast such presidential authority might be required. The foreign relations group agreed in a closed meeting yester- day to accept an amendment pro- posed by the armed services com- mittee requiring the MSA to give SPECIAL Complete Electrical TUNE-UP $5.50 for 6 Cyl. $6.50 for 8 Cyl. (PLUS PARTS) SATISFACTION GUARANTEED CARBURETOR - GENERATOR BATTERIES - STARTER GENERAL TUNE-UP Murray Auto Electric 105 Simonton Street DIAL 22851 FOR FOREIGN POLICY UNITY up in direct appropriations an amount equal to any foreign. cur- rencies or credits it uses abroad. Wiley said the U. S. has about 748 millions in such credits from the sale of war surpluses. The armed services group said the MSA planned to use about 98 mil- lions of this amount. The foreign relations committee also approved an amendmet under which 400 million dollars in aid for Indochina would go back into the Treasury if the war with the Communists in that country is ended. 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