The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1954, Page 4

Fage4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, October 29, 1954 _ The Key West Citizen Fotlehed daly except Guay) trom Tho Cllzen Balding, corr a Ghty Daily Newspaner ia Key West and Monroe County GO. ARTMAN, Editor and Potiiahor WORNAN D. RAN Ur ae Editor and Publisher -——___Eatered_at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 25662 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for of all news credited to Dot otherwise credited fn thi paper, and also the loca) news pub Member Associate Dailles of Florids Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION general interest junications, UAPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN U. S. PROGRESS IN. THE ATOMIC FIELD Rear Admiral Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, recently held his first con- ference with reporters in Washington, since he became chairman of the Commission, approximately fourteen months: ago. On one occasion, President Eisenhower invited Strauss to a Presidential press conference, attended by a writer for this newspaper, and Strauss answered a number of questions for reporters. However, he has not been available for press conferences, generally speaking, and it was in response to a general desire among the press that he held his latest conference, ° The main point to come out in the Strauss conference was his statement-that the U. S. nuclear weapons stock- pile had been expanded rapidly in the last twelve months. He called the progress “satisfying” and said that this larger, “by a wide margin,” than it was only a year ago. This indicates that the United States is now mass-pro- soviets / This Rock t country’s stockpile of atomic weapons was quite a bit | ducing atomic weapons at a spectacular rate, since our atomic program has been in progress for nine years. From the tone ‘of Strauss’ latest statement on the U. S. stockpile, it would appear that the number of atomic wea- pons in the possession of this country has been increased by a very high percentage in the last twelve months. It also.might indicate that the problem of building enough atomic weapons is very near to solution. In other words, the only limiting factors to building more and more atomic weapons are probably money, and new facili- ties, and there is every reason to believe that the Atomic Energy Commission has received every penny it has re- quested for facilities to build these terrible weapons. The result of the latest conference is the impression that the United States has an enormous supply of nuclear ‘weapons, enough to meet any foreseeable need in the near future, and is capable of building as many bombs as it wishes. If the United States has reached that advanced stage of progress in the atomic weapons field, no doubt the Russians will have reached it very soon — if they have not already done so. Tt becomes apparent, therefore, that the next war — if it be an atomic weapons. war — will see these new ter- rible weapons used on a mass scale and it may develop that they may eventually be used at the rate of a hundred, or a thousand, bombs in one raid. It is hard for one’s im- agination to conceive of the destruction which such raids would cause, Thus, the latest report of the A. E. C. chairman makes it all the more obvious that civilization is facing its greatest test of the ages, and that new wars may bring an end to our life, and civilization, as we have known it in recent decades and centuries. ii Fh 2 E Fa g Bs i 5 BER “PEE E Maybe you've been too busy this week to gather up those. clothing donations for the “Help Haiti” pro- It is part of a ane dis- ject. aster cally south. Tomorrow morning, Boy Scout Troop 253 will assist in the mat- ter. The scouts will pick up any clothing donations. All you have to do is to telephone 2-6913. You'll make the Boy Scouts proud and the suffering people of Haiti happy by joining in this important drive for clothing! Boulevard Improvements Have you been to ride along South Roosevelt Boulevard lately? Noticéd the Bridle Path? The State Highway Dept. has ‘two cleaning up the area. It really beautiful and the work- ers to be commended. I don’t their names but I’ve certainly r seen a more con- scientious ctew. It is up t the public to help keep the Bridle Path in its pre- sent excellent condition. We can do so by not strewing the area with picnic rubbish, ete. The City or County might aiq in this matter if they would place large trash con- tainers every fifty yard or so. New Fleet of Garbage Trucks “This Rock of Ours” is going to have to eat it words! Several months ago, the column laughted at City Manager Vic Lang for requesting seven govered gar- bage trucks. It wasn’t that I ob- jected to the idea. Rather, I was 100 per cent for it. But I couldn’t possibly see how Lang would be able to convince our City Fathers of the necessity for such vehicles, It seemed like too much of a for- ward step for Key West te make! ‘Today's NEW YORK (#—Steel companies are looking for better and more profitable business in the months ahead. But this summer’s dullness has dimmed their earnings picture for 1954, And even the most optimistic expect the industry to have per- haps one fourth of its capacity idle for some time to come. Even the big drop in tax pay- ments wasn’t enough, in most cases, to make the July-Sptember quarter net profits appear bright— either in comparison with the same period a year ago or with the April-June quarter this year. At midyear 30 steel companies showed profit after taxes trailing the previous year by 14 per cent. Only six of the first 22 com- panies to report on their nine. month showing have profits higher than a year ago. Some of the six are in special fields that have been doing well, and some are located in regions where demand is good competition lighter because mearness to markets. Combined, the 22 report profits " Of Ours By Bill Gibb When the first covered truck was Eisenhower's Popularity Versus Economic Discontent Are By JACK BELL DENVER (—President Eisen hower’s popularity aad campaign ‘| effectiveness are matched against Local Civil Service Exams Are Announced Examinations for Indefinite Ap- pointment to the positions of Stenographer, GS-2, 3, and 4, have been announced by the U. S. Board of U, &. Civil Service Examiners purehased, I told the City Mana- ger, “‘You’ve reached your limit,” All he said was, “Wait.” Today, Key West has seven mod- ern Gar Wood “‘load packers” — enough to cover the seven city routes of the Sanitation ment. Congratulations, Mr. Lang, but how in the dickens did you do it? Joan Knowles Miss Joan senior at Key West High is an accom- plished young lady. She was re- cently crowned 1954 Football Queen. Of even more importance; last summer she was selected to attend a special course at North- western University — representing the youth of America. Of course, that wasn’t what she was real selected for but that’s what it a mounted to. Miss Knowles spoke to the Ju- venile Council last Monday night. She disclosed the fact that the teen- agers who attended Northwestern) last summer were unanimous i their opinion that trashy magazine: were a principle contributor towa: juvenile delinquency. Do you think she and the oth students were correct? Personally, I do. How about checking up o1 what your son or daughter is read- ing and see if, in your opinion, it is commendable literature? News stands today are selli junk that is aimed at thrills but) too often leads to corruption. Th sellers are not wholly to blame, To get good magazines, they mus' purchase the bad ones. I know a couple of men who have gong out of business because of this diss) gusting forced ‘tie-in’ on purchas: es. It’s about time we did some. thing to rectify matters. Business Mirror By Sam Dawson down 19 per cent from the fi nine months of 1953. One compa! —a supplier of auto companie: operated in the red this year. But with the bad news and out of the way, many of companies are now looking much better days. Orders are ing up. The usual estimate is that in final months of 1954 and the months of 1955 output of the industry should average around per cent of capacity. The indu: says that 15 per cent of total st making capacity is regarded standby facilities for use in a fense emergency. ; ‘The new orders are coming the auto makers and from users. who have cut their steel ventories down to desired size. “Steel inventories are barely ficient for current ion,” Chase National Bank of New notes today in its quarterly view of business. It also chance that business expansi plant and equipment—with at the Naval Station. Registers established as a re- sult of these examinations will be used to fill vacancies in these positions which may ecur at Naval activities in Key West. Rate Depart. | of pay begins at $2,750 per annum. Application forms may be ob- tained from the Executive Secre- tary of the Board at Building 91, Naval Station, from the Secretary of the Board of U. §. Civil. Sera Yigg Bepminers at any. class or class post office, or from the Regional Director, Fifth U. 8. Civil Service Region, At- lanta 3, Georgia. Copies of the examination an- nouncement with details of quali- fications of the positions are post- ed at the Key West Post Office and at Building 91, Naval Station. Applications for the positions of Stenographer, GS-2, 3, and 4, will be accepted by the Executive Sec- retary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners at the U. S, Naval Station here until the needs of the service have been met. Key West In Days Gone By Since the health department of Key West has started to rid the city of pariah dogs and vagrant cats 22 of the animals have been Pleced in the lethal chamber and executed. Hearing that the fishing around Key West was the best in the coun- try, a party consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Ziegler and Miss Mary Louato, of New York City, came here for the week-end to try their luck. * *& & October 29, 1944 (Sunday. No paper) No New Trial BURBANK, Calif. —A petition of actor Jess Barker for a new trial of actress Susan Hayward’s recent successful divorce action was denied yesterday in Superior |I Court. Barker contended he still loved his wife and that he wanted to stay married to her. creased demand for steel—may be apparent economic discontent in what now looks like an uphill Re- publican battle for Senate and | House seats in eight Southwestern and Roeky Mountain states. | Unless intensified appeals by Eisenhower for a Republican Con- gres change voter sentiment in the few days before the Nov. 2 election, Democrats could gain two Senate and four House seats in these states Eisenhower carried handily two years ago. The eight states are Oklakoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoi » Utah, Idaho and Mon- tana. except Utah and Arizona are electing senators this year, with four Democratic and two GOP seats at stake. Twelve Democratic and nine Re- publican House seaf$ are being contested as are five governorships held by Republicans and one by a Democrat. Democrats now are reported leading in all but one of the governor contests. Eisenhower evidently retains most of the strength he demonstra- ted in this area in 1952 when he Forces in Campaign Fight By ED CREAGH (Por James Marlow) WASHINGTON #—One of the things Americans pride themselves on is that every man accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial. This works Ete swept all eight states by a mar-| © gin of 520,000 votes over his Demo- cratie opponent, Adlai E. Steven- son. Republicans in all of these states have been leaning heavily on the demonstrated Eisenhower popular- ity. But it remains doubtful whether ‘the continued high-tide prestige of the President—which isn’t disputed seriously by the Democrats — can offset what seems on the surface to be a Democratic trend. Some republican politiciens say privately they are convinced they could have pulled the situation out of the fire if Eisenhower had done even a limited measure of the kind of on-the-spot personal campaign- ing that former President Harry 8. Truman did in 1948. Eisenhower's - eight-week work and play vacation in Denver gave Colorado Republicans a lift to the point where they are talking hope- fully of grabbing off a Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Edwin C. Johnson, who is running for governor. : The President’s recent visit to Montana brought out about 30,000 persons. Many probably traveled more than 500 miles to look at him and hear what was billed as a non- political speech. Republicans everywhere in the area have been drumming the re- frain that Eisenhower needs a Re- publiean Congress to complete his i i ; | lisa jane fore Youngdahl, a Republican gov- ernor of Minnesota until he went on the federal bench, and Young- dahl threw out four of the seven counts. He held the key charge and three others were too_vague to have any legal meaning. But he went beyond that. He also voiced “serious doubt” in his written opinion, whether the three remaining charges stand up in court either. The government protested. asked the U.S. Court of Appeals to put back the four counts knocked out by Youngdahl. The higher court did put back two of them. it upheld Youngdahl 81 on the program. They are defending that Program vigorously, although they ate beset by what even they con- cede is dissatisfaction among farm- ers. While there have been charges about “‘eoddling Communists” in the: bitter Montana senatorial bat- tle, the Reds-in-government issue nowhere seems to be dominant. Re- publican Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin seems to be pretty much the forgotten man of the campaign in this area, although he evidently has strong support in such states as Montana. main issue and ruled the “sympa- thizer and promoter” charge must- n’t go to a jury. pected to keep his House seat, and Stewart Udall, Democrat, credited with long lead in contest to fill the 2nd District seat from which Democrat Rep. Harold A. Patten Colorado—Democrat former Rep. John A. Carroll in close race with Republican Gordon Allot for the Senate seat being vacated by Johnson, with Carroll given edge in newspaper polls. Johnson ap- Democrats on the whole have can-| parently didates with better known names than the Republicans, and many of | economic all the states have been talking about what they claim is a some-jti what lower level of business, em- ployment and farm income this New Mexico—Democratic Sen. e | House seats, because of e|Glen Taylor bidding strongly to| an Fe +#-9 Re i d i 3 ct i i i i 4 & ! i i gh 3 F . g2 ° yf E g 8 | H H g F i iF date, William (Scotty) Jack. UTAH—Democrats could gain 2 resignation | ie BF 3 g i of Rep. Douglas R. Stringfellow from GOP ticket after his sion he told false stories al his war record. been considered a cinch for election, but politicians think action may be toward Democrat Walter K. Granger. Former Rep. Mrs. Reva Beck Bosone given edge | salary. - to defeat Republican Rep. William} But let's gi A. Dawson in the state’s other dis-| vice. . . trict. | We're Idaho—Democratie former Sen. | 929° i i i & Fore a tlh i a t i i 5 & 3 ' FH | putz ache i sak upset Republican Sen. Dworshak in cratic Rep. Mrs. G: Republican Rep, a as tbe | ; i i : ; : a i an cay ae rleFest? igi te sap VALS nl