The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 25, 1952, Page 8

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN DOCTOR LESTER CONSOLIDATES HOLDINGS IN CORPORATION xs : Saturday, October 25, 1952 Home Owners Busy With Renovations Preparing For Season Motels, Hotels And Houses Get Ready To Entertain Full Quotas Thbugh the storm warning last eek sent some homeowners to carding up for a possible hurri- ‘ane, householders of Key West re not interrupting their repairs nd renovations of their homes Yor he coming season, Whether the owner has a $500, 00 motel or a $5,000 house, fall ‘rings with it thoughts of cleaning \p and refurnishing for the ‘winter season. For motels and hotels, restau- ants and stores, it is just plain tood business to fancy up fronts ind interiors now. For home owners, autumn is the 219 Elizabeth St. INDUSTRIES, INC. SERVING MIAMI SINCE 1930 AT KEY WEST time when houses must be made ready to receive winter visitors from the North, relatives and friends. Many householders will be showing off their new ‘houses for the first time to the folks up North. Still others are renovating and redecorating merely because they plan a heavy season gi entertain- ing. And others tired of the same old color of exterior or interior of the house, have started the paint up job now. Help is plentiful in the construction and painting trade, It will not be later when the influx of winter visitors comes in to take residence as of January or February. Dual living, that is a house in Key West, and one in New Eng- land, though it doubles the task of householders, allows them to express their dual tastes. For example, if a wife insists on chintzy flowery patterns in her living room, she can indulge her- self to her heart’s content in her Key West house. If on the other hand, the husband, likes severe modern in bold, solid colors, he can indulge that taste in the nor- thern abode. Se Sa oe Phone 588 For All That's Best In EVERY KIND OF ROOFING ALL TYPES OF SHEET METAL WORK AIR CONDITIONING, VENTILATION SOLAR WATER HEATERS, BOOSTERS POURED-IN-PLACE GYPSUM ROOF DECKS _ Key West Floor Covering Co, ANNOUNCES A Complete Stock of “rmstrong Vinofloor Linoleum Also Kentile and Armstrong Asphalt, Rubber and Cork Tile Formica and Plastic Wall Tile INSTALL IT YOURSELF or Expert Guaranteed Installation Call 1454 — For Free Estimate Key West Floor Covering Co. 132 DUVAL STREET * First Federal Savings Assn. Assets Soar Assets of the First Federal Savirgs and Loen Association of| Key West have soared from $100,- 000 last May 6 when it opened for business to $290,000 on Oc- tober 6, it was announced today by Robert H. Garrison, Executive Vice President and Secretary. More than 95 percent of this growth in savings accounts has been placed by Key West mem- bers who are savers. Each day many new accounts are opening, Garrison says. Cur- rent dividend rate is three per- cent. Interest starts on accounts the first of each month, if money is placed in the association by the tenth of a month. Accounts do not wait, Garrison said to start drawing interest for members. Each account is insur- ed and guaranteed by the Fed eral Government’s Savings and Loan Insurance corporation. Savings placed with the asso- ciation will be loaned on im- proved real estate only, secured by a first mortgage. These first loans have been limited to helping purchase homes already constructed, ne- pairs and remodeling and to re- finance short term loans. Some of the members, Garri- son said, who have placed sav- ings with the association have had to withdraw their savings for emergency reasons. No notice is required on such occasions, Garrison said. The members re- ceived their savings merely upon coming into the office on South- ard street and asking for it. The excutive vice president stressed that joint savings ac- counts can be opened for husband and wife. If either does the ac- count is not tied up in an estate, but is available when the surviv- ing spouse needs it. Officers of the First Federal Savings and Loan association are elected. They are as follows: Fred J. Dion, president; Garrison, executive VP; Eugene Anheir, vice president and treasurer; J. ¥. Porter, attorney and direc- tor; Arthur N: Hughes, director, Armando Cobo, director and Dave King, director, TAJ MAHAL IS BEING. REPAIRED AGRAR, India. —(P).— They're repairing the Taj Mahal, India's 320-year old architectural gem. Officials announced that. the government has already spent $712,470 to repair pillars and walls spoiled by rainwater. Plan- ‘ned repair work won't end until 1954. The Emperor Shah Jehan built the Taj in gleaming marble as a monument of his love for Mumtaz Mahal. Roof leaks were first dis- covered in the Taj in 1936. TV TASTES DIFFER NEW YORK # — Television program polls, as a rule, indicate a wide range of local preference on a city-to-city basis. A checkup of six cities, Boston, Detroit, Phil- adelphia, New York, Chicago and Les Angeles showed that not one of them agreed week after week on top favorite program. NOTICE! HOME OWNERS The C.B.S, Jalousie Co. wishes to announce their ap- pointment in Monroe County as Factory Represtative for Weathermaster Jalousies & Window Co., Inc., mak- er of a complete line of fine metal & glass Jalosies. 4; As our introductory offer we are making available an extruded glass jalousie door with removable screen for the amazingly low price grees Retsel Realty Incorporates Pvt. Property Of Physician Largest real estate transfe the weck was made by Dr Lancelot Lester, Jr. and his Isabel to the Retsel Realty a Key West corporation he |by the doctor and his brothe: Ignatius Lester. Retsel is Lez spelled backwards, Though the value of the prope. jty is not disclosed on the inde ture filed October 15 at the cow |house, the location and: numbers of lots being transferred by the Lesters to the new corporation -in- dicate a figure of more than $20,000 at the very least. All the-land is in Key West pro- per, which means with present | goodly figure. Six of the lots are |in the Key West Foundation Com- {pany plat No. 1. One of the lots lis at the corner of Fleming and | Margaret streets. Another six lots |includes buildings and fixtures | subject to mortgages of $7 300 and | $1,700 in mortgages. Still another parcel owned by the new corporation consists of four } lots in Square 27 and four lots in Square 22 of the Monroe Invest- ment company’s diagram of Tract |20 in plat Book No. 1. Another parcel transferred by |the Lesters, husband and wife to | the new corporation consists of 14 lots in Tract 20, Square 16 and Square 21 of the Monroe Invest- ment Company’s diagram. These latter two parcels are sub- ject to unpaid balances on mort- gagés. The first eight lots are mort- gaged to Clém C. Price, given to } secure payments of three promis- | sory notes in the original aggre- | gate principal sum of $4,000, The 14 lots are subject to an un- paid balance on a mortgage held by Alex Debrocq given to secure | payment of eight promissory notes in the original aggregate sum of $8,000, Finally the transfer includes five lots at Second street and Pat- terson avenue. This parcel is sub- ject to an unpaid balance on mort- gage given to Lon Worth Crow company to secure payment of promissory notes in the original principal sum of $6,500. Other transactions of interest | last week were; The purchase by Harry T. Russell of Greene Street of pro- perty for $16,500 of property at the corner of Southard and Margaret Streets. Seller was La Dorna Louise Saunders. Daniels of Boulder | county, Colo. | Mr, and Mrs. John DeWeese have sold their house at Seminary and Whit¢ Streets for $8,000 to Mr. and Mrs. David McDaniels of 1214 Seminary Street, T. Jenkins Curry has sold for | $2,500 lots to th Florida Keys j Aqueduct Cc ission “Lot 2, {Block 1, of the Sea Crest subi on. |. F. P, Sadowski and his part |ners have sold for $1,000 to Mr. and Mrs, Julius W. Bronstein and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Seigel, lot 57 of Little Venice subdivision, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Sut- | cliffe have sold to their son and his wife, for $1,000, 200 feet of | Tract 11 of Sutcliffe Estates. } F. P. Sadowski and partners have sold to Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Dubbin for $. Lots 108 and 109 of Little Venice subdivision R. D. Zetterower and hig wife have sold to Mr. and Mrs. R. E. King, Lot 3, Block one, First Addi- tion to Sea Crest, South Pacific corporation of Dade county has sold to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Rice for $1,100 Lot 42 of Block 8 in Key Largo Park Mr. and Mrs, W y have j sold for $1,700 a | the county | Filer, Sparkman Will (Carry His Fight 'To California | WASHINGTON | Sparkman, th | presidential c | morrow for ¢ | his campaig * — Sen. Naval Hospital thad been = reces \soaring prices of real estate, a| rst. addition to | Over Two Billion Dollars In- ‘Highway Repairs Are Planned GAINESVILLE (® — Improve- ments of the Florida state main- ained road system to adequate tandards over the next 20 years will cost over two billion dollars, South-eastern highway and survey- ing engineers were told today. Costs of maintenance, adminis- tration, and miscellaneous items for the ‘road system were esti- | mated at $2,313,000,000 by Lawr- ence S. Waterbury of a New York | engineering firm. Waterbury was the first speaker at a highway and surveying con- ference given by the University of Florida's civil engineering depart- ment. In his talk on a future plan for Florida highways, Waterbury said “these costs do not include an al- lowance for contingencies or the cost of any rights-of-way which may be required on either the pri- mary or secondary system.” Re said total anticipated revenue from all present sources is $1,751,- 114,000 which will leave a deficit of $562,339,000, The present deficit is about 765 million, he said, Waterbury said his firm has made a study of Florida highways, and that the state’s “phenomenal growth has resulted in a present demand for highway facilities which the existing highway system fails to provide.” What Florida’s primary system needs is not more roads, but better roads, he added. The existing net- work is reasonably adequate, but THE WORLD TODAY By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON # — Thwarting John L. Lewis is like running head- first into the window of a literary delicatessen. You come up covered with | smoked adjectives, highly-seasoned nouns, tart verbs, and some figures of speech, spicy, like ham. The government's Wage Stabili- zation Board is just picking itself up after running headlong into Lewis’ window. The WSB refused to let his min- jers have the $1.90-a-day raise | worked out by Lewis and some of the job industry, saying ja day. was all it could allow | without damage to the stabiliza- | tion program. After several days of ominous silence, Lewis delivered his com- ments—not to the board, which he |has steadfastly refused to admit jexists at all—but to Harry M. | Moses, president of the Bitumin- ;ous Coal Operators Association. Historians a hundred years from now, and it may take them a hun- dred years to get a proper per- spective on big John, may feel | that this was not his best effort | in a career distinguished, among other things, for a prose as purple as @ grape, although not necessar- ‘ily a sour one, |. The WSB is made up of 12 mem- bers, four representing industry, } four the public and four labor. To the labor members, it seems, | Lewis’ $1.90-a-day raise appeared | j reasonable enough. The eight oth- ers thought otherwise. | As a starter Lewis accused those eight of would-be thievery for “‘filching” 40 cents from the to Mr, and Mrs, William Julius) purses of the miners. This was a | jsimple statement of his views | about their intentions, He also had some views on them, | personally, which he expressed in | such terms as “timid dilettantes” jand “ruffians.” | After all, though, the board jmembers may have looked like fry to Lewis. He quickly shi from tinkering with their reputations to an analysis of the ife of Roger L. Putnam, the omic stabilizer. But he brushed off Putnam with st tattoo. Putnam, he said, has sadistic trait,” which is | eir discharge and will have it nant for robbing miners’ f life-giving milk.” if all this was not exactly a new Lew i approach to @ problem, at le $ severest critics would have to acknowledge be had almost acquired a copyright on the tech- nique of conjuring up ghouls, tug- : For The State Of Florida the roads require vast reconstruc- tion. Waterbury explained that pres- ent revenues will not meet future needs, claiming that the toll road principal offers “the most feasible and realistic approach to some of i pressing highway prob- ems. “The trend toward toll turnpikes is evident and is growing,” he said, adding however that it is not the absolute answer, Florida’s principal highway de- ficiencies were found in his firm's study to be inadequacy of existing arterial roads along the east coast, and through the central region, roughly from Daytona Beach area to the Tampa Bay area. He said “the only feasible an- swer. . . to Florida’s most predomi- nant arterial highway problem is a system of limited access toll highways roughly from Jacfson- ville to Miami and from the vicini- ty of Daytona Beach to the Tampa Bay area.” The length of the east coast turn- pike route is approximately 315 miles. The cross state turnpike will be approximately 128 miles; the route of the cross state turnpike ts close to Orlando, Kissimmee, Haines City, Winter Haven, Lake- land, Plant City and Tampa. The construction cost of the Flor- ida turnpike system was estimated by Waterbury to be 2424 million | dollars. The Veterans Corner Here are authoritative answers from the Veterans Administra- tion to four questions of interest to former servicemen and their families: * Q. I am the widow of a World War I veteran, and I want to apply for a pension. I've been running a small dress-making business. Must I count the amount of money I made from my busi- ness, in figuring out whether I am eligible under the law's ceil- ings on income? A. Yes, you must compute the income from your business, for non - service - connected pension However, you need not figure in your gross income; instead, that sum may be reduced by the necessary expenses of carrying on your enterprise. Q. ¥ served in World War II, was disabled, and am drawing VA disability compensation pay- ments. I went back on active duty since Korea, and was again disabled in service. Will I be eligible for two disability com- pensation checks from VA—one for my World War II service dis- ability, and the other for the disability I received recently? A. No. No more than one VA award of compensation may be de to any veteran, but the award will be for the combined service-connected disabilities. Q. I plan to enroll for train- jing under the Korean GI Biil. Does VA want a photostat of just the front side of my discharge paper? A. VA needs a photostatic or certified copy of beth sides of your discharge peper, in order to | process your application. | @ I am a World War II vet- jeran, and I am entitled to a GI |loan, although I never used this benefit. I returned to active duty, and as a result of my recent ser- | vice, I meet eligibility require- jments for a GI loan under the inew Korean GI Bill. Will I be lable to get two GI loan entitle | ments, as a result? $9,000 House Being Built By H. Sanches Building Slow With Repairs Taking Lead Over New Construction In City Of Key West Largest building. permit issued by the City last week was for a $9,000 house to be built by H. S, Sanches at 3509 Flagler avenue. Issued by Building Inspector Ray Knopp, the house will be of CBS construction. Other permits issued last week were as follows: Mrs, Diva Camero, 1501 Truman avenue, $300 for minor repairs to her house; Leo McMahon, 522 Grinnell, $100 for building a fence Thomas F. Russell, 606 White ST. $50 for building a fence; Peter Valdez, No. 4 Havana street, $300 for building a tile porch and jal- ousies; H. Pinder, 1700 Flagler st. $250 for erecting a utility shed; Raymond G. Curry, 1122 Southard st., $50 for building a fence; Ber- nard Liwan, 504 Elizabeth street, $200 for repairing a roof; Johnson and Johnson agents, 1304 Seminary street, $100 for repairing a roof, Saunders Wholdsale Grocery, Simonton street $150 for building a concrete block fence; Hastings Smith, 1201 White street, $600, min- or repairs to store; Ideal Restau- rant, 1109 Truman avenue, erect- ing a feon sign; H. Pinder, 1700 Flagler avenue, moving permit; Monroe restaurant,. erect a neon sign; Corinne Wilson, 911 Elizabeth street, $300 for minor repairs to LIFE ’ ABROAD By TOM REEDY BERLIN #&—The witching hour is losing some of its attraction for American soldiers and officers in Germany, A command order from Lt. Gen, Manton Eddy imposes a midnight curfew. y The aim is to get the uniform off the streets and out of public Places by midnight, Purpose is to cut down the number of “inci- dents” involving Americans and Germans, most of which seem to flare only late at night. The military police have been given unusual power to act. They are picking up officers, ranging in rank up to colonels, and reporting to their headquarters when the curfew has been violated. There have been several dozen court a night spots are growing accustomed now to the. nightly visit of the MPs. They stroll in, in pairs, shortly before midnight and again after that. The masters of ceremonies have added a few jibes about the “controls” to their nightly repertoire, wise cracks which tickle the German patrons but hit a rather sour note among the Americans. Army men say the Eddy was inspired by the State Depart- ment which was anxious to reduce any friction between the oceupa- tion soldiers and the German population, especially with the Bonn agreements about to be ratified. ‘The gag line on a night out now for American soldiers is: “Synchronize your watches, men.” | A. No. World War It veterans | who re-entered service Fowles will have their unused jican entitlement | World War II Bill cencelied after replaced with new entitlement under the Korean GI Bill In your case, you will have 10 years from the end of the present jemergency to apply for a GI loan —rather than July 28, 1997, the World War 11 deadiine for loans. under the since | ging the beart-strings, end sug-| (Veterans living in Key West gesting the tanks of those who dis- amd vicinity whe wish further agree with him are pt | ogra g a moronic footpads as unpleasast as contact office an abscess, 6 Room 218, Post Office Bidg, Key So, while all this was famillar | West, Fis) Lewis’ consiant readers, there | $39.49 Stop by for an inspection at 517% Duval Street — 10:00 A.M. — 3:00 P.M. PHONE 1799 OR said he believes the nq satisfac confidence hem concern, simest ? wcmdered they were) Por inatance, there ly sothing is ag a growing mellowness ip bls most recent Matement to tom- pare with the ecomomy aod mae ¢ te bis cholee of words. te cularity of « few years ago when Bot ic ther shundance. ke described emploves of the State cer and more vigorous Department ss a pack of “pusi- »ys be had bees far serser and | lesimous pups.”