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Newspaper
The Gondolier
Location
Venice, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1964
Page
1
Parishioners of St Mark's Episcopal Church face a choice between building a new sanctuary at an estimated 110000 dollars or expanding the existing structure at about 30000 dollars. Vestry approval favors enlargement 8 to 1 and a postcard vote is urged for a prompt decision.
In July 1930 Bert Cohn of Sarasota fished a 116 pound tarpon from a 20 gallon garbage can off Venice Beach using a cane pole and 72 pound line. Guided by Ben Seale with Powell Crosley an observer aboard a private yacht, the fight lasted hours with sponge protection for the angler’s stomach as the trash can skated over the sea.
The West Coast Inland Navigation District will escrow one million dollars at a Bradenton bank to fund the East Venice Avenue bridge over the inland waterway. Col. George Kumpe said costs have dropped from 11 million to about 1 million and SRD approval is expected soon. Construction may start this month or in August. The board denied Sarasota County erosion aid but approved using 600000 yards of spoil on a 160 acre Venice tract at no cost.
Patrolman Maurice Nick McDonald and his family are guests at a 10 o clock informal breakfast in Venice hosted by the National Police Hall of Fame and Museum. The Dallas officer known for grabbing Oswald in a movie theater will be honored at Fisherman's Wharf with his wife and three children in attendance.
World War I veterans and the Venice Area Bar Racks 764 auxiliary will host a combined meeting and picnic at Warm Mineral Springs starting 12 30 p m Saturday. Attendees should bring a covered dish table service and coffee. The auxiliary furnishes the meat dish. A 50 cent swim charge applies for swimmers.
Robert L. Bellcase Jr. rises from head teller to assistant cashier at First National Bank of Venice, announced by bank president William C. Payne. Bellease, 29, joined the bank at its March opening after six years with Merchants Nat Bank of Mobile. He serves as Venice Jaycees treasurer and has Navy service in Okinawa and Japan.
Venice Postmaster J Douglas Arnall told the Venice Lions Club the Zip Code program has moved from concept to reality with major firms pre sorting by code and mail shipping directly from source to sectional centers. He cited McCall’s noting Florida deliveries speeded 24 hours, sometimes 48, and said over 30 000 firms have been contacted with 87 percent agreeing to participate. Five Venice firms are already in the program.
Venice Postmaster J Douglas Arnall told Venice Lions Club that the famous motto attributed to the Post Office was coined 500 years before Jesus by Herodotus. He noted Washington DC’s first federal post office with Ben Franklin as postmaster and early air mail precedents, plus pigeons used by the French under siege.
Venice youths Ray Richard Joelson and Jim Zacharias won municipal and county posts at the American Legion Boys State session at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Joelson became mayor of one of 17 cities and Zacharias was elected school superintendent and a state senator from a mock legislature.
The body of missing Sarasota swimmer Robert Wood was found on the north Casey Key beach. Chief Deputy Jack Royal said fingerprints matched Wood’s military papers to confirm identification. Wood had been reported missing by his wife Mary Wood after he vanished last Sunday.
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