The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 16, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The juilding, corner Greene and re Streets. - mogtos Z THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, September 16, 1954 ST ttt ct SRE Sia ae Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L.-P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher . : 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN nccncununamunnmununann, EGO and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 _ ee Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to 4 sot ptterwise credited in this paper, and also the focal news pub- isher ere, pctatetibetanhe eas Bale Member Associate Dailies of Florids SEE Bubscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 _ oe ated Mk Aart Acerca. om bo snc ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ee ee Soh i hai ilar tetcnsinaseni The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anorymous communications. precisa —— mq IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Goveraments. Communit: itorium. 1, 2. 3. ‘4 5. _— THE DAY COMES WHEN THE RECKLESS DRIVER NO LONGER IS ABLE TO THINK The Citizen published excerpts from a letter Mon- day that might have made you wonder why¥‘so many people brush aside warnings to drive carefully. This particular letter was from brother to brother, in which one expressed the hope the other would drive care- fully and slowly. The writer does not say so directly, but he intimates that his brother was a reckless driver. Had that not been so, there would not have been any reason for writing the letter, a part of which reads: “T hope you are driving your car slow and carefully, because if you should happen to have an accident, you would not only be hurting yourself but the whole family. You have a lot of responsibility in your hands, Wayne, 8o be careful and think what you do before you do it.” But the brother, 17, did not heed the advice, and was killed in a collision. The letter was found in the wreckage of his car. Key West, as well as every other city, has its reck- less drivers. They seem to be of a breed that is adamant against advice. They hear warnings, day in and day out, and pay no attention to them. Only two days ago, a Citi- zen man saw one of this type of drivers slow down as he neared a red light, then look to his right and his left and, not seeing a policeman, drive across the red light. He knew it meant to stop, but he was in a hurry to go no- where. Drivers like him, impatient over losing a second, have lost their lives, or caused other people to lose their lives. They pitted a few seconds against eternity, and eternity often won. You drive carefully in Key West at 20 miles an hour, and one of these impgtient drivers behind you toots his horn, and, if you disregard his tooting, he pulls over and shoots by you or tries to shoot by you. Many thousands of times, in cities and vt prea his attempting to pass a car has resulted in sidgswiping or a head-on collision with a car coming in the @pposite direction. It appears that is what happened to the brother, who did not heed the ad- vice given him, for herwas killed in a head-on collision. The press and radio never tire of repeating the warning, “Drive carefully, for the life you save may be your own.” But the reckless driver prides himself in thinking that the warning does not apply to him. And the day comes when, like the heedless brother, he is no long- er able to think. A hard day’s work is a day of dodging the bill col- lectors. : Laws are passed to be enforced but some people seem to have forgotten that theory — especially as it applies to them. TIAIBIOIR a |AIS|S} RIE F IDM ILIA IR AITIE RIBLIEINIABES|A] é mec (Mi LIT) CWEIRBESIT) AISISIEIRIT (S| INIETAIR} EIYIE|S i EID) g ssword Puzzle ACROSS 82. Light touch 34. Turn right 35. Saltpeter 38. Number from which another is subtracted 44. Operatic solo 6. Set aside 17. Plant louse 38. Region in Palestine 38. Savory meat jelly 1.Be the matter 23, Oil ship 26. Rejected 80. Depart 81. Gaelic 52. Catas- trophe 54. 55. So be it 56. Danish money 57. Boys 58. Orderly This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb A fellow came to me the other day, looked rather furtively at surrounding people and hegan to stammer, “Er, ...I understand that you used to ...er...er have a little bit of trouble with liquor. . .” . I couldn’t help but get a certain amount of devilish enjoyment out of his discomforture because I had a fair idea of what he was aiming at. Motioning him closer, I whispered in his ear: “Heck, man, I never did have a little bit of trouble with drink- ing. It always came by the car- load!” Then in a normal tone of voice, I told him: “And there is no use in us whispering about my past iniquities. Writing an editorial column isn’t conducive to keeping skeletons hidden in a closet. Folks can either accept me as I am to- day or they can dirty up their minds with ancient garbage. In any event, it will be their minds that are dirtied because I prefer to live in thankfulness for the present. “But let’s go get a cup of coffee and hear your troubles. . .” The tale that he told was about what I had expected. Seems that he had been using. whiskey as a crutch for a good many years. It picked up his morale, made him brave enough to dance with the gals, helped him to hide his dis- appointment at not being able to advance professionally as fast as he thought he should. Such is life. His story could be repeated—not by the hundreds of thousands, but by the millions. Conservative estimates place the number of alcoholics at around five million.in number. These are people who are sick either mental- ly, physically, or emotionally— usually a combination of all three Of Salt By Bill Spillman This seems to be the day and age of initials. You see them everywhere. No one wants to commit them- selves. I must warn people who use initials. You can only con- ceal your identity for so long. Key West is a small town and the word travels fast. One of these initialed letter writers used the names of Cobb and Spillman in his correspond- This fellow (7) said that it would take too. much time to go down check the- tax assessments. Cometo think of it, it would take —and liquor is their primary handicap. They are not to be confused with the heavy drinker or the guy who is suffering tempor- arily from a bad hangover. Doctors have never had much success treating alcoholics. Neith- er have ministers. Lord knows though, that both these professions have bent over backwards trying to help. Suffers Alone You often hear a pitiful story about how the alcoholic suffers alone, Bosh! The public usually tries everyway known to man to help such an individual, That he eventually lands up “alone” is simply because he has made him- self so ‘ornery’ that no one can stand to be around him. There is a way out for the 5 percent of drinkers who cannot take a social drink and then leave the cork in the bottle. It is a drastic method—one of seeking to make amends for the wrongs they’ve done in the past, of ad- mitting their inability to take even a little ‘snort‘, and of seeking to arrange their future lives so that they will be under as little strain as possible. “Strain” is a relative subject. What that is one man’s poison may often be another’s meat, etc. I don’t know of any successful, dry alcoholics who achieved their! sobriety by ‘going on the wagon.’ In every case, they have had to completely reorganize their life. | For while liquor was the sympton, the disease was something deeper. The man who ‘dries up’ has a lot to be thankful for. He finds a new world—a world where every-} one is his brother. He has seen and understands the seamy side of life and without condemnation, he can fight to prevent others from suffering duplicate horror. ered as too time consuming to bother. Period. There is another fellow (?) who writes initialed letters of a highly critical nature. I did not know what he looked like. The other day, a man of high civic standing said, “Look, there goees———. He is the one that writes those letters to The Citizen—criticizing every- thing.” I began to wonder what makes this man tick. He writes well — a lot better than the run of the mill writer. I wondered if he was a member of some civic club. I .couldn’t find where he was a member of any- thing. Next, I looked for him at city commission meetings—no see. commission meetings? Nope. March of Dimes Drive? Never heard of him. Safety Council? Not to my knowledge. Condemned Men Surrender After Bid For Freedom CARTHAGE, Miss. — Meek surrenders ended a five-day trail of terror and the murderous bid for freedom by two condemned convicts who didn’t seem worried about their dates with the electric chair. “I’m a thief and no good,” 35- year-old Minor Sorber said Tues- day as he hobbled barefooted from NOTAS CUBANAS Por RAOUL ALPIZAR POYO MESA REVUELTA Hace meses, casi un afio, que intentamos, que se le rindiera un homenaje al ilustre Dr. Enrique Rodyiguez Bassé. Por una u,otra raz6n que nunca llegamos a cono- mada se hizo por los que podian y estaban obligndos a hacerlo, -ya que representaban al pueblo. A este pueblo a quien tanto hg servido el citado médico. A este pueblo al que dedicé toda su vida y al cual sirvié con un desinterés desconocido en estos dias por los que ejercen su misma profesién. Un compafiero de redaccién, en idioma inglés, hizo en dias pasa- dos un caluroso elogio de tan insigne ciudadano, Nostros hemos agradecido ese razgo del compa- fiero, acaso ménos obligado que los otros que nada hicieron en favor del querido y admirado Dr. Rodri- guez Bassé. Pero, la historia, esa implacable Sefiora, se encargara en su dia de Poner las cosas en su lugar. Los pueblos que no saben agradecer el favor que se les hace, demuestran que estan en decadencia. Pero, en este caso, no se debe culpar al pueblo que ama y _ quiere entrafiablemente al Dr. Rodriguez, sino a sus mandatarios. Solamente el patristico Club SAN CARLOS, siempre atento a estas cosas, en un acto en que honrara a varios compatriotas, puso el nombre del doctor Rodri- guez en primer lugar y le otorgé un Diploma, como reconocimiento a su labor en beneficio de la co- lectividad, durante mas de cin- cuenta fios, Pese a haberse puesto unas tablillas en los portales del Club San Carlos, prohibiendo que alli Pparquearan bicicletas, qué todas las tardes, durante muchos afios han venido bloqueando material- mente la entrada de las dos ofi- einas alli instaladas, el Consulado de Cuba y la de la Comision del Turismo, siguen los chicos y los grandes, situando alli sus bicicie- tas, como si la advertencia fijada en la tablilla y garantizada con las iniciales de P. D. que demues- tran ser fijadas por orden oficial, fuera un “‘cuento de comino” al asclump of bushes only 40 miles |4U¢ no debe de prestarsele nin- from the Jackson Jail he fled early Friday. Sorber and 26-year-old Gerald Gallego each claimed credit for masterminding the daring flight from Hinds County Jail. A bloodhound clamped his jaws on Gallego as the fugitive hid in a briar patch 200 yards from where bloodhounds routed his compan- ion 2% hours earlier. Sorber is under sentence of death for helping slash the throat of a fellow convict at state peniten- tiary. Gallego, facing death for slaying a constable, stepped from a briar patch with his feet wrapped in rags torn from his trouser legs. , Patrol cars sped the killers back to “death row” in the Jackson Jail where Gallego smashed the skull of Jailer J. C. Landrum with an iron chair leg. Landrum died minutes after Gallego’s surrender. Key West In Days Gone By (Sunday. No paper) x * * September 16, 1944 Hollon R. Bervaldi, now acting Postmaster, received information today from Washington that he had been nominated for postmaster at Key West. Mrs. Alvin R. Moore, wife of Colonel Moore, who. is now in France, left yesterday afternoon by plane for Miami after four weeks in Key West visiting her parents, Captain and Mrs. William W. Demeritt. Nine troops of Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are expected to par- ticipate in the paper salvage drive which will begin next Saturday under plans made at a meeting held last night in Parish Hall. j | In the newspaper? — ah yes — mit initials. | The more I checked, the more} I found out. I inquired to where this person had lived. First he} had resided in an apartment. He caused so much fuss among his neighbors that the Management, rather than evict him, moved him to another apartment, in a dif- ferent location. The same thing happened. Guess what happened — The management considered the whole world was not wrong! and this, man right — they re- quested him to move,” He moved. Father John Armfield, told members of the Kiwanis club the other night that it is easy to throw brickbats. There are many people in this'§ world today who have misguided energy. guna atencién. ‘ Entendemos que la Policia debiera una de estas tardes, Nevarse al City Hall todas las bicicletas alli depositadas, para obligar a sus propietarios a res- petar la propiedad agena y las ordenes oficiales. Ademas, se veria entonces, que la mayoria de esas bicicletas, carecen de la licencia municipal. Con una sola batida, se lograria que los portales del Club San Carlos, propiedad extran- jera digna de respeto, no se viera invadida por un nimero de bicicle- tas, que podrian situarse en el solar, propiedad del Club, situado en el callején anexo. Esperamos que algun dia, nues- tros grandes y pequefios, se deci- dan a cumplir con las ordenanzas en vigor, Ya empiezan a soplar vientos fuertes. Paréce que no vamos a esca- Parnos de la visita de uno de esos intrépidos _meteoros que cuando Megan solo sirven para destruirlo todo y dejar a su paso la desola- clon, Hace afios que no nos visita uno de esos ciclones tropicales, tan terribles, por su intensidad. Dios | quiera que esta vez, como en afios. anteriores, se desvien y vayan a disolverse a cualquiera de ambos océanos. Esa clase de visita es dafiinay peligrosa. Tanta mas, en estos dias | €n que nuestro pueblo se hermosea, | fabricando nuevas viviendas. In- augurando nuevos comercios y es- perando la Iegada del invierno, con su invasién turistica. Sobre todo ahora, que se nos habla del huevo servicio entre Key West y Cardenas. | Parece que esta vez el ferrie entre Key West y Cardenas, sera | una hermosa realidad. Recordamos al PATRICIA que estuvo hace dos afios amarrado a un muelle de la | ciudad y despues de ser embargado ] ete., fué retirado. Sera este aquel | mismo? No lo sabemos. Pero si | sabemos que ha sido objeto de | grandes reparaciones y preparado | para acomodar debidamente pasa- | jeros y autos. } En lo que si no parece que este. | mas conformes es en el precio fi jado para el transporte de los autos entre Key West y Cardenas, | ‘Un tanto subido el precio, si se tiene en cuenta lo médico del pasa- je entre ambos puertos, ya sefialado por los empresarios del mencionado servicio. A nuestro juicio el mayor éxito | de ese negocio seria que pudiera establecerse el servicio entre Key West y La Habana. Hay una distancia un tanto grande entre | Cardenas, la Perla del Norte y‘ La Habana. El viaje por la car-| retera, ahora por la linda Via | Blanca, es algo interesante y bello, | Pero nunea ha de emplearse ménos | de tres horas para Iegar a la | Capital, teniendo en cuenta @ enorme transito que hay por ig carretera citada. De todos modos, algo ganaremos con ese nuevo servicio y hacemos votos muy sineeros porque sea un verdadero éxito el mismo y que sirva para que en un futuro cer- cano los trabajadores portuorios de La Habana, empiecen a compre. nder la necesidad de cooperar al Progreso y dejarse de exigencias que jam4s podran detener la mar- cha del citado progreso Un ferrie entre Key West y La Habana, lIlenaria las aspira- ciones de ambos paises y contri- buiria grandemente a aumentar los lazos de afecto y buena volun- tad que los unen, La empresa del Cine San Carlos hos regalo hace dias con la visita de varios notables artistas cuba- nos. Ma 2 Dominguez, con su arte ex to y ese portento de la filarmonica, que se Hama Salvador Benito Lestapier y Savon. Este eminente filarmonista, es por si solo. una orquesta sinfénica. El publico correspondié al esfuerzo de los queridos empresarios, pero no en la forma que debian, para asegurarnos préximas visitas de nuevos artistas que nos Saquen de la monotonia en que aqui se vive, condenados exclusivamente a ver peliculas, muy buenas por cierto y muy interesantes, pero siempre es bueno darle al espiritu unos minutos de soliz, ofreciendo programas con artistas que nos distraigan. De todos modos, felicitamos a los empresarios de San Carlos, porque ellos quieren satisfacer siempre el gusto de la gran colonia latina aqui existente. También queremos felicitar a nuestro buen amigo e) Jefe de Policia, por la magnifica labor de saneamiento que viene tratando de Tealizar en beneficio de la decen- cia. Ojala triunfe en su justo em- penio, Vic Vet says fal inf contact your ation meereat PoPETERANS ADMINISTRATION oes . . for betters Now’s the time to stock up on light bulbs... now, with those long fall and winter nights coming up. Buy bulbs im package lots for ease of handling and storage ... and for savings in price. Here are other things to brighten wp your home 1. Wash your lighting fixtures and lamp refiee- tor bowls. You'll be pleased at how much hghter your rooms look. 2. Place a good floor or tatile lamp at each read- ing and study area. 3. And be sure to use bright-enough bulbs ... nothing less than 100 watts for reading, study, or other eye-straining tasks. Stock up on lighting now. Your family's eyes are prictless ... good lighting is cheap! City Electric System