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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-11

and Toll Bridge District.
McEwen said he and Day.
ton planned to arrive here
early Monday afternoon.
I'VE have an appoint
ment with the members Of
the Overseas Road and Toll
Bridge District Commission
on Tuesday," he said.
McEven said the bill of COM
plant had been drafted by road
board attorneys and himself.
To Discuss Suit
It is expected that details for
filing the suits will be discussed
at the Tuesday conference and that
the suits will be filed as soon after
that as possible.
A special audit of me district
affairs submitted to Acting Gov.
Charley E. Johns said a quarter
of a million dollars was overspent
on a fill contract by Alonzo Goth
ron, a contractor.
The audit also said $S6, 500 in fees
was paid Brooks Bateman while he
was general manager Of the dis.
trict.
The suits win be filed against
Bateman and Cothron, McEwen
said, and win ask the court to re-
quire an accounting and discovery
OF funds which the auditors report
said were overspent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-11
Man Loses Hand
In Grenade
Explosion

Jefferson Green, ~, svnnsrs
mate striker. lost his right
hand Yesterday when Q hand
grenade he was holding ex-
pIodsd. The accident occurred
aboard HE destroyer sseert
Wilkis at sea off Key West.
Green was flown 10 shore by
. Naval Air Station rescue
hslieopfer pileted by Ledr.
Robert A. Shields. The co.
pilot was Aviation Maehinisf
Mate Edward p. Breekbank.
The Naval Hospital here said
Green's wife, Doris, lives In
jacksonville.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-11
Huyy11uneBMsts
Long LMmdAreu

NEW YORK R-Hurricane Edna
ragged toward the eastern tip Of
Long Island today where landsmen
felt the first thrust of its fury
since its birth many days ago far
down in the Caribbean.
AT 10 am. the center of the
storms lbs mile-an-hour winds was
charted 100 miles south of Montauk
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-11

Point, the tip of Long Island 125
miles from New York City.
Disaster directors there reported
the Montauk highway inundated by
the rising waters of the Atlantic
and the tip of the island cut off.
About 500 persons had been eva
cuated from the Montauk area by
early today, said Charles Mans :.
head of the Red Cross disaster unit
in East Hampton.
Wind Rises
The winds were rising fast and
the ocean was white and combing
on the Long Island beaches.
Along the coast people felt the
backlash of the storm as its fringes
brought heavy rains and battering
winds.
By $3.50 am. New York City was
drenched by 4.48 inches of rain,
the heaviest fall since 1909 when
sos inches fell in a 24-hour period.
The record for a 24-hour period
in New York is SIT inches, set
on Sept. q, 1882.
There were flooded highways,
fallen trees and transportation de-
lays in all parts of the city.
A total Of five storm deaths were
reported. Four died in accidents
on rain-snck roads in New Jersey
and a fifth man died of a heart
attack in Chatham, Mass, while
preparing for the hurricane.
Coast Is Braesd
All along the coast an far in
land New Englandcrs bfaeed them.
selves for the fury OF the storm.
Although prepared, New England
heard word of hope from Naval
headquarters at Newport, RI,
where storm charters said the
storm might pass east Of Nantuck-
ct and not turn its full force on
the coast.
Meanwhile, torrential rains and
heavy winds pounded the New Eng.
land coast ahead of the hurricane.
Some power lines were knocked
out in downtown Providence, r. l.,
and at the Quonset Point, RI,
Naval Station.
ALI businesses were closed in the
southwestern Rhode Island COM
munity of Westerly in anticipation
of the storm.
Trains Halted
The pattern of heavy winds and
rains extended as far south as New
Jersey. All train service between
New York and North Jersey shore
points was halted at $50 am.
when winds collapsed high tension
power lines near Long Branch. The
lines fell across the main tracks
of the New York and Long Branch
Railroad, owned by the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad and the Jersey
Central Railroad.
New England had earlier warn
ing and was better braced than
IL days ago when hurricane Carol
hit and left 6S dead and property
damage of nearly a half billion
dollars.
In million coastal homes people
watched and waited. The Caro-
lnas, Virginia, Maryland and
southern New Jersey felt heavy
winds and rain-but most of the
hurricane stayed at sea.
N. Y. Hsrbor Quiet
New York harbor, normally the
busiest in the nation, was quiet.
Ships rode at double anchor, crews
alerted. Only ferries and an oc-
casional brave coal barge rode
the high tides in the swirling rain.
Coast Guardsmen, police and
Red Cross officials were eyacuat-
ing residents of low-lying areas on
Long Island. Hundreds of others
were evacuated from low-iying
areas of Massachusetts, Connecti-
Continued On Page Eight
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LOUe's Dream, Ends
In Big Splash

The night was beautiful.
A big. fat moon drew . sill
very path across fhe ocean last
night.
The lovers stroIled hand-in-
hand on fhe Sun and Sand Club
pier.
Then The idyl ended.
The 1--WE lovers fell sff fhs
end Of the pier. giving The
watchers On fhs beach . big
laugh ~ fhsy pledded dripping
from HE wafer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-11
McEwen Expects To File
Suit To Recover Money!
Meeting With Overseas Road,
Toll Commission Set Monda,

James M. McEwen, state attorney from Tampa. told
Inc Citizen today that he and George Dayton state road
poard attorney will arrive here Monday and cit is our
nope to file a civil suit while there"
The suit will be an attempt nv the State poa n
partment to recover quarter of million dollars which
the department overspent by the Overseas Road
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-09-11

PITTSBURGH On - Continental
Can Co. and the Clio United Steel
workers have signed a new con-
tract calling for a five cent nourly
raise for $4,000 employees in 81
plants in the United States and
Canada.
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05
WESLEY ECKERT TO ATTEND WASHINGTON STATE

An upsurge of enrolment of new students at the State College of Washington in recent days has pushed the number of matricula- tions with the September class past the 1900 mark.
 The California delegation is largest in the out-of- state divi- sion, pushed by Alaska, Idaho and Oregon. The new student list in- cludes Wesley E. Eckert, son of MT. and Mrs. Virgil Eckert of Palmer who has attended the Uni versity of Alaska the past two years.
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05
HOSPITAL FACILITIES EXPANSION TO BE
 DISCUSSED AT HEARING

A public hearing on a revision of the Alaska territorial plan for expanding of hospital facilities is set for August 6 at 10 am. in the Alaska Office Building in Juneau, it was announced by Dr. C.
 Earl Albrecht, commissioner of health.
 The revised plan outlines esti- mated needs for five types of hospital facilities in Alaska. These include general, tubercul- osis, mental and chronic disease hospitals and public health cen terS.
 The hospital facilities plan was approved by the acting surgeon general of the U. s. Public Health in 1947 and is revised annually to remain current with Alaska's growth and changing conditions. Through it $2OO,000 in federal funds, provided by Public Law 725 and known as the Hill-Bur- ton act, are available annually for assistance of Alaskan com munities or other responsible or ganizations desiring to construct hospital facilities. Construction, such facilities must comply with operation and maintenance of standards in order to be eligible for these funds, Dr. Albrecht pointed out. The pro- gram is administered through the Alaska Department of Health with aid of the Advisory Coun- cil.
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05
For What It's Worth
By GraYson E. Murphy District Agricultural Agent
Potato Disease Identification

All potato growers are invited to be at the Matanuska Experi- ment Farm, Friday, August 6, at 700 PM. MT. C. E. Logdson, plant pathologist, will discuss and identify plant specimens of potato diseases taken from local fields.
 Any grower may bring diseased plants for Identification. These specimens should be collected just prior to coming to this meeting.
 Learning to identify potato diseases in the field is of great importance to every grower in the Valley. A great saving can be made in storage losses by iden- tifying diseased plants and remov- ing them from the field during the season. Fewer diseased tubers in storage means less culling loss.
 Be at the Experiment Station, Friday, August 6.
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05
RANDOM RAaaBLENGs OUT WAslLLA WAY
By E. Hjellen

time was employed at the Anch- orage Drug. They will visit Me Kirley Park in addition to seeing as much of the Valley as possible before returning home.
 Announcements have been re- ceived here of the forth coming marriage of Marie Martha 10 Ems. Kenneth w. Johnson. U. s. N. al Seattle on the twentY-first of August. Marie Martha is the daughter of former residents. MT. and Mrs. Stanley Herning.
 Then there is the one about a small boy who spit out a mouth ful of hot food. looked up 10 see all eyes at the table focused upon him and calmly observed. T know some fools who would have swallowed that"
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05
UNIVERSITY ATHLETES ARE GOOD STUDENTS

At many universities athletes have gotten the reputation of be- ing poor students who take the easy courses and barely pass those.
 Dean Neil w. Hosley of the University of Alaska today said this situation does not hold true on the "Farthest-North Campus.
 The 39 men on athletic teams have rot only equalled, but bet tered the grades of those not talk ing part in athletics during the past semester" Dr. Hosley said.
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05

MT. A. Carson is back in Min -nesota for a visit. He writes that he will be glad to get back here so he can get some rest.
 Jerry -Cottle. son of MT. & Mrs
 Vince Smith is home on leave
 from the Marines. He is due back
 in San Diego on the fifteenth ot
 August. He wears the Marine uni
 form well.
 Mrs. Evan Jones returned home last Friday. She had been visit ing with a daughter in California and enc in Kennewick, Washing ton. She is glad to be back and we are all glad to see her smiling face again.
 Thai happy grin and Sparkle" on inc left hand of Jean Onkka is due 10 Big Red" Allan Stowe.
 Jimmy Rogers, son of MT. & Mrs. Lloyd Short is convalescing at home with two broken arms as the result of a three-point landing he made off a play ground slide at Glen Allen
 Mrs. Serrel. mother of Phil Serrel. has been visiting here for the past week. She is from far .-5- lew York state. At present
 le staying with the Chet -r3cevs.
 The End picnic was a success even tho due to the weather it had to be held in the Elks Hall at Palmer. The "grudge" ball game was conceded to the women due to the reluctance of the men to play off the match in the Hall. ',
 The high school set of this area were guests at party on Friday nite at the home of Jim Wilson. They enjoyed an evening of games and dancing followed by refreshments of ice cream. cake. and punch.
 MT. and Mrs. Visgar of Ken newick, Washington are the house guests of the Teelands. MT. Visgar owns two drug stores in that city. He lived in Anchorage twenty-six years ago and at that
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05

None of the three teams had an academic average of less than e and the average for the men on all teams was 1.52 grade points (C equals 1 and B equals ? while that of the non-athletes was 1.25."
The frontiersman., 1954-08-05
EVENING MASS PLANNED FOR AUG 6

A Mass will be offered at St. Michael's Catholic Church the first Friday of the month, August 5, at 7:30 pm, Rev. James P. Snead announced this week.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16
Scientists Say
Nixon Forced
Condor Ban

CHICAGO "a group of scien-
lists say that Intervention by Vice
President Nixon was responsible
for the Navy denying security
clearance to DR.. Edward U. Con-
don at one time chief of the US.
Bureau Of Standards.
Condor on Monday resigned as
research director of Corning Class
Works, Corning, NY, stating ne
felt he could not secure "a fair
and independent judgment" in
government review of his security
status.
The Atomic Scientists of Chicago
(ASC), a self-described organiza-
ticn of scientists concerned with
the impact of science on public
affairs, in q statement Tuesday
said political abuse of the per-
sonnel security system has finally
forced the resignation" of DR.. Con-
don.
The ASC said Nixon intervened
.ast month with Secretary of the
Navy Thomas to overrule a July
1854 security clearance for Condor.
The ASC said the Eastern Regional
Personnel Security Board had
found Condon's clearance CLEARLY
consistent with the national secu-
rity." The group said it was the
fourth time that Condor had been
cleared since World War II.
The ASC statement said the per.
sonpel security system "has been
degraded to such a point that its
judgments are almost meaningless
except for the damage they do to
the individuals affected.
"Vice President Nixon and Sec
retary of the Navy Thomas owe
this country an accounting of their
action"
In Riverside, Calf, where Thom-
as gave 4 speech Tues. night, he
denied to a radio newsman in an
interview that Nixon directly or
indirectly entered into converse
tons with him at any time about
Condon's security classification.
Il looked at the file and with
drew his clearance" Thomas was
quoted. He said he would consider
request for another hearing on
the Condor case If Condor request
ed it.
Nixon was not available IN
Washington for comment.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page 5
Thursday, December IL, 1854
Yule Festival
Offers Varied
Program Fri.

The Yule Festival to be sponsor
ed by Douglass High at Athletic
Field on the night of December II
will do much to fulfill the dreams
of children during this season of
the year. children in the south al
most always associate fireworks
with Christmas.
Friday night there will be fire
works to satisfy adults as well as
the younger generation Intricate
ground Displays and brilliant aer-
ial bursts will be crowd pleasers
regardless of age,
The varied aerial display will in
clude among other features these
colorful displays; single break star
shell, double break shell, triple
break shell, quadruple break shell,
sextuple break shell. There will de-
finitely be light on the subject of
the Yuletide Festival with the a.
bove features bursting above High
School Athletic Field in multiple
colorS.
Dorsey Highs band of ninety
pieces will fill the ozone with pleas
ing sounds of carols before the
main attraction Of ground and aer-
ial exhibits of fireworks. On the
turf there will be many fast ca
dence drills performed with preci-
sion to appeal to those with a yen
for the spectacular
The Douglass High band will be
present to add to the festivities of
the evening. The students from
Fort and Petronia will be giving
this affair the old do or die try
for this is a benefit affair for band
uniforms for their aggregation.
The ground exhibits for this af-
fair will be novel in every sense
of the word~ and will include a.
mong other things wire rockets,
mechanical motorcycle Christmas
tree, Giant Santa Claus and snow
flake wheel.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16
Dec. 2l Set
For World End

EAST LANSING, Mich. R-Dr.
Charles A. Laughed, who college
officials say believes the world will
end Dec. 81, yesterday resigned
his position as staff member Of
the Michigan State College hOspi-
tai.
The State Board of Agriculture,
the college governing board, ac-
cepted his resignation routinely but
asked for an explanation.
MISC President DR.. John A. Han
nah reported to the board that DR.
Laughed, a staff physician since
194S, was resigning because of his
belief the world will end Dec. 21.
II first heard about this business
when a group of students c, .
to me-" DR.. Hannah said. "T-ey
told me DR.. Laughed had been
holding meetings at his home and
preaching the beliefs of some pc
culiar religious sect"
DR.. Hannah said Dean of Stu
dents Tom King and DR.. c. ].
MenzieS, head of the college hos
pital, investigated and that Dr..
Laughed admitted and talked
freely about his beliefs.
DR.. Hannah said the group be-
heveS that the world will end Dec
81 and that flying saucers from
Venus or Mars-the MISC presidet
wasn't sure which-would rescue
some select survivors from noun
tain tops.
eve understand he is disposing
of his belongings and preparing t7
move to some mountain top to
await the rescue"
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16

apartment units and 1905 hotel
and motel rooms.
Housing for vacationists has kept
pace on famed Miami Beach.
Since World War II, 50 new hotels
nave opened. That is more, the
peach folk say, than were built in
an the rest of the country. Today
miami Beach has 375 hotels with
over 5000 rooms, and more than
ZO.OOO apartment units.
"nere are all these people com.
ing from? Roughly, they're com.
ing from the entire eastern hall oi
the United States. New York,
Ohio, New Jersey, Michigan, Penn.
sylvania and Georgia are among
the big contributors.
And why are they coming? Dr.
Relnhold P. Wolff, director Of eco.
nCmlc research at the University
OF Miami, says:
This great migration to Miami
is part of a worldwide movement
to take advantage Of what we
might call 'amenity Of climate "
Translated into everyday language,
that means a lot Of people are
seeking warm winters and sun
shine.
There are other contributing fac.
tors. Development of electric re.
frigeration eliminated the problem
CT keeping fresh foods in tropical
climates, and air conditioning has
gone far in popularizing year.
round life here.
What supports this great influx
of people?
You can get varied answers to
that question. Certainly aviation
has been big factor. Miami is the
hub of air traffic to the Carib-
bean and all Latin America.
South Florida yields few raw
materials for industry. However,
there has been substantial devel-
opment in light industries. A go
million dollar a year resort fash
ions industry has been built from
modest beginning intended to
serve vacationists.
Fabricating of aluminium pro-
ducts-mostly windows. jalousies,
furniture, etc. is . compare
lively new and increasingly i'm.
portant industry.
All these, of course, are subor-
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16
JUDO is TOO MUCH
FOR RESERVE COP

MIAMI BEACH. Fla. u Her.
bert Miller, 80, reserve policeman.
is in Mt. Sinai Hospital with his
left leg broken in three places
after almost-but not quite-com-
pleting his judo lessons at the
Florida Police Academy. While
practicing strangleholds and coun-
terthrows, his heel caught between
two mats, pitching him to one side
and swapping his leg in three
places.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16
Miami Claims 1000 New Residents Weekly

MIAMI, Fla. R-Greater Miami,
scene of boom and bust nearly
30 years ago, is booming again at
the rate of about a thousand new
residents every week-and this
time, the experts say, there won't
be another debacle.
Unlike the frenzied land SpecY,
lation of the '20S this is a build
ers' boom. They are building and
selling new houses by the thous-
ands.
1t wasn't like that in the great
Florida land rush which ended
with a crash in 1925. Then Miami
was overrun by get rich quick
traders. A single piece of real es-
tate might change hands several
times in a day, each time at a
skyrocketing price. Shoestring in
vestments pyramided into paper
fortunes in a few weeks, only to
vanish when the crash came.
"Miami boom" is somthing OF
q misnomer for the prodigous
present-day growth. Expansion Of
the city itself was throttled years
ago when satellite suburbs formed
their own municipalities. Today
there are % of them forming a
"Greater Miami. The growth is
spreading even beyond Dade Coun-
ty into neighboring Broward Coun-
ty, where Fort Lauderdale and
other communities are growing
just as fast.
Greater Miami's population
passed the 10000 mark this fall
and kept on rising. That figure
was the estimate of the Florida
Power and Light Co., based on
careful surveys aimed at insuring
adequate electricity for the area.
The company's statisticians have
advised the firm to plan for one
million in 1860.
That's a big jump from the 1851
inhabitants of Miami in 1900.
In neighboring Broward County,
Fort Lauderdale has jumped from
2,065 in 1920 to an estimated 81 900
in 1854. Nearby towns have had
Similarly spectacular gains.
Here is what those increases
mean to builders: From 1916 until
June 1854, 94,S1 one and two
family dwelling units we're built
In Dade County, along with 34,715
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16

dinate to the old standby in Flor
ida's economy - serving the tour
lists. Now nearly all hotels operate
on a year-r0und basis. and few
shops close in the summer.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16

Some form of heart appears in
al animals complicated enough to
have specialized organs for respir-
alton, digestion or excretiOn.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16

injured 10 men. The wen, In Guks
Fannett oil field, sprang q leak
yesterday and the explosion and
fire followed.
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16
GAS WELL BURNS

BEAUMONT, Tex. R-An ethyl
enc gas storage well continued to
burn today after an explosion that
The Key West citizen., 1954-12-16

S familiar in oh
cities but the first
who in of the
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Senator Smith 5 Party
Halted by Red Police
During Berlin Tour
BY the Assoeiused Press

BERLIN, Oct. Communist
police took four members Of
Senator Margaret Chase Smiths
party into custody during a tour
of East Berlin today, then
turned them loose after an
hours detention.
The police stepped in as Co
lumbia Broadcasting System
cameramen were filming the
touring Maine Republican as
she looked into a state-owned
department store.
Mrs. Smith was whisked away
from the scene as soon as her
party was approached by an
East German plain-clothes man.
She learned details of the Incl
dent only after she returned to
allied West Berlin.
The four taken into custody
were William Lewis, Senator
Smiths executive assistant; Ell
mer Cox. State Department pub
lie information officer escorting
the party: Robert M. Hutten-
loch. a CHS sound engineer. and
the German driver Of the State
Department automobile.
The incident occurred a few
hours before Mrs. Smith was
scheduled to depart by plane for
Moscow. travelling by way of
Prague. Czechoslovakia.
Mrs. Smith Leaves Scene.
CHS Correspondent Richard
Hottelet said he hurried Mrs.
Smith into car and left the
scene when he saw Communist
police questioning other members
of the party
A plainclothesman approached
members of her party and warned
that picture taking was forbid
den.
Mr.. Cox said he told the plain
clothesman he saw no harm in.
the filming but the man then
called a uniformed peoples police
officer. ~
II argued with the Vopo (po-
liceman) for several minutes"
Mr.. Cox said. "He wanted us to
follow him. / refused"
Mr.. Cox said the Vopo then de-
manded the identification card
and trip ticket of their German
driver and took it away.
Taken to Headquarters.
After. a ''long watt Mr.. Cox
added. two more Peoples Police
officers arrived on the scene and
demanded we follow them" to
police headquarters.
At headquarters, Mr.. Cox said,
he told the officer in charge the
Peoples Police had no right to
interfere with Americans. He
showed the officer the passport
of Mrs. Smiths assistant which
had been approved for a visit to
Russia
The officer then told the party
You can CO."
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Botsu Ruft Adventurer
On Way to New York
By The Associated Pres.

PAGO PAGO. American
Samoa, Oct. 20 William Willis,
6l-year-old New Yorker who re-
Gently completed a 115-day
drifting trip of more than 5000
miles on 35-foot balsa wood
raft from Peru, started home
yesterday.
He left on the small ship
Aolele for Suva in the Fiji
Islands, where he plans to catch
a plane for New York. Mr..
Willis said he expects to arrive
Saturday in New York where his
wife. Tess. awaits him.
Evening star., 1954-10-20
Judqe CockriII to Speak

Judge Edith H Cockrill will
discuss the causes and problems
of juvenile delinquency at the
Atheneum Club meeting at $3.50
pm. tomorrow at the Washing
ton Post community room. 1915
L street NV.