The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 14, 1954, Page 4

rc) Page4 = THe Key WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, December 14, 1954 NE EL pS The Key West Citizen Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher n.ccccccccnnnnn a» 1921 - 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN Jmimnenenunnn Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2-5662 Member of The Associated Press—The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for ri luction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news pub- lished here. Member Associate Dailies of Florida = OO Se Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15.60 peda ta thal, Gia ind shies lnm al Aa erica ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Oe The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of | it wi t publish Saeainens cots pas peenaal interest, but it will not pu IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1, More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. . Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation of County and City Governments. - Community Auditorium. COMMISSIONERS SHOULD BE COMMENDED FOR EFFORTS TO BUILD OUR PORT Be as critical as you may about the city commission- ers, but, if you are fair-minded, you must give them credit for their success in starting Key West well on the road to regaining its importance as a port. Once upon a time, as a good many Key Westers know, you heard the blowing of steamship whistles several times a day but, up to the time the ferry began to run to Cuba, the only whistles you heard in recent years were those on American warships. The commissioners worked hard and concertedly to have the ferry, “City of Key West,” operated between here and Cuba, after almost 10 years of promises, which kept Key Westers on edge, but were never fulfilled, to connect Key West by ferry with Cuba. But the commissioners, having got the ferry, did not stop there to promote the interests of the port of Key | West, They succeeded in having the P. & O. Steamship Company agree to operate ships that will connect Key West with Tampa, Havana and Miami. The ships will carry freight as well as passengers. Back in the days when Key West was a flourishing city, though not as large as it is now, bringing in freight did not pose a problem, even though no railroad or high- way connected our island with the mainland. Freight came by ships from New York, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Tampa, Havana and later on, from Miami, be- tween which port and Key West, a sidewheeler, also named the “City of Key West,” operated. The Citizen trusts that the commissioners, in their efforts to build up our port, will try to have the Clyde- Mallory line touch here on its way from New York to and from Galveston. If such an effort results in success, it will help to accelerate the growth of’ Key West, The Over- seas’ Highway gives the greatest impetus to Key West progress, but, to continue to grow and grow, we must have other facilities that connect us with the outside world. Incidentally, in a month or so, the ferry that runs between Key West and Cardenas, will reduce the time re- quired for its trip now two hours each way. That time will be saved when the ferry begins to land at Cuba’s fabulous Port of Veradero Beach, where the great International Hotel is situated. Veradero Beach is Cuba’s outstanding social center, having eclipsed Vedado, which held that honor for more than a century. Listening is usually smarter than talking. el, This is the time of year to resolve to give more to the church in 1955. The main trouble with the younger generation is that it has too many contacts with the older generation. ee ossword Puzzle ACROSS 36. Collection 1. Indefinite of facts amount 5. Weep 8. Small island 18. Bgg-shaped CIOWREDIETL TTA MI OIATS] ATIRMN IRI) TAINS (DIE! BILIEISIS|INIGINSIMIE E RESOIPISIMEDIELE} RIATIAILMECLIEARIE Rl VOMRIEIPIRIE|S|S||IVIE| IN OMMAIRIE TIE METIE IA INIE} INE) lala inlet 14. Pack 15. Home 18. Mother of mankind 19. Knack 20. Mystic Hindu word 21, Impede 23. Olive genus 25. “—, lala” 26. Dressmaker 29. Leather fastener 33. Japanese admiral 34. Guido's highest note AIC IVI Tt IDATTILIY 24, Island of New York: abbr. 26. Denoting the central part 27. Americana Indian 28. Fairy 30. Poisonous serpents YA 31. Cuckoo-like q bird Uy ind 32. Moccasin 4 36. Painters 38. Even: contr. 39. Scandt navian navigator <j 41. Open court 42, Negative 44. Atomize 46. Soft mineral 47. Utilizer P| ad nese rece tt} This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Now that plans are being made! Fogarty Avenue. Every morning I to achieve a beautiful yacht basin | drive west down Fogarty and in at Garrison Bight, the City Com | order to see up First Street to the missioners are coming up _ with | north it is necessary to drive par- talk of permitting a marine rail-| tially out into the intersecton, The way to locate there also! It is a-}high weeds on the cormer com- bout as sensible as zoning a high- | pletely obstruct the view. class residential area to include a} “J will gladly contribute my la- boiler works! |bor to clear this off if you'can get T’'ve no objection to boiler works | permission from the owner. — or marine railways — in their! «7 am a Navy man but unlike so proper place. It does seem, how- | many others I am down here of ever, that Garrison Bight isn’t the | my own accord. I was down here proper place for any type of com-| from 1949 - 51 and liked it well mercialism beyond sport fish- ing boats. The surrounding shores of the Bight are primarily a re- sidential area. Any kind of dry! dock is bound to have a lot of} pounding, scraping, painting, and other types of noise which would be objectional. to homewoners. Local small boatmen need a ma- rine railway. The City Fathers should have thought of this when they leased the land at the end of Simonton St. Haphazardly al- lowing a railway to be placed at the Bight now however, will only compound their original error. The situation calls for more far-sighted planning. Does Navy Dislike KW Robert L. Greenleaf, of 2025 Harris Ave., presents an opinion which isn’t uncommon amongst Navy personnel. The civilian atti- tude that our town isn’t liked by service men is just a bunch of foolishness. Says Greenleaf: “You stress safety in your col- umn so I would like to bring ‘o} your attention the traffic hazard | at the corner of First Street and | back. become a “Conch.” However I have a three year old daughter who was born down here so I guess she qualifies.” watiomas earary Hal Boyle’ r Says NEW YORK (#—Sidewalk reflec- tions of a pavement Plato: “Save Greenwich Village!” This anguished cry has arisen again, as it does at least once a year. Progress just won't let Green- wich Village alone. Nobody ever suggests moving the Statue of Lib- erty to the Bronx or tearing dowa Brooklyn Bridge. what the French Quarter is to New Orleans, Greenwich Village is to New York City—a symbol of the | past amid the bustle of today. Throughout the nation Greenwich Village has a legendary reputation as the Palm Beach of Bohemian- ism, the Coney Island of the long- haired intelligentsia, and the sis- ful paradise of those who believe in free love and free verse. But time and change are always! It really hasn't lived up to that nibbling away at old Greenwich | flamboyant reputation for some Village, which is in some ways aj real civic landmark and in other ways is just an attitude of mind. The ogres of the moment are the members of the City Planning| Commission. The site they have | selected for a new junior high) school playground in the Village may require the razing of three of the most picturesque old dwellings in the Bedford Street area. Residents have rushed to the speakeasy. Playboy tourists who go there now in search of thrills | are likely to feel vaguely cheated. | “Where are all the characters?” they want to know, Well, most of | on, Greenwich Village is no longer the home of so many fabulous | transients in Arcady. The people | who dwell there work harder than | | enough that I requested to be sent | “As you pointed out in one of your columns, it is pretty hard tor time now, not since the end of pro- | hibition spelled the death of the} the characters have died or moved | 48. Fury ramparts anew with the old cry, they play. But there are few com- Military May (Get More Funds CHICAGO (—Secretary of De- fense Wilson said last week mili- | tary spending in 1954 was reduced | almost three billion dollars but be- | causy of the need for new weapons the“estimated 1955 budget of $29,- 600,000,000 may be raised to 34 billions. He told the Ilinois Manufactur- ers Assn. more and more military) spending would go toward planes that will fly faster and higher and carry heavier loads. But, he said, armed might alone won't solve world problems and the United States must understand the importance of getting along with other free peoples. ~ Key West In Days Gone By December 14, 1934 Rear Admiral Norman M. Smith, Cc. E. C., U. S. N., chief of the bureau of yards and docks, says that Key West is a delightful little city and should, in the course cf time, become the ideal winter re- sort. William Boll, of 1404 Albury Street, is proud and deservedly so, of the prolific seedless orange tree which is growing in his yard, and is loaded with the luscious fruit. December 14, 1944 County commissioners, at meet- ing last night, decided to construct {a road, 1,605 feet long, at Taver- nier extending from a tract of 15 | acres, owned by the Miami Fire- men’s Benefit Association to the new Overseas Highway. | A.C. Zimmerman of Miami Beach, district governor of Lions International, District 35 - S, will arrive in the city today to pay an | official vist to the Key West Lions | Club. an apartment in Greenwich Vil- lage. They live there, sustained by hamburgers and high hopes, until they get a start in their careers. After marrying, they usually move out to the suburbs. But meanwhile their eager young spirits have been nourished by a great tradition. It means a great jin the same neighborhood where | writers as diverse as Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edna St. Vincent Millay also had their dreams. Merely to stroll through the crazy-quilt pattern of Greenwich Village's old streets is a silent en- couragement. There are few plac- es in America more interesting to walk in. You feel part of a great past. Year by year, nibble by nibble, the old Greenwich Village is being PEOPLE'S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expressions of the yi i “ | ers, but the editor reserves the right to fidlete con iseace ahiok are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be Cee oad ip beets Gtond words and write on one side of per only. Signature @ writer mi tatters’ and will be nubliehed unless reenenny sccommany the - es \ STATEMENT CLARIFIED Editor, The Citizen: I am disturbed regarding the inaccuracy of an item that appeared recently in The Citizen headed “Dr. Camp- bell’s Talk Conflicts, Woman, Says.” Actually, I said noth- ing of the kind, the facts of the matter being as follows: | Mr. Sneigr of The Citizen telephoned me on Mon- day morning, December 6th, made himself known, and asked if I had been a chaperon for the High School Band on the recent trip to Havana. I replied that I had not been a chaperon, my husband and I having been guests of the Cuban Government on that occasion. Mr. Sneigr then in- | quired if I had witnessed any pinching of girls by Cuban | males during the visit, and I replied that I had not, and | that we had sat in the reviewing stand in front of the Capitol, which was at the end of the parade line. I added, however, that though I did not know Dr. Campbell, I did not believe he would make a statement as he had reportedly made unless he had some basis for it. As far as we were concerned, we witnessed nothing | at all untoward, and I tried to make that quite clear in! talking to Mr. Sneigr. I believe the above will clear up the matter. Yours very truly, RUTH BAKER (Mrs. Harry M. Baker) SHE LIKES DOGS Editor, The Citizen: I'm sick and tired of having people run down dogs. Don’t they know dogs have been man’s best friend ever since the world began? You never hear of a cat being anybody’s friend — except other cats, People who love cats need their head examined. They are sneaky, distrustful and destructive beasts. When | I see someone molly-coddle a cat I think they are headed for the bug house. So please let up about dogs being bad, or I'll tell Spare Airport Space Planted COPENHAGEN, Denmark # ~— It's well known that the people jot tiny Denmark don't waste a jt able acre of their precious farmland, but few passengers at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport re- jalize they are landing on one of the country’s largest farms. Even the Danes were surprised when Airport Manager Leo Soren- sen disclosed he had planted bar- ley, oats, rye and wheat between runways and in the safety zones around the- 800-acre government- ewned field. Utilizing 240 acres of the field for farming, his crops this past year sold for 165,000 kroner ($23,- 25). A profit of about 100,000 kroner ($14,500) went to the na- tional treasury. (For James Marlow) WASHINGTON (®—Behind the Bamboo Curtain of Red China to- day there is an American boy who can’t forget his home and those he loves, Richard Tenneson turned his back on his own country, his family and his friends when he walked in- to the world of the Communists rather than accept repatriation in the exchange of Korean War pris- oners. But the memories still are there, Even now he’s haunted by memo- Ties of the music of America — melodies which will tear at his heart and conscience as long as he lives, so help him God. Recently Tenneson wrote his mother in Minnesota asking her to you some more of what I think about silly old cats. So there! MISS ELLEN OVERSTREET EDITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGED Editor, The Citizer : Thanks very much for your courtesy in sending me the editorial from The Key West Citizen concerning the Monroe County lands. I am very glad to have the information contained in this editorial, and I appreciate so much your sending it | to me. With kindest regards and day Season, I remain ‘ best wishes for the Holi- » Yours sincerely, : J. EDWIN LARSON * State Treasurer IT’S NOT A. CUSTOM Editor, The Citizen: you.see, Mr. Woodrow, there are Being an American citizen, a Cur) to enter in “The Battle of the Cu- ban Pinchers.’’ In answer to Mr. Woodrow’s letter I would like to say first of all, that being a mo- ther of three, the oldest a girl, I am in complete accord with you, that we should be proud to have a per- son in our schools who takes an interest in the morale of our chil- dren. I for one am happy about this ban by birth, and considering my-) self a Conch, I feel I am entitled | males so lured by the girls’ appeal- wolves all over. I don’t deny there may have been one or two Cuban ing costunges, (which by the way is prohibited in Cuba in the streets. It is against the law for women |to roam the streets half-naked or | shorts-clad.) that they may have if the girls or Mr. Campbell had reported the incident those men jwould have promptly landed in | jail, as does also any women in- decently clad in public. Let me em- because perhaps if Mr. Campbell is | phasize again, that it is definitely still there when my girl goes to|not a custom for Cuban men to High School, there won't be all the | pinch decent girls. There are low obscene petting scenes we Key | individuals that make a habit of Westers are tired of seeing display-| this practice, but as I said before ed at noon time by our boys arid they are considered mashers, and girls right in the school grounds.| get severe punishment when And perhaps now Mr. Campbell, caught. They are just as degen- going to the school grounds, and|counter here in United States in will bar sailors and civilians from erate as the ones we women en-| send him sheet music of such sen- timentab songs as “White Christ- mas” and “Dear Hearts and Gen- tle People.” Richard Tenneson is groping for solace in music as our people have for centuries, and as they always will. Even in war, they found comfort music . . , In North Africa, soldiers gath- ered around their radios at night and searched the wavelengths unt. they found the music they wanted. Always it was music. Perhaps it was a French song or an American dance band or their favorite, “Lili Marlene,” the German ballad. Across Italy and France and Germany the soldiers paused io play the pianos in the battered houses. Sometimes the notes could be heard above the rattle of gun- fire in the streets outside. in In Liege, Belgium, the Germans had retreated. The little night club opened its doors for the first time in months. A makeshift Belgian \band was trying hard but it was a pretty dismal effort until the blackout curtains parted and six GIs strode into the room. The six Americans had the grime | boldly ventured to pinch them. But! Of the infantry on them. You knew they were combat men by their young-old faces. They stacked their {carbines and went to the band- stand and the Belgians handed them the musical instruments, They poured out their hearts in | music that night, those Gls, They | exulted in the wild freedom of jazz and washed away their loneliness in the blues from the bayou coun- try. Then they laid down the instru- | ments, picked up their carbines, jand walked into the night where the darkness was broken by the flashes of artillery fire, deal to a young person to live| doing more than pinching the girls openly in public view. I mean by this just plain old fashioned petting, of which I don’t think any mother approves. This is a fact as we live near the High School and am tired of witnessing these goings on. Now, Mr. Woodrow, as to Mr. Morales being worked up, how do you think an American Consul would feel if someone said, it wasn’t safe for Cuban girls to visit here because Americans jumped on them and pinched them? It’s might say, American men don’t pinch girls! Well, let me tell you one thing, I was raised in New) York City, have lived in Califor-| jnia, Miami, and a few other large | cities, and have encountered many “mashers,” which is the American | prototye of the Cuban -pinchers. So subways, busses, theaters, etc. etc., |Key Westers feel offended by Mr. |Campbell’s statement, which con- demned all Cuba and which jeo- | pardized our good neighbor rela- |tions which we strive so hard to | better. We of Cuban ancestry and par- entage feel as does Mr. Morales justifiably that Mr. Campbell owes the Cuban people an apology. This | poor policy surprises me coming not very complimentary, is it? You| from a highly intelligent indivi-| |dual. We are not throwing a good man to the wolves, Mr. Woodrow. We think highly of Mr. Campbell, but we do think he was wrong in ment, Yours truly, Orin Goodrich NEW YORK (®—The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis intends to make the Salk vaccine available for all of the nation’s first and second-grade pupils if last summer’s tests show the drug 1s effective. Salk Vaccine May Get Wide Usage receive the vaccine. They were re- placed by the second-graders who have a higher polio attack rate. U.S. TO GIVE LSTs TO SOUTH KOREA |and who by the way are not Cu-| bans. That is the reason why we} issuing such an offensive state-| | I'm sure they were happier be- | cause the music had brought them |nearer home and the things they | would return to in a few more months. | Off the coast of Sicily, the troops |fited into the black hold of an in- vasion ship and clambered into the amphibious trucks which would carry them ashore behind the Ger- man lines. We sat in the blackness, tense and afraid, waiting for H-hour, And then came the thin notes of a har- monica, rising and falling with the j puters wees melody, “Night. and } Somewhere in the darkness a youth was voicing all the !o1 jness, yearning and hope that was jinside him. The music made you jthink of those you loved and of what you would return to someday when this thing was ended. It seemed as if hundreds of men were holding their breath so they wouldn’t miss a single note of the music that came out of the dark- ness. For a fleeting time they re- membered another and better world, | Richard Tenneson will remem- ber too when he hears the musie he asked his mother to send him. PUSAN, Korea #—The United | But if Richard Tenneson has begun 61. County i N.Y. state 52. Former ruler 55. Rubber tre. ald ial ddd ee uns “Save Greenwich Village!” Whether they win or lose this| Particular battle, the partisans ap pear to be fighting for a lost cause in their long campaign to keep Greenwich Village intact from the |ans to move inroads of the Philistines. munities in the world more pleas- ing to live in, few that can match | |warmth and frie SS. High rents as every three young persons who It seems a real shame, tuo. What|come to seek fame and fortune |of the American past that can|removed pregnant women from its the cable car is to San Francisco,’ in the big city tries first to find i eaten away—as this great cannibal| The announcement was made by city feeds upon its ancient heart.|the foundation Sunday. The Uni- Down with the old buildings, up|versity of Michigan is conducting vith the new. And as it crumbles | evaluation of the tests and the re- times forced most of the Bohemi-| before the banner of progress, | port on the study is expected next . But one out of/something is being lost that is| spring. worth saving—a distinctive patch never be replaced, 4 The foundation also said it had original list of those scheduled to States. will turn four LSTs (land- ing ships, tank) over to the South Korean navy at Chinhae Dec. 29, a South Korean spokesman said today. Other ships are expected to be added later under a general agree- ment to build up the Korean Re- public’s navy, to understand the music of Ameri- ca — it won’t bring him the solace that came to the men in the inva- sion ship that night. There will be only emptiness in his heart. It requires one horsepower to raise 550 peunds one foot in one ~ second,