The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1952, Page 1

West, Florida, has the equitable climate in the We with an average et only 14° Fahrenheit Ken West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1952 9 ibgtitemnpeine to Re lee + Fig gre Officer, Captain P. W, Garnett, U.S, Navy, The vessel has been assigned to Key West. THE SUBMARINE TENDER U.S.8, BUSHNELL, sailing past Oakland Bay -Britige -at-San Francisco, California, is being watched ‘by Incinerator Favored As Best Way To Control Flies In City CITY MANY YEARS AGO HAD ONE ON FLAGLER AVENUE NEAR BALL PARK best methods Discussion of the of controlling flies in the Key West area is taking top priority as the subject of the week. Insofar as The Citizer is able to determine, the majority of people favor installation of an incinerator Hewever, this too, has draw backs. For instance its ne of the best fea tures of garbage disposal through the sanitary fill method is that it » T helps to build up aer an important item ir Key West, The filled in about five acres present methods of dispos of Dredger’s Key would where it is if the Navy used it for a dumping area. Incinerator An old-time re: land called the that he favored the method. He explained ¢ sixty years ago, ther dumping area off White Phister Streets. Tra regularly and no t was ever exp Not too m had an incinerator « ty Road, (now Fi vicinity now occupied ball stadium. Like a lot ment, the inc r or sometimes s (Continued On Page by .w cy w Thre 10 REDUCING TREATMENTS ONLY “ $15! THIS IS LIMITED SUMMERTIME OFFER SO START NOW Ne Starvation Diets No Strenvous Exercises Re ducing is Easy aT FRANCES BEAUTY SALON — Slendexizing — W010 Grin, Street PHONE 939! "| of this ‘Kiwanis Club Desires K.W. | Acquire Beach | The Kiwanis Club last night | went on record as being unani- mously in favor of the City of Key West acquiring Rest Beach. Members of the Club feel that South Beach and Monroe County Beach are inadequate for the needs fast-growing tourist com- munity. They state that Key West | must look ahead to the future. It has been suggested that the City should buy the sandy portion of the beach where it adjoins the it County beach and that the developed area be into a recreational spot for bathers A Kiwanis committee has been ay the City Com- S cuss the subject also made it known hey intend to seek the sup { all other organizations for project K.W. Police Dept. Needs Patrolmen Ne seems to be interested going to work on the Key West! foree } Service Board for the West advertised for but no replies have been yet. Chief of Police s had two resignations ey I's resignation. took effect last Sun-/ ] st recent (FS Re POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman Phone $139 our PURE OIL Dealer j . . Accessories Civie Groups To Discuss Dog Track Woman’s Club Executive Board Meets This Friday Civie groups have scheduled at least four metings this week to discuss the Stock Island dog rac- ing track with board members or membership. The Key West Woman's Club Ex- ecutive Board will meet Friday at 3 p.m. to take up the question with its members, Mrs. Robert Dopp, second vice president acting in the absence of Mrs, Wallace Kirke, president who is in Europe, called ;the meeting yesterday to discuss | the proposed $300,000 dog track and its effect on Key West as a com- munity. The meeting will take place at the Woman's Club, Duval | Stret. The Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Club will! discuss their stand on the track at | Struction company at $274,121. The | Barros recited | their regular meeting tonight at 8 jo’clock also at the Woman's Club weed take 180 days to complete. Godinet offered a piano solo, House, At 5 p.m. today the Key West Ministerial is meeting to reaffirm its opposition te the dog track and j to plan action to educate voters| before the special referendum on the track to be held probably in| August, | Mrs. William Warren, second | vice-president of the Key West | Garden Club is calling together of. | ficers to meet this week on the | dog track, Meanwhile the permit for the \Key West Kennel Club promoters of the track, is expected to be is sued by the State Racing Commis- sion today or tomorrow Within 21 to $0 days after a Written application by the Club and presentation of the permit, the (Continued On Page Three) and other Religious Liberals. } There will be a meeting at 420 Simon- ton Street, Thursday. June 19th, 8 p.m., 1952. Telephone 1417. Official U.S, Navy. Photo Big Pine Key Electric Bids To Be Studied By Board At City Electric Tomorrow $148,848 IS LOW BID BY GA, COMPANY Big Pine Key electric line bids will be decided upon at a special meeting of Utility Board of City Electric at 5 p.m. tomorrow, it was announced today by Board Secre- tary Ernest Ramsey. ick |Many Students Graduate From Harris School Over sixty four students were ‘graduated from the Harris Ele- PRICE FIVE CENTS Large Sub Tender Assigned To Key x *k Wekoa cute Doctor Shortage | West: Due Thurs. * Ce In County, Albury Says Hospital Bd. Told Of Need For More Than 7 MD's In K.W. An urgent need for more physi- | cians to serve the ever growing population of Monroe county was | stressed by Willard Albury, Mon- | roe General hospital administrator at a Board of Trustees meeting, last night. Albury said that for a city of 30,000 civilian population and ten Angry Swedes Denounce Lie Of Soviets War-Mad Reds Say Unarmed Swedish Plane Opened Fire On Fighter Jet STOCKHOLM, Sweden ®— An- ee ed to 15,000 Naval pepulation Key West certainly needs more than the | present seven civilian doctors, only of whom are on the staff of the hospital. At this moment there are only five practicing civilian physicians in Key West. Two of the usual number are on vacation. The i terne at Monroe hospital and the resident at Galey memorial hospi-| tal do not have private practice. gry Swedes bitterly denounced as lies today Russian charges that a Swedish plane shot dowr. Monday by, Sayiet jet fighters had, flown over Russian territory and opened fire on the Reds first. The Soviet claims were contained in a note handed the Swedish am- ssador in Moscow by Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky. kk ok Is Sister Ship Of USS Gilmore (Exclusive To the Key West Citizen) James E. Carey, son of Miriam |} and Abrahm L. Carey, of 1420 Pe- | tronia Street, is comjng home. He j will arrive tomorrow morning aboard the large submarine tender, U. S. S. Bushnell, which has been | assigned Key West as a home port. | Named for the inventor of the first successful submersible, the | present Bushnell is the second Ni val ship to carry that illustrious rame. Launched on September 14, }1942 at the Mate Island “Naval Shipyards at Vallejo, California, jshe was originally eommissioned on April 10th of the following year. Designed as a floating submarine buse she has built into her hull more than twenty shops for the The note, as broadcast by Ra- complete maintainence and repair dio Moscow, said that the Swedish jof every item of machinery found More Doctors Urged plane flew over the Russian - held “It behooves all civic groups to) island of Dagoe near the Estonian | get busy and urge more doctors to; coast, opened fire on Soviet fight come to Key West. As a citizen in- ers when they ordered it to land, | terested in the welfare of our com-' and flew out over the Baltic Sea munity I write the various medical | after the Russian planes returned associations and medical place-| the fire. ment bureaus telling them what a| The Swedish air force had told | in a submarine. The Bushnell was placed in “mothballs” at Mare Island Naval Shipyards in 1948, Re-activated at the beginning of this year she was re-commissioned on February 2ist at the San Francisco Naval Ship- yards and placed under the com- |fine place Key West is to live and a vastly different story — that the | mand of Captain Philip W. Garnett, | work in. But I speak only for my-jplane, a Catalina Flying | self,” Albury said. searching for a Swedish transport | The selection of doctors for the} plane missing over the Baltic since hospital has to be made by the} last Friday and also feared a vic- | five man medical staff of the hos-|tim of Soviet jets, was unarmed |pital. Any physician can practice|and was shot down 18 miles out- in Key West, however, if he qual-|side Russian territorial waters. ifies with the State and with the} Two of the downec plane's seven t local medical society. crewmen were wounded in the at- | The trend, however, is for doc-|tack but all were rescued by a |tors to leave Key West, rather German freighter. Though the bids were opened at |mentary School at exercises con-|than come into the city. Latest! Though official comment was not @ meeting yesterday, a quorum was not present, only Mayor C. B Harvey and the Board Secretary Ramsey being on hand. Low bid came from the Roy Ri- chards construction company, for $148,848, The Carroiton, Ga. com- Pany said it would take 140 days{ Knewles and Alice Jean Perez and terne for the first time in its his- to complete the construction job, which was the shortest time sub- mitted. High bid came from Cofer con company from Roanoke, wry Electric company of ( ral Gables, which has done a f amount of work for City Elec system bid $155.167 with 240 days (Continued On Page Three) jdren, students in Miss Levena | Wagner's and Miss M. Meador's sixth grade classes, received their diplomas from Randolph Russell, principal of the school A welcoming address by Thomas | the singing of the class song, “I |Can't Do the Sum,” opened the program Misses Joann Machin and Mary a poem, “It Va., Couldn't Be Done” and Lucretia Over the Waves”. Edna Lois DeLand fair and Jack Key teamed for a piano luet, “Columbian Gallop The farewell was given by (Continued 3a Page Three) Ed. 1950 — Automobile With Radio — $595 FULL PRICE 168 Ford — 5795 $265 Down. Bal. 18 mo. at $41.65 1941 Studebaker Radic $26.75 Down payment $168. Bai 9 me. Weg, Ph. rs OPEN EveNINGs UNTIL 9 ducted there Tuesday. The chil-! physician to announce his depar-|forthcoming until the text of the | ture is Dr. Edward Gonzalez who; Soviet note was received from is going to study in New York. Dr.; Moscow, one government author |R Megna, surgeon, who spent a,ity denied every major point of \few months here last winter, has, the Russian contention. | also left Key West. | ‘The plane, he suid, “was a Cata The hospital has acquired an in-|lina Flying Boat and absolutely (Continued © Page Three tory. But there are only five full-! | fledged doctors, only two of whom j are surgeons, Dr. J. Lancelot Les- ter, and Dr. Ralph Herz. The subject of doctor shortage }came up last night when Albury read to the Board of Trustees. |composed of the County Commis | sioners letters he had written to | two physic who expressed in terest in co % to practice in Key | Kin g Announces Tentative Budget A tentative operating bud- get for the City of Key West during the coming fiscal year was completed las! night by City Manager Dave King. Total amount of money that I the doctors, the ical Association, Jack-| Will be needed is estimated and the Medical Place-, ** $672.00 Last year’s operating bud- $678,000, but this | m } nt and Mailing Service, Atlanta Ga that Key West needs surgeons,| 9°* ¥** | doctors of internal medicine, ob-| Smount included expenses Stetricians, pediatricians and spe out at the baseball stadium. cialists in eye, ear, nose and Actually, this year's budget will run higher than last year due to increased salaries and additional city employees. King will present the pro ) present the best possi to these doctors to come here ury said. “I am posed budget to the City doing this cause | am inte Commissioners in a caucus m ty. and 1 % be held next week. There i strapped with \ Rething official about the te = vhs prcaicaty we Sbove figures until they have been approved by the com missioners. Questioned as to a probabi- reduction in millage rates the city manager said he saw no hope for any change. Last week it appeared as though there might be # reduction of one mill, are fine but there are airman ued On Page Threc irbanks Water Pumps Fa The $672,000 budget does net include the operation of From $88.00 the sewerage t. Cost for Thompson Enterprises, inc this is $47,000. Nor does it in HARDWARE DIVISION clude the Citys debt service. | Caroline St Phone i Boat/ ys. Navy. Carey, who attended Key West High School, worked for the Monroe Motors before he entered the Navy. His chances of being detailed to a ship that would eventually be based in his home town is almost a million to one. That is the reason he is called Mr. Lucky by most of his shipmates aboard. During World War I the Bush- nell served as mother ship for submarine squadron 14 whose boats sunk 145 enemy ships and damaged 75 others for a combined total of 1,350,000 tons of shippins. On this duty the Bushnell spent niné months at Majuro Atoll in the Pacific where she helped main- tain the submarines that played so vital a role in the blockade of the home islands and the reduction of anese sea power, = S. S. Bushnell is a sister The L ship of the U. 8. S. Gilmore, which lis already stationed here. The iBushnell will be on duty here as | the sder ship for Submarine Squadron 12 and will carry the flag of Captain Walter P. Sehoeni, U. S. Navy, who has been ordered as Commodore of Squadron 12. ‘Twins Born To Ingrid Bergman ROME #—Ingrid Bergman gave cerlayed birth tonight to twin girls. } Her husband, Roberto Rossellini, was beside the blonde film star. his face creased with anxiety be- cause the births were more thas two weeks overdue. s were born about a half The condition of the and daughters was de as “fine.” weighed munds each. tTgman has @ son by Ros porn in 1950, and a daugh her previous marriage Peter Lindstrom, approximately ter ta Dr Los and SHRIMP CROQUBTTES Try EL PASAJE RESTAURANT 1005 Truman Ave.