The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1954, Page 7

Tuesday, May 25, 1954 THE Ike May Depart KEY WEST CITIZEN From His Be-Kind-To-Democrats Role By MARVIN L, ARROWSMITH WASHINGTON @® —A White House aide’s criticism of Demo- crats in Congress raised a question today whether President Eisen- hower himself may be getting ready to toss a few political brick- bats. If he does, it will be a sharp departure from the be-kind-to- Democrats role he has played con- sistently since taking office 16 months ago. i Criticism of the opposition party voiced yesterday by Bernard M. Shanley, one of the President’s key aides, was something quite new. Speaking off the cuff to a meeting of the Wine and Spirits Whole- salers Assn., Shanley accused Democrats in Congress of throwing “important roadblocks” in the path of the administration’s legis- lative program. It was the first time anybody high on the White House staff has ' sounded off so bluntly against the Democrats. z . In doing so, Presidential Special Counsel Shanley reportedly had ) Eisenhowér’s approval. And that | touched off speculation that the ’ President may be getting set to / speak out himself, perhaps with an eye to the coming congressional | Eisenhower has said that unless | the Republicans enact what he |} terms a dynamic and progressive program, they won’t deserve to | win in the November elections. But so far he has refrained from cut- ting loose at the Democrats. One obvious reason is that his program can’t be put across with- out their cooperation, so closely is Congress divided. The President also has said he plans no barnstorming campaign- ing in behalf of individual Repub- licans, but indications are he will travel around the country to plug for a workable Republican major- ity in the next Congress. The Democrats and Republicans now each have 47 senators. In the House, the Republicans barely out- number ‘Democrats. In his speech Shanley also sug- gested that former Vice President Alben W. Barkley and other Demo- erats are trying to ride to victory in November on Eisenhower’s coat- tails. Barkley is bidding for elec- tion to the Senate seat now held by John Sherman Cooper, Ken- tucky Republican who is seeking re-election. Shane did not men- tion him by name. Barkley said in New York that if Shanley’s statement “‘had refer- ence to me it is utterly prepos- Prue the “roadblocks,” Sha: i e “roadblocks,” n- ley spoke of “‘the solid vote of the opposition party to the major por- tions of the President’s program.” He mentioned the Democratic votes against (1) administration tax revision proposals in the House, (2) amendment of the Taft- Hartley. law in the Senate, and (3) a proposed constitutional amend- ment to lower the voting age to 18. : The tax bill passed the House, but the labor and suffrage meas- ures’ were blocked in the Senate. Park Attendant Is Saved From Death Jump ST. LOUIS W—An i8-year-old amusement park attendant was trussed up in a fire department rescue bag and lowered 70 feet to the ground after threatening to jump from a thrill ride yesterday while thousands of schoolchildren watched. Police identified the youth as Robert George Adelsberger of sub- urban Jennings, an attendant at an “aeroplane swing.” Adelsberger, who police said was a patient at a psychopathic hospital last January, climbed an iron ladder up the center pole of the swing to a small platform. ‘Then, shouting that he was going to jump, he removed his shoes, wrapped his arms around one of the cross poles and dangled in the air about 70 feet above the ground. Firemen manned life nets below | be as Jesse Reed, another park em- ploye, climbed to the platform, grabbed Adelsberger and hauled him back to the platform, where he was tied up and lowered to the ground in a rescue bag. Police quoted Adelsberger as saying he had a dispute with his girl friend. Loot Uncovered © WILMINGTON, N.C. —The battered old safe had been stand- ing in a corner in police head- quarters here for two weeks — part of the evidence in a robbery case. Inside had been found a few per- sonal papers and a detective story magazine. The robbers had taken the remainder of the contents. Officer J. S. Smith idly picked up the old magazine and began leafing through it. Out dropped $300 in bills—possibly a remnant of the $2,000 taken in the roberry, The magazine—inside Detective, This College Professor Is Real Crazy By ROBERT H. JOHNSON JR. DENTON, Tex. (®—The creziest college professor in the country, man, is getting his doctor’s degree. Craziest is what his students call M. E. (Gene) Hall, meaning he’s hep—the greatest. Hall, who has trouble switching between scholarly conversation and bopster lingo; runs a_real cool jazz music course at North Texas State College here. As far as he knows, it’s the only course in the United States that will get you a degree as a bachelor of music in jazz from an accredited college. By mail the first week of June, his doctor of education degree should artive from. New York Uni- versity. “T’m not going up there to get it because it costs money,” he said. “I’ve got grocery bills and kids in school, you_know.” Hall, a big, bespectacled man of 40, has been fighting grocery bills since he got out of school at Whitewright, a little town in north Texas. During the depression, he played the saxophone in a panic band. That doesn’t mean the band pan- icked the people. Most of the time the band was in a panic,. wonder- ing where it was going to play and eat next. He saved and entered NTSC. When his money ran low he’d go out for a year of one-night stands. By 1943 he had his master’s de- gree. While he was a graduate stu- dent he started teaching a couple of west Texas boys how to arrange popular music and pretty soon he had a class of 15. The course has been taught ever since. But Hall left for a while to teach band in Victoria, Tex., High School and to work at a radio station in Fort Worth. In 1947, the college brought him back to build up the jazz curricu- lum to qualify it as a degree pro- gram. Hall has the kids study tradi- tional music courses. When they’re old friends with Bach, he lets them work iyto his courses on jazz. “They're young and very im- pressionable,” Hall said. “They get their vocabulary out of Down- beat. And with some of them it may be a device to hide inferior- ity feelings. “But I talk the language with the cats. Sometimes I even find it creeping out in my conversation when I’m talking to people.” Anyway, the students think he’s real crazy. “But opinions vary,” Hall said. “Sometimes they let me know I’m a mouldy fig. “That’s a square, you know— not hep,” ORDINANCE NO. 443, ._ COMMISSION SERIES AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 342 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1952, RELATING TO RESIDENCE “A” DISTRICTS, BY REZONING THAT STRIP OF LAND LYING SOUTHEASTERLY AND ADJACENT TO ELGIN STREET FOR A WIDTH OF AP- PROXIMATELY SIXTY (60) FEET AND LYING BETWEEN FRAN- CIS AND WHITE STREETS FROM RESIDENCE “B” TO BUSINESS “BY; REPEALING ALL ORDIN- ANCES OR PARTS OF ORDIN- ANCES IN CONFLICT THERE- WITH, AND PROVIDING WHEN ph GOES INTO EF- BE IT ENACTED by the City Commission of the City of Key West, Florida: Section 1. That that strip of land lying Southeasterly and adjacent to Elgin Street for a width of approx- imately sixty (60) feet and lying Francis and White Streets and the same is hereby re-zoned pe Residence “B” District to B “B” District. Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances of the City of Key | Provisions hereof are hereby re- Pealed to the extent of such con- flict, _ Section 3. This ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon its Passage and adoption and authen- tication by tHe signature of ibe Presiding officer and the Clerk o! the Commission, and publication one time in a newspaper ‘General circulation published in the City of Key West, Florida. and passed on first read- ing at a regular meeting held @rd, A.D. 1954. and passed on final read- ing at a regular meeting held May Mth, A.D, 1954. (s) C. B. HARVEY, Attest: Mayor. VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. may25,1954 Page 7 West, Florida in conflict with the | Uranium Boom In Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY (#—A urani- um boonmr swamped Salt Lake City brokerage firms yesterday, with an estimated five million shares of uranium stocks changing hands in over-the-counter trade—which accounts for most of the uranium stock business. Issue$ listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange also were active and made substantial price gains. E. N. Bagley, manager of the J. A. Hogle and Co. office, attribut- ed, the brisk trade to demand that has been “building up for several days.” He said “a lot of outside money,” coming mostly from Texas, New York and California, boosted the volume and also the prices. Bars Can’t Hold Skinny Youths GOLDSBORO, N.C. & —Two thin boys, 8 and 9 years old, re- moved their clothes and squeezed through the bars of a city jail cell here over the weekend, Police recaptured the pair in a corridor outside the cell block. They had been arrested for in- vestigation of bicycle thefts. ORDINANCE NO. 446 COMMISSION SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 34.22 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLOR- IDA, 1952, TO PERMIT A VAR- TANCE THEREIN, NAMELY, THE BUILDING UP TO THE SIDE AND REAR PROPERTY LINES ON A PART OF LOT ONE IN SQUARE ONE OF TRACT FOUR OF SIMONTON AND WALL'S AD- DITION TO THE CITY OF KEY WEST, COMMONLY KNOWN AS 709-713 WHITMARSH LANE IN THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLOR- IDA! REPEALING ALL ORDIN- ANCES OR PARTS OF ORDIN- ANCES IN CONFLICT THERE- WITH, AND PROVIDING WHEN ORDINANCE GOES INTO EF- FECT. BE IT ENACTED by the City Commission of the City of Key West, Florida: Section 1. That Section 34.22 of the Code of the City df Key West, Florida, 1952, be and the same is hereby amended to permit a vari- ance therein, namely, the building up to the side and rear property lines on a Part of Lot One (1) in Square One (1) of Tract Four (4) of Simonton and Wall’s Addition to the City of Key West, commonly known as 709-713 Whitmarsh Lane in the City of Key West, Florida. Section 2. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances of said City in con- flict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. Section 3. This Ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and adoption and au- thentication by the signature of the presiding officer and the Clerk of the Commission, and publication thereof one time in a newspaper of general circulation published. in the City of Key West, Florida. Read and passed on first reading at a regular meeting held April 23rd, A. D. 1954. Read and passed on final read- ing at a regular meeting held May Iith, A, D. 1954. (s) C. B. HARVEY, | EFFECT. ' Viking Rocket — Sets New Record WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND, N. M. @®—A Navy Vik- ing rocket reached 158 miles sky- ward yesterday, 22 miles higher than any. previous firing of a mis- sile of that type. This was No. 11. ae Viking record was set May 7% White Sands officials said the re one adr 4,300 miles an . Reaction Motors, Inc., . Rock- away, N. J., which ape = produced the engine, powered with liquid oxygen and a mixture of alcohol and water. Its power, the firm said, was roughly the equivalent of 2,200 av- erage 1954 autos. The. rocket record is 250 miles. It was set by the Army’s WAC Corpora, fired from a German V2 aloft. Nearly four tons of aphids have been found in a single acre of al- falfa. ORDINANCE NO. 444 COMMISSION SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUB-PARAGRAPHS (d) AND (e) OF SECTION 34.3 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1952, TO PERMIT A VARIANCE THEREIN, NAMELY, THE BUILDING UP TO FOUR (4) FEET OF THE PROPERTY LINE ON SIMONTON STREET AND UP TO TEN (10) FEET OF THE PROPERTY LINE ON SOUTH STREET, ON A PART OF LOTS 1, 3, 5, AND 7 OF SQUARE 5, TRACT 16, AT THE INTERSEC- TION OF SIMONTON AND SOUTH STREETS IN THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH, AND PROVIDING WHEN ORDINANCES GOES INTO BE IT ENACTED by the City Commission of the City of Key West, Florida. Section 1. That sub-paragraph (d) and (e) of Section 34.3 of the Code of the City of Key West, Florida, 1952, be amended to per- mit a variance theréin, namely, the building up to four (4) feet of the property line on Simonton Street and up to ten (10) feet of the property line on South Street, on a Part of Lots 1, 3, 5 and 7 of Square 5, Tract 16, in the City of Key West, Florida, conditioned upon the erection on said property of a nine story hotel only. Section 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances of said City in con- flict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. Section 3. This ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and adoption and au- thentication by the signature of the Presiding officer and the Clerk of the Commission, and publication thereof one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Key West, Florida. Read and passed on first read- ing at a regular meeting held April 23rd, A. D. 1954, Read and passed on final read- ing at a regular meeting held May 1th, A. D. 1954, (s). C. B, HARVEY, Mayor. Attest: VICTOR LOWE, Mayor. Attest: VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. may25,1954 ORDINANCE NO. 447 COMMISSION SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 20.14 AND SECTION 34.21 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1952; REPEALING ALL ORD- INANCES OR PARTS OF ORDIN- ANCES IN CONFLICT THERE- WITH, AND PROVIDING WHEN ORDINANCE GOES INTO EF- FECT. BE IT ENACTED by the City Commission of the City of Key West, Florida: Section 1. That Section 20.14 and Section 34.21 of the Code of the City of Key West, Florida, 1952 be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: ~ “Fences of more than four (4) feet in height on any property line shall not be permitted; provided, however, that open mesh wire fences, commonly called ‘Cyclone Fences’, may be built to a height of six (6) feet. Section 2. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinaices of said City in con- flict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. Section 3. This Ordinance shall go into effect immediately upon its passage and adoption and au- thentication by the signature of the presiding officer and the Clerk of the Commission, and publication thereof one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Key West; Florida. Read and passed on first read- ing at a regular meeting held May loth, A. D. 1954. Read and passed on final read- ing at a regular meeting held May 17th, A. D. 1954. (s) C. B, HARVEY, Mayor. Attest: VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. City Clerk. may25,1954 ——_—_—____ ORDINANCE NO, 45 COMMISSION SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUB-PARAGRAPH (F) OF SEC- TION 34.3 OF THE CODE OF THE| CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 1952, TO PERMIT A VARIANCE THEREIN, NAMELY, THE BUILD- ING UP TO FIVE (5) FEET OF THE REAR PROPERTY LINE BY B.P.O.E. NO. 610 LOCATED IN THE 300 BLOCK OF AMELIA STREET IN THE CITY OF KEY WEST, FLORIDA; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH, AND PROVIDING WHEN ORDINANCE GOES INTO EFFECT. BE IT ENACTED by the City Commission of the City of Key West, Florida: Section 1. That sub-paragraph (f) of Section 34.3 of the Code of the City of Key West, Florida, 1952, be amended to permit a variance | therein, namely, the building up to| five (5) feet of the rear property line by B. P. 0. E. No. 610 located in the 300 block of Amelia Street in the City of Key West, Florida. Section 2. All Ordinances or parts of Ordinances of said City in con- flict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed to the extent of! such conflict. Section 3. This Ordinance shall go into effect immediately ‘upon its | Passage and adoption and authen-| tication by the signature of the | Presiding officer and the Clerk of | the Commission, and publication thereof one time in a newspaper of general circulation published in| the City of Key West, Florida. Read and passed on first read- ing at a regular meeting held April 23rd, A. D. 1954. Read and passed on final read- ing at a regular meeting held May 17th, A. D. 1954. (s) C. B. HARVEY, Mayor. Attest: VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. may25,1954 CITY OF KEY WEST ELECTRIC SYSTEM KEY WEST, FLORIDA Condensed Balance Sheet and Condensed Statement of Revenues and Expenses MARCH 31, 1954 ASSETS PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT Purchase Price of Properties Acquired As An Entity ____ $1,208,787.91 Net Additions at Cost SHER EE 1,911,830.39 SINKING FUND Cash on Deposit in Sinking Fund Cash on Deposit in Reserve and Contingencies Account RESERVE AND CONTINGENCIES FUND INVESTED ____ CURRENT ASSETS \ Cash on Deposit Revenue Fund _—_————_—___—___—$ 73,182.81 Construction Fund 1952 Electric Revenue Bonds _. Special Fund No. 33 Special Fund No. 34 Special Fund No. 35 __ Special Fund No. 36 _____ 32,059.29 5,263.89 12,024.81 4878.82 25,037.84 $ 152,247.16 18,750.00 116,807.36 187,859.35 32,872.38 Working Funds = Accounts Receivable (Net) Materials and Supplies Inventories ___ Prepaid Insurance DEFERRED CHARGES Power Plant Construction Work in Progress (Note 1) ___ 1952 Construction Work in Progress Interest on 1950 Revenue Bonds Interest on 1952 Revenue Bonds Miscellaneous i011) | EES ae eRe REE ELECTRIC REVENUE BONDS Electric Revenue Bonds, Series 1946 Electric Revenue Bonds, Series 1950 ___ Electric Revenue Bonds, Series 1952 (Note 2) CURRENT LIABILITIES Accounts Payable _. Contracts Payable __ Customers Deposits __._ Accrued Taxes Municipal __. Monroe County Gross Receipts 0 Payroll Taxes Payable Sales Tax Payable _. Revenue Bonds Payable Other Current Liabilities RESERVE FOR DEPRECIATION ACCUMULATED NET REVENUE Balance April 1, 1953 ean Net Revenue for Fiscal Year ended 3/31/54 . $1,521,951.94 327,814.16 $7.548,571.87 Note (1): As of the Balance Sheet date, the Manager of The City Electric System had not yet received the classification of the assets of the new steam operated generating plant, consequently, it is still carried on the books as a Deferred Charge. We have examined the Balance Sheet of the City of Key West Electric System as of March 31, 1954, and the Statement of Revenue and Expense for the fiscal year then ended. Our examina- tion was made in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and included such tests of the accounting records and such other auditing procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. In our opinion the above Balance Sheet and accompanying Statement of Income present fairly the financial condition of the City of Key West Electric System as of March 31, 1954 and the results of its operations for the year then ended, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding years. as age ORVIS M. KEMP, Certified Public Accountant. CITY OF KEY WEST ELECTRIC SYSTEM Key West, Florida Condensed Statement of Revenues and Expenses FOR THE YEARS ENDED MARCH 3l, 1954 AND 1953 FISCAL YEARS ENDED MARCH 31 1954 GROSS OPERATING REVENUES _.._ 2 ——— ———_———-$1,384,742.75 OPERATING REVENUE DEDUCTIONS Operating Expenses Operation Maintenance Taxes City and County (Tax Equivalent) ____ Other _ Depreciation -.. TOTAL OPERATING REVENUE DEDUCTIONS —. NET OPERATING REVENUE OTHER INCOME GROSS INCOME DEDUCTIONS Intherest on Revenue Bonds ____