The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Floridc, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV_ No. 119 OFF FOR CUBA—The group above left early this morning for Havana where they will be honored guests in Cuba's lavish celebration of the achievement of its independence. Capt. C. L. Murphy, official representative of the U.S. Navy: Police Sergeant Frank Caraballo: Dr. Delio Cobo; Rudolph Boza;.Lee A. Saxton, who came from Baton Rouge, La.. to be a special guest of the Cuban Government; Joe Allen, representing Monroe County: Navy Fire Chief Harry M, Baker, and Mayor C. B. Harvey. representing the City of Key West.—Photo by Karns. Tomorrow Marks Start THE Left to right are Of Fiesta Celebration Cab Driver Loses License, Is Plane, Ship Will Bring Cubans: Here Tw ties mar of the Fiesta Alegre y Bene- ficia here will get under way early tomorrow with the ar-. days of gala festivi- ig the celebration |: Fined For Ilieit Use Of Taxi Band To Lead rival of an official party. of Cuban dignitaries and of the Cuban National Band. ‘The group of dignitaries will fly to Meacham Field in a Cuban Army transport aizcraft. They will be greeted by the Key West group responsible for the staging of the festival here, led by Julio Cabenas, Jr., president of the San Carlos Institute. Navy Honors Planned They will be taken to the Naval Station here to meet Navy officials and to make a tour of the Naval facilities. The Navy has announced that the dignitaries will be greet- ed with honors and salutes accord- ing to their respective ranks and titles. The Band will arrive at the Na- val Station aboard the Cuban gun- boat, Jose Marti. The band mem- bers will be quartered at the Sta- tion and transportation will be fur- nished by government vehicles and dfivers, State Dept. Okay The U. S. State Department has given its approval to the Fiesta here as an aid in cementing inter- national relations between two great neighbors — the United Sta- tes and Cuba. > Thursday’s plans for the festivi- ties include a luncheon at which the Cuban visitors will be guests of honor. The luncheon will be spon- sored by the City of Key West. After the luncheon, the group of Cubans and Key Westers will go to Bayview Park for ceremonies to be conducted at the monument to Jose Marti. A detachment of Honor Guard (Continued on Page Two) ALL KINDS OF Parade Here The Cuban National Band will lead the parade Friday night as a highlight of the fes- tivities of “Fiesta Alegre y Be- ne“icia.” The band will arrive Tharsday at the ‘Navy Station abfard the Cuban gunboat “Jose Marti.” 3 The parade starts sharply at 6:38 p. m. from the corner of Duval and South Streets. All participants are requested corner at six tee. i full length of Duval Street. Fine Levied For Activities In Local Restaurant In city court yesterday Herbert E. Waldon, a Coast Guardsman, was fined $50 after pleading guilty to drunk, disorderly, and assault and battery. M. W. Seay testified that he was sitting at the counter of the Haba-" na Madrid Restaurant Monday h night having a cup of coffee when Waldon turned him around and hit him in the mouth. The blow dazed ji him and knocked him to the floor, he said. Seay also testified that there were no words spoken be- tween them. Waldon told the court that he and a friend were in the restaurant to have some coffee before going to} sleep and sat next to Seay. He tes- tified that there were two women sitting in a booth and that Seay was blocking the view. Waldon said that his friend asked Seay if Roofing Materials at Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON STREET Near City Fishing Dock he would move. The man was said to have ans- wered, “If you want me’ moved, move me.” Waldon testified that he moved him. For County Commissioner WILLIAM A. FREEMAN, JR. (Second District) LEVER 6-A Para Commissionado SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1954 IN THE U.S. A. $12,000 Paid To County | Aerovias Q Pays Levy For First Period County Commissioner Frank Bentley, chairman of the finance committee, today said the county had collect- ed $12,091.19 from Aerovias Q for the first four months of this year. The $12,091.19 is money collected by the airline from passengers at the rate of 50 cents for each per- son landing or taking off at Mea- cham Airport. Bentley added that up to Jan. 1, 1954, the county collected only $450 per month from Aerovias Q for landing fees. Money Paid Out The airline, Bentley said, paid for its own janitor service, lights and water, These bills were paid for out of the passenger fees. Bentley said. the airline will con- ; tinue to pay these expenses until Navy Man Testifies «°Fomity Against Accused Driver Taxi driver Eloy Ferrer was found guilty of using his cab to perpetrate “immoral purposes” in city court yesterday. Judge Es- quinaldo fined Ferrer 100 and the loss of his license to operate a taxi. The sailor, William Barth, who testified for the.city against Fer- rer was found guilty and fined $25. on the charge of “riding in a cab for immoral purposes.” Barth testified that as he was walking along Duval Street, he was stopped by a taxi driver and asked if he wanted a cab. He said that{ he did not want a cab and the taxi driver then asked if he wanted a girl. Barth said he hesitated a mo- ment, then asked the driver how much and was informed that the price was $10. He then stated that he got into the cab and was driven about the city and later transfer- red to a cab driven by Eloy Fer- Ter. Woman In Cab A woman was in the back seat of the cab driven by Ferrer and he stated that he gave the woman a $20 bill. He then stated that he was taken to a house in a residen- tial district on Josephine Street which the three of the entered. The driver stayed in one room and Barth and the woman went into a bedroom. Officer Linehan testified that he ad been suspicious of the taxi and the house for some time and when he drove by, he saw Ferrer sitting in a room. When Ferrer and Barth left the house, Linehan said he fol- lowed the cab to Front treet where the sailor was apprehended and taken into custody for ques- tioning. Confession Reported Barth testified and confessed in the presence of three city police officers and three members of the shore patrol. July 1, when the county will ake over. After that date, he s: county will collect the full nek _|of the passenger la: The $12,091.19 goes into a tmeeial airport improvement fund, ley said. He pointed out that the county _fhas plans for a hn improves; ment program. at the would mean paved and’ Work of extending the runwa; already underway. Improvement Fund Of the $648,000, Bentley said, the county will put up only one half or $324,000. The remainder has been re- quested from the Federal govern- (Continued on Page Two) KEY WEST'S TRAFFIC BOX SCORE Te May Date Accidents _____. 29 213 Traffic Deaths 8 0 Traffic Injuries _ 4 33 Property Damage $6,965 $55,751 The only significant accident reported was a head on colli- sion at the triangle by the Na- vy Hospital. This accident, the same as most accidents caus- ed in this city, was the result of someone violating a traffic regulation. %A highway patrolman once said that if he could just find the man who makes that “‘just one beer” he could manufac- ture it and quit the highway department. The same patrolman said that he would like to visit just one accident scene where the man was doing over thirty-five miles an hour. He said the usual scene is where skid marks run for a hundred yards, the car a complete loss, rolled over sev- eral times and burned. If some- one happens to come out of it long enough to relate the inci- dent they always say, ‘There I No testimony was given as to (Continued on Page Two) was doing only thirty-five miles an hour.” RE-ELECT FRANK BENTLEY County Commissioner 2nd District : Present Chairman of Important Finance Committee: A Man of Experience and Mature Judgment is required to Properly Prepare Your County Budget and see that Every Tax Dollar is Properly Spent and Accounted For. A Policeman’s LotIs Not A Happy One Police Officer Santana says that you just can’t win in this Police business. Last night, he saw a man sleeping in his car and upon investigation he said that he smelled alcohol. He awoke the man and took him home in or- der to prevent him from wak- ing up and driving while in the drunken condition. “While we were on our way to this fellow's house, some in- dignant person called the po- lice station and demanded to knew why the man was arrest- ed,” Santana said. The caller was told that no ene had been arrested. The in- dignant unidentified person on ether end of the wire said, “It's the first time you haven't” and hung up. x \President Does Not Intend To Rescind Order Ike Tells Newsmen He Hopes Hearings Will Be Resumed WASHINGTON (#— President Ei- sen}.ower said today he has no in- tention whatsoever of relaxing or rescinding his secrecy order that Jed to suspension of the McCarthy- Army hearings. Eisenhower also told a news conference he hopes ‘the hearings will resume and continue until the key principals have had a chance to bring out all the facts, and let the chips fall where they may. The President strongly indicated the Army was acting on its own— rather than on White House or- * |ders—in the events which led up *|Catholic Schools To Follow Ruling Qf Their Bishop ‘The Bishop of this’ Diocese will have the final say on the non- segregation issue of Catholic schools, it was learned today. The local convent will go along with any ruling that is made by the church head. Father Maring, the priest of the local Catholic ‘Church, said today that Catholics preach social jus- tice and he also stated that man himself expresses social equality by the friends he makes and likes regardless of creed and color. He said that no law can tell people (Continued on Page Two) Scout Troop 253 Plans Ceremony Boy Scouts of Troop No. 253 will assemble in a Court of Honor at 6:45 p. m. Monday at 1020 Windsor Lane. The troop is sponsored by the Holy Name Society of St. Mary Star of the Sea Church. After the scouts assemble at 6:45 p..m., they will march into the campfire circle. When the. fire has been lighted, Fred H. Dettmer will present the scouts with merit badges and certificates of promo- tion. Dettmer will also be the princi- pal speaker. to the head-on clash between high Pentagon officials and Sen. Mc- Carthy (R-Wis). He said Secretary of the Army Stevens yndoubtedly will make a statement about what Eisenhower called the disassociation between the Army and higher levels of the administration. Astonished At Readtion The President said he ‘was as- tonished to find his ‘secrecy order of Monday had been used as a reason or an excuse to suspend the hearings. He said one of his main pur- poses in issuing his order was to keep the televised hearings on the rails, to keep them from wander- ing off into a side issue. Eisenhower's order forbade Ar- my Counselor J. G. Adams, who was on the witness stand at that time, from giving details of a Jan. 21 meeting at which the Army’s problems with McCarthy’s Senate Investigations subcommittee were discussed. John Adams had said previously that Sherman Adams, top assistant to the President, advised him at that meeting to draft a written record of the Army’s difficulties with McCarthy over alleged re- quests for special treatment’ for Pvt. G.. David Schine. Hearings Suspended Shortly. after the Eiserhower secrecy order was issued, the hear- ings were suspended so that Senate investigators could try to get the President to withdraw, modify or at least clarify it. McCarthy contends he will be unable to present his case unless he can show what role White House officials may have played in the (Continued on Page Two) A La Colonia Cubana Y El Pueblo En General EL CLUB SAN CARLOS POR ESTE MEDIO, LOS INVITA CORDIALMENTE A TODOS A LOS FESTEJOS PATRIOTICOS DEL 20 Y¥ 21 DE MAYO JUEVES 20 DE MAYO La Banda de la Marina Cubana Participara 11:00 A.M.—Ofrenda Floral Al Apostol Jose Marti 11:30 A.M.—Ofrenda Floral Al Gold Star Monument 12:00 M.—Ofrenda Floral Victimas U.S.S. Maine 12:30 P.M.—Ofrenda Floral Martires Cubanos 8:30 P.M.—Funcion en el Teatro San Carlos a Beneficio de la Construccion del Asilo para Ninos, Des- dichados de este Condado, es Contribucion de la Colonia Cubana para esta Buena Causa. VIERNES 21 MAYO 6:30 P.M.—Parada por la Calle Duval 8:00 P.M.—Recepcion en el Club San Carlos donde se les Entregaran Diplomas a Patriotas de Cuba y Key West 9:30 P.M.—Baile Popular Frente, Al Club San Carlos... Amenizado por la Banda de la Marina de Cuba. TAMBIEN—Baile para las Personas de Color en el Patio del Douglass High School, Jueves 20 de Mayo. De 9:00 P.M. + 12:00 P.M. The Key West Citisen PRICE FIVE CENTS Leland. March Loses Suit To Gain School Board Contract Judge Lopez Refuses To Grant Writ To Former Supervisor Leland S. March, former public school supervisor, lost his suit to force the school board to give him‘a con- tinuing contract. In a final judgment on file today, Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., ruled “that these proceed- ings be dismissed and the costs herein be taxed against the relator.” March was the relator. 27th Polio Case Is Listed Today The city’s 27th polio case of the year was recorded today. The County Health Depart- ment said the victim was a five-year-old white girl who did not take a gamma globulin in- jection. She is a civilian depen- dent and has a non-paralytic form of the disease. Up to this date last year, only two cases had been re- corded. KWHS Band Will Present Annual Concert The Key West High School Band will have itsvannual concert in the high school auditorium at 8 Pp. m. on Friday. Horace O’Bryant, Sy) lent of County “Schools, present band awards. fo the se- niors. .Other awards will also be given. The event has been planned since last December and will have the internationally known conduc- tor Frank Crang of Canada as a guest conductor. The evening will be highlighted by two solos. Frank Bervaldi will play “Naida”’ as a feature solo. The son of the city’s mayor, C. B. Harvey, Jr., will also be. a soloist playing “Mountain Concerto” on the piano. Hope was expressed by school officials that the scheduled event would not interfere with other ac- tivities in the city. The public is invited. Air Station Is Praised For Safety Practices The Key Wes. Naval Air Station has received the Secretary of the Navy Award for Industrial Safety for accident prevention during 1953 among civilian employees. In his citation accompanying the award the Navy Secretary wrote, “You have not only met the re- quirements for this award, but you have also reduced the frequency rate of accidents at your activity below that of the previous year.” Captain Thomas Ashcraft, Com- manding Officer of the Naval Air Station, congratulated the Navy employees for the low accident (Continued on Fage Two) On May 13, 1953, March through his attorney, J. Y. Porter IV filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to order Horace O’Bryant, superin- tendent of public instruction, and the school board to give him a continuing contract. In his petition, March said he had been empicyed as director of instruction for the 1949-50 and 19- 50-1951 school years, and that he had been employed as a supervis- or for the 1951-1952 and 1952-1953 school years. Contract Question He said in his petition that O’- Bryant and the school board had Tefused to give him a continuing contract as provided by state law. Besides O’Bryant, the school board members named in the March suit were Gerald Adams, chairman of the board, J. Carlyle Roberts, Willam R. Warren, Jr., H. Earl Duncan, and Edney B. Parker. Besides dismissing the proceed- ings, Judge Lopez ruled that the writ of mandamus not be issued. Assisting Porter in the action ‘werertive Miami attorneys; E.F.P. Beigua and George W. Wright, r. Allan B. Cleare, Jr, and J. Lancelot Lester were attorneys for O’Bryant and the school board. Petition Made The March petition stated in part: “At no time did the Monroe County School Board prescribe that March’s fourth consecutive year of employment: as herein- above described be an extension of his probationary employment in Monroe County school system, the minutes of the regular meeting of the Monroe County Board of Pub- lic Instruction dated May 9th, 1952, insofar as it concerns March, read- ing as follows: “Mr. Cabanas moved — Mr. Parker seconded that the title of assistant superintendent be abolish- ed and that Leland March be em- ployed as supervisor at a salary of $5,650 per year with expense allowance of $25 per month. This was passed unanimously.’ ” Discharged Last April March was fired at a school (Continued on Page Two) EVANS ATTENDS YMCA CONCLAVE AT BUFFALO Richard E. Evans, director of the Key West USO-YMCA Club, is in Buffalo, N. Y., to attend the sond triennial conference of the Asso ciation of Sécretaries of the YMCA. He will return here Monday. A- bout 1,000 persons are attending the meeting. Evans left Key West last Friday. BALL AND DANCE BARTENDERS AND WAITRESSES UNION Local No. 156, A. F. of L. Thursday, May 20, 10:00 P.M. « 5 A.M. CUBAN CLUB Music act Mamboleros Admission ______________- _ $1.25 Per Person VOTE FOR JAMES FRANKLIN The old folks of Monroe County have a staunch friend in James bleise He was one of the supporters of the act which raised the allocat n for the old folks from $30 to $60 a month. In James Franklin’s own words we quote—Whenever | find there is money available without additional taxation, | will vote to give more to the Old Folks. They deserve even more than they are rarelving today.” Go to is on May 25 — and vote to retain assistance by ines aap hon your ballot for James Frank’ Senator. ~~ old age in for State _ Vote For and Return James A, Franklin To the State Senate LEVER NO. 3-A (Paid Political Advertisement) 35 YEARS ACCOUNTING EXPERIENCE (aid Political Advertisement) del Condado (Pd. Pol. 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