The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 29, 1954, Page 5

SCOUTING NEW “Another Boy Scout troop has been organized. Sponsored by Arthur Sawyer Post of the American Legion, Troop 256 held its first meeting re- cently at the Grace Lutheran Church hall on Flagler Avenue. | Louis Ismay, the Legionnaires’ Boy Scout committee chairman, was the principal speaker. Harvey E. McKee, also a member of the troop committee, gave a brief talk. An extensive program for camp- ing and future meetings was adopt- ed. Boys enrolling in the new tro8p were: Eugene Albury, David V. Bishop, Jr., George L, Carey, Jr., | Timothy O. Carey, Albert A. Clair- mont, Stanton R. Cooper, Stephen F. Dutton, Tony Estenoz, Jr., Jam- es Evans, Michael M. Hughes, Burchard D. Johnson, David N. Ledford, Jr., Wayne Marsh, Wil- liam R. McEwen, Ralph Perkins, | Robert Quevedo, Jr., Joseph G. Santini and Raymond Velasquez. Named as Patrol Leaders were Albert Clairmont, David Ledford, | dr., Tony Estenoz, Stephen Dutton and David Bishop. George A. Wood, Navy Chief and | a veteran Boy Scout worker, will| succeed Capt. Anthony Dropp, USN, as District Commissioner for | the Monroe County Boy Scout Dis- | trict. Capt. Dropp will remain ac- tive in scouting until his depart- | ture in mid-spring. ©. C. Odden has been endorsed by the County District for the posi- tion of Neighborhood Commission. Odden is no stranger to scouting in this city. Another successful encampment | has been held at Camp Jackson | Lee Sawyer on Summerland Key | by Troop No. 253, sponsored by the Holy Name Society of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic church. | Hiking, fishing, swimming and | initiation into the “Royal Order of | Siam” and the “Scottish Order of the Flitterfly” were the principal undertakings of the week end. Scoutmaster Tony Martinez and | patrol leaders held tests for Ten- | derfeet, second and first class scouts. Scouts on the hike were Truman Dongo, James Gainor, Robert Read, Raymond __Bazo, Robert Chrisman, Fred Thompson, Albert Leightley, John Avila, Willard Chrisman, John Austin, Jerry Tor- ano, Joseph Richardson, Thomas | Lloyd, Daniel Woody, Leonard Con- ley, David Twiehaus, Lawrence Ei- sner, Grafton Boone, James Ste- ward, and James Taylor, And expedition to the Everglades is planned for early April. Workers Will Vote On Party WESTBROOK, Maine (#—Paper- makers at the S. D, Warren mill will vote April 10 on this question: Shall the company celebrate its | centennial by throwing a big party | or by giving $100,000 for a high| school gymnasium? President George Olmstead Jr. | and Manager Everett Ingalls said | today their first thought was a party for all 2,700 workers and their families. But they decided that would be| | “an expensive shindig—enjoyed for | Royal Air Force slang for a suc- a day and nothing to show for it | later.” They estimated the cost of | this ‘one-day bender” would be “almost enough to build a gym- nasium for the new high school.” | In a letter distributed to the! workers, they said a gymnasium “would serve the community long after a picnic would be forgotten.” “If the majority vote is in favor of the gymnasium, we propose to give $100,000 for its construction.” Monday, March 29, 1954 THE King’s English |First CinemaSeope Frontier Is Explained In New Tome By ED CREAGH WASHINGTON #® — With the tourist season hard upon us, it’s time for those who are going abroad to get out their phrase books and try for a smattering of | ily. whatever foreign language they’re likely to require. For Americans, that includes the English language. The King’s English, that is, not the English we-all speak. You doubt English is a foreign tongue? All right, then, what does “prang” mean? Use “‘housey-hou- ; sey” in a sentence. Tell us what an “erk” is and own up—no cribbing, now—whether you’d like some “Tottenham pudding” for dinner. These are English words, honest, though. most of them are slang. You can find them—and a lot more you may need if you’re London- bound—in a recently published book, “A Dictionary of New Words in English,’ by Paul’ C. Berg (Crowell, $2.95). Berg, an Englishman, got to- gether some thousands of the words which have come into com- mon use since the 1930s. This shows how the world has changed in 20 years. Back in those innocent days “atom bomb” wasn’t even in the dictionary. Neither, for that matter, was “prang,” which turns out to be cessful bombing raid, or schoolboy slang for any feat, such as setting the headmaster’s toupee on fire. A really spectacular feat—setting the headmaster himself on fire, say—would be a “wizard prang.” In modern Britain, as it filters into Berg’s dictionary, a girl won’t smack your face if you propose to play “housey-housey.” She may not jump for joy, either, though, since “‘housey-housey” is a simple eard game along the lines of lotto. Much of the 20th-century English Berg has collected comes from KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 For Home or Commercial Use. Guaranteed PURE We dre Prepared To Furnish You With Clean, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE Thompson Enterprises, Inc. (Ice Division) Dial 2.6831 Key West, Florida Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service between MIAMI and KEY WEST Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at SUNDAYS) and Key West World War II, which seems to have done to the language what the Allies did to Hitler. An “erk,” for instance, is an Air Force recruit. A “foo” is ‘‘a critical spirit, be- lieved by service men to be an invisible onlooker of all their do- ings.” And “Tottenham pudding”? Best turn it down, old boy, if someone suggests it for dessert. He’s ‘“hav- ing you on,” as some Englishmen say. It’s nothing but pig food. Extra Passion Play Performance Will Be Given LAKE WALES, FLA. — Amphi- theatre officials announced this week in Lake Wales that an ex- tra performance of the Black Hills Passion Play will be given on Saturday, April 17, at 8 p. m. This performance is in addition to the regular Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday performances being pre- sented each week through Easter. The many requests from people planning to attend the Saster Sunrise Services at the Mountain Lake Sanctuary prompted the Di- rectors to schedule the perform- ance on the 17th. This arrange- ment will make it possible for visitors to attend the Passion Play on Saturday night and the beauti- ful Sunrise Service at the Bok Tower on Sunday morning before returning to their homes. All seats are reserved for this extra per- formance and regular prices pre- vail. The thousands who have been to see the Play this season in- dicate that the production at Lake Wales is destined to become one of Florida’s outstanding attrac- tions. Anyone wishing information or reservations for the Black Hills Passion Play may write Pas- sion Play Amphitheatre, Box 71, Lake Wales, Fla. Only one dwelling in three in Paris, France, is less than 20 years old. THANKS! You Have Made Us A Million Dollar Institution In Less Than Two Years Your Savings are loaned to help people Buy, Build or Repair Their Homes. Your Security is in HONESTY and EFFICIENCY, Film To Be Shown At Strand The first CinemaScope Produc-~ tion of an American frontier dra- ma, “The Command,” opens this | week on Thursday at the Strand | Theatre. Guy Madison, Joan Wel- don, and James Whitmore portray the leading roles in the Warner Bros. epic when marks the studio’s entry into the new dimension fam- CinemaScope, already hailed one of the greatest advancements in the history of motion pictures on the basis of its record-breaking ac- ceptance by the public, is the pro- cess which utilizes the anamorphic lens invented by Prof. Henri Chre- tien of France. Without wearing special classes, the viewer is said to be transported into the story by the scope and magnitude of the pic- ture shown upon the new Screen which reaches from proscenium to proscenium, almost the entire width of the Theatre. “The Command,” in color by WarnerColor, features a story bas- ed on a fictional work of James Wamer Bellah which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post under the title of “The White Invader.” Set in 1878 on the battleground of the Western plains, “The Com- mand” is said to depict the war which for all time resolved the Possession of the territory known today as Wyoming. The story cen- ters about the activities of a ca- valry command led by a young medical officer, played by Guy Madison. Personal Drama When the ratiking field officer is. killed in a skirmish it remains for Madison to assume the command and lead his depleted forces in a last ditch effort to hold the terri- tory. The personal drama of the young doctor is said to play an important part of the film story. The resentment of the men agaiust following an untested officer into battle, the fiery romance of Madi- son and Joan Weldon, and the per- sonal feud between the doctor and James Whitmore, his hatd-fighting top sergeant, are the dramatic elements which enter into the screénplay. New Screen Vistas The CinemaScope film was pro- duced on location in the rugged mountain country of California. In addition to the action and drama, the CinemaScope epic is also said to offer scenic beauty in new vis- tas. The mountains, the plains, the Western sky are reportedly repro- duced in CinemaScope and Warner- Color in unique dimension, These is will unfold on the huged curved screen, in a scope and dimension never seen before on a motion picture screen. “The Command” was produced for Warner Bros. studios by David Weisbart. 10,000 MIL Guaranty on USED CARS wi re, Carlife Y B ual aa r3 Trainmen Escape Death In Punge Through Trestle STEILACOOM, Wash. ‘® — In} what the engineer called *30 sec- onds of hell,” eight units of a 73-| ar Union Pacifie Railroad freight train plunged through a burning trestle into Puget Sound here yes- terday. | The only casualty was L. R.| Pearson, a brakeman who suf- fered minor burns about the eyes as he braved flames to save three carloads of bellowing cattle. | Union Pacific officials placed | damage to the trestle and to the | cars at more than $300,000. Engineer William Boyce said he | was highballing along the water- | side track toward Seattle, some 45 miles to the north, when he round- | ed a curve and saw flames billow- ing from the trestle. He applied the air brakes, but | the heavily laden train couldn't | be stopped before the three diesel | units and 19 cars ploughed through the flames. The next eight cars| dropped through to the water as the trestle gave away. Four cars burned. The destroyed cars carried wax, tires, refrigerators and shoes. The cause of the fire was not deter- mined. Tricycles Are Showered On Lad PROVIDENCE, R. I. (® — So many persons helped Andy Char-| ette, 5-year-old polio victim, when his tricycle was smashed by youth- ful vandals that he was able to} help other polio victims. A picture showing Andy and the | smashed tricycle, which he needed | to exercise his polio-ravaged mus- cles, was transmitted across the country by Associated Press Wire- photo recently. He received his sixth tricycle yesterday. 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