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EDITION VOL. IX-NO. 13 JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 26. 1952 ' MENT POstpone Bridge Dedication Until February To allow print shop and editorial help, an extra long Christmas Gov. Fuller Warren, as a safety meas.ure. declined to pledge the . holiday this edition of the Chronicle was running on the press - several state's credit to insure early crossers. hundred had been printed - when a decision was reached late Tuesday Inasmuch as this edition is merely a factual history of the bridge. to postpone the formal dedication, slated for Saturday (tomorrow). un til early February. it was decided to continue a partial run, with insertion of this explana tion, and later to properly cover the February cere~onies. Contractors told a local committee that their insurance did not c9ver protection for the thousands expected to stream across the span Several feai\lres were removed from this "make-over" edition. They Saturday afternoon. will appear· in Februar~. --~- / ~~;:~1B~~x"~'~'\ ~! )_- ...... _ 5: .. ; ~1~,. -~- -~f.~:-·'
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To his right is Jaxon-Gover nor Fuller. Warren _who told the various state boards he named fo go ahead and build. the bridge. •
Beneath them is Jaxon Brown Whalley. who as chairman of the roads committee of the Chamber of Commerce is the man who in the role of chief civic leader su pervised th4:1 working out of the thousands of details which kepi conflicting interests happy with procedure on the mammoth pro ject.
JUSTICE JOHN E. MATHEWS GOVERNOR FULLER WARREN
Brown Whatley Headed Local Only Sea Cloud Group Which Pushed_Plans Couldn Everyone knows Brown L.l and was submitted in October, Whatley, president or director 1946. of so many real estate, home building and developn;ent com-~ ions and high;..ay needs previ<
panies that he would probably • •- ·- _, ' H_- - -- -' "-- have to pause for thought before giving you a list of them. Administration engineers under But not everyone may know direction of Mr. W. M. Parker, how much of time, investigation, road department project engi study and effort Mr. Whatley neer. has put into the movement for It followed, also an exhaustive well known to many Jacksonville bridge facilities and highway study of the basic plan for pro improvement in this community; posed highway improvements, and Florida people. designed to overcome many of and no one should get more Mr. Davies is a member of the the most pressing traffic pro thrill out of the John E. Mat New•York Yacht Club, the Sea hews Bridge dedication than blems of the immediate com wannaka Yacht Club at Oyster will Brown L. Whatley this last munity, while providing an ade week in December. He's earned quate connection of inter-region Bay, the Shellfish Club at Palm it. al highways which traverse the Beach, and the Gulf Stream Club local area. The notable trio in the story It was not, however, of the bridge movement includes Another famous vessel of the Mr. Whatley, Mr. S. Kendrick meetings with citizens' groups, kind, the Delphine, will have no Guernsey and State Senator John civic and service clubs and com E. Mathews -- Mr. Whatley as munity organizations had been trouble at all getting under the chairman of the . highway com held throughout the county, and St. Johns span. Owned by Hor mittee of the Jacksonville Cham wide publicity given to all the ace Dodge of Detroit, member suggested changes, that the com ber of Commerce, Mr. Guernsey of the Dodge motor car family, as a member of the State Road mittee got down to the job of the Delphine is rated as the larg Department, and Senator Mat preparing its report and recom hews as pioneer protagonist mendations. These were worked est steam y·acht in the world. It spearheading the fight from its out only after all the questions has been having an overhauling inception in the 1920's all the which naturally 'arise in a great by the Merrill-Stevens Co. here. way to its materialization. undertaking, whether a public improvement or any other, had Preserved correspondence be been answered satisfactorily to has resulted in the convenient I realized in the shortest possible Dew, J. M. Erskine, S. Ralph tween members of this Jackson the many persons and communi and efficient arrangement now time." Fetner, George W. Gibbs, ·Sr., ville group shows the successive ties affected and concerned. apparent in the construction of Thus the groundwork had been Chalmers D. Horne, Thomas C. forward steps through the lorig the Gilmore Street bridge. laid. Major problems had been !meson, George Martin, J. C. Mc Many problems had to be gi and often arduous period in worked out and only minor diffi Clure. en most' thorough consideration Third, necessary plans for the which the improve'ment crusade expediting of traffic including culties remained. It was now up Robert R. Milam, S. L. Monroe, moved gradually toward the before they could be overcome, the cloverleaf pattern now a part to .the State - but no less up to W. L. Moss, Clarence Nussbaum, point where it could be said - and it is to the credit of Mr. the people to keep up the !4lttle Allen Poucher, L. A. Raulerson, Whatley and his co-workers that of the expressway system. as Senator Mathews so crisply until the victory should be won. T. E. Satchwell, Jr., Frank E. they were met and solved so Fourth, important details in put it in his statement to the And unquestionably it was due Snell, J. P. Walker, C. Frank promptly as they were. cluding the proposed revenue press -- "Now - that is over. to the leadership of Brown L. Whitehead, A. N. Wilkerson. bond program supltorted by tolls And you see the result." After all that had gone be Whatley and the members of his Exofficio members were J. L. supplemented by annual appro It was after the proposal sub fore, the committee's recommen committee that progress was Moore, president, Chamber of priations of the State Road De mitted to the State Road Depart dations were remarkably simple speeded at a crucial moment and commerce; J. L. Rhodes, secre partment with Federal and State ment and the Florida Improve and brief --- the long-pressed-for bridge ob tary of committee; Senator Mat funds; an estimate of cost; a ment Commission by Mr. What First, a bridge or tunnel cros jective brought appreciably near hews, sponsor of bridge and high ley's committee that everything sing between Jacksonville and statement of the imperative need er its realization. way legislation; Lieutenant J. H. really got going on the way to Arlington. for the · proposed improvements Members of Mr. · Whatley's Allen, Jacksonville Police De a happy conclusion. Second, a further study to be and finally a challenge to the committee, other than himself as partment; Tom Marshall, attor That proposal included both made of the best of three alter people of Jacksonville and Duval chairman, included these civic ney and improvement advocate, the express parkway and the toll na~es at the north approach to County to "work tbgether with leaders: and Harold W. Whitehead, active bridge system connecting inter the proposed crossing in the the utmost cooperation, to the James R. Stockton, vice chair in real estate and civic advance state highways at Jacksonville, Riverside area .- a study which end that these objectives may be man; Robert M. Angas, Henry ment projects. ' ;;;.
Friclay, December 26. 1952 CBllOifiCLE Pagel _ CHEERS GREET McCarly To Ike's PUBLIC INVITED TO GATOR BOWL Buras Renews Ch~~~~I~~e S:~P -laauguralioa BRIDGE CEREMONIES SATURDAY 2 P.M. Police Squahhle • They marked the hoisting of FT. PIERCE - Gov-elect Dan Three of the outstanding citizens who carried on the Virtually • ignoring the city's the first piece of steel to span McCarty made known here this movement for construction of the John E. Mathews Bridge worst epidemic of auto crashes will deliver the main addresses in the opening of the Jack the gap between the east and week that he would attend the in its entire history - 60 car January 21 inauguration in sonville - ·Arlington span Saturday afternoon of this week. west arms of .the John E. Math Washington of Gen. Dwight D. They are former State Senator"Mathews, now a justice wrecks within one 24 hour per ews Bridge, from a barge in the Eisenhower at~ the official repre of the Florida Supreme Court; Governor Fuller Warren, iod - Mayor W. Haydon Burns St. Johns to its place 149 feet sentative of Florida. McCarty and Chairman Alfred A. McKethan of the State Road De this week apparently was using above the surface of the s~am. supported the Democratic ticket partment. a willing daily press as a propa The addresses will be delivered at public ceremonies at It w~ the first time the great for president. ganda sounding board in his long Governors of all 48 states have the Gator Bowl, beginning at 2 o'clock, and will follow wel river had been spanned since the coming addresses by Mayor Haydon Burns and Chairman defeated efforts to get rid of Po Main Street bridge was ·opened been invited to participate in the Washington ceremonies. Joe F. Hammond, of the Board of County Commissioners. lice Chief Sherman Cannon and to traffic twelve years before. McCarty's· local offices were Serving as master of ceremonies will be Brown L. What "take over" the police depart The raising and placing of the closed Tuesday of this week, will ley, chairman of the committee which has planned the pro ment 100%. connecting beam took place reopen after the holidays in Tal gram. Mr. Whatley, as chairman of the Good Roads Com ObserverS said that gambling mittee of the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce, was one October 31, approximately one lahassee, where Gov. Warren is has been here a long time, is moving out of the executive man of the most energetic workers in the bridge movement when year from the beginning of the going to be here a long time, sion to make it available to the it got on the way to realization in 1946. · superstructure job. governor designate December 31. The public will join the motor but that they weren't the slight cade to follow the addresses, The event was a momentous The McCartys plan to attend est bit fooled by -Bums kicking MIAMI FIGHTS from the Gator Bowl over the one in the progress of the great the Orange Bowl game between the gambling ball around to try bridge to Arlington. Souvenir est construction project if its Alabama and Syracuse at Miami AID TO GATORS windshield stickers will be distri to create an impression with the kind in the Jacksonville and Du on New Year's Day. MIAMI - University of Miami buted to citizens attending the public that he is Simon pure. val County area. adherents were said behind a exercises at the Bowl. Monday's Journal front-paged Mrs. G. P. Bullard, wife of the move to try to change the "scho- A colorful feature of the event the rep
Evolution. . Of A Great Florida Span .
In few major construc.ion jobs mance, with celerity and ease, of Itime the main cantil.ver arm had . impression is gained from the I sentatives of the several con may there be a larger number operations which a few years been erected to Panel Point 18, center view, showing the girder struciion companies, architects 1 of heavy operations than in the· ago would have been relaiiTely and the west arm to Point 19. ·spans on the west approach. and engineers on the ground, erection of a great bridge. difficult and slow. · 1 Picture at the lower right is Thus step by step one of the the public and the press, and by Here, in the upper-left picture To the right of this picture is east • looking from Talleyrand Imost imp:>sing structures of the the hoisting of the American flag, of work on the John E. Mathews given a view looking west .at a avenue and showing a consider- kind in the entire souihern area to fly proudly from the connect Bridge, is shown the process of ii!Tle when the Mathews span ab:e section of the steel job. This moved steadily to the joining. on ing beam. It was a great day for raising and placing a ten-ton was in early stages of construct- close-up camera shot gives a very 1 October 31. of the long cantilever Jacksonville - to be overmatch spandrel. Modern mechanical ion. At lower left is a south- real impression of the wide and truss sections reaching out from ed only by the formal opening equipment and engineering meth- ward view, toward the main span towering proportions and the i opposite shores - an event mark- 1 this December 27 - the material ods make possible the perfor- over Terminal Channel. At this massiveness of the job. A like Jed by the ai:tendance of repre-1 ization 8t a 25 year dream. Friday, December 26,· 1952 CHRONICLE Pap5
dge and a contribution from the dom put through without a series merce, the Jacksonville City Justice Mathews Launched Bridge State Road Department. of starts and stops, on-movings Commission, the County . Com And that, said opponents in the and halts. An so it was not until missioners, the State Improve Efforts One Quarter .Century Ago Arlington bridge fight - "that 1945 and 1946 - fifteen years ment Commission, and the State Dedication of the John E. ic group and service club. in the is that." It would be many a later! - that many frieqds of Road Department-each from its Mathews Bridge, spanning the community the proposal was dE: long· day, they said, before in the Arlington bridge took confi own angle bringing into focus the tere.st should revive iii the other dent hope again. long divergent lines of action. St. Johns between Jacksonville bated again and again. It was and greater span. Mr. Mathews and those work In the meantime there was a and Arlington, marks t~e reali- th t lk th t t d · zat 10n. o f an o. b']ec t' IVe tha t h a d e a on . e s ree s . an m But the end was not yet. in~ closely with him had never big speaking night in Hemming its inception all of 25 years ago the homes until even first-grade While the Main Sti'eet Bridge lost heart; but it was a long Park. The Hon. Fuller Warren in the mind of the mari in whose pupils in the schools were tak Association was getting a needed time 'since the legislature cam was running for the governor honor this vast structure has been ing sides on the playgrounds. structure across the river to and paign of 1928, the first proposal ship; and that evening, in the named. from the Southside, there also for the greater bridge, and the course of his address he said: Then to climax the general dis disappointing result of the 1930 "I make this solemn pledge It is the materialization of a cussion came the great debate had been organized the Arling ·great vision - the coming true ton Bridge Association - many bdnd election. that this project will be under between Mathews and Robert H. Yet through these intervening taken and completed during my of a mighty dream. Anderson, at the Duval County members of which are still a It was back in the year 1928 round to indulge the sense of years Jacksonville's population administration." Armory on December 11, 1930. had steadily and rapidly grown: How well that promise has that John E. Mathews, then a All Jacksonville was there - self - congratulation on the final candidate for membership in the realization of their aims. in the trite and hackneyed phrase been kept is best evidenc:ed by all that could get into the build the dedication ceremonies at the Legislature, began his advocacy The Arlington Bridge Associa indeed by leaps and bounds; and ing - to hear the verbal duel. it was being said that "The time new bride this .December 27, be of a bridge across the St. Johns The rest had to stand in the tion was composed of leaders in from the East Arlington area. the civic life of the city and Q;ls cpme." fore the expiration of the War street. The time had come not for ren term of office. The following year, as a mem It was the great outstanding county; it had pushed the bridge ber of the lawmaking body-, he campaign vigorously;, and that it one new bridge, but for the two It was after Governor War event of the bond campaign - to that people wished they had as ren's inauguration that the sev secured passage of a measure had lost in the bond election de be talked about for many days eral official bodies, following his providing for an election on the terred these citizens not at all. traffic thickened and congested after, and the arguments of its and clotted in the streets each first directive to the State Im question of issuing bonds for the principals quoted by advocates They simply went on ·- and proposed span. ahead. And John E. Mathews led day. provement Commission and the and antis alike. State Road Department, moved the van. And then the real battle began. So it was that at this later steadily in unision toward the Sentiment divided. There were But the election was a setback time the · new-bridge proposal long visioned objective. pros and cons, friends and foe for the bridge. · Mathews let the van. The cru-~ was widened to include both the Then in September, 1950, the men, allies and antis, and every The bond issue was voted sade gained momentum, and Arlington span and a long-need State Improvement Commis'sion, one for or against; those who fav down; and Jacksonville for the soon , Jacksonville and Duval ed one for the Riverside district. on the suggestion of Governor ored the proposal enthusiastical time turned to observe the pro county realized that it was not Original advocates of the Ar Warren, directed to the State ly; and those who fought it vi gress of the Main Street bridge, going to end in a day. lington bridge remembered that Road Department its request that gorously. built with accumulated and sur And there were more reasons it was the vote in the Riverside the .Jacksonville-Arlington span Before every official body, civ. plus tolls from the Acosta bri- than the fact that a large group area that had done much tp de be designated the John E. Math of . leading taxpayer citizens feat the 1930 bond issue-for one ews Bridge. Action was taken ac ~~~~~~~~~~~~ wanted another bridge. of the questions thrashed out in cordingly, by the Road Depart GREAT DAY FOR JACKSONVILLE AND FLORIDA ~~ Ever- increasing traffic was that year was whether the pro ment and by the Board of Coun OPENING MATHEWS BRIDGE GONGRATULATIONS pouring into and through the posed new bridge should not ty Commissioners. In 'the course MERRY CHRISTMAS main part of the city, and con- span the river1 there, rather than of its resolution the Improvement gesting its thoroughfares in a ..from Jacksonville to Arlington. Commission said: degree to cause motorists caught The time had arrived, in i 945, "In working out the details in the. mid town jams, like the when it could be said with no of this program, and securing JOHN WM. MULDER, JR. pedestrains cooling restless heels" reasonable contradiction that approval of the various agencies, at the intersections, to contem- bridges were needed at both hundreds of conferences have plate the scene·and say: these points on the St. Johns. been necessary . . . . In all of B_arrs-Oak Suodries "Mathews is right. The bridge It was therefore good politics, these conference~ and meetings, association is right. Jacksonville as well as the answer to a log in Tallahassee, Jacksonville and Dial s-1339 needs another bridge - maybe . ical demand, that the new pro- elsewhere in the State, the spirit, 2548 OAK STREET two.'' posal should include both .spans. the voice, the courage, the ex i . ~t«~!t!:t«!t!:ltl:~!t!:~~~~~~i@· But great movements are sel- Mr Mathews was now in the perience and the determination State Senate. Both he and his of John E. Mathews have always ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cause had grown- the one in in been present." ~~~~~~}!J~}.!J~k!)~k!J""~ ....}:!>~):!.J~~ .....}!)~~~~~~ ....~...,~~~~ fluence and power, the other in And again: evidence of the necessity for its "Many citizens and organiza early realization. tions have been interested in this "And now," said Senator Ma project. There have been many thews in a published announce conflicts of opinion; but it has ment - "now is the time to always been the task of John E. Completion of the John E. Mathews Bridge gives act,. . . . . I am confident these Mathews to cooperate with all bridges can be~ bu·ilt by the State of these agencies, to harmonize access to a vast territory for Jacksonville's growth and Road Department or the State conflicts, to present and explain de'velopment. It will place what has always been known Improvement Commission, or the program to the public and As new as the Arlington area within a short and interesting both, with Federal aid and with governmental agencies-and fin ride over this beautiful and majestic bridge. Its con out the imposition of additional ally to see a definite assurance struction has already given an impetus to home building ad valorem taxes. I am appeal that his dream of over twe'nty ing to the State Road Depart years will become a living real~ and other ~velopment in this hitherto virtually un mtnt to begin at once tne neces ity." horizons developed territory. sary survey, so funds can be ear Thus the honor to ., him by marke ~ for these projects." whom honor had been earned, Access to . the beaches becomes easier for many and to whom it had long been thousands of Jacksonville's population living in the From this point the story I due. northern part of the city. Traffic strains will be lessen moves swiftly. ·open ... ed as this great bridge take. art of . tlie load off the S. Kenneth Guernsey, Duvall Final details are many .in Main Street Bridge and the Acosta Bridge. - county member of· the State the Story of the Bridge. Road Commission, joined earn- One after another these last The motorist crossing the Mathews Bridge will estly in the effort. Other leaders items had to be worked · out by I" have a magnificent view of the City of Jacksonville as promptly took their places in men who knew. ' Many were the well as long and beautiful vistas both up and down line_ including Brown L. What- snarls to be unraveled and knots the St. Johns River. ley, chairman of the Good Roads to be untied, and occasionally Committee of the Jacksonville l>ig obstacles to . be surmounted This Company congratulates all those who have Chamber _of Commerce, and and overcome. had a part in the creation of the John E. Mathews others prominent in the cham- But as the solvent of intelli Bridge. ber's activities. gent action was applied, diffi- After surveys and investiga- culties melted away until, in tions and the recommendation mid-spring of last year, the word of a road. department engineer went forth that on one of the favoring the Riverside bridge but Nation's outstanding utilitarian eliminating the Arlington span, undertakings ground had been · Senator Mathews and Mr. What- broken and .work begun. ley addressed protest meetings And now - after 25 years of and hearings throughout the undeviating, unbroken, indefeas STOCKTON, WHATLEY, DAVIN & COM~ county; and soon public senti- ible effort, John E. Mathews and ment wa.s unified in its demand his friends and co-workers see REAL ESTATE • INSURANCE • MOR~GAGES • RENTALS for the Arlington bridge and ask - the great bridge no longer a ing that it have first considera- mental picture but a triumph of JACKSONVILLE. 100 W. Bay St. • MIAMI, duPont Building tion. architectural and engineering art ST. POIISMG. Pirat Ave. North ond 6th St. • PENSACOLA, 1626 Barrancos Ave. There followed, then, favorable and skill - an actuality in coli- ~~~~~~i~~~~~~~~~~~~~ action by the Chamber of Com- crete and iron and steel. ' · ,"; Page& CHRONICLE Friday, December 26. 1952
West Florida sources said Con. gressman Bob Sikes may run for "Graceful" CHRONICLE governor in 1956. The frorit.pag~ sketch of the One Man's John E. Mathews Bridge is an CHRONICLE PUBLISHING ENTERPRISES. IMC. artist's reproduction of the work An Independent Weekly Newspaper ral." It should destroy_any shred of reputation which may still of Bill Webber, of the firm Opinion of Reynolds, Smith & Hills, co Published Every Friday linger that Scblesinger is a his By Cuthelbert Rittenhouse torian. It shouid reveal him for designers with Parsons, Hall & MacDonald. '· SAM D. MELSON Publisher what he is and always has1 been The picture illustrates the ONE MANS OPINION - a skillful distorter of facts: AYERS E. BOOTH dvertising Manager bridge as seen from the west FL'O~EN"CE MORELAND Office Manager an expert smear artist: and. ex FELIX DIDN'T CHANGE treme left wing propagandist, bank of the St. Johns a quarter mile down the stream. S~ngle Copy 5c without regard for truth. This By Mail: $3.00 Per Year I BILLY GRAHAM GOES ON Spanning the broad waters man is to be. no doubt, Steven Entered as Second Class matter December 7 1945 at the Postoffice ISCHLESINGER. DELUXE son's research and speech writer. from the Albert and Hill Streets . at Jacksonville, Florida, uilder the Act of March 3, 1879. SMEAR ARTIST . Stevenson continues to try and Jacksonville area to Arlington, reorganize tlie Democratic party the great span rises 150 feet above Editorial & Business Office HE FALSELY SMEARS mean high-water mark in Ter Durkee Bldg., 204 East Bay St. Phone 6-12611 MacARTHUR along more effective ·A. D. A. lines. Stevenson will only suc minal Channel. Mail Address: Observers call it one of the P. 0. Box 4607 HE FLOPPED ON EISEN ceed in making the breach wid Jacksonville 1, Florida HOWER' er and wider. most graceful and attractive as well as imposing structures · of \ The Democratic party and the the kind in the entire nation. CHRISTMAS EVE CHOSEN PEOPLE - MASTER American people will not follow . RACE Stevenson A. D. A. ' leadership. More than fifty paople lose Schlesinger terms the victories THE CURSE IS ON THE NEW their live.s and more than one and achievements of MacArthur BIBLE hundred lhousand dollars worfh in- the Pacific a myth, and al of property is destroyed annually A lot df stories circulate now most proves it with false evid as a direct result of Christmas adays. probably planted and un dence - unless you know the fires according to Hotel and Rest true, that Felix Frankfurter, true facts. It is not necessary to aurant Commissioner James T. main architect of the Socialist - view MacArthur as Deity or pre-Communist New Deal, has without fault or error to avaluate Landon. had a change of heart. He is, the story goes, scared plumb to death Schlesinger for what he_ is -~ up rac;ial and religious hale, al a skillful character assas1n, and though pretending the reverse. at the monster he· helped erect nothing more. and favored, - - Eisenhower. The widespread fallacy pre This is likely just some more Schlesinger can't help letting propaganda to divert attention vailing .among both Christians his· leftism show through, even and· Jews that the Jews are the from the schemes . of Felix for when it hurts his smear, for he the future. John J. McCloy and only Semites, Hebrews and Is criticises MacArthur for "import· raelites in the world, today is Paul Hoffman, both close prote ing the brash American princi· ges of Frankfurter, long working in the·- main, responsible for this ples of 1789." · That means the master race or chosen people in high places, under the New principles of our Constitution. Deal, went Eisenhower. They theory upon which so much hate wavered for a time when Ike is built. It has neith¢r, )3iblical This Schlesinger book came showed American trends, then nor secular history· foundation. off the press in 1951, when the back and are mentioned The New Deal, like Communism, leftists were all building Eisen has fostered class hatred and hower up. It praises Eisenhower every place: but in 1952, when
for use in the schools of Western facts against 'Eisenhower. Germany - paid him $40,000 of der a state of voice was the voice of Adlai, but U. S. money. The book was put based upon truth. The mastc;l.r the language was the language race or chosen people doctriri&"', into use only to discover that it ~~~.,. of Schlesinger. was loaded to the gills with So does not pave the way towardS Smears have now become Big viet propaganda and lies. this goal. Business, and Schlesinger is tops The troubl~ with Frankfurter's in his line. The Devil will prOb If you will turn to the lut LET US PRAY FOR PEACEE change of heart is that his prote ably. get him in the end for that chapter of your Bible, the true Christmas Eve services in the church where adults ges, who still are close to him, kind of a profession, but in the Bible, King James verson. verses do the things which Stalin wants meantime it's a lot more profit 18 and 19 of Chapter 22. Revela· worshipped in childhood are always among their tenderest done even in 1952. Felix was memories. The soft candlelight - the Christmas hymns, able than blackboards and school tions, yo~ wU1 find almost the smart enough to see the Truman rooms. last words of Jesus, the Christ. cave-in coming, and began work "Peace on Earth," "Come All Ye Faithful" -in later years The doctrine of the Anti-De· They are. "If any man shall add can be seen and heard by them again. ing the other side of the street, famation League of the B'nai unto these .things, God shall add \. In these days when whole nations aJ,"e preaching irre with the same objective in view. B'rith that the Jewish l'eople are unto him the plagues that are \ Felix could reform, but Felix has God's chosen people is the same written in this book: and if any ligion and godlessness, it is especially ·important that we not reformed. He is just trying sort of doctrine proclaimed as man shall take away from the help our children to build up such memories for their fu to carry on the same old plans White Supre~acy, only 11\ore nar words of the book of this pro- ture. Let us attend the services as families - and pray for in a 1952 model car. The Tru row, more bigoted, and· more phecy God shall take away his man automobile wore out. Peace on Earth to save our civilization. hate mongering in its implica· part out of the book of life~" I can't think of a thing bad tions. U is the doctrine that the There is the clear, positive and to say about BUly Graham, the Jewish peopl~ are the . master certain penalty pronounced . by THOSE DANGEROUS CONTROLS 34 year old evangelist. He is a race and all other people are Jesus, the Christ, upon those who Baptist. Fundamental. Good Ful There is strong sentiment even i,n Administration circles secondary citizens and peoples. teach and who use a perverted ler Brush salesman. He is .;oing for total abandonment of price and wage ·controls, and the It selects a small remnant of the Bible. more this day than any man to President has the power to order this at any time. How tribe of Judah, namely, 43.000 of In the middle of the 19th cen turn the people from Hell to God. ever, it is reported that President Truman has decided seven and a half million of the tury, there arose in Germany He is exercising a tremendous in· against it,' on the grounds that the decision should be made tribe of Judah who returned to along with Kark Marx. the 10·, fluence in bringing in the king· by General Eisenhower atfer he takes office. Palestine after the Babylonian called higher -c:ritfics, which de· dom of God on Earth, as well as It is certainly to be hoped that President Eisenhower captivity - plus 'Edomites. Hit· nied the Divine inspiration of personal salvation. will issue the necessary order at the earliest possible time. lites and others when they were the Bible, the DiTinity of Christ, I don't idolize Bill. I don't The controls are unnecessary. as well as . exceedingly costly, then. for the first time, called His virgin birth, the validity of worship him. . He is human and and are a heavy burden on all kinds of enterprise, and, most Jews, together with converts to the prophecies and all the fun~ therefore must have sins and de important of all, undermine the normal operation of the Talmud-Juilaism. especially the damentals of . Christianity. This fects. I don't know them. It looks free, competitive economy which is a cornerstone of repre nation called Khasars. culminated in the National to me like God has yanked this sentative government itself. These, says the Anti-Defama Council df Churches. in the Unit· Tarheel up and inspired him for Moreover, and above and beyond the question of whether tion League, are the "master ed States, with its so-called mod· Amebca in her time of need. the price level will rise or fall in the future, the controls race", designed to rule the world ern and social gospels. are powerless to prevent inflation, and under certain con as "God's chosen people.'' Now, they have committed the ditions can actually encourage ,inflation. They add both to Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., the This is in direct conflict with final crime. The prophecy made the cost of government and the cost of running a business - expert smear artist for the pro the Bible. 750 years before the birth of and in the long run, the public-at-large pays all these costs. Communist ](. D. A.. and re The truth is that no rlic;e is Christ, in lsiah 7:14, that • "He They substitute political judgement, which is often unin search chief for Adlai Stevenson. the m::l.!'ter racP.. no racE" is the would be born of a virgin" has formed, for the judgement of the owners and managers of may be fittingly evaluated by a supreme race, but the different been changed to "young woman." enterprise. They create a controlled marketplace, in which careful reading of his· book, "The raN'S do have special function~ The Hebrew word "almah" is political expediency is frequently substituted for economic General and the President." So to fulfill and are designed to stay used there. This word always reality. 'I.Jle undermine the classic ,supply-and-demand sys distorted is this smear book a as separate races ahd not be meant virgin. The word _for tem, on which our .unequalled progress and abundance was gainst General Douglas MacAr· come mongrels. "young woman" in Hebrew is built, and attempt to replace it with the kind of system thur that even its publishers are Such · groups as the Anti-De "bethulah." which h~s creaed scarcity and economic collapse in nation compelled to say that it is "ob· famalion League of the B'nai It is part of a. plot to destroy after nation. · jective but by no means neut- B'rith are designed to and do stir Christianity. • .
Page 8 CH!lOMICLE Friday, December 26, 1952 Y.) high school. Then in 1932 he "B ossII· J oh nson finished his course at Massachu Merritt- Chapman & Scott Brought Unique Construction • setts Institute of Technology, with the degree of bachelor of Skills To The John E. Mathews Bridge Pro j~~t ~~sm!~~~e ~!dc?r~~ arts in civil engineering. With its dedication on Decem- 780 miles to Savannah, Georgia, A_ 900 - be~ Veterans Admmis- gineering have crowded more ac- Since then he has been contin ber 27th, the John E. Mathews for drydocking. . . . . trahon Hospital at West Haven, tive experience into thei_r careers ually on the job. Among his im: . . . The wide diversification of Conn. . . . in the same length of time than portant connections have been Bndge goes mto Me~I'ltt-Chap- Merritt-Chapman & Scott's con- Additional facilities at Samp- has Stanley L. Johnson, resident those with the New Jersey Turn man & Scott f:orporation's 92- struction work ashore and afloat son Air Force Base near Geneva, engineer on the John E. Math pike project, the Delaware Me yea~-old album as another of the is typified to some extent by its New York for the U. S. Army ews Bridge project. morial bridge at Wilmington, the veteran construction company's current and recent projects in Corps of Engineers. Mr. Johnson with his offices East Branch Rahway River pro long list of "family portraits". Florida. At Eastport, on the out- Bulk fuel storage facilities at on the spot of 'this big construct ject at East Orange, N. J., the Flip the pages of that "pro skirts of Jacksonville, it current- Charleston, S. C. ~or the U. S. ion job, has watched over every Northern Sagtikos State Park jects completed" album assem ly is constructing a 300-ton pulp Army Corps of Engmeers, and at operation affecting its design way project in Suffolk county, bled through the years· by the and paper mill for the St. Regis Newport, R.I. for the U. S. Navy. from the first hour in its creat N. Y., the Chesapeake City organization which built the sub Paper Company. For the same Substructure and_ deck for ~~w ion. His work began immediately bridge at Chesapeake, Md., and structure for the new crossing company, M-C&S recently com- York City's new Pier 57, a JOint on his arrival in Jacksonville in New Jersey Route 100 in Hudson over the St. Johns River anft you pleted a 200-ton per day mill at venture with another contractor. July, 1950, and it has been con county. Now for two and a half see a cross-section of the United Cantonment, near Pensacola, and A coal storage dock . on Lake tinuous and all the time, with years he has been an essential States itself: - paper mills, is now building a bag plant ex- Michigan at South Milwaukee, no intermissions other than those factor in one of the most im schools, hospitals, dams, bridges, tension there for the St. Regis Wise., for the Wisconsin Electric one may manage to claim at portant undertakings ever put steel mills, housing projects, tun "Kraft Center". Power Company. week-ends. through in this North Florida nels, chemical plants, piers, pipe Other Merritt - Chapman & A 10,198 foot bridge across Bay Along with the designing ar- area. lines and air bases. Scott construction projects in St. Louis, Mississippi_ for the chitects whose·plans he has car Mr. Johnson is a member of The broad diversification of Florida. within recent years in Mississippi State Highway Com- ried to completion, Mr. Johnson the American Society of Engine mission. Merritt-Chapman & Scott con cluded a 150-ton per day Kraft is one of those whose names will ers; of the National Society of Hospitals for the State of New struction operations tells the paper mill at Palatka for the be associated with this magnifi Professional Engineers; of sev York at Poughkeepsie and Utica, story of a company uniquely Hudson Pt~lp & Paper Company; cent structure for all time. As eral fraternal organizations; of equipped with specialist person pier facil~ties at Green Cove N.Y. sociated architects are Reynolds, the Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and of nel and facilities to handle· every Springs for the U. S. Navy, and Pier founda!ions for the New Smith & Hills of Jacksonville the Rudder Club of Jacksonville. conceivable type of projects, a paper mill unit at Port St. Joe York State Thruway Bridge a and· Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall He holds a commission as second large or small. To the John E. for the St. Joe Paper Company. cross the Hudson River between & Macdonald of New York. lieutenant in the United States Mathews Bridge job, Merritt At Clyattville, Georgia, just South Nyack and Tarrytown, N. Mr. Johnson was born in Os Army, 0. R. C. Chapman & Scott brought) more across the Florida line, Merritt Y. sining, New York. He was gradu The Johnson hobby is boating, than the specific "know-how" Chapman & Scott is currently Rockaway Sewage Treatment ated in 1927 from the Nyack (N. evidenced by his enthusiastic earned through the construction building a 500-ton per day Kraft Works and Gansevoort Destruct participation in numerous events of !!},any of the country's major pulp, board and paper mill for or Plant both for New York the company's expanded scope on local waters. bridge projects. They also the National Container Corpora City's Department of Public brought the combined exper of operations. At 17 Battery Place tion. At Savannah, M-C&S is Works. the company's New York home ience in every field of construc starting construction of a high Substructure of the Express tion - ashore or afloat - hand since 1903, the organization is level bridge project across the way Bridge across the Maumee spread through eight floors of ed down since the organization Savannah River that will cut ap River at Toledo, for the State of was first founded in 1860. the building. At 260 Madison =~OS proximately 5% miles from the Ohio. While .most other construction Aven~e, the organization will oc U. S. 17 coastal route between Substructures for bridges a cupy the entire second story, companies confine their opera Georgia and South Carolina. Ro tions to particular fields, Merritt cross the Merrimac River at bringing together on one floor bert Senn, who was Merritt Amesbury and across the Chel all headquarter departments. Chapman & Scott has extended Chapman & Scott's project mana ~~~§fi§ its scope to cover all, and its pre sea River at Boston, for the Com ger on the John E. Mathews monwealth of Massachuetts. lh>I~~IIJdt~~········-~lllll\\lllltJt:t/)il\\lll\\ll)il\\lll\\IIJil\\IIJI)il\\II~Jil\\11 sent scope of operations extend Bridge, is now M-C&S project In addition to its work in the ~ Christmas -New Year's- Happiness to AU - .1 across the Unitec;l. States and to manager on the Savannah River United States, Merritt-Chapman Pass Over New Mathews Bridge - Congratulations points 'overseas a far off as New Bridge. ~ I & Scott is engaged on a number Zealand. In addition, it is one The diversification of Merritt i LET us FEED YOU ONE TIME - RE-OPENED I of the world!s foremost marine of extensive projects outside the Chapman & Scott's construction country, including two for the I Very Bes:t Food Cooked Righi -. Sof:t Drinks I salvage organizations, and its work is shown in the following fleet of heavy hoist floating der U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. I And Beer - Open 6:30 A.M. - Close Midnight - ~ partial list of major projects cur One of these is in Bermuda, ricks, based at New York, is the rently underway or recently most powerful of its kind in the where it is constructing addit completed in various parts of the ional facilities for the Kindley United States. Its fleet of float United States: ing construction equipment, one Air Force Base. In association i i;;;~~o~~;ESS I A dam more than two miles WE wing of which was assembled on with two other construction the St. Johns during construction long on the American River at companies, M-C&S is building a 2296 E MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM CREWS Bonding Agen~y I JACK'S DRIVE INN AND INDUSTRIAL STRtrcTURES SINCE 1910 FRED GUY CREWS, i We Specialize in Agent "BONDED .BUILDERS" I Representing I BARBECUE - STEAKS - FRIED CHICKEN PAN AMERICAN SURETY ~ COMPANY i I ~ "Better Than The Bes:t" 109 Law Exchange Bldg. ~ ~ i 238 East Forsyth St. ' ~ ~ I PHONE 3-9071 ~ 126 West Ashley Street Phone 4-6093 " 1171 Edgewood at Mayflower Street Phone 2-9226 ~ a NITE 7-5467 a a I I I }.~ ~-IC.:-ICICte!Cl;CICl'(l(-IC!(I« Page 10 CHRONICLE Friday.' December 26, 1952 ...~Jillllllllllii'IIJtJtJtlii~JtlllliiJtleJtJtJt*li!JIJI~JIJtliiJtJIJI .. JtliiJIJIJtJI ion of power plants and collater City Owes Debt Local Firm al facilities, industrial, commer MONEY TO LOAN cial and public buildings, hospi ... tals, sewerage and water supply ON IMPROVED REAL ESTATE To Guernsey Drew Plans projects, bridges, foundations Of those who took leading Reynolds, Smith and Hilfs is a and other heavy structures. Jacksonville organization of ar Repayable $10.00 Per Thousand Monthly parts in the two-bridge move The firm's clients include many ment, when it got to its winning chitects and engineers. The great major industrial oreanizations, Including Interest and Principtl start in 1946, none has been more er portion·of its practice is in the United States defense agencies, earnest and enthusiastic· than S. southeastern states and the Car and various state, county and LOCAL MONEY - QUICK SERVICE Kendrick Guernsey, member of ibbean areas. Its total personnel municipal authorities. the Stltte Road Department from of 'well over 100 people includes The Baptist MemoTial Hospital, 1944 to 1948. It was he who wrote architects, and mechanical, elec the additions to St. Vincent's to Senator John E. Mathews on trical, structural and sanitary Hospital, and the additions to January 11, and said: engineers, more than 30 of whom and extension of the municipal N. D~ SUTTLES "You are 100 percent right. The are registered and licensed to electric utility are among the REAL ESTATE- INVESTMENTS traffic situation which has devel practice their profession in Flor local projects upon which .the oped in downtown Jacksonville is ida and in other states. Some 50 firm is currently engaged. Office Hours 9:30 to 1:30-Saturday 9 to 12 frightful, and bids fair to become members of the organization are Reynolds, Smith and Hills, and • continually worse as new cars be Jacksonville or Duval County Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall & 22 JULtA STREET PHONE 3-4485 come available and housing ac home -owner~. and its payroll Macdonald of New York, as As commodations increase in the provides the principal support sociated Architects and Engi ~ICIC'IICIC'IICICICJIICICICICJIICJI~ICJIICJII(I(~IC tourist sections . . . . Be assured of some 300 persons. neers, are responsible for the de ' . that I have already started the The organization was put to JIJIIJellleJellleleliiJilllliiJIIJiliiJt'llliiJilllliiJIIJIJillllliiJilllllllll'llliiJIJIJIJIJiiJiliiJIJt'llliiJIJtllllll! sign and the supervision of con ball rolling. toward securing at gether primarily to furnish ar struction of the John E. Mathews least one new bridge, with the chitectural and engineering ser BridgE!, the Gilmore Street Bri hope that eventually we may have vices to industry and construction dge, and the contemplated Myr- two. Toward securing one or more developments. Its professional tle Avenue Overl>ass: each of bridges we shall need the assist activities include professional which comprises an important H. A. DURDEN ance of both or' our newspapers, ly, the supervision of construct- unit in the expressway. and of every thinking citizen. We mittee,1924; chairman, 1925 - are going to need all our friends." l«lC~~ second vice president 1926 and SURVEYOR & COUNCILMAN Again in July, further endor 1927; a •founder of International I sing the movement, Mr. Guernsey Boys Work Council, (including said: Boy Scouts, Y. M. C. A., Amer "Several months ago Senator ican Legion, et cetera); a found Mathews in his campaign urged Jacksonville Beach Phone 112-5-2812 er of National Boys Wee)c, now DOG RACING I two new bridges for Jacksonville. National Boys and Girls Week, My reply, which was quoted in ~~1(1(-1(~~~-~, 1924; secretary of committee the newspapers, was that 'You since 1933; community service -~~~-~---~------~--~-~ are exactly right, Senator Math member, Aims and Objects Com (Nightly except ews.' The need for two new I Su~day) mittee, 1945 · - 1946; · chairman "A Good Job- Well Done- The Mathews Bridge" bridges across the St. Johns is Youth Committee, 1946 1947; even greater today than it was chairman Convention Committee, then, and will become increasing 1945; representative, Rotary In . t ly more necessary as post-war C. Lester Paul ternational, at district confer Country's Foremost I AND ASSOCIATES available and tourist United States, Canada, . Be sa11.cm...,.ti Greyhounds Competing 1 Puerto Rico; . pee of Manuel twobridge proposal was pushed Let Us Arrange Easy Financing At 4¥2% On Cespedes, Cuba; Christophe Co to its successful conclusion. One Your Auto Purchase - And Insurance lombo, Santo Domingo; chairman, Poot Time 8 P. M. --1 leader after another jeined the Florida Citizens Committee on i • effort until sentiment for the 1530 Hendricks Ave. Telephone 98-5641 Education, 1943-1947; State pres new spands, including that now ~ Ouiniela Wagering tiEI(I(I(I(IIIIII(ICJII(tiEI(I(ICI(I(ICJIICJIIEI(~IIJ ident United Service Organiza I named for Senator Mathews, tion in World War II; director could be called unanimous. ~---JIJIJIJIJalllllllii»Jt'II~JtJtllliiJIJIJilii-JtJIJtliiJt'IIJt of Florida State Chamber of I --.- Mr. Guernsey's• four years as Christmas Greetings From Jacksonville's Leading Cafeteria I Commerce; Florida vice president a member of the Road Depart • American Life Insurance Com I Daily Double ! Always Glad to Serve M;athews. Bridge Patrons along with I ment is only one of the great mittee, 1947 to 1950;' now pres Our Hundreds of Other Customers number of services in which he I ; ident of the Children's Home So BREAKFAST 7 A.M. TO 10:00- LUNCH 11 A.M. to 2:30 has been actively engaged. Since <:iety of Florida. 1928 he has been vice presidertt DINNER 4:30 P.M. to 8 P.M. Mr. Guernsey was born in Or s . I of Gulf Life Insurance Co. That lando and is a graduate of· the Recently Remodeled & Renovated to Serve You Beller Than would seem to be enough to keep University of Pennsylvania. He tver - Prices Sensible any good man busy. Yet from is the author of a number of con 1Jacksonville 1 the beginning of that tenure, and structive writings, including the from long before, has beeR writ widely circulated pamphlet en ten a record of ceaseless endeavor i KENNEL CLUB LARITZ CAFETERIA titled "One Hundred Questions . ~business, civic, welfare, ser- 228 West Adams Street Near Julia and Answers on the Work of McDuff Ave. North of Beaver vice-club, humanitarian; as for Rotary." ~l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l(fCI(I(I(I(I(I(I(I(I(ICICIC~ example- I He holds a honorary degree Retail business, Orlando, up to M No Minors lll W o~fe. ric;h St. Augustine man, Colored Citizens Made The Pies heavy financial supporter of Mc These Citizens· It Took ALot -- Robert (Bob) Fisher, one of the Carty, who wanted to be on the (Continued frqm Page 11) Give Cooperation city's leading commercial photo race board. Saw The Heed - Structural Steel in Truss Spans Leading Jacksonville colored graphers, 28 East Bay street, Names of many persons of 1- 12,536,000 pounds. business firms, and individuals, made all the photographs of the Silicon Steel 'in Truss S_pans - bridge used in this edition. ~~~~~ prominence appear in the direc are taking a part in the celebra 2,693,000 pounds. He was official photographer Peace, Happiness This Xmas~ torate of the Duval County New Steel Grating Floor - 38,800 tion incident to· opening of the for the state road department. To All Our Friends - Bridge Association, otherwise square feet. John E. Mathews bridge. Copies of his work will appear Congratulations - Mathews known as the Arlington Bridge Those who were listed as a in many publications of the coun The design of the John E. Mat Bridge- Association, pushing the move hews Bridge was undertaken by mong the many giving aid, in try. The N. Y. Times ran a pic ment for the Jacksonville-Arling- Reynolds, Smith and Hills of cluded: ture of the bridge,. Sunday, Dec A staff of expert operators ton span in 1930. · Afro-American Life Insurance with years of experience to Jacksonville, and Parsons, Bri ember 7. Prints have been sent give you the finest beauty Officer~ were B. C. Buck, pres Company; the following medical nckerhoff, Hall and Macdonald to the magazine house organ of service in Jacksonville ident; Mrs. W. S. Jennings first of New York City, jointly serv docjors: J. P. Patterson, L. B. Merrill - Chapman - Scott, New vice president; George W. Park ing as Associated Architects and Childs, S. S. Campbell, 0. W. Me· York City, for use there and else Shampoo and Hair Set hill, treasurer; Frank H. Elmore, Intosh and W. R. Toney. Engineers. Mr. Maurice N. Quade where. Permanent Guaranteed Sr., assistant treasurer; R. 0. partner of the. latter firm, was The Jacksonville Board of * Riddle, secretary; and J. S. Realists through these members:: Established many years responsible for the overall super Robert Kloeppel, Sr., offered * Buck, assistant secretary. L. I. Alexander, E. D. Ballard, M. Modern Salon iii vision of the project. The Asso a state racing board post, bowed * The board of directors includ- Frank Thompson, F. Henry Wil ciated Architects and Engineers out in favor of his son, Robert, ed these 110 workers for com- liams, Gladys C. Vaught, Mar served the Florida State Road jr.. said reports in political cir shall L. Brown, J. E. Hutchins, Chappelle munity progress: Department, which is directed W cles this week. The appointment Margaret Williams and N. W. George W. Parkhill, Gov Mr. Alfred A. McKethan, Chair was said to have been engineered Dudley; !futchinson, Mrs. Gay Chaffee, man. Mr. Sam P. Turnbull is by Billy Stark, a brother-in"law Beauty Salon Mrs. J. D. Alderman, J. W. Har- State Highway Engineer and These funeral hames: Whitting ton Funeral Home, Huff.Funeral of Gov-elect Dan McCarty to the 1518 Margaret St. Ph. 7-5029 rell, Judge W. W. Anderson, Al- Mr. w. E. Dean is Engineer of great disapointment of Herbert fred I. duPont, H. C. Steele, Lee Bridges of the State Road De Home and Carter Funeral Home. ~~f«,'$11 M. Booth, Sam A. Marshall, partment. The principal contrac Also, the Willie Smith Stores, ~'it~~~~ Charles A. Clark, J. E. Kava- tors were Merritt-Chapman · & druggists, 1230 Florida A venue naugh, Arthur T. Williams, Scott of New York City for all and 601 W. Ashley Street. Claude E. Sims, C. V. !meson. of th~ substructure with the ex- A committee arranging parti Damon Yerkes, A. C. Macy, ception of eight piers unde'r the cipation of the colored segment HODGES CONTRACTING CO. F. H. Elmore, W. T. Edwards, west approach structure which of the population included: G. L. Mickler, H. Clay Bullard, were completed in an initial Messrs. Lewis, Dwight, Dr. Pat P. Guy Crews, J. F. Hammond, contract by the George D. Auch terson and Whittington. WRECKERS - MOVERS Raymond T. Harris, Mrs. J . . W. ter Company of Jacksonville. The Bynum, C. Ray Green, Harry H. Bethlehem Steel Company was crete deck and railing; the Mil- Buckman, W. A. Hogan, J. C. the contractor for the superstruc- ler Electric Company for the Olmstead, Mrs. W. S. Jennings. ture. The sub-contractors were bridge lighting; and Conomos • 1977 West Beaver Street B. C. Buck, Lynwood Jeffries, the Industrial Contracting Com- Painting Company for bridge Phone 4-2127 George Fish, A. W. Cockrell, Jr., pany and Associates for the con- painting. I i€~~ D. H. Doig, John D. Bischoff, Capt. James J. Mickler, J. J. Lo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ gan, Alston Cockrell, Albert E. Smith, S. H. Kenyon, Fred Thell man, J. C. Coppedge, R. E. Cope land, R. E. Suggs. · City Utilities Department William E. Dalloz, W. H. CITY COMMISION Adams, W. L. Whitehead, Har court Bull, B. D. Olson, John M. W. HAYDON BURNS Bell, Walter S. Russell, John S. Mayor-Commissioner Porter, R. 0. Riddle, J. E. Iwan owski, George J. Carcia, T. W. .GUY L. SIMMONS Jenks, Mrs. R. E. Corcord, Dr. Commissioner Arthur George Chappell, Mrs. Finance-Parks-Zoo W. Burke. Oliver Frieseke, James C. J. DILLOl-.r KENNEDY Merrill, Frank D. Brannen, Mrs. Commissioner 0. G. Husband, Belton Lanier, Utilities-Docks-Radio William M. Ball, R. E. Williams, W. C. Johnson, Lacy Mahon, F. ERNEST S. HASELDEN R. C. Koester, Mrs. W. H. Burns, Commissioner George M Powell, J. B. Taylor, Hiways-Sewers-Airports Martin G. Williams. W. R. Ritter, W. F. Bunch, Mrs. CLAUDE SMITH / Commissioner Jay H. Durkee, J. R. Benson, Health-Sanitation F L. Sewell, E. E. Cheney, Lee Hardiman, Nat F. Jackson, Fred B. Noble, Paul Vetter, Frank erru • Wales, John W. DuBose, H. J. Redavats, A. T. Brown, J. G. Rawls. Mrs. Claud Sims, Dr. T. Z. Ca son, Milton Bacon, Glover Tay lor, Ollie L. Vodermark, Frank LeGate, W. R. Rannie, J. C. Dur rance, Walter C. Warrington, Wayne Ripley, Dr. J. H. Durkee, John E. Mathews,' J. W. Blalock, .J. H. Pincus, S. Bryan Jennings. H. E. Etter, A., Rice King, W. L. Joseph, J. B. Hall, A. B. Sams, S. C. Reddick, C. C. Kirby. t'o our consumers, we wish for you all the ex citement and pleasure of a joyous Christmas ~eason • • ·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ )!J""~ ..... ~~~ ..... }!)""~~}!) ....)::!J~}.!J~~---}!)~~~~~}!)~}!)~)!J,...}.!J~}!)~~._.,~...,):J~~~~""~~~~ ' . . ' •