The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-07-01

COlilc uOWIl mere every SGdi. 4tS
certain that without the bridges
land the road the ears could not
come here. The distance from Mi
ami is about 165 by car. Round
"trip totals $50 miles.
rs Roughly it takes about Is
gallons of gasoline to 60 from
'fMiami to Key West and back to
Miami again. That, figures to
around 2.50O.000 gallons of gaso-
line for 10000 cars on which the
state collects Z Gets a gallon.
IA little arithmitic and you'll
see If figures up to about Sl7s.-
sQ00 q year.
'E"Overseas Highway is an asset
70 the state. The state should set
it free. The entire bond issue of
the highway is less than $4,000,
geo, understand. The state
Gould wipe that off the books in
no time at ALL"
u We agree with that mans
Views. The state should make
Oversee Highway free. 1t is the
.,oply~toll road in the state and to
. continue to charge $l.25 for a car
. and driver seems silly.
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! 1t isn't often that a man comes
right out openly and tells a
!, newspaperman story he wrote
the previous day was very good.
| They usually tell you when its
wrong, but rarely when it's
; right.
I "A story you wrote yesterday
! really got results" said Charles
X. Wardlow to the writer the
other day. Why. even the
! Humane Society is backing the
; drive for rabies injections into
! dogs"
J Ehree members of the city
Commission now see the need for
"a better system of dog catching
for the city. Every dog caught
sand. taken to the pound will be
,gixen rabies shots. Much. obliged
For the publicity"
You're welcome, Charley, and
come often with that kind Of
news
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Five or six taxicab drivers
usually wait for calls at Duval
and Fleming streets. They usual
ly sit on a regular seat or on
boxes, preferably the boxes.
Lets clean up around here"
suggested one of them. and
promptly got broom. Then he
stood back and bossed the job.
At all events the spot is clean.
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Harold A. Laubscher, acting
manager of the Key West
Chamber of Commerce. is glad to
be back in this city after spend
ing week in the University Of
North Carolina learning about
c of c practices and such like.
Enroute to Chapel Hill. N. c.,
where the university is located,
Harold got II. c.. Williams. presi-
dent of the Gulf Atlantic Trans
portation Company, of Jackson
vile, on the telephone and tried
to make an appointment with
him., Williams is head of" the
company which pfans to. operate,
the ferry system to Havana. '#'.',
Pm not selling anything and
I'm not offering anything" said
Lsubscher over the telephone
to Williams. Williams said he
was going to Pittsburgh the
weekend. Laubscher said he
would be in Jacksonville again.
$50 didn't get to see Will
ans, said Laubscher. But I
have friend who saw the ferry,
the Carib Queen, at Jackson
vile. He tells me work is soon
to be started to finish the ferry"
1t is difficult to see how the
ferry could be operating here by
December l. The ferry is not
finished and nothing has been
done yet about building the
wharf and dredging the channel
at the foot of Duval street.
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It seems certain. if Congress
appropriates the fund, that Key
West will shortly be made the
permanent seat of rather new
section. Navy officers here will
not discuss the coming of the
section, for the nature of it is
highly confidential.
But it is known that the Sec
ton would place Is officers and
about $50 enlisted men and their
families as permanent residents
of the city. The section is now
based at New London, Conn
Their coming would be good
thing for the city, for it would be
as important an addition to the
Naval installation here as the