The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 2, 1951, Page 1

m5: ROP ESCH Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range ef only 14° Fahrenheit THE Che Kev West Citis SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE Press Ti and Photo Services Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West U.S. A. VOL. LXXII. No. 105 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1951. PRICE FIVE CEN LCDR John Hirst Is | Elected President Of FAM Association fe ees Hot ie For $a UR ee De ade ieee sna ee Meiton Williams Of Sarasota Has Been Selected As Ist Vice President Aching Feet The annual convention of the Florida Anti-Mosquito Association, that has met} in session during the past three days at-the Casa Mar- ina, came to a close at noon today. f New officers elected to serve the organization for | the coming year were nam- ed. Incoming president is Lt. Comdr. John M. Hirst of Jacksonville. President elect is V. Samuel Minnich of Daytona Beach. Melton Williams, of Sarasota has been selected as first vice- president and Dr. Maurice Provost, Orlando, will be second vice-president. During the three day ses delegates heard addresses by ion the South's leading entomologists and other scientists and tech- nicians who discussed present day methods used in the eradica- tion and control of the mosquita problem facing Florida cém munities, At the association's annual bar quet last night at Raul’s Re: taurant, nearly 150 delegates (P) Wirephoto CORPORAL LUTHER BATES from Birmingham, Ala,, soaks heard. Russell Kay, well known} kis aching feet in hot water and does some deep‘ thinking about Florida newspaper man. from| tke rigors of wat in Korea. He is using his helmet a3 a foot tub. | ‘Tampa, deliver the principal ad-| Cotpe.al Bates is in the 25th division sector of the western front. | dress. Toastmaster was Fred His platoon was being keld in rescrve in a native village behind Stutz of Coral Gables. Preceeding| the bat+le line. the dinner, the visitors were guests of the Key: West Chamber ¥ a cocktail party. ghost .city for was deferred Selection’ oF 1 next yeat’5 racer All Bids Rejected By. County; until'a later date although in- F Rep Of M h Ki ld vitations e extended by th id . a City of Naples and Ft. Lauder or kre pail u eae am, Le dale. Outgoing _ president, Caine hee os Only $10,000; Available Haener nt Seen ene For Repair Work At Leased Airport | high in his praise of Key West as} He especially} hospitality a convention city. complimented the repairing a portion of Meacham airpggt were re shown delegates by firms and in-| 19 & Sons, bid $25,000; Alonzo Cothron, $27,500; | dividuals here. a hee. saree ele a ihe nstruction Company made a bid*on a square- | | d N Vv v'itiner S; AyS | When the county stipulated that some of the work could be oC } a y | climinated, the Carm 1 company announced that its bid of $14,-" us. U S. M E 1 |396 would do the necessary work | ka u XCE | But even this was considered #————__—__-—— | | too large an expenditure as H | only $10, Reds In Quality vaon is evatiabie for | Remodeling Work | MOBILE, Ala., May 2.-(A) ¥ 3entley fr B ‘tdi A high ranking naval aviator said] @S for dipping int ss0.000| LOPS DULLGINE here last night that “we can never acquisition fund to’ pay | hope to match international Com- | : . a K WV. . | mun in the quantity of man- v 1 that ‘tit In ey est | ) but must excel al- | mone ‘ dfgr airpory] ; | Pe wer, but must excell it on aval aca id not be} » Remodeling :work on buildings | ''Phis observation _ cames:drom,/ spent other t quirmg an} Moved irom the old army’ bar. | Rear Admiral F, M. Hughes chic] uirport re | oetnite heed An eae Cn of air basic traiing at the naval] Commissioner Higgs saidy “I | Permits, Issued in the past’ two air station at Pensacola, Florida. | can’t see spending $60,009- | days : lees Admiral Hughes was the | £70,030 in repairing somebody Mary. Lee Graham, 407 White- principal speaker at the annual else's’ field. I'd rather give! the | head street will remodel one of Seven} (Comiiued Gn Page whole thing up.’ |the barracks buildings into a du- Benti qu dd tivat| plex for $7,200; another into ef apartments at the same j into on| ficiency > for ott a cott ke pror Court Revenue 2 Re naches "0. deen ee ones | | the county ha | 1 | Seiden | A. Necly, | having cost of $800. repair | a f unicip: totalled $20,194) 4 . \ for the months of thc n ) yeroofing jobs year ja to stuc for CG; Mii 7 | Tt ne from f | lit t reene, for $200, and another for | forfeitures in the more t 4 and Sawyer, 625 Eaten. | 100 the court | i $100. 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CG |i K SALES SERVICE ; ookie Key > COLD DRINKS CE CREAM YOUR VERSATILE Pom Akt tee ieeeee © Nes Alton Park, Arthur Nollerich BARTENDER ES | erence | EXo AREAS | West Naval | Coroner {splendid cooperation they have | coudn t nave done ; Many | | | | | { Navy Praised By Coroner Roy Hanlin - Navy Diving And Salvage Operations Sull In Progress Navy ations still civing and ge oper- were in nrogress to- des ance Nua caee ce a 500,009 C ele May Day Jn We: e Cu- | mid ena -air collision County Opposes Lantaff Bill To Conserve Key Deer ban a er and a Navy train ng | plane that took 43 lives The divers are looking for the only two unrecovered bodies, thee of a Navy ensign and a midshipman, who were students| in the trang pianc left wing of the Navy plane and ection of the left wing of the ner The vestigating the crash recessed this morning until Friday at 10 a.m. after hearing two witnesses. Commander Richard J. Nesbitt,| Industrial Officer cf the Naval Station. testified as to the loca- the water. Corencr Roy J. Hamlin’ rea ‘into the record a list of the dead recovered from the Havana bound airliner and told the*meth- ods used in identifying the bo- dies. he went on to say that he andj} Coroner Ira Albury were handlins the crash jointly; that he was in charge of identifying the bodies and Albury was ‘onducting the inquest “We beth want to thank the} Navy, from Captain Adell (C. C Adell, Commander of*the Key Base) right down, Hamlin said, “for Without the coopera have given, us, we anything. “There have been several com plimentary remarks about work the coroners have done, b. the Navy has been left- out: everything. And* as * coronér would like to send some kina ot letter ,to Jet, the people know wnat the Navy did for us. With- out the Navy ; we woid haye had to’ 1é4¢e them down there. we had no way of jetting to them. Without ail the help from the Naval Hospital, we never could have ideatilied them and would have had to be buried witout .uentitication. We want everybody to know how much we appreciate all the Navy has done and is doing to help given us. tion they Open Hous iHours Told For ‘Armed Forces Day) Open Heuse:at the Key Naval Station will be held from 11;30,a. m. to 3 p.m: on Armed Torces Day,*May 19, Captain CC. Adelt, Commander of the Key West Naval Base. announced to- Gay Visitors, will be ieccived at Fleming strect gate and routed treet, lett to, Front str Eaton he Marine . Barracks, “because © don’t have. enough people to andle crowd in automobiles. Pelace Theater | Gloria Henry-Stanlay Glemerits in! “RACING LUCK” } Come See the Thrifty One for ‘51 _ STUDEBAKER TWINS GARAGE |1130 Duval Street’ Phone 1870 the! West} and for the | Navy Court of Inquiry in- | t ij | | the | — | right c the Little White House te Caroiine street, Jeft an Caro line to the waterfront, and ty n the waterfront to Pier 2,.whe he destroyer escort U.S.S. Green. vod and a submarine will be visitors. The route re-| “x will b back to aton reet and out the Fieming strect ate 'No automobiles will be permit od in the Fioming street gate and ) visitors without Naval Station | oasses will be perintited in the ain gate S rd street “We have to ask our visitors to| walk,” said Major Charles B. sarrett, Commanding Officcr of| F tions where the two aircraft hit} A GIGANTIC CROWD ESTIMATED. AT: 500,000 people jams the Plaza Der ern sector of Berlin for. the traditional’ May. Day cetebration Tuesday. is Soviet. War Memorial. The a tribute to East Gezmans under Communist rule. Bentley Sees No Need Of Miles Of Land For 15-20 Key Deer | Monroe County Con | sioners last night voted v j} animously their tie to HB2897 creating a wild- Berlin = * | | | | | life management area on | Big Pine Key. The Board not only op- posed the act as now \ ten but directed the Co ty Clerk Earl R. Adams record their opposition our representatives in Con- 5 to t | gress. | A large group from the | newly-formed Lower’ Keys Property Owners as tion were present last night to protest against the mes- u sure. Wi Spokesman. for the grevp P. W. Kiefer of Washington stre Kiefer declared that the bill would ruin the property-hold- ers. of Pine Key and the Lower Keys. He voiced strong ob- jection to taking of the lands to protect the ‘key deer.’ HB2897 is sponsored by. Repyc- sentativce Bill Lantaff. The bill is now in committee. It specifies hs sure of by to be-used te (®) Wirephoto vid Racio from Berlin iblik in the west- In the. ground at left flag at the right xt with the Western Freedom symbol was hoisted as ' Miller Apparent Low Bidder On Field Lighting A. F, Miller of Miami is the ap- pareht low bidder for installation xf lights at the Tavernier Marathon softkall ficids. Miller bid $3,268 for cach job. Though Miller is the apparent low bidder, it does not follow that he will be given the installations as all bids have to be evaluated by the county c Other bids rei Tavernier Field Witliam Hepburn ‘of $4,792. Alonzo: Cothron, $3,500. - Marathon Field William Hepburn, $4,919. Alonzo Cothron. Keys Electric, '$4,578. A reo ntative of the Ke; Electric: company asked’ that ‘the, Cothion bid: be thrown out’ as Cothion was: got a qualified clec- trical contractor. Mr. Cothron was ‘granted the floor’ and he. informed the board (Continued On Page Three) and Miami, JOE LOUIS Former Heavyweight Champion Omelio Argamonte Cuban Heavyweight SPONSORED BY TONIGHT! TONIGHT! | Mines Beer Distributors, Inc. | 10 PM. | only sip Meerisitn “en ey deere in met'ica, Still So Some Doubt That Passeng ers On rin dete bi ‘Airliner May Have Died In Explosion ft “Iam opposed to the act. I nat ey why hundreds of miles is needed for 15-20 deer. “Oily Two, Bodies From Cubana: Plane Had Approve to Miami hitact Faces And Hands; Concussion Had An East Coast Highway Asso-. Blown Brains Out To The Back Of Skulls ciation resolution recommending the establisement.of a four-lane Civilian Pilot George Faraldo explained yesterday, during the sighway between Jacksonville inque t into the deaths of 43 persons killed in the dual plane crash Board ‘last night. Busii and Miami was approved by the isman Joe Zorsky’ spoke for tht r¢s0- He was at Meacham Field, only two miles away, and as lution. Se o rei Request Referred as he saw the airliner fall into the sea, took off down-wind in a To Civil Defense private plane. First, he dropped four life preservers on the spot]: ‘The Key West Radio Amateur where the plane dived into the water. Circling again, seeing no] club asked the county and city to | survivors, he dropped dye markers. pay the small expenses of tele- | Faraldo spotted the two plenery. phone and. electricity, that«will , before the actual crash but poini- uccrue in theit new Armory head- ed out that he did not see them|¢ arters. | make contact. Papa Hemingway O. F. Bramlett of the organi- - Long Remembers comncitan Gy Se | “I did see the left wing of the zation told the | commercial airliner fall off and the organization had ~enough Key West Sojourn { Ernest Hemingway lives in I saw the splash as the plane equipment in case of emergency Cuba, but he has not forgot- | here April 25, how he was able to reach the scene <o quickly. weet | struck the water,” he said. or hurricane to Provide- com- Under detailed questioning, Fa- munications. bead cecaedh thal these: toute be The request was teferred,to-Al » | some, doubt that the pilot and co- Mills, director of Monroe County ‘ i : s ten his-stay in Key West. pilot weré alive at the time the " ‘ Civil: Defense. Cuban plane began its duwnward ie ‘ April: issue, of the priate: Control ; Spanish language magazine - — PHBE Carteles/ published in Ha-" | Plan Urged A dramatic description of what] yaaa. he is described as ‘The Upper Keys -Chamber-of he witnessed was made by Charles Papy who stood up on the w Commerce are urging, tit coufity writing. to columnist Leonard to use anticipated funds to com- Lyons: “Soy un muchacho ness stand as he talked and illus- . ‘ « bat mosquitoes in Monroe county. |trated points with arm and hand Vanscin, Kanha (aan County. Commissioner Harry gestures, — ’ | Harris stated that the State Key West and La Habana.” The translation is, “I am a. boy of five cities: Paris, Ven- ice, Ketchum, Key West and Havana.” would advance fumds to the County immediately for mos- quito control. Harris, just back from a trip to from, under a shed roof, | folded my arms just like this,” Papy | said, applying action to the words, ' | | “I stepped out to the sidewalk | | and looked up. I yelled, “My . < Tallahassee on County — business, God! Look at that plane! It had] The masasine article was | Tohasizcd that an’ effort was exploded at the very minute I| (Continued Un Page Fiver |made to have Governor Fuller llooked up. It was about 10 feet from the bigger commercial plane. I could see a wing fall off, then a motor. It just went to pieces in the air and stuff fell like paper| bits. There, was a plume of smoke,” As Papy watched, he saw the airliner go into a gliding turh which he demonstrated with his bands. “I thought. why doesn’t ')*that_aizliner...follow the~tittle plane.and’try some soft ‘of res- f cue ingtead of, going thé ‘other direction? Of course I didn't realize then that it was also going to fall.” Papy added. He was positive he saw no con- (Continued On Page Five) Summer Rates In Effect Overseas Hotel Warren sign the commissiens of three Monroe County residents. in order that the musquito control board could function. Western Union. 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