The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 18, 1952, Page 3

Gulf Waters To Be Sprayed For Red Tide By The Associated Press The research vessel Alaska is still looking for a good place to begin spraying the fish-killing red tide with copper sulphate solution. Scientists aboard the U. S. Fish and Wildlife vessel want to save the spray for a spot where there is a clear division between the red tide and unpolluted water. It would be a waste of time and money to try to spray the whole 440 square miles of polluted water off the Southwest Florida coast, John F. Howell, government bi- ologist, explained. In 24 hours of cruising back and forth through the affected area, the Alaska has met thousands of decaying fish, but no large con- centrations and no place where thére is a sharp dividing line be- tween clear: and polluted water, Howell said. Meanwhile, Mayor Herbert M. Brown, Clearwater, suggested burning the fish with napalm bombs of jellied gasoline to keep them from drifting ashore. He sett telegrams to Florida’s senators asking them to urge the Air Force to use that modern war- fare weapon before the smelly car- @asses became a threat to health and tourist prospects. The red tide also was brought wp at a meeting of the Gulf and Garibbean Fisheries Institute in Miami. Dr. F. G. Walton Smith, head of the University of Miami marine research laboratory, said the un- derlying cause behind appearance of the red tide hasn’t been found. It is known that the fish are killed by a poison given off by a tiny organism called gymnodinium brevis. The mystery is what causes it to multiply in such startling numbers that there is enough pois- on to kill millions of -fish over great areas of water. The plants increase enough to become a menace only in water that has an unusually high nitrate and phosphorous content, Dr. Smith said. State Alcoholic Hospital Opposed DAYTONA BEACH (~The Flor- ida Hospital Association came out Monday in opposition to a large- scale state hospital for alcoholics. Instead, it proposed, that an al- coholic ward be set up in the gen- eral hospital of each major popu- lation center in the state. role eee, apres ty she col , appro y the last Legislature, .in “ttiamy,. cases T's A FACT EINER VALUE geet SAL To Abandon Stretch Of Track TAMPA —The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) will go ahead with plan$ to abandon nearly 70 miles of track in the Ft. Myers area. * Federal Judge W. J. Barker Monday dismissed a petition by a group of flower and vegetable growers to halt the railroad’s with- drawal, The Interstate Commerce Commission’ previously had ap- proved the SAL action, effective today. The growers contended they would suffer irreparable damage amounting to millions of dollars if the tracks weré retnoved. They said the railroad provided the on- ly satisfactory means of getting highly perishable products, especi- ally gladioli and white potatoes, to market promptly. Judge Barker ruled there was no proof of irreparable damage. He added the growers had ample time since the ICC ruling to make other transportation arrangements. COURTROOM BECOMES OPERATING ROOM BRISTOL, England #—A court- room here became an operating theater—completé with operating table, anesthetist, instruments, surgeon, attending physician nurses and patient. Surgeon Doug- las Fairman went through the mo- tions of taking out the patient’s tonsils. He didn’t really operate, how- ever, It was all part of a court hearing yésterday in a suit filed by Mrs. Dorothy Moon, Bristol widow, against the Bristol General Hospital. She charged Fairman with negligence and rough handling during a tonsil operation on her husband in 1949. He died later. The mock operation was staged to show how a patient’s head is handled during a. tonsillectomy. The court said it would rule later on the suit. For a couple at the same age, the chance is 3 in 5 that the wife will outlive her husband. MIAMI ANGLE (Continued from Page One) next morning at 9 a.m. next to his motorcycle at water’s edge with a bullet through his brain. Klug was an aspiring poet, philo- sopher, and his voluminous notes for a novel showed he had some insight into character. His pros- perous father and brother-in-law came down to Key West the day after the discovery of the body and arranged for burial in Montclair, New Jersey, would be located too far away from those for whom it was de- signed and could not be used ef- fectively by local Alcoholic Anony- mous groups. \V “NEW ! ‘ LATEST MODEL ELECTRIC PORTABLE SEWING MACHINE USO CLUB iS (Continued from Page One) Neither does it include the salar- ies of two staff members and capi- tal expenditures which go to the USO account. USO funds are raised throughout the county by voluntary contributions to — the United Defense‘Fund through local Community Chest campaigns. A generous contribution of $2,000 by the Key West Navy Carnival fund made possible the purchase of badly needed program equip- ment and furnishings, the report states. @ : Largest project of the year is the $33,201 renovations and fur- nishings of the building. M. E. Bennett company will carry ‘out the $18,000 renovations. Wiliam Lukacs of USO Building Service is ordering equipment and furnish- ing for the rest of the amount. H. R. Denham, Sr., field secre- tary of the Armed Services De- partment of the YMCA, met with the USO Operating committee at luncheon Friday. He expressed the national office’s appreciation of the interest and -cooperation in the USO program of the local mem- bers of the Operating committee, of Naval officers and of the City of Key West. Edwin Trevor, chairman of the committee, appointed the followi- ing subcommittees for the current fiscal year: Program, Mrs. Wah- neta Kovash, Captain Harold Pay- son, Jr., USN, Mrs. Mary Lee Graham and Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr. Finance, Joe Pinder, Rear Admiral Irving T. Duke, City Manager Dave King, and Fred Miller; Nominations, Fred Miller, Mrs. Kovash, Capt. Payson and Clem Price; Building, King, Pinder, Admiral Duke, Price and Commissioner Clarence Higgs; Religious Emphasis, The Rev. Ralph Rogers, Judge Lopez and Joe Pearlman. Chairman King of the Com- mittee’s Building group reported on progress on the renovations of the USO club, and the contract with M. E. Bennett construction company. The annual report stressed the loss of Forrest T. Turner, late USO director. “He had served through the busy, but financially lean years after USO’s first deactivation, Armed Services YMCA, USO’s reactiva- tion, its sudden collapse in 1950, Armed Service YMCA again and finally the reorganized USO early in 1951,” the reports states. - “There are constant reminders from the servicemen he served from the club employees and from the local citizenry of his splendid efforts to keep this unit in opera- tion as a liaison between the people of Key West and the Naval person- nel.” Brunt of the responsibility for | the club operation fell to Miss Dorothy Rath, program director, who ably carried on with the aid | of H. R. Denham, Sr., and the | Operating comfnittee headed by Joe Pinder. Herbert Hitch served | as temporary director for several months during which time he ef- fectively reorganized the club per- sonnel and operating procedures. Evans the new director took over last spring. STEPHEN SINGLETON (Continued from Page One) took an active part in civic acti- vities and formed a life long at- tachment to the Island City and the Keys, particularly Big Pine, where he lived on and off for the last years. Though he spent a lot of time in Miami with his son Morris, the Keys were his spiritual home, he said on one occasion. | “This is the place I love and want | to be,” he reiterated a few months ago: The elder citizen had gone’ to Gainesville on a short visit, in- | tending to return to his beloved Keys this week or next, Sykes said. “He wanted to fix up a little | house near our place on Cudjoe Key,” Sykes said, “so he could | live there.”” A member of the Friends, Sing- | leton's characteristic gentleness | spoke well for that Society. A | widower, his wife was buried in Miami several years ago. | His active mind never gave up | jlearning new forms and activities. |Four years ago he took up land- scape painting, and was so facile | jat it that some of his paintings | were sold by Mrs, Sykes at her The "WEATHERMAN Says Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy with not much change in temperature: today thru Wednes- day; isolated showers near the shore. Gentle to moderate easterly winds, fresh offshore. Florida: Clear to partly cloudy and continued mild today and Wed- nesday. Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits: Moderate to fresh north- east winds today except occasion- ally moderately strong in the Straits. Moderate to fresh east and southeast winds Wednesday. Partly cloudy weather. Isolated showers in the Straits. East Gulf: Easterly winds, mod- erate over north and moderate to} fresh over south portions today. Wednesday moderate, occasionally’ fresh east and southeast winds. Clear to partly cloudy weather. Western Caribbean: Moderate easterly winds today and Wednes- day. Partly cloudy weather. Wide- ly scattered showers. Observations taken at City Office Key West, Fla., Nov. 18, 1952 9:00 A.M., EST Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night Mean .... Normal .. Precipitation Total last 24 hours —— Total this month -. Deficiency this month Total this year -. Deficiency this year ...... Relative Humidity at 9:00 A.M. 13% Barometer (Sea Level) 9:00 A.M. 30.05 ins.—1017.6 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise 6:47 a.m. Sunset 5:39 p.m. Moonrise . $:54 a.m. Moonset 7:33 p.m. TOMORROW'S (Naval Base) HIGH 10:55 a.m. 9:45 p.m. 000 ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time of Height of Low 4:15 a.m. 3:12 p.m. Bahia Honda (bridge) ———oh 10m No Name Key (east end) —+-2h 20m Boca Chica Station— Sandy Pt.) Caldes Channel (north end) 9.0 ft. Tide high water. —oh 40m +2h 10m +14 ft. (—)—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted. . (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to be U. Of F. Alumni Head In Key West Leland W. Hiatt, executive secre- tary of the University of Florida Alumni Association, will be in Key West Wednesday and Thursday. Members of the Monroe County U. of F. Alumni Club will have supper with him on Wednesday evening at the Jaycee Clubhouse. Following the supper, Mr. Hiatt will show pictures of the Florida- Georgia football game as well as the University picture, ‘‘Where Florida Prepares for the Future.” All of the University alumni ard all persons interested in the Uni- versity’s football team are cordial- ly invited to the meeting. Mr. Hiatt, who is a past presi-| dent of the Marianna Rotary Club| and past district governor of Ro-| -|small county,” . | “with only six of the biggest coun- .| ties ahead of us in the first two Medical Meeting At Navy Hospital There will be a joint meeting of the Monroe County Medical So- ciety and the Naval Medical Of- ficers, Key West Area, in the Red Cross Building of the U. S. Naval Hospital Thursday, November 20, at 8 p. m. Two. outstanding medical men have been secured to speak at this meeting. Dr. Claire Straith of De- troit, a pioneer in the field of plas- tie surgery, will speak on “The Treatment of Facial Injuries and Deformities.” Dr. Robert Kennedy, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics at Wayne University, Detroit, will have as his subject “Recent Advances in tae Obstetrical Practices.” All medical officers and civilian ——_ are cordially invited to a —SEe————_—— Early Dismissal On Thursday Afternoon classes at Poin- ciana Elementary School will be dismissed at 3:30 p. m. Thursday, November 20, in order that the teachers may attend the county-wide meet- ing at Truman School. MONROE COUNTY (Continued From Page One) Broward is also high as are Duval, | Palm Beach and Pinellas. “We're doing rather well for a O’Bryant said, ranks and five in the lower rank.” There are two ranks below III that were not studied in the state- wide survey. These include teach- ers who do not have a college de- gree. “The state is trying to encourage the hiring of only college-graduates or above in the schools. We want the best educated teachers possible, and less than a college degree is not up tothe desired standards today,” O’Bryant said. BIDS ARE ASKED (Continuec from Page One) ers say, will be that when a new site is found for an airport further up the Keys, the company will buy back the airport from the county at the same price it sold it for yesterday, $150,000 plus the im- provements. The action of the County in buying Meacham is thus seen by some as a temporary measure pending the donation or purchase of land farther up the Keys, of which Sugarloaf would be the most likely site fer an airport. This Key already has a first class hard-surfaced road leading from U. S. 1 to the Atlantic. It has recently been extended by repairs to the southeast. Key West, and will probably set up some kind of facilities at Meacham someday as will the U. S. Weather Bureau. Both these agencies now have offices at Boca Chica which has tolerated but not welcomed them, according to CAA officials. Both CAA and the Weather Bureau are civilian agencies to which the public should have free access, say CAA leaders. Located as they are at Naval installations they are now fenced in with security re- gulations which bar the general public from admission to the of- fices. The assumption of ownership, temporary or permanent by the county means for the present a de- velopment of a flying center in Key West. Meacham will of neces- sity be better maintained thus pro- viding greater safety not only for commercial airlines passengers but for private students and instruc- tors at Faraldo’s Flying Service located at Meacham field. The de- tary International, District 242, will be the speaker at the local) Rotary Club meeting on Thursday | at noon. | place on Cudjoe and elsewhere. Funeral services take place in| Miami, at the Southern Memorial | ; chapel at 4 o'clock today Miami Herald columnist John | after a long illness. A former Key | Pennekamp, long time friend of | wester who has been residing in SERVICE Singleton devotes his entire column DEATH PAUL LOWE Paul Lowe, 63, Miami, died today Miami Yor several years, Lowe is velopment of terminal facilities at Strunk Lumber Yard Pre-Inventory Clearance Sale- ABOUT 1500 FEET OF 1 X 3 “D” FLOORING, Meanwhile CAA can remain in} ITeday’s Stock Market NEW YORK —Railroads and utilities — focal. point of buying today in a narrowly higher stock market, Both of these major divisions ‘were quite active in early trading and showed plus signs going into the major fractions. The remainder of the list was higher by fractions while a number of small losses dotted the list with- out concentrating in any particu- area, In the utility division, American Telephone was active and higher after starting on a block of 2,500 shares up % to 156%. Higher stocks included Repub- lic Steel, Studebaker, United Gas, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, Texas Co., American Smelting, Sears Roebuck, Boeing, American Cyan- amid, and Radio Corp. MUST WIN ON FIELD HOUSTON, Tex. @—Dr. You Chan Yang, Republic of Korea ambassador to the United States, says the only course left in Korea is to win the war on the battle- field. “Complete victory means no less than chasing the Communists completely out of Korea, to the Yalu River, and unification of the country,” he told a news confer- ence yesterday. CITY WILL ASK (Continued From Page One) Exchange Club to hold a “Turkey Shoot” within the city limits was referred to city manager King for study. It is normally against the law to discharge firearms within the city limits. At a late hour last night, with more than half of the agenda still untouched, the commission moved to recess until next Monday night. He was the first secretary of the present Chamber of Commerce; an active Rotarian, and an organizer and past Commodore of the Key West Yacht Club. More than any other person he was responsible for winning the extension of the Inland Waterway from Miami to Bahia Honda bridge. He tried, though un- successfully, to win its further ex- tension to Key West. Meacham, & if undertaken by the County and CAA will provide a bet- ter welcome for visitors to Key West, who now come into the tum- bledown building of Aerovias, or the unprotected hut of National Airlines out at Meach: business cards to booklets... Tuesday, November 18, 1952 THE McKethan And Me Speak At State Meet: JACKSONVILLE w@--Addresses | by Gov.-Elect Dan McCarty and Alfred McKethan, chairman of the State Road Department, high- lighted today’s session of the an- nual meeting of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. McCarty was to give “A salute to New Industry” and McKethan planned to tell about ‘Roads of the Future.” Other speakers on the program included. Gov. Fuller W: Tus authorities L. Frank Perry Murray, and Donald Datoe... yourself of « safe, early KEY WEST CITIZ! Page 3 , lawyer-author of Washington, Horace Tulsa, Okla., Henderson, president of the U. S. Junior ber of Commerce, made a night for a “new Ameri canism."t assure arrival for your Thanksgiving visit, Greyhound will take you in re- loxed comfort — and save you GREYHOUND BUS STATION Corner Bahama & Southard Sts. PHONE 242 balanced today toa eulogy of the gentle | the brother of City Clerk “ged | gong ng said: : - Lowe. He was for many years a typewriter, and including several Vee oma 7 tho [i Mr. Lowe is survived by — “He brother Joseph and a sister Mrs. ron potld quote from the Bible. | sary Knowles, both of Key West; 3} Le ee eee te he was (Gzughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Hill of a stammch member of Miami |72™pa, Mrs. Lillo James of Mia- riends Meeting, he could also in- |™i, and Mrs. Carolyn Brages of | ct robust allusions into his letters . oy elas tines Hyg _— | Prec gaws wag Say seevet several grandchildren. | ee Funeral services will be held in Singleton is survived by a sa | ams, Morris and Bert. ge Ries gues Burial will be NOT STICKY, HUH? ALICE, Tex. w—Deer hunters re- ported many cars were getting stuck near here. Tt wasn't muddy, and rain hadn't broken the The ¢ the b im thy EXCELLENT LUMBER, REGULAR $190. M SELL FOR - $140.00 M. $ SINGLE SASH, 6 LIGHTS, 2/0X3/6X1-2/8 REGULAR $5.11 the first truly balanced car in the low-priced field! $1.00 Each. | . 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