The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIV No. 67 Prisoners Sing, Laugh As They Move To New Jail Long Awaited Transfer Takes Place Early A.M. Monroe county prisoners were laughing and singing today as they moved from the old, unsani- tary, broken down jail into the spanking $200,000 new brick and steel structure. “You'd think they were mov- ing into a new house, they seem so happy about it,” Depu- ty Sheriff Jack Baker said. Some of the prisoners saw their new quarters today for the first time as they were escorted by Deputy Sheriff Ernest Sistrunk and Jailer Jerry LaBrada from the door of the old jail through the newly fenced in enclosure leading to the new jail, and on up the stairs, Others had been in yesterday |doing a genera! cleanup. The transfer of 30 to 35 prison- ers from old to new jail took place early this morning, a week after the deadline voted for the move by County Commissioners. Connections of the gas stove in SAVINGS ACCOUNT BOOK is turned over to Mrs. Jasper Walker, Sr., by C. Larry Gardner, vice-president and cashier of the Florida National Bank of Key West, after she deposited over $700 given by friends, neighbors, school children, organi- zations and businessmen to help in the medical care for Baby Jasper, who was given a new lease on life through the gen- erosity and interest of the people of the city. tors causing the delay. One prisoner is not too happy about his move. Willie who is responsible more than any single person for beautifying the jail and courthouse grounds, said to The Citizen: “You know about any jail, Miss.” Willie has four months more to go on his sentence in the county jail. piness with cultivating the hibis- cus and other flora at Jackson Square, Willie wants out. The sounds of singing Savings Account Starts As Backlog For Future Care Of Baby Jasper Here ¥Y DOROTHY RAYMER .05, mostly in one dollar bills and silver, was deposited Friday afternoon in the Florida 1 ain't mew or happy eld, the kitchen were one of the fac- | Despite his seeming hap- and National: Bank in a savings ac- count for Jasper Walker, Jr. by his mother, the former Helen Nor- cisa, The money is to be used for any further medical treat- ment and for a backlog for Baby Jasper’s operation which .he will need gne year and.five months from now’ when he is two, years old and a plate must be put into his skull to replace the section removed in a brain operation, Mrs. Walker thought she would put the money into @ “trust fund,” but was advised by C, Larry Gardner, vice-pre- sident and cashier of the bank expensive legal procedure and hiring lawyers; and because the bank does not have a “trust fund’ department. He ex- plained that a savings account Vote Registration Hours Lengthened An entension in the business hours of the Office of. Registra- tions in the City Hall was an- nounced today by Depoty.Super- visor of Registrations Agnes fe She that her office will be open daily from 8:00 a.m. m. to 5:30 p. m., including the noon hour. In addition, the of- fice will be open on Saturday morning from 8:00 a. m. until noon, The new-hours were made possible by the appointment of a new assistant clerk, Mrs. Maizy Albury. Mrs. Lowe said today that o fotal of just 1505 of an expected ten thousand voters have ep- peared to register for the Nov- ember General Municipal elec- tions. laughing from the second of the new jail, however, reveal- ed that other prisoners unhappy at the transfer. Sheriff John Spottswood was on the job early with his deputies to the transfer of prison- | ers. The new chicken wire fence entraneé and egress from the two buildings. Outside the fence was another sign of the new sheriff's administration, a shiny black Ford patrol car, with a huge searchlight atop it. This is one of two such cars authorized already by the County Commis- sion. Spottswood has asked for another two cars, so that the county will’ be patrolled even more intensively. Local Elks Help story are not net only accumulates sual ‘Renovations At | ‘KW Chamber Now Complete Larger Offices Makes Increased Service Possible The Key West Chamber of Commerce has officially moved into its new enlarged quarters, | it was announced today by the organization’s president, Earl R- Adams. | Construction of an additional | wing adjacent to the Chamber’s former office space in the USO- |¥MCA_ building in Jackson | Square, has been completed. The | | new wing provides a committee |meeting room, a private office area comprising the former office | | has-been converted into an i formation center. Visitors to the Chamber head- quarters are now able to receive many more services than before. Shelves of information for busi- ness men, made available by the U. S. Department of Commerce, are now included in the Cham- ber’s service to its members. A more comprehensive collection of ‘nighway and travel information {has been accumulated by the Chamber for use of the traveling public and telephone directories from 36 cities are available. More services, previously not offered, will be added from time to time. The Chamber’s Board of Dir- ectors in a recent meeting gave a vote of thanks to those firms and individu: 4 fas viding the organization wi ie enlarged quarters. M. £. Bennett, chairman of the building expan- sion committee received special commendation. Through* Ben- nett's efforts the enlarged quar- ters were made available to the Chamber at approximate cost. | Those firms which contributed |time and/or materials include Charley Toppino and Sons, Strunk Lumber ~Yard, Lindsley Lumber Co,, Cheeley Lumber Co., Griffen Roofing Co:.’ Hoe- cherl Painting Co. CBS Con- struction Co, S. H. Kress and Co., Harden Electric Co, and The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the jeliivterests of Key West Sea In Separate Sunday Mishaps and additional storage space. The | & Local Man Perishes, Brother Is_ Slightly Injured In Cycle Crash A 41-year-old Key Wester met death in'a motorcy- cle accident and a local Navy man is missing and pre- sumed to be drowned after he was swept out to sea by a strong tide Sunday afternoon. The sailor was swimming off Bahia Honda, 35 miles north of Key West when he was caught in a strong tide and lost, despite the heroic rescue attempt of a companion, Marine Sgt. E T.. Strat- ton, 120 Angela Street. ne rr aaa The cls, Roy Fitch, | SS member of the crew of the sal- vage vessel “Cable,” died in the Body Recovered Monroe General Hospital shortly after being admitted as the re- The body of Harry Wilson Smith, Jr., miss- sult of injuries in¢urred in the erash on Roosevelt Boulevard and ing off Bahia Honda Key since Sunday, was Fifth Street. A brother, George T. Fitch, who was also riding on the recovered today at 2:0C | p.m, motorcycle at the time of the crash, apparently suffered only Red Cross Fund at the hospital for observation. The mishap occurred at about 9:00 a.m. Sunday, according te the report of Police Lt. W. L. James. The Fitch cycle, he said, was travelling east on Roos: velt Boulevard at a high rate of speed when it failed to nego- tiate a curve and struck the curbing, throwing the riders to the pavement. PART OF FAMILY OF 14 who live in one small apartment, Mrs. Chester King, wife of a Marine serving his country in Korea, can’t find a low-cost place to live in Key West. Though just 24, she is the mother of four children and cares, in addition, for her Marine husband’s child of a first marriage —Citizen Staff interest but that inc of emergency for Baby Jasper, the money can be obtained more readily, Carrying a big brown paper bag hugged in her arms, Mrs. Walker came into the Citizen of- fice Friday afternoun at 2 p.m, In the brown sack was a cigar box containing the funds collect- ed by kind neighbors and several organizations before the clearing house for aid was set up through the Shrine Club here. With the money were two blue notebooks with a painstakingly done list of every cent given so generously City officials hope that the extension of the office hours Modern Tile Company. President Adams in # state- Form Upper Keys Photo. Mother Of 5, Hard. Up For Ike Stands Pat On Bohlen For Russian Job WASHINGTON (#—Sen. Taft (R- | Ohio) reported today that Presi-, dent Eisenhower is standing pat on his nomination of Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen to be ambassador to | will speed up the registration. Te | Indonesian Move Killed In UN. By Soviet, US. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (7— The U. S. and the Soviet bloc jointly killed today an Indonesian move which that Asian country ment today, said. “building in Key West is prégressing rapidly. New homes, commercial and | public buildings are being erect- ed almost every day. In order to keep abreast with the communi- ty’s modernization program, the Chamber of Commerce felt oblig- Class Tonight The degree team of Key West | Lodge of Elks will go to Windley Key tonight to initiate a class of | 29 for the Florida Keys lodge. | This is the second time this year; F that the Key West team has been /@d to put through its dene poo invited to initiate a class for the vagreke _ for remodeling Upper Keys. | ansion. Members of the team are John| “We are happy that the pro- F. Blackwell, Jr., J. Stuart Hicks, | ram is completed and invite all Earl. R. Adams, Kermit Lewin, | members and friends of the or- John Foh, Harry Knight and Bill | ganization to call at any time to | by Key Westers when they learned of Baby Jasper’s plight and how there was a chance that} claimed might speed high-level Neblett jinspect the new _ facilities,” East-West. peace talks. Irene From Windley Key’ some mem- | Adams concluded. L, N. Palar of Indonesia asked bers of the degree team will go! he might not have to die if fur-| the U. N."5.60-nation Political Com- on to Miami to attend the funeral ther medical treatment were a-/ mittee to move up a Polish item vailable. lealled “methods for avoiding a} The deep brown eyes of Jas- | third world war” to top place on per's mother were shining with | its agenda. He stid it should be her mood of revived hope and | Possible to have serious peace talks the happiness that is hers now | in connection with an item bear- that she knows ner son will live |ing that title. although he may he blind | U. S. -Delegate Henry Cabot “know you can't print all |Lodge, Jt, labelled the Polish these nam There ere hun. |Plan—no matter what its tithe— dreds of them,” she said as she |‘a7 insincere and rather cynical showed ‘the notebooks. “But 1 | Proposal” and said it would in- just wanted you to see how won- | crease tension rather than ease it. : derful and kind so many people | Polish Foreign Minister —Stanis- WASHINGTON \#—President Ei- have been. I want te put this |law Skrzeszewski said he was not | senhower said tollay he intends to money away for any of the | Prepared to diseuss his own plan jrid the government Civil Service of former Grand Exalted Ruler Dave Sheltz, which will be held in Miami at 4 p.m. Tuesday. Clean-Up Set For Civil Service Department treatment my beby will need and is getting now.” We went to the bank immedi ately. Mr. Gardner took charge and supervised the opening of the savings account in the name of Jasper Walker, Jr. As the bills, (Continued On Page Two) Jos. Groom, M.D. Eye Surgeon 'drew his suggestion. In proposing lat this time, On the contrary, he | System of any federal workers who declared, Poland was ready to go | are ‘incompetent, dishonest or dis- American espionage activities be- | loyal.” hind the Iron Curtain. Discussion} He declared there are only a on that subject was originally /few such federal employes, and scheduled for today added Palar, faced by opposition from | “‘I intend to see the government both East and West, then with- | rid of all such persuns precisely j because that is the only way to it he had told the committee he|make the merit system itself had been informed such an agenda | work.” change might “greatiy facilitate’ Eisenhower set forth his views peace chances. He did not say /in @ prepared statement after wit- who told him sa, but made the | nessing the swearing into office of statement immediately after say-| Philip Young a member of the Ask Continuation |Of RFC Till 54 WASHINGTON \® — The chair- men of Congress’ banking com- m'ttees say the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation should be kept jin existence until mid-1954, not | abolished at the end of this year. | Chairman Wolcott (R-Mich) of the House Banking Committee said he is not “wedded” to any ane ‘plan for the big government lend- ing agency but is more inclined to follow the present law. This bars any new loans by RFC after June 30, 1954. Chairman Capehart (R-Ind) of the Senate Banking Committee, in a CBS-TV interview yesterday, agreed that the present law should be followed Interviews with Wolcott and oth- er House sources yesterday indi- cated the Repuplicans generally agree on wiping out the agency, but disagree as to when and how ito do it. A Senate bill now pend- ing would abolish BFC Jan. 1 Russia. Taft, the Senate majority leader, ; and Chairman Wiley (R-Wis) of the ; Foreign Relations Committee had | a private meeting with Eisenhower | after the regular Monday morning | conference of GOP congressional leaders with the President. Afterward, Taft told newsmen there had been “‘no change” in the position of the President, Wiley, or himself on the controversial nomi- nation. “We are going right ahead with | it,” Taft said. He added that Sen- ate debate would get under way later in the day. The nomination has been under fire by GOP Sens. McCarthy of Wisconsin and Bridges of New Hampshire. It also has been sharp- ly criticized + ° McCarran of Nevada. House Speaker |said there was no discussion of tin (R: | conference. But Bridges, another of those in attendance, renewed his opposition jin a statement read into newsreel ‘and television microphones as the meeting broke up. He and other jopponents still were fighting rearguard action. Much of the controversy was centered on the contention of Mc- Carran and McCarthy that Secre- tary of State Dulles gave security janti-Bohlen senators put it-an ad- i verse FBI report on him McCarthy has said Dulles made an untrue statement in saying there were no differences between him and R. W. Scott McLeod, the State Department's top security officer McCarthy also has declared that | McLeod has been ordered not to “-mocratie Sen. a clearance to Bohlen despite~as the | Wile, Marine’s Cheap * Mrs. King Lives With 13 Other Members Of Her Family In K.W. small children supposed to do while her Marine husband serves his country in Korea? (Mrs. Chester L. King asked The Citizen today when she came in with her story. ; “I have tried to find housing at Poinciana and Porter place, but they have long waiting lists. A clerk at Poinciana told me that if my husband is serving overseas as he is, | have no right to military housing. As a stop gap Mrs. King is liv- ing with 13 other members of her {family in a small apartment at 1430 Olivia street. Not only are her five children crowded there, but her mother has three young- er children, then her father lives there, her sister with her two children. The family manages to live in the three bedroom apartment. “But I want to find a place I ean afford. I get $156.90 a month from. my husband’s pay. Then I have gone to work in the Navy Laundry, where I earn $20 to $22 a week take home pay as a check- er. I can’t afford fancy housing. Mrs. King came to Key West her parents a month ago be- cause her father-in-law in Fort Wroth, Tex. had even less space |dren. The eldest girl, aged eight, jis her husband’s child by his first | marriage Mrs. King has cannot find one that will fit her tight monthly budget, and yet | permit her to feed her children Mrs. King is wondering why she is barred from military hous- ling while her husband is serving ‘overseas, Now is the time she needs help more than when he is in the country to belp her, she said. National Concern With Branch In Key West Has Opening For Salesmen In What is a young mother of five | That’s the question 24 year old | Dr. J. L. Lester, Jr., who was | driving along behind the cycle, witnessed the crash and admin- istered first aid to the injured men at the scene. They were tushed to the hospital where the driver expired from multiple skull fractures. Coroner Roy Hamlin today issued a certificate of accidental death. West . Fitch: is a long-time Ki ent... His mother, Kai is en-route here trom her home 4# Tampa. ? The missing sailor was fied this morning by Naval av- thorities as Harry Wilson: Smith, | 25, @ Boatswains Mate 2nd Class | a strong swimmer, made a desperate but futile ef- fort to save the Navy man who was soon lost from sight. $10,000 Short, Sirugo States With the Red Cross drive deau- ‘line only nine days away the | te ae By ome than “$10, short of I set. Lack of volunteer onl to wanvay for the is be relpaasiaat ‘ reach the goal. ¥ In an effort to inctease intarest jin the drive, Joe Sirugo, fund chairman, has appealed to all per- [fund to mal ‘in thelr” edattibe. to mai tion Tuesday. A letter, containing the dona- tion, addressed to RED CROSS, Key West, and put into one’s home box will be picked up by the mail man on iy. Sirugo cautioned all to be sure jand put their name and address jon the envelope so that the Both Navy and civilian aircraft | chapter can mail out a member- searched con-| | stantly for an apartment here but | Will Be IN KEY WEST ling he would like to see chief So- | Civil Service Commission ss cestify before a Senate Investiga- and surface vessels immediately no trace of the Navy man was found. The search was continued today, although hope is slim that the man may survive. The sailor’s mother, Mrs. Doro- thy Smith, Santa Ana, California, has been notified by Naval au- thorities of the mishap. Sewer Survey Is Slated Tomorrow Navy officials are co-operatit with the city of | “flow and cw conducted the ocean © Posed additions | system. Lt. F. H. Station Sanit: City Manager se} tf Doo Bohlen at the regular legislative |to put up the family of five chil- | completed pl: | which will be velopen will be d | Anyone finding the began a search of the area but| viet Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky | After the White House ceremon |} Attention Please! Saturday. March 28th. : take personal part in the debate. [the President immediately at Office of Dr. Valdes Vishinsky is scheduled to arrive | nated Young, who has served as here Thursday from Moseow, and dean of the Graduate School of desig- | For Appointment CALL 2-782) ¢ has been considerable specu- mn that he is bringing fresh in uctions from the new Malenkov regime in the Kremtin Business at Columbia University, as chairman of the commission In his statement, Eisenhower sai (Continued On Page Two) KEEP OUR CITY CLEAN By Calling F AM DIAL 2:3036 We BUY all kinds of JUNK All Kinds of Serap Metal Lecated at 12) Simenten Street jtion subcommittee until afte rthe | Senate votes on the Bohlen nomi- nation. McCarthy beads the sub- committee Sen. MeCarras said in advance lof Senate debate on the nomina that be had a “chestful™ (Continued On Page Two) ton ot This Area | Sales Ability Essential But Not | Required . . . Positions Open for Men. Women . .. Car Necessary DIAL 2.2989 FOR INTERVIEW jship card and button. With Key West one of the few cities where the Red Cross ex- pends more than is collected lo- jeally, the failure to reach the |goal this year will be a black | mark on the city, the fund chair- id, | will go to help reach the total,” Sirugo said, Sho! z Fy | Make