The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 24, 1954, Page 1

VOL. LXXV Ne. 47 Cerebral Palsy Assn. Sets Survey In County Info On No. Of Cases Here Is Sought By Local Group A full-scale, county-wide} survey to determine the ex- act number of cerebral pal-| sy victims in Key West, will get underway shortly, ac-| cording to William Chap-| pell, president of the Unit-| ed Cerebral Palsy Associa- tion of Key West. The survey is being con- ducted in an effort to de- termine whether or nota cerebral palsy clinic is nec- essary in-Key West or if pa- tients should continue to be referred to Miami for treat- ment and care. Chappell said today that Wilbur Franklin, principal of the Poinciana Element- ary School has been reques- ted to organize a poll a- mong the city’s school chil- dren to aid in determining the number of palsy cases) here. Franklin: said today that each school child in the city will be giv- en a note to take to his or her frompals bg parents asking if there are any persons in their family suffering from palsy—or if they know of any} person who is a victim. And officials of the Association shave asked that any other resi- ‘dant of the county knowing of « case of cerebral palsy write to them, ip care of The Citizen. All letters will be considered confi- dential and will be turned over to officials of the Association un- opened. | This is necessary because many of these cases are kept secret, it was pointed out. Often, palsy is in- accurately labelled as a “mental disease.” The Navy is being asked to con- duct a survey among its depen.) Chappell, explained the purpose of | the survey, saying: “The Cerebral) Palsy Association is supported by) funds obtained by public subscrip- tion and we don’t want to spend’ the money in the wrong direction.” He added that a team of medi- cal specialists will be in Key West in the future to determine just what type of treatment is need- ed for each ¢ but that first, | (Continued On Page Eight) Educator From Sarasota Will Visit Schools James A. Hightower, assistant superintendent of public instruction,! of Sarasota County, will be here! tomorrow through Saturday to dis-| cuss the buying of classroom sup- plies Horace O’Bryant, Monroe County superintendent of publi instruction,| said today in announcing the visit! that Hightower is well qualified to help with this problem in this coun- ty. Hightower, O'Bryant said, has been assistant superintendent since} 165. The three-day schedule will in- clude various group meetings and visits to schools. O'’Bryant said the school system ts working to stretch the taxpay- @r’s dollar as far as possible. Last week two art instructors from Dade County worked with art teachers here. O'Bryant said this is in keeping with the school board's policy of inviting qualified Personnel from other counties to give help and advice and to set up Practices that have been successful im other counties. THANKS I would like to take this op. portunity to thank the people of Monroe County for the splendid vote afforded me in the Aqueduct Commission elec- tion, Thanks again, WM. BILLY FREEMAN (Pd. Pol. Advt.) $331.54 Today —EE————— Senk Is Indicted By Grand Jury On Rape Charge The Monroe County Grand Jury teday returned an indict- ment on a rape charge against Frank E. Senk, 21-year-old Na- vy man. Later, it was announced that Senk, slong with Ignazio Catig- lia and Alfred Williams, beth of whom were indicted earlier ‘on first degree murder charges, will be arraigned Friday et 10:30 a. m. before Circuit Court Judge Aquiline Lopez, Jr. Senk has been held in the Monree jail under $10,500 bond but te- day States Attorney J. Lance- lot Lester requested that ne bond be set after the rape in- dictment. Senk was jailed en January 27 on the complaint of a 14 year-old girl. Further investiga- tien resulted in his being cher- ged with the rape ef a 21-year old Navy wife and a 17-year. eld baby sitter. It was en the charge involving the Navy wife that he was indicted. _ He faces a possible sentence of the electric chair if he is convicted without a recommen dation for mercy by @ jury. Little Delores Fund Total Is Organizations And Individuals Rally To Provide Care For Blind Baby The little Delores fund today to- taled $331.54. ‘The latest contribuiions were from the civil service employees at Boca Chica, $44.05, and $10 from Orden Caballeros de Marti, Logia Marti No. 3. Also turned in at the office of ‘The Key West Citizen today were ‘these contributions: Jose R. Vaides—$5 Just a Friend—$5 Clerk, inspectors and deputy she-) riff at Precinct 13 in yesterday's) voting—$5 : Here are other contributions to date: Key West Lions Club 50.00 Naval Ordnance Unit 54.0 Frank Bentley 25.00 Boca Chica Fire Dept. 13.00 William H. Kroll 10.00 AFGE Lodge No. 15666 5.00 Leopoldo Herrera 5.00 Capt. Shirley J. Garson 5.00 Wilson Walker 5.00 Mrs. Zerbe 5.00 Robert D. Lippman 5.00 J. P. Baillod 5.00 “Mary Gonzalez Friends 14.56 Church of God, Olivia St. 12.93 Little Theater 33.00 Anonymous 15.00 Total 262.49 The Lions Club is sponsoring a drive to raise funds for. an eye op-| eration for Delores Disgdiertt, five- | monthold glaucoma victim. The fund drive was sparked by a story in The Citizen telling of March 10 Is Tag Deadline TALLAHASSEE «# — If you haven't got your 1954 auto license { { | | tag yet, you have until March 10 tol t buy it. The Florida Motor Vehicle Com- mission has decided to interpret Acting Gov. Charley E. Johns’ 15- sale deadline to exclude both Feb. the days. It was announced at first the but with the new recalculation, it (Continued ©n Page Eight) INSULATING TILE BOARD at Che Key West Citis THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER For Quick Communication, LASSIFIED Ads! Youll yers and sellers— IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1954 Unofficial Results Of Aqueduct District Commission Election | Six Honorees Will Attend Cuban Holiday Celebration The treasurer of the Re- public of Cuba and five dis-; tinguished members of Key West’s Cuban colony will be honored tonight at 8 p. m. with a reception in the San Carlos Institute, -The occasion is the local celebra- tion of ef Grito de, Baire, second most important holiday, marking the day in 1895 when General Bar- tolome Masso sounded the “Cry at} Baire,” a small town by that name in Cuba’s Oriente province, which independence from spain. The fecal celebration began this morning at 10 ceremonies at the statue of Jose Marti, Cuba’s beloved “Apostle of Freedom,” in Bayview Park. Rites were also held at the Gold Star Mothers’ Mounment, the Maine Memorial and the monu- ment te the Cuban martyrs in, the City Cemetery. The program will wind up to- night with the reception to which the public is invited. At that time,| lutarco Villalobo, Cuba's treasur-| er will be honored for his work in furthering the close cultural rela- tionship between Key West and { *|Cuba. Mr. Villalobo served as a tieutenant in the Cuban Revolu- tionary Army during its long fight) for freedom from Spanish tyranny, Others to be honored include Dr.| Enrique Rodriguez Baso, who prac- ticed medicine in Key West for 57 years; Dr. Julio DePoo, a leader among the local Cuban-American colony; Miss Beniides Remond, di- rector of the San Carlos School; Raoul Alpizar y Poyo, Citizen Span- ish language columnist and vice- president of the Immigrados Re- volucionario Cubanos and Mrs. aes ‘bel Lacedonia. A patriotic observance will be (Continued On Page Eight) Fund To Remodel Jail Cannot Be Used Elsewhere Teresa Braxton, publicity chair- man for the juvenile council, today said council members got the wrong impression fram a story in id the council $57000 hed been earmarked to remodel the first floor of the county jail to make it Suitable for the detention of ju- ____|day extension of the Feb, 20 tag Veniles. The council would like to have 20 and Sundays from the count of ines money for a proposed juvenile/75 to 80 per cent of all air person- ention home, Mrs. Braxtor said However, the funds can not be new deadline would be March 6 used for that purpose Allen said. us.” Only fap remodelling the jail. If not used for that purpose by Oct 1, the money will revert to the general fund. Allen added that the county will not go through with the remodel- jing unless the juvenile council re- quests it. “We are only going to do it if the juvenile authorities feel it is the proper thing to do,” Allen said x Cuba’s Treasurer Will Be Honored AtReception Here Aqueduct Dist. Commission Election Sees Lowest Voter 3 99RD ? VUV ye VY potter iii iti. SER RR PPR Ek ge eg camp we eee wee sects F 6EUPNOUT Mere in 1en fears Harry M. Baker ____ 47 34 51 90 69 23 52 78 30 70 83 43 84 49 27 20 37 815) i. ~.o uae kane se oe oe rm Unofficial Count reeman ____ i 7 20 24 39 964 F d 1Cr d U G | is Benjamin I. Freer, Jr. 11 8 5 120641 7413 91 10 2 1 6 138 C0@ra e it nion rowth Shows Only 2.006 Allan L. Hampton ___ 44 25 47 60 58 18 44 74 26 50 78 49 77 40 18 18 20 746 oi | SeinieteBeons W : Paul E. Mesa 57 85 66 45 35 89 43 71 58 51 88 44 61 65 2 Sh ; I F o IR ; frestdents Wen James W. Murphy 37 47 «47 «12 «434 47 20 37 53, 27 57 28 14 19 2 own n Inancia eport } T P. ILs 7, sd " Laurie F. Roberts 8 14 12 6 14 17 10 20 13 14 22:13 9 7 as 0 rolls Luesday Manuel I. Rodriguez - 31 20 45 26 7 19 18 10 13 14 14 41 13 3 4 7 334 All-Time Record : Inithe-anailestcoter’ Vance Stirrup — 96 47 60 57 34 39 79 39 80 58 50 68 48 63 65 23 991, Tax Collection Prowler Beaned Fatale oe pune Anthony Ulchar - 30 39 66 64 22 43 65 25 63 72 36 71 46 14 21 26 757. Is Established out in recent years, five men With Chair And yesterday named to | the Florida Keys Aqueduct | District Commission, Up To January 11 were | The Southernmost Federal Cre- Bis Ben Clock |dit Union has grown to “enormous) © ppt proportions” according the 4 Whitehead Street resident's un-|_ ONly 2,006 voters turned monthly report of City Finance erring accuracy with a chair and OUt at the county's 17 pre- Director Craig Bowen. a Big Ben clock last night sent a cincts. There are about 12,- The report showed that in the Prowler to the hospital for seven (QQ eligible voters in the single month since its inception, de- stitches and then to the city jail to Reais, sits totaling $2,666.75 have been abeiaaara te aes 7 bene E Svenicaiiidaten " hie i 8 drunk and disorderly and trespas- leven candidates were on Hess a that ee has been sing, police said today. sas the ballot. loaned to city employes. | According to the report atrol-| : si saith | The credit union has 83 members man John spec he arrived at! Here are the winners in an e ° | ee - ian ‘ Dolphin Club, Whitehead and unofficial count: Senator Franklin Outlines Four #9: soos Ge onshe Gut whacind aes amici cots e e ee Point Senatorial Program Here | e the man pitched out of that} Vance Stirrup — 991 bar on his face.” Investigation ze Willis cain: 9 vealed that the man, who was iden-| William Freeman — 964 Alonzo Cothran — 908 Cites Jump In County’s Population to deduction plan. No county employes nave join- ed so far, but they are i in the charter and are i: to participate, Bowen emphasiz- | ed. The credit union provides a low jcost loan program for city and luded (tified as Ulcie Wiley, of the shrimp} boat “Traveller” had earlier in-| Harry M. Baker — 818 | However, the jobs these five & vaded the home of Carlos Die- 'guez, 609 Whitehead Str-et. |men now hold as a result of the Linehan said that Wiley threaten-'election pay no salaries and they county employes as well as pay-/¢d Dieguez, with whom he was not/have no duties. Stirrup and Coth- State Senator James A. Franklin ing interest on their deposits, | |#¢avainted, and the homeowner hit/ron are on the present Florida of Fort Myers is visiting in Key Bowen's report also reviewed |him over the shea@ with the chair Keys Aqueduct Commission, West in connection with his cam- the activities of his department 27d clock. | s. | A special act of the legislature paign for re-election to the Senate.| for the month of January, point- | Wiley then wandered over to the | required that the election be held. He is staying at the.I.a Concha’ ing out that an all-time record \Neatby Dolphin Clip, from which) The same act set up an election Hotel and will he here for several tax collection of 93% per cent of he was ily ejected. | on @ $14,000,000 water-bond issue. days, - | the evrrent rot! iad been esteh- | Wiley was taken to Monroe Gen-| The bonds were defeated. “Senator Franklin wales his, lished up to Jat, 31.-The taxes ral Hospital where four stitches) If the bond issug Had carried, views as to important! ittérs af- became delinquent Feb.: 1. were taken in his head and three|a new water pipeline would have fecting Monroe Courty ahd this) Bowen also pointed out that the|more in his forearm. He was held been built fem here to the main- ~ |District andamong other things, city commission authorized the de-|overnight for observation and will land. mentioned the following: positing of funds in ten-thousand/be arraigned in city court today, And, also,¥.the bond issue had “\. With the large increase in dollar amounts with the First Fed-| i jearried, the men named yes- population in Monroe County it eral Savings and Loan Association Thief Gets $70 jterday would have had enough s should be constituted into a sep- of Key W: bay Senatorial District. In 1955 |accrue interest at the rate of 3%! Legislature is required to re- (per cent compounded semi-annuz F H H apportion representation in the ly. Only reserve and contingency | rom ome ere led yesterday would have fi ore and with the background [funds will be used for this pur-| Police are searching today for a/ed, assuming the duties of the pre- 1 man over a period of years pose and with the provision that thief who invaded a White Street sent water commissioners, pe to be able to get other jhe receives a legal opinion that jome and walked off with about According to Sam B. Pinder, of Senate to the ten thousand dollar amounts 7 . i ; ; es = $80 in change while the occupants supervisor of registr, " ge along with me in creation of would be covered by the Federal | yong aioe prams - day’s balloting ial ete yester: = Senatorial District in Monroe |Deposit Insurance Corporation. Patrolman John Linehan said in the past 10 yea my | The report also shows that thei. he was called to the home of| Pinder dug into his records and “2. Monroe and Lee counties now ‘city’s cash balance has risen to, a . are the largest shrimp landing lo- $1,145,478.47 including money in the W “e heey: ued pipet a ra ap the water-b nd elec. cations in the United States. I have [city’s sewer construction funds and S®ortly before midaight and that bon ‘ast \Oct. 27, at which only ief freeholders could vote, 2,349 per- everything possible to assist the sury Bonds. jhad entered through a rear door sons voted shrimp industry. At the 1953 Ses-| The city’s general revenue re-| The intruder made off with $70, Here is the way sion of the Legislature I introduc-|cetpts for the month of January ,in quarters, dimes and pennies and turned out by precinc ed and passed Memorial to Con-/totaled $56,849.62. |$6 in almost-extinct Liberty-head Precinct Number of Votes t. These deposits will! |money to assuffte the indebtedness of the Florida Keys Aqueduct C |mission. Therefore, the five Marine Flier Testifies In Schwable Case WASHINGTON taken a great interest in doing 105-thousand dollars in U. S. Trea- investigation revealed that a th the ts: voters (®—A Marine! flier testified today the great. ma-/gress asking the Department of| The sewer revenue fund gained nickels. | a {jority of American airmen he met/State to work out a treaty govern- $11,505.70 and the interest and sink-. A strong box hidden beneath a — 160 in Korean war prisoner camps'iN& shrimping operations in Mexi- ing fund was enriched by $6,551.35. bed was also forced open and a} aes had been tol their superior /°2" Waters and this has now been The cigarette tax fund produced quantity of foreign money stolen : ‘ | officers onan castire 3% tell (Continued On Page Eight) | (Continued on Page Eight) | (Continued On Page Eight) = a \the Communists anything the Reds - oe Saeen ae ar ee a el a Wanted to know. | e ‘ = | Heads Of C. Of C. Membership Drive - | , Maj. Walter R. Harris, recently ‘decorated for courageously. resist- ing pressure while a prisoner, told | 5 |a Marine court of inquiry the | 150 ‘airmen’s instructions did not mean | 142 however, they shoulc give false | - 98 information such as germ warfare | 169 '“confessions.” | | 99 The four-member court is inves-} | 72 |tigating the conduct of another Ma-| a6 Tine officer, Col. Frank Schwable, 17 e who did make a false confession} | : ee to taking part in germ warfare. | | a Harris, a former Birmingham,’ Candidate Will |Ala., policeman, testified he him-| !self was instructed at El Toro, [Calif., in April 1952, before going {to Korea, to give information freely lif captured. He said a captain whose name he didn’t remember told an indoc- trination class this was a new kind of war and the old idea that a Prisoner should give only his name, rank and serial number was out the window. Harris said the captain told the Korea-bound fliers in effect: “They're going to find out anyway —go ahead and tell them the truth right off.” | Later, in POW camps where he wound up, Harris said he found Speak To J aycees Milton A. Parrott candidate for at 8 p, m. today. The meeting will be in the Jaycee club house. Parrott, who is a guest of the San Carlos Club today—a Cuban Paign organizations set up. TO THE VOTERS of MONROE COUNTY Many thanks for your support in TUESDAY'S SPECIAL ELECTION. | shall always be grate- ful. VANCE C. STIRRUP, (Pd. Pol. Advt.) nel had been instructed to “tell em anything they ask—it can't hurt Lt. Col. John W. McLaughlin, | (Continued On Page Eight) neta ec ato. CLASSIC BALLET Languages PRINCESS NINA Children and Adults TEL. 2-3161 JOE PINDER (LEFT) AND BOB DOPP, captains of the two teams which will compete in the Cham- ber of Commerce membership drive, shake hands before tomorrow's competition. Dopp, the father of a daughter born last Sunday, appropriately named his team the Storks, Pinder’s team is the vultures.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. \