The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1947, Page 3

oe *eeaBR se Everglades N ational. Park : -Tongy IN ASTOR i _ unique and historical sights to be ‘Chamber of Commerce on the _by the Federal government. THE BBY WEST CITIZEN Ce rea EES CERTAIN ae meme ee - 1849—Seth Boyden, noted early Detrimental To Monroe serait important in early developmebht >’ — of steam engine. ate ‘ County, Wri iter Believes ‘gn ine Gabe Lodge ire is Benevol der of MISS CAPPICK CALLS AT. evolent order : Elks aisigice porated. TENTION. TO LEGIS-| pletely within the ten years’ al-| 1876—Historie tit complete lotted.” In which case, it may be intelligible sentence of speech | ' LATION TO BE AIRED seen, said lands. would: be tied up over a telephone wire: Alexander’. '.'. Graham Bell’s “Mr, Watson, AT °47 L as far as any planned private de- vhs SeRee Gear | EGISLATURE valeguteak luke ba concarae, here; I want yoit! in his fo By MARIE CAPPICK and .a.total loss as regards tax pt fea see. On the eve of the convening of| revenue for the county, 1880-—First bey at ; e P Ph ; mbers to reach ‘the’ the Florida ‘Legislature, it would}. That area. of » Monroe : cqunty: nee ‘eit Bt ee be well for Manroe county resi-| which would be ‘absorbed by the dents and poperty owners to ac-| proposed Everglades » Nation quaint themselves thoroughly} Park, . it has: been demonstrated with any and all proposed legis-| by eminent “geologists, ‘containg lation in connection with the pro-{ highly. encoujaging. traces of oil] ,,1942—American tanker sunk: by posed Everglades National Park sepsis, One this vended of re “: nate pote 3 pa eas: a ‘ 3 rought into. commercial produc- project. A large partion of the tion, it may. be readily loch that | 1943—American planes bomb proposed. park area lies in Mon- revenue . on such production frailroad yards in Rome, Italy. roe county. would make Monroe one of the| . 1945—The U.S. First, Third amd’' It is alleged that an official of } wealthiest. counties of the state;Ninth Armies active on the the Everglades Park Commission of Florida. Western’ Front. "3 The taxpayers of Monroe coun-|} 1946 — Stabilization direc! ee ty and Key West already are |Bowles gives regulations to ?- ha carrying an almost impossible ; plement price policy and predits load, It is argued that this bur- | “vast flood of goods”. Teg den is necessary in order to keep ‘ seven officers from aisione >*1934—-President Roosevelt.’ of ay ders ithe Army to stop flying the °). air ‘niail until better equipped. has been boasting, on the main- land, to the effect that he had “convinced those Conchs that the — park would greatly Ago pnd : i) by bringing/ the county and city .on an effi- | county Pee the property * is’ « « Sieh. a: gibdenneh An: saalenacn cient operating basis. That may | developed! Such action would“ | and misleading, when figures re- be true, although it is a well; tend to increase the burden of ;: leased last week by the Road and RENE PM ak ere 08 Oe eater tastes of ener | Tell |. Biridige | Comentasions. idix. merous cuts that might be made ‘smaller number of property own- closed that, during the month of Wn: DON Fey, ‘Wort. city and aice- aes . eat she ak fe came Volicuary, 1040 :Ms4AD of 00.056 roe county: expenditures FOL, taxt| Bones at oes an Everglades... i... persons passed through’ the toll payers: money ac ag a onee Beis Sp aae gates (which meant that their ner advates eapets saree ie. St oaeene 8 rrpeer . pi cient maintenance of the county ;roe county should study this pro-** destination was Key West that some 15,000 other reba ak and city, Bovernmengs. $Ayi | Rosed legislation “carefully, ‘Taagen'\ 0" came over the Overseas Highway, However, the above paragraph | | write your representative at Tal- ¥ but did not cross the toll bridges.|#8 beside the point." The ‘fact of | lahassee, and tell»him what you * In what way could the propos- the matter regarding the Ever- think. Remember, the Florida *** * ed Everglades National Park be{8!ades Park project is: Do we|Legislature convenes im April.j _— of benefit te Key West? This|™ ant to turn Monroe county acre-| (EDITOR’S NOTE: The ar oy malt Island City’s attraction lies in,@8¢ Over, to the National Park/unalterably favors the establi ‘ the beauties of the scenic route | Commission, thereby losing the | ment of the proposed Everglades , , ‘ over which a visitor must travel} °oMsiderable taxes normally paid j National Park. It would be not; } { to reach our city: then come the}P¥Y Private owners of said prop-|only a great asset to Monroe’ : erty, as well as the potential county and the state of Florida, - «> revenue that would accrue to the ' but also to the entire country). ‘ not to mention a climate to which there is none comparable in the entire United States. Now, with a wide-awake job, a growing tourist conscious- ness among Key, Westers in gen- eral; a public beach project in the offing; a dail¥’ airplane service to Havana, afd-‘a¥ yoesbarenind ferry servicé.< promised: at ani early date, of what use wotld: ai Everglades, National Rark ..be te Key West?, ,If.such a,park, could be established, at no.cost to Mon-} roe county, ‘it ‘would, of course,| ; be an added, dttraction for, visit- |} esi a ors en he atest Island City, \s a and would ‘have: no: adverse -ef-| 3 | ; fect on travel:to this southern- eh Ag ; most point in the United States. is G vi faery However,. the. cost to the tax- PURE mo ; payers .of the county—the back- , bone of the county—must be con- Place Vour Refrigeration gr O08 sidered. Monroe county stands to lose heavily in taxes normally on a paid on the aereage which mat be included in the proposed | REAL ICE BASIS seen and enjoyed in Key Sn eeeeee tional park. Once this acreage be comes the property of the Fed- and You Will Get GUARANTEED Refrigeration Service. 17 eral government, all taxes from , said property to Monroe county R EAL ICE is, — a LENE? will cease. The Federal government re- Healthy and Safe ; quires an acreage of 1,355,000 in order to declare the Everglades National Park as established. Of ompson nterprises, ne... this vast acreage required, about 500,000 acres are owned by the (ICE AYPSION) state, there are some 600,000 acres in water, bays, inlets, creeks, etc., the ‘balance being privately owR- e# and. paying. taxes . toi the county. The Federal government pro- poses to allow ten years in which the Everglades National Park]: Commission may acquire the pri- ” Overseas Transportation — vately owned lands within the Company, Ine. proposed Everglades National Park area. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service To quote from an address made Between by John B. Pennekamp, a mem- ber of the Everglades National | MIAMI and KEY WEST Park Commission, before the Fort > Lauderdale, Fla., Rotary Club: Also Serving ALL POINTS on Florida Keys “|. The government said, ‘we}§ Between Miami and Key West will give you (presumably the PHONE NO. 8 Pam oe iat > ae « LEGER VE Baits ERD LAS PNP GES > = Sire fk it BS 3g 4% Everglades National Park Com- mission) 10 years in which to ac-} Express Schedule: quire the privately owned lands (No Stops En Route) 7" within this area, and in the LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EX- ae CEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P. M. Ar meantime, because of current de- velopments, such as the oil drill- | ing operations, we will accept titles exclusive of mineral rights —where they cannot be obtained otherwise. However, we cannot accept these titles for a National Park, since all lands going into a National Park must be free of reservation or incumberance’.” This, of course, means that all revenue on oil or other mineral- producing lands taken over for the national park, which normal- ly would go to the county and} state as taxes, would be diverted _ Yives at Miami at 12:00 o’clock Mid- night. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (EXCEPT SEND ad ae 2200. Btelogk Mia. KEY. somaya at 8:00 c’dlock A. M. and arrives at Miami af 4:00 o’- clock P.M. ; ae TS P.M. 4 The Federal government told’ the Everglades National Park Commission, “So these incumber- ed titles will be held in the Fish} and Wild Life Service until such time as you'can clear them com-