The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1953, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the \country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Ken West C SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U.S. free. LXXIV No. 146 Recreation Program Activity Fr THE ABOVE PICTURED GROUP OF KIDS are having a lot of fun at the City-County sponsored recreation program at Poinciana School. Group is constructing paper mache animals. From the left, it includes: Patricia Trauth, Elaine Osborne, Carol Dunn, Diana Wadelan, Nancy Clairmont, Joyce Vanczel, Margaret Ledford and Darrelyn Pilgrim.—Citizen Staff Photo. Summer Recreation Program Draws Scores From Key West's Younger Set (Contractors Assure City They Increase Over Last Year Seen In City-County _ Sponsored Plan * “Hundreds“of’ members-vf ‘ Key West’s younger set are having a whale of a time at- tending the City-County sponsored summer recrea- tion program, it appeared to- day when a survey showed that this years turnout is al- most certain to exceed last year’s total of more than 400 participants. Under the direction of Key West High School Athletic Director Winston Jones, the staff is being kept busy supervising a healthy turnout of kids interested in every- thing from arts and crafts to base- ball. And parents are happy about the whole thing with their chil- dren being kept off tne streets, particularly in the congested Poinciana district. More than 150 boys are par- Meipating at the Harris School and nearly 50 girls also appear daily, it was reported. At Poin- ciana, there are another 125 boys and 68 girls. At Bayview Park, ‘133 boys have turned out. In addition to a program of baseball, tennis, softball, basket- ball, volleyball, kickball, crafts, swimming, story telling and library periods, a manual arts trade and vocational shop under the direction of Mr. Murray in the old commissary building on United Street is planned. *. The high school gym is also open @aily with Coach Jones in charge. A junior tennis tourney will be arranged in cooperation with the Key West Tennis*Club at Bayview Park. Also, a Midget Baseball League | is being arranged for all boys be- ween the ages of 10 and 12 years * (Continued On Page Eight) Stock Island Resident To Deliver KEY WEST CITIZEN ON Stock Island Substituting for Regular Route Boy APPLY IN PERSON KEY WEST CITIZEN || thor Sawyer Post No, 28, Ameri- Will Use Local Labor On Job Sabre Jets Down MIGs In Battles Over N.W. Korea By MILO FARNETL SEOUL @—U. S. Sabre jets de- stroyed six Communist MIGs and damaged three in air battles high over Northwest Korea today. On the ground, Communist in- fantrymen in company strength jabbed viciously at South Korean positions along the Central front, probing for weak spots where a major assault might break through. Chinese Reds smacked into sev- eral ROK-held hill positions along the East Central front where 30,000 to 40,000 Communists had rolled back Allied lines as riuch as two miles early this week in a pre- armistice drive toward the 38th parallel, Five MIGs were destroyed in sky battles deep in Northwest Korea and one near Sutho Dam on the Yalu River dividing North Korea and Communist Manchuria, the Air Force announced. Capt. Ralph Parr of Apple Val- ley, Calif., knocked down his sixth Red jet in 12 days. It was his 28th mission. Parr is the second jet ace from the tiny desert resort com- munity. Capt. Joseph McConnell Jr., the World’s top ace with 16 MIG kills, also hails from Apple Valley, Fighter-bombers continued to pound the battle front and Red supply lines in North Korea. The Air Force, meanwhile, boost- \ed from five to six the number of | MIGs shot down in air battles (Continued On Page Eight) Mayor To Present | Deed To Legion ‘The City of Key West, through/ its official representative, Mayor | Cc, B. Harvey, will present to oe can Legion during imstallation} P|) ceremonies on Saturday evening | jevening the deed to the property| j which the Post now occupies. | The City Commission voted w-| |} animously on Monday evening to} jconvey title to the property. | | State Representative Bernie C. Pa-| py during the recent State Legis-j 7 lature introduced and passed legis- | lation approving the conveyance of i] | title Bethel P. Johnson will be in-} Stalled as Post Commander suc- ceeding Vance C. Stirrup, It was announced today that many out ot town Legionnaries and Auxiliary members will be in attendance for the ceremonies. Following the, | meeting a supyer and a dance &) { planced, } { Sewer Project ~ Teo Require 300 Workers Over 13-Month Span Representatives from two con- tracting companies, who last week started work on Key West's multi- million dollar sewer system con- struction program told the city commission yesterday that they will use local labor as much as possible on the job. The city fathers were called into special session by commissioner Louis M. J. Eisner to ecafer with the contractors and if possible gain assurance that _local workers would be used. Eisner had coniier- red with the company and union men at length before asking for the special meeting. Also attending the meeting were labor representatives and Jack Cooper, representing Clifford and Cooper Associates, the city’s con- sulting engineers for the project. L, P. Rand represented the Po- well Company while Joe Reinert- son appeared for the. Reinertson Company. Both assured the commission that whenever available, local laber would be used. The sewer program is expected to require the services of nearly 300 work- ers over a 13 month period from laborers to pipe-fitters and heavy equipment operators. Only a handful are employed at the present but the hiring is ex- pected to begin in earnest in about a week, The Florida State Em- ployment Service will cooperate in supplying labor. One of the contractors pointed out that of a six man crew now on the job, four of the men are Key ‘Westers, The proportion will become even ‘greater when em- ployment goes into full swing, he added. The following hourly wage scales j have been set up by the federal | government who is granting the! city funds for the construction: plumbers, $2.90, bulldozer opera- tors, $1.90, crane and dragline op- erators, ,2.40, pipe layers, 1.55 laborers, 1.30 and carpenters, 2.40. | The company representatives | Pointed out that they would be | happy to use the local workers | and that they had made an infor- | mal prior commitment to do so) when the contracts were granted. | OPPORTUNITY!!! George, Get Some Tangerine Sherbet Today Will Have Soursop Dairy Freeze ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD Le objectives of “‘a united, inde- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, F RIDAY, JUNE 1! The Associated Press Teletype Features and Photo Services. For 73 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West. Rosenbergs. Execution Set For Tonight As Supreme Court Reverses Douglas Decision Trouble May Result If Final Korean Armistice Is Signed Draft Is Ready For Signatures | As Negotiators Prepare To Meet By GEORGE A. MCARTHUR MUNSAN (® — The fate of the Korean armistice may be deter- mined within a few hours when Allied and Red negotiators meet in full-dress session at Panmun- jom. The next move apparently is up to the Reds—but they gave no hint other than to say that tthey have an “important subject to discuss” when they asked for a meeting at ll a.m. Saturday (9 p.m, Friday, EST), The negotiators might approve final truce details. Or the Reds may protest President Syngman Rhee’s defiant release of about 26,- 000 anti-Red Korean prisoners. The armistice draft appears Teady for signature as soon as Chinese, English and Korean trans- lations are approved, vers predicted Rhee’s ar- bitrary action probably would not block signing of the truce, but they feared trouble later when the Allies must account for and hand over Red prisoners. And there is the possibility Rhee could expand this first open re- volt against. the .U, N., upsetting the whole mi pie oe has assured the Reds is ing “* step” nes capture the escaped prise het | it has found only a handful. The| task appeared almost hopeless as, the prisoners hid in homes with the blessing of the South Korean government, Meanwhile, Rhee made public a letter he wrote President Eisen- hower Wednesday in which he ap- parently rejected Eisenhower's of- fer of economic and military aid and a promise to negotiate a se- curity pact if South Korea would accept a truce. Rhee pleaded with Eisenhower to! find some other answer than a| “death warrant” armistice, “The U. N. is now putting pres- sure on us .,., “he said,” and is joining hands, it seems, with the enemy in this matter of armistice terms.” He accused the U. S. and the) U. N. of backing down on early pendent and democratic Korea and punishment of the aggressors.” He said “the counsels of appeas- ers” have turned America to “an | open confession of weakness . . ./ As the critical full-dress session | approached there were these other | developments: 1, The Reds called off Friday's! meeting of interpreters believed | working on the armistice draft at | Panmunjom. 2. The official Red Peiping Tadio | accused Rhee of releasing the} prisoners in order to impress them into the South Korean army and} added the “Americans deliberate- (Continued On Page Eight) Tongay Faces Manslaughter Charges Now Second-Degree Murder Charge Dismissed In Court Thursday MIAMI, Fla. @® — Russell Ton- gay, 39-year-old swimming instruc- tor, today faced manslaughter charges in the death of his five- year - old swim - star daughter, Kathy, The manslaughter warrant was issued after Justice of the Peace Edwin Lee Mason dismissed a sec- ond degree murder charge yester- day and ordered Tongay held on the lesser count, Mason fixed bond at $1,000. The maximum penalty upon con- viction of manslaughter is 20 years in prison. Mason said after more than three hours of a combined coron- er’s inquest and preliminary hear- ing that there was no evidence to show any beating by Tongay with his hands or fists, but he added: “Kathy Tongay..eame to her ina ttebiteee 5 1955, as @ result of injuries received when she at- tempted to execute a high dive from the 33-foot tower at the Mac- Fadden - Deauville Pool, Miami Beach, and that she did so in an improper manner, rupturing her intestine which caused: peritonitis and death,” He said that in his opinion this dive and -others were executed through Tongay’s compulsion and that he forced her to “execute and perform such dangerous and haz- ardous feats . . . without regard to the welfare and safety of Kathy Tongay.” The original warrant said that Tongay “with his hands and fist (Continued On Page Eight) Atomic Energy Hearings Planned WASHINGTON # — The Senate- | House Atomic Energy Committee plans public hearings, probably | starting mext week, on the possi- bilities of developing atomic ener- gy for ial use. Chairman W. Sterling Cole (R- NY) and Sen. Hickenlooper (R- Towa) said in a join statement yes- terday they felt the hearings could be opened “without harming in any {way the national security of the United States.” This program, endorsed by the administration, is designed to in- form the public of the “great prom- ise” of peacetime nuclear energy, the statement said. Pickets Line Up PRO-ROSENBERG PICKETS outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles are picketed by Bert Fry. who urges “burn them well done, 38, a anti-Rosenberg partisan, * and “hang them quick.” The clash of opinion was felt across the United States as the hour of electrocution approached for Julus and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted atom spies, at Sing Sing, N. Y., and bope for a postponement faded. —{(Internatinnal). No Nat'l Tourney Set For The Conchs Even if the Key West Conchs succeed in capturing the south- eastern Baseball Championship tonight it will be the end of the line for this season, accord- ing to an official of the Florida High School Athletic Associa- tion. Reason for that statement is the fact that, to their knowledge, there is no national tournament. Even if there were, the of- ficial said, it is doubtful if sanc- tion for participation could be obtained from the State group at this late date. The Association was contact- ed this morning by Chamber of Commerce Manager Harold Laubscher after scores of re- quests for information regard- ing the Conch’s future plans were received. AWOL Sailors Like Life In Rockwood Jail ROCKWOOD, Tenn. &#—Two youthful sailors—both Korea veter- ans and both AW re their unofficial ‘vacation ‘in the The Navy was never. like this: Roane county has made them honorary citizens. They go swim- ming every day. They can’t handle all the invitations to home-cooked meals. They went to Sunday school and ehurch last Sunday. “This is the best town we've ever been in,” they agree. It all started in San Diego, Calif., on June 1 when S1-C Charles H. Robinson, 21, of Knoxville, Tenn., and F1-C Roy Lee Austin, 19, of Wilson, Okla., got to talking at the San Diego Naval Base. “I said to Roy ‘Let’s go to Ten- nessee,”” says Robi “Don't say that unless you mean it,” Austin replied, and as Robin- son tells it, “We took off without a red cent or a cigarette.” They hitchhiked the 3,000 miles from San Diego to Knoxville in 55 hours, and stayed in Knoxville about 10 days, Robinson said. prisoners are friendly to the South Koreans, be said, “Some of them | undoubtedly are Communist sym-! pathizers, It looks tke « bed sit-/ Summer Season In Swing At Isle Of Pines Hotel Santa Fe Already Booked For July Rush, Al Mills Says The Isle of Pines is doing a brisk summer tourist business, ac- cording to Al Mills, owner of the Santa Rita Real Estate company who just returned from there. Mills, who is personally owner of the Santa Rita Hotel, now called’ the Santa Fe, and also of a large building of eight apaztments, said that he is booked through July with Cuban and American visitors at his hotel. Cuban government officials are taking over the hotel next weekend. After that tourists from the States will be going into the newly reno- vated hotel. A % foot by 35 foot swimming pool with magnesium water from the surrounding springs is one of the drawing cards for the hotel, Mills said. He has also built six baths for radio-active water, which is noted for curative values, Santa Fe, Mill's hotel, is 12 miles from Neuva Gerona, capital of the Island. He bought the old hotel and the apartments in Santa Fe completely on his own and has done all the renovations and re- furnishings. Manager of the Santa i hers Hi ArT oe a $ f | i é ¥537 tt ul STRUNK LUMBER 129 SIMONTON STREET Near City Hell Lawyers Still Maneuver To Save Pair From Death In Chair WASHINGTON (By a 6 to 3 vote, the Supreme Court struck down today the legal barrier thrown up by Justice William 0. Douglas against the execution of atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The decision could be the climac- | tie one for the husband and wife who have waited on death row in |New York's Sing Sing prison for two years while their fate was a battle issue in the courts of the U.-S. and public opinion the world over. Soon after the historic ruling was announced here, U. S. Marshal William A. Carroll said in New York that 10 p. m. (EST) tonight had been tentatively set for carry- ing out the death sentences, The lawyers who have battled doggedly for the Rosenbergs were still maneuvering, however, to save them. They filed motions with the full Supreme Court for a stay of exe- cution for reconsideration of the decision which set aside the stay Douglas issued on Wednesday. They have pending, too, a new petition that President Eisenhower spare the lives of Rosenberg, a teens engineer, and his wife, They also asked a stay to be certain that Eisenhower would have time to consider their plea. Eisenhower tirned down en Today’ re, Po areemtydas ge Agen tenced under the of 1917, but Douglas