The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1952, Page 1

| | ENON ES EE RBA NTSAT I oN > Ser SP eRRMRMUENERINAREREONT RENT F ire Destroys Steam Plant Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST VOL. LXxtlI. No. 66 CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERS declare fire is not Hfxpected to delay completion of te npc oreenataran Hundreds Attracted To City Electric Fire Sunday roe scheduled to go into operation early in the Autumn. THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1952 x kk Cty. Hospital | The five survivors of Satur- | day’s highway crash on Toreh | Key bridge, which took the lives | of Thorndyke Arthur Cadore, | $0 and Sam Karp, 47, both of | Miami, are in fair and good con- | .| dition at Monroe General hog; | pital, Coroner Roy Hamlin re- i | ported today, \ | Phe victims, Cadore and Karp, were both in the front seat Of ithe 1950 Oldsmobile death cat | owned by Lloyd Stauffer. Ker | was driving South to Key West: j at 5:30 p.m. bringing his three” | friends to the charter presenta- | tion of the Cayo Hueso Grotto} | Saturday night at 7:30. He and Cadore were instantly killed. Stauffer and W. B. Oliver {both 6f Miami, who were riding in the back seat of the demolish- ed car were injured only slight- ly and will be released from the hospital soon, Hamlin said. Mrs. Henrietta Robinson, De- catur, Ga., who was riding in the e Photo by Sweeting plant which is * Equipment At | “Tw Storage Shed" At City Electric Steam Plant Construction Firemen battled for two hours to| bring a fire which broke out in a storage building at the site of the construction of the new City Elec- tric Company Steam Plant on Trumbo Island at noon yesterday under control. The spectacular fire which de- stroyed a large amount of elec-} trical and construction equipment, ; was confined to one end of the building which housed practically | all of the instruments -and | elec- | trical equipment tobe used in the new electrical plant. Hundreds of spectators were at- tracted to the scene by pillars of smoke and flame which were vis- ible for blocks around, ‘Three, en- gines: from: the’ ‘nu pai ‘Onegefive: house worked swiftly, tinder the di- rection of Fire Chjef-1 “Torres! to brinig the bliize ‘tider cont Officials of» the’ J, FP Hitch: Construction Cotipany, Whd'are en- gaged ‘in’ ‘the! construction of the! steam plant, were this morning un- able to give an estimate of the/ damage, pending a check of their} records, | They added, however, that the) fire is not expected to delay the completion of the plant which is | scheduled to go into operation early; in the autunm. All of the damage is covered by insurance, they said. The blaze is thought to have broken out underneath the shed and threatened to engulf the entire structure. Heavy water damage resulted when firemen pou thousands of gallons of water into theh building to prevent its spread. Most of the equipment consisted | ers. Flight To Fort Jefferson Is Flight To 19th Century .{Drama Of Life And Death a | Barbsta, are Still in, the rer - 1 omit! Vhs yd): 2 ; ¥4 HPL: frevent him mm “4 }Melfing mo? about the accident. ‘Nat'l Democratic DRY-TORTUGAS NA “BY PON De LEON ‘ IN 16TH CENTURY By SUSAN McAVOY (Part 3 of a Series) Flying to Dry Tortugas in Per Edgar’s Sea Bee, Wednesday, I was very much a part of the 20th century. When we entered the sally porte of famed Fort Jefferson, former Gibraltar of the Gulf of Mexico, I started slipping back in time, first to the 16th century were discovered by Ponce De Leon, and named after the many turtles there, anc then to the 19th century when the Fort began. Dr. Samuel Mudd, imprisoned at the Fort in 1865 Which was his solitary dungea during some of the four years he served as prisoner. } ‘a nae a simple arid ‘Bla len ‘cross: with Spaitish Words. of, tribute, to the Spanish Made me. pause..in t silent splendor of the magnifi- cent parade ground. , For on this grave. white that of | the Cuban wife of ‘the light- house keeper of the Fort. who lived and died there during the Civil War were fresh flow- What mysterious hand places flowers on a leng forgotten graye, (Continued On Page Seven) Will Roberts Plans ‘=:/$14,000 Residence Will P. Roberts, Jr., will build a $14,000 CBS residence at the when the seven keys of Tortugas | because he | treated the broken leg of Lin- | coln’s .assasin, John Wilkes | Booth, hovered over the cell 1950 Ford conveitibie which was smashed head on by the death ‘car is the most seriously burt {of the survivors, Hamlin sald. She has a fractured right riod land bruised face; her conditi given as fair. Her fos n, Donald Lavern |Berg, 26, University of Miuthi jgradudte student and his wife | The Ford Berg was driving had Alasita Iteense tag 384, Hamlin | said. | 2 \Chairman Is Here ||” accovaing to “an o . , Willia D id Enni 4301 |To Visit Truman }paim avenue, simteih. Palm avenue, Hialeah, Fla, two Frank McKinney, National |°2"S in fronteof hint going south Chairman of the De C verathe Par- jslowed up. He was Zolved te cut jas speed. He looked through his. i jrear window and saw the death ear careening first to the right the ‘Merry Mac’ for a series of side of Totch! Sey" MEU Be talks with President Har s. Truman who is spending his ith and then to the Jeft. working vacation in Key West. | =nnis said the death car was McKinney, who has been cruising |S0ing at such a great rate of along the Florida East coast, will |speed, that the driver:could not | remain until Wednesday. The |keep it from smashing into the] subject of the talks was not di- joncoming 1950 Ford. driven by | vulged at a noon press confer. | Berg. It destroyed the Ford com- ence held by Presidential Prass (pletely injuring its three occu- Secretary Joe Short. }pants, while killing the two men Meanwhile, the President en.. {i the front seat, and injuring joyed his usual merning swim, {tng te.in the rear seat, eye-witness, with today’s 65 degree tempera. |. Phe Agcigent.was also witness: } fure apparent! ft him. ed by. Cletus; Rey Stumpf, : 102 The water See, By 1s. Wi, Main street~Portyille, N.H. degrees when Mr. Truman took 242 was driving in back of the his dip. During last night's cool, ;} Miapaisboynd:1990. Fonds He waid weather, the President enjoyed a. the Qidsmobile weisp going too log fire in the Little White House ashe ston. The apve-drivers in } on the Nava! Station, front of. Eypisy. y originally | slowed up, causing the death car a 7 Death Car At Little Torch Key Bridge i i Primary on June 7. x * * == Five Survivors Of Sai Tag 2 Dead Men “4 ime Sent To Miami; Allen Formally 5 Injured At Announces For Cty. Commission Joe Allen, Monroe County Com- district, | today announced through the poli- missioner from the first tical columns of The») he will, seek’ re-élection he now holds in te’ Déed A native of Key We len was for more tha connected. with The Citizen.“ During’ Wol Returning to Key” he close of the conflict, Mr. len established his own business | and shortly thereafter was elected the first’ is commissioner from district. “I base my candidacy entirely‘ on my record of service during the Al- past four years’’, stated Mr. jen, “During my time in office have worked diligently for the best. interests of Monroe County and feel-proud of the many accomplish- (Continued On Page Six) Youth Struck By Car Dies A four year ‘old boy was fatally injured when he was wusate way , evening just ten minutes fore two men-lost their lives in a crash 100 miles south on Torch Key’ Bridge.” The boy, Steven Robert Searles, was alive when he of Mr. and Mrs, Clarence Searles, Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Florida Highway Patrol- man Jack Walden investi- gated the accident and will make a full report of it to Coroner Hamlin this after- noon. At this writing no de- talls of how the child hap- Péned to dash in front of the cer were available, Nor was it known who wes the driver of the car that hit Steven. Coroner Hamlin was al- on his’ way to Torch Key Bridge to in the fatal injuries of ‘Sam i Kerp and Thorndyke Arthut Cadore; when word came through about the little boy's injuries at Tavernier. BS * President Returns | I | BEAMING AND SMILING, President Harry S. ‘Truman is shown } as he arrived at Boca Chica Field Saturday evenigg a 36 hour, urday’s Key West Citisen President Truman Studies Seahorse’s Secr In Pascatorial Four:At Municip ee & following ,000 mile rounc-trip to Washington and New York from Key West. The President is expected to remain in Key | West until March 28th. \Movement For | The Monrce county Juvenile Council will spearhead a moye- !ment to win a community center jfor Key West adults as well as jyouth, president E. 0. Schweitzer said today. ~ venile Court oom, Clinic building, | delegates from local clubs and. lod- | ge8° will diséuss with Ccaneil offi- \cials the campaign’ to obtain such a certer. pause. t “We'Waht a center that will ans- ... wer the-needs -of~-youtt;” tourists {Continued On Page Six) ‘Community Center’ “Meeting tonight at 8 at the Ju-} | “Trends” also summarizes pre- ‘dictions of Key West 1952 Prosperity ‘Shown In Chamber Bulletin Released To Public Today | * ALL INDICATORS : | UP OVER : MCJC Spearheads | Oye year aco |, All indications of prosperity*in February 1952 are higher than in February 1951, according to the Key West Chamber of Commerce newsletter “Trends” released to- day. Building permits were “$592,949, ‘compared to $278,680 in February, } 1951; postoffice receipts went up, | postoffice receipts went up from | 320,726 in February 1951 to $24,738 a 1952, February. Consumption of electricity jump- eded from 2,223,753 in February 1951 to 2,529,240 in kilowatt hours in’ 1952. Mail inquiries received at the Chamber of Commerce rose from 895 to 1,087. Only the num- ber of visitors at the Chamber droppéd slightly from 2,040 tast February to 1,927 this Febru- ry. | “Trends” also summarizes the jbeen getting this year. It points jout that the National Geographic covered the Flower Show. The New | York Herald Tribune an dthe New | York Times recently carried fea- ture stories about the island. In addition, of course, Key West's datcline is being carried all over the world now that President Tru- man is here on his 11th working vacation. Florida's expected * | national news breaks Key West has a eee The Associated Press Teletype, Features and Photo Service: Crash Recover * kk | Expresses Surprise At Maternal Rele Of Male Seahorse ? SUSAN McAVOY President Harry Truman arned the Piscatorial acts of life this morning hen he ite tow Aquarium regining at 7:50 this morn. ug, when he spotted ‘Bill — manager opening The President digésted the fact of the sea horse’s interesting ‘parental division of labor at 8 a.m. We at The Citizen learned it }30 minutes later when Krol told; us. Many readers now know about the sea horse’s strange custom for the first time. It seems the female sea horse lays the eggs in the male's pouch and then runs off to other pleasure or tasks as the case may be, leaving the male to incubate. The President, clad in a light blue shirt and slacks strolled up to the Aquarium at 7:50 escorte? by secret service men. He was the 51,199th visitor at the Aquarium since January 1, 1952, Kroll said. When the Num- ber One tourist of the city dnd nation arrived, Kroll was alons on duty. The President said he jwould like to take a tour of the Aquarium. Kroll conducted the :Chief and his escort on a 20 minute walk around the pisca- torial wonders of the show. “He was interested in the Per- mit fish, which is a game fish here on the Keys,” Kroll told me. “He also took a long look at the porcupine fish. That's the one that blows up like a balloon and sends out spines like its fel- w porcupine in the animal The President was fascinated by a 500 pound Loggerhead tur- tle covered with barnacles. This specimen was brought to the Aquarium by a shrimper two ago. The Loggerhead has such tough jaws that it cracks conch € On Page Six) POOR OLD CRAIG —_\"* | FIVE, CENT) wks of 4 4 w A alt of electrical instruments and con-| CoOfmer of Patterson and- 8th growth and statistics on its past | SERVICE STATION saab ranterials. Street, according to a permit is- growth. By 1960 Florida will have | pyaneis at Truman Phone 91:4 Beats F) f sued this morning from the of- | more than four million persons, it Your PURE OIL Dealer ficé of City Building Inspector (Contionsd On Fame Ge) Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries Two School Guards} Rio russeu. W. H. Monsalvatge, Jr., is plan- ning the construction of a garage at 2503° Harris Avenue, according to .Russell. Other permits given today in- Continued On Page Eight) Are Named Today ‘Tworschool gualts "Were Hamed today"by Police Chief Joseph Kemp. They are Otillo Campo and Jchn J. Kirehenbaum Campo has been assigned to the High School while Kirchenbaum will patrol the Reynolds school area. PALACE Judy Canova and Eddie Foy, Jr. No Rotary Luncheon THURS. MARCH 20 At The Parish Hall Ladies Night, TONIGHT at in i Casa Marina 7:45 P.M. “HONEYCHILD” | {tn Colter) Photo by Sweeting THORNDYKE ARTHUR CADORE. 50 AND SAM KARP, 47, were killed instantly when this Oldsmobile, driven by Karp tan head on into a 1950 Ford convertible, 25 miles north of Key West. Five other persons were injured but are recovering at Monroe Genera! hospital.