The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 31, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, July 31, 1954 The Key West Citizen Greene ey A exe Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Streets, ‘Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ASS Sine A Abit bi et dr that lade cndacilibatatatiad A L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher cn. 1921-1954 foe as co she sacatea a nant db stnoneell aoaree tae beatss scenes lle NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher COS’ Ora j Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 entitled to or not otherwise ted in this lished here. of The Associated Press—The Associated’ Lusi hag heap eur eeerae Peay e Paper, and news dispatches credited to it also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida SEES ESS ox. select iota alin Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 eee OF all, FD ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open and subjects of local anonymous communica‘ forum and invites discussion of or general interest, but t lic issues Boron publish (MPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Beach and Bathing Airports—Land Sea. Consolidation of County Community Auditorium. L 2 3. 4 5. More Hotels and Apartments, Pavilion. and City Goveraments. —<—<—<— << OPPOSITION TONES DOWN FIGHT AGAINST. MONROE’S KEEPING HIGHWAY ACREAGE The Citizen has gained headway decisively in its fight to retain for the people of Monroe County the Over- geas Road and Toll Bridge District acreage, aside from that which is included in the Overseas Highway right- of-way. As readers may recall, The Citizen took John Kil- gore to task for a story he had in the Miami Herald sev- eral weeks ago about the district’s out-and-out ownership of the acreage in question. In that story Kilgore spoke about “land grab,” “local bill” and “state money” that had been used in acquiring the acreage. Thursday, Kil- gore had another story in the Herald about the district’s lands. The story was fair, because he gave both sides of the question, He used the term “land grab” again, but explained that was what it.was called by “opponents of the provisions in the Papy bill.” Kilgore in the next para- graph says: “The Key West Citizen has protested the term ‘land grab,’ saying that district funds were used to buy the right-of-way. More state money was spent in the project as a whole.” That was not exactly what The Citizen said. The Citizen pointed out that district funds, to which Florida taxpayers, aside from those in Monroe County, had not contributed one cent, were used to buy the acreage, as well as the right-of-way, from the Florida East + Railway. ° It is true that state money and much more federal money were spent “in the project as a whole,” but not a penny of it was spent for the acreage that opponents are trying to take frem the people of Monroe County. The state and federal money was used to improve the Overseas Highway and parts of the right-of-way, and the Overseas Bridge Commission is willing to transfer them to the State Road Department. Kilgore, the Herald and tioned need not be perturbed will be diverted to private interests. But there’s a ques- tion, which the Overseas Bridge Commission will be grate- ful to the State Board of Administration for it to decide. All the 763 acres is not suitable for conversion into parks or parkways. Three hundred Key, and, were they turned into parks, they would com- prise much more than one-quarter of the Key. Should the Board of Administration decide to sell any of the lands, the Overseas mends that they be sold at public auction to the highest bidders. : Another. question the commission will request the SBA to decide: the leasing of some lands for the sole pur- Pose of Monroe Cotinty’s obtaining revenue to keep the arks and’ parkways in good ‘ounty be. given the authority to lease specified lands, the leases also. will-be awarded to the highest bidders. Coast the “opponents” he men- an instant that the lands of the acres are on Long Bridge Commission recom- condition. Should Monroe ——————$$ Crossword Puzzle 38. Hovels 42. Writing fluid 43. Language of the Buddhist scriptures 45, Afresh 46. Down: prefix 47. Resign 48. Cooking vessel 50. Ascended 51. Placards 62. Money factory ‘19. Voleano 20. Syllable of hesitation 21. Ventilated Ornamental tree 26. Ignited again . 31. Coral islands 32. 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When he went out to milk Friday morning, there she was—free, Simons said Whitie wandered off after he milked her Thurs. night. Somehow she squirmed her way through the 2% by 2-foot silo door. “She’s not very tall,” said Simons, “but awfully byvoad.” Simons had checked at midnight and she was still trapped. “She got in by herself, I figured she could get out by herself,” he said. “She’s in good condition. No damage.” Key West In Days Gone By duly 31, 1934 Mayor Wm. H. Malone, William | L, Bates and Bascom L. Grooms| were today designated by Judge Jefferson B. Browne to count the | votes in the Fifth and Seventh | Precincts cast in the second pri- mary election for the office of state | senator, Key West is to have a hospitality League. This will be made up of| about thirty representative men and women to act as hosts and hostessess to the visitors who are already coming to the city. Two more express cars with} spice for the Cuban government arrived over the East Coast yes. terday and were sent to Havana on the Ferry Parrott last night. ck. & July 31, 144 County Tax Assessor Claude Gandolfo said today it will require three or four weeks before he be- gins to make the final entries in the tax books for this fiscal year. j This morning Superintendent De- meritt sent the millage set-up to Mr. English, so that it will be in| his office by August 1, as required | by law. The school millage is 9.7 mills same as last year. John and Ethel Stetz have sold lots 6 and 8, blocks 3, tract 14, on} Duncan street, through the John-/} son and Johnson Realty company to Blanca Garcia for $4,200. Mrs. Robert L. See of Tampa is} a guest of Mrs. Lottie Hays at the | home, 802 Eaton street, where she | is meeting many old friends here. | This is her first vsit to Key West} in 20 years. L.A. SWELTERS LOS ANGELES # — Sweltering residents of Los Angeles who have watched records fall as tempera- cures rose can expect more of the same today, an expected high of 92. Yesterday's top of 93 made it he hottest July 29 on record. The | revious high for July 29 was 92 1 1889 and 1947, Jia UE Citizen Want Ads Pay Off! | to tourists SS CV VV VIG V ITV IF IIT VII VIS CI CIV SS CST CSV GY The Ground By JIM COBB Be BN A Mn BBS A A eM ln a tO te ee de Dt ds Everyone seems to be pretty well agreed that the Key West - Cuba ferry operation is going to give the town a boost. It’s sure to bring more winter visitors to town and give Key West some priceless national publicity. But, there is one phase of*the operation which has not been dis- cussed much in public and which may prove to be a real boon to the city, although a lot of people may take a rather dim view of it. I’m speaking of the ship’s gam- bling casino which is expected to be one of the best selling points i considering a Cuban jaunt. Charles Rosen, local restau- rant and real estate operator re- portedly has the inside track on the gaming concession. Gambling, probably more than any other factor, will serve to lure the moneyed folks aboard the ves- sel. Ever since Mr. Kefauver and his investigators put the lid on in Flo- rida, there have been scores of folks just itching to wager a few | bucks on the slot machines and the dice. They’ve been having a time finding any action. Probably a lot of folks who don’t give a hoot about traveling will suddenly blossom out as interna- tional tourists when they hear that they can sit down at a card table without Mr. Kefauver looking over their shoulder. Some of them will probably even forget to get off the boat when it arrives in Cuba. It’s legal, too. The local customs office says that they don’t care whether or not there is gambling aboard as long as the gambling rooms are sealed when the ship enters ~the three-mile territorial limit. Cuban officials will probably wink at the operation, There is a good chance, how- tough ever, that there will be a hue and| cry raised from some quarters in Key West. Personally, I think it is a good deal. I can’t afford to gamble, but those who have the fever are go- ing to, come what may, And they’) probably get a fairer shake aboard the Patricia than they would in many of the clandestine games ashore. Only possible bad reaction for Key West might be that the hood- lums who surround any gambling operation may move in from Mia- mi or other parts. I've been accused in the past, when commenting on our city gov- ernment, of not offering “‘construc- tive criticism.” I’ve.even been ac- cused of trying to ‘destroy’? —al- though what I’m trying to destroy and how to go about it has never been revealed. So, to satisfy my crities, I sat down and came up with Construc. tive Criticism No. 1-A. It is aimed at the city commis- sion. Here it is: Why doesn’t the city commission sell that travesty of a street ma- chine for which they paid 14 thou- sand good American dollars to the highest bidder and hire a qualified contractor to build us some decent streets? It is obvious that the machine is not doing a very good job. If you think I’m being a little harsh or exaggerating, drive on out to 13th Street, between the boulevard and Duck Avenue; check United Street near the high school and then take a look at Oli- via Street. There are a lot of other streets which don’t look much bet- ‘ter. | City officials admit they are dis- | appointed with the machine’s per- j formance. They bought it with the idea of saving money. I fail to see where they have saved a penny. Even though they can build what passes for streets cheaply with the machine, most of them will have to be repaved — but soon. Whatever happened to Lou Car- bonell’s suggestion that we borrow money on future cigarette tax re- jceipts and start a real street pav- jing program? Sure, the interest on such a loan would be considerable. Sure, good streets cost a lot of money. But, the only way we are going to get decent streets will be to hire an experienced contractor to build them. Key Westers are beginning to show the first symptoms of foot- ball fever as the season approach- es. It is amazing how Key Westers, many of whom had never seen a football game up until the game was revived here three years ago, have taken to the sport and learn- ed its finer points. But it was pretty hectic and |there were a lot of laughs until Key Westers cut their football teeth, | Kermit Lewin had this anecdote | to tell the other day — at the ex: pense of Charley Wardlow: Lewin and Wardlow, being die- hard Conch fans, journeyed up to Lake Worth three years ago to see the high school team make its first | Start in many years. Kermit knew the game very well. Wardlow didn’t know a first down from an end run. As the ballgame progressed and the inexperienced Conchs made a battle out of it, Wardow became increasingly excited — even though he wasn’s exactly sure what w2s going on. Finally, Key West, deep in their awn territory smashed into the line on three straight plays. They didn’t gain an inch, On fourth down, they decided t> punt. The Conch kicker dropped back and booted a beauty. It spirale deep into enemy territory. : But Wardlow gurned to Lewin with a stricke: on his face. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb The Key West Citizen ran an ad- mirable editorial this week with regard to speed It seems that this is just a ‘speed-crazy’ age —' yet the urge to hurry does produce a few good results. For instance, I was amazed to learn recently of a new high speed Teletypesetter transmission system which can operate at 600 words Per minute, Brother! that’s fast. Imagine this entire column being put over the wires in less than six- ty seconds! By old-fashion stand- ards, sixty words a minute is con- sidered prettygood What advantage is there to this speedy transmission? _ Well, to quote Editor and Pub- lisher: “Stock reports have been trans- mitted daily on an experimental basis since June 16 between AP headquarters in New York and the Boston Herald-Traveler.. The en- tire financial quotation sent to the Herald-Traveler over conventional circuits requires 12 hours of trans- mittion time. The same material has been sent by the new high speed methord in 62 minuets.” Newspapers of course will save quite a sum of money on trans- mission time but the biggest change with the new system, as I see it, will effect buying markets — especially in such fields as stocks and bonds. And think of the gamblers! If wire transmission gets any faster, we'll soon know the results of races before they’ve been run! That'll be the day that we get re- tribution from our bookies. Did I say “our bookies?” Shame, shame. I told a fib because I never patronized a bookie in my life — don’t know any to patronize and don’t have any money to give them anyway. I should have said; “That'll be the day that YOU get retribution from YOUR bookies!” Eddie Ramirez Once in awhile, this column at- A Grain tempts to bring about friendlier re. lations between individual police- men and the public. Don’t ask me the reason for this because I don’t know. Probably it is a result of having worked with them and of having seen a side of their nature which the public fails to appre. ciate. No group of police officers fall into a certain pattern. Each man maintains his individual cha- racteristics but basically, they ail strive for one objective — the pro. tection of your life and your pro- perty. : Take Eddie Ramirez— Eddie is a big bluff! If you didn’t know him, you'd thing he was a happy-go-lucky guy who put in his hours waiting from one pay check till the next. He is ex-Navy, not too tall but well-developed. Grins most of the time. Eddie Ramirez is all policeman. He is capable, honest, and loyal, That happy-go-lucky attitude is purely bluff. Eddie can be rough if the occasion demands it but gen- erally speaking, he is one of the most understanding officers on the Force. Incidentally, don’t ever get your- self in a position where gun fire is necessary with Officer Ramirez, He is a crack-shot — a former in- structor in the Navy and one of the top-flight shooters in the Key West -olice Department. Few compliments can be aimed solely at one person. In Eddie’s case, they must be extended to in- clude his family for, from frag- ments of his conversation and var- ious casual comments, it is evi- dent that he received a firm train- ing in religious subjects. The pro- Per term for this would be “‘spiri- tual values” but so many readers object to that expression that I’m sort of hesitant to use it. Yes — Eddie Ramirez is all man — he’s all policeman — and he’s a credit to the community. Of Salt get into the fluoride act. So far be it from me to stand aside and let everybody chatter while I say nothing. Since I’m not an expert on any- thing, I'll naturally advise every- body what to do on everything. This should bring me up to par. Jack Delaney told me the otaer night that he was going to bring up the subject at the next City Commission meeting. Jack said that he was going to request that the commission instruct .the city manager to obtain the opinions on the fluoride subject from every doctor in the city. The outcome of this request should be very enlightening and if I do say so it is a sensible pro- posal. Since doctors in this city put on their pants one leg at a time and by the same token, drink the same water that everybody else drinks, they will surely advise something that will not kill us all. I think that one of the best ways to solve the question of ‘‘To have or have not,” is to put in two wa- ter systems. Naturally we wouldn’t want the upper Keys to miss out on the fluoride question so we could run the extra water system all the way from Florida City. The extra water line can be put Red Aid Offered NEW YORK (#—The New York Times published a report that Russia has offered 250 million dollars in point-four type aid to underdeveloped Afghanistan as a “potential Communist ally.” The Times dispatch from Ka- | rachi, Pakistan, said the Afghans were seriously considering accept- ing the offer of technical aid to projects and develop the natural resources of the mountainous, land- Pakistan, Iran and Soviet Asia. “My gosh, Kermit,” he moaned, “what'll we do now. That guy kicked the ball all the way dowp the field — and we didn’t have anyone there to catch it.” ee STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS — build roads, launch hydroelectric j locked Asian country bordered by | By Bill Spillman It seems that everyone wants to, in for about $20,000,000 including the extra distribution pipes throughout the city. To connect up to the new system would cost pro- perty owners about a hundred and fifty bucks. If all this was done we could have two spigots in the house. The old spigot could be marked “Plain water.” I don’t wish to advise that a new water system be put in right now. We should naturally wait until the streets have all been carefully paved. Another solution would be to just start tearing up the streets again — No reason — just tear them up. People would become so mad at who ever is tearing them up that they would knock each others teeth out. If this were the case I don’t think anyone would need fluoride unless it has a decided effect on the gums. One fellow told me that he would sure be glad when they started putting that stuff in the water that keeps teeth from decaying so he could stop buying tooth paste. One question that has not been answered concerning this fluoride business is what is the effect it will have on false choppers. If the stuff is going to harm plastic teeth, |Grandparents Set ‘Up Dream Tree House For Boy BRADENTON (# — When you |were a child did you ever long jfor a tree house? Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin F.Harris jhave built one here that is some- thing special for their grandson, It boasts running water, a two- burner gas stove, refrigerator, and eating and sleeping accommoda- tions. The grandson, 12-year-old Jackie Unseld of Cascade, Mich., looks forward to enjoying the tiny house on his summer vacations here. A winding stairway leads to the cool, screened-in house, fitted into the spreading branches of a moss- draped oak tree, about 10 feet above the ground. It is a favorite retreat for Jackie's friends. When they finish Playing, Mrs. Harris will cook for them and six can be seated at a time on folding stools around a lit- tle table. When Jackie gets Teady to go to sleep the table is pushed into corner and a small sofa bed is opened. Adults like the place too. Mr. and Mrs. Harris often go up there to take advantage of the breeze, Once a couple lived there while their new home was being built and a widower was a temporary ‘resident last winter. People’s Forum ‘The Citisen welcomes res stons of the views er ite rene = ees pot editor reserves the e le any items whieh - are considered Mbeleus or unwar- werds and ite om ene side ef the paper only. Signature ef the writer must seoumpany the letters and will he published ua- leas requested ethervrise. FLUORIDATION? Editor, The Citizen: With all aspects of fluoridation | momentarily set aside, there is one very healthy ingredient we must not overlook, that being free and open discussion as reflected by your whole editorial page of July 28th. Considering the antithetical ex- tremities of thought presented by |your columnists Sneigr, Cobb, and jGibb, it is puzzling to conjecture their coexistence in the same of- fice! Unless, of course, they all commonly share the apodixis of upper plates. These men have not mentioned the tedious hours of scientific re- Search necessary to even identify and categorize the properties of fluoride. No scientist wants to poi- son the populace, and in the hands of a qualified scientist this would not be done. What is .to be feared is arbitrary supervision of a flu- oridation program. Entrusting this to academic public health officials Politically appointed is question- able. As Gibb implies, fluoridation is dynamite. But so were Jenner's _ experi- ments in vaccination, and Pas- teur’s developments of inoculation, and all the innumerable “experi- ments” of modern medicine. What has been accomplished? As a civi- lization unparalleled in history we have lengthened the span of life, ‘given new hope and usefullness to the ages, and we have “poisoned” ourselves to do this. Fear of new things is universal. As a consequence, and not a re- commendation, humanity is starv- ing. These sons of the sea who grew from the caves are*weanng themselves upon empty breasts of materialism and subterfuge. Fluo- ride, whatever its helpful proper- ties, cannot substitue the human requirements of proper diet. Bal- anced meals and swamp water is more commendable than sweetrolls and fluoride! When in the name of chlorophyll is man going to take cognizance of himself! 1 VE: P. 0. Box 642 Key West, Fla. then we better give it some ser-| — ious thought, false teeth costing what they do today. My children are the ones who will naturally be on the receiving end of the fluoride question. I asked my eight year old son what he thought about it. “Yes,” he answered. seats a Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE and CUBAN —TRY A POUND TODAY — Television Sales and Service 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET Expert Repairs TELEPHONE 2-3449 Reasonable Rates TAILORED INSTALLATION for MOTELS . . HOTELS . . HOMES . . BUSINESS Presents Television Listings—WTVJ, CHANNEL 4 SATURDAY, JULY 31 AMATEUR HOUR JACK OF ALL sPorTs NEWS — ‘WEATHER Two IN LOVE LONE RANGER THE DORSEY BRos. TWO FOR THE MONEY FOREIGN INTRIGUE SAT. NIGHT REVIEW PRIVATE SECRETARY CAPT. 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