The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 19, 1946, Page 1

To Act On Liquor Licenses At Next Tuesday's Session At an abbreviated meeting of | the city commission yesterday sternoen, city fathers entered inte @ discussion of the legal as- peets of granting liquor licenses that must be approved by Octo- ber 1 but decision in the matter Wee postpened until the Septem- Mth meeting, which will be- 8 pm meeting yesterday begun | 6:18 pm. and ended at 6:30; m. Wt was attended by Mayor W. Demeritt, Commis- unter Harden and A. B. “ty Attorney J. Lance- * and Clerk Roy Ham- 102 License Applications Commissioner Cooper made a tmetion that decision on this im- question be postponed due te the absence of two other » motion sah od. ¢ 102 license applica- theme te be acted upon by the ety fathers at next Tuesday's meeting. Forty-four are for liq wor leenses, 48 for beer and wine lhernses, three for wholesale beer end wine licenses, two for whole- wale liquor leenses and five for ; package store hicenses | ‘Will Revoke Some | it & generally known that City | Manager ©. J. S. Ellingson will | feeemmend to the commissioners | the reveking of a number of the liquer license applications on the grounds that the applicant's prop- erty i within 300 feet of a church oF schon! At the gooeting next Tuesday, Rev. & Doherty's delegation and those owners of liquor places whee property igen the borde line of 809 feet of a church or etheel will be in attendance to | air their differences. Desires Appointment A communication from teste! Fleming was read at the | meeting yesterday. Mrs. Flem- } ima requests appointment to the | Cwil Service Bow ed, which now | han theee se the combined resignations of Chair- man Haiph Sierra, Jeff Knight and Mre. Wilhelmina Harvey. Mrs. Fleming stated in her let- | ter to the commission that she has served considerable time as | Monroe county probation officer Commissioner Coover moved Mrs. ‘Wallace To Be SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER BABB BaAaLA D4 Chief of Police Arrests 33 Operators Gambling is back in Key West! Chief of Police Bienvenido Perez has already made 33 arrests, eight yesterday and 25 the day previous. All operators were placed under $25 bond and charged with operating a game of chance. The majority of the operators will fail to appear at municipal court and thus will forfeit their $25 bond. i Sufficient evidence. it is said, has been obtained to present to the judge should any of the operators make a@n appearance in court. These raids will net the city’s treasury approximately $825, Since bolita and other form of gambling resumed operations in Key West a few weeks ago, the raids Tues- day and Wednesday were the first to date, Silent On U.S. Foreign Policy, (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 19.— Secretary of State Henry Wallace is not to make any more speeches about the foreign policy of the | United States while the sessions of the 21 United Nations are be-; ing held in Europe. That is the purport of a report | that followed the conference yes- terday afternoon between Presi- ; dent Truman and Secretary Wal- lace. A speech and a letter issued | by Wallace, in which he advocat- ' a policy of conciliation to- ward Russia, instead of the “get tough” policy pursued by Secre- ‘ tary of State Byrnes, was the cause of the conference between Truman and. Wallace. Wallace's remarks are said to have perturbed Byrnes, who felt | that much of what he had done in Paris in setting up the policy , of the United States toward Rus- sia had been undone by Wallace. Byrnes is still mantaining si- ; lence about the Wallace speech | ' the city ‘tax assessor has placed’ on the indivicual’s property. IN THE UNITED STATES KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1946 $496,852.77 Is Needed To Operate City For — 1946 Calendar Year PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE IS SET AT 24.50, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL OF CITY COMMISSIONERS The estimated amount necessary to operate thé City of Key West for the calendar year January 1, 1946, until December 31, 1946, as computed by City Finance Director-Comptroller Charles Roberts, has been set at $496,852.77, The Citizen learned today. Of this amount, $213,350 will not be included in property taxes as this sum will -be raised in the following. manner: Occupational Licenses _$ 46,000 Auto Inspection 7,500 Bicycle Licenses S 2,800 Fines and Forfeitures - 23,000 Building Permits 2,500 Electrical Permits 1,000 Plumbing Permits bata 1,500 Interest, Delinquent Taxes | i License Penalties Scavenger Service Fees Franchise Taxes Housing Authority (in lieu of taxes) City Election System (tax equivalent, set by bond ordinance) sa ean ak Revenue from Parking Meters —... Recreation Facility Fees Sale of Grave Spaces _ Sewer Service Fees _. Sewer Connection Fees Miscellaneous - 33,000 18,000 2,000 5,000 1,000 12,000 1,200 650 TOTAL— $213,350 $283,512.77 To Be Raised By Taxes The remaining sum of $283,512.77, Mr. Roberts said, will have to be raised by taxes, as follows: NON-EXEMPT—Valuation of $10,492,387 at 19.25 mills, for operation, yielding $201,978.45. AGGREGATE — Valuation, which includes homesteads, of $15,530,347 at 5.25 mills, for debt, yielding $81,534.32. The non-exempt and aggregate totals will yield the desired amount of $283,512.77. The debt requirements of $81,534.32 are figured by Comptroller Roberts on the interest and principal requirements on the 1938 and | 1943 bond issues of $1,530,000, Roberts informed The Citizen he will recoramend to the ' Mr. city commissioners the acceptance of 24.50 mills. This millage rate , is not official until the commissioners approve the amount. Some To Pay Higher Taxes, Some Lower “How much taxes will I pay?” is the interested question of all property holders. .“Will it be-more than last year?” they ask, The answers to those questions will depend on what valuation Tt wilt be necessary for some to pay much more, while others will pay less. If a realty owner has a piece of property that was valued at $1,000 in 1945, he paid on the 1945 millage rate of 37.25, a total of $37.25 in taxes. Now, in 1946, assuming a 100 percent increase in valuation has been made on the same Piece of property, or $2,000, at an as yet unofficial millage rate of 24.50, the amount to be paid by the owner is $49.00— | | Churchill Advocates Org I Of United States Of Europe; A - Speaks Of Terror Of Atomic Arrives At Chapter Ralph Sierra, chairi man of Mon- surplus to do so, and no time lim- ' ree County chapter for the Na-' it for repayment has been set. tional Foundation for Infantile | In last year’s drive, Monroe Paralysis, showed The Citizen a, county was able to raise only $3,- check for $10,000 made out in 400, but Sierra said that “local the name of Charles Smith, Jr., people will, I am sure, show their who is treasurer of the local or-' appreciation when the drive ganization. This is the second starts in January, 1947.” | check for $10,000 that the local; Sierra guessed that the amount chapter has had to borrow irom this year-would be over $10,000. | the National Foundation, of 120; Broadway, New York. ‘has spent, so far this year, the | -Most of this money has al- amount of $12,596.81 for equip-/ ready been obligated. Five thou- ment and care of 40 infantile | sand dollars is owed to the Dade | ralysis patients stricken dur-| County chapter for care of pa- ing the recent epidemic. tients sent there, and at the Na The care of the two palicnta | val Hospital the weekly cost has’ who were transferred to Warm been running in exces of $400. | Springs, Ga., will cost the chap-! All Monroe county persons ter approximately $100 weekly. who were afflicted with the polio; Monroe County Chapter has } are recovering, though some will purchased five hot pack ma- be recuperating for some weeks chines at a cost of $1,788.82. The | longer. {chapter has four nurses, one There are four patients at the physiotherapist, and two order- | local Naval Hospital, six in the lies on its payroll at présent, | Dade County Hospital, and two taking care of the patients at the | patients at Warm Springs, Ga. Naval Hospital. The weekly pay-! The $20,000 that Sierra has roll for this help averages $425.00. ' had to borrow from the National The chapter has recruited during , Foundation has been done on’ the epidemic a total of eleven; most liberal terms. It mnst be nurses, and splendid quarters’ paid back in full, but only when were furnished them at the Naval | the local chapter has sufficient Hospital. 200. Fliers Will Visit. | City In Mass Flight —-W. Key West Junior Chamber of Cammierce at their regular week- | Wy. meeting held at the County + PIPED LL The Monroe County Chapter} *DECLARES BOMB SAFE Second $10,000 Ch , Check | | WITH SECRET IN KEEPING OF UNITED STATES (By Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 19.--PFormer Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill made a 16-minute speech todey in which he advocated the organization of a United States ‘ of Europe to add stability to that area of the world. The speech was delivered Zu- rich, Switzerland, Conditions now in many parts of Europe are deplorable, he de. clared. Instead of peace and plenty there are contention and need. Squalor is rampant ih many areas, and cruelty is still | given a free hand in some places. The first move toward the or | ganization of the United States of Europe, he said, would be | unity between France and Ger- many. Interests of those’ coun- ‘tries are so interrelated, they would profit immeasurably were they united in working: for a goal of common good, Churchill then digressed te speak of the atomic bomb. He lsaid it was a fearful weapon, but that, as long as the seeret of its production is held by the United States alone, the world need not be afraid it will be used in a spirit of conquest. The only way, he added, that the United States would use the bomb would be to fight for right and free- dom. He said furthos 4 a war in which the” atomic bomb is used extensively it will bring an end to civilization and may well disintegrate the world He coneluded by stating shat the United Nations must ihpist on the disarming of, Geritiany, and that she must ndt, be accord abel there is thet the application be filed and; and letter, though associates in- | an increase of $11.75 over the amount the previofs year. | Ctinic Auditorium last night ed an. opportunity to prepare. to it was so ordered j Absent From City The second and final reading of an ordinance extending busi- feaes residential sections was read and passed Commissioner John Carbonell wee out of the city on a two-day | trip end Coamissioner Louis Carbonell had aet returned from | tte viet to New Vork, where he | acrompented his daughter, Mitzie, to school there Wrecked Plane | Sighted by Pilot | South of Gander (fp Aeeertated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 19.—The pilet ef one the many planes | thet hed been searching today fr the Belgium transatlantic aittiner, reported long overdue | yesterday, radioed that he had | sighted the wrecked liner 22 miles south of the Gander, New foundiand airport | He eatd that he had dropped supplies toward the wrecked ship Thies afternoon searching par ties teft Gander for the scene of the wreck Palace a ROY ROGERS in “DON'T FENCE ME | - | IN” timated today that he felt his prestige had been lowered in the world generally. Clerks Take — To Lobby As Painters Work | Nowadays it is not unusual to see clerks in the county court house due to the painting of the interio: of the building. First, Assessor Gandolfo and his staff were driven to the lobby, then County Judge Lord's clerks vacated the:r oifices while paint- ing was going on, and today can- | vas is spread all over the floor of County Clerk Sawyer’s office and ceiling ladders, on which painters are working, stand on the floors. But this is not the only incon- ' venience to which the clerks and their staffs will be subje Later on, desks and other furni- ture will be moved while asphalt tile is being laid over the floors. ATTENTION All Members of ihe V.F.W. Movie and Refreshments at the Regular Meeting TONIGHT Thursday, Sept. 19th Carlton Smith, Chairman ewe ~ DANCING ~- Nightly to the Music of MARK snd ils STANLEY Orchestra Featuring SYLVIA at Piano Best Drinks— Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 j tional licenses for the year Oct. doing work in the lobby, j ed. | The millage rate for 1946 will decrease from 37.25 to 24.50 or a 12.75 millage reduction. However, this has been offset by the in- creased valuation that is in accordance with the approved charter and which will give a more equal distribution of taxes than was the case in the past. ! Budget Must Be Amended ts that exist in some accounts, Mr. Roberts said. He added, that these budgetary amendments will not further increase the anticipated millage of 24.50 as additional revenue, largely due to thigh percentage of delinquent taxes collected and interest accrued from the delinquen taxes, have more than offset the anticipated budgetary amendments. Explains Use Of Past Years’ Commitments ' To answer those questions that will arise on why collections of | 1945 and prior years are being used to pay 1946 commitments, Mr. Roberts explained that this is due to the change in “operating year” in accordance with the charter. The change has been made from a fiscal year basis beginning July 1, 30, 1947, to the calendar year January 1946, through December 31, 1946. This change has made it nece for the city to apply ‘ delinquent tax moneys collected for 1945 and years prior to current operations. 1: z Change Is Impractical, Comptroller States Mr. Roberts declared that the placing of a: nent operations on a calendar year basis from the fiscal year basis was “an imprac- tical change”. The city’s finance director- -comptroller explained that “collections should have also been placed on a calendar basis instead of the fiscal year basis” now used. The part-change has somewhat disrupted the accounting procedure of the = | city, he added, but eventually it will work itself out as though 1945 and previous years’ collections are being used for current operations when 1946 rolls are approved, mean | set and collections begin to roll in. ' Then, Mr, Roberts said, the amount that has ; the past can be, been collected in | floating debt of a, 000 for personnel servi debts, etc. | "FREE! MEMBERS and GUESTS Dance at the CIVILIAN BEACH CLUB Music for Your Dancing and Listening Pleasure FRIDAY -- 9 P.M. TIL ? ed | i | OCCUPATIONAL LIC ; SALE TO START MONDAY, City Tax Collector Archie Rob- | erts stated today that occupa- | 1, 1946, to Sept.-30, 1947, will go on sale at the city tax collector's office Monday, September 23, at 9 o'clock. 1 \"GASA CAYO HUESO | “(The Suuthernmost House) 1400 Duval at South St. DINING ROOM and COCKTAIL LOUNGE ——Opens 5 P.M. Daily: Present budget will have to be amended to take care of the | 1946, to and extending to June | in a way, paid back and become available to retire | | obligations that have been assumed by the city in the amount of a] i | | | L } pound tins Five Suspects In Arson Case Identification of the culprit er culprits who broke into and set fire to the John W. Frow residence at 1124 Wil- liam street became a possi- bility today, it was learned by The Citizen. Identification of the person or persons responsible for the deed may be possible through latent prints found at the scene of the crime. Roy Hamlin, fingerprint ex- pert and director of public safety, secured the latent prints. He aanounced this aft- ernoon that five suspects will shortly be arrested in connec- tion with the burglary and fire at the Frow residence. The fire caused an estimat- ed $3,000 damage. 0 Sd Biscuits From Britain MELBOURNE. by Britain in her drive for ex- port trade, are selling in and Melbourne for the f in nearly seven years, retail at from 90 cents to $1.38 a tin. Chocolate-coated and cream-filled biscuits, plain crackers and ginger fingers are jin the first consignments. hernmost Garage in U.S. TWINS GARAGE 1150 Duval Street Phone 169 Auto Repairs, Painting, Body and Fender Work Genuine Auto Parts for All Cars Kew PIONEER ‘wort 151 N.E. FIRST ST. In the Heart of Miami The Rendezvous &f Key West SERVICEMEN and CIVILIANS “Best For A Night's Rest” 1 Block West of Bus Depot AP) — Lux-|} ury biscuits shipped to Australia: | heard George Faraldo, chairman ! of the Aviation Committee, give |a report on the proposed ‘ | ligt” which is" being held » Rotary Watches | Key West on October and 6.! cout Induction |The flight will consist of mem- tbers of the Florida Air Pilots; ‘ociation, and around 200 fliers} At the weekly Rotary lunch e expected to make the trip.’ eon held this afternoon at St | They will come from all over! paul’s center on Bahama stteet, | the state, meeting in Miami and pro, Ditection Aste: | flying down the Keys togethe had the Rotary Sobus The Jay have volunteered to) too) 52's Scoutmaster Archie furnish the visitors with a char-} potter, Blondel Hancock, acteristic Key West breakfast! \ 4, will relieve Potter when the which will be served at the field.| jitter Jeaves the city in the near After the breakfast an air shoW) future, put on a “skit” showing {is expected to be staged. | the actual ritual of an induction | of 52. The st — pelnnge: the world into war agen. ‘mass yram, *| Cleare, Jr and Holiday Rep. Speaks | John Johnson gave an intere: | ing talk on the publicity beir afforded the city in the October 1 issue of Holiday magazine, a | publication of the Curtis Co. He | | pointed out that publicity of such| nation-wide scope will have a great deal of effect on the city. He mentioned that the bookstand sales of the magazine, normally around 100 copies a month, has at jumped ty 500 thus far and still) 1), the demand is not satisfied. Mr.| yo bon Johnson suggested that copies be} roeate ee sent to out-of-state friends to) er ctinent further publicize the city. Ness 1 ji President Jack . Delaney spoke at length on the loss that the ©! rice | ganization will sustain when Wil- TD CLUB 116 (Connuey on Page Four) |FITZPATRICK & GREENE STS. Opposite Western Union Opens at 6 P.M. JIMMIE at the Piano will Sing Your Favorite Song | | WE ARE OPEN | DAILY and SUNDAY | 7 am. to Midnight | Batteries Charged, Flats Fixed PURE GAS and OIL Mechanic to Serve You POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Al Armengo!, Owner ee at Francis Phone 9134 Troop was into who scout out ; 1ed Ralph Esteve: eiace sponsorship by yal Ro tary Club 10 years ago, 160 boys have joined the troop. The beach bond which the Rotary Club originally spon sored which has recently been in the courts, has inow become a reality. The 4 committee of Earl Adams flodge nd Clem Price re rinted to aid the rs in its fur a issu and upheld mmission€ M ted Ww rimar singir WHERE TO DANC | AR i A IB it The Public Cordially Invited to DANCE EVERY FRIDAY and SATURDAY NIGHTS to the MUSIC of JOHN PRITCHARD and HIS ORCHESTRA From 9 P.M. °Til 1 A.M. at the VEW Clubhouse | FLAGLER AVE. and 2ND ST. || Poinciana Bus Passes Door | Open Monday thru Saturday No Admission, Cover or Minimum