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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
Generosity OF Key Westers
Comes To Aid OF Needy Folk
STRACHAN FAMILY
RECEIVES HELP
In ALL FIELDS

william Strachan, burned out
one week ago, is getting the great
est help Of all from the Modern
Homecraft company which will
lend him two or three laborers to
complete williams skeletal house
at 619 Thomas street.
Strachan said that Benjamin j.
Silver, owner Of the company told
him Wednesday that he would as
sign some of his men to help Will
liam. Silver saw the articles in
The Citizen on the wiped out fam
lily and expressed his desire to
help.
williams main need now is for
materials such as Celotex and sheet
rock with which to finish the
house. Wednesday an anonymous
donor gave him $24 with which to
buy the materials, but costs will be
a great deal larger than that, he
said. Strachan is also using some
Of the $133 contributed before We'd
lnesday to buy materials for the
house.
Meanwhile more clothing, shoes,
furniture, and clothes closet
have come to the family.
Ole chest Of drawers, one small
dining table and other items keep
coming in from generous Key
vFestc-s, touched by the plight Of
the family of three children and
two adults.
A tourist down from Pittsburgh
reading The Citizen stories on the
strachan family's Thanksgiving
day fire, said he would help on the
finishing Oh the shell Of a house. He
told William he had brought hi
Rorkman's tools down from home
He also offered truck to VIII
lam.
The family, week ago, com.
pletely destitute, save for William
small wage at the Navy yart
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
Telephone Co.
Holds Ope', House

Today Between four and six
o'clock the Bell Telephone Com
pany will hold open house for .
group Of invited guests, inclUd-
ing ihs local civic leaders and
visiting disnifaries.
The group will be show ME
new quarters, dial equipment,
etc., which will go into use TO.
night at midnight when fhe cut
over from the manual system is
made.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
The
-
WEATHERMAN
Says
he
Says

Key West and Vicinity: Cloudy
today with slightly lower tempera-
ture. Clearing tonight, fair Sunday.
Cooler tonight with slowly rising
temperature Sunday. Moderate to
fresh northerly winds becoming
northeast and gradually diminish
ing.
Florida: Fair tonight and Sunday.
Cooler today. Warmer Sunday.
Jacksonville thru the Florida
Straits and East Gulf Of Mexico:
Moderate to occasionally fresh
northerly winds today becoming
moderate northeast to east Sunday.
Clear to partly cloudy weather.
Western Caribbean: Fresh north.
east winds over north portion and
moderate east to northeast winds
over south portion today. Sunday
moderate east to northeast winds
except occasionally fresh over ex.
IRENE north portion. Partly cloudy
weather with widely scattered
showers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
YOUTH PULLS
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man and the policeman to the Gil
JAN where search revealed thS
the sailor had in his possession I
knife and a flashlight.'
Another witness to the ATTEMPTED
theft, Ulysses Ragland of TO Wind
sor Lane, reported that he hal
spotted the youth as he smashe,
two windows in the parked car
Ragland identified Ball as the MAJ
whom he had observed when hl
viewed him in the city jail.
BAN is being held in the count.
jail pending the signing of an al
fidavit against him. Justice of tin
Peace Ira Albury is expected to
schedule a preliminary hearing for
the youth in the near future.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
MAN IS ARRESTED
CONTINUED from Page One)

(ConGlnueo from rage OheJ
by City Police and turned over
to the Sheriff's Department after
the parents of the child signed an
affidavit against him. He is being
held in lieu of $1,000 bond.
Justice Of the Peace Roy Hamlin
said today that he win schedule a
preliminary hearing in the near
future.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
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Branner Farm Program. ! stated
my opposition to these planks,
said Smathers.
''My goal is to put the party on
the path of Jeffersonian principles
once more. We're a nation OF IN
dividuals not a nation that must
follow a party line. Like Governor
Stevenson himself, / will not put
party above my own political prin-
ciples. In this country we don't de-
mand 100 per cent regulation. The
only party that requires that is the
Communist. Either you conform or
out you CO."
Before listing the achievements
for the county and city that have
taken place in his administration,
the Senator expressed his apprecia-
ton of Rear Admiral Irving T.
Dukes efforts as commanding Of
ficer of the Naval Base to bring
Navy and civilian Key West closer.
Among the problems worked out
during his tenure in the House
and Senate, Senator Smathers men,
toned the financing for the 1000
units of private housing for Navy
personnel at Sigsbee Park and
Peary Court; the work on the new
81, 600 sewer system; the appro-
priation of $495, 900 for the water
pipeline from Florida City to Key
West; the transfer of Federal
funds among various agencies so
that the $1,000,O00 debt Of the
Florida Keys Aqueduct Commits
sion to the RFC was absorbed
when the Navy acquired the pipe
line.
The Senator reached back to the
days when an economy drive
threatened 600 jobs at the Naval
Base. It was through his efforts
that the cut was cancelled.
When the Veterans Administra-
ton threatened to close its Office
in Key West thus forcing veterans
to travel to Miami for all infor-
nation and aid, Smathers fought
for its retention. He was success.
full.
His office eased along the trans
actions by which Boca Chica was
sold by Monroe County to the Navy
for $4,000 thus providing that
sum with which the county today
has bought Meacham from its pri-
vate owners the Key West Improve.
ment Company.
Even further back when Mayor
Demerrit was in office, Smathers
said, he and the Mayor worked
out satisfactory compromise on
granting half of Poinciana's hous-
ing units for the Navy, and the
other half for civilian Key West.
81 said then and I say now,
that the Navy is the biggest in
duStry in Key West"
The fact that the Navy Is here
to stay is shown by the fact that
the mortgage on the Wherry hous-
ing is for AZ years, Senator Sma-
! theirs said.
Assistant Navy Secretary Fran
els Whitehair said when the fin
ancing Of this project came up
that the Navy Base win be In Key
West for AZ years."
Another gain for Key West was
the transfer of the Advance Under
water Weapons unit from New
London, Conn. to Key West, Sma-
theirs said.
Introducing Senator Smathers
was AL Mills. Seated at the head
table with him were Mayor and
Mrs. c. B. Harvey, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lou Carbonell, Admiral and Mrs.
Duke, and State Representative
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06

for Southern Bell. Mr.. Hopper is in
charge OF construction, installation
and maintenance activities for
Florida and as such, has closely
supervised the major job of
changing Key Vests manual tele-
phone system to modern dial.
A former resident of Key West,
Mr.. Hopper served as a cable splic-
er for the local office in 1918. While
in Key West, he met and married a
local girl, Miss Ruby Weatherford.
Mrs. Hopper's sister, Mrs. Claire
Elbertson, now lives at 1920 South
ard Street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06

to expand and improve its sani-
larry sewer system. We are ad-
vised that the examing divisions
have completed their studies ana
today recommended APPROVAL 10
their respective agencies. / set' no
reason why final approval NOT oe
given and we should get definite
answer probably q committmenl'
next week."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06

where he is a janitor, is today get
ting on its feet once more thanks
to the kindness Of Key Westers and
visitors.
william and his family are liv-
ing with his mother Mrs. Myrtle
Curtis at 1924 Center street until
their new home can be finished.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
Former Key West
Man Played Big
Role In Change

One of the men who has had a
large part in bringing dial tele-
phones to Key West is r. J. Hop
per, Florida Plant Superintendent
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
TELEPHONE co.

Continued from Page 0ne)
period. Phones installed jumped
from not quite 1000 to 4,277,
POI per cent increase in installa-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06

Conformation" is always glad to
serve you, but as rule you can
save time by finding the number in
your directory.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-12-06
Photo hy Lewis Mccain

Committee in Charge
julio cahanaS r.. president
Benjamin Fernandez, auditor
hodosso Bora. secretary"
aS LII Aena shakes hands with
Evening star., 1952-09-21

trudes like the little finger of glove. He re-
moved the top of the channel and began max
ing fine stitches around the open end. The
result was neat loop of black thread that
ran around the edge of the channel like strings
of laundry bag and prevented the escape of
blood from the heart.
The surgeon slipped his index finger into
the opening, and felt the valve inside the
heart. Then he took slender curved knife
and slid it between the heart wall and his
finger. Working blind, he manipulated the
blade into the proper position, moved it back
and forth - and cut wider opening. As DR..
Harken withdrew his finger, the laundry-bag
loop was closed permanently. The patient
finally had an adequate blood supply.
Would he get better? The odds were tre-
mendously in his favor. Another patient, a
52-year-old housewife, supplied more def
mite and dramatic answer She had under
gone the same operation two weeks before.
Evening star., 1952-09-21

The only sound in Operating Room was
the rhythmical hiss of new mechanical pump
which provided the patient with carefully
controlled supply of oxygen. The operation,
valve job" had reached crucial stage.
Dr. Harken's patient was former con-
struction worker suffering from the after
effects of childhood attack of rheumatic
fever Normally, fresh blood from the lungs
enters the upper left chamber of the heart
through valve. The valve consists of two
flaps which drop down like trap door, leav-
ing an opening about as big around as
quarter But in this case rheumatic fever had
damaged the valve. Scar tissue formed until
the opening was so narrow that only trickle
of blood could come through. Less and less
oxygen carrying blood was reaching the body.
To get at the clogged valve DR.. Harken
took advantage of the fact that each chamber
of the heart has an appendix" dead-end
channel about two inches long which pro-
Evening star., 1952-09-21
FANTASTIC OPERATIONS some ACTUALLY inside THE HEART ARE SAVING Ines EVERY DAY.

The doctor took her arm: Lets see if you
can walk upstairs now" They walked up two
flights of stairs When they re-appened
coming down. the woman, breathing easily.
burst into tears Of joy. 1t was the first time
in years that she had been able to climb stairs.
Used 10 De Dan9exsas
JUsT three years ago this operation was one
of the rarest and most hazardous known.
Now it is being used by surgeons in a number
of major cities, including Seattle. San Fran
cisco, New York and St. Louis
This is only one Of whole group of opera
tons, the oldest" dating back few years
before the war About generation ago, very
few operations of any kind were being per-
formed in the chest, because doctors hadn't
yet found reliable methods of opening it
without causing the lungs to collapse. But
special procedures were gradually developed
Continued on page 28
Evening star., 1952-09-21

C A SURGICAL no mans land" - that's
IA what leading specialist called the
heart less than 10 years ago. The heart IS
the only organ in the body that must be
operated on while it moves The feat is some
thing like trying to fix delicate wrist watch
on sailboat in a choppy sea. The general
verdict: leave the heart alone.
But heart surgery is booming today. Tech
niques once considered impossible offer hope
to an increasing proportion of the nations
100000 heart patients. About 100000
Americans were born with defective hearts,
and many of them have benefited from new
and amazingly ingenious operations. Other
procedures are adding years to the lives of
thousands of rheumatic fever sufferers.
NNValve job"
SURGEONS throughout the us. are not only
working on but inside the vital organ. Some
weeks ago watched one of them in action:
red-headed, energetic DIR. Dwight E. Harken
of the staff of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
in Boston.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24
Strike tension Mounts MEI segundo Plane PLANT

|barricade Of strikers cars before
ia plant gate and arrest Of q nom
striker for trying to drive a truck
too fast through the gate.
Negotiations have broken down
completely. The union locals
have sought Federal Intervention.
Twenty five thousand workers
struck Lockheed September 8 for
IA cents more an hour. The COM
pany offered 8 to IL. Thirteen
thousand quit at FL Segundo Sep
TENDER Is for 8 cents more. Doug
las offered 5. which was accepted
|by union workers at the parent
Douglas plant at Santa Monica.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24
Auto Injuries Vienna Man,
Police Hold Woman Driver

A 77-year-old Vienna. Va. mar
was in serious condition in Airing
ton Hospital today after being
struck by an automobile. He il
Samuel Lloyd Of Tyson's Corner.
Fairfax County police have
charged Miss Carrie Lowe, 80, Of
Vienna, with reckless driving and
|hit-and-run. She was jailed while
police continued to investigate the
ease.
Police said Mr.. Lloyd was struck
|about 8 o'clock last night on Wood
land lane. just east Of Vienna. He
had been a passenger in the wom-
ANS car. they said. and was hi
after he stepped from the auto.
mobile.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24
BY The Associated Pres,

LOS ANGELES. Sept. 24.--Re-
inforced attachments of sheriff s
deputies were on hand at the
strikebound Douglas FL Segundo
aircraft plant today to prevent a
recurrence Of incidents which In
creased tension there yesterday.
Walkouts Of a total Of 10000
workers at Ell Segundo. and the
huge Lockheed plant at Burbank
have crippled warplane produc-
ton. The AL international
Association Of Machinists seeks
|pay raises at both factories.
Incidents yesterday included q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24
Prince Georges Police
To Sponsor Tournumen,

A jousting tournament, supper
and dance. sponsored by the
Prince Georges County Police
Association. will be held at ODon-
nell's Farm on Marlboro Pike
Forestville, at 2 pm. Saturday.
Proceeds will go to the asso-
cations disqualification fund.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24
First insurance Firm

BOSTON (SF). - First stock
marine and fire insurance compa-
ny in the United States was estab-
lliShed as early as 1892.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24

CHICAGO (SF) Total operat-
ing revenues Of class ! railways
were $9.5 billion In 1850. Operat-
ing expenses were ST. billion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1952-09-24

GOLDEN WEDDING-Mr. and
Mrs. william N. Keyser Of 1929
Ninth street NV. celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary
yesterday. The couple has .
SON and . daughter and six
grandchildren.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
AVG Men Guests At World Premiere Of Thunderbirds'

Outstanding men Of National Guard units attending annual training in camp at Fort Richard son were guests of honor at the world premiere of Republic mo- tion picture ''Thunderbirds, shown for the first time to the public anywhere at the Fourth Avenue Theater in Anchorage Thursday night.
 In a stage program preceding the film Mayor Maynard Taylor of Anchorage extended official welcome to GuardSmen from throughout the territory now wis iting in the city and proclaimed the day as Alaska National Guard Day.
 Guests from the First Scout Battalion were Sgt. Simon Push ruk, Sgt. Joseph Noungmook, Cpl. Jacob Stalker and Sgt. Aruwed Brewer.
 Most of last week was spent in organization of the camp, firing on the range, and class work. in cluding weapons demonstrations.
 This week the Guardsmen will spend most of their time in the field in tactical problems.
 While the weather has been cold, there has been no snow or severe temperatures similar to that expeperienced by Guards men last year.
 "This will probably be our last large encampment," Col. Larry Johnson, adjutant general of the AVG said last week. Next year our increased growth will allow us to hold separate battalion camps in various parts of the ter ritory"
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17
Testimony Reveals Costello Ex-" Boss In Tan1many Hall

NEW YORK, (P)-Reputed Un- derworld Boss Frank Costello emerged Saturday, in state crime commission testimony, as a man also once known as ''the boss" around the Manhattan Democratic organizations Tammany Hall.
 The statement was made Friday by former Tammany district leader as commission witnesses and previously undisclosed rec ords spun web of political-un- derworld intrigue stretching from smoke-filled rooms to courthouse chambers.
 l.. Daniel Neustein, the former Tammany leader, said he held the post from 1941 until 1945 when he was told: "The boss didn't want me any more" He said "the boss" reference presumably was to Cos tello
 Neustein also asserted it was almost common knowledge in those days that nominations for the (state) supreme court had to be paid for"
 Testimony of Thomas (Three- Finger Brown) Luchese, an ex- convict who blossomed into a wealthy New York garment man ufacturer, also was read in a closed session of the commission. Luchese listed among his ac- quaintances New York City May or Vincent R. Impellitteri, Lane, Costello, the deported vice lord, Charles Iucky) Luciano, and a score Of others, including politi- clans and underworld figures. Luchese said Changalian had introduced him to Judges Mur- phy and Meaney." Later testimo- ny identified the two as Federal Judges Thomas F. Murphy of New York and Thomas F. Meaney of Newark.
The Nome nugget., 1952-11-17

Almost POO tons of coal are re- quired to make the aluminium that goes into a B-36 bomber.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-01-05
Dohbie Jean Davis
is SCI Delegate
10 Student
Volunteers

Miss Bobbie Jean Davis, Star
Route, Box II, Anding, Miss, was
enc Of the delegates from South
ern Christian Institute, Edwards,
Miss, to attend the 10th Quadren-
NAL Conference of the Student
Volunteer Movement which was
held in Lawrence, Kans., Deem
Der 27 to January /.
She was one of nearly twenty
five hundred young men and wo-
men to meet on the University of
Kansas campus for what has been
described as this years largest and
most widely representative student
conferences under the interdenom-
| national auspices.
In addition to u. S. and Canad-
ian students from 700 colleges and
universities, representing some 40
Protestant denominations, h e
meeting included over 200 students
from foreign lands, and 200 mis-
sionaries, student leaders and
church executives who provided
the conference leadership.
Eminent speakers who addressed
the student group included: DR..
John S. Badeau, president of Amer
lean University, Cairo, Egypt; DR..
John Mackay, president of Prince
ton Theological Seminary; Mr..
Eduardo Mondlane of Portuguese
E. Africa, and Miss Clea Machado
of Brazil; DR.. Reinhold Niebuhr,
professor at Union Theological
Seminary, New York City; and
DR.. Charles W. Ransom of New
York City, general secretary OF
the international Missionary Coun-
Gil.
Since the Student Volunteer
Movement was first organized in
1886 some 10000 students have
gone out as missionaries, and a
total of $4,000 have dedicated
themselves to support of mission
airy tasks.
Behind the Student Volunteer
Movement are IA student move
ments affiliated with the United
Student Christian Movement of
Canada and the National Council
of Churches through its divisions
of Home Missions and Foreign Mis-
sions.
The members of the New Con-
cord Baptist church in apprecia-
ton Of their pastor, gave a sur
prise appreciation service for him.
The students from that church.
who are attending high school and
college elsewhere, played very
Important part in the program.
There were some distinguished
guests present for. the program,
who added to its significance.
Following the service dinner was
served in the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bob Davis.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-01-05

Injunctions prohibiting Is firms
in the Southeast from further vio-
lations of price sterilization regu-
lations were granted by Federal
courts during November, accord
ing to George D. Patterson Jr.,
regional director for the Office of
Price Sterilization in Atlanta.
Other firms paid a total of ST.
66288 to settle with OPS for over
ceiling charges for services and
commodities, as a result of compli-
ance conferences, the regional di-
rector said
Enforcement divisions in South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Tennessee and Mississippi
conducted 429 Investigations dur
ing the month, Patterson said. A
total of 1853 new enforcement
eases were opened. The majority
of cases opened involved retail sell
ers of services, livestock slaughter
ers, restaurants, retailers of con-
sumner goods and automobile deal
erS.
Michael V. Disable, Director of
Price Sterilization, SAID: "Effec-
tive controls in our democracy
must give protection to all the peo-
pie and yet retain the flex,bility re-
quired to do justice to the need
for price and wage adjustments,
and at the same time meet the re-
quirements for defense production.
"But flexibility does not mean
looseness. 1t does not mean a pro-
gram without standards. 1t does
not mean program which bases
its decisions on the economic or
political strength of the individual
groups concerned. 1t does not mean
program which works on the
principle of minimizing the
squeals."
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1952-01-05
H A R NJ
BY LOU SWARZ

New Years again, and shall we
just BEGIN Again without making
SO many resolutions Begin to
know that CHARM embodies that
spiritual and perpetual life, health,
youth, beauty from within, streng-
tn, Wisdom and Understanding
Faith and Confidence, love, joy,
happiness, kindness, thoughtful
ness of others, prosperity, Giving
and Serving.
Realize that God is within and
you surely enjoy your hfe-know-
ing that life is ageless-you are
neither young nor old; life is beau
tiful; life is wholesome; life is
filled with happy, pleasant and
meaningful experiences which
bring you joy, satisfaction, money
and constant contact with others
All result in Charm.
Begin with regular periods dur
ing the day for PRAYER, MEDI-