The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 23, 1954, Page 6

PageS = THE KEY West CITIZEN Saturday, October 23, 1954 > The Key West Citizen | Rebisied catty ezcopt Sunday) trom The Gilson Bullding, comer a ____ Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County LP. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 25661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The ited is entitled to use for ction ‘of all news dispatches credited to @ Member Associate Dailies of Floride Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 mec cre wt dese TB ade! to Wh ADVERTISING RATES MADE. KNOWN ON APPLICATION fhe Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, E publish ‘roaymous communications, . gs ‘ San IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN “ "LET'S SIT'TIGHT AND SMILE ABOUT THE GOOD.STREETS WE'LL HAVE SOON That was heartening news in The Citizen Wednes- day about Manager Lang’s informing the city commission that Key West, may get $125,000 surplus sewer funds to add to the money Key West now has to pave our streets. But residents and visitors should be assured that we will get good streets, regardless of whether or not the surplus funds are obtained. Who says so? Manager Lang himself said so a month ago when he outlined the pro- gram of the city’s street improvemént plan. He explained that roadbuilding or repairing would begin about the middle of next mgnth. . Car drivers in Key West have been impatient over the condition of our streets for several months. But the impatience will die away and will be forgotten when we have smooth roads over which to drive. Good streets are as important to the progress of a city as are running water and a sewer system. And that statement brings up the thought that Manager Lang and the city commission have been unduly criticized for the poor condition of our streets. But what could the commission and City Manager Lang do, other than what they have done and are still doing? What would be the consequence .of good streets if we didn’t have a good sewer system? And don’t forget that the government engineer, an expert in sewer con- struction, said our system, when finished, will be com- parable with any other in the country from a viewpoint of efficiency. So how was it possible for the commission and Man- ager Lang to give us a topnotch sewer system without tearing up our. streets to lay mains? As that wasn’t possible, all that remains for us to do is to wait patiently till the projected street improvements are finished. What has happened in Key West, in the way of torn-up streets, has happened many a time in a thousand other cities. It is always happening recurrently in city after city, and it will happen here again along some streets when the time comes to lay new sewer mains, or sections of them wherever they are needed. So it is up to us to sit tight and smile as we visualize the time when our streets will be comparable with any others in Florida. _ We will admit it: We thought October would never come, back in July. } The football hero is usually given a very fair picture of life while in his college glories, Clement Attlee believes there is a chance — and just a ehance — that Red China will someday break away from Russian domination, It is not much of a hope, but about the only one the West has, concerning China. ssword Puzzle 35. Bank of earth 99. Strong wind 40. Favorite 41. Manners $i 45. Make lace M S iyselt GE IMIIMIOTRIOIN IES PTA] IN] TE INIEIRIGIE!T! TIC} MUTLITTTIAIN TRE VIAINIE | IGIOIN] mS ; RIAIM AICICIEIPITIETD (al ALSIP} ae aaa cae ane ' 2S an sites 43. Attitude American “ie State Can Save Money By Streamlining Its Complez System Of Retiring State Officers TALLAHASSEE (#—An actuarial study indicates streamlining and revision of Florida’s complex sys- tems for retiring state officers and employes could bring about savings of over 12 million dollars a year. The report, by the Richmond, Atlanta and New York firm of Bowles, Andrews and Towne, is being studied by an advisory com- mittee named to investigate state pension plans. The committee probably will re- port its recommendations to the Cabinet Budget Commission to- ward the end of the year. The Budget Commission then will make its own recommendations to the Legislature. Recommendations would bring all eligible state workers under federal social security, revise the present schedules of contributions and benefits and set the normal retirement age for persons enter- ing the state’s employ in the future at 65. The general retirement age now is 60 after 10 years service or any age after 30 years service. The new system wouldn’t affect the retirement benefits to be drawn by present state employes nor would it set a new age for them to retire. Though no future em- ployes could draw pensions with- out contributing to the retirement funds from their salaries, those presently employed under non- contributory systems could con- tinue without paying. “Somewhat lower benefits for new entrants might be considered justifiable in view of the unhealthy financial condition of the present system,” thé actuarial firm said. The State Highway Patrol and Florida National Guard would not be affected because of social .se- curity regulations. Among non-contributors who would have to pay into the retire- ment funds would be Supreme Court justices who now retire at full salary after 20 years service without having to pay for their pensions. | The new plan would do away | with the separate and complicated | retirement system for teachers un-| der which they have several op- tions as to retirement age and amount of contributions. They would be classed with other state employes for retirement purposes. In addition to.,revising and con- solidating the pension plans them- selves, the actuaries proposed lib- eralization of present restrictions on investment of retirement funds. | Present law limits fund invest- ments to such low interest securi- ties as government, municipal and school bonds. The actuarial firm recommended permitting invest- ment of fund ‘‘in such investments as are usually approved for life insurance companies. “If this recommendation were followed, the funds could expand their portfolios to include corporate obligations, a limited amount of preferred and common corporate stock and perhaps even a certain amount of well-secured real estate mortgages.” Also. recommended was combin- ing of investment funds into one pool. This would “result in a fund large enough to practice better diversification of investment. by geographical area, by class of se- curity and by type of borrower. NEW JOB FOR ENVOY PANAMA, Panama @—Roberte Huertematte; Panama’s ambassa- dor to the United States, was named comptroller general Thurs- day by the National Assembly. PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes e: ers, but the editor reserves CANCER DRIVE EXPLAINED Editor, The Citizen In answer to Mr. Bill Spillman’s article published Tuesday, October 19, 1954, I would like to state that: The American Cancer Society feels that it cannot do justice to its program of education, service and research if it loses its identity among a number of other agencies. The impact of Cancer is lost when a giver donates to a package deal Tather than to an independent drive. ‘ The hundres of thousands of vol- unteers who give time and effort during the annual April Crusade do not only collect funds but tell the cancer story. They would not be-able to do so in a combined drive. In other words we lose our identity when we participate in fed- erated fund rasing, so we are un- able to carry out effectively the educational aspects of our annual Education and Fund Campaign. Our educational message would be lost among the multitude of mes- sages of other local agencies. Since | it is estimated that 230,000 men, wo- | men and children will die of Can- cer in 1954 we cannot fail to get our message across to the public, which can be done most effective- ly only in an independent drive. A joint campaign conceives of its efforts in terms of economic, executive and managerial efficien- cy. We consider our program in terms of lives saved. Please bear in mind this writer | is not against the policy of the Community Chest Appeal, and am a donor to same, also to other non} participating agencies; such as the T. B. Christmas Seal Sale, Heart, Crippled Children, Multiple Scler- osis, Arthritis and a few others. | I personally do not believe peo- ple can discharge their obligation | to society, merely by writing a check or giving\a days pay and al- low others to divide it up among causes as they see fit. In closing I would like to say, please support the Community ticpating agencies in their annual drives. Yours in service to the Can- cer victim and their families. Mrs. Dorothy Daniels, Comd. Chest, also support the non - par-| of fluoride into city water. Volunteer Workers of the Mon- roe County Unit American Cancer Society OBSERVATIONS ON FLUORIDE Editor, The Citizen, Following are a few observa- tions on the fluoridation contro- versy which might be of interest to my fellow citizens: 1. The American Medical Asso- ciation does not endorse fluorida- tion of water supply in any part of the U. S.A. 2. The Monroe County Medical Association has not officially en- dorsed fluoridation of our city wa- ter in the water 3. There is no’ in la in city of the views of its read- tight 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 sreeenery the letters and will be published unless requested otherwise. proved a resolution favoring fluori- dation in general terms. They treat it as a hot potato. 5. I don’t believe the Navy claims exclusive ownership of our main supply pipe and the right do do with its contents whatever they please. That pipe was built with taxpayers’ money. 8, Nobody disputes anyone’s right or wisdom who wants to use flu- oride in his household. The drug stores and five and dime stores are willing to supply anyone with preparations of sodium fluoride same as aspirin and any other household remedies, without pres- eription. 7. Or suppose the firehouses, where there is continuous attend- ance, were equipped with special water tanks, to be fluoridated by responsible persons to 1 PPM and | sealed, and let the householders who want it come and get it as often as they need it? 8. No need to compel anybody to use fluoride who does not want it. Is that too much to expect ip a free country? 9. However, promoters of fluori- dation refuse to consider any other method of using fluoride, to help children’s teeth, except via city wa- ter mains. 10. No fluoriation benefits are claimed thereby to anybody except children, during formation their permanent teeth. This it would be- nefit an estimated ten per cent of the total population. The remain- ing ninety per cent would swallow it without any benefit at all. 11. Even including this ninety per cent waste, actual cooking and drinking water amounts to a small fraction of what the people use for bathing, toilet flushing, scrubing, dishwashing, laundry, car washing, lawn sprinkling, ete. All this wa- ter, if fluoridated, does not, of couse, help anyone’s teeth. 12. It looks as if the emphasis is not on how to help chidren during the period of their permanent den- tation, but rather on getting tons 13. There is # regrettable habit in many industries to dump into some stream anything they don’t need. We don’t want any of the industrical fluorides dumped into our city water and, through water mains, into our homes. Is that too much to ask im a free country? . A. R. Asks Court Aid CHICAGO (®—Mark Melhado, 30, filed a complaint in Superier Court yesterday long ‘unheard in Hlinois The complaint for “‘protection af the rights of infants” asked the ~The World By ED CREAGH (For James Marlow) WASHINGTON (#—Advice to the Democrats: Keep plugging. Ad- vice to the Republicans: Quit groaning. These words of counsel have gone out in the closing days of the congressional election campaign from two men pretty high up in their parties—President Eisenhow- er for the GOP and National Chair- man Stephen A. Mitchell for the Democrats. % If the Eisenhower and Mitchell statements told the whole story, there would be no doubt the Re- publicans are in trouble and the Democrats. riding high, with the election only 11 days away. Party leaders, even presidents, don’t always gauge the sityation correctly, however. Besides, their campaign statements are designed for a- specific purpose—in this case, to build a fire under party workers. Such statements don’t necessarily reveal the speaker's private opinion of who’s ahead. The President spoke at a GOP rally in New York yesterday—a day that saw him wade much fur- ther into the thick of the campaign than he had done before. He even the photographers, pulling down the corners of his mouth in a grimace of dejection. And he declared the Republicans are never going to win if their leaders “‘are going around pulling their faces this way.” What the GOP needs, said Eisen- hower, is a “‘fighting heart’”—the kind Jack Dempsey had when, af- ter being belted out of the ring by Louis Firpo in 1923, he came back and knocked Firpo halfway home to his native Argentina in the second round. The President wasn’t saying the Republicans are on the ropes, much less out of the ring entirely. But his picture of a glum GOP in need of more backbone was in sharp contrast to the pieture Steve Today By James Marlow Mitchell was painting of the Demo- crats in Washington. Mitchell said victory is “within our grasp.’ But the Democrats can still boot the election, he said, by relaxing too soon. “I am deeply disturbed,” he went on, “by reports of voter! apathy and Democratic compla- jeency. The two together could spell victory for the Republicans,” This is something new for the Democrats. They haven’t been troubled by overconfidence since the first two Franklin D. Roosevelt terms. Thé Republicans seemed |to have established a monopoly in | overconfidence in 1948—to their bit- ter regret, since the Démocrats beat them. It wasn’t just happenstance, by the way, that Eisenhower picked }New York as the place to start , campaigning in earnest. That's a state both parties are determined to eapture— not only for its stake in this election, but because of 1956 presidential politics too. On the face of it, the Democrats have more to gain—a governor- ship. They'd like to put their can- didate, Averell Harriman, in the seat long held by the GOP’s Thom- as E. Dewey. If they do, Harri- man will be a big man—and quite posibly a presidential contender— in the next Democratic National On the other hand the GOP can- didate for governor, Sen. I M. Ives, can keep his Senate seat if he loses. If he wins he can, and undoubtedly would, name another Eisenhower Republican to succeed him in the Senate. But here is a Republican worry: What happens ;to its now-powerful New York state organization? Dew- ey, who has led it in the past, has in effect turned over the reins to Ives. What happens if Ives drops ‘them? Could the Dewey element keep control of the block-bustnig |96 votes New York will cast in the | Republican National Convention of | | 1956? POLITICAL NOTES ° By JACK BELL EDITORS: This is another of several stories by roving Associ- ated Press reporters analyzing the campaign in key states. By JACK BELL HELENA, Mont. — Montana Republicans are beating a “keep peace and prosperity” rhythm on the political tomtoms in an effort to unset veteran Democratic Sen. James E. Murray. Although Murray claims the trend definitely is running his way, Republicans contend GOP Rep. Wesley A. D’Ewart is giving the 78-year-old Democrat the race of his political life. D’Ewart is 65. Republicans have plastered Mon- tana with billboards proclaiming “keep peace and prosperity, vote D’Ewart.” Jack Toole, Democratic state chairman, scoffed at what he termed a Republican attempt to cash in on Eisenhower's popularity and on a prosperity he said is illusory. “They don’t say what peace, nor do they say what prosperity,” Toole said. “There is turmoil all over the world and no semblance of prosperity at home, and the peo- ple are not going to be kidded on that score.” Toole said he thinks the outcome of the Senate race and two contests for House seats Nov. 2 will be set- tled on the basis of the “‘pocket- book” vote, a thesis with which Murray agreed. “It’s just a matter of dollars with a lot of people,” Toole said. “There aren’t as many dollars in the pockets of the farmers and the stockmen, and the merchants are suffering from that fact.” D’Ewart said, on the other hand, that he thinks the basic issue in the campaign is “‘socialism vs. free enterprise.” He said Murray’s Senate record as “a leader of the New Deal wing of the Demo- crats” is rebounding against the senator. He discounted economic factors saying the state’s situation is good on that score. Declaring he stands for about 90 per cent of the.Eisenhower pro- gram, the Republican nominee said he thinks the President remains highly popylar in the state. Eisea- hower carried Montana by 51,000 votes in 1952. D’Ewart said Eisenhower's re- cent appearance in Missoula, where 30,000- persons. turned out, demonstrated that the President still is “very popular in the state.” Independent statisticians say fig- ures favor the Republicans this year unless there is the kind of strong Democratic trend Murray insists exists but D’Ewart says he is GOP area which casts 60. per cent of Montana's On the other hand, Murray ap- parently can count on a heavy vote in the normally Democratic 1st District. And he’ says he'll pe helped by digsatisfaction among} farmers in the 2nd District. Murray has made an issue of | Eisenhower’s flexible farm price | support program, but D’Ewart said he thinks a Montana speech by Secretary of Agriculture Benson has helped the Republican cause greatly. ’ He said Benson faced a “cool” |audience in a section where the farmers union is strong, and won them over before he had finished. The farmers union has been call- ing for rigid, high-level price sup- ports. D’Ewart, a rancher himself, con- tended there is only “professional” dissatisfaction in the farm belt, stirred up by the Democrats. Murray, on the other hand, id | he found in traveling to all corners | of Montana that the farmers are worked up. Murray said that because of what he believes to be economic voters he believes he will win “a big victory,” topping his previous best margin of 30,000 votes over a Republican opponent. He said he thinks Eisenhower's appeal for a Republican Congress “will have no effect whatsoever.’ “The voters think that Eisen- hower would do better if he had a Democratic Congress,” Murray said. “They think he is a good man, with his heart in the right place, and if he had enough Demo- crats around him he might accom- plish something.” However, Republican Gov. J. Hugo Aronson, who is campaigning for the ticket, predicted Montana’s voters will go along with the Re- publicans because they believe Ei- senhower needs GOP help in Con- ress to finish the program he has outlined. ‘ Aronson, who is not up for re- election this year, said: “Murray doesn’t know what he is talking about when he says that the farmers are aroused. All Mur- |ray knows about farming is whs he sees when he drives by a farm. Former Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, who, was defeated in 1946 for Nixon Says Reds Active In Demo Party BUTTE, Mont. (#—Vice Presi. | dent Nixon declared last night he has evidence the Communists ace Promoting their interests in fhis country through the Democratic Party. Nixon, a former U. S. senator from California, said he possesses a “secret memorandum” to Cali- fornia Communist party leaders, directing them to “fight out the issues within the ranks of the Dem- ocratic party.” He made the declaration before a theater audience of about 1,000 in Butte last night, one of several stops in this area on his campaign tour in support of Republican can- didates, Nixon was scheduled to leave Butte today for Worland and Chey- enne, Wyo., where he promised to make further disclosures in speech- es today, , As far as the Republicans are concerned, Nixon asserted, the GOP “never has had the support of the Communist party and it pe ane have its support now and it will never ac i in the future.” eee “There is no question,” he said, ‘but that millions of loyal Dem- ocrats throughout the United States bitterly resent and will oppose this effort on the part of the Commu- nists to infiltrate the Democratic party and to make its policies the Policies of the Democratic party,” But, he added: “The 6,926 security risks which have been weeded out of the gov- ernment service by the Eisenhower admintstration in the months are grim evidence American people were i when they lost confidence in the ited Sanineeeee will or ai eal with the Communist — at home.” Democratic administration of former President Truman, he said, “unfortunately adopted poli- cies which were soft, vacillating and inconsistent in dealing with the Communist threat.” Nixon quoted his memorandum as stating: “To unite a new political com- munist majority for 1954 and 1956, the recognition of the two-party system remains the form which the overwhelming majority of the American people now ex- Press themselves in polities. “Under these circumstances, the first attempt must be to fight out the issues within the ranks of he Democratic, party.” To this the vice president added: “The Communist party of Amer- Ica is right in one respect when it says the 1954 elections are eru- cial in determining the ” ica will take.” ster Key West In Days Gone By A public meeting for the zation of a local unit of the da State Unemployment will be held in Key West 24, officials of the state nounced, —— Harold Ballou, of the the Democratic renomination, an- nounced in Washington this week he plans to “vote for the Demo- cratic ticket in Montana with the exception of Sen. Murray.” Wheeler, who has been living in Washington since his defeat, said in a letter that Murray was largely responsible for that defeat in 1946. Rep. Lee Metealf, Democrat bid- ding for reelection in Montana’s 1st District, sided with Murray in declaring that farm dissatisfaction and unemployment will affect the Page, Republi nominee opposing Metealf, said he ' believes the election is going to Eisenhower a Republican | gress. Con- Leroy H. Anderson, Demoeratic | turn largely on the issue of giving | Oklohima holds football series tween the Sooners tion University. DE oak veptinn "Ew: has ieizing the administration’s out of every 100 Amn out ee every American B. Fiero . » has been ord and pledging d support for President’s program if elected. Most politicians give Fjare a slight edge over Anderson. Metcalf is credited with a topheavy advan- ‘tage over Page in the ist District, g i pee 3g