The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 20, 1953, Page 1

For Leaving Ditches Open Too Long|o, Lang Named City Manager At Meeting Of Commissioners The contractors for the Key West sewer project face a possible shutdown unless they speed up the filling-in of excavations, the City Com- mission warned last night. Commissioner Jack De-! laney brought up the matter when he said that he “was, concerned because excava- tions are remaining “ open” for three to four weeks.” He cited the situation as “dangerous” and said that he had received scores of complaints because of stand- ing water and safety haz- ards. He added that he has talked to the contractors but they have taken no action. He moved that the commission instruct the contractors to put the) streets back in shape or discon-| tinue the 3 ” “7m at the end of my patience, g presented Truman School with accident concerning the school, by, the flag will be lowered at hours. «Mrs. Raymond Felton, ; or Lang named per- saat Cty Manager BY the four ssi ser é pag » Delio Cobo was absent Lang assumed the office on a temporary basis upon the resigna- tion of Dave King early in the summer, He is an engineer and the former owner of the Southern Here In Conch Albert Lopez Tells Voters His Platform | treet program are hiring) oe of Miami rather than Heed out that it has been’ the policy in the past to insist that (Continued On Page Two) Keys To City Fly Thick And ‘regards to his candidacy: why is he runnin, fice. help support myself and my family. Therefore the nickname “Shine”| Fast At Meet has remained as close to me as In the words of Mayor ra B. ny shadow, although to me it is no J aphlavticlag Pica °° disgrace, and I’ve been called that + cole that comment at last all my life and I have for the night’s city commission meeting past eleven years been operating after he had handed out two keys’, retail Grocery and Market by to the city and the nner tbe business name of “Jane and moved to make a Havana rai Gilg ae Deitha St: commentator “honorary represen- tative” key West in the Cuban} “Now with reference to my quali- fications in employments and ex- eapital. After that, See periences it was somewhat diversi- more candida‘ honor, | but a siim audience at the meeting takers, honored was Ji the Key Outpost, organ, who is being transferred. Burke was cited Comm John with the U.S. Army Post Engineers the Boca Chica Air Base as as- sistant fire chief. Shortly after-’ | fied. | “I was a barber by trade for fack|22 years. and was general labor Il, then at the outbreak of World | report: sota - Bradentown Air Base, and then in returning to Key West I 5 per next on the list for a Key tol coed the Fire Equipment Shop Rg ihe then voted to!i? full charge for the U.S. Navylone to get behind this charity)a man who toils for his wages, jat the Naval Air Station Sea Plane: |Base. | “Now with reference to my plat- form, I can sincerely convey to one and all, that if elected by the ignate Rafael del Vizo, better yn as “Siboney,” as honorary) > West representative in Hav- boney was lauded for the work) as done as an announcer and mmentator over Havana station CMQ for the City of Key West. Antique Hardware { | 1 will, with the help of our Suprem Being, strive to the best of ability to remedy or “at least! alleviate numerous existing unfa orable conditions in our fair ci Long May She Wave MONROE COUNTY Parent-Teachers Asociation this morning green circle around a green cross on a white field is to be flown immediately beneath the National Emblem. The only exception to this procedure is that if at any time there is an Miami High Band To Perform: E School band has accepted an in- IN’ “Shine” Lopez vitation to participate in the sec- candidate for commissioner today ond annual Lions Club sponsored made the following statement in Conch Bowl football festival, it was {announced Monday by Louis Car- | “Many citizens have been inquir- honel!, chairman of the event. The jing as to who is Albert Frank game will pit the Pensacola Navy Lopez; what is his platform and ang Camp Lejeune Marine elevens| ig for public of here Dec, 4. “Since early childhood I Mivelband the organization boasts of been known as “Shine” due to thea 98 piece marching unit as well) fact that I shined shoes in order to/#8 More than a score of entertain- good will of my fellow citizens, 1 Ts Postponed THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, Commission Warns Sewer ContractorsSailor Charged In Beating Father Of 2 Nabbed In Connection With Beating Of Fine On October 10 Phillip Mercer, 27, a cook aboard the USS Petrel, ASR 14, today; was charged with assault and bat- tery in connection with Oct. 10) beating of Silven Fine, 800 Caro- line St. After investigation, the sheriff's department arrested Mercer last! night at his home, 92 Truman! Ave. Mercer is married and has; two children, Mercer was released on $250) bond furnished by the Navy pend-| ing a hearing today before Justice of the Peace Ira Albury. According te sheriff's investi- gators, seven witnesses placed Mercer at the scene of the Fine assault which took place at 12:05 P.m., Oct. 10, on Caroline Street near William Street. Fine works king abouts later that Saturday, it was found that.he went to Fort Myers! to visit his family. Sheriff Flan- ders Thompson, of Lee County, verified that fact for Sheriff John Spottswood of Monroe County. Meanwhile, the sheriff's de- partment continued an investi- gation of the Fisher case. Rey Fisher, 35, died Oct. 15 of a brain injury. He had been found un- conscious early in the morning of Oct. 10 at Caroline and Wil- liam Streets. Mercer apparently had no con- a Safety Flag. This banner, a either on the grounds or close once and remain down for 24 left, made the presentation on behalf of the PTA, and Mrs.’ E. L. Fisher, Safety Patrol Di- rector of the school,. accepted the flag—Citizen Photo, Finch. . Mendoza Tells What May Happen| If He Is Elected Halftime Show At ATTENTION Conch Voters! Charity Classic Please do NOT vote for yours " truly, C. Gonzales Mendoza, ye The 138 member Miami High/olde singing mailman, FOR CRY- OUT LOUD, do you cealize' |what might happen if you elected |Mendoza to public office? Perish jthe thought! Mendoza as a public |servant would be just that! People |frown on such unorthodox behav- ior, It isn’t the machiavellian thing) to do. To have a quixotic being in office is tantamount to civic pro- gress, such a blockhead would act-' ually attempt to promote the com- mon welfare, This is political heresy! This type politico would upset too many . applecarts, so \please don’t vote for Mendoza. Bowl Pageant 138-Piece Outfit Sets Extravagant Known as the “million dollar) ers and baton twirlers. They will stage the same show they did two weeks ago in Gainesville during the halftime at the Florida-Stetson football game, They recently returned from a visit to Mexico City where gained wide acclaim. The half ‘sity of Denver have actually handi- time show will be completely ‘capped the insufferable cad. Men- |want anyone in office who has de- voted much of his time and pati- lence acquiring an education. The Not only that, you really don’t| Polio Is Blamed For Postponement Of U.N. Security Double-Header Action Today 2 —SSE—__—=== Bay Bottom Sale Bid Withdrawn Down On Demands | To Force Prisoners To Listen To Talks By MILO FARNETI PANMUNJOM (# — The delay- riddled Communist efforts to woo! 22,400 ex-Red soldiers home to ‘communism halted indefinitely to- day after the Reds were turned down flat on demands that the POWs be dragged to the explana- tions by force if necessary. Stung by the rebuff from India, ‘Switzerland and Sweden, the satel- lite Polish and Czech delegates on the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission «NNRC) walked out (Continuea On Page Two) Highway Stickers Again Available Overseas Highway stickers again | i | years Mendoza spent at the Univer-|are available in the office of Sam’ B. Pinder, supervisor of registra- tion, it was announced today. The office was temporarily out turned over to them, Carbonell 407. is burdened by the awful said. The scope of their pageantry is beautiful world we live in, that they have a wardrobe of costumes place in it, and that Key West is valued at $13,000. They will arrive really an island paradise that has here on Dec. 3 in four chartered been neglected too Iéng. But these) busses, The male members of the are dangerous thoughts. A band will be quartered at the Na-'running for office should lack vis- val Station while other arrange- jon. the cooperation of Joseph Plumber,|who brought a cow to town be- Dade County School Board. |had never seen one? Such a per- Meanwhile plans are advancing |son should be highly suspect, espec- for the three-day festival which isjially when he has four young sons wards, I was transferred to Sara- being staged for the benefit of the|who have been given such outland-| jish names as Patrick, Timothy, Michael, and Charles. Not only that but as a family man and as March of Dimes Polio Funds. “With the current polio situation, it is doubly important for every- (Continued On Page Two) Scout Meet Mendoza endorses the sanctity of the family and would do his best to promote conditions favorable to the welfare of the man who earns his bread through honest labor. Such a person should never be elected to public office. Instead, Mendoza recommends, The proposed meeting of the|the election of either John Carbo- Monroe County Boy Scout Com | ell or Jack Delaney with but a ‘mittee scheduled to be held af the| ‘ew qualifying remarks: That John Boy knowledge that this is a great big/f the stickers. These stickers are, jfor the remainder of 1953 aud are ‘best illustrated by-the fact that misery and want should have no 800d until Feb, 20, 1954. Stickers for the remainder of 1954 are not yet available. Pinder also said that due to an n error the deadline for absentee bal- lots in the $14,000,000 water bond jelection had been given as 5 p. m. }foreman for W. P. Thurston Const. ments will be made for the girls.) Besides, how in the world can Heeces Cae Soegpar |before the outbreak of World War, Their appearance here is through the public have any faith ina man >, P- ™- election. Only freeholders are eli- War II, I obtained employment'a former Key Wester, now on the\cause some of the local kiddies Sible to vote in that election which will decide whether a second pipe- line will be built from the main- land to Key West. New C. Of C. Board Meets Wednesday The new board of directors of jthe Key West ber of Com- merce will meet for the first time tomorrow. The meeting will be at 12:15 p. m. in the USO, Southard building, Whitehead and Ballots to select the new division chairmen will be tabulated today and the new chairmen installed at “So for an honest, conscientious, Lions Den tonight has been cancell |7arbonell will attract more votes|the meeting. The directors also, Council Faces By TOM HOGE UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. @— The U. N. Security Council braced itself for a double-header today— Soviet demands for the interna- tionalization of disputed Trieste and continued debate on a Big Three call for a probe into the bloody Arab-Israeli border squab- ble. The Arab-Israeli question was first on the twin bili with the 11- ination group meeting to decide how the item shall be listed on the agenda. U. S. delegates report- edly huddled with the council’s sole Arab state representative, Leban- on’s Charles Malik, to seek a phrasing acceptable to all. The United States, Britain and France asked for an urgent coun- cil session on the Palestine issue after denouncing an Israeli attack on a Jordan village last week in which Jordan claims 66 lives were lost. Truce Chief Due The council yesterday approved! ja _U. S. suggestion that it request Maj. Gen. Vagn Bennike of Den- mark, chief of staff of the U.N. truce supervision organization in Palestine, to fly here and report fully to the council. He js not ex- pected to arrive until late in the week. Later today the council was scheduled to continue debate on the Soviet - sponsored move to name a Swiss governor for the free territory of Trieste under per- manent U.N. control. Italy op-- ‘pose that solution-for the future of the strategic area, which each claims. Yugoslav Foreign Secre- tary Koca. Popovic asked the coun- cil last night for permission to be heard when the question comes up. If tradition is followed, this per- mission will be granted, although Yugoslavia is not a member of the council. Italy did not immediately re- | member of the U.N., the Rome government keeps a permanent (Continued On Page Two) Ministers Back The Key West Ministerial As- sociation has voted to endorse the Key West Community Chest, it has been announced by the Rev. J, Paul Touchton, president of the organization. “I am heartily in favor of it. I think it is the only way to support these community charities,” Touch- ton said. He also added that the Chest campaign has an advantage aside from simply raising funds since it enables us to know the needs of our community. In addition to passing the reso- ‘lution approving of the Chest, the: |group named the Rev. Richard E. ‘Coulter of the First Presbyterian Church to attend meetings of the group representing the Ministerial Association. Mrs. Heady Wants thing I want to do now is die jin the gas chamber with Carl.” That remark was attributed yes-: terday to Mrs. Bonnie Brown |Heady, confessed kidnaper of 6- year-old Bobby Grcenlease. The Carl she referred to is 34-year-old Carl- Austin Hall, who admitted slaying Bobby and burying the inbody in Mrs. Heady’s back yard. The police officer who declined use of his name, also quoted Mrs. ‘Heady, a 41-year-old divorcee, as/ \saying she wanted to be buried| jin a cemetery near Clearmont, ;Mo., where she was born. She and Hall are held in the Jackson County Jail under federal | jkidnaping charges. They were ar-| jrested in St. Louis a week after | Mrs. Heady has 1 read religious tracts brouglit to the | jail by various church organiza-| ‘officials and entertainers to the ithe meeting of President Dwight dent Adolfo Ruiz Curtines. reported sighting no sign of life around the wreckage. quest a hearing. Although not a n ‘Mexico’s top newsmen, including Community Chest |13-Month-Old Girl Hit By Polio; Toe County this year. health officer, reported that the thi victim is a 13-months-old white th \girl, a Navy depend given a gamma globulin injection'Day but also the seventh anniver- during the mass gram here Oct. 1 to Oct. 6. She ihas paralytic polio, ivolving either Navy personnel or |Navy dependents. The other 14) \14 cases have been civilians, disease in Monroe County this year, There are no deaths among the 14 cases reported for this county last year. To Die With Lover tn KANSAS CITY — “The only|i er, commander of the Naval Base here, directed that Naval person. nel be responsible for the cleanli- \ness of their quarters and for the (War Orphan's Visit To Key West Sat. Benefit Will Be Scheduled November 7, Navy Reveals Key West’s polio situation was blamed today by the vy for the postponement of a benefit show for the Foster Parent Plan for War Orphans, Inc. The affair was to have been held Saturday night in the Seaplane Base hangar. Maria Carmela LaVecchia, Italian war orphan, who was adopted by the crew of the USS Davis, Key West based destroyer, more than a year ago, was to have been an honored guest at the show. But Grant Harden, who was among a group of Navy enlisted men who were arranging the show, revealed to- day that Rear Admiral George C. Towner has recom- mended that the show not be held Saturday due to the high incidence of polio here. ;,. Harden denied newspaper reports R Seek be the show had been cancelled, wever. He said that the show has escuers tentatively been scheduled for Nov- ember 7. He labelled reports in the Wreekave Of Miami newspapers “completely er- Toneous.”” v3 te) Ghee of the Daye. in a. con- cel ind campaign aimed at Mexican Plane jfaising $4,000 to charter a plane to bring Maria and a dozen Stage MONTERREY, Mexico —Res-!and TV stars here for the benefit cue parties struggled into rugged show, managed to bring the grand Devil's Back Canyon today tojtotal up to $3,600 yesterday, aided reach the burned wreckage of alby a $1,000 check from the Com- government - owned plane thatimander of the Atlantic Destroyer Ussmeon fsa scaly soe i ae U.S.-! ican fies' cially open- jing the Rio Grande’s Falcon Dam. Bi core gy ore pose plans Estimates of the number aboard! for the benefit are completed. ranged from the officially reported devel the bene- 14 believed to have been assigned seats on the two-engine DC33 to 20 or more. Two of those on the offi- cial passenger list of 14 turned up elsewhere later, “but officials feared others may have gotten I the ill-fated plane without their names. oe The-plane was-one or more store assigned to také newsmen, dam ceremonies, highlighted by 'D. Eisenhower and Mexican Presi- It smashed into tre side of the canyon, only about 15 miles from Monterrey Airport. Search planes The official estimate of the umber of persons aboard was made by Col. Radames Gaxiola, assistant chief of President Ruiz Cortines’ military staff. Among them, he said, were several of and officer’s clubs. “We could not under these cir- cumstances, give over the sea- Plane base area to a large public (Continued on Page Two) Legion Slates Events In 1953 Armistice Fete Plans were announced today for (a three-day Armistice Day cele- bration, (Continued On Page Two) Total Now 53 Polio today struck again, boost- ing the total to 53 cases in Mon- Dr. Raymond J. Dalton, county; Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, of e American Legion, sponsors of ithe events, said the celebration will lent, who was not only commemoraie Armistice inoculation Pro-'sary of the opening of the Legion Home on Stock Island. The program, as set up now, alls for a radio address on the evening of Nov. 9, to open the celebration. At 8:30 p. m., Nov. 10, there will be a flag ceremony by the Key West Guard of Honor at the Le- gion Home. A fireworks display is scheduled for 9 p. m. to be follow- ed by a dance at 10 p, m, This is the 39th case of polio in-'¢. Five persons have died of the will stage a race in Garrison Bight. | The annual Armistice Day par- ade will begin at 7:30 p. m., Nov. 11, beginning at South St. moving along Duval St. and disbanding at Front and Duval Streets, Prizes will be presented at the Armistice Day dance in the Home on Stock Island. The dance begins jat 10 p. m. Rear Admiral George C. Town- proper disposal of garbage. Fail- ure to romnly with this order can be the basis for eviction action a- gainst the tenant the directive; stated. Applications time excepting from January Ist to April Ist py te law, t cannot take any exemptions until January for 1, 1954, but you may file up to April Ist. CLAUDE A, GANDOLFO, MONROE COUNTY TAX ASSESSOR. COMPLETE STOCK AT Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near Post Office land fearless direct representation ed. f he stood. on his head instead ofjwill appoint new standing commit- tions. fe lof the people in our city paired However, the regular meetins}1is record and that Jack should|tees. Other business scheduled for| I have never had anything to} ment, I respectfully solicit your will be held as scheduled Monday | tay on the track. So please. vot | omorrow’s meeting includes a dis- do with religion during my life| vote ky pulling lever 744." <Pd.|October 36, J. M. Bringman, com |-rs, don’t kill two birds with-one| :ussion of the annual dinner meet-|aed I don’t intend to start now,,”” | Pol. Adv.) ‘mittee chairman announced today.jvote! (Pd. Pol. Adv.) ‘ing if the entire membership, ‘she was quoted as saying.