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SOME LOSING
S. s.. BENEFITS
Social Security Head Points
Out Confusing Facts on
Monthly Benefits
CHECK YOUR CREDITS

Some people in Delaware are
losing social security monthly
benefits every month because they
don't know that they are eligible.
This was announced by Myron Mil
bouer, manager of the Wilmington
social security office. There is
some confusion between old age in
surance benefits payable because
of work done in employment or
self-employment covered by social
security and certain welfare bene-
fits paid at age 65. The old age
insurance benefits are payable to
workers and members of the famil-
les of workers who have done suf-
ficient work to qualify. These
benefits are similar to insurance
benefits and the workers have paid
for them when they worked. The
financial condition of the worker
or his family, the property they
own, or the cash or other assets
they have, do not affect their en-
titlement to receive these monthly
benefits. AS long as the worker
meets the retirement test, or, if
death benefits are claimed, as long
as the applicant meets the retire
ment test, these benefits are pay
able regardless of the other in
come or assets in the family. For
example, Mr.. Milbouer stated, in
come from the rental of a house,
income from private pensions or
annuities, veterans pensions, as
sistance from sons or daughters, or
any other income which is not
classified as earnings, will not in
terfere with eligibility for social
security benefits. MIR. Milbouer
then went on to explain the ire
tirement test" A qualified work
er who is totally retired and has
no earnings at all, is entitled to
receive monthly benefits for all
twelve months of the year. Quail
fed workers who are partially re-
tired might qualify for benefits
for some months. If a worker
does not earn more than SIS per
month in wages, he may receive
benefits for all such months. If a
self-employed person does not
have net earnings from self-em.
ployment of more than 5000 fol
the year, he may receive benefits
for all months of the year ever
though business was especially
good in some months. If the self
employed person clears from his
business net earnings Of 5000 tt
$1725 per year, benefits might bt
payable>for one or more months
depending upon the amount oi
profit he receives from the bust
ness. There are two other cate
gories that many people don'i
know about" Mr.. Milbouer said
"These are the rs year old workers
and the self-employed persons who
do not actually take substantial
part in the running of their trades
or businesses. Both of these class
es may receive benefits regardless
of the amount of their wages o.
self-employment income providing
they have sufficient credits in thei
social security accounts"
Smyrna times., 1953-08-20

Prices of livestock have risen
from their June lows and prices of
top grades are expected to remain
at higher level than during re-
cent months.
Smyrna times., 1953-08-20
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CONTROLLER

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Daughter Is Born
To Polio Victim
In Miami Hospital

Word has been received of the
birth of a daughter to Mrs. Joyce
Cejudo, polio victim early Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Cejudo, wife of Oscar Ce-
judo and daughter of Mrs. Nell
vile Russell, 626 Carson Lane, was
stricken with the dread bulbar
form of the disease October 81,
1852, and was taken to Miami to
Variety Children's Hospital and
placed IN an IRON lung on Novem-
Der 8.
At 1918 a.. m. Sunday she was
transferred from Variety Hospital
to Jackson Memorial in Miami,
and was delivered Of the. pre-.
mature child by Caesarian section
shortly afterward. Both mother and
child are reported to be doing well.
Mrs. Ceiudo is to be returned
to Variety Hospital after a week
at Jackson. She is no longer forced
to be in the iron lung all the time.
This is the second child born to
Mrs. Cejudo. Her two-year-old
daughter Wanda Slocum win be
remembered as the little southern
belle who took first prize in the
March of Dimes parade recently.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Cemetery ProwIer Evades Capture
After Wild Pursuit At Midniuht
Police Officer
Believes He Shot
Mar, Who'll Him
On Wild Chase

The latest in a series of
providers in the city ceme-
terry eluded capture last
night but a police officer re-
ported that he thinks he
wounded the marauder when
he fired a fusillade of shots
during a midnight chase
through the graveyard.
Patrolman D. H. Goodrich
said today that he fired a
total of five shots at the my
sterious prowler and that he
believes one of the slugs
Knocked the man flat on
his belly"
The officer was patrolling the
Olivia Francis Street area, near
Packer Street, when he observed
a shadow against a white build
ing. AS he approached the house,
his flashlight revealed tall man
who dashed off and ran into the
cemetery.
Goodrich took off in pursuit and
ordered the man to halt. When the
marauder made no move to stop,
Goodrich said that he drew his
service revolver and fired a shot
over the mans head. He "ducked,"
Goodrich reported, but kept on flee.
ing and the chase led into the
heart of the darkened cemetery.
1.-THE man seemed to know
svery inch Of ihe graveyard. He
ran like . rabbit. He would duck
and then wait until ! got close
and then make another run for
r." Goodrich said.
AT one point when the pursuing
officer GOT - 4 eSt isated rs
feet of the ps6wlef. he let 60 with
three shots in rapid sequence.
When the last shot was fired,
Goodrich said that the man did
not duck but appeared to 'sfall flat
on his belly"
He remained still for q few
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Red Cross Gives
Further Advice
|On Disaster Aid

The Rev Ralnh Pooare cha;r.
:. a.. - ~ :.
man - ' A S' Snap'ei Vi
the american heo cross, mas re-
ceived a telegram from w. w. JEFF
ferson, manager of the Southeast
ern Office in Atlanta, regarding the
European Flood Disaster. The tele-
gram reads as follows;
The League Of Red Cross So
eiefies end Netherlands smbas-
sador advise present needs for
clothing, bedding, shoes and
medieine are being adequstsiY
mef ny donafipns already -.
ceivsd. The league advises mat
0reas nrissin snd seissvm aise
nave aosqUsis supplies o. ms
Nps.
Nso ssoss Snspisss may con-
linus - sssslss unsosiesso con-
r'DO1'ons o. sunos TOR fransm'fiai
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Local Man Faces
Providing Charge

Thomas Blount, T25 Poor House
Lane, who was jailed by Police
Friday night after he allegedly dis
charged a 32-caliber automatic pis-
toll in the city cemetery will face
charges of 'trespassing in the
cemetery after dark and discharg-
ing firearms within the city limits"
this afternoon in Municipal Court.
Police said that there is a special
ordinance in the city code prohibit
ing anyone from entering the GENE
terry after dark. Blount is not in
volved in the vandalism there that
caused a total Of over $4,000 in
damage to monuments and tomb
stones at the cemetery, they added.
Blount is being held on $3.50 bond.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
March 9th Is Set As Date For
Opening OF Sewer System Bids
CITY TO REQUIRE
SURETY BOND FROM
LOW BIDDER ON
SEWER CONTRACT

Sealed bids are being solicited by
the city of Key West for the i'm
provements and additions to the
city's antiquated sewer system un-
der the provisions of resolution
passed by the city commission on
January 18th.
According to the announcement,
bids will be received until 500 IN.
on March 9Th for the project in its
entirety including sewage collec-
ton station Improvements, lift sta
tons, force mains and an ocean
outfall station.
The resolution stated that a de-
post amounting to two-per cent of
the base bid for the project must
be deposited with the city within
10-days from the date of accep-
lance of the bid to guarantee that
the company will enter into a
written contract with the city for
the work.
In addition, the company re-
ceiving the contract will be re.
quired to post . surety bond
amounting to topper cent Of the
amount OF The contract.
Plans are available from the
City Manager or the engineering
firm Of Clifford and Cooper, asso-
ciates who designed the repairs to
the badly delapidated sewer sys-
tenn. A deposit of 500 for each set
of plans is required, which amount
will be refunded in full If the plans
are returned within Is days from
the time of the awarding of the
contract. -,
q No bidder mag withdraw his bid
period of 45-days from the
time the sealed bids are opened.
The call for bids is being adj
yertised In the Citizen, the Miami
Herald, the Miami Daily News, the
American City, The Engineering
News Record, and Public Works
Magazine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Dillon Gives
Music Library
ToKWHSBand
DEMONSTRATIONS
OF Band Pieces
I'm Collection

3
Major Earl Dillon is presenting
to the Key West High School Band
music to be known as 1.-THE Dillon
Library"
There are nine large and four
small overtures; 10 large Selec.
tons; IL small Selections. Also 10
large Concert Pieces and a num-
Der of small Concert Pieces and
Marches.
All this music is part of the
library Major Dillon aceunau.
lated during the first World War.
II is all standard music, the type
that never goes out of date. He
has used this music with profess
sional and High school bands. for
the past 30 years. A good part Of
II has been used by the Key West
high school band during the four
years that Major Dillon was band
master.
Through the sale of a popular
song "We are bound to get the
Kaiser" he was able to purchase
the library for the 1863 Infantry
Band slst Division. Most of this
music was played by this band
during the First World War in BEL
GUM, England and France.
After nine days and nights in
the fighting. they were relieved By
the First division and moved 10 a
forest few miles behind the lines.
They retrieved their music and
instruments from the dugouts
where they had been storea. while
the band was being used as litter
bearers and played a concert in
the forest. II was certainly a great
morale raiser, he said. The band
was demobilized in 1919. When
Major Dillon left for the United
States, the band library was pre-.
scented 10 him.
II was later used In San Fran
cisco. where he was Instructor for
several amateur bands. Then in
Kermin, in professional and school
bands and in Fresno where Major
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Tag Deadline
Ups Crowds
At Courthouse
Fla. Licenses
Are Required
For All Who
Work I'm State

Lines formed anew at the office
Of Tax Collector Howard Wilson
ror 1gSs tlss a the 4 Sbruary d
deadiine grows near.
BY II this morning more than
3,345 plain tags had been issued BY
the office. An expected 10000 1853
tags, plain and other varieties will
be sold by February 20, Wilson
said.
Deputy Motor Vehicle Commits
sioner Tommy Dixon stressed that
all persons who work in Florida,
or who have persons in their family
working here must have Florida
license tags. The state law requires
Continued On Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Peace Justice Albury's Statement Reveals
That Spottswood Read Rape Case testimony

Justice Of the Peace Ira Albury
today released the following state
ment in answer to one made by
Sheriff John Spotlswood. who
claimed that the reason he did not
issue Information to the press con-
corning rape charges brought
against a local man was because
''he knew nothing about il"
"Thcre was a statement publish.
ed in the Key West Citizen on Feb
ruary 2. 1858 by Sheriff John NJ.
Spottswood in which the Sheriff
used my office as an excuse for
not giving information to the press,
The ease in question was handled
BY Deputies Brodhead and Sistrunk
from the Sheriffs office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Carnival Night At
Dog Track Is Set

u won't be Just the dogs that
racing fans will be watching Wed.
nesday night at the Key West
Kennel Club when the entire
roster Of fen aspiranfs for The
title Of Carnival Queen will be
on tap for the evening to solicit
votes.
The net proceeds from fhs
track operation for the evening
will be turned over to The Charity
Carnival fund, Club president
Abe Aronovitz has announced.
In addition, . cup will be
awarded TO the winner Of the
feature race of fhe evening by
Captain A. z. Buckley, chair.
man Of the board Of governors Of
HE annual affair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Billiards Drive
Across Flooded
Area In Holland

AMSTERDAM. The Netherlands
R-New billiards driving like icy
whiplashes over the Dutch flood
lands brought further hazards and
misery today to the men repairing
Hollands shattered dikes.
The wind-whipped water, snow
and ice complicated the engineer
ing problems of the ceaseless eff
fort to mend temporarily the vast
protective network before the next
flood tides on Feb. Is. Government
engineers thought they could do the
job.
The rough weather. however,
threatened to ground Dutch. Amer.
lean and British planes flying in
vital supplies.
Despite bad weather, three Of
Hollands young princesses few
Continued On Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Parents Lag
In Correcting
Pupils Vision

Almost 5000 Key West school
pupils have had their vision screen
ed so that defects can be diagnosed
by physicians, it was announced to-
day by Superintendent of Public
Instruction Horace o'Bryant.
Pupils from the first grade
through the 18th were tested visual
ly by their home room teachers.
The tests showed that 264 of 1858
children suffered poor vision and
were not wearing glasses. Of these
264, so have since had their vision
corrected, upon recommendation to
parents that the children be taken
for complete eye examinations.
This leaves TIA of the children
with poor vision untreated. These
students squint and find reading
difficult in the classroom, and yet
have not been taken for complete
eye examination. Their parents
have been fully appraised of the
results of the vision screening test,
called the Snellen, yet they pro-
crastinate or refuse outright to
help their children attain better
vision and thus better understand
ing of classroom material.
At Key West High School where
1854 students were given the Smell
len Vision screening test, Ils were
found to have poor vision without
glasses. Since the results were
given to their parents, only eight
have been taken 10 eye men for
correction. At Harris School where
SIG were tested. 50were foglnd with
faulty vision, and only Is have
been corrected. At Poinciana
school, GOT pupils were tested; IL
were found have defective vision,
and only 16 have been corrected.
At Truman SIG children were test
ed, 81 had poor vision; 20 have
been corrected.
The Sue Moore School in Mara.
thon also conducted the test among
135 pupils. Of these "A were found
to have poor vision without glass
es, Of which only two have had
their sight corrected.
Results from Douglass school are
expected at the Superintendent
office this week. Vision, hearing
and achievement tests take place
under the direction Of Leland S.
March, General Supervisor of In
struction.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09

County Jail, Brodhead notified me
and l set a date for the hearing.
AT the hearing, Brodhead and
Sistrunk brought the man from the
County Jail to my office for the
hearing. At the hearing the case
was dismissed and the court order
for his release was delivered to
the deputies.
The signatures on the returned
warrant filed in my records show
that Deputies Sistrunk and Brod-
head served the warrant.
II called Sheriff Spottswood by
phone TO come to my office where
he was shown and read the state
ment that the women had written
and the clothing that she wore at
the time and the man was not ar
rested until that night"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09

Deputy Brodhead had received
information at the Police Station
and had questioned the woman and
she made q statement to him. The
next day, the Sheriff's office called
my by phone and said that they
were sending the woman to sign
an affidavit and to call them when
the warrant was ready"
That same day she came to my
office and signed the affidavit after
she wrote in her own handwriting,
under oath. the facts in the case.
Il issued the warrant. which was
turned over to Brodhead who made
the investigation al the trailer
court.
The man was not arrested I'M
til the following night by Brodhead.
After the man was placed in the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
John Curry Joins
u. S. Marine Corps

John Kenneth Curry, son of Mr..
and Mrs. c. p. Curry, ST., of 321
Peacon Lane, left on the 1890 a.
m. bus today for Miami en- route
to Paris Island, S. c., where he
win be indicted into the U. S.
Marine Corps.
John is the second son of the
Currys to enlist in the Marines.
Their older son. Percy, entered the
service on February 10, 1852. al
most one year ahead of his brother.
He is at present serving with the
Fifth Marines in Korea.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09

: The Key West tests will com.
plete q vast research and dsve.
lcpment project that has prohed
the area from Naples through
the off-shore Everglades, through
Florida Bay, and now south Of
Key West.
Wiley has headed up the work
since the crew came to Florida
last July. In the quarters boat w.
B. Lee, now anchored at the foot
of Elizabeth Street and Simonton,
Wiley keeps in touch with the fleet
Of boats by ship 10 shore radio.
This Is definitely not drilling
for OIL" Wiley stressed. "if we
find any formations, Gulf comes
in later and drills"
Wiley and his crew expect TO
work out Of Key West from two
to four months. Today. three Of the
six boats are coming into port be.
cause of high winds. Thursday,
Wiley and the men viii take off
for six days, as part Of the regular
schedule, work eight days, off six.
Most of us have our homes In
New Orleans" he said. I'VE ar.
range car pools and drive up
home taking a hours, spend four
days about with eur families, and
then return to Key West"
The w. B. Lee quarters boat
can sleep the entire crew OF testers.
Most Of the time while working.
however, the men sleep on the
vessels which do the seismograph
tests.
Gulf Oil owns one sub chaser.
liz feet, and one IS foot sea res.
cue boat. The other four boats are
chartered by the company.
Up in the Everglades, the men
tried bringing their families down
from New Orleans.
Rents were so high at Ever.
glades City, 500 q month for one
room, that they gave II up. Now
they make the trip home every
eight days" Wiley said.
Wiley, an ardent fisherman.
spent his off hours while anchored
in Shark River. Everglades, fish.
ing for tarpon.
I'VE only caught little ones.
though. Here's what We catch in
Louisiana" he pointed TO . pic
ture Of bis 100 pound daughter
Elizabeth with her prize winning
liz and one half pound tarpon.
II seems that the big tarpon
leave Key West and the Everglades
In August and September and 20
up 10 The mouth Of the Mississippi.
The technical mysteries Of The
seismogrsph tests we're explained
TO me BY Wiley.
u seems thsf NE eli crews ssi
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Stricken Seaman
Brought To Port

Herbert E. Larson, seaman, was
transferred at sea by the Coast
Guard Saturday md rushed TO the
Naval hospital here with expected
appendicitis, il was reported this
morning.
Larson was on the freighter r.
r. Connolly. The Coast Guard 20
footer picked him up at the Key
West Sea Buoy. Larson's home is
in Wilmington, Mass.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Florida May Have
Criminal Bureau

The Florida State Police Chiefs
Association viii sponsor legislation
in Tallahassee for the establish
ment of a Criminal Identification
Bureau similar to one maintained
by the FIJI in Washington, Police
Chief Joseph Kemp said today.
Kemp returned Sunday from a
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09
Gul t Oil Testers Arrive
For Seismograph Work
In Waters Off Key West
Fleet Of Sir Vessels Operate
Under Direction Of Ben WiIey.
Veteran Of Is Years Testing
BY SUSAN MeAyoY

crew of 81 Gulf Oil testers with fleet of six ves-
sells have moved into Key West from the Everglades to
test the waters for oil from here to the Maquesas 40
miles north OF there and east through Boca Chiea
Headed by Ben Wiley, geophysicist, who is the seis-
mograph party manager the men are testing from six
boats in the Florida Bay
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-02-09

Key West. Florida. hos the
most equuble climote In the
country. with ON average
rmgs Of only IA Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1953-03-24
|ChristChurch
Auxiliary
ToSeI| Gifts

Colonial costumes will dom
mate the scene Friday when
members of st. Hilda's chapter
Of the woman's auxiliary of his
toric Christ Episcopal Church in
Alexandria opens a gift shop
at the church to raise money
for church-connected causes.
The women will wear the cos
tunes which were in vogue dur
ing the lifetime of the church's
most famous member, George
Washington.
The shop will be open from
10 to 5 every day except Sunday
during the spring and summer
tourist season, with members of
the guild serving halliday
shifts.
Items for sale will include
china plates showing a view of
the church, postcards with views
OF Virginia landmarks, ash trays,
ornamental tiles, the Williams
burg colorlng book for children,
|>informational folders, and "a
Cook Book from Christ Church, 4"
which was compiled by the
.woman'S auxiliary several years
ago.
Later. sprays of ivy from
Mount Vernon, Christ Churcn
and other Virginia historical
shrineS will be available in small
flower pots, as will kodachrome
cards of the church.
Mrs. j. ChiSman Hanes, chair
man of st. Hilda's Chapter, has
appointed Mrs. Frank E. Mann
chairman of the shop.
Assistants include Mrs. John
T. Beuchert, Mrs. Patrick Beville,
Mrs. Milton S. Briggs, Mrs. w.
Peyton Campbell, Mrs. Henry
Crommelin, Mrs. Lawrence L.
Doty and Mrs. Robert Vernon
Harris Duncan.
Others are Mrs. Welly K.
Hopkins, Mrs. William Moor
kabler, Mrs. William Kinnard,
Mrs. Braxton Bragg Conner Lille,
Mrs. j. Hamilton Mason, Mrs.
Carroll H. May, jr., Mrs. A. w.
Morrill,, Miss Nancy Nicol and
Mrs. Frank Niepold.
Still other assistants are Mrs.
Robie Palmer, Mrs. S. Douglas
Shackleford, Mrs. William D.
Sisson, Mrs. Lawrence Sorensen,
Mrs. Fred E. Taylor, Mrs. James
B. Vredenburgh, Mrs. George L.
White and Mrs. Roland B. Whit
ley.
Evening star., 1953-03-24
Added Attraction
For House Tour

An added attraction to the
already pleasantly arranged
Georgetown House Tour will be
place mats with charming scenes
of Georgetown done by Iris Beatty
johnson, illustrator of children's
books. The mats will be sold "a
to a package with 6 mats of each
color. for ST..
They will be on sale both
days of the tour, Friday and Sat-
urday, in the Parish Hall of the
church where tea also will be
served. Mrs. Richard N. WINS is
in charge of tea arrangements
and assisting her are Mrs. Ivar
Peterson, Mrs. Mills Dean. Mrs.
Foster Johnson and Mrs. Whit
ney Young.
Tour hours are from 2 until 6
o'clock each day and proceeds go
to st. Johns Episcopal Church,
Georgetown Parish.