City Commission Tonight Faces Busy Agenda
The City Commission meets at 8 p.m. in the public safety building with a full agenda. A public hearing will consider rezoning a five acre tract on Fruitville Road east of Lime Avenue in Fairview Heights for BB-3 zoning to allow a shopping complex with added buffer landscaping. Other items include rezoning on 3rd and 4th streets with BB-1 BC and RC classifications and Block E Ringling Boulevard Subdivision to RC for single family homes.
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City Commission
Public Safety Building
Fairview Heights
Fruitville Road
Lime Avenue
4Th Streets
Orange Avenue
3Rd Street
4Th Street
Ringling Boulevard
John Ringling
Bird Key
Coon Key
Gas Pipeline Explosion Damages FP&L Facility
Gas line rupture near FP&L power plant triggered repairs by Florida Gas Distribution Co crews. Authorities evacuated nearby area, monitored hydrogen nitrogen and chlorine tanks, and warned residents as gas leaked for hours. Police and fire units secured North Trail while officials assessed impact on nearby intake pipe and water cooling systems.
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Crocker
James G. Spencer Jr
The
Power Company
Hog’s Creek
Bradenton Boy Shoots Self In Hand
A six year old boy in Bradenton was treated for a gunshot wound to his left hand at Manatee Veterans Memorial Hospital after shooting himself while playing with a .22 calibre pistol. Daryl Cooper of 1014 Seventh St West obtained the pistol from his mother's bedroom and loaded it before the incident. Neighbors reported the shot and police took the boy to the hospital.
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Bradenton
Manatee Veterans Memorial Hospital
Daryl] Cooper
Seventh St. W
Rap Joslin
EAL Cancels Four Flights From Area
Eastern Air Lines ground staff strike leads to four Sarasota Bradenton Airport cancellations. Flights 181 281 286 and 182 were halted as of Saturday night. Station manager Tom Kneeland said the airport will close and nine employees were laid off.
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Eastern Air Lines
Sarasota-Bradenton
Sarasota- Bradenton
Miami
Louisville
Birmingham
Tampa
Sarasota
West Palm Beach
Atlanta
EAL
Tom Kneeland
Labor Leaders Invited to Tampa Conference on Landrum-Griffin Act
Labor unions and international representatives are asked to join a Tampa conference to review the Landrum-Griffin Act. Robert T. Amis of the Labor Department said local leaders urged a conference style review of law issues. The one day event at Hotel Floridan starts July 12 at 8:30 a.m. and runs to 4:30 p.m.
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Tampa
Landrum-Griffin
Robert T. Amis
U.S. Labor Department
Bureau of Labor - Management Reports
Amis
Floridan
Two Bradenton Teens Held On Robbery Charges
Two 17 year old boys, Henry Barber and Leon Wilberg, are jailed in Manatee County on two counts of breaking and entering with bond set at 5,000 each. They were arrested after attempting to break into Larrys Market on Bridge Street and later re-arrested near Bradenton Boat Basin following a break from the sheriff's office.
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Bradenton
Manatee County
Henry C. Barber
11Th St. E
Leon Wilberg
P.O
Clyde Gill
Larry’s Market
Bridge Street
Bradenton Beach City Pier
Sheriff's Office
Gill
Bradenton Boat Basin
DeMolay Sponsors Free Auto Safety Check in Venice
The Robert E. Lee DeMolay chapter and Venice Police will host a free automobile safety check at Publix Shopping Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday as National Safety Month activities. Cars passing will earn a safety sticker. failing cars receive an itemized defect list and recheck. Participants include James Ballard Gareth Walmsley Paul Raymond David Bowles James Wallace Dave Crowley Roy Bernius Greg Jones Robert Horton Mitchell Olds Gordon Bradford.
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Venice
Robert E. Lee DeMolay
Publix
DeMolay
National Safety Council
James Ballard
Gareth Walmsley
Paul Raymond
David Bowles
James Wallace
Dave Crowley
Roy Bernius
Greg Jones
Robert Horton
Mitchell Olds
Gordon Bradford
Two Narrowly Escape In Lemon Bay Crash
In Englewood a car plunged off the Little Bridge at Lemon Bay injuring only minorly a passenger, Roger Christensen. Driver James Burgert said a fast approaching car forced him off, he swerved, hit pilings, and the car overturned into five feet of water. Burgert faces charges for failure to have the vehicle under control.
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Englewood
Little Bridge
Lemon Bay
Roger Christensen
Punta Gorda
James H. Burgert
Detroit, Mich
Englewood Beach
Burgert
Florida Highway
Jim Jones
Siesta Key Chamber Seeks County Funding Hike
Siesta C C asks Sarasota County for 3055 to raise the chamber budget for 1962 63 to 6110 claiming tourism is the county s main industry and that prior recognition by state officials proves the chamber s impact Elmer Vecsey argues the county should approve a larger grant to boost economy tourism and development on Siesta Key and in Sarasota County.
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County Commission
Siesta Key Chamber of Commerce
Board of Commissioners
Elmer J. Vecsey
Chamber
Siesta Key Chamber
Siesta Chamber
Vecsey
Farris Bryant
Florida Development Commission
Siesta Key
Sarasota County
Island
Chambers
Florida
MJC Student Wins Major Merit Scholarship
Bradenton story notes Manatee Junior College student Mary Beth Greer has earned an $80 to 1,000 per year scholarship lasting through her college career. The award comes through a Jacksonville donor arranged with Peggy Sheehan. Greer, a Venice High graduate and EJW scholar, plans UF study and a business law masters after completing court stenography at MJC.
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Bradenton
Mary Beth Greer
Manatee
Peggy Sheehan
MJC
Jacksonville
Englewood Business and Professional Womans
Mary Beth
Venice
Two Sarasotans Named To NAM Policy Groups
Two Sarasota business leaders join National Association of Manufacturers policy committees this year. E. C. Engman Jr. serves on Industrial Problems. E. J. Fitzgerald Jr. on International Economic Affairs. NAM includes about 17 000 member companies shaping national economic policy.
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Sarasota
National Association of Manufacturers
E. C. Engman Jr
Eclipse Plastic Industries, Inc
E. J. Fitzgerald Jr
Eclipse, Plastic Industries, Inc
NAM
Masons State Supper Tonight in Venice
Venice Lodge 301 F and A M hosts a family night supper at 6 30 pm in the Masonic Temple on East Venice Avenue for Masons and families. Howard R Gordon chairs arrangements. Bread butter and a beverage provided.
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Venice
Venice Lodge 301
F.&a.m
Masonic Temple
East Venice Avenue
Howard R. Gordon
South County Calendars June listings Venice Englewood Port Charlotte
Community calendar entries list events for Venice Nokomis Englewood North Port Charlotte and Port Charlotte from Monday June 25 to Friday June 29. Activities include Red Cross life saving classes Kiwanis Rotary and Lions club meetings theater planning board sessions junior and senior high activities girl scouts and various club gatherings across community rooms and yacht clubs.
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Red Cross
Narvaczi
Friends of the Library
Venice Lodge
Masonic Temple
Little League
Venice Gardens Home Owners Assoc
Little Theater Board of Directors
South
Sarasota County Society of Retarded Children
Red Cross Life Savings
Narvaezi St. Kiwanias Club
Fisherman’s Wharf
Young Republican’s Club
Narvaezi St. Hobby Group
Epiphany Guild
Epiphany
Girl Scouts
Rotary Club
Almas
Civitan Club
Myakka
Power Squadron
Youth Center
Englewood
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Odd Fellows
IOOF
Driftwood Inn
Lions Club
Dixons Restaurant
Lemon Bay
Port Charlotte
Pittsburgh Club
Easy Street
Democratic Club
Easy Street Community Center
Charlotte Lanes
Yacht Club
Alcoholics Anonymous
First Presbyterian Church
First Church of Christ
Naval Aviator Maxson Earns Wings At New Iberia
Ens. Joan A. Maxson USN son of Lt. Col. Melvin L. Maxson of Sarasota was designated a Naval Aviator at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station New Iberia La. He made eight landings aboard USS Antietam in the Gulf of Mexico and qualified for all weather flying and primary anti submarine missions. He is ordered to Airborne Early Warning Barrier Squadron Pacific Barbers Point Hawaii. He entered service December 1960 and attended University of Florida Gainesville.
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New Iberia, la
Joan A. Maxson
USN
Melvin L. Maxson
Valencia Dr
Sarasota
Naval Auxiliary Air Station
New Iberia
Antietam
Gulf of Mexico
Ens. Maxson
Airbone
Pacific
Naval Air Station
Barbers Point
Hawaii
University of Florida At
Gainesville
Fort Bliss, Tex
AHTNC
Army
Peter F. Douthit
Donnie
Emerson St
Air de
Fense
Fort Bliss
Tex
Air Defense Training Center
United States
Fort Jackson
S.C
Douthit
Ruby Killinger
N. W
Third Pt
Fort Mcclellan
Ala
WAC
Mary A. Jekel
Frederick C. Jekel
Victoria Ave
Women's Army Corps Center
Jekel
Corps
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Oneco
Saunders Road
Florida Gas Distribution Co
St. Petersburg
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Safety Harbor
U.S. 301
10Th Street
Railroa
Earl Parker
George Bell
Frank Vericella
S. A. Lasher
R. D. Steiger
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John Paulding
Frank Tunis
LaVerne Blosser
Pete Pettellat
J. D. Hamel
Colorado Street
Paver Construction
Circus Boulevard
Oriente Avenue
17Th Street
Bradenton Boy
Self
Becky Thompson
Lila Hinton
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Bill Lee
Riverview High School
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