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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21
The Veterans
Corner

Here are authoritative answers
from the Veterans Administration
to four questions of interest to
former servicemen and their fam.
lilies:
@. II I enroll in q correspond
ence course under the Korean CT
Bill, what viii VA consider as the
official start of the course - the
date / receive my first lesson or
the date I complete it? I want to
know because I have to get start
ed before the August 20 CT cutoff
date.
A. Your correspondence course
will officially begin when the
school transmits its first lesson to :
you.
@. I understand that Pm allow.
ed to suspend Korean CT Bill train.
ing for IL straight months after my
starting cutoff date. What happens
il circumstances arise that force
me to suspend for longer than u
months? win / be able to get back
in training afterwards?
A. To get back in training, you
win have to show VA that the sus-,
pension in excess Of IL consecu..
tive months was due to reasons
beyond your control. II VA. APP >
proves the excess suspension, you q
viii be permitted to resume your :
course. S1s
Q. I've just been discharged
from the armed forces. Do have 3
to begin training under the Kor.
can CT Bill by this coming Aug
ust 20?
A. No. Veterans who must start
training by August 20, 1854, are
those who were released from ser.
vice on or before August 20, 1852.
Veterans separated after that date
have two years from their separa-
ton date in which to begin Korean
CT Bill training.
@. Under the Korean CT Bill,
I'm allowed to make one change
of course. win ! still be permitted
to make this one-and-only change
after my starting cutoff date?
A. After the cutoff date, you
viii be allowed to change your
course only if ~ the course you
want is a normal progression
from the one you're now taking, or
(2) you haven't been making sat.
isfactory progress in your present
course, due to no fault of your own,
and vocational counseling indicates
you'd do better in some other
course more in keeping with your
aptitudes and abilities.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

reduced, (b) drivers are tired ut
night, (c) people drive faster at
night than during the day.
s. A driver should realize when
driving on a bumpy road that his
(a) braking distance win be short
er than usual, (b) reaction time
viii be longer. (c) braking distance
viii be longer than usual.
9. When you "overdrive" your
headlights: (a) you blind other
drivers with your lights, (b) you
are being very discourteous, (c)
you cannot stop within the distance
you can see.
10. When approaching the crest
of a hill: (a) increase speed 70
make up for speed lost on the
grade, (b) slow down. (c) continue
at the same speed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

But to get back to this Key West
trend of using saloons for every
thing but a place to get a drink.
It reminds me of New York City
a few years ago when TV first be-
came really popular.
All the saloon owners rushed out
and bought TV sets. Then, since
they had Tv sets in their saloons,
they felt they had to run the blast
ed things constantly.
Tired business men, exhausted
after shaving all day in the marts
Of commerce, would stagger into
their favorite saloon at S pm. for
4 few quick ones before riding .
eommuter train to Westchester.
But what happened?
They got the quick ones all right
but they also had to at least listen
to 'Howdy Doody" or Space Ca
det". They could close their eyes
or turn their backs on the Tv set
but you can't put your fingers in
your ears and drink, too.
The saloon owners had to run
the TV sets and about all you can
fetch at that hour of the day are
chidren's programs such as "Space
Cadet.
Here's q sample Of the dialogue
between the tired business man,
the bartender, and the TV set when
"Space Cadet" was on:
Bartender: What'll you have?
Business Man: Gimme q Man
haitian.
Tv Set: Well, men, let's blast off
for Mars.
Bartender: Dry? :.
Tv Set: Wen never make it,
Tom. The Sanfranz Condensers are
blown out again. (They always
have a lot of technical talk like
that on Space Cadet programs.)
Business Man: What'd you say?
Bartender: said the Sanfranz
Condensers are blown out again.
TV Set: But men, we've got to
try. Otherwise the Frogmen Of
Mars will capture the princess.
Business Man: So get new San
franz Condenser.
Bartender: The owner Of this
| saloon is too cheap. He won't buy
a new one.
TV Set: Where's the space ship?
Wen change condensers.
Business Man: Those Sanfranz
people always made lousy conden-
sers.
TV Set: We can't. The giant
electronic brain has q headache.
Bartender: Give it an aspirin.
Business Man: Speaking OF that,
give me q drink.
TV Set: You can't do that. This
is a children's program. No liquor
allowed
Bartender: You better 60 home,
| mister. Your wife and Riddles are
| probably waiting dinner on you.
So you see, folks, what can hap
pen when they get to using saloons
for everything but 4 place to have
q drink.
So if you find q saloon in Key
West where people 60 only to get
a drink - just drink, remember -
please pass the word.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

Editors Nofs-The tides of oppo-
sition beat fiercely against the en-
pire France built on two sides of
the world. Indochina is all but
adrift, and North Africa is shaken
by the waves of nationaism. VIII
liam L. Ryan has surveyed the
prospects in both areas, as well as
in France itself. This is the first
of a series of articles this week in
which he portrays the lettering
empire-and how it weakened.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

hand peek at the American way
of life. n
Connie organizations to which
they belong usually try to dis
courage such visits by warning Of
terrible punishments the Ameri-
cans viii inflict upon them.
Recently young Eastern Sec
tor mechanic came TO the library
to see q film," recalled Henry,
"and repeatedly refused to sit in
one Of the light metal chairs pro-
vided for the audience.
Finally, he reluctantly told why.
He said he had been warned that
the metal chairs were wired, If be
sat in one 1t would give him
shock, and when he woke up he'd
be fighting with the French For
eign Legion in Indochina."
Life has been 50 weird in Ger
many for the last Is years that II
axes time for any truth to catch
up with and kill q tall tale.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

BERLIN N-Pages from . tour
ing notebook:
Berlin is q spy's paradise today.
There 10 probably more cloak
and-dagger stuff going on here
than in any other big city N the
world. Some 30 Allied intelligence
services operate, and how many
Russian agencies are in the field
is anybody's guess.
Presumably they are all con-
stantly checking On each other,
and many q secret agent, looking
back across his shoulders. must
have the uneasy feeling that the
guy following him Is himself.
The normal discussion tone IN
Berlin is "the big whisper" After
a few days here even the casual
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21
Blue
WATER
BY DENIS SNEIGR

Is there a saloon and/or res.
taurant in Key West that does not
have a juke box or other mechani-
cal or human noise making device?
/ so, pass the word to this cor
ner.
We have been getting inquiries
as to the location of such 4 spot,
if it exists.
It seems there are individuals
who want to 60 into a saloon and/
or restaurant merely to get some
thing to drink and/or eat.
They do not want to be forced
to listen to three Cohens in the
Founting," or 'I'm A, Following
Behind.
They do not want to play shuttle
board, fire q fake rifle at q mech
anical racoon, or slide q round
hunk of metal along an artificial
bowling alley.
They only want to drink and or
eat.
But what they mainly do not
want is their ear drums blasted by
a juke box.
We asked several saloon owners
why they thought it necessary to
have a juke box running wide op.
en- all the time.
"This is n Navy town." one own.
er said, Sailors like lots Of noise. u
That is a horrible commentary
| on Navy personnel. Surely the TO-
600 or so Navy men stationed here
do not want to be making noise
constantly.
There must be - there has just
| got to be - some of those 10,00(
men who just want to drink in q
saloon. Have a nice quiet drink
No hillbilly singers or no "Three
Cohens in the Founting."
The juke boxes, of course, viii
beat that song to death.
It's an interesting song, too, thai
Three Cohens in the Founting.'
It would be interesting to know
how the three Cohens got in the
fountain. And, then, what about
the owner of the fountain? Does HI
know he's got three Cohens in hi.
founting? Does he care? If SO, whaf
will he do about removing them!
It also brings up another ques
ton. Don't those three Cohens have
a bathtub at home? Is that why
they 20 around climbing in PEG
Piles fountings? Wouldn't it b.
more considerate Of them to visi
a Turkish bath rather than to dive
into the first founting they see?
Then, too, there might just pos
sibly be q violation of the city's
sanitary code in this business Of
having three Cohens in one fount
ing. -.
Wen ask Mayer c. B. Harvey
about it. +ae
In the first place. "Three Coheni
in the Founting" sounds like tho
name of a vaudeville act. Years
ago there was an act named The
Four Cohans.
Perhaps one Of the Cohans drop
ped out Of the act. The remaining
three probably changed their
name, bought q prop founting and
wrote some new material.
| Now the act is on all the Juke
boxes. Success at last!
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21
600 MILLION GIVEN =
AS CHINA POPULATION

LONDON N-Peiping radio says
China's population is more than
600 million. The figure includes
the island of Formosa, controlled
by Generalissimo Chang Kali
shek's Nationalist forces.
A broadcast heard here last
night said Peiping's National Cen.
sus Office reported a total of co.,
2,371 people, rs Of midnight
June 80, 1853.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21
BY WILLIAM L. RYAN

AP Foreign News Analyst
TUNIS R-Nguyen Nguoc tolls
in an Indochina rice field.
Mohammed Ally herds goats in
Morocco.
Political turmoil swirls about
these peasants at outposts of the
French empire but 1t means moth
ing to them. They are illiterate
and care little who rules them.
They want to be left in peace to
exc out living the way their fore
fathers did for ages before them.
They are in the vast majority.
In contrast is an educated crust
men like Habib Bourguiba of Tu-
nisia, Mohammed Kiouane of AL
geria and Allal ell Fassi of Moroc.
CO. These are nationalist leaders
dedicated to driving French politi-
cal domination out of North Africa.
It is ironic that France educated
them.
Even Ho Chi Mimi, Communist
leader who seized the nationalist
movement in Indochina, owes
much of his education to France.
Grandeur Destroyed
Once native leaders looked upc1
the French as miracle workers.
France was strong and promised
them better way Of life. The de-
struction Of French, grandeur in the
wake of two world wars produced
cracks in the French empire that
are still widening. Indochina is
slipping away in the East. A new
Indochina-like problem, this one in
North Africa, is brewing.
In today's world of swift com.
munications, propaganda, subver-
sion and rising nationalism, the
methods of half a century ago,
when France was at the height Of
her power, do not suffice.
Force no longer frightens us"
a North African nationalist told
me. 1.-The French mass their troops
and play the 'Marseillaise' to i'm
press us with their glory and their
power, but we are no longer i'm
pressed"
Double Misfortune
The misfortune of France is this:
it displays less and less ability to
cope with the complex problem of
defending its important position in
today's world.
The misfortune Of the people of
the French Union who aspire to
national independence is this:
they are subject to being used by
outside forces. No matter how Just
their aspirations sound to sympa-
thetic ears in the West, their fu-
ture is bound up with the struggle
Of Western civilization for survi-
val. Political instability in areas
important to defense is an expen-
sive luxury from the Vests point
of view.
Frances splintered politics, the
tug and pull of ancient fears and
prejudices, the faithful service to
Moscow by Communists in Paris
all these have served to delay
Western defense plans so much
that the European Defense Com.
munity may never come to pass
with the unity in which it was
conceived.
MoseoW's Part
Moscow plays with French poll
tics skillfully. In Geneva, Soviet
Foreign Minister Molotov made .
tough, unbending speech, and the
French government fell, to be sue.
ceeded by another likely more will
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21
ARE THE OCEANS RIsINc7

William j. Baxter, author OF a new book weather
says flood damage the Atlantic Coast and Gulf of Mex
leo this will be the greatest witnessed by this
generation He says that damage the Pacific Coast will
also be great although not other U. S.
shores
Baxter believes abnormally high temperature during
the recent winter hawed much ice in Arctic which
will result in higher water particularly in the Atlantic
Ocean He contends that glaciers melting very rapidly
and that the problem has now become serious
The situation is pictured of battle to pre-
serve land from all-powerful which
steadily Stealing land Already according Baxter
sevenyone per cent Of the entire globe composed
frozen The weather experts belief that
the percentage of and frozen begin
ming to rise appreciably.
He points to serious floods in the British Isles last
year. serious ravages from rising waters in Scotland
the worst flood damage Holland has experienced since
the Fifteenth Century which left practically ten per cent
of Hollands land covered by the North Sea- He also points
out this Springs storms in Germany which caused the
worst floods in seventy years Geranys Arctic coast
All over the world from Russia and the Scandinavian
countries to Asatic countries thesa trend of high
water being observed according to Baxter The great
est danger in this country the threat Cities
It is said.
There is indeed much evidence to support the con-
illusions arrived at by Baxter Even though he may prove
right certain to be exceedingly difficult to
ficals in coastal cities about the probability of rising
waters. Even in this age of the hydrogen bomb
there still much dispute and lack of scientific data
the ways and peculiartes of is secret
nature has kept pretty well and which the scientists have
not yet been able to solve.
We not volunteering 60 China and fight
the Rebels.
We know a man who pays his bills every year or
two - If he
It's strange that the more you do for some people
the they expect
The pretty young thing with curves has choice
between work and play as few of us do.
One of the hopes of 1854 that graduating classes
understand something about the value of dollar.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

1. (a), 2. (a), 3. (b), 4. (a). 5. te),
{. lei, 7. (a), 8. (c), .. (c), 10. (b).
Scores of $40 are superior, 7-S
good, 6 fair, under 6 poor.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21
This Rock
Of Ours
By Bill Glib

Here is a driver test that you
can play real easy and if you can
answer all of the questions correct
ly, it is pretty certain that you're
a good and careful motorist. The
Florida Highway Patrol and troop
er George Bennett urge you to
try your hand and better the score,
if you're not right the first time,
by learning important safety rules
of the road.
What Do You Know About Safe
Drivins7
Which of the three choices best
completes the statement? Under
line your choice. Correct answers
are given under the test.
1. When approaching a curve
on the highway, you should: (a)
slow down going into the curve
and speed up going out OF it, (b)
continue into the curve at the speed
the car was going and apply the
brakes only if necessary, (c) slow
down before reaching the curve,
depress the clutch and coast a.
round the curve.
2. You are driving on a slippery
surface and have to stop quickly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

The pretty young thing with curves h
between work and play - as few of us do.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

We know a man who pays his bills every
wo - If he can.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

One Of the hopes Of 1854 that graduating classes
understand something about the value of a dollar
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

It's strange that the more you do for some people
the more they expect.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-21

We not volunteering to 60 to IndoChina and figh
Rebels.
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Thoughts on Life
The Wrong Side
By DR.. JOHN w. HOLLAND


complained about her fate to everyone
who came near. Sitting in her wheel
chair, she was working on a rag rug
when her pastor called.
She poured out her bitterness, while
he sat, waiting for place to get in
an edgewise word The moment came,
and he said, 'That's not a very beauti-
full rug you are making" Her fece
changed, and she said, ''This is the
back side I'm working on; the other
side will be beautiful"
At this the pastor said, 'Aunt Hettie,
isn't that your trouble with life? Aren't
you looking on the wrong side of it all
the timer" The poor soul smiled and
replied, ST guess I have been looking
on the wrong side of life. I'll try the
right side from now on"
Runor has it that 'Aunt Het," as the
people called her. became an apostle
of sunshine and good cheer for all the
people who came in increasing numbers
to see her, and some neighbors said
she smiled when she died!
Quite a Mess
That's a parable for most of us at
present Some of us keep looking on
the fear side of existence, wondering
just when civilization will be blown to
pieces, wondering whether our economy
will hold up, fearful lest communism
will destroy what the world has slowly
built up through the centuries, anxious
about the honesty of our public officials,
wondering how on earth the increasing
numbers of little children are ever 60
ing to get an education. We're quite a
mess with our forebodings
Some of us worry about the approach
of age. Everyone wants to live as long
as possible, but no one wants to get
old. like the line in the Bible which
says: 81 was young and am now old,
and l have not seen the righteous for
saken, nor his seed begging bread"
The trees in our back yard are full
of birds. They get on together about
as poorly as capitalism and commu-
nism are doing at present. A little boot
owl flies around occasionally, looking
for bird steak, squirrels try to break
the eggs in the bluejay's nest, and the
English sparrows gang up on the star
lings.
Yet, just now, hear a cardinal. high
up on maple twig. piping his song
of faith and gladness over all the strife
He knows that he can out-fly the owl
and he has hung his nest on a little
limb where the squirrels can't climb
All is not we'll with the birds, but they
keep hustling and singing just the same
Content With Lot
What a Christian and philosopher
Paul was: 81 have learned in whatso
ever state I am, Herewith to be con
tent"
When left home to go to school, my
little old grandmother, who had beer
widow for 20 years, said to me: ''Yol
will not find life easy as you think, blu
always there's God to help you. l have
learned two things which I want yol
to learn: Be contented with your lot
but never satisfied with yourself"
With all the misunderstanding cur
rents of life, God gets His children for
ward, if only in our hearts He find
faith. This is not PoIlyana tbeor,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
Defendant Held Physically
Incompetent for Trial
By the Assoeioted Press

MONTROSS, Va. Mar. 81
A 12-man jury in Westmoreland
County Circuit Court has held
that Walter L. Nash. a deaf
mute, is not physically compe-
tent to stand trial on a felony
charge.
While the jury verdict will
prevent trial of Nash. 50-year-
old handy man, the court has yet
to decide on the disposition of
the indictment against him.
Judge E. Hugh Smith took
under Amusement defense mo-
ton to quash the indictment
that led to the competency hear
ing. The court will hear argu-
ment April 6 on the effect of
the jury decision. Meanwhile,
Nash remains at liberty under
$1,000 bond.
He was indicted by a grand
jury on a charge he shot, beat
and stabbed Mrs. Belle NJ.
Washington, elderly Westmore-
land County woman at her farm
home last January.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-03-31
Big 3Agree 10 Ease
Trade With Reds
In Non-War Goods
By the Associated Press

LONDON Mar. 31.-The Unit
ed States. Britain and France
have reached a compromise
agreement to ease restrictions
on the sale of strategic goods to
the Soviet bloc in Europe while
tightening up on products of
definite war potential.
The Western allies announced
the agreement last night be-
tween Harold E. Stassen, United
States foreign aid chief, and top
British and French officials at
the end of two-day conference.
The agreement marked an i'm
portant compromise between
growing European demands for
more trade with Russia and her
satellites and the continued de-
sire of the United States to keep
all strategic goods out of Com
munist hands
Far East CurbS Remain.
The three powers ruled out
any change in the present stiff
restrictions on trade with Red
China and North Korea.
A communicate issued after the
meeting said the three countries
will open talks with their allies
the other NATO nations, West
Germany and Japan-on revising
the bans on trade with Russia
"by narrowing substantially
their scope and increasing their
effectiveness"
Western diplomats interpreted
this to mean restrictions on the
sale of war-potential goods to
the Russians would be frightened
while those on other goods would
be eased.
The communique said the
three allies will work for IAN
expansion of trade" with the
Soviet bloc in Europe "com-
patible with security require
mentS."
Favor Trade in Peaceful Goods.
Before heading back to WASH
ington last night, Mr.. Stassen
told newSmen at the airport his
Government has mo objection
at all to trade in peaceful goods
with. Russia"
In fact" he said. "the United
States wants to encourage as
much of that trade as can be
done"
Mr.. StasSen had come to Lon
don to try to persuade Britain
and France to moderate their
demandS-Stemming from pres
sure by their rade-Eungry busi-
neSsmen-for relaxation of re-
strictions on East-West trade.
Officials said the agreement
Will be guide for detailed pol
lcies to be hammered ont in talks
in Washington. London and
Paris. Revised prohibited" lists
and policies worked ONT in these
negotiations will be given for
final approval and action to the
Paris consultative yroup-made
up of the NATO nations except
Iceland, West Germany and ia
pan-which regulates the en-
barge.
Kodiak mirror., 1954-12-11

groups, and the base Chapel, Thursday night December 16. at 8 pm
 The committee has a fine D. ograo lined up. refresh