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country, with cm average
range ot only 14° Fahrenheit
2200 Marines V/itness
Spectacular Atom Blast
First To Involve
Marines Training
In Helicopters
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (B-Twenty
two hundred marines crouched in
trenchei today witnessed the most
spectacular atomic blast of the
spring series-a shot that flashed
blinding white then turned a beau
tiful rosy orange during an un
usually tong-lingering afterglow.
Tlte predawn detonation, first to
involve marines maneuvering in
helicopters, was set off from a 300-
foot tower.
After the explosion the ground
troops, from Camp Pendleton, Cal.,
and Camp Lejeune, N. .C„
scrambled up and advanced ut a
tactical exercise toward a mock
enemy. Their trenches were 4,000
yards from ground sero.
Leap-frogging over them came
200 more marines in 40 Sikorsky
helicopters applying vertical er.
velopment tactics, similar to those
carried out in World War II by
gliders and paratrooos.
Six marines and six soldiers rode
•ut the blast in trenches well in
advance of the main body of
troops. Authorities would not dis
close their distance from the blast.
Nine volunteers were stationed
2,500 yards from ground zero in a
previous test.
The exercise commander. Brig.
Gen. WUliam C. Bullock, said there
were no casualties.
The brilliant flash was seen in
Los Angeles, 250 miles away, as an
orange-yellow glow illuminating the
entire sky.
Observers here felt no shock
uve nartfrwMW uoiteoond tram the
blast, sixth of the spring test scries.
Ninetv-five planes, including 12
giant B-50 jet bombers, were in
the air over the test site on various
missions.
An AD-2 Navy propeller driven
Grunt, which was to have flown
fir High the mushroom cloud, did
not make its flight. Authorities did
out disclose the reason for this.
rabbits were exposed ot the blast
f military effects tests. Sheep
w e used, too, to show the Marines
tie effect of a bom*, on living
Id-ip.
Metzger To Head
40 And 8 For
Tenth District
Harry J. Metiger, Chef de Gare
to Vtotinre Locale 728 (Monroe
County) 40 and 6 fun and honor
organization of the American Le
gion was elected Grand Cbeminot:
for the 10th District at the District |
Promenade held recently in Dade;
County at the Lindley de Ganao I
Post TO, American Legion at C6co
■ut Grove, Florida. Metager s posi
tion is similar to that to the Le
gioo’s District Commander AH 40
and *- activities ia the Dade and
Monroe County area come under
his cognisance.
During Mm lfob District Con
■ftfiltianpl firtfartoil f ■ l.ia n
Sunday, April Uth. Jahn W. Mil
tor, a datogata from Arthur Saw
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MASONIC NOTICE
Special Communication of
Anchor Lodge No. 182. F. &
AM. Monday, April 20. 1953.
ot 7r90 PM
. Conferring entered appron
tico dogroo. All onlorod Mamma
invited to be preeent.
By order
JESSE J. MONTGOMERY.
WM
Gerald H. Adams. -
Secretary.
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CAPT. CARL HILTON, retired Coast Guard captain, and his
daughter, Merili, of 9 Hilton Haven, Key West, sail from New
York aboard the American Export Liner Constitution to attend
the opening of the Casteilana Hilton Hotel in Madrid, Spain.
They will debark at Gibraltar. Mr. Hilton, brother of Conrad
Hilton, international hotel operator, said that new Hilljon hotels
will be opened in Istanbul and Athens.
Police Officer This Morning
Found Looking In
Windows At
1329 Duval Street
Donald R. Wienke, 18, U. S.
Marine Corps, was apprehended
at 3:10 a. m. this morning on the
premises of a house at 1327 Duval
atreet and charged with being a
prowler and with trespassing. His
bond is set at $l5O.
Police Officer J. B. Woodson was
walking bis beat in the vicinity to
South and Duval street when he
saw a man wearing brown pants
and a sport shirt coming toward
South Beach. At the time. Wood
son had stopped under a tree and
was not visible to the man who
stopped by the Australian pine
hedge around the yard to the house,
and standing on tiptoe, looked over
the hedge into the yard.
The polieeman saw the man
glance around, then stii* on tiptoe,
enter cautiously through the yard
gate, Buck down behind the hedge
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Prisoner Strong
Attacks Officers
Alfred Strong lived up to his last
name around midnight last night
when it took every police officer
at the station to put strongman
Strong in a cell.
The trouble started shortly be
fore midnight when Strong was ar
rested by Police Officer Harris for
assault and battery when he at
tacked James S. Aliton, USN. Har
ris called the police station and
the patrol wagon was dispatched
to the scene, corner to Thomas and
Petrtmia streets.
When Harris and Police Officer
Will Archer attempted to jail
Strong the struggle increased. Lt
Buster Cerezo went back toward
the ceils in the city Jail to help.
So did policemen Herman Cooley
and Jailer Irving Hall.
Hall reported he entered the me
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KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY. APRIL 11, 19SI
New Supermarket
Coming To K.W.
If was announced today that
Otis W. Shibor, an independent
supermarket merchant of Mia
mi has leased the building at
953 Duval Street for the purpose
of opening a branch in Key West.
This will mark the inaugura
tion in Key West of Shibor's
cost-plus plan that has boon so
successful in operation of the
ether market in Miami.
Mr. Shiber is a native of
Georgia, but no stranger to Flo
rida, having moved to Miami at
an earty ago to live. Ho is also
no strangor to Key West, being
brother to Virgil Shibor who op
erates the Poinciana Service
Station in this city.
It is expected that the super
market will bo open tho Utter
part of next week, and an open
ing announcement will be pub
lished in this paper.
Cobo Deplores
“Politics” In
School Fight
Commends Russell
For Work At
Harris School
City Commissioner Dr. Delio
Cobo today scored “politics''
which he says enters Into the pro
posed dismissal of Principal Ran
dolph Russell of Harris School,
and Leland March aa General
Supervisor of Instruction.
The Commissioner-Dentist said:
"It’s a shame that politics are
reaching into our educational sys
tem. Things of this sort should he
ironed out in order that we may
b% abie to get jpiiicSpMf to come
to Key West ia theltoare. If the
behavior of the last two weeks is
condoned, it will be hard to get
food men to come here./'
The Commissioner mid:
"I have know Principal Russell
since he has been to Key West,
through my connections with den
tal programs in the schools. I
have always found him very co
operative. He has gone oat of his
wav to see that the program is
carried on for the benefit of the
school children. On numerous oc
casions he has even offered to
pay the dental bills ef children
who cannot afford them.”
The Commissioner's statement
broke the weekend lull in the bet
tie over the retention or dismis
sal of Russell and General Super
visor of Instruction Leland * S.
March, which started on April 7
at the school board meeting., An
other meeting was held last Wed
nesday at which time Superinten
dent of Public Instruction Horace
O’Bryant stressed his failure to
recommend either March or Rus
(Continued On Page Two)
Number Of Local
Bills Introduced
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. () -
Representative Bemie C. Popy
yesterday introduced the foßowfcg
local bills
H 8425, relating election Key
West city commissioners,
i H 8428, providing for five Key
| West city commissioners.
H 8427. eliminating pros Win
that Key West candidates with
| greater number of voles serve
longest term.
HB 426. relating terms to Key
I West commissioners.
! HB IS, dim tasting city ptao
i board.
HB <l4, mating selection to Key
West mayor.
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DIAL t-itn
w tlms—n Street
Coast Guard Ends
Search For Two Men
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FAMILY WAITS FOR NEWS OF BROWARD SAUNDERS AND JIMMIE GARCIA, who have
been missing at sea in the vessel WASP since last Saturday morning. Mrs. Saunders
down from Miami with her famliy to be eloaer to the port whew the mising men might show
up. Here she is shown holding daughter Bevely, three, on her lap; Barbara Jane, 13, right, has
Mary Margaret, five, on her Up. Roxie Lee Saunders, nine, another daughter who was too ill
to APpew the family groupptetote, is shown to tom st top left Her paring father i&ttfmn
#* top right inset. The Saundetoes are staying with the William Russels at 1210 South Street ~-
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Union Ordered
To Call Off
A&B Pickets
Restaurant Gets
| Temporary Order
From Judge Gerald
The A and B Lobster House ob
tained a temporary injunction from
substitute Circuit Court Judge
Lynn Gerald ordering pickets to
stop their activities to front of the
restaurant, yesterday afternoon.
The restraining order states that
K to decreed that the A F to L
Hotel and Restaurant Employees
and Bartenders Union. Local 156.
are enjoined from picketing the
premises to the complainant and
the complainant’s business.
The A and B owners Akxtxo Co
thran and Berlin Felton, were re
quired to post a bond to *56 to be
approved by the Clerk to the Or
cuit Court, eoodfftaned to pay any
damages suffered by the anion
consequent upon Che improper
making to this order.
Representing the company were
Tom Watson and Sumter Lett
ner. Judge Lopes was out to town
yesterday when Judge Gerald sat
<m request to the management.
(Continued On Page Two)
IT S COMING!
Youth Saved From Drowning
By Four Local Servicemen
Manslaughter
Hearing For Navy
Li. Roche Tuesday
Lt. (f. g.) Clinton Roche,
USN, 14, charged with man
slaughter to ths death to Clif
ford Brown of Marathon will go
TO prtolmtoafy hearing before
Peace Justice Roy Hamlin, Tues
day it ( t. m.
Roche, who is out on $',M6
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' Child Had Fallen
Through Bridge
Into Swiftly
Moving Current*
Modesty nearly kept from Hght
a dramatic story of heroism last
week at me of the favorite fish*
htf spots on the lower keys.
Rosemary, t-year-old daughter
ol British Air Commodore Ronald
Swain, Royal Air Force, attached
to the British Mission in Wishing,
ton, D. C„ arts happily enjoying
s Sunday afternoon outing with her
father on the old wooden bridge
that formerly connected Big Pine
with No Name Key.
Suddenly a piercing scream per
etrated the ahr as Rosemary' fell
through the rotting hoards of the
bridge into the swiftly moving cur
rents of On waters below
la less time that it took /or the
surrounding fishing party to real
ise the Impending danger four!
sendee men attached to the U S !
Naval Rose, simultaneous) v hit
the water.
Reheat Woit. airman (S Helk-sp
ter AiUt-Sehmarit Squadron One.
of the Seaplane Base was first to
raseh Booetnary. As she desperat*
tly ching to Ms neck. John Dob}.
**** apprentice Naval Air Sta
tton. Boca Chiea; E, L. Sikes as
hWM mate third clam. VM Mr.
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For 7ft Years Devoted to the
of Key West
Private Planes,
Boats Continue
In Hunt For Men
Missing One Week
While Coast Guard efforts
to find Jimmie Garcia, 34,
and Broward Saunders, 41,
in the 32-foot fishing vessel
"Wasp” were discontinued
at sundown last night, priv
ate planes and boats com
mandered by the families of
the men continued the
search in the Marquesas
area, west of Key West.
"We Hava dona everythin*,
baan avarywbara, up and dawn
the Key*, to Tartu*#*, and bsek,
not one* but several tlma* *y
plena and beat,” Lt. Clam Pear
tan, local Goast Guard com*
; mandar said today.
“We can’t think of anything tom
to do, or any place ei*e to search.
Our idiots are trained to minute
searches. They have not missed a
square foot to water fa) the search
area.
Pearson thanked Key West boat
, men and pilots ftr their coopera
tion. Yesterday George Faraldo
| flew on the inside up the Keys
and back on the outside.
■ Today Johnny West, skipper to
' the Mae West, offered to fo do—
‘ v ' ad continue
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JIMMIE GAHCiA
; mmbing the area. Stele ooaaerva
t *****t Joe Knight baa bee*
out to toa patrol boat helping
| And this momrng Manuel Gar
da. brother to the missing Key
West fisherman, flew to Pro Id
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