The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1952, Page 1

wey West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average tange of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIII. No, 358 “What Democracy Che Means To Me’ By ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR. + (Editor's Note—The Key | West. Junior Chamber of Commerce, as part of their | Americanism Program, has asked several leaders in Key West's business and profes- | sional life to comment on “What Democracy Means To Me?” ‘Today’s ‘article, the | third in the series, is by City Judge Enrique Esquinaldo, cruel punishment, no illegal search or seizure, security of person and property and a voice in government —to quote a few important rights. Democracy also means that since there are no rights without duties, nor privileges without obligations, I have the duty and obligation to respect the rights of others; to be self-supporting; to-support and de- fend my Government; to pay taxes; Local Scouts Set Vote Drive For Saturday Twelve Thousand Key West Homes To Be Contacted In Annual Campaign Approximately 200 Key West Boy Scouts along with 50 “Scout leaders will participate in the her- culean task of ringing doorbells and posting door knob signs on every house in the city Saturday, when they launch their annual “Get Out The Vote” campaign in ; connection with the November 4th Presidential election. Ten Scout units will join in the project including six Scout Troops, three Cub Packs and one Sea Scout Ship according to acting District Commissioner Bernard Frank. | units in Key West, which means | that there will be some 60 mes- sages delivered by each Scout. The | | Island has been divided into 10 sections so that the area will be dependent on the size and age of the boys in the unit. The following scout units are taking part in the project: Troop 52, Scoutmaster Arthur Boza, sponsored by the Rotary Club; Troop 55, Scoutmaster Bob Lindsey, sponsored by the El Sal- vador Methodist Church; Troop 54, | Scoutmaster Tom Buell, sponsored | by the Lions Club. Troop 59, Scoutmaster Roosevelt Sands, sponsored by the Presby- 'terian Church; Troop 253, Scout- | master Tony Martinez, sponsored ; by the Holy Name Society; Troop | 256, Scoutmaster D. C. Clements, sponsored by the Fleming Street There are roughly 12,000 housing | = Key West Citize THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1952 City Den ies Any Responsibility For The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West To Naval Officer In Reply To $753 Local Attorney To Make Movie Robert Youmans, attorney, will drop his law beoks and practice for the next two menths and turn movie actor in a travel film te be made in Miami, Cuba and Jamaica, he said teday. Youmans had planned a ten day vacation in New York sterting next week. The film effer came today and was speedily accepted. Youmans has made films for the same firm, Delta Airlines, in the past two years. = \Charges Against British Seamen Dropped Tuesday Charges of-trespassing and tak- ing property which did not belong to them helé against G. Houston and P. C. Furlong of HMS Rocket, were dismissed yesterday in City Court when a complaining witness did not appear. The pair was arrested for inves- tigation when they were seen walk- ing down Caroline Street with var- ious items believed to have been taken from a local cocktail lounge. Fir. ama Key West’s Number One Draftee, " Dr October, 1940 Festival In Key West Set Local High School Will Play Host To Miami Drama Pupils Here On Saturday Key West’s first drama ‘ clinic and festival begins Saturday with =| Dick Ertzman, head of the Key West high school drama depart- ment and his group playing host to Miami high school drama teachers and students. The festival was post- Poned from last week due to stormy weather but the all-clear and all- out event takes place this weekend. Mayor C.B. Harvey and Super- of Schools, Horace and Sam Hirsh of stage design and direct. or’s bee : During afternoon, special in- (Continuc * On Page Five) City Att’y Files | Dismissal Motion In Circuit Ct. To Be Heard Shorily The City of Key West denies any responsibility whatsoever in the $75,000 damage suit brought against it and Ralph Mari bona, policeman, by Lt, James E. Kicklighter, USNR, last week. In a motion to dismiss the suit, filed in Circuit Court at noon today, City Attorney M. Ignatius Lester said: “ . «+ the sole proximate cause of the plaintiff's ine juries, if any, were the acts or omissions of a police of- ficer acting in a purely gove ernmental or sovereign capacity.” The police officer ree ferred to, Ralph Maribona, is charged by Kicklighter with having “unjustly, as- saulted and battered him with great force and vio+ to oppose dictatorship in any form, | Methodist Church, whether in politics government,| Sea Scout Ship 250, Skipper Sal | | business, industry, education or re- / Alverez, sponsored by the Fleet | ligion; and to bear arms in de- | Reserve Association; Cub Pack 217, fense of my Country. Cubmaster Ken Beers, sponsored TO THIS END I PLEDGE— by Poinciana P. T, A.; Cub Pack To respect the rights of others (Continued On Page Six) | and insist that they respect mine. ns To support the efforts of people Gr. ‘and Jury. Checks County Schools to keep or win their freedom, To oppose efforts which may threaten democracy and democrat- ‘The Grand Jury is inspecting the Sue Moore and Coral Shores schools up the Keys today, Publie Instruetion Key West Youths |Citiggn Publisher |sxcinr tie sors Injured In Crash” “|Latids‘Community |* Are Improving —_| Concert Program Juan Borges, 20, and Hubert Mar-| “Listening to live musical artists i - ahs | is the greatest aid to music appre- Sens, mm, Bay Mest were sires | ciation I know,” L. P. Artman, in the Monday morning crash in | nyblisher of The Citizen, said to: South Miami, are doing much bet- | day in backing up the Community ter today, their relatives reported, | Concerts drive taking place this | The University of Miami students | Week. The publisher, who has always been a devotee of concerts and; opera, urged support of the only LAY YOURS AWAY NOW live musical events of the year in FOR XMAS Key West. Community concerts can only be 8 5 ° Ww E R $ ‘i (Continued On Page Six) $3 Duval ere ieee A NOOSE AROUND YOUR NECK! (FOR 30 YEARS) Déctrey Home itite, Deny Teethers: Would Create New Bureaucracy _ Pay Raise of homicides in the : id A move is underway, voters of Florida, t¢ “slip one over en ¥ Po poe report by bend ge le November 4. Constitutional Amendment omar many of cur Stete’s | wilt Fecommend action on charges | best iawyers and tax experts say, is “‘as full of holes as 0 piece of Swiss against Monroe county men, in-| cheese.” Better examine these points... « volving shootings and stabbings, ? lence, struck the plaintiff with his fists and arms and Citizen Staff Photo | his nightstick, slapstick or EDWARD FERNANDEZ was the first Key West name drawn | blackjack, as the case might out of the fishbowl when Selective Service began 12 years | be, thereby knocking the ago tday. Fernandez is now known as one of the nation’s top fighters against the deadly yellow fever mosquito, Today Is Twelfth Anniversary Of The Drawing Of First Draft Never Had To Serve; Bride From Ja - Is In Key West Is Now Mosquito Control Expert By SUSAN MCAVOY Young and pretty Kazuko Today on the 12th anniversary | cock arrived, tired | of the first fishbowl drawing of | Selective Service draftees in Amer- |ican history, we did a round up of the Key West men whose names | were fished out on October 29, 1940. Number 1 selectee was Edward | Fernandez, 418 Amelia street. To- day he is recognized nationally as Jr.) “WHAT DEMOCRACY MEANS TO ME?” “Democracy is based upon the convietion that there are extraord- | inary possibilities in ordinary peo- ple.”’+Harry Emerson Fosdick. Democracy means to me the | rights of free speech, religious lib- erty freedom. of assembly, trial by jury, no excessive bail, fines or € 4 (1) Control over school moneys would be in the hands of the State | Board of Education. This would destroy “County Home Rule.” i ROLLFAST & COLUMBIA BIKES were twg of five Key West youths | in the freak accident which ‘ex- ploded the gas tank of David Free- man’s. car at 2 a. m. Monday morning. The other boys were not | 80 seriously burned and returned | (Continuea On Page Six) i (2) The propesed amendment makes no provision for teachers’ salary increases. in fact, it threatens increases already pro- mised, rt ‘The Amendment would inspire wild and dangerous spending. It might encourage corruption. Passage of this Amendment will mean that YOU — as a Floride pesed spending ever under-taken in Floride — up te $24,000,000 2 year for 30 years if the Legislature should decide te absorb —— and it could — all of the Motor Vehicle tax Fund. Over a period of 30 years — which is the time covered by the $720,000,000, | EQUIPMENT FOR MONROE THEATRE = || Under Water Fishing _Onet Mater Fi PROUDLY PRESENTS [ane Sai ment — this wevid amount te Home owners now enjoying homesteed exemption from ad_ velorem taxes might again become heavy payers of schoo! texes. With this vast spending program @ scramble fer new sources of WARNER Bros. The Man Who Lives In Town Phone 566 and 378 We BUY all kinds of JUNK VOTERS OF FLORIDA BEWARE OF THAT NOOSE | VOTE AGAINST Languages Easy Conversational Method Menday and Thursdey | 3 Night Classes nn» WARNERCOLOR Rs meme noe mt ccmeem oe CRANE WLBUR sug JAMES O'HANLON amore on JOHM BAMHI Sun.. Mon., Tues., Wed. Nov. 2, 3, 4, 5 MATINEE STARTS 3:30 NIGHT 6:30 Constitutions! Amendment Number One — (SJR - 106) VOTERS’ AMENDMENTS COMMITTEE ‘Crgenized in the interest of the public free school system and teachers’ increased pay) Trees. — Cecil Wright Pemberton, Executive Vice Presiient Piorids Tax information Association, Inc. Mernings By Appomntment President — John ©. Pugh, | Pinder's Dance School Wesatedia “| Saturday, Now. Ist AT STAKE ‘ STEVENSON «PRESIDENT Paid Advt. By Monroe County Democratic Exec. Committee ADVANCE ADMISSION ADULTS — MAT, TSe CHILDREN Ste ADULTS — NIGHT $1.00 CHILDREN Ste UREISA PROTECT IT ON NOVEMBER 4th! * Attend Rally At Bayview Park, MONDAY, NOV 3,8 P.M