The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 10, 1949, Page 1

4 Sith e-em ee nae so (AP) Wirephoto A RESCUE PARTY WITH A STRETCHER removes a victim from earthquake aime at Ambato, Ecuador. Hundreds were killed in this town. Thousands per- ished i the 50 communities struck by the terrifying disaster. The homes of atenat 100,000 — were paieges. via many destitute. Man-Eating Clam Arrives At City Aquarium Tuesday Shipped To Island City _ Isles (COUNTY HOSPITAL OWES $20,000, Ot Philippines BOARD REPORTED YESTERDAY All Bills Made vov's Son Works Before Present Hospital With Russians Board Took Office, Is Report MOSCOW —() — Roger Kirk, | 19-year-old son of U.S. Ambassa- | Monroe County ~Hosital now. dor Kirk is really out to learn the | owes a total of around $20,000 for Resstartanguage. Having studied Supplies and services, the Hos- pital Board reported to the Coun- the language in the United States | before coming here with his fa- ty Commission at a special meet- |ing held yesterday afternoon. ther, young Kirk discovered he| Since the County Commission vuldn't speak it at all. had previously voted to give the Onee here he began studying | hospital $10,000, a similar amount This | if still owed bv the board. The “I want”, | board pointed out that the bills to learn the peopie’s lan-| were contracted before the pres- ent body took office. The board 6f hospital trustees also asked the County sion to have a state auditor audit | the books of the hospital so that the board may know exactly where it stands financially. There was considerable -dis- cussion of ways and means of raising the money the hospital now owes, but no final decision was reached. Frank Bentley, chairman of the County Commission, thanked the Hospital Board for its efforts and promised to work out some arrangement for untangling the finances of the hospital. Chairman J. D. McAndrews of the board attended the meeting and Dierided: |Overseas Commission Names Attorney William V. Albury was named attorney for the Overse»s Road and Toll Bridge District ata | meetnig held late yesterday after- noon in the county courthouse. | He will receive a salary of $200 a month. The commissioners directed | Assstant General Manager, Clif- | There was a small fire at the | ford G. Hicks, to award a contract Unit of the Kev West | to the lowest bidder. the Cameron Naval Base this morning. A row-| Company, for fill at Channel No. boat owned by a civilian caught|2 to protect the bridge in that and it drifted against a| locality. The other bidder was beree A call was dispatched to | Alonzo Cothron, who was award- Naval Station for the fire} ed a $15,000 contract for fill at spparatus. There was no damage, |the meeting of the commission ho one was injured {last month. { Present at the meeting were} | Assstant General Manager Hicks, DION'S AUTO SERVICE Commoners Sam B. Pinder, vice chairman; Mrs. Isabelle; maine: Ralph Betancourt, An- thony Demeritt and Sam Harris. | Terror Ot Pacific Pear! Divers Will Seon Be Placed Oe Exhibit Here & SOROTHY RAYMER ! arate with a professional teacher. till didn’t satisfy him atocoeet The * he said His father put him to work in « administrative section of the bessy, assigned to an embassy rk group. His work consists of | wing things, repairing them, | maintenance and supply. “He'll earn the people's language. lal eht”. said am embassy offical, watching young Kirk laboring with a group of Russian works t Commis- Snipe To Leave Here Tomorrow MMS Snipe, British war ship which has been at Key West Na- val Station since Saturday, will at 4p.m. for Jucksonville, where she will like- wise stop a week during her cur- ent good will tour Last night the officers of the guests of the Key/ is Club at a meeting} at South Beach Restaurant. meets were said and the mem- f the club joined in singing America and God Save the King, the British national seem: Small Fire At Ordnance Unit leave tomorrow ber Ordinance | SPMEMEER .. . Strunk | amber ivers Verd Dot Complete Auto Service Your Orders Today c H |Commissioner Edwin F. Trevor | ee Card ts in Kev West Seatare OW P lis absent from the city, and | Tremendous Stocks Mere |Commissioner William Arnold ; Ve Gerve Vou STRUNK LUMBER YARD | was reported to be ill. | BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street. Phone 9165 Back-Flush ange Oil, Newly Decorated | Cle: | Radiato buretor Jet, . Lubricate Car. ¢ Sports Results Dail | Check Brake Fluld, Adjust Genera- (OR ERED Navarro, Inc., Opp. Bus Station ERGOT > (AP) Wirephoto RUINS OF THE TOWN CATHEDRAL at Ambato, Ecuador, are piled high in the street by the earthquake that killed thousands of people in 50 communities. Two hundred were reported killed in the fallen cathedral. The mighty quake destroyed many homes and left about 100,000 people homeless. Cililcenian Doubts Florida Type Of Bas LA JOLLA, Calif—(4)—One more item has ben added California-Florida rivalry. Dr. Carl L. Hubbs, professor of Biolo- gy at the University of Califor- nia says Florida’s smallmout! bass are really largemouth bass The statement is made in a pa- per Hubbs published with Dr. Reeve M. Bailey of the University of Michigan. The paper says that smallmouth bass have been plant- ed in Florida, but they do not do well. And it suggests that claims of record smallmouths caught in Florida be disallowed because these fish are really largemouths. | Czechs Punish Mine Absentees PRAGUE — (4) — Labor jurie: composed of miners which sit a the mines to sentence slackers represent. Czechoslovakia’s latest medium ‘to: check absenteeism in its coal pits. The juries hand out various disciplinary _ penalties against their loafing colleagues. Absenteeism apparently ha: spread recently. Disciplinar: measures, formerly on a district basis, now have been installed on a nation scale, Squads of “volun- tary brigade” doctors have been formed to visit slacker suspects at their homes and, when they find them at the movies or in pubs while claiming to be ill, re- port them for penalties. The doc- tors are also watched by picked trade union and Communist party workers to prevent collus- | ion with slackers. Names and, in some cases, pic- tures of chronic absentees are posted on bulletin boards at the mines or in’ town squares their names are broadcast over town loudspeaker systems. Names of the diligent miners are posted en henor rolls. To City Hall Today Charles R. Roberts, city comp troller and finance director, re- turned to his desk at City Hall today after an absence of two weeks on vacation. Reberts spent nearly all his holidays in Miami ana Miami Beach. While at Miami Beach his nephew, Billy Rob- erts, 14,y was with him. Complete Stock of jin to, and | Survey To Be Made At Tavernier By County Heads Monroe County Commissioners | in regular session last night vot- | ed to have a survey made in Tavernier adjoining the Will Cur- ry property. Curry had asked for the survey | because the Upper Keys resident stated that he could not now de- ; termine just where his property lis. { Curry admitted that the pres- ent road is in the wrong place, but | he suggested that the road be established where it is now. This establishing of the county {road would allow Curry and the other residents near him to de- termine the Jegal property boun- | daries.of their land. The Commission. unanimously | voted to make the survey, Appoint Laura Collins Public Health Nurse Laura Virginia Collins was ap-} pointed a public health nurse at a salary of $235 monthly. Nurse; | Collins will serve under Monroe, ‘ounty Health Department Di- | rector, Dr. William Peeples. Record July | Receipts On Toll Bridges Collections of tolls on the Overseas bridges last month was{ the largest for July since the! bridges were constructed. The} receipts totaled $48,200. | Motor vehicles of all types ‘using the bridges numbered 26 976. | Passengers bridges last | 865. over the | totaled 39,- | passing month | Miss Clark Quits ‘As Teacher ! Mar cience | The resignation of Miss tha Clark as a teacher of and English at Key West High School was received today by; | Horace O'Bryant, county school ; | superintendent | | O'Bryant said that there are | now three vacancies among | | {teachers here. The others are ; Truman Elementary School and} a music teacher at Douglass School All teachers will report for | duty next Monday. They will} spend their time between Mon- | day and September 6, when the schools open again, getting ready to teach their respective sub jects a and grades. REASONABLE PRICES Formica and Enameled Tileboard and Trims for your own installation Also Inlay Linoleum and Guaranteed For Life “Kentile” Asphalt Tile Key West Floor Covering Co. 132 DUVAL STREET PHONE 1454 i | 4 ‘Pie Throwing j ty-nine American j them ‘Miss Roberts Is Government Loan Backs Movie LONDON—(@)—Movie Produc- er Arthur Dent thinks audiences still will laugh at somebody be-! ing slapped in the face with a pie, just as they did back in the twenties. He has made free use of the old gag in his new f comedy, “Skimpy in the Navy.” In three weeks of shooting, the cast used 500 custard pies, for in part by a government pro- duction loan. | Policewoman Gets Blackeye SINGAPORE—(#)—A_38.year- old woman vegetable seller earn- ed the questionable distinction! of being the first person in Singa-+ pore to give a member of this‘ island's new women police force a black eye. Lan Choon was sent to prison for six weeks for as sault and was fined $10 for hawk- ‘ing without a license. Policewoman Miss Susi Gan was the chief« ‘witness “against | Lam. Wearing a definitely dis- | coloured left eye, Miss Gan said! she tried to arrest the vegetable seller only to receive a sharp) left to the eye. Miss Gan had to} call a police constable to bring as emblance of order. |Greece To Get 49 American Dive Bombers (By Tae Associated Preas) WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—For dive Panbonn| are on their way to Greece, ac cording to an announcement made here today. It was that they will reach their destina | said further | tion before the end of this week | (Athens reported great satisfac tion among government force over the Washington announce ment about the bombers cor officials said that they can be used I" | effectively in the mountain fast nesses in northern Gree where fighting between guerillas and | 8overnment troops has been guing on for five days.) Washington said that airmen will be trained in pinpoint ! bombing. When the Greek flyer take to the air to attack the quer they will be able to react in all parts of the m j tainous areas C illas, Still Missing Miss Lelanette Roberts, 28, of 1218 Petronia street, who dinay peared some time early Sunday was still absent from home, ac cording to a statement today by Deputy Sheriff Frank Webbe No word has been received of the young woman's whereabouts, the deputy reported. Palace Theater CHIPS RAFFERTY and HELEN GRIEVE in “BUSH CHRISTMAS” tempts to beat beck the ee eee legions. The Nationsiat ceametiie eee © ae See & © victories in several sectors vest | agrees Qn = ame « It was revealed that Genereie ange ee ee oe simo Chiang Kai-Shek hes mate | eat , au — « {ats headquarters in Fomess . ‘ sag - |Armed Services 3 end > gear Navy Day To Be <r s S. Observed Here == ae Se paid [of Armed Services Navy Day BS. a went ' | General Bradley ‘Chiefs Of Staff To Be 115 Miles From Canton (Ry Aneecteted Geeune CANTON, China, Aug 10-—Pet Jowing the announcement of Ne tionaltst government officials ther a Red army of 11,008 bad teen circled, communist commande announced today that they foe. * ;Were within 215 mules of tts ” icity feces teanagtioae ty The Communist leader sant ede “oom -« further that contingents of thew ne Bee * nae army continued te advan t | © tues = ward Canton. women Swe ee ae Nationalist officials said that » ty the Key Wet Meee ieee major battle apparently » © the The bed ste se aie making. and that the Nateonstwtsjed b> ge? cgemeee ~ are com ing thetr forces m ati tere af the Me. SOR Nang Navy Day will not be oteerwed this year, but an Armed Sere Day will be, the Key Weet Me Base announced \otay Navy Day last yer wes ob (URE Ff napa: served on October 27 Me dete |i a nae ey has yet been set for ateervetes }oagemete eet all v8 he GENERAL BRADLEY TESTIPEES IN FAVOR OF REARMAMENT BILL IN ITS PRESENT FORM Deciaces The em African Troops =» "ene Ae ener Hailed For Cot War Me Fons “Chute Jump 1 Rete Beers: LE Meng vunand, 4 ars including anxious dozen suidiers assert in the colony + cally recruited parat vlat ve “ee from # plane Hithe ° dents had Dirt use. When the « ces of the against the w neared the |Made Head Of (Ry The Anemeneee Peeee WASHINGTON fense See aid toda Genera « # head of the ot staff As a Navy ar ‘ stated gre ate fuphicat tain 1.6 . He ‘ nk .