The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, August 11, 1954 The Key West Citizen Sr Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greumant Aee role y . ce Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County LLP. ARTMAN, Editor and PUBIGhOF ccccccccc cco 1901-1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 a Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for of all news dispatches credited to it ited in this paper, and also the local news pub- 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 More Hotels and Apartments, Beach and Bat Pavilion. Airports—Land Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community ‘Auditorias:, 3 nen NEXT: A NUCLEAR AIRPLANE Close on the heels of the announcement recently that the Air Force had a jet fighter plane capable of speeds up to 1,500 miles an hour, comes the statement from Robert LeBaron, U. S. atomic specialist, that this country will have an airplane driven by nuclear power within six or seven years. LeBaron is chairman of the military liaison commit- tee for the Atomic Energy Commission. He says work is proceeding on development of an atomic-powered aircraft engine. He hints that the project will require more time, since the engine will probably have to be lighter than a similar engine already successfully used in the submar- ine Nautilus. The greatest advantage atomic power will pro- vide, in aircraft engines, is the capacity to operate over extremely long periods without the necessity of refuel- ing. LeBaron predicts that aircraft using atomic energy en- gines could fly around the world several times without refueling. He also notes that atomic energy is potentially a much cheaper source of electric power than coal or fuel oil. In this connection, he says that a pound of Uranium- 235 would have a heat value roughly equivalent of about 1,500 tons of coal. One can imagine the revolutionary ef- fect on air travel such a fuel would produce. Speeds would also be greatly increased, so that it might even be possible for Americans to “spend the day” abroad, re- turning that afternoon. People who talk fast and much often outrun their facts. There are no masterminds, regardless of the myths built up. Wouldn’t it be nice if public speakers really knew what they talked about? Financial Advicetfor. Uncertain Economic Weather: Buy what you must hve but otherwise save your money. When a person knows the answers to all problems, there is reason to believe he doesn’t understand the prob- lems. Governments, like churches, exist for people. Those who turn the sentence around will find out their mistake in time, : Education, as it is now being promoted, is due to take a fall and it won’t be long. Wise and experienced teachers know what we mean. CARTS) AICITIT OIPIUISBRY |AIM] EI TINIE RADIA} TIE JL IL MMIOIN]C OIF IFIETR Crosswo across 1. Humorous person 4. Favorites 8. Command toacat 12. Exist 13. Send forth 14. Pen 15. Restore confidence 17. Copied 18. Sever 19. Declares 21. Stage speeches 24. Employ 27. Cabinet 30. Claw 32. Venerate 33. Knight's cloak 34. Sultan's RI IPI LOICIETAINIS| 2 LAIR EE INLET) CIATTRBOIPIE IRIARESIP IY] AICIOIRINI CIAININIA] BIAIN| US/TIEIRMME|T (T/A) AIR DBE AIDIE | EIR AIR! i HEIR] i! ICIEREPIEIREESIAINIK] Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie 3. Region 3. Cogwheel 4. Footlike part 5. Ostrichlike bird 8. Mark ofa wound 9. Hollow and fibrous 10. Epoch 11. Spread 16. Exhibited in a theater 20. Condition 22. Placid 23. Anger 25. Variety 26. Finishes 27. Silkworm 28, Sea bird 29, Profiting 31. Dwelling places 83. Thrice: prefix 35. Scamp 38. Obliterate 40. Margin 42. Short fora animal 6. Long abusive speech ‘1, Masculine nickname 04£4444444444444444. Any resemblance between Jeff Cobb and the writer is purely coin- cidental. Jeff Cobb is the character in the comic strip by the same name which started yesterday in The Ci- tizen. Jeff Cobb is an “ace reporter” whose crusading zeal is in the tradition of Joseph Pulitzer and William Allen White. Jim Cobb is just trying te make a living. If I can contribute any- thing to making our community a better one, I’m very happy. There is one other feature that distinguishes us. Jeff Cobb is good looking. I am not. Hilario Ramos, a member of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge Commission, appears to be inter- ested in applying the same ap- proach to keeping the ownership of millions of dollars in keys land in Monroe County, that he used in be- coming one of the city’s most suc- cessful businessmen. The State Road Board and the Commissioners, you'll remember, are embroiled in a controversy over who will gain ownership of land to which the district now holds title when the bond issue to fin- ance the road is paid off October 1. It’s a knotty legal question with the state claiming that the land should go to them and the Com- mission holding that under the terms of special legialstion, the lands should revert to Monroe County for park purposes. The controversy, perhaps, has become over-heated, with the com- missioners incensed with what a- mounts to slurs on their character in connection with the pre-election road “scandal.” Previous discus- sions with state officials have been marked by a rather strained. at- mosphere. Ramos, however, is in favor of leaving personalities out of the pic- ture and sitting down a calmly and quietly to discuss the matter witn the state agencies. Ramos has two plans to keep the land for Monroe County. First, he holds that the commis- sion -should make every effort to- obtain the land through discussions with the state pointing out that morally, Monroe Countians should get the land since they risked a tax levy against their property when the bonds were issued and that it was Monroe County that ori- ginally bought the lands from the Florida East Coast Railroad. The second idea is to refinance the bonds or to sell new ones and use the proceeds to improve the highway by fourlaning it and to levy a flat 50 cent toll on all ve- hicles using the highway. Actually the commissions now in the enviable position of making a profit instead of paying interest on the money they borrowed. Why? Well, they simply invested their surplus funds in U. S. Treasury bonds whigh return 2% per cent interest ile they pay only one ~.. Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB AAA MDDS jand a half per cent -on the bonds Ramos’ proposal to place tolls back on the highway, is bound to be unpopular with a lot of folks — until they stop and think it over. I believe there is good sound thinking pehind his proposal. It has been pretty well establish- ed that the state road department cannot maintain the road as well as it has been in the past. Road Board Chairman Cecil Webb once cotfimented that they “did not want the road thrown in their lap.” as saying that the road mainten- ance woul be too great a drain on state road funds. Those are only two reasons why a toll might be desirable on the road. . If the road is. ever to be im- proved, what better time is there than the good times we are enjoy- ing now? Why wait until money may be more scarce? be discouraged from using the Ov- erseas Highway by a 50 cent toll. Only the other day, I was talking to a fellow who paid more than three dollars in tolls on the Penn- sylvania Turnpike. I think that if we follow Mr. Ra- mos’s suggestions, we can improve the highway, and more important, retain the ownership of the Jand in Monroe County. After all, we know a litte bit more about our problems than they do in Tallahassee, a a g Another interesting point in the ownership of the keys land has been unearthed. gally own the land if they do suc- ceed in obtaining it. Under the law, they can only own land which constitutes the right-of-way of ‘state roads, _ They cannot acquire land unless it is to be used for rights-of-way for state roads. _The State Board of Administra- tion (i.e, the Governor, the Treasurer, the Commissioner | of Agriculture, the Attorney General, and the Comptroller) are the per- sons to deal with in the final an- alysis. If the land were to go to the State, the trustees of the Internal Improvement Board would have title to the land. PREMIER NAMED ; LIMA, Peru, w—President Man- uel Odria has named Adm. Roque Saldfas, former Navy minister, to serve as premier following a ma- | jor Cabinet shakeup. The new government chief re- places Gen. Zenon Noriega, who resigned Monday. Severi- of the 12 men in Noriega’s Cabinet were reappointed. —_. Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, inventor of the machinegun which bore his name was born in Watertown, Conn. A state engineer went on record | I don’t think anyone is going to! | The State Road Board can't le- Woman Battles 1,500-Pound Bull With Umbrella LEBANON, Conn. —Mrs. Rose Stegal, 58, visiting here from New York, fought off a snorting, 1,500- pound bull with her umbrella Mon- day, ; She had been walking with her niece in a field near her sister's home when the bull charged. The niece ran screaming. Mrs. Stegal, unable to make a fast getaway, closed her umbrella, sidestepped and jabbed the bull. The bull turned and charged again, jabbe. After the furious bull had made several passes and missed, Mrs. Stegal’s brother-in-law came to the rescue. He jumped into his car and sped toward the bull. The bull raced into the woods and disappeared. Then Mrs. Stegal fainted. Key West In Days Gone By August 11, 1934 Fully 500 people were at the \Florida East Coast terminals this morning to greet Governor Dave |Sholtz and his party arriving on the Havana Special. Congressman J. Mark Wilcox ex- pressed himself as being exceed- ingly happy over the marvelous changes noticeable on every hand in Key West and is particularly elated over the optimistic temper | of the people. As the results of efforts put forth jby the members of the Kappa Pi |Y club, the White Way on Duval street will be turned on this even- ing shortly after sundown, and will remain lighted until 11 o’clock. x wk * August 11, 1944 ; Investigating single - handedly, City Policeman Harold J. Key to- day arrested an escaped convict ‘from Georgia. The prisoner, is being held in the county jail pend- ing arrangements to return him to | Georgia. | Every effort will be made to have the Federal Works Agency ban on federal-aid projects for Key West lifted, Paul Martin, area \representative of the President's committee for Congested Areas, said this morning before he left for Atlanta, Ga., and Washington. The City Recreation Department has obtained 200 books from the Extension Library Service of the University of Florida and made them available to the children of Key West by setting up playground libraries at Bayview Park, Poinci- ana, Harris School and Fort | Village. ANDERSON REPORTS FROM ELEUTHERA Ledr. Ralph H. Anderson has re- ported from the Experimental Fa- cility at Eleuthera Island, B. W. L., for duty as Assistant Planning Of- ficer on the Staff of Surface Anti- Submarine Development Detach- ment here. BLUE WATER by DENIS SNEIGR The Navy blew its stack again. The stack blowing by Capt. C. L. Murphy and Mrs. Kay Hanskat came about because the Public In- formation Office — as usual — did not know what was going on. Murphy is Public Information Of- ficer and Chief of Staff. Mrs. Hans- kat is a civilian employee in that office. It all started with a siraple little story that appeared on page one |, of The Citizen a week ago today— the story announcing that the Navy | was constructing a $755,000 build- ing on the Annex. I got the dope for the story from a Navy officer and a representa- tive of the contractor who is build- ing the new structure. I told Murphy I had the story and I told him I would let him read it. Murphy read the story and okay- ed it. The photo that appeared with the story was made from a negative made by the Navy. Fred Hardin — a chief who is no longer attached to the PIO (Na- vy talk for Public Information Of- fice) took the negative out of the files in the PIO and handed it to me. Mrs. Hanskat saw the negative. Murphy saw the negative. In fact Murphy asked that The Citizen make him a print of the negative which shows an old frame building that was once the railroad || passenger station here. “Ym a railroad fan myself,” Murphy said. The Citizen photographer, Sybil Arrington, made an 8-by-10 inch print which I to Murphy. All this took e on the day the story appeared in The Citizen — August 4. Now let’s go back to the previous day — Aug. 3. On that day I called Mrs. Hans- kat and asked if the PIO had a negative of picture in its files of the old building. She said they did not. On that day I also phoned Mur- phy and told him we wanted a pic- ture of the old building which is being torn down. He arranged for Sybil and me to enter the super- secret Annex and make a shot of the building. However, this was not nécessary after Hardin found the negative in the file. Mrs. Hanskat did not know the negative existed — that it was in a file in her own office. Now let’s go back to Aug. 4. A few minutes after Hardin had handed me the negative, Mrs. Han- skat entered the PIO accused me of taking a negative from her “What do you mean by going into our fi ind taking out negativ- es?” ed, She was referring to the nega- tive which Hardin had taken out of the file and handed to me — a negative she did not know she had. Whether Mrs. Hanskat and Mur- phy think so or not, I consider it a serious charge to accuse some- one of taking anything from a file in some other person’s office. Anyway, the story and photo did not appear in The Citizen until af- ter Murphy had read and okayed the story. He also looked at the negative. Mrs. Hanskat also look- ed at the negative. The following day, August 5, I Teturned the negative to the PIO. At the same time, I handed Mur- phy his print of the old railroad depot. He did not even say thanks but immediately blew his stack. Murphy accused me of “‘sand- bagging” him. That is the word he || used. He said I had asked him to read the story when he was busy and that he did not know that his Pub- lic Information Office did not know what was going on. As you can see, there were a lot of people around the PIO who did not know what was going on. Apparently this situction is SOP in that office. I told him I had asked his em- Ployees in that office to read the story. None of them was interest- ed in seeing the story. They were talking about a camera. This was while I was waiting to show the story to Murphy. Fred Hardin had finally told me that Murphy was the only one who could okay the story. Even after I explained this to Murphy, he continued to get red in the face and talk tough to me, saying Hardin had been transfer- red and didn’t have anything to do with the PIO and that Hardin should not have given me the ne- gative. Now I’m supposed to keep up with whom the Navy transfers. A few minutes later, Mrs. Hans- kat again accused me of taking the sours from the file in th Public mation Office. I think Murphy was just posing as a big shot in front of his em- ployees. Later, I discovered why. I hear that the Naval Ordnance Unit, for which the new building | is intended,’had a press release of its own. That unit was set to release the story on Aug. 6. The Citizen story appeared Aug. When the Aug. 4 issue of The Ci- tizen hit the streets, Navy brass at NOU (that’s Navy talk for Na. val Ordnance Unit) blew its own private stack. The brass chewed on Mrs. Hans- kat and, I think, Murphy. All this intramural chewing on the part of the Navy strikes me as childish. There was nothing classified a- bout the new building. Even Mur- phy admits that. When the story of the new build- ing appeared in The Citizen, the various units of the Navy involved got sore at each other because none of them had known what the By Bill Gibb Good old fluoridation! We haven’t mentioned the subject in several days! You_know, in a way, I'm mighty sad about the entire affair. The dust hasn’t settled from the last war.with Germany. We viewed that-nation’s attempts to produce a “super-race” with horror. We thought that the ordinary German citizen was a little worse than stu- pid to allow scientific genius to take over, casting ethics and mor- als out the window. Have you stopped to ‘think that the German citizen lost his free- dom in a gradual manner which shows signs of being duplicated here in the United States? The Public Health Service says it wants to install a program which will eliminate dental caries. This — as far as the Public Health Ser- vice is concerned — is much eas- ier than seeking to educate the \" ses in proper diet. Can't you see where such a pro- gram is headed? If the Public Health Service is al- MONROE COU! There are My water supply TELEVIS! 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET st FIRST oo? PROMPT FINANCING — BANK Exp! WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11 5100 GLENN AND MICKEY 8 GUIDE STRIKE JOHNNY VIAGGIO LEE DICKENS BLUE RIBBON BOUTS SPORTS SPOT THE SIGN OFF |mund W. Ingley, This Rock Of Ours COMPLETE WITH 10 ELEMENT — CHANNEL 4 YAGI INSTALLATION other was doing publicity-wise —a not unusual procedure, marcia It was a straight news story. secret, cloak-and-dagger gadgets. But apparently the Navy wanted to hand out what the PIO is pleased to call a news release instead uf letting reporters dig up their own story. It was when The Citizen story ap- peared two days before the Navy's peoee release that the eggs hit the fan, 1 don’t know whetber the brass jhas simmered down to a slow boil |or not. Meanwhile, I am writng a letter to the Chief of Naval Operations in which I object to Murphy’s ruie talk and to Mrs. Hanskat's false | accusations. However, I am not so gullible as to believe that the CNO (that’s Navy talk for Chief of Naval Op- | erations) will do anything about the situation. IT just want to get the matter on j the record in Washington, where, I hear, lie numerous other com- plaints about the Key West Naval Station. FAWTU LIEUTENANT GOES TO PENSACOLA Lieutenant (junior grade) Ed- USN, Former Assistant Ground Training Officer of the Fleet All Weather Training | Unit, Atlantic, has been transferr- jed to the Naval Air Station, Pen- sacola, for duty involving flying. There are about 80 million motor vehicles in the world. lowed to push this mass medica- tion down the throats of the peo- ple, it will be an opening wedge for future dictation. Another bar- rier will be lowered — an exam. ple provided for future programs. which many present day scientist#2 advocate: for instance, enforced birth control and sterlization of the. ~ Poor; government control of r@~ creation, marriage, employment; In other words, we’re headed to- ward the same objective as Rus- * sia although we might be using a different path if we're suckers enough to swallow the bait being offered by the Public Health Ser- vice. Let's Try A Baliot Newspaper ballots have a Tepu- tation for being unsuccessful. Not enough people will take the trou- ble to clip and mail in their ans- wers. However, let’s try one on the subject of fluoridation. Answer the questions honestly and mail them to: “This Rock,” c-o The Ci- tixen. You don’t have to sign your name but be fair and truthful. 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