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The Highest F I Point in Key West The highest fi Point in Key West FREE VOL. VII, NO. 2 KEY WEST, FL FEBRUARY 1982 UNFORTUNATELY JOE IS going to suf- fer from a lack of credibility unless FROM TNE ECIITOR he straightens out his own affairs with the city. When a man runs for city com- • After this worst of all Keys hurri- "My feet were in such bad Dick took over as skipper of the canes passed, his father had sailed out shape I couldn't even missioner he becomes a public figurei Unison. As an indication of how intri- stand on them (then) I A commissioner is supposed to comply arid fixed the multiple cable breaks and COMMISSIONER JOE BALBONTIN has cately his family was involved with the then sailed the John W. AtklnA to Miami ordered a pair of your with the law. Joe dismisses what ha has JACIC STEACIMAN history of the cable ships. Jack's marvelous, marvelous come under a lot of fire recently. City- to pick them up so the children could officials charged him with operating done against city ordinances as "petty" middle name is Atkins, named for the sandals. I started out and says he wants to get on to more im- BY JIM COAN John W. Atkins who was originally in get back to Key West for the beginning wearing them an hour the his plumbing supply business since 1967 oi school. The railroad had been per- first day and a little longer each day... What without paying occupational license portant things. But there is nothing charge of the Western Union repair of- more important to a public figure than fice here. ; manently destroyed by this storm. Jack are my feet like today? I can walk, they never fees and renting six apartments since FOR OVER 22 years. Jack Steadman was only 10, but he still remembers the tire or hurt. But best of all, I have lost all of my 1974 without paying license fees. believability and without it he is not corns and calluses. And my feet feel so good, has operated one of the most trusted trjemendous amount of debris and even going to get much done. Who is going and best-known boatyards in the Keys. just like they did when I was a child and I'm ALSO, JOE'S PLUMBING business and to want to pay for his license when a bcjdies in the water on the turbulent nearly seventyl" Steadman's Boat Yard, on the right side trip back to Key West. apartments apparently have never sub- city commissioner doesn't? Who is going of Garrison Bight bridge on the way scribed for garbage disposal service to want to pay to have his garbage re- into Key West, hums daily with the drone I NOWADAYS, MOST PEOPLE prefer to do from Florida Disposal which is against moved if a city commissioner doesn't? of power tools as boatyard workers and a city ordinance. thieir own repair work because of the A public official in order to keep faith boat owners ready the sailboats, rec- expense of materials and labor. Jack Birkenstock with the people must comply with the reational power boats and commercial haiuls out and blocks up their boat and AT A RECENT City Commission meet- laws he expects them to follow. Joe has fishing craft for the pounding of ing Joe voted in favor of permitting a th^ey buy their materials—paint, fiber- Footprints® paid some of his back license fees un- waves and-the assault of tropical ele- • glass resin anct cloth, some mahogany local builder to get a zoning change der protest but he hasn't pretended ments they must withstand. • • even though his company. Lower Keys and cypress — from the boatyard. He has that this law means much to him. Hope- a ;Travel Lift, which is a mobile, self- Plumbing, was a sub-contractor on the fully Joe will change his attitude and People who wear Birkenstocks are the best sales job and would benefit from the- change. BORN IN KEY WEST in 1925, Jack propelled boatlift that can haul a boat force we.have. And all kinds of people are wearing win the faith of the people he was was raised with his brother and two ofj 30 tons and, since it's open-ended, them lately: From college kids to their grandparents. elected to serve. sisters at 324 Elizabeth Street. His thie mast needn't be . removed from sail- So come on, don't be bashful. Try on a pair. And HE HAS RECEIVED criticism over bojats. This eliminates the need for a painting work in excess of $1,000 done whole family has been involved in wood- see if you don't end up joining our volunteer sales INCIDENTALLY, IF JOE went 14 years working and ships for many years'. shjip's railway and cradles; one person force. for the city by a relative of his re- without paying his license fees, where can theoretically perform the whole cently especially since he has been v His maternal grandfather, Thomas was the city during this period? Higgs, was a wood craftsman and cabinet operation. outspoken about putting out to competi- Shouldn't the city enforce its ordi- tive bid any costs to the city over maker who came to Key West from the $1,000. nances? Is this unrestrained "bubbaiam" Bahamas at the turn of the century. i THE ADDITION OF a pressure clean- in action or simply lackadaisical-to- Jack says his aptitude and talent for eri for boat bottoms has made the boat- nonexistent enforcement of local laws? woodworking probably came from this OTHERS HAVE COMPLAINED that the JACK HIMSELF WORKED on the yard work much more attractive for the parking at Lower Keys Plumbing business Shouldn't the city commission insist ancestor. He still has his grand- workers. He used to run through 20 men father's venerable handsaw, well oiled Union for only six months and. then office extends over the sidewalk (il- that all those who owe license fees to started as a wooden boat carpenter's a year at the boatyard because cleaning legally) and forces pedestrians to walk the city pay these fees or face penal- and over a hundred years old, at the and scraping the bottom of a boat was • boatyard. apprentice at the Navy base in 1942. in the street to pass by. ties? After three years in the Navy in World such an unattractive business. War II, he returned to the apprentice JOE ARGUED THAT some large busi- GOOD NEWS FOR Key West. One of our HIS FATHER, CAPTAIN G.R. Steadman, program here of three weeks':work and '[ TODAY, JACK HAS three full-time nesses didn't have to have a license to. foremost citizens, Willie Ward, was left his home in Bristol, England, and one week of school per month'for four skilled workers at the boatyard who have ...footprints' sell plumbing supplies and so therefore unanimously elected to the Civil Service sailed on squareriggers around the Horn years. He stayed at the Navy base as a been with him some time. Manuel Gonza- why did he? He stated that he had large Board. Emory Major, who had the seat, and all over the world before leaving a civilian wooden boat carpenter until lei, is from Cozumel, Anthony Laing is 505 Southard Street pieces of- plumbing that had to be moved explained at the meeting that he was ship in Galveston, Texas, and working 1959. He has great praise for the excel- from Jamaica, and David Stephenson is which Florida Disposal wouldn't take considering seeking public office and his way to Key West. While the railroad lent apprenticeship program'at the base from Texas . Jack ' s son Jimmy, who owns Key West and so he bought a truck and has used therefore would not be a candidate for was being built along the Keys, he in those days. For example, he is one Steadman Marine Service, occasionally it to haul his trash to the dump. He re-election to the seat that Willie worked putting in the "land lines" for of the few people, left around here who contracts fiberglass repair, wood and felt that since he already had a plumb- then got. Unhappily, Emory reversed Western Union to link Key West to the understands the art and trade of caulk- painting work at the boatyard. His ing contract with the local builder he himself the next day and threatened a mainland. When the first train arrived ing a wooden boat. He served'500 ap- other son John is in the same business didn't have to excuse himself from vot- lawsuit if necessary to help him keep in Key West in 1912, he rode the cow- prentice hours in caulking and has a oujt of town. Jack has a loyal following ing on a zoning variance for him. As for his position. It looks to me like catcher into town and was said to be fine collection of early island ship- that's been built up over the years and as the painting goes, city official Willie was the unanimous choice and 1 the first one to jump off as the train builder's caulking irons and!"ringing" people return from as far away as Fort "Purie" Howanitz stated that he knew the feel confident that he will keep the would slow to a stop. After the railroad mallets. i Myjsrs and Tampa each year to have their man was a good painter, that he offered job and that's good news.
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