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The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-10-16

of Detroit, Michigan, spent their
vacation here with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jene CASTOR and
other friends.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1954-10-16

Correct all fire hazards that you
find. Remember Inspection plus
Correction equals Protection"
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
This Rock
Of Ours
By Bill Gibb

Do you want a high school dip
Iona or its equivalent?
Many adults have - for some
reason or other - missed the op-
portunity to get a high school edu-
cation and have always regretted
it. These people might find it chal-
lenging to secure q belated diplo-
ma or certificate.
Ever ready to serve the exist
ing need, Superintendent of Public
Instruction Horace O'Bryant, is of
the opinion that the opportunity to
have a high school education or
its equivalent belongs to all our
citizens. He and other leading edu-
Gators in Key West are ready to
survey the need and, If enough in
terest Is shown, to launch pro-
gram whereby folks can secure the
studies they desire.
Here's q tentative program by
no means final or complete.
Everything depends upon the re-
suits of survey which viii only
be conducted If enough people tele-
phone 2-2466, and express interest
in the project.
1. ALI candidates wishing high
school equivaiency may enroll for
study.
2. A brief survey Of ability and
partial achievement will be given.
8. This may be followed by a
more comprehensive survey Of
school achievement.
Following the above evaluation,
there would be two alternatives.
(a) A high school equivalency
examination could be admins
tered.
(b) Suggestions as to strength
and weaknesses in subject mat
ter could be made. Texts for
study would be recommended.
Tive Plans Under Consideration.
There are two plans under con-
sideration concerning the way stu.
dents would use the texts recon-
mended for study.
1. The student could study by
himself but have an instructor a.
vailable for consultation and di-
rection whenever he did not under
stand the subject matter being re-
viewed.
2. Regular evening classes in
high schoolssubjects might be made
available.
+ Whenever the student or counSe-
lor believes the student is ready,
! the student would be permitted TO
take an equivalency test and Sc
cure that much-needed and want
ed high school certificate.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Garner Is S6

UVALDE, Tex, R-Former Vice
President John Ncnce Cactus
jack Garner, in quiet retirement
here, observed his seth birthday
today.
He planned to celebrate it as he
always does: Hunting with long
time friend Ross Brumfield in the
southwest Texas hills around here.
Deer better watch out, he said
the other day. 'I've got a keen
eye
White-haired and shrunken with
age, Garner lives a placid life in
his pecan tree shaded home here,
looking after his chickens and read.
ing. He hardly ever talks politics.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Hal Boyle
Says

been reconstructed, and one has
to look to discover signs of the
war. But there are still many
empty cleared spaces where dwell
ings once stood.
The wartime camaraderie has
endured. 1t is hard, when you
have lost members of your fam
lily and your home in q war, to
feel grateful to your victorious
defenders. I" But the people Of Bas-
togne do still like and Welcome
Americans wholeheartedig
"We were together" issthe way
a townsman expressed it to
group Of visiting US. nlewsmen.
The entrances to Bast0gne are
still guarded by American tanks
that saw combat here. Some 400
yards from the point where the
Germans thrust closest to the town
stands great star-shaped memor-
ial raised by the Belgians in trib-
ute to the 76,S9O American killed,
wounded or missing in the entire
Battle of the Ardennes.
The memorial lists the names
of all the units of the men who
fought in this vast wintrys action.
Beneath it is a chapel where me-
mortal services are held for the
different faiths of these men =
Protestant, Catholic, Jewish.
In series of high tablets the
entire story of the Battle of the
Bulge is told in letters of gold.
After 10 wears, these few sentences
capsule the triumph and the trag-
edy:
'The folk of the Ardennes open
ed their hearts and hearths to the
defenders. They shared with them
their food, their blankets and their
fuel. They tore up their bedsheets
for use in concealing men and
weapons. They nursed the wound
ed and helped to comfort the sick.
aSeldom has more American
blood been split in the course of
a single battle The number
of Belgians who died or suffered
wounds or suffered great priva-
ton in the common defence can
not be known.
"Of these dead and of all who
fought here, the now living may
attest the greatness of the deed
only by increased devotion to the
freedom for which they braved
! the fire"
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

An Introductory meeting viii be
scheduled and registration opened
just as soon as enough people in
dicate interest by phoning the num-
Der mentioned above, 2-2466, extern
sion Z.
ceIored And White
Monroe County, through the eff
forts of Superintendent O'Bryant
already has established an adult
evening program of education. This
IS available to both Colored and
White people at the Key West
High School and Douglass High
School.
Mr.. McNeilly, working with DR..
Harold Campbell at the Key West
High School is in charge of the pro-
gram. Numerous classes are avail
able for self-improvement. II might
be worth your while to investigate
them. Of course, the present class
es are not aimed at securing the
equivalent of high school educa-
ton but tend to permit a person
to develop himself in specific fields
of personal interest.
O'Bryant has particularly men,
toned the fact that many Colored
ladies have indicated interest in
practical nursing. TtIs is the type
OF course which can easily be insti-
tuted at Douglass High School if
and when interest is shown.
Please do not confuse today's col
umn with a survey being conduct
ed to determine the number of peo-
pie interested in college level ex-
tension courses to be offered by
the University of Miami.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
CHILDREN LOSE TEETH
FRAN DENTAL DECAY

In Florida, nine out of ten per-
sons viii have some form of dem
tai disease during their lifetime.
This also is true in almost every
other state.
Dental disease is common to al
most everyone, young and old.
About IS per cent of our school
children have some kind of dental
condition needing correction.
Only five out of every hundred
children have escaped dental de-
cay. A large number Of them have
OF alignment. Many children be-
tween the ages of 6 and Is have
lost one or more Of their perman-
ent teeth. This could have been
prevented.
Two important wasy Of prevent
ing tooth troubles: Avoid sweets
and sweet "soft" drinks; brush or
rinse the teeth after every meal.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

BASTOGNE, Belgium Up = If
there is any place abroad where
an American can be sure of a
warmly sentimental welcome, it
is here in this small Belgian town
made world famous by a word
- ''nuts!"
Nuts is the reply an Amer
lean general is supposed to have
made to surrender demands Of
Germans besieging Bastogne dur
ing the Battle of the Bulge.
Whether that is the word the
general really used = or, as some
claim, it was, the army censor's
translation of an even more forth
right barnyard term - it summed
up the determination of the men
who fought here. 1t helped i'm
mortalize Bastogne.
g Today this is still known as "The
Nuts City," There is a "Nuts Mu-
scum" that preserves wartime me-
mentoes. Visitors find a dish of
nuts on their table at mealtimes.
Other engagements in the Battle
of the Bulge were perhaps as i'm
portant as the heroic stand made
here, but Bastogne remains as the
great symbol of Allied victory in
Adolf Hitler's last massive offen-
sive against the West in 1914.
Here the 10th Armored and 1O1st
Airborne Divisions held the key
Bastogne area for vital days at the
start of the offensive, stand
that caught the admiration of the
world. Less well known, but even
more bloody, was the fight that
followed soon after when Hitler,
the real purpose of his drive de-
feated, massed his troops and
again assaulted Bastogne, prize
he hoped would restore morale on
the German home front.
Shelled by ground fire. lombard
ed nightly by Nazi planes, the civ
ilians of Bastogne suffered side
by side with their American de-
tenders.
Casualties were heavy. Of some
10, 500 homes in the Bastogne area,
nearly 5000 were destroyed or
heavily damaged, and this takes
no account of the public build
ings reduced to rubble.
Bastogne has made great
comeback. TODAY between so and
IS per cent of the buildings have
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Likely Prospect For Far East Command Is An
Expert At War, Diplomacy And Languages
BY MURRAY FRoMsoN

0EOOL, mf-mdAWcu OdVcupOTI
Taylor is an expert at fighting,
diplomacy and languages.
Taylor, the general most likely to
become US. Far East Commander
next spring when Gen. John E. Hull
retires, recently surprised group
of Okinawan legislators by convers-
ing with them in fluent Japanese.
He hadn't used the language to any
extent. in Is years.
The four-star general he's mas
tered the Korean tongue since he
became field commander of U.N.
ground forces in Korea in January
1853. Friends say he speaks Ko-
rean better than President Syng-
man Rhee. Taylor added Korean to
his luncheon menu and daily put in
a few hcks at the language.
He also speaks French, Italian,
Spanish, Chinese and English.
The Italian came in handy when
Taylor in a World War IL cloak
and dagger operation sought to
work out an Italian armistice be-
hind German lines. A man named
Eisenhower said Of him:
'sThe risks he ran were greater
than / asked any other agent or
emissary to undertake during the
war"
He was the first US. General
to fight in Normandy. He landed in
the predawn hours of D Day with
paratrools. After the war, he COM
manded American troops in Berlin.
At 54, he is tall, handsome and
square jawed.
He transfers his main headquar-
ters Saturday from Seoul to Japan
and takes charge of all Army
ground forces in Japan and Okina-
wa as well as Korea,
The Tightening up of commands
soon may throw Taylor in charge
of the scattered military advisory
groups in the Far. East. That would
give him a key role in handful
of powder-keg situations in the
Orient.
If his role in South Korea is any
criteria, he is the right man for the
job.
AS commander there in the clos
ing months of the war and all the
months of the uneasy truce, he has
walked tight wire with precision.
He has kept one eye on the con-
spiratorial Communist Koreans to
the north, and the other on the rest
less South Koreans.
In activities with the South Ko-
rean allies, he has shown SYM
pathy as well as strength. He un-
derstands the human factor in
dealing with human beings.
He shows up at orphanages,
school dedications and fund-raising
campaigns.
He turned down a congressman's
suggestion that American troops
work as labor battalions in rebuild
ing Korea. But he worked out a
program of help known as the
Armed Forces Assistance to Korea
program-and it has been a major
morale factor in the postarmistice
period.
''Korea is developing a strong
capapility to defend ITSELF" Taylor
says.
"The ROK army man for man is
as good or better than any army it
is likely to encounter in Korea. !"
he said in an interview. He said
that it had "given the grounds for
hope that we have a force here that
with adequate maturity will be
formidable military asset in this
part of the world"
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Spreckels Gets Sentence Cropped

: SANTA ANA, Calf tR - Jailers
say sugar heir Adolph Spreckels
II, 43, will get time for good be-
havior Topped from his 30-day jail
sentence for wife beating.
He should be released about 8
am. Thursday, Thanksgiving Day,
and should be able to eat turkey
instead of soup, the jail fare-for
Thanksgiving dinner. Jailers said
he is getting five days off for model
behavior.
He was convicted of beating his
former wife, Kay Williams, at his
Balboa home last year and started
the sentence in Orange County Jail
Nov. / after appeals failed.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
RUSSIAN POLICY CHANGING

There increasing indications that Moscows policy
Is changing to reasonable one We do not infer
that Moscow has changed it's goal its traditional oppo-
son to United States policies but it clear that the
Soviet Union is making allout effort to change its
policies they affect countries in the Far East in the
Balkans and in Europe.
The recent Soviet agreement with China, in which
the Soviet Union made major concessions promised to
withdraw from Port Arthur and abandon its joint
ship OF stock companies designed to exploit Chinese
sources, is point to be mentioned. In addition, the
Soviet Government has reversed itself the Trieste prob
lem and recently informed the United Nations that ap-
proved of the Trieste settlement which arranged by
the United States and Great Britain.
Moreover, the Soviet Union has indicated it would
along with the Canadian proposal for world
control The Soviet Union says it wishes minor changes
In the proposal but for the first time, it has indicated
substantial agreement with Western proposed system
of international armament control.
The Russians have also broken UP Joint stock COM
panes in which Russian ownership considerable in
both Bulgaria and Rumana.
In addition to these moves and Others the Russians
now say they ready to talk about uncaon of Ger
This last effort concerning Germany considered
propaganda by most Westerners who think the Russ
ians talking German unfication only to stall the re-
armament of West Germany There are some however
who think the Russians might be willing to consider
German unfcaton, and real sovereignty if progress
such direction could block alliance of West Germany
with the democracies
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
The-ocroPUs
WE'D IA YEARS

BR0WNW00D, Tex. R - Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Shore observed
their 74th anniversary quietly to.
day in their home here. !
They were married Nov. 22, 1880.
in the Brown County ranch home
of the brides parents. \
Shore is 81, his wife 80. Both are.
alert and keep up With happen
ings at home and over the world.
Thomas Edison created his first
electric light company In 1878.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
November n, 1894

More than 4 dozen prominent
civic and governmental leaders of
Miami. as well as several men in
terested in the development of
aviation and better travel facili-
ties between Miami and Key West,
will be aboard the Commodore sea-
plane when it makes its inaugural
flight to the Island City Sunday.
Roy E. Lade, of the Florida
Public Utilities corporation, is
now manager Of the Key West Gas
company, and is very much pleas
ed with the situation as he found
it on arrival.
4 + r
November a, 1874
Wallace B. Kirke, head of the
housing authority, appeared before
the city council last night request
ing that the old city dump site
adjacent to Poinciana Place be
abandoned as soon as possible in
order that war workers may be
housed in the new buildings erect
ed in that area at once.
A. Maitland Adams, president of
the chamber of commerce and
manager of the Thompson Enter
prises, today told 'an audience in
the courtroom of the county court
house that an FILA survey shows
that the tax rate for Key West and
Monroe County, together, is double
the average for the United States,
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

The Navy has more than 1000
research contracts underway in
some 200 leading schools and $50
Industrial concerns.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
Watcb Your.
TEETH!

(oDs ~ . series 81 articles
prepared by HE Flerida State
Dental Society and published
by The cisizsn - . service 10
fhis community.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22
THEY WANT SLEEP

CEDAR CITY, Ut "''''''
to bed oldsters complain. they're
losing sleep because OF Cedar Cay 5
new curfew law.
It says that kids under Is must
be off the streets by IL pm.
And to let them know, city fa-
thers mark the curfew hour each
night by letting 60 whit he town
fire siren.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

It is estimated that $100OO,O0O worth of radio-Tv
coverage was given the Mccarthy Army hearings Even
more valuable treatment given the show in the
ys newspapers. All that for drama with no concuson
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

Daily production Of coal in the
United States is more than a mil
lion tons.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

Farmers had better keep watchful eye on those
who promise to help them, and especially candidates for
Congress.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

and 1t amounts to 8 per cent Of
the rental money it is possible to
obtain from the property.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

The great thing about the United States not that
all citizens equal but that all can make place for
themselves if they have the determination.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

good product plus fair price, and advertising
equals the road to success.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-22

The other day we heard popular song that made
sense.
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
Eisenhower May Endorse Proposed Compromise
 On Bricker Amendment

WASHINGTON, R-President Eisenhower looked over the latest proposed compromise on the Bricker treaty-power amendment today, and was reported to be inclined to endorse it if one ina jor legal and Constitutional prob lem can be cleared up"
 Sen. Knowland of California, the Senate Republican leader, gave that report to newsmen after he and other COP leaders re- viewed the controversy with the President at a 212-hour White House conference.
 Knowland declined to say just what is the legal and Constitu tional problem to be cleared up.
 And he emphasized that there was no definite agreement on the part of the President to support the proposed compromise.
 Bricker, author of a contro- versial proposed Constitutional amendment to restrict treaty making powers, announced yes terday he would accept a compro- mise drafted by Senate COP lead CTS if Eisenhower in turn would agree to support it.
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
ILWU Member Turns Down Post Of Sd Division Labor Representative

JUNEAU, R-Gov. Heintzleman Saturday advised his assistant, Robert Dearmond, that Homer Boe, member of the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse mems Union Qnd, will be unable to accept appointment as the Third Division labor representa- tive to the Employment Security Commission.
 The governor, in Washington, DC, gave no explanation and did not indicate whom he might name instead
 Boo was named to the commis- sion this month to replace Fred Williams, who resigned to become marshal in the Third Division.
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
5 PERISH IN CRASH OF AIR FORCE C. -46 COURIER OFF JAPAN

TOKYO, R-A US. Air Force plane only 10 minutes from landing plunged 34 American servicemen and an Army civil ian employe to death today in icy waters off Hokkaido Island, the Air Force said.
 None of the 30 passengers and 5 crewmen survived the crash of the twin-engine GAG Com mando, a courier plane shutting mail and supplies to a base in northern Japan, said an Air Force spokesman.
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
Kotzebue People Ask LiberaIiiziino
 Of Hunting Laws

KOTZEBUE, R-Residents Of this extreme northwestern Alaska area recommended iberalizing Of some of the hunting regulations at a recent conference here
 Favor was expressed for ex- tending the caribou limit from three to five per hunter each sea- son in this Eskimo country. The residents also proposed two addi- tional caribou be allowed to a hunter who kills an arctic timber wolf or wolves during the se0 V because the wolves prey on
 bou and other game.
 Opening of the season on
 also was advocated. A similar posal was made recently in inc Bristol Bay region, where native fishermen were hard-hit by the poor 1853 salmon season.
 The residents proposed five days more for mountain sheep hunting and 1O-day earlier opening on waterfowl.
 There was agreement on leaving the rules unchanged on moose and polar bears-no season on moose and a limit of three bears per hunter, after a lively no-decision discussion of how many polar bears there might be in the arctic.
 Regulations are subject to the Alaska Game Commission n d the US. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice. The residents made their suggestions to Dr. John l.. Buck ley of the University of Alaska Wildlife Management Department and Ray Woolford of the FWS. They said a take of 200 to 300 polar bears annually is reported to the Alaska Game Commission.
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
PACIFIC GRAY WHALE MAKING COMEBACK

WASHINGTON, R-The Pacific gray whale is making real come back, the Fish and Wildlife Ser vice reported Sunday, and lis expected to regain economic i'm portance with the help of protec- tive regulations"
 It said the annual whale count now being conducted at Point Loma, Calif., indicates this years count will exceed 1000, as com pared with $50 last year.
 The whales move each winter from the far north to lagoons in Lower California to breed, sweep ing close to the Cabrillo National Monument at Point Loma.
 The service said interest in the gray whale stems from it's past economic importance and the '-decimation it suffered at the hands of the whale industry in the late l8O0s and again in the I92Js."
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
Big Four, Meeting In East Germany Face Problem Of Uniting Germany

BERLIN, R-The Big Four for eign ministers convened in the Russian sector of divided Berlin this afternoon after a Sunday re- cess in their global talks which are now pinpointed on the vexing problem of uniting Germany.
 The American, British and French ministers in succession drove through the old Branden- burg Gate onto Unter den Linden and swung through the iron DOT tals of the Soviet embassy shortly before the opening hour.
 As host and as chairman for the day, Soviet Minister V. M. Molo- tov greeted his colleagues in the Hall of Mirrors," where a round table 12 feet in diameter was set up for the barley.
 The Western three went east, braced to ward off "Molotov cocktail'-a plan for unified Germany too weak and isolated D resist Russia.
The Nome nugget., 1954-02-01
Russian Plan For Germany Without
 Free Elections Would Revive Causes
 Of World War H, Says Bidault

BERLIN, RHFrench Foreign Minister Georges Bidault declared Saturday the Russian plan for establishing government for Germany without free elections would revive the very elements that brought about World War II.
 Bidault declared at the final session of the first week of the Big Four conference that the Rus sian proposal would create a Ger many dominated by militarist elements playing one camp off against the other"
 Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov has insisted that Ger many be unified by merger of the two rival governments and that only after peace treaty is signed should the question of national elections be considered. This would give the Russian satellite East German regime parity with the freely elected Bonn Republic.
 The French diplomat assailed the Moscow plan and at the same time put in strong word for British Foreign Secretary Antho- ny Eden's five-stage program for German unity which starts with free elections at the outset.
 The persistent Soviet diplomat, who refused to accept no for an answer on this same issue Friday, brought the subject up soon after the sixth days session opened.
 The American, British and French ministers vetoed the Rus sian in turn. They repeated their reasoning of before-that the two Germanys haven't got a govern ment that can either speak or lis ten for the German people and therefore the rival regimes in ex- istence cannot be allowed to take part in the discussions.
 The Russians aren't much in terested in whether the Western government of Konrad Adenouer takes part. Their aim is clearly to get some kind of recognition for their satellite Communist ma chinery which rules the Soviet Zone and it's Is million people.