The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 28, 1953, Page 1

THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE Community Chest Drive To Start Here November 12 Goal Is Set At $50,000 By Ghest Committee The Key West United Community Chest campaign will get underway on Novem- ber 12 with its goal set at $50,285, it was decided last night at a-meeting of the Chest executive committee. The Navy, however, will jump the gun and start their drive for funds on Friday. night’s meeting, cam- to vaaaak William Neblett # i rir il hours reviewing the proposed spending programs. of all agencies before approving them, It was on the basis of their budgets that the quota was set. Community Chest treasurer J. 4, Trevor. announced that the drive will get off te @ flying care of this year’s cam- expenses. Rear Admiral George C. Towner, a vice oresident of the Chest He told a meeting of. Naval Sta- tion Chest workers yesterday that the N: of Key West’s United Community Chest campaign and all Navy con- tributions will be turned over to the general fund. He also stressed the importance of the fund drive to the many activities which serve Naval personnel and emphasized that the chest is a united drive. Captain Carter L. ‘Bennett, com- (Continued On Page Eight) —_..... Hallowe’ en Masquerade DANCE and FLOOR SHOW . Elks Club Annex Saturday, October 31, 9 ei] «2 ADMISSION $1.00 PER PERSON Public Invited Music by John Pritchard's strings on him and who f will follow PAUL ROSS (BLONDIE) ROBERTS A Hometown Boy ’s|to decide whether or not they want lavy's current drive is a part, Safe With Family | WICHITA, Kansas—Air Force Lt. Joseph Moreland is reunited with the wife and daughter the Communists said they’d have * U.S. Reds kill if he failed to sign a “confession” to germ war- fare in Korea. Quizzed for 1, Spending a quiet leave with 800 hours, he refused to sign. his family in Wichita, he. told newsmen the germ warfare charges are “absolutely false.”— @) Wirephoto, It’s The Little Contributions ' That Add Up To Success Of Drive The money ranged from pen like that that make the Mareh of, was referring.to a little 03. The money was faised through made movie. Lt. Cmdr. Gordon B,Lovejoy, 923 t leighborhood movie making. Ni the aators, “i the movie nies to.a dollar bill — $4.03 in all. § successful. vi ninary St., was the kids, including three U . \ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1953 Freeholders Veto $14,000,000 Bond Issue By 6 To | Majority County Clerk Is Commended For Report State Auditor Lauds Financial Report Of County The financial audit by Earl R. Adams, clerk of the Monroe County. Circuit Court, was in “excellent ord- er” according to word re-| ceived here today from R. G. Higgins, general auditor in the office of C. M. Gay, state comptroller. In his letter to’ Adams, Higgins said the fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 1953 and find same in excell order. “Please permit us to commend (Continued On Page Eight) gf the slowing over to the March of “Things like this really make you feel grateful,” Knight said, City Commission Sets Meet Tonight The City Commission will hold) their second special session this! week tonight at 8 p. m. The city fathers will discuss three. recommendations from the, Planning Commission for changes jin a master plan for the develop- |ment of Key West West which has | been prepared by the J, L. Hoff-| man Company. They will also discuss authoriz-| ing the placing ‘on the ballot for inext Tuesday's election the ques- jtion of the city manager versus the mayor-council form of govern- ment. It is also proposed to allow voters to make Hoffman’s master plan, the city’s guide on future develop- ment of the city. Mistrial Declared — In Boundary Case A hung jury yesterday ended the trial of a boundary-dispute suit in Circuit Court here before Judge Wayne Allen, of Miami. The case involved Eloina Gato vs. Raymond and Mildred Felton. When the jury was unable to gree, Judge Allen declared a mi trial, Judge Allen was sitting in this case in place of Judge Aquilino parte ar. _ disqualified him- ausé Of a personal know- ledge of the ‘suit, A change in Key West can only be had when P, A, Metconce Mayor—(Pd. Pol. Adv.) DEAD-LINE NOTICE City of Key West Oceupa- tional Licenses for the }year 1953.54 must be ob-| jtained before the close ofjlided on U. S. 1 about 17 miles | business October 30, 1953. }ON AND AFTER NOVEM- BER 1, 1953, A 10% PEN- [ALTY WILL BE ADDED }CITY ORDINANCES. on Monday, November 2. This is Schools Will Be Closed Mon. For Evaluation Day The Monroe County elementary schools ~vill be closed for children an evaluation day for the elemen- tary schools, Teachers will work ‘on reports and records. There will, also, be professional work done by teachers at the various grade lev-| els. This evaluation day, or grading period, of which there will be one at the close of each quarter, or, approximately nine weeks, will en- able teachers to give more time to the individual reports to parents. and the progress of the children. These ‘evaluation days are a part of the 10th month program for (Continued On Page Eight) Finance Director Eyes Investments City Finance Director Craig Bowen today announced that he is investigationg the possibility of in- vesting $100,000 in funds from Cig- arette Tax money in short term government securities, “I think we should put the mon- ey to work for us to earn interest| instead of letting it sit idle,” Bow-| en said. He estimated that the investment © would earn. at least 2% per cent) interest. Broken Leg Is Result Of Crash LOUIS M, J. EISNER utmost to improve the department ‘ing this year I organized the Police! Athletic League, known as P. A. L., for the children of our city. At that ‘time very little was being done to’ reduce juvenile delinquency. I sin- cerely believe this movement was: a start in making all of us aware that child welfare is the most im- Portant function of City and Coun- ty Government. “In 1949 I was elected to the Ci- ty Commission with a record vote Ireland And Wash a ae 3 ’ @MARY SHEEHAN, of Kénifare,. Irejand, thé USS Jack W. Wilke, will-wed here BSA ington Yes Votes Lag Far Behind In All Precincts, Reports Show Monroe County voters yesterday dumped the water bond issue with a splash. By a whopping majority of more than six-to-one, they killed the proposal to build a second water pipeline from the mainland to Key West. Success for the issue would have meant the sale of $14,000,000 in bonds to finance the line. SSS | Unolticial returns showed that 'Houses Discolored IBy Mangrove Gas Cushman, Saturday ‘at St. Irish Eyes Smiled, Wedding Bells Will Ring For Sailor “Rehearsals For ‘|Kiwanis Water |Ballet Begin Girls Volunteer For Participation Rehearsals for the water ballet, an important feature of the Ki- wanis Aquacade, were underway Casa Roma Motel. Approximately 60 high school girls volunteered for “rehearsal Monday was today at the swimming pool of the| Colleen From County Kerry Will Marry Here Saturday BY DENIS SNEIGR From Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland, to Key West is a long trail. For Mary Sheehan, a smiling, Irish girl, the trail ends and a new Street sewer break and opened the life begins Saturday when she marries an electricians mate in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The boy is Cecil Cushman, 21, of the USS Jack W. Wilke (EDE, 800). He’s from Sedro-Wooley, |Washington, about 60 miles north of Seattle. Two and a half years ago Mary, 22, came to the United States with ,an uncle, Michael Toomey, of Bos- jton. There she worked in Massa- chusetts Wom | Pleting the job. City officials had | | tal to instruction of the ap-'nurse’s aid. jen’s Hospital as a) tion, “Mangrove gas” was blam- ed today by City Manager Vic- Duval Stree Is Opened To City Public Service Department, | workers must have set something of a record last night when they completed repairs on a Duval] sistai street to traffic. They worked day and night to button up the’ job af- iter dawn today. And ty’s mi The purpose of the visit ts to ob- ere bros aspects of foreign naval ‘al ig, particularly in the taining of foreign nationals being ke nearly @ week undertaken in the Fleet Sonar ‘School, comple- strokes and simple positions neces- sary before learning the more in- ‘tricate maneuvers. It was discovered that at least five or six of the Key West High School girls had had some previ- ous aquacede experience. It was also heartening for the Kiwanis of the people at that time, and be- ime your mayor for two years, and chairman of the Utility Board, City Electric System. Until now I haye served on this board for four} years, and was finally successful! in helping to reduce the electric) * %% T. J. Kinskey, 22, a sailor PP the USS Woodson, today was in the Naval Hospital with a broken. right leg. Kinskey was injured) Saturday when the motor scooter be was driving and a truck col- north of Key West. Both vehicles} were traveling in the same direc-' tion. The driver of the truck was William B. Seagraves, 37. No char- were filed. BOCA CHICA BEACH Under New Management OPEN NIGHTS Beats and Meteors fer Rent always sought the {sel of those individual instruction coordinated swimming in using a rhythmic over- s M.J. Eisner | (Pd. Pol. Adv.) | | Loui Plicants im the basic swimming) Last March, at an Irish dance li But, under the direction of Pub- in Brookline, just outside of Bos- jton, she met Cushman. He was then stationed at the Boston Navy Yard. “She walked into the dance hall with a couple of other girls,”|_ The merchants were — Cushman said today. “I thought been fitished > wat te 322 ha been she was cute,” he > “so ¥ ‘sitent-ber'to dance.” City Manager Victor Lang today “ite joined the businessmen with a That did it. “ ” Pl hearty “well done. “Tt * It wasn’t long before Cushman iret: blast ers leony a erish bit of effort to repair the jbreak, fill up the holes and go |home for some sleep. ready to apply for a license. Then orders came through transferring him to Norfolk. FOR MAYO Group 1 Key West. Cushman had been | (Continued On Page Eight) SATURDAY, OCT. 31 AMERICAN LEGION HOME Stock Island Costume and Door Prizes ADMISSION $1.00 PER PERSON Nash's party will include Col, Eckhardt, USA; Col. Walters, US “|AF, and Lt. Col. Mullen, USA. They will leave here Friday morning, For a new deal in Key West vote |Lever 2-A for’ P. A, McMasters for Mayor—(Pd. Pol, Adv.) crak aaiishaqaders MASONIC NOTICE Dade Lodge No. 14, F. & AM, Conferring Master Masons De- gree, 7:30 p.m., Oct. 28, 1958, Pull Lever 4A : and with FRENCH FRIES and TRIMMINGS