The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1947, Page 3

® OF A TOOL By BILL LEE e just wa town over the weekend—when it was “note raining .Talking about rain made me think to call the | werk bureau. “How many inches has it rain- ao | ed since September 30?” was the} ~ yard. - : came ‘across a man question we asked Sam Gold- © smith. “Oh, not.so much”, was. the swift reply. “Only 6.66 inches ‘so far in October. In October, 1938, we had 23.56 inches, and ‘in one day of 24 hours, October 4, 1933, we had 13.54 inches. So you see it was relatively dry so far this month.” Oh, yeh? Well. I much pre- fer the sunshine in Key West. xk kk * We. wonder why so many Key Westers are cutting down the beautiful trees and fine flower- ed‘ foliage around the town. We in Olivia sireet pulling down all the flow- ering shrubs and trees in his “Why are you doing that?” we innocently asked. “I’m sick of the mess around my yard.” Well, his house, which has pre-. sented..a beautiful vista during the ‘weeks with his yard all cov- ered by red flowers and things sure looked awfully bad. It was as.though you undressed in your own front yard. Nothing to cheer about. We told. a man, an architect, about the crime of spoiling the old city of Key West with its atmosphere. “It's a shame.” he said. “There ought to be a commit- tee or something to keep our old style architecture and the trees and shrubs from being destroyed! Without the trees: and shrubs and the old lines of our houses, Key West is just another spot—not a glorious pines in which to live.” xk «kk * We happened to run into Peter “. J. Ross. He’s half owner of the - refrigerators and air Mumford and Ross, which sells condition- ing equipment, and owner of Ross’ Trailer Cottage Court. He’s very interested in the Lodge of Elks. He was an exalted ruler of Key West Lodge and Was vice president last year of the State Elks Association. Now he is district deputy exalted rul- er 6f the” Lodge of Elks in * Southern Florida. He explained that beginning on October 20 and ending on De- cember 5 he is going to pay offi- ¢ial calls on the 11 lodges over which he has jurisdiction. .-“It is very interesting work.” said Ross. “It will interfere with my own business, but it will be a real pleasure for me to go from lodge to lodge and visit them.” Then I bumped into Howard . E. Wilson, our genial county ‘tax oe collector. since away back there when he eee Have known Howard was chairman of the Overseas “ Road and Toll Bridge Commis- sion. They built Overseas High- way yirtually’ under Howard’s direction. ‘We were then working for the now defunct Miami Tribune. The city editor wanted a story on the progress of the work of trans- * forming the old railroad line and . bridges, into a’ highway. “Well; ‘anyway, ° ated because he, had colleet#a |; 99.89 per cent of Monroe taxes in the last fiscal year. Well, Howard knows how te collect. That’s what he’s there . tor. He’s probably handled more money in the last 14 years for Monroe than any other single person. Upwards of $10,000,000 he’s collected, first as U.S. Internal “ Revenue chief of Monroe and then as county tax collector. * * “. Next on the list of persons I “~ met was County Tax Assessor Claude A. Gandolfo. He was sore about the stories going around about taxes being so high in the ~ county. “We are saving the taxpayers of the county exactly $30,000. in the next fiscal year over what they paid in the last one”, said Gandolfo. Last, but. not least,; was Miss “Helen Williams, librarian at -Hafris Elementary School. She » was all smiles, for said she, “we have the finest library in the state and the only one in Key ~ West elementary schools.” “It’s a pleasure to work in the library.” she said. “They ~ made a nice room with 10 .. Windows in it. out of two old ~ classrooms. Now we're going . to have new furniture in it. We'll have 36 chairs and six ~ tables. Then we'll have a vic- .. trola, with story-telling records ~ for the children. ~.. “We have about 1,000 books, ‘which ‘I’m now listing. But we hope to have more. The PTA ‘Howard was. f is She added i that the room mothers, which is an organiza- | room, will meet: e PTA organi- sent each for sertion, but the mi the first 15 word The rate for blac ype word, and the min os eharge for the first 15 words is 45c. others who repre- Sl Srsteme T ags. BRIDGEPORT, eosin <slahay. ‘ing from a series of gambling raids State policemen left their ears in the street outside the county courthouse. When_ they. ue to meet in | came back, _after. booking . their prisoners, they. found the ears to handle the | tagged by the cop on the beat for. Mocs aad parking. a the Advertisers PAYMENT Payment for ments is invariab} regular Padua counts may ments charged. PUBLI Saaee u r ac- ave Bae be foot ae tebere, puniieaene eae ust ‘o insure cation, co m be in, The aes office betore ; o'clock in the morning on the day of publication. All . advertising is accepted under the following an tisienes win’ the event of.error in ane responsible only for the {sing, transient or contract, first insertion in Classified A dvertising ‘Display Advertising for only the actual amount of aon eccepeea ti by th nd in part of the advertisement where the error occurs. HELP WANTED 701 Simonton Street. oct7-6tx Waitress. Qualified silk and wool spotter. Come to work. Name your wages. Poincana Dry Cleaners. FOR SALE Plumbing supplies, complete stock. Plastic tile, paints and brushes. . 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