Playground Daily News (Newspaper) - October 2, 1968, Fort Walton Beach, Florida DESTIN RODEO BOX SCORE GRAND PRIZE DIVISION KING MACKEREL Leader John Dayton Ohio 11 Ibs 8 oz Runner up Parker Layne South Pittsburg Tenn 10 lb 5 oz RED SNAPPER Leader Rachel Starnes FWB 21 Ibs 8 oz Runner up Mrs James man Kingsport Tenn 14 Ibs 6 oz LADIES DIVISION Leader Rachel Starnes FWB Red Snapper 21 Ibs 8 oz DIVISION Leader Clarence Theriou East St Louis 111 118 Ibs Warsaw AMBERJACK Leader Mrs J A non Ind 16 Ibs MAJOR AWARD DIVISION Leader Velma Bruner FWB 21 lb Wahoo BILLFISH DIVISION Longest Sailfish Loma Campbell FWB 6 ft 10 inches 22nd Year No 168 10 Pages Fort Walton Beach FJa Wednesday Morning Oct 2 1968 Single Copy 10 cents Johnson Refuses To Drop Fortas Despite Senate BIGGEST Walker stands by the Fort Walton Motel which was sold Tuesday morning for This was the biggest business transaction ever pulled off on Main Street Wayne Segall WASHINGTON CAP dent Johnson refused to back down on his nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief tice despite a Senate vote against considering it The nomination is still a White House man said meaning it has not been withdrawn Senate administration leaders failed by 14 votes to break a buster against calling up the nomination and announced they were putting it aside for the time being Forty-five senators voted to invoke the ture rule and 43 voted against Around Florida HUMPHREY VISITS JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE Hubert phrey making his first campaign visit to North da will swing into Jacksonville today for two speaking engagements and a television taping session Humphrey is scheduled to arrive in Jacksonville at with his public appearance set for p.m at Hemming Park After that comes a private luncheon followed by a downtown meeting with the Jacksonville organization Humphrey aids Harry Lenhart said student body presidents from six Florida universities would present the candidate a resolution of support DEMOCRATS RELEASE FUNDS TALLAHASSEE AP Cabinet Democrats released in delayed funds to the Florida Industrial Commission Tuesday after hearing a letter which reported the agency's controversial Bradenton office lease had been authorized by the U.S Department of Labor The money was released on a motion from Secretary of State Tom Adams who said he still was not ed with the Bradenton lease but said he felt the funds could not be held up any longer He did not elaborate The lease at a rate cf per square above tnt price the formerly at been looked into by a legislative committee SURGEONS IN MEETING LAKELAND the world's most nent surgeons Dr Christiaan N Africa and Dr Denton A Cooley of Tex have agreed to participate in the meeting of the new Lakeland Graduate cai Dr Howard DuBose assembly president made the Tuesday at a news conference He said 111 bi- held Jan 22 to 24 at the Cypress Inn In Winter Haven CONTRACTORS APPROVED JACKSONVILLE AP contractors been bidding on construction of a million State Welfare Department headquarters building in Jacksonville 11 Fry administrative assistant and coordinator for the state agency said all of those responded to an invitation to qualify as generals contractor were found qualified They are William E Arnold Co Jacksonville he Co Jacksonville Co WestPoint Ga Daniel Construction Co Jacksonville and J A Jones Construction Co Charlotte INSPECTION CHANGE PROPOSED TALLAHASSEE A substantial number of favor a proposed change to put the state's auto inspection program on a basis Rep said Tuesday Reedy said he was hopeful that Gov Claude Kirk would extend the November organizational session of the 1969 Legislature to allow consideration of es in the inspection plan But he said he has been unable to reach the governor for confirmation A questionnaire on changes proposed In the present semi-annual inspection program was sent to the 163 members of the Legislature which passed the program Of the 90 who replied Reedy said 77 per cent favored the change which would require tions only once every 12 months Reedy chairman of the House Safety and Insurance Committee said most suggested annual Inspection rates ranging from the present SI 75 to FORMER CAPTAIN IN JAIL MIAMI AP A former British warship captain deported from the United States In 1964 for ferrying Cubans to Florida was back in the Miami jail again Tuesday Harold Derber 40 was arrested by immigration agents Monday night at Miami International Airport after leaving a plane from British Honduras Derber had a ticket for Nassau and said he planned to continue his trip to that British Island but Asst U S Atty Aaron Foosaner said he believed Derber planned to remain in the United States 24 AMERICANS IN CUBA MIAMI AP A Republican candidate for Con- gress said Tuesday 24 Americans are prisoners in Cuba or on parole including four sentenced for trying to leave the country Mike Thompson who released the list said he got it from the State Department The nominee urged that the U 3 Government the Nations to send a committee to to inquire about the prisoners Four of the Americans remained behind when 24 others were released in 1963 through negotiations by James B Donovan of New York The others were arrested In Cuba later JACKSONVILLE CONSOLIDATES JACKSONVILLE AP With plaudits from dent Lyndon Johnson and Gov Claude Kirk for ship in local government efficiency Jacksonville con- its government with Duval County Tuesday and created the nation's broadest municipality the Bold New City South It's 820 square miles of area took away from ma City the title of the nation's largest city in area Jacksonville also became Florida's most populous cities with residents The nation Is indebted to you for your spirited example said President Johnson in a telegram to Mavor Hans Tanzler Fort Walton Motel Sold for By WAYNE SEGALL The Fort Walton Motel was sold by and Walker Tuesday to a group of Investors headed by Max Seigel and nard Feinberg for This was the biggest deal ever completed on Main Steet The motel consisting of 65 luxurious units was one of the first of its kind in the Fort Walton Beach area It will now be managed by Continental Inns of America which operate and manage motor lodges in New Jersey Delaware New York Maryland Ohio and Georgia This lodge will be un- der the direction an general manager Robert K Seigel ing the Max Seigel Realty Corp was the real estate ker in the transaction Walter Smith of Talton and Wolff represented the ers and Bernard Feinberg of Greenburg Wilensky and berg represented the ers Started With Walker came to Fort Walton from Baker in 1936 and invested down on the erty and built a gas station grocery store and cafe The en- tire property originally cost A few years later he ed the cafe into a five and dime store known as the Gulf Inn Ten years ago he built the Fort Walton Motel MUCH NEEDED GIFT Yesterday Don Ricketts owner of Don's Paint Body Shop in Fort Walton Beach presented Chief Maurice Sanson center of the Ocean Fire Control District with the keys to an ambulance Ricketts left made the presentation on the Zo Rolley right Show which originated at the FWB Fire Department and was carried through the remote facilities of Radio Leo Andrews JUDGE ORDERS SCHOOL BOARD Pro Rata Share of Funds By MARILYN PASSELL Circuit Judge Charles A Wade issued a Write of mus Tuesday ordering the loosa County School Board to Unauthorized Use of School Investigated Unauthorized use of Fort Walton Elementary School by persons who have evidently quired keys to the school ing is causing concern to school officials Principal James Riley said Tuesday Rlley said empty soft drink bottles left around the school indicate that somebody is ing the building in the evenings without authority leaving rest rooms dirty and stains on the carpeting of the hallways Fort Walton Beach are watching the school and all locks have been changed Riley said School Board policies re- quire that all persons using the school do so with specific proval of the Board and cation for such use must be made through the principal whose approval must first be obtained Schonl facilities are generally open to use by organizations for purposes but the proper procedures must be followed deposit the pro rata share of school funds in the First tional Bank of Fort Walton Beach or to show cause within 10 days why such deposit should not be made Originally the Bank had filed suit against the school board charging the board with failure to comply with the Florida law pertaining tc deposits in county banks School funds are presently de- posited in all seven banks out in amounts varying from 889 in the First National to in the Bank of view Figures are as of Aug 31 of this year The petition for the writ the variation in funds See BANKS Page 2 D A Bans Nude Dancing Coeds MADISON Wis student production of the musical Peter Pan which featured nude dancing coeds portraying innocent maidens was banned Tuesday by order of Dist Atty James Boll of Dane County Boll told newsmen that any coed who performed again in the nude In the production on the University of Wisconsin campus be prosecuted Boll who saw the controversial show at a closed door review Monday night announced the nan after consulting with H Edwin Young chancellor of the campus Stuart Gordon of Chicago drama student directed the musical had indicated he and his case would put the show on if it were at all possible Tuesday night William Dawson director of the university theater said lie would abide by the decision ti ban the Thr district attorney said he found both the nude dancers anil the dialogue of the show to The play has changed lly from when I first read t as a the Boll s ild i nnw produced he added the play has lighting dialogue with obscenities and mule dancers it A two-thirds majority is re- quired for cloture and with 88 senators voting the Fortas porters needed 59 votes to end the filibuster At the White House press George Christian told re- The President nominated Justice Fortas and felt he was highly qualified for the position Certainly nothing has happened to change his feeling on that He feels that there is a in the Senate in favor of the nomination and naturally he wishes there had been a more favorable vote today Christian added that Johnson still believes that a majority of the Senate would approve the nomination if the opponents would permit it to come to a vote Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana ding the effort to break through the opposition announced the appointment was being laid aside temporarily The Senate has refused to face squarely the issue of the nomination of Mr Mansfield said He said he will announce in the next two or three days whether the fight will be re- Mansfield told his colleagues just before the roll was called that this was the first filibuster ever directed against a appointee Johnson named Fortas who has been an associate justice since 1965 to succeed Earl ren as chief justice Warren 77 INDEX 6 Crossword 6 Dear Slocks tO Women 3 submitted his retirement re- quest last June at the dent's pleasure and Johnson said he would accept it on ate confirmation of a successor The President sent nomination to the Senate on June 26 Voting to end the filibuster were 35 Democrats and 10 Re- publicans Against it were 24 Republicans and 19 Democrats The one crumb of comfort that Mansfield could take from the outcome was that if the vote had been on confirmation which requires a simple FORTAS Page 2 BARGAIN BABY ly Geneve Poore will tray the bargain baby in the I Found a Million Dollar Baby scene of the Annual Hospital lies to be held at the Auditorium Thursday through Saturday The nightly performances will begin at p.m Wayne Segall Personality Loses to FCC Fired PANAMA CITY Fla television personality running for tax collector lost his job Tuesday because the Federal Communications Commission ruled his opponent deserves 22 hours of equal if he fills the screen with rock n roll music The FCC ruled that George Lohue Jr 43 a department store executive is entitled to matching time for the hours Donnell Brookins 41 spent reading news and weather reports and emceeing a morning variety show Logue started political broadcasts without charge Tuesday as Brookins cleaned his deak This is a stupid decision Brookins said of the FCC action Television station agreed last May to give lican Logue equal time when Brookins won the Democratic nomination to the job as Bay County tax tors But when Logue showed up June 3 for his first installment he brought high school students to entertain and the winner of an auto raffle who was to receive the car keys on show The station refused saying Logue must appear alone The wrangle went to Washington where the FCC ruled last week that Logue was a candidate entitled to equal time under Section 315 of the Communications Act can have costars and make music if he chooses to skirt the issues So Logue was assigned a slot each mor ning to use as he wished The first day he aired an amateur rock n roll group Public response was so bad he has dropped the Brookins said Tuesday Logue now airs brief talks at and p.m had to go so Logue would not continue to pile up the right to free time the station said CLOSE INSPECTION Wayne Tisdell left and Gordon Richmond regional engineers from Pensacola inspect the at Bradford Drive and Pocahontas Drive on Tuesday morning They found that the sewer had indications of a recent overflow Wayne Segall IN COLONY ES FATES New Pump Will Solve Overflowing Problem By A water pump will solve the overflowing problem con- cluded Wayne after an hour-long Investigation Tuesday in the Colony area T i s d e i and Jordon mond regional engineers from Pensacola who are under the Florida Slate Health Depart ment ir Jacksonville met with Okaloosa County Commission ers and members of the Water and S e w e r Maintenance De- Tuesday morning response to the recent com plaints of Colony resi dents Tisdell staled that due to the improper construction the station at Drive and Drive has been coming in and knocking the pumps thus causing the 0 up lion of a pump take i of overflow Me said that plan pl or sludge to and a period of time it to removed did spec ha it is nor the f: on- it efficiency was uncertain about the length of time the sewerage treatment plant will last or how the worms entered the water system Regarding the w o r m s he commented Your guess is as good as mine as to how or where they entered He further stated that after looking over he water well not determine where the worms entered and it appeared that the well is In GOP On N ixon The Okaloosa Republican is a fund rais dinner for Nixon Agnew night at M at the mar Club Kev speaker is Sen cf St Petersburg Tu k ets or the are Si 1 person or 1 wishing tickets for the dinner may contact N 1 Nunes chairman for Nixon and He iuli p: condition after the recent re- pairs were made Willie Williams chairman of the commissioners said that the new pump will be installed within i few days And if that doesn't solve the problem he will install 1 septic tank though the Department of Health is against it Partly cloudy through day with a few afternoon and no important temperature High XI to 90 High Tide low tide p.m rise sunset p m In III I K Ith M should only to gp with the of home
