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The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

NEW YORK R-Facts, fancies
and figures from an oddity almanac
in a modern world:
Let's start off with the girls,
since they interest everyone. Are
"falsies" really necessary? Even
girls torn by doubt, or stern femi-
nine honesty, now have a choice
in their solution. A manufacturer
has come out with brassiere
coated with a thin layer OF foam
rubber to achieve a desired sill
houette, and claims he is doing
very well overseas from Belgium
to Peru.
Do you know how often your
heart beats? If you live the biblical
span of 10 years, il. viii pulse be.
tween two and three billion times.
The encyclopedias are chary of
saying how often the average hu-
man heart beats. They don't want
to worry you, but mine checks IS
when I am not worried, and 100
plus when the boss is looking. But
they will tell you that a horses
heart beats 80 times 4 minute,
these are the ones l bet and lose
on; and a mouse races his pumper
500 to 900 times every 60 seconds.
Names not only make news they
also make you wonder. The town
of Smackover, Ark, for example,
came from the French term,
Chemin Convert, meaning covered
road, and I can't find out why. The
authorities all agree on Smack.
over, but nobody I know claims to
know how Wham, La, got its
punch. Business firms are easier
to trace. The Rugcrofters, a major
hand-woven rug company now in
in Puerto Rico, migrated from
North Carolina, where its weavers
still held to the old Scottish word
croft" meaning a small firm.
You probably never bothered to
think about how the great Shell
Oil Co., got its tag. Well, back in
the 1s30s it was a small general
trading company that, among other
things, earned a fast buck by i'm
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

Well, well, our good friend Cecil
Webb is living high - on the tax
payers dough.
Webb, according to an Associat-
ed Press dispatch from Tallahas-
see, will soon be riding around in
a brand new Lincoln automobile.
The State Road Board is picking
up the tab for the limousine which
will presumably carry Webb about
the state to fulfill his duties as
chairman of the state road board.
Capital Lincoln-Mercury, of Talla.
hassee, were low bidders for the
car.
Webb, you'll remember, is the
guy who raised such a hue and
cry about alleged high living at
Pigeon Key during the Overseas
Road and Toll Bridge expose"
Webb was particularly critical of
the fact that the districts assets
included a Chrysler automobile.
And now he'll be dashing about
the state in a Lincoln.
What's the matter with 4 Che
vrolet, Mr.. Webb?
After all, what we need most in
government these days is economy.
Even you ought to agree with
that, Mr.. Webb.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02
Convict Halls
Woman LAWYER
For Time Cain

SALT LAKE CITY R-Speakins
through Utah State Prison guard
Don Jesse Neal praised his petite
woman attorney as "the best law.
yer in the world" yesterday after
learning that US. Supreme Court
Justice Tom c. Clark had cancelled
his scheduled date with a Utah
firing squad at dawn tomorrow,
Clark'S stay was issued over the
weekend to allow Meals attorneys
to file a habeas corpus petition be-
fore the court. The action gives
the Utah convict - sentenced to
die for the 1851 shooting of a Salt
Lake policeman - at least three
more months of life.
Although attorneys for the
American Civil Liberties Union
handled Meals plea for a stay be-
fore the US. high court, his praise
was directed at Miss Billy Hulsey.
the Salt Lake City attorney who
took over leadership of his fight
for life last June.
/ am very thankful that the
Lords will has been DONE" Neal
SAID. I'm very grateful to Miss
Hulsey, and to all the others who
have helped me-"
Herbert Monte Levy, staff coun-
sci for the American Civil Liber.
ties Union, said the new appeal
will be based on contentious Neal
did not have a fair trial because
OF the use of testimony known
to be perjured."
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

Mel Levitt will step down short
ly as president of the Key West
Motor Court Association.
Few people seem to be aware
of the accomplishments of that Or
ganization in the single year it has
been in existence.
In addition to promoting gener-
ally the welfare and standards Of
the local motel industry, it success
fully pushed for the erection Of sew
eral billboards up the state extoll-
ing the virtues of Key West as d
tourist center and was the moving
spirit behind the construction of
the municipal fishing pier. The
Chamber of Commerce has, by re.
solution, recognized the motel asso-
citation as official spokesmen for
the motel industry in Key West.
Levitt, a comparative newcomer
to the city, was the man who con-
ceived the idea of such an organi-
zation and put the wheels in mo-
ton for its formation. A New York
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02
All American
'An'lines Planes
Are Grounded

CHICAGO, R-All planes Of
American Airlines, the nations
largest air carrier, were grounded
today as a pilots strike for an
elght-hour day entered its third
day.
The way was clear also for
strikes against two other big lines
Trans World Airlines and United
Air Lines - but a spokesman for
the AL Air Line Pilots Assn. said
no immediate strike action is con.
templated.
The spokesman indicated the
union believes TWA and United
will accept whatever settlement is
reached with American. But strike
votes were taken three weeks aso
among United and TWA pilots, he
said, and they voted to walk out IL
union officers decide. to call a
strike.
The issue In all three cases il
the scheduling of nonstop trans
continental flights of more than
eight hours.
The union president, c. N. Sayen,
proposed a solution yesterday
which he said would entail mo
additional pilots or cost" He pro-
posed changes of plane crews on
flights of more than eight hours
duration.
There was no immediate com.
ment from the airline.
The ALPA struck American Air
lines at midnight Friday and all
planes were grounded yesterday
upon returning to home bases. The
airline employs 1900 pilots.
Other airlines were adding flights
to accommodate additional passen-
gers. Six lines added 90 flights
from New York yesterday.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

Tony was gone and Peter had a
dickens of a time getting the bird
to repeat the whistle so that he
could convince the woman that he
wasn't trying to pick her up.
The boys better stick with gold
fish!
Which brings up another odd
fact. Peter Keeps mis- goldfish at
the store. He has mixed the local
salt water variety with the fresh
water fish and they are all living.
l never knew that this could be
done. (Truth of the matter is that
Pm still a little. skeptical of the
facts but I wouldn't want to hurt
Peters feeling by saying so.)
The Key West Safety Council
The Key West Safety Council will
meet next Wednesday. 1t won't
be long until school starts and
members are anxious to get a pro-
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02
PEOPLES FORUM

The Citizen welcomes expressions Of ths views its read
eFs but the editor the right delete any items which
are considered bsovs The writer's should be
fair and eonne The letters to 200 words on side
Of the only Signature Of the writer s
letters and will be published unless requested Otherwise
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

attorney for many years before he
wandered south, Levitt is a man
of great energy and organization
al ability.
We hope that the next president
Of the motel association will car.
ry on in the Levitt tradition.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

1t is estimated that $1O,OOOOOO worth of radio-TV
coverage was given the McCarthyArm hearings Even
more valuable treatment was given the show in the
countrys newspapers All that for drama with
cluson.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

Miss leen Williams, who for a
number of years has been juvenile
judge for Monroe County, offers
to serve, in the future, in the cap
acity without compensation. In 4
letter to the commissioners read
at the meeting of the board last
night, she sets forth her decision,
giving her reasons for offering free
services, the financial condition of
the county.
Major P. L. Wall, 265th Coast
Artillery, Florida National Guard,
will arrive over the highway in
the official car this afternoon to
take charge of preparing the en-.
campment at Fort Taylor.
There is at this time in Key West
population Of 1855, according
to the census recently concluded
by enumerators working under the
direction of Donald Corley and
Harold Ballou, for the FERA.
Il X r
August Z, 1914
It was reported today at the
county courthouse that an effort
will be made, at a meeting of the
county commission tonight, to
have the county sponsor the con-
struction of a beach in Key West.
City council last night authoriz-
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

o. T. Ray, Atlanta \ regional
director of the Federal Works
Agency, will arrive in Key West
Monday, and City Council last
night took steps to whip several
proposed projects into presentable
shape for him.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

We know of no who has made enemies by going
to church.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

One consolation for the hot summer days is the
number of beautiful summer nights
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

ed borrowing a total Of $500 to
meet payrolls.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

Everybody depends upon the farmer for food but
not seek to ascertain what the farmer depend
upon.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

The mutual exchange of compliments is the hall
mark of the near-great
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02

Why is it that most people get excited over moth
ing?
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02
RED THREATENS WEST

Russian First Deputy Premier Lazar M. Kaganovich
recently told massed group of railroad workers. meeting
in the Kremn that the Red Army would reach out
ther than Berlin if another international conflict over
takes the world.
The Soviet official thus warned the West that Com
munist armies would invade West Europe if new war
And he told Russian railroad workers the Soviet
transportation system would be up the task just as it
had been when Hitler attacked Russia in 194 if that day
Despite the assuring words Kaganovichs speech con-
frmed what western observers had long suspected
In revealing that Soviet production Of railroad rolling
stock had been down sharply in the past few years. the
Deputy Premier supported the theory many weserners
who believe the Korean War forced the Russians to
tail civilian production of heavy goods in favor of mill
tary production.
The large numbers of railroad rolling stock trucks
and mechanical equipment destroyed by the u S. Air
Force in the three of Korean fighting thought
to have imposed strain Red production facilities at
the me though there way of gauging the extent
at that time.
Now it appears that one result of that destruction
has been slower buid-up of rolling stock USSR rail-
roads This could we'll be of number of slowups in
Soviet production caused by the Korean War; and nd
cation why the Russians willing to settle for
that left South Korea in the position before
the North Koreans attacked that country in 1850.
Why is it that most people get so excited over moth
We know of no one who has made enemies by going
to church.
The mutual exchange of compliments is the hall
mark of the near-great.
One consolation for the hot days is the
number of beautiful summer nights
Everybody depends upon the farmer for food but
not seek to ascertain what the farmer depend
upon.
1t is estimated that $1O,OOOOOO worth of radio-TV
given the Mccarthy Army hearings Even
more valuable treatment given the show in the
countrys newspapers. All that for drama with
cluson.
The Key West citizen., 1954-08-02
August Z. 1914

City council last night authoriz-
Evening star., 1954-04-04

headed by DR.. Herbert P. Ram
sey. said:
l. It is probably true the HSA
has been made the target Of
various studies and proposals
primarily because the Com
munity Chest of Washington has
failed to meet its goals, has
never made sufficient appropria-
ton to the disqualification fund,
has never recognized a cost rate
sufficient to reimburse hospitals
for their care of Chest patients.
2. Since the HSA administers
funds for four Community
Chests in the Metropolitan Area
and also funds Of five local tax
supported agencies, the Com
munity Chest of Washington is
not the only party in interest.
3. Since doctors, hospitals and
the lay public have a very great
interest in this matter, and since
they had no part in the pre-
liminary draft of your recon-
mendation. it may be regarded
as undiplomatic and unfair to
ask them to approve or disap-
prove the draft.
4. We deplore the attitudes
which have developed in the last
20 years which serve to divorce
the District from surrounding
areas in voluntary activities.
S. It is not apparent that the
hospitals acting as q group
through the Hospital Council
would assume the function your
recommendation delegates to
them. It is our opinion they
cannot.
6. If the recommendation was
carried it would only bring
nearer the day of a united hos
pital fund drive separate from
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Duff Calls H-Bonnb
Greatest Threat
BY shs Assoeio,ed Pres.

PITTSBURGH, Pa. April B.
Senator Duff, Republican of
Pennsylvania said tonight that
the hydrogen bomb explosions in
the South Pacific are "the great
est threats to civilization in all
history"
Senator Duff, a member Of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee. said in a speech prepared
for a Young Republican rally
here that a new type of warfare
may make Americas industrial
strength its greatest weakness
in the future.
1.-THE industrial supremacy Of
America is the prime factor in
the world leadership of Amer
ica," he said. "Our industries
have made more products. of
better quality and at less cost.
than any other nation. The SUI
premacy. in considerable part. is
due to concentration of our in
dustries and to the streamlined
assembly methods which concen-
tration makes possible.
"Yet the industrial supremacy
of America is susceptible to these
vastly destructive new weapons.
Thus, our national strength can
well become our national weak
ness unless we devise new meth
DDS to meet this new challenge" "
Senator Duff said "It is re-
assuring to know that our top
military leaders. as well as the
President of the United States
are planning bold steps to
meet the challenge"
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Medical Society, Chest Group
Clash on Hospital Service Unit

responsible to the Chest and for
the disqualification program.
The committee shopped around
and suggested the Hospital
Council-made UP Of represent.
atives Of all District hospitals
except one (Georgetown) --as
the place where the basic man
agement responsibility of the
disqualification program should
rest.
Represents Hospitals.
While considered loose knit"
in some quarters, the Hospital
Council is, nevertheless, the only
organization which represents
area hospitals. 1t has represent
ed hospitals in the past in
negotiations with Group Hos
pitalization, Inc, the District
Government, commercial insur-
ance companies and in other
problems.
In resting its suggestion on
the Hospital Council idea, the
committee added that it would
be out of the question 'to deal
with each hospital separately"
over the disqualification program.
Going further into the idea,
the committee recommended
that the machinery and person.
mel of the HSA would be re-
tanned, that is, its method Of
screening patients and certify
ing they are medically INDECENT"
as well as the method of re-
capturing funds which patients
might be able to raise sometime
after their illness occurred.
HSA Lists Objections.
Some time after the commit
tee made it's recommendations
to the UCS and its report went
out to interested groups in the
Washington area, the Hospital
Service Agency, under the sigma
ture Of the Rev. Paul A. Nc
Nally of Georgetown Hospital.
president of the agency, came
out with its objections.
These included:
/. If the recommendation was
accepted, the HSA would be dis
solved and its functions taken
over by the Hospital Council.
2. Arguments by the Hospitali-
zation Committee boil down to
the conclusion that if the Board
Of Trustees of HSA could be got
rid of all would be well" so
long as the agency was incor-
porated in the Hospital Council.
| 3. The recommendation leads
one to suppose that HSA. as con-
Quoted by its present trustees, is
a failure. but that as a working
social facility it is indispen-
sable.
4. HSA is as much a creature
of the medical profession as it
is of the Community Chest. The
committee is unaware of or jig
nores this fact.
S. HSA is conscious of efforts
of both Chest and hospital in
terestS to belittle and neglect
both its achievements and capa-
hilities in the service Of them
both.
Meanwhile. the District Medi-
cal Society. at least its Executive
Board. had been sent a set of
| the recommendations by the
disqualification Committee and
asked for its views. The doc
tors are involved in the hospital
ization program for it is their
time and service they give to
the certified, medically INDECENT
Chest patient.
Board Answers.
Turning down the recon-
mendation, the Executive Board
Evening star., 1954-04-04

the Community Chests of the
area.
HSA grew out of a protest by
doctors in 1884 against con-
tributing both cash and free
medical services to the Wash
ington Community Chest when
it was discovered inadequate
screening permitted free med
ical care to persons who were
not medically INDECENT. Since
then. HSA has undertaken the
screening process as well as the
Chest payment to hospitals.
It also acts as the screening
agent for the Chests Of Alex
andria, Fairfax and Prince
Georges: for welfare boards in
Alexandria, Fairfax, Fauouier,
Prince William and Loudoun
Counties and for hospitals not
members of the Hospital Coun-
Gil.
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Chief Defends His Order
To Fire on Speeding Cars
BY the Associosed Press

VINCENNES. Ind. April B.
Police Chief James F. Harlow
today defended his order to po-
lice to use rifles if necessary to
halt speeding cars. but he de-
MED directing them to shoot at
drivers.
Chief Harlow said his patrol
men had instructions to use
rifles to stop speeders who won't
stop when they are given ample
warning"
1--WE told the officers to stop
speeders who try to get away,
by whatever means necessary"
the chief told a newsman. He
added they had used rifles to
halt cars on three successive
nights this week.
Carl Hale, an 18-year-old
Springville youth, was killed by
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Rx John McKeIWoX

A bitter struggle is shaping up
between the District Medical
Society and United Community
Services over the future Of the
Hospital Service Agency.
HSA is the outfit that dis
penses to the city's hospitals the
lump sum of Chest funds turned
over to it by UCS to pay the bills
Of the patient unable to pay.
Last year, the sum totaled $780,
026 which brought hospital care
at a rate Of $l4.80 per day.
The clash arises out of a rec
ommendation of the UCS hos
pitalization committee that HSA
be abolished and its functions
be taken over by the Hospital
Council, representing all the local
hospitals.
HSA'S board Of trustees vio-
lently opposes the suggestion and
is supported by the Medical
Society through its executive
board.
Meeting Set April 80.
The executive board has set
an April 80 meeting to consider
the problem and invited UCS
to send delegates. The invita-
ton, however. was sharply re-
Jected by UCS President Charles
c. Glover who said he felt no
useful purpose would be served
oy being represented at the meet
ing. UCS officials have taken
otfense at some of the material
circulated attacking their COM
m1ttee report. Meanwhile. the
issue is due for an airing at the
UCS executive committee meet
ing Tuesday.
The UCS committee, headed bv
Fisher Howe. State Department
official, makes this case for its
position:
If this basic recommenda-
ton is put into effect. the Chest
disqualification program has ev-
cry prospect for improvement
and for ever-increasing service
10 the community If it Is not
ERECTED or is compromised .
the UCS disqualification pro-
gram will never assume the
place 1t should in the commu-
lty and will continue to be a
source of concern, worry and
friction which has T.. given rise
to this and previous studies"
Between Chest and Hospital.
While not finding fault with
the management of the Hos
pltal Service Agency, the COM
mittee said that the HSA was
actually standing between the
Chest and the hospitals. And
1t was the hospitals, the COM
mittee added, that were render
ing the services paid for by the
Chest land no one else"
But, the committee stated.
THE Hospital Service Agency is
responsible neither to Chest nor
hospital; it is autonomous and
self-perpetuating, accountable
alone to it's own self the
concept of an independent
agency standing between the two
major parties is no longer
valid"
In short. the committee
wanted the disqualification pro-
gram of the Chest placed in the
same relationship to the Chest
that exists in all other Chest
programs.
But in dealing with the hos
pitals as Chest agencies-mak-
ing it their responsibility to re-
quest Chest fundS-the commit
tee felt there should be estab-
lished a central Office directly
Evening star., 1954-04-04
Seventh Child Free.
Ohio Hospital Rules
BY The A,.oeiui.d Pres,

DAYTON, Ohio.-Take home
six and the seventh is free is the
new policy for motherhood at a
hospital here. Same thing goes
for the 14th, 21st, 28th and 35th
children in a family.
The hospital says it's just a
way Of recognizing the fact large
families are becoming more pop
ular.
Average cost for having a
child at this hospital is $110.
Several families have benefited
in the few weeks the program
has been in effect.
Evening star., 1954-04-04

a police bullet early Tuesday
in high-Speed chase that start
ed at Lawrenceville, ILL.,, and
ended in a dead-end street in
Vincennes. This shooting oc-
CURED before Chief Harlow is
sued his order.
Evening star., 1954-04-04

INVOLVED IN HOSPITAL AGENCY FIGHT-These are the
principal figures involved fight
the Hospital Service Agency
Evening star., 1954-04-04

Decorative Builders
sos 18th St. NV.
District Line HoTdweFa
5000 Dix st. NE.
FTonk's
$40 @ St. NV.
Georse's Rodio 8 ~ Co., Inc.
$50 st. NV.
Georges Rodio 8 TV Co., Inc.
Sth & Z SITS. NV.
Georges Rodio 8 ~ Co., Inc.
I'LL H st. NE.
Georges Radio 8 N Co., Inc.
S16 F st. NV.
Georgetown Electric Co.
l:o5 Wisconsin Ave. NV.
Home Appliance Co.
1921 II ct. NE.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-07

them once in q while. They're
so very much on the defensive
these days - begged down by
social consciousness, suffused
with guilt when they dare to buy
the luxuries they can afford so
easily - and it's amazing how
they'll respond to the slightest
kindness.
Louis Kronenberger, playwright
and critic. had this all in mind
when. in the course of a lecture
tour, he found himself in the osten-
tatious new mansion of a couple
who had risen virtually overnight
from rags to riches.
The hostess was leaning over
balcony, and Louis remarked gal
lantly, You're the very person.
ifcation of Juliet up there! Now
all you need is a Romeor you
must remember" she answered
sharply, that the house isn't fin
ished yeti"
Later Kronenberger ventured,
with all this empty wall space l
daresay you'll be investing in some
old masters"
81 should say not" snapped
the hostess. ''NOw we can afford
to get ourselves painted!
THERE'S a hilarious new collec-
ton of cartoons concerning the
didoes of the well-heeled that's
worthy of your attention, too.
Hey, Can't You Forget Busi-
ness?" is the title. and all the
contents appeared originally in
the wall Street Journal."
l was particularly amused by
the picture Of a mighty magnate
sitting at his enormous land emp
ty) desk in his enormous land
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after one strenuous season in Lon
don that she needed a bit of COM
muning with the idle rich in Ber-
muda. She contacted the owner of
a fine estate there she had heard
about. and asked for particulars
by mail. The owner neglected to
inform her that his estate was
separated from the mainland by a
small channel. All he wrote was
The place rents for twenty-five
thousand dollars a year. but with
the boatman's services included,
the price will be thirty thousand"
Miss Lille studied the COM
nluniquc, then cabled owner,
kindly rush photograph Of
the boatman." BENNETT CERT