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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
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IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED
BY THE CITIZEN
1. Mora Hotels and Apartments.
2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
3. Airports—Land and Sea.
. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments,
i Community Auditorium.
MAN-MADE IMPLEMENT CAUSES MORE DEATHS
THAN NATURE’S DESTRUCTIVE FORCES
The Citizen on Wednesday published a comprehen
sive summary of the damage and deaths caused by torna
does over a 35-year-year period. The next day a Miami pa
per ran a front-page article under this headline, “Torna
does? Give Us Hurricanes.”
, Of course we prefer hurricanes to tornadoes; probab
ly most of us would prefer them even though more people
were killed and more damage done by hurricanes. But
more than three times as many persons were killed and
four times as much damage done by tornadoes than by
hurricanes from 1935 to 1953. The 1935 date included the
terrific Labor Day hurricane that wiped out the Mate
cumbes.
The reason we prefer hurricanes is because the tor
nado strikes suddenly and deals out death ruthlessly, so
much so that, in hundreds of cases, victims are killed with
out having a chance to seek cover, or without having a
chance to know what happened. For the same reason we
prefer hurricanes to earthquakes. Were we pinned down
to choose between a tornado and an earthquake, we think
We would prefer an earthquake.
The death toll of tornadoes, earthquakes and hurri
canes is exceedingly small compared to the day-in-and
day-out death toll of a man-made implement, which is
something of a Frankenstein. Since man’s mind evolved
the automobile more than a million people have been kill
ed-by it. The million mark, as was noted in The Citizen at
the time, was reached a year ago, but the killing continues
at an average of 34 to 35 thousand a year.
Newspapers have performed their duties faithfully,
and still are performing it, warning drivers to operate
their cars carefully. But the warnings seemingly have gone
for naught Automobile killings continue daily, and, nine
times out of 10, the fatalities are due to careless driving.
, The end is not in sight to curtail death’s harvesting
in automobile accidents. Florida Highway Patrol has work
ed diligently to cut down the number of traffic deaths in
this state, but it keeps on going up and up and up. Early
this year it seemed that the killings in 1953 would fall be
low the number last year, but the weekly casualty report,
issued last Monday by the patrol, showed that traffic
deaths, up to that date this year, exceeded the number up
to the same date in 1952. Here are the comparative fig
ures: Killed in Florida to June 8 last year, 424; to June 8
this year, 432.
Man can’t stop Nature’s destructive forces, tornadoes,
earthquakes and hurricanes, but he can reduce automo
bile deaths to a minimum by exercising care. He refuses
in thousands of instances to be careful, and dies and dies
and dies.
Nothing can be gained listening to rumors.
Wa are in favor of ’oomph* for all the ladies.
Many tales start with: “Well, they tell me .. .**
More ill health is caused by too much food than too
little.
When it comes down to the bare fact, money can work
wonders.
Why is it that the best-dressed **ten” are always fa
mous people?
A columnist is an editor writing for people, who
live somewhere else, to read.
Those who sleep in foxholes in Korea find it hard to
understand some of their fellow Americans back home.
No amount of ridicule, boasting or bluff changes the
facts. Get them, and you will understand the news of the
day, and gain a clear picture of event* i
Saturday, June 13,1953
DAD'S PUTTING
Invitation For India To Help
In POW Plan Is Considered As
East-West Nehru Endorsement
By SELIG HARRISON
NEW DELHI, India UT-The in
vitation for India to play a key
role in a Korean armistice is
viewed here as a crowning East-
West endorsement to the six-year
old foreign policy which Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru calls
“positive and independent on be
half of the cause of peace.”
That policy-—to steer clear of
commitments to either the U. S.
or the Soviet bloc—puts India al
ternately in the bad books of the
Americans and the Russians.
But for the. 360 million Indians,
Nehru’s “No” to foreign entangle
ments feeds this newly-freed na
tion’s ego and at the same time
gains a peace period to develop
resources at home.
The 6S-year-old Premier's great
est political prop at home is the
belief among politically-minded In
dians that he is highly regarded
abroad—as the spokesman of an
independent, unbossed India.
This view received great impetus
three weeks ago when—after three
years of American criticism of In
dian policies—U. S. Secretary of
State Dulles declared here that he
was “thoroughly convinced India
is acting according to its best
judgment to promote democracy
in the world and to prevent the
spread of totalitarianism.”
The week before, Democratic
Party Leader Adlai Stevenson
spoke similarly. He described In
dia’s policy as “non-alignment
(with the West) rather than neu
trality.”
To the Indians—raised in the
British tradition of political leaders
who usually speak unchallenged for
their parties—this represented a
major switch from the hostile view
American quarters had taken of
Indian motives since Nehru's re
jection of the Japanese peace
treaty.
Government sources say that In
dia refused to attend the Japanese
treaty conference in San Francisco
as a fellow-Asian nation defending
Japan against Western white in
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FLAG DAY 1953
fringement on Nippon’s sovereign
ty.
In a formal note, India contend
ed* that letting occupation troops
remain in Japan “is bound to give
rise to the impression that the
agreement does not represent a
decision taken by Japan in full
enjoyment of her freedom as a
sovereign nation.” .
Instead, Nehru believed, Japan
should have been granted the
treaty and then allowed to enter
into a separate defense pact-after
regaining her freedom.
Nehru’s troubles with the U.S.
had started nearly a year before
over Communist China's role in
Korea.
After backing the U. N. decision
to resist North Korean aggression,
India balked when the U.S. pushed
through resolutions implying per
mission for the American • led
forces to cross the 38th Parallel.
Nehru’s maintennce of seeming
ly normal relations with the Chi
nese Reds after they did what he
predicted in Korea has only served
to worsen his standing with most
U. S. circles.
Nor has Nehru’s position in Am
erica been improved by his insist
ence that Red China should be
admitted to the United Nations.
Lumber Crop Improves
ATLANTA, Ga. (If!) Good
management can double produc
tion of timber in a woodlot, 24
landowners near here are learning.
A lumber company sends out an
expert to help them manage their
tree crops. In return, the company
gets an option to buy the trees
when they mature.
The project is part of a program
sponsored by the American Forest
Products Industries. Reason for the
plan is that 57 per cent of U. S.
forest land is in small plots on
farms. And few farmers know any
thing about tree management.
Lumber'men expect to increase
their available timber supplies by
cooperation with the owners.
BUCKLEY
Kids Follow
Example Of
Herb Sheldon
By DOROTHY ROE
Associated Press Women's Editor;
A million or so small children in
the Eastern Seaboard area are
demanding spinach these days,
drinking gallons of milk, minding
their table manners and even tak
ing their cod liver oil without a
murmur.
Such a mass reform movement
among the small fry might be
genuine cause for alarm (it just
doesn’t seem natural)—until you
learn it’s all due to a young man
named Herb Sheldon, who eats hu
lunch on television every day ai
noon, together with all his young
fans.
If Herb eats spinach, so do the
kids. If he drinks his muk, they
do likewise.
If he tucks his napkin under his
chin, they go along.
When he says—" Now Tm going
to eat up all these delicious car
rots,” the kids gobble their vege
tables.
All this has been a great boon
to mothers who were getting nei
vous twitches and spots before the
eyes, in the immemorial manner
of parents, trying to make junior
and sister put their pablum in their
mouths instead of on the floor.
Now all they do is place the
youngsters in front of the TV
screen, dial in Herb Sheldon, and
let him take over. The kids keep
> their eyes glued on the screen, and
eat with their idol.
When he says—“ Now it’s time
to wash your face and hands,
brush your teeth, and go back to
school,” those of school age dash
off obediently.
This may result In anew tribe
of supermen and -women, some 15
or 20 years hence, since the current
crop of moppets are soaking up
milk and vitamins at such a rate.
It’s even good for Herb. Says he:
“I have found that a glass of
pure, fresh milk is much better
for me than two martinis at lunch.
And I’ve eaten so much spinach
and carrots since the program
started that I*m practically busting
out all over with health, vim, vigor
and vitality.”
This might be funnier if Herb
were a bachelor, but he's not. He
has three children of his own, as
follows: Lynda. 13; Amy Jane. 7,
and Randy, 5. He practiced on his
own brood before taking over the
eating habits of the juvenile public,
says Herb, and with good results.
Damages Granted
PHILADELPHIA if - Four Ne
groes—arrested when they refused
to be segregated in an Oxford,
Pa., theater—were awarded dam
ages totaling fBOO Thursday by
U. S. District Judge George A.
Welsh.
Judge Welsh levied 5506 damages
against Joseph G. Crow!, owner
of the theater, and ISO each against
Johnson, theater employe, and
Townsend P. Coat, Oxford police
man.
The jurist also issued an injunc
tion restraining Johnson and Cox
from attempting to enforce segre
’ gatsoa m the movie house
The men who brought the ac
tion were Luther Manana* Verne*.!
Dtudonac. Archibald Seeks and
Macques WSmoro a..l s - . ■* s
■at LincoH (JuiraesMy in
whs* the modest occurred,
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Hal Boyle
Says
NEW YORK UVUR— Do you ever
know days when your backbone
feels like a piece of wet spaghetti?
Days when, if you order a hot
dog for lunch, the joint is fresh
out of mustard? Days when your
ear is deaf to the call of duty?
Days when your job seems as dull
as an old B-grade movie, run
backwards on a grainy television
screen?
Everyone knows such days. Yes,
even in the romantic, glamorous,
exciting newspaper field, in which
you “meet such interesting peo
ple.’* There are days when a re
porter finds the doorknobs he puts
his hand to have more warmth
than the people he meets after he
opens the doors.
Well, what can a guy or girl do
on those days when all the bugles
have a rusty sound, all the jokes
are stale, and what you have to do
seems as tasteless as the things
a husband finds in the refrigerator
after his wife has gone away on
vacation?
One thing you can do is think
how you might feel if you had the
other fellow’s job in his dull or
hopeless moments. For example,
how would you tike to be:
A tired housewife, who has been
wiping little runny noses all day
and is greeted at dusk by her
Prince Charming: “What! Not
macaroni and cheese for dinner
again?’*
Or a professional dogcatcher,
whose small boy’s pet pooch runs
away and the kid looks at his dad
accusingly, as if the old man had
turned in the dog at the pound
just to build up his record for the
month?
Or a bum who picks a quarter
from the pavement and finds it is
counterfeit?
Or a mail carrier, who has
packed a million letters for other
people to read, and never in his
life got the one letter he wanted
himself?
Or a lonely soldier In an outpost
on a nameless hill, waiting at twi
light for the night to fall and the
unseen enemy to come against
him?
Or an elderly vaudeville juggler,
throwing up Indian clubs and ask
ing himself, “Why should a man of
my age be tossing things like these
in the air, and if I miss catching
one two shows in a row 1 don’t eat
next week?”
Or a bank teller, who counts oth
er people’s money year after year
while he lets his wife handle his
own. and then finds she has wasted
his meager life-savings by encour
aging the wrong racehorses?
Or a straw boss, told to cut down
his working force, who looks at the
oldtimers around him and asks his
heart, “how can I let any of them
go?"
Or an old gray spoiled dog the
day the family gets a bright new
pink baby?
Yes, everybody has his bad or
sad or useless days. But any day
you feel bad, you are lucky in the
'/act that somebody, somewhere,
Has a more terrible reason for feel
ing worse—and does feel worse.
How would you like to be a flag
pole sitter in a lightning storm?
Scouting New®
It was a beautiful calm day for
a cruise and the morning aun
shown brightly as the eager group
of 23 Scouts; Morris Feldstein, Ja
mes J. McManus, Sr., James J.
McManus, Jr., and John Foh,
guests of the District Commission
er Frank; Ellis Finch. Citizen
Photographer: Eugene Freddette,
William R. Maidenr. and Scout
master Tony Martmez, acted as
chaperones for the Troop, filed on
board the Patrol Craft (USS PC
-579). The PC was very graciously
contributed by the Navy for the
one-day trip to Fort Jefferson.
Park Superintendent John De-
Wee se met the Contingent at the
pier at Fort Jefferson and conduct
ed a guided tour of the Fort. Mr.
DeWeese interestingly described
to the group, whicn included some
of the crew of the PC-5T9. tales of
slave labor, Confederate Prisoners
of War, rage of yellow fever and
the beoric efforts of Dr. Mudd who
saved some of the inhabitant* of
the Fort while serving a “lift
term” a* a “Lincoln Conspirator”
but was later pardoned for his
part played in the epidemic which
struck 770 of the 3W men at the
fort. Mr. DeWeese explained also
the vaulted ceilings, powder rooms
unmounted funs, the history of the
buddings and the moat that al
most encircle* the fort.
Scouts of Troop No. 253 making
the trip were: Raymond Baao.
Robert Chmaian. WBlard Chm
man, Ronald Cttstcaki. William
Dcegaa, Jr,, Ronald Foster. Gor
don Hamilton, Char'es Kaufman.
Bur hi Knapp, Albert Leobtky.
William Maidens, Charles McCann.
James McEJeten, Albert Miikf,
Arthur Nob*. Richard Park Rob
ert Read. George Roberta, Joseph
P. Smith. Reaves Steed Janata
Stewart, Randall Warren mad Ger
ald Wilson.
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CHIEF TRADEVMAN JOHN D. SMALL, USN
Chief Small Is Commended
For His Courageous Action
Chief Tradevman John D. Small,
USN, received congratulations last
week from Captain Albert O.
Momm, USN, Commanding Officer
Surface Antisubmarine Develop
ment Detachment after being pre
sented the Navy Commendation
Medal.
Chief Small previously received
a letter of commeudation from
Rear Admiral Irving T . Duke,
USN, Commander Naval Base for
his courageous conduct in Novem
ber in attempting to rescue a man
overcome by poisonous gas fumes
during the fumigation of a bar
racks buiiding at the Naval Air
Station Seaplane Base. A report of
Small's action was made to the
Secretary of the Navy as a result
of which he was issued a citation
by that official and authorised to
wear the Navy commendation me
dal.
The citation awarded by the sec
retary of the Navy reads as fol
lows:
“For courageous conduct in at
tempting to rescue a man over
come by poisonous gam fumes (hir
ing the fumigation of a barracks
building at the Naval Air Station
Seaplane Base. Key West, Florida,
on 22 November 1652. Detecting
the sound of coughing emanating
from a building which was under
Science Studies Connection Of
Calcium With Aging Of Body
By BILL RAWLINS
OAK RIDGE, Ttnn., UR - You
all know old Mr. Jones and his
neighbor, Mr. Brown.
Neither win see 70 again, but
old man Jones looks and acta and
feels 25 years older than Brown.
Jones always is stumbling, even
though he walks with a cane. If
he falls, the chances are, be
tweak a bone in his leg, arm or
angle.
Brown strides like • man of SO.
If he falls, it’s probably because
he was hurrying. He hasn’t broken
• bone since be ran into a tree
reaching for a long one playing
sandlot baseball.
What's the difference between
them?
* Scientists here believe they may
be nearing the answer—they know
they don’t have it yet Under the
direction of Dr. C. L. Comar, Uni
sersity of Tennessee biochemist,
they are finding what happens to
calcium—the great bone bulkier -
in studies with experimental ani
mala.
They’re doing this with tracer
•toms and what they find enme
day may be made to apply to
Jones tad Brown.
Prof. Sam L. Hansard baa a
strong suspicion It wfll show Jones
| isa*t able to absorb calrinm as
well. The problem then wf& be to
find owe why.
'We re not equipped here to de
longevity studies," Hansard noted.
'We’ve got to learn the 'how be
fore we can karn the 'why'.”
Among other thins*. Hansard
says, the scientists have kerned
that calcium—tamed by the Mood
to toe bones Have* too body and
thoo * enters as the animal ages
This ceases to* tome* to become
mere brittle end brook more easi
ly It else leaves the sstod mom
tired.
H boo bom ttMfbt tost a* ani
m on get elder,
mere entors toe soft us
‘ sues of too body-4hi mdsty per
going fumigation by methyl-bro
mide gas. Small immediately at
tempted to enter the building to
rescue the man trapped inside and
continued his efforts untfl he be
came sick and exhausted by the
fumes. Rushing to a r.ear-by build
ing, he alerted the duty officer,
the fire department and the dis
pensary. returned to the scene to
organize a group of men who had
gathered there and, directing the
party in opening the roet of the
tent Governing the gaa-fflled bar
racks, utilized the tent flaps la an
effort to fan fresh sir ito the
building. When s fireman entered
the building and tailed through hit
mask for help in effecting the res
cue, Small unhesitaatingfr made
his way inside, assisted toe fire
man in bringing out th* stricken
man and placed one of tb| methyl
bromide sign* alongside the casual
ty in the ambulance to inform
the doctor of the type of gas to
which the man had been exposed.
By his marked courage, daring in
itiative and selfless efforts In be
half of another in the tact of
grave danger. Small upheld the
highest traditions c( the United
States Naval Service.”
His parents, Mr. end Mri. Del
bert Small resida at Ft Fiarea,
Fla.
tiona—and a sort of hardening
take place. But Hansard say*
scientists using tracer atom* have
found the total calcium contest cf
the soft tissues becomes no larger
with age—at kaat not with ton
hoga and cattle studied.
In young animals meet of tU
calcium taken into toe body seem
to go immediately to the growing
section* of the Ran. The older
sec turns are more er tees self
sufficient.
To find tola out. the sciential*
make what are knows as nut*
radiograms. BaakaSy, toes* am
X-ray pictures taken without n
cantors. Sections of radteerttvn
bones are token from animate stag
’ in experiments, ana pieced en ton
film. Because thee* section art
radioactive, they tab* thehr ewn
• picture.
Studying these X-ray ptetorea,
j trained scientists can ted whkb
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the bon* developed bribe, ton
tracer atoms were tetridi—d. Tip
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