The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1950, Page 1

{ i ' fo No. 25 VOL. LXXI. THREE PERSONS ARE | ‘ALIZED HERE IN WEEKEND ACCIDENTS * HOS $500 Damage Suffered By Ambulance In Collision Three persons were hospital- ized, including a man who fell at the passing of an ambulance, which was answering a call to one accident and which figured in a collision with a car, all with- in the space of a few minutes early Sunday. At 8:15 a. m. a light truck driv- | en by Leo Sandoval, 809 White street, left Roosevelt boulevard near Fifth street and ended up in a mangrove swamp. Sandoval was pinned in the wreckage of the truck, which was upside down in the man- groves and had to be extracted) by City Patrolman Ray Atwell and three volunteers, who enter- ed the water and got the driver loose. A Pritchard Funeral Home am- bulance answering a call from this trident, when it fig- ured ina collision with a car} driven by Mrs. Abraham Carey, who lives in Petronia street. A passing car picked up Mrs.| Carey and also Sandoval, and drove them to the Monroe Coun- ty Hospital. Harry Pritchard, driver of the ambulance, was un- injured, but the. ambulance it- d about $500 damage. suffered a loss of approximately $250. With the passing of the ambu- lance along Truman avenue, Is- Mesa, who lives at Grinnell s toppled in the street near the earner of Grinnell and Tru- man. A Lopez Funeral Home am- bulance took Mesa to the County Hospital. mnie “et All three of the injured persons were X-rayed at the hospital, and they were held there all day Sunday for observation. Mesa suffered cuts on the head and seemingly was otherwise unin- jured The Pritchard Funeral Home ambulance was passing along Truman avenue at Palm avenue, when it collided with Mrs. Carey's car, The truck driven by Sandoval is owned by James Brown, also of 809 Whitehead street. Patrol- man Atwell arrested Sandoval, on a charge of being intoxicated at the time of the accident. He will be arraigned in court later. | Happiness In | Marriage Lectures | To Be Given Here By JESSIE GIBSON With the whole hearted sup- port of civic and spiritual leaders of the city, the Key West Wom-! an’s Club will sponsor a series! of lectures concerning “Happi- ness In Marriage”. i Under the direction of Mrs. Margarita J. Davis, Field Direc- tor of the American Red Cross at the U. S. Naval Hospital, andj chairman of the Welfare Com-! mittee of the Women’s Club, lec- tures will be presented each Tuesday evening in the high school auditorium beginning Fe- bruary 14 | “The hope and objective of the series” Mrs. Davis, “is to swaken the community to some realization of this problem and inspire citizens to seek a solution to it. We hope to lead other or- (Contiued On Page Five) WEAVER'S STOCK ISLAND INN Air Conditioned Bar and Restaurant Open All Night says @ PAINT an 12,677 Children on = [Russians End Blockade Of Berlin BERLIN, Jan. 30.—(4)—The Russians have ended their block- ade of Berlin the same way they started it, without an official ex- planation. Soviet guards are passing all trucks through the frontier posts at Berlin and Helmstedt with only casual checks. During the {Past ten days, they have been + holding up traffic at some times |and speeding it up somewhat at ~ tother times. Allied officials believe the Rus- sians had a pschological: reason for invoking the little blockade. Key West ToBe | In Television Broadcast Soon The island of Key West andj sections of the Florida Keys will! be featured in a nation-wide te- levision broadeast to be releas- ed soon, it was announced today ; by Harold R. Laubscher, Mana- ger of the Chamber of Com- merce. Laubscher, who has returned from a Florida State Advertising Commission meeting: in Tallahas- see, has made it known that a color movie film, made in Key West last. summer, has been. com- pleted and adapted for television broadcasts. It will be made avail- GUERRILLA LEADER ae sl (P) Wirephoto| A FORMER DUTCH ARMY CAPTAIN, B.R.P. “Turk” Wes- terling (above), is the leader of the Indonesian guerrilla forces which have attacked Jakarta in a rebellion against new United States of Indonesia. Attend Schools As Of Jan. 30 were’ more than 258! public school children attending | Monroe Schools this month than! there were in.the month of Jan: uary, 1949, it was anounced today by the office of Horace O’Bryant, superintendént of pub-| able to television broadcasters lic instruction. sooon This month’s total was 2,877 as! The movie, a 30 minute film| compared with 2,619 children at-| showing points of interest about | ees ie ghee schools in! the city and action shots of fish- Here is the attendance records | ing scenes also includes inte: : oa Be nenues ing shots along the Keys. The! 1943 1950| film. was: made last October un- | Key West High der the personal direction of ; School 784 | Howe Sadler, present head of | Harris School 488 |the Advertising Commission. Truman and Reynolds Laubscher, in a report of last Schools 615 | week’s meeting of the Commis- Poinciana School 294 (Continued On Page Six) Marathon School 85 | ss iamioiaiels | Matecumbe School 56 «57 | | Tavernier School 74-80 |Underseeretary | Douglass School 447 474 i Tota 2a0 207 | Voorhees Here H T. S. Voorhees, Undersecretary } of the U. S. Army, and Brigadier | General S. B. Hayes, USA, arriv- | ed at the Key West Naval Station } Saturday. They will be here for | three days, inspecting the Key West Naval Base and its activi- | ties. Florida Collected $4,500,000 From Its Gasoline Tax 30.—() —Florida more than four and a half millian dollars this month from its seven ‘cents a,gallon tax on gasoline The collections came from the | (Continued On Page Five) collected Steal Hub Caps; Pair Arrested Two Miami men were _arrest- ed at 9 a. m. Sunday by Patrol-| \o.kers looked to man Joseph Cerezo on charges of stealing hub caps from a car |4ent Joseph A. Beirne today for belon o D. E. Mallard, 189-D| more definite word on weather Poinciana Place, which he had | there will be a nation-wide phone parked at County Beach | strike this week. | The men identified themse' | Beirne has scheduled a news as Clarence E. Griffin and Frank | conference late today here. He i H. Kinkoffer, both of Northwest ected to give some details o: 60th street, Miami. They were ns at the conference. turned over to County authori- than one-third of ties after Matlard swore out a| members of the CIO communica- | warrant for ther ! — — 'FOR SALE! FOR SALE! : et 19 Foot Mobile Spt. Palace Theater | HouUSE TRAILER | Sonja Henie and Michael Kirby in| Electric Refrigerator - Gas Stove| = | Awning - $1250.00 aoe a. | Limeback. Gulfstream Seeeeeeseessseovessesese Trailer Park WASHINGTON, Jan. —More than 300,000 30.—(P). , telephone | Union Presi- THE SOUTHERNMOST KEY WEST FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1950 ‘TUESDAY TO DECIDE FATE OF USO-YMCA | eabteted tn ey wont nat Ae ete ae 300,000 TELEPHONE | WORKERS MAY WALK OUT WEDNESDAY | the | EWSPAPER IN PLANS TO FREE “BIG MO” | \ ! i (®) Wirephoto} THIS PHOTO DIAGRAM, based on the Navy's maneuver chart, | details the projected plan for “Operation Pull-Off.” an all-out | attempt to free the USS Missouri from the Chesapeake Bay mud- bank near Norfolk, Va. The operation is scheduled for Feb. 2. Part of the effort will be by the Missouri herself. Powerful winches on the battleship’s deck will haul on nine cables (black lines fanning out from Missouri) to four-ton anchors imbedded in the bottom ef the bay, Two windlass-type beach salvage ships, the “Windlass” and the “Salvager”, will be linked to the Missouri by tow cables and will haul against beach gear cables anchored far astern. Fi sea-going » held together by a lead tug and two harbor pressing from opposite sides, wit works ine ‘pull, .Heavy broken lines out- line channel dredged from Missouri's stern to main ship chan- nel, a half-mile away. Other tugs will work alongside the Mis- souri wit htwo harbor tugs alternating in pushing against the bow of the ship in a “whipsaw” motion to help break the suc- tion grip of the mud. Mooring lines (light broken lines) from bow to stern are intended to keep the big ship from turning out of the dredged channel. COMMITTEE MEETING * Turner Prepare ii the Jackson To Close Jackson| Square building in accordance ‘ | with instructions received Friday Square Building les New York However, at a meeting sche- | o discontinue Girector of the duled for tomorrow afternoon at (Continued On Page Forrest Turner. USO-YMCA was today preparing six) tions workers. of America ree to walk off tt will be Relations | |nsday. Th remainir that all muht wait thirty days phone | The Union is h sy making wages, ter hours, reduced 4 ping to jam {apprenticeship periods, and an improved pension syst —————— — — Bell Telephone inced H plans to improve pensions last; | MASONIC NOTICE | Special Communication of An- chor Lodge No. 182, F. & A.M.. this evening (Monday, Jan. 30), at 7:30 P.M. | Conferring of Entered Appren- tice Degree. but the Union object as not consulted. It file ‘labor practice cha BOAT BAR All Members and Sojourners 503 Duval Street Phone 9165 invited to be present. | AIR-CONDITIONED | By order: MERVILLE E. ROSAM, JR.. | Sports Results Daily Gerald H. Adams, ‘W.M. | | Key West's Most Comfortable Bar | Secretary NAVARRO, INC. SERVICE DEPARTMEN |roef and make general repairs to Captain Nelson ‘Is Named To pecially for the é “| American Exposition being sub Permits Issued Establish Record For January Total of building permits issu- ed this month amounted to $262,- 225, a record for the month in the city’s history and exceeding January, 1949, by $175 225, ac- cording to a statement today by § Roy F. Butler, director of the De-! partment of Public Service. } Permits have been issued to- day to M. B. Lane, 618 Grinne! street to remodle a’ hall into a bathroom and to make general repairs on his home at a cost of $1,500; to George Allen, TT Poorhouse lane, to put a new, his home at a cost of $400. To Eugene Rosam, 1424 Cath-| eine street to construct a frame; garage at a cost of $200; to H.; D. Van Waggoner, 709 Emma: street to build a small ‘frame! building at a cost of $150. To Tom Smith, 1215 Varela! at a cost of $200, and to the! Church of God to erect a gospel} tent at a cost of $300. so himself. Hobson started out , 1908. Now it's estimated at $92,000. Succeed Busey Captain W.T. Nelson, usw, MacArthur Wants commanding officer of the USS Howes cuneate More American Power In Pacific. Busey, USN, commanding officer of the Naval Air Station, as chairman of the Board of Gov-} ep ernors for the 1950 Navy Charity, TOKYO, Jan. 30.—(@).—The carnival. : {Amercian Joint Chiefs of Staff Under Captain Bus - are due here on Wednesday ship the planning for val has gone well turns over a good organization to manders who long Captain Nelson. Captain Busey is being relieved in Asia along He as Commanding Officer of Boca Chica in the near future. Commander C. W. USN, executive officer of Boca strengthened. Chica, was appointed as the third General MacArthur The Joint Chiefs will be told SAM HOBSON (above) lives | } street for making minor repairs’ the workingman’s dream. He's the clerk in the Kroger com- | pany’s warehouse in Memphis ) —and he holds more stock in | day on tl the firm than its president. ‘ usually good President Joseph B. Ball says have lately been the “There are he with $2,800 worth of stock in necessary.” A_story w: In Florida Auto TALLAHASSEE, Jan, 30.4 —At least three persons met ~ They will meet with Field Com-| death in Florida highway acct dents over the weekend. Another have been} was killed by a dynamite blast concerned by Communists gains} and two others were injured in a plane accident. Three men were killed when : j that the American military posi-| thelr automobile hit a bridge Fielder, | tion in the Far East should be} between Dunedin and Ozona. Police Chief Eugene Sheets said and. “his] @ search was on in the fast flow member of the Board of Govern- aides are expected to stress’ that | ing creek spanned by the bridge ors. ‘point before The Naval Air Station Band leave Japan from Jacksonville is tentatively con-They scheduled to play for the dances at the carnival. However, is a possibility that a name band Denham Alarmed might be selected. on Saturday, edu time. It will be the first of its model to appear in this area. It is being brought from the north es-| Teamsters’ Union rnival | | WASHINGTON, Jan | —The general counsel 30.—(a) for General Meeting the | Robert Denham, says that he is . iT oh Of K r alarmed at the possibility that onig t ey the AFL eamsters’ Union ever might exercise its full power. West Chamber Denham declared that if Teamsters ever the exercise their dwarf the e planned for M i exposition Details of the > those so-call r particularly interesting to com-, ant unions into relati munities in So Florida. The | fiacnce Exposition, it is s the, Denham also said were the Taft-Hart originally 1 d's Fair curb ises of in Miami. we still e a lor In the past few montis, plans before the intent of Congress for a Worlds Fai such, have be realized been discarded an Inter-} — FE ud OR ATTA NBN tle | Visit the Wedding Ring Store (Continued On Page POOR OLD CRAIG | @All New and Repaired Watches | SERVICE STATION | eELECTRONICALLY TESTED Francis at Division Phone 91% | for ACCURACY Your PURE OIL Deater Knonles Jenelers LET US aon er Of 504 SOUTHARD STREET Change Your Oi! | | Three - Five Day Repair Service| : National Labor Relations Board, | | | | 'Truman is tie chiefs of staff for a possible fourth occupant Truman Selects Whitehurst As Fla. Roving Judge WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. ” —An announcement from White House here says President appointing a man from Fort Myers to be a foving Federal District Judge in Flori da The nominee is George W Whitehurst, a retired judge of t State Circuit Court where he served for more than 30 yea | Dr. W. H. Walker, president of concentrated power they could the Miami Chamber of Com- influence virtually every induast merce, will address members of é : - |the Key West Chamber of Com." in the country epee merce at Harris School Auditor-| 2 2 F salle thins ium tonight at 8 o'clock. Dr. ‘American Assoc Walker will discuss plans for the ™eeting here, 1 saic |proposed International Trade ee potential strength of the m Mart and Exposition that is lion-man un TICKETS NOW - ON SALE Roberts Office Supply 126 Duval Street Fay’s Gift Shop La Concha Hotel $1.50 Tax Included for LAURA A MYSTERY DRAMA IN 3 ACTS By Vera Caspary and Geo. Sklar Sponsored by KEY WEST PLAYERS Barn Theatre 319 Duval Street—Rear January 30. Thru Feb. 4 TEPEHONE 600 IS TODAY ONE OF THE MOST MODERN IN SOUTH FLORIDA....SPECIALISTS IN EACH DEPARTMENT d BODY @ TUNE-UP @ WHEEL-ALIGNMENT @BRAKE and ELECTRICAL 601 DUVAL STREET @ MODERN LUBRITORIUM