News Tribune (Newspaper) - May 28, 1963, Fort Pierce, Florida Hike It Here Martin County Tuesday May The Voice Of Indian c z o n DEATH BRUSHES POPE See Story On Page 3 By ED I'm know what was supposed to have been in the carefully sealed but empty envelope from the Chamber of Commerce I re- bright and early Monday morning The envelope was postmarked Sunday's date leading me to believe the topic must have been mighty Important Ah well haps another mail will turn up the missing contents Two of the State Road Dept primary road projects scheduled earlier In Hie year for Martin County on the list or day's bidding which will take place at Jacksonville ft The main one is the SR 76 resurfacing job from the Seaboard Airline tracks at Indian- town to U.S 1 right in the middle of Stuart so to speak a long stretch The second project consists of constructing a treated limber schools fender system at the SR 710 St Lucie Canal bridge in Indian- town The fender there now is in poor shape to put it mildly Teacher Group Nixes Support Of School Probe By ED GLUCKLER Stuart Bureau The Martin branch of the Florida State Teachers Assn in a letter signed by EH J Howelt Stuart Training School science teacher and president of the branch disavowed its support of a request for an investigation by the National Education Assn of Martin County The letter last night was read to the school board by Supt ot Schools Thomas L Crook and dered into the records of the meet LiHle League games this Wednesday Kiwanis at Palm City Lions at Rotary Friday Kiwanis at Salerno Elks at Palm City ft Pony League Tonight Rose Cove at Meal Thursday at Flower Growers if The wire reports out of hassee on the introduced by Sen Ralph Blank of Palm Beach regarding annexation a part of Martin County by Palm Beach were misleading somewhat in- accurate Blank as usual didn't know what he was talking about when he said the territory included Rep William E Owens home It but DID include the Owens Groves at Indiantown ing by Chairman Henry Kindred I was not at the meeting but his action was in turn dis- avowed by other officers of the gro teachers association and filiate of Florida State Teachers Assn which in turn is a NEA officers in Howell's group charged that he look the action without vote or permission of either executive board of the general membership of he MCTA called no meetings on it and did not act n accordance with the wishes of the membership j On His Own Mrs Gilbert Miller vice dent of the MCTA was at the board meeting confirmed statements that Howell acted ly on his own His letter dated last Friday and addressed to Dr Richard Barnes Kennan executive secretory of the Commission on Professional Rights and Responsibilities of the NEA follows in Dear Dr The Martin County Branch of the Florida Slate Teachers sociation would like lo withdraw its request and counterpart port for a survey and full of the Martin County County Delighted With Bond Rate The annexation included a five-mile strip across the south end of the county which meant It took most of Indiantown about a third of the St Lucie Canal Jonathan Dickinson State Park and much of the Town of Jupiter Island ft ft ft There are 145 regularly uled meetings of one sort or an- other in Martin County every month This includes only LAR meetings of full tions not directors meetings committee meetings special meetings This I glean from a schedule of days and ot meetings of various organizations just sent to me by Mrs W S Burdge who must have spent a month Ing the information ft TV ft Meetings are scheduled for every day of every month by at least one or two and on some nights such as Mondays and Thursdays 11 meetings are being held at one place or another ft ft ft I mention some of this to show what I mean sometimes when I say I just cannot be at one meeting or another because there's so much going on And the next lime someone sighs and Gee there's not much doing around here refer them to these words ft ft ft The American Federation of Teachers strictly a teachers union has letters to just about all local teachers ing membership would be a de- I sirable thing ft ft ft In Monday heard liis on East Ocean Gee it always rains when I want to do something The remark was made during one of the rare ers to be experienced in Stuart in months If hat's all Ihc gal wanted to do in that many months then she should be referred to the schedule of meetings huh? Florida papers as gleefully re- ported the Northern New York Stale fruit cc freeze last week ns the Northern papers the Florida freeze o last De- cember By ED GLUCKLER Bureau Chief Martin County's million bridge bond refunding issue sold yesterday at a better rate than the August U S 1 right-of-way purchase issue 3.83 per cent and better than the million issue it replaces sold in 1955 for 3.7 per cent An average interest rate of 3.63141 per cent was cheered by Chairman Frank A Wacha of the county commission who pointed out the Sen Ralph Blank's at- tempts to embarrass Martin ty into a high interest rate had failed Rep William E Owens at hassee said last night tor's had no effect al on price of the issue Wacha said there were three ders the successful While Welc and Co Solomon Bros and Hutzler Senn and Co and ates a New York syndicate I'm happy for hree Wacha said on his return here Irom the 2 p.m bidding session al Slate Development Commission of lolls will be off bridges Indian River SI Lucie and Jen sen Beach in about 20 days thi interest rate was lower than issues and in a year or so should be surplus gas tax over am that needed to finance the issue or use by county The million issue pledges Ihi county's share of the BO per ccn surplus of second gas tax th per gallon allowed unde Section 16 of Article IX of th Stale Constitution At Tallahassee Rep Owens sal Sermon le Lake Okeechobee division outd be allowed to become law by iov Farris Bryant at midnight ight confirming made by nd William R Scott n their return from Tallahassee ast week In other business at Tallahassee Vacha and the Martin County William R Kidd ad- ministrative assistant to the ernor reiterate state interest in he island beaches slate park on Jupiter Island HEARD Arthur Forehand De- velopment Commission and old folks home official promise a visit here June 13 to study ics and needs HEARD lhat plans for Indian- lown high level bridge would be ready by Aug 1 DISCUSSED zoning and planning problems with Tremble of the FDC 12 Young People To Be AI Redeemer Wrong Hens like get M fet louder Tribune Stuart Bureau Twelve people will pledge their loyalty and devotion to Christ and to he church in a solemn rile of Holy Confirmation at the altar of the Redeemer Lutheran Church at Sunday This is the first class of Junior Confirmands to be received into membership of the church here since its organization four years ago according lo the Rev Donald K pastor The following will be received in- to Christine sen Linda Bailey Fred Batterman Walter Eichen Means Stevens Means Mary Anne Meyer Scott Niebling Roger Schuster Sandra Schuster Sharron Sloner and Wallace Following the service mands and their families will be guests of honor al a reception in Ihc Parish Hall under the ship of Ihc Ladies Guild Friday evening class will be publicly examined the board of elders of Ihc congregation In- chiding Earl sen end William School system Upon making the request we were led lo believe by members of the CTA Classroom Teachers Assn that this was definitely a means of improving our school situation Since lime of our request and meeting wilh Miss Virginia Kinnaird and Mr ard L Morgan representatives of the NEA many things have occurred consequently turning the survey and investigation into a political baltle Since tie idea of this gation and survey did not nate with our organization we shall not be used as a tool in any political war Our main objective is to im- prove the school situation for the children we teach Our school as many schools has problems we would like to have solved Yet this does not seem the correct channel or proach in Attacking the problem at this time Thank you for your tion Very sincerely yours ELI J HOWELL Copies of letter in graphed form went to Dr G L Crook Supervisor C Harold wards Mrs W C St Clair dent of the Martin County Citizens Committee for Better Ernest W Edwards STS Morgan Kindred Mrs Myra president of The News Tribune and the Stuart News Copies of the CTA and MCTA re- quests for preliminary gation of the school system made three days last week were not en- tered in he school board records Little Settled The letter is expected to have a more profound on future activities of the MCTA than on the NEA study written as it was after preliminary survey had been completed told a member of the Citizens Committee that he had read in some newspaper not The News Tribune that the Citizens Committee the CTA and the school board had settled their differences and that he felt it was all right act on his own to lake the MCTA out of the picture When it was pointed out lo him by the Citizens Committee ber that the preliminary tion report hadn't been made and lhat liltle had been settled he de- In other business the DISCUSSED in informal sessions the main mccling Q o c: Baccalaureate Commencement Week activities at Martin County High School started off with the Baccalaureate service at the First Presbyterian Church Sunday evening Shown at head of procession of graduating class are from the right Dave McCoy Kathy Randolph and Linda Combs Photo by Ed Cape Plan Envisions Green Belt DAYTONA BEACH API A long Green Belt set aside for agriculture recreation and natural wilderness areas is envisioned by planners from six counties surrounding the booming Cape Canaveral area Members of the East Central Florida regional planning council outlined the permanent area Monday as part of a basic highway and land use plan for the area The plan is preliminary and subject to change 11 is the first tangible result of months of conferences and public meetings held throughout the Orange Brevard and Indian er counties Council director Robert said the green tell Doyle would ml nel changes for the coming year at and al STS wilh the of those schools but erf no conclusions DISCUSSED preliminary plans for Ihc Carver Gardens School wilh Architect Donald Armstrong DELEGATED V i c Frank and T H Chambers investigate school site land in the areas NAMED personnel for CONTINUED discussion of Hie budget Escapes With Nosebleed LOS ANGELES AP Actor 58 escaped with only a nose blend Monday when his car sideswiped a parked truck on Sunset Boulevard in the West lywood area sheriff's deputies ported He went to a physician for treatment north and south through the coun res averaging 20 to 30 miles wide Roughly it follow the SI Johns River basin splitting above Lake and sending a branch to the ocean Beach and New Smyrna Beach The council strongly recom mended keeping population growl concentrated in the already cslab urban areas including Or Beach Cape Ca and the rapidly costal strip Consultants attending a two-day meeting here plan a series of dis with officials of the affected counties The discussions will policies the counties may need I adopt lo put the plan into Highways in the plan include complete dow Ihc cast coast and Interstate from Orlando lo Beach proposed Orlando Cana veral Parkway and an Orland freeway circling 111 city to connect wilh all majo routes entering Orlando of State Road Ah by bridging Ponce lie and looping westward lo con wilh U.S 1 below New na Beach of a major private way southeast from lo U at the junction below No Smyrna City Rejects Offer To Settle Suit Z Tribune Bureau The Stuart City Commission ast night voted to decline an of- cr to settle out of court a suit or damages sought from the city or George Sagner by his father The commission voted to reject an offer made y attorney who said he suit could be settled out of Sagner sued the cily over an made by Patrolman Jack tewart at a football game last all The suit is in the hearings Cily Ally T T rson represents the city A request made of the board for reconsideration of a zoning change discussed several years Tgo revealed plans for the con- struction of a apart ment building on East Ocean Blvd but no action was taken on the zoning change request The building would lie built east of Atlantic Court apartments and would house stores on street floor The name of the de- firm is Stuart Highland Towers Inc Officers revealed last night Fred Ormand president Peter Canovai secretary Ralph W Hartman Jr treasurer and Joseph Chekoff chairman of he board The building would be almost across the street from the tion of a previously planned apartment ami office building that hasn't materialized but ing reconsideration request plied o land which was to have been used as parking lot for that project plus an added lot Further discussion of the legal aspects including study of the necessary amendment to the building code to permit Ihc Gallic Band To Play In July 4 Parade leight asked was suggested In other actions the DROPPED with little ion the rubbish advertising re- program adopted at the ist regular meeting GAVE City Manager Joe N permission to act in the natter of getting a brush ruck al a cost of about SET a rate of a month per railer space on a year-round basis for sewer service charge n mains to trailer parks VOTED o advertise for public hearings June 24 on a zoning change on U.S I south of rado Avc from R-l and the city's plan for paving streets in downtown Stuart REFUSED to remove parking meters for the summer as re- quested by the Retail Merchants Division of the Stuart Chamber of Commerce VOTED to close cily offices on Memorial Day but agreed to do as usual garbage and rubbish collodions Tribune The Hurricanes Drum and Bugle Corps of Ihc Gallic area will come to Stuart 10 perform in Ihc July 4th parade 11 was announced by the Chamber of Commerce yesterday Featured is a color guard described as hy who have seen the corps form Word of scarcity of music in Martin County reached group which contacted Ihc Chamber wilh an offer lo make the trip for re- imbursement o expenses only this in addition early morning and afternoon at home Tile band will not lie in parade here hut some bers may volunteer lo play in a pick up band Tile Hurricanes corp is made up of 50 young people the ages ot 12 and 18 is ed awl wilh ship open to all youths of South Mrs B A Barnes of is Recently th outfit placed second in field com in Miami and will repre sent the 12th district American Le gion in at Clear water this weekend C rr stick around and we kin look fer more showers Low In 70s high ry Mostly southeast winds mph Clouc And So What Else Is There To Tuesday May 18 1943 Sunset Today Then there was man speaking lo his I used to be crazy about Used lo bet on the nags all Ihc lime Of didn't have any money so I made mind No said his friend how did you make I losl my mind my IcU tl look bthlml irer 1777 n 7 C c r r
