The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 20, 1951, Page 3

In The Background (By The Associated Prees) | Sinking City sounds like the bulletins on a dying celebrity. It says “Sinking | * And according to the Na- | tional Geographic Society, Mexi- | sinking—al- | Mr. Charles Helberg though not very fast. Mexico City, you know, is a} Key West, Florida mile above sea level sur- | Dear Mr. Helberg: rounded by towering mountains, | It is one of the great | peared in the Key West Citizen y Spots, and it has a benign, But is just not very steady on. its pins. This in. North America, 1S/ the work which your corporation an under- | is doing for Key West. ; * Personally, I like Key West bet- | of | ter than any other place in Flor- : jground has dropped more than a foot (14% inches). {palace of fine arts, jcludes a great opera house, has| things that no other sagged about 15 feet. below its | Piorida has. j original level, although it is ‘not | fan old building. At | time, however, some of the ultra- | modern steel buildings which dot} the city are apparently jslowly sinking Same | from this section of the United sTowin8 | pears to be a deliberate inten- nese Skyscrapers are built on which reach bed-rock, HANDS STETESCOPE OVER falling away from them. ... New Flight Surgeon None of this is any surprise to They've, known about along, and it's only recently that situation has where they seem ‘to to do something nder Robert Bradshaw elena Of “The Key Wester” Sent To Patuxent River, Md. ‘His Relief Reported To FAWTULANT From Naval Hospital In California Commapder Robert H. shaw hands the stetescope to his relief, Lieytenant Robert S. Ga- len, in: his last Flight.Surgeon at the Fleet Weather Training Unit, E Air ‘Station, Key West Ae will. depart Sunday for Pat- uxent’ River, Maryland to report to Commander Fleet Air ties fgr ‘assignment as CoritroHerfor all hospital flights) 5 train w oh the east coast and European! gy theatre: ‘Motel Su pervise Building jicet sone. Hernando Cortez, who rode over the rim into the 1519. Spread Hernando and the boys magnificent valley of terspersed with islands. Many cities and villages were built on the islands and even out | over the water in spots. Cortez | jand his conquistadors were much | problem was. before | discouraged. DEATHS ANTHONY HASKINS What they saw was Tenochti- tlan—golden capital of the an- cient Aztee empire. and castles rose on the islands, and boats made their way along Logis-| Saturday night in Miami from| Medieal| internal yreck in the Fort Pierce | rea some time | Commander served) been living in Miami since 1935.| He was employed aster with the FEC mainland by Whiting during the Saipan, P: lau, and Leyte Isl. of thejlast war. He he medical detachments vanced combat aréas were flown to bas« the Manus Islands Tt was ‘a magnificent city, i rnd campaigns! pp but it didn’t suit Cor- d charge of) Mrs. Sar “i pah; daughters, | built another over the remains. In the center, on one of the larger islands, he put a square which was to be the middle of town-—and. it is still. just jIt’s called the Zocalo, now—and | it. is dominated. by of North America— the cathedral known as ca’s St, Peter's.” the huge national palace, Spanish viceroys once ruled, and, later, the ill fated emperor Max- milian- held forth. In the four centuries since Cor- tez, Mexico City has continuous- ly spread out and expanded— | measures are taken’ soon, the en- | mostly on filled land. Great bou- | tire drainage system will reverse: Jevards extend outward and it/its flow—this in a city the size | now sprawls over many of those | Of Philadelphia. Several solutions jlakes that looked -so. good to the; |Spaniards and the Aztecs. burg, Kentucky will be held were residents of Flemingsburg &t the time of their death Doctor Bradshaw received Pre-méd schooling at the Univer: sity of Keritucky and obtained a Doctor of Medicine Degree Funeral Home is in charge of ar- Burial services will ducted by the Allapattah Lodge Free & Accepted Masons. Nearby stands MRS. SOPHIA LOUNDERS Mrs. Sophia Lounders, 58, died | 1942 as | this morning at the residence of Mrs. Georgina Dil- 708 Southard Str ived by two daugh- incinnati, Ohio “Commander Bradshaw naval-service in October a. Lieutenant (junior Citizen Staff Photo BENJAMIN KILPATRICK and Charles Helberg, stand on the second story of the 134 unit luxury motel which is going up on Roosevelt boulevard, next to Raul’s. Helberg is Secretary of Key West Improvement. in| her daughter. His first} lon, thé ‘Navy Medical € assignment was on the staff of} jomimander, Naval Air Sta-/ ters; Mrs. Georgina Dillon and! owners on the tion, Jacksonville 944,-he received Flight Sur-| Henry and Cha a | Mrs. Mercedes Susana Vildostiqui, geons’ Wings after completing course i flying at Pensacola He... is’. married ground—not very far under. The} whole city is really floating on a mixture of water and volcanic }mud—a very slippery foundation Vocational Training — On Wheels CALEDONIA, pmobile” travels. through ‘ru-/ * Firemen ‘Lose Brakes V. N. Adams of | brothers have | Charlie Ewing, Kentucky es four children; Jane Adams (12),/ Patricia Ann (11), raine (10), and Robert L. (8). The| residence, six grandchildren artesian wells Funeral services will be |have been. .drifled through the solid ‘crust. And the © water is {slowly but surely being pumped jomt from under. the city. As it is ity goes down. | Brakés of Mt 708 Southard Street at} But the chic fad wily [Bet OTF With only “a wy’s Star of the Sea Catholic} [ Seanononanenenenenonnens Monday. August 26, 185i People’s Forum ~... « - eececcscococeces| surance institution, its. be-} riculture ginning as a sailor's coffee house can include as in 1688. iof meat per THE. KEY WEST CITIZEW * Page < “LIKE KEY WEST BETTER THAN ANY OTHER PLACE” | Key West Improvement, Inc. The front page article which ap- jissue of August 1, 1951, was most | interesting. > Y R EEE FE Trcculsly ead the Key west|| When You Shop Regularly at | Citizen and have been following ida. I believe that Key West has everything that any other place in Florida has and a great many place in Unfortunately, many people States; have never visited Key | West and I have found what ap- tion, by many people in the. vi- | cinity of Miami, to” discourage visits to Kley West. "Many of our people, when visiting Florida, are told,“that it is a long way down: to Key West and there is nothing much to see when you get there.” I believe with you, that the Florida keys can be improved. to the extent that they will compare with the Riviera or the Italian Coast. However, it will take a selling job—here in the East, at least. We shall just have to find @ way to get visitors through Mi- ami without having them become With every best wish, I remain Very sincerely yours, SAMUEL RAYMOND DOBBS, Commissioner of Assessment, Camden, New Jersey. i TENANTS ARE (Continued from Page One) legal evictions and the new rent law, Knight invited Key. West- ers to drop in and see him at 216 Federal building. Weatherman’s Weather Centralia, Nl—<P)}—All. kinds of weather befouled the sum- mer vacation of Clyde Pittman, and he’s the weatherman at Har- risburg, ‘INinois. The Pittmans ran into flood at Lawrenceilie, Kans.; » hail . at Emporia, Kansas; dust storms in Colorado; snow and 23 degrees in Montana; ruins left by a tor- nado in Wisconsin. Returning through _Ilinois, they encountered another flood. | \ | i] | proaching. Unless emergency thave been advanced—some.. of them practical and all of ‘them horribly expensive. They just shouldn't have put | such a big town on such unsteady underpinnings. At the moment, ji |the municipal engineer says the |drainage system will have to be! irebuilt at a lower Jevel—unlessi the citizens are prepared to build a circle of pumping stations to do the work that gravity used to: plumbj x igang ve ch Will officiate family plot, city ceme citizens are areas of “Queen's County} ructon in such oc-|drinking up their own founda- 1s woodworking, metal) tions. What’s more, the city has been growing rapidly | Of lation since the beginning of |fore it finally comes to rest on | World War Two—and it is still|the bottom of its subterranean | growing. Population as of 1950— | lake. at consumption av-|two and a quarter million. According to engineers on the |scene, a crisis is pefroan oA 6 in the received his Me Gieal degree from the L ers ef Pittsburg as a member of the Navy V-12 program sys Lieutenant Galen is Pritchard's Funer ) go to colleges or rr i to sk,| UNEXPECTED RETURN (Continued trom Page One) had «not yet been able? P City? Managet indve}—— : | King of the change of court plans. W orkin | King left for Mia : and will not learn of the and New Zealand. line street in Key West Full Schedule g Under The Summer Sun tity fi u + epee As to that—Mexico City is re~ signed to the prospect of losing |some of its famous altitude be-' BRID eee For Parents WACO, Tex teh-month-old twir nd last minute. He told of the daily he preferred the Mrs. Frank G Garnett repor held in Key General Tire Co cal judge would be mo with the situation work eight hour a Tam He added that he jor university | ly be forced to sell He has another Then he runs three bloc twins blasting opere ed the injuncts She then dashe homes being built on There is a possibi can} hearing wil be transfe: City Hal) if n a| current renovation house makes the hearing impr tical to be held there Siruge is being repr and Enrique | Esquinaldo, Jr Ony a minority of seek medical advice Continued f SOME OF THE 100 OR MORE WORKMEN building “The The concrete block buildings will hold 134 bedrooms, baths and utility hiting,| pain have heart disease mt.of the Monroe County ing to the American Heart Asso next to Meacham airport.