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

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Wednesday, December 29, 1954 ——————————— eee The Key West Citizen a en) from The Citizen Building, corner of Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher meersoesecesnsosecioesarse UUEN = NORMAN D. ARTMAN wncncnccccensesiusenunnnnnnnn Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 tutlded to une for reproduction of a Acwoiaied, Paes Gite io lu or Bot otherwise credited in thhel kere, this paper, and also the local news pub- 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 and invit cuss’ and subjects of local or general Hey gD of Pattie ee anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Conecidation ef County ind ents. nsolidation and Ci Community Auditorium. ee Gere sai 1 2 3. 4 5. HOW ABOUT THE BRIDGE CATWALKS? NEBLETT AND PAPY READY TO ACT When you hook a fish and are reeling or pulling him in, everything in the world, except landing the fish, is blanked from your. mind. That’s the reason why fishing from the Overseas Highway bridges is so dangerous. That’s also why drivers alert themselves as they are near- ing a fisherman, not knowing at what moment he may get a bite and become thoughtless of passing automobiles. That’s what happered to that young man who was killed recently on the bridge. His thought was concen- trated wholly on the fish he had pulled up, and he dash- ed out in front of a car and was struck and killed. Danger of fishing from Overseas bridges has been evident since they have been used for automotive traffic. Four years ago, Representative Bernie C. Papy began a movement to have catwalks built along the bridges for the use of anglers. He continued to hammer away at the proposal till last March when the State Road Department appropriated $150,000 to build the catwalks. Papy blames Chairman Cecil Webb of the depart- ment for the delay in beginning the construction of the walks. As Citizen readers may recall, only a few days be- fore the fisherman was killed, Papy complained about the department’s failure to include the catwalks in its latest projects. But Webb said he was not to blame. He said the reason for the exclusion of the catwalks from the projects was because they had not been put in the priority list | hog that had been submitted to the board by the member from “this district. Senator-Elect Neblett and Representative Papy will appeal to the incoming board of the State Road Depart- ment to include the catwalks in its first priority list. But the $150,000 that has been appropriated will not be en- ough to build all the walks that had been proposed. At the time the appropriation had been made, the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District had agreed to construct the walks within the tollgates at an estimated additional $150,000. The department’s appropriation is earmarked for the bridges outside the tollgates, including those from Big Pine to Boca Chica. The Citizen feels confident that, with the passing of Webb and his board next Tuesday, Neblett, who will be senator by that time, and Papy will succeed in getting action, not excuses about “priorities,” from the new board. The walks not only will provide a safe place for fishermen but also will relieve drivers of the tension they sense when driving on a bridge where men and women are more concerned with fishing than they are with passing cars. The members of every profession, with few excep- tions, stress the importance of their profession, which means, incidentally, themselves. Crossword Puzzle across 1. Barrier 4. Vocal solo 8. Presently 13, Australian bird n 13. Nominee 15. Malian river 16. Permit 39. Loiter 40. Large fish: 41. Public Yehicie 42. Assistance 43. Rectanguler 54. Indefinite insect pronoun 44. Have being DOWN 45. Eastindian 1. Dethrone title 2. Not involv- 46. Kind of ing morality 3. Greek letter 10. At leisure 11. Wise coun- selor 14. Writing fluid 16. Cover 20. Bdge 21. Nternity 32. Condensed moisture 4. Passing fashion %. Cooking utensil 27. In behalf of moss 47. State of the Union: abbr. 48. The day past 51. Secure 52. Wild plum 53. Scatters 27. Stir the air 28. Strength ‘ ‘al «af Aairmats i ‘a ee ere r sn ANOTHER CHALLENGE TO THE CHAMP HORR/ <—~ Changes Ahead For 1955 ae New Social Security Laws Affect 9 Out Of 10 WASHINGTON #—New Year's Day brings a new look to the na- tion’s vast program of retirement benefits for the aged and of death benefits to widows and surviving children of wage earners. Sooner or later, this new look— embodied in amendments to the social security law taking effect Jan, 1—will affect the pocketbooks of more than 9 out of 10 Ameri- cans, It virtually fulfills the long- time dream of social security plan- ners—retirement income for every- iy. The new law brings up to 10% million persons under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system for the first time — farm oper- ators, farm laborers, domestic workers and self-employed archi- tects, engineers, accountants and funeral directors on a compulsory basis; state and local government employes and clergymen on an optional basis. After 18 months’ coverage, many of these will be eligible for benefits for the first time. The new law also increases bene- fits for everyone in the system (some increases took effect in Oc- and provides new advantages for millions of disabled workers and for other millions who want to con- tinue some work and still draw retirement benefits. About 3,600,000 farm operators— People farming for themselves — are covered for the first time. To qualify, they must make as much as $6) profit a year. They must report on their income and pay a 3 per cent social security tax on earnings up to $4,200 a year. Their first new social security returns will be due with income tax re- turns on 1955 earnings, filed early in 1956. Farm operators get a number of special privileges. If their total income (receipts) for the year is| below $1,800, they don’t have to} figure their net income, or actual profit or earnings. They can arbi- trarily report half their gross in- come as their net. Or they can figure their net if they choose to do so. If their total income is above $1,800, they have to figure their profit. If these net earnings are less than $900, the farm operator can report his actual earnings or report an arbitrary figure of $900— whichever he chooses. If his net is above $900, he must report the actual figure. In addition, some 2,100,000 farm them to remain in the state system and also join the federal program, provided a majority of the group votes to do so. Optional coverage also is extend- ed to 250,000 ministers, and mem- bers of religious orders who have not taken a poverty vow. They will be treated as self-employed per- sons, paying the 3 per cent social security tax along with their reg- ular income tax returns. In the past, domestic servants, maids, cooks, chauffeurs, gard- eners and other such workers have been covered if they worked 24 days for a single employer in -a quarter. Under the new law they are covered if they earn as much as $50 from a single employer in a quarter, or three-month period. This will bring in an estimated A Grain tober), increases taxes for som, ' By Bill Spillman ~A young fisherman was killed recently by a motorist in an acci- cent on the Overseas Highway. There is no doubt that this boy’s life may have been spared if we had catwalks for fishing from the bridges. The money for these catwalks has been appropriated. Local poli- ticians claim that the State Road Department has been giving the county the run around on the issue. I don’t profess to know the What's and Why’s of the delay. But it is known that a young life was stamped out that might other- wise be living today if he had been fishing from a catwalk instead of the road portion of the bridge. If anyone purposely let personal |feelings or politics delay construc- tion of the vitally needed safety projects, they have committed a terrible crime. It takes a sadistic person to obstruct the construction when dangers to human life are| knowingly involved. | Perhaps the catwalks have not been built because of a system of 250,000 more. Starting Saturday, each employer who pays $50 or more a quarter to a domestic worker should withhold 2 per cent of the wages, add 2 per cent from his own money, and turn over the entire amount to the government in quarterly returns. If the house- wife chooses, however, she may pay the entire 4 per cent tax from her own money, withholding none from the worker’s wages. The worker files no return but should get a social security card. Employ- ers may be prosecuted if they fail to comply. Coverage also is extended auto- matically to about 100,000 seif- employed professional people — architects, engineers, accountants and funeral directors, who have heretofore been excluded. there are already existing military airports, is a luxury that this coun- try cannot afford.” | Remember this decision the next time you pay your income tax — and election, —tThe pier at county beach is get- ting worse and worse. —tThe city is getting some snazzy looking motels. —National Airlines reportedly has permission to fup from this city to Havana but could not compete with the Cuban airline in price because of rates set by the Washington a- gency. —Robert Valdez is to be com- plimented for the fine work he did in making up the new rules con- cerning city civil service employes. —The city ordinance on B-drink- ing should be repealed if it is not enforced. —tThere is nothing worng with a man hiring his wife to work in a public job provides e wife works the same as anyone else would. —A crack down is in the mak- ing for the use of public vehicles for private purposes; instances, go- ing to drive-in movies, etc. PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen receives numerous letters addressed to the People’s Forum which are not accompanied by the signature of the writer. If your letter is suitable for inclusion in the For- um, we are happy to publish it, with or without your name as you desire, but it to be signed when it come: is necessary for the letter s to our office. The Citizen is interested in helping you put your opinions before the public, and we will carefully with- hold your identity if such is your wish, but we must have your signature. This Rock Of Ours By Bill Gibb Snow White Is Altered To Suit Russians By TOM REEDY BERLIN « — The cold war has caught up with Snow White and the seven dwarfs. It started in the Soviet zone of Germany, where Communist pro- ducers at Greifswald rewrote the fairy tale and won high praise from the Russian literary monthly “Today and Tomorrow.” The So- viet writer commented that the Grimm version needed certain changes and explained: “Snow White should not be a member of the court, but must be Presented as an outcast. She js being educated with the children of the castle janitor and is on very good terms with the farmers, who are actually revolutionaries. That's really why the queen hates her.” The revamped plot is based on social consciousness and the need for unseating feudal barons and Folks all over the country are! postoffice, is doing a wonderful dividing the land among the peas- getting pretty disgusted with the postal situation. No longer does a mail box signify something pri- vate — it is merely a receptacle job — this is especially true of the way he and his personnel handled the difficult Christmas _ situation. I’ve heard nothing but compliments. ants. RIAS, the American High Com- mission radio in West Berlin, re- ported the East zone’s thespian for a confused mass of advertis-; about the ease in which routine bus- shenanigans and went on: ing material — material slapped} together with no regard for the reader’s sensibilities. The government, ez’s money, is delivering this so- called ‘junk mail’ practically free iness could be conducted, packages raailed, stamps purchased, ete., this year. Christmas cards which even delivered the same day. “This plot needs thickening, let us finish it.” The dwarfs, RIAS went on, are using taxpay-|were mailed in the morning were kept busy digging uranium. Their home is “‘a grotto of peace” with It is nice to know that our local] Seven white doves sitting on seven of charge. Because it comes in such ' postoffice is performing an efficient huge quantities, the average house-| job in spite of apparent bungling holder carts it to a wastebasket|from the top ranks. without bothering to look at it. But Standing Room Only there is always a good chance that} This little island is becoming so an important letter, written in aj crowded as the winter season opens normal size envelope, cn become}tnat perhaps we're going to have tangled in the junk and inadvert-|to hang signs at the City Limits ently thrown away. reading: ‘Standing Room Only.” Postmaster General Arthur Sum-]I'’m told that most of the motels merfield is the one who is res-}and hotels are packed to capacity. ponsible for the costly and irritable] Traffic situation is becoming conditions which prevail now with’ more acute, too. Perhaps it calls regard to this third-class mail. The/for a word of warning: many “experiment,” as he calls it, has} guests do not know local stop turned our mail carriers into walk-]streets. We permanent residents ing pack mules. If it continues,}need to exercise unusual care in first-class postag2 rates will havejdriving — giving our visitors a to be raised in order to defray the| break by understanding their er- expensive service being provided/rors in traffic. Also, we should business concerns which havent’ rele them a chance to sight-see enough interest in their customers irritated at their slow driving. After all, we in- vited them to Key West to see the sights and enjoy themselves! to address mail by name. Local Post Office Postmaster Stickney of the local without becoming WASHINGTON (# — Four years ago Congress handed the govern- ment a harpoon to stick in the Communist party. It will be many months, perhaps years, before the government knows whether the harpoon has a real! barbed point. In 1950 Congress passed the In- ternal Security Act to force the party to register with the Justice | Department as a Russian agent and at the same time give a list of its officers and members. | The party said at once it would | never register. It hasn’t done 80} yet. It almost surely never will. | To register would be to admit that) the American Communist party | was a Moscow too! bent on over-| throwing the government. | The inability of the government so far to force the party into reg-| istering—or defying the law—is | due to the deliberate machinery of | delay built into the act by Con-| gress itself. | The machinery, intended to give} the Communist party a full hear-! ing and its day in court to defend | itself, worked like this: | If the attorney general declared | the party an instrument of the} Kremlin he would then ask the| Subversive Activities Control) Board, specially created by the se- curity act, to order the party to register. But this couldn’t be done until the attorney general presented evi- dence to the board to back up his The World laborers—people doing farm work | red tape or people who lack ini- —-Unless the man who wants to| charge and until the party had a for others—are covered for the first time. Farm laborers were covered in the past only if they were “regularly” hired by one em- ployer and received cash wages of | $50 or more per quarter of a year | from that employer. Now they will be covered if they are paid as much as $100 by a single employer in a single year. | The worker himself has no return | tiative to correct the defects. It is too late for anyone to say, “I told you so.” One death has al- ready occurred. It is also very pos- sible that more of the same type of accidents may occur again be- fore the lead is pulled from mem- bers of the State Road Depart- ment that are responsible. There have been many headlines on the catwalk issue and there will lease Garrison Bight comes up an acceptable offer before the next commission meeting, one commis- sioner is going to recommend that bids be requested in conjunction with using the city fund to im- prove the Bight. —TV artist unions are thinking about forbidding the use of pro- grams by stations that permit tele- | casts to be used by organized clos- to make. For any wages paid after | probably be many more. But then, led circuit systems. They claim that Friday, the employer is to deduct 2 per cent of the worker’s wages, add another 2 per cent from his | own money, and turn all this over! to the government annually, or | a social security number and card from his nearest social security office. Optional coverage is extended for the first time to about 344 mil- lion state and local government’ employes. Many local governments | already have their own retirement systems. Under the old law, em- ployes covered by these systems! could not come under the OASI} program. The new law permits we don’t need headlines, we need catwalks on the bridges for fisher- men. CORAL DUST — A school prin- cipal (whom his club friends call drive extra carefully on S-D Day to avoid being pinched. —Look for a story involving pri- vate use of city equipment. —‘Kept” men have women do tneir dirty work for them. —B-Drinking is still going on in the city. (No free advertisement). —The airport use panel has com... pletely reversed a former ruling. That of, “The use of federal money to duplicate airport facilities where high profits made are not getting down to actors and actress level. They say also that it is like re- printing a published book without royalties. —Jack Delaney is starting his fishing column again. FANATICS TO DIE CAIRO, Egypt #—A military tri- bunal Tuesday sentenced five more leaders of the fanatic Moslem Brotherhood to death by hanging and haeded prison terms ranging from five years to life to 20 others, Phesants were introduced into the United States from China in 1880. full chance to defend itself against | ot deny, the attorney general's ac- cusations. This meant a long hearing. And there was a long hearing The gov- |ernment and the Communists ar- gued before the board in 1951-52. In 1953 the board agreed with the | attorney general. | It found the American Commu- nist party to be a Russian agent But the party still didn't have to register and wouldn’t until it {fought the security act and the | board’s findings all the way up through the courts. Thus it started. Last Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals here up-} held the constituticnality of the In- ternal Security Act of 1950 and tne right of the board to order) the party to register. But the party can, and most likely will, ask the appeals court to rehear the case. The appeals court will probably refuse. It will be some time in 1955 before that answer comes down. Assuming the |party is turned down, it will then | appeal to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court would prob- A | Today By James Marlow ably not be able to give a decision before late 1955 or sometime in 1956. No one can foretell the high court’s decision, It may find the security act unconstitutional. That would mean five or six years’ work had gone out the win- dow and the party would not have ta register. But suppose the court upholds the act and the order to the party to register. Since the party says it won’t register, it can be assumed it won't. But suppose the party an- nounced, on the day the Supreme little white beds. Miniature copies of the works of Stalin are placed on seven night tables. The wicked Queen poisons Snow White with tainted canned goods from the United States. A People’s Police commissioner, in search of potato bugs dropped onto the crops by foreign enemies, finds Snow White in her glass coffin and liberates her. She leaps out, shout ing “friendship” and the dwarfs join in until the cries of joy are heard in the Urals, RIAS concludes: “And then the young couple went back to the fatherland of all work- ing people. If they have kept to the party line, they are still alive,” Fingerprints Trip Youth Who Felt “Real Ornery” SALT LAKE CITY #—-A man |with a memory for fingerprints | spotted one he had studied on a set of fingerprint cards Sunday night, So police fingerprint technician | Wade Robinson notified his su- |periors. They brought in a 17-years |old youth whose statistics were on the card. : ; Monday they announced the jyouth has confessed stealing 23 autos last summer and kicking in ‘dashboards and fenders, breaking glass and—sometimes—jumping up and down on their hoods before abandoning them. Robinson said he had taken so many prints from the vandalized cars he had managed to memorize jevery detail of the pattern. | Asked why he wrought such de- struction on the cars he stole, po- lice said the youth replied: “Cause I was mad. I was real ornery during the summer months.” Court ruled against it, that it no longer existed. What could the government do then? The announcement by the party that it was out of business wouldn’t kid anyone. But how could the government legally prove the an- nouncement was a sham and aa the party still existed? It would have to gather evidence on that. What then? The 1950 law says it’s a crime for anyone to remain a member of the party if the party fails to register once there has been a final order for it to do so. So the government could proceed against some individual who, it was convinced, was stil) a member of the party which had said it no longer existed. If convicted, this | individual would appeal all the y through the courts to the Su- preme Court. The government might not want to try any other underground Com- munists until the Supreme Court had given a decision on this first test, which would take more years. And suppose the Communist party, announcing it was dissolv- ing bobbed up under another name, which is what happened in Canada. Would the government have to go through the whole pro- cedure again to prove it was really the Communist party? That's a bridge the government will have to cross if it comes to it. PROFS OUSTED BUENOS AIRES, Argentina ‘#— Government authorities announced Tuesday the dismissal of 45 profes- sors, including five Roman Cath- olic priests, from the National University of Cordoba. The wholesale firings, carried out by a special representative of President Juan D. Peron, were a result of the bitter dispute between the Peron government and part of the Catholic clergy in Argentina. Cordoba and its university are considered a chief center of Cath- olic strength. Key West In Days Gone By | | i Hopkins Hapgood, well known writer and an authority on inter- national politics, and Mrs. Hap- good, also well known in the liter- ary field, are residents of Key West and have decided to remain for the next three months. Steamship Cuba sailed for Hava- Na yesterday with 232 first cli Passengers, 18 second class, 10 au- tomobiles, four tons of freight and 1€5- sacks of mail. KtkLY December 29, 1944 Key West Lodge, 551, B. P. O, Elks, this afternoon purchased $3,- 000 of Series G. War Bonds. | Seven acres, with ocean frontage, on Plantation Key, have been | by Dexer Woods to M. H. Tallman for $2,000. COUNTERFEIT GANG NABBED IN ITALY MILAN, Italy @ — L Poliee nounced m_- ofter a seven-year estiga- tion of .———e = Agents sai Milan a clandestine money mi which had printed 113,000 lars and : of Hungarian, | Lithuanian, Austrian, Yugoslay and Italian nationalities, A