The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 2, 1952, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIII. No. 235 The Key West Citise THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER $100,000 Drive-In Theater To Be Opened On Stock Island January Sirugo Starts * Construction Next Week The $100,000 theater on Stock will be ready for opening | on January 1 if present! construction plans are car- ried out. Joe Sirugo said | today. The area near the Naval hospital where the — will be located is. now filled. | Actual building will start | next week as soon as lana and equipment are shipped} to the Sunshine Construc-' tion Company from the! Southeastern Equipment! company in Jacksonville. | One of the largest theater companies will operate the! , drive-in which is 100 per-| cent locally owned. | ‘The drive-in theater will have a! eapacity for 500 cars, Children will be admitted free in a car. The theater area is 700 by 500 feet and will be only 1500 feet from the Stock Island dog track. Land- scaping will make the theater area a place of beauty, according to} Sirugo. “It will fill a great entertainment need,” said the builder, ‘‘and what’s more it has the support of | religious and civic leaders in the “community.” During the afternoon when the green is idle at the theater, the eater grounds can be used by civie clubs for non-profit activities When the construction begins. on (Continued O On mn Page Four) KW Hams To Name’ 1955 Officers New officers will be elected by the Key West Amateur Radio club | tomorrow night at the National | Guard Armory at 7:30 p. m. All members are urged to be present for the election which is | scheduled according to the Club's by-laws for the first meeting in October. | Officers to be elected include president, vice-president, secretary treasurer and an activities mana- | ger. | | drive-in! Island te ——— ee ISLAND CITY LUNCHEONETTE 222 Duval Street | zen office, he I | Lone Star Sea Ranger KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1952 Redes Sentenced To NinedMon County Jail On Lesser Charges Today Lone Mariner Sets Record __|In Tiny Craft By DOROTHY RAYMER Men go down to the sea in ships, as the poem goes, but few of them try it alone in an 18 foot outboard motor boat. Newsman and writer Rube Allyn, outdoor editor of the St. Petersburg Times did. He made the 96 mile run from Havana to Key West all by his lonesome. “The other guys who went over to Cuba with me decided against the return trip. They flew back, so I was pilot, engineer, navigator and crew by myself,” Allyn said this morning. “I wanted to set a rec- ord.” He “sho” did! The return cruise took five hours and 45 minutes. He cleared Morro Castle in the Ha- vana harbor at 3:45 a.m. and at 9:15 today, was at the entrance to Key West’s harbor. In another 15 minutes the “Deep Six,” a trim little kicker drew up along side the dock in back of Bill Kroll’s Aqua- rium, Allyn, a rugged man who was a submarine chief during World War II, said he hadn’t had a chance to sit down during the hours coming back. “But surprisingly I don’t even have a backache. I was too busy to get tired running back and forth from the motors to the helm. The only effect I feel is being hun- gry. I didn’t have breakfast be- cause there wasn’t time to eat. Once a swell nearly knocked me out of the boat and I managed to hang on. You can see I had to tie ;| down those 25 horsepower motors _ | (Evinrude). It was kind of rough going and sometimes she bucked but I proved what we set out to .; Prove, and that’s whether or not a Citizen Staff Photo .» RUBE ALLYN, SEA-GOING NEWSPAPERMAN, and adven- turer, made the return trip from Havana, Cuba, all alone in an 18 foot kicker boat in 5 hours and 45 minutes, using two 25 HP outboard motors. He arri morning. His two companions to Cuba, flew back! He’s outd ed $ | Giblin Pay, s | Courtesy Call Judge Vincent C. Giblin, candi- | date for election as Supreme Court | Justice, paid a courtesy call today to the office of the Key West Citi- | zen. Judge Giblin is attempting to reach all of Florida’s sixty- seven counties before the election Octo- ber 14. When he called at the Citi- satd, “The limita- | tions of time preclude my seeing ved in Key West at 9:15 this on the voyage from Key West loor editor of the St, Petersburg Next Election Is For Supreme ‘Court Justice | Less than two weeks from today | Monroe county voters will march to the polls once more for the spe- | cial nomination of a State Supreme court justice, Supervisor of Regis- | tration Sam Pinder said today. dog track election, came in to The The Registration official far from “| resting after yesterday's special | small boat of special is safe for ocean going.” Allyn set out from Key West Wednesday, September 24 at 3:25 a.m. The trip over to Mariel, 21 miles south of Havana, took seven hours, The two other men at the start of the adventure were Cal Thomas and Ben Feder also on the St. Pete Times staff. a sure got a reception in Haya stat» We were going to come right back but they wouldn’t let us go. When we put into Mariel first at about 41 a.m. on the morning we left here they stopped us at customs until 1:30 in the afternoon, They just couldn’t believe that we had made the trip in our little boat. They kept watching to see if a bigger ship was in sight. Thought we must be the tender from a large vessel, (Continued On Page Four) design EEE Mrs. Nelbeth Reese Injured In Car Crash Mrs. Nelbeth Reese of 1118 Olivia street was taken to the Galey Memorial Hospital suffer- ing from a fractured left arm early this morning, as the after- math of a don collision on Roosevelt Boulevard. Russell R. Cook of the USS Barb was arrested by Patrolman Robert Garrison on charges of driving while intoxicated, caus- ing an accident and reckless driv- ing as a result of the crash. According to the police report, Cook was driving east on Roose- velt Boulevard when he fell sleep at the wheel of his car and it ran headon into Mrs. Reese’ vehicle. Cook was not injured. The Navy man was released on bond and will appear in City Court today. | JayCees Launch Vote Campaign A get-out-the-vote campaign was mapped by JayCees for the gener- al election November 4, at their weekly meeting at the clubhouse last night, Paul Esquinaldo, presi- dent said. The public affairs committee, headed by Ray Green will get the campaign underway with a con- test among teen agers to pass out “I Have Voted—Have You?” tags on Election day. The youngster able to pass out) ¢ laggest number of these..tage.! a prize, Esquinaldo said. A membership campaign was also launched by the Jaycees last | night. Two new members Cecil | Mardis and Max Darnell were | voted in. Eight applicants were | brought before the meeting. | The clubhouse was crowded with a large turn out of members who | came for steak dinner which was served before the business meet- ing. IN THE U.S.A. Gets Nine Month Jail Term WILLIAM R. REDUS, 18-year old sailor accused of attempted rape stemming from his strange, nccturnal adventure early this month when he was found “au naturel” in the bedroom of a young Caroline street couple, confers with his attorney, William V. Albury in County Court this morning. Redus was later allow- ed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and was sentenced to nine months in the County Jail. z= | 21 Of 46 Absent Votes For Track | sete 4% absentee san- vas Vesna or posed to the dog tra: ond 3 for it, Supervisor of Registra- tion Sam Pinder announced to- day. The official vote results were thus 2535 for the track and 1930 opposed, Pinder said. The total vote was canvassed by the Board | of Canvassers yesterday. County Judge Raymond R. Lord, County Commission Chairman Ge Saunders and that board. The election will be forwarded to the State SOMETHING NEW AT AL LOGUN’S BEAUTIFUL OCEAN PATIO Racing Commission and the Sec- retary of State. Two days after the election all is quiet on the dog track front. What was the liveliest topic of conversation in the past month The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West yb Woman Asks Dope Investigation In Key West Today In County Court By JIM COBB In a surprise move by ‘the state, 18-year old Wil- liam R. Redus, was sen- >| tenced to nine months in the Monroe County Jail after he was allowed to plead guilty to reduced . charges of assault and bat- \ tery and trespassing shortly before he was to have been brought to trial on an at tempted rape charge this morning in Criminal Court. Redus was accused of having entered the bedroom of a young Caroline Street couple after hay- ing disrobed and left his clothing in a neat pile on the porch and at- tempting to criminally attack the woman as her husband stept pe- ee side her. Citizen Staff Photo] However, a startling new angle was introduced into the case when ir old matron asked for a scale investigation of dope peddling in Key West after she had stated in court, “I don’t think the sailor was drunk, I believe he was doped. I think Key West should be investigated The husband of the attack victim backed up her statement saying, “They say this fellow had $48 when he left the Naval Station and when he was arrested, he had but $12. I don’t think he could drink that much.” (A high ranking law enforcement official said this morning that the dope problem im this city has been *Lundder investigation fdr some time, Davidson Gets euttor. AN? fact 3 Years For Keys Lareeny Fis ee te Porter Davidson, 28, Miami was | lets ashore from the Navy Yard. found guilty by a Criminal Court | “Goof-balls”. and “Bennies”, as Jury and sentenced by Judge! they are khown in the underworld Thomas Caro to three years in the | are finding a ready market in the State Penitentiary yesterday after- | city’’.) noon. The motion for the reduction in Davidson was convicted of steal- (Continued Oo Page Four) ing $2855 in steel equipment and materials from the Keystone Att | 2... Company's quarry en Wingy. Is HOUSE PAINTING land. 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