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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Strllnk Lauds FILA TitleI
Program AS Home Owner Aid

The current Congressional inves.
tigation of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration's Title repair and
modernization program will show
that many thousands of home own
ers in Monroe County and other
communities have used that pro-
gram to help. improve their pro-
perties at a reasonable cost with
the aid of low, convenient monthly
payments, according to E. A.
Strunk, Jr., local lumber and build
ing materials dealer and member
of the Public Affairs Committee of
the National Retail Lumber Deal
ers Association.
"FHA's self-supporting Title l
program serves the needs of home
owners well, at no expense to the
taxpayers, except where it has
been abused by small number
of irresponsible individuals who
have sought exhorbitant profits
and have made false and mislead-
ing promises" Strunk said.
"The irregularities which Con-
gress is investigating have occur
ed principally in cases where home
owners have signed contracts with
unknown operators from out-of-
town.
"As early as last September, our
National Association began to as
sist FILA officials in tightening up
Title I regulations so that the a.
buses could be eliminated without
preventing retail lumber dealers
and legitimate contractors from
helping their customers obtain the
credit benefits offered by FHA-in-
sured loans for property improve
ment.
Eat the same time, in view OF
the need for making this wnouy
desirable program available to as
many home owners as is econo-
mically sound and feasible, our AS
ISOLATION has been actively sup
porting the pending Congressional
legislation which would increase
from three to five years the per-
iod over which Title I loans could
be repaid and increasing. the max
imum amount that can be borrow
ed from $500 to $4,000.
at is highly encouraging to know
that the new Commissioner OF FILA,
Norman Mason, is a retail lumber
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
The Veterans
Corner

Here are Authoritative answers
from the Veterans Administration
to four questions Of interest to for
mer servicemen and their families:
@. I have q $4,000 Nation Ser
vice Insurance term policy, and
I'm thinking Of converting to a
permanent plan. Do I have to con-
vert all of it, or could I convert
part and keep part AZ term in
surance?
A. You may convert part Of your
insurance to one or more perman-
ent plans, and keep the rest as
term. You may convert in multi
pies of $500, starting with q min
imum Of $1,000.
@. I'm planning to take q cor
respondence course under the Ko-
rean CT Bill. How large q CT al
lowance can count on getting
from the VA?
A. Your CT education and train
ing allowance will be equal to the
amount that the school requires
non-veteras to pay for the same
course.
@. When I was in service, I was
told that the only persons I could
name as beneficiaries for my CT
insurance indemnity were wife,
children, parents, brothers or sis
tiers. If I apply for the CT term
insurance available to Korean vet..-
erasn, will the same restrictions
on beneficiaries apply?
A. No. For the CT term insur-
ance, you may name any person
or persons, firm, corporation or
other legal entity, including your
estate. The restrictions on bene.
ficiaries apply only to the free in
service indemnity.
G. / am a disabled World War
Two veteran taking Public Law 16
training. After I finish my course,
will VA find me a job?
A. No. Under the law, VAS res.
possibility has to end after it has
trained you to the point Of employ.
ability. However, your VA train
ing officer will refer you to an ap-
propriate State or Federal employ.
ment agency for assistance in find.
ing a job.
VETERANS living in Key West,
Florida who wish further informa.
ton about their benefits should con.
tact the VA Office at Room 21s
Post Office Building.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
CONSTRUCTION Go.
|Applies To Build
six $500 Homes

Porter Wager Russell, Inc,
this week took out $50, 800 in build
ing permits for six $500 concrete
block and stucco homes, according
to building permits on file at city
, hail.
The permits are for houses at
11O6 Ashby, HOT Thompson and at
the following numbers on Catherine
Street: 1917, 1913, 1909, and 1905.
Other building permits on file in
| cluded:
Cecil Gates, 1929 Duncan, porch,
$500.
J. Pinder, 416 Margaret, repairs,
$50.
John Gallagher, SIS Mickens
Lane, roof. $500.
M. Castillo. 1905 Catherine, car
port and roof, $3.50.
T. Castillo, 1928 Elizabeth, alter.
| atoms, SITS.
M. F. WEIGH, 1914 Washington,
fence, $500.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01

Trevor said the deposits were
increased not only by good winter
season but by more people NOV
ing into the Key West area.
1t is well known that investors
such as chain store organizations
check bank deposit statistics very
carefully before putting money in.
to a community to open q new
business or to expand a business.
"Bank deposits are a true bust.
ness barometer" Trevor declared.
The comparative statements also
showed that the bank had more
money invested in U. S. Govern
ment securities this year than at
the same time last year.
The April, 1854, statement show
ed $S,375, 357.67 in government Sc
curities.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Saturday. May l. 1854 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page
Bell Company Aids
Key West Growth,

Southern Bell Telephone and
Telegraph Company has been con
tributing its share to the growth
and advancement Of Key West
with the tremendous squirt of &C
tivity in installing new telephones
here.
This week the 7,oO0th telephone
was installed in the local exchange,
The installation was made in q
home in Sigsbee Park, where the
Telephone Company has just com.
pleted q $4,000 construction pro.
ject to provide service to the 1000
units in the Wherry Housing Pro
jects.
Admiral Aids
william Gale, Telephone Com
pany Manager, expressed his APP
probation for the personal interest
shown by Rear Admiral George
C.. Towner in assisting the tele.
phone company in securing neces-
sary right-of-way on this govern
ment property. He also commended
Claude Spear, manager for Wher.
ry Housing, and his employees for
their fine cooperation.
All telephones requested in Sigs.
bee Park and Peary Court viii be
installed within couple of weeks,
Gale announced. After this install
lation is completed, the telephone
company will have installed ap.
proximately 1000 telephones since
the dial conversion in December
1852. About 600 of these telephones
will have been installed this year.
Gale said, ''These figures are
evidence that the telephone com.
pany is exerting every effort to
meet the telephone demand and
needs here and that substantial
progress Is being made. This does
not mean the task Of bringing
telephone service to the people Of
Key West is finished" he added.
Instead work goes right on as we
continue to 60 forward with the
job Of providing still more and
better telephone service"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
|Coggin Named
AS Committee
ViceClairrrlan

John p. Goggin, county engineer,
has been named vice chairman Of
the Joint Committee ON Surveying,
1t was announced today. The group
met In Gainesville.
This permanent, statewide com.
mittee 10 composed Of special
committees Of each Of the follow.
ing organizations:
The Florida Bar, The Florida
Title Association, The Surveying
and Mapping Section Of the Flor.
ida Engineering Society, The Flor.
ida Association Of Realtors, the
Florida State Board Of Engineer
Examiners, The Florida Associa.
ton Of County Clerks, and The
Florida Association Of Assessors.
The purpose Of the Joint Com.
mittee Is to examine conditions re.
lating to transfers Of real estate
In regard to legal descriptions of
the land, and other legal docu-
ments involving survey informa-
ton, with the aim that future trans.
actions may be consumated more
economically. officially, and cor.
rectly.
When the aim 10 realized, the
citizens Of Florida will be saved
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
annually.
A preliminary meeting was held
last November. At that time it was
decided to form a permanent joint
committee 10 1t is expected that
the work to be done will require
two or three years, at least, to
accomplish the work desired.
At Fridays meeting in Gaines.
vile the following were elected
az permanent offices:
Chairman: Professor James W.
Day, College Of Law, University
Of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Vice Chairman: John P. Cog.
gin, Engineer and Registered Land
Surveyor, Marathon, Florida.
Secretary: Hugh A. Binyon, Re.
gistered Land Surveyor and Coor-
dinator for the West Coast Title
Co., st. Petersburg, Florida.
The next meeting is scheduled
to be held in Orlando although the
exact date has not been set.
Spearheaded by the attorneys
group, the joint committee voted
a resolution of thanks to Engineer
Goggin who conceived the idea,
and as Chairman of the Surveying
and Mapping Section Of the Flor
ida Engineering Society contacted
the other organizations and ar.
ranged for the initial meeting.
Mr.. Goggin, an Engineer and
Land Surveyor Of national reputa.
ton, now engaged in extensive de-
velopment work on the Florida
Keys, has long worked for greater
coordination of efforts of all per.
sons and organizations dealing with
land conveyances, mortgages, tax
assessments, and property surveys.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Wants Damages

LOS ANGELES M-Movie pro-
Queer Berman Swarttz demands
two million dollars damages in a
suit filed yesterday alleging breach
of contract in filming the stag
show, "New Faces"
Defendants include National Pic
lures Corp. and It's president, Ed
ward L. Aperson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Bank Deposits Increase Over
AMillion Dollars Inl953

Deposits in the Florida National
Bank here increased over one mil
lion dollars since April, 1858, a
bank statement showed today.
On April 20, 1858, a statement
showed $13, 1896, 1914 on deposit.
A statement dated April Is, 1854,
showed this amount in deposits:
$14, 448, 415.22 -- an increase of
81, 051, 957.38.
"This increase in deposits" Jer-
ry J. Trevor, bank president, said,
"shows that business has been
favorable here during the past win
ter.
'It MEANS" he amplified, "that
our depositors had a pretty good
winter. They made money and
they have money in the bank for
improvements and expansion dur
ing the summer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
u be q soo-watt underwater

viii be . 5oo-watt underwater
light.
When finished, the water in the
pool will appear to be a brilliant
turquoise blue color. This, Levitt
said, will be. due to the special
finish - called Silicite - that will
be applied to the pools interior.
This finish, although it is a pure
white, causes the water in the
pool to appear blue.
To help keep the pool free of
dirt and leaves that might be
blown in by the wind and to also
keep out surface water, the entire
pool will be elevated two feet
above ground level.
The Viking Pool and Equipment
Co., Inc, Of Miami, drew the plans
and also is doing the construction
work on the new pool.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01

dealer of broad experience. in this
field and a former president of the
National Retail Lumber Dealers
Association.
commissioner Mason is init.
mately familiar with Title I and
other FILA programs. He can be
depended on to make them serve
the best interests of the public and
to eliminate practices which de.
fraud those who seek the unques.
toned advantages that FILA loan
insurance offers"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Construction To
Be Completed By
The End OF May

Work was under way to-
day on the fresh-water
swimming pool at the Mar
inc Motel, 1925 Simonton
Street.
According to Melvin Lew
lit, owner of the Marine Mo-
tel, the pool will be the first
fresh-water pool for civilian
use in Key West. It also will
be, he said, the first pool to
be built in Key West by the
Gunite process.
In this process, the concrete is
applied pneumatically to the walls
and bottom of the pool.
Persons driving by the pool site
have noticed that the excavation
for the pool appears to be in two
sections. A wall of rock runs
across the excavation near one
end.
Actually, this small excavation
at one end is for the underground
room that will hold the equipment,
such as the filter system.
70 Apply Concrete
Levitt said the concrete will be
applied next week. The Paddock
Pool and Equipment Co. licenses
construction companies to use the
Gunite method.
The pool, with its patios, decks
and landscaping, will reach total
cost of about $50, Levitt said.
When completed about the end
Of May, the new pool will be 16-
by-36 feet and eight feet deep.
There will be a patio at each end
of the pool and a deck along each
side.
The west end of the pool will
be marked by a 10-by-26 foot patio.
There will be 20-by-26 foot patio
on the other end.
Shvffleboard Court
Levitt said he also is installing
. SWITCHBOARD court near the pool.
The entire area, pool and patios,
will be screened from the street
BY a hedge.
Once the pool is filled, Levitt
said, the filter system will change
the entire contents every eight
hours. The filter system uses the
water over and over, adding a little
as needed.
The pool will be kept clean and
the bacteria under control by the
filter system used in conjunction
with a chlorination unit and an
underwater suction cleaner.
Since the Gunite method Of an
plying concrete requires no forms.
all the corners can be rounded.
There will be no dirt catching
square corners, Levitt added.
Underwater Light
At the deep end Of the pool, there
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-01
Cause Of POckmarks
Sought By Dealers

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. H-
Police and used car dealers sought
today 70 find what caused the peck
marks or cracks in the windshields
OF nearly $50 cars here.
The cars, discovered DANA ged
Thursday, were all parked on used
car lots.
Similar windshield damage has
been reported from many sections
OF the country in recent weeks.
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Todoy's Schedules
Stage.

Stage.
NATTONAL-"south Pacific" tonight tomorrow.
Screen.
ABASsADoR-"Johnny Guitar: 1:1o 3:15 5:2o 1880 and
0:4O pm.
cAPTToLRver Of No Return: LOS. $780, $780, 7:l5 and
go pm.
COLUABIA-"Elephant Walk: 1O5. 3:15, $780, 1880 and
$40 pm.
DUPONTThe Captains Paradise: l. 245 $780, e:15 sos
and 9:55 pm.
Mission: 1885, 1855. 5:55. 7:55 and
0:55 pm.
LrrTLE-Roman Holiday" 11o. s:15 $780, 1880 and s:s5
pm.
GacARTHUR-"The Golden Coach" O. $780, 5:55 sos and
1910 pm.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Guitar: lis, $780, $3.50. 7:s5
and GAS pm.
oNTARIo-Jubfee Tal": 1:15 $40. $685. 1880 and 9:4o
PAIACE-"Execuve s:15 525. 7:s5 and s:45
pIAYHoUsE-Knock Wood: 1:l5 $780, $685. 7:30 and
935 pm
PIAzA-"one of Happiness" 1lo. 1850. Ass. $40.
sos and $50 pm. 80
SILVER sPRMo-@Niasara": $780, 6:55 and 10 pm.
TRANSLUx-The French Line: !. ass 450. Gas. $40
wARE1R-.his l. ciRerama": a:so. $50 and $40 pm
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Little Old New York
Sad, Sweet Memories Of Childhood Linqer
To Give Flavor to Lotter-Doy Success

got the pants a little large.
So you'd grow into them"
The other men were chuck
ling appreciatively.
$50 when I showed up at
the Office, a trif1e self-con-
scious in my first pair Of long
pants. the other kids went to
work on me.
"'Hey Duffy asked the first
one, what are you wearing
under the long pants?' I told
him I was wearing long stock
ings. All day long, other men
in the Office would ask me the
same question. Each time I'd
say long stockings, of course
They'd all bust out laughing.
Finally, the head of the
agency called me into his Of
flee. Ben he said. You look
fine in your new long pants
but tomorrow, instead Of long
stockings, wear socks. Then
they'll stop guying you
"I couldn't wait to get home
to my mother. I rushed UP
three flights of stairs. crashed
through the door and screamed
at her: Mama, why did you
let me wear long stockings?
Real men wear socks. Why
didn't you tell me? I'm dis
Evening star., 1954-05-23

Mr.. PIMA for a long time.
Quite unintentionally on their
part, or anybody else's, they
acquired a kind of squatter's
rights to Nellie Forbush and
Emil de Becque.
Never, however, as it was
subsequently to be proved
were these titles to be firm.
The characters of the nurse
and the planter turned out to
belong to life as James A.
Michener recorded it in his
"Tales of the South Pacific"
and as Mr.. Hammerstein and
Joshua Logan adapted it in
the book of the beloved muSi-
cal.
Therefore they could be, and
were, played by others to prove
that as wonderful as Miss
Martin and PIMA are. South
Pacific. is wonderful in its
own right-and no doubt al
ways viii be.
It is wonderful because it is
that rarest Of musical-throw
in dramapro oductions that
deals with uT1iversals in terms
Of the specifically clear and
simple. Tt is about love and
war and loneliness and despair
and courage and faith, all Of
them perfectly pinpointed in
Evening star., 1954-05-23
The Passing Show
An Enchanted Musical Arrives

South Pocific' Is Thot Because 1t Is Rich in
Every Virtue, Especially in Plot Of War and Love
Evening star., 1954-05-23

that's a cross which matinee
idols have always had to bear.
There's a slogan about never
Understanding the power Of
a woman, and Liberace is sat
iSf1ed to have that sex on his
side. While he virtually ig-
nores them socially. rarely
being seen escorting one of
them in public. he recognizes
that their professional ap-
proval is money in the bank.
He needs no press agent be-
cause he's as good as any he
could hire. He sells himself
with an odd mixture Of fam
boyant showmanship at the
keyboard and a sincere. almost
boyish approach away from
the piano.
A veteran press agent, Jim
Byron of Ciro's, is a frank
admirer of the technique. From
an acquaintance Of seven
years, Byron observes: Women
always wanted to mother him.
Between shows, he would go
out and sit at the tables of
customers from Dayton or
Kokomo perfect strangers.
Most performers head straight
for the movie stars"
He's Everywhere
Liberace has no network
show, yet is on 174 television
stations weekly, all indi-
vidually sponsored.
For some reason" says
Seymour Heller. his personal
manager, most Of the sponsors
are banks and biscuit COM
panies. No matter which way
he turns, he's in the dough"
An advertising man volun-
teered that the program is the
Evening star., 1954-05-23

contract for nine years. "And
I could have stayed on there
at a salary raise, but they
didn't have anything for me.
That wasn't the only reason I
left them, though. I was ex-
pecting a baby, and I wanted
to have the baby on my own
time. Afterward, it was ques-
ton of survival as an actress.
Now I'm sure ! don't have to
worry"
In most Of her movies, with
the notable exception Of From
Here to Eternity" Donna has
played good-girl roles. She be-
lieyes that, in the end, it pays
to be good. Look at Gale
Storm. After all the years of
struggle, she's now on top Of
the heap in television and for
pictures. And I'm all for Mari
lyn Monroe. It's encouraging to
know that a good girl can make
good, because looking like q
lady can be q big handicap In
Hollywood"
Donna would like to do q
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Little Old New York
By Ed Sullivan
NEW YORK.

The four men at the dinner
table with their wives. all were
tremendously successful. One
had arranged the deal for the
Empire. State Building. An
other was the head Of a ma
tionally famed advertising
agency. The third was an auto
mobile tycoon whose West
Point background had quail
fed him to win World War II
honors as a colonel OF the
Rangers. And the host was an
ex-Manhattap College grid
star who gets a six-f1gure SAL
ary In the clothing business.
But they weren't talking
about success. They were think
ing back to the days when
they were kids, and the an
suish that kids experience.
"I'd just got my first job.
as an Office boy" remembered
the advertising agency chair
man, $50 my mother took me
to the store to get me a pair
Of long pants. In those days,
on New York's west side, you
only bought a pair of pants;
you never bought the coat, too.
It cost too much. And you
Evening star., 1954-05-23
On theAir
On the Air
.N Is AIIOver the Hill
Subcommittee Studies UHF, Networks
Face Law. Fee Video Is Stymied
By Horry Macarthur

Television moved into an
other Senate hearing room
last week. It was there to
argue, not to televise. how
ever. Senator Potter. chair
man of the Communications
Subcommittee of the Senate
Interstate Commerce Commit
tee. finally got his hearings
into the Observation-Disclosures
problem under way.
It developed soon after new
television stations moved into
the UHF band that these had
an economic problem common
to themselves alone. Tele-
vision receivers had been built
to pick up signals in the very
high-frequency band, Chan
nels 2 through Is. The UTIF
broadcasters, in addition to
the other problems Of getting
a new station established, had
to talk viewers into spending
additional money to convert
their sets.
In some cases their argu-
ments seem not to have been
persuasive enough. OF 72 sta
ton grants dropped since the
Federal Communications Com
mission ended its freeze and
began assigning channels
again two years ago, so have
been dropped by UTIF stations.
It's Coming Here
Washington viewers have
not had any first hand ex-
perience with the UT1F broad
casters troubles as yet. This
condition will not last, how
ever. Richard Eaton's WOOK
has been granted an FEC con-
struction permit for Channel
so and two other UTIF chan
nelS are allocated to the Dis
trict, one commercial, one edu-
catiorlal.
It might be fair to say that
the UHF troubles can be traced
directly to something that hap
pens to us all: What seems
like a good idea at the time
may turn out to be less than
that at q later date. It might
be demonstrated that the
FCC's 1852 channel ALLEGATION
plan, which lifted the freeze,
had the UHF broadcasters in
trouble from the start.
Certainly. their lives would
be simpler If the FEC had not
been opposed to segregation.
IF it had allocated VfIF chan
nels to some areas and UHF
Evening star., 1954-05-23

the words and actions Of ex-.
tremely real human beings.
Mr.. Michener could not have
found In all the wars a more
appealing heroine than the
nurse. played by Jeanne Bal in
the company at the National
Theater.
Nellie Forbush Is the perfect
blend of the naivete Of Little
Rock and an unquenchable
thirst for the next surprise
that life and war may have in
store for her. She could not be
more delighted with 1t when
it comes. as it does in the form
of worldly Planter de Becque's
complete enchantment with
her simple wholesomeness. He
is an older man which gives
the affair an off-beat flavor
and an exceptional switch from
the routine of wartime ro-
mances.
This plot theme alone would
give South Pacific" a sub
stance considerably above
most of its kind. It's sponsors
were not content to stop here.
They were after something
wider and deeper, far more re-
vealing of the strangest and
most exotic Of Americas wars.
They found 1t in lavish
measure in Mr.. Michener's un-
forgettable tales and their un-
forgettable characters. In. for
instance. the vividly drawn
character Of the comic-pa-
thetic Bloody Mary who spots
modest, handsome young 1t.
Cable as husband material
for her lovely half white
daughter; and, Of course, in
the young lieutenant and the
wiStful island girl-child.
Love and Prejudice
In both love affairs there
is the dramatic element Of
race prejudice, so alien in the
pattern of musicals and yet
so vital in the warm glow of
this one.
Few characters are merely
brushed in in South Pacific"
Its comedy is memorably rich
for the presence of Seabee
Luther Bulls, the perfect
fixer: Old Ironbelly, Capt.
Bracket, who, like his island
force, wishes he could get into
a war: in hard bitten but hui
man Comdr. HARRISON and
that corps of nurses md serv-
ieemen who stage one of the
most hilarious, sliows-within-
a-show that any one ever de-
viSed.
Unforgettable people, all of
them, in a complex Of un-
forgettable situations. Be-
cause they are South Pacific"
is an unforgettable musical
and so happy a visitor here In
the midspring Of 1864.