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The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
Traffic Death
Brings County
Total Tol9
West Virginia Man
Dies Friday In
Highway Accident

Frank H. Cundiff, 49, of
Huntington, w. Va, died in
Archer S m i t h Hospital,
Homestead, at 1880 p. m.
yesterday Of injuries suffer-
ed in an auto. crash earlier
in the day.
Ronnie Roneau, dispatch
er at the Florida Highway
Patrol station at Marathon,
said Cundiff was injured
about 2:30 p. m. yesterday
when the northbound car in
which he was riding ran off
u. S. / at Jewish Creek and
crashed.
Cundiff's death was Mon
roe County's 10Th traffic fa-
tality of the year.
Ronneau also said that w.
7. Fredeking received a
back injury in the wreck and
was taken to the same hos
pital.
Ronneau had no age and
address for Fredeking. The
dispatcher d said Highway Pa
trolman Robert Young inves-
tigated the crash.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
THIEF GETS $500
IN SOUTH ST. HOME

A thief who broke into a South
St. home some time last night gain
cd s4.o0 for his efforts. police re-
ported today.
According to the report of Pa
trolman Lionel Soriano, the thief
gained entrance by smashing q
rear door in the home of Hilda
Cunniff, 4O4 South st.
The money was taken from a
purse, he added.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
Worst Floods In Thirty
Years Threaten Midlands

LONDON (AP) - Seven seamen were feared dead
and the fate Of hundreds of others hung in the balance
today as huricaneorce winds and raging seas battered
ships around the British Isles Two vessels were reported
sunk
The wind and rain threatened England with II. ,or.
floods In 80 years Thousands acres already were in
undated in the south and mdands and weathemen pre-
dlcted the storm would continue two more days
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27

The 20, ,125-ton oil tanker
World Concord broke in
two, and its halves drifted
miles apart. A German traw-
Ter hit a World War II mine.
A lightship went aground.
An unidentified vessel of
about 1000 tons was feared
lost. A Dutch motor ship
was swept onto a rock.
The Liberian-registered World
Concord, with crew of AZ Greeks,
split In two sections off the coast
of South Wales. Coastguardsmen
said winds with gusts of more
than 80 miles an hour were whip
ping the seas into a fury, putting
the crew members Sin great
peril" The British Admiralty
said 81 men were on one half u
the ship and nine on the other.
Carrier Aids
The Royal Navy aircraft carrier
lIustrious stood by to help, and
the tug Turmoil, which aided in
the drama of the broken FLYING
Enterprise three years ago, also
steamed In to assist. Helicopters
flew into the storm to try rescues.
The big ship, just put into serv-
Ice this year, is owned by the
World Tanker Corp. Headed by
Greek Shipping magnate Stayros
Marches. The vessel was reported
bound empty from Britain to the
eastern Mediterranean.
The ightship South Goodwin.
patrolling the treacherous Goodwin
Sands outside Dover Harbor in the
English Channel, was ripped from
her moorings and wound up on her
side on sandbar.
Crewmen Trapped
Coastguard reports said seven
OF the crew of eight were trapped
inside. A US. Air Force helicop-
ter from Ramsgate Base snatched
the eighth creWman from the
vessel. The rescued seaman said
four shipmates were trapped in the
galley and the other three in an
alright compartment. He said
there was little hope they could
have survived.
The helicopter returned to the
ship with cutting torch and div
ing equipment.
While ships tossed like corks in
mountainous seas surrounding Brit
ain, the 81 ,00O-ton liner Queen
Mary left Southampton for Cher
bourg, France, and New York
early today after a 24-hour delay
caused by the weather.
Safe Start
The wind was still gushing
strongly but tugs unanswered the
liner safely out of the ocean dock.
The heavy seas hammered at
coastal walls rebuilt and fortified
after Britain's disastrous floods
and storms of 1853. Churning water
tore a 20-yard gap in the sea wall
at Seaford, on the channel.
The main street of Christchurch,
Hampshire seaport town, was
under four feet of water, the worst
flood there since 1917.
| Firemen sang nursery songs TO
calm children they rescued from
sea front homes in Cornwall. Hun
dreds of householders there moved
their belongings to the top floors.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
Alger Hiss Is
Out OF Prison
Raab Will Visit
NeiU Orleans Next
Austrian Chancellor Julius
Rasb today was en- route from


Rssb today was en- route from
!. s.Mismi'to New Orleans.
0sNhe chancellor spent yesfer.
<HSY efteraqon here. touring the
yrd YNavaI Base. Early
il ths aftsYnoon. he was guest
q HpHorSs Sst a cocktail party
snF ycepfion at the Fort Tay-
SD Officers Club.
Z. Hs left Key West about 5
-. m. yesterday for the drive
Up the Keys TO Miami.
Mayor c. 3. Harvey headed
ihs civil and Navy brass which
greeted Rsab here.
Among ihs other guests were
County Commissioner Joe Allen
and Mrs. Allen. County Com.
missioner Harry Harris, and
City Commissioner Jack De-
ney.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
Ice Cap Takeoff

ST. JOHNS. Mid. R-The U 6
Air Force says one of its planes
has landed and taken off from
1c, c,3O0-foot point on the Greenland
ice cap. The announcement
claimed it was the highest known
landing and takeoh in air history
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
YOUNGsTER ROBBED

CLEVELAND IA goateed
man showed a gun into the back
of 10-year-old Lonnie Burton, who
was selling magazines, and took
S6.15 from his pockets, police said
today.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
BENEFIT CLAIMS UP

WASHINGTON R-The Labor
Department says initial claims for
unemployment benefits rose by A..
800 during the week ended Nov.
20 to total of 2Se, ZOO.
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
Maintains His
Innocence On
Lying Charge

lylhS .WASn Nv
ing governmknF secrets to a
Communist spy ring, was re-
leased from federal prison
today. He Immediately pro-
claimed he wax innocent. as
serting the charges against
him were 'nntrue. -"
Hiss, wearing a hat and well
worn grey topcoat brought to the
penitentiary by his wife, told news
men at the prison gate:
IT shall renew my efforts to DIS
pel the deception that has been
foisted on the American people" "
Specific Charge
Hiss spent 3lh years of 5-year
sentence in the penitentiary at
Lewisburg. Specifically ne was
convicted of lying at congress
sional investigation which looked
into charges by Whitaker Cham
bers, admitted Soviet spy courier,
that he had obtained government
documents from Hiss, a former
State Department official.
Hiss was met by his wife, Pris-
ella: his 13-year-old SON, Tony;
and two attorney friends, Chester
Lane and Robert M. Benjamin. AS
he walked through the door OF the
prison, the former prisoner No.
19137--was surrounded by nearly
100 reporters and photographers.
The drone Of helicopter over
head almost drowned out HISS
words as he shouted:
ssI'm very glad to be out but
want to reassert my complete n
anocence."
"Falsehoods" Charged
He said that in his years in jail
he did not have the opportunity
to answer ''falsehoods" made by
politicians and the press" about
his career.
Hiss, appearing somewhat hag-
gard but smiling with his son at
his side, said he hoped to tell the
story behind his conviction and ito
dispel the doubts" about his po-
siti0n.
Hiss ignored all questions con-
cerning the Staying of William w.
Remington in the prison earlier
this week. Remington, like Hiss,
was convicted of perjury in con-
nection with congressional queries
about communism.
However, Hiss and Remington
were never linked together in the
same Washington Communist as
sociations.
Questions Avoided
Beyond the brief statement as
serting his innocence, Hiss Tended
off further questioning by news
men, rushed with his wife and son
to waiting auto and drove away.
It was assumed that Hiss was
heading for his apartment in New
York City.
AS a convict on parole, Hiss
must report monthly to federal
officer in New York for the next
year and half on how he's living,
how he's working and who are his
friends.
After the parole period Hiss VIII
be on his own.
However, Hiss won't be able to
retire so soon from public gaze
even If he has that intention. Sew
eral congressional committees
have announced recently they'd
like to question Hiss more about
his government associations, be-
fore, during and after World War
III.
Hiss, before he quit a high post
In the State Department under
Secretary Dean AcheSon, was a
close confidant of Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry
Truman and was secretary of the
l945 San Francisco conference that
founded the United Nations.
Hiss was lawyer before his
conviction. The perjury sentence
automatically resulted in his dis
barment. and as convict he
doesn't have the right to vote
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The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27
Survey OF Mentally Retarded
To Be Carried Out In State

Starting this week the Florida Association of Mental
Health and the Florida Federation of Womens Clubs are
joining forces to conduct survey of all mentally retar
The Key West citizen., 1954-11-27

For Quick Communication. :
Use CLASSIFIED Adsl You'll
reach buyers and sellers
tenonts or workers Just
DIAL 2S66l or 2,s662 Toduy
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24

England Needs Another Browning
England needs another Elizabeth
Barrett Browning to cry out against
highway accidents, according to
Lord Latham, Lord Lieutenant of
Middlesex. (Mrss Browning arous-
ed England's conscience to the hon.
ors of factory work for youngsters.
Spealng at recent meeting of
the London Accident Prevention
Council, Lord Latham asked:
How can we continue to toler-
ate the fact that every week Is
children are killed and nearly $50
are injured on our roads. Why in
heavens name do we allow this
slaughter of the innocents to 90
on?"
Lord Latham said the "overrid.
ing reason" traffic accidents con.
tinue is ''the general lazy compla.
cency in accepting as something
normal that death and injury
should stalk our streets"
Parents" he concluded. "have
a special responsibility in prevent
ing accidents. Parental neglect is
major factor in the appalling
number of road casualties of chill
dren under five years of age"
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WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

CltlZen:
water, water water have heard so much about
water IN the last few months especially our drinking
water lhese professionals that think they know so much
ABOUT our health would like ask them if thew are sure
that the water are using now for drnkno Is the
OF tooth decay If is why we better go back to rain
water or the old time we'll water that's what raised
on and never had any trouble with my teeth until was
sixty-five years DID,
VIII these professionals give guarantee? mean
can we hold them responsible for putting bad taste in
our mouth making children sick would we have
to take our satisfaction?
Now why don't the doctors and dentists look into
such as tooth paste soda and SUCH maybe
they would find better way to stop decay in chldrens
teeth and another thing these doctors and dentists know
that the people of Key West buy this water.
The doctors and dentists don't give this water
buy it. because we like the taste and think it is good
for our health and teeth too
wonder who they think they telling the people
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Dick
Says

This ferry business is a serious
matter for Key West. don't care
whether you feel il is a good idea
or bad one, it is something which
We should support whOleheartedIv.
There are some folks who feel
that the City Of Key West" is too
small ship. They should realize
that the only way we're likely to
even get larger one is for the
present one to be a success. Other
lines will be watching the outcome
of the Key West Cardenas run
to judge whether il would be pro-
fitable to step in with competition,
Last week, | was a little provok-
ed with Abe Aronovitz, Mayor Of
Miami, who was suppose to be pre-
sent at the christening of the "City
of Key West" Aronovitz caused
the ceremony to be late and then
sent a message that he could not
attend at all. This certainly was
not the attitude he displayed when
he was down here a couple of
years go, calling himself "Conch"
and urging adoption of dog racing
for the towns prosperity.
Personally, | can't see where the
new ferry will have any imme.
date effect upon businesses such
as Dicks Tire Service. In the long
run, however, if it is successful,
it will help the town in general.
And don't kid yourself with "Conch-
like" thoughts - the prosperity Of
all merchants in Key West is de-
pendent upon the welfare OF each
other.
I've never been able to under.
stand the attitude sometimes dis
played by local merchants - ito
heck with others, all | want is
money coming into my own cash
register" Such an idea might
bring temporary returns but it
doesn't create steady, dependable
business.
Dicks Tire Service is ambitious.
We want TO grow bigger. That's
why we try so hard to please every
customer - whether he is mere
ly buying a 'swimmin tube for his
kid or a carload of heavy duty,
US Royal turck tires.
Dicks is headquarters for US
Royal tires. We also have our own
Lodi Steam recapping shop = do
sectional repair work and pro-
vide top-notch road service. Dicks
is located at 929 Truman Ave.
Hours, a. m. i p. m. Telephone
2-2842.-(adb.)
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By JIM eoes !!

Pepe's Cafe, which lays claim to
being the Oldest coffee shop in
Florida in continuous operation
after nearly a half century will
provide free coffee on the day the
ferry fiesta" starts next FRIDAY
-. You can expect some fire
works in city hall shortly concern
ing the tax assessing setup. The
tax assessor needs an office-he's
working out of his briefcase now
Trouble is, the city budget is
very tight. One Keys resident
we know, has a solution for the
Overseas Highway hassle. Blow
up the bridges, says he. Saws
there will be fewer traffic deaths
too. Suggestions: the Key West
High School-Jackson, Tenn. foot.
ball game will be broadcast
throughout the Volunteer State.
;. We've had a lot of phone
calls from painters wanting to
know how they can obtain work
on the Seven Mile Bridge project.
Jeff knight, of the Florida State
Employment Service officer here.
said that he has received no re-
quests for workmen on the pro-
ject. His suggestion: Keep in
touch with the local painters
union or apply at the scene when
the work starts. We hear that
Hal Wallis next production will be
another Tennessee Williams script,
Summer and Smoke. Key West
ers are looking forward to the
Lions Club football classic Dec. 8,
and not just because of the foot
ball game. A lot of them will be
on tap for the halftime show
featuring the Coral Gables high
school band, which is rated even
higher than the Miami High School
band which appeared last year E.
The latter combination had some
acts (and gals that would have
made a hit in any Broadway
musical we've ever seen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24
Mission Groups Plan Merger

NEW YORK 1.-TWO of Ameri-
cas- Oldest Baptist mission agen-
cies-the 122-year-old Home Mis-.
sion Society and the 77-year-old
Woman's Home Mission Society,"
are merging.
Plans call for a single missions
agency to eliminate duplication
and overlapping of activities and
personnel.
The plan must be approved by
the American Baptist Convention
next May.
The two agencies employ more
than 1000 missionaries in the
United States, Alaska, Cuba, Haiti,
Puerto Rico, Mexico, Nicaragua
and Ell Salvador.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24
India's Stores
Stock More
Luxury Trade
BY EUGENE LEVIN

NEW DELHI R-Indian stores
soon may have more foreign-made
goods to satisfy customers for
luxury" articles. But there is a
catch-prices are likely to be a
lot higher than they have been.
A new government import policy
is responsible. Officials decided
to liberalize quota restrictions on
some imports while at the same
time boosting duties on most of
these imports.
The lover of beer, ale or wine
is in trying situation. Previously,
imports were regulated to per-
centage of a base quota. Now the
cumulative restriction is off, and
anyone can drink to his hearts
content-provided duties increased
by 100 to $50 per cent will let
him.
A quart bottle of beer or ale had
a duty of about 9 cents; now the
duty is 81 cents. Champagnes used
to have a duty of $3.50 a gallon
but now are rated at $3.50. Wines
have been boosted similarly.
India makes razor blades, but a
smooth shave is a luxury" re.
qiiring foreign-made blades. I'm.
ports of these have been limited
to 20 per cent of the base quota.
The new policy allows imports up
to 80 per cent of the base quota
Fit also hikes the import duty from
80 per cent of the value of the
blades to 40 per cent. (The base
quotas are determined by formu.
la based on annual imports be.
tween 1916 and 1880.
An old ban on bringing in as.
sembled automobiles is gone. The
choice is no longer limited to the
new foreign manufacturers who
assemble their vehicles here.
But the duty on the imported
auto is rs per cent of its value OF
81 ,26O, whichever is higher.
For the woman shopping for her
wardrobe, the new quotas mean
possibly twice as much foreign.
made silk hosiery, cottons, wool
ems or other, fabrics on the mar.
ket. Along with this greater choice
go boosted duties on hose, &c
per cent instead of 66; on other
fabrics, about so per cent instead
of the 80 per cent average level
previously.
Increased imports of a few arti
cles are to be allowed without the
duty being raised. Chief among
these are watches and toys.
The government said the new
program is intended to provide
high duty protection for some
young Indian industries which pre-
viously had been protected by
quota restrictions.
Officials explained the policy il
this manner:
| In the past, the lower quota:
created a scarcity of foreign-made
goods, leading to high prices. With
lliberalized quotas, the good:
should be more plentiful ant
Iprices should come down despite
boosts in duties.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24

what kind of water they must drink AS far science
some things they found out has turned to be very fine
and good for the people of this country and also
to tell you that science has found other things
that has put not only country but the whole world
in shaky. condition People in nervous condition
what the scientists have discovered.
Now, the professionals of Florida and few Key
West know alls' want to make drink doped water
Let the public have Water, water it tastes good
me it and they give the people chance to vote
hope they get to the polls and vote against doping
water and vote against the man that introduced it in
Key West.
HARRY RICHARDSON
1415 Newton Street
September 16 1854 Key West, Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24
Helpful Youth
Lifts Wallet

? CHARLOTTEN, NC. R-Mrs.
Margaret Berlow, who recently
moved here from Emerson, NJ
told police she wasn't too i'm
pressed with the kind of southern
hospitality she encountered Wed.
nesday. 10
A youth offered assistance n
backing her car from a parking
lot.
Pleased, she slid from under the
wheel and the youth glided the
car back smoothly, and went on
his way.
Several blocks later she noticed
her billford containing $40 was
missing from her purse on the
front seat.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24
Reds Extend
Criticism To
.Stenograpllers

MOSCOW Up - Soviet self-criti.
elsm has got around to the clock.
watching stenographer.
Trud, newspaper of the trade
union. describes Irene as a girl
(she is IS but acts like 1s) who in
mad about the word "madly (ne.
zumno)" and also loves to say
absolutely (aboslutno)."
When she gets on the telephone.
MS enough to drive the rest of the
office staff mad.
A bookkeeper counted up that
Irene in a single day telephoned
~ times to friends and relatives.
And he figured out out how much
time she costs the Soviet state by
primping her face - eight hours
month.
Such inefficiency and self-induI-
gence, says Trud, must stop.
Irene Gregoriovna," says Trud.
likes to talk very much and her
voice is heard the whole day. She
keeps repeating how she was mad
ly happy yesterday, how madly jol-
ly her last party was. how madly
sleepy she is now, what a madly
terrible headache she has, how
madly tight are her shoes. She in
also madly hungry.
Zone can observe that there in
nothing in her work that interest,
Irene. 1t is the telephone that in
terestS her.
For Irene lunch consists of two
parts. First is the official lunch
hour which, instead of devoting to
a meal, she uses to 90 shopping.
When she finishes with the shop
ping tour she takes time off TO eat
at her desk, with great appetite. -,
Then she manages to stop work
"a hours before the end Of her
working day. And she announces
that she is madly tired as she
leaves her chair with an exhaust
ed sigh"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24
KiWannis and Safety

National Safety Council publica-
tom
Kiwannis and Safety
On Sunday, August l Don E. Eng
dahl, of Spokane, Wash, officially
became the new president of XII
wants International.
And when offices opened on Mon
day, he was one of the first WISH
tors at National Safety Council
headquarters in Chicago - to ex-
press personally to Council Presi-
dent Ned H. Dearborn his inten-
ton of continuing, and even in
creasing, the energetic safety pro-
grams of KlWanis clubs and their
228,O00 members throughout the
United States and Canada in the
coming year.
A short time before Mr.. Engdanl
sat down to chat with Mr.. Dear
born about the accident problem,
he had made, as tradition calls for
his first official public appearance
as Kiwanis Club. And what was
one of the very first pledges made
by the new president in his talk?
To promote safety - on the high
way, in the home, in industry and
on the farm.
The Kiwanis SAFETY objective for
1854 is based on clause in the
Kiwanis creed which reads:
1--WE believe that we should uti-
lie every avenue of approach to
the problem of safety, including
respect for the land and a court
eous regard for the rights of others,
to the end that there will be a
saving in the appalling waste of
life and property"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24

The optimism expressed by the
Commonwealth Oil Company in
their annual report that there may
be oil in the Florida Keys and
its surrounding waters, is back
ed by scientific studies.
Commonwealth, operating in
Florida, Alabama and Haiti, own
or leases 1877, 5S4 acres in South
Florida and the Keys.
Their geologist reported on q
study made in the area saying
that the off-shore geological for
nations in the Keys area are
very similar to those in the Middle
East where there is oil aplenty.
That's the reason they are
optimistic.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24

The Dade County interests who
say that the Overseas Road and
Toll Bridge District land belongs
to all of Florida are slightly be-
fuddled in their reasoning-noth-
ing new for them.
If they feel that way, then why
confine the claim Of ownership to
Florida alone - why not include
every state in the union on which
we depend for our tourist business.
We could set up a claim office
in every major city and anyone
who ever paid a toll on the Over
seas Highway could present their
receipt and walk off with the
deed to a parcel of land.
The Dade County boys lost the
argument-but they won't admit
it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-24
THIEF DROPS $40
MAKING GETAWAY

GREENWOOD, sc. R-When
George H. Davis opened his motor
company here Wednesday he found
$50 bill on the floor, then dis
covered the place had been broken
into during the night.
1t apparently was dropped by
the intruder who took only a small
amount of change from an un-
locked safe.