The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 16, 1954, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Thursday, December 16, 1954 School Board Acts On Routine Matters Wed. Aqueduct Commission (Continued from Page One) mission floated revenue bonds for the balance. |DOPE SOLD TO GET |CHRISTMAS MONEY BALTIMORE Robert J, Jler 33, testifi ,,| Police Court Two men who}, C—— Se _ City Accidents | Mar S-D Day Monroe County, outside the city limits, had a perfect seere for Safe Driving Day yester- Theft Admitted By Neighbors iy « BALTIMQRE rdmitied they partme'st of a n commit ¢: held for the - Rolling Quake | TODAYS | | The Weatherman Causes Minor S!OCK MARKET NEW YORK # @— The stock | Tremendous Growth { The water system has. shown pane was higher today in aya | tremendous growth over the years. | trading with some issues pushing | f that growth may be ahead sharply. An example of that g1 : : hi the following figures: The gain today was a follow-| [4d from pe cle Key West and Vicinity: Mostly | |fair today thru Friday; continued | nage In West The school board yesterday af- ternoon voted to advertise for bids fur permanent stands and a back- stop at the high school stadium. The bids will call for a seating capacity of 5,000 for the stands. The backstop will be erected at the new ball diamond being built in the stadium. | In other action the board resolv- ed to ask the state board of edu- cation to sell $600,000 in bonds for new school construction here and tuld Horace O’Bryant, superinten-| dent of public instruction, to inves-} tigate ‘the possibility of buying two Marathon lots for a Negro school. NAVY LIEUTENANT . (Continued from Page One) he asked that the slack in the des- cending line be taken up, which we did. Communication Cut “Very soon after this,” Lt. Duck- worth added, ‘‘we realized that we were unable to communicate with the diver. “We tested the telephone set by talking through another helmet that was on the same set,” he said. “Realizing the diver might be in trouble, we called Dr. Bergquist (Lt. F. L. Bergquist, Medical Corps who came aft immediately and stood by to take the diver into the recomplession chamber. “When the diver reached the sur- face,” the lieutenant said, ‘we started undressing him. After he was on board about one minute he fainted. He may hove been half conscious prior to that. Down To 165 Ft. “We put him in the chamber and | took him down to 165 feet,” he} wént on. “Dr. Bergquist and Bond | (R. H. Bond, chief hospital corps- | man) were in attendance “At 1424 (2:24 p. m.) we got un- derway to return to port.” he said, and added that the Penguin moor- ed at the Naval Base at 3:59 p. m . Lt. Duckworth said that one time while Sweat was in the recompres sion chamber, Dr. Bergquist re ported that his pulse was strong and his heart beat stronger and that he might pull through Lt. Duckworth again broke down at this point and Cdr. Hingson call ed a recess. Lt. Duckworth, who comes ori ginally from San Antonio, Texas but who now calls Santa Rosa, Calif., his home has been diving since 1927. Pearl Harbor Work He was a Navy Dec 1941, at Pearl Harbor when the Japs struck. He participated in the extensive salvage work there on bomb - damaged Navy ships. Lt. Duckworth took command of the Penquin Sept. 10 of this vear. It was learned that Lt. Duck- worth is deeply concer Sweat’s death and that ed on Sweat’s widow who lives at Lot. 20, Miller's 1 er Park here. Sweat is also sur vivd by a ghter. Besides Cdr. Hingson, the board of investigation is composed of Lt James E. Sark, Medical Corps and Ledr. W. K. Wilson, Ens. Robert J. Bland is the recorder, assisted by Chief Yeoman Thomas Anas- tasia. The taking of testimony will con- live 7 dive for the cool with low tonight near 58 and high Friday near 72 - 74. Moderate © Oceasionally fresh northerly winds diminishing and becoming gentle to moderate northeast and east, Florida: Fair. Continued cold this afternoon and tonight. Lowest ranging from 30-- 34 extteme north to 35 - 40 extreme south with scat- tered frost southward to farming sections away from coast in south portion. Friday clear to partly clou- dy and warmer. Jacksonville thru the Florida | | RENO, WA rolling earthquake | jof high intensity shook Nevada and California early today but only minor damage was reported. The quake, described as the heaviest of three that have jarred} this area since last July, was felt | jas far as Elko, Nev., 200 miles | east of here, and throughout most | ‘of California to the west. It was timed at 3:07 a.m. in Reno | and 3:10 a.m. in San Francisco. A Second minor ~tremor was felt here at 3:09. Fallon, Nev., a small agricultural | Straits: Gentle to moderate north-| Community approximately 60 miles | west to north winds becoming light | east of Reno and the center of | variable tonight and light to mod-| two recent quakes, was believed to | erate southeast to south Friday.| be the center of today’s quake. | | Clear to partlycloudy weather. However, Sheriff George Wilkins | | East Gulf: Gentle to moderate said preliminary checks showed | variable winds becoming moderate | Only ‘minor damage with some | southerly by Friday. Clear to part-| ceilings cracked and some bricks ly cloudy weather. knocked loose.” He said his depu Western Caribbean: Moderate, | ties still were checking the out- occasionally fresh northeasterly | lying farm areas which took the | winds thru Friday. Partly cloudy | brunt of other shocks. weather and widely scattered show- ers. Observation Taken at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla., Dec. 16, 1954 Temperatures Highest vesterday Lowest last night Mean Normal _ een) . 56 ~_ 65 - 62 Precipitation Total last 24 hours 0.00 ins. Total this month 0.79 ins. Deficiency this month ~ 0.11 ins. Total tis year 56.83 ins. Excess this year 18.25 ins. Relative Humidity, 7 A.M, 90% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.11 ins —1020.0 mbs. Tomorrow’s Almanac Sunrise _ 7:06 a.m. Sunset 5:41 p.m. Moonrise 12:30 a.m. | Moonset 12:32 p.m. } TOMORROW'S TIDES (Naval Base) Time of Height of Tide high water Low Tides 9:15 a.m. 10:35 p.m Station— High Tides 3:27 a.m. 3:52 p.m Moose Ceremony Set For Sunday Otto M. Schleicher, state direc- tor of the Loyal Order of Moose, and other officers will conduct the institution ceremony for the new- ly - formed Key West Moose lodge on Sunday, December 19 at 1 p. m. The ceremonies will be held at ~ the Cuban Club, 1108 Duval Street. Charter members will be enrolled at this time The ritual work will be exem- rlified by the Ritual Staff of the Miami lodge. The Miami drill team and a quartette for Miami will take part in the ceremonies. tinue for the next few days. Re- suits of the autopsy on Sweat pro- bably will not be known until next Tuesday, Cdr. Hingson said. OF SMART FALL CASUALS! hurry! Our buyer took advantage of this won- derful opportunity to give our customers a ©ES RE FAM! ENTI L Wilkins said today’s earthquake | |was “by far the heaviest of all | three.’ He attributed Fallon’s light | | damage to the fact the ‘last quake | | just about knocked everything down that was at all loose.” | Parts of Lovelock, Nev., also; [east of Reno, were blacked out when a section of the city’s elec-| tric power system failed briefly. However, no other damage was reported. Lovelock police also de- scribed today’s quake as heavier | than the previous ones. | Pacific Gas & Electric Co., giant utility serving most of California, | said a check of its system indi- |cated the earthquake was felt al- most from the Oregon border to} deep in Southern California. A PG&E spokesman said, ‘however, there were no reports of damage. The temblor was felt as far south as the Los Angeles area, 500-plus miles from the center. San Diego police, another 150 miles away, said that city almost on the Mexi- can border did not feel any shock. In Los Angeles chandeliers swayed on the 12th floor of the Pacifie Telephone & Telegraph Co. building. Windows rattled in Leim- ert Park and water sloshed in a swimming pool in west Los Ange- les. The town of Bishop, east of the Sierra Nevada range, reported a three-minute rolling quake at about 3:09 a.m., followed by a 30-second temblor five minutes later. No| damage was reported. At Visalia and Porterville California’s Tulare County in} south ported the quake was felt only slight'y. A sheriff's dispatcher at Visalia said “I thought I was getting sick until I looked up and saw the light fixtures waving.” Residents at Hollister southeast | Of San Francisco timed the quake at 3:10 a.m. and said it lasted one! | minute or longer. It ratt!ed fix- tures in houses. Apparently few people other than | tourists noticed the quake in San | Francisco. Police said the few calls they had came mostly from hotels. | The city quivered a bit, but there | were no reports of damage. Throughout western Nevada, resi- | | dents reported they were awakened | by a heavy rumbling, rolling mo- | tion that culminated in a violent jar. Some people said they felt the quake for as long as four | minutes. | Temperatures | AT 7:30 A.M., EST Atlanta _ Augusta _ Billings as Birmingham - Boston Buffalo | Charleston Chicago Corpus Christi Denver = Detroit 29 —- 00 _ 29 24 - 29, 32 ~ 29 47 30 32 of Fresno, gheriff’s officers re- | through of the rally which started just before the close in yesterday’s market, : Douglas Aircraft was up 3% at 102 otn a block of 1,000 shares and then added another point. Goodrich was up 3% Santa Fe gained 2 at 12814. Steels, which led rise, were acfive and higher today. Bethlehem Steel, up 4% yesterday, opened today on 4,000 shares up 1% at 102%. U.S. Steel started on 8.000 shares up % at up. Among other stocks gaining were General Motors, Boeing, Radio Corp., Air Reduction, Westinghouse Electric, International Paper, Pep- si-Cola, Georgia-Pacific Plywood, New York Central. Southern Rail- way, and Cities Service. “Not Guilty,” Says Local Store Mer. There is no connection between Woodrow Stores, Inc., who oper- ate a Duval Street clothing estab- at 127. The Citizen’s Peoples Forum. Paul M. Auman, manager of the |store, said that he has received several complaints from peopleg evidently believing there was a connection between the letter-w-it- er and his store. The letter in question he~adai “Admires Campbell’s Cou'gage,”” appeared in the December 11 is- sue of The Citizen. SWING KILLS GFaL WARWICK, RI. — Maureen Dorgan, 6, was strangled yester- day when a rope of the swing she was riding in her back yard broke and tangled around her neck. OS nat ere POOR GLD CRAIG SERVICE STATION Francis at Truman DIAL 2-9193 Your PURE OIL Dealer Tires . . Tubes . . Batteries ACCESSORIES RADIO and CIFELLI'S "sess Factory Methods Used— All Work Cuaranteed Marine Radios & Asst. Equipment FOR PROMPT AND RELIABLE SERVICE—SEE DAVID CIFELLI 928 Truman Avenue TELEPHONE 2-6008 MAMBO El Paso Ft. 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