The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 27, 1954, Page 4

a Wednesday, October 27, 1954 : The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) hom The Cilues na Page4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Greene and Only Oaily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe. County LP. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher... oe erred NORMAN D. ARTMAN rccciccmveonncconen Editor and Poblisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 ited nee Associated Press is egg 4 of all news in this paper, and alse'icteg, credited to i Member Associate Dailies of Florida be ori PPT hs 0 SE > RRA Re oe Subscription (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 of public issues and subjects of local or in us " a general interest, but it will not publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCAT BY THE CITIZEN — GIVE GENEROUSLY WHEN COMMUNITY CHEST WORKERS CALL ON you “Tt is more blessed to give than to receive.” That old saying should be borne in mind when Key Westers are asked to contribute to their Community Chest Fund. They should bear in mind also that when they give to the fund they are contributing to the Key West Chap- ter of the Red Cross and to other charities. The Citizen thinks it would be a good idea, later on, to include all charities in the Community Chest drive. ‘6! As tothe Red Cross, a good many Key Westers can step forward to testify to the help that has been re- ceived from it. Local seafarers have had tKeir boats dam- aged or destroyed in hurricanes that sideswiped Key West, or in that sudden blow of 10 or 15 minutes that came out of the northwest on November 28 several years ago and piled up boats in the Key West Bight and the Garrison Bight. * Some local fishermen’s boats were badly damaged and others completely destroyed, and the Red Cross ee in to repair craft or replace those that had been | lost. Compared with other cities in the state, so far as The Citizen has seen, the goal of $55,000, set for the Key, West Community Chest Fund, is moderate, and un- ‘doubtedly will be attained or surpassed. You may be sure that local Navy men will do their part in full measure, as they have done in many another Key West drive. Their activity, in contributing to the fund, should be an incentive to Key Westers generally to do their part unstintingly. Key West and all other parts of Florida were for- tunate in not having been lashed by heavy winds during the “hurricane season” that ig nearing its end. The wea- ther we have had since Hurricane Hazel changed her westerly course in the Caribbean and turned northward, has not been conducive to the creation of tropical dis- turbances, e But the devastations of hurricanes are not the only causes for the urgent need of money to help victims of misfortune. Fact is, they are exceptional. The day-in- and-day-out of the job of living has what is called “victims of ‘circumstances,” and it is these people who make essential, in every progressive community, the raising of a Community Chest Fund to help them until they are able to help themselves. That is just what the Red Cross and other charity units included in the fund are doing. : So give generously when Key West Community Chest workers call on you. You are sure you will help others, and, for all you know, you may be helping yourself. The Citizen knows of local fishermen who always contributed to the Red Cross, and the time came when the Red Cross helped them. ‘ Crossword |. ACROSS 1. Body joint 4. Hurry 9. Snoop 13, Netherlands commune 18. Kind of tat 14, Regret 15. Score at .,-Pinochle 17. Wrath 18. Tip over 49. Friction ‘match 21, Utter 32. Compass point 24. Unite 26. Near 28. In the back 30. Age _ 31. Silkworm 32. Indian drum 34. Highway 36. Peer Gynt’s mother a] DIAIE apd Solution of Yesterday's Puzzie * 50. Bgo 53. Miver: contr, 3: Luere bi 54. Ship's load 6. M 81, Spread to ry 58. Relieves 69, Pasture DOWN 1, Sewed edge 2. Small fish 10. Operate 11. Still 16. Austrian coin # 18. Feline * 20. Women’s club 21. Strew 22. Devil 23. Uneven 25, Bitter vetch 5. Foreign 6. Placid 7. Cravat 8. Type measure 9. Implore 35, Flowers 38, Drones 41, Shaft of light 42. Thrust 44, Difficult 46. Fur-bearing animal 47, Wager 48. Female rut 49. Chinese pagoda 51. Recline 53. Title of a monk 54. Civil Engi- heer: abbr. 55. Bone This Rock To obtain an Evening Divsion of the University of Miami, it looks like a large part of the coopera- tion is going to have to come from Navy personnel. Not enough Key Westers are showing interest. Why? This is one of the grandest op- portunities we have ever had lo- cally. There is probably not a man or woman in town who doesn’t wish he or she knew a little more on some certain subject. Is it because it is too much trouble to pick up the telephone and dial 2-2461 dur- ing the day — or 2-8571, during the evening — and tell the answer- er your name that lack of inter- est is being shown? Fort Lauderdale Division Fort Lauderdale has an evening division similar to the one which is being sought for Key West. Per- haps you’d be interested in a few of the subjects taught up that way— Accounting — Business — Eng- lish — Human Relations — Journa- lism — Management — Marketing — Mathematics — Speech — Phi- losophy — Psychology. Subjects Depend Upon Registration The classes to be offered in Key West are dependent upon registra- tion. As a bulletin from the Mia- mi University says: “Education is not a monopoly of youth!” On its main campus, the Univer- sity of Miami provides students with an immense choice of sub- jects. Elementary Education, Engi- neering, History, Economics, for instance. The evening students may select anyone of a half dozen languages, courses in music, physics, dress de- Of Ours By Bill Gibb ing these few to show the wide variety. However, what Miami has, | Key West can probably have if only enough ambitious folks will call one of the telephone numbers listed above and express interest in the project. Will you do it? Tiresome Subject Neil Saunders quotes.constantly: “There is nothing so old as yes- terday’s newspaper!’’ I agree with him. Every newspaperman knows | that it only takes 2 few days for| the “hottest” story in the world to go stale. For the moment, I think that subject is. Fluoridation! This Rock of Ours began the ori- ginal fight against fluoridating Monroe County water because Dr. DeCamp, head of the State Health Service, suggested opponents to the plan would be ‘crack-pots.’ Al- though I’ll admit to conducting my- self like a grand fool at times, I don’t relish being called a ‘crack- pot.’Also, proponents of fluorida- | tion appeared to be trying to ‘push it’ in an undercover manner. This Rock ot Ours dropped the subject when sufficient evidence had been shown our governing offi- cials that a large segment of the | population did not want fluorida- ted water. That’s all a newspeper- man can do. Remember — the fellows we've | elected to office are not fools. Nor are they desirous of their jobs sim- ply to’ bilk the public. Now that they know the score, I’m sure that | they will do the honorable thing and give folks a chance to ex- press a legal opinion on fluorida- tion, That is why — unless some- thing fresh turns up — you won't see anymore about the subject in sign, astronomy. I’m only mention- The World By ED CREAGH (For James Marlow) | WASHINGTON (#—Nothing quite | like this has been seon before in| the often picturesque history of| this republic. You flipped a switch, jou waited for your television sereen to come | alive, then there you were if the | middle of a meeting between the! President of the United States and his Cabinet. | The time was 7 p.m. Monday.) The place was the Cabinet Room | of the White House, its green walls | a vague gray on the TV screen. | The star—though he drew Presi- dent Eisenhower into the spotlight | with him—was Secretary of State Dulles. First you saw the room itself, with its long coffin-shaped table. Next the Cabinet members filed in—all men except Secretary of Welfare Oveta Culp Hobby. Finally, through the same door in the rear, came Dulles—back from Paris only a few hours—and the This Rock. Today By James Matlow “Mrs. Hobby and gentle- men...” he began, and the first | Cabinet meeting ever to go on the | air, or to be reported by newsmen on the spot, was under way. | What were the reporters and the tadio microphones and the TV cameras doing there? When a re- quest was made to open up this meeting, the President said, he de- ¢ided—‘‘for this one time”—to let all the American people hear a report of vital importance to them. Then Dulles, his tie a little askew his fingers toying with a pencil that got lead all over them, gave his report: a story of a new spirit «f Western unity flowering on the gtave of the European Defense Community. “History,” said John Foster Dulles, “‘will not soon forget... .” Dulles spoke fluently, rarely re- ferring to his sheaf of notes. Breaking a cardinal rule for TV appearances, he didn’t talk directly at the camera—and thus to the people watching on television. He talked, mostly, to the President. Key West In Days Gone By Ernest Hemingway, international- ly known author, who has been fishing in Cuban waters for the past 106 days, returned yesterday on his motor yacht, Pilar, and is now at his home on Whitehead Street. “Is it the intention of the sani- tary department to actually exe- cute stray dogs and cats?” was the question asked of The Citizen to- day by a citizen who owns a pet. The ahswer is that not only is it intended but 10 animals were pain- lessly put to death yesterday morn- ing in the lethal chamber recently constructed at the city dock, foot of Simonton Street. we. * Kee October 27, 1944 New registration for the Novem- ber election numbered only 256, John England, supervisor of regis- tration, said today. Efforts were renewed yesterday to begin twice-a-week garbage and trash collection next week, when city and federal officials conferred on the possibility of utilizing the federal scavenger deficit project. Hal Boyle Says NEW YORK (?— Every occupa- tion or hobby group in Manhattan has its favorite meeting places. The college crowd holds re- unions “under the clock” in the Biltmore Hotel lobby. Actors hang out at the Algonquin, Ralph’s and Sardi’s. Outdoor checker players cluster in Washington Square, horseshoe pitchers in Central Park, musi- cians and pickpockets in Times Square, dog walkers on Park Ave- nue, professional bums on the Bowery, Army men at the Astor, airmen at the Hotel Lexington, and pliticigne atthe men’s bar of the aldorf. Clergymen have a rendezvous place, too. They often meet at “Duffy’s Tavern”—as many refer to it—across the street from the New York Public Library’s fam- ous twin lions at 41st street and Fifth Avenue. The “tavern” is the clerical de- partment of Rogers Peet Co., a clothing firm. The department has been run for 30 years by Frank Duffy, who probably knows more clergymen than any other man in America. He travels 40,000 miles annually and outfits some 10,000 priests, ministers and rabbis. “We've taken care of ministers from every corner of the world,” said Duffy. Challenged as to whether he could outfit a Buddhist priest properly, he said: “Certainly, although I don’t know what would happen if he went out without trousers and tried to con- vince the nearest cop he was a priest.”” Duffy said clergymen were rel- atively easy to please because they know what they want (they don’t usually bring a wife along) and their styles change slowly. “They have a wonderful sense of humor,” he said. “they enjoy a good joke, and when they meet Fhere they rarely talk about ec- clesiastical or political matters. “The younger clergymen today are taller and more muscular than those of 30 years ago. You run into more and more 6 footers. The average collar size now is 15 to 15%, the coat size from 4 0 to 42. “Among Protestant clergymen there is a trend toward more in- formality. The double breasted suit has taken the place of the long coat for daily wear, and the three- button jatket with natural shoul- ders is even more popular. The old wide-brimmed hat has given way to the homburg. “Most clergymen today want to find a sensible compromise some- where between the broadway drape shape and the out-of-date ‘where’s- the-corpse?’ look.” Orthodox rabbis provide a spe- cial problem, as they abide by the Biblical injunction, “thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, linen and wool together.” So Duffy rips apart rabbinical suits, replacing the linen with silk thread, which like wool is an animal fiber. Duffy estimated he has outfitted more than 30,000 clergymen, has yet to meet a dishonest one. Only death or a long disease has ever pkept a clergyman from meeting his bills. The only exceptions were six im- posters, all of whom, Duffy re- marked cheerfully, “went to jail.” Duffy treasures a note sent. him by the late Rev. Ambrose Hyland, the famous chaplain who built “The Church of the Good Thief” inside the walls of Dannemora Prison. “Will you please send me a couple of cassocks for my altar boys?” it read. “One is a 46 long and the other a 44 regular. Both are lifers.” Tip Given On Bomb Survival jon a direct conversation with the President, who doodled from time to time on a pad of paper. As a TV production, all this was hastily arranged. Yet there was time for a few showmanlike touches in the manner of Robert Montgomery, the White House TV adviser. Cabinet members broke in for instance, with well-timed ques- tions that added variety to Dulles’ recital, although Secretary of Agri- culture Benson almost missed one cue. Now and then the camera flicked to other faces: Secretary of De- fense Wilson, on Eisenhower’s left, intent and solemn. Atty. Gen. Brownell, whose right ear alone showed in many of the pictures, alert and quizzical when you could see him head on, Dulles wound up with a warm tribute to the President. He said the Paris and London agreements were ‘‘very largely” the result of Eisenhower’s leadership. The Pres- ident, in turn, praised Dulles for a “brilliant” job and said maybe all hands should give him a rising vote of thanks. Nobody seemed quite sure wheth- er to rise then or wait until later, however. And the first Cabinet meeting ever held from coast to By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE AP Science Reporter CINCINNATI, (—Here’s an A- bomb or H-bomb survival tip: If you see or sense a sudden brilliant or blinding flash of light— duck and count slowly to five. If you reach five, you have sur- vived. Then take stock. If you have the customary number of fingers, legs and other body parts, if you can hear, and aren’t bleeding badly anywhere or bleeding from the nose or ears, you probably have nothing to worry about. It will mean you haven't been hit at all, or significantly, by the three killers in thermonuclear weapons. The three are radiation— including X-rays and neutrons— heat or fire, and the blast wave. The blast wave itself, and objects like bricks, stones and glass sent flying by the blast, could be lethal. Counting off the five seconds will mean you were at least a mile from the heart or center of the atomic bomb. It takes five seconds for the sound or blast waves to travel a gent a aoe dis- tance, you ably won’t any i amount of radiation. This rough formula was given Tuesday by Col. Harvey C. Slocum at the annual meeting of the Ameri- President. Eisenhower sat dowa,! You saw only the side of his face. | coast, sO to speak, ended on this;can Society of Anesthesiologists. smiled, folded his hands, But you had a feeling of being in note of mild indecision. Slocum is professional consultant the paper only. Signature letters and will CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE Editor, The Citizen: Having just learned of the spectacular fire on Tru- man Avenue Monday night in which 12 people were left homeless, and after reading your account of the fire I was disappointed that some credit wasn’t given the Mar- ine and my son H. B. Bost, Jr., BM3, who is stationed there on temporary duty aboard the USS Tweedy (DE 532) who so bravely manned the hose when the firemen back» ed down when flames and smoke shot out of the building. He lives next door at 1007 Truman Avenue with his wife and two daughters, Kay and Carol. So how about a little credit to two of our valiant boys who are not only willing to lay down their lives for their country in time of war but who are also willing to sacrifice it for their fellow man in and at any time? The proud mother of one of our boys in blue, MRS. H. B. BOST » 3495 S. Woodlawn Ave. Norfolk 2, Va. STREET-WIDENING SUGGESTION Editor, The Citizen: I’m well aware that many Conchs resent suggestions offered by “outsiders.” They like to believe they can run their own show without outside help. Isn’t that-so, Eloy? My plan to improve your city cemetery met with dis- approval by some — Mrs. Saunders, f'rinstance — but it was good to hear from broad-minded Annie Kling. I now have a suggestion concerning the widening of your much-traveled Truman Avenue. Why not leave it “as is?” Throw much of your heavy traffic off of this main artery by widening Palm Avenue around Peary Court on one side, and down Catherine Street on the other side, as far as Whitehead Street on both sides. This was done just outside Cleveland, Ohio, at what | is called Shaker Heights. It solved their problem of heavy congestion and it could solve yours, at much less cost than widening Truman Avenue, as there are not as many large buildings to be moved. Sincerely, BILL WILLIAMS FLUORIDATION FACTS Editor, The Citizen: : Dear Sir: amounts used in water purification, it harms no one. It-is of immea- surable benefit to the general wel- fare. The amounts of fluoride use For the past month and a half there have been many untruths written about fluoridation — es- pecially by people who seem to be very narrow minded. Follow- ing are a few facts about fluori- dation. 1. In February and March of 1952, a congressional committee known as the select committee to investigate the use of chemicals in foods and cosmetics heard testi- mony from a number of witnesses on the question of water fluorida- tion. The committee stated: ‘‘Such highly qualified and reputable or- ganizations as the American Medi- cal Association, The National Re- search Council, The American Pub- lic Health ‘Association, The Amer- ican Dental Association, have en- ful for the prevention <i tooth de- cay are considered by the whelming majority of those have-studied the matter to be there, have, been, ample fi Jt ami give to a special group the’ to interfere unreasonably right of a community as a toe Py it determines to dorsed the program of fluoridating | i the public drinking water, The United States Public Health Ser- vice has issued an unqualified en- dorsement of the program.” This federal agency is responsible for establishing the health standards for the people of this country. 2. It has been stated that flu- orides are poisonous. There is no doubt that excessive amounts of fluorides are poisonous, but this is true of a great many substances taken into, or applied to, the body. Chlorine, used to make water safe to drink, was notorious in the year 1918 as a poison gas but in the in anesthesiology to the surgeon general, and chief of anesthesiol ogy and operative service of Walter Reed Army Hospital, Washington, D ‘ » C. It applies to A-bombs such as exploded over Japan and can ap- ply to H-bombs too. For much of the deadly effects of all these bombs go straight up in the air, or could miss you by i over you if you had ducked soon enough, or had ducked behind suffi- cient protection, he said. Slocum mentioned the formula in saying that if a nuclear bomb- ing catastrophe occurred, anesthes- iologists could and should have special lifesaving jobs to perform. heart, cancer, nephritis, and -dia- bete: S. 5. Doctor L. M. Fitzgerald, sident of the American Dental-As. sociation, has said: ““When’a health measure becomes a political issue, make up 33 per cent of the popu- lation of the United States, Sincerely yours, DONALD F. NICKLE YOUTHS ARE TRAPPED IN SUBMERGED CAR River, the Duval ported. Four others in the C. W. Staggs of the patro! Eugene Howard, 17, was in the car and Jake drowned when he tried to ashore. Study of U.S. history and/or the constitution in schools is required in all states, rr