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THI KEY WIST CITIZEN
ftlje 2Ccg West Cttfrett
Published daily (except Sunday) by L. P. Artman, owner and pub
lisher, from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets
Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County
L. P- ABTMAW __ Publisher
NORMAN D. ARTMAW Man^Tz
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 reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also th c local news
published here.
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Subscription (by carrier) 25c per week, year sl2; By Mail $15.60
ADVERTISED RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION
The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issue
and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish
anonymous communications.
AS STATION
IMPROVEMENTS FOR {KEY WEST ADVOCATED
BY THE CITIZEN
1. Mora Hotels and Apartments
2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
3. Airports—Land and Baa.
4. Consolidation of County and City Governments,
i. Community Auditorium.
MEAT PRICES, SUPPLY DOWN
The Department of Agriculture recently announced
expectations that the average American would eat about
142 pounds of meat in 1953. This estimate is about three
pounds below the average consumption of 1962 and the
Department explains that while meat supplies this year
are equal to those in 1962, an increaae in population will
make the supply per individual less.
The Department reported a fifteen per cent jump in
beef supplies, which might tend to depress beef prices
somewhat in coming months. It also reported a drop in
pork supplies, which is expected to offaet the increased
supply of beef.
The most interesting part of the Department report
was that which dealt with the housewife’s share of the
blame for high meat prices, which have prevailed despite
declines in live cattle prices. The Department partially
backed industry charges that the average >l4 housewife
bought more expensive cuts of meat than in former years,
thus helping to hold prices up.
In spite of this trend, a farther
beef prices was predicted in the coming months.
THE DISCOVERY OF LETHIDRONE
Chemists of the Wellcom Foundation in London have
produced a chemical, called Lethidrone, which is thought
to be a long-sought antidote for the narcotic effects of
morphine and other related drugs. Symptoms of morphine
poisoning reportedly are relieved in seconds after admini
stration of the new drug.
Lethidrone is supposed to be non-habit-forming and is
expected to be used for purposes other than as an antidote
for narcotics. It is expected to be used to diagnose addic
tion, to make the relief of pain in childbirth a safer pro
cess and for other things.
The interesting part about the new chemical is that
chemists do not know how the antidote produces its ef
fects. The new chemical is similar to morphine in its mo
lecular structure but behaves in different ways, since it is
non-habit-forming and disperses the narcotic in the cells
of the nervous system, when administered.
A fire department is not always appreciated by those
who have had no fires.
Advertising In The Key West Citizen is a sure way to
increase sales but it is not a haphazard way.
SLICE OF HAM
IMyyt BUN WOKING ON THAT THING HA S OAV&
Thursday, Eabruary $, IVS3
A LOOK BEHIND THE BLUEPRINT CURTAIN
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS
NEW YORK (ft—Men have al
ways been used by women as step
ping stones to security.
But today many men are getting
tired of feeling they are being step
ped on needlessly. Or, perhaps,
"trampled” describes it better.
One of the things heating up the
cold war between the sexes in
America is the public discourtesy
of women. More and more men are
unwillingly becoming convinced
that more and more women are
downright impolite and bad-man
nered.
The girls themselves, look at it
the other way. They claim male
gallantry and chivalry are wilting
like a tulip in a hurricane. Who’s
to blame? Naturally I am on the
woman’s side in this and any other
argument (it’s safer that way),
but men do seem to have a point.
"If a dog carries a market bas
ket home for a woman in his teeth,
she will toss him a bone or give
him a pat on the head,” said one
male critic. "But a man has no
such inducement. A woman has no
gratitude for any small favors he
does her. She takes them for
granted.
"A man doesn’t like to be taken
for granted. I’ll give you an ex
ample.
"The other day at lunch I saw
a fur wrap drop to the floor from
the back of a woman’s chair. I
went over, brushed it off and
handed it to her. She took it, hung
it again on the chair, and turned
away without a word, a nod or a
smile.
“I guess she figured I had been
put on earth years before just so
I could grow up and run over and
pick up that jacket for her at the
exact moment. I had a wild urge
to throw the jacket back on the
floor and jump on it.”
He said he didn’t do this because
he wasn’t sure whether the other
men in the restaurant would beat
him up or break into admiring
applause for his courage.
Many men complain that such
chill ingratitude is commonplace
with modern women, that they
have lost the feminine art of show
inf appreciation. Most world trav
elers agree that European women
have retained this virtue of their
sex to o greater degree than their
American sisters.
’’Here women are polite in their
own homes but away from it they
often act like boors.” one man
said. "They save their good man
ners for their own fireside.
"If you hold the elevator door
open for a lady in her own apart
ment budding, she will smile gra
ciously. But meet her at a tobacco
counter and she will elbow past
you to order her pack of butts
first
"You simply can’t get women
to wait their turn in line Ordinary
courtesy seems beyond their un
derstanding. Whatever thev want
is more important than what you
want—and it has to be done right
now If men acted in public as
women do. you and have chaos
fist fights everywhere"
There is some truth in this, of
course, overdrawn as it may be
l feel, however, that it is ouiy a
pastmg phase reflecting women s
present tnsecunty. They aren’t ac
customed yet to having equal
rights, end are ansaro of their
own power.
All they need is a !title time
say a couple of centum* By then
they wtU realise they have the
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NO PARKING PROBLEM. Cindy, a four-week-old cocker
spaniel, doesn’t seem to have a care in the world as he peers
from a handbag into which he fits snugly. The jet black puppy
is the pet of Mrs. Sherrill Holtz of DeKalb, 111.—(A>) Wirephoto.
Effect Of Price
Cost Of Living
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK UP—What will price
decontrol do to the cost of living?
Merchants believe that most of
the things you buy in their stores
will move only slightly either way.
Most pressure right now is toward
price cutting rather than price
boosting.
Businessmen, however, may find
a long list of materials they buy
are likely to rise—mostly in the
metal fields, but including prob
ably oil, some machinery, office
machines, and such specialized
things as surgical instruments.
Such price rises in materials
would increase the costs of mak
ing consumer goods and—if con
sumer demand is high enough—
this cost could be passed along to
you later as higher prices on many
durable goods.
At present, however, the tend
ency is to cut prices on such
things as cars—and not pass on
higher cosat.
The timetable of decontrol wor
ries businessmen most right now
In the period of uncertainty
some sellers may withdraw from
the markets. Those who expect
their products to rise in price once
they get free of controls may hold
down their current sales, if this
happens there will probably be
cnes of shortages.
strength to push their own way
without help through a revolving
door. They will lose their fear that
men are trying 10 get ahead of
them
Once they relax sod regain self,
confidence m themselves women
again will return the words thank
yon” to their vocabulary.
"But I can’t wait that keg, ’ ob
jected one cynic to whom 1 ex
plained my theory. "Why not just
put women back on ’heir aid pedes
tal—at gunpoint if necessary —and
then tip-tee away sod leave them
there?**
Decontrol On
Is Asked Now
Both consumers and business
men noted President Eisenhower’s
price predictions—“some up, some
down.”
They expect the first decontrol
measures very shortly will free
those products likely to be down.
These include consumer items now
selling well below price ceilings—
like meat, some clothing and tex
tiles still under controls, and some
consumer durable goods.
Theoe also include such raw ma
terials as natural rubber, lead and <
unc.
Last products likely to be freed
from controls are those bouncing
against the price ceilings. These
include copper, steel, aluminum,
petroleum, and some machinery.
And such consumer items as cig
arets, washing machines and of
fice equipment.
But while these wait out their
turn in the dying days of controls,
there will be a lot of jockeying
among producers and manufactur
ers.
Resetting prices in a free and
open market—which in many cases
includes world markets as well as
those in the United Slates—will
be a tough job in n.any cases,
after the long period in which the
pricing and distributimg of mate
rials has been closely controlled
by government*.
Many raw materials wtU still
be under control of foreign gov
ernments, and American business
men will have to work oat price
[arrangement* in a half free, half
' controlled market
But the cost of living—after •
few more weeks—i going to be
*et in the marketplace once more.
I That Is, it w : iiii depend upon the
luppiy a jwdi available end the
urga you have to buy any porn
cuiir item—plus that important
factor, the number of dollars you
have in your pocket
The changeover period from
controls, though may be a little
1 rough.
Army’s New Coldbar Suit Is Put To Test
By JIM BECKER
CENTRAL FRONT, Korea UP
The U. S. Army’s new Coldbar suit
has received its first test in com
bat and a patrol leader who wore
it gave it hearty endorsement.
“It’s amazing,” said Lt. William
E. Aaron Jr. of Lyon, Miss. "These
new suits kept me and my men
warm in spite of sero weather.”
Plans call for the brown-colored
plastic suit, named from a con
traction of “cold barrier,” to be is
sued to 3,000 infantrymen of the
32nd Infantry Regiment for mass
tests.
Aaron and his patrol engaged a
Communist patrol the night of Jan.
16. Tests under combat conditions
were continued for several days.
The suit is worn next to the skin
without undergarments of any
kind. It is covered by regulation
cotton twill field trousers and
jackets to prevent snagging the
spongelike material. If the suit is
snagged it can be quickly patched
with special tape issued with each
garment.
The plastic suit creates a vapor
layer next to the skin which keeps
Price Controls
May Meet With
lingering End
WASHINGTON (ft-Federal wage
and price controls were on their
deathbed Wed., and the orly re
maining question seemed to be how
lingering a death they would have.
The present control law expires
April 30, and President Eisenhower
told Congress he does not want it
extended. He has legal authority
to end the control earlier.
Harry Weiss, executive director
of the Wage Stabilization Board,
put out information Tuesday that
“a decision has been made to ter
minate wage controls immedi
ately.”
The White House cracked down.
Press Secretary James C. Hagerty
said the Weiss statement was "an
unwarranted assumption of author
ity.” He said Weiss had authority
only to give wage board employes
notice they might be out of jobs
by March 5.
Such notices did, in fact, go out
to more than 2,0G0 Wage and Sal
ary Stabilization Board employes.
More were expected to be issued
by the various agencies enforcing
controls.
Hagerty declined to say whether
wage curbs might be ended be
fore the April 30 deadline. He said
the termination date "is now under
consideration.”
Meanwhile the machinery of con
trols was being dismantled and
there were predictions that a sheaf
of price decontrol orders on such
items as beef, furniture, children’s
clothing, household appliances and
possibly restaurants would come
out within a few days.
The wage and salary boards sus
pended the processing of all cases,
awaiting further orders.
Buy-American Act
Repeal Is Asked
WASHINGTON UR—A suggestion
that President Eisenhower ask
Congress to repeal the Buy-Ameri
can Act was made here by Rep.
Frank Smith (D-Miss).
He recalled that Eisenhower in
his State of the Union message to
Congress advocated "availing our
selves of facilities overseas for the
economic production of manufac
tured articles which are needed for
mutual defense.”
The act, passed many years ago,
requires the government, in pur
chasing supplies and materials, to
buy American-made products un
less the cost is excessively above
that of similar foreign products.
Temporary Post
WASHINGTON UR-Both houses
of Congress now have agreed on
creating anew temporary post for
! a second under secretary of state.
The Eisenhower administration
asked for the extra under secre
tary to reorganize the department
The job la going to Donold Lourie
of Winnetka, 111, president of the
Quaker Oats Company.
U. S. FLEET UNITS
DOCK IN SICILY
* AUGUSTA. Sicily t* - Thirty
'unitv of the U. S. fleet in the
Mediterranean are visiting this
Italian harbor.
i They include the aircraft cor
ners Midway and Tarawa, the
cruisers Newport News and Brian*
iok*, two auxiliary ships, l* de
' stroyors. a landing ship, eight
transports, four tanker* sod four
1 minesweepers
The ships will remain her# antd
Feb. 14.
ftoee windows In European
cathedrals usually ware dedicated
*to Mary, the mother of Cfcnat.
but the rose window in the
i chapel of Trinity College, Hart
ford Conn , honors the sobers
i of Trinity students and aivmuL
body warmth in and outside cold
out—like the vapor barrier boot
first used last year.
The Coldbar suit weighs about
four to five pounds—eliminating
eight pounds of ordinary winter
combat gear.
The man wearing the new suit is
in a perpetual “steam” of his own
perspiration, but Aaron said the
slight discomfort was more than
made up by its warmth.
An Army team headed by Maj.
John W. Irving is supervising the
Coldbar test. Irving says the suit
will keep a man warm in tempera
tures as low as 50 degrees below
zero.
Due to its multicellular design,
the Coldbar gives a buoyancy that
will keep a man afloat even when
weighted down with weapons. The
small amount of water that seeps
into the suit through ankles and
wrist holes reaches body tempera
ture in less than a minute.
The new and highly successful
Mickey Mouse boots have been is
sued to front-line soldiers. They
seal out the cold and prevent frost
bite.
Large Family Gin live On
SSO Weekly, But It’s A Job
By EARL ARONSON
PITTSFIELD, Me. lAß—Can you
rear a family of 12 young daugh
ters and their grandfather—plus
two dogs, two cats and a guinea
pig—on SSO a week?
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Brooks are
doing it—but it isn’t easy.
The couple, both 37, and their
family live in a remodeled school
house four miles outside this vil
lage. Brooks earns SSO a week in
the picker room of a woolen mill.
"Living on SSO • week we don’t
have pies and cake every day,”
says Mrs. Thereos Brooks. "We do
try to have it at least on Sunday.
"Everyday living on this amount
requires a lot of thinking and mak
ing stretchy dishes,” she said in
an interview.
The heartiest meal is supper
when all 15 are at home.
"We have potatoes, one-half peck
a meal, plenty of vegetables and
milk. We have either meat or fish
once a week and use about four or
five pounds. Fo# breakfast we
have cooked cereal, requiring
about a half package, canned milk,
toasted biscuits or graham rolls
(36), coffee and cocoa.
"At noon the four little ones (the
girls range in age from 14 months
to 15 years! grandpa and I eat at
home and have what is left over
from the previous supper, warmed
up. Mr. Brooks and Eunice, the
oldest daughter, a student at
Maine Central Institute, carry
their lunch. The other seven eat
at school, three working during the
noon hour to pay for theirs.”
The family practically lives out
of the garden in the summer.
"We raise string beans, peas,
several kinds of greens, carrots,
beets, turnip, cabbage, squash, cu
cumbers, lettuce, radishes and
sweet corn,” Mr*. Brooks related.
"We put up in jars as much as
we can spare for winter consump
tion. Also, all the older giria and I
pick as many berries as we can
strawberries, blueberries, raspber
ries and cranberries, also canning
them for winter use. Then, too, we
go clamming at the coast, bringing
some home to steam, fry and to
make chowders.”
Great amounts of vegetables giv
en the Brooks by mends, neigh-
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Meanwhile, gasoline for heating
bunkers and tents have been put
on a quota basis to cut down black
market operations in fuel.
Eighth Army supply officers said
four men living in a bunker get
slightly more than five gallons at
gasoline a day for their stove.
"No man will go cold,” an offi
cer said. "We haven’t had any
complaints yet.”
As for the reported shortage at
ammunition, supply officers claim
artillery and mortar shells art la
sued to units under a quota sys
tem, but they are in plentiful
supply. • •
An Eighth Army officer as
plained, "We have found the troopa
here are shooting ■lightly more
ammunition than they did in simi
lar situations in World War H. Se
recently we increased the shell al
lotment”
A front-line visit appears to coa
firm that there is no real shortage
of anything for U. S. troops ia
Korea.
As one infantryman put it:
"We get enough of everything—
except sleep and rotation points.”
House AEC Can’t
Decide On Head
WASHINGTON (ft-The Senate-
House Atomic Energy Committee,
which keeps an eye on the nation’s
atomic program, was snarled here
in disagreement over who shall
lead it in the months ahead.
A House drive to win the poet for
Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R-NY) col
lided with an announcement by
Sen. Bricker (R-Ohio) that “I am
going to insist” that the chairman
ship go to Sen. Hkkenleoper
(R-Ia).
Senate-House committees usual
ly are headed by senators.
Cole told a reporter he will be t
candidate for the chairmanship
when the committee meets tomor
row. It is expected to organise
then.
Cede is the senior House Republi
can member of the committee, to
which the Atomic Energy Commis
sion reports. Hickenlooper, its sen
ior Senate GOP member, has re
served comment on his plans. But
Bricker said, "I think he will be
re-elected.”
Jap Skies Gear
TOKYO (ft—An American Air
Force spokesman said that V. 8.
radar operators have not inter
cepted any intruding pUnee ever
Japan since the Jan. IS waning
they might be shot down.
The Japanese waning, backad
by the U. S. and obviously aim ad
at Russia, noted repeated viola
tions of Japan’s air borders and
said "measures would be takes”
if they continued.
hors end relatives supplement
their supply.
Fortunately, says Mrs. Brooks,
the family doesn’t have to buy
much clothing. "We just couldn't
Other than shoes, coats and mom
suits, most everything Is siren to
us.”
Unless then Is a pay raise (fed
SSO is going to have to feed another
mouth. The Brooks ere expecting
an addition to their family la mid-
March.
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