The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1954, Page 7

Letter From Adm. Towner To CNO ShowsBid |AMAHead Says!" *™ ™* sr" cram ren To Have $130,000 Grant To Meacham Killed Here is the text of the letter Rear Adm. G. C. Towner, com- mander of the Naval Base, wrote to the Chief of Naval Operations, Tequesting that the $130,000 Feder- al grant for Meacham Field im- Provements be killed. Near the end of Towner’s para- Sraph 3, he wrote that he did not know the county intended to im- Prove the east-west runway at Meacham at the time of the July 30, 1954 meeting. Towner wrote that Naval auth- orities thought it was runway 11- 29, the east southeast-west north- west runway that was to be im- proved. However, a source close to the Navy-county airport controversy | present told The Citizen that at the Jay | ions assist | 30 meeting Harold Wilde, county airport consultant, showed Town- er ‘a map which depicted the east- west runway as the one to be im- proved. The Navy made no objections to Meacham Field until after the squabble began between the county and National Airlines. In fact, more than two years ago, the Navy and the Civil Aeronautics Authority approv- ed the Meacham master pain. which calls for development of the East-West runway. dust this past summer, CAA engineers inspected the field be- fore approving the $130,000 grant. The CAA engineers, of course, were well aware that it was the Eest-West runway that was to be developed, just as they were well aware of the distance between Boca Chica and Meacham. Text Of Letter The text of Towner’s letter dated | Oct. 8, 1954 to the Chief of Naval Operations follows: 1. For some time the Board of County Commissioners, Monroe County, Florida has been planning to improve civil aviation facilities at Meacham Field, Key West, Florida. Enclosure (1) is a Region- al and Vicinity Map which shows tbe relative locations of Meacham Field and the U.S. Naval Air Sta- tion, Key West (Boca Chica Field and Seaplane Base). 2 In pursuance of their plan, the | Board of County Commissioners | acting through their Legal Advisor addressed a letter dated 19 July 194 to the Commander, U.S. Nav- al Base, Key West. In this letter, a copy of which is furnished as Enclosure (2), it was requested that Fee Simple Title to approxi- mately 17.1 acres of land owned by the Government and under Navy Jurisdiction be conveyed to Monroe County for the sum of $1.00. As is pointed out in Enclo- sure (2) and the enclosures there- to, it was necessary for the County change of real property at Mea-| not in the best interests of either cham Field for real property at| civil or military aviation. It is be- Boca Chica Key required for the| lieved that a serious conflict will long range plans of the Naval Air|develop in the future between Station. Such an exchange was to| flight patterns and flight operatians be based on an equivalent dollar| in the Key West area which would value of the property involved.| hamper the development and utili- ACTRESS SUES Doctors Must (Surprise Alert Tests Defense Believe In God By FRANK CAREY pels ST. LOUIS @— Dr. Elmer Hess, of the American SEA ly rocer SELLS That Good LOS ANGELES, ‘#Film actress} "© . Jean Wallace sued yesterday | STAR * BRAND $50,000 damages in connection with | the death of her mother in a traffic | AMERICAN COFFEE | accident last summer. and CUBAN WEST CHESTER, Pa. #—A sur- nist 08 —— TRY A POUND TODAY —— prise test air alert, the first Pe habeas ADS BRING RESULTS EE a regionwide basis since the dim- out days of World We. Ul, sum- moned civil defense officials to their posts throughout the Middle | Advisor. The County Commissioners stated that there was no way in which they could acquire title to private- ly owned property on Boca Chica Naval Base suggested that the long range plans of Air Station require relocation U.S. Highway No. 1 to of in expediting complishment t runway 11-29, 4. A second meeting was held on 16 September 1954 between Commander, Naval Base and the County Commissioners. This meet- ing was primarily devoted to discussion of the relocation of Highway No. 1 and the Meacham Field problem was discussed but briefly. Details of this conference were made known to the addressee by reference (a). Also as a regult of the above meeting further cor- respondence, a copy of which is furnished as Enclosure (4), was received from the County legal 5. Shortly before receipt of Enclosure (4), an article appear- ed in the local newspapers thet the East-West runway was to be developed. This was the first in- dication of this received by the Navy. Enclosure (4) was the first affi- cial notification received that the County planned to develop the East-West (8-26) runway at Mea- cham Field rather than runway 11-29. 6. The Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Air Station pointed out that development of the East-West (8-26) runway at Meacham Field will direct air traffic into the Boca Chica Field pattern. In view of this the Commander, Naval Base in his reply to Enclosure (4) ad- vised the Board of County Com- missioners that he could not rec- commend approval of developing the East-West runway if it would ed as Enclosure (5). 7. At the request of Commander, :|May Reveal zation of NAS, Key ai installation. Accordingly, Commander, Nav- West as a nav- Red Writers ‘Power Trend By EDDY GILMORE LONDON W—A Congress of So- viet writers to be held soon prom- ises to shed light on who's winning the race for power in the Kremlin —Malenkov or Khrushchev. | The Soviet Union's fights for | power are staged behind closed closed doors, but the noise of the struggle nearly always reaches the streets and shows itself in some form of Soviet life. Literature pro- vides one key, for what the people | read—and what they don’t read—| is of paramount importance and is | personally handled by the nation’s leaders. ‘The coming congress should show whether the liberalism that follow. ed Stalin’s death has itself been replaced by a return to the harsh censorship under which Russian writers have worked for so long. Georgi Malenkov, the present premier, was credited with a new look in Soviet letters. Speakers at a meeting of the board of the writers union held in October 1953 | practically acclaimed him. Within | the last six months, however, there have’ been strong signs that the Communist party’s iron grip over the ‘writers has tighteped again. If it has, Nikita Khrushchev, first secretary of the party, may be re-| ing, strange things becan happen to obtain title to this perty in| Naval Base, the Comm: order to secure Federal Aid Funds | ficer, U.S. Naval Air Stat to finance the desired improve-| with representatives of ments. The tract of Government) Enclosure (6) is a copy owned land is known as the East} ord of the meeting prepa Martello Reservation and is shown} Commanding Officer of “on Enelosure (3). Station and Enclosure (7) Land Exchange copy of a letter received from 3. Subsequent to receipt of En-| County legal Advisor relative to closure (2), a meeting was arrang-| the meeting. ed between the Board of County! 8, While certain measures such Commissioners, Monroe County,/as installation of a full period Florida, .and Commander, U.S. | telephone line yg tse Meacham Naval Base, Key West, Florida.| Field and the CAA tay Control At this meeting, which was held| Station at Boca Chica and issuance | playwrights Virta and Surov, who'd on 30 July 1954, the consideration |-of instructions to civil to| been praised a few months before, to be furnished the Navy in return] make a right hand turnout to pass| were expelled from the writers for conveyance of title of the East|to the South of Boca Chica would | union for petty bourgeois licentious- ing. Wri Jong discredited be- came popular again. Zorin wrote “The Guests,” which a Soviet official as a bully. Panferov showed a high party official as a drunkard. Ilya Ehrenburg chron- Thaw.” reaction set | in, Panferov lost his job as editor. Tvardovsky was denounced for im- proper criticism. Zorin got a bar- rage of abuse from Pravda. The | Martello tract to the County was discussed. It was proposed that. consideration be given to an ex- lessen the hazards involyed, it is considered that development of runway 8-26 at Meacham Field is ™~\* era — a Now in ONE daily tablet ll VITAMINS + | 12 MINERALS In each Super Plenamins tablet mum requirement of ALL VITAN INS wi plus Aaa cluding CALCIUM, PHOSPHORUS, IRON ments are known, guard your family’s diet LENAMINS than your mini- NB FOLIC ACID, LIVE PORTANT MINE ’ ADVERTISED Now ai your REXA Drug Store Gardner's Pharmacy 1114 TRUMAN AVENUE, Corner of Varela Street TELEPHONE 27641 ness. Krushchev seemed to have pre- vailed over Malenkov. Occupation Units In W. Germany Near Demolition BONN, Germany (#—The three Western Allies have virtually com- pleted dismantling the occupation | organizations which for nine years | had supreme power in West Ger. | Many. | Their staffs, once totaling over | | 100,000, have been whittled down to | a few thousand in preparations for | |a switch to embassy status. The | exact date depends on ratification of the Paris accords to restore German sovéreignty and make the Federal Republic a member of NATO. But the change-over is ex- pected early in the mew year. The U.S. High Commission, once the largest civilian American or- ganization in Europe, is down to red Americans and 3,495 Germans, | A spokesman says that after sov- | ereigaty it will consist of 565 Amer- | ieans and 3,238 Germans. In Febru- ary 1951, its strength was 2,082 Americans and 11,238 Germans, Town Has Lots Of Police Now LINCOLN, R. I. &—The five members of the Town Council last | night appointed themselves special policemen to help Police Chief Wii- liam J. Wright and his seven-man full-time force. assignment, Medical Assn, szys that any doctor “who lacks faith in the Su- preme Being” Las no right to prac- medicine. Supreme Be will say that he has no healing art.” extemporaneous for the open- meeting of Medical Assn. The ith a total membership of second oniy to the AMA as the largest general medica: organization in the coun- try. our medical schools are doing a magnificent job of teaching the fundamentals of scientific medi cine,” declared Hess. ‘‘Howeyer, I'm afraid that the concentration on basic science is so great the teaching of spiritual values is al- most neglected.” At another point he asserted: “Any man who enters the medi- cal profession with financial gain as his sole objective fs a discredit to his colleagues. The market place is where you go to make money, not the sick room. Doctors take care of sick folks—period.” The AMA official declared that organization has launched a long- range program designed to solve the medical care problems of the indigent and the chronically ill. “Special attention must be giv en,” he said, “to the problems of those who are unable to pay for their own medical care, or buy insurance to protect themselves against such costs. We are urging state and county mefical socie- ties to make this a major project.” Long Silence Of Calif. Man Ends In Killing Fury SAN FRANCISCO @ — John Schultz, 47, faced 2 murder charge today following a slaying thgt re- vealed he could speak, after yeais of silence. Schultz's co-workers in a jewelry engraving shop considered him a deaf mute. He never said a word during his 13 years in the shop ex- cept in sign language. Yesterday he exploded in a fury | of anger at a fellow worker, Clyde W. Decker, 47, fired a .25 cal- iber pisto: jet into Decker’s chest. Then he amazed others in the shop by saying: “For God's sake, where are the cops?” Decker also was hard of hearing and Schultz told homicide inspec- tor Al Nelder he became enraged because Decker had accused him of “faking” deafness. Schultz said he lost his hearing | after a 1922 illness, but could speak only with great difficulty. Riders’ Revenge TOKYO #—Japanese train pass- engers have scored revenge for downtrodden commuters every- where. About 30 of them, delayed on a branch line on Hokkaido Island, missed connections with another train. They asked the station mast- or to stop the next train, through express. The station master refused, so the passengers gathered on the tracks, forced the express to halt, and climbed aboard. Investing In evidence of today's (Tuesday's) theme — “Investiging in Good geod school. We live in a nation dedicated wo the concept of democracy. Demo- "SECRETS SEA SECRETS are prepared by the Marine Laboratory of the University of Miami, act- ing as official lishers research agency for the Florida State Beard ef Conservation. Questions are welcomed and should be addressed te SEA SECRETS in care of this news- paper. | Q. Ina previous column you | stated that sea turtles will not die |if stranded on their bellys. How do you explain this?—M. Harris, Miami. A. A considerable problem faces jthe sea turtle when stranded on \its belly. Its body structure is jadapted to the bouyant support of ; the water, yet the entire weight |is thrown onto the ventral surface | (belly), when they crawl about on beaches. In this position breathing is accomplished only | with difficulty. This explains the rasping noise that is heard when a turtle is on, land. Under normal conditions on land the animal 1s able to breathe sufficient oxygen to main- |tain life, but it is highly possible that one of the causes of death is brought about by the increase re- quirement for oxygen when in an excited state due to the ordeal of capture and fear. For more de- tailed information coneerning this problem, the reader is referred to a book Sea Turtles and The Tur- tle Industry by ‘Robert M. Ingle | and F. G. Walton Smith (special | Publication of the Marine Labora- \tory, University of Miami, 1949). Q. Do sting rays actually pro-| jduce poison?—Wm. Riley, Ft. Lauderdale. y A. There is still doubt that the sting ray actually does produce a} toxic poison. Scientists are not yet certain whether the damage) done to human tissues is actually | due to a poison produced directly by the ray or to bacteria living in the slime that covers the spine> There is more evidence at present that first situation is the base of the stinging spine in some rays. In recent book Sea Secrets by C. Phillips and W. Brady (special Publication of the Marine Lebora- tory, of the University of Miami, 3953) this problem is discussed in some detail with first hand ac- counts of several cases of injury resulting from sting rays. Q. Do porpoises chew their food? A. No, because of the smooth, rounded form of their teeth (which primarily designed for the capture and retention of their 'y) the porpoise is incapable mastica- tion or biting their prey in two. Therefore the porpoise must swal- low its prey entire. Often por- poises will playfully chase or try Atlantic Seaboard area last night. The Eastern Air Defense Com-} mand released the warning—that enemy aircraft had been tracked on an approach to the East Coast. The yellow alert, indicating pos- sibility of an enemy attack by air, was flashed from West Chester, Region 2 headquarters of the Fed:| eral Civil Defense Administration. Six states and the District of Columbia were involved. The gen- eral public participated in Ohio, Virginia, West Virginia and the ety of Baltimore. Maryland, out- | side Baltimore, was not affected. | In Pennsylvania, Delaware and the District of Columbia, only civil defense officidls were alerted. An hour and 40 minutes after the yellow alert, sirens wailed out the “red” alert—attack imminent. | Fifteen minutes later the all-clear | sounded The purpose of the drill was to; test the region's communications {setup and alerting procedure. CD/ officials were told only that the test would come sometime between Monday and Wednesday In theory, the city of Norfolk THIS WEEK ONLY Reg. $100 TILT SOFAS. $7995 tach (Assorted Colors — Save $20.00) 10% OFF On All Lamps and Chairs Come In Early for Best Selection The Maxwell Co., Inc. South's Largest Furniture Dealers “killing” 69,529. j “Enemy” aireraft smoke 901 - 909 Fleming Telephone 2-6031 bombs at Richmond and Martins-| ville, Va. | “If we ever have an enemy at-| tack,” one CD spokesman said, “This alert proves we can mobilize in this region within an hour.” Regional CD Director J. George | Brueckmann said public coopepra- tion in the venture ranged from | “poor” to “very good.” Radioactive Dust Located In Japan TOKYO (#—Japanese scientists at Kagoshima University on southern Kyushu island have dis covered a “high amount” of radio- active dust in the air—presumably from Soviet atomic tests, Kyodo! News Service reported today. | Kyodo said it was the first time | radioactive dust had been record- | ed in the air in the area ' The news agency also reported radioactive rain yesterday in west. ern Honshu, the main Japan island, raising speculation the Soviets may have set off another atomic test ex- | plosion in the past few days. 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In one year they may produce many tons of their kind per acre of open water. Dieatoms form the base for the chain of life in the . being fed by the tiniest of sea. mals. The Arctic Tern flies about 22,-| 000 miles each year between the arctic and the antarctic. Good Schools VESTING IN GOOD SCHOOLS FERRET in 3 +++ is investing in America— is investing in your chidren's feture. Support your schools. AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK : November 7-13 sp ORED I THE PUBLIC INTEREST OF The Faculty and Students of Coral Shores School ad Sue M. Moore School