The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit # | Jackson Memorial ‘hospital. nega < ROSEMARY HOKINGER, center, Coral Shores School, first place winner in the Monroe County Spelling Bee last night at the Key West High School Auditorium. Leland March, general super- visor of instruction, presents the award to her. Standing left of Rosemary is Katherine Shamer of the Convent of Mary Immaculate, who ran third, and Leonard Conley, left, who was run- ner-up.—Citizen Staff Photo. Keys Student Wins County “ Spelling Bee In Exciting Werd Contest The Mozree County _ spelling mnionship, was conducted at ‘clock in the Key’ “West High auditorium last night. The} ~ ‘This. is the first county contest which hes been won by a’ student from the Keys. : * The runser tp was Leonard Con- ley, 11 yeor, 7th grade boy, from St. Josepk's Seha0l, Key West. Rosemary Holzinger is © the dau: “Ser of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Yoltinger, Istamorada. Leonard onley ig the son of Dr. and Mrs. Leonard H, Conley, 903 Washing- ton St., Key West. Leonard missed the word “ap- proximately,’ This was spelled by Rosemary and thes when she seeiled “unanimous” correctly she was declared the winner of the County contest. She succeeded in spelling down 16 contestants rep-| reserting eight County, in. the ‘The Rev. Paul J. ‘Touchton, of | the Old Stone Methodist church gave the “invocation. Harris Ele- mentaty school chorus -led the audience in the National. Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, under the direction of Miss Miriam Crawford, Music Director at Harris school. A short musical MOUSE: Received series of Legislative Council education bills . providing average $350 teacher pay raise, appointment cf county school su- perintendents, put coliege construc- tion under SENATE: Adopted without dissent or com- ment rule setting 40th day of ses- sion as deadline for consideration | The Monroé County Split Is Seen Tn Ranks Of School Board le Group May Keep i School | *Boerd ‘is apparently split right ! ‘down the middle on the question | (of the firing of two officials of the | 'school system with one member Sof” the board, who declined to be named, stating that “if the mat- ter comes up for vote againthey j will both be approved by the | board.” e “However, when the school board meets again tomorrow night to open the bids on the “Truman Elementary School ad- dition, whether or not the ques- tien of the firing of the two men, Randolph Russell, Harris School head and &. 0. Schweitzer, Key West High School principal will be di |, remains to be seen. The five man board voted 3-2 not to renew their contracts for the coming year. is strictly legal has been advanc- ed, Russell was not recommend- ed for re-employment by Superin- tendent of Public Instsuction of Horace O'Bryant but the board diffi. removed, he pact last year. board member interviewed said that there are “sever- it he wants clari- j Eight) } Elks Teenage Club! | | ; fies Taylor, Jr. ~ | Other officers elected to serve j with Jolly were: Joe Pineda, vice | | prseident, Millicent or cee | tary and Ralph White, treasurer. All officers, as in the past, at- OvBryant > OB “Never Asked For Dismissal Of Schweitzer,” O’Bryant Says Full Dress Meet To Reconsider Board Action Tomorrow Night The dismissal of KWHS Principal E. 0. Schweitzer was never recom- mended by Superintendent of Pub- lie Instruction Horace O’Bryant, the school head declared flatly. to- day. In an interview with The Citizen, Said for quotation: not recommend that: Mr. “didinizsed at all Th: report in the paper that I did was. erroneous,” O'Bryant, the School Board and the Board of Trustees of Monroe County are preparing for a full- dress meeting tomorrow night with their attorney, Allan B. Cleare, Jr., to straighten out the legal tangle that last Tuesday's meeting caused. The chain of authority ‘on ap- pointment or non-appointment of school principals and staff mem- bers runs this way, O’Bryant said: “As Superintendent of Public Schools I make my: recommenda- tions. to the Trustees. They either accept or reject my recommenda- tions. They then make their recommendations to the School Board. Then and only then can the School Board act. All three of us have to agree on 3n action.” At last week’s school board meet- ing, O'Bryant’s recommendation for appointment or dismissal were not read until after the surprise vote. Opinions. from the State At- torney General's office held the meeting illegal. It is thus neces- sary to reenact the business of ap- pointing or dismissing top school Personnel tomorrow night at 7:30. The full dress meeting is ex- pected to resolve once and for all the immediate future of General Supervisor of Instruction Leland March, Principal Schweitzer and Harris school principal Randolph Russell, centers of discussion in the past week. Key West Players)” costssct“ts Tase ti | Present .... "OUR TOWN” | Accident Charges By er, THORNTON Wu.0cR A Tender Moving Story et the Rear of Woman's Club Apr. 13th thru Apr. 19, 8:30 P.M. ‘Loeal Cancer Society Head, | Key West Doctors Cooperate Mrs. D. Daniels Liaison With Clinic At St. Francis And State Program By SUSAN McAVOY ; (Part Il Of A Series) | The St. Francis Cancer Clinic, Miami Beach, to | which ‘more than 50 Monroe | County patients have been referred by Dr. Raymond | Dalton, county health offi- cer, was born out of sheer | necessity. | Three years ago when a Key West doctor spotted cancer in a patient, he would send him to the County Health unit, which would | send the patient up to crowded It might be and often was weeks be- fore a bed could be found for a patient desparately in need of sur- gery. Stories leaked back to Key West from patients and their families of the long waits and heartbreaking postponements of hospitalization. Into this gloomy picture came Mrs. Dorothy Daniels, Monroe the St. Francis Cancer Clinic and | the cooperation of Key West pri- vate doctors and the Monroe Coun- ty health unit. Mrs, Daniels worked out the liaison between Monroe County and St. Francis Cancer Clinic. Local doctors referred their medically indigent patients te Dr. Daiton who processed the necessary forms. The State Can- cer Control Program paid for in-patient care. St. Francis Hos- pital opened its doors to these patients, and tast but not least, the American Cancer Séciety provided medical services to the patients. What was qnee ‘an éideal for suffering patients, became a re- sa timeless humanitaria bined. The State Board of Health Can- ‘eer Control Program provides the tax funds for payment to the ‘hos- pital of $15 a day for 13 days. No. i 1 erated on, no matter what his treatment, the indigent patient does not have to pay it. The equip- ment used, the diagnostic facili- for by the Woman’s Auxiliary of St. Francis Hospital, headed by Mrs. Herman Boughton, wife of the director of the Cancer Clinic and the Americdn Cancer Society. Since the Clinic began on April 1, 1952, the Auxiliary has paid $4,900 in bills to the clinic. The Society granted $15,000 last year. “We pay the running ex- penses of the clinic,” said dyna- mic Mrs. Boughton, “whether it’s, for expensive equipment, a deep freeze, a Coreco Camera, | or $700 Bronchoscope.* There is only one paid worker in the entire clinic setup. For a long time Mrs. Boughton serves as secretary-typist to the clinic. ties and instruments, are all paid | County Cancer Society director, | - matter how often the patient is @p- | ii Finally the burden of work be- }came so great, that the. Clinic | hired a full time secretary, To- | day Miss Justine Jones is at the clinic for the typing or reports, case histories, results of confer. fences that come through her of- fice. | money for the Clinic by two main methods. First, it bolds an annual fash- \Man Facing Five Edgar G. Ingraham, local Navy man attached to the USS Odax was arrested yesterday on three | separate charges as the result of an automobile accident on Reose- velt Boulevard, police said today. According to the police report, Ingraham was | / traveling east on | duties To Get Patients To Treatment EEE Papy Introduces Two Local Bills TALLAHASSEE, April 14. (®)—Representative Bernie C. Papy today introduced House Bill 241, fixing salary of the Monroe County School Superintendent, and HB240, guaranteeing payment of ex- penses of the office of the Monroe County Judge. “Our Town” Scores Opening Night Success Difficult Play Is A Well Directed, Well Cast Key West Players’ Production BY M. FORESMAN The Key West Players have scored another success with their latest production, “Our Town,” the Thornton Wilder opus. This play, due to its lack of realistic stage settings and props, requires great skill on the part of the act- ors, and the local group acquitted itself admirably. In both previous Barn Theatre Performances this season, criti- cism hag been voiced concerning rather poor casting in one or two roles. This criticism does not ap- ply in the case of the present play. All. the characters, even in the very minor roles, are cretible and id appear to the mind's eye may have lacked a little sweep, but then Grovers Corner was a small town. The ingenue leads, George Gibbs vances from adolescence to man- hood in the course of the play. His mobile face showed the mix- ed emotions of the boy who is al- most a man, and he was able to drop the’ characteristics of the boy and become wholly the man in the latter part of the play. Constance Losley was equally good in the process of growing up. After being wholly believable as the high ‘school girl ‘just falling in love, she became the young married woman in the course of the play. One small de- in the portrayal of the role her wearing of her wedding and engagement ring: the | The Women’s Auxiliary raises : isk i 8 i i g 8 | the Boulevard when he failed to| complaints. and jumped the curb. The ear landed some 250 feet | Toad ina mangrove swamp. Dam age to the vehicle was estimated at $600.00, from the} i pegotiate a curve at Fifth Street] The many The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West. Cobo Asks Investigation In Payment Of $20,000 For Street Building Here City Revenue Collections Up By More Than Monthly Report Of Finance Head Shows Increases |. City Revenue collections for. the month of.March shows an increase of more than nine per cent when compared with reciepts during the comparable period in 1952, the monthly report of City Finance Director Charles Roberts reveal- ed today. At the same time Roberts. point- ed out that the total reciepts of $62,120.50 represented a decrease of more than six per cent when compared with 1951 collections. Increase in collections over last year were showr. in delinquent taxes which jumped $3,531.01 to a total of $12,830.29, Scavenger Ser- vice Fees which rose to $8,563.85 and Sewer Service Fees which showed a huge increase of $6,528. 34. . Also contributing to the jump were assessments for sidewalk improvements amounting to $1, 950.87 and a payment in lieu of taxes from the Housing amounting to $1,241.86, 11. , 000.00 U. S. Treasury bonds representing the pension fund investment. On Assault Of Minor Put Off The case against Henry Joseph Fernau, sailor, charged with break- ing and entering and unlawfully assaulting a person by request of the next term of that he could County Solicitor Jr., said today. Fernau, has now employed Tom r r hy ie i { 5 8 £ i if I F g i j H i : 3 i | ie id if l iy tt ist & 8 Nine Per Cent ——————EEEEE $6 Building Permit Costs Man $31 Mon. A six dollar building permit cost Gilmore Jones, proprietor of the Gill Motel, Roosevelt Bou- ing a $1746 addition to the stryc- ture without obtaining the neces- sary building permit. nager Dave King. According to the city officials, Jones was warned three weeks A & 3 EEE, He epee 2 i i : lf nt git: q : Py 5 at i if ef Ht | | i é g f t i i z 3 i ip Fi i : a i i : t 7 Hi Special Meet Set For Today To Discuss Matter Further - The thorny question of whether the city should pay some $20,000-to the Toppino Construction Company for street construction will be thrashed out this afternoon at a special meeting of the city com- mission. The matter was apparently set- tled last week when the city fathers approved a resolution to make the payment, but at a special session yesterday Commissioner Delio Co- bo asked for an investigation into the matter before the money is paid out. ” Cobo is opposing the deal on the basis that it will set a dangerous precedent for local contractors who the city. When such remuneration was deemed illegal, the city a- greed to-pay for some $20,000 in street construction still to be com- Pleted. f Cobo scored the move as “favor- itism.” “1 would like to commission go into thi: (i f ist 1h i fl Fi,bgit rel = * i ) ? sak i i ETiis and White ‘The driver was charged with/ driving while intoxicated, reckless} Pine Wall 3 ¢ and causing an accident by' STRUNK LUMBER Y. officer Edward Ramirer. He i be arraigned in city court to! fi | } of racing bills. [tend Key West High School. ) Tickets $1.50 (Tax Incl.) Introduced and sent to committee | It was voted to have a dance for study bills on wide range of every other Monday night. The On Sele ot... subjects. next dance will be on May 27| SOUTHERNMOST PHARMACY at ont i a, m. Wednes- | when Sadie Hawkins Night wil be) or ot Bex Office Affer 7:20 P.M. ny. a aNnEEEREREReEeeeeee ‘ ‘ i ; Hi ! 918 FLAGLER AVENUE Radio and TY A Work eg 5 : i : i i its i 5 if : i i i , eowepereensiulanieaomnnnssiinsn :