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

VOLUME LXVIIL. No. 186 County's Tentative Budget May Be ‘Pared Down’ When Commission Meets Tonight TAXPAYER DECLARES * ONLY WAY TOLOWER Six Local Girls TAXES IS TO MERGE aes cary anp counry | Are Interviewed For Nurse Class County commissioners will hold © meeting tonight to consider the! wdoption of a budget, based on a} Six Key West girls who plan tentetive budget, totaling $343,- © enter the nurses training @01, the highest in the history school at Jackson Memorial Hos- a pated pital as student nurses in the Monroe 4 class were interviewed by Miss Geneva Sim- (Sept. 11 Se fer as The Citizen could Monday of student activities for the school at Ameri- leerm today, the commissioners Mons, RN, director ere keenly aware of the taxation can Red C: head ee uns be ed Cross headquarters here, involved: were we, The girls, who were interview- teytiget as high as the tentative eq at half-hour intervals, includ- tedget, and one of them remark- ed the Misses Barbara Johnson, e@ that he thought the amount Joan Tallon, Carmen Reyes, Mary would have to be “pared down.” Nacsa Bertha Perez and Gloria Commenting on that “pared | Appointments for the prospec- own", one of the city’s largest tive students had been arranged taxpayers said: ‘by Miss Sue Holmes, executive 1 commend the county com- secretary of the local Red Cross timtoners for their ambiton .to chapter, which with other South eequire the municipal hospital, -Florida Red Cross chapters from the county clinic and the pro-| Fort Lauderdale to Key West has posed construction of a wharf} been conducting an_ intensive for yachts and charter botas, but, | campaign to recruit at least 40 were those proposals put into! student nurses for the school by effeet, what would they mean} august 7, to ue taxpayers. in Monroe/ “Applications for admission to! county? z | the school's September class will | First, let us consider the hos-/ pe accepted through Wednesday,” i pital. If it meant only its acquisi-| Miss Simmons said. “We will! tiem for $50,000; it would be an} hold elasess in February and exeelient stroke of business for! September of 1947, however, and the commissioners. But how (those girls interested in entering! shout its maintenance and oper-) training in either of these may! @tien, which cost from $80,000 to. make application at any time,” $90,000 a years As the hospital|-sho said. i euthorities will tell you, at no! Further details on becoming a time, since twas opened, has! student nurse may. be outed the % income, including | from: Miss: Holmes at ‘Red “Cross thee and’ yh éadquarters here. = Pee aga the iy, been anywhere near | ae eee sepia exten Every Sal | D li Sbuapinie teary treesands of| SOX euNquent |” List Published . PWhid «will pay. thos if Ahe county acquires | tal? The taxpayers | A tax délinguent ligt. for 1945) same thing applies fo the | and. prior years prepared: by City and the proposed wharf—j ax “Collector Archie Roberts = a for property owners | was published in The Citizen yes- Miat b's tee fratik and consid. | (ree an Mal of Guse projects in, their proper | Publication of the list marks light. They are essentially city | the first time in fifteen years this | projects, and why should the | has been done. The municipal | texpayers elsewhere in the! jay making publication of delin-; county pay for them? | quent lists mandatory was abol-! “Phe only way out I see to’ ished in 1931 by action of Rep. ase the burdensome taxation in| wijiiam V. Albury after the city pa Ry Dll eee cily. on | lagged far benind in its publica- ” | tion payments. i The Citizen for a quarter of a) With the economic resurgence century. Let's take a look at the | of the city concomitant with the eity. Until recent years, the may- | war years, the city commission ®, the tax collector, the tax as-| recently made mandatory again | yo beg poucigla in | publication of tax delinquent clerk and other hea of depart- | lists. ments did their own work. And) ‘There are 1,115 parcels delin- what have we there now? Secre- | quent, Amount of taxes involved teries and more secretaries. | totals: $172,728.48. Tax. certifica- Gemebody may say that the busi-/ tes on the property -will be sold ess bly os hoe J an aleagl Skat by Roberta ot pete auction Aug. but that ts nol e case. en | 28 oO! e Ci ‘all steps. Key West had a population of rusay ny 2 more than 24,000 the heads of departments did their own work. | Naturally, that brings to mind | this question, Why don’t they do All committees working on* it now? | the Labor Day program will meet i don’t want to be too critical, | Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock but it seems to me that in the’ in the City Hall to make reports city it is considered a major | and discuss plans for the cele- | poliey to create more and higher- bration, Dwight Hunter, Director Were the county and|of Public Welfare, announced to- we could do away} day. All committee members are | d to be present, Mr. Hunter: the Labor Day Committees Will Meet Wednesday paid jobs. city merged, with all city employes except) urge thowe in the fire department, the | said. police department and the scav-| enger department, thereby sav-} ing tens of thousands of dollars im w@laries over the period of a year DATE AO ELEC: LCE CASA CAYO HUESO | (The Southernmost House) | 1400 Duval at South St. “As The Citizen recently re- DINING ROOM and sarked, we no longer have lush COCKTAIL LOUNGE times in Key West. Business has | ____Opens: 5 P.M.» Daily: fallen off, which means smaller SME RLS NS STEERS BUSY BEE imeomes generally, and yet the | taxes ave going up and up and | up. The only way I can see to} is to} his. suggestion..inthe-interest_ of | be published | t Verbal Shots Between Byrnes And Molotov (By Associated Press) PARIS, Aug. 6. — James F. Byrnes, secretary of state of the United States, and Foreign Com-' missar Molotov of Russia ar-| raigned each other speeches today. Byrnes was the first to speak. He said that Molotov tried to get the Big Four to agree on a chair- man, whose name would be sub- in fiery mitted to the 21 nations when| they assembled, and Byrnes re- | Plied that he favored the nations choosing their own chairman. He added that Molotov advo- ted the council of Big Four’s dictating the procedure that would govern the assembly in the consideration of various matters, and that he, Byrnes, favored the assembly's: deciding on the pro- cedure. Byrnes then pointed out that whatever Molotov would say in reply to his statement would be: published in the newspapers of | the United States, for “we have.a| free press”, and asked if papers; in Russia would quote him when} he explained how this country helped Russia in her. adversity. Molotov replied that the U. S. | may have free press, but that an} American paper he held in his hand did not report’ his speech of two days ago, but did con- tain a sharp criticism of h speech, He added that, contrary to Byrnes’ charge about the pro- cedure of the assembly, he made! cat precision, not restriction. Lynchings In Georgia Arouse Washingtonians SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED ST. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1946 Disputed: Issues Take Tonight At is set, the issués drawn, and the fireworks ready | to, go off tonight at 8 o'clock! when the City Commission meets midst an atmospnere of public petitions, resigna- spontaneous tions, and hotly disputed inter- ' pretations of the City Charter. Latest question to disturb pub- lie opinion centers around the ap- : pointment last night of City Clerk ! Roy Hamlin as Director of Public + Safety by Acting City Manager W. W. Demeritt, following yesier- day’s resignation from that post ‘ot City Commissioner Albert ; Cooper. lf Mayor Demeritt’s appoint- ;ment as Acting City Manager is | {proved inconsistent with City | | Charter provisions tonight, will: his appointment of Hamlin also | be invalid, citizens are asking. | A petition circulated through j the city yesterday calling on city j comntissioners to rescind their ac- tion in naming Mayor Demeritt as Acting City Manager and call- ing upon Commissioner Cooper \to resign as acting Director of | Public Safety. Cooper resigned |the temporary post as a result. The petition was reported to be sponsored by the Charter Group, an organization which drafted the present City Charter. Attor- ney John G. Sawyer, who was re- tained by the Charter Group td present the petition to city com- mi resignation would not st sentation of the petition, lop pre- fecha ing his clients believed ‘Mayor Demeritt could not legally be | Acting City Manager. Discussions Hall tk around the. City morning also ineluded quer s to whether or not the City Clerk, under weight of duties that included election registration officer, clerk of the Municipal Court, and recorder of commis- sion proceedings, in addition to many other tasks, could ade- quately assume the duties of an- other department. British In (Ry Associated Press) LONDON, Aug. 6.—The. British (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Fif- »n thousand whites and negroe paraded last night down Consti tution avenue in protest against the recent lynching of four neg- | roes in Georgia. | The crowd stopped at the Lin- | coln memorial, where a mass; meeting. was held. Several speakers accused Gov- ernor-elect Talmadge of Georgia; and Senator Bilbo and Represen- | tative Rankin of Mississippi of | being rabble rousers, and men-} tioned their names frequently in} connection with the lynchings. New Polio Case Reported Today Dr. James Parramore, county health officer, reported the s ond case of polio within thir | | | days today with admission to the } polio ward at the Naval Hospital of a chief petty officer, 33, who resides at the Naval Air Station housing project. 8 A 25-year-old expectant moth- er was admitted to the Naval Hos- pital Sunday with polio. Wife of a Navy enlisted man residing in the Naval Air Station housing project, she was the first case re- ported from that section of the city. DANCE | Tomorrow and EVERY WEDNESDAY. FRIDAY and SATURDAY NITES To the MUSIC of JOHN PRITCHARD and His Orchestra « 9 P. M. Until “?” The Public Cordially Invited V.F.W. CLUBHOUSE | make them come down rity count; jov- merge the city and y & BAKERY eonpents ad 900 Francis Street = ! PHONE 120 Ty es Se Announce Their 1908 Elize Street Phone 243 | OPENING Also at ond Foning Sts. | Friday, August 9th wee itcased CHICKENS | STORE HOURS FRESH EGGS | Week Days .. 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Sundays 8 A.M. to 1 P.M. Flagler Avenue and 2nd Street Poinciana Bus Passes Door Open Monday Through Saturday, NO ADMISSION - COVER or MINIMUM (cabinet is in a quandry about! Palestine. The government ad- | mitted today that it is consider-! ing giving up the Palestine man- date. It was announced that the cab- inet would withdraw its proposal to have 100,000 Jews from var- ious parts of Europe enter Pales- tine. The suggestion to create two zones in that country, one for Jews and the other for Arabs, was opposed by leaders of each of those rac mn Two Reg For Election In November “How many registered yester- day?” John England, supervisor of registration, was asked today | by a Citizen reporter. | “Two,” Mr. England replied. | Which was in keeping with a {story in last Saturday’s Citizen | about the opening of the registra- | tion books on August 5, when it as remarked that the registra- tion would be light, as there is no contest in the general election. The books will remain open ister till October 12 for the election on; | Nov ember 5. Residents who qual- ified for the primary do not have to re-register. “fil 0 ——y The stage ioners tonight, said Cooper's | Quandary Over | Palestine} Genuine General Motors FACTORY ENGINEERED PARTS | All Makes | @ Chevrolet @ Buick | STANDARD $19 | @ Oldsmobile @ Pontiac MACHINES... MULBERG CHEVROLET CO. Phone Corner New and Caroline Streets ATES | Car Total Loss In Which Navy Cobs Crashed W. J. Putcamp of the Puteamp- ‘ Alexander car rental service told | ; The Citizen today that the auf ‘mobile in which one sailor was killed and another seriously in- ‘jured when it crashed near Rock Harbor late Saturday night is a } total loss. Warning Is Given _ On Unauthoriz and went to the scene of the ac-} ‘ net Ralph Sierra, chairman. of the ciden " 2 be pe boy eas foe if ik could, {local chapter of the National | He said that three automobiles | Foundation of Tofankile Paralyals, were involved in the aceident | Stated today that it had-come to which killed Motor Machinist's | his attention that local Boy Mate Robert D. Mundy and se-| Scouts in the Poinciana area are jxiously injured Ship’s Cook W. J.| Soliciting funds for the Infantile | Jérdan. cel paralysis foundation in a door-to- At the time of the accident, Mr. ' Putcamp said, both sailors were | a “whale of a collection” was be- taken to the Dade Count Hos-} ing made. Mra Sierra urges that pital at Miami, but Jordan has | this unauthorized collection, since been moved to the Navy! which is a direct violation of the , Hospital at Opa Locka. Mr. Put- by-laws of the Foundation be! camp said he tried to visit the! stopped immediately, and if pos-! sailor yesterday but his condition ; sible money collected by, returned is too critical to permit visitors. | {9 the individuals contributing Attendants at the hospital, Mr, | same. Putcamp said, told him that Jor=| One Yearly Collection dan suffering from severe} js & head injuries, and while ‘his con-| There is oniy one collection dition is regarded as serious he ig | Sanctioned by the Foundation to believed to be out of the danger} be made yearly. These “petty stage. ! drives” must stop, emphasized I ES ERNST: Te | Mr. Sierra, and added that if L cies v4 | there are any ae, a in Key West at any time, ‘to no- ate Bulletins tify the local chapter and if they (By Associated Press) are in need of any aid, financially } or medically, the aid will be granted. | | 20 ITALIANS KILLED ROME.—Twenty persons wore. Killed and more than 109 injured | in riots today between police and : farmers near Salerno, ‘Overseas Bridge. Tolls Continue™ | To Be Greater Monthly collection of tolls on lihe Overseas bridges continues /to | be Jarger than the receipts for the 5 same month last year, Near = ‘to a statement received today by ; MAY RESUME DRAFT = [ino Citizen from Auditor Clif. | WASHINGTON. — The warjford G. Hicks. Tolls collecied Department announced today} jast month were in excess of $4,- that so few Americans are en- 900 for July of 1945, listing in the army, despite the Receipts last month totalled 50 percent increase in wages, the 50, and in July of last draft may be resumed on Sep-/y 75. \ tember 1. Only 2,500 of the re- s last month totaled ; quired 25.000 are enlisting , and in July of last year, monthly, the depariment stated. | . i | Reason for the advance in col- OVERCHARGED, jJection is in, the number of motor | \vehicles that passed over the i NASEENSTON, Senator idges in July of last year and | Glenn Taylor of Idaho said today! j),5- your, ‘The latter totaled 13, that he had obtained information 2 ee compared with 8,439 in! | showing that tho government was July of 1945. | overcharged for freight on many, | Sccasions during the war. | INpeentinsi he ie ess Sgt. Boykin To Serve | As Acting Lieutenant! Police Chief Bienvenido Perez} announced today that he had ap-} pointed Sgt. Henry B. Boykin as | acting lieutenant to fill in for Lt. Joseph Kemp who on Monday started a 15-day vacation. Patrol- | ;man Eugene Hernandez ill} ‘serve as acting sergeant in Bo | kin’s place, Chief Perez said. FIRE ON MARINES CHUNGKING., — Another truckload of Marines were fired H on by snipers today. Commander of marine forces said that when- éver the marines are attacked, they will shoot back. i] ! | 1 i i i BUSINESS DRIES UP CAPETOWN. — (AP) — South Africa’s dehydration industry, which supplied dehydrated vege- tables and soup mixtures to the navy during the war, may have | to close down. The factories were mainly supported by large orders from the British Admiralty, now ended. PALACE THEATER KENT TAYLOR in “SMOOTH AS SILK” News and Serial TONIGHT 1S PRIZE NITE Typewriter Cleaning Prices Reduced |PORTABLE v7 ‘MACHINES... Prompt Service 377 Inspiring news for employes in the Navy Yard and Key Westers generally came from Washington yesterday in a telegram: from | Senator Claude Pepper to Representative Bernie C. Papy, in which | Admiral A. G. Noble was quoted as declaring that the naval base door canvas. He hac heard that) " Maiitiarity \ with navy ; | West base. jher with a stick of stove wood: | as serious. —-®here will be maintained in a “fully operational status”. When a rumor spread over Key West a few weeks ago that. the navy yard would be returned to a care-taking basis, Mr. Papy im- | mediately contacted Senator Pep- per, explaining in detail the re- port. Mr, Papy talked to Senator Pepper ovér the telephone, and sent him telegrams and_ letters, requesting him to take ‘up the matter with the Navy Depart- ment. As a result, Mr, Papy. xe- ceived the following telegram: © © “The following letter, signed by- Admiral A. G. Noble, Bureau of Operations, today, has just been. read to me over the telephone.’ Quote. Immediately after your — telephone call concerning the ai leged closing of the naval base’ at Key West, Florida, the entite Key. West naval base situation _ was investigated. ie “Present plan calls for main- tenance of this base in a fully: operational status, Gs ae “The Bureau of. Ships advises that necessary funds will be made available for carrying ‘on commensurate with the base, sion and post-war requiren of this port. ns “The concern of Key West em- ployees is appreciated and. it is’ believed that the misunde: 4 ing “has {been, caused by. ee rangenients. “Reduction af na’ activity. from, Me Si; peare-time stalus-wilk faturaly call for.som eduction in personnel at the Key But there are no plans. to close the base or to stop ship repair and maintenance work and no. large scale reduction in present employment level is con- templated. Unquote.” Woman Is Treated For Sealp Wound Hazel McGee,. 25 - year - old Negro, of 805 Baptist Lane, was admitted to Municipal Hospital at midnight last night suffering from a scalp wound said to have been caused when a friend hit Several stitches were required to close the wound, hospital at+ tendants said, but the condition of the woman was not regarded fter receiving the first aid treaiment, Miss McGee was per- mitted to return to her home. She was taken to the hospital by Patrolman Eugene Sanchéz. No arrest has yet been made in the case. We Have a Thoroughly Experienced Automotive MECHANIC TO SERVE YOU Batteries Charged, Flats Fixed PURE GAS and OIL POOR OLD CRAIG Service Station AL ARMENGOL, Owner Division at Francis Phone 8134 RAUL’S. on the BOULEVARD -- DANCING ~ Nightly to the Music of (CRUNCH) MARK “ana His STANLEY Orchestra Featuring SYLVIA at Piano Best Drinks— TYPEWRITER JONES 213 ANN ST. PHONE 580 Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287