The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 20, 1953, Page 1

‘Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 72° Che Kry Wiest Cit THE SOUTHERNMOST. NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. OL. LXXIV. No. 17 Simonton Street Will) Be Re-Zoned Two Way CITY FATHERS PASS ORDINANCE MAKING CHANGE IN TRAFFIC DIRECTION MONDAY The City ‘Commission passed on first reading last night an ordinance which will make the full length of Simonton Street a two- way thoroughfare. After an hour’s discus- sion the commissioners ac- quiesced to the complaints of a large group of Simon- ton Street businessmen who appeared at the meeting protesting that the designa- tion of the street as “one- way” is hurting their busi- ness. The commissioners voted 3-2 to make the change which reverses an ordinarice placed in effect three months ago which made Simonton Street ‘one way. Two ‘separate ordinances were prepared by City Attorney M. Ig- natius Lester rezoning portions of | the street but the city fathers end- ed up by rejecting beth and de- ciding to change the entire length of the thoroughfare. Under the provisions of one of the ordinances, Simonton Street would have remained closed to two-way traffic between Greene and Southard Streets and the other stated that it would be one way from Greene to Fleming Street. Commissioner John Carbonell, hot ir, proposed “going all the way” and as a result the full length. of the street will be to two-way traffic. * The measure will come up for second reading at the next regular meeting of , ' A Fleming Street hotel operator at the meeting last night asked ‘that the same action -be-taken with regard to that street. He pointed out his loss of business during the season which he laid to one-way traffic there. A petition signed by 50 residents of that area, presented to the com- mission a month ago when the question first arose, was re-intro- duced at last night's session. In a motion presented after the passage of. the traffic ordinance, Commission Jack Delaney asked that ‘the City Manager be autho- rized to retain a firm of engineers to make a study of the cost of widening Simonton Street to re- lieve the traffic situation there. The motion was unanimously adopted by the city fathers. Mayor: Harvey, in opposing the (Continued On Page Two) City Planners Ask Hearing On Zoning Mon. Planning Commission Cites Need For More Business Zones Here The City Planning commission met last night in joint session with the members of the City Com- mission and presented three items of business for consideration, the foremost of which was the request for setting a date for a public hearing into the possibility of ex- tending the Business areas in the city. Bernard Frank acting chair- man of the planning commission told the city fathers that a short- age of business sites in the city was the reason for the board's recomendation. The city com- mission agreed to the proposal and a date for such a meeting will be set for the future. The planners also pointed out a problem arising from the ordinance regulating the erection of neon signs in the city and at the sug- gestion of {City Marager Dave King, the ordinance will be revised. The city commissioners instructed King to meet with the Planning Commission, the City Attorney, a member of the City Commission along with a representative of the sign erecting business in Key West to agree on a basis for rewriting the existing ordinance. The Planning Commission also pointed out the n for ae ae Py Commission Will Mark Scout Week Key West's Boy Scouts will par- ticipate .in the next regular meet- ing of the City Commission as a today. February 2-9 has been set as Boy Scout Week. Mayor C. B, Harvey said that the scouts will act as Mayor and commissioners in OK’ing a resolu- tion at the meeting dealing with scout activities, The event is an annual affair. : Scout Executive Bernard Frank appeared at the commission meet- bees night on behalf of the KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1953 GOODBYE, MR. PRESIDENT ; oe : KW. Knew Is John Q. Citizen Now Circus Will Come Here In March The circus will come to town sometime in March, it was an- nounced last night by George Hanskat of the Arthur Sawyer Post, American Legion who will sponsor the affair. The exact date for the gala show has not been set although it will be sometime in March, Hanskat said. The City Commission last night agreed to waive their regular licensing fee for the circus. 3 4 4 a) | By ELLIS FINCH Today at high noon the president, whom Key West knew as a friend and neighbor, became just plain John Q. Citizen once more. We of Key West, owe more to the former president than many of us can easily recall. To us he was Mr. President and our friend. The erect, genial fellow who walk- ed our streets dressed in the loudest of sport. shirts with a jaunty cap perched atop his head, | greeting one and all with a ‘cheery “Good morning,” is tonight on his way back to his home town. | Though many differed with him as a statesman, all admired him as a man. He chose to be loyal to those whom he called friends, de- spite all the adverse criticism heaped upon them from all sides as the true color of some began to appear. We feel that a man whose unquestionable loyalty was .| thus shown has a heart as big as | a mountain. Sticking close to one’s | friends is a trait to be admired by | anyone. This man whom we people of |the news world had oceasion to {| contact more than once was al- ays cordial and treated us as equals. This is more than can be | said of some of his closest asso-| ciates. He was never too busy to | stop on the street and chat during Smathers Bill Would Change Tax Picture Measure To Let Widows Deduct For Child Care Is Introduced Senator -George Smathers in- | troduced a bill to Congress Friday calling fora change .in the pre- sent income tax laws. Smathers’ proposal, if. passed, would fill a long-felt need by. permitting widows to deduct child care. costs for tax Purposes, “Mr. President; I introduced to- day a bill which would permit widows to deduct for income tax a certain “child care” costs. “I am aware that proposed legis- lation of this nature should have its origin in the House of Repre- sentatives. However I am intro- ducing it here inthe Senate with the hope that the Committee to which it is referred will give it the consideration that it justly de- serves and-will see fit to incor- porate its provisions as an amend- ment to an appropriate bill from the- House. “In these days of high taxes it EISENHOWER BECOMES NATION'S HEAD WHILE - THOUSANDS LOOK ON Key West A quarium Is Now One Of Florida’s Top Attractions JUMP OF NEARLY 100,000. VISITORS ANNUALLY SHOWN IN KROLL’S REPORT The Key West Municipal Aquar- ium has developed into one of Florida’s major tourist attractions according to figures released to- day by Director Bill Kroll. A jump of paid admissions from 73,000 in 1947 to a total of 145,722 last year, was revealed by figures which Kroll presented to the City Commission when he requested that the city grant him the use of additional parking Space adjacent to ihe Aquarium to handle the annual overflow of cars in the regular parking lot there. In addition, Kroll’s report stated, the annual rental paid to the city by the Aquarium opera- tion has jumped from $3,377.24 in its first year of operation to $7,892.91 in 1952. . _ All indications point to another increase in the number of visitors to the display of tropical fish this year as well, Kroll pointed out. At their meeting last night, the city fathers agreed readily to grant Kroll the use of the land which is part of the recently purchased Clyde-Mallory Dock ee required .. the proposed Havana-Key: West ferry line goes into operation. How- ever, it is the opinion of those in- formed that the city has enough land available at the terminal to ed needs of the ferry operators. An increase in rental paid to the city, possibly to $9,000, was seen by the Aquarium director, as the Kroll took over the operation of the Aquarium in 1947 after the Attempted Rape Hearing Held On Mon. County Solicitor Asks Continuance Of Case Against James Williams A preliminary hearing into at- tempted rape charges held against James L. Williams, 119 Duval Street was continued until a later date yestefday on the motion of eee Solicitor Allen B. Cleare, ir. Cleare asked for the continuence at the hearing, which was held be- fore Justice of the Peace Ira Al- bury, for the purpose of obtaining the testimony of additional witness- es. William is charged with the rape attempt in connection with the attack and beating of a 19 year old Navy wife as she watch- ed the children of a friend in a Fleming Street apartment last The victim, in her cestimony of. how the man Williams had knocked en the door of the apartment and asked if @ “Mrs. MeNailis lived there.” When she told him that there ‘was no one by that name at the Fleming Street address, Williams is alleged to have entered the apartment and attacked her. The young wife broke down tear- fully at several points during her testim: ony. Williams maintained a stolid at- titude of innocence during most of the hearing but at one-point shout- ed that the “woman’s story doesn’t make sense.” “She is always changing her (Continued On Page Two) Publicity For KW Provided In “Scenic South” In the current issue of “Scenic South,” a publication of Standard Oil Company, Key West comes in for its share of the limelight, or rather the sunlight, along with pic- tures of other points of interest in Florida. In fact, Key West got the lion’s share of publicity. On pages 12, 13, 14 and 15, there are a series of pictures, one of . ithem by Oliver Griswold, depict- third, and four years later to a fourth. ing Key West views. First one, the Griswold shot, is on the giant tur- tles. The monsters are shown on the boats and at the famous crawis. Captions state that “Florida's most Simple Oath Of Office Is Given By Chief Justice WASHINGTON (AP) — Dwight David Eisenhower became the 34th President of the United States today. Right hand upraised, the 62-year-old citizen soldier took on the power and re- sponsibility of the world’s most trying office with the simple, 37-word oath ad- ministered to all presidents — to “faithfully execute the office... preserve, protect and defend the Con- stitution.” In his immediate audience at the capitol ceremony were the members of Congress, top officials of the old and new administrations, foreign diplomats and thousands of invited guests. Millions of others in the United States saw and heard the cere- mony ‘by television. Radio picked up his voice and carried it across the seas. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson administered the oath, Richard M. Nixon was sworn in William Knowland uf California ad- ministered the oath to him, Eisenhower rested his left hand ‘on two Bibles-one his own from West Point days, the other a testa- ment used in George Washington's first inauguration~as he repeated the oath. Standing by was Harry S. Tra- man from whom the nation’s high- est office passed to Eisenhower. In the traditional way, Truman But only one would go back. Tonight, private citizen Truman leaves for his old home in Mis- souri. So ended, in 2 solemn moment of recess from Republican merry- making in the teeming, flag-draped capital, 20 years of “New Deal- Fair Deal” rule. Ami so began what the new Pres- ident has promised will be a great crusade for peace, for freedom, for integrity and for prosperity. Eisenhower approached his high moment with a prayer to God for wisdom end understanding. While hundreds of thousands in jam-packed Washington scrambled in the morning hours for vantage points to see the noon ceremony and the following parade, the soldier-statesman and his family went to religious services, In a front pew of the National Presbyterian Church, Eisenhower bowed his head as the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson appealed to the Lord to “give therefore thy servant an understanding heart.” 4) his vacations here. He never re-| {| fused to see us even when we rude-| *\ly barged in on his luncheon, as{ 3} we did at one time. Under those | conditions, he or any other man “}| would have been justified in treat-} is difficult for many of us to stay in step with the relentless and ever- increasing pace of the cost of liv- ing; particularly «ft is difficult for . i those working widows in the lower | Truman was specifically exempt- income brackets who have to hire | ed. ing us as rudely as we were | Someone to care for their children | treating him. while they are at work. Nat'l Polio Fund Worker To Arrive | Not Harry S. Truman. He was| “This bill would permit a widow Charles H. Bynum, a represen- all smiles and, rising to greet us| Who is gainfully employed outside jas though we were close friends, (Continued On Page Two) tative of the National Foundation | makes soup and canned turtle deli- |Instruction of a tract of land ad- for Infantile Paralysis, will arrive | cacies. | joining the Poinciana Elementary he made us feel welcome. "Ci P smiling and genial personality at | t a urchases | y in Key West today where he will} Another study is of two dignified | School is 2 legal opinion from at- participate in the Monroe County | pelicans perched on a wharf edge ‘torney general Richard Ervin, it , that time made us understand how ‘New Bulldozer | March of Dimes fund raising cam. | waiting for prospective meals. It |was revealed last night at the re- (Continued On Page Two) | ‘The Shelley Tractor Company | paign, Floyd Hannibal, chairman |is called “Harbor Sentinels.” igular meeting of the eity com- |was the low bidder cn a new bull- |of Colored fund raising activities, | The third is a beautiful view of | missioc dozer for use at the city | announced today. the Key West Lighthouse, adding | The attorney general was asked dump to replace another which| Bynum is a graduate of Lincoln |that the tover balcony affords fine |tp rule on the legality of City Manager Dave King said | U views of the southernmost city. |» clause stating that the land would “simply gave out.” ———ee ever! to the city in the event Shelley SPECIAL ATTRACTION | ‘bat in ee 118 Duval St. pected to take place in the near GOULD CURRY | future At The Piene 9-1 P.M. The county asked that the city- Taste Angele’s Osliciovs whed land be deeded to them so PIEZA PIES t they could make use of @ public playground In 1951 there was ratified an colorful business is the hunti amendment to the Constitution, the x oe processing of giant turtles. The Mosquito Keys, off Nicaragua, and Jamaica's Cayman Islands are | favorite hunting grounds for the | 200 to 600 pound sore } f Two accompanying los show | - the turtles flipped over on their | Awaited By City backs being unloaded at Key West's | crawls and then being lowered into| i) that stands im the way of the water where they are kept un- the granting by the city to the til processing by the factory which | Monroe County Board of Public Legal Opinion On School Land Is TOTS’ BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST Citizen Staff Photo | MON., JAN. 26 from 4-6 P.M. A NEW FACILITY for servicemen, tourists and Key Westers has been added by the Chamber wT ae Gao of Commerce at its office on Whitehead Street, in cooperation with the Southern Bell Telephone {| Siciialiaites: <«: the Company-—a telephone directory service. At present directories from 30 cities in the nation are | at Mati available for consultation, with more directories to be added. The Chamber staff is not in a posi- lean ng tion to handle telephone inquiries from those who wish to use this service, so it will be necessary | Children's Commer. corner of Flem- to call at the office to look up the desired numbers. Pay stations are available in the t ing and Simonton. j the building. The photograph shows Donald McKee, ETS, of Brooklyn, New York. USS Sa a 4 Prizes will be awarded. There days and agreed to attached to the Key West Naval Base, consulting one of the books as Harold Laubscher, Chamber | it be Ist, 2nd and 3rd bull tt eh aoe to manager, and Chet Cold, Southern Bell manager, look on. i — a ust the new equipment