The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 30, 1952, Page 5

Search Continues For Missing Plane RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (7— Search planes combed vast, un explored Brazilian jungles and | desert-like plateaus today for a | xurious Pan American Strato- ae which vanished en route | strikes barely ruffled the atocki) to New York with 50 persons | market today. Prices sagged quiet- | aboard. |ly. Nineteen of them—the crew of | Losses were nine and 10 passengers — were | with the extreme decline in active , Americans. areas going to between one and One searcher droned through the | two points night over the wildnerness between | Quite a number of individual is- Rio de Janeiro and Belem, hoping sues made upside progress against to spot a light or a fire if anyone | the overall downward trend. Gains survived in the thinly populated | were small wilds where the plane was be Lower stocks included U. S. Steel lieved down. Jones & Laughling, Republic Steel, Many more searchers. Youngstown Sheet & Tube, Sea- ing up the hunt at dark, board Air Line Railroad, Atlantic to the air at dawn. {Coast Line Northern Pacific, Un- The search was spurred by hope | ion Qil of California, Lion Oil, that the plane may have been able | Standard Oil (N. J.), Consolidated to crash-land somewhere on the ural Gas, Anaconda Copper, barren plateau in mid-Brazil. American Smelting, Allied Chemi- The double-decked Boeing Strato- | cal, General Electric, American cruiser, a peacetime development |Can, Chrysler and Boeing. from the B-29 Superfortress, was | Curb stocks slid a little lower the first plane of its kind to be | in moderately active trading. Low- reported missing. It is powered |er were Brown Co., by four 2,800-horsepower engine solidated Oil, Canada Southern The powerful plane—named the | Oils, Consolidated Mining & Smel- Clipper Good Hope—had flown | ting, Investors Royalty, Jupiter from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to, Oils, Lone State Gas and Non-Fer- Rio de Janeiro on the first leg of | rous Meta: Products. its “El Presidente’ flight to the | Corporate bonds were irregular- United States. It took off shortly | ly lower. U. S. governments held after dark Monday night for Port | Steady in the over the counter of Spain, Trinidad, its only other | market scheduled halt before reaching | we | Monroe County In 4th Grade: Gas Tax. $57,892 Wants To Enlist TALLAHASS ” — The State |of Florida collected $6,153,811 this PHILADELPHIA (® — Thomas | month from the seven cents per Grady studied the U. S. Marine | Sallon gasoline tax on 87,911,699 enlistment poster and then helped | @allons sold during March, the himself to one of those postals |eomptroller's office said today expressing interest in enlistment, | Collection costs were $24,518. He filled it out and mailed it| Dade County collections amount without telling anyone. | ed to $1,119,983 to lead the state. His mother, Mrs. John A. Grady | Collections in®other counties in- of suburban Abington, was astc cluded ished when a Marine recruiting Alachua sergeant phoned asking for Tom “He's in school, with the other fourth grader: his mother told the sergeant. PINDER U R 7ES (Continued From Page One) morning 882 absentee ballot have been cast. This morning only seven ers came ine person to vote claring their intention that will be out of town next Tu day Meanwhile, candidate: courthouse and Today's | Stock Market NEW YORK # — The steel and after giv- returned $98,159, Brevard $26,793 Broward $276,387, $160,76: 3, Leon $105, , Marion 98,- 2, Orange $244,- 621, Palm Beach $304,796, Pinellas $342,476, Polk $272 Putnam 51,141, St. Johns $57,552 | $55,921, Sarasota $84,180, Volusia | $189,840. Hillsboroug' 151, Manatee |815, Monroe : Cut Appropriation WASHINGTON (4 — Sen. Taft said today he would go along with ve to cut President Truman’s | at the elsewhere with stickers on cars, and broad i = on their faces, face the anxicty | $7-900,000,000 foreign-aid bill to an of the last six days beforc even six billion dollars. polling Ohioan, a candidate for the Only those wt were ublican presidential nomination posed in this race can sit ter he would not initi and take it easy at this t for this reduction but The others Bina But support an ymove for it on minute post: ecards, and ing new bids for the ci Navy vote. The candidates y even the unoff late Tuesday night tee votes re Mulroy Dies nh CHK roy AGO James M. Mul- 2, former executive assistant three-man t Adlai Stevenson, died Tues: that night, the t lay. He was once managing editor ares ‘ of the Chic Sun and winner of wana dnc a Pt for reporting for absentee « th ’ in con mornir slaying of CHAIN STORE PLANS m Pa toward Conti been e One) h that ave taken phoned ir fiat nd polls ¢ In addit man of tt n Ge Judge I M cite. LpAw cm. OF KEY WéST ONE 524 SOUTHAR largely fractional Calvan Con- | f | two races of deer in the area as | subspecies will interbreed. And if Du- | St.Lucie | MORE CHARGES which crossed the highway. watched a twopoint buck one after- noon which was approximately 30 inches at the shoulder and which looked to be a heavy deer. Only about three out of all my observa- tions would have been under 21 in- ches at the shoulder. (Fawns) I took pictures the other day of a doe (which was 27-28 inches at the shoulder (I checked this height twice against saplings and Gus and Joe Chase (of Big Pine Key) who were with me also checked it (in- dependently of me,) then we com- pared our measurements which checked closely. We estimated her weight conservatively at 60 pounds. I was with Ed Barry when he got pictures of a doe which three of us (Gus Chase, Ed Barry, and Dick- | son) estimated to be between 28-30 inches at the shoulder. I have seen twa other does larger than these - |one’had a fawn which was about | half her size. “If one considers deer of this size ‘Toy Deer’ then well and good. However, I would not call a deer the size of the key deer a ‘toy’. The South Florida or Ewerglades deer (Odocoileus virginianus osceo- la) are no larger in size. “There could definitely not be the Key Deer was not correctly | named and should have been rank- |ed as a full species it still should | not be considered a ‘toy’ because -even the original descriptions as | above mentioned came from speci- ments of 65-80 pounds.” Barry has also collected signed statements of old Key residents and hunters. These are printed be- low. Philip A. Saunders, General Con- tractor, Marathon, Fla. “Readint the many accounts of the ‘toy deer’ brings to mind the | one deer I have seen on the Keys. Early one morning four years ago, | my son-in-law and I were bowling |along the highway towards Key West where we had a job. As we rounded the curve on Big Pine we saw a deer on the highway. He | saw us too and moved off a ways and then stopped and watched us. We slowed down and had a good look at him. He was at least three feet high at the shoulders and I am sure he weighed over 100 pounds.” Mrs. Ralph Pinder, 1502 South | St., Key West. “I spent the better part of my is still known as Watson’s Ham- mock. My parents had a large farm and also ran a mall grocery store. This was before the railroad was in operation and we went to Key West by sail bodt. In calm weather, it sometimes took us three days. Our greatest problem was to save our produce from the deer of | which there were a great number. We used set or spring guns and frequently killed three in one | week. My father also hunted them. I don’t know how much the deer weighed, but they were not toys or midget by any means, and I think | they were about three feet high.” Mrs. Hilda Sands, 418 United St., | Key West “I have lived at different loca- tions on Big Pine Key for almost 30 years. When our family was on the north end, we had quite a farm, and the deer were a serious pro- blem. We killed them and ate them, and used the sking for rugs. The recent picture on the front page of the Key West Citizen, showing the skin of a mainland deer and the skin of a ‘Key’ deer, rade me smile. The key deer is so small I think it must have been a fawn or a very small deer. never would have bothered skin- ning a deer that small. I would not childhood on Big Pine Key on what } 1 “Some years ago, I saw \deer that had been killed by hunt- | attempt to estimate the weight of ; appeared to be about the same size the deer I have seen on Big Pine | and type of deer that I saw at Fort Key but think that they were about | Sill, Oklahoma, when I was in the 3 feet high at the shoulders. They | service.” certainly were not toys or midgets, V marads Key, 2320 Patterson or pygmigs. Ave., Key West. Augustus L. Chase, Big Pine Key “The dee ba the Keys vary “Some weeks ago, I drove with ‘quite a bit but I gel isey that John Dixon, State Biologist, and Ed |a conservative rote of the Barry in the latter’s car to his new | | height of the does would be 30 in- development ‘Punta Brisa’ on Doe-| ches at the shoulder, and the tor's Arm, Big Pine Key. As we weight around 60 pounds: the Came in the road we saw a deer | height of the bucks at the shoulder about 200 yards away: Barry im-) shout 3 feet or per 1 little Mediately got out with his camera more and their “fel sbout 90 to and started forward, whilting at! 109 pounds. Many years ago my the deer, who remained stationary. | bother Charles and I killed ie arles and I killed a large When Barry came to a large brush | buck near Doctor's Arm on Big pile which had been pushed up by | Pine Key, that must age we ghed a bulldozer, he crouched behind it. | around 189 pounds.” His sudden disappearance evident- Henry Watkins, 1013 Angel ly aroused the curiosity of the deer | KiyWee eer which came forward fairly close} «i have been hun igor ait to the brush pile and enabled Bar- | Keys the hest part of ‘life 1 ry to take a picture. When the deer | s\crage weight of a full-grown doe saw Barry, it stopped Md looked 7 would say to be 60 pounds, and turned and trotted off. This gave | 44... sa Pe ean erent nea me a good opportunity to observe 0." 90 ae ea i the deer and as I am a boat builder alee ace Of oe Nees vase as well as a carpenter accustom- jo ie and weisht like oth ; ed to taking and making measure- errs Aten Eke eons bac i would say that his height at the ; is the height of our so that shoulder was 28 inches. I estimate | 4... it Hebe. ite we ids hee weight to be 60 pounds. in the middle of th Lain Dobbs, 1021 Grinnell St., ' 1929.22, 1 hunted for a Mr ur Key West. who Was getting scientific informa “I have done considerable hunt- | tion and shipped him six skins for ing on the Keys and have killed | mounting. I would not call any of several deer. I would say that the | the deer I haye seen on the Keys average height of does at the shoul- | toys. or midgets or py der was between 30 and 36 inches, | Ed Koehn, 417 Catherine St., Key and weight from 60 to 75 pounds. | Wesi | The bucks are 3 to 4 inches higher “I lived on Big Pine Key from and weigh around 85 to 110 pounds. | 1908-1922. I would say that the) “I saw a very large 10 point | average height of the docs on the | buck that was killed in 1937 that | Keys was 33 inches at the shoul- | weighed 165 pounds on the scales. | “er, and the weight about “We had a deer for a pet at one | Pounds; the bucks about 36 inches time. It had been pulled down by | at the shoulder and the y | the do; nd had a broken leg. We | P¢unds or a little better. In 1917, 1} put the leg in splints and kept the | killed a buck that was so large that | deer in the back yard feeding it on | 1 couldn't get him out of the woods | lettuce, sapodilloes, bread and oth- | @"d had to butcher him there. He er table scraps. It became very | Must have weighed at least 150} tame and we named it Betty. At | Pounds. the end of 6 months when it was| ‘We killed the decr off also fully recovered, we took it to Cud- | t0 protect our vegetables joe Key and released it. It was so | When using a set or spring gun, we tame it didn’t want to leave us and | Placed it at the height of our knees | we had quite a time getting away | S° that the deer would be hit in the from it. middle of the body. As I recall it, | “T haye algo been around the 10,- | Most of the deer killed by set guns 000 ie a ea deal and have | had the lower part of the body | seen many deer that were killed | blown away. i have never seen any | in that general locality. My recol- | toy or midget deer on the Keys lection is that the mainland deer| Cleveland Wells, Big Pine Key. | are about 15 pounds heavier than| “I have been around here since the deer on the Keys but that there | 1915 and for some time was Section was no difference in the height. I | Foreman of the F. E. C. R. I have have never seen any deer on the hunted deer and seen many of them Keys that I would call a toy or a|on the Keys, and think the does | midget animal.” would’ average 70 pounds and 30 Bert E. Calkins, Big Pine Key. | inches at the shoulder and the three St id 36 inches mies 15 and estimate the does are {high at ' around 55 to 65 pounds for the does ders and ht 100 | Pounds. bucks 100 pounds and 36 inches at] Wednesday, April 30, 1952 I wouldn’t consider | the shoulders. any of these deer I have seen toys a man by Brooks from the Muse for $25.00. Clarence Key, have never weighed any of the have killed on the think the does 60 pounds around 32 ders. The about 36 inches at th and weigh close to 100 pounds Julio Puig, 410 Angela St., Big Pine Key. measured or deer that I Keys, but would weigh about and would uld Key | West. “I would say that the weight of | the does on the Keys is about 75 and their 36 inches 40 inches at the shoulder and weigh around 100 pounds Raymond Rubio, 912 White St Key West “I have hunted deer ¢ height at the Keys out 30 inches high at the Ss and wei’ from 55 to 60 pounds, and that the bucks 36 inches high at the shoulders and weigh from 75 to 100 pounds. I wouldn't cal. any of the deer toys, ory mies.’ unk Key, y West. “IL would say that the deer on the Keys are from 30 to 34 inches the shoulder and weigh shou 1105 Petronia St From 34 to 38 inches high at the shoulders and weigh 100 pounds for the bucks Jchn H. Payne, Big Pine Key. “I saw a deer two years ago that was better than 3 feet at the shoul. weighed at least 125 Presented Pin CHICAGO (®—John P. O'Connor, Chicago and North Western Rail way agent at Harvard, was presented a pin for of continuous service with the line Ill, today 70 years Now 85, O'Connor was a boy of 15 when he went to work April 30. 1882, as a caller at Harvard, His job was to arouse engineers and firemen to notify them to report Specializing in . CHRYSLER PRODUCTS Bill's Southernmost Garage BILL TYLER, Owner 707 Whitehead St., Corner Angele ers, two does and a buck. My re-| ccllection is that the does were 30 | inches or a little better at the shoulder and weighed some 60-70 Pounds, and the buck was about 4 inches higher and weighed abou‘ 100 pounds. In the 30 years I havc } been on Big Pine Key, I haye never seen any deer that I would call toys or midgets or pygmies.” William Blalock, Bie Pine Key. “I have lived on the island only | two years but have seen quite a few deer. On No Name Key I saw @ group of six in which there was} one buck which I judged to be jaboul 40 inches high at the shoul- | | der and that would weigh weil over 100 pounds. Some of the others seemed to be about 34 to 36 inches | high at the shoulder and would | weigh, I should think about 70 Pounds. There were a couple small ones, evidently very young deer that I would think were abou or 28 inches high at the shoulder SPEED-ELECTRI We | and would weigh about 50 pounds 1 wouldn't call any of them toy deer, or midgets, or pygmies. Th ey 4 BROUGHT BACK BY ae COBULERS POPULAR REQUEST! Mode! GC-64 Mest Wanted / o SMART, N or these w Wonted FOR ONLY 595 IN WHITE BLACK & GOLORUSH SOLD EXCLUSIVELY aT LISAN S04 SOUTHARD ST SHOES AWE! OPP. BUS STATION VW i Most We vated by Young Modems Westinghouse RANCHO 'C RANGE © TUCKAWAY™ SP, atures Low Dewn Payment sy Terms be De ral History bought an 8 point “buck | | 38 1| electea some time measure | s high at the shoul- | unpiedged measure | shoulders | Bucks were |" | statement or midgets, | | tte publican THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page § EISE NHOW . R sw oe | AUTOPSY FACTS ON 7 nued (Continued From Page One) > presentation of the autopsy . how and in what | manner Payton lost his life. His body was discovered at 7 o'clock Monday morning by an employee of Thompson Enter- rises en route to work. It was ing face upward in about r feet of water, it was said. The young shrimper had been reported missing Saturday after- noon. Only clue given to his disappearance by unofficial sources was a splash overboard eard at 2 a.m, Saturday morn- ing near the Chippewa, on which Payton shipped. The body was released for shipment to Rockville, South Carolina, home of Payton’s ayant cal His Autopsy report will be made followed Cc. G. Bratenahl, U. S. Hospital inquest will be held at office, 821 Whitehead says he was runni Results of are the nding ‘on iclegates, 10 popular voting Massachusetts whom were o. Of these 10, ceded Taft ihower with the other six not of two each are ec to and Lise Other pelitical developments Delaware Republicans, at a Dov- er convention te elect 12 dele Eates to the Na 1 Convention The p fe Ss seven Taft backers Eisenhower and cne Delegates might go ur wever. Sen. 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