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Evening star., 1954-05-07
Dr.. W. Ross Morris
Named IS President
.0f Medical Society

DR.. w. Ross Morris, 56, an
associate in surgery at George
Washington University. has been
elected president of the District
Medical Society, it was an
nounced yesterday.
Chosen at the society's annual
business meeting. DR.. Morris will
take over as president on July
l. 1855. He succeeds DR.. Preston
McLendon, who will assume the
presidency on July l, on eXpira-
ton of the term of DR.. Herbert
P. Ramsey.
Other Officers.
Other officers elected were:
DR.. Paul r. Wilmer, first vice
president; DR.. Margaret M. Mich
olson, second vice president; DR..
Ramsey, Executive Board mem
ber for a four-year term: DR..
r. Lomax Wells, Executive Board
member to fill unexpired term of
Dr.. William M. Ballinger, re-
signed, and DR.. Karl C. Corley,
Executive Boar member for a
two-year term.
Also, DR.. James w. Watts,
member of Board of Censors,
three-year term: DR.. Raymond T.
Holden. delegate to American
Medical Association, two years
beginning January /. 1855, and
Herbert S. Gates, alternate del
egate to ANA for a similar Pc
riod.
Actions Voted.
The society voted to reaffirm
it's stand to maintain it's Hos
pital Service Agency as an in
dependent function rather than
as a unit of the Community
Chest as proposed by United
Community Services.
The membership also urged
that immediate efforts be made
to establish a District chronic
disease hospital and that the
District reimburse hospitals at
cost rates for care of the in
digent sick and injured.
DR.. Morris is married and
lives at 3040 Garrison street
NV.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Kenmore Association
Chooses virginian
BY the Associated Press

FREDERICKSBURG, Va, May
7.-Mrs. Robert A. Adams Of
Fredericksburg yesterday was
elected president of the Ken
more Association at the groups
annual meeting here.
She succeeds Mrs. Francis B.
Crowninshield of Wilmington,
Del, who was made an honorary
lifetime president. She had been
head of the association for about
IS years.
In addition, Mrs. Duncan K.
Brent of Ruxton, Md, was
named new chairman of the
Board of Regents.
The association is a national
organization which maintains
Kenmore, the home here of Col.
Fielding Lewis. Revolutionary
War patriot whose wife was
Betty Washington Lewis, sister
Of George Washington.
Four vice presidents were
named: First-Mrs. George
Benoit of Fredericksburg; Sec
ond-Mrs. Thomas j. Taliaferro
of Washington; third - Mrs.
George F. Dickinson Of Fred
ericksburg; fourth-Mrs. Bernard
Bailey of Charlottesville.
Other officers elected were:
Recording secretary, Mrs. James
Willis of Fredericksburg; corre-
spending secretary, Mrs. Bever-
ley Roberts of Fredericksburg,
and treasurer. Mrs. Stuart Tan
sill of Fredericksburg.
Mrs. Alfred Bissell of Whining
ton, Del, was elected vice chair
man Of the Board of Regents.
Evening star., 1954-05-07
Aluminium Sprinqbourd

Peter johnson, 1S, of Wem-
bley, England, has been awarded
the Kenneth A. Wright trophy
for developing. Britain's first
aluminium swim tank spring.
board.
Evening star., 1954-05-07

A real buyl Welbilt economy priced
ronses-outstondins performance and
oll-oround cooking results. Fully in
sulofed!
. Automotic Oven Heot control
One giant, three regular size speed
burners
. Seamless enameIed side lining
Evening star., 1954-05-07

A compact but roomy
beauty with full-width
freezer. door shelves
and famous Crosley unit
with 5-year warranty. A
new 1854 model!
Evening star., 1954-05-07

Complete wit h pump,
automatic wringer re-
ease and famous spiral
dasher agitator action.
A new 1858 fully guar
anteed model.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
By Bill Glib

Perhaps you've noticed that
every once in awhile, letter ap-
pears in the Peoples Forum col
umn signed by "H. v. B." In my
estimation, there isn't another per-
son on the Island who possesses
the uncanny ability to express him
self in such a pungent, down-to-
earth style and with such an un-
varying degree of accuracy. l wish
III. v. b. would consider writ
ing a column at least once a
week. I'd gladly donate him my
space if it were necessary.
Writing last Saturday of unrest
in Key West, ''H. v. B." said:
a. it's something more than
growing pains. It's a lot Of talk
and no action. IT'S TOO FEW
PEOPLE LOOKING INTO THE
MIRROR AND ASKING, WERE
YOU HONEST TODAY?'
%. There's something wrong in
Key West. It's not good at all.
We've lost sight of our Unity of
Purpose. Let's stop blaming. Let's
get out of these armchairs and 60
to work."
can't quote the entire letter.
NV boss would accuse me of being
too lazy to write my own column.
Nevertheless, if you missed Satur-
days People Forum letter, sug-
gest that you check back and read
it.
One part of the letter involved
me personally and l particularly
enjoyed "H. v. BIS" insight. Still
referring to the something wrong
| in Key West angle, he says: "Bill
Glib blames citizen lethargy,
choosing himself not to be a leader,
but over-burdening God with the
problem"
Man oh man! Is my face red!
| In order to stay in the good grace
of all other hyprocrites who know
their weak spots and seek to- hide
them, 1 hereby publicly state that
II. v. B." is unfair, unjust, ant
un-anything else that you car
think of. That takes care of the
public proclamation. Now - if YOU
can keep a little private secret
let me say that H. v. B." sort o.
hit the nail on the head.
l do blame citizen lethargy fol
most of our troubles l have
Through fear of social and finan
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
Reporter Foils
Would-Be Robber

SAN ANGELO, Tex. IA news
paper reporter frustrated would
be robber here with the mere flick
OF his press card.
Chester Brooks, IS, a reporter
for the San Angelo Standard Times
was waiting at the Western Union
offices here Sunday night for his
friend to lock up.
Someone poked into Brooks back
what he thought was a knife. A
voice said, Tell your friend to
give me all the money in the
place."
Brooks fished a press card from
his shirt pocket and flourished it
before the intruder, saying, 81 be.
lieve you've made a mistake,
buddy"
Whereupon the intruder backed
out the door and fled.
Joel Martinez, rs, Odessa, Tex,
was arrested later at bus station
and was charged yesterday with
assault with intent to rob.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08

The President told his news con-
ference last week that from then
on he intended to turn what he
called his exclusive attention to
trying to speed congressional ac-
ton on his program. This was his
first opportunity since then to
speak out publicly for that pro-
gram.
So far - with the target date
for adjournment of Congress less
than two months off - few of
Eisenhower's proposals have been
written into law. Many of them
face rough Shedding.
At Chestertown, Eisenhower said
that in this day at is perfectly
necessary that the government do
for us. and with us, many things
that at one time in history would
have been considered reprehen-
sible to our form of government
/.
Then he licked off programs in
the same fields he listed at last
weeks news conference - social
security, agriculture, tax revision,
slum clearance and housing.
He ter m e d these proper
spheres for governmental action"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
German Surrender
Document Sought

LONDON M-Britain's Imperial
War Museum prodded Field Mar
shall Lord Montgomery informally
today to give it one Of the nations
most historic World War II docu-
ments - the German surrender
Montgomery received at Luneburg
May 4, 1915.
The crusty field marshal. now
deputy NATO commander in Eur
d =, disclosed Sunday in q D-Day
broadcast that he has the original
document. He said then he had
been asked for it but it was safely
put away" with his private papers
and he never will part with it.
A. ]. Charge, deputy director Of
the museum, told a reporter today
he didn't think Montgomery "ac-
tually means what he says" that
he "may well decide it should be
put into a national museum.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
~ MARVIN l. ARRoWsMITH

WASHINGTON U - President
Eisenhower says his legislative
program is designed to build the
kind of national strength which
will ''lead Us most certainly to q
life that Is secure and peaceful. "
Going to bat for that program,
the President also said in q speech
yesterday that the proposals he
has placed before Congress don't
overstop the federal governments
function or create q danger the
people in government viii become
merely busybodies."
Eisenhower set forth his views
in an informal 10-minute talk at
commencement exercises on the
campus Of 172-year-old Washington
College in Chestertown, Md.
Before he spoke to about $500
under q scorching sun, he was
awarded an honorary doctor Of
laws degree. An accompanying
citation praised the President as
a man who is devoting chs execu-
tive and diplomatic talents to the
leadership Of our country in a time
of decision unparalleled in the
worlds history"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
Ambulance Plane Victims Found

> ACAPULCO, Mexico R-A Mex
lean ambulance plane bringing an
air crash victim to a hospital here
crashed at sea near this Pacific
resort town yesterday.
A search of the wreckage dis
closed no trace of the injured man,
Teofilo Olea Figueroa, or the two
crewmen. Police at first concluded
all had been killed and their bodies
washed out to sea.
Then late last night searchers
found all three on a lonely beach
near Acapulco, alive but badly
hurt. The crewmen said they had
towed their patient through swift
currents to the beach, then had
lost consciousness.
Olea had been injured in the
earlier crash of his own plane at
Ometepec, 100 miles east Of
Acapulco.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
Eisenhower Goes To Bat For Legislative
Program; Says 1t Will Lead To Security

But he cautioned that because
they come so close to the daily
lives of every citizen, it is up to al
Of us Ito see) that all of that
service is limited to what must
be and need be, and doesn't over.
step and get into something where
they (the people in government)
are being merely busybodies. :"
Turning then to his legislative
program, the President declared,
no such dangers are inherent In
it.
ssAt this moment" he went on,
there is before the Congress a
whole series of these things that
they have been devised to help de.
fine this line between the proper
function of government and those
fields which it should not enter
and should not invade"
Then he said the administration
program attempts to establish be-
fore all of us that kind Of q
strength, at home and abroad, that
will lead most surely to q life
that is secure and peaceful"
Eisenhower few to Dover, Del,
and then motored 20 miles to
Chestertown. He returned the
same way late yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08

Is Considered
Too Tight
BY ELTON e. FAY

WASHINGTON R Secrecy pro-
visions of the Atomic Energy Act
are so tight that the United States
can't tell its allies what it learns
about Russia's nuclear weapons.
The Atomic Energy Commission
is asking Congress to include, in
revision of the law, a section
specifically to permit exchange of
intelligence information on the
"evaluation Of the atomic capabil-
tiles Of potential enemies a.
A literal Interpretation of the
atomic law = and the Acc leans
over backward in cleaving To- both
the letter and spirit of an act
which contains drastic penalties
for violation = is responsible for
the curious situation.
The. present act, which the CON-
mission recommends be amended
to allow some exchange of various
atomic information with friendly
powers contains a definite ban
on communication of restricted
data" to any foreign nation or
national. Information cleaned from
intelligence sources on the capabil.
tiles or intentions of q foreign
power is classified as restricted
top secret, secret or confidential.
This means that even informa-
ton on Soviet atomic tests, picked
up by seismograph (recording
earth shocks at long range), by
analysis Of upper air showing
traces of radioactivity or by in.
telligence coming from agent
sources cannot be passed on to
Britain or other allies unless there
Is a public announcement by the
White House.
Exchange of information is a
two-way street. Britain, feeling
that the tight provisions of the
American Atomic Energy Act have
choked off all data coming from
the United States, is keeping her
own information to herself, includ-
ing intelligence on Soviet atomic
developments.
The Acc put its proposal for
permitting exchange Of intelligence
into the general, overall recon-
mendation for permitting exchange
Of other information with allies,
including the suggestion that the
President be authorized to deter
mine what data on design and
manufacturing methods should be
transmitted to allies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
This Rock
Of Ours
By Bill Glib

cial complications, chosen to a.
void leadership! But worst~of all,
II. v. B." is one hundred per
cent accurate when he says. I've
"overburdened God with the pro-
blemS." .e~>e .~
The last statement reminds me
Of a talk l had with County En-
gineer John Goggin, Of Marathon,
couple of years ago. l can't make
verbatim report of the CONVEX
sation but it went something like
this:
BILL" Goggin said, 'people
have to be careful when calling
on God for assistance. You'll find
more often than not that the person
who constantly yells for help from
Him is apt to be a weak sister
avoiding reality. The truly devout
individual seeks to face the facts
Of life as they exist"
Dick Splaine, meteorologist with
the U. S. Weather Bureau, sums
the situation up in an equally blunt
statement. Again. not quoting ac-
curately but seeking to give the
essence of Splaine's thoughts. /.
Every man has the privilege
of calling on God for aid but in
doing so, he automatically assumes
the responsibility of being Gods
instrument and must be willing to
follow through with Right Action,
Right Thoughts, Right Living."
"This Rock of Ours" is deeply
grateful to H. V. B." for gently
pinching it back to the reality Of
facing facts in a manner more
adaptable to everyday life.
There IS something wrong in
Key West!
"This Rock" doesn't agree with
III. v. B." that much of the blame
can be attached to City officials.
Rather, we must remember that
there are powerful minority forces
outside of the city government who
have been denied the right to as.
sumo control of our town. Like a
spoiled brat who. can't engage in a
game of marbles and win all the
time, this powerful force seems to
have set out to destroy every eff.
fort toward civic improvement. I'll
be quite frank and state that in
my opinion, we're going to have to
clear up this situation or be sat.
isfied to yield to these outside
forces and live as slaves.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
MOSQUITOES SCARCE IN KEY WEST
BUT HoRDES PESTER MIAMI

The Citizen is not striking thanthou attitude
or gloating because a neghboring city is humbugged
when stresses the difference in the mosquito popu
lation in Miami and Key West
Miami newspapers have been discreetly silent about
the plague of mosquitoes in that city, but Miami radio
stations have been harpng the last few days about the
hordes of singing and singing pests that have descended
that city. One station spoke about the millions of
mosquitoes" though the tried to make listen
ers believe he was talking in jocular vein.
For instance, you may do this or that, "n you get
time from sappng at mosquitoes" He also spoke of
his whmpering and whining dog that literally
cred" with mosquitoes He let the dog into the house and
had to spray him to kill the pests on him.
OF course, Miami has had much more rain recently
than has fallen in Key West But that is not the reason
for the scarcity of mosquitoes here and the millions of
them in Miami Miam's mosquitoes are not spawned in
Miami; they into the city from the Everglades
when westerly winds blow
AS for Key West, the mosquto-control fight here
has been surprisingly successful The Citizen can't speak
for every and in the town. but as
be learned there part of the community that both
cred with mosquitoes.
Back in the old days. the chief breeding places for
mosquitoes in Key West were the many freshwaer ponds
In the undeveoped part of the CITY, One of them Grassy
Pond, located off White Street. the westerly side
two blocks beyond United Street@Other ponds, which
ideal breeding places, situated in the sparsey
inhabited part of the island from White Street to the
northerly end.
But development eliminated all those ponds. An
other factor in keeping down the mosquito population
is that Key West has open cisterns had in
the old days The few remaining cstens today have
crete tops and outlets for the overflow are SCREENED
The female of the species among mosquitoes may
apty paraphrase and expand that old saying far
Key West concerned water, water, everywhere,
but it's hard to find drop fresh enough in which to lay
my eggs"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
Monsoon Stops
.Nepal Expedition

NEW DELHI IA --Himalayan
mountaineering sources said today
Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of
mighty Mt. Everest. is leading his
New Zealand expedition out of
Nepal after a siege of pneumonia.
Early monsoon storms cut short
his efforts to climb still unscaled
Mt. Makalu.
The sources said Hillary had
successfully recovered from the
pneumonia attack after a difficult
descent to base camp from a camp
22,5O0 feet up the face of the a, $50.
foot peak.
Hillary's brief message was
brought to Jogbani by a runner
the famous climber dispatched.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
Railroad Chief Has Fun With His Profits
By MERRILL sWEpLuNp
N Newsfeatvrss

N Newsfsatvrss
ANDERSON, Ind. - Ike Duffey
says it's more fun to have 4 pri-
vate car on the Central Indiana
Railway than to draw 4 salary as
president. Almost every Saturday
and sometimes once or twice dur
ing the week he rounds up a group
of "neighbors" on the 44-miIe line
and they ride in the luxurious pri-
vate car attached to . freight
train. His wife serves hors d'oeuv-
res.
anyone who wants to play rail-
road can come and well play rail-
road" Duffey says.
Behind the fun is solid business
success. The little line had been
piling up big losses since 1899 -
as high as SPAS, 900 in one year -
when Duffey was made president
in mid 1851. That year there was
$500 profit. Last year there was
$39, 7S7 net, and he was offered q
salary. He took the private car in
stead and still works for 81 year.
Duffey got into the livestock and
meat business at Is and friends
say he made a million before he
was 26. He. retired at AZ. owner of
three packing plants. But he could
not take retirement and he loved
railroads. That's when he applied
for the unpaid job as railroad pre-
sident. With 81 employees, he be-
gan to dig the a miles of track out
Of the weeks.
Everyone along the railroad is
our neighbor,"r he says. II don't
anything about the mechanical side
of it and I don't care to. I love
the click of wheels on the rails. {"
He's spruced up railroad build
ings and encouraged new business
es along the line. One firm which
bought an old plant couldn't even
find the railroad siding in the
weeds. But that kind of thing is
changing fast.
He spends most of his time out
on the line and the thing he stress
es most is neighborliness.
The birthday Of a customers
child is a. good excuse for a trip
in the private car. When one fam
lily lost its home in an explosion,
there was a box car for temper
airy furniture storage.
He still sponsors baseball excur.
sion trains to- Cincinnati, some
thing he started before he quit the
meat packing business. But most Of
his attention goes into the railroad.
81 don't feel the Central India
ma is on a sound basis yet, he
says. when it is, well, then we
can talk about q salary"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
AGED MAN, AGED
CYCLE ON LONG TREK

KANSAS CITY "a - Glen o.
Miller, "A, of South Gate, Calf,
is crossing the continent on a 1926
motorcycle. He's on his way to
visit a stepson, Harold o. Miller,
in Niagara Falls, NY.
Travelling only in daytime, the
retired woodworker took IA days
to get here from California. He
resumed his journey today after
weeks visit with another stepson
here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
REST LEAVES CUT

TOKYO R-The Far East Com
mand today said rest and recuper.
alton leave flights from South
Korea would be cut 90 per ceat
beginning today, indicating step.
ped-up airlift activity to Indochina.
The command said the cut would
last for several days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
COMMUNICATION FOR POLICE


Editor, The Citizen
once read that high intelligence decsveness and
great human kindness made the difference between just
a cop and officer of the law.
This displayed in its best form by one officer,
Atkins, in experimenting customer in Lnigis Restaur
ant for dsorderly conduct and drunkenness the night
of June /. -
If he represents the caliber officer this city en-
ploys, then their force is one of the best
He is of highest credit to himself and the officers
with whom he works. Sincerely,
MRS. E. O. MITCHELL
18-D Arthur Sawyer Road,
Sigshee Park %@
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
PEOPLES FORUM

The Citizen welcomes expressions Of s views o. lie read
but the editor the right to delete any items which
considered ibslevs writers should
f. and eenne the letters 200 words and write side
Of the only Signature Of the writer accompany the
letters and will be published unless requested Otherwise
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08
FOOD SHORTAGE SEEN

UNITED NATIONS, NY. u
A U.N. report says parts of tropi.
cal Africa are threatened with food
shortages because so many Afri-
cans have left their farms to work
for wages elsewhere.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08

Pyrethrum, the insecticide, is en-.
tracted from daisies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-08

Individuals who spend most of their time talking
about other people seldom amount to anything.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-21
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