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Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 7° VOL. LXXV No. 53 The THE Hospital Is Debt Free Albury Tells Commission County Board Is Thanked For Cooperation At Monroe General The Monroe General Hos- pital is debt free for the first time since the hospital has been in operation. This statement was con- tained in a letter to the coun- ty commissioners which was released at last night’s com- mission meeting. The letter accompanied a bal- ance sheet showing the financial status of the institution. In his letter, Willard M. Al- bury, hospital administrator, thanked the commissiofiers for their “wonderful cooperation” in giving Albury a “free hand as the administrator to manage and operate the hospital.” Albury also said he wanted to announce that the commissioners} have requested that plans be draft-! ed for a new hospital wing for Negroes. Albury’s letter follows: “Members of the Board — “Monroe County Commissioners “Court House—Jackson Square “Key West, Florida “Gentlemen: “Attached hereto copy of Bal- ance Sheet showing financial status of the Monroe General Hospital. “It is with great pleasure and pride I submit this statement to your honorable body. As you will note we are “DEBT FREE” for the first time sine the hospital has been in operation. 4 “I wish to commend you gentle- men for your wonderful cooperation as a Board of Directors; giving me a free hand as the Adminis- trator to manage and operate the hospital to make it a better institu- tion for alf the people of our county. Your hospital chairman has been most cooperative in assisting me' in making my duties a success. I feel that gratitude is due our State Representative for his effort’ in the passage of legislation to help finance our institution financial help from both county and city governments we would not have been able to contirile the op- eration of the hospital as a county institution. Therefore, we are most thankful to be able to provide fa- cilities where the sick and injured may be given scientific and ethical! medical care. i “T have been very interested in the construction of a new wing for) faithfully as they (Continued on Page Two) Roll Of Rubber Sheeting Given To County Board A roll of rubber sheeting brought up the subject of the proposed de- tention home for juvenile delin- quents at the county. commission- er’s meeting last night. Abe Wolkoff, addressing the com- missioners, said: “I read in the papers that Mrs. Gibson’s company wants to build a home for delinquents.” (Wolkoff evidently was) referring’ to Mrs. Eva Warner Gibson, ju- venile judge, who is spearheading @ fund raising drive to build a ju- venile detention home on Stock Is- land.) “So I should be big-hearted and! 40 something for the home.” Wol-| koff went on, “I wrote my son-in- law so he should send me some-| thing I could give to the home. “So he sent me a roll of rubber, sheeting,” Wolkoff added. “So then ¥ find out the home is not built. “What am I going to do with @ roll of rubber sheeting? Will the @ounty commissioners accept it?” The commissioners voted to ac- eept the roll of rubber sheeting! for the county old folk’s" home. “We sure need it out there,” eae ruses Joe Allen comment- Se CLASSIC BALLET Languages PRINCESS NINA Children and Adults TEL. 2-3161 : Without} |4rt & Historical Society Accepts Gift | ta ATTORNEY JULIUS STONE, (second from left) president of the Key West Ari and Historical Society, presents J. J. Trevor (left), president of the Florida National Bank, with plaque commemora- ting the gift of that organization of two massive doors for the Society’s East Martello Gallery stalled on doors which were in and Museum. Plaque will be in- use at the local bank for more than 60 years before they were removed during remodelling pro- gram. Looking on are Rear Admiral George C. Towner and con- tractor M. E. Bennett.—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. BANK PRESIDENT TRACES HISTORY OF DOORS GIVEN , TO ART SOCIETY “Within these East Mar- itello Towers, which your Society has developed so beautifully to be a deposi-) tory of the past and a light to the future, may thosé who enter these doors find com- fort and enlightenment from the past, and hope and in- | spiration for the future. May| they serve your public as| served ours.” Those were the words, yesterday afternoon, of J. J. Trevor, presi- dent of the Florida National Bank at Key West, when he formally presented the Art and Historical Society with two massive oaken ‘doors which now grace the entr-| ance to the Society’s Martello Tow-| ers gallery and museum. The doors} were removed from the bank! building at Duval and Front Streets) during a recent remodelling pro-| gram. | Mr. Trevor, in his talk, commen-! ted: “For well over 60 years—from December, 1891 to Augus., 195z— these doors opened and closed each business day at the main entrance, to our bank building, and between them passed the history of Key West in the making. “They were the last doors of a} bank to close on Presidential ord- ers during the Roosevelt Bank, moratorium anc among the first to open. | i | ) Varied Procession “Through these doors entered the) jresidents of our Island city,—the \publie official, the cigar maker,| \the manufacturer, the sponger and sponge buyer, the auctioneer, the fisherman, the seaman, the wreck-| er, the salvage master, the road! ‘builder, the teacher, the minister, | the artist, the developer, the drea- (Continued On Page Two) Neblett To Talk Before Jaycees Attorney William R. Neblett, a) candidate for the State Senate from ithe 24th district, will address the Trevor Addresses Art And Fistorical Group Well Water Test Report Released J. R. “Cowboy” Watson, who complained last week that the city has refused him an elec- trical permit now faces possi- ble loss of a permit for the construction of a temporary building on Watson Street, it was learned today. The city commission issued the building permit recently contingent on his agreement to heed the ‘sanitary code. But today, a State Health De- partment report on an analysis of well water that Watson and his family of five have been using, said that the “water is quite unsatisfactory for drink- ing.” The water sample was rated by chemists as “plus 16” — the same classification that is given raw sewage. A spokes- man for the County Health De- partment said today that “it would be very dangerous to use the water for drinking purpos- es unless it is boiled. One city official said that the report may be the basis for cancelling Watson’s permit to build the temporary residence. The city balked at issuing an electrical permit since the well is less than 30 feet from an out- door toilet used by the family. Legal Advertising | SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WE DNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1954 IN THE Ken West Citi U.S.A. For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers - » Just DIAL 2-566] or 2-5662. PRICE FIVE CENTS Witness Tells Crash Story To Citizen Reporter Today Clarification Of Rumors About Citizen Picture-Taking Given FBI Police School Will Start Monday 100 Officers And Navy Men Are Expected To Attend Nearly 100 members of Key Early Start Made On The City Budget West, Monroe County and Navy Jaw enforcement agencies are ex- pected to attend a police training course scheduled to start next Monday at 9 a, m. ‘ The Federal Bureau of Investi- gation is furnishing seven in- structors to hold the four month course which is being attended by members of the Key West Police Department, the Sneriff’s Office and Navy Security Office and Shore Patrol personnel. The State Highway Patrol has also indicated that some of their of. ficers will attend. The program is sponsored by the city but the cost is being absorbed by the FBI. Only city expenditure will be for ammunition. Classes will be held twice daily so that all officers will be able to attend during their off duty hours. Hours are 9-12 a. m. and 2-5 p, m., Monday through Friday.- The course will continue one-week month through June. First sessions next wéek will be devoted to firearms training. They will be held at the Key West Pis- tol Club range on Stock Island. La-| ter, classes will be shifted to the city hall. Subsequent topics to. be covered in the course include : judo, the technique and mechanics of mak- ing arrests, restraining devices, disarming and searching persons, traffic accident investigation, bur- glary investigation, the collection! and preservation of evidence, crime scene searches, interview- ing witnesses, report writing, jur- isdictional problems, police cour- tesy, public relations, court testi- mony, and care of firearms. On June 7, a local judge will pre- sent a special lecture on the sub- ject of the laws governing arrests and searches. Diplomas will be awarded to all officers successfully completing the course. - Fire F ighting Gear To Meacham Meacham Field will get a fire: fighting truck in the near future.' George Faraldo, airport manag-| er, Jast night asked the county, ‘commissioner’s meeting for fire; fighting equipment for the field. Commissioner Frank Bentley moved that the old fire truck at Marathon be used at the field.| Marathon recently got a new fire} truck. The commissioners unanimously Lang Urges ‘April First Deadline On First Draft An early start is being made on! the 1954-55 city budget for the City) of Key West, City Manager. Victor Lang today} sent a letter to all municipal de-| partment heads urging that con-) sideration be given to the financial! needs of their officers for the fiscal year starting June 30. Lang asked that the depait- ment heads ha tentative bud- get ready for his perusal by April 1. He added that they will be expected to submit their final budget on May 1. “I don’t want to be caught short like I was last year,” commented ‘Lang. Dery “he city manager also urged the! equipment, changes in and improve! department heads “‘to discuss with your various supervisors all sug- gestions for various labor saving equipment, changes in and improve-' ments of your present quarters, pro posed changes in personnel and salaries, extension and improve- ment of our services to the public, as well as an estimate of the amount of materials your departme will need.” “The budget is a detailed estim- ate of expenses for the coming year, and should include every item of proposed improveemnt, equip- ment as well as the cost of operat-| ing your dept., fogether with the, materials necessary to operate ef-| ficiently, In order to make the budget workable, it is necessary that considerable thought, and fore- sight be exercised in its prepara- tion, distribution of money avail- able for each department will de- pend largely on the intelligence exercised in making budgetary re- quests,” Lang added. In commenting on his plans for the city’s expenditures in the com- ing year, Lang said that his chief project would be a request that the (Continued On Page Two) RESPECT EXPRESSED FOR MRS. BETHEL | The county commissioners last) | | \ | | inight voted a resolution of respect for the late Mrs. Dalbert Bethel, matron of the county old folk’s home for many years. Copies of the resolution will be, sent to her survivors and to the| loca] radio station and to the news-| approved Bentley’s motion. Papers. | SPECIAL WE HAVE @@ MODEL USED CARS THAT MUST GO For Weekly Paper | A request for legal advertising was heard last night by the county commissioners. Ed Seney, publisher of The Flor- ida Keynoter, Marathon weekly, asked that all county legal adver- tising be published in his paper as well as in The Key West Citizen. The board tirst voted to file Seney’s letter. Then Commissioner Frank Bent- ley suggested that some of the ad- vertising be placed with The Key- Junior Chamber of Commerce at [their regnlar meeting at 8 p. m. The meeting is open to the public noter. The board finally voted to give Seney’s request further considera- tion. PRE-WAR AND LATE Price Range from $35.00 to $1895.00 That Must Go! That Must Go! 6,000-MILE OR 6-MONTH GUARANTEE Lincolns - Mercurys and Ply - Fords - Chevrolets ‘mouths MONROE MOTORS, Inc. 1117 WHITE STREET ~ A-1 USED 228 SIMONTON STREET PHONE 2.5631 CAR LOT PHONE 2-588] Meeting To Settle Airport Dispute Is Asked By NAL CAA Urges Airline And County To Get Together In Effort To Solve Problems The County Commissioners and National Airlines may get together! to discuss their differences, it was indicated today. | The commission and NAL have been at odds since Jan. 1 when a new rate structure went into effect. at Meacham Field, Part of the new set up was a 50-cent charge on each passerger tak- ing off or landing at che field. NAL has refused to pay the charge. The county complained to the Civil Aeronautics Authority. NAL’s reply to the CAA denied the county charges that NAL had changed schedules without giving 10 days notice. NAL dropped three of its four| daily flights here Jan. 1. | The CAA in Washington urged NAL and the county to get toge- By DENIS While the Navy today |a breakdown in its security | Citizen found an eye witne copter crash. Six Navy men died in t Little Delores Leaves For N.Y. Next Tuesday Key Westers Open Their Hearts And Purses To Give Over $2,000.00 Little Delores Disgidertt and her} parents will leave Key West at 8:00 Tuesday morning, on the first leg of her trip to New York and| a passible sight-giving operation. George Faraldo has volunteered to fly the little family to Miami where they will be flown to New York by Safeway Travel. Safeway has given the round trip {tickets forshe Migmi to Mow York |flight through the local manager, ther and try to settle their differ- ences. ‘ George Baker, NAL prexy, phoned Paul Sawyer, county le- gal adviser, and asked that the commissioners come to Miami for a meeting. 2 Gerald Saunders, chairman. of the board of conaly om John V. McDonough. today wrote Baker and invit im P or any other NAL representative) ee Cece an Spi to meet here. The letter follows: |morning that $1,522.85 was raised “Mr. George T. Baker, President)as a result of a special program “National Airlines on WKWF Monéay night. “3240 N, W. 27th Avenue Delores has an appointment | “Miami, Florida with Dr. Roman Castro Viejo, “Dear Mr. Baker: New York eye surgeon at 9:30 “Reference is made to your tele-- a, m. Thursday morning. Phone conversations with Mr. Paul; A suit has been given to her fa- E. Sawyer, Attorney for the Board | ther by Rios Brothers’ Mens Shop of County Commissioners of Mon-|and Montzelle’s Dress Shop has a roe County, Florida concerning \a\dress for her mother. meeting between the County Com-| At the last check slightly more missioners and your Airlines to dis-| than $2,000 had been raised for cuss landing fees at Meacham! Delores. Field, Key West, Florida. Recent contributions include $16 “The Board of County Commis-|collected among her friends by sioners has authorized me to ad-| Mrs. Mary Gonzales; $2 from An- vise you that we are ready andjna S. Causey; $1 from “‘a friend,” willing to sit down with your Com-/$1 from Samuel Hart; The Inde-| Pany and listen to your problems|pendent Insurance Company con- as well as discuss the problems|tributed $6; Fern Chapter, OES, that we are confronted with con-/$5; Mrs. Fernanda Carbonell, $25,| cerning Meacham Field. The Board|Mrs. Aurelio Martinez, $5 and Mr. is willing to meet here in Key West,'and Mrs. Jack Scribner and their| Florida at any time that you may son, $3, and $5 from Henry Odgen. deSignate and will be able to at- —____ tend -such a meeting or at any time any other official of vour'Ellison Presents ‘Company can come to Key West.! * Outstanding You can readily appreciate the dif- Concert At KWHS ficulty in setting a date for a ineet- ing at any other place besides Key (Continued On Page Two) pric tee een | | | | i A large and enthusiastic audience assembled last night in the high |school ‘o hear Dorothy Ellison, a beautiful contralto, in a concert of Morrison To Hea Health Dept. English, German and French songs, ending with a group of negro spiri- Dr. C. W. Morrison, former Navy jtyajs, doctor, has beea made head of the) She is the possessor of a phenom-, health department here, it was an-|..2) voice of rich beauty, and is a nounced last night at the county | scholarship pupil of the Juilliar' commissioner’s meeting. | aie | Dr. Morrison has held the post School of Music in New York. ‘She| temporarily since Jan. 20, following|* pina Sead Ee | 'y finished performance. ae we of Dr. Raymond J. Dal-|é Her accompanist, Mrs. Alma. P. The commissioners had appoint-| Terrell, worked under serious dis- ed Dr. Morrison to the post tem-|@dvantage with inadequate light- porarily. The State Board of Health|ing, but did a very good viece of} made the apvointment permanent. |Work. eae an ora toe Ellison bids fair to be one} . 0! merica’s greatest contraltos,| Sheriff To Post ' Man At Marathon SNEIGR pressed an investigation of machinery, The Key West ss to yesterday’s fatal heli- he flaming wreckage of two helicopters that crashed in midair and dropped 100 feet to Fleming Key. The witness told this story to The Citizen: “IT had been watching |these two helicopters for a- bout an hour. They were flying in formation and land- ing and taking off. “During this entire time, the wing ship had been fly- ing erratically instead of jholding a constant position. “It appeared that, just prior to the crash, the ships were attermpt- ing to peel off. That is, to separate from each other. “It seemed to me that one heli- copter had cut out its engine. “As they started to peel off, the rotors caught each other. It seemed like one helicopter tried to re-start its engine at the time of the crash, “Both planes caught fire in mid- alr. “There was one big puff of flame, and smoke, _, Tttging from, the intensity of jthe flames, I wouid jink all sie, yf |the men were dead before ihe |wreckage hit the ground. | “When they hit the ground, ; there was another big puff of flame and smoke. “1 though it had hit the am- munition dump.” This witness said that parts of helicopters are made of magne- sium — a metal that is highly flammable. “Tt took some time to put out the fire,’ he added, “due to the immediate lack of proper equip- ment to fight the magnesium fire.” Speaking of the wreckage, this witness said: “We couldn't even see a cock- pit, it was such a mess. No bodies were left in the helicopt- ers. Three were in one stack, ane other was lying out in the open, amd two were sort of under some wreckage. “But you couldn’t tell anything about the parts of the wreckage.” This part of the statement was at variance with a statément attri- buted to Capt, C, L, Murphy, USN, ‘Navy public information officer and Chief of Staff here. According to an Associated Press dispatch, Capt. Murphy ~ in explaining why the Navy h confiscated news tos taken by Citizen Photograph. er Ellis Finch — said that al- though the pictures were selzed for security reasons, “actually they were not in very good taste. They showed bodies lying around and one man strapped in a burn- ing helicopter.” This reporter was at the scene of the crash while some of the wreckage still was burning. I saw no body strapped fn @ helicopter. If I had not been told by a Navy officer at the scene that the wreckage was that of two helicopters, I would not have known what the wreckage was — it was that badly burned and smashed. Besides, most of the bodies were covered by foam from the fire fighting equipment. | also saw the four photos that ..Finch took. One of them showed @ part of a body. Finch volun- tarily destroyed that negative, Another photo showed what may have been a shoe. No pare of a body was visible in this and it is to be regretted that more| jPeople did not take advantage of| the opportunfty to hear her. The sheriff's department will add a patrolnian to the staff to cover the Marathon area. This move was okayed last night by the county commissioners. Commissioner Frank Bentley said that several delegations from the Marathon Chamber of Com- merce had called on Sheriff John Spottswood with such requests. The request was unanimously ap- proved by the commissioners. John Goggin, president of the Marathon chamber, thanked the mmissioners for their action. WANTED Wool Spottes Apply At Once COLUMBIA LAUNDRY Photo. However, Finch re-toueh ed the print so the shoe — | that’s what it was — did nep show. Here is how yesterday’s stery that received nation-wide news coverage developed: Yesterday, about 8:45 a. m, a telephone caller to The Citizen gaid there was a fire at tae Naval Sta- tion Annex. Finch and I were assigned ¢e cover it. We drove to the gate at the An- (Continued On Page Two)

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