The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 19, 1953, Page 12

Page 12 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, December 19, ut gett nominations to the Senate this year before Congress quit Aug. 3. This was because the Republi- cans ordered new civil service ex- aminations for all vacancies after they took office last January. They found all the civil service regis: ters. compiled before Jan, 20, 1953, were filled with Democrats. The postmasterships are under civil service and applicants must tests. Nevertheless the jobs always go to members of in power nationally. The may nominate any one persons placing high- on the list established for each vacancy by -cagtpmi examina- among postmasters caused by death, resignation, retirement and dismissal Carlson said in an interview he knew of some cases in which Dem- ocratic incumbents were resisting efforts to get them out of their fobs where Postoffice Department | KIWAN KIWANIS SUNDAY, 4:00 P.M. ye .| set yesterday when she got a tele- department. The Kansan said he had not) jheard of any instances in which a) ¢, Democratic postmaster quit eed rn eause be felt his job should go a’ Republican. j However, some other Republican ithe GOP had been successful in} recent months in getting some! Democrats to quit as postmasters/** ‘through strict checkups of . their) jofficial conduct. of their names, said some post-) masters had quit rather than face! official action seeking their dis-| missal. the book and do not get involved) in any personal misconduct can; knowledged. | Republican senators and House) |members have received a heavy volume of complaints from GOP) partisans who can not understand why the party should not-be able): to take over the postmasterships. | Man Is Sure He Was Not Buried Two Weeks Ago CHICAGO #—James F. (Jim)) Gardiner, 60, convinced his wife—| whom he has not seen since 1947—| \Yhat he is not dead. He also was quite positive in stating that he was not buried two weeks ago as his wife and police believed. His wife, Lillian, 50, was so up- phone call from a man who said }he was her husband she. called police. Police were faced with a mystery—who was the man who cemetery as James F. Gardiner? | Police said the man had been| found dead on the street and) fingerprint records were traced to) jail records of a city jail prisoner listed as J.F. Gardner. Police said Gardiner had spent most of his) time in the city’s Skid Row dis-| triets since he left his wife in 1947, Mrs, Gardiner identified the} sources on Capitol Hill said tha‘| not be touched, these sources | was buried Nov, 30 in Bethany| Gardiner saw him Hollywood HOLLYWOOD — Two young actors, one a night club comic and ithe other a specialist in film vil- Hains, are now filling the cele- brated shoes of Abbott and Cos- ' tello, The lucky players are Buddy ‘Hackett, 29-year-old graduate of the borscht circuit, and Hugh |O’Brian, 28, an actor who is known as the eager beaver of the Univer- \sal-International lot. He is so anx- jous for film roles that he even a part as a treacherous Indian chief, The pair fell into their good for- tune as the result of some bad luck Lou Costello was about to board a plane for a dinner for Sen. Mc- Carthy in Arizona, The rotund co- median collapsed. The strain of doing movies, live and filmed TV, benefits ana other appearances finally struck Lou, jwho .only a few years abck was in bed for a year with rheumatic Notes By Bob Thomas The new team was given the go- ahead signal by producer Howard Christie. “Pm still catching my breath,” said handsome Hugh, from Roches- ter, N. Y. “I tested only a week before the picture started, I wasn’t told to report for work until the morning the picture started. “Of all the actors I ean think of to fill a Bud Abbott role, I am the least logical. I've spent most of my career Playing romantic roles ‘These sources, who refused use allowed his head to be shaved for or villains.” * 0 Tannenbaum: » The-True Storn I asked Hackett how he felt to} | be filling Lou Costello's shoes. “T'll tell you a story,” said the! roly-poly funnyman, who speaks in But Democratic postmasters who for the veteran comics, Abbott and the unmistakable tones of his na- operate their offices strictly by|Costello. A couple of weeks ago. tive Brooklyn. “When i started out as a comedian six years ago, the first review I ever got compared, jme to Lou Costello. Ever since} |then, I have worked hard to avoid) being similar to him. “A year ago, I was called to do a test at this studio, | came in| a tuxedo, but I didn’t have any} patent leather slippers to go with} \fever. Doctors now say his heart'it. They sen: me over .o wardrobe.| will not allow any activity for three to six months. This threw U-In into a ‘izzy. The studio was all set to start “Fire- man Save My Child.” At first the Then studio officials mulled do- ing the film with another team. |O’Brian and Hackett were tested. body as that of her husband. So | did two other relatives, The funeral was held, The man who called Mrs.\of the picture is a typical. Abbott! Gardiner Thursday said: “This is Jim. Can you send me $5?” Mrs. Gardiner said she had sent her husband money occasionally. “You can’t be Jim,” Mrs. Gard-| ‘He's dead. I) iner told the caller. buried him more than two weeks Gardiner insisted he was not an : “I'm alive and I'll be \happy if you'll send me $5.” Mrs. Gardiner called police and they picked up Gardiner. Mrs. at Chicago Lawn station. Yes, she told police, he was her husband, Jim, right! Police said the body buried in Gardiner’s name will be exhumed and the inquest reopened. all| The oniy shoes in the place that Lou Costello! |would fit me were those used by} | “In this picture, I’m trying to} establish my own characterization. | picture was indefinitely postponed. I’m not doing an imitation of Lou.”| O'Brian agreed that they should) avoid comparison to the older team. “We haven't had time to rework the script,” he explained. “But we/ jare changing things as we go} \along. For instance, at the start and Costello routine, in which Bud swindles Lov in a horse deal. “We do the same routine, but at the end I say I don’t have the heart ‘to take his money, I give it back! Santa's Magic Mail Box Dear Santa Claus, I want a train and a game too. I want a jack-in-a-box. Love from FRANKLIN CURRY, 321 Peacon Lane. | | THIS FORTY-FOOT Christmas tree has been erected and dec- orated in Bayview Park by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for use of civic organizations throughout the Christmas sea- son. Various Christmas parties will be held around the tree— Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Texas has 254 counties, Georgia 159, Kentucky 120, Missouri 114, Kansas 105, Illinois 102 and North Carolina dn even 100 while at the jother extreme is Rhode Island |which is not divided into counties. | | © the earth’s total of 36,480 mil-| jlion land acres, about 6,400 million} jacres might be arable says aj |Twentieth Century Fund estimate.! OVERTURE AT 3:45 P.M. $xN Featuring — DBAR CHILDREN: Wherever people are mot free, they cling to faith as long es it is humanly pos~ sible. Prodded into slavery, by goveraments which they are sup- posed to control and in which they have xo fair chance to vote freely, they eventually lose both faith and hope. Our constant prayers should go out for all such people, wher- ever they may be, that they may soon find the yoke of slavery lifted | from their necks and souls, and euce more enjoy the human dig- nity God intended for all people. Then. and ouly then, will peace en- circle the world and restore both hope and faith to the minds of all | men—THE AUTHOR CHAPTER FOUR HINGS through- out the world have speeded up a lot since I was a little boy, and many of my lit- tle friends find it rather hard to understand all about Santa Claus This Liz Sleigh or airplane—it's oll of Santa Claus BENNETT SERVER the same to Sente Clevs. { could be because; alt the personal appearances folk | world—and it is growing larger, | he is always so very busy. There twerange for him | } are 2 lot more people in the world | ‘That is the reason you can see | today than there were when I was | your age Sometimes pictures get us all mixed up. One picture shows Santa in a big airplane. Another one shows him driving his rein- | deer. and we begin to i which picture is right. The tru | fs thet they are both right. Several | years ago Santa bought the big- | gest and fastest airplane in the world; but he often carries his sleigh and his reindeer inside it for short side-trips. EN @ACT, Santa often carries a candy slong. to reach some of the nice Gagun kids<<way down south, in the Bayou country. He also has a lot more special ways to travel, which he has to use in extra spe- cial places—like in Switzerland, where he uses skis to reach lots of the fine Swiss boys and girls. I know, because I've seen him lots of times; but we'll talk @bout that later Santa's job has grown to be such a very big one that he has to use just oodles and oodles of helpers—- or he never would get clear around ® everybody. Why he even has to tress a lot of hig helpers up in Banta Claus suits--just to make KEY WEST KENNEL CLUB Admission: Adults $1.50 Children 75c ATIONAL DIVING CHAMPION KATHERINE RAWLS pF one Santa, ringing a bell on @ street corner, and another one in a big shiny store window. You may see four or five—or maybe 20 more Santas—on one trip down | town to see all the toys and et Just think of all the w he} has to do for each family. ppose your Aunt and Uncle live way off in a distant city. or out in the! country on a farm. Suppose you have more relations in other places. Just to handle things for your own family, Santa would have to go zigging and zagging back and forth—between all these different homes in many different places. You can see that he never would get clear ardund to everybody at Christmastime, if he didn’t call in all the mailmen and expressmen— and borrow thousands and thou- sands of trucks from the stores, for local deliveries alone. eee THE RAILROADS have to put on extra trains and the airlines have to bring out lots of extra planes to handle the Christnias rush. Long strings of heavily-load- ed trucks crowd the main high-| ways between all the cities and towns. Today, Santa Claus’ jot has be- come the busiest business in the jevery year. Why even way back when I was a little boy—very long ago—Santa had to borrow wagons and sieda in great numbers. Railroads an@ river steamboats carried extra heavy loads—even several days after Christmas—because we had no airplanes or motor trucks in | those days. eee YOU YOUNGSTERS should be very thankful that you live in this modern age of fast transportation and up-to-date methods. We had to light our Christmas trees with colored wax candles, which would burn only about 20 minutes. Thea we had to put new candies in the tin candle holders, Our parents always watched the candies very closely as they burned down low, because there was great |danger of the tree catching Gre and burning down our wooden’ Our horse-drawn fire wagons an+ swered many calls during the Christmas season and few years passed without many homes burn- ing to the ground. Today's safety, measures and modern equipment equipment have cut Christmas tree | fires way down from what they were in the olden days. NEXT—Chimneys Ason't Secemery ‘Subscribe for The Citizen--2 Wey AQUACADE STOCK ISLAND OVERTURE AT 3:45 P.M. OUR WATER BALLETS . . » Featuring— KEY WEST'S OWN MERMAIDS XLAQUATIC CLOWNS X4SPECIAL LIGHTING AND EFFECTS +4 LIFESAVING AND SURVIVAL EXHIBITION BUD SEARS Florida AAU Champion JACK CALHOUN Member U.S. 1952 Olympic Team BEAUTY —- and the — BEAST