The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1950, Page 8

ie os Wh =a eee DP AD Ah A ah oe ee Ee a PAGE EIGH? LCDR., MRS. DEPART FROM CITY OVER WEEKEND Lieutenant Commander and M ana Place, will depart Key West early Sunday morning, April 30, after two years and eight months today from the public relations ron One (VX-1) at Boca Chica Fiel West has been attached. While attached to VX-1 LCDR West served as project supervisor, ifistrumentation consultant, and pre Members. of the First Baptist Church ‘of Key. West, both LCDR- and Mrs. West have been particular West is chairman of the building and planning committee, a member, of the audit and finance committee, people's department. to their departure from the city a: Ray. pve Active in several lodges of Masonry, LCDR West is a _mem- ber of the local Sojourners Lodge, eomposed of military offi and a member of the PHiiladel- phia*Chapter, Kadosh Comman- dery, and the Radiant Star Blue Lodge. After spending a month of Jeave in Lamesa, Texas, where the mothers of both LCDR and |; Mrs. West reside, and in San Diego and San Francisco, LCDR West will report to Naval Avia- tion Ordnance Test Station, Chincoteague, Virginia, for duty fnvolving flying. 1 = LCDR West, a veteran of 22% Years of service in the Navy, has had a career that reads like a storybook and is marked by un- usual accomplishments. He cur-| ¥ rently has 12 mechanical patents pending in the United States Patent Office. a “He learned the printing trade when very young and at the age of 15 was manager of the print- ing ‘department of the Shear Gompany of Waco, Texas. This Helped finance three years - of tendance at Montezuma College; Montezuma, N. M., where he Played football on the first team for two years and where he wag an active’ member of the Liter- ary Society and Math Club (top 5% in Mathematics in the school). When 19 he taught printing in the San Marcos (Texas) Military Academy, ranking as a lieuten- ant’on the faculty. Following this, he. was manager of the bindery department of the Sun Printing Co. at San Bernardino, California. with a good future assured. However, he decided to pursue a more romantic, career and joined the Navy to become an aviator. He completed flight training early in 1931 as a naval aviation pilot first class, at Pen- sacola. Prior to World War II he serv- ed aboard the USS Langley (the first aircraft carrier), USS Lex- ington, USS Saratoga, on several seaplane tenders, and with sev- eval aircraft squadrons in Hiwaii| and Panama, eight years of which | time he spent outside the cont- |} dneptal limits of thé United States. | While serving with VJ-1 in San Diego in early 1939 he was galled upon to correct the difi- culty in the automatic pilot in thefirst PBY Catalina seaplane to be sent to England. The plane had? returned three hours after Shaving been sent off by the Mayor of San Diego and top ex-|of the engineering laboratory ecutives of Consolidated Air-|division, set up the laboratory eraft with the attendant abun-| section of the Naval Air Develop- darit publicity. The district rep-|ment Station. From there he resentative of the Company sup- plying the automatic pilot had CUT ME OUT Take me to any drug store—Ask fo: Blis-To-Sol yourself. If it fails to eczema, ring worm—if it fails to mail empty bottle to Blis-To-Sol, Macon, Ga., your money refunded. —Adv. YOU MUST A Deep Freez ONLY $3 TERMS . ... E, SANDS, 17 Duval Street SO OCCOSOCSOTS OOD SOSODSOSOSOSOOODOSOOOSEOOSSOSOETCODOSESOOS officer of Air Development Squad- The Wests are spending the last two days priors} DEATHS Generoso Pope The owner and publisher of the Progresso, Generoso Pope, today in a New York hospital. hospital on April 11. politics and Catholic and Italian philanthropic circles. been unable to make the equip- hours West had discovered the discrepancies, ithereby tion with the aircraft company that he was requestéd to remedy the rudder flutter Mars, the huge seaplane. derdd from Pearl Harbor to Cape May, N. J., to assist in the devel- opment of radio controlled air- craft. charge « Traverse City, Michigan, where :tests were conducted on the spec- ial equipment. In February, 1943, when VJ-6 moved to Clinton, Oklahoma, he became officer in charge of the squadron during the period of construction of the base and the equipping. of the squddron for large scale training and outfitting combat units. officer when Naval. Air Station, Clinton was nearing completion and senior rate with the size_of the organi- zation, arrived. However, he soon became executive officer of VJ-6 at a time when the squadron was composed of two thousand three hundred officers and men and controlled activities City Texas; Next he was assigned as tfaining task force charge of the second stage of combat training at the base at Traverse City. Following this as- signment aval Johnsville, as officer in charge of the exper- imental shops division, he set up ‘the experimental shops and, two years later, came to VX-1, Boca Chica Field, in August 1947. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER FREEZER! 385-Pound Feod Capacity With the Purchase of Each Unit We Will Give FREE—$30,00 WORTH OF FROZEN FOODS * Small Monthly Payment Overseas Radio & Appliance Proprietor WEST rs. Juston W. West, 25-2 Poinci- of residence here, it was learned id, the navy uhit. to which LCDR ject pilot. ly active in church affairs, LCRD: and superintendent of the young s guests of Rev. George McNeil] NEW YORK, Apzxil 28.—(4).— talian language newspaper 11 died Pope, who was 59; entered the He. was a leading figure in Democratic ment operate properly, In two corrected them, He reputa- and test flown the plane. gained such a in the first In December 1941 he was or- in at He served as officer of Naval Facilities He receded to air maintenance officers, commensus at Traverse Eagle Mountain Lake, and Clinton, Oklahoma. representative in he was ordered ta modification unit, Pennsylvania, where air as officer in charge Blis-To-Sol, 50 or 75 cents. Test relieve athlete's foot—itching of remove soft corns and callouses, SEE THE e Unit With A coo 79.95 10% Down About $20,000 was reported today } A. Maitland Adams, general! manager of Thompson Enter-| PROGRAM IN More than 1,000 people were un attendance last night at Bz view Park: for the amateur prod gram, presented jointly by the Boys and Girls Committee of tha Key West Lions Club and City Recreation Department. ing talent w among | which were: Georgina and Nancy Perez in a duet; an- other duet featured Eva Warn- er Gibson and Gerald Saunders; i featured Al Cabot, Bob- res and Joyce Edwards, forced to render three numbers, Alice Zimmler in baton twirling -and Beverly Jean Gal- vin in a song and dance. The skating skill displayed by presented, the youngsters composing the Cayo Hueso Roller Club was amazing. After watching them perform, one can easily under- stand why these youngsters per- formed before -over. 17,000 peo- ple on their tour last summer, which carried them through eight different states and gavé Key West plenty of good pub- icity. Hope was expressed by many, that more of these pro- grams would be presented. City Recreation Director, Paul G. Albury, stated that he would like to present similar programs every two weeks, and although DUVAL at PETRONIA ST. GRADE “A” SMALL SHIPPED EGGS DOZEN 39c ' In Carton U.S. GOVERNMENT GRADED GA. GRADE “A” SHIPPED Fresh Golden Bantan CORN on the COB FOODS ORANGE JUICE Telephone 79 2 cans 45c OVER 1,000 PERSONS ATTEND AMATEUR | Key | tacts who Rave talent and would cor the | out, or ent that might Some of Key West's outstand-} these tact him at the City Valdez | office in Bayview Park or phone | 341-R and leave the message sisting in-the program were: THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THOMPSON ENTERPRISES | Countess Travels |Vaughan, Landry, Will Be Used For * \F Hardware Store; | prises, said today the building y guar would be completed for the us Thompson To Spend | of Thompson's. Hardware Store which is now located across from} ; the ice plant E Thompson * Enterprises, Inc., A permit will be t b will shortly spend about $20,000] a mpeon Enterpris t completing the building which| Plans for the completed build Bc Local | 2%2,Teady, Adams said was starte by arpentepsitocal) the building was only partly | ¢ Union No. 655 at the corner of! constructed at the time the C: Caroline and Grinnell streets, it] penters Local decided to f the construction of it = | ¢ completed building was | to Thompson Enter; ship, great Peter's She ou y ired ‘oot, d her burch. The C 20 mile vould st pilgrim ke the trip on horseback. had come 900 miles from 3avaria, it neither looked on TO FINISH CARPENTERS’ %0 Miles By LOCAL BUILDING HERE | | Horse To Rome ROME, ear-old April 28.—().—A 52- woman arrived at St. Square here today—the of the holy year to across the Alps, on a that took seven weeks. 1e nor her pure- n mount seemed Ara the Countess Helen noted horsewomang) rims who had come by @ or automobile, or on as she saunter- mount slowly around the square in front of the huge averaged about She'd ride about even miles and then get off and Rep the U. PARK " Recovery on oth per West ha of very difficult to make and get them out. He asl for the ill prese loads 1 it is assistance a of konwing be to anyone of ta ured ple: Re for con- ation | _ programs, Members of the Lions Club as- | Stu- ARMOUR'S CLOVERBLOOM — RI-CHEDDAR CHEESE 2-Pound 65¢ Package “GOOD” BEEF—Full of Protein, not nobiles w ent; fu 9.7 Pig per cer property, e miles, so the horse tired. ts from | S. in 1949 showed that cent of the stolen auto; ere recovered by police. r types of prop- cities in as as follow cu ney, cent 18.7 per 13.3 per cent; clothing, ind miscellaneous per cent ed without access to deficiencies. COLORED - QUARTERED SUNNYLAND Pound Package DUVAL at PETRONIA ST. SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY and SATURDAY art Whiting, Gerald Saunders, J. J. IcManus, Kir bury Louie Carbonell, man Curry and Paul G. Al¥ . chairman: of ‘the committee. 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Hasset, a Presidential secretaryvs.)i+* : On Sunday they will go to London~to meet Pakistan Pre- mier Liaquat Ali Khan and his wife ahd fly them to Washing- ton for an official visit. Gasoline Sales Soars To New High In Florida TALLAHASS April 28 (#).—Gasolin soared to a new high in Florida last month. Comptroller C. M. Gay said March, sales established a new sa record, He said the state received over Ffive million, 177-thousand dollars from the sale of gasoline during March. The previous record was set ate ceived over four million, 844< thousand dollars. LEWINSKY’S ———— For The Prom You're Smart, Cool, Correct, in the... STUDENTS’ PALM BEACH* FORMAL You can wear this summer formal, assured of cool, correct smartness, The famous Palm Beach fabric tailors into a handsome shawl-collar white jacket and lightweight dress trousers. Make your selection now, and really enjoy summer dress-up occasions. Forma! Trousers $10.00 Forma! Jacket . $19.75 Reg. T.M.. 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