The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 10, 1954, Page 7

Fridey, September 10, 1954 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Poy 7 Game Commission Director Is Fired At Johns’ Order TALLAHASSEE W#—The Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Com- mission today fired Director Charles W. Pace and Commission Chairman Miller V. Joiner of Jack- sonville made it plain the action was dictated by Acting Gov.Johns, The commission hired State Rep. E. B. (Shorty) Jones of Madison, a key worker in Johns’ unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign, to replace | Pace in the $7,700 a year job. The commission met in special session to fire Pace after a closed meeting with Johns and his ex- ecutive assistant, Leonard Pepper, in the governor’s office. Commission regulations require &@ week’s notice for commission meetings, but an opinion from the attorney general was obtained to sanction the special session if all commissioners. waived the notice: Joiner opened the meeting by saying it had been called “pri- marily to dispense with services” of the director and he would enter- tain a motion to that effect. “I asked Mr. Pace if he was willing to resign. He said no. If he will not resign I move we discharge him,” Commissioner M. G. Row! of Wildwood said. : Pace told the commissioners “I’d Just like to say that I’m sorry to see that politics has taken over the commission in this way. I hope someday it will be restored to its constitutional status.” “Fuller Warren set the pattern of making the commission a political football,” Joiner said. “Gov. McCarty brought in Pace with a bunch of new commigsion- ers. He who lives by the sword must die by the sword so I’m not sorry about that. But maybe the next man will let us operate as a constitutional agency. The public set up the commission as an inde- pendent agency, but we're not al- lowed to be. Politics is injected into everything we do.” L. G. Morris of Monticello, ap- pointed Tuesday by Johns to re- place E. W. Hinson, whom he had suspended from the commission, commented that the commission had its very foundation in politics, since the Constitution provides that the governor appoint the five com- missioners. Employment of Jones was moved LAKE OVERFLOW IS SHUT OFF ' a5¢ Esireé ra < its president, Mrs. Ney ham — immediately Housing Committee to investigate, by Mrs. Dana Boose of St. Peters- | 2. burg, named by Johns yesterday to replace suspended A. Sterling Hall of Bradenton. Answering a reporter’s question the commissioners said Jones had been mentioned but not’ recom- mended by Johns.’ Mrs. Boose said he was her choice, and she had mentioned his name to Pepper. Jones has been employed by the State Road Department since the Democratic primaries campaign. Johns some time ago asked the commission to place its insurance with his friend. A. J. Cobb of Mari- anna. Instead, the commission gave the policies to Midyette-Moor of Tallahassee. Johns then ordered his signature withheld from state checks to pay the premiums. DEATH REGINALD GODFREY Word has been received here of the death of Reginald Godfrey, husband of Mrs. Ethel A. Godfrey, National President of the Gold Star Mothers, Inc. Funeral services and burial took place Tuesday, Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey have, for some years, been spending the winter in Key West, staying at the Ocean View Hotel. Their perm- anent residence is 281 Knollwood Ave., Cranston, Rhode Island. Besides his wife, Mr. Godfrey is survived by a son, WARNINGS ARE (Continuea From Page One) ferred last night from the Norfolk, Va. Naval Air Station inland to Danville, Va. to elude the ap proaching hurricane. Thirty-five more, including a number of four- engine planes, planned the trip today. Ships Leave Norfolk Some 80 ships began leaving the Norfolk Naval Base as another precaution. The battleship Iowa, the cruiser Juneau and the carriers Saipan and Mindoro depa: from Hampton Roads to ride out the storm at sea. Most of the other vessels moved up Chesapeake Bay to the Navy’s hurricane anchorage just south of Tangier Island. Smal- ler vessels proceeded to the shelter of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, Coast Guard vessels stood ready to respond to any calls for assist- ance. Coast Guard planes flew over North Carolina’s outer banks and dropped leaflets warning inhabi- tants of Edna’s approach, —___ HE TRIED SPRINGFIELD, Ohio uw —Mrs. Richard Teasley, 79, was behind the wheel, one foot on the accera- tor; her husband, 73, had a foot jammed equally as firm on the brake pedal when their car crashed into a vacant house here yesterday, He told police he was teaching bis wife to drive. : (Biosibes was injured. zi i 2& ee i ee Bi i E i" if ul Fe) hit al E : i oF 2 te ifs gee ey il g38%r : EEE & i } ee get fe A hi is this recommendation — with survey figures to back it — which will be forwarded as soon as possible. ham eapresoed th spoctotion af ea the.Chamber of Commefce, thank- ing Captain Murphy and Lieuten- ant Theriault for the excellént ¢o- 3 Pup Gets Help <3 i plu Hi : i Hie pi fant i8i Z Ht = main to fill the b: Unauthorized Ascent Nets Law Trouble ALBANY, N.Y. @—A 21 frolic in the clouds—climax of 3 boyhood dream—landed balloonist Garrett Cashman in trouble with the law as an unlicensed pilot. The 2@-year-old Cashman, who does stage hypnotism off and on, soared an hour and a half yester- day below two grapelike clusters of 60 gas-filled balloons. But he spent the night in jail. He was released early ‘today in $100 bail pending a hearing. He said he broke through the clouds at 3,000 feet with his hoi made rig, and reported that reached 6,200 feet before the sun’s heat began expai and popping the . He a few balloons off and landed s: ina tomato patch. Cashman described the as “wonderful all around.” His wife, rig helped with the prepara- tions but she called it “ridiculous— crazy.” State police, sharing Mrs. Cash- man's view, Pe Justice Guilderland and a hearing was set for Sept. 17. In lieu of $100 bail he wag sent to Albany County Jail. , Hi watched goggle-eyed doug the way as Cashman’s con- trapti soared from suburban Westmere 'to a farm near Valatie, down the Hudson River. He rode on a piece of plywood, 15 — pure. = sr an on a Spokeless bicycle wheel swinging beneath two bunches of war sur- lus rubber balloons. Each was six feet across and contained 113 cubic feet of gas. A power company crew tapped a loons and Cash- man laid out $43.30 for the gas and labor. Ervin Rules Give Away Show Is Hlegal TALLAHASSEE (#—Atty.. Gen. Richard W. Ervin ruled today that a radio give away show called -1“Play Radio” was a lottery and therefore illegal. The opinion went fo John A. jadigan Jr., Tallahassee, attorney the Florida Sheriffs Assn. Ervin said the same type of * tshow wouldn’t constitute a lottery if the winner was determined by ans questions which required skill or judgment. As outlined by Madigan the show is played by contestants getting free entry blanks at sponsoring rag which contain geries of num- When a participant who is listen- ing to the program finds a row of some five numbers on his card identical to those announced on the Program, he telephones the radio stat and gets a prize. KINDERGARTEN TOT HAS READY REPLY OKLAHOMA CITY «#—Kinder- garten teacher Mrs. Georgia ‘Young chided a 5-year-old candy- chewing pupil with, ‘‘we don’t eat candy in school unless we: have enough to share with everybody in the class.” The young lady countered, ‘‘Oh, but I do!” and she produced. a gack-full of peppermints to prove it. _ NEWS WASHINGTON W — The 55,000 employes of the Internal Revenue Service have been told to report any wrongdoing in the agency in- cluding the failure of fellow work- ers to make such reports, ©. Gordon Delk, deputy IRS commissioner, said yesterday in answer to an {nquiry that the in- structions implement a tax law provision making it each worker’s “responsibility” to report on fellow employes. ; e notice, dated July 32, was “not an invitation to tale bearing,” Delk said. The memorandum itself said malicious reports would “not be tolerated.” MOSCOW W—Russia warned last night that a rearmed West Ger- many would greatly increase the threat of a new world war and keep the former Reich “‘torn in two parts for an indefinite period.” The warning came in a special statement issued by the Foreign Ministry which declared that re- militarization of West Germany would make any agreement on the German question “impossible.” There was no immediate reac- tion from Western capitals. MANILA (#—A typhoon was lo- cated today about 500 miles south- east of Okinawa, the Philippines Weather Bureau said. The big storm, with winds of 120 miles an hour at its center, is moving to- ward the American base at about nine miles an hour. ISTANBUL, Turkey —An Is- tanbul court has sentenced Safa Kilicoglu, publisher of one of Tur- key’s. largest newspapers, to six months inprison on charges of inciting public opinion. The independent paper, Yeni Sabah, has been one of the major opposition newspapers to the gov- ernment of Prime Minister Adnan Menderes. The trial stemmed from an open letter he published to the Premier stating Yeni Sabah would defend its printing plant “‘by all means in our powér” against mob attacks. WASHINGTON «#—The Census Bureau today estimated the na- tion’s population on Aug. 1 at 162,- 670,000, inc.uding armed forces overseas. That was a growth of 2,782,000, of 1.7 per cent, in a year and 7.6 per cént, greater than on April 1, 1950 the date of the last census. BERLIN #—The East Germans Black Dog Is Bad Luck CLEARFIELD, Utah wm — A group of Clearfield youngsters are certain it is black dogs — not cats — that are unlucky. It was a black dog that led to their apprehension for stealing Po- lice Chief Alpha Padgett’s water- melons. Someone tipped off the chief that the boys who took the melons had a black dog with them. Yes- terday the chief saw a group of boys walking down the road with ‘a black dog. He questioned them about the theft. They confessed. The boys are now paying for the melons, Glass Block Makes Smart Lamp today reopened three checkpoints on the Berlin border and prepared to reopen three more. They also restored service on an elevated train line into West Berlin. The six pedestrian border cross- ings and the train line were shut M4 Russian zone authorities early 1953. The reopenings wil} permit resi- dents of Soviet zone border areas north and west of Berlin to travel to East Berlin through. the Allied sectors of the city without making long detours, WASHINGTON (#—A declaration by six religious leaders condemn- ing racial or religious bias in po- litical campaigns has the endorse- ment of the Republican and Demo- cratic national chairmen. The six leaders had asked the Party chiefs to distribute their “fair elections practice” state- ment to state party leaders. Republican Chairman Leonard W. Hall replied yesterday “we thoroughly agree” with the decla- ration. Stephen A. Mitchell, the Demo- cratic chairman, wrote the group their campaign “has my whole- hearted support.” Anonymous Card May Be Sent To Air Dog Gripes TALLAHASSEE —Is your @ neighborhood nuisance? “ If he is, and you live in Talla- hassee, you'll probably get an un- byte igre from one, or more, your irritated n ei it to your —" — This is the novel approach taken by a Tallahassee ool tion, the Tallahassee K-9 Obedience Training Club, to the dog problem. Club President Hilary Watts, a retired real estate broker, who came up with the postcard idea, said it had the twofold purpose of taking the heat off city officials and to forestall restrictive legisla- tion against dogs. The postcards also show the dog owner how he can get some infor- mation from the club on how to train the dog to keep it trom being @ public nuisance, Watts said the extent of the dog problem in a city was demon- strated several months ago in Mo- bile, Ala., when the perplexed city commission called a referendum on a controversial dog leashing or- dinance. There the dog lovers won after a red-hot campaign but the commission came forth with an amended ordinance making dog owners responsible for their ani- mals’ actions. The K-9 club is a non-profit or- ganization. ‘The whales now being killed com- mercially are largely of a species so swift and strong that old time whalers could not cope with them..' Validation Of Bond Issue Is Delayed TALLAHASSEE # — It'll be at least another 30 days before legal machinery starts again in valida- tion of the 89 million dollar bond issue sought to finance the pro- Posed South Florida Turnpike. Circuit Judge W. May Walker has given attorneys opposed to the validation 15 days to submit a brief setting forth their. reasons for as! ing dismissal of the validation. pe- tition. Turnpike Authority lawyers then have 15 days in which to reply. The opposition attorneys have five additional days in which to answer, Judge Walker said reporters would be safe in assuming he will make no ruling under 30 days even if lawyers don’t take all the time allowed. Even after the Circuit Court dis- poses of the matter, the proceed- ings still must go to the State Supreme Court for review. In granting 15 days to each side for filing briefs, Judge Walker commented “Great and serious questions of law are involved and primary responsibility is on this court, not the Supreme Court.” Bond opponents have contended the 1953 law setting up 2 Turnpike Authority is unconstitutional and the authority abused its discretion in planning the 110-mile Hollywood -Fort Pierce toll highway by in- creasing its estimated cost by 27 million dollars. A lower figure had been set by the Turnpike Authority appointed by the late Gov. Dan McCarty. Its members were ousted by Acting Gov. Johns and replaced with his Own appointees. Asst. Atty. Gen. Frank Heintz, representing the authority, told the court claims the board has been extravagant in its planning are nothing but opinions. He has up- held constitutionality of the turn- pike law. ; Scientists have been unable to explain how paint of the prehis- toric drawings in European caves, some of them 20,000 or more years old, has been preserved until the Present day. Vic Vet says "Yureaahs SomiioreAHOn caer P, e risoners Flee VY) pe Proof” ° . . . ° Mississippi Jail JACKSON, Miss. W—Two joners facing the electric | smashed out of the “escape Hinds County jail during today, injuring a jailer and | Up two. persons to steal a jand a car. | Minor Sorber, condemned for the | knife slaying of a fellow at the state penitentiary, and Ger. old A. Gallego, sentenced for sia: g a town marshali in Ocean | Springs, made their escape throagh |a stairway leading to hte jail kitchen. 1 The broke the lock om another |door to reach freedom. An officer said. >This ee acid in ‘his cell.” The acid was used for cleaning. “He threw that acid in (the jail- Use This Convenient Want Ad Order-Gram Count 3 Average Words One Line Minimum Space THREE LINES Figures or Initials Count As One Word | ro 444: stqqqdd4- F i F ; ? START AD RUN AD ____ DAYS ENCLOSED Cheek nner §D T ¥