The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 19, 1952, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Key West Gi The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOL. LXXHI. 2: No. 276 Pilot Error Listed As Cause Of Crashes NAVAL OFFICER SAYS PLANE FAILURE HAS . BEEN’ RESPONSIBLE FOR‘ONLY ONE CRASH Human error and not mechanical failure was given as the reason for five out of the six airplane crashes which have claimed the lives of five Navy fighter pilots here in the st two months Capt. J. C. Toth, manding Officer of the Fleet All weather Training Uunit, said yesterday. Toth’ also emphasized strongly the fact that the Navy Hellcat Fighter plane, which has been the type involyed in each of the mis- haps, is ‘‘a good airplane and we work hard to keep them in top con- dition”, The Naval aviator had called newsmen to his Boca Chica offiee to ‘allay speculation that the fighter planes, which are of a World War II type, are not up to par. "It just isn’t true,’ Toth said, “When these things happen, the public is naturally quick to as- sume that mechanical failure is the reason for the accident. We often cannot prevent this situa- fion immediately following a érash because we frankly don’t know the cause until we have had @ chance te make an investiga- tion.’* Toth pointed out that the Hell- eat, -although.not classed as a combat plane is well adapted to the type: of training carried out at his command, {It is rated GRATIFYING RESPONSE TO RADIO APPEAL A grateful mother had oné small ray of “sunshine” beamed to her yesterday when Mrs. Mer- ville Russell of 626 Carson Lane was told that not one but two radios had been sent to the Vari¢- ty Hospital by two local outstand- ing organization, the Elks Clab and the Anchor Lodge No. 182, F. and A, M. Mrs. Russell’s daughter, Joyce Cejudo, spends most of Her time in.an iron lung in the polio ward there. Her wish for a radio has been granted while the second radio can be used by others. Joyce stated her wish that she be al- lowed to leave her radio at the hos- pital upon her departure when well. Mrs. Russell was distraught, ps any mother would be, when t Id that her child, and in this case, her only child, had polio. She turn- ed not only to one person but to many in her quest for granting her daughter’s wish. Unhappiness highly as @ safe airplane, he sid ‘And the pilots of the planes are experienced flyers. They are ob- served. and briefed closely on safe- ty procedures. All of the instruct- ors are graduatts of the course before’ they start their assignment. Only: one of the six crashes was the result of ‘outright mechanical! failure, he added. Of.the mishaps, sulb*of failure of ich to ‘auxiliary three happened ) have never been in air and are in virtually new = (Continued on Page Six) is bad at any time of the year, but it is particularly bad when near Christmas and by contrast, 's neighbors are well and gay. The appeal for Joyce’s radio was answered several times as a re- sult of farsightedness on the part of the publisher of the Key West Citizen and the unselfishness fg the part of one of its photographers, Ellis.Finch, a newcomer to. Key West. Ellis said that te bad two radios at homé and in of them being his fa’ would like to 4 here, sent a new radio to be \de- livered to Joyce's, home which) she Students Aid Telephone Co. In Dial System SUBSCRIBERS ARE BEING CONTACTED BY HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS THIS MONTH Telephone subscribers in Key West can expect visitors during the next two weeks as the Southern Bell Telephone Company makes Switchover | der at the time of the conver- sion. i] The students accomplish this in a threefold manner in that they assign new numbers to | the phones where needed, offer! in- struction to those unfamiliar with the operation ef the dial system and check the condition of{ the . Airport Deed Filed Today In County Clerk’s Office COMMISSIONERS AND SAWYER CONCLUDE DETAILS OF SALE Monroe County today became owners of Meacham airport for $150,000 when the deed of owner- | ship was filed at the difice’ of County Clerk Earl Adams at 10:30 a.m, County Legal Advisor Paul Saw- yer brought the deed signed by Key West Improvement, Inc., sell- ers, and the five commissioners to the courthouse this morning. He had returned from Miami where he and the company signed final pa- -pers yesterday. The deed is six pages long with a property may accompanying it showing the limits of the 156.36 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WED DAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1952 Coroner's Inquest Establishes K _ As Murder; Investigation Wiil Continue GOP. Leaders Ask 15 Million Cut In Budget By WILLIAM F. ARBOGAST WASHINGTON (®—A 15-billion- dollar cut in the new federal budget is the goal of two Repub- lican leaders — if President Tru- man’s budget request calls for the 85 billions some predict. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, chairman of the GOP’s Senate Pol- icy Committee, told a news con- ference yesterday his target for the fiscal year beginning next July is a 70-billion-dollar budget. Taft said he and President-elect Eisenhower, at their Sept. 12 meet- ing in New York, agreed upon this as well as upon a 60-bi -budget goal for fiscal 1955. Barring any interfering commitments, Taft ad- Fisherman Who Found Klug’s Body acres of land on Roosevelt boule- |ded, tax cuts of 12 or 13 per cent | vard and through to. the salt ponds. C. G. Bailey made the survey for the company. Satisfaction of mortgages was also reported by Sawyer. The filing of the deed this morn- ing culminates more than two years of negotiations by the county with Key West Improvement Inc., which bought the property original- | man attached to the USS Saufley | ly from Will Porter. ‘The original airport size wa: 264 acres, Following protracted ses. sions between company and coun- ty, it was reduced to 156 acres, the present The deed shows stipulations by the company that should Meacham ever be used for anything other than a public airport as defined in the deed, the property will re- vert to the owners, Key West Im- provement, Inc. This reversion clause states that the. company would pay $150,000 s the value of such “permanent ‘itamovable buildings as shall (Continued On Page Six) Prowler Arrested By Police Tuesday’ Floyd D. Gaines, 35, a, Navy was arrested on a prowling charge after a wild chase last night when he was found to be “peeping” into # home at 812 South Street. Police Officer Robert Garrison reported today that as he was pa- trolling the area, near William Street, he noticed the man looking into the window of a home owned by Mr. and Mrs. Earle Kierstad at the South Street address, When the prowler spotted the po- lice officer, he ran down the-street but’ Garrison managed to overtake. the man. Gaines is being held in the city jail under bond of $250 for appeary ance in City Court fod: : K + i) final preparations for their long ure change-over to a dial System, The company has recruited 30 local high school stu- dents who are contacting users to minimize confusion which may be} caused by the conversion. ‘The switch to dial service is The 30 students, who are making their canvass of the city afoot and | aboard motor scooters and bicy-} cles consider the work “‘a lot of} fun’ and their teachers say that the experience is valuable. They divide their time between the tele- | ‘ j Phone company and the classroom, scheduled to take place at mid-| spending one week on the job night on Decemiber 6th. and the next in school. In addition | ‘The students, who are from the| io the contacting of phone users, commercial department at the| they man a test switchboard at Key West High School have been at} the main office of the telephone work on the project since Novem-| company and do clerical wérk. ber 10th and willfinish the job in| They each contact an average about two weeks, | of 30 subscribers daily iq their The “Flying Squad," under the | rounds and find that about/75 per supervision of A. H. Kessing of | cent are familiar with the) opera- | the Southern Bell Company was tion of the dial phones. formed to ascertain that their The first move as they enter customers’ telephones will per.) (Continued. On Page Six) form their normal operations and | that they will be in working or- Languages Easy Conversational Method | Monday and Thursday All Lay Aways | MUST BE PICKED UP BY Friday. Nov. 21st at 6 P.M. or | Might Claenes they will be sold | _—_ Mornings By Appointment Tel. 1490 KOTTON KING Pinder's Dance School as oom | ime.ediately. This operation CITY MANAGER DAVE KING (right phones which will be placed in use her Charles Baker, students the Key West Hi 1 phone Company's “Flying Squad” which is instructing userg in point. — HESTER BATTERIES — | STARTS 89 TIMES AFTER | ONLY 5 MINUTES REST STOCK FOR then started and the repeated 80? times before the tery failed. FIRST LINE BATTERIES FOR ALL MAKES OF CARS AT WHOLESALE PRICES. A $16.28 REG. PRICE BATTERY ONLY $9.95 ‘#=) FREE INsTA't! TION LOU SMITH OLD CARS TW White Y WEST SALVAGE CO. USED — STEEL PIPE - BEAMS - ANGLES OF AL We Want Junk of All Kinds CALL 136 Citizen: Staff Photo JOHN WALKER, JR.'who with his father, John, Sr., was the first on the scene of the murder of Harry E. Klug, Jr., October 31 at Little Torch Key, identifies the body and the motorcycle in the photo of the murder locale. Walker's father and Dr. Her- man Moore also testified, CAN WE FORGET THE ONES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES? By EARL R. ADAMS are doubting, a little, if many e the Key West boys who gave {Key Westers feel so. their lives in the Argonne Forest; For some time now the Key in World War 1, on the bloody | West Chapter of Gold Star grounds of Normandy in World| Mothers has been endeavoring to lWar I and on the snow capped | raise $2,500 to: place a granite hills of Korea. in the present con- | monument in Bayview Park es flict worthy of a $2,500 monument? @ Memorial to the war dead of Ponda wars. The result to date pate in this commendable ‘under- taking have for the most part gone unanswered. Bronze Star. Young Lopez, who used to deli- ver telegrams to Key West homes, was not even asked. He volunteer- ed for an extra mission after he ; Was entitled to come home. That. ; (Continued On. Page Six) _\Deaf Mutes Are Arrested Here For Soliciting Four deaf mutes were arrested = | this morning in the Greyhound Bus Station and charged with soliciting “without the permission of the | City Manager’ The quartet, William Bell, Jackie jeyee, Stanley Lee and Harry trickland were arrested by police officer Henry Lounders as they | | passed out small ecards asking or | | donations. They e being held in| the City Jail under bond of $50; each for appearance before Acting- City Judge Ben Ketchum this af- ternoon. The mes, who came here from Miami, were driving a late | automobile. Under the City Citizen Staff Phot 0 ion of the new dial ney Pellicier (left) and the Southern Bell Tele- the new procedure, explain a The men are said to have collect- ed over $500 in two days of opera- ISLAND tion in Key West. “ontractors and Builders Attentio: SALE L SIZES e— West Lodge No. 163 to be AND TRUCKS Doctor Expresses Wonder At Crushed Condition Of Murder Victim’s Skull By SUSAN McAVOY Harry E. Klug, Jr., was murdered by a gun in the hands of persons unknown, the coroner's jury reported after three minutes of deliberation following an hour and a half inquest yesterday afternoon. Coroner Roy Hamlin and State Attorney J. Lancelot Lester conducted the inquest into the death of the 26 year old Rutgers University graduate who was found with a bullet in his brain Little Torch Key, beach, October 31. ‘ : ; John Walker, Sr. Coast Guard Tows Disabled Shrimper of tanga we toned uin'tan West inettioes with a broken water pump by the ee ee it. The Little George radioed Key West Coast Guard headquarters ? i i i a5} 4 i #7 i z u H i zf r i i i : 7 \ about to start her shrimping when her water pump broke down. Dinner Given For Leading 3 ze HS ¢ the nine FPREr® HEE iz “ai Bob Gates, consultant on educa- tion for exceptional children ar- rives tomorrow for his lectures. The program includes the fol- Tomorrow at 2:15, Truman i if : e Fel Fideri a a # evi Hi Hi szeevi day. In yesterday's Citizen the zeros were left off several of the teach- rs’ salaries reported in a survey ef i = = . Key) held on Friday evening at S o'clock. | Important changes to the by- aws will be acted upon. By order of the Lodge. i J. WINFIELD RUSSELL, Secretary. Ur!z« Water Fishing Enterprises, Inc. HAROWARE DIVISION Careline $. Phone $06 |