The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1949, Page 1

‘| be @ round table lin Murechisom, TALLAHASSEE, Fla. March At 4 P. m. 0 (FNS).-Col, A. G. Matthews save he was disappointed over the $890,000 appropriation —_ recom- mended by & congressional com- mittee to start the Florida water control project. However,’ Mat- thews, who iv chief of the state division of water survey and te- seerch, said the appropriation may be increased by the U. S, Senate Plorida’s Congressional delega- tien end the Corps of Engineers recommended that $16,300,000 be “@prepriated for the initial phase of the $208,00,000 project.. Mat- thews said early action by the Legislature in providing the state's share of costs may result i” @m increased Federal appropri- ation Teen-Age Baby — Sitters Ruled Out DENVER—()—When a Den- ver grandmother, Mrs. Mary Louise Dunham, decided to op- erate. a baby-sitting service,‘ she made this ber first rule: No teen- . feate tog many prob- we the head of Baby Sitters" Inc. “Our sitters are all 2) OF Ove? ang we prefer mothers, erandméthers, older sisters. or others who understand children and have takep care of them.” Mrs. Dunham began her ‘ser- view two years ago and now gets ebout 1,000 calls a month from parents. Her 200 sitters manage. te keep busy. Parents have to pey a $1 per month registration fee to Baby Sitters, Inc,, and 60 cents per hour to the sitter. Epa CAR TROUBLE? We Have PARTS, PARTS and PARTS ven Key West Tomorrow 100 Members Due {be Brown Nicholson, Columbus, Georgia, and an address by Law-| rence M. Cox, president of the | National i new pro! } The “aécounting ‘he was injured seriously | ciations will meet in two differ- i | { ‘ ; i { ‘ tion At. To. Arrive For 10 Approximately ciations of Housing Authorities will gather if their annual con- vention at 10a. m. in the Elks Club auditorium, Duval street. Mayor A. Maitland Adams’ is scheduled to make the address of welcome . to. the delegates. Hudson Malone of Albany, Geor- gia. will make the response. Following an address by John | , assistant commission- Presiding at the luncheon will Association. of Housing Officials. - At 2p. m. tomorrow, there will discussion. Project age. Meet tomorrow afternoon as well. Proéedure for reduction of matters will be discussed: Friday. morning. the state asso- ent rooms’at'La Caricha. At noon luncheon, Ray’O. Bdwards. Jack- sonville, and J. J. Trevor, ch Authority will preside. ‘| The piiatess will be delivered by George W, Simonds, city plan- ner, Jacksonville. The three groups will later adjourn to con-/southward thru tinue their discussions, there will be a tour of the city, i Station and the Housing Projects here. There will be special tours thorugh a submarine. The wives of the delegates will ; be entertained ata tea at 2:30 p. m, tomorrqw, and will later the same day make a tour of the city, concluding at the Woman's Club.. Sunshine Park Horse Race Track Has Been Sold SUNSHINE PARK, Oldsmar March 30 (FNS).—The horse ra: | track here has. been sold. to B. Roy's Key West Auto Parts Co. : 121 Duval Street Phone 442 H.L. Realty. Comvany. of Wil- H mington, Del. which in turn leased it for seven years to the} ern Gulf. The Sunshine Park Racing \ Associa- tion, current. group in control. Announcement of the deal was made by executive vice-presi-/ dent Frank Hobbs, of Tampa. Hobbs said: 4 to buy we had from Mrs. Laura McIntoch, ‘the owner, who sold out to the B. H. L. Company. Cc. Cc Vega, Jr. Tampa, re- mains as president and John W. Kane, Wilmington, as secretary and treasurer. The original lease was for five years, of which only two remained. Sunshine Park} closed its third season on March} 12 under the present manage-> ment and there has been a steady} Wolkoff and his wife to Mr. an«l growth in attendance at the park} under this management. ; 100- members J} of the Floridaand Georgia Asso- Warmer Weather t group will) sance in the north Pacific. “It means that we é now have a longer lease at Sun-! +h shine Park with the same options Lot Sells For $14,000 Yesterday ton street. OVER In. ry ) again in northe’ ward thru the Gréat jern Texas and Oklahoma. Day-! jtime temperatures were below normal thru the cen- | with highest at Amarillo, Texas only 40 degrees. A weak cold front New England ers in northern Vermont where} io the nearly half inch This cold 10,495 offi extends from New| in Oklahoma. There has been lit front but there has been wide- | 3.383. spread precipitation mostly in} the form of snow in the southe Rockies west of the ter. Sez 1 showers and thun-| jiving in Key We derstorms are reported mid Mississippi Valley and dur- | ing the night there was a tornado | reported in Oklahoma. Weather is fair in the mid and south At-j of a system of high pressure in| the western Atlantic. Cloudiness | and showers are continuing along ; the Gulf coast as a weak front| ¢ remains stationery in the north- | ather is general- ly fair and cold in the far west ! but rain has been br: ng out in the northern Pacific coast states under the influence of a disturb-- A lot 50 by 113 feet in Simon- ton “street, just norih of Caroline street. sq@ld for $14,000 yesterday. according to a warranty deed filed in the office of Circuit Court Clerk Earl Adams. The sale was made by Abe R. Mrs. Frank Bartolone, 218 Simon-; MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. lie. CLYDE-MALLORY. DOCKS TELEPHONE 6 Barge Leaves Miami Every Fridav SEER 2 = 2 1 | POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Division Phene 9134 Your PURK O11. Dealer LET U Grease, Spray or | Change Youz gil || “CEE a CITY DEPEND was réported.| men and dependents o The Chamber of Commerce es ™ | timates approximately 25,000 pe torm cen-| sons, including Navy | A.NEW SUGAR CANE HARVESTER devéloped by 5S. A. Thornton is demonstrated in | cane fields at Jeanerette, La. The machine ‘the cane toys and bottoms, strips the leay and guides the cane directly into carts by @ grab .of con , design. The harvester is pow- ered by two V-8 Ford engines and has a four‘wheel driving unit The whole: thing can be’ folded or adjusted for road transportation so that it does not exceed 10,495 Officers And re a ; total of 6,581 officers and men yesterday | with 3,914 dependents: here. | In addition to the number of man. of. the Key. West Housing) tral Plains and Texas panhandle | Navy men and their dependents in Key West, there was 4 total of 1,354 civilian émployees, an increase of about 300 over what moved | the figure was a year ago. Figuring about three depend- during the night and there have|ents for each civilian employee been scattered showers in north-| it would mean there are a total including the Naval/ern New England. Precipitation! of 4,062 persons in Key West de- amounts were light except show- | pending om the Navy, in addition 's. , enlisted { the Navy On January 1. there were 6,347 England west-southwest toa low} officers and enlisted men and 329 dependents, while in Febru- tle or no precipitation along the! ary t the figures were 5952 and personnel, ; So that the persons depending on the U. S. morning in the central Plains and! Navy is well over a half of the total population figure. lantic states under the influence | Palace Theater CLAUDE RAINES and CLARA STUART in THE INVISIBLE MAN” , ‘ ’ Hotel La Concha | Announces The CLOSING of | The Rainbow Room | APRIL 1, 1949 ——oO0o—— The Coffee Shop Will Remain Open Throughout the Summer WE THANK YOU FOR | YOUR PATRONAGE | J. D. McANDREWS, * width of a regular traffic lane. ‘Four Villages In Oklahoma . ft By The Associated Press) _ Stroyed or damaged every build- ing imCanton. It was there that'l gy The full meaning of what the Lonsdale without all abova-normal except) U. S. Navy means to Key West New \England. Cold | was found today in an announce- reserves, debt service and other: air continues te flow southwest- ment of the public information | Jains and! officer of Key West Naval Base has reached as farsouth as north-+that as of March 1 there we: ‘ Exterior Plywood 4 ‘OKLAHOMA CITY, March 30.) ‘Three villages and an: airfield | warning, Tt then struck “Blackwell, where churches, a schoolhouse and other buildings were leveled. Six were injured.in Longdale and Black- | well. The last place struck was an airfield, where planes and hang- ars were destroyed but nobody was injured. Lathers Still | In ‘Poor Shape’ At Galey Hospital | David Matthew Lathers, 24, of | Daytona Beach, who was shot and seriously injured early Tues- day while he was — burglarizing the Cosmopolitan Restaurant, is still in “very poor” condition at Galey Memorial Hospital. ‘Phe bullet passed through the! right leg, then ranged upwards| through his stomach, and came! out his left leg. | He was shot by Deputy Shefift | and Special Policeman Albert | (Willie Wing) Gwynn, yesterday | morning after leaving the re: taurant with a pistol in his hand. | STRUNK LUMBER YARD TELEPHONE 816 | Manager. | | amended in several particul ! Navarro Inc., 601 Duval St. | 5 Luxembourgh delegate asserted that the pact” nations: countries, who are.to sign the protects smaller North Atlantic Alliance Part sheik ergy nation bent on aggtession. | added that Luxembourgh, among | the first five nations to agree to” | enter into the alliance, has real- | Bevin of Great Britain, arrived ized, from, the: es of ment, are converging on Wash- ington today. Four of them, in- eluding Foreign Minister Ernest in New York this morning aboard | announcement the Queen Mary. Bevin told. reporters. j For Ma mol rsh Money Senator George, Laur Democrat Of Georgia, | To Join Republicans | Tempe yahares At 7:30 A-M., EST Tu Amending Bill (Ry The Aasnetated Press) Station; WASHINGTON, | March: 31; Atlanta The bill designed, to extend the yeu Marshall Plan. for 15 months Birmingham from next June 30, is not likely Bismark to pass the senate without much Boston | Buffalo. scuffing. That was the outlook today cae when Senator, Walter George, Denver Democrat of » Georgia, rted Detroit that he would join with Senator El Pase * Taft and ther Republicans in Ft Worth i is ; Galveston their efforts to have the measure Jacksonville Kansas. City said nothing KEY WEST .. about the propos#l to reduce the Key West Airport $> bili $580 mill ecified Los Angeles > ih aga i million = specified } Louisville for the 15 months the plan will | Miami operate further, but Taft andj Minneapolis fellow Republica’ with the! Memphis possible exception of Senator) New Orleans Vandenberg, will fight to have, New York the amount reduced considerably. rfolk - * Most of the Republican sé Oklahoma City tors think the cut should be at} Omaha least $1 billion, but a few favor | Pensacola the reduction by as much as two| Pittsburgh to three billion dollars. i Roanoke As a result of the Republican! St. Louis _ discussion of the Marshall Plan| San. Antonio bill, Senator Scott Lucas, admin-! San Francisco ar Senator George istration leader, said. some Re- ! ttle ‘publican: senatérs were evincing jahassee indications of strong leanings | Tampa toward isolation. He added t because of that attitude, at 1 ators will be de-| they come up for! re-election next year. One. of! them, -he asserted, will be Sena- tor Taft ' Washington CARY GHANT CONSTANCE Barb: 1 Plan STRAND. Last Times Today TOPPER with ROLAND YOUNG Coming Blood On The Moon Robt. Mitchum, Wal: Ret that Jarge- He West 39 5a 41, 23 39 43 66 | 70 62 al 77 ' rived at Boce Chica Mavab Aw 39) 53} ™ 33 63! 69 48 38 66 71 55) onditioned | 400.000. The United States, Au AIR || MONROE cooto}) Folks!! Folks!! Tineti Times Kee BORDERLAND SKATING RINK | voor... 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