The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 31, 1954, Page 1

VOL. LXXV Ne, 129 Rey. Statham Addresses KWHS Grads Baccalaureate Services Are Held On Sunday In his baccalaureate address the} James E. Statham told the graduating class of Key West High School not to be “afraid to dream.” Im developing his topic, “Behold the dreamer cometh,” Reverend Statham said, “Dreams, call them ‘what you may, come from high moments of inspiration and medi- tation.” He said that the dreamer is not always popular and that his con- tempories 3 him of being a “visionary.” erend Statham al- so said, “‘The Dreamer, being an idealist, can often see beyond the Present problem to the problems of the future.” said that Wilson’s dream came true in the form of the United Na- tions. * ,”” he said, “was also a Pribcsness and because of this was a favorite with his father. Joseph about the future and discuss the problems they both foresaw.” He urged the graduates to “‘hold fast” to their dreams because “dreams come true through the de- i = individual or groups of individuals.” Graduates Attend The baccalaureate service was the strains of Elgar's “Pomp and Circumstance,” played by Millicent Taylor. z The invocation. was given by Ledr. W. M, Laudenslager, CHC, USNR, followed by the scripture pede by. Revétend ‘Statham: on Under the direction ana Whitley,head of the choral ment of the high school, the us sang the Waring arrangem of “Onward Christian Soldie: and the Key West High School “‘ ma Mater.” i Reverend Statham’s sermon {ol- lowed the musical portion of Parents of the graduating sepi- were the honored guests at a The graduation tea was spongor- ed by the Keyette Club and ‘the Key Club. They were assisted by members of the Sinawiks, the wo- rote auxiliary of the Kiwanis Punch, sandwiches ‘were served by the youthful host- | ORIGINAL ILLEGIBLE hi esi THE SOUTHERNMOST HONOR GRADUATES OF 1954—Sheila Sweeting, left, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. W..C. Sweeting, 620 Olivia Street, and Sarah Bringman, daughter of Joseph Bringman, 1410 Von’ Phis- ter, hold the honored positions as salutatorian and valedictorian, respectively, of this year’s graduating class at Key West High could sit down and talk with him| ‘Sthool. Sheila plans to further her education by attending Sharon Williams Business College in Miami next year, and Sarah is making plans to enter Bellhaven College, Jackson, Mis- sissippi—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil. 4 Children Die As Tornadoes Sweep Nebraska Farm Section Dict Evil ST, LOUIS #—Dr. James W. Storer of Tulsa, Olla., president forces of evil’ faces the world today. He told the opening session of the Women’s Missionary Union— an auxiliary group of the Baptist Convention—yesterday that not to recognize this is ‘‘to close our eyes to a tragic fact, and make our coming here a travesty, an utter misuse of time.” The Southern Baptist Convention meetings open Wednesday and con- tinue through Saturday with about 25,000 persons expected. About 6,000 Baptist women are attending the auxiliary’s three<lay pre-con- vention sessions. J. P. Edmunds, secretary of the Depart of Survey, Statistics and esses to more than four hundred Eisenhower Gives Solemn Tribute To War Dead WASHINGTON (#—President Ei- senhower led his fellow Americans today in a solemn Memorial Day tribute to the nation’s war dead. Tonight he will address the nation on the subject of the grave inter- national situation that makes the Peace uneasy. With Mrs. Eisenhower looking on, the President placed a wreath at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River from the eapital city. Then, hat over his heart, the President stood in brilliant sun- shine while taps echoed over the Tolling green hills. From the tomb the President and Mrs, Eisenhower walked the short distance to the cemetery amphi- theater for ceremonies in which Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas was principal speaker. Thomas told a crowd of several thousand that a nation united be- hind the President and Congress “need fear no foreign foe or agnos- tie creed.” But, Thomas went on, “if we (Continued on Page Two) Information of the Baptist Sunday School Board, reported Southern Baptists gained an average of al- most two new churches every day in 1953, He said an average of 6,958 persons were baptized each Sunday during the year. Dr. Courts Redford of Atlanta, Ga., executive secretary of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, said “the greatest pools of social and spiritual destitution that Jand has ever known” are formed by the increase in liquor consumption, prevalance of * im- morality and vice, and the physical mental and spiritual victims of war, Romulo Asks Conference With Pres. Eisenhower PORTLAND, Ore. i#—President Eisenhower should meet with Southeast Asia leaders to make a policy declaration similar to the Atlantic Charter, Gen. Carlos P. Romulo of the Philippine Islands said yesterday. The suggestion, which Romulo said was his personal view only, was made in a University of Port- land commencement speech. Romulo, the personal representa- tive in the United States of Philip- pine President Magsaysay, said the Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ceylon, Burma, and PHONE ORDERS SOLICITED BY Strunk Lumber 120 Simonton St., near City Hall Thailand as well as a representa- tive of the Philippine government should have a part in framing the declaration, which Romulo envis- ioned as similar to the 1941 war- time peace aims statement made by Great Britain and the United States. ‘eut-2 swath across Seven Farms Are Reported Hit By Sunday Disaster -Tofnadoes th rtheast Neb- raska last night killed four children and injuring at least 18 other per. sons. * The Weather Bureau said there were two confirmed tornado re- Ports and three unconfirmed re- Ports in a 30-mile path. Damage to telephone lines made checks in the area difficult. The list of dead was revised downward this morning when hos- pital attendants accounted for all members of the Ben Kohl family. Earlier it had been reported four Kohl children were killed and two children and the parents injured. Hospital attendants said when the injured revived sufficiently to talk EWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORDA, MONDAY, MAY 31, 1954 ; N avy For Holiday Toll) Injured Climber Is Brought May Bloc IN THE wisen U.S. A. Is Expected To |Toward Safety By Experts Mount Today Early A.M. Count | Is 338 Dead Since Fri. Night By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Memorial Day weekend ttaffic fatalities were running well ahead of this year’s daily average of 88, but whether new records would be established depended upon the pro- Portions of the going-home slugh- ter. The last day of a holiday week- end usually is the deadliest. The National Safety Council, which has predicted that 340 persons will lose their lives in traffic accidentsdur- ing this first holiday outing period of the season, estimates 30 million automobiles are on the roads, The traffic toll since 6 p.m. Fri- day, at an early hour today, amounted to 248 lives. Forty-nine more were whed and 41 addi- tional lost their lives in a variety of accidents for a total of 338, There seemed little doubt that the holiday weekend toll would sur- pass figures compiled by the Agso- ciated Press for comparative pur- Poses. Over a 78-hour period, 6 p. m, May 14 jay 17, 2 eae Mey 5 |County’s Traffic Picture Bright Monroe County, thus far, is enjoying an accident-ree holi- day weekend, a check of the ‘Steriff's Department and State Highway Patrol. office at Ma- rathon revealed today, reported not a single traffic accident for the week- end although the toll over the nation stands at 248 traffic deaths. State Highway Patrol dispat- cher Ronnie Rondeau credited the country’s good fortune to the fact that cloudy weather. has cut the number of cars traveling over the Overseas Highway considerably. Radio Hams Succeed In Weekend Relay By EDDIE LEE were: CAPILLO: PEAK, ‘No: am ine $0, mocap 8 Sot | Wenner weekend. weather way accidents during a Memorial Day weekend was set during the three.- day period of 1952. It was 363. The record for all fatalities, (Continued on Page Two) State Death Toll For Weekend Is Up To Five Today By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Florida’s Memorial Day week- they said there were only four children in the family. List Of Dead The dead: Nell Klawonn, 8. Cindy Carberry, 4. George Kohl, about 6, Robert Kohl, about 8. All deaths and injuries were in an area about two miles wide and four miles long some 10 miles southeast of Norfolk. At least seven farms were known to have been hit. The area is about 130 miles northwest of Omaha. One tornado, coming in from the southwest, apparently dipped and hit the Ben Kohl farm about ap miles southwest of here, about 9:18 p.m. Then it jumped three miles east of the Weldon Rakowsky farm, killing Cindy Carberry, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Carberry of Norfolk and injuring 12 other per- sons, apparently attending a Mem- orial Day family gathering. Cindy’s brother, Greg, was in- jured, but the parents had gone to Lake Andes, S. D., for the day to fish and missed the storm. Many Escape Death Ed Rakowsky, one of the in- jured, took the injured son, Dwight, 10, in his car and drove to the home of Dr. S. H. Brauer. He kept repeating: “I saw my wife dié.” But Mrs. Rakowsky was identified among the injured. Also injured at the Rakowsky farm were Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Rakowsky and their four children, Sharon, 15, Lucretia, Pam, and| (Continued on Page Two) ————— ee STEAMED SHRIMP All You Can Eat $1.95 Served with Cocktail Sauce, French Fries and Cole Slaw Caribe Restaurant Opp. Aquarium Parking Lot later as being} end death toll rose to five today. John Felix Southerland, 17, was killed Sunday when his automo- bile with three other youths over- turned on a curve near Lithia. The four were going on a fishing trip. A pickup truck collided with a car near Yulee Sunday killing Oli- ver Campbell @ Yulee. Deputy Sheriff G. W. said Camp- bell apparently lost control of the truck. Edward E. Weeks, 16, of Wind- sor, was killed Saturday near Mi- canopy when his pickup truck sideswiped a sedan, Four others were injured. .Two persons Were killed Friday night and three injured in a head on crash f two cars near Newberry. The were identi- i Dew, 15, and Harold Alton . Pi man, both of Bell. % D0} FR The record for deaths in ‘high. helped radio amateurs break the }Southwestern bottleneck -and com- plete history’s first transcontinent- al relay on the two-meter band. Working under a blazing sun on the mountain tops and plains of the Texas Panhandle, New Mex- ico, Arizona and California, the amateurs rolled both east and westbound messages smoothly through the area where last week’s test broke down. “They. can’t blame us if they don’t get through this time,” said Hubbard Harrell, WSFAG, who set up his station just off U. S. High- way 66, seven miles east of Clines Corners. The westbound message, which left Ed Tilton’s Canton, Conn., sta- tion, W1HDQ, at 6:25 a.m. (EST) Saturday, reached Ed Lucky in Manhattan Beach, Calif., WGEMM, about 14 hours later. Tilton is an editor of QST, of- ficial magazine of the American Radio Relay League, national ham organization. Luckey is trustee for the Two Meter and Down Club station of Los Angeles, one of the leading organizers of the test. The fate of the official eastbound message, which cleared A. David Middelton, W5CA at this 9,000-foot elevation at 5:22 p.m. (7:22 p.m., EST) was not known, but it passed beyond Amarillo, Tex. The relay had been solid from that point east all day. “More than 40 stations across the country, most of the manned by two or more amateurs, com- bined equipment time and energy (Continued on Page Two) ‘LUIGI’S SAND BAR Presents Y MARTIN Accompanied By DDIE BACHAMB At the Piano Also... PHIL 1D, Mirth Making Mixologist Pizza Snacks Served Nitely |S rr t A Rescue Effort Begins After Man Is Reached Sunday FAIRBANKS, Alaska (2—A res- cue team of eight expert moun- tain climbers cat-stepped its way down the ice-covered sites of Mt. McKinley today, carrying an in- jured Brooklyn soldier nearer to safety. Strapped tightly to a sled was Pfc. George Argus, whose hip was broken May 16 in a 1,000-foot fall that killed a companion, George Thayer, 27, of Reedsboro, Vt. . Argus, left in an improvised tent May 23 by two other climbers who survived the fall, was found yes- terday morning by Dr. John Mc- Call of the University of Alaska and Frank Milan of the Air Force aero-medical laboratory at Ladd Air Force Base. Promise Kept The 25-year-old GI owed his life in part to a Promise McCall made to Thayer before the ill-fated climbing expedition started April 17, a promise McCall fulfilled even after Thayer’s death. The two who survived the fall uninjured, Morton Wood and Les Viereck, left Argus wrapped warm- ly in the small tent at the 11,000- foot level 0 ii spotted from the air, succeeded in a desperate bid to beat death to Argus’ side and reached the crippled climber at 10:10 a.m. (4:10 p.m. EST) yesterday. “He’s alive and well,” . they radioed. The tent, a small dot on a vast expanse of snow and ice, stdod near the edge of a bowl at the head of Muldrow Glacier. Difficult Descent To get Argus down to a Point where he can be picked up by helicopter—the whirlybirds can’t operate at high altitudes—the res- cue party must take him on an airdropped sled down the face of the crevassed-laced glacier. At the end of the glacier, the rescuers are faced with more crev- asses, ice-covered cliffs and rock outcroppings. Although it took McCall and Milan more than 24 hours to make the last miles to the tent yester- day, the descent will be a much harder job. Besides fighting the treacherous (Continued on Page Two) Two Are Held After Sunday Morning Events Two Marines were arrested ear- ly Sunday morning on charges of trespassing on private property, destroying private Property and re- sisting arrest. Police patrolman Stephen S. Akins in his police report stated while patroling by the Brown Der- by Bar, where a ship’s party was in progress, he saw two men des- troying a parking fence of the Car- ibbean Hotel. Akins said that he ordered them to stay where they were but they immediately started running. The report continued that Akins blew his whistle but to no avail. He then fired a warning shot over their heads but they ran off in dif- ferent directions. Akins said that he gave immediate chase and caught Marvin Messer at the Mar- ine gate entrance to the Naval Sta- tion at Thomas and Fleming Streets. When Messer was asked why he didn’t stop, he said that he didn’t know why’ he was being chased. A man whom Messer said was his companion was apprehended by Deputy Sheriff Henry The companion was identified as John H. McKeen. Trail will be held in City Court on Tuesday. - PRICE FIVE CENTS k City’s Plan oinciana Housing Units West Poinciana Is Not Included In Navy’s Consideration Of Case By BILL SPILLMAN The Navy announced today that a dispatch has been sent to the Bureau of Yards and Docks requesting a de- cision concerning the disposition of the Poinciana Hous- ing Projects. It has been speculated that the Navy will step in with condemnation proceedings and purchase the property be- fore private owners will be allowed to buy the buildings eee? County Election Costs Released The two May primary elec- tions cost Monroe County $5,- 647.45, County Clerk Earl R. Adams reported today. Placed by Adams in today’s mail were 116 checks to elec- tion workers for their service in the two May primaries. These checks totaled $4,350.00, and al- so included payment to owners of polling places for rent for the two elections. Other expenses included printing of ballots, extra work- ers for the Supervisor of Re- jistration’s office and trans- rting of the ballot boxes by election workers from the keys. The money was paid out of the county’s general revenue fund, Adams said. Unification ~ Problem Faces Presbyterians By GLENN MCCULLOUGH MONTREAT, N.C. — Unifica- tion was the problem facing the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church here today. The issue came in the wake of Saturday’s dramatic session which saw the church strongly urge its doors be opened to all—regardless of color. . Underlying the passage of the de-segregation issue was the phil- osophy of the unity of mankind— the oneness of God. Those favor- ing union with two northern branches of the church looked back and took encouragement that the union issue may be swept into the current of liberalism also. Others felt that the concessions already made by the conservatives would cause them to fight union with even more vigor than in the past. Union already has been ap- proved by the Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. (Northern) Presby- jterian Church of North America. Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Ralph Waldo Lloyd, president of Maryville (Tenn.) College and a fraternal delegate to this assem- bly from the northern branch, urged commissioners to vote for a merger. The plan before the assembly today is the work of about 16 years, during which four revisions of the plan were made . Informed sources said the com- mittee itself was split on its own recommendations and that the ma-} jority report would recommend the plan be rejected. It was pre- dicted by others that the possibil- ity of then adopting the minority report would be good. ¢ Yesterday commissioners lis- tened to routine reports after hear- ing Dr. Stuart Oglesby, pastor of (Continued on Page Twr) NOTICE The Equalizing Board of The City of Key West, Florida will meet in the Commission Chamber, City Hall, Monday, June 7, 1954 at 8:00 P.M. All persons desiring corrections in the Assessment Roll must file written petitions with the City Clerk, on or before the 7th of June, 1954, setting forth their ob- jections to said Assessment Roll. Dated this 31st day of May, A. D. 1954. VICTOR LOWE, City Clerk. may31,1954 and possibly raise the rents, The Navy spokesman said that West Poinciana is not included in the Navy’s re- quest for a decision. The spokesman stated that a de- cision had been requested about 8 months ago from the Bureau of Yards and Docks. However ,when the city indicated they would take steps to take over the projects, the Navy delayed any further decision. » The city recently signed an a- greement with certain realty com- panies whereby: they (the realty companies) would buy the build- ings from the government and op- erate the projects for profit. The agreement between the city and the realty companies is consider- ed “weak” on rent questions and does not have a stipulation to de- finitely keep rents at the present Rent Increase Predicted Mayor Harvey stated at the last city commission meeting that he foresaw a probable immediate in- crease in rents because the land would immediately be assessed for city taxes ‘ Commissioner Jack Delaney said, in commenting on the Navy request, that his only concern was for the people who live out in Poin- ciana to have the same cheap rent and not to be dispossessed. He said that the city tried to buy the land first but when the owners refused to sell, the city did the next-best thing and made an a- greement for land owners to take over the projects and operate them. Delaney added that there is no ‘law which gives the city power to buy the land if the people don’t want to sell. Cobo Sees Navy's Point Commissioner Delio Cobo said that the Navy was the lozical one | to have the Poinciana projects. His interest is the people who live there, he said, adding that he doesn’t want to see the people dis- Possessed or the rent raised. Commissioner Louis Carbonell was in agreement with Cobo and Delaney. He said that all of his decisions were to keep the place from being torn down to enable the people to live there at the pre- sent rents. City Attorney J. Y. Porter said that in his opinion the city could | not take condemnation proceedings jand buy the land. He said that he based his opinion on a recent Flo- rida Supreme Court decision where Daytona Beach had attempted pro- ceedings similar to circumstances now being discussed here in Key West. Porter did state that in his lopinion the Navy could buy the place, Must Prove Need Carbonell said that he believed (Continued on Page Two) REP. PAPY GOES TO TALLAHASSEE State Representative Bernie C. Papy announced today that he will leave for Tallahassee to attend a cabinet meeting set for tomorrow. Papy said that he will return later in the week after attending to the business, GENERAL MEETING Key West Golf Club at CLUBHOUSE TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1954 at 8:00 P.M.