The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 12, 1954, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 65° THE VOL. LXXV No. 37 SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER Che Ken West Cilise: ee KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1954 140 Industrialists To Visit Navy Activities | Members Of NSI ;, Group Will Make Stork Defeated 3-Day Stay Here |In Race Today More than 140 members, Key West Police Patrolman y RL. J earl of the National Security this ee ri Y Industrial Association will] it was with a stork. be guests of the Navy here! his report. s Patterson is a Navy man, at- tached to the Naval Ordinance Unit here. James said that he was pa- trolling Roosevelt Boulevard in next week, it was announced] a squad car shortly after 5 tod a.m. today when he saw a car ys speeding out the highway. The {ndustrialists will ar-| He stopped it and mae iver: river, P. tH rive Wednesday for a three- pocket pecsiadiry. Oe Wace day visit to watch anti-sub- 3 oon. Bie marine exercises and famil-| yh) errived at the Naval iarize themselves with other) Hospital shortly and five minu- Naval activities here. | , Mrs. Patterson gave |« i boy. The NSIA is a non-political, non-| birth to # baby 4 profit organization that acts as a ranamoee Ae damon ae clearing house for ideas and in-| W® peer a amese dustrial experience relating to the) country’s defense. The members contribute their time and talents to working wit the Department of Defense to further efficiency and economy in national preparedness, and to create a closer understanding ota and working relationship between themselves and the military ser- wea Honors B The association was founded in onors oy 1944 as the Navy Industrial Asso- ciation at the suggestion of inal T late James Forrestal, who recog. cout roop nized the need for an organiza- tion to form a close tie-in between manufacturers and the military. With unification of the armed forces, the organization’s name was changed to the National Se- curity Industrial Association and its activities were expanded to serve the Army and Air Force, Captain Simpson | Tells Group About Scout Jamboree Rotarians had as honor guests at their meeting yesterday members eS etre | ONLY FIVE MONTHS OLD, little Delores faces a second operation for congenital glaucoma. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abelardo Disgdiertt, hope to take their little daughter to New York for operation.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch, as well as the Navy. of Troop 52, Boy aan of peel e fr js ca, sponsored by the local clul B. seat i we & ate werncen eee BADY Delores, Boru..Bhind, Faces * z special depa sored a Boy Scout troop ce 2 Pp. ey ea enrhery fon re 1923," acegrding to the chairman their trip to Key West. of the Boy Scout Committee, i i 1 sta-| Claude Spear. = poy Me sery cet reggie be! Mr. Spear introduced Cae B guests at an informal cocktail hour S: Simpson, MC, Sead oe st at Echoasis, followed by a dinner\the Silver Beaver, the highest) at the Commissioned Officers’ Mess/*ward in Boy Scouting, Captain at the Naval Station. Simpson has been active in th The visitors will be housed at the/Boy Scout organization for thirty- i , eight years. Lepnaerrae aoy Rapley - bred Captain Simpson congratulated Naval Station, ‘ i On Thursday morning the group) sip 4 will tour the submarine tender,|* Boy Scout airs page ad USS Howard W. Gilmore, and the hes club apeegrene norm ili ave simila’ S. new ne and a half dollar Fleet Fe ar geeatitatiy Gn Bor scout! ps ere fernoon they wil! |aims and the theme for this year, te Sada demon. {Forward on Liberty’s Team | wines Dada Peppa B. Captain Simpson was stationed | Directly following the demonstr. miceiienne at treat mookst the | tion they will participate in a | ed ah copra de ~ round-table discussion with Oper- ea ws LA or ational Development activit He told of the year of prepa ‘Sonar School | Rotary Club on its fine troop be sated that it was fitting that Has Open House The Fleet Sonar School will hold open house for the public tomorrow between 10 a, m, and 3 p. m. The Truman Avenue gate will be open and guides will be available for conducted tours of the new school. The schoo! was dedicated last Jan, 14, + ion that went into planning for Fleet All Weather Training Unit | tion and Helicopter Squadron One in the Jambor: and how a barren | mesa on h near Newport | etd the Seaplane Base Theat, | ost, Cattorne wee nened we |AViation Cadet for a visit of the Naval Air Sta-| to a small city to accommodate | tion, Boca Chica, for a static jet 2nd Sight-Giving Operation Soon | Surgery: May Change Course Of Congenitai Eye Ailment By SUE JONES Chubby little Delores L's¢ five-month-old daughter o: |Mrs. Abelardo Disgdiertt, Lane, faces a second operation for glaucoma. Delores was born blind, but it | was not discovered until a rou- | Bill Bailey’s real old-time min- tine check up revealed the con- strels are coming to town tomor- | dition. row for three performances. | Her parents took her to a Mia-. Key Westers will then have the {mi eye specialist on the advice of opportunity of enjoying their out- ja local physician. An operation:standing presentation and at the |was performed when Delores was same time to help a most worthy \three months old. Just last week cause—the Lions Club Blind Fund. Bill Bailey’s ‘Minstrels Set 3 Shows Sat. Lions Club To Get Proceeds For Blind Fund For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers. . Just DIAL 2.5661 or 2.5662. HE U.S.A. EX PRICE FIVE CENTS “lm No Capt. Murphy To Speak At Rites | | _ Capt. C. L. Murphy, Chief of | Staff, will be the principal City Commission speaker at ser s her Mon- 5 Slates Meeting | . | ° Ww DankKing, ays Da ec e e Artist Atter Gui ty ea : : 2 f | Pennsylvanian Is qT Jaycees Will Name Winner OF Bound Over To ee Ko Whe 7 inal Court Annual Award February 19 =| Crim By Albury Today Past Presidents ecusinkecee rT. y Will Be Honored CAB To Hear Louis Arthur Plath has a At Dinner-Dance s penchant for dealing in fi- The Distinguished Service Both Sides Of jnancial matters. . |Award of the Key West He likes to write checks lSaniom Chamb fc NAL Di jand transfer money from oe cae cama om= spute jone bank to another. jmerce will be presented at oe — His trouble is that it fs not la dinner-dance Feb. 19 in caer And Wilde his money and the bank ac- the La Concha Hotel, it was| Will Represent counts are a figment of his announced today. County Commission very fertile imagination. His The annual award is given to a In Washington checks bounce. young man who has performed out: That’s why the 31-year- |standing and distinguished service! National Airlines abrupt cancel- ld P 7] areas es i \for the community. jlation of three daily flights here © *ennsy'vanian appeared In connection with the awagd, Jan. 1 will get an airing before in Peace Justice Ira Albury’s the Jaycees will’ also honor all the Civil Aeronautics Board in court this morning to plead Past presidents of the organi |Washington Monday, . is tions. | Paul Sawyer, county attorney, | guilty at a preliminary hear- The dinner, scheduled for 7:30 today said he received a wire |ing to charges of issuing two |P. m., will be followed by the pre-| from Rep. Bill Lantaff (D-Fla.) {fraudulent checks amount- ;Sentation and a dance. | that a 2 p. m. appointment * _ . Saee | _ The junior chamber was char- | been made with the CAB. jing to $390 to a local bicycle | tered Feb. 19, 1938, with Earl A double-barrelled petition aim. Shop owner December 30. Adams, county clerk, as the first ed at NAL and sent to the CAB But Plath, who freely admitted | president. {last month by Sawyer has been to signing the checks, had a story The charter was presented to placed on the CAB docket for re- to go along with his guilty plea. jAdams and a group of. young men view. He claimed that an 18-year- by Hayes Wood, former Dade} Sawyer and Harold Wilde, coun-' old companion forced him to County tax collector and a past ty airport consultant, will be in| write the checks in payment for president and district vice’ presi- Washington for the review. | two motor scooters which the jdent, at that time, of the Jaycees.| The petition charged: | pair used to travel to Miami. He Since the presentation of the) 1. That NAL violated a postal added that the companion forced charter 16 years ago, the junior regulation by not giving 10-days him to take benzedrine and blew chamber has been active. jnotice when the airline cancelled marijuana smoke in his face Affairs which the Jaycees parti-/three of its four daily flights here| while he was sleeping. jcipate in include the March of on Jan 1, | The accomplice, identified as {Dimes Ball, which raised $1,400 2. And that NAL’s one daily Wayne Wagner, was later picked {this year; Get-Out-The -Vote cam- flight was not meeting the public up in Tampa and sentenced to two paigns; election-eve rallys; Christ- necessity and convenience for air years in Raiford on a bad check mas lighting contest; good govern- service. |charge. Plath was jailed in Jack- ment award, and the fishing tour-| A letter from the post office de- sonville Jan. 8, although he claims nament, which had more than a partment in Washington told Saw- that he turned. himself in. “If | was thousand entries last year. lyer that NAL had given notice of a crook at heart, would I have The Jaycees are urging that all the flight schedule changes Jan. 7.'surrendered in Jacksonville?” he members make their reservations) Sawyer pointed out that the sche- asked the court. jearly for the dance by calling 2-dule changes were made Jan.1and But the Sheriff's Department 5962 or 2-5573 no later than next that a 10-day notice should have said differently at this morning’s | Wednesday, jbeen made in December to com- hearing — they held that Plath \ply with the regulation. was picked up after he became in- After a review of Sawyer’s pe- jvolved in another shady financial tition before the CAB, National (Continued or Page Two) will be given an opportunity to | reply, Sawyer added. 2 Meanwhile, work crews were | hree Lincoln (Continuea On Page Two) |. - 7+. Descendants Join ° In Celebration NEW YORK (®—The 145th an niversary of Abraham Lincoln's day commemorating the sink- ing of the Maine. The ceremonies at 5:15 p. m. — and to observe flight] "p. the time the Scouts arrived, Early Thursday evening the bus- water had been piped in; electri- pweerccneng Scouts and leaders who ‘Program Open To the baby’s youthful parents were All of the proceeds jtold that another operation on one, children’s matinee at 2:30 p. jof Delores’ eyes would be neces- HS. Graduates Saturday and the two evening from a . | in the Maine Plot at City Cem- etery will be sponsored by Ar- thur Sawyer Post No. 28, Amer- ican Legion. { The City Commission will meet this afternoon in a special session fat 4:30 p. m. Purpose of the meeting is to con- birth finds only three descendants —all great-grandchildren—to join in celebrating the day. i city and sanitary facilities were us any. inessmen le ay Dehea ioe a complete. A network of roads con-|| Young men who can qualify for S4TY eepiae S, t Fort Tay- vected the 32 areas in the camp,'training to be flying officers in the "ov eg ficers’ Mess (Open) at Fo. ¥-/"Each area was self-sufficient in United Stated Air Force are being j accord. Diack eyes and dark h They are Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, his sister Mary Lincoln Beckwith, and Lincoln Isham. All are grandchildren of Robert Todd Lincoln, the only child of the Civil War President to reach maturity. shows at 7:30 and 9:30 ». m., sider the city’s capital improve- a (Continued On Page Two) | es ment program. ish-French heritage ly apparent in he r. Her bor. aN, Presale niacin ee every way, The Scouts were divid-/Sought in the local area, =, Ses 2 honor. /¢4 into troops of 32 and composed ing to an announcement by Ca sleepy fro Key West will be guest of honor. jtain Francis R. Baird, Command- y her nap. She turned On Friday the group will spend of patrols of 8 boys. most of the day at sea aboard de- etroyers and submarines observing -sub-|W8S_in itself a big undertaking.’ Recently, for the first tine since combined |8™,/ sea. end --satl-sub the closing days of World War 11, marine warfare exercises, return- ing to port at approximtely 3 p. m./ The industrialists who do not wish to remain over night or for the week-end will depart for Mi- ami by chartered busses at 4:30 Pp. m. ‘ tae er head Captain Simpson stated that feed-/¢T of the Aviation Cadet Se’ection ner tead ing the many healthy young boys (Continued On Page Two) Navy Donates Picnic Tables Civil Service To County Beach Board Postpones Cop Discussion | ‘The Civil Service Board took no ection last night in approving the Promotion of Police Sergeant Bien- Ne Perez to the rank of Cap- Reason for not discussion the eontroversial matter, they . said, was that City Attorney J. Y. Por- ter notified them he was not pre- pared to give an opinion on the wording of a letter from Police) Chiet Raymond Cabrera to the ci commission telling of the promo-| tion or a section of the city charter) which says that commissioners! may not interfere with the hiring! or firing of city employees. No other business was discusse by the board last night. | ‘The Navy today delivered stx big tables and benches to the County Beach for use as picnic tables. The tables, about three feet by elght feet, were presented to the county with the compliments of Rear 4 George C. Towner, commander of the Naval Station, and Capt. W. H. Truesdell, com- manding officer of the Fleet Sonar School. The tables formerly were used as work tables in the school. Each table will seat from eight to 10 persons, Sheathing and Form PLYWOOD at Strunk Lumber 120 Simenton St. near Coca Cela |Detachment for South Florida. (Continued On Page Two) p. mother brought her in all rosy and Navy's Largest Blimp Visits Here e direction of stra dimpled into the smile 1 brunette cherub. i She follows sound but wrinkles % | (Continued On Page Two) ‘ voices, of a sm. , That Must G: That Must Go! That Must Go! That Must Go! 117 WHITE STREET 235 SIMONTON STREET SPECIAL We Have 6 New 1953 Fords We Have 4 New 1953 Ford Trucks We Have 2 New 1953 Mercurys We Have 15 Late Model Used Cars COME IN, NAME YOUR PRICE, WE MAY TAKE IT, NO MATTER HOW LOW YOUR OFFER — TRY US NOW! MONROE MOTORS, Inc. A-1 USED CAR LOT r Station. The big sh. PHONE 2.5631 st is one of many tria PHONE 2.5881 ‘ iJ THE YZP2N-1, 350 feet long, the ..avy's lar yesterday from the Lakehurst, N. J., NAS, after an extended flight of 39 hours. » pilot was Ledr. Ben Levitt, USN. Also aboard was Cdr. M. H. Epps, USN, senior member the board.—Official U.S. Navy Photograph, The Beckwiths are children of Robert Todd Lincoln’s daughter jJessie. Robert Beckwith was born \pear Chicago but has lived most of jhis life in Vermont and in and around Washington, D. C. | From his mother he inherited a \farm near Washington in Virginia aj |His wife reported, ‘we are trying 4 |to farm it and not doing too good ja job.” | Mary Lincoln Beckwith now lives in Manchester, Vt., in her grand- father’s old summer home: Unmar- | (Continuea on Page fwo) Su NOTICE! NOTICE! Third Audubon SCREEN TOUR Key West High School Auditorium Mon., Feb. 15, 8 P.M. ALLAN D. CRUICKSHANK Narrating His Color Film “BELOW THE BIG BEND” SINGLE ADMISSIONS (Fed. Tax Included) | sacend ea RET Servicemen (through 1/c) and Wives High School Student: Juniors a MONROE COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY National Audubon Soclety lump, is conducting trial runs from Boca Chica et longer than the blimps regularly stationed ip, ost 100 We 20 l runs being conducted by the Board of Inspection and Survey.