The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 29, 1950, Page 1

4 -| In April this year per- -four months of this year . ,compared to the total » ager Ra'ph D_ Spalding. i LXXL Noy 0) No. 102 Wirst Four’ Months Of Last Year By $438,000 Although construction ell off during the month sof April this year, there as a general increase amounting to more than $438,000 during the first done four ‘building that was during the first ~months of last year. This was made clear in a “report submitted today’ by Roy F. Butler to City Man- Butler is the director of the Department of Public Service of Key West. au mits calling for construc- ion totaling $136,500, as compared to $78,740 dur- ing April of last year. Here is the record of the (Continued On Page Eight) Fin ‘Two New Beds p Off .. Ft Myers Beach FT. MYERS, April 29.—(4).— The Lee County Chamber of Commerce has reports of two mew shrimp beds closer to Fort Myers than the fertile Dry Tor- tugas area. Exact location of the new beds is being kept secret by the lucky finders. Captain Sam Voona and Cap- tain Walter Floyd docked at Fort Myers. Beach westerday with good catches, which they said (Continued On e Eight) BINGO Every Saturday Night 8:00 P.M. JACKPOT, $55.00 FREE EATS AMERICAN LEGION HOME STOCK ISLAND WA bAbAbbbdbd PEPPER Courtesy Cars Available For Your Convenience On Election Day TELEPHONE 1784 (Paid Political Advt.) phi bbbbbhabas: onstruction Totals $909,925 iInKey West For First Four Months ‘otal Bxceeds = * Another Step In Fight On Cancer Has Been Told NEW YORK, April 29.—(4),—- Another step forward in the re- lentless fight against cancer was diselosed this morning. The Am- erican Cancer Society reports a new and aparently more effec- tive method of using the so-call- ed “nitrogen mustards”. These are one-time materials for use’ in poison gas. The society reports “remark- able” shrinkage of malignant tu- mors im ten hopelessly advanced (Continuea Un Page Four) Special Election To Be Held May 23 To Fill Vacaney CLEARWATER, April 29.—(#). —A. special election will be held on May 23rd to. fill the .vacancy (Continued On Page Four Four): 2OGCCRO0He Pull Lever 11-A James A. FRANKLIN: STATE SENATOR EXPERIENCED: 8 years service as your Senator ABLE: Proven ability to obtain bene- fits for District AGGRESSIVE: ‘Will continue to work for im- ‘provement of District . Po! 1 Advertisement) The Key West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST FLORIDA, SATURDAY, April 29, 1950 $21M Park To Be Dedicated Here Sunday Earl Adams, County Clerk, Will Deliver Main Address; 500 To Be In Attendance Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock a dedication ceremony will be held at the $21,000 Fort Taylor Oceanview Park. Hon. Earl R. Adams, county clerk, will principal address. Chairman S. W. Kelly and his committee of; Julia Riot, R. V. McGee, Rowyena Pinder, Charles Major, will then accept the park from the county. Professors W. C. Cogdell and A. L. Saunders of the Douglass High School will also deliver ad- Monroe deliver the ‘Over 500 résidencs of the com= (Continued On Page Four) Inspectors And |Clerks Told Election Duties Yesterday afternoon the office of the Supervisor of Registration explained to the clerks and in- spectors of the voting districts their duties at the polls this Tuesday. There are seventeen polling districts in the County this year 3 FOR PROMOTION.. AN EXPERIENCED LEGISLATOR (Paid Political Advertisement) City Decides les Monday Whett Whether To Rescind $5,682.95 Gift To Owners Of Wm. Curry Sons * Charter Prohibits --LANTAFF CONGRESSMAN MAY 2 AND MAY 23, 1950 EVA WARNER GIBSON Has Presented Her Views to the People of Monroe County via the Newspaper and Over the Radio in English and Spanish She Will Again Be Heard at the Political Rally Monday Night at Bayview Park VOTE for EVA WARNER GIBSON for JUDGE JUVENILE COURT LEVER 15-A You Need A Trained and Experienced Mother To Guide and Discipline Our Youth (Paid Political Advertisement by Friends of Eva Warner Gibson) _° Norwood Stra Equalization Board From Correcting | Prior Year’s Roll Monday. night regular meeting of the City Commissioni the tax rebate of $5,682.95 giveny| to the owners of Wm. Curry Song Company will be re-considered. The $5,682.95 gift has been followed by public indignation, ata “LO. fo their assistance. Lands sub-committee. help them.” TRIBE” OF INDIANS ASKS WASHINGTON’S HELP COUNCIL LEADERS OF THE “LOST TRIBE” OF WACCAMAW INDIANS in North Carolina as- semble in Washington to ask Congress for recognition and help. Western congressmen have come "They are a lost tribe,’ Rep. Bosone, Democrat of Utah, told a House Public “If we leave them that way. the state of North Carolina isn't going to Seated on the grass before the dome of the capitol, left to right, are tribal leaders Robert Jacobs, W. J. Freeman and Silvester Jac obs, Rep. Bosone of Utah; an unidentified Indian: Rep. Poulson, Republican of California; 9-year-old Indian Princess Priscilla Freeman; Lewis Jacobs, William Jacobs, sirs. Jewell Alexander and James Evans Alexander, of Los Angeles, who has been living among the Waccamaws for six months to write about them. The Associated Press Teletype, Features and Photo Services For 70 Years. Devoted to the Key West can welt be proud of its National Guard Unit. The unit. has just undergone..a strict military inspection by _ high ranking Army and National Guard Officers, covering all ac- tivities and operations of the local’ battery. The inspecting party was well pleased’-with the condition of all phases of the activities of Bat- Nery A, which earned the army ratig of Superior. Col, P, .L.. Wall, Commanding Officer, 227th AAA Group, Jack- sonville, Fla,,. summarized the results Of the inspection in a speech before the entire battery, by. saying that be had heard so many excellent: reports of the battery that he just had to. come down. to see.for. himself; -finding that the reports were not only true not. “conservative” in their praise. Among the array. of high.cank- ing officers. which were here. fer two days were: Maj. Gen. Mark W. Lance, Adjutant. General. State of Florida, Col, €; R. Jones, U. S. Army, Instructor, Col. P. L. Wall, Commanding Officer, 227th (®y Photo and verbal threats of a tax |, strike against the City of Key | West. On June 30, 1945, property owners in Key West owed the city exactly $362,577.38. Today property owners owe the city approkimately $20,000. What caused the tax delin- quents to pay? What is good times? No, the war boom, and years} previous had raised local incones| Belgians Decide June 4 Whether to high levels. The reason the people paid is that they knew if they didn’t the city would take the prop- erty from them, and they also knew that the 1945 Charter protected them from the days when large . property owners, were granted rebates, discounts, etc. Monday the City, Commission will make a decision that will be far-reaching. A refusal to collect the taxes owed by Wm. Curry Sons com- pany ‘will’ place ‘the city back to the days of just five years .ago ‘Continued On Page four) TICKET OFFICE ALL AIRLINES PRICE TOURS 411 Fleming St. Phone 124 HELP ELECT BILb Your Paid Political Adv, ‘| BIG DANCE TONIGHT B-1 Shots Can Be Given By Other Than Medicos Jack Wilson was bound over | byPeace Justice Ina Albury.” "terday afternoon , to Criminal Court under $1,000 bond on a charge. of practicing, Peegicin€ without a: license. Wilson's. attorney; kins, Leopold Returns BRUSSELS, Aprik: 29.) — Belgium will held parliamentaty| elections on June, 4th to degide (Continued On Page. six) RAUL'S CLUB Boulevard by Airport Ph. 9287 Tom Wat+ son’s practicing medicine that the defendant did not prescribe, or diagnose. Watkins asked that the defen- dant be dismissed because there was no law against adiminister+ (Continue? On Page Four) 10:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. Music by The Debonairs ||- AL ALBERTUS STEAKS - STEAKS VOCALIST Featuring SOc Door Admission STEAKS $10.00 DOOR PRIZE Served from 6 P.M.-1 A.M. PALM CLUB STOCK ISLAND Last Week's Door Prize Was Won by Commander Newman Wilson Bound Over To Criminal Court Under $1,000 Bond * Watkins Claims * had maintained that. the}? State had no evidence of Wil-}: TO ELECT FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER PULL LEVER 20-A LOUIS CARBONELL SECOND DISTRICT “Inspection of his Record gives. him the Nod” (Paid Political Advertisement) ON HIS RECORD VOTE FOR “er J. Y. PORT AAA Group, Jacksonville, *Fia:, Lt. Col. Alex Leuni Executive Officer, 227th, Lt. Col, Bhomas L. Kelly, Rost Commander _ at Dade County Armory, Miami, Fia., Major Vernon F. Sikes, Staff Officer, 227th, AAA Group, Accompanying the inspection (Conunued. On Se Five Gunmen Raid Assassination Ariel Made On ' the,|. The wounded man was identi- say |fied by police as Anthony Carlo, as |36, manager of a restaurant in the faces a Mi. Aur isp Attaches ai burn pi On Page Six) Palace Theater ROBERT CUMMINGS and ANN BLYTH in “FREE FOR ALL”. suseenusae School Teacher and USNR Lieut, in Wav: ee For the good of the young people Young People’s Service: League for many years, thus ec ee ee sae eens Mrs, tine an Sone an. a OE of Key Ws having. worked She was “President of the Key West @ member of the Board of Directors of the Woman's served on the Charter group which wrote the new Williams was on the Beach Committee which secured public | beaches for Key West. Mother of two sons, both of wh arvana Wea War. she is a successful, hard-working Williams has not been a political hanger-on, pockets of the tax-payer. ‘A woman of great c sonal charm, her mature judgement and sense iruahian eis, fan, Sop position. «4 Sesnenin Saheeyy Strayhorn STATE SENA in er ns da ids nd th- on, ty. ily la n- Ow Row err ry