The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 5, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, October 5, 1954 ~ The Key. West Citizen ay nl CEES AOE eo, oR Published da‘ c Greene and Ann “ape sumay) from The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily: Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County : P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher 1921 - 1954 DB. ARTMAN -nomcynemunennnnminennnns Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter ih Pasammeaie tote. se roe Stone ta ccc Nain a anata TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The ited Press is exclusi: entitled to use for répri of all abehés. credited ter Set cheer a fal Seat mak Member Associate Dailies of Florids ee ree een eissunina ats inn nesteshwmend + x nual Subscription (by carrier), 2¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION an. invites discussion of pablie issues D The Citizen is an. forum and and subjects ot: local or general interest, but it will uct pubes anonymous comihunications. IMPROVEME! FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED _BY THE CITIZEN lore Hotels and Apartments, 2 Beach fod, Bathing Pavilion. y Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments, 5. Com} Auditorium. THE COMMUNIST PROGRAM IN THE U. S. The Commuunist Party’s National Committee recent- ly briefed over one hundred delegates from twenty-four states on their role in the coming elections. The idea is for these delegates to work for candidates, irrespective of theif Party loyalty, who favor co-existence with the Soviet Union. The delegates were told to support candidates who believed in further negotiations with the Soviet Union, those who favored United Nations membership for Red China, and expansion of trade between the West and the Communist world. The Communists — evidently abandoning hope of building any strength in Congress — will now concentrate | on supporting candidates who come closest to their foreign | policy proposals. It is obvious that the Communists have | failed to build a party significance in the United States , in recent years. They are sure to fail in their efforts to influence U. S. policy by supporting candidates closest to their views. In fact, this policy will result in the kiss of death for those candidates supported by the Communists. In most areas of the country, endorsement by the Communist Party would be tantamount to sure defeat, and, therefore, we believe the Communists will have no more success in this line than they have had in trying to build a party strong enough to be represented in Congress. NEW FORM 1040 Enactment of a new tax bill, revising the tax laws for the first time in many years, means that most citizens will pay their taxes next year on a new form — perhaps Form 1040, for the most of us. The new tax bill, contrary té Some opinion, does not provide general tax cuts, but;gives.rélief to. most business- es and many individuals in Watidus forms, The: iew law becomes effective as of lasty January ist, and in-case of income from dividends, the} fixst’$50 of such money is excluded from taxes. There ditional four per cent cut on dividend income received after July 31st. We believe a revision of the tax Jaws has long’ been overdue, although it is not yet apparent — at this early date — what the strong pdints and weak ‘poitits of the new tax bill are. Undoubtedly many inequities were clear- ed up in the bill and many of these revisions were long needed. But the main meaning for many Americans will be the fact that the new tax form will have to be faced next April 16th (the date has been moved back a month.) In- stead of the old form, a new form will be required, and many lawyers expect it to be a “lulu.” Some lawyers be- lieve the new form will, of necessity, be more complicated than the former one, and, if this is so, we believe the re- sult will be a boom for accountants and the like. er —————— 2° i Crossword Puzzle} across 1. Public PET MEL ETA RBRIATT IC] AIGIORSE|M[(REMEINITIE| CIOIN|SIPUT RIE RBAITIE| 32. Builds LETT MET IAIPIE IRIS) 34. Demand IRBEMIEIR oe / This Rock The question of relationship with the Navy is creating quite a bit of discussion locally. I honestly be- lieve that most Key Westers rea- lize that the Navy is our most im- portant payroll, However, both ci- vilian and servicemen seem to be at each other’s throat. This is so foolish! Few Navy men stop to remem- ber that the only good station is the one they have just left or the one that they are going to. This is an axiom in the service. At the same time, few civilians stop ‘o remember their own days in the armed forces. ‘There is hardly a man walking inthe street today .who has not served in, defense of our country. Most‘ of them have geen combat. The Navy man who absent - mind- edly slams a civilian is acting chil- dish. The civilian who forgets: his own feelings while he was in the service and fails to forgive the en- listed man's jibes is also guilty of acting babyish. T’ve used the word, “enlisted man” although officers are quite often guilty of boorishishness, Per- haps it is sufficient to mention that when an officer of the Armed For- ces conducts himself in a manner unbecoming, every civilian feels in- sulted — not in a personal maa- ner but as sort of a deep shame that our country could be repr sented in uniform by such an in-| dividual. Enough said. . .think over it. College Extension Gene Griener is employed by the CAA locally. He is working to get a division of the University of Mia- Red Tape Ties Dane In Knots _ By TORBEN KRAGH Of Ours By Bill Gibb mi established here in Key West. Are you interested? Personally, 1 tank that classes for adults would go over big here. I know that there are many cour- ses which I would like to take. If you’re interested in this idea, please drop,me a card — spec ing your particular interests. O: if you prefer; write Gene at Main Road. More on the details of this plan later. Writing Comes With Difficulty It has been so long since I’ve written a column that this writing comes with difficulty. (I was mar. ried the other,day, you know, and have been industriously clipping other people’s. work for reprinting whenever it was permissable.) The Boss tells me now.that I’ve got to go to. work. So be it! He is the Boss! Nevertheless, he can’t dictate the length of this column so for today, I’m going to cut it short. Before closing, may I make a request? There are théusands of people Who haye thought rather seriously of the problems confronting civi- Yians.and servicemen in their re- lationship with éach other, 1 won der if thése thoughts were express- ed, if — perhaps — they wouldn't do some good. | \if you have ideas on the subject, ; will you write “This Rock?” I'll ‘use your signature or won't use it, , according to your request but I |think that we could all perform a service to our country by saying |what we think on*the subject — | “How Can Better Relations Be Se- cured Between All People Here In Key West?” fication. No one could classify it. 77 It is aking’a lot, I realize, but | announce ments 36, Atterwa: . 37. Massachu- YI NBA! COPENHAGEN (#)—Niels Her- | After four months the ministry man Schult put together a sports broke down and said Niels could 4. Vase 7. So. Amer’ ican roder. (12. Rainy 18. By birth 14. Vigilant 15. Chalice |16. Droop '17. Roman date |28. Asiatic peni: {20. Expert 22, Weakens INBBAIMIATS|S ER] setts cape EINEIRIVIATIE MEP IOISIE| 8. Foreign IOIATRISMEWIAINIE |D) RIE IVIOIL | T MEWIAIR AI TIOIMERE PIT IGIRIAIM| S| GIATLIE RES INEM CAP} SIRIEIDEE TIE IDISEETIRIY} Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 45. 47. Old speliing of Noah DOWN . 1.Nodt sleeping 2. Evil spirit 3. Gaze fixedly 4. Not rescued 5. Turmeric 6, Contradict 7. Sheets of glass 8. Lopsided 9. Middle 10. Exist 11. Streets abbr. 19. Was miz taken 21, Cancel 23. White poplars 25. Insect 26. Affirmative 8, 29. Girl's name 30. Chess pieces 31. Writing im- plements 33. Backward movement 36. Scenes of conflict 388. Kitten 39. Turkish decree 40. More recent 41. Obliterate 43. Bevera; 45. Type measures 46. By way of 48. Siouan Indian 53. Impertinent 54. Danger signal 55. Before ind Pe car out of junk parts. Then it took | him 18 -months of struggling with red tape to get his dream on the road. He finally solved it by buying the car from himself—but even that ran into complications. Niels, a 25-year-old mechanic from Orbak, used such parts as a/ ‘motorcycle engine and gear box, wheelbarrow wheels fitted with special ball bearings and tries and Ford. Only the headlamps were new. Sports car critics said you might call the result a short +square- nosed Ferrari type. The govern- ment inspector of motor vehicles classified it as an “excellent ja- lopy.” z Then—18 months ago—Niels ap- plied for license plates. The au- thorities said Niels’ creation was a new car, and to get the plates he needed an import certificate and purchase certificate from the gov- ernment import-export agency. Niels wrote dozens of letters. He argued for hours with officials, who finally said he could apply for per- mission to buy his own car. But the fact that Niels wanted to sell the car to himself gnly made new complications. The Ministry of Justice wacted to know where and how Niels got the car. The ministry assigned a special engineer to make a de- tailed sketch of the car for classi- own and operate the car. Then the Customs Department took over. It decided Niels had to | pay taxes m line with the regula tion calling for a tax on all cars imported on government license But the customs men couldn't de- cide how much. Niels finally agreed té deposit | the equivalent of $75, and at long last he got the license plates. When he applied for his plates he had promised to take: his girl for a ride. She showed up for the big event, but as Mrs, Schult | They had married in the mean- time. ——————__ |SPANISH WAR MINISTER HERE NEW YORK —Spain’s minister | of war, Gen, Augustine Munoz | Grandes, arrived at Idlewild Air- | Port from Madrid Monday to start | 19-day inspection tour of U. S. j Army facilities at the invitation of the United States. | The general has been commis- |sioned to modernize Spanish de- fenses. | —_ With 600,000 motor Cars, 350,- ;000 motorcycles and 250,999 mot- jorized bicycles, Sweden claims |she is the most motorized country |in continental Europe. | ————_ ‘Citizen Ads Bring Results TOO MUCH'WINDUP'CAN BE DANGEROUS People’s Forum | the writer must ace letters and will be leas requested oi! INHUMANITY CHARGED | Editor, The Citizen: | Please allow me space in your valuable paper to bring to the at- tention of the public what I, and all whom I have talked with, re-| gard as a complete lack of humani- y. | On the night of Sept. 30 at 11:45] p. m., I rushed my wife to Galey’s | Hospital with severe pains, in la-| bor on the point of delivering a ba-| bein wife had been to the hospi-| tal to make arrangements for her | delivery there about 3 weeks pre-| viously. The nurse on duty there refused |to admit my wife without a deposit | of $50.00, This refusal came al- though the nurse saw the delicate condition of my wife. I told the nurse that I had saved money for the case and for her to admit my wife while I returned to my home for the money. (In my haste to get my wife some relief |I had left home without the mon- | ey.) The nurse again informed me: | ‘I cannot touch her until you re-| |turn with the money.” | It was at this time that I turned | \to my. wife and asked her if she thought she could bear the pain| until I could get her to the Mon-| roe County General Hospital. My wife said, “I will try.” She was in considerable pain and I turned to the nurse and told her: “If she tak- es with another pain before I get out of here and to my car, I will make you take care of her.” At the Monroe County General | Hospital, where the trip was made while my wife suffered consider- able pains, the nurse on duty rea- lized at once the serious condition |of my wife and rushed her into a room without question. It was 45 minutes after my wife was admit- ted there that she gave birth to a baby boy. | | A Grain Of S alt By Bill Spillman The street situation in Key West is getting a little sad. I seriously doubt if anyone is taking any prompt steps to remedy the de- plorable condition. If you have had the sadistic plea- sure of driving on Souh Street in the vicinity of the 1400 block, you will readily discover that some of the holes are over six inches deep. It wouldn’t be so bad if there was only one hole. However, in this par- ticular area, the holes are so num- erous that you can’t dodge them all. Other streets are just as bad. It also wouldn't be so vicious if the street had only been in the pre- sent condition for the last few weeks. This particular spot has been this way for months. I know that the time of the ci- ty’s new street paving machine is at a premium, but it does not take a street paving machine to keep some of these large dangerous holes filled. If the city doesn’t have the necessary equipment to keep the holes filled — then they should get it. The holes should be filled even if the feat has to be accom- plished every month. If you care to call the city ma- nager and complain, he will pro- baby tell you that he has the area under study for possible repairs. We need less public relations and more streets repaired. It is, of course, understandable that streets cannot be immediately repaired af- | ter the sewer pipe installation. A reasonable amount of time is neces- sary for the soil to settle. This time, for the earth to settle, can be run into the ground. This street predicament was stumbled into by an oversight on someone’s part. The clause in the sewer. contract pertaining to city roads states that the streets shail be left ‘passable’! 6 Billion Set For European Aid CAMP LES LOGES, France [od Gen. Orval R. Cook, deputy U. S. commander in Europe, announced here nearly six billion dollars of American military assistance is to be poured into Europe, much of it the next two years. This is the balance of about 32 billion dollars, he said, which has been programmed by the United States since 1949 for aid in Euro- pean defense, ‘‘more than half of which has been delivered.” Much of the billions still due, he said, is already in the pipeline in Count 5 Average Words One Line Minimum Space THREE LINES Figures or Initials Count As One Word I was told in the first place to take my wife to Galey’s hospital by the attending physicial. When this physician arrived at the Coun- ty Hospital, he was much disturb- ed about what happened at Galey’s Hospital and stated publicly that if it required only money to have had my wife admitted to Galey’s Hospital he would gladly have paid it out of his pocket since he has known me for nine years and would have trusted my word. I requested the nurse on duty at Galey’s to call my doctor and he would guarantee payment, but even this courtesy was refused. My character and reputation in this city is known by all. This is my home town, but never have I had the discourteous and inhuman treatment that I received on the night of Sept. 30 at Galey’s Hospi- tal. Very truly yours, Charles L. Major, 607 Petronia St. Oct. 1, 1954 Film Workers’ Pension LOS ANGELES #—A new pen- sion plan covering 18,000 workers in the motion picture industry will go into effect Oct. 24, labor and management spokesmen said Mon- day. Dehydrated breadfruit can be stored for a long period and is re- ducing the cost of living on the island of Jamaica. 1 Word —_—_—_——— é ra 16 2 % 3 ———— ao ae “4 This word, as it stands, means as long as it is possible for a car to proceed on the street, regardless of aow slow, or the condition of the street — just as long as it can get by, the contractor has met the contract obligaion. The contractors are not to be blamed for being shrewd enough to get by with a vague word like “passable.” Perhaps we should pay our offi- cials more money so competition would force better performance, The city might take some of the illegal money made from car in- spections and buy street equip- ment. The present budget allows an expense of $2,000 to perform the auto inspections, Last year the city grossed approximately $22,000 from the inspection receipts. The state supreme court ruled that safety in- spections will not be conducted for a profit. Need more be said? In two years we will Probably have completed the street program. This will be fine except the cas will be in such terrible shape from driving on the previous roads that it won’t matter much what condi- tions are. Citizens should not have to com- plain to get streets repaired. A'so the street officials should not work on the idea that when we get enough gripes, we will fix a par- ticular item. In spite of all this criticism, the city has managed to keep our main 1 thoroughfares in pretty fair shape with, of course, a couple of excep- tions. The exceptions I have in mind are the roads that lead into the Naval Station through the Tru- man gate, and also the Grinne!] Street entrance to the Naval Sta- tion Annex. If memory serves me correctly, these streets have also been in bad shape for a long time. Druggist Doesn’t Finish Counting BALTIMORE #—A hojdup man jherded four persons into the pre- |scription room of Thomas H. Caldwell’s drug store Sunday night and told them to “start counting jout loud to 100.” Then the gunman picked up the day’s receipts which Caldwell had been counting and headed for the cash register in the front of the store. : The counters had reached about 25 when the gunman returned sec- /onds tater and told them to “start over.”” They ‘were close to 50 when the mam’ fled with $189.07. Caldwell’ said he called police ‘while’ the ‘others were still count- ing.” ye the form of fighting goods being manufactured for delivery to North Atlanti¢’ Treaty countries. CITIZEN WANT ADS Address Please Print Ad Below 17,500 Defense Dept. Jobs Out WASHINGTON \#—Some 11,500 Defense Department jobs have been abolished in the past nine months as useless, the House Civil Service Committee said Sunday, and the action will save 95 mile lion dollars yearly. The committee made public a preliminary report on its cam- paign, waged by a subcommittee headed by Rep. Corbett (R-Pa.), against the practice of assigning both uniformed and civilian per- sonnel to the same job. It said most of the job reduction thus far has resulted from a job reappraisal in the Air Force, and that “a much larger additional * ag is ~~ when the y and Navy report on their efforts. = Key West In Days Gone By Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Symonette, who had been on an extended tour | to various points through the coun- | try, including a trip to Chicago to jattend the World’s Fair, returned |to Key West last evening over the highway. Newton C. Munson, one of the early developers of the Florida Keys, died Wednesday at his home |in Deep River, Connecticut. Inter- | ment will be today. Judges and tabulators were work- ing at a feverish pitch this morn- ing counting the last rush of bal- lots in the contest for the selection of a queen for the coronation cere- |mony of El Grito de Yara here — Tuesday night. } October 5, 1944 * en oe Monroe county isn’t in any posi- tion to put Roosevelt Boulevard in- to first class condition unless the Federal Government is willing to cooperate financially. This was the determination which was express- ed by the members of the board of county commissioners last night. Newly elected members of the board of directors of the Key West Chamber of Commerce today. re- ceived formal notification of their election and an invitation to attend |a luncheon at noon Monday in the | La Concha Hotel. Some sort of a county license should be required of athletic pro- moters who come here other cities to stage boxing and matches, County Commissioner Maximo Valdez declared at last night’s meeting of the Board of County Commissioners. Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram START AD ae RUN AD ____. DAYS NUMBER LINES ____ ENCLOSED 3 LINES 4 LINES S LINES 6 LINES 7 LINES 8 LINES 9 LINES 10 LINES rr Rates Per Line Multiply by number of lines i 1 dey — We 2 days Ie 5 days Ve Jan ae We We | = a E——— USE ORDER-GRAM TO— BUY - SELL - RENT - EMPLOY - OR LOCATE LOST ARTICLES —_———————