The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 13, 1952, Page 1

es Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with ah average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key Wes: The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS Post Office | Chamber. Of Commerce Head Retires After 32 Years) Welcomes Navy Wiv VOL. LXXIII, No, 244 Key West “Ham” Radio Men Take Part In National Test Mayor, Red Cross * Disaster Com. Aid | “s i y West § In Amateur Radio| Emergency Test (Mayor C. B. Harvey and faul G. Albury, chairman of the Monroe County} American Red Cross disas-| ter committee of Key West took part in the simulated | emergency test staged by the Key West Amateur Ra- dio club on Saturday after- | oon. They sent messages via the net control station set up in the old Armory building on White and Sou- | ) thard streets. Congratulat- , Ory messages went to such scattered points as Atlanta,/ Ga., and Hartford, Conn.,| as part of the testing of | channels through this area. | Other messages were all in tthe | hands of amateurs in cities of des- tinaion by 6 p. m. These were pick- ed up locally about 3 toe 4 p. m. The entire apparatus was ready in less than an hour with no re- hearsal. By 2 p. m. on Saturday, the central net station, and the re- lay stations with two mobile units were in action. Equipment rounded up from various members of the local club. Of the 60 “hams” in the area 15 or 20 are active with trans- mittors and . receivers. in their homes. Two complete operating set ups were put on two separate fre- ‘quency bands. The net station call letters are W4110. One was strictly for mobile equipment and the other for state and regional contact. The mobile stations served as vourier duty. These portable sta- tions were operated in cars. W40PZ was operated by Joe Singleton and W4SWI by Bill Vette. Men on duty at the.net control station at 2 p.m. were Gletm Morris, Jr. who has the local, “ham” station W40VK and Bill. Harkness who operates local W: . When eeueettecs arrived at the Armory ‘I after 2 p. m., some of the*crew *weresputting antennae with crystal. insullators. Within five minutes, Bill Harkness was in contact with Singleton in his tar operating a portable unit. ‘ After a preliminary signal; Hark- } ness Said “Joe, Pll give you a count und you can cue ne out. One, two, three, four. . .” Following Single- | ton’s reply, he spoke into the small ind microphone: ‘‘Hello. Return- ig. Okay Joe. I’ve got you now. How about giving a report on this vignal. Bill Vette explained that “hams” ase call letters and first names in transmission, “The Key West local tadius is from 15 to 25 niles, Then | there is a skip range between 25 | miles to 600 miles. From there on | out, we talk to the world. Some- times the world talks back!” Vette said that the other local amateur relay stations were opera- | ted by Charles Meyers at 2011 Sta- | ples ave., with the call letters W4 ’ NQW and by Milton J. Schnebelen | at 1328 Grinnell through W ZERO | LRO, Meyers who has a 300 watt | station, was relayed messages fro | the central monitor station at the | Armory, then made contact with stations on the mainland. He re- | layed the message from the club's | president to Jacksonville, division headquarters for American Radio Relay Legue and Albury's message | to Red Cross headquarters in Ate + lanta, Ga. 1 Schnebelen relayed the meessage from Mayor Harvey to tthe national | headquarters ARRL in West Hart- ford, Conn, His Key West station is high powered and he can contact Nations up the Jine to relay any | {Continued On Page Three) ATTENTION —— KEEP OUR CITY | CLEAN | | By Calling | | Mr, FEINSTEIN, Phone 378 PHONE 907-8 | We BUY all kinds of JUNK | LOCATED aT SIMONTON AND DEY STS. Be Democ This Modern Age! ae Citizen Staff Photo BETTY ANN SMOLIN was born six weeks ago at tHe Navy Hospital but has spent the intervening period in an incubator since she arrived in the world somewhat prematurely. Her mother held her for the first time Saturday. Early Sunday morning, the little baby was discharged from the hospital and the Smolin family immediately boarded a National Air Lines plane jenroute to Washington, D. C. Betty Ann didn’t appear to be the least bit perturbed about her first flight in an air- plane, She slept right through the entire boarding procedure, Betty Ann Smolin, Incubator Baby Is Flown To Washington With Family To Join Her Dad =——+——* pity Faces Loss — Of Humane Society A board meeting of the Humane Society last week brought out the disturbing news that unless members back the organization more thoroughly and more mem- bers are recruited that the Humane Society may have to disband. Mrs. Burt Garnett, a mem- ber of the board brought in a copy of the National Hu- mai Review, published in the interest of the humane cause in which an article from the Baltimore New Post is condensed. One paragraph is strikingly apropos of the difficult situation in the Key West area. “The SPCA has done splen- didly ‘but it is handicapped by inadequate funds. It needs the support of animal-lovers who lavish affection upon their own pets which may some day find in the SPCA @ friend in need. It should have the support of all who would be ‘actively kind.’ Join up in this good work.” The phrase “actively kind” stems from a quotation by John Ruskin who said, quote: “He who is not actively kind is cruel.” Mrs. George Mills White, president of the Humane Society here. said that the goal for members and funds wes set last June with the idea in mind of setting up more adequate quarters for the Seciety on Stock Island under the supervision of Ed- ywerd Quinby. “However, un- less we get cooperation from the entire community for the project which is for the Continued On Page Three) Six Week Old Child Is Handled By Mother For First Time By BILL GiBB Little Betty Ann Smofin will al- ways be able to brag that she is a “Conch.” However, upon her re- lease from the hospital yesterday morning, she didn’t get much of a chance to see the town of her birth, Betty Ann is six weeks old. Daughter of Comdr. and Mrs. How- ard Smolin, she was born prema- turely at the Navy Hospital and for| several weeks was kept in an in- cubator. She weighed three pounds, eight ounces at birth and when she had reached five pounds, doctors decided that it was safe for her to be discharged. In the meantime, Mrs. Smolin was temporarily a widow by Navy transfer — (Comdr. Smolin had been ordered to a new post in Washington; D. C.) With her new! } baby in an incubator and ‘her hus-| | band in Washington, Mrs, Smolin| probably felt that the weight of the| world was upon her shoulders. Her mother, Mrs. H. Taubman, came | down from Baltimore to lend moral/ support and help her daughter. Last Saturday Mrs. Smolin was} | allowed to handle young Betty Ann/ |for the first time. Although she} | has another young child — a boy| named Mark — the fragility of a! | five-pound premature baby made her rather ner nervous. Doctors as- sured her, however, that it was safe to take the baby from the/ hospital and make the trip to Wash- lington to join her husband. | Yesterday morning, Sunday, at approximately 7:45, the Navy Hos- pital discharged Betty Ann. It was (Continued On Page Three) ERA ROME ROLLER SKATE Por Your Health | NIGHTLY — @-10:90 | Kid's Matinee, Sat, 2:20 - 4:20 | | TEL. sits | “|the spanking new wardrobe suit- W. W. Watkins Looks Forward To Leisure, Gets Banquet And Gifts From Co-Workers (Picture. On Page Three) W. W. Watkins, superintendent of mails at the U. S. Post Office, worked his last day Saturday after 31 years and eight months in the service. “I've been looking forward to} this day for thirty years,” he told The Citizen. “First thing I’m go- ing to do, my wife and I are going to New York City to visit my sis- ter there for a while. After that I don’t know.” The 60 year old employee showed case that the post-office clerks had presented him as a retirement gift. The blue and white luggage seemed to await his post-retire- ment journeys. “It holds more clothes than I} have,” the retiring superintendent said dryly. “But it will go with me to New York Tuesday when my wife and I take off on our journey.”” Unsentimental in the extreme about his retirement, Watkins said: “I've been working ever since I was 14 years old. I’m looking for-| 8TY ward to retirement, I’m tired of working.” While the interview went on fel- low employees of Watkins’ walked in and out of the office smiling at their soon to leave superintendent. “We're sorry to lose him,” Hol- lon R. Bervaldi, postmaster, told The Citizen, a Watkins has been superintendent of mails since 1944, He worked his way up through every job in the business of getting the mail out. Douglas V. McCarthy succeeds Watkins in the superintendent’s job. A farewell banquet was given Watkins by the letter carriers of the postal system on. Saturday night, Robert R. Roberts, carrier, made the arrangements for the dinner. Charles Mendoza served as master of ceremonies, Hodges In dap a ened tes rived in Tokyo today on an inspec- tion tour. —E——E———S Telephone Worker Breaks His Back Falling Off Pole J. R. Bell, telephone installer- repair man is in serious condi- tion with a broken back fol- lowing a fall from a telephone in Poinciana Saturday elot Lester, Jr., ian said it is a He put him in a special frame at Monroe Gen- eral hospital. Bell, who has worked in Key West with Southern Bell for a | year, was performing his work when the accident occurred, } said Chet Cold, local manager of the company. He was rush- ed to the hospital! following the accident at 8:35 Saturday morning. County Voters Will Go To Polls Tomorrow Democratic Nominee To Succeed Supreme Court Judge Chapman To Be Chosen Tues. Monroe county voters will go to the polls tomorrow to nominate a Democratic candidate for the Flor- ida Supreme Court, a post vacated by the death of Justice Roy Chap- |} man, Although 12,162 persons are qualified to vote in this primary, a light vote is predicted for tomor- row by Supervisor of Registration Sam Pinder. “J hope there’ll be a big turn out,” Pinder said. “But I don't think as many people as should will 2@me to the polls.” Running in the Democratic prim- foxsthe important judicial post are Ey agris Drew and Vincent C. Giblin. Drew was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Chapman by Governor Myller Warren. Giblin is a Circuit Court Judge in Miami. Bars and package stores will be closed from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m., the hours when the 14 precinct polling places in Key West and three on the Keys are open. Voting machines were taken up the Keys Saturday’, and today were placed in the precincts in Key West by Custodian of machines Alfred Jones. Ballot boxes will be deliver- ed to the precincts at 5 a. m. to- morrow. The Supervisor and his deputy Mrs. Edna Mae Bullman will be on duty till the vote is counted to- morrow night after the polls close. Since there are no absentee bal- lots; in this election, the results are expected to be known by 7:30 at the latest. The three precincts in Marathon, Islamoreda and Tav- ernier_ will as usual call jn their votes. Ti Paani of Canvarsecsnse sal ¢ LATE SON'S TAG of State immediately afterwards and the returns sent to Tallahassee. Three weeks from tomorrow the big November 4 election will take place. That will probably be an all night¢job for the office of the Supervisor of Registration. The long ballot has some 40 candidates on it. Although the majority of these were virtually elected in the | May Democratic primary, the form of canvassing the ballot must still go on, Only those who are registered Democrats can vote in tomorrow's Democratic primary, Pinder stress- ed. This excludes Republicans, In- dependents and Non-Partisans. Vot- ers of all categories can go to the polls, however, on November 4 which is a general election. BULLETIN PAPY OFF TO WASHINGTON State Representative Bernie C. Papy left by plane today for | Washington D. C. where he will | confer with high officials on the | acute water shortage condition in Key West. The water situation for this win- | Ernest Roberts told me the strange ter will be more serious then last and quick action is mandatory. We Are Now In Our New Location --- Stock Island KEY WEST SALVAGE CO. | } CORNER 2ND AVE. AND FIRST ST. HIGHEST PRICES FOR JUNK BATTERIES, SCRAP METAL, RAGS AND IRON OLD CARS AND TRUCKS CALL 136 For Prompt Service ratic...V Father Of Drowned Man Shows Relic ERNEST ROBERTS shows the son, Albert Roberts, who drowned = National Club Opens Conclave In Island City This Morning By MARGARET FORESMAN Delegates to the National Navy Wives’ Club Conven- tion were welcomed to Key | West this morning by Har- || old R. Laubscher, Chamber ‘ | of Commerce manager. Oc- - Citizen Staff Photo identification tag of his late in a fishing tragedy in April 195%. The tag showed up ‘in half of a concrete block. One In A Million Chance Leads To Discovery Of Drowned Man’s Identification Tag In Concrete A, G. ROBERTS’ FAT By SUSAN McAVOY More than one million concrete blocks are made by Charles Top- pino and sons each year. About 10,000 a day is the capacity. It was one chance in a million that a Toppino workman would cut | a particular concrete block in half. | It was an even greater coinicidence that in that block he found an} identification tag of Albert G. Rob- erts, 38; Key Wester who mot a tragic death at sea off Boca Chica beach on April 8, 1951, Thursday tke late man’s father story at his home at 532 Grinnell reet. The lean, white haired, carpen- ter who works at the Navy Yard handed me the little silver tag. “T've seen that on Albert's neck many times. I don’t know how it , | got off him.” ; The tag reads: United States | Maritime Service, A. G. Roberts, | 1229 Whitehead street, Key West. | “Earlier this year a workman | erts said: “He handed this tag to came to see my brother Johnay | Roberts at the fire station,” Rob-' him and tld him he found it when| he was cutting a concrete block in called the incidents of Roberts’ | death, which I covered that day im | April 1951. Local Adlai Group Plans Huge Rally Local Boosters For Presidential Candidate Shift Into High Gear Leaders of the Stevenson-for- President commitice are shift- ing inte high gear todey as # re- , casion of the welcome was _an Island Breakfast at East Martello Towers. Mr. Laubscher made a slight apology for the rainy weather which greeted the visitors, but he said that at least down here we, call it rain and not heavy dew. The ladies were promised that the Chamber of Commerce and the weatherman would try to cooperate in giving them samples of the usual sunny weather and blue skies of Key’ West, The Tsland Breakfast, which was given for the convention guests by the American Legion, Arthur Saw- yer Post No, 28. Vance Stirrup, post commander, was an honored guest at the breakfast and in behalf of the Legion he welcomed the Con- vention to the city. Mr. Stirrup said that he had learned with amazement of the ex- tensive accomplishments of the Is- land City Navy Wives Club No. 88 since their organization only five years ago, adding that many of these achievements had been made under the direction of the national organization, County Commissioner Joe Alien was also oom ef honor at the use of the gal- affair wes, . tthe Mrs. Waneta Gizara, Long Beach, California, and the National Trea- surer Mrs. Helen Friend of North Augusta, South Carolina. Additional honor guests qwere Miss Grace Crosby, state BPW See- Fe “We don't know how the tag got | sult of the enthusiastic raliy for} off of Albert,” Roberts said. “That (Continued On Po ge Three) te Democratic | Adiai in Miami Saturday Chairman Gerald Saunders an | nounced that the Monroe county (Continued On Page Three} (Pad Pol. Ady. Monroe Co. Democrat Executive Commities)