The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 21, 1954, Page 4

’ Page 4 = THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, September 21, 1954 The Key West Citizen Cnt RB Ns EGS 2186s ae Published G nd daily (except Sunday) from 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 Maiter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 a Member of The Associated Prese—The Associated Press is exclusi entitled to use for re] ction of all news dispatches credited te Bot otherwise redlicd in ths paper, and also the local news pub Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), “<c per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Se er anonymous comm tions. BE CAREFUL: DON’T LET THE CITY’S FIRE BELL TOLL FOR YOU Yesterday’s observance of “Safety Week” began in Key West and elsewhere in Monroe County. This morn- ing and yesterday morning, the fire bell began to toll at 9 o’clock for each traffic death in Monroe County during this year. That tolling reminded us of what John Donne, who was born nearly four centuries ago, said about the tolling of a bell: “.,. never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” The bell has tolled more than a million times in the United States for people who lost their lives in traffic ac- | cidents. In each case the tolling was beforehand or prema- ture in relation to life’s expectancy. That is why The Citizen regards this warning as the best of the many warnings constantly drummed into the ears ‘of reckless drivers: “Drive carefully, for the life you save may be your own.” All of the more than a million who have been killed in traffic accidents since the invention of the automobile were not to blame for the loss of their lives. They were the victims of careless drivers. But a great majority of the lives lost, probably nine-tenths of them, was due to recklessness. _ All of us may not agree on what is reckless driving. It is not wholly confined to speeding. A man may drive slowly and still be a reckless driver if he looks from side to side at objects along a street or highway. Two years ago, a Miami Beach man was driving to Key West for a day’s outing. He was not driving fast, but he was not keeping his eyes on the road ahead. He was looking, only a second or two at a time, at the scenery on his right and left. During one of those seconds, his car crashed head-on into the right concrete post at the entrance to the Stock Island bridge, and he and his nephew who was with him were killed, Don’t take your eyes a second off the road. That advice is particularly applicable to the Overseas High- way, for, during a second, a car, moving at only 30 miles an hour, can go over the apron of the road. - Let’s consider driving in Key West. Sam Goldsmith, our efficient weatherman, says, “You've got to be on the qui vive when you drive in Key West, or else.” He’s right. You take a chance if you are not watchful every second, i Listen at.9 o’clock every morning this week to the tolling of the fire bell. Each toll means the loss of a life in a traffic accident in Monroe County. Those for whom the bell tolls thought as you think now — that it would not toll for them as a result of a fatal traffic accident. If you are a careless driver, keep in mind the tolling of the bell when you feel an urge to violate traffic regu- lations, when you itch to speed by the car ahead of you, or when your foot presses harder and harder on your accelerator. Donald Healey recently drove a sports car almost 200 m.p.h. in Utah, which — we think — is carrying things a bit too far, too fast. 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I’d never think of doing if it there were any danger involved!” There’s always danger involved. And the fact that it’s not. apparent often makes it more treacherous. For instance, you may come upon a “School, Slow” sign when travelingon a clear stretch of road. As far as you can see there isn’t a child around. But this doesn’t excuse you from the obligation’ of slowing down, Children have an un- canny way of seeming to mater- ialize from nowhere. One might Of Ours By Bill Gibb suddenly dart in front of your car. The fact that you ! safe to disregard the warning sign wouldn’t help mucn it you suua that child. It’s the same way with traffic signals, turning and passing regu- lations, and all of the rest of the traffic laws and regulations. .Their function is to protect you and everyone else who uses the streets and highways. They can’t protect you if you ignore them. Never ask yourself, “Is it safe to cheat a little this time?” Make up your mind, once and for all, that it’s never safe to cheat on traffic laws. " . The only way to stay safe in fraf- fic is to know your traffic laws AND OBEY THEM!! A first-grade class at the mus- eum was deeply interested in the| mummies. : | “What does that label — B. C. 789 — mean?” little Sue asked her small boy friend. | “Oh, that’s the license number of the car that hit him,” he re- plied with masculine assurance. PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expressions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. THRILLED AT FERRY LAUNCHING Editor, The Citizen: I won’t be counted among the “dignitaries” who saw our beautiful “City of Key West” launched, but that does not prevent me from telling how proud, it made me to be among the hundreds of spectators. Our Wilhelmina was as lovely as ever as she swung the bottle of champagne against the ship. Since the days of our first locomotive and the grand rally which was held, there has certainly been nothing so thrilling as the launching of our stately vessel. Our pride will be even greater when she is launched in the beautiful blue waters around our own beloved rock. MRS. E. CURRIE Sept. 18, 1954 Key West, Fla. DOG LICENSES Editor, The Citizen: | Recently your paper published a letter from Mrs. J. Cambling Suspect. Fails To Chew All His Tickets BALTIMORE (#— Sgt. Edwin Taylor testified that when Michael Farmer was arrested yes- terday, the 62-year-old suspected numbers writer stuffed ai wad of slips into his mouth and started chewing. Taylor said he graobed Farmer's cheek and warned him that if he nett chewing he might injure him- self. Farmer kept chewing and wound up at Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was treated for selt- inflicted cuts on the side of the cheek. He failed to digest one of the slips, however, Taylor said it was restored chemically and showed numerals and cash amounts on it. Farmer was held for the grand jury in $2,500 bail. Key West In Days Gone By - September 21, 1934 In atcordance with instructions received from headquarters re- lative to the collection of excise taxes by the revenue department, Howard Wilson, deputy collector of Internal Revenue at this port, started out late yesterday mak- ing investigations as to who may be handling illegally produced liquor not being properly stamp- ed by the government. Formation of a Key West Histor- ical Society, which was announced last week, will take place at a meeting to be held tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Key West Public Library on Duval street. Rogelio Gomez was appointed manager of the baseball team to play against a team sent here from Cuba for the celebration of El Grito de Yara next month, dur- ing a meeting of the athletics com- mittee held yesterday. The ses- sion was held in the office of Hon. Bernardo Rodriguez Valdez, Cuban consul, in the San Carlos building. x wk * September 21, 1944 Postwar planning by county and Science Asks How They Dolt “Mental Clocks” In Living Things Are Studied By Alton L. Blakeslee Associated Press’ Science Reporter WOODS HOLE, Mass. eee things are a challenge to some of the scientists at the Marine Bio- logical Laboratory here. Certain humans can “set mental clocks” to waken at a certain time of morning. How do their clocks work? Many kinds of living things be- have as though regulated by inner or biological clocks ticking off time with amazing accuracy. Take fiddler crabs, the inch- long ones named because of their fiddle - holding shape. They are being studied by Dr. Frank A. Brown Jr., Northwestern Univer- consumption at 6 aa, a .m. in the daily cycle. alata Breeding cycles dttated by the| moon or other are vital! for preservation ofnumerou s forms of marine aimals, whose | males release their sperm and fe- fmales release their eggs into the water. Unless great numbers of them do this at the same time — as they do -- there would be little chance that sperm ang egg would meet to start new life, Rhythms and cycles are ob- served in many kinds of human behavior, even im economic cycles. Mental patients are reported to show swings of improvement or worsening with phases of the moon. Is it really the moon affect- ing them? Do the rhythms in hu- man behavior have any connection with biological clocks of some kind? If so, how do they operate, how are they controlled? The studies of clocks in crabs and other animals can lead. to answers. Could the answers show man how to gain new controls over his own life, perhaps by developing powers which he once had or is only dimly aware of? That is spec- ulation, which must await more scientific findings about biological clocks. SS sity, who spends his summers here. | "YY YY Y¥YY*¥evwwwwwwwwwverv ev ewer rrrES At dawn or just before they turn dark in color, the better to run on dark beaches where they live. At night they turn pearly - gray in color. Is it, just a response to light or lack of it? - No, Dr. Brown finds, for if the crabs are kept in a photographic dark room, under a steady amount of light and temperature, they will still change color at dawn and dusk, telling time as well as a man-made clock. The crabs respond to tides, too, turning darkest at low tide. Even in the closed room they will change color according to actual high and low tides on the beaches where they once lived. They are perfect tide charts. Fiddler crabs from two different beaches, where the times of high or low tides are different, will obey the tide chart for their own beaches, though living far from home. They show a 24-hour change for the sun cycle, a 12-hour change for the tide cycle. In tide, they are obeying a moon or lunar cycle, for the moon is a main controller of earthly tides. Is their biological clock some- thing which is built-in, running at constant speed according to me- tabolism or the speed of their life cycles? Or is it governed by phy- sical forces connected with the earth’s rotation, perhaps by some force which man doesn’t yet know can affect living things? Dr. Brown subjected the crabs to different degrees of temperature. An astonishing thing happened if he chilled them down to near freezing for six hours, then warmed them up again. The chil- ling stopped their clocks for six hours, When they were warmed up again, they began following the same cycles of regular change— but now they were nearly six hours slow! Virgil “Captain” Kidd, proprie- tor of the Treasure Island Trailer Camp on Stock Island has brought up an interesting point in connec- tion with the Key West-Cuba ferry operation—the question of auto- mobile insurance. Most liability and accident policies are void when you go to a foreign country, he said. i The Captain pointed out that on the Mexican border, there are several companies that will sell you special policies to cover you during your travel in that country. Kidd has firsthand knowledge— he once had an accident in Mexico. Happily he was covered with a special policy. Some enterprising insurance broker should do right well at selling such coverage here. ke hy & POTPOURRI: Seldom do news- men run into a publicity shy indi- vidual like seven year old Robert Brady, who rescued a playmate from possible drowning Saturday. “Play this story down,” he said as his picture was being snapped . . . That makes it look as though|Crawfishermen report that.a new their clocks are built inside. But] state regulation saying they must that’s by no means the full strange} label their traps with an indent- story. a ification. number is paying off in Not long ago one of Dr. Brown’s| that fewer poachers are stealing assistants flew to San Francisco|erawfish.. .Although the city with a batch of crabs, and putielections are more than a year off, them in a room there with constant | candidates are beginning to un- light and temperature. Another limbers-their campaign strategy. batch was packed up the same|Four men—two of them incumbents way for travel, but kept here afd) have told us that they'll be in placed in the same kind of room. | the rage. . .If Key West is chosen | Those flown to the West Coast be- “ jcame three hours late in time— ‘ soles its Sgpeagemce soso Some States Won't Change Clocks Now compared with those remaining By HENRY SUPPLE hind their East Coast “cousins.” But this was only temporary. During the next seven days while they stayed in California, they con- tinued to get dark or light almost simultaneously with the crabs in Woods Hole. They didn’t adjust their ‘‘clocks” to the West Coast, and while they stayed in California, they kept on here. On the first day, the crabs on BOSTON ( — Remember that hour of sleep you lost in April both coasts changed colors at ex- actly the same time according to when your state went on daylight saving time? dawn and dusk, and tidal changes Well, you can have it back next here. Sunday — unless you live in The next day, the crabs in San Francisco slipped a half hour be- Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire or a few communities signalling the time of low tide on|in Vermont. their native beach on Cape Cod. The reason: the Massachusetts This proved they could still |jegislature decided last spring that measure the 12%-hour tide cycle| whatever benefits accrue from and 24-hour sun cycle accurately | haying daylight time from the last even though they had been flown Sunday in April to the last Sunday to the West Coast and had, by| in September would be enhanced flying, changed by three hours in| considerably if extended to the last sunlight time — the same gain/sunday in October. your watch would show if you flew| Rhode Island and New Hamp- ‘trom East to West. shire followed suit and a few Ver- In the long run their clocks may | mont towns near Massachusetts or be influenced by outside forces, Dr. | New Hampshire figured it might Brown believes. He is devising ex-| lessen the confusion by doing like- periments to learn the possible in-| wise, fluence of slight barometic But don’t go losing another The Ground By JIM COBB 2444444444446444444444444444444444444) SS as the site for the filming of Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo” it won’t hurt the town a bit publicity-wise . . . Seems like the White House press contingent is really beginning ‘o appreciate those vacations they spent here. A radio news commentator broad- casting last week from President Eisenhower’s fishing camp high in the mountain fastness of Colorado, said plaintively: “They can say what they like about Harry Tru- man, but at least he spent his vacations in Key West.’’. . .City inspectors are working overtime to put an end to the practice of Miami contractors coming to Key West to do construction jobs over the weekend when they think they will be unobserved. Since they operate without a license, they can naturally underbid local con- tractors considerably. There has been one arrest—a Miami tile con- tractor doing work in a Duval St. store—with more promised in the future. . . .It’s not too late to join the Key West Quarterback Club. Anyone interested in the football fortunes of the Key West High School will have a really enjoyable time at their Monday night sessions at the high school. Phone Keller Watson or Earl Adams if you are interested. ...The Kiwanis-Key Club softball game Saturday night promises to be a hot one. It's for charity....The band at high school football games, we are told, ought to be placed in the end zone—to free seats for the paying customers and so they could be heard better. mareowag earery Inoculation InN. J. PITMAN, N.J. — Churches, police and civie organizaions pitched in Sunday to help health authorities inoculate 1,632 children and expectant mothers in this southern New Jersey community with gamma globulin. The mass inoculation was or- dered Saturday night after four | cases of polio were reported within a week. Seven doctors and five municipal governments was the dentists, assisted by 25 registered topic at today’s luncheon meeting Roberts requesting information on the laws and-or ordin- nurses, completed the job in a lit- river changes, differences in gravitation, | hour’s sleep trying to figure what | 7. Saltpeter 23. Work ‘ even differences in cosmic ray!time it is when you are in New| 24. Watch 8. Shout pasa 25. Owns 27. Mining chisel 28. Moist 30. Take a chair 31. Negative vote 33. Secondary 35, Enzyme . Slow-mov- 43. Seed con- tainers 45. Invite 50. New York island: abbr. . For ances governing dogs within the City. You listed several ordinances which is supposed to cover these animals. The first one you listed covered the running at large of dogs. If this was allowed they were to be picked up by the Humane Society and taken care of for three days. It is evident the the City and/or the Humane Society do not have any one to enforce laws, as there is a large number of dogs running at large both nights and days and I would consider some of them dangerous as they act that way. You did not list an ordinance covering the licensing | of dogs, but I assume there is an ordinance covering this, however, there is a number of dogs on the streets with out license tags. Dogs, as a number of us know, are very disturbing, especially at nights when they bark at every thing that goes by, this is true even if they are on a leash. Sincerely ee AN IRRITATED NEIGHBOR. jamong Florida |in the of the Key West Rotary Club, with Mrs. Hugh Williams, Aquilino Lopez and W. W. Demeritt dis- cussing various phases, Monroe County ranks eighth counties in the amount of federal funds earmarked |for manufacture of war materials or establishment of war facilities county, War Production Board officials said today. No official word has been set for the number of bandages a volunteer Red Cross worker can roll in an hour, but Marian Fresh- water, wife of Captain H. L. Fresh- water, a pretty Army wife in Key West should be among the claim- ants. She has rolled many thous- ands of bandages and has acquir- ed a speedy efficiency in turning out surgical dressings. radiation, to which all living things are exposed. England. Without the aid of an|tle more than seven hours. abacus or slide rule you can see| Oysters show a similar kind of | there are chances for some dandy rhythm, opening their shells the | time-saving. For instance: most at high tide. New Haven oys-! If you take a plane from Boston ters shipped to Evanston, Ill.,/to New York next week and there opened most for a couple of weeks|is a good tailwind you can leave at the time of high tide in the/at noon, EDT, and arrive at La- New Haven area. Later they | Guardia Field at noon, too — EST, slipped out of the New Haven ti-/that is. dal time, and became influenced; Or if you live in Brattleboro, by Evanston lunar time. Bennington, Rutland or Bellows Some kind of harmonics or vi-| Falls, Vt. (all staying on daylight brations definitely seem to affect/time) you can “save” an hour in these biological clocks, Dr. Brown|driving to the state capital at believes. Earthworms, salaman-| Montpelier, which is going back ders, fruit flies, and even potatoes|on standard time. clocks. The lowly potato, for ex-|today on the time problem, If ample, shows daily and lunar|Maine doesn’t stay on daylight give evidence of having biological} In Maine, the Legislature meets | Evacuation Continues | HONG KONG @#—U. S. Navy | Capt. John G. Spangler, of Coro- nado, Calif, commander of the Navy transport Telfair. says the evacuation of anti-Communist Viet- namese from Indochina’s Red River Delta to South Viet Nam is being speeded up. EST, it would be 8 p.m. EDT, when you got to Boston. You radio and television fans are going to have your troubles, too. Networks originating in New York, \for example, will be on standard time but the programs will come | rhythms of oxygen consumption.|time, it could be quite a “slow” When kept under steady tempera-|trip from Portland to Boston. Al |ture and light, they show, on the|fast train takes about two hours, | average, a high peak of oxygen|but if you left Portland at 5 p.m. an hour later: if you live where the “fast” time will be held over. Ch, well. It will be all over in November.