The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 29, 1952, Page 4

Page 4 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN pears May 29, 1952 | Crash Damage “Last Will, Testament” Of Class Of °52 Set At $225 Disregarding a stop sign at the} | intersection of Petronia street | |and Thomas street, Barbara Lee |Cloninger, 103 D Poinciana was | charged with reckless driving, ' causing an accident and failing | to stop at a stop sign. Also charged with reckless driving and having an accident was John | Bruce Knowles, laborer, who hit her Ferd convertible when it failed to stop. STRANGLER, PROWLER |! 2"¢ the men were frigftened a- | (Continued From Page One) | “?% remains of a huge foot print out- | T° weeks later another man} sia ihas hewss. {was spotted by her neighbor Mrs. | Police Chief Kemp said today, arty Pinder looking into her light- ed living room. The original intruders threatened to kill Miss Guertin if she scream- ed. The experience has so shaken| her that she no longer sleeps in her own house, even though she has the windows boarded and new} locks on it. | that he had put an extra man tem | porily on the beat around Simon- ton, Southard, Elizabeth and An- gela streets one month ago when Miss Regine Guerton, of 607 Eliza- beth street and Mrs. Edgar Will | ing of 711 Simonton street reported] “I am just too frightened to stay| prowlers. .___|there alone, so I take turns sleep-| Miss Guerton who runs Miss jing at the various neighbor’s hou- Jean's Nursery school at 728 Flem-) ses,” she said today, ing street has been a resident of| = | in another room with the door Fan out into the hall dnd out the Bruce said. “Howelse can the po-;has fullfingerprinting equipment front deer, knocking down furni- | lice know whom to look for? Also | and cameras said yesterday: ture as he went. A guest in the |! pies with the general public-| “Prints are best within 12 fieeeash idn‘t | i You hear a woman scream or if! .hours after they have been made... eee weiss wie peal you see one who is distraught, don’t| Se don’t wait three or four days . . Ie just pass by, but see if you can} to call on us for fingerprinting or help. foot prints.” Mrs. Bruce referred to the eet Meanwhile one safeguard separate couples who ignored her | locking all doors securely. | pleas on Sunday morning. “It's so unlike the Key West of “Assume there is some human}11 years ago, when nobody ever being calling for help,” said Miss/ thought of locking their doors, but Guertin. | we have to do it now,” Miss Guer Chief Deputy Tommy Dixon who} tin said. shut, didn’t hear her at first. She thrust her head out the win- | dow- and called for help from neighbors. A man across"the st., who heard the cry thought it came from ancther house where there had been a number of fa- | mily quarrels, so didn't answer the call for help. Finally he did come over as she continued to scream. The police Police found a pair of swimming} came within 15 minutes, and pick-| trunks in front of her house. This| ed up two colored men. A neighbor | year’s incident was the first Miss} had observed a tall Negro with aj Guertin has had since seven years! hat on standing near the house in YOU'LL LIKE OUR FRIENDLY SERVICE The accident occurred Wed- nesday at 6:30 p.m. Damage to} Mrs. Cloz.inger’s car amounted to} Key West for 11 years. She told) us her story today. One month ago two men broke f $150. Estimated damage to the radiator and grill of the Ford sedan driven by Knowles of 723 | Elizabeth street, amounted to about $75. Edward A. Ramirez of the po- lice department investigated the accident, OLD KEY WESTERS + | (Continued From Page One) pioneer days here was plant con- ery yard had a full of from ten to twen- s of fruits and berries. Even as late as 1945 hundreds of Key West houses had hedges of surinam cherries and berga- delicious surinam cherry. | That wonderful cocoplum, that the Cubans call “hicacos” and | Which tastes so much like our Nor- thern beachplum, seems to have ‘entirely disappeared. That is an jeven greater shame, because not , only was the fruit and nut delicious, but the lovely dark green laurel like leaves were worthy of crown- ing the poets and artists of ancient in her one story house at Eliza- beth street where she lives alone. One choked her so badly that she couldn't speak frr three days. The other held his hand over her mouth. Miss Guertin broke ay to scream. Her neighbors came preventative, and it still works! It’s seldom that you hear of general, clean-- about th yards. They just sweep away at least half of their soil, in the effort of keep- ing their yards nice and tidy. Soil without its humus and a co- ver of litter clogs up easily when ed slowly by the soil. Without these the rain wets the surface and soaks \it, and then rushes off, taking sur- face soil with it. And in the late Spring and Summer litter and rub- ble are particularly needed to pro- tect the surface roots from the burning sun, ago. Then a prowler broke in with | }a knife. Now she sleeps with a ) whistle at all times. “You can’t scream when you are frightened, also your scream isn’t heard often, but a whistle,” she pointed to the one she wears around her neck, “is some pro- tection.” Mrs. Edgar Willing, active in many civic projects had her exper- ience with a prowler also a month ago. She lives in the same block as Mrs. Bruce and Miss Guertin. Her story is as follows: Mrs. Willing was wakened in early morning hours by what she ject at the foot of her bed and de- cided it was a cat that had gotten into the room. She sat up in bed. She found that the round object was a head of a Negro prowler, crawling on all fours on the floor at the foot of her bed. She screamed. The intruder met berries. There are still some | it rains; the litter and grass hold | thought was a mouse in the room, bere fo niet es ee Mena | hedges of the bergamot, but not | back the viasaetty aa! ra on the dressing table. zomms fe coem today In sof soccne with | @ single hedge remaining of the |them a better chance to be absorb-|} Then she saw’a black round Ob-| congestion. Men and Wome who formerly Lb. ! suffered with dread cough é. the yard next to a church. But he} couldn't see the man’s features, in the dark. Mrs. Willing couldn't identify her intruder, except that he was short, rather stout, and had an abnormally large, round head. | This wasn't sufficient identification | so they had to let the man go. The women are agreed that something must be done about the prowlers in their neighborhood. “Full reports and descriptions are of first importance.” Mrs. ARCHERS You can make Every meal a Real Banquet—and do it for less by doing all your Grocery and Meat buying here ... Come in—You be the Judge 4% om AT c ARMOUR’S GA. PEACH — STRING END ‘ wheezing asthma attacks now of relief after using it. ‘costs, considering ‘restlts, thle it not tepeeane JUNE DAIRY GR. A LARGE CENTRAL PHARMACY, Corner White & Truman Ave, EGGS Mail Orders Filled Greece. : WILSON’S CRISPRI Citizen Staff Photo] Everyone Oh’s and Ah’s at the ‘sued aia spectacular Jacaranda with it’s * . SOLEMNLY READING the amusing bequests of their Class’ |beautiful’ branches of purplish Last Will and Testament are Pamela Russell, Joan Crusoe and blue flowers and gorgeous reddish Lb. Dolores Perez. They bequeathed all possible talents and abili- |0range Royal Poinciana blooms 4 = fic sees : that are painting the town red at ties and a few impossible ones to specific oncoming juniors, at | 140 moment. Yet they are trees the Key West High School last night, to the great delight and that need Sinead as gare sata <4 amusement of both audience and Class of ’52. once they are set. out and protect. ARMOUR’S CLOVERBLOOM ROASTING a eee a: eee | Od for the first year or so. | Then there are trees like the DOZENS OF HONORS jpipeenies his regular Annual) chinaberry-- that too has lovely Lb (Continued From Page One) | Award for Outstanding Work in lilac like blossoms, and beautiful- _|English. This honor went to/ly fragrant. 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