The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 1, 1954, Page 5

Covering The. Florida Keys By JACK M. LEVINE Or Somethin’: Back home in Moultrie, Ga., Mrs. Billye Aycock currently of Marathon, is known as the “or somethin’ ” of a local pri-| vate hospital. That’s the way she identifies herself. It all began sev- eral years ago, when she joined the hospital staff as a Dietician. she made her rounds, patients and| visitors would inquire, “what are) you. . .a Nurse?. . .or somethin’?”’ | Billye and husband Richard arriv-) ed in Marathon last August. Dick! is the resident engineer. . the man| behind the scene. . .supervising construction of Marathon’s new Florida Keys Electric Cooperative | REA generating plant. The plant faces the Overseas Highway, op- posite Marathon’s Highway Patrol/ Headquarters. While hubby is busy) carrying out the program of the McLean Engineering company, Billye has been collecting shells, coral rock, driftwood, and the like. | When friends, relatives, or business) associates from Moultrie visit the| Aycocks, they return home with a) carful of Marathon marine memen-| tos, When she returns home, Billye plane to start a program of ther- apy at the hospital. It will revolve} around the use of the shells, coral port a nephew eS of| tock and driftwood pieces by hos-| pital patients. By that time there will be a good bit of Marathon in Moultrie . . . or somethin’. Golden Opportunity: Following publication of the recent Saturday Evening Post story about Mara- thon’s Bill Thompson and his un- derwater treasure hunting, Bill got fan mail from various parts of the country. However to top it off, came a letter from a man “out west.” Pictures were enclosed. In so many words, Bill was advised that here was ‘his golden oppor-| tunity. ‘“‘There’s gold in dem dar hills, pardner,”” was the gist of the letter. But, the writer of the mis- sive had only one lament. Folks didn’t believe him! Now, if a hid- den cache of coffee was. involved .» .that would be a justifiable rea- son to explore the underground. Tom Collins Mixture: A New York City tobacconist verifies the fact that Grassy Key’s.Tom Col- lins’ collection of some 300 smok- ing pipes is not his only claim to fame. Tom also has a special blend of pipe tobacco named in his hon- or. It’s called “Tom Collins Mix- ture.” The blend includes St. Jam- es and Kilkerry — both aromatic tobaccos and Royal York, a na- tural tobacco, And, the order is filled for Tom every few months. Latest addition to the collection of pipes is a white briar, oval shap-) ed, Kaywoodie. Tourists who are pipe fanciers and collectors will, in the near future, have’a chance to inspect the Collins collection. Tom has volunteered to place his world- wide collection on display in the new Memorial Home of American) Legion Post and Legion Auxiliary Unit 154, when the structure in Marathon is completed. A Rose and a Pipe have two things in common, . .a stem. . .and aroma. As| determining dependency Monday, March 1, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Questions And Answers About Income Tax Can a person who was support- jthe year; another uncle for the | ed for less than a full year be {fast three months. The important| | claimed as a dependent on one’® thing, in determining who can | income tax return? claim his exemption, is who paid | The period of time in which a per-|more than half of hs support? Dur-' son is supported is not a factor in'ing the three months in which the| exemp-|nephew lived with the second un- tions. To claim an exemption for|cle, the boy may have incurred ab- a person other than your wife, normal expenses, such as hospital | these five tests must be met: jand doctor bills, which exceeded] 1. You must have furnished more|the amounts paid by the first un-/ than half of the dependent’s sup-|cle for his support. port for the year. | Generaliy speaking, support in- | 2, In taxable years beginning|cludes board, lodging, clothing, \after 1950, the dependent’s gross/cost of education, medical and den- lincome must be less than $600)tal care, and other similar expen-| |($500 in prior years). |ses. The fact that these items are 3. The dependent must be’ closely |includedi n the test for dependents related ts your. |does not, in itself, make these ex-| 4, The dependent must be a citi-|penses deductible on the taxpay-| zen or resident of this country, or/er’s return. a resident of Canada or Mexico. | For further information, see your! 5. The dependent does not make! District Director of Internal Rev-, a joint return with her husband (or/ enue. His address is Rm. 201—P. 0.) his wife). |Bldg. The telephone number is ‘Elephant Suffers Strained Ligament ' LOS ANGELES (#—It took two:fered a strained ligament in the doctors, three assistants. and two left hind heel. X-ray machines to find what was| The veterinarians yesterday used wrong with a 15-year-old girl. bes died machines Seapred to- She is Joyce, a 300-pound ele-|2"' er ecause rays from only one F Ae: jcouldn’t qenetrate the foot-thi |phant in Griffith Park Zoo. e - lankle. “She'll be laid up about a —_———_ 'month,” Dr. Victor Tiersten, vet-| About one in every 16 people in erinarian, said. He and Dr. Wil-|the United States has some form lard D. Ommert said she had suf- of heart or blood vessel disease. \ 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 Pershing Miller HOTEL HOTEL 226 N.E. Ist Ave. 229 N.E. Ist Ave. 102 Rooms 100 Rooms 80 Elevator Elevator Rooms Solarium Heated Elevator 3 BLOCKS FROM UNION BUS STATION Ritz HOTEL 132 E. Flagler St. Exemptions are never prorated.|2-7933. The full exemption is allowed -if| these five tests are met, even though the person was supported’ by the taxpayer for any period less than a year. | For example, one uncle may sup- Girl's Death Is Termed Accident HAGERSTOWN, Md. \#—State po- lice reported a 16-year-old girl was fatally wounded last night -while she and her boy friend were ex- amining a .22-caliber pistol similar to one they had just seen on a television mystery. Trooper Clyde Tucker said after a preliminary investigation the shooting apparently was acciden- |, tal. He said Linda Ann Lewis, and her boy friend, William Eugene Pyle, 17, both of Hagerstown, were watching television at the home of Samuel Berger, 21, of Williams- port, with Berger and his date. Pyle remarked there was a pistol! in the bedroom similar to one they had just seen, While they were examining it, Tucker said, the pistol went off. The bullet struck Miss LeWis in the left chest, Lost Boy Baffles E. Boston Police BOSTON (#—East Boston police spoke in Italian, French, Greek and Portuguese to a little lost boy, His answer was a rattle of syl- lables in a language none of them had ever heard, Just as they were about to call the thropology department at Harvard, a man rushed into the police station and hugged the littlé boy. He said his name was Weldon Patles and had come witn his little json Freeman from Newcastle, And, to paraphrase the old adage,|N.B., a week ago. Tom’s wife, Millie, claims that her “He’s a Mic Mac Indian,” said husband’s “Tom Collins Mixture” |the father. of tobaccos by any other name, would smell just as sweet. Looks like she is proud of her “briared-| groom.” | JAIL SENTENCE SET BALTIMORE (#—Bertie J. 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