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WALTHYLA Solares Hill, 1930 MDR.VicTOR" BY MACK DRYDEN AN OLD CUBAN woman comes into the drugstore with a prescription slip in her hand. She asks for Victor and is told he wbn'.t be in for two hours.. "I'll wait," she says. The young pharmacist assures her he can fill the prescription just as efficiently. She shakes her head. "I'll wait for Victor," she says. A man cpmes to the drugstore and tells Victor his dog is dying. "Go to a veterinarian," says Victor. "No," the man replies. "The veterinarian says my dog is going to die no matter what. You've got to give me something." Victor shakes his head, then mixes something for the dog. The dog recovers, enhancing a reputation Victor would rather not have. Victor Vargas is more than a phar- macist. He is a Key West institution. For more than half a century, Key West- ers—particularly those in the Cuban community;—have been going to "Vitico" for medicine and advice. Some people won't let anyone else fill their pres- scriptions. Some won't take any kind of medicine until "Varguita"—another of his nicknames--approves. "PEOPLE COME IN here with personal problems that only Victor can solve," said David Alea, who once trained under Victor. Alea now owns Dennis Pharmacy (corner Simonton and United), where Vic- tor has worked for 15 years. "He's very well respected and loved in the Latin community," said Alea. "People are-will- ing to wait for hours just so Victor can fill their prescriptions. They come to him for everything. A woman came in with a sick parakeet one time and wanted Vic- tor to do something. A doctor will pre- scribe something and the patient will ask Victor if it's okay. "The Spanish people are notorious for going to the pharmacist before they go to a doctor," he said, "because" in Cuba pharmacists are almost physicians. They trust Victor's judgement on every- thing, so they believe if he makes some- thing with his hands, it's got to work." Danny Martinez, a well-known Key West businessman who grew up with Vic- tor, said Victor Vargas is "the father of medicine for the Latin community. He is always reaching out and helping peo- ple," said Martinez. "I don't know how anybody could say anything bad about him." SUCCESS WAS NOT handed to Victor on a silver platter. Born in Key West in 1912, Victor., grew up in poverty. "My father was a cigar maker," he "said. "He came from Cuba for a new life in the United States. It was better here, but we were very poor. He was making from twelve to fifteen dollars a week and there were seven children. All of us children worked as soon as we were old You and Whitfield Jack can make some beautiful jewelry ' together Key West's finest custom jewelry, shop. Look for the golden door near The Malbry Square exit. Ph 47092 enough. My sisters worked in the cigar factories preparing the tobacco to be rolled into cigars. We a l l did what we , could. Sometimes I didn' t have shoes to wear or decent clothes, but I am not ashamed now that I was poor. I'm proud that I worked my way out of i t and could give my children what I didn't have." s PHOTO BY RICHARD HARSH When he was thirteen, Victor went to work for Quintin Garcia, a pharmacist who had a drugstore on Duval Street. "I washed bottles and cleaned up and made deliveries," said Victor. "I made about three or four dollars a week, and I would give all but fifty cents of it to my parents. I got interested in pharmacy and little by little Mr. Garcia taught me how to mix this and separate that. He let me borrow some pharmacy books, and I used to stay up_ until 12 or one o'clock in the morning studying them." When he wasn't working, Victor went to school at the old San Carlos school on Duval Street. He also studied English under a Miss Napoles, but ultimately got only about six years of formal educa- tion. He got his real education on his own, by reading and working in the drug- store. HE LEARNED MORE and more by doing, and finally he was dispensing drugs right along with his employer. Then the legislature enacted licensing laws, and Victor was forced to get a certificate to continue his profession. "I took up a collection among my relatives so I could make the trip to Gainesville," he said. "That was in 1939. I hitch-hiked up there, and the professor gave me the test. I knew a lot. 'What university did you go' to?' he "asked me. I told him I didn't even go to high school, and he couldn't believe it. He told me I had to have the equivalent of two years of high school before I could be licensed." So he hitch-hiked back to Key West and went to a Professor Schultz. "He asked me how much English I knew and I said 'a little.' He asked me how much Spanish I knew and,I said 'a little of that, too.' He said, 'I like you be- cause you are honest and don't boast that you know everything. But you are wrong. You know a lot.'" VICTOR STUDIED WITH Prof. Schultz for awhile, and soon, earned the equiva- lent of .a high school diploma. "I went • back to Gainesville to take the test. In those days you had'to mix just about everything, even baby aspirin. Now 90 per cent of the medicine is already made up, mixed at the factory. The man who gave me the test questioned me very closely. He would say, 'Mr. Vargas, I want you to put this and this and that together for this compound.' And I would say, 'No, I can't do that.' He would say, 'Why not?' and I would say, 'That's poison when you put.it together.1 He tried to trick me every way he could think of, but I always knew when the compound was poison. Finally he said, 'How do you know so much?' I said I knew so much because I wanted to be a pharma- cist. I got my license." He went to work at the old Oriental ' Pharmacy (now Medical Aids Pharmacy) at the corner of—Duval and Truman with Eu- gene Martinez and Emilie Romero, and worked there for several years. Then' in 1945 he went into business for himself. He opened Central Pharmacy in the old stone building at the".corner of White and Truman. He was in business there for 20 years, but went bankrupt in 1965. "I WENT BANKRUPT because I couldn't say no," he said. "They would say, 'Vic- tor , I'll pay you next week but I have to have medicine for my baby now.' I couldn't say no, and most of them never paid. I was too easy." Victor admits that in those days he sometimes bent the law prohibiting phar- macists from practicing medicine. "I used to give shots when people needed them, especially asthma shots. Or some- one would come to me with a child with a high fever and say, 'Victor, I don't The finest selection of table and floor lamps, track lighting, ceiling fixtures, yard lighting, outdoor fixtures & chandeliers * in the Florida Keys. LIGHTING Searstown 294-7916 have the money for a doctor, please help me." What was I supposed to do, say, •No, let your child die.1? So I did things the doctors didn't like. In the old days, though, the doctors and the pharmacists worked together for the pa- tients a lot more. Money is more impor- tant now than it used to be." After Central Pharmacy folded up, Victor went to work at Dennis Pharmacy, where he's been ever since." At 68, he has no intention of retiring. "If I live to be a hundred I want to keep working," he said.' TWO NEAR-TRAGEDIES only five years apart didn't discourage him. One night in 1971 a man grabbed the delivery boy outside, put a gun in his back, and marched him into the store. "He made the delivery boy lie down," said Victor, "then he put the gun behind my head and told me to open the safe. I told him I didn't know the combination, and he cocked the gun and told me if I. didn't open it in two minutes he would blow my brains out. The delivery boy was crying and begging me to open it, and the guy sounded to me like he meant what he said. So I went to where the combination was hidden and got it and opened the safe. Then he threw me on the floor and started- tying me up with an electric cord. He almost choked me to death. I was gasping for breath. He got my car keys out of my pocket, then he tied the delivery boy up with my tie and left in my car." Some quick detective work by local police and the FBI resulted in the man's capture in Kentucky. It was later, learned that the robber and his brother were responsible for at least two mur- ders. "He was a killer," said Victor. "I thought I was going to die." THE INCIDENT OPSET him for a while, but things eventually got back to nor- mal . Then in 1976, a tragedy struck that would change his life drastically. He and his wife were spending a guiet eve- ning at home when an electric lamp some- how shorted out and ignited a couch. Victor tried to put out the flames with his hands and feet, but the fire spread out of control. The fire-department got to the house in less than three minutes, but they were too late. The house and its contents were a total loss, and Vic- tor was hospitalized with second and third degree burns. Tears well in his eyes when he talks about it.' "I fought them at the hospital because I was in agony," he said. "I was screaming, and they were just trying to help me.' They finally put me to sleep. I was in the hospital for three weeks, and' the visitors that, came to see me drove the hospital people crazy. They would be packed into the room with more waiting downstairs. It made me feel good to know so many people cared about me." The scars he has left from the fire were not all physical. "When I was in the hospital sometimes I would wake up at night screaming 'Fire! Fire!' I had ter- rible nightmares. The nurses would rush in to shut me up because the other pa- tients might think there was a fire. Even now sometimes I have bad dreams about it. It was horrible."' . After the fire a local radio sta- tion mistakenly broadcast the "news" that Victor Vargas had died in the fire. "My daughter heard on the radio 'I died," he said. "There was some pani'c. They should be more "careful before they say things on the radio." VICTOR HAS GRADUALLY gotten back to his old routine, which is as predictable as the path of the sun. He gets up around 6:00 a.m. and goes to the Fourth of July restaurant on White Street to have breakfast and talk with his friends. It's a ritual he's enjoyed every day he has been healthy for the past 20 years. If he has a stop to make before he goes home to freshen up for work, he lets somebody know at the res- taurant. "He's easy to keep track of," said his employer, Alea. "Usually I- can tell exactly where he is just by looking at the clock." • . Victor worked hard all his life to earn his comfortable routine, and he has no desire to change it. "My wife Nellie tells me, 'Why don't you paint that or nail that or fix' this' thing up?' I say, no, I don't want to learn nothing -else," he said with a laugh. "The more you learn the more you have to do." VICTOR BEAMS PROUDLY when he's asked about his children, two sons and two daughters. His oldest son1 Robert is a psychologist at Johns Hopkins Univer- sity Hospital in Maryland. His daughter Zaida is a legal secretary in Key West, and Christi is a supervisor for the Key West Marine Telephone Answering Service. His youngest son Victor is a profession- al drummer. "I'm not saying this be- cause he's my son," said Victor, "but he's the best drummer in Florida." He worked his way from poverty to a place of respect in his community. He educated four children and gave them- op- portunities he would only dream about. But Victor is most proud of the fact that he has friends, lots of friends, who care about him not as a professional but as a person. "I try to help every- body I can," he said. '"I've never tried to .hurt anybody, and if I have any ene- mies I .don't know who they are1. And it!s not just in the Latin community, either. I have men and women friends, in all the groups in Key West." .Asked about his alleged reputation as being a ladies' man when he was younger-, Victor smiles broadly and re- plies simply, "You want my wife to kill me?" ADVERTISEMENT il SOLAR IT SURE BEATS THE SYSTEM. Call HOWARD FINKLE: He's reputable, e%*\, r\f\-» •* H e ' s experienced. 296-9974 He's a resident. 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The Herald reporters concentrated on several aspects of drug smuggling as they examined the State Attorney's of- fice, the Key West Police Department, the so-called "bubba" system of protec- tion among some long-time residents of the island, and the heavy cash influx into the Keys area. The Herald detailed histories of drug busts going back over several years, and it listed allega- tions against several city and county officials. In its April issue Solares Hill ran a story which dealt with several aspects of the series. In that story City Manager Ron "Stack denied a set of accusations which were contained in the Herald, and he attempted to prove that the /f era id reporters had been sloppy in their research. He contended that the Herald reporters had gone after him but had found nothing. Several points of dispute which were raised concerned a job application filed in 1973 with the •Monroe County Sheriff's office. Stack answered the charges in his interview with Solares Rill, and also gave city commissioners a file detailing his ans- wers. According to City Commissioner Richard Heyman the file replied to alle- gations, but it did not include a copy of the application. Of those allega- tions which have been looked into fur- ther. Stack has been cleared. ALSO INCLUDED IN the April Solares Hill article were comments from City Commissioner Heyman on the Herald series as a whole. He felt.the stories had helped bring some things into the open, but he also thought the series had im- plied that he was a one-man clean-up operation for the_ island's drug prob- lems. "I'm against these drugs, but there's no way I have the power, to change all of these problems myself," Heyman told Solares Hill. The debate has continued, and many questions raised by the articles have not been answered to everyone's satis- faction. Key West citizens-and officials who read the series have their own opin- ions on its importance and of the issues which it scrutinized. "City Commissioner Alton Weekley contended'that the reporters from Miami had gone into their investigations "with the attitude of a witch hunt;" Weekley didn't feel that they had turned up much. "I didn't see anything earth- shattering,. They simply put down what we already know." Weekley went on to say that there was "exaggeration in some cases." OTHER VIEWS OF the stories were somewhat different from Weekley"s. Mon- roe County Sheriff William Freeman thought the drug smuggling articles "demonstrated the need for something to be done. These problems are all over South Florida. What we need here in Monroe County is either federal money or federal people. We (the Sheriff's of- fice) are really just social workers with guns. We deal with day-to-day prob- lems among people in the community." Freeman said his department acts on drug information when it comes in, and he pointed out that the Sheriff s office has confiscated fifty thousand pounds of marijuana so far this year. However he doesn'.t have the manpower, funds or equipment to deal with the drug problem as he feels it should be dealt with. The Herald articles emphasized charges of a lack of cooperation be- tween agencies and departments of the local, state and federal governments. I asked Freeman about any problems he might have in this area. "The Feds that are sent here cooperate with us," Free- man told me, "but there's just not enough agents." Freeman had no other complaints to make about cooperation. I JUDGE BILL CHAPPELL was quoted ex- tensively in the Herald, particularly in an article which covered the record of State Attorney Jeff Gautier and his of- fice . When I spoke to Chappell he would not say anything about matters concern- ing the State Attorney, but he did have comments on the Herald articles. One query I put to him was whether there had been any question of his being on or off the record when he was inter- viewed by the Herald reporters. "I didn't really have an interview," he said. "They came in to talk to me, but there wasn't really anything on the rec- ord." Chappell told me the quotes which were attributed to him were misleading. I asked him about a specific quote which seemed to imply that he- didn't have a full case: load, and that this was due to problems in the State Attorney's office. "The impression that I don't have a full case load is incorrect," Chappell said. THE SAME STORY contained quotes from Public Defender John Keane. I asked Keane if he thought the articles had presented a fair picture of his office's role. "I'm not displeased with the re- flections on this office," Keane said. I went on to inquire about the Herald's contention that there is a lack of co- operation among the various components in the law enforcement and court sys- tems. Keane answered: "First of all, once a case comes to court the system is necessarily an adversary one. However I do think there is a decided lack of co- operation particularly with the lower levels ̂ in the law enforcement agencies, and this shows up in the courtroom." Keane felt more funds were needed if the operations of law enforcement agencies were to improve. Key West criminal lawyer Kirk Zuelch said he thought there was some truth in the Herald's articles, but he' also felt there was some, inaccuracy. One article contained an accusation against Assistant State Attorney William Kuy- pers. The charge was that Kuypers had been offered a bribe to.throw a case, ' then failed to report the bribery' at- tempt. "I don't think anybody's being paid off," Zuelch said in reference to the article. Zuelch did cite what he feels is a "lack of leadership" in the State Attor- ney's office. He said: "The prosecutors should- be letting the courts and juries make_more decisions" in relation to bor- derline cases, which the prosecutors often drop before they reach court. Zuelch said this was particularly true of search-and-seizure cases. "This' is how new law is made," Zuelch said, re- ferring to the fact that court decisions ' set precedents and prosecutors ' deci- sions do not, in terms of law. The drug smuggling stories took the Key West Police Department to task, COME WATCH US ENAMEL A craft, an art, a tradition... Porcelain fused into copper at 1800° degrees 306 FRONT ST., KEY WEST, FLA. 33040 / 294-4044 At Pirate's Alley in Old Town « EN' AM ELS-4 adiiiay'Suf«ii t "pieces; jevtef ry COLD ANO SltVERLHANDCRAFtED JEWELRY WE HONOR ALL CREDIT CARDS • OPEN YEAR ROUND bringing up the imminent trial of four veteran Key West police officers on charges related to drugs. Also reported was a falsified job application put in by one officer on the force. That offi- cer has since been fired. MEMBERS OF THE department point out that it is impossible to deal with drug smuggling as a local problem. They con- tend that little marijuana is brought directly into Key West for a very good reason: This is the most populated is- land in the area. They say most grass comes in on sparsely populated Keys be- tween here and-the mainland. Those is- lands are outside the Police Department jurisdiction. Still, these arguments cannot de- fend a police officer who helps in drug smuggling operations. Honest cops, on the force have disagreements with the Herald's presentation of the Key West Police Department, but they also recog- nize that the force does have problems. . ONE STORY ZEROED in on the cash which is pumped into the Key West econ- omy by the' drug trade. The Herald quoted a realtor who described how the seller of a home would seek' out a buyer with -cash, often drug cash, then try to make part of the sale under the table, thus avoiding taxes. I talked to Ed Knight of Knight Realty and he said: "I've never had any experience with drug money in real estate. I've never seen any of that kind of thing." However another realtor said, "Sure, there have been real estate transactions in town involving drug money. It creates problems." Key West resident Gil Ryder said: "We'll feel the economic effects if drug smuggling stops down here. It may be our number one industry, above tourism, or anything else. But we must decide: Which is the lesser evil?" Ryder feels mari- juana should be legalized, but he also observed that it is a commodity, and if it is made legal its price would plum- met, so even if the Keys were still a main port of entry for pot, which is un- likely, there would be much less money coming into the community. Bodysuits, pants, sheets, tights, skirts, dresses, bathing suits, and leotards are available in a wide range of coordinated colors. 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The news is the news, and when you find it you print it." In reply to a question about the problems cited in the series she said: "A lot of the problems will be for our children. There seems to be a standard of 'If you can get away with it, do i t ' . " • JOHN KEANE ''WASN'T at all dissatis- fied with the articles in general." He thought the series had given a fair pic- ture of the problems related to drug smuggling in the Keys. As I queried more people one com- ment I heard over and over again was: "They barely scraped the surface." These people felt the stories hadn't said enough, and that the reporters hadn't turned up as much concrete information as readers hoped, they would. This is often a problem in investigative re- porting. Reporters learn many things which they know are true, but they can't print the material because it. came off the record, or it might expose a'source. PERHAPS THE BIGGEST problem with . 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His real name was plain Bill White, and he would show up in Key West, come May, like a bird of, annual migration, flying in to perch at the old Bamboo Room on Smith Lane, after spending the winter months working in nightclubs at Freeport and Nassau in the Bahamas. Hip month of May arrival in Cayo Hueso was regarded as a true harbinger that the most frenetic of the gambling sessions had slacked off for the Bahamas casinos. I FIRST GOT acquainted with Mighty Whitey in the 1940's when I was entertainment editor and columnist for the Miami Daily News. He had a partner called Madman Mitchell who played piano, and whose real name was Jack Mitchell. The two of them teamed as a nightclub ..act, usually at the Famous Door on Miami Beach. Whitey was a sturdy, somewhat stocky man, quite handsome with a suave manner to match his "hair's breadth" mustache, and he had a pleasant southern accent. Mitch had reddish hair, was thin and wiry, and had been born in Globe, Arizona. He had a'western recklessness in his makeup, plus the veneer of a hard-boiled New York City resi- dent, for he had lived in Gotham for a long time. Mitch wore contact lenses, one of the first to do so. Just before he and Whitey went on stage, Mitch would insert the lenses with a liquid solution in which he put a few drops of green vegetable dye. When the•spotlight was turned on him at the keyboard, his eyes glowed with a weird emerald tint and enhanced his dramatic tendencies as a performer. He had a husky singing voice and played fantastic piano. WHITEY AND MITCH often got requests for a special number, Come Josephine in My Flying Machine. They enjoyed doing the song and repeated it several times in an evening. There was a personal reason for this! At intervals, during the presenta- tion, Whitey would stop strumming his flat-top guitar to light a couple of thin cigarettes, passing one to his partner Whereupon, Mitch would also stop playing and they would duet on the words to come Josephine, pausing to inhale deeply on the cigarettes, holding the smoke before exhaling. They alter- nated on the lyrics, then joined on the chorus of the sonq, until they had consumed the hand-rolled smokes. •• Of course, what they were actually doing was "turning on" as they smoked the joints. But it seemed to be just part of the song gestures, to go with lines such as "And we'll FLY-- We'll FLY." They were truly flying ... on a reefer high right . there on stage. (Back in those more innocent days, the un- initiated were not aware of what was.going on.) _ I LEARNED THAT the twosome were on the "maryjane kick," as it was known, when Mitch borrowed my old car and drove down to Key West to pick up a fresh supply of "grass." I was ques- tioned by an investigator who had him under surveillance. ISLAND IMPORTED CARS Shortly after that, Jack Mitchell was caught with a good- ly supply of the weed and was sentenced to a term in prison on federal charges of possession of marijuana in bulk. Bill White swore off the habit about that time. When he and Mitchell split up, Bill continued his act as"a single in the music field. He selected a new style and picked up some of his material right here in Key West, learning calypso and reggae. He freely admitted that his new approach was influ- enced by Lofton (Coffee) Butler. He expanded his knowledge in Jamaica and the Bahamas, but he gave most of the credit to Coffee. THE BAMBOO ROOM, where Coffee Butler starred, either solo or in the trio which included Bobby Lowe (this was before they did a stint in Fort Lauderdale), was a prime fun spot. The . • little bistro had been decorated in earlier'years with strik- ing murals'Of pink elephants in a swamp-jungle environment. The masterpieces Were, done by an English, artist, Cyril Mar- shall, who was also the painter of the murals at the Duval Street Club that became the Oldest Bar, and which is now Capt. Tony's Saloon. ' . • . . It was erroneously reported that the Duval Street murals depicted Key West scenes. But Marshall created a Polynesian motif. Granted,(there was one hedonistic panel which I dubbed "Spirit of Key West"--jokingly. The painting wa£ of> a very fat-bellied Haitian in a lava-lava,, lying on his back receiv- ing the tender attentions of a South Pacific maiden. She was pictured leaning over the indolent islander pouring wine from a jug directly into his wide-open mouth while he lay back guzzling in drunken abandon. I tried to persuade Don Pinder to photograph this hal- . cyon setting so that I could have postcards made to lure friends to our idle life style. However, Don never got around to it, and the enticing bar murals were eventually painted over, as were the pink elephant fantasies.,What a pity, and what a loss. IN LATE SPRING, l'958, Mighty Whitey was again booked into the Bamboo Room; during hi-s gig there the famous drum- mer, Gene Krupa,, astonishingly agreed to play a one-night, two-show engagement. The. little club was jammed. There were double lines all along Duval Street and Smith Lane hours.in advance for both shows. Mighty Whitey waB on the program to keep the. joatrons in- terested in the interludes prior to the two Krupa:spectacu- lars. And he accomplished the job with aplomb. ' . As for Krupa, he' was happy, too, and high,, floating along after smoking bouts in the cramped back room, at the Bamboo. I wangled .a brief interview with him there and he made no effort to conceal his fondness for pot. DRIFTING BACK IN memory to the early, 1950's, for the nonce, I am reminded of a witty incident occasioned by the arrival of Mighty Whitey's.erstwhile show biz mate, Madman Mitchell. Key West was at that time the locale for the film-' ing of Under the Twelve Mile- Reef,, a saga of spongefishing. Mitchell and I•ran into each.other at the'corner of Duval and Front streets, near the Florida First National Bank,-during a scene in which the principals were Gilbert Roland and Robert Wagner. . ' . ••' Mitch gestured toward the actors and asked, "What's the . title of this movie?" .. _ ' . • ' , . , . - . . "It's to be called Under the Twelve Mile Reef,'" I told, him. ' He considered this with a cocked eyebrow and then quipped, "If they" change tht title to Under the Twelve 'Mile Reefer, I'd be more than happy to join the cast.,". . . ' JCQN'T ON P . 18 o CLASSICAL COOKING BEER & WINE AMEX, MC, BA Old Town Square Open Every Night Serving Dinner 7-11 P.M. 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I've lived in California . during long dry spells, and although we complained, we carried on normally — went to work, paid >our bills — that sort of thing. I've lived in New York City when it rained for two weeks or more, and al- though we all mildewed in unison on the subway, we still went to work, paid our bills — that sort of thing. -̂ IN KEY WEST, no matter what kind of weather, everyone goes berserk — stays home from work or quits a job, gets in fights, or falls off bikes. And the weather gets all the blame. It's been hot and dry for. weeks. Someone smashes into the rear end of your car. Don't get mafl at him — it's been so hot and dry, his nerves are dis- organized.- » Just rush to the nearest bar, explain to the bartender you need a drink badly because some idiot ran into you, and after a, few drinks,, you'll feel better. You go out and run into someone else's car.. But what can they expect? It's been .so hot and dry lately. A,LOW DEPRESSION area has been hovering over the' island for a week. No one wants to go to the beach. You can't.even enjoy your garden, which looks as gray as the. sky. Even your black cat looks gray. You're suicidal. So you head for the nearest oasis and find a row of sad suicidal faces staring at nothing. Suddenly the heavens let loose a torrential downpour and the sun finally comes out. Someone says, "Let's have another round.. It's so hot and muggy, I can't stand it!" . • -When the winters are cold and you have to wear that moth-eaten ski sweater under .a topcoat you brought down from New York ten years ago, you are forced to go to a bar. It's too cold to stay home and too early to go to. bed. , 'DURING THESE weather crises, of course, the bartenders have a tough time keeping it together. Not only are they affected by heat-cold-damp-dry like everyone else, but they have to handle a bunch of hot or cold or damp or dry nuts besides.' 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Refresh- ing, reactionary, and often all- inclusive malice dispensed cheerfully. CLOUDS LIKE" LITTLE ermine muffs in a teacup blue sky- smiled upon my spot I chose against the crumbling 'coral rock guarded by an obdurate seagrape bush. Those of us who whiled away our time threshing in the tepid water or sitting in the clumps of sea oats seemed to draw the tattered shreds of a grand tran- quility about ourselves. Most bathers came from Vernon Ave- nue , the Avenue of Broken Dreams. 1 swam with a senuous-looking lady friend, the Pole Star of Dog Beach, who floated about looking like a white morsel in pale green aspic. Mr. Bingham, a southern squire, came from the cottage down the way which the Aleas just sold to Dr-s- Carraway. Mr. Bingham's brother visited with his wife from Spain. When the brother stepped from the ocean, she would towel his feet dry carefully with a slavelike dedica- tion. The Anglo women all stopped in their tracks and Looked as she towelled his long, slender, arched, masculine feet. THE BIKINI SNATCHER arrived regu- larly. He would guide a tourist lady out past the Casa Marina Pier, and when she bent her head over the graceful, laven- der sea fans or the ocean cabbage they had discovered, he would whip off her male show- vinists ket Jim Jolley embellish you in the highest and hottest of style. Everything, and then some — for the mucho macho all-American male. See what happiness, not to mention thrills, a little show biz can bring to your life. Jim Jolley Kino Plaza - Key West, FL 33040 TURN LEFT FROM THE MONSTER, AROUND THE CORNER TO KINO PLAZA HOURS: 6:30 AM to 9:30 PM Country Breakfast Two Homemade Soups Daily Steaks • Seafood Family Prices DAYS INN. The Place To Stay at the end of the day 80 Motel Rooms • 35 Apartments 38S2 N. 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I never saw a bather at Dog Beach without a smile, whether a scamp smile or a child smile. The locals, the Dog Beachers who owned or rented in that favored five- block perimeter, behaved like dogs as- serting a territorial imperative. We didn't own it. But we held some sort of firm, unbending, stingy, homesteading stake on it. MUTUALLY HOSTILE, the worthy, es- tablished, put-upon, outraged, Near" Ones held solid. And, the pushy, not- to-be-denied, hot, dry, panting town outlanders pressed in. Until, it all blew up. As such things do. Never again, since Dog Beach Af- ternoons of another day, have I so leaped into the saddle of my own personality. _ MOTHERS DAY IS MAY 41! ©eligftt Mother WITH FRESH FLORAL FRAGRANCES! Like just-picked. Caribbean flowers in full bloom. Exquisite single-note "fragrances: Garden Hibiscus, Jasmin and more .-. Rich, enticing bouquets of fragrance: Black Coral, Brissant. Bouquet #9444 and more ... Each tucked into a shell-covered, velvety lined treasure box as unique as the scent. KEY WEST FRAGRANCE & COSMETIC FACTORY 524 FRONT STREET • KEY WEST, FLORIDA 33040 (305)294-5592 12 Tnucks ON DUVAI BY EILEEN MOORE QUINN PHOTO BY APRIL JOHNSON The case could be made that Key West, Florida, has one of the most unique traffic situations in the U.S.A. It sports a nineteenth century street condition in its downtown area, while at the same time attempting to cater to twenty-first century consumer demands for goods and services. In a few square miles, it hosts an array of "deals on wheels" not commonly found elsewhere. At any given time, a pedestrian will surely encounter a con- fusing assortment of bicycles, mopeds, roller skates, bicycle taxis, Conch tour trains, horse and buggies, tandems and skateboards, not to mention the usual blend of tourist and vehicular units. Undoubtedly, there are more examples which could be added to this list. It is not until a collision of sig- nificant magnitude occurs, however, es- pecially one involving loss of human life, that a closer look at this complex traffic condition becomes necessary. How efficient is the system which governs total travel control and maintenance? •What are the specific problems prevail- ing in a given locality, or. for that matter, all localities? How does time of day affect motoring? In short, how can similar occurrences be prevented? THESE QUESTIONS AND many others like them have been raised and discussed since Wednesday, April 2nd, when a young woman riding a bicycle in the daytime was struck down and killed by a tractor trailer truck (commonly referred to as a "semi") on Duval Street where it inter- sects with Angela. Some observers, like Bruce Stein- berg, who manages a business on Duval, think it was "just a freak accident." But the most pointed opinion appeared in print in The Key West citizen on Sunday, April 6th. In a laconic letter to the Editor, Theron Lyda took his stand: "Enough! No more 40 foot trucks on Duval." MR. LYDA OWNS the Environmental Circus on Duval Street. Large trucks de- liver merchandise to his shop. Yet, as a witness to the accident's aftermath, Lyda confessed that the reality of the situation triggered his awareness. "I'm not one to go about 'banning' anything. But I must point out a danger- ous situation. I see 'semis' on Duval as a high risk element which O.S.H.A. (Oc- cupational Safety and Health Administra- tion) would not tolerate. Can you imagine two of those monsters traveling opposite each other on Duval? How much room do you think there would be to spare? "I have no axe to grind. It's not to my benefit to get 'semis' off the main street of Key West. Just the oppo- site, in fact. But I see these trucks as a contradiction to the old time flavor of Olde Towne. To not come up with an alternative is to be short-changed by Custom work Our fabric or yours * Cushion recovering • Sea bags and tote hags in stock - or designed to your needs • Duffle and dive bags STEVE NESS KATHV HOISINGTON the power structure. "The gir l ' s death is a symbol of society, a larger thing. I t ' s the symbol of broken streets and sidewalks, damaged trees and shrubs, noise pollution and the carcinogenic influence of diesel • fuel. Will we continue to allow the 4 0- footers to determine and degrade the level of everyone's existence here? "I WAS' INSULTED at the sight of the hosing down of a human being's remains because of that massive machine. If there were no 40-foote.rs on Duval, that girl might be 'alive today. Sure, she s t i l l might have been struck by a moving vehicle. But she might not have ended up crushed under the damn thingi "They're not allowed on Mallory Square docks and they're not allowed on the White Street Pier. They shouldn't be allowed on Duval Street either." ON THE SAME day that Mr. Lyda' s so- lution was published, the case against the "road-hog" bicyclists appeared in Sheila Quickstad's column in the Key West citizen. On• the same page, in .the space opposite the "Reader's Forum," citing examples of near wipe-outs and obscenity gestures, Ms. Quickstad stated that cyclists generally "do not observe the rules of the road,." and that "red lights don't mean anything to bicycle riders, as they merrily pedal their way into the path of traffic having the right of way." These two opposing viewpoints, one... against the trucks and one against the cyclists, both well-expressed and valid, seem to predominate. There has been lively controversy from both camps, with the drivers of pedal vehicles delivering angry expletives against the operators of motor vehicles, and vice versa.. They have also broadened the issues. "Motor- cycles (or 'popcorn machines,' as one complainer called them) are too wild and dangerous," "taxis drive too fast down side streets, trying to avoid light's and traffic," "cyclists run down pedestrians on the street and on the sidewalks," and on and on goes the debate. f.The most efficient sun scrwn ever developed, . tested and manufactured in Hawaii. *•£ RESTflURftm OPEN 6:30 AM TIL I f f PM PHONE 294-9279/ MALONEY AVE. & 4th AVE. ACROSS FROM BOYD'S 1 Ib. T-Bone Steak Bar B Que Ribs, Chicken & Pork Shrimp, Oysters & Scallops Hot Corned Beef & Pastrami Coney Island French Fries Beer & Wine Complete Breakfast Homemade Chill Conch Ghowder & Fritters t % IT SEEMS THAT these disputes, apt and formidable though they be, are, for the most part, obscuring a much larger issue, which is the concern everyone shares for more responsible traffic safety on the entire island of Key West. As Jerry Brand, a former 'semi' driver who now lives on Stock Island, put it: "To take issue against one particu- lar vehicle or group of vehicles is to over-simplify things. It doesn't make sense. There are many types of accidents around here." Deaths are on the increase as well. Sheriff-William A. Freeman recently noted that the county's traffic toll stands at 15. At the same time last year, it stood at eight. IN AN EFFORT to reduce road fatali- ties, a control program known as STEP ^Selective*Traffic Enforcement Program) "has lately been initiated in the Florida Keys. Financed through a grant of $164,- 150 from the Department of Community Af- fairs, Bureau of Highway Safety, it pro- vides six new fully-equipped "traffic enforcement units" to be strategically placed at various locations, with the intention of reducing traffic accidents. "It is hoped," said Freeman, "that the drivers will voluntarily comply with traffic laws to minimize arrests and accidents." But a tourist from New York City, upon reaching Key West, quipped, "If radar guns could kill, I would've been dead 20 times today. I've never been 'shot up'' with radar so much in my life." - AND EDDIE SPURIA, who drives a tractor trailer along the eastern sea- board and makes frequent deliveries into Key West, observed, "Is this the best way to spend money to reduce road deaths? I don't think so. As far as I'm concerned, more police "cars simply mean more tickets, not necessarily more safety." What then does constitute greater safety? Certainly nothing that is static or permanent or intended for a long summer with saltwater design, incj #14 KEY LIME SQUARE 294-821S SURF & TURF K5o • LOBSTER DINNER WE COOK YOUR FISH Mexican Food &. 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Entrances and exits, crossings for pe- destrians, the handicapped and their vehicles, etc., all must be looked at with an observant eye. AT PERIODIC JUNCTURES, a number of U.S. cities, tourist and otherwise, undertake traffic engineering surveys in order to better understand the inter- course of business and street commerce. Over the course of weeks or months, sur- veyors seek to determine the general transportation flow. They ask from where vehicles traveled to reach a certain , destination, and to where they plan to go upon departure. From their findings, recommendations for improvement are made. In this manner, Chicago chose to allocate the period from one to five in the morning as the only delivery time for semis. New Orleans chose to close off certain streets in the French Quar- ter for a number of hours each day, and issued "permit only" orders for truck delivery during that time. Provincetown, Mass., made certain streets one-way, and posted "bike rules" for visitors and new-comers. Nashville, Tenn., insisted that its complex string of alley-ways be used exclusively for deliveries and re- movals. PERHAPS SOME OF these ideas apply to Key West. Or perhaps none of them. The point is that the time seems to have Your key to the Key. 1M> hour guided tour of 60 of the most unusual historical sites you ve ever seen. The Key West Conch Tour Train Mallory Square. Roosevelt Blvd., and Duval & Angela Streets Depots 9AM-4PM (305) 294,5161. A Wometco Attraction. Wim 13 arisen to ask pertinent questions with the intention of making Key West's streets and by-ways safer for all. It might be feasible to make Duval Street one-way and Simonton the other once again. Maybe traffic (car or bike) should be banned from certain streets during certain hours or during certain times of 'the year. -The tourist popula- tion could be made more aware of the existing road "givens" in Key West via visitor publicity. Perhaps agencies which cater to the tourist trade could more adequately stress safety and proper conduct along the Old Island's highways. By chance, some side streets might be better utilized as "access channels" for the delivery of goods to particular- ly congested areas of the city'. Posted "truck routes" could be established at the outskirts of the island, which would .prevent needless truck traffic in heav- ily populated or unusually narrow areas. "Let's face it," said one dis- gruntled trucker not familiar with the streets of Key West. "How the hell does the average out-of-towner know where the hell he's going?" THE CITIZENS OP Key West first re- sponded with their natural feelings of anger and dismay over an unfortunate traffic death. The larger response now remains. It is for the members of the Key West populace, who are familiar with its streets and its road problems, to suggest whatever appropriate concrete traffic alternatives apply to their home town. It is for them to decide: Will Key West continue.to operate its traffic patterns as if nothing occurred great enough to justify a change, a study, a task force, a committee,*a something? Or rather, will it feel- a need to re- spond to a mandate to consider anew all traffic options and alternatives, and then to act accordingly? The Orchid Tree Restaurant 921 Truman Avenue For Exciting Natural and International Foods Open 8 am • 1:30 pm 6 pm '--•11 pm Closed Wednesdays ' Also come and relax in our tropical garden at the Smugglers Inn with an ice •cold glass of beer or wine, accompanied5 by a salad or sandwich. 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It was around that time I became pregnant with my first child, which caused me to slow down and consider the haphazard manner in which I was eating. After years of heavy, rich, Jewish- style food, then Lifesaver diets at col- lege to prepare myself for a heavy week- end in a tight-fitting dress (I'd love guessing the color of the Lifesaver I was goint to eat next), I had graduated into a more wholesome diet. TEE FIRST COOKING I did for myself was oatmeal and bananas which, after the consistent hamburger, fries and shakes . of coll'ege days, was the beginning of improvement. Lentils became my best friend during pregnancy and I learned many ways to deal with them creatively. Now" I'm into tofu, the curd of the soybean. Through the magic flashes of bread making, where I knew the bread I was mixing would last a long time for my family, to times my young son was so limited in intake, I really learned to be special in the kitchen to meet his needs. A whole way of living developed from the way I was eating and serving my family. . • Over the years, the benefits became more and more apparent—from a fanatic fruitarian', I grew to a state of more general acceptance and I realized that food, a common bond, can bring us to- gether . I have talked with cancer victims. I- have discovered different approaches and alternatives to chemotherapy, through regulation of diet. One approach is through* the consumption of life foods —live foods, food not made of killed animal flesh, uncooked food. FROM VIC, THE sprout man of Life Energy Farms from up the Keys, I had ceived an interesting and vitalizing Survival Newsletter. "Sprout for the love of everybody," we are told. You can get this newsletter with information on the nutritional evaluation of sprouts and grasses from the Survival Founda- tion, Box 77, Woodstock Valley, CT 06282. The newsletter also said: "Sprouts, indoor grasses and fermented seed milks can*help to solve food scarcity, survi- val, organic nutrition and health prob- lems. The effect of chemicalized farming is equivalent each year to dropping 72,000 atomic bombs of Hiroshima size. Chlorophyll-rich organic greens can off- set radiation effects, even when lethal dosages are used ... Raw vegetarian pro- tein is easier to digest, and over 80% is utilized by the body, whereas cooked animal protein is incomplete and dena- tured, difficult to digest—as much as 85% is lost—causes diseases, especially cancer, schizophrenia and heart dis- orders .. . . " An instant apartment salad garden is noted in the publication which "may be grown with or without'soil. An all- organic salad for 3 to 19 cents a pound compares well to the commercial salad greens, which can cost 70 cents and have little nutritional value. Harvest from your own apartment garden. No mess. Little space needed. Requires 7 to 14 minutes of daily care'. Kids love it, grandmothers become like kids, pets can- not get enough of it, grownups even do it. A baker's tray with about 1/4 inch of soil from a garden supply center or from nature will produce up to 7 pounds of apartment greens—which can be snacked, saladed, juiced, or blended. Mix 50/50 peat moss and top soil. Add enough water to get it moist, no pud- dles, use tray or make one, cut the sides of cardboard box down to 1 inch- height. Line it with large plastic gar- bage bag. Plant for sprouting: Try mung, lentil, alfalfa, radish, fenu- greek, sesame, Chinese cabbage, spin- ach, red clover, cress, chick peas, peanut, sunflower, grains.". AT MY FRIEND Indian Ron's I learned a lot. He is having some success dealing with his lung cancer through diet, vita- mins, and the loving care of friends. Abbi Bliss, who was helping him out at the time (now she operates a pedi- cab), shed much light on the subject. She had managed a health foods store in New Haven, owned by a naturopath. "I was his apprentice for three years. I worked closely with customers, healing through diet. Many had come from the medical scene. I became a tester'also, using the urine and saliva tests of biophysicist Carey Reums." ._ r Northern Italian Cuisine 615Duval Street, Key West 294-6565 Trew&rrjSftfp Afocfta Coin Sales Take a guided tour ot at 168-foot Spanish treasure galleon built by Treasure Salvors, Inc. of Key West, the world's largest treasure hunting orgin&atioR. See what Jtfe aboard thip was Like in the 1600'*. See *ome of the.treasure that has been found in Florida, waters. See the cannons from the "Nuestnt Scnora dc Mocha" which sank, in 1622 off Key West. She carried a cargo valued at aver 100 million dollars. See the techniques Treasure Salvors U using to recover hergofd, silver and gems. WRECKERS WHARF 633 Front Street For sate or tor rent 305-296-8627 . i • Abbi was involved in the establish- ment of an -underground fasting clinic for fasting cancer patients. "I came here because I was interested, in fasting and chose to have a warm climate to do it in." FASTING IS A way of cleansing the system, giving the overtaxed digestive processes a chance to rest and heal. Abbi was assisting Ron and sharing her knowledge. We had some wonderful carrot and beet juice she ground up in her Norwalk, the Cadillac of the juicers. It pulverizes (masticates, really) and presses out the juice amaz- ingly. "Things are experienced psychical- ly," Abbi and Karen (Ron's close friend) told me, "and can then be felt physicaj-ly, as does the physical affect the psychical. A person who fears loss- • es may have a difficulty in elimina- tion." "THERE IS LIFE energy in every- thing. If we want more, we must choose our food from living things," Karen told me. Their home is a dream come true. Beautiful yards, back garden, cockateels in love, big airy rooms, a fresh and orderly kitchen—a well-managed home, with many colorful works of art to in- spire the spirit, as Ron concentrates to heal himself. He is doing so,'"effec- tively; I am told his cancer is at least now 30 per cent arrested. They termed all cooked food as dead and said that closest to the original diet is the raw food—that cancer cells do not thrive on raw, live foods such as sprouts, fruits, fruit and vegetable juices, nuts and seeds. "THE MORE LIFE energy in your food, the more" energy in your body," said Abbi. "During fasting you get energy from the release of toxins. After a few days a person experiences a tremendous increase of energy. This.is beneficial for it helps a person maintain a posi- All vessels comply 3 ^ — 3 with U.S. Coast Guard: * safety regulations SAILING, SNORkELING, REEF TRIPS S p ~ ^ " Moonllght Sails, Sunset Sails • - * • - - Group or Extended Charters Available P.O. Box 1153, Key West. Florida 33040 294-2131 • f ; \ tive mental attitude—which -will affect the physical body. We're all students!" says Abbi. She adds: "There is a drop of blood sugar when you fast. Your mood can change. It takes tremendous dips and- flights during fasting. There's no food to counterbalance the drops in your blood sugar." Karen told me that chlorophyll was a natural body purifier. I have read also that if you get a cut and chew on some grass and rub it.over the wound, the chlorophyll will prevent infection and the saliva will help it heal. Ex- - cepting for one atom, Karen and Abbi tell me, "chlorophyll and blood are si- milar in composition." AT RON'S THE ladies prepare a won- derful sun bread, uncooked and made of"~ sprouts. It is sweet, satisfying and delicious when combined with raisins. It requires a thorough- chewing and, as in Bible times, can be baked in the sun. The sprouts are ground into a dough. You can also soak grains, mash them, and form them into cakes to bake similarly. Their energy is not destroyed this way. The ladies agreed that with a purer diet comes wore clarity of mind and sharper vision. "• • . 1 already knew about the effects of clean blood on vision. A dialysis pa- tient told me that immediately after a kidney transplant, his vision sharpened, for the machine method had been less effective than the natural. The fasting and the purer diet, cleansing the blood, can have similar results. "SOME PEOPLE EAT. for emotional rea- sons more than for hunger," Abbi told me. "It has been, my task to learn new ways of coping with my emotions. We have to lesrn to become our own'doctors. Can- cer is an overall degener'ative disease." We looked at the publication called The Bulletin for Cancer Victims and Friends and saw some indication for sue- JIM PICKING TUCKER SAUNDERS" _ _ LINDA PATCHETT PmcrlpUou FBK4 Lara Dupttcuri • R . The Key West Optician 817 Peacock Plaza-, •" Ph. 294-7411 Hours: M-T-W-F 9 to 5:30: Thursday 9 to 9' . - 21 cess in the area of live food diets such as Ron was on. Ron had consulted Michio Kushi, a macrobiotics-master, but found the live foods diet more to his philoso- phy and liking. The macrobiotics approach, which uses many cooked foods, essentially rice, beans, some vegetables and few fruits, has also dealt successfully with disease. Much information filtered my way through the East-West' Foundation. They use sea vegetables, too, and talk also of a life style. I read a testimo- nial from' an M.D., (Dr.) A. J. Satti- lerb, who cured himself in such a man- ner: "For years many have implied that nutrition and specifically diet might well play a role in the etiology and possible prevention of cancer. Little has been written about the place of diet as an adjunct to other forms of ther- apy...." The testimonial goes on- to • state that a physical exam has revealed that tissue from his prostate showed a "well-differentiated carcinoma." Macro- biotics was advised, and since the"prog- nosis was poor, the patient (like my mother) felt he had nothing to lose. "Pain diminished strikingly within several weeks of beginning the diet and by the spring of '79 there was no labo- ratory evidence of cancer. "Evidence relating nutrition to 'disease is unclear. Chronic disorders . such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and dental cavi- ties have been associated with nutri- tional factors." 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Some- thing this unique has to be experienced, SunSystem is now available in America for the first time. We would like you to try it. Because, surely, with Sun- System, tanning is believing. 24 FROM Lifvib THE CONTINUED SMALLNESS of island life gives a magnified focus to one' s life. My sisters and I had horizons of water all around us but we still lived in a very small world, so to speak, be- cause we were expected to find things to amuse ourselves in and around our yard most of the time/ unless we were in school or it was summer time and we were at the beach. Beach going was reserved for the summer months only because we considered it too cold otherwise to waste time shi- vering in a towel if even the slightest breeze was blowing. Besides that, it was too much of an ordeal to get ready to go to the beach—finding a towel, locating a snorkel from the back of the closet, scraping up enough money to get a snow- ones did. Which is not to- say hers, didn't taste good, because they did, but those alluring instant potatoes were Hollywood all the way and we craved the whole glamorous vision. Carlos Grocery store was right around the corner from our house on Dey Street and on a really slow day Martha and I would beg enough change from my mother to go get a package each of gravy and mashed potatoes, just enough for two people, ourselves, because we figured we were more deserving than Kathryn who had her own style of preparation and eating. Kathryn possessed an intense passion for boiled-soft macaroni shells with butter and just a hint of jarred marinara sauce. And, if a starving, malnourished soul (like myself) took just one little, cone, cramming it all in the basket of your bike and waiting outside for your sisters to get ready (they both had no sense of punctuality—making the whole process very tedious and anti- climactic .) It really was much easier just to stay home and find something to do. I enjoyed playing school very much and 'conducted classes on the front porch with my chalkboard and pointed stick, but it became increasingly difficult to round up enough willing students once our playmates got a little older and refused to surrender to my authority. I was a strict teacher as I presumed all good teachers were, but the neighborhood kids had matured beyond the point of wanting to learn and traded erudition for blissful ignorant independence. Life magazine was my main textbook. EATING WAS ANOTHER form of enter- tainment and diversion and my sister Kathryn did a lot of, that whether or not she was looking for something to do. Martha and I took another approach to eating for fun and something to do.-We became fascinated with the new miracle of instant mashed potatoes and instant gravy. I remember first seeing French's Instant Gravy being advertised on tele- vision and was entranced by the smooth- ness, the uniformness, the glossiness, the instant joyousness of it all. I had to have it—the gravy my mother served up NEVER looked that good and her mashed potatoes certainly never stood up in fluffy white mounds like those instant limp, cracked-to-the-middle shell out of her pan, she would grab you by the throat with her powerful C-clamp hands and shake the life out of you until you coughed up the filched morsel and re- turned it to her. Then she'd rinse it off, adorn it with some more of her precious sauce and it would be good as new. (Kathryn was a firm believer in portion control.) MARTHA AND I were true haute-cuisine aficionados , however, and we took our ' purchased gravy and mashed potatoes to the lamp over the kitchen table, read the directions very carefully over and over again, gathered all the correct pans, measuring spoons, whips and extra ingredients and proceeded with our lunch in true, civilized fashion. These instant mashed potatoes were everything the picture on the front of the package promised they would be, too. We were thrilled beyond our wildest dreams and we took extra pains to arrange them on the plate to exactly du- plicate the picture by peaking the mound with a fork and making a depression in the middle to hold the gravy. Of course they had about as much appeal as battery acid on cardboard, but that didn't matter to us. They looked so perfect we didn't care at all about the taste and we even lied to;each other as we ate them about; how wonderful they tasted and how miraculous it was that one would produce such an aesthetic accomplishment- in only eight minutes. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY AMY LEE DE POO The only other thing that could.sur- pass eating as an interesting way to pass the time was tree-climbing, which we did a lot of all year round, except when it was very cold in winter. (Then we'd olimb on the roof because it was easier. Nothing was more exhilarating than snaking your way to the top of our roof on a blustery winter day, clinging desperately to the silver tin with your fingernails and watching the whitecaps move forward over the chalk-green ocean while the cold salt air rushed through your hair. All the shrimp boats, would be tied up and their masts looked like a mystical forest of black skeletons which made it all the more spookier.) But the only thing that could surpass both eat- ing and tree-climbing as an interesting way to pass time was to be able to climb and eat at the same time. Not having apple or peach trees to climb as the children in our not-tropical-at-all textbooks did at school, we had to settle for Spanish lime trees. There were several very good bearing Spanish lime trees in our immediate area—one ' next door, one in the yard behind us and two on Caroline Street. Naturally the Spanish limes only got ripe once a year, but we kept in practice by climbing as much as we could, seeing how high we could go, plotting how we should keep a close watch on them as they ripened (to keep poachers from getting all the good bunches) and regularly testing our ever- increasing weight against the strength of the branches. KATHRYN WAS NOT a very good climber at all. She had extremely weak vision to start with and that made her fearful of heights, plus I think her balance and coordination were thwarted because of this. But that did not stop- her from oc- casionally climbing up in a tree and you could believe her mouth and lungs were still in very good working order. I know this to be a fact because i.f Kathryn did have to get up in a tree and happened upon some interesting carvings in that tree, I would be the one to suffer un- •*dly humiliation while she bellowed out i a voice that carried to Christmas Ti Island: "HEY! DOES ANYBODY WANT TO KNOW WHAT I JUST FOUND?" (Nobody wanted to know, incidentally, but that still didn't stop her.) "HEY! YOU WON'T BE- LIEVE IT—THIS IS TOO MUCH—RIGHT HERE IT SAYS: AMY LOVES KENT FORD! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? ISN'T HE THE ONE WITH THE CURLY BLONDE HAIR THAT STICKS UP, IN THE FRONT? SOMEBODY GET ME A BAG, I THINK I'LL THROW UP! YUCKO!" Unfortunately Spanish lime trees have very soft bark that made writing on them very easy with a three-penny nail and what's worse, the bark remembered things you had long forgotten and wished never to be reminded of again, but Kath- ryn throught it her duty to bring up ancient third-grade history and toss it in your face just to make your day a little brighter. To be sure, Kathryn had a way of making everything a little brighter In her own inimitable style and I can think' of nothing that could stop her jaws from working once they got started. Especially if she considered herself to be in the right (which was a -hundred per. cent of the time.) Indefat- igably correct, Kathryn was a master at calling'you on a point, any point. Be i't the degree of filth on your clothes or the date of Armistice Day, Kathryn WAS right. . IT SO HAPPENED that my sisters and I all had identical high-chair stools to sit at the dinner table. My father got them-at the lumber store unfinished and stained them to match the table, which was really a hollow door with iron legs on it. To distinguish which chair be- longed to each girl, my mother thought- fully painted each chair on the inside rim with the appropriate initial, in gold paint, and added some decorative curlycues and leaves around the initial to make it more beautiful and special, because that was her way. We loved our chairs and we always but always sat in our own chair every night. I must say I did prefer to sit in the chair with the big A on it (being that it matched the grades I got on al- most all of my school papers) but I was not such an extremist that I would lose my mind if for one moment someone sat in my special chair. This was not the case with Kathryn. One night I happened to, out of sheer mental preoccupation with deep philosophical thoughts (most likely the outcome of a Beverly Hill- billies plot), sit in Kathryn's beloved chair by mistake. I proceeded to begin eating while she was still washing her ' hands in preparation for dinner and by : the time she made it to the table she policy at the U.N. After this incident life went on/ as it always did, each day bringing fresh challenges, each night bringing cozy suppers and cookie and milk desserts. My life had the warmth and security of a feather quilt and I was very happy ex- cept for the occasional cockle-burrs supplied by Kathryn. But even that didn't bother me too much because my mother always told me nothing was ever perfect and I believed her, as I always did. I figured that was the best way to get along in life, taking the good with , the bad but always hoping for the best. OF COURSE, KATHRYN -was presented with these very same words of advice, but I don't think she quite absorbed them. She always reacted hysterically to things and if something went wrong in her life, she would scream and cry a lot and practically pull out her hair. It is my firm belief that this atti- tude served to make her extremely acci- dent prone. had already espied the gross breach of etiquette and was screaming at me at the top of her lungs. "YOU'RE IN MY CHAIR! GET OUT OF MY CHAIR! DAMN YOU, AMY, I SAID GET OUT OP MY CHAIR, YOU LITTLE SNOT!" Still thinking deeply, I responded- to her braying with a polite denial of said crime. "Kathryn, I am not in your chair and would you please get out of the way, I can't see the T.V." "OH YES YOU ARE IN MY CHAIR, YOU FOOL, JUST TURN AROUND AND LOOK! THAT'S MY CHAIR!"- I still persisted that I was in my own chair because the chair I was sitting in was in my regular place, but what I didn't know was that when my • mother was vacuuming that day, she must have pulled the chairs away from the table and shifted these two around, and Kathryn with her eagle-eyes saw the A on the one next to me. Finally, I leaned forward and looked behind me and sure enough, there was the tell-tale K star- ing at me and I was indeed sitting in her chair, which was a big surprise to" me. "Oops, I'm sorry, I'll " "I'LL SAY YOU'RE SORRY. YOU'RE THE SORRIEST THING I EVER SAW. NOW GET YOUR GRUBBY LITTLE BODY OUT OF MY DAMN CHAIR." I did so very quickly, thinking it better to be accommodating to Kathryn, secure in the knowledge that she with . her rare diplomatic style would prob- ably end up one day dictating foreign A week or two later Martha and I were up to our old tricks, climbing va- rious trees in the neighborhood that presented themselves as challenges to us, planning tree houses and scoping out the prospects of the upcoming Spanish lime season. In particular, there was a very difficult tree to get up into on the. corner of Elizabeth and Caroline streets. It was not a Spanish lime tree but it served to test the agility of a climber because the trunk was _so smooth only a very monkey-like person could shinny up the trunk far enough to get a good hold,•and then further hoist them- selves upward. Luckily, both Martha and I possessed these simian characteristics (she more than me, I was on the frail and delicate side) and we both had little difficulty in conquering this tree. Besides, we would help each other by letting one or the. other get a" boost from the hands or back. THERE WERE MANY times when Martha and I were on the outs with Kathryn and we got up in that tree to get away from her and her perpetual barrage of criti- cisms and know-it-all commentaries on the state of the world. , As it happened, Martha and I were up in this tree, minding our own business, . enjo.ying the view and otherwise behaving ourselves, when Kathryn happened along • on her way home from the library. Kathryn spent a great deal of time at the library doing her homework being that she claimed she could think better there (I think she just liked the free 25 air-conditioning.) As she walked by, we called to her and told her what a won- derful time we were having in this tree. I told her the view was excellent and already we had seen two winos and the crazy woman from the docks go by and nobody had seen us. The leaves were so lush and dense we were quite concealed from where we sat on the branch. I can't say why we told all this to Kathryn be- cause she was generally not interested in sport of this nature at all. Oddly enough, she told us she would go home, put away her books and come back and join us. When she left) Martha and I sat wondering why we had made it sound so appealing when it was really not that much fun at all, and now with Kathryn coming back, it was sure not going to be any party because she always got into arguments with us about everything and anything. It must have been fate, it had to have been fate or some mysterious force, that causes things to happen be- cause Kathryn was keeping an appointment with destiny. PRESENTLY SHE ARRIVED wearing a pair of Bermuda shorts that just grazed her knees and a button-up cotton blouse with short sleeves. Those shorts did not aid her case when it came time to be able to climb. They were stiff cotton, fit rather snugly and Kathryn was not that limber to begin with. By this time I did not want her up in the tree at all, and I thought back to the lovely things she called me when I was in her chair at dinner time, and the embarrassment she caused me by_ an- nouncing to the world about my foolish third-grade infatuation and the thought of her intrusion into our leafy para- dise just took all the wind out of my sails. Kathryn was at the base of the tree and she called up to us. "Hey, you guys, I'm ready to come, up now. Would you give me a hand?" Martha responded, "It's getting pretty late now—are you sure you want to come up? We were thinking of coming down in a little while anyway. Nobody's been by since you left." "Yes, I still want to come, up, so would you PLEASE give me a hand?" "Oh, all right," Martha said and • inchmealed her way down from her perch to assist Kathryn. Finally after much pulling and straining, Kathrynwas far enough up in the tree to make it the rest of the way by herself. "Whew—it sure is nice up here, how do you guys manage to get up so easy?" "Oh, we manage—it's not hard. Just takes a little know-how, that's all," Martha said, using one of John de Poo's favorite understatements. "Well," said Kathryn, "I don't think I could have done it alone. Can you?" "OF COURSE WE CAN—we do it all the time," I lied.. "Do you actually think I'm going to call Martha every time I want to climb this tree? Ha! That's ri- diculous." I paused for a moment, but it began to sound so good I decided to elaborate. "Why, I climb this tree reg- ularly, all by myself, and usually I go straight to the top, it's easy, and besides, you can see much better from there. I can see everything from up there—it's fantastic." Kathryn's mouth was hanging open. I could see that I had her. She had the wild spirit of the arm- chair adventurer, and this was very ex- citing to her. She spoke. "Do you think I could climb up there ... I mean I never went that high before, but if it's as good as you say it is, I bet I could if I tried and was real careful ..." I broke in. "Of course you could, all you have to do is hang onto the branch above you while you make sure your feet are on the branch below real good and don't step up until you're sure you can make,it. It's simple." Kathryn reflected on this for a mo- ment and with a definite set to her chin she said, "I'm going, to try." 26 THIS IS WHERE fate steps in. Fate and Kathryn's proneness for disaster. What she should have said was "I'M GOING TO DO IT" but she didn't, she said she was going to try. She slowly and shakily stood up and clutched the branch above her. She didn't look very confident and I think I saw her knees wobble slightly. "Is this how you do it?" she asked. "Sure, that's how you do it—that's just fine." Half of me wanted to encour- age her and the other half knew she just did not have the stuff it took to make the climb. She chose a medium size limb to make a horizontal approach to a high- er branch and was makiifg her way along. She stopped. "I changed my mind—I don't want to do it—I don'tthink I can make it—I'm going to come back." "NO! DON'T COME BACK!" I shouted. I really can't say whether I didn't want her to come back because I wanted her to make it, or because I knew she couldn't make the climb and would have to come back anyway and be proven wrong for once. (Martha claims I didn't want her to come back permanently, but Martha has a black imagination and this is just not the case at all.) AT THIS POINT I jumped up and began to rush towards Kathryn, possibly to help, possibly to stop her, but when I did, she turned around, let go with one hand, began to weave back and forth and her eyes grew wide. Time stopped. I knew it was over. It was one of those moments that you want to call back, to start over again, to try to do anything to stop the inevitable. But it was too late. Kathryn let out a scream, and fell out of the tree to the cold, hard side- walk below. I asked God to please let her not be dead. Martha was in shock and was frozen in a crouch on her branch. We were both motionless watching Kathryn on the ground. To our amazement, she stood up. She was not crying. She was not screaming. She was just standing there. I was hoping she wouldn't tell on me and everything would be all right. She .looked up at us. As she stood there, I noticed, her arm was dangling in a pecu- perfect health had I drenched her in water from Lourdes. MARTHA DID NOT say anything. I imagine she did not want to alarm Kath- ryn, who was highly excitable. "Well, I feel all right ... except my arm sort of hurts a little bit ... I think I'm going home." She began to walk down the sidewalk and' as she got further down the street I could see that her arm was not in its usual place. I didn't want to go home right away lest someone .put two and two together and figure out that perhaps I had something to do with it. Martha and I stayed in that tree until it was almost dark. When we finally got home, Kathryn was nowhere to be found. My father had taken her to dePoo Hospital to get-a cast put on Kathryn's arm. It was broken. I felt terrible and I kept tell- ing myself that it wasn't my fault, but • of course it was my fault and I was probably going to get some terrible punishment to go along with my crime. Martha and I decided to go to the hospital and see her. Much to my sur- prise, when we arrived, Kathryn was smiling and seemed very happy. Maybe she was glad she was not going to have to do any more climbing, maybe she was glad she had taken it so bravely and maybe she was glad she was the center of attention, I couldn't tell. I only know I was glad she didn't tell on me and I decided I loved her after all even if she called me a stupid pig every day of my life from that day on. And after she was healed, she did. liar angle from her body. "Kathryn, are you all right? You look all right. Doesn't she look all right, Martha? She looks all right to me anyway." I could not have been any more effusive in my quest to make Kathryn in — -sr ^"*=sai Chez Emlle : - > - : : ' - - : / : . ^ i ' % ~ : % i ^ ' i ' [ ' ; . . • " • ' • ^ • • • ' / • ) • ' • • • : ' c 507 Frorit Street (frothting the 3 0 N O T RiqhT Now BY JOHN HELLEN JOHNNY PIABELLO STARED at the back o a r while twisting the left side of his mustache. His elbows were spread on the e d g e of the bar, and his right leg was pumping in place on the rung of his chair. S u s a n Crane opened another beer, placed i t in front of him, and smiled. She "took a dollar from the money in front of h i m to put in the register. "You look worried, Johnny." "Naw, well, I'm not worried. It's j u s t more money than I've ever had. And, a h , I don't know if I want to spend it a l l at once." "What else would you do with it except start your own business?" "Eh, I don't know. Go on a trip. T a k e you on a trip. Take it easy for a w h i l e . Maybe go to Italy. What would y o u say to that, Suzie? You and me go t o Italy. Travel first class all the w a y . Stay in the best places. Get out o f this town for a while." SUSAN CRANE DID not reply, because s h e had broken off listening to Johnny i n order to go to the other end of the bar- to wait on two men in suits. She poured two VO's and water, collected for t h e drinks, and handed one of the men change from twenty dollars. He quickly g a v e one bill back, to Susan. He smiled. S h e smiled and half nodded while keeping h i s friendly eye. "Thank you," she s a i d . The men went to sit at a table. Susan, a tanned, athletic-looking g i r l with brown hair, was wearing as a t o p the halter from the only swim suit s h e owned. She returned to the end of t h e bar and again smiled at Johnny. "What do you say, Suzie?" "What do I say to what?" "="•'• "Italy." "Johnny, I can't go to Italy now. The season is just beginning. This is a good job and I don't want to leave it. I've already been to Italy and I don't want to go back, at least not right now. Why don't you go to Italy!" "No fun going alone." "Well, take someone," said Susan. "You said you didn't want to go," Johnny said, perplexedly. "Not me, Johnny. Take somebody else. "Who?" questioned Johnny. "I don't know anyone else. I wouldn't want to go with anyone else. I like you. As a matter of fact I love you, Suzie. Do you know that?" "You say it enough. I guess you believe it," said Susan flatly. JOHNNY STARED at her. Susan looked away and went to move down the bar. Johnny said, "Gimme another beer." With thumb and forefinger Susan pincered a dollar from in front of Johnny and gave it a pert tug from beneath his still half-full bottle. She put the dollar in the register, then opened another beer for Johnny. She walked quickly away to wait on another man in a suit, who had sat at the other end of the bar. Johnny looked at Susan as she made the man a martini. Johnny loved the way she looked. She had green sparkling eyes, a straight nose and the whitest teeth that stood out in the tanned frame of her face. Her figure was of the sort made famous by centerfolds, the kind that any man who liked women would have to like. Johnny had liked her figure cm.-two occasions. He had liked her figure very thoroughly. Thoroughly to the point where he had fallen in love with her. Susan served the man his' martini and brought him two dollars and fiftv cents change from the five he gave her. The man slid a dollar to the edge of the bar for Susan. He smiled. Susan took the money and smiled at him while keeping his friendly eye. She half nodded and said, "Thank you." "What's your name?" the man asked her. "Susan," she answered. "Mine is Corbett. You mix a good martini, Suzie," he said. "Susan," she said, "not Suzie, Mister Corbett. It's Susan." "Oh, sure," sputtered the man apol- ogetically. "Everyone has the right to- • be called what they want. My name isn't Mister Corbett, either. It's Mister Bentley. You can call me Corbett, though, That's my first name." Susan smiled again. He smiled, too, looking appreci- atively into her green eyes. JOHNNT LOOKED DOWN the length of the bar at Susan and the well dressed business man. He wondered again what to do with the windfall he had received that morning. Johnny Piabello was a good mechanic. He was thought of as the best.by most local people, especial- ly those who owned temperamental foreign cars. Johnny had always worked hard and made a.lot of money, most of which he had always managed to spend. In spite of his free-spending ways he had saved about four thousand dollars over the years. Just a week ago he had entrusted a thousand dollars to a friend, who this.morning had inexplicably paid Johnny back three thousand dollars. "What's this, Bernard?" Johnny had asked his friend. "That's your premium for the no-questions-asked loan, Johnny," Bernard said. He gave Johnny Piabello a sly smile and patted him on the shoulder. Green JVursery \jome ano'browse through our new display room, shade house and gardens for the finesi in plants and containers for your ~de.garden. 1319 Wi/fiam St. Wes/, 5?/3 33040 296-J212 "Thanks for the loan. You pulled me out of a hole. That big bill gave me ten, which was all I needed. The upstate boys were more than glad to pick up my shares for thirty. Very good profit in this sort of thing, if you got the chips you need to get in." "I don't know what you're saying, Bernard," said Johnny, although he did, "and I don't know if I want to," which he did not. "I'm going into business for myself, maybe. But mine'll be easier to understand than whatever the hell it is you do." "Don't bet on it, old buddy," grinned Bernard. "Hey, Suzie," said Johnny, loudly enough to be heard across the six empty stools between him and the man in the suit named Corbett. "I thought 'Suzie1 was anathema," Bentley said to her. "You can't get" through to some people," Susan said-.- "He's an old friend. He's always called me that. I gave'up trying to make him stop. He doesn't do it on purpose. It's just that he doesn't understand. He doesn't understand a lot of things." CORBETT BENTLEY LOOKED across the vacant chairs at Johnny with an expres- sion of irritation at being interrupted while talking to the pretty bartender. "Give me another beer, huh," said' Johnny with no tone of "please" in his voice. "What time you get off, Sue?" Susan set the beer down, slid another dollar from beneath Johnny's empty bottle and put it in the register. "Seven," she said. "Let's go for a boat ride,when you get off. Go out for sunset," suggested Johnny with enthusiasm. "Not tonight," Susan dismissed. "I was up late last night. I'm going right home after work tonight." "How about tomorrow night, then?" "I don't know," she said, sounding exhausted. "Maybe we could go into the city over the weekend; go to a concert," Johnny said, undeterred. Johnny stared at her, then said imploringly, "I love you, Suzie. I do very much. Doesn't that mean anything at all to you?" - SUSAN CRANE LOOKED away from Johnny to two well dressed women who sat down at the bar. She went over to them and barely smiled. "Yes," was all she said to them. "Give me a frozen daiquiri," one said. "I'll have a pina colada," said the other. The blender for making such drinks was at the end of the bar where.Johnny sat. He quizzically watched Susan put ice, liquor, and mixes into two stainless steel canisters. He looked unblinking- . ly at her eyes when she walked to his end of the bar. She looked at him looking at her and pout'ily looked away. She fitted one canister onto the blender and flicked it on low speed just as Johnny spoke. "You know, if you'd spend a little more time with me you might get to like me better. You'd find out I'm a nice guy..." "Ghurrrr," sounded- the machine. "What?" said Susan, slightly irri- tated. JOHNNY REPEATED VERBATIM what he had said, unwittingly loud enough for not only Susan but the two ladies to hear. The ladies stopped talking to each other and gave peripheral attention., to Johnny. Susan flicked the blender to high speed. "Ghirrrrr." Johnny went on loudly competing with the machine. "You're acting like there's some- thing wrong with me being in love with you! I've never been nothing but nice •to you, but you never want to do nothing, with me anymore. I love you, don't you understand!" • •• 3 2 The pina colada had been on the- machine for too long? Susan did not want to turn off the machine because of Johnny's ranting declarations of love. She yanked the canister out of the high speed blender and set the other one with the daiquiri into the slot, amazingly with no grinding of gears. No sooner had she set the second canister onto the blender than she pulled it off pre- maturely. She walked back in front of the two women, leaving the machine whining loud- ly. Susan poured out the ladies' drinks. The pina colada was the con- sistency of skimmed milk, while the daiquiri was not homogenized at all; the ice cubes had barely been broken into smaller chunks. She set the drinks in front of the ladies and took the ten dollar bill one of them had laid on the bar. She went to the register and re- turned with four dollars, which she put sternly on the bar. The lady who had paid for the drinks picked up the four dollars, counted them, glanced at the six dollar reading on the register, shook her head, folded the money two times, and slid it into her billfold. JOHNNY REACHED ACROSS the bar and switched off the blender. He sat back in his chair saying, "Hey, ah, Sue. I'll have another beer." . , Susan gritted her teeth and went . over to Johnny. "Look," she said softly but sternly. "If you're going to sit here and get drunk and bother me when I come up this end of the bar, I'm not going to stand for it." "Bother you?" Johnny said, acting surprised and shocked. "I'm speaking • direct from my heart to you, and you call it bothering you!" "This is not the place for this sort of thing," said Susan with finality. "Lemme have another beer," Johnny ordered, then said "please." "This is not the place for it.' 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SUSAN BIT HER LIP, went and got another beer, and put one of Johnny's dollars in the register. Neither of the ladies had enjoyed her drink or the muffled dispute between the pouty barmaid and her disheveled suitor. Their glasses were less than a third empty when they began the bustling common to older women prior to leaving anywhere. Purses and shopping bags gathered up; glasses,. cigarettes, and lighters were all stowed in the bags. When all ready, the women looked at each other to see who would go first. Both rose at the same time and.went out the door together, one of them saying, "Well, we know what not to order here. " Susan quickly threw away the spoiled drinks. Corbett Bentley, who had taken in the whole scene, ordered"another mar- tini. Susan made two and put one in front of the man and kept one for herself. "Mind if I join you for, one?" Susan said to him. "Have one on the house and have one with me. I need one to calm down." Bentley acted surprised, then grateful,.then concerned. "WELL, THANK YOU-much, Susan!" He pushed the dollar-fifty remaining from his first drink into the trough on the bartender's side of the bar. "Is that fellow up there bothering you?" "Not really," Susan replied, look- ing out of the sliding glass door at a group of bathers around the hotel's pool. "He thinks he's in love with me. Maybe he is. But I don't want to be in 16ve with' anybody.' • I'm only twenty-six. -I've got lots of time for that. I don't need love yet." Bentley nodded as if hi wholeheart- edly agreed, and said, "Have you told him this?" "Not in those words. But, yes, Capt. Bob's Raw Oysters Shrimp Steamed in Beer Conch Chowder Lobster Homemade Key Lime Pie DESBIVEDLY FAMOUS FOR HNE SEAFOOD Open 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Daily 908 Caroline Street " 294-9005 I've told him." • .. "Maybe someone else should have a talk with him," said Bentley. "Maybe I could help." SUSAN WAS STANDING sideways behind the bar looking out the window. Bent- lev's eyes had drifted down from her face to settle on her fine breasts. He said, "Of course, I'm a perfect stranger. Susan looked over quickly at Bent- ley and caught his glance at her chest. She looked down and saw the money ne had pushed over the edge of the bar. "Oh," she half nodded, catching Bent- lev's eye again and held it while . smiling at him. "Thank you, but I doubt he'd listen to anyone. He would ;just say it's none of your business. _ Johnny had been leaning back in his chair watching the two of them out of the corner of his eye/ even though he_ could not hear what they had been saying. When he saw Susan coming up the bar witn the dollar and fifty cents, he quickly finished his beer and said, a little groggily, "Yeah, Suzie, will you get me another one." Susan, looked at him as. she put the money in her tip cup. She said, "You 11 be drunk." "So what. I don't work today. "Does that mean it's o.k. to get drunk? I thought you were going to go see about a loan from the bank to start your own garage." JOHNNY WAS TAP DRIVING his finger- nails into the elbow pad of the bar. His right leg- continued to pump in place. "I gave up that idea," he said. "I don't want to go into debt. I'd rather go to Europe or something, with you. But if you don't'want to go right now I can wait.," Susan wrinkled her brow. Her patience was becoming thin. "Johnny, that's foolish," she said with some scorn. "It's more likely every minute ' that I'll never go anywhere with you again. Live your own life." "I am. Don't you worry about me, Suzie Q. Just slide me down another beer." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE A church service full of stirring new ideas. (And warm, friendly people.) A Sunday School a place to grow A Reading Room full of revolutionary new ideas. (And helpful, encouraging books.) And a Wednesday testimony meeting where the healing power of these new-old ideas is told, and people can give their thanks to God. Now that we've introduced ourselves we'd love to have you come and share with us ... any time you can. First Church of Christ, Scientist 327 Elizabeth St. Sunday Service and Sunday School 11:00 a.m. (Infant care provided) Wednesday evening meetings Reading Room irr Church Building Daily exceptSunday andHolidays , 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. All are welcome Susan got the beer, took the money, this time a five, put the money in the drawer, and put four dollars back on johnny's pile. A TALL MUSCULAR man in a bathing suit came into the bar. He asked Susan for three imported beers, to take out to the pool. She gave them to him with plastic cups inverted on the neck of each bottle. "Four-fifty, please," she said. The tall man in the swim trunks handed her a five and a one dollar bill. She said, "Thank you," while half, nodd- ing to hint, and she caught and held his smiling eye for a moment. She smiled. They knew each other. "How have you been, Brad? How was the race?" "Great, Susan. I just, got back yesterday, said Brad. "I finished fourth even though our spinnaker ripped near the finish. Hey, I'm taking some of the gang out on Dad's new yacht to- night. You ought to come along. We're leaving about eight-thirty." "I 'd love to , " said Susan. "I need something to look forward to after such a slow day here." "O.K. then, I ' l l see you over at the club after eight," said Brad, and he went out. CORBETT BENTLEY HAD finished his second martini and had been thinking about having another one in order to continue engaging the beautiful bartend- er in more conversation. He had been fantasizing about having an outside chance of offering Susan some consolation and possibly dinner after she got Off work. But he had overheard her accept the invitation from the young yachtsman-, and he smiled to himself. He knew very well outside chances seldom paid off. As a successful businessman he had trained himself to accept the reali t ies of marketplace probability. He stood up with his briefcase and bade goodbye to Susan without using her name. "Thank you for the drink. Good- bye," he said. He did not look at Johnny as he went out. n i i n | i n i i i i l l I l.J MmBiddM* CAJMDY STORE AND Ice Creams Homemade Key lime Marmalade "Thank you," said Susan wanly. JOHNNY PIABELLO FOUND himself un- able to concentrate on anything at all. He looked at Susan behind the bar. She had her back to him. He was the only customer in the bar. He felt sleepy. "One more beer before nap time, Suzie, Johnny said. "One more beer before you pass out," thought Susan. She gave him one and put his dollar in the.register. She returned to the other end of the bar and stared out the window. Johnny drank his last beer even more•quickly than he had the previous "six pack. His head began to swim. He knew he would have to go and sleep. He picked up all the bills remaining in, front of him and stuffed them uncere- moniously into his jeans pocket. It took him several moments to plan his exit and his route home. HE TOOK A deep breath and stood up. He was a bit taller standing at the bar than he,was while seated at it. "See you later, Suzie," he said slurringly. "Going to go take a nap. Maybe this weekend we can go fishing; maybe we can go into the city. I love . ya Sue..." '/Goodbye, Johnny," replied Susan not unsweetly. "Be careful on your way home." Johnny"went out the door unsteadily and disappeared around the corner of the hotel. Susan went over to the cash regi- ster and rang up two dollars on the ma- chine. Then she took five dollars out of the drawer and put it in her tip cup. She quickly counted the bills in her cup. Thirty-two. 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Phone 294-5551 A FOOD FORJHOUGHT: CON'T FROM P. 21 A REPORT I was shown—Cancer, Nu- trition and Macrobiotics: A Prelimi- nary Report, by Dr. Sattilero—des- cribes the .macrobiotic approach: "With macrobiotic dietary approach to cancer, one's efforts would be dedicated to neutralizing the extremeyin or yang elements causing the cancer and, once this neutralization occurred, reorganiz- ing the internal environment of the body so that poisons will not accumulate to Mow And SONG li!.lnteA'i cool jazz bloim W>zli out a voajm hoAn ioundi throughout creation. OF.SPRING • haa VK reprecipitate the disease process. Diet- ary recommendations of course depend * upon the type of cancer which has dê - veloped." The Select Committee•on Nutrition and Human Needs of the United States Senate advises us to increase the con- sumption of whole grains, beans, fresh vegetables and fruit in order to reduce the risk of serious disease. I have my- self fallen naturally into such a diet, eating a lot of grains and vegetables. ONE BOOKLET I read, concerning Dr. Wm. Kempner's Rice Diet, stated that during the war when bacon and butter and other fatty foods could not be traded, the people showed a decrease in heart disease and other related cardiovascular diseases, being on a more simplified, less fatty, diet. There have been diet fanatics, and many gave macrobiotics a bad name. A ' rice diet requires close medical super- vision as I saw at Rice House in Durham, N.C., where, I was told, many who could barely ambulate, or see, walked out self-sufficient. Macrobiotics is balanced. Recommen- dations must be followed in accordance with one's altered environment, and should not be approached indiscriminate- ly. It must be gradual and consist initially of modification. One should consult a doctor and a specialist in macrobiotics with serious disease, so that balance might be re- stored and health improved. DR. SATTILERO'S REPORT concludes: "With increasing numbers of.case reports appearing and implicating diet in carci- nogenesis, we are examining the opportu- nities to establish in our hospital a Macrobiotic Ward for cancer patients who will voluntarily participate in testing our hypothesis that the balanced nutri- tional approach advocated by macrobiot- ics is, in fact, the key to the riddle of malignancy." So, in effect, as many feel, we ARE what we eat. I know the well-being I feel from making and drinking my own kefir (a yogurt-like culture) and the healthy feeling you can get from a good bowl of homemade split pea/potato/carrot soup, laced with plenty of nutritional yeast. You can get high, a rush of good energy, from eating the right things. But the cook should put a little caring love in with the ingredients, too. "Let us be grateful for everyone, everything, and let us pray before and after each meal," suggests the East-West Foundation. They have a calm, loving philosophy that goes along with the foods suggested. UP ON SOUTHARD, past the Herb Gar- den Natural Poods Store, one will find "The only true natural foods restaurant (Dr. Sattilero himself has dined here) on the Florida Keys," according to Ernie Vantriglia, proprietor of Las Palmas del Mundo. PfESfflTS WRAP PANTS bizarre Wmmtmtom it 8rt~ '<- 622Duvaia Read what these Key Westers have to say about U/EIQHT with J20M/1 IT'S TRUE! No matter how many times you've failed or how much of a food addict you are—you can lose weight without boring diets or harsh drugs. And—no will power is necessary. COME HEAR HOW WE DO IT: FREE MINI MEETINGS TUES APRIL 29 THURS MAY 8 SPORTSMEN'S INN N. ROOSEVELT BLVD. 7:3O P.M. After trying every weight control approach that is legal in America, the I'ltsr program is the answer tor me. — Edith Amsterdam case is more than a weight loss program. It's given me a whole new outlook on lile, food and myself. Thanks, Ned, lor eutc. — Connie Fowler I have looked lorward with great anticipation to our meetings. My interactions with you and with the friends in the class have contributed positively to my leeling 0/ worthiness. Carry on, Ned! — Ed win a D. I'I/SI' has taught me that there are more important values in my life than carrying the wearisome burden of my tat. I know that I can become thin by letting go. • — Anna GiSson I really have enjoyed the program. It has changed the way that I have been thinking about myself lately, and my family. I finally ieel good about myself. Thank you, Ned. — Karen Baso I think this is the most positive program for good mental and physical health. It's helped me a great deal both in weight loss and daily lile. — Winnie Baldwin Alter years on a roller coaster ride of weight loss and weight gain, I've finally found a way to permanent weight loss. Not only does it work, but it's healthy, natural and easy. I also lound that losing weight was not the only benelit of this program. It helped me take control of my life and improved my relationships with Ihe other people in my lite. I have more energy and conlidence in my- self now, and I know that what I've learned will be with me tor the rest ol my lile. No more diets lor me! Thank you, Ned! — Mimi Hildebrandl LAS PALMAS DEL MUNDO Seafood . • . Natural Food 294-7991 294-9106 1029 SOUTHARD STREET OPEN 9-2 & 7-11 CLOSED-MONDAY r 40 GET YOUR summER BODY IN SHflPE Join Our Studio For ITIen and Women Instructors Available Classes for Women Sauna - Showers ~ 1O% DISCOUNT ON SUPPLEITIENTS TO: • Studio members • Senior Citizens • Disabled Vets find with purchases of #25.OO or more General Health Foods and Studio Center SEflRSTOWN • 296-325O He got into it after having re- lieved heavy physical problems of his own through dietary changes. "My health has changed unbelievably without the customary doctor's visits and drugs." He wanted to "turn the community on" with what he had been learning after burning himself out up north. He noticed there were health food stores but no such res- taurants . Now, Las Palmas has been mentioned in the pages of Vogue magazine, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Food costs are so high at Las Palmas that his accountant gets upset. Most restaurants spend about 20% on food costs, says Ernie, whereas his costs, since they are'purchasing only the best and purest, run 40% to 50%. ERNIE TENDS TO keep it pure and simple, has great pride in the purity of his health foods restaurant. For one thing, Tree of Life delivers every week. There is only organic brown rice and whole wheat flour used. Arrowroot is used instead of cornstarch. They cook in Hain cold pressed oils and the tempura is delightful. Tofu is made here and does not sit in Miami water. Overseas Fruit Market on Truman supplies much of the produce. Even the ketchup and "jelly are Hain's. Shopping is done daily. Also made fresh on the premises are their own granola and juices from organ- ic fruits, veggies, sprouts ... "The wheat'grass" juice can flush the system out, turn your pee green," chuckles Ernie. Celestial Gardens teas are offered, and Cuban-American coffee with cinnamon. "It's wicked," he testifies. The water is filtered and purified. "This is not "a hype. This is for real!" says Ernie. "We use the bananas from our trees here in the yard and we have breadfruit, papayas and avocados, too." SOME MORNINGS THERE is music. John from Pacific orchestra plays his idyllic flute for love and breakfast. People eat peacefully inside the building and out • on the patio. Sometimes there are guest chefs and special dishes from other cooks. Very creative recipes are used. A vast variety of cookbooks are referred to. "No animal fats are used," says Ernie. He uses live eggs from non- speeded chickens. He found there was a great demand for fish, but he uses no fish over 35 pounds. "After that weight, fish are polluted," he says. He buys fish at the back door, from local fish- ermen. Also interested in macrobiotics and cancer, Ernie says "Cancer is a dietary problem." ERNIE INFORMED ME.it is the long grain rice that, with its husk, cleanses the intestines, scrapes them out. "Eat what grows around you," he says. They make vegetarian tacos every night and get their bread from the Bavarian Bak- ery . Vic, the man from Life Energy Farms,• grows the sprouts, and the spices come from two ladies on Summerland Key.. There's also a spice garden on the premises. .Their "cheese is low-fat and rennetless and doesn't have the choles- terol of other cheeses. THE KEY WEST SCHOOL ZEN SPEAR FISHING - 4-9922 THE BULL BAR The Best Live Entertainment 7 Days and nights a week Downstairs THE WHISTLE and BALLROOM The Best In Dancing 7 Nights a Vteek Upstairs 224 Duval in Old Town : MESA'S GARDEN JVURSERY All. kinds of tropical -fruit" trees. Hundreds of .different, kinds of plants. You- name it, ' . ' " ' • ' We have.it. Also ... all kinds of pots and fertilizers and good topsoil. We are not selling the nursery Come by and see for yourself. Free delivery as far as Key Haven Located at 1500 Virginia St. across from Horace O'Bryant School, Key West PitOH© £96-8118'; Open 6 days a week. Closed Monday. KEY WEST'S 1 sr Sun in Taurus, after 20th in Gemini Venus in Gemini, after 12th in Cancer Mercury in Taurus, after 16th in Gemini Saturn in Vi'rgo retrograde, turning direct on the 22nd enra Jupiter in Virgo Mars in Leo, after 3rd in Virgo Uranus in Scorpio,', retrograde Neptune in Sagittarius, retrograde Pluto in Libra, retrograde North Node in 25° at Leo THE NEW MOON on May 14 favorably aspects the chart of Key West. In last month's forecast I said that "the city will be forced to face up to changes that must be made." I-think the move by the governor.to alleviate the water situation^is that change, but the planets are still in favor of good re- sults for the people of Key West. The new*moon again accentuates overall im-^ provements in city services. This situa- tion will continue to improve and prob- lems will be resolved. May 22 is a magic day when Saturn, the ruler of the Key West chart, will go in direct motion after being retrograde since January 7. This bodes good news. This planet also in Virgo in the 4th house of the Key West chart, will bring long term benefits to our city, particu- larly in the area of real estate. Con- joined with the planet Jupiter it also shows financial prosperity. Recession does not show in any area of the Key West chart. New beginnings do. THE FULL MOON gi\ May 29 in the sign of Sagittarius•aspects the partnership House of the Horoscope. Cooperation will not be forthcoming with this aspect, but the end results will still make the people of Key West the winner in any confrontation that may develop at this time.. • MONSTER H 0 0 FROHTSFREET KEY WEST MOWER:" NATURES ROSIE'S ON Ifood H««d furniture _ ; . ^ • SOI Ouval $ r r * Silver 2 1 © B c D t i v a l S t . / ••• Gold HAIR TODAY' ELECTROLYSIS PERMANENT HAIR REMOVAL BEARD SCULPTURE • BIKINI LINES, ET. AL Karen Guttman, R.E. Member—Int. Guild of Professional Electrologists (Formerly of Saks Fifth Avenue) 296-6934 S O M E REMAHICS THE FOLLOXIXG IS a policy state- mmn-t issued by the Key West Tourist Development Association, promoters of last: year's successful Fantasy Fest '79. The purpose of Fantasy Fest is to bring visitor traffic to our island at one of the slowest tines of the year. Halloween is a natural promotion, be- cause foT many years Key Westers have celebrated it in earnest. We succeeded in bringing visitors last year--so~e ten thousand of then. We believe that this year we will see even more and that, in tine, Fantasy Fest will beccae the "Mardi Gras of Au- tumn ." In spite cf some local misconcep- tions. Fantasy Fest '79 DID generate positive publicity for Key West--in newspapers around the state, on radio and television. WTVJ in Miami showed a videotape of the many beautiful floats on its Sunday night newscast that week- end . IN NO INSTANCE WAS ANY OF THE PRESS GENERATED BY FANTASY FEST OF A NEGATIVE NATURE. CNLY A SEGMENT OF KEY WEST'S OWN POPULATION TALKED IT DOWN. WE ADMIT FANTASY Fest '79 wasn't perfect. Few irand new things are. But with a VERY limited budget, few workers and \rery little time, Fantasy Fest brought" the tourists here, increased the volume of sales, generated publicity, came off without a single incident of violence, and gave us the best parade in twenty years! There has been some confusion over the term "adult" in connection with Fest '79. We'd like to clarify that now. We used the term adult because of the fact that alcoholic beverages would be being consumed along the parade route. What we perhaps should have said was, "Children are welcome--so long as they are accom- panied by an adult." This is for the children's own protection. The parade, after all, is a nighttime affair, taking place in a "night-club" district. THIS YEAR, BRING your children, by all means. We know now that Fantasy Fest is an event EVERYONE can enjoy. In fact, this year's Fest features a special Hal- loween Party for children at Bayview Park. There will be games, prizes, en- tertainment, candy ... all for free, on Friday afternoon, October 31, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. This year, with more tine, people and money, we are issuing an official "Fantasy Fest HandBook," which gives participants and observers alike an idea of what to expect--and what's expected of them. We DON'T want Fantasy Fest to be- come yet another divisive issue in Key West. The Lord knows that's the LAST thing this town needs. We DO want this city to come together so that, in years to come, Fantasy Fest can reach its true potential. We solicit your help and sup- port- -and constructive suggestions as to how we can make Fest '80 better. THERE ARE SOME folks who won't be pleased no matter what we do. We can't help that; it's THEIR problem. It's easy to sit back and tear something apart; the world of full of anarchair critics. But we really believe that the vast majority of Key Westers are active, constructive people who want to see Key West get its fair share of the tourist dollar--with a promotion that will become a national showcase. It is to those people that we turn for the support we need. Fantasy Fest *80-... a delightful, dazzling, delicious diversion for every- one to enjoy! We're already getting in- quiries from around the state from peo- pie who've heard about it. Join the fun --get involved. We need hard-working, responsible volunteers to help get the job done. There will be a community "in- volvement" meeting sometime in early June. Watch the newspapers and listen to the radio for further, information. The Key West T.D.A. wants YOU! Dear Solares Hill: Reading Richard Marsh's farewell article in solaies Hill prompts me to write vou about the poetry reading we had at'the Guild Hall this Easter Sun- day. As you know, Richard has been the guiding force behind the readings. We just want to let solares Hill and i t s readers know that we are s t i l l here, in- viting anyone to join us who wants to read original poetry or just l i s t e n and share refreshments. Poetry readings are held a t Guild Hall, 614" Duval at 8:30 on the f i r s t Sunday of every month. -- Jody Adams THE PRIVATE INDUSTRY Council of Monroe County, Inc. (P.I.C.) is now searching for employers who need and can train on-the-job prospective permanent employees. P. I.C. offers Keys employers a chance to directly benefit from their federal tax dollars and boost the local business economy. The P.I.C, composed of business and professional leaders of the Keys community, is federally-funded to de- velop on-the-job training and permanent employment in private business here for the people who. need it the most. Harmony & Lotus natural fibre clotkes for women and men exquisite pure silks, linens, cottons and rayons at simple prices. 507 Southard $f. ' **'«fcfromD««,r 12~6 Monday - Sunday Inner Circle Lounge HOUfi fron? 5:00 to T:00 P.M. Get More Bang' For Your Buck! ALL COCKTAILS $1.00 Free Hors d'Oeuvres KEY WESTER !NN 975 S. ROOSEVELT 296-5671 A NON-PROFIT, INDEPENDENT Keys or- ganization, the P.I.C. is now eligible for federal Comprehensive Employment and Training-Act funds not to exceed $180,650 for the current fiscal year. Funding has just been approved by the South Florida Employment and Training Consortium. For the individual employer, this reflects an opportunity to train an em- ployee specifically to suit his or her business needs, while being reimbursed for the employee's salary at the rate of SO per cent. THE NEW PROGRAM is designed to de- termine, and try to meet, the specific needs of Keys employers and those, who most need jobs, explains Joe Alonzo, Executive Director of P.I.C. He notes the Council's effort is to develop employment in the private sector in contrast with other programs that place persons in governmental jobs. Contact P.I.C. at the Keys agency's headquarters, 1129 Simonton. St., Key West, Florida1 33040; telephone 294-6671. P.I.C. says it is recruiting people who want to work and need jobs, and that it will try to cut all the "red tape" for prospective employers while working with them to develop,job training pro- grams that meet their individual busi- ness needs.. f ••' ' THIS IS A copy of an unanswered letter that was sent to Paula Hawkins, Air Florida Vice-president ~¥or Public Affairs, by a.local citizen. When I met with this letter writer, who, inciden- tally, is a very prominent member of our community and has lived here for over 20 years, he told me that despite all the problems he'd had on this par- ticular Air Florida flight, he would've felt a lot better if he just had re- ceived a reply to his letter. DEAR MRS. HAWKINS: Your interest- ing and informative address given re- L Exotic <& erotic . tropical clothing from here & abroad Tom Woodruff Galina Andrews 601 Duval St. Key West, FL 33040 / 305-294-3891 Aft / 7% offi r-e coeek. os>ttt - X> cue L cently before the Greater Key West Chamber of Commerce received my careful and thoughtful attention in spite of some arguments and interruptions during the. meeting. After you had completed your presentation, you may recall, I \ casually mentioned to you, "I'm going to Orlando next week, I'll take your plane instead of driving my car." This I did as'evinced by the at- tached plane tickets issued by your Com- pany. The flight Northward was satis- factory and pleasant, while the flight Southward was utterly miserable with dreadful inconveniences and inexcusable delays. THE SALIENT PACTS of that flight are as follows: 1. Departure of the flight from Or- lando delayed due to inefficiency on the part of your personnel,, who overbooked the flight. 2. While the plane was enroute to Miami, becoming aware of the tight con- nection for the plane to Key West, the Hostess with the aid of the Captain tried but could not obtain for me the Corridor and Gate Number, or if the plane to Key West would await the arrival of the plane from Orlando. 3. In view of the tight connecting schedule, which occurred by the delayed departure from Orlando, after the en- gines had stopped, thru the cooperation and courtesy of fellow passengers sit- ting near the exit door of the plane, I was permitted to get near the door, only to be cutely ordered back to my seat by your Hostess. • 4. After leaving the Orlando plane, I had to rush (long distance) to your : Main Counter to learn the Corridor and Gate Numbers for the'Key West plane. The Counter Clerk informed me then that the plane to Key West would wait for me. 5. Again, I was compelled to ao WAD DELL will read! I i! 9. Upon my arrival in Key West, I proceeded to the "Incoming Baggage Area" to claim my bag. After watching passen- gers remove all of the baggage in that area, I discovered my bag had not ar- rived from Miami. I went to the Counter and informed the Counter Clerk of the missing'bag, whereupon he went into an office and returned with my bag. Why that bag was not placed in the baggage area for me to claim it, I'll never know, just another incident of poor ser- vice to your passengers. 10. After getting my bag, I went to the Taxicab area and much to my continu- ous disappointments, due to the delay in getting my bag, ALL of the usual taxi- cabs stationed there had departed for the City. It was then necessary for me to telephone for a Taxi to come to the airport and take me to my home. I will await with keen interest for your comments., JOHN H. KEANE, Public Defender for the Sixtenth Judicial Circuit, an- anounced that he has received authoriza- tion from Chief Judge Helio Gomez to or- ganize and implement a Citizens Dispute Settlement Program for Monroe County. Citizens Dispute Settlement Centers are a growing concept in the state, and are an alternative means of settling disputes between its citizens without resorting to the courts. Such programs have been established in Pinellas, Dade, Collier, Escambia, and other major coun- ties in the state. Under the program, states the Of' fice of the Public Defender, a wide- range of minor criminal and civil mat- ters may be submitted to appointed medi- ators who need not be attorneys. One of the purposes of the centers is to save taxpayer money by keeping minor disputes out of the over-crowded court systems. The program also allows quick, just, and inexpensive solutions to matters which might be the source of continuing aggra- vation to the parties and to the crimi- nal justice system. "INTERESTED AGENCIES IN the crimi- . nal justice system have indicated their support for the project," said Keane. "I ask any interested citizens to contact the Office of the Public Defender to aid in setting up this program, which will be of great value to our county." THE GREENE STREET Theatre's produc- tion of Twelfth Night, which opens May 8th, is a happy ending to a year of co- operation with the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, not only in the person of William Prosser, the Center's innova- tive helmsman, as the director of Shakespeare's garden fantasy, but the bringing together of many artists as actors and technicians who have worked together in past productions for both Greene Street, Shakespeare, and Dr. Prosser. "My association with Greene Street Theatre goes back eight years to Rich- mond, Va. and the Virginia Commonwealth Universityr where many of the cast mem- bers of Twelfth Night were students of mine in the Department of Drama," said Prosser. "I WAS FLATTERED tp be asked to direct the first Greene Street Theatre production, Suddenly Last Summer, in 1976," he continued, "and I was de- lighted to return last year to direct their production of Streetcar Named De- Sire. It "is only through the persistence of Roddy Brown that Greene Street Thea- tre has flourished. It was natural that Greene Street be associated with the Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center be- cause of their work in town. The purpose of the Fine Arts Center is to serve the community, as a producing agency, as well as the audience. "I'M DELIGHTED TO be doing Shake- speare, since it is my major interest,' and it has not been done by Greene Street before. It is a joy to work with this company of former students. They are. all trained in doing Shakespeare," said Prosser. "This is the most profes- sional company we have had so far this season with the largest number of pro- fessionals. Doing Shakespeare is like taking a vacation because you live in the language of another world. This particu- lar play is one of the golden comedies from his great middle period." KIRK BROWN, THE technical half of the very talented Brown brothers, i-s busily making 14 papier-mache trees for this Tollicking romp through the land of love and is also acting as general manager for this production. Said Brown: "We did at least one Tennessee Williams play each year as well as a balanced program of interesting theatre. Our big- gest hit, financially and box office wise, was cabaret, but in my opinion Streetcar Warned Desire was the best pro- duction, overall." Roddy Brown shifted hats last month, as an Impressario, and brought Bonnie Rait, in concert, to "Key West. It was an overwhelming success with the .community and, financially, and helped to" pay off old Greene Street Theatre debts. AMONG THE LOCAL artists who are in- volved with the current production of Twelfth Night are Joe Regan, who has de- signed the sets and costumes; Lucile °Kravitz,-property mistress; Suzanne Dion, master electrician; Bob Spencer, sound; and Laura Balboni, stage manager. SKATE RENTALS » • PRO SHOP Your 1st Rental Hour will activate your membership with the Road Rollers Skate Club. For every 10 hours of skating rental time, you will receive 1 FREE hour. INTRODUCTORY OFFER The First 2 Hours For The Price of 1 This membership •ntitlm you to a 10% discount toward t»» purchase of any skate equipment, accessory in stock or specially ordered it«iw. SKATE .SALES PRO SHOP CLASSES IN NEEDLEPOINT tfot/rs: Tues.-Frl. 10-6; Sat. 10-2 Sun. &. Mon. Closed KEY PLAZA 294-2146 IITERTAINMENT NfEHHY' 42B Greene St. 296-9417 OLD TOWN REALTY INC. MIS •Key West and the Lower Keys' most complete list of residential and commercial properties. REALTY WORLD 'Home and apartment rental services. CALL OR WRITE FOR OUR LISTING REPORTS 605 Simonton St. Key West, Florida 33040 Telephone: 305 294-5525 P.O. Box 1 Summerland Key, Florida 33042 Telephone: 305 745-3645 Roxana" Stuart, David Booth, Doug. Anderson, Jan Ellen Steininger, Steven Small', and Jeff All in have all played together before in Shakespearean Festi- vals. They are supported by Greene Street Theatre players including Fred Goss, Duane Peterson, Mike Whalton, Rita Brown, and Perri Halevy. GREENE STREET THEATRE'S audience has been loyal and has followed the players out to the Center. Kirk Brown said, "We not only have our old Greene Street audience but we have begun to build a wider audience by transferring our .activities out to the Fine Arts ' Center.. •"People may come out for Twelfth night who are looking not only for food of the soul but food for the tum-tum. The Banyan is offering a special Dinner Theatre Program through Claire restau- rant for the show. A pre-theatre dinner, transportation to and from the Fine Arts Center, and a ticket will be available for those making reservations quickly at Claire." Following is an announcement from City'Electric System: AT THE MARCH 26 meeting of the Utility Board, Dr. Otha Cox, board mem- ber, urged management to "knock on every door" in seeking federal and state funds for the tie line to the mainland and for an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion ". •development. The statement is a capsule description of City Electric's major ob- jective reducing the company's depen- . dence on oil. Major efforts the past two years have been aimed at insuring an adequate supply of electricity. With that problem under control the primary objective is to cut the oil noose. Oil, termed fuel ad- justment on the monthly residential and commercial bill's, is choking the local ARTISTS UNLIMITED lhi art wwA SIMONTON BILL'S MUFFLEE S H O P 294-2105 Toyotas & Trucks a Specialty 20 years experience "OUK KISINRS IS EXHAUSTING" VANS* RV's* Economy Mufflers i FREE ESTIMATES , INSTALLATION economy. Residents and businessmen alike feel the effects of high fuel costs. City Electric had to cope with declining sales for nine consecutive months begin- ning in the summer of 1979 until March, 1980. Other local governmental bodies nave their resources strained due to high electric bills. DURING THE PAST eight months City Electric has engaged in an intensive campaign to obtain federal or state funds. On May 20, the Utility Board is holding a public forum to enlist commu-. nity support for their efforts. Faced with declining sales and serious cash flow problems, outside aid is a must. Thus, the attempt to drum up full commu-. nity support.* .• THE QUESTIONS TO be answered are: • 1. How will the community at large benefit from supporting City Electric? First, the effort should pull to- gether many diverse groups who are at odds over a number of other issues. Sec- ond, the chances.of state or federal aid are greatly enhanced through community support. 2. What are the benefits to the residential customer of a reduced fuel , . adjustment charge? The answer here is obvious: lower fuel adjustment means a lower- electric bill.. The economy ,is positively affected because customers would then have more spending power. City Electric benefits because customers.with lower bills will use more electricity. # 3. How will the business community benefit? • Lower fuel adjustment means less overhead and higher profits. Lower over- head can lead to expansion, which means more jobs in the community. 4. How will other governmental • . • ; , , . 45 bodies benefit? Badly strained budgets will gain breathing room, through lower bills. This too can lead to more jobs as well as a- sounder financial footing..The big win- ners would be the City of Key West and Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority. The City of Key West can receive up to 50 per cent of City Electric's profit an- nually. Lower bills due to a slashed fuel adjustment charge means greater usage. Fuel charges do not produce rev- enue; every cent goes to the oil com- pany. Electric usage means higher profit and more money for the City. To clarify, it is cheaper to buy power through the tie line than to pro- duce it. More cheaply produced power, means higher profits when it is sold. The Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, process can initially mean "'far more to the FKAA then to City Electric: a'one- megawatt plant, a small amount of the necessary electric power, could produce • 700,000 gallons of water. This is 10 per cent of the county's daily needs. The process uses NO fuel in producing elec- tric power and .fresh water. 5. Are there any other benefits? Both the tie line- and the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, process re- duce the need for oil. City Electric would be helping the nationa.1 effort to conserve precious fossil fuel. IN SUMMARY, high electric•bills having a severe negative effect on every segment of our community. A total commu- nity effort is necessary to reduce oil dependence, thus reducing electric , bills. It will require data-gathering from comparable communitjLes. It will re- quire a great deal of correspondence and such research. However, no one can deny that the end result will be worth the effort. • - ' 1128 Simonton St. 296-2807 8AM-3AM Homemade Sandwiches Congenial Family Bar Package-Store Reasonable Prices Established 33 Years (/Sender-ZJanis, J/nc, REALTOR FULL REAL ESTATE SERVICE 409 FLEMING ST. 296-6200 or 296-6231 Open 9-5 • Closed Sunday WITH FRESH FLORAL FRAGRANCES. Like just-picked, Caribbean flowers in full bloom. Exquisite single-note fragrances: Gardenia, Hibiscus, Jasmin and more4... Rich, enticing bouquets of fragrance: Black Coral,. Brissant, Bouquet #9444 and more ... Each tucked into a sheli-covered, velvety lined treasure box as unique as the scent KEY WEST FRAGRANCE & COSMETIC FACTORY 524 FRONT STREET • KEY WEST, FLORIDA 33040 (305)294-5592 46 EVENTS THEATRE/CONCERTS WATERFRONT PLAYHOUSE: 294-5015 May 5-10 Feiffer's People, by Jules . Feiffer, 8:30 p.m. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FINE ARTS CENTER (TWFAC) at Florida Keys Community Col- lege, Stock. Island, 294-6363. May 8-10 6*15-17 Twelfth Nighty by William Shakespeare, per- formed by-the Greene Street • Theatre group (294-5001), 8 p.m. Matinees May 10 S 17, 2 p.m. May 22 Piano Recital with artist Tracy Star Bennett, 8 p.m. May 29 H.O-.B. Band Concert, 7:30 p.m Original Plays for Children by MSM Productions, 296-8952 May 11 The Cetnterville Ghost, 3:30 p.m. May 18 The Mark Book Show, 3:30 p.m. The TWFAC will not have any productions during the summer. SPECIAL EVENTS May 3 San Carlos Theatre, 516 Duval St. Flea Market Benefit at en- trance to the theatre. 9 a.m. •til.' May 3 Monroe County Public Library, 700 Fleming St., 294-7100 or 294-1343'. Last library book & bake sale of the season in back of the library. Hardcover * and paperback books, 10*. Use Elizabeth St. entrance. May 7 MSM Productions presents the World Premiere of The-Game Game, a comedy by Timothy Me- Shane, Robert D. Howry and Tony Klein, featuring Celeste Day. One night only at Fitz- gerald's, 430 Duval St. Cash bar and disco dancing. Tickets available at Melanie's, 430 Greene St., or The Top of La Concha, 430 Duval. May 8 "Bernardo de Galvez Day" at the Monroe County Public Li- brary. Open House 2-4 p.m. with slides of Key West, a movie about Mario Sanchez., display, of Spanish boo-ks and tour of Florida history rooms. May 20 Community Forum, City Electric Utility Board, Board Room, Win. Arnold Service Building, 1001 James St. at corner of Grin- nel. Public invited and en- couraged to attend. MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SEMINARS, each Thursday in. May, at the Public Library, 700 Fleming St. Free. 7-9 p.m. May 3 "Winning at Life Through Transactional Analysis," Marta Vago, A.C.S.W. Psychothera- pist, Trainer and Consultant May 15 "Identifying the Problem Child," Richard Hellman, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist May 22 "Coping With stress ," "Win. Rowe, M.A. Psychology Inst. May 29 "Building Life Strategies," Roland Fisch, M.A. , Social Science Inst. GA1LERIES CAYO HOESO GRAPHICS, 806 Duval St., 296- 5221 (Tues,-Sun, noon "til.5) A variety of Key West art works on display. EAST MARTELLO, South Roosevelt Blvd., 296-3913 May 7 Monroe County Public School Children's Art Show GINGERBREAD SQUARE GALLERY, 903 Duval St. ,' .296-8900 (11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Wed.- Sun. Not open evenings during the summer months) Local artists featured. KEY WEST ART CENTER, 301 Front St., 294- 1241 May 14 Membership Program Topic: "Everything You Always wanted To Know About Pricing Art But Were Afraid To Ask," with guest speaker Betsy Langdon, President of Langdon Studios £ Instructor at FKCC. Also fea- turing a donated art piece by Bellanti to be raffled for the benefit of the center. 7:30 p.m. MOIRA, THE ART GALLERY IN KEY LIME SQ. , and FRAMES BY MOIRA (custom framing), 294-1254. (10 a.m. - 5 p.m. daily except Sundays) Jim Lehmkuhl, Artist in Resi- dence, Bob Birbeck, Portrait Artist in Residence. ART INSTRUCTION Life classes Monday evenings 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. and Fridays 1.1 a.m. - 2 p.m. ($2-3 model fee) For information call Malcolm Ross at- 294-8301. POETRY READINGS THE BOOKSHOP, 534 Fleming St., 296-9089. Sundays at 4:30 p.m. GUILD HALL GALLERY,.614 Duval St., 296- 9359. 8:30 p.m. first Sunday of every month. May 4 Featured poet:. Jody Adams FILMS MONROE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FILM SERIES Adult: Wed. evenings, 7:30 p.m. May 7 Music of Williamsburg and Colonial Printer May 14 Mysteries of the Great Pyramid May 21 Spectrum of Tyrol and Faith in Ourselves May 28 And There Was No More Sea and Forbidden City Children's: Sat. mornings, 10 a.m. May 3 Evans Corner and People Soup May 10 The Fiddler and- Patrick May 17 Doughnuts and iamiiert, the Sheepish Lion May 24 The Case of the Cosmic Comic and The Sneetches May 31 Blind Bird SENIOR CITIZEN NEWS SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER, 600 White Street, 296-3119 May 2 Seminar on Medicare with Group ^ Health, Inc. Rep. from Miami .. will discuss claims and'prob- lems . 2-4 p.m. May 3 Flea Market S Senior Citizens Arts fi Crafts Fair "Show S Tell." Benefits for Armory Chapter S Senior Citizens. 9 a.m. - 3p.m. May 12 Membership meeting. Free blood . pressure testing for senior citizens 7-8 p.m., followed by program on cardio-vascular health with film and local physician on hand to answer questions. REGULAR EVENTS AQUEDUCT AUTHORITY MEETING May 29 Place & time to be announced. CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS, first fi third Mondays, 8 p.m. City Hall, Simonton £ Angela. CITY ELECTRIC UTILITY BOARD MEETINGS, second a fourth Wednesdays, 5 p.m., Board Room, 930 Caroline St. MONROE COUNTY COMMISSION MEETINGS May 6 Plantation Key May 20 Marathon Great Books Discussion every other Mon- day evening at the Monroe County Public Library, 700 Fleming St., 7 p.m. through May. Please send notice of. events of public interest to Solaxes Hill, 513 Fleming St., Room 3, by the 20th of the month preceding the event. 47 sun sets. Serving breakfast, lunch & dinner daily. Reservations recommended. S Duval St., Key West, FL 294-4691 . 'J •' •i * . - > » ;,'v ,. PEARL JEWELBY STARTING AT 30.00 JH4.fitzpatricK- -street 2944243 48 Boat -in the. . bay, Vog on the. bow wow/ By Jejwme. .?Aahrting DUVAL ICE CREAM CAFE COMING AT YOU OUR NEW PINT CONTAINERS Available soon at your favorite store, a n d this cafe ASK FOR IT!

1980-05 Solares Hill Newspaper, Vol. V No. V, May 1980

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