The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1954, Page 14

| initial Ooi tc curer ceccoo tra rr rc tt] ! EEE MENE NEE OE AEE NE NE NN OO EN nee TO ALL OUR GOOD FRIENDS ° we bring you three heartfelt wishes for Good Health, Happiness and Prosperity! Key West Garden & Lawn Supply 830 FLEMING STREET DIAL 2-6912 9 Be BiB BUBB De Be De De De Be Da De De Bi Be 3: Be D1 Bi Be DiI Di Be De Di Di Bi De Di Da De De De Be BB Be BeBe Be Be BeBe BD Di Be De BUD BoA De De NCEE NETIC EE TICE zi wi RHRRAPMMPRRRRRRM INH RTAHEMAHANMHRARWMMAMBMMMBMBD | | EGAN I ENCE HE GM 2 GI EE GME EE EE OE EO EN EE ONE F The loyalty of our many friends giyes ta us added confidence and pouch promise for the future. We wish a Joyful Christmas and Successful New Year to all. AMY OPTICAL DISPENSARY 423 Simontog Street Telephone 2-7522 H H H i ErnrRWRMRARRRRRRAARARHARWRAAAWAALHAND ART RAAHARADDBPMRRRRDDAABAAR RAR ADRAAHHAD EBD De DDD DD. Dee Bi Be De Pe Bi DAB Di Dr DUB MD Di Di De DY DBD I De De DD Be De DDD: Building Boom Has Changed The Appearance Of Key West (SPECIAL TO THE CITIZEN) NEW YORK — To what extent has the building boom of recent years ehanged ‘the face of Key West? percentage of the houses are new? How does this line up with the situation in oth- er cities? The answers are eontained in a special economie survey of the ma- tion's cities im the over - 10,000 population class, conducted for the International City Mapagers Asso ciation under the direction of Prof. What | | Victor Jones of Wesleyan Univer. cy, shows that at the present time, , sity. even after an eight - year building | Construetion activity has been at | surge, only about a fifth of all Am a high level locally, it shows, with | erican families live in post - war the result that Key West now has | homes. That includes apartments | ja larger percentage of new build- | a8 well as private homes. ings than most of the cities. A unique feature of the current | Pace Is Gaining study is an attempt to elassify the Locally, 37.5 per cent of the| 992 ¢ities by comparipg the num- welling units were construeted in| ber @f people who reside in them the decade ending in 1950 and: the the number of people who | pace has been gaining since ork ip them; Each city, to a dif This compares favorably with ferent degree, has a daily migra- 4itions in the other 991 tion gf people who leave for work jeities, where an average of 17.1| ouside and an influx of people from | |per cent of the units are found 4| the surrounding area for the same |be new ones, + . | | a ceparale study, miade by the Work. Ratio | Housing and Home Finance Agen-| Key West, gegording to the sur-| Merry Christmas From Mrs. Mary ‘ s. Mrs. Mary Christmas signs her nome to holiday greetings. By DOROTHY REED Central Press vey, has employment - resident | rotio of 143, indicating that the | Christmas! Gulf Service Station 801 Eaton Street Erina and Frank Caraballo number of people employed in the city exceeds by: 11 per cent the number engaged in those activi- ties who reside in the city. Those engaged in manufacturing not in- cluded. Unusual employment and traffic conditions have developed in many |THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ~— CHRISTMAS EDITION ——= 1954 ' ! To Our EE ME ME EN UR ME, Friends and cities due to the mushrooming of % suburban shopping centers and the relocating ef factories in the sur rounding areas. Thorough planning and readjustment is forced upon! such cities to cope with the situa- | tion. | The earliest Christmas hymn “Corde natus ex parentis,” (Of the Father’s Love Begotten”) is by Prudentius (b. 348) and is still sung in the Chureh of England. EOE OE OE 8 EE ENEMIES UE ENE UY | | ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Correspondent . _RACINE, Wis=If you're worried about ell the Christmas. you have to address this year, remember | Racine. : Mrs. Christmas, because of her name, addresses over 4,500 ¥uletide season—and she doesn't even know most of out cards in quantity several years ago when Shut-ins. were cheered by her name. Then the hand ev recipien She began se discovered that » Christmas’ finish her od the! we eet inte ante te tat ecards by December. ae | she says. “However, sometimes when it. that first Christmas is the most precious gift of all. May it abide with you and yows pow and always. LL UE ENE NEY EYEE EUUEY EYEE VEN ED ENED VEY EYE VE EYEE VEV ENED EY EYE | SWISS Si iviviaiwias. ime ‘y CORAL KEYS Office Supplies, Inc. Soviet Village, Christmas, Likes Its Old Ways MOSCOW #—Down in southern Russia, 37 years after the Bolshe- vik Revolution, a little village is | still called “Christmas.” “Somehow they never got around |, | to changing the name,” complains Komsomol Pravda, newspaper of the Young Communist League. Furthermore, the paper sayg, the people never got around to ehang- ing their churchgoing habits, | Autumn, after the harvest, is the | traditional time. for weddings in DAIWA DISS S PAS PRSS rural Russia and without fail, the. ¥ paper complains, “there are mar-| riages in churches — some of those | | getting married in church are even | e Komsomol emembers.” The paper quoted Maria Kudriat. Soya, district Komsemol secretary, | | assaying it was “only a habit” | and asked: “Is it a good babitr | * No, it is bad. Must we fight against it? Yes, we musty & CHRISTMAS CANDLES Among the ancient legends of | & Christmas is the legend of the! Christmas candle. It tells of a shoemaker who lived in aycottage | on the edge of a village Although a poor man, he placed his candle | in the window each night to guide travelers. Despite wars and hard- ships and illness his light never wavered. This inspired the villag- ers and at the Christmas season nearly every villager placed a ean- dle in his window. The custom grew and became universal. GIFT-BRINGERS It is interesting that Santa Claus is not widely. known around the world as a gift-bringer. Mostly it is the Wise Men who arrive bear- ing gifts, especially in Eastern and Southern Europe. In Hungary, the gifts come from the Angels, in Po- land from the Stars, in Greece, St. Basil is the gift - bearing patron saint, while in Denmark it is an \ elf + Julenissen. BS ae ee ADAMS 2401 Seidenberg Avenue rat ttt i crate Bia Di DUB Be Be BeBe Dy Di BEB Bs Be Bi Di Bi Di De Be Bi DDE DiD: BD WB WIRD Customers e+ Christmas Greetings As we approach the end of a very successful year, made possible by YOUR assistance and patronage, we wish to express to you at this HOLIDAY SEASON our sincere thanks and appreciation for your patronage during the passing year and hope that we may continue to merit your confidence and business during the coming year. We further hope that the NEW YEAR will bring to you and yours AN ABUND- ANCE OF PROSPERITY ... and GOOD HEALTH! LONG'S FURNITURE STORE 800 Fleming Street Key West, Fla. EIS EME EH UN MEME EERIE wPeact ran) ay the 1s entet andins . eve DAIRY Telephone 2-7542