The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 4, 1946, Page 4

Explains Problems to realize is that bas-| What is left. “4 Naturally, I try to sthedule | She gems «and =~ baseball! |@ames on the weekends, but I er we eheduled §=months) have been in a position where I A treme | have to take what I can get. @ the whedules are’ If we had been able to have ‘& at the coeches meeting 20 basketball games I'm sure K. ” , hd over full) W. would have had a much more at K. W. ii. experienced basketball team. But I was faced with a financial | | red this year. vansidera-| During my stay at K. W. I © from) have had no complaints from! parents of basketball or baseball players. My practie¢ sessions have been: play! arranged so every boy arrives im time for evening meals. 'e have had no night practices. 1 hope everyone understands « problems and hereafter inquiries before ping at conclusions. | game series last week However, Miami the weekend they began practicing yesterday Miami San afternoon at Municipal Stadiun Piamingoes for the upstate clashes but were | sit stoyped by Roy Hamlin, Stadium Committee ‘thember, who claimed te Reidere had not made ar- the Raiders were then forced to prac- ‘The tice temporarily at Bayview Park but it is impossible to hotd bat- the a ;“ne practice there. The loc; will hold ir final at tees the Miaiu,) the out will be given a work- 7.1 the preeed- befope th Light exercises will be held mbark for Miami to- Mbrfow night. be @P against!) Arrangements will be made in o® the road the future with the Stadium Com- they will| mittee for use of the field when im beth of the Raiders are stheduled for a |road. trip so that Mr. Hamlin wiil Souple of days’ | not have a monopoly on the only @eeep of « thre» | baseball park Key West claims. St amt st Time In Race By PEDRO AGUILAR © collection of sports charged from the Marine Corps will joim Mnaager Mel Ott’s ’ although it finished seventh. League Sea Gypsy made a record for thc rec- co ye gr eiad with am was In Baseball Cayo Hueso }™May soon see some very gocd gemes with teams from Miami Tampa and other Florida citi-s. When the ferries start operating between here and Havana, we wil! also see some of the best Cuban mond. | 1 believe baseball will come tack to Key West, for we have Nard towards this ane of the best baseball towns in See 8 lene thee and now its Plorida and with good baseball wat 4 we will have the stadium packed that we every game. tres In Second Slot Of Batting Li For Tampa By PEDRO AGUILAR Smokers will play oa Key West's Danny Lastres has With the Lakeland been brought up to second slot in om LT #m |the batting order in place of the ® seventh position he has been bat- Grameti has already ting Palm Beach Indians, Miami Sun yal Sox and the Miami Beach Fla- ona mingoes, along with the Havana Seat en u,v, nat wel NEW OVERSEAS BRIDGE GROUP Coach Reveals Diffieulty In Booking Miami Basebal! Tilts By COACH HOFFMEISTER In order to be eligible for the! Both games were very well state tourney we must compete in, pitched. The Lauderdale game} 10 games. We have been’ able to| saw Meador strike out. 15, only schedule only 5 and Ponce dé to suffer defeat becausé of our) Leon, Andrew Jackson, Miami,} error and “home town” umpires. Miami Edison, Miami Beach all; In Redland, O. Cruz did a good Our record to date is I win and ‘ 2 losses. Both of our losses were, *8@inst 11 men. g | extra innings affairs. The first} Our next home game will be: to Lauderdale 3-2 in 12 innings! April 30 against Redland at the and the second to Redland 7-6! Stadium. Gamé time, 3 p.m. See) in eight, you there. ees ee: Oa don in i ani nba inn an hanced nnn anni inn nnn nina | * B. M. Dunean Named On Board Of Engineers For Road * * x * * * NAMED: HAD FIVE MEMBERS 9 BABAEBBEAEHDBAAMBAAAAA4EABAABBAAABBD DLL hola (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is | “Resolved that the general the fifth in a series of articles | manager be, and that he is here- tracing the history of thé | by vested with full and com- plete authority and there is here- by vested. with full and-gomplete authority and there is hereby de- | legated to: him the performance — | of the folowing duties and pow- A month’s delay ensued; then’ ers, namely: the members of the Toll Bridge} “Said general. manager shall | Commission were named by Gov-| take all needful and necessary ernor Sholtz. They: were Norberg | steps to determine the cost of the Thompson, Leo Warren, Faus-jconstruction of the toll bridges tino Rendueles, Key West; and toll highwayse contempiated Frank B. Shutte, R. D. Freeman,! to be built and constructed to Miami. Later Mr. Thompson was’ commence and: institute negotia- compelled by business to resign tions with all state and United and his place was filied by Char-. States employees. and authorities! les R. Roberts. _ and or any other source seékirg Seal Is Adopted {a loan for the purpose of defray- The new commission met and ing the cost of such project; to adopted a seal in the following institute and negotiate with the resolution: “Resolved that the federal emergency administration seal of the District shall be cir-| of Public Works and all agents, cular in form and bear the fol-; employees, officials, and persons’ lowing _words, viz: ‘Overseas acting under and by authority of Road and Toll Bridge District, a’ said government agency for Political Subdivision of Florida,' grant under the act of congress! | seal, 1933.’ and that the impress-| entitled “National Recovery Act” ion seal now submitted to the jn aid of financing of said pro- Board be and hereby is adopted, are booked up. | job but again we were playing), | commission rangements for use of the field. | and the secretary is directed to impress same on thé margin of the page, in the minute book ed.” Thereupon the following res- olution was unanimously adopt- ed: “That the board met reguls days of each and every month at one o’clock ‘in the afternoon at the headquarters of the district.” It was further “RESOLVED that special meetings of the Board may be held on call of the chair- man, or vice-chairman upon 4& hours notice thereof beihg given by mail to the members of. the Boatd.” Mr. Thompson. the chair- man then directed that the ad- ‘dresses of the members be sup- plied. Thereupon the following ou . addresses were supbiled, and ap- Back To Florida; = 0 0) Frank B. Shutts, 1438 S. Bay Shore Drive, Miami; Fla. R. D. Freeman,20 N.W. 47th Terrace, Miami, Florida, Faustino Rendueles, 416 Flem- ing street, Key West, Fla. Leo H. Warren, 412 Elizabeth street, Key West, rte Norbert Thompson, 1919 Duval street, Key West, Florida, Further Resolutions The following resolution was i adopted: “Resolved, that no. 9 ensa- tion ‘be paid thé généra “Tanger, ard.” ; aa The following resolution was unanimously adopted: ¢ “Resolved, that the district proceed with the building of toll ject; to make, execute and deliv- er all documents, contracts and other papers. touching the sub- ject .matter of his powets and where, this resolution is record- generally. to do and perform any.} bringing about this particular ac- ‘and all things which may be ne- |} cessary or needful angus conferred on a general: manager" -'not ihconsistent with the terms! by and Mt. Porter telgraphed ly on the first and third Mon-' of the act of the legislature of] back, or om returning to the city, Florida creating this district.” Regarding Loan The following resolution was unanimously adopted: “Resolved that the officers of this district shall forthwith pre-| pare, execute and file an appli- cation for a loah and grant ad- dressed to the federal emergency administration of Public Works for thé purpose of atquiring funds to build the toll bridges pand toll highways to be construc- ted by the district and that the secretary do attest any and all documents, including said appli- cation and affix the seal of the district thereto”. Mr. Porter returned to Wash- ington upon the completion of these actions by the board to join there Mr. Shutts and Attorney H. H. Taylor who were in that city on matters of vital importance to the bridge proposition. Thereafter for’ months on end the battle continued to the very doors of the White House to se- gure funds with. which to build the long bridges and the neces: fills; and this fight was. x0-| his totes as ever’ when! ‘something else happened. WORLD WAR VETERANS COME On the Sunday previous to the Fourth of July in 1934, Gov. Dave bridges and toll Megeeeye to tions of Overseas Highway U. S.| ministrator Julius F. Stone, Jr., route and location as described} confer with the officials of city in the MacDonald plan and under} and county whose backs had been the plars and specifications as} figuratively thrust against the prepared by B. M. Duncan, Er-}wall of bankruptcy. Those leaders nest Cotton and P. L. Wilson, en-} came to the Island City because complete the uncompleted sec-} Sholtz and Federal Relief Ad-|” ; No. 1, State Road No. 4-A on the! of Florida went to Key West to} ro: amateur teams on the local dia- | gineers ‘and which said plans were filed by the Overseas Bridge Corporation with the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corporation, and further, “Resolved, that B. M. Duncan, | Ernest Cotton and P. L. Wilson | are hereby designated and named as a board of engineers to serve the district in any and all mat- ters which may be expedient or necesary in ‘order to carry out the project and bring about the construction and completion oi said toll bridges and toll highways. Said engineers to serve without pay until further order of the board.” Pertaining To Manager The following resolution was unanimously adopted: Cubans, are ready to open the many local fais who say they wil be there, especially when Danny | declared a national monument. It} fri? comes with his Smoker team- mates. Yours truly will be one of the first to make the trip. the authorities there had asked for a New Deal. The city and county were turned over to the; Governor who asked to adminis-| ter for the situation as he saw Administrator Stone determined the Federal Government should} rehabilitate Key West. The ob-{ jective was a resort city second | to none in the country. A thorough renovation was planned and begun without de-| lay. Money poured in the relief work which was aimed to make the Island City more attractive, for tourists. And just about this} time another wrath arose and re- ality—for the bridge proponents. Veterans Besiege Capital | |} under the siege of hundreds of} to the World War veterans out of a job.} league and when some of the} A short while before Fort Jef-| Apri boys play in Miami there are/ferson on the Dry Tortugas, 63| #!!<# miles west of Key West, had been was an historical wreck filled) with rubbish and ste@pdd in, gloom. The Veterans reached Jacksonvile from Washington on: fit; Advising with Gov. Sholtz,| ‘ ’ Mrs. Julia A.’ Knowles was} granted a widow’s exemption in the paynient of taxes at the city meeting Tuesday night. = Attorney Caro pleaded Mrs. Knowles’ case before the city. the understanding they were to be transhipped to Fort Jefferson to. rehabilitate the ancient fort- res and fet it into an appearance of respectabilitiy that at least re- sembled what a National Monu- ment under the Department of the Intexior should be. The cought body, “Why not get. material and! machinery dgwn on the. upper Keys and stat something in the way of fills and bridges for the Oyerseas;Highway? Jgt.the lacks) sonville »x-war veterans do the work.” «Phe ag was \spéedily adopted, railreatl spurs: were laid, bunkhouses built like cabins in a hastily playned army canton- ment, and uipment and sup- plies moved itt by train and truck. Things Were looking’ up, with the fight for funds all the time waxing hot at the National Capital, | Quite a settlemeritt grew up around the Lower Matecumbe ferr yslip and a few miles further North or the Key, all to the northeast of the Florida East Coast railway extension. Drag- lines and dynamite worked the mar! fron? the bottom of the shal- low waters below the ferry slip, and what: wag said to be a start at bridgé ‘abutments heading to} a_point of survey southward tow- ard Long Key began to rise in the waterscape for several miles. The exnenditure of this money { tivitiy aroused the flagging en- thusiasm »f Key Westers who had begun to see red as the days went. reported, no progress with the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tior as to securing funds for bridges and fills as planned. came to some- head wi 45 words or Jess is 30¢. LUMA geste TELEPHONE OPERATORS WAGE INCREASE Learners now earn a mini- mum of $32.50 per week for 48 hours work Wage rates for experienced operators are proportion- ately higher Frequent. increases, addi- Sunday ‘and holiday w tional payment for eveni t MANY OTHER.» ADVANTAGES 4, Let our Chief Operator, .. Mrs. McDermott, tell you the whole story « Apply 9 to 5 at the TELEPHONE OFFICE apri-tf} St. Greatly increased wages fort clerks and messengers. Pleasant.work- 2 - ing conditions. Apply Western april -tf FOR ARMORED FORCE VETS | Unusual opportunity for men with | previous service in an armored! including. serv ce Union. force unit, willbe inserted in The|, fitzen atthe rate of 2e @ ward minimum charge for the first less : Pe ee ba invariably in ment have th adve Te Detective stories, fothances;, os Six, station - faphies ,all the best new books, Gretna sitet or Shane Sie some for Se per day, many -for apr” only 10¢ for a'whole week. Paul | ————$—$—$____. Smith, , cor. 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