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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1952-03-13
K. W. Mems
Tennis Squad
Downs HIS.
Men Sweep City
Tennis League
Encounter To
Maintain Lead

/ The City Mems Tennis Team
took the measure of the High
School squad last night in a Key
West Tennis League match on
the Bayview Park courts. The
men. who breezed past the high
schoolers in impressive fashion,
captured the win by an 81 score
that indicated that the oldsterS
have finally hit their form for
the season.
Peter Knight and Tony Dopp
captured the only high school
win when they nailed down a
rs. ST, Ga decision over Charlie
Lott and John Yates in the dou-
bleS.
Don Cruz was the only other
high school tenniSter to extend
his opponent for the Conchs
when he took Peter Varela into
a third set before bowling AS, 60
and rs.
John Yates, Howard James,
Robert Smith, Harvey Sellers
and Charlie Lott of the men all
gained victories over John Cruz,
Frank Roberts, Leo Carey, Peter
Knight and Tony Dopp.
The Varela-James duo tri-
umphed over the Cruz-Cruz COM
bination and Smiths ell ,
notched a win over the Carey
Roberts team in the doubles.
The leagues standings to date:
w. l..
K. w. Mems Team ,----------.--- 3 0
High School ---.---..--..--------------- z
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Bright, Atlanta, and Gordon Bull
lock, Ponte Vedra Beach, won over
DIR. F. G Britain, Somerville, NJ,
and H. Dixon, Boonton. N. j., 3
and 2.
/ Co.MedalistS AL Ulmer and Tom
my Aycock, Jacksonville, were
three under par for the 10 holes
they needed TO GUST William Did
dell, Ormond Beach, and DaI
Steele, Daytona Beach, 6 and S.
TAMPA R -Hulet Benner, US.
Army master sergeant stationed
in the Panama Canal Zone, is the
% caliber champion of the Ma
tional Midwinter Pistol Matches
for the second straight year. He
! scored 1856 in four events TO defeat
1t. Harry Reeves, Detroit police
man who had ST.
SAN FRANCISCO R--Sugar Ray
Robinson lays his middleweight
| title on the line tonight against
Carl (Bobol Olson for 81,
II will lie Robinson's first title
defense and first fight since he
regained his crown from Randy
Turpin six months ago.
! Both he and Promoter William
kyne donated their shares, less
81 each. to the DamCa Runyon
Cancer Fund. Sugar Ray, however,
drew $500 expenses.
Olson will get s., 000-$l, 500 of it
for the non-exiStent television
rights. He was promised that sum
before Kyne learned there would
be no TV and no radio broadcast.
Robinson is prC9libitive favor.
lie. Two years ago when the two
met in Philadelphia, Olson was
flattcned in the 18th round.
About 5000 fans are expected
to be on hand, paying around
$4,000 Robinson Is expected tc
weigh in at l57; Olson at 100.
! CAMBRIDGE, Mass. R In a
move tC eliminate costs of main
tianing unused seats in its huge
Harvard Stadium. the Harvard
Corp. is going to cut the capacity
from 81 600 10 about 10000.
In announcing the move Wednes-
day night, officials said that except
for some Harvard-Yale games
played here only on alternate
yearS--no football game has drawn
as many as 10000 since before
World War II. The attendance at
The Yale contest here in 1850 was
only $4,000
| CHICAGO ~ Lightweight
champion Jimmy Carter regis
tered non-title victory over
top Challenger Luther Rawlings
| Wednesday night on split de-
cision Both Judges voted for Car
ter but the referee voted against
him.
Rawlings protested loudly al the
verdict
| Tbs t,sht was overweight. Carter
came IN a, lses2 pounds and Raw
| lings at lSs.
| CAIRO gR-Doris Hart, Coral
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SPORT
SfiORT S

AUGUSTA, Ga. tR--LouiSe Suggs,
the Jackie Burke of Women'S golf
whose great competitive spirit has
created one of the finest winning
streaks in the game, was No. l
in the field tdoay as the Titlehold-
ers Tournament opened
Louise's competition is tougher
than ever. But, the rugged little
golfer from Carrollton, Ga, still is
the pick to win her second Title
holder championship.
In her last six tournament show
ings for individual players Louise,
known variously as Little Toughle
and the girl with ice water blood,
has won three times and finished
second three times.
Second place in the affections OF
the gallery for this 72-hole medal
tournament is Babe ZahariaS, who
along with Louise, Patty Berg,
Betty Jameson and Betsy RaWls
makes up the Big Five of women's
golf.
The Babe is in a virtual tie
with Louise as leading money win
ner for the 1852 season.
The pre- Titleholders Line"
placed Berg, Jameson and Rawls
in the second echelon and Peggy
Kirk, Beverly Hansen and Marlene
Bauer in the third group with best
possibilities of winning
NEW YORK ZAP Mighty Du-
quesne tests its 22-l record against
LaSalle's giant-killing Explorers in
the semi-final round of the National
Invitation Basketball Tournament
at Madison Square Garden tonight.
Dayton $3.50, surprise runnerup
last year, meets third-seeded st.
Bonaventure (20-5) in the other
semi-final, but it is the clash be-
tween the top-seeded Dukes from
Pittsburgh and the freshman-domi-
mated Philadelphia outfit with a
22-5 record that has the most crowd
appeal.
The Duquesne-LaSalle game will
be the first on the double bill that
is expected TO attract about $4,000
The winners will 90 into Satur.
days final with the losers meeting
for third place.
The winner qualities for the
Olympic trials starting in the
Garden and Kansas City, March %.
Duquesne, conqueror of Holy
Cross in the quarter finals,
whipped LaSale by IL points in
Pittsburgh during the regular sea-
son. But supporters of the PhiIa-
delphians declared this is differ
ent LaSalle team after seeing the
Explorers upset Seton Hall and
fourth-seeded ST. Johns with two
entirely different styles of play.
Dayton. boasting a l9-game win
ming streak, will have decided
advantage in height over st. Bona
venture but the BCnnies have the
experience and defense that has
held opponents TO an average of
55.l points a game
In CT Don Meineke. Dayton has
the 18th leading scorer of the
nation with an average OF POI
points.
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of the Egyptian International Ten
mis- Tournament. Miss Hart gained
her tracket Wednesday with 60,
81 victory over Georgina Greiss.
Miss Fry advanced to the final
earlier.
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a, San Diego, Calf, called in 4th.
FRIDAYS SCHEDULE

rain.
FRIDAYS SCHEDULE
Detroit tAl VS. Boston (A) at Sara.
sofa.
Chicago "B" tA) VS. san Diego
(PCL) at San Diego. Calf.
Cleveland tAl vs. San Francisco
(PCLl at San Francisco. Calf.
New York tAl " Brooklyn IN
al Miami (nighD,
St. Louis ca vs. New York tNl
at Phoenix. Aria,
Washington tAl Us ~, Louis IN
al ST. Petershurg.
Pittsburgh tNl rs Oakland (pCLl
Al Oakland, Cala
gcster IN IS rhlladelphia tNl at
Clearwater
Chicago IN VS. Los Angeles tPCL)
az Fullerton. Calf
Francis and W l. DrySdale, ST,
Augustine. 3 and ?
Defending Champions Morton
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ST. AUGUSTINE III - Two OF
three favored teams are around
for today's second round of match
play in the National Seniors Best
Ball Golf Tournament,
But Co-MedaliStS Curtis Coke and
Ray Ettel, St Augustine, were
eliminated Wednesday by Fred
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SAN BERNARDINo, Calif.R -
Manager Billy Meyer Of the Pitts
burgh Pirates is mighty unhappy
man--all because of the weather.
Meyer claims his Pirates are in
poorscondition because the training
season has been hindered by rain.
IA Wednesday night the Bucs made
a trip to San Diego and II was
the same story--more rain. A
heavy downpour resulted in calling
off am exhibition with Cleveland.
The Indians were leading 30 when
the game was called in the last
Of the fourth.
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Special treatment of sawdust
has been developed to make it
useful as food for cattle.
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The Philippine Islands most ia
nous volcano is Mt. Mayor in
Southeastern Luzon. II has errupt-
ed more than 80 times since 1900.
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TRAINING
CAMP
NOTES

MIAMI R-As if he didn't have
enough worries trying to pare some
weight off Catcher Roy Campanel-
la, Manager Chuck Dresser of the
Brooklyn Dodgers today found
himself faced with another pound
age problem--that of Pitcher Chris
Van Cuyk.
Van Cuyk weighs go pounds, but
the manager would like him to
come down to 215.
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Today's Birthday
GEN. ALEXANDER ARCHER
VANDERBILT. born March IL.

VANDERBILT. born March -.
1887. at Charlottesville, Va.
Former commandant of the u. S.
Marine Corps, Vandegrift earn
ed the nickname Sunny jim
by his cheerful disposition
through his long Marine career
from Nicaragua in 1912 through
his leadership of the invasions of
Guadalcanal and Bougainville.
"Old Gimlet-Eye" Smedley But
Ter, under whom he once served,
was his hero.
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PHOENIB, Ariz. IA manager
can't laugh off a good hitter even
If he is a, rookie, and that's why
Skipper Leo Durocher of the New
York Giants is figuring on Gail
Henley as his fourth outfielder be-
hind Monte Irwin, Willie Mays and
Don Mueller
"They tell me the kid had trouble
in lthe Minors" said Durccher.
We'll, this is the second spring
I've had him and he always looked
good to me-"
My minor league totals don't
look good because | always seemed
Ito get shifted from one team to
another and always wound up in
Sioux City," said Henley.
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CLEARWATER Nn - It's that
empty left field spot that has
Philadelphia Phillies Manager Ed
die Sawyer guessing
Del Ennis has been playing right
and Richie Ashburn is slated for
center.
Tommy Brown looked like a
natural fM the position until his
arm went bad and Stan Hollmig,
who has been hitting a long ball,
hasn't improved in speed or field.
ing. according to Sawyer.
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SAN DIEGO, Calf. Up --Cleve-
land planned to give the trick knee
of First Baseman Luke Easter its
first workout Of the season under
game conditions today.
Big Luke, who thinks he'll hit
40 hbmers if the knee hoids up,
has looked pretty spry since he
took the brace off last week. The
Indians still regard him as key
man in the power department.
Today's game is against Casters
old team. the San Diego Padres.
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CAIRO P--Doris Hart. Coral
Gables. Fla. and Shirley Fry.
Akron, O, meet today in the final
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Young Republicans Vote
Confidence in Committee

The Young Republican Club Of
Montgomery County last night
expressed a unanimous vote of
confidence in the county State
Central Committee.
The vote by the some rs mem
bers present was taken because
the central committee was criti-
|cized for its handling of the recent
Lincoln Day dinner in the county.
Mrs. John j. Wachter, club presi-
dent, said the criticisms were
made by a handful of "agitators"
who are not members of the club.
Mrs. Wachter could not name
the critics, but she recalled that
supporters of H. Grady Gore, Re-
publican senatorial candidate,
were annoyed at the dinner be-
cause Representative Beall of the
9Th District, one Of Mr.. Cores
opponents, was called on to speak,
while Mr.. Gore was not.
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Tokomo Park Council Criticizes
School Board on Sidewalk Issue

Criticizing the Montgomery
County School Board for refus-
ing to help pay for q new side
walk near Silver Spring Inter-
mediate School, the Takoma Park
City Council voted last night to
proceed with construction Of its
part of the walk.
The city will build $50 feet Of
sidewalk up to the property line
of the school, located at Philadel-
phia and Chicago avenues, as
sessing five abutting property
owners $2.72 a linear foot. The
remaining 430 feet of the pro-
posed walk is on school property.
The council said the school
board wrote that it cannot be
assessed for such improvements
and there are no funds in the
current years budget against
which the cost Of (the sidewalk
project could be charged"
Councilman Charles Klnck said
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Baltimore Welfare Head
Opposes Opening Of Rolls
By the Assoeictsd Press

BALTIMORE, Feb. 19.-Thomas
]. S. Waxter, head Of Baltimore's
city welfare department. said to-
day he is against a. proposal to
publish the names of those who
receive relief payments from the
State through local welfare pay
ments.
Another would open the relief
rolls to public inspection, but pro-
hibit their publications in news
papers.
DR.. Waxter said Of the pro-
lposal:
TITS a matter for the Legisla-
ture to decide. Whatever they
decide is mandatory on the vel
flare program.
ut would be a pretty damaging
thing to many people. Chill
dren in relief families have a
tough enough time, as it is. To
hold them up to all Of their
friends as members Of relief FAM
lilies does something to their
morale that is shocking"
Evening star., 1952-02-19

Greensboro, N. c., said the me-
teorite exploded at 10000 to
10000 feet above the earth. He
placed the time at 1888 am.
Pilots Sight Meteorite.
Washington National Airport
said several pilots reported seeing
the meteorite. Chief Warrant
Officer Leon Cardwell. chief radio
electrician at the Arlington Naval
Radio Station. also said he saw the
fash. 1T was about as big as the
sun, but brighter" he said.
Persons in Roanoke and Lynch
burg also reported seeing the phe-
nomenon.
DR.. Harold L. Alden, director of
the University of Virginia's Lean
der Mccormick Observatory, said
his staff would like to make an
on-the-spot investigation If any
of the meteorite particles are
fOl1nd
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Montgomery to Get
$40 Million Program
For Building Schools

The Montgomery County Board
Of Education last night decided to
release a report recommending a
$40 million school construction
program.
The program calls for II new
elementary schools, IL additions
to existing elementary schools and
"a new junior senior high school
for the Wheaton area, which the
board wants to build in the next
fiscal year.
Facts and figures are contained
in a report to the board prepared
by DR.. Richard E. Carpenter. as
sistant school superintendent,
which will be released next week
to parent-teacher associations and
other civic groups for, discussion
This report is the preliminary
draft for the boards capital i'm
provements budget request to be
submitted in April to Montgomery
County Manager Irving G.
McNayr.
Capital budget appropriations
to the board for the current fiscal
year were around 81 million, and
the operating budget around Sc
million.
In discussing the need for more
schools in the county. DR.. Car
|penter told the board he antici-
|pates an increase of $500 in next
years enrolment, bringing the
county total to approximately 3d.
900 public school students exclu-
|sive of the junior college.
This is the first time citizens
will have an opportunity to study
the school board budget request
before it is submitted to the Coun-
|ty Manager. In previous years,
budget requests. have been re-
leased when the County Mama
lger's budget recommendations
were sent to the county council.
In other action, the board voted
to set up a citizens budget COM
mittee Of nine members to advise
and assist the board in drafting
budget requests. The board meets
next Monday night at Somerset
Elementary School in Chevy
Chase. .g
Evening star., 1952-02-19

"the necessity for sidewalks here
has existed for many years and
it is pitiful for the school board
to reply the way it did"
The Council adopted an ordi-
nance requiring vehicles to stop
within 10 feet of school buses
when receiving or diScharging
pupils.
Mayor Ross H. Bevill appointed
IA fine arts committee to consider
designing a crest for Takoma
Park. The members are DR.. Will
liam A. Hooker, Ralph S. Sense
man, John w. Coffman, jr., and
Sanford Harlan.
Another effort is to be made by
the Council to get the Washington
Suburban Sanitary Commission to
repair cuts made in town streets
during the past two years. Public
utilities were commended for the
prompt manner in which they re-
pair cuts.
Evening star., 1952-02-19
|GreenbeIt to Appeal to Chief
IOfPHA on Kindergarten Funds

The Greenbelt City Council will
go to the top at Public Housing
Administration for the final an
swer on whether the city can
continue its kindergarten beyond
the present school term.
Urged on by more than a score
Of housewives and mothers at the
regular council meeting last night,
the members decided they will
consult PHA Commissioned John
Taylor Egan as soon as possible.
To date the city has received
two answers from Federal officials
on the issue. The city heads
themselves have been told by Roy
Little, PHA assistant commits
sioner, that under no circum-
stances would his Office allow for
the kindergarten in the 1852
budget.
The delegation Of housewives
reported last night to the council,
however, that A. w. johnson, the
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Undertaken Exonerated
lin Policemen S Ball Fiqhf

An Alexandria undertaken has
been cleared of charges arising
from a disturbance at the Alex
andria Policemen's Ball last No
vember. ... -..
He is William B. Mountcastle,
SO, of 1118 Colonial avenue, vice
president of an Alexandria under
taking firm.
Fairfax Circuit Judge Paul
Brown yesterday dismissed the
charge Of interfering with a po-
liceman in the line of duty, which
had been lodged against Mr..
Mountcastle after an alteration
at the Alexandria police dance In
the Club Nightingale in Fairfax
County.
Mr.. Mountcastle had been fined
$25 in trial justice court but ap-
pealed. He was represented by
Attorneys Leroy S. Bendheim and
George Giammittorio.
In dismissing the charge, Judge
Brown suggested that the Alex
andria police find a place in their
own city to hold this years dance.
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Brilliant Aerial Flash Seen Here
Identified as Exploding Meteor

A huge flash Of light in the sky
spotted yesterday by ground and
aerial observers in the Washing
ton area has been identified as an
exploding meteorite.
It flashed across the sky over
the Virginia-N North Carolina bor-
der shortly before noon. The i'm
pact of its explosion was felt
throughout the Norfolk, Ports
mouth and Suffolk areas, accord
ing to the Associated Press.
Report of Plane Crash.
Radio stations and newspapers
were flooded with calls of plane
crashes. Air Force, Navy and
Coast Guard aircraft were sent to
the Whaleyville area, near the
North Carolina line, to investigate
a report of a plane smashup.
Meteorologist j. P. Molen of the
United States Weather Bureau at
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Fuirfox Rood Meeting
To Be Held Feb. II

Fairfax County's annual spring
road meeting will be held at IL
am. February ~ at the Fairfax
Courthouse.
The meeting is conducted joint.
1y by the Board of County Super.
visors and by State highway en-.
gineerS. Residents of the county
attend the meeting to give theil
views on what roads should bt
surfaced. repaired or rebuilt.
The State engineers usually an.
nounce the amount of money al.
located to the. county for second.
ary road Improvement in the en-.
suing fiscal year. Fairfa1
County's 1951-52 ALLEGATION wa!
$735,36
Evening star., 1952-02-19

PHA resident manager Of the
community, has told them kinder
gartens would be permitted If
economies could be effected else
where in the budget.
Mayor Frank Lastner said that
the Governments view expressed
to council during budget nego-
tiations was that the 13-year -old
kindergarten is a luxury" that
has to end.
Among other decisions last
night the council voted to confer
with American Legion officials on
the Greenbelt Legion posts appli-
cation for a liquor license.
Councilman Ben Goldfaden was
in favor of a resolution now to
denounce any liquor license within
the city limits as detrimental
to the community, which in its
13-year history has outlawed the
sale of anything stronger thar
light wines and beer.
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Air Service to Continue

EASTON. Md. Feb. 10 P.-
Mayor L. Roy Willis says ALI
American Airways has advised him
1t will continue passenger service
to Easton, one Of several Mary
land cities to which All-Amercian
had asked the Civil Aeronautics
Board for permission to discon-
tinue service.
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Safe Walk for Pupils
Denied as Hyattsvi||e
Cites City Limits

A delegation of irate mother,
whose children attend the Age
Road Elementary School des'
cended upon the Hyattsville Cit,
Council last night in vociferou.
force and left asserting they were
the "stepchildren" of Primo.
Georges County.
The group appealed to thu
council for relief for their children
who must walk along a narrow
cinder path beside the dangerous
highway en- route to school.
The mothers added there is nj
school crossing guard to assist
their children across Route 41O.
But the mothers, all from the
Kirkwood Apartment area, learned
there was no assistance in sight
from the council. They live just
across the city line.
To Write Commissioners.
The consensus was that Hyatts-
vile has its own children to pro.
tect.
I'VE can spend money only In
Hyattsyille." Mayor Jesse Baggett
said.
The Mayor. however, promised
to write the county commissioners
recommending that police protec.
ton and sidewalks along Age,
road be considered urgent mat
ters.
Another delegation of mother!
from the Ager Road School wa.
on hand to protect the rights o1
their children.
The group from the West
Hyattsville Citizens Association
demanded police protection alons
Nicholson street, which intersect.
Ager road.
Children Molested.
Mrs. Alice Damuth, president ot
the association, told the Council
children had been molested in the
wooded areas and open field.
along Nicholson street. Actor
was promised on the matter.
The Council last night approved
use Of city trucks and phones BY
the Hyattsville Volunteer Fire De.
|partment in a scrap collection
drive next month.
The department has put in al
order for a new $4,000. rescue
truck and will use funds raisec
from the scrap drive on It's dow1
payment.
The Council voted to allow ad
vertising signs to be put at tol
of parking meters for a tria
period of six months. The city i
expected to net about 81, 400 ,
year from the venture.
The Council also approved al
assessment Of $1,514 for curbs ant
cutters along orty-third stree
from Colesville to Queens Chape
roads and set a hearing for Marcl
3 on an assessment for improve
ments of Decatur street, from
Baltimore avenue to the Baltimor'
g. Ohio Railroad.
Evening star., 1952-02-19
Fuirfox Redistrictinq
Commission to Meet

The first public hearing Of the
Fairfax County Redistricting
Commission viii be held at 7::30
O'Clock tonight in the Circuit
Courtroom at the Courthouse.
The commission was appointed
by the court to rearrange the
|county's six magisterial districts