The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1953, Page 4

Popes = THE KEY WESTCITIZEN - Friday, October 9, The Key West Citizen Kater, fren The itsea Buldig, Corner ot reese Only Deity Newspeper in Key West and Menree County COniAn B. ARTAN Eatered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 25661 and 2.56462 Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Citizen is an open forum and public issues) not publish subj of local general pe eg BE EE invites discussion interest, but it wil ss ON FLORI ASS ROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED SY THE CITIZEN KEY WESTERS, WANT TO KEEP LOOKING YOUNG? HERE’S THE BEST WAY This a homily for Key Westers, and this is a question for them: How many of you want to keep young or look young? All hands are raised, for the possession of youth or youthful looks is the most precious thing in life to us. But we can’t retain youth. It is fleeting. It flies by so fast, we have barely time to appreciate it before we rea- lize it is past.and gone. If you don’t think that is true, look back at your youth: How long does it appear that you had it? How much thought did you give to it while you had it? How much did you appreciate it while it was yours? You snap your fingers. That’s how long it seems now that it is past and gone. i While we can’t keep our youth, yet it is possible for us to look youthful, What is the best thing in the world to keep us looking youthful. Women think the answer is cos- metics, and women and men too, or many of them, think that, if they prim up or wear stylis clothes, it keeps them looking young. That is a fallacy. The best remedy is goodnature, not once in awhile but practically all the time. That goodnature is chaitable toward the faults of others, and never fumes or frets because it hasn’t got this or can’t do that, and, above all, knows how to be satis- fied with what it possesses. The man in Key West who comes nearest, so far as we know, to possessing those qualities is Sam Goldsmith, our weather man. A gaod testing ground of a man’s na- ture is a golf course. The general run of us fume when we dub a shot. Sam laguhs. And when he makes a good shot, he doesn’t crow. He takes the game of golf as it comes, and takés the job of living as it comes. Have you ever seen him angry? We have known him thirty-odd years, and have never seen him angry. We presume he has been angry, like all the rest of us, but he doesn’t “blow up”, as some of us do. Sam’s saving grace is his keen sense of humor. He likes to joke, and laughs if the joke’s on him. Sam, when he talks to us about the weather, gives us interesting and informative details that a formal wea-' ther report doesn’t contain. He sounds like a great-grand- pappy, relating and corelating facts about the weather with which we are unfamiliar. Sam has served Uncle Sam well, and we trust he will serve in Key West for a long time to come, though he has been in the bureau for much more than 80 years. How old is he? We don’t know. He looks to be 40, but probably is barking the heels of 60. pS TS Uae Se PES You may have noticed that the man of integrity sel- dom delivers a lecture upon the virtues of integrity. TIAILICEMSITIPTSMML [O10] IRI VERSPIOIRIE MEE IARI IRIEJAIRIMEINIEIRIVIALTIE! IMIAIRI TINIE BESTE TA] SIE IOIGIE MI SIP/AIT] OIPIEIRMMUIN] LITIAIRIY) AIDIOMEVIE|SITISMMRIE I CIOINTTIE INI TMMIL IE IAISIE} LORIE IE ME TIYiL JER) ISINIEMMATTIOINIE IS] IRIEISITIOIRIE (DMNDIOIDIO} US Maula iu) (STITT EE OLE IN MSIE ITIAl Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 4 Delineate orthiess 5. Make speecher “wee Crossword Puzzle ie a i 8 BE ppesesseese § ca By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTON #—Bit by bit the Eisenhower administration plan for wrestling with its gigantic tax problem is taking shape in all ma-| jor aspects except one. The White House has made it crystal clear that: 1. Barring unexpected emergen- cies, an average 10 per cent cut: in individual income taxes will take effect as scheduled next Jan. 1. 2. The excess profits tax on cor-' Porations will expire completely on Jan, 1, also as scheduled. President Eisenhower has sought! to eliminate a national retail sales tax from the picture. That leaves two broad courses lof action: 1, A juggling of the present sys- tem of varying excire taxes, pos- sibly to cover items not now taxed. 2. A uniform naticnal sales tax at the manufacturers’ level. It’s too early to tell which way the administration will swing. The answer may hinge on the greater revenue yield from a general man- ufacturers’ sales tax, stacked against a hostile reaction in Con- gress to such @ proposal. Or, on the other hand, ‘the goal of a balanced budget could be sac- rificed for the present. At any rate, congressional tax authorities estimate that one to three billions in rev could be raised by selective sales taxes, The: trénd would be toward a more universal and uni- form tax, but the trend under this proposal would stop short of a blanket sales tax. Present rates incliade 20 per cent on the retail price of jewelry, furs, luggage, women’s handbags, and cosmetics; 10 per cent at the manu- and gas stoves, refrigerators, dish- Washers, television sets, radios and some smaller appliances; 15 per cent on manufacturers’ sales The World Toda (Por JAMES MARLOW) Some of these rates are sched-' uled to drop on Apri 1, but that issue is likely to be lost in the broad excise tax revision program already forecast by Eisenhower. Some of the 10 per cent rates, for example, could be raised to 15 per cent to help boost revenue and bring more uniformity. And a few of the more painful 20 per cent rates might be lowered. But more important, tax writers could cast their eyes toward many| Some items not now covered. of the more plausible possibilities, for exatple, might be i rugs, linens, hotel and tourist court bills, services, barber shops and beauty ratiors, candy, soft drinks and clothes washers. Authorities” estimate 9 10 per cent tax on these new items, plus inereases in some present excises, ‘could produce 1% to 2 billion lars annually. A 15 per cent rate, considered less likely, might bring in 2 to 3 billion. The existing retail and manu- facturers’ taxes mentioned above, which would be replaced under a general manufacturers’ sales tax, now bring in about $3,300,000,000 annually, To produce the same amount of revenue, the uniform manufactur- ers’ tax would have to be about 4% per cent. At 7 per cent, the uniform tax would raise an addi- tional two billion dollars. And at 10 per cent, it would boost revenue {by about $4200,000,000. BABY STRANGLES ST. ALBANS, W. Va. —A loop furniture,|of string dangling from the side of his play pen became a death noose yesterday for 13-month-old Donald Barstow Dickinson of St. Albans. Coroner Goff P. Lilly said the baby died of strangulation after he slipped his head through the loop. NEW YORK —Wilbur Clark,) At Wilbur's gilded $4,500,000 inn who wears a $5,000 wrist watch, the weary, wayworn traveler may is a fine example of how a manent a room for from $$ to $50 a ican win the.success he wants in day, play golf on a million-dollar life if he just sticks to a simple 18-hole grass course in the desert, principle. jand for $5.50 eat a steak dinner] The principle Wilbur chose was,40d see a floor show that would ithe old copybook maxim that if Cost him to $50 or more in New you build a better mousetrap, even York. ‘The same traveler can slake in the , the world will his thirst 24 hours a day—or invest beat a path ot your doorway. anything from a nickel to $1,000 But of course you-have to in.|(that’s the limit) around the clock terpret those old copybook rules /® the casino. the right way to make them work.| The casino has 90 slot machines, Wilbur decided the better mouse- three roulette wheels, six blackjack trap was one no mouse would want tables, five crap tables. Their win- to get caught in—but people with Dings, of course, subsidize the floor loaded pockets would fight to en-'shows, which feature such name ter. ee pee Hutton — _— i and cost up to 000 a wibar: K paid off? Listen 1 week, half the price of putting on | “[ guess we're the biggest single * Broadway show, operation in the state now. Our expenses alone run $15,000 a da: .” said Wilbur, which may We netted better than a million/¢xPlain why he wisely eefrained| dollars last year. We have 650 em-/ffom putting locks on the tasino| ployes, 250 more people than live in\400rs. “But a guest could stay! my old home town.” here for a week and never make a Wilbur, a friendly, greying, 42- year-old... uh, well. . . indus- trialist, not only has a $5,000 wrist) watch and runs one of the world’s plushest mousetraps. Life has giv-| en him other rewards. He is a mayor, the vice president of his) local chamber of commerce, and) has been named one of the nation’s! 10 best-dressed men. He helps de- sign his own $250 suits, won't al-) low a buttonhole in his lapels. “Why punch a hole in a good! piece of cloth if you don’t like | wearing flowers?” he asked rea- sonably, waving a hand on which a ‘S-karat diamond ring shone with ithe subdued charm ef a locomotive ‘headlight, ; Clark’s career follows the classic |Horace Greeley pattern, “Go ‘west, young man.” He left his na- ive Keyesport, Ill., pawned his shigh school cing for $4 in Los An-' jgeles, and worked as a bus boy obtaining a job in a gambling es- tablishment. From then pn his rise was more \rapid. Wilbur saved his pennies, houses about the country, bought; some of his own, went broke and started over again. Wilbur, who has no taste for a pool room atmos- phere, all the time was dreaming jof his better mousetrap, a luxuri- Europe, where a man could buck without getting his foot caught; in a cuspidor or having to look both ways for the co Today Wilbur’s dream of a bet- ter mousetrap has come true-~the fabulous Desert Inn at Las Vegas, which m: Monte Carlo look as modish as a 1900 bustle, The SIREN of SILVER VALLEY s & Hf a % i 8 g i ‘ z s § i j 2 i E i 23 i. 5 of sporting goods; 20 per cent on manufacturers’ sales of cameras and film, Political Announcements CITY ELECTION TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1953 For oper P. A. MeMASTERS “Make Mac Mayor” For Mayor GROUP 1 “MICKEY” PARROTT (“Fighting For The People”) For City Commissioner GROUP 2 DR. DELIO COBO For City Commissioner GROUP 3 LOUIS CARBONELL For City Commissioner GROUP 3 BEN KETCHUM For City Commissioner GROUP 4 JOHN A. ANTI For City Commissioner GROUP 4 NEIL SAUNDERS i i Rage rt F iil, a 5 Hy EB OE att i fe i iH on ey cits Pe arte 5 : f “ o F a s a @ vg) 4! Fe & i z t FE E i i i i sa 8 #3 F i heh E é i a i $ Z i Ht rll ii E Hit 5 Es E £ Fr gieskt? iat} By PAUL EVAN LEHMAN Poet it Shorty. There came | cro’ m the darkness, and he dismounted and found his ing the sides smooth and even. at last he climbed out he heard the slow beat of hoofs and looked over the pile of earth and saw a rider approaching at a walk. The sun was up now al Tecognition came at once. rider was Ruth Starr. She reined her horse to a halt and looked down at the fresh) dug grave and then at him. said harshly, “Go ahead and yw.” yoice was , husky. “I came find GE what happened last le laughed scornfully. “As though you didn't know! ae reese es ee e ° Bled. MWe heard shooting, and this morning I saw that the cattle the| you'd gathered were gone. Then was no lowing of cattle from the coral, no sound whatever but the murmur of the creek. Sudden} been—killed.’ ipping him, he you came out and walked up here di and fed Lay 2 es Seas fad G t's right. Just a old coun 8 orty “McCabe” His voice hardened. “Do you mean to tell me your father didn’t send Shag Dolan with a bunen of men ovSie it was Shag he did it on his in and angry. “Don’t : lying. I'm not striking "1 be no let- p, no mercy until the whole Valley.” P pie raion her horse looking (Ai down at him. “I don’t suppose it | wanda es say I'm sorry. 1 am. He made an angry sweep of his don’t want your sym] and 1 Sor want to hear any es. egtty i land bell hop in San Diego before|Ltd ‘laydown, and we wouldn't know it. | |hether he goes into the casino} is up to him. i “T believe if you give peopl at they want, and most people want] the best, they'll come to you. We turn away 200 people a day.” Medical Aid Given . HONOLULU Out across the! Pacific from remote Fanning Is- land 1,400 miles south of Honolulu, a radio transmitter crackled: The Military Air T ice said it received mergency call irom Sydney, Australia, Wed- nesday saying the drug cortisone was need*on Fanning within 436 | hours. to save the life of a man stricken with a tropical disease. | The man was identified only an employe of Cable and Wirele: » of London. A MATS Plane made the 2,800- trip. Among the colorful range-land worked for a number of gambling|names in New Mxeico are Corral, | Stetson, Broncho, Gallup, Horse| Springs, Mule Creek, Pinto and Rodeo, ous resort casino such as those in! Goody! Goody! I’m back on The Rock after examining various tire businesses and between here and . if lever leave town again it will have to be for something more im- portant than business + something } jsuch as going to see our Conch) footballers lick the stuffings out of ‘an up-state team! ‘to be proud of. Our trouble that} we're so far away from other’ feriority complex and think our] 4nd |problems are unique! All through} the Southern states in which I travelled, people were complaining] of the same sort of things well gripe about in Key West, I attended a Service Clinie of tire dealers and out that! Dick’s Tire Service had’established| an enviable reputation and others’ wanted to copy our system. It is! true that our shop on Truman Ave. has received quite a bit of national] publicity but there is no hidden} secret in that fact. Dick’s has} simply tried to keep its equipment | as modern as possible and offer its: customers something that they are jentitled to - integrity and honesty. Too many places try to establish their reputation on the basis of cheapness and as a result, they unload inferior, economy - priced stock on their customer. The average guy knows what he’ wants and if you treat him fairly, not trying to push something else off on him, he will favor you with his friendship and business. I used to be a parachute jumper in Fly-| jing Cireuses around the country. \Penn Edgar, who now lives out | jhim on @ stunt - thrilling flight one day may also charter the| Plane the next in order to make| a business appointment. In elther| jase, he wants what he wants -| g F F E 3 } Hl i e » é *s » 2 - 5 E