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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Chamber Mails Out Its New
Tourist Folders On Key West
Purpose Is To
Lengthen Current
Tourist Season

The new Key West folder has
been received, by the Chamber of
Commerce, according to the mon
thly bulletin, Trends, and a big
supply has already been mailed
out in packages to hotels, mOtelS,
service stations and tourist infor-
nation centers in the Miami area
and northward, in an effort to
lengthen the current tourist season.
The new folder features unusual
ly attractive photographs of the Is
land, the colors suggesting the
beautiful aquas and green's that
predominant in the water surround
ing the Keys.
A picture of a sailboat anchored
in Garrison Blight, is on the front
cover and an excellent study of
old Key West Light is on the back
cover.
The inside pictures feature re-
creation facilities end points of in
terest. The folder also contains a
good size map of the Island with
key to the various places and
historic landmarks of interest to
visitors.
Copies are available at the
Chamber Office.
Easter Parade
Retail Divisions Children'S Eas-
ter Parade has been scheduled for
Easter Sunday afternoon. A num-
Der of prizes have already been
made available, but more will be
accepted.
Firms making prizes available
will automatically be distribution
points for entry blanks.
Chairman of the Easter Parade
is Rae Carmichael, and anyone in
terested in participating in this
project should contact her at Three
Sisters.
Membership Drive
The Chambers membership
drive on February Is, resulted in
adding nearly 100 new members to
the Chamber roster.
The team of workers headed by
Bob Dopp won the competition
with a score of 1888 points while
Joe Finders team brought in to-
tai of 967.
Scoring was based on S points
for each new member and / point
for each dollar cash in member
ship dues collected.
February Analysis
The monthly business analysis
for February shows an increase in
building permits, post office re-
ceipts, XVIII electricity used and
an increase of more than four thou
sand southbound passenger cars on
the Overseas highway. Visitors to
the Chamber of Commerce office
nearly doubled last years total.
The Chamber sent out better than
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Coast Guard Goes
To Aid Of Seaman,

An 83-foot Coast Guard
vessel Vsas enroute this aft
ernoon to take an i'll or in
jured seaman off a tanker.
The tanker. IS Lucille
Bloomfield. reported TO the
Coast Guard here that a man
needing medical attention
was aboard. The s3.footer
is meeting the tanker off the
sea buoy.
Meanwhile. another Coast
Guard vessel. the Ariadne,
was towing a disabled
shrimper into port. The
Ariadne took the Viking in
tow about 200 miles south
west of Fl. Myers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Eseapee From
Big Pine Camp
Gets ) Years

Edgar Glass, q, an escapee
from Big Pine prison camp, to-
day was sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary by Criminal
Court Judge Thomas S. Caro-.
A six-man jury found Glass gull
ty of breaking and entering and
grand larceny.
Glass attempted to escape from
the county jail here Nov. II.
At today's trial he was charged
with burglarizing Ernest Poucher's
grocery store at ISlamorada Sept,
"a. He was doing II years at Big
Pine when he escaped Sept. %.
He was arrested in Homestead
Sept. q. Glass testified today that
he confessed the ISlamorada burg
larry under threats by Homestead
police.
Jack Walden, State Highway
Patrolman, testified that a suit Of
clothes bearing Poucher's name
was found in the room Glass was
occupying in Homestead.
Glass stole a cash register from
the store, broke it open nearby
and took about 500 from it.
He could have opened the cleo
trio cash register in the store by
pushing one OF the keys, police
said.
On the Glass jury were A. l.
Sawyer, John Rivas, Neil C. Shea
Hector D. Pita, Charles ]. Papy
Jr., and Mario Hernandez.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Group Goes To Tallahassee To
Seek Approval OF Air Service
Three Commissioners
And Rep. Papy Set
Conference Today

State permission for new
Key West air service today
was being sought by county
officials.
Three county commission
ers and Bernie C. Papy,
state representative, were
meeting in Tallahassee this
afternoon with the Internal
Improvement Commission.
The group wants an okay for
Peninsular Airlines to begin sche-
duled service between here and
Miami.
Commission Action
Last week county commissioners
and Papy called on Acting Gov.
Charley Johns for the same pur-
pose. Johns was reported as fav-
orable to the request but told them
the improvement commission
would have to act on the matter.
Johns is a member of that COM
mission.
In Tallahassee today, besides
Papy, were County Commissioners
Joe Allen, Frank Bentley and Har-
ry Harris.
The group drove 10 Miami and
then flew to the capital.
New Service
The county commissioners have
been working for new air service
since Jan. l when National Airlines
dropped three Key West flights,
leaving one daily roundtrip be-
tween here and Miami.
NAL cut its schedules when a
new rate structure went into e.
feet at Meacham Field.
The Civil Aeronautics Board In
Washington has the matter under
Amusement and may call a pub
lie hearing to determine if the
NAL service here is adequate.
The county formally complained
to the CAB, saying NAL unlaw-
fully changed its schedules.
NAL denied the charge.
The CAB suggested that NAL
and the county get together TO
work out solution.
NAL asked the county commits
sioners to come TO Miami for a
meeting. The commissioners de-
clined and offered to meet in Key
West with NAL representatives an
time NAL selects.
NAL replied that this is the
lines peak season and key per-
sonnet cannot be pulled away from
their jobs to make the trip here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Two Chamber
Groups Slated To
Meet Thursday

Two Chamber OF Commerce
meetings are scheduled for tomor-
row, it was announced today.
The merchants division will
meet ait the La Concha Hotel at
10 a. m. to discuss problems con-
fronting retailers.
At 1915 p. m, the chambers
board will meet for lunch at the
YMCA. Mrs. Mary Lee Graham,
prexy, will preside.
These subjects are scheduled for
discussion:
Possible protest Of the Ever
glades National Parks desire to
acquire 400, 900 acres of Dade and
Monroe County land.
Garrison Blight development.
Entertainment of 125 members
of the Carolina Aero Club next
month.
Committee assignments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
ROBERTS CONTRIBUTES
TO OLDHAM CAMPAIGN

Paul w. Roberts, city commits
sioners, contributed sos to Brai-
ley Odham's campaign fund, the
Associated Press reported from
Tallahassee.
Oldham reported that he received
a total of S4,771 in contributions
last week. Leroy Collins reported
5000 and Charley Johns, 81, ITO.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
City Police Cars
To Have New Look

City Police cars will have new
look soon.
The city commission instructed
city Manager Victor Lang to have
them painted a flashy two-tone in
contrast to their present solid
black color.
City Commissioner Louis Car
bonell proposed the change. He
said that the move was recommen-
ded by the FBI.
Choice of the color was left up to
the city manager.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Screaming vietminh Troops Near
French Held Fort In Indoehina
Communicated
Rebels Stage
Savage attack
By.LARRY ALLEN

HANOI, INDOCHINA R-Scream
Ing Vietminh shock troops surgeG
today to within half a mile of the
heart of the Diem BiensPhu for
tress, then faltered and fell back,
taking their dead and wounded
with them.
Masses of the Communicated
rebels staged the attack from the
ercircling hills in driving rain,
firing rifles, pistols and machine
guns and throwing grenades and
spears. French-manned American
guns tore wide gaps in their ranks.
A French army spokesman said
thousands of the rebels were cut
down.
Unofficial estimates of the Wet
mimi dead and wounded in the
four days of battle for the wire
ringed plain, in a strategic sector
of northwest Indochina, rose to be-
tween 5000 and 5000.
Broken, bullet-riddled bodies of
rebel dead dangled like scare
crows on the barbed wire as the
outnumbered French Union forces
fought desperately to keep the
plain out If rebel hands.
1t was the most savage battle
of the seven-year Indochina war.
Early today the outcome-certain
tC have a major effect on the
Geneva conference next month
was still in doubt.
Furious Fighting
The fighting which began Sat-
urday afternoon ragged furiously
through last night as thousands
wildly screaming Communicated
rebels, backed by artillery from
Communist China, charged repeat
eddy into the bristling, American
armed defenses of the fortress
plain.
The .'do,or-die" fznati rebel
charges over the mounting bodies
of their own dead resembled the
Communist onslaughts on United
Nations troops in the Korean War.
For the first time in the long 1ndo-
china war, the Vietminh aband-
oned their guerrilla tactics for an
about frontal assault.
In the first IS hours of fighting,
the Vietminh wrested two northern
and northeastern Strongpaints
from the French Union defenders.
But the French high command
said the center of the .Vietminh-
encircled plain was atill intact
and the balance of the outer per-
imeter also was still holding.
French Admit Losses
They predicted the defenders
would hold until the rebels had
worn themselves out. The French
said they had killed $500 attack
ing Vietminh and wounded as
many more. They admitted cap
preciable" losses out of their own
garrison of French, Moroccans,
Vietnamese, Algerians, German
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
City May Get
Diving Tourney

The National Underwater Spear
Fishing Tournament may be held
in Key West next August.
A representative of the national
organization appeared before the
city commission last night to ask
that they play host to the tourney.
He said that it would probably cost
the city nothing and pointed out
that the area would receive ma
tional publicity.
The commission agreed to spon-
sor the tourney.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16

IN department organization.
The commissioners first
acted on a motion by DR..
Delio Cobo that the ordin-
ance establishing the post of
Assistant Chief be adopted
on first reading.
Only discussion of the
measure came when the
question arose as to the rate
of pay to be given to the
appointee. City Manager
Victor Lang suggested that
the pay be set the same
as the assistant chief in the
fire department who receive
es 1910 per month.
The commissioners agreed to in
sert the amount of salary in the
ordinance before it comes up for
second reading.
carboneil Dissents
Commissioner Louis Carbonell
cast the only dissenting vote on the
ordinance. Commissioner Jack De-
laney was absent from the meet
ing.
Commission Cobo then moved
adoption of the bill which abolish
ed the post of police captain. The
ordinance was passed without dis
cussion. The post is vacant at the
present time. The Civil Service
Board twice refused to recommend
promotions to the post.
But then, Commissioner Car
bonell asked for the floor to caSti-
gate the lack of enforcement by
police of recently passed ordin-
ance prohibiting parking on the
northeast side of Duval Street be-
tween the hours of 4 to 6 p. m.
Carbonell fought bitterly against
the ordinance after it was recon.
mended by the traffic safety COM
mittee.
Lack Of enforcement
"When the ordinance was pass
ed l made the statement that I
would insist on it being enforced.
I'm saying now that it never has
been enforced - there have been
some fragrant violations" Car
bonell declared.
Mayor c. B. Harvey agreed with
Carbonell. 81 agree with you," he
told Carbonell, ''the police chief
should be told to enforce the or
dinance."
Commissioner Cobo commented
that 81 think the situation is get
ting worse. The police department
needs another man who will stay
on the Duval Street beat longer
hours. The man there now also
takes care of the parking meters.
He quits too early"
Vigilance Needed
City Manager Victor Lang ad-
mitted that it is a ''bad time Of
day for the police department but
there is no reason for not making
drive every few days."
Lang was then instructed to see
why the ordinance is not being en-
forced.
Then the discussion turned to q
set of recommendations for reor-
ganizing the police department is-
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
DELINQUENT SEWER
LIST is CONFIRMED

A resolution confirming the de-
linquent sewer account list was
approved last night by the city
commission.
According to law, the unpaid
sewer accounts amount to an auto
matte lien against the property in
question. Only liens to have priori-
ty over them are state and county
taxes.
The action was taken under the
terms of the sewer bond ordinance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
CITY FUNDS TO
BE INVESTED

City Finance Director Craig Bow
en- received permission from the
city commission last night to pur-
chase ten thousand dollars worth
of U. S. Treasury Bonds.
The commission moved unani-
mously to allow him to make the
purchase out of pension fund re-
serve.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-03-16
Police Captains Job Established;
Post OF Assistant Chief Established
City Commission Asks Police Chief
For Report On Dual St. Parking

The city commission last night passed ordinances
aboishing the job of Captain of Police and establishing
the post of Assistant Chief.
And then the city fathers directed sharp crti-
cism at the department for failing to enforce Duval
Street parking ordinance and dsregardng instructions
from City Manager Victor Lang make certain changes
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Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
Archie Moore
Signs Up For
Aug. II Bout

New York, July 12-Light heavy
weight champion Archie Moore
signed up last week to defend his
championship August 18th against
Harold Johnson of Philadelphia.
This bout will be held at Madison
Square Garden.
The two men originally were
scheduled to meet July ID at Cow
Palace in San Francisco, but too
much weight (189 ia in his last
bout) caused Moore to have the
battle postponed. The lightheavy
limit is ITS pounds.
The bout will be televised ma
tionally, but the New York area
will be BACKED out. The CHS net
work will carry the battle.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
New Athletic
Director AT Miss.
Vocational
College

Ulysses "Jodie" McPhersan has
been named Athletic Director, Head
Department of Health, Physical
Education and Recreation, and
Head Football Coach at Mississippi
Vocational College, President J. H.
White announced today. He will
begin his duties in August.
McPhersan, a native of Louis
vile, Kentucky, received his un-
dergraduate degree from Tonnes
see A and | State College and is
studying for the M. PED degree
at Indiana University.
While at Tennessee State he re-
ceived the honor of being chosen
all MWAA center for 1916 and
1947. In 1852 he played with
the Fl. Knox Service Team.
Coach McPhersan comes to Mis-
sissippi Vocational College from
Morristown College where he Goa
ched four years. He had record
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
State New Test
AT FaiirvieW

Humble Oil & Refining Co. has
scheduled a new Wilcox effort at
East Fairview Field, Adams Coun-
ty, Mississippi.
Located as northeast offset to
discovery we'll is the company's
No. D-7 N. H. Breaux ct al, 500
feet from west line, $50 feet from
north line Section 9-4S-4W. Pro-
posed depth of 1900 feet is suffi-
cient to test all productive Wilcox
sands in the field.
Although seven sands indicated
commercial possibilities in discov-
cry we'll of the field-one with 20
feet net pay only one of three
additional tests in the field has
resulted in completion and it as a
marginal oiler at southeast offset.
Humble's No. d. Breaux, Sec
ton 1O-4N-4W, opened East Fair
view with completion from Arm
strong sand through perforations
671O-20 feet flowing at the rate
of Z66 barrels of 46.1-gravity oil
per day through 1/4-inch choke.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
<R1R1S (z42I3l

of 3 wins, z losses and Z ties. His
"Red Knights" were conference
Champions in 1863. He coached
such outstanding athletes as Isaac
Barnes, Harold Franklin and An
thony Echuls. McPhersan is mar
ried to the former Mamie B Good
rum of New Port, Tennessee. They
have two children.
The Delta Devils" playing their
first year Of athletic competition in
1853 won second place in the SCAC
conference. The Devils will begin
practice on August 16 and have a
schedule as follows:
September 18-Alcorn College
Greenwood, Mississippi-S:O0 P. M.
September Is - Miles College
Birmingham, Alabama-2:00 P. M.
October l - Jackson College
Jackson, Mississippi-7:30 P. M.
October 16-Tougaloo College
Greenwood, Mississippi-S:O0 P. M.
October 23-Open.
October 30-Rust College Home
Coming) - Greenwood, Mississippi
$50 P. M.
November 6 - Philander Smith
College-Greenwood, Mississippi
500 P. NJ.
November Is - Lane College
Jackson, Tennessee-2:00 P. NJ.
November 20 - Miss. Industrial
College - Holly Springs, Miss
200 p. NJ.
November 26-Open.
President White has left nothing
undone to assemble the finest tai
ent available for Mississippi Voca-
tional College. McPhersan will be
assisted by George Walker, Knox
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
Confirmation
At SWeetWater
Is Completed

Flowing at the rate of 264 bar
rels oil per day through 1/4-inch
choke with tubing pressure 800
pounds, Sinclair Oil & Gas Co.
completed No. l Moak-Lawrence
Unit, C NE Sc Section 23-5N-SE,
as confirmation we'll to Lower
Tuscaloosa production at Sweet
water Field, Lincoln County, Mis-
sissippi.
Production is through casing
perforations 10,76a-74h feet.
Oil sand was logged in the Lower
Tuscaloosa zone at 10,764-72 feet,
elevation Ala feet, derrick floor.
Hole was bottomed at 1880 feet
and cased to 10,S4O feet with T.
inch pipe.
New producer spots as north
offset to A. o. Phillips No. 1 Roll
Inns, discovery we'll of the field.
On early drill-stem test of per-
forations, the we'll flowed at the
rate of PAP barrels oil per day
through 1O/64-inch choke with tub
ing pressure 874 pounds.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
More Attention
Given Shallow
Pay In Ky.

Bonnieville-Kentucky's shallow
production is receiving more at
tention as result of expanding
oil and gas output of zones at ap-
proximately one thousand feet.
In the Bonneville area, Mud
Branch Oil & Gas Co. is moving
in tanks on the No. Clyde Butler
which is to be completed as an ex-
tension to the Mud Branch field.
South of this well, Caldwell &
Yost have spudded and set surface
casing at No. Choate.
Gas development in the area east
of Bonneville has been enhanced
by the completion of the Arnold
Rubel No. l Logsdon at a depth of
approximately 985 feet. Gas was
encountered in both the Blue and
Corniferous sands. Three miles
northeast of Bonneville, mean
time, Yost & Caldwell are in the
process of completing the No. 2
G. T. Cottrell extending gas pay
in this area.
Deeper zones in the area are
also being explored. Mud Branch's
No. Earnest Bryant is now drill
ing at 270O feet in the Knox for
nation and expects to reach the
St. Peters sand above 5000 feet.
Kentucky, according to the state
geological department, has pro-
duced over 300,O00,0O0 barrels OF
oil and it is estimated that over
billion barrels has been left in
the partially depleted fields. Some
40 fields are now undergoing Sec
ondary recovery through air, gas
and water injection. Many of these
secondary recovery projects have
brought production back to the
level of original output.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
Open New Pay
In Cameron

NEW ORLEANS - The Texas
Company has opened a new gas
condensate reservoir for the East
Mud Lake Field of Cameron Par
ish, La, with completion Of No.
2 Miami Corporation, Section 49,
14S-11W.
Perforated 12,s30-90 feet, the
we'll was completed flowing at the
rate of 6,O40,OO0 cubic feet of gas
plus 70 barrels 1872 gravity con-
densate per day through 1854
inch choke. Tubing pressure was
ALSO pounds.
Bottomed at 1890 feet, opera
tor set finch casing at $1,000
feet and ran 5-inch liner to 1918
feet.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
SP0 R rs
CLOSEUP
By FRITZ POLLARD

NEW YORK (GLOBAL) - AL
though pretty much absorbed in
the happenings of the present day
in sports, an old timer like myself
might be forgiven for reminiscing
now and then on the sports world
of another day, when there were
not many Negroes who were allow
ed to participate actively in any
sport.
We have talked a great deal
about how these days, Negro play
ers are accepted as players, and
fans for the most part, are not
even conscious of their color any
more. This, of course, was not al
ways so, as the following incident
will show:
In 1916 when Brown University
was going great guns and l had the
privilege of figuring in many plays
that swamped the best team in the
country, Harvard came up with an
idea they though would rout
Brown. They took a man on their
scrub team, BACKED him up, and
put him in my position at Half
Back. Through their scouts, they
knew all of the Brown plays, and
they put this fellow through the
PAGES, and trained their varsity
team with a strategy aimed at
"geeting" nre, and they didn't
swamp Brown that year. But they
did do one thing for themselves:
When they BACKED up this fellow
and trained him to be "me" he be-
came such a sensation that he made
the varsity team that year.
| guess Negroes have made their
contributions to sports in more
ways than one.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17

The little woman, to husband
departing for office: "Why don't
you buy me an old secondhand car
something you could drive to
work ?"
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
Warren Youth Is
Accident Victim

Vicksburg, Miss, July 12.-
(SpeciaD-James Cole, 8-year-old
Negro boy, was killed Sunday af-
ternoon near his home on old high
way 81 about 10 miles north Of
Vicksburg, when struck by pass
ing automobile.
According to Robert Gee, 81
year-old white male driver of the
SO Plymouth, young Cole stepped
into the path of the car and it
was impossible to avoid him.
Gee is being held pending fur
Their investigation of the accident
according to State Highway Safety
Patrolman R. w. Hollingsworth,
who assisted Warren county sher-
ifs deputy Clyde Smith in the
investigation.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
Operators Abandon
Wilkinson Wildcat

Four and one-haf miles south
east of Fl. Adams, Wilkinson
County, Miss, Jet Drilling Co.,
Virgil w. Michael and Carlos A.
Greer have abandoned No. l Nor
gan Stricken, Section 10-1N-3W.
Hole was drilled to 1915 feet
with electric log indicating bot
tom at 1921 feet. A total Of 81 side
wall samples between 5677 and
88O6 feet recovered no shows.
With elevation 1877 feet, derrick
floor, top of Sparta was logged at
5617, Wilcox 1864, $4,000" Sand
69O7, Base Big Shale 7947, and
Base Baker Shale 8434 feet.
Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1954-07-17
Overheard

Man to blonde, at a California
bar: Pardon me, but am writing
telephone book and I'd like to
include your number"