The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 1, 1953, Page 1

THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER VOL. LXXIV Ne. 233 Ramsey Tells Jaycees Of Water Bond Proposal, Urges Voting Says 50 Per Cent Jump In Service ‘Will Pay For Line An expected 50 per cent increase in Monroe County water service connections would provide enough reve- Bue to finance a proposed 14 million dollar bond issue to finance a new pipeline, Ernest Ramsey, General Manager of the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commission told the Junior Chamber of Commerce in a talk at their regular meeting last night. Ramsey addressed that group and then conducted a 45-minute discussion of the pros and cons of the ques- tion County freeholders will decide at a referendum Oc-' tober 27. The bond issue will be the greatest ever floated in the county if it is approv- ed, There are approximately 5,000 freeholders in the inty. At least 61 per cent of to make the election valid. reve- PS ogg aw bar gross bw — the year ending August 31, was about $583,000 and that ‘one million dollars annually would be required to finance the bond issue and maintain the new line. ‘vote on the question. wwe it,” he stated. pretty good proposition.” tn commenting on a clause in dren remained the proposed (Continued On Page Two) ; | Six In One Fam Johns Arrives ily Get Polio Shots I a ik ll a ni Nah id MRS. CARL INGRAHAM, 16-C Porter Place, brought her en- tire family to Harris School this morning for the gamma gobulin shots which will prevent paralysis in the event of polio. Left to right, ranging Lionel, Iris, Charles, Carlo To Take Up em ‘must go to the polls Heavy Duties TALLAHASSEE w—Acting Gov.! Charley E. Johns arrived at the governor’s office in the Capitol ‘building here at 10:20 a.m. today) j to. assume the respcnsibilities he inherited as Senate president when “This means that we will have |Gov. Dan McCarty died Monday Johns, accompanied by Sen. Ed ee Fraser of Macclenny and Sen. morning by Cecil Webb, Powe and close yor ' : acting governor chairman imsey-urged all eligible to get/of the state game commission dur-| ing the Warren administration. are presenting the pro-| Johns spent ‘the night at his! gram and it is up to you to go to|Starke home after flying back from the polis and decide if you want|Fort Pierce, where he attended “I think it is alGov. McCarty’s funeral yesterday. Mrs. Johns and their two chil-! at Starke. Sen,! bond agreement |Fraser, serving as spokesman for personal friend (Continued On Page Two) Polio Shot Schedule For Friday And Monday Given The schedule for gamma globulin inoculations for tomorrow] morning.—Citizen Staff Photo. and Monday in Key West and on the Keys is as follows, local Polio Foundation Leaders Jeff Knight, Jr, chairman, and Paul Sher, vice-chairman, announced today: Civilian children living in the areas of these schools should be taken there by their parents or authorized guardians, Children living on Stock Island should go to Poinciana School. All Navy children and expectant mothers are being inoculated’ at the Naval Hospital. from three years to 10, are: Allen, and Linda—Citizen Staff Photo, Weighing In For GG Shot Here of FOUR-YEAR-OLD Gay Ciesin- ski, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Ciesinski, is checked for weight before her gamma gobu- lin shot at Harris School this Boca Chica Jet Lt. Tom Ward, FAWTU- Pregnant civilian women should go to the Monroe County] LANT, made an emergency Clinic. FRIDAY SCHEDULE— Poinciana School: A through G, 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. G through Z, 1 p.m. to § p.m. Key West High School: Girls from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon. Boys from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Convent of Mary Immaculate At the Convent, 8:30 a.m. and St. Joseph's School: to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. County Health Clinic, Fleming Street: Expectant mothers, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. MONDAY SCHEDULE— Marathon, Sue M. Moore School: All children from the. Lower Keys and Marathon, white Ses 4 and colored, 8 a.m. through 12 noon. Same birth through 14 years age group as in Key West. Tavernier, Florida Keys Clinic: All children from the Upper Keys area, 2 through 5 p.m. Dr. Harvey W. Cohn, director of the Clinic, will admniister| the inoculations on the Keys, assisted by staff members of the/Rev. Edward J. Hunkeler, arch-) Monroe County Health Clinic: Mrs. A. J. Sawyer, R.N.; Mrs. R. J./ Dalton, Clinic clerk, private secretary to Dr. Dalton; Mrs. L. A. Darling, clerk. OPENING TODAY! Vitgil's Barber Shop & Shoe Shine Parlor ” AIR CONDITIONED 60842 Duval St... next to Paul J. Sher We're giving away a Bicycle to the lucky customer who holds the Winning Ticket! customer . . . Choice of boy’s or girl’s English Bike . . . Winner must be present at the .... DRAWING — DEC. 24 - 8:30 P.M. Ticket to each landing in a T-33 jet trainer plane on the Marathon land- ing strip yesterday at 2:45 p.m., it was reported by on- looker Jesse Slone, who was on the spot. A crew from Boca Chica was sent up for the plane, which made the forced land- ing. The flier was unhurt, ac- cording to Slone, who called in the news to The Citizen minutes after the spectacular landing took place. Leaves Convent bishop of the Kansas Diocese, says proper manner,” but that he had temporary leave. In Los Angeles, the blonde, for- }mer $3,500-a-week actress said she left the Xavier, Kan., convent be- “J want to return as soon as I am P able.” KNOTTY PINE or | CYPRESS PANELS | Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near Bank seeecerececemenn Open Tomorrow an nolds, Harris and Douglass Sc Lands In Marathon) rare ane Peaslass Schools KANSAS CITY w—The Most) June Haver left the Sisters of Charity convent in a “candid and) never heard of a novitiate taking peause of ill health Tuesday, but) KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER I, 1953 Saturday Will Be “Tag Day” The American Legion Auxi iliary Arthur Sawyer Unit No. 28 are sponsoring 2 “Tag Day” en Saturday, Oct. 3, 1953 for the benefit of War Veterans. These ladies are asking the public to please “Wear 2 Tag” and by so doing aid the wars’ victims by their contribution Here To Aid Tornado Victim Wheelchair Is Ordered For Mrs. Russell Naval Station employees have raised a total of $453 to purchase a mechanized wheel chair for a fel- low worker who was seriously in- jured in a disastrous tornado which struck Waco, Texas May 10. Spearheaded by the Naval Sta- tion’s Welfare and Recreation Committee, the drive netted that amount during a “Marge Russell Day.” to aid Mrs. Russell, wife of Key West based archeologist S. Robert Russell, who was in Mexico on an expedition at the time. The drive was arranged as soon as Commander W. H. Clark, head of the Supply and. Fiscal Depart- ment heard of her plight. Pictures of Mrs. Russell were Posted throughout the Naval Sta- tion along with, collection bottles. “I complained that I had no shoes —until I saw a man with no feet.” According to letters received by ‘a friend Mrs. Johhny Mack, of the Naval Station Public Works De- partment, Mrs. Russell’s letters jabound with cheerfulness despite ‘siege of surgery. She has had bone sections removed from her ribs and hips and transplanted to the area where three vertabrae were crushed in her back when alfor Fort Pierce from the moment] building disintegrated and crush-|the funeral train arrived from| Tallahassee at 7 a.m. until grave- side services were ended. (Continuea On Page Two) Schools Will Be Regular school hours will be ob- served tomorrow at Truman, Rey- Edith Roberts, elementary school supervisor. The schools have been closed program. She said that any Navy children, who will be immunized at the Nav- al Hospital tomorrow can attend school in the morning or afternoon, ito the hospital. Committal Services arrived, it was obvious only a THE U.S.A. Huge Turnout Of Children Here For Gamma Globulin Inoculations “Jt Didn’t Hurt” KAREN BALDWIN, aged four, looks happy as a bird while be- ing injected with six cc’s of gamma globulin this morning at Harris School. Karen’s dose was based on her weight of 41 pounds. She was one of hundreds of children inoculated this |jcer of the Naval Hospital, said morning as the two-day pr Staff Photo. ‘oject began in Key West.—Citizen Clock-Like Efficiency Marks First Morning’s Work By SUSAN McAVOY Key Westers, civilian, Navy, medical and laymen showed the magnificent stuff they are made of in the all- out community inoculation project started at 8:30 this morning. When the doors opened at Truman, Harris and Douglass schools, mothers, fathers, and their children from new-borns through 14 years were there to have their youngsters inoculated with the paralysis-prevent- ing gamma globulin. 1,000 Navy By 9:30 a.m, Truman had inocu GG Shots lated 45 in the first 45 minutes; Harris had inoculated 106 in the same time and Douglass School, 80. Expectant mothers streamed into the County clinic for their shots with 23 inoculated by 10:30, A total of 7,200 shots will be given lin the next days. Truman auditorium was _ filled Schedule For fee parents and their chilren. In . smoothest running operati Tomorrow Is this reporter has seen, velasieare Given Below registered, weighed, and held the children as they were placed on The Navy inoculated 964 de-|the tables. pendents, of whom 116 were ex- pectant mothers, from 9 a.m, to’ 11:30 o’clock this morning, Capt. 'R. S. Simpson, commanding offi- ‘at noon. The gamma globulin project ‘went smoothly at the hospital) with doctors, corpsmen and nurs- McCarty Is Buried In Family peng et ea So Plot Beside The Indian River row children from birth through to remind people of the quotation:} FORT PIERCE w—Gov. Dan stood bowed with old time neigh- bors and friends of the young gov- the fact that she is facing 2 longlernor in a sprinkling of rain as) his body was committed with brief | Episcopal and Masonic services) yesterday. It was a day of full mourn All business establishments cept restaurants and filling sta- tions were closed. There was a)” Sunday hush over the city as hun- dreds went to the little St. drews Episcopal Church to view the body as it lay im state. An- ed by Lt, Clem Pearson, command-' ing officer of the Key West Coast Guard Base. An SOS was received via a Cuban message in Havana and relayed it to the Coast Guard here. Within |10 minutes, a Navy plane, piloted jing} \by Airman First Class Seward G. McGinnis, was in the air to con- duct a search. In another 10 minutes, he had, s cu tne vessel, the 98 foot; eo-go ship “Julita,” sinking very fast. .ae 83 foot Coast Guard rescue) boat was immediately dispatched ex-) When the hour for the funeral|to the scene and pumped enough, because of the polio inoculation|others seated in the parish house! land to even more standing in the Havana when the main engine; churchyard and on streets nearby.|failed to function and the bilge A heavy rain started falling most at the instant the Rt. Rev.|sel is at the City Docks awaiting Henry I. Louttit, bishop for the depending on the time of their visit/South Florida Diocese, opened the (Continued On Page Two) few Water from the stricken ship to) lof the assembled mourners could “!low it to be safely towed back to crowd into the little church’s 130 ts. A loudspeaker system car- i a Ned words of gis service to 250\crew of six, with a general cargo} Key West. Captain Fermin Grinesto and his aboard, were bound from Miami to al-|pumps would not operate. The ves- repairs. : Lt. Pearson had a word of praise (Continued On Page Two) FT. PIERCE, Fia.—Final rites for Gov. Dan T. McCarty were conducted here Wednesday in the family plot by The Rev. J. Saxton Wolfe, pastor of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. The fam- ily sits under the canopy as light rain fell during the ceremony—4#) Wirephoto. Those with family names A to L were injected today. Tomor- 14 and expectant. mothers, with Bus schedules for dependents to and from their housing areas’ were once more announced for tomorrow’s trips to the Naval Hos- radio operator who picked up the}pital by Dr. Simpson. All busses have been made available free of charge as a pub- lic service to expedite the polio Prevention program in Key West. Busses will proceed on a con- tinuous shuttle service commenc-| ing at 8:30 a.m. Service will continue through- out the day until all passengers; have been returned to their homes. Personnel are advised to) board a bus in sufficient time to insure prompt arrival for their] scheduled inoculation time. The following is the routes for! the busses: Route 1, Sigsbee Park to Hos-| pital. Approximately 30 minutes, round trip. Pick-up station: Sigs- (Continued on Page Two) i f i ‘WICKERS FOOTBALL TOMORROW NIGHT (an “at Paul Sher’s Navy doctors administered the shots at all three schools. Calm- ly and tenderly they punched the little fannies of the youngsters a8 they were held on the tables, The boys were brave soldiers. Little girls, some of them, cried for their mothers who were right there with them, but bounced back te normalcy as candy was Lebsgen ig to them on their way it. The whole “Project Polio” was an unexampled demenstration of inning with M Ft. Pierce Has d ; ie BAGin te njectea we An a oast The hourly bie 844 ee * avy lations for to: is as fol- lourning F , lows: Native Som ’ Guard Team Up FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1 LCOLM B. JOHNSON — Lise Knight, Jr., and Paul Sher, By MAI 0 ect hescue M _———— 9:00 A.M. local polo chapter leaders and Dr. The Navy and the Coast Guard ant ret |. jJ, Lancelot Lester, Jr., medical McCarty’s body lies amid banks teamed. up: yesterday: afternom to PandQ 10:30 |chairmen who has worked ‘caetee lof flowers in the old family ceme- ’ R 11:15 ___{lessly on “Project Polio” beamed tery om the shores of Indian River)save a sinking Cuban cargo ship Ca 1:00 P.M.|with satisfaction at the large turr south of here today. — four miles south of American) Tad... out of children and the pporitt Nearly all state political leaders Shoals light, it has been announc- V, W, X.¥, Z—. 3:00 execution of the careful plans, Dr. Lester took his own son this afternoon for inoculation at Joseph's school. His baby daughter is being inoculated when she returns from Miami with her mother tomorrow. County Commissioner Joe Allen took his three children in this morning for their inoculations, Key Westers, white, black, Prominent and plain citizens, showed their faith in the al profession by reporting for the shots in the expected numbers. Dr. Lester commended particu- larly the principals of Truman, ‘Harris and Douglass schools, who he said had organized their volun- teer help so well that the inocu- lations ran like clock work today. He and the Polio Chapter leaders were especi tive of the help U.S. Navy. All doctors giving shets this morning at the three 8:00 PM. St. Theresa’s MIAMI KEY WEST High School Advance Ticket Sale STADIUM m+