The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-12-28
MIAMI MAYOR
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/ am, my heart is always on Rocky
Road between varela and White. y
Judge Ted Seimple: Had L
known 1 was going to be called on
TO speak, / would not have come
here. Irving Cobb the great Leo
tureF once said that to make a good
extempeTaneous speech takes about
IS hours Of intense preparation. !
! am proud to be here 10 welcome
Mayor abe ArOnovftz. ! have talk
ed to him more today than have
in the past Is years. And his being
honored by the mayorship Of one
of the greatet towns in the nations,
makes all Of US ex-Key West
eonchs proud. When Abe finishes
bis job he win have accomplished
as much as any other mayor in
Miami's history.
my dad was raised in New
York. He married q Key West girl
and lived here for IS years. He
ran for Office many times, and he
always accumulated the greatest
number Of no votes / ever saw.
The first solid gold service ever
made in the United States was
made for a Key Wester (Wm.
Curry. MY dad used to play cards
during the lunch hour at Peter
Williams store. Dan Navarro's
dad, one Of the Gatos, and also q
future Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court Of Florida also play
ed there.
While they were playing one
day, one of the card players look
led up and said Pete, there's a
customer in the store Answer
ed Pete:
Keep Quiet. Hell go away in a
while"
Bob Owens, former city CON-
missioner of Miami, and who will
be a candidate for a circuit Judge
ship: "Many people have express
ed surprise in Aronovitz's victory.
Key West ancestry gives US an ad-
vantage. Because Key West is iso-
lated and one mile square we can't
conceal our weaknesses. We got
here a peculiar kind of training.
You had to get along with people.
You had to have sportsmanship,
and be trustworthy. The Key West
of 20 years ago I'd like to come
back to. Don't make Key West too
big q town"
Mitchell Wolfson, multi.million.
aire television theatre owner, and
former Mayor of Miami Beach:
''None of US left Key West seeking
happiness. We went because either
we had to make q living or our
family took US away. / grew up
with Abe as a boy, but since leav-
ing Key West / have read about
him more In the papers than I
have been able to see him Mayor
Aronovitz, already given years
of loyal, public servie out of office.
II think he win do an outstanding
job for the great city of Miami.
He sought the job net for remuner>
alton but because he wanted an
opportunity to do something for
the people Of South Florida.
DR.. Jose Renedo, consul for MIC
aragua: ''It's little known that in
1886 at the San Carlos the consti-
tuition of Cuba was signed before
iCuba's independence"
Paul Marks, attorney and mem
Der of the Orange Bowl committee:
None of US who left Key West be.
came preachers, but also none of
US became criminals. We were
middle Of the readers. In Key West
we enjoyed, a spirit of tolerance.
In Key West there was no artifici.
atty, we had the spirit of being
born on an island. We had a sort
of constitutional honesty and the
CUTS to say what you think and
courage to carry it out"
Captain Murphy: "I'm a new
conch, not an old eonch. I come
here in 1896, and / love Key West.
Key West means great deal to
me. Speaking for the Navy, we
have to do a great many 'disa-
greeable' things. But bear with US.
as the Navy loves Key West"
Judge Seimple earlier told a
story of old, old Key West that
may or may not be true but is still
interesting. 1t seems that a motor
lous Stock Island bootlegger was
finally caught and given a trial in
Key West. The prosecuting attor-
ney had what he thought was a
closed case. He presented wit.
nesses and threw the book at this
boouegger. The defense never
questioned q statement, offered no