Legislature's 1959 session yields many Sarasota local bills
The 1959 Florida Legislature passed more than 25 local Sarasota County measures while debating North Port Charlotte incorporation and county commissioners pay raises. Key actions included a pay raise without referendum, hasty passage of the North Port Charlotte bill, late-blooming local bills, and amendments that battered some outcomes. Notable approved bills covered housing standards, lot clearance, garbage franchises, historical funding, plumbing licensing, water authority, traffic advisory, airport planning, and zoning reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarasota County
North Port Charlotte
George M. Edmondson
William
Boylston
Edmondson
Ed H
Sarasota-Bradenton
Sarasota - Bradenton
Sarasota Memorial Hospital
County Welfare Department
State Stays Moderate In Racial Legislation
In Florida a 60 day 1959 session adjourned with only mild racial bills and no major action. Gov. Collins faces 500 plus unsigned measures including tax and education bills as lawmakers kept most items to local scope.
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Tallahassee
Florida
LeRoy Collins
Secretary of State
Senate
Alabama
8 To 18 Group Urged To Sign Up For 7 Week Summer Youth Project
Timely registration for the seven week Community House youth program opens June 18. Bill Blackburn urges boys and girls ages 8 to 18 to join to access indoor and outdoor activities including dancing pingpong table games television reading and swimming lessons. Membership costs 1 per year for city residents and 1 25 for county residents. Outdoor activities cover swimming baseball tennis archery golf shuffleboard volleyball badminton and water basketball with instruction by local instructors and Red Ermiach. The center operates at Civic Center weekdays 930 am to 5 pm and Tuesday evenings 730 to 930.
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Community House
Bill Blackburn
Red Ermiach
City Supervisor of Recreation
Lidepool
Tuttle Avenue
Municipal Courts
47Th St
Bradenton Rd
Bobby Jones Golf Course
Civic Center
Municipal Auditorium
Ermisch
Jerry Goodman
Charles Mackle
Pat Hall
Claude Young
Blackburn
Red Cross
Stockham blasts snub of colleague Watson in Florida
Rio Assistant State Attorney William Stockham denounces the Florida Senate secret session decision to deny Frank B. Watson of Fort Myers a second four-year term. Stockham defends Watson as an able prosecutor and cites politics as the reason behind the rejection. Watson’s term is affected as Stockham plans to depart to focus on private practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Stockham
Florida Senate
Frank B. Watson
Fort Myers
Senate
Watson
Stockham
LeRoy Collins
Local Mailing Surges Again in 1959 May Post Office Receipts
Postmaster Gordon Higel reports May 1959 postal receipts at $69,880.32, up 47.8 percent from May 1958 or $22,423.29 higher, with a 30.8 percent rise from volume and 17 percent from higher rates. Year to date receipts total $404,028.50, a 30 percent increase over $311,351.50 for the same period last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Higel
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Forrest Clark News
Price Jr
Newport City
Sen. Price
Collins
North
Beasley
Thomas D. Beasley
House
Clude
Lidopool
Money Tree
Waldemere and
Jefferson Streets
Rio
Wazliuu
Sarasota Area
Venice
Sarasota Federal
Sara
Sota Federal
Sarasota
Eral
Main Street
Sarasota, Florida
Andrew J. Olsen
Venice Avenue
Venice, Florida
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