The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 25, 1951, Page 1

q | ql q 4 Key West, Florida, bas the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Gh VOL. LXXII. No. 151 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN ‘tH Chinese Reds Become More Aggressive ALLIED WARSHIPS CONTINUE TO POUND EAST COAST PORTS TOKYO, June 25.—(P) —Talk of peace has not stilled the sound of battle in Korea. Chinese and North Ko- rean Reds more aggressive all along the 100-mile batilefront. | And Communist jet planes have made a new hitskip attack from their. Manehurs|. ian airfields, However, there still is no sign of the enemy o% fensive that have «sbecome| some. Allied} First Flight For An | Power is furnished by two’ Wri THE NAVY'S NEWEST ANTI- Martin’s Marlin, on its initial flight over Cheaspeake Bay. Known as the P5M-1, it is equipped with latest electronic search devices, officers thought might dc! 7 . | velop on the first anniyei-| sary of the Korean war, 3:250 horsepower each. The Nav ber for delivery starting in the KEY WEST. FLORIDA. MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1951 ti-Sub Plane SUB FLYING BOAT, Glenn L. ight turbo-compound engines of y has ordered a substantial num- Fall. Allied warships continue to pound east coast ports in North Korea, As for the air war—thirty Russ- jan-made jets wheeled over the Manchurian frontier today, jock- eying for position against Ameri- n sabre jets. After one of the enemy planes had been shot down in flames, the Reds bolted for home It was the eighth day in nine of air fighting on the frontier. The Reds have lost 13 planes destroyed and 29 damaged. The Allies have lost 11 planes In the ground fighting, allied and Communist infantry. crossed bayonets on the western front to day. Northwest of Yonchon; allied patrols are trying to sieze a stra- tegic hill. The Reds. clung to their posi- tions, despite “tistering aan and air attack. Allied doughboys then plunged through enemy ard}, tillery, mortar. and sivallearr fire and ‘engaged the Reds hand to-hand. At last word, United Na me as forces had’ captured part of the hill. On the central front, ‘allied troops continue efforts to sieze a vital mountain position northeast of K wa. They have the de- fend urrounded, p,n-fa Key West Cool By Contrast With Other Cities Now we have the answer to Key West's June boom of tourists, While ovr temperature drop- ae ped to 72.8 at 3:30 this moxhin« the rest: of the: East ‘Coakt fram Maryland down, sweltered in, a sizzling heat wave. Last night's storm broke our, crought and gave us .85 inches of rain. Though our. maximum temperiituré yesterday. was 92 degress, that is low compared to the mercury’s soar in other cities. Here is how the country swel- tered from Maryland to Florida. Highest temperature climbed to 101 degrees yesterday at Co- S. C. and Augusta, Ga. Blackstone, Va., Raleigh, N. C., Jackson, Miss., andTampa,’ Fla lumbia |Eisner Comes Back 'To Give Chance For Quorum Mayor. Louis M. J. Eisner cut short his vacation by a week t make sure the City Commission meeting tonight will have a quor um, he told The Citizen today “I got a call while in New York hat last week the Commission lacked a quorum-—and that there are important matters coming up. so‘instead of staying on v tion until: July Jst, I came back Sat- urday night,” said Eisner. | The Mayor said. he also hac heard. that no one wanted to fill the Mayor's shoes i bsence: | Tonight's “agenda be the} jame .as last Monday's schedule : ‘area at’ Wickers Field B: stadium. He will also ask Com- joners if they call for bids on facing two tennis courts at Park. and on the pur anew police ¢ar to rc Place an old motorcycle Mayor Eisner will preside at to night’s meeting On his trip north, the Mayor was’ entertained by the Mayors or their representatives of Jack sonville, and Wilmington, N. C | “The Mayor of New York is a |little busy right now, so I didn't get in touch with him, when I was there,” said Eisner. “I did, how aver, see a lot of ngy friends in th New York police department.” Mayor: Eisner said he is glad to be. back\in -town.His wife and he visited: her family in New York, and theip.-da rs George Mi onville Navy Hurricane Hunter Searches Gulf Of Mexico MIAMI, J hurricane hunter is searct western Gulf of Me wake of an caste ine 25.—(4 A Navy ico “in | and Melophone : Operatde, moved inland durin a hot Sunday of 98 dégrees; nta hit 96 degrees, and Tal- However, the searcl lahassee, Orlando, Fort. Myers. | tered in the area around Baltimore, Washington. ‘D, C.. { Mexico, isn't exnected t Wilmington, N. C. and Birmang- ham, Ala. all hit 95 degrees. Makes br swept Key West seem cool by contrast, What's more our drought is broken, and Weatherman Sam _ Goldsmith Key West can expect more showers and cooler weather, says Juvenile Council Meets Tonight I 1 March, president of the Juvenile council announced that regular council meeting would be held tonight at the Clinic building | Speaker for the evening will} be Juvenile Court Judge Eva | Warner Gibson who will address | sroup’on the Florida State | ie Court act in its relation Monroe county sét up. Judge Gibson said that since | the juvenile court work was now full time instead of part time, | that specific headquarters will) be established here, The location | has not yet been determined. | anything unusual The Miami Weather Bureau said the showery condition with shifting winds should clear up ver Jand. showery with the wav Another weak is moving castward through the ‘Batiamas and Cuba and will prob- ably affect Florida's weather to. night and tomorrow. Miami Storm> Forcaster Grady added, the séeond . wave. will in- crease shower, activity and. give Oecasional ‘fresh winds, but noth- ing more. | GAS IS BEST COSTS LESS . wave! Norton»said 'there’s ‘no ‘storm. He! Kighteen Civilian Employees Are Praised By Navy the mendation for wi 1 employees y received 1 s of co t they d they de for accident didn’t nave I noon, ptain C C. Adell, ander of the Ke} West Naval Bz ecented the letters signed by Under Secre tary of the Navy, Dan Kimbail. remarked that he had. pre- sented Safety Awa ta most of he regipicnt before Those whorreceiyed™the letters were: Mejerr Lo Alibity, -Sunervise Communi Exthans record of cations “: Pelepbone has Qehieved a accident-fret coneecutive year 644, United Street Harry M. Bake Naval Home address Fire . Chief, Consolidated Fire schieved supe Departirent, who hes cident-free 1125 wd of a conse years United Snapper Shop 02, cord of ac for five Tome address: Home ad- Charl Ful nan f has dof: accident n fe x consecu i r address: 1413 sS er lephone Oper- to ions Telephone re ‘ nt-f upervi f ix consecutive years Tome 3041 Seidenberg E t f who has v rec accident r nf nsec ve ye Hor addr 1124 Eaton Helio Loy Leadingman Au torr Mechanic, Shop 02, who bas achieved a record of acci dent-tree’ supervision for five} consecutive Home dress: § Packer S' ssé J. Mor Super- visor, Traffic Sec ply De-} par nt, who h nieved a record of accident-free supervi- sion fof six consecutive years Hor ess; 1213 Truman Ave- nue, Thomas C. Moore, Fire In- snector, Naval Base Consolidat- ed Fire Department, who has! achieved a record of aceident- free supervision for eight conse- cutive years. Home address; 1111 South Street John J. Newcomb, Special Leadingman. Shop 07, who has fachieved'a record of accident- n for seven ¢onse- Home address: 1209 ane. free super cutive years, Phillips, Leading- Shop 07, who has of accident- Page Sight, man Plumber achieved a rec (Continued On | family. fy ‘| Ask Governor Two Transformers Hit By Lightning Two struck by lightning during the thunder storm which flashed over Key West early this mctnihg between 3 and 4 transformers were o'clock, One of the transformers damaged was on Watson street. The other is located on Stock Island. Officials of the City Electric system said that no serious a@amage was done and thet trouble-shooters had the ser- vice resumed shortly after 6:30 a. m. when they were notified. po == 7,500 Families | Live In Key West Permanently . Harold Laubscher, manager of (#) Wirephoto| the Key West chamber of com- | merce sa id today that the month. \ly publication of the organization, “Trends” had been mailed out this | weekend and that most of the |copies reached their destinations today. Approximately 300 issues. were sent to members within the Key West area. Laubscher said that, 25. more copies were sent to other cham- bers of commerce throughout the State In the article on summer tour- is rends” points out even with 1 10 percent increase in the num- ber of motels and other accomo: dations, “No Vacancy” signs are displayed even this early in the summer. interesting statistics about Key West show that, according to: tne | 1950 census, there are 7.400 fatm- ilies who are now permanent rési- dents. | An annual expenditure of $17, 852,000 is made by. the populat | in purchasing food, general ir radio, automo | chandise, | drugs and furnishings. ‘ | “Trends” estimates that “effec? tive buying incéme $14,495) | annually.” That. breaks down! to} | $650 per. capita and’ $1,956 per er ‘Call Pay Session A special session of the Florida legislature to grant a flat $300| increase to teachers throughout} 5 ee Sg QOver Tnelve * Truman Says United To Join In Ending OfiKorean Wa Citizens The Associated Press Telety; Features and Photo Ser For 71 Years Devoted to th: Best Interests of Key We PRICE FIVE States Ready * Wal: Run * In City’s First Primary Election In Election 3 Out Of 6 Primary Candidates Will Be Chosen } |... More than a, dozen. cit jzens will run in the first city primary in Key Wests history, it was learned. tow day. “ Mie Catching Forty Nes . Winks Anytime * % ter ® Reds In Korea Have Suffered 1,000,000 Casualties TULLAHOMA, Tea June. 25.—().— Presi- jdent Truman declared to- day the United States is The city commission | 5 primary set up by an act} just passed by the Florida} ready to join any real sei- | tlement of the Korean war, | af it will end aggression and dates who will..crun, in the Monroe Teachers ini ie. ah eens M: J. Eisnior and John Car- jthe first Tuesday in No- jvember, At that time it is expected that at least 12, and probably 15 Key Westers will qualified to ian. | Oui of this number, yoters will. select six. candi- or have final general... election,.on the second ‘fuesday; tvember, of. which. will be elected, Six candidates are needed to produce a primary. Though non haye filed with ‘the City Clerk, some men have already ‘started: letting thef¢andidacy br known: City ‘Com- led for ex-| pired, terms... of missioner: Louis Cabaneh oh Mattiond Ad-| ams, and -C. B. Harvey, “Mayor mission must be bonell have two more years in their posts. City Clerk Victor Lowe said that he has not received any ccr- the state was asked for today by| the Monroe County Classroom! Teachers Association, | The lettey released by Mrs. Mary Milner, president of the as-| sociation, calls upon Governor Fuller Warren to call the session immediatelv. State Representativ Bernie Papy was one of the Flor-| ida legislators who voted for teacher increases this year. “Teachers all over Florida are faced with the very real problem: of low pay,” said Mrs. Milner. “In'} Duval county 125 teachers walked out, of the schools hecause they couldn’t .keep themselves going on present salaries. Miami is faced | with the same problem." Here in Key West, says Mrs.| Milner, beginning teachers are’} particular vietims of low salaries. | “It will help the youth of our state—if we can get the legisia-; ture to pass the $300 raise” for! teachers, It will keep good teach: | here. Otherwise they will} leave for other professions and! , other states.” | Shrimp Boat Is’ Reported Overdue ers | The shrimpex, Endeavor, which | | was reported to be fishing off Campeche Bank was reported ov- jer due by its owners. The Coast Guard Air Station at} | St. Petersburg, located the En- | deavor with a patrol plane. They | found she was disabled with a broken rudder at about 10:50 2. |m. yesterday. Her position is 23 | degrees north, and 86 degrees and ; | 40 minutes west. | The Coast Guard Cutter, Ariad-| ne, commat by Lieutenant, James MeMenamin departed Key West yesterday to assist the dis- abled Endeavor. She is expected | to arrive at the Endeavor's posi-; tion about midnight tonight: DRIVE OUT TO or other Key West legi: yet. The primary bill, was ation however, passed as originally presented y State Rep. Bernie Papy to = meeting of Monroe county citizens last March. Candidates for the three City commission posts can file any} time from now until the second Tuesday of October. They tnt) make a written request’ to the City Clerk, ae weil as file $25 in| order :to qualify. They must voters of Key West; which means they, must have been a ‘resident of the: city. for six»months) and of the state of Florida for one year The new legislation enablés vot ers to express their electoral op- inions twice. In the primary they will choose among a Jarger’num ber of candidates. In the election they will vote for three out of the six primary winners. Highest three will win the posts. City Commissioners get paid five dollars a meeting up to a nyaximum of $250 a year. legislature will take place) 16) tified copies of the primary bill| _ fi JERRY (LEFT), TERRY AND LARRY (top), triplet sons of Mr. end Mrs. Kenneth Winterheimer, don’t seem too concerned with shoppirg or press photographers. lly-constructed while the Mrs, shops in Evansville, Ind. Wintorheimer says the October-born irio sleeps at night, them doze in thoir spe Norman Markwells To Erect Apartment Buildings On Seminole Avenue Recent warranty deeds issued in the office of county clerk Earl Adams amount to a total of $64,- 806 Larg um in a property tran- saction Ss $30,000 for property | in the of Simonton and, United which Mr. Mrs. C Mrs. Kings c ; to Brad: lannery Inc., of Mon- roe county. 64.960 Realty Tranalees Recorded In Monree County * Where Airliner Crashed xestore peuce and securiiy. Mr. “truman chose this first anniversary of the Communist attack on south Korea to make a miajor policy declaration 2° “pllahoma, Tennessee. He flew from Wash!n; - ton to dedicate the Arno!) Air Force Engineering 1: - yelopment center, to be de- ted to. new studies of jet ‘ In. and. supersonic 4 esi t said Mustcbe ready to toward “We must avoid like the vlaju> ‘sh actions which would take unnecessary risk of world war or or weak aetions. which reward az- There. was no doubt this was a lirect reply t6 Russian U. N. Del>- fate Jacob Malik’s propéSal’ for \ cease-fire and withdrawal from 460. he 38th parallel. >. However, Mr. Truman did not ipecifically mention Mallk. In reviewing the Korean war, Mr. Truman said the Reds in Kor- ‘a have suffered one million’ cas- salties and have been thrown back sehind the line they started from. Reds Want To Join A . merican Army TOKYO, June 25282" Ai cast three Ghent ae ave'been won over to the “Allies » Korea. Three well-armod Chi ese Reds were captured withovt esistance shortly after a touring adic Show appeared in the 24th ‘vision area. The Reds said they had watch- d the show from nearby hills. ieutenant Charles Early of Chi- ago quoted one of the prisoners 4s saying: “if this is ar’ éxArtipic f the American army, we want 0 join” () Wirephoto Mr. Winterheimer three-seater watches stroller - A $14,000 warranty deed was re- Demolition Can corded for sale of property from Mr. and Mrs. William Newman to Not Be Completed By Deadline Time Demolition of the old Army Bar- racks cannot be completed by the June 27th deadline, according to the ABCD corporation which has been doing the job. Several structures remain on the grounds and the Building Inspect- or's Office is still getting applica- tions for moving the old buildings. Sunshine construction company is moving one house in nine se tions from the Army barracks to | Stock Island. Norman Markwell obtained a permit today to move 4 house from the Army Barracks in two sections. The buildings will go to Seminole and Alberta streets. 1 Other permits reported today} inelude one for Mr. and Mrs. M.} Sanchez, 708 Windsor Lane, for a} $4,000 frame cottage; three small | permits to J. Conlan, 1313 Olivia( street.to erect a fence, break a| and build a car porte; and a} ' Duval street. Mr. Flagler avenue. In the purchase of two sets of and Mrs. Norman Mark-! 1426 Vernon avenue, paid $11,000 to Marilyn Kay for land} of William street venue, and $8,000) lots, Mr. well, at the corner and Seminole to Sam Kay for lots adjacent on Seminole and Alberta, bringing the total purchase to Markweli expects to erect apart- ment buildings: A warranty deed from Hudgins and Alfonso, Inc. of Monroe coun-! ty to Samuel C. Halpert of Miami amounted to $9,900. Bandmaster Due In City Soon Dean of American Bandmas- ters Henry Fillmore is expected to pay a visit to Key West the latter part of this week, Horice O’Bryant, supervisor of public’ instruction announced today: Fillmore is famous as a com- poser of musie as well as being curb $306 permit to Frank Rivas, 1012:top man in thé band field of the nation. and Mrs. Kenneth Beers, 2123 ; $19,000. | Two Men Caught Taking Car Paris . Two Navy men were arrested on charges of stripping a car of its cadio, fan and other accessories, “ast night at 11 o'clock, Police Chief Joseph Kemp reported to- men; Duanne L. Morris and E. both of the (®) Wirephoto CROSS INDICATES TOTOTA in West Africa where wreckage of Pan American Constellation was found more than 24 hours after it was due at Monrovia Liberia, with 40 passengers end crewmen. A Pan American spokesman in New York scid the airliner, bound for New York from Johannesburg, South Toei A AS ating wupapie eter amet aceah agg anrsanet a eee