The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, March 11, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Oniy Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ... .. 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN . Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 Y REERRERE PES OE Cc Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not epacene credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- ere. Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications, HOW MUCH WILL WE PAY FOR COFFEE BEFORE IT HITS THE SKIDS? Frederick H. Green had a letter in The Citizen last Friday about the price of coffee. His illustration was apt—the horse trader waited to learn just how much the prospective buyer wanted the horse before the trad- er decided on the amount he would ask for it. So there you have it—how much do you want cof- fee? The more we want it the higher the price will go. ‘But that’s only one side of the picture of supply and demand. Here in Key West, time and again, we have seen the other side of the picture. We recall an instance | a few years ago when the market was glutted with mackerel, and the price dropped and dropped, so that mackerel netters had a hard time making both ends meet. But the price for crawfish was high, so many mackerel fishermen went crawfishing, and it was not long before that market was glutted, and the price dropped and dropped, whereas the price for mackerel increased, In every Latin American country, with the price for green coffee at a peak it has never reached before, farmers and grovemen have reduced their activity in growing other products and are concentrating on plant- ing millions of additional coffee trees. Coffee growers, furiously active to take advantage of the high price, will glut the market, much in the same way that mackerel fishermen, who turned to crawfishing, glutted the crawfish market. That “gold rush” has been the way of the world since civilization began. It not only applies to growers, from cotton to coffee—remember the frequent price- fixing by the government to save cotton growers from bankruptcy? — but also to manufacturers in all fields. The automobile market is now glutted and also the market for many home appliances. Manufacturers work- ed in three shifts to try to reach the demand that began to fall off a year or so ago. They not only reached it, but went far beyond the demand and piled up surplus goods that they are now sweating in trying to sell. So it will be with coffee when the countless millions of additional coffee trees come into productivity. Coffee growers are now doing what cotton growers did during the First World War, when cotton shot up to its highest price in the country’s history. But so much additional cot- ton was produced, the price toppled and toppled, as the price of coffee will topple and topple. Demand is the dominant factor in the law of sup- ply and demand. Let demand exist for anything, and you may be sure it will not be long before it will be supplied and then oversupplied. The Citizen does not know how high the price of coffee will go—some dealers predict as high as $1.50 a pound — but The Citizen does know that just as soon as oversupply begins, and it will begin, as it always has begun with all products, the price of coffee will drop and | drop till its adjusts itself with demand. ' Politics and politicians should spare the church, but unfortunately it is often the prey of both. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 4 1.Germ cell { 4. Judges’ {bench | 8. Quarre) 12. Extinct bird 13. Part of theeye i24. Edible rootstock 5. Concern 17. Butter substitute 118. Youth period 9. Play care- lessly (21. Jackdaw '23. Most recent 26, Endures 80. Beverage $1. Eager $2. Head covering aie! |EIMISMEPTATRI [SMESIATY] G0 Aline Soe IE |CIOREL.|AIPIEPIEIE IRIS) O!TI SRE SIAIVIE| MAIL| ICHEBIOIL|TIVIAIR] AID ME CIAIBIAIL MRL IE INIA} DOIPRRINIEIRIVIE MMS! 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LEVINE Keyscribes: Snowbird Keyscrib- bling is, perhaps, new word coin- age. We invoke this pretentious | poetic prerogative, to describe the increasingly popular pzstime of northernewshawks. Of late, it’s gratifying to note that more and more prominent members of the fourth estate are devoting more and more newspace to Key West and the Florida Keys. They follow up, there and then, with graphie word pictures of their southern- most sojourns. To’ keyscribble is becoming as much a fad as to doodle. And, most aptly, they’re “YanKey” doodles. . . Nick Kenny: The popular New York Daily Mirror columnist is fa- mous as a song writer, poet, au- thor, and most important, for his service in the Navy. During “Un- cle Nick’s” recent Key West visit, he auctioned his latest book at the Casa Marina Hotel, President’s Birthday Ball for the» March of Dimes Campaign, Since then Ken- ny’s column in the Daily Mirror has been replete with ‘raves about the Key West area. He topped everything with his March 5th col- umning, “The most amazing thing about our vacation this year was the great number of Californians we met in Key West and Palm Beach. They got tired of the rain, fog and smog in ‘summy” California and decided to try Florida for a change,” commented.Kenny. Then he went on to say, “They raved about the Florida sun ‘How long has this been going on?’ ” Nick claims they asked. And he winds up by borrowing a bit from God- frey. . .““Be the Good Lord willing, some day Uncle Nick is going to have a permanent home in this land of eternal sunshine.” He ob- serves that one big song hit can do the trick. Here’s a suggestion for a song title, Uncle Nick . . .call it “Southernmost City Serenade.” That should start you in ‘“‘keywest” of a pretty ditty about the southérn- most city. John Hughes: The New York Sunday News devoted the entire “Wheels, Keels and Wings” travel and resorts page of its Feb. 21, 1954, issue to John Hughes’ write- up about Marathon Shores, with special mention that Key West is only 55 miles “south, the southern- most point in the U. S.” Most des- criptive line in the Hughes story is . . .“one of the most charming paradises I've encountered in a long time.” Gets us to thinking that if it’s news to Hughes. . It’s also news to use. . .in telling and retelling the story of the Keys. Frank Keating: This week should bring an avalanche of in- quiries from Long Islaiders to the Marathon Chamber of Commerce. For three solid days, starting with March 5, Keating, the Hunt- ing and Fishing columnist of the New York Long Island Daily Press, carried his readers on the wings of wondrous words. He averaged two full, standard size, newspaper column each day, in describing his Florida Keysojourn. For two days, he kept his read- ers entranced with descriptions of Keys fishing experiences encoun- tered by the writer and his wife. . . They seemed to be roaming up and | dcwn the Keys, flitting in and out | of the fabulous waters. In brief, | they let it be known that they did | some of the noblest roamin’ of them all. In his final column Keat- ing divulged that they had made their heddquarters at Clifford Hicks’ Motel. The only technical correction to be made is that he ,ity by attempting to get all eli- This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Members of the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce perform an out- standing service to the commun- gible citizens to vote. As JayCee Jim Keen has said, however: “You can’t vote if you’re not reg- istered.” Have you registered yet? If not, go down to the Courthouse tomor- row and do so. All indications show that the primary elections in May are going to be ‘hot’, Your vote might be the difference between the candidate of your choice either winning or losing! How about it? Won’t you take the Junior Chamber of Commerce’s advice and register now? ' Garrison Bight There is still a great deal of indecision as to what would be the best method of improving Gar- rison Bight. While this column is one of the strongest advocates of a yacht basin for visitors, I think our first loyalty is to the charter boatmen who operate out of the Bight. These are the men who pay taxes, who have helped build Key West’s reputation as a ‘“Fish- erman’s Paradise.” Each year, the City appropriates a small sum of money for the development of the Bight and each year, nothing is done. At the pre- sent time, I think there is supposed to be $23,000 in the fund — not enough for any grandiose schemes but sufficient in plenty to allow improvements at the charter boat end of the Bight. There are residents who live on the edge of Garrison Bight who apparently don’t like the presence of boats. Such people adopt the idea that this is more or less a private lake for their benefit. Un- fortunately, the boats were there before the land on which they built their houses. As for a com- Plaint of dead fish floating up on the edge of the shore, this is an unfortunate predicament but one which can’t be blamed on the charter boats, New Buildings Another eye-sore has been re- moved from Duval St. at the loca- tion where the Three Sisters store Plans to expand, The first thing you know we’re going to have a modern looking business section. If only the sidewalks could be narrowed a couple of feet on each side, we might eventually be able to allow parking on both sides of Duval and still have room for two lanes of traffic! Have you noticed how many new businesses are moving out into the area around Truman and White Sts.? While this is probably due to cheaper rent, I think a major factor in the new locations is. also due to wider streets and better parking facilities for customers. There is even a neighborhood. the- ater out on Truman Ave. now. ~ Meacham Field Meacham Field is to have a fire truck according to County Com- missioners, This is fine-~some- thing that has been needed there ior a long time, However, who is going to operate it? With all due respect for the peo- ple who work at various jobs at Meacham, it should be realized that fighting a crash fire is a highly techni¢al job, When an air- plane smacks into the ground, put- ting out the fire is of secondary interest. Rescue of personnel must be accomplished in a matter of seconds or by-standers might as well hang up their hats and con- tinue reading the latest comic books. Moreover unless the res- cuers know what they are doing, they are likely to end up as dead heroes. Perhaps George Faraldo will be able to organize some i and crash rescue classes at Mea- cham. We've been blessed by not having any major catastrophe out that way. Accidents will happen, however, and it would be nice to know that we're prepared for them. SE ——— it’s Crawl Key, just north of Ma- rathon. Keating also answers the ques- tion: “But what about the work- ing stiff, the guy with a two-weeks vacation and a very limited bud- get. . .can he afford a trip to this Never-Never Land?” He furnishes the details, answers the question and then refers readers to the Ma- rathon Chamber of Commerce for additional data. Keating also des- cribes how he came down from New York by airplane and then hired a car opposite the airport. However, here is. where there is | set evidence of the need for further Promotion about the availabilty of airport facilities closer to the Keys. The Key West Meacham Field is only about 50 miles away, by di-| rect route. Compare that with | over 100 miles to Miami, where Keating landed, and then the cross- town grind to the airport. The price differential in flying into Key University Presbyterian Church,|Sam Schwartz m West, is more than compensawd by the saving in time and wear and tear on the nerves. Makes for added hours of fshing and fun. Note to Denis Sneigr: aie bd M ye. Game tp Manding’s gid By a that he bad have a-concrete aNAL-ogy. sreeting arrivals at the airport. . . slogan should be “Pleased to « -” Keyrect??? TURKISH PRESIDENT OBSERVES THE TREND DALLAS, Tex. —The mayor of Dallas, banker R. L, Thornton, and President Celal Bayer of Turkey engaged in some lively conversa- tion through an interpreter here on the President’s recent visit. After answering dozens of ques- tions from the Dallas mayor, Ba- ga finally said he had one to ask. “If Mayor Thornton asked bank- er Shoenton: for a loan, would he gr? “No,” said Thornton, “Hah,” said Bayar, “that’s a sign you are going to run again.” MINISTER SOLVES BIBLICAL PROBLEM AUSTIN, Tex. W—Bill Harding, | Sunday school teacher here at the| was stumped when a high schooler asked about that Bitte phrase, “the quick and the dead.” But the pastor, the Rev. Wiliam “There sre just two cl of | pedestrians,” Logan bP aed quick and the dead.” j ITS DEATH, MY DARLING :| Something—tragic?” aT i i gPyee $ Convicted Gls Make Good At Second Chance By TOM STONE KAUFBEUREN, Germany i — Hundreds of young American sol- dier convicts are making good at a “second chance” U. S. army camp here in southwest Germany neaz the Austrian border. Convicted in courts - martial throughout Europe for lesser of- fenses, they are sent here for re- habilitation and retraining instead of to prison or bounced out of uni- form in disgrace. The Army says 8 of 10 soldiers sent here and returned to normal brated duty, Their average age 21. Kaufbeuren’s prisoners have been convicted of such offenses as absence without leave, misappro- priation of Army vehicles, disre- spect for superiors, insubordina- tion or drunkenness. They have been sentenced to con- finement of up to six months. Some have been meted out bad conduct or dishonorable discharges, but these are suspended when they come here. The soldier convicts live in the same type of quarters and eat the same foods as other U. S. soldiers in Europe. The Kaufbeuren center looks much like any other military Post in the American zone of Ger- many, : But the Army’s provost marshal in Europe, Brig. Gen. J. P. Hol- land of Chicago, Ill., says there’s “no pampering or silver spoon or kid ,Slove handling of the train- ees.” “It’s a tough retraining pro- gram,” he declared. Then he added—perhaps with a memory of the brutal Army stock- ade in the novel and film “From Here to Eternity”: ‘‘There’s noth- ing in this retraining program re- motely resembling some of the widespread misconceptions of life in an Army confinement facility, The men are sent to the rehabili- tation center as punishment for some breach of law, but they’re not—and I emphasize this—sent there for punishment.” Entire Bar Is Bounced By Cops DETROIT (—Sam’s Bar got the old heave-ho as quiekly as a noisy drunk Tuesday. A Detroit con- stable’s erew was the bouncer. Within three hours, the whole shebang wae out in the streets— chairs, tables, coolers, beverages and all. The building had been con- demned to make way fer a civic center. “Throwa eut like a dog,” owner t as the po- tato chip rack was carted out. Schwartz said he thought the city had given him another two weeks in-which to move. But the mage a mig: to vacate. And 't, the bar got He wes and when ‘@2 bounce. : a By Amelia Reynolds Long “Why do speak of him in {tha pest tense?” I'caught him up. “Do you think that somethin; may have happened to him? “Unconscious thought betra I suppose,” he admitted sch fd faint smile. “Unless . . .” “Unies. what?” I demanded im- patiently. aoe in particular,” he was merely thinking lent possibility, I sup- pose. I looked him straight in the eye. “Why not tell me what were really thinking?” I askea “All it, if you want it that way,” he said edly. “Haven't thought, Miss Peter, that Beau suspiciousl, ctant to do S ly relu anything about his father’s dis- arance?” Ba ak we Fa upstairs, i any better?” from feeling “Tm afraid not,” he answered. “Dia he have any news of father?” Lewis Haye inquired. j “No,” “There she answered coldly. was no news. became evident that the Re goon | storm which Beau had mentioned rt going to after he had came black; whistle =-6 shrul e itself s 8 i H & sf t all the i ulti ii i i i le | sis § in $f i ' Questions And Answers Are repairs to property used in} trade or business deductible? Ordinary repairs to property deductible; however, betterments which enhance the value of the property are not. The distinction between improve- ments (capital expenditures) and repairs (expense) is not always clear. The Tax Court, however, has stated that “‘a repair is an expen- diture for the purpose of keeping the property in an ordinarily effi- cient operating condition.” It does not add to the value of property, nor does it appreciably prolong its life. It merely keeps the property in an operating condition over its probably useful life for the uses for which it was acquired. Expenditures for that purpose are distinguishable from those for replacement, alterations, improve- ments or additions which prolong the life of the property, increase its value, or make it adaptable to a different use. The one is a main- tenance charge, while the others are additions to capital investment which should not be applied against current earnings. If expenditures constitute costs of conversions which make the property adapt- able for a different use, they are not deductible, How is depreciation figured on 2 dwelling which is rented? Oregon Paper Says Coffee Yen ° Is Imaginary PORTLAND, Ore. (® — Nobody likes coffee, says the Oregonian— they just think they do. Because coffee—and prices—are in the news, the newspaper decided to try out tastes in the brew, Particularly to find out about some “extenders.” That is stuff mixed with the pure stuff to make it last longer. So the paper’s food expert, Nan- | cy Morris, brewed up three pots | and set them before a group of confirmed drinkers. One, pot A, was the pure stuff—nothing add- ed. Pot B contained coffee and carmelized starch and calcium | phosphate, an extender. Pot C con- tained two-thirds coffee, one-third cereal fig extender. The drinkers sampled brew from each pot. Five of them voted for pet C because they thought it was the pure coffee. One thought pot B had it. No one thought pot A. pure coffee, was much good. But all of them agreed that Nan- cy Morris wasn’t too hot as a coffee brewer. The stuff in all the pots, they insisted, was weak enough to fall on its face. A standard meter and kilogram kept in Washington, P. C., are precise in their accuracy that the | men who work with them do their | | work 10 feet away to avoid affect- ling results by body heat. About Income Tax When property is purchased for use in a trade or business or for }use to earn income the taxpayer used in the trade or business are| may not deduct the full cost in |the year of its purchase. The cost of this income-producing property, whenever paid, is actually an over- head expense during its entire life, and so the income tax laws \allows a taxpayer with business property to deduct each year a proportion- ate part of its cost. This deduc- tion is thus treated as a charge against the income when the pro- Perty earned in that year. The taxpayer computes a de- Preciation deduction by dividing the estimated number of years of useful life of property into the cost. The resultant sum is the amount which can be taken as an annual deduction during the useful life of the property. This business property costing $20,000 with an expected useful life of 40 years can be depreciated at ‘the rate of $500 a year. In effect, this reduces by $500 the annual business income from this pro- Perty, The depreciation deduction is therefore dependent upon the use- ful life of the property. The princi- pal factors which determine the useful life of the property used in a trade or business are the type and quality of materials, the quality of construction, wear and tear from usage, decay or decline from natural causes, and inadequacy to the growing needs of the trade or business, The estimated useful life of a rental dwelling varies from 30 to 50 years. For further information, see your District Director of Internal Re- venue. His address is Rm. 201, P. Walon His telephone number is ET € Political Announcements FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For State Senator 24th District MILTON A, PARROTT Help Monroe County Elect A Senator —————=.___ For Member School Board RE-ELECT J. CARLYLE ROBERTS 3RD DISTRICT SS For Member Scheo! Board ELECT KELLER WATSON 3RD DISTRICT STH DISTRICT oer oe |