The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 17, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service, For 57 Years Devoted to t Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. . 299. Many Improvements Being Made At Bayview Park Various Activities Are’ Being Carried On Un- der Supervision Of Mrs. Eva B. Warner Putting Bayview Park into pre- i he ISSUE CALL FOR BRIDGE WORKERS Requisitions from contractors {on road and bridge projects re- ceived during the past few days, | The Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1937. REPRESENTATIVES OF OIL COMPANY PAY VISIT T0 CITY JOHN HAZARD, L. Y. McCOY AND D. W. MONROE RE- Of Cleaning Streets Under the supervision of city| time, but as soon as these are TURNED TO MIAMI THIS/and county employes, prisoners have started a clean-up program AFTERNOON on the streets, which will, even- tually, cover every section of the city. Already appreciable im-' provement is noticed. | John Hazard, representative of ‘made presentable, other streets will be put in presentable con- | dition. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Prisoners Start Work |Owen Sawyer And Robert Lewis Given Contract To In the southern section of the city groups of prisoners are en- gaged doing the same clean-up Operate Scavenger” WILLIAM KNIGHT, WH are as follows: sentable shape by cutting grass, clearing circles under the coconut and hibiscus trees, painting the Bandstand benches, clearing the {tracts D and E, asked that 10) | thon, where the camp is located. } S. J. Groves and Sons Co., Con- white laborers be sent to Mara-| Four laborers, to be sent as soon; as possible to their project at Ba- edges of walks and sidewalks, and also adding a number of rec-| fangular, triangular, circular, and! crescent flower beds, a number of local groups have been working during the past month under Sup- f of the Park Mrs. Eva B. Plans being followed have been approved by the Mayor and City Council, under whose jurisdiction the Park was recently placed. No change in the original layout of coconut trees and hibiscus has been made. The only additions ~ are the flower beds. Working at the beds are 16 lab- orers from the WPA Beautifica- tion Project 2559, under the sup- ervision of Cecil Catala. The beds will be surrounded by native rock and annuals, such as calendula, | the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron : Abilene hia Honda Bridge, were asked by Company. SNIDERS RETURN TO ISLAND CITY Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Snider, who, for several years, have been mak- ing their home in Miami, return-| ed to Key West last evening and) plan to remain until some time in| the middle of next year. Mrs. Snider will be remember- ed as Miss Thelma Page, and oth- members of the family are the daughters, Refayette, and son, Jack. TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest last night last 24 hrs. 38 42 60 marigolds, aurelia and araman-| Apalachicola ‘ tius, will be planted in them. Col- ors of the various flowers will be! blended in artistic patterns. Ten| of these rockeries are being plac-| ed in the entrance-plat of the; Park facing the boulevard and} along the walk behind this plat; six cireular beds with two cres-} he ends will also Dodge ‘City cent beds on <be laid out. . A bed of marigolds outside the wire sereen at the tennis courts} will be placed with howentneilion, vine running along the wire.! Within the screen clitoris vine will be planted. In front of the Bandstand, three rows of annuals will be! planted, one of aurelia, another of | poinsettia and a third of aramen- tius. All hibiscus and coconut palms! which have withered or died are | being replaced. The line of coconut palms on} the walk bordering the pool in’ front of the Park will be supple-| mented by the planting of gaily; colored annuals. H Garden Club and Tree Guild is} especially aiding the work by do- | nating a large number of trees and plants. , The Park Grandstands are be- ing painted by the NYA division of the WPA Recreation Depart-| ment. Paint has been donated by | various individuals in the city. Woman's Club’and W. W. De- meritt have beeh olping in cut- ting and trimming: © grass, pull-! ing weeds, and generally getting it in shape, basil : { Each year Bayview Park comes in for a great deal of praise from) winter visitors. A daily average of 175 children.participate in play ! supervised by Thomas Curry, Recreation leader. Complete facilities for sport are available, including tennis and shuffleboard courts, a diamond- ball and football field, and other i playground equipment. All courts and fields are open to the pub- lic during the day. A night dia- mondball league is sponsored by the Roosevelt Social Club, and ar- rangements for night tennis play! ean be made through the super- visor, Mrs. Eva B. Warner. LIGHT TENDER ©: { f Lighthouse "Tender ‘Ivy, which was on dut¥‘on the west coast of the stat® regularly scheduled work on buoy: d oth- er naviga ) port last evening the de ment dc in the i 68 40 66 34 68 32 Atlanta - . 56 Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charleston the Texas Oil Co., L. T. McCoy, salesman for the corporation, and D. W. Monroe, representing ssa | In the northern part of the city,' work and this section will also, Sanitary Inspector Millard Gibson has a crew at work with rakes and shovels, and these are accom- | within a brief time, take on a more attractive appearance, is the assurance of Leroy Torres and Tokheim Pump Co., were visitors | panied by a truck and driver. Just | William Gandolfo, who are direct- in Key. West yesterday, and left!as soon as refuse and debris have this afternoon over the highway on the return to Miami, Mr. Hazard said this morning he had been postponing his trip for several days, hoping to come over the road directly to Hog Key, and then makes the short trip to been collected in a pile, it is plac- ed in the truck preparatory to dumping. Mr. Gibson said that only the streets which are the most used, and on which traffic is most gen- eral, are being cleaned at this Chicago a Corpus Christi Denver - Detroit 64 46 34 46 30 34 54 Duluth _ Eastport El Paso No Name Key, a distance of about 12 miles, However, he learned a few days ago that the opening of the Overseas Roads and Toll Bridges had apparently been held up for some reason, and he and his friends decided to make the long- er trip by ferry, as usual. Tax ' Assessor-Collector Sam Pinder said today the notice ap- pearing in The Citizen of Wed- nesday relating to the _ payment of taxes before December 31 thereby saving four per cent, had been productive of good results, even though one part of the state- ment was misleading. VESSEL'S CARGO BEING SALVAGED WARBLER MAY NOT RETURN HERE UNTIL FIRST OF YEAR expecting all of the utilities will have paid their: taxes by Decem- Letters received from the offi- cers.and personnel of the Wreck- ing Tug Warbler, it is said, indi- cate that the tug may not return to port. before Christmas, and possibly not before New Year's. The vessel was summoned to us e\aséistance of the Ward Line} No-one within hearing Steamship Cauto, which was re-|of the St. Paul Parish Hall yes- ported to have gone aground near 'terday, at midday, could have Puerto, Mexico, on November 28. | railed to note that the Rotary Club Mr. Pinder said that he was; Very Enthusiastic Meetin Of Rotary Club Yesterday! jing and supervising the activities. All citizens are being asked to | join in with the movement, make jewery effort to avoid throwing refuse in the streets, and use | every precaution to keep refuse |from scattering when it is being | moved. ts ‘That All Public Utilitiés Will Have: Paid Taxes By End Of Month: ber 31, but the article was print- ed to read that he “expected that all of the taxpayers are expected to have their indebtedness clear- ed up by December 31.” While that is a consummation which is devoutly to be wished, Mr. Pinder agreed that he did not believe it probable. But the results on the day following in- dicated that a number of tax- ‘payers had caught the idea and {responded promptly. g ‘ fund which amounted to $8, was voted to this woman and her chil- COMMERCE BODY UNIT WILL MEET REAL ESTATE DIVISION TO ASSEMBLE THIS EVENING AT 8 O'CLOCK NOW, AND JOSEPH MITTED BIDS; VAR CITY COUNCIL LAS Regular monthly meeting of| The City Council, at its regular the real estate division of the js { Chamber of Commerce, will be meeting last night, awarded the! held in the office-of the organiza- scavengi tract 10'S, Owen! O OPERATES SERVICE SINGLETON ALSO SUB- IOUS OTHER MATTERS TAKEN UP AT REGULAR MEETING OF T NIGHT position to the city to take over full operation of the local course. A committee was. appointed to meet with Mr. Goldsmith and the ‘tion this evening. President Leo Hughes ‘will call ‘the meeting to order at 8 o'clock. ‘There have been many interest- | ing’ matters’ come tovlight during the past month which will for discussion, and a very inter- esting meeting is anticipated. THE WEATHER PTTTTTITITITTTT TTT TTT Temperatures” aaa ae He le ee Highest - Lowest - | Mean - ‘Normal Mean | Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation T. Ins. Normal Precipitation _.. .07 Ins. Tomorrow’s Almanac ‘This record covers 24-hour perio? ending at 8 o'clock this morning. Sun rises - 7:06 a. m. Pp. m. Pp. m. a. PM 10:00 Low 3:10 other members of the lub to talk over the proposition. Lieutenant Faigle public works engineer at the local Navy Yard, Sawyer and Robert J. Lewis. jointly. There were two other bidders, Joseph’ E. Singleton and William Knight. who is now op- erating the service. The new con- tract will become effective the first of the new year. The three bids submitted were on the basis of making a charge of 50 cents per month for collect- | ing trash and garbage from resi- | dences, and 50 cents per wee from business houses, with pro-| |." subscription of the people portionate charges to be mete the es ee where there may be excess trash that were badly in need and garbage to be collected from) ‘0 n dows in connestion with the | better structures, that he The bid of Mr. Singleton com- hed sive sean Semen plied with all specifications as| It was decided to have Lieut. drawn up by the city with ithdbx~| Fa ception of specifying that “he 2° stated, and the. then would furnish a performance! take up the muller doe’ further dren, as the gift of the Rotary 64 60 As soon as notice was received at! this port the Warbler was gotten; in readiness, paraphernalia for the wrecking crew placed on board, extra crew of 10 wrecking men were assigned, and the ves- sel sailed 1:45 on the morning of November 29. In the advices it was stated that the Number 1 hold of the ship| was filling with water. Shortly} after the Warbler reached the; scene word was received that con- Galveston - Hatteras Havana - Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Louisville Miami - Nashville New Orleans New York __ Oklahoma City Pensacola ___ Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Louis Seattle Tampa Washington Williston Wytheville 42 38 74 38 78 64 60 74 64 74 44 44 66 68 52 44 54 76 54 38 52 than at first anticipated. Later advices were to the effect | that the vessel was breaking up, ‘and the Warbler was devoting} | time to salvaging the cargo. The} latest news, received this week, is; an announcement that the crew} pf the Cauto has been sent home, | and that the Warbler may not be! ‘here before the first of the year, | Fund Transfer Discussed By County Commissioners Transferring of funds from the, Williams, representing the Gar- so-called Kammer Bill account, } den poe led pian si Wom- “ % ; « | an’s Club, requested the remov- for the payment: of interest besa al of the benches from the lot ad- Monroe County bonds, and the} joining the La Concha Hotel to necessity of passing a resolution! Bayview Park. 42 22 . 40 to this effect. was the object of! the special meeting held yester- day afternoon at 4 o'clock by the | board of county commissioners. Clerk Sawyer was instructed to \inform Miss Williams that the benches are the property of the Board of Public Works, and if had been imbued with the “Christmas Spirit”, or perhaps it ing. There were guests to share the Ira C. Haycock, of Miami, Hugh Williams presented W. R. Fleck; Clarence Thompson had as his’ pury’s head with a lovely frilled| Dr. E. B. Alexander, of Duncan Oklahoma. After the introduction the song contest was announced. Each table selected one of the number to represent them, and there was no. discharge in that war. Duly elected contestants were Jerry J Trevor, Rey, J..C. Gekeler, Wil- liam W. Demeritt, Norman Lowe and, Dr, J. B,, Parramore, The, winner had to pay a fine of, one dollar, and as Dr. Parra- more is sergeant at arms and col- ects the fines, and as about very one present had suffered from his efficiency, he was unani- mously elected to be crowned with victory, and to pay one dol. lar. This he did with joyous ac claim. The jollity over this died down, however, when the announce- ment was made that as everyone had enjoyed the fun, to the Club. before him the class of Baby Ro- mark that this was the first time ,some of these “babies” had ever |fun. William L. Bates introduced 8°t that close to him. He handed each a rattler to amuse and keep: | them quiet ‘and adorned Judge William A. Al- ditions on the Cauto were worse! guest R. Adrian O’Sweeney. The cap’ The candidates were Hugh | visiting Rotarian this week was | Williams, | Yates, and Judge Albury. Rev Peele gave a brief but impressive , talk on what Rotary should mean jto each of the newly made mem- | bers. | The day’s program “Progres- |sive Rotary” was in charge of Mr. Trevor, who’ “presénted the ;|R. Warren. ‘The speaker's ad- dress was delivered ‘with’ quiet emphasis, on the " gréat * benefit that Rotary had been, if broaden- ing his outlook on the fraternity jamong men of many nations and jeallings, which was stressed as | the main objective in the Rotary | movement. Leo Hughes, who was back |among his fellow Rotes after | brief spell of illness, was made t j know that he had been missed jand that the members were glad during / instruction,’ speaker of the’ day, Dr.’ Willian) ‘East Gulf: Fresh south @ has increased in ‘©| moved northeastward to the low- (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Rev. Shuler Peele summoned! Key West and Vicinity: Partly | in his bid was construed as mean- \cloudy and unsettled, possib! jwas'the super excellent turtle) jorians, for instruction and initia-'showers tonight and Saturday; jsoup that sent their spirits soar-|sio,, with the preliminary re-,continued mild temperature; mod- {erate to fresh southerly winds, ‘shifting to westerly Saturday. |" Florida: Partly cloudy and un- |settled, scattered showers in |north and west-central portions tonight and possibly in central portion Saturday morning; slight- jly colder in west-central and ex- itreme north portions Saturday ! | tonight. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: fresh southerly winds shifting to southwest and ; Moderate to west over north portion and part- | ly overcast weather tonight and Saturday with scattered showers over north portion. is er! | Winds” shiffing to westerly, mod- eriitely strong over extreme north | portion this and tonight ‘with: onal, Puy overcast weather tonight and Saturday with showers tonight. | | The low pressure area that was over Texas yesterday morning intensity and ler Mississippi Valley.and pressure is low this morning from the | Plains States eastward. bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, but one of the provisions ing that.he would comply with | this requirement. He failed, how-! ever, to specifically state this in his proposal, His bid also showed | that he would turn over to the city 50 percent of the net receipts in excess of $200 per month. Offers City Revenue The bid of Sawyer and Lewis specified that they would pay to the city $40 per month of the re-. Aquilino Lopez, Ernest} and in extreme northwest portion | ceipts after four months’ opera tion of the service. j Mr. Knight’s bid did not make any offer to the city in the way ‘of revenue, and stated that he would not be able to do so due to j the amount of expense attached to the operation of the service. He | consideration. An r s. the effect:th erty in " to col “up* 3 system teary hina! mf oo owners to bear all expense of making these necessary connections. Bids were received for the pur- chase of an automobile to be used by the police department. There were three bids submitted, one from Navarro, Inc. and two from Mulberg Company. promised he would take care of; the situation in the future as he had done in the past. 2 } The vote on awarding the! con- tract was four to three in ror | of Sawyer and Lewis, wi in | gleton receiving no vote at all. C. C. Symonette, who made a Hid at) a previous meeting, did not offer) any last night. Doughtry, Ful- ford, Will Roberts and Adams voted for the successful bidders, with Freeman, Monsalvatge and, Jim Roberts voting for Knight. Lopez and Goldsmith Heard Abelardo Lopez, Sr., addressed the council relative to the revo- cation of a beer license which was | The western high pressure area! granted him by the city some {to again see him amount of at least 10 cents, it) MADE FROM BOTTLES was up to them to settle. At this juncture President Charles Tay-; PORTSMOUTH, N. lor called attention to the pitiful liam W. Gaswell of this city has H.—Wil- | jers B. B. Warren and Cle LNiles, ‘Bill Attending the meeting were | permission for removal is receiv- Chairman Bervaldi, Commision-|ed, the county will furnish a eland | truck to remove them. Clerk Ross C. Sawyer,} It was recommended that the} Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard} concerts by the Key West Hos-j Waite. pitality Band be given on Sun- Resolution was unanimously| days at the park, instead of Sat- adopted authorizing the transfer| urday nights on the lot adjoining of the funds fram the Kammer] the La Concha Hotel. It was rec-| account, which funds are| ommended that this request be specifically to be used for the} transmitted to George Mills payment of interest which may); White, who is in charge of the} become due on January 1, 1938. local music project. Interest and sinking fund mon-} ies from the account are admin-|the FERA, announced collections | istered by the State Board of Ad-!for the month of November, as ministration, and it was ordered! follows: Gross receipts of $169.25, | that a copy of the resolution be| and expenditures for expenses, of forwarded to State Treasurer W.! $96.85, leaving a net balance of V. Knott, at Tallahassee, who is} $72.40. This amount was voted to! directed to make the disburse-/ be sent to Treasurer J. C. Geke-! ments as provided. jler, as treasurer of the clinic) { Miss Williams, as liquidator of |; plight of a Key West mother, as told in The Citizen of Wednes- ‘ constructed a house out of 2,138 champagne bottles. SURPRISE SPECIALS ee Friday—Saturday—Sunday Chocolate or Cocoa- nut Cream PIES 25¢ 19¢ Home-made FRUIT CAKE, Ib. Honey Cream, Layer None better ever made! | CAKE Si t | BUSY BEE BAKERY Communication from Miss Teen! WE STILL HAVE A FEW BAR acd 900 Francis 522 Duval | i Don't Forget Our — PREMIUM GIFTS — 1. Boys’ Chrysler Automobile 2. Beautiful 32-piece Dinner 3. Beautiful, 8-piece Cocktail Set 4 Beautiful 20-inch Doll | Chair 5. Beautiful 18-inch Chair 6. 5-Ib. Fruit Cake Dish and Server 7. 3-lb. Fruit Cake on Cake Plate and Server 8. Beautiful Christmas Greet- ing Cake and Doll and on Cake Vhas remained practically station- ary over the Plateau States. Precipitation, mostly in the j form of rain, has been general during the last 24 hours from the | Gulf States northeastward over |the Middle and North Atlantic | States and Lake region. | There has also been light rain lin extreme southern Florida and on the coast of Oregon, and light time ago. This license was revok-| ed because it was shown that the | place was being operated within three hundred feet of a church | Mr. Lopez, who made complaint lrecentiy about other places op-/ erating in the same status, said that nothing had been done about | the matter and requested that the! council permit him to continue! ! sight when the tion went into pointments were Letters A letter was read West Police Club, or Willard M. Albury, in stated that this organization putting on different entertain- ments for the purpose of raising Electric Company requesting that his company be permitted to pay city taxes in the same manner as rain or snow in portions of the! with the business the same as the Sheppard | central | and Plateau region. | Temperatures are above normal | this morning in most sections of | the country. The Supreme Gift For Him SCHICK RAZORS $15.00 and up! Gardner’s Pharmacy “The Rexall Store” he felt that he was being singled! out in the matter, | This question brought on con-/ H i it was meeting for next’ Tuesday night when the matter will be taken| up, with some disposition to be} made of the issue. i Sam Goldsmith, representing the Key West, golfers, addressed | 1 Rocky Mountain States) others he mentioned. He said that damages time ago when his car hole in the street, and ably damaged the vehicle, action was taken due to amount be paid Mr. Sheppard. J. Aronovitz, who a while back requested that he be permitted to pay his taxes fifty percent in cash and fifty percent in war- the meeting stating that the Golf| rants, was denied this privilege as i (Continued on Page Pour) REA en TES DPN TO I AY NN A Ma eae dsc RI 9 TNE RES RO ERR GAINS IN DOLLS LEFT---THEY’RE GOING FAST--GET YOURS NOWL..CALL SOUTH FLORIDA CONTR. & ENG. COMPANY, 598