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BLUE CROSS
PAYS $1,232,262
This Amount Was Paid For
First 3 Months of Year
To Hospitals and Doctors
NINE HOSPITALS

Payments totalling S1,232,262
were made in the first three
months of 1854 by Group Hospital
Service, Inc. to hospitals and doc
tors for services to members of
the plan, according to H. V. May
bee, managing director of the Del
aware Blue Cross-Blue Shield Plan.
The payments to hospitals during
January, February and March of
this year totalled S736,784. Of this
amount, $643,405 went to nine
Member Hospitals of the Delaware
Blue Cross Plan. The four general
hospitals in Wilmington and those
in Lewes, Dover, Milford, Seaford,
and Salem, New Jersey. The addi-
tional amount of S93,378 was paid
for services of members hospitaliz-
ed outside the state or in non-mem-
ber hospitals in and out of Della
ware. Through an agreement with
81 Blue Cross Plans, members of
the Delaware Plan receive the
benefits of those local Plans when
they are hospitalized in member
hospitals in those areas. Members
of the Delaware Plan are also pro-
tected when they are hospitalized
in a foreign country. In the first
three months of this year bills
were paid for Delaware members
hospitalized in Greece, Guatemala,
Belgium and Puerto Rico.
Payments of 2S,2OS Patients
The bills of 2s,2o3 patients who
are protected by the hospital and
surgical-medical prepayment plans
for the Delaware Blue Cross-Blue
Shield Plan were involved in the
payments to hospitals and doctors
The amounts received from Group
Hospital Service by member hos
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pitals of the Delaware Plan for the
first three months of 1854 were as
follows: The Delaware Hospital,
S243, ,246; The Memorial Hospital,
S116,1S7; The st. Francis Hospi-
tai, S62,519; Wilmington General
Hospital, S11O.154; The Beebe
Hospital, S24,149; The Kent Cen
eral Hospital, S2e,71S; The Mil
ford Memorial Hospital, $33,4s7;
The Nanticoke Memorial Hospital,
$4,000. Payments to the Salem
County Memorial Hospital, Salem,
New Jersey amounted to S6,s91. A
total of S495,47s was used for
surgical-medical expenses of men,
bers.
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Now you can have Chevrolet's zippy
and thrifty Powerglide automatic
transmission on any model. You can
have Power Steering on all models
and at new, lower price. You can
have Automatic Window and Seat
Controls on any Bel Air or ''Two-
Ten" model, and you can have
Power Brakes on any model equipped
with Powerglide. All are, of course,
optional features at extra cost.
How popular car is it?
When you come right down to it,
there's no better way to judge the
satisfaction a car gives it's owners
than by its popularity. How many
people buy it and keep on buying it?
Well, as you may know, Chevrolet
is by far the most popular car in this
country. That's true today and it's
been true for good many years now.
But it couldn't be true-or wouldn't
be true-unless Chevrolet gave its
OWllClO OH CAbId Vi SdIlSIdC-
ton and value.
How much does it cost?
There's short, sweet answer to that
one: Chevrolet is priced below all other
lines of cars. This lower cost is made
possible by the greater production
facilities and purchasing power of the
worlds largest manufacturer of auto
mobiles. That is why Chevrolet can
offer you all the advantages we've
told you about here-and many
more, too.
We'd be more than glad to have
you see all these things for yourself
and to try out this new Chevrolet on
the road. Well be happy to see you
at any time.
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Cost of Accidents High

If you could spend $1,000
900 a day, it would take you al
most % years to spend as much as
accidents cost the United States
in one year. The National Safety
Council says accidents cost the ma
ton s7,9O0,0Oo,0O0 last year-or
about S21 $500 a day! According
to Accident Facts" the Coun-
Smyrna times., 1954-04-22

If you want to hear a real
hassle, listen to Cob James and
Whitley Baker on trout fishing
sometime. You'd think it was
more important than anything.
Cob favors dry flies. Whitley
pooh-poohs anything but wet
flies. Cob swears by a Fan Wing
Royal Coachman; Whitley won't
hear of anything but Silver Doc
tor. And so it goes-they can't
even get together on steel rods
versus bamboo rods.
But on Saturday, each got back
from Fox Greek with catch that
couldn't have differed by more
Smyrna times., 1954-04-22

Language is not only the vehicle
of thought, it is a great and effici-
ent instrument in thinking. Sir
Humphrey Davy
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transmission and optional on all
models at extra cost. In gearshift
models, you get the more powerful
''Blue-Flame lis" engine.
But, actually, the increase in
horsepower is only sort of by
product of design changes made for
other reasons. Chevrolet engineers
were after greater engine efficiency,
not just greater power. So, you get
improved acceleration, with greater
and safer passing ability. You get
quieter, smoother operation. You
climb the steep hills with new ease.
How hungry is it for gasoline?
A cars reputation for, and record of,
economy of operation is certainly an
important consideration to most
people. We'd be glad to have you
compare Chevrolet in this respect
with any car at any price.
And, in the case of this new Chev-
rolet, you do not have to sacrifice
economy for finer performance and
more horsepower. That's because
the Chevrolet engines are high-cona-
preston engines. Their compression
ratio of rs to 1 is the highest in any
of the leading low-priced cars.
This means simply that the engine
congresses, or squeezes, the fuel mix
ture to greater degree in order to
wiring more work out of it. That's
how Chevrolet is able to give you an
important gain in performance along
with money-saving gasoline mileage
and on regular gas, of course.
Is it up to date in features?
We can't think of a new feature or
development you might want that
you can't have on the new Chevrolet.
Smyrna times., 1954-04-22

The screw propeller first used
by the British in 1s43 revolution
lied ocean shipping.
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From where | sit =. by Joe Marsh
So They Stopped
Batting Each Other

than a couple of ounces! Then
over a friendly glass of beer, they
allowed as how maybe they were
both right which is how so
many arguments should end.
From where l sit, life would be
a whole lot pleasanter if we all
respected one another's opinions
whether about trout flies, or
having a glass of beer, or voting,
After all, a person has a right to
follow his own line of thinking.
9e M~,l<,
1Sl Tnifad Ctofoe Rrosuore Enun haitian
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A good customer of ours was telling
us the other day how he sizes up a
new car. Because he's bought num-
Der of them over the years, we were
interested in what he had to say. We
think you will be, too.
Actually, what he does is to ask
about seven basic questions. The
answers give pretty complete pic
ture of the car and its comparative
value. Here's what he wants to know.
How well do ! like its looks?
That's one question, of course, that
only you can answer. You're the one
who buys the car and you, above
anybody else, should be proud of its
appearance.
All we can tell you is that we hear
lot of nice things about Chevrolet's
new styling. People seem to like the
new front-end and rear-end designs,
and the way the bumpers curve even
farther around the tenders. They like
the new styling touches all around the
car and the wide choice of bright new
colors and two-tone combinations. A
good many tell us that Chevrolet has
decided edge over the other cars in
its field for smooth and graceful lines.
Who makes the body?
This question takes in much more
territory than the appearance of the
car. 1t involves the quality of the
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Cancer A Menace

Cancer is a major menace to
our health, our well-being, our
economy in time of great world
stress. What can we do about it :?
What kind of defense can we
shape against it? During April
the spring of the year when the
earth all around us gives so much
promise of life-we can learn life
saving facts about cancer that can,
Smyrna times., 1954-04-22

interior as well as the strength and
safety of the body construction.
That's why we think it worth your
consideration that Chevrolet has the
only Body by Fisher in the low-price
field.
You can see the difference outside
and inside. We'd especially like you
to look over the new interiors. Just sit
in the car, if you will. Feel the
quality of the fabrics and notice the
more generous use of vinyl trim.
In all these ways, you'll find evi-
dence of superior quality and work.
manship. And after all, isn't that
what you would expect in Body by
Fisher? AS you know, Fisher is the
largest and most famous manufac-
turer of automobile bodies in the
world. Doesn't it stand to reason that
Fisher can build extra quality into
the Chevrolet body? It's there and
you can see it.
What's under the hood?
You hear a great deal of talk these
days about engine power. The truth
is that the number of horsepower
isn't nearly as important as what the
horsepower does for you.
In this years Chevrolet, you get
increased power in two finer engines.
There's the "Blue- Flame 1875" engine
teamed with Powerglide automatic
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ANNUAL DRIVE
FOR CANCER ON
Annual Drive for Funds To
Carry on Programs of Re-
search and Education
MANS CRUELEST ENEMY

The month of April has been
proclaimed Cancer Control Month
by the President of the United
States under authority given him
by Congress. This is the month
the American Cancer Society-the
only voluntary nationwide agency
fighting this disease conducts its
annual crusade for funds to carry
ON its program of research, educa-
tion, and service and to bring to
the people of the nation life-saving
facts about cancer. Cancer is
mans cruelest enemy. I don't be-
live there's one of us who hasn't
lost a friend or relative to its toll
/. {. Bob Taft, last year; the year
before, Brien Mcmahon; the year
before that, Senator Vandenburg
and Senator Wherry. Last year
alone cancer claimed the lives of
227-thousand men, women and
children in the United States. And
there are 23-million now living who
will die of cancer unless the pre-
sent trend is reversed.
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The new Homeowner's Policy,
now effective in this state,
gives you all-around protec-
ton on your home, its
contents and your personal
possessions( at home or away)
for less cost than ever before.
Today, you need insurance
protection against theft and
costly liability suits that may
occur on your premises. You
can obtain this protection and
other coverages in the new
Homeowner's Policy.
Scve 1Soz r. 500
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These facts about the New Chevrolet
can help you make an important decisio

Don't you agree that buying calls for careful
consideration? Regardless of make, it involves sub
stanta amount of money and lot of future satsfac
ton This information give you better idea of COM
parative value and help you decide which make to buy
Smyrna times., 1954-04-22

Advertisement
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
|KOf CSets
'CityBowling
Tourney Here

The Key West Knights of Column
bus are sponsoring a Bowling Tour
nament to determine the city
championship bowling team for
1854. Although steps are being TAX
en- to organize all bowling leagues
under the American Bowling Con-
gress, it win not be until 1855,
when the City Championship will
be recognized officially by the Am
erican Bowling Congress.
The winner and runner-up of
each league viii be eligible to en-
ter this tournament which will be
held at the Roll Away Lanes Bowl
ing Center on Truman Ave. The
first match will be held on Tues
day, September 7. 1854 starting at
1880 p. m. The public is cordially
invited. There is no admission
charge for spectators.
The following teams have been
entered in this tournament. Repre-
senting the Commercial league is
the Key West Supply and Johnnies
Place, from the Industrial league
will be Westinghouse and Home
Milk, the Civic League viii enter
the Veterans of Foreign Wars and
the Knights Of Columbus.
The tournament will be decided
by the highest total pin fall for
three nights of bowling by all
teams. The Knights of Columbus
will present the winning team with
the Championship Trophy at the
Columbus Day Ball on October 16,
1854. Other trophies to be awarded
will include one to each member
Of the championship team, high
est average, highest single game
and high three game series.
Paul Dennis, of JohnnieS Place,
has been appointed as chairman
for the tournament.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

each got nice chunk Of TV mon
ey. But everyone else connected
with the affair wasted no smiles.
Gavilan was home in bed with
the mumps.
Saxton was down in the mouth
al losing his opportunity - for the
time being at least - to fight for
the 147-pound crown.
Promoter Taylor and IBC rep
resentatives were busy counting up
their financial losses because of
the postponement and the expense
of putting on the substitute show.
The sponsor of the TV show
claimed he lost 20 per cent of his
audience because of the Gavilan-
Saxton postponement.
About the fight:
Justine, 140, suffered cuts over
both eyes and a bruise under his
left eye, but emerged a surprising
winner over Davis.
Chestnut, 127, a former Golden
Gloves champion, and Bell, Is
year-old Ohioan recently out of the
Army fought to = draw.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

grade with the Red Sox after two
years pitching in the Army. At
M-Tom, N. c., in 1851 he was
1913. Ernie Banks of the Cubs
came right from Negro baseball;
Pittsburgh first .baseman Bob
Skinner has been in the service
the last two years and Brooks
Lawrence made the Cardinal
pitching staff after only two
months with Columbus in the AAA
American Assn. In 1853 he was
with Portsmouth, Va, in the Class
B Piedmont League.
For fellows like Bill Skowron
Of the Yankees, Gene Conley Of
the Braves and Wally Moin of
the Cards the climb wasn't Zoo
difficult. They came from AAA
ball. And Gene Baker of the
Cubs came from unlimited class
hication at Los Angeles.
But for the most part, the Class
AS have it. They are producing
better players all the time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Dy GAYLE TALBOT

NEW YORK Up - Sunny Jim
Fitzsimmons, the 80-year-old dean
of American trainers, is getting
about the Aqueduct stable area
with q spring in his step these
mornings as he and his assistants
attend to the care and feeding of
some 50 thoroughbreds entrusted
to their special talents.
The reason is, say his associates,
that "Mr. Fitz" has come back
from the Saratoga meeting more
than q little convinced that he has
next years triple crown winner in
Nashua, Belair Studs crack q
year-old who won last weeks
Hopeful Stakes at the upstate track
for his fourth triumph in five
starts.
Another sweep of the 3-year-old
classics - the Kentucky Derby,
Preakness and Belmont Stakes -
would supply a fitting climax to
one Of the most notable careers
in the history of the American turf
They say there isn't a man in the
business who wouldn't be happy
well, fairly 50 - to see the kindly
sage of Sheepshead Bay rack it up
as his valedictory.
The veteran trainer, who still
drives his own car to work before
daylight and puts in full 12-hour
day, already has a pair of triple
GROWERS to his credit Gallant
Fox In 1880 and Omaha In 1885.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Studio AUDIENCE
Sees Substitute
Bouts On TV Wed.
BY RALPH BERNSTEIN

PHILADELPHIA Up Boxing
history was made last night with
the first "studio- home audience"
nationally televised fight show, but
the only happy faces were those
of four unheralded preliminary
fighters.
1t took case of mumps to full
fill prediction by the late Mike
Jacobs, renowned New York pro-
moter, that the day would come
when prize fights would be held
before unpaying audiences.
Kid Gavilan came down with the
mumps Tuesday, "a hours before
he was scheduled to make his
eighth title defense against Johnny
Saxton. The promoters = Herman
Taylor and the International Box
ing Club of New York - were faced
with the prospect of no show
at all.
Rather than break the uninter-
rupted four-year Wednesday TV
fight show series, Taylor and the
IBC put together double windup
program of six-rounders. No ad-
mission was charged for the show
at the Met, a small club with about
5000 seats.
Some 1000 fans - about the size
of a large studio audience-turned
out, most of them from the neigh
borhood surrounding the Met. The
fighters, George Justine and Ell
wood Davis, PHILADELPHIA welter-
weights, and Bobby Bell, Young
Stown, O., and Ike Chestnut Of New
York, each received 81, 500 for their
appearance.
The fighters were happy. They
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Gavilan Had The Mumps But
Show Went On Without Him
Were Back In Business" --Stengel

short until they are mathemati-
ally eliminated.
''The other guys don't have Il
wrapped up yet They Just think
they have. Don't forget they
haven't had slump all season.
But if We can beat them again
tomorrow and keep the pressure
on them, we might scare them into
one.
''I'm not saying they'll choke.
They never have. But they could
slow up a little. / know one thing,
we better not choke. We can't af-
ford to lose any more"
AS expected, the Cleveland club
house was quiet but no one
appeared detected. Manager AL
Lopez accepted the defeat philo-
sophically.
81 feel the same way about it
now as / did Tuesday night" he
said. 81 still think that was the
big one for us. No matter what
happens tomorrow, wen still leave
here with a pretty comfortable
lead. After all, it's too much to
expect us to sweep all three games
here. This is still a pretty good
club we're playing"
The Yankee battery of southpaw
Ed Lopat and catcher Yogi Berra
was the "whole" club yesterday.
Lopat spaced nine hits for his 18th
victory of the year and his 40th
lifetime win over the Indians.
Berra laced three of the Yanks
hits, including his 18th home run,
scored twice and drove in two
runs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

(AP) Nswsfsssvrss Spests kdlssr
One Of the remarkable things
about the 1854 baseball season Is
the unusual rookie crop. Time was
when a minor league hot shot had
to pass many scrutinizing eyes In
AAA ball before he was brought
to the big time.
Things have changed in this era
Of the lively ball and the battle
for fan patronage. Today the
player in Class A ball appears to
be getting q better break than
ever. Some players from even
lower leagues get chance to make
the grade.
Manager Casey Stengel Of the
Yankees may have hit the nail
on the head when he said:
Sometimes q good way 10 find
out If q kid can swim is to pitch
him off tbs dock. OF course, you
take some chance on the lad drown
ing. But with q life saving crew
in the bullpen It's an interesting
experiment"
Stengel said this back In April
while talking about Bob Grim, the
2l-year-old Brooklyn-born right
handler who impressed IN spring
training.
Today Grim Is the leading
Yankee pitcher, having shown Is
victories in his first 10 decisions.
Last season he toiled at Bingham
ton in the Eastern League. He
is one Of the many Glass A boys
who have graduated with flying
colors.
Others who have made q sim
liar Jump this season are:
Jack Shepard and Curt Roberts,
both from Denver to Pittsburgh.
Frank Sullivan, Albany 70
Boston.
Tom Finigan, Binghamton 10
Philadelphia AS.
Dan Schell, Schenectady 10
Milwaukee.
Henry Aaron, Jacksonville 10
Milwaukee. 3.
Aaron, Shepard and Roberts are
like Grim. They were added just
before the season started. Their
managers wanted to make certain.
Aaron got his chance when Bob
by Thomson broke his ankle. He
now bats fourth for the Braves.
He has been sone of the .hitters
responsible for their August surge.
Finigan was ranked third among
the AS third basemen last March
but manager Eddie Joost now
rates him No. 1 and q 800 hitter.
Schell was regarded as .asyear
away but when the Phillies
slumped, Danny got his. chance.
He delivered while batting third.
Tom Brewer, n, has made the
b a Z Il .
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Key West Gun Club To
Meet September 10

The Key West Gun Club
which regularly meets on ths
second Sunday q each month
will not meet On Sunday, Sept.
smher u.
The nsxf meeting q No
srevp will be st $500 p. m. en-
Sunday September ~.
The change 10 being made 10
enable loesI members 10 com.
: psfs In ihe national trials.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
BY JOE REicHLER

NEW YORK @ - Yesterday
we were out Of business; today
we're back in it,
Manager Casey Stengel was in an
expansive mood after the New
York Yankees Al "must" victory
over Cleveland yesterday that
sliced the Indians first-p,ace mar
gin over the defending champions
to 4la games.
at was a game we had to win, 4"
said Stengel, "and just as we've
been doing for six years. we won
it. That's why you can't count us
out yet. Never sell the Yankees
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Baseball Slated
At Wickers Field

The Strand :Thssfsr, 1854 Ba-
30 Ruin League champions will
meet an AlI-Sfsr team compos-
I'd q HE other three clubs in
fhs loop Ut 1850 p. m. in the
Wieksrs Field Stadium.
Trophies will be presented TO
ths champion batter. pitcher
end ether performers who ex-
eellsd during fhs regular ses-
sion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

The Junior national sailing
championships will be held at the
Maeatawa Bay Yacht Club. Hol-
land, Mich, beginning Aug. 80.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Major League
Leaders

AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING -Noren, New York, -.
RUNS Mantle, New York, 100.
RUNS BATTED M Dolby, Cleveland, l0e
HITS Fox, Chicago, 17s.
HOME RUNS Dolby, Cleveland, -.
PITCHING Consuegras Chicago, NJ,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
BATTING Snider, Brooklyn, 80
RUNS nider, Brooklyn and Musial, D,
Louis, 100.
RUNS BATTBD M usial, q. LSuas,
III.
HITS Mueller. New York and Sehosn-
dienst, st. Louis, 176.
HOME RUNS KlusEewskis Cincinnati, Il.
PITCHING -Antonelli, New York, 90,
$50.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
Boxing Results
WEDNESDAYS FIeHYs

ALBUQUERQUE. NM. Art Aragon, la.
Los Angeles, stopped Mario TriRo, ia,
Caudillo, Mexico, 5.
PHMApELpHlA.Gsorss Justine. leo.
Philadelphia. s.
WEST HAVEN, Conn. Jerry Lusdee.
ass, New Maven. outpointed Curtis Bruce.
leo, Newark. Nd, 8.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

WEDNESDAYS RESULTS
New York 4, Cleveland
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Tie Key Vest Citi.eR IL
A FAMILY Nessspapsr
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02

About IS per cent Of the Japa.
aass are farmers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-02
BASEBALL RESULTS

WEDNESDAYS RESULTS
Chicago .. Brooklyn
Cincinnati Q. New York
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis Z
Milwaukee ;, Pittsburgh
THURSDAYS SCHEDULE
brooklyn at Chicago =
Philadelphia ct st. Louis
Only games scheduled