The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 9, 1954, Page 10

Cable Ship Skipper Reports Condition Of Miami-Key West Cable|Special Board Works Against 3 Time To Stop Atomic Strike Editor’s note: This is a re- port submitted by Captain G.R. Steadman, Master of Cable Ship Western Union, operating out of Key West, on the present condition of the Miami-Key West Tricore Cable. The Miami-Key West cable was laid in 1899 by the Cableship Dacia of London, England, assisted by local forces at Key West. The ship brought the cable from , but as it had been de- to lay the cable in what is as the Hawk channel, be- een the outer reef and the Flor- ‘eys, the draft of the Dacia prevented her doing the actual laying. ‘The entire length, approximately W. Childs. Constant Re-Loading Cable was unloaded from the ship to. the barge, with part of the ship’s crew, and the ship followed the barge toward Miami, but stay- ed outside of the reef in deep water. When the barge had paid out all eable, they went to the ship which was standing by outside the reef, and took on another load. Thirty miles was the average barge load, so there was a great deal of f@ansferring from ship to barge, and the progress was slow. Previous to the laying of the mi-Key West cable, the only Cuban business was West-Havana cables, ‘Over the one cable from iF aes Ea Hg i s Punta Rassa on the of Florida, thence Ft, Myers and Tampa. on another cable was laid lest to Punta Rassa, jave both east and west routes for the Cuba business. Proves Its Worth Miami-Key West Tricore proved its worth many of which was after the hurricane in 1926. These were the°only wires mi for more than a business that was Palm Beach by by the cable via a g Pl au Ey Pa reiy of coral growth as ie photographs, was the of the break in the HEE, 1999. All of these years the was’ growing upward. It grew high enough to be aided by B3 ‘The break occurred approximate- ly five inches from the coral forma- tion, but it will be noted that a few inches from the other end, the . Cable has already started to de- teriorate. Coral formations much larger than this specimen are occasionally picked up on the cable, but they get broken by handling. This one is the only coral formation that I have picked . up, that actually eaused a break in the cable. STAR * BRAND amex COFFEE and CUBAN —TRY A POUND TODAY —. 4s i CORAL AND CABLE—The top picture shows a close-up of the unique coral formation on sub- marine cable, picked up by the Cable Ship Western Union while working on repairs to the Mi- ami-Key West Tricore Cable last Fall. In the lower picture, Captain G. R. Steadman, left, and K. E. Cox, relief manager of the Western Union office here, study the formation, which caused a break in the cable——Photos by Karns. Hal Boyle Says NEW YORK #—It’s fun to be an old-fashioned man. I don’t help with the housework. Well, not much. Boy, that may date me, but don’t think being a vintage male isn’t fun. I just finished reading one of those quarrel-causing pieces the Ladies’ magazines print about whether husbands should do house- work, Some of their conclusions about how many dishes a husband should wash or dry in the evening are supposed to be based on polls. In 16 years of married life, I have been polled only once—and that in secret—on this important subject. “TI have in my hand here a wet Find Your Summer Beach Needs At LEWINSKY'S MEN'S SHOP.... Boxer and Knitted Styles Gore from $2.95 Crinkle Cotton BEACH ROBES Terry, Rayon Satin, from $6.95 plate that my great grandmother carried over the Ozarks at great our honeymoon “‘Can’t you at least dry it without dropping it?” “No,” I replied frankly. “I can- not.” Singe then I have been a perfect husband about helping with the house work. When my dear says, “Get out of the way,” well—I get out of the way, A lot of husbands I meet—once, anyway—say they really enjoy pitching in and doing the house- work, They say a lot of keen guys they know feel the same way. (Editor’s Note: I used to know {2 guy like that, too. But on the way home he used to pause and throw spitballs at the girls going into the Y.W.C.A.) (Boyle’s Note: Don’t be so mod- est. We all remember your kid brother. Does he like the new warden better than the old one?) | ‘here are some sociological ex- perts who say that the presence of children in the home is natural indutement for a father to leap forward and assume a manly share | of cleaning and preening the home nest. Back in 1938 I absent-mindedly | serawled on a filmed-over table |top, “Dust this!” Just the other day the baby that came to us a year ago was erawling south on the floor. I felt the situation justi- fied me in scrawling in pencil’ on the north side of her diaper: “Change this.” These two Messages—16 years | apart—pretty well sum up my own | ideas of how an old-fashioned man |can help with the housework. The main idea, as I see it, is to keep the girl on her toes, show her | opportunities she doesn’t realize, | Joyous ways she ean inflict those | small imperishable female touches {trom distinguish a normal home | from all but the better run federal | prisons. Writing helpful notes, I have found over the years, is the best way for a man to assist with the housekeeping. For example, if you are tired of eating canned hash night after night, why not slip a tender missive under the wife’s | bobby pin saying: | “Rmember me? Pm your hus- | band. Let’s try something new on | the front burner.” | But as for picking up that skillet or vaccum cleaner myself, I can’t | see Such an act as anything but TS “]| SURONG ARM BRAND COFFEE “For The Brands You Know” 526 DUVAL STREET Shop Early for Your Vacation Needs | Triumph | Coffee | - _—_—_____ toil,” said my bride, the meal after } WASHINGTON (#—A special presidential board worked against time today on a report which would clear the way for the government to seek a court order to halt a strike at two key plants making atomic bomb materials. It appeared. possible that the re- port might be completed quickly enough to enable the government to go before a judge before night- fall and ask for an 80-day: injunc- tion under the Taft-Hartley: Act. The strike, involving a dispute over wages, started Wednesday morning, about 12 hours after Pres- ident Eisenhower had invoked the emergency clause of Taft-Hartley. The President said the strike could hurt this nation’s race for atomic supremacy. On strike are 4,500 CIO union workers at gaseous diffusion plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Paducah, Ky., described by Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission as this nation’s facili- ties for extracting U-235 from uranium. He termed U-235 “es- sential to the production of atomic weapons, both fission and thermo- nuclear (hydrogen) type.” Management officials said ‘full and maximum” production was be- ing maintained despite the walkout. Under Taft-Hartley’s emergency provisions, the government may seek a strike-ending injunction only after a special board has reported to the White House on the facts of the dispute. The board does not make suggestions to settle the dis- pute. Eisenhower invoked the act Tues- day night but delayed naming the board members. When the mem- bership was announced yesterday, the board already was at work. It met into the night taking testi- mony from the company and the unions involved, and from he AEC. Thomas Keith Glennan, president of Case Institute of Technology at Cleveland and a former member of the AEC, is chairman of the board. Other members are John L. Flo- berg, a Washington attorney and former assistant secretary of the Navy, and Paul H. Sanders of i Nashville, Tenn., a Vanderbilt Uni- versity law professor. . The Carbide & Cargon Chemicals Co. operates the struck plants for the AEC. It has refused to offer more than the 6-cent hourly wage boost recommended by a. brevious government board several weeks ago and rejected by the union, which seeks increases . ranging from 19 to 21.cents an hour. Pres- ent scales are from $1.58 to $2.40 hourly. The Veterans Corner Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administration to four questions of interest. to former servicemen and their fam- ilies: Q. I’m a World War I veteran, drawing a pension from the VA, My wife has just gone to work part-time. In figuring my annual income, will I have to count the money she earns to see whether I come within the limits of the law? A. You will-not have to count your wife’s separate earnings in computing your annual income for sion purposes. sich A cee friend of mine forgot to pay his GI term insur- ance premium when it was due. He died during his 31-day grace period. Will his beneficiaries re- ceive his insurance proceeds, or are they out of luck? A. His beneficiaries will re- ceive the insurance proceeds, min- us the unpaid premium. Q. Are all post-Korea veterans affected by the August 20, 1954 deadline date for starting Korea GI Bill training? A. No. The only post-Korea vet- erans who must be in training by that date, in order to continue afterwards, are those who were seperated from service before August 20, 1952. Veterans separat- ed afterwards have two years from their separation date in which to begin Korea GI Bill training. Q. If a veteran dies without naming a beneficiary for his GI insurance what happens to the proceeds? A. The insurance will be paid to his estate in a lump sum. ty who wish further information about their benefits should write the VA office at Room 104, Post Office Building, Key West; Florida. The Key West Citizen Is 4 FAMILY Newspaper an insult to a woman’s love of bossing her own empire. All a man can do is bring home as much bacon as he can, play with the baby so much she gets tired enough to welcome bedtime when she ought to, and praise his wife hardest on the days she knows in her heart she has done the least. As I say, I’m an old-fasioned man. But that’s my idea of helping | with the housework, <Veterans living in Monroe Coun- | Russia Lauds Foot Soldiers MOSCOW — Russian armed forces are told by their own news- paper, Red Star, that the foot sol- dier is still the man who wins wars and that the infantry cannot be replaced by air or naval superi- ority. American naval landings in the Korean War — at Inchon and else- where — are cited as proof. “The aggressive war against the Korean people unleashed by the imperialists of the U.S.A.,” Red Star says, “proved once more that neither aviation nor naval power can substitute for the foot soldier. Air and naval superiority cannot compensate for the absence of in- fantry. In this way the ‘theory’ of converting domination at sea and in the air into domination on the ground could not be proved by experience...” Well, He’s Just A Little Bit Mad TEXAS CITY, Tex. (2 — Sam Lewing, 38, was testifying in the preliminary hearing of Henry Boles, 40, on charges of aggra- vated. assault. He said Boles threatened to kill him, and “ran around” with Mrs. Lewing. A defense attorney asked the witness if he was angry with Boles, Not exactly, replied Lewing. “What?” the attorney . pressed. “You say this man steals your wife, threatens to kill you and hits you over the head with a chain, and you're not mad-at him?” “Wal,” replied fhe lanky Lewing, ie ain’t exactly no big friend of —__,—. SUBSCRIBE TO THE CITIZEN - Page 16 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, July 9, 1954 Shop by phene from 8:30 A.M. Cail 31119 urdine’s Sunshine Fashions REGULAR FREE-DELIVERY through the Florida Keys down to Key West Now Key residents and Key Westers can enjoy all the advantages of Greater Miami shoppers at Burdine’s. Shop by phone, by mail or in person! All of your purchases will be delivered free of extra cost. All the needs for family, home and yourself can be easily filled at Burdine’s. Watch our ads daily. Simplify shopping... adopt one of Burdine’s four convenient credit plans. 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