The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 7, 1953, Page 2

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Page 2 Johns Paints | Rosy Tourist Season Picture | Charley E. Johns returned to his! office today from New York with a tosy picture of Florida's ap- roaching winter tourist season. | ao went to New York last week to join the State Advertising THE KEY WesT CITIZEN Avalanche Of Mail, Telegrams Hits White House tener, December 7.81 Tag ” Weathervaan _Says iy, bet not in the pate | Key West and vicinityr= Increas- WASHINGTON (The White ing cloudiness with brief showers House said shortly before noon this afternoon gees by clear- @—Aeting Gov.\today that 17,620 telegrams and ing and colder late this afternoon TALLAHASSEE ‘Acting an come in as a result by Sen. McCarthy (R Assistant White volume of mail had or tonight; Tuesday fair and cool. of the appeal Low temperature tonight about 65 Wis) that the degrees; tonight, Tuesday about! public ask President Eisenhower 65 degrees; high Tuesday about 72/ to halt U.S. aid to free world na- degrees. Light variable ‘wieds bet, tions which trade with Red China. coming moderate to fresi: norther- Bouse press ly and diminishing Tue:kiay. Velo- Commission in attending the initial secretary Murray Snvder said he city offshore up to 24 mph at times. showing of a new motion picture, starring Esther Willams and Van Johnson, which was filmed at Cy- press Gardens. | While in New Yort, Johns and the advertising commissioners met with heads of the transportation down jnto those which favor Mc-\ war, understood Western Union has a baeklog of telegrams possibly to- talling 1,700 or more Snyder Florida: Partly cloudy, contigued. mild south portien thru Tuesday’ with few widely scattered showers’ [Real Hpnting CLEVELAND W=Gharies Wil- jen . a farmer, ba: ® six-point deer on a West He caught the buck alive when it was penned in a fence corner. Fascinated by the loaded it im the back seat of car and brought it home, He hopes to tame it for a family COMMISSION TO (Connauea | i | He also pointed out that an or-} dinance conferring this power must be passed by the ccmmission. No indieation was given whether told reporters the tele- this af Fair north end cen. ©" 2°t the ordinance will be pre- grams have come in so fast it has been impossible to break them companies serving Florida to dis-|Carthy’s China trade demand and cuss ways and means of getting|those stand. more visitors into the siate. The transportation leaders re- ported Florida appears to be set Meanwhile, Repubiican congres- sional leaders maintained discreet who support the President's st and in central portion tonight. ‘mer Tuesday. Jacksonville thru the raits and East Gulf} Moderate porth to northeast winds becoming east to southeast on Tuesday and for a record influx of tourists. Air-|silence in the Bisenhower-McCar- imereasing to moderate to fresh, plane, railroad and bus reserva- thy controversy, tions are running far abead of last) year. The airlines said they are putting new, larger planes on our Mrs, Talmadge flights and the railroads and bus| companies are adding coaches to their regular runs te handle the Johns and the advertising com- Gets The Paving infos and the savertsing om-erman Promised mission members also met in Florida. with | a group of New York bankers to| ATLANTA (P—Mrs. Herman ‘Bel-| diseuss investment opportunities Madge, the wife of Georgia's gov-| jernor, finally got her road paved. “Our goal was to encourage the| Back in 1948, gubernatorial can. inking houses to finance new/|didate icons A Florida,” Johns said. promising Georgians he would build} Jobns was accompanied on the trip by Mrs. Johns and their chil- dren, Jerome and Markley Ana; Mrs. Albert Buros, his secretary and administrative assistant and Mrs. Robert McClure, State Sen. 8. D, Clark, Lt. Nathan Sharron, his highway patrol zide; Ben Field, Orlando Sentinel - Star reporter, and Mrs, Dave Wescott of Tampa. Advertising commission mem- bers who joined Johns in New York were Richard Pope, A, C, Johnson, Beverly Grizzard and Frapk Frazier, Anthony Dwyer, commission director, also was in the party, ‘olitics wasn’t forgotten com- tely, Johns conferred with New ork’s mayor-elect Roberg Wag- ner, former Air Force Secretary Tom Finletter and Treasurer Dwight Palmer of the Democratic National Committee ou Democrat- ie prospects in the South in next year’s congressional elections. Cayo Hueso Grotto Elects Sheppard - To Monarch Post At a regular meeting of the Mys- tie Order of Veiled Prophets of Enchanted Realm Friday evening, December 4, 1953, the local Pro phets elected their officers for the ensuing year, Oswald J, Sheppard was elected to the top position of Monarch; Fernando E. Camus, Chief Justice; Jose Fernandez, Jr., Master of Ceremonies; end Arnold Currie, Venerable Prophet. Merville E. Rosam, IJ, and Jam. es L. Atkinson were re-elected trea- Herman Talmadge wa 10,000 miles of highway if elected. Charging past administrations wth jroad favoritism, Taimadge roared from the campaign stump: | “I promise you this: that the last} jroad in Georgia to be paved will {be the one beside my farm home.” | He was elected and eventually |his administration built the 10,000 jmiles of paved roads. Mrs. Tal- madge asked him for her road, leonnecting their farm at Lovejoy to a highway. The governor paid ino gttention. Talmadge decided to self, At a dinner one night she approached three Highway Board members. They jwere in the middle, between the ernor and the First Lady. They alibied and stale, Finally, Mrs, Talmadge deeided to skip state government and try local sources. She mentioned the MeGarity, Yesterday, as she drove back to the executives mansion from the farm in a pouring rein, Mrs, Tal-- madge beamed, She drove over a Paved road, The quarter-mile strip had been paved with county forces and county funds, Mrs. Talmadge is a taxpayer in Henry County, With a smirk she sent this mes- \sage to the stalling State Highway Board dominated by her husband: |“It ean be abolished for all I jeare.”” ‘Only One Needed DALLAS #—Deputies reported ; and it 50 ‘ 4 ecertly she! fired at it 20 times with a re-|Boston volver. Six bullets hit the skunk,|Buffalo _ wounding it. A deputy killed it/Charleston a skunk in her yard ‘unnerved a women r | |Mean matter to her representative, Ed Generally fiar weather. Western Caribbean: Moderate to fresh northeast to east winds thru Tuesday. Partly cloudy weather \with widely seattered showers. Key West, Fla., Diec. 7, 1953 Observations Taken At City at SAM, EST PRECIPITATION Highest yesterday —____ 84 Lowest last night _ a... Ttotal this month __ .29 ins, Deficiency this month _. 07 ins. Total this year 46.15 ins. Excess this year __8.05 ins. +14 tt Time of of Bahia Honda (bridge) ———-oh ffm 9.6 ft No Name Key (east end) —+% 28m Temperatures At 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta see ———— 35) a Birmingham — 82 37 49) 4 Florida | life Total last 24 hours... 00 ins. Station— Tide high water|"¢Patriation commission and that tral portions. Cooler this afternoon sented for passage at tonight's meeting. WIDOW WON'T (Continued trom Page One) interviewed at her hotel apartment! last night, and again by telephone) early today. “I don't think there is any chance of @ reconciliation--we're beth so different,” she said, Asked how she reached her de- cision that an oil-and-water situa- tion existed, she said: “I always knew it, but I didn’t think it would make such a vast dfference until our engagement wes announced. . . “I found many of my friends would not accept him... I was told that if 1 pag Jack Demp- Sey ‘you ean go with the sporting crowd, Don’t bother us.” Mrs. Auguste said that all her She inberited ber wealth from her second ee Spencer department store chain yr imma yp pnt Oe preg aye sane Collins and Lichtenberg, the lat- | year seid the break- wasn’t caused as sta “started us off” last night at Lindy’s Res- taurant. DEAN MEETS WITH (Continued From Page One) evidence I charge your side with a violation of the armistice agree- ment , . . (and) false state- ments. . .” He denied Red charges that the UNC had tried to intimidate the Allied “‘agents” had been planted in the aeutral zone eompounds, Lacey said the Reds are at- tempting to blame everyone but themselves for a breakdown in their explanations to anti-Red Ko- rean and Chinese POWs. More then 20,000 of the 22,600 handed over by the Allies have not been interviewed. Only 70 have been won back by the interviews. Dispute Halts Talks The Reds halted their explana- tions in a dispute with the Indian custodian command ovesr segrega- anjwhen the black funnel struck, col- TODAYS | MARKET ket was mixed today in early in early dealings. changes occasionaliy going into the major fractions. Major groups iseding higher were aircrafts ard chemicals. were steels, motors, rubbers, cop-) Pers, and air lines. Others were stocks included Atlantic Coast Line, Easern Air Lines, Anaconda Copper General Elec- itic, Bethlehem Stec},, Goodyear, and American Tobacco. Higher were New York Central,, Kern County Land, American Cy- namid, American Can, Boeing, and United Aircraft COMMISSION WILL (Continued From Page One) Southern Bell Telephone Company for use , Would be set at about $3.50 per month with the fee for com- mercial users set tentatively at ten dollars. Installation fees, woald Rot exceed $75, it was pointed out, Company officials say that they would also offer free service to and to the Monroe ion has already granted a franchise for closed cir- euit operations to Sheriff John \Spottswood, owner of radio station WKWF, GRISLY HUNT IS ON (Continued From Page One) Garages and gas stations loaned trueks and wreekers. Volunteers from many Mississippi towns head ed for the eity, lorated on a bluff Are Cleared Debris in the streets was cleared away quickly and reseue workers ee digging out the dead. twister roared out of the west, cut through the heart of the city, and then faded out. Ten youngsters between the age 2 and 10 were among the dead. @ were at the Saenger Theater a the walls and toppling the Two tots, both 3, were killed when the tornado struck the Happyland Nursery. About the same time the tornado L another hit about 80 miles west, in northeast Louisi ana. Twelve persons were hospi ized and 20 homes wrecked. tornado flattened a t the Napier Field State Trade School in Dothan, Ala,, Sun- day. No injuries were reported. | Saturday night a tornado de-| stroyed six houses and damaged] four in @ tiny Negro settlement aboaut a mile west of Montrose, a southeastern Arkansas village. Ni one was reported hurt. And another struck 40 miles north of Shreveport, La., near the) juncture of Texas,-Arkansas and| Louisiana, —a Our Usual DEATHS = =. ered ple.” “Jesus Still Leads On,” and “In Merey Lord.” | The ipyocation was pronounced, Mrs. Nellie Harris died in Miami by the Rev Trading was moderate with price eariy Saturday land CUBAN MRS. NELLIE HARRIS ed te Key West Sunday morning Funeral services were held Burial was in the family plot at the City Cemetery Mrs. Harris was the widow of the late Louis Harris, a well-known attorney here in Key West for Many years. i Survivors include one sister, Mrs.| Jennie Larkin, mi; three bro- thers, T. Luther nder and Grey- burn Pinder, Key West, and Eugene C. Pinder, Miam man, Melvin E, Russell, Judge Raymond R. Lord, Earl Adams,! Orion Russell and Gilbert McKil- lip. | YSIDERO MORENO Ysidero Moreno, 81, died early Sunday morning at his residence, 1312 William Street, after an ex- tended illness. Mr. Moreno was born in Cuba and has been a cesi- dent of Key West for sixty-three years. He is survived by the widow, Mrs, Alfonsa Moreno; four daugh- ters, Ederramia, Evangeiina, Ma- ria Luisa and Herminia; and one son, Armando Moreno. Funeral services were held Sun. day afternoon at 5:00 v’eiock in the Chapel of Pritehard Funeral lome with the Rev. Manuei Vig- roa of the Latin Methodist iChurch officiating. Burial was in the family plot in City Cemetery, | 33 PARCELS OF (Continued From Page One) | ter took the land for $350. Collins took two parcels on No |Name Key for $205 and $80; a lot in Sunset Cove, Key Largo, for \$43.45; and three Bay Haven lots jfor $71 each. A N-aere tract on the mainland |started with a base bid of $27.63 na Mainland parcels which Collins took at base bids ranging from $18.43 to $27. HESTER BATTERY “For Most Cers Mos 80 Ai nw$ 8,95 Exch. mp. 195 Bach, VAS Exch. 36 Mos.—11 18.85 Exch. LOY SMITH—1115 WHITE ST. STAR * BRAND AMERICAN Christmas All Work Guaranteed Morning after a and benediction was pronounced short illness. The body was return- by Rev. J. Paul Touchtc | Your Grocer SELLS That Goodifl COFFEEF | Factory Methods Used— ti (Conynued From Peace Ope) In the 1950 census Pennsylvania © this afternoon at 3 p. m. from the had 1,185,000 fewer peopie than in| Moving a little tower on balance Chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home. | !94@. i POOR OLD CRAIG) Your PURE OIL Dealer | Pallbearers: William A. Free-|Tires.. Tubes .. Batteries) ELKS MEMORIAL |STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE Triumph Cotiee Mill at ALL GROCERS West High School band, rend “Open the Gates of the Tem- Charles H. Meeker WsHeenow! © NEW, TUBELESS Le "Reyel-T™ 3-TRANSISTOR EARING AID SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman "A" battery! Wo DIAL 2-9193 | | { | _ Batters. Grester clamiy? | By Makers ef Zenith TV and Radies | { , AMY OPTICAL DISPENSARY 423 Simonton St. ACCESSORIES Phone 2.7522 STRAND Met, 2 8 4:06 Night 6:12 & 8:18 AIR CONDITIONED Last Times Today | Tues. and Wed. Night 6:30 & 8:30 AIR COOLED Wed. - Thurs., Fri, and Sat. Wings Of The Hawk IN 3 DIMENSION with HEFLIN ANTONIO, MORENO NOAH BERRY, ‘Jit. surer and secretary respectively, With one shot, Chicago ___s end outgoing trustee Hastings C. Corpus Christi Smith was re-elected three year QUICK USE OF BADGE Haan trustee, LAMARQUE, Tex, uw — ——— Th following appointments were 19:30 mpi sn tok Ingrara 7 Worth made by Monarch-eleet Sheppard: was notified he had become mar.|Gelveston Albert N, Miller, Marshall; Neil shal in this newly incorporated|J2cksonville Saunders, Captain of the Guard; town’s first election, \Kanses City - Grover Albury, Sentinel and Joseph! About 2 a.m. he was notified a) KEY WEST in a Menendez, Chaplain. burglar was trying to break into|Key West Airport — _ Installation of officers will take his place of business, a jeweiry\Los Angeles sg place at the next regular meeting, store, jLouisville _ Friday, Dee. 18, and outgoing Mon-; Jagram pinned on his new badge Meridian arch Austin Roberts will be pre-and rushed down in time to scare| Miami sented with a Past Moparch’s Fez away tbe intruder. and Certificate. | i ARAN 33/tiamn of interviewed and uninter- 48\viewed POWs. | 30|_ The explanation period ends Dee. | 32(23, leaving too little time for the #0) Reds to complete their interview 50) At the present rate, the All On Your Old Bike 50|probably will begin ‘explanaions| 41\to 22 balky Americans and 1 Briten J. R. Stowers Co. 70 about Dec, 14 or 15, after the South || $39 Duval st Tel. 2-6611 |) 74 Koreans are finished, In the peace conference nego- tiations, Young reviewed the Cém- | munist position in detail “to take stock as to where our discussions Offer $10.00 TRADE IN Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment ff) FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE | } SERVICE — SEE... DAVID CIFELLI 920 Truman Ave, (Rear) TELEPHONE 2-7637 —NO SHOWS TODAY Cuban Holiday niet 29, hapag iG remeuaemmmmamene ag Bionsapelis ———_—____-~ pod Young, who is the State Depart- New goes: —~ 4g|ment’s northeast Asia expert, told 2c haeagitak 51 newsmen after the meeting that |the Reds replied to his summary | ‘ with a “long, repetitious and es- 37|Sentially propaganda statement’, Siig’ 45, Which did not say anything “not ee g2| heard before.” ! 40! Talks To Resume 37 The talks resume tomorrow, 40) The dragging negotiations left | g5|indian Lt. Gen. KS, Thimayya, 5|Tepatriation commission ehairman, uncertain what he weuld do with | 5, the remaining prisoners if the conference does not begin soon. | Thimayya said he would seek | guidance from his government* in New Delhi. Prime Minister Nehru already has indicated he feels the two sides should take up the ques- M ition agai sembly debates were highlighted’ Thimayya told newsmen he does BEWARE. MY LOVELY __—-- 7:00 AND 10:33 i Last Times Tomorrow THEY learned about love the hard way! AELOTH Coste UN ACTION IS | CUBAN NEWSMAN > f ‘ Zany Anties Of |, sensed From Pate On) Ror orary representative in Havana,!oijahoma City Rafael del Vizo. . Omaha Bob Hope Keep Group o~ visited the Marti! punsacola monument where they heard 83! Pittsburgh a ; jaddress by Raul Alpizar y Poyo,| Cr owd Laughing Key West representative of the Cols tee : wean ; ban Tourists Commission. s Hilarity runs high et the Islander Maine Monument, they heard Jus-iSeattle __ os Drive-In Theatre this week, where to Mendez, Cuban commentator. !Tallahassee Samuel Goldwyn’s laugh-riot, Other addresses were given Tampa They Got Me Covered,” opens throughout the day by City Com- Washington ursday with Bob Hope and Dor-| missioners Jack Delaney and Paul| othy Lavaour in the starring roles. R. Roberts, Cireuit Court Judge With a screamingly funpy initial Aquilino Lopez, Jr., Cuban Con-| Sequence starting the rapid pace, sul Oscar Moral } jo, owner 13 aaa Jose Cepero Brito, Cu- ly s ban TV figure. wiched in between to make the of. ski’: ink aking eee cae They were guests of Sadowski’s Hope enacts the role of a zany foreign correspondent for a big New York news syndicate, Miss Lamour that of his girl-friend and head of the syndicate’s Washingtoa office. Discharged for missing a big story, Hope goes to Washington for nome ant Ponodlation, There he stumbles 0: another big sto: tnd goes after i le an attest to ve deem himself and get his job back Troubles ensue as seon as he be gins and the hero's desperate at tempts to straighten everything out, make for the side-splitting con- clusion to the film, which gives Hope one of his funniest roles and, Miss Lamour a dramatie part in which she does not wear &, Donald Meek, Marion Martia, Key Lodge at a cocktail party in Marathon and were then feted by Benny Fernandez. They had lunch at Lee’s Restaurant and dinner at Benny's Cafeteria. Joe Sirugo was their host at a Party given at the Yacht Club last night. The Association that the group Tepresents, boasts of membership They will held their annual con- vention in Havana next year at which time representatives from Spain and England will attend. | Philip Ahn and lovely Lenore Au- bert. are responsible for most of Hope’s predieaments ang for RKO Radio release expertly. today by Indian-U, S. differences over bow and when it should meet again if conditions in Korea make it necessary, India’s V. K. Krishna Menon reportedly sent what was describ- ed as “confidential information” from Panmunjom to aid his stand in the Assembly pc!iucal commit- tee that the deadlock over the Ko- Tean peace conference was so se- TY, of more than @ thousand newsmen Fious that the Assembly should be from 21 Latin-Americae countries.|¢elled back into Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, As- sembly president, decided it was) necessary. Sessigi whenever; not know what his guards would do | i breakout after Jan. 23, when they are supposed to be released. “If so, I've had it either way,” he said. ) Thimayya said the Communists been broken because they had not | made explanations to all the pris- oners. There is an elevator which de- scends 629 feet in Carisbad Cav-| erns, The Indian propos) also set) ——_—_——_——$—_——= tentative Feb. 9 deadline for the) Assembly to retumm im any case. Brazil, with American backing, mest proposed an indefinite recess with a sarong. of the tense thrills as the plot up-the Assembly to be called back Otto Preminger, Edward Cianel- folds, ?.vid Butler directed the if 31 members—a bare majority— thought & necessary, XMAS SUGGESTIONS Hollywood Beds, from .... $47.54 In‘r Spring Mattresses, from $24.50, Blonde Ash Chest of Drawers $26.50 EISNER FURNITURE CO. 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