The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 28, 1951, Page 1

a Warmest City In Nation enn Sota aon uP The Associated Today Was Features and ‘Services KEY WEST 3 For 71 Years Devoted to the Al s of Key Sewers ‘ E SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN ERE U.S.A. : ; VOL. LXXH. No. 28 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1951 : History And Problem Of Xmas Cards Authentic Christmas Card Is Only A Little Over A Hundred Years Old By JAXON Postal employes, stationery elerks, and ladies like us, who sit up late driving the the envelopes that hold the Christmas cards, must sometimes wonder where all this greeting stuff got started—not to mention where it is going to end! It might be of inter est to some of to know that the authentic Chirstmas éard in only a little over a hundred pen over these people President Truman’s Presence Has Started Early Tourist Season ForIsland City By SUSAN McAVOY President Truman’s presence in Key West has jumped the season so that as many tourists are com- ing in now as generally do in Jan- uary, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Harold Laubscher said today. at the C of C building. “This is as many as come in on any January -day,”’ said scher. “The President's visits have given Key West a terrific shot in the arm.” The President has given no inki- ing of when he intends to terminate his tenth working-Vacation visit to Yesterday 68 tourists registered ; Laub-' } Smyth is an important Democ ratic party politician in the State of California, it was said. President To Greet Press Meanwhile White House corres pondents prepared to ask President | | Truman many questions tomorrow jat the personal press conference \to be held at The Little V House at 4 p.m. The pres radio will gather on the lawn the President’s working-vacation ; headquarters Today President Truman will confer with General John Hull | vice chief of staff and H. Freeman Matthews, deputy-Under-sécertary | of State. They are arriving in Key , West for the regular conference |that the President holds every two | weeks. sears old. as | Key West. Business leaders are} Sh ence is In 1846, Summerly’s Home nae, | all hoping he will stay as long as | Short -gerria napaaaale ; ory. office, in Londan, Lert | possible. |it is merely a routine meeting & pictorial Christmas card, bin {~ Laubscher said that, the record . among the leaders gesien in color. 7 J aoe | November visits to the Chamber of | Army Recruiter At Navy a Bare cainewirk The es sec- | Commerce are just one index of the) Though the Navy is the locale of tion showed a drinking early winter season. Motels; . are Presidential activities in Key West scene, and the pan on either | >anging out “no vacancy" signs.| several White House correspon side were devoted to acts of Christ- | T#® Municipai Aquarium is doing dents said today that they would a rush business. Out-of-state cars | enlist in the Army. mas charity, entitled ‘Feeding |° ae u the Hungry” and. “Clothing _ the | 27° filling Key West streets and! This was because of the presence feedy.” Beneath the design there |"estaurants are doing January |of pretty blonde US Army recrui y: i z «c¢ | Hot November business. Iter S Bae tek Aesth appeared probably for the fi m4 . peal Sergt. Pat Scott. She visited ag. those well-known words ‘ Presidential Business {the noon press conference today. penpals Jew | Presidential Press Secretary an-, Pat comes into Key and a Happy New | nounced at the noon Press confer- month trying to get Key West s ence that the President today sign- ' to sign up in the Army or the Army ed an order removing Collector of) Air Forces. ‘ : Internal Revenue James G. Smyth | of California from office “for fail- lin signing up girls, some of the ure to manage his office properly.” male journali: today said they ‘The Presidentiai action was taken , would let her recruit them : on the recommendation of the | Pat sighed: “I can't recruit any | Secretary of Treasury. Smyth was | girls for the Army because down removed September 27, pending here they all seem to marry the investigations that were completed | Navy as soon as they graduate i recently. ‘from high school.’ West ev Merry Christmas Year to you.” Horsley claimed to have invent- | ed the Christmas card, and it may | be that he was the first to produce a full pictorial but he must have drawn his inspiration from the Christmas notes people in Eng- land had been writing to one an- other for years before. In those | days polite people were accustom- ed to sending poems or pretty compliments to their friends on special occasions—Christm. New | Year’s, and birthd These notes were delicately engraved within an embossed ornamental framework. Acording to the author of “The | English Festivals,’ Laurence Whistler the following was typical of these early notes; CHRISTMAS COMFORTS “Tis the season for friends and relations to meet Still closer to link, by the pleasures enjoyed | Those bonds which endear man to man, making sweet The life which without them is Fou our Navy Men Boainad In Melicopter Crash ay eeisy DEPTH. OF QGEAN.. » Bulletin AT CRASH POINT CAUDLE TESTIFIES IS WELL OVER 1,200 FEET dreary and void. | Naval officials here today | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28.— Christmas cards did not really | Were congratulating the crews (#)—T. Lamar Caudie | testi- get going commercially ‘until 1862. of the EPCS 1431 for prompt | fied today that members of Then Charles Goodall began to is-| rescue of four men who crashed| congress and other influen- sue pictorial cards with designs | in a helicopter miles south of tial persons put tremendous by G. H. Bennett. Then Ornamen- | here yesterday afternoon about| pressure on him to drop pro- tal stationers siezed on the idea, | two o'clock secution of tax offenders. and the firms of Windsor, Sulman,} The open structure Piesecki | Caudle told House inves- C & E. Layton; J. T. Wood, all of | trom VK knownas-"The-Flye | tigators.that he. received ing” as “id phi bkaeh requests coritinuously London, and Marion, of Paris, pro- gl duced some rare beauties. maneuver when the mishap took while he was head of the Modern Christmas cards vary|place. Flight Lt. Barney €.| justice department's tax di- from fine art to homemade snap-| Swinton-Bland of the Royal Air| vision. shots, and each year more and|Force was ai the controls with | The former assistant At- more people express their love | co-pilot Lt. Ephraim Helm, HS-1. | torney General didn’t name and good will for friends by send-| In the rear part of the tw any of those he said tried to ing cards. Christmas cards are| rotor ‘copter, were Flight Lt. | fatinence him. now part and parcel of Christmas. | fan S. F. Read, of the RAF, act- | ——— sects alr as Rae Our most serious concern with | ing as observer, and Leroy W,| underwater TT hastily finish-! Christmas cards is what to d0| Chase, AT2, wiio was on his first|ed untastening safety harness with them afer the Christmas holi- days uve over. They are much too beautiful to throw away. So we pack them in boxes and move them from place to place until they get lost. Maybe you've got a better idea flight. jand came to the stirface: The The fliers heard a sharp crack, |front end of the helicopter re- and pieces of wood, presu! ly | mained above water and the from the rear rotor blade, fell! Piesecki did not sink, but was linto the water. The ‘copter did | sustained by floatation devices. not go out of control immediate-| The depth of the’ dcean ‘at the ly and the pilot managed to keep|crash point is well Over “1,200 it in the air for a brief period. | feet. Then the back began to lower! Read had an initial struggle to and the “Banana” began to lose| keep afloat weighed down by a j altitude at a slant |heavy, water-soaked flying suit. The two men in the back of| Finally, the second life raft re- jthe machine found « themselves (Continued on Page Three) ee Safety Committee Meets Tuesday ** Sweeting, of Monroe Coun- the Casa Marina Hotel OPENS DECEMBER | SPECIAL LOW RATES From $6.00 Single and $10 Double No Extra Charge és | for. | ‘@Swimming—At Key West's Largest "HOPPING ~~ Private Beach DAYS’ LEFT” @ Cabanas @ Bath House @ Use of Individual Solariums @Tennis Courts @Shuffle Board INCLUDING COVERED GARAGES All Included In Your Room Rate - Telephone 308 ty chairman Governor's Safety Council called a meeting of his appointed commit: | tee that will study traffie condi- tions of the City of Key West. Meeting will be held Tuesday, December 4 in City Hall Those who will attend are William Freeman, Attorney En- rique Esquinaldo, Neil Knowles, Sugar Sweeting, George Gomez, Charles Clawson, Floney Pellicer, Nelson Davenport, William Arn- old, Police Captain Harry Lee Baker Gomez is chairman of the com- mittee and Clawson is seeretary. 225 today Poy by i, mi et se ni a ca i am Though she’s had no luck so far | These Special Rates Available ‘Til Dec. 22nd i { Ground Fighting In Kor Ended Onde ncall: Dave System Plan For Key West Key West One Of That Can Use Ocean Few Cities Currents For Disposal City Manager Dave King today outlined to The Citi- zen the preliminary to give Key system which will take care of past growth and provide , for future expansion of the Island City. With four phases of con- struction, the plan can be | expedited, he phases are ca ulianeously. First step as been taken in ask- ing the Federal Government for $50,000 to pay for the engineering plans, surv profiles and specifi- | cations. Key West is entitled to Federal funds because it is def- initely a certified critical defense area, according to King. The problem is to dispose < sewage so that it won't affect the | Island of Key West, King said. A minute percent of the cities of the | United States are so located that they can use the ocean and cur- rents for sewage disposal. Key West is so located that this can be! | done; and this method of sewage | disposal@has been aproved by the | Florida. State Department ofy — |Health for this locality. | “It must be understood to dis- pose of sewage in this manne: said King,” that the currents at the point of outfall deposit are laway from the Island. This has been established by photographs lof the current at Hawk Channel |by the use of color in the water—| it was dyed yellow.” King continued: ‘At the present time we have tw6 | Dlants. Alt deep isewer pipe “tines, 30 fo 14 feet in depth which are our main sewer ‘disintegrated due to attacking acids in the sewage, resulting in stoppage of flow of sewage to the’ disposal plants. 45 percent infiltra-; | tion of salt water being pumped) ‘by disposal plant is due to de-| Hfective joints in the pipes.” The result, stated King, is that| funless the lines can be kept open, sewage will back up into throughout these areas. In addition, infiltration has caused overloading! of the sewage disposal plant and‘ excessive pumping cost. Studies - have “proven,” said King, “that to place an outfall line from Sump No. 2 at Garrison Bight to a safe disposal point in the Gulf would require an 8,000 foot outfall line. From Sump No. 2 at Fort Taylor, a 4,000 foot outfall line to Hawk Channel is required. Therefore it is better to direct sewage from. No. 2 Sump down North Beach’ drive along Leon street to United street, a distance of 3600 feet, thence to the sewer plant at Fort Taylor.’ | In placing this line, said King, it {will also' service the houses along ‘these streets and be above the }present disintegrated line now | partially operating. | From Leon and United street a main interceptor will be built jalong United to the main disposal jplant at Fort Taylor which will! |serve the people along this street, jand eliminate the present disin-: tegrated deep sewer lines, King said New lines will be placed directly Ccentinued On Feee Threes “WANTED AUTOMOBILE MECHANIC Apply in Person NAVARRO, INC. 601 Duval Street | j ener ai) Save Your Money Wait for 116 Voters “or School bee die 2 Outlines Sewer a LITTLE HOPE FOR The Cease-Fire Line In Korea ANY FORMAL | KOREAN ARMISTICE TOKYO, Nov. 28—(AP) plan West a sewer! aid, if two) ed on sim-! Coral Shores School each trustee | oe in | NY Central houses | CHG = 4 Trustees Here PINDER, BOZA AND CATES UNOPPOSED IN ELECTION; SEVEN MILLS VOTED FOR | DISTRICT ONE THIS YEAR | f& | Samuel B. Pinder won 106 votes | and Joseph A. Boza and Josenh L. Cates 105 votes each in tue | Monroe County school trustee elec- tion yesterday in which the three | men were unopposed, Horace 0°.» Bryant, Superintendent of Public { Instruction said today. Cates is the new member of 3 the Trustee group. The other two men are holding office now. } The election was light with a | total of 116 Monroe county citizens | | voting. Of these 97 voted for seven | ‘mills to be assessed for schools | in District One which is Monroe County. Seven citizens voted against the millage, O’Bryant} said. . negotiators. They voters registered their choice of | * #3 ; trustee and their opinion on the | | millage in five polling places. ! | Heaviest voting took place in the agreement on other important (} Wirephoto Map. THE SOLID BLACK LINE, bordered by shaded buffer zones extending a mile and a quarter on each side, denotes the ap- proximate line of contact agreed upon by U. N. and Red Truce met in Panmunjom, Korea, Ratification of the line will hold for 30 days while both sides try to reach an armistice points. | three Key West polling places, | | Marathon came next and Coral | Shores school last. In Marathon 36 votes were seal for each of the trustees; 30° for the millage and three against. At Jude e Lop eZ Upholds City Court Ruling ITINERANT LENSMEN, AND OTHER SOLICITORS MUST PAY KEY WEST OCCUPATIONAL TAX got 15 votes and so did the mill-| age. At Key West High school ! annex, Boza and Cates got 15 votes | each and Pinder 16. The millage | vote was 16 for, and four opposed. | All three trustees got 27 votes | at Harris school. The seven mills | {Was voted for by 24 citizens with | none opposed. At Poinciana school |}sewage disposai plants with out-each trustee got 12 votes and so : : The paiaeensie feet offshore,| did the seven mill item. Judge Aquilino Lopez yesterday These outfalls have disintegrated . afternoon upheld a_ city court along.,with the ..sewage disposal S ¢ Of Jeven Uars must be paid by both residents and non-residents of Key West who! pared. engage in photographic work. The itinerant cameraman and solicitors maintained that they they were not subject to the tax. And backed up their statements Leave Track with a recent decision of the ei SA Supreme Court of the United; | ONLY. ONE PERSO States, s The appellant, William Sifford, | A CREWMAN, W HURT; CAUSE NOT | DETERMINED ALBANY. New York, Nov. 27. |—(#)—The last seven cars of a} 10-car New York Central express | lurched from the rails at 75 miles | was represented by J. Y. Porter, {V, and the appellee, City of Key; West, had City Attorney M. Ig | natius Lester as their attorney. manent the restraining order stopping the picketing of the A & B Lobster House. Defend- an hour early today, but re- ants in the case were the Hotel mained upright. Only one persor: { & Restaurant Employees and a crewman, was hurt. Bartenders’ Union, Local 156, The easterner, bound fron | American Federation of Labor. Cleveland to New York, wa Text of Lopez’s order follows: halted by automatic emergenc: | “The defendant, William Sifford, brakes near Stuyvesant in Co | ‘ppellant herein has filed his ap-| peal from a judgment convicting Albany, at 1:30 am. (EST). bim in the Municipal Court of. The cause was not determinec {the City of Key West, Florida, immediately. A railroad official} wherein he was found guilty of aid the train apparently hit ; | Violating Ordinance 218 of the City defective rail. of Key West in that he engaged The 86 passengers aboard, 3¢{in a business or profession with- of them in the train’s two sleep-} ut first obtaining a license as ers! remained calm. One pullman | tequired by said Ordinance and |passenger slept through the de-{%e was fined the sum of $50.00. irailment. Outside, the tempera-| The Appellant contends in his ap- ture was 12 above. lumbia county, 19 miles south o | hould not have to ny lie |tral'’s main line between Albany | § pay any license. and Poughkeepsie. The line is| The Appellee on thé other hand double-tracked at the scene. contends that the license that Ap- | A brakeman, Joseph Cassese |Pelant is required to pay is the! of the Bronx, New York, suffer-|$#me required of. all, others..es ed minor bruises when he reach-|ing on the same business led for the emergency brake cord City of Key West and that no and was thrown against the wal lof the last pullman. ; Two sleepers, two coaches three mail and baggage cars left | the rails. The ‘last car, a pullman, | was yanked loose from its coup- (Coatinued On Page Three) ARTI POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman Phone 9134 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries . - Accessories Appellant and that Appellant must and | Pay_ his fair share of taxes. “The Court has examined the record, heard argument of counsel land read briefs prepared by coun- ‘Continued on Page Three} —— | PERKY LODGE 12 Miles from Key West bese TO MY HOUSE Cocktail Lounge - Hotel Cottages - Swimming - Fishing PHONE PERKY. 3 Judge Lopez also made per- | peal that inasmuch as he is en-' | dhe wreck blocked the Cen-|8aged in interstate commerce hej ih the! |undue burden is placed on said} . It is the opinion of the Court) | 'Incladed In Survey A comprehensive study of the i Key West Chamber of Commerce’ lis included in the 1951 Survey of local Chambers, made by the’ Chamber of Commerce of | United States and received here i today. local Chamber is one of, 745 selected for a study which is the most detailed analysis of the; re decision that occupational licenses effective activities. of America’s! have been told no’ ehamber of commerce ever pre- The fiftv-six page booklet, is the fifth survey of this kind, made by the national organization {since 1938 may well be called the Chamber of Commerce Executives’. Bible. It tells. virtually everything, needed to be known on a con | parative basis as to how Chambers throughout the country operate. “A. statistical report of this na~ ture:.cequires careful study if we are ‘to.gain the most from it,” said President Edwin Trevor of the Key West Chamber in com-' | menting on the survey. “We'll use: ) this survey. as a yardstick to mea- sure the effectiveness of our own organization.” AA SAG RANE ORES | Palace Theater Richard Conte and Julia Adams in To again of the Key COURSE bake for you you their famous home —An informal halt of the ground war in Korea has been ordered by the Eighth Army. | Although no armistice agreement has been reach- ed, U. N. frontline troops j have been told not to fire at the Reds, unless ‘uttack- ed. Today's, order comes about 24 hours after the provisional agree- ment on a cease-fire line across the Korean peninsula. However, under formal terms, the agree- ment is that the approved buffer zone will become a fact only if a full armistice is reached by De- cember 27th. Allied ground troops have He said, however, that allied forces are not allowed to send out any more reconngissance pa- trols, Their mission, he explain- ed, is just to scout—not to at- tatk. The army directive ajso.-for- = bids. offensive air strikes against jenemy frontline positions. Another spokesman comment- ‘ed: i “Our men. in the companies to expose. ‘themselves, But they have orders ito defend themselves against any which | Communist attack.” He went on: “We will be honorable about this ‘affair and we the Com- munists will act the same way.” The order explained that the ‘ehuckrein on combat is designed to clearly demonstrate willing- ness to reach an armistice agree- {ment during the 30-day period ‘provided unde, the buffer-zone agreement. > Quiet already prevails on sentire ground front. Chinese soldiers in one sector ‘of the ‘western front moved boldly into the open today to en- joy a game of voliey ball while | (Conticued On Page Seven } the "Landlords Can ‘Refund Monies Freeman L. Knight, Dirécfor West Office of Rent Stabilization, said that landlord and you and made breads,. j