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Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monree County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher i... csucsnisue 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN we Editor and Pu Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter _ TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 25662 : of Associated Press—The Associated Pre: to use for of all news ‘aa ; snag in this paper, and also the local Member Associate Dailies of. Florids * Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON :AP! TION Th i forum and invites discussion of public issues tii subject of local oc" general lene “hag a" shy aay pes anonymous communications. i to it pub- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED. °° ¢ BY THE CITIZEN ae solida’ 5. Community Auditorium: LOST PLANETS FOUND Dr. Frank K. Edmondson, Indiana University astron- omer, announced recently he had discovered about 900 new pipsqueak planets and rediscovered many of those which had been “lost” for some years, ‘The planets are yery small, and are thought to be about two miles to fifty miles in diameter, They were lo- cated during a five-year search of the heavens by Indiana University astronomers. The discovery, according to Dr. Edmondson, will help in charting the heavens for space ship navigators — if and when such space travels become the vogue, In other words, location of the planets should minimize the danger of these planets as traffic hazards, We will make a note of this, although we do not ex- pect to he traveling this way any time in the near future, nor are we yet sure we can understand the traffic-hazard nature of these small planets. We assume, of course, that space ships will be traveling’so fast that they might have trouble avoiding a planet some two to fifty miles in diam- eter, and.we assime that Dr. Edmondson is taking into consideration the fact that drivers seem to be getting more and more reckless‘and by that time, small planets will definitely be targets for hot-rod space ship cowboys. =» “.ANTI-BOUNCE MACHINE WORKS A new machine introduced to take the bounce out of ‘ WORRS— _ CVV IV IVII VIVO VVC ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB bad checks, has proved highly effective in. limited tests. | aaA. asassassnessesesesesessssssesesee The machine is nothing more than a camera, which takes the pictures of all customers who ask to have checks cashed. ' The first tests some months. ago — because the two lenses seemed to frighten some customers. The machine’s te loper, Fred Warren, of Sun Valley, California, then redesigned the camera s6 that it looked more like a modern soft drink dispenser, aa aay In fact, the lenses are almost unnoticed by most cus- tomers, since they are placed in front of ‘the machine in V-shaped slot that looks like anything but a slot for a camera lens. Two lenses are needed. A picture of both the check and the customer is necessary. One retail grocery store reported recently that bad check.losses had dropped from more than a thousand dol- lars a month to less than.a hundred after installation of the new machine. It seems people passing bad checks pre- re to go to stores where cameras are not used in cashing hem... \ee . If the new machine, and (or) similar ones become of the machine were disappointing widely used in the retail-stores of the country, a way might finally have been found to cut down the enormous |: loss suffered each year by merchants in had check counts. The national “take” in this racket, is estimated close to $25,000,000. The public school system is the greatest promoter of business to be found anywhere. Cau ort “ee a | Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 0, Percolate 1. Health 31. Period of resort Tight 4.Intrequent 32. Gratis 8. Requests 12. Very warm 13. At any time 14. Tift 15. Seaweed, 16. Shift 17. Story 18. Offers 20. Extenda subscription « IAIN EISMMHIAIS! TY USE ORV TUE a Ls " N et sintamter PIPING SIAR] tain 29 Vegetable 41, Beams 45. Btaod 46. Accept 47. Golt mound 48. Famous poet ® Wrenches 10. Cabbage naeeet g? RE, BEPSEs i i Hl It’s no secret that some city commissioners were irked because they had nothing to say in the matter of the appointment of a bill passed in 1953 which took the power to make that particular ap- pointment from the commission and gave it-to the city manager. But two of the commissioners howled when city manager Victor Lang made the appointment. They claimed they should have been consulted. ‘ The city charter says different- ly. It states that it is a misde- meanor, punishable by removal from office, for any commissioner to attempt to influence a depart- ment head in the performance of his duties. In other words, the city manag- er was perfectly right in not con- si the commissioners. It marked the first time that Lang has had an open dis- regment with the commission- kk ANOTHER COUNTY HEARD FROM: The ever-popular Dorothy Raymer, just about the most vi- vacious gal ever to grace the southernmost scene (and one of its most talented writers) has pen- ned her annual letter from New. York’s Greenwich Village where she lives.in what she describes as a “convertible’—a cottage con- verted from a coach house. Raymer, with her usual wit and good humor, describes it thusly: “They must have kept a pony hefe at one time — a_ full-sized horse couldn’t have made it,” Her epistle took a nostalgic bent when she revealed that she keeps a Conch shell in her courtyard. “Sometimes I go outside and piek it up, holding it to my ear to hear the sound of the sea and think of Key West’s. South Beach.” Raymer also advises us that she | is working hard. She has two pub- licity accounts (the Town and Ma- hogany Clubs in St. Thomas, Vir- gin-Islands), monthly pieces m Current Biography and TV script- writing. Also sold a piece on Hemingway .to North American Newspaper Alliance. We think we read between the| lines a burning desire on Ray- mer’s part to return to Key West despite all that money she’s mak- ing up there. She’d. surely be wel- comed by her host of friends. x & * Could be Miami’s drive on rid- the town of three dollar bills boomeranging on Key West. they are having their trou- the line where the con- is ‘making it mighty them. All they. have to at a cop the wrong way jiami and they are pitked up ing or another, usually escapists, they are heading for Key West. Almost every bus that pulls into town has a. couple of members of the club aboaM. One fellow we know, aes from a ‘business trip to Miami, said that the buzz of conversation on the bus sounded like a bunch of girl scouts on an outing—des- pite the fact that most of the paa- senger, on cursory inspection, ap- peared to be masculine. x kw DUVAL ST. VIGNETTE: It’s good to see Raoul Alpizar y Poyo, the Citizen’s Spanish language column- ist and Cuban Tourist Commi representative, back in harness after a bout of illness in Cuba. Alpizar, for the benefit of those who do not read Spanish, is a- mong the most erudite persons in town . .. Jose Sanches, of the Star Coffee Mill, is ill in Havana. . . Joe ‘Kemp is looking fit after be- ing ill in Miami. . .Adolph Sonnen- burg, who at age of. 78 was the oldest Spanish American war veteran to put in an appearance at a trecent Disabled American War Veteran’s convention in Mia- mi, is in Key West for a visit the Central Hotel. Sonneburg, when he headed for Florida from his homie in Portland, Oregon, told the ticket agent he wanted a ticket that would “‘take him as far as he could go from Portland.” The sel- ler immediately handed him a du-|i cat to Key West. He'll attend a Maryland Cow Boys Can Keep Their Pistols BALTIMORE #—Durned if those fellers down there in Washington didn’t nearly have Maryland’s young ecowpokes rising up in arms. They went and passed a law making it a federal crime to ship fireworks into Maryland. Maryland’s cowpunchers ner- vously. fingered their cap pistols. Did it mean them? ‘No, suh, said Charles Mathias, an assistant attorney general. Whipping out his law books, he ruled that caps are illegal because explode and are fireworks. “Tt was a close shave,” ¢on- fessed Mathias. : ANCHORS ARE STOLEN LONG BEACH —The Alaska Pipe and Salvage Co. téld police yesterday that somebody stolé 40 anchors, each weighing 40 pounds and — at $20, from its storage ya The planet Venus it 17,560 miles in diameter. when I it was actually pos- sible that me — Sir Wi meeting of the local DAV chapter | Wrong, tonight at the VFW clubhouse. . . Key West In Days Gone By Hospitality League. Individuals desiring Key West stickers to place on letters, par- cels and express matter going out of this city can obtain same free of charge at Cabrera Wholesale Grocery, Ine., by applying in per- son, It would be impossible to deter mine definitely when a railroad Key West was first proposed, sibly soon after the grant of island to Juan Pablo Salas by iT zt i EF ef ii i it cE i £ ® i i & » S F 2 HE } i : Eg ek ae # i 8 i ge af 35 & F i rs i PEOPLE'S FORUM ut the introduction of this bill has been of great.interest and con- cern to me. This is a very con- ; | troversial bill. I want to assure the cominittee of that. “During my 6 years here, Mr. Chairman, I have received more mail and communications and |.| material tor the pill béfore you It appears Key West has two in- dividual factions of Law Enforce- ment. If the Military and Civil Au- thorities would work together, mir- acles could be accomplished. Why don’t they? Is Lt. Urech’s “fat file” on a downtown bar available Police? Why did the sailor was “clipped” report to the _ Patrol and not to the Po- We see in a neighboring column of your newspaper a sub-title: “‘Lo- eal (Union) 151 Agents report trou- bles to Adm. ¢ aalgy H aecieg etl 2 at i E eet i g ® FE =f SEs i # i 3 | S z ? i 3 HH ng § i 5 & : I | i ct 3 : rad eFz # tt - than on any other subject or issue pending in the Congress during those 6 years... . “I have proponents for this bill coming from the medical profes. ‘iental profession; th chemical profession; the engineer- ing profession; and those profes- sions related to the subject. It is not one-sided by any stretch of the imagination, as I think will be brought out here during the pro- cess of youur hearings. “My introduction of this legis- lation was prompted by a limited number of people in my own community and then further impetus was given the controv- ersial nature and justification for this bill when I came to Washing- ton 2 years ago and met with a number of people in the district who have been. in the field for some time... . “With all of this information and contacts and my own thinking through, if I could lend any point in my observations as a result of my experience in the past year, I would advise the committee in my opinion I would feel that the Federal Public Health Service has got a little overzealous in this field and has gone over- “I would feel that the Federal Government—and I say Federal Government because here a Fed- eral agency seems to be the center of the sponsorship of fluoridation, and so my criticism would be leveled at the lack of caution with which that agency fas moved in this field.” W. A DOUGLASS August 21, 1954 IT'S A-MATTER OF CHOICE Editor, The Citizen: Ho hum, I’m very sorry to hear about your indigestion, America Woman, Navy! You pore thing! Gal, if twenty years of Navy life is such a hard, hard life, why not be a civilian? No one forces any man to re- enlist. That’s the life you want, so accept it and quit yakking about it. é Now, I think it’s about time somebody put in a halfway de- cent word for the landlords and quit so much yakking about the sub-standard housing. How about the sub-standard tenants??? All tenants, Navy, civilian or what have you, are not perfect. I bet many a landlord could fill apartment, it takes days to clean out the filth and do repairs. How can people live like that is the first thought that enters your mind! Well, plenty of them do, so who has to pay the bills? Why the landlord and the next tenant! Phooey. So, civilians don’t have to pat the S. P.s on the back. Why not? If they deserve a pat, who are you to say I shouldn’t say a good word? It wouldn’t tmean much if I did but why can’t an S. P, expect a good word when it’s due, whether it’s from a 20-year man’s family or a poor lowly civilian. Nuts! Also, gal, it’s none of your business where her (American Woman, civilian) husband was dur- ing the war. I don’t know who of you are or what your cumstances are but as I said, if that gal’s husband was or was not in the war it’s no concern of yours. I doubt very much if he was hiding behind a door while the ruckus was going on! No one forces a sailor into a bar. He goes in of his own accord. Usually he’s looking for more than a drink. If he gets Army Aims At Protecting Gls From Vice Traps KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany (As the hub of Uncle Sam's biggest defense buildup in Europe, © | Kaiserslautern teems with thoue sand of GIs who man depots, arsenals, supply dumps and ware- houses. The soldiers’ monthly payroll runs into millions of dollars, and back-street dives and dens go after a cut of it. Wochenend, a West German illustrated weekly, figures that organized prostitution alone rakes off 17 million dollars annu- ally. It describes the bustling de- defense center as “‘the paradise of easy girls,” who concentrate on Negro soldiers. The U. S. Army is intensifying a drive to protect soldiers from the vice traps. It conducts constant indoctrination courses at Army camps. Maj. Gen. Miles B. Reber, commanding general of the ¢om- mand, often goes. along with mili- tary police on raids. took in the process whose falt is that? There is a, USO, bowling aileys, movies, fishing, swimming and many civilian church events to will welcome a sailor into their midst. Just because a guy puts on a uniform he is not transform ed into a Martian or something! Also, gal, Navy housing isn’t exactly what I would call cheap. It's ‘high, too. ’ Well, American woman, Navy, if this letter gives you indiges- tion too, might I suggest bicar- bonate of ane Very * MRS. LOUISE ROBINSON Dick Says Have you noticed the fine job that Judson is doing in The Key West Ci with a news column entitled ‘‘Legionitems?” And what about Bill Spillman’s Grain of Salt?” - Both of these boys are to be complimented on the constructive attitude they express in their ¢ol- umns. I’m amazed at the way The Ci- tizen has progressed in the Fd few years. Its circulation is to 7000 daily. which means that :t reaches into just about every home on the Island. And you ought to see some of the new machinery they have installed down there on Greene St.! The machinery angle interests me especially because you can well as good times. Dick's Tire Service is following this policy and I believe it pays off. We have a Lodi steam re- capping plant, you know, and just recently we purchased a new Tire Tread Builder similar to those used in large tire factories. Such things as pneumatic lug wrenches and heavy hydraulic jacks cost a lot but they enable us to hanile truck or automobile tires in a jiffy. We don’t have any of the pound- ing, beating, and swearing so often found around tire shops. Dick’s Tire Service is headquar- ters for U. 8. Royals. 1 guess it has just about the biggest stock of new tires that can ter), is guaranteed by us without limit as to time or mileage. Visit Dick’s at 929 Truman Ave. Call us by phone, 2-2842, for eour~ teous, friendly and prompt service. There is always a minutes for us to change your tires. Play it safe! Put new U, al rubber on your summer prices are (adv.) of TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE 1105 WHITEHEAD STREET go FIRST IN TV COMPLETE WITH 10 ELEMENT — CHANNEL 4 YAG! 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