The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 2, 1953, Page 1

Circus To Aid War Orphans High School To Stage 5-Ring Affair On Wed. Key West High School students will stage a three ring cireus next Wednesday night to stimulate public in- terest in the visit here of Maria Carmela La Vecchia, 10-year old war orphan adopted by the crew of the USS Davis, Key West based destroyer escort. The circus Navy’s| & é g 5 i & Hl g »F i i i i Se z 3 i i$ | i : E ? Hi ite 2= i i i i i i i i t 3 3 ‘The Green Street Naval Station will-be open ‘National Polio ; Foundation Men / Are Guests Guests at Rotary Club's luncheon| Ten) I First Birthday, October 3rd COME OUT AND HE! CELEBRATE os Che Key West Citis THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A VOL. LXXIV Ne. 234 Doctor Takes Same Precautions 4. LANCELOT LESTER, 3rd, leaves the gamma. globulin ‘injection table, at Harris School, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, F sey ni in 8 with his father, Dr. J. L. Lester, Jr. Gingerly rubbing where it hurt young Lance grinned and said, “And I had to smile.”—Citizen Photo, Finch, Good Living In Key West Shown By Spending Of $7,086,000 For Food Survey Shows - Local Average RIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1953 PRICE FIVE CENTS GG Injections Given To 6,091 Children, Mothers By Noon Today Total Over 8,000 Expected Before Completion On Keys By SUSAN McAVOY As doctors, nurses and volunteer workers completed Guards In See Two Are Killed By Indian ond Outbreak the gigantic task of inoculating children and expectant mothers in Key West with gamma globulin, the 33rd case was reported to Dr. R. J. Dalton, County Health officer. The victim, a 25-year-old Navy; wife was diagnosed for the disease at the Naval hospital yesterday. She has the non-paralytic type form. She was not an expectant mother, and not immunized with} gamma globulin. Dr. Dalton stressed {hat the gamma globulin like any other im- munization is not effective as such for seven to 10 days after inocula-| the present city Jaycees Endorse City Manager Plan Of Restive War Prisoners By GEORGE MCARTHUR jlence—the first time blood has | PANMUNJOM ®—Indian guards been shed since the Indians took armed with guns and clubs today|custody—total three dead and 16 killed two Chinese prisoners and Wounded, the Indian command an- wounded five others in the second nounced. mass breakout attempt in two ° An Indian spokesman said order |days by restive anti-Communist had been restored at the com- war prisoners. \Pounds five miles southwest of Pan- The Indians yesterday quelled'munjom in the demilitarized zone, with guns a riot of North Koreans|The outbreak last only a few min- tion. It then prevents the paralytic form of polio for from four to six weeks said. By neon today medical teams had inoculated a total of 6,091 children and expectant mothers at the three schools yesterday and at Key West High school, Peinciana and the Convent of Mary Immaculate this morning, and at the Naval hospital and Gounty Clinic. ville this morning 15,000 addi- tional cc's of gamma globulin for increased estimates over &00) of the numbers of children and mothers to be injected. Tke medical crew at Douglass ‘cdaal continued inoculations untill O’einck last night. Any additional] ¢ nm were taken at the Health Clinic this morn-' + | Pops National * “ies og son terday, Only 5,747 of an expected 8,000 automobile owners had their cars ‘inspected at the Number Two Fire ists who are given summons by the police department for not having’ the stickers, will be charged an additional two dollars. Formerly, it was possible to tran- City Hall to announced, and Qe ———— the fee, it has been Caro imposed light fines for of- roars plas ecarmcted .|terday. W. R, is would-| Richard Dalton Boldenweck was nt be surpeized if the prereate ont itined $25 Yor having no driver's li- tern caused a tropical storm to|°ense and improper lights. develop in the Caribbean Louis Henry Gleifoist was fined Edward Hanscom was amount on the Seaboard states. “This adds up to storm possibiil-| Tom Emerson Buckler was fined ties even though Ro area of sus-|$250 for reckless driving. Picion exists at the moment,” said) Giles Raymond Austin was fined Davis. “We probabiy will ask 4/$15 for hurricane hunter plane to scout|” Joe Neal Lee was fined $10 for the area, tomorrow to see what’s| speeding. pressure system covers Atlantic] Mary Jane Crane was fined $10 for drunkenness. —eiceee Admission . . $1.00]) STRUNK LUMBER 120 Simonton, near Weather Bureau ¥; 4 (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, (PRNS) — Food is big business in Key West. In point of sales vol- ume, local retail stores sell- ing food are attracting a big- ger chunk of the household dollar than any other retail group. Further back in the quest for the doliar are stores selling auto- motive equipment and supplies, which includes farm machinery land bicycles as well as cars and boats, the furniture - household -! radio stores, general merchandise establishments, including depart- ment stores, and ig stores. The lowdown on how the dollar] jis spread, and for what, is given jin Sales Management's recent copy righted survey. Expenditures for food in Key West during the past y reach- ed the formidable figure of $7,- 086,000, which marked 2 rise over the at the County Health Clinié¢; Four] yesterday at the clinic and the specially trained polio nurses worked at the clinic with three in the field. The Navy will continue to in- culate any late-comers tomer: row at Ward A at Naval Hospital from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., it was announced by Capt. R. S$. Simp son, commanding officer of the hospital. Navy doctors and corpsmen, supervised by Comdr. F. A. Butler, M.D., had finished @ total of 3204 inoculations by Neon today. No bus service will be provided tomorrow, Capt. Simpson said. q Meanwhile, inoculations at Poin- ciana and Key West High Sehool| and the Convent went smoothly] with the same hard working teams, Performing the task today as yes- terday, Blue skirted, white shirted girls went into the auditorium at the Convent with their parents, and little boys from St. Joseph’s! School also came in this morning. one in the field. Today two of| egand ee registered and weigh- It represented food buying per ckstage in the auditorium, family of $935, a figure ee then taken on to the curtained| by dividing the total outlay by |Stage where the Navy doctor and the number of families. This was |Dr. Edward Gonzalez — injected ® spending pattern that spelled |them, assisted by the nurses and good living. volunteer holders. By way of comparison, the aver-| Monday the medical crews will age amount spent for food through-| (Continued On Page Ten) i the brenden a whole during year was $879 per family, ‘The families in the South Atlantic ens Distens States spent an.average of $770. Stev jon, 2 Among the leading reasons giv- e en for the relatively large outlays] § for food are the increase in the birth rate, with twice as many sec- ond babies as there were in 1940, the increase in longevity, the rise} ‘in prices and an increase in earn- (Continued On Page Ten) WASHINGTON. non-aggression p listening as the P Picture-making pel Dedication Of Plaque Delayed The dedication of a plaque to the memory of the late Augustin Paria, who made the first airplane flight from Key West to Cuba in 1914 has been postponed, accord- ing to City Commissioner Louis M. Eisner. ee a San Carlos Institute is cooperating with Cuban officials to arrange ithe proceedings. manager of government in Key West at their regular meeting Wednes- The move was made after a discussion of the respective merits of that system and the form of government. The city’s voters will decide the jue at the polls in Novem- ber. One of the chief points of contention among the Jaycees was the question of whether the city manager form means. the present type of govern- ment or that which was writ- ten into the city charter in the - legislature mayor-council- manic form of government. Five Die, Four Escape In Two Plane Crashes COLUMBUS, Ga. #—Five Air Force men were killed and four; others, along with a, hitchhiking sailor, escaped in separate crashes ‘of a twin engine B25 and a Pll trainer last night. The B25, based across the Poto- mac River from Washington at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., ‘was returning from Eglin AFB, Fla., in a heavy fog when it! ‘crashed into the top of Pine Moun- tain, about 35 miles north of here. All five crewmen were killed, but’ \Richard K, Schmidt, 19, of Rum- json, N. J., a sailor stationed at the Whiting Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Milton, Fla., escaped with a possible hip fracture and lacer-| ations. Andrews Air Force Base identi- fied three of the dead as Capt. \Stephen A. Clisham of ton, D. C., airman 3. C. R. son of Washington, Pa., who stationed at Eglin; and airman (Continued “om Page <6) w u lwho refuse to return home, killing one and wounding five, Casualties in two days of vio- Johns Holds First Cabinet Meeting Today TALLAHASSEE (#—Acting Gov. Charley E. Johns at bis first Cabi- inet meeting today approved con- tracts with architects for planning three new construction projects— including the big South Florida mental ee 3 ‘The architectural firms had been, selected by the Cabiret before Gov. ‘Uggere. ‘dled and today’s a¢- formal’ approval of actual contracts. “I certainly don’t want to dis- iturb anything you gentlemen have already done,” Johns said. “I’m going to be a little green, land maybe a little confused,” he; commented at ‘he outset, but seemed to have little trouble call- jing the order of business for the long series of separate boards which are made up of the con- stitutional officers generally known. as the Cabinet. The contract for designing the five million dollar South Florida mental hospital near Fort Lauder- dale was awarded to the firms of Gamble, Pownall and Gilroy -and lwin T. Reeder, Associates. The acting governor showed a keen interest in expending facilities of the Florida farm colony for mentally deficient children at Gainesville. Told planning was just getting started on the 1% million dollar construction program authorized for the institution, Johns said: “It needs to be pushed.” He joined the Cabinet in approv- ing a contract with Reynolds, Smith and Hills of Jacksonville for designing a new infirmary, rehabil- itation of existing steam and hot! water systems and installation of a inew boiler at the farm colony, The Cabinet aiso approved a contract with H. J. Klutho of Jack- sonville for designing a warehouse for plumbing and electrical sup- ® I braid male employes dormitory 4 commissary ware- Stevenson (right), who stressed his proposal for an East-West mutual Europe during a talk with President Eisenhower Thursday, does some nt makes a remark to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during the d which followed the White House office conversation between the rivals ptial campaign. Democrat Stevenson gave the President a report on his IBY) Wirephoto. utes, In other developments: i 1, The U. N. Command formally Protested that the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission favored the Communists in drawing up rules of procedure for explanations ‘to prisoners by agents from their homelands. 2. The repatriation commission paved the way for the twice de. layed interviews to begin—possibly by Monday, one Indian source said — by seleeting sites for re- ‘building explanations centers. Both the U. N. Command the Commu- nists had protested the original fa- cilities. 3. Five North Koreans who tol@ the commission they had changed their minds and wanted to return ‘to Communism were handed over to the Reds, More than 100 of the’ 22,600 aoe Eews have re- An Indian spokesman said Fri- day’s riot was touched off when five hospitalized POWs demanded that another prisoner, taken to the hospital after attempting suicide, be returned to the compound, ‘The Indians, refused. The five prisoners rushed out of. the hos- pital and shouted to a compound housing 500 men. The others took up the chant for the return of the prisoner and began scaling the barbed wire fences. The spokesman said the guards ris erage warned the prisoners to ait. “We tried persuasion and they would not listen,” he said. “The the “First we fired one shot In the air as a warning. That had no fect so the guards fired six m shots. A total of only seven was fired.” An Indian spokesman said dian troops fired on the dem (Continued On Page Ten) Motel Men Will Hear Ramsey Mon. h- jon- 110, 2x8, 2x6 Floor- ing, and Building Materials of .the ARONOVITZ BUILDING q ON DUVAL STREET q