The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 13, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the . most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit : THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOL. LXXIV Key West Cancer Patients Get Top Medical Treatment |Trial Today Clinie Makes Skill Of MD’s Available By SUSAN McAVOY Don Lopez, aged 68, made his first trip out of Key West fm four years last Friday. His daughter Rosa accom- panied him to Miami be- cause Don can only speak Spanish, and there were many important things to _ tell the doctors about her father. She knew he was sick, and she | knew there was no place he could be helped in Key West, to stop the progress of the cancer that had stricken her beloved father. When Dr. Raymond Dalton, St. Francis Hospital | Miami Herald Spelling Bee Tonight At 8 Poinciana Returns To Single Session With Completion Of New Classrooms The Miami Herald spelling bee will take place at the Key West High school auditorium tonight at - o’clock, it was announced to- y. Contestants will line up for the annual bee and te winner will compete in the finals in the State, Other school news of interest re- leased today is 2s follows: Poinciana Elementary school has returned to single sessions as of today. The double sessions, necessary because of the crowded ednditions and lack of rooms, have been discontinued with the com- pletion of the sew wing. Princi- pal Albert Carey made the an- nouncement. © The Pbinciana elementary cafe- teria opens today, according to Mrs. Lorraine Johnson, lunchroom manager. While’ the double ses- ~{sions and building were in pro- FLEES Boughton after” conference recommend- of the » which sega pth & | Sie get see until — Sai - know my } mo for an . where needed treatment or i: az ere 3 § & ! Es Pri i 285 Hi i i 3 i E sa2 E SGEE Es ike ? es Es i committee, headed by Rep, Ayres. Marion, to investigate charge that cheaper materials substituted *| capitol remodeling job. ‘thority. Received bill from five Repub-' Heans and Democrat George Okell. Miami, to create legislative crime | and subvresion investigating com-| mittee. | Recessed until 10 a.m. Tuesday. | Senate: Indicated through an assistant | pelacipal of Douglass # ss, it was impossible to serve lunch. Staff of the newly opened cafeteria consists of Mrs. Alice Butler, manager, Mrs. Alice Val- dez, Mrs. Rosemary Mathews and -| Mrs. Evangeline Jaycocks, assis- tants. Two Harris Elementary teach- ers who won a free trip to Havana at the recent Cerebral Palsy bene- fit dance, took up the tab -during (Continued On Page Two) Scottish Rite Masons Elect » New Officers Jesse Montgomery Named Worshipful af ul : ey West Consistery, Fernan- . Camus was elected Master dosh, jontgomery was given the title Youth Center reports that a plano is iy ed for the center for recreat use and dances, At the March meeting Committee voted to reduction in admission pri Problems ! i [i z : i +; mended. He is a graduate of Pur | high and low pressure; steam tur-| g Hiffal 2 No. 88 Bar Owners’ Before Jury Middleton Gets Year In Jail On Charge Of Grand Larceny Criminal Court Jury trials start- ed this afternoon with the cases of two local bar owners charged with serving liquor to minors. The defendants, Elmer Vogt. and Don Ortega were scheduled to ap- pear before Judge Thomas Caro at 2 p. m, following the selection of a jury. State Beverage Agent Joe Rus- sell was one of the state witnesses to testify against them. The five local bar owners and tenders arrested on information filed by State agents two weeks ago will be tried or Wednesday in the same court. Meanwhile Judge Caro sen- tenced Zachyrise Middleton to one year in county jail, after the lat- ter had pleaded guilty to’ a grand larceny charge, heard before Peace Justice Roy Hamlin last week. . Gerard Paul McKenna, USN, forfeited bond of $250 on one charge of grand larceny. He has another charge of larceny against him for theft of still another mo- torcycle, it was said by the She- riff's office. Charles Dean, pleaded guilty to a reckless driving charge and was fined $50. | dury trials will continue all week at the courthouse, until the large docket is sifted through by County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr. and KEY WEST, FLORIDA, APRIL 13, 1953 Coast Guard Aids | Shrimp Vessels 150 Miles Away The Coast Guard rescue ves- sel Adriane is rushing to aid two shrimpers who are disabl- ed 150 miles west, southwest of Key West. . The Sammy Jr., which had been shrimping off Campeche, incurred a disability kept her from proceeding home in the high seas. Shrimper Gol- den Duchess gave the Sammy a tow until she broke her mast in the mercy mission. The Gol- den Duchess is standing by un- til Coast Guard help can reach the Sammy, Lt. Clem Pearson, Coast Guard commander said today. The Golden Duchess will be able to make port with her broken mast, but cannot teow another ship. Both the disabled Sammy and the Golden Duchess were coming from Cabo Catoche. Allies Stage Rehearsal For POW Exchange Trade To Begin Next Monday By Present Plans By ROBERT 8. TUCKMAN MUNSAN, Kbrea Allied sol- | diers and Marines today staged a | dress rehearsal covering every detail of the exchange of sick and the Judge, and Criminal Court | Clerk Harry Dongo. Engineers Club ‘To Hear Expert - Tuesday Meet. ‘There will be a meeting of the Key West Engineers Club. at‘ the Armory on Tuesday evening, April 14, at 8:00 p. m. John M. Brabelle, | | who is here in Key West is an advisory capacity to the City Elec- trie Company to instruct the Com- | pany and its employees in the/ operation of its new plant, will’ conduct the members through the new plant, | Brabelle comes highly recom- due University and holds degrees jot B. S. in E. E., E. E. and de-/ gree of M. E. He has had 40; years experience in the operation, maintenance and construction of steam electric power stations, ) bine and boiler operations; boiler feed water and electrical equip- ment; and specialized in the use of lower rank coals. He also has | experience in central heat opera-| tion, both water and steam with | ippines, wounded Korean Wer prisoners, which begins next Monday, United Nations and Communist staff officers earlier today settled final details of the dramatic ex- change. The agreement was signed Saturday in a ceremony at Pan- munjom. At the signing the Reds “sub-|! rel | newal of full-scale armi broken off by the U.N 8. The U. N. has not a. Peiping radio announced the first convoy 6f sick and wounded Allied prisoners would start for the exchange site today. The 23 vehi- cles will agrive at Kaesong Thuss- day and remain there four days before the actual swap begins. The U.N. pressed for an earlier start but the Reds refused. Legislatue Takes Up Many State Problems Building Probe, Milk Price Fixing On Agenda As House Reconvenes TALLAHASSEE —The Florida House today cranked up its in- vestigation of the state Program, received a request for a broad inquiry into crime and sub- version and introduced a batch of bills that included one to abblish state milk price. fixing. Speaker Farris Bryant named a five-man committee headed by Rep. Ayres, Marion, to investi- gate reported use of cheaper ma- terials than specifications called for in the recent capitol remodel- ing. Other members are Reps. Fascell of Dade, Atkinson of Leon, Land of Qrange and Cobb of Vo- lusia, They organized immediately aft- er the 90-minute House session and called their first official meeting for 8 p.m. Tuesday, The five Republican represent- atives joined in ir ig a bill Hagtestl arson introducing mission’s ct U. S. Marines, British and South | ida | Korean troops played the part of sick and wounded prisoners as U. N. medical and security per- sonnel held a realistic dress re- | and fearsal for the exchange, Lt. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Eighth Army commander, headed an array of high officers who wit- |nessed the drill five miles south of Panmunjom. At the truce village earlier, the Communists handed over a further breakdown of nationalities of the 600 ailing POWs they said they would exchange. f The Reds said a group of 15 not previously identified would: include prisoners from Turkey, Canada, Greece, The Netherlands, The Phil- South Africa, Australia and Colombia. The Reds previously announced the prisoners they would return included 450 South Koreans, 120 Americans and 20 British soldiers. The Allies will return 5,800 sick} »; and wounded—§,100 North Koreans and 700 Chinese. r Today's dress rehearsal included members are urged to be at i WASHINGTON Rain weshed | it the finale of Washingtons an- Cherty Blossom Festival may | be 2 silver lining for the queen. | ady drizxie led officials to the water skiing pageant, wi of the five-day frolic. Janet Kaye Bailey of Ak- \, Who was crowned Satur- j day . Eisenhow- er, he would not object if revenue | vests is also under consideration. | ing “a The next meeting will be held! case. Said the Myearaid beauty: from proposed additional dog track | tax was divided among counties. | ——— Key West Salvage Co. STOCK ISLAND i TIRES FOR SALE . . . Also 1000 Yds. of Used Carpet DIAL 2.51% isteneiinieeitidieliidabiaieeeiniaeemeiencenseens on Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p. m. ia City Rall, CRIN NER EEE ATRL i | LATEST KOREA LIST SYLVIA APPLIANCES 98 FLAGLER AVENUE Radio and TV Repairs All Werk Guaranteed “I think 1H get married io it.” 179 CASUALTIES ON WASHINGTON #-The Defense Department today identified 179 having Korean, War casualties in a new | dollars list (Ne. 789) that included 63 dead. & wounded, $1 minong, 5 injured asd T captared prisoners. The first stage was an enactment of delivery of Red pris- oners. The second was the receiv- ing of Allied POWs-and moving them to Freedom Village sear; (Continued On Page Two) [ siccieni anemia H City Commission Will Meet Today ‘The city commission will meet this afternoon in ‘special session both the giving and the taking | for the purpose of passing contracts quit claim deed for the ed property on ich the American house stands. The Legion has ed for tlle to the property spent several thomnands ip renovations and re- i modelling to the structure. | The attion must Gen be ap-j 2 pptved by the Sate legislature, From one of Gov, MeCarty’s ad- ministrative assistants came word Sects eine ane Pare 8 Sctiool Board Will Meet Next Wed., Fate Of Ousted Pair May Be Aired. Barn Theatre Production Of “Our Town” Opens Tonight “Our Town,” could be Key West in a New England setting back in 1901, except that Key West was a live it are pretty much the same whatever the locale or the period, and patrons of the Barn Theatre who see the Thornton Wilder dra- ma tonight when it opens, present- ed by the Key West Players, will : E cpa Hi F Bee & 3 i 5 i ; BF & i &F Rew ere a i H & : ! i F b E f i F ! H li H Pree Ft it E i i $89 i HTH e it i * . = ° Fyik ty Ff iii | ' i Ss g i it i g | | i File i fe & Legality Of Firing Of Russell, Schweitzer May Be Challenged The fate of two key members of the Monroe County School system is apparently still undecided with specula- tion rising that the action the school board took in firing them might be iliegal. In a surprise move last week, the five-man board, act- ing on the recommendation of Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace O’Bryant voted not to renew the con- tracts of Principals Randolph Russell of Harris School and Edward O. Schweitzer of the Key West High School. However, they overruled O’Bryant’s recommendation that General Supervisor of Instruction Leland March also be given the axe. 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