The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 13, 1954, Page 1

é Today Was KEY WEST 60° ' | Commissioning - Here Marks _ Latest Step In Training Plan » When the new Fleet Son-! ar School .is commissioned: here tomorrow, it will mark! the latest step in a training program that began 15 years ago. Adm, Lynde D. McCormick, USN Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlan-| | ‘tic Fleet, will commission the new ‘building on the Naval Base at 2 ing center since the Navy has been laying more and more stress en anti-submarine warfare in the _ years following the end of World ; War tt, y A-more descriptive name for the ‘school would be the Atlantic Fleet imatine Warfare School be- cause only one of the school’s many courses inyolves sonar. _ Other courses taught involve all! phases of anti-submarine warfare for aviators, submariners, and ‘comba' ship sailors and officers “ee aaa hae rank of Admiral. ter bound Navigation end Rang and Rang- ing. It uses super-sonic sound for detection ‘explore the wonders of life beneath “Tialiowds biecanders vers ‘ lexander’s wi an impractical machine, the dream. of man’s. mastery of the oceans liv- ed on. Eventually, the submarine, &@ powerful weapon of war, was developed, and used with ef- fect in both world wars of the 20th Century, It will play an even more out- standing role in the event of a third’ World War. ° The original site for the Fleet Senar School in New ‘ Londen, Conn., was selected as an emer- gency measure, as New London was already a training bese for submarines. Instruction in the use of sound equipment instalied in submarines had been offered | there for some time. ‘The first classes ef sonarmen were instructed by submarine per- , Sonnel; there were no texts, equip--| ment, or planned curriculum, One! day < ae at sea) was the function training that was given, in 1940, however, the various units of Fleet Sonar School were gradually moved to Key West, where weather and sea conditons were ideal, ; The Naval Station could allocate only two buildings to house the/ school, but in a few months the| facilities available hai expanded considerably to keep step with the @emands for more and more train-| Warmest City In Notas Thompson Estate A Case Ruling To Supreme Court Courts Aged WiféIn Court NEW YORK.—James David McKinney, 27, plants a kiss-on the cheek of-his wife, 80-year-old Mrs. Ella Dixon McKinney, in Supreme Court yesterday after Judge Thomas A. Aurelia di- rected a jury to dismiss her suit for annulment. Mrs. Mc- Kinne: ] house operator, alleged that her youthful hi had never consummated marriage. McKinney replied that he-had and that he was “still in love” with her. The aged wife and the youthful husband left court arm-in-arm— MP Mirephoto, 6 en, aR Man Fined $32 On Parking Charges Failure to heed seven park- ing tickets cost a local’ motor- ist $32 in city court yesterday, If. the man had taken care of them in the conventional manner, he would have been assessed only $7, city officials emphasized, They pointed out that all traf- fic and parking tickets must be paid within three days of the time they are received or a summons will be issued. The fine in city court, offic- ials say, is much greater than the standard one dollar penal- ty. Witness yesterday's case. tn other words,—don't pro- crastinate. Gasoline Tax Receipts Go ed sonarmen as the Battle of th T Co ; Atlantic moved ahead at a furious| 0 unties ce, : ihe fall of 1944 saw the school at its peak intensity of activity, The outstanding characteristic of the German U-Boat throughout most of World War II was sur- faced operation in which radar de- tection could be used with telling) Monrve Has Surplus Of $332,000 } All but four of Florida’s 67 coun-/ advantage. The snorkel, however, |#es—including Monroe—will get fm the later stages of World War cash allocations of state gasoilne, Il developed new submarine tac- tics which make detection increa- {cient tax receipts this year as surplus! ment singly difficult. This new submar- ee yee ments ont their levy fe can operate for riod: hile submerged and. seats comparative immunity, H Whereas previously sonar and radar played” almost equally im-| nt roles in win: th : : Battle ‘with the submagitt® £°2t\ Brevard, $223,000; Broward, $330, » Sonar stands today as the major sub-| Marine detection device, | Instrumental in antisubmarine|Pineling, $200,000" Pulk, $452,000 and the/st Johns, $189,000; St. Lucie, $113,-. }000; Seminole, $86,000; and Volu-! SOMAT sia, “$386,000. : i warfare is the ASW officer sonarman, trained in the tual skills of operation of (Continued On Page Two) | “WOODLIFE” TREATING PLANT Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton Street, near Bank indivi- debts, the Associated Press report- ed today from Tallahassee. old boomtime road construction ent survey Besides Monroe, with $332,000, sutpluses include these counties: Alachua, $179,000; Bay, $284,000; 00; Escambia, $534,; Leon, $2- 2,000; Manatee, $173,000; -Marion, ' Beach, $779,000; The State Board of Administra- tien, which handies retirement ef bonds issued in the 20s, has de- clared a total cash surplus of $13,620,000 for 1954—about a mil- Men dollars more than last year. That is the amount left out of counties’ share of proceeds from two cents tax on each gal- (Cotitinued’ On’ Page-Tway it KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1954 New School Is Important Link In (County Board | Anti-Submarine Warfare Pr ogram Defers Action ie H rE i f : B05 8: att ¢ E Lite i z Bo§ 3! i 5 Utility Board Awards Bid | . B, Harvey, (Continued On Two) Stockholders Of ‘Florida National f IN THE U.S. A, after engineers pronounced it unsafe. Drudge is pointing to a four by twelve inch beam which was all that held six-ton cupola on the tower, Beam is rotted to the point where it broke eas- ily underthe weight of one man. In addition, Drudge said that the mortar supposedly holding the top six layers of brick in Place on the tower was non-existént—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Three New Playgrounds To Be Ellis Will Head Upper Keys C. Of C. Islamorada Man Pledges To Work For Improvement Of Upper Keys the Upper Keys Chamber of Com- merce, Monroe County Commis- “\sioner Harry Harris was displaced as president. Over 76 per cent of the 356 active members cast sealed, mailed bal- lots. They were tallied at the regu- jar meeting on Monday night at' : McKee’s Sunken Treasure Museum, Treasure Harbor, Plantation Key. G. A. man in Isla- high morada, was elected to a two- year term and was named as he favored! president. Buck Grundy, a new- comer to the Board, was elected for one-year from the same sec- tion, From Tavernier Mrs, Mary. ‘Easton, incumbent, received a two- year term and Cliff Miller, run- Ining for the first time, was elected In City’s Recreation Setup City Dickers For Land At Site Of Old Army Barracks Three new playgrounds will be added shortly to ease lthe city’s overcrowded rec- reation situation, City Man- ager Victor Lang said today. He said that work is already in Progress on two of them, one at the site of the old Army Barracks, mission to use an area in Poin- ciana, formerly a trailer park, for a playground area. Lang added that the White Street playground would feature a baseball diamond probably for use of the city’s Little League ac- tivities. The city purchased «@ | large government surplus build- ing on the site for one dollar and razed it. They are currently negotiating with the federal gov- ernment for purchase of the land but are waiting for a priority. However, they are going ahead the action. dren as a skating rink has been planning to resurface it to remedy “\tha$ situation. A tennis court in {the area is also planned for the! future, he added. ; Work in progress at the Cath- erine Street playground includes grading, leveling and filling. A children’s merry-go-round and jsand boxes will be installed. Lang jadded that he hopes to install a twill be constructed at the Poin- rng playgound, the city manager| “| think bandon rogi in our recrea' program,” Lang said today, He said the need for more rec- reation facilities is pointed up by ithe fact that-more than 100 people’ every day. and using the land while awaiting | Lang said that a large concrete) foundation now being used by chil-| pronounced unsafe and the city is! blaze, used the Bayview Park playround qvetil,” The Key West Citisen . THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER said today Allied and Red | terms. The Communists aske | meeting — but only to disc Motel Men Are “Up In Arms” The Key West Motor Court Association has reigstered a Protest with a Miami paper of | their method of handling today’s “weather story.” «They claim, Key West and the keys have been maligned and the area put in an unfav- orable light when their fore- cast for today mentioned nine ether Florida communities — but failed to mention Key West. “ “They also mentioned low temperatures all over the state but did not write about high | temperatures,” a spokesman | said. “They beat us by one degree on the maximum temperature yesterday but our low ther- Mmometer reading was 12 grees above Miami,” :he vam .*cjust-goes, to. proye | curacy of the statement Ne Citizen masthead — Key West has the most equable climate in’ the nation.” Ken Kiplinger, secretary of the Motor Court organization was instructed to write a letter of protest on the matter, Delinquent Sewer Bill ‘Deadline Set List Of Back Accounts Will Be Made Public February 15 Key Westers with delinquent sew-, that they must be paid up prior, ito Friday, Jan. 15 when a “De. linquent Sewer Account List” wil] be made public. The public record, which will In a hotly contested election of| White Street and the other in the|automatically constitute a lien a- \sion program now in progress, Those whose accounts are de- linquent have been notified by letter by City Manager Victor. Lang and approximately half of the_ $13,000 in deficit has been collected, it was reported today, In order to make it easier for those who might be unable to pay fe af FE is cur- ity! Ht RFE Hl el i Be 3 E \gainst such property ‘is required to enforce ‘the bondholders. . City officials today urged those who are still delinquent to cuntact |the tax collector immediately and wading pool in the future, as well. lavaid needless embafrassmem and facilities scuth of th | At least two baseball diamonds’ LE HAVRE, France — Fi men dashed to the waterfront this channel port today broke out in a storeroom 49,850-ton French liner The described as was extinguished Note Sent To Allies Did Not Mention Conditions For Talks PANMUNJOM (AP)—WU. S. envoy Kenneth Young liaison officers will meet to- | morrow in the first step toward resuming talks to set up a Korean peace conference — apparently on Red d Monday for the low-level uss a date for reopening pre- liminary talks broken off Dec, 12 by the United States. The Allies replied Tues- SSS day with a note asking that the staff officers discuss both date and conditions for resuming the conference. The Reds answered with a new note Wednesday. When he first announced that the officers would meet Young said they would discuss the conditions. He did not release the text of ithe Red note, but paraphrased it this way: “(The Reds) agree to a meeting ... to agree on the date for political discussions regarding & political (peace) conference,” Time Mentioned When asked later about the ab- sence of the word “‘conditions” in the paraphrase, Young said the latest Red rote did not mention ae s,”" but only the time of ithe meeting. Peiping radio said earlier the Communist liaison officers were The Allied note to the Reds did not give any details of what con- would be discussed, When U. S. Ambassador Arthur Dean broke off the preliminary talks in December after six weeks of haggling, he said he would not meet with the Reds again unless they retraeted a charge of Ameri- can “perfidy” (treachery). The Reds have given no indica- tion they will apologizé but sources here have indicated the United States might accept something less than a full retraction in order to get the talks started again. Young said yesterday this is one of the things the liaison officers erm — to “work out.” eanwhile, the Korean repatria- tion commission prepared to meet tomorrow on a secret Indian pro- ;Posal reportedly designed to solve er accounts were warned today) touchy issue of releasing war Prisoners by turning them back to the commands that formerly held them. Hold To Deadline The Allies demand that all pris- oners be released after midnight |Jan. 22 under the armistice terms. colored section of town at Thomas/Sainst the property, is authorized;The Reds insist they be held until and Catherine Streets. In addition, by the provisions of a bond agree..@ peace conference can discuss Lang said, the Key West Housing!ment floated to finance the multi-|their fate, Authority has granted the city per-:million dollar repair and expan-| | Swiss delegate Armin Daeniker termed the Indian plan “the most human proposal.” Sources here say the Swiss and Swedish delegates probably would vote for the Indian plan against ithe Communist Czech and Polish teragage a meeting of the Joint Mili- itary Armistice Commission today |the Communists charged that the U.-N. Command is Planning to |“abduct” the anti-Red Chinese and Korean POWs Jan, 23 and repeat. led demands that they be held, owning more|The |posal and speatea U.N. ~ La and repea' N. dem: for their release, 0 Peipin gates” Jan. 23 for the anti-Red Chinese POW Quoted Quoting a Chinese. POW turned over to the Reds yesterday, Pel. Ping said camp “arents” would take control Jan. 23 and would kill ‘on the spot” any prisoner who tried to go back to the Reds, The U. N. Commend has set up rut. © gone to hands the ex2?us of pr'soners, whieh is cx 4 io tive place with or without app-oval of the Het ey comm:s:'on, A mass