The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1953, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. Che Ken West Citisen | VOL. LXXIV No. 24 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FR’ IDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1953 epics Five CENTS End Of Adventure Packed Cuban Voyage MAGELLA HUARD, 31 (left), and Charles Hackett, 28, are shown as they rest after a round- trip from here to Havana. They battled 15-foot waves in a 32-foot boat on trip which is one phase of a round-trip between Quebec City, Canada, and Havana.—Citizen Staff Photo. » Canadians Stop Off In Key West After Canada-To-Cuba Ocean T; rip Pair Battle Seas In 32- Foot Sloop By JIM COBB A 1700 mile trip in a * foot sailing vessel from Que-| bec City, Canada, to Hav-} | ana, Cuba adds up to a lot of sea-going adventure. | If you don’t think so, walk! on down to the Gulf Docks and have a chat with Magel- la Huard and Charles Hack- ett, who stopped off in Key West on the first leg of their trip homeward aboard their sloop, the Coaster. They'll tell you of battling 15 foot waves in the Gulf Stream and threading their way into the tricky Havana harbor under sail in the dead of night after their en- gine had failed. “Affter this trip, we'll be con- tent to stay put for awhile,” Hac- kett commented. Their odyssey is the result of years of planning. The vessel, a $2 foot auxiliary sloop, was built by Hackett, who is a shipwright They have been sailing it in week-| ‘end races on Canada’s St. Law- Fence river and this year decided to make a mire extended cruise. Huard is an accountant and they Pooled their resources for the cruise. Their voyage, started on Septem Wer 12, when they set sail up the & Lawrence River from where they nsferred to the Richelieu River which carried them to Lake Champlain and ther @ransferred to the Hudson ‘A complication developed pnere (Continued on Page _ jthe court room. Mother Loses ‘Custody Of | Year-Old Son Case Of Neglect, Bar Hopping And Bad Checks Is Told In Court A 23-year-old wife today was de- clared an unfit mother and the custody of her one-year-old son turned over to the father, an Air Force master sergeant. Eva War- | judge of the juvenile | court, a sordid story of bar mae | ping, bad checks, and child neg- lect was told. Witnesses testified the woman} owed a $164.30 motel bill plus bills), to baby sitters and a beauty par- lor, One of the baby sitters told) the court that the mother had not seen the chila in six weeks, Her .usband, the master ser- geant, was in court and handed the judge $70C in bad checks which it was alleged-his wife had written.) The husband also told the court that he had started : divorce ac- tion in South Carolina, where he is stationed It also was testified that a Key some of the baby sitter bills. When. the husband stopped the woman’s allotment check, she te- ceived a notice of it. It was testi- fied that a bar cashed the notice terday from the tower in the city|in court today. | fied that 2 bar cashed the notce hall which is slated for demolition. | owner then used it to pay a liquor ed the notice in the bank. That's when the notice bounced. After the judge's ruling, giving custody of the child to the father, the mother was led weeping from All Kinds PLYWGOD Strunk Lumber 320 SIMONTON, Near Bank ELKS ANNUAL Charity Ba Imported Floor or Show 9 P.M. to “2?” Tickets, $2.50 AVAILABLE AT Broadway Cigar Store; Paul Sher, Jewelers; Lou’s Radio & Appliance Reservations may be made by holders of tickets Florida Sets No Limit On Trips To The Altar How many times can you get married in Florida? Sounds like a game. Some- thing like baseball — three strikes and you're out. But is is not so about marriage. A woman called County Judge Raymond S. Lord today to ask him how many times a person could marry in Florida. She told the judge she thought sev- en times was the limit. The judge told her seven might be the physical and men- tal limit, but not the legal one. As long as she continues to get divorces and find new vic- tims, she can go right ahead and marry again. ‘Local Historical Society Is Given ‘Old City Records The collection of local lore of the |Key West Art and Hisotrical So-| West city policeman had paid | ciety is being enriched coasidera-| bly with the granting of a quantity lof city records dating back to be- fore the turn of the century. gun in his area. _ |ded and he and Gonet went to Jus-| sislightly and a Navy man faces Man Nabbed By Supply Of Ammo And Marijuana Found In Pockets Robert Garcia, 37, was prepared |for something. No one yet knows | |just what. jterday sheriff's deputies seized 614 counds of pistol ammunition, a .22 calibre revolver, and a batch) of marijuana. They also picked up |five bottles of tablets and carsules, ‘two boxes of empty capsules, six junknown tablets, and an old ciga-| |ret Package that was stuffed with! more capsules. Garcia is charged with “pes session of narcotics and exhibit | ing and reckiess display of fire- gun charge. He still was in coun- ty jail today. ; | The story began yesterday after- |noon when Rudy Gonet, 709 Wind- |sor Lane, called city police and jtold them a man was waving a Patrolman Lionel Soriano respon- tice of the Peace Roy Hamlin where Gonet signed a complaint on the gun charge. But when he was arrested yes-; Deputies On Narcotics, Firearms Charge Sweeting Not Interested In Traffic Post Says Press Of Business Won't To Serve City W. C. “Sugar” Sweeting has de- |clined to serve as chairman of a |Proposed traffic committee to be appointed by Mayor C. B. ida jhe announced today. The Mayor indicated ieee night that he would name Sweet-) ing, who served in a similar ca- iPacity on the Governor’s Safety ‘committee, appointed by former) Governor Fuller Warren in 1951./ That committee was disbanded hen the late Governor Dan Mc-| Carty took office and never was te-appointed, Reason given by Sweeting ear declining the post was that “other than my business, | have accepted additional obligations Sheriff's deputies Sydney Curry, | Watson Roper, Jr., and John Leh-| man were called in. They found! Garcia in his trailer home in Mas-| tic Trailer Park, 645 United St. | At that time, he was arrested on the gun charge. The mari: ijuvana and 200 rounds of .22 am- munition were found in his | pockets, deputies said. Roper then got a search wai rant and went back to Garcia’s trailer and found the bottles of tablets and capsules and the re-| mainder of the ammunition. Nine, (Continued on Page Nine) New So To Be Dedicated On January 14 The Navy’s new Fleet Sonar School buildings will be commis- sioned and dedicated here Jan, 14, it was announced today. Who the principal speaker will be and what notables—Navy and civilian—will attend has not yet ‘been worked out. The three new buildings cost, about $1,600,000 and will be com- pleted about Jan. 1. This is one of the two Naval sonar schools. The ‘other school is in San Diego and. Serves the Pacific Fleet, Woman Injured In Traffic Accident A local woman was injured| three traffic charges as the result of an accident at White and Eliza Street yesterday, it was reported ‘by the Police Department. man Mario Santana, Mrs. Adele Bryan, 36, of the Mastic Trailer! Park suffered bruises when she, driven by Joda Lenox Royder, of! jcareened and struck a car driven| jcausing slight damage. e | Royder faces charges of speed-| ing, reckless driving and causing with the result that | do not have the time to promote the program successfully.” Sweeting, in his letter to. the! Mayor, also advocated a three. point program of improvement for) |local traffic control including the} |Synchronizatien of stop lights, pub- | lic education and enforcement of jexisting traffic laws, ‘Before additional traffic lights! are installed, existing lights in the} |downtown area should be synchro-| nzed,” Sweeting -said. He added) that the light could be controlled) by a master control switch and op-| erated manually during, peak) rs, jing also suggested that the y ‘einbark on @ program of pub-| tie. education by press and radio suggesting that motorists use cer-| tain streets in entering and leav-| ing business areas according to! their residence zones to alleviate the'tra‘fic problem here. He said further: “Situated as we are, there can hardly be a com-| promise between satisfying all per-! sons and maintaining a free safe flow of traffic, It must be one or the other.” He was apparently speaking of the repeated requests of a group ‘of Fleming Street businessmen who claim that commerce is being” hurt since that street was made a} one-way thoroughfare more than a jyear ago. | That move was recommended by the Governor's ae eae Committee. Two Are Pulled From Ocean Here A local shrimper is in the city \pital as the result of a dunking in ‘police said today. According to the report of patrol- man Raymond Quinn he pulled jwas struck by a motor scooter ithe pair from the water with the dian government, aid of patrolman J. Roberts. He Jr. and the woman as Marion Captain Jap. The woman was suffering from a bad cut on her nose, he said. Give Him Time | Flood Rescue SEATTLE. Wash.—Jeffrey Mink (left), dorn, 12, attempt to rescue young ture on Monk farm south of nearby Kent, ‘swollen Green river 15, and William Hage- Monk's calf from flooded pas- Wash., after rain- suddenly flooded the area Wednesday night. Many householders in the region prepared to move out until water began teceding yesterday —(_Wirdphoto, Gouzenko To Talk Some About Red Espionage In The US. NEW YORK Robert Morris, counsel for the U. S. Senate in- ternal security subcommittee, says |former Russian code clerk Igor Gouzenko may tell the committee what he knows about Russian spy- ing in this country ‘tomorrow or next week.” Gouzenko exposed a huge Soviet e_pionage ring in Canada in 1945 after walking out of the Russian Embassy in Ottawa with many secret documents, Last night, Morris said he under- stood from newsmen who talked with Gouzenko somewhere in Ontario, Canada, that he was ready to testify “‘tomorrow or next week.” The ‘nterview may b> in Canada. Morris said he talked by tele- Jail today and his woman com: phone late last night with Sen. jpanion in Monroe General Hes-| Jenner (R-Ind), subcommittee head. Morris said Jenner told him According to the report of patrol-|the ocean near the Thompson Dock jhe planned to get in touch with ithe Stute Department today to work out a date to see Gouzenko. Under stipulations by the Cana- the date and meeting place will be kept secret the USS Wilke. The scooter then identified the man as Lake Reed, for security reasons. “We've scheduled no hearings iby V. J. O'Neal, 813 Caroline Street Channox, both of the shrimp boat of the subcomimittee fo. this com- “We're to go.” in Washington, Sen. ing week,” said Morris. just standing by, ready Meanwhile, The records were removed yes-|an accident. He will be arraigned|Reed was jailed on an intoxica- McCarran (D-Nev), top - ranking | Joe Allen, vice president of the as-| bill. The liquor wholesaler deposit- sociation inspected the records yes- Venerable City Records Found terday and they are being turned over to the society for their mus- eum. Included are old tax’ and aod financial records. Presenting THE QUEEN OF |Key West's venerable city hall/ses of all other animals were re-A. L, Pendleton; SEPIAN ENTERTAINERS “EDITH” THE BIGGEST CONCERT OF ‘53 —at— Wickers Stadium Wed., Dec. 16, 8:00 P.M. Featuring . . . THE ORIOLES, JOE MORRIS BAND, FAY ADAMS Singing “Shake A Hand” and Others Watch for Ticket Location GEN. ADM. «i « oe is about to topple. | But few people, with the excep- jtion of old time Conchs and their descendants, know that the city hall was once used as the city market. | As a matter of fact, in 1892 it was illegal for any person in Key West to offer fresh meat for sale anywhere but the city hall. | That information was garnered from the 1893 edition ot the city | | charter as compiled by the late W. Hunt Harris. The booklet was | unearthed with a mass of ancient city records taken from the city | hall tower Thursday. ft contains | a wealth of information cencern- | | ing Key West’s storied past. | According to the code, it was bring beef into the market in less tion charge. (Continued on Page Nine) jwhat with reports that the tower quired to remain whole until same William Weathorford ‘had been dressed and delivered at the stall or stand of the butcher offering it for sale.” The cit; hall was built in 1891, the 1893 cherter shows that an erdinance was passed allowing Mayor Robert J. Perry to issue a praciamation for an election of | freeholders to decide whether or not they wanted to float a sixty thousand dollar bond issue to fin- ance its construction. The re- cords shew that on May 8, 1892, voters went te the polis and ap- Proved the bond issue and the | building was constructed. Municipal officers at that time: Police Justice, W. Hunt Harris; ‘president of the city commission, B. B. Whalton; City Attorney, J. 50 also “unlawful for any butcher to Vining Harris; City Clerk, William L. Delaney; Treasurer, William ILLEGIBLE Beefs Have Replaced Beef Steak At City Hall Attention has been focused onjthan one quarter, and all carcas-|H. Williams; Health Officer, Dr. Tax Collector, Tax Asses- sor, William T. Pinder; Engineer, Thomas J. Ashe; City Marshal Alfred Lowe; Captain of Police, Joseph Fagan; Street Commission- er, Hyam G. Fulford and City Sexton, Peter H. Williams The city commission at that time was made up of B. B. Whal- ton, M. S. Mareno, George S. Waite, Gabriel Ayala, A. L. Pohal ski, J. W. Johuson, John T. Saw- yer, B. P. Baker and F. R. Ma- loney. The commission met the first and third Thursday of each month and there were strict rules placed on their proceedings. For exampie, no member was allowed to speak more than twice on any one sub- ject nor longer than 10 minutes at a time They were not permitted | to speak without rising. Decency Panel To Meet Today The city’s drive on vice will move into high gear this after- noon at 5 p. m. when an eight- man citizen's committee starts its probe. Four persons will be question- ed including three policemen and a woman identified as Do- lores Baxter, titute who hi West police officer of ing payoff money to allow her to operate from a tax! cab. The meeting will mark the first actual attempt on the part of the newly formed group to probe the city’s vice problem. They met Wednesday but de- voted their time to organiza- tional problems. At that time they also de- cided to employ a private in- jigator to look into the situ- Red Slowdown Tactics In Korea Hamper Allied Try At Wooing War Prisoners | Dean May Leave | For Washington Soon If Efforts Continue To Lag By MILO FARNETI PANMUNJOM W—Allied efforts jto woo home war prisoners who jstayed with the Communists—in- cluding 22 Americans and ono Briton—were threatened today by Red slowdown tactics which forced suspension of interviews with South Korean POWS, Lt. Gen. K. S. Thimayya, Indian chairman of the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission, said 3¢ ROK prisoners would be called up for interviews tomorrow. But there was no indication whether the sessions would be held. Thimayya suspended the Allied explanation program Friday after 25 of 30 prisoners insisted on mak- ing their own explanations to {Allied interviewing officers. NNRC Conditions He said that if the POWS re. fuse to accept NNRC conditions for the interviews “I’m afraid the explanations will come to an end.” After a hurried meeting of the NNRC Thimayya announced that 30 more South Koreans would ap- pear Saturday. He did not say whether there was any sign of a change in Communist tactics. The Indian general also am nounced that a Red to iow. 250 Beyeans Satu tay was A yn be- ise the prisoners refuse to leave their compound. Some of these prisoners were interviewed earlier and the rest have refused to budge. Special U. S. Envoy Arthur H. Dean said he may fly to Wash- ington before Christmas and leave the stalled talks on arrangements for a Korean peace conference in the hands of his chief aide, Young May Take Over If Dean leaves, Allied negotia- tions probably will be taken over by Kenneth T, Young, the State Department’s director of North- east Asian affairs and Dean’s No. 3 adviser. The State Department announced in Washington Thursday that Dean has been authorized to return home. It said the spokesman for 17 nations which fought in Korea (Continued on Page Nine) Johns Announces More Suspensions TALLAHASSEE, Fla, W—Acting Gov. Charley E. Johns today sus- pended the State Road Board and |Hotel Commissioner Mack Hum- |phrey, all appointees of the late |Gov. Dan McCarty. He charged them with “mal- |feasance and-or misfeasance and- or incompetency and-or neglect of duty.” YOUR FAVORITES OF LAST YEAR... 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