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

‘Warmest City In Nation Today Was KEY “WEST 69° THE VOL. LXXV No. 266 “ROSE TATTOO” SET—Anna Magnani (center) relaxes between takes on the set of the filming ‘ef Tennessee Williams’ “The Rose Tattoo.’ Shown with her are her traveling companion, Nata- Nie Murray (left), and Frank Merlo. In the background are producer Hal Wallis, cameraman James Wong Howe and director Danny Mann—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. eee SS SS Ferry Co. Reports Brisk Business October and November, norm- ally, are slow tourist months — but the Caribbean Ferry System apparently doesn’t realize this fact. Two Key West Children Burn To Death In Car In So. Carolina Two Key West children burned to death in their parent’s car | in Charleston, S. C., yesterday. Their brother was saved by a passer- by. | Dead were Katherine Loughlin, 2'4, and Daniel Loughlin, 4, the i to company | Associated Press reported ne pre ee total of 208 } Michael Loughlin, Daniel's twin, was pulled from the burning eutgmebties and 531 passengers | car by James L. Meridith, who broke a window with a stick. between Key West and Carden- The children’s mother, Mrs. Donna Regina Loughlin, 22, was Guba in the first six weeks driving from Key West to Washington, D. C., where the children’s ps: ten of their ferry, “The | father, Dennie C Loughlin, a commissary steward second class, on ocity of Ker West.” i temporary duty, is attending a Navy school at the Anacostia Naval brisk traf- | Air Station. : Pg oO i be stepped | Mrs, Loughlin was shopping in a nearby store when the fire oc- . Che Ken West SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE. U. p ee: ane LORIDA, TUESDAY, NOV’ R 9, Closed Hearing By City-County Assessment Merger Take Place Soon Gandolfo Says He'll Consider Any Proposals By JIM CoBB County Tax Assessor} Claude Gandolfo said today, that he will give full con-}; sideration to any request that may be made of his of- fice to take over the assess- ment of city taxes before the January 1, 1956 date set by a constitutional amendment approved by Florida voters in the general election, At that time, Gandolfo’s office will be charged with the assess- ment of municipal taxes under the terms of the amendment. City’s View For Quick Communication, Use CLASSIFIED Ads! You reach buyers and sellers— tenants or workers . . . Just DIAL 2.5661 or 2.5662 Today Panel May Decide Fate Of Airport Here Navy Is Expected To Tell Objections To Extension By DENIS SNEIGR Key West may lose Meacham Airport as a result of secret Navy testimony being given at a closed hearing in Washington today, The airport use panel, The Citizen learned, is meet- ing in executive session, 2 meeting closed to the public, to hear Navy representatives, Although the Navy in Washington told The As- sociated Press that the Navy had made no “official” ob-| jections to Meacham Air-/| port the objections apparent- | ly are going to be put before the use panel in an off-the- record session, The Chief of Naval Operations recently turned down the ob- lections to Meacham made by Rear Admiral Towner, comman- der of the Naval Base. Towner wanted to kill a $130,- 000 Federal aid program for im- man, his Provement of the field. y’ He suggested that the Chief of | 4 wile: ae Naval Operations ask the Civil |¢°8, @nd another man were Aeronautics Authority to stop the | put out of a car on U. 8,1 Car Deposits People, Chair, Dog OnUS.1 Sheriff's Dept. Tells Weird Story Of Highway Action A crippled wheelchair, his Some city officials, including Tax |. Assessor Robert Pollock, bi re- commended that city tax assessing . They had | curred, Ot ancsetiy Scho Firemen discovered the bodies of the two dead children after i he fire. was put out, as ‘ . pie sy ao pepe intr alent Pe Micrel. tincmen ankd, hat the chikincs were plachgeskith pip dhe hi matches in the car and set the seat covers afire bead idem Loughlin is attached to the USS Batfish here. He and his fam- SSS SSS | ily lived in Navy housing at 12-B Seaplane Base. BiretCascOf |—— Polio Since Sept. Police Report The country's first polio case in For October more than two months was report | ed here today. i . R ] d The new case — the thirty-eighth | N) e ease for the county this year —~ is a} Ss P.O. Will Close ip ; |For Veterans Day | Acting Postmaster, Clyde P. Stickney said today that all windows at the post office will be closed Thursday, Veterans Day, and there will be no car- be turned over to the county prior 1% to the deadline to save sa city money: aie Under the terms of the amend- ment, the city is still faced with the task of preparing the 1955 tax roll, The officials say that it would be a waste of money for the city assessor to prepare the 1955 roll since he is not properly equipped to do the job. Seven thousand dollars has been earmarked in the current budget for the purchase of equipment for the tax assessors’ office and pro- ponents of the plan to jump the gun on the switchover point out that the money will be save im-| mediaely and, in addition, it will | GRAND MARSHAL—Mrs. Carrie Hattrick, 83, will be grand marshal of hte Veterans Day parade Thursday evening. She is Florida's oldest World War I veteran.—Citizen Staff Photo, Don Pinder. $3-Year-Old WW I Veteran, }érations squashed Towner's sug- ih _____|*t widely different spots ‘The text of the letter Adm. {last night, the sheriff's of. ‘Towner wrote, requesting that | fice reported, ‘the, $120,000 grant bé killed, is Deputies and the hi ighway printed on page seven, still wme-seetching for a ae te wor However, the Chief of Naval Op- | jat | rida tag number 1.64509, The Highway Patrol office at Ma- ‘athon had only one name — that of the crippled man. He gave his last name as Comer of 6328 NW 4th Avenue, Miami, Wha’ Hoppen? This is the way the story goes: gestion. | At least, the CNO refused to act r, officially. | But today’s secret session may | achieve the same result. There is more than one way of killing a cat, the cat in this case being the $130,000 Federal grant to Monroe County, Comer in his wheelchair, along And if the Navy succeeds in| With his wife and dog, were on a having the grant withdrawn, it | Miami street last night when the may mean the collapse of the coun- | Pontiac sedan pulled up and asked ty's half-million dollar airport im- | ‘em if they wanted a ride. Mrs. Hattrick, Heads Parade | | Cops Have A be unnecessary to hire extra help Provement program. The Comers and the dog and the 24-year-old Navy man who recent-| ly was transferred here from Chay leston, S. C., the county health unit reported. He is in the Naval Hospital with @ paralytic form of the disease He is married The last previous polio case was reported here Sept. 3 Of the 38 polio cases reported here so far this year, 28 have been Navy personnel or Navy depen dents, Up to this date last cases had been reported year, 37 STOCK-UP TODA with smoother tasting abit Busy Month, Report Shows Members of the Key West police department traveled 15,740 miles to investigate 64 complaints during October, it was revealed today in} their monthly report | In addition, the report shows 29 po lice investigated traffic acci jdents, resulting in injury to four persons, Total property damage in those accidents totalled $8,651, ac cording to the police department figures. Sixteen of the accidents resulted in property more than $100. The detailed report shows that there were two doors found un locked by the police department during the time under review, ans wered 17 fire alarms, reported 15 | street lights out and escorted 18 funerals A total of 48 hours was lost by police officers because illness {during the month There are 16 prisoners in th city jail Four stolen bicycles were recov- | ered Police arrested 15 per fighting, 89 persons for bein and disorderly, four for ¢ traffic and 6 jailed for speed were made for nc persons were stopped for city safety stickers. ms for} drunk rier delivery. Mail will be collected from the street letter boxes and dis- patched as usual. Top Photographer Will Speak To Engineers Club Jar Ph duct | es Wong Howe, Director of aphy for Paramount Pro- and presently filming ttoo,”” will be the guest | T damage cf {speaker at the regular mzeting of | !@¥: the Key West Engineers Club to. morrow at 8 p. m. at the Wesley House, 1100 Varela St. | Howe, a lo me member of the American Society of Cinemato- | graphers, has directed the camera work on many of Filmlands finest | tech productions. “Eagle and the Hawk,” “Tripe “The Baron | € r > Jennifer,” ‘Main} t to Broadway,” and “The| y Says No!” are a few of the es filmed under his able direc- | of the address will | aspects, both pic- and sound, of making modern } 1 pi j n ineers are cordially be | and the county assessor ended it. | to compile next year’s roll. Expenditure Planned The expenditure became neces-| sary last. spring when an agree- ment whereby the city assessor} shared the county tax office and | made use of his personnel and equipment was ended. j The plan had been in effect for about eight years until a disagree- | ment between the city commission The city prepared its tax book at great saving since they had only } to pay the tax assessor and ont | half of the salary of a clerk. | Under the plan to consolidate the | office prior to the time set up by} the city assessor would pre ion with in past sumably work in cooperat the county assessor, as years, Wants To Help | Gandolfo, who has been under- | going treatment in a New Orleans hospital, said today that he has/ not had time 4o study the situation but that “my attitude has always | been to help the city in any way) 1 can.” | “I think we can work out a Sat- isfactory plan,” said Gandolfo. City Manager Victor Lang said} today that the question of whether | or not the city combines their of- fice with that of the couny before the deadline is up to the city com- mission to decide. “It is a matter of policy for them to determine,” said Lang. Up Te Commission He added that the recommenda. | |in Key West. Florida’s oldest World War I veteran will be grand marshal of Thursday’s Veteran's Day parade. The grand marshal — and don’t think she isn’t get- ting a big kick out of the honor — is Mrs. Carrie E. Hat- | trick who was 83 years old last September 19. Mrs, Hattrick, a native Key ——— Wester, will lead the big parade, | was in the red brick building that! riding in a convertible. Then she | stands at the foot of Whitehead will review the marchers from the | Street and Green Street. The Navy car. j has offices in the building now. Mr. and Mrs. Hattrick have been! In 1918 she enlisted in the Navy married 48 years, Interviewed at as a yeomanette. She worked in their home, 808 Fleming Street, she the disbursing office at the Naval recalled the highlights of her life | Station here as a yeomanette third |class and, second class and wis Taught School honorably discharged as a yeo- Before World War I she taught | Manette first class. school in Key West for eight years.| Mrs. Hattrick has long been ac- Then she worked in the post of-|tive in veterans organizations and fice for two years as a registry | lodges. clerk } Charter Legionnsire That was when the post office} She is a charter member of Ar- —— thur Sawyer Post No. 28, Ameri- can Legion. She has served that KEY WEST'S post as chaplain and as historian. TRAFFIC BOX SCORE Mrs. Hattrick also is a mem- ber of Veterans of World War I, Key West Barracks No. 136 | She is past president of the Ste- Nov. Te |phen R. Mallory Chapter of the This in turn can mean the end of Meacham Airport, one of the first ports of entry for air pass- engers in the United States. In his letter to the CNO, Towner said he was opposed to the paving! and lengthening of the east-west runway at Meacham because such | improvement would bring the traf- fic of Meacham and Boca Chica | \into conflict. | | But Monroe County already has | acted to prevent this conflict, Planes taking off from Meacham | to the east make right turns out of the field, carrying the planes | away from Boca Chica. As a further safety measure, the | |county commissioners authorized | the installation of a direct tele- | phone line between Meacham and | Boca Chica to help control take- | offs and landings Besides the Navy, National | Airlines, too, is bringing pressure | to bear te close Meacham to sir- line planes. NAL has an inside track at the | airport use panel. In effect, National has a repre- sentative on the use panel in the form of a representative of the Air Transport Association. The ATA is an organization collapsible wheelchair were loa in the car. Besides the pe om there were a man and a-woman al- ready in the car at the time, Mrs. Comer late told the High- way Patrol that she thought they were going for a short ride but the next thing she knew the car was headed out of Miami for Key West. On Grassy Key, Comer and his collapsible wheelchair, were put out of the car. Then There Were Two In Marathon, Mrs. Comer and the dog were forced out of the car. Later the other man was put of the car in Marathon. This left only a woman and the man driver in the car, At Marathon, the American Le- gion post put up the money to send Mr. and Mrs. Comer, the wheel- chair, and the dog (in a eardboard box) back to Miami on a Grey- hound bus The other man paid his own way. Up to noon today, the car had not been found. CHILD DRINKS POISON JACKSON, Mich, #—Five-year- old Mary Ann Lowe died yesterday after drinking a plant spray so- lution stored in a soft drink bottle | Prop. Damage Date United Daughters of the Confeder-| made up of airlines, including Na- 424 2¢Y; past matron of Fern Chapt. | tional. : 3 nt No, 21 of the Order of the East-| Am ATA representative said that ern Star; past chief of Key West|the ATA sought to get a Navy 1 2 Temple No. 20 of the Pvthian Sis-|okay for NAL to fly into Boca $2,590 $104,571 ters | Chica several months ago, but the Since 1931 she has at | Navy refused permission, Accidents __. nv Traffic Injuries ........ Traffic Deaths .. 3 worked A motorist charged with hav- Tallahassee in every session of the National still would like to move in the kitchen of her home. She |had climbed up on a cabinet and | reached the bottle on a top shelf. | } | | SALESMEN WANTED Blue Ribbon Beer FOR COMPLETE FIGHT MIGHT ENJOYMENT Fabs Blue Ribbon PRESENTS CHAMPIONSHIP LIGHTWEIGHT BOUT Paddy DeMarco —vs.— Jimmy Carter Monroe Beer Distributors, Inc. ving while the: At a recent meeting of the Key pended. West Ministerial Association, the ic summons brought $511 mm president, Reverend Eldon Sim- revenue to the city. mons, appointed Lt. Henry Russell jof the Salvation Army and Rev- erend Ralph Rogers as co-chair- jmen of a committee to set up a | “clearing house” for names of re- cipients of Thanksgiving baskets of the |to be given by the various church- h a ball atjes and civie groups. the Elks Club tc w night. If civie and fraternal groups A birthday cake will be cut with | planning to give Thanksgiving bas- i Mameluke swo kets will contact Lt. Russell at 317 L t, commanding | Peacon Lane or call 2-6537 to com- er of the Marine Guard Detach-|pare names, duplication will be t here, will preside. avoided. MARINES TO MARK BIRTHDAY OF CORPS Marines stationed here will cele brated the 179th annive U, S. Marine Corps w ing too much drink before he stepped into his car, ended up in the drink off South Roose- velt Blvd, early today to send the city’s accident toll up to 424 mishaps for the year City police tell us that drunk- en driving arrests are on the upswing in Key West. Remember, Florida law pro- vides for automatic loss of your driver's license for one year upon conviction of drunk driving. If you happen to have a few drinks at a party or tavern, why not ask to | State Legislature. Miss Hattrick has worked in the Legislature as verified in the en-| | rolling room and for the last four | sessions as secretary and assist-/ jant supervisor in the enrolling! | Toom of the House of Representa- | | tives. | “All my life,” she said, “I've! | enjoyed all my jobs, especially the | | Jobs I have had in the legislature.” | HEAVY TIMBERS for | wvers. /BOAT REPAIRS — at) drive your car—or leave it CF, Strunk Lumber | ee eee ot 129 SIMONTON ST., near Docks | tions of the city assessor have been | passed on to the commission. j Pollock, in a statement the day after election, said that “‘he would take the matter up up with the county and try te work something City Commissioner Louis Car-} bonell has advocated that the city} turn the tax assessing function ov- er to the county instead of waiting | until 1956 as provided by the) amendment, HE’LL BE 112 FRANKLIN, Tex. w—Walter W. Williams, the oldest of four Civil War veterans still living, will ob- serve his 112th birthday anniver- sary Sunday. from Meacham to Boca Chica. The airline made that clear in a recent advertisement in The Citi- Two New Car/ Salesmen | To Sell The All New 55 PLYMOUTH CHRYSLER DE SOTO DODGE to work. We don’t want any- one who is satisfied with less than $5,000 a yeer. Apply in NAVARRO. Ine. 601 DUVAL STREET NAL‘s distaste for Meacham apperentiy stems from the coun- ty’s determination te set and col- lect its own landing fees at the airport. NAL and the county now are tangled in a court fight with the | county seeking either to collect the landing fees it set or to attach NAL property to pay more than $6,000 in fees which the county says NAL owes. | A temporary injunction issed by | Cireuit Court Judge Aquilino Lo-| pez, Jr., has blocked the county's | attempt to collect for the time be}