The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 5, 1954, Page 1

Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY WEST 62° THE She Ken West Citis SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER SA 4 hick Communication, Use IFIED Ads! You'll teach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL 2.5661 or 2-5662. IN THE U.S.A. VOL. LXXV No, 55 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1954 PRICE FIVE CENTS Airport Consultant Charges National Mystery Blaze’ Pays Higher Miami Fee Than $75 Wilde Claims Airline Pays $600 Per M onth Harold Wilde, county air- port consultant, today charg- ed that National Airlines was in error when the line said it pand $75 per month | at Miami for three landings of 14-passenger planes. Instead, Wilde said, NAL pays $600 per month for its first three landings at Mi- ami International Airport. Wilde said NAL—in its reply to} the county’s complaint to the Civil! Aeronautics board—included Mi-| ami in its comparison of airport fees. Monroe County complained to the CAB, charging NAL unlawfully changed its schedules without giv-| ing 10-days notice as required, NAL denied the charge, Error Charged Speaking of the NAL reply, Wilde said: “The figure quoted is in error as NAL pays $600 per month for its first three landings at Miami In- ternational Airport rather than the} 75 as quoted, \ : erm en asoells of the scheduled) air lines,” Wilde continued, ‘‘and) the 20 independent carriers oper-| ating into Miami each pay $1,151.-} 50 for the first three Lodestar/ schedules per month with a load) factor equal to that of Key West.”) | The; complete text of Wilde’s statement follows: Fees Compared “The following table soos - i parison of landing fees paid by iRetional Airlidés at"Keywest aod at other Florida towns of similar size based on the figures of the: number of passengers enplaned at) each airport as published by the) U, S. Department of Commerce,| Civil Aeronautics Administration. “Also tabulated for comparison is the estimated value of airport properties and airport improve- ments that were donated to the respective cities by the Federal Government, | | | | Under Secretary Inspects Navy THOMAS S. GATES, undersecretary of the Navy, today in- spected Naval installations here. At left is Capt. B. A. Adams, USMC. Capt. Adams accompanied Gates on his inspection of the honor goard. Gates was given full honors this morning— a 17-gun salute, flourishes and ruffles. The Base flew the Under Secretary’s flag—four white stars on a red background. —Citizen Staff Photo, Finch, 12 Mile Reef’ "Historically med Inaccurate, But Entertaining Underwater Scenes Are Beautiful By JIM COBB The 20th Century Fox produc- tion, “12 Mile Reef” is all very entertaining, but historically a lot of bunk, a survey of local residents including one of the city’s few 66 Molotov Gives Report On Berlin Talks By RICHARD KASISCHKE “NAL paid $300 per month at Key West prior to January 1, 1954, Here are the figures showing, passengers per each plane depart- ure: Key West 78) Daytona Beach 2.8 Lakeland 0.6) Pensacola 3.7 Sarasota-Bradenton 2.5) Tallahassee 34 Panama City 1.8) The following table shows the monthly landing fee cost per pas-) senger per departure: | Key West $38.46 Daytona Beach 62.50) Lakeland 108.33 Pensacola 41.35! Sarasota-Bradenton 40.00 Tallahassee 38.23 Panama City 172,22) Here are the figures showing es- timated Federal aid to the airports) fn each of the cities: Key West $ 75,000 Daytona Beach 2,000,000 Lakeland 1,800,000 Pensacola 2,0,000! Sarasota-Bradenton 2,200,000) Tallahassee Panama City “Although NAL included Miami} ih its comparison of fees at Florida airports in its answer to the CAB, the figure quoted is in error as (Continued on Page Two) C. E. Smith, Jr., Joins Larry Dion In Business Here C, E. Smith, Jr. has returned to Key West from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and will be associated with Dion and Smith Goodyear Tire Supply Company, During his stay in Cuba, Mr. Smith was administrative officer, ships department at the Naval Base at Guantanamo. He was previously associated! with Navarro, Inc., and with ra-|5 ithe Cuban Capitol. cy ney WKWF. ways active in community af-| fairs. Smith served as enaecil the Monroe County Chapter of the! National Foundation for Infantile! Paralysis. He is a past president| of the Golf Club and of the Lions Club. Smith is also a member of the Elks Lodge and Dade Masonic! Lodge. ja zealous champion of the freedom trayed by Terry Moore, Gilbert Ro- like such freedom as gives exploit-|They were continually beating up 2,500,000)2Nd a life of plenty, sed laboring people live under the con-| The Conchs say they won. stant shadow of war and fresh The Conchs who were in the au-jreckless driving and causing an; The group will return here Mon- day. SPECIAL Local Police Go To Havana |Police Department accompanied | jthe crack Miami {ment Motorcycle Drill Havana today for the opening of the carnival season there. | They are Lt. Buster Cerezo and} Sgt. Frank Caraballo. Both have lappeared with the group in the | past. sponge dealers still in business : |showed today. Molotov said today results! The film x currently playing a MOSCOW (#—Foreign Minister VM of the Berlin conference can be |five day run at the Strand Theater, measured only by what happens | ending Monday. when the Big Four meet April 26! The movie was made in Key with Communist China and other | West, Tarpon Springs and the Ba- nations | at Geneva to discuss|hamas last spring. The plot cen- Peace in Asia. |ters around a “war” between In a 7,500-word report on the|Greeks from Tarpon Springs and Berlin talks, which ended 15 days|the local Conch spongers. The ago, Molotov reiterated Soviet/Greeks worked the bottom with) charges that Western defense|diving suits while the Conchs pre- preparations point to a third world fered to “hook” theirs from an war. He blamed the United States,/open boat employing a rake-like Britain and France for East-West) affair. disagreements that remained un-| The Greeks invaded the shallow! solved. |Key West waters and the Conchs| The statement, played up in all)complained that their lead-footed Moscow newspapers and broadcast diving suits ruined the sponge beds.| by the Moscow radio, criticized! Result; War between the Conchs| U.S. Secretary of State Dulles for,and the Greeks. making speeches about the con-! Victory Claimed ference “representing himself as; According to the movie, as por-| of peoples and the champion of,land, Robert Wagner and J. Car- free elections.” jroll Naish, the Greeks won that “Certain defenders of freedom|war — or at least a moral victory. ers and militarists.a free hand|om the Conchs and stuffing cigars while the down their throats, | TRAFFIC BOX SCORE Scares Flagler Ave. Residents Fire Department Makes Dry Run On Local Residence If the faces of certain Key West Fire Department members are slightly on the red side today, it may be because of an incident which occurred on Flagler Avenue Thursday. They were called to the home of |Norton Harris, 3630 Flagler Avenue lyesterday at 4:30 p. m. when Mrs. | Harris reported that she could hear | | She suspected a short circuit and| immediately phoned her husband, | |manager of the Land of Sun Dairy. | jelectrical switch. She did. Firemen Hear It, Too When the fire fighters arrived, {they also heard the crackling |flames. They expected to see flam- es burst from the roof at any time. Some of them even smelled smoke. the ceiling until an electrician ar-| rived to cut the wires. None was available and the city electrician) finally was summoned, He pro-} nounced everything in order. They stood by for several min- utes and when nothing further de- veloped, went back to the station, scratching their heads in wonder. At 5 p. m., Harris arrived home and switched the current back on. Then at 9 p. m., the crackling | started all over again. Source Discovered Harris rushed into the kitchen—} and discovered the source of the} Sire’ He had left a half-dozen coconuts j | | | 1 | on a window sill and they had{ (Continued on Page Two) KEY WEST'S To March Date Accidents __ 10 103) Traffic Deaths 0 Traffi cInjuries _. 2 14 Property Damage —_..__.. $2,945 $28,416' Key West's traffic accident toll took a sharp upswing last night with two accidents resulting in two injuries and $2,050 in property damage. One accident, with no damage resulting was reported yesterday. \ In addition, two persons were ar- rested on a total of seven charges. The first accident ws reported | shortly after midnight. Police said that the car, driven} by William Anderson, of the Sea-| plane Base, went out of control be- cause of excessive speed at South- ard and Margaret Streets, and smashed into a fence at the Harris | School. Anderson suffered a cut on his forehead as a result of the crash. He was charged with reckless driving, causing an accident, leav- ing the scene of an accident, driv-| ing without a license and destroy- flames crackling under the eaves.| + |He instructed her to pull the main} : 'But, they refused to break through; 5 * Band Makes County Board, Peninsular Airlines Officials Discuss New Service Here | Scheduled Flights | May Be Booked | On Key West | To Miami Run | By DENIS SNEIGR The odds that this soon will have new and ade- quate air service looked bet- ter than ever. today. After today’s early morn- ing meeting between Penin- sular Airlines’ brass and the county commissioners _ it should be only a matter of days before another sched- | sore. uled airline begins service | between here and Miami. | The possibility exists—and strong- ly—that the service will be ext2nd- led to connect other Florida cities |with Key West. | At 8:30 a. m. today, Roy Robin- ‘son, one of the owners of Peninsular Airlines, and Barry Vaughan, gen- eral sales manager of the line, met at the county court house with the county commissioners. Incidentally, Robinson’s father was a conductor on the railroad jthat once ran between Key West and the mainland. | State O. K. Sought | Robinson said Peninsular want- Jed an okay from the state to fly jregularly scheduled flights within the state. The office of Governor Charlie Johns can give this okay. The commissioners assured Rob- linson and Vaughn that they would immediately today—get on the ball Peninsular Airlines Executives Visit Here city ; A BARRY VAUGHAN, left. general sales manager of Peninsular Airlines, and Roy Robinson, one of the owners of the line, met today with county commissioners to discuss start of a new sched. uled air service between Key West and Miami—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. History Of Key West Legal Work Lepez Tells Rotary About Early-Day Courts Rotarians heard Judge Aquilino|*® work toward that okay. Lopez, Jr., speak on the early his- The commissioners said they an- tory of the courts in Key West at ticipated no difficulty in that di- |their luncheon meeting Thursday, T¢ction. = z : | He told his fellow Rotarians that! But the plan might run into dif- 2 Puerto Ricans | . ficulty in Washington, To Court Today i, sis ce ia, at ate ear ape jot the Island of Cayo Hueso on! It seemed to be the consensus of left for Havana at noon today for! WASHINGTON (® — The four|August 26, 1815, by Don Juan Es-|those at the meeting that National Nationalists accused ‘Tada, Spanish Govenor of Florida, e | : Airlines would squawk to the Civil i ir a Puerto Rican : their third annual appearance in . ding five congressmen. in|t® Juan Pablo Salas “for services.”|Aeronautics Board in Washihgton the opening of the carnival season /Of wounding nee | when Peninsular begins regular a that wi |Monday’s wild shooting spree face Sale by Salas é in that city. al Siaeel ldathieori itle Service here. The bandsnren, along with the|* court todays 4 alas later sold his right, title In a move to ease the anticipated nee me | Each has an opportunity to an-/and interest to John W. Simonton, |.) 47, becf—if not to forestal Miami Edison High School band swer to a 10-count indictment, but whom he had met in Havana, for Conmiis ed poeta a and the Miami Motorcycle Drill their formal arraignment may be/$2,000. The sale was completed EM DEGREWG CaiGEal ie 1 Team left aboard the Cuban Navy Postponed if they have not ar-|on January 19, 1822, Soon after the picetineyta talk Sth Seat x e ; ;, ranged for attorneys to represent|sale, Simonton sold one quarter to ir sma- eunbastssAnjonio acess tne ny m |John Warner and John Mountain, |thers. arrived in Key West at 10 a. M. | “Amid indications of official con-/U. S. Consuls and Commission a-| ee comand saened Frank and left an hour later for the Cur | cern yesterday that President Ei-|gents for the United States at Ha-| (Continued on Page Two) ban Capitol. senhower and others may have Vana, and two other quarters to} First appearance for the band been marked for terrorists’ at-/John Whitehead and John c. Flem-Caareh Pres d will be in Saturday night’s gala tacks, Atty. Gen, Brownell dis-|ing. The interest of Mountain and sei parade down Havana’s Prado, the closed the Justice Department is,Warner was later purchased by oe traditional ‘“comparsas” which studying possible ways to proceed|Pardon C. Greene who became-al for Missing C47 touches off a four week season of | against members of the small, fi-/P¢Tmanent resident of the Island.| | NICE, France (2 — A broad gaiety. nancial Puerto Rican Nationalist| Key West was surveyed and| lestablishment of a territorial gov- Search was pressed over the Li- In that parade, dance groups party. mapped in the year 1829, but the ernment for Florida was the be-/SUtian Sea and the French Alps to- Havana Trip The Key West High School band | ing private property. Damage to the car was set at} $800 and to the fence $150. | The second accident, reported at! 2:55 a, m. occurred when a car| driven by David R. Haughtaling,| 22, of the USS Odax, overturned | on Roosevelt Boulevard, |Fifth Street. Police said the accident occurred when the vehicle hit a rock and) skidded. annihilation,” Molotov said. jdience at the Strand last night He said the Berlin conference ‘00k an active dislike to the pret-| was worthwhile because it aired|tiest Greek of all, star Robert] \various world questions am .q| Wagner. ; Scattered cheers were heard (Continued on Page Two) BAND CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN MARCH 14 The Band Concert by the 5ist Infantry Division Band, which was postponed last Sunday because of inclement weather, will be given on Sunday, March 14 at 3 p. m. at Bayview Park, Bethel P. John- son, Post Commander of Arthur Sawyer Post 28 announced today, WANTED Wool Spotter Apply At Once COLUMBIA LAUNDRY cleared the road to the Geneval (Continued on Page Two) Two members of the Key West Police Depart-| Team to/ | The drill team will participate in aturday night’s gala parade in Duffy's Restaurant American-Italian Kitchen Free Shrimp Cocktail with Each Meal 218 DUVAL STREET Haughtaling was charged with accident. near |) from each of Abe SIRE nnce COP Brownell told a news conference pete for the island championship. he could not go into details “be- ‘4 vena i nds of tourists have jam- 4s (ginning of the actual settlement 4aY for a U. S. Air Force C47, Thousa: J cause of the critical nature of the and development of the Island, (missing with 20 men on a flight Several families came from/ffom Rome to Bitburg, Germany, med the capitol for the start of the situation, with indictments pend- those arrested last cy” Augustine, and were hospitably) A midmorning report: that the festivities. ing against ‘received by the proprietors. jeraft had been spotted in the Mayor C. B. Harvey also left yongay.” aboard the Maceo to attend the, wy; = : Washington police made two rec-) Old Glory Raised mountains north of Nice proved On February 7, 1822, Lt. Perry false. Police said the report came festivities. He and Captain and Mrs} : z C. L. Murphy, chief of staff at the ee uae Congress ein ‘| ‘ 1 Naval Base, will be guests of the “)'"nat the special Capitol po- Visited the Island to take posses- from authorities in the village of Mayor of Havana for the-celebra-)); 1° sorce, members of which are as & it ee pett eon territory err uote ate Tinee, 40 miles tion. : ig ae -iceded to the United States by Nice, The trip was arranged by the "°W appointed by legislators as Continued on Page Tw But several residents of the re- City of ee Tien Depart- Part of their patronage, be re-| . sui te ci xis be told of hearing the noise of a ment. Bee a professional body. big plane yesterday afternoon and . That a bulletproof glass bar- French ski troops based in the area moved out in patrols of 20 to | . . Minister From WE HAVE DE Price Range from That Must Go! 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Its last radio report—‘ail normal” —was sent as the plane was over The four Puerto Ricans are Mohammad Mir Khan, Pakis- charged with assault with intent tan’s Minister to the United Sta- Corsica 75 miles 8 : ag ’ iles after it h. ak- to kill and assault with a danger- tes will be a visitor to Key West on off cai Rome's Clin ae ous weapon on the five represen- euonly, it has been announced by port. tatives felled. \Senator Spessard Holland, The re ‘i : eport from St. Et The defendants are Lolita Le-| Holland said that the Minister Tinee sald only that a tae bron, 34; Rafael Cancel Miranda, has agreed to appear before any been spotted on the ground, ‘There 25; Andres Figueroa Cordero, 29, Civic groups or other public bodies was no confirmation of the belief and Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28, Who may be interested in hearing jt was the missing U. S. plane or all of New York City. jhim speak. detail rs | Mr. Mir Khan, the second high- tienda tated est official representing his coun-| Stock Car Races try, will leave Washington March| Sponsored by KEY WEST 7 for a tour of Florida. He will| visit the state’s principal cities, the} STOCK CAR ASSOC., INC, Sunday, citrus belt, the Everglades vege-| 2:00 P.M. table section and the Atlantic and) BOCA CHICA PRE-WAR AND LATE $35.00 to $1895.00 That Must Go! ELKS CLUB DANCE Saturday, Mar. 6, Elks Club Annex SQUARE DANCE, VIRGINIA REEL, POPULAR DANCING Gulf Coasts. BOAT LUMBER