The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1954, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Friday, December 31, 1954 The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citiz ildi CHEE ADA AML EG ee cHiten) Building. corners ot Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher ssrenenenenenee 1921 » 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAN - Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2-5661 and 2.5662 a or not otherwise credited in this paper, and als toned here: Pape 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 invites discussion of ic i and subjects of local or general interest, but fe ee nee anonymous communications. eee PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes expressions ers, but the editor reserv she eight aa delete any items which rrani i! shou! fair and confine the letters to 200 words i wiieion eclas of the paper only. Signature of the writer must accompany the letters and will be published uniess requested otherwise. Sates Sey APPRECIATION FELT Editor, The Citizen: I should like to take this means of expressing my very deep and sincere appreciation to the Key West High | School for the very lovely Christmas program presented | at the football stadium at the beginning of the holiday season. I think it was one of the finest productions of its | kind that I have ever seen. Without calling any names, for fear I should miss some, I want to thank the faculty and student body as well as the administrative officers of the views of its read- By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON Ww — Sen. Me- Carthy (R-Wis), having dominated the news for much of 1954, wouldn’t let the old year pass without a few more words and a promise of plenty to come in 1955. After his attack on President Eisenhower Dec. 7 it seemed for 3 while he might sign off for the rest of the year. At least he had nothing else to say for almost for this above average production. If we could have more of this sort of programs I think we should be better able three weeks. This week he made |up for lost time. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCA’ BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels and Apartments. 2, Beach and Bathing Pavilion. 3. Airports—Land and Sea. ‘: A * 4 . Th e' L ki ‘coos manelianeetcniian es — | soak ataseapeuae seni aoeain jnew: he wants this country to cut |off aid to countries which trade | with Red China. He had said the 4 Consolidation of County and City Go 5. Community Aster HyAGoverimments. oe THE YEAR 1955 We greet the New Year with high hopes for a pros- perous year. From the business standpoint, economic ex- perts are optimistic and the great majority of forecasts paint the new year as one which will be far more success- ful than 1954, For resolutions, we would suggest that readers con- sider moderation in all things, especially on the highway. With the new high-powered automobiles now king offer- ed, even more emphasis on safe driving will be required in 1955 than in past years. We would suggest also that Americans make 1955 a year of non-partisan progress in Washington and in the field of foreign affairs. As a nation and asa people, we should unify behind a foreign policy and present a solid front to the world, and should do everything we can to improve our country, our government and the lot of the unfortunate, meanwhile safeguarding the freedoms and independence of every American. Finally, every one of us should give thanks that we are citizens of the most fortunate and the most blessed country in the world. That is something many of us take for granted, as we do the many luxuries and high stand- ards of life which we have become accustomed to enjoy- ing. Properly thankful for this blessing from above, we can go forward with confidence that we will safeguard ‘our country, and make it a unified force for the good things in this world. The patronage jobholders in the Capitol are now experiencing the pangs of a political changeover. The person who is always looking out for your rights either has nothing to do or is playing you for a sap. The highest achievement of man is to be able to think through distorted situations and arrive at the truth. When science proves new truths, they remain truth despite the fact that some people refuse to believe them. Americanism: The idea that any street corner gen- eral can solve the affairs of the world, given the auth- ority. The ignorance about this part of the nation, in other areas, is only equalled by our ignorance about other sec- tions. A number of business men would give almost any- thing to know when the rising stock market was going to stop rising. 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Untruth - Massachu- Setts cape 53. Perceive 54. Term of Tespect 55. Di Changes Summarized Soc. Security Retirement, Death Benefits Up By CHARLES F. BARRETT WASHINGTON (#—Increased re- tirement and death benefits are the vast new changes in the social security law. Some of these changes already have taken effect, many others are effective this Saturday, Jan. 1 and still others will not reach full | effect until 1956 or later. | Here is a summary of some of) the most important of these pro- visions: BENEFITS AND TAXES The new law increases benefits in three ways: First, after 18 months coverage after June 1953, up to five years of lowest income may be dropped in figuring average monthly in- come under the system. Since ben-| efits are based on average income, this in effect provides bigger ben- efits. However, you can’t lose your; the future can “free” his — aver- Hal Boyle Says NEW YORK «# — Sidewalk re- flections of a Pavement Plato: How can you tell whether you have become an adult or still re- main a child? Well, there are some signposts along the way. You show definite indications of being grownup when: You see wrinkles above your eyelids as well as circles beneath them. You start pondering whom you'd like to leave your money to—if you provided all along the line under! |based on average monthly earn-| benefits for any months in which you did not earn more than $80 in wages, or render substantial services in self-employment. So you could make $10,000 in four months, but if you didn’t work the other eight months you could draw social security benefits for those eight months. DISABILITY Since social security benefits are ings, from a certain starting date until retirement, a worker who be- came totally disabled suffered a} age earnings at the time he be- comes totally and permanently dis- abled. The idle period or periods will not count against him and he will be eligible for full benefits based upon the time he actually worked. To qualify, a disabled person must work under social security for 5 of the 10 years before he becomes disabled, and also for 18 months of the last 3 years before his disability. Persons already on the benefit rolls, whose payments have been Second, the new law raises the| annual income base, on which ben-! efits are figured and «axes are paid, from the present maximum of $3,600 to $4,200 a year. | This will provide bigger benefits | in upper income brackets. It also; means that workers making $4,200 | or more will pay $12 a year more in social security taxes at their 2 per cent rate. Their employers} will pay the same increase. And :many self-employed persons will pay $18 a year more in taxes, at their 3 per cent rate. | Third, the new law establishes | a new formula on which benefits | are based. For a_ single retired worker, monthly benefits will be 55 per cent of the first $110 of average monthly earnings plus 20 per cent of the remainder, up to the new} maximum base of $350 monthly. | The old law paid out 55 per’ cent of the first $100. plus 15 per cent of the first $100, plus 15 per cent) of the remainder up to the old base of $300. Benefits for wives, widows and! children are a percentage of the benefit earned by the worker. So; they will go up too, under the new| formula. The minimum for all beneficiar- | ies—retired workers or survivors —is raised from $25 to $30 monthly. The maximum for a single retired worker is raised from $85 to $108.- 50; for a retired worker and his wite from $127.50 to $162.80, and | for an entire family from $168.80 | to $200. | Except for a family, none of the | maximums will be reached, how-| ever, until a worker has been cov- ered by the new formula for 18 months. The formula went into ef- | fect in September So the new max- imums can be reached in 1956 or later. | RETIREMENT TEST Under the old law, a person from 65 to 75 lost his social se- curity benefit for any month in which he earned $75 or more. At: "5 or over, a person got full bene- | fits regardless of earnings. The new law first, lowers the exempt age to 72. And those be- tween 65 and 72 may draw all hteir social security benefits if they earn $1,200 a year or less, on an annuai basis. Thus a person could earn $400 a month for three months and still not lose any re-j tirement venefits. ' Further, the new law says a per-| Yesterday in Key West were United! wounded burglars to a police sta-|them how to find out if they're | States Senator Robert La Follette, | tion. On the way the burglar broke! really saving or not, and to deter- lcse only one month’s benefit for each $80 earned above $1,200 a year. So a “retired” person may earn $1,280 a year and lose only, one month's benefit or up to $2,080 | and lose 11 months benefits. Above | Icss of income and often had his | benefits greatly reduced, or some- times eliminated. Under he new law, a worker in reduced because of as much as six months disability, can get an increase under the new provision if they still are disabled. | This Rock | Of Ours By Bill Gibb The Southern Bell Telephone} with 1,246 telephones in 11 cities, Company, which serves Key West| including Wilmington and Raleigh, and 1,040 other exchanges in Flo-|N. C., Charleston, S. C., Augusta rida and eight other southern states! and Savannah, Ga., and Mobile, is observing its 75th anniversary of | Ala. The other five were in Vir- service. | ginia, not served now by Southern The Company was founded in: Bell. December, 1879, just three years| In 1926 Southern Bell acquired after Alexander Graham Bell had | the properties of the Cumberland obtained a patent for the telephone | Telephone Company which served he invented. | exchanges in Louisiana, Mississip- “In no other section of the na-| pi, Kentucky and Tennessee. Sou- tion has telephone demand been |thern Bell now serves those four | heavier since the war than in Flo- | states in addition to North Caro- rida,” said Don Nichols, local ma- | lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Flo- | nager of Southern Bell, ‘and tele- rida and Alabama. phone people have responded by, By 1929 — its 50th birthday — bringing telephone growth to,Flo-| Southern Bell had 1,000,000 tele- rida that has out stripped any/| phones in operation, This was in other section of the nation. The sharp contrast to the situation in growth in Key West has been an/ pioneer telephone days when some important part of the economic de- | small exchanges were closed for velopment of our area and we are a period of time because “the nov- grateful for the confidence express- | elty of the telephone had worn off.” ed in our Company by telephone! It took 67 years to reach the first users here,” he said. ‘two million Southern Bell tele- Telephone service in Key West, phones. But in the past eight years, began in 1885; today, there are 2'2 million more have been added. 7,700 telephones here. The year Today Southern Bell has 4,500 tele- had any to leave. The kids who used to call you dress you as “Mister.” You really start planning to see your dentist once a year, your doctor twice a year. You’ve acquired three ‘Dear John” letters from girl friends who've fallen for other guys. You learn that the surest sign of a woman’s interest in a man is her willingness to lend him mon- ey. You can meet an old flame and feel never a twinge of the old heartburn. In fact she honestly looks crumby to you. You go to your monthly lodge meeting and somebody nominates you for the office of historian. The laughter of strangers dis- turbs you, young lovers ‘seem-like fools, and children make. you feel | unreasonably cranky, You no longer dare ask a pretty office secretary to lunch: for fear | of what the rest of the. staff. will | think, i You start breaking into a laugh | even before the boss finishes tell- ing a joke. You find yourself arguing that no horse could be greater. thi Man O’War, and no fighter ever lived who could whip Jack Demp- sey in his prime. You read the diets on the wom- an’s page, then the obituary no- tices, before turning to the sports pages. It no longer seems odd to “Musclehead” have sons who ad-; you that undertakers print ads giving funeral prices, and you muse over which is really the big- gest bargain. You carry your paycheck home it yourself to see what’s inside. Instead of being awakened at night by “growing up” pains, you find you no longer can doze at your work by day because of “growing down” pains. A hatcheck girl smiles engaging- ly at you, and you don’t smile back. You merely frown and won- der what’s so funny. Somebody mentions McCarthy, and you think first of Charlie and then of Joe. You begin to put foot powder into your shoes each morning, and car- Ty cough drops in your pocket regularly. The wife finally decides you're old enough to have a night out each week to play poker with the boys—and all you want to do is play poker with the boys, Other people’s children seem as pretty and smart as your own— and certainly better-mannered. You go to the beach for a swim, but merely lie on the sand in the sun and never go near the water. Your wife starts campaigning for “a new fur coat.” (Nothing ages a man more than the realization that one fur coat won’t last a wom- an a lifetime.) The family mail holds no more surprises. You can look at every envelope and guess who sent it. A Boy Scout abandons an old lady in mid-street to rush over and help YOU reach the sidewalk safely. You'd rather brag about what you used to do than what you're goimgsto be. ‘a can read a piece Tike this in @%newspaper and think, “The guy’s got a point all right, though naturally most of what he says sure doesn’t apply to me—yet.” Today's NEW YORK (#—The year's big cash in bank, cash surrender value | spending spree behind them, most citizens are full of good resolutions today about saving money. If you're serious about it, you might take a tip from corporations, They strike a trial balance sheet Business Mirror By Sam Dawson |of life insurance and annuities, market value of real estate, resale value of furniture and furnishings, | trade in value of cars, money lent to others, government and corpo- without even thinking of opening | same thing before, more than a year ago. But, judging from what he said, he may also have been giving a preview of the course he'll take |in 1955. He may be shifting from fighting communism at home to fighting it abroad, although he |could combine both. There had been speculation after the Senate condemned him for |some of his conduct Dec, 2 on what he would do next year. He had been working the fight against Communists at home steadily for four years. There was always the chance ke might become a bore if he stuck to the same line another four years, which is the amount of |time he has left in the Senate |before he has to face the voters again in 1958. Besides in the next two years, with the Democrats running Con- gress and the Investigations sub- committee of which he has been chairman the past two years, his chance for making headlines will be rather diminished. | If he could find a new course, | not necessarily divorced from com- munism, which he has made his | special province. he might be able to win new public attention. He has now said he will make a lot of speeches around the coun- try in 1955, demanding a tougher policy toward the Chinese Com- nunists. He could concentrate on that while at the same time taking swipes at communism at home. If anyone, inside or outside the Eisenhower wing of the Republi- can party, had the notion Me- Carthy might retire into the back- ground after his condemnation by the Senate and his aftack on the President, he must haye other ideag& by now. y ! In a nationally “broaticast reply to former President Truman, wl ‘had criticized him-—obliquely, Me- Carthy, in the fall. pf 1953, dé- manded the Eisenhgwer admin- | istration shut off-aid te any alligs trading with Red; Chine. (This government. has an em- bargo on all trade.with Red China, |but a number of friendly nations |allow limited trade.) ‘ McCarthy didn’t pt ie that idéa very often durigg 1954, Most of his time was taken up with the McCarthy-Army hearings and the Senate hearings and debate on censuring him. On Dec. 7, five days after the Senate had condemned him, Mc- Carthy accused Eisenhower of a |“shrinking show of weakness” to- ward world communism. | He made this attack shortly | after Eisenhower had congratu- lated Sen. Watkins (R-Utah), who | had fought for McCarthy's censure. | The President praised Watkins for bis fairness. | Then McCarthy, nursing an in- | jured elbow, disappeared on a | vacation. He had nothing to say publicly until Dec. 26, when he announced a “‘lot of public speak- | ing” in 1955 to force a tougher | policy toward Red China. He also said he planned no further hear- ings on communism this year. He followed this up in an ex- rate bonds, and market value of | Clusive interview with the Chicago when they want to find out where 1954 proved to be the greatest year | phones in 1,041 exhanges in the of development with the installa-| cities, towns and rural areas sur- tion of 1,050 instruments. Of the | rounding them. Also there are 565 total number of local phones, independent or non-Bell companies, per cent have been installed with-| which operate more than a million in the past 4 years. Started with 1,246 Telephones | Southern Bell began operations | | telephones in 1,239 other Southern they stand. And they keep up a watchful search for the best plan to make assets and funds work | for them for maximum saving. Some individuals think they have been saving money when actually communities, joined with South- ern Bell in serving the South. | the year started. Others say they Key West in Days Gone By She Should Have | haven't been able to save a cent when actually they have added to their net worth by increasing their | equity. in insurance. or homes. (Left Him In Bed |sss more variatians on ways of \saving than he used to — and is TOKYO (P—Hefty Mrs. Kayoko/ using more outlets too, the Re- Yoshino tried te rouse her sleeping | S¢arch eynnna sis begins terol on husband when oH they’re worse off now than when} other securities. Add them up to} get the total of your assets. To find out what you owe, list: | all bills due, personal loans pay- able, amount of mortgage still duc, unpaid taxes, balance due on in- | stallment purchases. Add them up to get your total liabilities. Compare your asset value aad) | your liabilities and find your net | worth — or (let's hope not) how far you're behind the game. Repeat a year from now and see if you’ve been making progress | at saving — or slipped further into | debt. | ; Some of the rules the ‘astitute | works out for getting the most out ; \of saving are: funds for an emer- | | | * knice-wielding | the installment plan, investing in burglar bre * into their home to-, day, He didn’t budge. | So Mrs. Yoshino rolled out of bed and told the burglar she would get him money from another room. Instead, she returned with a meat knife and slashed him six times. | December 31, 1934 | Finally she stirred her sleeping Distinguished visitors arriving husband and told him to take the of Madison, Wisc , and a party of l.ose from Yoshino and escaped. | friends. They are guests at the Ca- eros sa Marina. jhas sugar cane growing there as/ ‘big as‘ is grown anywhere. | Prince Albert, colored gardener in mutual funds, using especially investment | gency belong only in a bank. Put plans packaged >y j only funds earmarked for a lory- banks. jrange goal into savings bonds — The standard outlets for saving, | interest drops if you cash them in of course, continue to Le banks | before maturity. securities, real estate. Chose insurance policies that For its 50,000 members the in-| Most closely meet your particular stitute has drawn up a savings needs, and change policies when policy memo for 1955 which shows | the needs change. Don’t play the stock market — ; but buy shares carefully for long- mine which is the best way for |term investment — if saving is them to save. your goal. | Here are the principal points: | First strike a personal balance’ A car moving 30 miles an hour sheet, like a corporation’s, to find will cover an 440-foot block while Tribune on Dec. 27, attacking Eis- enhower’s advisers as the “palace guard” and saying some of the | words Eisenhower spoke about him were thought up by those | around him e ; On Dec. 28 he reversed what he had said Dec. 26 by announcing ke would hold all-day hearings Monday seeking Communists in defense plants. On Dec. 29 he re- turned to the theme of wanting to fight for a tougher policy to- ward the Chinese Reds. Vic Vet says VETERANS WHO ARE RECEIVING COMPENSATION OR PENSION INCREASE By THE INCEEASE WILL BE PAI" AUTOMATICALLY In THE CHECKS. . Musical $: 080, he is not eligible for bene-| charge of the farm «wned by John | syllable out your net worth. | an average pedestrian-crosses a 40- fits. Cstes at Sugar Loaf, claims he << * *& December 31,, 1944 | On one side list what you own: | foot street. (Sunday. No paper) Vor tal intermation contact your ‘VETERANS ADMINISTRATION other