The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 3, 1953, Page 4

‘THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, September 3, 1959 Business: Eatared at Key West, Floris, as Second Class Mailer Subscription (by carrier), Ze per week; year, $12.00: by mail. ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION invites of pubiie will not a Semmens commenications interest, but ‘The Citizen ran this six-column headline Friday: oun TOWARD LOWER TAXES SEEN BY CON- ‘The story applied to lower income taxes, the reduc. tion of which would be a good thing if it can be done without endangering our defense build-up. : But a similar “step” is far more needed in cutting down taxation in Key West. Eight years ago a man, in fairly good financial circumstances, came to Key West ong ete 3 ANCIENT SHIP LIES ON SEA BOTTOM OFF MARATHON \of a ship or,gin at present unknown, | ri if ti and bought He had several letters in The Citizen about the beautification of his yard, and pointed out tha what he had done residents generally could do also. Flowers, roses and ornamental plants, he said, could be {y resting some 400 fect wn easily in Key West were they cared for rightly. He in Marathon, on baybottom explained how he had enriched the soil in his yard with- owned by Chet out fertilizers by burying leaves, orange peelings, grape-anous "es fruit shells, potato peelings and other things, except of| iready an organic nature. Then The Citizen received a letter from him that Hi F by 2 i z ! Hil i ile E i : Hi i i i é : i ff | E E EF i g : gt a i f HT; | : i iss i i H cit fF Ha Hi i H i was a broadside against local taxation, He said he had been negotiating to buy a corner lot to put up a $30,000 on it, but, before closing the deal, he inquired. the taxes he have to py on it. He oo ly the taxes would be a: the city taxes. double taxation?” he demanded. “Assum- the building, what benefit would it de- county? None. I wouldn’t be averse to pay- it for public school purposes, but why should pay additiona! county taxes when I derive no benefit from them, Our forefathers complained about “taxation the without representation,” which is no worse than taxa-! csob's stove or galley, what I had/ot well designed scrap is < ls ? Es i i g [ Th ze ee did 3 | i g ai i Hl F é LTE ite 5g3 z A few weeks later, The Citizen received its final let!lpteany thie reporter wan at ter from him, in which he said he had sold his house andievidence of the findings as , . a imate wi was going eleewhere, ‘where he wouldn't be bedeviled | wea be ane A - by double taxation. ‘now operating several feet The Citizen, for 35 years, has daily published a list area where the boat's of “Improvements for Key West Advocated by The Citi- days ago zen.” The fourth one reads: leo of metal “Consolidation of County and City Governments.” snd clay. —_ Attainment of that objective would end the duplicate, According to H. taxation that owners of Key West property are now pay- I : & reer i : iz! Hie fen Hoe Wl4s aN iia IDE INI Ww ALRD o ” e = o years were stopped after it was de-' manger termined that whatever the size of Company, ‘the ship, it is now encased in coralied on @ Legion Post program of | tock and covered with layers of expanded mari, above which are additional and to jsand mud formations. It is not jknown exactly how deep in the 5 ive MORE! DIT IRIE TSA Mt AICHE MME IAT CNEL Ic MEP ERMEYIOD LUN, ESisiR EIS} Ate “Sti 5/0} (4i3e) af i 2 3 g = *) f ifs Parts and the ship itself is encas- sion ed in coral is an approximate in- pitalization. A request for dication of its age. ‘nating information has been for- Townsend stated that he has al- warded to the we ready accumulated some 10 pounds Administration Offices. of the ifon square spikes, He had know the immediate answer, several at his dragline. encased in know where to get it, right quick.” coral. He was of the opinion that Scheneman Stated. “The National aaa H $4 : 6 Morning abbr 1. Male child Crackle SSPE BEBRENE SAE Soper Pl the dredge. It is required in the local Legion Bost, is dedicated to event of any weather emergency community service,” he jet the dredge from the scene of great percentage of residents are operations veterans, service to the Legion! Chet Tingler’s bay bottom land Post member or non-member who! i r Ovean. neman Most of this area which leads ‘s/ties of Marathon Ocean Beach, on the At-fices, lantic Ocean, is filed land. Thus it Atlantic Ocean, to all ts possible that when the reported ing old ship was sunk, it may have berjack been several miles from the then thon Pe ' gee i i dg g% Hf r ; eitelets a j § S 28 Ske £66 Ake KRESS BUBB PE 5 5 i 4 FE. eH oe H ei ‘ eet z 2 i i i i i, Ei 5 uk F iH = | me sick, You know what you are Ou thuisder' s Shirts Chapter 9 YOU mean to say.” sid “that you knew he was | ou've been sitting without saying! about matters any | called @3 soon as I could.”| at him, shock and ting her features. kind of person are you, | * °" There was hate in her| the tears were sp:llin ¢ cheeks unheeded of he’s just another speci- you. 1 suppose if to you that he might have a real live human being and that he might have had friends! who care what happened to him Sure, 1 kpow you called” the morgue. Come on over There's a body here! Y —you're nothing but a cold legal- - At this point Dr. Fenton walked | in the room. up to se a slight, sandy -haired | man with thick glasses. “I'm afraid it is, Dr. Fenton.” Ellen was still crying. “Dr. Raf-! ferty here has already called the | it Worden to notify the brought me the note he left.” In his hands he hed the itten note Raff had seen on "s desk. Fenton looked at! the piece of paper and then at he all—I mean—how did he ” volunteered Raff. “It was administered by hypo.” watched Fenton closely as he gaye him the information. j Fenton shuddered “May the | Lord mercy on his soul,” he | ‘was a silence for « few minutes, and to Raff the other numb. said, “Td better fl 43 already interviewed. Ask him if has ever read that old poem a the one that goes “O dreamy eyes, “The: y tell swees lies of “And in those eyes the Crech’Farm Pay Up E t zt 3} Hi i { li; if gy = & ge gt t f i i & Ld racdise; 3B ay f t didn't) boys. |b ah aa was | lodged en CL hh db pte ded Dette eddie By Terry Adler She reached for the telephone | just committed suicide ts in a0 reluctantly. Rafl stopped her. jcondition to get up and tura out “TU tell Mrs. Bray, but | think | the lights. No, Miss Carter, it would be kit 9 tell her] One—someone very per: My car @ downstairs, | turned out those lights efter Brey and if you come with me we can | Wes dead. Of course, it could have go over there now.” heey the janiter, or anyone else She Jooked at him with euspl- ~~ immocently wandered into elon. “Why this suddes | Bray's room. But in that case or. Rees {his sudden desite to! Ly keep quit about it? When f ‘ Lh walked through the hail toward e pedi i vour office everyting was nice > wuiet. No commotion, nobody ound a dead body. That's why I did't say anything to you. > Bray's room this mor him there. You see, ¥ ore person who would have turned o i kept quiet about it t, of course.” ta » | think it's murder, Tt was ed up to look like suicide ut you don't suppose Pro- or Bray would have sat ng a|meekly by while someone mur- ouldn't he have put tL was the} tig; 9 discover the body,” ne| ul } tes P a strugal “My hunch is that someone Ned the |the svurderer—poked that needle nd turned|into Bray any place he could, probably in the back when Bray looking. And after Bray it was easy enough to over to t ook full into “T didn't kne very de phony suicide when car to b 1 this is just a hunch, widened. | You really can't ever know.” It almost a question e regarded her soberly. Sarter.” he said softly, j autopsy shows another rE mark somewhere on the know.” hts on. 1 w | A small sigh escaped her. judge that he had been dead for}. “!'m glad! Tt sounds erazy, but about nine of ten hours. That|!'m glad! He just wasn't the type means he died around midnight| to shirk responsibility The Bray last night. Do you see now why | heven't any money, and his li it's a phony set-up?” boy has been sick for over @ year, She shook ber head. “No, 1| He was fhe nicest, kindest persan don’t get the connection at all.” |T've ever known.” She buried her “You've probably never tried|face in her hands. Raff pulled to administer a hypodermic, But}Out a handkerchief from T can tell you that » man just | Pocket and gave it to her. can’t sit down in tote! darkness| It's funny, he # Tm su and poke @ needle into his vein, | posed to be out « live, a Certainly not as neatly as the one|here I am hoping that this ged in Bray's arm! And I can| teally murder! also tell you that a man who has (Te be continued? “PHONY!” Her eyes “Are you sure.” “T'm afraid so.” “But why? | mean know?” It's very When I w there were no Cart People’s Forum it, comsidered i ‘4 | ; ; ; ; 4 8 i ié if Hs : $28 : one , ow B-Girl inva \perty to build « \necessitating immediate removal/“In the Marathon ares. where ang tiesg—end lies—end lies!” | iH i i z fF TET i z $3 i s : = Hail for 3 i ! 1 E i ! i i z : [ li L$ 3 why out a building permit - right under t) build the eyes of City Building Inspector mj and = ei: z : Lets hear the building contrac: tors’ side of the story J, B, WOODWARD, - _ General Delivery Could it be that the fact it is Key West, Fla @lection year is the reason that the August 31, 1959. ¢ity’s contractors are kicking up a their heels. Neil Saunders, former INTER-ZONE TRAVEL president of the Key West Contrac BERLIN, #—The Russians say * | the rival East and West German “td covernments should get together calling for strict examination ©! oy the question of easing travel contractors which has never been restrictions between the two zones Dlaced in effect of divided Germany Since Saunders term as president, This was the substance of a note of the contractors’ group, the OF sent by Soviet High Commissioner ganization died a slow death Viadimir Semyenov to his British, Now it is being reorganized just French and Amercan counterparts in time to press for the passage of t wart made public Tuesday by a law preventing the average guy the Soviet « lieemed news agency from building on his own property, ADN Ever since they took count Semyenov's message replied to away from the Indians, the Ameri proposals from the three Westerq » alles suggesting ae end to the feet of pro- miterzonal pass system set up soe «long after World War lt for persons as he complies with zonn laws Gesiring to cross the border, and his construction is up to stand ~_ > < School's | can ted a fellow WE owned a iow « pleases dard, im the opinion of the building inspector Thousands of homes, built by factory workers and farmers, eve nings and weekends, dot the coun tryside. I have 2 friend in Key West, who lives in 2 home he built himself which is considerably more comfortable a { homes the contractors are selling these days, and cheaper As for the proposed restrictions on building eommerica! structures, or more than one home # yess-— mmatitution guarantees Sf) knovn as Free Eoterprise- cessful contractor: in the today got their start on a patl- tune basis.