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Panel Truck Is Converted Into Vacation Home For Family
•y BILL SPILLMAN
Curtiss Hartman of Stock Island
has made himself what is probab
ly one of the most unique vacation
money savers in the country.
Hartman bought himself a panel
truck and added many things to
the inside to have it fit his pur
pose.
“I call the truck, ‘The Week
end’,” Hartman said in his inter
view with The Citizen. “We bought
the truck about a year ago and
fixed it up to beat the high cost of
taking a vacation. We have all the
comforts of home when we pull up
to an isolated beach for a week
end of relaxation.”
All the Comforts—
“ The Weekend” has living facili
ties and sleeps five. It is air con
ditioned, has refrigeration, run
ning water, power tools, and is in
sulated against heat.
Electricity is furnished by a
•elf-contained 115 volt AC power
supply. The truck also has a dark
room where Hartman develops and
prints his own color movie film as
well as still pictures.
Hardly a weekend passes that
the Hartman family does not go
for a vacation up the Keys in “The
Weekend”.
Hartman and his wife Marie
have three children, Curtiss Jr.,
IS, Anita, 11, and Valerie, 2.
Big Savings
Hartman said that on its maid
en trip his family spent three
weeks in “The Weekend” on Day
tona Beach. He added that in the
past year he has already saved
over a thousand dollars. “The
Weekend is going to completely
pay for itself in time,” he said.
To add to his spare time enjoy
ment, Hartman has a 12-foot out
board and trailer and also a 26-
foot cabin cruiser called “Dusty”.
Hartman does a considerable
amount of skin diving on weekends
up the Keys. He uses an aqua
lung which he made himself that
carries its own air supply.
Hartman, a navy chief at VX-1,
states that he is now dickering for
a 50-foot yacht in which he plans
to tour the Caribbean after his re
tirement from the Navy.
Actress Is
Booked By Cops
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (A—
Actress Marie McDonald was or
dered into court today after a
stormy session with police officers,
who said her car struck four other
autos.
Bliss McDonald was booked yes
terday under three sections of the
motor vehicle code: driving while
under the influence of narcotics,
hit-run driving and having no
operator’s license.
Police said the shapely movie
player screamed, tried to bite two
officers who took her to a cell
and then removed a shoe and
shattered a light fixture. Lt. John
Hankins said she kicked him in
the groin when he tried to remove
her to another cell.
Miss McDonald said she had
taken two nembutal and four
seconal capsules, the police report
showed. Her physician confirmed
her statement that he had given
her a prescription for the seda
tives.
Police reported her car struck
three parked cars and then hit a
fourth auto which had been halted
for a traffic light.
She was released without bond
when her husband, wealthy shoe
manufacturer Harry Karl, and his
attorney came to the police station.
A news reel cameraman and a
press photographer complained to
police that Karl tried to run them
down when he and his party left
the station.
Miss McDonald and her husband
separated recently and then be
came reconciled.
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VACATION TRUCK—Curtiss Hartman. Stock Island, is shown by his unique truck. "Th* Week
end." The truck has all the comforts of home, Hartman says, and it is used by the five members
of the family for vacations and weekend outings.—Citizen Staff Photo, Spillman.
Packard And Studebaker May Merge
By DAVID J. WILKIK
AP Automotive Editor
NEW YORK UR —Stockholders of
Packard Motor Car Cos. and the
Studebaker Corp. will vote Aug.
17 on whether to combine the two
pioneer auto companies.
A consolidation of the two re
maining “independents” among the
car makers has been approved by
their directors. The plan calls for
election of James J. Nance, 53-
year-old president of Packard, as
president and principal executive
officer of the new company.
The new organization would be
knofh as the Studebaker-Packard
Corp. Technically the program pro
poses the purchase by Packard of
Studebaker’s assets
Paul G. Hoffman, 63-year-old Stu
debaker board chairman, will be
come chairman of the new com
pany. Harold S. Vance, 63, presi
dent of Studebaker, will head an
executive operating group.
Principal headquarters of the
new company will be in Detroit,
home of Packard.
Submitted to stockholders will be
a proposal for reclassification of
Packard stock on the bases of one
share for each five presently held.
Then Studebaker stockholders, if
they approve the proposal, would
get lVi shares of the new com
pany stock for each share of Stu
debaker common they now have.
The net result of the stock tran
saction will be that the new Stu
debaker-Packard organization will
have about million shares of
stock outstanding.
Two distinct and separate sales
organizations will be maintained
to handle Packard’s medium and
high-priced lines and Studebaker’s
low and low-medium priced cars
and over-all truck line.
The projected Studebaker-Pack
ard combination is the latest move
among the smaller concerns in
their fight against the almost
overwhelming competition of the
industry’s larger concerns. Last
year Kaiser-Frazer and Willys-
Overland joined forces. A few
weeks ago Nash-Kelvinator and
Hudson combined to become Amer
ican Motors Corp.
All six of the small car com
panies together have been able to
garner less than five per cent
of the auto market so far this
year. General Motors, Ford and
Chrysler have accounted for more
than 95 per cent.
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THE KEY WEST CITIZEN
Moscow Papers
Launch Blast
Against U.S.
LONDON, UR —Moscow’s news
papers joined in a bitter new prop
aganda blast today against the
United States, accusing it of touch
ing off the fighting in Guatemala.
The Soviet Communist party or
gan Pravda also renewed the
perennial Russian theme that the
United States is conspiring to start
anew world war.
Moscow radio quoted articles
from Pravda, Izvestia and Trud
blaming the United States for the
Guatemalan fighting.
“No matter how U.S.. propagan
da- 1 distorts the facts,” Pravda
asserted, “the whole world sees
that the armed attack on Guatema
la has been instigated, prepared
and carried out by the U.S. ruling
circles who are using their hire
lings for this purpose.
“Before world public opinion,
American ruling circles stand ex
posed as aggressors against little
Guatemala.”
Tourists Shop
For Uranium
SALT LAKE CITY (if)—Uranium
brokers here report that they’ve
found anew clientele—tourists.
A check of several brokerage of
fices yesterday ir dicatea that busi
ness is increasing among out-of-.
towners who’ve heard of some
times-fabulous penny stocks.
But a lot of people who come
in don’t buy, broker Ramon N.
Bowman said. “They come in to
get information to take home to
their own brokers . . . They don’t
quite have the same fever that
Salt Lake people have about uran
ium, but there’s no question that
they want to get into the act.”
Refugees To Hong Kong
HONG KONG, UR —Two British
ships arrived from Communist
Tuesday, June 22,1954
Chou En-Lai
Prepares To
Leave Geneva
By MAX HARRELSON
GENEVA UR— Red China’s Chou
En-lai—last of the big-name figures
still at the Far Eastern conference
—prepared today to quit Geneva
and leave the parley mainly to
the French and the warring Indo
chinese factions.
Reports from New Delhi said
Chou will stop off in the Indian
capital en route home for a hud
dle with Prime Minister Nehru.
The Indochina peace problem was
expected te loom large in their
talks. Indian sources said Chou
and his party were scheduled to
leave Geneva Wednesday morning,
arriving in New Delhi on Thurs
day.
By the time Chou departs direct
talks between the warring parties
in Indochina probably will be ar
ranged, and the major military
problems of halting the conflict will
be in their hands.
Another secret session of the full
nine-party conference was sched
uled for this afternoon. France’s
delegations hoped by then to have
arrangements completed for the
additional direct military talks, in
cluding one of French, Vietminh
and Laotian representatives, and
the other of Vietminh and Cam
bodians. •
Problems of a cease-fire in Viet
Nam already are being negotiated
by French and Vietminh military
leaders here.
After the other top diplomats
left Sunday, Chou stayed on for
private talks with representatives
of Laos and Cambodia. Finally, he
brought them together last night
with Pham Van Dong, vice pre
mier of the Communist-led Viet
minh.
China today, bringing out eight
British citizens and 36 other non-
Chinese. There were no Americans
aboard.
UJS. Citizen
Is Mixed Up
In Revolt
By JULIUS GOLDEN
ALBUQUERQUE, UP) -Joseph
Rendon, who disclosed Guatema
la’s revolutionary D-day eight days
before the battle trumpet sounded,
today was somewhere in Central
America with warring political
exiles.
Although his exact whereabouts
remained unknown, all indications
were that the former New Mexico
congressional candidate was work
ing closely with exiled “liberation
army” leaders either in Guate
mala or Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Rendon disclosed the exiles’ in
vasion plan in a letter postmarked
June 10 from Honduras. Written to
an Albuquerque friend, It said:
“Plans are to start an invasion
for the weekend of the 13th which
means your pal will be in the
middle of blood and thunder about
Friday, Saturday or Sunday, June
18, 19, 20.”
The invading forces stormed into
Guatemala June 18.
Rendon, during World War n,
was an OSS agent in Central Amer
ica for the United States. He
stayed in Guatemala after the war
and later returned to New Mexico.
In 1952, he attempted to gain the
Democratic nomination for land
commissioner but was disqualified
when it was discovered he was a
registered Republican. He was de
feated in his bid for the Republican
congressional nomination in the
New Mexico primary last May 4.
He is believed to be highly re
garded by the Guatemalan exiles.
It was reported last week Ren
don was aboard a plane which
dropped pamphlets over Guatema
la City several weeks ago, forcing
a closing of the airways. Rendon
said, “That is a fact I can neither
confirm nor deny.”
In Washington, the State Depart
ment said it “looks with disfavor”
on any U.S. citizen who gets in
volved in the Guatemalan civil
uprising. Except for censure, how
ever, there is little the U. S.
government can do.
DOCTORS STRIKE
TOKYO, Iff) Thirty doctors
staged a sitdown strike in front
of the Welfare Ministry today in
an attempt to Mock proposed cuts
in fees charged patients under a
government-sponsored low cost
hospitalization program.
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Seii. Mundt Urges Verdict Based Only On
“Salient Issues” Of McCarthy-Army Dispute
By ft. MILTON KILLY
WASHINGTON (ffV-Sen. Mundt
(R-SD) urged the Senate Investiga
tions subcommittee today to base
its verdict in the McCarthy-Army
dispute on “salient issues” only.
He made the comment in an in
terview in advance of a closed-door
meeting of the subcommittee to
consider narrowing the areas of
controversy as to what the evi
dence shows.
Mundt presided at 36 days of
televised public hearings which
sifted the welter of charges, coun
tercharges and denials which Sen.
McCarthy (R-Wis) and Secretary
of the Army Stevens and their
aides exchanged.
The hearings wound up Thursday
with Sen. Potter (R-Mich) declar
ing that each side had proved its
main misconduct charges against
the other. These were:
1. By Stevens and Army Coun
selor John G. Adams that Mc-
Carthy and two subcommittee
Checkrein On
Money Market
Is Relaxed
By PRANK O'BRIEN
WASHINGTON UV-The Federal
Reserve Board has relaxed a little
further its checkrein on the money
market, promising in effect to keep
business credit cheap and plentiful
for the foreseeable future.
The reserve board, whose basic
unction is to regulate the supply
of money and credit, announced
yesterday it will drop reserve re
quirements enough to unleash a
new flow of credit amounting to a
potential nine billion dollars.
The change is to be made grad
ually over a six-week period for
the 6,700 banks which are mem
bers of the Federal Reserve sys
tym. They do a majority of the
nation’s banking business.
The board’s action was, by its
own words, hitched to the econom
ic outlook created by:
1. A recent Treasury announce
ment that t2)e government will
borrow 10 billion dollars during
the next six months to meet its
cash needs during the low period
of tax collections.
2. Business and other needs for
credit, such as state and municipal
borrowing and crop marketing,
which might be difficult to satisfy
aides used improper pressures in
seeking special favors in the Army
for Pvt G. David Schine, a former
subcommittee consultant
2. By McCarthy and his aides
that Stevens and Adams used
Schine as a “hostage” in efforts
to “blackmail” McCarthy into halt
ing an investigation of alleged
Communists in the Army.
Mundt has notified all subcom
mittee members that Ray H. Jen
kins, special counsel for the in
quiry, has agreed to assemble
material to aid the senators in
writing their report if the subcom
mittee asks him to do so. Indica
tions so far are that there will be
at least two divergent sets of
findings.
“We’re not asking Jenkins to add
up the totals and say ’guilty’ or
’not guilty’ for us,” Mundt said.
“He would list the evidence for us
and we would sit around the table
like members of a supreme court
and reach our own conclusions.”
Press Agent Is
Minister Now
LOS ANGELES, M Malcolm
Boyd, once a press agent and
later a radio-TV producer, is an
Episcopal deacon today.
Boyd, 30, gave up a partnership
with Mary Pickford and Buddy
Rogers three years ago to study
for the ministry. He was ordained
yesterday by the Rt Rev. Francis
Eric Bloy, bishop of Los Angeles,
at St Paul’s cathedraL
He will continue his studies at
Oxford University.
in competition with such massive
Treasury borrowing.
The reserve board’s move fol
lowed close on last week’s an
nouncement of an upturn in indus
trial production in May for the
first time since last July.
It was evident that the board
was moving to head off any pos
sible tightening of credit which
might nip the business revival in
the bud.
A reserve board spokesman said
banks could lend up to six times
toe amount of the reserves re
leased. The board’s announcement
estimated that about IVi billion
dollars in reserves now frozen
would be thawed. To what extent
credit would actually be increased
would depend upon the action of
member banks.
Mundt said he is pretty
thoroughly convinced there are
“some areas where unanimous
agreement would not be possible.”
Sen. Potter, who has urged the
firing of some “employes” on both
sides of toe controversy without
naming any, called on President
Eisenhower late yesterday.
He would not say what they
talked about, but on his return to
Capitol Hill he told newsmen he
still believes McCarthy’s subcom
mittee should undertake no new
hearings before staging a “clean
up.”
Potter himself beads a McCarthy
subcommittee inquiry into reports
that many U.S. citizens listed as
dead or missing are captives be
hind the Iron Curtain. McCarthy
has said this is one of the next
hearings his group will hold, but
Potter said he would not care to
start hearings before “the staff
situation is straightened around.”
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