The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 15, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has most equable climate in . VOl. LXXV. No. 39 country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit the the THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER She Ken West Citisen IN KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1954 THE U.S.A. reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers DIAL 2.5661 0t525662. Quick/ Comm SIFIED Ads! You'll + + Just PRICE FIVE CENTS Mayor Harvey Asks Quick Action On Poinciana Offer Advocates alfrly Offer On Units For Operation By The City Mayor C. B, Harvey said today that he will ask the clty commission tonight to “take immediate acton” to purchase a large portion of the Poinciana Housing pro- ject. ; Earlier, the city commis- sion moved to instruct City Attorney J. Y, Porter to ne- gotiate with the owners of the land for its purchase to save about 500 housing units from being torn down, Under the Lanham Act, the housing would have to be removed before the land could be returned to its ci- vilian owners, “Immediate action appears to be imperative if Poinciana is to be continued as a public housing project for the benefit of the low- er income group,” Mayor Harvey said today, “The time is rapidly drawing near when the city must take posi- tive action to acquire the property or allow it to be transferred into private hands, I feel that the city can best operate this housing in a manner which will redound for the benefit of all concerned and at the meeting of the city commission to- night I will ask that body to take a the property’ by offer to the Owners of the land./ This offer should, of course, be| made subject to an appraisal! which has already been ordered,” the Mayor stated, ‘If the land’, which is now pri- vately owned, is purchased by the city, the buildings thereon, which are owned by the govern- ment, will be transferred to the city without cost for the purpose of operation as a public housing Project and will fill a vital com- munity need,” Mayor Harvey concluded. The city commission ordered an appraisal on 164 units in Poin- ciana on January 18 preparatory to making a purchase offer, City officials have been unani-: mous. in their opinion that the op- eration of the housing project/ would be profitable to the city. The project is now operated by the Housing Authority under tie supervision of the federal govern-| ‘making ‘a definite po Rotarians Visit Here IRWIN WAITE, Miami Springs, around Key West and through Finch, (left) and Phil C. Lovejoy, Jack- sonville, were visitors in Key West Saturday and Sunday. Waite is past District Governor of Rotary District 243, Lovejoy retired recently from the position he held as secretary of Rotary Inter- national for 23 and a half years. He is now general manager of the Florida Children’s Home Society. The two men were shown the Naval Base by Edwin F, Trevor, District Governor of District 243.—Citizen Staff Photo. ae sed Plans For $869,000 City Improvements Submitted Rodeo Will Be Shown Here This Weekend Nat'l Championship Western Show And Daredevil Group To Appear At Stadium Hold onto your hats and break! out your western accent—the Na- tional ‘Championship Rodeo, billed Program Would Include New City Hall With Other Municipal Projects A preliminary study on an esti- mated $869,000 capital improve- ment plan for the City of Key West, has been completed by Clif- ford and Cooper Associates, con- sulting engineers. The firm, who engineered the Key West sewer project now in Ike May Go To California President Returns From Quail Hunt Sunday Night By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH J WASHINGTON President Ei- |4 Senhower, just back from a week- |< end of quail hunting in Georgia, | t may travel to California this week for a brief vacation at Palm iH i i Springs. The White House continued to- day to decline comment on reports |; about a Palm Springs visit, but a to be named said preliminary ar- Tangements for such a trip by plane are just about completed. The Los Angeles Examiner said it had learned that Eisenhower will arrive at the California re-|~ sort Friday. The Los Angeles Times also said the President Planned a visit of a week or 10 days. Arrangements reportedly were made for him to stay at the Smoke Tree Ranch of Paul G. Hoff- man, board chairman of the Stude- baker Corp, Hoffman, former chief of the gov- ernment’s foreign aid program, was an adviser to Eisenhower dur- ing the presidential eampaign. Eisenhower flew back to the Cap- ital last night after a weekend of quail shooting at the plantation es- tate of Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey, The estate is located near Thomasville, Ga., close to the Florida line, The President brought down 10 birds Friday afternoon and an aide reported he got the legal daily limit of an even dozen on Satur- day, when he turned chef and broiled the quail for lunch over a charcoal fire in the open. During the Georgia trip the Pres- ident’s headquarters announced he will send a special message on atomic energy to Congress some time this week. 7 The message will call for en- actment -of legislation to (1) en- courage peacetime use of atomic energy by private industry, and (2) permit the sharing of limited atomic information with allies of the United States, Maintenance OfUS. Force In Europe Needed By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER BERLIN (®—American officials | government official who asked not}4 | ee said today that Russia’s rigid de-| ment, jtermination to keep her forward Qualify For Water Board Election TODAY’S NOON DEADLINE Florida Keys Aqueduct District Commission. Three of the 11 candidates qualified today. Two of #hose three are shown above in the office of the county cle-k. Lef to right are Earl, R. Adams, Jaycee Fishing Tourney Enters The 5th Week Eligible Entries Are In For All Classes Except The Tuna Fish Key West’s own fishing tourna- under the sponsorship of progress, was asked to make the |military positions in Europe imeans (2° Jaycees, is now entering its study by the city commission, It | covers a new city hall, a muni- cipal auditorium and rbage incinerator. | They appeared before the city) commission last week and present- sizable forces on the continent for! a léng time, Smoking out Soviet military in- tentions in Germany and Austria—| the United States must maintain|fifth week. Up to Sunday night, at least | one fish of over minimum weight | | in each of the seventeen types as evidenced by their refusal to| has been entered in the contest, saw 11 men qualified for the Feb, 23 election to name a five-man udy slerk, Alu;zo Cothron, isiamorara contacter; and Vance Stirrup.—Citiaen Staff Phote, Finch Golf Club Brings Rooster’s Early Morning Serenade To Abrupt End A guest at the Casa Marina teed off on a rooster. Result: one dead rooster. The guest literally teed off. He used a golf club rooster’s noisy early-morning senenades. |the Casa Marina with his crowing, it no longer. He broke out a golf club — even though the time was ja. m. — and went in search of the rooster. crowing, ‘rina and left it there. ful. ‘Private Planes Boy Is Injured to end the For a couple of weeks, the rooster had been annoying guests at ~ The other morning, Solomon Goldsmith of Brooklyn could stand He found him. One well-placed swing ended the rooster and the The guest brought the dead bird into the lobby of the Casa Ma- Once more the early mornings at the Casa Marina are peace- Eleven Enter Race For Positions OnShort Trip On Fla. Keys Aqueduct Commission Three Qualify Today To Beat Noon Deadline Three men—two of them members of the present wa- ter board—today qualified jfor next Tuesday's election of the five-man Florida |Keys Aqueduct District | Commission. | Noon today was the dead- jline for qualifying. | Eight men have qualified previously, making an 11- man slate of candidates. Voters will select five of the 11 men. | Those qualifying today were Al- ) \onzo Cothron, Islamorada contrac- \tor; Vance Stirrup, manager of the |Key West Housing Authority; and Paul E. Mesa, salesman for a Mi- ami wholesale food concern. Cothron and Stirrup are mem- |bers of the Florida Keys Aqueduct |Commission. Those who have qualified pre- jviously are: Anthony L. Ulchar, civil service employee; Benjamin I. Freer, Jr., civil service employee; William Freeman, of Stowers Co.; James |W. Murphy, civil service employee; Harry M, Baker, chief of the Navy fire department; Manuel I, Rodri- guez, of the Palms housing pro- jject; Allan L. Hampton, of the |Gas company; and Laurie F. Rob- \erts, former police captain, The election Feb. 23 is being held as required by a special act of the legislature which set up last year’s $14,000,000 water bond election. 9 The bond ffsue, which was de- feated, was to build another pipe- line from the mainland to Key West. Under the legislature’s act, the five-man board to be named next Tuesday would have functioned if the bond issue had carried. With money from the bond Is- sue, the Florida Keys Aqueduct District Commission would have assumed the indebtedness and duties of the Florida Keys Aque- duct Commission. As it stands now, the men to be 3 Jelected next Tuesday have no du- ties and receive no salary. It has been rumored that some of the 11 candidates say they will —if elected—start court action to throw out the provisions of the act that gives them no What action a court will take, remains to be seen—if these can- didates are elected and if they start court action, ment, jas the largest traveling western! 44 i preliminary sketches and tenta- The onwers of the land have re-|show on the road today, is coming tiy, ificati portedly been anrious to sell be. y S|tive specifications for the three roll back power at any point—is| except for tuna. regarded by U. S. Secretary of| Make Trek To Two dolphin were caught on Fri-| 'In Auto Mishap Replacement As ' t i cause they receive only about $5,-| septa 000 annually for rental of the Jand,| Mother Supports Son’s Story Of Dad’s Slaying CLARE, Mich, ww — A mother! backed up her 16-year-old son's) story today that he shot and killed| his drinking father last night to| protect her in their small farm house five miles north of here. | Mrs, Fran Helmic, 37, said her son Gary shot her husband, 38, when “‘he tried to make me go! ” out and drink with hi jon Saturday, at 3 p. m. and at 8:15 The National Championship Ro- deo and Daredevils Thrill Circus will appear at Wickers Stadium for three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 19 through 21. There will be one on Friday at 8:15 p, m. Two shows} P. m., and one performance on} Sunday at 3 p. m. The big western show has play- ed to more than 5,000,000 spec. tetors in its 15 years on the road. It has played such stadiums as Yankee Stadium in New York. City, and has just completed a three-day run at the Miami Sta- dium. In each of these great Parks, attendance records were established, Minutes later she, Gary and oth- er Helmic children were telling their story to Clare Patrolman Michek McDonald. Mrs, Helmic, with her 11-month- old son, David, in her arms, told Police that her husband was a con- stant drinker and had taken a “cure” in vaimr a little more than @ year ago. Gary admitted to state police that he shot his father with a 16- gauge shotgun. The boy told police that he got the gun from his father’s car and when he arrived back in the house Bis father was starting for his mother to force her to go with him. Gary said he told him to stop,' and when he didn’t he fired. CYPRESS LUMBER and MOULDINGS at The performances here this week- |boys and cowgirls from all points of the nation competing in thrilling| bull riding, The rodeo management is offer- ing a prize of $1,000 to any spec-| jtator who can ride Big Syd, a full- {blooded Brahma bull, for 10 sec- onds, Cowboy Roy Simpson and Trig- | ger, Jr his wonder horse, ap- Pear in person as well as the | world S$ Youngest performing cow- | girl, five-yearold Peggy Ann, | and her talented Pony, Other Performers include Tin |Horn Hank Keénan and his dancing \donkey, Moonshine: Yo Yo, the, |bucking burro, who challenges any youngster to ride him 10 seconds;| projects, They estimated the cost of the \city hall including a fire and po- lice station at about $262,000. The {structure would be of modernistic one-story design with the excep- jtion of a small upper-deck area performance |to be utilized as jail facilities, dor- mitory and recreation area for fire- men, The engineers conferred with city department and office force heads before drawing their plans. The price mentioned for the city ! hall does not include office equip- ment or air conditioning. Site of the city hall, according to a master plan prepared for the! city recently, would be at Palm Avenue and Roosevelt Boulevard.|aM article in the Cost of the auditorium, accord-| ‘ing to the engineers would be! The story, by Denis Sneigr, staff e about $390,000 including seating ac-)Member of The Key West Citize end include 52 events with cow-|comodations for about 3,000 per-/includes two photos — one of t sons, nominal lighting equipment and framework for stage tioning, according to the report. The estimate for the incinerator was set at $217,000. Jack Cooper of the engineering firm said that. construction of a 50-ton incinerator which would be expected to operate for about 10 to 12 hours per day. Future expansion of the city could be expected to increase the use of or what amounts to in all prac-| tibility, a continuous operation— which is the ideal arrangement for operation of such a unit. | City Manager Victor Lang, how--Dora. a quadrille on horseback by eight ever, said today that he is opposed horsemen; Frank Biron, and numerous Strunk L mb [champion roper; tor. He termed it a “needless ex- U er jcircus acts such as the High Fly-|penditure of city funds.” | 120 Simonton St., Gulf Dock ¢ jing Aleidos who use no safety de- (Conunued On Page Two) | “The county health department (Continueo On Page Iwo) uip-| Schooner operating anvwhe . Toceo contests of bronc riding and ment. Heating facilities have been|Wtld today, and a shot of R. T. |provided for, but not air condi-/ Steadman, mate of the vesse State Dulles as one of th important achievements of West- |; ern diplomacy at the Big Four} conference, it convinced that this finding will} (Continued On Page Two) Citizen Staffer Has Article In Nat'l Magazine The Key West based cable ship, Western Union, is the subject of March it Outboard Magazine, Western Union, the only Steadman lives at 912 Fleming St. His father, G. R. Steadman,| captain of the Western Union, lives at 324 Elizabeth St. teadman’s career and tells some of the work the cable s! does. | The March issue of Outboard Magazine, written for outboard mo- tor ies with Florida backgrounds. of Homestead landed the | recognized as a | is not eligible for @ most|qay, the largest weighing 21 pounds jof Thomasville, N. C., who was) The American group here is also/fishing from Jake Key’s Legion. A cero mackeral, a variety that clear away any confusion and un-/has been scarce up to now, was | registered by Louise McMullen, of : Pittsburgh, Pa. Her fish weighed ger, said today the pilots are mem-| jan even nine pounds and measured pers of the Sportsman Pilots As- |two feet, eight inches. The biggest fish to be caught | since the tournament began last |‘innati. | January 17 was a 400-pound dus- nt. Unfortunately, this spec and Bad weather over the weekend issue Of|kept many of the boats in port. Of final arrangements. the few which ventured forth, the} Pilot One (Capt. Bill Wickers) In spite of the wind and choppy seas, the bottom fishing boats have been doing well with the smaller reef fishes, The Sun- day catches of (Capt. Shirley Garson), the Grey-| Es hound (Capt. Tarracino) and the Ithe! cost. was iealsdiicn G6 Ades story briefly outlines Capt. G the Storm King eo. H. Bates (Capt. Tommie vl Lones) were of good quantity, but he was thrown from a 25-foot lad- iP the big ones all got away. Capt. Lones’ boat brought one of Between 35 and 50 private planes will fly into Key West Friday en|day afternoon, route to Veradero Beach. Cuba Friday was taken by Carl C. Wilson,} A Nebraska man faces three traf- fic charges as the result of an ac- ‘cident which resulted in minor in- juries to a youthful cyclist Satur- Police identified the man as George Faraldo, airport mana-|John R. Ward, of Omaha, Nebras- President Asked By Gen. Chiang TAIIPEH, Formosa (#—General- sociation with headquarters in Cin-| struck nine-year-old William Fla |ney, 68 Sigsbee Road, The pilots will stay here over- stay in Cuba, Faraldo added. Col. contusions about the body. )Richard L. Welpton, of Homestead, | ka. They said that he failed to see issimo Chiang Kai-shek in an ex- ja stop light at Roosevelt Boule-|traordinary gesture today asked vard and Sigsbee Park Road and his ruling Kuomintang party to in-|choose another man as the next President of Nationalist China. He Young Flannery was taken to the said he felt the best interests of qe », Naval Hospital where his injuries|his nation would be served if he ky shark, Mr. and Mrs, Al Kis night and take off for a week's were disagnosed as abrasions and were not nominated. He suggested two men for the Ward was charged with reckless post and offered, “if I am trusted,” jwho is Florida Governor of the as- driving, causing an accident and to serve either as head of the \sociation, is due here Thursday for failing to heed a stop light. The Coast Guard will have boats and planes patrolling the route s Sewer Project ,/brought in a 332 pound kingfish!tween here and Cuba, Faraldo ad-; he! caught by Harry Mclntire of Ore-'ded. ‘Change Asked cable! gon, Missouri. the Miami Workman | Hurt Seriously City Manager Victor Lang sa |today that he has issued an order to the contractors for the Key tis |West sewer system project to post- s' ‘pone work in areas of “maximum Cc A Miami workman was serious- tourist concentration” until after ly injured Saturday afternoon when April Ist. der while working on a sign at, (Continued On Page Two) |Dick’s Tire Service, 929 Truman! the rare and interesting rabbit Avenue. thusi 5 fish, which gets its name from| Peanuts. (the plant to about 21 hours daily, verre usiasts, also includes other/the remarkable similarity of its|Zemaitis, an employee of the Tro. Identified by police as Fran SUFAY Bullet ° ° There didalatny cboct abe eat. (head to that of a rabbit, lacking|pical Lite Sign company of aia Kills Motorist board motorists who cruised through Florida’s lake country,| starting the three-day trek at Mt. Another article tells how the Out- national|to the construction of an incinera-\board Club in Jacksonville arrang- ed with city officials to have laun- ching ramps built for the use of outboard boats. Plans for ramps iso are shown in the article. ’ only the ears. CLASSIC BALLET i Languages PRINCESS NINA Children and Adults TEL. 2-3161 mi, the man suffered fractures of both forearms and a cut over his Officer Lionel Soriano said that mer high school principal yeste: the accident occurred when Ze- day. naitis was repairing a revolving) Thomas Horace Rogers, 79, was ‘ign, believing that the currentidriving his car. A policeman in as turned off. But during the re-jpatrol car a block away fired at aire, the sign began to revolvelanother car believed driven by ad knocked him to the ground.) (Continued on Page Swo) Pa Lang said that he was instruct- HOUSTON (#—A bullet intended left eye that required 17 stitches. for a fleeing burglar killed a for- jarmed forces or as premier. He suggested for president phil- josopher Hu Shi, former ambassa- dor to Washington, or Yu Yu-jen, jthe aged head of the Control’ Yuan. jHu is not a member of the |Kuomintang. Yu is. Chiang said ., the party thus could choose a non- id member. Chiang’s surprise recommenda- ion was made at the opening ses- ion of the Kuomintang’s Central Committee meeting near Taipeh, The party was expected to fe ject it. THIRD AUDUBON SCREEN TOUR K.W. High School Auditorium TONIGHT, 8:00 P.M. Allan D. Cruickshank Narrating His Color Film “BELOW THE BIG BEND” Single Adms. (Fed. Tax. Incld.) Servicemen (through 1 and Wives ........... High School Students 21 Juniors Sct: . 20¢ MONROE COUNTY : AUDUBON SOCIETY i