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

a Have A Voice In Your Government — Be Sure To Vote Tomorrow Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOL. LXXV No. 123 Kev West Citlisen THE Police Courtesy Plan Instituted By Perez Diplomacy Will Replace Rough | Ball Field Lights Tactics Here Installed Soon County Commissioner Frank By BILL SPILLMAN Bentley, chairman of the fin- Police Chief Bienvenido ance committee, today said 10 | additional lights will be inetall- Perez said today that he is issuing an order to the pol- ed at the ballfield in Ocean View park within the next few weeks, ice department for courtesy and soft-talking~ diplomacy to be used at all times by Bentley said the plans are complete and the lighting equip- investigating or arresting of- ficers regardless of how bel- ment has been ordered. A soon equipment said, it will be installed. ligerent the offenders are. Duval County Gets Johns’ Final Effort JACKSONVILLE (# —~ Charley Johns concentrated his ‘last day’s *leampaign for the Florida gover- norship today on big Duval County, which gave him a g0od lead in the first primary but still has 22,000 his votes that went to the eliminated Brailey Odham. The acting governor scheduled .|the whole day for campaigning around Jacksonville, where he will as the arrives, he the they are one hundred per cent harmony with each other. Court Fee Studied Lang said that he haz under study a suggestion to eliminate the court fee that is paid officers for , attending sessions as witnesses. The suggestion was to replace the money now paid with a pay increase taken from an average of what police officers have made in the past. The suggestion was made for study in an attempt to control any element of false arresters that might exist in the department. Police officers received a two dollar fee for appearing in court (Continued on Page Eight) opponent, LeRoy Collins, by’33,000 votes. Defends Road Program He struck back at Collins’ cam- Paign contention that the Johns road board has been passing up federal road money in its haste to make political hay with the highway. construction program. Johns said Collins ‘is merely governmental functions” in the dis- cussion of the federal road money issue. “Every dollar of federal aid that Florida can secure with matching funds is available to this state for the coming year in our $100,000,000 road building program,” he said, “We are fully confident that the authenticated statement of W. A. Williams, auditor of the State Roa Department, gives us sufficient basis financially speaking to pro- (Continued On Page Eight) IT'S FUN TO BUY —at— Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near Aquarium FOR HONEST AND RELIABLE TV SERVICE PHONE 2-6747 or 2.7849 AFTER 5:00 P.M. Free Estimates. Given DR. JOSEPH J. GROOM EYE SPECIALIST, M.D. Will Be Here For Consultation On READ SATURDAY, MAY 29 ||| AULD CLOOTIE ON For Appointments CALL—DR. J. A. VALDES, PHONE 2-7821 City Asks Patience On New Paving Complaints Are Voiced By People On United Street City officials today asked that the People who live on United Street near the High School Annex should not be too hasty in judging the re- sults of the City’s new street pav- ing equipment, Ivan Roberts, Director of Public Service, said that the holes in the street were caused by big rains City Manager Victor Lang éaid that the reason the holes were al- ready wearing in the road was be- cause at the time that section of road was put in, the city did not have the big roller that is now being used. Roller Trouble He stated that they bad been using a borrowed Navy roller but just at the time that section was done the Navy needed their (Continued On Page Eight) Tuesday’s Polling “polling places for tomorrow's Yec- ‘tions: The polls will be open {;om 7 a.m to7 p.m. 3 Precinct No. 1 — NCCS Build- ing, Duval and Virginia Streets. Precinct No. 2 — Rear of the Cave Inn Bar, Petronia Stree¢ off Duval Street. t : Precinct No. 3 — High School Cafeteria, Whalton Street. Precinct No. 4 — No. 3 Fire. Sta- tion, Grinnell Street. : |__Precinct No. 6 — County Court House. Precinct No. 7 — City Hall. Precinct No. 8 — William and Fleming Streets. Precinct No. 9 — Grinnell and Elgin Streets. }_ Precinct No. 10 — 1001 Southard Precinct No. 11 — Truman Ele- mentary School. ; Precinct No. 12 — High School Anne: K. Precinct No. 13 — First Street and Flagler Avenue, Precinct No. 14 — Poinciana Ad- ministration Building. Precinct No. 15 — Marathon Chamber of Commerce Building. Precinct No. 16 — Old Matecum- be School House. Precinct No. 17 — Clinic Build- ing, Tavernier, — Drivers Wanted — Free transportation te Philadel- Phia and Pittsburgh. National er- ganization moving 200 new cars. We pay gas expense. For inform: tien call Mr. Menree, 2-8744, HEAR JIM FRANKLIN CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATOR WEWF 7:45 Tonight (Pd. Pol. Adv.) SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1954 Temporary Halt Ordered On Beach Work Mazur’s Workmen Are Stopped By Order From Lopez Operation Bagel went ahead full blast today even as Circuit Court Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr., issued an order for a temporary injunc- tion to stop workmen from cross- ing a property line. Max and Rose owners of the Sun ’n Surf Motel, 50@ South St., sought the injunction to keep workmen from the Atlantic Shores Motel, 510°South St. from crossing the property line. gun’s Lobster House, have combin- ed to fill and bulkhead the bay bottom land on the oceam-side of their properties. When ‘completed, Operation Ba- gel will provide additional patio space for Logun’s restaurant as hora a parking lot and a new Cohen's Complaint Cohen complained that marl had been dumped on his property. The Mazurs. were out of town and could not be served with pa- pers in the suit. However, they were. represented at today’s hear- ing by their attorney, Paul .Saw- yer. J. Y. Porter IV represents om 5 gun nemed the project Opera- tion Bagel because of the-way the first fill was dumped. The fill formed a big, rough circle, Today, truck were busy. filling in the cen- ter of the circle as other workmen pega a wall between the Ma- zur Cohen property. day that he is in the process’ g Crashes At Eglin . EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE i7— The Air Force reported today that a late type jet bomber crashed in the woods near here last night and the pilot and radar observer were The plane was the two-place RBS7 night Intruder bomber, the American counterpart of the famed British Canberra. Shown publicly for the first time at a firepower demonstration here May 9, the Plane is being service tested at the Air Proving Ground. The names of the two victims are being withheld temporarily Pending notification of next of kin. The crash took place on the Eg- lin reservation, three miles off State Highway 20. Here’s how it could work: correct Your Present Taxes— Final Showdown World’s Largest IN. THE U.S.A, Airship To End Endurance Flight Here Aerial Tour By Collins MIAMI (®#—LeRoy Collins will make an aerial tour of Florida’s three great population centers to- day for radio and television ap- Pearances climaxing a campaign he predicts will win him the gov-/ ernorship by 75,000 votes. The Tallahassee state Dream started the final day of the cam- paign’ with a breakfast-time TV} appearance in Miami, heart of populous Dade County which gave him his biggest vote in the first primary and holds the key to his chances of beating Acting Gov. Charley E. Johns tomorrow. Later in the day he will fly to Jacksonville, Johns stronghold in the first primary, for a 7:30 p.m. television appearance. Then he will fly to St. Peters- burg for an 11:05 p.m. TV. appear- ance reachigg the Tampa Bay area Statewide Radio Speech In between TV speeches, Col- lins will have a statewide radio program over 50 stations from 9 to 10 p.m. At home in Tallahassee Sunday for a final check with campaign leaders around the state, Collins issued a statement declaring “It is clearly apparent that a strong reaction has set in against the act- ing governor because of his false and desperate campaign tactics in these closing days and hours. “I confidently predict now that our margin of victory will be 75,- 000 votes or better.” He said “brazen campaigning by tax-paid state officials ... also has reacted strongly against the acting governor. The people don’t like this use of their own funds to support a political machine and (Continued on Page Eight) STATE TAX COMMISSION?? CHARLEY JOHNS SAYS Ati comes inte your County from a central Talla- hassee Mburewe. ene decides your homestead assessment is not assessment Homestead Exemption .... New assessment, same hom by Tallahassee expert .. Homestead Exemption ...... Taxable after revaluation— Weuld cause you to pay in taxes on the same home, based on this year’s millage $ 228.25 PROTECT YOUR HOMESTEAD Vote For Charley Johns For Governor Big Blimp Will Land At Naval Air Station Tomorrow Afternoon The world’s largest airship, a blimp, will end a record-breakir z endurance flight here early tomor- row afternoon. At 3:30 p.m. today the big non- rigid ship had been aloft 178 hours. Latest word from the ship itself indicated that it will be kept in the air until it reaches the 200- hour mark. This would make its time of landing here about 1:30 p. m. tomorrow. However, Navy spokesmen here said the ship would be in this area, probably early this evening, and | would circle in this vicinity’ until the 200-hour record is set. The ship is an N-type. It is 342 feet long, 96 feet high, and has a capacity of one million cubic feet. From Lakehurst The ship, with 16 men aboard, took off from the Naval Air Sta- i N. J., at 5:35 tion at Lakehurst, Fa. m. last Monday, May 17. It followed a course that-took it over. Va., then,.to. Bermu- da, San. Juan, back aleng the hamas,’ Mismi, and finally to West. The ship has many unique fea- tures. It can be refueled in flight from surface craft, and the crew can be changed in flight from sur- face ships. The stores aboard the ship also can be replenished in flight. The Navy pointed out that the airship operates independently of any aircraft carrier, smaller sur- face ships being used for re-fuel- ing and for changing crews and taking on additional supplies. Both the 800 horsepower engines are inside the car, simplifying in- flight checks and repairs. Propeller Operation One or both propellers can be operated by one engine. It has full reversible pitch propellers and a tricycle landing gear, making it easy to handle on the ground. While the ship is in Key West it will be handled by Airship De- velopment Squadron 11. Cdr. Henry Eppes is in charge of the ship on its endurance flight. He already has broken the pre- vious record of 170.4 hours set by (Continued On Page Eight) SONAR SCHOOL XO GOES TO CARRIER After two years as Executive Of- ficer at Fleet Sonar School here, Commander John B. Carroll, USN, left this command today for Nor- folk, Va., to assume the duties of Executive Officer of the light crui- ser USS Roanoke. Classic Ballet Languages PRINCESS NINA TEL. 2-3161 NOTICE READ COUNTY COMMISSIONER FRANK BENTLEY'S SPEECH PAGE 8 (Pd. Pol Adv.) ues For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You'll reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers DIAL 2-5661 or 2-5662. day . State Senate Race, Commission Post Draw Much Local Interest Voters in tomorrow’s second primary will find only six names on the ballot as opposed to the 29 candidates in the first primary, May 4. The race which will draw the most interest here as well as throughout the state is the hot Johns-Collins race for the governor’s chair. ~ Both Acting Governor Charley E. Johns and Leroy Collins will be out after the 2,337 Monroe County votes Brailey Odham registered in the first election. In that primary, Collins got 2,020 votes in Monroe County and |Parking Ban Set Citizens are requested not to park on Newton Street between North Beach and White Street tomorrow. The request is made in order to save any delay in commencing construction of the New pavement on Newton. KEY WEST'S TRAFFIC BOX SCORE Key West had two accidents over the weekend. In one of the accidents, both drivers said they had a green light. The light was observed to be work- ing properly just after the ac- cident happened. It is a good idea to look for other traffic, whether the light is working properly or not. No Injuries In Saturday Smash No one was injured when two cars collided at the corner of Flag- ler and First Streets on Saturday. John Hurney, age 17, driving a °53 Plymouth Sedan was proceed- ing West on Flagler when his car collided -wita a ’47 Chevrolet truck driven by John E. Castro, 20, going north on First Street. Damage was estimated to be $400. Officer Maribona made the in- vestigation and charged both driv- ers with reckless driving and caus- ing an accident. Hurney was also charged with driving without a driving license, Johns, 2,572. The race for the state senate also looks like it will draw considerable voter at- tention. William R. Neblett, of Key West, is out to unseat the veteran James A. Franklin, the incumbent. The run for the senate seat saw four men entered in the first pri- mary. Neblett drew 3,407. votes in this county in that election while Franklin got 1,846 votes. Tomorrow they will be seeking the 1,174 votes that went to Mickey Parrot and Travis Gresham in the first primary. One County Race Only one county race will be on tomorrow's ballot—the. race for county commissioner in the second district. 3 In the. first election, William A. Freemam,dey racked up 2,713 vot- es. Frank Bentley took 2,125, and Rodman J. Bethel, 1,054, to be eli- minated. In the May 4 primary, 7,403 per- sons voted in this county while 583 voted absentee. Sam Pinder, sup- ervisor of registration here, said a total of 613 absentee ballots were handed out by his office, but only 583 were returned, The period in which the 583 bal- lots were voted or mailed back covered 17 working days for Pin- der’s office. That period extended from April 5 to April 28. Absentee Applications Only four working days were a- vailable for yoters to obtain ab- (Continued on Page Eight) KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Regular meeting of Key West | Lodge No. 163 will be held Tuesday at 8 P.M. to nominate officers for the coming term. Buffet supper will be served. All members are urged to at- tend. Voie To Keep James A. Franklin In The Senate 2 brief summary of what James A. “Jim” Franklin stands for: No state ad valorem taxes. Better Public School facilities. Continued financial aid to the old and blind and more ap- ‘opriations when ible. "i Continuation of Hon ‘Homestead exemption. Continued funds for more and better roads in Monroe County. A wide advertising program for the state to bring more tourists and settlers to this State. ‘ James A. Franklin because of his seniority in the Senate will serve as chairman and a member of many important com- mittees if returned again to the Senate. He has worked close with State Representative B. €, Papy in all Monroe County Legisiation. He will work to get another State Representative and a State Senator for Monroe County in the reapportionment Bill. Vote for James A. Franklin and Assure Monroe County Experience and Seniority In the State Senate JAMES A. LEVER 3-A (Paid Political Advertisement) For Cars Call 2-3242, -2-8492 OR 2-5721 (Paid Political’ Advertisement)