The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 20, 1952, Page 1

» o* “Sitizens as” members. Key West, Florida, has the most .equable climate in the country, wilh an average range of only 14° Fahrenhei’ LT VOL, LXXIII. No. 350 Locomotive Explosion Kills Four LITTLETON, Colo.—Three trefinmen and a passenger were killed when this Denver and Rio Grande Western freight locoriotive exploded six miles south of Littleton, Sunday. The trainmen killed were Engineer R. R. Majloy, Fireman J. L. Taylor and Head Brakeman S. T. Messersaur, all of Denver. A Denver Railroad Club photographer,David K. Clint, was the fourth man fatally in- jured in the unexplained blast. Key West Music Lovers Che Tikesik deel i | 3 Associated Press Photo Community Concert Drive November 26th NATIONALLY FAMED * Judge Lopez Will Hear Suit ARTISTS TO PLAY HERE THIS SEASON * Key West music lovers will have a Chance to subseribe to the Com- munity . Con 1953 in the | annual drive | ed for one | week next Monday, it was an- nounced today, “The only live concerts avail- able in the Southernmest City, Community concerts have grown == of portant the appearance of nati ally. famous artists im the city has encouraged music in the schools, in private lessons and in appreciation at home. The local campaign for | bers will be launched Sunday night | at a kick-off dinner at-the Woman's } Club at 7 p. m., it was announced | by Mrs. Delio Cobo, campaign chairman today. : She pointed out that it ts the Support of music-minded citizens that has kept great music before the public of Key West. From the y.ungest piano student to the old- est music lover, Cammunity lover | Community Concerts have come | to be the musical climax of the | year in Key West. | The Community Concert plan was instituted at a time when great concerts wete given up as a hopeless cause, The reason was the system for selling tickets at | a box office. The public demand- | ed the most famous stars on the | concert stage or they failed to} show up at the box office. The fees of these. stars made necessary a | large auditiorium and a large po- | pulation to draw from. Only «in | major cities could such a situa- tion be met. Concerts for smaller | cities faced the future of never | having a live artist appear on their platforms. | Community Concerts solved | this problem. It conducts a one- week membership campaign dur- ing which music lovers may join for the benefit of all. This creates a closed association and | (Continued On Page Four) oe ae eal Help Wanted, Male New and Used Car Sales men, preferably men with ex perience in ig. Must be sober and reliable. Apply in person... NAVARRO, Inc. $01 DUVAL ST. i SE THE BANDWAGON yr Mitchell's Provest, | with the work and then City | continuing, ‘Against City Of Key West In Cireuit Court On November 3 City Attorney Will File Answer’'To Mrs., The case of the canbelled building permit of Mrs. »Mar- garita Mitchell comes to Circuit Court for a hearing November 3, City Attorney M. Ignatius ‘Les- ter said today, The City is filing its respon- sive pleading to Mrs. Mitchell's complaint this week. The hotel- motel owner has served all five Commissioners with her allega- tions that her permit to con- struct additions to her North Beach Inn was revoked illegally, causing her expense and incon- venience. She claims that Building In- Spector Ray Knopp issued the permit to her, she went ahead Commissioners cancelled the | permit, preventing her from | The case points up the diffi- culties of spot zoning, according to George Gomez, who lives next dgor.to Mrs, Mitchell's North Beach Inn and filed the original complaint with the city about her proposed additions. irs. Mitchell plans to build a w high right up toe my prop . shutting out my view among other things. Now she is zoned Business B. The court will have to decide if she ean build right against me. The building inspector interpreted the zoning that she could. Yet/ right next to her, I am zoned! Industrial A. I would not be! allowed to t ight up to her] property 1 at I am trying | io is to get Mrs. Mitchell to take a five foot set back just! like everybody else.” | Mrs. Mi i could not be! reached. She is In New York at; (Continued On Page Four) i Sa ROLLER SKATE NIGHTLY — 8- 10:30 Kid's Matinee. Sat. 2:30 - 4:30 TEL. 9116 j GET ON rm Boulevard Crash Three cars were involved in an} accident which happened Saturday at 8:40 p.m. 200 feet east of high- way No. 1 on Roosevelt bivd., when Marcus Hannah, negro la- borer, set off a chain of traffic) mishaps while driving at excessive! speed. The police report stated that} he sent his Buick Sédan racing along at 80 miles per hour previous to the accidents, then at 40 miles per hour, first sideswiped a car! driven by merchant mariner Frank Stevens of Vellejo, Calif., who was going east in the same direction. Hannah continued the dash for | another 300 feet, then hit number, three car head-on, doing $500 dam-| age to the 1950 Chevrolet driven by, Frank Moreno, taxi-driver, | This didn’t stop Hannah, who plunged on for another 100 feet where he lunged into an embank- ment. Witness to the mixup was Mrs. Ignatius Lester who was driv- ing her car near the scene. | No injuries were reported by po- lice officer Will Archer who in- vestigated, but Hannah was charg- ed with speeding, reckless driving, driving under the influence of in-| toxicating beverages, causing two} accidents, leaving the scene of two} accidents and driving with license | revoked. | Hannah's Buick sedan was dam aged to the extent of $400, left side demolished and doors and fenders | smashed. The California driver sus- | tained $25 damage to a fender. i A freak accident also happened | on Eaton and White streets when (Continued In Page Four) i | | ROLLFAST & ; COLUMBIA BIKES LAY YOURS AWAY NOW FOR XMAS STOWERS’ 533 Dovel KEY WEST, FL RIDA, MONDAY, OCTOPER 20, 1952 Annual March Of Dimes Fund Campaign Set County Chairman William R. Neblett Marshalls Forces For January Drive Having been recently appointed as the campaign manager for Mon- roe County’s forthcoming March of Dimes Campaign, W. R. (Bill) Neb- lett told the Citizen today that the first organizational steps had been completed, with various commit- tees formed, and material for the campaign ordered. “Monroe County really respond- ed nobly to the call last year”, said Neblett. “We stood in second place among Florida counties, on a per capita basis, being nosed. out for first place by Oskaloosa County. We also stood very high among the counties in the entire United States. It is our goal this year to be first in Florida, and to move up the lad- der on a national scale.” Succeeding Mayor C. B. Harvey as Chairman of the County Cam- paign Organjzation, Neblett at once called on Harvey and Jeff Knight, head of the local Infantile Paralysis Chapter, to serve on an advisory committee, together with Merville Rosam, so that the experi- ence of past years might be readi- ly available. In asking for volun- teers to serve as chairman of the various responsible committees, Neblett said that not a single per- son has refused to participate in this worthwhile cause, Committees appointed to date in- elude the following: Publicity and Duval Street Stand: Louis Carbonell Campaign Treasurer: Paul J.) Sher Speaker’s Committee: C. B. Har- vey Coin Boxes and Collections: Nor- ton 4arris Special Events, Parade and March of Dimes Queens: Mrs. Myrtland Cates Mother’s March: Mrs. Joe Lopez Schools: Jeff Knight Special Gifts: Mrs. Neil Saund- ers and Girl Scouts i Material Distribution: Tony Mar- tinez and Boy Scouts Card Parties: Mrs. Ann Cobo Government Employees: Cliff Raines A Fashion Shows: Mrs. Jeff Knight President’s Birthday Ball: Key West Jaycees Chairman, Colored Activities: Floyd Hannibal and Regular Fel- lows Club Marathon and Tavernier: To be announced. Quarterbacks To Meet Tonight After the thrilling game be- tween the Key West High School “Conchs” and the St. Mary’s “Corsal which the Conchs | won Friday night, every “Quar- terback Club” active and asso- | ciate member should be wanting to attend the dinner meeting at Hotel Le Concha Monday even- ing to hear Coach Ed Beckman’s analysis of the game. At this meeting Coach Davis will also give a report to club members of his scouting of Sea- crest last week, and what he thinks the “Conchs” are in for when they tackle Seacrest next Friday night. For reservations te Mondays dinner which starts at 7:30 p. m. call Keller Watson at 1988. We Are Now In Our New Location --- Stock Island City Fathers To Renew Plea For Sewer Aid Resolution Slated For Discussion At City Commission Meeting Tonight Agenda for the City Commission , Which meets tonight in the City Hall at 8 p.m. is topped by a reso- \lution asking for federal aid for municipal improvements approxi- mating one million in cost which have become necessary through the tremendoys increase in population. The resolution is to be forwarded to J. H. DuPuy, regional director of the’ Housing and Home Finance Agency, Office of Administration in Atlanta, Ga. City Manager Dave King who re- cently made a trip to Atlanta said, “I think we will get an okay, but! we probably won’t see any of the| money until the first of the year. Meantime, we are trying to carry on with for example, the sewerage Problem with local handling to the | best of our ability.” He pointed out that the Atlanta office has to go through Washington bureaus for final approval. The resolution “shows desire of the City Commission to make cer- Grand Jury Convenes Inves Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE: U.S.A. tigate Slaying Jets Collide In Mid-Air Associated Press Wirephoto WESTFIELD, Mass.—Pictured is flying debris when two F-86 Sabre jets collided while giving a demonstration of precision flying before 9,000 spectators on hand for the dedication of the 13l1st Fighter Squadron, Air National Guard, neW administra- tion building. Based at Westover Field, the planes were part of a foursome that had thrilled the throng. tain municipal improvements” and states “the same can be financed by placing of an excise tax on bills of utility customers.” Federal assistance premise is based on the fact that the influx of ‘population in the city is largely due to personnel connected with na- tional defense. The biggest problem is the re- vamping and extension of the sew- system. Other categories are a municipal incinerator to cost $185,- beach, — $125,000; audi- torium, $355,000; road street improvements, $100,000 and mini- mum dock renovations, $100,000. The survey brought to light that local taxation can not raise all the money needed because app: oxi- mately 50 per cent of the most va- luable property is owned by the Federal government and is not taxable. Over 50 per cent of the total assessed valuation is home- stead value and can’t be taxed either for municipal operation or debt service in new h The Commission also empha- sizes that tax millage now levied on real property is among the jhighest, and it is the opinion {that an increase on real prop- lerty taxes would be prohibitive. | Therefore, approximately one | million must be™ financed by levy excise tax on utility bills. Other important matters will be the approval of paying $1,- 319.76 to Charles Toppino and Sons for marl; $504 to the Miami }Fire Equipment Co., | $13,605.22 to B. J. Van Iner and iCo. of Miami for City of Key | West refunding bonds and $2,- 800.68 to a Jacksonville business (Continued On Page Four) for hose: | j MEY 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 Best Fishing In The World — Claimed For Isle Of Pines By Famous Sports Fishermen VIC BAROTHY OF WINDLEY CARIBBEAN CATCH By SUSAN MCAVOY It was with mixed feelings that I rode on the Greyhound bus to Vic Barothy's Fishing Lodge on Wind- ley Key last Saturday. Fishing lodges—I had never been in one. I pictufed a tumbled down shack, with fish scales on the Key West's Assets Of Two-Million Are Highest In History City Treasurer Says Each man, woman and child in nipping*me came in the short tance from the air conditioned to the community of sm: ¥ buildings which to my Total assets of the City as of Jan- prise was the fishing . Far from primitive — m: fishing lodge abode out be as ‘agantona a motel room with | West streets, sewers and landscap-- ing Roberts said. This amounts to Per capita cost of running the Government for each of Key West's | children is $33.42. Of this amount : ji | i at ft i f : i bit i i { iG ? 3 i i f E it it il | fr i a& i pil lis Fy 7 8 i ft i f | : i 2 & : bE l | | | : i i } is i i i F SON” NOW --STEVENSON FOR PRESIDENT VOTE ON NOVEMBER 4TH! The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key Wes: PRICE FIVE CENTS Today; Will | Of Frank Kee ———* Witnesses Are Subpoenaed For Secret Sessions The 18 man grand jury drawn from a hat this after- noon in the courthouse took up as its first case the al- that Kee had died of a knife wound inflicted by Perez. Lester has subpoenaed witnesses to appear today and tomorrow before the grand jury which meets in A venire’ of 75 citizens of Monroe county was chosen last Monday, re- turnable today at 3 p.m. for se lection on the jury, The 18 men will meet daily to consider first de- gree murder charges and other cases that have come up since the session last spring. Two Marathon homicides will be | among the cases for grand jury action. One is the death of Mrs. Catherine Johnson who died as a result of a gunshot wound “fired in self defense” by her husband Henry Johnson on July 4, accord- ing to last summer's : jury verdict. Another Marathon case Is problems it cares to investigate, Lester said. Key Westers Face Auto Penalties z i r vis a pet 28 iit! : i li Hl 3 fT i fs te : i bs