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THE KEY Win CITIZEN
The Key West Citizen
PuliHAafl dally (exeet* Emday) by 1 P. Artman. ■*.
Hater, tram Tn* Citizen Building. earner of Green* ud *— "itTaiti
Only Oatfy Mowepspor in My We# end Menree Ceenty
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Catered t Key West, Florida, ea Second n mh
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ASSOCIATION
IMPEOVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED
BY THE CITIZEN
L More Hotels *nd Apartments.
2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion.
I. Airport*—Land and Sea.
4. Consolidation of County and City Governments
K Community Auditorium.
DULLES WARNS OF WAR
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in his speech
before the American Legion in St. Louis recently, clarifi
ed American aims in the Far East and then put the Com
munists on notice that the United States would probably
react to any new aggression there. Secretary Dulles was
obviously trying to make the intentions of this Govern
ment clear to all concerned—something our State De
partment has not always done in recent years.
Secretary Dulles pulled no punches in telling the
Communists that anew attack in Korea would end the
“sanctuary” of Manchurian aik* and supply bases which
the Communist air force used throughout the Korean
War. He also hinted that any official Chinese Communist
participation in the Indo-China fighting would probably
involve China in fighting elsewhere. The warning in
cludes the possibility of Chinese Nationalist action or
Chinese Nationalist and U. S. action combined.
If the Chinese Communists, or any other Communist
country, provoke anew aggression regardless of the Sec
retary’s words, the consequences will be grave. The Unit
ed States’ position has been placed before the rest of the
world and it is hardly likely that we could back down, if
our warning were ignored, without losing face in the Far
East. The next move in the Far East is up to the Com
munists and, on it hinges the choice of war or peace for
China and the United States.
It is surprising how few people have sense enough to
listen to an authority dn his subject.
It is a pity no fair way for judging beauty contests
exists. The prettiest thing often loses.
The editor is under no illusion that these shots are
the ultimate in intellectual sophistication.
Those who live to be fifty will live many more years
if they have sense enough to understand their age.
Many youngsters, back in school, are certain they
are experiencing the worst feature of modern civilization.
Now that the fighting in Korea has ended, it might
be a good idea to try to end the killing on the highways.
Everyone is in favor of a large national income. The
only differences arise in the ideas how it should be dis
tributed.
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TODAY’S
BUSINESS
MIRROR
By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK WV—Private indus
try is fast taking over ia a field
once the all but exclusive property
of the colleges and governmental
agencies—the field of scientific re
search.
The government still puts up a
little more than half of the money.
But two-thirds of the scientific
probing into the unknown or little
known is now being carried on in
facilities owed or operated by pri
vate indusrty, the Institute of Life
Insurance points out today.
From industrial sources comes
the further indication that corpor
ate plans call for private business
to put up even more money in
the years just ahead.
Industry is expected soon to
overtake government in the vol
ume of money spent. The govern
ment will probably continue to be
the heavy spender in research
touching the many problems of na
tional defense. But private indus
try is becoming increasingly in
terested in developing new prod
ucts as it moves into competitive
markets.
And as colleges and governmen
tal agencies trim their budgets for
basic research, private industry is
increasing the amount of money
it puts into this type. Basic re
search goes after fundamental
information without immediate
thought to what practical use it
may later be put, if any. (Thus,
basic research* taught man how
to split the atom: later came the
A-bomb; and in the future lies in
dustrial power production from
atomic energy.)
The Bureau -of Labor Statistics
and the Department of Defense,
in a survey of research being fi
nanced by private industry, re
ports that the oil industry is pay
ing 97 cents of its research dollar
and the government only three
cents, although much of research
contributes to national defense.
The chemistry industry pays 93
cents of its research dollar out
of Its own pocket; the food indus
try 96 cents; auto industry 91
cents; and the primary metal in
dustries 90 cents
Where defense needs have taken
the major share of ! ndustry*s
time, the governn ?y con
tribution is much p air
craft industry. i*r pays
only 15 per cent c .1 cost
of its research.
Electrical machincr. ard the
professional and scientific: instru
ment industries get more than half
of their research money from the,
government. Most of it goes fori
perfecting defense items.
Industry’s interest in basic re
search doubtless has been spurred
by the knowledge that some of
the most profitable of the new
products in the field of medicine,!
textiles, electronics, have been un
expected by-products of basic re
search.
A prime example is (hat of anti
biotics. Discoveries of new wonder
drugs have become all but com
monplace. Research, however, is
being stepped up. For one reason,
scientists have found that the
sturdier microbes develop immu
nity to a drug. They have to keep
looking for new and deadlier ones.
The National Science Founda
tion reports that the government,
for reasons of economy, is cutting
back on Its grants to colleges and
non-profit institutions for basic re-
A FINGER IN EVERY PIE
IQ Tests Used
In Baby Placing
Called Unsound
By FRANK CAREY
AP Science Reporter
MIAMI, Fla. (Ji Widelyused
I. Q. tests for placing adopted
babies are “tremendously unreli
able,” an lowa psychologist says.
Babies who have tested fairly
low in the I. Q. department have
ultimately “turned out just fine.”
said Dr. Boyd R. McCancless, di
rector of the Child Welfare Re
search Station at the State Uni
versity of lowa.
He told the American Academy
of Pediatrics that new research
by one of his associates, Dr. Irene
Harms, had shown that a given l
infant can “vary as much as 35
points from day to day” in I. Q.
scores where 100 is considered
normal.
Later, he told a reporter:
“Parents in general shouldn't
worry too much about a child’s
mental development in the first
year or year and a half unless, of
course, there are really obvious
signs of retardation.
“Such things as a child’s age
when he takes his first step or
when he utters hi* first word don’t
mean a thing as far as what his
development is going to be later
on.”
As for persons seeking to adopt
babies, the psychologist declared:
“Every person who wants to
adopt a child seems to want one
who tests away above the average
on infancy intelligence tests which
consist of such things as determin
ing how early in life a baby gets
a marble out of a glass bottle.
“People who want a child
shouldn’t let it worry them if the
baby should test a little below av
erage. Conversely, they shouldn’t
deprive themselves of a child just
because he doesn’t measure well
above average on such tests.”
He said he is “kind of skeptical
about I. Q. tests for children under
age 3tt.”
“But after that,’’ he said, “when
the child becomes stabilized, I. Q.
tests can be one of our most useful
scientific tools if employed cor
rectly.”
No Hard Feelings
b I
PHOENIX, Ar!z. W Catherine
A. Fish, a candidate for the Mad
ison school board, holds no ill will
toward her election opponent, Dr.
Paul A. Johnson.
“I have the highest regard for
Dr. Johnson,” said Mrs. Fish.
“He’s my personal physician ”
Red Threat Lessens
SAN FRANCISCO l# Commu
nism no longer is a serious internal
threat in France, says former
Premier Antoine Pinay.
j He told the Commonwealth Club
jhere, “The domestic danger
|. . . is behind us.” and added
that since 1945 Red membership
has slipped from more than one
million to 400,000 and Red news
paper circulation has dropped
from 2,700,000 to 800,000.
search, but that corporations are
i taking up some of the slack.
Corporate grants are of many
kinds. Sometimes its a whale in
dustry that grants the money to
solve sonpe particular common
problem. Sometimes its a single
big corporation with its own pecul
iar product shortcomings for which
basic research might stumble on!
a cure.
Total spending on scientific re
search last year is estimated at
more than 3% billion dollars. This
is four times more than was spent
annually before World War U.
HOLLYWOOD
NOTES
By 808 THOMAS
HOLLYWOOD 1* - The movie
stars started it; now everybody’s
doing it—building swimming pools.
Thanks in large part to the stars,
the pool business is booming. From
8,000 to 10,000 private pools are
being built every year in the United
States, more than existed in the
whole country prior to 1940.
I learned some fancy facts about
this Imdding new industry from
Philip Ilsley, president of Paddock
Pools, which Ilsley claims is earli-j
est and biggest company in the!
'field.
“There’s no doubt that the stars,
helped the business along,” he re-;
marked.. “People in this country ;
and all over the world have had I
a profound interest in what movie!
stars do. Since so many stars
ow’ned swimming pools, they
helped popularize pools as a stand
ard of good living.
“However, he would go out of
business if we relied on the movie
crowd for our business. Because'
of taxes aqd other reasons, they!
:don’t have the money to spend;
like they used to.”
Most pools used to be build in
concrete forms But Ilsley devel-;
oped a way of blowing the con
crete onto forms, creating an in
verted dome. This cut the cost
more than half and the building
time from four months to three
or four weeks. It’s the main reason
for the large increase in sale .
Paddock has built pools for Fred
{MacMurray, Jack Benny, Rosalind
ißussell, Bing Crosby, Joseph Cot-'
ten, Bob Hope, Gary Cooper and
dozens of other stars. The most
expensive one was a small lagoon
for Marion Davies that ran $30,000.
“But we also build pools for
mechanics and office workers,” Ils
ley added. “Anybody who can af
ford a second car in the family
can afford a swimming pool. You
can buy one, complete with filter,
for as low as $2,500.”
“The boom has hit places like
Wisconsin and southern British Col
umbia,” he said. “By the use of
heating, which adds about 15 per
.cent to the cost, people in those
'places ran stretch the swimming
jseason from two months of the
year to four or five ”
Pet Is Returned
! CHICAGO GW—Ted Lick, 27, ad
mired the dog a stranger brought
into his tavern arid accepted his
offer to sell the animal for $5.
Lick learned Tuesday that the
dog, a rare We:maraner, had been
stolen from Johnny Sottile, an 11-
year-old deaf mute, as he was
walking his pet near his home.
I Johnny couldn’t call for help and
the man drove away in a car with
the dog, the boy’s inseparable
i companion since he got it as a pup
18 months ago.
Lick refused a reward and
wouldn’t take the S3 he had paid
to the stranger. "Tnat’s the best
;$5 I ever spent,” Lick said.
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
’ CULVER CITY, Calif. (F-Louis
Gueret says he owes his presence
in jail to a mosquito and two gar
bage collectors.
He went to bed thinking about
the big auto agency near his home, |
he told police here.
“I kept thinking about burglariz
ing that building, and when a mos
quito woke me up about 3 o’clock
I decided to go over and get the
job done.”
The garbage collectors saw him 1
inside and called police.
I The SIREN of SEVER VALLEYfP^S
SnjK/ By PAUL EVAN LEHMAN
Chapter 6
lEFF left him and rode down
J the street keeping to its mid
dle and watching the entrances to
passageways. If Shag was in town
he wouldn't hesitate to put a
slug into the man who had re
placed him and had humiliated
.iim in the bargain.
He tied his horse at the hitch
ing rail in front of the store,
noticing the light wagon with the
"am of Star horses which stood
there. The wagon held quite a
load of staples and he supposed
the Star cook had come in for
supplies. He went into the store
and bought some tobacco, sat
down by the cold stove and had
a smoke, then went out again.
He hesitated on the top step.
Ruth Starr was seated in the
wagon and a young fellow whom
he guessed was her brother was
untying. Her hazel eyes were on
him, so he went on down to his
horse and. touching his hat brim,
murmured a good morning.
Ruth said, ‘Thanks for the
help, Mr. Payne.”
He looked up at her. "What
help?”
“1 thought you were hired by
the Double D but it seems you’re
working for the Star. I under
stand that seven of your best men
are going to join us.”
“The best men don’t quit; wnly
the worthless, the riff-raff.”
‘These seven helped Dan Den
ton build up the Double D. They
were good enough for him, we’U
be glad to get them.”
“You’r welcome to ’em,” said
Jeff cheerfully. “We consider
them good riddance.”
Buddy Starr came along the far
side of the wagon, rounded it and
advanced belligerently towards
Jeff. “You startin’ an argument
with my sister?”
Jeff observed him calmly. “No,
son. She’s trying hard to start one
with me, but I never argue with
a woman. It’s a waste of time.”
“Maybe you’d like to start one
with me, smart guy?”
“No," Jeff told him, T don’t
argue with boys either. I spank
them.”
He saw anger flame in Buddy’s
eyes and knew the swing was
coming before the boy launched
it He ducked his head, slightly
so that the fist grazed his temple
and in the next instant had seized
the wrist and twisted sharply. A
cry of pain was wrung from Bud
dy’s lips and involuntarily turned
his body to relieve the strain.
Jeff kicked his feet from under
him and Buddy sat down sud
denly.
He squirmed around on the
ground, cursing wildly, and made
Something New
Under The Sun,
Patents Indicate
By GORDON BROWN
WASHINGTON ÜB-Think there
is nothing new under the sun?.
Think everything has been in
vented?
Then you should look in on the
;U. S. Patent Office, where every!
jweek of the year from 800 to iOOO,
'patents are issued for new inven
tions.
< The list of inventions patented
{for just one week in September, for
;instance, included a boat with a'
device for scooping fish out of the
jwater which conceivably could out-;
mode the old hook-and-line type
of fishing. But the same week a
new fishing reel also was patented,
just to even things up.
! In case you are interested in the
more complicated things of life,
there was the patent for a fumi
gant composition containing com
pletely halogenated bromochloro
methanes haying at least two
I chlorine atoms, and a process and
apparatus ior removing carbon
from interior walls of combustion,
chambers.
; And you might not believe It,
but there was a patent for an ap
paratus for manufacturing artifi
cial mushrooms.
The list of patents that week
also included these:
Baby holder for children’s chair,
animal mouth opener, rosary as
semblage mechanism, food tray
for blind people, combination port
able beach tent and umbrella,
automatic bird fountain and bath,
a toy kangaroo, plant setting ma
chine, dental impression material,
bubble tray water decanter, re
; tillable eraser device, cigarette
paper, poultry scalding device,
I molded decoy, ventilated shoe and
a device for dicing cored pine
apples.
j The'Patent Office issues about
40,000 patents a year and turns
down something like 20,000 to 30,-
|ooo.
| Since the Patent Office was set
up in early days of the country it
has issued a total of 2,700,000
patents.
SLOW ON FIREWATER
ALBUQUERQUE. N. M. ÜB-It
looks as if Indian leaders of New
Mexico aren’t as eager as their
I white brothers to okay sale of
liquor to tribesmen
The historical white ban against
selling firewater to Indians was
j knocked out by New Mexico voters
last month.
i But the Indian Bureau area of
ifice says there is no indication na
tive officials of 24 tribal comnruni
; ties under its jurisdiction plan,
likewise, to approvz liquor sales ,
on reservations.
1 About 70 per cent of the world’s'
land surface is ocean.
a stab at the gun at his side: but
Jeff bent over and tore it from
his hand before he could get it
clear of Ihe holster. Jeff threw
out the cylinder of the gun and
punched out the cartridges, then
handed the empty weapon to
Ruth.
"Better take care of it for him,”
he told her quietly.
She snatched the gun and flung
it into the bed of the wagon. The
hazel eyes were blazing. *‘l could
almost kill you myself,” she said
furiously.
“I don’t doubt it; killing seems
to run in the Starr family. They
tell me a Starr shot Dan Denton
in the back. I didn’t want to be
lieve that”
She stared at him whitefaced
and wide-eyed, struggling with
her emotion. "We didn't kill Dan
Denton! Nobody on the Star
killed him!”
"Maybe you can make that
stick by telling me who did?”
“I don't know. 1 have no idee.”
There was worry iq her eyes now.
"Know anybody else who had a
grudge against Denton? Anybody
at all?”
She shook her head despair
ingly. “No. No, I don’t Not a
soul. We lived in peace until Dan
brought her into the valley. Then
things began to happen—stock
found dead, brands altered, men
who had been friends for years
quarreling and snarling at each
other. And now—” She broke off
with a despairing gesture
“And now,” he finished, “Dan
Denton’s widow is going to do
what any loyal wife would do,
drive the ones responsible for the
death of her husband from the
valley.”
“But I tell you we didn't—! Oh,
what’s the use! You’ll never be
lieve me; never.”
He mounted and rode away
leaving her staring after him.
And following him came Buddy’s
shrill yell, “You keep clear of me,
Jeff Payne! I tell you, keep clear
of me!”
IITHEN Jeff swung off his horse
* * at the Double D gallery Diana
was in the hammock and motioned
for him to seat himself on the
edge of the porch close to her.
“I can’t stay long,” he said. “We’re
shorthanded, so shorthanded that
if John Starr only knew it he
could mop up before our boys get
back.”
"But he doesn’t know it No
more than we know how many
men he has. And I’m sure you
can meet any move he makes. 1 *
She smiled at him and the corn
flower-blue eyes were warm be
hind their veil of half-closed
The World Today
By CHARLES F. BARRETT (For JAMES MARLOW)
WASHINGTON l/FV—The world’s
biggest insurance system is get
ting anew and close inspection,
under new management.
| The system is the government’*
social security program of retire
iment and death benefits, aimed
eventually at coveting almost all
American workers.
The Democrats, who created it,
had been pushing it along lop 18
years. It became bigger and big
ger, picking up more and more
momentum in the same general
direction, like an incredibly vast
snowball rolling downhill.
Now the Republicans have taken
over the administration end Con
gress. Secretary of Welfare Hobby
has called in 12 consultants to take
anew look.
And on Capitol Hill, Rep. Carl
Curtis (R-Neb) who has been open
ly dubious about the program for
{years, is heading a broad study
by a special House ways and
means subcommittee.
Few government programs mean
iso much to so many. More than
65 million workers already are in
the program. They expect retire
ment benefits when they reach 65,
or payments to their families If
they die before 65.
; Eventually, in the year 2050, es
timates are that the program
would cover a minimum of 113
million persons or a maximum of
162 millions.
By that time, benefit payments
are estimated to ms at 13 to 22
billion dollars a year.
The new inspection Is designed
to show whether the present pro
gram is sound, or whether that
snowball is likely to smash up
somewhere on *he way down the
hill.
j The Inspectors want to know if
they should dismantle the present
{Program and start off again on a
j new one.
j They want to know whether they
{should push that snowball even
faster in the same direction, or
nudge it over a bit in this direc
tion or that.
Both Curtis and Eisenhower ad
ministration spokesmen uy they
resent any intimation that they are
out to wreck or destroy social se
curity. They say they just want
Jo make sure, if tney can, that
the system for protecting the aged
is sound, adequate, and fair.
Thus these basic principles be
hind the present system are up
for study:
It is called contributory. That
u, only persons who have paid
wto the system are eligible tor
benefits. Generally, the more you
pay in, the more you receive. But
there are some important excep
tions.
It is self-supporting. All the bene
fits are to be paid from special
earmarked taxes levied for that
lashes. She patted him geatlv on
the arm and ne took the soft hand
almost reverently and held it be
tween both his own. He sold slow
ly, “I don't know what you’ve
done to me. Diana. No matter
where I go or what I do you're
always their in my mind."
She sighed. “And X*m afraid X
think entirely too much about
you, Jeff. It’s bed; it keeps our
minds off the main issue.” She
gently withdrew her hand. "And
I must remember Dan. It’s beat
such a short time.” She swung
out of the hammock, making the
awkward movement seem grace
ful “Come: let's go in. It’s time
for dinner.”
The spell was broken.
When they had finished dinner,
Jeff saddled up and rode towards
the north end of the valley, fol
lowing the course of the creek.
Half way up the big trough the
stream narrowed and flowed
more swiftly, and Jeff saw that
from this point on stock could
cross only by swimming. One by
one he passed his men and finally
drew rein beside the last one at
the far end of the valley.
His guard at this point was a
wizened old puncher called Shorty
McCabe. He was one of the four
members of the original crew and
he knew by sight every Double D
animal on the range. Now as they
sat their horses Shorty said, “Lota
of young stuff up here at this rad.
Too many. Yearlin’s and two
year-old steers and she stuff."
Jeff nodded. “They should be
safe enough. Starr can’t run ’em
across this creek up here, that's n
cinch."
“No, but he can run 'em up into
the hills on this aids and cross
beyond the gap where it’s shal
low."
Jeff studied the dopes to his
right and agreed. ‘1 guess you’re
right at that. Shorty. What’s your
hunch?"
Shorty nodded towards a hold
ing corral which stood by a line
shack at the base of the hills. "I’d
say haze as many o|-’em as we
can into that c’ral and have the
boys drive 'em down to the other
end of the range."
“Good idea. We’ll start now, you
and me. Take too long to round
up the other boys."
They started cutting out toe
younger stock and hazing it into
the corral. It was slow, hot work
and at the end of two hours Jeff
called a halt."
“By the time we get beck to
headquarters it'll be suppertime.
We can’t drive them today; I’ll
have the boys do it lint thing in
the morning ” %
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single purpose and kept in a sep
arate fund. It is not even included
in the regular federal budget.
It is based on a level premium.
The tax steps up at five-year in
tervals. from the present 3 per
cent of payrolls up to 13,600, to
per cent in <1970. But then it
js due to remain constant, al
though Congress has the right to
change it any time.
It is based on a trust fund. The
level premium is expected to pro
duce far more income than actu
ally needed for many years, build
ing up a big surplus or trust fund.
Interest from this fund then is ex
pected to bridge the gap when
payments climb above tax income.
(For contrast, under pay-as-you
go system, taxes would be fixed
eaeh year, to pay for that par
ticular year’s benefits.)
It has no need test. You can
qualify for benefits if you have
worked long enough under the pro
gram, whether you have a million
dollars or a penny.
It is a retirement plan, not an
annuity. You don’t get a pension
automatically at age 65, even tt
eligible. You have to retire* first
You are considered retired If you
earn less than $75 a month in em
ployment covered by the program.
Almost all these basic principles
have been challenged, by one
source or another.
Political
Announcements
CITY ELECTION
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER S. 1151
For Mayor
GROUP |
P. A. McMASTERS
"Make Mac Mayor*
For Mayor
GROUP t
“MICKEY” PARROTT
("Fighting roe The People*)
For City CommiMioner
GROUP 1
DR. DELIO COBO
For Qty Commissioner
GROUP 2
LOUIS CARBONELL
For City Commissioner
GROUP t
BEN KETCHUM
For City Commissioner
GROUP 4
NEIL SAUNDERS