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The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21
Cold Tells OF
Vast Change
In Phone Go.
Lions Hear Story
Of Dial Telephone
Installation Here

The vast amount Of labor, time
and money that has gone into the
conversion Of the Key West tele-
phone system from manual to dial
operation was outlined for the
members and guests at the Lions
Club meeting last night by Chet
Cold, manager Of he local tele-
phone company.
The development Of he tele.
phone company here, from Is in-
ception IN 1916 up b TIE present
time, was dealt with. Mr.. Cold
pointed out that the present con-
version 10 dial phones is the first
major change since 1918.
In that year the company moved
from its original location In rooms
above the Western Union Office to
its present location On Southard
Street. Also in 1918 long distance
service was initiated for Key West.
The company has sesn many
minor changes linked always with
the varying degree of prosperity
in Key West. In 1885, Mr.. Cold
revealed, there were only s2j tale
phones In use in the city. But be.
tween the years 1910 and 1850 the
number increased from 1892 to
4277. This growth was not due
entirely 10 the growth Of the city,
because in the same period, census
figures did not show q correspond
ing percentage In the growth Of
the population.
The advance N the mse q tele-
phones was based more On the
added prosperity and business en-
terprise which leaped h TIE ten
year span.
The demand for telephones has
stayed ahead oe The population
growth. There are r0 $500 aaIe-
phones users h The island ely,
with at least $500 being anticipated
By Apfii /, 1855.
The need for the change to dial
phones has been felt for some
time, 80 that more efficient SER
vice could be given and q wider
number Of subscribers cOuId Be
provided with service.
Work on the change was started
in 1850. At that time the telephone
company purchased the old Men
doza homestead On SimOnton Street
just back Of the telephone Office.
The new building which has been
erected there provides more floor
space than did the old office, %
Continued On Page Eight
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21
Key West Business Index
Shows Five Year Record
In Use OF Facilities Here
PO RECEIPTS,
TOLL CATE
PASSENGERS UP

All indices Of q greater numbers
Of visitors and residents Of Key
West are up according TO the Nov
ember Trends just released by the
Chamber Of Commerce.
The slump IN building permits
10 81, ,223 Is merely part Of the
nationwide decline in building due
to defense restrictions.
Otherwise Key Vests business
analysis by the Chamber shows
October to have been fine month.
Post office receipts were double
those of October 1s47, amounting
to $24,s3s; passenger cars south
bound on the Overseas Highway
are almost three time more num-
erous, 11,s22 than in the same
month five years ago.
XVIII Of electricity used con-
tinues to rise. Last month the
figures was 3,111 $50 compared to
959, ,1a9 in October 1947.
The Chamber received more
than 200 more mail inquiries about
Key West last month than It did
in October l9l7. II mailed out more
than 800 more letters and received
more than 800 more visitors At the
Office.
Trends releases the names of
the newly elected division chair
men of the Chamber. They are as
follows: real estate, finance, in
surance, Win Freeman; building
and construction, NJ. =. Bennett;
professional, Aquilino Lopez, Jr.;
industry, Charles Taylor: restau.
rants, bars amusements, Mary
Graham; wholesale-retail, ]. T..
Tucker; diversified, C. B. Harvey
and hotels nlotels and apartments,
George Kenna.
The monthly newsletter reports
nationwide publicity about the t.
land CITY II Holiday magazine,
Motor News, Chen1urgic, ard the
Dinah Shore TV show. Literary
Florida Is running m article on
Key West n ia current issue. The
National Biographies article On
the Key West Flower show Ill ap-
pear In January.
The Chamber says that with the
exception Of Holiday, It has fur
nished copy and photographs 10 al
the above publicity media.
Key West ads win appear in the
New York Journal American and
the Chicago American In forth
coming issues.
with this boost 10 start off the
season and with al other indica-
tons pointing to good tourist
season, Key West and the Florida
Keys should anticipate q large
tourist influx this winter. We are,
OF course, better prepared than at
any time In the past 10 handle Q
large crop cf winter visitors" |"
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21
Arrest Soon
In klug Case
Hamlin SAYS
Murdered Mans
Effects Held For
Grand jury Probe

An arrest In the murder Of Harry
E. Klug, Jr. found dead on Little
Torch Key three weeks ago today,
Is expected in the near future,
Coroner-Pea Justice Roy Ham
lin said today.
Hamlin and Chief Deputy Sheriff
Tommy Dixon are continuing their
investigations into the murder of
the rs year old New Jersey native
whose bullet pierced body was
found by John Walker, Or. and
Jr., On October 81.
Meanwhile Hamiin said he Is
holding On to all the effects Of
young Klug, including his expen-
sive Indian motorcycle found near
the body three weeks ago.
"Thsse must BE held fer Grand
Jury investigation, now that ihe
eerensr's Jury has declared rs
verdict u MURDER" Hamlln ssld.
Other state violence includes
his clothes, his saddle bags, his
notes for q novel, . bottle Of
whiskey, the murder gun, and
cleaning rod for the 20 calihre
Colt.
Should the arrest be made shat
ID anticipated the suspect would
be held In jail for Grand Jury
action. Generally murder suspects
ere heid without bcnd.
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21
Minor Cases Up
In Court Today

Criminal Court Judge Thomas
Caro- today levied fines in guilty
plea session for traffic and other
offenses.
Lewis Albert Snead was fined
81 for driving drunk; Cecil Rob-
ert Cheshire was fined SIS for
reckless driving as was Enrique
Barbauter Cruz. Dorothy Mae
Mccartney was fined so for
reckless driving.
Brasier T. Barnard was fined
five dollars for failing 70 have q
drivers license, and Lyle Morris
Waniska was fined one dollar for
the same offenss.
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21

Key West Florida. hos the
most equoble climote in the
country. with On uverGge
runge Of only Ia Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21
Papy Wins 81 Year Road Toll; Ends Big Pine Gate
OUerseas Toll Commission
Abolished; Is Cent Charge
For Passengers Eliminated;
81 Fee For Pot, Commercial

The people of Monroe County will pay only one
dollar year to travel the Overseas Highway from
January onward State Representative Bernie c. Papy
announced today.
The Big Pine Key toll gate will be abolished for
everyone, and there will be rs cent charges for
drivers coming through the north toll gate Matecumbe
Papy announced. The dollar license for all county We.
hicles, commercial as well as private
The Overseas Road and Toll Bridge Commission
will be abolished and its function taken over by the State
of Florida.
The Key West citizen., 1952-11-21
Man Arrested On
Prowling Charge

A - year old man vas arrested
last night and Il being held in the
City Jan On . prowling charge
aftar he was found 10 be acting
suspiciously IN the vicinity cf .
SimontOn Street. restaurant.
The man. Aarun Carlisle u %
Shavers Lane. was arrested after
q chase By II. Joseph Cere1O.
He Il being heid n lieu eG $50
bond for appearances u City Court
today.
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
Should The Celebration Of The
oth Of June Be A Thing Of The Past

What generally thought about The eeebTofn9 OF me e-
teenth Of June? bring Of pleasant memories
of the notooong when gatherings Of omiy ond friends
at doyone gathering, where good old fashioned fellowship
and still better picnic fore obounded?
This may have yearly in your notve ote or
possible you do know too much about this eeeDroon
18th observed Here in Ari
o This observed has been pushed
Ground by criticize the idea and have boekDGed
the veoy event having clear They claim
if is better not O celebrate at oll
This philosophy does meet with the opprovo OF those
is this group with whom belong For it belief thot
Christmas Eoer Fourth Of July Labor Doy thanksgiving
Doy other less important doys have been set ooe tor
who wish to observe their Significance
And so why the 10Th Of June? Why not eeleDrofe our
foefoter freedom from bondage? Some say eerony nom
80; - eIehrote hot we should never suffered the stoe
of sovery How true but Ibid! condition Wnen oc
tuoly happened millions of Negroes brought here from Ao'
and their offsprings. 49, =, .L.IL Lo
YOUR convictions hot the abolition OF sovey shouo De
eebroted do So you live where the 18TH OF June nor
hod fix boket Of grab the Riddles and make tor fhe
nearest park.
IFS your inoenobIe right. ..>,oo>~~oo>.
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
POLICE VIEWS

AT the call of the city manager,
nearly all of the $50 members of
the Phoenix police force met
Thursday morning to answer a
QUESTIONABLE which sought their
views on methods of improving the
department, their ideas on the
qualifications of a police chief and
their first five choices for chief.
The questionnaire was prepared in
connection with the managers
plans for selecting a new chief to
succeed Earl L. O'Clair, who will
retire on June 25 after more than
II years in the department. The
information obtained by the man.
ager' on the operation of the de-
partment and on suggested can
didates for police chief will be
kept strictly confidential. Other
information regarding the educa-
ton, training and military service
Of the police officers is being
studied by the manager to de-
termine the general level of the
Police Department.
The manager explained to the
officers that he wanted their sug-
gestions about a new chief as an
aid in selection, but that no chief
could be selected on the basis OF
popularity. Although responsible
ity for the selection of a chief is
solely in the hands of the mana
ger, since this position is not un-
der the classified civil service, the
manager plans to make the selec-
ton in the light of written tests
designed to measure the intelli-
gence, administrative ability and
police knowledge of candidates.
Experts in police work who have
had long experience in selection
of police administrative officers
will be called in to help conduct
the oral examination. The mana
ger said he wanted all captains,
lieutenantS and. SergeantS to take
the written tests. Patrolmen are
invited to compete if they want
10. Those ranking highest on writ
ten tests will be asked to appear
before the oral board. It is expect
cd the new chief will be selected
within month or so. AS a result
OF the tests and oral examinations
the manager hopes to find quail
flied chief within the department.
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
How Presidential
Candidates Stand
On Civil Riqhts

General Dwight ID. Eisenhower,
seeking the Republican nomina-
ton stated at Abilene, Kansas, last
week his "unalterable support of
fairness and equal rights among all
types of American citizens" and
added: Il really believe we can
do more by leadership in getting
the states to do it than to make
it federal compulsory thing"
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio,
leading COP member and also
front runner in the presidential
race, is on record as favoring a
voluntary FEPC rather than a
compulsory one.
Senator Richatd B. Russell, of
Georgia, Democratic candidate, is
against federal FEPC.
Senator Estes Kefauver of Ten
nessee, Democratic leader in the
race, favorS state action, although
he said he would go along with
Whatever stand the national con-
vention takes.
Governor Adlai Stevenson of
Illinois, often mentioned as a pos
sible Democratic candidate, has
indicated he prefers state handl-
ing of the problem as a primary
thing, before the federal govern
ment should step in.
w. Averell Hartman and Sena-
tor Brien MachOn of Connecticut,
takes the same stand as President
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20

History will some day show that
the extinction of racial prejudice
in America can be attributed to
the country's raising of it's educa-
tiOnal level of achievement. For
institutions of learning and their
products are supplanting now, and
will eventually completely supplant
the theories and practices of little
men who at one time dictated the
lives of other Americans.
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
Delta Pledges Hold
Summer Meeting

The Pyramid Club of Beta Theta
Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta So
rority, held an informal summer
meeting at the home of Mrs. H. F.
Edwards, Dean of Pledges, Monday
evening, June 16.
Pyramids making tentative plans
for fall activities were Janis Clardy,
Helen Edwards, Ruby Henry, Quen-
della Hunter and Alma Laws. Pyra-.
mid Naomi Beshears is in Califor-
MIA on friends scholarship work.
camp for college students
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
President Takes Issue With Presidential
Candidates On Civil Rights Program

rights program backed up by. tine
full force and power of the fed
eral government"
Mr.. Truman took sharp issue
Y with the Observation-Disclosures
approach taken by some of the
leading presidential candidates
in both major parties.
The declaration in speech
prepared by Mr. Truman for the
commencement exercises at How
ard University in the nations
capitol.
81 am not one of those who
feels that we can leave these
matters up to the states alone,
or that we can rely solely on
the efforts of men of goodwill.
Our Federal government must
live up to the ideals prOfessed
in our-Dec1aratiOn of Indepen-
dence and the duties imposed
upon it by our constitution.
Actually, President Truman call.
ed for the adoption of the full
civil rights program he laid be-
fore congress in 194S = including
Fair Employment Practices Com
mission with power to enforce its
DEGREES against job discrimination
based on race creed, or color.
This is the issue that brought
a Southern revolt against tbs
Democrats in the 1913 nationa
convention and election.
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
BY Kathryn McCarty

1I0SlQSHC hlllCOlIl, III IIlS lIlcOS
ural address, said he had mo pur-
pose, directly or indirectly, to inter
fere with slavery in states where
it existed; that he, as well as every
member of Congress, was SWORN
TO SUPPORT THE WHOLE CON-
STITUTICN, one of the provisions
Of which was the Fugitive Slave
Law. Mr.. Lincoln said that he
took his oath to support the Con-
stitution, without any mental reser-
vation; that while he did not then
choose to specify particular acts of
Congress as proper to be enforced,
he did suggest that it would be
much safer for all, both in official
and private stations, to conform to
and abide by all those acts which
stand unrepealed, than to violate
any of them, trusting to find i'm
munity in having them held to be
unconstitutional.
While Mr. Lincoln's address was
considered clear and explicit by
many, it was regarded as very OBJ
scure and unsatisfactory by the
people of the South. And the day
after its delivery Commissioners
from the Confederate Congress ar
rived in Washington and presented
resolutions concerning the great
uncertainty in the public mind over
the policy to be pursued by the
President. They asked that the
President tell the Convention which
course he intended taking in regard
to the Confederate States. The
Presidents reply was that although
he was sorry that dangerous un-
certainties existed. regarding what
his procedure would be, he could
give no clearer exposition of his
policy that was given in his inaug-
ural address, in which he held that.
in the contemplation of universal
law and of the Constitution, the
Union of the States is perpetual;
that no state could, upon it's own
mere motion, get out of the union;
that acts of violence within any
state against the authority of the
United States would be considered
insurrectionary, and that he should,
as the Constitution expressly en-
powered him, take care that the
laws of the Union be executed in
all the states.
On May 21, shortly after the in
auguration, the Cabinet, at Wash
lngton, made plans to send the fleet
to Fort Sumter at all hazards. The
Confederates, hearing of the prepa-
rations to provision the Fort, sent
orders demanding it's surrender and
case of refusal, to reduce it by
bombardment. General Beauregard
refused to surrender and on April
II, the Fort was fired upon by the
ConfederateS and after a defense of
thirty-four hours, Major Anderson
surrendered.
CTo be continued next week.)
Arizona sun., 1952-06-20
THRU THE HAZE
BY FRANK SANTOS
Prejudice To Become History
BY FRANK SANTOS

Franklin ID. Roosevelt once said,
"The only thing we have to fear,
is fear itself"
He was, at that time, referring
the impact of his words toward the
efforts of a nation at war and to-
ward that nations psychological
conditioning of itself for that war.
/, NOw-sOme years later-his ut
terance is a universally famous one
and it. has been realized that it is
too profound to be restricted to a
particular place, time Or event.
For in a world constantly afraid,
Roosevelt's declaration can be ap-
piled to any situation arising out of
the fear of people in progress; a
people picking their way through
the unpredictable future with the
testineSs of child considering a
new playmate.
Always, in the analysis, it is odu-
cation that dispels these fears and
provides the confidence so neces-
sary to the making of progress.
Fear is an acute aWareness Of the
unknown, and to learn is to cut at
the roots of the condition.
Learning is the unveiler; it is the
purifier of the stagnant mind.
In direct proportion to the vast
progress made in racial relations
in this country are the educational
opportunities made available to the
last two generations The desire to
learn has been fostered by educa-
tional movements dedicated to
learning for all. AS a result, the
student of recent yesterdays and
the student of today are constantly
in search of knowledge; knowledge
that results in the banishment of
the unknown, and the evaluation of
a thing logically, and by no means
blindly. ~
This logic blended with common
sense and the study of a question
through education lead to the-goal
the rational approach and consid-
GRAFTON.
1t is destroying racial prejudice.
In the face of this nationality the
emotional behavior of a people is
being changed. We are striving to-
ward truth and away from drug
ging effects that have plagued the
progress of the harmony of races.
Traditions are being wiped out be-
fore. the advance of learning; ira
ditions that were based on the de-
crees of men who evaluated man
b noting his color. Acceptance OF
these traditions was the fault OF
mentally sleeping America.
But with this age of nationality
we have learned to judge the prem
ise of a theory and to adjudge il
as false and without justification
if that premise has no basis of fact
We are no longer allowing those
who have gone before us to do our
thinking.
The progress has been slow: II
has been at times bitterly contested
and impeded, and it has been eau
tiOus. But it is being made fol
education, is its guiding force, and
it is too powerful for any man OF
group or class to halt with fist
wavings and frothing of the mouth
Adjustment of slavery, establish
ment of Negroes in responsible po-
sitions, advancement of equalities
in all fields, destruction of educa-
ton barriers, the Nobel Peace Prize
to DR.. Ralph Bunche in 195O-all
are different facets of the same
theme.
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Arizona sun., 1952-06-20

Washington, D. C.-Making one
of the strongest statements on
race relations he has ever made,
President Truman, called for the
swift adoption of an all-out civil
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-19
Civil Air Patrol
To Seek Members

A drive to recruit more air
minded Key West teenagers to the
Civil Air Patrol is being launched
this week. il was announced today.
Cadets who range from II and
one half years to IL and one half
met last week to plan the fall and
winter program of the group.
They also heard reports on sum
mer activities, which included
flight instruction from senior mem
bers.
Two cadets 1t. Bernard Sroduls-
ki and PFC Ronald Render attend.
ed the annual summer encamp-
ment held at Tyndan Air Force
Base, Panama City and received
diplomas.
The boys were taken by car "a
Miami and from Miami to the base
in ClIs flying box car. At Tyn-
dali the cadets adhered to a rig.
oruus schedule. Classes we're Civ.
en- on intercep,or aircraft. runs
dar, Jet engines and firing Of NJ
way control, ground control. "a
Carhine rlfueS.
Key West cadets took part in ar
inierceptor problem when flying II
C-4S'S and Twin BeechcraftS whils
BIS radar equipped bomhers made
passes al them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-19

affair included Vice Admiral Re-
nato Guillobel, Rear Admiarl E. j.
A. de Vale, Rear Admiral and
Mrs. Irving T. Duke, Rear Admiral
r. F. Whitehead, Captain and Mrs.
w. H. Truesdell, Captain and Mrs.
Bruce Bradley, Captain and Mrs.
A. E. Buckley, Captain and Mrs.
A. o. Momm, Captain and Mrs. w.
P. Schoeni. Captain and Mrs. P. w.
Garnett, Captain and Mrs. F. G..
Selby, Captain and Mrs. C. H. An.
drews, Captain and Mrs. T. D. b.
az, Captain and Mrs. H. Payson,
Captain ]. C. 10th, Captain H. E.
List, Cdr. ]. L. Belart, Cdr. J. NJ.
Werth, Lcdr. A. r. de Pinho, Lcdr.
Gibadlo, and Lcdr r. Nunes.
Also present we're Miss Betsey
Bradley, 1t. G. w. Beck, Jr., Miss
Andrews, 1t. F. L. Porto, Miss
Terry Duke. Lt-.F. r. A. LEVER,
and 1t. and Mrs. r. F. Merrill.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-19
Ne.U Dancing Star
To appear Tonite
At Benefit Dance

A musical comedy dance star.
Lorraine Selya. will make her
Key West debut tonight when she
appears at the Navy Wives Benefit
Dance. Miss Selva has several dan
ceS for the program. among them
one, the Mexican Hat Dance, that
was choreographed especially for
her by Princess Nina CaracciOlo,
head of the ballet department of
the Pinder Dance School.
The program which will be pre-
scented tonight is:
l. Hawaiian dance, Linda Wells,
Connie Sands, Ronda Brewster and
Orchid Mira.
2. Ballet, Dream of Old Wien
ma" Christine Dopp.
3. Ballet, Pretty Maiden, Cor
rine Boaz.
4. Mexican Hat Dance, Lor-
raine Selva.
S. Ballet, Modern Girl" Oar
lene JurcZynsk.
6. Waltz clog, Merry Widow
Waltz" Dennis Jolley, Gale Ware
la, Barbara DikenS, Ralph Slaves,
and Rose Yates.
10. Valse Bluette. 10 Ann With
erall.
IL. Finale. Military tap, Beverly
Maloney, Ronda Brewster, Orchid
Mira. Linda Wells, and Connie
Sands.
Miss Sclva's tap routine was
worked out for her by Jack Stan
ley.
The affair tonight Is TO begin at .
y. m. at the Elks Club Annex. Pur-
pose of the benefit is 10 provide
expense money for the National
Convention of Navy Wives Clubs
TO be held here in October.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-09-19
HS-I Wires Celebrate
Squadron Anniversary

The HS-l Officers Wives club
had its first luncheon of the season
at the Hotel LaConcha Wednesday
noon. Twenty. eight members were
present.
The occasion of the luncheon was
to celebrate the anniversary of the
helicopter sqdn. which commenced
at the Naval Air Station last Oct.
ODER ). The theme for the decora.
tons was a birthday cake with a
miniature helicopter on top and the
words HS-l. First Year. Place
cards were decorated with minia.
ture helicopters also.
HoStesses for the luncheon were
Mrs. L. NJ. Mckeel and Mrs. ]. L.
Reilly.