The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 16, 1947, Page 1

or Fiesta Debts Hotly Questioned CITY ATTORNEY BY| @OGBSOUODs COMMISSION ' At. alively session punctuated} May 8, at'-by some~ vigorous remarks, the’ will| City Commission last ‘night side- dam-| stepped the delicate issue of Key| whether it’ willshoulder~-some Will’ $1724 in debts left py. the Jose Marti Week celebration, « i The meeting was virtually over when Commissioner Louis Car- bonell moved that a vote of| thanks be given the © Citizens Committee which took over the fiesta during the last few days and made a success of it. After the motion was ‘carried, Carbon- ell asked if the city is liable for any debts outstanding now. : Assistant City Attorney M. Ig- natius Lester replied that so far as he has been able to determine, the city is not liable. He added, however, that a more complete check should be made before a definite answer could be given. “The city only acquiesced in the celebration”, Lester said, ‘and so far as I can-see has no obligation but a investigation quick’ action\ last, night. when ‘Robert E. Roberts, 923 Flem- ‘tig: street, told .the solons | that -hehad been-denied the de Ready-— ‘Advised ‘by weather observers of the possibility . of storms this ‘Year, the Key Wes cannection ‘with the: tournament It be avaitable at tienen! : jinez, Jim Rob- meeting and Jimmy Cat jloway, publicity agent for . j tourney; assured’ him _ that Pt a it would ‘be ready be- dinization of: i: meeting, ; Commissioner Carbonell added rou Chapter, Amercian Red Cross, disaster-relief its ye Hat an- | Machin, Charles Sea eh ln 4 | that he would: like to see the 4 rtai w. Pinder, Law: cancell ed checks” -which were Miia sod ia, never any certainty ‘ used in meeting the expenses. a ee | Joe Sirugo, who is owed $1100 R. Schoneck, John Og- | for having fed the University of G. Sands, James R. | Havana baseball and. basketball Sr.,| squads, asked permission to hand, the be, as well i SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER -, ‘KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947 reparing ‘to’ strengthen, the of: |:had asked the .boys to us¢ an-{ Just before Reynolds left Ei ther part.of the field. Mayor W. W. Demeritt, presid-; finish the trip in from 76 to 77 {monton; he said he expected to jing, instructed the boys to see‘hours if the Bombshell maintain- ; Hamlin and reserve a be necessary,”| period every week. Hamlin said ance from Edmonton, straight- Hampton said. “On the other} this morning he would divide the, way, was 2,000 miles, but the d Cross’ job is to’ playing time among five teams,|Bombshell was almost two hours répared as possible,! all of which want to use the, for disaster is always possible.” field. . certain'ed her previous speed. The dist- beyond the time that had been set by Reynolds. |. R. Lowe, Hilary T. Al- "speak and in an extended state- Thompson, Sr., Wil- ‘ment contended that the city is Thompson, John Glen- | morally responsible, if not legal- | ly, for debts incurred in the fiesta. 4 Herman Rob- | He said the city had received B. Knopp, Nidal Perez, | @ great amount of publicity and Sterling, William J. ,@ plaza in Havana had been named Manuel M. Lopez, Earn- , Plaza de Key West. Consequently, EB. A. Torres, Helio $1700, he said, is smail payment i: City. Manager’ O. J. S.:Elling- son -told the City Commission last. night’ that he had‘ received a telegram from H: G. Williams, president of Gulf Atlantic. Trans- portation Co., that: the hull of the “Caribbean Queen’—future Ha- leave Mobile, Ala. a week from today. Williams informed Ellingson that tugs are scheduled to leave Mobile on April 23 with the big Jacksonville for completion. The Valdez, N. B. Shan- | for such publicity. od |. J. Hijort, Louis Machin,! Sirugo minced no words in Molina, Willard F. Saw- | describing his opinion of Lee H. Smith, Herman F.; = (Continuea on Fage Four) ; Clarence Key, Frank | —_— € tite cae ties {Navy To Replace Fe ‘ 5 ete. ‘ Beste Gomer Coors, Part of Pipeline ,t (ss Bids will be received by the Walter Knowles Jun- !u. S. Naval Submarine Base on J. Horre, Manuel Dom-' Méy 2 for the: replacement of Reul A. Sibila, Joseph Rus- ,3:299 feet of 18-inch stéel pipe on ., Gregorio Rodriguez, Al- | Gr@ssy Key, 54 miles from Key Adolfo Pazo, Mar-' West. is was announced today. Sr. , The pipe is used to bring fresh E. Garing, Jr., Eugene , Water to Key West. : Genege i. Corey, Carl) ncaa pepe ee a the date when the hull passes 3 iams, | ON hy | by Key West. Parker, Henry B. Haskins, ; foci = ‘ETT A ge at Baca ; City Commissioner Louis Car- T. Newbold, Oscar Fer-' A ‘sty Ay A. recee:t Ui] Honell described his recent con- Andrew Antonio Aren-; April 28. , ference with U.S. Senator Claude Pepper, accompanied by mem. His remarks were virtually the same as carried ‘in the Gitizen tello Towers and Meacham Field. ‘| are the No. 1 and No. 2 Army properties sought’ at this time. The Commissioner said that Pepper assured him ‘that 3 * ; on ‘the: @ uld be’ | coming: lat week. He said he had alsd -heard from Rep. George Smathers on the question. The Commission turned their ra BATTERIES Get Them: While They Last!! 1 ship in tow. It will be taken to| { City Commission Informed Ferry Hull to Pass Key West April 23; Takes No Action On Special. Funds for City Electric System: thumbs ‘down on two proposed ordinances setting up equipment ordinances for System | board. - The first would have au- thorized transfer from the rev- enue dand- contingency .fund of mathe from the Miami Beach ca 4); First National Bank to the Flor- wares sey, West, super terry ml ida National Bank here for extra. ‘ordinary equipment purchases. The second would have permit- ted similar transfer of $11,000 for the purchase and installation of four 48 KVA voltage regulators and related equipment. Commis- telegram said that the city man-" sioner -Hunter Harden said he ager will be notified later as to| did not know what the first fund Seal CUERS bers of the county commission. \ ROY’S KEY WEST AUTO Pants 121 Duval Street Mohday,' namely that West.Mar- Nese Phone (42 qmail | — Electric RAINBOW ROOM in the LaGONCHA HOTEL TRY IT!!! Announcing peered ts i Special Lunches Now Serving... . Businessman’s Luncheon Shopper’s Luncheon .. . expenditures’ would be for and would not support the measure. It received no second. Mayor W. W. Demeritt asked Harden if he had similar views on the second measure and accordingly, it was not read. The Commission passed an ord- inance approving payment of $528.75 to the Mathieson Alkali Works, New York, N.Y. for 4500 pounds of liquid clorine for the sanitation department but took no action on a bill to grant oc- cupational licenses “by recipro- city” to persons who had _ pur- chased them in other cities. The latter measure received no sec- | ond after the clerk’s reading. special the utility Have your Dodge. Chrysler. Ply mouth or DeSoto Car REPAIRED EFFICIENTLY AT YOUR DEAL- ERS—at the RIGHT PRICEII!! NAVARRO Iac. ite Bus Station 65c in the AIR-CONDITIONED IT’S GREAT!! an hour. Mrs. Minor, wife, of the petty officer, said she was nositive the car‘in which she was riding did not pass Saunders’ car just be- fore the ‘accident. It was rumored around the Court House today that the acci- dént probably would be probed by the grand jury which sits on Monday. Property Changes Hands With Deeds ike Warranty deeds were filed | vesterday with County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer for five pieces of Key West and key pibaakey: ’ * Nellie “Morris and Jennie i Seymour tranaterre 94 Mine 4 Seagrave, Tuckaho¢é, N. Y, a piece of property near Eleanor and Flagler for $600. Aberlardo Lopez, Jr. and others transferred to Yvonne ‘ Goldberg, 1700 Flagler, a piece of property in Eleanor street for $1,250. Minnie Porter Harris and Cur- ty Harris and wife transferred a one-half interest in a property near Reynolds and VonPhister for a nominal sum to Jessie Por- ter Kirke. Mary McAlexson and husband transferred to Violet McDougall, Coral Gables, 440 acres of land in, vicinity of Cape Sable foy a. nominal sum. ‘ * James A. Knowles transferred to Albert C. Pinder, 8)5 Flemi Street, .a piece of pi arty the corner of Fleming William for a nominal surn. BATTERIES for All Makes of Cars LIMITED QUANTITY Come Get Yours Today DEALERS INVITED 426 White St. Phone 6: was about 200, feét away when} he started Jo make a turn. He es- timated the speed Papy’s venicle | was travelling at about 50 miles | \ ae NEW ELEC RATES Pips ee — mar yb lee We INS AORN bag As Bhralhe te, oe Demand Makes Replacement of Diesel Power by Steam {minuate conference with Premier Ae st oe % at » Stalin yesterday continued to be —'BDaaLDaL: Advisable After Next Winter; Cost a secret today, though it was sur. 4s mised that the Russian brome Cty nai h ee een oan pe had supported the stand that Mol- Garrison i t ‘The City Commission last night approved new electric rates _ jotov took in his discussions about . Key West, which will provide the following reductions for residential the conditions that Marshall had‘ or $913 ee wn : suggested be applied to the gov- The ‘city completed one of PER MONTH ernment of Germahy for the next} the best buys it has ever made é 98 kwh 10%, ‘a yaar: lest night when it authorised ‘ | qT payment of $913 to the State -- 90 kwh ” here was eevn reports that! Treasurer of Florida-for Gar- . 108 kwh 3% | the conference, of the Big-Four, ison Bight. The check will 280 kwh 10% | may end this week or early next! be made payable to J. Edwin week without anything of a sub-] Larson, state treasurer. ; Stantial nature having been ac- In return, the city gets the a eee 208 complished. | é ine tack) heeke. dar Very large users ..1000 kwh 22.0% A charge was made today by! scribed by many northern | ° The above figures, and those to follow, are teken from @ letter a former attache at the American| yachtsmen, as the finest nat- | “titten the Utility Board by R. W. Beck and Associates, consulting {embassy here that the: carer] |< engineers for Key West’s municipally-owned electric system. The men at ‘the‘embassy are Russtan- . - letter, written April % clarifies haters, who have — combatted 4 ‘ the new rates approved by the every attempt to establish pleus- t Board Monday and the Conunis- ant relations with Russia: The ‘ sion last night, and advises the , | attache had refused a transfer to } construction of a new steam re and is on his way tdithe, sh gah! ae erating plant costing to ited States. ' ; 7 ae } Present diese! plant. wegen am |\ SHRM OID EOLA - : ‘ (Carbonell Defends Bombshell Cli Sh hrs | mi e Ips : for customers to i Inquest into the death of Ballplayers’ Righ i jPallplayers t). 12 Hours From fer 3, Per. motorist, T Ke} , who was fatally injured Sunday eager 7 7 9 e night at:Flagler Avenue and/er, ai per 0 Use Stadium) World s Flight j Second Street, was adjourned! month (the average used , ay . yesterday until late today by the} by an average home for ordinary City Commissioner Louis Car- (By The Auseciated Press) jury sitting in the court of Peace} lighting, refrigeration, radia, bonell sprang: to the assistance of} NEW YORK, April 16—Milton | Justice J. Y. Porter 1V. etc.) can purchase an additional a number of sandlot baseball] Reynolds’ Bombshell, which left] Conflicting. testimony | was|200 Kwh for 27 per cent less than players at the commission meet-| Edmonton at 5:03 ‘o'clock yester-| given yesterday at the inquest.|the amount it can now be pur- ing last night when they con-,day afternoon, arrived at La-| Albert Saunders, 1606 Flagler} chased for and (2) that he cen tended they. were not allowed ‘to, Guardia Airfield shortly before Avenue, testified that Papy was] purchase another 500 Kwh for use the Municipal Stadiym. | midnight, having completed its} driving a motorcycle between 50 [37 per cent less than its cost here. bi ed field aa im ed by} round-the-world flight in hapiend 60 miles an hour shortly be- | tofore, a the citizens o! le cityf at any] hours and 55 minutes, more than! fo), j time they want. to,” bonell| 12, hours ‘under Howard Hughes’ ieee i ro bang Pry: we said. “It's time the Ci ion} record of 91 hours ahd 14 min-| petty chief officer of 229-C Poin-| ness firms. ‘On the did something about any-( utes. : ciana: Place. new | body use -the diamond wants; \.Reynolds .and his crewmen,}‘' saunders testified he stopped |» 10 to. I'm going to see those ‘ Captain William J. Odor, plot, his var when he sdw'the motor- the people can use it; it is owned by‘ and°T. Carroll Sallee; flight en- cycle coming. He saletthe believed or vy the cll" eee iaoes we that they were almost | the oycle struck thé right rear of | good ‘for bubo- : e. players, _memberg completely _ oul |Minor’s: ca. whieh: threw. the. ri-} watts... type whieh tte Porrttito: Baseball EoaAR “sane 2h a FORBSS O eare, der, Who was Macleay the} fordloads 10.25 oo 2 Roy Hamlin, stadium committee; “though I'm tired yet I am very! machine against Saunders car. ustomner * | chairman, had refused to let them} happy over having broken the} Minor said he Wad ‘tio’ know- ~ violent ; use the field. Hamlin:said that’he} record, but I would not make 8] jedge of passing '‘Saurters’ | ! was merely. trying to allow the| similar flight for 100 million dol- adie baer an ig a tur to oe ee ~ grass to grow on the infield and) lars.” | Second Street. He said the cycle tions below the existing sehe- . dule than those provided under the B-1 schedule, depending upon the amount of demand imposed.” Beck proposed that the existing i contracts with housing projects in Key West be granted either the B-1 or B-2 commercial rate sche- dule at the customer's option. The consulting engineers state that the city will have ftomporary drop in revenues about $50,000 or 10 per cont ennuel revenues. “However, the report continues, “the low, ered rated will cause people te ° use more electricity” end there- fore the temporery drop in rev- enues would be recovered within about e yeer. Rate réductions have not been possible before this time because of the great demand for expan- the city plant. ‘Since 143 on the electric system ion pres as almost doubled”, the engi- ry point out dd, oF $500,000—of all the | money that the people of Key ! West have paid for the electricity | they used since the city aequired y q the electric system has been @x. pended for additions to the pow. er plant and for improvements to the distribution power plant capacity has been doubled in the past three years but with the passing of another ‘The system.” ear or su will be insufficient to neet the demands of the city Because of the rate reductions (Continued on Page fours ae EW