The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1953, Page 1

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Key West, Florida, {has the most equable climc¢ country, with’ ch range of only 14°. f To Borrow Money 3 Urges Solons | | To Be Careful: | $200 Found For | Douglass School, The city of Key West ha a healthy cash balance : its. treasury but i 4 E uk! F car in the average enheit ~ SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER VOL. LXXIV. No. 42 ‘ Roberts Warns City! May Have spending will be nece: rg so that it will have enoujghi funds to pay operating cokts|! throughout the remainder} of the year, City Finaia Director Charles Robert: said today. In his monthly financial a released earlier in the week, the city’s cash’ balance was listed ¢ However; Roberts said that vf this amount, only $225,607.58 is availablé for current operational ‘All of this money. has been ear’, marked in the budget’ for definité- Purposes, he added. : The balance, $284,599.05, is ir; special funds, including sewer re-., venue; “the sinking fund (which cannot be touched by law), bond redemption funds, and retirement ! and pension funds. j ‘ f { “The City may have fe bor- fow money, if we are not care- “ful in the way we spend money for the rest of the year;”-R: s fer City Commission a Hi ms e months com: up “when Srecne will an been « re- Virtually all current taxes have been’ collected, Roberts reported. Roberts made the when he revealed that after @ confer- ence with city manager Dave King, it had been found possible to give a check for $200 to the Douglass High School to aid in the finane- ing of a trip to Fort Pierce to par- ticipate in an area tournament by the basketball squad from that school, February 26th and 27th. ‘The city commission had moved on Monday night to give the school “all the financial aid pos- sible.” + But at that time, Roberts and, the city manager, had ‘said that); they did not think they ‘could of- fer much help. However, a re- view of the budget revealed that $200 had been appropriated by the i city for the projected, La Semana Alegre (Week of Joy) — festival Originally scheduled this month. | , A check with County Commission- er Joe Allen revealed that the festival will not be held and this money was diverted to theeDou- glass School A check for that amount was turned over to Alpheus Dean, ath- letic director at the school. Pythian Knights Celebrate Order Founding Friday Members of the Order of | Knights of Pythias throughout the | United States and Canada are this | week celebrating the founding of the order in the city of Washing-| Gyn. fen, D. C. on February 19, 1864 Key West Lodge will celebrate ty conferring the Rank of Knight | on a class of candidates at their; Meeting on Friday evening | At the conclusion of the meeting | @ Buffett Supper will be served. All members of the order are Invited to attend these events. Choice F.H.A. Approved BUILDING LOTS in EXTRA LARGE AND FILLED $2,000.00 , SEVERAL WATERFRONT LOTS) AVAILABLE | Along With St. From Flagler Through Harris Ave, | DIAL 2.5606 LEY TOPPINO & SONS the Pointed ont that the city’ has , |5:30 p. m. and will go directly Arrive Today Two-Day Meeting At Naval Station Is Scheduled To Start This Evening More than one hundred of the nation’s top industrialists, mem- bers of the National Security In- dustrial Association, will arrive in Key West this afternoo for a three day meeting at the Key West Naval Station. The group will arrive by bus at to the Naval Station where they will be quartered throughout their stay. Purpose of the visit is to give the industrialists too an’ oppor- tunity to observe Naval activities here and actually see the products they manufacture in use in the field. All are representatives of ! companies that manufacture goods |’ for the Navy. The program will get underway |’ "| tonight with a dinner on the Naval Station and the formal order of business will get underway early tomorrow morning when, at 6:00 *1\a.m., they will board ships for Hospital and on arrival weighed ten pounds and. two ounces. she was so big and roly-poly that Dr. Herman Moore in at- Yendance had her placedin’an incubator in order to get enough i into her lungs in double-quick u " 330 a.m. yesterday | TALLAHASSEE in_The Florida frm (Chompson’s dock, own- | Supreme Court ruled» today that “Albury:|. In response to a request for an/ orelout Frantz’ John Doe ant for the unknown | stitutional a 1951 no = took ; to 3 ho, under. “cover “of, Letitia — dankngss, piloted the $16,-| hands and ‘imper from its berth |74 Cabinet together. Guard Cutter Ariad. i beard and search all in the Dry Ti 8 the: j nentberb ew ell” bearded ves- sala, Totay {the owner who fives at {the governor's “Little Cabinet” of | anti-submarine warfare . demon- strations. Some of the visitors will board submarines tor actual first hand looks at the manuevers. Rear Admiral Irving T. Duke, commanding officer of the Key West Naval Station, will be the feature speaker tomorrow night at a reception and dinner on the base. A visit ‘to the Navy Charity Carnival tomorrow night is also slated. On Friday morning, visits to the Fleet Sonar School, the Advanced Underseas Weapons School, Naval Ordnance Unit, the Surface Anti- Submarine - Development - Detach- ment and the USS. Gilmore, have ae lest at noon ‘The ‘Nation '| Association is the governor has authority: to | | ‘the “state ‘hotel commis- advisory opinion from Gov. Dan MeCarty,- the court-ruled uncon- out of the governor's gave it to tke governor ‘Today's ing clears the way ‘for McCarty to replace hotel Com- missioner James T. Landon at once but he would not say imme- diately whether he plans to do it. ef was considered a member of | Vandals Damage License Plates. Bs “oy NOT A MOB SCENE for a movie IN THE U.S.A. Tphdweil BIG NAVY CARNIVAL STARTS eae er but a gathering this morning of the Officers’ Wives Club at the Séaplane Base in front of the big hangar where the Navy Charity Carnival opens tomorrow at 5 booth, are being briefed on duties and activities by their over- p.m. The ladies, who: have a-cake all chairman, Mrs. James Lenney. President: Names Dunn Ambassador x ‘Eisenhower The license plates on'12 automo-\ Senate the nomination of John biles were damaged, some of | Moors Cabot of Cambridge, Mass., them bent and twisted completely | to be assistant secretary of state off, ‘last night in the latest of a /for inter-Americag’ affairs. All ‘three nominees: are career diplomats. Dunn “has” been “Ambassador Ae mond Dalton, reported the damage | France ‘since March 14, 1952, to the cars, believed to be ers | Maly that was. ambassador to He is a rash of acts of malicious vanda- lism to be reported. Public Health Officer Dr. Ray- largely by Naval Station person- nel, was discovered eatly this morning by a nurse in his office when she camé io work. They were parked on Thomas County Court House. Landen received such an ap- “at man may even now | pointment at the beginning of Gov. | feet «? wi shallow the K the boat to Mexico, | Fuller Warren's | administration but in mid-term the 1951 Legisla- ture passed an act making hi an employe of the Cabinet to serv Ambassador Street adjacent to the Naval Sta-| Madrid.» tion fenee and directly behind ” Rankin has 1953 NAVY CHARITY CARNIVAL Is Very Proud to Present “THE VAGABONDS” Stars of the Arthur Godfrey Television Shove and MARIA NEGLIA World Famous Violinist Currently Appearing at 1 “THE VAGABOND” Club, Miami THURS.. FEB. 19, 1953 — 5:00 PM. Official Opening of The 1953 NCC We Deliver LECTURE. GIVEN Se etree Patients e1 4 5 Briefly, the method used is Seventy-five cubic centimeters blood (about a tablespoon) is moved from the patient. The sam- ol re- DIAL 24351 WED. - THURS. - FRI, - SAT. Dr. Hertz, Vacationing In City, Tells Of New Advance Made In Fighting Cancer. Expire Friday; No Time Extension $ & i I ful : 5s i? Hh H i! i : i fit ; bie! j if i # Hy 4 i i i f Fa i i vrata frise: H il Hi ee ’ Minstrel. Reheersal 7:30 P.M. Corner Ettzabeth end Greene Sts. | Tonight st Den. DAY Doors Open 5 P.M. In Hangar At Seaplane Base | For Charity By DOROTHY RAYMER “The Navy Takes Care Of Its Own,” is a slogan not strictly true. The Navy also helps take care of com- munity needs and their con- tribution to Key West chari- ty runs into thousands of Base Hangar. The big event lasts until 11 p.m, the first night and re-opens again on Friday and Saturday. 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