The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1954, Page 8

Local Wage Earners Bring In $14,000,000 Annual Income Key West Ranks Thirteenth Among Cities In This State Total annual income of Key West wage earners has reached 14 million dollars with the city now ranking 13th among Florida cities in that respect, according to the Blue Book of Southern Progress published by Manu- facturers Record in Balti- more, Maryland. wilt The report, covering 1953, also whows that the sale of consumer goods reached the astounding to- tal of 25 million dollars in Key West. The figures were based on a population of 30,000 persons, Per Capita Sales ‘That means that per capita con- sumer sales amounted to $833 in 1953. The analysis also shows that manufacturing — the city’s fishing industry — amounted to 2 million dollars in the period under review. Total trade in Key West amount- ed to 31 million dollars. Service industries accounted for another 2 million dollars of the city’s business while other com- merce brught total volume up to @ million dollars. Key West, according to the fig- ures, ranked 13th in Florida, both in income and expenditures and in total business volume. How They Rated Miami ranked first, followed by Jacksonville, rcpatt hate ~ P , Orlando, West Palm so tna Ft. Lauderdale Daytona Beach, Panama City and Tallahassee, In @ brief discussion of the city’s economic picture, the booklet poe out that fishing and tour- constitute the West’s business enterprise. It also cites the discovery of shrimp beds in the Gulf of Mexico as a factor stimulating business. They pointed out that 500 trawlers ate now operating out of Key West. Six Witnesses Describe House Shooting Spree By WARREN ROGERS JR. WASHINGTON (®—A .waitress and five congressmen, three of them still favoring wounds, have added their testimony to the gov- ernment’s case against the four Puerto Ricans in the pistol attack on the House of Representatives March 1. The waitress, Mrs. Alice Fisher, was in the witness chair yesterday as U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff called-a halt for the week- end. She will be back for more eross-examination when the third day of the trial opens Monday. Mrs. Fisher—like her co-worker, Mrs. Catherine Schull, who testi- fied Thursday—picked out the four defendants as the “untidy” cus- tomers she served at Union Station Coffee shop about noon the day of the shooting. ' Mrs, Lolita Lebron, 34, and the cle ape also arrested af- e shooting spree—Raf- ael Cancel Miranda, Andres Fig- ueroa Cordero and Irving Flores — sat expressionlessly throughout this testimony. They received calmly the vivid firsthand accounts given from the witness chair by Reps. Clifford Davis (D-Tenn), Ben F. Jensen (R-lowa) and George H. Fallon (D-Md)—all of whom were ‘wound- ed—and Reps. Louis E. Graham (R-Pa) and James E. Van Zandt (R-Pa), who were there at the time but not hit. The four defendants, who have said they wanted to dramatize their demand for full Puerto Rican independence, have entered pleas of innocent, They are charged with five counts each of assault with intent to kill and five charges each of assault with a dangerous weap- on, Each faces, if convicted, a possible maximum sentence of 75 years im prison, Rep. Kenneth A. Roberts (D-Ala) also wounded, gave his testimony Thursday and Rep, Alvin H. Bent- ley (R-Mich), the most seriously hurt at the time, is expected to be called next Tuesday. Graham and Davis pictured Mrs. Lebron as a snarling, screaming, flag-waving leader of the pistol attack from the House visitors’ gallery, They also testified Cancel was aiming Davis’ way when the | Tennesseean was wounded. j Van Zandt told the court his “military instinct’—he is a re- serve Navy captain and vetera. led him to the “scene of action.” He said he raced up from the Worst Part Of Recession Is Past Now By WALTER BREEDEN, JR. NEW YORK @® — “Plenty of tough competition ahead. But the worst of the recession is behind us.”” That’s how industrial leaders and business analysts sized up the general economic situation this week. They gave these reasons: Consumer installment buying is on the upbeat again. Personal income is holding up remarkably well, despite reduced wages and overtime in manufac- house floor to the gallery and helped collar and disarm Cancel and Figueroa, L turing industries and a drop in farm income, Manufacturers and wholesalers are making slow but steady pro- gress in getting out from under burdensome inventories. These comments came during a holiday-shortened week which saw the stock market inch up to still another 24-year high. Steel produc- tion held steady; retail trade showed modest gains. Auto output fell. sharply. ‘The first week of June brought new evidence of the concerted ef- forts being made by manufactur- ers to reduce inventories, W. Ray Bell, president of the Assn. of Cotton Textile Merchants of New York, said weavers of cot- ‘ton goods have abandoned price cutting in favor of production cut- backs (output for the first six months this year will be down 800 million square yards from a year ago). This reversal of policy, said Bell, is a sign that the textile re- cession is “about over.” Makers of television and radio sets reported sharp curtailments in production from the spring of 1953, There were signs, too, that the auto industry—after roaring along at a boom-time clip — was adjust- ing its production schedules down- ward. Auto output this week was the lowest of the year. Part of the decline was due to the Memorial Day holiday. But, said Ward’s Au- tomotive Reports, Dodge, DeSoto and Chrysler worked only three days, Kaiser and Willys were com- pletely idle and Pontiac showed an “unexplained” production drop. Auto inventories are still pretty close © the postwar high of 616,000 unsold new passenger cars reported May 1. The peak selling season is from now until early July. If inventories aren’t chopped down to size by then, trade sources say, look for production or factory price reductions. Attacking the inventory problem on another front; Whirlpool Corp., world’s biggest maker of auto- matic home washing machines, sliced $41.95 from the suggested re- tail price of its lowest price model because of “unusual marketing conditions.” And across-the-board price cuts on regular and premium gasoline were announced by one of the na- Page 8 Small House Design tiving OESION: 245 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Saturdey, June 5, WH \ fue if °8029 MAY'SS M9. 20 DESIGN C-243—'The breezeway and the attached garage give this house a spacious appearance. The floor plan has three rear bed- rooms with living room, dinette and kitchen in front. Kitchen cabinets have a corner sink under corner windows, work counter under the front windows, refrigerator near the door and a serv- ing counter between kitchen and dinette. The bathroom and the basement stairs are conveniently accessible from the side en- trance. There is excellent circulation between all rooms, The living room has fireplace, coat closet and full length ‘windows, with a 4 ft. eave overhang above windows and front door. Other closets include wardrobes in the bedrooms, linen, storage and coat closet in the hall, bg Exterior finish is wide siding and asphalt shingles. Fleer area is 1,137 sq. ft. with cubage of 21,043 cu. ft. For further information about DESIGN C-243, write the Small House Planning Buerau, St. Cloud. Minn. SMALL HOUSE PLANNING BUREAU St. Cloud, Minnesota Please send me more information, without obligation, about the plan features and the type of construction used im the in The Key West Citizen. house as pictured NAME ey ADDRESS cITY. tion’s big oil companies, Standard of Ohio. Business inventories as a whole are getting lower. The Commerce Department reported this week on manufacturers’ and wholesalers’ inventories in April. Both declined, the department said. A year ago they were rising. ’ Wholesale business also inched lower in April. Sales of durables were off 2 per cent from March on a seasonally adjusted basis while non-durables were down two per cent. Biggest declines, said the Commerce Department, were in machinery, metals, jewelry and autos. Government statisticians report- ed that consumer buying on the BALLET-ADAGIO—"Pale Moon” will be presented at the an- nual recital of the Pinder School of Dance at the Monroe Thea- ter on June 11, The dancers are Sandra Owens and Rose Yates. Photo by Xarns. - day ahead,” -she said, Pe alpesigpenar gydlire wt-2 ra tallment credit outstanding moved higher in April for the time this year. This, said F. Reserve Board officials, good news to merchants sales have suffered because sumers have balked at going debt to buy appliances, furniture and cars. STEVENSON SAYS Forage from Page One) ‘ascist or Soviet systems have already done? Not Invuinerable “That we are not invulnerable, that there is a moral and human vacuum within us is, I think, dem- onstrated by many symptoms, of which McCarthyism — which has succeeded in frightening so many— is only one.” ting i plishments at home and abroad, Stevenson said “‘the plain truth is that we...have written the great- ea success story in human his- “We here in America have in a few years made socialism ob- solete, and shown communism to be a noisome, stagnant pool of re- action, a breeding ground for ail the diseases of violence, slavery Stevenson’s speech was divided which he entitled “"Hooray America’ and ‘Look Out, Ameri- ca.’” It was the final event of a Columbia bicentennial conference built on the theme “National Policies for Education, Health, and Social Welfare.” —- a bicentennial dinner held by the university last Monday. WOMAN TELLS HOW (Continued From Page One) since the shooting she still couldn’t say whether she would return to her husband if he should go free. “Right now I can’t think one F 3 ge egies lacksonville da Straits and the E Mexico: Gentle to moderate winds Dortherly over the north portion and variable over the south and central i Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., June 5, 1954 “Atomic-Like” Blasts Rock Chemical Plant West Virginia Countryside Is Shaken, 52 Hurt CHARLESTON, W.Va. (#—Tons of water*pumped from the Kana- wha River held at bay today a dangerous chemical plant fire af- ter a series of five ‘‘atomic-like” éxplosions shook the countryside and injured at least 52 persons, Company officials said as far as they could tell all personnel were accounted for. About 200 men were working in the Institute plant of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. about 11 miles west of here, when a tank car exploded and set off a chain of four other blasts. A spokesman said there was a “possibility” some might have been caught in the blast area. He would not elaborate other than to say there had been no “roll call” of employes. Employes Hurt About 40 of those hurt were em- ployes of the plant. The others in- cluded numerous persons cut or otherwise injured by glass and fly- ing debris. Uncounted property damage re- Sulted from the blasts heard or felt within a 15-mile radius of the sprawling plant in the heart of West Virginia’s chemical valley. It was more than five hours be- fore firemen got the upper hand on the huge fire in the styrene plant. Until electric power could be restored and water pumped from the nearby river, the fire raged unabated. Homes and business places were shaken and -windows shattered in | South Charleston, St. Albans, In- -/ stitute and Dunbar, spotted a few miles apart along the heavily-in- ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA Reference Station: Key West Time ef Height of Station— Tide high water 9.0 tt, i from Page One) catch a thief that they didn’t do to him. Folcomer is now stationed a- board the USS Saufley. Forgery Questioned askerl Wolfson if he couldn’t detect-a forged card in the same manner that Folcom- er stated he had forged his. Wolfson stated that about fifty per cent of the ID cards that he looks at* have: been covered with Scotch tape. ‘i Several witnesses testified that they had been working in the Pre- view Lounge for some time and had checked. Folcomer’s card at one time or another. They all greed that once they knew him to. be of age that they quit checking. stated that Folcomer ask to sing and they always ble but that he didn’t know what it was for. Arg Attorney Jack Saunders repre- senting Wolfson stated in his sum- mary that Wolfson had carried out the law to the “nth” degree and that all witnesses had testified that Folcomer has falsified his age. A statement made by Folcomer to the police was thrown out as evidence because it had not been made in the presence of Wolfson. Folcomer said that he had tried to tell the police about his forging his card previously but they had said that they were only interest- ed ‘in the night the arrest was Didn't Use Esquinaldo in passing sentence on Wolfson stated that Wolfson had not used diligence, He stated that dustrialized river front. Fire Ball Seen The first explosion, with a fire ball strikingly like that from an atomic blast, occurred about 7:40 p.m. EST. Four hours later, fire- men were beginning to gain on the chemical-fed blaze. Delbert Simmons of Dunbar, driving past the plant at the time of the first explosion, said “all I could see was a big flash of white fire and my car turned around.” The original blast and four suc- ceeding ones spread fear and con- sternation throughout the area. At Watt Powell Baseball Park in Charleston, the first explo- sion sounded like a roll of thunder. Pete .Droddy, who resides about 1% miles from the Institute plant, said the first blast rocked his house. “The third blast looked like a gigantic mushroom,” he said. “The smoke and flames seemed to rise about 300 to 400 feet into the air. It jarred pictures from the walls in houses all around here and broke windows.” Droddy said he felt the “‘heat on my face but I didn’t feel any shock.” No Shock Wave Neil Boggs, a Charleston Gazette Teporter who witnessed atomic tests in Nevada while in the Army, said the fifth and last explosion was “the biggest thing I’ve seen since the atomic bomb. It lasted about two minutes and gave off a terrific, suffocating, searing heat, but there was no shock wave.” A. Rankin Donachy of St. Albans Stop 14, across the Kanawha and about 100 yards downstream, said “it was just like an earthquake.” A one and a half story masonry and cinder block kennel on Dona- chy’s property was split horizon- tally from the force of the explo- sions. The crack, about two inches wide and 30 feet long, ran across both sides of the structure, The first blast was followed by three secondary ones as storage vessels for chemicals were set off. The last blast was about an hour after the first. Power Cut Off Telephone senvice was virtually cut off between Institute, Dunbar and Charleston. The explosions knocked out elec- tric power at the plant and efforts to halt the fire were hampered by lack of water. Not until about 3 hours after the first blast, were the firemen able to pump water from the river. There was no way to determine how many of those injured, scat- tered in hospitals throughout the area, might be in critical con- dition. Dr. Richard A. Sexton, plant physician, was injured seriously in an automobile accident on his way té the scene. Institute is one of several plants in the populous area operated by subsidiary companies of the big Union Carbide and Carbon Corp. The plant manufactures basic raw materials used in the making of plastics and other chemical products. the Florida Supreme Court says that intoxicating beverages will not be sold to minors and that Wolfson had sold a drink to a min- or. On the question of the ID card, Esquinaldo said that the same card that had been altered five months ago was still in excellent shape and that he believed that the Scotch tape forgery should have been detected. Appeal bond was immediately fil- ed in the city clerk’s office, GRADUATION (Continued from Page One) Part in student council activities, school service clubs, and organiza- tions such as the Future Teachers Club. These clubs, he said, “‘resem- ble the adult social and service clubs, and the student who has been a part of these school clubs goes out into the adult world bet- ter fitted to do a good job.” Valedictory Class valedictorian, Miss Sarah Bringman, touched on the friend- ship made in school and said that “while we are together as a class for the last time tonight, in the future we will look back on our school through out school annuals “erat books and remem- She stressed that friendships made in school mean a great de: both now in later life. Before conferring the diplomas, ‘Superintendent O’Bryant said that it was his opinion that the “world would be in safe hands if the cali- bre of all youngsters is the same as the Key West graduating class.” Auspicious Era He added that it was an aus- Picious time for the youngsters to go forth into the adult world. “Life ahead will not be mono- tonous for them,” he said, “they will not be bored.” As each graduate was present- ed to him by Dr. Campbell, O’Bry- ant had a brief word of congra- tulation. GIRL SCOUTS EXPAND - (Continued from Page One) A. Beaulieu and Mrs, Tolbert Intermediates ‘There are 17 charter members of the Intermediate troop under the leadership of Mrs. P. A. Saunders and Mrs. R. D. Zetterower. The troop will meet at the Saunder’s home, and troop committee mem- bers are Mrs. Art Baker, Mrs. Ru- by Andrews, Mrs. Margaret Pierce, Mrs. Lyons and Mr. P. A. Saunders. The weave ers ‘am is 95 especially 8 from 7 10 years of age. Intermediate troop programs are planned for girls from 10 to 13. A Brownie who has been a re- gistered member of a troop for at least one year is eligible to “fly up” to an Intermediate troop. At this time she receives her Brown-* ie “wings” to wear on her Girl scout uniform signifying that she has participated in the Brownie program. Only Brownies who meet the requirements may wear these “wings.” It is recommended that Brownie “Fly Ups” be prepared to pass their “Tenderfoot” tests be- fore flying up, so that they can start working on their second class rank and on proficiency badges. FRENCH PLANES (Continued From Page One) Following the presentation, the | fires, graduates filed off the grandstand to the solemn ‘“‘Recessional” by de- Koven, to join their families and friends and to receive congratula- tions, on this highlight of their young lives. The graduates are: Marilyn Yvonne Adams, Sinclair Albert, Hatry Hamilton Allen, III, Ray Alvarez, Deanna Dale Archer, Glynn Raymond Archer, Jr., Paul Rigby Avery, Beverly Jo Bailey, Teressa Clair Bardwell, Gladys Marie Barnwell, William Albert Begelman, Frank Vincent Bervaldi, Ronald Richard Bell,, Franklin Betancourt, Arnon Gold Boyer, Jr., Helen Marie Brahms and Elizabeth Anne Braun. Sarah Leada Bringman; Nellie Rowe Brock, John Harold Bouchia, Patricia Anne Byrd, Jo Anne Calla- han, Joseph Fernando Carbonell, Leo Leland Carey, Vincent Henry Catala, Joseph Livingston Cates, Jack William Clark, Mary Helen Clark, Bruce Allan Cleare, III, Jacquelyn Conant, Donnie Isabella Creel, Donald Ray Cruz, Louis Bernard Cruz and Leo Clifton Desso. Barbara Jean Dickens, James Edward Dixon, Sylvia Faye Eley, Barbara Helen Foh, Mary Fernan- dez, Sylvia Margaret Fernandez, Ronald Fred Foster, Claribel Gar- cia, Dora Marianna Garcia, Clara Adina Gardner, Mary Lou Gard- ner, Richard Gaskins, Jr., Gilbert Carol Gates, Pedro Garcia Gomez, Muriel Amy Hamilton and Cornel- ius Bradford Harvey, Jr. Norman Douglas Harris, Jr., George Haskins, Franklin Delano Hernandez, Richard Allen Herrick, Ervin Albert Higgs, Norman Aspin- all Hicks, Charles Norman Hjort, Wayne Carl Huddleston, Francis Loretta Ihm, Holton Montgomery Jaycocks, Bettie Jane Jenks, Dor- othy Jean Johnson, Geraldine Anita Johnson, Jennie Mae Johnson, Joyce Marie Johnson, Terry La- Fayette Jones and Mary Eveline Kaelin. John Lewis Keiser, Donald Ken- neth Key, Caroline Randolph Kirke, Gloria Celeste Knowles, Robert Lastres, Stewart Logun, Ornaldo all Nilo Lopez, Mary Eleanor Lowe, Rosemary Lowe, Marilyn Louise Marsh, Peggy Ann McCrea, Bar- bara McMeekin, Jo Ann Mullins, MerriLynn Irene Murchie, Robert Luther Muse, Albert Daniel O’Bry- ant, Jr., Dorothy Marjorie Paul and Nancy Lee Pellicier. Judson Albert Pettis, Frank Per- ez, Jo Ann White Pinder, Ronald Wayne Pinder, Joseph Pineda, Gerald Paul Pita, Sonia Placencia, Hilario Ramos, Jr., Frank Rivas, Jr., Lois Ann Robinson, Arcadia D. Rodriguez, Jr., George Benjamin Russell, Richard Andrew Salgado, William Curtis Sampson, Kathryn Pearl Sanchez, John Wallace Saun- ders and Jacqueline Sellers, Jacquelin Marvis Schrader, Rob- ert Herman Semler, Virgil Alonzo Shiver, Jr., Ira Joel Silberman, Alvania Wendy Singleton, Alton Percy Smith, Jr., Joseph Eugene Smith, Sylvia Lynn Smith, Harold Solomon, Jr., James Edwin Solo- mon, Barbara Splaine, Bernard Michael Srodulski, Jr., Martha Evelyn Steed, Wilmoth Rae Stew- art, Fred Sherman Sweeting and Mary Theodora Sheila Dorne Sweeting, Jan Rus- sell Thompson, Stephen Jerome Trevor, Otilia Valdez, Waldo Veliz, Dorothy Louise Verburg, John K. Vermette, John J. Vidal, Robert Wayne Wallace, Barbara Ann Wal- terson, Donald Everett Walston, James Edwin Ward, Jr., Audree Westfall, William Gerald Whalen, Ralph Walter White, Fay Eliza- beth Williams, Edith Ray Winkle, Ronald Wendell Woodbury, Ernest Albert Wykes and Dolores Amelia Ybarmea. KEEP IT DIRTY! 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