The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1953, Page 1

THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE USA KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1953 County Commissioners Accept Gift Of Land On Stock Island _ For Juvenile Detention Home BPW Sets Town Meeting Erecting Building —|'To Hear Candidates Juvenile Council Begins Long-Range ‘ Planning For Monroe County finally Monroe County Commission- ers voted to accept a 200-by- 200 foot plot of land from the city on which to build the home. The land is adja- cent tothe home for the aged on Stock Island. Juvenile Court Judge Eva War- informed of the ill hee BSe8 Fe H ilk step ‘At the present time, ghildren are detained in the jail, Two boys, 12 and 14 day, They were picked up by police last Sunday. § telephoned the sending joney tion ba: Sheriff Asks Funds For Dept. Radio System Commissioners for $4,155.99 to buy’ equipment to complete the two-jpeace and the safety of alliprove way radio system of the sheriff’s| ~ 2 it He Fhe a2¢ a3 q F i z i | 1 | —RENT— Power Lawn Mowers Poinciana Service Station 29th Street and Duck Avenue TELEPHONE 2-6368 Pe old, who; hitched rides here from New York) City still were inf county jail to-: New Directors Sight new members today were named te the Key West Britain Rushes jish Guiana against * trigues.” most dispatch in order to preserve! classes.” The statement broke a five-day} official silence on events in British Sir reportedly is considering’ jthe dismissal of some of his left- | wing ministers, A Colonial Office spokesman told ‘movement in British Guiana is run’ ‘by the U.S.-born wife of: Prime} Minister Cheddi Jagan, the former (Continued On Page Eight) Raise In Ad Budget Asked mittee, pointed out that get was already set for and that nothing about increasing the this xx Speak Questionaires FBI Reveals i Ransom Of _ Sent To City $600,000 Was Candidates for election to the Paid Sunday Portunity to speak up on questions tified the wealthy parents of Bobby vital.to the future of Key West at/Greenlease at 10 a.m. (CST) today a “Town Meeting” program onjthat the 6-year-old boy is dead. Thursday, October 15 at the Key| Robert Ledterman of Tulsa, a West High spokesman for the family, said: School. 'We have just had a report from The program, sponsored by the/the FBI that the body was found Key West Business and Profes- pean hrs ae © sional Women’s Club, will be mod- ‘ashington, rector J. levated by Jack Clarke, Edgar Hoover said that Carl" Aus- Questionaires have been sent te each candidate for election and they will be allowed ten minutes each te discuss 16 ques- tions. Their tatks will be limit- of the child was Jo- ated in a shallow grave in St. Hoover said. The announce- ment said that the greater portion \of $600,000 ransom peid by Bobby’s parents for his return has been recovered. been made. A woman in custody is Mrs. The candidates have until Tues-/Bonnie Brown Heady, 41. Hoover said: these two, arrested it. Louis Police, implicated John Marsh, 37, a convict as released frum the Mis- State Prison Oct. 2, 1951, a two-year term which he iH tL rted serving on June 29, 1950, of molesting a minor a five-year sentence for. rted pred . Joseph. not immediately circumstances indicated that the child was dead when the money was collected. Bobby was taken away from his do}school 10 days ago by a woman elect-|who represented berself as a mes- senger from his mother. She told t you plan to finance|the school that Bobby’s mother improvements? was ill. include provid-| The FBI said it has been defi- Norbert O'Neil, one of the spokes- men for the Greenlease family, said a dentist was being sent to St. Joseph to check the body of the boy found thcre. .| “It is my understanding that positive identification has not been Key Murder in Missouri is punish- able by a maximum penalty of! death in the gas chamber. Desk Sergeant Howard of the \Newstead police district in St. said Hall had admitted “killing the boy with a gun.” Po- lice were not able to say immed- when the child was 12, If elected, will you the perience did you $300,- people of Key West for considera-iq99 ransom money in his posses-| ee when he was arrested last ee? child’s multi - millionaire parents had paid $600,000 in ransom last’ ‘Sunday. Hall told police te had known .|of a freeholder by applying at xe xe * Sewer Tests Conducted 4 MAYOR C, B. HARVEY and City Commissioner Louis. M. J, fobt of the malter“as thep-descend>into a ditch at n¢.14th Street to-nfiake a personal {inspection of _ Mer, get. to the * Flaglér’ ar wer line there. F =e ‘For Re-Election Obtain Reversal Of Local Promotion Policy xx xxek Body Of Kidnaped Boy Found Today x*wa xxr Charges Of School System Politics And Discrimination Tossed At Meet By JIM COBB The Monroe County School Board executed an about face in their policy of requiring children who have com- pleted first grade work in private schools to repeat the work when they transfer to the public school system af- ter a spirited protest from more than 25 parents at their meeting last night. The action was taken after a heated one-hour de- bate which nearly erupted into violence at one point, Tempers flared as charges of EE cs > sete eer, a crimination against children and Harvey Qualifies |ssimosiy directed by school ot ficials at the city’s private schools were hurled at the meeting which at one point saw an irate spec- fisticuffs, of Public tn- struction Herace O’Bryant was singled eut for censure by at least one person present for his handling of the problem. After a petition bearing about 30 signatures of parents has been presented and the question aired 'in a knock-down, drag out debate, board member William Warren tator threaten Bis. ‘They observed the first series of tests being ‘condueted by the city’s consulting engineers on a % mile stretch of sewer pipe. Test data has not been compiled but preliminary reports have Photo, g ESS Sistrunk Accepts Dade County Job Deputy Sheriff E. E&. Sis- trunk has resigned to take a job as investigator In Dade Coun- Sheriff John M. Spottswood Presented the resignation last night to the meeting of Monroe County Commissioners who ac- cepted Potential Voters Can Change Status, As Registrants Sam B. Pinder, supervisor of registration, today reminded po-| tential voters that it is possible, to change their status as regis- trants. | He said that a person who buys) property after registering can) have his status changed to that Pinder's office. Only freeholders) are eligible to yote in the Oct, 27 election on the $14,000,000 bond) issue to add a second water pipe-| line from the mainland to Key) 27, 1953, one week/the Greenlease family for several (Continued On Page Eight) West. Ba; The deadline for registering or changing registration status is 5) P-m., Oct. 22. Stock Island Road airs Planned ‘The road on Stock Island leading to the dog track and the movie iter will be repaired, following | last night by the i Comrhissioner Clarence S. Higgs| jpermanent mosquito control: been satisfactory.—Citizen Staff State Funds For Mosquito Control Sent County’s First Quarterly Grant Is Sent To Local Control Board | The first state funds for were received here today. Neil Saunders, chairman of the board of commissioners of the Monroe County mesquite con- trol district, said the funds can only be used for permanent con- trol—ditching, draining, filling, tidal fiushing and other perman- ent measures. The check for $4,642.14 is the county’s first quarterly disbursé- ment in the state’s $3,000,090 per- manent control program. Under} the new law the state grants 75 rseee of the locally budgeted funds. This district's budget Yor these funds has been okayed by John A. Mulrennan, director of the bureau} of entomology of the Florida state board of health. The first step will be a detail- moved that children who have ‘completed the first grade in private schools be tested and if i i 2 ; arte Te iat ent at the meeting quickly yoted unanimously in favor of the move, The controversy arose as the il iF 3 F3 H $s A ing that the ruling be rescinded. its claimed that if the 01 Registrants are capable, they should Removed From be allowed to advance and that age City Voting List is not a falr criterion for pro- A ruling by the State Attorney|motion. They hailed the regula- General that persons living on cer-|tion as an “arbitrary, ruling.” tain -government reservations in|They said they are not trying to Key West cannot vote, apparently/“push” their children but only was enforced before most local Na-| wanted them in their proper group. vy men and their dependents had| Superintendent O’Bryant said qualified to vote, that the regulation was in effect Only 101 names have been re-|for the benefit of the school sys- moved from ” hueend cording to Su eine rolls 2C'| Mrs, Edith Roberts, supervisor tions Victor Lowe, The figure is\°f ¢lementary education, main- considerably lower than had been|tained that children who have at- estimated at the time the ruling (Continued On Page Eight) was made public, Lowe emphasiz-| Ba Aca eet ed that there may be further cuts 1 ae nt ral a os vee Overdue Bill Is Progresses, Largest number of voters tost is Presented Lo Fa shat tow eat es County Bo were the lists. Ce ee el a ty ard iii tea he Sac le rae er, ren 16; Peary Courtisy Secptane ‘pase|ing the Key West Llons Club, last ary Court,15; Seaplane 15 and -ne voter at the Naval Sta-/Bight oe pepe prof 'is owing on X-ray equipment at the ed survey of mesquite breeding (Continued On Page Eight) Porter To Speak On Water Issue Attorney J. Y. Porter, address the Upper Keys ‘of Commerce at Tavenier, on Mon- day at 8 p. m., it has been an-; nounced. Porter wil. discuss the details night. Com: moved (eer reea mernoe romnenN BEFORE AIR CONDITIONING INSULATE WELL! GET IT AT Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near City Hatt