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Page 4 THI KIY WIST CITIZEN The Key West Citizen Published daily (except Sunday) from The Citizen Building, corner of Greene and Ann Streets. Only Daily Newspapr in Ky Wt end Monroe County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publlahr 1921 • 1954 NORMAN D. ARTMAH Business Manager Entered at Key West, Florida, aa Second Class Matter ~~ TELEPHONES 1-5641 end 2-5642 Member ef 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 the local news pub lished here. Member Associate Dailies of Florida Subscription (by carrier), 25c per week; year, $13.20; by mail, $15^60 ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION The Citizen is an open forum and invites discussion of public issues and subjects of local or general interest, but it will not publish anonymous communications. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 1. More Hotels end Apartments. 2. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. S. Airports—Land ana Sea. 4. Consolidation of County and City Governments. 5. Community Auditorium. HOW ABOUT THE BRIDGE CATWALKS? NEBLETT AND PAPY READY TO ACT When you hook a fish and are reeling or pulling him in, everything in the world, except landing the fish, is blanked from your mind. That’s the reason why fishing from the Overseas Highway bridges is so dangerous. That’s also why drivers alert themselves as they are near ing a fisherman, not knowing at what moment he may get a bite and become thoughtless of passing automobiles. That’s what happened to that young man who was killed recently on the bridge. His thought was concen trated wholly on the fish he had pulled up, and he dash ed out in front of a car and was struck and killed. Danger of fishing from Overseas bridges has been evident since they have been used for automotive traffic. Four years ago, Representative Bemie C. Papy began a movement to have catwalks built along the bridges for the use of anglers. He continued to hammer away at the proposal till last March when the State Road Department appropriated $150,000 to build the catwalks. Papy blames Chairman Cecil Webb of the depart ment for the delay in beginning the construction of the walks. As Citizen readers may recall, only a few days be fore the fisherman was killed, Papy complained about the department’s failure to include the catwalks in its latest projects. But Webb said he was not to blame. He said the reason for the exclusion of the catwalks from the projects was because they had not been put in the priority list that had been submitted to the board by the member from this district. Senator-Elect Neblett and Representative Papy will appeal to the incoming board of the State Road Depart ment to include the catwalks in its first priority list. But the $150,000 that has been appropriated will not be en ough to build all the walks that had been proposed. At the time the appropriation had been made, the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District had agreed to construct the walks within the tollgates at an estimated additional $150,000. The department’s appropriation is earmarked for the bridges outside the tollgates, including those from Big Pine to Boca Chica. The Citizen feels confident that, with the passing of Webb and his board next Tuesday, Neblett, who will be senator by that time, and Papy will succeed in getting action, not excuses about “priorities,” from the new board. The walks not only will provide a safe place for fishermen but also will relieve drivers of the tension they sense when driving on a bridge where men and women are more concerned with fishing than they are with passing cars. The members of every profession, with few excep tions, stress the importance of their profession, which means, incidentally, themselves. Crossword Puzzle ACROM 1. Btirtor 4. Vocal solo t. Presently IS. Australian bird 13. Nominee 15. 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Affirmath. vote 48. la profitable 45. Devoured 4*. Uncooked 4*. Thus 60. Perform 66. Depart 64. Indefinite pronoun DOWN 1. Dethrone 2. Not involv ing morality 2. Greek letter 4. Top card* 6. Rodent 3. Inside 7. Peminlue name 3- Fruit drink 6. Symbol tor sodium fffOgg/ q~ - „ ~ Changes Ahead For 1955 New Social Security Laws Affect 9 Out Of 10 WASHINGTON W)—New Year’s Day brings anew look to the na tion’s vast program of retirement benefits for the aged and of death benefits to widows and surviving children of wage earners. Sooner or later, this new look embodied in amendments to the social security law taking effect Jan. I—will affect the pocketbooks of more than 9 out of 10 Ameri cans. It virtually fulfills the long time dream of social security plan ners—retirement income for every body. The new law brings up to lOMi million persons under the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system for the first time farm oper ators, farm laborers, domestic workers and self-employed archi tects, engineers, accountants and funeral directors on a compulsory basis; state and local government employes and clergymen on an optional basis. After 18 months’ coverage, many of these will be eligible for benefits for the first time. The new law also increases bene fits for everyone in the system (some increases took effect in Oc tober), increases taxes for soir.y and provides new advantages for millions of disabled workers and for other millions who want to con tinue some work and still draw retirement benefits. About 3,600,000 farm operators— people farming for themselves are covered for the first time. To qualify, they must make as much as $#?J profit a year. They must report on their income and pay a 3 per cent social security tax on earnings up to $4,200 a year. Their first new social security returns will be due with income tax re turns on 1955 earnings, filed early in 1956. Farm operators get a number of special privileges. If their total income (receipts) for the year is below SI,BOO. they don’t have to figure their net income, or actual profit or earnings. They can arbi trarily report half their gross in come as their net. Or they can figure their net if they choose to do so. If their total income is above SI,BOO, they have to figure their profit. If these net earnings are less than S9OO, the farm operator can report his actual earnings or report an arbitrary figure of s9oo— he chooses. If his net is above S9OO, he must report the actual figure. In addition, some 2,100,000 farm laborers —people doing farm work for others—are covered for the first time. Farm laborers were covered in the past only if they were “regularly” hired by one em ployer and received cash wages of SSO or more per quarter of a year from that employer. Now they will be covered if they are paid as much as SIOO by a single employer in a single year. The worker himself has no return to make. For any wages paid after Friday, the employer is to deduct 2 per cent of the worker’s wages, add another 2 per cent from his own money, and turn all this over to the government annually, or whenever the combined tax fund reaches SIOO. Workers must obtain a social security number and card from his nearest social security office. Optional coverage is extended for the first time to about mil lion state and local government employes. Many local governments already have their own retirement systems. Under the old law, em ployes covered by these systems could not come under the OASI program. The new law permits them to remain in the state system and also join the federal program, provided a majority of the group votes to do so. Optional coverage also is extend ed to 250,000 ministers, and mem bers of religious orders who have not taken a poverty vow. They will be treated as self-employed per sons, paying the 3 per cent social security tax along with their reg ular income tax returns. In the past, domestic servants, maids, cooks, chauffeurs, gard eners and other such workers have been covered if they worked 24 days for a single employer in a quarter. Under the new law they are covered if they eaVn as much as SSO from a single employer in a quarter, or three-month period. This will bring in an estimated A Grain Of Salt By Bill Spillman A young fisherman was killed recently by a motorist in an acci dent on the Overseas Highway. There is no doubt that this boy’s life may have been spared if we had catwalks for fishing from the bridges. The money for these catwalks has been appropriated. Local poli ticians claim that the State Road Department has been giving the county the run around on the issue. I don’t profess to know the Whats and Why’s of the delay. But it is known that a young life was stamped out that might other wise- be living today if he had been fishing from a catwalk instead of the road portion of the bridge. If anyone purposely let personal feelings or politics delay construc tion of the vitally needed safety projects, they have committed a terrible crime. It takes a sadistic person to obstruct the construction when dangers to human life are knowingly involved. Perhaps the catwalks have not been built because of a system of red tape or people who lack ini tiative to correct the defects. It is too late for anyone to say, “I told you so.” One death has al ready occurred. It is also very pos sible that more of the same type of accidents may occur again be fore the lead is pulled from mem bers of the State Road Depart ment that are responsible. There have been many headlines cn the catwalk issue and there will probably be many more. But then, we don’t need headlines, w-e need catwalks on the bridges for fisher men. CORAL DUST A school prin cipal (whom his club friends call fingers) was advised recently to drive extra carefully on S-D Day to a*>oid being pinched. —Look for a story involving pri vate use of city equipment. —“Kept” men have women do tneir dirty work foi them. —B-Drinking is still going on in the city. (No free advertisement). —The airport use panel has com., pletely reversed a former ruling. That of, "The use of federal money to duplicate airport facilities where 250,000 more. Starting Saturday, each employer who pays SSO or more a quarter to a domestic worker should withhold 2 per cent of the wages, add 2 per cent from his own money, and turn over the entire amount to the government in quarterly returns. If the house wife chooses, however, she may pay the entire 4 per cent tax from her own money, withholding none from the worker’s wages. The worker files no return but should get a social security card. Employ ers may be prosecuted if they fail to comply. Coverage also is extended auto matically to about 100,000 self employed professional people architects, engineers, accountants and funeral directors, who have heretofore been excluded. there are already existirfg military airports, is a luxury that this coun try cannot afford.” Remember this decision the next time you pay your income tax —and election. —The pier at county beach is get ting worse and worse. —The city is getting some snazzy looking motels. —National Airlines reportedly has permission to fup from this city to Havana but could not compete with the Cuban airline in price because of rates set by the Washington a gency. —Robert Valdez is to be com plimented for the fine work he did in making up the new rules con cerning city civil service employes. —The city ordinance on B-drink ing should be repealed if it is not enforced. —There is nothing worng with a man hiring his wife to work in a public job provided*the wife works the same as anyone else would. —A crack down is in the mak ing for the use of public vehicles for private purposes; instances, go ing to drive-in movies, etc. —Unless the man who wants to lease Garrison Bight comes up an acceptable offer before the next commission meeting, one commis sioner is going to recommend that bids be requested in conjunction with using the city fund to im prove the Bight. —TV artist unions are thinking about forbidding the use of pro grams by stations that permit tele casts to be used by organized clos ed circuit systems They claim that high profits made are not getting down to actors and actress level. They say also that it is like re printing a published book without royalties. —Jack Delaney is starting his fishing column again. FANATICS TO DIE CAIRO, Egypt Uf> —A military tri bunal Tuesday sentenced five more leaders of the fanatic Moslem Brotherhood to death by hanging and baeded prison terms ranging from five years to life to 20 others. Phesants w ere introduced into the United States from China in 1880. PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen receives numerous letters addressed to the People’s Forum which are not accompanied by the signature of the writer. If your letter is suitable for inclusion in the For um, we are happy to publish it, with or without your name as you desire, but it is necessary for the letter to be signed when it comes to our office. The Citizen is interested in helping you put your opinions before the public, and we will carefully with hold your identity if such is your wish, but we must have your signature. This Rock nfc , i Of Ours By Bill Gibb Folks all over the country are 1 getting pretty disgusted with the postal situation. No longer does a mail box signify something pri vate it is merely a receptacle for a confused mass of advertis ing material material slapped together with no regard for the reader’s sensibilities. The government, using taxpay er’s money, is delivering this so called ‘junk mail’ practically free of charge. Because it comes in such huge quantities, the average house holder carts it to a wastebasket without bothering to look at it. But there is always a good chance that an important letter, written in a normal size envelope, cdn become tangled in the junk and inadvert ently thrown away. Postmaster General Arthur Sum merfield is the one who is res ponsible for the costly and irritable conditions which prevail now with regard to this third-class mail. The “experiment,” as he calls it, has turned our mail carriers into walk ing pack mules. If it continues, first-class postage rates will have to be raised in order to defray the expensive service being provided business concerns which haven t enough interest in their customers to address mail by name. Local Post Office Postmaster Stickney of the local WASHINGTON Ufl Four years ago Congress handed the govern ment a harpoon to stick in the Communist party. It will be many months, perhaps years, before the government knows whether the harpoon has a real barbed point. In 1950 Congress passed the In ternal Security Act to force the party to register with the Justice Department as a Russian agent and at the same time give a list of its officers and members. The party said at once it would never register. It hasn’t done so yet. It almost surely never will. To register would be to admit that the American Communist party was a Moscow too' bent on over throwing the government. The inability of the government so far to force the party into reg istering—or defying the law—is due to the deliberate machinery of delay built into the act by Con gress itself. The machinery, intended to give the Communist party a full hear ing and its day in court to defend itself, worked like this: If the attorney general declared the party an instrument of the Kremlin he would then ask the Subversive Activities Control Board, specially created by the se curity act, to order the party to register. But this couldn’t be done until the attorney general presented evi dence to the board to back up his charge and until the party had a full chance to defend itself against or deny, the attorney general’s ac cusations. This meant a long hearing. And there was a long hearing The gov ernment and the Communists ar gued before the board in 1951-52. In 1953 the board agreed with the attorney general. It found the American Commu nist party to be a Russian agent. But the party still didn’t have to register and wouldn't until it fought the security act and the board’s findings all the way up through the courts. Thus it started. Last Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals here up held the constitutionality of the In ternal Security Act of 1950 and tne right of the board to order the party to register. But the party can, and most likely will, ask the appeals court to rehear the case The appeals court will probably refuse. It will be some time in 1955 before that answer comes down. Assuming the party is turned down, it will then appeal to the Supreme Court The Supreme Court would prob- postoffice, is doing a wonderful job this is especially true of the way he and his personnel handled the difficult Christmas situation. I’ve heard nothing but compliments about the ease in which routine bus iness could be conducted, packages nailed, stamps purchased, etc., this year. Christmas cards which were mailed in the morning w r ere even delivered the same day. It is nice to know that our local postoffice is performing an efficient job in spite of apparent bungling from the top ranks. Standing Room Only This little island is becoming so crowded as the winter season opens tnat perhaps we’re going to have to hang signs at the City Limits reading: “Standing Room Only.” I’m told that most of the motels and hotels are packed to capacity. Traffic situation is becoming more acute, too. Perhaps it calls for a word of warning: many guests do not know local stop streets. We permanent residents need to exercise unusual care in driving giving our visitors a break by understanding their er rors in traffic. Also, we should give them a chance to sight-see without becoming irritated at their slow driving. After all, we in vited them to Key West to see the sights and enjoy themselves! The World Today By James Marlow ably not be able to give a decision before late 1955 or sometime in 1856. No one can foretell the high court's decision. It may find the security act unconstitutional. That would mean five or six years’ work had gone out the win dow and the party would not have to register. But suppose the court upholds the act and the order to the party to register. Since the party says it won’t register, it can be assumed it won’t. But suppose the party an nounced, on the day the Supreme Court ruled against it, that it no longer existed. What could the government do then? The announcement by the party that it was out of business wouldn’t; kid anyone. But how could the government legally prove the an nouncement was a sham and that the party still existed? It would have to gather evidence on that. What then? The 1950 law I says it’s a crime for anyone to remain a member of the party I if the party fails to register once there has been a final order for it to do so. So the government could proceed against some individual who, it was convinced, was still a member of the party which had said it no longer existed. If convicted, this individual would appeal all the wav through the courts to the Su preme Court. The government might not want to try any other underground Com munists until the Supreme Court had given a decision on this first test, which would take more years. And suppose the Communist party, announcing it was dissolv ing bobbed up under another name, which is what happened in Canada. Would the government have to go through the whole pro cedure again to prove it was really the Communist party? That's a bridge the government will have to cross if it comes to it. PROFS OUSTED BUENOS AIRES, Argentina '3— Government authorities announced Tuesday the dismissal of 45 profes sors, including five Roman Cath olic priests, from the National University of Cordoba. The wholesale firings, carried out by a special representative of President Juan D. Peron, were a result of the bitter dispute between the Peron government and part of the Catholic elergy in Argentina. Cordoba and its university are considered a chief center of Cath olic strength. Snow White Is Altered To Suit Russians By TOM REEDY BERLIN (jp The cold war has caught up with Snow Whitt and the seven dwarfs. It started in the Soviet zone of Germany, where Communist pro ducers at Greifswald rewrote tht fairy tale and won high praise from the Russian literary monthly “Today and Tomorrow.” The So viet writer commented that the Grimm version needed cerfaia changes and explained: “Snow W’hite should not be * member of tbe court, but must be presented as an outcast. She js being educated with the childrea of the castle janitor and is on very good terms with the farmers, who are actually revolutionaries. That’s really why the queen hates her.” The revamped plot is based on social consciousness and the need for unseating feudal barons and dividing the land among the peas ants. RIAS, the American High Com mission radio in West Berlin, re ported the East zone’s thespian shenanigans and went on: “This plot needs thickening, let us finish it.” The dwarfs, RIAS went on, are kept busy digging uranium. Their home is “a grotto of peace" with seven white doves sitting on seven little white beds. Miniature copies of the works of Stalin are placed on seven night tables. The wicked Queen poisons Snow W’hite with tainted canned good* from the United States. A People’* Police commissioner, in search of potato bugs dropped onto the crops by foreign enemies, finds Snow White in her glass coffin and liberates her. She leaps out, shout ing “friendship” and the dwarfs join in until the cries of joy are heard in the Urals. RIAS concludes: “And then the young couple went back to the fatherland of all work ing people. If they have kept to the party line, they are still alive." Fingerprints Trip Youth Who Felt “Real Ornery” SALT LAKE CITY (*-A man with a memory for fingerprint* spotted one he had studied on a set of fingerprint cards Sunday night. So police fingerprint technician Wade Robinson notified his su periors. They brought in a 17-year old youth whose statistics wert m the card. Monday they announced th* youth has confessed stealing 23 autos last summer and kicking la dashboards and fenders, breaking glass and—sometimes—jumping up and down on their hoods before abandoning them. Robinson said he had taken to many prints from the vandalized cars he had managed to memorise every detail of the pattern. Asked why he wrought such de struction on the cars he stole, po lice said the youth replied: “’Cause I was mad. I was real ornery during the summer months.” Key West In Days Gone By December 29, 1924 Hopkins Hapgood, well known writer and an authority on inter national politic*, and lire. Hap good. also well known in the liter ary field, are residents of Key West and have decided to remain for the next three months. Steamship Cuba tailed for Hava na yesterday with 232 first class passengers. 18 second class, 10 au tomobiles, four tons of freight and ICS sacks of mail ★ ★ . ★ December Key West Lodge, 551, B. P. O. Elks, this afternoon purchased $3,- 000 of Series G. War Bondi. Seven acres, with ocean frontage, on Plantation Key, have been lold by Dexer Woods to If. H. Tallman for $2,000. COUNTERFEIT GANG NABBED IN ITALY MILAN, Italy <fl PoUce an nounced Tuesday the arrest of It m~ -fter a seven-year tavestifo tion of a counterfeit ring. Agents said they found in Milan a clandestine money mill which had printed 113,000 American dol lars and 1,t0Q,000 Austrian schiß mgs (about $70,000). PoUce said those arrestod were of Hungarian, i Lithuanian, Austrian, Yugoalay and I Italian nationalities.