The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1953, Page 8

ATIONAL CUTS K.' ATIONAL CUTS KW. Close Battles | TODAYS _| : sms Sts os =i & Seen In Pasadena STOCK MARKETIDEATHS Opening This Week | “ aa “LIGHTING UP KEY WEST” |Michigan State-UCLA Rose Bowl ‘dency higher—marked | Mrs. Rose Mary Lopez Langley, NEIL SAUNDERS ANNOUNCES ae ie Ses oa on anes se Complete Neon Sign Service either passing or an extra point Rhona pooeont a he Washington, a ra os Making It 4 Complete Advertising Service carry off the roses. televisions. Other sections of the 1117 EATON STREET TELEPHONE 2-8313 Poge® THE KEY WEST SITIZEN Thursday, December 31, Te Michigan State, the belligerent) . j Mrs. Langley was born and ed- jbaby of the Western Conference, | were steady oF prac opt injucated in Key West, graduating and UCLA, standard bearer for the| evidence on such issues as Mont-/from the Convent of Mary Imma- gomery Ward, American Can, A-|culate, She was a Yeomanette dur- ._merican Cyanamid, Eastern Air/ing the First"World War and was} a first-class Lines, and Zonite. ey = rte ged Sprig aos: leision to Stanford and MSC bowing| a Grunt SS. Tdisee, |Carpenter’s — — E. befits al 60 to Fuciap praplips ou most / Kennecott Copper, Union Carbide, and made her home after the war afraid to ride planes into the field SUPE Sing upsets of Big Ten play.\General Electric, Bethlehem Steel, in Washington, D. C. if they knew the condition of the). iC 0M but 1 touchdowns |Ceneral Motors, and Zenith Radio.| She is survived by her husband; 4 law da claie coats Pacaray« een lone daughter, Mrs. Maxine Miller ey jon that many conversions. H MESA WINS AIRPORT ee ge UCLA has the better defensive! (Continued from Page Une. |pomusl of Merwics, 3 Yo record, however, allowing only 48|tions with seven cars and pay .201/ . aa beagerescaagare ee points ‘to 90 scored on, Michigan|per cent of the gross income per Erandchildven gp Peo \State. eeu. 4 jeorgina Halsted eas irs. Lenora UCLA is figured to have the) Harold A. Wilde, airport advi-/Wall, both of Washington, and Mrs. stronger line and is especially bigsor for the county, said it would Angelina Maloney, Key West; and and brutal at the center and guard be better to award the bid to ajone brother, John M. Lopez, Boule-| field. It was at this point that Allen said the general public would be feck’ Our New Year's resolution: t ‘ve gone all the way wi to serve you to the best of F i E our ability, and to your sal- ih isfaction always! vard Heights, Md. *« x like styles and clothes, "t be routine. er that you utiful. Al-|Methodist Church, tops the list.|figures, too. You have been mak-) that a natural bey Ley Memorial, Fleming Street|ing money out there. You bought) ci ap- a cat’s purr|Press, some 412,000 Americans al-jyou are not ready.” devote a personal care each daily, to Police Chief Joseph Kemp, for whom the new year holds special significance — he'll be officially retired after nearly 30 years of ser- vice when the clock strikes mid- night—issued his usual invitation’ for Key Westers who may imbibe too deeply of “holiday cheer’ to call on the police department for a free home — with no strings at- ‘tached. John Spottswood pleaded with motorists to drive safely. “Let’s make it a really happy New ‘ear and make it a death-free holi- day,” Spottswood said. The New York police department police departments staffed with extra men to handle the usual Duval Street cele- bration, The youth of the community will have their own celebration. “A “fun-night” scheduled at the First! Methodist Churches have joined in sponsoring the event. According to the Associated ready have paid an estimated ¢1,- 729,000 to watch New Year’s Day) “bowl” games. And scores of Key Westers, those who have been enough to obtain tickets, are ‘in Miami for the annual King Or- ange festival and football game. ‘They are led by Mayor and Mrs. (Continued From Page One sized that “any requests for re- patriation ent incidental to the head must be regarded as/ed. “If you can tell us how to raise/ money without raising taxes, we'll! be glad to do it.” | Quevedo spoke briefly again, saying that the advantages of pas- sengers coming through Key West are getting less every year. He added that his air line was not in| a financial condition to help the who | apparently had quietly but doing a | shouting that the line had “one big gravy train out there.” “Since 1947 we haven’t increased! the rentals for the airlines,” he} said. “Now the runways are filled “The colonel (Manuel Quevedo)| says the buildings cost $30,000.! There's nothing out there worth Quevedo interrupted to say: “I have the figures.” “And,” Higgs went on, “I know! you didn’t spend any $30,000 on re- pairs. “herovias Q has had one big gravy train out there,” Higgs shouted. “You have been making big money out there. I’m tired and disgusted with _ subsidizing Aerovias Q and National Air Lines. “I am not going to tax the peo- ple for the field. We've got facts and seven new airplanes. Aerovias Q Promised to buy the field. But) every time we talk money, you say| “After you see our balance! sheets, you won't believe we are! making money,” Quevedo said. | The commissioners then voted) unanimously not to reduce the, rates for Aerovias Q. Foreman, speaking for Nation- al Air Lines, attacked the com- missioners with a loud of figures, | He said the increased rates) would mean an increase of 165 per) cent in the money paid by Nation- al to the county, “We lose $98,000 a year,” he add- Foreman also said that an air- with ruts and holes: |OLD FINE PAID itirely sh| count.” But observers pointed out|line can not raise a fare without) Michigan State is doped as the faster team with a more varied at-| tack and a greater depth of talent! in the backfield. REMINDER POSTED OLYMPIA, Wash. ®—State pa- trolmen will place a pink slip re- sembling a traffic citation on every car parked tonight by places sell- ing alcoholic drinks. It reads: “Why take a chance? If you have been drinking and drive, you! could take a life or lose your own;| land in jail and lose your driver's license for one year.” GREELEY, Colo. ~A Corpus} Christi, Tex., resident sent $1 yes-| terday to Greeley police. He thanked the police for their) patience, and said he was sorry for the delay in paying an over- time parking fine. “Most of my creditors,” he wrote, “raise cain for their money inside of 60 days.” A check of the records showed his ticket was issued Nov. 7, 1948. started with a 50-cent charge for| every passenger and had now up- ped it to $2.50. “As a result,” he said, “our business to Havana is off. Sup- pose every city in the United States put a 50-cent tax on every passenger on every bus, train and plane? And anyway, why | should a person be penalized for | coming inte Key West by air? | “And who,” he added, “is going! to collect the 50 cents a head?” “The air line will pay it,” Wilde| said. “We are not going Morris replied. “You mean National is not go- ing to fly to Key West?” Wilde, asked. “I mean we are not going to Pay it,” Morris repeated. Allen, apparently really steamed) up by this time, again took the floor. “1 believe other air lines would come to Key West if Na- tional doesn’t,” he said. “As far to pay it,” |— lining up most of the gifts, al-) \though all the concerns listed are) Avoid an artificiai are essential to an attractive ap- Pearance, you must also cultivte’ & hige.personality, Let’s all try to improve.our dispositions in "54. » Odds And Ends: Keep comb and Drusb.immaculately clean. This will.keep. your hair clean between shampoos. . . .Shoes should be hed..after wearing, not only , ap. attractive lustre, but to eracks which result from Hang. clothes on hanger moment you shed them. This eliminates un- wrinkles and saves saver the ironing board be- . Replace but- o in. * SE tne Last Beauty Bits that the method used approached a de facto screening. Prisoners walked one at a time into the wire-enclosed corridor around the compound and were handed a piece of paper on which each wrote his name and serial number. The prisoners were kept several feet apart as they moved along the so-called chicken run to a gate where they handed the slip of pa- per to an Indian officer for check- ing against a master roster. Each captive was alone with the officer for several seconds—long enough to ask to go back to Red China if he wished. The count began in enclosure B, which has 16 compounds holding Chinese prisoners listed as refusing to go back to, Communist rule. Prisoners from a few compounds were interviewed by Red explain- ers prior to Dec. 23. Many of the captives, however, have not been |asked whether they want to return ‘home, oe | as I'm concerned, National and aes pale aay the Civil Aeroau-| Aerovias Q are going to pay the He was speaking of adding the| 50-cent per passenger charge to! the ticket price. | “You are the only city in the United States that puts a head tax on passengers,” he said. “And, if the tax goes on we will cut our schedules here to one flight a day.” | Harold A. Wilde, of Miami, coun- ty airport adviser, who also had! ja batch of figures at hand, told) Foreman that “we can’t go to the taxpayers for more money, We) have got to get it from the people {who operate at the field.” Saunders surrendered the eh: to Higgs and then spoke from the} floor in defense of the 50-cent| charge, | “I was present in the La Con- cha Hotel,” he said, “when Bak. |Proposed to put a 50-cent charge | \per head. If you do business, we ‘ this year, so at the ma-| Approximately 20,000 anti-Com-/get revenue. I think it is a fair gic when I say goodbye to|munist prisoners and 100 pro-'and equitable arrangement, ‘and Rello to '54, I'll be wishing Yours a very happy, heal- } i i yf g i i ity H i fos, i i f & ‘i i Eli Whitney Blake who invented the rock crusher was a nephew of Eli Whitney, inventor of the cot- ton. gin and originator of mass reduction. Communists—including 22 Ameri- cans—were not interviewed during the 90 day period provided by the Korean armistice. Two months ago Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Indian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Com- missien, said he could easily | “Frankly,” he continued, “1 am/| | ashamed of the field. We can’t ¢. 50-cent charge. “If they don’t want to serve Key West, we'll get other airlines. We hired Wilde and we're behind him, “If National won’t pay the charge, I for one am going to see| that we get another line — even) if it means my re-election.” | With that, Allen sat down. He} drew a good round of applause from the spectators. The meeting adjourned when the commissioners voted unanimously to deny National’s request for low- er rates, concern that operates on a na-) tional basis the national advertis-) ing of such a concern would bene-| fit Key West. Couture said in its) bid that the company operated 102/after a MRS. MARGARET NOBLE Mrs. Margaret Noble, 55, died short illness Monday rental stations in the United Sta-|@fernoon. tes. 27 FINE GIFTS (Continued from Page One) Bedjacket for the mother, Mar-| Ed Shop. } The idea of getting the first baby of the new year off to a flying start began in the city room of The Key West Citizen. The body will be sent today by the Lopez Funeral home to Bir- mingham, Alabama, where burial and funeral services will be held. Mrs. Noble is survived by her husband,, Bryan Noble, and a sister, Mrs. Arthur I. Smith, | DELZEIL ALBURY | Delzeil Albury, 61 died Tuesday evening in Norfolk, Virginia, where The idea was turned over to ine and his wife had gone for the Harold Laubscher, manager of | the Chamber of Commerce, who | in turn presented it io the Cham- | ber. The Chamber took it from there} not members of the Chamber. CITY OPPOSES (Continued From Page One) to investigate the latter course, since it would be prohibitively ex- pensive, Porter said, to file suit in| Tallahassee. The bone of contenton between the city and the IIB seems to be ithe question of who owns the land. Porter appeared at a hearing in ‘Tallahassee Dec. 15 at which time the sale was set and claimed that the state does not have title to the land. But Attorney General Richard Ervin disputed that contention, and suggested that Logun be given title \to the land, and then the city could|avocado trees and shrubbery. His start legal proceedings, wish to. Chief objection from the city) commission to selling the land is; that the nearby city beach may be} harmed by the alterations that Mazur and Logun plan. The pros- ‘pective owners have already been given permission by the U. S. Army Engineers Corps for their planned alterations, if they Americans consume more than 100 billion pounds of milk a year. Scientists believe that insects) have existed for about 250 million | years, STATION rancis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries jer, president of National Airlines |} | the peopie. The only way we can il | get the money is from the veling public who use the | ties. | believe the CAB wi | You the S0-cent increase. | John L. Morris, vice president of sive | all prisoners who were not |National Airlines, said that Allen | interviewed to give each man ajhad told him that the county was final chance to go home. Later the Indians all but dis- carded any plans for a formal jeonsidering a bond issue to im- \prove the field. | “I told Allen,” Morris said, “that! sereening after learning that the)National would build a terminal at! Communists opposed such a pro- cedure. However, Indian officers indi- cated they felt a strong moral re- sponsibility to give each prisoner an opportunity to request repatria- tion. One scource pointed out that the main requirement for a screening |the field if the cost were spread over years in landing fees.” Morris then recalled that when | he came to Miami in 1936, the city i |was trying to get luxury cruise ships to stop overnight there. “The ships did,“ he added, ‘and the money the passengers is merely to separate the men who| SPent became a lucrative part of want sop home from anti-Com-| Miemi’s business. munist leaders who bring pressure) “Then,” he went against them. n The technique used by the In- 4 wonderfui opportunity to collect dians in making their head count /additional revenue. They put a 50- fulfilled this requirement. The only cent charge on every cruise pass- thing lacking was the deliberate enger. offering of a choice. “I defy you,” he said, “to find a } Single cruise passenger in Miami | The estimated value of minerals today. They killed the goose that jin the water of the Deed Sea is laid the golden egg.” |more @aa a tri dofters. , Morris then said that Cuba had| on, “the H jcommission decided that here was jj Christmas holidays. He died in the home of his wife’s sister Mrs. Nel- lie B. Fitzharris. The body is being brought to Key West. Funeral Services will be held Sunday afternoon at 4:30 p. m. in the Chapel of the Lopez Fune: Home, The Rev, D, T. Newman of the Glad Tidings Tabernacle will officiate at the services. Bur- ial will be in the family plot at; City Cemetery, Survivors are the wife, Mrs. | Alice Blanche Albury; and three | brothers, Leslie Albury, Bernard | Albury and Malcolm Albury, | Mr. Albury was a veteran of World War One and will be buried with full military honors. Arthur} Sawyer Post 28 Honor Guard will attend the funeral and hold grave- side services, Pallbearers will be’ selected from the membership, CHIEF KEMP ROUNDS (Continued From Page One’ | rose garden is a show place. | “I may even do a little fishing,” | he added. He was given a three month ‘eave of absence at full pay by the city commission as a token] of appreciation for his services to} the city, Kemp lives at his Ducan Street) home with his wife, Lucille. He also has a son, Joseph, Jr. KANTOR'S ‘ey West's Oldest and Finest Men’s Store 517 DUVAL STREET This Store Will Be CLOSED FRIDAY SATURDAY For Inventory - OPEN MONDAY AT 8 AM. Key West Supply Co. 219 SIMONTON STREET DIAL 23123 Greetings of the New Year and our sincere thanks to patrons, old and new. May the coming year be a happy and prosperous one for all. LEWINSKY'S MEN'S STORE WE WILL BE CLOSED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY