The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 4, 1954, Page 8

Joan Crawford Stars In New Islander Film . In “Torch Song,” M-G-M offering at the Islander Theatre, Joan Crawford makes a triumphant re- turn to the studio where she first won stardom. It is her first Tech- nicolor picture and its highly-keyed drama of a vibrant musical com- edy actress, taking place for the most part against backstage scenes in a Broadway theater, offers film- goers a chance to see a singing and dancing Crawford as well as the dramatic talent which has won her an Academy Award and three Oscar nominations. With Michael Wilding co-starring and with such prominent film per- sonalities as Gig Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Henry Morgan and Dor- othy Patrick playing pivotal roles, “Torch Song” unfolds the story of Jenny Stewart, a temperamental and volcanic musical comedy star who browbeats and alienates every- one with whom she works, then meets her Waterloo when she comes up against the perception, insight and love of blind pianist Tye Graham (Wilding). The part of Jenny is a meaty role for Miss Crawford—one call- ing for a display of theatrical temperament, glamour personality and stark emotional intensity, and she gives it all three in abundance.. From her very first scene in which the famous Crawford legs flash across the screen in a fast re- hearsal routine only to be halted by a fusilage of temperament be- cause of her partner’s misstep, she holds the audience in the grip of her characterization. Nor does the tempo flag as the story of a girl, too caught up in the struggle to get to the top ever to have found time for love, mounts to its moving TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK, (#—Aircrafts were out in front of an active and rising stock market today. The market opened with trading at a brisk pace which continued through the morning. Medium and low priced issues made up a goodly portion of the upward move- ment, but aircrafts were in the lead. Railroads also found ready buy- ers and so did most airlines. Steels and motors changed hands rapidly at mixed prices. Other sections were narrowly irregular. Pan American Airways opened up % at 14% on a block of 12,000 shares and held its advance. Boe- ing opened up 1% at 59 on 7,500 shares and continued to rise. Others on the rise included U.S. Steel, General Motors, Douglas Aircraft, Lockheed, Radio Corp., American Telephone, Allied Chem- ical, Southern Pacific and New York Central. Lower were Youngstown Sheet, Goodyear, Caterpillar, Air Reduc- tion, and American Airlines. EISENHOWER RAPS (Continued from Page One) ful purposes merely because So- viet Russia has refused to go along with the idea. He said he still is trying to find a way to put the plan into effect without Russia and intends to keep on ‘trying. POLITICS—So far as he is con- cerned, the President said, the main issue of the fall congressional campaign will be simply this: Is the record of the Republican ad- ministration a good one or is it not? EUROPEAN FLOOD RELIEF— Eisenhower announced that both Austria and Germany—he did not say whether he was talking of West or Red-dominated East Ger- many—have accepted the U.S. offer of surplus food for the relief of flood victims in the area of the Danube River and its tributaries. He added that Communist Yugo- slavia’s anti-Soviet government has not been able to make a reply as yet. Nor have there been replies from other countries eligible for such aid, he said. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTH- ORITY—The President said he chose Brig. Gen. Herbert D. Vogel to be the new chairman of the TVA board of directors because Vogel is the kind of a man the administration wants in that job. The President said he told Vogel that he looks for him to base his Tecommendations with respect to any expansion of TVA, or anything else, on his own best judgment. Then Eisenhower said emphat- {cally he wanted to repeat that he is pledged not to destroy TVA. HOUSING AND OTHER CON- STRUCTION—Eisenhower said he was urfamiliar with the details of perdine legislation which wouid authorize emergency construction of school buildings. He said he would look into it and say later what his position will be on the matter. As for housing generally, the President said—as he has many times before—that there should be THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MARKSMEN TEST ” SKILL ON AUTO LOUISVILLE, Ky. ‘(# — Three “Dan’l Boones” couldn’t ‘find: a b’ar to test their marksmanship on yesterday. So they riddled Frank Jasgars- zewski’s automobile with. nine .45- caliber. automatic ‘-slug and 10 from a .22-caliber rifle,’ peppering ue right tires, rear glass and right side. He .said he noticed three men shooting at a nearby tree when he parked to go fishing in the Ohio River. He returned to find his ‘ear shot up and the men gone. NAVY TO BREAK (Continued From Page One) ner and the Engineer is Maurice H. Connell and Associates. All of the firms are located in Miami. Key West Labor However, 2 spokesman for the Leifert Construction Co. said Key West labor will be used throughout the job. The Naval Ordnance Unit at the Annex now occupies a building on Pier D-1 that at one time was the freight terminal when the Florida East Coast Railroad operated, to Key West. There are no plans at. the pre- sent time for demolishing this building. However, another building of his- toric interest is coming down to make way for the new building. It is an old two-story frame structure that’ once was the rail- road passenger station. Until re- cently it was used to house the ships’ service store on the Annex. Besides high ranking Navy offi- cers who will be present at the ground breaking ceremonies, : Ste- phen C. Leifert, president of the construction company, is eoming here from Miami for the event, NEED FOR NEW DIMES (Continued: From Page One) own antibodies to resist the polio virus. In explaining where the money is used, he said, “Gamma globulin costs about $10 a shot and some peple have received as many as three injections.” ki When questioned by one of the Kiwanis members, concerning pos- sible ill effects of the new vaccine, Youmans said. ‘‘No one who has taken the vaccine has reported any ill effects.” He also explained that the vaccine is given to children only with the consent of the -parents. Project Committee Ralph Faraldo, president of the local club, appointed Joe Boza to head a committee to study propo- sals for projects for the emergeney polio drive. Faraldo also told members that he had received a telephone call from Captain C. L. Murphy, Chief of Staff to Admiral George C. Tow- ner, Commander Naval Base, in which Murphy requested the Kiw- anis Club to sponsor one of the Navy ball teams that are coming to Key West for a tournament. The proposal was favorbly #eceived by the members. The Navy has made similar pro- posals to other civic elubs in the city. The Navy merely requests that the club members come out and cheer for the team they choose to sponsor. The sponsoring of teams by the clubs is aimed at making the visiting teams feel at home during their stay in Key West, Challenge Given It was announced at the meeting that the Upper Keys Kiwanis club has challenged the Key West Club to a game of soft ball with the Players dressed as women. It was pointed out that the Up- per Keys club recently played the Marathon Lions club in which the proceeds were $500 for charity. The plan for the local game is to have women for umpires. “You can’t expect them to be. very good as umpires,” one member said. Gleeson Snow was appointed to make the arrangements for the game. During the meeting the erown of the club King was auctioned off in 2 Scottish style auction. Bill South- cot was the successful bidder and will be club King for the month of August. Three Initiated William V. Albury, past presi- dent, had the honor of initiating three new members. In the initia- tion ceremonies, he told the new members that the motto of the club is “We Build.” “Our purpose is to build charae- ter and morals in the community,” Albury said. “You will only get out of the club what you put in.” He also said that Kiwanis has for its favorite charity the helping of underprivileged children. The new members installed were Harvey ‘Sellers, Sheldon Smith, and Lou Monroe. The weekly bulletin of the elub stated that clothing had been giv en to two needly families. The bul- letin also urged members to do- nate used children’s clothing for the charitable cause. Ira Albury-is accepting the clothing. tion with any housing program where federal funds are used. FEDERAL INSURANCE — The President said he was delighted over Congre: approval of an administration bill -to provide group life insurance for govern- ment employes. He called the ao racial discrimination in connec-| measure highly. desirable. L ‘watt Wednesday, August 4, 1954 DEATHS "MRS. MARIE DENNIS Mrs. Marie Dennis, 39, died Mon- day afternoon at the Monroe Gen- eral Hospital after a short illness. Mrs. Dennis was a native of Massachusetts and has been in Key West for the past four months. She is survived by the husband, Carl R.: Dennis of Key West, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ash- ley of Whitman, Mass. The body was sent today by the Pritchard Funeral Home to Whit- man, Mass., for funeral services and burial in the family plot. MRS. BELLE HAMILTON Mrs. Belle Hamilton, age 49, passed away last evening at her residence, Eaton Street, after a long illness. Mrs. Hamilton is survived by her husband Dr. Aubrey H. Hamilton, two daughters, Martha Hope and Elizabeth Howard Hamilton, of Key West. Other survivors include her fa- ther and several sisters and cou- sins in New York and a brother in California. She was educated at Washington Irving High School in New York City and took various post-gradu- ate courses subsequently. She was for 18 years secretary of the Ep- ert Furniture Company and other firms at the Furniture and Ex- change in New York City and en- gaged in interior decorating work at that time. She also appeared with the Man- hattan Opera Company and with Astrological Guild of America. A memorial service will be held it. the First Methodist Church of which she was an active member, at 5:00 Thursday afternoon, the Reverend J. Paul Touchton, mia- ister of the church will officiate. The body is being sent this eve- ning to Brooklyn, N. Y. for intern- ment in the family vault. Lopez Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. TEXT OF IKE’S PRAISE (Continued from Page One) should not have been done, I don’t know. But I do know that Gen. Mar- shall served according to his con- ceptions of his duty to his chief. I tried to put ‘this in a book that I wrote once, and maybe some of you heard about. I tried to say what I thought about him. I have been saying it ever since. And I shall continue to say it until there is evidence—that I just don’t be- Hieve exists in the world—that I am wrong. If you go back through his rec- ord, you will find that it was a brilliant record, always serving to the best of his ability. I believe as a first lieutenant, if I recall, they picked him out to serve as a chief of staff for the greatest man- euvers ever held in the Philippines at that time, as indicative of his reid and his dedication to his )b. And all the way through, his record is studded with that kind of performance. I think it is a sorry reward, at the end of at least 50 years of service to this country, to say that he is not a loyal, fine American, and that he served only in order to advance his own per- sonal ambitions. I can’t imagine anyone that I have known in my career of whom this is less so than it is in his case. I am sorry if I have made a speech, but that is the way I feel. North America has about 225 million people. TO SOLVE YOUR MONEY PROBLEMS Ww vi aT 706 DUVAL STREET PHONE 2-8355 LOANS TO $300 (3% MONTHS TO REPAY) LET FLORIDA'S FASTEST GROWING LOAN SERVICE GIVE YOU A NEW START A “MAC” Loan Will Improve Your Standard Of Living A “MAC” Loan Will Give You Freedom From Worry About Bills - Debts Necessities - Emergencies LOANS TO SERVICE PERSONNEL kkk “PEACE OF MIND” 13 “MAC'S” PRODUCT ere . A. C. CREDIT Co. INC. COUNTY BOARD (Continued from Page One) meant in tax receipts and Ada@S said about $21,000. i Joe Sirugo brought the meeti#g back to the sheriff's sorte by asking how Monroe County pared with other Florida countiés in the cost of law enforcement. Spottswood said that $54,000 was spent in Monroe County last yeat. He cited Collier County, which he said had a population of about 6- 000, as having. spent $71,000 on law enforcement last year. Spottswood then read figures showing the per capita cost of law enforcement in Monroe County and in several other counties. In Monroe, he said, the per capi- ta cost was $1,55; in Jackson, $1.68; in Lake, $1.65; in Bay, $2.67; In Volusa $2.01; and in Broward, $2.1. New Hespital Wing A. T. Dean, Negro civic leader and head of the Community Im- provement Council, asked the com- missioners about the proposed new wing at Monroe General Hospital for Negroes. Commissioner Clarence Higgs told him the plans already had been drawn and that the county was ready to call for bids on the wing. Higgs said the wing would cost about $48,000. John Goggin, president of the Marathon Chamber of Commerce and county engineer, suggested that the budget be approved as it is set up with the increase. Charles Pent, clerk of the cir- cuit court of Hillsborough County, told the meeting he also was a Monroe County property owner and that he thought the commissioners should be complimented instead of criticized. He said the commissioners were doing their best to keep costs down. Pent pointed out that the tax mil- lage in Hillsborough County was 57 mills and that the assessment Tate was about the same as in Monroe County. Sirugo took the floor again ‘o suggest that the tax increase be limited to one mill. Items Set By Law Commissioner Joe Allen explain- Scientists now beleive that grav- ity results from the fact that space is warped in the vicinity of a mas- sive objects in some dimensions higher than the familiar three. The Islander FLORIDA KEYS FINEST TEL & le Air-Conditioned 90 Miles Northeast of Key West 12 acres on the ecean. Dining imine’ peel, private beach, shut: nite, fishing at the fishing ca) tal of the werld. LOW SUMMER RATES Write er Phone Matecumbe 2061 ISLAMORA! FLORIDA ed to the meeting that 90 per cent of the itmes in the budget were set by state law and that the coun- ty commissioners did not have any- thing to say about the cost of those items. He cited $10,000 in the tentative budget ‘o be used to build an an- nex at the court house for a law library. That item is called for by j state law, Allen said, and the county commissioners must pro- vide for it. Allen also pointed out the need for beach improvements since Monroe County depends heavily on tourist trade. Gehr took the floor again to say that the people of Monroe County “thought enough of these commis- siners to elect them and if they decide we need more money in the budget, we should go along with them.” Goggin again said he thought the budget should be adopted and add- ed: “‘As president of the Marathon Chamber of Commerce and on be- half of that organization, I want to give the board of county com- missioners a vote of confidence.” Allen moved to postpone action on the budget. Higgs seconded the motion and it was passed unani- mously. It was after 11 p. m. when the meeting adjourned. No Other Business Last night’s meeting was confin- ed to the budget to operate the ;county government for the next year. Budgets for the hospital, schools, health center, and mosquito con- trol district will be considered la- er. Last year the budget for the county government was $643,670.25. The propsed budget calls for $1, 253,044.82. However, included in the propos- ed budget is a $500,000 item for \airport certificates. These certifi- cates will be paid by airport re- venues. The general operating fund last year was $309,228.50. This year it is tentatively set at $397,184.12 — an increase of $87,955.62. 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