The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1950, Page 6

* ‘Sa 28 GBPs6e ot wet AEF RS Bee tenn aoe # @AGE six 106 ACRES ON SUGARLOAF KEY OFFERED TC PUBLIC BY USA FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY *- Land Areas Of 8-10th Of Aére To21-2 Acres ‘Offered As Home Sites For the first time in the his- tory of Monroe County, the Unit- ed States government has set aside 106 acres of its holdings on Sugarloaf Key for acquisition by the public These land areas ranging from eight-tenths of an acre to two and @iie-half acres may be acquired solely as homesites. Under the agreement that it is to be entered into by the government and the buyer, the lease price of $5 year- ly is charged. The lease agreement can be ex- t@nded for five years. At any time during the five year period, the leasee may make application to ieee Oe land. price will be at an aisal figure to be set by the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, at the time of the purchase. All lease pay- ments will apply on the purchase price. : Mr. H. S. Price, regional ad- ministrator, region No. 6, of the Bureau of Land Management, De- partment of Interior, made the announcement of the land offer. Mr. Price informed The Citizen that only one tract would be al- jotted to an individual. A Citizen reporter asked the Regional Administrator: “What solely may the property be used for?” “Homesites.” “Would a Key West family be allowed to use the property on weekends, and still be able to purchase the land.” “Yes, that is allowable.” The land to be sold by the Bu- reau of Land Management De- partment of Interior is in the mid- die of Sugarloaf Key, and a num- ber of the lots have waterfront sereage. It is located in Sugarloaf Subdivision, Lot 2, Sec. 13 Town- ship 67 South, Range 27 East; Lot 1 See. 14, Township 67 South, Range 27 East. A photostat copy of the land is to be sent to Monroe County Tax Collector Claude Gandolfo by Mr. Price ame! his return. to’ Wash- D. avai personnel, Key Wi » Or tourist may make ap- for the land by writing for applicetion form No. 4-775, of H. S. Price, Regional imistrator, Region No. 6, of thé Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, Wash- D.C. H queries will be answered by the Bureau as to the stipula- ans, regulations, etc. of the questions itizen reporter was: “May the Waeperty be transferred to an- ot individual by the original he answer was yes. This question asked es- pecially for the benefit of naval personnel stationed here. Should a Navy man decide to sequire the land and construct a home on the premises, he would be Sllowed to sell his equity after his term of duty is up in the Is- land City Certain government lands have been offered in Florida near Pensacola, Inverness. These land areas have been grabbed quickly by the general public. The land is only eighteen miles asked by from Key West. It may be reach- ed by going to Perky : turning right on U. § Highway No. 1, over the old wooden feckdae that county The land will be distributed on @ first come, first served basis. New Backtfield Coaches Named At Gainesville was constructed by the GAINESVILLE, Jan. 17.1) Twq new backfield coaches i been appointed at the Uni- sity of Florida Coach Bob Woodruff announce. ed yesterday that two of his as sistants will be J. Frank Broyles, who has been backfield coach un der Woodruff at Baylor, and John BE. Saver, who has been backfield coach at West Point Naming of two backfield men may mean that Florida will have @ larger staff than the four-man staff under former coach Ray “Bear” Wolf Woodruff is now in Texas winding up his affairs there and x THE KEY WEST CITIZEN EXPENSIVE MISS FOR SAM a (#) Wirephoto SAMSNEAD MISSES A PUTT FOR A BIRDIE on the 18th gree nin the final round of the Bing Crosby National Pro-Ama- teur golf tournament at Peoble Beach, Calif. If he had sunk this one, he would have taken top money. He finished in a four-way tie for first place individual score with a 214. SKAGGS LEADS SCORERS IN BASKETBALL LEAGUE He ‘Scores Total Of 175 Points; Barber Of Bamboo Room Is Next Skaggs of the. Jewels is the leading scorer in the first half of the Island City Basketball League | including ball games played. ool scores are’ | Player— FG FT PTS; Skaggs, Jewels .79 17 175! G. Barber, Bamboo _ 70 3 143) Oropeza, Vogue 54 15 123} Bo. Meador, Bam. 53 13 119; C. Valdez, Qverseas _ 52 6 110, Buckweitz, Jewels .. 45 16 106 Srakocic, Sonar 42 16 100 Wazulla, Sonar chan ee a Cerezo, Vogue 42 9 93 B. Villareal, S-W 38 «15 °=«O91 Curry, Overseas 39 10 888 P. Herrick, Jewels 35 10 80; Dion, Overseas 32 12 76, Castillo, Vogue, Bam. 27 18 72 E. Sweeting, Bam. — 30 11 71 Miscellaneous Most free throws n Curry and Thompson 2! Skaggs 20. Most personal fouls—Kerr 26, Gardner ?' - Sweeting 7 Barber , G. Sweeting | 22. Most tech. and Kerr 2 fouls—Buckweitz 3, Games Scheduled For W ednesday To Be Fast, Furious Games scheduled for Wednes- day night will be hard and fur ous, for it may mean the first place for three of the clubs 7:00 p. m., Spider Webb vs. Sonar School. Both lost their first game and are out to get into the race. 8 p.m. Bamboo Room vs. Vogue Cleaners Bamboo Room won their first game and Clean- ers lost, so the winner will go to first place and the loser a notch below. 9 p. m., Ove and Pollock’s Jewels. Both won their first game in this half and the winner will stay in first place and the loser, will go down a notch. pas Garage Negro Maid Says Hiss, Wife — Chambers In °3 NEW YORK, Jan. 17.—(7) —A witness in the Alger Hiss perjury trial has testified that Alger Hiss and his wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Whit- taker Chambers at Baltimore in 1936. The witness was a former Negro maid for the Cham- bers. She pointed out Hiss and his wife in court teday. =a a ae To Speak At 35th Division Reunion In June WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.— (?).—President Truman will fly to Missouri in June to speak at the University of Missouri in Columbia and at the 35th Division reunion in St. Louis. Mayor Joseph M. Darst of St. Louis announced Mr. Truman's acceptance of the two invitations after a White Houes call. He said Mr. Truman will fly to Columbia June 9 to re- ceive an honorary degree, then go to St. Louis in the afternoon for a reception and a speech the next dav dedi- cating the Jefferson National Memorial. we = To Sunny Florida | | is expected to return to Gaines- ville this weekend. ‘New Non-Stop Record, California! JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 17 (®).—A California flier, Johnny | Mann, has claimed a new non- stop distance record for light] planes from west to east on a flight from Van Nuys, California, to Jacksonville Mann said the flight, made Fri and Saturday 2,110 day covered miles. He said that was recogniz- | ed by the civil aernonautics au- thority Mann brought greetings from the yor of Los Angeles to Mi- ami’s Mayor William Wolfarth He said he would like to take back some bottled sunshine from Florida, as it was snowing when| he left Los enacies President Of Philippines Now ‘|Recovering Fast BALTIMORE, Jan. 17.—(4).—- Philippine President Quirino is recovering rapidly from a kidney stone operation Quirino underwent the opera- tion yesterday at John Hopkin! Hospital | Physicians say his pulse and respiration were absolutely nor- mal this morning, and cribe his condition as excellent. ! | ! BOXING TOURNAMENT The NCCS Servicemen’s Club, 1021 Duval street, has entered; some outstanding boxers in the Golden Gloves Tournament to be held at the Key West Sports — in the first week in Febru-! vThe NCCS team includes: Donald Roth, SA, 168 pounds, USS. Albatross, (hometown, Al- lentown, Pa.) Roth was _ semi- finalist lightweight in the All- Navy title matches at Great Lakes in 1949. He is in excellent condition and can be counted on to put’on a good fight. Frank Jones, 130 pounds, was the featherweight runner-up in the AAU State Tournament held in Miami, in May, 1949. Jones is fast in the ring, an aggressive boxer, well-known in Miami and by patrons of the Overseas Ga- rage. He has lost only one of his many amateur fights and intends to maintain his record. Mel Thompson, PFC, 190 Ibs. (hometown, Danville, Ilinois) is ready to meet any beginner in the heavyweight division. James Weeden, SO 3, USS. Wilkie, (hometown, Philadelphia, Pa.) will weigh in at 158: Weeden is training hard and looks in the pink. is P. D. Wahlstrom, ADAN, In Command Of K.W. Naval Base Another middleweight contend-| er, who will please the fight fans! Several Changes Commander Lawrence, Juliati, USN, who is relieving Command- officer in charge of the Advanced Underseas .Weapons School». has arrived at the Key West-Naval Station. Commander Julian came ‘here from Washington. Comander Harfinger . becomes operations officer of. the SubRon- Four in the Key West Naval area. Commander Harfinger will re- lieve Commander Charles Hen- derson, USN, who becomes com- mander of Submarine Division 41 of SubRon Four. The present commander of Sub- marine Division 41 is Commander J. C. Martin, USN, who will go j to Los. Angeles where he will be- |come the inspector of Naval Ma- i terial. TODAY'S weight 159, Fawtulant, (home- town, St. Cloud, Minnesota). Additional NCCS boxing'en- trants will be announced in Wed- nesday’s issue of The Citizen. S BASEBALL STANDING ISLAND CITY LEAGUE Club— W.L. Pet, | Atomic Bombers 2 0 1,000 Adams Dairy 2 1. 667 Key West Cubans 1 San Carlos Saints 0.3 (NOTE: Cubans and Bombegs have one tied game.) | Basketball Standings i Island City Basketball League High School Gym ! Overseas Garage 10 1-000 Pollock’s Jewels 10 1.000{ Bamboo Room 1 0 1.000 Spider Web Drive-Inn 0 1 .000 Vogue Cleaners 0 1 .000 Sonar School 0 1 .000 ialendar | | | | | | { | } } | THURSDAY— BASEBALL Island City Baseball League (Municipal Stadium, Afternoon) Each Game, 7 Innings ) SU NDAY. 1:00—San Carlos Saints vs. Atomic Bombers. 3:00—Key W Cubans vs. Adams D; BASKETBALL Island City Basketbali League (High School Gym, Night) WEDN AY: Web Sonar School. Bamboo Room vs. Vogue ners. 9:00—Overseas Garage vs. Pol- lock’s Jewels. Drive-Inn 7:00—Overseas Garage vs. Bam- boo Room. 8:00—Spider Web Drive-Inn vs. Pollock’s Jewels. 9:00—Sonar School vs, Vogue Cleaners. GOLF Municipal Golf Course (Stoek Island) Daily and Sunday play. TENNIS Bayview: Park ‘Morning} “Afternoon and Night) (Morning, Afternoon and Night) Daily and Sunday day play. SK ATING ' BIRTHDAY | L__BvAPNewsfectures | er F. J. Harfinger, 111,: USN, 33) —————— “FRANK HAGUE, born Jan. 17, HAGUE, born Jan. 17, 4.1876, in Jersey City, N. J. the law” is the quotation which c [by. For 30 years he was mayor and political boss. He was a'con- troversial figure even in nattional was a ond administrator. “T am ics most often remember ‘him 1 .500] Politics. Many critics praised ‘his $000, Welfare programs and said he = | ope Cannot Be aved On Rhine “German Mayor BERLIN, Jan. 17.—(/).— The mayor of West Berlin has urged the Western World to restore liberty to Poland and Czechoslovakia. Mayor Ernst Reuther told a group of American editors: “Europe cannot be saved on the Rhine River.” He added that. Western Eu- the Communist zone of Ger- many. ‘Two Americans Killed By Head- Hunter Tribesman ling their lives in a last desperate} TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, | PRESIDENT GODFATHERS EACH 7TH GERMAN ©! FRANKFURT. — (). — Wi German President Dr Heuss has offered to be to every seventh child bern to |German family Heuss foil: the tradition of former Ger President; Paul Von ff h and Friedrich Ebert They @ each seventh child of a tumly small cash gift. \Resene Workers Trying ToGe | To Eddie Burda MAHANOY CITY, Pa., Jan. 17. {).—Rescue workers are risk- attempt to reach a trapped coal miner at Mahoney City, Pennsyl- vania. Fellow miners said they hope to} reach the: miner, Edward Burda, late this afternoon but they fear he won't be found alive. Burda was trapped last Friday in a rock! fall 120 feet below the surface. Today the rescue team is cut- ting cautiously through a vein of; hard coal, fearful of another slide which might trap them. Work 1s going slowly because they must protect themselves with shoring as they go, and the} tunnel is big enough only for one; man. } At last report, officals said! they thought they were only a! dozen feet or so away from the Trapp man. MANILA, Jan, . 17.—(#).—An American said today that two professors from the United States had been killed in the Philippines by tribesmen they trusted to guide them through the moun- tains 150 miles north of Manila. The bodies of Professor Mar- vin Pittman of Chicago and Dr. Robert F. Conklin of Springfield, Mass., are expected to be brought to Baguio tomorrow or the next }day. The two Americans were ex- |change professors at the Univer- {st of the Philippines, and they jst d during a hike during the Christma: holidays. Acording to Jokn F. Boland of Washington, D. C., the professors stopped at a village about Christ- mas eve. They asked the villagers, former head-hunters, to supply them with guides. The guides, said Boland, turned out to be kill- ers. Boland is an employe of the United States-Philppine War Damage Commission, He based his statements on a_ confession Philippines Constabulary officials ; say they obtained from three of the seinen Cirenit Court Of Al ppeals Dees Not Allow Merger Of FEC And ACL Railroads NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17.—(#). —The of Appeals has _ affirmed Southern Florida District Court's Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and the Florida East Coast Line. In a 2-to-1 split opinion, the court remanded the case to the “for the purpose of working out a really fair and equitable plan without prejudice in doing so to due consideration of any fair and equitable plan for bringing this matter to an end...” The majority opinion manding the case left the in re- way U. S. Fifth Circuit Court} railroads by the | equitable ruling denying the merger of the | ger with or a sale | Interstate Commerce Commission |STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE open for the merger of the two saying a fair and plan could _ include “such a plan providing for a mer- to the Coast Line either with or without the aproval of the bondholders.” TRIUMPH COFFEE = MILL at All Grocers Bayview Park (Night) they des-} FRIDAY— 7:30 to 9:00 P.M. 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