The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 9, 1946, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service and AP Features For 66 Years Devoted to the Best interests of Key West No. 8 Dave King Presents Budge VOLUME LXVII. With $34,013.81 nerease Inflated ; woarreeews Payments 'CARBONELL ELECTED | FIRST ASST. CHIEF OF FIRE DEPT. John Carbonell, Jr., was elected first assistant chief to the only contested office at the annual election of the Key West Fire Department held last night at the No. 1 fire station, Mr. Carbonell received 81 votes, and his opponent, Col- ton Park, 35. The following other officers were named without opposi- tion: Chief, Leroy Torres; second assistant chief, John Spotts- wood; secretary, John W.\ Roberts; treasurer, Paul- Archer, SIIISLSI IMs SAY SIKES WITHIN States Not Points To Which Cause Budget To Seem High City sented Dave tentative King pre- | budget to last night with | The Com- received copies Manager a city a $34,013.81 missioners of the commission increase. have proposed budget and will study it before making a deci-! sion H Mr. King revealed a salary of $250 for city tax collector Archie Roberts with an increase of $225 | from $210 for Police | and Fire Department salaries} were all increased. ! This yea budget $482,304.1 compared year’s $447,290.31. “I f-nd that on the of present tax and other returns that this will mean that $31,000: approximately will have to be raised through new taxation”, Mr. King said. “This budget 1s inflated nm no manner”, Mr. King continued “and if any item is objected to by the commis- sioners on these grounds we will drop it.” } Mr. King items such rolls of the scavenger sweepers get appear large Besides the King said that onc Policeman and gwo full t)'me | colored policemen would be hired and that a patro! car would be purchased Rather equip the with radios, walk talk be used ity city clerk. total last will to basis REMOVE ALL PLANTS pointed to several as the large pension city, payments on truck. and _ street which make the bud- Former Acting City Manager, the city commission last night, advised that Mr. Sikes is within’ his legal rights in removing plants from the Botanical Gardens. According to a resolution adopt- ed by the city he can remove all lary increases extra white than | expensive | sets may er said. ALLOW HARDSHIP TAX PAYMENTS CITY MANAGER WARNS ESTABLISHING PRE- CEDENT < reasonable amount for | use. Mr. Demeritt that a caretaker be apopinted to offset possible vandalism Mr. and Mrs. Sikes leave the, Garden for their new nursery on} rloaf Key in about six weeks. One of the principal reasons on’ f0r the poor shape the Garden is jin the difficulty of getting | negro labor to work at the G: dens on Stock Island, Mr. | itt said. | road from the Garden have not} been removed, except for one, on! authority of city council of last year Original resolution. was dated August 1, 1940. COMMISSION ANSWERS SUIT | Ww. Ww Demeritt sub-] mitted a resolution which v passed by city commission em- powering the commissioners “show cause” why the liquor li- cense of I. Weiner, of Gulf Stream Restaurant, should not be granted. The mandamus suit filed some-) time ago declared the action of; 1 the commission in not granting a = noetyon license “arbitrary, diseriminat« | licen arbitrary, discrimina unreasonably unjust” and t RED CROSS MEETING | the action “unduly limits reason- a | The suit is against all members , of the commission, City Clerk Roy Hamlin and Tax Collector Sam B. Pinder. Appearance will be filed Jan- uary 10. C. C. DIRECTORS HOLD LUNCHEON: Directors ‘of the the Key Chamber of Commerce held their | regular monthly luncheon andj City Commission hight to allow Mr owns property at Grinnell and Virginia, and Mrs. Radis, who has property on Division street, to pay their taxes‘on a monthly ba. voted Reyes, last who ue two property owners claim-} ed they were hardship ca a S. Caro, attorney for the two,/ pointed out that Mr. Reyes was attempting to get the money gett yay his taxes but was una to do so in a lump sum City Manager Dave King point- ed out tot mmission that ¢ tablishing a “precedent lowing people to pay taxes than at the times ht hurt) the city’s financi Mayor to- due m re you a subs verican Red Cr If you are you t chapter proce 1e annual meeting tion of officers of the Chapter, American Red Cross will held tomorrow evening in tt auditorium of the City Hall at eight o'clock All persons inte: in the work of the Red Cross are most cordially invited to be present meeting yesterday afternoon in BIKE LICENSES | La Concha, The following were’ REPEAT $1.00, p32 UU) "President A. M. Adams, Direc- sass : tors W. M. Arnold, W. B. Brady,' Resolution allowing bicyclists; Dr. Delio Cobo, W. W. Demeritt,} to purchase repeat license forone} Aquilino Lopez, Horace O’Bryant, dollar was passed last night by} Clem C. Price and Edwin F. Trev- city commission. or. First purchase is $1.00. For- merly 50c was allowed for repeat licenses. ACE TTN MOTOR TUNE- SAVES GAS lau Smith Auto Service White at Fleming St. Phone 5 Opposite Army Barracks riber to the oss? ave a voice dings. and ele Key West in be e Adams, representing Adams Dai- ry. MARRAABAABABABAL BRAD TAYLOR in “Sing. pz Neighbor, § Sing” News and “TONIGHT IS PRIZE NITE” Vv VV VV VV IVT LAW AT GARDENS RESOLUTION ALLOWS HIM TO_ plants with the exception of a™ the city's) Demer- , West! Guests were L. K. ‘Avant,| manager of Kress, and J. Roland; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, | SILI IT SS | a DEFEAT LONGER ACREAGE TO BE PURCHASED FROM STATE | ] | {Letter was read irom Sinclair | Wells, land agent for Internal Im-} provement Fund, stating that the’ city should formally determine | the number of acres it wishes to purchase at Garrison Bight and | make an offer directly to | Fund. | City Manager King was empow- ered to survey or obtain a survey | of all lands in Garrison Bight un-! der the jurisdiction of the eae Improvement Fund. Following purchase of the site,! the city commission will probably lease land for the construction of; a large Yacht Basin and Dock. Tom Wilson is the only public ap-; plicant for building the docks,; although othérs have been men-; tioned as interested. ROBERTS, KING CAN SIGN CHECKS MUST SIGN JOINTLY AND NO’ SEVERALLY; AUTH- ORITY GIVEN Charles P. Roberts, city finance; head, and City Manager Dave; King have been empowered to! sign for disposal of securities held in the Bank of Atlanta and non-; i negotiable numbered 7346. The two can dispose of the se- W. W. Demeritt, in a report to! curities only by joint action and! RACETRACK Fl FUND not severally. Authority for the two to sail all city warrants to issue checks! was also given. CHURCH GROUP HOLDS SESSION recommended DEVOTIONAL SESSION LED’ when; | BY MRS. MILTON SAWYER The United Council of Church’ Women held an all-day gage ine mondays January 7, in St. Paul { yeu al iti th, atts alearasiae) led by Mrs. Milton is, Mrs. al meeting was Sawyer, with Mrs. Daniel The coconut trees across the! Doughtry, Mrs, MacConnell and same way. and the receipts the Rev. Reinke taking part. Mrs. George Archer was elected vice-president. The organization voted to try to; create enough interest in the city | | toward having the USO Pein bie permanently as a recreational; i oak group reported visits to! ithe County Home, and gifts pre- sented during Thanksgiving and ‘Christmas time. It was decided to continue this work, and also, if rides around the city. On roll call at the meeting, it was shown that the number of members of the churches repre | sented were as follow: First Methodist, nine; gational, three; Fleming four; Episcopal, eighteen; Le} Memorial, one, and Baptist, two. The Congregational Church in. { vited the group to meet with them| for the next meeting, which will be held on March 8. Lunch was served in the Parish ; | Hall. At the* afternoon session ! Father MacConnell spoke to the group on the needs of re-building Gaigres! and extending the work of the f church in the mission fields, and opportunities as co-workers with God in assisting in the work. {MATTRESS ON FIRE AT ‘WHITE, HOUSE’ The fire department was call- i line streets, where a mattress | was found afire on the second jiloor of the ‘White House Hotel | situated at that point. There w: no further damage to the build- ing aside from the burning of the mattress. The alarm sounded from box {12, corner of Duval and Front | | streets. St ttt tntntnitntn tented ttn tant UP | “PALACE THEATER Bet Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto| Sow PARTS SS NAVARRO, Inc $4244444444444444. | hold a public meeting fifteen days , to | Possible, to take the old folks for, Street, : ed out this morning at 7 o'clock | to the corner-of Duval and Caro- ; NE WSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. ‘WOULD REDUCE AIRMAIL POSTAGE (By Associated Freed) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—It was said today that Postmas- ter General Hannigan favors reducing the price of domestit airmail postage from eight to five cents. Sometime this afternoon he is scheduled to hold a confer- ence with officials of airplane companies to discuss with them the proposed reduction. . ' | the IIIITTI LSID also let bars remain open at all ‘VOTE FOR LIFT. MARINE RAILWAY PUBLIC HEARING FIFTEEN DAYS FROM TO- DAY City commission voted to ad- vertise ‘the establishing of an amendment to the zoning laws in the case of the ‘lift marine railway: Boing up at 717’ North Beach’ and, following the advertisement. Advertisement «is expected to be placed in The Citizen today. A letter was read from the Gulf Coast Fisherman's union advocat- ing the establishment of the ma- rine railway as there is only one open to the general public in the; city now which is jammed to} capacity, and calling attention to the fact that there is little or no! waterfront property left for this! ee { NOT EXCESSIVE The aroma 8 that Monfoe county wll receive $50,000 of {racetrack funds this season ap- {peared not to be excessive when 'County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer informed the commissioners, , at a mecting last night, that a check for $18.000 had already been.re- | ceived. That was the first of three or] four other payments, Mr. Saw- year explained, and added that, in former years, the first pay- ment amounted to approximate- $8,000. be Of the $18)090 al ceived, it will be div y between the public schools in this district and the county government. All other sums re-| ce:ved will be divided in the | re- | schools will obtain in this way | will be a boon te them, particu- larly in building up the faculties by paying better salaries. TRANSFER OF LICENSE OKAY ; 1 De fer of liquor license from | Abelardo Lopez to Horatio San- chez was authorized by city com-! mission last night. \ Abelardo Lopez, | ceased. “My Heart's Sr.,), is :ide- 5 Broken...” i I | | sobs Edith Lacey, when she learns that her mother is about to marry the man she loves. When she meets ,four a.m. Sunday and seven |of four “ALLOW LICENSE, | vilian Beach Club w | city comm 1946 HOURS FOR BARS WOULD HAVE ALLOWED WEEKDAY OPENING TO 4 P. M. Key West, Florida, tas tae most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE C. HARDEN SWITCHES VOTE; QUOR ORDINANCE FAILS * Resolution which would allow bars to remairt closed between « PHONE WORKERS | JOIN IN STRIKE | AT NEW YORK WALKED OUT THIS penne OUT OF SYMPATHY FOR EMPLOYES OF WESTERN. ELECTRIC COMPANY ;m. Monday was defeated. | The resolution would navel hours except between the hours a.m. and seven a.m, weekdays and the Sunday vision. Package liquors would have {been sold at all hours excepting "8 p.m, to 7 p.m. with no sale on Sundays, | Voting against this were De- | meritt. Cooper and Harden with} Carbonell and Sweeting voting | telephone workers here went on! for it. | strike at 10 o’clock this morning , out of sympathy for 7,000 em-| |ployes of the Western Electric! NOT company, who sti d a walkout ! yesterday in the company’s plants | here and in yew Jerse (A dispatch was received here! | from Washington that some tele-/ | phone operators in that city had! gone on strike.) Officials of the National Fed-_ eration of Telephone Workers de-, clared today that, if the differ-| ‘ences between Western Electric) ; employes and officials is not set- | tied soon, the strike is likely to spread to all telephone opera ors in the country. (Another dispatch said that ! Western Electric workers in Cleveland and Philadelphia had left their jobs.) As a result of strikes, 385,000 men and women are idle in the’ United States. Efforts are being | made to avert the steel strike call- E ed for tomorrow, which would in* ie 700,000 men, and the meat DECLARED PRIVATE CLUB! packers’ strike fixed for Friday. (% ont.was issued in the WITH MEMBERS PAY- | White House that President Tru- | man had said there will be a slight} ie Dues | vise in-the price of stecl, but it is | not expected to be high enough to “offset the workers’ demand of $2 s for the Ci-! qaily increase in wages. as denied by | ion Jast night. Dehiiikwas based onthe Tac oO ALLEN COMES that dues are collected at the! HOME ON LEAVE club by private members and that| i the beach is not open to the gen-! 56 Alien, Yeoman, First Class, | eae Sal public with the United States Navy, and sea formerly connected with The Citi- COUNTY BOARD HAS |zen in the capacity of business VERY LONG SESSION | manager, artived in Key West! erday afternoon from Okin- z ing spent almost a County commissioners remain-) year on duty at various points in| ed in session till 1:15 o'clock this! the Pacific theater of operations. morning, as a result, after the re ular meeting, of selecting 750 Mr. Allen is here on leave and will remain for about two week. names to be placed in the Jury | box. | awaiting orders for further As the county's registration list! SSP MEM expired on January 1, the names S| JABEZ H. SAWYER _ RETURNS TO cre, were chosen from among the qual- ifted voters on the city’s regis- tration*books. The list of names EE Jabez H. Saw3 former]; | ployed at the Key West N was supplied the commissioners | by John W.' Roberts, one of the} «| Yard, who had been spending:a! §"| visit of four months in Tampa city’s election commissioners. The coutify Will fot have a re istration list until the books are} with rebtive: aed Wiewdn,.. 1 closed are era 70- | turned to Key West yesterday. | Mr. Sawyer reports having] thoroughly enjoyed his stay in the}; west coast city, and surrounding | sections, although he said he was! more than pleased to be ba home in the Island City again. enuine for All awe” PARTS “cers | ROY'S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS! Phone 442 | 116 Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg.! on! ro- | pro-! { | ! | (ty Aaxociatea Prenn) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Six hun- dred members of mobile units of) | | | DENY ANOTHER ‘WILBUR SWEETING JAMES GRIFFIN “YES” Application of Wilbur Sweeting for a liquor license at 812 Caro-| line was denied by City Commis- sion last night. te The location was dcelared not: in a free zone. James Griffin, of 1095 Division, was allowed a liquor license by! city commission last night, Com- missioners Demeritt and Cooper voting “No”. . Abatement of ts j i le, | as- | a NOTICE To Aduavtinecs Effective January Ist, 1946 FRONT PAGE ADVERTISING RATES Are As Follows: Transient Commercial $600 Per * Column Inch | | | | \o | | ! a! i | i | if ij ! TWO or MORE Burk Angus, however, she soon learns thaf a broken heart can be mended. The more important question is whether she ‘can over- come her Lacey blood. Read— Enchanted Journey Starting Soon In The Citizen : NOTICE Dog licenses required by City Ordinance will be on sale from 2 to'5 P.M. each] day, effective Thursday, Jan- 50 Per Column { Inch i RE | Contract Rate i TWO or MORE INSERTIONS j PER WEEK on Contract for + stipulated i Per * days for Coiumn j one your Inch ' Rates for x POLITICAL or Other | uary 10, at the Woman’s z Se Club, Duval Street. Poin- ing on en Page upon request ciana and MacArthur Sec- tions, apply at Apt. 240-C, Poinciana Extension. Consecutive $ Insertions .. *The publisher reserves the right to limit the size of adver- tising for any day to conform with space available on day of | publication. i | \COeee ae was | Two And One Half Hour |REMOVE DUVAL ST. FENCE, NORTH END | Removal of the fence at the north end of Duval street will be asked by City Manager Da- vid King of the Coast Guard, ky direction of the city com- mission. During the war the fence was placed across ihe street by Port Security Forces of the U. S. Coast Guard to safe- guard docks and oil tanks at the foot of the street, The location is a favorite spot ‘with tourists who drive from the Atlantic Ocean on Duval street to the Gulf of Mexico at the north end. | GIES FISTS. CL | J. J. TREVOR NEW BANK HEAD OTHER OFFICERS NAMED | AT MEETING HELD YESTERDAY Discussion In Commis- sion Meet; Would Have ’ Amended 300 Foot Law | | | | 1 i ese nee ts | Following a two and a_ half hour harangue of ministers ant | citizens against the measuring |of the 300 foot distance a bar ; must be distant from a school or church, from main entrance to |main entrance, while lav ,for restaurants wishing license pleaded their case, city commission voted last night ‘against allowing the proposed measurement, Hunter Harden, youthful com missioner, who had been voting w:th Carbonell and Sweeting for the proposed liquor ordinanc« when it was brought up as an “emergency ordinance, voted against the ordinance on the first reading last night and along with Demeritt and Coot noes, the measure went down to defeat, 3 to 2. Speak'ng vehemently against the ordinance, Rev. Doherty, Rev. C. T. Howes, Eugene Rob- erts, Albert Carey and former ant state attorney James A Bunch of Jacksonville carried the ission heavily against the m Speak. - for the measure Raymond Lord, attorney another attorney. Those against Frotested that children, the influence Reports made at the annual ¢ ‘meeting yesterday afternoon of the Florida National Bank at Key West showed that the capi- , tal structure has been increased ‘to $338,653,01 & the end of 1945, which w “very good year for the bank”, President J. was and the ordinance the safety of a j Norberg Tho! ithe city has no liability | mission last night. J. Trevor said today. The bank has a reserve of $42,372.74. At the meeting, Mr. Trevor wags advanced from the office of execut ve vice president to i president, and other officers elected were: Vice president, , Ernest Doll; vice president and ¢ Cc. Larry Gardner; cashiers, J, J. Pinder Kathleen Watkins; Urn Os hier, Ss t and Miss d rectors, pson, William A R. Stowers, J. Willard W. In- George A. — Chatfield, | Trevor, Gardner and Doll. Mr. Doll is the vice president and cashier of the Florida Na tional Bank and Trust Company in Mami, and Mr. Chatfield is the president of the Florida Na- tional Bank at Coral Gables and vice president of the Florida Na- tional Bank in Miami. NO LIABILITY IN CLARK CASE !} ATTORNEY CITES “HUMANE PROBLEM” AT _ MEET jee an, Stone, male James dre Hl | City Attorney Lester said that in the; negro, Charles Lee Clark, who lost an in a scuffle with Patrolman Hqward Harr There is a humane probler Mr. Lester said. City Manager King advised that he was} securing a glass eye for Clark and ase of the ! would give him a ticket home to! Columbus, where he would tempt to secure a job for Clark. ‘TRANSFER BEER WINE LICENSE | Chris Haberlindl of Manhattan} Restaurant was allowed to trans- fer his beer and wine license be cause of a heart ailment, testi- fied to by a doctor, by city com-| at-| Buyer of the disclosed. ‘ \ business was Hot} EET EEE TTD BRE EG EE NORTH .BEACH INN -COFFEE SHOP eFull-Course DINNER, 6-8 p.m. eSpanish Home-cooked DINNERS by Reservation ~ SAREREERRRN REEDED RESET ROASTERS and FRYERS BRADY’S (Live) Poultry and Egg Market | Doone 84" 1. 1214 White St. MEFEFEEEEEEEREEREEES EY ' mental \ should ling to remove drunks from children and the actual moles- lations and attacks on children of bars in the vicinity of schoo! and churches were to be con sidered. A lettr fromthe pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Rev. Johnson, was read in which he stated that he dd not wish to see the Catholic Church brought into a political dsicussion and that he had authorized no one to speak for him, He said that if anything was thought detri- to the church that he would personally bring the mat- ter up. There last night was some discussion about the intent of matter as brought up by Judge Lord and Rev. Howes but the stimony was conflicting. There was auitc a bit personal re ences between the conflicting partes and in one case Re Doherty stated that Judge Lec apologize to’ the minis. ters for his words at the first meeting in which the matter w brought up. Judge Lord everywhere over | which he law was alee emphasized that the state with familiar that the interpreted from | main entrance to, main entrance A’ great. deal,,of statements which had been discussed at the first mecting the matter was brought vo and again brought up in which restaurants clared not in the same as bars which allowed people to become drunk from liquors, that the town would soon be a tour- ist town such as Miami and would demand night clubs and restaurants in the heart of town well as elsewhere. On the oprfosing minister cited the case side one of hav- his church during Sunday services and of being awakened by re- velry close by where bars re churches. The thought that revenue in such ag important ordinance would be little was brought out. Wallace B. Kirke, near the clos¢ of the discussion, asked the city attorney how the measure would affect the zoning ordinanc Mr Lester replied that it “would ab- rogate the zoning ordinance where conflicting.” SUT LI ELLE IE MASONIC NOTICE Special Communication of Dade I. odge No. 14, F. & A. Pas | day evening, Jan- ry i. /:300’clock. Work et in the F. C. degree. All pes are cordially invit By Ne K. L, Conner, W.M. FRANK O. WEECH, Secretary, USLACTATEETECRELE AE