The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 20, 1953, Page 11

Kc a “Six Women Give Up In Eviction ’ Protest Action NEW WORK (#—Six women who had; chained themselves inside an ; insurance. company’s skyscraper | office gave up early today their ‘protest action against the eviction of a Negro family from one of the fitm’s. housing. projects. After spending nine hours in _ ehains in an anteroom of the 28th- 4 "-..* floor. office of a vice president of " @@ Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, one of the women told newsmen: >. “itis. physically impossible to tay any longer.” The women earlier had said they © had thrown. away the keys douthe holding the: chains that . Baked al of them and their chairs " fogether. However, they finally admitted that a seventh woman who had beer. with them earlier had keys. ‘At “that same moment, a tele- . ) ¢all ‘was made to the office by a reporter who said he was out- side the building with the woman "with the keys. The women departed about: 2:30 ‘8. am. without obtaining any com- pany..commitment , on their de- mands, They indicated no plan to eeturn, company attorney, who fetched |“ ‘keys, received assurance from a pel that they would leave, he gave them: the keys to Sig : “There was no company statement m the matter. e and the women started their war of endurance before noon faze Free efE LH DEATHS MRS. CLARA KOCH Mrs. Clara Koch, 80, Jewett City, Illinois, died Tuesday after’a short illness, it was learned today. Mrs. Jewett is the: mother of George R. Koch, Sr. owner of the Island City Hotel, 411 William Street. BENJAMIN. STIRRUP * Benjamin Stirrup, 44, died this morning at his residence, 1014 Elgin Street, after a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 o’clock- in the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home. The Rev. J. Paul Touchton will officiate at the services. Burial will be in the family plot at City Cemetery. Survivors are his mother and father, Mr .and Mrs. James Stir- fup; a brother, Raymond G. Stir- rup; a son, Robert B. Stirrup, San Diego, Calif.; a grandchild and several nieces. New Danger In Flood Areas In Louisiana By JAMES. MCLEAN BATON ROUGE, La. #—Louisi- ana’s coastal lowlands faced a new flood crisis from the Gulf of Mexi- co today as rising streams to the .| north: forced 15,000 persons from their homes in a 100 million dollar flood, While swollen bayous and rivers poured tons of water toward the Gulf, the coastal residents braced’ against the possibility of inunda- tion from: wind- tides. ¢ igher at some points than in 194°, when high jes blew into already flooded sec- tions and covered several coastal g i i [E sFke & i I i 2 BF FE | Ag i é Fist? 5 I Hi i | 5 : é i | a i : i il z i itis lr fe EREe Hf it lis i bal a § i z A g i te fal g i i i I : i s f li i rif i 3 z f & g r | i i 4 i | , Today’s oie In Tallahassee | TALLAHASSEE W— A. state purchasing council which will su- Pervise. buying .of state supplies appears to be almost round the corner for Florida. ‘The Senate gave unanimous en- dorsement Tuesday to the House bill which calls for a council to decide on specifications, standards and maximum prices. The measure goes back to the House for concurrence in a pair of minor, non-controversial amend- ments. Gov. McCarty, who asked the Legislature to pass an act reg- ulating state purchases, is certain to sign the bill. When the Legislature’ finally | passes it and tne governor signs the bill into law a movement for years to get a purchasing plan will have ended. Sen. Carlton, Wauchula, de- scribed the plan as having “all the virtues of central purchasing with noné of its evils.” The state once had a central purchasing pro- gram back in the twenties but it was abolished. Here’s what the bill will do: A council, nade up of represent- atives from the offices of state cabinet officials. and the larger state agencies-such as the Road Department, Industrial Commis- sion and Highway Patrol will set regulations and maximum prices for purchase of supplies. A paid executive secretary will be on the purchasing group which will distribute Purchasing informa- tion to all agencies. The idea will still will do their individual buy- ing but under the standards laid down by ‘the council. The state comptroller will be directed by | law to refuse to pay the bills for any purchases which do not meet the council’s‘price or standard re- quirements. A feature of the bill {s that it stitutional requirements governing introduction of legislation affect- ing one county. . Members rising w support Glea- fon said the courts, not the gov- ernor, should decide whether or not a bill is constitutional. Gleaton told the House he had received no. protests against the bill and had ben asked by 113 residents to pass it—though Me- Carty said in his veto message tesidents of the areas had .pro- tested to him against getting no advance notice of plans to intro- duce the measure. Rep. Boyd of Lake County, one. of the*two representatives who voted against the bill, said he had seen a “stack” of protests, includ- ing one from the mzyor of Inver- ness, the seat of Citrus County, The other vote against the bill was cast by. Rep. Land..of Orang County. < TALLAHASSEE w —A proposed state income tax for Florida re- ceived a chilly welcome even. be- fore it was introduced in the Leg- islature today. s When Rep. Pruitt, Jefferson County, told the House Commit- tee on Constitutional Amendments he ‘was introducing a proposal to have an income tax for Florida, committee members told him ‘“tyou’re wasting your time.” Pruitt’s plan would exempt pay- ment of the tax or all fet in- comes up to $7,500. The Constitu- tion now prohibi:s any state in- come tax. He explained the Legislature is knocking off: such tax sourcés as the chain store tax, and home- stead exemption is keeping so much tax money from ‘the public treasury, that some’. method is neded to provide other tax soure- es and at the same time equalize taxes, TALLAHASSEE p— Committee | approval was given today to a Proposed constitutional amend- ment which wouid abolish‘all con- stables and justices of the: peace in Florida. * The House Committee on Con- Stitutional” Amendments also ap- proved-a proposal, already passed tol by the Senate, which wonld give " {ley, Jacksonville, would turn the HBL gece Ei 1 e a le 3 fas by EsEE ity i & i : E fs : “ile Su declared it [ ALLAHASSEE ®—The House | 69-2 Gov. McCar-; repealing a local | law closing part of the Homosassa i Fe & . said he! veto “un- | the governor 20 days after a. leg- islative session in which to veto a legislative act. The governor now has 10-days, TALLAHASSEE —The Legis- lature today was asked to appro- priate $45,000 for the purchase of the historic White Hotise of the Republic of East Florida on Ft. George Island at the mouth’ of the: St. Johns River near Jacksonville, A bill introduced by, Sen, Rip- land on which stands the structure, reputedly. the oldest Plantation home in Florida. The bill said the plot also. | ii: whieh would give the attorney general’ office authority to aid the counties narcotic laws was day by three representa’ Earlier in the session, the House called “racket squad” 5 would have set up a cabinet. law Churches Of Christ Watch’ NERO AND. ROME (Continued From Page One) stolen. sponges ‘are © being trans- | ™ost Congress Moves} CHICAGO ™ — The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. ‘A. today named a 15- member committee to watch de- velopments in Congress and else- |: where which “threaten the free- dom of the people and institutions of the United. States.” : Appointment of the “Committee on the Maintenance of American bimonthly meeting of the council’s General Board, the organization’s interim policy-making body, by President William C. Martin of Dallas, Tex. Bishop Martin, in a statement, expressed his personal hope that the committee “will help the churches to recognize any threat of Communist infiltration ‘into American life,” “No body of people is ‘more con- |; bog bal prac communism than ‘e church groups of our country,”’ Bishop Martin said. “If any Com- munists are carrying on their sub- versive work under the guise of serving the church, all who have a responsibility’ for leadership in. the ‘church should insist that such deception shall be exposed.” Bishop Martin’s appointments were authorized by the council’s General Board at a meeting in New York City in March. Heading the committee is the Rt. Rev, Hen- ty Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church; Bishop Sherrill was the first president of the council, a federation of 30 Christian churches which claims a than be million members. council’s president, who also is the ‘newly elected combat communism.” : “The right way,” Bishop, Martin said, “‘is to stand without compro- mise for Christian truth and action and to point out clearly and con- eretely every area of conflict, _ “The wrong way is to pin a Com- munist label.on sociai liberals and advocates of reform—a procedure widely resorted to today. Such old-fashioned American way, Such confusion ‘plays into the hands of the Communists and aids the ene- and Harry Wednesday, May 20, 1953 - THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 1? SS Wiffieult to make in the. en- At: first; I had to view the ac- lof the dock or from ‘a window in ed, the and a break for hours. It was get- ting on toward 2 am., still no close up view. 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