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

rhe Ry. and wea Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 64° e1yy West Citi Features and Photo Services, For 72 Years Devoted: to the Best Interests of Key West VOL. LXXIII. No. 309 Body Removed is rom Suicide Plane THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1952 George LeMay Enroute To Florida Today States, ‘| Hope Authorities Will See Me’ National Geographie’s Vivid Color Photos ) Wirephoto SWEETWATER, Texas,—An ambulance crew digs at the wreckage of a private plane here to re- lease the crushed body of Ollie William Cox, 23, wealthy operator of the Double Heart Cattle and sheep ranch, after Cox dived the Cessna 170 five-place plane into a gravel pit area Sunday. Cox ignored radio pleas of his friends who tried for three hours to convince him to land. At right is Sheriff Cal Montgomery of Sweetwater who watched the crash with other officers powerless to prevent it. Moray Eel’s Death Struggle Keeps Divers Under Water Plentiful Fish Off Summerland Dazzle Visitor From Jamaica BY SUSAN MCAVOY One of the ea tle of Bee roe ter season. is to show off the Ki West. to, yisitors,.. y ft was’ fun watching the enthusiasm of — British-born Bert Best at the goggle fishing off Summerland Key, where the cruiser Mary King took him, his wife, Dorothy Raymer, Mrs. Henry Hudgins and her two boys. Bert has been underwater for six years, on and off, of course, off his own place in Montego Bay, Jamaica, BWI. There, however, the fish have been practically extinguished by n: tives who dynamite them in the blue depths. Yesterday we went out to the (Continued On Page Three) BO SUR EN TOE ATER PETE UNI POOR OLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman Dial 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tubes . . Batteries |" WHET ARE pats Slight Damage In 2 Fires Reported Slight dama, a fire ia ‘was reported from out early this mot ’s Bakery, 812 gm! Firefightérs saldthat a portion’ |ly: of the ceiling at the bakery was scorched when a boiler exploded. Workers at the scene had extin- guished the fire before the fire- men arrived, however. Firemen also were called out shortly after noon on Saturday to battle a brush fire at Peary Court. No damage resulted from this blaze, they said. Over 500 Die In Traffic Accidents By The Associated Press Accidents killed 714 Americans during the four-day Christmas week end. Included in that number Mads 533 who died in traffic mis- Neither figure represented a rec- nor did the traffic fatalities (Continued. on Page Three) YOU DOING Youth Injured By Firecracker Here The danger of playing with fire- works was pointed up forcefully to 13-year old Charles Johnson, 901 Duval Street, when he was hos- pitaliped, Possibly facing the loss im eye, when a “cherry bomb” coud in his face. The son of Mrs. Margaret Lafon, young Johnson was rushed to the Nayal Hospital last Friday with severe burns about the face and hands and the eye “injury which aeRO hls. feet “Dacmapente | The youth said that he found the firecracker when he “was empty- ing the garbage.” He removed the powder from the bomb, which is of a particularly powerful type, and ignited it to watch it “fizzle” (Continued On Page Three) ANNUAL New Year’s Eve Gala Fiesta at the CUBAN CLUB WEDNESDAY, DEC. 31 FROM 10 O'CLOCK TO 3:00 A.M. Music by ... TONY BARRERA AND HIS FLORIDIANS For real Latin Rhythm, meet lat the Cuban Club where the New Year rings in with rhumba. Admission: GENTS $1.50 LADIES .. 50 For Table Reservations DIAL 2-3274 By Dorothy Raymer Key West’s exotic flowers and shrubs appear in the January edi- tion of the National Geographic Magazine with a story and 13 il- lustrations in color by Luis Mar- den, the first coverage of a flower show in the history of the maga- zine. The story is called “Tropical Gardcns of Key West.” The mate- rial used was gleaned at the Key West Garden Club show last March when thousands of tourists as well as Key Westers viewed the display in the Elks club annex. Marden exidently likes the sound of romantic names. He doesn’t say exactly where the dazzling show was held but puts it “The exhibi- tion opens early in March in a hall on Rose Lane and lasts four days,” and goes on to write, “For five days preceding the show, Rose Lane looks like the entrance to a be-hive.” He r-ints out that the shadow boxes were the most popular items in the show and in one lovely picture shows the three di- mensional effect of a red pome- granate, a green (with touches of Store Gutted By Fire Here Sunday Night Damage Estimated At $11,000 Results From Blaze On Olivia Street Sun. Damage -~"~~‘nd at over $11,- 000 resulted last night fron a ce | ——————— which broke out in a grocery matching red) porcelain hen, old| - brass, a velvet drape and the ver- million of ixora, one of Gene Ot- to’s displays. On the same page, Dr. Harold List of the Naval Hospital and Cdr. Raphael are shown preparing an exhilit for men only in the ve- getable-arrangement field. In the foreground is the unusual exhibit by Cdr. L. H. Goddard which featured yellow tapers thrust into store, Charles Moody, of 630 Oliv- ia Street, reported that merchan- and fixtures, the value of which he set at $7,000 were totally des- toyed in the blaze. artichokés bedded in a nest nit . strawberries, ~ °c. Jane Bayly ig one the *koddehrome «pages, at the tiny pool with the ‘statue of St. Fiacre, patron-saint and gardener- monk. It was part of: the huge stage setting at the annex with @ backdrop of palms, triple: poinset- tia, gliricidia, shell ginger, double datura, Jerusalem thorn and life (Continued On Page Five) ATTEND THE Gala New Year’s Eve Dance AMERICAN LEGION HOME STOCK ISLAND 10 P.M. °TILL 2??? ADMISSION: $1.75 Couple $1.00 Stag FOR RESERVED TABLES CALL 2-7912 Officials are investigating to de- termine the cause of the blaze. Electrical Appliances & Radios, General Hardw: ‘etc. REFERENCES REQUIRED Phone 2-5922 for Appointment \Depict Beauty Of Local Garden Club Show Key West Holiday Is Accident Free Police Chief Joe Kemp has his fingers crossed in the hope that Key West's fine holiday traffic safety record can be maintained through the week. Kemp said that there have been no accidents in the city since be- fore Christmas. The Chief also cautioned motorists not to drive while they are drinking on the holiday eve. Heart Disease Cancer 2nd Killer, Infant Deaths 3rd; Florida Health Board States Heart disease was the number ., }acreage by | aeEiyi E PRICE FIVE CENTS Huguette’s Husband Is Flying Or Driving From Montreal To “Help Clear Up Mystery” Of Her Disappearance 1 Year Ago Jan. 4 George LeMay, whose wife Huguette disappeared off Tom’s Harbor bridge a year ago January 4 is en route to the Keys today “to help clear up the mystery” the AP said today. The young Montreal real estate man said he wanted to see authorities in Key West and Miami. “T hope they will want to see me” he said. “They are sup- posed to be the ones who have any new information on my Oil Drilling To Begin Near Key Largo To Everglades Sinclair Refining Company will start drilling for oil near Key Lar- go in the immediate future, it was learned today. The company which has tens of thousands of bay bottom acreage under lease from the Florida In- ternal Improvement Board will be- gin drilling for the first time and share its findings with another oil company, The agreement made in St. Petersburg over the weekend was made public today. At the Monroe county courthouse no lease of the huge bay bottom state of 3 recorded “in © “six” vere The probability is that the lease from the IIB has not as yet come through from Tallahassee for re- cording. here. The visit to Key West last week of Sinclair Wells, land agent, of , | the Department of Agriculture, and (Contino-+ on Page Three) Seemann nrc a Attention Please! KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN By Calling MR. FEINSTEIN DIAL 2.3036 We BUY all kinds of JUNK All Kinds of Scrap Metal Located at Simonton & Dey Sts.| Caroline St. wife’s disappearance.” LeMay told the AP that he had planned a vacation in the South and will visit Havana as well as Florida. He is leaving earlier than he expected, he said. His plans to come to Florida were expedited when informed by the AP of the death of former Monroe county deputy James O. Barker, last week, Barker's funeral will be held tomorrow in Homestead. The core ner’s inquest into his slaying by his son Duane, 24, will take place soon after, according to the AP. Barker was hated by LeMay for undisclosed reasons. LeMay told former Citizen reporter Al Palmer, now senior police reporter on The Montreal Herald: “Barker was antogonistic at the time of my wife's disappearance.” LeMay told The Citizen by long distance phone last October that he would return to Key West and Florida when Barker was out of office. When Barker did resign last ‘October, LeMay said he would be coming down shortly. Meanwhile Duane Barker, for- mer Miami policeman, and son of the retired Miami chief of Detec- tives whom he ad: shot last imittedly toa ok, le sl Date eomty fll GRAND OPENING, eg TUES. 4 P.M. | ANGELO, of N.Y. City Now Managing DUFFY'S DINING ROOM 18 Duval St. (See Page 2 for Announcement) Fairbanks Water Pumps From $88.00 Thompson Enterprises, Inc. HARDWARE DIVISION Dial 2-3132 NOTICE All vehicles bearing a Monroe County license plate shall be passed free from the period January 1, 1953, to February 20, 1953, the evidence of this free being the attachment to the vehicle of a 1952 Florida license plate of number 38 series. Effective February 20, 1953, each vehicle with a NEW YEAR'S EVE? REMEMBER IT TAKES “TWO TO TANGO”! FOR THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE SPEND NEW YEAR'S EVE AT RAUL’S DELICIOUS DINNERS at. $3.50 DRINKS 65c - 75c - 85c CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT BALLOONS - NOISEMAKERS - FAVORS NO COVER OR MINIMUM AT ANY TIME JUST FUN! MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY PHONE 2.5251 | LOGUN’S Monroe County prefix number 38 license plate attached will, in addition, be required to have attached to the windshield a sticker bearing the same number as the license plate on the vehicle, these stickers to be secured in the office of the Monroe County Tax Collector, with- out cost to the owner of the vehicle. should be secured at the time of the purchase of the 1953 license Ford Lincoln Mercury 2-5631 PHONE 2-563. | SPECIAL FOR Monday & Tuesday 1946 CHEVROLET Tudor Style Master $235.00 Down 12 MONTHS Payments $51.35 Month Monroe Motors, Inc. PHONE 2.5631 OCEAN “NIGHT OF CARNIVAL” PATIO NEW YEAR’S EVE REALLY FINE ENTERTAINMENT RESERVE YOUR TABLE NOW! PHONE 2-3833 e. All cars must stop at toll gate and receive receipt for free passage. The above toll free features do not mon carriers licensed by the Florida State Public Utilities Commission. Effective January 1, 1953, toll rates on vehicles other than those above indicated will be: Passenger automobiles and station wagons _... 81.00 Trucks in accordance with light weight of vehicle _ ranging $2.00 to $5.00 Busses _. $1.00 plus 25c per passenger There will be no charge on passengers carried by any vehicle except on buses trunsposting passengers @s a common carrier. OVERSEAS ROAD & TOLL BRIDGE DISTRICT BROOKS BATEMAN, General Manager ly to com- and ——enalpnpeteases beiipsicamibapacacnmaaieinnae aap ian KEY WEST SALVAGE Co. STOCK ISLAND Contractors and Builders Attention FOR SALE USED — STEEL PIPE . BEAMS . ANGLES OF ALL SIZES We Want Junk of All Kinds OLD CARS AND TRUCKS DIAL 26141 or DIAL 2.2940 DIAL Featuring... “THE FOUR REASONS” 2.3233 DANCING ‘TIL iy FOR FOOD -:- DRINKS -:- FAVORS RESERVATIONS