The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 8, 1947, Page 1

Pee are Key West, Florida, has the ‘mow, equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit % City Commission — Passes Ordinance For Street Repair VOTE UNANIMOUSLY ON* FIRST READING; TO PMMMOMIL MA USE CAR INSPECTION Every City Street AND METER MONEY ‘Sprayed Last Night An ordinance that provides for } By County Truck the use of excess money from automobile-safety inspection and parking meters, was passed unanimously last night, on first | reading, by the City Commis- | sioners. The measure was sug- gested by Commissioner Louis Carbonell. ‘ Carbonell told his colleagues, ina spirited plea, that he has fought the budget all the way in the hope that when excess mon- ey is accumulated it will be used on the streets. He said that the commission should spend no more money for anything else until the streets are repaired, | except in emergency cases. Car- | bonell said “the time to repair | streets is now! Don’t put off this | fre OP No. 239 Every street in the city. from the Naval Hospital to the Submarine Base, was sprayed with DDT last night by Alberto Camero, county prison guard, who drove the county truck, using the city’s sprayer and the Navy's dope. “Until the sprayer came along I could not live in com- fort out where I live.” said Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., today. Camero said the spray . is very effective against mos- quitoes. te Then up came a new truck delivered to the county this morning. It is a Chevrolet 1¥%-ton dump truck, with a crying need?” stake body and equipped with Sam Hart, veteran commis- | a hydraulic arrangement for sion follower, pleaded in a like! dumping. “I'll sure give the mos- quitoes the dickens with this new truck,” said Camero. vein, and also called attention to | the fact that people were not! complementary in their remarks: about the commission for not | The truck cost the county fixing the streets. He added that | $2,497, he had paid taxes for 52 years; ' some years he had to borrow the Nak, che ahruheubeut athena 4 money to do so, but did it with ' » the knowledge that the money, was needed. He concluded with | Ten Liquor, Beer tie statement that the present! ° ° city administration had collected | Applications Ar e iaore money than at any Cara time in the history of Key West, | and demanded, What is. being | done for: the taxpayer?” | Ten liquor, beer and wine ap-. City Finance Director Charles ; plications were approved by the ing exception ,to 4 County Commission at its meet- of, Jast. nij re ‘ ) l, said jing last night for the streets in this year’s|win K. Smith for Smith's Place, budget. Roberts added, “we |302 Virginia street; Earl R. Shat must take care of other de-jer, for Harry's Place, Tavernier; partments besides ‘that of the |Jack Gaiti, for Jack's” Place, Public Service.” 109% Duval street; Julia Balist, fo. Perky Lodge; Clarence Key, The Ke: THE SOUTHERNMOST N EWSPAPER IN THE USA KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1947 Name Twelve |NOT LEGAL TO GIVE Girls’ Day At Directors Of | CITY'S RECEIPTS TO’ j; City Hall To _ K.W. Chamber TO ELECT OFFICERS OF): ws Also, City Attorney sane a Lester Tells Commission ORGANIZATION Twelve directors of the Key In Session Last Night After reading an ordinance to West Chamber‘ of Commerce were elected to ‘serve for one lec $800 to beautify a 200-foot year yesterday at the annual dock area of the Standard Oil jelegtion. Company, which the latter com- |. The directors elected were A.}Pany would allow the Key West Maitland Adams, Joe Allen, Wil-|Charter Boat Jiam M. Arnold, Louis Carbonell, use, Commissioner Louis Car- eee hole react bonell arose and stated that the request was in direct violation Pic Julies Bone ‘edwin Trey, {of Section 4 of the City Charter, 4 ‘which disallows the granting of money to private enterprises. Carbonell, opposing the meas- ure on the basis that the expen- diture would be _ illegal, asked City Attorney Lester to clarify the provisions of Section 4. Lester said that to spend city money on private property not } or. Carbonell, Dion, Dillard, Dopp, McAndrews and Stone were elected to the directorate of the ‘Chamber for the first time. The others have served as directors during the last year. Of the 298 ballots mailed to the entire membership, 180 votes were cast in the election. The ballots were, counted at an open public meeting at the Chamber headquarters last night. The elec- tion committee consisted of A, J. Dion, chairman, Mary Lee Gra-} ham and Paul Sher. The new board will meet shortly. They. will select. the of- ficers to serve the organization for the next year..The offices to be filled include that. of presi- dent, two vice presidnts and a treasurer. Statutes. Commissioner John Carbonell asked, “if this contemplated expenditure is illegal, what about the $500 that we gave to the Boy Scouts?” Lester replied, “the granting of $500 to the Boy Scouts was not illegal. As to giving $800 to the Charter Boat Association, if a lease could be acquired by the city, then the city could make present form of the ordinance.” The commission then voted Commissioners Association to! "SDODEMODS, ‘Comptroller |Tesues Call For |Bank Statement (By The Associated Presa) WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.— Comptroller of Currency to- day issued call for a state- ment of condition of all Na- tional Banks et close of busi- | .mese October 6, 1947. Nakata ahahaha ito have. City Manager Ellingson ‘and City . Attorney Lester, to. gether with the Charter Boat As- sociation and. the Standard Oil Company, work out an arrange- | ‘legally appropriated. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE} Be On Friday NEW BOARD TO MEET SOON} Against Charter And State¥- STUDENTS. OF KEY WEST HIGH SCHOOL TO FILL ALL OFFICES AND DEPART MENTS departments for the entire da on Friday. Girls’ Day in Key West is a part of this week’s National Busi- ness Women’s Week program and is being sponsored by the Ke: West Business and Professional Women’s Club with the coopera- tion of City Manoger O. E. S. El- Horace O’Bryant, principal of the Key lingson and Professor West High School. c “Today’s girls are the business jment so that the money can be | women of tomorrow, and it is the | duty of today’s women to prepar Girl students of the Key West High Schoo) will take over the operation of all city offices and Old Key Largo Road In Need Of Repairs, Commission Informed : COUNTY BOARD ACTS Distillers Say Unfair To Shut County Commission last night Down 2 Months was requested to repair the old road leaa. 1g from Overseas High- * way on Key Largo, and approved POINT. OUT THAT IN SOME of the bulldozing of 20 streets in COUNTRIES WHERE GRAIN Crain’s Subdivision at Marathon. WILL BE SHIPPED DISTILL-: '2"0ld_ Gibson, a _ property owner on Grassy Key, Marathon, ERS STILL OPERATE jappealed for the bulldozing of (By Associated Press) 'Crain’s Subdivision. Several of WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.—One the streets are under water and hundred and fifty liquor distillers ' those will be touched by the bull- today protested the suggestion of dozer, he said. William Luckman, chairman of! The commission thew opened the President’s food investigat- pids for the work. Charles Top- e‘ing committee, that they discon- pino & Sons was low bidder, at | | SUBDIVISION, MARA. THON y y |. Lester was once more asked ; these girls for the business world! tinue operations for two months $12.50 an hour for the use of its city allow registration books to} jbe taken to a central location in, ‘order to facilitate registrations ; for next month's election. kept in the city clerk’s office, | jand the commission cannot ig! any way “instruct” the beets 4 , What to do. | Supervisor Hamlin ‘said hé in- tended to remove the books to; that, removal was. permissible. Lester “replied affirmatively. | To Close 4 Hours City Commissioners, by ~a 31 forwarding of a resolution ask-. ing the loc restern Union of- fice not to‘ close’ during the hours from 2/a. m., to 6 a. m, Mayor Demeritt opposed the resolution on the ground that “we cammis- Yesterday B Navy Day Plans Discussed And Civilian Organizations BASEBALL GAME, PA-* Naval Group ‘'SOIISIII#s ‘ouly is in’ violation of the City |for legal advice when thé Junior! into which many of them will|to Charter, but also in direct op-'!Chamber of Commerce request- soon enter, that they may be use- | abroad. position to the State of Floridajcd in a letter from their seere- | ful citizens in civic as well as ‘tary, Kermit H. Lewin, that the | business and home affairs,” of-|said they considered it unfair to ficials of the women’s club sai today. of O’Bryant, who is making fu use of the opportunity to further Selection of the 15 girls who will sit in as city officials for the | Lester said the books must be ; day was made under the Wien He save grain Tor shipment pulldozer. Alonzo Cothron bid oe $13.50 an hour. The Toppino bid A spokesman for the distillers; was accepted. id It will take an estimated $2,- request them to shut down when '900 to bulltloze the Crain Sub- distilleries in some of the coun- | division. 3 tries where the saved grain will! Lee Bradford of the Key West be sent, are still operating. :Farm Land, Company, which _ Said further that the!owns a tract on Key Largo, said American distillers already had \the old road north of the Over-* the general education of students |a8teed with the President's re- seas Highway cutoff was in need of his school. The girls have been instructed, O’Bryant stated, that. their signment is of a much more s this expenditure, but not in the ; the, police station and asked if; rious nature than to “just sit be- hind a desk and look pretty.” agement and to report to the’ various classes . rt eggs and poultry in the meals was Carl Hove, manager of the aii They are required iby careful , tilleries - | observation and intelligent ques-- months, it will throw 30,000 men or county property. tioning to ‘learn what they can out-of work. ss 1 about the functions, of city man-> The port, appeared before the County campaign is in effect Commission last night with a re- quest to cut down on the use of of repairs. It was estimated that grain. They have discontinued. the cost of the work would be for the time being, the use of upwards of $15,000. wheat, he said, and have decreas-| (Commissioner W. A. Parrish, ed the use of other grains. agreeing with Bradford, seid He explained that if the dis-'there was some question as to close down for two whether the old road was state 5 “If it is state property, then President's committee ‘the county has no right to spend said today that, in every home money to repair the old road,” in the United States where ‘said Parrish. meat. was not.eaten yesterday,; Bradford was the. savi fi wives have been asked not to use |termine whether state property. tomorrow and every other Thurs- ‘said he would. day, as long as the focd-saving! “If it is determined it is coun- ity property it will then be up to the county to repair that ir informed , that Bradford Wholesale fish dealers have re- TO BULLDOZE CRAIN. in grain amounted to he should get in touch with the “old” road” Total budget allowance for all 4 a operates OF ie oo See ee a te Stork. jolene hapless ee ee RADE, MEMORIAL SER. D R quest to make a charge for non-|ported to the committee that fish stretch of highway,” said Par- jepartment ,000, rts | cade ; 7 re C : {scheduled flights. is plentiful in practically all : gated: i Grocery, 130 Duval street; Jesse} L. Carbonell refused to vote, VICES AND DANCE ARE 0; Lace Track | "The commission voted to have Been pee epee ene Ses ric imc aveuwestig Paley Wane |R. Taylor, for El Cochinito, saying not enough information, LED !May. Go On Ballots he 2:Pcrt committee, headed by pieeasit seen Company holds property that is Funer 1 ice end J. aa Cody, 7 had been given the commission-| SCHEDU! H {Commissioner Eduardo Gomez, ¢ t T T Vabout. sevens miles, ‘fromthe } Servi the ite House urant, 227 ers. ha ges a . es “ go into the scheduled charges and ur Sassi te as a gk ae a Duval strect; changing the Plan-| Assistant, City Attorney Lester| Preliminary plans for the ob In General Election {orice them. ounty 10 n flat Co ce pane patra servation of Navy Day here this; ef tation Key place run by Roxy ;was:asked his opinion about the For Mrs. Pritchard Siderius from the Sea Breeze to}weight of the solution and the Green Turtle Inn; George Thursday 5 PM. L. Stapleton, Jr., for the Sea- breeze Inn, Plantation Key. County Turns Funeral services for Mrs, Agnes Pritchard, 74, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 year were worked out at a meet. ing yesterday of Naval officers Lester answered, “We can ask, that’s all.” Demeritt said that the move was obviously done to cut ex- penses at the Western Union of- fice and that, he understood communications could still be ous civic groups of Key West. ‘They met in the office of Comar. Eli Vinock, Naval Base opera- tions officer. and civilians. representing vari- | On October 26, thé day before | City Commissioners, at the request of Attorney Allan | B. Cleare, Jr, voted to re- | ess last night's meeting until | next Tuesday without tak- | ding-eny-: action on the pro- | posal to place the question | of a dog race track before the voters. TROUBLES No. 3 Fire House Over ToThe ity on For Paul Thompson Tacit approval was given last j night to the transfer of the No. 3 Fire Station property from the o'clock in the Fleming Street D " the closed |Navy Day, a memorial service | OVER! county to the city by the Mon- Methodist Chureh, Revs. J. B. own Request hae ac eee eet citcl, tor. the Navy Personfiel who died; | Wavemee. tas © She. sty : roe County Commission. Tuneraletsersices a tonteeaul Reid and G. Leon Wells het f B through an arrangement be- Jin the last war will be held in| Hes nine ae cube On motion of Commissioner Thompson, 53, will he held to- ing. Burial will be in t lam- 0 1 he Western |the forenoon. In the afternoon , : pe 7") Higgs, the commission voted to morrow afternoon at 4 o'clock oatmen : ea ererure) snd he, Western | would. authorize Key West ‘ turn the entire mutter over to in the Chapel of Pritchard ily plot in City Cemetery. The body will be placed in the church} Request of the Charter Boat- at 2 o'clock. Pritchard Funeral'men’s Association of Key West Home is in charge of arrange- !for an appropriation of county ments. funds of about $500 for complet- Survivors are: Five daugh-|ing a docking space off Caroline ters, Mrs, Wm, Shoneck, Mrs. |Street was turned down last night §. W. Newlan, Mrs, Paul Her- by the County Commission be- rick of Key West; Mrs, Wm. B, |cause the county eannot give _ W. W. William- |money to private enterprises. peer an ane ‘son; Robert |.“ ruling by County Attorney ; Paul Sawyer that the state audi- Pri ice Paegielh chai tor’s office, which surveys the grande! o as in , would it - child; one brother, Charles Wat- eaualy'#, money GUS Pe: A November 16, while the Key/ders, Frank Bentley, Clarence there will be a baseball game at the Submarine Base diamond. Teams representing the Navy’s best and the better players in Key West will meet in this con- tegt. Comdr. Laird said he would {Union i \Guerra Is Still In Bad Condition i “Still critical” was the state- ' ment this afternoon by physicians at Municipal Hospital when asked about the condition of Leonard Guerra of the Steak Inn rant, who was seriously inj put on an exhibition before the game. Joe Pinder ,president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, a representative team of the best try to have the Sky Slicers Club, said *he would contact the prop- | er persons in Key West to select } to lease city-owned land to the dog track interests, pro- : viding the voters approve of | the proposal at a referendum. | Cleare said he would pro- cure a copy of the measure by next Tuesday. Attorney Cleare’s clients | are proposing the construc- |. tion of the dog race track near the vicinity of the city dumping grounds on Stock Island. i 4 County Attorney Paul Sawyer, Funeral Home. with instructions to effect the Full military honors will be transfer when ihe legal details accorded the dece: . ‘who was are untangled. a veteran of World War I City Commissioner Albert He was a member of the Vol- Cooper and City Manager Jack: unteer Fire Department and the Ellingson appealed to the coun- Sociedad de Cuba, from which 4\ty Commission tg make the pallbea 3 ‘I be selected. Rev. transfer. The county built and John Pickens, of the First Con- maintained the No. 3 Fi Sta- gregational Church will officiate. tion, until the state auditor ruled Survivors are: Widow, Mrs the county had no right to main- Katherine Thompson; two sons, tain a city fire station. Paul, Jr., and Geor Thomp- | " i ] 3 } structed Tax Collector Howard prove of appropriating funds to | 4 5 id kins of Miami; one sister, M'8./help the charter boatmen, led to te crash of a car and truck in layers in the baseball game. GIiDOO#: t]- County Commissioner Fa- son; sister, Mrs. Frank Curry. of Blanch Roberts, Tarpon Springs. five: tutding down of the request. Overseas Highway late Monday. eee De pis 27, | LOI aa 4 -'luardo Gomez said that the Miami, and two grandchildren ————— Swe Gre autied atthe use of nny, 2 (ole ee Oh oa: a’ cher call be’ a patade Li i {Jeounty should at least have —_—_—__—— d Will the property for 15 yeurs.” ex: died a few minutes after the by the Navy and the: civilians aquor censes jjsome, fire protection as far an tes A é | evar 1 jplained John Miia er 800 of ‘automobile driven by Guerra ran|through the streets of the city. Gi A 1 {|Big Pine Key. The city officials; ¥O es pprova the boatmen, “We ne 500 to 5 fectitcaa well 4|said that the fire station would | i against a stalled truck owned by |Civilians will be admitted to the 2 ge fol acl ai ete q = Close On Nov. 16 improve the land. We serect ( the Florida Brewing Company of|Submarine Base from the time iven pprova qjanswer any fire alarm and as-, Of Tax Rolls thousands of ee ve opt ys : Tampa. : of the parade until 5 p. m. It will j be nk jjsured the county commission } The eastern branch of Roose- pone th asian er ia! The funeral services will be |also be visitors’ day at the Naval | By Commission sa robles fire protection would) Voting approval of the tax velt Boulevard will be closed | provements.” theld at 6:30 p. m., tomorrow in| (Continued On Page four) | sre ER yIe eds rolls as prepared by County Tax to traffic from 12 to 5 p. m.| Commissioners Gerald Saun- the chapel of Pritchard Funeral City Commission, at a regular | _ | Assessor Claude A. Gandolfo last Home. The Rev. Jomes H. Mc- meeting last night, approved the ; Beverage Dept. | night, the County Commission i of St. Paul's cremation. Fe following liquor licenses: ! West Junior Chamber of Com- |Higgs, Eduardo Gomez and W. A. Connell, rector ' merce’s air circus is under way, Parrish all said they wanted to Church, will officiate. The body , CALL FOR BIDS ie Gule prea eer 600 et eae cr I Hl | Wilson to begin collection of the i boatmen, and expressed , will Jater be taken to Miami for jivision street, beer and wine. does: \ 1947-48 taxes on November the County Commission decided |help the tmen, xP) 1 The City of Key West VF. W. Post 3011, Second} any more about quick stops. He nspec:ors ere: Se ae in aa last night. regret that the funds could not Request for the closing of the boulevard was made to the com. mission by Joseph Pinder, presi dent of the Jaycees, who said! that veterans of World War II} were going. to stage a demon- stration and that the flying might be dangerous to traffic. Cool Comfo Air-Conditioned for Your Eating and Drinking Th. 0 SERVICE SiSprey ee) ieee ee see — | and CHASSIS. anted R . It vases tetast a set of fendezs! WE AVER'S (uss Pye Awe | ony and all bids. BRADY’S NAVARRO. I OR 2 LD CRAIG } Lou Smith Auto Service ‘ ROY HAMLIN. —Tre TNC, | Division at Francis Phone 9134 ROY'S KEY WEST AUTO PARTS ; . ” ° : | White at Fleming Phone No.$; BEEF STEAK PALACE! City Clerk.|! CHOICE POULTRY | crosire nus station |Girpescd Motors $127.00! » . Opposite Army Barracks ‘scanuvvdiovncevoicicivncaagunnitaciieiasinnenys be made available. will receive bids up to 8 P.M., Tuesday, October 21, 1947, for the sale of one Red Concrete Mixer, PALACE THEATER| STEPHANIE BACHELOR in | “PASS KEY TO DANGER” | News and Features gine, as is. Mixer may be seen at City Hall. with 2 H.P. Stover en- || street and Staples avenue, club liquor. vendor. Reid’s Grocery, ownéd by iThomas H. Reid, 130 Duval street, retail package beer ‘and wine. Transfer from J. Frank Cody to Carlo Recine, 227 Duval street, license No. 247. 1214 White Street Phone $40 RE ResAbAhe SALAAM, had our specialist check his brakes.. Now he drives with con- fidence! Let us make your brakes safe, too! No time like the pree- ent. While you're waiting for your new Chrysler, we'll keep your old car in tip-top shape! Si Cae Roger Fox. ended. O'Steon | mailed out Oetober 15 by Collec- Misa riper iors tor theta eae Beverage Department, arrived in Key West yesterday and are ex wmining all the liquor, beer and wine licenses to see if they meet with the law’s requirements They will be here for several days. CS * Sali a