Tbe highest • point in Key West i FREE Vol. XI, NO 10 KEY WEST, FL NOVEMBER, 198 3 agent said that they were also going to look into FROM TIIE ECHTOR Koford, probably because he manages federal funds, too. The agent said they were calling me instead of Koford "Miss FIORENCE": IN A CIASS by HERSELF fay BUD JAEQB50N HELLO because they wanted to be sure the books would be open became the first county clerk of what HOW SWEET IT IS. Congratulations to to them and they didn't want MALORY SPOTTSWOPP; 730 Eaton Street, then later, after a was then Monroe-Dade counties. His son couple of moves, Dr. Maloney and his our new mayor, Richard Heyman. to give Koford a chance to in, the. pld tradition, arid close the books. • • • was John P- Malpney. family settled on a triangular-shaped e "My father/John B. Maloney, was parcel of properties at the corner of AS WE GO TO press, George Halloran, She is th 91-yp.ar-pld matriarch of Thee BaB r 'I assured them that they pn.e pf th§ ^PHnty's most distinguished the first of the Maloney family to be Fleming and simonton. The three-storey Group 4 and Emma Cates, Group 5 face run- [the books] were public an,d, best-Known families; a bright, de- born in Key West. That was in 1867," red-brick building at the apex of the off elections on November 15. Please vote lightfuj. 3-ady with a fund pf knowledge, said Mrs. Spottswood. triangle was bought in 1903 and even- for these two City Commissioner candidates. record and were open to him tually housed the Key West Drug Co. Birke at any time.' a razpr-sjiayp ipemory and an enduring THE DUST STILL hasn't settled over interest in everything ^nd everyone THE STUDIOUS YOUNG John B. Maloney and iri the 1950's became the fulltime home of Florence and her husband, Col. the summary firing of Key West's Wardlow maintained today that arpund, her. became one of the island's first medical City Manager, Joel Koford. On the uproar over the firing of Together with her sister, Janice Wednesday, October 26th, lame-duck Koford "is strictly political. jvialoney White, they are the last direct City Commissioners Mayor Dennis Ward low It really has no bearing on links with pne pf the pldest settling and Mary Graham, along with Joe the campaign or on who should families in Monrpe County whpse roots Balbontin voted to terminate Koford. or shouldn't be elected." gq back f.o the 3.830 >s. when V^aiLter'Catty- Other than street talk and rumor of cart tyalqriey Sr., their great-grancl- this action, no advance notice was Wardlow further contended father, a young man from Qeqrgia, first given to the people of Key West that that those who are angry landed in th=e Florida Keys. this measure was being contemplated. with the termination A large crowd, alerted that very day, "haven't yet given any FROM THOSE EARLY years to today, booed the Mayor as he led the purge; reasons as to why the man members of the Maloney-Spottswopd clan, the same crowd stood and cheered Koford should not have been fired have been leading figures in the county as he entered to take his seat at the except for the timing. and. in Key West, with a long tradition, Birkenstock sandals are scientifically designed meeting. Well, I'm still mayor until in public service and involvement in to make walking comfortable. the cultural, social and political November until November 17 affairs of the whole area. The famous Birkenstock foot- bed, IN THE THURSDAY, October 27th and anything we do, any Miami Herald, Wardlow is quoted: Today, Florence Spottswpod, known often copied but never equalled, recreates bills or resolutions we affectionately as "Nana" by her four as much as possible the conditions pass (at the November 7 grpwn-up grandchildren and as "Miss Fl.p- Wardlow refused to explain meeting) are still valid." of walking on natural, comfortable why Koford was fired, saying rence" to a multitude of old friends, surfaces. And that makes any kind of walk he 'never runs a man down presides pleasantly over a small clut- a walk worth taking. in public.'" AT THE TIME' of the firing only tered pffice inside the maze of law of- Commissioners Heyman and Mira fought fices announced on the shingle outside the decision. The Herald on October as; Spottswopd, Spottswood and Spptts- 'There are no charges," 27th wrote: Wardlow said Wednesday wpod. It's prt the second flcor of an old ...footprints Key West building on Fleming near Duval, morning. 'There will be no Heyman and Mira said Wednesday prily a few 4oprs from her hpme pf nearly 610 Duval Street discussion on it. It's just that the commission's mpve 30 years over what was pnce the Key West Old Town Key West a mutual agreement and the was irresponsible, coming Drug Co. at the corner pf Fleming and time's come.' at a time when the city is Simonton. trying to show the state it HOWEVER, APPARENTLY STUNG by is making progress in solv- SHE IS A small, splidly built lady criticism of his action, Wardlow took ing its waste-disposal touched with a little arthritis so she the offensive and was quoted in the problems. walks slightly bent over. Her sparkling Key West Citizen on Friday, October cjrey-bliae eyes lppk directly at you and 28th, as saying that the FBI had been . "It's a personality thing," • her m,puth, ^s accustpmed to smiling and requested by Koford to investigate Mira said Wednesday morning. laughter--you cari tel^ that by the dim- former City Finance Director Lucy "The only complaints he ples there when she talks. Her hair is Hicks, former City Manager Robert [Wardlow] has is that the silvery and. a little wirid-biown at Bensko and the Pier House. He further man doesn't communicate with times/ cprahed in the Victoriari manner. stated: him. He [Wardlow] doesn't As she w^lks back and fprth to work, lyjonday thrpvigh Friday, she is probably The mayor said the FBI agent . continued on page 33 the Pfte Person in-Key West whpin. everyone indicated that the complaint • \ knows anfl recognizes imfliediately. appeared to have "no basis Our cover artist this month is Susie The Spottswroo4 family in the 1960s: frt . to 'left) Mary Spottswood, "Miss Florence than maybe a witch hunt. The Gardner. She is living in Marathon at Ilsf THIS HALF of the century, in the late John Spottswood, sans Johri and Bill, daughter Farnie, and youngest son Robert present. t}")p Florida Keys/, the Sppttswqp4 qjari doctors; he was, along with his other Bob Spottswood. Finest Wine Selection On The Island qacupied, for many years, a dominant ghore.s., the mayor of the city; the niche in the politicai degtiny of the. founde? ol the city's first private THE WOOD-FRAME CONCH house at 532 Offering Highest Quality Wines sjre.a 4lpng with the Papy family and tt . hospital; Warned after his wife, Lpuise. Fleming, set back from the street, was Sou*- tjpujr otvcjr I THB Malpriey; and he was the proud ownfr of the original first private hospital in «OUR RamPs-Lopez family- Those three families, At Every Price Level. SCWJ (Mr a> pc*ftc*rdf Our mailing address: the city's first motorcar, a glossy Key West, established by the doctor, SUBSCRIPTON with th.eir numerous side-branches and', strpng aprnmeroial interests, were the • i>lack pldsmobile which you steered by and, after his death in 1916, was op- '• POftiS 513 Fleming Street Ifiajpr forces, in shaping the community means of a curved handle. erated by his goad friend and colleague. 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