The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 4, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, Juno 4, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published d: (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Grema,aet Aus Daeste ie : : Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ........ sowatsserrereneee 1921 » 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN 2 csescssn Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for oduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this Paper, and also the local news pub: Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 a ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues not publish and subjects of local or general interest, but it will pul anonymous communications, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN E Beuch and Bathing Pavilion.” 3. Airports—Land Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. a a a ) G.1’s IN LONDON From our London correspondent comes word that U.S. G. I.’s are being taken, in tow for their flashy dress. It seems that bright flowered shirts, open at the neck, and bright trousers, have been tabooed for wear in Lon- don. : It is no secret that Londoners have been irritated by the flashy dress and sometimés boisterous manner of the many G. I.’s now flooding London, somewhat as they did in World War II. American G, I.’s for some reason let off a bit more steam in foreign cities than they do in their own country, and perhaps their better pay, and other ad- vantages, tend to get under the skin of the long-rationed, poor-paid Englishman. : Third U.S. Army headquarters in England recently announced that in the future American soldiers visiting London must attempt to dress more like Englishmen. In other words, the Army is attempting to keep Americans visiting London from appearing to be rough characters, Though this is not the case, in England such dress is look- ed upon as in bad taste and the G: I.’s are in England. Although we look upon the affair as a minor one, we agree with our foreign correspondent that Londoners ‘could do a bit more for G. I.’s than they are now doing. Almost all forms of entertainment close in this capital city by about ten in the evening, and this has a tendency to keep the G. I.’s on the streets, where flashy dress and a noisy manner are objectionable. American soldiers, sail- ors or airmen on leave are not inclined to retire quietly at ten o’clock, even though they happen to be in ondon, where that custom is a longstanding one. If Londoners would make more of an effort to pro- vide constructive entertainment for,American G. I,’s and if there was a bit more to do in the world’s largest city, Perhaps the problem would be partially dissipated. Who can tell us when the longest day of the year will occur?, We have not been invited to be a judge at the Miss America contest yet. - If you can’t laugh at yourself, learn to occupy your time with a good hobby. Surprisingly, we discovered a man the other day who was willing to borrow five dollars. The public’s mentality can be measured by the amount of publicity given every sordid marriage failure, fi The poor may inherit the earth in the hereafter, but their life at present is pretty inconvenient in the mean- ie. SORE WERE O:DIOIR lw} A RIEIVIEIRIEINICIE MRI IG OINIE RM UIPIEKIAINISIAIS RIAIL IE ISITIY] PIRI IMEIRISMESIE VIET] 1E-| O1N Aiafa Oia RIEIGIAIL MM AIRIR| | VIEIO} RIOITIAI AISIMICIONS) MIAINIATTIIIVIE TINIOMNAITIAIR] HOS isla Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 55. High 8. Make into mountain law Crossword Puzzle 32. Fruit stone 33. Smooth- spoken 34. Sea eagle 35. Upper limb 36. Youthful years 37, Determine 39. =n favor of + ACROSS 4 Stinging insect & Long poem 12. Genus of House” 15. “Itogether 17. Israeiite 1.Observed “loved loved b: Funn: Galates 48. Settled distaste 50. Golf stroke 51. Ceremony 52. Through: prefix 53. Finials on 5. Betel palm Buddhist 6. Fodder pit 7. Discharge of adebt 46. Likely 47. Billiard stick 49. Female ruff City Of smecnetionel Intrigue Geneva Still Has Cloak And Dagger Atmosphere . By EDDY GILMORE (For Hal Boyle) GENEVA (# — Always a city famed for international intrigue and just plain spying, Geneva to- day has a cloak and dagger atmos- phere rivaled by few cities in modern times. The reasons are obvious: The Swiss are neutral and intend to remain that way. Hence, they are interested in just about every- thing and everybody. The Russians are here by the scores and one can be sure their Intelligence and _.. Counterintelli- gence Corps are well represented. Late arrivals in the arena of inter- national politics, the Red Chinese and the Koreans obviously have their gumshoe squads. And the fact that Geneva has plenty of anti-Communist Chinese and anti- Communist Koreans is making them all ultra careful. The British and French are quieter with their spying and counterspying, but this does not mean they are less effective. The Americans can certainly be said to have their cloaks, if not their daggers, hanging in the dark halls of this city by the bright blue lake. Strange things are happening and there is a whisper behind the spotted palm of every hotel lobby. A high-placed delegate went to see another one. They had confi- dential matters to discuss. The man who made the call was sur- prised when he saw five men in the room—the man he’d come to see, and four others. “It’s all right”, said the host, “we can talk in freedom’. wAs the caller opened his discus- sion, each of the four unidentified men in the room marched to a corner, unfolded a newspaper and began reading aloud. This presum- ably would foul up any recording device. While the two principals talked the four men kept reading. When they finished, shook hands and said goodby the four men folded their newspapers and walked quietly away. Another delegation here is armed with antilistening machines. These make a queer noise when turned on and are said to guarantee that the conversation in the room can- not be heard. There is another delegation that holds most of its private conyer- sations in bathrooms—with the water running—which is said to be a sure way of making certain your conversation is neither listen- ed to nor recorded. A plumber who had to call at Chou En-Lai’s villa to make a minor repair was met at the door by security guards, was accom- panied to the room by them and his every motion was watched by two Chinese who stood only a yard away. Nearly everyone assumes that someone is reading all the mail coming into and going out of Geneva. For this reason the weather is a great subject of com- munication. One wife wrote back to her dele- gate husband, “thanks for your letters. Geneva’s weather must be wonderful, but isn’t there anything else of interest there?” The press center has been dubbed the “House of Rumors”. them straight becomes difficult, One visitor swears he has made several telephone calls and when asked what delegation he repre- sents, invariably repli ‘I'm Mr. {Senate And House Conference Will Discuss - President Eisenhower's Housing Program So and So from the state of chaos.” He says the telephone operator has just as invariably replied: “Just a moment, I'll put you through”. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Good old Charlie Mefoza is’sort of giving me # rough time! Rocks in the head — huh? Grind them down to gravel — huh? Heck! Charlie, sweetheart, do you know that since “This Rock Of Ours” has been published — he- ginning back in 1951 — I’ve been called just about every name in the book? And, confidentially and off-the-record as the politicians say, I sometimes agree wholeheartedly with my abusers. Conservatively estimating, I’ve probably written over a half mil- lion words .expressing my own thoughts on controversial subjects. Tve stuck my neck out so many times that my idea of heaven has become a place where newspaper columnists are permitted to wear turtle shells and pull their heads out of sight wher things get hot. Nevertheless, my opinions have been by own and not dictated by political expediency or personal friendship. It is true enough that I’ve prais- ed City Manger Lang and Chief of Police Perez. Both of them are men in the finest sense of the word — not because they never make a mistake but because they have ‘guts’ enough to stick by their ideals of right and wrong.. The same thing holds true for dozens of other leaders that this column has defended when it would have been much easier and a more tothe se.owvl to the wolves. Dave King, C. B. Harvey, Delio Cobo, Jack Delaney, Enrique Es- quinaldo, Lance Lester, Ignatius Lester, Joe Allen, Gerald Saund- ers, B. C. Papy, Claude Gandolfo, John Spottswood, and many others have come in for their share of criticism — good and bad — in “This Rock of Ours.” There is never any attempt to build a man or to break him down. The column merely tries to create discussions so that the more intelligent brains of the citizenry can make sugges- tions about civic improvements. The drainage subject which you mention, for instance, was cover- ed in “This Rock” back while sh Mg King was City Manager in Welcomed Criticism However, Charlie, old pal, I wel- comed the criticisms in your letter to the: editor because it gave me a chance to once more interpret the aims of this colimn for Citizen readers. You say that I’m losing the pow- er of my punches. Thank good- ness! That’s the first cheerful news I’ve heard in a long time! You know, I ought to be first- rate material for a psychiatrist because all my life, people have have misunderstood me. As the old saying goes, “I ain’t never been mad at,nobody,” and yet in my younger days, I’ve been clubbed, knifed, and shot at. I’ve had my ribs kicked in by artists who could use their feet like ballet dancers and once, another artistically in- clinded customer sought, semi-suc- cessfully, to carve my nose into an. ‘objet d’art’ with a broken Coca Cola bottle. Funny part of the whole deal is that although I’ve had the dickens beaten out of me and maybe was able to return the compliment at | times, the trouble always came out of a clear blue sky simply because |of a difference in ideals. I hope you’re right when you say I’m making weaker statements. With gray hair and a ‘pot-belly,’ there is certainly no percentage in mak- ing them too strong. Seriously, Charlie, if you and the rest of the Key West citizens who are dissatisfied with conditions would come across with some con- structive ideas, I’m pretty sure that the City Fathers would adopt them. There really isn’t any use ‘belly-aching’ about such things as By ROWLAND EVANS JR. winning committee approval of a 600,000-unit program, much big- ger than Eisenhower asked. Then the Supreme Court turned down an appeal from a lower court rul- ing which banned segregation in a San Francisco public housing proj- ect. Maybank interpreted this as a ban on segregation in all public housing. He said he would try to knock out, on the Senate floor, the credit | provision he had sponsored in the maneuver in which Republican and Democratic leaders Senior Banking Com crat and long a staunch advocate ot public housing, had succeeded Too Hard Up | To Split Up CHICAGO uw — Mrs. Alice C, Moore, 30, asked for temporary alimony to support herself and a daughter, Karol, 1, a hearing on her divorce suit against Robert Moore, 32. Moore, questioned by Superior Court Judge Alan E. Ashcraft, said he earns $272 a month as a ship- ping clerk and has fixed expenses of . “You're too poor to enjoy the luxury of a divorce,” Judge Ash- craft told the couple. “You're fool- ish even to want. one. I suggest you becomé. reeonciled.” The Moores agreed and left the courtroom hand in hand. CHIVALRY GOES A LITTLE TOO FAR FRANKFURT, Germany. —A young Frankfurt gallant to police today he had stcien bout $6—from his girl's friend’s pocketbook, “«T invited. her to have a few drinks with me. I was broke and | yiekis worried about how to pay the bill.” committee. Leaders of both parties, i wae reported, then agreed to le Maybank’s motion without a roll call vote. The motion went down by voice, and Maybank himself made no effort to place his col- Jeagues on record. Majority Leader Knowland of California immedi- ately offered Eisenhower’s pro- payment with a maximum 30-year term. 4. An increase in the amount of government money available for direct loans to veterans who can’t get private credit to buy homes under thé GI Bill. The Senate voted insured mortgages so that builders cannot make ‘windfall’ profits, as they allegedly have in the past. 6. A smog-clearance program providing FHA-mortgage insurance to cover new equipment installed by private firms and a five-million- dollar research fund. a oanng eine dig Program, 30 they could be changed to fit eco- nomic conditions; equal mortgage | terms for old and new houses. Dick Says— First off, before I get started tlie fa ¥ 7. Extension of the farm housing ii program and a new section to give farmers a chance to get govern- ment-insured mortgages without puttin gup their whole farm as security for the loan. 8. Continuation of the Federal National Mortgage Asen. as is, and Tejection of 's request to turn this secondary mortgage [Inarket Over to private capital by eal x program of FHA insur- ance for home-trailer mortgages. The ‘Senate refused to give the bipennate clayey Flexibility mortgage interest rates, with rates pegged to the of longterm government bonds; flexibility in repayment pe- you’ that big ditch-digger doesn’t back and tear up Grianell again.—(Advt.) Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space THREE LINES Figures or Initials Count As One Word drainage when you know as well as any other old-time resident that the only way the problem can be solved is with huge pumps and storm sewers. We don’t have that kind of money to spend and not many of us are willing to be taxed for it at present. Key West is progressing wonder- fully. Take things a little easier and you'll find that you will pro- gress right along with the town. Brothers Make History At HS-1 When Claude A. Dowling, AEAN, reported for duty at Helicopter An- |Claude was assigned to the Elec tiSubmarine Squadron One, last tics week he, with his brother James D. Dowling, AD1, became the first brother combination in HS-1 his- You can start one here and 15 | tory. minutes later you can hear it re- Peated to you at a hotel bar. With so many delegations in town as delegates to the con- ference, and at least a dozen others having representatives as unofficial “observers”, keeping two largest divisions in HS-1. penne teow al a ics detachuont, is sarasally as: sistant. petty officer in charge of the Line. —————— Rates Per Line Address Please Print Ad Below The two men-are the sons of : ; He Mrs. Arrel Dowling, 515 W. M: Spanish conquistadors under Her- lia st., Valdosta, Ga.,, and James, |P4ndo most of the older of the brothers, is mar-|Mexico and whet is now the U. S. 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