The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 28, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, June 28, 1954 -The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. : Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ‘1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida,“as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Fog The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively fo luction of all news atches credited to it iaiertr aiid te Sie popes, cod aie oe ant one Member Associate Dailies of Florids Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 —$—<$—$ <n ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is open forum and invites discussion of public issues and’ subjects ol loos or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Hotels and Apartments, Boren iso Bai e Pavilion Airports—Land Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. L 2 3. 4 5. Community Ai jum. COFFEE PRICES UP The latest figures on coffee consumption in the Unit- ed States show the poundage of coffee roasted in the first three months of this year was down twenty-five percent over the same period in 1953. This does not include beans roasted in production of soluble coffee. An interesting trend in this country seems to the switch to tea, which is obviously being made by many Americans. Tea consumption is estimated to have in- creased as much as twenty-five percent in thé last twelve months. The majority of retailers reporting agree it has increased at least fifteen percent, as a minimum. Soluble coffee sales are up sharply in the same per- iod. The latest survey proves dealers can still sell all the coffee they can import; thus prices cannot be expected to drop as long as this condition prevails. Meanwhile, how- ever, the switch to tea and to other drinks continues, and when and if the coffee bean supply becomes plentiful again, demand might not be what it would have been had not $1.40 coffee driven some bean fiends to the tea bags. In fact, coffee roasters and importers.may find them- selves in the position of automobile dealers in a year or so, The supply might become plentiful, price cuts may come fast. The question is whether we can wait that long, and exercise some will power, in the interval. A number of people seem to be doing that. TEN-THOUSAND-YEAR-OLD MUD A new investigation into the history of the earth is being carried on by a Columbia University group, which has recently taken.samples from the ocean floor at depths never before exploned. The deepest recovery was effected at Puerto Rico Trench, in the Atlantic Ocean, where samples of the ocean floor were brought up five miles to the surface. The specimens taken at Puerto Rico Trench are thought to be at least 10,000 years old and consist of various layers of sediment and material. Two large sam- ples — one ten feet long and the other thirteen feet long | — were taken from this depth. The top layer of sea bot- tom comprised about six inches of red clay and scientists’ believe it was deposited over the last 10,000-year period. Below that layer, scientists have found layers of sand, and specks of an algae known as halimeda. This is ap- parent proof that the algae flowed into the ocean trench | from a great distance away, where it was exposed tq sun- light or brought to the trench by a sub-oceanic river. We mention these explorations, not in an attempt to explain them, since we are not experts in the field, but in an effort to point out that a new concept of the history of the earth is being developed through such experimenta- tion. ’ The odd thing about most hot tips at the track is the fellow who supplies them. ‘ Crossword Puzzle across 1 Mineral ] INIECTMNIAICIT MM AITIC! HL OMECIOIRIKMNPIRIE|Y AIS IRBIOIRIN IN SUE it SHIRL INIKMEBIEIRIATT IE] ULE MIE IAINIE MIRA! UILICINGIULL ITS! (RI ONE MNAIUINIT MIDAS OMT MNAIRI | IOMMVIAIL [UIE] LINGER MM AIEIRIAITIE! ILIOIO(SIE ME TIEINIDIEIR) Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie L DOWN 1.Gael 2. Rain hard 3. Poker term 4. Mountain 7.Godown 8. Gloss 9. Esteem 10. Title of Mohamm ed 11. Masculine nickname 16. Grants 20. Concealing 22. Discoverer 24. Organ of smell 25. Secures 26. Mark of a wound 27. Towards shelter 28. Most distant 32. Frighten suddenly 34. Profits 37. Mercantile tablish- talk 45. Salamanders 46. Blind the 48. Young devil 49. Hint 51. Born Colorado Site Is Selected For US. Air Force Academy By DONALD SANDERS WASHINGTON # — The West Point of the Air, training school for the young men who will man America’s air armadas of the fu- ture, will be built nes: Colorado Springs, Colo. . Secretary of the Air Force Tal- bott announced his selectién of that site last week, ending years of bidding by rival sites which originally numbered in the hun- dreds but had been narrowed down to three by a special selection board. Thus the Rocky Mountain coun- try of the West gets the Air Force's counterpart of fhe two.old serv- ice academies, both situated on; Japan Struggles the Atlantic seaboard: The Army’s West Point, N. Y., and the Navy’s Annapolis, Md. Some 15,000 acres of rolling coun- try which curves up to the wooded foothills of the Rocky Mountain chain dominated by 14-109-foot Pikes Peak will be the locale of the Air Force Academy, on which Congress has authorized the ex- penditure of 136 million dollars. The eventual cost may be much higher. The academy is not expected to be ready for use before mid-1957. A temporary home will be estab- lishd at Denver. Talbott’s an- nouncement did not say precisely where, but presumably it will be Valiantly To Pull Out Of Economic Cha HAL BOYLE SAYS... NEW YORK #—J. Fred Muggs, America’s only incorporated ape, sets out next month on a flying trip around the world that will mark a new milestone in the air age. The celebrated chimpanzee will become the first television star in history to girdle the globe by air- plane while still in diapers. Neither J. Milton Berle nor J. Arthur God- frey can make this claim. Over at NBC, where Muggs has become at the age of 2 a veteran news commentator as co-star on J. Dave Garroway’s “Today” show, J. Fred’s journey_is being accorded more respect than J. Christopher Columbus’ first voyage. “The other day 20 people at- tended a conference to iron out the details,” said a network man with a note of awe. “Muggs listened for a while, then stretched out in the leather seat of an executiv~’s chair and fell sound asleep. He nas tre- mendous self-possession.”” This Rock . Muggs, who is traveling as a goodwill ambassador for the U.S. television industry, is bound to be the most popular American tourist of the year for a very simple reason. He doesn’t speak English, Flying via Pan American World Airways, he will hit such key cities as Paris, Rome, Cairo, Hong Kong, | Tokyo and Mexico City. But ,the trip also holds a_senti- mental interest for him as he will revisit Africa, where he was born in poverty some 27 months ago. Today, just 18 months after Muggs entered television, he has become the wealthiest simian alive. He earns $450 a week, has 300 suits, gcts hundreds of fan letters each week, owns- 4-inch- square ranches in Texas and Flo- rida, and is incorporated under the name of J. Fred Muggs Enter- prises. He has also judged’ sever- al beauty contests, and is an ad- miral in the Nebraska navy. He! Of Ours carried the same story about a By Bill Gibb Let’s write a column to the Key West Police Department today. They can’t correct undesirable conditions unless people help them with information once in awhile. A reliable correspondent has informed “This Rock” that with- in a short distance of City Hall, there is a saloon keeper who al- lows a little eight or ten-year-old girl to play around the bar. Any- way you look at it, the situation isn’t very nice. Or legal, either! T’ve no objections to saloons. Unlike one of my fellow workers here at The Citizen, I’m not even ‘up in arms’ about juke boxes in such places. However, when kids aré allowed to invade the joint so that a guy can’t get ‘soused’ in peace, that’s going a little too far. Seems to me like Key West has been pestered with enough female bar-flys who range in age from 18 to ?. It is going to look pretty bad for us if we start let- ting eight-year olds, even non- drinking ones, enter the picture too! Petronia Street Another complaint that has come in to “This Rock of Ours” deals with conditions on Petronia Street. Apparently, the police- men in this section make no at- tempt to keep minors out of the numerous bars and _ poolrooms. Drunken rowdiness also prevails. This isn’t a new complaint. We years or so ago. Would it help matters if another Colored police- man were added to the force to the Navy. Yard? One More Complaint Then —Compliments Last ‘week, an old-time Key Wester asked what this column knew about the arresting of vag- rants at the corner of-Simonton and .Petronia Streets. It seems that this is the “pick-up station” for contractors when they are looking for transient labor. I've checked the complaint with police officers. Am informed that they did arrest a group of | had to suffer for it. patrol from Whitehead Street toj a Wednesday. This action was taken as a last resort after ten days of frequent, warnings to the men that they would have to stop loitering. Residents in the area were! complaining that the men were often in a drunken condition and that they used obscene and pro- fane, language. Sundays were particularly bad—especially since there is a church on the corner. The arrested men were taken before Judge Esquinaldo where they received a stiff lecture and were then released. “This Rock” can sympathize with employers in their need for having some place to pick up day- labor. It is true that the corner of Simonton and Petronia has al- ways been used for that purpose. However, in this “ case it seems that the police didn’t have much choice in the matter. When they received complaints from home- owners, they had to clean up the corner, The chances are good that only one or two men were causing the unpleasant situation but as so often happens, the entire group This same condition exists in all walks of life. Let a drunken Navy man get into trouble and immed- iately, the word spreads that “the| whole Navy is nothing but a bunch} of drunken bums.” If a minister’s son makes a mistake, people im- mediately classify the children of all ministers as “juvenile delin- quents.”” It’s a_ situation that sociologists haven't made much progress in rectifying. Compliments Let’s take a few lines to com- Pliment Officers Brodhead, At- kins, Waite, Perez, Santana, and Wallace. “This Rock” has heard favorable comments on all of these men but especially with re- gard to Brodhead and ~ Wallace area in the daytime:-* -*~-- —} Key West Safety Council The Key West Safety Council will hold a regular meeting tomor- row night, 8 o’clock, at the Jay- Others—both ordinary and who. .are patrolling .the _Duval St_, sit mail—range in face value from has endorsed everything except a tractor. Wearing a beret. and dark glasses, Muggs will take in his entourage his secretary and Girl Friday, J. Mary Kelly; a camera- man; and his two young owners, J. Roy Waldron and J. Bud Men- nella. I went along with the chimp the other day to a children’s store to watch him pick out some new clothing for the journey—a cutaway with morning trousers and pearl gray vest; a white gabatdine suit; a red, white and blue bathing suit. But it is an open secret in the TV industry that underneath his fancy garb J. Fred wears break a TV commentator. narian to check J. Fred’s health at each stop,” said Mennella. “But what is worrying me is laundry service. Muggs needs 12 changes a day, and I don’t know whether any airplane can haul all those dia- pers. “In Africa I hope I can find a stand-in for Muggs. He has to make so many personal appear- ances now I don’t know how much longer he can stand up under the strain. Television is very hard on any performer’s nerves.” Miss Kelly already views the African stopover with dismay. She is fearful Muggs will go native, rip off his store clothes and dis- appear into the bush. “We certainly have no romance in mind for him,” she said firmly. “We definitely are not going to let him associate with any other chim- panzees. “He's getting girl-crazy already. He likes to put his arms around them and hug and kiss them.” During his stay in the store Muggs tore down a rack of hats, broke a dummy head on the floor and jumped up and down in glee. Finally, he playfully refused to puthis feet into a pair of overalls held out by Mennella. “Quit being so, silly, Muggs,” said Menella, impatiently. “You're getting so you act like a child.” Poor little rich chimp! Deaths from the plague in India were reduced from 41,745 in 1947 to 1007 in 1952 and officials believe there has Leen a further reduction in subsquent years, although the figures have not been tabulated. The last known passenger pigeon ded in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. Stamp Honors U.N. ge rn | Above is one of vo, magenta color, air : samp. firee centavos to five cérdobas. Many other countries have issued stamps to honor the U.N., including iberia, France, Ecus- Cee Clubhouse, Flagler Ave. and Roosevelt Blvd. The Council needs Colored men at that corner last F members—won’t you attend? ¥ | Nations theme in 1945 during {the San Francisco Conference. A ‘ diapers. It takes time to House-| 4 “We have arranged for ® veteri- By JIM BECKER TOKYO u—Japan in the past | fro! three months has slammed the brakes on the downhill plunge to- ward bankruptcy and social chaos. The long skid toward disaster has not for the . nation the pace of the skid has slowed. If the drivers keep their nerve— and the nation stands the strain —they may get Japan’s careening economy under control and avoid serv to Duy. tee: things: hgrngee To halt the alarming drain, the government first tackled inflation by reducing the budget and the supply of credit. This will help in- crease exports by cutting prices of toings Japan sells. It also helps to cut imports by taking from circulation the money to sell our products overseas,” says Nobuhiko Ushiba, chief of the Trade Bureau of the Trade Minis- the twin catastrophes of runaway | try. inflation and a billion dollar for- eign trade deficit. The hands at the controls be- long to hard-bitten Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida and his conserva- tive-minded Liberal party. Already government economists see a little hope. Eisenhower in a speech to the National Editorial Assn. said Ja- Japan is trying to help itself with an “austerity” program. In, the past three months Japan, ust trade to live, has be- meet. “austerity” is the only way to pull this teeming island empire back from the brink of disaster. 000 a year. But Japan is selling abroad only about $1200,000,c00 a year. U. S. military spending here amounts to about 700 million dol- Now Japan has only 800 million dollars in foreign currency in re- stopped which President Eisenhower last week called the “Key to the de- fense” of the Western Pacific. But But the government insists | —its luxury items. The streets of Tokyo are crammed with sleek, new ex- This prosperous facade covered a While some U. S. observers call the government program ‘“‘too lit- tle and very late,” Ushiba said that “we have stabilized our im- ‘ports at around the two billion dol- lar annual level.” “We must now strive for at the two billion dollar level in the next few years,” he added. That goal is not regarded as im- Possible since it would be but 80 per cent of Japan’s prewar trade. Government economists, archi- tects of the “austerity” program, see an increase in unemployment and propose a social security pro- gram of unemployment insurance and the like to ward off unrest. Eisenhower said Japan also must be allowed to trade with Red China ancient market. But govern- ment economists believe this trade would be only a fraction of Japan’s ae even if all restrictions are Instead Japan is concentrating on building up industries where it can best compete in the free world —optical equipment, cameras, tex- tiles, machinery, toys, canned fish and plastics. The economic story being written today seems to be that the Jap- Jat Lowry Field, a big Air Force 5 ot his vacation in the area last year, The other sites open to Talbott were Lake Geneva, Wis., and Al- In authorizing the academy earli- er this year, Congress set up a special five-man commission which traveled over the country inspect- hundreds of possible locations. unanimously, But if not—and this is what hap- pened—it was to name leave the final choice to Talbott. Local groups from Lake Geneva and Alton had voiced some objec- tions, and a Lake Geneva citizens’ group had filed a suit in court here to prevent its - Colorado Springs, a rsort listed in the 1950 census as a |e state bidding for the site: A a of what Gov. Dan Thornton de- ae as its “‘inspiration and auty.”” to admit its first class of 300 cay dets a year from July 1. ee The Air Force, which says it is in the way of design, has asked a number of architects to submit sketches. ‘ aa reir tte wi ve iy em| on actual flying. The Ca rm ably 600 a year when the academy hits full stride in about six-years— will get “air observer” wings when thev eradunte. Then they will take advanced training to win pilots’ wings. As is the case at West Point and Annapolis, most students will be nominated by members of Con- gress. Detailed announcement of how to get in is promised for some- time next month. AND PEDESTRIANS? CASPER, Wyo.\ (AP)—Casper. (pop. 23,673) isn’t a cow town any more. Police don’t want horses blocking traffic, and they’ve come up with a law to cover the situa- tion. The city’s minimum speed law makes it a misdemeanor to travel on streets at less than 15 miles an hour. Police say that means horses, too. anese are going to draw their belts| The United States had 66,500, tight and very possibly pull through | 900 tons of corn, oats and barley .| their blackest postwar period with-| stored in April, 1954, nearly 10 per out large-scale help from the out- side. cent above the previous year’s rec- ord. Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space THREE LINES Figures or Initials Count As One Word Address START AD _ RUN AD ____. DAYS NUMBER LINES ____ ENCLOSED Cheek ....