The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1954, Page 10

Civil Service Commission - Convention This Month First Time In History Of Group That It Has Met In Key West Final plans have been completed for the Florida Civil Service Commission Convention to be held in Key West March 17 and 18 at the Casa Marina Hotel. The first Key Wester ever to head the prominent or- ganization, City Clerk Vic- tor Lowe, was instrumental in getting the organization to hold their annual meetin, here. : Mayor C. B. Harvey will deliver the welcoming address. Every city of any size in Florida will be rep- resented at this important meeting. Thirty-one reservations have al- ready been made to date, and many more are expected. Lowe emphasized to city fathers last night the good publicity that this convention will bring to the City of Key West, and urged all to impress the visitors with the hospitality of Key West. Principal speaker of the conven- tion will be Oliver Short. Short is past president.of the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada and a past president of the Society for Public Administration. He was Civil Service Commission- er for the State of Maryland and during the war years became Di- rector of War Transfers for the United States Civil Service Com- mission. He is author of a num- * ber of books including The Merit System and Probation in the Pub- lic Service. Short’s address will be on “‘Fed- eral Loyalty and Security Program and its application to state and lo- cal governments,” Also to address the group will be Dean Wilson K. Doyle of the School of Public Administration of FSU and Miss Juanita Gibson, pro- fessor in Personnel Administration at FSU. “Body” Shows Up SPRINGWATER, N, Y. @ — A dozen firemen were sifting the ashes of a migrant workers’ build- ing yesterday when the “body” they were hunt for strolled sleepily from a nearby barn and asked what was going on. Alexander Ross, @ Negro farm laborer, said he jumped from a second story win when the fire broke out Sunday night. He crossed the road and went pack to sleep in the barn. U. nancial Aid John Roberts To Retire From Fire Dept. April 4 John W. Roberts who has served 32 years in the local Fire Department will retire from active duty on April 4th after expiration of his annual leave. Roberts will be the second city employee to retire under the new rteirement pian put into effect by city commission- ers. Police Chief Joseph Kemp was the first to be pensioned after years of service to the city. ee Delaney Questions Manager Vic Lang City Commissioner Jack Delaney last night inquired about the follow- ing matters from City Manager Vie Lang: 1, What could be done about the flooded area at Thomas and Cath- erine and Fogarty Street. In ‘the latter area water has inundated the nearby lots. City Manager Lang said that the answer was to con- struct storm sewers. 2. Why should people pay 25 cents per hour to use the shuffleboard courts at Bayview Park, in view of the fact that the amount returned is so insignigicant? Lang answered that that decision was commission Policy. 3. Why not better lighting for Key West? Lang said that he con> sidered Key West one of the best lighted cities he has ever been in. And that he could venture a quali- fied qpinion since he was formerly with the Corolina Power and Light company, 4. Will sewers be constructed in alleys, such as Knowles Lane, etc? The City Manager said that in Baker’s Lane it will be necessary to get an easement before the work can be done, und all alleys will have sewers if sufficient funds are available for the job. 5. Why haven’t the new traffic lights been installed? Answer was that they are not in proper work- ing condition, but that anyhow this is the jurisdiction of the City Elec- trie System. , |Street. Public Hearing To Be Held On Three Sisters Building City Planning Commissioners last night seemingly favored the granting of the Three Sisters re quest to build on the property line at 507-509 Duval Street. A public hearing will be held Monday, March 15 at commission chambers. The Three Sisters property ex- tends 113’ from Duval towards Ba- hama. Ordinarilly a 5’ fire-lane must be observed, but Architect I, M. Cohen of Chicago, Illinois, said that this would leave a big) ‘hole’ surrounded by buildings. Two} other property owners have already built on the property line, and there is no chance of fire equipment reaching the area from Bahama The City would have to condemn portions of the two build- ings in order to create the “fire lane.” Mr. Cohen pointed cut that the Three Sisters one-story commer- cial building was quite shallow now at 113’, and if they were forced to build to only ‘108’ their problem would be further enlarged, ‘Construction Opposed A petition opposing rezoning of the area of part of lot 2, square 22 (314 and 316 William Street) was filed. The petition contained nine signatures opposing the proposed construction by Paul Monsalvatge. Chairman Cecil Carbonell said that Mr. Monsalvatge had _ with- drawn his request and would seek another location, Planning Commissioners present included Cecil Carbonell, Carlton ‘Smith, Mrs. Rebekah Martin, Rod- man Bethel, Harvey Bush, John Archer, Medico Says Motel Charges Too Much A Dr. William A. Duncan, MD, has written the City Planning Com- mission complaining about being “gouged” in the Island City for Toom accommodations, Dr. Duncan says he paid $14 a night for a room that should have cost $6. He said the $28 outlay was gouging and asked the chair man of the City Planning Commis- ion to investigate the matter. Dun- can did not name the motel where he stayed, The Citizen Is Monroe County's Parents To Be Told When Kids Are Jailed | Minors arrested by the Police Department hereafter will be jailed but their parents will be immedi- ately notified. This action came about due to a request by Richard Goodhart, 19C Felton Road. His son was ar- rested by the police and the case was subsequently dismissed by Judge Enrique Esquinaldo. Goodhart was asked under whose Suggestion was charges brought by two police officers. The local resi- dent said that he guessed it was the suggestion of the juvenile judge of Monroe County, but that he didn’t know. | The complaint follows: | “This is a request that the Police Department after arresting a Minor notify his or her parents as soon as| possible and advise them of the de- tails of the arrest. If the arresting officer does not do this then pena- lize him in some way.” | | Fisherman Dies Aboard Vessel Fredrig Nicodemisen, 60, of Fair- haven, Mass., died early yester- day aboard his fishing vessel, the Ethel C, Justice of the Peace Roy Hamlin said today. | Hamlin said Nicodemisen died of) coronary thrombosis about 2 a. m. yesterday when the vessel was off the northwest channel. SHELDON M. ROPER, of Lincolnton, N. C., supreme chan- cellor of the Knights of Pythias, will speak here during the convention of the Grand Lodge of Florida, April 27-28. The convention meetings will be in the Elks Club here, J. Winfield Russell, chairman of the arrangements committee for the con- vention, said. Roper will speak on highway safety. The last time the grand lodge met in Key West was in 1916, Page 10 THE KBY WEST CITIZEN Tuesday, March 2, 1?~ Assistant Police Chief To Be Named; FD Given Promotions City Commissioners yoted |well inh and I think we sede : ae \give Police Chief Cabrera al e unanimously last night to a- help in accomplishing the job.” bolish the position of Cap- pe een : : | Fire Chie! arles Cremata will tain of Police and that the pe asked to make four promotions post of Assistant Chief be|to First Class Firemen. Commis- ten jsioner Paul Roberts stated that he created. é had investigated the Fire Depart- The Assistant Chief will handle!ment and found that a number of administrative and other duties. men were entitled to promotion. Need for this post is necessary to He said that these Promotions will carry out the recent police depart- mean little cost to the city, but a ment plan ordered by City Ma- lot to the morale of the Fire De- nager Victor Lang. (partment. Police Chief Raymond Cabrera) A report prepared by the City will submit names of men he of Key West Civil Service Board thinks best qualified for the posi-|will be studied with the view of tion to the Civil Service Board. |incorporating automatic promo- Declared C: Commissioner|tions in the Police and Fire De- Jack Delaney: “I know the police|partments when the men are qua- department is functioning pretty|lified for advancement. Tommy Jackson Whips Henry BROOKLYN, N.Y. (—Unranked ing heavyweight or Jimmy Slade, heavyweight Tommy (Hurricane) third-zanking light eerreeetts vi = i for an April 5 10-rounder. Jackson, had a victory over eighth) Jackacn started oaks faststaithe: ranked Clarence Henry under his televised bout, using a left hook to belt today and high hopes of taking the body and a right cross to the on another top contender. head in piling up the points. Tom- The 22-year-oid, tireless puncher my’s heavier punches staggered from Rockaway Beach, N.Y., won Henry several times in the action- a unanimous 10-round decision over| packed bout and opened a cut over the Los Anveles heavyweight last/his right eye in the first round. night at the Eastern Parkway| Henry rocked Jackson a couple Arena. of times, too, but the young heavy- Matchmaker Teddy Brenner said weight recuperated quickly and he will try and pit Jackson against |tore back at Clarence, much to the Nino Valdes, second-ranking heavy-| delight of the pro-Jackson crowd of weight, Dan Bucceroni, third rank-|1 599, NEW POWER BRAKES* now available on Ford Pickup (shown) and aii “14-ton” models! 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He would have had little difficulty getting the French and the Indochinese to agree, Since 1951 the United States has been pouring, an ever-swelling torrent of money, material ahd munitions into Indochina to help hold batk the hordes of Moscow- trained Ho Chi Minh, By last Jan, 31 400 American or French ships sailing from San Francisco had disgorged in Indo- china’s ports a veritable mountain of the weapons, explosives, guns, airplanes, ships and other mater- fal required for modern warfare. The list: 260 million rounds of small arms ammunition, 21,000 transport vehicles and trailers, 1,400 combat vehicles. 360 military aircraft. 390 naval vessels, 17,000 radio sets. 175,000 small arms and automat- fe weapons, Huge amounts of mines, rockets, mortar and artillery shells, hos- pital supplies, engineering and technical equipment. In all, the American taxpayer will pay nearly a billion dollars this year to help fight a war some 10,000 miles from his own shores. He will foot three-fifths of the money cost of a fight whose causes and motives remain even more obscure to him than did the battle for Korea. . But the U.S, government feels it is getting its money’s worth. It sees these alternatives: the loss of Southeast Asia to world com- munism, or personal involvement of more Americans in another Korean-type war. While the United States is aiding the French and the established governments of Viet Nam, Cam- bodia’and Laos on the one hand, the Chinese Communists are doing the same for Communist Ho Chil Minh, Over about 18 highway routes the Reds from safe bases along the border are shuttling an average of some 3,000 tons of war material a month to the Vietminh. Without this kind of propping up, they too would have collapsed long ago, Though American aid is broken down into military and technical programs, all of it is channeled into one stream—a massive war effort which may subdue the Viet- minh jn a war now in its eighth year. 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