The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 1, 1953, Page 1

‘Ney West, Florida, has the | most equable climate in the |eountry, with an average {gemge of only 14° Fahrenheit ¥ Citi | V T Den eed Best Interests of Key West. THE SOUTHERNMOST NE PAPER IN THE U.S.A. 4 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1953 Mother's Day Trip To KW(Rea/ Emergency Hits |Ne Bids Are Received On , | As ‘Reel’ Emergency tem Bo hergen nd Issue Won By B.A. Oehler, Jr., C.G. I: Filmed This Morn Sewer System | oo ‘ Mother Will Fly F South Bend Benet RAE Making Purchase, However rom South Ben Make-believe became the real ig rapa Caer see et 2 The negotiations for the long-awaited Key West sewe ” moeey = pc magna ae er system project reached another impasse last night when Round-Tr ip Fare ao aa the city commission met to consider sealed bids on a $900,- : 000 Revenue Bond issue—but not one offer was submitted VOL. LXXIV No. 104 PRICE FIVE CENTS ing|__ ——|Deposits Up ‘Shirimper Dies |At Fla. Bank In Drowning | Qver Dee.’52 His Letter Won Trip Here For Mother ae coe ard Skelton, a Key Wester about 50 years of age, acting as an extra : By SUSAN McAVOY |’ Benjamin A. Oehler, Coast Guard and his mother, Mrs, Dale James, of South Bend, Indi- Jr., SA, | @na, are two very happy people |! today because of the round trip to Key West, Oehler’s Mother’s Day letter won in the USO-YMCA- Rotary competition. The winner {was announced today. Ochier’s letter won for his * mother a plane trip to Key West |; anda weekend at the Mai ina, plus a fuil schedule of en- fertainment during ‘the weekend of May 8th. ‘The Key West Rotary Club made the plane ticket possible through its contribution. The South Bend Rotary Club is pre- fenting the ticket to Mrs. James feday. Yesterday Miss Dorothy Rath, Program secretary of the local USO-YMCA club called = Mrs. James in South Bend and notified of her sor.’s prize-winning let- ter. The mother of the single 20 year man was so excited that she could just get her words out, Miss Rath said. The latter thought the mother might be squeamish about flying the long distance and said that’ train ticket would be pro- ‘if: that were the case. “Oh - | love to fly,” said Mrs. dames in a happy voice. hotel tributed a room for the week- end. Her son's letter may be made public tomorrow following a mezt- ing of the ccmmittee on the Moth- er’s Day letier at rosa today. ‘The nine other prize winners and the prizes contributed by local firms will a'so be announced. Young ©sh'sr is attending the Fleet Sonar School. He graduat- es in August from there. Be- fore coming to Key We: months aco he was at the Security Unit, Ellis we York. Oeh!er had one year of College following his high school days, All enlisted servicemen in the area were eligible for one of the 10 prizes, if they submitted a letter to their mothers to USO head- quarters first. The letter contest idea was con-| ceived by Richard Evans, execu. | tive director of USO-YMCA club Drop In Civilian Payroll Reported In Washington More than 20,000 in the govern- ment's civilian payroll in March, . the first full month of the Eisen- Rower administration's new check- vein on federal employment, was today, ‘weve two reports--fram the Civil Service Commission and the Benate-House committee on reduc- on of nonesseniial federal expen- : “ figures, elthough | generally in rmony, were not Brecisely alike. Sen. Byrd (D-Va), chairman of | ba Feseucarsy Fatal however, group's figures are subject @ revision since they are based | Se on tentative totals, | Civil Service Commission | ald 20,300 civilian workers dropped | @rom the payroll in March cut; Qotal employment by the executive | to 2,528,400 on April 1, | Committee said a 20.135 re- @ection in March leit the total at Bither way, it was the largest | f seen Payroll reduction since the | War began in mid-1950, kK eutbacks in both reports On Page Two) ATTENTION PLEASE! shah Bate vere Pos WINNIN ; whose Mother’s Day letter brin; iG COAST GUARDSMAN B, A. OEHLER, JR. S.A., gs his mother to Key West from South Bend, Ind., on an all-expense trip.—Citizen Statt Photo, Specifications For New Line To Be Ready End Of June Plans for the new $12,0990,000 Florida Keys water pipeline will be completed about the end of June, Florida Keys Aqueduct Com- mission manager Ernest Ramsey told The Citizen today. The new pipeline, which will supplement the present 18 inch one owned by the Navy, will be! | 24, 22, and 22 inches in diameter. | Tean War in June of 1950, Rader Engineering Firm is drawing the plans for the line which will mske meze water available to every body in the Keys and on the Islanc, The supply of more water means that dozens of plans for construction of subdivisions and commercial buildings on the Keys and the Istand will be able to go forward, Ramsey said. The new pipeline will be financ- ed by revenue honds, It will sell water to civilians and to the Navy | should the Navy want more than is available from the present 18 inch line. vith the onset of Key West's summer the water supply will spread more thinly over the 40, 000 inhabitants of the Keys and jthe Island, More showers, more lawn sprinkling, more washing all take a greater quantity of the supply reaching here. “We're getting by now,’ Ramsey said, “Nobody is suffer- ing for lack of water. We ration it daily by cutting the pressure.” Meanwhile the ground work for the million gallon water tank in back of the courthouse is being completed by M. E. Bennett con- be finished by November, Ramsey said. Hammond Iron Works will ster in to erect the actual tank which will change the appearance of courthouse square Criminal Court Thomas Caro announced today, A jury will be drawn next Thurs- — To Key West Being Planned North Ko. can Reds Release 7 US Civilians TOKYO #—The North Korean Communists announced today they ‘ turn home seven U. S. civilians seized at the outbre2k of the Ko- The State Department had asked Russia to help in obtaining their release. Russia recently arranged j the release of French and British civilians who also had been held since the outbreak of the war. A broadcast by the radio. of Pyongyang, North Korean capital, said the seven Americans were turned over Thursday to Russian representatives at Antung, Man- churian border city. As heard here, the broadcast | gave garbled versions of the names. It said six were mission. aries and the seventh was vice. manager of a trading company in Seoul The State Department previously, however, announced the seven to be released were: William Robert Booth, Maryknoll priest, born in New York; Louis Leo Adams, former State Depart. ment employe, born in Chicago; Nellie Dyer, Methodist missionary, born in Van Buren, Ark.; Anders Christian Jensen, Danish - born Methodist missionary; Mary Helen Rosser, Methodist missionary, born in Macon, Ga.; Bertha Adkisson | Smith, Methodist missionary, born | in Marshall, Mo., and Lawrence A. Zellers, Methodist missionary, born in Weatherford, Tex. i Govt. Contract On Tire Service \To Be Thursdays _|Is Extended A contract for recapping and re- of tires belonging Dick's for the Navy, ‘Civil Aeronautics under the contract. | had turned over te iussia for re- ! | in “Twelve Mile Reef,” collapsed on the set and was rushed in an ambulance to the Monrce General hospital. An oxygen mask was being used on the set inside the downstairs market and warehouse in a scene in which Gilbert Roland, movie star, is supposed to be dying after Mishap Today 25-Year-Old Man’s path Is Reported ¥ } Be Accidental Cegoner Ira Albury today issued Prosperity In Bank Statement Reflects Growth Of Community’ Deposits in the Florida National Bank have risen about $1,500,000 an attack of diver’s bends. Key | a certificate of accidental death | "Ce ae Phe hag West fireman Ben Lopez was ap-| by downing in the case of a 25 | Statement of the 's condition Plying the mask to Roland’s face and an order of quiet had been given for the take. year old snrimper who feu 1rom a boat’at the Standard Oil Docks The hush was broken by com. | €arly today. motion outside on the dock ‘plat- form and someone yelled for Jack Jones, ‘nol Sontag, assistant director, to “Get that mask out here.” The angry looks of the disturbed camera crew turned to concern when policemen backed up the call for the oxygen. Up until this moment, star Roland and the bevy of local bit players simply froze in action. Then Ro- land sat up on the stretcher bed, tore the mask off his face and fireman Lopez rushed out. to the collapsed man who was lying close up against the side of the ing. His head and one side of face were bleeding and the skin had a purplish hue to it. Robert Garrison, policeman on vacation who is also an extra in the movie, assisted Lopez in using the. mask. P William .. .including the director, and star Roland. Only local men Bob Youmans and Jim McLaughlin, of the navy who were taking the parts of medical corpsmen were allowed to stand by. . .with the stretctier = which was being used for the im. When the ambulance arrived a (Consiaued On Page Iwo) Robert Reid’s Condition Good The condition of George Robert Reid, whose life was. saved by j transfusions given by friends, is | “good,” .Monroe General Hospital authorities said today. Reid was stricken with a hem- orrage of peptic ulcers last the Island rushed to his aid when the hospital asked for blood don- ors. He received 16 pints of blood pen friends early Tuesday morn- Reid is a mechanic foreman at Monday. His friends throughout | Haskins’ Machine shop. | man, identified as James 4 arien, Georgia was pro- ed dead when the efforts of fe Department rescue squad him, proved futile. word of the mishap came when ‘the two men appeared at volice Headquarters and reportea that -a._man had fallen into the water. When Officer Edward Ra- mierg arrived at the scene the man ‘had been taken from the water and was lying on the dock. The motor squad from the Num! Three Fire Station, under the direction of Assistant Chief r Torres was ineffective due to the fact that the man had been in the water too long. Ira Albury, who was the scene said the aboard the shrimper Mr. Max, had gone aboard another boat, the Miss Boa for a visit. Leroy Francis, a member of the crew of that vessel said that he had talked with Jones and when the (Continued On Page Two) $3,000 Damage To Motoreyeles £ ms. to rey [In Keys Accident A freak accident caused $3,000 damage last week when a trailer and truck with eight motorcycles came loose scattering the cycles all over ditches and highway near Summerland Key. State Trooper Frank Cline re- poried that the trailer hitch came loose as Herb Neale of Miami.was bringing the motorcycles to Key West from Miami. Neale had no insurance to cover the severe damage incurred by the motorcycles, when they were thrown off in the embankments. All That’s Left Of Home . A KEY WEST MOTHER AND HER FIVE ment yesterday, allegedly on non-payment of rent. landlord the $48 im back rent for three months but issued yesterday. Bank President J. J. Trevor said: “The statement shows that the city had a good season, progress is being made and there is continu- ‘ed growth of the Keys and Key | West.” The months through April 20, shows deposits are up to $13,396, ; 458.14, which is more than a mil- lion higher than deposits in Dec- ember, 1952, and much higher than. a year ago though no quarterly statement was issued then, Trevor said. “Of course the period from Jan- uary through April, is normally the peak business period of the year. It will slow down until next winter ” The healthy picture of the bank’s resources, reflects the healthy growth of the Keys and Key West ‘Trevor With Returni POWs Arrives. By ROY ESSOYAN HONOLULU A third big hos- Pital plane carrying 22 sick and wounded Americans home from Communist prison camps was due here late last night, but news of its arrival was buried under a blanket of Army silence. An Army spokesman said he had received orders classifying move- ments of repatriates as “secret for security and compassionate” reasons. The spo‘esman, Maj. Douglas W. Mitchell, said he could not explain “compassionate.” The secrecy was so complete it led to speculation the latest flight might be carrying prisoners who may have succumbed to Commu- (Continued On Page Two) say there are no welfare assistance furcts in the county for this purpose. disappeared since 5 o'clock last night, probably seeking refuge Photo, with by potentiz. mvescors. However, C. T. McCreedy,.the city’s fiscal agent re- vealed that a Boston investment firm, negotiating through him, is interested in purchasing the issue if certain details in the city’s sewer service regulations can be worked out. the city commission. McCreedy appeared «at last Levies Fine, Sentences State Troopers Testify In Court On H‘Way Offenses * Judge Thomas Caro levied num- erous fines for traffic offenses on civilians, enlisted men and Naval aay peer ge gf st eeebee? it rit litt rT Bi geek e¢ is Ed Rake ¢ i f i § F [ i | 3 Ply HH if ffi iti i iF f : By i Monday Night ‘The Monroe Courty Council will hold a meetir. i i i ie i i 5 li hk LF i | ; = i i f i ; : a : i < F] J i i 3 i |