The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 3, 1954, Page 4

a Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, November 3, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe- County L. P, ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher _ cone 1921 ~ 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN .. a Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 PansLcieaeneconneer ena Member of The Associated Press—Th, entitled to use for a of al or not otherwise credited in this pa; lished here. The Citizen Building, corner of ¢ Associated Press is exclusively ll news dispatches credited to it per, and also the local news pub- Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN The Citizen is an open forum and invites and subjects of local or general in! anonymous communications. $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ON APPLICATION ites discussion of public issues terest, but it will not publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN . More Hotels and Apartments, . Beach and Bathing Pavilion. . Airports—Land and Sea . Consolidation of County and City Governments. Community Auditorium DON’T LET DOWN OUR BOY SCOUTS: GIVE GENEROUSLY TO COMMUNITY CHEST. FUND The continuance of the Boy Scout organizations in this area is in danger, District Commissioner G. A. Wood said in an article in The Citizen last Saturday. He added that there is a possibility that local scouting may end this year, If that comes to pass, it would mean the loss to our community of the most effective factor in curbing juvenile delinquency. Hundreds of Key West men and many, many thousands throughout the country can tell you the im- A Grain Key West In Days Gone By Of Salt By Bill Spillman I doubt very seriously if there is another town in the United States where the youth of a city receive the attention they do here in Key West. It is practically fantastic the a- mount of effort and enthusiasm that is put forth by local civic} minded leaders toward the various proj-cts for our youngsters. There are so many projects go- ing on for the kids that it is some- times difficult to keep up with j them all. We are very fortunate to have) had in our midst a capable social | | worker who will be leaving us | shortly, I am talking about Miss | | Kay Curran who assisted in chang- | ing the Sigsbee Park from a hous- | ing Project to a community. Miss Curran is an inspiration to all who have known and worked with her. She is the one person that I know in this world that has | malice toward no one and only charity in her thoughts. What is Key West's loss will be some oth-/ er fortunate community's gain. xk * GUAVA JELLY — W. A, Burtoa | of Natonal Airlines will give the National side of airport dispute to- night at the Jaycee meeting. Shou:d portant role Boy Scouting did for them in shaping a sturdy | manhood. A few years ago, testimony was abundant at a din-| ner given here in honor of Eugene Sands for his many This Rock years of good work among Boy Scouts in Key West. Man | after man, all successful in their callings in both Key West and Miami, related the work of character build-up that resulted from membership in the Boy Scouts. Key Westers generally are aware of that fact, and often do whatever they can to help the Boy Scout move- ment. Several years ago the Overseas Bridge Commission Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in Monroe County. It is not a falling off in membership in the Boy Scouts in this area that threatens their disorganization, Mr. Wood says, He adds that there are more Boy Scouts in Monroe County now than ever before. He assigns the rea- son for the possible discontinuance to a lack of money. He declared truly that it requires a lot of money to run a Boy Scout Troop. Almost all the money is obtained from the Community Chest Fund, 10 per cent of which is given to the Scouts. It is clear that if Key Westers don’t con- tribute generously to the fund, the Boy Scouts, the Red Cross and every other unit dependent:on that fund will be adversely affected, Mr. Wood says further that contributions to the Community Chest Fund are lagging. Have you contributed? Fact is, that in Key West and every other community: contributions are not suffi- ciently general, Too many residents depend on too few to raise the amounts needed. It would be an easy matter to reach the goal of $55,000 if every resident gave to the fund. Give what you can, If what you can afford is little, give it, and feel assured you have done your duty. | | provided camp sites on West Summerland Key for a Prosperity will not abound in this country if the farmer loses his profits. Americanism — the greater the family income, the greater is the family’s needs. Advertising*in The Key West Citizen this fall is a good way to build business prestige for the future. ry Crossword ACROSS 1. Pertect play at golf 4 Doleful 1. Goddess of peace 13. Beverage 43. American Indian 14. Dejected one 15. Half-doot 16. Deceit \28. Gives out 20. Tract 21. Heavy cord [—j2/>/0o) PIO >| —|4 80. City in Missouri 32. Placid 33. Early alpha Ddetic charac- [ASO 7) 34 Seasons Solution of Yeaterday’s Puzzie 50. Endeavor 51. Swindied 52. Animal's mother 53. East Indian weight DeWN 1. Essay 3. Receiver 4. Soapy deer: 28. Defled 22. Girl's name 23. New moons 34. Fowl Poem Agreed in the bace Sphere Payable Transgree- sion 34. Hot 37. Greek letter 39. Harden 40. Sylvan deity 41. Stare 42. First man 4. Pa 44, Australian Ddird 29. 30 a 32. ak 3 Pe eel pee | [| | 45. Short sleep Of Ours PEOPLE’S FORUM ‘The Citizen welcomes expressions of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves the right 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 accompany the letters and will be published unless reavested otherwise. TRAFFIC HAZARDS be a lively session, if someone from the county shows up. — To those who haven't seen her| Captain A. J. Canova, who, for smiling face floating over town,|™&ny years; was in command of The Citizen's Jeannette Bliss of |the Yacht Houseboat Everglades, “Blissful Buying” is sporting a new |Owned by Colonel Thompson, ar+ ring. It wil be a short engage- | rived over the East Coast yesters ment, says they can’t wait. jday from New York. During his —On the Cub Scout Dens paint- ing Halloween designs on various store windows around town, one merchant decided he didn't want his window painted after first giv- ing his permission. The first the | &d Cubs knew about the change was | when they paint, —Members of the Lions club are selling tickets for their annual Conch Bow! football benefit game. I'm helping them sell the tickets, so you can buy them from me. It promises to be a good game. —Last year there was an offer by the wife of a prominent man showed up with the in Miami to get the New York/ Philharmonic to give a concert in Key West for paying of trip ex- penses from Miami only. I wish the offer was still open. —Recently, a mix-up in photo- grapher assignments had City Commissioners, County Commis- sioner, Mosquito control officials, and other big shots waiting for Some time by the city dump to get their pictures taken. Quite ap- propriate. —One city commissioner says that he does not believe he will seek re-election for the office. He says that the only thing he will miss is the invitations to freeload- ing affairs that he does not attend anyway. —Wonder what two fair-sized j Stay he will make his home with jhis son and daughterinJaw, Mr. jand Mrs. Ted Canova, i Making of mattresses has start- with nearly two dozen relief clients being utilized in opera- j tions in the mattress factory in the jold Gato Cigar Factory building, * s November 3, 1944 The former Dr. Fogarty home at Caroline and Duval Streets has jbeen sold by Russell W. Hints to |Carlo Recine for $21,000. Proposed shifting of Florida's last Seatrain to New Orleans has stirred statewide opposition, and directors of the Key West Chamb- er of Commerce are giving consid- eration to a resolution opposing the transfer. Less than 2.5 per cent of Ameri- cans over 14 cannot read or wri in any language, most of the ilit- erates being in the older age groups. —_——_$ finger piers for visiting yachts in Garison Bight would cost? —I'm not sure whether we will ever get the bathing pier on Coun- ty Beach repaired or not. If we wait long enough, perhaps another hurricane will come and comple- tely demolish it so the repairing Next Tuesday night, the ‘“Lus-! cious” Lions are going to play| against the Junior Woman's Club! in a game of softball at Bayview | Park. Time will be 7:30 and pro- | }ceeds will benefit the Communi-|to pour down their gullets. Heck! | }ty Chest. It will be a spectacle | | worth seeing. | | Personally, I'm rooting for the Junior Woman’s Club and hoping to hear the roar of the pretty |Lions changed into a squek. It) isn’t that I have anything against |the Lions Club — it’s merely that | | they have shown themselves up as ja bunch of simpletons by getting Who ever heard of a-man besting | a woman at anything, much less aj} have a bat in hand to enforce her | opinion! You better plan on being at Bay-| \view Park Tuesday night. You'll} enjoy yourself and be helping the | Community Chest at the same time. | Building Boom The building boom continues here | on the Rock. Every little side| street seems to have at least one | | new home in the stage of consttuc- | tion Encouraging note is that most} of these houses are attractive an appear to be well-built | While Key West is booming, it is also experiencing the terrible in- flation that has affected the en-| tire country. It is hard to say whe- | | ther future history will consider us jas living in prosperity or adver. | sity. About all we can do is to watch and not swing out into the wild tangent of the boom days in j the 20's. The substantial homes that are being built are evidence that most people are keeping their | feet on the ground and not erect- \ing ‘eracker-boxes’ just for resale or investment values. Dr. Floyd DeCamp Son-of-a-gun! It wasnt over a couple of days ago that this column | see the day }low couldn’t even have his teeth By Bill Gibb swore it wasn’t going to talk about fluoridation. So what happens? — Dr. Floyd DeCamp shows up in town and begins telling Key West- ers what kind of poison they ought I'm going to start a campaign to vy a day that goes by that I don’t wish I had a swal- low of good, pure, rain water. This chalky stuff that 1s coming through |the pipes now looks about like it tastes — bad. If they keep adding chemicals to the water, there is going to be an opportunity for some tangled with a crowd of females. | enterprising individual to start a/ large numbers. business selling bottled water. Wonder if the liquid we're drink- game of baseball where she will|ing now cakes up on our insides | the way it does in pots or kettles? Dr. DeCamp and his aides have always maintained that fluoridation is not a form of medication. Yet he informed theMonroe County teachers that ‘Dental decay is the second most prevalent disease known to man, exceeded only by the common cold.”’ I may be wrong but it seems to me that anything designed to treat a disease “medication” and not all people eact to the same medicine in the jame way. is Why is Dr. DeCamp so insistent | that Monroe County have fluorida- ted water? Why doesn’t he push it in his own ‘neck of the woods,’ up in North Florida, instead of tell ing us Conchs what we ought to do? There’s enough interference from government now — you can't turn around without paying some new tax, filling out a dozen bureaucra tie forms, or being told how to blow your nose by some individual who draws a salary from the tax payer’s money. I never thought I'd however, when a fel treated privately by a dentist of his own choice! | | | | | | The first meeting of the Basic j'Scoutmaster’s Course was held | Monday night at St. Ann’s ‘HaJ.) | A film was shown on the ‘“Fun- | damentals of the Boy Scout Move- | ment.” The film showed how the organi-| zation was founded by Baden | Powell, an English Army officer | stationed in Africa. how it was} brought to America and how the |boy is led through Cubbing, Boy | Scouting and Exploring to be a | good citizen. During the remainder of the | meeting, Bill McLaughlin and two lof his Scouts, Jimmy Hurst and | Johnny Seay of Troop 256, gave an interesting demonstration of the | first aid requirements for Tender- | foot, second class and first class | Scout. | SEEKS DIVORCE | | LOS ANGELES w—The man ex-| | pected to be Betty Hutton’s next| for | divorce from his present wife. | Alan W. Livingston, record com- | thusband filed suit Monday | pany executive, said in the suit that he will give custody of two chil-/| | dren to his wife Elaine and provide i reasonably for their support. j SCOUTING NEWS The purpose of these meetings is to insure well-qualified leadersh.p in Key West Boy Scouting All adults interested in Scouting all committee members, _ institu tional representatives, -Scoutmast ers and senior patrol leaders ar ~|invited and urged to attend the meetings The next meeting will be tonight - at 7:00 p. m. at St. Ann’s H Harry Williams and the S from Ship 250 will be in charge «: the meeting. Your Grocer SELLS That Goow ‘STAR * BRAND AMERICAN and cuban COFFEE —— TRY A POUND TODAY — SVRONG ARM BRAND COFFES Triumph Coffee Mill Se ALL GROCERS Editor, The Citizen: After visiting your city the past few days, I find your two biggest driving hazards to be the street paving equipment and the horse drawn buggies. Another point these two objects apparently have in common is the grade of material each is depositing on your city streets. Sincerely, VISITOR SALVATION ARMY COMMENDED Editor, The Citizen: | While Lt. Henry Russell, of the Salvation Army was jout of the city recently, he asked me to look after the |matter of helping transients with food and overnight \lodging. During that week people came in surprisingly They came seeking the material help |which the Salvation Army takes upon itself to give. | Though I had been in the present pastorate in-the First Methodist Church for two and a half years, when the | Salvation Army re-opened its work here in Key West, I have never seen so many people come in such a short |time seeking material aid. I for one very greatly appre- ciate the work Lt. Russell and the Army are doing here in our community. I should like to urge all who can and will to give large and ample support to this most worthy institution. won't be necessary, Overseas Transportation Company, Ine. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service between MIAMI and KEY WEST Alse Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West (Ne Stops En Reute) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at Miami at 12:00 o'clock Midnight. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 12:00 o'clock Midnight and arrives at Key West at 6:00 o'clock AM, Local Schedule The work done by the Salvation Army is the type of work which was commended most highly by Jesus Christ, Yours for greater service to needy humanity, PAUL TOUCHTON Pastor Ist Methodist Church KEY WEST SPIRIT COMMENDED Editor, The Citizen: The writer is not one who is in the habit of writing to the newspapers, but I cannot let this opportunity pass of sharing with you my feelings concerning the wonderful spirit and attitude of the citizens of your community. Knowing what excellent backing your football team receives from the people of Key West, and the limitations of our parking facilities and seating capacity of the Mem- | orial Field Stadium, we had requested additional help from our police department. The officers in charge of the | parking areas made an unsolicited point of informing me | about the outstanding cooperation of our Key West visit- | ors This was a hard game for the Key West boys to! lose and when tension is running high it is often easy | for regrettable incidents to occur. Never have I seen bet- | ter sportsmanship displayed by team and rooters as was | evidenced last Saturday night. May I commend the citi- | zens of Key West for their loyal support of a fine football | team. * 1 Sincerely yours. | IRVIN W. KATZ, Principal Miami Beach Senior High School LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 8:00 o'clock A.M. (Stops at All Intermediate Points) and arrives at Miami at 4:00 o'clock P.M. LEAVES MIAMI! DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 9:00 o'clock A.M., and ry at Key West at 5:00 o'clock Free Pick-Up and Delivery Service FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OFFICE and WAREHOUSE: Cor. Eaton and Francis Ste, TELEPHONE 2-706) For Home or Commercial Use... 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