The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 24, 1952, Page 1

range-of only 14° Fahrenheit #OL. LXXIN. Ne. 280 Sam Long’s Body Found At No-Name Capt. Moore Finds' $0 Year Old While Fishing With Family By SUSAN MCAVOY The’ body of Samuel Long, 80, was found floating downward in the Gulf, 200 feet off the south- east end of No Name Key by Capt. ‘Thomas Moore, his son and grand- | son yesterday at 12:30 noon. i Capt? “Moore ef 1127 United Streét said this morning that his | 14 year old grandson, Tom Moore | 1V, spotted a white object in the water and called his attention to W. « ‘We stopped our 14 foot out | ‘beard and | put a pole through his: bent stiff arms to hold him te the sand while we went to notify the sheriff.” ‘The body was brought to Key West by Pritchard after it was} towed two miles through the water to Big Pine. Key. County Judge Raymond R. Lord rushed up from Key West: with the ambulance to authorize the moving of the body. Citzen tai ru0v0 CAPT. THOMAS MOORE $150,000 Aid winter season opening tonight is jis directed by Mickey Renna. Cur- jtain time is at 8:30 p. m. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1952 Players’ First Production Of Season Opens Tonight DOORS OF BARN THEATRE TO OPEN |[ocal Youth Is ON OUTSTANDING INITIAL OFFERING Off to a laughing start, the Key West Players first producton of the a comedy in three acts, “John Loves Mary,” a Broadway hit by Norman Krasna. The production ; Action of the play takes place in the living room of the apartment where a Senator named McKinley lives with his wife and vivacious | daughter Mary. The girl is anti- cipating the arrival of her heart- throb from overseas after an ab- sence of three years. In the mean- time, John, the heart-throb, has attempted to do his best buddy For Schools Louisyille, Ky. prostrate widow. makes arrange- ments tomorrow. She is resting to- day near Bahia Honda, the last place her husband was seen alive Jast Wednesday afternoon. Coast Guard and Navy searched for the n_solo fisherman in his 16. foot skiff last week but offi- a ere oe jay. LETH ge Ee 3 Italian Restaurant 920 TRUMAN AVE, Open 4 to 11:00 P.M. Daily FREE PARKING IN REAR PHONE 25-XW The Galey Memorial Hos will not admit Patients of } Conger Life Insurance Company, effective November Q4th, 1952. GALEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL KEY WEST SALVAGE CO. STOCK irs and Builders Attention FOR USED — STEEL PIPE . BEAMS - ANGLES Now 0.K2d Truman’s 8 New Classrooms To Be Built After Three Months received, it was learned today. The U. S, Office of Education judes , classrooms , such as toilets, walks, cloisters to go with them. Pupils can be accomo- ie new rooms, present rowding of Truman: is ‘such that less than that number of new ~ can be handled satisfactorily re. iF = g 5 4 : Police Capture Prowler Today Frank Van Deursen, 17, of the USS Odax, was jailed early this morning on a prowling charge after he attempted to gain entrance to the Banana “-ee Grill on Truman Avenue. i Police officer Robert Garrison’ captured the youth after . chase Center Street’ where he was SPONSOTED BY MOTHERS CLUB CMI |& ST, JOSEPH’S SCHOOL | TUESDAY, NOV. 25th | Convent Auditorium | TIME 7:30 P.M. ADMISSION: S6c AT DOOR ISLAND SALE |] tickets early. a favor by marrying an English girl who was in love with Fred, the friend, just to get her into the United States. The trouble is, chum Fred meantime has married and is expecting to become a father at any hour. Hero John is; confronted with a series of com- plications, and the situation spar- | kles in hilarious sidelights. manager. Lighting is - | Norman Street and Byron Xs \‘Construction was done by Richard Renna} © Goodheart, Howard Pitman, | and Skewis. Decoration. was arranged by (Continued On Page Three) Attention FOOTBALL FANS! In order te accommodate feet- ball fans whe “ave been unable to purchase tickets 0 the first || anriual Shrine Football elassic— Key West High Conchs vs. Cristobal Tigers The tickets: will re- main on sale at the fol || lowing places: PAUL J. SHER EVANS SPORT SHOP POLLOCK’S JEWELERS ORION RUSSELL SERVICE STATION ! Since a crowd of 5000 |! || is again anticipated, fans are urged to purchase | Badly Injured Ralph Placencia, Jr., 18, of 311 Catherine Street, has a 50-50 chance of recovering frem eriti- cal injuries recéived when he backed into & zooming airplane propeller at Mathers Field where he is stationed with the Air Force. His mother, Mrs. Ralph Pla- concia, flew out te be with her son yesterday, the Key West Red Cress said. Ralph Placencia, $r., is custe- dian at-the YMCA, Jackson Square. He could net be reached for more details of the accident. The man hes been at Mathers Field, Sacramente, Calif., im the Air Force fer some months. The Red Crees was neti- (Continurad On Page Three) Teenage Safety Club. To Meet The JayCee Teenage Safety ed te bring covered dishes for ‘Set Regular 3 HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS TO VIE IN SPEAKING CONTEST City Fathers Meet Tonight Licensing Of Bar Employees; Clyde Mallory Dock Lease Will Top Agenda An ordinance requiring the 1i- censing of Key West bar employees) when the City Commission tackles al crowded agenda at their regular; meeting. The ordinance was to! have come up for discussion at last week’s meeting which was re-! cessed after a lengthy debate on other matters. According to the bar licensing measure, all employees, including. managers, bartenders, waiters, waitresses and entertainers would ke required to obtain permits is-! sued by the city commissioners. Information, inchiding their place! of residence for the past 10 years, their social: security: number, fing- erprints and two photographs would (Continued On Page Three) Speaking Contest Entrants | will top the list of business tonight |” JayCee Sponsored “Voice Of Democracy” Competition Is Set For Tuesday Night Three local high school girls will square off Tuesday night in the annual “Voice Of Democracy” speaking contest sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. For the first time in the six year his- tory of the contest in Key West, the competitors will all be girls. Last year’s winner was Eugene Roberts, local high school student. The contest, which will be broad- cast over radio station WKWF, is scheduled to get underway at 8:00 m. The contestants, Delaney of the Convent of Mary Immaculate, Miss Joyce Mounts, . Douglass High School and Miss ‘ Carol Dalton, Key West High School, will offer five minute, |. self-prepared addresses using as | their theme, “I Speak For Demo- cracy.”” The girls will be competing for a chance at the state finals and later the national finals where the winner will- be the recipient of a four year college scholarship. The girls’ talks will be tran- seribed and the :voice and script of the Key West winner’ will be forwarded »to the state level for judging. All state winners’ tran- (Continued On Page Three) THE TRIO OF LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, shown above, will compete: Tuesday night in the annual “I Speak For Democracy” competition sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. This yeak, for the first time, all of the entrants in the contest will be girls. The entrants include, from the left: Miss Carol Dalton, representing Key West High School; Miss Jackie Delaney of the Convent of Mary Immaculate and Miss Joyce Mounts, Douglass High School. 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Ferd - Lincein - Mercury PHONE 725 Miss Jackie | © Key West Citize ———— Sailor Perishes From Deadly Gas Fumes 22-Year Old Navy Man Dies After Exposure To Fumigation Gas Here By JIM COBB A 22-year-old Navy man met death Saturday when he was asphyxiated by deadly methyl bromide gas after entering a building under fumigation on the Seaplane Base. The sailor, William Henry Chestnut of Vincennes, Ine diana, perished despite the heroic rescue efforts of Cap- tain John I. Stout of the Naval Station Fire Department, who entered the building and carried the 215-pound man from the scene which was permeated with an extremely high concentration of the gas. Mystery surrounded the circum- stances of the sailor's death ak though he was said by a ship- mate to have been in a highly intoxicated state, having just re turned from a beach party. He got into the barracks, which was i clothing. 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