The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 25, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, November 25, 1954 The Key West. Citizen Papinne sally (excent Sunday) from. The Citizen Building, corner of ? ly Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher NORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-566] and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusivi entitled to use bap els yg sige) of all news aaaunee credited ie or not otherwise in this paper, and also the local news pub- lished here. ; ; Member Associate Dailies of Florida pS a PERE Renee i cenatnam tote tlhe eh, eae Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 peat os star a rasa te aloo sd ne etek Mas Mandan at . ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION " ‘The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues interest, but ig and subjects of local or general it will not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY Wi a! BY THE CITIZEN eee 1, More Hotels and irtment 2. Beach and ‘bathing Proilion” <: Gomolidation ef County and Cit d 4 iy Ci 5 - ral ‘ity Governments. ON THIS THANKSGIVING DAY KEY WEST HAS MUCH TO BE THANKFUL FOR Key West as a community has much to be thankful for, because its prosperity, and it is substantial, is such as it has never been before. It may be said that its growth has been due in a large measure to the second World War and to the Cold War, and that it is, therefore, artificial. That charge is not altogether true, either of Key West or the country as a whole. If you wish to get a good idea of what out-and-out artificiality is, so far as Key West and the rest of Florida is concerned, consider the land boom year of 1925. The Citizen recalls that, during that year, Key Westers spoke enthusiastically of Key West’s prosperity and remarked that it was here to stay. The price of real estate in Key West and all of Monroe County was far higher than what it is now. But it was this distinct difference between then and the present: Real estate in Key West'in 1925 was bought on a purely speculative basis. Many sales occurred every day, but nobody improved. what he had bought. His only ob- ject in buying property was to sell it “as is” at a profit. The result was that when the crash came, houses and lots in Key West were in the same condition as they had been in before the boom. But what a difference now! Hundreds of buildings have been constructed or improved at a cost that has run into millions of dollars, The cost of buildngs in one year alone exceeded $2,000,000, The buildings are here and they are occupied. The time may come when the demand for them will not be as insistent as it is now throughout the year, but during the tourist season it is reasonable to say practically all of them will be rented. Why is it reasonable to make that statement? That question takes us back again to 1926, During that boom year Key West was little known thréughout the country. Now it is widely known: Former President Truman gave it nationwide publicity, and in many of the stories that were sent out fromakey Westiabout his going in swimming in the winter, it Became known that Key West is the only frost-free cit%in the United States. If the Cold War dies down, resulting in curtailing ' expenditures by tRe/federal government, the tourist trade will decrease, but; it won’t discontinue. Many thousands of people have coysistently saved money during the coun- try’s years of prosperity, and those: people will come to Florida, and you may be sure a goodly percentage of them will come to Key West. As to individual thanksgiving, some people, even in good times, may have to scratch their heads to find something for which to give thanks, But the most prec- fous thing is life, and that ranks as the No. 1 thing for which to be thankful. Some of us may wish we were like other people, but if we found out what they have to con- tend with, we would be thankful that wé are ourselves. So be thankful you are you, and if your health is good, your thanks should be overflowing. eT) LL TTATRISMS| EIS|TIOIPMg T1010) Crossword Puzzle ACROSS i a AIRISHm | [11S] Eaiteerecn 42. PIEINISINSITIOIRIE | 8. Tatters EAT MEGIAIRINIE [T| 12. Encounter INIEIPTT RL IA 18. Crude a HA! 14, Wickedness 15. English princess 16. Gone by 17. Girl's name 18. Detests 20. Neat 22. Trespasser 24. Philippine mountain 26. Cereal seed 27. System of weights 81. Muscular 33. By the side 35. Nuisance 36. Free 37. Cat's crv AIT queen 49. River island ‘ire to 53. Soon 53. Artificial language 54. Roman em- peror 655. Sheet of glass 56. Novel 67--Faithful DOWN 1. Oriental nurse 2. California rockfish 3. Speaks of Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 4. Lining of a well 5. Age 6. Dish of meat and vege- tables 1. Cutting 8. Returns 9%. Declare 10. Young woman 11. Kin 19. Pack 21. Down: prefix 23. Beam 24. Serpent 26. Dessert 28, Maker of poor verse 29. Poem 80. Evergreen tree 32. Buntinglike fabric 33. Offer to buy 34. Biblical tower 36. Live 39. Not any 47. Foot cov- ering 50. Pull Selecting the date for Thanks- giving has been a rather hapha- zard affair ever since the May- flower Pilgrims celebrated their first feast in 1621, In almost every instance, however, November has been the chosen month, In a few cases, such as the signing of peace in 1784, and the ratifying of thé Constitution in 1789, special Thanks- giving days have been proclaimed. Franklin Delano Roosevelt mess- ed up the day for many folks when he attempted to proclaim Thanks- giving on an earlier date than us- ual. in ’39, ’40, and ’41. His pri? mary idea was to aid the econo- mic situation by. having \a longer period of time~ between the two holidays — Thanksgiving and Christmas. It was one of the few issues that FDR was unable to ell to the people, As a result, in Dec- ember of '41, he signed a joint resolution prepared by the House and Senate specifying that the 4th Thursday of November of each year would be known as Thanks- giving and would also be made a legal holiday. Let me get off this historical chattering and bring us face to face with the Thanksgiving that we're celebrating today. . . All of us have a lot to be grate- ful for. Ours is a proud hefitage. There isn’t.a man, woman, or child in these United States who cannot humbly bend his knees to God and offer thanks for His graces —and for the freedoms that we enjoy. Freedom, in this day and age, has become an almost obsolete word for much of the world. You ind I sometimes fail to appreciate this fact. We talk, work, worship, and play as we please, without re-- gimentation. Let’s offer thanks to- day and everyday for these good things. And of equal. importance, let’s remain ever-vigilant to make sure that we do not lose any of these freedoms but create even more to pass along to our children — as our forefathers fought and died to give us our rights of today. iment For Paul Albury Along with increasing the size of Prison Sentence Doesn’t Kill His Love For Woman WEST PALM BEACH (#—A for- mer Marine who said “no matter what happens, I'll always love Sue,” faced 20 years to life im- prisonment Wednesday for killing an Air Force officer who was his rival in love. : Orville T. Waldron, 31, was con- victed of second degree murder late Tuesday in the July 8 slay- ing of Lt. Col. William A. Cov- ington, 47, as he lay in bed with his bride of three months. The state charged Waldron drove to West Palm Beach from Ros- well, N.M., to kill Covington be- cause he had stolen the love of Mrs. Violet (Sue) Covington, at-| tractive blonde with whom Wal- dron said he had lived for nearly six years. Mrs. Covington, 31, admitted that before she married Covington she had lived with Waldron while mar- This Rock — Of Ours By Bill Gibb the basketball, dancing, and skat- ing area in Bayview Park, Paul Albury deserves to be compliment- ed for sectiting lights which brigh- ten the hitherto dark areas. It is an improvement that has been needed for years. Paul does a wonderful job as Re- creation Director. He has manag- ed to collect an excellent crew cf sincere workmén and much of the credit for the success of his pro- gtams must go to them. This col- umn feels, however, that since Paul Albury must stand the bur- den of-censure when things go wrong in his department — so, by the same token, he is entitled to the praise when definite improve- ments are made. The one thing that Key West needs badly is an additional park in the Poinciana area, This fact was recently discussed at a Ju- venile Council meeting. City Fath- ers might mull over the idea now before all available land space is gone, Bayview Park is too far a- way for thousands of our youngs- ters! [HIGHWAY zoo The KANGARGO This is the jumpy jerk who drives by leaps and bounds—from one “stop to another At the first faint glint of green at a stop light whoosh! He's off like a rocket! This bounder, like the real kangaroo, sometimes carries his young with him. The kid in the pouch is safer! NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL NAVY TELLS TWO PERSONNEL CHANGES The Navy. today announced two personne. changes. Lt. (jg) Paul B. Pater has been transferred to the USS Robinson (DD 562) at Norfolk, he was as- sistant communications and secur- ity officer at the Surface Anti-Sub- marine Development Detachment. Lt. (jg) Richard D. Crosby, Jr., has reported to Airship Develop- | ment Squadron 11 from NAAS Glynco, Ga. MILK ADDED TO MENU IN KOREA SEOUL #® — Amencan sonfters in ‘Korea will get milk on the menu next week for the first time since the 8th Army’s arrival in Korea. Five hundred thousand cans of recombined whole milk were unloaded in Pusan TueSday. The Army plans to provide each soldier by early next year with half a pint of milk a day, four to seven days a week. ried to another man. Waldron‘ had pleaded innocent and innocent by reason of insanity, Recombined milk is made of frozen cream and dried skim milk, Key West In Days Gone By Nevember 25, 1934 (Sunday — No Paper) kk * November 25, 1944 Definite site for a beach is men- tioned in a resolution which is now being signed by Key Westers, and members of various, civic organi- zations, and which will be pre- sented to the Board of County Commissioners at the next meet- ing. Dr, Frank F, Furstenberg, di- rector of the Monroe County Health Departinent, today received his orders from the United States Public Health Service, and af- nounced he will leave Key West December 1. Watch Your TEETH! (One of a series of articles prepared by the Florida State Dental Society and published by The Citizen as a service to this community). : CHILDREN OF 6 HAVE TOOTH DECAY! Watch your children’s teeth! None out of ten have cavities when they are only six years old! At 16 the average child has 13 ca- vities or spots of tooth decay. Most of these real injures to heal- th can be prevented by two simple things: 1, Train your children to eat fruit, nuts, raw vegetables instead of candy and desserts — to drink milk, fruit or begetable juices in- Stead of sweet, “soft drinks.” 2. See that your children brush, or rinse, their mouths thoroughly after every meal and every “snack.” These two simple things will save your children pain — will save their teeth — and will save you much trouble and money, 226 Million In Ins. Dividends To Be Paid In 55 WASHINGTON — World War I and II veterans next year will collect 226 million dollars in divi- dends on their government life in- surance. The Veterans Administration an- nounced Tuesday that it will start in January to pay 200 million dollars to holders of about five million World War II national ser- vice life insurance policies, The VA said another 26 million dollars would be dstributed among holders of some 380,000 World War I U.S. government life insurance Policies. The agency said there will be ad- justments in various individual di- vidend rates tality wake recent changes in mortality a experience. Under both cuaensrind 1s, the size of the dividends depends on the type of plan, age, year of issue and the amount of insurance. carried, i 4 4 s z Aid 3 i —Sigsbee Park residents are hav- ing some moving problems. —Wilde, the airport consultant, was first hired by the county on a 10 per cent basis. This was chang- ed to $500 a month for untold rea- sons. Eg gf. Hd a} E g Z Re 3 sf ih i eit i HAR et 5 a see The plans as discussed would-not affect officers presently on the force. Arrested offenders are not usual- ly too sarcastic to big police offi- cers for obvious reasona; and also, the offenders are usually coopera- tive when a big police officer is present. GUAVA JELLY — A marl truck almost @ gasoline transport truck (mi by inches) that was leaving the city. The marl truck, coming toward the city was avoid- ing the red of the Stock Island traf- fic it by cutting over to route h the gas station .road- —The reason the county did not haye a representative at the Jay- cee meeting to give their side of the airport dispute was because of a mix-up in dates, I am told. —The American Transport Asso- ciaton (representing National) —Heard some talk about a city commissioner planning an ordin- launching ramps the city. around, —It was good news when the lit- tle girl was found “not” drowned Sunday night at Sigsbee. —A lot of fines are being paid because of overweight marl trucks on state highways. Owners of the trucks are getting tired of paving | the levies. Drivers are getting fired tight and left. —A check of facts averted a con- troversial story concerning the blood bank. The World > WASHINGTON (# — The United States and Russia may be reach- ‘ing that point in developing their hydrogen bombs where neither will want to get into a war which might mean the annihilation of both. But a military stalemate be- tween the West and Russia doesn’t mean either wil! stand still. Nei- ther can afford to, The undevel- oped areas of the earth are huge. The people living in them can numbered in the hundreds of mil- lions. * Neither the West nor Russia can sit idle while the other tries to win over those millions of peo- ple with their vast land and re- sources. No doubt the Communists — as they showed in Korea — will try to take over by invasion where they think the West will let them get away with it. Where the Commu- nists can’t use direct military means, other weapons are handy. They can use internal subver- sion and propaganda — based on promises, appeals to nationalism, and the wretched lives and living conditions of the people in the backward areas — to win with intrigue and words what they can't take by arms. As an example: Suppose you were a Southeast Asian living in poverty, just as your fathers be- fore you, and poverty was all you could see in store for your chil- dren. Medical care for you ‘was prac- tically nonexistent. Your life ex- pectancy, and the life expectancy of your children, was far less than | omic that of an-American or West Eu- Today By James Marlow ness would be better than no promise, The Communists have a fertile field to plow in the poverty, ig- norance and insecurity of the backward peoples, The Communists, dedicated to taking over the world, can’t stand still. And the West can’t stand still while they try to take over, coun- 2 cot ee ie, the promises of the Communists and win over the people of the backward areas, giving them a snse of direction, a new hope, a promise of a better life and,more than that, make the promise a reality? is apparently working to keep the nists with a program to make the people there stay with the West. day were reported considering a big new foreign economic program of billions of dollars in underde- Communist Asia. rector Harold E. Sta program. The administration seems to be in its infancy. Befo: it becomes a reality gee'> Bq ee ‘TON Moscow and said talks he with State Department “regular routine ance to build several small boat| pretty low then can the West offset The Eisenhower administration backward areas from the Commu- Administration officials yester- whch may lead to the investment veloped countries, notably in non- Two days ago Foreign Aid Di- has started talks with European countries about their pat tion in an enlarged Asia ieee Project re be “| ceased as suddenly as they had NEW YORK (#—The elderly man and his wife entered the restau- rant, sat down at a table for two, and ordered the Thanks; Day special dinner, price $4 choice of dessert. “Not very many people here,’”* said his wife. “Ummm,” replied her husband, knowing in advance the way the conversation might turn. He looked at her worriedly as she ate her appetizer in silence. “It feels strange eating a ‘Thanksgiving dinner in a restau- rant,” she said. “Yes, we've never done that be- fore.” “Oh, yes we did—the first year we were married. Don’t you re- member? I can remember every- thing about it. We ate at that lit. tle place around the corner from our apartment. The dinner was $1.25 each, the turkey’ was under- done, and you spilled some gravy on your new suit and got very angry.” He marveled again, as he had so many times during their mar- riage, at the terrible retentiveness of her memory—the thousands of little details about their life to- gether she held imprinted indelibly in her mind, and would never let go. ‘The waiter brought the plates of turkey then, and the husband watched as his wife, lost in rev- erie, toyed at it with her fork, “Try the turkey, dear, it’s really good,” he said, and then as he saw the look on her face, he added hastily, ‘that is, consider- ing it was cooked in a restau. rant.” But she only pecked at it absent- mindedly. “I should think, after all these years of cooking Thanksgiving din- ners, you’d be glad of a chance to escape all that bother,” he, up. braided her gently. “Anyway, we can’t expect the children to come home every year. They‘ve got their own family responsibilities.” “It’s just that I feel lost without them,” she said. “But of + wouldn’t have made sense ‘us to travel such a long distance just to spend a weekend with either Jim or Sis.” nant Then both fell silent, unwilling’ to admit even to each other the injury they felt that neither of their children, Jim or Sis, had written to ask them to come. The waiter came to. take the plates away and asked, “Is there anything wrong with the turkey?” “Oh, no,” she said. “It's very good. It's just that I’m not very The husband called the waiter i and whispered an order to im. “Do you know which Thanks- giving I cooked for the most peo- ple?” said the wife. “Well, it was in 1926. We had a 22-pound turkey and there were 18 people all told, My, what a time that was. The Browns brought their little boy along, and three days later he came down with the measles, and I was frightened to death that Sue and Jim had caught them, too.” Warmed by the heartfire of reminiscing, she ate every bit of her dessert—pumpkin pie and Va- nilla ice cream. Then she looked up startled as the smiling waiter arrived with a bottle ‘of chilled Rey and popped out the cor “Surprise!” said ker husband. “T’'ve never had champagne be. fore for Thanksgiving,” she said, P-eased, picking up the cork. “Well, the only way to stay a is to do new things,” he sald. They lifted their bubbling glass- es and tinkled them lightly to. gether. “To you, mother!” “You, Dad!” y But as he looked at his wife’s grey eyes—eyes that now matched her hair—he saw them flood sud- dently and overfiow, and quick tears run down her cheeks. To keep from crying himself, he tried to count her tears. But they | started. She wiped her eyes, and they finished the champagne in silence. “Now let’s go home,” she said, and she gave him a smile of time- less love and reached over and patted his hand. “T think T’ll keep the champagne cork for a souvenir, No, I won't |, either. I'll mail it to one of the children so that they’ll know, even though we missed not being with them, we had a fine Thanksgiving.” “That’s right,” said her hus. band. “They’re probably worry ing about us right this minute, as we wouldn’t want them to think GRAPEFRUIT SOLD LAKELAND #—The U.S. De« partment of Agriculture has (#—Ambassador | awarded contracts for 251,200 cases Bohlen arrived here ees from his post at | Florida will hold |of Lake Wales and als are | Highlands Canning Co. of —— very normal | City. The average price was $3.35 of canned grapefruit sections to the Lakeland Highland @ case,