The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 28, 1953, Page 4

Page THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednwsdey, Ortabey 2,191 Esher. om Tee ‘iisen Bubding. craer of Greene’ pcre Bosinese Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-566) and 2-5662 Pca Or A Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida pastel ssctesetcactes altri Aste tsar Nc Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ‘The Citizen is an open forum and of publie issues and of local POLIO WILL NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT KEY WEST’S TOURIST SEASON Key Westers need not entertain the least uneasiness about the supposition, advanced by a few, that the polio publicity given this city will adversely affect the local tourist season during the coming winter. No part of the habitable globe is secure against an outbreak of polio. It has occurred among Eskimos in the Arctic Circle dut- ing the summer and‘as far south as Patagonia. The Monroe County Chapter of the National Foun- dation for Infantile Paralysis, on the approval of the Monroe County Medical Association, requested the State Board of Health to send gamma globulin here to inocu- late children as a preventive of the paralysis that is coup- led with Polio, Whether or not the injection is a preven- tive, The Citizen does not know but it does know that the National Foundation was prompted to make the request solely and wholly in an effort to benefit the children of Key West, The fact that press associations sent a story about the request to newspapers throughout the United States in no way reflects on the sincerity of the founda- tien to do what it thought would be beneficial to local children, so-called adverse publicity is so much poppy- cock. It will no more keep tourists away from Key West the coming winter than’s*hurri¢ane here in mid-summer would have kept them away. Polio-is.a summer disease, as yellow fever was, and &till is, a summer disease. Polio is: not one-fiftieth the.scourg t_yellow fever was. Polio takes few lives compared good many other dis- eases, and the fear it engender#j™ an ‘outgrowth of the widespread publicity . se. it. is confined, with some ceptene ee ig ¢ invites discussion interest, but it n, whom the world always has been disposed to glamorize. What is going on now among doctors and scientists in their strenuous efforts to discover thé cause of polio went on for many years among doctors and scientists in their struggles to ascertain the cause of yellow fever. Key West in those days had its nerves on edge, in a far greater extent than what they are now, by the ravages of yellow fever. The late Dr. Joseph Y. Porter, a Key Wester, and Florida’s first State Board of Health Of- ficer, in which capacity he served continuously for 29 years, was among the corps of medical men who worked long and hard to find out the cause of yellow fever. It was surmised that fomes spread the fever, so Dr, Porter volunteered to risk ‘his life to find out if that theory was true. For three successive nights he slept in a bed in the Key West Marine Hospital, in which a man had died of yellow fever. Dr. Porter did not contract the fever, and the theory was abandoned. Before he slept in the bed, whenever anybody died of yellow fever, the mattress in which he had lain was forthwith burned. But the burning of mattresses, which was supposed to: har- bor the yellow fever germ or. virus, was discontinued after Dr. Porter’s experiment.. Not long afterward, it Was discovered that a species of mosquitoes was the carrier of the yellow fever germ or virus. Some insect may be the carrier of the polio virus. 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Ofa iten= eri ire 5 Wis "ge 8 BR RAS pBERED F sf Megal Shipment Seized MANILA — Customs agents Monday reported seizure of an illegal shipment of synthetic gems valued at $50,000 from a Philip- Air Lines plane from Hong Political ‘Kong. La proximidad de los comicios ha puesto en movimiento en Cayo TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 3, 1953 For Mayor GROUP 1 -C. B. HARVEY Elected For 4 Years Just 2 Years Age El sistema de proclamarsé aute-| candidate es muy democratico, no’ lo «megamos; pero, un “MICKEY” PARROTT {gravisimo. inconveniente. El can- éligieron, y ya en el uso de sus facultades como electo, actia de| acuerdo con su leal saber y en- For Mayor GROUP 1 CHARLES R. ROBERTS “An Experienced Municipal Administrator” —_—_ {ego Que ahora ocupa. For City Commissioner rgrod ohare rapes ny deben de tener un muy se- GROUP 2 vero y bastante discreto, a la hora JULIO CABANAS, JR. |de abrazar candidaturas. E buscarse no al mas — ‘or City Commissioner sino al que pueda ser mas itil a GROUP 2 ia colectividad: Al que bee Leng ELI mostrado tanto en su actuacién DR. DELIO COBO privada, en el seno del es ath aad en sociedad, mayores capacidades, For City Commissioner honestidad acrisolada y deseo ve- GROUP 2 » |hemente de superacién. Poseyendo ALBERT FRANK LOPEZiestas facultades, es de esperarse que quien las posea, resulte un| buen gobernante, defenser de la sociedad y del progreso de su Pero, casi nunca, se actia en tal forma, La mayoria de las veces, les el triunfador, né el mejor de los candidatos sino el mejor res- ipaldado; unas veces, por recursos leconémicos y otras por personales simpatias. Ninguno de ambos re- cursos, favorece en lo absoluto a ‘la eolectividad, en el caso de e- leceién. Déspues, cuando el mal ya no thane eneadio, on tas: ermestecio. ines y las criticas, a vaces, \- For City Commissioner {5° “crucles ¢ ‘injustas.” Precisa GROUP 4 levitar esas equivocaciones, a la LOUIS M. J. EISNER |hora de laborar en favor de tal o For City Commissi epic aten sores mal on el Sate ‘or ion y grave mal en cai a“ las colectividades. El deseo de per- For City Commissioner GROUP 4 JOHN A. ANTI elementos capaces de hacer buena ladministracion, Heguen jamas al , con el natural detrimento dél bienestar de la comunidad. Bien esta que cuando un gober- nante actiia correctamente y puede mostrar a los electores una relacién de buenas obras realizadas por su ” » LAS PROXIMAS ELECCIONES | NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO jicios de noviembre. Solo deseamos ‘el triunfo de los mejores. Nacimos en Cayo Hueso y aqui vivimos y nuestro fervoroso anhelo no es: otro, que el tener al frente de la administracién de la ciudad, ciu- dadanos capaces por su honestidad Progreso de la misma, mejorando ‘todos los servicios publicos, que hoy, desgraciadamente, muchos de ellos, estan casi en su totalidad, completamente abandonados, El candidato que prometa y rea- , |lice la limpieza y cuidado de nuest- ro cementerio, ha de tener las sim- pets ih Lr Lo et de es- le querido pueblo. El candidato q jobligue a todos a mantener en pal fectas condiciones de higiene y, limpieza los patios de las resi- dencias y obligar a los propieta- ios de solares yermos a mante- nerlos limpios de yerba y de sucie-| dades, sera siempre un candidato con legitimas probabilidades de triumfo, Muchas otras cosas estan ‘aun por hacerse en este querido pueblo. Y cada uno de los que ahora as- piran a legar a los altos puestos del gobierno local, debe de estab- lecer el serio y formal comprom- iso con la ciudadanio, de no ante- poner, como se ha hecho durante muchos afios, los compromisos po- liticos personales, a los de la col- ectividad que les diera el voto. Es decir, poner por encima de toda otra consideracién, el anhelo de mejorar nuestros servicios y de dotar al pueblo de todo aquello que sea indispensable, para el progreso y la higiene de los gobernados. No ir al cargo, pensando de an- itemano en que si logra el triunfo, volvera en los otros comicios a as- pirar, tratando de permanecer en el cargo en forma vitalicia. Es men- ester que solo se piense en cumplir con los electores que le dan la oportunidad de regir los destinos jla ciudad, que nd es de un grupo, ni de otro grupo, sino el patrimonio de todos los que aqui vivimos y deseamos el bienestar comun. Ojala que estas consideraciones sean tenidas en cuenta por la masa electoral y que cuando legue el dia de demonstrarlo, cada cual vaya a y buenos deseos, de aumentar el] “To the. American husbands today don’t) know how to kiss a wife?” writes: & Fz 2 is v z 8 g & i ga" g i i g “A ; i : : li i z i i E i d i f f F | : s ] at F i ra ted a cloud present i Bee i HT BE : : i fl Fig ae iH i ii § i : it z E i E a : ; e z < te eee a3E ie gE fi i i : 2 i a Bg Ec 1 & : ' i] A é gf ick a i fy Ee 5 8 3 £ z z Fi i § i E i i iE : 5 = i i if : if q i | Fe ‘ P a3 i i u | is ae Hl f HS Eis i i i z H i E F ae ete ete 8 t 3 z E much bunkhouse, mess shack, Sree. 5 Sees) ae ik. But Diana was safe and for in Sil- big my ee prem over to men loosened on_ his/ and were squatting on their heels t near their horses. He said to them, eee OL ae well nee ee _PEOPLE’S FORUM : POLIO COMMENT Editor, The Citizen Come, come, now, let’s stop those headlines about polio. After all, it is no worse here than anywhere else. You have the football coaches afraid because of a polio scare, but to full-blooded Conchs, we know the rea- son and it wasn’t polio. Maybe Constance is remember- ing the football season; maybe they didn’t want a shut- out; but outside of this remember, you are hurting the tourist trade. : MRS. M. D. CREEL Hal Boyle Says her hour of charm. husband is the gairest tory because he is able to face NEW YORK # — “Why: is it las urnas, con e} propésito decidido deseos, que si son justos, para el futuro de la ciudad. lanzado su candidatura, merecen a young lady. de elegir a los mejores, derrotando|on the cheek they give you morning’ ‘a los que aspiran, sin capacidades,|and evening is more fitting for a ni antecedentes que abonen esos|mother than a wife. Porque ‘todo ciudadano tiene el derecho de|anyway? ‘There's no sparkle to aspirar, pudieran resultar nocivos,|their sparking.” and give her that peck on “That absent-minded duty peck|cheek. , “What’s wrong with husbands, it a drive started Oct. 14. group nuestro mayor respeto. De todos|young lady's criticism. The re- ellos, esperamos sinceramente,|sponse was unanimous, To a man|Grand muchas cosas buenas y ttiles, en|they denounced it as a caddish el caso de lograr el triunfo en esas/female slur, but mournfully agreed elecciones de noviembre. Les esti-\it was no more than a fellow could lexpect, modern woman being as) confused as she is. i: “The average wife now tries to mother her husband as if he were a |mulamos a todos, para que en el caso de llegar a los cargos qué as- piran, demuestren al electorado! que no vano les favorecieran jeon sus sufragios, procurando ha- jer de este querido Cayo, un lugar’ & Siendo asi, la ciudad habra ga- mado y neustro futuro quedara a- segurado para siempre. Slot Machines Destroyed BATON ROUGE, La. State Police say they have destroyed more than half the estimated 4,000)er we slot machines in Louisiana since|whethe: g i af & i E i8f re g $ lu ei ay Ea? 8 t i nnn \For Bargains Galore, Read Citizen’s Classified Ads, x i cloud of dust in the s they felt the earth were {Te be Expected To Be High Again By FRED S. HOFFMANN il | ise! : f i ae i F & f s i gr [ id ar ft i iz iF ic 138 [ i ea