The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1952, Page 7

Search For Lost Parakeet Nets Water Moccasin In Mangrove; Perez Kills It FIREMAN USES WOODEN OAR TO_.BREAK NECK OF DEADLY SNAKE A water mocassin in the man- Srove instead of the missing para- akeet was the result of the 24- hour search of Fireman Pedro Pe- rez and parakeet owner Mrs. Julia Melville yesterday. “We were looking for “Bobo” in the mangrove back of the airport,’ said Mrs. Melville yesterday. “Mr. Perez called and whistled for my bird.” Perez poled the boat from the boulevard to the search area. He was standing in the bow when suddenly he said: “Water mocassin!” Mrs. Melville turned her eyes from sky whence she hunted her bird, to water beneath the boat. There was the deadly snake in thfe water. “Mr. Perez took the pole, just a wooden pole and hit the snake on its neck and killed it. 1 have ever seen anything like it,” she marvelled. “There he was in his panama hat white shirt, no wea- pon save the pole, and he actually killed the snake.” Mrs. Melville is so pleasantly surprised by the gallant treatment she has received from the Key West Fire department that she has almost recovered her sense of loss of the pet parakeet. “Never have I seen such courte- ous behavior,” she said yesterday | at The Key Wester where she is | a guest.” And such a well-inform- ed man. While we were looking for the parakeet, Mr. Perez pointed out the angel fish ,mullet and other fish that we saw in the shallow water.” The only casualty of the search expedition was a wide floppy hat Mrs. Melville wore to protect her- self from the sun. It went overboard twice, but again in the gallant Perez rescued it. Today though still lacking her parakeet, Mrs. Melville has stored up sight-seeing experien--~ of the Island which few visitors can ever claim. She has explored the terri- tory between the Gulf and the At- lantie by boat. She has seen a wa- tes moccassin killed, and above all she has seen the Key West Fire De- Partment in action, CAPT. ELDREDGE {Continued from Page One) noon for tea and an interview. At least I was apprehensive after the scaling of ladders aboard the submarine Sea Dog recently. Mar- garet was composed and said they had stairs. I thought of buy- ing a trapeze ensemble for dangl- ing and swing manoevers. The Monterey looks terrifyingly big. She is big! Her length is 623 feet, her beam is 71 feet and she looms about 64 feet from water level to the topside flight deck. We learn- ed this while on tour with Comdr. W. 4H. Keighley, executive offi- cer who showed us around the carrier. Visions of being swooped through the air in one of those breeches of etiquette gadgets to board the enormous carrier dan- ted through my imagination. Instead the captain’s ‘gig’ met us at the pier near the Adminis. tration Building over on the Naval Station shortly after 3 p.m. A gig is not an old fashioned buggy. It’s a trim launch. The center cabin is banked with lounge seats facing each other. Courteous es cort was provided by Ensign T. Ross, USNR, who helps publish the ship's paper, ‘Tale Hook Comdr. Keighley met us as we drew along side. We swarmed up the side, I guess that’s what you call our climbing of swing steps with rope guards and _ trailed through passage ways to the capt- ain’s cabin After exchanging greetings we sat down in the comfortable quarters for iced tea and tea cakes, Capt. Eldredge explained the word gig with a jingle which goes like this: “The officers have their motor boats And the Captain has his ‘gig’ Tt won't go any faster But it makes him feel so big!” Capt. Eldredge told of assum- ing command of the Monterey at Philadelphia where the carrier was undergoing “face lifting’. He Telieved Capt. John P. Fitzsim- mons. The Monterey then moved on to Norfolk, Va., before going to Cuba and thence to Key West Of his new command Eldredge stated that every navy man nat: | urally looks forward to going to | @ea and that carrier duty at sea was more exacting than 0 Dased duty and had “ faction.” He s “if a man re Yond duty, be army.” pection of the carrier was Mmited due to the lat the crew goes off for the showers pressed with the t * The "WEATHERMAN - Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with --attered showers or thundershowers thru Friday; con- tinued warm and humid. Gentle to moderate variable winds, freshen- ing in show -s or thunderstorms. Florida: Mostly cloudy with scat- tered showers north and central and partly cloudy with widely scat- tered showers in extreme south portions thru Friday. Little change in temperature. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits: Northeasterly winds, light to moderate over south portion and moderate to fresh over north por- tion thru Friday. Mostly cloudy and scattered showers north, partly cloudy with widely scattered show- ers in south portion. East Gulf: Light to moderate northeasterly winds. Partly cloudy to cloudy weather and scattered showers. Western Caribbean: Gentle to moderate variable mostly easterly winds. Partly cloudy weather and widely scattered showers today thru Friday. Weather Summary for the Tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea Area and Eastern Gulf of Mexico: Pressure is “flat” over most of the area. A weak low pressure area has moved from the Southeast Ba- hamas to the East-Central Baha- mas today. It is attended by scat- tered shower activity. A wave of low pressure east of the Lesser An- tilles is being investigated by re- connaissance aircraft for possible existence of a tropical storm, Tides Naval Base TOMORROW HIGH Low 12:39 a.m. 8:46 am. 2:20 p.m. 6:35 p.m, 000 ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height o Bahia Honda (bridge) ———oh 10m 9.0 # No Name Key (east end) —+2h 20m Boca Chica Station— Tide high wate: (Sandy Pt.) —oh 40m Caldes Channel e (north end) -+2h 10m +14h (—)—Minus sign: Correction to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections & be added. REDS MAY GIVE MISSLES TAIPEH, Formosa (® — The Chung Hua Daily News, official | organ of the Nationalist Chinese government, said today Russia | might supply the Chinese Reds | with guided missiles in an attempt | to smash the U, N. forces in Korea. Comdr. Keighley. In the expansive ward room we admired a painting done by Dr. E. J. Brauer dental of- ficer of the Monterey, were awed by the size of the flight deck, the depth of the elevator pits which raise the plane from below and the mechanisms for catapulting the fliers off into the wild blue upward. There are no guns on the Monterey since she is a train ing rrier, not a combat ship at present. Her past war record is right up there on the flight deck though, | where VIP'S can see it. Her com bat score is painted in bright colors under an arch of gold and 12 battle stars from the Marianas ine Liberation. Painted insignia of the old Japanese ‘Rising Sun” show that the Monterey accounted for 121 enemy planes in the air. Sitting duck symbols show she got 336 enemy aircraft on the in action. Battle-scarred, she was re- commissioned September 1950 and is now in service of a post-war mission, the important training of qualifying Naval and Marine aviators. tory is lightened by an item treas- jured by the whole ship's personnel jIt's a silver hors d'oeuvres tray £ the shoot Duke's NAS West, is he Anew in Key through Okinawa and the Phillip. | ground. 21 enemy ships were sunk | The grimness of warfare his. | to the Monterey by| of the movies, Esther | scene followed as the two, both s in honor of her visit to | With tears in =, | the ship. She was wes: 7. hands warm mbraced ‘al bath. | , Stevenson, mapped aA . | plans to patch = the Southia Today’s Stock Market NEW YORK (P—A fairly steady price structure was maintained to- day in the stock market despite adverse dividend action taken by two leading corporations. Changes ranged from around a point lower to fractions higher with several areas of weakness. Nationai Disiillers, which has been under somewhat severe pres- sure in recent sessions, announced that the fourth quarter dividend would be 25 cents when declared in October as compared with 50 cents previously paid quarterly. High taxes and increased operat- ing costs were blamed for the re- duction. The stock almost imme- diately sold cff fractionally at a new low for the year. Packard Motor Car directors took no dividend action. The ad- verse effect of the steel strike was blamed. The company paid 15 cents in March of this year and | a total of 30 cents last year. The stock was heavily traded un- changed to an eighth lower, Railroads, which led the market higher on the last two days, de- clined today with a few plus signs helping to stem the fall. Steels most of the time traded | higher, while motors were largely unchanged, Aircrafts and radio-televisions, | favorites Wednesday, were some- what lower today. Non-Ferrous metals and some ‘oils, air lines and chemicals were higher, Lower stocks included Union Pa- cific, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, Sinclair Oil, Youngstown Sheet & | Tube, Air Reduction, General Electric, Philco and Douglas Air- craft. Higher were Chesapeake & Ohio, Eastern Air Lines, Kenneéott Cop- per, American Cyanamid, West- inghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel and Zenith Radio. The Curb Exchange today was mixed. Higher were Sterling Inc., | Canada Southern Oils, Ainsworth and MeWilliams Dredging. Lower were Pepperell, Singer and Cuban Atlantic Sugar, Corporate bonds were narrowly mixed. U. S. governments in the over. the counter market were steady. Political Notes | By The Associated Presss An i-climatic . of"-‘ol an- nouncement is expected possibly today to confirm what has been made obvious by the sweeping en- dorsement of Eisenhower, the Re- | publican National Committee and | tens of thousands of Americans: Nixon will remain the GOP vice | RETAIL LIQUOR (Continued From Page One) proponents of dog racing in the county. A concensus of opinion among the members seemed to indicate that dog racing would hurt busi- nes --d exert a bad moral in- fluence on local citizens. situation when he said, “I really don’t thin’: a dog track is going to help our business or that of any other merchant in Key West. The working man and the sailors in Key West are going to be cleaned. They might go out there jand bet more than they can af- ford and thy grocery man is go- ing to be left holding tke bag. I have figures from Miami that show that small, neighborhood business falls off from 50 to 75 per cent when the dog racing seaion is !1 progress. And I don’t think it will bring tourists to Key West. I’ve had a place near the beach for a long time a.d |Key West is the conservative — he wants to relax or gd fis: ing, Miami has enough dog and horse tracks. If they wanted that sort of action they would stay there.” State Represeitative Bernie C. Papy, who was scheduled to address the grou, at yester- day's meeting at the Elks Club Annex, was unable to be pres- ent because of a trip to Miami, According to word at the meet- ing, Papy is throwing his sp- port four square behind the op- position to the track. Earlier, the group had_ consid- ered assessing the individual member- of the association a fee to be used in combatting the track, but when the membership, almost to a man, came through with voluntary contributions this proved unnecessary, BOSTON BUTT FRESH CUT WESTERN presidential nominee. | Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Republican presidential candidate, and Sen. Richard Nixon, his run- ning mate, today marched side by | side back to the political wars af- ter a dramatically tearful reunion in Wheeling, W. Va., yesterday. | Democratic presidential candi- |date Gov. Adlai Stevenson, in Springfield, Ill. working on a new | campaign schedule, was silent on | political funds and on the GOP | “vindication” sessions, | But Eisenhower made {t clear in an address to shivering thou- | sands in Wheeling that his mind has been washed of doubts that | Nixon did wrong in accepting $18,000 in privately raised expense | | funds from wealthy Californians. | He said a total of 107 of the 138 GOP committee members — all | who could be reached — favored keeping young Nixon on the ticket. And the flood of telegrams that swamped national headquarters in | Washington after Nixon's radio- TV explanation of his fund dashed | whatever hopes Democrats may | have had that disclosure of the | donations might force him to quit. The wires almost unanimously fa- | vored his staying on, officials said Eisenhower said last night | “So far as I am concerned, he has not only vindicated himself but I feel that he has acted as a | man of courage and honor and, so far as I am concerned, stands | higher than ever before.” Indicating that the politically un- | precedented case was closed as far | as they are concerned, Eisenhower today took on a whistle stop sched- jule in West Virginia and Mary- | land, and Nixon flew west to Salt Lake City to resume his interrupt- | ed campaign tour of the Far | West. Nixon had flown about 1,700 miles from Missoula, Mont., yes terday at Eisenhower's bi confer at Wheeling. The general met the plane and a dramatic a Qui to Ohio and Io’ Robeats are (the spots tend lt. LB. CAN Spry3 DOG FOOD Ideal 2: 2 No. 303 Cans BEECH NUT John Gavilan summed up the | the sort cf tourist that comes to | Hughes Will Loan Millions | HOLLYWOOD ‘® —_ Howard Hughes says he has eight million dollars to loan RKO Pictures Corp. in which he sold his controlling in- terest. All the new corporation of- ficials must do is ask for it. MONROE GENERAL (Continued from Page One) Bank. Albury said that if the hos- pital gives its facilities and the time of its employees for blood donations, it should have control of the blood intake, and it should be known as a Monroe General hospital Blood Bank. The Ameri- can Red Cross has told Albury that it would not be able to coop- erate if the bank is limited to hos- |ris suggested that Allen and Al- | bury work out the problem and take whatever steps are neces- sary. This was approved. The fact that Conger Life In- surance has about $3500 in unpaid claims outstanding at the hospital was brought.. before Commission- ers attention. These date back to last year, Albury said. He has re- peatedly written the Miami com- pany but so far they have not paid these hospitalization claims owing to the Monroe General. Commssioners voted to inform the company and patients who have hospitalization with the com- pany that policies will not be hon- ored. Albury reported the state and county pension system for hospi- tal employees goes into effect on September 30. There is no plant life in the deep Pork Chops w 39e LARD S83 MP. Gerbanzos Coffee uw B3e Portions of the sea. of who will organize the Blood | | pital control. Commissioner Har- | FOOLHARDY MEN (Continued “rom Page One) Guard District headquarters to in- vestigate. It had been learned that ;the men made port in Maciel, | Cuba, some distance from Havana, | yesterday ~orning at 11 a. m. Failure of the men to make any | Peport of their arrival had resulted jin hours of needless concern and | considerable expense in sending {communications inquiring if they had been seen. | Since the duty of the Coast | Guard is to >romote safety at sea, ‘the authorities here would have | been remiss in their duties if they j had made no effort to trace the | trio. The government spends sev- {eral millions of dollars each .2ar | in providing aids to navigation and in assisting travelers on the water. ter. Lt. Pearson stressed the necessi- | ty for all voyagers, whatever the size of their boats, to make a re- port of their arrival in port in or- | der that unnecessary time and ex- | pense will not be consumed. SCHOOL LUNCH (Continued from Page One) | jin the amount this year,” said | O’Bryant. ‘What we receive is cer- | tainly a help in providing good hot | lunches for our children.” | Last year almost $5,000 in food | was received in Monroe County from the Federal government. The total amount of food purchased by the county for school lunches was $39,189 or 87.5 percent. Largest item in the food given to the county was $1125 worth of | orange juice concentrate. Shelled | pecans amounted to $563.25 and dried milk came to $537.60 for 1680 pounds. These are wholesale prices. Other large Federal contributions | were 1500 pounds of dried beans; VICTORY CASH MARKET 1028 Truman Ave We Deliver Pork Roast: 49c GA. A DRESSED and DRAWN LB. 27c¢ DOZ. 17¢ ARMOUR’S EVAPORATED <= @ ue Ib. 53c FRESH GROUND LEAN Hamburger GRADE A MEDIUM HEART'S DELIGHT CATSUP 2 ut: 33e wits Tomato SAUCE 3 «= 19¢ 3 Gle Tel. 1080 YERS 59c u 2le 2 ry a wat bh AB Thursday, September 25, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 7 READING TESTS (Continued From Page One) Public Instruction Horace O'Bry- ant said Group intelligence tests will 220 1800 pounds of dried prunes. The average number of meals served daily in these seven county pounds of fresh apples and lw Iso be given in the first grade, The school sys- S a psychologist who t t t of pupils’ learn- teachers in their O’Bryant | said. True plants must have light to schools amounted to 1157. | exist. ARCHER S$ Superette Market THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN! ‘IT’S NATURAL AT ARCHER'S SEVEN BIG REASONS Why You'll Always Get A Better Deal at ARCHER’S @ Variety @ Cleanliness and Friendliness @ Well Stocked Shelves @ Values @Economy Prices @ Courtesy @ Products Swift's Premium Tenderized Picnic HAMS =. 45c June Dairy Gr. A Medium EGGS = 55c Club Steaks » 85¢ LB. BEEF WILSON’S CERTIFIED Pure LARD « 23c LEAN FIRST CUT Pork Chops « 39¢ Eddy’s Liquid Starch Joan Of Are Kidney Beans 2cans 25c qt. 17¢ Church's Unsweetened Grape Coffee Ib. 85c | Juice qt. 32c RE a a Carnation Evaporated Hunt’s Tomate Milk can 14c | Sauce 2cans 15c Chef - Boy - Ardee New Improved Loe. Pkg. 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