The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-29

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compatible system advocated b.
the former finally winning out.
Charles z. Buiterfie'd
AVIATION
You can expect the first flight
Of the first U. S. built ie. trans
port Id 1854.
Boeing Airplane Co. expects By
midyear TO ny its first model. OF.
fieially it's designed as a jet tank,
er for the refueiing Of B52s, Bats
and fast jet fighters.
Most American buyers have
turned thumbs down on the Brit,
ish JET Comet. flying on foreign
routes for the past year and 4
half. as too small and too costly.
Lockheed and Douglas are working
on JET. transport projects too. anc
may have something TO show ID
1854.
The Air Force plans TO inaugu.
rate It's 1000 mile long guided
missile range from Florida's Cape
canayeraI TO Puerto Rico IN the
coming year. And the first Martin
Matador guided missile unit is Ia
be sent 10 Europe.
-Vern Haugland
ARTS
A lot more of the same that
looks like the 1854 prospect in
books. music, ballet and art.
The Metropolitan Opera was still
short Of money, the front corners
of concert halls were often empty,
the publishers complained of a
waning interest in books, ballet
business seemed spotty. But the
Met will still 90 on, music win be
heard. books published. and dane.
er viii dance. barring unfore-
seen calamities.
w. G. Rogers
POLITICS
Prices and "pinks"--eost OF liv.
ing and communists-are going to
be big political talking. points next
year when the Democrats and the
COP battle ii out for control oil
Congress.
II the past Is key to the future,
the Democrats have good chance
Of riding back into power in Senate
and House. The party division is
almost even now, and ii is more OF
less true that the party which wins
a presidential election loses some
Congressional seats two year lat
er.
Top Republican are counting
heavily on President Eisenhower s
personal popularity and the Com.
in government issue
10 overcome this in 1854.
Democrats are getting set to
bear down on the pocketbook pinch
and what they claim are broken
campaign promises.
Living costs have hit record
highs several times in recent
months, yet prices of farm pro.
ducts haven't kept pace. Regard.
less of what new farm program
the Eisenhower administration
turns up with, Congress appears
ben. en- voting to keep high, rigid
price supports for farmers.
The administration, furthermore,
now comedies ii can't balance the
budget in the fiscal year beginning
July /, 1854. II faces the embar,
RAISING prospect of having to ASK
Congress to boost the 275 billion.
dollar limit on the national debt.
Douglas B. Cornell
SURE THlNCS7
Among things most likely TO hap.
pen In 1854: a million school chill
dren viii be injected with gamma
globulin or polio vaccine; aircraft
viii be faster and look more
streamlined; bathing suits viii bt
skimpier but there win be few
complaints: machinery win turr
out more machinery.
WOMEN
Who can predict what the ladies
will be up to?
II seems reasonably certain how
ever that more of them will work
at two jobs homemaking and
bringing home the bacon for the
family larder. More than half Of
the 10 million working women in
the country are married. although
less than / per cent of them make
more than $1,000 a year.
Business. industry and politics
will attract more and more wo.
men who find that wonder gadgets
in the home give them greater lei.
sure and that spare time may be
rewarded in the working world.
Vivian Brown
RELIGION
"Ecumenical" ix fine rsiis;o,s