The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, March 8, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily of Greene and Ann Stree! OO Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County —————— L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ....:cccsssscces nerrsserenee 1921 = 1954 a ei NORMAN D. ARTMAN Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter at iat atest TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it, or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news Published here. Member Florida Press Association and Associate Dailies of Florida pect nets eae cette Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 Nar spigicie ecilanmyeie haceeet cee oe re ee ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Sexeepy Sanday) from. The Citizen Building, corner, WHICH WAY Wil igs The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish _abonymous communications, MEMBER FLORI ass Ess ON IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea, Consolidation of County and City Governments Community Auditorium. NEWSPAPER CIRCULATION UP Despite the advent of television, pocket books, drive- in theaters and other modern forms of entertainment, circulation of daily newspapers continues to increase. Editor and Publisher, weekly magazine of the journal- istic trade, reported recently that 1953 circulation set a new record, moving up about one per cent from 1952 | figures, Not only did the nation’s daily papers increase their | circulation but they also increased their advertising vol- | ume last year. Even though business firms shelled out! millions of dollars for television and other forms of ad-| vertising, newspaper advertising continues to be by far the most popular form of advertising, and to bring in increasing revenue. : There are those who believe new news and enter- tainment mediums, such as television, prove beneficial to other media, such as newspapers. People want a news- paper to see what is on television, and to look up fav- orite programs and times, and to read about the stars. And news, as long as it is not identical copy, never loses its interest. Those who hear a bulletin over the radio are eager to read more about the “story” in the news- paper. Likewise, if they get a news item over television, they become eager to get the full story from the news- Paper. So the different news media do not necessarily compete. They complement one another to a large de- gree. And those who once feared there was not enough advertising revenue for both newspapers and the new medium, television, have been amazed to see newspaper advertising increase at the same time when television advertising was just beginning to draw revenue. The possibilities of advertising are almost limitless. There seems to he little reason for newspapers to worry about competition from television, or any other medium. Nothing can, nor will, take the place of the newspaper in American life. People like to have a record of events, a source of news and advertising they can pick up in any spare moment, and a complete presentation of news events. Only the newspaper can provide that and that’s why circulation totals continue to go up. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Automobile Safety Inspection} starts today. Don’t be foolish and tells me that a good fisherman can go out to Poinciana right away,|catch just about any kind of fish| however. Wait along with the rest'he wants from the Mallory Dock. of us until the last day and then,/He was describing a thirty minute| we'll all go rushing out there to-\fight that he had with a large tar-' gether, howling and fussing about'pon down there the other day. ithe long line ahead of us. This is! “Trouble is,” Ralph says, “most the customary procedure. It was|people will use tackle for snappers applied to State license tags andjand expect to hook a tarpon or is also likely to be used with ap-|some other game fish that happens} plications for homestead exemption.|to go by. You’ve got to make up! Incidentally, Claude Gandolfo has/ your mind ahead of time what-you! advertised several times that April/want to catch and then use the! 1 is the absolute deadline for|right equipment for that species.” homesiead exemption applications.! The guy may be right, Most of| Folks who overlooked this matter|my experience with getting fish has in the past tell me that they werelinvolved passing money over a put to a lot of grief and trouble|meat counter, The last time I fish- getting their tax matters straightenied off of Clyde Mallory was in ed out afterwards. It is muca more! 1926. I was a kid and caught what! ‘serious than a mere fifty cent or}seemed to me to be a beautiful dollar penalty as in the case of|porgy, My grandmother wouldn’t: the Safety inspection. If you’re allet me eat it because she claimed homeowner, make sure that you|the only good fish came from deep, get down to Gandolfo’s office be-jopen waters. It was more Key fore April 1. West superstition since today, folks Telephone Booths are even eating barricuda and Southern Bell T and T Co. is|calling it ‘sea trout.’ doing a swell job of distributing Mail Bag Public telephone booths around the] A reader has sent me some clip- city. Such installations are an ex- pings of Robert C, Ruark published ample of how the company tries to\in an Australian newspaper. They provide every convenience possible/deal with Ruark’s opinion of Amer- for the general public. (No, I don’tlican women and the reader evident- Ralph Yellin, Tackle Shop owner, ° Is Killed In ° ° Highway Mishap CLAY, W. V. —A Clay County mother who drew the nation’s sympathy when the fourth of her five soldier-sons died in service was kiled last night in a highway acident near her home. State police said Mrs. Florida A. Jones, 63, of nearby Bickmore, a widow, was struck by an auto- mobile about 10 p.m. as she walked along State Route 16. She was dead when the ambulance reached Laird Memorial Hospital in Montgomery. vA jvives. He is Air Force Sgt. Wil- liam L, Jones, who reportedly now is on recruiting duty in the Charleston area. Three of her sons were killed during World War I, Her youngest boy, Eugene, 25, crashed to his death in paratroop training at Ft. Benning, Ga., in’ 1950, Two days later, the nation ack- nowledged its gratitude in a letter from Louis A. Johnson, then sec- retary of defense, offering the dis- charge of her fifth son from the Air Force, Her simple refusal was: ‘I am glad that I still have one son in the service of my country.” Couple Attacks Interfering Cops work for Bell Telephone and they|jy wants me .to make some com- aren’t paying me to write this.) |ment. Never! Never! This column likes to give credit) Ruark had sense enough to go to! to those business concerns which! Australia before he wrote such BALTIMORE (#—Patrolman Ed-! ward J. Budacz saw a man and a woman fighting in the street yes- Chapter 17 | waited until Beau had gone vut to the gargonniére and Lee and Father were in their Tooms; then I slipped downstairs. I knew that Claude was still _ “He looked up at me without rising and asked me what I wee but I could Ses ae way he was already Ae iy “He refused?” I asked, the in- ane way you ask something that is perfectly obvious. “He not only refused,” she re- Plied through clenched teeth, while her hands became balled fists inside the pockets of her skirt, “but he added somethin; about how he'd always suspect that our branch of the family would be r losers, like—like all fourflushers. Then he laughed, and beld up the bill of transfer, or whatever it was, that he had made Father sign.” “That made me lose my head; and I tried to snatch the paper with Father's signature on it, that he had thrown on the desk for me But the paper had sort of skidded across the desk when he threw it down, and was nearer to me than it was to him. So he whopped the sword out of his belt, and | made a lunge with it I think he only meant to try to spear the | Paper before I could reach it; but the edge of the blade caught the knuckles.” She anced down at her bandaged ind. “However, I managed to keep hold of the paper; al! h he caught part of it under sword, a corner of it tore off.” “The corner the sheriff showed us a while ag0,% 1 said, thinking * “You'll never knowhow re- found he thought it was Claude who had signed that paper,” she said. “I | | | | are considered libelous or unw: The Citizen welcom of the paper only. Signature of ANSWERS HARVEY \Editor, The Citizen: I would have cried out, “No, no!" had I been told C. B. Harvey would have abused innocent people and based his abuse on wrong in-| formation. Over the local radio’ Thursday night, he said the “‘Over- seas Bridge Commission stinks,” and then proceeded to denounce Brooks Batsman, manager of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District, for something that is false} in its entirety. Harvey said that Bateman had: transferred money from the bridge] painting fund to pay Bernie Papy insurance premiums, In 1947, when not a single man on the present Bridge Commission was a member of it, the commis- sion at that time budgeted $13,000 of its insurance premiums under the Bridge Painting Fund, because! the bridge was by far the largest! project insured. The remainder of the insurance premiums, amount- ing to $3,000, was applied by the then commission to all other ‘dis- ae T'S DEAT By Amelia Reynolds Long supposed it was the silver dollar in Claude’s hand that made him think so. But I’ll come to that in * eT had managed to ad mana, get the part of the paper with Father's ae - ture on it,” she continued, “and that seemed to be all that mat- tered just then. Claude swore and started after me, still with the sword in his hand. In the hall, he caught me by the shoulder; but I wrenched myself free from him, and ran up the stairs. That was when he must have torn off my corsage, although I never realized that it was gone until the sheriff showed it to me next morning.” “Then that was when—Claude collapsed?” I asked, confident that the last vestiges of the mys- tery surounding his death were now expl. . But shook her head. “No,” she answered. “When I glanced back from the top of the stairs, he was still standing there, glar- ing up at me. But his attack must have been coming on even then; for I remember he was swaying PEOPLE’S FORUM | fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. a little, although I thought at the time that it was because he had been drinking. Anyway, he was dead when Beau came back about naenes hour later, and found im. “Pick, just why did Beau come ir. back?” “He suspected that Claude had been cheating.” she replied in a low voice. hen he came back, he found—Claude.” She paused for a second or two, then concluded. “As you've prob- ably guessed, it was he who put the dollar in Claude’s hand. You see, Claude had paid Father a dollar for his share of the estate in ordet to make the transaction legal. Beau says he must have Picked the dollar up without € | realizing at the time that he did it; for discovered afterwards that he had it. So when he found Claude lying there, he gave it bask to a as ae ore of spore gesture, I suppose. He was doing that when Aunt Minerva ap- peared and started screaming.” “Pick,” I asked, “why don’t tell Lewis what you've just ions of the views of its read- ‘ight to delete any items which arranted. The writers should be the writer must accompany the ber ‘of the bridge commission. A} part of the insurance was then transferred to the Porter-Allen | Company of Key West, but in 1947} it abandoned all its insurance be- eause of what was regarded as| imminent danger from hurricanes. The Tallahassee company then} took over all the insurance .and handled it till 1950, because no company in Monroe county want- ed the business if the storm clause was included in the policies. Tp 1950, the Hunter Lyons Insur- ace.Company in Miami learned thane of its companies would) issue’ policies. But the Lyons Com- pany confines its insurance to} Dade County, and it proceeded to} find out if any insurance concern, in Key West represented the home} company that was — willing to} take the insurance, Lyons learned| that the Key West Insurance Com- pany did, so he notified it, and the} insurance was transferred from the Tallahassee to the Key West Insurance company, at the same| premium rate, and the rate has 1, MY DARL AP Newsfeatures understanding.” “It probably would,” she said: dryly. “But if he can’t trust without a long explanation everything I do, he doesn’t to trust me at all.” I thought I understood how she: felt, and I couldn't blame her. In, her place, I would probably feit the same way. Dene the latter part of conversation, we had walking along the drive the oleanders. Now, as we ed the turn in front of the we suddenly came face to f with Aunt Delphine. She ¥ carrying a slender, longish o which, at sight of us, she quickly behind her back Sp ae eg more than glim) “What have you Tante?” Pick i ; more, imagine, in order to have thing to say to the old lady because she actually cared. Aunt Delphine’s face the expression of a willful “I won't tell — she stubbornly. “If I do, you'll take away from me and give it to and it belongs to my boy.” “No, I won't,” Piek her curiosity now “Won't you let Peter and me see it? Aunt Delphine hesitated; she brought from behind the missing sword. Its blade.’ discolored almost from with a dark stain that rust, but wasn’t. treated a ‘slep. Auae reat a though fr she was about, she had’ Sas Siig Sn my hand, ‘ou give Dédé,; Peter, she hea: “If they see me with it, they'll try to take it m me.” “Aunt Delphine, where did get it?” I demanded. But without she scuttled away house. ' to answer, death toll of nine was reported to» day from weekend skiing accidente and avalanches in the Austrian Alps, Three other persons were reported missing and several were injured, * Estimated oil reserves fn Cana~ da total about half a tank car full for every person in the country, remained the same since then. are helping to improve the town.|things as; “The American woman/terday, so he decided to intervene. |trict projects. I think the commis- 7 e The rest of the Roosevelt boys will have to do some fast thinking to get as much publicity as James has been given recently. MIF IN zle’ 37, Australian bird 38. Have being 39, Had mercy Crossword ACROSS 1, Otherwise EIAIREEA RE TIRIEIAIDIT INIG) ISTTIETRIN GM AIK! OIRIE Mi O/E RIF |S] TIOINT ICME TIO(O} ith (le) E(LISHENIOIR} RIYMESITIRIOIP| LITIS MIAIDIE| \AILIEIET IBIETAIR} Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle DOWN 6, Gratuity 1,Masculine 7, Sore eee 8. Working 2. Narrow garments (AI TIN] BIL JE! 46. Those to whom prop erty is trans- ferred 48. Set charge 49. Flowerless plant 50. Snow runner 51. Feminine 15. Taverns 6. Produce 8. Pea 20. Hums 21, Russian mountains Public telephone booths can hard- ly be considered ‘money-makers’ but they are certainly a conven- ience to both tourists and local citizens. Now a person won't have to make a nuisance of himself by going into a busy store and asking) a) to use the phone. Clyde Mallory Dock Since the City is repairing Clyde’ jcontinues to regard herself as a) willowy sprite, subject to swoon, even though she may be six feet tall, with the muscles of a wrestler and the appetite of a goat.” Speaking of women’s rights, Ru-| rk comments on Jane Wyman, seeking a divorce from Ronald Rea-, gan because of political differen-| ces. “Nowhere in a marriage cere- Mallory Dock so that it can be used)mony,” Ruark argues, ‘‘will you by the public as a fishing pier,|find a clause which says ‘love, hon- we're wondering what effect this our, cherish, and vote the straight will have upon those who rent the/Democratic and-or Republican tic-| dock for commercial purposes? ket’.” Knowing fishermen as a breed,| As I said before, I appreciate the; they are likely to be climbing all reader sending me the clippings over shrimp boats, freight, or any-|but Ruark can afford a trip to Aus- thing else that happens to be injtralia where he is in a good jump- | But when he did, the policeman \Convoy Is Swamped testified in Central Police Court, he was attacked by both combat-' ants. First Willard Clark hit him with his fists, Budacz said. Then Mrs.| Ann Sanbury struck him with a belt buckle, Clark was sentenced to six) months and fined $25 on charges of assault and disorderly conduct.| Mrs. Sanbury drew a $25 fine and) 30 days in jail. SYDNEY, Australia (9 — Heavy! seas swamped a convoy of am- phibious Australian army vehicles sion was right in splitting the ac- counts, as its aim was to keep exact track of the cost of each pro- ject. That rule of the old commisssion had been going on till this year’s budget was made up. The budget every year is examined in detail) by the State Auditor. Last year,| while he was going over the pro-- posed budget, he advised Clifford Hicks, secretary and assistant gen- eral manager of the district, to combine the insurance funds. Bateman and the commission had no more to do with combining the funds than Harvey himself had} to do with it. But Harvey had been; pumped full of untruths, which| made it appear that Bateman had their way. We need such a fishin, ling off spot for the South Pole. during a predawn exercise today. pier however, and if the situation|Me—I've got to stay in Key West Four soldiers were drowned and can be worked out peacefully, fine| so I’m going to keep my mouth and dandy, shut, 9. Living upon a planet 10. Glut 11. Optical organs 17. Gaelic 19. Crazy 23. Gentle stroke 24, Unity 26. Before 27. Patriotic organizat abbr. 31, Calm 32. Sign 33, Barest 34. Dried g: 35. Blunder 36. Closer 39. Secure 40. Entreaty 41, Assumed Manners 43, Part ofa pedestal 44. Volcano 45. Line of AN NY a’ Pietetae : name 52. Believe 53. Base of the decimal system 54. Wander spearean acter Questions And Answers About Income Tax Why can’t the employer with- jvax rate which is assessed on the hold the exact amount of taxes |tax returns, due? Whe is liable for the self-em- The withholding tax system is| Pleyment tax and how is it com- based on anticipated income and) Puted? credit for exemptions, sane npigen “self - Sagara The present withholding system|***” is a special income tax to! is an attempt to make taxpaying| ee Social security benefits for} a ‘pay-as-you-go” proposition, The amount of tax withheld should ap- proximate the tax liability of the 1951, self-employed individuals, with certain exceptions, were brought within the social security system employee, but excessive withhold- and made eligible for old-age and ing can result from many factors, survivors insurance, |such as parttime or temporary \work, failure to claim all exemp. tions in the withholding certificate, and an unusual amount of personal | deductions, Whereas wage earners and their employers each pay part of the social security tax, self-employed Persons pay their full tax liability. four others were missing, Goat Outdoes Herself CLINTON, N. Y. (#)—The George! Finegan family’s goat had a litter) of six over the weekend. One kid) died, but the others were alive to- day. Dr. F. M. Schafer, a veterinar- ian, said a litter of even three or! four was unusual for goats. as a sole proprietor, or render ser- vice as an independent contractor) lor as a member of a partnership, and have at least $400 of net ean-) ings from self-employment in a} taxable year, are liable to this ‘commission, some of whom are) slipped extra money to the Key West Insurance Company, so he proceeded to bellow that the “‘com-| mission stinks” and to foully at- tack Bateman. Does Harvey think it was wrong to split the insurance premiums? | Then he must blame the former) supporting him. Does he think it was wrong to combine the funds? Ti he does, he must blame the State Auditor. Harvey tried to make his hear- ers believe that the Key West In- surance Company has a ‘‘good thing” in handling the district’s in- surance, Why didn’t he first in- quire, had he been bent on tellng his listeners the truth, how that company came to get the insur- Persons who are self-employed. In| special income tax. Public officials, ance? Or did he bang away, with Was eo workers, churc] ee his eyes closed, just because Ber. excluded from this tax and from’ the benefits, The maximum self- employment income for a tax year is-$3,600; that is, for 1953 the 2% percent tax is assessed upon one’s self-employment income up to |that figure, and not beyond. For further information, see your nie Papy is a part owner of the I don’t know how the Porter-Al-| len Company and the Crusoe In-| surance Company feel now about} storm insurance on the bridges. If Harvey is interested in their atti-| tude, I suggest that he speak to! William A, Freeman and Joseph| L. Crusoe, both of whom I have} known since they were boys and} know them to be upright and hon- est men. I have done business with Crusoe for more than 14 years, and! he has given me complete satis-| faction. The Miami Daily News attacks on the Overseas Bridge Commis- sion are a rehash of similar at- tacks the Miami Herald made on the commission for and one-half years ago. The Herald went much! further than the News has gone. The News says a “‘probe” will be made, and some of the Herald’s| tripe stories indicated the “‘probe”’ was under way, Consumption of vodka in France increased about 50 per cent in 1953, t 4 Political FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 |) SRE aE ATT. For State Senator 24th District ; MILTON A. PARROTT ; Help Monroe County a @ Elect A Senator ¥ —$—$—$—$— ns |For Member School Board RE-ELECT J. CARLYLE ROBERTS 7 I am pained about Harvey’s gull- ibility, because I like him and like} Mrs. Harvey very much. I knew) her mother and father before she was born, and have esteemed) them ever since I have known) them. Harvey’s mistake has been; in abusing innocent people in hit-! ting at Papy through them. The! way Harvey wrongly stepped Bate-| man in scum, would lead one to; think Bateman is running against ‘him, not Papy. SAM E. HARRIS 3RD DISTRICT 4 For Member School Board. ELECT KELLER WATSON 3RD DISTRICT © For Member School Board Re-Elect EDNEY PARKER STH DISTRICT company? When the Overseas Road and! |Toll Bridge district was organized | in 1936, it was unable to get a} company in Monroe county. to han-| dle the insurance, because of the fear of damage by hurricanes. So | the insurance was given to the} The withholding rate last year|This tax is assessed and collected District Director of Internal Rev-|Midyette Moore Insurance Com-| Was only 20 per cent of the wages|as part of the income tax of the|enue. His address is Rm. 201 P.O.'pany of Tallahassee. That com-| sYw8s credit for exemptions, com-| self-employed taxpayer. \pared with the graduated income Persons who carry on a business | s if Bhdg. The telephone number is 2-7933. gary held all the insurance till’ William R. Porter became a mem- | INCOME TAX Qualified Consultants Evenings 6 - 9 P.M. Craig Bowen 514 Southard OPPOSITE BUS STATION Announcements ; ‘