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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

LONDON, Up - Prime Minister
Churchill called in Scotland Yard
today to deal with a threat to his
wife, Clementine.
The threat came in a letter in
the morning mail at 10 Downing
St., the Prime Minister'S official
residence.
Lady Churchill is SO.
Churchill's aides refused details
of the letter but said it has been
sent to the commissioner of police
''for. him to take any action he
considers necessary"
NEW YORK, R - Writer Marion
L. Hargrove Jr. has obtained a
license to marry Mrs. Robin Ed
wards Roosevelt, former wife of
Curtis (Buzzie) Roosevelt, a grand
son of the late President Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
Hargrove, "a, the author of the
humorous wartime book, "See
Here, Private Hargrove," also has
been married previously. Mrs.
Roosevelt, Is, is a model.
WASHINGTON, Up - President
Eisenhower's proposal to lower the
minimum voting age to IS has fin
ished the first lap Of its journey
through Congress.
It was approved 7-S yesterday
by the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee.
The proposal is in the form of a
constitutional amendment til a
must win approval of two thirds of
both the Senate and House and
three fourths of the legislatures of
the d states.
WASHINGTON, R-Adm. Arthur
W. Radford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs OF Staff, disclosed today
that the Pentagon may offer a
juicy cash bonus to anyone who
wants to reenlist in the armed
forces.
Radford said in an interview
that a program to add incentives
to keep people in the armed forces
would be submitted to Congress
next month.
Among the ideas being consider
ed, he said, was offering a cash
bonus far in excess of the $500
now given to those who reenlist-
perhaps $1,000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA
Reference Station: Key West
Time Of Height Of
Station Tide high water
Bahia Honda
lbridge) ......-oh ION 80 n.
No Name Key
least endl ....+2h 20n
Boea Chiea
Sandy Pr. oh 4om
CaIdes Channel
lnorth endl +2h Tom
fla n.
t-)-Minus sign: Corrections
to be sUbtraefed.
t+)-Plus sign: Corrections 70
be added.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

Observations Taken At City Office
Key West, Fla, Mar. 16, 1854
at J AM, EST
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
TEMPERATURES
PR EcIPITATloN

Relative Humidity. J AM.
TAO
Barometer tSea Level), 700 AM.
1920 ins.-1023.0 mbs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

TomorroW's Almanac
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Senator's Back Boost
In U. 5. Road Grants
BY the Assoeiotsd Press

|. President Eisenhower's pro-
posal for a 1925 million annual
boost in Federal highway grants
to the States won bipartisan
backing in the Senate today.
Senator Case. Republican, Of
South Dakota, head of the Roads
subcommittee of the Senate Pub
lie Works Committee, said the
Presidents suggestion is "a very
significant step" and added,
Personally. I would like to 60
somewhat further" He has in
troduced a bill for about 81 bill
lion annual Federal highway aid.
Senator Holland, Democrat, Of
Florida. a member of the same
subcommittee. said he was en-
couraged by the Presidents
stand. Senator Holland added
that the Nations highway pro-
gram is way behind"
A bill carrying out the Presi-
dents plan for $500 million Of
annual Federal aid to the States
for road construction already has
been introduced in the House by
Representative McGregor, Re-
publican, Of Ohio. He predicts
that the House will pass it, per-
haps next month.
The $500 million would COM
pare with the present $575 mil
lion in aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Beverley Gets His Fire Engine
Back From Baltimore

!. where 1t was neglected for a
decade or more. Then a Junk
dealer bought it. The City Of
Baltimore acquired it and put it
back in good condition.
Monument Exhibit.
Since then it had been a prin-
cipal exhibit in the little mu-
scum under Baltimore's WASH
ington Monument. Alexandria
has been trying to get it back
for 80 years. Late last year the
Mayor made a personal plea at
a meeting of the Baltimore fire
commissioners, which succeeded.
The Mayor gave Frank J.
Bauer, president OF Baltimore'S
fire commissioners, a copy Of
the agreement for the perma-
nent loan of the engine. and a
policy insuring it for $4,000.
Chief Engineer Michael Lott
escorted the truck to the monu-
ment and the old hand pumper,
only TIA feet long. was put on
board.
The truck had a motorcycle.
escort of city and State police.
At each change-in the escort the
Mayor began a little speech Of
appreciation from the tailboard
OF the truck which was promptly
drowned out by the roll and rat
tie as the truck started again.
To Take On The Yankees.
How would you all like to
go to New York;" the Mayor
asked his guests. His invitation
was accepted enthusiastically.
The Mayor is trying to get back
from Hudson, N. Y, a fire engine
that was taken from Alexandria
during the Civil War by Federal
troops. He is being resisted, but
he is going to invoke the Articles
of War on that one.
Back in Alexandria the Mayor
pulled the rope and tolled the
bell to announce to the citizenry
that the engine had been re-
turned He was already full of
plans for the dedication cere-
mony on Washington's birthday.
! February o." he said, may
become date in history"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Liquor Tax Bill
Goes to Senote

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Feb. II (P).
The new liquor tax bill, which
barreled through the House two
days ago, came before the Senate
Finance Committee today for
immediate action.
Chairman Goldstein. Demo-
crat, of Calvert, said he was con-
fldent it would promptly receive
a favorable report.
The bill will boost the Mary
land taA on liquor by Is cents
a gallon, making the total State
levy $3.50, and give the counties
one-third of the receipts. The
entire tax now goes to the State
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Senate UphoIds Veto
On Roads Measure
Spseiol oispoieh 10 The Star

ANNAPOLIS. Feb. 1.-THE
Maryland Senate yesterday up
held Gov. McKeldin's veto of
legislation that would have pro-
hibited expressway-type develop
mert of Route 301 and part of
Route 5 in Prince Georges
County.
The Senate voted 6 to % to
sustain the veto. after Senator
j. Raymond Fletcher, Repub-
lican. of Prince Georges County,
and one of the sponsors of the
bill, urged that action.
Mr.. Fletcher said that, since
the passage of the bill, the State
Roads Commission has agreed
not to control access on any part
of Route 301, except at intersec-
lions. The commission also
agreed, he said, that access will
not be controlled along Route
between Woods Corner and
Route 301, except where the new
dual road being built there is on
completely relocated right of
way.
On another matter, Senator
Fletcher announced to reporters
that he had decided not to spon-
scr legislation to give the Mary
land Public Service Commission
authority to review rate in
creases of the Washington Sub
urban Sanitary Commission, if
the latter agency requests it.
The Sanitary Commission had
asked Mr.. Fletcher to put In
such a bill.
Mr.. Fletcher said yesterday
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
By George Kennedy

Mayor Marshall j. Beverley
of Alexandria went to Baltimore
YESTERDAY in q furniture truck
and brought back the George
Washington fire engine.
1t is on exhibit today at the
Friendship Veterans Fire Com
pany, lot South Alfred street.
The expedition began and
ended with the tolling OF the bell
in the tower of the pre-Civil
War fire house, now a museum.
The Mayor, who is vice presi-
dent and cashier of the First
National Bank of Alexandria.
arrived promptly at noon buh-
bling with enthusiasm.
James Michelbach, King street
furniture dealer, had one of his
trucks QUILTED with upholstered
furniture for the ride.
Lew Sutton. undertaken, the
Mayor and Mr.. Michelbach, all
life members of the fire compa-
ny which was organized in 1774.
and members of the press.
mounted the truck and it rolled
away.
Esconced on Davenport.
The Mayor, who was wearing
gray herring-bone suit. made
the trip on davenport.
In Washington, he leaned out
the back Of the truck and beck
oned to a motorcycle policeman,
hoping to be given an escort. The
expedition was already behind
schedule. But the policeman did
not realize 1t was the Mayor of
the neighboring municipality and
turned into a side street.
On the Baltimore boulevard,
the Mayor managed to tell the
story Of the fire engine despite
the rafting of the truck. George
Washington, he said. had made
its purchase possible with a gift
Of $400. About 1849 the COM
pany bought q larger pumper
now on exhibit at the Friendship
firehouse, and the Washington
gift was showed into a shec
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Old ia Signs Pacis
In s East Coast Ports
BY The Associated Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE
old international Longshore-
mems Association (ILAJ has an
nounced agreements with en-
ployer groups in six major East
Coast ports-Boston, Portland,
Me-: Providence. Philadelphia,
Baltimore. and Hampton Roads,
Va.
Patrick j. Connolly. LILA ex-
ecutive vice president. says
$4,000 dock workers are affected
by the new agreements. They
provide for wage increases Of 8
cents an hour above the present
rate Of $2.27. with the employ
ers paying an additional 2 cents
an hour to the unions welfare
fund.
No new contract has been
reached in the port of New York,
center Of the battle between the
lila and the AFL-ILA. set up by
the AFL after it ousted the lila
last fall for failure to purge its
racketeers.
For decades before the cur
rent inter-union fight for con-
troll of waterfront labor, work
contracts here were negotiated
by the lila and the New York
Shipping Association, repre-
senting ITO shipping and steve
doring companies. The lila
contract expired last fall, and
the union battle has stalled ne
gotiations for a new one.
The terms reached here
usually formed a pattern for
other East Coast ports.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Outlook Is Dark
For Reduction Of
Taxes in Maryland
By Gene Goodwin
Stor SioH Correspondent

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 11.-Mary-
land taxpayers were warned
today that they should not ex-
pect any tax-cutting miracles"
from the State Legislature this
year.
Delegate c. Awdry Thompson,
Democrat. of Dorchester County,
chairman of the of the House
Ways and Means Committee,
admitted: TITS going to be ex-
tremely difficult to find enough
fat in the Governors budget to
have any substantial effect on
tax bills"
It was the House Ways and
Means Committee that cut SIG
million from the budget last
year and prompted reduction Of
the State property tax to its
lowest in history. The COM
mittee also forced an upward
revision in the estimates of the
Governors revenue estimators,
making possible a second con-
secutive is per cent reduction in
the State income tax.
Can't Repeat, He Says. :
Mr.. Thompson said fatty that,
as he sees it now, it will be
impossible for his committee to
repeat that 1853 performance.
For one thing, he said, Gov.
McKeldin's $3.50 million pro-
posed budget for next fiscal
year seems to be tighter than
last years. Although this
budget is about $18 million
higher than last years he pointed
out. all but about 81 million of
that increase is mandatory.
It is estimated that a is per
cent cut on State income tax bills
due on April IS would cost the
State something over 81 million.
The State property tax pre-
sents even a greater problem for
Mr.. Thompson. a 38-year-old
Cambridge lawyer. who has been
in the Legislature since 1850.
That tax, which is now SGT
cents on each 500 of assessed
valuation and which the Gov
ernor proposes to raise to 11.8S
cents in 1855. is Used solely for
the retirement of the State debt
in other words. to pay back the
principal and interest on money
the State has borrowed over the
years.
On the $6.313 million assess
able base the State is expected
to have next fiscal year, the Leg
islature would have to dig up
about 100000 for each penny
OF reduction on the State real
estate tax rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11

petitions roll Of newsprint
mounted on . truck bed--was
unfurled along the center Of the
pavement.
The Royal Hawaiian Band
played and hula girls danced.
Gov. Samuel w. King headed the
Signers.
The petition will be circulated
through the other islands and
then will be flown to Washington.
It is sponsored by q citizens
committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Annual Assessments
Proposal Pushed
Speeiel Correspondent Of The ssor

ANNAPOLIS. Feb. IA move
was under way in the Maryland
Legislature today to bring about
annual property assessments
throughout the State next year.
Senator Hubert P. Barton,
Democrat. of Baltimore, was APP
pointed chairman Of a special
subcommittee of the powerful
Senate Finance committee to
draw up such legislation for in
PRODUCTION in the next few days.
Maryland has been talking
about annual assessments for
years. If it comes about, it will
end one of the property tax
payers greatest laments.
Deely K. Nice, chairman Of the
State Tax Commission. and the
commissions executive secretary,
Albert w. Ward. told the Senate
Finance Committee yesterday
they both favor annual assess
ments. but it would require about
So more assessors than the 118
the State now has.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
5000 Hawaiians Sign
Petition for Statehood
BY the Assoeiossd Press

HONOLULU. Feb. 1l.-An es-
timated 5000 persons yesterday
signed . half-ton, 5-foot-wide
petition asking Congress to APP
prove statehood for Hawaii.
A downtown city block was
closed of for three hours as the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Night Troffic Toll

| CHICAGO. - Traffic fatalities
at night are three times greater
than daytime accidents. For each
million miles nighttime deaths
are calculated to be 81. and in
daylight only about seven.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11
Westmore PTA Donce

The Westmore Elementary
School Parent-Teacher Associa-
ton will hold a square dance
from $3.50 to 1880 pm. Saturday
in the school cafeteria, Berry
street, Fairfax, Va.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-11

however. that a 1853 opinion Of
the Attorney General casts
doubt on the constitutionality of
considering such a bill in a
short session of the Legislature
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12
Game Commission Ends Closed Season
On Bass In Most Virginia Waters

the previous year.
ii IS a well known fact 10 rN-
perts tina. after the deer popula-
Ton has been built up TO 4 certain
level. under normal conditions
herd will continue 10 increase al
though the season for taking doe
deer may be open along with that
OF taking bucks. according to 6.
F. Phelps, chief Of the Game DIV
ision OF the Commission OF Game
and Inland Fisheries.
According 10 webb Midyette.
chief of the Law Enforcement
Division Of the Commission OF
Game and Inland Fisheries, hunt
ing was heavier during the
Christmas holidays than ever be-
fore IN the history OF Virginia.
Midyette says this was due largely
to the fact that there has been
more game Of al kinds in Virginia
than IN recent years.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12
Next Week Set For
Tiger Missionary
Thousand Dollar
Goal Set Up

Rives Hardy president OF the
Student Christian Association, has
announced that the week of jan
uary ll-l7 as Tiger Missionary
Week.
This week has been set aside
TO raise funds and collect used
clothing for the use OF the Tiger
Missionary. R. K. Robinson, in
his work in the Korean mission
iield Mr.. Robinson is stationed
at the mission station Mok Pc,
Korea.
The SEA cabinet decided to set
a goal OF 1000 to be used to
send several Korean boys to the
mission school for one year. The
school serves as both junior high
and high school for these Korean
youths. and it is a great help in
influencing these boys in the
Christian way of life.
1t has BEEN estimated that
twenty-five dollars viii send one
boy to school for a period Of one
year.
The clothing collected will also
be sent TO Mr.. Robinson to be
distributed TO the needy in Korea.
Any piece Of clothing that can
I'LL be worn is welcomed and is
ably needed
Members OF the SEA cabinet
will visit various rooms in the
dormit-ries and fraternity houses
sometime during the week to re-
ceive the clothing and cash con-
tributions
Rives Hardy made the following
statement during the drive
1T has been several years
since the SEA has attempted to
raise funds for our Tiger mission
airy. and it is hoped that the
tudent Body VIII respond to this
call in first class fashion When
we st p TO think how fortunate
we are not to be faced With the
hardships that The Koreans have
raced. we should not find it too
Aard to dig down deep and make
liberal contributions to this
worthy cause. Everyone should be
able to find some article or two
Of clothing and a few extra dol
lars to support a Christian school
thousands Of miles away, and to
show that the Christian students
in our school are aware of their
needs.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12

All a recent meeting Of the
Commission oi Game and Imam
FISHERIES action was taken 70 rG-
move me closed season on OaFS
III all The public appointments
OF the state and in all public
streams east OF the Blue Ridge
except those which are stocked
With trout
The decision was taken after
careful study by fish biolog isis
throughout The country showed
that comparatively few bass are
caught off their spawning beds
in the early spring spawning sea-
son and the breeding potential of
bass IS SO great that the species
viii actually be benefited if a
lesser number of small bass SUI
vive to compete with others Of
their Kind for existing food
Virginia and Arkansas are the
only two southern state which
nave kept a closed season on bass,
ana many of the central and
northern states have done away
with the closed season with salts
factory results
During the recent deer season
west of the Blue Ridge, 5,l30
SUCK deer were killed This COM
pares with the 5.534 deer-both
buck and doe deer-killed in Nov
ember 1852. During the recent
6pen saeson for deer there were
500 more buck deer killed than
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12
Huguenot Spring.

Students who have returned tc
their respective schools aftei
spending the holidays at then
homes here are Collins Denny
III to Princeton University. Cliff
ford Denny, TO Woodbury. Forest
Wingfield Massie. to Texas A. and
M. Goldie and Virginia Mars
to Blue Ridge Episcopal School
Berkeley Slachter spepnt Christ
mas and New Years at his home
here He is stationed at Sampson
Field, Geneva N. Y.
Mrs Samuel Scott, of Rich
mond and William Moore. of
Washington, spent the Christmas
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. r. D.
Christian, at Dry Run Farm
William A. Robins. Jr,, and
Captain and Mrs. william A
Robins, III, of Gloucester, were
recent visitors at the homes of
their sisters, Mrs F. M. Archer
and Miss Hope Robins.
His many friends are glad to
know that A. F. Palmore has been
able TO leave Stuart Circle Hos
pital and is now at Rest Haven
Nursing Home
The March OF Dimes campaign
is in fun swing in the county
under the leader ship of Mrs.
Douglas Blanton and Mrs. Kath-
crime F. Brent II is believed that
The response to this worthy cause
VIII be a generous one
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12
Randolph-lIenry High Junior Glass
10 Present Comedy Saturday Night

Twenty-Five members of tht
Junior class Of Randolph Henry
High School Will present "Tattlc-
tale" Il three-act comedy by
Anne Martens. III the school
auditorium. Saturday, Jan. l6. 1t
745 p. IN. The play is being given
under the direction Of Miss jamie
Gillian, class sponsor.
The plot is one chat appeals 10
all ages. Patty, a high school
girl, has her friend, Tod. to
sneak a typewriter from the
school office SO that She may
type a novel which she has writ
ten, The young folks are in a
quandary when a detective comes
to investigate the theft of the
typewriter After breaking the
typewriter in an attempt to re-
turn it. Patty decided to sell her
novel 1t was not her fault that
her dahy-Which tells all was
'NAA'NAN& " tiiN liS " Slld pei VI iltt
instead Of the novel. This looks
like complete disaster
You viii enjoy the exciting
ways IN which Patty and her
friends solve their tangled af-
fairs. " the cast reports.
The cast is as follows. Patty.
who drops the bomb. Virginia
Duffer, Mis-, Blaine Louise Hall;
Isabel Rebecca Tharpe Artle,
Harold Neal. Ida Mae Emma
Jean Reynolds; Tod, Bill Wilson.
Paul Cummings, Billy Evans.
Mr.. Nixon, David Mckinney Mrs.
Nixon. Zola Childress.
Also, Miss Wiggam. Mary Ann
Weston, Walt Kennedy Hugh
Hardness Monica, Merle Mars
ton, Barney, Frank Metcalf. M.
Whitaker. Thomas Green. Mr.
Blxley, Jimmy Wilson. QUIZ.
Carol Harvey. Hetty Cecn G.
Tharpe. Mrs. Larimer. Shirley
Foster; Louella, Beverly Keiser.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12

Polio is a Virginia problem.
The disease strikes III the Com
monwealth at rate higher than
the national average. higher than
the rate III neighboring states.
Some $50 Virginians were af-
fllcted in 1858, and in 1850. the
record year the total topped 1900
The story Of polio and the
March Of Dimes is that soon
perhaps very soon-there may be
only a handful Of cases, and polio
win Join smallpox as an old \
fashioned" disease
Another March Of Dimes is
underway Afrom January ? to31p
and TINS one is the most cru
Icial in history
Virginia saw signs Of success
IN the polio battle during 1858
1t had been established that
Gamma Globulin. blood frac-
tlon, lessons polio's paralytic el-
fects. With March or Dimes Of
money, the National Foundation
vas able to provide the "GG" to
the Commonwealth Across the
State, family contacts Of polio
patients received the shots
With the approval oil a AIedi-
cal Society Of Virginia committee.
sc" was also given school chill
dren who had been III close con
tact with polio. These children
were in Chesterfield HenricU.
Lancaster Loudoun Prince Wil-
liam. Richmond Rockbridee. and
James City counties.
The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-01-12
Scholarship Offered
To HIS Student From
Chicago Law School

A scholarship to the University
Of Chicago Law School will be
awarded to the 1854 Hampden-
Sydney graduate recommended
by the college who meets the re-
quirements of The University Of
Chicago Law School.
The scholarship provides for
full-tuition for the first year. and
will be renewable, upon salts
factory completion Of the years
work. for the last two years of
the Law School course.