The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 27, 1953, Page 1

easily Sg Key West, Florida, has the ‘thes most equable climate in the country, with an average ange of only 14° Fahrenheit f | <For 739 Pears \ The Ken West Citisen MISS LONA ALLEN was chosen VOL. LXXIV to represent Key West at the Beauty Show to be held in Miami soon. Lona was elected from a field of three at a dance held Saturday night in the Elks Club annex. Dance was a benefit to aid the local eancer drive. Key West Lions sponsored the affair.—Citizen Photo by Finch. Movie Company Helps Cement Goodwill Between Old Rivals Spongemen’s Feud Wrung Out By Arrival Of Mavor | Of Tarpon Springs 1 BY DOROTHY RAYMER i Whe Hatfield cud McCoys, who | were “ren Soni boys, had | nothing on sponge fishermen’s | fued which existed for many years between Key Wes: and Tarpon Springs spongers. But the arrival of Twentieth Century Fox film fompany bas not only brought a | truce buf compliments from Fred | H. Howard, Mayor of — Tarpon | Springs. » Saturday afternoon down at the A and B docks, Mayor Howard ‘was watching some of the action | asa Greek sponge boat swung around in the water. He's a slim, alert fellow with grey hair and a tanned skin. . the kind of perman- ‘ént faint brown ten that Floridians have. He waved towerd the movie crew and actors and said, “This means more to Tarpon Springs or Key West than ien years of work by our combined Chamber of Com- | merce.” He added, of course, that this was no disparagement of the Chamber of Commerce workers. He wanted to meet Mayor C. B. Harvey right aw he said. always got along with Key West he emphasized. “You've got a v' fine city, I'm enjoying my stay bere and so are the rest of us who ame over from our town.” ‘Asked if he would pose with J Carrol Naish, character actor who was making a dockside scene with Gilbert Roland and Robert Wag. Ber, he was delighted. Naish res ponded with alacrity and “With pleasure.” George Orfanedius, @ponge boat from Tarpon § ‘was standing by with relatives who e@ame over to Key West in a large eraft. They introduced the Mayor Howard as “The man who helps his hometown people.’ Capt. Orfanedus explained about @he wreath which was hanging from the Tarpon Springs boat Being used in the movie sequence It was hung on the mast at the @me when the Greek Bishop biess- ed our ficet at Easter time. We Beave it there the wind Blows,” he said. (rfanedus who English with Greek inflec answered =o! questions Feadily and told how apparatus suspend \ was a propelior gua Said he, “This guard is Mecessary. We put around so-that it won't ew when our divers are @e ocean Moor.” Flocks of Key Westers Crowded wpstairs dining room of th and B Lobster House to look on the dock where a board ecene was being made. Ropes te be pul up to keep the from overflowing into cam range. When a break ig act- ‘was Indicated, the ax apa wontbusiasts rushed ag wo ¢ Wiss Terry Moore who with Betty Madigan‘ and ber m Continued Oa Page Two) ( | | | held a personal conference with Salvage Dispute Ended By King representatives of the Key West | Salvage company, including Mrs. Bessi¢ Kaplan who chatged Dave/ Roche, city dump tender, with un- fair competition and use of ¢ity| equipment in operating a licenge free serap business. King explained that Roche re- ceives the privilege of taking junk | from the city dump in reward for his services of managing the dump, Spraying it and supervising the | | work in connection with the dump. | He also told the salvage company | that Roche had been operating in! this long before the salvage com-| pany arrived on the scene. Concerning the $350 license fee, King said that the Key West Sal- vage company would not be re- quired to pay that next October, business, th Since then t and will be req amount until | | they set up was only $175. | pount was raised] ired at the October mpany expects to tion, he added. } King said that Mrs, Kaplan ap- peared to ibe less disturbed after the explanations had been made/ and said that she “objected be-/ eause she had not understood all the ms Roche's privilegés in connection with his job.” e ces | of Short Circuits Cause Fires Sunday were The first | m. when of about 5:30 y afterncon's department jor of the of Duval trouble. owned by Cars Crash 2 Navy THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. No. 100 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS} FRA Conference Starts Wednesday; First Time Group Has Held Conclave In Island City; Scores Coming BOAT LOST; CG SAVES MEN Okell Says Rep. Stimmel Out Of Order Hard Fight On Dade County Merger Without Referendum TALLAHASSEE (®—A local dis- pute over consolidation of Dade County and Miami governments flared on the floor of the House today when two Dade represent- atives objected to a Martin County representative’s invasion of Dade to protest the proposal. Reps. Okell anil Fascell rose to} complain about Rep. Stimmel of Martin speaking at Miami Fri- day night in opposition to consoli- dation of the governments without a referendum. They said Stimmel had attacked their integrity and violated an unwritten law of the House which stipulates members | shall not concern themselves with each other’s local legislation, “Never in the history of the Leg- islature has any man ever walked into another man's county to speak ‘against his local. legislation,” de- clared Okell. Fascell complained a letter had been sent to each member of the House by Ted Semple, attorney for the Dade County League of Municipalities, in which the Dade Tepresentative was described as “despotic and Russian-like.” He said Semple was drawing on | & fund of $12,500 io carry on his | “lobbying” and “call me a bunch | of dirty names. I don’t have the | money to combat this kind of thing.” } The House applauded Fascell as he endef his speech. Rep. Stimmel, rising after Okell | and Fascell had spoken, said he | is interested in the people of Dade (Continued On Page Two) Admiral Duke To Be Principal _| Speaker Thursday ar Admiral Irving T. Duke, , commander Key West Naval Base, will be principal speaker at the Elks National Youth Day pro- grams to be held in the Key West High school Thursday. . Originally scheduled for May 1 the date has been advanced a day | tecause public schools will be clos- ed on that day. Sponsored by Key West Lodge of | Elks No. 551, the program will be {presented at both the Senior and {Junior High school assemblies of {Key West High school and at the assembly of Douglass school. The following program will be j rendered Invocation: Chaplin Harold Rudd Presentation of Colors, Marine Color Guards; Pledge of Aliegi ance, Assembly; Song “America” Assembly, accompanied by High school band; Introduction of Speak er, Exalted Ruler Earl R. Adams Address Rear Admiral Duke: Song “The Star Spangled Banner” by the Assembly, accompanied by the school band; Benediction, Chaplin Rudd. The committee in charge John Foh, William Neblett Kermit Lewin. are and Fla. Keys Mission To Hold Barbecue A barbecue te raise funds for the Upper Keys Mission will be} held at the Cocoloba Beach Club, | morada, Tharsday evening at The mission is raising money to/ build a church for Upper Keys} ~ Congregations. j Sustained All residents an Keys are invited which will be at jowned and managed by Mrs. Peter Kossodo. d visitors to ® the b be Coceloda Mr jin shape for five months Sudden Squall Hits Keys, KW With 47 MPH Gales, Dust Storm | The tail end of the squall line that produced the dev- astating tornadoes in Kansas and Oklahoma last week, hit Key West and the Keys yes- | terday sending all ships back to port in gusts that reached almost 50 miles per hour. Biggest casualty of the storm was sinking of the $1400, 18 foot Cris Craft inboard belonging to | Alex Lubinsky, electric inspec- tor for the city. The seas flooded Lubinsky’s en- gine while he and three friends | were out fishing. They started to drift out to sea, but managed to latch on to Channel Marker No. 6 in the main ship chammel. A pass- | ing Navy Boat evidently notified | the Coast Guard of their distress. | The Coast Guard vessel rushed } to the scene and rescued Lubinsky | and his friends. It started to tow | the Chris Craft back to port. At} that point a Navy boat came to | offer aid in the tow. Unfortunately | she dashed up against her in the } rough seas, wrecking the’ stern, | and sinking the Chris Craft, which | plumetéd to Davy Jones’ locker, | Lubinsky said. j On the now-sunken vessel with | Lubinsky were Billy Tyler, E. E./ Stanley and Eddie Castro, Lubin- | sky told The Citizen: - | “TI had worked to get that boat Yester- | | day was the first time I had tak- en her out. It was a nice day | when we started.” The sinking of the vessel took with her $150 in cash which Stan- ley had left in a wallet in his shirt; clothes, fis rods and reels and other ession “We're just giad to be alive.” Lubinsky said. One of his companions actual- ly kissed the land of Key West when he disembarked from the Coast Guard boat. “Those Coast Guard men sure know their stuff, and we are for. ever grateful to them,” Lubinsky said, Lt. Clem Pearson, local CG commander said he and his men had a busy day with numerous calls for assistance. During the squa tury Fox boat “A come down from was buffeted around by smashing the funnels losing her rud i ed the rudder th vessel, an impc film, “Twelve have to go into dry pairs, spokesm while the six vessels, arrived Sunday mor: The squ weather sta afternoan as high as 3 gusts of 47 A dust storm hit the Boca Chica area, according to officials reducing visibility to the of low two miles out at es per hour « dropped from 84 The s front Friday Is Elks’ Night At Track has been ment CITY HEADS. MEET as Fred H. Howard, right, Mayor of Tarpon 5) Key West's Mayor C. B. Harvey. Occasion was a dinner held at the Casa The city commissioners also attended. Tarpon Springs and Key West ane traditional rivals Instrumental in the establishment of good rela- tween the cities was the filming of “Twelve Mile Reef,” a Twentieth Century Fox ‘mo- West. The company just finished shooting ‘sequences ja, Tarpon period. Mayor Howard and a bevy of his fellow townsmen are fol- Two of the West Coast sponge boats from Mayor Howard’s area are ning. in sponge fishing, but the feuding days are over. tionship now on location in Key Springs over a two week lowing up the location. vie here to continue their movie activity .,. not for sponge diving. Yalow °53 Lincoln Is Stopped, Stolen, Stored In Eventful Saturday Night Sailor, Civilian Held On Theft After Arrest By Trooper Cline nd a sailor are being i im county jail es of theft of H and ght by State Chine Saturday Earlier Cline had stopped the same yellow Linceln near Boca Chica when if was being driven by « young, attractive blonde, no! BULLETIN WRECKAGE FOUND Lt. Clem Pearson of the U.S. Coast Guard notified The Citizen this afternoon that boat wreckage which has been positively identified as part of the missing fishing boat Wasp was dragged in today. Lt. Pearson said that on in- formation supplied by enoth- er boatman, Willie Knowles. the Coast Guard cutter and a small boat went this morn- ing to the area south of Boca Chica, where they searched along the coast and found the wreckage. Cyril Lowe. Coast Guard employee who was familiar with the missing boat. has made the identification after careful study. Madeline Hahn. She was fellow. | ing too closely after another car. After checking her tficense and the car's registration, Cline had "| let her go with » warning cita- tion. Philadeip abe au s in his poe sad He rood the biack moper ft ie Cale Nurse Flies 4,000 Miles In 24 Hours Mrs. Truman Amy. B Za pee reported asa daisy was a beautiful faght—nicest fve ever flown,” Mrs Mrs. Amy who 'y houpital was asked by pa- tent Arthur Hicks’ family t bring the and Hicks left Key West Saturday morning at 8:2) a. m. arrived ip Bostos m the aftersoan; Mra Amy t Hicks + Boston home and ® plane x t Miemi asd Key West arriving @ Key West early yesterday morning. She wont | Derenal all the way. is supervisor af; iy” to rina Si eve- Woman Made ‘Pretty By Man, ‘Declares Man LONDON — Pretty woman? | She's a myth. Under her cosmetics jshe’s a dowdy creature, said a courageous male expert today. He is W. T. McGill. and he ought to know what he is talking about because he is master of the Incor- porated Guild of Hairdressers, Wig makers and Perfumers, At its an- | nual meeting the guild studied new artifices in man’s never - ending struggle to make woman alluring. “Woman was made beautiful mainly by man,” said Master Me GM in his presidential address | “She is an illusion be created. He —— her clothes, created her hat | fashion, made her jewelry and cos- |metics, and the hairdresser fin jished what had beca started with la hdir Myle to suit her | “In the animal kingdc | Struts atound with the fin jers, and the fe : ¢ dowdy partner. The human female jis Sass ant | mal counterpart.” Some of the guudsmen speculated jinformally on whether they ought to get a bodyguard for their mas ter. | | } ay ales Arrives x. =e! In Korea Theater | to Boston | With the 24) infestry Div. in Korea—Pvt. M. Morales, whose wife, Valentine. lives # 2s Grinnell St. Key West, Fis. re- cently atrived ix Keres and is serving with the 22h iafastry Divi- won. Now the senior Americas dirt sion om the penineia. the 25th landed im July 199), shortly after public of South Keres + Private Morsies arrived over- (sees from Fort Dix, W. J. and is serving as a field wireman. Be entered the Army m Pebre ary 1902. He i: the wa of Candids More- jes, @3 Olivia &, Key West. 1 Paul Albury Heads Program Committee For the first time in its hise tory the Annual State-Wide Conference of the Florida Recreation Association heads for Key West and the Casa Marina Hotel begin- \ning April 29, The conclave | will last through May 1; The theme is “Where is Recrea- tion Headed?” The program committee is hosted by Paul Albury, sup- jerintendent of recreation here, |~ Chairman of the affair is Mrs. Marion Wood Huey of Miami Beach. Committee | members include represenita- ‘tives from other Florida lo- calities, Coral Gables, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Miami Springs and Hollywood, Fla. Registration begins in the Casa Marina lobby at 5 p. m. Wednes- underway, in ta main assembly room at tbe Sasa Marina. Presid- ing will be Tom Starling, president of the group with Albury as host, Among the guests to be introduced are Mayor C. B. Harvey; City Manager Dave King; City com- missioners John Carbonell, Dr. Delio Cobo, Jack Delaney Louis M. J. Eisner. Speaker at the top of the roster is Rear Admiral Irving T. Duke, commandant of the U. S. Naval | Station here, who will talk on “‘Rec- | reation and the Navy.” An address will also be given by R. B. Van Fleet, district rep- | resentative, National Recreation | Association who will speak on “The } Status of Recreatien for Service- mien In Florida.” At 9:15 that evening a social pro- gram has been arronged to in- {clude dancing, qrvup sihging and other “mixer” ideas, | Panels and demonstrations , of recreational work will continue j with each day's detal to be an- nounced as the program* progress- es. High goals have been set and the conference speakers will “get |down to business” in an all-out | effort advance the work of reeres- tional groups. Among the questions land problems will be the job of i finding out where recreation ig | beaded as a profession; evaluation of workers as professionals; eval- uation of types of jobs in depart- ments; evaluation of these units; jand setting aims for delegates. During the time of the confer ence the delegates will enjoy gy tour of Key West including the U, S. Naval Base, the historical potrts of interest, recreational fect ities, courtesy of Lt. William King, U, & Naval Station, ‘Keys Fly ing Club Meets Tomorrow The Florida Keys Flying Gob wil meet st Murray's Acto Elec tric, Simonton Street, tomorrow sight at @ o'clock, AS members are requested & “= & very importast and Miend, ht meeting. The Club is arranging te attend the benqect for the Nor Carcima Flying Cisb which j tives bere oo May 4. The banquet will be held Moy 5, at La Concho Hetel Al Keys Flying Cieb mem hers are invited t attend, jescent man home. She the Communists attacked the Re-} sr , Key West J