The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1954, Page 4

Pages THE KEY WEET CITIZEN Wednesday, February 3, 195 Pada nF ant ta A cso disc Saa e The Key West Citizen eee ee a ay SR oom ew mas of Greet ; Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher Wi NORMAN D. ARTMAN 0. Business Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN |. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Ba‘ Favilien. Consolidation of and City Gov ts. : County City ernmen' COFFEE PRICES AND THE PUBLIC The United States is the greatest coffee-drinking nation in the world, Unlike England, where tea is the national drink, in the United States coffee has establish- | ed itself as the national hot beverage and, as a result, | consumption is tremendous. | The latest dismaying news to the country’s coffee- | drinkers came in recent announcements of price in- | creases up to five cents a pound. One company annotn- ced, only several weeks after a five-cent increase had been announced, that another similar increase would have to be put into effect in another month or two. These | increases have pushed the price of coffee up to over a dollar a pound. The general reaction among American coffee-drink- ers is that this is terrible news, although no one seems ready to do anything about it. Yet there is one sure corrective measure which could be taken, and which would bring the price of coffee. down rapidly, That is, if several million coffee-drinkers decided to take two weeks off from their coffee-drinking, sub- stituting tea of some other beverage, the price of coffee would find its way back down to more reasonable levels. As in the case of women’s clothing, if the women re-|7° fused to. buystie. latest fad, they could gain a measure of control othrtheir destiny. Likewise, if se¢eral million ladies deci which do n6t last nearly as long as original nylons did, they could férce producers to either lower prices or bring back top-quality nylons. ! The tragedy in this situation is that the public is not organized and that unified action is almost impossible to obtain, Therefore manufacturers can adjust prices to practically any level, within reach, and the unorganized consumer can only accept that price increase or stop using the product. We strongly commend the latter course to the nation’s housewives if the cost of any pro- duct they buy regularly takes a sudden upturn. If enough housewives try this remedy, they will be surprised at its |i effectiveness. Most of the good things that come to individuals in life have to be paid for in some manner. A sick man who pays no attention to what his doctor says-should not blame the medical profession if he fails to get well, : Cl ANB] Crossword Puzzle fz: 31. Copy 35. Wind in- strument 36. Pace 37. Beat: 38. Make URL ISTH) slang a E|NIDISHBR|O} INIO|OISIE MS LIRIA\ EIAIRMEEITINIAISBELIEIG) they would refuse to buy nylon stockings: This Rock 2 a | says it would like to see all judic- jial und law enforcement positi: | taken out of the field of politics. | (Nol that we ever expect to live to| Of Ours By Bill Gibb Well, it used to be Errol Flynn, ‘Tommy Manville, or somebody like that. Now we have a new ‘lover boy’ in the person of Jimmy Roose- proved it when she broke out this recent rash of publicity, How- ever, I can’t say that she is any more to blame than her husband. The ones who are really going to ing fees for political office relegat- ed to ancient history along with poll tax, We would be able to a better representative group) ambitious politician Now, let me just turn completely) around and make a liar out of my- jand properties of other people, is! too important a post to be filled! iby polities. It seems to me that it would, take someone like Jesus Christ to) -| break today is the most remarkable. Seems to relieve a wise to let, things stand the they are. And once again, “This Rock” and ¢ne in which all of him through following lations, . PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes jions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves tight to delete any items which + ate considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine: to 200 words and write on one side of the paper -§ ire of the writer must accompany the Aetters and will lished uniess requested otherwise. WANTS TO LIVE IN KEY WEST Editor, The Citizen: I’m inspired by your city’s climate, blue skies, flow- ers and trees and above all by the “Courtesy” of the people here and I love it so, that instead of being a resident of N. Y. City, I'll try to become a resident of your city—Key West, Fla. . SAUL A. ISRAELSOHN us can police regu- _DIPLOMATIC BREAK Editor, The Citizen: Please excuse this presumption. The diplomatic five-year stalemate. According to the papers, the foreign ministers have reached some common ground. Molotov’s list of “three broad categories of issues which could be taken up—reduction of armaments, im- provement in political relations among nations. and mea- sures to increase international trade,” is the broad base all have called for. All the ministers can agree on this base for a five power conference, This can give France peace in Indochina, the United States a Korean settle- ment, East-West trade for the British and others, and the prospect of disarmament and atomic agreement. A ifraaniy : witty : i i 5 f 2 Te ik Es gs age ig. ie 5 é 7 Hi i & a a= if 8 i as $8 l i Be* if f ee LJ | By Florence Stuart “What do you mean?” sipped his drink, eyes to drink in the of her flushed face. in love with you, Jane. You know it, don’t you? You must know it I suppose it the first day I met you. ww something was happen- ing to me, but I didn’t take it too i » J always go for a pretty girl This time I fooled is time it is important. very deep.’ a He drew.a long, sighing breath, ; |Jet_ his fingers tighten over hers. that’s the way it is, beau- tiful. it’s why it’s time for me to be on my way.” Jane said, her voice low, scarcely articulate: “What makes you so sure the is i with ool eed Ted i not tal her too seriously. “She oe said. “Aren't you?” JANE said: “I don’t know. Ted, . Can I talk to ie She told him then about her doubts, ber fears, all her trou- bled ey over her mar- riage. She said: “You've been living with us; you must have noticed that =e just aren't right between Carl and me. I've begun = “oes it a ever loved me, really, ‘im right sort of wife for him.” Ted lit a cigarette. “You cer- tainly aren't being smart when ou talk like that, honey." He i the match onto a tray, laughed. Then suddenly he was dead serious. “Whatever gave you the idea that your hus! isn’t in love with you?” he asked. “Why, the guy’s A blind man couk is| We Learned The Hard Way IN THE HOUSE how everyone runs Td © Stark raving had his job. Have a Try to see his angle.” would gee ing us r and everythi: Tm scared. I need to talk to|$ai nuts about i id see that War In Korea Taught Air Force Many Lessons Editor’s Note — Korea’s costs,of the Korean War was to gain anjand direct them onto the strike, were high, but. it. taught the Air Force a great deal. In the first of three articles by the chief of the) Associated Press Tokyo bureau,| the commander of the far East) Air Forces discusses the valuable| lessons learned the hard way. /These ‘exclusive’ interviews have! jbeen passed by Air Force censors.) By ROBERT EUNSON TOKYO # — Korea, a bomb- blasted peninsula sticking down into the Yellow and Japan seas, has cost the United States dearly. But Gen. Otto P. (Opie) Wey- land believes air superiority crip- pled the Communists in Korea by knocking out their planes, supplies, equipment and manpower, while our infantry held the forward de- fense line and the Navy protected the sea lines of communication, “Although in the minds of some men, too many millions of U. S. dollars have been pumped into the learned may save the freedom of the world,” the four-star command- ing general of Far East Air Force said in an interview. “We know U.S. Air Force jets, once criticized as\too fast for the Korean conflict, proved .a superior weapon on the deck or at 50,000 feet—dissolving factories or knock- ing MIGs from the sky 110 to 2 as in the last two months of the fight. , “We know that the jet fighter | has come inte its own. Forty-eight | rockets, all capable of knocking} down an enemy bomber or fighter, can be fired from. a jet fighter. Two 1,000-pound bombs or a weap-/ on of mass destruction can be car-} Surely diplomacy for peace can make a new start on this. F. MANN Hotel La Concha January 28, 1954 QUERY IS ANSWERED | Editor, The Citizen: In reference to Edgar Willing’s letter in your paper | January 25th, the Chamber of Commerce sponsored a | page ad in The Citizen congratulating the Navy upon the completion of its new Fleet Sonar School. The Chamber, in attempting to focus attention upon .| this new facility which will mean a great deal to our community, canvassed al] sub-contractors on the job and | asked them to split the cost of the page, which they did. The architect, Robert Law Weed, although defray- | ing part of the ad costs, stated he was prevented from having his name appear in such an ad because of pro- | fessional ethics. Government contracts are awarded to the lowest | bidder. The firm of Fred Howland was awarded the general contract. I do not know how many local firms "| bid on sub-contracts but regrettably, apparently none of | them received contract awards. Mr. Willing’s interest in Chamber of Commerce activity is to be complimented, The Chamber is conduct- ing a membership drive next month. All interested citi- zens are invited to affiliate and become a little closer to the organization’s activities. ried by jet fighters and pinpointed to demolish a factory, or wipe out! a military communications center, or an enemy airbase stocked with) planes which could strike a score} of American cities.” . | So says a quiet man, blond, over 6 feet tall, America’s foremost air tactician and top combat leader, with 19 months’ command experi- ence in Europe and 36 in the Far East. the Korean conflict—that of allow- ing the ground troops to hold the line while the Air Force pounds everything of value behind the lines. There was only one thing wrong with this method—the Communists knew about it. “Offensive air interdiction—in armistice rather than a total. vic- “Also, the terrain in Kored made tory, the ground force mission was|it necessary to search from the two-fold: air, Our T6 Mosquito plane pilots 1. Insure that all air and ground/learned the terrain in their sector installations stayed in friendly|2nd could read it like a book. They bands. ae tell —— seo enemy 2. Defend certain terrain fea-;/made any change in topog- tures with a view to minimizing|T@Phy and they knew where he was casualties pending an. armistice, iding. A new concept of warfare was) developed in the last two years of The <object of the Air Force,) Weyland said, was to put so much pressure on the enemy from the \sky that he would have to agree to an armistice and give up his goal of overrunning Korea, “The enemy was suffering so many losses and having so much trouble supplying his troops he had to have the armistice. “Sure they got some supplies ‘through and they got some people through, It was like some foreign country holding the lower half of \Florida and trying to keep the whole United States from supply- jing the northern half, The weight of people alone would get some of. it through. The Communists had tall of Manchuria freeding North Korea!” One reason we couldn’t stop all) |supplies, was because “no suitable |weapon has yet been invited to \combat‘A’ frame.” And ‘A’ frame jis a type of harness which Korean laborers carry on their backs to {transport incredible loads. Both the North and South Korean ar- mies were able to supply troops in rough terrain and far from the roads by the use of the ‘A’ frame: and long trudging columns of laborers. While the Air Force was carry- ing out its mission of hammering) the enemy into submission, sev-| eral techniques in warfare were developed, Gen. Weyland says, “In the last war we used ground controllers for close support mis- sions, but jets are fast. Often you can’t sit up there and wait for someone to spot a target when you are in a jet, and they use more of fuel when close to the ground. “When we realized we would have to switch to jets, to maintain air superiority, we devised the’ system of having a slower plane, |the North American T6, pick out jthe target, then call in the jets i ES Suspicious Let ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Most St,| Joseph barbers want a five-day week but they’re leery about put- military language, that meansjting the plan on a voluntary ba- ‘b:asting supply lines—was difficult sis. after the (armistice) talks start-| Eighty of the 93 union and non-| ed,” Weyland said, “because there'union barbers here have submit- was no ground offensive which |ted a petition to the City Council would bring the enemy out into the! asking that an ordinance be passed open. He didn’t have to commit!compelling all barber shops to his reserves or supply his front jclose on Monday as well as Sun- line- units, if he didn’t want to, day. 3 because he knew he wasn’t going! “We want it done by ordinance to have to stop a ground offensive. jto eliminate any unfair competi- “Consequently, if the enemy atition,” said Harry Limle past pres- ithe front needed supplies he sim-jident of the barber's’ union. ply moved back and got them. Orj| ————— if he ran out of ammunition he Between 1935 and 1940 about five, Just quit shooting. What difference per cent of the population of the did it make? United States moved to other states “$0 ‘they’ put a ——. on fhe spot and call for jets or the Mustang F5is to come in and lay their eggs.” Weyland said great advances were also made during the Korean War in the use of radar, but said coe not go into too many de- tails, “In the last war,” he said, “We had radar for guiding bombers and fighter bombers, but nothing as good as we had in Korea. In fact, when the MIGs got so violent in March 1951 and we switched our B20s from daylight to night raids, there was almost no loss in ac- curacy, “Those big guys can sit up there now and bomb through the. darnd- est muck you ever saw and knock out a factory, a bridge, or eiemy strong points and troops just a short way in front of our own lines, with no risk to our own troops.’’ When Weyland—he pronounces it to rhyme with highland—speaks of improvements in “air war tech- nique, every one listens. He has had more combat experience than any other general officer in the U.S. Air Force—with his total of almost five years as a combat commander—and he guided the air war in Korea with great suc- cess almost from the beginning. As commander of the 19th ‘Tae- tical Air Command, Weyland roared across Europe with the late Gen, George S, Patton, whose 3rd Army was powerhousing the Allied offensive , Weyland still ‘cherishes letters from Patton, among them one which said: “As usual we feel that the great successes achieved are the result of the unselfish coopera- tion and comradeship existing be- tween the air and ground troops.” Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For State Senator 24th District MILTON A. PARROTT For Member School Board RE-ELECT really settle a case fairly if the) “He could save his -| while between 1940 and 1947 about parties involved to be up ammu- | while For Yours truly, : nition in some sectors and then|10 per cent of the people moved (D, a close political friend and} (2), a despised political enemy. |Lopez has established a reputation ‘for extreme honesty. Maybe it is HAROLD R. LAUBSCH Manager January 29, 1954 » fire it all at once in ‘support of a limited ground action.” | Weyland said that after armi- ‘stice talks began and the object bait used in Atlantic fisheries, % to other states. Squid are an important source of!