The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 6, 1946, Page 1

For 66 Years Devoted to the Hest interests of Key Weat VOLUME LXVII. No. 56 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF @OO@OOOE #4 grea SAID woh Key West RESENTS | Water To Be PARTICULAR CREED | ig) ¢,» (By Ansociated Prem) The new filter plant which COLUMBUS, March 6—Presi-| will ‘make all water piped dent Truman, at noon today, into Key West “soft” is com- pletee Commander Allen Hoar, NOB, said today and is awaiting tests by inspecting engineers before being placed in use. The filter plant is at Flor- ida City from where Key West's water is piped over 150 miles of Keys and is de- signed to) eliminate the. dis- coloration in.the water’ here : . and to make it soft and clean. made an address at the confer- ence of the Federal Council of Churehes of Christ in America. It was stated, before he was i0- troduced, that 212,336 Protestant | churches are represented in the council President Truman said that the @ouncil represents no particular. sect or creed, as each is working im a different way in serving God, ut thet all maintain the indiy.d- Wal’s right to, worship, God « @ording to the dictates of his con- science The Christian religion and de- mocracy, he pointed out, gu tee individual freedor and dignity of eve: man ani woman in a country, but dicta torships are not concerned wiih individualism but with the state @ione, and every individual fash- fons his life according to the dic- tates of the state. An in(vid @ounts only as a thing to s 2 the state, and no consideration is @iven to the individual's convic- tion of the religious life he wishes t live At no other time in the history | of the world, the President as. City Now After Recreation For Colered Folks REQUEST SENATOR PEPPER AND REPRESENTATIVE CAN- NON CONSIDER THOMAS ST. AREA the worth Senator Pepper and Represent- ative Cannon's offices are inter- serted, has spiritual uplift be viewing the real estate division of Reeded more than it is at present | the Navy Department in Wash- when so’many forces of evil are| ington to find out why a recrea~ still et. work | tion area for.600 colored veterans The world needs a spiritual |,/5 Rot allowed by the Navy. ad- @wakening to guarantee a life of J2¢ePt te the Housing project on peace and freedom for all peoples. Thomas street. PIP Atta ee ait At this point in his address, President Truman expressed aj that .was striking ip its bathe “int the mind cf ee) He said thet, despite the inven-| tien of the atomic bomb and Petition «by 161. colored. resi- dents was filed with the city. City Manager Dave King said that he: had: ingyviewedCaptainw 7 Reordan commandant) of ‘the Naval’ Operating Base whé told him:that'the aréa’ was under, the byt wears, the reatessi pansideration for. establishment Giseovery that man will, make)@h Quonset., qr Hompija huts, to will Be in the realm of the spitit- hoUse service personnel, families! wal. Such a discovery will give) 1 this ated.’ .. 4 man a far better understanding The Commission unanimously @f his place in the university.and| 4ecided to back up the city man- will uplift him morally and there-| #8e" in his desire to obtain a by draw nearer the attainment of Clored recreation : Be teetieds ot man Mention of the bathing beach The supreme. test. of the, Reeded by the colored folk was| churches. Catholic, Protestant | ™@de but no action is being tak- and the Synagoguc, is to bind to- €" until the recreation area is gether the world in a spiritual, S°cured. awakening that will give to all epee ee men a moral responsibility di- O it P. fected toward the conservation UFGers Fayment of weace and freedom President Truman then spoke about the administration's deter- mination to have 7,290.000 hou: constructed in the United States| County commission, at a meet- im the next two years, for better’ ing last night. ordered the pay- homes. he deelaped, means a.bet-| ment of $7,700 to Charles Top- ter outlook op,Jife towardithe! Pino and Sons. for repairs madé! observance of the, Golden, Rule, | of the Roosevelt Boulevard, a 1 | Specifications that, a¢compani- fed the bill submitted, by. Mr.| | Tovpino showed that he, had re-} | paired the boulevard from, the | bridge at the head of the island! to a paint beyond the East Mar-! tello Tower. or a distance of one | and one-half mile: In Road Repairs Property On Key Vae: Sale of real estate on Key He further aid that 22060 Vacas, in the vicinity of Mara-| square yards of surface had been then, for $17,500 was recorded) repaired at a cost ‘of approxi-| © yesterday afternoon in the county mately 30 cents a yard. clerk's office Mrs. Florence G. Gallat and James Gallat were. the sellers ‘and the buyer was tvar Storm | We Are Now Accepting Davis. Two ts were sold, one of two and one-half acres and the other 100 by 600 feet TUBES REPAIRED by the Dill Electric Vuicanizer Lou Smith Auto Service White at Fleming Phone No, 5) “Opposite Acmy Barracks” | for DEVELOPING and PRINTING SOUTHERNMOST CITY PHARMACY, Inc. Prescription Druggists DUVAL AND FLEMING STS. Ty COMSAT Cy ae Gala ‘Opening... . iaancuan THE DRIFTWOOD 609 DUVAL STREET OPEN 12 NOON to 2 A.M. Featuring DANCING Every Week Day and Night MUSIC from 9 o'clock by Hector Barroso and His Orchestra Specializing in Steaks - Chops - Chicken - Seafoods LUNCHEON Served from DINNERS Served from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M. Che Key T HE SOUTHERNMOST.. High School Hom:> Nursing Class NEWSPAPER paleo 13% TWENTY-FIVE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS have enrolled in the Red Cross Home Nursing Class. Instructions are being given one period each day in the High School Annex home-nursing room. Mrs. Evelyn Conly, R.N., the instructor, demonstrates how to Properly make a bed. From left to right (above) are: Mrs. Conly, Rosalia Camalier, Annie Averette. Anita Aguilar, Nellie Romaguera and Clara Bow Bailey. Other members of the class not shown are: Elsie Cur Bertha Perez, Dorothy Hobbs, Josephine Perez, Winnie May Yo Mildred Tift. Doris Thompson, Anne Cook, Bett Duane, Amparo Ovide, Marian Solanc, Shirley Orange and Mary Louise Spencer. City Aquarium Ready In Month; | Fish Crawls, Too! NINE THOUSAND DOLLAR AP-. PROPIATION: WILL TURN BACK CLYDE - MALLOAY IW Mids i 2uadaw aafhT vi | The city aquarium will be completed in about a month, »Commander Allen’ Héay,” NOB! saidjteday withthe $9,000 appro-! priation the Bureau of Yards’ and Docks has authorized and with! the labor to be by yard personnel. Another important item is that the road which connects the Navy Yard with the Clyde Mal- lory docks will soon be ordered out and the turtle crawls will then be replaced where the road Is. ! The Aquarium will be quite complete, Commander Hoar said with pumps in good shape and all glasses replaced in the tanks. There is no contract for the fish life. The Navy lease tes that the Aquarium will placed in the same shape it was in before {the Navy converted it into a rilic range, i The jonly, material whiete may hold up the work will’ be! thé securing ‘of glas F tanks. This glas: to secure. Some of the artist work whith j used to decorate ihe Aquarium of Fore: including the two murals at the entrance is not in good shape at esent and a local artist may be d to restore the decoration. LDP ELSOMO IIT ANTI NORTH BEACH INN COFFEE SHOP ' 711 North Beach Phone 261-J eFull-Course DINNER, 6-8 p.m. eSpanish Home-cooked DINNERS by Reservation Genuine for All Auto Cars ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS Phone 442 116 Duval, Jefferson Hotel Bldg. WANTED! ORCHESTRA or INDIVIDUAL MUSICIANS desirous of forming such a unit Apply Manager | La Concha Hotel | COCCCC OOO SOLE S>VOROR0CeL8 City Refuses: hiceisse: To Estenozs Considers Lodge Forty-Five Pound Tarpon Caught Here Aboard Captain Jakie Key's ‘Legion yesterday a 45-pound tarpon was brought in by Mrs.'Charles J. Drapar. Besides Mrs. Draper, also in the party were Mr. Draper from Belmont, Mass, ,and Mr. and Mrs. Foster M. Trainer of Hingham and Duxbury, Mass. State Board | May Take Over Botanical Site! FLORIDA BOARD OF FORES- | w TRY AND PARKS REPRESEN- | ) TATIVE TO COME HERE To! GET REFERENCE MATERIAL.| ote of appreciation and | for coniinuance in hav | ing the city’s Botanical Gard turned over to the Florida Boa ry and Parks to be made | into a wayside park. This was] brought out at the city commis sion meeting last night | Correspondence by City Mana ger King, with the ate group, | revealed that the board is not; considering the Botanical Gardens as a wayside park at pi other locations for wa are at present under consider tion, but the board indicated ti nat here could ay ae >, 806) Pensacola 65 | ARERR OR ED and that a repre ALOMNE)) SUCE: ‘ | Pittsburgh 71 Haresbecrmin fan passed on final reading as! st. Louie ite | ROASTERS and FRYERS | dale, would be u 77 Taran cure reference ma |, 605 Duval And 609 Du. ' vals Two nee Have Final Reading All liquor lice vestigated City Manager Dave King were IN THE ‘ty, Florence Russell, Phyllis Roberts, H ung, Josephine Garcia, Olga Alvarez 'y Sue Jones, Catherine Ross, Beatrice Armayor, Paity stad ad | |Liquor Licenses,Given To! ; Lopez, Jr. State Attorney Directed To Show Cause Why Bridge Bonds Shouldn’t Be Refunded funding of the bonds will shorten their life 10 years. Under the present plan, all the bonds will Circuit urt Judge Aquilino | ‘his morning issued an order directing the state attorney R Hi City Electric System Budget $784,979.25 in this district to show cause why | not be liquidated till 1968, where- $3,150,000. in. bonds of the Over-|as the refunding bonds will be seas,Road and Toll, Bridge D:s-|paid by 1958,. thus, making the ' refunded by| bridges toll-free 10 years before Administra-|the time originally set in the RFC loan. : eck ‘| , Besides, any Or all of the’ bonds are. callable, cent a year. The secretary of the liquidation of the final cbonds. . board, when the proposed refund-}. It was said today by a bridge ing first came before the board, | official that if business in the stated that the new bonds prob- ably will pay interest ranging from one to two percent. Besides, he pointed out, the re. good as it is now, the probab: jis that all the bonds will have been paid before 1958. Given Approval Third Mile ot “‘Jéwhish ‘Creek, { Pipes Lat Increase; Eventual. Sav- t ¥ i | F Electricity. Amount. To ings : is "1 | Proposed budget Of the’ city W \PIPELINE BEING LAID z Ps . ty | electric system which shows re- ATOP PILINGS ABOVE bit Roar of $784,979.25 was approv- TER; MAKE BREAK IN WITH- ed by the city commission at a | meeting held last night. IN THREE WEEKS { The budget’ shows new equip- collection of tolls continues as{and favors a few. Others state ZONING GROUP EX. PECTED TO BE AP- POINTED: REQUESTS FOR CHANGES MANY At the request of the city manager the city commission will take up the question of going over the zoning i and making a complete set of zoning laws. There will be a special meeting next Tuesday night at which a zoning commission is expected ta be~ named. The Zoning. Fi Board will be the city) com! olaed ofthe old 2 of Appeals. Jaw, ‘by many is that the pres- ent zoning law is discriminatory j that the laws should be brought New Equipment Installed:| project. up to date. Advertisements and 15-day in- terval, after which. public hea: - ings will be held to change zoni ordinances, Were unanimously called for by city commission last night in four cases. Paul QO. Ladd wishes to have the zoning ordinance amended to include his residence, which is across the street from Poinciana Grocery in the Poinciana Place Sanitary report is to be attached to the ordinance. Harry Baker requested to change his place at the corner of Varela and United streets from, Residence B. to Business B. Clarence Coleman, at 401 Olivia street, wishes to have his placy changed from. Residence B t Business B. City Clerk Hamlin pointed out that there were ob- jections from residents in th past. Sybil E. McCauley wishes to have her property at the corner of Francis and Southard stret pa Mr: Bstenoz. ommended by him, with the ; exception of ‘that ri Coral City Lodge at,701 Thomas street and another application by | The todge is for colored per- oe Mr. King pointed out that cense would be denying the colored people some- thing which white folks enjoy but | that there might be complaints from nearby residents. He cited | the case of a colored resident, Ga- | iel, who had protested. Com-| issioner Carbonell pointed out} has been the oniy the one protesting the proposed liquo> license. On motion of Commissioner} the Coral €ity Lodge} cure a petition! by the r place in whigh they; yyquld ex- Pp! no objection to the liquor Transfer of - lice from Sam; y Manager Dave King re-| Moss to Mr. Wolfson at 701 Duval! Boston w approved. Tra approved of Estenoz to have and wine license was r use the location w 605 Duval d 100 feet f: tist Church. Ordinance license to Hector Barroso for Hi- Hat Dine and Dance at 609 Duval! permitting stree ing. Ordinances permitting Eugene ant and Pavillion of N Next. above water on water pipeline to Key West’ from 1945-46 of new equipment | in three payments of $11,605. ! weeks, Commander Allen Hoar NOB Public Works Officer said timated at $29,455. Payment of | and water will not be furnished @X ¢ Commission of' license from Tom} Charleston Jens | Hanley to Carlos Gelrich, Harry| Chicago Goldberg and George Curry at] Detr Zion Primtiive Bap-) Kw. liquor | Miami was passed on first read-; New York ' Oklahoma City or license for South Beach | Tampa be made will be Aqueduct | that time. connection. The connection wiil be made fund is expected to show $150,- for the third mile west of Jew- 000 as of March 31, 1947. fish Creek where the new pipe- line is being laid on piling. ending 7:30 a.m. Highest surrounding the; Temperature data for the 24 hours Lowest Station— last 24 hours last night) ment in new equipment is at to the county is $8,500. Temperatures | ment expenditure of $507,724.25. PA°balante of unexpended re- ceipts of $277,255. A carry over changed from Residehce, B to Business B. This is at 609 Frau cis. Marathon Motor Is Overhauleci WILL BE USED IN PUMPING Additions to the plan are es-' quivalent to the city is $18,- 000. Payment of tax equivalent contin | Reserve and es | STATION ON Approval of the budget by R | , W. Beck and Associates is noted eee (eg ee eee The motor which was to have Expenditures were abnormally, | high, the budget not igned ; ger C. A. Van Deursen ith a Diesel Unit Number 12 in- alled for $255,000 which pro-| been placed at Marathon in th pumping station there necessitat ed overhaul since it had been running for three years at F puch pr>"| ida City and NOB Public Work lowatts. Next high-| OrtieerConithatider’ “Allen Hout _| gavé orders to have this’ done This will detay opening of rtually the inv Atlanta 74 | recta vings in main-| Marathob, Spation 4 ahygbs sq - | pected to mean savings in main-| "° 2 50 ' tenance espec’ since older en-! pected ieee “ei af i . Ka 7 Brownsville 80 dines will it ve to be kept in! lion gallo 01 ater Ge -— 75 a etinuous use PrP) Key” West, Commander H 59 | Amount of electricity expected, S4id. 42 !to be consumed will continue to} - Galves 71 |increase Mr. Van Deursen noted UNUSUAL RESULT Jacksonville _ 75 | in the report. ses Karas City 61 | thine ee | | LANSING, Mich. Stapp KEY WEST 78 | j pretty nurse, Patrolman Jame Airport 77 ? | M. Carr gave her a stern lectu \Memphis 73 | ST. PETER'S COMMUNITY HALL or fic"anwers of -jaywadiuns M mae a | Colored - Center St. - Wednesday | ae gave age) re bapateise as = ve | Minneapolis 3 aes 2 | Two weeks later Carr and the ew Orleans | 76 OUR DAILY BREAD” | nurse, Ruth Cooper, applied for 59 \ Lenten Programme a wedding license. ! Norfolk 78 | | | SL RITE We Can Take Care ef Your Car Troubles! Full Stock of CHRYSLER | BRADY’S (Live) Poultry i h Cohe iM. B In the} 23 Line PARTS The original lett to the Board; Cohen and } 3onamy 10. pmarpepemeemerearc e+ qe aE, , : was_ by Ranma Se S. is Baroso, Albury, and Cohen and Vita and Egg Market | 549] Navarro, Ine, “consi Singleton of the Chamber of C Bonamy cases Commissione ATTENTION | eee merce, requesting that the park Harden and Swee' f L $ fie nea : agi be considered. Reply was es Suimnisioners Cooper ' ij a a Louis G. Scoggin of the bo: | and Demeritt voted no. | I Gans cee deaeg Ml geen erg ee ELKS! i The Key West Players 425 Greene street to secure a peei | i al jend wine license was referred ‘| At the regular meeting ! Present i BINGE ons manasa hoes | OBE SPIRIT” ee 125 4 soe rou anster ct liduo” | “7 th;; nomination ofaoffise| | i Your Opportunity to fered to the city manager for n-| ge¢g will be made, and | A FARCE IN THREE ACTS by NOEL COWARD i jyeeceation. | | H THEY WON'T LAST LONG! | you are urged to be pres- OPENING a at 8:00 P.M. i P R OLD CRAIG | | ent. Be there. | Pane, i | POO | Palace Theater | | . SERVICE STATION | a 5 13 H Division and Francis Sts. |, (Ecole) weit P, L. WEATHERFORD | BARN THEATER ! Open Sunday = Phone 9134 | FACES IN THE FOG SecriarysP ER DUVAL STREET ! Al Armengol, Owner News and Serial petaruee: Admission $1.20, Tax Included | SEE - os ’ t | "