The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 30, 1954, Page 6

Page 6 = =THE KEY WEST CITIZEN daly Cogsept Sunday) from The Clizen Balding, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County NORMAN D. ARTMAN Editor and Publisher Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter _ 2. Member ‘Associate Dailies of Florids seription (by earrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES -MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION forum snd invites discussion of public oar i interest, but ft will not’ potlise IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED ~ » BY THE CITIZEN Apartments. each se es gravee Airports— in a. Consolidation of County and City Goverameats L 2 3. “4 5. EVERY KEY. WESTER WHO VOTES NEXT | TUESDAY HELPS HIS CITY AND COUNTY Too often many of us reason superficially, and when we do that you may be sure our conclusions generally are wrong. That truth fits in with the attitude of many voters in Key West and elsewhere in Monroe County who declare they are not going to the polls next Tues- day because the Democrats will win without their votes. Have those voters familiarized themselves with the ‘seven proposed amendments to Florida’s constitution? Do they know that one of the proposed: amendments directly affects Monroe County? That proposed amend- ment is No, 6 on the ballot, and its adoption grants per- mission for thé consolidation of the county tax assessin: and collecting offices, oo That consolidation would save money for Monroe County. taxpayers. It would be the first step toward what The Citizen has advocated for 30 years — the con- solidation of:the city and county governments. As things now stand, Key West is the only part of the Florida Keys where double taxation is paid on real estate, aside from | the owners of homes under the $5,000 exemption who are untaxed in the county. The other six proposed amendments are of great importance to the people of the entire state, and, there- fore, every voter who has the interests. of the state at heart should go to the polls to approve or.disapprove, as he sees fit, each of the proposals. As to Monroe County, and particularly Key West, there is still another reason why everybody who can should go to the polls. A city’s or county’s political influ- ence is of great consequence to men in public office, as well as those who are running for office. Records are kept of the number of votes polled in every city and county in this'and other states. Let us assume that the vote in Key West next Tuesday would be.small, say, a couple thousand. Such an outcome would affect Key West adversely, not only in the eyes of the men holding public offices but also among people gen- who read about the small vote listed in newspapers. | $o, despite the lack of opposition, there are two im- ‘reasons why a large vote should be polled in Key West — your pride in your city and county and your approval or disapproval of any of the seven pro- posed constitutional amendments. _ Voting is our greatest privilege, and, if we are good citizens, we conceive it as our duty to exercise that privilege. __ | Is never too late, if you are still alive, to be care- ful on the highway. _ Then end of life will find most of us with a lot of business which shduld have been attended to several - years earlier, LLININ EOMENIAIE RERIA!S| FE ISIS) LIOINIAIL IS) EINITIE) PES a word Puzzle co oQ nn n” =. im) FY Fi} FBERS i i af : an ne ff F S_22_SES_SasR Shae R r a tu aU al Bi Agee ae Saturday, October 30, 1954 : SAME OLD TUNE ON THE ‘ 2 oe “This Rock Yesterday we mentioned two men who are doing an excellent job cleaning up the Bridle Path on South Roosevelt Boulevard. Today, I found out their names. Oliver H. Gato, 1426 Von Phis- ter Street. Santiago Valdez, 809 Virginia Street. Again I say that they should be commended for their excellent work. If you don’t believe me, gheck the area for yourself. Both ‘Of the men are employed by the than one oldster likei you or me will forget our young days and cry to the high heavens about the badness of modern children. Halloween is really ‘‘Kid’s Day.” Perhaps at no other time during the year can the young boy or girl display mischievous behavior more safely. I'll say this. much-for to- day’s youth — they have heaps of fun yet cause less real damage than you and I did when we were kids! Remember when we used’to turn over the Chic Sales, preferably with someone in it? Or take the gates off fences? Stack up lawn and porch furniture, breaking a- bout half of it? If you lived in the country away from Key West, the chances are that you borrowed someone’s cow and locked it up in the school house! Think back on those destructive days and when the goblins howl, “Trick or Treat,” tomorrow night, +] you will probably say a prayer of thankfulness that they are the 1954 version of hob-goblin. University of Miami Here’s a mighty nice letter I re- Of Ours By Bill Gibb ceived from Dan Steinhoff, Jr., Dean of the Evening Division, Uni- versity. of Miami. You know we're tryng to get an extension set up here in Key West. If you're in- terested in undertaking a particu- lar course of study, telephone 2- 2466 and give your name. But to get to the letter... “Mr. Griener has visited this of- fice to relate the results of the sur- vey .which the committee and other. interested citizens. of Key West undertook to measure the ex- BULL\ FIDDLE VS Sua Will Return To Key West In an officer’s conference Friday at squadron VX-1, Cdr. Semmes, VX-1 executive officer, disclosed that Navy VS — aerial anti-sub hunter-«iller — squadrons will be brought down to Key West, The new squadrons will be here for training only and will not be permanently based at the Southern- most City. The training period for the units will be three to four weeks tent of desire for University class- |}, es in your community. Please know our very real appreciation of the assistance you have given to this project. It seems clear that substantial interest has been es- tablished. “Dr. Jamies Godard, our Vice President and Dean of Administra- tion, and I are planning a trip to Key West during the second week of December to further clarify this potential amd to make arrange- ments-for the opening of classes there if the survey results prove realistic. I can assure you of the keen interest of our administra- tion in serving your community and of our deep appreciation of the assistance you have given this pro- Rather Flattering Dean Steinhoff is rather flatter- ing. Although Griener, Superintendent Horace O’Bryant, and myself are suppose to compose the survey committee, the actual work has been done by Griener and O’Bry- ant. But that is beside the point.— The important fact is that Key West needs this extension of the University of Miami. And a lot of you folks probably are anxious to study some subject — either for college credit or for purely per- sonal satisfaction. Why not call 2- 2466 during office hours next week and ask for further information? PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes ers, but the editor reserves are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers of the views of its read- items which right te delete any “4 fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write en one side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must ac iny the letters and will be published unless requested UNIVERSITY APPRECIATES AID Editor, The Citizen: Mr. Griener has visited this office to relate the re- sults of the survey which the committee and ‘other in- terested citizens of Key West undertook to measure the extent of desire for University classes in your community. Please know our very real appreciation of the assistance you have given to this project. It seems clear that sub- stantial interest has been established. Dr. James Godard, our Vice President and Dean of Administration, and I are planning a trip to Key West during the second week of December to further clarify this potential and to make arrangements for the opening of classes there if the survey results prove realistic. I can assure you of the keen interest of our administration in serving your community and of our deep apPreciation of the assistance you have given this project. Sincerely yours, DAN STEINHOFT, JR. Dean, Evening Division University of Miami In the near future liaison officers will visit the various activities to coordinate details in conjunction with logistics and a ground flight training program. Union Official Held For Perjury DENVER (®#—Maurice E. Travis secretary-treasurer and former president Of the 100,000-member In- ternational Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers (Ind), was ar- rested here Thursday on charges of lying when he said he was not a Communist party member. | Travis was released on $10,000 bond, The arrest stemmed from a six- peared eeaiegt, handed down yesterday by a federal grand in Denver. ae The Mine-Mill union was ousted from the CIO in 1950 for’ alleged Communist domination. Key West In Days Gone By | plain: In reference to the present air- port dispute, it is a shame that personalities should enter into the negotiations. The aim of it all If money can be saved by the use of an already constructed, ade- quate airport, I say use it, regard- less of personal feelings and past Hal Boy Says ents, when a son is drafted for military service, sometimes com- “T wouldn’t want my boy to duck his duty to the country. But it does seem such a terrible waste of time, now *at we are at peace. And he’s sv young. He'll be surrounded by all kinds of temptations. It’s S/o easy for a kid his age to go wrong.” y i Whenever I hear a father or mother carry on like this, I feel like telling them the story of Steve Lavoie. His career is an example of how military service, far from hurting a kid, can help him get his feet on the ground and find a real goal in life. * Steve, silver-haired but still tough-fisted ‘at 53, is about as rugged an individualist as any left in the land. He likes to hunt bears in Canada, buffalo or leopards in Africa, because he cherishes the intense feeling of aliveness that comes in moments of danger. He also operates a $12,000,000-a-year electronics firm, and gets a simi- lar thrill hunting down the solution to an intticate problem in eng- neerng. As a-friend said of Lavoie, a Winthrop, Mass., boy who won suc- cess the hard way: “We is a guy who’s never really happy umless he’s walking some kind of a tight rope.” This is Steve’s saga: k “1 was a problem child in high school. Never in any big trouble, but always in some kind of mis- chief.” A heart-to-heart talk with a sym- pathetic teacher convinced Steve he was wasting his time. Although he -was 16, he managed to s in the Navy by fibbing about his age. The Navy sent him to radio school, mustered him out with dis- ability pay after two years because of an injury. He had no money, less than two years of high school credits. But he talked Northeastern College into admitting him as a special student by promising to catch up on his high ‘school work in the summer months. For a time he picked up some change by fighting as a pro er. yr first year I flunked five subjects,” he said. “But I made them up during the summer. The next year’I flunked one, and after that I didn’t flunk any.” both to complete his high school work and graduate from college on li sepa T still didn’t feel I had an} education,” he said. Helped by his wife, Miriam, who earned $15 to) $18 a week in a hardware store, 3 e Be2 .. rl A $ i i RPE ; i . enlist }profit score so far this year is in By stubborn boning he iegeee| Up For Probe AUGUSTA, Ga.. (W—Army au- thorities investigating charges that trainees at Camp Gordon have been severely mistreatci withheld comment today on progress of the inquiry. Third Army headquarters in At- lanta reported Wednesday an in- could be put in at cost. The ques- | tion is raised whether it is worth it jor not, : Gen. Bolling promised @ state- ment when “all the facts are in.” He declined to comment on a Fes. Ef; pill HE le Raphel| yORGANVILLE, N.J., }—Par-: Then I got a $42 job as a WPA electrician.” A year later he became an asso- ciated engineer at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, and pioneered in developing airplane instrument landing systems. “I invented a new antenna that enabled them to save and. use $1,000,000 worth of transmitters they were ready to junk,” Steve said. “For this they raised my pay $100—from $3,200 to $3,300 a year.” ' Steve, who admits he has quite a temper, brooded about this, fin- ally quit. He got a commercial firm to put him on its payroll while | to die. he worked out his electronics ex- periments in his basement labor- atory. This firm didn’t see any possi- bilities n the gadgets Steve turned up, so they severed the contract, and Steve went into business for himself, selling a high frequency wave meter hé had invented. It} caught on at once. His Lavoie laboratories, born in a basement, mushroomed “during the war. Steve now has 500 em- ployes and three plants that turn the nation’s radar defense net- * Business ° Mirror By Sam Dawson A quiet summer found a number of industries slipping Many of them now are quickening in business and their NEW YORK #—The business : a tie with last year. But you sure can’t tell the players without a seore card. Record earnings after taxes are piled up by some of the corpora- tions reporting on how they’ve done so far this year. Sharp declines— and sometimes sizable deficits— I il Hi u ie Ff akt e Big gains this year by some of the largest corporations offset the declines of the majority. Some of | hi : cE A E a ‘ : + i | : L ii : = 1 i H f Hl a23 El : i le i & i : : i Hi i E a Hi el yf FEL id g ii 3 g i = § :