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Named As Distributors For Schaefer Beer
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THE H. RAMOS COMPANY has been appointed as distributors in Monroe County for Schaefer
Beer, it has been announced. Above, a trio of executives are shown with a can of the beverage
that is sweeping Florida with its popularity. From the left: Mr. Hilario Ramos, president of the
concern; H. J. Bethel, Ramos Cos. manager, and Edward Kaufman, vice-president of the Florida
Beer Distributors, Inc., regional dealers for Schaefer’s.—Citizen Staff Photo.
Post Office Department Asked
To Establish “Odd” Offices
By GEORGE MACKIE
HARTFORD Conn. UFi Arthur
H. Hughes, vice president and dean
of Trinity College, thinks it would
be nice if the Post Office Depart
ment would establish post offices
In such Connecticut localities as
Gadpouch, Lull, Moose Meadow,
Nod, Obtuse, Pigtail Corners, Pud
dletown and Wallop.
Hughes won’t argue that their
populations are sufficient to war
rant a post office. He just thinks
they would make lovely postmarks.
Hughes’ hobby is Connecticut
place names. He has catalogued
20,000 in the last 10 years, working
first with former Lt. Gov. Odell
Shepard, author and English teach
er now at Bard College, and more
recently with Morse Allen of Trin
ity’s English faculty
Obviously, Hughes doesn’t con
fine his studies to Connecticut’s
formally organized towns and cit
ies. There are only 169 of them.
He collects names of rivers, lakes,
swamps and localities used prin
cipally by folks in the immediate
neighborhood.
Among other things his studies
Rave made him quite an authority
on Indian languages The Quinni
piac River in Connecticut, for in
stance, is the same word as the
Kennebec in Maine. It means
“long water country.” He has be
come also a debunker of local leg
ends. The story that Yelping Hill
got its name from a pack of foxes
disregards the fact the land was
once owned by a man named Yelp
ing.
Among the assortment of odd
facts compiled by Hughes:
Most place names grow “out of
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a prosy, workaday world,” so that
Connecticut has 18 Chestnut Hills
and the same number of Prospect
Hills. Animals, birds, fishes, points
of the compass, colors, numerals,
people’s names and such adjectives
as great, little, long or middle are
names.
Washington, Conn. (pop. 2,200),
is the first town in the United
States named in honor of Gen.
Washington.
Connecticut, more than any state
in the country, uses what Henry
L. Mencken called portmanteau or
telescope words, formed by joining
the first syllable of one word with
t*.ie last syllable of another. Tor
ringford is between 1 orrington and
New Hartford; Hadlyme between
Haddam and Lyme; Harwinton is
a town made up of portions of
Hartford, Windsor and Farmington.
Depressions gave names to at
least two Connecticut localities,
Hardscrabble in Warren and Pinch
gut in Danbury.
Devils Hopyard and Satan’s
Kingdom are two of a dozen wild
and rocky places in Connecticut
taking their names from the nether
regions. There are “no correspond
ing and compensating appellations
that belong on the side of the
angels,” Hughes says.
The Bible had its influence,
though, with 11 Goshens and a
number of Sharons and Canaans.
Bangall, in Stamford, got its
name because it is the former site
of a tin shop.
Cherry Park, in Avon, may nev
er have seen a cherry tree. It is
named for an Indian chief called
Tuesday, June 3®, 1853
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Studebaker Commander V-8. A long, luxurious
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Cherry—because of his fondness
for cherry rum.
If the Indians could come back
to Connecticut (Quinnitukut), they
probably wouldn’t recognize many
places they named; but it’s their
own fault because they never de
veloped a written language. Each
early settler who heard an Indian
name wrote it the way it sounded
to him “and the result has been
something that borders on chaos.”
Hence nobody knows how it start
ed out, but the longest place name
in Connecticut, applied to a stream
in Sherman, now looks like this:
Naromiyocknowhus • unkatank
shunk Brook.
ALIEN LAW CHANGE
WASHINGTON m President
Eisenhower called congressional
immigration specialists to the
White House today to witness the
signing of legislation to speed
citizenship to aliens who serve in
the U. S. armed forces.
The legislation, backed by lead
ing veterans' groups, the Defense
and Justice Departments, makes
eligible for citizenship aliens who
serve 80 days in the U. S. armed
forces between June 25, 1950, and
July 1, 1955. In some cases, resi
dence in this country for one year
prior to military service is re
quired.
Ike To Sign Brochure
WASHINGTON (*-Rep. Judd
(R-Minn) said today President
Eisenhower will sign Thursday a
brochure sponsored by the National
Association of Evangelicals which
calls for emphasis on the spiritual
side of Fourth of July celebrations.
The pamphlet, “March of Free
dom,” is based on what it says
are seven divine freedoms taken
from the 23rd Psalm. These are set
forth as freedom from want, hun
ger. thirst, sin, fear, enemies and
to live abundantly.
H. Ramos Cos. Named Schaefer
Beer Distributors In County
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The H. Ramos Company has
been appointed distributor for
Schaefer Beer in Monroe County,
it has been announced by John G.
Schweigart, Jr., president of the
Florida State Beer Distributors,
Inc., regional representatives for
the New York brewery.
Schaefer, which has been among
the top seven sellers in 10 states
for many years, is being introduc
ed in Florida for the first time.
The Ramos Company will handle
the distribution of the beverage to
275 outlets in Monroe County.
And in the words of Hilario
Ramos, president of the firm,
“Schaefer's is fine beer/' and
he has been in the business for
20 years—he shouid know.
He reports a fine reception of
the beer by the public, with many
customers asking for more Schae
fers. Plant manager R. J. Beth
el said that anew warehouse is
being constructed to insure that
an ample supply of Shaefers may
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be kept on hand. Five trucks will
be kept en the road to supply tho
beer.
It was 112 years ago that the
Schaefer Brewery was formed by
a pair of German Brewmasters,
Frederick and Maxmillian Schae
fer. Currently, the third generation
of the family is operating the com
pany which has maintained its
standards of quality meticulously.
Described as a beer which “has
character distinguishing it from all
others,” Schaefer is a “light-lager”
type beverage. Only the choicest
Czechoslovakian hops and top qual
ity grain and malt are used in the
brew.
The formula has not been chang
ed in 112 years.
It is available in cans, bottles
and on draft.
Trinidad (Trinity) in the West
Indies was so named by Colum
bus because of the three mountain
peaks on the island wich are seen
by visitors arriving from the east.
Lonesome Gal
By JAMES BACON
HOLLYWOOD Lonesome
Gal, scductive-voiced radio star,
performs a little stup tease today
and sheds her famous mask.
She has even permitted the first
newspaper photos taken without
her mask in the six years she has
been wooing lonely males via the
airwaves.
The reason for the shedding is a
sound one. She is shrewd enough
to know that any gimmick can be
overdone. Also, her fan mail has
tipped her to anew. idea.
When she first started, her mail,
averaging 1,000 letters a month,
used to be about 10 to 1 male over
female. Lately, it has switched to
7 to 3 female over male.
“So I decided that from now on
I’ll slant my show more toward
the women, giving beauty hints
and so forth,” she said.
She has adhered so rigidly to
the no-picture policy that she and
her husband never before had
posed together—not even for a
wedding picture.
Yes, fellows, Lonesome Gal has
been married for four years and
Sheds Famous Mask Today
is quick to credit her husband for
boosting her into the better than
SIOO,OOO-a-year income bracket.
She is Jean King Rousseau, wife
of Bill Rousseau, veteran radio
producer and director who was one
of the originators of “Dragnet.”
An attractive brunette of 29. she
was born in Dallas, Tex., but lived
most of her life out here. She has
been a Goldwyn girl in the movies,
a radio actress, even a radio en
gineer. In 1947, she found herself
broke and homestick for her fam
broke and homesick for her family.
She went there and got herself
a job on station WING as a disc
jockey. Lonely in a strange town,
she conceived the idea for Lone
some Gal. She stayed there for
two years and decided, on an im
pulse. to come back to Hollywood.
“Would you believe it?” she
asks. “I had an awful time selling
the show here because Hollywood,
of all places, thought it was too
sexy for radio. I never had that
complaint in Dayton.”
Then she married Rousseau, who
saw the national possibilities of
Lonesome Gal. They started mak
ing transcriptions.
“When we amrried in 1944,” sht
recalled, “our combined income
was S9O a w eek. Nine months later,
we had grossed SIOO,OOO. It’s been
that way ever since.”
The whole operation is carried
on in a $90,000 home in the San
Fernando Valley. A studio is lo
cated by the swimming pool, and
there the two make the transcrip
tions used by 60 stations through
out the country.
Even her next-door neighbors
aren’t aware that she is anything
but a housewife.
It hasn't Bubble Gum
ST. LOUIS ÜB—Police, checking
on a drugstore holdup, questioned
a man last night, but he wouldn't
talk—just kept chewing.
The officers soon found out why
—he had seven $lO bills in hi*
mouth.
They booked John Sawyer, 24, St
Louis laborer, as suspected of
larceny.
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