The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 9, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST vi City Defers Action On Sewer | Tax Payments Bids; Powell And Reinertson |To City Total Company Bids K. W. Is Among First To Have Latest System Inter-Toll Dial Long Distance Method Is Used In 7 Fla. Cities Key West is one of seven Flor- ida cities having a telephone exchange which is equipped with an inter-toll dialing system, an Associated Press story re- leased Saturday revealed. Others are Miami, Jacksonville, Tampa, Gainesville, Ocala and St: Petersburg. This is a recently developed system under which a long dis- tance operator can dial numbers in other cities directly. The Associated Press story also disclosed the fact that there aren’t many places left in Flor- ida where you hear “number, please” instead of a dial tone when you pick up the telephone. However, it may he a good while yet before local operators are com- pletely replaced hy dial service in Florida. P."M. Schuchart, (shoe-cart), di- rector of the public utilities de- » partment of the State Railroad and é iblie Utilities Commission, said Eas. ‘90 per cent of Florida’s some VOL. LXXIV Ne. 58 Are Lowest Total Bids Over Engineers’ Estimate By $125,000, King Heads For Washington The city commission, at a special meeting on Satur- day, deferred action on the acceptance of bids for the proposed additions and re- pairs to the city’s sewer system when they were found to be somewhat high- er than was anticipated. Total low bids of $2,247,- 702.05 were received for the work from the Powell Company, Fort Lauderdale and the Joe Reinertson Construction Company, Mi- ami. This figure was $125,- 789.05 higher than the es- timate of Clifford and Coop- jer Associates, the city’s con- sulting engineers for the project. They. had estimated that the tal cost of the construction, cluding engineers’ fees and. pay- ments to the city fiscal agent for his work in arranging the bond issue for the program, would be just $2,121,913. This would include about $90,- 000 in engineers and fiscal fees. The bids were evaluated on Sat- to- in. dial | of if gz] companies t afferd to make phe Ett to the loval tors changeover to dial serv- ade in a community. Sehuchart said very few are put out of work. They become long distance operators. information office of their company. In any case, the turnover i operators is high and often sll the company (Continued On Page Two) Thieves Take $16 From Gas Station * Thieves who entered the Termin- @) Service Station, Whitehead and Angela Streets, sometime last reported today. R. H. Hamilton, owner of the station reported that the thieves entered through an unlocked rest foom and took the money from a Ming cabinet Police Officer Edward Ramires made the investigation. ore about what Florida Now Has | '18 Federal Slot 'Machine Licenses | in Florida. | State law prohibits slot ma- chines, Herald Staff Writer Stephen Trumbull, in a story from Jack. {sonvitle, wrote in Saturday's Her- ‘ald that Homestead and Key West jhave two }each, with one in Miami. Elks sociation,” and “Homestead Lodge \1%8, P. 0. Box 61.” The Miami | (Continued On Page Five) ‘Stolen Car Found In Seven Hours | -A car stolen at 6 p.m. from + owner could not be reached un- ti! Sunday morning. at which j time the car was turned ever to him. - | taxes and will not be offered for chines but the federal government | Will suspend Heenses them and one license can |Bext few days for the first time in cover anything from one to 10 ma- | sheriff's shed near the jail. The! 93.0 Of Rolls Tax Sale Notice Is Released By - City’s Collector More than 93 percent of the 1952 City of Key West Tax Roll was tions in. Key West. The total yield of the tex roll leaves a balance of $28,319.55 to be collected. Total assessments in’ 1952 were $414,630.50. At the same time, Roberts an- | nounced that the 1953 City of Key West tax sale list will appear in} today’s issue of the Citizen and! also on March 16th, 23rd and 30th, This list contains delinquent real estate parcels on the 1952 tax roll, The list includes 357 parcels and the taxes amount to $14,- | | 860.31. Since February Ist, 51 parcels have been redeemed for a total amount of $1,196.38, Taxpayers are advised that any- one paying their 1952 taxes after February 20th, 1953, that their names will still appear on the tax sale list which cannot be changed after it is set up for publication. However, their. names are stricken from the list of lands sold for ' sale. The. tax sale'will be held Wed- collected before February ist wher | © unpaid taxes became delinquent, | © City Tax Collector Archie Roberts | | reported today. This figure marks)! - an all time high for tax collec. | amounted to $386,310.95 which | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1953 way Patrol, nesday, April 1st, 1953, on the city hall steps at 11;00 a.m. Miss Patterson’s Coconut Cake on his second visit. Gripping Color Movies Will Be ‘Three Page Spread On Keys 'In National News Magazine “A coconut. to a Key Wester | *!ipping by rope over th brink of} means the graceful coconut palm, }# sheer coastal palisade to peer it means the freshly grated white into tl Samat explore seldom-seen nesting ~ sites’ char- " } acterize gripping of visit to Miss Patterson, her sampl- ing of the cake. Dr. Harold M. Hill's color motion. picture “Wings and Talons* which he will present at Key West High School at eight o’clock this even- “I can’t swear this is the world’s | 98- best coconut cake, but like old- time religion, it’s good enough for me,” Miss Paddieford wrote. “I from, certainly Miss Etta can’t remember, but with a cake this good, ancestry is irrelevant.” the cake and the frosting. Humane Society Moves To New S.L Quarters The Key West Humane Society operations for the j six years of its existence, Mrs. George Mills White, president, an- nounced today. “Tt takes quite a while to move! our kennels from the present Poin- elana home to Stock Island,” Mrs. | beyond the county! renovated and/ for its new/| RANE or Audubon Screen Tour DR. HAROLD M. HILL ond COLOR FILM | | Manree County Audubon Seciety SOLDERED IERIE The fourth speaker in this sea- son’s Audubon Screen “Tours, Dr. Hill, a practicing physician by | don’t care where the recipe came|Profession, has roamed the, mountains and valleys of South- ern California seeking out its more unusual forms of wildlife— | this jump ¢ She then gives the recipe in full/ Particularly the birds of prey and | to his i f ¥ Truman’ the waterfowl. In color motion pic- | of the nation, tures of the highest professional| ‘The article telle Screen |torieal facts about Tour “Wings and Talons” is ded-/ rates, wreckers, icated to spreading knowledge of | finally the cigar recently shrimping. toad to Key W quality, his Audubon the value of predatory birds in the overall scheme of nature and to prevent their extermination. Under the sponsorship of the | away are Monree County Audubon Society of Key West, Dr. Hill will also / 1950, lemen- | five iat against less for School children on Monday (Continued On Page Two) present a matinee tary ‘Man Is Charged With Trespassing A local Navy man faces prow)- ing charges today as the math of an incident in which was found trespassing in a head Street apartment house. ‘The man, John E. Larson USS Pearle, was nabbed b fet gz wee 4 &< Russo, who will file 2 com in city court, said that he porch of his home. He collared | | that In Key 1951 times int | 2 i Larson and held him until police/ et arrived. DECORATE YOUR KITCHEN OR BATHROOM WITH STRUNK LUMBER YARD 128 Simonton St. The Cincinnati Times-Star also We and = | 3 ® E, z i i i [ years, | 5 : i 52 ip Evie 2 ; 2F Lill = Shee STATE TROOPER MARVIN J. WILDER. whose safety educa- tion record on his Keys beat ni the past three years cut accidents, injuries and deaths on the highway, is being transferred to Orlando, where hé will do safety education with the State High- i ‘, ptt fil |r i i Fi 8 i z in a5 i r i. dad 1h i Che Kry West Ci THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. = 2 The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West. 2 ~|Decrease- In Injuries, Deaths And Accidents During Wilder's Term Impressive Safety Record Stacked Up By State Trooper In His Three Years On Keys The number of persons injured on the highway has dropped 66 per cent, the number of accidents, 30 per cent and the number killed ten per cent, in the three years of State Trooper Marvin J. Wilder’s patrolling of the high- way from Stock Island to the Big Pine toll gate, it was learned today. Missing Slide On Way To Clinic The missing slide in connec- tion with the primary opera- tion on Baby Jasper Walker mow at Rochester, Minn., un- dergoing examination by a Mayo Clinic specialist was located in Miami by Key West Shrine club effort after a series of long distance telephone calls. The slide was sent by air- mail at noon Saturday and diagnosis for which it was needed is expected sometime this week. Guerrero To Face Federal Charges Soon Wanted For Taking Stolen Vessel In If pi ‘the i i & 8 E i i H atak [3 Boca i i i i | i A : & F i ii : a z § i g i ge & & F : | i if 5 i #2 E £ F if LH f i FF é § : i i z 3 | | i ik f | a ey U Hl i fi i i i eff é é § i i if FE Hr ie ia [- Hf | i | | EF t ? z F g i ; i i i f i i i f +f jin # He i i af ie at dh ; i =" I ; i i i it 3 : I rg : & i “< i is ge af 3 f : : § | i | [ E i i i i t i i af] taf « i ee R z ! : t : t F r ij 4 i yg i : Z al a a : i i i H & e t