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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Comprehensive
study Of Chamber
Included In Survey

A comprehensive study of the
Key West Chamber Of Commerce
is included in the 1851 Survey Of
Local Chambers made by the
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States and received here
today.
The local Chamber is one of
lis selected for a study which is
the most detailed analysis of the
effective activities of Americas
chamber of commerce ever pre-
pared.
The fifta-six page booklet. which
is the fifth survey of this kind
made By the national organization
since 1888 may well be called the
Chamber OF Commerce Executives
Bible. II tells. virtually everything
needed 10 be known on a com.
parative basis as to how Chambers
throughout the country operate.
"A statistical report of this ma
ture requires careful study If we
are to gain the most from il, "
said President Edwin Trevor of
the Key West Chamber in com
menting on the survey. Wen use
this survey as a yardstick to mea.
sure the effectiveness of our own
organization. I"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Ito Voters
Tor School
Trustees Here
pINDER. BOA AND Gates
UNoPPOSED IN ELECTION:
SEVEN MILLS VOTED FOR
DISTRICT ONE THIS YEAR

Samuel B. Pinder won 106 votes
and Joseph A. Boza and JoSenh
L. Gates los votes each in tue
Monroe County school trustee cleo
ton yesterday in which the three
men were unopposed, Horace Our
Bryant, Superintendent of Public
Instruction said today.
Gates is the new member of
the Trustee group. The other two
men are holding office now.
The election was light with a
total of l16 Monroe county citizens
voting. OF these 81 voted for seven
mills to be assessed for schools
in District One which is Monroe
County. Seven citizens voted
AGAINST the miIlage, O'Bryant
said.
voters registered their choice of
trustee and their opinion on the
millage in five polling places.
Heaviest voting took place in the
three Key West polling places,
Marathon came next and Coral
Shores school last.
In Marathon So votes were cast
Tor each of the trustees, 80 for
the millage and three against. AT
Coral Shores School each trustee
got Is votes and so did the mill
age. At Key West High school
annex, Boza and Gates got Is votes
each and Pinder l6. The millage
vote was is for, and four opposed.
All three trustees got 81 votes
at Harris school. The seven mills
was voted for by "a citizens with
none opposed. At Poinciana school
each trustee got IL votes and so
did the seven mill item.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
President Truman's Presence
Has Started Early Tourist
Season For Island City

Smyth is an important Democ-
ratio party politician in the State
of California, it was said.
President To Greet Press
Meanwhile White House cores
pondents prepared to ask President
Truman many questions tomorrow
at the personal press conference
| to be held at The Little White
House at pm. The press and
radio will gather on the lawn of
! the Presidents wOrking-vacation
j headquarters.
Today President Truman will
confer with General John Hull,
vice chief of staff and H. Freeman
Matthews, deputy Under-secerta
of State. They are arriving in Key
West for the regular conference
that the President holds every two
weeks.
Short said that the conference is
caused by no special emergency.
IL is merely routine meeting
among the leaders
Army Recruiter Ar Navy
Though the Navy is the locale of
Presidential activities in Key West,
several White House corresp0n-
dents said today that they would
enlist in the Army.
This was because of the presence
of pretty blonde US Army recruit
ter Sergt. Pat Scott. She visited
the noon press conference today,
Pat comes into Key West every
month trying to get Key West girls
to sign up in the Army or the Army
Air Forces.
Though she's had no luck so far
in signing up girls, some of the
male journalists today said they
would let her recruit them.
Pat sighed: Il can't recruit any
girls for the Army because down
here they all seem to marry the
Navy as soon as they graduate
from high school"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
History And
Problem OF
Xmas Cards
Authentic Christmas
Card Is Only A Little
Over A Hundred Years
Old
Rx IAxoM

BY JAXON
Postal employees, stationery
clerks, and ladies like US. who sit
up late driving the pen over the
envelopes that hold the Christmas
cards. must sometimes wonder
where all this greeting stuff got
started-not to mention where 1t IS
going to end! It might be of inter
est to some Of these people to
know that the authentic Christmas
card in only a little over hundred
years old
In 1886, Summerly'S Home Urea
sury office, in Londan, published
a pictorial Christmas card, with a
design in color by j G. Horsley.
The design was of three panels in
a rustic framework; The main sec
ton showed a festive drinking
scene, and the panels on either
side we're devoted to acts of Christ
mas charity, entitled Feeding
the Hungry" and Clothing the
needy" Beneath the design there
appeared probably fol- the first
time, those well-known words "A
Merry Christmas and a Happy New
Year to you.
Horsley claimed to have invent
ed the Christmas card, and it may
be that he was the first to produce
a full pictorial effect; but he must
have drawn bis inspiration from
the Christmas notes people in Eng
land had been writing to one an
other for years before. In those
days polite people were accustom'
ed to sending poems or pretty
compliments to their friends on
special occasions Christmas, New
Years, and birthdays These notes
we're deIicately engraved within an
embossed ornamental framework.
According to the author of 1.-The
EngliS Festivals" Laurence
Whistler the following was typical
of these early notes.
CHRISTMAS COMFORTS
TITS the season for friends and
relations to meet
Still closer to link, by the
pleasures enjoyed
Those bonds which endear man
to man, making sweet
The life which without them is
dreary and void,
Christmas cards did not really
get going commercially until 1862
Then Charles Goodall began to is
sue pictorial cards with designs
by G II. Bennett. Then Ornamen
tai stationers siezed on the idea
and the firms OF Windsor, Sulman
G 4 E. Layton, J r Wood, all Of
London. and Marion, of Paris, pro
duced some rare beauties.
Modern Christmas cards vary
from fine art to homemade snap
shots, and each year more anc
more people express their love
and good win for friends by send
ing cards. Christmas cards are
now part and parcel Of Christmas
Our most serious concern with
Christmas cards is what to dC
with them afer the Christmas holi
days are over. They are much toe
beautiful to throw away So we
pack them in boxes and move
them from place to place unit
they get lost. Maybe you've got 4
better idea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Four Navy Men Rescued In
!lelicopter Crash Yesterday
DEPTH OF OCEAN
AT CRASH POINT
is WELL OVER
1000 FEET

Naval officials here today
were concentrating the crews
of the EPCS 1881 for prompt
rescue of four men who crashed
in a helicopter Is miles south of
here yesterday afternoon about
two o'clock.
The open structure Plesecki
from " NIL known as THE Flxs,
ing RanaEa IS aasltaa
maneuver when the mishap took
place. Flight 1t. Barney G.
Swinton- Bland of the Royal Air
Force was at the controls with
co-pilot 1t. Ephraim Helm. HS-l.
In the rear part of the two
rotor 'copter, were Flight 1t
Ian S. F. Read, of the Raj. act
ing as observer, and Leroy w.
Chase. AT2, VINO was on his first
flight.
The filters heard sharp crack,
and pieces of wood, presumably
from the rear rotor blade, fell
into the water. The 'copter did
not go out of control immediate
ly and the pilot managed to keep
it in the air for a brief period.
Then the back began to lower
and the Banana" began to lose
altitude at slant.
The two men in the back of
the machine found themselves
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Safety Committee
Meets Tuesday

Sugar" Sweeting, Monroe Coun.
iy chairman of the Governor S
Safety Council, to-day called a
meeting of his appointed commit
tee that will study traffic condi.
tons of the City of Key West.
Meeting viii be held Tuesday.
December 4 in City Hail.
Those who will attend are:
William Freeman, Attorney En-.
rique ESquinaldo, Neil Knowles,
Sugar Sweeting. George Gomez,
Charles Clawson. Floney PeIlicer,
Nelson Davenport. William Arm
old, Police Captain Harry Lee
Baker.
Gomez is chairman of the com.
mittee and ClawSon is secretary.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
By SUSAN MeAvoY

President Truman's presence in
Key West has jumped the season
so that as many tourists are COM
ing in now as generally do in jan
uary, Secretary of the Chamber
of Commerce Harold Laubscher
said today.
Yesterday So tourists registered
at the C of c building.
This is as many as come in on
any January day" said Laub,
Scher. 1.-The Presidents visits have
given Key West a terrific shot in
the arm.
The President has given no inkl-
ing of when he intends to terminate
his tenth working-vacation visit to
Key West. Business leaders are
all hoping he win stay as long as
possible.
Laubscher said that, the record
November visits to the Chamber of
Commerce are just one index of the
early winter season. MotelSl are
hanging out mo vacancy" signs.
The Municipal Aquarium is doing
a rush business. ut-of-state cars
are filling Key West streets and
restaurants are doing January
not November business.
Presidential Business
Presidential Press Secretary an
nounced at the noon press confer
ence that the President today sign
ed an order removing Collector of
Internal Revenue James G. Smyth
of California from office "for fail
ure to manage his office properly. y
The Presidential action was taken
on the recommendation of the
Secretary of Treasury. Smyth was
removed September q, pending
Investigations that we're completed
recently.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Judge Lopez
Upholds City
Court Ruling
ITINERANT LENSMEN.
AND OTHER SOLICITORS
MUST PAY KEY WEST
occuPATIoNAL TAX

Judge Aquilino Lopez yesterday
afternoon upheld a city court
decision that occupational licenses
must be paid by both residents
and non-residents of Key West who
engage in Photographic work.
The itinerant cameraman and
solicitors maintained that they
they were not subject to the tax.
And backed up their statements
with a recent decision of the
Supreme Court of the United
States.
The appellant, William Sifford,
was represented by J. Y. Porter,
", and the appellee, City of Key
West, had City Attorney NJ. L.
natius Lester as their attorney
Judge Lopez also made per.
manent the restraining order
stopping the pickering Of the
A & 3 Lobster House. Defend
ants in the case were the Hotel
8 Restaurant Employees and
Bsrtenders' Union, Local Is6.
American federation Of Labor.
Text of Lopez's order follows:
"The defendant, William Sifford,
appellant herein has filed his APP
peal from a judgment convicting
him in the Municipal Court OF
the City OF Key West, Florida,
wherein he was found guilty Of
violating Ordinance 2l8 of the City
Of Key West in that he engaged
in a business or profession with
gut first obtaining license as
required by said Ordinance and
ne was fined the sum of 5000.
The Appellant contends in his APP
peal that inasmuch as he is en-
gagged in interstate commerce he
should not have to pay any license.
The Appellee on the other hand
contends that the license that APP
pelant is required to pay is the
same required of all others carry
ing on the same business in the
City of Key West and that no
undue burden is placed on said
Appellant and that Appellant must
pay his fair share of taxes.
1.-The Court has examined the
record, heard argument of counsel
and read briefs prepared by coun-
sci. Ii is the opinion Of the Court
Continued on Page Three
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Seven Cars OF
NY Central
Leave Track
ONLY ONE PERSON.
A CREWMAN, WAS
HURT: CAUSE NOT
DETERMINED

ALBANY. New York. Nov. q.
.--(P)-The last seven cars of a
l0-car New York Central express
lurehed from the rails at 70 miles
an hour early today, but re
NAMED upright, Only one person
a crewman, was hurt.
The easterner, bound from
Cleveland TO New York, wa
halted by automatic emergenc,
brakes near Stuyvesant IN Co
lumbia county, l9 miles south o.
Albany, at 1880 am. (EST).
The cause was not determinee
Immediately. A railroad official
said the train apparently hit {
defective rail.
The So passengers aboard, sc
of them in the trains two sleep
ers. remained calm. One pullman
passenger slept through the de-
railment. Outside. the tempera-
ture was IL above.
The wreck blocked the Gen.
trails main line between Albany
and Poughkeepsie. The line is
doubie-tracked at the scene.
A brakeman, Joseph Cassese
of the Bronx. New York, suffer
ed minor bruises when he reach
ed for the emergency brake cord
and was thrown against the wall
of the last pullman.
Two sleepers, two coaches AND
three mail and baggage cars left
the rails. The last car, pullman,
was yanked loose from its coup
(CoatinGed On Page Three
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
LITTLE HOPE FOR
ANY FORMAL
KOREAN ARMISTICE

All AfIlOkIkidi Adit u TIT
ground war in Korea has
been ordered BY the Eighth
Army.
Although no arnlistice
agreement has been reach.
ed, u. N. frontline troops
have been told not TO fire
ut the Reds, unless attack
ed.
Today's, order comes about "a
hours after the provisional agree
ment on a cease-fire line across
the Korean peninsula. However,
under formal terms, the agree,
ment is that the approved buffer
zone will become a fact only If
full armistice is reached by De-
cember 9th.
Allied ground troops have
quickly carried out the new
Eighth Army directive. One
frontline commander has ex-
planned: I'VE are not shooting
al them unless they shoot at
: He sddeds IT win be pc
rod OF wafchful waiting while
we see how serious the Com.
u,unisis are aaout our ao-daY
cease fire proposal.
One officer said all frontline
IunitS have behn warned not %
relax and THAT the war is not
over.
He said, however, that allied
forces are not allowed 20 send
out any more reconnaissance pa
trolls. Their mission. he explain
ed, is just to scout-not to at
tack.
The army directive also Tor
bids offensive air strikes against
l.enemy frontline positions.
Another spokesman comment
ed:
"Our men in the companies
have been told not u expose
themselves. But they have orders
ito defend themselves against any
1 Communist attack. He went on:
I'VE will be honorable about this
affair and we hope the Com
munists will act the same way
The order explained that the
! chcckrein on combat Is designed
to clearly demonstrate willing
ness to reach an armistlce agree
i ment during the so-day period
provided under the buffer-zone
agreement.
/ Quiet already prevails on the
entire ground front.
Chinese soldiers in one sector
OF the western front moved
/ boldly into the open today 70 en-
iov a game of voIiey ball while
tContirued On Page Seven,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Landlords Can
Refund Monies

Freeman l.. knight. Director
Of the Key West Office Of Rent
Sterilization, said that landlord
violators will have TO answer to
the compliance section Of the
area rent office. BY that he meant
that alleged landlord violators
viii be called into conference
along with the tenant, and the
entire case will be looked into.
If the landlord admits to the
violation. settlement in terms
Of dollars and cents may follow
but If the landlord is wiliful
yiolator the entire case may be
turned over to the litigation Sec
ton for action.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28

underwater. They hastily finish
ed christening safety harness
and came to the surface. The
front end of the helicopter re-
NAMED above water and the
Piesecki did not sink, but was
sustained by floatation devices
The depth of the ocean at the
crash point is well over 1000
feet.
Read had an initial struggle to
keep afloat weighed down by a
heavy, water-soaked flying suit.
Finally, the second life raft re-
Continued on Page Threel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28
Bulletin
cAuDLE TEsTlFIEs

WASHINGTON, Nov. ga
(F1--T. Lamar Caudie testi-
fled today that members of
congress and other influen,
iial persons put tremendous
pressure on him TO drop pro-
secution of tax offenders.
Caudle told House inves-
iigators that he, received
{ such requests continuously
while he was head of the
justice departments tax di-
vision.
The former assistant AT
torney General didn't name
any of those he said tried TO
influence him.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-11-28


Can Use Ocean
Currents For Disposal
City Manager Dave King
today outlined TO The Citi.
zen the preliminary plan
to give Key West a sewer
system which will take care
of past growth and provide
for future expansion of the
Island City.
With four phases of con-
I struciion, the plan can be
expedited, he said, if two
phases are carried on SIM
I ulianeously.
First step mas been taken in ask
ing the Federal Government foi
! $50, 900 to pay for the engineering
plans. surveys, profiles and speclti'
| cations. Key West is entitled TO
! Federal funds because it is def
initely a certified critical defense
area, according to King.
The problem is to dispose Oh
sewage so that it won't affect the
Island of Key West, King said. A
minute percent of the cities OF the
United States are so located that
they can use the ocean and cur
rents for sewage disposal, Key
West is so located that this can be
done; and this method of sewage
disposal has been approved by the
Florida State Department o.
/ Health for this locality.
/ ct must be understood to dis
pose of sewage in this manner,
said King" that the currents al
the point of outfall deposit are
away from the Island This has
been established by photographs
of the current at Hawk Channel
by the use Of color in the water
it was dyed yellow.
King continued:
AT the present time we have tive
sewage disposal plants with out
falls about 1000 feet offshore
These outfalls have diSintegratec
along with the sewage disposa
plants. All deep sewer pipe lines
10 to Ia feet in depth which are
our main sewer collectors have
! disintegrated due to attacking
/ acids in the sewage, resulting II
stoppage of flow of sewage to the
disposal plants. as percent infiltra
ton of salt water being pumped
by disposal plant is due to de
| fective joints in the pipes,
The result, stated King, is thai
unless the lines can be kept open,
sewage will back up into houses
throughout these areas. In addition
infiltration has caused overlooking
of the sewage disposal plant and
excessive pumping cost.
Studies have proven, salo
King, that to place an outfall line
from Stump No. 2 at Garrison
| Blight to safe disposal point in
| the Gulf would require an 5000
foot outfall line. From Stump No.
at Fort Taylor, a 1000 foot outfall
line to Hawk Channel is required,
Therefore il is better to direct
sewage from No. 2 Stump down
North Beach drive along Leon
street to United street. distance
of $500 feet, thence to the sewer
plant at Fort Taylor
| In placing this line. said King, i
will also service the houses along
these streets and be above the
present disintegrated line nov
| partially operating.
| From Leon and United street q
main interceptor will be built
along United TO the main disposal
plant at Fort Taylor which viii
serve the people along this street
and eliminate the present disln
tegrated deep sewer lines, kine
said.
/ New lines will be placed directly
i &C. ntinued On Page Threet
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-09-27
Income Statements Now Demanded at Irurnan's Request
 Members of Congress,
 Top Government Off,
 tials Hit by New Order

SaSHINGTON. Sept. 27--- R = President Truman asked Congress today to require it's members and all top government officials-incluo- ing generals, admirals and judges to give public accounting each year of their total income.
 MT. Truman said legislation along that line would help prevent i'm proper conduct" and 'unfourded suspicious
 In a lengthy message, sent to the Capitol in the midst of a Senate inquiry into charges Of political in- fluence in government loans. the President said:
 "In operations as large as those of our government today, with so much depending on official action in the Congress and in the exec utive agencies, there are bound 10 be attempts by private citizens or special interests, groups to gain their ends by illegal or inn proper means"
 MT. Truman said he would favor including the principle that na- tional party officials and employees be among those persons required to file annual statements"
 The Presidents own party chair man: William M. Boyle, Jr., was before the Senate's Investigating subcommittee atthe moment.
 Specifically, the President re- commended to Congress the prompt enactment of a law
 Will Hit Many
 ". which will require all full. time civilian Presidential appoint. ees, including members of the fed. eral bench; all elected officers of tht federal government, including mem. bers of the Congress; and all othe1 top officials and employees of tn, three branches of the government say those receiving salaries of $1O,00t or more, plus flag and general offic. CTS of the armed services-to filt annually a statement of their tota incomes, including amounts oyer and above their government sal. aries, and the sources of this out side fncome."
 Penalties
 He added: Penalties for willfu violation of this statute should be equivalent to those for violation o1 the laws relating to the filing of in- come tax returns"
 The President also declared the statements should be accessible tc the public.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-09-27
Elks Beards Siart Sproufing Monday

Signs of the Days of '98 will start sprouting next Monday.
 The mo shaving" proclamation was issued last night at a regular meeting of the Elks Lodge and Nov. "A is set for the annual Days of '98.
 A kangaroo court with the nec- essary vigilantes will be in circu- lation to enforce the proclamation.
 Members Of the Skagway Elks Lodge and their wives will arrive here for the celebration bringing their own "Soapy Smith gang"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-09-27
Jim SmYth Removed By Truman; Another Intonlpeieney Case

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27- lR = President Truman today suspended James G. Smyth, Collector of h. ternal Revenue for the first district of California. pending an investi- gation relating to incompetency'' in the conduct of his office.
 Presidential Secretary Joseph Short walked into the White House press room to tell reporters the suspension is effective immediate ly."
 Short made the announcement without further comment.
 Revenue Commissioner John B. Dunlap, who announced the suspen- sion of the eight others, said Smyth had failed to detect and stop "cer- tain irregularities"
 Dunlap said Edwin M. Furtado, chief of the accounts section of the wage and excise tax division in the San Francisco office, has con- fessed post-dating tax receipts "in cahoots" with tax payers to avoid payments of about $5,000 in interest and penalties.
 Even as he was announcing these actions, Dunlap received notice from his investigators that Doro- thy c. Frisbie, an auditor in the San Francisco office, has been &C., cused of embedding about $5,00O from the Federal Credit Union Dunlap announced the charges against her and signed an order suspending her immediately.