The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 Tuesday, June 22, 1954, The Key West Citizen ace THE KEY west CITIZEN Greene and Ann “ . Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher... 19) - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN cenennennnmnvnvcnrnrneermne Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter ed Prese—The Associated Prose ls exclusively of all news dispatches credited to it this paper, and also the local news pub- Member of The seine lished here. Member Associate Dailies of Florids a Subscription (by carrier), %e per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION E CITIZEN ee of, County and City Governments. KEY WEST 1S UP-AND-DOING; NEVER WILL BE LIKE IT USED TO BE The truth. of the often-heard remark locally that Key West is not like it used to be is centered chiefly in the special story The Citizen published, from its New York correspondent, showing that the net income of the city’s 9,400 families last year totaled almost $50,000,000. Net income of each of the families slightly exceeded $5,000. How does that compare with the net income of each family 20 years ago, when hundreds of Key Westers were glad to get jobs that paid them $5 or $6 a week? Of course they were the days of the Great Depression, but comparing the figure of today with what it was 10 years ago, it is more than twice as much as it was then. The rapid growth of Key West since that time has been due to the continued increase in earnings of prac- tically every man and woman in Key West. But a heart- ening statement of the report is that, while the income in- creased and the families spent liberally, yet they saved more money than they had ever saved before. That saving has been in keeping with many-a Citizen editorial to put away a part of each weekly or monthly check as a buttress against the coming of the day when times will not be as good ‘as they are now. Nobody knows just how long the present good times wil] continue, but we do know that Key Westers will have “nest eggs” to take care of themselves during a recession. The nation’s economy now is far more firmly entrenched than it was 20 years ago, and it is doubtful if we will have another depression comparable with the one we had in the 1930s. Another thing about that liberal spending that -was mentioned in the article is that by far the greater part of it went into the construction of buildings. Nobody, not even a builder himself, is fully aware of the hundreds of houses that have been built. in various parts of the city. Despite that widespread construction, increased accommo- dations have not yet caught up with the demand for dwellings. At this time of the year vacancies may occur now and then, but unrented places are inconsequential compared with the houses that are occupied. The more construction we have the better we will be prepared, in the years to come, to take care of the in- trease of the tourist trade. Awareness of Key West as an outstanding winter resort is now known throughout the country. Thousands, who have come here to enjoy our Climate or the good fishing afforded in local waters, will return, and each season newcomers will be numbered among our tourists. Key West is an up-and-doing community, and never again will it be like it used to be. The day’s troubles are usually such trifles you can’t remember them a day later. If you don’t think so, what bothered you so much yesterday? PIOIDREGIOID(S BECIOlOIP) AIWIE BR |AIRIE Be IDIGIE| RIE|S|TIOIRIEIOMENIOIRIA) CIA WIAISTTIRIE|L IN/OIR] WAIL IES} LUTIRIAI =} Bay Crossword Puzzle 39. Overhead railway M] DIN] | flO1S IE AIVIEIRY THE IRING Te Tie Solution ef Yesterday's Puzzie 3.014 4. Negative 10. Minced oath 11, Take away ‘in income taxes to Uncle Sam. prefix 5. Leave 6. Whole 7. Makes an infusion 8. Exclamation 9. Sin 12. Regular 17. Feminine name 20. Flowering plant 21, Divisions of the year 24, Wise men 25. Hurled 28, Disfigure 30. Beverage Major Benefits To Veterans _|the standpoint of government. GI Bill Of Rights Reaches 10th Anniversary The GI Bill, a law that has left its lasting imprint on the lives: of millions of veterans and on Ameri- ca itself, reached its tenth anniver- | i sary today. The law—signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, contained three major bene- fits to help veterans in readjust- ment to civilian life, One, was a program of guaran- teed loans for homes, farms and businesses. It still is in force. An- other, education and training at Goyernment expense, is approach- ing its end. The third, readjust- ment allowances for:periods of un- employment already had faded in- to history. On. signing the GI Bill-in 1944, the President said, ‘‘this law gives emphatic notice to the-men and women of our armed forces that the American people do not intend to let them down.” But veterans have not let down the Amterican people either, ac- cording to. statistics released today by the Veterans Administration. Through the GI Bill, World War II veterans have become the best educated group of people in the history of the United States. Because of their training, they have raised their income level to the point where they now are pay- ing an extra billion dollars a year At this rate, GI Bill-trained vet- erans alone will pay off the entire $15 billion cost of the GI education and training program within the next 15 years. Through the GI loan program, veterans have proved themselves to be among the best financial risks in the country. With the help of GI loans, they have become America’s largest single group of home-owners. Therefore, they pay more real es- tate taxes to States, cities and counties than any other group of equal size. During the past 10 years, a total of 3,600,000 veterans—one out of every five men and women who served in World War Il—obtained VA-guaranteed and insured loans valuéd at $23.5 billion. The United States Government stands behind $12 billion of the amount, in the form of VA guaran- tees and insurance. Home loans accounted for the 90 percent of all GI Bill loans obtain- ed by veterans—or 3,300,000 for $22.8 billion. Farm loans number- ed 66,000 for $256,000,000; business loans, 213,000 for $575,000,000. The average veteran used his GI ‘loan to buy a substantial, middle-priced home — neither a “cracker-box” nor a mansion. A recent VA survey disclosed that 60 percent of GI home-buyers paid between $10,000 and $15,000 for their homes. Thirty percent paid under $10,000; eight percent, between $15,000 and $20,000, and two percent, over $20,000. Veterans’ record of repayment is unmatched, VA said. Over the past decade, 650,000 GI loans, amounting to $3 billion, have been repaid in full. Defaulted losns—on which VA has made good the guaranteed portions to private lenders—num- bers only 32,000, or less than one percent of all loans received by veterans. Turning to GI Bill education and training, VA revealed that more than 7,800,000 World War IT veter- ans—half of all who served during the war—trained under the GI Bill over’ the past 10 years. Of the total, 2,200,000 attended colleges and universities; 3,500,000 = went fo schools below the college level? 1,400,000 took on-the-job trainfig, and 700,000 enrolled in ional on-farm training, a ation of classroom work and pradical experience on the farm. Influded in the below-college tot- al 150,000 veterans who were givéh the chance to learn to read and write in accelerated grade scl classes for adults. America’s veterans have trained fof nearly every occupation at which man earns his living. As a result, VA said, the GI Bill has helped fill the nation’s reserviors of trained manpower, dangerously depleted right after the war. Among the veterans trained were 450,000 engineers; 180,000. doctors and nurses, 113,000 scientists, 243,- 000 accountants, *107,000 lawyers, 36,000 ministers representing all major réligious faiths, 17,000 writ- ers and journalists. . Also 438,000 television and radio repairmen, 711,000 mechanics, 383,- 000 construction workers, 288,000 metal workers, 138,000 electricians, 83,000 barbers and beauty cultur- ists, 83,000 policemen and firemen, 45,000 bakers and meat cutters, 61,000 printers and typesetters, 76,- 000 dressmakers and tailors, and hundreds of thousands of others in many fields. The VA cited a number of studies indicating that the GI Bilk has helped raise both the educa- tional and income levels of veter- ans, as well as those of the nation. According to a Census Bureau study, the average male veteran today has completed high school and has gone ahead for some col- lege. On the other hand, the aver- age male non-veteran, in the same age bracket, has been able to fin- ish just a little more than two years of high school. One reason for the difference in educational achievement, the Cen- sus Bureau states, has been “the advantage of educational privileges under the GI Bill. Another survey, also conducted by the Census Bureau, showed that} in 1947 the median income of male veterans between 25 and 34 years of age was only $2,401. That same year, the median income of non- veterans in the same age group was higher—2,585. Six years later, the median in- come of veterans rose 51 percent, to $3,631. Non-veterans’ income, over the same period, showed only a 19 percent increase to $3,065. The Census Bureau said: “The higher incomes of these veterans may reflect the combined influence of the increase in work experience and the higher level of education which veterans have achieved as compared with non-veterans.” Attributing only part of the in- creased earnings of veterans to the GI Bill, those who have had GI Training will be paying approx- imately $1 billion more each year in Federal income tax. Or, within the next 15 years, they will have paid for the entire program. VA recalled its experience in ad- ministering the GI Bill readjust- ment allowance program for un- employed veterans. During the life of the program, and VA said, nearly 9,000,000 veterans drew allowances totaling $3.2: lion for unemployed $600,000,- 000 for self-employment, during periods when self-employed veter- readjustment allowance rolls. for only nineteen weeks. VA files are filled with case his- tories of veterans who successfully make the leap from military to civilian life with the help of GI Bill benefits. : In Stephens, Arkansas, Floyd T. Bryan, ex-navy veteran, obtained a GI Business loan from a bank so that he could buy a bank in a small community where oil had just been struck. Since that time, Bryan’s bank has made loans to hundreds of other veterans. “They're the best business on my books,” he says. In Topeka, Kansas, Douglas K. Counsellor, former Army Air Force Corporal, used two GI Bill benefits —on-the-job training and a business loan—to establish a successful auto fabric business. After completing his training, he decided to buy out the firm in which he had trained. Se ee = hie Gt benieees n, In New York City, an Army vet- eran, Floyd T. , is now at work at Brookhaven National Lab- oratories, performing vital basic research in atomic energy. Coming out of service in 1946, Gould tried working in a laundry, then selling soap from laundry to laundry; then studying typing so that he could try for a job as a clerk; then television repair. None of these was successful. He came to the VA and applied for vocational counseling, in prep- aration for enrolling in training under the GI Bill. Counseling tests and interviews revealed that Gould is excellent college materi: ermore, that he had natural bent for science. So he entered . He won his Master’s de Sree and is about to acquire his PhD, in atomic physics, with bril- liant grades, Also, because of his Scholastic record, he was able to ‘obtain the important research post at Brookhaven. VA said the ten-year-old GI Bill has been a program for World War TI veterans only. Its achievements belong entirely to America’s gener- ation of World War II veterans— \now averaging the middle-thirties, 7 memories of wartime ye Srowingta little dimmer as each Year goes by. A new GI Bill was enacted in 1952 for veterans on active duty after June 27, 1950, the date of the Outbreak of hostilities in Korea. This law, too, provides benefits similar to those. which were con- ed in the original GI Bill—edu- ation: and training, GI loans, un- employment pay | But it’s too early to measure the accomplishments of this new GI Bill, VA said. More time must pse before its full impact on) Veterans, and on the nation, can be tyaluated. Medical Miracle Claimed In Calif. “PASADENA, Calif. WA doctor Says it is a ‘medical miracle” that after 6% years of unconscious- Ress Mrs. Ada Wrigley, widow of im Wrigley Jr., of baseball chewing gum fame, is still ans were netting less than $100 a month. Only 900,000 veterans, or 10 per- cent of the total, exhausted their full rights to this benefit. The average veteran was on the This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb the dog track and the drive-in movie. Several people have bought lots there for the specific purpose of building homes. They aren't exactly wealthy and in or- der to achieve a place of their own, they are go to have to depend upon a building mortgage. Such a mortgage, I’m told, is im. possible to secure on a home built in a business district—and that is what the land would have to be classified if Miller is per- mitted to build his trailer park. County Commissioner Explains County Commissioner Joe Al- len explained the problem from “Miller,” he says, “was told in advance that he could not ignore 201 He chose to do so and we were forced to stop him.” S Joe continued, “Miller won out with the City of Key West by paying a small fine for violation of the city building code © on Roosevelt Blvd. We're not about to let that sort of thing happen in the county.” “This Rock of Ours” compli- ments the County Fathers for their adherence to the. law. It hopes they will display this same meticulous regard for the dignity of law amongst ALL Monroe County land-owners! e Consideration The way the Stock Island sit- uation stacks up right now, I'll go along with the small home- owners. Heaven knows, we. need more homes in this area. A fel- low works all his life, pays rent, and then when he is too old to earn a salary, finds himself forced to live in some hovel. The same money which went into rent could have -easily been used in making monthly payments on a home. I can’t go along with the Coun- loners very far, how- ever. In. this particular case, they might be right. Heck!—give the devil its due—even Monroe County Commissioners aren't likely to be wrong all of the time. Communism A friend dropped into the of-| fice to show me a regi: mail letter he had received @ lady in Hungary. It cost dollars for that letter to ed. The writer's husband was si and she had beén forced to sé his clothes in order to buy food to eat. The conditions described were horrible. Yet there are stu- pid fools in the U.S. who are in- clined toward Communism! ,. The friend who brought the let- ter in said: “I wish every Ameri- can could read fhis heart-bresk- ing story. Maybe then they would drop down and kiss the soil of this great land of freedom.” Life in communistic. countries must be hell in the literal- sense of the word. According to the letter, slavery is an ideal descrip- tion of conditions in Hungary. Larry the youth had used pit to dispose of cars the last seven. months. He said Oberle had several hundred dollars worth of automobile accessories in the base- ment of his home. Waltham Cops Want To Be Rec WALTHAM, Mass. (® —Police- men are under orders from Chief Asa _E. McKenna to show the words “Waltham Police” on their cca shirts and blouses. lea is to keep people from confusing them with taxi drivers and gas station attendants, Chief McKenna said. Connecticut has0 about 23,00 . [acres in tobacco. HAL BOYLE SAYS BONN, Germany (#—Here where Beethoven was born and wrote some of the world’s mightiest mu- sic & 78-year-old German states- man is trying to bring true a mighty dream—the dream of Eu- Topean unity. And time is running out for the old man. As of the first of this year Chan- cellor Konrad Adenauer was the strongest and most po- litical figure between London and Moscow. By the end of this year Adenauer will probably either go down in history as a kind of jean Abraham Lincoln—or merely an- other old titan with a faded dream, cultivating his rose garden in quiet bitterness as his countrymen for- get him. } The issue is simple. His coalition Gérman Federal Government: so far has gone along with him in his Program for European cooperation. But the coalition is wavering. How long.ean he hold it together in the face of France’s refusal to vote for a six-nation European army in which French and German troops would serve together? jet the past. He Hitler’s aggression in the latter's lifetime and has no wish to mini- mize now the disaster that Nazt- {policies brought to the world. Then turning to communism, he remarked: “But a terrible dictatorship has gained control of half of Europe. This dictatorship is even worse and Bas mines more cruel than that The Chancellor remarked he thought it a delusion for leaders in his own or other individual countries to believe they could deal separately with Soviet Russia. ee ee hag ge Russi: ‘ommunist rulers to their own, and the only mite they now feared was the United Then he went on to add that # the six-nation European army did become a reality the Russians Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space ‘THREE LINES ‘igures or Initials _ Count As One Word Address Please Print Ad Below START AD RUN AD ___.. DAYS NUMBER LINES ____