The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 16, 1952, Page 10

Pope 0 «| THE Ku WEST CITIZEN Saturday, August 16, 1952 $150,000 Luxury Motel Being Built On Summerland Hudgins Says ee Boom On Key Due First House On Summerland Beach Occupied To Electricity By SUSAN McAVOY A deluxe $150,000 motel, the first.on the Lower Keys is going up at Summerland Beach now, and will be ready for occupancy next season, Henry Hudgins and Alfonso an- nounced today. - - The company. which has been selling lahd hand over fist on Summerland Key since the first of the year, fe doing the grading and filling for the new motel. “Our boom up here in Summerland, 22 miles from } Key West, I attribute to the advent of electricity on the Lower Keys,” Hudgins said. City Electric system expects that power will be available by. November, ‘+ The new motel, which is on the Atlantic side of U. S. 1, and faces the magnificent sweep of Niles Channel and the Niles Channel Bridge, is ewned by @ company incor- | Porated, fittingly enough, ' by the name of “The Nile.” ‘The luxury motel with six double bins, yacht basin, swimming pool; recreation building and resi- » Will be known as “The ” * New York City ‘aul Muller. The |§ have a stainless Fil , who.do not trust the waters fe al a completely self- community. Each unit The cit wail ha Tennis will go up after the aping is complete, ‘s Progress gineer t his back it the a flourishing commu- to the land without til 1949. Slowly he of filling and and cutting. ¥E He 3 4 en fi ef i in 1943, he had a 3 g a) [ fs iE Ph g e i on the Gulf side the on the Bea motel, The Nile, is go- same time that the on Summerland Key by its owners Mr. Lower Keys. Py F four feet of along, Hey- foot deep turning t, in front of the also” serve as a and leads to the Heyde moved from Little Toren f® Niles Channel Summerland deep water) am seven of Mexico Hat fas ‘| re Es rf & le n ib | He referred to the gumbo limbos, Jamaica dogwood that grow on| Summerland Beach. The house it- self, on stilts to permit the ample boat-porte over the water, is made of redwood wide siding. The main living room porch commands a : | A master bedroom with four win-| dows, a small bedroom for the grandchild, kitchen and bath com- plete the boatman's dream house. Hudgins of!7 net to protect the feelings of |j | housekeeping facilities. | -|60 by 275 fot lots, and are selling| .| Sale as one complee sub-division. Citizen Staff Photo MR. AND MRS. HERMAN HEYDE moved into their new house, complete with boat porte, on Summerland Key yesterday. Landscaping is next project for the busy Heydes who can bring their boat right to their front door and can swim in the 12 foot deep turning basin. View From Site Of “The Nile” Motel of the motel plan to!sa Henry Hudgins § wide holdings from Key would some ,% The WEATHERMAN Say: Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy, local showers and thun- derstorms through Sunday. Con- tinued hot and humid. Gentle to moderate variable winds, fresh in thundershowers. Florida: Partly cloudy, con- tinued rather hot and sultry through Sunday with scattered mostly afternoon showers and thundershowers. Jacksonville through the Flor- ida Straits and East Gulf of Mexico: Light variable winds mostly southerly through Sun- day. Partly cloudy weather with scattered showers and thunder- showers. Western Caribbean Sea: Mod- erate easterly winds, fresh at times over south portion through. Sunday. Partly cloudy to cloudy weather with widely scattered showers an dlocal thundershow- ers. WEATHER SUMMARY FOR THE TROPICAL REGIONS The pressure field is rather flat in the Gulf, Caribbean and South Atlantic areas today. Only widely scattered showers and thundershower activity is noted. No weather ‘reports have been received during the past 24 none | |from the suspicious area re by an airline pilot in the vicinity + | of Lat. 15° N., Longtitude 39° W. (Note: The location given is 9° south and 43° east of Key West or about 3100 miles and normally | 8 or 10 days distant from this general region) _| Observations taken at City Office Citizen Staff Photo WHEN THE NILE MOTEL, Niles Channel, Summerland Key opens in January, visitors will get this view of the bridge. Dredging, dynamiting and filling are taking: place on the site prelim- inary to construction of the $150,000 motel. Land was sold by Hudgins and Alfonso for $7500. Here Henry Hudgins tells Citizen reporter Susan Mc Avoy about building plans. | subdividing Sumerland Beach into) them like hotcakes, they have left) the Bay side of the Key in large acreage tracts, climaxed by one of) the loveliest pieces of land on the Lower Keys. Money Key and Crab Key off the tip of Summerland have four acres of high ground and eight acres of high ground respectively. To- gether with the eight acres on the tip of the Key, it is being held for Of the Estates, several large acreage tracts have been sold. One 16 acre parcel was sold for $12,500 to Earl Ross of Chicago. He has already ordered roads and chan- ls dug on the property. “Nearly al Ithe buyers of land in Summerland are building or planning to build immediately,” Hudgins said. Cranes Buy The largest sale made this year by Hudgins and Alfonso was 99 acres to R. E. Crane's Rimersburg Coal corporation. The Cranes are the largest single property owners on the Keys with probably more thar. 24,000 acres. The Cranes have not yet announced what they plan to do with their Summerland hold- ings, Frederick Greene, who used o write under name of “Old Man Greene” in The Citizen, is a pur- yj chaser of a lot in Summerland Es- tates, facing Summerland Bay, Others are being sold to people from Michigan and far flung states, as well as Keys residents. As we drove from Little Torch Key back to Summerland Key on the Niles Channel Bridge yester- | day, the formerly unbroken shore. | line on the channel for the first i- | time looked alive. The dragline was working at the motel site. The white house of the Heydes made a decorative break in the Summer- land Beach line. It was not hard to glimpse the future, the immediate future of six months, when the embryonic com. The Beautiful, Fragrant, White Gardenia Bill Meyers Photc THE GARDENIA grows prolifically in tropical Key West. Pic- ture taken in Harry Lee Baker's front yard, 823 Fleming street. Apply To Wed Kenneth Harold Pickens, 27, sleet Sonar School and Marie/ Gomiakey, 30, 510 Francis street, munity is a full fledged town and the pioneering Hudgins family is | surrounded by new neighbors in | | brand new bomes and the new Mo- | tel. Key West have applied for a mar- riage license at the office of Coun- ty Judge Raymond R. Lord. CERNINGS BLES SEE THE 9:00 A.M., EST Key West, Fla., Aug. 16, 1952 Temperatures Highest yesterday —... Lowest last night Mean __ Normal 91 79 85 84 Precipitation Total last 24 hours Total this month _ 1.53 ins. Deficiency this month . .76 ins. Total this year _ 19.13 ins. Deficiency this y. .24 ins, -19 ins. Relative Humidity at 9:00 A.M. + 74% Barometer (Séa Level) 9:00 A.M. 29.99 ins—1015.6 mbs, Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise Sunset . Moonrise Let us give you MEASURED See the new idea in Venetian By The Associated Press An Eisenhower bid for-the labor vote and a hopscotch speaking tour by Stevenson were sketched into presidential campaign strategy be- ing drafted by Republicans and Democrats today. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the GOP nominee, is now ticketed for a talk before the American Fed- eration of Labor convention open- ing Sept. 15 at New York City. “Gen. Eisenhower,” said Sen. Richard Nixon of California, the Republican nominee for vice pres- ident, “‘will weleome the opportu- nity to appear before labor orga: izations anytime he can.” Nixon, speaking to reporters at Denver, discounted the CIO’s en- dorsement of Illinois’ Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson, the Democratic can- didate for President. “While the leadership of the CIO has endorsed Gov. Stevenson,” Nixon said, “it will be a different thing as far as the rank and file is concerned. We are not going to write off the labor vote.” At Springfield, Ill., today, Ste- venson huddled with his campaign strategy board. This group may approve the whistle-stop campaign technique, used so effectively by President Truman in 1948, along with a hopscotch gimmick added by Stevenson for 1952. A reliable source said it would work this way: Stevenson would whistle-stop, but only in the populous states east of the Mississippi River and in the Pacific Coast states. He would orate from the back platform of his campaign train in the East, hop by plane to the West Coast and repeat the process there. This would revise the traditional tour: Campaigning in the East, a cross-country speaking junket via the northern route, stumping on the Pacific Coast and a return east by way of the South. With top billing going to Stevea- Sparkman, the Democratic vice- presidential nominee, President Truman and Vice President Alben W. Barkley would play secondary roles in the campaign. *Truman is expected to make most of his speeches in the indus- trial north. Talking to CIO leaders at the White House Friday, the President drew a parallel between the 1952 and 1948 campaigns. Now, as then, the nation’s press is 87 per cent behind the gop nominee, he said, adding: “We are going to do exactly again what we did in 1948 and we're going to make them like it.” Sparkman told reporters he . | would like to see a Stevenson-Ei- .| senhower debate, if one can be scheduled. Sparkman said it would mM. be one way of airing the issues so the public can understand them. The idea was picked up by the National Broadcasting Company. Friday night in New York NBC offered its radio and television net- work facilities as an arena for such a war of words, There was no immediate reac: tion, however, from either camp. SUNLIG HT Legion Will Install Officers - September Sixth Plans for the installation of the officers of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion, were completed at the regular meeting held Wednesday eve- ning. The ceremonies are scheduled for Saturday, September 6th at 8 .p. m. Tenth District Command- er Billy Anderson of Coral Gables will be the i officer assisted by the Key West Guard of Honor. The new officers of the Auxiliary Unit will also be installed during the joint session. The ladies of the Auxiliary Unit will serve supper following the ceremonies, A dance is then The farm vote and situations in the West and South also were drawing their share of attention. After a talk with. Stevenson at Springfield Friday, President Allan Kline: of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation said it is too early to predict which way farmers will go on general election day. Neither Eisenhower nor Steven- son is an expert on agriculture, Kline added, but he said both are the Democrats’ Solid worked on ng senhower’s visit to Wednesday, Jordan “Eisenhower will go the campaign with ing of at least 10 of the 11 states. He will have and vigorous support of bloc . . . as a foundation wy which to build and win in vember.” scheduled to complete the eve- ning. The Post voted to purchase a yard of sod to assist the Key West Quarterback Club in the preparation of the football field for the coming season. Post Commander Vance C Stirrup made an official report of the proceedings of the De- partment Convention held i of the Post is scheduled for August 27th at which time a large group of new members is scheduled for initiation ceremony to be con- ducted by the Key West Guard of -Honor. 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