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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14

Monroe; Ord prize, Mrs. E. p.
Morales; and Honofable Men
ton Mrs. Allen E. Curry.
Euchaxis Lillies--1stS prize. Mrs.
VIM. r. Warren; and prize, Mrs.
Norbert Thompson.
Maidenhair Fern list prize, Mrs.
Henry Sands: End, Mrs. Susan
StaIey. Il
Artistic Arrangements-1st prize,
Hibiscus in DriftWood, Roland
Goulet; End prize, Red and pur-
pie petunias and Moses in the
Bullrushes, Mrs. Oliver Au-
gustus Smith, Naval Hospital;
3rd prize, Caladium leaves in
Chinese vase; HONORABLE Men
ton went TO Mrs. Guy Garlic
ton for an arrangement of Cro-
ton leaves in a conch shell.
Dish Gardens - lstsprize, Mrs.
Oliver Augustus Smith; End,
Mrs. E. E. Baughman; and 3rd
prize Mr.. r. D. Pittman.
Centerpiece Arransements - 1st
prize. Setting for d Wedding,
Mrs. Eugene Otto and Mrs.
Vim. r. Warren; End prize,
Thanksgiving. Mrs. Maurice
Saul; 3rd prize: Easter, Mrs.
:. Jack Thompson.
Annuals--lst prize, Sunflowers,
Mrs. Dan Navarro; End prize,
I Gaiilardias, Mrs. Oliver Au-
I gustus Smith; 3rd prize, Mas
turtiunns, Mrs. JOS. c, Wheeler,
{ il, Honorable Mention went to
Mrs. S. M. Goldsmith for an
outstanding group of Anna
ranth.
Ferns - LIST prize, Boston Fern,
Mrs. VIM. W.. Watkins; End
prize, Staghorn Fern, Miss Ger
trude Laubseher; Bird prize, Os-
trich Plume Fern, Mrs. VIM. W.:
Watkins; and Honorable Men
ton to- Miss. Gertrude Laub-
scher for a Holly Fern.
Begonias--lst prize, Mrs. ]. Ster-
ling; End prize, Eugene Otto,
and 3rd prize in this class to
Mrs. George Perpall's exhibit
of begonias.
Miniature vases--1st prize, Mrs.
Marion Winter; End, Mrs. EN-
lily Goddard; and 3rd to Miss
Ida Gates.
School Exhibits-A special Blue
Ribbon was given for the shop
work exhibit of the Junior:
High School which consisted of
novelties made from coconutI
husks and shells. The Division.
Street School received lst
prize for its Flag arrangement
of white petunias and red bou-5
gainyillea, and white star peri.
wrinkles set in moss that had
been dyed blue@ ME Narris,
School received End prize Aor a,
group of rninattkree arrange
nnents set arountb pictures Of
their library : activities Bird
prize went to the Convent Dis
play of truly beautiful trop-
ical scene with. a lighthouse in
the foreground. The sPoinciana
and Douglas schools each re-
: ceiyed Honorable Mention.
A special group of judges con-.
sisting. of Mrs. Nan Giese, John
Boatwright and Commander
Hugh Bredin. did the Judging ror
the beautifully lighted, and WE'LL
set-up Shadow Boxes. LIST prize
was for the arrangement called
Turn of the Century" by Mrs.
Eugene Otto: End prize went to-
'Ebb Tide" by Helen Close: and
3rd prize to "Sea Bnde. by Doris
Lee and Arnold Blanch. Mrs
Adele Saul received Honorable
Mention for her Strange things
On Land and Sea-; as did Mrs.
lsadore Bowser for her "Ah viii
iefhess,"
A Blue Ribbon was given for
he collected group of Specimen
Plants, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. H. God
gard, Chairmen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14

Rabbi Schwartz announces that
services will be held tonight in
the Bnai Zion Synagogue on
Simonton street to celebrate the
Feast of Esther. 1t starts with
the reading of the Megillah which.
is the book of Esther. It tells
about Persian Emperor of many
centuries ago, ruler of 127 little
countries and his prime minister
who tried to destroy the already
conquered Israel q. :. and how
Esther a beautiful Jewish girl,
in the service of her people,
found him out and brought word
of his treachery to the King, and
how Hannah the cruel one paid
with his life instead.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14
Entertainment Al
NaraI Hospital
Wednesday Night

Under the sponsorship of the
Ladies auxiliary OF the w. F. w.
Post 1911 and Navy Wives Club
No. 88, there will be a special
benefit put on in the Auditorium
of the Naval Hospital, Wednes-
day night, March 10th, for the
patients and staff. Stepin Fetchit,
native Key Wester with some of
his company will be the out
standing feature of the entertain
ment. There will also be some
additional local talent.
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|SResiident Get
Unemployment
Compensation
especial to rAe Crtisen,

TALLAHASSEE, March IA
The reports and analysis depart
nlent of the Florida Industrial
Commission reveals that eight
persons in Monroe county re-
ceived unemployment compensa-
ton in the amount of 1854 for the
week February % through March
5. 50
Under the law all eligible un-
employed must register with the
Florida State Employment Ser
vice and be available for work in
order to secure the usual weekly
compensation . slbl III m
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apply To Wed

An application for marriage
license was filed today in the
office of County Judge Raymond
r. Lord by Delio Valdez, "a, of
I02l Margaret street and by
Elizabeth Ross, 80, of 1901 Fiori-
da street. -.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14
Personal Mention

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph'G Cook of
9O5 Elizabeth Street have just re-
turned from a four months stay
with their son Joseph B. Cook s
family in Ridgewood, N. j.
Another son, George Cook re-
turned with them and will stay a
short time before returning to his
New York home.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14
Your Horoscope

MONDAY, MARCH IA, i949-
This day gives great enthusiasm
in the work to which you are at
tracted, but with a somewhat err
ratio tendency. Under some as
poets there is set purpose to ac-'
complish an idea, which often
brings success, but in other cases
there is tendency to leave too
much to chance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14
Seeks Divorce

A petition seeking a divorce
was filed Saturday in the office
of Circuit Court Clerk Earl
Adams by Ilah Lucyle Trubey
against Jacob Trubey.
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SUBSTITUTE FOR
MRS. NINA GULEY

Until Mrs. Nina Guley's return
the Woman's page will be con-
Quoted by Miss Mona Fields who
may be reached at The Citizen Of
fees mornings 8 to IL.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14

Daughters to Lawrence

Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Law
renee, of the Casa Roma on
Roosevelt Boulevard announce
the birth of daughter yesterday
at 1855 am. in the Monroe Coun-
ty Hospital.
The new arrival who weighed
z lbs, 2 or, has been given the
name of Linda Lee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1949-03-14

The witch-hazel tree bursts
into bloom when other trees are
shedding their foliage and when
us own leaves are yellow and
Mlling.
Evening star., 1949-07-31
Road Builders Map 10000 Mile Highway

summary of the system as now
in operation shows:
Surfacing-24 miles now u1-
surfaced. BY far the greater
part of the system, 32,642 miles.
is paved with bituminous, con-
crete, bricks or blocks.
Widths of surface-Of urban
sections, sos miles in pairs OF
one-Way streets and 5,274 miles
in two-way streets.
Only 168 miles of one-way
streets are as much as 40 feet
wide. OF two-way streets, 2,069
miles are less than 80 feet wide.
only 447 miles more than go
feet wide.
OF 1886 surfaced miles in
rural areas, 27,669 have two
lane surfaces, including 241
miles less than 18 feet wide.
The minimum surface width
prescribed under any condi-
tions is % feet. More than SIS
per cent of the total rural
mileage is too narrow.
Some Crossings Remain
Shoulder width-In rural
areas 421 miles have curbs
instead OF shoulders, and 6,273
miles have shoulders less than
4 feet wide. Except in noun
famous areas, standards call
for shoulders 10 feet wide, a
condition now met by less than
20 per cent of the system.
Curvature-On rural sections
there are 3,199 curves of more
than IA degrees, the maximum
recognized by the standards as
permissible in mountainous
areas-and more than half OF
them are in areas classed as
fiat or rolling. There are 49,
lis curves, or about one every
2 miles, that are sharper than
the standard specified.
Safe stopping distance
About 2,087 rural miles, or Z
per cent, lack sufficient sight
distance for safe stopping.
Passing sight distance is un-
desirably restricted on about
one-fourth of the two and
three lane two-way roads. or
1924 miles.
Railroad grade crossings
2,047 remain, including 1852
crossings of mainline tracks;
2.067 have been eliminated by
grade-separating bridges. OF
760 that are major hazards and
definitely should be eliminated,
574 are on urban sections.
Distributed by the Associated Prsss)
Evening star., 1949-07-31

|. Best information and
briefing possible for pilots.
2. Improve navigational aids,
including Ills instrument
landing systems) and GCA
ground control approach.
3. Improved approach light
ing at all international airports.
Only 300 of the airports, the
conference estimated. had up
to-date lighting systems. There
are 1,400 others where improve
ments are needed.
Airfields in the United States
are better equipped with navi-
CATION instruments than many
of the foreign fields, an ATA
spokesman says. Electronic
landing aids and high-intensity
runway and approach lights, as
we'll as VFH very high fire.
uuency) communications facili-
ties are important safety fac
tors.
Hazards Lessened
Causes of accidents are often
difficult to assess. In the United
States, flight hazards have been
lessened by setting up mini
mum instrument standards for
every route. Pilots are given
clearance OF 1000 feet for 10
miles on each side of the course
they fly. In mountainous ter
rain this clearance is raised to
1000 feet.
\ Better instrument perform
ance has cut down the need for
emergency landing fields, which
were mainstays of the safety
programs enforced before cleo
tronics came to the aid Of the
airlineS
Evening star., 1949-07-31

with $75. 1000, 900 a year now be-
ing spent for work on major
highways.
More than 81, 900 miles of the
system already have been out
lined by the Bureau of Public
Roads formerly the Public
Roads Administrator and by
the 48 State highway commits
sions. The remaining miles are
held in reserve for bypass routes
that may be selected in the fu-
ture for defense purposes.
To Cost 7 Billion
Almost a third of the system
will have to be new con-
struction-departing completely
from existing routes. This is
expected to cost 1926, zoe, 900
or $311,900 a mile for 9.867
miles of rural construction and
$2,055, 900 a mile for 2.024 miles
in cities of 5000 or more.
The rest Of the system al
ready Is in use, but only about
six per cent, or 1893 miles rural
roadway and 800 miles of urban
routes won't have to be changed
or improved.
An estimated 8,6S7 miles will
have to be widened. at q likely
cost of $957 100000. The aver
age cost for 8,306 rural miles is
figured at $3.50 q mile and
for 381 urban miles at $599, 800
q mile.
The rest-14.2ss miles-will
Evening star., 1949-07-31
By Vern HoueIond

Dor. a depressed highway on
route Is in Jersey City, N. j.;
the Beaucatcher tunnel at
Asheville. N. c.: the McCalliee
tunnel at Chattanooga, Tenn:
the st. George, Utah, tunnel,
and Seattle's west approach to
the Lake Washington floating
bridge.
Want Parallel Tube
The eighth existing urban
tunnel is the Bankhead tunnel
at Mobile. Ala. The Bureau of
Public Roads says that al
though the Alabama Highway
Department proposed no i'm
provement, the tunnel is def
initely inadequate" and should
be supplemented with a parallel
tube, probably costing around
$5,500,000.
OF the total cost Of tunnels,
$46, 100000 is for tunnels in
rural areas and $50, 100000 in
urban areas.
Texas would account for
about one-fourteenth of the
mileage of the entire system.
California would account for
more than one-tenth the total
cost.
Design standards call for
concrete or asphalt paving,
four-lane divided highways
where peak traffic volume ex-
ceed 800 vehicles an hour, traf-
f1c lanes IL feet wide in heavily
Evening star., 1949-07-31

future Chinese newspapermen,
even within the Communist frame
work. For example, if the U. N.
could sponsor exchanges whereby
competent newspapermen from
the West could lecture in colleges
where Chinese newspapermen will
be trained, we might expect some
results. At least the Chinese
would be made aware of our idea
of the functions and responsible
ties of the press. The exchange
would need to be reciprocal if the
highly nationalistic Chinese were
to accept it.
The status of foreign reporters
working in China must, I think.
be separated from the problem OF
the domestic Chinese press. We
can never operate successfully
within limitations which will cir
cumscribe the activities of Chinese
neWspapermen. To date the
Communists have permitted local
military commanders to deter
mine the lot of foreign reporters.
In Peiping and Tientsin, cor
respondents were ordered to cease
gathering and sending news. So
far in Nanking and Shanghai.
foreign reporters have been able
to continue working. But they
have been unable to contact any
number of senior Communist
officials. Communications have
never been fully restored.
The Communists have already
1Sse RAVENHOIT. Page C-5.)
Evening star., 1949-07-31

travelled areas and a 250-foot
right-of- way in rural areas.
An absolute maximum grade
of six per cent is prescribed.
There are now 668 grades on
the system exceeding that limit.
The steepest are U. s. route
10 at Marion, N. c., almost ii
per cent for is mile. and
U. 8. 40 at old Washington.
Ohio, 10 per cent for = third
of a mile.
Longest grade on the system
is q 20-mile section Of 4 per
cent grade on U. 8. 80 south OF
Bakersfield, Calf.
The Public Roads Bureau
Evening star., 1949-07-31

need more than widening but
does not have to be relocated to
any considerable degree. This
is expected to cost $3,022,700.-
900, or $157.200 a mile for 49,
467 rural miles and $1.109, 800 a
mile for BIG urban miles.
The total cost breaks down
to $5,973. 100000 to bring the
rural sections up to express
highway standards, SIS, ,293 ,000,-
900 for urban sections.
1893 New Bridges
OF the amount, s735.0oO.0 900
is expected to 60 into the pur-
chase of rights of way on rural
sections, at an average cost of
$4,000 a mile. and 81 .667 .000,-
900 on urban sections at $517,-
600 a mile.
Road construction is expect
ed to cost $5.869. 300, ,000-$126.-
100 a mile in rural areas and
$583, 900 mile In the urban
section.
The building of 1898 new
bridges and improving or re-
building of 1925 bridges now in
use are estimated at $685.
100000.
And $82 ,400,0 900 must be set
aside for enlarging Is of the 81
tunnels now in use and $23,-
100000 for building five new
highway tunnels.
Twin Tunnels
OF the 13 rural tunnels on
the system. seven are in Penn
sylvania, -four in Oregon, one in
Idaho and one in California.
Six of the "1east adequate" of
the 13 are to be avoided by re-
locating roads. Seven are to
be supplemented by parallel
SS4Sos 4jdS1l O4 UllC 1CoulGlllk
twin bores will carry one-way
traffic.
OF the five new tunnels pro-
posed, one is in a rural area
on California U. s. 40 at the
approach to the Carquinex
Strait Bridge.
The others are a 900-foot
tunnel in Louisville, KY, q TOO
foot expressway tunnel in Bos-
ton. a 2,400-foot freeway tunnel
In Kansas City. Mo-. and a new
Palisades tunnel in New Jersey.
Urban tunnels proposed by
State highway departments for
enlargement are California's
Yerba Buena' tunnel, between
the spans Of the San Francisco
Oakland Bay Bridge; the Sum-
ner tunnel under Boston Har-
Evening star., 1949-07-31

The Nations roadbuilders
have drafted a 40, 0,000-mile mas
ter highway system.
The network of broad, high
speed, trunk highways would
link every important CONNER
cial and transportation center,
AZ State capitals and 1873 of the
largest cities. 1t would provide
routes free of cross traffic for
swift passage through metro
politan areas.
The time table calls for COM
pletion within 20 years. The
estimated cost: $11 ,266, 600, 900.
Congress has been asked for
$500 100000 a year compared
Evening star., 1949-07-31

education (Which mas come 10
mean Federal aid to the public
schools throughout the Natlon)
has, however, become tremendous
" more complex because OF the
religious angle. The Senate has
already passed Federal aid bill.
The House Committee on Educa-
ton and Labor has begged down,
with this Senate bill and a bill
proposed by Representative Bar
den, Democrat, Of North Carolina
before it. The Senate bill permits
the use OF Federal funds for trans
portation to schools, for health
aids to school children and the
purchase of textbooks for children
attending non-public schools, in
States where use of public funds
for those purposes are permitted
The Barden bill denies any Fed
eral funds provided in his bill for
the use of non-public school chill
dren.
Discrimination Charged
The Catholics, who maintain
at their own expense-thousands
of parochial schools throughout
the country, contend earnestly
that the withholding OF Federal
aid to school children attending
non-public schools is unjust and
discriminatory. Their opponents
maintain the public schools are
open to all children-Catholics
Protestants and Jews alike-and
that If the Catholics chose to send
their children to parochial schools
Evening star., 1949-07-31

have not been completed, but
they indicate substantial safety
gains, according to IATA.
From the beginning of this
year to July %, nonscheduled
airlines had six fatal crashes
with ia casualties. In l94S
there were five fatal crashes in
volving scheduled lines, with a
toll of 98 lives. -Four crashes
of nonscheduled line planes cost
80 lives in 1948. The last fatal
accident involving a timetable
line (prior to yesterdays mid
air crash was at Winona,
Mimi. on August 20. 1948,
with a loss of 81 lives.
Accurate comparisons Of
safety records between regular
and irregular lines are difficult.
CAB experts say. because Of
the wide difference in their op-
erations. Comparing passenger
deaths per 100000, 900 passen-
ger miles in 1948 shows 1.3 IA
talities for regular carriers and
25.4 for irregulars, CAB says.
There are 20 scheduled lines,
lis large irregulars, and about
2,000 small, on-scheduled lines
authorized to. carry passengers.
Traffic Increases
Revised safety regulations
for irregular carriers were put
into effect by the CAB on June
/. The major differences in
rules governing the operations
of non scheduled lines, as COM
pared with regular operations,
are threefold, a CAB spokes-
man points out. The non
scheds are not required to
maintain a dispatching organi-
Zation. they do not have to
Evening star., 1949-07-31

Behind the world wide pat
tern of fatal airplane crashes
since the war lies the arresting
circumstance that scheduled
airlines in the United States
UP until yesterday had flown
5000, 100000 passenger miles
in II months without a single
fatality.
That statistic was reported
by the Air Transport Associa-
ton prior to yesterdays trag-
edy involving an Eastern Air
lines DC-3.
On international flights OF
lines flying the American flag
there have been no fatalities
since April Is. 1948.
This is the best safety record
ever scored by the scheduled
airlines.
The International Air Trans
port Association, with head
quarters in Montreal. has re-
Gently begun to compile records
of its member carriers. They
represent the bulk of the inter-
national airlines of all coun-
tries, including those Of the
United States.
OF 60 lines reporting in 1946.
the IATA advises. AZ had no
fatal accidents. The total for
the year was 80 accidents in
which there were 298 fatalities.
For each passenger killed. the
globe -circling planes flew 49,
$4,000 passenger miles. In
1947 so companies reported.
with IS recording no accidents.
There were 80 crashes. with 488
fatalities-one for each 21.184,-
108 passenger miles flown.
Records for the last two years
Evening star., 1949-07-31

make proving. runs to qualify
their planes and pilots and they
are not required to have their
own communications systems.
The scattered operations Of ir-
regular carriers. the CAB says,
makes it impossible to enforce
such requirements.
A revenue passenger mile
represents a mile flown by a
paying passenger. Thus a plane
which flies 100 miles with 20
passengers chalks up 1000 pas
senger miles. Postwar years
have seen a heavy increase in
passenger miles.
Figures for 60 international
Association member companies
show 475, 100000 aircraft miles
flown in 1916, for a total of
$500, 100000 passenger miles.
In 1947, with only so companies
reporting. commercial planes
flew 554,0 100000 aircraft miles,
for a total Of $500, ,000, 900 pas
senger miles.
The map above shows where
major crashes since 1916, in
which 10 or more persons lost
their lives, occurred. Most ac-
cidents were near airports.
transport line spokesmen say.
At an international confer
ence on air safety held at Bur-
genstock. Switzerland. in May.
representatives met with the
international Civilian Aviation
Organization to discuss world
wide aviation standards. The
ICAO represents about so gov
ernments, and is interested
chiefly in aviation legislation.
Safety steps urged by the Or
oopjzoti0nS uaro.
Evening star., 1949-07-31
Press Troubles
Beset tGermany
Struggle for Control
Involves Hundred
Western Papers
By Peter de Mendelssohn

LONDON.-A bitter struggle
over control of the new West Ger
man press threatens to undo the
entire work of the Allies since
the war in establishing free and
independent democratic news
papers in their zones.
1t is three-cornered fight. Ger
man newspapers published under
Allied licenses are trying to OBJ
tain control of the printing plants
they are now using before going
over to daily publication on Sep
tember 1.
At the same time they are
struggling to reduce the influence
of the two Allied-controlled news
papers, Neue Zeitung (Ameri-
cam and Die Welt (British)
which stole large march on them
by starting daily publication on
July /.
The struggle with the print -
Is the more serious of the two a1ia
is viewed with grave concern by
the Allied authorities. More than
100 newspapers in the three West
ern zones are involved. The plants
on which they are printing were
reouisitioned by Allies in 1945. but
the old owners. many OF whom
were active Nazi supporters, were
not appropriated but constrained
to conclude short-term footprint
ing agreements with the licensees
of the new papers.
Banks Backing
The printers, most of whom
formerly published small local
newspapers of a parochial out
look, which were uniformly pro-
duced on the matrix system by
central agencies and combines
are trying to drive the licensed
press out of business in order to
re-establish their own centrally
controlled chains.
They are well organized and
supported by influential banking
and business circles. BY steadily
increasing their job-printing rates
over the last few months and by
refusing printing credits they have
succeeded in driving many licensed
papers into positions where they
are no longer able to operate
economically.
AS an alternative to this black
mailing exploitation of their posi-
ton they are now indicating that
they would be prepared to reduce
charges and grant credits in re-
turn for a share in the profits and
decisive influence in the editorial
direction and management of the
newspapers.
If these demands were granted
the present independent German
press would very quickly disappear
and be replaced by chains OF uni
form, matrix-produced papers o1
the type common in Nazi and pre-.
Nazi days, which would soon have
a complete stranglehold on public
opinion.
Legislation Sought
The conflict has now come to
head because publishers Of Allied
licensed papers find that the atti
tude of the printing plant owner
makes it economically impossible
for them to start daily publication
on September l. They are now try
ing to get legislation passed by th'
Land parliaments enabling then
to take these plants under thei
own management. or to fix maxi
mum rates for job-printing II
order to safeguard their future
independence.
They have not, so far. had mucf
success. A bill to this effect intro
duced in the North Rhine-West
pnaIia Parliament was shelves
after . brief debate in which
many Deputies. mostly OF thu
Conservative CDU. vigorousl!
opposed 1t as being aimed agains
"private enterprise"
copyright, London Observer Yoreisn
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