The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 10, 1954, Page 8

‘ FLORIDA. Stennis Raps BRIEFS Sending Airmen Pages THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, February 10, 1954; The Weatherman Decide NYC NEWS Busines And BRIEFS Pleasure Mix | | Sports Says snare Key West and Vicinfty: Petr snd Control Today TAMPA W— Jack A. Smith, |Tampa businessman, was named \king and Miss Gay Dantzler queen last night by Ye Mystic Krewe of To Indochina By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON WASHINGTON UPPER HEYFORD, England Le jkilled in the crash of a U.S. Air At Golf Clubs ATLANTA W—The Four American airmen were, American Roundup Ser i ; country club can mix 18 holes of a. Stennis Force Stratojet bomber here Mon- golf with talk about par and par| y in | Anyway, that’s what the nation’s to a first-class dog show such as club managers are claiming. jthat of the Westminster Kennel They say the turnstiles of Amer-\Club, which annually takes over an economics are clicking in the Madison Square Garden for two mild today and Thursday with Gasparilla, Tampa’s oldest and /(D-Miss) contended’ today the Ei-'day, the Air Force announced to- jlight to moderate variable winds,!most important social club. Miss| senhower administration violated a day. mostly Southwesterly. Low tonight Horpes ridings erp meeninar prog by sending 200 Air Force Earlier reports said only three about 63, high tomorrow about 77.\pantzler. cae “|mechanics into Indochina before ™eM Were aboard the 600-mile-an- Florida: Fair and slightly warm-, ' “ hour atom bomber which crashed jconsulting key congressmen. ! jer this afteroon and tonight. Thurs-- TAMPA U—Five By Gayle Talbot had how they ever teach show dogs to stand with their hind legs stretched out behind them like they were looking for a fight, the answer is that they don’t. At least, not the By ED MORSE NEW YORK #—The chips own today in Robert R. Young’s bid for control of the huge New » York Central Railroad. The Central's 15-man Board of «m 4es6 he is made chairman as well, Mean : and exploded while coming in for ie: aliens who) Stennis, a member of the Senate day partly cloudy and mild follow- landing. ed by scattered showers Thursday night or Friday. Jacksonville Thru The Florida Straits: Moderate Southwesterly winds, fair thru tonight, increas- ing cloudiness Thursday. Western Caribbean: Gentle to moderate Northeast and East winds If these demands are refused,*™ fair wether. thru Thursday. according to a reliable source who! Key West, Fla., Feb. 10, 1954 asked not to be named publicly,|Observations Taken At City Office ‘Young will come to New York to-| at 7 AM., EST morrow and unleash a proxy fight) TEMPERATURES for control of the Central. Young Highest yesterday would spurn the directorships un-\Lowest last night Directors meets in the railroad’s massive building astride Park ave- Bue, Overshadowing all other business will be Young’s demand that he and Allan P. Kirby, his old-time financial ally, be seated as direc- tors and that Young be made board chairman, 7| Lakeland; the source said. Norma! A refusal by the Central could Jead to one of the epic railroad wars of the nation’s history. i The Young interests are reported to hold 300,000 shares of the Cen- PRECIPITATION Total last 24 hours Total this month . Deficiency this month Total this year 0 ins. .22 ins. -29 ins. -55 ins. tral’s 6,447,410 shares of outstand-) ing common stock. | For years Young has freely! Deficiency this year ... 1.50 ins, Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 90% \lived in Tampa have been deport- ed to Cuba in the last two years for Communist affiliations and an finquiry is being made about a sixth, the U. S. Immigration Serv- ice has reported. JACKSONVILLE w— Fontaine Lemaistre, Jacksonville attorney, was elected president \dren’s Home Society |the annual board of directors meet- jing yesterday, Named vice presidents were Henry W. Land, Apopka; William J. Tyler, Miami; Randal] R. Bell \Jr., Pensacola; Sydney Schwartz, Franklin G. Russell, |Brank D. Bisbee, Arthur W. Perry Jr., Francis B. Childgess, all of Jacksonville. TALLAHASSEE (#—Director Ed- vate School Approval Agency has jbeen named a temporary execu- tive assistant to Acting Gov. Char- ley Johns, |Armed Services Committee, said in an interview he favors immedi- ate recall of the U. S. mechanics as a move to avoid possible direct linvolvement in the long anti-Com- | munist war there. | Declaring that “I’m no isolation- ist,” he said he believes a major- ity of the Senate Armed Services of the Chil- Committee opposed sending the! of Florida at) mechanics into Indochina. He add-| jed he favors increased American laid in money and equipment. | Sen. Byrd (D-Va), in a separate interview, called it a “risky step” to send the mechanics. He, too, |said members of the Armed Serv- jices Committee were not informed and that they. were told of the plan by Adm. Arthur| |in advance, The plane was from the USAF 22nd Bomb Wing which arrived here about six weeks ago on a 90- day training mission from March |Field, Calif. |. WASHINGTON, w—An advertis-! ing agency has come up with some- thing it calls “cow-fee’ as one answer to high coffee prices and milk surpluses. It’s a beverage using both cof- fee and milk. The agency, appar- ently working for milk producers, {put on a press preview yesterday. |Cow-fee” uses hot milk poured over instant coffee powder. j ore days of blue-blooded yapping, can Ithan in the osk pansies retreats be both interesting and rewarding of corporation directors. if one keeps his ears and eyes | The Club Managers Assn. of Pen and doesn’t get into any argu- |America, in annual convention/Ments about dogs. jhere, reports rising popularity of In the first place, it is quite a jelubs throughout the country— sight just to see the floor of the yacht clubs, horseback clubs, coun-/Garden around the judging rings try clubs, downtown athletic clubs, Packed with persons from many skiing clubs, water skiing clubs. |States, with the overflow extending The public, concluded the man-/high into the balconies, and to jagers, is learning how to relax realize that every last one of them jand enjoy life—but also is com-|iS there because he thinks that dog bining business with pleasure. _|!S man’s best friend. It is a more | The idea is that a few good|Sober, tense gathering than one |Wednesday afternoon rubbers of S¢es at the horse show, bridge among business titans can Tightly clutched in most fists is jbe a stimulus to real estate sales,|@ Copy of the official program, jeotton futures or the rutabaga Which retails at $1.50, without pic. WASHINGTON, — The Air market. jtures. Most of those sitting or Force announced yesterday it will) “There's more business trans-|standing six deep around the rings jward R. Hafner of the State Pri-| W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a secret session last Friday. That followed publication of jbuild five new bases and reopen/acted at our place than anywhere have their copies opened _at the jeight others in the Midwest, Far else in town,” ventures Alice L.|right page and spend their time |West and the South in the year|Nelson, attractive manager of a Studying the small type with the that starts July 1. jtraditional Omaha club which is,S@me rapt absorption seen on a |Mewspaper accounts saying 125 or) more technicians had been sent. Byrd said the next steps would |be requests by the French for U.S. The bases are needed, said the restricted to men. to 137 wings. jtace track special out of Penn Sta- |Air Force, to support expansion! Louise K. Buell of Chicago thinks tion. jshe has collected enough informa- Except for the murmur of voices, stated that he wanted to control! the Central. The Chesapeake and| Barometer (Sea Level), 7:00 A.M. Ohio _ Railway Os eee 30.07 ins. —1018.3 mbs, tral stock} ie yg ate co as board). , Tomorrow's Almanac chairman. But Young was barred oner in 1948 from becoming a director) ronrise * of the Central by the Interstate)’ at Commerce Commission, which ob- “00s jected to interlocking directorates| TOMORROW'S on competing roads, y hoe sap Fee apa ea — (Naval Base) largest le a stock, are being held, under an| Wish Tide a ICC order, by the Chase National 3:58 ai Bank as an independent voting : ee trustee. Soca Chica The next largest block is report- edly 160,000 shares owned by the Union Pacific Railroaa. Harold §S. Vanderbilt, great- grandson of the Central's founder, “Commodore” Cornelius Vander- . 6:19 p.m 12:42 p.m. 1.57 a.m. Hafner, who has been headin; the agency which approves pri vate schools g|pilots and ground forces in Indo-| i-\china, adding he would oppose receiving federal|that. Secretary of Defense Wilson tion about business while man-jit is a quiet gathering. The dogs, aging her all-male club to upset the one assumes, have been taught to jentire baking industry. She runs Keep their yaps shut while they are ithe Bakers Club of Chicago. jbeing picked over by the judges. CHICAGO, “#—Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Winebrenner celebrated their 72nd wddding anniversary 7:04 a.m.| bilt, holds only 10,000 shares, He}! is a director. The rest of the Central's stock +)—Plus sign: Correetions te be added. ADDITIONAL fDE DATA Reference Station: Key West is presumed to be widely held Time of Height of among the Central’s 44,461 share- holders. They can all vote at the Central’s next annual meeting May 26 at Albany, N.Y, Young’s shadow has stretched over the 10,714 miles of the Central system—second only to the Penn- sylvania in business volume—since Jan. 19 when he resigned as C&O board chairman. With Young went Kirby and) four other C&O directors. | It was announced at the time! that they had severed all ties with the C&O and thus were free to} accept directorships .on another carrier, presumably the Central.| All doubt as to Young’s intentions} were removed on Jan 25 when! William White, president of the Central, announced that Young and Kirby had advised the Central that they had become substantial shareholders and wanted to be- tower controller asked Godfrey by come directors. radio if he had had mechanical pope cb maaba eed beh srg he trouble, ibe radio-television per- baad le i ed this de’ sonality replied: mand by telling Vanderbilt, his vihat’ neighbor in Palm Beach, Fla., that Teterboro.” he wanted the directors to mame The Civil Aeronautics Adminis- him board chairman today, jtration (CAA) asked the Civil crane earneieaimed \Aeronautics Board (CAB) yester- day to suspend Godfrey’s pilot cer- jtificate for at least 30 days, or \until Godfrey “obtains an appro- |priate medical certificate issued by \the administrator.” S. W. Bobskill, CAA regional at- Locomotive Ha: Been Developed torney, said the CAA gave “due consideration, as a mitigating fac- ” ‘tor,” to Godfrey’s past good flying CITY —An atom- : E papier that would run for |Tecord. Nevertheless, he said, the a year on only 13 pounds of uran-|Public interest requires “no less i i jaction than that.” ium will be described today to/@*ton : ; railroad and manufacturing repre-| The ote ens ina odtres: sentatives by a University of Utah |@™"oyed because he had been de- nuclear scientist. inied permission to take off on the The scientist, Dr, Lyle B, Borst, /TU2Way of his choice, Aeliberately yesterday made public plans for “buzzed” the jower snes pie what could be the world’s first/¢msine DC3. It charged that God- atomic-driven locomotive. He said fey thus endangered the tower oc- the plans were developed during CUPants and the occupants of three his advance physics course at the |2irplanes waiting to take off. The university, ‘complaint said Godfrey missed the Today he will outline the plans Waiting planes by only 20 to 30 to representatives of the five rail- feet. roads and nine industrial concerns; Godfrey has blamed a gusty which cooperated with the project.;cross wind for driving his plane At a press conference yesterday, Off course. : ' he said the locomotive would be Of this, the CAA said there were Station— Bahia Honds Tide high water (bridge) ———oh 10m 8.0 No Name Key feast end) —+2h 26m Six Tell Of Godfrey's Bad Takeoff WASHINGTON (®#—Six persons} have testified they heard Arthur Godfrey talk back to the Teter- boro, N.J., airport control tower} after narrowly missing the tower last Jan, 7. All six agreed that when the Atomic-Driven driven with steam-produced elec-/8Usts up to 30 miles an hour which tricity and would cost an estimated Might have caused the plane to $1,200,000. It would look much the sWerve before it got into the air, same as the diesel locomotives now but it added: : in use and would develop 7,000/ “There is no authority, however, horsepower. jthat such a wind could have The scientist said the engine |Caused the change in the aircraft’s could run for a year on approxi-, bearing once it was airborne.” mately 13 pounds of uranium. He! I Saami said that even if the uranium cost, — $11,000 a pound the fuel expendi- Just A Dummy ture per year for the locomotive - would be about $150,000, compared) BUFFALO, N. Y. with the present $240,000 that is carried a five-foot-long object spent annually on a diesel develop-| wrapped in a white sheet into the ing the same horsepower. lobby of the United States Court- He said he did not know the cost house yesterday of uranium but said » recent pub-' Spectators gasped when they lished report estimated it at around saw blonde hair protruding from $9,000 a pound. one end of the bundle. He emphasized that the project. The men waited quietly for an was still in the classroom stage elevator. Then they rode up to the but predicted that “we will have /office of the FBI, atomic locomotives before we have| A body? No, said the FBI. A atomically produced electric ener- departme e mannequin used #y on an industrial scale.” lin a police training course. “No, that’s a normal takeoff for; ay W | {born gastric ailment that was ac- grants for veterans’ training, will help in the governor's office until he and the two regular executive laides have cleared a backlog of work. HOLLYWOOD wW—A motorcycle race with an acquaintance ended in death yesterday for Thomas William Carr, 28, of West Holly- wood. State Trooper W. H. McKnight said Carr and Winfield Snow Jr., 27, of Hollywood, were traveling about 85 miles an hour when Carr’s cycle apparently struck a bump, hurtled into a field and turned over. MIAMI ®—Elwood Bernau, 7, drowned in Little River Canal yes- terday while his father and an uncle worked in a house less than 50 feet away. Pope’s Health Stull Improves, Vatican Says | VATICAN CITY &—The Vatican again today reported improvement’ in the condition of Pope Pius XII, Past 20 days with a serious stom- ach ailment. The Vatican press office said the Pontiff now is able to take some “semiliquid nourishment orally” and also was able to walk about his apartment yesterday. Previously the Pope had difficul- ty retaining even liquids and had) been able to sit up only for a jshort while daily. | The 77-year-old head of the Ro- man Catholic Church has spent jmost of the past three weeks in bed, gravely weakened by a stub- jcompanied for much of that time by persistent hiccupin.;. During the past three days he reportedly has \showed definite improvement, 6000 Children Stage A Second Gasparilla March TAMPA (#—Another Gasparilla parade, this time by‘ 6,000 children, { | |told a news conference yesterday |the fighting is going satisfactorily, | {and that he sees no need to step| jup American aid. i Sen. George (D-Ga) of the For-} jeign Relations Committee said he “doubts it was a wise move” to |send in the mechanics, He agreed States should send fighting forces jinto Indochina, Red China prob- ably would send in forces as it jdid in Korea. i} \time, sons of men who wore the| |Confederate gray will help mark| the birthday of the man who led [the Union to victory over their |fathers. The Sons of Confederate Veter- jlast night at a fried chicken dinner} with their 47-year-old son at home. Winebrenner is 91, his wife Tressa 90. WASHINGTON, —For the first! “I know all the secrets,” she|Now and then a brief splatter of says. japplause is heard when a blue, | This nationwide preoccupation of ribbon is awarded. This comes en- clubbers with business pursuits has|tirely from the, spectators, as the been accompanied by another tend defeated dogs and their handlers too, jonly stare straight ahead, coldly. More than ever before, say the| If you’ve ever wondered, as we ones We saw. What happens is that the handler si Ss beside his ani- mal and keeps yanking his legs back every few moments as he sees the judge coming. Most of the high-toned dogs did not appear to like this any better than the one in our house does If it is possible after only one session to generalize about hand. lers, we would suggest that anyone thinking of entering his pet in fast company should get himself in fair. ly good shape too, At a certain Point the judge is going to ask each pair—dog and master—to take a couple of fast turns around the ring, and 20 or 30 pounds of extra suet on the latter can be a handi- cap. We saw two lady handlers finish this ordeal in bad shape, their breath coming in gasps that could be heard. While the judge almost certainly is not supposed to take this into account, we could not help noticing that in each case first prize went to a dog whose handler looked like he could run all day, In between studying the finer points of judging and handling, we managed to learn a thing or two about dogs in general that might be news to some. Probably the biggest piece of dog news is that the beagle now is the most popular dog in this country, having Passed the cocker spaniel, the previous titleholder, during the past year, jhas come right out of her kitchen jand sauntered away to the golf links and into club precincts once sacred to the male, club managers, the little woman Vejar, Black Fight -Wilson said yesterday that un- i i Thus, moder: an have his ‘less the Red Chinese intervene on , Modern man can e lans have aecepted an invitation to 1 ith hi fad d bie join in ceremonies Friday com-|meals with his wife, do a day’s Bee Soe anne |memorating the birthday of Presi-|work, and caper that night at a Spar ay aH for a military|4¢at Abraham Lincoln. The cere-|dinner-dance—all without leaving Sea sg Gahtaee oar ¥| monies will be at the Lincoln Mem.|the club. Or going home either. Republican Leader Knowland of|°T4l. CHICAGO 7» — Welterweights, Chicago Vejar and Jed Black, a! |pair of former university students, ' jtear into each other tonight in aj nationally televised 10-rounder at! Chicago Stadium. Tonight Since being stopped by Kid Gav. ilan, Davey has faded from the limelight. His manager, Hec Knowles, hopes to recapture some jof the glory with Black, a swarm. California told the Senate Monday JUDGE GIBSON WILL night the Eisenhower administra-| REBEL TROOPS IN (Continued From Page One) Vejar, Stamford, Conn., battler who attended New York Univer-| sity, now is an Army corporal sta-/ tion had no desire or intention of} (Continued From Page One) _| Director, State Department of Pub- tioned at Ft. Benning, Ga. | jsending combat forces into Indo- china. Stennis told the Senate yesterday ‘royal doorstep, then withdrew with- lic Welfare; Mrs. Sylvia Carothers, | jing type of fighter who has won 27 out of 28 bouts and scored 17 knockouts. Only once, however, has the - Janesville, Wis., youngster out trying an assault. |Executive Secretary of the Florida! But the French conceded that Children’s Commission; Bob Gates, | He is expected to be a 2-1 fa-|gone 10 rounds, That was in de- vorite by fight time at 10 p.m.,| | : ; EST, | that Radford’s report to the Armed/even if the Vietminh did not follow Consultant, for the State Depart. feating ring-worn Ike Williams, Vejar, although only 22, has a Services Committee caused “al-jthrough on their current threat, most unanimous alarm and grave|they already had forced the concern” among senators pres- French-Laotian forces to withdraw ent. jfrom the northern part of the king- Sen. Saltonstall (R-Mass), the;dom and had immobilized several committee chairman, said he first/battalions in Luang Prabang. iment of Education’s program for exceptional children and Broward County Juvenile Judge, Dorr S, ‘Davis. North Miami Police Chief, Carl Engle, president of the Florida Po-! Black, 22, and who is making|big edge over Black in experience, his first main event TV start,|He has lost only four times in 59 gained top recognition in collegi-|pro starts and has won 14 out of ate boxing ranks while at Michi-/15 since being defeated in his last gan State. He once was NCAA!go against Davey. That one loss welterweight king. He is a stable-/was to Vince Martine: after beat- mate of Chuck Davey, who twice confined to his apartment for the| learned of the plan in newspapers,| The Vietminh advance troops lice Chief Association and John and he added: | Were reported at Pak Hou, 12 miles McCormick, counselor to the Lake “I was disturbed when I read north of the capital, and at Pak County Juvenile Court will aiso in 1952 beat Vejar. ing him in a first meeting. Vejar {has 29 KOs to his credit. that 200 uniformed mechanics of Suong, six miles to the northeast. participate. our Air Force were to be sent.” | There were reports also that} pp emanepsomce aes Saltonstall said he had been as-jrebel troops had taken to the Hou) BOY SCOUTS TAKE sured by Wilson that we will be| River, which flows into the Mekong| (Continued From Page One} TODAY'S losses throughout the list were confined to minor fractions. Steels and motors were lower. out of Indochina by June 12,” | If the American people want to; jthat is all right, Stennis said, add-! ing: “But I do not want to see them committed step by step, so that get involved in the Indochina war|ou the Hou but that bad we: |the French air force from ob: north of Luang Prabang. The sult when Plumbing Inspector Har-| French said rafts had been seen ry Alsing took his replacement,| ather Gary Murphy, out on an acutal kept} construction job to check the pro- serv- gress of the plumbing. The scouts were also treated to }a ride on the city’s fire trucks and, for the past three days had ing the river traffic closely, Elsewhere in Indochina: ‘ STOCK MARKET NEW YORK, ® — The stock market moved along a narrow path today with the aircrafts and railroads higher, Neither of these divisions extend- along with the chemicals. The rub» bers were higher, and oils wei steady. 4 Among higher stocks were New. York Central, Santa Fe, Goodyear, . Boeing, and Douglas Aircraft. Lower were U.S. Steel, General | | The French for the first time but will be compelled to go in . . . announced that 105 American Air | “Step by step, we are leading|Force technicians and mechanics jto a situation in which we may |had arrived a week ago at the jhave no choice except to go in'north Indochina port of Haiphong there with ground troops.” jte help maintain U.S.-furnished No Republican replied to Stennis|planes “for civilian cargoes.” jon the Senate floor. | These presumably were in addi- | tion to 125 Air Force technicians TRUMAN TO CONFER pul poroned in Indochina to all e French. In all, 200 more COLUMBIA, Mo, (®-Former | America 4 President Harry S. Truman Saree noe meterekDected: iors this Planned to meet with University of, Missouri officials today to discuss the possibility of housing his pri- vate papers at the university. eventually they will have no choice TOP OFFICIAL WILL (Continued From Page One) the university arranged the meet- ten-piece band will Provide the ing and he was coming here “‘sim-) Music for those desiring to dance ply to see what they have to say.’|- - .or listen. He said at Kansas City last night Unit 56, as well as free drinks, A’ ga’ ‘toured the city hall to observe first jhand, the operation of the muni- cipal government. | Captain Anthony Dropp, chair-| man of the Boy Scout Week was, in overall charge of yesierday’ activities. He was assisted by Ca! leton Smith, Camping and Activi-| ties Chairman and Claude: Spears, Organization and Extension Chair-' man. i] | The event is an annual affair in iKey West, | FASCELL CAMPAIGNS (Continued From ! One) tion to the State Lez: ature. He was named the outs‘: fresh- man legislator in 1951 b» ~ewsmen jwith few exceptions gains and/ |Motors, National Distillers, Ameri. can Telephone, Kennecott Copper, and American Cyanamid, ed their gains very much, and “THREE HOTELS IN MIAMI at_ POPULAR PRICES Located in the Heart of the City REASONABLE ROOMS WRITE or WIRE RATES for RESERVATIONS with BATH and TELEPHONE Ritz Pershing “Miller HOTEL HOTEL HOTEL 132 E. Flagler St. 226 N.E. Ist Ave. 229 N.E. Ist Ave. 102 Rooms 0 100 Rooms Elevator Truman said his visit here had no connection with reports that he entertained thousands of visitors schoo! today, The 52 floats were all made by! hildren’s organizations, schools, | jclubs and churches. All were \pulled by older children them-) jselves. The parade had a circus! theme. | Just like the adult Gasparilla| Pirates Monday, the youngsters march through downtown Tampa, | jout to the State Fairgrounds and; iTeceived the keys to the city at| the grandstand there. | Budd Porter Jr., 16, a Jackson-| ie high school youth, won the| first statewide safe driving con-| test sponsored by the Florida High-| way Patrol for teen-age drivers. | | The finals, with 12 district win-| ners competing, were held in front| of the grand stand. The test in-| jcluded parallel parking, backing| jinto a small space and following a zigzag course, in addition to a! |Written examination given earlier. | | Porter won a 1954 Pontiac sedan. | They had to share billing with! \cl vil @®~Two men Acting Gov. Charley Johns who! Alabima: said he realized citrus men are) Worried about the slump in prices of oranges and grapefruit. | “The decline and rumors that} Prices are b me much business, ers of th concern,” he told 400| civic and political lead-| e area, | “We cannot afford to let prices about ,000 more than for the same bers of the Boy Scouts of America. drop. I hope that they (the inves- tigators) uncover something and get the price back where they be- long.” Teal become president of the PRISON TERM SET NEW YORK (P—A Chinese res- taurant worker who killed his girl friend last October and then cut up her body has been given a pris- on sentence of from 7%2 to 20 years for manslaughter. | James Lew, 34, had pleaded guilty to the charge last December. Police said Lew stabbed the white Woman—who used the name Kay Gibson but was known as Florene Pearl Gibbon in her home ‘wn of Worcester, Mass.—! after Se slapped his face in an| arguma@t over another man. ECONOMY OF SOUTH | (Cottinued from Page One | sippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Geor-| gia, Forida and North Carolina. In Twnessee, about 8,000 inter- ate daims are on file, double st y@r’s total. interstate claims up January, 100 per cent evious four-month per- sti las to 2,831 for over tle pr iod. lod. Geomia: a steady increase of eing rigged have given /claimsover the past five months, stay at the LaConcha Hotel. ranginj from 770 in September to, 1,873 & January. Floria: January claims 4,865, |periodin 1953. | Nort Carolina: 2,746 new inter- state ‘laims in January, a 914 Per CQt increase over 1953. jin Tallahassee and i 3. was) | The Key West visit comes on the selected as among the ten outstand- last Jeg of a long tour of Branches ing legislators. | within the Southeast District. Knic-| Fascell commented that his leg- kerbocker is head of the largest islative experience has iaugii him Region of the Fleet Reserve As.'to keep in close touch with the, |Sociation extending from Florida district he represents and he pro- to Bermuda south to Trinidad,’mised that Key West and the Keys through the Virgin Islands, Cuba, would get their full share of repre- and as far south as the Canal Zone sentation. and Panama westward as far as’ Conservation of South Florida Texs. fisheries is also high on the list of The Regional head is just back|programs he advocates, He point- from an extensive tour during ed out that he has been active in vhich he visited Practically all of maintaining the state’s marine re- the outlying branches, under his search appropriations for the Uni- jurisdiction. The Fleet Reserve As- versity of Miami's Southeastern sociation itself has branches Fisheries Institute. throughout the world. He commented that private in- Knickerbocker had a long and dustry can afford to maintain only distinguished career in the U. S$. a limited program of research and Navy before he returned to civil- it is up to the government to aug- in life. He has been particularly ment it. active in the Fleet Reserve As- | “Every encouragement should sociation since 1931, and has held be given all Phases of the fishing numerous important positions at industry—we need not only to pro- Practically all levels. tect the fisheries we have, but we The Knickerbockers will arrive need to develop new ones,” he in Key West by car from their St.’ commented. Cloud, Florida, home tomorrow Fascell added that he is particu- morning. They will be met at the arly interested in the future of Fleet Reserve Home, and during,Key West’s defense establishment, the afternoon they will make a He also pointed out that he advo- tour of Key West. They. will leave'cates an investigation of the Mon- for a Miami commitment on Fri- roe County utility program on a day. While in this city they will'federal level. “T have a firm faith in the de- |velopment of the keys and can fore- )See a great economic future for |them,” he concluded. | A resident of Kendall, in Dade |County, Fascell has been practic- There are over 250 Scout Units|ing law in Miami since 1938. He is organized in institutions for de-jmarried and the father of two Since 1910, more than 21,000,000 boys and men have been mem- Elevator Solarium Heated Elevator 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION WHOOPEE! IT’S COMING!! The Big Bill Bailey ALL STAR MINSTREL Saturday, February 13 BENEFIT KEY WEST LIONS CLUB BLIND 45 All Star Cast of Performers . , , Big Parade Do Duval Street Saturday 1. Tent Will Be Located at if BERTHA STREET and EAST BOULEVARD BUY YOUR TICKETS Now at Paul Sher’s Jewelery. Radio & Appliance, Sunny Isle Luncheonetio! or A; ny Member of the Lions Club