Florida lawmakers rush to file 331 bills before deadline
Florida legislators surged to file 331 bills including a 294 million bond issue as the filing deadline neared with over 4,000 total introductions this session. Key proposals involve welfare, campus disorders, and a tax credit for private schools, while debate continues on education reforms and constitutional amendments.
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Tallahassee
Ralph Turlington
Gainesville
House Appropriations Committee
Turlington
House
Tom Slade
Jacksonville
Salde
Don Reed
Boca Raton
Slade
E. Pope Bassett
R-Maitland
Apollo 10 astronauts near moon in close encounter
Apollo 10 commanders Stafford and Cernan piloted the lunar lander within 9.4 miles of the moon and rendezvoused with the command ship piloted by Young. The pair rejoined in high lunar orbit after a tense eight hour separation and a dramatic docking.
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Karin Staffford
Thomas P. Stafford
Paul Recer
Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Air Force
Navy
Eugene A. Cernan
John W. Young
Young
Stafford
Cernan
Sirhan Bis hara Sirhan may face long wait before death
AP reports Sirhan Bis hara Sirhan, convicted in the Kennedy assassination, faces a long odds path to California’s gas chamber. Between 1963 and 1964 only two of 93 death penalty cases were executed, with many others reduced or postponed, leaving Sirhan’s fate uncertain.
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Bull Stall
Associated Press
Sacramento
Calif
Sirhan Bishara
Sirhan
California
Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
San Quentin
State Department of Corrections
Chamber of Commerce Opposes Tax Roll Expansion
The Fort Walton Beach Chamber of Commerce unanimously passed a motion opposing a proposed law to place city industrial parks on the tax rolls. City finance director Charles H. Evans notes the park is already taxed. Attorney Erwin Fleet led the motion, arguing the act would remove incentives for industry to settle in municipal parks.
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Fort Walton Beach
Fleet
H. French Brown
Billy Bowlegs
Chamber
Spindrift Dock
Main Street
L.french Brown
Ferry Park Boys Club draws homeowner resistance in Fort Walton Beach
More than 50 Elliott's Point homeowners opposed placing a Boys Club in Ferry Park while backing the club in principle. They urged the city to add tennis courts a ball diamond a children’s play area and parking. A council committee will review the proposal next week with public airing planned.
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Elliott’s Point
Ferry Park
Fort Walton Beach
Boys’ Club Board of Directors
Elliott's Point
Jimmy Tringas
Boys Club Board of Directors
Hal Woodyard
Home Owners
Nixon backs nonpartisan picks for Supreme Court
President Nixon said he will not nominate a personal or political friend and will avoid race religion or geographic aims in selecting Supreme Court justices. He discussed Burger as chief justice and noted several qualified figures declined consideration. He indicated Burger’s view on law and order aligns with his constitutional goals and hinted at May finality with Senate hearings planned for early June.
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Frank Cormier
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
Oval Office
Warren E. Burger
Abe Fortas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Fortas
Burger
Duke Law School
Charles E. Rhyne
Rhyne
Potter Stewart
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Atty
Herbert Brownell
John N. Mitchell
Republican National Committee
Mitchell
White House
Senate
Senate Juidiciary Committee
Sunlit Controversy Sparks Photographer Debate
Observers questioned whether drapes were drawn for photographers attending Wednesday's Miracle Strip Council meeting or to focus attention on sun deck scenes with several briefly dressed sunbathing women.
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Claude Kirk
Miracle Strip
Phase 1 discusses youth coffee shop with Methodist church
Phase 1 leaders met Rev. Brasher Miller to explore a youth oriented coffee shop run as a non profit. Miller said the Methodist church might back such a project if sound and legitimate. A broader base with other churches was suggested and next talks were set for about two weeks.
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Brasher
Pete’’ Miller
Rev. Miller
Mary Esther Methodist Church
Miller
Methodist Church
Paul Martel
Phase 1 Corporation
Martel
Rick Bartron
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