The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 10, 1946, Page 3

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1946 COVERING THE WATERFRONT wih “Old Man” Green, local resi-} or and Navy worker; piscatori-! name when you took it over?) pont aga of Neptune, The Citizen reporter queried, sit- tr of the Sea; part-time [a with him in the cockpit. f “Why didn’t you change the} waterfront reporter for the Key] A rare grin puckered - West Citizen, was handed his® bell’s mouth. A tonne Pie walking papers at the Sub Buse! in his eyes. Soberly, he answer- last Wednesday morning, with} ed: “That name is much milder nouligible ceremony. jthan what my own wife called | ‘Serry,” said the bearer of the zene boat when she saw it.” 4 sod news, “This is it, Effective; Tenderly caressing his boy Dee, 27th.” No serious repercussions of in- ternational nature are expected “Tommy” Jr., he sat and talked! of the pleasures of exploring the Lower Keys in the much abused to ‘develop as a result of’ the: “Ha-Ha.” He came down from Al- Navy's action, it was learned '&bama nearly five years ago. Here | later from high authority. _in Key West he hopes to stay. | Extensive repairs to the ola Writer Marjorie Candel’s Gulf fishing pier are planned by ! Story of her cruise on the “Mar- the Standard Oil Company oft Vel” in the November edition of Kentucky as soon as materials “Motor Boating”, entitled “In the are available, the local manager e of the Buccaneers”, in- of the company, E. E. Russel) cludes an account of a pleasur- edld. pottly. jable trip on the bottom-fishing j boat “Greyhound” with Captain } Mr. Frank Stick, famous ar-' McCloud and Tommy Lones, tist, sculptor, writer and enthu-{ around Key West. She writes: | siastic sport fisherman, who is!’ “Strolling down Key West's | wintering in Key West and cur- Duval Street, I found myself \ rently working on a series pf re- coming to the harbor and the j alisti¢ paintings of Key West fish, | Gulf docks. I went abord the | is constantly being distracted by ;50-foot cruiser Greyhound, once | nvissing a chance to capture a used as a ferry at West Palm | particular snook he has set his Beach, but now operated by Cap-| heart on, to include in the series, | tain Carl McCloud, an ex-Naval | snook idling amid rocks near a bridge above Boca Chica. Just as ; often has he found himself at. Often enough has he seen nels dey ab as a fishing craft. | the time unequipped to lure him ae onto a hook. { “TU get that little (tch, tch!)1 yet if I have to harpoon him!”! he muttered half aloud last Sat-| urday morning, on finding the snook not at home, this time, he had the needful tackle with him to lure his elusive subject. Tall, curly-haired nature lov- ing M, M. McDonald who holds’ an important Public Works posi- tion at the Navy’s Boca Chica alr field, and who was largely responsible for the beautification of the installations there, says that if local civic governments | wil provide for the expense of} ot and D.D.T., the Navy will! gladly furnish planes and pilots | © to spray the lower Keys in the! federal effort to control mosqui-/ tos, ‘ The serious, Key loving Mc-. Donald and his equally nature- loving wife, who. are also custo- dians of temporarily: abandoned Turner estate at Perky, Flordia, filteen and a half miles up the Keys from Key West are experi- menting with tomato growing on a elearing at Pirates’ Cove, when they are not out sport fishing. Says Red Maxwell, skipper of the “Heidi-Ho” here; “Captured fish spoil faster when exposed to moonlight, than they do in sun- light.” Tall, friendly Thomas H. Camp- bell, Quarterman of Shop 38 at the Sub Base here, readily ex- «lt why the curious name " had been chosen for the name of his 20-foot cabin “Sun- day fishing boat, it seems, on eeing the boat for the first time, burst out laughing. The boat was duly christened in accord- ance with the lady’s amused re- action plai I “A day aboard the Greyhound | took us closer to many of the | the boys that star in more than Keys than the “Marvel”, with her six feet draft could have carried mutton fish, red snappers, six sharks, a few dozen groupers, yellowtails and grunts, and a terrifie sunburn. “A scarlet disk in an emer- ald sea gave me a chance to get a Kodachrome picture of a Key West sunset.” 7 | beseewweld and baseball; Lewin, “We brought back some fine | softball and basketball; R. Bar- SF are: James L. Cartwright, of Jacksonville; Commissiioner of Agriculture Nathan Mayo; Braden . Saxton Lloyd, of Day- Ball, of Pensacola; Roy C. Beckman, of Tallahassee, director (standing); tona Beach, vice chairman; James T. Larimore, of Miami; Perry Marsh, of St. Petersburg; and Secretary of State R. A. Gray. tion of the commission's advertising and publicity; program at the Cocoanut Grove Theater. bn hh hb bo bo bn hh i i i fa FOLLOWING THROUGH PEDRO AGUILAR AQAAABAAAASAASALLSD Going through the records I noticed that I missed some of one sport in the city. Some of them are Joe Fleitas, softball, ber and Richard Barber, who starred in softball and basketball; Osterhoudt, the “one and only” who is a crack at softball and a double crack at basket ball; O.! Cruz is good at b&seball, soft- ball and basket ball,, and Eg- gie Kerr, who is good at} “Never under-rate a stranger,” is a wise old adage, “As you know not what or who he might, be.” At least one mmeber of an auto fishing party at Harris via- | ball so far in the Men’s Class A | duct on Sunday had not heard} league are of it, or knew not the wisdom | f it. Seeing another car stop off the highway and two men emerge to look over the fishing that was that it was useless to try fishing | that day. “The wind’s wrong, the | sta’s) muddy,” he said, “Fish do} not bite on a day like this.” Thanking him for the informa- | In the Class B. league, German? ans If. tion, the two men returned to, of the Navy, is the leader with Peres If _ 5 “16 *field goals, for 16 points; Fos-' Fernandez, rg - “Well, what'd’you think of that,| ter of the Army has 3 field for 6 ‘Thompson, rg their car and drove off. ~~” Lee?” Frank Stick, veteran} sport fisherman asked his com- panion as they drove on, “Shall we call it a day?” “Maybe he knows what’ he’s! talking about, returning the grin- ning Captain Lee Maxwell of the! Scorers are Rosam with 7 “Heidi-Ho”, well-known veteran; fishing guide, “Yeah, let’s call it! a day.” In their car they were taking home neighborly presents of two | jacks, three spanish mackerel and a small kingfish, caught from an- other bridge a little higher up the Keys, after catching and re- leasing ten other jacks which they had enjoyed catching for the sheer sport of it. SHER Sub Certificates Given 50 At Base Eleven officers and 39 enlisted! men were aw Service Certificates a held here Saturday at the marine Base. and large enough for a ed picture ates bore a me: Admiral C. W. Sty A tor of Undersea Warfare who is assistant to Fleet Admiral Ches- ter W. Nimitz, Chief of Naval Op- erations. yer, visited Key West with President Truman, signed the message in his capacity as Commander of the Submarine Atlantic Fleet, which he held during the war. The certificate reads: “During the years 1941-45 the U. S. being in & State of War (this man) served with the submarine forces ef the United States Navy. These submarine forees wrought severe destruction upon the enemy. They sank many million tons of his merchant and naval shipping; they interrupted and severed his trade and commercial arteries; they wided every amphibious as- sault, supplied constant military intelligence of the enemy performed numerous acts of res- cue. many “They participated in phases of anti-submarine devel- opment and hastened dominance of the Atlantic waters by navies of the Allied powers. ways the submarine forces of the and} HIT TRUCK STRIKES BACK CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind— .When the truck of Lester Arthur “Shelton, 51, was struck by a ‘train, the truck was shoved into ‘a yard, remained in gear and ran arded elaborate, j;back into the side of the train. | nd-printed Submarine Force bIt bounced along for about a half | t exercises}a block before disentangling it- Sub-/ self. Shelton was only slightly phurt. Written in Old English script } good-!U.S. Navy and all frame, the certific-! with them contributed heavily to ge from Rear { the successful and complete prose- yer, Coordina- ; who served cution of the War. | “This statement is in evidence lof the U. S. Navy’s pride and igratitude for duties well done.” who recently ‘(Signeq) C. W. STYER, R. Adm., USN, Commander Sub- Those receiving the certificates were: Officers Commanders F. W. Scanland, Doherty, Lt. G. U. Howell, Lt. O. S. Meek, Lt. D. M. Pino: Lt. (jg) R. L. Murphy; Lt. Gg) C. B. Breeding; Chief Bos’n E. W. Oakes. Enlisted Men B. C. Siebken, CQM; C. A. Gar- cia, STM2; R. P. Olson, CY; D. M. McLean, CMoMM; W. D. San- ‘to, CBM; N. C. Billings, EM1; H. J. Wall, CA1; S. Reyes, S1; C. L. 'Birdwell, F. Shafehuk, C. F. Oli- ver, W. A. Smith, C. E. Barbero, A. L. Yoak, S. G. Forbes, H. H. Gardiner, R. J. Merson, A. E. Sutherland, J. E. Gillum, J. D. Lemmon, J. S. Phillips, J. R. ' In these Semmelrath and R. E. Lee, all} CMoMM. - |for 13 points; Rose Kerr has J. B. Grady and A. V. Green; Lt. | : Commander P. E. Glenn; Lt. J. P.; jaw, brain hemorrhage and lac-}to a hospital, he found his wife ; softball and basket ball and who will try to make good at base ball. Haskin is a star in three sports, and many others. | i scorers in basket The league Haskins with field and 3 free throws for 13 points; | |B. Schoneck has 4 and 1 for 9} points; Skaggs has 3 and 2 for 8; points; G. Barber has 4 and 1 for 9 points; B. Barber has 3 being done there, he volunteer-| and 1 for 7 points; B. Sweeting Bowen, rg ed the discouraging information! has 2 and 2 for 6 points; Ward , Cathey, lg has 3 field and 6 points, and Lew- | in has 5 free throws for 5{ points. ! \ points; Brogley and Squaller, have 5 points, and Romero, Al-| bury, Anderson and Osterhoudt | have 4 points each. | In the Girls’ league the leading» field and two free throws for 16 points, Saunders has 6 and 1,! 5 jand 1 for 11 points; Haskins, | | Smith and Papy have 4 and 1 for | }9 points; Bee has 3 and | for a) | The Coca-Cola Earthquakes jlooked nifty in their new pur- \ple or lavender sweat shirts. It, jwas the first time in many} |moens that the locals have hadj jsuits like that. The other three {clubs in the Class B league also,! |have new suits. In the class A} {tion and Red Raiders have new uniforms and they sure make the clubs look good. | Dec. 7, 1941, the local | were playing at Price Field, di- rectly behind Armour & Co., and | the Trojans defeated the Raiders, 3 to 2..and the Conchs beat the Regulars, 7 to 1. HELD FOR MURDER | SPRINGFIELD, Md.— In a ‘scuffle over a safety pin at the | State Hospital for the Insane an | 86 year old man was injured so | badly that he died within twelve , marine, Atlantic Fleet. hours. The 24-year-old attendant | |is being held for murder and | declares that he was afraid the | patient might hurt himself with the pin. The victim suffered a broken | erations. i | SEVEN LIVE IN AUTO {| CHICAGO. — Forced to move | from their apartment after the | building was condemned, Mr. and ! Mrs. John Marshall and their | five children, ranging in age | from 9 months to 13 years, took | up quarters in their 1929 sedan. |'Turned down by the landlords | because there were “too many children,” a sympathetic Chica- | goan finally turned over a large | garage to the unfortunate family. ie Subscribe to The Citizen—25e i weekly. State Advertising Commissi IRT-SLEEVE SESSION-—Coats off in December is the order of the day for the Florida ‘State Advertising Commission, as it holds business meeting in Miami. Left to right, the members ithe Conchs 42-39 and the /Wild- club, the Transit C., Radio Sta- \ On Pearl Harbor day, Sunday, { clubs | Red ; eke d Climax of the three-day Miami session was a public presenta- CY.C. Wildcats, | piamond Dust Wolverines Win' ee Catholic ‘Youth Council ,turn- ed back Porter- Allen’ Insurance, 43-33. The Wolverines, defeated The game between the Pirates and the Red Raiders of the Win- ter Baseball League this coming Sunday will be the first crucial contest of the circuit. Both clubs are now tied for the league lead-, ership anda vietory will give the, cats rtounced Raiders, 51-22, in) High School Basketball league ; play last night at the High School Wie Rees ‘AP Newstfeatures nounced that virtually all III SII OSM, Alumni Grganize And Form Team To Play Friday Former athletes of Key West High School met late yester. day afternoon at the High School gymnasium and form- ; ed an Athletic Alumni Asso- ciation. It was decided to or- ganize an Alumni basketball team to play the High School varsity, Friday night at 8 P. m. ‘ Coach N. H. Pepper, who presided over the meeting, said the High School Junior Varsity will play a prelimin- ary game. The alumni chose Ed Woodson, a Key West al- umnus, as their coach. After Friday's game, an- Insurance Dividends By ROWLAND EVANS, JR. ASHINGTON.—The Veterans Administration (VA) has an- former and holders of j emeaet Service Life Insurance (NSLI) are entitled to a divi- | The NSLI fund out of which all non-service connected % death benefits are paid has & sur- plus. The surplus belofigs to-held- ers of NSLI policies, But VA officials are seared to death that news of the dividend will bring a flood of «mail, VAls insurance staff is already load- ed with work. VA statisticians must check 18,- | 000,000 policies held by the 15,- 000,000 service men and véterans. | That will take at least.a year. | When the computations have be completed dividends will be {mailed out. VA points out that each letter asking about the. divi- dend will delay the computations, | because each letter must be an- | swered. It takes time that might be put to figuring the dividends. The amount of the dividend will depend on three: things: 4 1, The amount . of” ifigsufance taken out. § ; 2. The age of the: insured. 3. The length of ime, the in- ‘surance has been ‘carried , other meeting of the Associa- | VA will not attempt how to.es- tion will be held at the gym. | timate the amount of : the »divi- masium. Officers will be el- | dend, but says it will be. about 39) lone run, Willard, Pirate Pitch- | er, was never in trouble. in an- | | nexing his first win of the Win- | Score at half-time, 22-22. gymnasium. me : ettsd and definite plans to | equal to dividends paid ‘by com- Box scores: malig: Rove een of one full game! sponsor the high school bas- | mercial mutual companies. eae 732 46I iets ras ketball program may be The dividend is payable not Gardner, rg. - -.7 0 14) Gibby Valdez, young Trojan mass | ooo arama oak a mm [Manon = a ee cers cere er a CHD DS. LF BD ‘ing, out also to-hoklers of lopset sia a | ae tn’ p, | CRASH FURNISHES TREAT | Policies. Ten million’ veterans gt Fleitas, c 0. 11] the ‘first game against the Pi- S TREAT vowed their NSLY: to lage Al- aoe aaa Bi Prareigar iia) Handing 30 | EAGLE ROCK, Calif—School] most all of these will 'neverthe Porter-Allen— FG FT TP] : i had just been dismissed when an ' jess come in for at’ least’a small fcberta, xf 6 1 13) ice cream truck and an automo- | dividend. P geese “2 9 | Jack Carbonell, the Red Raid-| bile collided. The coupe caught} ‘The big delay lies in lack of fresnel i 3 0 6 ers’ versatile athlete, has filled | fire and the truck overturned. To | trained personnel -and in’ matty Giles te pee 0 4 every position for the Raiders the delight of the children, the eee of doubt whether. the death Bees rE 2 0 4 except catching. His four-hit | truck driver climaxed the excite- of a service man has been due to 4 ‘pitching stint Sunday against the/ment by giving away melting: ,¢tual service-connected disabil imistaten 15. 3 33 Blue Sox was a masterpiece and|ice cream bats from his over-! ities, In such bofdef-lifie casts Score at halftime: (CYC peer ity bapa ibs one of phe eunes vehicle. ‘VA has been paying subject ‘to Porter-Allen 18. jbest games he had ever pitched. jlater agreement on cause of ! Sooraaree Engineers have calculated that: qogth, ‘. Wolverines— FG Fr TP! Danny Lastres, Key West's | mud left by the annual Nile’ ‘The dividend will not be tax- Valdez, lf - " me) 0 16,*gift to the Tampa Smokers, and | River floods raises the land level) ajje In the future “dividend Bethel, rf 6 0 10! currently playing short for the | an average of four inches a cen-| payments will be fortheorhing Sawyer, ¢ ~ 3, 1 7| Pirates in the Winter League. jtury. The Nile valley floor today! each year. 2° 3 7) handled 10 chances without an | is generally 20 to 30 fect higher} . ie Oe paige crore game Sum- {than when the pyramids were! Catgut really © comes ~ irom uae a eA 7E, lay against the Trojans. built. * sheep. Conchs— PG fT 7 G. Vidal, Bljé Sox pitcher-out- % q F. Castillo, rf ~. 8 3. ‘49 fielder, made a hice running catch e 3 Hf 8 of Hernandez’ low liner, .in the! ; 5 third, and converted it into a % . Fk ens MS: converted 1 ie: a) ee IS VER coo Youss ; 1 0n <2 i me SHe wy Except for the fourth inning | nor too Old for e =~ “>. 7 | when the Trojans scored their Totals— 17 5 e Wildeats— EG FP H. Roberts, rf 1 G. Herrick, ¢ B. Saunders, rg T. Lowe, lf T. Hernandez, lg Ge | ter League. ay ao | The money collected in the; stands for the benefit of a blind} .~ child amounted to $115.00. The! managers of the four clubs great- | On ee) 0 10 0 0 1 oe Totals— ly appreciate the donations. Raiders— TP fear | J. Solomon, rg 0 10! | The Raiders lead the Winter | J. Busto, lg i} 4} League in hits with 58. in dou- K. Knight, rf 0 4, bles with seven, in triples with | R. Wade, ¢ 0 | seven, and stolen bases with | 17. The Pirates lead the league | in scoring with 38 runs, and the Trojans lead in the homer de- T. Doughtry, If | eee loose Lol 4 Totals— | partment with two. 1 0: 2 BASKETBAL High School Gym ‘hand for the It is a scheduled first game and = A large ¢rowd expected on Pirate-Raider tilt. | TONIGHT— Gaba Rad io vanGaeaeela will therefore start at 1:15 p.m., 1 915 lag ee _| the league regulation starting | 2 igh School Varsity Girls time. In the second game, the vs. Catholic Youth Club., trojans and the Blue Sox’ will See une cance xs Ro- paitle it out for third place. | WEDNESDAY— : _ —— | 7:15—USS Wilkie vs. Army De- Cheta Baker, Raider outfield- fenders. er, stole two more bases Sun- 8:15—Lions Girls vs. High| day to bring his total to six. | This gives him a tie with Bobby Santana, Pirate second baseman, for the league leadership. | School “B” Girls. { 9:15—Red Raiders vs. Key West! } Transit Co. | Exhibition Games THURSDAY— | €:00—Romero’s_ Electrics vs,'ning of the league by many fans Osterhoudt Wolves. |that the Red Raiders would run 9$:00—Red Raiders vs. Naval | away with the pennant, but it has Hospital. jturned out to be quite a race and — jcompetition is getting stronger as | A FAMILY AFFAIR ithe league progresses. | SPOKANE, Wash. — While out! »; , | hunting, Photographer Charles; NATIONAL TO FLY | A. Libby, Jr., broke a leg. Taken TAMPA-HAVANA RUN) TAMPA, Dec. 10 (FNS).—The! | had preceded him. The whole; inauguration on December 15 of jfamily, Libby, his wife and their | National Airlines’ new service |new daughter, will leave the hos-|from New York and Tampa to | pital together. | Havana will give this city a new taerial gateway to the Caribbean {along with a belated start toward aviation par with other Gulf jorts Schedules were announced y this week by G. T. Baker, It was anticipated at the begin-! Qualified “Do you know anything about his case?” the juror was asked. | ; “Have anything | pr ‘pane a “ 4 , |will be the only stop in either |, Have you read anything about direction on the New York-Ha- it? a aa | vana direct route. ‘No. I can’t read. an Baker also announced that in Have you formed any opinion | addition to opening the New jabout the ease?’ !York-Tampa-Havana route, Na- wines case? | tional also would inaugurat ‘Accepted,’ jice between Miami and Havana. you heard | sident, who stated that Tampa | : BIRTHSTONE RINGS sg® Choice of ladies’ simulated birthstone set in lovely 10K gold mountings. $750 Large variety of stone-set pendants complete with chain. Only 12 Shopping Days ‘Til Xmae | * Pollock's yu, QUALITY Seay Jewelers 514 Duval St. See Our Store * Choote from a large vari- ety of compacts, up to $20 { | r } — gine hleny ———— —— Key West, Fla < Gs * |