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

Page4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, September 8, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) trom The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher 1921 - 1954) NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter ~~ FRLEPHONES 2.5661 and 2.5662 entitled Teproduction of all news dispatches cre Heine! otherwise credited in this paper, and also t pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florids Gabscription (by carrier), 25e per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open and invites discussion of public issues not publish forum and of local “oat al or general interest, but it will IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ‘i BY THE CITIZEN lore Hotels and Apartments, Beach and Ba’ Pavilion. Auspotts-Lead ent Sex Consolidation of County and City Governments. munit) 1 2 3. 4 5. WHO KNOWS BUT THAT YOU MAY RUN A CAR BY ATOMIC POWER? Maybe the next generation of Key Westers will be running their automobile by atomic power. That asser- tion is neither @ dream nor a guess. President Eisen- hower told the Nation Labor Day that the United States and a group of friendly nations have decided to begin immediately the creation of an international atomic pool for peaceful purposes, Russia would not agree to such an undertaking, so the United States, Great Britain, France, Canada, Aus- tralia and South Africa have decided to create the pool, und other nations, including Russia, have a standing invitation to participate in it. The movement will be pressed forward determinedly, . regardless of Russia’s attitude, : Three or four generations ago, people would have declared you were crazy if you said a time would come when man-made objects heavier. than air, would be able to fly. They would have thought similarly had you said you would be able to hear talking and see Pictures flashed on the air thousands of miles away. So don’t assume it is impossible to run automobiles with atomic power, or that the operation of them in that way will not occur a generation hence. Power can be controlled for use in minute quantities. That is demonstrated in our use of gasoline in motors. © We get it to the degree that we want it, and if we got the full power of the explosion of a gallon of gasoline, it would blow a motor to pieces. It is already known how to control the power in atom. The United States has a submarine that will be operated by atomic force. Many other discoveries have been made for the use of the atom for industrial pur- poses, The time will come when the atom will be the . basis of supplying power for use in homes. Man, century after century, has been adding con- veniences to his way of living by finding out more and more about the pojentialities of this globe on which he lives. The explésion of the atom in the A-Bomb or the H-Bomb is a terrifying thing, but the use of that atom for peaceful purposes can be a great blessing for him. It is for him to choose, and eventually-he will choose wisely, e A little advertising can sell a lot of goods. ‘This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb The proposal to kick out the USO and move City Hall to Jackson Square strikes me as rather fool- ish, I was talking with John Gard- ner, of Gardner's Pharmacy, the other day and he holds opinions similar to my own. Gardner is a man who has seen Key West through good times and bad. He says, ‘‘The Navy and tour- ists are our most important assets. Jackson Square is the ideal loca- tion for a USO and the Chamber of Commerce. . .” It seems to me that City Mana- ger Vic Lang made a wise choice in moving to Poinciana. The time is coming when we are going to have to do away with the present City Hall — in spite of the senti- mental attachment that die-hards might feel for the pile of bricks. The suggestion that the USO be moved to the second floor of the present City Hall seems altogether out of order. The lower end of Du- val Street has an unsavory repu- tation, You might argue that if this is the case, it is up to the police to do something about the situa. subject of improving Key West mo- rally is discussed. I just hope that the Commissioners will leave well enough alone and not ruin the fine work that is presently being car- ried on at the USO and Chamber of Commerce. Growth of Marathon Marathon continues to grow — in a rather unorthodox way. It is spread in a straight line about ten miles along U. S. No, 1. Folks are friendly up that way which probably helps explain why tourists like the place/\Quite a few Navy men are getting in the ha- bit of going there on liberty, too. Someday, Big Pine Key will de- velop. The suggestion advanced by Rogelio Gomez for an additional highway to Cape Sable is sound. If and when it is built, a new city will be born at Big Pine. Fluoridation Haven't heard much from the fluoridation boys lately. That’s a bad sign. I’d rather see them out working openly. There is suppose to be a fluori- dated salt on the market. Twenty- five cents buys enough for a year’s medication. I wonder if it would be i-| possible to build up a. charitable Following the crowd is the usual course of little-town % socialites, Why is it radio newscasters never know anything about the significance of news? The fellow who always greets you with a compli- ment is overrating you or playing you for a sap. rossword Puzzle eee ii : if reel i Life has a way of upsetting our timetables. We are only partly a product of our own dreams and sense of determination. For we are also, to a great extent, prisoners of such exterior influences as chance, misfortune or a pair of bright eyes. And then there is blind, hap- fund so that we could supply this type of fluoride to those poor souls who claim that their children need the medicine? These people are ap- parently too miserly to spend less than the cost of a pack of cigar- ettes for a year’s supply of the medicine! ; in Paris. At 26 he had no little funds. At his brother’s suggestion he decided to come to New York. Dur- ing the voyage he was asked to contribute something for a ship- board auction for a charitable cause. All Loewy had was his pen- cil, He made a sketch of a young woman aboard the ship. The sketch was purchased at the auction by a British diplomat, who as 80 impressed with Loewy’s talent he gave him a let- ter of introduction to Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue. The letter got Loewy a job, started him on a fabulous career, Herbert L. Laube, president of the Remington Corp., manufac- turers of room air conditioners, originally was a construction en- hazard chance—what a strange | gineer. and terrible power it has to change our whole existence in a universe we like to think of as orderly! How it bends and shapes us in ways unknown to us at the time, ways that become clear to us only after the passage of many years, when we pause and look back and wonder what put us where we are. Here is how chance entered and affected the careers of some of America’s business -eaders: large Sesign in the world, studied electrical en- He made the drawings for an exhibit hall in San Bernardino, Calif., in 1924, Then he learned h wouldn’t m rent was overdue. He less than $2 in his pocket. He it for a walk that evening, feel- pretty blue. During the walk he chanced to meet Herbert C. Parker, manager of an ice ma- chine company. Parker offered “I knew nothing about ice ma- chines, and 1 took the job withput Funds Solicited To Repair Steeple BOSTON (# — The Boston post office today made, Old North Chure! significant Box Wo. 1776 for the collection of funds to replace the hurricane-felled steeple. Frederick Kimball, clerk of the Lantern League, sponsor of the $150,000 campaign, said he expects many history-minded persons to point out that the famous lanterns were hung from the Old North steeple for Paul Revere in 1775, not 1776. “We are well a) of this,” he said, “but Box 1’ already be- longs to someone else.” He added: “The year 1776 is probably better known anyway as the year of independence.” ° Trial Set SANTA MONICA, Calif u—Trial of Edward G. Robinson Jr., 21, son of the actor, on two charges of armed robbery is scheduled for Nov. 16. Young Robinson, free on $10,000 bail, pleaded innocent yesterday. His attorney asked for a jury trial. During Robinson’s preliminary hearing Aug. 12 two taxicab drivers, Michael Piascik and Henry Chernack, identified Robin- son as the man who robbed them of a total of $42 in separate hold- ups during July. POLIO HITS HARD MEMPHIS — Six-year-old John Wright died of polio yester- day. His father, 33-year-old Ed- ward Wright, died of the same di- sease last night. even asking what the pay would be,” recalled Laube. But he soon had gathered the know-how to be- come a pioneer in the still mush- rooming field of air conditionin; Herbert Hoover, now 80, was a 14-year-old orphan when he went to work as an office boy in his uncle’s real estate firm in Oregon. A chance conversation with a visit- ing mining engineer led him to adopt that as his own profession, and started him on the road that led to the White House. Take a chance? A man has no alternative. Chance surrounds us from infancy to the grave. The fortunate man is the one who knows which chance to take. But there never lived a man who didn’t have a chance, PEOPLE'S FORUM _ [September 14 The Citizen welcomes ers, but the editor reserves or unwarranted, of the writer assume responsibility for”. One in- stance to prove that “endorsers” do not assume responsibility oc- expressions of the views of its read- right te delete any items which ‘The writers should be and write en ene side must the requested werds lt F § E = be 3 5 s i 3 & i se Fi i i i 4 i a | i z & Fh i. i i g i i | i : i H | i fi i F F & E g 3 Fi E Eg I i E 4 i : z “Ry = i of their wallets! A political min- ority could easily infringe on the public’s wishes and welfare, liter- ally serving fluoridation dewn their | 24 curred in Daytona Beach when not | throat one endorser — municipal, civic, or professional — would sign his name to a responsibility Article of Agreement. This article asked that those pro- posing fluoridation agree “‘to ac- cept legal responsibility for any physical or financial repereussions resulting from fluoridating water of Daytona Beach,” Will the city of Key West assume this re- sponsibility for Key Westers? I would suggest we stop calling each other crackpots and recog- nize that the safety factor of fluoridation is not conclusive. No one, I believe, would balk at using fluorides if they had assurance, as with chlorination, there were no cumulative effects, From the Con; Record on Hearings before the House Sel- ect Committee to investigate the use of chemicals in foods and eos- metics, House of Representatives, 82nd Congress, second session, the testimony of Veikko Oscar Hurme, D. D, &., Director of elinieal re- arch, Forsyth Dental Infirmary the | tions Nearly everyone is concerned a- bout children and their health. If fluorine protects growing teeth, the kiddies ought to get this protec- tion! But why should they get it through our public water mains? Since most children indulge in sweets, maybe the candy corpora- could come out with an as- sortment of fluoridated lollipops, lozenges, and chewing gums. Or if chemically feasible, special soda waters could include eertified quantities of the protective ingre- dient, Of course if there are tech- nical reasons why these sugges- tions will not hold water (fluoridat- ed water, that is), there may be other ients. For example, why couldn't fluoridated water be bottled and sold like “Tripure” at the grocery? The world’s wellsprings are mix- ing their drinks! Chlorine was the first chemical factitiously introduec- ed to public water mains. Many are still wondering if this was necessary. (When water is impure to the degree of being unsafe for for Children, Boston, Mass., pro- | hum ion: ally stat ‘About all that can be said to- day is that mass medication with fluorides still is in the tal category and that the need for broadening the scientifie basis of the concept is quite real, experimental category. The prob- lem of caries control is not such urgency as to justify loosely controlled pharmaceutical experi- mentation on an unlimited seale...” roads PT Suggested For 9-Nation Meet London meeting of foreign minis- ters to discuss West German re- er cng , the Netherlands and sever- al other countries have agreed to the date, but Washington officials esterday they were not cez W. Lawton Bates, chairman ef the National Recovery Committee in Monroe County, is in receipt ot a letter from Charles F. Hor- ner, special assistant to the NRA Administrator, stating that new “blue eagle” signs have been pre- pared and are ready for distri- buti William Phelan left over the East Coast yesterday for Mobile, where he will take up a pre-med- ical course at Spring Hill Col- lege. An interesting meeting of the Thursday Afternoon Card Club was held at the South Beach with Mrs. Vincent Cremata hostess, xk * *& SEPTEMBER 8, 1944 Holion R. Bervaldi has been foun- | notified by the U.S. Civil Ser- Island, Cannon Firing Is Okayed By Judge LOTS OF LARRYS IN ENID SCHOOL ENID, Okla. — Mrs. Irene Ehrlich enjoyed a laugh at the ex- pense of a fellow teacher with four Larrys in a class at El Reno, Okla. ‘That was before she sat down to call the roll in her own at North Enid Elementa: yesterday. Mrs. Ehrlich found that she only has five Larrys ath ENTE vice Commission at Washington that his relative standing on civil service register for ip at Key West is No. 1. “I’m not very happy about leaving Key West; I like it here,” declared Mrs. Gladys Max, clerk of the Monroe County War Price and Rationing Board, today as she disclosed the information that she is resigning her post effective October 15. Gato Real Estate and Improve- ton and United Streets to Paul R. Lumley for $6,000, according FIRST IN TV i< expert i ! : i i $ ‘ i j ; i 7 i Hae UEEERERERGREEEREE i il q COMPLETE WITH ELEMENT YAGI INSTALLATION — BANK RATES — NO HIDDEN EXTRAS SERVICE — REASONABLE RATES COMPARE, THEN BUY DUMONT!