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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Community
Chest Group
Meeting Set
Important Reports,
Recommendations :
To Be Considered I,


The annual meeting of the Com
munity Chest of Key West, Inc.
win be at 8 pm. Thursday, July
/, at the County Court House,
according to action by the Chest
Board of Directors in session Mon
day night.
Reports of two important COM
mittees will be made at that meet
ing. william r. Neblett and ]. J..
Trevor will provide suggested
changes in the charter and bylaws
and the nominating committee
viii bring in a slate Of prospective
members of the Board in addition
to a slate of officers for 1954-55.
Cash Balance Told
Treasurer Trevor reported that
as of June Is there was a cash
balance on hand of SIS, 40s.47 and
a total pledge outstanding in the
amount of $1,642.65. All member
agencies which have met the re-
quirements of the Budgets and
Admissions Committee have re-
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Sewer Project
Nears Completion

The Key West sewer project
should be completed within four
to six weeks.
That welcome bit of information
was released today by Jack Coop
er, of Clifford and Cooper Associ-
ates, the city's consulting engi-
neers for the project.
Cooper said that only six more
main sewer lines must be INSTALL
ed before the project is pronounc-
ed complete. Those lines are
slated to be installed on Emma,
Caroline, Grinnen, Eaton, Mar
garet and Elizabeth Streets. In
addition, considerable cleanup
work must be done and final
touches added to the lift sta
tons, Cooper said.
The federal government has
maintained close inspection over
the progress and before it is fin
ally accepted, will make a detail
ed check of the project. They
supplied funds for the project.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Lot At DuvaI And
Fleming Brings
100000 In Sale

The l4-bY-l00 lot on the
northeast corner Of Duval and
Fleming Streets today was
sold for 100000.
The buyer was Mrs. Doris
L. Frank. Of Scarsdale. N. Y.
the daughter of a Mr.. Lane.
who Is an executive of the
Lernsr chain Of dress shops.
The sellers were Manuel
Qusvsdo Y Jauresuixar. presi-
dent Of Asrovias Q. and his
wife. and Angel Aixala Y
Roig. treasurer of the air.
line. and his wife. all Of Ha-
vana.
Julius r. Stone. Jr.. acted
as attorney for both sides
during the local negotiations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Woman Condition
Is Satisfactory"

The condition OF Mrs. Mavereea
E. Meador, who was injured in an
automobile accident Sunday, was
listed today as satisfactory" by
her physician.
However, he said that in addi-
ton to multiple injuries announced
earlier, Mrs. Meador is also suf-
fering from a fractured back. Her
other injuries include a fractured
skull and collarbone, and severe
cuts about the head. face and
shoulders.
Mrs. Meador is sixth grade
teacher at the Harris School. She
was injured when the car in which
she was riding, was struck by
boat trailer which had broken loose
from the car that was towing it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Stern Treatment
Set For County
Traffic ViOIatOrs

Traffic vieIafors in fhs county
ean look for doubled bonds and
sitter penalties.
Criminal Court Judge Thorn.
Is S. Caro- today said he had
told highway psireImsn and
deputy shsriffs TO double the
bonds.
He said hs was going to crack
down on traffic violstors IN
an effort TO cut down The mum.
Der Of accidents. especially on
U. S. !.
Eleven persons have met
death on the highways In Mon.
roe County since January !,
The shsriff's office reported.
In Criminal Court today,
Judge Caro- heard six guilty.
pleas.
Following are HE names,
charges and sentences:
Jack Allen, drunk, $2s or 30
days. ,- -a..s
Manuel Roger, Jr.. reckless
driving, SIS or IS days.
Rufus Bailey, illegal parking,
SIS bond forfeited.
{. n. Sims, following TOO
close, SIS bond forfeited.
IA. c. Wade, speeding, $50 or
50 days.
Paul Durham. reckless dFiv-
ing, 20 days and license 70.
voked.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Hoover To Give
Address Tonight

CHICAGO R-Former President
Herbert Hoover viii be principal
speaker tonight at the annual Mer-
chandise Mart hall Of fame dinner.
Before the dinner, Hoover win
observe ceremonies in which four
bronze busts viii be unveiled in
the Merchandise Mart Plaza over
looking the Chicago River.
The four busts represent the four
merchants who were elected to the
mart's hall of fame last year. They
were Marshall Field I, founder of
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago;
F. W. Woolworth and John Wanna
maker, New York merchants; and
George H. Hartford, first president
of the Great Atlantic & Pacific
food stores.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24

1.-THE biggest challenge to
safety workers is the creation
of a universal state of mind
that will automatically rule
out the needless and needless
accident" says Percy Bugbee,
president of the National Fire
Protection Association.
The truth of that statement
lies in the age-old axiom that
most accidents are the result
OF carelessness.
Key Vests fourth accident
injury for the month of June
is a good illustration. In that
mishap, a 21s-year-old girl
was hurt when a car backed
out of a driveway. Happily,
her injuries were superficial.
II could have been a tragic
accident.
Normally, the driver Of the
car that struck the little girl
is probably a very careful
driver. But, that one lapse
could have been fatal. Ac-
cidents happen fast and we
must be alert to avoid them.
Let's create a universal state
of mind-focused on safe driv-
ing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
City Manager
Talks ToCounty
Grand Jury Today

Victor Lang, city manager, TO-
day appeared before the grand
jury at the invitation of ]. Lance
lot Lester, states attorney.
Lester did not reveal why Lang
appeared before the body.
Meanwhile, the grand jury still
was studying what to do about a
large crack that has developed in
the two-year-old county Jail.
A member of the jury said that
the concrete was falling away
from an area along a conduit. He
said the concrete was deteriorating
because the conduit was ruSting.
He added that the building speci-
fications called for the conduit to
be coated with a flexible SUBJ
stance before it was installed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
City Commission Fails To
Reach Quorum For End Time
Only Two City
Commissioners
Show Up Wed.

For the second time this week
a city commission meeting had
to be recessed for lack of a quor-
UNI.
Only two commissioners, Louis
Carbonell and Jack Delaney, put
in an appearance for last nights
session. The meeting had been re-
cesSed from Monday night when
the same commissioners were the
only two who appeared in the
city hall for the session.
Out Of Town
All of the missing commissioners
are repeatedly out of the city. DR..
Delio Cobo is on a one-month va
cation in California and Mayor C..
B. Harvey has repeatedly been in
New York and Miami. The where.
abouts of commissioner Paul r.
Roberts is unknown.
None of the commissioners mott
fled City Clerk Victor Lowe they
would not be at last nights meet
ing. After a Commute wait, he re-
cessed the meeting until next Mon.
day night.
The commissioners were to have
considered several items of bust
ness including a resolution approx.
ing a $191, 416 expansion program
of the City Electric System.
Chamber Petition
A representative of the Chamber
of Commerce was also on hand
to request that the commission ap-
point citizens committee to in
vestigate the three companies seek
ing a lease for the city-owned
Clyde Mallory docks for use as
terminal for Key West-Cuba car
ferry service.
And a resolution asking that the
federal government return the
Poinciana, Housing project to the
owners of the land with the hous-
ing units intact still awaits COM
mission action as a result of their
failure to reach a quorum.
Meanwhile, no action has been
taken on the city tax roll. And, it
appears that the commission will
be unable to meet as the Equaliza-
ton Board until City Manager
Victor Lang appoints a new tax
assessor to replace Sam Pinder,
Jr., who resigned three weeks ago.
Equalization Board
According to the City Charter,
five of the six memberS of the
Equalization Board constitute
quorum. Since commissioner Cobo
will be out of the city for a month,
it will be impossible to reach
quorum until the tax assessor. who
is also a member of the board, is
appointed.
The Civil Service Board is ex-
pected to meet soon in special
session to screen applicants for the
tax assessors post. Three persons
have applied for the job in answer
to a newspaper advertisement.
The new tax assessor will face
a mountainous task of calculating
individual tax bills, Immediately
after the tax books are accepted.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
CarboneU
Asks Probe
City Commissioner
Seeks Check OF
Shooting Incident

City Commissioner Louis
Carbonell said today that he
will ask for an investigation
into an incident in which a
police officer fired three
shots at a man fleeing ar
rest on a minor traffic
charge.
"Since when do you shoot
at a man because he has no
drivers license - you don't
try to kill a man for some
thing like that" Carbonell
said today. He added that
the shots might have killed
or injured innocent persons.
Carbonell was commenting on 4
police case which occurred early
Wednesday morning. According to
the report of Patrolman Brian X.
Lloyd, he was walking his beat
on United Street when he observed
car being operated in q reck-
less manner. He added that he
stopped the car and when he ask
ed the driver, later identified as
Thomas E. Richbourg, q Navy
man, for his drivers license. Rich
bourg had no license or registra-
ton certificate for the vehicle he
was driving.
Headed Fer Jail
Lloyd's report said that he then
arrested the man and climbed into
the car to take him to the city
Jail.
En- route to the Jail, he added,
he spotted another Navy man,
identified as Dennis Griffin, walk
ing down Windsor Lane toward
the City Cemetery. Lloyd stopped
the car and proceeded to place
Griffin under arrest.
Richbourg took advantage Of
that situation, however. and slid
behind the wheel and sped OF.
E;paa ghake
Patrolman Lloyd then fired three
shots but both Richbourg and Grit
fin escaped. The incident prompt
ed Carbonell to ask "why 1t was
necessary to fire those three
shots?" Both we're later re-arrest-
ed. Richbourg was charged with
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Proposal Made
On Nuclear
Weapon Ban
Russia Turns Down
Latest Plan For
Slaughter Control

LohDNN-sA The Western pow,
ers announced today they have
proposed an immediate ban on use
OF nuclear weapons, except in de.
Tense against aggression, and q
freeze on military manpower and
arms expenditures. The Russians
turned it down.
The new Western plan for STEP
by-step disarmament was disclosed
following the windup of 20 fruit
less meetings here Of the United
Nations subcommittee on disarma-
ment. It called for gradual prog
ress toward abolition of nuclear
weapons with effective enforce
ment safeguards on both. sides of
the Iron Curtain.
Russian Plan
The Western powers again re-
jected Russian disarmament pro-
posals which, they said, allowed
for no adequate means of enforce
ment behind the Iron Curtain. us.
delegate Morehead Patterson said:
1--WE might summarize these Soviet
proposals in six words:
" Ban the bomb, trust the Rus
sians.'"
The Western plan was advanced
by Britain and France, with the
support of the United States and
Canada. These four nations, plus
Russia, make up the subcommittee.
Points Of Proposal
These were the six points of the
new Western plan:
1. An immediate ban on the use
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Chou En-Lai
ToSee Nellru
En- Route Home

i NEVA Up - Communist
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai left
the Indochina peace conference by
plane today to visit Indian Prime
Minister Nehru in New Delhi and
then 60 on to Peiping.
Intimating he would return to
the Geneva parley, Chou in a brief
farewell statement said he was
leaving ''for the time being"
The conference, he added, is
"still in progress" and the worlds
"peace-loving peoples hope our
work will lead to the eventual es.
tablishment Of peace in Indo-
china"
Chou made no mention of his
two-hour meeting in Bern yester-
day with Frances new Premier
Foreign Minister, Pierre Mendes.
France. But both men after their
talks issued brief statements say.
ing they believed the delegates at
Geneva would make progress to-
ward an armistice as a result OF
their meeting.
Chou left Geneva in q special
Indian plane. He is due in New
Delhi tomorrow, 10 remain there
for three days.
Mendes-France returned to Paris
last night, to present his Cabinet
today to the National Assembly for
its approval. On his arrival in the
French capital, he told reporters:
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Woman Is Injured
In Keys Accident

A 22-year-old woman was injured
today when the car she was driv-
ing went out of control and turned
over several times on U. S. at
the north end of Big Pine Key.
Cpl. S.. r. Walker, Of the state
highway patrol, said Jacqueline
Angelique LeBoulange, s07 Tru-
man Avenue, q barmaid, sustain
ed a possible fracture Of the right
shoulder.
She is in Monroe General Hos
pital after being brought to Key
West by a Greyhound bus.
Walker said she was driving n
70 miles per hour or better when
she lost control OF the car on .
curve.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Children OF
Dead Woman Are
Sought In Boston

The 24-year-old Miami Beach
model who died in an auto crash
on U. S. l yesterday was reported
to have had three children in
Boston, Mass.
The sheriff's office said Miami
Beach police had relayed the re-
port here. Boston police are try
ing 10 locate the children.
The woman, Debreka Martell,
was killed when the car in which
she was riding overturned eigh.
times and rolled 500 feet along
u. S. 1 ON Cudjoe Key.
She and the four other persons
in the car all were thrown out.
The other four, two women -
two sailors, were still hospitalized
today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24

: force IN the field.
There were these develop
ments:
l. Seven persons were
reported wounded, three
gravely, when Honduran po-
lice fired on a Tegucigalpa
crowd watching a pro-Ar-
benz, an anti-U. S. demon
stration by students in the
Honduran capital last night.
Later thousands of the stu
dents and townspeople gath
cred to parade through the
city.
2. Honduras charged a Guate-
malan airplane bombed a Hondu.
ran airfield Tuesday. The Teguci-
galpa government said it is pro-
testing to the United Nations and
to the Organization of American
States. u. N. sources in New York
said last night the international or
ganization had not yet received the
protest, the third filed in connec-
ton with the fighting. Guatemala
has entered two, one of which still
is pending.
Bombing Denied
3. Guatemala promptly denied
the bombing charge. Guatemalan
Foreign Minister Guillermo Torie-
10 said in a statement mot a sim
gle Guatemalan plane has flown
toward the Honduran frontier"
4. The OAS's Inter-American
Peace Commission, meeting in
Washington, referred to Guatemala
a proposal by Honduras and Nj.
caragua that the five-nation body
make an on-the-spot investigation
of charges by the Arbenz govern
ment that the two neighboring re-
publics supported aggression"
against Guatemala. Commission
Chairman Luis Quintanilla of Mex
leo said he hoped the Guatemalan
government would accept this
generous offer promptly.
5. Nicaragua formally denied it
was guilty of any aggression. In
cable to the U. NJ, Nicaraguan
Foreign Minister Oscar Sevilla Sa.
casa said the charges were intend
ed to conceal the Communist affil-
iations of the Arbenz government.
v. S. Reassured
6. A Guatemalan broadcast said
President Arbenz has assured US.
Ambassador John Peurifoy in Qua.
temala City the safety of U. S.
citizens living in that country
would be assured. There had been
reports earlier that the embassy
was planning to airlift out the
nearly 1000 Americans there.
The progress Of the rival armies
was clouded by a welter of con-
hicting reports, many of them OBJ
vious propaganda claims. One rebel
broadcast claimed the insurgent
forces led by Col. Carlos Castillo
Armas were moving on Guatemala
City from three sides. A govern.
ment broadcast said the rebels had
been repulsed and were fleeing to-
ward Honduras.
Col. Castillo was reported to have
moved his headquarters from Es-
quipulas, six miles north of the
Honduran border, to a town near
Chiquimula. This city is south of
Zacapa, key town on the vital
railroad from Puerto Barrios and
an obvious target of the invaders.
Rains Hinder
Newsmen who visited Castillo at
Esquipulas earlier yesterday said
the rebel forces appeared begged
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
AL New Polio
Gases In Nation

WASHINGTON, R-New cases of
polio reported over the nation last
week totaled 421, 4 80 per cent
increase over those in the week
ended June IL, the Public Health
Service said today.
The total was also S per cent
greater than the 400 listed in the
comparable week last year.
Since Jan. l there have been
1854 cases, compared with 3,519
in the similar 1853 period.
California listed 90 cases last
week, Texas 80 and Florida 80.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
No Indications OF Major
Battle In Guatemala War
transportation Troubles Hinder
Movement Of CELEBRATION" army
BY SAM SuMMERLIN

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) - The Guatemal-
an war entered its seventh day today with most of the
fighting still apparently raging the propaganda air
waves and in the diplomatic There indca-
ton of a major battle shaping up anywhere.
The anti Communist Liberation army seemingly
was begged down by lack of transport just north of the
Honduran border The army of Redbacked President ia
cobo Arbenz Guzman still had not made an In
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
Quick Rescue Action
Saves Drowning Boy
Polio Strikes
3Ist Vctir,s

a 4s.ysar-old woman TO-
day was Key Vests thirty
first polio victim Of 1854.
The County Health Unit, In
reporting the ease. said she
was the oldest person ever TO
DO stricken with the disease
In this county.
The wesnan. q white civil
Ian 10 , vislfer here. She
haA q non-paralYtie form Of
8l4a dfsaasa. ~ G. ~ 49, u
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
YOun,ar,s Named
Acting Solicitor

Bob Yovmsns today was APP
pointed Acting County Solicit.
or by Judge Thomas S. Caro-
Of Criminal Court.
Judge Care ssid that Allan
B. ciears, Jr., County Selieifer,
Is III and will be unable 10 oct
for On Indefinite period.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
SeUen-Yenr-OId
Escapes Death
AtCounty Beach

Richard Recupero, seven.
year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph T. Rscupero, 1916
William Street, narrowly es.
capped drowning at Monroe
County Beach early yester-
day afternoon.
Only the prompts action
and skill on the part Of
Frank Waynick, q summer
recreation instructor, saved
the child's life.
Waynick was in the water will
q group Of older children wher
one Of them noticed that the little
boy, who was wearing q face
mask, was in difficulty.
The instructor Immediately tool
the boy from the water, removed
the mask and placed him on the
pier where he began artificial
respiration, using the new method
recommended by the American
Red Cross.
Respiration censinusd
An ambulance from Pritchard
Funeral Home was called and
when it arrived the boy and Way.
nick were placed on an ambulance
stretcher with Waynick continuing
to give respiration. They were
taken to the Naval Hospital where
the boy, still being given respira.
ton, was admitted to the emerg-
ency room.
Deputy Sheriff Serge Hernandez
who had followed the ambulance
to the beach told The Citizen,
THAT child was dead when they
got him out of the water and Mr..
Waynick brought him back to
life. ] never saw anything like the
way that man worked. II it hadn't
been for hin that boy wouldn't be
alive today"
Richard and his nine year-old
sister, Angela, students at st.
Joseph's School and the Convent,
had gone to the beach with the
Truman School group for the first
time.
Masks Net Encouraged
A school spokesman said that
today, 1--WE don't encourage par.
ents to send the younger children
to the beach and the use of face
masks is definitely discouraged.
They are all right for individual
swimmers, but we do not advise
them in group swimming.
"The children are asked not to
bring them, but occasionally, par
ents will give their permission
any way. The children who regu-
larry attend the grammar schools
are more inclined to accept au-
thority from our teachers than
youngsters who are not familiar
with them"
The near tragedy points up the
need for qualified life guards al
the public beaches. Any child OF
adult could get into the similar
difficulty and If 1t happens at q
time when qualified persons are
not Immediately available, q life
would be lost.
Life Guards Needed
Mrs. Recupero said this morn
ing that anything you can say ia
express our gratitude to Mr.,
Waynick wouldn't be enough, buI
Continued on Page Twe)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-24
McMULLEN VISITS

Maxwell McMullen, sanitation
consultant of the Florida State
Board of Health, is a visitor here,
the County Health Unit reported
today. He is here for three or four
. days on a routine visit.
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KEY VESTS
TRAFFIC BOX SCORE

Property Damage $3.50 $ss.73s
Evening star., 1954-05-23
Sweet AdeIines
Harmony Hobby
PhsiesisrY b Harsld ]. Flselnss

work In complete harmony he'll change his tune 4 e
visits Alexandria at $50 pm Saturday That's when two
local chapters Of Sweet Adelnes Inc win present the e
Of Make-Be In Mount Vernon Elementary School
25OO Mount Vernon avenue.
Sweet Adelines whose slogan Is Harmonic the World
international organization for the promotion Of good
will and friendship among women through barbershop
quartet singing There about $50 chapters with about
1000 members. in the United States and Canada The
show w be put by the WashingTpnes and the Alex
andria chapter There win be Scotch songs Bowey songs
sweet songs. popular songs and even Liebestraum
nor-pront nOn-poltcal and non-sectarian Its rapin
growth was spred by growing numbers Of barbersnop
widows left at home nights BY husbands active y ne
Society for the Preservation and encouragement Of Bar
bershop Quartet Singing in America After SATURDAYS
show the local groups win plan for Of the biggest
events Of their schedule washington visit In june "a
the 1854 championship quartet THE Big Four more
Milford chronicle., 1954-03-05
Milford Grange

Preston Kenton Agriculture
Chairman of Milford Grange an
nOunced he will have Mr.. William
Henderson, Agricultural Agent of
Sussex Co., as the guest speaker on
Saturday Evening, March 9Th. His
talk will be on Better Methods of
Haying," and he will also give sew
eral pointers on the Reading Con-
test to be held later. Mr.. Hender-
son is well known in the two
counties, for the wonderful SER
vice he is giving to farmers through
out Sussex and Lower Kent COun-
ties. No farmer can afford to miss
the opportunity to be present when
Mr.. Henderson speaks.
Mr.. Michel will preside over the
business session. Mr.. and Mrs.
Douglas Fry and Miss Ida Roosa
refreshment chairmen. The male
quartet will sing under the direc.
tiOn of Mr.. Harvey Wood, Mrs. Irene
Kenton will accompany them a
the piano.
The young members of the Grang'
under the supervision Of Mrs. Doug
las Fry, Community Service Chair
man and Mrs. John LOngbothan
Home Economies Chairman hav
been spending their spare time tn
past week cleaning and painting tn
lower floor. What an improvement