The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 20, 1954, Page 3

SOCIETY — PERSONALS — NEWS OF INTEREST TO WOMEN ITEMS OF INTBREST TO EVERYONE SUE JONES, Editor Saturday, March 20, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 3 RAINBOW GIRL—Miss Jeanette Hastain, one of the members of the Rainbow Girls who will compete for the title of “Miss Cayo Hueso Grotto” at the dance to tonight, be held at the Elks Club annex Miss Hastain is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Hastain, 9-C Sigsbee Road.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES—and blonde Sandy Allen, a member of the local Rainbow Girls, is one of the en- irants in the bathing beauty contest which will be held at the Elks Club Annex tonight. Rainbow Girls will compete for the title of “Miss Cayo Hueso Grotto.” Fifteen-year- old Sandy is the daughter of the Harry Allens, 1100 Truman Avenue.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. SSS Drop cream-puff batter in tiny mounds and bake until golden- prown, Fill with cream cheese m ed with Roquefort and ittle se. Serve as a snack in the evening, or as a first course before supper with well-seasoned chilled tomato Juice. LIFE ABROAD By FRED SAITO HIGASHIDORI VILLAGE, North Japan (#—Japan, though the most highly industrialized nation in the Orient, is still a land of poor farmers. Farmers total 54 per cent of the 85 million population, compared with 27 per cent of industrial workers and merchants combined. “Our life is toil, toil, toil every | day—only to eat,” said Heizo Abe, 48, a farmer in this wide, wild village in northern Honshu, Japan’s main island. Abe squatted by a narrow strip of his paddy of about an acre and dejectedly looked at rice plants about to wither without bearing grain. “Heaven often retards our toil with this weather—I’m going to | reap no rice at all this year,” he | said. ‘The damage was done by {freak cold in summer when rice {needs broiling sunshine to grow.” He pointed at his wife, 24-year- | old. son, 22-year-old daughter and 14-year-old daughter carrying | stacks of rice plants just harvest- ed. h stack weighs about 50 | pounds. | “You may think it’s foolish to | cut this crop,” he said. “‘actually | these unproductive rice plants | need the same trouble as a rich | crop needs. If we want to sell them as hay, we must remove hollow ears, lest they hurt cattle’s stomachs.” Three other children waited at home. The 10-year-old daughter carried the youngest papoose-style and was playing with her 7-year- old sister. Abe’s shack has one room, about 8x6. “I had still another son, but he was killed in Malay during the last war,” he said. “Some other nilies in this village lost more than two sons in the war... so I'm better off.” “That son you saw in the paddy thinks of ning up with the new army (National Safety Force)—I haven’t decided yet whether I should allow him to do so.” | Abe is worried about a 19-year- old daughter who works as a maid | in a small restaurant in the nearby |town of Tanabu at 1,500 yen ($4) | plus board a month. He explained: | “Many wicked woman-brokers | call every other day offering her unbelievably good pay if she will <-| work down in the south. Both she and I know all such jobs are bad ones, whatever fine things they may say. But I am_ worried whether she some day will get fooled by such a wicked man.” \ \ Fashion Show Report Heard By JayShees The Jayshees held a business meeting on Thursday, March 18, at the home of Mrs. Sam Collins. First on the agenda was the Charity Dance and Fashion Show to be held at the Casa Marina |Hotel on Friday, March 26, at 9:00 p. m. Mrs. Lino Castro and Mrs, Ever- ette Sweeting, co-chairmen of this affair reported that there is a very good advance sale of tickets and a large attendance is expected. Large parties desiring reservations may call 2-6890 or 2-6377. Mrs. Everette Sweeting was chosen to represent the Jayshees in the Parade of Easter Fashions that is being sponsored by the Jr. Woman’s Club on April 11, After the meeting, a very en- tertaining game of charades was Played. Prizes were won by Mrs. Pierce. Delicious refreshments were ser- ved from a lovely table decorated to carry out the St. Patrick’s Day theme. Mrs. Collins was the hos- tess for the evening. Oscar Oropeza Elected § To Fraternity Office Oscar Oropeza was recently elec- ted pledge trainer of The Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity at Florida State University in Tal- lahassee. A graduate of Key West High School, Oropeza will be remem- bered by sports enthusiasts as one of the best basketball players ever developed at the local high school. He was also a standout baseball player. Sixth Divorce Is Easy On Spreckels VENTURA, Calif. (®—Sugar heir Adolph Spreckels II has a divorce from his sixth wife that cost him only $5,500 in cash. Spreckels, 42, was granted a de- cree yesterday from 22-year-old Judith Powell of Beverly Hills, Calif. He testified she refused to maintain a home, failed in her household duties and was unac- countably absent from their Ojai ranch, The marriage lasted 34 days, The young wife gets $5,000, plus $500 attorney fees, and is allowed to keep her wedding gifts from Spreckels, including a mink coat and a diamond ring. Spreckels has an appeal from a 30-day sentence for beating his fifth wife, actress Kay Williams, who divorced him last August. Store your vacuum cleaner, when you are not using it, in a place near a register or radiator. Give it ample room: if you crowd it into a small space you may damage some part of it. Cathofic MASSES DURIN‘ All Are 606% DUVAL STREET Charles Curry and Mrs, Charles | that is cool and dry. Never put it! TREASURE jorette.) Staples Avenue.—Citizen Staff MAJORETTE—Miss Teresa Bardwell, highstepping drum ma- jorette of the Key West High School band, will compete tonight with other members of the Rainbow Girls. at the Elks Club annex for the title of “Miss Cayo Hueso Grotto.’ (Last year’s winner, Miss Nancy Brooks, was also a band ma- Teresa is the daughter of the J. E. Bardwells, 2828 The contest will be Photo, Finch, By DOROTHY ROE AP Women’s Editor The business ability of Ameri- can women is making headlines in France. Most recent subject of French comment is Adele Simpson, a tiny dynamo who, with her partner, Eleanor Graham, runs one of America’s biggest and most suc- cessful wholesale dressmaking firms. Agence Quotidienne, equivalent of the Wall Adele’s name. The paper's New York correspondent, Max Dorian, remarked on the difference be- tween the custom dressmaking houses of Paris and the vast wholesale production of New York. “In this respect (quality mass | production) American houses have held their own against all com- petition. The most outstanding among them, considering the im- a Paris COME TO THE MISSION Sunday, March 12 to Sunda Ys March 28 St.Mary Sfar of the Sea Church MAIN MISSION SERVICE, 7:30 P.M. SHORT MISSION SERMON AT 6:30 AND 8:00 THE WEEK Welcome is assured when you send Hallmark Easter Greetings from CHEST Street | Business Ability Of American Women Makes Headlines In French Papers portance of business transactions as well as the remarkable finish of its ‘serial’ creations, is Adele Simpson, Inc.’ “, .. The offices of the firm are located not far from Times Square. In contrast to our great dressmaking houses there is no pretense here for atmosphere. They dispense with the expensive front which impresses and seduces the clientele, as they do business with professional buyers only . . Here, all sales are final. The gar- |ment manufacturers buy fabrics by placing firm orders in advance. One point stands out clearly: while Paris leads the styles of fashion, the greatest their | TELEPHONE: Citizen Office, 2-566 | Forest Preservation Symbol Smokey The Bear Is Internationally Known i} | | By JOHN KAMPS WASHINGTON (#—Smokey the bear, with his jaunty forest ran-| ger’s hai and blue jeans, is fast becoming an international symbol | of forest preservation. The real Smokey was snatched |as a cub from a flaming New | Mexico forest nearly four years {ago and brought to a new home in the federally-run zoo here. Ever since, the Forest Service has used his picture—all togged | out in ranger’s gear—to drive | home its fire prevention message on highway billboards and trolley advertisements. Smokey has been in the movies, on radio and on television. | Now his fame has spread to other lands. Youngsters in South | America, Canada and even France |have joined with a million or so American kids in a corps of “Junior Rangers”, pledged to |“‘save and faithfully defend from | waste the natural resources of my country.” Smokey will spearhead a big six | million dollar campaign planned by federal and state forestry offi- cials and private advertising | groups to plug for protection of | the nation’s woodlands from the ravages of fire. The campaign | opens April 1. The government’s | share is $150,000. | Fires annually destroy about a | billion dollars worth of timber in| the United States, put some prog- | ress has been made and Clint | risks are taken in New York, so that the exclusivity is followed by quantity.” Mrs. Simpson is a miniature, | less than five-feet tall, tipping the scales at less than 100 pounds, with a soft, little-girl voice and a shy manner. } She could be perfectly cast as | the “clinging vine” in a Victorian | play—the shy, fluttery little wom- | an who doesn’t understand the big, | bad world of business. | But her husband, Wesley Simp- son, a successful financier, lets “the littke woman” run her own! vast corporation with no questions | asked. He knows she is a match for the toughest banker in Wall street. Add to this the fact that her designing skill has been recognized by three major awards in the brief five years since she has headed her own firm and you'll have some idea of why a Paris financial pa- per should consider her worthy of a full page. Even more amazing to most} Frenchmen is the fact that this tiny, feminine creature can run one of the country’s biggest bus- inesses with one hand, and with} |the other manage two perfectly appointed homes and an adoring family of contented husband, teen- }age daughter and college son. on our Open starts Monday at 9:00 A.M. stock! 417 Duval Street special reductions entire 9:00 A.M. to 5:30 P.M. Davis, national director of Coop- erative Forest Fire Prevention, gives Smokey considerable credit for this. President Eisenhower posed with ja Smokey doll and urged “every }man, woman and child to join” ctierslalnpen pamtesercmaee in the drive against forest fires. from commercial exploitation and|_ Wb#t better tribute could there authorizes the Forest Service to | be to Smokey’s influence with the license the manufacture and sale | younger set than a letter from a of ‘‘Smokey the Bear” toys and} woman who wrote that her appliances to put across fire pre-|dren have stopped watching their vention messages. Royalties go for | favorite spaceman since Smokey fire prevention work. | went on TV. About 240,000 Smokey teddy bears were sold last Christmas. A song about him is selling in sheet music form and on five dif- ferent phonograph records. His life story is due to be published soon in book form. Some of Smokey’s recent accom- plishments: He crashed a Boston Pops or- chestra concert in Constitution Hall, He became an honorary assis- tant chief of the District of Colum- bia Fire Department. | He is featured in the Boy Scouts’ | fire prevention program and his Picture will appear on a half- million scout posters. A 10-inch narrow “ham” slicer is | most useful. It may be used for | slicing other cold meats besides | ham, as well as for cutting cheese. Mix a half cup of powdered su- gar and a teaspoon of cinnamon together; sift over the top of a sponge cake. | Discussions on REINCARNATION, INVOLUTION AND EVOLUTION Every Wednesday, 3 P.M. MRS. EMMA R. CLAYTON 1115 Casa Marina Ct. All Interested Persons Invited— TELEPHONE 2-2049 Fabric Center, Incorporated 622 DUVAL STREET ee EE, ORLON CHAMBRAY in Luscious Summer Pastel Colors SHOW GLITTER ee even tm SEVENTEEN "You're as cool and as dewy-fredh os one of the daisies that eck this Vicky Vaughn charmer. 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