The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 29, 1954, Page 4

| pesos THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, January 29; 1954 ‘The Key West Citizen Only L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ctl 2 Ae a cam Daily Newspaper in Key West and Menree County . 1921 - 1954 ————_—_____—_—_—— > HORIAAN D. ARTMAN neem, Business Manage: (ence EAL eS tetra he Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter HOMES AND FIFTY-YEAR PAYMENTS Senator Homer E. Capehart, Republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, recently proposed a $1,000,000,000 Government program to help people buy homes on fifty-year mortgage plans. The mortgages might even run to sixty years, according to the Indiana Republican. . Senator Capehart advanced this plan in preference to a publie housing program in which the Government would rent houses to citizens in lower jncome groups. He said the long-mortgage plan would be preferable to the public housing program in that it would make more _ U. 8. citizens home-owners and thus better citizens. Capehart said such a policy would be an effective one in combatting Communism and that, even if the U. S. Government lost some money on the program, it would be beneficial in the long run. ‘While we have not seen details.of-the Capehart plan, the motivation behind the idea is sound, and we agree with Senator Capehart’s theory on home-owner- . ship. Whether a fifty or sixty yea payment plan is too long is a question which will be ‘hotly debated. Generally speaking, we indorse the Capehart idea, although not the specific plan, since it has not yet been presented in the form of a bill. We would like to see more home owners in this community, and in all parts of the country, believing that a man or woman with this responsibility develops a better community spirit. Good grammar, as we get it, is understandable lan- guage. = : Not every dead-beat is a pauper — some of them are well-to-do. Intelligence does not always accompany the degrees that some people acquire. 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American humorist 54. Old musical instrument woman 24. Individuals 25. Merchan: dise 26. Measure of surface 27. Nothing. more than 7 Ht i, @ wh fa > The Situation On Both Sides Editor’s Note—Generations have grown up calling it the Holy Land —the territory centering around Jerusalem, a city where Chris- tians, Jews and Moslems have shrines, But for several years the ‘Holy Land has been torn by strife. There is an armistice, but it fre- quently echoes to gunfire. Exactly what is the situation to- day, on both sides of the armistice line? What hopes of peace exist? ‘AP Correspondent Lynn Heinzer- facts as he saw them. He traveled 2,600 miles through Arab and Israeli areas, and talked with scores of persons, This is the sec- ond of his articles, By LYNN HEINZERLING JERUSALEM (—Since 1949 an armistice line has coiled between Arab and Jew in the Holy Land. It halted a war, but it has brought no peace. : Cutting through the middle of a conflict of emotions and reli- gions, the line has become a guide- post for thieves, saboteurs and murderers on their way to harass the enemy, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” is the practice on this frontier. An incident leads to re- taliation and retaliation to another incident. The Holy Land has become a Place where fishermen on the Sea of Galilee have armed police pro- tection, Shepherds carry rifles in- stead of crooks. Farmers know how to use machineguns and mor- tars. The man plowing toward you in the next field may be planning your murder, There are nearly 600 miles of armistice line separating Israel from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, four of the nations which fought Israel in 1948. Set up in 1949 through the efforts of the United Nations mediator, Dr, Ralph Bunche, the line was ex- pected to be replaced by perma- nent boundaries under peace trea- ties within a few months. It has lasted nearly five years now. There has been bloodshed all along the line, but the real trouble area extends for about 80 miles from the Jordan city of Tulkarm in the north, through Oalgiliye, the Latrun Valley, Jerusalem and down to Idna in the south. On the Israeli side of the border, are the greatest concentration of Israel’s population and a large Proportion of the border settle- ments it has established, backed up by the Israeli army. On the other side are Jordan's heavy population centers, excepting Am- man, and the border outposts of the well-trained and well-equipped Jordanian army, the Arab Legion. And, mixed in with the population and army at points usually not more than 20 miles from the bor- der and often within walking dis- tance, Palestinian | refugees in Jordan. ling was assigned to. report the! Tense Armistice Is Observed In Holy Land Arab refugees in Jordan spent! jmost of their lives in the fields) jacross the border, To them a crossing is as easy as going across a street. This is called . “infiltration.” Israeli police say infiltration causes most of the Border troubles} and is deliberately organized.| Authorities in Jordan acknowledge| there is a great deal of it and say they are making every effort to stop it, In the early days after the war,| refugees who had buried their Money in orange groves or se- creted it under a house streamed across the border to recover it.| Even now there is an understand- able compulsion for refugees to| prowl around their old villages or to try to get oranges from some of the trees they planted. | { border can see Jewish farmers cultivating fields taken away from them in the armistice negotiations. Budrus is a small border village near Kibya, where Israeli soldiers} destroyed a large part of the town and killed 62 persons in October. The village lands of Budrus were reduced from 3,000 acres to about 1,000 by the armistice, A large part of an olive grove was taken from the village, The school was put in the demilitarized | zone and it was necessary to move! the children into a makeshift} schoolhouse and pay rent for it.| The Arabs in the village formerly sold their vegetables and fruits in Lydda, now four miles away in Israe, There are many other examples of mosques, schools, lands and wells being sliced from villages. The loss of a piece of land is/ tragedy to the Arab farmer. For a piece of land to lie idle in the| demilitarized zone or beyond, when it could produce food for the work- ing, is incomprehensible, Some Arabs with homes on the|°, |police actually were committed by armed for trouble. The settlements often are manned by ex-soldiers and their size is a military secret. Women are trained to use rifles. one small settlement had rifles,| machine guns and mortars. Israeli authorities acknowledge that these soldier-farmers some- times take the law in their own hands. An official commented: “It is difficult for them to sit by idle after getting established! with many difficulties and see their cows, fruit or irrigation pipe stolen or, sometimes, a friend killed.” Many of these Israeli farmers are refugees themselves, having fled from persecution in Europe. Lt. Mohammed Barghouty of the Arab Legion, a member of the Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, calls the border in- cidents “‘a part of high Israel poli- “Without them,” he said, “Is- rael would get no aid from the United State. Most of the aid for Israel comes from American Jews and they must be convinced that Israel is at war with the Arabs. When the borders have been quiet for a time, they always start trou- ble.” Lt. Barghouty also charged that Israel is undergoing a ‘serious crime wave” and many crimes traced to the border by Israeli Israeli criminals, Abraham Eel- inger, head of the Israeli Criminal Investigation Department, denied the existence of a crime. wave. Police statistics show 13,000 seri- ous crimes in 1952 compared with 4,292 in 1948, but Israel’s popula- tion has about doubled-in that peri- od. Police statistics show that 239 A MAN IN THE HOUSE Chapter 18 A= MAE'S lips tightened. “Understand me, Jane, I'm “not accusing you of doing any- ‘thing out of the way. But, my dear child, you never were one to consider how things looked to other people. Jane sighed wearily. She was tired and Aunt Mae was in one of her more difficult moods. “Well, what have I been doing that looks unseemly?” she ask: “Well, for one thing, you spend aa evenings dancing with this y. Look how it was when I walked in this evening. Carl shut away up in his study. You carry- ing on with this boy—” “We weren't carrying on,” Jane retorted, “whatever you may mean by that. Ted was teaching me a new dance step. And if my husband doesn’t object, I can't think of any reason why anyone else should.” “Sometimes,” stated Aunt Mae, “jt occurs to me that your hus- band is blind as a bat.” “Really?” said Jane. “Tl tell you frankly that for a young wife to spend evening after evening dancing with a man not her husband, in a room alone ; with him—well, in my day it ; would have been considered very | daring behavior indeed. A nice girl wouldn't have done it and a sensible husband would not have stood for it.” “So what?” Jane said. “But you go even farther than that,” Aunt Mae _ announced. “You've been seen dancing with this boy, clad in your lounging robe, a garment wHich should be reserved for the privacy of your own room and for your hus- band’s.” JANE straightened, her eyes suddenly furious. “To start} your with, that isn’t true. Sometimes in the evening I put on that old velvet cocktail gown. I'm trying to wear it out. Bat that's neither here nor there. You say I've been seen. Who saw me? Who's mak- ing it their business to advertise what I wear and what I do?” “Old Sarah Nichols,” said Aunt Jane, and she had the grace to look a trifle shame-f: . Sarah Nichols, Who was seventy-five if she was a day, lived in the ram- bling old house directly across the street from the Whittier house. She lived there quite alone, except for the aged negress who cooked for and cared for her. Safah took quite a little caring fox, because she was helplessly crippled with arthritis and spent all of her days and many of her nights in a wheel chair drawn up to the bay window of the front downstairs room. “I suppose the old tiers ae has been spying on me throug those binoculars,” Jane snapped furiously. “Now, now, Jane. You mustn’t take that attitude. Learn to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Just try to put pours in poor Sarah's position. uppose you'd been sitting in a wheel chatr for twenty years, seeing nothing of life except what you could glimpse from your front window.” 3 “Well,” Jane said, still angry, “the old hag seems to see plenty from where she sits. Plenty that doesn’t happen, is what I mean. Oh, well—" Sheshrugaed, laughed. “Thanks for telling me, darling. Now I'll remember to draw the drapes.” 2 “There are quite a few other things that are causing talk. That dance last week, for instance. You PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes ssions of the views of its read- » but the editor reserve: ight to delete any items which considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. WEATHER SQUABBLE HEARD IN NORTH Editor, The Citize In reading The Citizen I’ve noticed that the weather Key West hasn’t been much good publicity lately. Seems like news reporters would try te Play up some of the better aspects squabble is becoming quite the thing. One thing in Key West’s favor is, that on the Dave Garroway TV show each morning the nations highest temperature for the particular city is given and Key West has been men- tioned very frequently. His program covers all NBC sta- tions out to the midwest, so, many people know which is the warmest whether Miami papers say so or not. Twelve Mile Reef opened here last Friday and the manager found out through one of my friends that I had a part in it. He asked me to drop in and see him and in the meantime arrangements had been made, by him for-a reporter and radio broadcaster to be present. The Norfolk Virginian Pilot did the story which ap- peared last Sunday and radio station WHG did a 15 min- ute interview. Monday the wife, family and I were in- vited to see it and it is remarkably good, All the scenes shot in Key West brought back many memories to both my wifgand I. The picture is held over for the second week and from the manager’s viewpoint it is doing a tremendous business. He said that in every showhouse that has had it, the Conchs look unfavorable and builds the Greeks up. That may be my view but when you see it, let me know Arab infiltrators were captured in October and November while 436 escaped across the border. The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) is considering legislation which would set up special army courts In this setting, Maj. Gen. Vagn) Bennike, chief of the United Na- tions truce supervision organiza- tion, said recently: “The present situation on the} Israel-Jordan demarcation line is) due to a large extent to the prob-| lem of infiltration, One of the caus-/ es of civilian crossing of the de-| marcation line is for illegal cul-| tivation. Almost all cases of illegal| cultivation with which the Mixed, Armistice Commission has had to! deal are cases of cultivation “by Arabs of lands which have been separated from Arab villages by) the armistice demarcation lines.” | The illegal traffic across the | armistice line is by no means one} way, From 1949 through October} 1953, Jordan complained that 212) crossings of the line by Israeli! jmilitary units violated the arm-| jistice. Jordan further complained| Of 32 cases of unarmed crossings. The pattern is different on the Israeli side. Israel, in the same Period, complained of 422 cross-} | | | | groups, to deal with infiltrators and pro- vide life sentences for armed ma-| rauders. Unarmed _ infiltrators would be subject to five-year sen- tences. Dr. Abraham Biran, Israeli com- missioner for the Jerusalem dis- trict, asserts infiltration could be greatly reduced if Jordanian au- thorities would cooperate. Investi- gation and pursuit are now stopped at the armistice line, he said. Many Arabs, he said, even risk crossing the line to buy bread in Israel, where it is cheaper. Minor adjustments of the line, putting wells and cemeteries back in their villages, also could be made, he said, “if the Arabs only would sit down and talk it over.” SCOUTING NEWS if I’m right. JACK K. BURKE, JO2, USN Staff, ComSubRon 6 U. S. Naval Base Norfolk 11, Virginia January 20, 1954 AIRLINES AGREEMENT ASKED Editor, The Citizen: After reading the National Air Lines’ report of the number of passengers they carried from January 1st to January 19th in your paper of January 20th, I am ata loss to understand why National Air Lines would have you publish this report, as during this period they only had one flight from Key West daily and in most cases, the schedule of this flight did not connect with schedules leaving Miami, Had National not curtailed their flights from Key West, I am sure they would have carried several hundred more passengers. It so happened that, on January ist, Mrs. Helberg and my two sons had reservations on the early flight from here to Miami for connections leaving Miami at 10:00 A. M. Due to the cancellation of the flight, it was necessary for me to send my wife and sons by car in business was excellent, One bad feature is that it makes lof our town, What with the NAL squabble, controversy about the police department, etc., tourists ‘and visitors must think that Key West is the most undesirable place in the world to live. Of course, the airline situation is really serious and I can under- stand why the hotel owners are worried. However, so much bad publicity concerning the police force doesn’t seem necessary, Have you been reading about how the United States almost went into a deal to sell butter to Russia at a below-cost-price? Boy! Some- times I think we send our most stupid men to Washington to handle our affairs. Millions of Americans haven't tasted butter since before the war but our Agriculture Dept. manages to store up so much that it wants to send it to our worst enemy. I would rather see the stuff dumped overboard, Maybe the above opinion doesn’t sound charitable but Charity isn’t in my heart wherever the Russians are concerned, Seems like they are always playing us for a sucker —even with their pfesent pretension of wanting peace talks in Berlin, Oh, well, let’s get off of such weighty subjects. Let me tell you a little something about Dick's Tire Service ... We are located at 929 Truman Ave, That Is right a from the Land O° Have you ever capped? Ours town that does this You might find it interesting stop by and lock over equipment. Lodi reca most economical tires put on your car or fully guaranteed, Dick’s Tire Service {s quarters for U. S. Rayol you prefer something new. you buy at Dick’s, you that you get the highest |value for your old tires, |and visit us. For prompt, courteous roa@ ser- ivice, the telephone number is 2-2842, And don’t forget that we specialize in working on truck tires. —(Advt.) g i i tue? ti seebcts? zit é E i : | Clocks came into use in ‘about the 13th Century there is evidence they were ti Ship 250, Explorers Scouts An-| order to make this connection. We have had numerous |@¢ some centuries earlier, are most of the 474.000 ings by unarmed individuals or "2U! Charter was renewed last! ; y 170" enasings "by armed Bight at a meeting attended by Mr. Six years ago the refugees lived individuals or groups. These are SPears and Capt. A. H. Dropp. The| i guests detained in- Miami for the reason they could not get air transportation to Key West. Political 29. Violent on the other side of the border. the infiltrators, armed and ul 30. Toward the east 32. Tank 34. English author 37. Possessive Pronoun 40. Pouch 42. Invest mt] 44. Gaelic 46. Bristle At many places in the country the line is marked only by stones painted white. Jewish farmers on one side of the line and Arab farmers on the other may find themselves working with only a patch of weeds between them. At other points, notably in and around Jerusalem, in the Latrun Valley and in Galilee, there sre narrow demilitarized zones between the two countries. Neither army is able to guard every foot of the frontier between Israel and Jordan. ft requires no special cunning to slip across the ifields at night and move toward ithe nearest lights, Some of the m: .2 Tiver @ 48. Behave 49, Be per- mitted 50. Fowl 53. Solemn Unit Committee elected officers for! armed. Israel made 58 complaints the coming year. The appointed of-| of crossings by military units. ficials are J. K. Garbor ehairman,| There has been some calculated J. L. McGrievy Secretary, L. J or inadvertant incitation to trouble/Xlemm Treasurer, G. A. Wood, by the new proprietors of former Chairman of Board of Review Arab orange groves, one United) Plans were made for the current Nations official said. Near Qal-\¥€4F Program for the Exploers of qiliye, he said, Israeli’ farmers SMP 250. A 25 foot cabin cruiser! harvested the oranges from groves }* being made ready for sea trips owned by Arabs, then stacked the the nearby keys. crates in full view of the Arabs.| Skipper Alvarez can use a lot of [The Arabs “naturally felt they esPlorers. Any boy from the age |sbould go and get some,” he add,jof 14 to 18 is invited to attend the ed. “In a few cases ambushes have neXt meeting of Ship 250, which been laid near such orange meets Na tg ule nar | groves.” 7p. m. in omm! 3 Israel has a string of agricultural Office Building at the corner o% settlements along the border, all, Tropical and Seminary. os | No doubt all hotels, motels and other businesses in| Key West are tremendously affected by this situation} of not having proper and adequate transportation that | a city like ours deserves. | It is most unfortunate that this situation should arise | and particularly at this season of the year and it is! my sincere hope that, for the benefit of all concerned, | our County Commissioners and the Air Lines will come| to at least a temporary agreement soon, which will allev- iate this emergency. Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For State Senator 24th Distrieg MILTON A. PARROTT Monroe County eat A Sena‘ce Yours very truly, CHARLES HELBERG, President, The Key Wester January 22, 1954