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

Lenses Key West, fletida, bas the most equable climate in the F country, with an average ‘4 . range of only 14° Fahrenheit oe THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER I VOL. LXXI. No1e3 U0 KEY WEST. FLORIDA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2.18500 MONROE COUNTY’S RETAIL SALES : OLUME IS $20,197,000. “’m Not os Dna Of It” ° City Offers To Purchase. Airport Land Meet Tomorrow To Try To Work Out Sales Price; Little | Hope Held | City Commissioners will) meet with owners of© Mea- cham airport, Key West) Improvement, Inc., tomor-| row at 10 a. m. to discuss) possible purchase price for} the 264 acres, City ~ Man-} ager Dave King announced) today. | | The landnow leased by} D the County for airport pur-| @®) Wirephoto| POS? is being sought by, _ | the City because county of.) PRESIDENT TRUMAN looks quite displeased after “reluctantly” | fivials are not signing the new Sconomic control bill in the Wite House at si attempting) Washington. “I'm not very proud of it.” he told newsmen. He | t@ buy it. ( condemned the measure as “gravely deficient” and blIVted it OQ % 1 vnership by a municirality, for wiping out slaughter quotas on beef. He said that would ¥ or county, is dition | “encourage the return of black markets.” a the rétenth cf the C Ae Paro Adrolnhats ” 159.5% Rise Over us Year — bd Florida. Only 29.1% (Special te The Cittsras bigger business gains in the Said To Be . | past year than did the na- : : { tion as a whole stamping it a faster-growing market | Taking Profit than most. This is shown in Milk Route Deliyerymen |" Rew, copyrighted sur- Make As Much As =o buying grill $15,000 To $16,000 at Yearly In Chicago ; | WASHINGTON: Aug: 2 | —(AP)—A Senate report $20,197 on food prices said today; 159.5 Aap Soe the | that for most products there! $7,78 ” pecord _ is too big a spread between! previous. year. This. . | the farmer's price and the| pares favorably with the | grocery bill. national which The report indicated that mid: peg an average improve- | dlemen may be taking too big a al cae ae So | ber of a fivecoren, mbersnmitice | Atlante, States a5 4 whole pete: investigated food orices, | a 17.5 iraid a comnlete investigation | should be made in Chicago to find. out why consumer milk; rofessional Louch Liits me the fle oe ! = wher comer seg T : - : Ee ae on ; : ; Riken ism formes ‘tae Navy Show To Great Heights iGo Mootle temorro be- VALLET, MC, WEATHERS FLOOD ween city officials on the one ane Bai ©, Pda 6G Beck Pced| OF COMMERCIALS WITH HUMOR hand and Key “West Improc * Official, ~ me c, @ 21e county, on tie 7 FS" Bi genes sas eee Sar i cae mt pom Hee ERNEST FERRIERA CROWNED BY CHARLIE VALLET — [en show ak mccompanied the| Osc of the tela ana tae tha, ++. The King. Is, Seornedy ee ovQers of the field and the City. | ni ny of the Jigval When the 264-acres of tid g ied A’ Day”) as bought ed Key West fore nd ae Set, "=k "| War Duties No Western Europe Expected To which ‘lifted it out | opr property, "the ‘aitport was mateur class. si ect to county ond: t : oe cise es anu... BAT To Ike's Double Production Of Goods had a litthy topheayy list /earmarked by the County f ae ORES | but h eathe: (1952 Campa ign ple pena bigs godin REPORT | g cerem¢ Congressman Quits «»" : Post For $25,000 PE sical tou Utility Position “gs Val of ec | acquisition of the airport. T' ed the flood with floating humor. |money, cannot be used for any itial production of the King” | other purpose. The county drop- was the co-effort of Carl] ats 9 i Ed ARD OI Washing- dairy products to | Sate to May" Taeh'ot t t and ped its suit and has never fee | a eR ° WASHDQ3TON, Aug. 2—()} Most ‘Western European coun- = a x 1 sf sme - he z ed pe a chive steps since to use the $60,000 a. wens New men | western Europe now is ex: | ‘ties now are. said to be spend: | Ss, he ai, that he digo’ ‘ f trying to Be ties eh cat nt| #08 aitport purchase. Eisenhower Can Run Fer) jecteg to double’ its production! iS f@° more for national de- t voie themselves aise stag ¥ ‘8 City Commissioners, fearful = pan . 'fense and far less for non-mili- | T Te Democrat told the| € desjanka by Gitatles| that the loss of the commercial President In °52 And of military goods in» the year itary purposes than before the | g * , sossett, Chie’ otographer of F ~ . t i 1g because it) i NAS. He was a stage elec-| flying would mean a_ serious Be Top Europe Comdr. |‘ d | outbreak of the war in Korea. man to do 8 ywrench in its economic life, vot- . That w comes today from! However, the ECA warns that came @ HOlly-/eq several months ago to take! WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—(),—| the Economic Cooperation Ad-| shortages of raw materials and n and knows the|.) necessary atic setting The! Meact ssman and} © steps to acquire) President Truman told his news tration, the ECA, in arising costs threaten both the m by purchase or if ‘ne- | conferei(>: today that he does not | @uarterly report sent to congress | military outrut and the economy condemnation. | believe General Dwight Eisen- by President Truman ‘of Western Europe. -) | rs of the) field and tha@|hower’s duties Wetern De-| The report covers the January-| The report paints“a generally | {County Comissioners are co-de-|fense commander ould inter- | to-March 1951, period ¢ cyhe ECA | bright overall picture for the pe- | ‘€| fendants in the city’s suit for ap- | fere with his 1952 vities if he adds that production < military | riod. It says that industrial pro- ee? A propriation. Their motions tq is interested in politics. But, add- | goods in Western Europe already | duction in Marshall Plan coun- (as midnight blue| gicmiss the si and for more | ed the President, he believes Gen- has been doubled once in the j¢ries was maintained at the peak Saige a the | @dequate information were par-jeral Eisenhower wil! always two years since the North At-/ level of the previous quarter and hia = (Continued On Page Six) .Contunued On Page 51x} lantic treaty was signed. was up 13 per cent ever a similar y wo oe RIK ______ | 1950 period. It averaged 39_ per palm -trees| pres above, levels: which Deevell- For a Limited Time Only! 3 ‘The Feport adds that agraal- Li During Our Sensational “Public” Jeweiry sAly We Will COMPLETELY OVERHAUL FYOUR WATCH (regardiess of Make or Condition) and Include ALL MOVEMENT PARTS value ¢ senta- |) he ther lawmakers |” cing of folloOng after working on th tached to i stican Repre-| fooe were fl “th th no need to c ge of appli- » pay raise is beachcombe pointed up gressman County Land Sold For $150,000 Head & Head, Inc.. Taver- nier, Florida, have sold Plantation Yacht Club and all furnishings including the vessel, Lucky Louise, for $150.0 NEW YORK, August 2—(4).—} . i the New York Times says that In Mexico Navy and Marine fliers wilt not 4 ‘take part in joint maneuS¢rs a || Fort Bragg, North Carolina, begin- H Ong August 13th. i The reason, says the Times, is that the Navy believes in close i mot and the Ar Force will SH the 33 acres of made to Planta- Properties, Inc. hs earlier Head had purchased added had or $95,000 from mn Yacht Har- FOR ONE FLAT PRICE OF ...... he All Work Guaranteed For 1 Year i) “Slightly More For Carcnoa-ephs. Calendar 25d Self-W ug Watches Seer Heigl he a = lf G “L, Feranadez, 908 Whitehead cee e L iN s ae eee ere a Register Now! 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