The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1949, Page 1

VOL. LXX. No. 124 + Plantation Key Site. Offered County For | $5,800 For A School: i THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1949 5 Superintendent O’Bryant Reports Site*——— county would have _ Contains 16 Acres, With 470 » Feet Fronting Ocean site offered the Monroe County School Board for the con- of the new school on Plantation Key may be had by the Horace O’Bryant, county school superintendent, the dite of 16 acres the county may be deeded an of land without cost, and with the addition, the a site 470 feet wide by 1.700 feet in length, by far the most outstanding school site in the county. School Board Chairman Geraldy— —————________ H. Adams and Member Julio Ca- banas, Jr. together with Super- intendent O'Bryant, made a trip to Plantation Key, With Member | Eddie Sweeting, who lives on the} Upper Keys, they inspected the ! Plantation Key Site. All the embers of the board approved of the site as being ideal for school purposes. The site | has ocean frontage of 470 feet. It | is two and one-eight miles from | Tavernier and the school when constructed on it would also serve Islamorada Later the members of the School Boa to the American Legion home at Islamorada, and explained the re t survey bv the State Educa’ Department which recommended construe-+ Basis Givin For Toll tion of a school to cost about $82,- 000 at the Plantation Key Site. O’Bryant said that about 200 | persons crowded into the Legion Home, and were nearly -all of them favorable to the site on Plantation Key. Some of them, however, favored a site in Tav- ernier. It was explained that the most land available at Tavernier was about seven acres, and would be an irregular shaped: lot and was considered an undesirable lo- cation for a school. The School Board will now have to hold a series of meetings to de- termine how the»money shall be ‘raised to provide for school en- largements and new schools to cost about $500,000. Bridge Bill That Senate Returned..To. Committee Tolls Would Have Lal Operated And Maintained Gounty And Schools 4 Years More than 10 years ago, Mon- roe County Commissioners pass- ed a resolution that turned over to the State Road Department 80 percent of the gasoline taxes that would have come to the county, en the department's agreeing to maintain and operate the Over- seas Road and Tolj Bridge Dis- trict. The department has been get- ting that gasoline money continu- uously, despite the fact toll col- lections would have been more than sufficient in themselves to operate, maintain and liquidate the district's bonded indebted- ne: That explanation was given The Citizen today by Paul Saw- yer, county attorney, as the basis for the introduction of the bill that would have permitted the county to collect tolls for four years after the district's bonded indebtedness had been liquidated. ; This is the bill that the senate ! on Monday returned to commit- tee on the request of the State’ Road Department. Had the bill become a law, Tax Collector Howard E. Wilson in- | formed the Citizen, the likelihood ; would have been that no county | ad valorem taxes would have been paid for ‘four years. i Mr. Wilson said that the coun- | ty's 1948 taxes amount to $399,-: 917.44. The State Road Depart-; ment estimated that the collec-! tion of tolls for four years would ; have totaled $2 million. That’; money, had the county received it, would have been divided) { i t Continued On Page Six) equally between the public school | from a double - barreled gun Pee oui se district and Monr county for | 1 ntenance and operation. Mr. Wilson explained further that, with the county and the sehool board, . each receiving | $250,000, yearly, the collections (Continued On Page Six) SUN AND SAND CLUB Dining Room Under Direction of Don Briton Open to the Public 6 to 9:30 Each Night To Observe National Park Recreation Week National Park and Recreation week will be observed tonight in Bayview Park, beginning at 7:30 o'clock, under the direction of Paul G. Albury, of the City Rec- reation department. Mr. Albury states that an elab- orate program has been prepared for presentation, Woman’s Death | Inquest To Be | Held Later | Peace Justice Roy Hamlin said today that he was_ investigating | every angle of the death of Mrs. i Lena Estella Woode, who died following a fall from a truck be- ing driven out Roosevelt boule- !vard Sunday. An inquest will be continued ‘into the woman’s death as soon as W. Curry Harris, assistant , State attorney, returns to Key | West, Hamlin said. Armando (Mexican Joe) Fer- nandez, 25, is being held as a material witness in the case. He admits the woman was in his truck, but insists she jumped from it, suffering injuries. from which she died later at. Monroe County Hospital. Meantime, the body of Mrs. Woode has been shipped to the thome of her husband, Ackerman, Miss. Woode is a seaman attach- Station. . Soviets End Railway Strike In Berlin (By The Associated Press) BERLIN, May 25.—The 12,000; employes of the eleva' system | in Berlin ended their ‘Sk 5, lay Wheh “a Spokesman for the { joviet command in Berlin an- nounced that the command had | ; agreed to pay the men in western H i marks. { One western mark is worfh | four Soviet marks, and it was for | the reason that they received wages in Soviet marks that they elevated employes went on strike. | The spokesman said further; that, as wages will be paid in western marks, travelers on the trains in western Berlin will have to pay fares in that currency. A detachment of Russian sol- diers that had been in the west-- ‘ern zone to protect railway prop- ,erty returned in trucks today to| | the Soviet zone. Victor Reuther, Redes: Of Walter, Shot While Seated Last Night At Attack Similar To One On Walter Year Ago; Struck In Face By Shotgun Charge (Ry The Asnveinted Presa) DETROIT, May 25. — Victor Reuther, brojher of Walter Reu- ther, who was shot a year ago, was attacked in a similar manner shortly before midnight last night. Mrs. Reuther and three chil- dren were upstairs, and Victor Reuther was seated at a table in his dining room when a blast struck him full in the face. Reuther ran down the sta when she reached the dining Palace Theater JANET MARTIN and ROBERT LOWERY in | “HEART OF VIRGINIA” Shake and ¥% Lb. Jumbo- Burger DRIVE OUT TO SPIDER’S “gone | |. Police | Table In Home | room, saw her husband lying on the floor and bleeding profusely were informed abgut the shooting, and Reuther was | taken to a hospital, where it was | said he has a chance to recover, 1 CIO officials said it §was a das i tardly attack, as was the attack ; on Walter Reuther a year ago ' while he was in his home. The union still has up a $100,000 re ward for the arrest and convic- , tion of the man or men who tried ed to the German submarine st Take Possession Of City Goes On Trial For ACHESON STARES’ AT VISHINSKY ee ers 1) Wirephoto via Radio from Paris U. S. SECRETARY OF state DEAN ACHESON (right) turns in his chair to stare at Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky at the Big Four council of foreign ministers in Paris. Vishinsky is talking with reporters before the opening session of the council. < Hand-To-Hand Fighting Goes On In Shanghai While Reds Fierce Fire Northwest Of City © Nationalists Exploding. j been slain. A column was per- i mitted to get half way,across a ‘bridge on the Whangpoo River, when ambushed Nationalists |opening fire with artillery, ma- des wtk a cicciancen ‘ chine-guns and rifles. The entire SHANGHAL May g column, except for those who . g~ : jumped into the river for safety, o'clock - tonight, the sky in the; Was ‘annihilated. northwest from the heart of the} “Nationalists also’ fired from city, was.a sea of flame that leap- | housetops, and had used the main ea: inrtofigues” high into’ the he pare office as a hastily prepared An hour later a report was fortre batteries ceived that the gasoline, du concentrated fire an the post of- at an airfield had beén set on! fice and destroyed it. fire by retreating Nationalist; While tens of thousands of res- troops. lidents had fled from Shanghai, Nationalists not only destroyed; many other thousands stood on dumps but also bridges and mili-| housetops to watch the fighting tary installations of many kinds.! going on in the city. Red troops, in hand-to-hand Communists leaders, who have fighting in the heart of the city,!entered the city, reported that were seeking out Nationalists in| they had received word from the buildings or hiding places of any| government of India that the types and killing them without a jcommunist regime will be rec- show of mercy. i ized ag soon as it succeeds. in But many Red troops also have! setting up a government. sed By Gasoline Dump | - Communist Dr. Ayala, Naturopath, | ilverlisin OSes AL , James J “Deceptive” Being Tried In © McManus, Geor o Criminal Court | to assassinate Walter Reuther. } Walter Reuther is president of the automobile workers who are ! on strikegat the Ford plant. His NOTICE At the sounding of the siren on the corner of Truman Avenue and Grinnell St. traffic must come to a complete stop until the fire truck makes the turn into Tru- man Avenue. 1 BY ORDER OF . LEROY TORRES, CHIEF K.W.F. DEPT. Arthur Curry and Before Judge Lopez saunders "he trial will go j well into the afternoon, it was in-} And Jury Of Six | dicated | Judge Lopez denied the motion Dr. Rudolph Ayala, local natu- | of Defense Counsel William V. ropath, went on trial today in| Albury and Enrique Esquinaldo, | Criminal Court before Judge! Jy, that the law did not apply to | Aquilino Lopez. {a jury man licensed to practice natur- on alle char | “un | apathy by the State of Florida true, deceptive and miisic ; It was the contention of Allan} advertising placed in The Citizen.| B. Cleare, Jr, county solicitor, | ludge Lopez was acting t that the ations charging | al lawyer in place of Judge} Dr, Ayala with the offe: were | Thomas S. Caro, who withdrew | drawn, so that they constituted | rom the trial after the defendaat! an offen against the state. said that Caro might be preju-j Frank Castor, assistant director diced. | arcotics of the The jury hearing the. evi the warrants | dence in the case consisted of | Ayala with mis- | Milton C. Roberts, Arnold L. Cru | leading advertisirpg was on hand! BOAT LUMBER to testify | | ' FOR SALE BY OWNER | 1942 Packard 7-Passenger Limou- 7 » ° <i Q |sine—160 Series—Six Wheel— STRUNK LUMBER Y ARD | render Well Type—An ideal fam- TELEPHONE 816 | ily or Sightseeing Car. May be jseen at 404 DUVAL STREET.| NOTICE! NOTICE! Poinciana Bus No. | will temporarily use the fol- lowing route, pending completion of street repairs on regular route. Up Flagler to 14th street. From 14th Street to Eagie- avenue. From Eagle avenue to 15th street. From 15th street to Duck avenue. KEY WEST TRANSIT COMPANY, By Jack Sellers, General Manager. '| Francis at Division 10 Monroe Bills Pass House Of | Representatives TALLAHASSEE, May 257 "The following 10 bills, introduced by Representative Bernie C. Papy and relating 10 Monroe county, ! has been.passed by the Houses HB 1122, providing for bank closings on Saturdays ‘in Mon- roe; HB 1123, excluding land from Key West ter boundries; HB 114, relating to Stock Is- land; . ‘ HB 1127, relating to Monroe Anti-Mosquito Districts; HB 1128, relating to Monroe tion; HB 1173, requiring publication of Key West penal ordinances; HB 11174, relating to election of Key West commissioners; HB 1175, validating Stock Is- land lease to Legion Post; HB 1176, repealing act allow- ing to abandon Stock , Island lands; HB 1177, relating to Civil Ser- vice Board personnel director. Persons Notified To Be In Court Later Today; Ten Appeared In Court Yesterday A total of 14 warrants were is- sued for the arrest of persons on various streets today for failure to provide scavenger service by failing to pay the city for gar- | gage collection bills. In announcing this today, City Clerk Victor Lowe said the per- sons for whom warrants were is- sued live in Ann, Aronovitz lane, | Ashby, Caroline and Catherine streets. The persons were noti- | fiied to appear in Court late today. Ten more householders were Municipal Offered To City Federal Government Has No Further Use For Historie Landmark Near Center Of Island City City Manager Relph Spalding that disposei wi.] be ~a‘e in the The federal guvernmen® ere ‘ willmaterially aid thee) y". cour Alexander Goes : To Tallahassee To Urge Controls Commander Joseph Alexander,! USN, operations officer at Key County Commission compensa- | West Naval Base, left.for Jack-| sonville late yesterday, and later-| will go to Tallahassee to testify | as to the reenactment of state rent control bills. | Commander Alexander has previously been in Tallahassee telling the Senaté committee of | rent controls how, unless they, were established, a large number of Naval personnel in the Key, West area might be adversely af-| fected. 14 Warrants Issued For a Garbage Collection Bills | *” ey | | Sumthoned yesterday to appear in unicipal Court. Some of them | paid for the scavenger service, on ‘the spot, and the fines of $5 as ssed them “by Judge Hilary Al-| i bury were immediately suspen-! | ded. | It was announced today that} , those who have received warrants | ; will be given a chance to pay ‘their garbage collection fees be- | fore coming into court. Fine: ! will’ be suspended in all case: where immediate payment is made. : Unable to collect about $4,000 | in back scavenger bills, the city j has put into effect a boyvott on | homes and bu: places where ‘ the bills have paid Name In New Merchant Finds Use For Directory; Has ted 15,750 Persons As Living Here A Duval street merchant yes terday _ received a copy of the City Directory just issued~ by W. R Neblett. This morning he came into Neblett’s office in Southard 1 street. “You know,” he been looking for five persons for months trying to collect bills from them. Today 1 looked in the directory and found all five list- ed. “So I went out to one of said, “I’ve them, ETT EEL POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Phone 9134 Your PURE O1F, Dealer LET US Grease, Spray or Change Your Oil MIAMI - KEY WEST BARGE LINE. Inc. CLYDE-MALLORY DOCKS TELEPHONE 6 Barge Leaves Miami Every Friday Collects Bill By Tracing Directory * 1 jand came away with the full bill | | paid, a total of $29, That not only | | pays for the but for | the advertising I carry in it” directory | Neblett said today that he is delivering the finished copies of the directory to everyone of b customers. He said the directory listed a total of 15,750 persons i living in Key W not includ ling the single personnel iving on the various b. | The directory cost 0, just half what the previous directory | cost | “There are bound to be some inaccuracies in directory,” said Neblett It would not be hu ‘manely possible to make up such a document without them. I h «asked persons who find any in jaccurycies to report them to Later I hope to get but a cor tion sheet, with proper listings.” TIGERS GROWL But the GEARS In Your Car Should Be Quiet | | See Your Favorite Mechanic WE HAVE THE NEW PARTS \ | Roy's Key West Auto Parts Co. | 121 Duval Street Phone 442 | j i its beautiful, spacious grounds wiil | vocable agreement between ¢ last night told city comumémaroners in a special session that the lighthouse and grounds on Whitehesd street have be-n offered to the citys” ~_ Spalding --id thot @ government official had informed hint thet the government hid no jur'her forseeable need for the property and near future. b ‘ition to digger of the property toctions, “The lightineuse aie her Line reac to soe the Island City. City Southernmost Pistol Club To Be Granted Lease City Attorney Ignatias Leots was authoriged te drew up « City of Key West and the & ernmost Rifle and Puitel ©! The lease will be reversible the com#nissoners) «ill, and allow the rifle and piste! about 250° facing the U. S. heat way to the waterfront. The b is between the present mm pistol range and contemplate dog racing track M. Ignatius t rifle cheb club new how the el to Perky there © no city for their use fer said the Mate and pst range in tub hes 5 tional rifle the cit Motions Lost Because All Commissioners Not Preser A w én by the Heeveret ndmance ¢ ing @ charter ¥ penal ped by title only we te, 2-2, Cogun John Carbor A. Maithend yoner Fred J | agamet Commieteoner Hunter tarue aid to be f +s for a motion West High Seb t $100 to defray : tion expenses te « Harden in an could ne the meet < ( Harden brek aft Contunued On Page For the Good of Your Switch to Dodge “Job-Rated” Trucks Fit Your Job NAVARRO. Inx 601 DUVAL STRENT Busimeas RUMMAGE SALE SPONSORED ®8Y Fike PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (Benefit Organ CORNER GF ANGELS and SIMONTON sts 9t06P M Friday Thursday and Saturday