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FORT MYERS (Fla.) NEWS-PRESS, Tuesday Morning, March 16, 19'i4 '-But Who's Going to Bell Along the Waterfront Singing on the Waterfront Tonight i Fort Myers News-Press Established l4- Kuily Since IS1I Published Every Morning Seven Days Week by News-Press Publishing Co. CARL HANTON President 1931-1961 WILLIAM SPEAR, Editor CH ESLE PERRY. General Manafar By Capt. Ernie Hall TOM MATH EBON Circulation Manager DEWEI MURPHT Advertising Director KOBERT R. PEPPER News Editor I rear $18.

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1871 TELEPHONE 1-1149. COLLIER ARCADE, BROADWAX. FORT MYERS. FLA. AfTkc The Elks are sponsoring a blood bank collection here March 18 and 19.

That seems awfully soon after March 15. Four valuable cats were stolen from an apartment in Chicago. Sounds like a feliney, The Army's new policy of "massive retaliation" apparently doesn't apply to Sen. McCarthy. The World Health Organization reports there was no influenza epidemic anywhere in the world this winter.

In other countries they must be calling it some kind of virus name too. THERE WILL BE SINGING on the waterfront tonight. Charlie Wyland and his band of Barbershop Singers greatly appreciate the splendid support you gave them at their annual show March 5 and would like to sing for you again tonight. The curtain raises (or does it slide sidewise?) at eight o'clock at the- Civic Center auditorium but you had better be early and get a good seat. If you come dragging in late, you will annoy the others and miss some of the show yourself, 7:30 should not be too soon and, if you have any money on you, keep it in your pocket.

This show is with our compliments. Our own Wallie Byers will lead the audience In the singing of those good old songs we love so well. IT IS OFTEN SAID that Amer-ica is the melting pot of all nations and this is as true on the water as it is on the land. The Aloha is a 72-foot yacht with an Hawaiian name but built in Stamford, the city of phony flintlocks owned by George M. Clark, president of the Pioneer Bank of Chattanooga, skippered by a Frenchman, Capt.

Jean R. Mailhot and with an altogether charming and vivacious Canadian beauty aboard as cruise guest. The young lady is Miss Ann Gordiy, of Port Arthur, Ont. We used to run iron ore out of Port Arthur when we were with the Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Company. If Miss Gordiy had been there then, we probably would have stayed.

The Aloha is cruising In these latitudes, far from the ice and snow of Chattanooga, and everyone aboard seems to be satisfied with the status quo. The yacht flies the burgee of the Chattanooga Yacht Club. THE GRAND DAME is exactly what her name implies. 65-foot o.a., built by the American Car and Foundary Company for dis- criminating yachtsmen who would have nothing but the best Jed Harris, New York producer. But came the time when business responsibilities kept Harris away from his beautiful ship and she went on the block to be purchased by Capt.

Weldon W. Poole, of Covington, La. Capt. Poole is in the yacht basin aboard the Grand Dame, waiting for Capt Andrew Sanders of the Sea Fox to adjust hit compass. Compass adjusting is one of Capt.

Sander's many accomplishments. We had a nice gam with Capt. Poole and found him very ardent in his admiration of Fort Myers. He was especially happy over the courteous treatment extended him by dockmaster, Capt. John, and other yachtsmen along our waterfront.

Capt. Poole just bought the Grand Dnme at Miami and is taking her through to New Orleans aided and abetted by a home town friend, G. E. Morse. The two gentlemen will meet their wives at Pensacola and do some Gulf cruising with their new ship.

THE SHELLEY KAY IV is nn old friend of Fort Myers, having been cruising these waters every winter for the past several years During the summer season the boat is kept at Port Washington. When that time of year comes that "the birds fly South asrain the Shelley Kay IV turns her prow in the direction of the "Sunshine State," in charge of her capable navigator, Capt. Jack Fal-haber. Shelley Kay IV is a beautiful 60-foot Annapolis cruiser, owned by Mr. and Mrs.

J. B. Rich, of Huntington, Va She has been cruising on the East Coast the past couple of months and is now enroute to Sarasota to spend another month before going to her summer headquarters The Riches are entertaining as cruise guests, Mr. and Mrs.R. E.

Salbati and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Hamilton, all of Huntington, who flew down in their private plane to the Fort Myers airport Mr.

Salbati is president of the Island Creek Coal Company, of Huntington, and Hamilton is vice-president. The Shelley Kay flies the burgee of the Sarasota Yacht Club. NOTICE to the many Fort Myers friends of Martha and Albert Schaerer, of Detroit, and Stuart. They are in port again, aboard their beautiful yacht, Markay. The multiplicity of our obligations and commitments have prevented our seeing the Schaerers but we are going to and so are you.

contain, in the miles of roads they now have which must be maintained, and in their needs for new roads. But even if the five districts should be revised and made exactly equal this year, developments in one part of the county instead of another would throw them out of kilter again next year. Under consolidation it wouldn't matter how unequal the five districts might be all would be assured of their fair share of the available road money, for instead of allocating the money by districts the commissioners would allocate it by projects. would get together and lay out a road program for the county, and presumably employ a competent county engineer or road superintendent to carry it out. Then too, there would be more roads built for the same money, for the wastefulness and duplications of the present system would be eliminated.

Would this mean that a commissioner would abdicate his function of representing his district, or that a man who needed a ditch dug or 'a road graded would have nowhere to go to get it done? Not at all. But it would mean that personal favoritism would no longer be a factor. If a man "stood in" with his commissioner and his request was a legitimate one, he would get his request granted, of course; and if it happened that he was on the outs with his particular commissioner but his request was a worthy one, it still would receive the impartial consideration of the county board. Consolidation would mean, in essence, that citizens would have five commissioners looking after their interests instead of just one. Each commissioner would continue to look after his district but in doing so the five commissioners would no longer ride off in five different directions.

They would pool their efforts, their equipment, their money and their abilities in the interests of the county as a whole. ii rt wr KCA tat THE CONSOLIDATION ISSUE Since consolidation has now been made a definite issue in the two County Commission contests to be decided in the May primary, every voter should understand clearly what it's all about how the present system works and what the change would do. At present each of the five commissioners operates his own road department in his own district, having his own trucks and other equipment, his own barn, his own foreman and road crews, and building his own roads with little correlation to the work of the other districts. The duplication of equipment with consequent extra expense and the lack of planning in this system are obvious. To finance this work, the tax money received by the county for roads is divided equally among the five districts, and while that may sound like a fair way to do, actually it is grossly unfair.

The reason it is unfair is that the districts are unequal. They are unequal in population, ranging from 3,200 in the smallest to 7,440 in the largest, and they are unequal in area, in the amount of taxes they pay, in the value of properties they looking Sideways In the Maiibag rk II Hdi JQD DOT AIM) LOIS 01 fUll ttrltsra arcs By Whitney Bolton WELL, IT'S DONE. And in. And letters The aasae mar Clvsa la coBffdrnrs saa a aa aaaw um4 lot Irttsra af ccarral Mrasloa tool an peaastna will aa arrailtira wlifi aerauaal attacks arc In alva4. Pleas keep lettan aaae.

looking 'Em Over First Come, First Served Then Cat Auction The Great Game of Politics By Henry McLemore Strategy Adopted by Stevenson By Frank R. Kent accepted. And I don't recommend the job to anyone who hasn't salt in his veins and iron in his muscle. It's about 80,000 words long and if there is any error in it I can't find it and neither can its subject, Conrad Hilton. Nor can associates of his who have read it In manuscript.

It was a long, detailed and painstaking job of research. Hilton has had an astonishing and colorful career. He probably knows 10,000 people and if I missed any of them, I'm sorry. I tried to see as many as I could. Therp were a few errors, but they were detected early and corrected.

They didn't amount to much as errors, but it was best to clean them up. The only problem in doing a definitive book about a man like Hilton is that he won't stay put. You snend days assembling a roster of the hotels he owns, plus (he hotels in construction abroad, nlus hotels abroad for which plans have been made and two days later he may buy or sell another hotel or a brace of them. While the hook was in progress he sold one New York hotel. The Plaza, moved hack in an a management basis and bought the New Yorker.

It upset calculations as to the number of sleeping rooms he controlled and the total number of employees on his payrolls. That particular kind of deal was made in time to correct the book' facts. By the time it Is published the facts may be awry again. Hilton deals in hotels the way most peonle buy onnges. THE MAJOR DISCOVERIES made during weeks of study were that Hilton is an earnestly prayerful man, an ardent and loyal citizen of the United States and a believer in foreign enterprises for alert American business men.

These, probably, are virtues common to thousands of men. But it wa interesting to find, In these reputedly material days, a man of great business consequences who found reality in prayer. It was interesting to find business daring, a firm quotient of courage and a forthright point of view about our obligations to the world in geireral. Hilton is a complex man. He it deceptively simple on the surface, but beneath there is a maze of ambitions and accomplishments.

Ha is a man with one master rule: close up shop at 6 p.m. He rise early, works hard all dav, is constantly aware of what very bne of his far-flung hotel i doing for its community and in its community, but when 6 o'clock comes he locks it all up, erase it from his mind and enjoys life. He ran be in the midst of a detailed, intricate negotiation involving literally million of dollars and put it all away at sundown. HE IS A MAN so dedicated to truth and honor that, once, whpn he had only a few minute left before closing an eight million dollar hotel deal he dmcovered ha was one million dollars short of having enough money-and got it in full in one piece with a short telephone call. He called Henry Crown, Chicago financier, and started to say; "Henry, we are about to close here and I am one million dollar sho That's a far as he got.

"That's all right, Connie," said Crown send it right over." Ami he did. He started with $5,000 in cash, hoping to be a banker. In a few years he was a dominant hotel man in the Southwest. In even fewer ypiirs he was literally and actually dead broke and owed $500,000 on top of that. Lots of men go broke.

Lots of men go completely broke. To the point where they may have less than a quarter in their pockets. But few are flat broke, owe half a million dollars, get up off the floor to pay it all back, and can command a million dollars in cash on the basis of an unfinished sentence on a telephone. Hilton whs a fascinating subject all the way. He was also a difficult subject.

His life had a thousand facets'. In short, I worked like a dog, And enjoyed every minute of it. Farrnr, Strauss Young will publish it this summer. For the first time In our heretofore conspicuously formal relationship let me break down and say: Connie, it wa fun. Answer to Previous Puzzle some of the sweetest pups in there you ever saw." We were spreading the anti-cat gospel when the doors opened, and 1 barely managed to go through the door with the man we feared the most.

Mary streaked to the cat cage, but she got there in a photo finish with a man and his wife, both of. whom had Reen the Siamese kitten last week and were determined to get him. (Incidentally, the man we feared turned out to be looking for a collie for his boy.) WHEN I GOT to the cat department Mary had her hand through the wire holding one front paw, anfl the other woman had her hand through the wire holding the other front paw. And the husband had a finger poked inside stroking the kitten's head. So I poked a finger through and started stroking the kitten under the neck.

We were in this position, and glowering at one another, when the SPCA man came around. Mary said she'd die if she didn't get the kitten. The other lady said sh'd die if she didn't get it. The other husband said he'd die if his wife died. I said he didn't have anything' on me that I'd die if my wife keeled over from disappointment.

The SPCA man said there was only one way to settle the matter, and that was to auction off the Siamese. I didn't think much of this, having only $8.10, in my pocket, but there was nothing to do but agree. "One dollar," my rival called. "A buck and a half," I said. "Two bucks." "Three bucks." He looked at me, and I looked at him.

"Five dollars," the man called. "Make it I said feebly, remembering that 1 didn't have enough gas in my car to get home. Well, he stopped at $7.90 and I gasped a feeble "eight smackers," and got the kitten. It rewarded me with a loving scratch on the face as we got in the car. EVER ATTEND a cat auction? Neither had I until last Sunday when I found myself in a spirited bidding contest for a seal-point Siamese in front of the cat cages of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani-ninls.

It all started the week before when Mary and I visited the SPCA looking for a cat and saw this real pretty Siamese kitten. Seems as if the SPCA has to keep a stray for a length of time in the hope that the owner will show up before it can be given another home. So we were told to come back Sunday and that it was a case of first come, first served. Right after church we sped to the Humane Society and were there a good hour before the place opened, but we weren't there first. Parked right in front, in a great big car, was a man who had I-know-a-good-Siamese-cat-when-I-see-one'' written all over him.

"He's fatter than you are," Mary told me, "and maybe a little bit older, so you should be able to beat him through the door when it opens." I SO WE WORKED out a campaign of attack. I was to charge in with the man and stop with him at the desk to fill out forms and the like, and she was to plunge straight ahead to the cat department and stake out a claim in front of the cage. A half hour passed and 20 cars were parked around the place. Everybody in them was suspect to us. So we launched a propaganda campaign.

Knowing that folks who like animals are friendly, we moved from car to car, striking up a conversation, and talking up dogs and talking down cats. "We're here looking for a puppy," I heard Mary tell a woman and on Sunday, too! "We were thinking of getting a cat, but they are so superior and cold, and scratch at the furniture so." "Long as I can have a dog I'll never have a cat," I told a cat-looking couple in a gray sedan. "I was here last week and they have McCARTHIMANIA Fdilor, News-Press A new word has been added to the American language. It is Mc-Carthimania, which means super-egotism. Honorable McCarthy is a hired man employed by the people of America in the capacity of a senator.

His job is to hunt Reds, and he ia doing it, in which he is 100 per cent right. Incidentally he is also a headline-hunter, in which he is also right. If I were smart enough to get some headlines, I would try to get some myself. But it is not right for an em-' ployer to insult his hired man. And neither is it right for a hired man to insult his employer.

Honorable McCarthy summons American citizens, his employers, before his committee and insults them in the grossest manner. This is 100 per cent wrong, and Honorable Mr. McCarthy ought to consult a good psychiatrist about it. BARUKH JONES RED CROSS AID Kditor, News-Press Recently on the front page of the News-Press appeared a picture in connection with the terrific snowstorm which broke the record for Cleveland, Ohio, at this time of the year. On one side of the picture appeared the National Guard with equipment clearing away the snow and digging out stalled automobiles.

On the other side of the picture, who do we find? The Red, Cross workers braving the element and carrying coffee to the workers. This is typical of the Red Cross. When disasters or emergencies occur volunteer workers from the Red Cross chapters are on the scene and if the situation dsveloped is too large for the local organization, help from the neighboring communities and the national n-ganization is forthcoming, bearing out the theme of "neighbor helping neighbor." 'We have been fortunate in Lee County inasmuch as no severe storms have caused havoc here in the last aeveral years Imt who knows when one may strike. This past year the weather bureau warned the Lee County area that a hurricane wai approaching, Hazel by name, and all precautions should be taken. Immediately your Lee County chapter went into action, shelters were set up, registered nurses were placed in charge of emergency stations and volunteers ready to go out into the storm where reeded.

Fortunately the storm was of little violence and those who had come in for shelter were able to return to their homes. A large number of people only connect the Red Cross with disaster and do not realize the service rendered to veterans and those in the armed forces. Your local chapter maintains an office and assembly room in the Crescent Building where" a competent executive secretary is on duty five days a week assisting veterans, those in the armed forces and their families. Classea are conducted throughout the year in home nursing, life saving, first aid, etc. The Red Cross is a humanitarian organization rendering aid when necessary to all regardless of color, sect or creed.

Your. memberships and contributions have maintained the local chapter in the past and I know that the good people of Lee County will "answer the call" and renew their memberships this month which has been designated nationally as Red Cross month. J. FRED HUBER Lee County Chapter Chairman Songstress PERHAPS IT IS NOT TOO late to say a few words about the speech of Adlai Stevenson, with which he climaxed six days or so of anti-Eisenhower drumheating, arranged by that glib young fellow, Stephen Mitchell, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And, this despite the fact that on behalf of the Administration, Vice President Nixon answered the attack Sunday.

First, it is fair to point out that for a gentleman who speaks so highly of himself, Stevenson (always maintaining a smiling air of piety and a sweet nonpartisan posture) ran exude more partisan poison than any other Democratic spokesman now loose. To be sure, he has the advantage of various intellectual egg heads of the Arthur Schlesinger Jr. type in the preparation of his scholarly addresses, but it must be confessed that to start with he has great natural gifts of his own as a double-talker. For example, we are told that it was his own idea not directly to accuse President Eisenhower of the high crimes and misdemeanors which he laid at his door. But, he did everything else.

He painted the blackest picture of the administration yet. He accused it of having deceived and betrayed the American people; of having broken its solemn promises; of feebleness in dealing with foreign affairs; of embracing a of vacillation and timidity in handling domestic problems; of turning the Republican party over to the demagogues; of pursuing a course the inevitable end of which is "a malign and fatal totalitarianism" etc. In the entire 30 minutes of his discourse, there was not a single word that could remotely be construed as giving the Eisenhower Administration credit for either good intentions or ordinary common sense. He even cited the charges made by Senator Langer, the wild man from North Dakota, against Chief Justice Earl Warren as part of the Eisenhower Administration record, though it was General Ike who appointed him and his nomination was unanimously confirmed. It would be interesting to know how you can get more partisan than that.

STEVENSON IS TOO 1NTELLI-trent to believe much of this tripe himself and he certainly does not believe the "answer" which he gave as to the cause of so great a debacle, to wit, that "a group of political plungers has persuaded the President that 'McCarthyism is the best Republican formula for political success." The clear implication here is that President Eisenhower, for sordid political reasons, has entered into a rather infamous deal with Senator McCarthy. That is the implication, but Stevenson did not have the guts to say so himself. For one thing, he knows it is not true; for another, he thinks and rightly that a direct attack upon the personal integrity of General Ike would react unfavor- ably upon himself. So, the dirty end of the attack he is leaving to his chairman, Mitchell, who already is evincing eagerness to engage therein. "We intend," the chairman said at a press conference following the Stevenson address, "to make it clear that Eisenhower is identified with the people as the leader of his party and as the person responsible for what happens in his administration." In this campaign against the President, Mitchell said Stevenson's speech was the "opening gun." OBVIOUSLY, THE MITCHELL plan is to treat the President and McCarthy as one though he well knows they are anything but one and that the President has done everything he could without degrading his office to make that plain.

Actually, the real yardstick by which to measure Stevenson is Mitchell, who is not only his closest political friend but one of hi closest personal friends. It is inconceivable that Mitchell, as chairman, would adopt a strategy not indorsed by Stevenson. The one upon which they have apparently settled may pay dividends. On the other hand, it easily may be that such a strategy, as carried out by the cocky Mitchell, might have a very different reaction than the one they expect. It will not be exactly easy to persuade the American people that General Ike is a spineless boob who has permitted a few low politicians to tie him up hand and foot with McCarthy just because it seemed "good politics." Not many Democratic politicians, themselves, will believe that sort of drivel and the intelligent ones recognize the risk of putting it out.

However, according, to Stevenson and Mitchell that is the gospel the Democrats intend to spread from now on. Perhaps that kind of charge answers itself. There are even those who take the view that (in different way, of pourse) both Stevenson and Senator McCarthy are "overrated little guys" and once the headlines taken from them each would shrivel. Ifs, Ands Botfs By R. E.

Botterell Cruising around one morning I stumbled into something called Russell Park and wii amused by one seemingly happy resident of that area who has a big sign in his yard. What it lacks in artistry it makes up for in a whimsical statement of fact. "No hunting or shooting aloud." There are also two posts upon which are hitch-hiker fists, thumb extended, reading "In" and "Out." Only one driveway so far as I could see and I thought maybe they didn't know if they were coming or going. Then it occurred to me that maybe they didn't care. I do love this casual living down here.

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ii 2. X. 5. TT PEV NEON NVE By Drew Pearson 58 Encounter 59 Observe 60 Plexus DOWN 1 Stinging insect 2 Heavy blow 3 One time 4 Disheartens 5 Get up 6 Electriiied particle 7 Turncoat ACROSS 1 Radio songstress, Gloria 5 She is on the waves 8 She has appeared on Crosby's show 12 English princess 13 Fish egg J4 Verbal 15 Denomination 16 Hostelry 17 Buddhistic priest 18 Dresses, as feathers 20 Levelled 25 Theater box 41 Horn 26 Preposition 43 Vapid 27 Female horse 44 Serene 28 Departed 45 Toward the 8 Spanish dance 29 Century plant sheltered side 9 Persia 30 Rodents 46 Proportion 10 Appellation 32 Fighters 48 Biblical weed 11 Delighted 38 Newest 49 Roster 19 Seine 39Compas point 50 Grafted (hcr.V 21 Mover' truck 40 Genus o( 53 Southern Z4 Lost mood grasses general DEMOCRATS HAVE been ribbing their GOP colleagues on Capitoj Hill for installing roll-call bells in the Republican Club, across the street from the House office buiding, so they can slip over to the bar for a snifter without missing any roll-call votes. On top of this, Wyoming's Democratic Senator Lester Hunt has dug up statistics, which he is gleefully quoting to Republicans, show- ing thut Washington, D.

consumed 96,000 gallons more liquor the first year of Republican rule than the last year of the Democratic jeginie. In 1952, the city guzzled 4,054,787 gallons of liquor. But in 1953, celebrating Republicans helped boost this figure to 4,151, 312 gallons not counting beer and wine. This was higher, incidentally, than the milk consumption in the nation's capital. Note GOP press releases have boasted that coffee consumption has dropped in Washington, D.

thanks in part to the Republican crackdown on coffee drinking during office hours. In answer to this argument, Senator Hunt chides his GOP friends: "apparently the Republicans have substituted liquor for coffee under the misapprehension that their administration will be more efficient if more liquor, and less coffee, is consumed' REGARDLESS OF President Eisenhower's appeal to the public on taxes, the fate of the tax bill largely lies in the hands of one kindly hut powerful Democrat. He ia ex-Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas. "Mr. Sam" as he ia called by younger col leagues has served 41 years in the House of Representatives and prizes in his library a long list of laws which he put through Congress protecting the public generally and the little man in particular.

They include the truth-insecurities act requiring corporations to tell the truth about their bond and stock issues; the Securities and Exchange act, setting up a body to police Wall Street; the holding corporation act, cutting up some of the big holding corporations; rural electrification; the Federal Comunications Commission and various others. Unlike his young Texas disciple, Senator Lyndon Johnson, "Mr. Sam" has never deviated from his policy of fighting for the "folks." And that is one reason the Republican tax bill faces rough sledding. For ''Mr. Sam" is just about ready to move to send the entire tax bill back to the Ways and Means Committee, in which case he has so much prestige in Congress that almost every Democrat and some Republicans will back him up.

ONE REASON FOR SAM RAYBURN'S opposition to the tax bill is that it gives too many favors to the big taxpayer and follows the "trickledown" system used in Andy Mellon' day of granting benefits at the top on the theory that they will trickle down to the bottom. Specifically the new tax bill contains five big loopholes some congressmen call them "steals'' through which Sam says the corporations could just about drive a truck. These are some of the things that rankle Sam Rayburn and will make the tax fight one of the hottest in years. i 2 I it it 7 1 14 jio In 1 jj 5 Z51H ia ia. tr a IN Ijo in5- 55 7T a zrzr 1 1 I i jio 5 --srsir sh 3 22 Scottish sheepfold 23 Long fish 24 Explosion 27 Famous race horse 31 Land parcel 32 Wicked 33 Note tn Guldo'i icale 34 Self-esteem 35 Exist 36 Negative word 37 Impoverish 40 Tops of heads 42 Social insect 43 Weight unit 44 Bloc 47 Infant's toy 51 Wings 52 Biblical prophet 54 Stratum (dial.) 55 Permits 58 Rot flax 57 Formerly.