The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1954, Page 5

Bateman Assists A Group Of New York Lads In Planning Keys’ Diving Trip Young Skin Diving Enthusiasts Will Try Skill In Local Waters * . By JACK M. LEVINE (Special To The Citizen) NEW YORK CITY.—Brooks Bateman, and the Over- seas Road and Toll Bridge District, are making history in New York’s public school system. The story, unfolding in New York some 1,500 north of Bateman’s Pigeon Key headquarters, reveals a hitherto unknown phase of his ed- ucational work with high school students. In Roslyn, Long Island, N. Y., six teenage boys and two adults are making final preparations for an Easter vacation expedition to Little Duck Key, just south of the Seven Mile Bridge. The adults are Joseph Albertson, science teacher at Roslyn High School, and Rowland Lomer, an insurance execu- tive with the New York of- fices of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Company. Diving Club Mr. Albertson is faculty advisor of the “Five Fathom Club” com- prised, except for one, of students in his high school science class. Mr. Lomer’s 15 year old son, Lloyd, is the club’s secretary. The father ‘thought enough of the project to revise his vacation schedule, in or- der tg accompany the science ex- pedition to Little Duck Key. Mr. Lomer stated that his en- thusiasm, and that of Mr. Albert- son, apparently was shared by the New York City Board of Educa- tion. The net result was that the students were granted an extra week of Easter vacation, in order to enable the boys to gain maxi- mum advantage from their pro- jected expedition. Bateman’s Part How does Bateman fit into the _ Picture? Well, it is as a result of Bateman’s interest, advice and @uidance that the expedition has materialized. The story also re- veals prompt cooperation on the part of Harold Laubscher, mana- ger of the Key West Chamber of Commerce, Last month, the Roslyn high school students wrote to the Key West Chamber of Commerce. They explained that the Five Fathom Club was an organization of ‘“‘skin divers.” Planning a Florida expe- dition, they were interested in learning about the best possible Keys area where they could carry out their objectives. Among the ob- jectives are, underwater photog- Taphy, spearfishing, and abundant availability of ocean specimens. As a sidelight, the boys were in- terested in an area where they could gain the experience of sub- sisting on easily obtained seafood. Laubscher Replies Lloyd Lomer’s correspondence file reveals that Laubscher replied that the lettér was referred to the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District..Then came a lette from Brooks Batefhan. He suggested Lit- tle Duck Key as the site for the expedition’s* headquarters. Bate- ‘man indicated that the facilities they required were available at Lit- tle Duck Key. For 15-year-old Jerry Chester, president of the Five Fathom Club, the March 1st Bateman letter was fruition of a year of training and planning. The high schoo] students formed the club at the end of last year’s school semester. They be- gan their year by several trips to Long Island shore areas. They im- provised inexpensive underwater photographic equipment and cam- eras. The purchased surplus masks, goggles and similar diving equipment, They are building their own air compressor unit. Ready For Trip Contacted today, Rowland Lom- er stated that his station wagon is already three-quarters full with the gear that his son and his friends will take along. They plan to use two cars. Mr, Lomer will Return ballot to nearest iam, , Maich 31 is the deadline jof any flat drive one car, and Mr. Albertson, the other. They plan to set out from their Roslyn, Long Island homes, on Saturday morning, April 10th. Mr. Lomer stated that they expect to reach Little Duck Key on April 14th. President Jerry Chester stated that the expedition will sleep in pup tents at Little Duck Key. They will prepare their own meals, Lloyd Lomer’s father told this re- porter: that sleeping outdoors, in a pup tent, will be for him, an ex- perience in itself. The New York Times, on Satur- | were day March 13th, and the New York Daily News, on Sunday, March 14th, carried detailed stor- ies of the projected Florida Keys expedition of the Roslyn High stu- dents. New York Papers Supplementing a story written by Byron Porterfield, the New York Times’ coverage included a six column spread of photographs. The Times headlined Porterfield’s story and photos as follows:Roslyn Stu. dents bone up on their courses in Lewer Aquamatics for coming “tests” at Florida Keys. The sub- headline was, “8 Roslyn boys try out flippers for diving expedition to Florida.” The significance of the interest the leading New York City news- papers have shown in this expedi- tion to Little Duck Key, is reflect- ed in the prominent treatment that the stories were giving. Interview- ed at his New York Times, Gar- den City office, reporter Byron Porterfield cited the current ac- curacy of his story as compared to the one that appeared the follow- ing day in the Sunday New York News. The News, it was learned, has held on to its story about the Roslyn youths for several weeks. This is quite apparent by the fact that the News’ story lists St. Peters- burg as the expedition’s destina- tion. Original Plan Changed Jerry Chester explained to this reporter that originally the group had intended to visit an area near Saasota. But, in studying maps and gathering supplemental infor- mation, they ascertained that they would have to see other Florida lo- cations. It was Brooks Bateman’s informative letter from the Over- seas Road and Toll Bridge District that served as the deciding factor. Thus, the N. Y. Times scooped the N. Y. News in the accuracy of the expedition’s destination. In addition to the two adults, the expeditions full complement will be: Jerry Chester, Lloyd Lomer, | Edward Rossomando, Albert Hoff- | mann, Charles Hoffman and Ro- mauld Klauer. Except for Charles Hoffmann, a brother to Albert, all the boys are fifteen years of age/ and sophomores at Rosyln High. Charles is 13 and an 8th grade elementary school student. Two Five Fathom Club members, Lar- ry Stockhauser, 17 and William Smyth, 15, will not accompany the group this trip. With the reported cooperation of the New York City Board of Edu- | cation, and the evident interest of leading newspapers in New York City, if not the entire United Sta- tes, it seems likely that this Eas- ter vacation high school students science expedition to Little Duck Key, will set a precedent for simi- lar expeditions by other high school groups. This involves not only stu- | dents in New York, but in other cities as well. CAB Cautions Gov't Against Special Charges WASHINGTON (—The Aeronautics Board cautioned the Commerce Department here that! levying of special charges for the | use of the nation’s airway facili-| ties could deal private airlines a | severe financial setback. The board filed a report on a Proposal by the Civil Aeronautics | Administration that users of such | federal services as radio commu- | aids and| Pay fees that | nications, navigational power facilities would return some 25 million dol- lars a year to the government. CAB pointed out that assessment user charge large enough to materially reduce the | profits of the aviation industry j could “seriously undermine and possibly reverse the present favor- able trends in the development of | the industry.” Use of butter in the United) States declined from 18.2 pounds per person in 1932 to 8.7 pounds, Pet person in 1958, while use of) oleomargarine increased from baad Pounds to 8.2 pounds. Civil | McCarthy Challenges Crities Of Red-Hunting Methods To Name Communists They Exposed By JOHN CHADWICK CHICAGO Sen. McCarthy (R-Wis) today challenged critics of his Red-hunting methods—from President Eisenhower down—to name any Communists they have exposed, The controversial chairman of the Senate investigations subcom- mittee, en on by a St. Patrick dinner gathering last night, pledged a no-quarter fight to dig out “Communist traitors.” In the face of indirect criticism from Eisenhower and other ‘top leaders of his party, he bluntly said he didn’t give “a tinker’s dam” if people in either the Re- Publican or Democratic party—no matter how high or how low— haha “unhappy’ about his meth- “This fight is going on as long as I am in the United States Sen- ate,” he said, touching off a burst of applause, Eisenhower, in a news confer- ence yesterday, deplored the ef- fects of “unwise investigators.” He also said recently that in the fight against communism “‘we are defeating ourselves if . . . we use methods that do not conform to the American sense of justice and fair play.” McCarthy, in the first of four speeches in a quick swing through the Midwest, said there are some who say it’s all right to dig out Communists, “but, oh, we don’t like your methods.” He said crit- ics of his subcommittee’s methods have not, however, suggested any effective alternative. “When you hear them crying that they don’t like the methods,” he added, “I suggest that you ask them when and where they ever exposed a Communist by their methods.” He was scheduled to ackdress another group here today and then leave for Milwaukee, where he will speak Friday night. He has another speech scheduled in Okla- homa City Saturday night. Just before he started his broad- cast address to some 1,200 mem- bers and guests of the Irish Fel- lowship Club here last night, one man called out: “Give ‘em hell, When you buy adequate Wiring you get every cent Joe; you're in your own ballpark now.” McCarthy evidently felt he was as he fired back at critics of his carried on his controversy with Army Secretary Robert T. Stev- ens. Referring to Stevens, the sena- tor said, “I'didn’t start the fight but I think maybe I'll have to finish it.” He also quoted from .what he calied the “main report” to the national conference of the Amer- ican Communist party last Sep- tember, saying it urged Commu- nists to promote fights between him and Eisenhower in the hope of destroying: them both. A Communist party spokesman in New’ York said the document contained no such instructions to party members. He called Mc- Carthy’s statement “nonsense.” But McCarthy contended it laid Thursday, March 18, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN “we have to take care of bim| (Eisenhower) later.” | McCarthy said he was going to send a copy of the report “to my good friend Mr, Eisenhower, he will know that the Communist Party has linked us as one.” The latest dispute between Mc- Carthy and Stevens centers around an Army report iast week charg- ing that the senator and the chief counsel of his investigating com- mittee, Roy M. Cohn, tried to win special treatment for G. David Schine, a former staff member drafted as a private last fail. Both McCarthy and Cohn denied the charge, and McCarthy called the report an attempt to “‘black- mail” him into halting what he has described as a subcommittee probe of Army “coddling” of Communists. Stevens retorted “false” and “fantastic” to this charge. 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