The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1947, Page 1

Airplane | Production Plant For Key West If City Can Provide Site MESHIY DESIGNER AT CAMBER OF COM. wenece | =opimectors’ Navy Ships Break MEET LAST NIGHT rh eae an p. sea i ene ing Cum, ey, Halls Closed | oe ot the Out Holiday Flags a Key West has quite a Navy . tied up at the docks in the Sub- @ ’ ‘ marine Base. phere denier b nd. Va Size of the Navy was em- ‘ ' ws that phasized today when all the} ' t ' hips broke out in a maze of ‘ . flags, in commemorating George . J ' Washington's Birthday. ' Practically all activities at the : A Submarine Base were suspended . . . © today. City Hall, County Court - 7 House and the Florida National a Bank at Key West were closed in keeping with the holiday. —— ~ « Warehouse Sold For $21,000 To. 2 Key Westers tr Sale of the former bonded warehouse at Green and Simon- ton streets by William Curry’s Sons Co., for $21,000 to Abe R. ' Wolkoff and Max Herman, two ‘ well known Key Westers, has shar been announced. ‘ . Wolkoff said today that he Te | Ps weuld announce later what he and his partner in the new deal would do with the property. 4 ved brick building, the ware- house was formerly used to store tobacco brought to Key West from Cuba when this city was the nation’s leading cigar manu- facturing center, It is reported that more than $160,000 worth’ of tobaceo was stored in the ware- suse under bond at one time. The building has been used of ent years as a garage and paint shop. Wolkoff, who lives n White street, is owner of the Post Office Inn and other prop- ‘ erty. Herman owns the Over- cas Hotel in Fleming street. The deal was handled by Fred J} Dion and Albert J. Mills. ~ ( the Chee, nbs op. ree Percormnet in Lots of Fun for Alli!!! BUY TICKETS NOW! '! Junior Woman's Club CABARET at Casa Marina Hotel Patio Presented Fridav and Saturday ights, March 7 and 8 Lavish Floor Show Presented | by Paul Baron Music by Gene Costello's Society Orchestra Tickets on sale by club members. F your reservations, call 155 or * 5 to Paul Sher Jeweler, 532 Du- GARAGE s| Street, where tickets may also be purehased ewe %8® $1.50 Per Person (Tax Included) ng, DRESS OPTIONAL For Best Seats Make Early Reservations tt Bish Pry ti merets Body and Ponder Work ~ hate Parts fer AM Care eeeeeeeeeeeeemeeemomnonnm ss ovomsievoeseemenenne nenneen en ee NE UHANEE EARL AAEEEEE AEH TTT, | DAILY, FLIGHTS! LIMITED TIME ONLY Fort Jefferson - Dry Tortugas Information - Reservations PRICE TOURS 41) PLEMING ST PHONE 124 ‘ooemmeeeenemeoneoeeeneoneormneommornenneevnncenonanenannnn yuna anerasengnyayuanentazocagngegcieententtneae nana sone HR0E04R/NN4NOUNEEALEOAOTDUTEUUUANELUHEEAYEONEPEOEUA HASH EHERAE RAINBOW ROOM DANCING TONIGHT “sie NIGHT 9:00 P.M. to 1:00 A.M. —Music By—— 1 Russ Dalbey Cafe Society Orchestra Featuring ELNEDA REY, Vocalist with ORIAN OSBURN at the Piano DINNER MUSIC 6:00 to 8:00 by Orian Osburn LA CONCHA HOTEL J. D. McCANDREWS, Manager sronveseonnnn Leeann te te Petes SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER Truman Attends . Service In Honor | Of Wachinston | evvvvvevevvvevvery FAVORS: NEW WORLD CALENDAR; * * If Adopted, C rises Will * * IN THE UNITED STATES KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947 * * Fait On Monday Beery Year * WASHINGTON, Feb. .. CONGRESS CONSIDERS "BILL NOW A MAABAA LAAAAAABAABEMAABASASOAAABAABDS President Truman today drove to Mount Vernon -to attend mem- orial services at Washington's tomb. Because of the heavy snow- fall Thursday and yesterday, the , } (driving was slow and difficult. After the services, the Presi- | | dent boarded the presidential j yacht for the return trip by slow stages. It was announced that White House until tomorrow af- ternoon. Today is the 215th anniversary of Wasanetonia bit birth. j Morgan gan May Set | i Up Gallery Here. F. Townsend Morgan, promin- ent artist and director of the Key West Community Art Center from 1937 to 1941, visited this city Thursday and announced} that he “will seriously consider returning” here to re-establish a gallery if sufficient interest is ; shown and a suitable location! can be found. Morgan visited old friends here and sounded them out on the project. He said that he would! like to open a gallery where all local and visiting artists may} exhibit. The painter left here shortly! after Pearl Harbor to work at! the U. S. Naval Engineering Ex- periment Station at Annapolis, in ‘the photographic laboratory for the duration of the war. He is now painting<at his own studio at Lakeland, where he is engaged in a number of editions of Flor- ida etchings. Morgan was recently awarded first prize at the Florida State Fair in Tampa for etchings and | also a first prize for professianal| photography. Miss Winkler Neve Chamber Assistant Miss Lois Winkler, 1301 Whitc head street, has been made an of fice assistant at the Chamber of Commerce, Acting Manager Har- old R. Laubscher announced last night at the meeting of the di rectors of the organization. Miss Winkler, who is a member of the junior class at Key West | High School, will serve after school hours, helping Miss Doris Thompson, who wa named Laubscher’s assistant several weeks ago. Miss Winkler will serve for the i remainder of the tourist season. USS. ROAN L FOR NORFOLK TODAY USS C. H. Roan, a 2200-ton de stroyer, left Key West yesterd bound for Norfolk, Va., 1 | having completed its tour of duty as flagship of the Fleet Sonar School at the local base. The Roan is commanded by iComdr. R. -D. Diricksen, ~ Jr; USN, but it is bearing Capt. L. i y FE. Coley, USN, commander of destroyer Squadron 10, who also is going to Norfolk. The USS Henley arrived here Wednesday and becomes flagship of — the Sonar School For A Good Time, Visit the V.F.W. Clubhouse FLAGLER AVE. and 2ND ST. Open Monday thru Saturday Poinciana Bus Passes Door ROOSEVELT Announces... 3 Complete For Reservations {dr ' ference | repaired at almost no cost at all! Nightly: 9:00- DINNER Served DANCING ‘ : By WADE POSTON, JR. The axiom that “Time in worth ; quarter-year would have 31 days, ; money” has surely been proved tin Key West by the recent repair and ‘electrification .of the city’s !two tower clocks. The 50-year- old Monroe county eleetrified at a costo the county! dertaken for the 800-lb. weight- yen City Hall clock for $1126.- Now, no one begrudges these clocks must tell the correct time, which neither the county nor city clock has done for months or However. there is a third clock, just as important to the people‘ ‘of Key West,* which is This third badly awry. “clock” is our hopeléssly cient calendar, The fortunate dif- is that it can be fully The city hall clock, in the many years since it was installed, never measured time more con- fusedly than the calendar on the wall, with its irregularly arrang- ed short and long months, its grasshopping month dates which never fall two years in succes- | sion on the same week-end boom one year and fall flat the next. - In the same way that the City commission, of Key West decided that the clock, must be repaired, so the Congress of the United is now considering the repair and renovation of the calendar. A bill has been introduced which pro- pe the general adoption of the sensible and businesslike World to take effect January se. | Calendar, 1. 1950. The new calendar, which has ben advocated for a number of} years by the non-profit World Calendar association of New York City, provides for a few simple, almost ~“Urnoticeable;' changes in our present calendar, which would completely “elec- trify” it, and take it off the old “weight-system” The first of these changes In- volves a slight alteration in the lengths of the months, ,and .ar- rangement of the months into a pattern which could be remem- bered without the aid of a nur- rhyme. In the new tem, outmoded and ineffi-— and the remaining. two 30 days; UNEMPLOYMENT The second improvement courthouse; Would permanetly link together clock, formerly run by a system ; the week-days and the month- of 1000 and 1500 lb, weights, was! dates so that, for example, De- cember 25 would always fall on Truman would not be back to the | Of $998.75. A simliar job was un- a Monday each and every year, instead of wandering throughout the week as it now does. The -present erratic condition is caus- jed by the fact that there are now | expenses, for it is obvigus that | “one too many” week-days in a year, that is, instead of the year being exactly 52 weeks long. it is 52 weeks and one day long; | hence, every year begins one day later in the week than the pré- ceding year (two days later after leap years). | The cure for this is simply not instance, the year 1950 will begin on a Sunday. On Saturday, De- cember 30, the year will have completed exactly 52 weeks. Now, if December 31 could be skipped, January 1, 1951. like 1950, would also fall on a Sun- day; and 1950 and 1951, and every year thereafter provided the same system were followed, would be exactly alike. Unfortunately, we cannot com- pletely overlook December 31, because the actual sun-year is 365 days long; however, what we ean do is not regard this, over- flow day as a day of the week. nor a day of the month, but simply as a day of the year, com- ing between Saturday, December 30, 1950, and Sunday, January 1, 1951. The intermediate day ‘would have no week name, but would bear the special title of Year-End Day. and might con- ,ceivably be celebrated as A world-wide holdiay of thanksgiv- } | ing and rededication to the ideals of enduring peace. In the same w: Leap-Year (Continued on Page Two) YONKERS PUBLISHER VISITS THE CITIZEN Ratph -MartineHi; publisher of the Yonkers (N. Y.) Daily Times, was a visitor at The Citizen plant this afternoon, accompanied by Jerry J. De Feo, well known Key sery February would be ir Wester. The Yonkers man_ is from 26 ‘days to a respectable spending two weeks in Key length of 30 days; April would be st. He and Mrs. Martinelli are : s of Mr. and Mrs. De Feo, increased from 30 to 31 days: and March, May. August, and December each reduced from 31 to 30 days. All other months yuld be the same as at present The result of these small altera- tions would be to square up the months into an orderly pattern, hich the first month of every in w ae NOTICE Applications will be received for License and ‘eights and Measure In- spector by the Civil Ser- vice Board up to 5:00 p.m., February 28, 1947. Application blanks may red from the Board at he se Civil Service the City Hall. 0. J. S. ELLIN City Manager. ON, Raul’s Club BOULEVARD GRAND OPENING TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25th Floor Shows 11:30 — 2:00 from 6:50 Phone 9287 615 Angela street. Martinelli said he has been looking over Key West for a prospective winter home.,He ex d himself as highly pleased the climate cordiality of the resi Pp wit with the dents he and especially FISHING LAAN ASE SIS NESTE IS Seat Covers 1 TACKLE Household Supplies - Toys - Tools Kenyon Auto Store | 524 Southard St. Opp. Bus Sta. (que Phone Leihiressamemmant GULF STREAM | RESTAURANT and SNACK BAR Cor. Division & Simonton Sts. Open All Day and Night Serving COMPLETE SUNDAY DINNER From $ ° 5 O 1lto9 Child's ,, Plate aiclosk Half-Price Special Attention to Families With Children All Pies and Cakes Home Made in Our Kitchen KEY LIME and APPLE PIES Beer and Wine Served During Legal Hours to include the final day of the{ were cla: year as a day of the week. For{ mn/Prices For F Soar, Department Of Agriculture Declares NO RELIEF IN SIGHT TILL LATE SPRING OR EARLY SUMMER, RE- PORT OF SPOKESMAN (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.— , COMPENSATION IN MONROE COUNTY Payments of unemployment compensation in Monroe county during the week ending Feb- ruary 15 ameunted to $155.00} Outlook is that food prices will and were made to’ 10 crn for several months, @ nine men and one woman, Cail ‘ B, Smith, chairman of the Flor-} aeemes ae aah eveplarenns = announced today. t ida Industrial Commission, re~ ported. He explained that, three Throughout the state, he said,} months ago, it appeared to de payments amounted to $84,113.50} partment econdmists that prices and were made to 5,248 of whom tvolild dash sho abroad tab the latest figures that have 2,912 were men and 2,336 were women, reached the department, he add- ed, indicated that prices for al- Compensated claimants in this county, registered as available most all foodstuffs were on the uptrend, for suitable work and unemploy- Not till new statisties are re ed through no fault of their own, ified clerica sales one; service, one; ceived some time next week, he four; unskilled, four. stated, will the department be Sgaeaey in a ition to tive! USO DIRECTORS that prices Sill Ghana ai ELECTED TODAY ' tions are that such will be the case. (Speciat to The Ctttzeny NEW YORK, Feb, 22—Carl} He admitted that nobody could Whitmore, president of the New! say with certainty just what York Telephone Company, andj] prices would be month after Thomas D’Arcy Brophy, presi- | month, but.added that the trend dent of Kenyon & Eckhardt, Inc:, | indicates higher prices are likely advertising agency, have been| to prevail till late spring or ear' ly elected to the USO board of di-| summer, with the peak in mid- rectors, it was announced today spring. at USO headquarters in the Em-| Shipments abroad are the chief pire State Building. ‘cause of the rise is most prices, Whitmore is national USO, though in others, particularly campaign chairman, and Brophy pigs, the shortage is much more is chairman of the USO commit- | pronounced than “it was a year tee on pOpES infor mation. | ago. Commission About-Faces On Civil Service Appointment Former police chief, Louis M.: the Civil Serviee Board came te YJ. Eisnér caused the City Com- *the chamber™rail, but was net mission to do an abrupt about-| recognized by Mayor W. W. De face at its special session late meritt, who instructed the clerk yesterday rnoon when he de-, to call the roll, When Commi clared that his application for ap-‘ sioner Louis Carbonell’s name pointment to the Cicil Service; Was called he said, “I want te Board had been ignored. The know if there are any other ap Commission had just named Vic- plications before I vote but the tor Lowe, former fireman, to the mayor instructed the clerk te Board but quickly rescinded its continue with the rell call action after Eisner’s protest. ! Cates was then permitted t The Commission had ac epted speak, He said the B the resignation of Lee H. God F atdChn ri the Boardiwhichanb-< waned eo recommend Eisner fy rddard its ex wad had sequently elected the vacancy. Eisner immediat ecutive etary, as predicted arose and said he had asked in yesterday Citizen. Commis- City clerk and the city mane ioner John Carbonell asked City if he had to make a writer Clerk Roy Hamlin if there were Plication and wa told he did not my ather applications — than “When the city clerk said Lowe's for the Board vacancy had no other applications,” Ka and Hamlin said no, ner said, “he was wrong. He Myrtland Cates, chairman of| knows I am here for that pu = ae ___._ pose.” Eisner said he had told queen ot) Commissioncs dele bonell and Albert Cooper that ty wanted to apply for the position Commissioner Hunte Har then withdrew his vote for Low land Cooper moved that the #p pointment be reseinded. The tion was carried Palace Theater PAUL KELLY in “THE GLASS ALIBI” News and Serial no | as AIL ‘Night | 24 Hours A Hen i ee - DANCING ~-- GAS - OIL - = alia Nightly to the Music of PARK MARK "nit 1A at Place Feataring 8 Best Drinks— Popular Prices Reservations: Phone 9287 (_ AMBLER’S S SERVICE 104 DUVAL STREE' Adjoining LaConcha * NOW IT CAN W.c. } | BE TOLD Look On Page ight (3) for All Details 2 ee ee ——— eee -" ee