The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1954, Page 6

~ ‘THE KRY WusT CITIZEN Saturday, October 9, 1954 ~The Key West Citizen a, dtly (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of _ Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Associated Press is exclusively ed all bows disraicies crudiied to paper, and also the local news pub- Boece rear), pr wok rar, Sa, wal BA RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Giniects, ca ieee forum and invites discussion of public issues iblish or general interest, but it will not pul UAPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED More Beach : BY THE CITIZEN + Consolidation of County and City Governments. — FORT MYERS NEWS-PRESS GOES ASTRAY : WHILE ECHOING MIAMI PAPERS ‘ The Citizen regards the Fort Myers News-Press. as @ newspaper that strives to be fair and just and would not deliberately color an editorial the least bit to distort facts. Recently, the News-Press ran an editorial that was not based on facts. It was about that acreage on the Flor- ida Keys that the Overseas Bridge Commission gave back to the people of Monroe County, who had bought it from the Florids East Coast Railway. -It waa plain to see that the News-Press based its edi- torial on bellyaching stories and editorials that had ap- peared in Miami papers. 1, — Miami papers called the 1947 Papy bill, which provided for the transfer of the lands to Monroe County when the bonds were paid off, a “local bill,” and the News-Press echoed the same charge, whereas the bill was @ general bill. 2, — Echoing the Miami papers still further, the News-Press said that the lands were bought from the rail- road by the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District, but, Uke the Miami papers, did not say how the district got the money to buy the acreage. Monroe County taxpayers got that money from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation by pledging their properties, including their homes, to liquidate a loan of $3,700,000. 8. — But the News-Press made one Statement that not even the Miami papers dared to make. It said resi- dents of Monroe County got a free ride on the highway, while residents elsewhere in the state and tourists had to pay tolls. Year after year, Monroe residents paid tolls, ‘up to within a few months of when tolls were discontinued for everybody. . —~ The News-Press says the original act provided hway and the lands” should be returned to the ‘when the bonds Were paid off. The original act did “not provide for any such thing. Governor Johns, State Treasurer Larsen and Comptroller Gay, comprising the State Board. of Administration, were familiar with the BFC indenture and everything else pertaining to the pur- chase of the acreage in question, and that was why they approved unanimously the return of the acreage to the “people of Monroe County, 5. — That “land grab” that the News-Press echoed ‘was spewed in Dade County, which advocated that Mon- roe give the acreage to Florida’s other 66 counties. The News-Press spoke about parks. There are parks now in the acreage open to the public free of charge. The beaches are free too for public use. Monroe County will build other parks, to enter which will cost the public not one cent, whereas you have to pay to go into Crandon Park in Dade County, That’s the kind of park that should be given to the other 66 counties, ith ai K@aeeak Ke: Sab Tt tts 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 fhe letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. IS THIS PROTECTION? Editor, The Citizen: In the Forum last week I read an article concerning the protection of our birds. Here is an example how they are being protected-in Key West. On Watson Street there is a large lot overgrown with tall weeds. There are many birds that come to eat and nest there. Every day three or four boys come to shoot the birds with sling shots and bee bee guns. We have tried to chase the children and warn them about shoot- ing birds. But! The answers these boys give you would make a seasoned sailor blush. These same boys went on a neighbor’s land shooting birds. He asked them to leave. But they went right on shooting. Finally the man took the boys by their arms and put them off. Now the man who was trying to protect the biras needs protecting himself. He is charged with assault and battery. I think.and so‘do others that these children need a little assault and battery in the right places from their parents. If you lived in our area you would know what it is like to sit on your porch never knowing when you will be hit with bee bees or china berries. It has happened more than once, Try it sometime. Es: W. S. Watson Street MUCH ADO ABOUT SPELLING Editor, The Citizen: . A few weeks ago you published an article for me in your worthy column called People’s Forum. Ever since that article was published with my John- Henry-attached I’ve been flooded with cards, letters and telephone calls asking me wny I changed the spelling of my name. I’ve been accused of all manner of things for changing the spelling of it. People’ who are family to me keep asking if I’m ashamed of the spelling of it. Others asked if I was ashamed of the article I wrote and misspelled the name so I wouldn’t be recognized as the author. Please satisfy their curiosity and save my reputation by publishing my admission to the “crime” I committed. To my kinfolk I would say this: No, I’m not ashamed of my name. Don’t they know it was originally spelled with an “ie” ending? It’s a good old Scotch name and why some of our ancestors ever started changing the “ie” to a “y” is be- yond my comprehension. Yes, my dear friends and kinfolks, I admit I’m listed in the city directory with my name spelled with a “y.” There are 100 of us listed, I’m told. My mail was con- stantly getting mixed with yours and vice versa, One important document was never found. So I simply reverted to our ancestors’ way of spelling it. The good old Scottish way! The pronunciation is not changed however. To those who are worried about my signature when voting or attending to government’ matters such as in- come tax, etc., I still spell it as it is listed. Just give me time and I may have it changed legally. This admission may bring relief to A. M. Currie who lives on Avenue E, and.to Jack Currie on Petronia, for perhaps they have suffered as much as I have for “changing” or should I say “keeping” the correct spelling of our name? Sincerely, E. CURRIE Formerly E. CURRY Two Workers Didn’t Play Game Right NORTH SACRAMENTO, Calif. City Clerk Wilma Briggs dashed —The fire drill at the City Hail| through the imaginary flames to ne - success Wednesday except; close the doors the the safe. A or slight oversights by J Court employe, pragtice or workers, x a ae pack for her pet canary. n Frogman Tactics May Aid In Sub Disasters GOSPORT, England i — The British Navy is working on a new system of escape from crashed submarines—just hold your breath, open a hatch and jump out. Navy experts demonstrating the new system here say the oxygen masks used in normal escape ap- paratus hold hidden dangers. Some recent submarine disasters, they say, showed men died from oxygen Poisoning while trying to reach the surface. The new scheme followed a tip- off from the navy’s “frogmen” divers. They pointed out that no man with air in his lungs could drown on his way to the surface from medium depths because arcs eatly forces the air out and makes it physic; im- Possible to breath in.: a dees Key West n Days Gone By OCTOBER 9, 1934 _ Concurring in the celebration idea of half holiday tomorrow, Joe Pearlman, president of the Retail Association, announced today that all stores which are units of the organization, will be closed 1 o’clack, Julius F, Stone, Jr., will be the principal speaker at the banquet to be given Saturday night in the Delmonico Restaurant under the auspices of the Hospitality League. e Charles Taylor, manager, has been notified that the Porter Dock Company has been awarded the contract for stevedore work in connection with unloading the Steamship Mayan which will ar- rive in port within the next few days. x £. & OCTOBER 9, 1944 A. Maitland Adams was elected President of the Key West Cham- ber of Commerce at a luncheon meeting of the board of directors, held in the La Concha Hotel dining room today. The proposed constitutional amendment, which would consoli- date the city and county govern- ments in Dade and Orange coun:| ties, will appear on the ballot in| the general election in November, | even though the supreme court has ruled that the legislation propos- ing the amendment was defective because it dealt with more than one subject, and, therefore order- ed it to be stricken from the bal- lot. “PREMATURE DEATH” MOSCOW (#—The Army news- paper Red Star announced Friday the “premature death” of Mikhail F. Ryablov, identified as “chief therapeutist for the Soviet Army in World War I. His age and cause of his death were not give. Ryablov was faculty chief of the Academy of War Medicine. A 150 pound mam has about 7 pounds of calcium in his body, \ ... Ear To The Ground! By JIM COBB BKAD01144444444444484444644444444444, You've heard the old saw about the shoemaker’s kid who never had any shoes. Well, it has a local parallel. — Seems W. C. “Sugar” Sweeting operates a garage and gasoline sta- tion next to The Citizen on Greene St. He loaded his wife into the car the other night and headed for a drive-in movie. He, of all people ran out of gas on the bela ee cai le managed to coast 1! pti aan ordered a tankful of gas. é “Why don’t you buy one gallon? his wife asked. : “I’m too ashamed,” replied the chargrined Sugar. xk xe * City Plumbing Inspector Harry | Alsing is getting the kind of kick- ing around we always thought was reserved for newspaper reporters. He's being accused of discrimina- tion because he's doing the job the way the book says it should be done. . Harry has had years of experi- ence as a master plumber and he is stigkler for adherence to the city code. Some people don’t like that and ble. They’d like to see him lay off a little. But he won’t. He’s got a thick skin and he’ll weather this storm just as he did a smiliar one a cou- ple of years ago. . And another point — Harry is going to need some help real soon. Within the next few weeks, he'll have to attend to the myriad de- tails of supervising the installation of some 3300 sewer connections. All that, along with his regular work, which is not inconsiderable with the current building boom here. they are trying to get him in trou-| Any petroleum produci, he said, raises havoc with the only type of joint compound suitable for al sewer project. It causes the com- pound to deteriorate and the re- sult is a leaky system. It’s a real problem in Key West, he said. But engineers have been unsuc- cessful in their efforts to learn where the oil is coming from. A survey by Fire Inspector Arthur Curry has shown that local garage owners are cooperating admirably in keepitig waste out of the sewers. Anderegg theorizes that the oil is coming from Key Westers who buy oil for their cars in bulk and make their own oil changes. “Don’t throw waste oil in the sewer if you want an efficient sys- tem,” he cautioned. x & Now that the ferry fiesta, one of | Key West’s greatest celebrations, is | history, we find that there are a lot of people who worked long and hard on it but who received no ere- dit for their part in making he affair a success. Ray Knopp and his able lieuten- | ants, charterboatmen Johnny West | and Jake Key, bore the brunt of}| the advance preparations, but as the huge fish fry got underway, there were volunteers from unex- ! pected sources. For example, Knopp, was amaz-| }ed to see a truck roll up on the scene bearing an electrie organ — {complete with an organist. | “Pop” Stern, popular proprietor |of Duffy’s Tavern, was the man | responsible. Seems he had decided the party might need some organ | music so he called a trucking com- |pnay and dispatched his organist to the scene. | The organist was the Madman | of Melody, Kip Andrews. “You could have knocked me ov- line and waste oil into the sewer. y We seem to remember that City | Manager Victor Lang fought long) er with an octave when I saw that and hard to have funds included | truck pull up,” says. Knopp. in the budget for an assistant to| Wondering how he arrived at the Alsing. He didn’t get them. Now |figure of more than 5,000 guests Lang will have to scratch around | at the fish fry? and find some money to pay an assistant, as soon as the city com- mission wakes up and discovers that they need one. i. REL a problem which plagues sewer en- gineers all over the nation. It’s th practice of dumping gaso- U. S. Public Health Service engi- neer Jim Anderegg told us about Knopp wanted to have an accur- ate count of the number of persons j at the fish fry but he didn’t want to go to the trouble of counting noses and it would have been a messy job counting the pieces of fish. So he simply counted the paper plates left after the fish fry. “We had 5500 on hand when we started and when it was all over there were less than two dozen,” said Knopp. A Grain Of S If the negotiation relations be- tween, the county and National Air: lines are an indication of things to come if the city and county gov- ernments are combined perhaps, we should leave the present condi- tion as is. The city commissioner have been criticized for having many squab- bles at their meetings. Whether this criticism is justified or not, I do not know, but at least it is out in the open. The smoothness of the county commission meetings is attributed to the fact that they iron out diffi- culties in private caucus meet- ings instead of in front of the pub- lic. This may be he right or wrong thing to do. It seems that one of the county commissioners wanted to give in completely to the airline. : There are two sides to the air port question. Many people are dis gusted with the whole mess. “Is Wilde Worth It?” One of the side questions, is “Is: Wilde Worth It? seems to be in on the insi¢». He said that Wilde is an ex-CAA man and knows all the ins and outs of the airport business. They say that he alone is responsible for Key West obtaining half the federal money allotted to Florida for Mea cham Field improvements, when 62 other airports were trying to get portions of the money. If true, it would seem that Mr. Wilde has the connections to be worth the money, ae aow draws a $500 a month salary plus expenses instead of the ten percent of the gross receipts a It was answered by’ a man who} alt By Bill Spillman. from the airport. Just how long he will continue to draw county money is not known. Another big argument against the county in favor of National Air- lines is the belief that the ‘county should improve the airport before they start collecting the increased rate for the present meager faci- lities. E The county thinks that an in- | come is needed now to show that the future improvement bond issue can be paid for in profits, Perhaps we have all lost sight of the fact that the airport is bene- ficial to Monroe County and its ci- tizens as a means of furthering the Keys as a tourist metropolis. With this in mind, perhaps we should be a little on the enticing side to airlines compared to the present hard bargains. It has been stated that National | wants to go to Boca Chica because of the long runways, safety condi- the airline wants to go to Boca | Chica so it would foree the closing jof Meacham, thus eliminating the present Cuban airline from Key West — and adding immensely to National’s Miami-to-Havana route traffic. On the question of another air line coming to Key West. one large scheduled airline has i e into Es i : i. cooling | It is also reported ‘pays heavily for the vana facilities, whereas tions, etc. Speculation has it that, he ‘ P| To Make Good As Observers WESTFIELD, Mass. #—There may be a shortage of civil de fense volunteers, but Director Wil+ liam Bushmann says schoo] stu. dents no longer will be allowed to man the Ground Observation Corps tower on the roof of the Westfield High School. He said Wednesday that in- stead of looking for airplanes, the student watchers: 1, Flew model airplanes, 2. Tampered with fire extinguish- rs. 3. Ran around the roof. 4. Watched football games on an adjoining field instead of the sky. 5. Displayed a fresh and argu mentative attitude toward the school custodian. 6. Punched" holes in the ceiling of the tower. 7. Drove staples into the walls. 8. Caused other damage to the interior of the tower, Sunday School Lesson ~~] ye (Continued from Page Four) weakling putting our own weak construction on our afflictions. We should endure them like a Chris- tian, Like Job we ‘should be con- demned for putting a false con- struction of the trials we must en- dure, It may seem like a dark and tangled riddle, but ott of the cloud comes the beautiful sunshine and the luminous order of God’s world. Job had talked too loudly and said much as he seemed to do bat- tle with God. Man must trust what he cannot understand and the spir- it filled man will stand upright with girded, loins and walks as worthy soldiers through life, even we walk through the shadow of death. Like David we will fear no evil. Most of us have endured physical or mental pain and anguish. One of the finest women of our com- munity is an arthritic. She cannot move without excruciating pain and is in constant misery. Yet it is a pleasure and inspiration to sit and talk with this patient. She is cheer- ful and has the brightest smile as she talks of current events and the jance speaks of her faith in God. Not a word of complaint but im- plicit trust in her belief. that all things work together for good to those that love. the Lord. Questions And Answers Job has the audacity to. God. He is then told that the whole creation is the work of God. “ morning stars sing together and the sons of God shouted for joy.” Are we better than the angels who sang their anthems of praise? they could appreciate the grea | and goodness of God, why shouldn't | we? Why should we ery and cringe and question the ways of our Crea- tor? Finally it dawned upon this piti- ful creature and he said, “I know that thou canst do all things.” He had been arrogant and bold but now he understands and becomes penitent and submissive. He (had heard of Jehovah but now is able to see and understand. He has seen God and now detests his human weakness. It is to Job’s credit that he reformed and admitted his er- or. Only great men admit faults. 1 It is said that Job received “twice as much as he had before.” Of course we think in material terms. While Job was blessed with more wealth, it wasn’t so much the worldly things that pleased Job so much as his better understanding of his Creator. Here we have this Poor, bewilderéd and suffering man crying out, “Though he slay me, yet will I trust him. . .Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wis- dom. . . I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Job had his answer and so can we find the answer. It is said that the great Beet- hoven had a lonely childhood. He practiced his music for hours every day. One evening he passed cob- dler’s cottage where he heard a little blind girl playing one of compositions. He heard her that she would like to hear a musician play the piece. Beethoven entered-the cottage and sat piano for more than hou! ved for the little candle went out and dusk ao as the i tened into the room. Under spiration of that little most beautiful 7 of the he gee z i net A 5 e if F i i z g fe lt eB i ! : iH i i i EE ie : F ae a5 a B |