The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 5, 1953, Page 3

Warren Administration Closes With Several Records Set TALLAHASSEE (#—Gov. Fuller Warren is closing out a tumultuous administration which in four years Taised taxes more, borrowed more money, spent more and left more in the state treasury than any oth- er in Florida ‘history. He’s had a rough time, giving and taking in free-for-all squabbles with a myriad of critics, but through it all the state has moved into a period of unprecedentedly stable growth and prosperity. It!'was<a job Warren sought for 30 years, then often wondered aloud why he did. It had him in the hospital with Rervous exhaustion at the end of the first year. His second year was marked by internal disruptions and criticism from the U. S. Senate’s Kefauver Crime Committee. Both brought on an unsuccessful attempt to im- Peach him in his third year. And as he winds it up he and his Road Board are under grand jury investigation as the result of a civil suit alleging they conspired to extract kickbacks on road ma- terial purchases to repay a heavy campaign backer. He got married for the third e. He took up smoking, but is leav- ing office still a tee-totaler. He drinks orange juice when others have cocktails. He probably has done more fly- ing than all other governors com- bined—covering many thousands of miles inside the state, across the WANT A CERTAIN 10] B You'll find where Yellow Pages che FOR HOME or COMMERCIAL USE... We Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear. Pure Cube Crushed ICE Thompson Enterprises, Inc. (ICE DIVISION) DIAL 2-683) JANUARY 2-31 MIAMI Also Serving ALL POINTS ON FLORIDA KEYS Between Miami and Key West Express Schedule (No Stops En Route) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS) at 6:00 P.M. Arrives at RAND Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service { nation and even to South America |way system, 21 millions for the on trips often designed to promote |lower Tampa Bay bridge and is the tourist business. plugging for a highly controversial With the aid of a staff publicity | 275 million dollar turnpike and sev- man he has kept on the front jeral lesser projects as the term pages of Florida newspapers al-j|runs out. most constantly. Not all that was| When he took office Jan. 4, written was complimentary. When |1949, with a call for “frontier fru- it wasn’t, he. usually fought back. | yality” the 43-year-old 29th gover- He has issued hundreds of state- {nor found a general fund balance ments attacking his critics. of five million dollars ann obliga- Warren can claim almost uncon- |tions for the future which the 1947 tested credit for putting behind | Legislature had deferred meeting. fences the cattle waich once} New revenue was essential. He roamed Florida highways. City proposed a series of special in- dwellers and tourists welcomed it, |qustry taxes to furnish it, but the and even the rural fotks who fought | Legislature wouldn’t go along. it so long didn’t find it too objec- {Legislative leaders preferred a tionable. sales tax, and he was pledged He also put over a new set of|against a general sales levy. laws designed to keep early season} The regular legislative session green citrus fruit from reaching |ended with no new tax money and Northern markets and spoiling the|the state went through a tough nation’s taste for later, better fruit. |financial summer. He gives those laws credit for r Warren sought to dramatize the turn of prosperity to the citrus in-| situation by passing up his salary dustry. and borrowing money on his Cadil- As each succeeding administra-|lac just before he left for Cali- tion in recent years has done, War-|fornia to be married. The stunt ren’s built more roads than any |backfired with a wave of public other. It poured 189 millions into |indignation and ridicule. the highway system—some of it| Finally, in a September special money borrowed on self-liquidating ;session, the Legislature and War- toll projects. ren agreed on what he called a Where preceding administrations | “limited sales tax” exempting ne- had just dabbled at borrowing on |cessities of life. E bond issues to finance public] Since then, the state’s finances works, the Warren Improvement |have improved steadily. Receipts Commission: moved boldly into the |from the sales tax and older levies field. on consumer goods have mounted It borrowed 28 millions for the |on the wings of rising prices, state onstration blew up, his row with the Ku Klux Klan (in which he called Klansmen hooded hoodlums and covered cowards) led to pas- sage of a legislative act prohibiting wearing masks in public. He appointed several thousand honorary colonels, including a couple who had connections which later embarrassed him, but always refused to make public a list. Then he embellished his staff with a pair of admirals, one of them C.V. Griffn. He made Bing Crosby a general and the Duke of Windsor an honorary citizen. As he leaves office he proudly claims nearly all his campaign pledges have been carried out. He acknowledges failure on his promise that if elected governor the people ‘‘won’t have to see any- one to see if they can see me.” He conceded that was just too much of a bite tu chew. BEQUESTS TO SCHOOLS NEW YORK #~—Mrs. Thomas W. Lamont, who died here Monday left $4,115,000 in specific bequests, including almost three million dol- lars to seven women’s colleges. She was the widow of the former chairman of the board of J. P. Morgan & Co., bankers, who died in 1948. She left $1,200,000 to Smith Col- lege, $500,000 to Barnard, and $250,- 000 each to Wellesley, Bryn-Mawr, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke and Vas- sar. Jacksonville bridge and express-|growtl’ and general prosperity. Warren is leaving his successor four times as much in the general fund as he found when he took office. The sales tax bill came in a package with two other measures. Florida cities, which long had sought financial help from the state, were cut in for a rebate of all cigarette taxes collected within their boundaries. Counties got for road building the seventh cent of tax on gasoline which formerly went to the state general fund. No sooner had the financial prob- lem been solved than another situ- ation rose to plague the governor and his administration. Cc. V. Griffin, a wealthy cam- paign backer, fell out with Warren and charged wide open gambling and vice was being permitted. The furore brought a public cru- sade against gambling by the press, the Miami Crime Commis- sion and finally the Kefauver Com- mittee. Warren slapped at all of them. He claimed his administra- tion had suppressed gambling. At its height, he suspended six sheriffs and five constables. One of them was Sheriff Jimmy Sullivan of Dade County, who later was reinstated by Warren on the basis of a Supreme Court decision several months earlier that an in- dictment charging the sheriff with neglect of duty was technically in- ‘sufficient. Within three months, Sullivan resigned and now is under indictment for income tax evasion. The _ Sullivan reinstatement brought the impeachment move in the 1951 Legislature. Along with a whole series of investigations, it kept the Legislature in high fever; but in the end only six representa- tives voted for the impeachment articles and the move failed. But the Senate refused to con- firm reappointment of Warren’s racing commission, and he had to get a whole new board. For the final 18 months of his administration, Warren has divided his time between swapping public statements with his critics, plug- ' ging for highway safety (with some | apparent results), pushing the THOR ZED to buy it in the turnpike proposal and trying to Promote more tourist business and greater industrial development. For almost half cf his adminis- tration he argued at long distance with Sen. Kefauver who became his arch enemy. He issued debate challenges time after time while the Senate Com- mittee was in session and later while Kefauver was running for the Democratic presidential nomi- nation in the Florida preferential primary But the two never came face to face. ' The governor sent back a sub- poena by which the committee sought to question him as a wit ness. He said it was an encroach- ment on state sovereignty Last spring Kefauver, for the presidential _ KEY WEST. FLORIDA between AND KEY WEST the governor had just left. Both agreed to a debate a few days later in Miami, but they never got j together on a time or place. Ke- |fauver went on television beside FILM PRODUCTION UP IN MEXICAN STUDIOS MEXICO CITY ™ — Mexican movie makers, heartened oy a new law requiring theaters to show Mexican- made films at least half the time, have announced plans to produce some 200 pic- tures. This figure, disclosed last week, is more than double the number of movies turned out by Mexican producers in 1952. The govern- Someta $ NATIONAL Airlines ment’s Banco Cinematografico is expected to finance about one third of the forthcoming output. Moslems, who made the pilgri- mage to Mecca required by their religion, used to pay a heavy tax for the privilege, but oil revenues have increased sufficiently in Ara- bia so that the tax has been drop- ped. 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