The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1952, Page 1

Warmest? City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 72° a VOL. LXXIII. No. 4 Cube High * L.K.P.O. A nm. e way To Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN KEY WEST FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1952 ngineers To ? Spearhead Move United States Wonders [f Soviet Union To Make Multi- Million Dollar Project Reality City Con night unanimously approv- ed the Rogelio Gomez high- way from Cape Sable to Big Pine Key, it feasible. The u taking build a West! Coast highway to open the Ever- issioners last to nie wond great se glades Park, to the nation’s has passed dle. No engineering report, has yet been completed on but the it stated that t woul tofal some $50,000,000. s of the Lower Key: Property Owners Association are | pearheading the mammoth pro- , ject | was) | A Wants pressed ve concern today that: a new Russian move to bring up Korean armistice negotiations to | the United Nations Security Coun- | cil might break up the talks now ; going on at the front. | U, S. Delegate Benjamin Cohen | u. could not understand why | the Soviet Union had made such a proposal at a time when truce talks in Korea appeared to be mak- | ing slow but sure progress. Cohen said the U. S. was decided its|ly and unqualifiedly opposed to a versionary | Russian resolution calling for a | signed to appeal to man’s hope for Britain and France. special high - level Security Coun- cil meeting to discuss how to aid | the armistice talks. H he proposal, he declared, could ; not fail to have a bad effect on! To Settle Or Reopen Korean Warfare PARIS (®—The United States ex-w. the talks at Panmunjom. He said, shinsky were to use it as a propa- he wondered whether the Russians! ganda forum for more vitriolic wanted to settle the Korean Wan epeeenes against the West. or reopen it. Vishinsky submitted the Soviet If the Soviet Union thinks it can | proposals Thursday to the 60-nation help push them to a successful , Political Committee, which is dis- conclusion, he declared, they are cussing action the veto - free U. N. no doubt in touch With the Chinese ; Assembly might take to combat | nendous under- told a news conference that the/Communists and North Koreans |agression whenever it appears. and can work through them. The Assembly last yéar created Cohen charged that’ the Soviet}a 14-nation Collecti Measures proposals, which also ‘included a!Committee to recommend such ection calling for the Council meet-' steps. They have submitted a re- ing to range over all subjects of | port which is endorsed in a reso: international tension, were a di-. lution presented by 11 members of operation neatly de- the committee including the U. S., peace. ! The first point of the rival Soviet Such a meeting, he said, might plan would abolish this committee well have the reverse effect of in- and hand U. N. anti-agression ac- | creasing tensions, especially if tion back to the Council, viet foerign Minister Andrei Y. Vi-' Russia has the veto Suggest City Hall Quarters Rotary Hears About Welfare To Be Erected | Plaque Honoring 'Forrest Turner | Newly Arrived | County Doctor Buys A Home where | — | West before plunging , home at 2006 Seidenberg avenue.’ ;), Dr. R. J. Dalton Comes To Key West From Brewster. Fla. By DOROTHY RAYMER Getting cff on the right foot enthusiastic Dr. Raymond J. Dalton. new Monroe County board of health director, made a of preliminary dia3nosis Key a DR. R. J. DALTON | into his job. and immediately bought a He and his wife expect to move right in as soon as the navy fam- They told the citv fathers of the many advantages that would | arial aed i accrue from construction of the | e xe lan e i a Aaya ae A ee great engineering feat | . is ' ° welnies ed y Manage e Some of the points brought out rogram ere iKing to have a plaque placed wate as counws rae a Would Have YMCA Mrs. Blanch Miller. Dist.'0" the USO-YMCA _ building, pica ea ae <a : : ‘ : |Whitehead street, honoring be less susceptible to hurricane Bldg. At Jackson Square) Welfare Supervisor. AES ae aba ea tha the resent East Teneo: Citaie . 3 is 7 4 Leevercees higheay, bradwes Be New City Hall; | Is Guest Speaker A formal letter of condolence | 2, The water is shallow where Thought for Future At Luncheon ‘will be sent the deceased's ium: | construction of the bridges is an-| An announced expenditure of, Mrs. Blanche Miller, district su-, ily: Mike Jacobs, of the U$ sence. meted Saag OUG The | $800 for roof repairs to the City | pervisor of the State Welfare Bo- Navy. made the request te th®) rerort estimated $4,680,000 for | Hall building and a statement fectold at ihewtine 2 ¢ . » TT figure was een 3 ard in Monroe County, was guest commission. He told of the fine the causeway. This figure was iby! City Manager Dave King work accomplished by Turner | said to be entirely too low as it/that accounting offices for the |SPeaker at the weekly luncheon; oon een of the com-| assumed 10c yard dredging costs. }tax collector must soon be en-| meeting of the Rotary Club yes- auinity ’ | Mayor C. B. Harvey told the | larged prompted much talk last! terday at the Parish House of St. | y gathering that the cost in Mo- | night. | Paul’s Episcopal church. ' bile, Alabama harbor was great-| It was brought out that tax| Mrs. Miller spoke of the work of'| Reds Run Out Of er than 10c yard, and on a job | collections of over a million dol-|the state board and of the ex-| like this, it might run $1 yard). | Construction of the West Coast Overseas Highway will make the Everglades as accessi- ble to the American public as | Yellowstone Park is now | Among those addressing the commission were Ed Barry, Commander S. L. H. Hazard! (USN, ret.), Rogelio Gomez, C. | Sam B. Curry, Louis Muniz, | Ross Sawyer, Jr The first engineering survey of the vast project will be made by a group of engineers from Haoana, Cuba who are due to arrive in Key West in | the near future. | These engineers, City and County officials will be taken on | a sightseeing trip over the area! by the Aerovias Q airlines. The company’s 58-passenger plane will the trip new be used to make | multi-million How will the dollar construction be financ- ed? Taxpayer Rogelio Gomez be lieves that the causeway can be | financed by private capital. A | tremendous jump in realty va-! fues is expected to accompany | this construction Commander Hazard told of the time he became sick and was forced to travel 260 miles ; «Continued On Page Eight) PERKY LODGE 12 MILES FROM KEY WEST 66 Acres of Fun Delicious Meals Cocktail Lounge , Clean Modern ‘Rooms Cottages Swimming Pool Splendid Fishing Open 24 Hours . . . Come Anytime Phone Perky 3 Harry & Rose Jaffe lars had been received by the} city in the past year. And the day is not too far distant when the ci will need a new City Administration building. One suggestion was to move the YMCA from Jackson Square to city hall quarters, and have the City move in the ( YMCA location. i It was said that this move would then not require the pub- ! lic to walk three flights of steps «Continued On Fage Four) Tourist Fun | Programs Are Announced Over 30,000 Have Participated In These Annual Events The Tourist Recreation Commi- ttee of the Chamber of Commerce have announced this season’s en- tertainment of winter visitors with this year’s project marking the (Contir.ued On Page Seve POOR OLD IG SERVICE STA | Francis at Truman one 9134 | Your PURE OIL Dealer | Tires ., Tubes . . Batteries | . Accessories NOTICE 1952 CITY DOG | LICENSES ON SALE | Monday. Jan. 7th KEY WEST GARDEN & LAWN SUPPLY Margaret & Fleming Sts. 240-C POINCIANA Ext, Humane Society of Key West ‘cost of the welfare program |(3) dependent children. jved pense incurred i “During the the month of Octo- | ber,”’ she told the group, “the: fe- deral government spent three and | Water: Surrender ment spent a little over a million captured bunkers. dollars.”’ fense perimeter She explained that the federal go- for @ short s' vernment paid two-thirds of the| Yer two d all was quiet. No shooting. The three categories of people : Las On the third day, the infantrymen aided by this program, named by Mrs. Miller are over 65; (2) blind persons; and Since the federal social security “lapsed law of 1950, many states have add ed a fourth category, that of per jhungry and thirsty Chinese ever this category has not been | cided to surrender after their wa- added in Florida ,ter gave out. Mrs. Miller expressed belief that ; this additional group of ‘people needed help, however because of | the increase in the welfare costs in Florida, state legislators belie curtailment was necessary. French Request One Week Delay and did not add this group to the) PARIS “w—The French Foreign law. | Ministry announced today it has Cases in the old age and blind, requested a one-week delay in the categories are restudied every 12 North Atlantic Treaty Organization months by the district board she (NATO) meeting to enable the explained and dependent child-' French Parliament to debate the ren cases are restudied every six | European army project months. | The NATO session is scheduled In naming rules set up by the,to open in Lisbon Feb. 2. France board concerning who should re-| wants it to open on Feb. 9 instead ceive aid, she told the group that | > - @ person over 65 may own his ho- | me and still receive aid and ma have outside resources in the way of cash, insurance, bonds and pro- | (Contunued On Page Eight | Whe taught kindergarten several years age will REOPEN MONDAY | MORNING January 7, from 9 until 12 o'clock. 728 Love Lane. Fine Fishing Tackle | Thompson Enterprises. Inc. HARDWARE DIVISION Phone 886 Phone 886 Steve Carr Dave Kosto SEE THE 1952 NEW PLYMO |Communist troops came around | liminary. or Boredom set in i NEW MRS. JULIA NELSON SIDEWALK CAFE JOSE TRY TF Open All Night New Cooks UTH whe Conunved On sm Is Postponed ™ By Murray \ Will Not Act For ' 15 Days Until Wage Stabilizatio Bd. Begins He. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J steel union | ' ‘op Strategists of the big recommended a 45-day strike post- ponement today to give the govern- ment a chance to work out a sug- | gested settlement The 325-man Executive Board of | the CIO United Steelworkers and | President Philip Murray proposed U.S. THIRD INFANTRY DIVIM" to a special USW convention that | a half million dollars on welfare | SION, Korea. \—A U. S. platoon! the approximately 2.400 delezates in Florida and the state govern. had occupied a hill, checked the | vote to set a new strike deadline | formed a de-|45 gq and setteld down | called by the Wage Stabilization the hearing | trom Board | The WSB has scheduled a pre 1 meeting. ington. If the hearing follows for Monday first. regular |heard a rumbling on the opposite | py, lv after z aoe 4 (1) old people, bd |promptly after that session, the vons. ong | side of the bunker they had been | new joccupying. Then the bunker wall | around Feb. 21 strike deadline would be The recommendation was made Out stepped 13 well armed but} in the form of a resolution sub. ve e sol-| mitted manently and totally disabled per-| ‘iets. They had holed up in the| called to decide whether the mil sons, explained Mrs. Miller, How- | ther part of the bunker but de- tion man union yould strike about to a special convention 90 per cent of the basic steel imi dustry to back up its demands for pay iner af other contract concessions. rl The proposal ‘cafriéd the endorse- ment of President Murray and the 36-man_ policy-nraking = Exécutive Board. President Truman made two ap peals to the union to forego a strike now and keep badiy needed steel flowing for defense and es sential civilian needs White House pleas, the resolution said To the President of the United States we say: We accept your ‘Continue i On Page Eight) Jeff Milot Benjamin Martiner { GOOD FOOD NEW MANAGEMENT NOW ON DISPLAY. ... SEDANS— SUBURBANS - CLUB COUPES = questioned, but led Press Teletype fac Photo Services voted Key to the West ICE FIVE CENTS $1,200,000 Ferry Purchase Will Be Consummated By Tuesday, January Fifteenth uly City Commissioners last night for over three hours considered the new six months’ budget pre- pared by City Manager Dave King. Zach item in the budget was the meeting was adjourned before the budget was completely discussed. A bone of contention wa gi was the salary increases were to be All three commissioners Jack Delaney, Dr. Delio Cobo, and Louis M.J. Eisner, thought that the raises were too small in the Monexecutive groups and too large in the executive groups. How to spread the money be a real problem? If the salary increases are not granted to certain key men there the possiblity that they will leave r other employment will City can ill-affort to lose this type | of executive. And on the other Steel Strike Captain Kurt Carlsen Will . ‘ued Sometime Today Be Re King Praised |But Gives Credit * %oxpon. incapt. kurt Cart. . . To His Father This one is on Dave King, city manager of Key West. During last night’s almost four-hour budget City Commissioner Jack De- laney complimented the city detailing each expenditure, and not grouping any disbursements session, executive on of into miscellaneous accounts. Dave then smilingly told the group how he had learn- ed his lesson early on mis- cellaneous items. It seems that City Manager was going to college, his father told him that he could spend what money he wanted but that he had to send a itemized list of same to the pater. So the Freshman engjineer- ing student prerared each when the month to send the exponse account home. And in the list was an item he called “foolishness.” This item appered for fhe first three months, and then a stern note from Dad said: “That foolishness figure. 1 want it broken down.” FORD - FORDS NEW FORDS ANOTHER SHIPMENT ‘ Tudors - Fordors Club Coups. Victorias BUY NOW BEFORE PRICE - INCREASE WE MAKE EXCELLEN TRADES “''* MONROE MOTORS INC. LE GD servi WHITE ST PHONE Fathers Discuss New ne Budget For Over Three Hours; Not Approved As Yet And_ the | ° —* Weather Forecasters + "Cubans ov: Is Financing | Proposed Ferry | Service To K. W. Necessary documents for the establishment of the | $1,200,000 hey West-Ha- i | * hand, the question of a livable wage for the smaller-income groups must be considered. Commissioner Delio Cobo sug- gested that a blanket raise of say $15 monthly should be given each | city employee. | today. Earlier the King plan had,ad-— ‘ sian vocated @ raise fot neasly dlety | Negotiations have been employee in the City. Those not | completed between the raised were City Judge Enrique) Cuban government v hich Esquinaldo and City Attorney W.j ._ fi . lie ed Ignatius Lester. King said these is Imancing te proj osec two positions were appointive and | ferry and the Gulf Atiantic so be had left the matter of raises Transportation com any up_to the city commission. | : ; id which will lease the ferry na ferry will sigued on or before next Tuesday. January 15. it was learned The controversial problem of | salary raises is new in the laps | from the Cuban Cv tural of oneyet the peers tpelding and Industrial Bank <{ De- ployee groups in the city--the city commissioners. They receive | velopment. | onty $250 yearly. 1 Mayor C. B. Harvey ive | One plan suggested was to have} letter from the secre’. of President Prio of Cuba 1 led at last night's city sion meeting The letter West Mayor's 16 had been referred to the iu: ister of Communications of Cu ba. That cable asked President ;Prio for an appointment to dis. cuss the ferry service between ‘Continued Gn Page Six, | ontinued On Page Four, Have Posted Gale Warnings For Shipping j Just North Of Arts | Crash Survivor Thomas Patterson Under Treatment * News of the condition of plene crash survivor, Thom- | sen’s six epic days and nights vf! drifting alone aboard his ‘broken | ship, Flying Enterprise; helpless | in North Atlantic storm waves, 4p- peared to be nearing an ehd today. x mi "as Patterson, QMSN of the The U. S. destroyer John W.! gg Wilke. has been re- standing bythe crippled ceived here from the naval recruiting station in Buffalo, N.Y. reporting that he has severe frontal lacerations, possible fractured skull, pel- vic and back strain, but that |. radioed tersely at 10:17 a. + m. EST): j “Believe possibility we ‘will take | Capt. Carlsen off Flying Enterprise (3:17 a@ somelumentodu gs: bis condition is considered London operators of ,the rescue , goed. jtug Turmoil seid it- was likely’ a Hospitelived at the Sala manca, N. Y. District hospi tel, he will be transferred to the Valley hospital at Buf- towline already had been thrown aboard the tilted ship, Winds had subsided somewhat today in the immediate area. falo, N. Y., today for x-rays, The destroyer’s captain, Cmdr. further treatment end ob- W. L. Thompson, sent no explana- servation. tion of his message. A spokesman Pasterson’s home is in New for the tug operators said the tug’s Castle. where he had captain may have persuaded Carl- sen that he might just as well be comfortable abpard either the Weeks Or the ‘Turmoil. There was no official word that jthe Turmoil had put a towline aboard. At noon the tug company spokesman said, “We have re ceived no further signal from the ie since early this morning. We do not know: yet whether the , towlines have been passed between the ships.” Brawny crewmen aboard the 4,000-horsepower Turmoil maneu- {vered to put # messenger line been visiting on Christmas leave. He was one of the 14 ivors in the airliner dis which claimed 26 lives when the plane crashed in southwestern New York Stete enroute from Pitts- burgh, Pa. to Buffalo, N. Y. on the night of December 29: Palace Theater Notin, he A sors the waves to Catisen, who Mickey Rooney and Terry Moors could make it fast and statt the risky effort for a dozen boatmen to scramble onto his tilted freight- er. Then the Herculean job of haul- ‘Continued On Page éignt> “He's A Cockeyed Wonder” HORACE AND COLLETTE YOUNG ARE NOW BACK IN CHARGE AT THE Casa Cayo -Hueso Supper Club Sunday Special Roast Young Duckling pr d by our efé chef, Tommy Tomertin $2.25 Have You Tried our Southern Fried Chicken? avarro, inc. 601 Duval St dit git wh ige she the just ous she ses "an ign ate as las tes lly an he th- nd vn ok