The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1954, Page 6

Page THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturday, September 25, 1954 i The Key West Citizen . b ee RE Ey ky Pega Seer ~cmanege eee Published daily ( Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner Greene and Ann was . a Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monree County _P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ........ catroreomecesseees’ W9R0 = 195A NORMAN D. ARTMAN on. ncom muon Editor and Publisher “~~ Batered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter 7 TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for reproduction of all news dispatches to or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the pase a lished here $$ THE HERALD BARKS AGAIN AGAINST MONROE COUNTY’S GETTING BACK ITS ACREAGE The Miami Herald is barking again against the re- turn to its rightful owners of the Florida Keys acreage, aside from the Overseas Highway right-of-way, by the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District Commission, with the unanimous approval of the State Board of Adminis- tration. Thursday, the Herald published an editorial under this headline: “Cabinet Should Save Key Lands For Use of Public.” That’s just what the cabinet did in approving the transfer of the lands to the people of Monroe County, who put a lien on their property to obtain money to buy the land. And what does the Herald think Monroe County is going to do with the lands? They can’t be sold; they must be kept for the public’s use at all time. Some of the lands may be leased to highest bidders — the Herald may bid on some of them if it wishes to — but most of them will be maintained as parks, parkways and beach- es, which the Herald employes may visit at any time they wish without having to pay a penny. ‘ Would the Herald prefer for Monroe County to charge for entrance into the parks as Dade County charg- es to go into Crandon Park? Monroe’s parks are free for the public to visit them whenever it wishes. The writer of the Herald editorial may make a trip any time he wish- es to Bahia Honda Park, which has been characterized as the most beautiful land and sea scape in the world. The Herald, in ‘its barking, persisted in calling the 1947 Papy act a “local bill,” though the Herald had been told by The Citizen it is a general bill. Attorney General Richard Ervin drew up that bill when he was the State Road Department’s attorney, and Ervin told the State Board of Administration last Tuesday the law is sound and will “stand up in any court.” The, way John Kilgore, the Herald’s Tallahassee man, tried to explain away the SBA’s approval was piti- ful. Kilgore too strays from the facts. He said that the 1947 law may conflict with a 1945 lease-purchase agree- ment between the Overseas Bridge Commission at that time with the “State Road Department.” The so-called agreement, which the Bridge Commission didn’t have the power to make under provisions of a Reconstruction Fin- ance Corporation indenture, was not with the State Road Department but with the State of Florida. Who constitutes the State of Florida from an execu- tive viewpoint? The State Board of Administration, Gov- ernor Johns, Comptroljgr Gay and. State Treasurer Lar- sen, the same men who approved the deed “in fairness to the people of Monroe County.” The Miami Daily News also put in its squeak about giving back the land tegthe people of Monroe County who bought it from the Fidrida East Coast Railway. This is the same News that Charlie Mendoza gave up subscribing for because he said he could not find in it an account of the Conchs baseball team’s walloping a Miami high school nine. The major credit for getting back the lands goes to Representative Bernie C. Papy. He went to Tallahassee, time and time again, at his own expense, to talk and to work in behalf of the people of Monroe County to get back what belonged to them. But many others helped too, particularly members of the Bridge Commission. The Citi- zen did its part, insistently and consistently. Copies of The Citizen’s editorial last Saturday about the acreage in question lay on the desks of the SBA, in front of them, at last Tuesday’s meeting when the question of the transfer was discussed, Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1, Had being 4. Scolded 9. Endeavor 12. Old Fren coin 18, Uneven 14. Creek 15. Kind of dog 17, Turn the front wheels 19. Outlet 20. Three-spot 21. Grating 33. Having auricles 25. Engineering a 4 legree 7. Talks wildly 29. Causes 81. Constella- tion CIAIRISMECIL TP) Bor wen 32. Sends out 24. Buddhist pillar 35. Cancels 37, The pick 89. Syllable hesitation 40. Scatter 42. Eons 48. Small island 44. Roster 46. Mediter- Tanean sail- ing vessel 48, Fluttered 61. Land measure 52. Course of travel 54. Weep 55. Jewel EILEIVIAITIE MME ISIN] Lt IMIAIGIE ME IVE} ISICIOINIE MBOIVIE RID] 11D} HIAINMENIEIVIETRI ONE REOIMIAIRI EISISHR] Solution of Saturday's Puzzle 56. Scoft 67. Hurry DOWN 1. Moist 2. Top card 3. An out 4. rare id aver 28. Pioneers 30. One of the Tuling few 33. Small lake THEY CAN SHOUT= LIKE THIS — BUT one LITTLE WORD FROM Us — aan SERRE neeeeeeneeemeeeneeeeeeeee li bbl bn bn binned ttn tn nnn nnn bb | X) The Ground, By JIM COBB 2442444444444444444444444464644464 444444, a Local Coast Guardsmen establish- ed what must be some kind of a record Thursday for speedy rescue of an ill seaman, but their com- manding officer Lt, John Hayes isn’t happy about it. The rescue interrupted what promised to be one of his best golf games in a long time. Hayes, the only officer attached to the local station, is on 24 hour call. Normally, he takes off on Wednesday afternoon to play golf. This week, he took Thursday off in- stead. He started off with fours on the! first three holes, (two under par) on the Key West Golf Club course. His seven iron shot was on the apron of the green on the fourth hole, which runs along the road. He was preparing to chip to the cup when Mrs, Hayes drove up in the family car bearing news that the Coast Guard had received an | emergency call from a shrimp | boat bearing a very ill fisherman. | Lt. Hayes rushed to his office and supervised the rescue. The call was received shortly before one o’clock, and the man, | hemorrhaging badly, was in al navy ambulance less than two | hours later. “ut Hayes was unhappy over not | being able to finish that golf game after such a promising start. i He was very happy, however, over the efficient performance of the men who serve under him. x~ x * Bill Neblett recalls the last game | of football he played. It was in Key West on Thanks- giving day, 1929. Neblett, a 130 pound stripling | was stationed here with the Marine | Corps. He was a substitute left end on the Marine team which was playing the Key West All- Stars. Neblett didn’t expect to get into the ball game, but when the first string end got chewed up, he got his facing a big, burly lineman known chance. He found himself | kept Carbonell afternoon, Remind us to get Carbonell’s side of the story. on his back all x k *& The stage is set for the world’s greatest annual sporting event, the World Series. Millions of baseball fans, includ- ing a large sprinkling of Americans {who don’t give a hoot for base- ball until the Series fever starts, are on tenterhooks waiting for the battle between the Giants and the Indians. And in Key West, where baseball is of more than passing interest, the arguments are waxing hot over the relative merits of fellows like Willie Mays and Larry Doby or the pitching prowess of Bob Feller and Sal Maglie. Of the people we talked to on Duval St. Friday, it seemed that Cleveland is ‘something of a favorite with local fandom. Here are some of their comments: Cliff Kerr thinks the Giants have a good chance. ‘‘They’ve got the better team,” says Cliff. . Dewey Riggs goes along with the Tribe for the same reason. . .High School Athletic Director Win Jones goes for the Indians. “Rosen’s ills and | their weak hitting will hurt them, but they'll come through in five games,” he opined . . . Norman Artman, while he admits to be- ing a National League fan, figures it will be Cleveland. ‘They’ve got the pitching,” he holds. . . | Harold Allen, of the high school coaching staff is a Giant booster. “Their superior hitting will turn the trick,” Allen commented. . . Ray Gavilan says: “Any team that wins as many games as Cleveland did is sure to be a good bet to come through.”, . . Ira Albury: “The Indians.’’. . . Joe Russell goes along with the Tribe. Reason: “I like them.”. . .Bill Cates, all-time great Key West High School per- former and former pro star says: “It may go seven games, but I think Cleveland has a_ better as John Carbonell, whose son, John, Jr, is making a name for himself as a high school performer now. Neblett said that he teamed up with another lineman and they SVRONG ARM BRAND COFFERS Triumph Coffee Mill at ALL GROCERS Your Grocer SELLS Tiat Good STAR * BRAND AMERICAN COFFEE — TRY A POUND TODAY — t chance.”. . .The writer is backing | the Giants. Maglie and Durecher will make the difference. Skelton Stars In Hilarious Film At The Islander There are plenty of laughs in Red Skelton’s new M-G-M starrer, “The Great Diamond Robbery,” opening tomorrow at the Islander Theatre, but along with the hilarity is a wistful, appealing portrait of the central character, the eager, cred- ulous, easily-foxed jewelry shop apprentice who has two over- whelming ambitions — the first, to cut his firm’s fabulous $2,000,000 Blue Goddess diamond; the second to find the parents who left him on a park bench when he was an infant. In an attempt to realize both these ambitions, Ambrose C. Park | (Skelton) gets himself into a heap of trouble. An ambulance - chas- ing shyster lawyer finds him an easy mark and digs up a “family” for him. And what a family it is — a couple of ne’er-dv*wells pos- ing as his mother and father, a hard-boiled night club entertainer forced to play the role of his inno- cent and sheltered sister! But it is a pair of impromptu | “uncles” who really prove the vil- lains of the piece when they dis- | cover Ambrose’s connection with | the Blue Goddess diamond and ‘contrive to have him cut it. They | almost get away with the perfect- | ly matched halves, too, but in the | action-filled pell-mell climax. Am-| brose reveals an unsuspected acu- | men and courage and manages not | only to outwit his crooked “uncles” | but to win over his “family” and gain a sweetheart into the bargain. The role of Ambrose is a made- to order one for Skelton, containing | as it does, the popular comedian’s | typical tomfoolery in his charac- terization as the gullible victim of | sharpsters, and yet pervaded with | a sympathetic appeal in the por-| trait of the lonesome apprentice yearning for the love and devotion | of a family. It is one of his most | | satisfying film portrayals. More Smog In Store For LA. LOS ANGELES (#—Los Angeles | citizens faced another smoggy time today after an attack of the eye-irritating stuff yesterday was termed the worst of the year. One superior judge adjourned his court in the Civic Center yesterday because of the discomfort, and citizens were coughing and wiping their eyes most of the day. The smog clouds rolled in early and then spread to foothill communi- ties. Smog and fog cut visibility at the Los Angeles International Air- | port and no planes were allowed to PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen weicomes expressions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right to dele ii are considered libelous or unwarranted. The w fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of letters and will be published unless requested It’s Just Not Safe Editor, The Citizen: I can easily explain to your col- umnist, Bill Spillman, why people should never sign their names to articles for publication. Bill is disgruntled because folks sign their initials. So without re- vealing any persons’ nares or the organizations to which they be- long, I will endeavor to make myself understood. | Not too long ago someone who is family to my wife came to our house and simply raved over a certain meeting she had attended — given by the organization to which she belongs. She was especially’ demonstra- tive about an address rendered by a young chap in the community whom we all know. | In fact she told it so pictures- quely that we were able to picture | the whole performance as though| we had been present. | My wife was especially thrilled | because the lad’s mother was an| old playmate of hers — ’way back when. So she proceeded to write what we both considered a pretty good article, telling all about this accomplished young man. She men- tioned the others whom she was! told deserved recognition, also. Not | stopping at that, she threw a few verbal bouquets at the mothers, | and it is obvious that there is, where she made her fatal nue This article was sent to a news-| paper for publication. ‘What happened the day after this | artiele was published? Listen my children, and you shall hear, and if you are wise you'll never attach your signature to an article, good or bad. | My wife’s dear relative came} bright and early next morning to the place where I am employed. | She glared at me and then said, | “Whatever possessed you to allow your wife to write such a ghastly | piece and sign her own name to, it? You ought to be ashamed of | yourself!” | When I got home from work that night, my wife met me at the door | with tears in her eyes. It seems | another fine “Christian” had at- tacked her in much the same way Bill Spillman is correct when he says this is a small town and things get around, for ever since my! wife’s name came out in the news- paper beneath a well meant ar- ticle, we’ve been hearing by way of the malicious old grape vine | AF Recruiter Here Monday Monroe County’s Air Force Re- rs | should be | cruiter, S-Sgt. Charles A. Kaniew- ski, has scheduled a visit to Key j West on next Monday and will be available from 10 a. m. until 3 un- | P. m. at the Selective Service office mentioned organization took of-|in the Post Office Building. fense, their leader included Local young men ard women de- The irony of the whole thing is! siring hand information about this: The praise was best wed up-|Air Force ealistment, aviation ca- on one of their own narri w-mind- | det training or the Women’s Air ed group, the informant being one | Force are urged to -«-ntact the of them. |Sergeant during his visit. To use an old time expression, | te outsiders this looks like “Dog | Metric eat dog.” { To quote your very able col-| umnist Bill Gibb, “There is ap- parent lack of sincerity some who cell themselves tians.” They prefer tearing down instead | of uplifting. Today I shall attach my John- the writer must accompany the otherwise. that other members of this System Stamp PARIS, Sept. 25 (@—The French Postoffice is issuing a stamp Oct. 4 honoring the metric system, in- among augurated by France in 1791. Chris- | Henry, but hereafter when either of us wish to express our opin- jions, we'll use initials only, | Mrs. E. Currie’s “Old Man” DO YOU NEED HELP To Finance Your Sewer Installation? If so, see us about an improve- ment loan. This is one of the many im- provements that can be financed under the provisions of FHA Title I—an easy monthly payment plan for financing worthwhile improve- ments. 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