The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1949, Page 1

Ye hee wheat. Beper ied Here ther Weekend THE SO KEY S4P SAM NOW ‘BEST-DRESSED’ FOWL (#) Photo SAP GAM, the teatheriess fowl of Mobile, Ala.. joins the ranks of Aeowrten’s beet-dressed roosters as he models this snappy tweed The @eement is @ gift from Mr, Anne Brown of Ontario, 1 came just in time for Christmas—and for a cold wave @npeeted f bit the Gulf coast area soon. Before receiving his tee fe felt, Gem had worn an old sock to keep him from freez- ee «Me heen't eprouted «@ single feather since he was hatched Mereh. The man holding Sam is his owner, Nick Hassel- vendor, whe operates @ service station in Mobile. Cate UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER WEST FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1949 FUN NIGHT OPENS WEDNESDAY FOR thousands of visitors during the} TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 27.—(?). manager. that has been erected there. | and his condition was described fessional entertainer who has ap-| two weeks’ rest from His nent resident of Key West. = n YMCA To Have past winter seasons, will open for The pecéians staged ia the out vernor Warren.is back in This first show of the current’ 4. “good” today. peared before audiences in this}and physical exhaustion.” A 20 minute color movie of this ous . Additional Unit IN THE U.S.A. Building Permits Issued Here During 1949 Show Grand Total Of $2,054,085 , As 1949 draws rapidly to a close, with the unprecedented suather and value of building permits issued, Key West can look beck Ge © year of growth of the sort that spells stability and security, «ff | Residential construction reached an alli-ime peak in 100% with | a great portion of new homes being built for newcomers te Hey | West. At $.least 200 new homes have been built here this year Many ‘thers have been builtf#—— or purchased by long-time resi-, ‘dents who have seen this city blossom from a sleepy seafaring village to a bustling metropolis at the end of the United States. One of the most striking ex- ‘amples of the great expansion in private residence construction : j during the last year is seen in} that area off Roosevelt boulevard framing in Seidenberg, Fogarty, }Patterson, Flagler and other ‘streets. Le:s than a year ago, a big proportion of that section was either under water or covered by 'a tangled mass of undergrowth. | Today new streets have been ' : aid out by the city and old ones, | ms ‘extended by the city through! j (®) Wirephoto) those areas and an entire commu-| . sah nity has sprung up. on a io rhit | Neat, white houses line those ee w:.. {streets, and evidence of the Shallnar; Mela eieies: families | pride of ownership is seen in the Christmas. Now look! She's jmany personal touches which} NEW NATION BORN — rated by Ultsch. This film is par- ticularly interesting in that it re- cently won honors in a movie contest in Chicago. Community singing, with Mons. Bill Lee at the piano, and a quiz “Fun Night for Tourists”, ther. weekly entertainment programs that have afforded enjoyment to Warren Back it the fifth year Wednesday even- n 1 ing, according to Harold R. Laub- ospl a ppbes Chamber of Commerce} door patic of the YMCA building, | “Ne hospital. will be enhanced this year be-! The hospital says he was re- cause of a new permanent stage| admitted yesterday afternoon season will feature a long time fa ‘ vorite of Fun Night audiences,| Warten had been discharged Dick Bartholomew, a former pr from the hospital Thursday after “nervous country and in Europe. Bartholo-| physician could not be reached mew, a mental wizard, escape ar-| immediately for a statement on tist and conjurer, is now a perma-} his return. island, photographer last year by Louis Ultsch, a visitor here from Chicago, will be shown and ‘nar. ° ‘In Puerto Rico Forrest T. Turner executive | secretary of the Key West YMCA have been added by the occu-' got those shoes she cried for trim- and more. The little girl was | mings, trellises for flowers, land- scaping tricks and other devices set each house apart from its neighbor. i The main thing responsible for, shown in a recent news pic- ture rummaging through a pile of shoes given to the mining families. She was crying be- { pants. Brightly colored Warren Thanks Sales Tax Legislators TALLAHASSEE, Dee. 27 0% Christmas for Governor Wer ren was a time of thankagiving especially to 78 state lewmeher. The 78 are those whe voted yee on the state's sales tax-- « mau ure Warren says filled the Christmas stockings of more then 131,000 old folks, dependent ett dren and blind people In a statewide radio Speech last night, the G nor cond would be reverent and beewmne for these recipients of state we to “kneel in prayer and God” for the 78 selons. During hiy speech, Wares read the roll of thare sppreve the tax. To the name of the lege the IN EAST INDIES Since | this new community is the intro- lator, he added the sumher of Pe gets Delene weretans Comme fe hes Went Scenic South” tt, Phote- 1H toland City ™ Held On (Charge Reber be thew enna THCKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS me ee! This Morning AS FLAG IS RAISED BATAVIA Dee. 27. nation | | Bast Indies tociay f Java, e down BISHOP = 8 new = RSG wered as the red-/ fy ¢ « of the United; jomesta was hoisted Holland's tricolor, " wer the rich! han 300 years m Juli { broadcast of} to the 77,000,000 | ma the $ chain of} j tate was f the high| formal ndence apital o! P) Wirephoto MRS. H. A. CARITHERS, 56- year-old Winder, Ga. widow shown above, says she and Methodist Bishop Ivan Lee Holt. 63, of St. Louis, have made no immediate plans to marry. She made the state- ment in answer to rumors that | she would become the bride of | Bishop Holt soon. Bishop Holt, cheirman of the Council of Methodist Bishops, officiated at the recent ceremony which united Vice President Alben > > 2 Berkley and Mrs. Carlton Had- Hannas Pay Visit | ters racic. lo Citizen Office | ; ; State Geis Check For One Million Dollar Payment AHASSEE, Dec. expected tance 27.—(P). one million tax payment estat Edward §S. e today bolstered a sagging| (Continued On Page Six) Palace Theater PENNY SINGLETON and ARTHUR LAKE in “BLONDIE’S REWARD" SeeB BERR ee Weddell professor | History at Rollins, ed other books. Dr. Kathryn Ab- and lec show between representatives of the various states represented in the awdience is scheduled with attractive prizes to be awarded. A lady in the audience will be crowned “Queen of the Island” and receive awards also. The program will begin at 8 p. m, and no charge for admis- sion will be charge. cated in Isabella Segunro, the In the past four years, over] largest community on Vieques, a 8,000 winter visitors have sat in}small island off the southeast Fun Night audiences, according | coast of Puerto Rico. The estab- to Miss Gertrude Laubscher, | lishment of that unit came as the Chamber of Commerce commit-} result of 3 request by Brigadier tee chairman in charge. | General Edwin L. Sibert, USA, “We plan this year’s series to| Commanding General of the An- be even more ‘entertaining, and| tilles Command, who was con- a much larger attendance is ex-| cerned for the moral and recrea- pected for the year”, Miss Laub-| tional needs of the several thous- scher said. | and troops who will be stationed there in cppnecton Wie. he Back On Job In Cleveland City | | Fellowing consultations _ be- CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.—() tween General Sibert and his staff, and Mayor Antonio Rivero The striking Cleveland Transit workers have voted to return to} Rodriguez and other citizens of Isabella Segundo, the YMCA has approved a plan which calls for the rental of a building in that town. Mr. Bond stated that Brad- their jobs. And buses and trolley cars are expected to siart rolling immediately, although Transi officials do not expect normal schedules before tomorrow | ley Burns, E utive Se the Puerto Rico Armed YMCA, would direct the opera- tion sted by Lou Voelcker, now assigned to the Canal Zone. The AF of L Union men cided by an overwhelming voice vote today to obey a court in- junction to return to work. They | had left their jobs i 2 The building will open about x day: a dispute over January 1, 1950, and will operate until the first of April, 1950. vacations union officials have agreed not to try to bring up the matter again} USO, received an announcement today from Edwin E. Bond, exec- utive secretary of the Armed Ser- vices Department of the National YMCA, ‘that the-department will operate a temporary unit on the island of Vieques during the forthcoming Operation Porter. The new YMCA unit will be lo- from Puerto Rico. Mr. Turner says that according to Mr. Bond, the installation will be the official quarters for the ncuvers recreation pro- gram. As far as possible, all the services usually provided by the YMCA for the Armed Services during the present contract will be ilable. This will in During the strike, the ap-|olude si 1 games, radio and proximately 500,000 bus and trol-| phonograph, writing materials, ley riders had to resort to emer-| free estiee, organized recreation gency means of transportation. | progra and sightseeing tours. The city of more than one-million]" ‘The oranization of this unit, (Continued On Page Six) | Mr. Bond stated, continues a tra- ret Division Of Ships Here January Il Destroyer Division 122, consists of five destroyers put into Key West for night stay on January announced today at West Naval Base. | 6f YMCA work with the armed forces. Started during the Civil War, the / dd Services YMCA jhis continued its ministry to servicemen and women through peace and war since that time. Last year over 23,000,000 individ- ual visits were made to the 69 Armed Services YMCA's located it was) in continental United States and Key | abroad. At the present time, the jArmed Servi Department of whict wil in ove A; the of the reservists out of New Orleans. From Naval reservists will their training cruise Fine Fishing Tackle ids Thompson Enterprises, Inc. | Hardware Division—Phone 686 port cies of the newly her th 30. continue HAPPY 4th of JULY— Drive Out to Spider's, Take Worst Road | Food Furniture and supplies will come} dition of well over a half century The five ships will carry Naval| the YMCA is cooperating as one! ~| ing and cause none was her size. then she’s received 40 pairs, plus 20 dolls, clothing and $200 in cash, Some 50 miners have been jobless in Shalimar for ' months. still in are are | le girl on the} veterans through GI loans: First to bring this financing to struction Company, féaded JoJe Siruso. Sunshine Company, F ill 1 affiliated with A. G. Mathes, t K charge of financing for Flury and { our 1 e( Crouch, Incorporated of West ° I A d nt the pre-cut materials for the iin Aceiae | houses are turned out, bedroom houses have been sold ‘Near Ocala by the construction combine to | structed by Charles Toppino and cident reports continue to come | Sons, the firm headed by Max | in | | and the CBS construction compa- ed and seven other injured yes-|PY- \trday in a collision on the South} |by the Sunshine Company have | ‘The dead were: James Walker, | either been occupied by the own- of Howell, Michigan, Jewel Mc- , nree-bedroom house > intro- Alexander Walker, both of Ocala.; duced by the Sunshine company The seven inju in| ae 1 in sales during t holiday sea- ious condition. {son, several already have been saa ee A model of the three-bedroom who. amiothered to. dea house is located in Patterson a back seat of an auto | duction of home construction for Key West was the Sunshine Co) Which is erecting the houses, Palm Beach, in whose factories | While approximately 125 two- date, other homes have been con- | OCALA, Dee. 27.—(#)—The ac- Cohen, the Macross corporation There, four negroes were kill- Some 4) of the homes erect ‘Dixie Highway rs or are under cons’ tion, A Coy, of Tampa, Leroy Twilty and and despite the rected slump the hospital, two of them serd} soid. holding the father of nue, just off Fiith street. It is Seven months old Sharon Cas-|#lmost next to the two bedroom selman was dead on a al (Continued On Page Six) i j hospital Sunday. Her t: a Rey aca onubioas Truman Back At Key West Featured Work After Holiday Weekend ‘In | 10 * ‘Large Circulation KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27.— i - ()—Like his fellow countrymen, ' Key West ha: President Truman went back to ceived national 5 1, th Ma e in wuary i in E agazine Of ocea: graphic The President moved to his of- issue publiciz nd City in| fices in Kz a thirty page, 3 non-|end of family fun and talking fictional report | with old friends at Independence, LSaatured thr Missouri. He will work in his as en, Well hotel penthouse apartment, per- Waited State {haps on the final draft of his i Frederick three major messages to Con- Penor gress. But his Secretary, Charles | phe says there is nothing espec- 1 O urgent to do until Mr. Tru- | West /man returns to Washington to- attributed t¢ morrow iPife, ¢ ander U1 >| The President wound up lEoece U t et. Fife|home-town visit last night by dropping in to install officers of the Masonic Lodge at Grandview, plenty | near Ind ce, an old custom ind| with Mr n. He also visited erth-| his sister, Miss Mary Jane Tru- man, and some old friends who were having a cocktail party. life fect Tru mple shore a hh RA | POOR OLD CRAIG | SERVICE STATION Francis at Division Phone 91% Your PURE OIL Dealer LET U Grease, Spray o Change Your Oil Seceoccccvesseseeesescos WATCH FOR OPENING DATE of New Service Department NAVARRO'S Inc. SERVICE DEPARTMENT as City after a week- | his‘ at least, the British Crown col | mt recipients in his comp and the amount of muney they received in 1949, ) He Atidn't the matters ‘of any of the 56 lawrnter te voted agaisnt the sales tex Actually, he didn't call the = tax by name. He referred o# the votes “to raise money the legislators he patted back were the 22 Senator 56 Representatives wh the tax measure For the spring legislature in ger said it was “the greatest and constructive vened in Florida ‘LATEST WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF By The Associated Press EXPLOSION DESTROYS HOME AUBURN, Ma: sion and fire destroyed home in Auburn, Ma today. But it’s thought occupants were away at Nothing but the chimney 1eGaine of the home of carpenter- Sdwin ' Leal, his wife and two simiit phil dren. A TRUMAN KIDS FOTOMEN INDEPEN When President Trur at he usual morning she jibed the rs wh walk fay wa new 1 i hem treet fellows L know the think what you President tgld ther You COST PRISONER HIS FREEDOM | LOCK HAVEN, Pa , Robert Hamm free !come home for Christma turn ended a two-month for the 26-year-old prise | fled through the front do Clinton County Jail on | ber 1 — to arch My LINKED WITH LONDON HONG KONG.—Theoretically omy of Hong Kong off the South China coast, will be linked with Li don by rail New Year's Day Chinese mainland announced the railroad will be date. n The Communist Canton-Hankow opened on that BOAT BAR 53 Duval Street Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortable Baz ee eee