The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1950, Page 1

VOL, LXXI. No. 3 Truman Delivers State Of Union - Message To Congress Ic Hopes For Day When Americans Will Have One~ Trillion Income WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—(4).— President Truman has delivered his State of the Union message to the Congress in joint session, and to the nation as a whole. The Chief Executive mixed humility with pride in the achievements of the nation. He voiced hope that the nation may one day have a one-trillion dollar _ economy, a day when the average family income will be $12,000 a year. ’ Closer to the present, the Chief Executive recommended _ that Congress impose what he called “a moderate amount” of new taxes. He did not specify just how much he wants,from new taxes. Nor did he suggest where Con- &ress should turn to get them. President Truman | suggested that some present tax inequities be reduced, and he suggested a tax program that would stimu- late business. But if this means any tax reductions, the President didn’t say so specifically. The specific tax proposals are to come from the White House later, in a special message. And then, the President is expected to suggest an end to many wartime levies on so-called luxuries, but® he’s expected to demand com- pensating tax revenue. The President said he’ll submit his new budget on Monday. But he described the money proposals in advance as the lowest .. . con- sistent “cold war” requirements and essential economic needs at home. = iy “the budget. But he did not say that his new budget necessarily will hold government spending within government income and.so get the nation out of the red. In fact, his message today sug- gested that there may be another federal deficit next year. Many of the congressmen in the President's audience have been advocating sharp cuts in govern- (Continued On Page Five) 29 Crewmen Ask Navy Protection HONG KONG, Jan. 4—(4).— Twenty-nine crewmen of an American freighter, The Flying Arrow, have asked the State De partment to arrange naval _pro- tection on their trip'to Shanghai. Otherwise the 29 seamen. want to be released from their work con- tracts. The seamen’s, action follows re- ports that the Nationalists have mined the approaches to Com- munist-held_ Shanghai. Miss Hudgins Be Released From Hospital Thursday Miss Tiny Hudgins, 16, daugh- ter of Henry C. Hudgins of Sum- merland Key, who. was injured in a crash of automobiles in Oevrseas Highway Sunday morn- ing, will be released from Mon- roe County Hospital on Thurs- day, her father informed The Key West Citizen today. In the same crash a Navy Chief Petty Officer, Nick Badovinatz, 32, of Roundup, Montana, was fatally injured. The chief was driving along the highway and apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Also injured was Fred Lasley, 20, of Key West, who was driv- ing the car in which Miss Hud- gins was riding. 3 Sd Sete POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Division Phone 91% Your PURE OIL Dealer LET US Change Your Oil Grease, Sprey a: } i A GHALLENGER AIRLINES PLANE rests tail up after skidding 300 yards out of control while landing at the Sali Lake City airport. The big plane hurtled across a highway adjacent to the field and wrecked car (right foreground), which carried four persons. Five persons were injured in the crash. The plane carried nine passengers and a crew: of three. “Maid Of Cotton” | Title Goes To Elizabeth McGee MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 4.—(7). Boos Nite Party Tonight a For Tourists At YMCA + —————=———# Tourists and — winter AIRLINER SKIDS ACROSS HIGHWAY; WRECKS CAR (&) Wirephoto —A 19-year-old girl has been sar a Coton | $1, 800,000,000-Gut comés from Spartanburg, South Carolina..She beat 19 other con- testants from the 12 cotton belt states. Elizabeth will be good-will am- bassador for Cotton. She will tour America and Europe for six months. In addition, she gets prizes of 2 new car and scads of clothes, all cotton, of course, The new “Maid of Cotton, has brown hair, hazel-green eyes, is | five foot six inches | weighs 117 pounds. In addition to | looks, she won the contest for her \ knowledge of cotton. Mrs. Fuller Warren InKey West Today. It Is Reported Mrs, Fuller Warren, wife of Governor Warren, was_ reported to be in Key West today She was seen briefly in the lobby of the Casa Marina Hotel, and later departed without stat- ing her destination. Mrs. Warren attended the Orange Bowl football game at Miami and was said to have left shortly after the game was ended for a trip down the Florida Keys. | She represented Governor War- ren at the Orange Bowl] game. Governor Warren was ill in a Tal- lahassee hospital the day the game was played. State Highway Patrol car No. 1, a Cadillac, in which the Governor or the Governor's party usually ride was seen traveling around Key West streets this morning While Here, Mr. Truman May Go To Dedication When President Truman comes to Key West for his annual March visit, he will be invited to attend the dedication of the South Cen- tral Flood Control Project, Rep- (Continued On Page Two) Visit the Wedding Ring Store Three - Five Day Repair Service @All New and Repaired Watches eELECTRONICALLY TESTED for ACCURACY Knonles Jenelers | $04 SOUTHARD STREET tall. and} Seen In Budget For 1951 Fiscal Year WASHINGTON, Jan, 4.— (#).—House’ Speaker Sam Rayburn said today that President Truman's budget for the fiscal year 1951 will call for a cut of $1,800,000,000 from this year’s spending. Rayburn said the budget will reflect cuts of about three billion dollars in foreign , aid and defense spending and an increase of about $1,200.- 000,000 in domestic spending. Se Predict Greater Labor Problems In Next Ten Years NEW YORK, gan. 4.—(/?).-—A steel industry trade paper— Iron (Continued On Page Three) \ SCHOOL BOARD APPROVES visitors 1 will be entertained at the weekly Chamber. of Commerce: Fun Nite {party tonixht at: ther px, OPE. [air patio, B "o'eloy On tonight's: program will’ ap> pear Captain Bill Kroll, of the | local aquarium, who will give a ; talk and show specimens of fish |and marine life that grow in Key | West waters. A short. and entertaining color |film featuring .Paul ‘Chotteau, | champion long distance swimmer ! will be shown. The film will des- ‘eribe an experiment» Chotteau has made by ‘harnessing a live \shark toa small - pontoon-like ‘eraft for the purpose ef furnish- ing power to pull.a ‘man through the water | His aim while‘here’this winter is to make the trip‘from Key West * to Havana via shark power. An audience ‘participation skit is planned for the evening and communily singing will be sche- duled. A new Queen of the Island lected this week and ates of award to those visi- , tors who ght fish on last tweek’s Chamber sponsored fish- ling party will be made. ' Al winter visitors are invited to attend tonight’s party. No ad- mission is charged THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER YY WEST FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1950 | Station tomorrow. for extensive, Pirepairs to her flight deck—has |.) twice | penviable record. task groups of the Pacific offen- P’sive against. Japan, she and her a. planes and hit over 260: ships in omorrow Known. throughout the U. S. Navy's wartime Pacific Fleet as the “Iron Lady,” the veteran 13,- 000-ton aircraft carrier Cabot— coming to the Key West Naval earned for herself an While a unit of several famed ir groups destroyed over 350 16 months of nearly continuous action. ¥ - The Cabot was the first major “Ship to be: returned to. active ser- | fice in the Navy after-she had spent 2 1-2 years as a unit of the Atlantic Reesrve Fleet in “moth- balls’ at Philadelphia, Pa. Since her recommissioning in October, 1948 she has been at- ttached to the Naval Air Training Command at Pensacola, the Navy's “Annapolis of the Air”. There she has helped hundreds of fledging Navy pilots learn the exacting requirements of carrier poperations and to win their wings. Twelve times in the past year she has operated with Naval Re- serve fighter and torpedo squad- drons on training cruises that in- cluded visits to such ports as New Orleans, Galveston, Tex., Hava- na, Cuba, Mobile, Ala., and other Florida ports. Such annual cruises help keep these squadrons, whose civilian pilots are ex-Navy veterans, at peak efficiency, ready for any eventuality. The Cabot is commanded by Captain Charles L. Lee, USN. Her executive officer is Commander] - Gorman C. Merrick, USN. Permits Issued, |Month-By-Month, |SL 1949 [IN Roy F. Butler, Department of director of the Public Service IN “THE U.S.A wears a flower lei. MOVIE ACTOR CLARK GABLE AND HIS BRIDE, the former Lady Sylvia Ashley Fairbanks, relax at their rented honeymoon cottage. near Honolulu’s Waikiki Beach. Gable wears an alhoa short. The bride is aitired in a Hawaiian print dress and Day GABLE AND BRIDE ON HONEYMOON - 7 DAN CU It was easier sledding for Dan today gave The Key West Citizen} Cupid in Monroe County during a breakdown of the amounts of|the year building permits issued by his of-| Courthouse revealed today. fice in 1948 and 1949. As previously published in The| the office of County Judge Citizen, the building permits last year totaled $2,155,135, as com- pared with $1,469,415 in 1948. Here is the month by month picture of permits issued in 1948 and 1949: 1948 19439 January $ 143,900 $ 107,300 February 100,042 159,725 March 123,790 126,665 April 182,045 78,740 May 87 183 85,100 June 185,619 118,360 July 63,385 206,865 August 100,180 176,150 September 117,090 279,075 October 113,450 290,105 November 171 406 241,550 December 76,325 285,500 Totals $1,469,415 $2,155,135 OF $453,000 CONSTRUCTION FOR 28 SCHOOL ROOMS Monroe County School last night approved of the con. struction of a total of about 2 school rooms in the _ public schools th shout the county at a cost of approximately $453,000. Architect William H. Merriam of Coral Gables was instructed to proceed with the final p! the specifications for new rooms First he and Horace O’Bryant, iperintendent of will go to Tal Monroe County public instruction lahassee early next v mit pecifications to the Sta Authorities. They will seek approval of the plans by the State Board of Public Instruction. Then, once the plans are final- ly aproved by the State, they will BOAT BAR $03 Duval Street Phone 9165 AIR-CONDITIONED Sports Results Daily Key West's Most Comfortable Bar i »ek to sub-! for bidding. Before the con- cts are let the board will have {to have the money on hand from the $500,000 bond issue that it to be made. | ‘The tentative plans submitted | to the School Board call for these rooms in the various schools: | ors | | Plantation Key School, six | classrooms, lunch’ room, library | and office. | Marathon School, two class- rooms. Pointeiana School, four class- rooms and toilet facilities, to be built at the stadium end of the | present structure. | Key West High School, con- i struction of a library, study hall. | science rooms, lunch room, band ‘room, and rearrangement of sev- eral of the rooms in the Senior High School. | Reynolds Street School, con- ruction of two classrooms, a {kitchen and toilet facilities. | Douglass School, construction of three clasrooms and a shop. Harris School, providing for two portable classrooms, since the State Board of Education will not approve of any additional rooms 1 | | jof the | schoolrooms, Board| submit them to various contract-;being placed at the old Harris School building O'Bryant said today that out $500,00 bond issue the School Board will have to pur. chase equipment for the new pay the architect's fees and pay for getting the bond issue approved. “We are still hoping that when the actual bids are received for the work that the figures will be lower than the architect's esti mated ¢ ”, said. O'Bryant, “If the bids > lower then the Board can add other rooms to the schools. “The architect has planned ahead, so that if new rooms are added they will fit into the over-| . all plans. We expect it will take close supervision to keep the cost (Continued On Page Five) Palace Theater CHESTER MORRIS and JUNE VINCENT in “TRAPPED BY BOSTON BLACKIE” 1949, records at the Marriage applications fii in y- mond R. Lord totaled last year, while the number of peti- tions for divorce in the office of Circuit Court Clerk Earl A. Ad-} ams totaled 314. _ | last year over 1948, it is revealed by the records. Divorce petitions! were filed for 299 in 1948, while last year, as recorded above they; totaled 314 | While some local couples, of course, go to other counties or \other states to seek divor system wo! S. out of state and out of town ny dents come here s¢ g divorces on the theory that Key West is so remote from other centers that no} unpleasant publicity will be at- tached to the proceedings. Marriage ap; ations filed last year show that 21 were filed in! January; 28 in February; 24 in| March; 41 in April: 15 33 in June; 26 in July; 33 ust; 29 in September tober; 33 in November. December 49, the record month, , was recorded | Petitions seeking divorecs for the years 1948 and 1949 follow 1948 1949 January 20 21 February 15 27 March 34 42 April 14 35 May 28 3 June i4 July 35 August September October November December Total 299 314 Small Grass Fire At830 A.M. Today: eet m. today y dan was no prope MONROE COUNTY Race Track Tax Name Garrison Federal Board Approves Radio System Of Police City Manager Ralph D. Spald- the Federal Communications Commission has approved of the proposed new City Police radio’ item. When the radio system is hook. ed up from a central station, all police cars and motor cyeles will tem on communication. The city manager said the stem is so designed to take are of changes that are to be made about July 1 by the Fed- eral Communications Commis- j sion. The frequency of the local system will likely be changed, the city manager said. $10,000 Check In Monroe County will r ve a check for $10,000 as its first cut of the season's race track betting taxe ate Comptroller C. M. Gay announced today in Talla- Each county e for Special Cop R. E jal deputy Garrison, formely a spec- sheriff, was today given an appointment as a spec-| office, Police Chief Kemp said. Garrison ial police Joseph O. will go on-special duty in a night] ‘club. He will be paid by the club own Guess HOW MANY Balloons | A New Dodge or Plymouth CAN HOLD | | ij NAVARRO, Inc. Service Department |120 Simonton St. SREB BEE eee JALOUSIE DOORS and WINDOWS Strunk Lumber Yard Phone 816 BSG e ERB ERBEEBS 52 7 Hl i i i stories, with the company on the ond floors. A is to be built No Z 1o A plan to gi “service of cont stracts, instead of about two weeks as now required. One of the first steps, Judge Lord said, will be to keep the office open on Saturday, so as to take care of residents of the Upper Keys who {find it inconvenient not to have jthe abstract office open Satur- days. On completing abstracts. Judge Lord said the reorganized office Jexpects to get them out in six Petitions seeking divorces rose ing was informed yesterday that) 24YS, instead of the 10 days te two weeks as at present. There will be no increase in the fees charged, except a slight up- ping of the charges to be made for quick service, Judge Lord aid. Judge Lord expects the chang- the! be provided with two-way sys-|& to be effective next week. Geo. Putnam Died Today In California TRONA, Calif, Jan. 4.—(?).— A retired publisher, »George Palmer Putnam, died this“morn- ing. Putnam was 63 years old and had been ill from uremic poison ing. Putnam had been married four times. His second wife was Amelia Earhart, the flier who dis- appeared in mid-Pacific in 1937. World-Telegra m, Sun Merge As |One After Today ) NEW YORK, Jan. 4—47).— Two New York newspapers, the Sun and the World-Telegram, be- come one tomorrow. The Scripps Howard newspaper, the World- Telegram, has bought the Sun. The transaction was announced simultaneously today by both newspape The s is viewed as the most (Continued On Page Five) See Key West From the Sea SIGHTSEEING TRIP M.V. “Cactus” ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD Leave 1 P.M. Every Day $2.00 Per Person (Tax: Included) Cad J‘ eng