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

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, August 23, 1954 Fublshed ally excep! Sunday) from The Gitzaa Bulag, corner a ~_ Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Menrée County Page 4 Member Associate ierptin ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The is an open forum an z 0 public issues ie aie a ee oar rea oa oh not publish TWINING ON AIR POWER , General Nathan F, Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, cays the United States may have to increase its expendi- tures for air power because of Russian war preparations. The Chief of Staff said the current Russian effort to over- come America’s atomic weapons superiority, if successful, would force us into a larger armament program. _ Twining believes the United States should concen- trate on the production of long-range jet bombers, cap- (by cartier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.00] | able of bombing targets in Russia‘and returning to U. S. | bases. He made it-clear, also, that these bombers would earry America’s most powerful weapon in time of war. The highest officer in the Air Force said the assump- - tion that the United States would not use its most powerful weapons in “an ultimate test of strength between the nations that possessed them” was an incorrect one. Thus, the Air Force Chief of Staff foresees a brutal aerial war, in case of conflict with Communism, and one in which this country’s long-range bomber fleet will play a domin- ant role, at least in the opening phase of the war. . ‘The significance of Twining’s remarks is that they constitute a reaffirmation of the U. S. policy of a strong retaliatory air force. We have always agreed that such a striking force is an absolute necessity for the United States, and because. of the Soviet threat to match this j country’s production of atomic and hydrogen bombs, we * believe it is even more of a necessity today than ever be- fore. Conscience, is what makes “easy money” uneasy. > Remember that you can never beat a man at his own game, unless it is your game too, 4... As far as we know, there is no town in the United States that admits it has a bad climate. - f In this modern age, you must learn how to advertise yourself, or your business, if anyone is to suspect you of talent. - Investors usually seek one hundred percent profit and ‘one hundred percent security — a good combination for the investor. There were ancient civilizations in this hemisphere we trips to North America long before 1492, despite he notion that the first gleam of intelligence came over with Columbus. : Whethér the United States has reached maturity as a nation will be seen in the next few years — when we will demonstrate to the world whether we learned anything from our isolationism between the world wars. # Crosswo across 4. Send payment 9. Immerse ye. Past (23. Genus of the oat i214. Poem j15, Deep gorge lett 17. Journey 19, Reared 20, Cereal grass ‘fin 122. Fl 5. . Flog {23. Diligent in- This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Automobile inspection time is here again. As usual, the re- requirement is creating a good deal of anger. Firefighters who, have been sighed the job of inspection are hot happy. They say that it is a thankless task which should be relegated to a trained man—a man whose opinion will be accept- ed respe¢fully by the public when ‘Jit is necessary to reject an ap- plicant. J From a Safety standpoint, the penses only—the law provides that no profit can be made. or not there is a profit doesn’t really matter too much. I think most of us are willing to Fe Sn eee oe Se as a tax—and also hope that we will get better streets by so doing. The ‘kick’ from wee concerning the inspection is it the job is done hapazardly and crowded conditions cause a waste of valuable time. A Navy Man Speaks A Navy man has asked me to express -his opinions on the sub- ject. He writes. ... “I would like to know why it costs $1.50 to have my car inspect- | goe: ed every six months?—What is this $1.50 used for? The equipment for the inspection should be well paid for by now. It looks like the street department is not get- ting it. I have had to buy a new spring already from driving over the obstacle courses which are called streets! “Then too, I think the inspec- tion I receive is more a show than a real inspection. Let me give you my personal experience... “Sometime ago I bought a brand new battery on a Saturda whieh was fully charged. Tha’ Sunday I drove up the Keys for a good 100 miles and back. The very next day, I went for my car inspection and the inspector said that my battery was low—for me to drive around the block to charge it up. Of course I did that and eame back a minute ter and passed with flying tte itn 0B “Just before inspection time rolled around again I was involy- ed in an accident on Southard St. “My car sat in a local garage for over a month before they finally got around to fixing it. I had to be pushed out of the garage because my battery was dead. That same afternoon, I went fer my inspection and with a@ dead battery, passed with no strain. : “I have seen cars with ingpec- tion stickers driven by local citizens which should have been in the junk yards years ago.” Encouraging News ‘The Navy man’s letter was cor- rect on several points—a little bit off on others. For instance, he is entitled to know where his $1.50 S. But I do not think civilians are the only ones guilty of driving wrecks. Some of the Nayy boys have first-class junk heaps too. | Solution to the inspection problem doesn’t lie in calling each other names. It is something which we are going to have to accept and hope that the public tions policy of the City will clarify, Texas Democrats Will Settle. Bitter Inter-Party Struggle AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 23.1% — Brawling Texas Democrats nomi- nate a governor this week in a run- off primary that is also another round of ‘a feud between Gov. Al- lan Shivers and U.S. House Min- ority Leader Sam Rayburn. heer, House emg Rayburn, congressional térm safely tucked away, is backing Shivers’ opponent for governor, Austin at- forney Ralph Yarborough. Yarborough has told campaign audiences that Shivers ‘‘isn’t fit to tie Sam Rayburn’s shoelaces.” While Rayburn has kept in the| ba the veteran Democrat is credited with throwing the na- tional’ party’s support. to Yar- borough. The real issue in the governor's race is who controls the Texas Democratic Party and who will be running the delegation Texas sends to the presidential nomination in 1956. Texas voters failed to settle the igsue with a clear cut majority either way in the first-primary in July. Shivers led the four-man ticket with 668,913 votes to Yar- borough’s 645,994. The Aug. 28 run- off became necessaty. The basic fight is between these two unyielding factions of Texas Democrats: 1, Those identified with the New Deal, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman and generally labeled as the “liberals” in lame This time Yarborough is carrying the _ with Rayburn in the back- labor and political bosses, and of | groun having some supporters who are friendly to: thé Communists. Yar- borough says this is a Shivers “smear.” He says Shivers knifed the Democratic Party in the back when he supported Dwight D. Ei- senhower in 1952. Union leaders are openly backing Yarborough. Underlying the barrage of tough talk is a conflict between Téxas sa i » Shivers is a symptom‘of it. . s 2. Those identified with the anti- New Deal Southern Democfats, claiming that persons and ples foreign to “real democracy” Row rule the national party.-They carry the “conservative” label. Since 1947 Shivers has been this faction’s leader. Shivers said he had to support Eisenhower in 1952 to help lead the national back to the principles of Jackson and Jeffer- «Rayburn -called the defection of Hedy And Charles Will Go Again To The Casbah “Algiers,” starring Hedy Lamarr and Charles Boyer, is being re-re- leased through United Artists and will be shown starting Tuesday at the Monroe Theatre, The colorful activity of a Medi- terranean city of Northern Africa form the background of “Algiers,” where Boyer, as Pepe Le Moko, a famous jewel thief, hides out. Prac- tically the entire action of the pic- fure takes place in “‘the Casbah,” mysterious native quarter of Al- Seria, a district which forms a ha- ven of refuge for criminals from all countries. As the story opens, Boyer and his ane. fugitives from Paris, have ved in the Cashah for two 5 ey are safe from the the adjoining French city, not molest them owi the ferocity of the natives 0 the local inspector, Joseph Calleia, continually watches the genial crook. The only hope of the officials is hat they may lure the jewel thief outside the Casbah and ‘thus bring about his capture. Boyer, has taken refuge there with his gang, content to live with his widly jealous phe, ps, Played by Sigrid Gurie, and at the attempts of the police, anit. ly detective Simane, played by Joseph Calleia, to try to lure him out of ‘his 5 s \ One day the Casbah is visited by a group of Parisian tourists, includ- ing the glamourous Hedy Lamarr. She happens to meet Boyer and a Tomance develops. Calleia views the situation with satisfaction, hop- ing that circumstances will even- tually lure the fugitive outside the district.. In furtherance of his scheme, he tells Miss Lamarr that Boyer has been killed, and she and her party prepare to sail for France. Learning that his new loye is leaving the country, Boyer risks ar- Test to board the ship on which she is about to depart, and the pic- ture reaches a thrilling climax in a series of dramatic scenes on the dock. In addition to Boyer, Lamarr, Gurie and Calleia, the cast inelud- @s Alan Hale, Gene Lockhart and Many other popular artists. The ena was directed by John well and produced by Walter He ey The is by Detective , With by James M. Cain. shots were filined on locati whith lends picture. in to GOAT ADOPTS CALF ever term, Tf the incidence of hurricanes this year is the same as 1953, we cam expect seyen more reports this season. We may even get a hurr. Last year, the first hurrican. .- port (Alice) was received on July 25. The second (Barbara) put in her appearange August 12: This year, we have had. just one advisory (July 29) and that blow wound up in Texas. ‘The hurricane ‘‘season” lasts un- til Nov. 15—which means that if reports run true to form, old Mo- ther Nature should be cutting a few capers next month. KK se Miami’s Captain Eddie Ricken- backer feels that we should publi- cize Florida hurricanes as tourist attractions. He says that there are a lot of northerners who would simply love to visit Florida during a blow to find out what it's all about. | county a block of votes. If a can- have phoned, are in favor of luori- dation, It’s far from a dead issue. proceeding that country. Normally, c andidates almost out- number the boters, but this. year there are just two—General Ful- prt Batista and Ramon Grau Martin. Batista is considered a sure win- ner. Key West In Days Gone By. the usual commercial sometimes obseure the al beauty of a road, is the | So. of the FERA a affairs and bringing rehabilitation of Key resort lines, a tering the about the West along The commercial possibilities of coconut production described in a bulletin issued the All Florida Committee this week. Estimating that ceconut trees could be cultivated on 1,400,000 acres of land in South Florida, the committee states that conser- vation planting would yield over four billion nuts annually with a value of more than $100,000,000. The Sanitary Department of the FERA in Key West, B. Reed, requests The Citizen to announce that the public is being given its last notice relative to making provisions for metal con- tainers with proper covérs for handling trash and garbage. under the | supervision and direction of Geo. | ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB A, About the only Cuban newspaper you can buy here regularly is Prensa Libre—which is lined up solidly behind Grau. Friday’s issue contained a blast ‘nst Batista by Carlos Hevia, has an understandable grudge against the Cuban Strong Man— he was considered a favorite in the presidential race which was called off when Batista took over by force more than two years ago, xk * _ If the county unit system of vot- ing were in force in Florida last May Charley Johns would un- doubtedly be our governor for the next two years, That point was brought out Sat- urday during a discussion with State Senatorial nominee Bill Neb- lett Saturday. Neblett is neither “fur nor agin’ the proposal which will apparently be an issue during his freshman term in the senate. He’s merely sounding out this con- stituents to see how they (you and 1) feel about the situation. i The county unit plan, which is in for¢e in Georgia, gives each didate in a statewide election gets a majority in any county, he is given their unit vote. Thus, as in the case of the elec- total system in national elections, it would be possible for a candi- date to win the popular vote—but to lose the election. That would have been the case had the plan been in force. last May. Fi j Johns carried 43 counties (the small county bloc) and he would have been an easy winner. Even if the county unit plan! were set up to give the large coun- ties more votes, commensurate with their population, Johns still would have won. The flan would give the small counties the edge—but they al- ready have that in the legislature. bo ate ENR 0 Joe Durbin phoned to say that a bill authorizing group life insur- anee fer federal employees has been signed by President Kisen- hower. That’s good news for hundreds of local civil service. workers. Durbin is secretary of Local 151, National Federation of Fedeml Employees. Handcuff Joke Loses Its Punch NEW YORK (# — Patrick Hast- ings, 29, thought it would be a wonderful joke to handcuff his friend Pvt. James Speer to his bride of a few hours, Joan, and then mail the keys to Alaska. {duty handcuffs for $15 and took them along to the wedding recep- tion at a Brooklyn hotel. But Speer and his uew wife ducked out early, and there were the handcuffs, sitting in their box. At 4 a.m., after two emergency squad cops had worked an hour and a half to clip off the manacles, Hastings didn’t think the joke was so funny. “Somebody at the party had hand- cuffed Hastings to his own wife. new parts which were ordered from the factory. City councilman J. M. Varela and Mrs. Varela; who had heen spending a visit of ten days in} Tampa and surrounding points, re- turned to Key West this morning. 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET a FIRST got So he bought a pair of heavy-| ti, ee 4 fy Editor, The Citizen: ‘The letter published in last night's Citizen cauged severe indi- gestion among the Navy wives liy- ing in this project, because it was delivered to us right at time. This American woman not need to state that she was civilian. She states “Maybe I’ve on Capt. Murphy's toes along a few others.” I don't know thing about Capt. Murphy's but my husband ig one af step on. them, she ground them into the coral that Key West calls dirt. First, the 20 year man’s life is no cinch. The great American woman should be glad indeed that there are so many men who de- vote their lives to the Armed Ser- vices in peace as well as war, for who knows when war will come again. Nearly all of the 20 year men we know have seen war service. -During WW2 and Korea, where was the. husband that she finally mentioned ip the last sentence of her letter? It sounds like her husband has 9 40 hour a week job (probably on the Naval hase) and maybe she doesn’t know that a Navy man is on call 24 hours a day, every day. Also, about half of a 20 year man’s career is spent away from his family. He goes where he is ordered, when he is ordered and stays thére until ordered somewhere else. H é doesn’t choose where he goes. Second, we /don’t expect the civilians to pat the Shore Patrol on the back. The S. P. is the Navy. and for the Navy, and the Navy appreciates them. Very few people complain about them and their so called “Gestapo” tactics, but just listen to the eom- plaints and read the compliments of the people about their civilian policemen. I personally don't have a thing against the civilian policeman as I don’t lok. for trouble ani have theréfore stayed out of trouble. Incidentally, my husband is not on the S. P., in case American woman, Who seems to know who’s who on the S. P. wants to know. However, some of my neighbors do have husbands on the S. P. and they were ai those I mentioned havifig tion. As for the housing situation be- ing poor, it sure is. Civilians seem to think any Navy mab can afford $160 or moré rent. This of coursé, is not true. Read the For Rent columns ot b Children are welcome in ‘ apartments or houses with a rent. However, children are welcome where the rent is enough for us. e Navy us here and keeps us here. anyone send American Woman here? The Navy would algo like to create a healthier fj in town for the Navy toys but the town seems able to do, is to issue another bar license and en complain because the boys frequent the bars. That’s one Purpose of our S. P. To keep the boys from getting in trouble at these bars. IT agree that an American is an American. regardless of what he’s doing—Navy, Army of ivilian. So Mrs. American Women—Civil- ian, re-read your letter and realize that we 20 year families and the Shore Patrol are also Americans and we are proud of it and to keep it that way so we still be proud of it in the years to come when we will be eivilians again. An American Woman — NAVY, Flooded rice fields often are used for growing fish and far--- ers find that the presence of the fish often increase the yield of rice. 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