The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 9, 1954, Page 1

VOL, LXXV Ne. 34 Moving Of Stock Island Businesses May Be Forced By US. 1 Wideni Road Department Files Suit Today To Clear U.S. 1 Right-Of-Way A dispute over the loca- tion of the right-of-way line of U. 8. 1 on Stock Island is due for an airing in circuit court, Depending on the outcome}. of the suit, some business buildings on the Island may! have to be moved to make way for the four-laning of the highway, U.S. 1 Is scheduled to be widened| from the Stock Island bridge to the Boca Chica bridge. The Stock Island bridge also will be upped from two to four lanes, According to papers on file to- day in the office of Circuit Court Clerk Earl Adams, the State Road Department of Florida has started the action against one eorporation and four individuals the owners, lessors and leasees of the land. The suit names Alton George) Parks, Lawrence Dion, Charles L. Moody, Alfred Boza, and the Cor- poration Trust, Co., agent for the Sinclair Refining Co. The businesses involved are Parks’ filling station, Moody’s grocery, and the Sinclair service station at the intersection of the old Stock Island road and U.S. 1, according to Paul Sawyer, legal adviser for the county, Sawyer’s charts, that the line the state ds to be the right-of-way boundary passes about through the center of Parks’ filling station, leaving the gas pumps) about 50 feet toward the ways The boundary line, according to the charts, passes through the center of Moody's grocery and also lops off a piece of a frame building next door to the store. ‘The line on the charts also runs through the island that holds the gas pumps at the filling station. Gleason Stars In Real Life Triangle Today NEW YORK (®#—TV comedian Jackie Gleason starred in a real life triangle in a squabble between his estranged wife and a shapely dancer in his hospital room, the New York Daily Mirror reported today. x ‘The wife dropped in last Sunday to see Gleason in Doctors Hospital where he was propped up with a broken leg. She found Jackie already had a visitor, Marilyn Taylor, a dancer on his show, the newspaper related, | and pow! away they went! The Mirror said Gleason lost his THE SoU THERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1954 IN THE U.S. A. Officers Of New Girl Scout Council MISS SARAH BOWMAN, special advisor from Girl Scout Headqu: ida Keys Girl Scout Council discuss plans for furthering Girl Scouting in Monroe County. From left to right, Mrs. C. B, Harvey, secretary, Miss Bowman, Joe Pin cil, and Mrs, Sam Toth, vice president.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Airmen Tell Of Being Marooned EEE st Official Will Visit Weather Bureau Here Robert Murray, of Washing- ton under secretary of com- merce for transportation, is expected here today for an in- spection tour of the U. S$. Wea- ther Bureau offices here. In Murray’s party will be R. H. Simpson of the weather bu- Feau’s central office in Wash- In The Snowy W Polio Vaccine | Tests Planned For Florida Second Grade Pupils Due For Tests In County Or Counties Not Yet Selected JACKSONVILLE —A new vac- The gréup is touring sever- al Florida cities, including Tam- pa, Orlando, West Palm Beach and Miami. Humor, Local N Old Copies Are Uncovered In Razed Building By JIM COBB This is a joke? Judge: “Haven't I some place before?” Prisoner: “I shouldn't wonder, I've been in some queer places in my time.” seen you of humor that was rocking Key West in 1893, judging by a yellow-| ed copy of the Key West Adver-| tiser dated Dec. 20 of that year. A real boffola, what? Harry D. Lariz, 1010 Truman) Avenue, brought copies of that/ newspaper along with several is- sues of the Key West Daily Equa- tor-Democrat to The Citizen Mon- day. He found them in a building} now being razed at Duval and Fleming Street. A glance at the newspapers) would also indicate that the city faces much the same problems} now as it did before the turn of, the century. For example, the} chief issue in that year’s city elec-| tions was the problem of unequal tax assessments. The city even had a crime prob- lem judging by this item: “J. M. Alcorda was fined one dollar in (Continued On Page Two) Duke University | Psfchologist Here For School Talks | A series of meeting between \grade school teachers and super-| ‘visors will begin today, it was an- nounced by Horace O‘Bryant, sup- lerintendent of public instruction. | ANCHORAGE, Alaska W—What) The Loh ae ee the harnaeer|| is it lik i \rninistration building, are to aes Se aeape sie mania exchange of procedures among} Snowy wasteS ithe teachers. The teachers will oe bring samples of their students’) Six airmen who were catapulted! work. into the air last Friday when an| Dr. Wally Reichenberg Hackett, | Air Force C47 “disintegrated” in|assistant professor, Department of flight told last night of their ex- Psychology, Clinical Child Psycho-| Perience, \logy, Duke University, will meet, They were among 16 men on the|with the first and second grade} plane. Searchers have found the|groups today and Thursday. arters, and officers of the Flor- der, president of the new coun- astes Of Alaskd Terrific Down Draft Was Felt Before Plane “Disintegrated” '1893 Key West Newspapers Had ews Coverage ‘Molotov Levels Big Guns On German Issue By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BERLIN (#—Soviet Foreign Min- Well, anyhow, that is the brand) ;ster y. af, Molotov leveled his big) guns on the German unification issue today, dominating the 14th session of the Big Four conference. Reports from inside the parley chamber indicated the Russian led off the day’s talks with a resume of the German situation as Moscow views it. With the necessary trans- lations, it exhausted the best part jof two hours, Whether Molotov had anything new to add to the deadlocked situa- tion could not be ascertained at this | time. While the statesmen were grad- ually burying the German issue in oratory, Austrian Foreign Minister |Leopold Figl arrived in Berlin by air to present his nation’s case for |immediate independence. The Big |Four may take up the Austrian state treaty Thursday but in any event have decided to tackle the question not later than Friday. A Western bid for the Soviet Union to prod Red China intoan early Korean peace conference was reported to have received a cool reception from Molotov, Diplomats familiar with yesterday’s secret session said the Korean proposition was presented to the Soviet foreign minister then as a possible step toward ending the Indochina War. Molotov they said, made no promise, Instead he was reported to have stuck to his demand for a big power conference with Commu- nist China and for a disarmament) conference outside the United Na-| tions. Secretary of State Dulles, Britain's Anthony Eden and France’s Georges Bidault turned him down in secret as they pre- viously had in public. The four-hour secret session, first of the two-week-old confer- ence, produced a communique {stating the four had agreed to take Engineers Club Will Visit New Sonar School A conducted tour of the new Fleet Sonar School will be includ- ed on the program for the Key son on the architectural and en- gineering aspects of its design. Mr, of Weed, Russell, and Johnson, ar- temper enough to demand a di- vorce of his wife, Genevieve, but he cooled off later and said be- cause of religious reasons he would never seek one, The Mirror reported this ex- change between Mrs. Gleason and Marilyn: “Do you love my husband?” “I do, very much. And I want you to know I didn’t start going around with him until you had separated.” The Glessons have been sepa- vated about 18 months, Their two daughters, Geraldine, 14, and Linda, 12, are with their mother. The Gleasons married in 1936 when both were in vaudeville, The Mirror said Gleason, who eracked a leg in an accidental fall on his TV show, told a reporter: “Say pal, looks like I've added a headache to my leg ache.” MASONIC NOTICE Spectal Comm. of Dade Lodge | ©: No. 14, F, & A.M., Wednesday, | 7 P.M., Scottish Rite Temple. E. A. Exam conferring Fel- loweraft Degree at 7:30 P.M, (sd) JAMES L. ATKINSON, Acting W. M, Atest: Paul C. Heflin, Sec'y. The Key West Engineers Club \meets the second Tuesday of every {month at the National Guard Ar- jmory Building, corner of White and |bers and guests are urged to be ‘on time since it will be necessary |to travel as a group on the trip |to the Fleet Sonar School, '89 Sewer Bills Are Now Overdue Liens will be placed against |Key West homes unless payme ‘of delinquent sewer service ac- counts are made promptly, , According to a report from the joffice. of the City Tax Collector, |there are that number of delin- jquent bills on file on his office, Total amount of past due bills was West Engineers Club tonight fol-) lowing a talk by Mr, H. H. John-/ Johnson is a member of the firm! chitects for the Fleet Sonar School. “Under present plans,” he ex- Southard Streets at 8 p. m. Mem-| cine which is believed to confer|bodies of three men. Seven were a long-time immunity against polio|still missing and hopes they would will be tested in Florida this year|Pe,found alive were very dim. or counties yet to be selected. | Joint Military Services Mission on The State Board of Health|the U. S. Army staff at Washing- agreed yesterday to cooperate with|ton, D. C.; and Capt. James Hill up the long-stalled Austrian inde- pendence treaty by Friday at the latest. Reports today were that this was about the only thing ac- complished. The conference swung back to public discussion of German uni-| fication today with evidence mount- Here is the schedule for the) meetings: First grade, 2:30 p. m. today. , Second grade, 2:30 p. m. Thurs- day. Third grade, 3 p. m., Feb. 15. Fourth grade, 3 p. m. Feb. 22. Fifth grade, 3 p. m. Feb. 23. lthe National Foundation for Infan-| (Continued On Page Two) ing that it will end in a week or Sixth 3p. m. Feb. 25. was ua 10 days wthout producing any new trial of the vaccine. Dr. Herbert L, Bryans of Pensa- jcola, board chairman, said the pre- ventive will be administered “on a purely voluntary basis.” ‘tile Paralysis in a nationwide field) one of my deputies will ‘plained, “children in the second grades will receive the vaccine on- ly upon permission of their parents. Children in the first and third grades will not receive the vaccine |but their names will be listed in a \‘control’ group as a check on ef- fectiveness of the vaccine.” The foundation will select the county or counties for the test in March or April, and the Florida \vaccinations will be given at the same time as those in other states cooperating in the test. the year 1954: PRECINCT NO, 1— PRECINCT NO. 2— PRECINCT NO. 3— | PRECINCT NO. 4— Gardner's Pharmacy, 1114 PRECINCT NO. 5— Standard Oil PRECINCT NO. As required by Chapter No. y at the following e set opposite each for the purpose of receivi FEBRUARY 19, 1954 Cuban Club, 1108 Duval St. .. Gomez Furniture Store, 720 Duval St... Key West High School, 1302 White St. paauen: White and Truman -- County Court House, Whitehead St. 0m East-West agreement of substantial] importance, In this respect Western minis- ters had looked to the secret talk yesterday for clues as to what Molotov might really want to ac- |complish in Berlin. If he gave any | hint he has anything in mind other than what he has talked about| publicly, it was too slight to have} aroused any excitement in Western delegations so far. Qualified informants gave this outline of the secret session: Dulles told Molotov the United States} | would have nothing to do with his |proposal for a five-ower confer- ence, including Red China, for a general discussion of world peace. Molotov proposed that two weeks ago. Dulles called for action. to TAXPAYERS 22079 of the Acts of 1943, |, or ces on the dates tax returns for Truman Avene ..... 3 The Key West Citisen DIAL oa a » —— Prospects Brigh ach buyers and /sellers— y tenants or workers - - Just 25661 or 25662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Bond Expert Is Optimistic On City's. Ability To Sell Cigarette Tax Bonds t For Early Start For $700,000 Street Construction Prospects appeared bri to Key West’s proposed $7 fiscal agent, saying that ci; should be “salable without BULLETIN Sheriff's deputies today were investigating @ murder at Marathon. Deputies were on the scene but as The Citizen went to press, sheriff's office here had received no details by radio or telephone from the inve: | Fla. Supreme ‘Court Asked To Eligibility/Of Interim-Té Governor Up For Decision TALLAHASSEE ®—The Florida Supreme Court was asked today to reverse the ruling of Leon Circuit Judge W. May Walker that the interim governor elected tis year may run for reelection in 1956 for a full four-year term. House Speaker C. Farris Bryant of Ocala, who brought the lawsuit ito determine the question in Cir-) cuit Court, said he believed Judge Walker was wrong in holding the constitutional prohibition against} ja four-year governor succeeding ‘himself did not apply to a man) elected to fill a two-year vacancy) in the office. The court did not rule immedi- ately. J. Lewis Hall, representing Brailey Odham, a candidate for the short term, contended Judge Walker had interpreted the Con- stitution correctly, However, Hall told the court, Odham took the position he had! no controversy with Bryant be- cause he was concerned at present only with his candidacy to serve out the last two years of the term of the late Gov. Dan McCarty. Hi in arguing against Bry- ant’s stand, he was giving the court the benefit of his research on the question and his own pro- fessional viewpoint. LeRoy Collins, also a candidate and a defendant in the lawsuit,’ told the court Collins was running for governor for the two year term and was not concerned at this time with the question whether, if; (Continued On Page Two) Governor Takes Limelight Today At State Fair TAMPA (M—Acting Gov. Chariey| Johns today took the spotlight of Florida’s State Fair from the pi- rates of Gasparilla. This is Governor’s Day. jmissioner Reverse Ruling ight today for an early start 50,000 street program with the receipt of a letter from C. T. McCreedy, the city’s igarette tax revenue’ bonds any trouble.” The city commission mov- ed last week to call for bids jon some 25 miles of “first class” paving after Com- Louis Carbonell jSaid that he believed the es- timated money could be bor- rowed using the city’s future cigarette tax receipts as col- lateral. They also directed the city ma- nager to determine how the work could be financed | City Finance Director Craig \Bowen said today that he contact- ed McCreedy, who arranged for the sale of a million-dollar sewer re- venue bond issue last year and McCreedy answered that in his opinion, and that of New York and Chicago bond attorneys, a cigarette tax revenue bond issue could be floated. Chief bone of contention was the question of what would hap- pen in the event the state aban- { doned the cigarette tax. The city annually receives more than 100 thousand dollars from that source. The money can be used only for street repairs in this county, McCreedy pointed out that if the state discarded the tax, a move {which he termed “unlikely,” the \eity could axsess their own cige- Trette levy. (Key West had such a tax in effect before the state took it over.) “I think it would serve in your case much better than it would in many other Florida municipalities due to the fact that you are sep. arated from other political sub-di- visons more completely than most cities. Consequently, a local cig- arette tax ordinance in Key West would be reasonably effective if the legislature ever removed the State tax. I think that it is very unlikely that it ever will be re- moved and if it ever should be, I think the legislature will be forced by expediency to provide some other sort of revenue because the cigarette tax receipts are very im- portant to our municipalities,” Mc- Creedy said in his letter. He also pointed out that the Supreme Court is now consider- ing a case which the City of Coral Gables has brought to determine if they can use cigarette tax re- ceipt bonds for construction of a storm sewer system, If they are successful in getting approval of the move, they will also probably finance construction of an in- cinerator with such bonds in the near future. “I think, , .that any amount of (Continued On Page Two) British Admiral To Visit Local © e.¢ Naval Activities Vice Admiral C. C. Hughes Hal- lett, Chief of the British Joint Ser- vices Mission, Washington, D. C, will arrive in Key West tomorrow for a three-day visit of naval ac- tivities here, Thursday, Admiral Hallett will PRECINCT NO. 7— City Hall, Greene and Ann Sts. oo... cums PRECINCT NO. 8— Monroe Meat Mkt., 533 William S$. ........ PRECINCT NO. 9— ar illing Station, Fleming and Gri enn 1330 PLM, PRECINGE NO Tene nn orien Se arice Dion‘s Service Sta., Flemi ite StS. esse 22 a PRECINCT. NO. 11 . eg ane rey seni pial me Sundry Store, 1207 T eee 2:30 PLM, PRECINCT NO. 12~ Ares High School Annex, 1400 United St. 3:00 P.M. PRECINCT NO. 13— Dr. Bryans said the board agreed lto join in the test after hearing a port from a polio foundation ad- |visory committee that the new vac- cine is “safe and ready for field trial.” The vaccine was developed at the University of Pittsburgh. It is not the same as gamma globulin which has been used to give a short-term immunity. emma somone, set at $4,540.55, |_In other business yesterday, Dr. On December 10, the Tax Col-|Wilson T. Sowder, state health of- lector said that there were 528 de- ficer, told the board Florida’s tu- linqnent accounts totaling $17,163.-/berculosis and venereal disease . jcontrol programs will be jeopar- Since than 367 accounts amount-|dized if Congress approves federal ing to $8,977.85 have been paid in) (Continued On Page Two) full and another 72 home owners; have taken advantage of the city’s Jinstallment payment plan to ac- count for $2,863.45. Adjustments amounting to $781.-| 80 were also made, according to’ BRICK at the Tax Collector's office. The delinquent list will be on file Strunk Lumber for public inspection in the City 129 simenten Street, near City Hall Clerk's office, shortly. ALL KINDS OF Jimmie’s Drive Inn, PRECINCT NO, 14— Tucker’s Dept. Store, Duck Avenue ....ecc-- FEBRUARY 23, 1954 PRECINCT NO. 15— Marathon Post Office, Marathon, Fl. FE teoeanversee FEBRUARY 25, 1954 PRECINCT NO. 16— Islamorada Post Office, Islamorada, Fla. —- MARCH 1, 1954 PRECINCT NO. 17— Tavernier Post Office, Tavernier, Fla, ..—-~-~-10:00 A.M. CLAUDE A, GANDOLFO, Monroe County Tax.Assessor Sth and Flagler Sts. —-—--~ 3:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 9:30 A.M. 10:00 A.M. break the deadlock at Panmunjom| on a peace conference between the} (Continued On Page Two) Art Exhibit To Continue Today The Key West Artist's Group Street Fair on Clinton Place resumed today after temporarily closing during yesterday's nor’wester. Hundreds of Key Westers and winter visitors attended Sunday's opening. Several bought paintings and others just browsed. The show is open from 10 a.m. to $ p.m. daily. It will continue through February 13th. Johns is scheduled to tour the'board the destroyer Wilke and wit- fairgrounds, packed with young-|ness anti-submarine _ operations. sters, for this also is Children’s Friday, the Admiral will visit the Day. : |Fleet Sonar Schéol, and call upon Johns and his wife rode in an|Rear Admiral! George C. Towner, open car in the Gasparilla parade|Commander of the Key West Na- yesterday, and later reviewed the Val Base. scores of floats, bands and march-| Admirai Hailett will _ arrive ing units from a seat in the fair-|aboard National Airlines Wednes- grounds grandstand. |day, and leave Friday afternoon Also present for the festivities for Washington, D. C, were the other two entrants in this year’s governor’s race, State | Sen. LeRoy Collins and Brailey ‘Odham. Collins rode in the pirate invas- | ‘ion ship to shore, dressed in pirate garb, then changed to civilian clothes. Odham walked along the weather one of the biggest crowds lin Gasparilla history lined the route, |) One spectator, Herbert Simms, 15, of New Port Richey, died of a JOSEPH YATES PORTER ATTORNEY and COUNSELOR-AT-LAW Announces the Removdl of His Offices from 413 Fleming St. to 505 Whitehead St. Effective Feb. 8