The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 25, 1953, Page 1

West, Florida, has equable climate in with on only 14° Fi VOL. LXXIV Wo. 99 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. Revolutionary Developments In Communications Told To Students Spellbound Groupy mame Sees Display Of | New Discoveries By Bell Labs Phe perfection of a device | which will revolutionize| both the television and radio | industries will be revealed in | about two weeks by the Bell System Laboratories, Forrest | L. Thorpe, Miami official of | the Southern Bell Telephone | - Company, told a spell-bound | audience of Key West High | twehool students yesterday. Thorpe gave no hint as to the! use or scope of this latest device, | but he did reveal facts about a| revolutionary new of com- munications which as been per-! fected by the Bell Laboratories. The Bell System maintains the largest research laboratory in the world, and their people are work-' Ing all the time on advancing and improving world-wide communica-| Hors devices, | For 45 minutes Thorpe held fhe unwavering attention of the | high school group, no mean feat, owith his demonstration of the use of ultra high frequency radio ‘waves to transmit long distance telephone conversations and net- work radio and television pro- grams. across the nation at al- most the speed of light. Ee used a large assortment of templex electronic equipment in sdemonsiation to shows how, othe use of wite or cables, microwaves ‘are beamed tovers which afe about 20 + avart and whieh range up! 3)-feet. in heighth. Providing | ® 4 ttle-free transmission, the mic: 2 ves travel at the rate of four | 1*n past a given point each s. ad before they are placed on r t tl fr a bw ‘ar wire eitevits and carried | » ,vephone sets or receivers in| me | ye deseribed Radio-Relay as | of many new advances that | » eosulfed from research done | + ell Telephone Laborator- |) ip tie past years, He used his ‘Comtinued On Page Two) rst Meetine Gf KW Nurses Lionday Night All. Civilian, Navy Nurses Are Invited To Attend ‘The first. official meeting of the | Key West Nurses’ ‘sub-district of | District No. 5, Florida State Nurses | Association will be held at the} foom of Monroe General | hospital, Monday, April 27 at 9 B. m., it was announced today.) Mrs. Jeannette Fields, RN, as-| sistent superintendent of nurses preside as temporary chair- man and Mrs. Jeannette Nabors, RN, of nurses at Monroe will act as temporary sec- z faqueduct commission registered purses of Monroe county whether-active or inactive invited to attend. . is hoped that nurses who organi- | HOW MICRO-WAVES MAY BE TURNED by bouncing them from’ some surface which they eannot penetrate is shown by Forrest L. Thorpe as he speaks before the Key West. High School - student body. Micro-waves differ from other waves in that they must be controlled by means never used “be+ fore.—Citizen Staff, Photo. Whee’ Men On Conch Hunt City Will Shot In Front Scene Draws Crowd When Cameras Aim For Shooting In Film Action BY DOROTHY RAYMER. Three men were shot yesterday afternoon in front of the Florida |ing spectators, sailors, and tourists + Of Bank Lease Docks ———— he said they would just jam a cap 1 To Company }on his head for the stand-in stand- | | by duty. Four big equipment trucks and Minor difficulties and exceptions | a bus lumbered up. Streets from |i the original contract submitted Green to the waterfront on Duval | to the City Commission by Marine and for a block east and west on| Bridge Transportation, Inc., con- Front street were roped off. Stroll- | tinged in the discussion of tie Key National Bank here but nobody, were banished out of camera range | W°StHavana ferry yesterday at shouted “We wuz robbed!” The | shooting was done by the camera over until everything was | crew of the 20th Century Fox com: shape. | pany andethe “victims” were J. Carroll Naish, Gilbert Roland and | Robert Wagner. | | his. particular bit of action in | “Twelve Mile Reef” shows the three. spongequiteers looking for some Conchs. In real life, the town bank is ‘probably the least likely spot to find Conch spongemen, but the Spanish architecture of the bank building and Front street view with a honkytonk within range | was the order of the day, i A little year and half old girl, Julie Sergent, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Bernard Sergent who live out on Stock Island, stole one scene. At least she drew the attention of jlocal photographers who moment- | and the scene was made over and | the special meeting called at noon. |the Commission ‘gave the green Upstairs balcony of the’bank was | Signal to the company in so far as (Continued On Page I>) | Continued On Page Two) cs arily forgot movie glitter and took! } pictures of her as she waggled bare! i toes in water spouting from a fire hydrant on the corner of Duval and Front street. It was necessary }to wet*down the sidewalk for a/ film effect with permission of the and Key) |West Fire Chief Charles Cremata {who was right there to supervise, [the movie men attached their own | those equipment to the corner hy- drant. Julie took advantage to cool be her tootsie: . and the heck with glamor. Bob. Youmans, local man who! dyed from blond to brunet to double} | for Gilbert Roland was on the spot! © .. but few people recognized him | | with the new coloring. Two pretty} Sunday 1:30 P.M.—#:30 P.M. eCompiete Travel Service @All Scheduled Air Lines Florida East Coast Ry. @ FLEMING STREET PHONE 2-761) | gitis wanted to know if be would pgive them an autograph and then asked, “Which movie star is HE?" Hated to shatter their illusion and confess that today Bob is going! to be a stand-in for Peter Graves. | Graves is blond. and I had vi sions of Youmans returning to the! Beauty parlor for another dip, but} ee SSE \Free Dance Tonite FLEET RESERVE ASSN. HOME | Caretine Street } Music By ss. THE TUNE TOPPERS Sweetest Muric in Key West SCENE STEALER is one and a half year « daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Serge Stock Island. She appeared with her mother location yesterday, corner of Duval and ry Fox film crew attached a b down the pavement for a ca » Here she is having amd, J, Carrol Naish 4 such sport, while the photographers gathered u Her father is a movie pro- the Strand Theater here.—Finch, Citizen decided to coo! stars Gilbert laughed to see sreund the jectionist operator Stati, fi Even_movie d bert. Wagner Ri KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1953 Roberts “Ready To Prove Charges” Against Stark Who Denies Them x * x x** xe x*ek $500,000 KW Real Estate Sales _ Made By One Firm In One Year Johnson Office Sold For $85,000 To National Chain As Year’s Climax By SUSAN McAVOY Climaxing a year in which the firm has sold half a mil- lion dollars in real estate, Johnson and Johnson have sold their office, and the two adjoining stores ‘on Duval Street for $85,000, to an un-; disclosed national, ch ain} store, V. A. Johnson an- nounced today. The buyers have put up $85,000 in cash; Johnson told The ship- | Most points were smoothed out andj Citizen for the 66 feet on Duval Street, and 241 feet running back to Bahama Street. A new store. building will be erected on the site of the 90 year- old frame. bujlding which now houses Johnson’s;real estate office, and, an,...art were the C. G. Mi | New York. Johnson acted as brok- ters for them. | “We have sold our own office : tight out from under us,” John- | son said-today, obviously not a bit displeased. “In the one’ block from Fiem- ing to Eaton Streets alone we have sold $253,500 in property this year in four parcels.” The firm recently served as brokers in the $80,000 sale by the Duchess de Richlieu to Aerovias Q owner Col. Manuel Quevedo of the corner of Fleming and Duval. They also sold the Livingston Be- thel home to Seymour Rubin, one | of the most active buyers of Key West real estate for $47,500. The firm elso negotiated the $60,000, 99 year lease from Curry | Moreno to Rubin for the property j at the corner of Angela and Duval (Continued On Page Two) Cancer Benefit ‘Dance Expected To gage’ Hy gage iF) rhe bs 5 i e : fyi H il fy af = i i [ Ef i E aye 83 County Must Ask Governor, Seey. 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