The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 31, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the Che Key West Citizen Power Of City Manager To Be Cut Drastically The government of the City of Key.West is almost certain to be drastically altered next month when Representative Bernie C.| Papy makes his biennial jaunt to the State Capitol with a_ briefcase stuffed | with local bills. The com-} plete text of the bills have now been made public. For the past two months, since the veteran legisla- tor began to announce his plans for the revamping of the city charter, the issues; at stake have been debated pro and con, including their airing at a three-hour hear-| ing on Friday night before the public and whether or not they are good bills, will; be determined apparently, on how they work out in us | st beef ainong the opposi- ; tion seems to be the general re- | duction in the powers of the-elty | manager under the terms of many of the bills, Besides losifig: | his voice in making appointments to the police and fire depart- mente, the city. menpger is being cvcton wie mntn ate beter ning Board thereby and: losing | his voice in the efty planning pic- ture under the terms of a bill whieh will abolish the Board and solit its powers between the Planning Commission and the city commission. And members of the Utility | Moard face a shakeup in that acti- i vity. } Probaby the act with the most | far reaching implications is one | which will make it the “Duty of | fhe city commission to submit the | following question to the qualified | electors of the city of Key West | in the November General election: “Shall the present form of govern- ment of the city of Key West, Flo- rida known as the “‘Commission- Manager Plan” be changed to the Mayor-and-Council form of govern- ment?" This very important and much | debated query will appear on the ballot twice, once followed by the | word “Yes"" and once followed by | the word “No.” [t will be for the voters to decide. ELECTIONS The bill which seems to be caus- ing the most comment around the city halls these days seems to be (Continued on Page Ten) Woman ls Injured In Accident Mon. Miss Opheling Actor, 28, 127 Oli- | via Street was taken to the Mon- roe General Hospital yesterday | afted she was injured In an acci- | dent on Truman Avenue, police said today. | According to the police report, Miss Actor was riding a bicycle Langhorne, Pennsylvania. Hospital officials today did not THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOL. LXXIV No. 77 Rep. Papy Releases Text Of Bills Affecting Wity Bids Called For On Instruction Building Plumber Sues Joe Sirugo For $20,000 Claims Sirugo Did Not Finish Contracted Units Agreed Upon A. S. Goehring, plumbing con- tractor is suing Joe Sirugo for | $20,000 in a breach of contract | Suit filed yesterday in Circuit Court. The plumber claims that Siru- 90 agreed with him that he should install all plumbing in 49 duplex units being built by Sun- shine Construetion Co., between First and Fourth Streets, Patter- son Avenue and Roosevelt Boule- vard. He was to be paid.$970 per dnlex unit or $47,530. Now, says the complaining number, Sirugo has built only 37 duplex units. Goehring did his part | of the job, he. said, by installing | the plumbing and connecting with the sewer and water lines by Nov- ember, 1952. & “Since then the defendant, (Sir- © (Contitused eh Page Ten) Faster sad Bartenders Union Pickets A and B A long and stormy disa- greement between the nian- agement of the A’ and B Lobster House, Front Street, and the Hotel and Restaur- ant Employees and Bartend- ets Local 156 erupted once more af noon teday when a four man picket line was thrown around the restaur- ant by the Union member- that Berlin Felton, proprie- tor of the restaurant has | } | Joseph Gild, Secretary and Business Manager for the union said today the picket line will semain until the question is settled. In the past, they have picketed the establishment. but then withdrew when Felton had agreed to negotiate. “But, nothing ever came of his ” Gild avers. ‘The trouble started almost two years ago with the dis- missal of two waitresses at the restaurant. Eee | release the extent of her injuries, | | but they said that Miss Actor's condition was “not critical.” She is being held for observation. Have you filed your HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR 1953? DEADLINE ... WED., APRIL | Monroe County Tax Assessor CLAUDE GANDOLFO COUNTY COURT HOUSE Whitehead Street Will House Administrative Staff Of County Public Schools Bids.for the new administration building of the Board of Public Instruction will be advertised start- | ing tomorrow to be opened April 23, it was announced by Superin- tendent of Public Instruction, Hor- ace O’Bryant today. The new glass and brick build- ing will house the Superinten- dent’s office, and general super- visor’s office, text book store- rooms and other offices on the first floor. On the second floor will be of- fices of the Guidance director at- tendance office, lunchroom mana- ger, credit union, nurses suite, county PTA and Board Room and library. Also on the first floor will be general office space for the non- instructional staff, elementary sup- ervisor’s office, and an unmarked airconditioned room. The building will front on Flem- ing Street on Jackson Square. There will be parking space for | six cars. Plans, specifications, bid forms, form of contract, instruc- tions $6 ‘builders and all other bollding and céntract"data may be obtained from the office of (Continued on Page Ten) Queen Elizabeth Sees Grandmother Interred Today WINDSOR, England » — Queen Elizabeth II cast symbolic earth upon the coffin of her grandmother Queen Mary today, and saw the body committed to the ages in the ancient tomb of British royalty. The 85-year-old dewager queen was buried beneath St. George's Chapel of Windsor’ Castle, beside the king-husband she survived for 17 years, The Archbishop of Can- j terbury, primate of all England, spoke the committal rites of the 40-minute Church of England serv- ice. The royalty of 13 nations and Minister Winston Churchill, most 60 years junior to the dead queen grandmother, paid her hom- age by sprinkling the earth upon the coffin—just as she had done ther, George VI. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1953 Charge Against Robert Woods Is Dismissed Family Feuding Brought Out At Hamlin’s Hearing The charge of assault with at- by Peace Justice Roy Hamlin. was totally lacking that Woods took place between Mrs. Curry, her brother, and Robert Curry at Boza’s outdoor theater on Stock Island. Robert Curry who signed the complaint against his brother-in- law Woods was the only person to testify that Woods fired at off. All other state witnesses denied seeing any gun in Woods hands. Curry and his estranged wife, ings against Curry today for the second time, both appeared at the hearing. Mrs. Curry, however, sat with her brother Woods. She said that she and her brother and some boys were out coon hunting. “I have the cuts here to prove that,” she said. see a film about “sheriffs and police.” When she and her brother stop-- ped at the theater, Mrs. Curry spotted her estranged husband sit- ting with her niece. “If it had been anybody else }but her, I wouldn’t of minded,” |the tall, nervous woman said. Mrs, Curry im going over to the car, and as Curry testified she grabbed the girl by air, and hit her. Curry, she high Shewes- H and Cente. geet. Al. lan B. Cleare, Jr, After that Mrs, Curry said she-as.so mad, she took a rock and smashed the car windows. “My brother didn’t have a gun,” she replied to*insistent questioning by Hamlin to bring ‘her back to the case in point. State witnesses Adolfo Boza, John Lorette, and Gilbert Raices (Continued on Page Ten) Cantatas Mark Holy Week At 'Two KW Churches i Holy Week in Key West is being observed by two cantatas at local churches, at St, Paul’s and at the | First Methodist. The candelight Huly Communion it the First Methodist (Old Stone) |that prince of commoners, Prime! Church will take place tomorrow |not Thursday night, the Rev. J. ‘watched as the reigning queen, al- | Paul Touchton announced today so that the Key West High school chorus cantata can be heard on Thursday night at 8:15. | At St, Paul's tomorrow night, l13 months ago for Elizabeth’s fa- | Comdr. S. H. Pierce has organized ithe Easter Cantata of 40 voices at tempt to commit murder against | © Robert Lee Woods, was dismissed | ' at a preliminary hearing yesterday | © Hamlin said that the evidence | fired a gun or that one was even | at the scene when a family battle | © On their way back to town they‘ stopped at the outdoor theater to| Best Interests of Key West. PRICE FIVE CENTS King Suspends Police Officer Who him, but that the gun didn’t go | who is starting divorce proceed-| 7 ; REAR ADMIRAL GLENN 8. DAVIS, USN, Commandant of the Sixth Naval District and his staff will arrive in Key West:April 6 to make his annual ingpection of naval activities here. Admiral Davis will remain in the Key We: turning to his headquarters in Charleston, S. C.—U. S.'Na zz Social Seeurity Representative In K.W. April 7 A representative of the Mi- ami Social Security office will be in Key West Tuesday, April 7th. : He may be contacted at the Florida State Employment Of- fice, 314. Simonton Street from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, and from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ‘ | One Of Duo Bound ‘Over To Criminal ‘Court On Theft Zackyrise Middleton, 21, was A moment later the eldest son,/8 p. m. Tom Whitley will direct ‘bound over to Criminal Court on the Duke caused Mary so much joy and so much heartbreak—came forward. (Continued on Page Ten) of Windsor—he who the choral section of “The Cruci-| fixion.” Comdr. Pierce will play the organ. Singers from many de- He stood for silent seconds felect- nominations are participating in \the St. Paul’s cantata. | ARCHITECT'S DRAWING of new administration buikiitig for tne Board of Public Inst be erected em Fleming Street, Jackson Square. William H Merriam = architect Ci Pho? charge of grand larceny of $117 from Hazel Saunders, after solving from. all guilt, his com- panion who had also charg- ed with the erime, by Peace Jus- tice Roy Hamlin. Middleton said that it was he, not Richard Shaw, who stole the money from Shaw's landlady Mrs. Saunders, 307 Julia Street, on March 21. He denied under repeated questioning by County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare that Shaw had any knowledge of the theft. Deputy Sheriff Jeff Brod- head who had questioned each of the young Negroes, said that Shaw's story stuck under five dif- (Continued on Page Ten) ab- | Was Center Of Peeping Tom Row Robert Garrison Handed 15-Day Layoff; Firing Is Recommended A fifteen-day suspension, along with a recommenda- tion for discharge from the Key West Police Department was handed out today to Police Officer Robert E. Gar- _?|rison for “conduct unbecoming an officer,” City Manager ave King announced King that he was a “peeping tom m an incident in which King w Exiled Group :/ Questioned By Authorities : Immigration And _| Naturalization Branches Check On Citizenship MIAMI (®—Eleven people de- ported from Cuba Monday night after a goveriment erackdown on gambling -were « questioned for irs early today by the FBI and and naturalization au- fat he was ill. . Reason for the suspension, King said in a letter to the Civil Service Board, is a violation in the Civil Service Regulations that st area about two weeks before re- another was in technical cus- tody because of “doubtful citizen. ship.” The remaining eight men and one woman, most of them from the Greater Miami area, were ad- mitted, They were identified by the Military Intelligence Service of Cuba as “‘smail fry”. The Cuban government deported | West High School Choral Depart- them for one of two reasons; be-| ment presents its annual Easter cause their stay and employment | Vespers, under the direction of in Cuba was illegal or '. because they entered on tourist! This is a community affair and cards without obtaining working | is open to all denominations. permits. ; Cuban Military Intelligence and | David Mumford Won: $400 Prize For Scientific Inyentive Talent D B, Mumford of Summer- land Key, one of the 40° winners of the National Science Talent Search, has just returned Phillips Exeter School in New passenger manifests listed them | choir, as Georgina Marsh, 35, James Da-| Organ Prelude. j vis, Morris Weinberg, Thomas} Schubert's “Ave Maria,” Peter Graven, Michael Bliss, Joseph | Simpson. |Tamburro, Robert Ayoub, Charles; Rossini’s “Infamatus,* Miss White, Patrick Smith, Charles | Elaine Eskew, Glick and Vernon Windham. Cantata presented M theeg Miss Marsh icentified herself to| The cantata is “ , Glorious newsmen as Miss Regina Marsh, ' Conqueror,” text and music by BE. Miami, and said she “didn’t know jk. Heyser. It consists of eleven se- what it was all about” when she |lections by the choir was arrested Friday night while | clude many i watching the floor show st the! j Tropicana, one of the night clubs, i (Continued on Page Ten) Science Talent Winner | Hampshire following a two weeks’ |« Builders of Fine Homes | spring vacation at Summerland. SITs Duval $t. David, who will enter Harvard | jin the Fall at the age of 16, com-| SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE peted with 14.260 boys and girls Build indivi Bate ae ic gue oe Conterm (Continued on Page Ten) | FHA, & V.A. SPECIFICATION -_—_—_—— = ! F.H.A, FINANCED a A RR MAREN CALL FOR | ONLY ONE DAY TO | = appoinTMENT TODAY | MAKE A DATE WITH DIXIE | TICK-TACK-TOE . That Great Musical Comedy Tri: Opens at ‘SLOPPY JOE'S WEDNESDAY, APRIL Ist New Management | HOWARD E. WILSON, Tax Coll, Monres County. ; \