The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY' WEST 72° Local Bar Owner Is Fined $50 Wednesdiy: FOUND GUILTY IN CITY COURT OF . SERVING WHISKEY TO INTOXICATED MAN « Lawrence Imburgia, co- owner of the Two Friends Bar, Front Street, was found guilty and fined $50 in city court yesterday on a charge that a man already under the influence of alcohol was served with an. intoxicating beverage in his place of business. Judge Enrique Esquinal- do, Jr., after weighing the evidence presented in the testimony of. five defense witnesses issued the verdict of. “guilty.” The charge stemmed from an_ incident on the night of February 10 when City ..Manager. Dave King made a one-man check of local bar operations. He had reported that he had personally observed a man, Wesley Ramagos, of the shrimp boat “Champ,” en- ter the bar in an obviously intoxicated” condition and order another drink which was given to him. Police jailed Imburgia on King’s complaint. EY y,. Imburgia appeared fn. court with his attorney, George with four ‘witnesses includ- 6 the “bar-maid Who served tle drink, all. of whom testified. that in the'r opinion. ES Was not in- the: inci- " The quartet, ‘ its” im: who is a barmaid at the és Dad . ha Betancourt, who ed the drink in auéstion; Ri ‘alb and Joseph Michalek, locak Navy man, both of whom were patrons in the placé at the time i oe wet acways refuse té serve him when ha is.” Tmburgia said that he was in the place at the time and that he @idn’t think fhe: man was intoxi- exted. “He didn’t seem drunk to me—he wag able to walk and talk,” the Mar. owner averred. Eowever, city manager King and ‘police officer Eugene Rogel, (Continued On Page Two) Navy Will Furnish Pistol Instruction Local Naval. officials are co- operating with the city to furnish firearm instruction to members of the Key West Police Department, Classes are already underway the supervision of D. H. Forsythe of the Navy’s AUW School and they. will continue on the first and third Tuesday of each month, Next Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. For- sythe will deliver a lecture in the tity hall on the use of firearms | and the police will conduct firing sessions at the pistol range on Stock Island periodically City Manager Dave King said to- day that Commander J. H. .Far- rell, of the AUW Schoo’ made the | arrangements for the instruction which will make Key West's a more efficient police force. All of. ficers will participate” in bc | course, Stolen Boat Recovered On Cuban Coast Lt. Pearson, C.G., Praises Help Of Cuba In Quick Recovery The stolen shrimper Ramos wag found and seized:this morning by. Cuban officials’ at Matanzas, 66 miles east. of Havana, Lt. Clem Pearson, local Coast Guard com- mander reported. : : Three men are aboard the vi sel allegedly stolen from. Tho son’s dock early Tuesday Pearson congratulated Cuban ficials for their swift action on the communication sent to them. by District Commander of the Coast Guard in Miarhi. Pearson had reason te believe” that the missing vessel was bound for Cuba. He called the Miami Coast Guard, ‘which in turn alerted Cyban officials. An American Navel attache helped in seizure of the $16,000, 50 foot vessel. Local Coast Guard headquarters had alerted all shipping to be on the look out for tne’ stolen vessel. Owner Frank Frantz: was over- joyed when informed by Lt. Pear- MONROE COUNTY RED CROSS CHAIRMAN JOE SIRUGO, right, confers with his co-chairman, Kermit Lewin, left, and residential chairman, Mrs. George Perpall, as the annual Red Cross Drive got: off to a flying start yesterday with luncheon at La Concha Hotel.—Citizen Staff Photo. ESS Internal Revenie Gffice To Close The Internal Revenue Depart- son that the véssel had been found. | ment Office in the Post Office’ He is now going through : legal channels to insure 4 the men who took. the boat. Frantz is a General . analyst at Naval Ordnance Unit here. He had not given up: i ened this’ morning about m. by a noise in his . When he investigated, he found the Navy man “‘lying ig the grass.” He said that the prowlet calmly arose and walked off. Davis phon: ed the police and then followed the man to the Peary Court area where he said that be observed him make several unsuccessful at- | tempts to enter parked cars. When the police patrol wagon | (Continued On Page Two) Earl Adams At State Conclave Cireuit Court Clerk Earl Adams \is attending the annual meeting of ! Florida, Association of County | mate result of the aforesaid nez! the Clerks. at Jacksonville, -Febryary 20 and 2ist, it was learned today. He was accompamed to the meeting by Ross C. Sawyer, hon- orary member of the - associafion and former county clerk here: — LOG UN'S , for Key West's Smartest Dining Proudly Announces the Return by Popular Reque: KOPY st of the Three KATZ THREE SHOWS NIGHTLY NO COVER FOR RESERVAT NO MINIMUM 1ONS DIAL 2.3233 ; | Building will be closed all day, Monday, February 23rd in ob- servance ef Washington’s Birth- day, officials there announced to- y. ‘While the holiday falls on Sun- dey-this year, most federal em- ployees will be given Monday off. Elizabeth Schuler, also kriown as Ast ‘is ‘being sued ‘for $100, @o by George Salgado .who was \Liquor, Not Cows, Parrots Headache For KW Customs Officials Seized Cache Of Spirits Worth $2,900 Key West's biggest smuggling problem during 1952 was liquor, chiefly rum, brought illegally into the country, Deputy Collector of Customs, said today. 7 In~one. seizure’ “Alderman af his assistants found $2500 in illi liquids. Other crack-downs by his office were on illegal clothing, radios, and food delicacies, — Key West has never had a cow smuggled in, by plane or boat since ‘Alderman took charge more than two years ago. This offense prevails elsewhere in the States. | Nor has the Island been troubled by smuggling of parrots, quaran- tined by the U. S. Public Health Service because of parrot fever “Ito the States has ef June 21, capacity is jired.“ Salgado + | Charges that “the, defendant Eliza- t, while under the in- intoxicating liquor and being’ unable ‘to reason- ably control her hereinafter men- | tioned automobile” drove in such | way..as to injure him. | all four counts. jado claims that on the night | june 21, -he was in front of | White Laundry on State Road No. | Islamorada. He walked across | Toad and was about six sort | off the paved portion of the road S {when Miss Schuler drove her 1949 vehicles tomorrow ; Plymouth “‘in a northerly direction | Tax |80 carelessly and negligently that | said today. it.ran into and. struck down the | plantiff. . .and as direct and proxi- Kence of the Defendant, the Plain- | called psittacosis. The illegal entrance of parrots been most troublesome near Mexico. In one crackdown made by the U. S. Cus- toms officers, $30,000 worth of illi- eit birds were taken. Texas bor- der points are also “hot spots” for the parrot racket. Customs Coa mlariont Frank Dow report-| During 1952 several persons | died from psittacosis in the coun- try, and one customs agent par-! ticipating in the seizures suffered | & eritical illness diagnosed as this disease. Narcotic traffickers also took vigilance upon the part of Cus- | (Continued On Page Two) \ Tag Deadline 5 P.M. Tomorrow | 1952 license tags expire on all; at midnight, ; Howard Wilson | Collector “And there are’ still more than‘ 1,000 motorists who have [failed to | get their 1953 tags,” Wilson said, | Unless the tags are obtained at: drive held jtory Dance at the “Casa Marina Kick-Off Sets- ‘93 Campaign Cross. Cross roll. call ov Joe Sirugo, =oll call chairman, and ‘Miss C*~:*y Vosburrh, ‘South Florida ‘Rev. .; . > tive, were the principal speakers, Mrs. Geo. chairman, | had lined up about 46 will begin the task on a house to house canyas‘for mem- berships. Gleason Snow, who is if charge of civic clubs, reported she had al- ready started his campaign among the local groups. Mrs. Jeff Jr,, siad that Beta Sigma’ Phi, the local club of young ladies who play a promin- ent part in all Gorth while civic undertakings, wuld sponsor a Vic- te anual who hotel on the night of March 9, The work has started among the school chi¥iren. “Albert ’ ‘Carey, chairman of that’group, reported. “We will again do our part,” the — said. Miss Vosburgh complimented ' local chapter on. its: accomplish- ments. ‘four chapter-is-dutstand- ing in this area,” she said. “Your Gray Ladies unit: is-eonsidered the best in South Florida. I do not say that at every Chapter ‘I visit. This is no sales talk. These are facts,” the field: representative said. It was pointed..out .by Sirugo | that those desiring to. join the Red | Cross without being mail in their check to; Red Cross, | Key West, Fla., and same will be delivered. cs Attending the luncheon were: tiff suffered serious and painful the courthouse by 5 p.m. tomor-| Rey. Rogers, chai ot. the injuries in and about his head, | body, person, and limbs, consist- | ing of cuts, abrasions, contusions. bruises, and a transverse fracture | in the middie tnird of the right humerus, which ‘ast mentjone’ in jury is permanent, and all the | with 1953 license tags and stickers | row, motorists run the risk of! summons by Deputy Motor Vehi- cle Comrnissioner Tommy Dixon who will start his checking Sat- | urday. Only Monroe county residents chapter; Mrs. Carola Nettles, ex- ecutive secretary; Kermit Lewin, co-chairman of the driye; Mrs. Glynn Archer, Mrs. Perpall, Mrs. iKnight, Earl Atimns, Dare Gar- cia, Fred Edwards, Melvin C. Adams, Charles Taylor, William said injuries bave caused excru-|can pass free through the Over-/y. Albury, Paul Mesa, or. Jack | Murray, Gleason Snow, Prof. Car- ANNUAL BALLand DAN GIVEN BY LOCAL 156 Bartenders’ and Waitresses’ Union, Aw F, of Lb. Friday, February 20 Denging 8:00 P.M. ea ELKS’ HALL Music by Mombaiters ADMISSION Lenten Specials } Suncoast Seafoods | Corner Elizabeth and Greene Sts. We Deliver DIAL 2.4351 WED. - THURS. - FRI. - SAT. King Fith tb. 3%¢ Grouper ib. Grouper Fingers th. Spanish Mackerel tt Stone Crabs tb 6% Shrimp fc - Me Pla. Crawfish te. Yellowtails 1b. 4% Grunts . ip. ib. Te Pompane ib. tb. He ‘We We 1% Me Re bd i Estate ey, Dr. Allan Sheppard, Hugh can, Robert Dopp and Claude Spears. TAT Choice F.H.A An-roved BULLS LO af EXTRA LARGE AND FILLED $2,000.00 SEVERAL WATERFRONT LOTS AVAILABLE Along Vth St. Bram Flagler Through Harrit Ave CIAL 25m CHARLEY TOPPING & SONS [re nannntnnnnnaRREAIERIRRREIINEEneienEemenEimmnmemennEn Se Dun- , 53 Season Nears Peak With Motels And Hotels Pianists Whittemore And Lowe Offer Rich Program Tonight A full and varied program to suit a vari ety of tastes will be offered tonight at 8:30 by America’s celebrated duo-pianists, Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, in the Community Concert series at the Convent Auditorium, High School Band Goes To Cuba Friday _ Cuban Navy Vessel To Transport Group For Second Visit To Capitol This Weekend The Key West High School band, over a hundred strong, will be Ha- vana bound tomorrew morning a- board the Cuban Navy Frigate, the Jose Marti, as guests of the Cuban government at the opening of their annual Carnival Season. Under the direction of Harold Casterton ‘and Drillmaster Joe Cornell, the students will leave the Naval Station aboard the = ship 2 of| Senor rector of the Havana Carnival confirmed the arrival of the Cuban ship in a telegram received by Cabanas Wednesday. In addition to the band, the Mi- ami Police Department’s crack motorcycle drill squad will board the ship for the trek. They are scheduled to arrive in the city ear- ly tomorrow. It will mark the second year in a row that the band has been in- vited to the Carnival which will get underway Saturday night with @ gala parade down the Prado, |. |Havana’s main boulevard. Last year, they made’ the trip and were distinct favorites with the ‘Hava- nans. The Key West visitors will be (Continued On Page Two) The renowned artists will play on their two Baldwin. pianos, selec- tions ranging from the popular “Lover” by Rodgers and Third Street Rumba by Clifford Shaw to Variations on a Theme of Hay- man by. Brahms. Whittemore and Lowe are famous throughout the nations for their concerts, records, radio’ and television appearance. They have soloed with the major orchestras, Boston, Philadelphia, — Chicago, Cleveland, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, Oklahoma City, Dallas and the New York Phil- harmonic Symphony both at Car- negie Hall and Lewiston Stadium. Though both musicians come from the West, they met at East- man Sci of Music, Rochester, N.Y ve their first public concert in Juan, Puerto Rico. After four War years in the Navy, they ret to the concert field. The lant musicians play virtually f the major classics written fo | o pianos and have most, their own’ : sic ranging who does business os Notas representing the ic sare ete ca ati Charity Carnival Queen MISS BARBAPA VINCTNT + tbs year's contest for Navy Charity Carnival Qucen. Jammed Since Feb. 1 Citizen Poll Reveals Brisk Guest Business By SUSAN McAVO¥ The 1958 season in Key West though late in starting is reaching record propor. tions, a poll of leading mo- tels and hotels revealed to- day. Season’s peak is gener- ally February 22. At the Casa Marina the house count was the largest in history, last night, mana- ger Emmitt Conniff told The Citizen today. basis for - mparison with last year because were hardly complete by it ili pHiipie fh His g | Hi Py SrgPTEL fiterepeat