The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 9, 1952, Page 1

Cael Key. West, Florida, has the _ most equable climate in the country, with an average { range ot only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIII. No. 215 IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1952 Maycr Harvey Proposes Master Zoning Plan For Key West; Wants Firm Hirz Calls Proposed Spot Zoning “Vicious”; To Hold Hearing Mayor C. B. Harvey last. night, threatened to bring | suit against the city of Key West if the zoning on White street, between Von Phister * Commander Evers Relieved By LCDR. Bernard Fold street and Flagler avenue is | changed to a business clas: fication, The zoning question came up when the owners of the | Twin’s Garage, Peter and Tony Estenoz, appeared be- | fore the City Commission asking that a date be set | for a public hearing on the question. Earlier, at a meet- ing of the planning com-| mission, that group had re- | ferred the question to the | planning board with the re- commendation that block long area, which is at the present time, Residential A, be to business, The request immediately touched off an hour of torrid debate in which Mayor Harvey, who is said! to own two lots adjacent to the| Property in question, issued a} scathing denunciation of the pro- posal, culminating in his announce- ment that if the Planning Board allowed the construction of the @arage, which he termed “‘spot zoning of the most vicious type,” | he would personally enjoin the City | Commission and possibly bring suit against the City. Mayor Harvey challenged the necessity of holding a public hear- ing on what he termed an “‘ut- rage,” when he said, ‘The ques- tion of rezoning this block has been brought up three times be- fore the commission and each time the request was turned down. This property is surrounded by people who want to build homes and if the area is changed to a business zone, they are not going to be able to make FHA loans for the con- struction, I personally stand to lose at least a thousand dollars,” Har- vey said. changed | | the | zoned | ating fr missio1 residing in Key West. No. Of Voters Increases By 16 The Mayor's five-minute oration was greeted with applause from a} large group of residents of the! area who appeared at last night's! commission meeting to protest the} possible ‘move to rezone the block. Three petitions bearing the signa tures of ninety-eight residents of| the neighborhood in question were presented, When the vote on the motion tor| the hearing date came up for vote, Harvey proved to be the lone dis- senter. The date for the hearing was set for September 29th. Har: vey contended that under the City’s charter, the planning commission should have held a public hearing before making their recommenda tion that the area be rezoned, to} the Planning Board. | In decrying the situation which has been the reason for continual) permanent residents of the Keys | | (Continued On Page Three) Over Yesterday Deep interest in the Presidential election is shown by the increase | in the number of registrants com- ing into the office of Supervisor of Registration Sam B. Pinder. Between yesterday and 11 a. m. this morning 16 new voters turn. ed up at the office, Pirder said, bringing the total number eligible | to vote to 12,120. Yesterday the | figure was 12,104. Despite the rain Monroe county residents came to the courthouse. and made sure that they would be able to vote on November 4. All who have registered since January 1, 1950 need not come in, | Pinder stressed. The increase in | (Continued On Page Three) STARTING WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBE R 10, 1952 Utility Board Meets At 5 P.M. The Utility Board of City Elec- tric System will meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon to consider Progress | reports on the $3,000,000 plant and Big Pine Key line. The completion date for the | 10,000 KW plant set by J. F. Prit chard company in their contract is November 18. The big question is whether or not the plant will be ready at that time: if it is Pritchard receives a bonus. Work on the Big Pine line fs going ahead. There is hope that electricity will reach the Lower Keys by the end of the year, | American Dead Arrive Thursday SAN FRANCISCO \# — The SS Oberlin Victory, carrying the bod ies of 172 Americans who died in the Korean War, | arrive here late Thursday. FOR SALE ‘S) CHRYSLER DEMONSTRATOR | Equipped with Power Steering, Radio, Air Conditioned Heater and Torque Drive "NAVARRO, Inc. 601 DUVAL STREET is scheduled to | j the ballot ; 14 | Representative and Official U.S. Navy Phote AT OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STATION, in an impressive change of command ceremony, recently, LCDR. Bernard G. Fold, USN, relieved CDR. Ray A. Evers, USN, as commanding officer of the U.S.S. Francis M. Robinson, (EDE220). CDR. Evers leaves to join the staff of the Com- mander Training Command, U. S. Atlantic Fleet, U.S. Naval Base, Norfolk, Va. LCDR. Fold comes to the ship after a tour of duty as an instructor in the Seamanship and Navigation Dept. at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. His previous sea duty includes two years as Executive Officer of the U.S.S. Johnston (DD-821), and one year as Commanding Of- ficer of the U.S.S. Schuyer (AK-209). LCDR. Fold is a native of Annapolis, Md., where he attended high school and college, gradu- StyJohn’s College in 1938. He entered the Navy as a midshipman jn 1941 and was com- in January, 1942, after ‘graduating from Northwestern University, in one of the “first V-T classes to be graduated from that University. He has since attended the General Line School at Monterey, Calif. His decorations include the Defense, American Theater, Middle East Euro- pean, Asiatic, and Victory Medals. With his wife, the former Eleanor Jane Hanson of Pentwater, Michigan, LCDR. Fold is now Nov. 4 Ballot Lists 34 OF 39 Unopposed Names Though Monroe county and Flor- ida voters may have to tax their brains on voting for or against the eleven state constitutional amend ments, they have only five nation al and state offices to decide upon in the November 4 election. Of the 39 offices, county, and national on the long ballot, parties to choose from only five have candidates of twe offices were decided in the May primary, tantamount to election. These 34 offices ranging from State Representative down to con stable list only one candidate on Following the October special election for Supreme Court Justice, there be 40 candidates listed. The five offices in which are two candidates, D Republican, are Presid President, U. S. Senator, Governor of state will the State of Florida From past experience, obse: ELECTRIC FANS All other S. 1. Zoning ‘Talks Tonight At Meeting Chmn. Saunders, Allen Will Definitely Attend; Higgs And Harris May Return; Bentley Away The regular meeting of the Coun- ty Commission will take place to-;{ night if a quorum, three members, | |are present, Chairman Gerald{ Saunders announced this morning. Commissioner Clarence Higgs! | has been absent from the city due! | to illness for several weeks. Com- missioner Frank Bentley has left for a 60 day vacation, according to the A & B Fish company. Yester- day’s Citizen published the news| that Commissioner Harry Harris was in Tallahassee with State Rep-| resentative Bernie C. Papy con- |ferring with State Road depart. ment officials. ] “Commissioner Allen and 1 will be at the County Commission chambers at the regular time to- night. If there’s a quorum we'll go ahead. If not our meeting will have to be postponed.” ‘The meeting had been expected | to continue discussions of Stock Is- | land zoning. Last Tuesday the five- man committee appointed by Saun- | ders recommended that an overall zoning plan be accepted by the| commission. Agreement could not | be reached, however. Commission- er Harris said that he needed further study on the subject. Com-| missioners voted three to Bentley dissenting, to postpone the final adoption of the plan. Serving on the zoning committee | were John Spottswood, Joe Sirugo, Frank Bentley, Commissioner Al- | len and Jessie Slone. Happy Captai _ Brent NEW YORK (®—He stepped off the plane at New York Internation- | al Airport, his pulse quickening at the prospect of seeing his wife and boy. Capt. Martin Brent was happy, perhaps too happy. It was the second time the 30- | year-old Air Force officer had | tome home feod wah. * | | In World War Il, he had flown | nearly 100 missions, been repeated- ly decorated, shot down and badly | wounded in one raid, rescued and | hospitalized for nine months. After that, he had begun studying | to become an accountant, only to | be called back to service last year. Now, after 27 missions in Korea, he was home again. He had made it last Sunday, just barely in time to celebrate the j seventh birthday of his son, Mi- | chael. | The captain's heart raced as the taxicab carried him across town to his Manhattan apartment. | Ev-| erything, the old familiar sights, looked good—even the New York air smelled delicious They met him at the door, Shirley, his wife, hugging and kissing him, Michael jumping up and down, yelling for joy. The captain was in the clouds with | happiness. He had a surprise gift for the boy—the headphones he had worn during all his wartime flights Michael danced with delight. tried the headphones on his own chubby little head As the captain watched, smiling, | a stab of pain cut through his chest. Then again. His wife guided him to a bed, and called a doctor When the doctor arrived, happy Capt. Brent wa ead | one, | Reds Raid Plant | MANILA # — Forty Commu: pervisors and seized 12 Philippine Army reported No one was hurt in th “The Flying Saucer” 1214 WHITE ST (Next door to White Laundry) ! Naval Che Kry Wrest Citi THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER THE U.S.A. cteciatieesenmmmiaimeiicuememmen neal The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS R“ sve Made To End Prowling Ean Key West Meacham Airport Sale Bedi Slowed In Mill Of Federal Government Procedures 3 MONTHS DELAY IN PURCHASE ATTRIBUTED TO FEDL. RED TAPE The final purchase of Meacham field by the County has been de- layed more than three months waiting for CAA approval of the deed of sale from Key West Im- | provement Inc., it was learned to- day. Last June the County was all | set to go on purchase for $150,000 of Meacham airport from the com- pany. The Civil Aeronautics Adminis- tration made a grant offer of $76,- 000 to the county. The County has $60,000 in funds already earmarked | for airport purchase. All that is | lacking now is the approval of the deed submitted to CAA by the company and the county last June, | | county legal advisor Paul Sawyer said today. The deed of sale is in the Atlan- ta regional office of CAA going through the mill of approval. Until it is approved, the CAA funds and the county funds do not pass into the company’s hands, and naturally | the airport remains in the hands of its owners the Key West Im- provement company. The three months delay is an anti-climax following more than 18 months of hot cortroversy among | the city and coungy and company over ownership of the airport. In 1951 and earjy 1952 the City éf Key Wést brought 4 condemna- tion suit for acquisition of the 264 | : j acre airport. This suit prodded the county which had long since had the money for acquisition into its pur- chase agreement with the com- pany, The county and the company came to a decision on a smaller acreage to be bought at the $150,- 000 figure. CAA, which had repeatedly sta- | ted that the airport must be pub- | licly owned to take advantage of Federal funds followed through with the grant offer of the $76,000 | to cover more than half the pur- chase price. Since June, however, \either the heat of the summer or traditional Government | red tape, has slowed official approval of the deed, it was said. Engineers’ Club Changes Place Of Meet Tonight The will Key hold West their Engineers® Club regular monthly | meeting Tuesday evening at 8 p.m | The meeting place. however, has been changed from Bidg. 55 at the Seaplane Base to the Na tional Guard Armory at Southard and White Streets Lt. Comdr. R. Odden will be the guest speaker. KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN By Calling FEINSTEIN, Phone 826-W We Buy all kinds of Junk LOCATED AT Mr .-—__——_—___- Divorees And ‘Licenses Keep | Judges Busy Judge Aquilino Lopez Hears Six Divore This Morning; Get Drivers’ Licenses Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lo- Pez,Jr., ! from 9 to 11 this morning, adding | presented Attorneys Paul Esquinaldo,.Tom | Watkins, Julius Stone, Jr., J | Porter, Allan B. Cleare and En | rique Esquinaldo, Jr., all appear with their clients. Some had to stand in the corri dor since the tiny anteroom of the Judge’s chamber was insufficient for the crowd. Judge Lopez will go to Miami Thursday and Friday to sit on a case at the reauest of the Govern. or of the State. Next door to the Circuit Court | Judge’s office, County Judge Ray- mond Lord and his staff were do- ing a booming business renewing driver's licenses. Farther down the. hall Supervisor of Registration Sam Pinder was busy with the new vo- ters coming into register. The Sheriff's office was quiet with no arrests reported. The Su. perintendent of Public Instruction | Horace O'Bryant reported that trickles of more pupils are still en totals prowented in The Citizen last | week. One Car Smash |On Highway Over Last W eekend | The safety record on U. S. 1 be low Big Pine Key was marred by only one accident over the week- end, Florida Highway Patrolman Marvin J, Wilder reported today Sun n a Mrs. Hassett of Key West lost control of her 1952; | Pontiac on the highway a ca Chica bridge and turned ove: | going into the embankment som | 10 feet below. She was unhurt, but her car was da ex tent of $500. Wilder charged her with reckless driving, following too closely an r She applied the brakes but on the wet The other car aged to the skidded he said hed, PUBLIC TO OUR FRIENDS, FELLOW CITIZEN Let us begin, please, by heard six divorce cases to the busy picture the Courthouse | | tering school this week upping the | ve Bo- | * Want Trade Of Land With K.W. Improvement Company Key West’s City Com missioners promised an_ in | tensive campaign to elimi nate a wave of prowlers anc | peeping toms when they au ; thorized special overtime | pay for members of the po- lies department in an effort | to track down the person or ! persons who have at least | one local neighborhood up in arms in protest. A protest group consist- ing of eight irate women led by Mrs. Toby Bruce of 605 Simonton Street appeared last night before the com- mission asking that steps be taken to end the wave of in- | cidents that have terrorized the Simonton Street area. Speaking for the group, Mrs Bruce pleaded for stepped up ef- | fort on the part of the police de: partment and suggested that per- ; sonnell trained in erime detection be put on the track of the prowler and sex maniacs who have kept Key Westers on edge for weeks | Mrs. Bruce also charged that the police are unable to give adequate protection against nocturnal prow- lers because of the pressure of | their other duties. Mrs. Bruce’s protest paved the way for the introduction of a mo- tion by Commissioner Louis M. J. Eisner asking for more money for the police department so that they could authorize payment for overtime salaries to insure a step- up in the police department cam- | paign against prowlers. Eisner al- so went on record as asking that | a plainclothes detective be added | to the force. Eisner, in an outspoken denun- ciation of the Sheriff's Depart- ment said that Sheriff's Deputies “should be more active in their duties". “Have you ever seen a Deputy in your neighborhood?” Eisner challenged. “As far as putting more men on the police force, we are handcuffed, we just don’t have the money. But, it is our duty to protect the rights of womanhood in Key West.” Following the presentation of a petition by Mrs. Henry Schmidt bearing the signatures of 14 citi- zens asking for more illumination on Elizabeth street, Eisner pledg- ed that he would confer today | with officials of the City Electric m with a view to obtaining better street illumination in that eighborhood The women had charged that inadequate lighting factor in the prevalence of rs in that section. Bruce, who last week post jed a $200 reward for the appre. th n of a prowler who left his shoes near his home, spoke up i (Contingea On Page Three) NOTICE NEIGHBORS AND S OF KEY WEST: assuring you thet we intend that greeting in the truest sense of each and every word. We, “The Twins” ‘Good are and have always tried te be Friends, Good Citizens and Good Neighbors’ and it was with that thought primarily in mind thet we sought to build in Key West — at the corner of Whi Flagler — the very nicest, thie most modern and a Automobile Showroom in the City. We had been that White Street would be “the coming commercial district of the City’ and that without exception the residents in and about the area were in accord with our plans. At the meet- | Lodge No. 14. F. & AM. 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