The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1954, Page 4

Page4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN The Key. West Citizen Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County IRTMAN, Editor and Publisher stnsmemererserserere 1921 = 1954 ee Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Maiter i TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 ‘of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusiv futile’ to use for ction of all news dispai ai ae br not otherwise credited in this paper, and alse tres created, (it Member Associate Dailies of Florida ——— ———— Oe Gubscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion and of local or al int gener: terest, but it of public issues will not publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and ne Pavilion. Airports—Land Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. Lh 1 2 3. 4 5. KEY WEST AND OTHER FLORIDA KEYS ARE GROWING SURPRISINGLY FAST Do you realize how fast Monroe County is growing in the increase of population and in the construction of buildings? If you read The Citizen’s real estate page last Saturday, you got a good idea of the growth in Key West and on most of the other Keys. Let’s take a look at the continued advance in build- ing activity in Key West. From January 1 to September 80 of this year, building permits totalled $2,099,096, an increase of $222,797 over the similar period in 1953. Keys, outside of Key West, are keeping pace with the growth here. When it is considered that they lack a payroll that is even remotely comparable with the salaries and wages received by civilian employes in the Key West Naval Base, the strides in developing some of the other Keys ‘are truly surprising. Construction on the Florida Keys, outside of Key West, from January 1 to September 80 this year, totaled $2,447,378, which is $348,282 more than the total in Key West. i With a few exceptions, the permits issued for build- ings on the Keys from Stock Island.to Key Largo were for homes or for various types of structures to accommo- date tourists. These ‘South Sea Islands,” as The Citizen has recurfently called them, are more dependent on tour- ists for their. economi¢ growth than js Key West. But Key West’s great future lies too in the tourist trade. Climate ranks as the No. 1 attraction in the Florida Keys, which comprise the only frost-free area in the Unit- ed States. Say what you may about providing varied plea- sures for tourists, when they leave home for a trip to Florida, aside from racetrack followers, their chief thought is to find warmth as a break in the rigors of the cold in their home ‘towns. That is true whether they come for a few days or weeks or the entire winter. ‘It is purely a guess to say what percentage of the tourists like Frit the percentage is high, and the waters of the Florif4i Keys afford them better fishing than in other coastaf areas in Florida. The Florida Keys, widely known now, are growing faster than during any other time in their history. That growth will be stepped-up year after year. Thousands of residents came te the Florida Keys as tourists, and other thousands will come and decide to stay. Of all the jobs we know of, the most demanding would be the ministry. Thursday, October 7, 1954 WKR/S—e —_——_—_ stearate nA NRSUESREESERISSSE SESS tee ba ll bh bh hhh bint Dn nn dade) The Ground By JIM COBB 0444444444444444444444446 444644444444, So Joltin’ Joe DiMaggio has gone down swinging in the matrimonial department, : I don’t feel a bit sorry for him. He got quite a break. Now Miss Marilyn Monroe is a very choice piece of property. She’s a gorgeous dish and may be a very chatming kid. She may even be able to cook, But, as Joe must realize, she ain’t the family type. Being mar- ried to la Monroe is like keeping house in Kress’ window. About the only thing really at- tractive about such a romantic re- lationship, except for Miss Mon- roe’s aforementioned assets, would be her pay check. She can bring that home to me any Friday. xzxewk To eur way of thinking, one of the most worthy charity programs conducted in our city is the Lions There are too many people ready to lead any effort to organize or promote anything. The mania for speed in work and results often ex- plains many of the mistakes that cost money, We think some people who are now so worried about air raids would do well to give their attention to careful driving. ossword Puzzle ACROSS 34. Romen 1 Wiles household CTA Se 18. Not profes. fas. stews sional “41. European uw. peninsula “ 4 Opuieat ste 16.The maples 49. Lately 16. Pen point 11. Corrodes 18 Mexicen shawl 4 TIL MBAIVIEIR| LIEIBIRIAI TIE! mDIAIRIE | LUSTSIUIE Ni r4 DOWN 1. Woe is me 2. Speed contest 3.Row 4. Fragments 33, Intensify 36. Girl 38. Lost animal 40, Cruder 41, Applaud 42. City in Nevada 50. Ever: contr, Club Blind Fund. Do you realize that there are eight million children in the United States in need of eye care. Unless they receive that care, they may carry the burden of blindness throughout their lives. Some of those children live in Key Wesf. The Lions Club is pre- pared to help them. It costs money. The local club plans their third annual charity football game De- cember 3. Tickets will go on sale shortly and if you want to help their program for the blind, buy one. Ke ike lok The police department is begin- ning to show a semblance of or- ganization. Their system of keeping records has been revamped and greatly ex- panded. But the biggest advance they made was when they decided to institute a training program. First step was to send Patrolman Her- man Conley to the Traffic Institute conducted’ by Northwestern Univer- sity in Evansten, Il. The course was set up to outline the role of the police in traffic supervision and accident prevention. Subjects var- ied from accident investigation and directing traffic to records systems and court cases. Conley is back in Key West after completing the three-week course with a lot of information he is passing on to his fellow officers. Now, if the FBI could be pre- vailed on to resume their training course for the entire department, we'd have a first rate corps of gendarmes. xk & POTPOURRI: We always won- dered where attorney’ George Brooks spent his time on his Cuban expeditions. Now we know. One ex- peditionary force made up of guests on the initial ferry sailing got lost out in the country past Matanzas. They happened to run onto a tiny general store at a crossroads and stopped in for a cooling beverage. When the owner learned they were from Key West first thing he said was: “Tu saavy George Brooks?”. . .City Judge Enrique Esquinaldo was the only person making the maiden voyage WATER by DENIS SNEIGR e Let’s give Meacham Field back to the Indians, or whomever the county bought it from. The field has been nothing but a headache and, since Jan. 1, the source of a continuing beef between the county and National Airlines. With the field converted to a min- iature golf course, or at least clos ed, commercial planes could land and take - off at Boca Chica Na- val Air Station. vilian field is available, commer cial airliners are permitted to use military airports. been trying for a Navy okay to use Boca Chica. Boca Chica is a first-class field with plenty of safety equipment and control tower — none of which can be said about Meacham. With all commercial planes 80- ing into Boca Chica, the Navy would have all air traffic in this area under the thumb of the Boca Chica tower. Under that:set-up there would be no chance of collision between m!- litary and civilian aircraft — a p0s- sibility which now exists with Mea- cham and Boca Chica operating s0 near each other. Moving civilian airliners to Bo- ca Chica would do more to cure county ‘headaches than a plane load of aspirin. The county would be completely out of the airport business. In other instances, where no ci-| As it is, National Airlines has | to show up at the boat fully pre- pared, He carried a portable raido to hear the World Series. . .Tom PEOPLE’S FORUM onsidered libelous or unwarranted, Peper . Signature writer must PLEASE SPECIFY Editor, The Citizen: Somebody was silently screaming on this page the other day for definite facts on the harmful properties of “prescribed” sodium fluoride. This is all well-and-good, but they didn’t say where to have the bodies delivered .. . H. V. B., P.O. Box 642, Key West, Fla. SOMETHING FOR THE BIRDS Editor, The Citizen: : I read from time to time how some fine folks write to you, dear editor, about different subjects. Some are of great interest. May I also be permitted to write to you an item which may interest the great family of readers of our fine Key West Citizen. I would like to make a suggestion to our lovely city of Key West citizens, I know they are all very fond of our lovely Key West as much as I am, and we should all be proud of our lovely Key West with all its good features and with all the beautiful things we are blessed with, such as natural resources and climate, and’ nature’s gifts, as flowers, plants, trees, and so forth, which many other cities of this size do not possess. We are still lacking one of God’s gifts to help enter- tain and beautify humanity. This is “Birds.” Yes, we do have some birds, but not as many as we could have, more singing birds and more birds of different colors. My idea is the reason for that is because birds do not get enough sweet water to drink and bathe in. Birds like to bathe in otherwise, Whitley, a member of the ship’s| sweet water. Birds need to drink sweet water. band, got a real laugh when the ship took a particularly steep roll. He pointed to a porthole. All you colud see was the turbulent sea. “Dig that crazy Bendix,” quipped Tom. . .Ferry Fiesta Queen Lona Allen*kept the telephone wire hot between the Hotel Internacional | and Boca Chica Saturday night, | we understand. . .Ralph Faraldo| was the winner of the ship’s an- chor pool. He predicted the first line would be tossed onto the dock at Cardenas at 7:45 p.m. He hit it on the nose. Ruby Dickerson was —two ticks and three tocks. .. Notice all those automobiles be- ing towed down Duval St. these days? They are used cars from the Miami market being taken to Cuba on the ferry for resale... There is a candidate for congress in Cuba named Carlos R. Jones. He lives in Cardenas. The airlines would pay the Navy for use of Boca Chica. The county commissioners would not be in a continuous agrument with National Airlines, The county commissioners wouldn’t be constantly dunning dunning NAL for bills owned for the use of the field. | And National could fly any piece |of equipment the company owns | into Boca Chica. The field is lighted for night op | erations and the runways are long enough to take any commercial | plane. National already has said it My suggestion, if I may be permitted to suggest, is for property owners to install drinking, basins. with sweet water in their yards and lawns with fresh drinking water and change the water from time to time in the basins up high where the cats can’t get the birds, and in this way we will invite lots more birds to our lovely city. Let us continue beautifying out God’s gifted fine city. Let's also have more birdies. second best with a guess of 7:18:04! Thank you, dear editor. RABBI A Editor, The Citizen: As one intimately associated with Stephen J. Constant, I know he was appalled at the way your columnist integrated a revealed truth with Bill Gibb’s views of mysticism—views which reveal all too clearly a limited and un- enlightened spiritual background. I believe I know this character as well if not better than Bill does, and I am equally convinced that his hope for Bill is that Light may come to dispel the darkness of his mind, and infinite Wisdom to illuminate his under- standing. To state, as he did, that the poem is “almost pahetic” reveals an obviously limited un- derstanding of metaphysics as well as mysticism. Granted that ‘mysticism is grossly misunderstood and ex- tremely difficult to define, one fact invariably stands out with remarkable clarity—the mystic is above all a lover of God, one who has atained, or who is on the way to attaining, to spiritual union—to oneness with God “in the heights within as well as the fullness without,” as Aldous Hux- ley so ably phrased it in his Perennial Philosophy. For Bill Gibb to say, therefore, that the Poetic expression of an intuitive apprehension relative to that unity, that oneness with God, is “almost pathetic,” is, in actuality, a pathetic revelation of his own dimly perceived insights. I, for one, sincerely hope hat Bill Gibb will take the steps necessary to correct them—that he will, through prayer and meditation, cultivate the attitude of right at BRAHAM SCHWARTZ. LIMIVED BACKGROUND than to guess, to understand rather than to speculate. If he is successful in that en- deavor, he “will then come to know as a fact of experience,” as our friend Steplten would phrase it — that the only truly pathetic aspect of the poem is the tragic fact that there are so few in the world who can say .in truth, “This man knows, even as I know. It is true for him as it is for me, just as it is for all men who have sought God and found Him.” Bill might also come to know an end to wondering about the objec- tive of Mysticism, for it is just possible that by taking those steps it may be revealed to him that the | objective he wondered about is an Objective—the adoration and wor- ship of which, in spirit and in truth, is God Himself. And then there is always the possibility that clarified insights and an illumined understanding might draw him ir- restibly to recognition of the fact that his greatest need, the un- quenchable but previously unrecog- nized yearning in his breast, is for God. If this came about he [Draft Board InProtest ° BIG SPRING, Tex. i™—This west Texas city’s draft board chairman has resigned because he does not like the life prison sentence meted out to Cpl. Claude Batchelor. Batchelor, 22, of Kermit, Tex., Was convicted by a court-martial at Ft. Sam Houston, Tex., last week on charges of collaborating with the enemy and informing on fellow POW’s while a captive of the Chinese Reds in Korea. Draft Board Chairman H. W. Wright said he did not condone- collaboration with the Communists jbut that he thought “brainwash- ing” and Batchelor’s youth should have “been considered.” Batchelor was one of 23 ameri- cans who chose to stay with the Reds after the Korean armistice. Later he and Cpl. Edward Dicken- son of Crackers Neck, Ve., changed their minds and returned to United Nations control. _Dickenson was tried on charges similar to those against Batchelor and given 10 years in prison at hard labor. He was a prosecu- tion witness against the Texan. Wright made public Tuesday a letter of resignation he sent to service director, in Austin, Tex. it said in part: “My conscience will not let me be a part of drafting young men | who might later be subject to the severe punishment that was ren- | dered’ Cpl. Claude Batchelor. “Although I cannot tolerate any- one who would collaborate with Communists, I am still of the opin- in that the court did not take in- to consideration that this boy was only 16 years old when he enered military service and that you and I know that a large per cent of the older men could not stand up under the severe punishment and brain washing that the Commu- nists are able to force upon their prisoners.”’ : } | Key West In Days Gone By OCTOBER 7, 1934 (Sunday. No paper.) x«* * OCTOBER 7, 1944 Tolls collected on the Overseas Highway last month © exceeded those collected during September |of 1943 by more than $2,000, Loans totaling $56,757 to per- sonnel of the Navy, Coast-Guard and Marine Corps were made during the first nine months of this year by the Key West Aux- iliary of the Navy Relief Society, it is announced by Lieut. W. H.. Horton, executive secretary, Double Feature To Open Sunday At The Monroe The Monroe ‘Yheatre nas sisved a double bill to run next Sunday and Monday. “Sailor of the King,” a power- ful story of_patriotism and passion, stars Jeffrey Hunter in the title role. This tale of warfare in the South Pacific was penned by C. 8. Forester, the modern master of great sea adventures. All the devotion to duty, the might then find himself echoing the words of St. Augustine—‘‘Thou | hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless ‘til they repose in Thee.” It would be ironic, but just, if Bill then found, as many others have, that in order to meet this greatest need, to find that for which his heart yearns, he had to place his feet upon that Path which \ would make him too, a Mystic. Sincerely, DICK SPLAINE. 708 South Street, would like to extend its New York | tention ,open-mindedness, humil- ; Miami coach flight to Key West. | ity and that alert passivity which National could do this at Boca] wit permit him to know rather |Chica but not at Meacham. | NAL also has said it is selling \the present 14 - passenger planes the line operates between Miami |and Key West. The line wants to fly 44 - passen- ger Convairs here, including a night flight. 9 That's impossible at Meacham “Lost Weekend now. Tn all th i LOS ANGELES w—A wife has NAL and the pebelaeh ia etc forgiven her husband for what he listened to, I never have heard aj Calls his $20,000 “lost weekend” |commissioner suggest that the] 2nd they’re back together again. |county fold Meacham and get out} Charles W. Entrekin, 27, a paint- |of the airport business. ing contractor, testified in Superior | Think it over, commissioners, | Court Tuesday that he was seized | Maybe it is the best and quick-| With a sudden impulse to go off est way out of the airport mess.]0D a spending spree after his wife Wife Forgives Mate’s Costly Specialist Says Eat The GLOUCESTER, Mass. — The Massachusetts Health Department recently advised fishermen they no longer could dispose of fish scales in the Gloucester harbor. Faced with a growing accumu- lation of smelly fish scales, the Community Pier Assn. asked A*- nold G. Carey, a Boston engineer ing consultant, for advice. After a study, his advice: “Eat them.” and can’t remember what hap- sued him for divorce three weeks ago, alleging cruelty. You Can Seales. Of Fis pened to the money. After the hearing on temporary “I was nervous and under a severe strain,” he said. Entrekin testified he drove to San Francisco with $20,000 in cash Carey said the taste may not|support Entrekin and his wife be so good, but a pound of fish} Ruby, 28, announced they had be- scales is about 20 per cent more'come reconciled. Mrs. Entrekin |beneficial than a pound of steak.|said she wouldn’t ask her husband -|He added the fish scales are so|to explain his weekend. They left high in food value they ‘‘could|the building arm in arm. grow hair on a billiard ball.” - He offered other alternatives:| Sugar.cane was being grown in burn the scales in an incinerator | Hawaii when the islands were dis- with dry garbage, convert them| covered by the Western World and into fertilizer, bury them under|scientists believe the Polynesians some faraway sand dune. carried it there frem Asia. Key West, Fla. October 4, 1954. B29’S TO RETURN TOKYO W—The 307th Medium Bomb Wing, the last xemaining B29 group in the Strategic Air Command in the Far East, will return late this month from Oin- awa to the United States to be re- equipped with B47 jet bombers, the Air Force has announced. Americans spend about 300 mil- lion dollars a year on eye care. valor and tradition that has been the mainstay of the British Em~ pire is symbolized in one youth’s dedication. The other half of the double feature will be “The Rocket Man,” starring Charles Coburn, Spring | Byington, Ann Francis, John Agar and little George “Foghorn” Wins- low. This is a homespun comedy with a small town locale. It has @ | modern twist supplied by the an- ties of young Winslow who uses a magicray gun given him by aa ephemeral space man who in- structs him on its use. RECAPS DICK’S T nus TIRES IRE SERVICE {BUT