The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 23, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, July 23, 1954 The Key West Citizen Oe ——CCCC 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 ... Se ees 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN ...... ssn wen 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 reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it oe pot oo credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- ere. Member Associate Dailies of Florida —_——. Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. : Consolidation of County and City Goveraments. 2 3. 4 * " 5. Community Auditorium. RED SUBMARINES: HOW MANY? Jeeretary of the Navy, Charles S. Thomas estimated recently the Russians possess about 350 submarines. A short time later, Rear Admiral W. G. Schindler, assistant- Chief of Naval Operations, upped the figure to 400. The Germans began World War II with only a frac- tion of that number of submarines. At their peak strength, the Germans had only about as many submarines as Ad- miral Schindler believes the Russians now have. Thus, the Russian underseas fleet is a serious threat to U. S. maritime strength, which is now wasting away again — as it always does between wars. It must be kept in mind that the Navy has played the Russian. submarine menace for all it is worth since World War II. Unfortunately, the Russians do not have much of a surface navy and this has left Pentagon Ad- mirals with little material with which to scare money out of appropriations committees. There are indications that Russian submarine strength is growing but there are few indications that the Russians are making an all-out bid to build and maintain a sub- marine fleet very much larger than the 400-unit fleet they now possess. (The United States at present is estimated to have about half as many submarines as Russia.) The answer to the steadily growing Russian submar- ine force lies in larger numbers of anti-submarine air- craft and more surface vessels. That is what the Navy was deficient in when World War II engulfed the United States. Business Tycoon’s dream: No taxes, higher profits and no competition. Football, it seems, is the major enterprise of some- educational institutions. Friendly criticism may be extremely hopeful though it is not pleasant to the ear. . BS . Never worry about a competitor; attend to your busi- ness and let him do the worrying. ' Civil rights were never intended to give anybody the right to force themselves upon other persons. Sh Se Se eS aN, Americanism: The belief by the people of every state that they live in the best state in the country, enjoy the best climate and live among the finest people. Comedians with restraint, subtle timing, and intelli- gence seem to be on the way out, in favor of the loud- mouthed, all-action, forced-pace variety now dominating the scene. THE TAB...FINALLY? This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Perhaps I’m one of the ‘crack- pots’ who Dr. Floyd H. DeCamp prophesied would object to fluori- dation of public drinking water. I’ve delayed voicing my objection! because I wanted to find an Asso- ciated Press news release of about two years ago. Since I’m unable to locate the story, I'll repeat the gist of it from memory. A group of medical men out West studied the results of fluoridation of water and agreed that the process did have a ten- dency to lessen tooth decay. How- ever, their studies also showed that the deadly poison might be res- ponsible for a rise in other types of serious illness. As I remember it, the report was summarized with a suggestion that communities approach the problems with extreme care. Add- ing fluoride to water is a medical procedure. It is also a definite cur- tailment of personal liberty. I've no objection to mass medi- cation where it will prevent epi- demics or insure the health of the general public against a careless individual. But I don’t like the idea of politicians telling me what kind of medicine I have to take just for my own personal -health. Too many authorities have an- nounced that fluoridation will help prevent tooth decay for us not to} accept the statement as true. By the same token, ingrowing toe- nails, pre-mature baldness, or even the worries of a broken arm can be eliminated with a good, stiff ple to take the oil. From what I can see, it has been the politicians who have insisted on adding dead- ly fluoride to drinking water. Be- fore Monroe County goes ahead with the program, I would like to see it requested — without quali- fication — by practicing physi- cians. I’d also like to hear what | kind of equipment is necessary for mixing the preparation, how much it is going to cost, and where this equipment will be purchased. Art Critic Here is a portion of a letter I received from an out-of-state read- er who knows that “This Rock” doesn’t care too much for pompous stuff-shirts and gushy art critics: “. . from my opinion, art loses jits value when it is not used in {practical life. | “I stood in the Metropolitan Art Gallery years ago before the “Boy Blue” painting and listened to peo- ple around me rave and actually get hysterical about a picture de- picting a very ordinary looking boy in a blue suit, with a wistful childish expression that I have |seen on the faces of many, many | children. So what? “The same people raving over |the painting would pass a ragged little urchin in front of a toy shop or a window full of candy and never give the kid a glance. “All of this diatribe is simple | to state that Art is around you all |the time if you choose to study} {and use your God-given imagina-| tion.” Porfirio Wants Permit To Work LOS ANGELES — Porfirio Rubirosa, wealthy Dominican Re- public playboy-diplomat, wants a work permit. The 46-year-old husband of heir- ess Barbara Hutton applied yester- day to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. He said he wants to play a gambling saloon keeper ir. a west- ern movie. It will star his-present heart interest, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Rubirosa entered the United States at New York last June 29 on a visitor’s visa for vacation pur- poses. His application was taken under consideration. Child Survives Rough Ride LOS ANGELES #® — Police say Jack Todora, 4, freed the family car from a curb yesterday and steered it downhill through three intersection. Reaching 50 miles an hour, it struck Donald Boudinot’s auto, turned. it over, killed Boudi- not’s collie dog, and finally hit James Matthews’ house, officers said. Damage to the ear: more than $1,000. To Jack: a cut lip and three loose teeth. Key West In Days Gone By (3 BLUE WATER by DENIS SNEIGR Your time may be my time but my time ain’t Navy time. The Navy’s PIO (Public Informa- | tion Office) grinds out handouts every day. I dutifully pick up the | handouts from a little wooden tray | which is labelled “Citizen.” | Most of the handouts subsequent: | ly appear in this newspaper. But— and here’s the beef-—when those handouts mention a particu- lar hour, the Navy usually writes them in the Navy’s double talk way of telling time. For instance: “At 1743 hours, Admiral So- and So etc., etc., and etc.” That's what blows me over. That 1743 hours. Tm a civilian and I’m working for a newspaper written for civil- ians. So we can’t just publish that Admiral So-and-So did something or other at 1743 hours. We have to translate 1743 hours into English. I realize lots of Naval personnel read The Citizen, but they know how to tell time just like us| civilians do. I heard one admit it once. “What time is it?” I asked this Navy personnel, a lieutenant. “Five o'clock,” he answered, glancing at his wrist watch. Just like that—five o'clock. | Just like a civilian might say it. Five o'clock. Not 1800042 hours | or 00000 and % hours. Just plain| old, American five o’clock. This Lieutenant probably ‘stood a court martial if the Navy ever heard about the way he told time. But to get back to that 1743 hours. Notice they usually tack the word “hours” on after the number—1743 hours; not just 1743. If they left the word “hours” off you might think it was the admiral’s phone number, a date, or a tip if you happen to play the numbers game. Now let me tell you what hap- pens when one of those handouts with Navy’s double talk hours comes into The Citizen office. The city editor picks up.the hand- out, glances at it and hands it to a reporter to re-write. The reporter sits at his desk and begins to read the Navy handout. Suddently, he screams, leaps to his feet, upsets his typewriter with a resounding crash, and then collapses into the wastebasket. “What happened?” the city edit- or asks, as if she didn’t know. After the man is revived (we keep a tank of oxygen here just for that purpose), he mumbles in- coherently for a while and then, with trembling forefinger, points to line in the handout. {sirens screaming and red warning 'Man Jailed For ‘Trying To Sell /Young Children | TOWSON, Md. \—Frank Mc- | rohexts: ar-old farm faborer from Baynesville, O., is under a 60-day jail term for trying to sell is baby daughter for $200 and a | four-year-old stepdaughter for $75, There it is: 1743 hours. A pues County Penman All work in the office stops. We Who posed as a prospective pur- all cae Ase ieee ws chaser testified McRoberts told ferer. her: The city editor quickly dials the “1 would have to get $200 for combination on a big vault, She|the baby because she is my own swings open the heavy steel door, flesh and blood : i assisted by a copy boy, of course. _M¢Roberts and his wife were Then she rolls an expensive cal-|Charged with contributing to the culating machine out of the vault, delinquency of a minor. Mrs. Mc- Meanwhile, someone else has | Roberts was placed on probation telephoned the accountant who; for a year. translates all our time for us | He arrives with a police —— Knows How ‘To Keep The Law ALBUQUERQUE (®—Gov. Ea- win” Mechem, former FBI agent, | lives up to the letter of the law. He got a ticket for overparking, a He sent a note from his Santa But he haenit failed. us) yet. Fe office with a $1 bill attached Finally, the accountant—a dis-!19 the ticket. The note said: tinguished looking man—holds a|" «The attached was attached to pa oe paper aloft. ._|my car for overstaying my leave, He has a triumphant gleam N'If the enclosed is not sufficient to lights flashing. He strides purposefully into the city room, takes a drag off the oxygen bottle, and sets to work. Sometimes it takes the account-| ant several hours and quite a few rolls of calculating machine tape to arrive at the answer. his eyes, much as Pasteur must} have had in his eyes when he dis-| covered the principal of vaccina-| tion. “T have it,” he announces, hours is 5:43 o'clock.” “AM or PM?” someone asks. “I don’t know,” says the ac- countant now. That’s why we have a new ac-| countant now. The reporter who was re-writing the handout shot the old account- ant. Jury found him not guilty, | too. | But worse than this can happen. | Suppose’ instead of just era time with a gang of jumbled num- | bers, the Navy decides to start | talking that way. “1743 pay the charge, please advise me or, if you want me to appear in person I will do so.” The judge said Mechem won't ave to appear. Dick Says— h Hy Altman is to be compliment. Th Id let the 1 «a» |ed for his advice to people: “It’s eqialoane ata an «ce | sensible to trade at home!” I had would mean 2; “D” would equal 3; |an experience recently which con- “E” would equal 4; and so on through’ the alphabet. Then the commander of a shi might yell: “101919413 3142213 1974 1282525413 1201819!” Meaning, “Batten mizzen mast.” = Instead of “good mornig” a Navy man would then have to say “614143 1214178136.” Everybody would have to be Einstein to know what the Na was talking about. We already have written a let- ter to the Secretary of the Na’ begging him not to let the Na start this number talk. And please, Admiral Towner, have your PIO tell us the time of day in civilian lingo. We lose a lot of accountants on account of 1743 hours. P down the an vy A Grain Of Salt By Bill Spillman A lot can be said about ‘‘one that the “one beer” deal is in the \firms his words— | Have you read those extravagant | advertisements which run in Mia- | mi papers concerning automobiles? | Well, I made arrangements to |trade in my old car here in Key |West. Just to find out how much | I was getting ‘gypped,’ I also went |to all the car dealers in Miami. Heck! They had every sort of logan — they “gave ’em away”; {they were ‘the world’s wildest | traders”; some Miami dealers ad- |vertised “no down - payment’; others claimed, ‘no financing |charge.” Brother, let me tell you omething — in my opinion, such y | statements are “‘hog-wash.” I couldn’t find a car dealer in Miami who was able to make a better offer then our own Key West concerns. Sure! you can get pieces of junk with fresh paint hiding the rust for a cheaper price. But qua- lity for quality, Key West and ;Miami prices are pretty much ;equal. The important factor of fu- j ture service needs actually places the local buyer ahead of the game. Miami is fine — for Miamians. Those people don’t come down to | Key West to trade and there is no |Teason why we should neglect our own welfare by going up there to do our buying. For my part, I do all my trading in my own home- town. If I buy enough loves of bread from the corner grocer, I know that the time will come when he will buy U. S. Royal tires or Lodi |Tecaps from me. If he goes to Mia- dose of arsenic or strychnine. Personally, I think a minister beer.” I guess policemen hear; same category as “‘thirty miles|™i to buy his tires, that’s o. k. — EIR RUT LD S Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1. Make less dense 1. Garland 13. Epic genre 14. Oriental staple food 15. Surgical thread 16, Favorite 17. Period 18. Bone 19, Comfort 20. Pile 21. Equality 23. Poverty 24. Public notice 25. Half em 26. Final 27. Chimneys 30. Accompany 32. Beat soundly 33. Book of the Bible 34. English river 35. Old exclamation 36. Small fish 37. Metallic rocks 38. Serpent 89. So: Scotch 41. Declare 42. Greek letter 43. Away 44. Wager 45. Simple organism 48. Dropped 50. Church festival 51. Meeting places 52. Stylish DOWN 1, Legal action 2. Imitate 3. Part ofa IL A A IT a S Ee R | ie [a A IR iM IN ] L LIE LIE JR AIS Solution of Yesterday’s Puzzle 16. Breathe quickly 19. Direction 21. Part of a hammer head 22, Handle Charity Noisy Enemies 28. Fish 29. Openhand blow 31. Principally 32 Nobleman 34. Waste allowance 37. Heated chambers 38. Female relatives 39. Gentle 40. Froma distance 41, Encourage 42. Short for aman’s name 45. Disfigure 46. Roman bronze 47, Thirsty 49. Place of the seal: abbr. 50. Ending of the past tense (2) {e) N S + U IM! Bi L iS 'D} Vv. A | ‘A Dit EIA [a 4. Epic poem 5. Swamp 6. Pronoun 7. Twist from one’s grasp 8. Chide 9. For exam ple: abbr. 10. Something to be done 11. Japanese monastery 12. Stack Pye ee For years, doctors have pres- eribed cod liver oil for babies yet | they haven't pushed for govern- ment interference to force all peo- could take the thoughts expressed | above and make a rather nice ser- | mon on the subject. They are cer- | tainly true! PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expressions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be. fair and confine the letters to of letters and will be published e paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the 200 words and write on one side unless requested otherwise. ENJOYS FORUM Editor, The Citizen: " I enjoy the daily paper very much looking forward each evening to see whats news. Especially the forum. Mr. Bill Gibb is doing a swell job these days and the anti- | dote goes thus. Put a catfish into the gold fish pond and | just watch how soon those old lazy gold fish perk up and get going. A good jabbing gets the job done sooner or later. A hearty believer in constructive activity and lets don’t forget. The Almighty still rules in the affairs of men. He it is that puts one up and another down, one up and are out. Thank God for his Sovereign Power that brought me to-Key West. Keep up the good work, Mr. Gibb. LOS SG Horses Gain More Freedom LUBBOCK, Tex. — The city ;dinance—No. 13—which regulated commission here has decided old| horse-drawn vehicles with an 8 dobbin can horse around as much|m.p.h speed limit. as he wants to. A “compromise” move by Com- | Not without considerable horse-/ missioner S. §. Forrest to raise | play, the commission yesterday |the speed limit to 10 miles per) voted repeal of a 45-year-old or-!hour was defeated ‘ duly 23, 1934 Paul Atwell, construction fore- man for the lighthouse department, is still suffering from lightning and shock and burn received yesterday morning while in bathing at South Beach, Dr. Robert 0. Van Deusen, biologist with the Fairmont Park Aquarium, in Philadelphia, is ex- pected to arrive in Key West about July 25 to secure his regular col- lection of specimens for the tank. Enthusiasm in the voluntary en- rollment program of the FERA in Key West has not abated one iota |since the first names were placed on the certificates last Friday afternoon following the signing of Mayor W. H. Malone and Admin- istrator B. M. Duncan. eo te duly 23, 1944 (Sunday. No paper.) Penny Payment BISBEE, Ariz @® — For four years Joseph S. Santi saved his pennies, “This,” he told Lydia Mae Law- son, holding a cloth bag crammed with coins, “will pay for our mar- riage license and the judge’s fee.” The couple yesterday handed the 1,500 pennies to Superior Court Judge Frank Thomas, _He kept 200 for the license, mar- ried Joseph and Lydia and handed back the rest as a wedding present. the expression more than anyone else. They probably hear the word so much that it is just natural for them to think that when a man| says that he has just had “one beer” that he is loaded to the gills. If anyone had never had a beer and just listen into police court | | to the drunk cases for a couple of months he would surely come away from the ordeal saying, “I “J don’t know what is in that one beer bottle but it sure must be powerful.” There’s a Florida stute patrol- man who says that if he could just get the formula for the bev- erage that comes under the title of “one beer,” he would retire; from the highway patrol depart- ment and manufacture the stuff. | “Td make a mint” he said. | This highway patrolman told me! that the usual case is where you stop a man driving a ear that was all over the highway. “Don’t you see that yellow line | down the middle of the highway?” you ask. “What highway” the drunk an- swers. “How much you had to drink?” “Oh, I had ‘one beer’ bout’ an_ hour ago.” ; This highway patrolman told me SINGER IS ILL BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. 7 — Singer Ethel Merman is confined | to a hotel suite with subacute appendicitis. She is receiving treat- ment to avoid surgery at present because she is making a movie. | Miss Merman expects to return to! her role next Monday. Subscribe To The Citizen an hour.” He said, “I come upon| !'ll just quit trading with him and a wrecked car that has just rolled fimd 4 grocer who is loyal to Key over five times preceded by a| Vest. hundred yards of skid marks. | When you ask the survivors if | there happens to be one, how fast | they were going, the usual answer | Dick’s Tire Service is headquar- ters for U. S. Royal tires. We’re specialists in the business of tire sales and repair. While you might be able to find a shop in Miami or some other large town that is just as good as ours, I’m confident that you can’t find a better one or a place where you can buy quality products at lower prices jand Dick’s is as near as your telephone when something goes wrong. is “bout” thirty miles an hour. | Actually all this is very wrong, “one beer” won’t hurt you, make you become sarcastic, make you! | lose your facuiiies, or make you |stagger. But if you have “one jbeer’ in every bar in Key West |(believe me, there are a lot of bars in Key West) then that’s a different thing. In fact a sandwich and a beer can be very refresh- ing. Let’s all remember Hy Altman’s | words: “It’s sensible to, trade at |home!” Visit Dick’s Tire Service, |929 Truman Ave., or ph. 2-2842 for prompt, courteous tire work. (adv.) TELEVISION SALES and SERVICE 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET Expert Repairs TAILORED INS’ MOTELS . . HOTELS . TELEPHONE 2.3449 Reasonable Rates TALLATION for . HOMES . . 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