The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 24, 1954, Page 8

This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb George Eiiot, (Mary Ann Evans), , old mean teachers at school soon once wrote: “Blessed is the man| found out about our lunchtime ac- who, having nothing to say, ab-/tivity and put a stop to it. How- stains from giving in words evi- dence of the fact.” Td like to have that sentence printed in bold face type and hand it in to the editor on days like ever, in those days, Key West was wide-open. Any kid over twelve years old could go into the gamb-| ling halls along Duval St. and get into a Black Jack or Umbrella this. He’d probably say, “Amen! | game. (Kids under twelve didn’t But columnists are supposed to be | frequent these places because they damned rather than blessed so get couldn’t reach over the top of the @n about your job of turning in| gambling tables.) These conditions some copy.” They tell me that gambling (bo- probably led to the formation of | the above-mentioned poker games iita) has been closed down for a| at school. few weeks up at Marathon. I’m) it was a voluntary clo- part of the operators z ere valor until after the . This may be true lot of Key Westers 4 be provoked. Now we no way to look forward toward getting rich except through Gaturday’s Cuban lottery. Ym _ neither for nor against CHEENGHE 2 4 It must be puzzling to the young- er generation of today — just as it was to us — to be denied the right it prudence was the bet-| to gamble from a moral standpoint and yet know that the State sanc-| tions twenty-one years of age and do- | |nate a portion of the ‘pot’ to the| same said State. The situation is | as idiotic as the State’s privilege to tell a young man that he is old enough to fight it legally if you’re over! and kill but still too immature to cast a vote and | therefore determine under what| conditions he is going to do this| fighting and killing. For that matter, what drastic change distinguishes a twenty year old youth from a twenty-one | year old so that the latter can} drink beer while the former has | to be content with sasparilla? The mentally mature man of eighteen can indulge in alcoholic beverages when the same stuff is dynamite to the man of forty with an adol-| gambling. It appears to me to be! mighty foolish to get worked up ever the illegality of various chance-taking games when the has: a good argument be-| it takes a whopping big bets placed. If you and | to pass laws, I guess the same attitude — ‘agin’ anything that didn’t little cash into our poc- heck with the moral laws we attempt to shove down children’s throats! I was a kid at the Key hool, we went through ge of playing poker in Trey atte escent or immature personality. | Don’t ask me what the answer is to these kind of problems. I guess lines of demarcation have to be drawn and our civilization hasn’t reached the point where it can do a solution to these pro- the future must come educators and we’ve never been too particular about giving these men and women pro- per assistance with their work. As a matter of fact, we have a ten- dency to stymie their efforts by doling out njggardly salaries and laughing at ‘what we call their idealistic, impractical suggestions. Incidentally, and aside from the above meandering, the Masons are sponsoring Public Schools Week at this time in Key West. Gerald Ad- ams has explained the objective as, “to acquaint all our people with the programs and accomplish- ments of our public educational system.” We have reason to be proud of the advancement and growth of our schools here in Key West. The folks responsible for this improvement are still working under terrific handicaps and are faced with the immense task of trying to take care of an ever- growing school-age population with- out having the necessary physical equipment such as buildings, etc., to do so properly. You readers who want to see a better Key West might take the time out to investigate our local educational problems. Bandleader’s Life Story Is Based On Fact “The Glenn Miller Story,” Uni- versal-International’s Technicolor | production of the great bandlead- | er’s life-story opening Thursday at | the Strand Theatre, is one of most | factual biographies ever filmed. | Of the top 27 speaking roles in| the picture only three are fictional | |— a pawn-shop operator, a girl) singer and an Army officer. Pro-| ducer Aaron Rosenberg, who gath- ered together almost all of the ac-| tual personalities who shared in the 20 last years of Miller's ca- Tattoo Suggested To Denote Any Drug Allergy you’re one of the many people |old Negro escaped convict was sen-| who becomes dangerously allergic to penicillin or some other drug. knocked unconscious. Could a doc- tor unwittingly give you the drug which is bad for which even a bikini bathing suit wouldn’t reveal—could be your vi-| tal protection, a physician su; gests. a penny, could be squares or tri- angles or other symbols or letters of the alphabet, representing some | Pretty specific drug or condition. meaning of each symbol would be known, by prior agreement, to all doctors. let or pocketbook, or dog tags | well three miles away. With it was | Ney made his confession shortly around your neck, could do the | the girl’s head, wrapped in a coat. same thing. But you might lose i the cards or forget to wear the|he grew panicky while attempting dog tags on the day of some dis-|to rob the coupte as they sat in a aster, or automobile accident. more scientific way of carrying | pee ET your medical warning against a|Dr. Hugh H. Hussey of Washing- | THE REY WEST CITIZEN Escaped Conviet Wednesday, March 24, 1954 Glad For Arrest WATERVILLE, N.Y. —At his arraignment on a charge of speed- | Is Sentenced For ing, Ri . | Murder Of Youth |i “tumca to pecs anor | FLORENCE, S. C. ®-A 38-year.|Atthur Pughe and said: “I want to thank you. You may esterday leath in the |@@ve saved my life and perhaps - ar Se nae of a| tle livet of others. I had been to e body was found in a|# SPorts show in Syracuse and was the severed head of his |@tiving back home to attend an- 1 friend, other. I guess I just was not think- nite jury was out 1%4| ig. But thanks for arresting me. | ore finding Raymond Car-|! guess I’m lucky you did.” . At the end of the one-|, Peace Justice Basil Crand: e Circuit Judge Steve , fined Wolff $10, 7 3 ne execution May 7. | : oo ‘Police said Carney admitted the | the girl’s head to prevent identi- | double g of H. B. Allen, 22, | fication, ; of Latta, and Betty Clair Cain, a| Carney was tried only for the year-old schoolgirl, near | Allen slaying. He had pleaded in-| The |Pamplico. The couple disappeared | BOcent. After the verdict, Le said, | | while on a date Dec. 6. I ask only for mercy, that’s all,” The girl’s headless body was | There was no indication whether found the following day. Two days | he would appeal. ; later, Allen’s body was found in a Sheriff John Hanna testified Car- Page 8 By ALTON L. 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