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Evening star., 1954-10-09

Brick Fronts Cadillac-size Carports! Different
Front Styles! Large, Level Shrubbed Lots!
Special Lower Wall Divider! Raytox Folding
Doors! Spatter Kitchen Linoleum De Luxe Gas
Range! Glass Oven Door! Double Bowl Sink!
Formica Worktop! Tremendous Kitchen with
Dinette! Double Exposure Bedrooms! Large
Closets in Every Room! All Facilities Schools,
Shopping! See them while they last!
Evening star., 1954-10-09
Beautiful Loke Borcroft

On The spoeioUs scale with foyer
entrance, l5x27 living room with
lovely fireplace and booksheives,
very loree equipped kitchen. op-
tionol dining room or sun room,
three beautiful bedrooms, three
full baths. Fully finished reereo-
tion room i5x43 with fire
place and picture window with
doorway TO outside potio,
oitoched garage on imposing
65xl84 lot. Choice North Ar
lineton Ioeation with new school
nearby.
A delightfully."- IiveobIe
home at $39, $50.
Directions: North to Old Do
nttnion DR.. to WILLIAMSBURG
BlUd., totfoD drroUS left to
North Edison ard right to our
open sign.
Mr.. Common on premises or
coll IA. 5-5035.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Mrs. Dickerson
To Attend Natl
Union Convention

Mrs. Ruby Dickerson. secretary
of the Key West Federation of Mus.
icians Local 2O2, will represent that
organization at the 57th Annual
Convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Musicians in Milwaukee,
Wis, it was announced today.
The Convention will open on
June IA at 2 p. m.
Delegates will hear addresses by
their president, James c. Petrillo,
and distinguished guests and will
transact union business including
legislation and the election of Of
ficers. The convention, which has
been held every year since 1896
with the exception of two war
time years. is the supreme gov
erning body of the union.
More than LOO delegates will
attend, representing the 698 locals
and the 24S,078 professional must
clans of the United States and Ca
made. Mrs. Dickerson will also at
tend the Southern Conference Of
Locals, which viii convene at the
Schroeder Hotel in the same city,
and win be a guest of Chicago Lo-
cal No. 10 for two days immediate
ly following the main convention at
Milwaukee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Elks Lodge Plans
Program To Mark
Flag Day June IA

Plans for the annual Flag Day
program to be conducted by B. P.
o. Elks Lodge 551 were announced
at the last regular meeting of the
lodge by Frank Romaguera, chair
man Of the Flag Day committee.
This year the program will be
presented on Monday, June IA, at
8 p. m. at the air-conditoned an.
mex of the Elks home.
This is an event to which all
Elks look forward with anticipa.
ton and in which veterans organi-
cations are invited to participate BY
presenting and retiring their co.
lors.
The observance of the anniver-
sary OF the conception OF our flag
was made mandatory for all SUBJ
ordinate lodges by the Grand
Lodge in assembly at Dallas, Tex
as, on July 1908, and since then
this day is observed either in pri-
vate session or in public ceremony
by each subordinate lodge.
Chairman Romaguera and COM
mittee members Macdonald,
Thompson, Gates, and Gomez are
preparing a suitable program for
presentation, one which they fell
certain will please those attending
Continued on Page Twej
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Scale Map Will
Show All BIdgs.
In Key Vest

City Manager Victor Lang
announced today that the city
is purchasing . map Of Key
West which shows ell buildings
IN the city drawn to scale.
The ms2 will be highly in.
formative to the, tax assessor,
Lang stated. He said that The
map lists fhs type construction.
type roof. wall ihieknssses Of
The sfrUefUres and also shows
area covered by tho building.
He agreed that properly as.
ssssmenfs could be listed di.
rsefly on fhe map.
Lang said that the map will
be especially helpful to the
building inspector. However the
first intended use for the map
Is for The benefit Of the fire
department in their inspections.
The map was prepared by
the Ssnborn Map Company on
The request Of insurance com.
panies. The first map is COM
ing 10 the city on condition that
II II approved before the pvr.
chase Is made.
The scale is 50 fee 10 HE
inch and Is divided into IS sep.
arafs pages. The cost to the
city Is $sl.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Concealed Weapon
Case Slated For
City Court Today

Robert R. Brambley, airman ap-
prentice of HS-1 at the Naval Air
Station, was arrested Saturday
night for being drunk and disor-
DERBY and carrying a concealed
weapon.
Police officer Atkins states in his
police repor. that he was passing
the Happy Hour Bar on Duval
Street when he was approached by
young lady. The report states
that the lady told him that she
had observed man loading a pis-
tol at the bar.
Atkins Immediately called Police
1t. Jimmy James for instruction.
Brambley was arrested by
James and Atkins as he left the
car. The report states that when
he was searched at the police sta
ton, holstered u caliber pistol
was found.
Trail for Brambley was set for
this afternoon in City Court.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Names OF Tax
Buyers Given

A list Of the buyers of 40 coun-
ty tax certificates has been re-
leased.
The sale, held last week, pro-
duced more than $4,000 for the
county.
The list of buyers:
Ed Woodson, Woodson's Trailer
Park, Stock Island; Angela Vau-
ghn, 100 Flagler Ave-, Key West;
Luis Cisneros, 404 Grinnell., Key
West; M. N. Elsenau, Kendall,
Fla; S. F. Whalton, 1402 Tropical
Ave., Key West; Hello Gomez, 72l
Duval St., Key West.
Robert C. Young, 1908 Seminary
st., Key West; Russell Hoff, 1908
Seminary St., Key West; Ed Cies-
inski, 504 Simonton St., Key West;
Minnie Lee Brown, Miami; B. Cur
ry Moreno, 61o Southland St., Key
West; r. G. Walling, 31s william
St., Key West; Bert A. Roberts,
1410 Angela St., Key West.
Ben Steiner, 27-A Sigsbee Road,
Key West; Charles H. Carnifax,
6O6 Truman Ave., Key West; C.
e. Baker, 2011 Patterson Ave., Key
West; Floyd E. Cherry, Fl. Laud-
erdale; Spencer Co., Miami, Fla:
Sinclair Co., Miami, Fla; T. ].
Crutchfield, sO6 Thomas St., Key
West; Alton Parks, 1918 Duval St.,
Key West.
George Ehrhart, P. o. Box 500,
Key West; E. A. Ramsey, $50 Viii
liam St., Key West; Ross Trailer
Park Inc, GIL Truman Ave-, Key
West; W. r. Neblett, AS Francis
St., Key West; Angela Macon, 71s
Whitehead St., Key West; Milo
Corp. Miami; Henry Hamilton,
1892 Johnson St., Key West.
Hugh R. Stephenson, 625 Mar.
CONTINUED on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07

For Key West,
Havana Ferry
Dion Announces
Dock Obtained
In Havana Today

The chances for an early start
for automobile ferry service be-
tween Key West and Havana re-
ceived a boost today when Fred
Dion, vice-president of the Gulf
Atlantic Transportation Company
announced that his firm haa been
notified by their attorney In Ha-
vana that dock space is now avail
able for their use.
Inability to obtain the dock was
the only stumbling block in the
path of the start of service. The
Gulf Atlantic Transportation Co.
are stockholders in the Marine
Bridge Transport Co., the Cuban
firm which will operate the car
ferry.
Ship Repairs
Their vessel, the Caribe Queen
is currently in Jacksonville under
going conversion for car ferry SER
vice. Dion said that when it is
converted, it will accommodate 800
passengers and $50 automobiles.
Next step in the negotiations,
Dion said, is the signing of a lease
agreement with the city for the
Clyde Mallory Docks. A lease had
been drawn up about two years
ago, but no action was taken in
executing it.
The lease guarantees the city
a minimum of $4,000 per year.
The city would receive Is cents
per passenger and one dollar for
each ton of freight and each auto
Mobile carried.
Rent Advance Il.
Dion added today that an in
formal agreement had been reach
ed to advance the city enough rent
so that the dock could be put into
first class ccondition. The dock
needs extensive repairs and alter
atoms to accommodate the ferry
service.
Tentative plans call for thrice
weekly service between Key West
and Havana. Negotiations have
been conducted for the past seven
years in an effort to start the SER
vice.
Financial aid for the operation
of the company is being obtained
from the Industrial and Agricult-
ural Bank Of Cuba, a government
administered bank.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07

During the first four days of
June no accidents were report
ed but the weekend came and
the total jumped up to s, an
average of one 4 day.
Although this column does
not report accidents occurring
in water traffic, it is well, as
a safety measure, to point out
that the use of common sense
and courtesy. among boat own
ers and operators close to shore
may prevent the loss of life,
limb and property.
Take for example the fool
who was running his speed boat
dangerously close to bathers on
the south side of the Island
Sunday afternoon.
From the conversation of
people on the beach it seemed
that if anyone had been hurt
by the boat running among
bathers, there would have been
a lynching - and probably
justly so.
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County
Ranks 36th In
Traffic Safety
Figures For
First Two
Months Given

Monroe County ranked Seth in
traffic safety among the 81 Flori-
da counties during the first two
months Of 1854, but unless the traf-
tic death rate slows down, it stands
a good chance Of dropping even
further in the ratings.
That information was contained
in a traffic report issued by the
State Department of Public Safety
in Tallahassee. 1t shows that in
January and February, there were
only four traffic deaths in the coun-
ty. But since then, a rash of fatal
accidents on the Overseas High.
way has sent the toll soaring up
to nine deaths. Reason for the late
ness Of. the report is that noun
tsfns Of traffic reports from all
parts Of the state must be sifted
to obtain the information.
Six Deaths In ss3
During all OF 1858, there were
only six traffic deaths in the coun-
ty. The City of Key West, how
ever, continues to maintain its fine
record, with no traffic deaths re-
ported to date.
The report is based on a "mile.
age death rate" which indicates
the number of deaths per 1O0-mil-
lion vehicle miles travelled. Mon
roe County has a mileage death
rate of 1873 which gives it the
ranking of 36th in the state.
There are 22 counties in the state
which had no traffic deaths in the
first two months while Sumter
County, in the north portion of, the
state, has the highest rating mile
age death rate of IS.
Other information contained in
the report shows that in the two
months under review, there were
Al persons injured in 140 accidents
reported. Fifty-two of the accidents
were reported outside of Key West.
Rural Areas Lead
The report also says that, based
on national accident experience,
there are in rural areas about 20
injury accidents and IS property
damage ESQ or more) accidents
actually occurring for each fatal &C.
cident, and in urban areas about
IS injury accidents and 200 pro-
perry damage accidents per fatal
accident.
The Department also comment
ed: "The Departments program Is
fundamentally one of accident pre-
vention, but before successfully at
taking this problem it was neces-
sary to obtain certain basic facts;
i. e. how, when and where traffic
accidents occurred most frequent
ly. Reliable information could be
secured only at the scene of acct
dents. This is the reason it was
necessary to obtain legislation for
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Motel Owners
Slate Meeting

The Key West Chapter of the
Florida Motor Court Association
will hold a meeting Wednesday
noon in Cifelli's Restaurant, 800
Truman Avenue.
w. ]. Hallet, president of the
Florida Motor Court Association
will be a guest at the meeting. J.
Pendleton Gaines, executive vice
president of the association will al
so be a guest at the affair. The
pair is presently touring the state,
making q survey of the motel in
dustry.
Mel Levitt, president Of the To-
cal chapter, issued an invitation
. as6S9ollclro0 40
for all local motel owners and OPP
orators to attend the meeting, whe-
Their they are members or not.
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Potential Death Trap Removed
From Play Area Here Saturday
Local Officials,
Citizens, Safety
Council Cooperate
BY gill clss

Within minutes after an ADAM
doned icebox was located on Pin
der Lane last Saturday, Dick Hun
ter, Safety Council Director had
q truck and workers from his shop
on the way to remove the pcten-
tial casket.
II is a dramatic story because
1t demonstrates smooth-flowing CO.
operatiyeness on the part Of halt
a dozen people who don't wish to
see our children die as so many
others have throughout the nation
- suffocated in an icebox.
Credit for the icebox campaign
should 60 to "Dingle" Gonzalez,
Safety Council member and City
of Key West firefighter. Gonzalez
sparkplugged the original drive
commenced last year.
Cautious Father
Frank Hart, 1922 Fleming st.,
has two active youngsters and
when he noticed an old icebox in
the lane behind his home, he i'm
mediately called Vic Lang, city
manager. Lang referred the mat
ter to the Key West Safety Coun-
Gil which always stands ready to
cooperate in matters of this ma
ture.
AS soon as the box was located
by a council worker, an emergency
request was put through to Dick
Hunter, safety director. Hunter
called two men away from their
tire recapping and told them, "Get
that death-trap right now. Tomor-
row might be too late!"
Hazard Removed
Frank Radford and Ellis McMil-
Ian picked the hazardous icebox
up and carried it to empty parking
lot behind Dicks shop. There the
lock was broken and arrangements
made to have the City Public Ser
vice department dispose of it to-
day.
This is the kind of cooperation
that the Key West Safety Council
needs so badly. While Dick Hunter
has volunteered his time, equip
nnent, and labor, the Council would
like to have the names of other
business concerns who perhaps
have a truck and are willing to
send it out on such emergency
missions.
Imagine if you will how that
story could have turned out last
Saturday! Neglect on the part of
Hart to spot the hazard, stub
borness on the part of the owner
IN refusing to part with the box,
laxness on the part of Safety
Council workers - any of these
apparently minor details could
have meant that today's paper
would be headlined "KEY WEST
CHILD DIES IN ABANDONED
ICEBOX."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Civil Service
Board Holds
Session

The local civil service board
met in a special session Saturday
and answered a letter from City
Attorney ]. Y. Porter.
In Porter's letter to the board
he outlined the steps according ''to
his opinion" that should be taken
by the city to fill the vacancy of
Chief of Police.
The letter stated that the COM
mission should send three names
of police chief nominees to the
city commissioners for decision.
In the boards answer to the city
attorney, they stated that they
would submit the names, "three
or a lesser amount" whenever the
commission requested them.
The position in question is now
filled by Bienvenido Perez who is
called acting chief of police"
The civil service board also ap-
proved temporary suspensions of
two police officers.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Controversial Issues Face
City Commissioners Tonight
Commission Will
Also Convene AS
Equalization Board

The city commission meets to-
night in the City Hall for the first
regular scheduled meeting in June.
The meeting is expected to be one
of the hottest of the season since
several controversial subjects will
be discussed.
The commissioners and Sam Pin.
der, Jr., city tax assessor, will
meet as an Equalization Board to
look over the tax rolls. It has been
stated by one source that the board
will convene and then Immediately
recess for two weeks to look over
the rolls.
May Ask Publication
1t has been reported that one
commissioner will request the pub
LEGATION of the complete city tax
roll to be carried in a newspaper.
The commissioner said that the
publication of the tax roll would
let the public compare their tax
assessments with that of similar
property.
The tax roll controversy began
when one of the commissioners re-
quested a special meeting to look
over the tax rolls. As a result of
the incident, the city tax assessor
has said that he will quit and coun.
ty tax assessor, Claude Gandolfo,
says that the city tax department
must get out of his office.
The county tax assessors deci-
sion will cost the citizens of Key
West an estimated $4,000 to set up
its own tax rolls. In spite of this
cost, Gandolfo says he intends to
remain firm in his decision.
New Ordinances
Commissioner Louis Carbonell
says he plans to introduce two or
dinances at tonight's meeting. One
ordinance will drop the cost of au-
tomobile inspection fees to 50 cents.
The city car inspection fee of
$3.50 has been called illegal by
many people. The city attorney in
a ruling stated that the city could
only charge what it costs to give
the inspection.
Carbonell is also requesting that
the city take bids for automobile
wrecker service or towing service.
The bids will only be accepted
from Key West wrecker service IL
cense holders, Carbonell stated.
A group of local citizens plans
to come before the commission to
request the re-zoning of their city
area from Residence B to Resi-
dence A. A spokesman for the
group said that this is the second
time that the upward zoning has
been asked.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
CREDIT UNION HAS
1913 MEMBERS NOW

Eve Smith, secretary treasur.
er of the Southernmost Federal
Credit Union, announced today that
the union now has 12S members Of
city and county employees.
In her report, she stated that the
union has taken in $11, 0s6 in de-
posits and has paid out in loans,
$9,210 at the end of May.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Registration
Set ForSulrllner
Recreation
Increase Seen
In County's
Annual Program

Registration for Monroe County's
summer recreation program is ex-
pected to soar to a new high.
school officials predicted today.
Registration for the program
sponsored by the Monroe County
Board Of Public Instruction will
start at 9 am, June Is. The pro-
gram is open to children from 6
years of age on up through high
school age. Horace C.. O'Bryant,
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, estimated today that TOO
children will participate in the
daily activities this summer
Hours are from 8 to IL am. and
l to 4 pm. daily.
Jones Heads Program
Winston S. Jones, high school
athletic director, will supervise
the summer program. It will mark
the fifth straight year that he has
held that position. Since he inau.
gurated the program, he has seen
it grow from practically nothing
to the point where it plays an i'm
portant part in the summer recrea-
ton picture. There were s12 chill.
dren taking advantage of the pro-
gram last year.
There will be identical programs
at six schools, with trained per-
sonnet in charge. Activities range
from games and crafts to swim.
ming and music.
Registration Set
Parents wishing their children
to attend the activities should
make arrangements to have them
register at the school nearest their
home. The program is to be held
at the following schools. Truman,
Poinciana, Harris, Douglass and
in the Key West High School gym
nasium. Jones emphasized that
they cannot accept children under
six years of age.
Hattie Presrsns q
"Children can participate In as
many or as few activities as they
care to-" Jones said today. He
added that there will be band
classes at Douglass School and
that 4 band program will be held
at the Key West High School when
DR.. Harold Casterton returns from
summer school, probably in Aug
ust.
There is no charge for attending
the activities.
The following instructors will
aid Jones: Poinciana School, Har-
old Allen and John Marzyck; Bay
view Park, Mrs. Twylla Fishel,
Frank Waynick; Harris School,
Mrs. Isabel Chandler and Vincent
Gehr and Mrs. Elizabeth Dutton;
Douglass School, Alphonso and
George Dean; Key West High
School, Winston Jones.
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and tell Roy"
This line was not includ-
ed in the transcripts of his
calls which Mccarthy him
self released for publication
over the weekend.
It never was disclosed who the
person was that Mccarthy was
cautioning Stevens not to tell.
Senators conducting the hearings
looked at the transcript, but de-
cided the person mentioned by Nc
earthly was not connected with the
present controversy, and that his
name had just as well be kept
secret.
cohn Unreasonable"
McCarthy's comment that the
unnamed persons "would 60 right
back and tell Roy" came after
Mccarthy told Stevens that Schine
"is one of the few things" he had
seen Cohn, completely unreason-
able about"
Mccarthy had said that Cohn
Thinks Dave should be a general
and work from penthouse of the
Waldorf"
Schine, wealthy New Yorker who
was an unpaid consultant to the
Mccarthy subcommittee, reported
to training camp Nov. 10.
t Special counsel Ray H. Jenkins
read the McCarthy-Stevens trans
cripts and did a bit of editing in
the process.
Drink Invitation Omitted
For one thing, he left out an
invitation by Mccarthy for Stevens
to join him for "a drink"
Among other transcripts going
into the record were those of three
talks between Sen. Mcclellan
DARK and Secretary Stevens.
In one of these, Mcclellan advised
Stevens to beat Mccarthy to the
punch.
Stevens had telephoned McClel-
Ian Feb. 20 to discuss his clash
with Mccarthy over alleged abuse
of Brig. Gen. Ralph wicker by
cCarthy.
Stevens told Mcclellan he had
talked with Mccarthy, who was in
Albany at the time, and told him
he was consulting with Mcclellan
and other members of the McCar-
thy subcommittee. ,
"Hopped Or" Stevens
Mccarthy chopped on me pretty
hard" Stevens told the Mccarthy
subcommittee.
Mccarthy told Stevens at that
time that he was under subpoena
to testify the following Tuesday.
Stevens told Mcclellan he was
willing to 60 before the Mccarthy
subcommittee at the appropriate
time" but was undecided whether
Tuesday was that time.
Mcclellan suggested that Stevens
consult an attorney and "beat him
to the punch" by announcing that
he was requesting to appear before
Mccarthy.
Zwicker, commander of Camp
Kilmer, N. j., had been questioned
on Feb. Is by Mccarthy at a one
man subcommittee hearing behind
closed doors in New York about
the honorable discharge of Maj.
Irving Peress, a New York City
dentist whom Mccarthy has de-
scribed as ga Fifth Amendment
Communist.
Ind Call To Mcclellan
In a second call from Stevens
to Mcclellan on Feb. 81, Stevens
Continued on Page Twol
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NEW ADVERTISEMENT
FEATURE PACE BEGINS

A new feature advertisement
page starts today in The Key
West Citizen, Page Z. Destined
to give the public an intimate
insight into various businesses
Of Key West, the page win run
every Monday for thirteen
weeks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
Telephone Call Transcript
Indicates McCaftR{ }ssDidn't
Fully Concur WhkzzHis Aide
Senator Evidently Didn't Want
COhn To Learn His Vie,vs On Schine

WASHINGTON (AP) = Sen Mccarthy told Secre-
tary Stevens about the time G. David Schne drafted
last fall that Schne not indispensable to his nves
cations subcommittee but he didn't his chief
sci Roy Cohn to know he felt that way.
In monitored Mccarthy Stevens telephone call of
November read at the McCarthyArmy hearings today
Mccarthy quoted saying: "For Gods sake, don't
tell (blankl He would go right back
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07
KEY VESTS
TRAFFIC BOX SCORE

Property Damage $4,000 sss.sls
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-06-07

In a second call from Stevens
to Mcclellan on Feb. Il, Stevens
Continued on Page Twol
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Key West. rlorido. hos the
most equoble climate in the
country. with an average
Sdnge Of only ID Fahrenheit