The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 1953, Page 1

/ Key West, Florida, has most ecuable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Extra Building Inspector Employed To Handle Keys Building Boom xx Legal Opinion Asked On Payment a kk Deputies Make A Dramatic Entrance In New Uniforms County) Commissioners rushed through a_ short meeting last night with the OL. LXXIV K kok Deadline Is Today 'For Safety Checks | Today is the final day for ob- | taining Auto Safety Inspection Stickers and City Tax Collector Archie Roberts warns that un- less Key Westers appear at the Number Two Fire Station, Seidenberg Avenue. and 12th Street, they will be assessed a The Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 90 Raid Cases Go To Trial In Afternoon White, Accused | Hit-Run Driver, | Risks Loss Of | $1500 Bona Wheeler Gandolfo, ROR | City Commission | Passes Ordinance | Making Policy O. Street Repairs : first of the | six bar-owners or tenders raided j by State Beverage agents pleaded | guilty to the charge of illegal pos- in | session of liquor this morning in Criminal Court. | He will be fined or sentenced | this afternoon after Judge Thomas | Caro and the jury hear the other City commissioner Delio | five eae | Cobo continued his spirited | of Sanja pained ea opposition to a payment of} State as evidence that Gandolfo } who hes only a beer and wine $20,000 to the Toppino Con-! license had liquor in his place of | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1953 xx P 425 Parents Shout Disapproval At — Mass Meeting The first organized public opposition to the action of the Monroe County School . PRICE FIVE CE City Electric To Cut Power Rates t 4 | | | *x*.* & CAP Members Participate Tn Mission x xr xk Across The Board In Near Future x * TA Protests Russell's Firing Tues. x * * 10 Percent Cut For Companies At Least 7 Percent For Homes Proposed By Board, Engineers By SUSAN McAVOY Triple barreled action to reduce electric rates to com- K.W. Squadron Is Represented At Orlando Activity Eleven members of the Civil Air mercial users and to the thousands of householders who form 77 per cent of City Electric System’s customers was taken-at the City Electric System Utility board meeting yesterday in two resolutions, and by the City Commission one dollar penalty. Yesterday, 572 motorists ap- peared for the check to swell the total to date to 5,684. How- ever, nearly 8,000 cars are ex- i _| business. Board in firing two top — be Se aan | The bottles will be confiseated; school officials arose last cial meeting of the group by State Beverage department of- night at the regular meeting | ; |ficials in Tallahassee. J : { yesterday afternoon when he | <cia that time was whee’ suen|of the Harris School Parent three members present to hire an assistant building inspector, Jesse Sloan, for the County, and to take steps about’ developing Couaty-owned Meacham airport. ‘ The boom in real und building on the takes an additional building inspector necessary, Com- missioner Joe Allen told Commissioner Clarence Higgs, Acting Chairman, end Commissioner Harry estate Keys}_ pected for the semi-annual! in- spection. Roberts said that after today there will be a change in the procedure inasmuch as it will be necessary to come to the city hall for stickers although motorists should have their cars inspected at ile station beforehand. AF of L Seeks" Opinion Will Decide Validity The AF of L contract Between ; men at the $3,000,000 steam electric | plant and City Electric System is | being studied by the Attorney | General on request of the Utility | Board, they told union representa- tive O. I. Hendrickson yesterday. Hendrickson said. f “Six months is long time to »| Charles .| sented to the attorney . yesterday. he did not think that employees of the Utility Board were subject to : Freed yierto?” Beas Cc. B. Harvey asked Ramsey said he had written the to the information. |, “We had a board hy did M, J. Board of the its own Attorney General, Ramsey | commission will have to pass re-| asked the city to pay $3400 | liquor was given to the hospital. eg State agents said it had to be they now owe to the builders turned rt the state hesdquartars. and then throw the v.sance | The other five defendants were 4 , | scheduled to appear at 2 p.m. of the street construction in| They are Ida Kaplan, they on the Toppino subdivision tega, isan yee Gild and Mona Del open for competitive bid- Sa ee onder vgs ding. However, no action was taken | minor, and Leon Strauss charged on that phase of the controversy with serving liquor to a minor. The four state agents who will pending the submission of a writ-| testify are Paul Williams, Stanley ten opinion as to the legality of the deal from City Attorney M. Jenner and Edwin Browder, Jr., all of the Miami office of the State Ignatius Lester. Finance Director requested the le- Beverage department and Dwight gal ruling in a detailed letter pre- . Roberts said that he wanted the opinion to “clear him of any appointed hour. Chief a: was State Trooper S, R. Others on hand were former city } Policeman Henry Lounders, and | the sailor off the USS Gilmore who brought the injured man to help. White was driving a U.S: Mail | truck at the time of the accident, last year. issue a check until he has the opinion in writing although City Manager Dave King said that Top- pino will present his first bill Thursday. In a contract entered | | brought civil suit against White for the loss of his arm. Neil Pridmore was convicted of } reckless driving and fined five | dollars, according to Walker who caught him doing 85 miles per hour, into last week, the city agreed to pay the sum, not to exceed $20,000, in installments as the work progressed. It was brought out yesterday, however, that the (Continued On Page Two) ‘Abolition Of Smoke Menace | s=“s: At Power Plant In Sight Expert Drabelle Reports To Board On His Findings The problem of disfiguring smoke emitting from the new steam electric plant’s stacks is being solved by John M. Drabelle, ; power plant expert, hired by the} Utility Board for three months to Richard Wade Wins Recognition Of Honor Group Richard Wade, son of Mrs. Al- |vin G. Delones, 1019 Flagler! get the $3,000,000 plant into smooth Fi 5 g zg #3 i ie z i PH tea 3 ' i statement | Monroe General hos-) 1988 FLAGLER AVENUE 2000 Yds. of Used Carpet) . | Radio and TV Repairs by | grades, or better, during the first} pegay avenue, has been initiated into} operation. the Florida chapter of Phi Eta} Drabelle gave a three-quarter of Sigma, National Scholastic Fra-/ 0 —_ report se the = ternity, a letter from the Univer-| 9.2 pihmwginons 4 — saiived sity of Florida Dean of Men in-; at the plant and are in service formed Mrs. Delones today. j now. They set off an alarm switch ‘Wade, who is a Freshman at) hen-any abnormal smoking oc- the University, is married to the | SS: panapernad erie ab wae former Miss Faye Bervaidi. She | met he said. is teaching near Gainesville, The $1,000 @ month expert where the young couple live. The honor won by Wade goes | only to students who make A; ‘st he . semester or year in college. i About two percent of this; U.S. year's Freshman class met the| to the extremely high eligibility require-| 9esses by a Freshman at the Univer-/ first class schools. Mrs. Delones: University are We are ex- well followed last) . i patent, should go| Cypress standing record. Ht would be a wikege to cher who STRUNK LUMBER YARD H ; V28 Simonton Street i i { i and Teacher Association where when a large group of Key Westers voiced ve- hement disapproval in the ousting of principal Ran- dolph Russell. Sweeting went on to “I have received many situation. I have the truth ~ I don’t this is all about. If any @ complaint about know anything about it, have received praise for him.” “Won't someone i neta ne i 7 ie NE RUD SON 2 ON eo ins ne Ary Bacio nee 5 SO ber of the i Mabels Blue i i ry & gi ¢ Patrol, Key West Squadron, parti- cipated in the Search and Rescue Civil Air Patrol (SARCAP) Mis- f 2 I | | i | | a ak i 3 i i i i , it hil ii 3 | | gt é 5 meeting simultaneously at City Hall. Talk Given InCoral Gables | Carlton J. Corliss, public rela-| tions. manager of Association of | American Railroads, gave a talk/ té-the Florida Historical Society | at Coral Gables Elementary! School Auditorium, recently, dis-! cussing the old FEC. Railrdad| Extension to Key West. { Goehring, 693° South?) was in attendance. Goéhring / ‘was a construction foreman on} the project, Corliss was secretary to W. J. | Krome, construction engineer who | succeeded J. D. Meredith. It} was under Krome that the rail- | road was completed. A good many of the men who worked on the construction of | the road were in attendance, thus developing into a reunion. Mrs, Krome, widow of W. J. Krome, was there, as was Ernest Cotton, division engineer, an en-} Gineer for the City of Miami. | Key West RR j Fate reduction, sald: Commercial users will get a 10 percent reduction in rates, ac- coftding to the resolution moved by Horace O'Bryant, if approved hy consulting engineers R. W. Beck. Residential users will get at least a seven percent reduction this year if Beck's suggestions in a letter to Board Chairman C. B, Harvey are followed. Beck suggested across-the-board re- ductions to all users, large and small, t Harvey and Louie M. J. Eisner came to the Board meeting lowing their City Ci meeting with the news that had successfully. asked the City Bo: to reduction, Eisner, outspolen advocate for “I think in rates for evéry is necessary/”* when héwas informed thet O'Bryant's resolution asked for | eduction only in the commer- cial class. He then moved that rates be lreduced immediately ss suggest- ed in a Beck letter of April 8, written’ to Chairman Harvey in reply to the latter's request for | immediate information on the possibility of rate reduction, The 1953 City Electric Sys- tem budget allows $62.000 loss | in income due to rate redue- 3 | Mone than two years ago, be- fore the construction of. the new $3,000,000 steam -electric plant, Dr. William T. Edwards, Head Harvey asked Beck to make a of the Dept. of Elementary Educa-| study of the feasibility of rate tion, Florida State University, | reductions Tallahassee, will’ present the finaj| said thet the study should really class in his Extension Course on! be made after the plent was com- ‘Problems of Instruction,” for Key} pleted this year. The operating fest teachers, Friday, April 17, | yoar of the plant began April 1, ‘The meet in the Tra-; 1953. Hence the proposal for a school, as usuai,! study now, according to Beck, completing the; Board Member Eisner moved three semester | that the rate reduction bé stud- credit toward their cer-' ied imumediaxly by the Utility tifieation requirements. ‘This is; Board itself, in relation t the of the In-Service Training! sugsestions siresdy made by Program for teachers, conducted! Beck, so that rate reduction ean as part of our school program. 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