The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1954, Page 9

Celebrants Will Pay High In Big City Tonight By FRANCIS STILLEY NEW YORK —Of course, you can always stay home and watch television or listen to your wife. Or, as many people do, you can go to church for the traditional and ever popular “Watch Night” services. You could even take in a movie or hold an intellectual roundtable discussion with a party of friends at home. But if you think you and the wife or girl friend just can’t wel- come the new year any place but some top night spot in the big | city—brother! | Hold onto your wallet. The tab | is going to be a dandy. | At a conservative estimate, the | bill will range from $50 to $100 per | couple. You'll be lucky to get oft | with $30 to $40 even in some of the | less famous clubs. All Inclusive Price Most places include dinner in the | going price, and a few, breakfast. | Some spots toss in the drinks too. And naturally you get floorshows. music and other entertainment, =| listening to yourself sing, for ‘n- | stance. What’s more there will be/ pl-l-l-e-nty of fun makers: silly hats, horns, confetti, balloons, | souvenirs. All free too. 1 There are other free facilities | and drinks being offered in a few cities. \ There will be coffee bars, rides | home for those all but completely inundated and police escorts for some. Oh, well, happy new year any how and here’s our handy vest- pocket guide to the doings around the country: Traditional Jam New York — Probably a million people will jam Times Square in the heart of Manhattan as usual, whooping, hollering and freezing their toes. Other big turnouts ex- pected by Protestant and Catholic | churches, which have planned | large-scale services of religious music and prayer. Legitimate theaters’ perform- ances long since have been sold out. Expensive hotels rented to ca- pacity. Night clubs expecting big- ger business than ever. Sale of special permits to keep drinking places open all night far greater than last year. Prices for the evening at some of the better known places are $25 per person at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel’s Empire Room, the Plaza’s Persian Room, the Latin’ Quarter and the Copacabana. Drinks cost extra, Alal. A. Los Angeles—The Ambassador Hotel’s Cocoanut Grove, with a/ capacity of 900, is sold out at $35) a head. Revelers will get all the cock- tails they can drink before dinner, @ seven-course meal featuring filet mignon ‘orfish, wine with every Gourse ghd an after-dinner liqueur. Male guests will be given 12-inch. Righ toy monkeys as novelty gifts. Washington, D.C.—The Pageant of Peace, which opened Dec. 17 on the Ellipse opposite the White House, will have New Year’s Eve Teligious services. Boston — Several Massachusetts and Rhode Island communities plan free coffee bars over holidays in, police stations to help keep “red drivers” from having acci- dents. Curfew In Boston In Boston itself, where night club | minimums range from $6 to $10| per person with drinks extra, | there will be no relaxation of the | 1 a.m. bar closing law. There wil) be numerous church programs. Detroit — Alcoholics Anonymous Friday, December 31, 1954 Lady Editor Learned Need For Highway Safety The Hard Way LOCK HAVEN, Pa. —Rebecca Gross, the lady editor who lost both legs in an automobile acci- dent a year ago tonight, had this advice today for New Year’s Eve motorists: “The difference between safety and disaster is a hair’s breadth at every crossing, curve or inter- section, even on the straight high. way.” Last year—just before her acci- dent—Miss Gross wrote an editor- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 Any Old Day May Be New Why Not Prove They’re Wrong? CHICAGO (® — The National Safety Council invites you to make a bum of it instead of a corpse out of yourself. n The council issued the invitation here, when it predicted motor vehicle accidents will cost 240 lives curing the New Year weekend. — Ned H. Dearborn, council presi- dent, urged everybody to walk} and drive safely. He added: + “Don’t let us sit in an office and predict with tragic accuracy how many will be killed in holiday crashes. “We cordially invite you to start the new year by making a bum out of the National Safety Council and its preholiday estimate.” Year’s In East | CAIRO (®—You can say “Happy | New Year” almost any day in the| Middle East. So many different| calendars are in use that some- | GOOD WEATHER (Continued from Page One) homes will be held and several churches have slated watch - night services. But an aura of solemnity shaded ial urging highway safety. She ended it with ‘‘Who wants to start the new year in a hospital or a | up almost all the time. The Moslem calendar has its | body’s New Year's Day is bobbing | plans soft-drink and coffee parties at six neighborhood meeting | places, From midnight to 6 a.m. | buses will deliver passengers to| their homes if not more than two | morgue?” She ended this year’s | editorial this way: “As every accident victim knows, an accident cam happen any time, anywhere, to anybody.” Miss Gross, now back at her desk, at the Lock Haven Express, wrote an editorial summing up her thoughts on the first anniversary of her tragedy. It said in part: “Tf all those who were injured in the automobile accidents of last New Year’s Day could transm:t their poignant traffic accidents mean to all who travel the highways this New Year season, the holiday accident record would fall. “This editorial has taken a year to write, Into it goes the recollec- tion of a shattering experience, some days and nights of pain, re- gret and reflections of the per- verseness of fate, some hard think- ing and some difficult personal ad- justments. It is written by one who felt the full brunt of a-serious auto- mobile accident. “The writer of this editorial will always greet a new year with mixed feelings, for each New Year’s Day, from now on, will be the anniversary of a disastrous event which was a lifetime’s turn- ing point, changing perfect health into permanent injury.” The plucky 49-year-old woman underwent nine months of treat- ment in hospitals and a rehabili- tation center. On Sept. 13 she re turned to work using canes to help limbs. Soon she was resuming her normal duties with characteristic vitality. Britain Plans Big Payment WASHINGTON — Britain ar- ranged to make an annual pay- ment of $137,845,431 today to cut down its multibillion-dollar . post- World War II debt to the United! States. With this installment, : Britain's indebtedness to this country would be cut to $4,584,000,000 from a’ post- war high of $5,217,000,000. Of this payment some 84 mil- lion was earmarked to cover in- terest and 54 million principal. The payment, a draft from the Bank of England to the Federal reserve Bank in New York, will apply on a 3%-billion-dollar loan extended in 1946 to spark Britain’s | postwar recovery. Britain has un- til the year 2,001 to repay it. However, the British also owe the United States some $7,783,000,- 00 in World War I debts. These are in default. The last payment | on them was made Dec. 15, 1933, knowledge of what} New Year moving through the| seasons year after year Used by} tne majority of the 40 million | Arabs in this region, the Moslem | calendar has lunar months, so that the year is a few days shorter | \than the Western year. | The Moslem calendar dates from | the Hegira, or flight of the prophet | Mohammed from Mecca to Me-)| dina. This date corresponds with | July 16, 622, of the Christian era. But Persian Moslems celebrate their New Year March 21, the first | |day of spring. Their calendar also/ ;Gates from the Hegira, but they | | follow the solar instead of the lunar |system. The Persian year is 10) | days shorter than the Hegira year. | New Year’s Day fell on Sept. 28) \for the Jews in the Middle East) |this year. Dated from the “cre-| ‘ation of the world,” the Jewish | calendar is a compromise between | a lunar calendar and a solar year. | The Jewish New Year varies be-| | the picture with the city’s traffic | toll mounting to an all-time high. Extra police and highway patrol- men have been ordered on duty in the hope that the 1955 accident rate can be lowered. Caution Urged Key Westers were urged by Po- lice Chief Bienvenido Perez to temper their holiday spirits with caution. “Tf you drink, don’t drive,” said Perez. The indiscriminate use of fire- arms in ushering in the New Year was also decried by law enforce- ment officials. They point to an in- cident the day before Christmas in which a local boy was injured badly by a stray bullet while he was playing on Eaton St. Generally, throughout the city, Key Westers looked forward to 1955 as a year which should mark its era of greatest progress. Prosperity Seen With tourism in South Florida reaching an all - time high and Settlement Sought (Keys, Key West InKashmir Case _|Publieized In SINAGPORE (#—Pakistani Pre-! Jan Ford Times mier Mohammed Ali said today India's Prime Minister Nehru has The entire January issue of Ford agreed to discuss settlement of the Times, magazine published by the pashmaie dispute with him next|Ford Motor Company, is devoted Mareh. Ali stopped off here en/to Florida, including the keys and reute home from the Colombo con- | Key West. : i ference in Jakarta, which Nehru| ©) "°°" 1 also attended. i The 12 main articles, which in- A U. N.-supervised cease-fire clude photos and paintings, cover ended the two-year-old fighting |the state’s tourist attractions, col- over disputed Kashmir in 1949, but | jeges, fishing, state parks, boating, India and Pakistan have been un-, a cacaee ee cae fae able to agree on who should con- | 9"@ COOKInS, : an trol the former princely state. | The fishing story includes bridge | fishing on the Overseas Highway as well as freshwater fishing in WHAT WENT ON : | mainland lakes. (Continued from Page One) =| 4 four - page story, _ including the removal of the tolls from the | three color photos covers the a- Overseas Highway commanded a} mazing development now under lot of space during the year, too.|way along the Florida Keys. An Key West is fast becoming a con- | other one-page story with two co- vention center. Last year, there | lor photos tells about the Key West were two important conclaves held Cuba ferry. here — the meetings of the Flori- da Civil Service Association and the Jehovah’s Witnesses. | here. City’s Finances There was good news for most city employees in July when the} city budget was made up — they | got substantial pay raises, | The county had no traffic fatali- | ties over the Fourth of July holi- day, a very happy state of affairs. Key West got a lot of national publicity — including a spread of | Pictures in Life magazine — from the national spear fishng tourney | held here during the summer. Key Westers showed that their hearts are in the right place when an Emergency March of Dimes | fund campaign went over the top in August. | rattlesnake Rattler Protests Pickling Process SAN FRANCISCO (P—A Texa’ immersed in whisky bit the hand of Chin Toy, 55, who was trying to pickle the snake for medicinal purposes. Toy explained at Harbor Emer- °35 PLANS TOLD MOSCOW \®—The army news paper Red Star says the Soviet will place chief emphasis in 1955 on further development of atomi¢e jenergy after having “‘victoriously Insane; Sent To ‘Mental Hospital completed” the fourth year of the | second postwar five-year plan. ; BALTIMORE wW—Erwin E. Ro- den, 28, was committed to a men- | tal institution yesterday at the con-| \clusion of his trial for beating to |death a part-time church organist | with a statuette of the Madonna and Child. | Roden was here from his Bain-| bridge, Ga., home to visit a sister | at the time of the slaying of Ger-} aia Woodward McCaffrey, about | 4, last May, He was born in Pen-| sacola, Fla Chief Judge Emory H. Niles raled the battle-injured veteran of World War II was insane. It was testified Roden suffered brain e in an explosion on Oki- nawa which took the lives of six of his buddies. | He had pleaded innocent to the murder charge by reason of in-|} sanity. | Slayer Judged MONROE GLASS and MIRROR Mirrors and Glass for All Purposes - Auto Glass wer Doors 903 DUVAL PH. 2.6246 For A Quick Loan $25 TO $300 See “MAC” 703 Duval Street TELEPHONE 2-8555 START NEW YEAR Right— Paint Bright! Monroe Specialty Co. 1930 FLAGLER’ AVE. coe TRAFFIC TOLL SHOWS _DROP FOR PAST YEAR CHICAGO — The Safety Council estimates there | were 36,500 traffic deaths this} year, the lowest since 1950. The| Your Grocer SELLS That Good toll in 1953 was 38,300. ‘STAR * BRAND National | gency Hospital Wednesday he was| sons are likely to be killed in traf- preparing a potion according to|fic over the New Year's weekend an ancient Chinese recipe that | but says this “will not happen if} would be valuable in curing any | each of us drives with extra care number of ailments. to meet the extra hazards.” | | The council estimates 240 per- and CUBAN — TRY A POUND TODAY — In contrast, a newborn baby was newb with a lid. When he looked in to found dead, floating in a salt pond see how his mixture was coming month, finger. Ferry Start Fortunately the rattler’s fangs on Roosevelt Blvd. during the same | along, the snake bit him on the Major ingredients of the recipe | oO THREE HOTecs IN” \VELA MI «t Poputar prices anes eee were a bottle of whisky and a live! Located in the Heart of the City rattlesnake, both of which Toy poured into a crock and covered REASONABLE ROOMS WRITE or WIRE RATES for RESERVATIONS with BATH and TELEPHONE | increased Naval activity with re- tween Sept. 6 and ae 5. aa vg | Sultant high employment, pointing Most Christians in Egypt don’t +, continued prosperity for the eco- ‘celebrate New Year’s tomorrow. nomy of this once economically un- her get about on her artificial | The Copts, who comprise the large | | majority of Christians in the Nile | Valley, have their New Year’s Day | either Sept. 11, 12. or 13. This year | 1s 1670 for the Copts, who date their calendar back to the ‘Year| of the Martyrs,” when Christians | | were massacred by the Emperor | Diocletian. : The Coptic calendar takes its form from the ancient Egyptian |year, based on three agricultural } seasons. These seasons still carry | stable island. An indication of the tourist sit- uation was given today when the Key West Chamber of Commerce said that in the past 90 days they have received 5,321 letters of in- quiry as compared with only 3,- 039 for the same period last year. During the last 90 days the Cham- ber mailed out 8.846 promotional letters in comparison with 6,424 during the same period last year. “If all the people come down to their ancient Egyptian names in| Key west who write and say they Egypt. The ancient Egyptian cal-| 4,2 | don't know where we are endar goes back more than 6,000) .4ing to put them,” said Edwin But, as was indicated earlier, the start of ferry operations Oct. 2 was the big story. After several years of negotiations, a Miami concern known as the Caribbean Ferry sys- tem, finally put a ship into opera- | tion and was given a royal send- off by the city which sponsored a Ferry Fiesta. The business of the firm has exceeded expectations and | is solidly booked through the sea- son. It was on Oct. 16 that the sewer | system repairs came to an official | end, and with it the realization of a | dream of city officials to have an efficient sanitary system to take care of the cty’s needs for many years to come. Meanwhile, Key Westers are looking forward to 1955 as another | had been removed. Toy was treat- | ed for a cut finger and sent home. STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Miller HOTEL Ritz HOTEL Pershing HOTEL at | ALL GROCERS Triumph Coffee Mill 132 E. Flagler St. 102 Rooms Elevator Solarium 3 BLOCKS FROM 226 N.E. 100 Rooms Elevator Heated Ist Ave. 229 N.E. Ist Ave. 80 Rooms Elevator UNION STATION years. Greek Orthodox Christians here follow the Western calendar in everyday affairs, but in church} matters their New Year’s Day) comes Jan. 13. following the Julian | Calendar. | Drowning Given As Cause In Marathon Death J. Lancelot Lester, state attor- |ney, today said a coroner’s jury returned a verdict of death by drowning after an inquest into the | death of Harold A. Clark. | * Clark, millionaire industrialist, drowned last Friday in the Gulf of Mexico in front of his $135,000 Marathon mansion. | Eleven witnesses testified before the six-man coroner’s jury, Lester added. Justice of the Peace R. D. | Zetterower presided at the inquest at Marathon yesterday. Among the witnesses was Dr. Herman K. Moore who performed F. Trevor, chamber president. great year of progress. NEVER BEFORE have you seen TV like this... eM ITH. MODEL"X” My the New Year ring ina bright with TOP TUNING! A completely new...completely different kind of television receiver. Both tuning and volume knobs ore at the top so you don’t have to bend or stretch to reach them. HIGH FIDELITY SOUND professionally-matched, full component high lity sound system. Two speckers ("tweeter” ond inch “woofer")—overall response 50 to 15,000 cycles per second. 20,000 VOLTS of PICTURE POWER America's most powerful chamis...the Royal "R” gives top performance even in trouble arecs. 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