The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 3, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has’ the Most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Check-Off Main Contract Issue, Company States The A and B> Lobster House filed suit for an in- i Che Key West Citizr THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN TH U.S.A. VOL. LXXIV No. 80 A & B Co. Seeks Injunction To Stop Union Picketing junction to stop picketing ‘Sailboat Still of their restaurant by em- ployees of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers, Local! 156, AFL and have asked! Governor Dan McGarty to appoint a Judge to sit on the case tomorrow, in the}. absence of Circvit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr. # j tit 4 2 2. i i ri 53% i s 4 é 3 z : AMEE \ BEae At Looe Key Sinks As Soon As It Is Pulled Into Deep Water Coast Guard vessel has given up trying to salvage the 34-foot yawl of E. D. Miller, Ariadne lie Instruction 167 Percent Rise In Pupils In County Since 1942-53 Almost Half Are Children Of U.S. Govt. Employees Enrollment in Monroe county schools has increas- ed 67 percent in the years since 1943, while ex- penditures per child have gone up only 30 percent in the expanded schoo} sys- tem, Superintendent of Pub- Horace O’Bryant said today. | In 1942-43 there were 271 chil- 67 years old, who piled her up|dren in county schools. As of on the rocks at Loco Key and waited two days for rescue, Lt. Clem Pearson, local commander, said today. ‘ Miller was brought to port from his lonely watery abode Key by a fisherman. He d sailed there from Havana, The boat draws five and one half feet, and Miller evidently cotildn’t keep her. out of the ue feet. of water around Looe ey. : iadne get and afloat; The vesse} sink when pulled into deep wa- ter. Now it is a question of @ sal- vage company. according to Pearson. The Coast Guard can emergency repairs to boat to port. but it can- the rooming house, where he checked in last night. the Coast Guard, this morning but did not report in as he had been invited to do. His personal belongings will be taken cif the } boat by the Coast Guard and the restuarant. presented the owners which the company fil Hi i ' i; E iH +3 i : H 5 = 3 7 Anti-Fish Trap Bill Proposed A buf to prohibit all but craw fish Gaps and one wire trap for each fishing boat will be duced by State Represent B. ©. Papy, according to an aouneement today {salvage company to repair the ; brough*’to port. Miller said he had no real ad- dress, only general delivery, Fort Lauderdale. He said he. was a retired employe of the American Telegraph and Telephone com- pany, In fact, a watch given him by the company was the main casualty of his two days at Looe Key waiting for help. The waich was immersed in salt water and became lost. Miller suffered from Portuguese jand coral cuts. He was the piled-up vessel the }time at Looe Key. ‘Wallet Stolen As 'Tar Dozes Today | | A short order cook is in the | City Jail today facing theft charg- jes after he allegedly lifted a wal- let containing $25 from the pocket of a Sleeping sailor in Jessie's Gate Cafe, Southard Street, early today, police have reported. The man, who was identified as Charles Delroach, 1827 N. W. 4th Avenue. Miami, was jailed by ficer Edward Ramirez on the complaint of a Navy man, Joseph Sampeon, of the USS Bushnell who sail that he fell asleep in the cafe end when he awoke found his j wallet missing. When he returned only attacks men-of-war, aboard whole He called | i. years @ Written union | boat so she can be floated and] hase Of-i January 31 this year the number had risen to 4131. these youngsters, more than 4% percent are Federally connected, that is, their parents work for Uncle Sam, either in the armed services or civilian There are 742 parents employ- ed on Federal property and re- siding on Federal property, ac- cording to this report which was compiled for applications to the U. S$: Government for funds un- der Public Law 874 to help sup- Port and = maintain county ‘The vast expansion in the school population has been achieved with only a slight increase in tax millage, according to the sum- Back-in when-total en- “Was ofily 2517, tax rate 1° | tor all. school purposes was 11 ‘mills; This year and last year, ‘the millage is 14.5, per child in averages daily attendance in Menroe county sthools have risen from $50 in 1938-39 to $228 today. | Another way of showing the in- crease is that expenditures per | j child Tose to $36 this year over | last year, or almost. as much as/ expenditure per child in| 1938, 1939 or 1940. i Total current expenditures for j the county school | elusive of debt service and cap- ital outlay expenditures are $856,844 for this year, contrasted with of that ten the figure was system ex- | } } | Total assessed valuation for | School tax purposes in the county | has risen almost ion | over last year and $17,000,000; jover ten years ago. The 1952-53 | valuation is $27,470,555. Back in| 1942-43 it was $10,423,710. Tn 1938-39. earliest year for} } which data was compiled in this | only $5,616,346. ; The vast increase in the enroll- }ment of pupils in county schools jis largely the result of Naval ex- pansion in Key West. Although the [rise was slow from 1939 through; 5 3959, it has increased almost 1.-/ ;000 from the latter year to this. The enrollment figures include children in tax-supported pablic schools only, not in the parochial schools, “Crucifixion” Sung Tonight At ten | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Fi Prowler Seen | At Site Of Rape Attempt Escapes Police In Charles Street Area Last Night; Home Owners Protest Another prowling incident re- ported on. Charles Street, near the site of a brazen rape attempt last week, has residents in that area up in arms. Police were called to the home of Paul Moore, Tele- graph Lane, at+dusk last night when an unidentified man was ob- served looking into his wondow. Police. picked up a man on | Whitehead Street shortly later, ; but he was found to be not con- nected with the incident. ‘Residents fear that the man may have been “getting the lay of ithe land” in. preparation for a later jaunt, following a long series {of incidents in that immediate | neighborhoot: Only last week a would be rapist invaded a Charles Street apartment and brutally at- | tacked a young Navy wife there. He escaped out. a back window and police and Navy investigators are still seeking the man.. It has been learned that there j is a suspect in the case but he is said to have disappeared the ported, In last night’s incident, the man who was identified as wear- ing white pants and a shirt with lettering on the back, walked iato the yard of Moore’s home. Mrs. Moore, a few minutes later, look- ed out a back window and saw a man standing there. He had dis- appeared by the time police ar- rived, however. Residents in the area are up in arms at the number of prowlers appearing there and today, more = one+of them came out with statement that “‘they are going to shoot first” . wi er anyone invades their yards after dark. y Of Fiseal Year © By FRANK O'BRIEN WASHINGTON (~—Government finance ispecialists said today the country appears headed for a de- ficit of nearly 6% billion dollars ~about a half-billioh more than year on June 30. The’ specialists, who asked not to be named, said in separate in- | ferviews: 1. With most of the big march jtide of tax dollars counted, net | esterday invited Van Fleet | revenues this year may be a bil-| aye os military pales book lion dollars less than the $68,697,- 000,000 former President Truman predicted in his final budget mes- Sage last January. 2. With the fiscal year three- quarters gone, expenditures may Tun about a half-billom fess than east. This would mean a deficit of $5,896,000,000 forecast by Truman, | Such a deficit would hamper Presi- | dent Eisenbower's drive to balance the budget for fiscal 1954, starting Jaly 1. Revenues are stil! to come in during the last quarter of twaning fiscal year, and 5 same night the attack was = ‘tthe | RIDAY, APRIL 3, 1953 c PRICE FIVE CENTS Garrison Asks For Postponement Of “\troversy over his claims at am-. munition shortages in Korea, Gen. James A. Van Fleet teday had of- fer of a job that could give him.|. . potent influence on national de- fense. It was an invitation to serve as staff military adviser to the Senate Appropriations Committee, which will have a big say about how many billions of dollars Congress | Predicted—by the end of the fiscal will vote for defense in the months ahead. | Chairman Bridges (R-NH) of the | | purse string committee said he ‘and Sen. Ferguson (R-Mich), chair- {man of the defense funds subcom- “The general told us that he | wend dding it be F said, a may | several days before Van Fleet de- | cides. | A reporter tried to reach Van | the $74,593,000,000 Truman fore- | Fleet at the home of former Am- | bassador William C. Bullitt, where |be and Mrs. Van Fleet are guests. |Feport, the figure valuation was | shout $6,400,000,000 rather than the | He was told Van Fleet was “too | tired to come to the phone.” The former Eighth Army com- mander retired Tuesday after near- | ly 3% years of Army service. He is 61. | Wednesday he was the key wit- ness as a Senate armed services | subcommittee: began public hear- [ between now and June 20 could | ings into his repeazed charges of of our flora and fa change these estimates radically, | serious and sometimes critical am- ; the night blooming There are two big question marks: 1. How much of the flood of tax collections resuiting from the March 15 income tax deadline is still to be deposited to government accounts? 2. How are corporation income ‘tax collections running? These questions cannot be an ‘Naval Base Chanel swered, perhaps, until near the end ‘The Easter Cantata. “The Cre cifixion” will be sume by St Paul's ‘choir, the Naval Station choir and {other singers tonight at the Nava | Slation Protestent chapel at § | Pam + The 4 men and womens. Navy and civilian geve their first per }formance of Stainer’s “Crucifix jion” Wetnesday night. at Ss of Apri. Last year there was- considerable spillover Corporstions pay quarterly. They st®i have quarterly payment due this collections in March Dal dollars. If & known how much of that was corporations, it «ould sot be dafficuit to foretell aboot how corperations will pay on Juse munition shortages in Korea | Pentagon leaders replied that ex- | cept for some minor ef the Eighth Army always had; jenough shells for its limited mis- ' sion. | Sen. Holland(D-Fia}, a long time | {friend of Van Fleet, said the gen- eral had rejected “several fis’ < offers” aber i and lots The gathered pieces of 7 FF tf i i t ft FPRSSE Hh Hi i i: Hearing By Civil Service Board Suspended Cop Says He “Has Files For Divorce | | | Done No Wrong”; { | f Robert E. Garrison, sus ‘pended Key West Police ‘Officer, asked the Civil . Service Board yesterday for OFFICERS OF KEY WEST LODGE OF ELKS, who were installed last night by Past District Deputy P. J. Ross and Past Exalted Ruler of the lodge. Seated, left to right, Jack Baker, Loyal Knight; Kermit Lewin, Leading Knight; Earl R. Adams, Ruler; John F. Blackwell, Jr., retiring Exalted Ruler and Trustee; Harry Knight, Lecturing Knight. Second row, George Sikes, Treasurer; Myrtland Cates, Tiler; Ernest Betancourt, Inner Guard; Harold Ruud; Fred Edwards, Secretary. Not shown, Bill Neblett, Esquire and Robert George, Organist, who were absent.—Citizen Staff Photo. : consent, the governor still must convince many of his friends that celifal Pe i £8] ; ; i 2f r i i 2 EE i e e REE Fy ee 2*8 pellike f g i g g [ ? rid ge a ! i E i i h a a postponement of his hear- ing until April 28rd “se that he can collect the ne- vessary data for his de fense.". The request was contained-in a letter to the board read at their regular meeting yesterday afters noo,” < . Garrison was handed ¢ uspension along with a -ecommendation for~ dis- charge on Tuestiay by City Manager Dave King who charged him- with “conduct unbecoming an officer” and “disgraceful conduct,” King, howéyer, bas “‘emphaziz24 the fact that these | have no connection with an Sent on /March 2nd in. which a woman, ‘who said thet she wes © Po a3 | ates: | steps in the right eff Hii fe : é ilk OK'd By State to the restaurant and _ inquired | pours tharch about the missing wallet, Dei-; This wi be the final rendition | U®td this division ix known, exti-' roach is said to have ran out the! n t ‘i year are in doubt back door Sampson parsued him . and‘ 78 However, the brought him back to the scene. these factors indicated tote) gol- The money im the wallet is stil iections may be aboot « billion | tussing, Delroach had been em ployed at the restaurant but two. days. ' Deltoach t& being beid onder bund of $106 fr appearame in City Court today ‘The proposed. bil states that the setting of trap: of any king or trap devices in the sait waters of Monroe County” shall be pro- hibited. Exception ave wooden traps not-emteeding @ certain specified size during thé legkl season for taking crawfish Anoth excep tien is thé allowance e witt trap fer .2- commercial Bshiog wou. | i F : i ei? Pri [ DOG RACING TONIGHT! elated Key West Kennel Club |) 1. The estimate for 1953 callee. *” LADIES’ MIGHT tens contained on Truman's final AM Ladies Admitted © budget were based oe expectations ed (Commaued On Pore Threey { " i if t i i 5 E : : MH pit | ] i i 3 i f