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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
This Rock
Of Ours

life. Among them are cold weather
at Eastertime, rain ON the Fourth
of July and Labor Day, and over
cast skies with scattered showers
on Christmas.
Nevertheless, Sam appears to be-
technically correct concerning the
season Of the year SO it is about
time we began giving the town a
good Spring housekeeping. Folks
down in the colored section have
already started their drive to i'm
prove the condition of their yards
and houses. 1t might not be bad
idea to make the cleanup cam
paign ISland-wide.
A sore point with most residents
is that the Scavenger Dept will not
pick up many forms of rubbish.
Anytime that l try to throw away
a piece of metal - even rusted
out garbage can which is liable to
cut the collectors hands if it is
kept in use I invariably find
the junk cast aside on the side
walk. The only solution seems to
be to hire a truck about once a
year to cart this stuff off.
/ guess the garbage men have a
reason for their actions and If a
general cleanup campaign were
started, I'm pretty sure the City
would cooperate by picking up
everything that was placed out to
the front in neat, orderly pile.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
Dick
Says

So Barbara Hutton is seeking q
quick Mexican divorce from her
fifth husband, Porfirio Rubirosa.
They've been married less than
three months.
You know, the way some Of these
rich gals rush in and out Of riatri.
mony sort Of reminds me Of the
guy who was galloping his horse
hell-bent for election down the
road. When bystanders hollered
through the cloud of dust, "Where
va going?" he replied, Don't ask
me ask the hoss!"
News of the unhappiness suffer
ed by such wealthy people as Bar.
bara Hutton, Doris Duke, and ma
ny others sort of shocks those Of
us who feel that il we "just had q
million dollars, all our troubles
would fly out the window" APP
parently, there is some truth to the
saying that happiness must come
from within and cannot be bought
with gold.
Don't get me wrong, now! I'm
not philosopher enough to despise
money. As a matter Of fact, II you
will come by Dicks Tire Service
ON Truman Ave. about the end Of
the month, you'll hear me singing
Ogden Nash's Hymn To The
Thing That Makes The Wolf Co.:
''Oh money, money, money. am
not necessarily one OF those who
think thee holy,
"But often stop to wonder how
thou canst 60 out so fast when thou
contest in 30 slowly"
You know, most people are hay-
ing money troubles these days. Let
me tell you how you can save
quite a bit If you're an automobile
or truck owner - always consider
the quality rather than the initial
price of the tires you put on your
vehicle. There Is q lot OF truth IN
the words "A poor man can't At
ford a cheap tire"
Dicks Tire Service, s29 Truman
Ave-, is headquarters for U. S.
Royal tires. We handle only the
best and never try to foist off
cheap, blemished or defective tires
at cut-rate prices In order to at
tract customers. At Dicks you can
also save money by letting US re-
cap your present tires on our Lodi
equipment. If you don't have time
to wait for this, Dicks has an ex-
cellent stock Of guaranteed recaps
from which you can choose.
Visit Dicks Tire Service or tels.
phone 2-2842. (adv.)
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Tough Mess Sgt.
On His Way Out

ENID Okla. R-Tough old mess
sergeants and KIP, scourge Of
rookie servicemen, are on their
way out at the Vance Air Force
Base.
The Air Force announced 1t was
using Vance for an experiment,
putting the mess halls under the
jurisdiction Of paid civilian person.
mel.
The civilians will be responsible
for catering, serving, and best Of
all, policing the mess halls.
The Air Force said it feels. the
new routine should save money
and at the same time provide bet
ter meals. It said rookie morale
should improve with the elimina-
ton of KIP.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
March rs, 1884

March rs, 1884
Mrs. William Warren, chairman
of the hanging baskets and ported
plants committee for the flower
show to be sponsored by the Wom-
ans Club asked that anyone inter-
ested in making a display of this
type to notify her as soon as pos
Sible.
Work on the Aquarium was going
ahead and the forms were in place
for pouring the concrete to COM
plete the facade.
Glenn Price, captain of the local
golf team, announced a called
meeting of local golfers to make
plans for entertaining the Miami
Bltmore Golf team scheduled to
be in Key West over the weekend.
Mrs. Norberg Thompson and Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas H. Cato left to
spend the Easter holidays with
their daughters, Miss Marie
Thompson and Miss Celita Cato,
students at Marymount College at
Tarrytown, on Hudson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
Behind The nCurta
Poland Is Mixture OF Strength And Weakness

more steel than did all Poland
before the war.
The US. Embassy is isolated
and inadequately informed despite
the able ambassador, seph
Flack, and his staff. Members of
all non-Communist embassies are
necessarily watched. The mediocre
press must serve as the main
source of information for Western
diplomats.
Responsible members of the
American Embassy believe the
secret police run Poland. They are
mistaken. Poland'S secret police is
an adjunct to the armed forces.
Like the Soviet MVD, it has it's
own troops. Unlike the secret
police in the Soviet Union before
Stains death, the UB in Poland
is no state within state. It is
firmly under the control of the rul-
ing Communist party. Its head,
StaniSlaw Radkiewicz, is consid-
cred an obedient party official. The
UB are hated and feared. Absence
of civil liberties, of the four free
doms, is less irksome to Poles who
have almost never known them at
home. Yet the strait jacket of
totalitarian theology is throttling
cultural life in Poland today. y
Bureaucracy is another evil. In
taking possession of SO per cent of
the national economy, the state
and other public authorities have
swollen their ranks beyond belief.
My belief is the majority of
Poles are definitely against the
regime.
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Chapter Is

SndRtC4 90
EOR the space of several Sec
L onds, Anedee stood perfectly
still Then he came over and sat
down beside me again
What made you say. that,
Peter?" he asked quietly.
Look at the entire situation,
Dede," said. ! had to talk fast,
in order to keep up with my own
flying thoughts. "A little over a
week ago, your grandfather
makes a discovery of some sort
something that we've now rea-
son to believe some third person
was trying to keep from him.
Whatever it was, he considers it
so important that he sends at
once for his lawyer and for his
eldest and youngest grandsonS,
apparently to consult with them
about it. But before he can &C
complish that, he dies; but not
before he's had time to tell this
thing to one of them-to Claude.
A few days later, Claude dies. ="
Amedee nodded.
THAT was what Uncle Raoul
suspected" he said. "But the
autopsy showed that Claude died
of heart attack after all"
"Yes, l know" admitted. ~But
the autopsy could have been
wrong. l mean, it may not have
been carried far enough. Suppose
that Claude-and your GRANDPA
Their TOO, for that matter-died of
something that could have been
mistaken for heart failure as long
as no one had any reason to sus-
pect its true nature. Some poiS-
on"
"Poison!" He repeated the word
as though he had never heard it
before. But what"
LET me finish before we 60
into that" I interrupted. ~Uncle
Raoul suspected that there was
something wrong about his IA
theirs death even before he talked
with Mr.. Duval."
Then that was why he went
down to the mausoleum that
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

due. in part to peasants resistance
or Indifference.
Poland has been creating indus
tries it never knew before. Poles
are manufacturing their own heavy
machine tools, heavy equipment
for steel mills and mines, machin-
cry for chemical and shipbuilding
plants, tractors, autos and Synthet-
ics-eSpecially artificial fertilizers.
Development of heavy industries
in the last four years has supplied
the base for creating light indus
tries.
How extensively Russia is using
Poland as an industrial base
promptly struck me as l toured
factories. A visit to the new auto
works in Zeran on WarsaW's out
skirts Illustrated how the Soviet
Union is creating an additional
mobilization base in Poland. The
Russians have supplied rs per cent
of the machinery for this plant,
which is producing a copy of a
Russian car. This factory could be
switched on short notice to STAN
dard Soviet model tanks or other
military vehicles.
Soviet control over Poland's
armed forces goes very far. Cy-
rankiewicz, otherwise if a b | e,
showed diSpleaSure when asked
about this. put the question blunt
ly:
ITO what extent does the Soviet
general staff influence the Polish
forceS?"
He replied stiffly:
POLAND has its own general
staff. All that's happening in that
sphere, as in others, is open and
within the frame of Polish-Soviet
friendship"
care there Soviet advisers in the
Polish army?"
mo permanent military advis-
erS," he answered, flushing.
"You mean there are only tenn
porary Russian adviserS?"
NO." he said, visibly uncom-
Portable, mot temporary ones
either"
l knew otherwise from two of
Cyrankiewicz' closest associates.
The army is reputed to consist
of about % divisions or 100000
troops, including supporting units.
More than half the officers in the
army, navy and air force, high
Communist official in Warsaw told
me, were trained in the Soviet
Union.
Russia has equipped the new key
industries. Most of the new power
plants are getting their inStalla-
tons from the U.S.S.R. In Warsaw
Russia is erecting its greatest
window exhibit. This is the Palace
of Culture, a 36-story edifice
around which the reconstructed
Polish capital is being built,
In 1915 when guns were sLenced,
four of every five buildings In
Warsaw we're destroyed, and only
l in 20 habitable. Warsaw's chief
city planner, Zygmunt SkibniewsN,
told me some $4,000 building work
erS are engaged in building the
capital anew. Despite flaws, the
state is providing decent housing,
still often crowded, for the mass
of people.
Three miles from Cracow is the
new industrial city of Nova Huta.
Until 1949 there were four peasant
villages where today great city
has arisen. In this brief time
80, 900 workers and their families
three in five were farmers until
then-moved into freshly con-
structed apartment houses. Half
completed, this is the first Polish
postwar city to be built from the
ground up where no town ever
existed before. The new steel in
dustry, started early in 1858, is
scheduled to begin production by
the end of 1854. When finished,
this works alone will manufacture
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
A. Newsfeafvnes

the withered plants. So when hs
was dying. he tore OF one Of the
flowers in the spray and held Il
In his hand, hoping that when We
found him, we'd understand" -
Understand what!",
told him about the dying
plants that Pick and had dis-
covered down near, the carriage
house.
And don't you remember?" I
concluded. Aunt Minerva OBJ
jected to the oleanders because
she'd heard that they give OF q
poisonous vapor. None Of us paid
much attention to her at the
time; probably because we al
thought that she was merely be-
ing fuSsy. But she was right; she
must have been! Not about The
vapor part of course; but about
their being poisonous. I'm certain
now that ! read that somewhere
myself"
you're sure Of THAR" AmSdSa
demanded. Now that he under.
stood what I was talking about
he was as carried away by the
idea as l was.
Reasonably sure answered.
But aren't there some reference
books about % we can look Il
up"
He rose, and catching hold Of
my hand, drew me up after him.
Come on" he said. wen zee
what's in Grandpere's Office"
Amedee found the frst refer
ence in a copy Of the Americas
Dispensatory.
Here it isl" he exclaimed, and
began to read aloud:
Otennder NeWvssssm. A species
Of" He ran his eyes hastily
over several paragraphs until he
had come TO what he wanted.
Poisonous Qualities: Similar %
digitaliS- The infusion made
from four ounces Of the root i
affirmed to have taken life"
Four ounces OF the root! And o.
had been the roots Of the Giants
in the garden that had been dis
Crs - ssaslnss9
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

Editors Note-Frederick Kuh,
veteran foreign and Washington
correspondent of the Chicago Sun
Times, recently spent two weeks
behind the Iron Curtain in Poland.
He moved freely about the coun-
try, seeing many things that dip
l0mats stationed in Poland for
years have not been able to look
at. This summary Of his findings
is condensed from the Chicago
Sun-Times by The Associated
Press. Copyright 1854.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
IT'S DEATH, my DAR[InG |
BY Amelio Reynolds Long

night!" Amedse broke in. "And
why he opened Grandpere's cas-
ket. He must have thought he
could find some proof -"
mo, don't think SO" I dis
agreed Il hate to suggest this,
Dsde, but suppose the murderer
of your grandfather was one Of
us at the table that evening. Sup
pose Uncle Raoul should decide
20 have the body exhumed and
an autopsy performed. He de-
cided to prevent that by remov-
ing or destroying the body; since
without it. nothing could be
proved, regardless of what Uncle
Raoul or anybody else might sus-
pect-
"He must have waited that
night until he thought everybody
was asleep; then he started out
to attend to it. Only, Uncle Raoul.
who was probably sitting I'D
thinking things over, saw him 20,
and followed him. He probably
picked up the sword as the near
est weapon to hand in case he
should need one, but"
"You don't need to 60 on"
Amedee interrupted again He
started pacing up and down.
'Peter, think hard" he said sud-
denly. What poison is there that
could be mistaken for heart
failure?"
I THOUGHT until my brain fels
L sprained.
There's digitalis-you can pre-
pare that without much trouble
from the ordinary foxglove."
There are no foxgloves on the
place, or anywhere around here
that I know Of" Amedee said.
so it looks as though that's out"
Then all of a sudden / had a
brain storm.
"Dede!" I cried exciteiIy.
Henri seid something about I'm
Gle Raoul's having had an OLE
ander clutched in his hand when
you found him. Did he?"
why, yes" he answered, look
ing surprised at the question.
Then that's it," / declared.
"Pick must have told him about
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
By Bill Glib

There are times when this col
umn receives complaints which it
unfortunately cannot do anything
about. For instance, here are some
notes concerning a motel which
neighbors say is infringing upon
both their personal and property
rights. I've been asked to publicize
the situation and would gladly do
so if an injustice could be recti-
fled in this manner. However, the
first hurdle to overcome is whe-
Their or not the motel in question
is acting within it's legal rights.
l would suggest that the angry
neighbors contact Myrtland Gates,
Jr., Assistant to the City Manager,
and also the City Planning Com
mission relative to this problem.
Another complaint on my desk
concerns action taken by the po-
lice with regard to the Douglass
School band which was parading
on Duval St. the other day. The
band was attempting to solicit
much needed funds when it was
detoured off of the main street by
two ranking police officers.
l think we might safely say that
this was an unfortunate situation
regretted by all concerned. The
band failed to get necessary per-
mission to conduct a parade and
the police officers were merely do
ing their duty. Douglass High
School has fine band - one
which all Key Westers love to hear
and see marching down the street.
I'm sure that no slight was intend
ed nor did any public official IN
tentionally mean to hurt their fund
raising parade.
You know, Key West is a little
bigger town than it used to be.
A few years ago, we could solve
most of our complaints without too
much trouble. Now we have scores
of ordinances and regardless of
what we think is right or wrong,
we have to do little research to
make sure of what the law says.
Situations like those mentioned
above boil down to the right way,
the wrong way, and the legal Key
West way" - "a slight twist on
an old Army proverb that fits us
rather well).
Unfortunate Accident
This column would like to ex-
press its sympathy to those involv-
ed in the auto-bicycle accident the
other day. The tragic occurrence
must have been a terrific shock
to julius Stone and his wife. Stone
has been absolved of all blame.
The next time you're driving
down the street, think of how east
" you might suddenly find BIZ
cycle in front of you just like Ju-
lius Stone did! Can't you see how
important it is that we get an all
out safety program started? One
that will educate the children as
well as the adult auto driver?
We can lick our accident pro-
blem - in the homes, on the high
way, and at school - but only if
every citizen will cooperate in the
effort.
Spring HovseeIesnins
Sam Goldsmith, weatherman,
claims that Spring is here. I'll take
those words with a dash of salt
until after the usual Easter cold
spell. There are a few things that
appear to be preordained in this
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
BY FREDERICK KUN

Poland presents a picture of
mixed strength and weakness. No
body with whom I spoke sees an
acceptable alternative at hand. Yet
there is strong opposition to the
regime.
Partly owing to fear of war,
partly to comply with Soviet de-
mands, the Poles have been fore
ing the pace of industrialization.
In the last four years Poland's
overall industrial output increased
by lis per cent. Farm production
rose by only 9 per cent. This hurt.
You can't get a lot of things
most people in our age take for
granted. Razor blades, hairpins,
household utensils, thread and hun
dreds of other gadgets were simply
unobtainable. Since the Polish
Communist party, following Mos
cows lead in 1853, decided to
switch its accent from heavy to
light industries, many of these
shortages are being relieved.
One of the uglieSt problems is
the gap between wages and prices.
If you earn 1000 zloty a month
which is above the average-you
must pay half your monthly in
come to purchase a sweater of
mediocre quality. 1t takes 10 days
of an average workers salary to
buy pair of shoes.
Most tangible accomplishment is
housing. In one city after another,
Squalid SlumS are vanishing.
Marked social advancement has
come to underprivileged groups.
At the top, as in Russia, a new
class of privileged have more than
their share of good things. How
ever, about 212 million peasants
and their families, formerly too
poor to buy finished goods, are
now participants in the market.
The two great forces in opposi-
ton to the regime are the mass
of peasants and the church. A
minority-moStly lay Catholics
has formed a church group loyal
to the government but its influ-
ence is small. A minority of 20
per cent Of the peaSantry has
entered collective or state farms,
sometimes under pressure. A big
majority of peasants strongly op-
pose collectivization of the land.
The party'S chief agricultural
economist, Jerry Tepicht, told me
candidly that in the last three
years $50 collective farms have
been disbanded because undue
pressure was put on peasants to
enter them or because the collec-
tives were too small or otherwise
not viable. The S12 per cent of the
land in cOllectlveS is much small
er ratio than the average among
all other states in the Soviet orbit.
In Poland another IL per cent of
arabic soil is formed into state
farms. Peasants on state farms
are state-paid wage earnerS; those
in cOllectiVeS remain individual
owners of their land.
Bad weather explains partly why
Poland had to import one million
tons of grain in 1853. Weather con-
ditionS alone fail to account for
Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz' state
ment that his country will have to
import about another million tons
of cereal in 1854. These SHORTAGES
are a grave business. They are
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26
SALESMAN HAS
UNUSUAL ORDER

CARTHAGE, Tex. Up Doug
Long has been in the shoe bust
ness here since last October and
has sold only one pair of shoes.
But Long, a newspaperman in
the shoe business as a sideline,
insists business is good.
He caters to one-legged persons
but received an order recently
from a man who wanted a pair.
4 filled the ORDER" he said,
though l could never figure out
why he bought from me-"
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The opinions of your neighbors are not important to
anybody but your neghbor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

Ideas schemes and plans dime dozen; what
counts is the to make them work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

Statisticians of the Metropolitan
Lite Insurance Co. estimate there
will be S12 million widows in the
United States in 1860.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

We have strange and sinking feeling that this week
was some-kindof-week but we forgot to observe it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

An adroit salesman, when he cannot answer the
argument, knows how to change the subject.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

Then there those who believe that all of
the land declare nothing but the law has been pre-
scribed
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-26

We recently got into a crowd of two.
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KEY WEST
Ten and Twenty
Years Ago

March rs, 1874. fell on Sunday. No
Citizen
Milford chronicle., 1954-11-19
MnLVLLE
By Mrs. John S. Noble
Phone Dickinson 206
MlIIrlIIe MeLhodIst Church

MilIVille Methodist Church
Services for Sunday, November
81:
Sunday School at 1000 a. IN.
Roland J. West, superintendent.
Worship Service at 11:O0 a. m.
Rev. W. Stanley Grant. pastor.
MYF will meet at $3.50 p m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday eve
ming at 1880 o'clock.
The Lord Baltimore Women's
Club will worship in the Millville
Church Sunday morning. Rev.
Grant will deliver the sermon.
Miss Shirley Dukes and James
Plank of East LansdOwn, Pa, spent
the weekend with Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Wiley.
Mrs. Hilda Adams and son Brent
Of Bridgeville Mrs. Pauline Hig-
gins and son Steve Of SeafOrd, were
guests of their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Amos McCabe on Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew McClung
and son are spending this week in
Rupert, West Virginia, and other
places in Kentucky.
Mr.. and Mrs. John S. Noble, Sr.,
Milford chronicle., 1954-11-19

the effectiveness with which il
plans and trains now.
Another Civil Defense unit
which is up to its ears in planning
at the moment is the Transporta-
ton Division under James E.
Burns. supervisor Of trafRc at the
Chrysler Corporation, Newark.
In an emergency, quick move
ment Of supplies. heavy equipment.
even refugees may be necessary.
Where to find the trucks, the rail-
road cars or the ships on short
notice?
That will be the unenviable task
Of the transportation division. To
be ready to meet such demands.
Mr.. Burns and his stan have al
ready made contacts with leading
trucking firms in this area. Thev
now have a good idea how many
trucks, for instance, would be
available on the average on any
given day. A survey OF railroad
facilities-sidings, loading cranes
also must be made in advance.
There are many other knotty
problems. How, for instance, does
an Off-duty truck driver get from
his home to an assembly area if all
highway traffic has been tempor-
arily stopped by police? A plan is
under study whereby each driver
would carry a CD Identification
card that would get him through
police lines. Working under Mr..
Burns and his volunteer staff are
men with professional training in
the transportation and shipping
fields.