The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 8, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen eee Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monree County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 lated Press—The Associated Press fed tats cance and also Member Associate Dailies of Florids PUA IE nro cst: Banc cd nr Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Oe ee ne ae *~ and subjects or general interest, but yun cations” IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ee Abies CITIZEN and Apartments. Beach und Ba Bathin, “Sena! Gomoldation Cau, Count and Ci mtg ity Governments. 1 2 3. 4 5. MOSQUITOES SCARCE IN KEY WEST BUT HORDES PESTER MIAMI The Citizen is not striking a better-than-thou attitude, or gloating because a neighboring city is humbugged, when it stresses the vast difference in the mosquito popu- lation in Miami and Key West. Miami newspapers have been discreetly silent about the plague of mosquitoes in that city, but Miami radio stations have been harping the last few days about the hordes of singing and stinging pests that have descended on that city. One station spoke about the, “millions of mosquitoes,” though the announcer tried to make listen- ers believe he was talking in a jocular vein. For instance, you may do this or that, “if you get time out from slapping at mosquitoes.” He also spoke of his whimpering and whining dog that was “literally cov- ered” with mosquitoes. He let the dog into the house and had to spray him to kill the pests on him. Of course, Miami has had much more rain recently than has fallen in Key West. But that is not the reason for the scarcity of mosquitoes here and the “millions” of them in Miami. Miami’s mosquitoes are not spawned in Miami; they swarm into the city from the Everglades when westerly winds blow. As for Key West, the mosquito-control fight here has been surprisingly successful. The Citizen can’t speak for every nook and corner in the town, but so far as can be learned there is no part of the community that is both- ered with mosquitoes. 4 Back in the old days, the chief breeding places for mosquitoes in Key West were the many fresh-water ponds in-the undeveloped part of the city, One of them, Grassy Pond, was located off White Street, on the westerly side, two blocks beyond United Streeti-Other ponds, which were ideal breeding places, were situated in the sparsely inhabited part of the island from White Street to the northerly end. ‘ But development eliminated all those ponds. An- other factor in keeping down the mosquito population is that Key West now has no-open cisterns, as it had in the old days. The few remaining cisterns today have con- crete tops, and outlets for the overflow are screned. The “female of the species” among mosquitoes may now aptly paraphrase and expand that old saying, so, far as Key West is concerned, “Water, water, everywhere, but it’s hard to find a drop fresh enough in which to lay my eggs.” Fishing solves a surprising number of problems. Individuals who spend most of their time talking about other people seldom amount to anything. CIOIMIFTOIRTT MEL ATMIP|S] AIL EINIOIR Me O11 LIE] Mi UNIDEET | URIEIOMEAT) EVIE MEWIAIVIEIR MBL! (T] f iC I Pit INTE! FL INIEIR} RIAICIEIRIS| RIE ICTUIR| RIE IVE IL MRF Ie ICH TTT MEPIE IN} TT RHIOIP] | TSMBIAINIO} IRIAIPIT IO} PENANCE EL DE RIEIRIE (CITE) Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie DOWN 9. Of greater 1. Male child height = aps i 10. Sick icycle i built for two - oe Hy ee = slowly fowl 17. Be the 6. Type matter measures 20. Truce 7.Birdofthe 21, Senior Carag 22. Bulgarian ea Good ry Mimic 4. site of OD Down 26. Flower Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 35. Behold 1, Took a 36, Peentee 1 IAIDIOIRIE IS} LI IVIEIN} AIGIE ID} i thing in return 31. Wagon tra 32. The Chris- talker tianera 89. Refreshed 33. Venerates by repose Tuesday, June 8, 1954 eencernvesenssserse V921 © 1954 wen Editor and Publisher is exclusiv ction of all news dispatches eredied to the local news pub- eran ot eablio toon publish PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes Ler ohare of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves right to delete any items which are considered | or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published u unless less requested otherwise. COMMENDATION FO! FOR POLICE Editor, The Citizen: I once read that high intelligence, decisiveness and great human kindness made the difference between just a cop and an officer of the law. This I saw displayed in its best form by one officer, S. Atkins, in apprehending a customer in Lnigi’s Restaur- ant for disorderly conduct and drunkenness on the night of June 1. If he represents the caliber officer this city em- ploys, then their force is one of the best. He is of highest. credit to himself and ape ptticers with whom he works. Sincerely, MRS..E. O. MITCHELL, 18-D Arthur Sawyer Road, Sigshee Park. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Perhaps .you’ve noticed that;cial complications), choosen to a- every once in awhile, a letter ap-| void leadership! But worstof all, pears in the People’s Forum col-|“H. V. B.” is one ‘hundred per umn signed by “H. V. B.” In my|cent’ accurate when he says. I’ve estimation, there isn’t another per-| ‘overburdened God with the pro- son on the Island who possesses | blems.”” the uncanny ability to express him-| The last ‘statement reminds me self in. such a pungent, down-to-jof a talk I had-with County En- earth style and with such an un-|gineer John Goggin, of Marathon, varying degree of accuracy. I wish} a couple of years ago. I can’t make “H, V. B.”” would consider writ-]a verbatim report of the conver- ing a column at least once ajsation but it went something like week. I’d gladly donate him my | this: space if it were necessary. “Bill,” Goggin said, “people Writing last Saturday of tnrest|have to be careful when: calling in Key West, “H. V. B.” said: | God for assistance. You'll find “| it’s something more than| More often than not that the person growing pains. It’s a lot of talk who constantly yells for help from . . and no action. IT‘S TOO FEW|Him is apt to be a ‘weak sister’ PEOPLE LOOKING INTO THE|Voiding reality. The truly devout MIRROR AND ASKING, ‘WERE| individual seeks to face the facts YOU ‘HONEST TODAY?’ ee tied hava a. « ” i AC. plaine, meteorologist wil Key ay sea com ge the U. S. Weather Bureau, sums We've lost sight of our Unity of the situation up in an equally blunt ‘statement. Again, not quoting ac- AEC Secrecy Is Considered Too Tight By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON (# —Seerecy pro- visions of the Atomic Energy Act are so tight that the United States can’t tell its allies what it learns about Russia’s nuclear weapons. The Atomic Energy Commission is asking Congress to include, in revision of the law, specifically to permit exchange of intelligence -information on the Purpose. Let’s stop blaming. Let’s | get out of these armchairs and go to work!” I can’t quote the entire letter. My boss would accuse me of being too lazy to write my own column. Nevertheless, if you missed Satur- day’s People Forum letter, I sug- gest that you check back and read it. One part of the letter involved me personally and I particularly enjoyed “H. V. B.’s” insight. Still referring to the ‘something wrong in Key West’ angle, he says: “Bill; Gibb blames citizen _ lethargy, choosing himself not to be a leader, but over-t -burdening God with the problem.” Man oh man! is my face red! In order to stay in the good grace of all other hyprocrites who know their weak spots and seek to hide them, I hereby publicly state that “H. V. B.” is unfair, unjust, and un-anything else that you can think of. That takes care of the public proclamation. Now — if you can keep a little private secret—| let me say that “ hit the nail on the head. . I do blame citizen lethargy for | most of our troubles! I have, (through fear of social and finan- v } | curately but seeking to give the jessence of Splaine’s thoughts. . “Every man has the privilege of calling on God for aid but in doing so, he automatically assumes the responsibility of being God’s instrument and must be willing to follow through with Right Action, Right Thoughts, Right Living!” “This Rock of Ours” is deeply | grateful to “H. V. B.” for gently | pinching it back to the reality of facing facts in a manner more ' adaptable to everyday life. There IS something wrong in Key West! “This Rock” doesn’t agree with “H. V. B.” that much of the blame ean be attached to City officials, Rather, we must remember that there are powerful minority forces outside of the city government who have been denied the right to as- sume control of our town: Like a spoiled brat who,can’t engage in a game of marbles and win all the time, this powerful force seems to have set out to destroy every ef- fort toward civic improvement. I'l) ‘H. V. B.” sort of | be quite frank and state that in ; my opinion, we’re going to have te clear up this situation or be sat- isfied to yield to these outside ‘forces and live as slaves. 4 “evaluation of\the atomic’ capabil- ities of potential enemi " A literal interpretationof the atomic law. — and the AEC: leans over b ard in cleaving to both the ‘and spirit ‘of an act ag contains ‘drastic penalties for ‘violation. — is responsible for the ‘curious situation. The: present. act, which the com- mission recommends be amended to allow some exchange of various atomic information with friendly powers, contains a definite ban on communication of “restricted data” to any foreign nation or national. Information gleaned from intelligence sources on the capabil- ities or intentions of a foreign power is classified as restricted— top secret, secret.or confidential. ‘This means that even informa- tion on Soviet atomic tests, picked up’ by seismograph (recording earth shocks at long range), by analysis of upper air showing traces of radioactivity or by in- telligence coming from agent Sources cannot be passed on to Britain or other allies unless there is. a public announcement by the White House. Exchange of information is a two-way street. Britain, feeling that the tight provisions of the American Atomic Energy Act have choked off all data coming from the United States, is keeping her own information to herself, includ- ing intelligence on Soviet atomic developments. The AEC put its proposal for permitting exchange of intelligence into the general, over-all recom- mendation for permitting exchange of other information with allies, including the suggestion that the President be authorized to deter- mine what data on design and manufacturing methods should be transmitted to allies. ‘Monsoon Stops Nepal Expedition NEW DELHI (® —Himalayan Mountaineering sources said today Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of mighty Mt. Everest, is leading his New Zealand expedition out of Nepal after a siege of pneumonia. Early monsoon storms cut short his efforts to climb still unscaled Mt. Makaiu. The sources said Hillary had successfully recovered from the Pneumonia attack after a difficult descent to base camp from a camp 22,500 feet up the face of the 27,790- foot peak. Hillary’s brief message was brought to Jogbani by-a runner the famous climber dispatched. REST LEAVES CUT TOKYO (#—The Far East Com- mand today said rest and recuper- ation ‘leave flights from South Korea would be cut 60 per cént beginning today, indicating step-|to ped-up airlift activity to Indochina. The command said the cut would last for several days. a a section: Eisenhower Goes To Bat For Legislative Program; Says It Will Lead To Security By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH ‘The President told his news con-}But he cautioned that “because in an informal commencement peso campus of 172-year-old Washington College in Chestertown, Md. Before he spoke to about 3,500 under a scorching sun, he was awarded an honorary doctor of |** laws degree. An accompanying citation praised the President as a man who is devoting “his execu- tive and diplomatic talents to the leadership of our country in a time of decision unparalleled in the world’s history.” ference last week that from then on he intended to turn what he called his exclusive attention to trying to speed: congressional ac- tion on his program. This was his | be first opportunity since then to speak out publicly for that pro- gram. So far — with the target date for adjournment of Congress less than two months off — few of ; Eisenhower’s proposals have been written into law. Many of them face rough sledding. At Chestertown, Eisenhower said that in this day “It is perfectly necessary that the government do for us, and with us, many things that at one time in history would have been considered reprehen- sible to our form of government Then he ticked off programs in the same fields he listed at last week’s news conference — social security, agriculture, tax revision, } slum clearance and housing. He termed these “proper spheres for governmental action.” they come so close to the daily lives of every citizen, it is up to all of us... (to see) that all of that service is limited to what must be and need be, and doesn’t over- step and get into something where they (the people in government) are being merely busybodies. ..” Turning then to his legislative program, the President declared no such dangers are inherent in it. “at this moment,” he went on, “there is before the Congress a whole series of these things that they have been devised to help de- fine this line between the proper function of government and those fields which it should not enter and should not invade.” Then he said the administration program attempts to “establish be- fore all of us that kind of a strength, at home and abroad, that will lead most surely to a life | that is secure and peaceful.” «Eisenhower flew to Dover, Del., and then motored 40 miles to - Chestertown. He returned the same way late yesterday. Railroad Chief Has Fun With His Profits - By MERRILL SWEDLUND ( Newsfeatures _ ANDERSON, Ind. — Ike Duffey says it’s more fun to have a pri- vate car on the Central Indiana Railway than to draw a salary as president. Almost every Saturday and sometimes once or twice dur- ing the week he rounds up a group of “neighbors” on the 44-mile line and they ride in the luxurious pri- vate car attached to a freight train. His wife serves hors d’>euv- res. “Anyone who wants to play rail- road can come and we'll play rail- road,” Duffey says. Behind the fun is solid business success. The little line had been piling up big losses since 1899 — as high as $249,000 in one year — when Duffey was made president in mid 1951, That year there was $8,900 profit. Last year there was $39,787 net, and he was offered a salary. He took the private car in- stead and still works for $1.2 year. Duffey got into the livestock and meat business at 16 and friends say he made a million before he was 26. He.retired at 43, owner of three packing plants. But he could- not take retirement and he loved railroads. That’s when he applied for the unpaid job as railroad pre- sident. With 32 employes, he be- gan to dig the 44 miles of track out of the weeks. “Everyone along the railroad is our neighbor,” he says. “I don’t anything about the mechanical side of it and I don’t care to. I love the click of wheels on the rails.” He’s spruced up railroad build- ings and encouraged new business- es along the line. One firm which bought an old plant couldn’t even find the railroad siding in the weeds. But that kind of thing is changing fast. He spends most of his time out on the line. and the thing he stress- es most is neighborliness. The birthday of a customer’s child is a, good excuse for a trip in the private car. When one fam- ily lost its home in an. explosion, there was a box car for tempor- ary furniture storage. He still sponsors baseball excur- sion trains to Cincinnati, some- thing he started before he quit the meat packing business. But most of his attention goes into the railroad. “I don’t feel the Central India- na is on a sound basis yet, he says. “When it is, well, then we can talk about a salary,” German Surrender Document Sought LONDON (#—Britain’s - Imperial War Museum prodded Field Mar- shal Lord Montgomery informally today to give it one of the nation’s most historic World War II docu- ments — the German surrender Montgomery received at Luneburg May 4, 1945. The crusty field marshal, now deputy NATO commander in Eur. @%, disclosed Sunday in a D-Day broadcast that he has the original document. He said then he had been asked for it but it was “safely put away” with his private papers and he “never will” part with it. A. J. Charge, deputy director of the museum, told a reporter today he didn’t think Montgomery | “ace tually means what he says,’ Bho he ‘“‘may well decide it should be put into a national museum.” AGED MAN, AGED *CYCLE ON LONG TREK KANSAS CITY # — Glen 0. Calif., stepson, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Traveling only in daytime, the retired woodworker took 14 days get here from California. He resumed his journey today after a week’s -visit with another stepson here. t TRAVEL in his luxurious private car and joy. But he wears a denim jacket Ike Duffy's pride ere the line. He's shown here on the steps of his car. Ambulance Plane Victims Found - Reporter Foils . Would-Be Robber SAN ANGELO, Tex. #—A news- paper reporter frustrated a would- be robber here with the mere flick ot his press card. Chester Brooks, 18, a reporter for the San Angelo Standard-Times was waiting at the Western Union offices here Sunday night for his friend to lock up. Someone poked into Brooks’ back what he thought was a knife. A voice said, ‘Tell your friend to give me all the money in the place.” Brooks fished a press card irom his shirt pocket and flourished it before the intruder, saying, “I be- lieve you’ve made a mistake, buddy.” Whereupon the intruder backed out the door and: fled. Joel Martinez, 26, Odessa, Tex., was arrested later at a bus station and was charged yesterday with assault with intent to rob. ACAPULCO, Mexico #—A Mex-' ican ambulance plane bringing am air crash victim to a hospital here crashed at sea near this Pacifie resort town yesterday. A search of the wreckage dis- closed no trace of the injured man, Teofilo Olea Figueroa, or the two crewmen. Police at first concluded all had been killed and their bodies washed out to sea. Then late last night searchers — found all three on a lonely beach near Acapulco, alive but badly hurt. The crewmen said they had towed their patient through swift currents to the beach, then had lost consciousness. Olea had been injured in the earlier crash of his own plane at Ometepec, 100 miles east of Acapulco. FOOD SHORTAGE SEEN | UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. @— | A UN. report says parts of tropie cal Africa are threatened with food shortages because so many Afri- cans have left their farms to work for wages elsewhere. Pyrethrum, the insecticide, is ex tracted from daisies. THERE OUGHTA’ BE A LAW/ Did you ever see it fail at the neighbors next door or down the street? You will get @ big laugh-a-day at the true-to-life cartoons, “There Oughta Be a ~- Law," by Al Fagaly and Harry Shorten which prove Will Begin June 14 in THE KEY WEST CITIZEN