The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 17, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 73° (EDITOR'S NOTE: C. B. Che Key West Citiz VOL. LXXIV Harvey. mayor of Key West. is past commander of the American Legion, Arthur Sawyer Post 28, and a member of the in World War IL.) “What The American Guard of Honor. He served Legion Means To Me” By C. B. HARVEY in order to properly describe what the organization of the Am- erican Legion means to me, I feel that I should recall the years | between 1941 and 1946 during which I spent some time in the - Armed Forces of the States. It was while serving overseas with the U. S, Navy that I had oc- casion to.do more serious think- ing about..the reasons we were them at war, and the answer'was always the same, We were Heht- | ing this ub to) preserve the. Mighty of mien, YO" Wis right te live under :.the ” governmental sys- tem of his choice, the right to his own ‘concept of religion and to pursue that religion in his own | way, the right to live with dignity | and in freedom, the right to speak without first being spoken to, the right to establish his laws through the will of the majority, mean- while supporting a system. of jus- | tice not only to enforce the judi- cious will of the majority but to! protect minorities from capri- ous laws. In short, we were fighting, I thought for the right to repudiate all dictatorships, “This is true) enough,” I said te myself, “and | all of us will fight to the death on the field of battle to preserve our liberty when it is threatened NEW NAVAL PLANNED FOR KEY WEST Mine Warfare Eyaluation Unit In Planning Stages Now Plans are now underway to es- tablish a mine warfare. ev tion detachment at the Naval | Station Annex When in operation the new Key 4West naval activity will be working under operation- al .control of Commander, Opera- tlonal Development Force, Atlan- the Fleet, whose headquarters is in Norfolk, Va. Administrative Pesponsibility will rest with the Commander of the Naval Base. ' Rear Admiral irving T. Duke, USN, Commander of the Key West Naval pointed out that the establishment mew evaluation station is in the Planning stage at this time. Although the commanding offi- eer of the proposed detachment has not yet been formally desig- gated, Captain O. D Waters, Jr., USN, now commanding the USS Glynn (APA 239) few down last week from Fort Lauderdale, Fila. to discuss with Admiral Duke ios for establishing the new Dity Like the Surface Anti-Sub- Marine Development Detech- (Continued On Page Two) LET'S Go DOG RACING TONITE Rain or Shine by foreign aggressors.” But if freedom is held so dear that the lives of countless men are gladly given on the field of battle to pre- serve it, then why do we not fight just as furiously at home |to preserve it from the “petty dic- tators and termites who through the abuse of power are just. as great a threat to our liberty as any foreign “ism.” It was then that I resolved that. when I re- turned home I would endeavor, in my small way, to do what I to to. preserve’ the- great principles of honesty and integrity in civic affairs~and in government. On my return I found that the civic organization that gave me the greatest opportunity of ex- pression, was the greatest and most influential exponent of the preservation of our democratic | system, the foremost battler against corruption in government, the most profound proponent of the elimination of all the petty prejudices due to differences of race, color, creed, or political jeonviction was the American Le- gion. These are but a few of the rea- sons why I hold the organization of the American Legion in high- | est esteem. ACTIVITY aa Sewer Rate Jump Approved Monday| An ordinance calling fer an increase of 50 per cent in Key | West Sewer Service Rates was approved last night on first reading by the City Commis- sion, | | The measure, however, will be given a public hearing on March 2th before it comes up | for second reading. Reason for the jump, is the fact that increased revenue is mecessary to finance a bend issue amounting to $900,000 which will be necessary te pay the cost of the city’s share in the projected repairs to the pre- | sent sewer system which threat. ens te give out daily. City Grants USO $1,000 Monday The city commission last night | | passed a resolution granting «@ Payment of $1,000 to the USO covering the city’s share in the/ cost of renovations to their build-| ing on Whitehead Sireet | The city had appropriated that bucget for the amount its iyear, in THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 65 Newsmen And Soldiers See Fiery Flash In Nevada Desert By BILL BECKER ATOM BOMB SITE, Nev. {Dawn came in with an atomic | rumble today for 1,000 troops and hundreds of other observers on | Yucca Flat--the soldiers and some |newsmen closer than any human jhas been since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Two combat battalion teams and 20 reporters only two miles from the 300-foot tower where the blast flared at 5:20 a. m. (8:20 a. m. EST) came through unscathed. The low, fiery blast sucked dust from the desert floor into a whirl- ing, purplish-red fireball, but little heat was felt by observers on News Nob, seven miles away. The shock of the blast was sharp and bounced over the mountains ringing the test site to crack down as far away as Pasadena, Calif., Cedar City, Utah, and points in between, it was announced here. In Las Vegas, nearest sizeable city to the site,’75 miles away, it flared a brilliant white over nearly half the horizon, then turned yellow be- a But it caused no excitement, and only a few residents reported feeling the uound wave. The test was designed primarily to gauge how houses and cars would come through a real blast. The federal Civil Defense Admin- istration built two two-story homes ai ‘The closer of two civil defense houses being tested was believed to be smashed, but a light appeared to be burning in the vicinity of! the more distant house, 7,500 feet from the tower. The two $20,000, two-story homes were erected to |help architects design houses with maximum protection. After the first flash, the charac- teristic white cottony cloud formed quickly. As it rose to perhaps 13,000 |feet, an ice cap appeared atop the big ball. | The peculiar detonation set up a |drumlike cacophony that ricochet- ed around the vast perimeter of the |test ground. Within 19 minutes, {wind swept the cloudy southeast- ward, with its dirty gray high- lighted by the first early rose gleams of the rising sun. By that time the top was reported at 40,000 feet. At first, the low purplish burst sucked up dust and dirt from the desert floor into an angry, brown mushroom. Dust sweeping east- jward along the desert floor finally | obscured both test houses. The tow- er from which the device was set off was believed vaporized. Of the dozen atomic explosions | | viewed by this observer, this was | | fore finally fading away into pink. | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TU Clues Absent On Missing Navy Wife Search Continues In Florida And Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ralph Motika, wife of a Navy Chief was still missing as The Citizen went to press, The petite, blonde 27 year old mother of four left a four page note, described as ‘a “typical suicide note” by a Navy investi- gator, when she abandoned the family car Saturday night. The note was turned over to the Sheriff's office today while the husband, and four small boats and a Navy blimp cen- tinue the search for the woman who has been missing since 7:30 Saturday night. The search is new moving northward on the chance that she might be on her way to her parents in Wash- ington, D. C., it was said. Though the search has been concentrated at Little Torch Key bridge where Mrs. Motika left the 1952 green Dodge, the entire State has been alerted to look for her. Speculation was rife all over town today about whether she had or had not taken her life. One official said: Rhee’ when a person is going whit _ suici they don’t take hee" tock with vanatbier known she had with her, but she ¢ouldehave ob- tainéd“transportation up the Keys. Meanwhile the children of the missing mother, ranging from two months to nine’ years are being cared for by friends. Chief Motika has sent for his | mother who is en route from | Cleveland, O. to care for the chil- dren. | The Motikas live in Sigsbee | Park. Motika serves aboard the Bushnell. ‘Crawfish Ban To Be Effective Fri. The crawfishing season will | end on Friday, March 20th, at| midnight State Conservation A-| “ie Joseph Knight announced to- lay. e ruling, which will affect }more than 400 Monroe County |Crawfishermen, wil! continue in jeffect through July 2st; he said. It will be unlawful for the spe- cies to be taken in any manner, | ; including spear-fishing. Reason al the ban is the fact that this is the spawning season for the crustecean. }val and Angela Streets. one of the smallest. The fireball’s| Restaurants Serving crawfish | brilliance was less and it appeared must show proof that their sup- ismaller than most. The AEC an-| plies have been purchased from (Comineel 08 Page : On Page Two) frozen stocks in the city’s fish houses, Knight added. Penalties for taking crawfish | ‘Traffic Hazat Hazard Is | “‘contnes'on'rate ives ‘Pointed Out Mon. Legi ion Asking Sale! Following the complaint of an| | unidentified Angela Street _resi- dent, City Manager Dave King | was instructed last night by the), The Arthur Sawyer Post 28, city commission to make an in- American Legion last night peti- | vestigation of a building being |*oned the city commission for constructed at the corner of Du- | Permission to purchase the tract |of land on Stock Island on which According to the home owner, their club house stands. the building is being built only, Attorney Paul Esquinaldo, inches from the curb line, while speaking on behalf of the Legion. other structures on Angela Street said that since the land was leas- ;have been forced to observe the ed to the organiza n 1947 for | five foot setback ruiing. This con-|a pe: of 99 years at a rate of | stitutes a grave traffic hazard, 'one ar per year, they have inasmuch as it will make the in-i'made improvements totalling tersection a ‘“Ddlind corner,” it /$29,000 and ate currently em- |was pointed out. barking on a program in which King was ordered to confer with they will spend more than $15,- }the builder in an effort to arrive /900 in further renov at a satisfactory solution ‘Of City Property { approve a resolution monk ing the jsale possible and then recom- [mend to the state legislature that jthe transaction be approved. As land dedicated for public} ipark purposes, the sale must be appre in Talahassee. The Dial 2-7091 voted unanimously t request. EIGHT KINDS OF Ceiling Tileboards | ARE AVAILABLE at STRUNK LUMBER YARD 120 Simonton St. grant the ESDAY, MARCH 17, 1953 Close-Up View Mayor Harvey Hails. Of Atom Blast « At Dawn Today MANNIKINS FELT A-BLAST—A group of mannikins repre- senting a typical American family sits in the living room of a house built a mile and a half from the spot where an atomic bomb was exploded this morning at the Atomic Proving Grounds, Nev. The mannikins wore various types of clothing to test their resistance to heat and radiation from the bomb. : Other mannikins occupied automobiles and bomb shelters — im Wite photo. Senator Holland Backs BY SUSAN MCAVOY Senator Spessard L. Holland de- finitely backed up the Everglades National Park in its legal right to include within the park 320 miles in the north west section of Monroe County, which was authorized by Congress in 1934 jand by the State legislature. In a letter to an anonymous constituent, a copy of which was sent on request to County Com- missioners, Holland said firmly: “Wf you are talking about the so-called Chevalier Tract, 1 certainly am committed to its retention in the Everglades Na- tional Park, as is the. State of | Florida by repeated action by the Legislature and by the Trus- tees of the |. 1. Fund. This area was included within the original boundaries of the Park as set up by Federal law and by State law, and there has never been, to my knowledge, any change whatever in the program for its inclusion in the Park. | do | not regard the inclusion of this area in the Park as an exten- sion in any sense.” | The Chevalier tract, most of ; Monroe county on the mainland, | {was pointed out on the Ever- iglades park map in Tax Asses- sor’s office by A. D. Manly, Land Acquisition project manager of | the U. S. National Park Service. Manly happened to be in that of- fice when I went in to find out whether the Chevalier tract in- cluded most of the controversial | section into which County Com- | missioners opposed Park “ Pansion.” The Chevalier tract in northern | Monroe County covers an area of 320 square miles, Manly said, beginning at the north on the county line, running 24 miles west of the joint corner of Dade, | Monroe and Collier county, thence south 13 miles, thence east a) miles, thence north one mile, Esquinaldo asked that the city/ jed county line way | county. i ® ‘ k 'Qnd Victim Of Mex. Shrimp Seizure Her Ave Maria Makes Bond, Puts Into Key West For Engine Repairs The second shrimp boat to be a victim of the purge the year government has instituted a, the U. S. fishing fleet eniae in the Campeche area, put into Key West yesterday and related a harrowing tale of being board- ed, seized and held for a week under armed guard in the Mexi- can town of Campeche. The boat was released only after a bond | of $1,720 was posted. | The Ave Maria, owned by Fred |Heise of Fort Myers, Captained jby Mac Javins and carrying a two man crew, is now tied up at the Clyde Mallory Dock. The Associated Press Teletype . Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the ep. Papy As The Great White Father’ Of City Scores Legislator For ‘Knowing What Is Best For City’ Last Night Mayor C. B. Harvey last night hailed Representa. ‘| tive Bernie C. Papy as a “Great Father, from whom all blessings flow,” and sarcastically castigated the veteran legislator for “knowing what is best for the City of Key West.” The mayor electrified a large gallery at the meeting |of the city commission in a pointed statement when he took his verbal crack at Papy, who will undoubtedly | make it necessary for him to seek re-election in the No- vember balloting although his term, under the existing city charter, has another two years to run. The meeting was rolling along 5s | Pacidly when Mr. Gordon Butler, | Usage pen an are abs oo 4 pa ti Maribona Hearing | rose to make a iengthy sales talk On Unknown urging the city to take advantage Charges Today of the services of that organiza- tion, (an advisory panel on muni- cipal operations) at a cost of some $600 per year. Mr. Butler, unaware that he was standing on the center of a volcano that might erupt at any moment, calmly continued his talk. Then it came time for ques- tions, Harvey launched: into his In a deceptively calm voice, the mayor. read from notes he had been preparing on the back of folder carrying com} agenda, his remarks te the warrant, he didn’t re- Butler, he seid: “We are member which one, and that : & g i § i 7 | , iH i : i L : i i i 8 e res il | Registration Of Pre-School «Pupils Soon noe wap nar go And March 25 Registration of all pre-school oe in the en oe ne oe on a: 2th and school on March 25th. oe Parents should bring their chil- This morning, the crew-mem-|4ren to the elementary school bers told of how they were fishing | | which they are to enter next fall. | about 12-15 miles off the coast! The child must be 6 on or be-| lof Mexico on March 3rd when | for Jan. 1, 1954, which aanaee they were approached by an/that it must be born on or be-| armed gunboat flying the flag of | for Jan. 1, 1948. ithe Mexican Navy which ordered | jthe Ave Maria to “stop or be! ‘and mate Ted Daniels was told to | jthat the first grade teachers be) flow the ship to port. They were ordered to tie | j soldiers as well as mac on the pier. . ~ Candie Javins was gi have al i FFE. ae ‘ i ? § Ly FI 8 jits insurance The Cirewit Court ated about 2 minutes | brought in a verdict for the