The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 19, 1954, Page 9

| City Commission OKs Request - For Tax Relief, Denies Two Three requests for reduction in personal property | tax assessments brought fire migsion. After considerable discussion, the com: proved on request and tabled two others, Approved was a request from the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany that their personal property assessment be dropped from $33,- 000 to about $27,000. But the commission refused to act on ‘petitions from the Kotton King, Duval St. clothing Store and the Fuller Brush Co., Truman Ave. City Tax Assessor Robert Pol- lock ‘explained that Western Union should get a reduction since their agsessment, under state law, is made by the Railroad and Public Utilities Commission in Tallahas- seé, and that it was late in ar- riving here from the state comp- troller’s office. E For that reason, Pollock said, the assessor used last year’s valua- which was ‘incorrect. He add- ed that the county has already re- their assessment. The commision then voted to But when the other two cases came up, they brought an angry blast from Commissioner Louis Carbonell. “Why. didn’t these people apply to the joa — our budget is set up according to our expected revenue,” said Carbonell, “You are going to create a pre- cedent that will become a mons- ter = we'll have people down here every week wanting a reduction in their assessment.” Carbonell. said that he was of the opinion that the city should pil sages next year before mak- ing/the change. ‘ity Tax Assessor Pollock told the.commission, in recommending the changes, that the two cases in question were the only ones of more than 75 complaints that he wee uly 6 Completnts : a After it had been brought out only five com- plaints on assessments before the equilization board, Mayor C. B. Harvey commented that the situa- tion “is the result of the evils of the ‘system itself.” “The burden is on the taxpay- er, the first notice he gets of any change in his assessment is when hegets his tax bill,” said the May- or, “I see nothing wrong with correcting an obvious error.’ mayor added that a pro- to publish the tax. rolls a lot of good.” thé commission voted short- Ptabile the resolution granting ‘tax relief. Vote Registration Is Up This Year ‘There are 115 more register- ‘ed voters. in the county now than there were for the pri- mary elections earlier . this year, Sam Pinder, supervisor OF registration, said today. iHe said the number eligible the Nov. 2 election is 10,- 922, For the. primaries, 10,207 TODAY'S STOCK MARKET NEW YORK \#—Some railroad shares scored gains of better than a point in the stock market today. Otherwise, fractional advances were the rule. Santa Fe, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line, and Union Pacific showed. good strength and some of the lower-priced carrier shares were active on the upside. » Also advancing were the steels, aircrafts, rubbers and oils. Burlington Mills, St. Regis Pa- per, Texas Instruments and Pull- man be among specialties on the side. Advancing stocks included U.S. Steél, Chrysler, U.S. Rubber, Boe- ing, Douglas, Glenn Martin, Radio Corp.,. Consolidated Natural Gas Monsanto and Cities Service. Lower were Consolidated Edison, Loew's, DuPont and Kennecott Copper. Local Attorney To Study Code \ Local attorney Ben Ketchum was asked lastenight by the city com. mission to submit a proposal for the published edition of city code up to date. city fathers took that action after hearing a proposal from the Michi Publishing Co. giving a price of $975 for 150 supplements to the ty code the last 2% years. atto! last night from the city com- mission ap- The ——— Weatherman a he Key West and Vienity: Clear +o Partly cloudy today thru Wednes- day with risk of brief isolated show- ers'tonight or Wednesday. Not much change in temperature with low tonight near 72 and high Wed- nesday near 84, Moderate to fresh north and northeast winds occa- sionally moderate strong offshore Rear shower areas, Florida: Fair thru Wednesday except partly cloudy near east yee! — . few showers on south- east central tonight or Wednesday, de change ie temperature, Jacksonville thru the Fi Straits: Moderate to fresh << erly winds becoming fresh to oc- casionally moderately strong north- easterly tonight and Wednesday. Partly cloudy and a few widely seattered showers, East Gulf: Moderate to fresh northeast wind: ach A an Is thru Wednesday. Weather Caribbean: Modi 1 fresh northeasterly ch nage ‘ west portion and moderate variable ee soi ide Wednesday. judy wea nc thee showers. ahicdants eather Summary for the Tropi- eal Atlantic, Caribbean Sea hema and the East Gulf of Mexico: Wea- oe gene hy about normal area _wi tropical storm. " more. Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla.. October 19, 1954 * ae aa ‘Temperatures Highest yesterday 80 Lowest. last night 72 Mean 76 Normal 80 Precipitation Total last 24 hours ___ 0.00 ins. Total this month ____ 1.27 ins. Deficiency this.month .. 2.90 ins, Total this year ____34.94 ins, Excess this, year 2.82 ins. ———_— Relative Humidity, 7 A.M. 80% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 29.99 ins.—1015.6 {- 6:28 a.m. Sunset +. 5:56 p.m. Moonrise Moonset 4:35 a.m. 5:59 p.m. (4) ln ee Navy Men To Be Aided In Making Xmas Leave Plans Representatives of rail, bus, and air lines will be here next month to take reservations of military personnel who will. be on leave during the Christmas holidays, the Navy announced today. This system proved successful last year to assure military per- sonnel and dependents of confirm- ed reservations during the heavy tourist travel to and from Key West. es Representatives of trapsporta- tion companies will be at the fol- lowing locations>, Naval Air Station, Building 405, Information and Education office, Nov. 17, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Naval Annex, Building 15, Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to noon and from lpm. to 9 p.m. Naval Station, Building 133, the White Hat Club lounge, lower deck, ote Noy. 19, from 9 a.m. to noon and “Foul Fowl” Draw Fire From (Defense Tries Truman Ave. “Bird Lover” Some “foul fowl’ came in for considerable censure from a Tru- man Ave resident in a letter to the city commission last night, be- cause of their penchant for crowing and keeping householders awake most of the night. bout the situation. Numerous Sug: nager Victor Lang. Miss Edith Moffat, 901 Truman Ave., was the complaintant. She charged that stray roosters in her neighborhood “are breaking at least one law” and asked that the city commission do something a- “These ‘foul Fowl’ are unaware that they are supposed to wait until dawn to crow,” she complained. She estimated the “fowl” Popu- lation near her home at ‘10 chickens and 10 unclaimed roosters. Made Suggestions on how she should rid herself of the nuisance have ranged “from traps to baseball bats,” she added. z i 4 “Now please don’t misunderstand me, I like chickens,” said Mis Moffat in her letter. “I think a platter piled high with golden fried chicken is one of the prettiest sights there is.” Her letter brought quick action from the commission. “(Go out and arrest those chickens,” Mayor C. B. Harvey instructed City Ma- Mobile AndBattle-Ready Army Can Win Next War, Orth Says_. MIAMI —Franklin L. Orth, a member of the U. S. Army Secre- tariat, said today the next war could be won within a few months by a thoroughly mobile and battle- ready army. Orth, deputy assistant secretary of the Army, held out such a pos- sibility if the ground forces are given enough air support to enable them to fly to any place on earth. He said in a speech prepared for the National Guard Assn. confer- ence: “By early invasion of the ene- my’s strategic centers we may, with success, follow up the massive blows of retaliation administered by our superb Air Force. Such a strategically mobile combat-ready army could win the war within a few months time.” Orth said the conditions of war- fare in the atomic age would not permit the United States the luxury of a slow buildup after the first blow was struci. He said he fore- sees the day when the major civil- ian components such as the Na- tional Guard will be designated as “promptly-ready units” whch can take the offensive immediately. The Army must be in a position to administer the ‘final and de- cisive action” after an initial phase of paralyzing destruction’ by op- posing air forces, Orth said. After that phase, he added, will be the Army’s problem to close with the enemy on the ground and to destroy enemy ground forces that might be untouched by massive atomic aerial assaults. Orth criticized current efforts to amalgamate the Military Reserve plans of all of the armed services. He said attempts to draft a single program was like trying to “teach mammals to fly, the birds to swim and the fish to walk.” He said the Defense Department, -|the National Security Council, and ultimately Congress should come up with a workable reserve pro- gram that takes into account the specific differences in the reserve ents of each of the armed forces. Maj. Gen. E. A. Walsh, associa- tion president, told 1,500 delegates yesterday that the group believes the federal government intends to “swallow” the National Guard into its reserve program. “We serve notice that we are in the national defense system to stay and have no intention of being dis- posessed,” he said. Co. H. Spencer Struble of New York said an “excess of bureau- cracy is hamstringing the program of armory construction,” which has used only about 16 per cent of the money needed for the full program in the first three years of its five- year life. Mosquito District . Commended Mon. The Monroe County Anti-Mosqui- to District was commended last night by the city commission for their efficient sanitary fill opera- tions in the city dump. City Commissioner Jack Delaney moved for the “‘congratulations” during action on a resolution to pay the district $24,000 as the city’s shgre in the dump fill program. nder the plan, the city pays a share, and the state contributes $18,000 for the dump program, Train Crash Injures 37 ST. LOUIS (#—Thirty-seven per- sons were injured yesterday in the collisions of a crack Wabash pas- senger train and a work - train, both moving at slow speeds, on the St. Louis approach to a Missis- sippi River bridge. Most of the injured were treated for cuts, bruises and shock and released from area hospitals. Twelve were kept for further ob- setvation, but none was reported in srious condition. The Wabash train, the Cannon- ball, en route to St. Louis from Detroit, was pulling seven cars but none was derailed by the accident, It continued on into the St. Louis e i Russia Pushes . For UN Action On ‘Aggression’ UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. W— Russia framed a double-barreled demanded today for U,N. action on her charges of American ag- gression against Communist China. But the United States dtodd firm against any move to include Red China in such a debate, 3 The Soviet Union goes before the U.N.’s 15-nation Steering Commit- tee to seek an airing of two com- plaints: 1, Russia’s charges that Nation- alist China—with U.S. connivance — has made piratical attacks on shipping bound for the Communist Chinese mainland. 2. Russian claims that the United States is guilty of aggression in the vicinity of Formosa and the China mainland. The Steering Committee voted two weeks ago to defer action on the piracy charge pending the out- come of French attempts to solve the problem in talks between Na- tionalist China and Russia. But dip- lomatic sources said the Soviets decided the time had come for ac- tion. . Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky brought the second, more direct accusation against the United States last Friday, barely 24 hours after the U.N. Secretariat had cir- culated a similar charge by Red China’s Premier Chou En-lai. ~The Russian’ charge drew a Prompt retort from Chief U.S. Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., who branded it a “‘plain lie.” The U.N. Security Council con- sidered similar charges by Red China in 1950 but threw out a Pei- ping request that it condemn the United States. U.S. sources said Lodge would fight any attempt to invite a Red Chinese delegation here, but there was considerable speculation as to how much support the United States could muster. One delegate said many coun- tries which oppose seating Red Again To Get Trial Moved Sheppard’s Counsel Is Rebuffed In Common Pleas Court CLEVELAND, —The defense today renewed its request that the first degree murder trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard be moved to another city, but was rebuffed again. William J. Corrigan, chief de- fense counsel, at the start of to- day's session renewed his motion for a change of venue on grounds that public sentiment in Cleveland and surrounding Cuyahoga County was unfavorable to his client. But, Judge Edward Blythin of Common Pleas Court, clinging to an opinion originally handed down in the first day of the hearing yesterday, still held in abeyance final decision on whether the trial would be moved. Newspaper Files Shown Corrigan introduced as evidence two files of newspapers containing stories about the case. Local Drive Is Compared With Others The current Key West United Community Chest - Red Cross Ap- peal with a goal of $55,000 should be 100 per: cent successful, declares Sam Collins, co-chairman of the campaign, after analyzing recent reports on other United Cam- Paigns. A report from Community Chests and Councils of America, Inc., New York, lists the quotas of campaigns, in other cities. Collins has compared Key West’s goal with those of ten other cities, five with larger goals afd five with smaller goals, ranging from $83,900 for Lawton, Okla., down to $35,000 for Johnstown, N. Y. and averaging $57,410, or $2,410 more than Key West’s goal. On a basis of the 1950 census figures Key West is in third place, 5,702 above the average for all 11 cities. The per capita request, based on these listings, ranges from $4.65 in Cleveland, Tenn., down to $1.86 in LaGrange, Ga., with Key West He also cited a debate between two Cleveland newspapermen on the handling of the Sheppard story that was broadcast over Cleveland Radio Station WHK last night. The debate was between James W. Collins, city editor of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer, and Forrest Allen of the Cleveland Press, Collins and Allen first debated at a meeting of Sigma Delta Chi, journalistic fraternity, yesterday. The debate was Put on tape and Teproduced on the radio station last night, The court then proceeded with the selection of jurors. Only one juror had been selected on the first day of the trial of the 30-year-old osteopath accused in the bludgeoning last July 4 of his pregnant wife Marilyn, 31. At- torneys estimated it would require a week or 10 days to seat a jury. CITY MAY GET (Continued from Page One) sees a difficult public relations pro- blem here, particularly with those living along the unpaved portion. He pointed out that in some cases, this will mean postponement of per- manent repairs until the cigarette tax fund is again available. 3. To prepare the streets for a hot mix asphalt program will re- quire that the city forces concen- trate on the streets which will be repaved to the detriment of the streets not included in the new program. 4. The sewer funds will include only the sewer ditch. The city must pay to pave the balance. To stretch the city’s funds, the paving has been held to a minimum width. Except.in high traffic areas, it is Proposed to pave with hot mix asphalt two 10-foot traffic lanes where necessary. Parking lanes can be paved with the city ma- chine. 5. Extensive changes will be re- quired in the present plans and specifications. 7. Agreements must be reached between the three contractors in- volved, the federal government, and the city to determine the ex-- act methods of participation «and extent of participation. Further- more, the job must be contracted for in accordance with federal wage indards. China in the U.N. would hesitate |" to stop her from having a say in charges which affect her own soil. Actually the question of inviting Red China would not arise in the Steering Committee but would rest with the body delegated to handle the issue if it gets on the agenda— presumably the assembly’s 60-na- tion main Political Committee. Driver Won't Be In Court NEW YORK Saul J. Allen, head of the Traffic Summons Con- trol Bureau, has learned that a New Jersey driver who received a ticket for speeding last Thurs- day won't be able to answer it. Joseph John Orrick, of North Bergen, N. J., received a sum- mons for speeding on the Bronx River Parkway Thursday. Police reported he let his com- Panion, John Brown, of New York City, take over the driving after the ticket was issued. _ Two hours later, Brown crashed into a concrete wall, killing both men. EXPERIENCED HOTEL MAN NAMED TO KEY WESTER POSITION Charles Helberg announces the appointment of H. G. Phillips as general manager of the Hotel Key Wester properties e imme- diately. Phillips’ past associations include work at Hotel Cadillac and Ro- yal York Hotels on Miami Beach, the Belmond, Lake Shore Drive and the Medinah Athletic Club, Chicago, IL, in a mangerial capacity, - _ He spent four years with the Na- tional Hotel Management Co., Inc., operating ‘such hotels as the New Yorker, N. ¥.C., the Book Cadil- lac, Detroit, Michigan, and many ether fine houses in the north, Hot Asphalt Streets Lang concluded with a statement that repairs to present hot asphalt streets will be divided irlto two ca- tegories, Those streets damaged in the traffic lanes will be patched by a thin-layer of specially designed, machine laid, hot asphalt mix 10 feet in width. Hot asphalt streets damaged along the edge or in park- ing lanes will be patched by hot asphalt, hand raked and machine rolled. _ Lang added that Il other streets included in the paving program will be similar to the city’s 1948 paving program project. Lang was the engineer for that program. The city’s street building ma- chine would be used to provide a satisfactory base for the paving, he added, What would you do if someone in your family needed a blood transfusion in a hurry? The “Walk- ing Blood Bank” is the answer to that problem. Look into it NOW. age of $2.77. Key West ranks in the 10th place on the per capita listing. The eleven cities compared are in nine different states, north, south, east and mid-west. They in- clude in order of size of their 1955 | quotas: Lawton, Okla.; Teaneck, N. J.; Waukesha, Wisc.; Key West; Ponca City, Okla.; La- Grange, Ga.; Henderson, Ky.; Derby, Conn.; and Johnstown, N. Y. ° Right Turn Law Enacted Monday It will be illegal in the future to make a right turn on a red traffic light, unles there is a sign giving such permission. The development was the result of the passage on second reading by the city commision last night of an ordinance prohibiting the practice. | It has been recommended by Charles R. Butler of the city’s pub- at $2.08 as compared to the aver-|~ . Tuesday, October 19, 1954 Alsing Asks For Two Assistants A request from city plumbing | inspector Harry Alsing that two assistants be employed to aid him in supervising more than three thousand connections to the Key West sewer system, was referred to the city manager last night for study. Alsing, in a letter to the city commission, said that he needs a clerk and an assistant inspector to aid him in his work. He pointed out that sewer con- nections are averaging more than 10 per day with the sewer project | only partially completed. City Manager Victor Lang was also instructed to see if the as- sistant inspectors could be paid for ut of the sewer construction funds. Have YOU signed up as a donor in the “Walking Blood Bank’? THE NAL Airlines) le te Saw KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 9 SONAR SCHOOL HAS GRADUATION FRIDAY swareee T Key Wester Hotel Cabana Colony lic service department. HIGHWAY EXTENSION PROPOSAL APPROVED A resolution endorsing the pro- posed extension of Highway 27 was approved by the city commission last night. The action had been requested by the Mayor of Homestead as a measure in relieving traffie con- gestion on U. S. 1. MARL PAYMENT OK’D Payment of $3,963.90 to the Has- kins Machine shop for the move- ment of marl in Garrison Bight was approved last night by the city commission. The payment covers the project to move a spit from Fifth to First St. A Fresh Shipment Cabanas Available * 1954 1955 SEASON Limited to Six Persons ony. 40 RENT STARTS Deiicious CHOCOLATES Has Just Arrived at GARDNER'S — PHARMACY — The Rexall Store 11144 TRUMAN AVENUE Corner Varela Street PHONE 2-7641 Nov. - Dee. - Jan. - Feb. - March - April Six Months Plus Tax MOVE IN TODAY NOV. 1, 1954 H. G. PHILLIPS, General Manager