The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 25, 1954, Page 5

o August 25,1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 1 ‘very small’ when you| the chip off their Ban BBE “pei i 1 ; BE E i i | Legionitems | By JUDSON STEPHENS, A, new . improvement made at-the Post Home the form of an air conditioner the working men can work in comfort! a x * National Convention. News: As you possibly know, the 36th National Convention of the Ameri- can Legion will be held for the first time in the capital city of the U. S.,' Washington, D. C. from August 30 to September 2. It is ex- pected that over 150,000 Legion- naires. and their families will con- verge on the city for this conyen- tion. President Eisenhower will officially ‘greet the ‘Legionnaires on, their opening. session. In order for the President to ad- dregs the opening session of the National Convention, he must fly back from a Colorado vacation. During the ‘convention, Depart- ment of Florida Commander Joe C.. Jenkins’ will distribute 15,000 copies of the Legionnaire to wel- come the 1955 convention to Mia- mi, Florida. This will be the first time since 1951 that the National Convention has been held in Mia- mi, xk * Our Commander Check your ast issue (Aug. 15) of the Florida Legionnaire and on page seven you will find a picture of the installation of Post -Com- mander Norman Kranich, of our Post. Very photogenic, Norm! is holding an Aquacade at the Aquacade: Tonight the iary of the Post is holding an acade at the Key Wester Motel Swimming Pool for the Emergency March of Dimes drive. A very Worthy. cause, I say, and carried on by the hardest working bunch, ‘the women. We sometimes forget to give our Auxi- liary their due, but without them we wouldn't gi oD. CAN OUR Keep work, girls! “~ That: Bees is’n That: "ot a note from Post : er Norman Kranich the other day, He is getting along swell, and up the good 3 ; 7 like to thank all those Leg. | ® American Legion — } that have visited him and cards, He should be short - gfe ff = £ E ssf. tn é i “18 ra E 5 g 2 gf $s sé: F, Q i Bag RFE iE ‘ fEE ar. zr By & .| Caesarean section Aug. in the and Lewis (regu- } Medical Care For Dependents Of By, RAY HENRY “WASHINGTON *#—The armed forces have a king-sized nation- broad. dependent care of policy. . Few ever they provide the. care it improves ; that it is an important and keeping com- ‘career militaty personnel; essential to the main- health conditions at and that it is econ- makes use of space when military hos- crowded with mili- these things in mind, and fewer doctors, the services are still attempting to continue the emergency measures. Medical of- assigned to ships are being off as-soon as they land in ‘to supplement staffs of naval Some doctors assigned units stationed ‘at naval bases report’ to naval hospitals bes they’re not needed by their ts. 2. Night and weekend work is . At the largest military hospital in the world—San Diego (Calif.). Naval Hospital, with some 3. In some areas where there is\ a heavy concentration of de- pendents the service officials say, “We are not able to provide as much*dependent care as we had Been accustomed to doing,” This ck includes places such as Norfolk, San Diego, Chicago, Pensacol Jacksonville and San Francisco. 4.°Research and administrative work for medical officers has been eat. considerably. Sanitation in- spections, training and preventive medicine programs have been trimmed or turned over to non- Physician medical administrative officers: often less qualified. .5. Special types of training pro- grams. for medical officers, such as attendance at staff colleges, have had to be cut drastically or done away with. Some service officials believe the 4-per-1,000 ratio of doctors will eventually have to be restored. TINY PARENTS TAKE FIRST BABY HOME LOS ANGELES (® — Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Dixon, this city’s smallest paretits, have taken their first child home from the hospital. The baby, Debra Jo, weighed 5 pounds 14 ounces when bern by 10 at Jar chairman) can’t do too much| Wife 37. The hospital sent the because he has to take care of all| mother and child home yesterday. the projects now. Let’s help them both out and renew as many as we can before the December 3ist SVRONG ARM deadline of 1954. I think we can) Triumph top the 100 per cent mark prior to that date, what say? 4 * * “United we stand forever, divided we fall, . .” British Minister Will Speak Here tional Geographic. Society. Coffee . Mill at ALL GROCERS Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE —TRY A POUND TODAY — © cs Forgetful Cook DETROIT W—Forgetful house- wives who sometimes let the food scorch can take heart. Even the pros make mistakes. Gust Efonthis, a restaurant own- er, decided to take a day off yes- terday. But he forgot and left a large kettle of potatoes simmering ‘Jon the stove. Disney-Designed Insignia Adopted By Navy Communication Station Lieutenant Commander Melvin: H. Schoberlin, commanding officer of the Naval Communication Sta- tion at the Naval Base has an- nounced that the communiéation personnel of that activity are the proud possessors of a brand new, exclusive insignia, designed by Walt Disney, the Nation’s number one cartoonist. The insignia consists of “Pete”, a typical Disney character, who is appropriately attired in a Navy flat-hat, wears . set of earphones and has a bolt of lightning between’ his teeth. Tt was noted. that the insignia has been designed for the sole use of the communication personnel here, The emblem may . not be worn as part of the naval uniform; however, it is planned to have de- cals made, either for use on such civilian apparel as may be ap- propriate, or as a decoration for personal property, such as an auto- mobile. Credit for the idea and for the request which induced Walt Dis- ney Productions to design such an insignia was given to Chief Radio- man M. E. Lewis of the Communi- cation . Station. ‘THEY’RE READY NOW DETROIT (#—With the temper- ature at 91 in Detroit yesterday, swelteting city councilmen thought of winter and ordered 46,900" tons of rock salt for slippery. days ahead, Watermelon Case Quickly Settled RIPLEY, Tenn. #—The judge found it easy to dispose of the case when three boys were brought in yesterday accused of stealing three watermelons from a farm- gavel, “Anybody in here who nev- er stole a single watermelon when he .was a boy, let him raise his hand,” he said. : Sheriff Willard Norvell, County Atty. John Sanford, three highway patrolmen, court employes and spei ‘ators put their hands in their Case dismissed, Smoke soon was billowing from the place and passersby called firemen. ° ° Rice For Chinese TAIPEH, Formosa (®—Govern- ment sources today said Chinese Nationalist planes flew deep into the Red Chinese mainland last night and dropped rice for victims of the Yangtze River flood. They also loosed hundreds of thousands of propaganda leaflets. 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