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The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
Alaska Steam Will
 Consider Request for Limited Passenger Service

JUNEAU, R-D. E. Skinner, president of the Alaska Steam ship Co.,, Friday advised Gov. Heintzleman the firm will take the governors request for limited passenger service to the territory under consideration.
 Heintzleman asked that the Denali and the Baranof be equipped to accommodate at least 12 passengers apiece when they are taken from passenger service and put on Alaska Steam's cargo run next month.
 After meeting at Washington, D.C., last week on Alaska Steam s announced plans to discontinue passenger service to the territory next month, Skinner said the firm would consider Heintzleman's request.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
Florence Chadwick Fails To Swim Cold Waters Of Straits of Juan de Fuca

VICTORIA, B.C., R-Florence Chadwick failed in her attempt to swim the Strait of Juan de Fuca today and was taken from the water, chilled and slightly ill, after approximately five hours of swimming.
 Battling extremely difficult rip tides and currents, Miss Chad wick had been able to swim only about seven miles toward her goal of Port Angeles on the Am erican side.
 While she failed in her at tempt to be the first person to swim the 13.3 miles water barrier between the United States and Canada, she still had the dis tinction of having stayed in the water longer than any other per son.
 The courageous woman, who had conquered the English Chan nel in both directions and other long stretches of water, was helped into her coach's boat when she signalled she could go no farther.
 Her arms were stiff and cold from the temperature which was as low as AZ degrees. She was so cold, she explained, she was un able to bend her elbows because of the stiffness of her arms.
 Battling rip tides so tough that even accompanying boats had trouble keeping course, she had negotiated approximately II miles, but only 2 miles in the direction she wanted to go.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
Diane Barrymore, Robert Wilcox Plan Divorce After Stormy Session

NEW YORK, R-Diana Barry more and Robert Wilcox an- nounced separately Saturday they plan to get divorce.
 The announcements capped a rather stormy after-midnight ses- sion at Miss Barrymore's East Side apartment during which she called police.
 The object of the police's at tention, however, was John Me Neill, whom the daughter of the late John Barrymore and Michael Strange termed former" friend.
 Miss Barrymore told neWsmen McNeill showed up at her party at 2:30 am. and would not leave when she wanted to go to bed.
 Finally, she said, she called po- lice who hauled McNeill to the police station. Then the actress changed her mind and would not sign a complaint.
 Wilcox, who was involved with McNeill in a Set-to at the Barry more apartment year ago, ar rived on the scene at 1 am.
 The husband and onetime lead ing man of Miss Barrymore said he had slept on a park bench for three nights running.
 In a lobby press conference la ter he told neWSmen he came to get his clothes and saw a police car outside. That, he said, was "a normal occurrence at Diana S house."
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
Recommendation to Stop Portland-Alaska Air Service Protested

WASHINGTON, LR-Ore gon took exception Saturday to a recommendation by Civil Aero nautics Board examiner against continued direct air service be- tween Portland and Alaska.
 Charles H. Heltzel, Oregon pub lice utilities commissioner, filed protest with the CAB against the recent initial decision" of chief examiner Francis w. Brown.
 Heltzel said the recommenda- ton would limit the opportunities of Alaska cities to one city, Seat tie, mot only subjecting Alaska cities to the most arbitrary form of monopoly but limiting them as well in their opportunities of ac- cess to the fresh food markets of Portland and Oregon, which mar kets are among the most adequate in the world"
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
The Song of the Storm
 By HAROLD SALISBURY

believing through mist and wiring
 spray
 As in reckessness and obey, ombers robust refrans of and glee the tumultuols orchestral of tempest rhapsody spume lashed the from crested the seawa sing legends of the brave Rampanty the Wanton Wind wild rhythms compose aired with lace that Thank for mist and wind and ran,- thank God for
 believing
 surfsongs of delight that howl in harmony, laundering voices of the deep speak softly to the soul subtle that through the roll! watch the tempest-serenade bosterous words of truth conveyed I boltng blare winds triumphant shout every believing the that drown all doubt Now foam the mighty breakers in endless they o Now shreks the tu laden wind Gods freedom to exto, stngs the swirls the mist elegant caprice speaks to the soul in undertones of
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
A STABLE DOLLAR

Sylvia Porter, the syndcated writer on business trends recently pointed that for three years the purchasing power of the dollar has changed very little This, she said, is "a price phenomenon that has few parallels in the 10th Century.
 Then she gave an excellent bit of implied advice:
 We need not rush to the stores in fear of soaring prices''
 In other words, should buy normally. There's abundance of every kind of ware. Retail competi- ton that get the best possible return for our money. Barring major world conflagration, most economists expect that situation to continue
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
GAME LAWS AND PTARMIGAN

Ptarmigan plentiful this year but word of warning should be given to those impatient hunters who fail to wait until August 20th which is the opening day of the hunting season.
 According to the regulations of the Fish and Wild life Service only ten birds may be taken per day.
 Many residents who have lived here during the years when ptarmgan very scarce keep sharp lookout for those who close their eyes to the law.
The Nome nugget., 1954-08-09
IN COMMISSIONERS COURT

Charles Dickson was given three months suspended sentence for defacing a building not his own.
Evening star., 1954-08-08
BY Doris Kanier

Forge Army Hospital in Valley
Forge, Pa, as well-to make
up" Scared faces.
Sergt. Cortizas, who has
received international recog-
milton for his application of
tattooing to medicine, con-
ceived the idea while watching
a penny-arcade tattoo artist
Just after World War II. In
the laboratory of the O'Reilly
General Hospital in Spring
field, Mo-, where he was then
stationed, he Wrestled with
what he discovered was the
big stumbling block-pig-
ments. Those used in the
penny arcade wouldn't do.
The colors were too bold, the
pigments either toxic or i'm
permanent. For weeks, he
mixed nontoxic dyes and
vegetable substances until he
came up with suitable pig
ments that would meet med
ical requirements. Then he
rushed into the Office of the
Chief of Plastic Service with
Evening star., 1954-08-08

W7HERE plastic surgeons
w leave off, Army MfSergt.
Antonio Cortizas begins.
The sergeant. who turned
penny-arcade tattooing into
a cosmetic for SCARED faces,
works with doctors at Walter
Reed Hospital one morning a
week. Their surgery saves
soldiers burned or shattered
faces; his tattooing saves the
appearance of repaired faces.
Using the same technique a
commercial tattoo artist uses
in his mermaid-on torso oper-
atoms, Sergt. Cortizas eblit-
crates facial scars, matches
grated skin to the shade of
normal complexion, puts color
into colorleSS lips and simu-
lates lost eyebrows and boards.
His full-time job as a med
ical artist at the Armed Forces
Institute of Pathology keeps
the sergeant busy on projects
other than tattooing. But at
Army doctors request, he
packs his case of flesh -colored
pigments and goes out to Wal
ter Reed-and to the Valley
Evening star., 1954-08-08
A New Use For Tattooing

his idea and a demonstration
on his own skin.
Since then, Sergt. Cortizas
has transformed the SCARED
faces of more than 400 World
War II and Korea veterans.
BY teaching his art to plastic
surgeons and lecturing in
medical schools, he has been
indirectly responsible for
hundreds of other makeup"
operations on civilians.
At the Armed Forces Insti-
tute, Seventh street and In
dependence avenue S.W., the
Spanish born sergeant is as
famous for other innovations
in the field of medical art as
he is for tattooing. His
accurate, detailed plastic re-
productions of the life cycle
of malaria and other germs
hailed as a new plastic art
have been exhibited by the
Army in medical meetings
throughout the country and,
most recently, in Panama.
Sergt. Cortizas began his
career as a sculptor. He
studied at the Pennsylvania
Evening star., 1954-08-08
A cigarette is only as mild as
the feel Of its smoke! Try king
size Cavaliers !. FEEL that
smooth, eosy-going mildness I

. Yes, cigarette is only as mild as the
feel of its smoke /. and every day more
smokers are discovering that Cavaliers
smoke feels extra light, smooth and easy
going! And tastes so good!
Cavaliers give you an extra length of
the worlds aristocratic tobaccos. .tobaccos
carefully selected for supreme mildness
ard favor. There is no better natural filter.
There is no finer source of flavor.
Yes, try king-size Cavaliers! See how
they give you extra mildness where it
counts in the feel Of the smoke! No
wonder, when thousands of smokers COM
pared Cavaliers with the cigarettes they
had been smoking, 8 out of 10 interviewed
said Cavaliers are milder!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
ICll9 Crashes
Into Fl. Bragg
Mess Hall Today

FIT. BRAGG, NC. IA CHS
Flying Boxcar, carrying nine men,
crashed into a mess hall on this
Army post today. The plane and
mess hall burst into flames. An of.
ficer said there twill be few sur.
v:vors."
The public information office al
adjacent Pope Air Force Base re.
ported that at least two men were
killed. 1t said it was checking for
more fatalities. They were mem.
berS of the SIND Division Parachute
Maintenance Company.
A witness said the plane, flames
shooting from an engine, hit an
officers quarters, snapped off a
power pole, skidded across a pa
rSde ground and crashed into the
mess hall, setting it aflame.
1t. Col. Bernard A. Katz, who
witnessed the crash, said, "There
will be few survivors"
The Pho said the plane, based
at Sewart Air Force Base, Tenn,
mad just taken off from Pope
bound for Louisville, KY.
The Pho said normally about six
men, cooks and kitchen police, are
In tne mess hall at the time when
the crash occurred.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Million Dollar
Overseas Highway
Budget Approved

TALLAHASSEE R-A 81, O96, 900
budget drawn up by the Overseas
Road and Toll Bridge District for
the business year beginning April
l was approved by the Cabinet
Board of Administration on a
month-to-month basis today.
However, final approval was
given to a $112,O61 item for con-
struction of catwalks for fisher
men along the highway. Board
Director Ralph Potts said he didn't
think the month-by-month approval
was a result of recent criticism
of the district on grounds of ex-
travagance but was because a
study is being made of the
agency's needs.
Other items on the budget in
clude $50, 400 for maintenance, $4S,-
800 for operation, S42, 200 for super
vision, $4,000 for equipment, pur-
chases and insurance premiums,
$4,000 for publicity, $685. 900 for
fill protection, $1,000 for resurfac-
ing and SPOT ,5s5 for bridge painting
anu maintenance.
The district earmarked SSl9, 072
for bond serve and set up a re-
serve Of $4,000. It's anticipated
revenue of 81, O96, 900 comes from
tolls, gas taxes and interest on
investments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Special Message
Deals With Bold
Program Planned
BY DOUGLAS 3. CORNELL

WASHINGTON Up - President
Eisenhower asked Congress today
for broader power to cut tariffs
as the heart of a "bold" program
he said would bolster the security
and economic growth of America
and her allies.
In a special message dealing
with the politically explosive issue
of import duties and laying down
the foreign economic policy of his
administration, Eisenhower also:
l. Called for cutting down aid to
other countries, and an end to out
right grants Of economic aid as
soon as possible.
2. Gave assurances that in
creased trade in peaceful goods
between the West and Iron Cur
tain countries SHOULD not cause
us undue concern"
8. Asked that Congress ease up
on ''buy American" laws which
give preference to domestic firms
over foreign competitors on some
government or government fl
nanced purchases.
Doubts Raised
Important sections of the pro-
gram may be heading into legisla-
tive quicksand.
For the 5,OOO-word message goes
pretty much down the line of rec
concentrations of a special COM
mission ON foreign economic policy
"a commission whose report was
so loaded with diSSentS as to raise
grave doubts as to how far its
proposals would get in Congress.
Those same doubt: still apply
now that Eisenhower has accepted
Continued On Page Ten)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Eisenhower Asks Congress
For Broader Tariff Power
|Cotllron Bids Low
|On Coral Shores
School Addition

Alonzo Cothron, Islamorada bull
der, last night was awarded the
contract to build four-room ad-
dition to Coral Shores School.
Horace O'Bryant, county super
visor of public instruction, said a
special meeting of the school
board gave the contract to Goth
ron on his low bid of $6O,55O.
Work on the addition will start
this week and will add four class
rooms, two reStrooms and clois-
ter to the school.
William H. Merriam, Coral Ga
bles architect, said the windows
along the east side of the rooms
will be shielded from the direct
sun by a plastic ight-control sys-
tenn that also will protect the
windows from hurricanes.
The new plastic lowers are al
ready in use on one school in
Dade County.
Other bidders were J. S. Steph-
ems and Sons, Miami, SCI, 667; and
the Trieste Construction Co., Del
ray Beach, $67,S64.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Neblett Replies
To State Highway
Heads Statement
On Toll Highway

A plan for a second Overseas
Highway was advanced today by
attorney William R. Neblett, a can
didate for the State Senate from
the oath District.
Neblett made his recommended
ton in letter to Cecil Webb,
chairman of the State Road De-
partment.
Webb had advocated, in a state
ment here March IL, that an 80
million dollar bond issue be float
ed to four-lane and resurface the
present Overseas Highway. One
of the reasons he gave at that
time was that the road was a
first class military target and in
the event of war, a single bomb
could cut off Key Vests lifeline. /"
Webb also pointed out the strate-
glc importance of the road to To-
cal Naval activities.
Neblett, retired Naval 1t.
Commander, said in his letter to
Webb:
Il do not believe it is a wise
idea to double-lane the present
Overseas Highway. To begin with.
it would be more expensive than
building an alternate route. Sec
ondly, from a military standpoint
it would be more vulnerable to an
enemy. In the same manner. if
would be more vulnerable to the
possibility of destruction by wind
or wave. In the third place, it
would still channel all traffic
down the East Coast, making for
more congestion. This would re-
quire tourists to back-track on the
same highway on which they en-
tered the keys, as they must do
now in visiting the Everglades Ma
tional Park.
''The waters of Florida Bay are
shallow, and will lend themselves
readily to the construction of a
new, alternate Overseas High
way" from Big Pine Key or No
name Key to some point at Cape
Sable, where it would join a state
or Federal Highway on Florida's
West Coast. Such a new highway,
Continued On Page Ten)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Plan Advanced For Building
End Overseas Highway Here
Auto Inspection
DeUdLine MOved

The deadline date for OBJ
tanning semi-annUaI avtomo-
bile inspection sfiekers has
been extended TO April II, it
was announced today.
Reason for The extension is
The fact that HE start Of The
safety checks was delayed vn.
iii March II because the stick
ers had not arrived from the
printer. Originally, the inspee-
lions were TO have been IN.
derway March ! with the dead
line April !.
The inspections are being
conducted at the Number Two
fire station, Seidenbers Ave-
nue. and 18th Street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30

Here Thursday
Tax Delinquency
Is Up For 1853,
Roberts Reveals

Key Vests annual tax sale viii
be held Thursday at IL a. m. or
the city hall steps, it was announ.
ced today by City Tax Collector
Archie Roberts.
At that time. Roberts said Ger.
tificates for 105 parcels Of land as.
sessed at $5,81S.63 will be sold fol-
back taxes. The sale will cover
1853 assessments, Roberts aid.
But Robert emphasized that de.
linquent tax accounts may be
brought up to date prior to the
sale by paying the taxes, a three
per cent penalty and advertising
costs.
Low Bidder
Failure to pay the taxes by The
time of the sale will result in Ger.
tificates which amount to 4 lien
against the property in question,
to the person who bids the lowest
amount of interest.
The sale, along with a list Of
delinquent assessments, has been
published three times in past week.
in The Citizen. It appear for the
final time today on page 2.
Last years tax sale, on 1851
assessments, amounted to only ST..
1852.
Roberts pointed out that at the
time the 1853 tax roll became de.
linquent, Feb. /, 931a per cent Oh
the total roll for real estate as
seSSmentS had been collected.
To date. more than 80 per cent
of the $397, 1881 real estate tax
roll has been paid by Key West
property owners.
Total roll, including real estate
and personal property assessments,
amounted to $504, 654.43.
Millage was set at PAN mills, in.
Guiding two and a half mills for
homesteads, two mills for the hos.
pital and 20 mills for general op.
GRAFTON of the city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Work Begins On
New Key West
City Directory

Work on a new Key West city
directory was underway today.
Andrew Fay, representative of
the Johnson Publishing Co., Mani
tawoc, Wis, was selecting a sur
vey staff and said that he hoped
to begin gathering information by
the end of this week.
The new directory will be deiv-
cred next August, according to
present plans, Fay added.
The new book will list the names
of husband and wife, their occu-
pations, number of children, ad-
dress and telephone number. Home
ownership also will be indicated.
Besides the alphabetical name
listing there will be classified
business section, street guide and
a reverse telephone directory.
The directory also will include
human interest stories about Key
West, the history of the town and
statistical data.
Fay said the johnson Publishing
Co. now prints directors for more
than 100 cities and counties through
out the United States.
All advertisers automatically will
get a copy, Fay said, and anyone
can buy a copy.
Copies of the book will be sent
to Chamber of Commerce libraries
throughout Florida and to larger
Libraries throughout the country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
Jordan Presses
For UN Action
In New Trouble

JERUSALEM "a Jordan
pressed for u. N. action today on
the latest bloody Arab-Jewish
incident in which it charges Is
raeli forces killed nine persons
and wounded Is in the jordan
ian border village of Nata1in.
Israel viewed the attack as a
"local reaction" to a previous bor-
der killing by Arabs.
The Jordan government demand
ed an emergency meeting today Of
the U. N.-sponsored Mixed Armi-
stice Commission to probe the one.
hour raid Sunday midnight on the
village of 500 two miles east of the
Jordan-Israeli demarcation line in
the Judean Hills near Bethlehem.
U. N. sources said the armistice
commission would investigate the
incident, which heightened the
growing tension between the Jew
ish state and her Arab neighbors-
Continued On Page Ten)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-30
'CAA Engineers MakehPesek
OF Meaeham Airpd& ~ Needs
After Bid For Federal Aid
Wilde Says
County Has
Good Chance
For Funds
BY DENIS SNEIGR

The odds that the county
will get $324,OOO in Federal
airport aid looked better
than ever today.
Harold Wilde, county air.
port consultant, and two
Civil Aeronautics Authority
engineers, yesterday and to-
day looked over the airport.
Wilde said he felt that
the recommendations of the
CAA men would be a high
one as far as Federal aid
goes.
Phillip Moore, CAA district air.
port engineer for Florida, and B.
A. Waldenmaier, deputy district
engineer, and Wilde drove back to
Miami this afternoon.
ut looks" said Wilde, that there
will be about 80 millions of dollars
for Federal airport aid.
Amendment to Senate
"The Bureau of the Budget ap-
proved that amount and it has now
been sent to the Senate as an a.
mendment to the appropriations
bill"
Wilde explained that the appro-
priations bill already has been
passed by the House. The bill
will have to be returned to the
House when the amendment is
added, he said.
The visit of the CAA engineers
was a result of the application fill
ed few weeks ago by the county
for Federal airport aid.
$4,000 Total Sum
The 1924, 900 in Federal funds
would be matched by an equal
amount in county funds, making a
total of $64S,OOO for improvement
of Meacham Field.
According to the application fill
ed with the CAA, the improve
ments will be broken down this
way:
Preparation of site - 5000, 900.
Paving runwayS, taxiwayS and
aprons - $150,000.
Lighting the field - $4,000.
Building costs - $150,000
Other miscellaneous construction
- $4,000.
Engineering and supervision -
$35, 900.
Administrative costs - $4,000.
ContingencieS-$60, 900.
Terminal Planned
The building costs listed above
include an airlines' terminal and
control tower.
The cOunty'S share of the i'm
provement funds will come from
airport revenues. If necessary, the
county can borrow on anticipated
revenues to match the Federal
funds.
The county commissioners have
been working for a better airport
and better air service for Key
West since Jan. l when National
Airlines dropped three Of its four
daily flights here.