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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-13
he CLEANUP
Chapter II

Chapter IA
a + THE Newspaper Office Editor
a Prime phoned for Pedrick
who came into the Oli7ce. Rush let
Prime tell him the story. Pedrick
sat Il saout In Aank unaccustome<3
silence. When Prime was through
he lo0ked at Rush.
You know. t6y secretive friend.
susplCloned you from the 6rst.
You didn't look like an article
writer to me-
Prime explained Rush's idea.
Pedrick got it at once and was
enthusiastic.
Propaganda fascinates me. i've
had an uncomfortable yen to in
fiuence somebody. My time has
come.
''You can influence people TO
your hearts content" said Rush.
"I'u give you some ammunition
daily. Right now / want 4 word
about the life and times Of one
w G. C0vington. I'm going TO APP
preach him this afternoon
"Willie?" said Pedrick. aHe's
got pretty thick hide or he
wouldn't expose himself to the
beating he's going to take Il
want to bet?" asked Rush.
Pedrick looked at him through
narrowed eyelids.
Are you considering tamper-
ing with the ballot boxes?" he
asked.
mot at all. I'm going to elect
him mayor by the will Of the
people. al
.eYou.. said Pedrick. stalk like
q man with q paper head. My
uncle's horse has just as good q
chance as he has"
"Tll take bets" said Rush.
Look. While you are busy influ-
encing Carney and Sully and their
boys into thinking that they're at
each others Threats. you'll be in
fluencing the common people into
thinking the same thing. I'm con-
WINGED that there are enough UNI
enlightened common people in
Forge City to swing the election
once they get the word"
What word is THAR" asked
Pedrick. "Could / hear it,"
.You can. The word is that they
have been taken for q municipal
ride like nobody ever heard Of
ever got taken for before. Beyond
that their fair city has been q
profitable plaything for a group Of
selfish. evil. grasping men for
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many years. When they and that
out they aren't going to like il.
They are even going 70 do some
thing about it. Like electing Mr..
w. G. CUvington.s
. Pedrick shook his head Its !
dream" A
Now about w. c. !" raid Rush.
4 @Okay. Fiftyish, independently
wealthy. wife and two kids Of
high school age, upright, member
OF the First N. E. Church, pillar
OF society, and 4 pretty nice guy =
Any guts?s asked Rush.
Unknown quantity. Maybe il
pushed enough"
IN the Exchange building Rush
by-passed q pair Of secretaries
busy doing nothing and q roomful
OF people enthusiastically adj
dressing envelopes. The feeling
OF uselessneSs was heavy in the
room. He found Mr.. Covington
seated behind q desk looking out
OF his window at the streets Of
residential Forge City spread out
beyond the business district that
lay directly below. He introduced
himself.
"Why do you want to be mayor,
Mr.. Covington?" he asked.
You're not resident Of Forge
City, are your" asked Covington.
Rush shook his head.
IF you were you'd understand.
I'm very fond Of this city. I grew
up here and ! made what money
| have here. My children are GO
ing to spend their lives here. ]
want it to be the. kind Of city they
can be proud of. / want to be
proud Of it myself. It isn't that
kind Of city. II you lived here
you'd know how far il misses
being the kind Of place you can
be proud Of"
"All right" said Rush. ~How
strongly do you want to be may
orr"
Il should think that would be
obvious. I'm spending good deal
of money and more time. I'm
bucking a machine that's old in
intrigue and practical politics.
Isn't that an answer"
That's one kind of answer"
said Rush. "I'll lay my cards on
the table. ] am a private detective
from Chicago. ! once managed to
clean up a city that was almost
as bad as Forge City. Someone
has engaged me to do the same
thing for Forge City. To me. it
looks like the easiest and most
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Eastern Star Holds
Fathers Day Eve1it

The Order of the Eastern Star
will meet at 8 o'clock tonight at
the Scottish Rites Temple for a
special Fathers Day program.
Members will bring fathers and
husbands for participating in an
interesting program. Refresh
ments will be served. All men,
berS are urged to attend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1947-06-13

The famous Vale of Kashmir in
India is about half the size of
Yellowstone National Park in
the United States.
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"a SORT OF ENHANCING SPOT;
.s,,k. \.
So Sas Senator Holland about Everglades Nat. Park
A SIGHT ONE NEVER FORCETS'

especial to Tae Citis..,
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read by Mrs. Don Barager, Z.
Thompson, B. Farley, ]. Thomp-
son, D. Sehaub, Mrs. Hawkins.
and others.
"All Through The Night" by
Grace Livingston Hill has prov
en- popular as attested by two
cards filled with names, among
which are: Nancy Durham, Mrs.
Amelia Cook. Dora Cowan. Lula
Beardslee, and many more.
w. Somerset Vaughan is al
ways a favorite with so many
and a few who read and liked
"Razor's Edge" are Mrs. j. o
Mabry. Albert Hudson, and M.
McInnis.
Dog lovers are mostly among
the younger people as those who
read the delightful dog stories,
"Lassie Come Home" and AL
bert Payson Terhune's Lad: w.
M. Dutton. VIM. Schaub, Patsy
Robinson, Carol Garfield, Walter
Gautier, and Bobby Rogers.
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PortY Celeb roting
Sixth Birthday OF
Barbara Lennep

The sixth birthday of Barbara
Lennep was prettily celebrated at
a party at the home of her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse l. Len
nep. Sunday afternoon.
Among the several games en-
ioyed by the children was a May
pole wrap and following this
cold drinks and cake were serv-
ed.
Among Barbara's guests were
Mary Nell and Norma Grierson,
Ann Golf, Sandra, Phyliss and
Darlene Greenough, Margaret
Thomson, Gloria A. Cunningham,
John Paul and Pat Bailey, Alma
Dell. Helen and James w. Will
kerson, Sharon and Gary Can
field, Judy Leslie, Warren and
Jesse Lee Lennep, Larry lie
Maitre, Anita Oliver, Charles L.
Mack, Mrs. Henery and Carl E.
Garfield, Mrs. Dial Oliver, Mr..
and Mrs E L. lie Maitre, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Broadus, Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Garfield, Mr.. and Mrs.
Foster Lennep, Mrs. George Len
nep Mrs, Marion Wilkerson, Mrs.
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Miss Wiggins Honors
Five Senior Class
Girls With Porty

Miss Irene Virgins. who is at
lending the Bishop Toolan High
ichool in Mobile, was hostess at
an al fresco party Saturday from
} to IL p. m. honoring five of
he members of the. graduating
ciass of the Pascagoula High
school, Misses Dolores Byrd,
Gene Swartwout, Fave Lewis,
Katherine Wright and Ann Gull
ley.
The spacious grounds of the
home of Miss Virgins parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Ed Virgins, on
South Pascagoula street, Pasca-
goula, were the setting for the
party.
The tennis, bennington and
eroquet courts attracted many
of the guests while others en-
joyed the swimming pool.
A picnic supper was served
on a table carrying out a pink
and green motif.
Each OF the five honorees were
presented with nylon hose by
Miss Virgins.
The guest-list included MEM
bers of the graduating class at
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C

Thanks to the Anola Club of
Pascagoulal Thanks and con-
gratuhtions for having chosen a
most worthy project during the
past two years.
The two hundred dollars you
have donated to the City Pub
lie Library has been wisely spent
by your librarian. You have the
honor of having placed on the
shelves such sets of books as
"The Childhood of Famous Am
orleans Series" as well as many
lovely individual books.
And if you should wonder
whether these books are being
read or not just browse through
the children's shelves and see
how thumb worn are some of the
volumes on the childhood of ia
nous American statesmen, COM
posers and authors. You might
be surprised how the little fel-
lows take TO biography when it
is as interestingly gotten up as
this series.
The Anola Club could not have
chosen a more worthwhile gift.
A look into the bookshelves of
the average American home re-
minds one of the old Nursery
Rhyme:
Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her poor dog a bone;
But when she got there
The cupboard was bare
And so the poor dog had, none.
A book is frequently the turn
ing point in the life of a boy
or girl, it will awaken the soul
as nothing else will. Books will
lift mans personal and profess
sional life to higher heights. The
average everyday American,
whether he himself reads or not,
has a deep and an abiding res
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they're mighty
nourishing and
thrifty. Versatile,
too as you'll
see from the pack
age recipes. Try
them! You'll find
AZ va,1r A&pf
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Joycees Will
Vote On New
Officers Tuesday

The nominating committee OF
the ~Pascagoula Junior Chamber
of Commerce gave their recon :
mendations from the floor at a
special meeting Tuesday night
and the membership will vote on
the officer at a meeting at the
18th Street Auditorium next
Tuesday night.
The club also passed on two
important matters: that the Gulf
Coast Horse Show will be stag
ed this year, as planned, and
that the group will continue to
support the Boy Scouts in Pasca-
goula.
A. j. Moss presided at Tues
days meeting and Meredith
Hardy was appointed chairman
of the initiation banquet COM
mittee, which will plan the ban
quet to be staged later this month
or in early June.
Pascagoula High School. There
were about 40 present.
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MOSS POINT

What books do the people in
our town read? We got the an
swer to this question by looking
through the cards of the local
library. But first let us point
out that right now the regular
readers have increased quite SUBJ
stantially in numbers. The size of
the library, too, is expanding,
with new books being added
gradually but steadily. Fiction
seems to be in greatest demand,
though there are calls for books
dealing in such things as philo-
sophy and medicine, as though
people were seeking for some
thing to help both their minds
and bodies.
Selecting a few cards at ran
dom-a cross section view. as if
were-it was found that:
M. o. Porter, who has charge
of Falls Funeral Home, likes
murder mysteries and has read
practically everyone in the Ii
brary. He has a unique way of
reading them, not like most peo-
pie who avidly devour the story
until they find out who did the
CORY deed, but he reads until
all of the characters are intro
duced and the plot well estab-
lished. then puts the book aside.
He smokes his pipe and cogitates
until he has a satisfactory solu-
ton of how he would solve the
mystery, and then, and only then.
goes back to the book to find
out how the author solves it.
Other Agatha Christie and
Van Dine mystery sleuths, ae-
cording to the cards, are: H. Levy,
Maxine Bond. Mrs. A. M. Swig-
ert, A. Cook, Clara Eller, Mrs.
c. A. Mitchell, Mrs. Hawkins,
and Mrs. w. A. Coulson.
Mrs. r. c. Eley reads all the
best sellers just to keep up with
the latest in fiction, but what
she really prefers is thought pro-
voking nonfiction. She is particu-
larly interested in the newest
medical discoveries and had just
finished reading that fascinating
little book, yellow Magic the
story of Pencillin, by J. d. Rae
cliff.
Mrs. Laura Stewart of Kreole,
who has been in the Jackson
County Hospital for three years,
is a voracious reader, and has
friends bring her five or six
books at a time. She reads fic-
ton entirely, and, as she express
es 1.-THE %racier, the better, how
ever, any good story will do. She
started THE Sun Is My Undoing"
but had to put it aside because
it was too heavy for her frail
hands to hold, but feeling better,
she resumed is the other week.
Mrs. James Gautier, also of
Kreole, likes fiction, too. but
reads the serious nonfiction so
that she may intelligently keep
abreast of the times.
The cards indicate that A. j.
Cronin's "'The Green Years was
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EASTLAWN

The Eastlawn Library. located
in the Project Services Office al
the 18th street Community Build.
ing. is open to the public from
$3.50 A. M. to 500 P. M, Monday
through Friday.
The membership fee is n dol
lar and the books may be check
ed out for a period of seven days
without extra cost TO the read
ers. However, a tWo-cent fee is
charged for every day a book is
kept over the seven days allow
ed.
The Eastlawn Library is not
large but does have a great many
of the very late books on hand,
some few of these are reviewed
below:
THE RAZOR'S EDGE by w.
Somerset Maugham-is one of his
greatest novels. In Larry Darnell
he has created one of his most
radiant and appealing characters.
Darnell. impelled by what he has
seen of death in the war, re-
nounces his f~inancee, Isabel
Bradley, and the opportunity for
wealth and position to seek know
ledge and a faith above and be-
yond human mortality.
LYDIA BAILEY by Kenneth
Roberts. In Lydia Bailey, as in
all his novels, Kenneth Roberts
vigorous. intimate style gives the
reader the sense of sharing the
lives of his characters and of
actually living in their own time.
ALL THE KINGS MEN by
Robert Penn Warren. This is the
story of three men and a woman.
At its center is Willie Stark, a
young back country lawyer in a
southern state who discovers
that he has the gift for power
and follows his star to become
political boss of his state.
PAVILION OF WOMEN by
Pearl S. Buck. This is the story
of a great family of landed gentry
well-to-do, cultivated, aware and
in the midst of the variety of
human experience.
BLAZE OF NOON by Ernest K.
Gam. A novel about four
brothers. crazy dare-devils youths
who came of age with the air.
plane after the first World War.
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BUSINESS GIRLS INITIATE
NEW MEMBERS

The social meeting of the Bus
mess Girls Club Thursday eve
ming of last week took the form
of a wienie roast at the beach.
A highlight of the evening was
the initiation of Uses Vivian
Howard, Anna Louise and Mar
jorie Green, Aileen Tilley, Mary
10 Butler and Joyce Krebs as
new members.
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Kreole Methodist
Women's Group
Hostess To Vets

The Kreole Methodist Wo-
mans Society for Christian Ser
vice will be hostess to a spend
the day party for "a veterans
of the Biloxi Veterans Hospital
on Tuesday, MAY 9th. The par
ty will be held in the home OF
Mrs. James Gautier of Kreole
with a picnic lunch served in her
lovely garden.
The patients will be assisted
by three Gray Ladies of the jack
son County Chapter, Gray Lady
Corps Party arrangements are be-
ing made through Community
Service for Camp and Hospital.
Jackson County Chapter, Ameri-
can Red Cross, of which Mrs.
Henry Gautier is chairman.
Individuals. Clubs and organi-
cations desiring TO offer their
services may contact Mrs. Gau-
tier or the Red Cross Office.
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pect for the man who does. Read
ing is to the mind what exer-
else is to the body.
So, to the Anola Club, again,
congratulations for being civic
minded and taking the lead in so
worthy a project.
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Pascagoula High School. There
were about 40 present.
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Although Victoria Falls in Afri-
sa is more than twice as high
and wider than Niagara, more
water flows owe Niagara in a
year than over Victoria because
the African falls are greatly re-
duced in the dry eason
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One of my pet theories is that more families would eat better
breakfasts if we homemakers would get more variety into
our morning menus. So how about serving a different kind of
fruit or cereal, or eggs fixed a new way tomorrow morning?
Bet your family will sit up and take notice and seconds!
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BRIGHT kEeINNER

BRIGHT BEGINNER
Syrups from canned fruits are rich
in healthful vitamins and miner
ais, but | couldn't get my family
to drink them till / hit on the
idea of combining them with tangy
APP GRAPEFRUIT JUICE. It
adds the extra zip these sweet
syrups need -. and extra vitamin
c as well. l always keep a few
cans of this refreshing grapefruit
juice in my refrigerator, along
with a jar into which / pour all
leftover fruit syrups.
THIS TAXES THE CAKE
Looking for a dessert that's super
simple to make and simply super
to eat? Then here's the recipe for
you: Cook together l cup of diced
rhubarb, Il cup of sugar and 2
tbsps. of water till ,tmt.u
rhubarb is tender. MNMM NW,
Add ! cup of your NV u
favorite berries, ~sYT-s
cook 1 minute and (6s%SG
then pour over a ~
slices of toasted
JANE PARKER POUND CAKE
THAT wonderfully fresh, fne-tex-
tured cake that comes from the
APP and tastes as if it had Just
come from your own oven!
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Cecil Leslie. and MI. and Mrs.
Lennep.
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TINE EGG AND you
If you can answer these questions
correctly you're an "eggspert'i
@. Are white eggs or brown eggs
better?
A. Shell color has no bearing on
quality. The breed of chicken
determines the color.
@. Should eggs be washed before
you store them?
A. No. Water destroys the film
that keeps out air and doors.
@. Why are APP EGGS always
so good?
A. Because they're selected and
inspected by experts and kept
at the proper temperature to
safeguard their high quality.
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CEREAL STARS

Some like them hot and some like
them cold, but / find that every
body at my house likes delicious
~SUNNYFIELD CEREALS.
That's okay with me because
Evening star., 1947-11-13
NC. Game Is Big One for otum,
Who Wants to Beat Alma Mater

good actors on the w are Bob An
drus, who does double duty in that
sometimes he Is Pupa and other
times he Is Hosea Rodgers, both
outstanding Carolina fullbacks;
Steve Stofko, who makes out he's
Jim Camp the wingback, and Henry
Ezarnecki and Bill Copperthite, who
represent Cardinals pass-catching
ends, Art Weiner and Bob Cox.
1t all adds up to the fact that
Maryland is exploring every angle
and missing no bets in its prepara-
tions for North Carolina. Coach
Tatum is busy day and night get
ting everything set. There are daily
conferences with his scouts. There
are twice. a-day meetings of the
coaching staff Conferences are
held with the quarterbacks and the
running backs. Everybody takes an
other look at movies of last years
North Carolina game (won by North
Carolina, 800. Those movies are
a great help, because North Caro-
lima has pretty much the same crew
playing for it this season.
Then, Of course, there are those
secret practices behind the pine
curtain, the private field Tatum had
fenced off this year for just such
occasions as this. Tatum won't let
on that anything special is going on
back of that fence-he just wants tc
keep out the crowds-but the feel
ing around College Park is that
something special is being brewed
.up for the Tar Heels.
Evening star., 1947-11-13
Tickets Hard 10 Find
|For Wisconsin Game
Against Michigan
By the Associated Press

MADISON, Wis, Nov. 13-"Where
can I get couple of tickets for the
Observation-Disclosures football game?"
If you know the answer to that
question send it Immediately to Act
ing Gov. Rennebohm of Wisconsin,
President E. B. Fred Of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, the university
ticket Office or any Madison news
paperman.
It's question that has been
plaguing all of them for more than
a week.
Apparently every football fan in
Wisconsin and hundreds from
other States, too-wants to see un-
defeated Michigan and Wisconsin
tangle in the all-important Big Nine
Conference game Saturday.
The game has been $4,000 SELL
out for more than two weeks, but
that hasn't hampered those who
still want to see it.
William Aspinwall, who directs
the ticket sales, said he could have
sold 10000 more tickets.
Gov. Rennebohm reports ne hao
calls from many friends asking in
tervention in their behalf, but he
tells all of them he can do nothing.
President Fred is in the same pre-
dicament.
The unusual demand for Wiscon-
son tickets was brought about by
the surprising Badger eleven that
lifted itself from the doormat team
to one of. the two leading contenders
for the Western Conference title.
Evening star., 1947-11-13

Coach Jack Riley's Washington
Lions, we'll rested after letting down
from a grind of IA games in "a
days, will be strengthened by the
return of two key men and the
acquisition of another tomorrow
night when they return to Uline ice
against Eddie Shores improved
Springfield Indians in an American
Hockey League match at $3.50 o'clock.
Assisting the Lions in their ef-
fort to snap losing streak that
has extended through six matches
will be George Hunchuck, 22-year-
old, 185-pound defenseman, who mas
been made available by the Chicago
Blackhawks, and Larry Archam-
beault, defenseman, and Kenny
Schultz, center, who have been side
lined with injuries.
The availability of Hunchuck and
Archambeault on defense will en-
able two of the Lions f1eeter play
ers, Walter Babey and Harvey Red
Raney, to return to the forward line
along with Schultz, where they
should add new punch to an offen-
sive that has lapsed badly in re-
cent starts.
The locals had compiled record
Of five victories in nine starts and
were leading the Eastern Division
before an injury to Archambeault's
left leg followed by torn shoulder
Evening star., 1947-11-13
By George Huber

MARYLAND Coach Jim Tatum wants
to win that North Carolina game
Saturday in the keeneSt way.
Coaches always want to win, but
for Tatum this is THE game of the
year. He still could be happy If he
lost all other games and won this
one. North Carolina Is Tatum'S old
school, and for some reason coaches
want most to build a team that Will
beat their old school.
The Terrapins have been pointing
all year for this one. The Tar Heels
have been thoroughly secuted, OF
course; their weaknesses, if any, are
known and their strong points
such as Charley Justice and Wal'
Pupa-are well known.
The junior varsity team at Mary
land has been taught the Carolina
plays, or at least those that have
been displayed in public so far, ano
Is running them this week against
the varsity.
Coach Bill Meek'S w squad really
worked hard this week. AS sort
OF reward anu UeCdueC Il1oS CAE'oS'
to be somewhat worn down by the
varsity by the end. of the week, NJ
game for them Is scheduled Satur-
day. They'll be guests of the varsity
team at the game where they car
see in action the North Carolina
players they've been tmpersonatins
all week.
Taking the role Of Charley JUS
tice" is John Condor. Among Other
Evening star., 1947-11-13
CrippIes Healed, Lions Hope
To End Losses in Indians Tilt

ligaments sustained by Scotty Mair
brilliant winger, and wrenched side
by Schultz placed them on the skids
Mair alone remains on the hospital
list.
The Lions have sdefeated the In
dams twice, 60 and rs.
Paul Courteau, combination center
and winger and one of the most pop
ular players ever to appear locally,
returns with Springfield. The ely
ing Frenchman," one of the Ameri-
can Leagues better forwards for sew
eral years, originally gained huge
following while skating with the
Washington Eagles in Eastern Hook
ey League competition.