The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1953, Page 1

, Florida, has the ble climate in the country, h an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Ww VOL. LXXIV No. 72 SERGEANT FIRST CLASS SERGIO MILIAN, 20-year-old ‘vet- eran of the Korcan war, is now home on a 30-day furlough. He saw his eight-month-old daughter for the first time on the current visit, . “Americs Forget Those Fighting In Korea,” Says Local Sergeant First Grade Registration Now Going On Troman School SERGIO MILIAN IS HOME ON 30-DAY FURLOUGH FROM KOREAN WARFRONT “The American people should never forget the men who are |fighting in Korea. when they are exposed to apathy of the people on the home { | | | | {like they are forgotten,” says Leads Others Sergeant Ist Class Sergio Milian, In Number Of First Graders 11 months battlefront. Milian, is home on a 30-day furlough before reassignment for duty in this country. He cited an experiment made by the Chicago Tribune as the ba- sis for his claim that = cans may not be tak rean struggle as they should. The Tribune, three days failed to make any mention of the Kerean War to see what kind of a reaction they would get from the public. Just as they expected, they received not a single inquiry as te why the mews was lacking. About the only people who are really interested in what is geing on a has are those with sons in the fight- “te family ing, they concluded. elinies: at Millan emphasizec, tt that morale is high among the troops in Korea the soldiers, » most of them extremely youthful, , realize that they ha jod to i» and are going ahead and doing on the signed up, Douglass S pupils, Many mre-expected thr: art their: ry t we All pupils th ¢ however It was two years ago that Mil d down a professional musi en n the a brief period o Jackson, South Carolina, he went to Korea and rapidly rose to his present rank. He has another two years to serve on his enlistment and hopes that he will be assign- (Continued On Page T >) w Cor Jos. Groom, M.D. w surgeon Make A Date with DIXIE Sometimes, | the | front, the fellows over there feel | 20 year old Key West vetera of | far eastern | CIRCUS ZEBRA DIES IN K. W. OF POISONING | Veterinarian Saves Horse, , Second Zebra. ' From Same Fate By DOROTHY RAYMER j A form of nerve jing caused by one leral kinds of spray or dust- ling compounds | killed the |zebra which was found in ‘eonvulsions Saturday morn- ling at the circus grounds | where the Kelly-Morris | show took place. The ze- | bra was reportedly worth | $1,500. | Another hybrid zebra and {Palomino mare, star of the | trained horse act, recovered after |Dr. Paul Landrum, Key West veterinarian gave them treat | ment. | He said that he was called to ;the scene Saturday morning be- ;for 11 a. m. and made several jreturn trips to the circus. The zebra died sometime between 4 and 6 p. m. that afternoon but !was not removed. until Sunday. | Landrum said that there was no antidote for the type of | poisoning from which the ani- mals were suffering and that the only treatment was to give them a relaxing drug which | put them to sleep and controil- ed the convulsions. poison- of sev- are several,” he said, “and came from one or more different kinds of poisoning from compounds used-to kill insects on crops. I had not performed an autopsy on the dead zebra and to his know- ledge, there was none perfor: by the circus men who c the zebra died of the liver.’ Said Landrum, “If the zebra did have that trouble, I can say that was not the cause of its death.” The zebra carcass taken {out to the city dump for disposal |All the circus owners did ws |skin it and take the hide away {Zebra skins are commercially | valuable Mrs. Fred Henning, Humane Society co-agent, visited the cir- grounds in time to protest inst entering the obviously Palomino in an act. She saw that the horse had huge open sores on its hip and over its eye where it had been injured ite ty on the ground dur- ing convulsions from the poison- (Continued On Page Two) Thief Rohs Motel Resident Of $260 Mrs. Hugh Brodie, an occupant ‘of The Bive Marlin M 1320 Simonton Street, told — pe her wallet, containing $200 in eash was stolen from her room last night Mrs. Brodie said the wallet h two dollar bills, a quant bills and change on her room when s' door for “just one | she returned the wallet and mc was. missin Police Of: made the in ported no trace of was that inute.”’ W Her y Have you filed your HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR 1953? WED., APRIL 1 Monroe County Tax Assessor CLAUDE GANDOLFO COUNTY COURT HOUSE Whitehead Street “The possibilities of the cause | don't Know where they got it or} anything else about. it,” he Stat-| an People Should Not « The veterinarian added that he | Registrations Are Showing Increase é z i has tly Deputy Sup- ations Agnes day when she of applicants as of today, up slig R ervisor of Lowe rep | registration | However, M sized that K rly to avoid The elec- tions are only slightly more than six months cff. The 0} how i Hall are fror ssary for all natura- lized citizens to bring thei papers with them when they al- ply to register. County Bills For Salaries ‘Submitted Ask For 1953 Legislation Pinder, j Sam B. bill that would 31 r a Pewasent ie lorida parteof ‘his we Bufthran thas | been deputy for past the to. be fixed * and an Open House Sunday e to its program released to- deputy. su- | MEMOYE CES : Program F m USO Open House Knight Arrests Shrimper Caught | With Undersized, woes ae ANYBODY FOR THE THREE “R’S”? . . . next September, that is. Five and half year old Edward England, son ‘of Mr. and Mrs. Howard England, 2801 Flagler, tries out one of the new modern desks at Poinciana School... for size. It’s a little spacious for him but just right for more advanced pupils. _Ed- ward will be in the first grade department and wil] have the right sized chair and a table when he starts on e “bead. to Jeayy ing sie was just registered on the afternodii.of the-epen- ing Si"ihet $506,000 annem (See story, Page 5.)—Citizen Staff | Photo. ‘And Saturday Party Released Local Club Leaders And | A gala weekend for ser- invited guests Survey Shows Ocean Outfall Site Feasible Engineers Make Study Tuesday Of Hawks Channel For Sewer Station Servicemen To Parficipate vicemen, for the public is planned at the newly renovated USO clubhouse, a¢cording f day. An engineering survey conducted yesterday by a group of engineers rm stresses with the cooperation of the Navy that the public invited | showed that the location of the for the reception Sunday {ocean outfall plant of the new from 2 p.m, to 5 p.m. Key West sewer system in Saturday night at 8 p.m. the | Hawks’ Channel, off Fort Taylor, invited guests and servicemen | “will be entirely satisfactory,” pease ibe: beginning of | City Manager Dave King said to- Edwin Trevor, chairman of | 4Y- USO Operating Committee, will} make rds to the ton scorers | inshore wind and a strong incom- ational Basketball Free- | ing tide, the dye markers dropped Tournament. He will also! by the engineers were carried recognition to the Navy | swifdy out to sea, indicating that ity Carnival for its contribu- | there is no danger of pollution of tion to the USO club. | the shoreline by sewage when the Installation of the newly elected | station is placed. officers of the Girls Service Or-| The engineers, including Tepre- tion will take place. Mem- ! sentatives of Clifford and Cooper f the newly formed Ser-| Associates, who designed the sys- a's Council will be intro-)tem, the Florida State Board of | Health and Navy technicians, con A show, “Music and Med- (ducted the survey from a boat ress” featuring the talents ef | provided by the Navy the “Y's Guys end Gals” talent | Chief Warrant Officer F. H Group will launch the evening. | Dooley of the Naval Station Sani- (Conti On Page Two) tation Department made the ar - maa |rangements in cooperation with The team dropped dye markers envelopes overbgard and then MACK’S PLACE | scse'Siviesticas! computations w study flow and current in the BOCA CHICA BEACH =| “uy the The best buy in the County! Sightings made st three different for a small investment on! Pol! indicated that they were a being berm seaward. a well established year- However, anyone finding any of around business. the postcards wail them te the ¢ iPPLy IN PERSON LO AT TT. Mrs. Jules Kovash, chairman, pro- gram is data stating when sad where thor ware found. Working with a 20-mile-per-hour _|was on the way home to North Illegal Shrimp — First Arrest Made Under Fla. Law Since Industry Began In 1951 The first shrimper to be arrested for taking under- sized shrimp since the industry’s birth here in January 1951, is out on $100 bond, following arrest by State Con- servation Agent Joe Knight last Saturday. Cullem Williamson, off the shrimper Pricilla, was appre- rended by Knight near Dayco Docks Saturday afternoon and} ° . aces, if convicted, penalty up to | Elmer Davis Will 1,000 or year in prison for | qe . aving shrimp so small that they | Sit With Press rumbered 85, 86 and 89 count to ° * the pound. | At Friday Hearing Legal limit for shrimp | caught in state waters, that is, weters lying within a radius of one mile from the shore in the Gulf and three leagues out into the Atlantic, is 55 count to the pound. Williamson will be tried in Criminal Court on Friday for his alleged offense. Knight told The Citizen; “This is the first time I've ar- vested anyone for violating this | law.” | The law regulating the size of | shrimp to be taken was passed in 1947. It says that “it shall be un- lawful for any person, firm, as- ociation or corporation, whether resident or non-resident, to take, by any means, methods or device whatsoever, from the salt waters of this State, or to have in his or their possession or to sell or of- fer for sale, any shrimp of a lesser size than which count 55 to the pound with their heads off. . . “However, no person may export, sell or ship such shrimp, as have been exempt from the provisions of this subsection, beyond the berders of the counties granted. exemptions. .. >... Bee? “Any person. violating the provisions of this section shall be punished, on conviction, by @ fine not exceeding one thou- | sand dollars, er by imprison- | ment not exceeding one year, er by both such fine and imprison- ment in the discretion of the | ac i he has not had ‘Flag Raisin Knight to make any arrests so far for violation of the seasonal tan on catching crawfish which went in- to effect midnight Friday and re- mains in effect ‘til July 21. He has given the fishermen a chance to get their traps in. From now on anyone with traps out will be | apprehended, Knight said. Elmer Davis, noted ¢om- mentator and long time visi- tor to Key West will cover the legistative hearing of State Rep. B. C. Papy from a press seat Friday at 8 p.m. in the Courthouse. Davis asked Citizen staffer Susan McAvoy whether he needed to shew any press pass to get in. He was assured that as visiting press he would be accorded the same privileses as local pross in sittirg at a to Key West in order to cover the biennial legislative hearing at which Rep. Papy discusses bills he will introduce ‘ia the Florida legislature meeting April 1. Davis has rever seen State Represertative be'c nor witnessed this interest: meeting of citizens. The. public-at large is urcod to attend the hearing and ex- press itself on the rumercus ag 131 Years Ago Lt. Perry Raised U.S. Flag Over Island Of Key West Today is the 13st anniversary of | the first raising of the American | Flag on Key West soil, according ito Mrs. Jeanne Taylor, ‘Homesteaders Must File Now gy pan metaies Gallery, Homestead exemptions for 1953 are due Wednesday, April 1, pai adores {County Tax Assessor Claude ernment Gandolfo said today. pleted taking Exemptions should be filed in} West as part of Gandolfo’s office in the Monroe/ by Spain. | County Courthouse. U.S. Navy BULLETIN Navy Chief Killed | kes wes sna tne. STUART W—A Navy chief petty | our vessels it officer on leave from Key West! was made to fortify the was killed and a companion in-| once and establish a jured early today in a collision be- | here. tween a car and a semi-trailer; The Honorable track on U.S. 1 then Secretary of the Navy, The dead man was identified as | marked: William Herbert Beshears, 37, ‘An from the U. 8. S$. Minotaur. He Charleston, S.C. Injured was Martin C. Wilson, 35, a Navy chief petty officer be- ing transferred from Key West to the Charleston, 8. C.. Navy Yard for sea duty. de was cut and; bruised Coroner Harry C. Beckman said the car driven Sy Wilson was go} ing north and collided with the; truck as it turned onto the high-/ | way from Indiantown Road | The truck driver, Francis Star- rett, Cedarhurst, Md, was sot! 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