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BROWARD HOME NEWSPAPER 2nd Section COUNTY NEWS CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING WFTL-1400 FORT LAUDERDALE aily New: WFTL VGOR WFTL1400 FIRST in BROWARD COUNTY In News and Entertainment. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1950 PAGE t-B BUREAUS IN HOLLYWOOD AND POMPANO BEACH 'Army Silent On Call To National Guard Pentagon Hollywood Dania Hallandale Rezoning Appeal Planned JalL OF THE Pompano Beach Oakland Park Davie Deerfield Beach PTMSWi M.ii) um jwi. imumuiMM.i' H'jmm fi.wi.jii i.j.im uiii.i 1 1 1 1 in. .11 5 1 ti--w-i i rr- hi i 1 1 LJ 'I.

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r-l Mm.m. m.mJ Ifrrmm urn -s- 4ni t-r- 1 1 I lit r- .1 1 til THE MONTHLY LUNCHEONS of the Hollywood Chamber or Commerce will be resumed in November, the executive council board has decided. The luncheon originally wwe inaugurated last February. They were held regularly until the summer season, when the directors voted for suspension. The executive board took no ac-j tion on the date for the meetings In the past, however, they have been held on the third Wednesday of the month.

In another action, the board approved the establishment or a special account with the First National bank of Hollywood for driver's license receipts. The board also announced resumption of director meetings, starting next month. The monthly meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month and are open to the public. A 25 YEAR OLD NEGRO. Identified by Pompano Police nki.

-m-anir as Leo Gates, (Daily News phot, by Steve Cresse) HOME NURSING COURSE GETS UNDERWAY Mrs. Martha O. Wolfe, standing second from right, director of nursing service for the Broward county chapter American Red Cross, is shown explaining a food chart to volunteers attending the opening class of the home nursing instructors training course. Others pictured are left to right, Mrs. Jean Goode, Miss Estelle Cox, Mrs.

Norman McEwen, Miss Thelma Simpson, Miss Ann A. Buscher, and Mrs. Julio Sierra. CONGRATULATIONS ore being received by Eagle Scout Preston Spaulding of troop 103 from Scout Commissioner John Miller, ot right, as Mrs. George P.

Spaulding pins the Eagle Badge on her son's uniform shirt and his father, at left, looks on. Also watching the ceremony are Eagle Scouts. The three standing between Preston and Miller are Scoutmaster H. S. Swisher of troop 101, Eagle Scout Stanley Swisher standing behind him and Scoutmaster Oliver Lovendahl of troop 107 standing beside Miller.

Comity Ilomocrats Organize More Police Seen As Need was crushed to death Tuesday afternoon while at work on a larm three quarters of a mile south or the Race Track rd. Rousing Authority Executive Committee Demands Greater Political Patronage An increase in political patronage will be demanded by the Broward county Democratic executive committee this year in a decision agreed upon at a meeting in the Broward hotel Tuesday Pompano Beach Labor Camp Receives 'Superior Rating' POMPANO BEACH. City officials have been informed by Tuppen said he was told the victim was In the process of connecting a weed chopper to a tractor when the accident occurred. said Gates w-as shifting gears on the tractor while standing between it and the chopper. The negro was dead when Tup-pen and Patrolmen Alvin Knight and Cotton Shiver arrived.

night. Dudley Rawls, commiteeman, pointed out that the committee is supposed to name not only the clerks and supervisors at the polls members of the Pompano Beach camp west of town has received Department of Agriculture and the Florida Fruit ana veeetaoie Growers' association. The announcement was included in the Hollywood Plans Contest Of Court Ruling HOLLYWOOD City Attor- iney Sherwood Spencer announced today that the city will appeal to the state supreme court the circuit court ruling forbidding the zoning of the north beach area for multiple-family homes. A request for a rehearing in the case was denied Tuesday by Cir- worth, who probably will hand today or Thursday. The rezoning of the north beach section from single to multiple family residences was recommended by the city zoning and planning board and eventually incorporated by the city commission in the city zoning ordinances.

This action brought an injunc tion suit by Byron H. Rix to stop the proposed change, and a re quest by the city to dismiss the action. Upon dismissal of the request by Judge Chillingworth, the rehearing request was made by the eity. The Hollywood Apartment and Hotel association, according to William F. King, president, has gone on record as opposing the proposed zoning change and charged that the "normal development" of the north beach area would be "entirely unbalanced" by it.

EFFECT OF CHANGE The zoning change would per mit duplex, apartment and hotel construction on approximately 250 additional beach lots, which have been zoned for single family homes. King said today the group of effected property owners in the north beach area have a tentative date with their attorney Thursday to discuss future action. He pointed out that the residents of the area were offered a single-family area, that the residents spent considerable money on homes and that they are "steam ed up by this deal" of changing the area to permit multiple family homes. Youth Confesses Mystery Slaying At Dade Carnival The brother of a West Holly' wood resident Tuesday night con; fessed to the mysterious murder of a carnival worker who was shot last Jan. 22 as he operated his concession on a crowded midway Dade County Chief Criminal Deputy Claude High announced today.

High identified the man who confessed as Ralph Gruber, 20-year-old brother of George Gruber. who lives in West Hollywood. RIFLE LOCATED Broward County Deputy Sheriff Claude Tindall accompanied High, and Dade Deputies E. E. Sistrunk, Carl Holloway and R.

S. Mc-Leroy to George Gruber's home where Ralph Gruber produced the death weapon, a single-shot .22 caliber rifle. High said that Ralph at first denied and then admitted he fired the shot that killed Irving Newman, 41, on the carnival grounds. Authorities have been working for months on the murder, but High would not disclose how the investigation led to Ralph Gruber. High commented that Ralph Gruber appeared relieved when he finally admitted the shooting.

(Daily News photo by Steve Cresse) Rporis Housing authority that the labor a superior ratmg from the u. b. Dog Track Seeks To Bar Proposed Jai Alai Fronton Validitv of the approval granted by the Florida state racing commission for the construction of a Broward county jai alai fronton by Monro Operating co. was ques tioned in circuit court today by an injunctive action filed Dy Broward County Kennel Club, inc The suit seeks to void the per mit for the fronton, asks an or der for the commission to rescind its approval resolution, and petitions for an injunction by the court to prohibit the operation, TOO CLOSE The kennel club has operated the dog track in Hallandale since 1934 and claims that the commis sion acted contrary to Florida sta tutes in that the fronton will be located within 100 miles of the track and also the Biscayne fronton in Miami, thereby hurting the business of the already existing establishments. John D.

Montgomery, president of the company scheduled to op erate the proposed fronton here saia last saturaay tnat tne jai alai structure will not be ready for this wmter, but that he hoped it would be ready for the 1951-52 season. Beverage Seller Nabbed A Hallandale negro has entered a plea of guilty to selling beer and wine without a beverage license, Supervisor William G. Hardy an nounced today. The man is Eu gene Rogers, who signed a state ment admitting the charge and posted a $100 bond for his release. Hardy said the arrest was made at 9:30 p.

m. Monday. Awaiting Decision 51st Division's Future Unsettled (Daily Newt Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON "Security reg ulations" prevent the Defense De partment from discussin3 the pos sibility that the 51st National Guard Division may be one of several National Guard divisions ordered to active duty in the near future, a spokesman said today. Reliable sources within the department have intimated that from six to 12 National Guard di visions may be called up soon and there have been persistent reports that the 51st, a Florida and Soutn Carolina division, might be one of the group. The department spokesman said that no decisions concerning such call-ups had yet been communicated to it from Army Ground Forces headquarters in Fortress Monroe, but that in any case the department would not be permitted to Identify divisions Involved prior to their receipt of orders.

Neither would he comment on the denial in Florida by Maj. Gen. Mark W. Lance, state adjutant general, of earlier reports that the 51st might be included in the group. General Lance had said that if the 51st were called, he would be the first to know it.

Unofficially, however. Pentagon sources said the normal procedure for communicating such intelligence would be from Army Ground Forces headquarters to the chief of staff, and from him. through channels, to General Lance. Efforts by the office of Sen. Spesard L.

Holland to obtain information from the National Guard bureau concerning the 51st Division's status met with similar results. The bureau, a Holland aide was told, has no Information now concerning the identity of any division soon to be called, but must await word from Army Ground Forces headquarters. LOCAL COMPANIES Part of the division Is the 211th Infantry Regiment. Ft. Lauderdale's Company is an element of the Second Battalion of the regiment and Hollywood's Com-, pany is a unit of the regiment'i First Battalion.

TRAINING ENDED Capt. Robert L. Evans, Ft. Lau derdale, commands Company and Lt. Elby H.

Cross, Hollywood, commands Company C. Both units returned here Ausr. 27 from- the division's two-weeks training camp at Fort Jackson, S. C. The division embraces south Florida and South Carolina elements and is in a relatively high state of readiness.

Pompano Presses Paving Program POMPANO BEACH Work started Tuesday on the repaying of Hammondville between Old Dixie hwy. and a canal bridge approximately a quarter mile east of the Pompano State Farmers market. The work is being done by a Ft, Lauderdale construction com pany, which last week completed a similar paving project on Atlantic between NE First ave. and Federal hwy. City Manager H.

P. Edmond said the boulevard has been opened to traffic, but added that the work will not be completed until after telephone poles lining the thoroughfare have been set back off the right-of-way. He explained that the Job or relocating the poles is in connection with plans to widen the boulevard. Temperatures Asheville Atlanta 85 67 Atlantic City 64 63 Birmingham 87 62 Boston 58 49 Buffalo 69 61 Burbank '3 55 Charleston 88 72 Chicago 65 61 Cincinnati 72 62 Cleveland 77 64 Denver 65 46 Des Moines 60 50 Detroit 69 60 FT. LAUDERDALE 85 77 Fresno 85 58 Kansas City 69 59 Memphis 8 67 St, Paul 5 51 New Orleans 92 72 New York 70 58 North Platte 51 47 Oklahoma City 69 62 Philadelphia 67 58 Phoenix 97 62 Pittsburgh i 61 St.

Louis 76 58 San Antonio 9 "3 Seattle 77 51 Shreveport 91 66 .71 63 Montreal 62 42 Winnipeg 55 51 ROBERT W. STEPRO, 26, 316 SE Sixth Ft. Lauderdale, who was scheduled to appear in Hollywood municipal court Monday to face a charge of driving while intoxicated, was rearrested Tuesday for failing to appear. A bench warrant was issued by Acting Municipal Judge August Paoli for Stepro's arrest. His trial has been reset for Friday.

Stepro's trouble started on Aug. 26 when he was arrested by Hollywood police on Federal hwy. on charges of operating a vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants. He was freed after posting a $151 cash bond for appearance. THE ITALIAN AMERICAN Civic league of Broward county today announced an essay contest for students of South Broward high school.

It will be held in connection with the league's observance of Columbus Day, Thursday. Oct. 12. The subject of the essay is "The Life of Christopher Colum- Chairman of the judging committee will be Myron Ashmore, principal of the school. Prizes for the winners will be $25 for first place, $15 for second and $10 for third.

'OFFICERS FOR THE COMING year will be elected by the South Broward Athletic Association, sponsor of the midget football league, when the group meets at the city recreation building at 8 p. m. Friday, Felix Williams, association president, announced today. Hollywood Takes Action To Quiet Air Conditioners HOLLYWOOD The city com mission Tuesday night passed an ordinance requiring a fireproof covering on all air conditining compression units in an effort to cut down on the noise resulting from the mechanisms. The action, it was pointed out by board members, came after a number of complaints had been received by the city.

The ordinance is effective immediately for any units yet to be installed. In the case of existing1 units, the city gave the owners until Jan. 1, 1951 to correct the matter. Other action taken by the board included the purchase of two trucks, approved of beverage licenses, and the award of a con tract for painting the city's cen tral fire station and recreation hall. The two trucks, to be used for garbage collection, were purchased from Freeman and Son at a total cost of $20,753.

L. B. Warren was awarded the contract to paint the fire station and recreation building on Polk st. at a cost of $2,610. An ordinance requiring all contractors to furnish workers outdoor comfort stations was passed.

and 121 beverage licenses were approved. City Airport To Close ST. AUGUSTINE JP The municipal airport here will be officially closed Sept. 15 because it has become a financial burden instead of an asset. Planes may continue to land.

City Manager Richard Francis said, but at their own risk. Fuel and airport super vision for planes will not oe pro vided, he said. jsj For Pompano POMPANO BEACH Plans to purchase a new motorcycle for traffic work here were dropped by city commissioners by recommen dation of Police Chief Frank Tup-pen. Tuppen asked the board to de lay the purchase until a time when the department is in a better position to man such equipment Although he did not commit him self, the chief asserted that he would prefer additional patrolmen to the cycle. The present department personnel includes in addition to Tuppen eight officers who patrol an area of about 12 square miles.

At no time are there more than two men working on a shift, one of whom must remain at the station. Commissioners also: Awarded a contract for the paving of NE Second between NE Seventh ave. and NE 13th to the Brooks Construction co. of Miami Shores. Instructed the city attorney to prepare an ordinance that will require all contractors working in the city to pass an examination.

Reappointed Louis Fisher and Landrum Blount to the city's pub- hce housing commission. Authorized Edmond to attend the annual meeting of the City Managers' association in Houston, Tex Nov. 26-29. Approved the assessment rolls on the following streets that were paved recently: NE nth sW state road A1A to Riverside dr, and SE Second, Third and Eighth streets, from A1A to Hibiscus ave Hollywood Del avs Naming Bandshell HOLLYWOOD. The naming of Hollywood's Young circle band- sHell, on which construction was begun Sept.

5, has been delayed by the city commission until the city's service organizations have had an opportunity to submit sug gestions. The delaying action at a special meeting Tuesday night came after Scotty McPhee, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post here, presented the VFW plan for a memorial plaque listing the names of Hollywood's war dead. It was pointed out at the board meeting that commissioners believe the naming of the $61,000 memorial should be delayed until the other groups have had a chance to suggest a name. This action seems to indicate that the amphitheatre will be a memorial to Hollywood's war dead, possibly of all wars. The matter will probably be discussed at the next meeting of the South Broward County Veterans council, which represents all four local veterans groups.

Bus Accident Kills Safety Patrol Captain MACCLENNY. CP) A school bus accident resulted in the death near here Tuesday of George Otis Bennett, 21, captain of the Taylor high school safety patrol. Florida Highway Patrolman F. C. Belott said Bennett fell under the wheels of the slowly moving vehicle when he attempted to get one of his mates off the rear of the bus.

The accident was unavoidable, he said. CITRUS PRICES PLYMOUTH. UP Secretary- Manager R. T. Carleton of the Plymouth Citrus Growers associa tion says it was competition and not the governor's citrus code that hiked the price of citrus fruit, on election days, but also tne deputy sheriff assigned to each polling place.

This patronage, Rawls said, was usurped by former Sheriff Walter Clark, who named these deputies himself. By precedent the committee names the poll workers and turns over this list to the county commissioners who actually make the appointments. The meeting was presided over by Chairman William Moffitt of Hallandale, The ranks of precinct commit' teemen and committeewomen vir tually were filled at the meeting with the naming of 20 new mem bers by vote of the small group present The appointments fill vacancies left open after the Democratic primaries of last May, when there were no candidates for many of the posts. COMMITTEE LIST New committeemen and committeewomen by precincts are: Mrs. Valdez Craig, 1: E.

J. King, J. M. King, 14; Mrs. Catherine Forman, 15; E.

E. Wright, 16; Mrs. E. Hunter, 17; Margaret Oliver Crews. 21; Ruth Shelton, 20; Mrs.

Mary I. Montaigne, 26; Mrs. Mary Otey, 32; Mrs. Linda Johnson, 33; Althea Jennings and Clifford Ratteman, 35; R. A.

Kershaw and Mrs. Ruth Kridler. 28: Charles Humphries, 29; Robert M. Curtis, 23; Mrs. Bessie L.

Ware, 23: W. C. Burkett and Ida R. McQuarrie, 9. Mrs.

Easter L. Gates, principal speaker at the meeting, reminded the group that registration books will close Oct. 7, a month prior to the Nov. 7 general election She said voting machines will be used in the election for the first time in this county and outlined the number of persons to be appointed to serve at the polls irom each precinct. Absentee ballots will be avail able, she said, and applications may be made at her office begin ning Sept.

23. She listed the number of quali fied voters at 31,800, of which 27,388 are Democrats and 2,202 are negroes. First Grapefruit Returns Good LAKELAND. UP) The first Florida grapefruit sold at the packing house this season brought high prices ranging from $3.50 a box to $6. Shippers reported Tuesday they soia io.ooo boxes by this method last week sales were confined to auction markets in the north.

Several packers said this week's shipments, expected to reach 000 boxes, might be only 40.000 boxes as some fruit was having trouble meeting specifications on size and ripeness. Jacksonville Communist In Critical Condition JACKSONVILLE. UP) Hospital attendants reported early today Alexander William Trainor, Jacksonville's lone registered Commu nist, remained in a critical condition from a stab wound and in juries suffered in a two-story fall. me 54-year-old Trainor was taken to the hospital Tuesday after neighbors saw him fall from a second-story porch with an icepick protruding from his chest. COWS KILLED TT A UT (JPt T.icrhtnintr ratiwl a power line to fall in a pasture! today and 10 milk cows worth $10,000 were electrocuted.

authority's third annual report, which showed that 1.183 farm workers who served 64 growers were housed at the camp during the peak of last winter's vegetable season. Louis Fisher, chairman of the authority's board of directors, said the Department of Agriculture and the FFGA rated the local camp above eight others in the state. Fisher said the commendation was based on the camp's highest percentage of year-around oc cupancy and from a financial standpoint. He pointed out that the camp here is not the largest is the state, and attributed it's success to "careful planning and economic' administration." A $50,000 allocation, he con tinued, has been earmarked by the government for improvements to the camp, including major repairs and additional housing facilities. Steps are being taken to build a dormitory in which at least 150 Puerto Rican laborers are to be housed, he added.

Beverage License Rules Explained Transfers of beverage licenses between Sept. 15 and Oct. 1 will not be approved by the state beverage commission. Supervisor Wil liam G. Hardy announced today.

Transfers will be denied so that there will be no conflict with ap plications for renewals of per mits during that period. Licenses must be renewed with County Tax Collector W. O. Berry hill between the dates stipulated. Hardy stated that all transfers which have been approved and are waiting at Berryhill's office to be picked up must be obtained by the owners before a new li cense will be issued.

Friday is the opening day of sale for the re newals. Applications for renewals must be made by the present owner of the business and any owner who fails to have the license trans ferred to his name when buying the business may be in for trouble, the tax collector warns holders of the permits. Smathers Says Congress Should Stay In Session WASHINGTON. UP Rep Smathers ID-Flal said today Congress should remain in session "until our boys come home from Korea." He told a reporter he is against any adjournment, "and if we run out of business, we can take three- day recesses as we have done be fore." Smathers, Democratic nominee for the Senate from Florida, said he believes the House foreign af fairs and ways and means committees should stay in operation. He said both are "vitally impor tant at this time." The ways and means committee writes tax legis lation.

Track Election Called JACKSONVILLE. LY Duval county commissioners have been asked to give voters a chance to say whether the Jacksonville Ken nel club's permit to operate a dog track should be revoked. A petition asking that the ques tion be placed on the Nov. 7 gen eral election ballot was filed with the board Tuesday. Florida Farming Report Issued ORLANDO LP) August crops in Florida made good orogress even though rain was below nor mal in most areas.

The U. S. department of agri culture, makinsr the report as of Sept. 1, said today citrus was beginning to show dry effects but rains averted any serious The Aug. 30 tropical storm 14 -4 -1-4-4-4 kte.

Li urn. i ii. i USfcIW-J brought some crop damage to the northwest during harvest. Follow ing this, the Gulf hurricane which entered the central part of the state did some citrus damage but not very much. The report said however, complete damage could not be ascertained immediately, TODAY HOLLYWOOD Friendship club, 8 p.

Lodge hall. 1920 Hollywood blTd. Women of the Moose. 8 p. Moose dub.

1840 Federal Hwy. Business St Professional Women's club. 8 p. BPW, day nursery, 2432 Hollywood blvd. Hollywood post.

Disabled American Veterans. 8:30 VFW Foxhole, Dixie hwy. and Washington st. Hollywood chapter. DeMolay.

7:30 p. Masonic temple, 19th ave. and FT. LAUDERDALE Junior Chamber of Commorce, 7:30 Brown's restaurant. Loyal Order of Moose.

8 p. Moose lodge. THURSDAY FT. LAUDERDALE Lions club, 12:05 p. Brown's res taurant.

Beach Klwanls club. 12:15 p. Pal's restaurant. Robert L. Agee post, VFW, 8 p.

VFW hall. FOMPANO BEACH American Legion Auxiliary, p. Legion Home, SINGING STUDENTS -The advanced chorus at Ft. Lauderdale high school is shown above at rehearsal with Director Dana F. Wells, standing, center.

This group of 90 students was picked from the training chorus of more than 100. The high school performing chorus, formed only three years ago, has won first division honors in district and state music festivals and has provided entertainment for service clubs and for large audiences at Christmas and spring programs. From the chorus this year will be formed a 30-voice group known as the "Choristers" and the smaller trios, quartets and other boys' end girls' groups. during the past season..