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THIS HAPPY GROUP OF LADS left for the American Legion-sponsored 1953 Boys State at Tal
lahassee Saturday afternoon. Kneeling, left to right, are Stanley Aymong, Paul Avery and John
Keiser. Standing, C. B. Harvey, Jr., Robert Semler, Ronald Pinder, Ralph White, Robert Muse and
Hilario Ramos. Glynn Archer, Jr., is also among the group now at Tallahassee. When the picture
was macto, he was with the High School baseball team on their way back from Alabama.—Citizen
Staff Photo.
Local Food Handlers Will Attend
Free Instruction Course At H. S.
Health Dept .
Urges Persons
Working With
Food To Attend
A free Food Handlers’
Sohoof opens Tuesday and
continues through Thursday
at the Kay West high school.
It is sponsored by the Mon
roe County Health Depart
ment and is a brief but thor
ough training program for
anyone who handles food or
drink. Not only owners, man
agers, operators, waitresses,
bartend ers, grocerymen,
meat cutters, frozen food
operators, cooks, school food
servers and other profession
als in the food and drink
field are urged to attend at
least one of the daily ses
sions, but housewives are al
go welcome.
The purpose is to train food
and drink handlers so as to pat
tha most out of availabla equip
mant and in making tha job
oasior on tha worker as wall as
taking in other factors such as
pleasantness, speed and safety.
Specialists and top speakers will
conduct the program which is back
ed by the Florida State Board of
Health, the Key West Naval Base,
the State Hotel Commission, the
city of Key West, the Monroe Coun
ty Health Department and other
Organizations trying to improve all
eating and drinking establishments.
The methods are especially inter
esting to people in the food and
drink business, not only from the
sanitation point, but from the view
of how to improve business, service
and the trades.
Mayor C. B. Harvey has al
ready issued an official proclam
ation in connection with the train
in* sessions. Ail employers in
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' OL. LXXIV No. 14S
Reciprocity In Teacher
Licensing To Be Discussed
Joseph Pierce,
Key Wester, Here
Visiting Father
A former Key West Citizen
newsboy who has risen to the job
as field commissioner of the Fed
eral Meditation Conciliation Ser
vice, is in town today visiting
his father.
Joseph Pierce, Key West bom,
and his wife and two children are
visiting W. H. Pierce, 622 Ashe
street. They live in New Or
leans.
Pierce, who dropped in to see
his former fellow employees at
The Citizen, said it was his first
visit in three years.
“l,am amazed at the changes,”
he said. Tm kind of lost look
ing at all that's happened to the
place.”
Pierce's region for his Federal
job covers Louisiana, Texas, Ar
kansas, Oklahoma and New Mex
ico.
Pair Jailed For
Throwing Eggs
Two teen age boys were jailed
Sunday after the complaint of a
Southard Street resident that they
threw egg at her as she sat on
her front porch, police said today.
Mrs. Sarah Watson. 915 Southard
Street, said that she was struck in
the back of the head with one of
the eggs which were thrown from
a moving car. She noted the license
number of the car and reported it
to police, A short time later, pa
trolman Armando Perez made the
arrest.
A search In the car revealed that
an egg was lying on the back seat
and the two youthful passengers
admitted that Uiev had thrown a
total of five eggs at the woman.
The pair was lodged in the coun
ty jail and a report of the incident
made to juvenile authorities who
will handle the case
The Regular Meeting
/ the
cerebral palsy
ud CRIPPLED
CHILDREN’S ASSOC
K ill Re Held at the
W oman'* f'.luh on
Duval Street
at ;00 P M.
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 14.
End Of Interstate
Barriers To
Teachers Urged
t _
By Educators
Monroe county educators will at
tend the four day conference of the
1 National Education Association
opening in Miami Beach tomorrow.
They will join with some 600 edu
cators from the nation meeting as
the National Commission on Tea
cher Education and Professional
Standards.
Th adweators wilt map a
course for eliminating the bar
riers te Interstate exchange of
teachers and nationwide recip
satisfactory ways of licensing
teacher end nationwide rec ip
recity in the certification ef tea
chers.
These problems will be highlight
ed in the keynote address of Lucien
B. Kinney, professor of education,
Stanford University. His subject
will be “Teacher Certification:
Quest Lr New Eases ’ Mrs Sat ah
C. Caldwell of Akron, Ohio, presi
dent, National Education Associa
tion, will preside at the initial ses
sion.
Other major addresses will be
given by Herman Cooper, execu
tive dean for teacher education,
State University of New York, Al
bany; Ralph W. McDonald, presi
dent, Bowling Green State Univers
ity, Bowling Green Ohio, and Ab
ram L. Sachar, president, Brandeis
University, Waltham Mass. Dr.
Cooper and Dr. McDonald will dis
cuss teacher ccfthication from the
view points of “Appraisal and
“Projection’* and “Challenge and
Opportunity.” Dr. Sachar’s subject
will be “The Certification of Man.”
One evening of the conference
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Two Injured In
Auto Accident
| Two persons were Injured early
today in an auto accident after
I which the driver face* three traffic
charges, police reported today.
The driver of the car. John W.
Mattingly, 31. of the USS Clagma
gore, was taken to the Naval Hos
pital suffering from a broken nose
after his car went out of control
and struck a palm tree in front of
?R2 South Street. The vehicle was
overturned by the impact of the
crash.
A passenger. Mias Catherine Rig
ley. 33. was also taken to the hos
pital suffering from bruises about
the face.
Matnagly wt charged with driv
ing while under the influence of
.alcohol, reckless driving and caus
'baa as accident.
KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1953
Added Cut In
AF Budget Is
A Possibility
Wilson Replies
To Questions Of
Senate And Gen.
Hoyt Yandenberg
WASHINGTON OP!—Secretary of
Defense Wilson, stcutly upholding
his controversial five billion dollar
cut in proposed Air Force funds,
declared today ‘"the real question”
is whether a further cut should be
made.
In a letter to Sen. Ferguson (R-
Mich), Wilson said that if Congress
approves his recommendation of
$11,700,000,000 of new appropria*
tions the Air Force will have $40,-
200,000,000 available at the start
of the 1954 fiscal year—the 12
months beginning July l.
The additional money is “carry
over” funds: that is, appropria
tions made in previous years and
not spent.
Wilson said there would be $23.-
20,000,000 available for aircraft
procurement, or purchase of new
planes, at the start of fiscal 1954
and called the program “over
financed.”
This sum, he wrote, “provides
financing for over 42 months—for
all of fiscal 1954 and two and one
half years beyond—not considering
any new funds for fiscal 1955.”
“The real question x x x is
whether further reductions in new
authorizations for fiscal 1954 should
not be made to reduce to a reason
able basis the two and one half
years of financed lead time which
will be carried into fiscal 1955.”
“Lead time” is the period be
tween the letting of a contract and
the completion of the first plane
under the contract.
Wilson’s letter was in reply to a
request for comment on one sent
to senators a week ago by Gen.
Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the retiring
chief of staff of the Air Force. Van
denberg in effect urged restoration
of $1,400,000,000 of the five billion
cut.
Full House
At Jail Over
Past Weekend
20 Adults And
Nine Juveniles
Arrested In
Busy Two Days
Sheriff John Spottswood had a
full house at the jail this weekend
with more than 20 adults arrested
and nine juvenile delinquents.
The busy Sheriff’s department
arrested six Navy men for “tres
passing” at the Islander drive-in
theater, processed the traffic ar
rests of violators on U. S. One ar
rested by the State Highway Pat
rol, and had to admit nine juven
iles to the already crowded jail,
Sheriff Spottswood said.
In addition to these chores, the
Sheriffs office provided the escort
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Churchill Says
•
Britain Deplores
S. Korean Action
LONDON jT - Prime Minister
Churchill told a cheering House of
Commons today “we have not com
mitted ourselves in any way to go
forward and conquer the whole
area of Korea and place it under
the authority of Mr. Syngman
Rhee”
At the same time, the prime
minister disclosed Britain had sent
a stiff note to Rhee denouncing bis
“treacherous action '*
Churchill said the South Korean
president's release of thousands of
anti-Communist prisoners of war
had created a situation “full of
danger.”
Churchill said the note warned:
“Unless there is a government in
the Republic of Korea which will
cooperate loyally with the United
Nations command, the security
and welfare of its people, as well
as all the gams which have been
made by the sacrifice of so many,
including the gallant Republic of
Korea army, will be jeopardised.**
Building or Repair
Problems Solved
at
STRIXK LIMBER
tn StmtnMn. wear Grow
Five Contracts Let BySchool Board
For Summer Repairs And Building
Coach Davis Will Be Rehired
Next Year, Board Head Says
1.1. Board To
Offer 33-Mile
Strip For Sale
From Key Largo
To Key Biscayne
Will Be Bid On
By Promoters
The Florida Internal Improve
ment Fund is advertising for bids
and objections on the 33 miles of
publicly owned oceanfront •run
ning from Key Largo to Key Bis
cayne, the AP said today.
The magnificent strip of bay
bottom and sea shore is being
sought for outright purchase by
Thomas H. Horobin, promoter, who
wants to make a private real es
tate development there.
He has offered SIOO,OOO to the
II Board for the invaluable land
and waterfront.
Horobin originally asked State
Representative B. C. Papy to ask
the legislature to permit the sale.
He withdrew the bill when it was
learned he did not have to have
legislative permission to purchase
the strip, according to the AP.
Attorney Gen. Richard Ervin has
said that the hearing will “bring
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Marathon Man
Wounded In Gun
Accident Sunday
James Arrington, 28, is recover
ing from a gun wound in his stom
ach allegedly inflicted when his
wife Mellie, accidentally shot him
at their home in Marathon yester
day at 3 p. m.
Arrington was rushed to Monroe
General Hospital by Deputy Sher
iff Sidney Curry who happened to
be at the Big Pine toll gate wait
ing for the Key West High base
ball team.
The wife and husband both agre
ed that the shooting, which took
place at The Rocks, Marathon, was
strictly accidental. Mrs. Arrington
said she was holding the .22 pistol
when it went off.
Arrington is in the hospital to
day.
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MRS. *RNSTii McMASTSRS, WiKOH, and fMm Cobb WNaYUt) at the emergency tn A teat of
Key West Radio Amateurs put m at East liartelto Tow ere tmm 4 pm. Saturday to 4 pm. yntterday
The local group waa m touch wu> Lvs than u& stations Uumgbmi the couotr/.
Adams Denies
That Baseball
Mentor Was Fired
At Park Meeting
Key West High School baseball
coach Paul Davis, who guided his
team to the first state champion
ship in the city’s history, will be
retained at his post, it was an
nounced yesterday by chairman of
the Monroe County School Board,
Gerald Adams.
Adams told a huge crowd gath
ered in Bayview Park Sunday af
ternoon to welcome the team home
from a tournament in Selma, Ala
bama, that “Davis rfbver had been
fired.” He added that whoever
started the rumor was “misinfor
med,”
And today Superintendent of
Public Instruction Horace O'Bry
ant pointed out that not only will
Davis be rehired for the coming
year he will be given an in
crease in salary.
“Coach Davis will bo tondorod
another contract and will bo giv
en an increase in salary along
with everyone else,” O'Bryant
sold today.
The story that Davis had been
fired, which was definitely
morg than a rumor, was veri
fied three weeks ago by Devis
when queried by the press as to
his future plans.
According to informed sources,
when the contracts of instructional
personnel in the county school set
up eame up for renewal, Davis
was not offered anew contract
When the news hit the public, in
dignation reached the boiling point
with Key Westers asking why the
man who brought Key West its
first state championship should be
fired.
The Key West high baseball
squad backed up their coach, say
ing as a group that “if Davis was
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MESSAGE TO RHEE
WASHINGTON OW-Two assist
ant secretaries of state leaving
here by special plane this after
noon will carry a message from
Secretary Dulles to President Syng
man Rhee of Korea.
The State Department in an
nouncing this gave no hint about
the nature of the message.
An announcement said assistant
Secretary Walter S. Robertson,
who is in charge of Far Eastern
affairs, would tly to Seoul ac
companied by assistant Secretarv
Car! W. McCardle, who is in
charge of public affairs.
PRICE FIVE cAm£|
Judge Gibson,
Joe Allen To
Attend Meeting
Juvenile Detention
Problems To Be
Airnl At Conclave
Juvenile Court Judge Eva War
ner Gibson and County Commis
sioner Joe Allen have been invited
to a meeting next Wednesday in
Tallahassee to discuss juvenile de
tention problems in counties with
30,000 to 60,00 population.
The conference called by the
Florida Children’s Commission will
make recommendations to the Chil
dren’s Commission which holds its
annual meeting July 12, 13, 14.
The meeting was suggested by
Leon County Judge Renfroe who
has been active in his own county.
He particularly suggested that the
meeting be confined to representa
tives of counties of similar size.
Invitations were extended to
Judge Gibson and Commissioner
Allen, who is also chairman of pub
lic welfare for the county, by Syl
via Carothers, executive secretary
of the Children’s commission.
She wrote Susan McAvoy of The
Citizen:
“The Commission is studying
what citizens consider as practical
goals and procedures pertaining to
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Delegates To
Boys State Now
In Tallahassee
TALLAHASSEE tj*l -More than
350 delegates to boys state started
setting up their rival political or
ganizations here today as they
opened the annual American Le
gion sponsored week of mock gov
ernment.
They organized city govern
ments, elected mayors and began
campaigning for positions in the
boys state legislature.
Later in the week they will take
over the state Capitol House and
Senate chambers for serious de
bate on bills involving some of the
major political questions of the
day.
They also will elect state offi
cials from governor down.
When the boys move out at the
end of the week, girls from all
over Florida will move in to try
their hands at playing government
in the annual girls state, sponsored
by the Legion auxiliary.
The Associated Press Teletype
Features and Photo Services.
Nfor 73 Years Devoted to the
Interests of Key West
Painting ; Roofing,
Plumbing Part
Of Program
The School Board at a
special meeting: last week
awarded $9,244 in contracts
for extensive repairs and
paint-up jobs on county
schools, Superintendent of
Public Instruction Horace
O’Bryant anounced today.
Largest contract, $3,000
went to Contractor W. H.
Roberts for painting the ex
terior of Key West High
School. The interior of the
gynasium at the High School
will be painted also. This
award went to Hoecherl.
Alonzo Cothron won the contract
for $2,250 to make two acres of
playground at Coral Shores school.
He will install 1300 cubic yards of
sand at the school which is in
Islamorada.
Ceramic tile will be installed at
the showers of the Key West High
School gymnasium at a cost of
SI4OO. Ernesto Viladostiqui was
awarded this contract by the School
Board.
Giffen won the contract for re
pairing the roof at Douglass
School. His bid was $1,054. The fins
went to work today on the job.
W. B. Hansen was awarded ths
$1,789.35 contract for resetting
plumbing fixtures at Harris School,
connecting the sewer line and in
stalling anew water line.
O’Bryant also reported that
Joseph L. Cates, maintenance
superintendent of Monroe county
schools has a crew; of men work
-3“ f throughout the school syet*
tnrire rPTfiffl fir
school opening.
The brand new Administrative
building for the School Board ami
its employees will be completed
by October 1, O’Bryant said if con
tractor M. E. Bennett finishes on
time.
Though O’Bryant had hoped that
the eight new claaa rooms at Tru
man would be ready for occupancy
September i, he does not believe
they will be.
Plans are being made now far
double sessions of certain classes
to run in the fall if the new rooms
are not finished. O’Bryant said.
The delay in completion was caused
by trouble in gee ting the plans pre
pared.
O’Bryant said that between sheer
maintenance and necessary expan
sion the school board and Be
employees get oo rest.
Son Of Key West
Winter Residents
Was Crash Victim
The son of well-known Key West
winter residents was a victim ef
the worst airplane crash in history
; near Tokyo last week, It was learn
ed today.
i Air Force Corpora! Robert 0.
i Van Ales, 22. son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Van Aten of Beil port, Long
Island, perished in the crash which
claimed the Uvea of 129 service
men. The Van Alena ere annual
visitors here, residing at the homo
they own at HW* Johnson Street,
i The crash of the Air Force Globe
master is apparently unexplained.
: ft was tarrying combat veteran#
j hack to Korea after leave hi Japan
when it plummeted to earth to ea*
| ry all aboard to flaming death.
All Globe master* transports had
! been grounded a week before the
crash after failure of certain gen
j era tor parts had caused fires hi the
’engines of two plane* There wan
no trace of fire in the stricken
plane before it crashed, —ttntnea
said.
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