The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 29, 1952, Page 3

leases within the past six years | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN nor were there any recent leases — = ad Monday, December 29, 1952 the | SPORTS WEATHERMAN MIRROR By The Associated Press Says TODAY A YEAR AGO — St. V@ Y~© |Louis upset Kentucky, nation’s top ——— |basket ball team, 61-60. TROT & VICINITY: Gen-| FIVE YEARS AGO — The Na- r fair and cooler today and|tional Boxing Association named 4 | tonight; Tuesday fair with slowly |rising temperatures. Gentle to Joe Walcott as logical contender for Joe Louis’ heavyweight title. 4 | moderate northerly winds, fresh at} TEN YEARS AGO — Branch ; | times offshore. é FLORIDA: Clear to __ partly Rickey, Billy Southworth and Ted | cloudy over north and central por- Page 3! PF OM DRILLING TO (Continued from Page One) o r under Sinclair's name. J Cr nal Noon Stock a key figure in IIB business, may ‘ o t have had ething| Headquarters for the new oil test M | P * o.do- with the glant lease of bay {wells will be in Homestead, it was | \WMGAN’ ket Friees bottom acreage to the oil com-|said. Tests of the geological struc- Pp ny. All bay bottoms unless jture of the ocean bottom have otherwise owned is the property of | taken place in the last year. the State of Florida. ge acrea There were small leases in the | at this wri under oil, gas re index book of deeds and leases | min lease by the refining com- | American ‘Tob under the name of Sinclair Refin- jpany lies between Key Largo and = Woolen ing company; there were no large '|Cape Sable. con ela Grocery Store Gutted By Fire Sunday NEW YORK (AP) Hi Atl G Eq 8 KEY 10; Atl Coast Line 1193Nash Kelvin Atl Refining 32% Norf_ & West Balt & Ohio 28% Packard Mtr 55% Penn (JC) | Burl Mills 17%4 Pepsi Cola jCaterpil Tra 645% Philco Corp | Celanese @orp 38%Philip Morris Beth Steel Williams were named top baseball men of the year by the Sporting ARCHER'S Superetic Market THE BEST DEAL IN TOWN! 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Ig. ean 25¢ [2 aT Factory Packed Quick Meals SUGAR ... 5 Ibs. 39e SPAM... 12-0z. can 41e Carnation Evaporated x... 3 cans 43¢ U.S, No. 1 Good Baking POTATOES 5 Ibs. 34e ONIONS . . 2 lbs 15¢ POTATOES 2 Ibs. 29 Archer's 22:23 svc “The Store That Serves You Best” STRING END.... lb. 5lc f | Ghes_& Ohio 39% Radio Corp Chrysler Corp _ 95% Reading 107 tions and partly cloudy over ex- treme south portion today and Tuesday. Little change in tempera- j, {ture except slightly cooler south portion today. JACKSONVILLE THRU THE FLORIDA STRAITS: | Moderate 4|north azd northeast winds today 24 Un Carbide 34 Un Oil Cal 71% Union Pacifie 52% United Airc. 68% United Fruit 263 U. S. Steel 34% Warner Pict 75% West. Union 52% Willys Overl, 12% Woolworth MORAY EEL’S DEATH (Continued from Page One) s\reef, six miles off Summerland, and dropped the hook at the H marker all that is above water of Looe Key. The day was the calmest since October. The blue waters of Niles Power & Lt Elec Foods Mtrs Greyhound smooth that it seemed more like May than December. On the way out, the small Hud- gins boys were no more excited than | at the sight of half a dozen schools of porpoises play- ing and diving up out of the water making their arched curve against the horizon. The ballyhoo fish waltzed their skimming dives over the surface of the sea eliciting shrieks of joy from Hen- ry Clay and John Hudgins. The big freighters and tankers en route to Texas moved slowly on the horizon seeming to stand still to our eyes. Finally the moment came when Bert and Skipper Ed Gibson went into the water. Ed and his snorkel, flippers, gloves and underwater camera, Bert carried his under- water rubber propelled gun. 1 was in no hurry to go In the water. | knew from last Sun- day’s viewing from the deck that these waters were loaded with barracuda. Sure enough Bert and Ed coming back to the boat later reported that they had been unpleasantly close to a school of about 25 good sized barracuda. A good size is one that is over 15 pounds. These were large but unagressive. Two smaller but more agressive he was reaching under a coral Miihead for crawfish. They did not |make a pass at him, but they did m{open and shut their mouths in an ominous way. Finally they went away and left him to get his catch jfor dinner. The constant companion of craw- | fish unfortunately are generally the | vicious Moray eel. Ed had missed jreaching into the jagged toothed ‘jaw of one last week. Yesterday the peered under the coral heads | before putting his gloved hand in them. 3 | Peering right back at Ed was S| the chartreuse green Moray eel | poised for a nice chunk of lunch out of Ed’s arm. Ed does not like to kill needless- ily, even if the target is the mali- cious Moray, but he could not get || at his crawfish without putting the | Moray out of the way. | He shot one of his spears into ~\the head of the Moray stunning, but not killing it. Then began a jbattle of one and one-half hours | between“ Ed and the Moray. But }like all spear fishermen he did not want to lese his spear and he couldn't extricate his spear with- out extricating the Moray eel. Bert, joined in the struggle, and from the deck his wife, Dorothy and Mary Hudgins and I watched, feel- jing a sympathetic chill at their long immersion in the water. Finally Ed swam back to the Mary King carrying the four and one half foot long Moray on hi spear. “Hold this,” climbed aboard. It was the second time ! have he said as he had the experience of holding a | spear with a Moray eel impaled on it. Though the evil snake-like | creature had finally given up the | ghost, his mouth was propped open by the spear through his jaws. “See, those are the teeth you want to stay away from,” Ed) said. He pointed to. the crisscross | of sharp little biters in the tri-| angular-shaped mouth of the eel. | Since none of us wanted the eel | for a trophy or for dinner, Ed/ dropped him back into the deep. | Bert had spared his dinner, one | nice grouper, and two crawfish besides. They joined the two Ed had previously caught. | Earlier I went in the water for} experimental dip after four n the men, when Hudgins called from the > barracuda head She could see ito, channel and the Atlantic were so} barracuda nosed near Ed while! \ | ‘| becoming northeast to east Tues- day. Partly cloudy extreme south portion, clear to partly cloudy elsewhhere. EAST GULF: Gentle to moder- 41% | ate northeast winds today becom- ing easterly Tuesday. Clear to : | partly cloudy weather. WESTERN CARIBBEAN: Mo- derate northeast winds today and Tuesday. Clear to partly cloudy weather. Observations taken at City Office Key West, Fla., Dec. 29, 1952 9:00 A.M., EST ‘Temperatures Highest yesterday —— Lowest last night Total last 24 hours _. .0 ins. Total this month _.__.54 ins. Deficiency this month — 1.02. ins. Total this year ______ 32.74 ins. Deficiency this year —_. 5.30 ins. Relative Humidity at 9:00 A.M, 85% Barometer (Sea Level) 9:00 A.M. 30.12 ins —1020.0 mbs. Tomorrow’s Almanac i —~ 72:11 am. Moonset - Full Moon .. (Naval Base) HIGH 9:27 a.m, 8:30 p.m. Low 2:53 a.m, 1:41 p.m. Photographs made by the Nation- al Geographic Society during and after a 1952 eclipse show that star light is bent by gravity. the clear shallow reef water from the bow of the boat, There have been many times when I stayed right in the water with barracuda repeating to my- self, “They will not strike, I am bigger than they, they will not strike.” Yesterday, however, having been out of the water for four months, I had lost my nerve temporarily. I decided to head for the boat. Inadvertently I took a backward stroke. Ed moved me away. “You almost stepped on the Moray eel!” “I think I'll go in.” Ed escorted tented myself the rest of the after- noon with watching him and Bert in their struggle with that same .|P-m. Wednesday and mid-night | _ National Safety Council’s pre-holi- me back’ to the boat where I con- | News. TWENTY YEARS AGO — Frank (Lefty) O'Doul of the Brooklyn Dodgers was top batsman of the National League with .368. Cotton Bow! Teams Drill In Secret DALLAS #—Texas and Tennes- see practice at the site of the Cotton Bowl for the first time to- day with the gates locked and no- body knowing what they're doing. Coach Ed Price of Texas has a hunch, however, that the Volun- teers are cooking up some pass Plays designed to catch the Long- horns flat-footed. Both coaches — Acting Head Coach Harvey Robinson of Tenn- essee and Price— continued to rate the opposition “tremendous.” YOUTH INJURED BY (Continued from Page One) when it exploded in his face in- flicting the severe injuries. He has been confined to the Naval Hospital since and doctors say that he narrowly escaped the loss of his right eye) Today City Manager Dave King cautioned Key Westers against use of fireworks. It is a misdemeanor to discharge fireworks within the city limits, he added and stiff Penalties are provided for violators. OVER 500 DIE (Continued from Page One) for the 102-hour period between 6) Sunday (local time) come up to the | day estimate of 590. Bloody as the slaughter on the streets and highways was, it did not equal the 551 killed during a similar Christmas week end in 1936. The all-time record for all accidental deaths during a four- day Christmas holiday period, 789, was set last year. Silk worm moths are about one- half-inch long. SPEND NEW YEAR'S EVE in the Beautiful Hotel La Concha‘s Rainbow Room. Dancing 9 ‘Til? $1.25 per Person WHATEVER YOUR NEEDS IN THE LINE OF Children’s Citizen Staff Photo THE CONTENTS OF A GROCERY STORE operated by Charles Moody at the corner of Elizabeth and Olivia Streets were totally destroyed Sunday evening by fire. Firefighters managed to save the building from total destruction after a one hour battle. 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