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

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Monday, November 29, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published ‘except Sunday) from Citizen Building, corner Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher s-vnemrsnnnenne 1921 » 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN wrens BUSiNESS Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 Te ee Press is Paper, and alse the local Member Associate Dailies of Florida —— Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION ‘The Citizen is an open forum foal cine sacennign of ‘public. eats of local and subjects ofr Beneral interest, ‘but will not publish IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED aby CITIZEN More Hotels ‘partments, and B: P, Beach weer avilion. Sea. of Count A # ity and City Governments. 1 2. 3. 4 5. CHINESE COMPENSATE BRITISH The Communist Chinese Government recently ac- cepted a British claim for $1,027,600, as compensation for an airliner shot down on July 23rd. This was the first time a Communist Government had agreed to such com- pensation payment without long haggling and stalling. The announcement recalled the words of former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, after he had visit- ed China recently, that the Chinese Communists were more inclined to some forms of reasoning than were their Russian colleagues. Mr. Attlee, in his articles after his visit to Russia and China voiced the hope that Western Powers would somehow eventually be able to win China away from the Soviet orbit. While this is probably wishful thinking, the Communist Chinese have behaved in a strange fashion— for Communists — concerning the Cathay Pacific Air- ways Skymaster shot down near Hainan Island last July. The Chinese apologized at the time for the act and prom- ised to pay compensation. The British recently delivered their claim for over a million dollars and the Chinese announced they would accept that figure. Nine persons were killed in the ac- cident, including three Americans, but the Chinese have never made any apologies to Washington. E The effort of the Chinese is obviously orie to split the Allies, especially Great Britain and the United States, the two principal democracies, but it also is interesting in view of Mr. Attlee’s words, and the advice of others who have been students of the Far East and Asian people for years. Although nothing more can be said of the Chinese acceptance of the British claim this month than that it is a normal procedure among civilized nations, it might be a good omen for the future and might be a reflection of some Peiping sentiment for better relations with Western ‘powers. Now that the elections are over, we can get down to the truth again. Newspaper advertising is still the unquestioned “best buy” in the advertising field. The President is getting enough’ of the political life to last a long time, it seems to us. Nothing is so boring as the citizen who always thinks his candidate is the pious one, and who rides the white horse to the polls on every occasion. School teachers deserve support and appreciation, whether they are always right or not — which they cannot be. y ' 16. Adult girl 19. Having petals 21. Impene- trabie ha" ness 23. Surgical thread 35. Ascend 27. Outfit 38. Shoemak- er's tool 30. Sweet sub- stance This Rock Some unknown person was kind enough’ to give me several issues of The Chattanooga Times with stories of the November 18 game. George Short, The Times sport writer, must not have submitted his ‘copy’ to the Key West Chamb- er of Commerce before sending it in. Moreover, I’m inclined to think that he was rather partial to his own hometown. Says Short: “A crowd of 4,470 paying customers, many of them dressed in shorts, watched in 78- degree weather. . .” “The game was in jersey-drench- ing humidity despite variable Gulf breezes. . .” “The weakened condition of sev- eral other players through..the change in drinking water. . .” Those three descriptive sige are enough to give*: # idea o! the general trend esban's expla- nation as to why Chattanodga did not win the game. id Incidentally, I'll agree with him on the drinking water excuse. Most Key Westers can’t stomach the stuff either. Maybe that’s why we have so many ‘gin mills.’ , Sunday ‘Column i In a feature column running on Sunday, Nov. 21, Short give Key West a little more publicity — he tells about the vy rain; men- tions that local health authorities had to fight a possible contamina- tion of the water supply and an im- pending outbreak of disease-bear- ing mosquitoes; says that reports have it that Marsia Pavin, (film star), was chased by an eight-foot tiger shark while swimming at the Casa Marina beach. Tisk! Tisk! Why are we paying Harold Laubscher if he is going to allow these kinds of stories to be published in Chattanooga? I) don’t blame George Short for writ- | ing them — nearly all newspaper- men have a yearning to write fairy tales and will do so if they get a chance. 5 We'll have to give Short credit for a couple of explanatory para- graphs he wrote concerning the killer shark, however. He says: “Paramount's publicity depart- Of Ours By Bill Gibb ment supplied the figures on the length of the shark and the “fact” that Miss Pavan was beached by Johnny Yates five feet ahead of the onrushing shark. “The story is that the shark skirt- ed the fenced bathing area where other City players swam, approach- ed within 50 feet of the beach and disappeared.” Wonderful Team Ah, me. . .it’s all in fun —, this column for today: The Chattanooga boys played a wonderful game; it will be nice: to have them back here at some future date. And) Ghort praised Key West in many. ‘spots. throughout his stories. Maybe we can ‘even excuse Harold Laubsch- er for not censoring his copy. Jim Wilder County Patrolman Jim Wilder, formerly ofthe State Highway Pa- trol, is working hard to put over a program for “‘S-D (Safe-Driving) Day.” He wants representatives from all civic groups and fraternal clubs to meet with him tomorrow at the Lions Den, 8 p. m, Won't you be there to help him? To accomplish the aims of “S- D Day,” the cooperation of every citizen in Monroe County is neces- sary. Our goal is to go 24-hours without a traffic mishap. It can be done! Let’s do it! Be at the Lions Den tomorrow night and talk with Wilder, watch out for drivers who dont watch out for you / és commons ne @aviemay Savery counctt PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes ers, but the editor reserves the are fair and of the views of its read- right to delete any items which libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the paper only. Signature of the writer must letters and will be published unless requested ctherwises WHY NOT A PARKING GARAGE? Editor, The Citizen: Every time we go to Miami, we park our car in the “upper deck” of a several-story garage. It makes me wonder why Key West couldn't have a garage like that with ramps leading to upper The corner of Eaton and floors. Duval or Fleming and Duval would be a very convenient location to the shopping dis- trict. It would certainly take care of our heavy parking situation. | Yes, it would take money, but it would soon -pay for itself. Just an idea. MRS. E. CURRIE November 29, 1934 More than 200 veterans employed on the bridge activities at Lower Matecumbe are expected to ar- rive in Key West this evening for a short vacation. Key West’s strong tourist appeal is. being revived and widely pub- licized. The Island City is going to make a strong bid for tourist patronage and has already taken on both a new appearance and aggressive spirit under the pro- gram now being instituted. ee we November 29, 1944 Calling all other civic organiza- tions to join with it in a move to attain city manager form of munic- ipal government, the Key West Chamber of Commerce last night voted to proceed with its survey and seek administrative reforms. Action by the state legislature to set up college educational re- quirements for the office of Mon- roe County superintendent of pub- lie instruction was endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce at its meet- ing last night. 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). TOOTH DISEASES ARE COMMON AS COLDS Diseases of the teeth and their surrounding structures may cause serious illness and physical de- fects. Dental disease affects more chil- dren and adults than any other di- sease except the common cold. Dental decay and diseases of the gums and bony structures sur- rounding the teeth, when not treat- ed, are sure to result in harm to the general health of the indivi- dual. z In Florida last year, nearly 100 persons died of cancer of the mouth, throat, lips and tongue. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if regular dental care had been received from child- hood, because these conditions could have been found early and proper treatment started. . Watch your children’s health, Brando Says He Really Will Wed French-Fiancee NEW YORK, #—Marlon Brando vows his engagement to the pretty daughter of a French fisherman is “no publicity stunt.” But there ap- pears to be confusion about just when it will be followed by a wed- ding. Returning here from Europe last Friday, Brando told newsmen he dental !spent as Churchill pleases, rep- Britons Plan Gala Honors For Churchill Hal Boyle LONDON (#—Britons are plan- ning one of their biggest displays of public affection ever seen in these normally reserved islands | for Winston Churchill on his 80th birthday tomorrow. His health will be drunk in pubs | r the | doughty old Prime Minister) ranging from a few tea leaves to) a check for something like a mil- lion pounds. This $2,800,000, to be resents a worldwide shower of donations to the Sir Winston Churchill Birthday Presentation fund. One guess is that Churchill will use the money to set up a new international humanitarian fund. The Prime Minister must sand- wich the festivities into a busy round of affairs of state. The birth- day coincides with a formal open- ing of the new Parliament. The usually late-to-bed Churchill will start his birthday celebration with a special cup of tea. The tea —two in a grubby, screwed up envelope with a little sugar — was sent to Churchill as “the only present I can afford” by someone signing himself “An Old Age Pensioner.” Organizers of the birthday fund said the Prime Minister, touched by the gift, was reserving it to be Says NEW YORK w— Madame Otry Roederer is the kind of widow that bachelors dream of meeting. She is blonde, hazel-eyed, warm- hearted and highly cultured. She has a mellow, mature beauty that French ladies achieve and wear so well in their middle years. She also has a fine, well-developed sense of humor. “That sounds all right—so far as it goes,” a cautious bachelor might admit. “But to be really ideal she ought also to own a liquor Store. Does she?” No, Mme. Roederer doesn’t own a liquor store. This must be ad- mitted. But, on the other hand, she does have something just as good—five million botties of cham- pagne. She also has a stable of 120 trotters, and her horses in re- cent years have been among the biggest money: winners in France. Since the death of her husband drunk in bed as an eye opener, New York Banker Endows Position At Harvard Med CAMBRIDGE, Mass., #—A New York investment banker has en- downed a professorship of medicine at Harvard Medical School in honor of Dr. Samuel E. Levine, onetime Boston newsboy, now regarded as one of the world’s authorities in heart diseases. _ Charles E. Merrill, in making an initial gift of $400,000 to the univer- sity to provde the major part of the endowment, said of Dr. Levine, “He has helped me to a great de- gree from time to time — indeed, I believe he has saved my life.” Dr. Levine is clinical professor of medicine at Harvard. A native of Lomza, Poland, he once sold papers on the street of Boston and his education at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School was made possible by the Old Boston Newsboys Union. Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administration to four questions of .-interést | = servicemen and-theit® fam: Q. Iam a Korean veteran-study- ing dentistry under the Korean GI Bill. Would it be possible for me to take my internship jg dentistry, also under the Korean GI Bill? A. It would be possible, provided the internship does not exceed one year, and provided it is an integral part of an approved course fulfill- ing the educational requirements for certification by a Dental Spec- ialty Board. Q. I have been granted a waiver of premiums on my term National Service Life Insurance policy be- cause of total disability. Could I convert my term insurance to a permanent plan while the waiver is in effect? A. Yes. However, you would not be permitted to convert to an en- dowment plan while you are totally disabled. O. I am a Korean veteran with a service-connected disability rated at zero per cent. Am I eligible for the permanent GI insurance avail- able to disabled Korean veterans? Or must I have a disability rated at 10 per cent or more? A. You may be eligible for the permanent Korean GI insurance, even though your service-connected disability is rated at zero per cent. Q. I am planning to go to school under the Korean GI Bill, and I want to list my mother and father as dependents for GI allowance purposes. Their only income is a disability compensation check my father, a World War I veteran, re- ceives each month. Other than that, I have been supporting them. Would those compensation pay- ments bar me from declaring them as lents? A. No. VA compensation may be determining de- in 1932, this pert and vivacious widow has successfully managed the champagne firm of Louis Roederer of Reims and the famous harness racers of “The Stables of the Red Earth.” Mme. Roederer is no figurehead in, the 189-year-old champagne firm which ships its vintage producis to the courts of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Ethiopia, Greece and Britain. “T have given this business my whole heart,” she said. “I had learned it year by year, and step by step, while my husband was ative.” In the firm’s 3% miles of caves at Reims are stored five million bottles of champagne, none of which is sold until it is at least five years old. Mme. Roederer, who can taste and accurately name the major brands of champagne while blind- folded, gives the final voice in the selection of a cuvee, the blending of 1,000 choice casks before the actual bottling. “It is an important decision,” she said. “For the wine decided upon that day won’t be drunk until five years later.” She has found that being a wom- Auto Wreck Is Just Routine For Football Player “HOLLYWOOD (#—A 16-year-old HE2H school football player rode ute off a 200-foot cliff on Holly- ’s* Mulholland Drive Fri- days walked out of the wreckage and showed up with his team for a game that night. youth, Barry Burr of nearby City, told investigating of- the plunge was “‘old stuff” for him. He said he had a similar escape last summer while picking mistletoe in the mountains. He said he plunged from a 50-foot cliff and escaped injury. Friday’s mishap _ occurred when a door of his car swung open and his pasgenger, Larry Bay of North Hollywood, fell out. Burr reached to help him and lost con- trol of the auto. Next thing he knew he was at the bottom of the chasm. He climbed to the top. He is a tackle on the Harvard School team, which played Hawthorne. Bay, who didn’t go over the cliff, suffered only brush burns. Stu an is no handicap im operating a champagne firm: “Not at all,” she said. “on the contrary, it is an advantage.” Then she smiled archly and added, ‘‘but here one must be careful what one says.” She spends the week at Reims, the weekends in Paris, where she takes an active role in selling her champagne to the top restaurants and nightclubs in the French capital. Her interest in the export busi- ness brought her here for her first tour of America, just completed, She was accompanied by her son- in-law and daughter, Dr, and Mrs, Claude Rouzaud, and the doctor’s brother, Andre Rouzaud, who, at 35, is managing director of the champagne firm. _Mme. Roederer found San Fran- cisco the most European-looking of American cities. She was sched- uled to tour some California vine+ yards, but became too fatigued, Asked how California champagne compared with her own product, she hesitated and Andre Rouzaud broke in diplomatically: “Unfortunately, she didn’t get te taste any.” New York City impressed Mme, Roederer with it’s ‘massive organ- ization.” “Everything is so well prepared and done exactly on tfme. Here you know what has to be done — and you do it. In Paris we allow for a little more improvization in living.” As souvenirs of her journey she is bringing back blue jeans for her four grandchildren. Hopalong Cassidy, it seems, is now galloping through France, too. Mme. Roederer also was cheered by pleasant news from home, “Two of my. horses have won races whle I was away,” she said, P.S. to American bachelors: Please don’t write and ask me how to get in touch with Mme. Roederer. By the time you read this she'll be on her way back to those 4,999,999 bottles of cham- pagne (she gave me a bottle) and her 120 horses, Fire Destroys Famed Bazaar In Istanbul ISTANBUL, Turkey, # — Fire gutted Istanbul's famous covered bazaar Saturday, destroying thous- ands of small shops; Damage was estimated at 360 million dollars. The big market, picturesque trad ing center for everything from elec- trical appliances to antiques, was one of the city’s chief tourist at- tractions. Fire brigades from four suburbs got the fierce blaze under control but not until all the shops were burned out except those in sec- tions where jewelry, carpets and secondhand clothing were sold. Thinty small stores, seven houses and a few business buildings in the vicinity also burned. Unofficial reports said the blaze, which broke out Friday night, started from an. electrical short circuit in a restaurant. Scientists, in a recent study, found that camels do not have any special facilities for storing water