The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 8, 1951, Page 1

Key West, Flerida, has the Most equable climate in the- VOL. LXxu, N, Essay Winners Guests Of Rotarians Here » William Neblett Can Now Compete With Four Others For First Award : Young honor s at Rotary Club's sterday Juncheon §y were essay winners of the contest spon- sored by Rotarian J. Ernest Mill-| en of Quebce, Canada, in order | to further good will relationship | between this nation and Canada. The Key West winner of a $50| # first prize was 16 year old Will- iam Neblett, Jr., who has just be- come a high school senior. He is | the son of Comdr. and Mrs. W. R. Neblett, 415 Francis street. Theme of his 4,000 word essay, | written after over two months of | research work, is “Canada, Virgin | Wilderness to’ Self Government.” | As winner from this city, Neb- | lett will later compete with the winning essayists from four other | cities in Florida; Daytona Beach, | Hollywood, Boynton Beach and Deland. If he tops the finals, he is en- titled to an all-expense paid trip’! to Canada with a week ‘at the | Mount Royal hotel in Quebec. | Other honor guest at the Ro- | tary Club luncheon was second | prize winner, Miss Mary Ann Pat- | terson who was awarded $25 for | her essay “Maple Leaf.” (#) Wirephoto via Radio from Paris GEN.’ DWIGHT D. EISFN- HOWER watches his wife plece @ wreath on the grave of an unknown soldier in the Ameri- can cemetery at St. Laurent, France, on ihe anniversary of D-Day. He stopped here on a tour of the Normandy invasion At the request of the Canadian | beaches of World War II. As sponsor, Neblett read his prize} Allied supreme commander. essay aloud to the group after; Gen. Eisenhower directed the luncheon and business were completed. | The outline only is _ possible} here as the essay traces Canadian history from the ice age through to modern d The conde: lett’ matters ed Germany’s “iron ring.” d_version of Neb- Back On Beaches Normandy landings that crack- | eee THE San Carlos Directors / Commended | Cuban Seeretary Of State Amazed That No Elections Were Held For 25 Years The Cuban Seerctar Miguel Suarez Ferna of State, . told the lez directors of the San Carlos School in Havena Wednesday morning | th t they were to be co nded rather than criticized for ro- jeent!y signed contract for th | al of the Palace Theatre, | He expressed his amazement that there had been no election of directors for twenty five years. He also assured the visiting group that his examination of the leases | and papers in connection with the jdeal assured him that the pres- _|ent directors had abided by all ;rules and regulations of the in- stitution in weir recent awarding j0f the theater lease to Gerald breu and A. W. Castro. He praised the directors’ for working so hard for a justified cause, in the face of sometimes seemingly unsurmountable oppo- sition, The committee of the San Carlos s themselve. ineluded Vere nt- nin niceties Award Of Merit directors: af The Key West Citizen has just received an Award of Merit from the American National Red Cross “In recognition of merit- | a Ac Delfin Jimenez, a, Juan Lopez, Julio Caban- them ous sevice in the 1951 Red ympanying were the Cross Fund.” | theatre leasees Gerald Abreau and The Award was signed by | A. W. Castro. Jeff H. Knight, Jr. Fund | They were met at the Havana Chairmen. | airport on Wednesday morning by _|a squadron of police officers and =| lieutenants and were escorted im- |mediately to the office of the ecretary of State for the confer | ence. Automobiles and a squadron |of escort motorcycle policemen EWSPAPER KEY WEST. FLORIDA. FRIDAY. JUNE 8. 1951 hool presenting: to the Cuban official! Frank | Arturo Pvig, and Jose Villar. | essay encompassed the geol- ogical period of Canada, then be- | gan detailed description of the ! remained at their disposal for the | period of their visit Yesterday they were guests at} The Post Office “Beat” Is Ho Marshall Pays Visit To ‘Korea Today SAYS EIGHTH ARMY IS IN WONDERFUL SHAPE TOKYO, June &.—().—Secre- tary of Defense ¢ e Marshall has raid a surprise visit to Korea vr that ¥ 1 is in the Far East immediately — started talk that he might be carrying new orders to General Matthew Ridgway Yrean war. But Marshall said in Tokyo that the gurpose of his visit was urety military He said h. brought no. new di- ‘eclives and added that his visit had no connection whatsoever with current reace --negotiation discussions. Marshall ‘said. any peace feclers would have to come from Red China. Mowshail said his stay Far Bast would be short. When the secreta Tokye--today after rea, he said “E came over to see the ; Eighth Army, and they are in | wonderful shape. They couldn't |" @ better.” on conduct of the Ko- in the reached visiting Ko- | He was accompanied to Korea by General Matthew Ridgy apreme commander of the forees. | While in Korea, the two men visited the First Corps and the First Cavalry Division and met all the foreign commanders. They conferred with Lieutenant |General James Van ‘Fleet for al- most six hours In Korea, A special Pan American plane flew Marshall to Tokyo from the United State: = Ni: z IN THE. U.S.A. @ The Associated Press Teletype | Features and Photo Service For 71 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CEn City Urged To Buy Drunkomeier By FSP Academy Hea * Lower Keys Property C1 Adopis Consiitution: Names Papy As Officer In Or Blasted For Fun t Members Predict Healthy Future For Long: rgleeted Lower Keys | } way from the southern end of the | |Seven-Mile. Bridge to the Stock } | Island Bridge, as well as the we Drunkemeter Does Not Lie: Improve Relations Between Policemen. Courts Key West should becom> of the score of Florida cities to buy @ drunkometer to dete the alcohol content in ih of arrested persons, W. F. Reneger, of the F} State Police Academy todzy. Renegar. who is directing eecle i policeman’s school at City H By COMDR, RAY W. BYRNS which runs through June 15, sid A strong lusty organization ¢ that 32 states now use. drunto tined, to .yield.a decisive voice meters with great succe: jall matters. political and other | “Use of drunkometers ir wise, pertaining to, the Li , relations between poli Keys, became a reality last eve- B the cents, It leaves nor |ning. Sixty, members, of the, uncértaintyse tothe condit Lower Keys Piuperty Owners As bap gabicen: Conv Babentiie aetna sociation, at their monthly meot- ion, TeMRG he terninict * | ing last. evening at Ross Sawyei’s hot Ge wen ane Cudjoc Lodge, unanimously BE es | tution and by pate : oo [principle pucpose the wie a Pepe gr jof the future, evowth < acing’ Crake eee. i PPPOE YS bce MBE according to the expert who loaned.to_various, states=to instal and teach officers how. to ope ate the drunk-testing device. He stopped in the | Indian tribes inhabiting Canada) the Officers Club in Havana ant! J@panese capital only ‘ten min- | fare.and prot ion of the. prop- i Reporter Seeks News From Mail-Gathering Citizerts' t “ * - - *. S| wowace “senate In Temperature And In News werd and uncultivated; but they | j » had their owh typeof culture. | sama RRA RARARE RRA RAR AAR ERAAR RR RR RROD | For one thing, Pi A Good ac- | By SUSAN McAVOY a erful Troquiois: Tridians’ in the} Westers. have more encrgy they c country, “Canuda’-whs filled withy} come marching into. The Citizen, tia ‘ olfice with their, news. o in the carly days, taking in de-| tails of their history, culture, ; habits and ways of living, “We think of them sometime: { | yesterday. You see there ard no! air outlets there.” He pointed to the corner closest: to Simonton and Saroline street. A drooping line f and their; toddlers, others nomadic Indians. on the «West? 4 ap Navy men, and civilians waited coast and by iEskimos invthée far|iIn June, July and: August, it i. icky. miser their north. Barte nd trade. w «| seems the trek to our office looms Post ‘office tr axe ready established to a great ex-| as a desert safari under that, love- | sstas tent among the Indians themsel-| ly tropical sun. ae oe stats bi re tes. It is thie factor, the essay! So I figured that if the news TOUP Of chatterers T-expected to jointed out, which gave the Hrst| won't come to us; Klwilk@eacton tite: moe exeomemecmned to. be Rcillie then: to wirive baligbnonor the new “ 8 anxious to flee the hot coral build- tunity to trade with the tribes ing, for the tonlerstree Neblett also mentioned the vis- Where is the news? I pondered this? Aside from City Hall, Court| CAA Manager James Hancock, it of Vikings to the shores of Ca-| House, Fire, Police, Navy, where | Wiping perspiration from. his brow vada about 1000 A. D. | can I find at one place, at one | told me to see him some other rirst explore. wa: John Cabot,| time the largest gathering of Key | Hine: algut Meacham field.) Loutieg the Brit © Kreg+ bars} Westers and pick up the largest» The Rev. Ralph Rogers, still wer After him car the French| parcel of news items j cooled Sy memories of the north- exployers headed by Jacque Car-} Sometimes the simplest things ern trip from which he returned tier ot 1 are the hardest to discover. Neblett explained the orig the name ¢ “village,” by Indians who thought visiting |have to go once a day anyhew. white men wanted to know where | / H they lived ''to 10 in the morning is the hour! convention. He was reelected .as} The young writer continued to| during which most of them walk | National Chaplain there. He. also trace the vital points in Canada’s} into’ the Féderal building visited a son in Indianapolis, a} development» through. the Indian| My. boss told me to give it a| daughter in New York, and pinch- wars, the French and Biitish}| try. Lagreed that I'd like to pick | hitted for his minister son at the; (Continued "On ‘Tage Zight, | up Post Office news every day. | latter's church, The Laburnum! —<———— | Stand at the cig and-—or near} Presbyterian in Richmond, Va } na the boxes and just allow myself) Standing with an armiload of} 788 Parcels Sold By County Here in of} a mistaken answer| great many mail-hungry citizens;back to his First’ Presbyterian) |church from three weeks in St. | i} to be ‘plied with news as Key mail the smiling minister said he Westers come for their mail. was glad to be back in Key West, | ! J dreamed of the cool halls of but he too walked swiftly out of! the big building. I thought, this) the Post Office, once our inter-| will be a pretty nice assignment.! view was completed Ioward Wilson, Monroe coun-' Might be cooler than City Hall,! Col, Penn Fagar in a bright ty tax collector, announced today | certainly cooler than the “cooler” (Continued On Page Five) : ; paceesemcebetese Stetina esate that 788 parcels of land had been | in City Hall, and indubitably cool sold ig the courthouse: steps bid-} er than The Citizen city room it ding on delinquent tax land. put! self. This morning I tested my the Two Cars Collide; | up for auction on June 1. t kad inito-the-Puat OR 5 . i Total amount of value was| oty. I walked into the Post Office ] ol D:; o | $8,499. ‘The largest surn paid by| at 9:21 a.m. Right was I about ig 1 amage n individual was $742.20 for a| the numbers of people and news tr f land on Mateenmbe Key. | Sources. Wrong I dead! Two cars collided at the corner peg sre! Wrong about an soled beat uber * a thas Ripa Pine| The deceptively cool looking | ing in slight damage to both. at centage of collection a | “| 3:30 yesterday afternoon, Police cent, | Federal Building is like a furn | It made The Citizen office a wel come refuge-—an air cooled para dise in comparison One informant, perspiring heay séle was one hundred per Chief Joseph Kemp announced to- day The first car driven by Miss R Robinson, 2112 | a 1951 Chvrolet. It inet |'also visited the were introduced to the Cuban public over the radio station. They new develop: ments in Havana and the Colum: bia Army Base. * Allies Continue Relentless Attack 9". ‘OnCominunists | Variety, Of Cases (TOKYO, Mund 3.--.4-Ab ithe front, the “allies are ‘continuing their relentless attack on the en- emy’s big North Koréan defense area, known as the iron: triangle, There are signs today that the Reds are moving some of their|inal Court today Before Judge {Captain Eddy Linton and“Myrtic’ strength out of the triangle. The main cities in this defense area are Chorwon, Kumhwa and , Pyongyang. orwon has been flattened by allied artillery, and officers say | onan aggravated, assault charge | will mean the | and was fined costs of'60 days in} the fall of this city But it occurred to me that the that did nothing to refresh him in| Long toms and thundering how- | nada, which means! Post Office is one place that a the hot halls. He has just come | itzers aré centered on the road to} Kumhwa to the cast Last night, allied planes hit the Careful study revealed that 9/| Louis at the National Sojourners; area with nine million bomb frag-} ments: in-an operation: described as one of the heaviest of its kind. A heavy. rain, slowed the allied advance a little today. The Reds (Continued On Page Eight) ee All Meetings Will Be Open To Public Neil Saunders who has been recommended for the Monroe county Mosquito Control along with C. F. Tingler and Al- bert Moeller denied todav that any formal meeting of the Board was held last night in. Marathon as reported in a Miami paper. unders told The Citizen: ap- could hardly hold a formal meet- ing as implied in-that Miami pap- er, Saunders continued: “When the we do receive our Staples avenue was | official appointment and. hold a) rred_a/ meeting, the public will be in- | Board | } ‘Not all of us have received our | official notifications of our of Eaton and Duval street result-! pointments from the governor, We fined $25 and costs on two charg- ‘utes ‘before heading for Korea— hié first visit: there in°37 years. At that time, he inspected bat- jtiegrounds of the “Russo-Japan- ese wal | Marshall was in China in 1946 | feiwnen ne tried for six months to! ynd week-end and winter-re mediate a settlement the: Nationalists and between | the Com- ‘Before Judge Caro Two -cotored women involved in a Knife ‘slashing Tigit at Mara- thon recently,"appeared in Crim- Thomas Caro: Beatrice Herndon’ pleaded not guilty and will stand trial by jury in the future. | Ethel Mitchell pleaded guilty jlast night paused for a moment| fall of the entire iron triangle. | jail. From testimony. given by .the two women and by witnesses, the j fight was the climax of several days “fussing and nagging.” Another woman, Helen Virgin- ia Noble, 51, was given.a six day sentence for “drunkenness, the hor-artest., %01-cs + te ‘ Reckless driving eharges cost John Newton-Parabel and Andrew Bruce; Richardson ay ten; dollar fine each. 3 | Gary Louw Hein was fined five | dollars “for having no driver's®li- cense. Marion Scott Ori and Harold }Dean Dobbs had their cases of ‘ reckless. driving dismissed, | Paul Page, charged on three | counts, was found guilty of one, driving while: intoxicated, and jined $25 and costs. A $50 fine and costs or 60 days was handed Walter Patrick Ker- lev for improper parking on a bridge. | Allen Raymond Kelly was | (Continued On Page Five) —— ‘Search Pressed For Missing Men term to begin from the day of} “The breath is the easiest ani erty rights of its increasmg mem-| most accurate test. If the drunk: bership. | meter shows .15 aleoho! in the | Metebers present stressed their) ~ blood. that, means the accuse! | pride:and satisfaction in the prog-|_ definitely intoxicated. Th's | ‘ ress:so tar miade, and all predicted! basec™ on the guthority of the (P) Wirephoto | @ healthy future for the long-neg-} 7 | lected Lower Keyss—secing in that| future a community .of how a fuion Spots uceeysible to the Brow-! - sania ing and «pra ive matkets in} 18, University of Miami fresh- \the Key West aira. | man, confessed to Miami police, | Comimittees were appointed to| Thursdey that he took part in hwtrk to this enc, having princi.) @ dozen dynamifing ‘parties for ‘pally in view the needs for goott| the thrill ef it, He and four lateral’ roads, eluctricity, tele-} other boys were held for inves- | phone, mail-serviee, zoning laws,) tigetion into a series of mys- Peters terious explosions of dynamite in the Miemi area the past few months, ALEX JOHN PELLENI (above) Js Henry Hudgins was named as Hep Man “Sf” the all-ifiportdot! | Biidge and Bead Committee, with | Gtbi as co-members; Comman- poet jay Byrns and C. Sam’ B.} : grniy urry Were named on Public Re-| Jy. eH nae Ros C saver ge on From Commission ver Tombly and Jay Stricker! . BSH e Weré seléctéd to handle all mat-| TALLAHASSEE, June 8.—(#). ters pertaining to the extension, ~The Florida Railroad and Pub- | of @lectricity-and telephone sery- lic utili'ies commission has ruled ise es Lower -Keysia Mos- | that a telephone subscriber is res- quito Controt was “placed™ under) so ncible for the use ° ; NED. Sautdefs: Mekibershige Cams| bo™sible fe m the use to which his mittee=is-under Captain Calkins; PPM? Js put Zoning Laws, under Ed” Hancock| And that's not ail. The commis- of Cudjoe, for 20 years. .ehief| sion says it is his duty and res- oe ek oe ah of Miami,| scnsibility to so supervise the and “Rutal District Mail. Setvice,, 1... of telephone facilities on his under Mildred sbade. ponfefee {prem thatthe possibility of Honosa'¥- membership eatds}any illegal use of them is reduced weresmailed ti Senators Siath-!¥, 4 minimum. ¢ se ip Reprvents | ‘The commission held that T, J. ive Bill Lantaff and to “State: scanion of. Miami must do: with- SRtoi Ti FieAylin. [Sut phone service for three ‘Representative Bernice C--Papy,| months although he was not per= atso-a Lower Keys Property Own-/Sonally involved in the incident! jek. was asked fo.accept the posi-) which led to removal of his phone tien: of SecondVice President. ©} in March. Scanlon is owner and “Prior” f6 “Aa jGOrnment, Ross" Cl peator of Seanlon's bar in Mia- Sawyer, Jr... announced that the} mj, County Commissioners and Sher-| iff Berlin Sawyer had approved) the phone in the bar following the appointment ef:Joe Yohnson,!the arrest of Harry William Everett Halland .Henty Hudgins) Barndt on bookmaking charges. as honorary. deputy sheriffs for; Hoe allegedly used the phone in | <-One,of the. highlights. .of the! | cverting was-the informative ud-} dregs made by Gerald Baker, man- ager of the Southern Florida Na- ional Wildlife Refugee, of the |U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service. Mr. Baker not only spoke of Fla. Convention © George F. Norcisa, recently el- ected commander of Key West Bookies Get Blow | Miami police asked removal of; DAV Head Attends | i American Medical gssociation anc | other expert #8 Reneiar sai 35 alechoi jin Bik bleed hes in desth | InoKey? West «8 incother con- | munities cases where it has | been difficult to ascertain intox! | cation by just looking at the per- | son. Blood: tests, spinal: taps and | other tests. require the presence of a physician, | The drunkometer cen be | ministered ‘by trained spolicemen. Renegar is pleased with the | attendance, attention and atti- tude of the 25 Kev West police, shore patrol and sheriff's. office men at the school. He finds that many of — the | police have put into practice the techniques and theories learned | at last year's sessions. “This is particularly tru> traffic enforcement prin the men Jearned last year,” | Renegar. = |. Key. West police siudents com- pare very. favorably, ie i with those in the dozens-of ot localities where he has" taught, | “After. four years of this schooling, police get a diploma from the State Police Acadery. (Continued Om Page Five) = net Aged May Get Free Hospital Care WASHINGTON, June 9--().—~ Members of the House and Senate labor committee are waiting de- | tails of a reported administration | plan to furnish paid hospital care to aged persons. ave Federal security administrator Oscar Ewing has declined to. con- firm or deny existence of slich a | plan: But it-has-been learned he of ples the Lower Keys, thus giving the! sconion’s bar to. conduct hia)! at property owners the much-needed! pogiie business. is die. to " seh ae ho additional police protection. i s days. The p! which room and would provide ‘board at hospitals at government expense. i “Some one passed out over in that heat pocket in the corner jdamaged left front fender. The | formed through the press well in| | other ear driven by J. C, Horner, advanee. We are a public body LONDON. June 8.——(P).—Brit- 1101. Poineiana, a 1949. Pontiac. | and will hold-no closed meetings.” | ish secret agents are pressing their } the protection now being afford- ed for the Key Deer, as well as all forms of Wildlife on the Low- jer dKeysy but stressed. the im- Chapter No. 33, Disabled Ameri- jcan Veterans. is attending the | (Coutinuea On Page Fives according to BEST | POOR, OED CRAIG onus, L BERVICE STATION: | patrotman W. L. James, making | Francis at Truman Phone 9134 the report says she did stop at 1 1 Your PURE OIL Deaier the stop sign on Eaton as she was Tires .. Tubes .. Batteries driving south / . . Accessories Both drivers were issued sum- imons for reckléss drivini ae: AA BACERS eh: aan thas a damaged right hand “back search for two missing carter dip- * . Fine Fishing Tackle Thompson Enterprises, Inc. HARDWARE DIVISION Phone 886 Phone 886 LTE TREN LT ELI ERS lomats. One -kidws~ high-level | Anglo-American defense secrets. | The other wag attached to the ‘British embassy in Washington. | Both ‘disappeared in Paris: And | serious complications. in relations | with the United States are feared {if they are not found. portance of the proposed amend- | — ment. to H.ix. Bill 2897, designai- | ing ‘certain sections of the Lower Keys as sancluarics—the govern- ment purehasing if agreeable to the owners, the land needed, oth- erwise leasing vith owners’: con-| {°° (Continded -On Page Biehty Palace Theater Johnny Mack Brown in “COLORADO AMBUSH” and DOUBLE CHECK! For Value Received On N ON TRADE-INS... WE MEET MIAMI MEW CAB PRICES. . A. New PLYMOUTH or ee