The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1953, Page 1

Rey West,. Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with am average range of only !4° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXIV yy THE No. 114 IN TH KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESpay, MAY 13, 1953 Kiwanis Club Is Host To Armed Forces Day Annual Banquet Tues. Speech By Mayor Points Out Need For Vigilance, Preparedness Spiritual strength as the foundation of our power was “the theme of the address made by Mayor C. B. Har- vey at the annual Armed Forces Day banquet held | | At The Banquet Ta last night at La Concha Ho-}? tel under the sponsorship of the Kiwanis Club. In an inspiring and stirring mes: sage, Harvey pointed out the need for constant vigilance on the part of peace-loving people in order to insure that~ peace. The theme of the fourth annual Armed Forces Day is “Power for Peace,” and the need for this power was brought out forcefully. “This Armed Forces Day,” the | mayor said, “finds us more con- | cerned: than ever that we face @ ruthless enemy who recogniz- es no. law of God or man— { “oO <eorcee R-ADM. IRVING T, DUKE, Commander Naval Base, and Lear. James \R. Foresman, Armed Forces Day Project Officer, were whose only aim is the. achieve- ment of his objectives hy what- ever means may svit his pur- pose, His only dieties are deceit, _ Guplicity and double dealing and force is his court of last re- sort.’ Deploring the past trend toward a complete demobilization which we have followed after other wars, (Mayor Harvey lauded the. vision of men in high postions who rea- led ‘that in the atomic age there be not time to mobilize or train an army or a_navy in the gomplieated techinique: warfare and. so kept a nucleds: of trained men who were able to bridge the gap in Korea, The efforts of ail branches of (Continued On Page Three) Carrier Wrigh Took Casualties ‘'o Pensacola , Lecal Navy officials here to- ¢ “4 they had no knowledge ©” an accident in which a Navy f : €¥one plane crashed into t 9 aircraft carrier USS Wright, 300 miles off Key West. Three Navy men were killed and seven injured, according to the report, PENSACOLA # — The carrier Wright today. brought inte Pensa- cola the crewmen casualties from a training disaster. in the Gulf of r ‘Three ‘men were killed and four 8. aay uyured aboord the Wright qhen a damaged drone target erashed into the ship and exploded, The accident took place 411 miles south of Pensavola Monday, | A Navy .spokesman here said} the small drone was hit by anti- alreraft fire at bout 1,500 yards nd again. at 600 feet. It went out ef control and crashed into the earrier’s starboard catwalk, The dead were Herman Lee Anderson, seaman, Powhatan, W, | Va; Victor Chiera, Perth Amboy,| After days of shooting scenes for |the Convent of Mary Immaculate, | boat in the bay at the foot of} N. J., and Orval Jeinston, hospital comveman 2-¢, Mayus, Va. ‘The critically injured included | pany here on location have become | West high school. Les..e Traylor, Wi Point, } fete pitrrencoe honored guests at the annual Arm: Finch. ble ed Forces Day banquet last night. Kiwanis Club gave the banquet this year.—Citizen Staff Photo by County ToT ry To Buy Blvd. ‘County Commissioners voted to try. to acquire a 50 foot strip of bay bottom on Roosevelt boule- ‘vatd between the Gill Motel and the Swimming pool, according to a resolution passed last night. The motion was made by Com- missioner Clarence « s. The Commission will try to buy the bay bottom from the Internal Im- provement Board. Commissioner Harry Harris re- ported on his trip to Fort Lauder- dale last week where he conferred with the State Road Department engineer in charge, ; The repairs to the shoulder lead- ing off U.. S, 1 at Summerland Key will go through, Harris, Road chairman, said, Also the engineer assured Harris that he will try to see if state can be brought down to Key West to clean up the debris. on Roosevelt boule- vard at the northeast end of the Island. A traffic engineer will (Continued on Page Three) Hollywood Storm Hits Parsonage On Simonton Street | By DOROTHY RAYMER ‘The parsonage of the First Meth- odist Church where the Rev. J./ Paul Touchton and his family live | looks as if Hollywoon had moved | “Luigi ‘Handica P Set At Track A “Luigi Handicap Race” will be a feature: tonight ‘a* the Key Luigi, Duval Street restaurateur. A top field of dags has been matched for the race and Luisi will’ personally present a hand- some gold cup to the owner or | trainer of the winning dog. The event will be the eighth | on the Kennel Club program, Winners Named In AF. Day Poster Contest Artists, Students With Best Entries Are Given Awards The first prize in the Key West Artists’ Armed Forces Day poster contest, $25 in cash, was won by Larry Karns, according to the an- nouncement of the judges, Mrs, Irma Wagner, Boatswain. Allyn Christopher and Burt P, Garnett. Winner of the first prize medal for the best poster produced by a stu- dent is Miss Robin Rule, 10th grade, Key West high school. Second cash prize, $15, was won cash prize, $10, was won by Pat Elwood. : Half-Day Closing | Starts Tomorrow Thursday half-day closing, @ summer custom observed by most business firms in Key West, will go into effect this week. Effective tomorrow, May lth, a majority of business firms in the city will close at 1:00 p. m. According to J, &. Tucker, | chairman of the Retail Division Commerce, this a tail personnel will be in effect | until the first week after Labor | Day, or through September 3rd, ‘Bar Owners, B-Girls Up For Trials Today Ten Local People To Appear In City Court On Charges The trials of ten Key West bar owners, strip-teasers and B-girls. are set for this afternoon in Mun- icipal Court before Judge Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. on charges rang- ing from indecent exposure to ser- ving liquor to minors. | The ten were arrested last Fri- | day night in a series of surprise | raids conducted by a pair of polics lieutenants, : t ‘They are currently free on bonds of $250 each. The raids came on the heels of the city’s announced intention of strict enforcement of the city law, prohibiting B-drinking and the mingling of night club entertainers with the customers. : Bar owners jailed include Ar- thur G. Thomas of the Mardi Gras .Club, Duval Street, j { f | with allowing’ his employees to mingle with customers; Gerdon Wolfson of the Preview Lounge, Duval Street who, police charge, allowed his entertainers to dance “nude and indecently in public,” | and Horace Young of the Casa Cayo Huseso who allegedly al- lowed liquor to be served to a minor in his establishment. ; Two entertainers from the Mardi Gras, Miss Tania Houser and Miss | Terry Morgan will also face trial | today. Miss Houser is charged. with indecent exposure and resist- ting arrest and Miss Morgan dl- legedly was mingling with the cus- tomers as a B-girl, } Miss June Martin, Preview Lounge showgirl was arrested and will come to trial today on a charge of indecent exposure, Miss Alice Aleman, an employee of the Duval Club will be tried on fa charge of “mingling with the customers.”” Miss Minta Cruz, who was ar- rested in the Preview Lounge will | be tried on a charge of vagrancy. She gave her address as Big Cop- | pitt Key, Local Man Freed Of Charge Tues. | Archie Shepherd, local _fisher- man was freed of a charge of {by Mrs. Anna Andrews, and third | «:alicious injury to a boat” yes- | terday preliminary following a x hearing before Justice of the Peace | Second prize medal. for students | Ira Albury. The charge stemmed | in, It has! | was won by Miss Mary Miller, of ' from the sinking of a 32-foot fishing “Twelve Mile Reef out at sea, and third prize medal by Miss Greene Street, Monday. the Twentieth Century Fox com. | ©aeline Kirke, lth grade, Key! The charge was lifted after test- landlubbers again, Today's sched-/ jule calls for the making of an in-/ by the Key West Ari and Prizes and medals were a listori- idoor scene at the old rectory on | cal Society. NOTICE! |! ORIENTAL PHARMACY 1000 DUVAL STREET Announcing New Store Hours Beginning May 14th @:00 A.M. — 10:00 P.M. Closed ALL DAY Sundays IN PERSON - THURSDAY Simonton Street. | | In this particular bit of the story, | judges commented that Mr. Karns’ | yesterday that “he was not sure tions ithe Conch sponge fishermen with , Poster, in addition to of the | | Terry Moore as the daughter and | Harry Carey, Jr, and Rush Will-| ‘iams as Boone’s sons, are in the} dining room when Robert Wagner, | cast as a Greek spongeman comes | in an accuses the Conch boys of | taking sponges from a dead man's (Continued on Page Three) =| Between a 8:30 - 9:00 NITE With reference to the posters, the calling attention to d of the armed services—land, and air—have worked as a and have sacrificed their liv their combined exercise of for Peace.’ The colors are h jous and striking, but no! in wer On jwith dark brown suzgest (Continued On Page Tt | imony of witnesses failed to estab- ded | lish the identity of the man who) was seen aboard the boat about an hour before its sinking. Fisherman Carl Henley testified iy | the man he saw aboard the boat | trations was the defendant.” John MeDeok- (Continued On Page Three) ALL TYPES OF ROOFING SUPPLIES i ARE AVAILABLE AT STRUNK LUMBER YARD 120 Simonton Street TERRY . ROBERT -| Navy contract on the issue of xt kerk Utility Board Rejects Request For Sharp Cut In Power Rates City Electric officials and Key West Naval station of- ficers are deadlocked on a | Tates to be charged the Nav- (al Air Station and Seaplane base, according to discus- sions by Utility Board mem- bers at their meeting yester- day. The Navy wants to pay eight and nine mills per KWH at the Seaplane Base and Boca Chica. Chica, This would be a reduction ; from the two cents per KWH they are paying now, and a much low- er rate than the price paid by any of the big civilian consumers in Key West, according to Board members. “1 don’t think we should sell power as cheap as eight or nine mills. The Navy is asking for too much,” Ernest Ramsey, secre+ tary of the Board declared. City Electric has offered to cut its power rate to one cent per KWH plus a monthly demand charge of $2 per KWH, General Manager C. | A. Van Deursen. said. The Navy | fejected that price, it was report- nces with the Navy on E U.S.A. ey West Cilisen SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER PRICE FIVE cenrs| kk Marathon Cafe Fined For Having Illegal Crawfish The first arrest for illegal po: session of crawfish of this se son was made by State Conse: vation agent Joe Knight at the Overseas Lodge, Marathon. yes- terday. < Owner Joe Ardolino was fined $25 and costs by Peace Justice, Third District, R. D. Zetterower. Knight made the arrest at the Overseas with Phil Gokey and J. J. Loftus, agents out of Mia- mi. The three conservationists toured Marathon restaurants yesterday in search of crawfish which are out of season until duly 21, Ardolino, according to Knight, had undersized crewfish as well as those for which no recipt | from a seller of frozen crawfish | could be produced. In Key West, Knight has found | no violators of the closed craw- fish season as yet. Laubscher Is Elected To Jail For Juvenile Delinquents Opposed By Educators, Principals We Peo te xk R & Navy, City Electric Differ On Rates Commission’s Plan To Detain Youngsters In New County Jail. Declared Untenable For Kids; “Homelike Atmosphere” Needed The growing crisis in juvenile delinquency in Monroe County was stressed by educators and juvenile authorities who asked County Commissioners last night for immediate: space to detain the delinquents when necessary. The problem was pointed up last week wenn Juve-~ nile Judge Eva Warner Gibson could find no place in the. County to place the four swamp-gang teenagers accused of hatcheting one of their contemporaries. BULLETIN House Overrides Governor’s Veto. Of Papy’s Bill Commission a__ self-perpetuating body. The vote was 84 to 0. Rep. Papy of Monroe County, ems have been going|: ~ to the City Electric System told the Board that the. price to the Navy should not go below one cent. They had: previously recommend- ed that City Electric assume the entire electric load of all Naval installations here. This was re- j jected. Fernando Camus, acting chair- man of the Board in the absence of Mayor C. B. Harvey asked: “We charge consumers in town two cents per KWH, why should we go down to eight mills for the Navy? We should charge them at least one cent.” Board Member Louis M. J. Eis- ner moved that the Navy’s eight or nine mill proposal be rejected and that Van Deursen advise them } of this decision. The three mem- bers present voted for the motion. Board thembers also voted to hear the final report of the in- get the plant in running shape. John M, Drabelie, the $1000 per month, steam power plant main- tenance and operations expert will report to board members tomor- row at 5 p.‘m. R. W. Beck has reported pro- Progress on the study which will Electric system, it was said. Board Members voted to rescind | all previous action taken by the | Board toward-the end of entering | (Continued On Page Three) Vote Registration Continues Slowly | Less than 25 per cent of the ex- | Pected Key West voting roll has | appeared at the city hall to regis- | ter for the November General . Deputy Supervisor of } Agnes j éay. | The figure now | 2219 registrants |four months of operation | office. Key Westers are urged to jearly to avoid a last-minute | Nataralized Americans are cautioned to bring their saturaliza- tion papers to avoid making twoj trips. ‘Harold R. Laubscher, manager of the Key West Chamber of Com- merce, was elected president of the Florida Chamber of Commefce Executives, a state organization of Chamber secretaries and mana- gers. He succeeds Harold Goforth of Ocala. Other officers ‘named as the group closed its 34th annual meet- ing in Miami Beach a were Peter Knowles of Coral Ga- bles, vice-president and John Bry- son, Lakeland, secretary-treasurer. This organization, with a mem- bership of over 100, representing 60 Florida communities was or- munity. promotion and ‘to the Chamber of camer Principle speaker at the conven- tion was Dwight Haven, Washing- ton D. C., manager of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce service division. Among more important resolu- tions adopted by the body was a Fequest of the state legislature to ban the use of the title Chamber -|Flagler Avenue BERNARD FRANK, Secretary Pro-Tem. MOORE " WAGNER " BOONE if } introducer’ of the bill, said -the people of his county approved measure, it was of no concern nll the appointments sion in a ‘manner the Constitution, It commission members to their own successors and authority for them to ove as-their i i if wih, : The commission controls water system of the Florida Keys, March Files Suit Against O’Bryant g § County Grants tel i i Easement To City Monroé County will grant easement to the City of Key Wi for running pipes il Bee fs