The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 17, 1940, Page 4

’ PAGE FOUR Financial Report Favors Council edness of $13,780.01, from the for the present period, of $16, leave a credit balance for our ad- (Continued from Page One) subtracted |think of Key West’s struggles to,tor Roberts, as a natural aid to| outstanding accounts “balance the budget”. { .| The following revort, showing | budget—it was presented to the! _ total cojiections and disburse-|council at last week’s meeting at | jhelp in drawing up next year’s) accounts the request of i | | | Councilman Ram- y Audi- ‘sey; ‘ “7 2k ii (Current Taxes __ PEP ministration of $3,316.43, with all| Delinquent Taxes _ debts and salaries paid in full to the former June 30th had not | Occupational Licenses | Motor Vehicle Licenses council saddled the present one | Building Permits with the $13,780.01 debt”. Of course, the main trouble in | Street Paving and Sidewalk Liens | Fines and Forfeitures municipal financing in Key West | Miscellaneous— is the age-old question of non- payment of taxes. all taxes due have not been paid. Consider that fact when you' = Department— ADMINISTRATION 7 Commission due Tax Collector POLICE Special Traffic Officer FIRE SANITATION AQUARIUM Aquarium purchases yet to be sold GOLF COURSE PENSIONS Salary Transfers Contingent Fund Incumbrances Street Lighting Contract WPA and NYA Projects Pub. Welfare z Budgets are set up with the expectancy of! full payment of taxes,. but in this Non-revenue receipts city, to date, sixty-one percent of alee asint Eiecemien ae a 840.40 452.41 343.44 1,488.30 242.13 Sales, rents, water fees, interest on delinquent taxes, aquarium admission fees and sales, Board of Pub- lic Works collections, ete ___ 8,941.27 bride, Anita Louise ior Total Receipts $124,077.23 | for a eotaes each cup of water is correct meas- urement to allow for ice dilution. Incumbrances § Accrued Here’s a Perfect Performance With Iced Coffee In Leading Role! WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 ‘WAR CASUALTY: The freshly-: lots of ice tall days. Salaries (Payable) $ 1,971.11 (Accounts Payable) $ 242.37 16.87 $ 7,362.79 | THE WEATHER | ! 623.30 | \ 9,623.98 | Observation taken at 7:30 a. m,. 109.50} 7§th Mer. Time (City Office) "| 10,525.27 Temperatures i 3,901.88 | Highest last 24 hours _ 2,518.23 Lowest last night Mean Operations $10,293.14 623.30 2,480.75 109.50 2,858.64 908.66 235.00 5,834.16 6,926.14 2,549.01 665,00 - a Normal = 13 = = iat 78 |p: Precipitation — | nay a, (Rainfall, 24 hours ending ' 3,081.70 | 7:30 a. m., inches _ 0.45 57.12 | Total rainfall since July 1, { | inches __ 588.39 {Deficiency 4,668.91 | inches eS |Total rainfall since Jan. 1, 193.16 | inches —___ 1,076.87 2,441.53 374.91 640.07 57.12 since July i 0.05 TOTALS Actual Expenditures Forward FLOATING DEBT RETIREMENT Liquidation of Indebtedness incurred prior to Dec. 1, 1939 Accounts payable, salaries payable, payable and balance due on 1939 election expenses ___ Interest— General revenue bonds, scavenger contract account and note payable Liquidation of securities held in Interest coupons and general revenue warrants ___ Court Judgments Street Lighting, tax settlement Housing Authority appropriation. Recoverable Miscellaneous— Iner-fund transfers, purchase of general revenue warrants through indebtedness fund, etc. Payment of past-due interest cou Payment of interest coupons from Series A and B refunding bonds of Jan. 1, 1938 OTHER CONTINGENT FUND EXPENDITURES - Electric current—White Way, Art Center, Shuffle Board Courts, Clinic. Entertainment, rental of South Beach, C. Police Patrol payment, ete. ___ WPA Préject Fur Community Recreation Com. Board of Public Works Wages of employes Maintenance—repairs to water works and machinery, materials, and materials furnished WPA projects —_._»___ Street Paving Sponsorship. WPA Project 4581-1 and Ave! Séwer and Water Projects. Materials Worthy of consideration in con- nection with the financial condi- tion of the city is the realization that all city employes have re- ceived four months’ pay during $ 4,083.55 |Deficiency since January 1, } $47,878.49 Wind Direction and Veloci { | E—6 miles per hour i] Relative Humidity 88% i Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today ; $26,855.60 $30,939. 15. $10,259.06 |Sea level, 30.04 (1017.3 millibars) Tomorrow's Almanac 13,780.01 | Sunrise _ | Sunset salary transfer assignments 5:48 a. m. 7:18 p. m. 2,464.78 |Moonrise _ 6:40 p. m.} Moonset _ __. §:05. a. m; Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. 843 aaieeeies 1:57 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Thursday) ~ | Key West and Vicinity: Partly 13,426.00 !cloudy tonight and Thursday,' 430.86 with scattered thundershowers Thursday; gentle to moderate 16,250.00 variable winds. Florida: Partly cloudy tonight! and Thursday, scattered thunder- | showers Thursday and over ex- treme north portion tonight. } Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate variable winds; partly overcast weather 4,212.73 tonight and Thursday with wide- ly scattered thundershowers. | trust which were accepted for taxes. 3,463.35 | 6,758.65 pe 9:58 High _ i 3:30 Low pons from old Municipal Bonds of C. appropriation, 1,701.81 —— $ 808.73 3,404.00 154.23 359.28 513.51 REALTY TRANSFER | Realty transfer recorded this 14,263.83 | week in the courthouse is as fol- lows: 591.86 From the Duval Mortgage Co.,- to Herbert Stokes Walesby, lot 1,954.01.0n Southard street near William _______ street, the former residence of} $117,601.47 D. B. Russell, for $10 and other 6475.76 jValuable considerations. j = Went supplies, 8,037.26 nue E, supplies and materials, ete. ___ Total Disbursements Cash Balance, July 1, 1940 ———_ | "fhe symbol “R” at the start of! BALANCE __-_.;-___ $134,077.23 | awphysician’s prescription stands the six months of 1940—or a to-;cial transactions, not showing in roel Hatin “recipe”, es ¢ - s 3. {the report, is that $2,319.42 was % : tal of sixty-six and two-thirds ‘ ii : a percent of their full salaries for | Sve Seay by | sing $5. | Stephens, Miss M. Stephens, Mrs. & | 588.67 of the city’s floating debt wy Lowe, George Gomez, Or- ore cates } at a cost of only $3,269.25 to the |jando Puerta and Juan Puerta. | Another commentary on See | : NOTES OF TODAY Returned From Cuba Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Vater, who had been visiting in Cuba and on the return yesterday afternoon stopped for the night in Key-West for the ride over the highway this morning, left on the early bus for their home in Clearwa- ter, Fla. Visitors From Ohio Mr. and Mrs. T. E O’Hern, who were visiting in Cuba, and returned to the city yesterday afternoon, left this morning for their home in Lorraine, Ohio. Enters Georgia Tech John Spottswood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Spottswood, left on the morning bus for Miami and will there take the train for Atlanta to enter summer school! at Georgia Tech. Trailerites Return Mrs. Ruth Pierce of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. William’ H. Dan- iels and children of Fort Lauder- dale have arrived in Key West for a short visit at the Gulf Stream Trailer Camp, where they | DIVORCE ACTION | Announcement was made to-| Final decree in the divorce’ cing tee a coalitions eeu case of Leonard Arnay Karraker s versus Mildred Karraker was would not meet tomorrow night, fijed Monday in the office of as per original schedule, owing | Ross C. Sawyer, clerk of Circuit to a Legion function to be held | Court. in Legion Hall on that evening. | Papers were filed in the office’ The chorus will meet on Fri- | Monday in the divorce suit of day evening at Legion Hall, at'Herelina Isabela Sweeting Har- {which time Caesar La Monaca,| Tris versus Chester Harris. warrant officer, director of the! | Regimental Band, will be honor-| ed guest. In deference to the La} Concha concert to be given that! night, the chorus will assemble | sat 9:00 o'clock. ' To Meet Friday TRANSPORTATION SS. CUBA | _ Steamship Cuba, of the P. have parked their trailer. This is O. S.S. Co. arrived from Ha their second trip to Key West,, yesterday afternoon at 2: nang spent their vacation here | o'clock with 89 first and one sec- last year. i |\Goes To Tampa Mrs. W. M. Lowe was a pas-| Shown on the manifest of jSenger on S.S. Cuba yesterday !ship were the following |afternoon going for a visit in| For Key West, there were 13 | Tampa with relatives and friends. | of freight, seven automobiles Left On S.S. Cuba H George Gomez left on the: mobile Steamship Cuba yesterday after-! noon for a business and pleasure} ivisit in Tampa. PHONE 90 Hand at‘La Concha Park, 7:45)"2%6 bem war yeors. A Sues} 78 o'clock tonight, and it is as fol-|M€WSPaper published the follow-} 84 ‘March, “National Emblem” (re- 1.60 Sgt. Frank Purnell singing, 'Cornet Solo, Technical Sgt. Ro- | Elisabeth Gartenmayer “Stormy Weather”, a descrip- Grand Selection ‘from “The | The Star Spangled Banner Key Helen Cook ‘Engagement Announced DELIVERED EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION FRENCH ARE AT WAR | _CONCERT PROGRAM PMO Ae a TIME. Warrant Officer Caesar La) | (Ry Ansociated Press) Monaca has released the program BASEL, July 17.—Of the last, THURSDAY FOR B. F. LOWE for the concert which is to be goo years of France's history, 371 | : ; played by the 265th Regimental!) * ry, 371! Benjamin Frank Lowe, 58 died this morning at 8:30 o clock jin the Marine hospital Fur i. : jing table: | 2 P | in. | Services will be held tomorrow eae | ach contury—43 war years, i0-| 0 ooom at 5 o'clock fram Leper Pe am ae Bagley| cluding such battles as Cour-| Funeral Home chapel, Rev. AS “Suite Esp ite Andalucia | trai, Crecy and Poitiers. |Doherty of the Congregational perenne {1Sth—71 war years, including; church officiating lows: real cing! =, Azincourt, Castillon, Montherie| Survivors are: Three sisters d Grinegate. |Mrs. George B. Cook Mrs. Myrtis ae nama (33 civil wars | Taylor and Mrs. V. P. Powell . Archie Low | cadre ie eee |and one brother. we Pavia and St. Quentin). epacaaey war years (17 « unshii wars, 39 major battles). Spa Hes fae tee — | 1eth—s8 war years (7 civil wars, 3 ¥! 93 battles). (re- | Kennedy and Carr “South of the Border” quested) sary Picciolo: - eeeccccccceccseseescoss. “Arbucklenian Polka” ; J. MacDonald—Polly Young singing, 18th—45 war years (12 civil wars, THE LAST ALARM civil “With The Wind and The | 59 patties). = Rain In Your Hair” and | In the 20th century the French| © SERIAL and COMEDY “Shake Down The Stars” 8 { Overture, “Poet and Peasant” a eakigg: om — _ ae seeeccesersecceceee- --- Suppe |the second World War. \f ; iFor Sale tive Fantasy on the Old Song Arlen and Koehler, SNOW CRUISER USELESS CLEARWATER, Fla. — The ee = ,Much-publicized snow Romberg |Richard E. Byrd in the Antarctic, |! piace nai ries {preved useless, according to} Charles Meyer, one of the mem-/ ibers of the recent expedition. The | 175,000-pound monster was insuf- Avenue. Total ficiently powered to traverse the |! gssgp90. Phone 622 or soft snow blanket which covers County Judge's Office. the Antarctic in the Summer. Announcement has been made by Mrs. J. V. Wharton, Army Barracks, of the engagement of her sister, Miss Helen B. Cook, to Eloy Acevedo, of Key West. Miss Cook is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Cook, of Summerville, S. C., and Mr. Ace- vedo is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Florencio Acevedo, 1000 Division treet. } THERMAL DIGEST By PENETRATOR So you think it is hot, In this lovely spot? And it, would be nice To sit on some ice? Now don’t be a fool, Learn how to keep cool; + Just think you are blest, To be in Key West; Why this is like heaven, At only eighty-seven; Just watch the Yankees stew, In New York at ninety- two, Forgive their stupidity; It ain’t heat—it’s humid- Limping Limerick No. 3741256 There once was 2 man named Curtis Kent. Whose wife never read an ad VERT isement- Mr. Kent said, “My dear, You are foolish, I fear, Not to read the advertisements and thus learn where te look for the best values when you go shoppin” - find out what Curtis meant! That last line got slightly out of hand. But the point is, INTELLIGENT women read the advertive- ments and thus save weary footsteps and precious pennies every day. by shopping at the right places at NO. 8