The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 15, 1954, Page 7

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(connection with transcontinental] Available information indicates|trunk line cables which cross the 4 maintenance force of military|Allegheny Mountain ridge. some Personnel now is at what the De-| Miles from the site. Ft.Ritchie is fense Department calls its ‘‘joint/!ocated almost on the Maryland- supplemental communications fa- Pennsylvania border. | cility.”* _ The emergency command Post) | Jurisdiction of the facility, which is linked to the normal communi- includes the former National cations facilities of the Army, |Guard training site of Ft.Ritchie Navy and Air Force by five micro-| as well as the manmade cavern|Wave radié stations built in or five miles from the fort, is under/Mear Washington. the Defense Department. Its use| Actual construction started Jan. in wartime would be by all three|1, 1951, although plans had been} services—Army, Navy and Air|considered soon after the end of} Force—for central direction ot| at —s | |defense and - counterattack even| Contractors specializing in hard though headquarters at Washing-|T0ck tunneling bored and blasted jton might be wiped out. The Pen-|@nd carted away 500,000 cubic) tagon itself is a peculiarly vulner-\Yards of material. | jable target for air attack, easily) tunnel, curving to reduce identifiable from the air by radar blast pressure from an atomic ex- |because ¥ its stone-steel construc-|Plosion outside, is about 25 feet tion and unique shape and its|across, with a vaulted roof of Zbout location near the Potomac River.j@qual height. = The underground Pentagon was| Deep in the interior of the moun- financed through Army, Navy anqd/|tain where presumably even a di- Air Force funds, specifically ap-\rect hit by an atomic bomb could’! 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My introduction to it arrived in the form of two air mail letters, both postmarked New Orleans, One, addressed absentmindedly to “Miss Peter Piper,” was, of course, from my fiancé, Amédee Dumont. The other, addressed with more dignity to “Miss Kath- erine Piper,” bore the legend, “Duval, Duval, Mollineux, =n Pieczinski, Attorneys-at-Law.” I decided to read it first, and save Ameédée’s letter until later. Thi < is what I read: GUARANTEE RETURN $1125.00 My dear Miss Piper: In accordance with the instruc- tions of our late client, Colonel Etienne Dumont, it is incumbent upon us to inform all his blood NAVARRO, Inc. SPECIALS For Tuesday Only 8 A.M. till 9:30 P.M. Lot No. | 424 SOUTHARD STREET Tel. 2-2242 1949 FORD Tudor Radio $593 relatives and ali persons at pres- ent affianced to any of said blood, relatives, of his recent demise on the eighteertth instant. 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Feeling a little like the young man in the song who “went to the funeral just for the tide,” I wired Mr. é en a plane and > e méon Duval, | Oj, succeeded in obtaining passage! IS DEATH: Md DAR By Amelia Reynolds Long “Bring a white evening dress!” What kind of a fu- neral was this to be, thought Peter ty-first. There I was met enthu- Siastically by Amédée. an odd kind of funeral, Peter; but we're merely doing our best to carry out Grandpére’s own wishes. ._ “What are they?” I asked, try- ing not to let too much curiosity show in my voice. “First,” he replied, “he didn’t want any display of what he called funeral faces. “Second, he directed that he be buried : uniform, and that all his male descendants wear the grey as well. Just before the casket is closed, his sword is to be with- drawn from its scabbard and giv- en to his eldest grandson—my the house. “Then Grandpére used to be a breeder of blooded horses. He's left one of them to each of us. honor a his body is taken to ie family mausoleum. “Finally, when -the funeral is over, there’s to be a formal din- yjner, which the men are to at- tend in uniform. The women are to wear white evening dresses, with @ corsage of oleanders—for eander Plantatidn. Them, after the will has been read, agpecia! - RB ene whe ibaa New Orleans airport on the twen- | pla “You'll probably think this is | in his old Confederate | cousin Claude—as new head of | We're to ride them as a guard of | ING! AP Newsteatures Key West 2-5681 524 Southard St. pére had kept twenty years for | the occasion, is to be opened.” HE, WENT on with an abrupt | change of subject. “Practical- Local Schedule LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock A.M. (Stops at All Intermediate Points) and arrives arrives at Key West at’ 5:00 o'clock oF Milomt at 4:09 o'clock P.M... LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service E and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton-and Francis Sts. TELEPHONE 2-706) MAIN OFFIC ly all the Dumonts are a little wacky. First, there’s Uncle Raoul, the only one of Grandpére’s five sons who’s living. He named all three of his children after Con- federate generals: Lee, Beaure- gard, and Pickett.” “Oh, Heaven!” I exclaimed, | laughing. “What if one of them | had been a girl?” “One of them was,” he replied. “Pick’s a girl.” “Who else is there?” I inquired. “Then there’s Aunt Delphine,” he resumed. “She’s an aunt by marriage—the widow of my fa- ther’s eldest brother, for whom I was named. She’s—rather pe- culiar.” He hesitated. as though he was finding difficulty in expressing just what he meant. ‘ “She must be almost eighty by now, but she’s got an imagination that’s still in its lusty prime also, She’s got a neat little trick of taking out her false teeth and mislaying them in unexpected ices. “T’'m glad you told me,” I said with mock seriousness. “Then there is Aunt Minerv: the mother of Claude. She and Claude have lived in Chicago ever since I can remember.” | Again he paused; and I got the impression that he was not overly found of either his cousin Claude or Aunt Minerva. There's Cousin Jeff Marshall, and, there’s Lewis Haye, Grands | pere’s estate manager, practically | a member of the family. He'll be- come one jin fact, if he can get | Pick’s coffSent. And there are Henri and Bobby.” Bobby was Roberta Brennon, who had been in college with me, and was now engaged to his | brother, Henri, who was in the | oil business. | “Another thing about Aunt | Delphine, Peter,” he said, and | |now his voice had become more | | serious. “Lately she’s got the idea | —because of my name, I suppose —that I'm the reincarnation of | her son, who was killed in the | first World War. I generally try to humor her in it. 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