The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 29, 1954, Page 5

Uninterrupted | Visitors To Key West Rest At Chamber Of Commerce Phone Service At Stake Now The Southern Bell Telephone Company said today the CWA-CIO refusal to accept a clause to assure uninterrupted telephone service to the public is virtually all that is standing in the way of] con- | final agreement on a new tract. | Frank M. Malone, personnel vice president of the Southern Bell, said: “The Comp sistance on an uninterrupted ser-| vice clause is to require the Union| to follow orderly procedures es- tablished in the contract for ad- justment of differences during the life of the agreement. “It is common practice for Union-Management agreements to} include provisions assuring no work stoppages by employ as long as a contract is in force. In| fact, about 89 per cent of labor-| Management contracts today in-| clude some such provision. “Protection of the public in this manner is particularly important in the telephone business. Nation- al defense and the public health, welfare and safety depend vitally on telephone service. It is essent- ial that the service not be disrupt- ed. | “There has been an average of| one strike every 10 days in South- ern Bell since the present con- tract was signed. These service disruptions have been an _ intoler- able imposition on the public. “The Company has been patient. The Union repeatedly has promis- CONTEST WINNER—Mrs. Frances Veronesi (left) of Detroit was the latest winner of the Florida Calling radio show contest. the ladies on the tour. At right is Mrs. Vivian Branwell of Detroit. won over 35 large contests on radio. and’ TV, plus many smaller contests. Calling are given an on-the-cuff tour of the state. Chamber of Mrs. Veronesi has Winners on Florida Bill Carter. of the radio show staff, escorted The party was entertained by the Key Wester Hotel, Candlelight Tea Room and the La Concha Coffee Shop while here. Commerce representatives es- corted the group on a@ sight-seeing tour of Key West.—Photo by Spillman. |For 7-Year-Old Today’s Xmas BETTENDORF, Iowa (P—It is Christmas today for young Linda Cargill. | The laughter and joy around the excited 7-year-old girl’s home belies the fact that doctors say she! is incurably ill of leukemia. The fresh autumn air likewise gives no hint of the Christmas| — season. But a letter from Santa, | postmarked “‘North Pole,” advised the winsome blonde to get ready for ‘‘a wonderful Christmas” to- day. A party is planned this evening} around the family’s gaily decor-| ated Christmas tree. | Neighbors have been hiding gifts | for Linda at a nearby food store. | Perry Anderson. a neighbor, will| serve as Santa’s stand-in and car- ry the pack. The story of Linda’s illness has spread afar. Toys and cards from all parts of the nation are arriving at her home. School children from this immediate area also are doing their bit. Children from the Mon- roe school in nearby Davenport | plan to visit Linda today A Brown- ie troop presented her with a doll and several sets of doll clothes. Linda is taking it all “just won- derfully well,” say her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cargill. “‘she turns on a smile, says she’s fine and gives thanks to all.” Linda’s brothers, Robert 5, Tony 2, also like this Christmas in Sep- tember. But they don’t know their sister is not expected to live to celebrate the real Christmas on Dee. 25. Farm fires each year take 3,000 lives in the United States. SHARK CATCHER—Joseph P. | Wednesday, September 29, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5 'Technicolor Sa } Marchand, Naval Air Station Photoman, exhibits 126-pound shark he caught in Kemp Chan- nel. The 5'2-foot fish was taken on 50-pound test line with mullet for bait—Official U.S. Navy Photo. CONTRACT SOUGHT | ATLANTA (® — Last minute efforts were being made today to settle contract negotiations af fecting some 50,000 Southern Bell | Telephone Co. employes in nine | “Shane” To Be At The Monroe Ever since the first motion pic-| ga ‘Of Rail-Blazers To Be At Drive-In An explosive chapter in the his- t pioneer railroading, which vamped in the interest ma, filmed in vivid Techni« performed by a highly will open at the tre Thursday when “Denver and Rio its run. O'Brient, Ster! mixes sweep violent action of way from Den- the 1870's and g companies are le and the Ca an Juan Li the former road has a cut right to the dangerous 2ass through the Royal Gorge, the ed cut-throats of the Canyon y try intimidation, vand id then wholesale murder |block the D and RG’s way. The | bitter conflict, the resulting train wrecks and the surprising final out- | come are played against the indi- vidual drama of courageous mem [sna women risking their lives te forge a railroad across the Rock- j ies. | ‘No Costume, No |Horse, No Show CUSHING, Okla. @—A Lady Go- ed to correct the situation but the walkouts have continued to occur in increasing numbers. In the public interest, it is imperative southern states. ture glorified the strong silent men| “V4 act—sans horses, sans eos tume—is now sans show at 3 | ie . a Gar mandeaWisi Geen bninin’s larg-| Wh? fought for law and order on nival here. . s ©"! the Western plains, producers have in E ; 4 Deputy est customer in Europe. | been improving on this ever popu- eputy Lee Stiles happened into |The Over-All Operation it “probably” would rain or “prob- ably” would be fair on the morrow. He became known as ‘“‘old Probs.”” that they now be stopped.” | Mr. Malone said that a wage offer, involving increases up to $2.50. per week, substantially that} which the Union indicated would} be acceptable, had been made and is now ready to be placed in effect immediately upon agree- ment on a workable continuity-of- | service clause and signing of aj new contract. This offer is de- signed to keep the wages of tele- phone employees well in line with} wage levels in the communities | where they work and live. It was} made after an extensive survey} US Gov't Treats Weather Bureau Like Stepchild Editor’s Note: In its struggle to! Navy and Weather Bureau work, represents the sum of man’s know- learn nature’s secrets if @f@er to save lives and millions of dollars lost annually through storms and droughts, the U.S. Weather Bureau has developed exciting. new *proj- ects despite a tradition§lly - slim budget. Here’s a closeup of how the bureau goes about its work, vital to every American. First of a three-part series. to determine prevailing wage} levels in the cities and towns where Southern Bell operates. By DON WHITEHEAD WASHINGTON (? — Congress- The CWA-Company contr: ex-| men, like everybody else, complain pires September 29. Bargaining, | about the weather. And, like every- which has been in progress since | body else, they don’t do much July 19, will continue in an effort} about it. : to reach an agreement, For, despite the fact hurricanes, Tibbett Faces DWI Charge NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (®) —Opera singer Lawrence Tibbett faces a misdemeanor drunk driv- ing charge following a traffic acci- dent last night. Tibbett, 57, declined to take an intoxication test, arresting officers | said, and was taken to the valley jail in handcuffs. Police said Tib- bett’s foreign sports car collided with a truck driven by Ralph B. Schwalm, 34, of Burbank, Schwalm suffered a slight hand cut. The singer later posted $250 bail and was released. He said re- sides at Naples, Fla., and is visit- ing here. In 1950-51 there were per teacher in U.S. elementary and high schools. The cormorants trained by Jap- anese fisherman to scoop up small fish are controlled by a long leash. Subscribe To The Citizen violent storms and drought cost Americans hundreds of millions of dollars annually and take a heavy toll in lives, the federal govern- ment—through Democratic and Re- publican administrations alike — has long treated the U.S. Weather Bureau as an official stepchild |. In keeping with what has almost | become a Washington tradition, the Weather Bureau today has avail- 4.1 pupils | . jable for weather research in 1955 |only one-sixteenth as much as the | eight million dollars which is paid for a single B52 jet bomber. | The $500,000 earmarked, for .re- search is squeezed out of tle | bureau’s $24,750,000 budget, one of the more modest of all federal budgets. The big money in weathep re-| search and operations is spent by the Air Force and the Navy with |programs geared largely to mili- |tary needs. A top Weather Bureau official ys the bureau doesn’t even have ccess to all the “classified” wea- ther secrets uncovered in military | research, This doesn’t mean the Weather Bureau operates independently -and without the benefit of the hug | military weather network spread (ae th world. The Air Force, SWING THAT BAT, SIS—The batter in this picture was identified for us as a person named Neb- lett, and thoy said the catcher was named Ketchings. Maybe there’s some mistake, because their first names were given as Bill and Newt, and those names don't sound like they go with all those skirts, etc. Anyway, these two star athletes were among those present when the local Kiwanis Club met the Upper Keys Kiwanis in a comic softball game last week at Bayview Park. Locals won 10-7 over the U.K. boys. Bee iw Spillman. Proceeds went to Kiwanis fund together on many projects and |share most of the benefits of their {collective effort. But in money and personnel, the | Weather Bureau is running second | to the military. The Air Force has | |some 12,000 officers, noncoms and civilian personnel in its weather | service and the Navy has another | 3,000. The Weather Bureau can num- ber only about 3,800 plus a few parttime workers on the forecast- jing payroll, | Today the Weather Bureau is| correct 85 times out of 100 in its jforecasts. But that 15 per cent is too great a margin of error. A wrong forecast or lack of warning can mean deaths and suffering. The recent hurricanes “Carol” | and ‘‘Edna” were painful remind- ers: of man’s struggle with the elements ever since the beginning of history. A man who has spent 40 years trying to piece together the puz- zles of weather is 64-year-old I. |R. Tannehill, assistant chief of the | U.S. Weather Bureau, Tannehill is optimistic about the | chances of predicting weather ac- curately for an entire season—and of outlining a weather pattern in advance for a span of years. But |the experts admit that except for |short-range weather predictions, | they still are in the groping stage trying to match theory with fact Perhaps the most exciting de- velopments in the Weather Bureau these days revolves around these projects: 1, A promising new method of | pinpointing the paths of tornadoes | which may mean the vicious twist- jers aren’t likely to strike without warning as they now do so often. 2. A new method of making mole accurate weather forecasts by a mathematical formula fed through |a-huge computing machine. 3. Long-range weather forecasts. The new research into weather for underprivileged children— -4 ledge about the weather gleaned over the centuries. The Greek philosopher Aristotle in 600 B.C. did the first meteoro- logical writing that had any real authority. Nobody improved much on Aris- totle’s thinking until the first ther- mometer and the first barometer were invented some 2,000 years later. In the middle of the 19th Century a Cincinnati astronomer, Cleve- land Abbe, set up what is. now generally recognized as the first organized weather service in America. He got weather observations from the surrounding area by the infant telegraph network spead- ing westward—and then he figured f At this time unpredicted storms were raising hob with shipping on the Great Lakes. In 1869 alone, more than 1,900 vessels were sunk by storms on the lakes. Shipping interests, farmers and others in| the region set up a clamor for a federal storm warning service. The next year Congress passed a joint resolution giving the storm warning responsibility to the Army Signal Corps. Gen. A. J. Myer, commanding the Signal Corps, fig- ured his organization could make observation at Army posts and thus track the storms moving across the Midwest. The general put a Milwaukean, Increase A. Lapham, in charge cf the storm warning service and this was the beginning of the Wea- ther Bureau, But Lapham quit soon. Myer then called in Cleveland Abbe to take over the job. Abbe moved into Washington and stayed on the job for 45 years before he | retired. } It wasn’t until radio came along that forecasts and storm warnings could be pushed out to the people The weather service remained in the Signal Corps until 1890, when} it was moved into the Agriculture | Department because of the import- ance of the forecasts to the farm-| ers. In 1940 Congress put the Bu-! reau into the Commerce Depart- ment, where it now is. Radar and electronic gadg ets de- veloped in World War II opened | up a vast new world of weather lar theme. Now George Stevens, one of the most highly respected and successful practitioners of the film art, has turned his deft hand toward the Western. His achieve- ment, in Paramount’s “Shane,” which has won overwhelming praise from critics and advanee audiences alike, is due to open Thursday at the Monroe Theatre. Starring Alan Ladd, Van Heflin, and Jean Arthur with Brandon De Wilde and Jack Palance, Emile Meyer, Ben Johnson and Edgar Buchanan, “Shane” is no ordinary Western. Hit is based on Jack stuy and new knowledge on wea-| Schaefer's memorable novel of the ther has piled up fast in the past/Same name, and the screenplay 10 years. was written by Pulitzer prize win- But Tannehill said: “In a cou-| ner, A. B. Guthrie, Jr. Filmed in ple of hundred years they'll laugh color by Technicolor, the story is at us and the methods we are now | unfolded against a background of using will look like 30 cents.” breath-taking beauty, having been Then he added: ‘but the atmo-|shot on location amid the Grand sphere is not a simple thing, God knows.” | Teton Mountain country around Jackson Hole, Wyoming. |the show at a crucial point. He said the star stripper was “without a zipper,” and her east of lovelies had also peeled down | to nothingness in depicting the ride of the legendary lady through Cov- entry. They too had forgotten their horses, Despite pleas to use his imagi- nation, the unbending deputy says the show must not go on, even if the lady gets a horse. RIVER LIGHT MAY BE OUT FOREVER PROVIDENCE, R.J. «#—Sakon- net Light, which has burned as a navigational aid for 70 years at the mouth of the Sakonnet River, may be extinguished permanently, The light was turned off tem- porarily Sept. 9 because of dam- jage caused by Hurricane Carol. | Coast Guard Capt. Ned A. Sprow | said yesterday he doubted that the 48-foot lighthouse would be rebuilt. $$ ‘You want a car that will keep its style in the-yearsahcal antieetaey more dolfars when you sell t. That's today’s Buick—for with¢he built into this great automobite— you’re bownd to commande higher resale price when you sell #t. Drop in—look over this beautiful bup— and learn the clincher: With our tremendous volume right noms, we can offer you the top allowance on your present cas, So you're way ahead on all counts! DALTON BERLE STARS FOR BUICK —see The Bvict-Berte Show Mromate Tuesday Froniags MULBERG CHEVROLET CO. Corner Caroline Street and Telegraph Lane