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Sioux City Journal from Sioux City, Iowa • 30

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kater heat- wt need appropriations for newest type hot-ing system. a project," Wittkowksy C6Trie Shut Cbf Suncfay Joumaf, April" 1 9, 1 959 IVEW YORK-S KENNEDY: says. V' Deaf Mute Is Designer for Seaway. Florida is the 22nd stale area with 58.3G0 square miles. "If you can show them -a clear picture of what you want to chances are America's Toughest Cop Is Unpopular but Good you'll get the appropriation wear FALSE TEETH? John's drawings have gotten us a lot of appropria Ponca Nursing Home Expapds Mr.

and Mrs. R. A Elliott, owner-operators of the Elms Nursing home of Pon-ca. have announced the completion of a new annex. The building was designed by Peterson of Coleridge and constructed by Book Construction Co.

of Ponca. The new "home Is of fireproof construction, aircondi-tioned and is heated with the o. thw, tmilt with V. machinery be set up. But whose father and brother tions this.

Kennedy says, would both are on the force, Nash has been with the mean a breakdown in com mand decision: Cops would corps of engineers for 20 yeary and represents some As scandal after scandal hit his department which has an annual budget of 200 million dollars some be running the department. Htlps ktt thing of a family tradition in the organization. His fa critics raised questions as ther was chief civilian en rout tint row it 60 gineer here for 22 years un to what good, his strict discipline has accomplished if BY GEORGE QUINT JEW YORK (f "My IN people came from Ireland and they were farmers," says Stephen Patrick "They'd be ashamed of my gardening." To most of New York's 24,000 cops, the notion of their boss puttering among flower beds would seem hilarious; to them, he's more "like a man. who eats a full-grown cactus for breakfast. For even in a tough town with its tough-enough cops.

cods, even thoueh only a naL-the commissioner. For this and other reasons, 52 year old Kennedy is hardly the most popular man on the force. He's aware of It, but I ntt, out: "When you're in this job, you're not running --a popularity contest." Then he adds in a slight til his death in 1941. Loss of speech and hearing struck Nash in his infancy as a result of scarlet feverJie attended school handful, violate the law. "Without discipline you have no organization," Kennedy says, "you have a mob." He takes no comfort in the fact that the recent tor me near, went wn io i.

u.Jf Iu.il I i technical high school and also studied drawing. Here'i wonderful newi lor of w.rld-famou. He.rinr Aids h.vev.U.We for joa booklet titled "True F.ctr About Hear- ly different tone: "Buf4e He is married and has Steve Kennedy stands outf ing commissioner gets lonely sometimes; it's a lonely life- Thl booklet has bo slowlnf hish.aoundiiir iu mean- flurry of scandals has- in two daughters. jok" Nash talks to his col as the toughest. His iron-fisted rule during the ZVi years he has been volved but a dozen men in a force of 24,000.

"If one man in the depart- He likes to relax by lis re jam rtnri your own elf- i leagues by writing on, slips of paper. He reads lips well enough to understand the (k. nrnnrr ne Of oeannc iu, confidence and poise. You hard-of-hearinf owe it to tening to music, especially opera, which he wishes he knew more about, and by reading such things as Boris booklet you technical directions in yourself, to your lamuj volved in his job. ponce commissioner j.

a ment g0es -wrong, it's a sen-brought him criticism from oug matter Kennedy says, many corners most pain- poiiceman nas a public fully from police 0f c0lirse he's hu-selves. He has been badg-; man and can be tempted, ered for being, too tough on Bu(. our police are men who Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago. And he does his job so and friends. lit Tonemaster, Care Dr.

J. W. Griffin, Optometrist, Cr DK I. W. Crwrili, SO Tor NilUul But Bldt.

giun CUT. U. rush IrM kooklfl, "Tr IcU Abou( Herhit Ald." Nan 300 Toy National uanic He also likes to watch television but not cops and robbers stuff. juvenne aeiimjueius, iui uc-: jjnow the rules." well the department of the army recently honored him with a citation for superior Address Clly Sioux City, lor Tour fret booklet, "True Facts About Heiriaf Aids." JOHN J. NASH Silent Workman Looks Like Banker Since becoming commis sioner, he's put more" weight T) UFFALO, N.

Y. ing too strict with cops, for refusing to' recognize pleas by police line organizations to set up some sort of grievance machinery. Few Bring Headaches But his worst headache has come from cops gone Some of the sharpest criticism was directed at Kennedy's policy of cracking down on juvenile delinquents, No Time for Social Work "Those' who criticize us are not police," Kennedy on his 200-pound, 5-foot-10 frame, and there's the trace of a paunch; he wishes he could get more exercise. X) John J. Nash has never heard the sound of a rushing river or the horn of a Khin and doctors sav he The mounted policeman is one of New York's 24,000 police department workers.

Boss of them all is Stephen P. Kennedy, right, who has a reputation as a tough, no-nonsense Kennedy der Wands obedience and ioyglty from his men and maintains tight discipline. As a result he's not particularly popular, with the rank-and-file. (A. P.

Newsfeatures says, they are. sociologists wrong. At least a dozen mostly in the garden of his -cases ranging from leav-j rrespecT heir' opinions but ing a post of duty to killing don't respect criticism of DEENT UP TO 3 MONTHS RENTAL get tough; my so-Qanea But, despite the fact that he has, been a deaf mute for nearly all his 42 years, he has played an important role in the building of the home in suburban Bayside, where he and-his wife, Hor-tense, live in the second-floor apartment of a two- Photo.) policy. a bu-year-oia granamotner have exploded into the headlines. One case involved policemen who il- "Our prime function is young thugs from the traits the Drotection of- life and assault or lppallv tanned a bookie's i oroDertv and the mainte- 01 nomiuue, teleDhone and used the in- i nance of law and order.

It 1 rape." fated move to sign cops into a union, which Kennedy strongly opposed. But it opened an old sore: De-mancrs by line organizations that some sort of grievance his department, has had other There was the ill- Within Kennedy troubles. formation for extortion. In is not otlr function to at-the slaying, a confession tempt the long-range ap-was made by a policeman 1 proach of trying to wean family home" they bought before Jtfenney got his post as commissioner. Kennedy takes pride in 23-year-ofd Steve, who's going to be a lawyer.

Steve, is a lawyer, too; he studied nights to get his high school and college diplomas and his law degree as well St. Lawrence seaway and the government has cited him for his work. Nash is a top draftsman for the Onited States corps of engineers, the agency that built the United States sections of the seaway. Besides drawing plans he makes most of the large art maps and illustrations sent Can bs applied to the purchast of any machine in our stock i Bahamas a Paradise for Millionaires the latter at 36. one cigaret to congress from the en-and swinging gineers' Buffalo district of Puffing at after another black coffee as he talks of SIOUX CITY TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE FACTORY AUTHORIZED DEALERS fice.

"He can do anything anyone else can do except hear and talk," says Armin Witt-; kowsky, supervisor of the district's general drafting section. Wittkowsky calls' Nash; his most able draftsman. "He does the kind of drawings we' show to con-1 gressional committees when his job and family, Kennedy looks more like a banker in his neat dark suit than a rugged police chief. His diction is precise, with no trace of the Brooklynese associated with Greenpoirit Greenpernt, they say in the district where he grew up. But he came up the ladder the hard way.

He joined VICTOR ADDING MACHINES SMITH CORONA TYPEWRITERS ASE OFFICE FURNITURE PHONE 5-0181 411 Wt 7th St. the lorce years ago as a foot patrolman. He became a homicide squad detectife, an aid to the late Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, commander of the riverfront commanding officer of the civil defense division and chief of a special gambling detail. Demanding Job "You can't define a good cop in a capsule," he says.

"He must be knowledgeable, know the laws and his own regulations, why the laws came into existence. He must know the people he serves. He must enforce the a impartially without i discrimination. He must'not allow personal anger to interfere with, his-jd jt if Jfjs (111 0 vlTOonbigt The multl-milMon-dollar-Coral-Harbour cluinir. aires.

The club offers hotel accommodations, home noun "unteo. ne must New. PmvinxeJiland aaiect of ing to prevail. He must not ik. (i jt i i T-i.

a. ti a i i a ti soft drink hefr. This is hut one of various invest ning stage. (A. P.

Newsfeatures Photo.) ments in the Bahamas by a whole crop of million use hH office to take graft or oppre any people be ASSAU, Bahama president of Pan AmSri-' moved there not to invest lands Many of i cause of racjal, ethnic, social or economic position. He must be alfcrt. It's a tough league, and ifshe isn't can airways, and several but to live lavisniy. Marion other business men. I Carstairs, Standard Included in the deal are 0'' heiress, has her show-the Coiton Bay golf P'ace spread over the whole club, and the 50-room Rock island of Whale Cay.

aiert ne won last 10 20-room "million a 1 re's club." Eligible tenants already are scrambling for the waiting list. While not as large as many of the other islands, New Providence" is perhaps undergoing the urea test change. In Nassau itself, nine new hotels have gone ne must treat the puMjc with courtesy. resDect th rights of others, respect his own rights. And in return for this the public has a duty to see that the police are paid adequately, and supported when they are right.

Clint Murchlson, one of the famous spenders from Dallas, owns all of spacious Spanish Cay, about 150 miles east of West Palm Beach. On the cay is his own private landing strip. Farther south, on Cistern Cay, William Calloway Sound club, a hideaway for the wealthy. Davis wiJI keep his home at Winding bay. His is the kind of home that first started adding class to the Bahamas.

It preceded elaborate housing projects. Millionaires like Davis were the first neighbors of the Negro natives who once ac- up, in the last five years, Biggest is the 5-million-dol- lar, 278-room Nassau beach lodge built by Howard Johnson. On the western tip of New Providence, about the world's richest men are toiling today under tronica! sun planting their millions in the coral shoals of the Eahama inlands. They're buying larj'e even whoh islands and building paradises for themselves and others. And they are pouring other millions into industrial and business expansion.

Most of the activity now Is in residential developments, too elaborate to be called subdivisions. Besides the usual shopping center, they offer exclusive country clubs, championship golf courses and deep water harbors. Even with lots selling as high as $75,000 each, the customers are coming Because in the scattered chain of 700 British-owned islands weath-r and fishinR are good the year around. of Grant, president of Grant counted for 85 per cent "S- 17 miles west of Nassau, Canadian industrialist and sportsman Edward P. Taylor Is building a complete new community.

It's an 8-mllllon-doI-lar project. "A capsule definition1" he asks. "I'm afraid not." Campaigner for a Cause OKARCIIE, Okla. l.ft-Ed-ward Coffey, a candidate for the Okarche city council had two unusual planks in his campaign platform. He promised to pay $50 per month for part of the salary of a town marshal and to initiate a campaign to keep empty beer cans off city streets.

the- Bahama population. 2 Million for Hotel Coca-Cola heirs Lindsey Hopkins, his sister, Mrs. James F. McKiliups'. and their mother came to the islands not only to live but to invest.

They've put up much of the 2 million dollars spent on a 150-guest hotel, yacht fcasin and acres of homesites at Coral lJarbour club on New Providence island. On llimini. Col. Joseph Mackey of Fort Lauderdale, president of Mackey advertising age has built his refuge. He, too, commutes from Dallas and other points around world.

Francis Francis of Standard Oil bought all of Bird Cay for a building lot. Cater to Millionaires Another famous financier busy in the Bahamas is Dr. Axel Wennergren of Sweden, lie has put II million dollars into a long-range program to turn 100,000 acres on Andros island into, a resort and home project. Taylor's Lyford Cay project is typical of the many in the Bahamas. It includes an 18-hole golf coyrse and crubhoie, vacht marina.

2-million-dollar residential! clubhouse of 50 luxuryj rooms, and a shopping center and service area for the homes that are going up. In the beginning, Taylor; planned to sell no lot until; Network llarii 1 HI M(V Mttrnlnv illlw.1l.' Il, 1 i an III II i M. IMI on tot Vs 1 ArUrnmiN ea 3 Ji Mnnitnr 1 a'. Monilur airnnes, is oeveiopmg a On Great. Abacj, thj Ba- all the facjnti werejru But Mratiu warm nu nousmj; hamas" newest project Mi.

No, friends likea a i was happening, and. did -not ail Mi.n.'.ir 4. Ill nJtlin Mhl nri Na il i a Mni'l'iir s. II project 'which win have its under way at Treasure Cay. first visiters this season.

1 torty-one-year-old Dumas Birrtini also is tlfe home Milner of Jackson. is NOW AT YOUR CROCERSI A new idea that's spreading likt wildfire! Miniature Lone Ranger and other Western pictures that look like real tattoos. Put 'em anywhere on your hand, arm or face (they wash off). Get four Lone Ranger Western Tattoos FREE, no etra si jn largejjags of Fritqs Corn Chips now at your grof er's. -i You11 want io eal a bunch, because Fritos art so good ta munch- Good for you too packed with protein energy.

That's why Fritoi are the number one chip-choice In school after school. Munch 'em with your lunch! GROWN-UPS: Try really different Fritos corn chips as a snack or with dlp, meals or beverages. Put them In lunch boxes and munch them as a snack. Fritos art so good they make you want to munch and munch! ffritdsQonH chips And- neither individuals nor corporations are required to pay income taxes. It's a boom sparked by millionaires and billionaires.

Spreading it are others in the economic class that doesn't have to worry 8 bout payments on the F. H. A. mortgage. Who are they? There'a-Arthur VI Ing Davii, Florida's fabled who wni 30.000 acrei on Eleuthera a long narrow island feast of Nas-lau.

He Is completing- ne-intlatons to sell 73 per cent ef his holdings to Juan Trip- Mmi.iiir 'i-Mllftr M'inl'i'r hesitate to invest their money. "I see a tremendous fu- of Michael Lerner, one of some of his newly the rounders of the Lerner orniii( made millions on a Itiire for Nassau and trie re-acre resort development. In sort Islands," sayi Taylor. I nn I 9 Trnul in Bu.i.rn. Npm ft 4 IS Nw 4 Srvm i Ho, inn i I'nlU.

.10 Oun.lunk Mtht I Mil. Il Mill Stores corporation. There he has a marine laboratory, operattd In conjunction with the American Museum of Natural History. Many.of the new Bahama residents, of course, have1 5 "JHI lONf RANGW mvry wk, "Development as an unequalled, tourist rciort and as an unexcelled area for yeararound living should 'continue apace with Florida for the next 15 yeari." with him on the one and a half million dollar project is Capt. Leonard Thompson of the Bahamas house of assembly.

First to go up will be a Ml c.9f. M'tiiwM'n PhllhtraMikl I .2 411M I u..

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