The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 1953, Page 1

Rey West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit country, Lewin R | Post To Manage WKWF ‘Rep. Papy Introduces Bill To Allow Summer Dog Racing Here No Successor Considered Yet For. Job Paying $6,000 A Year One of the best paying Government jobs in Key West becomes vacant this afternoon when Kermit Lew- in, executive director of the Key West Housing Authori- ty, submits his resignation to the Board at a special meet- ing at 4 p.m. ~ Vewin is leaving the $6,000 a year post to take the job as man- iger of Station WKWF, a Position ‘iMacs sf 5 KERMIT LEWIN held by John. Spotswood, station owner, Spotiswood, now Sheriff of 2 Monroe County has: hired . Lewin who will Sein hig dutles on July T. Joe Sirugo, active board mem- ber of the Key West Housing Authority told The Citizen today: “1 will be hard to find a man ‘en such short notice to fill Lew- \in’s place. We have no idea as yet who it will be. | am sur- prised and regret that Lewin is leaving but if he can advance himself in private endeavor, more- power to him.” Lewin had under his jurisdiction (Continued On Page Three) Local U.J.A. Fund Drive Opens Toda As Calls Are Made The United Jewish Appeal fund raising drive in Key West official- ly stated this morning and reports from committees so far seem very encouraging. The annual banquet usually opening these drives - was discontinued this year, in a spirit of economy. The Key West Drive is part of the National U. J. A. drive to drive to raise finds in order to help rehabilitate thousands of still homeless people - most of whom enter Israel, and also to help Is- yael itself to go on working and Dullding until it is a stronghold of @emocracy in the near East. The United Jewish Appeal is one of America's instrument of freedom; + Through it the blessings of free- @om from want and fear, as well ga freedom of worship are brought go. hundreds of thousands of des- perate people. NOTICE! NOTICE! ORIENTAL PHARMACY 1000 DUVAL STREET Announcing New Store Hours Beginning May 4th lays Person Tonight . .. VOL. LXXIV Legion Reveals Plans For °53 Fla. Boys’ State Local High School | Students Will Be Selected To Attend Event June 21-27 Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, Am- erican Legion, announced today that the annual Boys State pro- gram would be held in Tallahassee June 21-27th, Post Commander Vance C. Stir- ‘lrup today indicated that Boys State may best be defined as an objective citizenship school which :j avails boys with a better oppor- tunity to :sarn and understand the «| basic principles underlying our Re- presentative Government. Boys State developed from an idea that youth should be offered a better perspective of the practical opera- tion of government. The Key West High School Faculty are now selecting boys to attend this year’s session. No boy is eligible to attend Boys State unless he had completed junior year in high school and at least one more semester ‘| >of high school remaining. Only boys with outstanding lifica- tions - leadership, courage, hon- or, loyalty, service are selected. Boys from. every part of Flori- da will form the 1953 Florida For seven days the citizens of the new “State” will carry out all functions of government, taking the basic laws and procedure of the State of Florida as a guide. The program is free of all pro- paganda and positively non-politi- cal, and there is definitely nothing military allowed in the program. From the boys attending the ses- (Continued on Page Three) Scottish Rite Y|Group Plans Trip To Lake Worth Reservations will be taken at the Scottish Rite meeting tonight at 8 p. m, for the trip to Lake Worth May 23, The trip is to be made by bus, leaving Key West on the 23rd at 7 a. m. and returning on Sunday, May The\class which has just completed work will be taken as guests of the organization on the bus. Others going will share the expenses of the fares. Continuous exemplification of de- grees will be carried on the 23rd and 24th at Lake Worth. It is important for reservations to be made at tonight's meeting so that motel arrangements may be made for all who make the CITIES ARE MOVING TO THE COUNTRY NEW YORK wW—In 25 years | grass will grow in the streets of |New York and flowers will bloom on the sidewalks, says noted arch- | itect Frank Lloyd Wright. The cities are “moving to the jcountry,”” Wright said yesterday | welfare cases is made by County | jafter being. named to receive the fannual Gold Medal for Architec- ture of the National Institute of | brought in with clearance and turn | Arts and Letters later this month. “The city is a aangover from feudal times,” he said. “Once it | was necessary, but it reached and | passed its peak and now you will see it disappearing.” e @ esigns Housing No. 115 Local Syndicate To Build Track If The Measure Gains Passage A local bill, which may make | possible the operation of ancther | dog track in Monroe County. was | introduced Wed. in the State Legis- | lature by Rep. Bernie C. Pepy, it was learned today. The bill, which provides for the issuance of permits for summer dog racing in Monroe County, is being sponsored by Papy at the re- quest of Hilario Ramos, local wholesale liquor dealer who heads a syndicate interested in construct- ing a new racing plant. The track would be 100 per cent locally fin- anced, it has been announced. The measure faces a possible stiff fight in the Senate despite the usual policy in the legisia- ture calling, for “hands off” on local bills. Early action is seen on the legislation. Although no definite site for the dog track has been announced of- ficially, Ramos hinted on March 20th that the track would be built close to the Monroe-Dade county line. The possibility that a large, luxury-type motel or hotel might be constructed in conjunction with the track was also revealed at that time. The legislation is necessary be- cause of a law now on the books which states that there can be no dog track closer than 100-miles to an iting racing plant. The fact that the permit would be issued for “summer racing” would apparently not place it in competition with the Key West Kennel Club which. operate: f0P-<2'°90"' day pefiod ~ dariiig winter and spring. The new rac- ing dates would be between June 1st and September 30th. The bill. also asks that the per- mit be given “without regard to the distance the track of the appli- cant will be from the track of any existing applicant.” . Ramos has emphasized that the track will be patronized largely by Miamians and others from the South Florida mainland because of its position, Non-Resident Welfare Cases Are Discussed Closer Check On Non-Paying Patients To Be Conducted Here Non-residents of Monroe Coun-! ty are taking advantage of the; Monroe General hospital and | claiming they cannot pay for ser- vice, it was brought out at a meet- ing of the Hospital Board Tuesday night. County Commissioners who run the hospital convened as Hospital Governors immediately after the Commission meeting. Administrator of the Hospital Willard Albury pointed out that last year from January 31, 1952 te February 1, 1953, $13,913 in bills were run up by patients whe couldn't or would not pay. “That's why we get in the red," Albury said. Though careful checking of all | | | Service officer Jack Baker, before | certification, emergency cases are lout to be either unwilling to pay jor indigents from other | and states. | “We have snowbirds whe come fe Key West, falling apart and ‘(Continued on Page Three) counties © KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953 IN THE U.S.A. The Key West Cilisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER PRICE FIVE CENTS March Asks Court Action Dancer Asks To Perform In To Force His Employment Claims O’Bryant, School Bd. Break State Law By Not Continuing Him Leland March has_peti- tioned for a writ of mandam- us to compel Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace Public Instruction to give him a continuing contract as he claims the law requires them to. ¥ The petition was filed by the General Supervisor of Instruction’s attorney J. Y. Porter in Circuit Court yesterday. March’s action says that he had been employed three succes- sive years by the school board. According to the 1951 School code, Attorney Porter says that the School Board is compelled to Provide a continuing ract for instructional and adi istrative staff after they have “complet- ed three years of service in a county of the state, and have been reappointed for the fourth successive year.” According to March, he was employed for three years, 1949-50, 1950-51, 1951-52 and finally for the current school year 1952-53, The Petition says: “At no time did the Monroe County School Board prescribe that March’s fourth consecutive year of employment as herein- above described be an extension of his probationary employment in the Monroe County Florida School system, the minutes of the regular meeting of the Monroe County Board of Public Instruction dated (Continued On Page Three) Youth Ordered Out Of Town On 2 Charges Charles Rocco Accused Of Concealed Weapon And Auto Theft Charles Rocco, 21, was advised to leave town today following his Plea of guilty to auto theft, and concealed weapons in the case of the Yellow Lincoln, picked up by State Trooper Frank Cline several weeks ago. Rocco, Criminal Court Judge Thomas Caro, was driving the Lincoln on U.S, 1, three Saturday nights ago with a sailor. The car belonged to a man in Fort Lauderdafe who had “loaned” it to a young blonde. The blonde had earlier been stop- ped on the highway but convinced Trooper Cline she had custody of the car for the weekend. Early that morning Cline stopped the car again. This time it was being driven by Rocco. The sailor had helped him start the car with a wire. They prove no ownership }so Cline brought them back to {County Jail, where the car was | later identified by the Blonde as the one she had’ permission to have. The sailor was released to the | Navy after two days in jail. Rocco | was held pending instructions from the owner in Fort Lauderdale. He did not want to press the auto theft charge. Rocco remained in jail awaiting triat.on an additional charge of carrying a concealed black jack. | Today under questioning the 21 lyear old revealed that he had (Continued on Page Three) DR { . EIGHT KINDS OF Ceiling Tileboards ARE AVAILABLE at STRUNK LUMBER YARD | 120 Simenton St. Dial 2.7091 who appeared. before | J udge Gibson Writes Sheriff Re Juveniles Both Agree That New Jail Is Not Right Place For Young Offenders The text of the correspondence between Juvenile Court Judge Gib- son and Sheriff John Spotswood on detaining juvenile delinquents in the new county jail was re- leased by the Judge today. Spottswood’s letter to Judge Gib- son reads as follows: “Dear Judge: “We are today moving all the the prisoners from the old county jail to the new county jail. I have discussed with you on numerous oceasions the fact that there are no provisions in the new jail for the detention of juveniles which meet the requirements of the law with respect to the detention of juveniles. “I am therefore respectfully no- tifying the Honorable Court of this condition and respectfully inform- ing you that I am unalterably op- Posed to having juveniles placed in the new county jail and, I am further respectfully notifying you that before I will accept any ju- venile in this jail that I would only do so by direct written order from your Court and that such orders will be carried out only under pro- test. “Respectfully yours, “John.M. Spottswood.” | Judge Gibson’s reply to Sheriff | declined. Spottswood is printed below: Continued On. Page Three) ‘The Key West Outboard Club ' will sponser a racing program Sunday in Garrison Bight, starting at 2:00 p.m. There will be racing in three classes, including fishing boats, hydroplanes, C-class boats up to 25 horsepower, and free for all. The public is invited to wit- ness the races for which there is no charge. ye. | mtn eo MRS. V. J. | | Court During Her Trial-On Indecency Charge Here Wed. “You Can't Do Mambo Without Wiggling,” Lt. Hernandez Avers By JIM. COBB The question of a 21-year old showgirl’s guilt on} charge of dancing indecent- ly in publie revolved around the idea of whether or not| you can do the Mambo with-! out wiggling. You can’t, ac- cording to police Lt. Gene Hernandez, but the girl, a doe-eyed blonde known as June Martin, | Preview Lounge entertainer was found guilty and fined $50 by Municipal Judge Enrique Esquinaldo, in city court yes- terday. The question arose at the trial of a group of Key West bar owners, Bees In Her Bonnet? B-girls and strip teasers on a var- iety of charges as a result of a/ series of raids conducted by Police | Lieutenants Buster Cerezo and Her- nandez last Saturday night. In an effort to prove her inrocence, Miss Martin asked to be allowed to do her dance in pubiic, The suet Two of the bar owners went free | But, a fine of $100 was levied against Miss Tania Houser, Mardi Gras entertainer for indecent ex- posure and Miss Terry Morgan, Mardi Gras singer paid a $50°fine on a B-drinking charge. Harold Williams, owner of the Harlem Inn, 723 Emma Street was fined $100 for permitting a nuisance in at his jukebox annoyed neigh- bors. Miss Martin’s case was the high- point of the busy day in court when her defense attorney Tom Wat- kins raised the question of just (Continued on Page Three) 11 Yachts Stop'In Key West En Route To Havana Vacation Billie Arnold Is Winner Of Essay Contest High School Sophomore To Act As Commanding Officer Of Sarsfield On Armed Forces Day Winners in the annual Armed Forces Day essay contest have been announced by Ledr, Ramon C. Lewis of the Key West Naval Hos- pital, Navy representative charge of the essay judging. Other arrangements were made and me- dals provided by the Business and Professional Women’s Club, which sponsored the contest. The honor of acting as com- manding officer aboard the USS Sarsfield on Armed Forces Day goes to Miss Billie Arnold, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Ar- nold, 910 United St. She is a Key West High School sophomore, A medal accompanies the honor. As victors in their scnools, Miss Judy Witherell, sophomrre at the Convent of Mary Immaculate, and iss Paula Dean, freshman at Douglass High School, will_ receive medals. Carrying out the theme of Arm- ed Forces Day 1953, the essays (Continued On Page Three) Ambulance Corps Chooses Officers PRUSINSKAS of 112 A Poinciana did not have bees in her bonnet this morning but she did have them by the thou- sands on her. windshield! | The bees were swarming and decided that a nice, clean windshield would be the ideal hotme. Prusinskas did not agree so she drove to the humane shelter on Stock Island, where a box was prepared as a new home, and with a bit of persuasion the bee} marched in and Queen Bee Mrs. set up a new kingdom—Citizen Staff Photo, Fisch, , 30 men and women attended the first meeting of the Marathon Vol- }unteer Ambulance Corps, Tues- ‘day evening, May 12th, at the | Headquarters of the Marathon Vol- unteer Fire Department. Immedi- ate steps were toker, to draw up Yacht Skippers Comment On Need Of Docking Space In Island City | A fleet of eleven gleaming yachts | ranging from 40 to 65 feet tied up in Key West yesterday afternoon en route to Havana for a two week Sala vacation for skippers and crew. * Sponsored by the Cuban Insti- tute of Tourists, the cruise left Standard Oil and Gulf docks at midnight last night after a dinner at the Caribe restaurant, Yachts from the West coast of Florida left'from Everglades City’s beautiful Rod and Gun elub Tues- day morning. The Miami yachts departed from the Miami City yacht basin. All converged at Mar- athon where they tied up at the ‘ocking facilities called “splendid” »y yachtsmen at Davis Docks. When the fleet got to Key West, however, they found as aif. a charter for the new organization | and to initiate legal steps for in- | corporation. The following officers were elee- ted: President, Den H. 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