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ley West, Florida, has tho
most equable climate in the
country, with an average
range of only 14° Fahrenheit
A&B Cos. Seeks In junction
To Stop Union Picketing
Check-Off Main
Contract Issue *
Company States
The A and B Lobster
House filed suit for an in
junction to stop picketing
•f their restaurant by em
ployees of the Hotel and
Restaurant Workers, Local
156, AFL and have asked
Governor Dan McCarty to
appoint a Judge to sit on
the case tomorrow, in the
absence of Circuit Court
Judge Aquilino Lopez, Jr.
Attorney J. Tom Watson of
Tampa filed the suit in the office
of Circuit Court Clerk Earl Adams
last yesterday. The suit alleges
that the demanded union check
off is a denial of the right to
work.
The nine page complaint sign,
ed by Alonzo CoHtron end Bor*
Ihi Felton, partners who own the
A and B lobster house states
that they "are suffering irre
parable injury in consequence of
the picketing. . .that said picket
ing Is unlawful and that unless
the picketing is enjoined and the
said defendant union required to
discontinue the same, such ir
reparable injury will be continu
ed; and that the A and • lobs
ter house will have no other
remedy at law except In a court
of equity."
The company is asking for a
temporary restraining order
against the union picketing and
asks for such “tamporary and per
menant injunction and for such
other relief gf to the Court may
seem proper xni U meet."
Judge Lopes it at the Florida
Bar Association meeting in Holly
wood, hence the request by At
torney Watson for a • substitute
judge to hear the auit immediate
ly.
The complaint states that dur
ing December, 1932 the union
agent. Samuel P. Cariola, ap
proached Felton and Cothron with
a demand that a union collective
bargaining labor relations con
tract be executed and signed by
them. The suit alleges that Cario
la demanded that they bargain
with him as the agent for the
A and B waiters, dishwashers,
cashier, salad girls and hostesses.
At that Ume, the suit states, Car
iola said if this was not done the
union would picket the restuarant.
Cariola then presented the owners
with a copy of a written union
contract about which the company
states:
"The previsions in said cor
k*rt taken together, and the kv
tepretetlen which they ere sub
ject te under the Censthutien
end by-laws ef the defendant
unien, substantially deny and
abridge .the right te werk at the
ampleyaes who are new in the
amplay ef the complainants. . .
in that If these complainants
were required to maintain labor
relations with their said am
pleyeas in conformity with the
previsions ef said centrect. . . j
said employees would have te be- ,
long te the union to maintain :
fhelr jobs with thoso complain
ants; aid these complainants
would have te check off for the
benefit ef the unien by deduct- j
big from the salaries ef such
employees eH dues, initiation
ms or assessments, os requir
ed under the terms of sold con
tract; and If said employee ob
jected to such check-off. his‘or
(Continued On Pair FHiv
Anti-Fish Trap
Bill Proposed
A toll to prohibit all hut craw-'
fish traps and on* wire trap for
each fishing boat * til be intro
duced by State Representative
B C Papy according to an an
pounce went today
The proposed ton states that
the setting of traps of any kind
ot trap device* In the salt waters
of Monroe County ' shall be pro
to toted
Exception aro wooden trap* j
mot exceeding a nnw specified 1
*i*r durmc the togbi season for
taking cravrfieh Another excep
tion a the attreranra of mm -net
trap fee a eurocaeeesri Jtohmt
Itori-
Site iKcu Wc&i Ctfeetl
VOL. LXXIV No. M
67 Percent Rise In Pupils
In County Since 1942-’53
Sailboat Still
j On The Rocks
At Looe Key
. Sinks As Soon
As It Is Pulled
Into Deep Water
Coast Guard vessel Ariadne
has given up trying to salvage
the 34-foot yawl of E. D. Miller,
67 years old, who piled her up
on the rocks at Loco Key and
waited two days for rescue, Lt.
Clem Pearson, local commander,
said today.
Miller was brought to port
from bis lonely watery abode
five miles out from Summer
land Kay by a fisherman. He
had sailed there from Havana,
Cuba. The Coast Guard im
mediately dispatched boats to
gat tha sail boat off tho rocks.
The boat draws five and one
half feet, and Miller evidently
couldn’t keep her out of the
three feet of water around Looe:
Key.
Coast Guard rescue vessel Ar
iadne tried tp get her, piled up in
the shallow ‘water, off the rocks,
and afloat. The vessel started to
sink when pulled into deep wa
ter.
Now it is a question of a sal
vage company, according to
Pearson. The Coast Guard can
make emergency repairs to
haul a boat to port but it can
not do the big sited job of got
ting tho yawl afloat.
Miller could not be reached at
the rooming house, where he
checked in last night. He called
the Coast Guard, this morning
but did not report in as he had
been invited to do. His personal
belongings will be taken cV'f the
boat by the Coast Guard and
brought to him. lt is then up to
Miller to decide if he wants a
salvage company to repair the.
boat so she can be floated and I
brough* to port.
Miller said he had no real ad
dress, only general delivery, Fart
Lauderdale. He said he was a
retired employe of the American
Telegraph and Telephone com- j
pasty. In fact, a watch given him j
by the company was the main
casualty of his two days at Looe !
Key waiting for help. The watch i
was immersed in salt water and j
became lost.
Miller suffered only attacks
from Portuguese men-of-war, j
; and coral cuts. He was aboard ;
' the piled-up vessel the whole j
(time at Looe Key,
Wallet Stolen As
Tar Dozes Today
A short order cook is in the
City Jati today facing theft char*
es after he allegedly lifted a wal
let containing $25 from the pocket
M a sleeping sailor in Jessie's
Gate Cafe. Southard Street, early
today, police have reported
The man. who waa identified as
Charles Deiroach. 1927 N W 4th
Avenue. Miami, was jaded by Of- j
fleet Edward Rewire* the
complaint of a Navy man. Joseph |
Sampans, of the CSS Bufeneli;
j who said that be foil asleep is the
cafe and wtsm he awoke found Ida 1
i wallet sussing When he returned;
:to tile restaurant and inquired j
j about the uttering wallet Dei- j
• meek te said to have res mu fee;
4 toaato wLmuvm - 1
' Sampson pursued him ■ and
hraetfftit sy&} feftck to tfef SCWSSS
■ The mosey ha toe wallet is stitt
j sitering Dtiroach bad bean cm- 1
ti of rpiiirwi w ivu
. day*.
_ ,_A. A. . -a. -*-* --- •*-
Wpik* SIQwWF
tested ef lito for appearance st
Civ Court today. q
THE SOUTHERNMOST NE VSPAPER IN T IHE U. S. A.
Almost Half Are
Children Of U.S.
Govt. Employees
Enrollment in Monroe
county schools has increas
ed 67 percent in the ten
years since 1943, while ex
penditures per child have
gone up only 30 percent in
the expanded school sys
tem, Superintendent of Pub
lic Instruction Horace
O’Bryant said today.
In 1942-43 there were 2771 chil
dren in county schools. As of
January 31 this year the number
had risen to 4131.
Of these youngsters, more
♦hon 44 percent aro Federally
connected, that is, their parents
work for Uncle Sam, either in
the armed services or civilian
lobs.
There aro 742 parents employ
ed on Federal property and re
siding on Federal property, ac
cording to this report which was
compiled for applications to the
U. S. Government for funds un
der Public Law 174 to help sup
port and maintain county
schools.
The vast expansion in the school
population has been achieved
with only a slight increase in
tax mill age, according to fhe sum
mary. _ ■' .. .
Back in 1988-39 when’ total en
rollment was only 2517, tax rate
for all school purposes was 11
mills. This year and last year,
the millage is 14.5.
expenditures per child in
average doily attendance in
Monroe county schools have
risen from SSO in 1930-39 te $220
today.
Another way of showing the in
crease is that expenditures per
child rose to $36 this year over
last year, or almost as much as
the expenditure per child in
1938. 1939 or 1940.
Total current expenditures for
the county school system ex
clusive ef debt service and cap
ital outlay expenditures ere
$054,944 for this year, contrasted
with ene-eighth ef that ten
years ago when the figure was
$141459.
Total assessed valuation for
school tax purposes in the county
has risen almost three million
over last year and $17,600,000
over ten years ago The 1932-33
valuation is $27,470,335. Back in i
1942-43 it was $10,423,710.
In 1938-39. earliest year for j
which data was compiled in this
report, the figure valuation was j
only $5616,346.
The vast increase in the enroll j
ment of pupils in county schools j
is largely the result of Naval ex j
pa as ion in Key West. Although the !
rise was slow from 1939 through ;
1930, it has increased almost 1.- j
000 from the latter year to this |
The enrollment figures include
children in tax-supported public j
schools only, not in the parochial
schools.
Sung Tonight At
Naval Base Chanel
The Easter Cantata. "The Cri*
eifhtson" will be sun* by St Raul s
chow. Hie Naval Station choir and
ether sinters tonight at the Naval
Station Protestant chapel at S
PAS
The 40 men and women Navy
and civilian gave their fond per
formance of Stainer s OruciLv
ton Wednesday aught at St
! Paul's church
| Thu wtli be toe final rendition
DOG RACING
TONIGHT!
Rev Irt Krnnd Omh
CAD! IS NIGHT
KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1953
Prowler Seen
At Site Of
Rape Attempt
Escapes Police In
Charles Street Area
Last Night; Home
Owners Protest
Another prowling incident re
ported on Charles Street, near the
site of a brazen rape attempt last
week, has residents in that area
up in arms. Police were called to
the home of Paul Moore, Tele
graph Lane, at • dusk last night
when an unidentified man was ob
served looking into his wondow.
Police picked up a man on
Whitehead Street shortly later,
j but he was found to be not con
j nected with the incident.
| ’Residents fear that the man
j may have been “getting the lay of
the land” in preparation for a
later jaunt, following a long series
of incidents in that immediate
neighborhood. Only last week a
would be rapist invaded a Charles
Street apartment and brutally at
tacked a young Navy wife there.
He escaped out a back window
and police and Navy investigators
are still seeking the man.
It has been learned that there
is a suspect in the case but he is
said to have disappeared the
same night the attack was re
ported.
In last night's incident, the
man who was identified as wear
ing white pants and a shirt with
lettering on the back, walked into
the yard of Moore's home. Mrs.
Moore, a few minutes later, look
ed out a back window and saw a
man standing there. He had dis
appeared by the time police ar
rived, however.
Residents in the area are up in
arms at the number of prowlers
appearing there and today, more
than one of them came out with
the statement that “they are going
to shoot first" whenever anyone
invades their yards after dark.
—
Bigger Deficit *
Seen By End
Of Fiscal Year
By FRANK O'BRIEN
WASHINGTON Of—Government
finance specialists said today the
country appears beaded for a de
ficit of nearly 64 billion dollars
—about a haif-blliioh more than
predicted—-by the end of the fiscal
year on June 30.
The specialists, who asked not
to be named, said in separate in
terviews:
1. With most of the big march I
tide of tax dollars counted, net
revenues this year may be a bil
lion dollars less than the $68,697,-
000.000 former President Truman
predicted in his final budget mes
sage last January.
2. With the fiscal year three
quarters gone, expenditures may
run about a half-bdl-on less than
the $74.5*3,000.000 Truman fore
cast.
This would mean a deficit ef
about $6,400,000,000 rather than the !
$5,996,000,000 forecast by Truman. |
Such a deficit would hamper Presi
dent Eisenhower's drive to balance
the budget for fiscal 1964, starting
July l.
Revenues are still to come to
during the last quarter of fee
waning fiscal year, and spending
between now and June 30 could
change these estimates radically, j
There are two big question marks: !
1. How much of the flood of
tax collections resisting from tie
March IS income tax deadline to
still to be deposited to government
accountsf
2. How are corpora two income
tax collections running*
These questions cannot he an ;
swered. perhaps, until near the end j
of April Last venr there was -a
considerable sp&om
Corporations pay their taxes
quarterly. They slit have one
quarterly payment tote this year
—on June Is. '*> j
Tax collect urns m March were j
to** bailee toattaf*. If it eqy
know* bow much of that was (rant'
corpora Urm* H would not he too
difficult to foreleg about how orach
corporation* tB pay on June ttJ
Until tow tovuMoa is known, e*U :
mates of total cottectaows for t%r
year are at doubt.
However, toe specialists said 1
these (actors mtoexted total eel
foctaom may he about a bfltesn
deßars lee n: tone hed heee me
: tfe|pei>4:
1, The estimate for MRS cOßic
: two* twetameil m Truman * fetal
■ budget were baaed m qnpriCtaafone
tCeetaaent On f t* Three*
Garrison Asks For Postponement Of
Hearing By Civil Service Board
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OFFICERS OF KEY WEST LODGE OF ELKS, who were installed last night by Past District Deputy
F. J. Ross and Past Exalted Ruler of the lodge. Seated, left to right, Jack Baker, Loyal Knight;
Kermit Lewin, Leading' Knight; Earl R. Adams, Ruler; John F. Blackwell, Jr., retiring Exalted
Rider and Trustee; Harry Knight, Lecturing Knight. Second row, George Sikes, Treasurer; Myrtiand
Cates, Tiler; Ernest Betancourt, Inner Guard; Harold Ruud; Fred Edwards, Secretary. Not shown,
Bill Neblett, Esquire and Robert George, Organist, wbo were absent.—Citizen Staff Photo.
Important Job
Is Offered To
€en. Van Fleet
By EDWIN B. HAAKINSON' ' '
WASHINGTON ig—Deep in can
troversy over bis claims at am*,
munition shortages in Korea, Gen.
James A. Van Fleet teday had of-'
fer of a job that could give him
potent influence on national de
fense.
It was an invitation to serve as
staff military adviser to the Senate
Appropriations Committee, which
will have a big say about how
many billions of dollars Congress
will vote for defense in the months
ahead.
Chairman Bridges (R-NH) of the
purse string committee said he j
and Sen. Ferguson (R-Micb), chair-!
man of the defense funds subconi i
mittee, yesterday invited Van Fleet
to take the military adviser post.
“The general told ns that he
would take it under consideration,” j
Ferguson said, adding it may be
several days before Van Fleet de
cides.
A reporter tried to reach Van
Fleet at the home of former Am
bassador William C. Bullitt, where
he and Mrs Van Fleet are guests.
He was told Van Fleet was “too
tired to come to the phone.”
The former Eighth Army com
mander retired Tuesday after near
ly 38 year* id Army service. He is
ci.
Wednesday he was the key wit
ne*s as a Senate armed services
subcommittee began public bear
utgs into his repeated charges of
serious and sometimes critical am
munition shortages in Korea
Pentagon leader* replied that ex
cept for some mnor exception*,
the Eighth Arm; always had
enough shells for s*a limited mis
stow
See HoflandiD-ri*). a tong time
friend of Van Fleet, said the few- j
era! had rejected " several flatter
tog offers** from industry ed
planned to MMNC el Aetmredal*.
Fla after • brief bear hunting
trip to Alaska. Several senators
had suggested feat fee general be j
retained on active duty but the
: Army mid Van Fleet toferated be
wished te retire.
Tap pay for a fwofesamaai ex
pert oe toe- Senate committee to j
mjm a year. This to about RW
a year mere than Va* fleet efl
draw as a retired general
txptrtt srtd CM*
Key West Salvage Cos.
STOCK SUM
■erne *u ji .vx
<I MtTALS
Old Tntou
Soldiers Killed
In Head-On Cyash
SANFORD on-Twe ariamtoAjr
Force Bqte soldier# 1 wWVMi
in a head-on crash of their car
with a trade four miles sooth of
this city on the Orlando Highway
eaHy today. Three men were hurt.
The driver of the car waa identi
fied by Florida Highway Patrol
man R. D. Harrison as Phillip
Scott Strahle, 24-year-old resident
• • (Continued On Pag* Throe)
Man Killed As
Truck Overturns
LAKE WORTH ob-A tire blow
out caused a truck to overturn
near here, killing one man and
injuring seven persona.
I The track was transporting Puer
I to Rican farm laborers late Thurs
! day when a puncture caused the
tire to Mow out.
Vincente Garcia Gonzaleai, 47,
died in the upset. Ramon Maranda,
| 44, suffered crushed riba. The ott
| ere were given first aid and re
leased.
Bill Meyers Has
New KW Book Out
BUI Meyers has just published
anew book on his favorite city
catted “Key West Stories ”
A review copy presented to
The Citizen today shows that BUI
has collected some of the unique
tales of this unparalleled town,
mixed them to with descriptions
of our flora and fauna, such as
the night blooming ceres, passion
. flower, and graen sea turtlaa,,
i and tots ot msptratioasi talk
The toartoU’ guide writer has
gathered together phot a, poems,
pieces of proee, and even a good'
map of fee Kay* for te latest
The reoutt to a little book that
' covers a tot of fee activity of fee
! four square miles that toe know
; as Key West
ARRESTED GERMANS
FREED BY COURT
KARLSRUHE. Gvrmaay P -
’ Tam af seres Germans arrested by
BriUtb satbwrities on charges of
ptoftng a Next cnosptoaey xgaute
UMB m|Ml WtOF9 fYVMHi.]
last a<gbt by German tn
wfll' CDt 111 MMMR Kj|.fi K ib kt ? fe 4 i
--Q Jt a- ■■ ux -
r*m&mn j mm
** taw to la stand Mid.
The Brettsb smstodjte Ger*
Ibwse fired yeaiarday qmre Dr
j ttasetmeyer, tea former Koto
PRICE FIVE CENTS
McCarty Will l
Get Doctor's
Word Saturday 1
Friends Fear
Appearance At
Legislature May
Cause Setback
TALLAHASSEE Ofe - Gov. Sic j
Carty wont learn until Saturday,
whether his doctor will permit him
to appear personally to deliver his
message to the Florida Legislature |
when it convenes Tuesday.
And even if the dorter gives his *
consent, the governor still must,
convince many of his friends that f
the appearance is worth the risk
of a setback to his recuperation
from fee heart attack he suffered!
Feb. 25
The doctor examined fee gover
nor today for the first tim? since!
McCarty took anew electro
cardiogram test Thursday, but j
held off te report for soother
■ -*y.
The governor has here out of
to hospital only a little more than j
two weeks nad hasn't b mm down;
to bis office yet He out of bed
about half of each day.
Kb friends are afraid that even
though fee medical test* show bis j
heart is strong the traditional
pomp ci fee legislative opening
wBl be too much ot a stimulant
to do him any good.
There have been suggestions feat!
he May away from fee capital!
altogether that he come down to;
his office sad send te message
up to the Legislature to be read !
by someone else feat be appear
pm rise read fee teat, and feat
be seed down a recording or trie
phone in mtseagr to fee tegiria
tors
Three b a lot of tension and
excftemret In fee apewmg af a
Florida legudative aresfow-fe*
state s biggest political show
It starts saoaaitfog as fee kibbles
(gl preparatory to fee Brat stroke
of fee gavel at arem
out downstair* until a remmjttre
of feme sen re are and fere* repee
Id rocc **** 10^0009^-
He foils femn wfora bed flk* to
appear fwtbrik has aE beam ar
ranged te adcaree. anyqwy h They
repart back Cam ■ meet keep
femme* tri Senate mritofot b
(CemOMMd On rrem*flfoeai
f l&ygUsociated PWa^Teletypn
to the
YIN Id ter ests WeeC
r Suspended Cop
Says He “Has
Done No W rong”;
Files For Divorce
Robert E. Garrison, sus
pended Key West Policn
Officer, the Civil
Service Board yesterday for
a postponement of his hear
ing until April 23rd "ad
that he can collect the ne
cessary data for hia dm-
Tense.’* The request was
contained- in a letter to the
loard read at their regular
neeting yesterday after
iiuon.
, ' Garrison was handed the
suspension along with a
ecommendation for dis
charge on Tuesday by City
Manager Dave King who
charged him with "conduct
unbecoming an officer” and
"disgraceful conduct."
j King, however, h-.* eni? , .y:hl
i the fact th*t these charge* hv
I no connection with an ind-'?•'* on
i March 2nd in which a *9Olll,
who said feat sh* was Vf?.
beat Garrison, chafred th.it>* v x
a "Peeping Tom/’-TTc vomabh- s
, since becA hfoaftficJ a-? Mr;.
; War II veterim asd an awrio e#
at fee Boca <sied Nrecl /. g's-
L r on. King wa* cleared 9* P*
vliarge* ijy fee City •
Garrison task *,o* ye- s*. >y
to remedy fee situation wH*i Its
filed rait to CVeuit Court f- e
divorce egsinst hit wife, Mr*.
Rom Virgini* Gar riser, **,
Wesfongton, O. C. They haJ
; been married for three veer*.
Basis for fee divorce action was
"desertion since March 1914."
Attorney William V. Affeury re
rsresantaif ||. . a. I ji a*
IP- — —* G* TaERP m* mt
The aetbm drew this comment
' from City Manager King today:
i "Hearing feat Garrison has taken
| steps to divorce his wife (* a step
in fee right direction ta clear fell
thing up he should hare takes
it six years ago ”
However, fee move will have no
effect on fee charge* ted against
fee police officer, it was pointed
! out today.
| Garrison said that be will fight
; the charge* vigorously. He decried
! King s move on fee baste feat hia
; action has m no way interfered
j hi* duties a* a police officer.
| “I have done nothin# wmif.” he
declared, "end I fori Item a*"f
I bad any right to pry into m> per
sons! affaire After aS. this tea
| ®re* country - tt teeT Germany .”
Truman Plaas
OK’d By State
j _
r Plan* and specific a non* for fee
additions to Trwmaa Elementary
arbori here been approved by the
State Department ef Edueattem.
kcrarttog to Vipermfiudenl af
Puhtic Inetracttan Horace O Bry
aid ■.:*
Bads win for epemrd a April
Is. be aato
The eaperefou of fee erimri
teldm* wifi m* Emit
yowwgrears fl tree
ree Bayvtew Park re play apace,
Itetadjßmmtob JM-ret teuwre
Appropriately
Decxirated