The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1954, Page 6

Page6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, September 10, 1954 P eS The Key West Citizen Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher sasurterseereneeee WIRY © 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Prese—The Associated Press is credited tort entitled to use for of all news dispatches Ht errs ceded In this ‘aper and se the Toca! news bub Member Associate Dailies of Floride 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 ion of public issues Bot publish discussis and subjects of local or general pe ia communications, er IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ae BY THE CITIZEN More ls and Apartments, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land_ aun _ Consolidation of .__ Communit Anattocliny, apes dercaon NEW BOMBER RECORD A’ sweptwing reconnaisance bomber, designated by the Air Force as RB-47E, recently flew between Wichita, Kansas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at an average speed of 622 miles an hour. The most impressive part of the flight, over and above the fact that this was a new speed record over this distance, was that the bomber flew at this speed without using the full power of its jet en- gines. The six-jet bomber flew at an altitude of 35,000 feet and is reported to have carried 8,000 gallons of fuel for the test. The big reconnaisance plane has several innova- tions which make it of primary interest. One of them is an approach parachute which the plane uses as it en- ters the landing pattern. The plane also carries another parachute, for braking purposes, and it is reported that the first parachute allows the jet engines to operate at a higher rate of thrust than is otherwise possible. This en- ables the pilot, if landing conditions are not suitable, to cut off the parachute and immediately accelerate rapid- ly. This has been one of the problems with jet engines. which do not react to fuel increase rapidly. Another innovation of the plane is a water injection system used in its engines. The water is injected into the engines and keeps the combustion temperature down, producing greater power. In the recent test flight, the water ‘injection system was used and those in the plane said’ it was as if someone had given the big plane a swift kick from. behind. ‘ Another strange feature of the new aircraft is its droopy wings. The wingtips have been forced up and down in a nineteen-foot are without damaging the metal struc- ture and the 116-foot wing can be moved several feet by one man standing on the end and pushing it up or down. The new reconnaisance bomber is extremely fast and represents a milestone in the construction of swift jet reconnaisance planes, capable of carrying heavy loads over long distances. » _ If you want to alienate your friends, try telling the truth for a while. Generally speaking, there are too many chiefs and not enough Indians. If your vacation hasn’t materialized, we suggest you take a: week off this.month and work it out then. Bucking the crowd, as Churchill says, is not-for most people, but it pays off in the later years of life, for con- scientious people. The Senate has again proved itself a master at ref- erring controversial disputes to a committee and thus avoiding a roll-call vote. Crossword Puzzle ACROSS $1, Inquire 1. Grate 32. Ointment 6. Slighting remark 38. Enemy 9. Spread 34. Exists loosely 85. Ax handle 12. Medicinal 36. Templo plant 37. Determine 89. Conquered 40. Affection 41, Mark 44, Lasso 46. Warble 47. Jumbled type 48. Beard of grain 49. Profit 61. Ireland 53. Favorite 54. Ancient slave 55. Diplomacy AIL SIDI AIM] Ee DIE Al HIE IRIE RE SIP AIDIE|O EVIE ME! TIAMBE IRIE) PL ISTAMBOIVIETRISIEIE|S) HOUT MBA TL RTA 13. Comfort 14. Israelite king 15. That thing 16. Peruse 18. Horde 20. Usual 22. Close 23. Manner 24. Green 27. Breathe heavily 29, Cut meat 30. Word of choice Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN 1. Ourselves 2. Singing a dress voice 10. Blunder 11. River 3. Thus os 17. Attention 1H. J. Metzger, Editor and Publisher] By JUDSON STEPHENS, Arthur Sawyer Post, No. 28 American Legion Promenade: The Voiture 728, 40 and 8 will hold its regular monthly Promen- ade at 8 p. m., Friday, Septem- ber 10, at the Post Home. Guard of Honor meets for its re- gular monthly session on Friday, September 17, 8 p. m. at the Post Home. * 4% * Weicome!: We were pleasantly surprised last week when our Post Com- mander Norman Kranich returned to Key West from the Veterans Hospital in Coral Gables after a recent serious illness. We welcome you back to the.Is- City, Norm, and hope.you m’t have to leave for the same reason again. Norman tells me though that he will have to take it rather easy for the next few weeks until he regains his strength but he will be back in the swing again before long. He conducted Wednesday’s Legion Meeting. M. E. Lewis, First Vice Com: mander, deserves a “well done” for the way he took over when Norm had to go to the Hospital. He did an excellent job. Now we must bid adieu to Lewis for he resigned from the First Vice’s Commander’s chair on Tues- day evening. Reason is that it now conflicts with his working and in order for the Post not to be hurt, he resigned. That I believe is a good attitude. Paul Mesa, Jr., Second Vice Commander, was nominated to take over the First Vice chair, and Executive Com- miteeman, was nominated to take over the Second Vice Commander chair. Tony Leskosky was nomi- nated to fill the Executive Com- mitteeman vacancy. Their nomi- nations were approved at the re- gular meeting on Wednesday. x kk Event Postponed: The Voiture 728, 40 and 8 post- poned the drawing on the Cusb- man Scooter and Roaster Oven from Labor Day until Sept. 18 at a dance to be held at the Post Home. This was done in order not to conflict with the Labor Day fune- tions which had already been plan- ned. xk * Membership: Guess about every other column I have to mention this program. Well, I believe it can’t be stressed too much. It is our life blood and in this every Legionnaire can} share. All that is required to serve on this most important’ committee is to bring in as’ many new and old members as you are able. The motto for this 1954-55 year is “Get 5 for 55” so how about doing what you’ can to make this come true. If every Legionnaire in our Post got 5 for 55 our membership would be well over 1,500 members. That would really be something but it can be done with a little: hard work orf the part of each and every one of us. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Seldom have we suffered a more horrible tragedy amongst local re- sidents than the one which recent- ly befell the Roosevelt Cash fam- ily. Four persons — including three children — lost their lives in an automobile accident. “Cash works as a laborer in the rigger’s shop at the Naval Station. His supervisor, J. O. White, is try- ing to create a fund to aid him. Mere money can never erase the sorrow but. it would certainly help to ease part of the burden which the Cash family is experiencing at this time. Have any of you good folks a suggestion? White would particularly like for ‘some organization to step forward and handle the job. He feels that aid could be rendered more effi- ciently in this manner. Of course, the rigging shop is doing what it can but the group is hardly large enough to assume the entire res- ponsibility. Delaney On Fluoridation Jack Delaney, city commission- er, has told me that his position with regard to fluoridation was not clearly understood at the meeting in City’ Hall last Tuesday. Says Jack, “My opinion the other night boiled down*to the simple fact that I felt the entire matter should be settled by a referendum. While I’m not against fluoridation personally, I definitely am against forcing’ it on the people.” Harvey and Cobo apparently rea- lized that they could not successful ly force the issue. In the mean- time, a petition is being drawn up by private. residents to present to the County Commissioners repeat- ing the city’s request for a Nov- ember referendum. “This Rock” takes issue with City Commissioner Cobo that ‘ad- are staged at the Hospital about every two weeks by one of the other veterans organizations in Key West. I was just wondering if may- be we couldn’t have something like this ourselves. How about it? There also seems to be a very great lack of visitation at the Hos- pital here by our Legionnaires. Haven’t you ever been sick? Well, how about dropping out some eve- ning and spending a couple of min- utes with your friends and former shipmates. They will really appre: | ciate it. For the benefit of those Legion- | | naires with children in high school. The American Legion has a nation- al Scholarship Information Service to give to high school students, all | information concerning various | scholarships awarded in the num- erous Any of the local students who might be interested in winning a scholarship should write to Scholar- ship Information Service, The Am- erican Legion, P. O. Box 1055, In- dianapolis, 6, Indiana. Those in- terested should apply in the Octo- Do your share on this committee now. Don’t wait ‘too late It is just as easy to renew your membership aow as it is six months from now x * * This ‘n That: Was talking to a Legionnaire the other day who has been confined to the Hospital. He was telling me about some wonderful shows that > ber before the year of entrance and should begin their investiga- tion during the junior year. Many go to waste for lack of proper ap-| this plication and late arriving re- quests. * x Fishing Trip: been planned A fishing trip has for all the members of the Guard verse’ newspaper publicity killed the fluoridation project. Rather, I think truthful statements of facts concerning the experimental pro- perties of the program caused folks to ask for more time to investi- gate the matter. The Public Health Service and proponents of the process are yet to explain why they are so insis- tent on fluoridating water when there are dozens of other services which they might perform which would in no way irritate a person’s feeling of individual liberty. Sympathy For Commissioners Sometimes I feel sorry for the city commisioners. They probably have the most thankless job in Key West — and they receive the least pay for their efforts. There are other times when I feel that these same commission- ers deserve a lot more abuse than they get — and that they are over- paid by about $5. at every meet- ing. T’ll say this much for our pre- sent City, Fathers — I think they are honest and ‘I think they are trying. Heaven along knows what it is they:-are “trying,” however. They allow little things to build in- to headline: gossip and fail to re- cognize the many important events which are giving us all ulcers. Take J. Y. Porter — I know for a fact that at least one commis- sioner knew in advance that Por- ter was representing the ferry com- pany. J. Y. was open and above- board regarding the co and the double representation "practice is so common in the legal field that I didn’t even think it was worth mentioning. Imagine my surprise therefore, to see the situation blown up into scare headlines! Woe is me — may- be someday I'll learn to recognize news! of Honor and their wives for Sun- day, September 12, at 9 a. m. The trip will be an all day affair on the Charter Boat Cactus. All mem- bers of the guard desiring to par- ticipate are requested-to be at the boat not later than 9 a. m. Key West In Days Gone By SEPTEMBER 10, 1934 Criminal Court of Monroe Coun- ty, with Judge J. Vining Harris, presiding, convened at 9:30 o'clock this morning for the September wherewhere he has accepted a re- Blake R. Van Leer, college of engineering at the Uni- eS ee Od tt tite bndedndn bn dntndntndnd tn tp tntrtintnd den) ...Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB 2444444444 64444444444444444444444444. AR RN What’s this? They’re selling fluor- idized salt? Sure sounds good, but there’s one big fault: For fast-growing kids, too much salt is not good. And fluoride is best in water, not food. ne this salt is exceedingly eap, (I can buy it and keep on hoarding my heap) "Tis said it costs less than a full pack of fags, But, ‘misguided souls, their think- ing—it lags. Put the fluoride in water, as ex- perts condone. And help our kids’ teeth for the price of a cone, > a. va 5 Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew on a thought, produces That which makes thousands, per- haps millions, think. Being in a literary frame of mind, let’s talk about words. Ever stop to think of the beauty and the power of the written word? The politicians do, as well as the poets. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, pro- bably more than any other political figure since Caesar, de- pending on words to bring him power. A good illustration, we think, occurred in the dark days of the depression. President Hoover, campaigning for re-election against the upstart Roosevelt made this statement: “Ninety per cent of our difficulty } is caused by fear.” Roosevelt, in his first inaugural address, made a statement with the same meaning, but he put if this way: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” That phrase is still quoted as a model of his oratory. How sonofous it is, compared with Mr. Hoover’s utterance. Words, sometimes admittedly thought up by this “brain trust,” most certainly were powerful tools for Mr. Roosevelt, Rok * Word from the charter boat docks has it that preparations for the giant fish fry to be held the day before the Key West-Cuba ferry sails, are progressing in fine fashion. Under the capable direction of Cap’n Johnny West and Ray Knopp— both old hands at Planning such affairs, the fish fry promises to be a huge success, Knopp, also an old hand at pro- moting, has reportedly come up with a few odds and ends such as 100 cases of soft drinks and a truckload of cole slaw. Business- men are beginning to wince when they see him coming. But his winning smile afd silvery tongue will undoubtedly win them over and Key Westers—you are all in- vited—are going to have a mighty good time. West, who is in charge of gather- ing the fish for the affair, reports that charter and bottom fishing boatmen are cooperating nicely. But West says that a lot more fish is needed and asked that all fishermen turn their surplus over to him. x kek * Joe Boyle tells this one: In the congregation of a local church during Sunday morning services there was a young bride whose husband was an usher. Be- coming somewhat worried about having left a roast in the oven, she wrote a note to her husband, sending it to him by another ush- er. The latter, thinking it was a note for the pastor, hurried down the aisle and laid it on the pulpit. Stopping abruptly in the middle of his sermon to read the note, the astonished pastor was met with this written injunction: “Please go home and turn off .{the gas.” PEOPLE'S. FORUM The Citizen ors, but the editor reserves the of the views of its read- night to delefe-any items which are fair a Pool Question Editor, The Citizen: I might as well get my two cents worth in on the Municipal Swim- ming Pool idea. There are many disadvantages to the idea in my opinion and many more advantageous things things that could be done with the $100,000 or $150,000 dollars it will take to build it. I can’t believe that a pool like this would be a tourist attraction. One of the best designed and most beautiful pools in the world would only draw spectators — not pay- ing customers. It has been recommended that a 5 per cent. utility tax be placed on residences and business estab- lishments to finance the cost. This would not be @ fair tax simply be- cause it wouldn’t tax the people that might use it. Tourists wouldn’t pay the tax and the bally-hoo of building it is that it would be a great tourist’ attraction. Another unfair part of the tax is that those residents of Peary Court and Sigsbee Park who aren't even entitled to any kind of vote would have to pay the tax too. The majority of these residents are military and there are five mili- tary pools available for their use — 80 they wouldn’t, in all proba- bility use the municipal pool. | ‘There are many things that could | |HELL’S ANGELS GO HOME TO QUONSET PT. \dron 71, known as | the Hells inoue has left the Fleet |All Weather Training Unit, At- lantic, to return to its home base at Quonset Point, R. I., after com- ron x « * SEPTEMBER 10, 1944 (Sunday — No Paper) red libelous or unwarranted. Thé writers should be of the paper A re writercm ped eer Mn aie unless requested accompany the otherwise. be done with the money. For one it could be used to build a Muni- cipal Auditorium which could be used to great advantage especial- ly in bringing conventions to Key West. Conventions bring paying customers for almost everyone in business. We would also have a place where many different type events could be held. Another would be to have a modern City Hall, something sorely needed in the City. Another could be that in developing an outstanding beach (a definite tourist attraction). The flooded and outdated streets could be fixed properly. A two or three level parking garage downtown would relieve the congested shop- ping area. I could to on and on, but what’s the use! A couple of other questions that entered my mind (not related to the swimming pool), which I hope someohe can answer are: What happens to the fines (average of approximately $100,000 per year) Paid in City Court — I understand there isn’t any law covering the use of it. Who determines what is done with this and exactly where does it go? Js. [Recruiter For Army Opens New Office | U. S. Army recruiter for this jarea, Master Sergeant Henry J. | Reynaud, Jr., will be in Key West | from Saturday through next Thurs- | aay to interview applicants for Army service. Sergeant Reynaud says that he has received so many inquiries | about the Army on his trips here that he is unable to handle all of them on his two-day sthedule, so he has lengthened his stay here. | A new office as been provided |for Army recruiting work. It is | located in-the Post Office building, Room 218. Office hours are from 10 a.m.’ until 3 p.m. on the days | Sgt. Reynaud is here, | The new office will contain Pictures of the insignia and badges | worn by men in the Army, as well jas the decorations and service | medals which can be earned while | in service Free literature on the Army School Program is available at the office, as is information about the 12 branches of service now open to eligible young men and women. Sgt. Reynaud expressed pleasure that the people of Key West are so interested in the Army, even though Key West is considered a “Navy Town.” | considered a “Navy Town.” | “They have enabled me to open | this office,” he said. “TI only hope that I can serve them as well as they treat me,” Dick Says For fiteen years I was a profes- Sional stunt parachute jumper. Never once during that time do I consider that I was gambling my life the way those fishermen on the Overseas Highway bridges do! Last Labor Day I saw men and women walk right out in the mid- dle of the road without bothering to look for automobiles. They would cast with their rod and reels as if they were in the middle of the Sahara Desert and had all the room in the world! I can’t see that kind of stuff. The - Key West Safety Council — and I'm @ member of it — is stress- ing safe driving. For gosh sakes! Let’s develop a little courtesy and safe practices amongst roadside pedestrians too! I'm going to ap- point myself as a committee of one. to study the matter. Our Florida State and Monroe County Highway patrolmen are oa the road twenty-four hours per day. Surely they must see examples of this carelessness on the part of bridge fishermen. I wonder if they couldn’t take time out to lecture some of the worst offenders. None of us want to kill an inno- cent man, women, or child but al- ready, there have been too many deaths (and injuries) on the bride ges. Of course, the proposed cat- walks should help in the matter but even then, thousands of folks will continue to use bridge fishing spots where there are no catwalks. Heck, here I am using up all of this space and forgetting to get my advertising message in the column. Don’t have much to say anyway You know that Dick’s Tire Ser- vice, located at 929 Truman Ave. is headquarters for U. S. Royal tires, don’t you? And we have a steam Lodi recapping shop that is ultra-modern, (that sounds like a beauty shop description! “Ultra- modern,” I'll have to remember that word.) Visit us anytime, We’re open from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. Dick’s Tire Service specializes in nothing but tires and batteries. Therefore, we're in a position to offer you the best values for your present recappable tires and the lowest Prices on new and recapped ones, Road service: Dial 2-2842. P. S. Come in and get your “Conch” football sticker with a complete schedule of games. (adv). TELEVISION SALES AND SERVICE 110 WHITEHEAD STREET ys oo? PROMPT FINANCING — BANK EXPERT LOOK, 10 ELEMENT FIRST IN TV COMPLETE WITH YAGI INSTALLATION ERVICE — RE PARE, THEN BUY DU! NO HIDDEN EXTRAS JASONABLE RATES MONT! — CHANNEL 4 RATES — Presents Television Listings WTV], Channel 4 FRIDAY, SEPT. 10 GLENN & MICKEY SUPERMAN SHOPPER’S GUIDE STREET OF DESOLATION WEATHER JACK OF ALL SPORTS DOUG EDW. 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