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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Navy May Block City's Plan
For Poinciana Housing Units
Vest POi1,cia,,u Is Not Included
In Mays Consideration OF Case
BY BILL SpILLMAN

The Navy announced today that dispatch has been
sent to the Bureau of Yards and Docks requesting de-
cision concerning the disposition of the Poncana Hous
ing Projects.
1t has been specialized that the Navy will step in with
proceedings and purchase the property
fore private will be allowed buy the buildings
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Two Are Held
After Sunday
Morning Events

Two Marines were arrested ear.
ly Sunday morning on charges OF
trespassing on private property,
destroying private property and re.
Sisting arrest.
Police patrolman Stephen S.
Atkins in his police report stated
while patroling by the Brown Der
by Bar, where a ships party was
in progress, he saw two men des.
troying a parking fence of the Car.
ibbean Hotel. Atkins said that he
ordered them to stay where they
were but they Immediately started
running.
The report continued that Atkins
blew his whistle but to no avail.
He then fired a warning shot over
their heads but they ran off in diff.
ferent directions. Atkins said that
he gave immediate chase and
caught Marvin Messer at the Mar
inc gate entrance to the Naval Sta
ton at Thomas and Fleming
Streets.
When Messer was asked why he
didn't stop, he said that he didn't
know why he was being chased.
A man whom Messer said was
his companion was apprehended
by Deputy Sheriff Henry founders.
The companion was identified as
John H. McKeen.
Trail will be held in City Court
on Tuesday,.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Radio Hams
Succeed In
Weekend Relay
BY EDDIE LEE

CAPILLoss PEAK, NM. sissa4!
Wonderful. weekend weather
helped radio amateurs break the
Southwestern bottleneck and com.
plete history's first transcontinent.
al relay on the two-meter band.
Working under a blazing sun on
the mountain tops and plains OF
the Texas Panhandle, New Mex.
leo, Arizona and California, the
amateurs rolled both east and
westbound messages smoothly
through the area where last week S
test broke down.
"They can't blame us if they
don't get through this time" said
Hubbard Harrell, W5FAG, who set
up his station just off u. S. High
way 66, seven miles east of Clines
Corners.
The westbound message, which
left Ed Tilton's Canton, Conn.,, sta.
ton, W1HDQ, at 6:25 am. (EST)
Saturday, reached Ed Lucky in
Manhattan Beach, Calf, W6EMM,
about IA hours later.
Tilton is an editor of QST, Of
fetal magazine of the American
Radio Relay League, national ham
organization. Luckey is trustee for
the Two Meter and Down Club
station of Los Angeles, one of the
leading organizers of the test.
The fate of the official eastbound
message, which cleared A. David
Middleton, W5CA at this 9,O00-foot
elevation at 5:22 pm. (7:22 pm,
EST was not known, but it passed
beyond Amarillo, Tex. The relay
had been solid from that point
east all day.
"More than 40 stations across
the country, most of the manned
by two or more amateurs, COM
bined equipment time and energy
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
State Death Toll
For Weekend Is
Up To Five Toda,
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Florida's Memorial Day week
end death toll rose to five today.
John Felix Switzerland, II, was
killed Sunday when his automo-
bile with three other youths over
turned on 4 curve near Lithia.
The four were going ON a fishing
trip.
A pickup truck collided with a
car near Yulee Sunday killing Oil
yer Campbell Il Yulee. Deputy
Sheriff G. w. Courson said Camp
bell apparently Lost control of the
truck.
Edward E. Weeks, Is, Of Wind
sor, was killed Saturday near Mi
canopy when his pickup truck
sideswiped a sedan. Four others
were injured.
Two persons were killed Friday
night and three others injured in
a head on crash M two cars near
Newberry. The dad were identi-
fled as John Howard Dew, Is, and
Harold Alton Peylyman, both of
Bell.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
-Unification
Problem Faces
Presbyterians
BY GLENN MCCULLOUGH

MONTREAL, N.C.R - Unifica-
ton was the problem facing the
General Assembly of the Southern
Presbyterian Church here today.
The issue came in the wake of
Saturdays dramatic session which
saw the church strongly urge its
doors be opened to all-regardless
of color.
Underlying the passage of the
de-segregation issue was the phil
osophy of the unity of mankind
the oneness of God. Those favor
ing union with two northern
branches of the church looked back
and took encouragement that the
union issue may be swept into the
current of liberalism also.
Others felt that the concessions
already made by the conservatives
would cause them to fight union
with even more vigor than in the
past.
Union already has been ap-
proved by the Presbyterian Church
of the U.S.A. (Northern) Presby-
terrain Church of North America.
Yesterday afternoon the Rev.
Ralph Waldo Lloyd, president of
Maryville (Tenn.) College and a
fraternal delegate to this assem-
bly, from the northern branch,
urged commissioners to vote for
a merger.
The plan before the assembly
today is the work of about 16
years, during which four revisions
of the plan were made
Informed sources said the COM
mittee itself was split on its own
recommendations and that the ma
jority report would recommend
the plan be rejected. 1t was pre-
dicted by others that the POSSIBLE
ity of then adopting the minority
report would be good.
Yesterday commissioners lis
tened to routine reports after hear
ing DR.. Stuart Oglesby. pastor of
Continued on Page Twe)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
injured Climber Is Brought
Toward Safety By Experts
Rescue Effort
Begins After Man
Is Reached SUNDAY

FAIRBANKS, Alaska IA res.
cue team of eight expert noun.
tain climbers cat-stepped its way
down the ice-covered sizes of Mt.
Mckinley today, carrying an in.
jured Brooklyn soldier nearer to
safety.
Strapped tightly to a sled was
Pfc. George Argus, whose hip was
broken May 16 in a 1,OO0-foot fall
that killed a companion, George
Thayer, q, of Reedsboro, VT.
Argus, left in an improvised tent
May % by two other climbers who
survived the fall, was found yes.
terday morning by DR.. John Nc.
Call of the University of Alaska
and Frank Milan of the Air Force
aero-medical laboratory at Laid
Air Force Base.
Promise Kept
~ H.
Inc @o'year-oio vi owed MS
life in part to a promise Mccall
n naus " inaye, Delore tne iil-Iateo
~ GApe ..", s s,r Aprll
-. 80. q pronnise MICAH lu1llieo even
The two who survived the fall
uniniured. Morton wood and les
viereck, left Argus wrapped warm.
ly in the small tent at the II GOO.
foot level on Mckinley while they
made theirsway s,oGn.the molntair
s0 report se tfagedy.
Mccall and Milan, rapidly out
distancing the other five members
of the ground party Yesterday and
Saturday after Argus tent was
spotted from the air succeeded
in a desperate bid to heat dealt
to Argus side and reached tbf
crippled climber at 1o:1o am
(4:1O pm. EST) Yesterday.
.'He's alive and well /" tbex
radioed.
The tent, a small dot on a vast
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Eisenhower Gives
Solemn Tribute
To War Dead

WASHINGTON R-President Ell.
senhower led his fellow Americans
today in a solemn Memorial Day
tribute to the nations war dead.
Tonight he will address the nation
on the subject of the grave inter
national situation that makes the
peace uneasy.
With Mrs. Eisenhower looking on,
the President placed a wreath at
the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in Arlington National Cemetery,
across the Potomac River from the
capital city.
Then, hat over his heart, the
President stood in brilliant sun.
shine while taps echoed over the
rolling green hills.
From the tomb the President and
Mrs. Eisenhower walked the short
distance to the cemetery amphi-
theater for ceremonies in which
Navy Secretary Charles S. Thomas
was principal speaker.
Thomas told a crowd of several
thousand that nation united be-
hind the President and Congress
need fear no foreign foe or agnos-
tic creed"
But, Thomas went on, eff we
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Romulo Asks
Conference With
Pres. Eisenhower

PORTLAND, Ore. @-President
Eisenhower should meet with
Southeast Asia leaders to make a
policy declaration similar to the
Atlantic Charter, Gen. Carlos P.
Romulo of the Philippine Islands
said yesterday.
The suggestion, which Romulo
said was his personal view only,
was made in University of Port
land commencement speech.
Romulo, the personal representa-
tive in the United States of Philip
pine President Magsaysay, said the
Prime Ministers of India, Pakistan,
Indonesia, Ceylon, Burma, and
Thailand as well as representa-
tive of the Philippine government
should have a part in framing the
declaration, which Romulo envis-
Toned as similar to the 1871 war
time peace aims statement made
by Great Britain and the United
States.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
County Election
Costs Released

The two May primary cleo.
fions cost Monroe County S..
6T.4s, County Clerk Earl r.
Adams reported today.
Placed by Adams in ioday's
mail were 116 checks to cleo.
tion workers for their service in
the two May primaries. These
checks fotaIed 81 $4,000, and al.
50 included payment to owners
Of polling places for rent for
the two elections.
Other expenses included
printing Of ballots, extra work.
srs for fhs Supervisor Of Re.
gisfrafion's office and trans.
porting Of The ballot boxes by
election workers from ihs keys.
The money was paid out Of
fhe eovnty's general revenue
fund, Adams said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
County's Traffic
Picture Bright

Monroe County, thus far, is
enjoying an aeeidenf.free hoIi.
day weekend, . check Of the
Sksriffs Department and State
Highway Patrol office at Ma.
rsfhon revealed today
They reported not . single
traffic accident for The week.
end although the toll over the
nation stands at 24S traffic
deaths. R
State Highway Patrol dispaf.
cher Ronnie Rondeav credited
the eovntry's good fortune to
HE fact that cloudy weather
has cut the number Of cars
travelling over the Overseas
Highway considerably.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
4 Children Die As Tornadoes
Sweep Nebraska Farm Section
Seven Farms Are
Reported Hit By
Sunday Disaster

4 NOREoL K.4A 1ah. R-reFnadoes
cut . swath across northeast Neb.
raska last night killed four children
and injuring at least 10 other per.
sons.
/ The Weather Bureau said there
were two confirmed tornado re-
ports and three unconfirmed re.
ports in a 30.mile path. Damage
to telephone lines made checks in
the area difficult.
The list of dead was revised
downward this morning when hos
pital attendants accounted for all
members of the Ben Kohl family.
Earlier it had been reported four
Kohl children were killed and two
children and the parents injured.
Hospital attendants said when the
injured revived sufficiently to talk
they said there were only four
children in the family.
List Of Dead
The dead:
Nell Klawonn, 8.
Cindy Carberry, 4.
George Kohl, about 6.
Robert Kohl, about s.
ALI deaths and injuries were in
an area about two miles wide and
four miles long some 10 miles
southeast of Norfolk. At least seven
farms were known to have been
hit. The area is about 100 miles
northwest of Omaha.
One tornado, coming in from the
southwest, apparently dipped and
hit the Ben Kohl farm about On
miles southwest of here, about s:1S
pm.
Then it jumped three miles east
OF the Weldon Rakowsky farm,
killing Cindy Carberry, 4, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Carberry of
Norfolk and injuring IL other per-
sons, apparently attending a Mem
orial Day family gathering.
Cindy's brother, Greg, was in
jured, but the parents had gone to
Lake Andes, S. D., for the day to
fish and missed the storm.
Many Escape Death
Ed Rakowsky, one of the in
jured, took the injured SON,
Dwight, 10, in his car and drove to
the home of DR.. S. H. Brauer.
He kept repeating: 81 saw my
wife die" But Mrs. Rakowsky
was identified later as being
among the injured.
Also injured at the Rakowsky
farm were Mr.. and Mrs. Weldon
Rakowsky and their four children,
Sharon, Is, Lucretia, Pam, and
Continued on Paga Two}
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
|Baptists Hear
|Of Struggle 70.
Overcome Evil

ST. LOUIS N--Dr. James w.
Storer of Tulsa, Okla, president
of the Southern Baptist Convention,
says a continual struggle between
the forces of righteousness and the
forces of evil" faces the world
today.
He told the opening session Of
the Women's Missionary Union
an auxiliary group of the Baptist
Convention yesterday that not to
recognize this is Ito close our eyes
to a tragic fact, and make our
coming here a travesty, an utter
misuse of time"
The Southern Baptist Convention
meetings open Wednesday and con-
tinue through Saturday with about
5000 persons expected. About
5000 Baptist women are attending
the auxiliary's three-day pre-con-
vention sessions.
]. p. Edmunds, secretary of the
Depart of Survey, Statistics and
Information of the Baptist Sunday
School Board, reported Southern
Baptists gained an average of al
most two new churches every day
in 1853. He said an average of
6,958 persons were baptized each
Sunday during the wear.
DR.. Courts BEDFORD of Atlanta,
Ga, executive secretary of the
Southern Baptist Home Mission
Board, said "the greatest pools of
social and spiritual restitution that
our land has ever known are
formed by the increase in liquor
consumption, prevalence of i'm
morality and vice, and the physical
mental and spiritual victims of
war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Rev. Stathal,l
Addresses
KWHSCrads
Bacca1aureate
Services Are
Held On Sunday

In his baccalaureate address the
reverend James E. Statham told
me graduating class of Key West
High School not to be "afraid to
dream"
In developing his topic, "Behoid
the dreamer cometh," Reverend
Statham said, ''Dreams, call them
what you may, come from high
moments of inspiration and medi-
tatiOn."
He said that the dreamer is not
always popular and that his con-
tempories ac>ase him of being a
visionary" Reverend Statham al
so said, 1.-THE Dreamer, being an
idealist, can often see beyond the
present problem to the problems
Of the future"
Successful Dreams
Citing Woodrow Wilson's dream
Of a League Of Nations, Statham
said that Wilson'S dream came
true in the form of the United Ma
tons.
"Joseph," he said, twas also a
dreamer and because of this was
a favorite with his father. Joseph
could sit down and talk with him
about the future and discuss the
problems they both foresaw."
He urged the graduates to ''hold
FAST to their dreams because
dreams come true through the de-
termination of the individual or
groups of individuals.
Graduates Attend
The baccalaureate service was
held at the high school yesterday
afternoon, at four o'clock.
The graduates, in their caps and
gowns, entered the auditorium to
the strains of Cigars "Pomp and
Circumstance" played BY Millicent
Taylor.
The invocation was given by
Lcdr. w. M. Laudenslager, CHIC,
USNR, followed by the scripture
reading by Reverend Statham. s
Under the direction of Thomas
Whitley, head of the choral depart
ment of the high school, the Choir
us sang the Waring arrangement
Of Coward Christian Soldiers"
and the Key West High School al
ma Mater q.
Reverend Statham's sermon fol.
lowed the musical portion of The
service.
Reeessional
After the benediction by Chap
lain Laudenslager, the graduates
marched from the auditorium to
Verdi's ''Recessional" from Aida,
with Miss Taylor at the piano.
Parents of the graduating SEMI
ors were the honored guests at a
tea held in the school cafeteria af-
ter the service.
The graduation tea was sponsor
ed by the Keyette Club and the
Key Club. They were assisted by
members of the Sinawiks, the wo-
mems auxiliary of the Kiwanis
Club.
Punch, sandwiches and cake
were served by the youthful host
esses TO more than four hundred
guests.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
NOTICE

The Equalizing Board of The
City of Key West, Florida will
meet in the Commission Chamber,
City Hall, Monday, June Z, 1854 at
500 PM.
ALI persons desiring corrections
in the Assessment Roll must file
written petitions with the City
Clerk, on or before the 7th Of
June, 1854, setting forth their OBJ.
jections to said Assessment Roll.
Dated this 31st day of May, A. d.
1854.
VICTOR LOWE,
City Clerk.
may31, 1854
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
Toll
Is Expected 10
Mount TODAY
Early AM. Count
Is 1913 Dead
Since Fri. Night
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRsss

BY The ASSOCIATED PRESS
Memorial Day weekend tfaffic
fatalities we're running well head
of this years daily average Il SO,
but whether new records would be
established depended upon the pro-
portions Of the going home slaugh-
ter.
The last day Of a holiday week
end usually is the deadliest. The
National Safety Council, which has
predicted that $40 persons win lose
their lives in traffic accidents dur
ing this first holiday outing period
of the season, estimates 30 million
automobiles are on the roads.
The traffic toll since 6 pm. Fri
day, at an early hour today,
amounted to 2es lives. Ferty-nine
more were drowned and Al addi-
tional lost their lives in q variety
Of accidents for a total of $3.50.
There seemed little doubt that
the holiday weekend toll would sur
pass figures compiled by the Asso-
ciated Press for comparative pur-
poses. Over 7S+hour period, 6 D.
m. May IA 10 midnight May II,
fatalities were: traffic 25S. drvwn-
ings so, miscellaneous IS. total So.
Record Set n 1850
The record for deaths in high
way accidents during q Memorial
Day weekend was set during the
three, day period Of 1852. II was
1853. The record for all fatalities,
Continued On Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31

For Quick Communication.
Use CLASSIFIED Adsl You'll
reach buyers dnd sellers
tenonts or workers Just
DIAL 2-566l or 2-S662.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31

, oIlu pOooiUly IdloS tIe T6IlLS.
The Navy spokesman said
that West Poinciana is not
included in the Nays re-
quest for a decision. The
spokesman stated that a de-
cision had been requested
about 8 months ago from
the Bureau of Yards and
Docks. However when the
city indicated they would
take steps to take over the
projects, the Navy delayed
any further decision. .
The city recently signed an a.
greement with certain realty COM
panies whereby. they (the realty
companies) would buy the build
ings from the government and OPP
crate the projects for profit. The
agreement between the city and
the realty companies is consider
ed weak" on rent questions and
does not have a stipulation to de-
finitely keep rents at the present
level.
REM Increase Predicted
Mayor Harvey stated at the last
city commission meeting that he
foresaw probable immediate in
crease in rents because the land
would Immediately be assessed for
city taxes
Commissioner Jack Delaney
said, in commenting on the Navy
request, that his only concern was
for the people who live out in Poin-
ciana to have the same cheap rent
and not to be dispossessed.
He said that the city tried to buy
the land first but when the owners
refused to sell, the city did the
next best thing and made an a.
greement for land owners to take
over the projects and operate
them.
Delaney added that there is no
law which gives the city power to
buy the land if the people don't
want to sell.
Cobo Sees Nays Point
Commissioner Delio Cobo said
that the Navy was the logical one
to have the Poinciana projects. His
interest is the people who live
there, he said, adding that he
doesn't want to see the people dis
possessed or the rent raised.
Commissioner Louis Carbonell
was in agreement with Cobo and
Delaney. He said that all of his
decisions were to keep the place
from being torn down to enable
the people to live there at the pre-
sent rents.
City Attorney ]. Y. Porter said
that IN his opinion the city could
not take condemnation proceedings
and buy the land. He said that he
based his opinion on a recent Flo
rlda Supreme Court decision where
Daytona Beach had attempted pro-
ceedings similar to circumstances
now being discussed here in Key
West. Porter did state that in his
opinion the Navy could buy the
place.
Must Prove Need
CarboneH said that he believed
Continued on Page Two)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1954-05-31
REP. PAPY GOES
TO TALLAHASSEE

State Representative Bernie c.
Papy announced today that he will
leave for Tallahassee to attend a
cabinet meeting set for tomorrow.
Papy said that he will return
later in the week after attending
to the business.
Evening star., 1954-10-29
1895

Your pretty figure this
pretty princess curve ;. and q
bloze Of color! We think the
princess is smortest when it's
simple, dramatic, un-detoiled!
This Mindy Ross "FIorentine"
royon foilIe, beautifully pot
termed to give hiehIiehts to the
eoiety Of turquoise. Also in
beige or pink; sizes 7 to IS.
Junior Budget Shop, Fourth
Floor F Street and at Shirline-
ton, Silver Spring, Conn. Ave-
nue..
Evening star., 1954-10-29

We believe the simmer, the
changing shodow-texture Of
silk and ocetote deserves a
shock of q color and tur-
quoise is O Joy! This princess
curve outlined with flirtybruch-
ing. Also in gold or party
blue; junior sizes 7 to Is.
Junior Deb Shop, Fourth Floor
Street and at Silver Spring,
Conn. Avenue.
Evening star., 1954-10-29
Brown snnartest
OF the shades in
SUITS
1895

Kolmer's button troced town and
country suit in flecked flonnel that
IS q fashion prophet all by itself We
think you ought to try brown
occessorize II with block, with gold,
with nauted noture-shodes II looks
very new! Also In flecked blue. Sizes
II TO g. Third Floor T Street and at
all JelIeff bronch stores.
The Nome nugget. [volume] (Nome, Alaska) 1938-????, 1954-07-21
Stevenson Flags
COP at Fairbanks
Luncheon Picnic

FAIRBANKS, R-Adlai Steven
son told a acknowledgements
rally here last night "America's
greatest surplus is not Wheat-it
is the perishable Republican pro-
misses of the last election"
The 1852 Democratic presiden-
tial candidate, in an informal adj
dress at a box luncheon picnic in
the Fairbanks Fairgrounds pavil-
ion, said the "only fruits of the
grand Republican promises" is
that the "free world is on the eve
of it's greatest disaster since the
defeat of Nationalist China"
Stevenson said an oft-repeated
statement the Republican party
has the aims and direction of a
blind dog in a meathouse," was no
more true anywhere than it ap-
peared to be with regard to the
administrations activities in Alas
ka.
He said he gained no satisfac-
ton from what he said was the
present administration inability
to lead this nation in the right
direction.
President Eisenhower is not to
blame, he added, but a "myster-
ious force" which he said is gov
erning Washington.
Stevenson said Secretary of the
Interior Mckay, when he was
governor of Oregon often made
emphatic endorsements of state
hood for Alaska. "but as Secre-
tary of the Interior something has
changed"
"Why this sudden inconsistent
cy?" he asked.
More than 1000 persons gather
ed to hear Stevenson despite
downpour of rain which forced
the picnic indoors.