The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 9, 1954, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country, with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit , Chief Perez and the THE Herman Conley received a pat on the back from the Chief, leaves at six this afternoon to atiend a Police Traffic Training conducted at Northwestern University Police Academy September 13 to ‘West Police Officer to receive formal training, and his enroll- ‘ment for the course is hailed as the realization of a long-sought objective of City Manager Victor ey Wets Safety Council. The course gives a broad description of the those who are responsible for reducing accidents and relieving con- 800 Believed Dead In Algeria ‘Quake ALGIERS, Algeria (A tre~. mendous earthquake struck north- ern” Algeria today, ‘Blasting the town of Orleansyille and wreaking a toll which unofficial reports pvt at approximately 800 dead. The French National Defense Ministry said in Paris that it knew of at least 200 deaths. Eyewitnesses reported that tht city of 32,500 looked as if it had gone through a heavy air bom- bardment. At: the Strasbourg Observatory, the shock was timed at 1:07 a.m. Scientists there said it was the worse to hit Algeria in 40 years, 20% Demolished Orleansville, a modern French town, built on an ancient Roman Crackdown Asked On Shoplifters The Retail Merchants Division of the Chamber of Commerce ‘passed a resolution urging the tightening of the laws against shoplifting at a meeting Wednesday, 4 The resolution referred to the of- fense as “‘this illegal practice that is plaguing retailers over the en- tire state.” The State Retailers Association will ask the next session of the leg- islature to tighten such laws. The association estimates that stores are dropping from four to five mil- lions of dollars yearly to shoplift- ers. Eisner Furniture Company 3428 Duck Ave, Ph. 2-8951 POINCIANA CENTER 5-Pe. Peake Tron LIVING. ROOM SUITES. $142.50 Also ..+ Large Selection of WROUGHT IRON ’ FURNITURE i | . TONIT Last Times | Education in Tallahassee, site, lies about 100° miles west of Algiers onthe main rail line to Oran, It is theeenter of “a ‘rich farming valley, Some reports said it was 20. per cent demiolished. Barracks, stadium, postoffice, prison, hospital, two hotels, police headquarters, a small dam and a new Roman ‘Catholic cathedral ail collapsed or suffered heavy dam- age. About 40 travelers were buried alive in their beds when the Hotel Baudoin fell in on them. Electric power was out and com- munications were cut. Troops and ambulances were rushed to the area, . Rescue Operations Gov. Gen, Roger Leonard hur- ried to take command of rescue operations on the spot. The area worst hit is between Tenes on the Mediterranean coast, and Miliana, about halfway be- tween Tenes and Orleansville, all villages were reported heavily damaged, with Vauban, Duperre and Rouina among the worst hit. An airlift for the injured was set up between Maison. Blanch Airport at Algiers and the earth- ke area, Among the first vic- ims to arrive, many were suffer- ing from fractured skulls. A 400-bed field hospital was set up at Orleansville, and five sur- geons were sent from Algiers, School Facilities May Be Expanded Monroe County is at the top of the list in a survey for expanded school facilities. Horace O’Bryant, superintendent of public instruction, today said he had received a phone call from Dr. F. A. Rhodes, assistant in sur- veys of the Siate Department of giving him this news. O’Bryant earlier had requested the survey because of overcrowd- ing in the county’s schools. The survey team is expected here with- in six weeks. I WISH TO THANK the Fia. State Police, the Sheriff's Dept. and Ira Albury for their help in locating my missing 1953 Chevro- let four-door sedan. Tony’s Auto Body Shop. A. A..RAMELLIL Owner, Fund Is Started For Cash Family Mr. and Mrs. James 0. White, 1009 Eaton Street, have contributed $25 to the fund which is being raised for the Severe Ci Sa ie ber 4, when their car plunged inte the Tamiami Canal. Their three children. and Mr. Cash's father, Thomas Cash, were drowned. Cash is a laborer at the Na- val Station. Generaus-hearted Key West- ers, knowing the impact of mis- fortune of this kind, have ex- pressed the desire to give mon- ey to help the bereaved couple through the trying time. The Citizen will accept con- tributions to this fund until a representative is selected ‘to head the drive. Three Die In Wild Shooting ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. @— Three men were killed and an of- fice secretary was wounded in an outbreak of gunfire at the Eliza- beth City freezer locker plant to- day. Police arrested Albert Jordan, about 21. Those killed were Ed Zimme:- man, Joe Parrish and Alex John- son, all employes of the plant. Miss Audrey Brickhouse, office worker, was wounded. Police Chief Clarence Owens said Jordan, an employe of the company about two years, reported for work about one hour late short- ly after 8 a.m., and began firing a .22 calibre automatic rifle. The chief sai dhe apparently fired |without warning. Miss Brickhouse was the first to fall into the line of fire. The men {next were shot. All three died on the spot. Chief Owens said he was toid that Jordan had been classified 4F and ineligible for military ser. ve {three years ago. The chief added he was told that Jordan had been ;summoned by the board to appear today. It’s Fun To Shop at Strunk Lumber 120 SIMONTON, near Fish Docks SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1954 Dulles Talks To Chiang On Formosa Today Nationalist Forces Continue To Pound Red China Coast By SPENCER MOOSA TAIPEH, Formosa (#—Nation- alist warships and planes pounded the Red China coast again today, even as U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles pledged that Nationalist China “doesn’t stand alone against the forces of aggres- sion. .” Dulles flew here from the South- east Asia security conference in Manila and spent 3 hours and 15 minutes closeted with President Chiang Kai-shek. A high Nationalist official said “they exchanged views on ques- tions affecting the two countries, The result was satisfactory to both.” U.S. Ambassador Carl Ran- kin described the talk as very cor- dial and longer than expected. Only five hours after Dulles’ special plane landed here he and his party were airborne again, headed for Tokyo. Dulles’ Statement In a statement read to newsmen at the airport, he reiterated that the U.S. 7th Fleet is under orders to guard Formosa. : He said Communist China now is intensifying military and propa- ganda activity against the Naton- alsts “‘but we shall not be intimi- dated.” -- Ths statement was viewed here as a direct and challenging reply to Communists treats to “‘liber- ate” Formosa and as an endorse- ment of Nationalist attacks on Amoy and satellite bases from which the Reds have shelled the Nationalist island base of Quemoy. Amoy is only five miles from A Defense Ministry communique issued as Dulles and Chiang were talking said Nationalist warplanes bombed and strafed military tar- gets at Amoy and along the coast. At the same time, the commu- bombarded Amoy and nearby Wuyu Island and patrolled waters off Quemoy and Amoy. The ministry said yesterday’s operations, in which U.S.-supplied F84 Thunderjets took part for the first time, destroyed two Red gun- boats and over 100 wooden military boats and damaged other craft. Nationalist warships were credit- ed with sinking 6 motorized junks, damaging 20 others and capturing 3 in waters between Wuyu Island and Cape Chenhai on the main- land, another starget for National- ist bombardment. Norton Advises Keeping An Eye On Hurricane MIAMI (#—Chief storm forecast- er Grady Norton said ‘We're not out of the woods yet” as far as hurricane. Edna is concerned and the Atlantic Coast from the Mel- bourne-Titusville area in Florida northward to the North Carolina capes “should keep a weather eye open for possibilities.” Norton said this word of caution is not a hurricane alert—at least not yet. It is just a precautionary word that a bad storm is hovering offshore without a definite indica- tion as to its future course. “At 9 a.m. (EST) it was about 300 miles due east of Cape Canav- eral, about midway up the Florida peninsula,” said Norton. “Its | course is erratic and wobbling. “Seas are reported very rough in the Daytona Beach area and {winds are beginning to pick up along the north Florida coast. 9) coast. Small craft from Florida |to Cape Hatteras have been warned not to venture into open water. “The hurricane is big and is still expanding. It just makes good sense to keep a weather eye cocked toward it, and to keep in- formed on official advices about its movement.” IN PERSON—GR nique said, Nationalist warships | IN THE U.S.A PRICE FIVE CENTS County Consolidation Vote To Be Requeste } } SIGNED AND DELIVERED—Bob Youmans, who heads the Emergency March of Dimes Drive for Monroe County, is happy to wait while Mrs. J. C. Luppens, treasurer of the Fort Taylor Officers’ Wives’ Club, signs the club's check for $1,200. ©. B. Stanley, right, chairman of the OWC, is proud of her or- ganization’s achievement which she said was accomplished through collections at the recent Fleet Softball Tournament, a dance at the Ft. Taylor Club, the Mothers’ March in Navy hous- ing areas, and a coffee given by the Subron Wives. ‘Youmans, Mrs. in accepting this check, said that Monroe County has already topped its quota for the Drive. Final figures will be released next week,—Citizen Staff Photo, Sybil, Pes ene wanis ae a In States, Canada, Alaska and Blood Donor Listings To Be Compiled Plans under consideration by the Monroe County Blood Committee eall for the es- tablishment of a list of per- sons willing to donate blood. The list will be kept where it will be available at a min- ute’s notice. The Committee plans include arrangements to call for the donor, take him to the hospital and take him home. Registered nurses in the city have offered their services to type the blood of any one who is willing to be a donor. All the supplies needed for this a “walking blood bank” are on order and will arrive shortly. Office To Be Set Up As soon as the necessary equip- ment arrives, an office will be set up in downtown Key West so that propsective donors can come in and have their blood typed at no inconvenience to themselves. This plan has worked well other cities, and in case of disas- it will be invaluable. The blood committee, headed by Bob Daniels, hopes to have at least 2,000 donors on the list. They stress. that having your dlood typed ‘does not necessarily mean that you,will be called on ‘he next day for a donation of dlood. It just means that when (Continued on Page Seven) program, which will give Key West | in | ter — such as severe hurricane —/ gti ernational Will Sponsor Kids’ Day Sept. 25 Kids’ Day, sponsored by Kiwanis International, will be celebrated Saturday, September 25, in Key West and in hundreds of other communities throughout the United Hawaii using the theme — “Build For Tomorrow.” Ralph J. Faraldo, president of the local club,. said that ‘although this is the sixth annual obervance of Kid’s Day, it is the first year of sponsorship exclusively by Ki- wanis International and its mem- ber clubs throughout North Ameri- ca. He further stated that work on this sixth annual celebration is well under way and it is expected that more clubs than ever before will participate in this annual activity for youth. Local Plans “Preliminary plans for local ac- tivity are now being formulated by the committee in charge” Faraldo said. He named Joseph A. Boza as chairman and Schaefer, Smith, Monroe, Bringman, and Ira E. Al- bury as members of the committee under whose direction the activity will be carried out even though all members of the Kiwanis club will share in the project. Faraldo and William V. Albury pointed out that youth work has been a major aim of Kiwanis In- ternational throughout the thirty- nine years of its existence. The Kids’ Day program, one of Kiwanis’ major activities for youth, focuses attention on this import- ant work of the organization on one day, and permits each club to develop a local program best suit- ed to its community while inte- | grating it with the club’s year- round program for youth. Last Year's Activity Last year over a million two hun- dred thousand children were en- tertained on Kids’ Day and Kiwan- is clubs raised more than $800,000 for their youth service work. Al- bury stressed that these funds are retained in the communities where they are collected and used entire- \ly in local youth projects. He pointed out the Kiwanis club’s Little League Baseball, Key Club, Kids’ Day, and Underprivi- (Continued on Page Seven) Sirugo To Petition County Commission At Sept. 14 Meet By JIM COBB Voters may have the opportunity of deciding in the Nov. 2 general election the question of whether or not they want the governments of Monroe County and the City of Key West to be consolidated, Joe Sirugo, local contractor who is also active in political circles, told The Citizen today that he will per- sonally appear before the county commission at their meeting set for Sept. 14 to ask that they set up a referen- dum to let county voters decide whether or not they want ~~L—L—__SSSS Invitations Out For Christening Of Ferry In Miami Invitations are in the mail for scores of prominent Key West- ers to attend the christening of the City of Key West, the ship that is scheduled te inaugur- ate Key West-Cuba ferry ser- vice October 2. Sponsored by the Miemi Chamber 6f Commerce, the will take place at the al bottle of champagne across the bow of the ship. A cock- tail party is also scheduled as part of the christening celebra- tion,’ pty Meanwhile, plans are advane- ing for a gala two day fiesta te be held in Key West te mark the first sailing of the vessel, St. Pete Man Tells How He Slew Friend ST. PETERSBURG (#—Police in Savannah, Ga., said today they are holding a young St. Peters- burg man who confessed he killed his roommate a month ago and later buried the body in a garage. Chief of Detectives. John Me- Carthy said he was holding Donald Gracia, 23; after he told his secret to a Lutheran minister. McCarthy said Gracia admitted he killed George William Cuyler, about 40, and buried the body aft- er neighbors complained of the odor. Gracia waived extradition, McCarthy said. According to McCarthy, this is Gracia’s story: The pair lived together in a shack on the outskirts of St. Pe- tersburg for several months. They got into an argument and Gracia said he didn’t remember anything after that until he saw blood. He dragged Cuyler’s body into a garage-type building and cov- ered it with painters’ drop cloths, Tugs and bedspraeds. Neighbors complained of the odor but he ex- Plained it was from an overflowed septic tank. Buried In Concrete Later, he used doors to make a pen and poured concrete over the body, rented an automobile, using Cuyler’s name as reference, and left the city. He went to the Lutheran church, (Continued on Page Seven) |x DUFFY’S TAVERN * ‘ ORDERS TO TAKE OUT 218 Duval St. Phone 2-9357 consolidation. The county commission has the authority to place the question on the ballot, under the provisions of a constitutional amendment passed in 1936 by the state legislature, which sets up the machinery for the abolish- ment of the City of Key West and the establishment of a county-wide “municipality” to be governed by one agen- importance to the growth county to have an efficient govern- ment,” he added. Meanwhile, veteran political ob- servers for the most part, were noncommittal on the question of whether or not the measure would the first county in the state to vote in favor of consolidation, if it were passed. Previous attempts at consolida- tion in two other Florida counties — Dade and Duval — were de- feated at the polls, But Monroe County with a sin- gle urban area (Key West), is a different situation, some quarters hold. The 1936 constitutional amend- ment authorizes the state legisla- ture to set up “districts” for the purpose of “prescribing a just and reasonable system of taxation.” It also states that the offices of the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the Sheriff may not be abolished and that all state functions now per- formed by the county must be pro- vided for. 19% Amendment Following is the complete text of _ the contitutional amendment: “Article 8, Section 10: LEGIS- LATIVE POWER OVER THE CI- TY OF KEY WEST AND MON- ROE COUNTY — The Legislature shall have the power to estabiish, alter or abolish a municipal cor- Poration to be known as the City of Key West, extending territoriai- (Continued on Page Seven) 11... For Appointment, Call DR. J. A. VALDES PHONE 2-7821