The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 29, 1951, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST THE VOL. LXXI!. No SOUTHERNMOST he Ken West Cilisen NEWSPAPER IN ¢& | PTI The Associated Presa Teletype | Features and .’hote Servicas For 71 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West | HE 1 Se Ax KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1951 Be It Ever So Humble (? There's No Place Like It But Absolutely | No Place! IT MAY BE TO LOVELY BUT 17's A TO ANGRY By AL PALMER “They art, ART LADY MESS OWNER * | | 1 de ciate thats Blonde, just dowt appre- all.” pert and pretty Betty French practically stamped her tiny 1-AA) | foot. “No, sir; they just don't appreciate art.” The diminutive book saleslady was still fuming over the outcome of her efforts to convert her Key, West fiat into something remi of Green-} wich Village garret during} a gaudier era, | It just so happewed that the land- lord of 704 Ca Ath | a fine disregard ex-¢ iscent a 2 with nd palette— didn’t fully appreciate the motif. | i And that’s how Miss French | came to be in Judge Ira Albury's Court this week facing charses of defacing walis and various other accusations haying to do with the sudden transformation | ‘of an ordinary Conch-type, sec- | ond-story walkup into a flam-'/ boyant dwelling of multi-colored walls wherein danced painted spiders and gay, unclad nymphs. (To say nothing of a caricatured stove, a finely-drawn piano | Bee Seger. State Car Tag ‘Licens Go On elabor. mid- Victorian coupl ) Sale January 5 | Auto Citizen Staff Pr DOESN'T PLAY |We're Pure ‘For Sure Key West gambling places are still shut “tight as a drum” cab and truck owners can! according to a special investig- ‘sign up to buy their 1952 car! ater for the State Hotel and Re- | Plates from January through | rant Commission who has | | February 20, Howard on, Mon- | been combing the Island City | {roe County Tax collector announc- | ed today, | The law has been changed so} that the tags do not go on sale {| until Jan Wilson said. On Janua 5 all car, truck and cabj owners should start coming to his | office in the County Courthouse. { Price of car tags varies from; the minimum of $5 up to $25 for; passenger cars, according to wei-| ght. | Trucks and busses and taxis also | ipay by weight, Wilson said. The averag mount paid by passenger | fear s in the county is $15, | That is the cost of plates for the | | Cheyrolets, Plymouths, and cars | jof that size Wilson said | Maximimum cost for a {would be $100 for plates. yrelghed 10,000 pounds aba nit Raabe (Cab Leaders Meet Tonight for viviations in the last day and one-half, The Citizen was told today. The investigator predicts that gambling will not resume in the near future. He said that he knows all the places where gambling goes on in Key West and has visited all of them this week. “None of them are open at all,” he stressed. ‘You have a good clean town here.” \Red Negotiator S eek | Hint The oy Will Setile For Le: TOKYO, Nov ist negotiate 29.105 given the first Commun: have hint that they mi ettle for less than complete ¥ wal of for: Cub scout leaders will launch| eign troops from Ke a training program at St. Mary’s| They have insisted upon this all {Star of the Sea annex, Wind- | along, but now the Reds have pro-| _ fear Land, at’? -p.m., it waxeaus | posed a discussion of a plan for the ‘nounced by Lt. Comdr. [. G. Cock+ | Sradual withdrawal of foreign sol ‘ ; : |roft, USN, organization and ex-| die S. Cibzen’ Staff Photo | tension committee for cubbing in The Communists decl that a DOESN’T CROW {the Monroe District jwithdrawal by stages after an ' Parents and interested scouters,j armistice is signed would answer The trial drew a fair sprinkling | not the youngster. re invited to| Allied fears that fighting will break of Key West's cafe y (most | attend tonight's meeting. Paul out again after a truce es into of whom obv y ered at! brick, field executive for the South] effect. finding thems {Miami scout council has made the |. The proposal was made at the time of the day {trip specially to attend this meet-jlatest negotiation session in. Pan ¢ patrons fing ;munjom, and so far there has been The fact that the case was dis. A color film, “The Cub Scout] no reply from the U.N. represen- missed when defense attorney Paul | jn the Home’ will/be shown. Fok) tatives | Continued Ga lowing this 15 minute picture, An Allied spokesman, Brigadier Morris Minors CONVERTIBLES and SEDANS 35 MILES PER GALLON GUARANTEED Price $1345.00 $450.00 Down, question and answer General William Nuckols, said the be held for guests. question will require clarification, | Joe Bringman, commissioner for} and this presumably will be taken the Monroe district will also bejupat the next meeting tonight ; there. ; a a period ow it eT ENOERNEESGSTI EN uO Delmonico Restaurant 218 Duval Street Famous for . CHICKEN ard YELLOW RICE CRAWFISH-ENCHILADO DRIED CODFISH (Sacalao) Any Style at Moderate Prices ee SHOPPING 2A Ys" fons ENT IIE AK AF SSeS 18 Months for Balance Complete Stock of Mechanic YoU DRIVE A NORRIS wim HAND TOOLS PLSARUC WITH Guaranteed for Life Roy's Key West Auto Parts Co. 1 121 DUVAL STREET Boy rsgtinag Seth KS Kl | __TELEPHONES 1877 - 1878 a] NAVARRO’S Lot} 424 Southard St Tel. 216 Se se —————————— Will End On January ] | airport will be negotiating for sale to the | Reds | any | ed from General Van Fleet. PRICE FIVE CENTS Airport Lease British Warn ‘gyptians Of Double Attack Egypt Rejects British Warning; Claims It Is County Commissioners Have Decided To Cancel And Revoke Couched In Language Of All Airport Agreements War, Foree, Invasion Hundreds Of Street Markers Scon Will Be Placed All leases between Mon | LONDON, Nov. 29. —2%.— The} County and others on Meach British have told the Egyptians | ts and re the un voked as of Ja they join the proposed Mid- notification by County dle East command. visor Paul Sawyer, it was learn-| The ‘British said that Egypt] ed today. j might not only be attacked from} The action was taken at a spe cial meeting of the County Com mission this week. Sawyer, could not be reached as the Citizen went to press to ascertain who are the | lesses to be notified. At present time the County itself holds a lease on the field from Key We Im- provement Inc., owne The County and company been | county airport | the powers, moving aggressors. in to tually. delivered to Egypt | 6—but made public only today. ave : it was disclosed white -paper, out today. of 160 acres of Meacham for some months. At present the Civil Aeronautics Administration regional ofices are studying the results of those nego- tiations. The special County meeting also approved a change order for $12,509.34 for additional work at the courthouse and new jail subject to architect's approval. Part of the work to be done is renovating the eaves around the courthouse and ‘Continued On rage Fives leading to the recent series events in the Suez area, East command, of allout war, in the language of war, invasion. Allied Artillery Has Opened \Up In Korea After New Orders Of Shoot To Kill Vere Given M ‘WHILE BATTL ON FOR SUPREMACY I HE oka TODAY TOKYO, Nov /P)—Allied artillefy has resumed fire Western front in Korea at a nearly @ormal rate after a day ot | Frontline tronps: were said-te-ke eetitiaed by the big guns open- 1g upon the front where the day before they had watched Chinese 29 on the play volley ball. Allied barrage followed il It as accompanied by a statement from the Eighth Army Com- mander, General James Van Fleet, that some officers might have | placed a wrong interpretation on certain military instructions— | lthat these instructions were not a cease-fire order as some UN | officers apparently believed An Eighth Army offi ite | that the original, secret instruc? ‘Warren Leaves For Dedication tions still were in effect and that changes on the front were the result of clarifications relay- shoot-to-kill order he new Bs es se aa went to the artillery officers of | TALLATROSS EY Noy. 20.—() the Third Division and apparent- —-Governor Fuller Werren left ly have not yet been given to the; here by automobile this morning infontry. And General batt re for Haines City where he will emphasized, just as did the White), o0 0 art i ict louse andvUN Heminenie Weiter te See SS Tokvo. that there is no cease-fire | the Lisle W. Smith highway at order in Korea. 4 pm WAR IN SKIES State Sen. William H. Shands IS CONTINUED was to join Meanwhile, the hattle goes on! eling party at Gainesville for supremacy in the skies. . es. Warren was to be guest of hon- | Fifth Air Force headquarters ; shack’ 1 that the of or at a Reds put more ; jets in the air than they|given by banker George Ware ever had before on a single day.| The governor was to head At least 320 of the Red-nosed, motorcade from Leesburg to Migs were spotted in the skies to- | Haines City after lunch. dav | The L W. 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A Warning to this effect was ac-| duly The British delivered the warn- ing during Anglo-Egyptian talks on Suez canal defense and the Sudan. in a British The talks! ended in disagreement July 26th, of In urging Egypt to join a Middle-j the British said that Egypt, in this way, might do} what she bad done in two world} wars, That is, escape the full fury Egypt rejected the British warn- ing, claiming that it was couched force and an order to Allied officers to shoot | the Govenor's trav- | luncheon at Leesburg | ave King lay that hun- ldreds of street markers | will be placed on the city | streets in the near future. | These markers will be lidentical to the one at. the jcorner of Simonton and | Caroline streets. The names \of the streets will be sten- ciled in luminous paint, in order that the signs. can be read at night as well as in the day. “The concrete forms will last indefinitely, or rather as long as the human ele- ment leaves them alone,” King said smilingly. The street marking plan has been retarded because \of the collapse of portions of Key West's sewer lines, “We have neglected. the streets, even repair of them during the sewer emerg- lency, but there are no | breaks now, and we'll be | } | { } | 1 { Official U.S. Navy Phot: | able to get. back to the THE DADE COUNTY BLOOD BANK collected 207 pints of | street program,” conclud- whole blood Tuescay, in a return engagement to Key West. | ed the Manager. This time operations were set up in the dispensary aboard the | igi 7 submarine der, US Howa. W. Gilmore. T b § ougingl rapper Two flights with whole blood were shipped to Miami by |09 the Post Office corner was placed there by, the | planes of the Air ayy Setting an ex © their men to follow Captain A, H. | Junior Chamber of Cem- Dropp, and Cow F. N. Sha ecutive Officer each | merce, These civie-minded donated 4 pint of blood. Captain Disc expats 3/4. response un- frobe-ahe Pttieet and Wen Of the Gilmore te fil) for Bidod young DS pista mbar geet lity drew plans, and attually donors, To date percentage of volunteers who were rejected has been extremely low eonstructed the marker Afi additional technician has arrived from Miami to assist |in their off-houits “dur- | } | | i | in the preliminary tests which are taken previous to donating | whole blood. | ing the :week" and_on Sun- | days. 15 Fishermen Die In Ship Crash TOKYO, Nov. 29.—1".--Fifteon fishermen are dead in the wake of ‘a ship collision in Boston Harbor last night. All of the victims were crewmen aboard the 170-ton trawler which \Bigsivenida: Roses Proudea Man On Local Police Foree NEWSMEN WILL ASK PRESIDENT MANY QUESTIONS ON Ck IRE ORDER By SUSAN McAVOY 4——_——_— ——|Wwas rammed by the 10,000-ton Bienvenido Perez is the proud 'Texas Oil company tanker, the est man on the Key West pol « Higg as To Build Ventura, At the time of the crash, the sea force today i : : is was calin and the night was clear, The sane, Sms ; $11,000 Home |The crash occurred in a channel icket fon. you! e ; ; and earl H will build a $11,000 | six tnilen from tye: Rosson fi from the Boston fish pier, resi nt farry C resid at 1900. Flagler. The building will be 43’, 2” by 37°, 8". Contractors Johnson and Cyrry | are in charge of construction. shook m BULLETINS venido told me this morni “I was at the corner of Duval, Other permits issued form Build- | WHERRY DIES nd Smith 1 at about 8 Inspector Ralph Russell's of- WASHINGTON, Nov. 2°. Tt President were as follaws: —i—Senstor Kenneth | shook my hand, 1 said to him ! Rancho Motel, $1,000 for gen- | Wherry of Nebraska died to- jthat it was a p and an / eral repairs to motel, day in a Washington hospi- | honor ‘to his. hand. The, J. C. Gardner, 1301-1305 Duval, tel, He was the Senate Re- President said that “he remem: | $200, for porch repaits. publican floor leader. Wher- 'bered me from his first it tot Sun st Sea Foods, $200 for ry was $9 years old and re- cently had undergone an ab- dominal operation. — GAMBLERS TAX UPHELD WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—7,-~ A special three-judge Federal Court ‘has upheld the legality of the new Federal tax on gamblers. And the judges served notice on gamblers that they can expect no sympathy her Federal Courts if ney indulge in what the court called criminal business. — The law requires all gamblers to , | Key ‘West when I was Chief of minor repairs to biulding. | Police back in Scavenger, Sewer | Bills Won't Look |The Same Anymore Your sewer and scavenger bills the whole} won't be the same after January. s. Imagine} Beginning next month, the city’s king down] | new posteard billing system is to miling and | be put into operation, atic President in the} he and Roosevelt | }most democr | werld, Only are like that,” Perez was very glad and proud wke hands he said- mith | a’ man street | Duy al and ish y hands. ; Under this system, the office | “Imagine also his remember- ledger card will remain in the tax |buy a $50 occupation tax stamp ling me as Police Chief after ail} colleetor’s office—the stub andjand to pay 10 per cent of their these years. What a man!” exclaimed happily. President To Answer Questions Meanwhile the President pre- Perez | bill will be sent to the service user. The new system will greatly simplify the big job of handling the hundreds of bills, according to pared to meet with the White ‘City Tax Collector Archie- Roberts. House Press and The, Citizen, and | Sewer bills wilt be printed on} ‘Continued On Page Four) jcherry stock and the scavenger oe will be on’ buff. gambling income to the govern. ment. 2 ORE EEE OE TS BAR-B.O | "TICKET OFFICE | | es. | ALLamuNes |! Mire dots You | Sreaxrast speci. | to Watit for | HOT CAKES and be ie) CHIC ( COFFEE—%5 Y¥S—7 A.M. to 19 PLM, Sara Mi. nen ere Outcast of Black Mesa PERKY LODGE 12 Miles from Key West “COME OUT TO My HOUSE FOR DINNER” Cocktail Lounge - Hotel Cottages - Swimming - Eisbing | PHONE PERKY. _ Palace Theaier i Chas: Starrette - Smiley Burnette in —— | | | PEARCE BDL