The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1954, Page 4

‘ Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, October 15, 1954 The Key West Citizen ee Aeneas ences Se Se Published cept Sunday) fro: Citizen Building, corner acapella en i : * Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County \. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher 1921 - 1954 WORMAN D. ARTMAN ww Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 of The Associated Prest—The Associated Press is ex crete clare ts ly eae re pee, copied to [ot omit ited in this paper, and also. the local news pub- : Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION open forum and invites discussion of public issues interest, publish Citizen is-an subjects of local or general “but it will not ous communications. INTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED IMPROVEME! : BY THE CITIZEN AN EDITORIAL ON EDITORIALS In writing editorials, commenting and drawing con- clusions on current events, every editor is charged ‘with a very grave responsibility. There are many different styles of writing editorials, and the reader is entitled to know something about editorial policy. i In the first place, there is the free-swinging editor, who has a solution for every local, national or international problem. This editor knows all the answers, and always has the correct course of action, in his little or large town, as his fingertips. Of course, this is an impossibility even though this editor may carry with him a majority of his readers, simply because he spends more of his time getting ac- quainted with the facts, and details a good case behind every argument he presents, The average reader does not have the time to refute such an array of evidence, nor is he informed to an ex- tent to which he could see through the one-sidedness of such editorials. Another editor is one who tries honestly to present " both sides of . controversial issues and outlines general recommendations or expresses an opinion in favor of a general course of action. This type of editorial does not carry with it the solution to all of the duy’s problems, nor does it usually include sensational attacks on persons or org&nizations or parties, which some people like so much. Today, most sober-minded editorial writers exercise every care to bring to readers educational and informa- tive editorials. In The Key West Citizen, the reader is offered in- formation and opinion which is designed to help him form his own conclusions. We do not attempt to do the thinking of the reader in our editorials. 4 Tf you will read these editorials and the news columns and take advantage of other sources of information, you will get enough facts and enough of a news presentation to form your own conclusions, In any democracy, that is what is needed and although the editors’ opinions are expressed, for your information, it is not an attempt to convince you of anything, or to make you believe what someone else believes. : Your duty as a voting citizen is to form an opinion of your own, based on a fair pregentation of news events and facts, and this is the purpose of. informative and edu- cational editorial columns today, Money is seldom appreciated until there is none around. The news that Marilyn is seeking a divorce probably surprised more people who were expecting as much than any recent event on record. \IDIE! OR) SIUIRIE} PIUIRIITIAIN| NIBAIRIAISIEIL IO} TIRE TLIC MCIAlW AMAT MILIOITI EILIAITIEIS| RIEICIE/DIE| Pil DIEICIE TE! 1. Like 8. Inclined 10. Omits in Pronouncing 21. Most sensitive 12. English river 19. Hire 20. Armpit 21, Manuscript 24. Footpath 26. Squander 29. Newt 30. Deep hole 32. Threw Power Issue Is Prominent In Campaign For Senate Seat In Oregon Election This Year Hal Boyle By MORRIE LANDSBERG PORTLAND, Ore. (#—Kilowatts are charging up a hot Oregon race for the Senate between Guy Cor- don, the Republican incumbent, and Richard L. Neuberger, a New Deal Democrat tring to swing a Republican state. The “power issue” has been a prominent one right from the start, but other factors also figure in the campaign. Republicans are seeking to put the Eisenhower administration and the President’s personul popularity on the line. Vice President Richard M. Nixon has denounced Neuberger as a left-wing Democrat. Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind-Ore), who bolted the GOP and is backing the Demo- cratic ticket, has said, Cordon is an isolationist and reactionary, Cordon supporters profess to be confident the help-Eisenhower ap- peal will tell the difference on elec- tion for the state’s senior senator. Democratic spokesmen acknow- ledge Eisenhower is held in gener- al esteem but contend there isa: feeling of letdown against the ad- ministration itself. Neuberger, 41, a nationally known writer and:a state senator since 1948, advocates public owner- ship and management of power facilities. He pictures the 64-year- old Cordon as “‘the.senator of the giveaway.” Cordon, he says, has “betrayed” Oregon on power mat- ters. : Cordon denies he or the admini- stration is giving anything away. He says he upholds the system of private enterprise, as against ‘“‘su- perstate paternalism.” Defending his support of government partner- ship with private concerns to turn out more kilowatts, he said: “I favor any sound proposition which will increase power for the pacific Northwest and do it rapid- y.” ONEYMOO Says NEW YORK (#—Any mother who has survived the tense ordeal of preparing her moppet for a gram- mar schol pageant might regard Mrs. Alice Viola Clements with awe. For Mrs. Clements, the show world’s most durable foster raoth- er, has auditioned some 300,000 talented and not so talented chil- dren in a quarter of a century. More than 12,000 kids have ap peared on “Aunty Alice's” famous “Children’s Hour” Sunday program over WNBC and WNBT here. The program, which recently cele- brated its silver anniversary, has been a springboard for many now famous entertainers. . “So far as we’ve been able to find,” said Mrs. Clements, “it’s the oldest continuous show in radio. It has gone on for some 1,300 con- secutive weeks.” It is now only a part-time task for busy, warm-hearted Mrs. Clem- ents, who was once a Broadway dancer herself. Five years ago, after the death of her husband, Philadélph’e advertising agency. commutes here, where she holds auditions, and writes, directs and produces her show She loves to work with children, Cordon, appointed to the Senate in 1944 and elected in 1948, some-| times differs with the administra- | tion, although he says “I’m 100 per | cent for Eisenhower.” | The President has spoken up for Cordon, and Douglas McKay, a} popular Oregon governor before he | became secretary of the interior, | returned to campaign for Cordon} when it looked as though he needed | help. As for himself, Cordon seeks re-| election on his 10-year record with-; out special emphasis on Eisenhow- er’s call for a Republican Con- gress. Democrats are staging a vigor- ous drive in two congressional dis- jricts. Republicans say they are hopeful, however, of retaining par- ty members in all four seats and electing McKay’s gubernator- ial successor, Paul Patterson, to Key West In Days Gone By OCTOBER 15, 1934 Work on 1,000 benches, which will be placed in Key West parks, will be started tomorrow morning under the direction of the parks and recreation department. This announcement was. made by J. Gerry Curtis, director of the de- | partment. she took over the operation of his | his own four-year term. Joseph K. | : : Carson Jr., a former mayor of | During the American Legion Portland, is the Democratic can-| Convention in Miami the Steam- didate for governor. | ship Flroida of the P. and 0. S. S. Democrats have made some gains in registration and aroused dormant party organizations in a number of counties. Republicans continue to hold a lead, however, in registrations. Neuberger’s main strength cen- ters in barely democratic Multo- nomah County (Portland), which has nearly one fourth of the state’s population of over 1% million. Monroe Sweetland, Democratic national committeeman, said that “as of now, Dick Neuberger is elected,” but acknowledged that the outlook might change. He said he bases his optimism on Neuber- ger’s more intensive campaigning, Company will be in service from that city to Havana, and a schedule covering the entire period has been worked out and is now avail- able. ~«* * OCTOBER 15, 1944 (Sunday—No Paper) CARP SG a a spurt of unemployment in Oregon and a “‘climate of reaction against the administration. . Some GOP leaders keep their fingers crossed when they tell you Cordon will win, but Ed Boehnke of Eugene, Republican state chair- man, says he is very confi- dent.” N SPECIAL jhandles them easily with a firm knowing kindliness. Each year she contributes to the education of a number of talented | children whose parents can’t afford to give them the training they need. “I've always been interested in| Fshow business,” she said. “I was! the youngest of seven children in a Pennsylvania Dutch family. My father had paid $400 for a piano, and none of the older children cared to play it. “When I came along, I had to. My thrifty father simply wasn’t going to let that piano go to waste. I gave my first concert debut at 8, and I wore panties made of flour sacks with the name of the company printed on them. “As I sat down to the piano, everybody in the audience started laughing. In flipping back my starched dress, I had given a free ad to the flour company.” Each night now when Mrs, Clem ents looks at television her heart is warmed by the sight of at least 6 to 8 performers who got their sart on her program. “Not all are. stars,” she said, “but they are making a living.” Among the better known gradu- ates of her children’s hour are Ezra Stone, Robert Q. Lewis, Ar- nold Stang, Joan Roberts, Eileen Barton and Roberta Peters. 4 What has she learned from: 25 jyears of working with children? | “Well, the most important thing | |is—to treat them as adults,” she | | said. “Children respond to reason | at least as well as grownups—and | they’re more obedient. | “The parents often are more of |4 problem than the children. They ;mever seem to be satisfied if a jehild has one talent. They want {to push the child into everything, *, claim he can do anything.” | | One father offered Mrs. Clem- | ents a new car if she’d put his child on her show. A jeweler of- fered her an expensive watch on/| the same basis. “I had to turn them both down,” she laughed. “The children get on! the show only by their own talents. | We don’t audition: their parents’ pocketbooks.” ] Mrs. Clements believes that en- couraging chi‘dren to develop their talents helps cut down juvenile de- | linquency “A child trying to become good in anything simply doesn’t have time to get into trouble,” she said. She has found that child ventrilo quists usually are the most highly intelligent of young performers, | young comics the most mischie- | vous. “It’s hard to hold their attention —they are always trying to make me laugh,” she said. “But I sup- pose I really love them best of| all. I always dreamed of being a comedienne—but I wasn’t.” That is the key to “Aunty Al- ice’s” success. She shares the yearning behind every child’s most | impossible dream, and does what she can to help it come true. i The Navy’s underwater school here is instructing its students in methods of rendering useless “lim- pid mines.” Limpid mines are ex- plosive charges attached to the bot- toms of ships and set to explode| the later. Word that the Navy is learning how to deal with them brought this comment from one Key Wester: “Well, the Navy is finally getting around to finding a way to combat the same weapon that sank the Maine—more than 50 years ago.” wk * POTPOURRI: Rumors have it that the Caribbean Ferry System is planning the construction of a large motel on their property at the north end of Duval Street. . . If you want to practice Phrenology, the study of the bumps on people’s heads, it’ll cost you $625 for a li- cense fee in Key West. . Key West- ers are speculating on whether or not Circuit Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., -will disqualify himself from the suit against the Overseas Holl Commission. He’s the brother-in- law of commission member Hilario Ramos, Actually, it would appear unnecessary to the writer. . .And Attorney General Dick Ervin is watching the legal manuevering very closely. He, according to local sources, is the author of both the 1946 agreement and the local bill passed a year later. . .Fishermen at the city fishing pier are Yreport- ing banner catches of snapper. . . Noticed Duke, the black setter, wandering up and down Duval St? He’s searching for his master—who died a couple of months ago. . . The city commission was surprised to earn at their last regular meet- #% that the tax assessment on property cannot be admitted as evidence in condemnation proceed- ings. They learned that fact dur- ing a discussion of possible means of acquiring the property at Simon- ton and Angela Sts. for use as an off-street parking area. The’ asking price is $100,000 and the tax assess- ment is $24,500. Only appraisals by recognized authorities and similar sales in the same area | can be used for evidence, .accord- ing to City Attorney J. Y. Porter + + The world series of dominos is ... Ear To The Ground By JIM COBB under way in the main fire station, A team composed of Earl Adams and Ross C. Sawyer is favored, . . The Key West-Cuba ferry will get a big play’in the January issye of Ford Times, with graphs including one of Lynn . % oe ae We like this ancedote attributed to Fred Allen, commenting on what he thinks of advertising agencies: “An agency man is one who has graduated from Princeton. He shows up at his office every day at 9 a.m. to find a lot of molehills on his desk. He has until 5 p.m. to make mountains out of them.” xk & & The tide of public opinion is turn- ing in favor of fluoridation. Dr. Delio Cobo and his associate, the Navy’s Dr. John R. Gunderson, should be commended for having the fortitude to brave possible cri- ticism and stick to their belief that fluoridation is desirable for the community. In a series of debates on the is- sue, they have shown that once the thinking public gets the facts, they will approve of this method of making the lives of our children safer and healthier. At each of their debates, they have won a strong victory for fluoridation. It appears that we may get it soon. There are those who would rath- er see the question put to referen- dum. I don’t think it is necessary. I'll probably be criticized for my stand. Placing a question of that sort to referendum will force voters to cast their ballot on something they are not qualified to rule on. There are some matters that should be left to the medical professions to decide. It falls in the same category, I think, as public health laws. After all, they don’t ask us to vote on whether or not we have our chil- dren vaccinated before we send them to school. We are just told to have it done And we aren’t losing any of our} rights, either. Asst. Secretary Returns From Mystery Mission To Formosa By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON (#—Asst. ‘Secre- tary of State Walter S. Robert- son returns today from a mystery mission to Formosa reported to have dealt with limiting National- ist forays against Communist Chi- na. There was no advance comment from Robertson, the State Depart- ment’s top Far Eastern affairs of- ficial, nor from department spokes- men here on the precise purpose of his sudden trip to confer with Nationalist Generalisssimo Chiang Kai-shek. There was reason to believe, however, that the United States would like to see fighting between the Communist and Nationalist Chinese kept to an absolute mini- mum. Robertson ‘eft here last Satur- day, but his mission was not an- nounced until Monday. The State Department said then he would confer with Chinese government tive United States aid programs.” Upon his departure from For- mosa, Robertson himself appeared to contradict this at least to the extent that the department had implied he aid discussion was he sole purpose of his trip. He said he had “examined the situation throughout the Far East- ern area and exchanged views as to means of coping with various problems in the region.” He remarked he would report Chinese Nationalist views to Secre- tary of State Dulles here. Dulles, presently on vacation, is due back | officials ‘‘on current and prospec-' | ington that suggestions had been made by the U.S. government that there appeared to be no purpose in continuing the bombing since the Red bombardment of Quemoy had eased off. Formosa newspapers immiedi- ately took the line that the United States had set up restraints on Chiang’s operations. The papers then recalled those imposed when United Nations forces in Korea were not permitted to bomb Com- munist bases north of the Yalu River. At that point, Robertson may have decided that the press com- ments were government-inspired and that some new high-level ex- change of views was necessary if a public controversy was to be avoided. Such a controversy, some ob- servers speculated, might have been embarrassing for Eisenhower administration in the climactic weeks of the congressional election campaigns. Questions about American aid, diplomatic informants said, may have come into the talks in con- nection with strategic issues posed by the ending of the war in Indo- china last July. Efficiency Of COP Lauded MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. —The Eisenhower administration, says Navy Secretary Charles S. Thom- as, has saved taxpayers’ money at his desk Monday. “by being more efficient.” Robertson spent little more than} Thomas, addressing a rally spon- a day on Formosa. He saw Chiang sored by the Carroll County Re- three times for a° total of about! publican Woman's Club last night, four hours. His surprise decision!said the adminis.ation was able to fly to Formosa came at the end ,to cut down expenses in the De- of last week. Two things which had partment of Defense without cut- happened during the week may ‘ting strength by streamlining oper- provide the clue to his decision. ations. First, it became known in T: Thomas praised Defense Secre- peh, the Formosan capital, that tary Wilson as a “man of integ- Chinese against the Chinese Communists’ ambition, who never begins a proj- had stopped. They had been under- ect ‘‘without bringing it to a suc- taken several weeks earlier after, cessful close.” the Reds had begun attacking the ——_— Nationalist island of Quemoy, just} Big Bertha, racing on eastern off the mainland. tracks this season, weighed 13 Second, it was learned in Wash-* pounds at birth. Nationalist air attacks rity,” with “great fortitude and | Britain Calls For Talks In Dock Strike By HAL COOPER ment summoned employers and° union leaders to urgent truce talks today in an attempt to end a wild- cat dock strike that threatens to spread throughout he naion’s sea~ The stoppage by 24,000 dockers ~” and a walkout by more than 15,000 London bus drivers and conductors Presented Britain with its worst’ Potential labor crisis since the gen- eral strike of 1926. Another 8,000 ship repairmen also were idle is @ separate unofficial stoppage. The Communist Daily Worker cheered all the walkouts, calli for “the unity and solidarity: of the working class.” Sir Walter Monckton, minister of labor, set up the dock talks after an emergency meeting yesterday of a Minister Churehill’s Cab- inet It was believed the ministers ap- Proved an action plan should the Strike affect essential food sup- plies and services. One drastic step the government could take would be to declare an emergency and order troops to the docks to un- load perishable cargoes. Ignoring pleas by union officials that the men return to work. to. Permit negotiation of grievances, defiant strike leaders declared the stoppage would become national unless the employers yielded and made peace. _, The port of London tieup, now in its 12th day, already is food supplies. Imported eggs, but- ter and bacon are fast vanishing from stores in the metropolitan area. Industrial experts estimate. between a fourth and a third of Britain’s overseas trade is at a standstill. The strikers say they will stay out until employers accept their main demand—that overtime work should be on a voluntary basis, The employers so far have re- fused to negotiate until the steve- dores withdraw their ban on over- time, imposed at the start of he year. The city’s bus strike, mean- while, entered its third day with 15,746 of the system’s 43,000 ati- vers and conductors idle and 3,263 of its 7,600 buses laid up. _ The busmen, who lack the back- ing of union leaders, quit work when the state-owned transport system introduced new schedules to spread manpower. Sally’s Bankrupt LAS VEGAS, Nev. @—Fan dan- , cer Sally Rand filed a petition in bankruptcy Wednésday, _listin; among her $950 assets four fans valued at $25 each. She ported liabilities $2,047,380.15, ; Her lawyer, Dave Zenoff, said — most of the liabilities involved a nye at ung 7 | two-million-dollar- suit against her growing out of a corperation dis- ” | pute. = HUSBAND LOVED PIANO TOO meus ba lottle S, Pee ee a baby grand piano as the “No. 1 Dick Says ‘ North Carolina: It’s great—taking a vacation w here in North Carolina! ‘There rs wig place like Key West, how- Let me tell you why I like that ost-spot— T can let my hair down in Key West—I can complain about the | town, fuss about the politicians, raise “glory-hallaullula” about the ind nobody says apything except “yes” or “no.” Dick’s Tire Service, located at $29 Truman Ave., is headquarters for U.S. Royals. Perhaps we're getting into our advertising ‘speel’ a little early in the column. How- | ever, I’m so darn proud of having | What is considered the best “tire | place” in Key West that I want to |do some gg a gh ge os > » Or the Carolinas where Come into Dick's Tire Service, $29 Truman Ave. Phone us at 2-2842. Dick’s specializes in Courtesy. Moreover, we have the only Lodi Steam Recapping shop in town. Be seeing you. . . (Adv’t.)