The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 20, 1953, Page 10

VAGABONDS WOW CROWD Navy Carnival By DOROTHY RAYMER Off to a booming start on open- ing night, the annual Navy Chari- ty Carnival which began last even- ing at 5 p.m. has already sur- passed the $44,000 total mark reached last year. It’s going to be a record breaker by the close of the big affair tomorrow night. And speaking of records, stars of record tunes, of vaudeville, the movies, musical comedies and bis- tros (they own their own now,) the Vagabonds, planed in from Miami to wow the crowd which began | assembling an hour before the official gateopening time. The que- ry on everyone’s lips was ‘When will THEY arrive.” There was no question as to reference. The quartette, famous for comedy as well as their music, have a night- club, “The Vagabond Room, on Biscayne Blvd., Miami now, but the public knows them from their appearances in movies and via the jukebox road to fame. I knew them way back when. They had been popular in Chicago and before that had a spot in San Francisco, but they weren’t known on the plush Florida Gold Coast until they bowed in at the Clover Club. From there on, they not only took Miami and the Beach by storm, the way they did the Car- nival crowd, but went on to great- er entertainment glory. ‘Attilio, deadpan artist who is a master on the accordian, Domi- nic and Germano, singers and guitarists and Pete Peterson, the bass player and top clown of the outfit; like people. Yesterday they‘ To declined to work on the high stage set up for the Carnival Queens. Pete, speaking for the group, said, “We like to be close to folks. We'll work on the band platform.” With the stars were the rest of the show imported from The Vaga- bond room, expert violinist Maria Neglia who not only solos in con- cert style but joins in mad antics with the Vagabonds. Steve and Jerry Condos, dance and trumpet team added to the top paced show. Frank Linale, orchestra leader from the Vagabonds club who was there, guiding the Navy Combo. shaved off his moustache and at first I didn't know him. He re- minded me that his band still Played “The Raymer Rumba,” which he composed when I was on the bistro beat, and then came the dawn. At the close of the rollicking pre- sentation, the entire company Posed with the Carnival Queen, Bafbara Vincent and Capt. A: E. Buckley who is general chairman. Autograph hounds surrounded the entertainers, especially charming Miss Neglia. Tonight at 5 p.m., Eddie Fisher, one of the top vocalists of the na- tion will sing. He’s in the Army now as PFC. Maybe the Marines on duty will want his signature, huh? After the departure of the show, the crowd fanned out to the booths. One of the most popular was the NAS bombing range where minia- ture planes drop darts on little tar- gets. This year ladies help run the game. Mrs. A. E, Buckley, POSTMASTER HOLLON (Continued from Page One) grow from a gross yearly business of about $40,000 to $300,000. Following his retirement,. an acting postmaster will be appoint- ed to serve temporarily until a competitive examination is held. The appointment is made in. Wash- ington from among the top three scorers on the examination. The appointee must be confirmed by the Senate. According to tradition, the Re- publican Senator in the, district where the Post Office change is being made, is consulted. How- ever, in this case, Democratic Senator George Smathers is ex- pected to be consulted as an act o* courtesy since he did not active- ly campaign for Adlai Stevenson in the presidential. race. Byrns served in the Navy for over 29-years. He was among the four officers sent here to re-acti- vate the Naval Station in 1939 and since his retirement from the} Eversn Naval Service has made his home here, Phil Cavaretta, manager of the Chicago Cubs, is the only member of the team born in Chicago. DROP IN! and See THE NEW 1953 MODELS Westinghouse Refrigerators and ‘Yeu Can Be SURE... If It's Westixghouse ‘RECORDS All the Latest AIT PARADE in Our Complete RECORD DEPARTMENT Lou's Radio \ AND Appliance LOUIS CARBONELL OWNER , Phone 2.7951 KEY WEST Noon Stock Market Prices NEW YORK (AP)Hupp Cp Affil G Eq 94 Cent Alleghany 4%Int Harv Allis Chal 55% Kresge (SS) Am Airl 14% Lehman Cp Am Can 33i6Ligg & My Am. Smelt 40% Lockh Aire . t:6.t Tob Woolen Anacon Cop | Armour Atchison im Am Am Burl Mills Caterp Tra Celanese Ches & Chrysler Coca Cola Colg Palm Con Vultee Cont Can Corn Prod Cudahy tr Du Pont East Aint Erie RK arp Family Fin Firestone Pw . Pw Elec Foods Mtrs Gen Pub Ut Goodrich Oh 125% Rexally| Drug 43 Sel Ind 21% Seab ‘Al RR eu U.S. 1 REALLY (Continued from Page One) sport around Ft. Kent, with deer abounding. Aroostook County is noted the world over as being a potato rais- ing center, and lumbering is another leading industry there. These ambassadors from the far north are planning to be in Key West for a few days soaking up| sunshine and fishing. They will break the visit with a sidetrip to | Cuba. When they return to the “other end of the road” they expect to take back coats of tan and good Teports as to the sunny city that lies at this end of the highway. | | Top Last Year’s Total Mrs. J. H. Kaufman and Miss Alice Jurgens were on the first shift. Dropped by the Mouse game and was allowed to pet one of the six white mice with ruby eyes loaned to the Carnival courtesy of the Pet Shop at 812 Caroline St, The little creatures are in for a marathon; when one tires racing around a circle spinner and pop- ping into cans where food is con- cealed, he is replaced with a fresh colleague. In emergency a tennis ball can be substituted. Popular for children are the rides just outside the hangar, a small oller- coaster and other gadgets, Free rides are to be given on fire trucks. Moppets. and tikes swarmed about licking huge cones of pink spun candy. Most of them clutched helium filled balloons on strings. Some of the balloons are shaped like baby blimps. There is plenty of parking space for driving patrons supervised by Shore Patrolmen. Just in case someone feels faint or needs medical attention, there’s a room with three medical corps- men on duty at all times. They have complete equipment for aid and an ambulance stands by fo: emergency. Hotdogs, beer, soft drinks and other refreshments are available at a busy booth adjacent to tables and chairs, All the conveniences you don’t have at home. One caution, though, don’t ask the Marine Guards in their snazzy uniforms to do any baby sitting! TODAY’S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK ( — The stock market was quietly higher today without much conviction. Gains and losses extended to ma- jor fractions at the most. Higher divisions included rail- roads, aircrafts, and chemicals. Higher stocks included Southern Railway, Union Pacific, Texas Co., Eastern Air Lines, American Tele- phone, Kennecott Copper, Texas Gulf Producing, Pepsi-Cola, U. S. Steel, Woolworth, end Boeing. = Attention Sewers! The electric sewing machine fo be given away at the Cake Booth at the Navy Charity Car- nival will be awarded at 8:30 p.m. tonight. Hopeful sewing enthusiasts are asked to get there early. ACHIEVEMENT (Continued from Page One) 36% | structional needs. Individual help is given to teachers or pupils who need assistance. The use of curriculum guides has helped to show teachers what should be included in the curricu- lum instead of having to depend merely on the text books. A carefully planned in-service teacher ine organized each year by Leland S. with classes each year being taught by Dr. Edwards and Mrs. Goodson of Florida State Univer- sity, as well as having many high- ly trained consultants on reading, primary work and art for our teachers. With the help of our improved salary schedule, better teachers Horace O'Bryant, County Superin- tendent of schools. “Albion” is the most ancient name for the British Isles. program has been | Mareh, supervisor of instruction, ; are being hired each year by! WHITTEMORE AND (Continued from Page One) figures become clearer, and the Pianists swing them into a waltz; again they fade, however, into the dissonance of modern war and reality. The waltz picks them out of limbo once more and they dance again and are joined in a growing crescendo by other dancers whose momentum picks up. The past al- ways calls them back. Inexorable time disttacts the beauty of the waltz and the dissonance suggests that the first war has banished the dancers back to their portraits on the wall, where they remain with the memories of the Imperial era. The playing of this choreograph- ic poem for two pianos was a tri- bute to the brilliance of the pian- ists. They felt their way into each mood of the sensuous and evoca- tive selection dimming the present and calling back Ravel’s Nostalgia for pre-World War I Vienna. In complete contrast were the three dances from the modern ballet Billy The Kid by Aaron Cop- land. And completely removed from the mood of La Valse the Third Street Rhumba, familiar to juke box listeners who have heard the Whittemore and Lowe record- ing. From that the pianists wafted into their lilting arrangement of pee by Rodgers. Rachmaninoff’s Tears (Op.5) was played with richness and color which over- shadowed the mournful melody of the number. La Gitana, by: Fritz Kreisler, arranged for two pianos by the artists, was light and spirit- ed. They played by request Le- cuona’s Malaguena, Whittemore, who announced the encores, said at the end of the first half of the program that he be- lieved some of the. husbands had come to the concert according to dictates not their own. He played especially for them three short and beautifully simple Brahms waltzes, closing with the familiar Lullaby. At program’s end the artists re- sponded generously to the insist- ent applause and gave four en- cores, starting with Bach’s Sonata in E Flat, then the familiar Liebes- freud, the march from Prokofieif Love of Three Oranges and finally Bolero. The artists appeared this after- noon at 4 o’clock at the Overseas Radio and Record Shop where all of their recordings are on sale. They leave Key West tomor- row to complete a Florida tour, then cover the southern part of the United States, working north- ward until their last concert of the season in Quebec in May. Rest does not await them, even then for they will resume their highly suc- cessful television appearances in New York. Community Concerts, its officers and members, are to be congratu- lated for the high level of artistry brought to Key West this - year. With the obvious love of music shown by the audiences who fill the Convent each of the three con- cert nights, it is hoped that double the number can be supported for next year. SMITH SENTENCED (Continued from Page One) }month check cashing spree, was “1 to two years imprison- ment by Judge J. Joseph Smith j . ». District Court, Hartford, | Coanecticut, it was learned today. | Smith plead guilty to a 13 count jinformation charging him with causing false securities, drawn on banks in the state of Connecticut to be transported in interstate commerce. He was sentenced to “o vears on each of the counts to run concurrently. The explicit charges were’ pass- ing over 70 checks totalling about $7,000. While in Key West, Smith posed as the heir to the Fletchers Cas- toria fortune. TEMPERATURES AT 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta Augusta Billings . Birmingham Bismark Boston ... Buffalo . Charleston Chicago . Corpus Christi Denver Detroit El Paso .. Ft. Worth Galveston .. Jacksonville Kansas City .. KEY WEST . Key West Airport ... Los Angeles .. Louisville Meridian Miami Minneapolis Memphis New Orleans ‘New York .. Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha ... Pensacola .. Pittsburgh Roanoke St. Louis San Antonio .. Seattle ... Tallahassee .. Tampa .. Washington . CONATY GETS (Continued from Page One) for drunkenness and assault and BISKSBASSSNUSAeVaausss BESYSERSEUSSwMoKS battery. Henry Varela was fined $10 on a reckless driving charge. Ralph Leonard Fuller was fined $50 for drunkenness and assault and battery. Judge Caro announced that de- spite the holiday Monday for Washington’s birthday, the jury will be convened at 10 a.m. Court will meet for about an_ hour, County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, ‘Ir., predicted, U.S. TO ACT ON (Continued from Page One) sentence in county jail on Febru- ary 6 for assauit and battery in a shrimp dock fight. The sen- tence was made retroactive to the time of his arrest ten days previously, and he was released. At the time of his sentence Guer- roro, assured Criminal Court Judge Thomas Caro: “Pm not just an ordinary shrimper.” Proof of Guerroro’s claim was borne out by his and Maribona’s unusual behavior in taking the 50 foot shrimp vessel from its dock at Thompson's and running it over to Cuba. Third accused in the ec is Manuel Perez Brabts, of West at the crucial city commis- sion meeting this past Monday. He was obsesved leaning over the rail and heartily applauding when the motion to remove City Mana- ger Dave King was made. His ex- pression was described as “leer- ing.” The trio will be awaited by U. S. authorities and others when they are brought back to the states. Though the theft took place within the three mile limit, the Federal authorities can charge the men with illegal exit from the U. S. The State can bring charges on the actual theft of the shrimp boat. Stiff prosecution of the theft is expected, since it is the first large scale attempt to rob Key West's shrimp fleet. Soap is made from fat or oil and alkali. Chester Arthur, born in Fairfield, PICTURED ABOVE are the Swift Company representatives standing in front of the truck that delivered the first complete shipment of Swift products to a single Key West store. Center is L Muniz and extreme ri Ss S Of Sigsbee Road and t, Jimmy Muniz, owners of the Gulfstream Food Department $ ; hite Street, who were the recipients of the carload. Gulfstream is celebrating its fourth anniversary this week in conjunction with the Swift Fine Foods week. dent. Maribona was last seen in Key | eral. Vt., had a birthplace farther north ' than that of any other U. S. Presi- Page 10 Continued warm and humid. Mex. erate to fresh easterly to south. erly winds, moderately strong near showers. Florida: Partly cloudy to oecca- sionally cloudy and mild thru Saturday except becoming colder in the Tallahassee area Saturday. Scattered showers Saturday and widely scattered showers today Jacksonville thru the Florida Straits: Small craft warning dis- played Daytona Beach southward thru the Keys. Fresh to moderate- East Gulf of Mexico: Fresh southeasterly winds becoming southerly Saturday. Partly cloudy to occasionally cloudy with widely scattered showers. Western Caribbean: Fresh east- erly winds thru Saturday. Partly cloudy weather with widely scat- tered showers. 3:36 p.m, (Continued from Page One) Secretary, “Key West is peculiar- ly situated in that it is an island at the end of the chain compris- ing the Florida Keys, It: sits off about a 150 miles in the Florida Straits. It has been historically a Naval installation and obviously so should remain.” “As a matter of fact,” Smath- ers continued, “‘the Navy has been in Key West’ 100° years now, hav- ing acquired its first property there Feb. 10, 1853. The various schools, barracks, warehouses etc. occupy at least half of the land area of the island. There is, there- fore, no agriculture and very little private industry and no space for future development along that line. As _a result, the entire economy of Key West is dependent upon the Naval facilities.” “The population of Key West is all of whom are either employed by the Navy or dependent upon it. Should the ex- isting Naval operations there be reduced, it would obviously have a tremendously adverse effect on the civilian population of the is- land and the Florida Keys in gen- “I shall not go into the military importance of the base by reason of its strategic location,” the letter continued, “There has been much competition in ‘he past over where these facilities were to be located’ and the Navy has deter- mined that they should be at Key West. The Navy nas a temendous investment there, and unless the Navy is going to summarily do away with these installations, or tremendous savings can be effect- ed by moving them to other loca- tions, we do not feel that it is to the best interests of the people of Key West, the Navy-or the nation- al defense to reduce the opera- tions there. If any such move should be contemplated, we would like to be notified before a deci- sion is reached as we would oke to have an opportuaity to vigor- oy protest,” the letter conclud- The deserts around the Red Sea have almost no rainfall, but the sea adds moisture to the air to provide “Me? I'm writing te CITY LOAN Company. After all, if it hadn't been for them, we couldn't hove taken this wonderful vacation.” CITY LOAM CO. 524 SOUTHARD ST. ' DIAL 25681 ‘THE KEY WEST citizen Pet project is the Rotary lowships in which all Rotary Clul participate. The fellowships, Know- les explained enable outstanding ie nay students = live and si r one year ia a other than their own aad ace as ambassadors of goodwill. They are allowed grants ranging from $1,800 to $3,400. Said Knowles, Spares: by increasing person- me te have with each other.” early 500 Rotary Fi have been awarded Peirsol The Key West Rotary Club ex- pects to be represented at the Paris Convention this year, May 24 through May 28. 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