The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 1, 1949, Page 1

——_—_—_—__—* Report Also Roy ROYAL OUTING Butler Will Not + ALL Tl ‘ Remain Head Of Public Service street, was slightly injured in a collision -between a city dump : ‘ truck and a taxicab in which the Laborites have been, Be 3 Src 7 : trying ache roel i - Garcia was taken to Monroe. months. § r County Hospital, suffering from ‘was given the go-ahead by Com. seratches on one arm and glass} wound in his right side. According to Patrolman (Continued On Page Six) It is not known whether , resignation of Cap- tain Spalding will be received or At the meeting today the com- mission is due to consider, among | wee County ‘Beard of Heath for! Plan To Build roe Sint ened te ihe oy, a. War Memorial’ , chine, owned by the city, for. WAY’ WV eee, a me At C * eS * The commission is also to act GREENSBURG, Pa.—(#)—The on the spassage and adoption of a resolution authorizing the direc-| we tmoreland County Lodges ok the Sons of Italy are waging a tor ef finance to refund the face highly successful campaign in! value, less any allawances made one ofjany excess tax stamps} support of the national organiza! tion’s orphanage project. The! City Manager Spalding . took| Son. of Taly have. plans to bul an i 4 lision of-an-Eastern Air- over the management | of Key for Italian childre by | Tian th EP nen ar ince that time he has worked| J its ered- : at Cas ey. in” memory’ others are newly appointed . . to improve the relations between| Ameritatt soldiers who died dur-' byte i AL wher categor- batsy BAe 8 ROE ee cy iid the Hey, West Navel peed agen ame i : in the killed. Station. He knows personally 3 ‘estmore- ies include the Bishops of the v 4 . land county group has given $16, Church ‘of —— ea Léed The “wrecked airliner rested | Many of the officers at the base-| 999 toward the project. ‘ How ever, most ev a rds partly in the Patomac River after For years he was an officer in don't attend sessions. ey sit! the crash. the U.S. Navy, retiring as a < out the time in their sometimes The small military plane was captain in the engineering sec- ll Fire Alarms a P-38 which the Bolivian gov- | tion. eetnre . During October Total number of fire alarms ernment had purchased recent- In the last World War, ly. The plane was on a test coming to Key West, he had sounded: in Key West during Oc-. but tober was 11) according to a re- wh illed t ‘5 53 persons were experts who have been appointed ; the beeause of their knowledge of the law. Former Resident Retires As P-O Agent In Miami D. S. Wilson, a native of Key ‘West, has retired from_ the ser- vices of the P. & O. .Steamship company where he has been di- vision passenger agent since 1946. Wilson is retiring because of ill- ness. Wilson first entered the ser- vices of the P. & ©. in 1908 as a bookkeeper. After eight years he was promoted to chief purser on the SS Olivette, and he served during the next eight years as purser on the SS Mascot, the ss Gov. Gobb, the SS Miami, and the SS Florida. Later he became traveling passenger agent. When the war began. Wilson offered his services to the U. S. flight from National Airport. charge of the construction of the Eastern Airlines said that ‘the | immense U. S. installatoin DC-four, flight number 537, left|@t Great Lakes Naval Station, Boston at 9 a.m. EST. and had] Which is near Chicago. _ stopped at New York. Shortly after hi appointment It cleared La Guardia Airport | @S city manager, Captain Spald- at about 10:30 und was due to|ing began the planning to repave land at Washington at 11:46. about several miles of the city Skies were overcast but visi-| Streets. He first worked out an bility was unlimited and the ceil-| agreement whereby the city ing was several thousand feet at could have the use of the marl the time of the collision of thejthe Navy has assembled on two planes. - Dredger’s Key. The smaller plane was said to] .Then came the letting of the have been completely wrecked | contract for the repaving. The immediately after the collision. |Successful contractor built his Planes of the DC-four type can plant for mixing the marl and carry 50 or more passengers. the oil into the compound used in BERN EE SP TRE: Ree RE the tepaving work he | Darvas Kessler To Confer |tva hurricane season and was With Commission About Canal Status finished well before the opening B. R. Kessler, legislative con- of the tourist season. i When completed. Simonton, Du- sultant for the Atlantic and Gulf ‘Canals Assn., Incorporated, has val, Whitehead, Fleming, White, notified Commissioner John Car- Chief Leroy Torres to City Man- ager Ralph D. Spalding. | There were three house fires, Mer four of brush and debris, circuit, one a bridge fire at Geig-! er’s Key and one a false alarm. The fire. loss was $100 last month, Torres announced. | 5,070 Citizens May Vote Nov.8 | A total of about 5,570 citizens of Key West became eligible to vote in the election next Tues- day by registering at City Hall, Victor Lowe, city clerk, announc- ed today. At 5:30 p. m. when the regis- tration books closed, there were still a few to register. par AND FIVE CARS reiled in this wreck near Azusa, Calif., but it broken rail was blamed for the. wreck. tanks of the, locomotives. optimal To Sales Tax | Are Made Here Key West folks generally. paid new sales tax which went into effect. today without protest, many of them-did object to at they termed “nuisance port submitted .today by Fire taxes.” Joe Pearlman, chairman of the rchants Division of the Key one West Chamber of Commerce, said caused by a stove, and a short there was nota clear under- | standing of wnat goods were tax- ¢ able and what were not taxable. “| straightened j Pearlman. “Some objected to the taxes, but the majority of pur- chasers made no protest.” An Associated Press spot check of merchants in showed little grumbling law will later,” be said suppose the out cities ‘on the seattered t of buyers. Most. stores reported consider- able good natured banter be-/ tween clerks and customers but few serious complaints. The most complaints centered around complicated exemptions. Si ome stores reported confusion (Continued On Page Five) Southard and Greene streets had bonell that he will be in the city bee repaved. The work was doné shortly for a conference with the before December, 1948. Since then under the city man- city commissioners relative to the Miami-Key West canal. ager’s direction many other Kegsler stated that no moneys streets have been improved. The streets are graded and the mark have been appropriated by the last Congress for the canal, but is spread with oil. that the AGCA is continuing to City Manager Spalding told newspapermen at City Hall that present arguments before Wash- ington officials in the canal’s be- the most important project con- (Continued On Page Four) half. Kessler is of the opinion that dae MAR im the deepening of the proposed Fine Fishing Tackle canal will mean thousands .of Thompson Enterprises, Inc. tourist dollars spent in Key West Hardware Division—Phone 886 and Monroe County. | PEAR RU SIRI RREREF IIE ECT Palace Theater LON CHANEY and LOUISE ALLBRITTON in “SON OF DRACULA” Government as a censor. By the end or the war he headed the personal mail department in the Miami censorship office. Wilson's service with the P. &- O. company was over a period of 41 years, except for four and a half wartime years with the U. Ss. Government. 1. I Advocate A Master Plan for the Development of KEY WEST HARVEY 6-A “The Man With A Plan¢ Now Under New Management Cocktail Lounge Open from 2 P.M. to 4 A.M. WEAVER'S — CO OO Vote For LOUIS PHO! 1 See a TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS ummm 60 en ine 8c CD | — LATEST WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF By The Associated Press QUIT UNION resenting | the floor of the CIO National Convention following announce- ment that their union no longer will pay dues to the parent | group. POWER FAILURE DAYTON, O.—A power failure | stopped service throughout a (Continued On Page Five) Strike Averted In Gulf Coast Ports NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 1.—() —Along the Gulf of Mexico, a jlongshoremen’s strike has been everted. For about an hour today it looked as though the Longshore- men would walk out at Gulf ports from Lake Charles, Louisi- ana, to Brownsville, Texas. The | walkout would have idled about | 10,000 dock worker: But then the wor ecepted an offer from employers and the strike plans wer iped out. An employer spok an says the agreement provides no change in jthe longshoremen’s basic wages. But it does grant a benefit diffe- rential equal to seven cents an hour. i iw e ra ‘Twins Garage STUDEBAKER DEALER 1130 Duval St. Key West. Fla. 1947 STUDEB.\KER Commander } Regal De Lu e 5-Pas. COUPE. Fully Equippe+ Like New. 946 MERCURY Convertible. Very Low Mileage. One Owner. Will Sell Below List. 1949 DODGE 5-Pas. COUPE. Ra- dio, Will Sell Below List. ———— CLEVELAND.—Delegates rep-! | 6,000 square mile area of South-j Of Industries Help Florida | growing use of pensions. is a most important faetor affecting Flori- ida real estate. ja real estate | tion. into effect and more people withdraw from business or fixed incomes, they'll be a greater mi- gration to the fair weather He thinks Florida’s problem will be holding its own in selling | the state to the rest of the coun- ttry as the ideal place in which to spend the retirement years in delightful ease. R. E. Crane Buys Property On Keys ‘For $40,000 {| Raymond E. Crane of Ford City, Pa, has purchased 269.27 lacres of land on Florida Keys jfrom the Model Land Company {for $40,000, according to a*war- ranty deed filed in the office of {Circuit Court Clerk Earl A. Ad- ams yesterday The land was sold to Crane in four pieces, scattered over vari- ous Keys. There were in one lot; 127.16 acri er; 75.722 in one more and in the last, 31 acres. BOAT BAR 503 Duval Street, Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED FOOTBALL GAME RESULTS Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortable Bar ee JACKSONVILLE, Nov. 1.—(?) the CIO Electrical ,—Florida realtors meeting here | Workers Union have walked off: have beer. told that industry’s The statement was made in a | prepared speech by James C. | Downs, Junior, the president of research corpora- Downs told the group that as more retirement plans are put under corStruction last month was 31. px ars Four building permits were is- sued yesterday to the. Sunshine Construction company for homes costing $7,200 for William, Noel at 2115 Seidenberg avenue; for Louis Strong at 2019 . avenue; for Joseph Pierce at 2026 Harris avenue, and for Jo- seph Chambers at 2018 Harris avenue, Joe Sirugo, president of Sun- shine Construction company, also took out a permit for $500, the cost of a temporary storage ware- house he will construct at 2206 Fogarty avenue. 500 Merchants Attend Sales Tax Discussion night attended the sales tax ¢li- nic, sponsored by the Key West Chamber of Commerce that was held in the Monroe © County courthouse. Te tax law, which went into effect today, was explained briefly by Howard E. Wilson, di. rector of the Chamber. Some discussion of the new law was made by Ralph C. Dickson, who recently attended a conference in Miami on the meastire, © Then the meeting was thrown open to questions. There were questions from grocery operators; filling stations; clothing — stores; restaurants, drug stores, in fact from nearly everyone in the city who has to collect the taxes, ‘NOTICE Scottish Rite Masons Fall i of Cousistory He. 4 ‘Will baie on Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1949, at 8:00 P.M., at Scottish Rite Temple. All candidates and please be present. All Scottish Rite members are in- vited to attend. FOR CITY. M. J. EISNER ccniussion Approximately 50° personselast _