The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 4, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with am average range of only 14° Fahrenheit ~ The Kev West Citisen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1953 VOL. LXXIV No. 133 Class Day At K W High Features Senior Awards Salutatorian, Carol Dalton; Valedictorian Is Tom Cornell | ‘ | In an atmosphere of Joy | and excitement, 106 Key| West High School seniors | clad in white caps and gowns | heard their Class Day exer- cises and received, some of them, awards and_ tributes from civic clubs, individuals and the faculty. ‘The girls walked off with the Jargest number of honors in their class. But there was a fair distri- bution of the awards all around. Principal E. 0. Schweitzer made the presentations to the applause of students and the happy smiles of their parents. The evening ceremonies opened with the march of the class down the alsle of the Key West High School auditorium to the strains of Pomp and Circumstance, played by Millicent Taylor. Charles Taylor, Senior Poors president served as master of cere- monies, Carol Dalton gave the Class Salutatory. The Class His- tory read in the form of a four year diary was presented by Ca- Tol Reeves, Erme Valdes and Shir- ley Trudeau. The amusing Class Prophecy “was gleaned from a shiny crystal bowl by Nancy Brovoks, Dolores Villate and Dale Mitchell. Valedic- tory was given by Thomas Cornell. Vita Barroso and Betty Cooper regaled the audience of students andadults with the class of 1953's last will and testament. Si hea excitement of the eve- . ning began, however, when Sch- ‘weitzer mounted to the beautiful New rostrum, a gift of Edward ‘Woodson, to make the presenta- tion of the coveted awar ind honors. Fk following gt Robert Dopp, president of the Key West High School Parent- Teachers Association presented a book each to Caro! Dalton and Tom Cornell on behalf f the PTA. The Daughters of the American Revolution award made to Delia Elizabeth Touchton for her prize- ‘winning essay on citizenship. The Key West Citizen award of a°'$100 bond, was given to Carol Dalton on behalf of L. P. Artman by Mrs, James Fores- man, Mrs, Ewen said that “the publisher originated — the award when he learned of the ewards were The - ward goes annually with the greatest in the creative field. . Bausch and Lomb Medal ‘was presented to Gene Lang for outstanding work in the field of science, Evelyn Nettles was presented with the Balfour Award as the out- standing Senior,. chosen by her own classmates. Paul J. Sher presented two wrist watches to the students, he said, who contributed most to the school without stutlying..They were Doris - Piarrot and Jack Wells. Evelyn Nettles won the Aquilino! Lopez English Award, for excel-| Jence in that department. She was . with $50. The ‘Dr, William Warren Award for excellence in music wasg iven! Yo Adolph Alcala, Jr A Readers’ Digest subscription Was given to Class Valedictorian Tom Cornell. The Danforth Foundation prize @f a book each was given to Kath @rine Brady and Alfred Link Mrs, Wallace Kirke, president @f the Key West Woman's Club Presented the home economics’ Excellence Award to Katherine Brady and to Gale Curry. The Key West Business and | pondent for the Italian Communist | 59 (Continued On Page Two) | | past months, |Admiral Duke And Local Naval Personnel Commended Today ® |Criminal Court Has Light Day Criminal Court Judge Thomas Caro today imposed light fines on persons convicted of traffic offenses. ,Richard J. Keen grew a fine of $25 and costs and had his driving license revoked for 60 days on drunken driving, reck- less driving charges. John Cichon, was fined $15 for reckless driving, and his days. Norman Glover, on a no drivers’ Sentence was deferred for license charge; for JamesB rook- er, on the same charge; and for Richard Noland on the same charge. Melvin H. Rogers for- feited a $25 bord on a drunken- ness charge. School Payroll Hits All Time High Next Year $128,000 Increase Over 1952-53, Says Horace O’Bryant The instructional payroll for Monroe County will be $128,300 higher next year than in the 1952- 53 school year, Superintendent of Public Instruction Horace O'Bry- ant announced today. Last year it was $545,000, 1 proximately. Next year the es timated figure will mount to $675,300, an all time high. The instructional staff inclades all who hold teaching certificates, teachers and principals. The pay- roll for next year, O‘Bryant ex- plained, includes the regular year- ly raises for those who have serv- ed in the county school system, as well as across-the-board $350 a year raise for teachers. Funds for this latter raise amount to $60,000, of which the State pays $45,000 and the county $15,000 next year, Raises for office workers, custo- dial help and the $400 a year Local Observance Of Armed Forces Day Hailed As “Most Impressive” é Rear Admiral Irving T. Duke, Commanding officer of the Key West Naval*Base and members of his staff have been commended by Lt. General A. R. Bolling, Com- manding Genera] of the Third Ar- my Area with headquarters at Fort McPherson, Georgia, for the highly successful observance of Armed Forces Day here May 16. General Drum was in overall charge of the affair in this dis- trict. The commendation was received in a letter to the Admiral hailing the event “ag the most notable and impressive since its inception in 1950.” much time to the many neces- “1 believe that our mission of affording the American public an opportunity te render the tribute for which this year’s observance was designed, was accomplished in a superior manner,” the Gen- eral said. “The success attained is directly attributable to the dili- gent efforts of all officers and enlisted men who devoted so much time te the many neces- sary details of staging a joint civilian-military project of this Di continued. raise for principals come out of ed, county funds, O’Bryant said. The Principals’ raises up the budget only $2800 a year, since there are but seven of them in the county, Raises for teachers were au- thorized by the State Legislature and approved by the School Board at its May 5 meeting, They were finally agreed upon last Tuesday night, The other raises for office work- ers, secretaries, bus drivers, and janitors were first brought to the Board on Tuesday and approved at that time. The School system has been the subject of much controversy in the Despite that, pro- gress all along tha line is expect- ed by school officials in the next year, ITALIAN NEWSMAN WRITES FOR REDS PANMUNJOM h—An ug Bomb Goes Off Early Today By BILL BECKER LAS VEGAS, Nev. w—The big- gest atom bomb ever exploded in the United States flamed for more than two minutes in the pre-dawn joel ad over Nevada Proving fireball. | Dropped from an extremely high- | B-36, the unprecedented A-| Reds Reply To “Final” Allied Truce Offers Statement Offered By Communists Is Kept Secret By ROBERT TUCKMAN PANMUNJOM (®—The Commu- nists reportedly submitted today a counterproposal to the “final” Al- lied terms for a truce in Korea. The Reds offered a lengthy state- ment of their position at a 73-min- ute secret session today that brought delegates together for the first time in nine days. Contents of the Communist state- ment were kept secret. The official spokesman for the United Nations Command, Lt. Col. Milton Herr, would not confirm or deny the reported counterproposal. The Allies asked for and got a recess until Saturday, stirring speculation that a Red counterpro- posal would be sent to the U. S, and other allies for consideration. The Communists had been ex- Pected to answer an Allied “now or never” proposal on prisoner ex- change submitted May 25. North Korean Gen. Nam I] talked an hour—all but the last 13 min- utes of the session. The South Korean delegate con- tinued his boycott, which started May 25. This was the second ses- sion he had missed, South Korean government sources have attacked the Allied plan presented 10 days ago as “‘ap- Peasement” and a “sell-out.” The prisoner exchange dispute— last major barrier to an armistice —centers on what to do with 34,000 North Korean and 14,500 Chinese prisoners who refuse to return to their Communist homelands, The Communists have proposed leaving their fate to a postarmi- stice political conference after a period of Red explanations. The new Allied plan is to agree to that, but adds that if the prisoners would rm jet to the U.N. General Assembly. The Reds re- Portedly rejected that U. N. pro- wision on the spot, charging that the U. N. itself is a belligerent and should not have a final ver- . | dict on Red prisoners, The secret meeting had been billed as a chips-down session. Al- lied sources indicated the latest U. N. proposal was final. On May 25 the Reds took a one- week recess after receiving the Al- lied plan and then extended the recess three more days, indicating ough going-over in top Red circles —Peiping and possibly Moscow. The meeting was immersed in secrecy, Newsmen watching the confer-| ence hut could see through the) windows the Communist interpre-| ters reading Nam’s statement. After the session, Herr, the of-/ (Continued On Page Two) War Veteran Goes Beserk Wednesday A one hu -percent disabled | Korean War ran was taken in-/| to custody yesterday and lodged! in the Monroe County Jail after he | went berserk and severely beat his | Police said today. Police officer R. L. James re- Ported that he went to the scene |of the beating and took the man, who was in a dazed condition, to the Monroe General Hospital where he was refused admittance after it | was learned that he was suffering from a psychiatric condition. “We have no facilities for car- ing for such types of cases,” a | Physician at the hospital was quot- ed as saying. flying Italian | bomb flashed across the entire! Police then completed arrange- |Communist correspondent ap-/ horizon afid bathed the desert in a | ments for lodging the man in the peared at Panmunjom Thursday | | ghostly white light for at least) County Jail, pending his transfer for the first time since armistice | five seconds. Then it formed into | to a Veteran's Hospital. negotiations began nearly } years ago. He is Ricardo Longone, corres- two newspaper L'Unita, a brilliant golden fireball. The power of this amazing wea-| |} pon was probably not less than 50 kilotons. The Atomic Energy | Commissin has previously deto-/ —. | nated three devices at Yucca aFtl KEY WEST SEAFOO CORNER of GREENE and ELIZABETH STREETS Ice Cold Watermelons FREE DELIVERY PHONE 2-6134 that have had an intensity greater than the so-called nominal or Hiro- | shima bomb. Today's bisst, ith and final of STRUNK LUMBER 128 SIMONTON STREET, Bleck North of Pest Office | They said that he is a veteran of World War I and was recalled to the Army and served in the Korean War. Announcement! GALEY - DE POO LABORATORY 417 EATON STREET Now Open Daily Heurs: 6:08 A.M. te 5:00 P.M. COMPL FOR APPOINTMENT ‘the from “th! the proposal was getting a thor-| The Associated Press Teletype Features and Phéto Services. For 72 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West FIVE CENTS Youth Misses Killing Law Officers In Rifle Blasts Aimed At Captors 20-Year-Old New Milestone In Atom Field uns émuck “BREEDING” OF ATOMIC FUEL IS REVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENT ATLANTIC CITY @—The United States today announced the suc- cessful “breeding” of atomic fuel —that is, the production of at least as much, or more, new fissionable material as is burned up in the process of making it. The development is one of the most revolutionary in the entire atomic program. It was disclosed by Chairman Gofdon Dean of the Atomic Energy Commission in a speech prepared fur the Edison Electric Institute. Dean cautioned his audience of 3,000 electric and power men not to assume that economic power from atomic energy is here. But he called the achievement a mile- stone of progress and said it “holds out the promise of making a civili- an atomic power industry even more feasible and attractive in the long range than it has hitherto ap- peared to be.” The process, Dean said, was worked out at the AEC’s reactor testing station at Arco, Idaho. He illustrated it this way: “To explain to yoy’ the impact of reaching this new milestone, I would like to use an analogy, albeit a greatly over-simplified one. “I would like to ask you to im- agine a world in which only one hundred gallons of gasoline existed. When that gasoline was’ used up, gasoline would forever be gone earth. But Jet us imagine that we could mske gasoline out of water by’ burning the gasoline we had in the presence of water, Let us say, for example, that by burning up our 100 gallons of gas- oline we could change 90 gallons of water into new gasoline, and that thereafter we could, by borning gasoline in the presence of water, always make new gasoline equiva- lent to 90 per cent of that which we burned. By such a process we stretch out our supply of gasoline, but we could hardly expect to stretch it out indefinitely for we | would always be making a little jless gasoline than we consumed. “Ultimately we would run out of gasoline before we ran out of wa- |ter, and all the rest of the water jin the world would be useless to jus so far’ as gasoline production | was concerned. “But to pursue our over-simpli- | fied analogy, still further, now let us assume that we succeeded in developing a way by which we could produce 100 cr more gallons of néw gasoline from water for every 100 gallons we burned, Sud- denly we would have made it pos- | sible for ourselves to change grad- Fd all of the water in the worid gasoline. Our gusoline short- } age would have vanished.” Dean said that essentially is what has happened at Arcb. Potentially, ‘he achievement opens the ‘Way to making use of wife in their Truman Avenue home” the world’s supply of uranium-238, | je9. | which is 140 times more plentiful | than the fissionabie U-235, as a soufte of fuel for power or bro bombs. Moreover, it may open ‘the way to using all supplies of an ele- | ment called thorium which is even more plentiful than wranium-238. Telling of the process worked out in a special reactor or furnace at Arco, Dean said: “The reactor is operating in such a way that it is bucping up urani- um-235, amd, in the . it is changing | an 1-208) inte fissionable Plutonun FE oe at a rate that is ot Jeast.equal to: the rate at which the uraniam-235 is being consumed.” While he declared that nya de- velopment meant “ another milestone,” Dean vw a | “I think, however, that we must take care to see that this encourag- ing development u kept in its prop- er perspective “This news does not mean that | economic power from stomic fuels is here. It does not mean that over- night we bave suddenly ebtained ali the fissionable material we want or need “It dots pot mean that uranium | can now be regarded as a virtually | costiess fuel. i. quite possible / that the breeding principle will not eves be incorporated im the first atornic payer plants “It may be thet some other types _ \Coptinesd on Page Two} Monroe County Leads State In Tax Collection Witca Reports 100 Per Cent Tax Payments For Seventh Y. = For the seventh consecutive year Monroe County Tax Collector How- ard Wilson has succeeded in col- lecting 100-per cent of the tax roll, it has been revealed by the annual Teport of the State Comptroller, The Teport covered the period end- ing in Sept. 1952. And Wilson proved to be the only tax collector in. the State able to turn the trick as the report showed that Monroe County is the only one of the state’s 67 counties with 100 Per cent collections. This year's Toll totaled $659,434.27, The feat has been hailed by county officials as being in no small measure responsible for the county’s low assessment of ivst 24 mills. In addition, they say, the perfect collections have been responsible for keeping the county on a current financial bas- is. It would be necessary to ine “Thand today with Ostoatuplst its the efficiency in his office to new office methods which were in- stalled five years ago. When he assumed office, for ex- ample, it was neccessary to ad- dress comunications by hand~a long and tedious task. Since then, the addition of addressing equip- ment and accounting machinery has contributed to efficiency, While tax collections have risen some 40 per cent, the cost of the operation of the tax coillector’s of- fice has increased only slightly, Wilson says, Last year, a total of $4,583.83 in excess fees was turned back to the state, by Wilson, Judge Gibson Goes To Lawyer’s Meet. Juvenile Court Judge Eva War- ner Gibson left yesterday to at- meeting of the | Florida Association of Women | Lawyers at the Robert Clay hotel, | Miami. | Judge Gibson was Invited to at- tend the meeting by Mary L. Esa- President, who wrote: “Our association is equally open to members by reason of their | judicial positions such as yours and we would deem it an honor and | privilege not only to have you at- tend the meeting in Miami but al- so to become our new member, i owe have over 200 pri women attorneys in this state one other judge, Municipal J Babcock in Lake Wales, pina (are expecting a good i (Continnst On Pegs Toot Harry Knight Is «- County Korean Aid Chairman Herry Knight has been named i Seer chairman of Roberts Confirms His Resignation City Finance Director Charles | Roberts said today that he has | “no intention of withdrawing his | resignation” although he added | that he may continue in the city’s employ for a few days longer than he had intended. Roberts, who set’the close of business Friday, as the time for his resignation to take effect, said that he has a large volume of work to complete in connec- tion with the sewer service ex- pansion project accounts. “1 may go over the date named,” he said. Reds Beat Back Counterattacks For Hill Posts Allies Recapture One Key Position In Bloody Battle By FORREST EDWARDS clinging stubbornly to seven hill positions in Central and East- er Korea. Units of four ROK’ divisions fought to drive Chinese and North Korean Reds from five outposts | along Finger and Bloody Ridges on | the East-Central Front and from | part of Luke the Gook's Castle | and Anchor Hill in the East, Troops of the South Korean 5th Division quickly recaptured one outpost on Bloody Ridge, but heavy | Red fire drove them back from | another nearby, the Eighth Army | said. Other South Korean troops also ran into trouble. The U. N. Command said two} | Chinese battalions — about 1,500 men—smashed into South Koreans | who captured one cutpost on Fing- | er Ridge and drove she ROK off again. Troops of the ROK 15th Division | knocked North Kerean Reds off) the crest of Anchor Hill, But the | Reds regrouped on a nearby hil! and the South Koreans launched | and two-pronz atteck aroinst this new threat, the Army said. Counterattackin: Sect orerns | of the 12th Division lost added ground in desperate see-saw fi: ing for Luke’s Castle. There ROKs | who drove the Reds back late | Wednesday were driven bark for ther than before by a smashing | Communist counterattack. At last report, the North Koreans | held about half of the intricate Castle defenses, ~~ Allied warplanes flew scores of missions again today in close-sup- port of troops on the battle line. During the night U. S. Super- forts hit the battlefrunt with their bi; assault in nearly a yea i. 520s unloaded 199 ton: ibs on Red targets between Continued On Page Two) ar . sibly long With Rifle After Suicide Attempts A 20 year old boy, who had been attempting suicide by gun and razor in the last month tried but failed on nomicide yesterday after. noon, firing two dozen shots at Sheriff John Spottswvod, State Trooper Frank Cline, Police Officer Lionel Sorfano and others who were trying to capture him. The boy’s father was in Spotts- wood’s office yesterday discussing his papers to committ him to Chattahoochee, when a phone call came from the mother. She was hysterical and cried: “He has a gun and he’s firing it in the house!” Spottswood called City Police, radioed ‘State Trooper Cline and rushed to the area of the house, The mother met ‘them a block away and repeated the boy wi shooting. Spottswood plan to lure the boy house without his gun. It was Pendent on the phone however when they tried the house, learned from the Chief that the storm had knocked / phone out of order. Meanwhile Trooper Cline pale up in front of the house, isa af his car to heed toward the door, deputy. sheriff Sidney ed to Gline’s aid. com blast t was taken to the county jail he awaits transfer to the Hospital for the Insane, The boy was discharged from state hospital in 1951, He had I Hine his numerous suici¢e attempts in the last month, Father of the boy had. recently Joined Alcholics Anonymous in at- fempt to restore his sobriety, |told reporters yesterday that he was losing his reason cause of the bome situation, the boy depressed and After discussions with Court Judge Thomas Caro blem then presented to’ t the boy pending the bypebedarin ser i HY Pre ee z i F z to watch him. The (Continued On ROCKY Lay MARCIANO JERSEY JOE WALCOTT ~\. we *