The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1952, Page 8

iT WAS A PHONW!) WE PUT LADDERS UP To THE Z-{ WINDOWS./——THEN WE STOLE THE GirRLS' LAUNDRY Bass AND HID THE STUFF IN THE WE PRETENDED WE 3s He WRRG S&RAGE ATTENDANTS) ACTED ANDO WED PUT THE cae Away POR THE NIGHT — THE DEAN BLAMES THEM FOR THE RAID! HE'S BLASTING THEM IN HIS OFFICE By Paul Robinson / REALLY.” THar's NTERESTING ! — Irs DADS Car ITS DISGRACEFUL? Men ¥ Your AGE, ACTING LIKE Boys.” YOu OUGHT TO Be ASHAMED OF By Jose Salinas and Rod Reed WE'RE CLEAR! JUMP OFF AND RUN FOR IT! I'VE GOT WORK TO DO! ORDINANCE NO. ts COMMISSION SERIES AN. ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 28.7 TO 28.20, INCLU- SIVE, OF CHAPTER 28 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1952, RELA- TING TO TAXICABS, BY DIS- TINGUISHING BETWEEN THE OPERATOR OF A TAXICAB AND THE DRIVER OF A TAXICAB; PROVIDING CERTAIN ADDI- TIONAL REGULATIONS CON- CERNING THE OPERATING AND DRIVING OF TAXICABS; LIMIT- ING THE NUMBER OF TAXI- CAB OPERATOR’S LICENSES IS- SUED TO WAR VETERANS AND FORMER MEMBERS OF THE MERCHANT MARINE; AND PRO- VIDING WHEN ORDINANCE GOES INTO EFFECT. Be it enacted by the City Com- mission of ‘The City of Key West, Florida: Section 1. That Sections 28.7 to 28.20, inclusive, of the Code of The City of Key West, Florida, 1952, bs hereby amended to read as fol- 8: Section 28.7 DEFINITIONS AND DISTINCTIONS. The following def-} initions shall govern in the con- struction of this article, and in all proceedings under this article, un- less a different meaning is appar- ent from the context: (a) “TAXICABS” A “taxicab” is hereby defined to be any motor- driven vehicle for the transporta- tion of passengers for hire and which is operated wholly or prin- cipally within the corporate limits of the city, except cars rented without driver and motor buses operated by the city or pursuant to |GENERALLY. All operators and franchise authorizing the operation thereof. (b) “LICENSE” OR “OPERAT- OR’S LICENSE” The words “‘li- cense” or “operator’s license”, as used in this article, shall mean the written authority granted by the City Commission of the city pur- suant to the provisions of this arti- cle to operate one or more taxi- cabs within the city. (c) “DRIVER’S PERMIT” The words “driver’s permit”, as used in this article, shall mean the written authority granted by the City Com- mission of the city pursuant to the provisions of this article to any person to drive a taxicab upon the public streets of the city. (4) OPERATORS AND DRIV- ERS DISTINGUISHED. “To oper- ate one or more taxicabs” shall mean to engage in the taxicab business with such taxicabs in the) city by causing taxicabs which are under one’s ownership or control to} be propelled, either by himself or) by someone under his direction or) supervision, for the purpose of car- rying passengers for hire. An “op-| erator” is a person who operates) one or more taxicabs. “‘To drive a) taxicab” shall mean to be physical- ly in control of a taxicab whether or not such taxicab be in motion, when such taxicab is being used for, or is available or ready to be used for the carrying of passengers for hire. A “driver” is one who drives a taxicab. The same person may or may not be both an oper- ator and a driver. Section 28.8 QUALIFICATIONS | taxicab drivers operating in the) acter, over the age of twerlty-one yea: nd must have placed in a convenient place in their taxicab an identification card duly numbered with their photograph, name and signature in the corner of such card. ditions shaft 2ubject the operators or taxicab drivers to the revoca- tion of their license or permit within the discretion of the City Commission. Section 28.13 REVOCATION. Any operator who drives a taxicab, or any taxicab driver holding a per- mit to drive a taxicab in the city, who is convicted of driving while under the influence of liquor or of reckless driving shall be subject to having his license revoked or sus- pended for not more than one year within the discretion of the City Commission; provided, however, that upon a second conviction for driving drunk, the license of any operator or the permit of any taxi- cab driver shall be revoked for a period of not less than two years or permanently within the discre- tion of the City Commission. Section 28.14 RULES AND REGULATIONS. The City Commis- sion shall have the right to pro- vide rules and regulations for the government of taxicab operators and drivers within the city, which rules and regulations shall be bind- ing upon all taxicab operators and drivers licensed to operate and drive taxicabs within the city. Section 28.15 FORM OF APPLI- CATION; FILLING OUT AND FILING; EXAMINATION OF AP- | PLICANTS. The City Commission shall have the authority to provide a form of application to be sub- mitted by any person desiring a license as an operator or a taxicab driver’s permit within the city. Such application must be filled out and submitted according to the rules and regulations prescribed by the City Commission, and the said City Commission shall have the au- thority to examine individually each and every applicant for a li- cense as an operator and a per- mit as a taxicab driver at a time to be decided upon by the said Commission. Section 28.16 OATH TO BE SIGNED BEFORE ISSUANCE. Be- fore an operator's license or taxi- cab driver's permit is issued to any applicant, such applicant must sign the following oath: Key West, Florida, —_—_, - I hereby agree to abide by all laws and rules relative to the operating or driving of a taxi and/or the use of a taxi occu- pational license in The City of Key West, Florida. I further agree that the use of occupa- tional license plate No. issued to car described on oc- cupational license and to taxi driver’s badge No. is sued in my name shall be con- fined to and prominently dis- played on the automobile and person for which same was is- sued and that any other use of said plate or badge shall be cause for immediate revoca- tion of same, Signature. Address. The failure to display such li- cense or badge may be cause for revocation of operator's license or driver's permit. not the intention of this provision to restrict such veterans and for- mer members of the Merchant Ma- rine from applying for one of the seventy-seven (77) licenses to oper- ate taxicabs which may be issued to any person qualified to operate a taxicab. Section 28.171 LIMITATION OF LICENSES TO EACH OPERATOR. The number of operator's licenses issued to one person, firm or ebm- Pany within the city shall not ex- ceed five (5). Section 28.18 TRANSFERABILE TY. No license or permit issued under provisions of this article shall be transferable in any man- ner whatsoever. Section 28.19 OPERATING WITHOUT LICENSE. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a taxicab or taxicabs within the city without first obtaining a li- cense so to do as heretofore pro- vided. Section 28.191 DRIVING WITH- OUT PERMIT. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a taxicab or taxicabs within the city without first obtaining a permit so to do as heretofore provided Section 28.20 FORFEITURE OF LICENSE FOR FAILURE TO CARRY ON BUSINESS. Any oper- ator or driver licensed under the provisions of this article who fails to carry on such operations for as much as ninety days during any six-month period hereafter shall forfeit his license as such operator, or permit as such driver, and the City Commission of the city shall thereupon declare such license @ permit forfeited. Section 2. This Ordinance shall ge into effect immediately upon its Passage and adoption and authenti- cation by the signature of the pre- siding officer and Clerk of the Com- mission, and publication thereof one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in The City of Key West, Florida. Read and passed on first reading at a regular meeting held Septem- ber 8, 1952. Read and passed on final reading at a regular meeting held Septem- ber 22, 1952. (s) C. B, HARVEY Mayor. Attest: VICTOR LOWE City Clerk. oct! ,1952 SCIENCE NEWS By FRANK CAREY AP Science Reporter WASHINGTON (® -- Doctors should be wary of appraising the powers of the wonder-drugs in the way grandma measured the suc- cess of onion poultices, a Wash- ington physician says. Declaring that medical practi- tioners are all too prone to credit a wonder-drug like penicillin with the cure when a patient treated with such a drug for a poorly de- Section 28.161 POSTING RATES. All rates applying to any taxicab city must be of good moral char-| shall be posted in such taxicab in| a conspicuous place so as to be plainly observable by each passen- ger thereof, and shall be so posted and in type sufficiently large so that the same may be read by pas- sengers while sitting in the seats provided for passengers. Section 28.9 RESIDENCE RE- QUIREMENTS. All operators and taxicab drivers must be bona fide} residents of the city for more than) ten years last past immediately prior to the filing of an application | for a taxicab operator's license or} ‘ov a taxicab driver's permit, to oper-/ By R - Gotto | ate or drive a taxicab in the city. ZIP, YUH \g@f AW, TH’ WAY SHO HAVE PLUGGED TWO GUYS ARE~ Section 28.10 INFORMATION TO |BE SHOWN IN APPLICATION. } Each applicant for an operator's li- cense or a taxicab driver's permit shall show by his written applica- tion duly signed and sworn to, that he is of good moral character, that he is competent and bas had suf-| ficient experience to operate and drive a taxicab in and about the city, and that he does not use in-| toxicating liquor excessively. The provisions of this section shall ap) ply to an operator insofar as he is) acting as a driver. | Section 2811 FINGERPRINTS TO BE SUBMITTED WITH AP- Section 28.17 LIMITATION AS TO NUMBER OF OPERATOR'S LICENSES ISSUED; EXCEP TIONS. The number of licenses is- sued for the operation of taxicabs within the city shall not exceed seventy-five; provided, however, that as licenses are revoked or cancelled, or expire as heretofore provided, the City Commission shall have and use its discretion as to whether or not licenses should be issued in lieu of those cancelled, revoked, or expired as heretofore provided; provided however, that two additional taxicab licenses may be issued to drivers and op erators who are required to main- tain their stands on Petronia Street, lying westwardly of Whitehead Street; provided further, that war veterans of the armed services of the United States of America who have an honorable discharge there- from are hereby exempted from the limitation on the number of li- PLICATION. All operators and! censes to be issued for the opera- taxicab drivers operating or 4riv-| tion of taxicabs provided for in this ing taxicabs in the city must, alon: with their application for an oper- | section and such veterans may ob- sin licenses under the provisions fined ailment—especially of the nose and throat—gets well, Dr. John A. Washington told the an- nual Scientific Assembly of the District of Columbia Medical Se- ciety late yesterday “Like grandmothers with onion poultices we credit our success to the medicine in use at the time the temperature drops.” The George Washington Univers- ity pediatrician said that while the antibiotic wonder-drugs are valu- able foes of certain specific infee- tions, there are others against which the drugs have no power at all—and that some of these ail- ments are subject to spontaneous recovery He made the remarks in caution- ing doctors against “unnecessary” use of the antibiotics lest they: (1) Needlessly expose a patient to the risk of some kind of a re- action from the drug; (2) subject a family to unnecessary expense for the drugs; (3) cause mothers to waken needlessly at all hours of the night to give the drug te a sick child; and (4) build up fears in @ child of a “needle-wielding doctor.” Criminals Stop Flow Of Oil Moscow #@ — A top Communist official in Soviet Arerbaijen hee reported the oil industry im hie area failed to meet its production my ‘mit, re ator’s license or driver's per of this section irrespective of the! dering the past eight month submit their fingerprints to be tak en by the police department of the number of licenses that may be is- sued hereunder: provided. further, | largely because criminal elements | infiltrated into the big Southern city, which fingerprists shall be thst those persons injured in line! pois oii fields placed on their identification card) of duty while in the service of the| 1, 5 report to and also placed on record by the) Merchant Marine, under Navy 9F) party Congress Azerbaijan Secretary chief of police of the city. The| army orders, are hereby exempted! yf) Pagirov said the criminal | City Clerk shall forward the appli-| from the limitation on namber of; clements had been cleaned out now | cant’s fingerprints to the Federal ticenses to be issued for the opera-| and the off fields would be able | Bureau of Investigation for mvest: | thon of taxicabs provided for in this) to catch wp time to meet the | gation |eection and euch persons may Ob) full year’s quote | Section 28.12 LICENSES AND tain licenses under the provisions| Be ena NE PERMITS TO BE GRANTED BY of this section irrespective of the) gy CITY COMMISSION; CONDI-| number of licenses that may be Fireworks Is TION OF ACCEPTANCE. All 4! icsued hereunder; provided furth- censes to operate taxicabs and per-|er, thot the provision of no rexirie-! 2 Vf ths Lat to drive taxicade within the uons to the sumber of taxicab) Jon sla € be granted by the Clty operator's licenses that may be ie TIMORE # RE wes ts ed by the! sued to such veterans of the armed’ Pctaage tees, te for paacro§ services or former members of th€' o04 besider, motorists don't eonal- | Merchant Marioe is muniified % ty go ground shooting Roman com permit the issuance of Bol MOTE die balls of fire into the night ale. thap twenty-five (25) tamieeb oper-| So police arrested Peter Mwor stor's licenses t spplicants fe] erynski and cheree’d Bim wh eae i wuem licenses who can qualify #8 driving without regutrstion. driv st such war veterans or former mem- ing under a revoked license, «ft these cos, bers af the Merchant Marine. # is) fictitious tage and reckless @riving. AND WITH THE REBELS TOP OF THE HINTH ow Ate a REBELS BUGS