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Pflgi' 2A NEWS-HERALD, Panama City, Thursday, March 25,1976 Higher Water Taxes Rejected TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) The House Natural Resources Committee approved Wednesday millage rates for five water-managemetU districts, the pleas of Florida 's two oldest districts for higher tax rates. The committee is proposing a bili to implement the water- mfinagement constitutional aniendment passed bythevot- ersat the March 9 presidential primary. the amendment gave authority to the five disjtricts. A court i-uled two districts which already had authority would lose it if their boundaries were by a law creating the otKeiidistricts.

Natural Resources Chairman Bill Fulford, D-Orlando, called for speedy approval of bill, saying the votere who. approved the amendment waiting for the Guilty Thief S)sn fenced Allen, charged robbing a Lynn Haven convenience store, was sen- tei)ced to a second term of 25 years in the department of corrections after being found guilty of robbery in circuit cotirt. Allen, who escaped two tirnes from the Bay County Jail, the last time after holding jailors at knifepoint locking them in a cell, still facjes a charge of escape. was given credit for already spent in the Bay County Jail which will be deducted from his 50 year sentence. legislature to establish tax limits on the districts.

"In other words, we're trying to 'keep the faith, l)aby' on what we were telling the public," he said. The bill establishes a ceiling of .5 mills on South and Central Management District and the Southwest Florida Water Management District taxes; .15 mills on St. Water Management District taxes and .05 mills on Suwannee River and Northwest Florida Water Management District taxes. The amendment allows the legislature to set th ceiling at .05 mills in Northwest Florida and one mill in the other four districts. State Briefs MCCAIN TRIAL OKAYED TALLAHASSEE, Fla.

(AP) Former Justice David McCain can be brought to a disbarment trial by the Florida Bar on charges of misconduct as a jurist, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. WELFARE PLAN BACKED TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Gov. Reubin Askew's major welfare proposal squeaked past a Senate Ways and Means subcommittee Wednesday, with supporters and opponents predicting it would gain approval by the full committee. The subcommittee voted to adopt Askevv's proposal for increasing funding foi' Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) by $1L8 million nt'xt year.

FUNDS PLAN UNVEILED TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Education Commissioner Ralph Turlington unveiled Wednesday specifics of his plan to drastically revise the way education consti-uction funds are allocated. Turlington, admitting that his approach was a "radical departure" from present methods, said he wanted to allocate $764 million in the next five years to 28 education-facility planning districts. NEW TAXES SUPPORTED TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) House Speaker Donald Tucker said Wednesday that "I will speak strongly taxes if that's what is required to meet the educational needs of the state." BILL CRACKS DOWN TALLAHASSEE, Fla.

(AP) A House subcommittee Wednesday approved an omnibus bill that would crack down on nursing-home abuses by requiring unannounced inspections of facilities. The bill was sent to the full Health and Rehabilitative Services Committee, which will consider it Thursday. SAFEGUARDS REPORTED TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Florida's capital-punLsh- ment law contains safeguards to avoid persons being sentenced to death arbitrarily and indiscriminately, Atty. Gen.

Robert Shevin told the U.S. Supreme Court. NATIONAL WiAtHIK SIKVICI. NOAA. U.S.

sinvici. NOAA. U.S. ol Csn'mtrii WEATHER forecast shows showers for states in the Southeast including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas and also for states in the northeast including parts of Kentuqky, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Flurries are forecast for parts of Montana and Wyoming, Utah and Colorado.

AP WIREPHOTO MAP) p.m., low 4:30 a.m.; Port St. Joe high 8:08 p.m., low 5:23 a.m.; Apalachicola p.m., low 7:13 a.m., 7:45 p.m.; sunrise 5:38 a.m. sunset 5:54 p.m. FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness, mild Thursday, Thursday night with chance of thundershowers; partly cloudy, mild Friday; high temperature today in mid 70s, low tonight in low 60s. high Friday in upper 70s; winds eight to 18 miles per hour; probability of rain today and tonight 50 per cent.

TIDES: Panama City high 6:49 RIVER READINGS: Woodruff Dam 59.0; Blountstown 18.5. Highest temperature in Panama City Wednesday 71, lowest 48, no rain. Deattis And Funerals LITTLE BEAVER'S DOES IN NAVAJO HANDMADE JEWELRY uu Silver-Turquolse-Fetish OFF! LITTLE BEAVER Jewelry and CRAFT SHOP 700 6lh St Across (rom Kentucky Fried' JOHN EDWARD WARD Funeral services for Mr. John Edward Ward, 50, of Lynn Haven, who died Tuesday, will be held at the Southerland Funeral Home Chapel, Thursday, at 2:30 p.m. with Rev.

Lewis Rogers officiating. Active pallbearers will be Mr. Randall Itozenian, Mr. Elmer Paulk, Mac McSwain, Mr. Ma.v Sullivan, Mr.

A. D. Whitehurst, Mr. D. A.

Vickery. Honorary pallbearers will be Mr. A. D. Whitehurst, Mr.

J. B. Alderman, Mr. Joe Hatfield, Mr. A.

C. Littleton, Mr. Elgie Varner, Mr. Pete Allen, Mr. Pete Pilchet-, Mr.

Whalen Perkins and all the employes of J. B. Home Builders. Interment will follow at Oakland Cemetery. Southerland Funeral Home 1123 Harrison Avenue 785-8532 JAMES M.ROSE James M.

Rose, 60, of Port Tampa, died unexpectedly Monday in Port Tampa. Graveside funeral will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Friday in the Magnolia Cemetery with the Rev. Donald Keith officiating. He was a native of Clintwood, and resided in Port Tampa for the past three years and was a frequent visitor to Eastpoint, Fla.

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Fallie Rose, Clintwood; five brothers, three sisters and four grandchildren. Middlebrooks Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Middlebrooks Funeral Home 6534355 Apalachicola DALLAS REX PETTIS Dallas Rex Pettis, 43, of Wausau, passed away Wednesday afternoon in the Washington County Hospital. He is a native of Washington County and a member of the Wausau Community Church. Funeral services will be Friday at 10:00 a.m.

in the Wausau Community Church with the Reverends C. C. Toole and T. A. Greene officiating.

Burial will follow in Wausau Memorial Gardens. Survivors include, mother, Mrs. Neatie O. Pettis, Wausau; wife, Mrs. Doris Pettis, Wausau; one son, Dallas Melvui Pettis, Wausau; two daughters, Mrs.

Diane Birge, Chipley, Miss Deborah Pettis, Wausau; eight brothers, Henry D. Owens, Thomasville, Alton Owens, Wausau, Dalton Owens, Wausau, Howard Owens, Grand Ridge, Ray Pettis, Idalou, T. D. Pettis, N. B.

Pettis, A. D. Pettis, all of Wausau; five sisters, Mrs. Minnie Rodgers, Wausau, Mrs. Lottie Robbins, Wausau, Mrs.

E.xie Brock, Wausau, Mrs. Vita Steperson, Bonifay, Mrs. Nellie Pettis, Tallahassee; one grandson, Michael Birge, Chipley. Brown Funeral Home 638-4010 Chii)ley MR. CARL DOUGLAS KEY Mr, Carl Douglas Key, 61, of 1615 Cincinnati died Wednesday in a local hospital.

Mr. Key had been a resident here for 33 years, coming from Alabama. He was a shipping clerk for Harper's Produce. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Katie Lou Key of Panama City; two daughters, Mrs.

Joe Kemp of Panama City, and Mrs. Minehardt of Hampton, one sister, Mrs. Lucille Green of Panama City and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Smith Fimeral Home. Smith Funeral Home 505 N.

MacArthur Ave.785-1646 JAMES S.COOPER James S. Cooper, 78, of.233 Ave. Apalachicola, died Tuesday night in the Veterans Hospital, Lake City, Fla. Fimeral services will IM' conducted at 2:00 p.m, EST Ip the chapel of the Middlebrooks Home with the J. B.

Gray officiating Interment will follow in the Evergreen Cemetery, Carrabelle, with the American Legion Post No. 106 serving as pallbearers. He was a native of Franklm County, veteran of the First World War and member of the Baj)- tist faith. He is survived by an aunt, Mrs. Lillie Evans, one uncle, George Roberts, Pensaeola.

Middlebrooks Funeral Home, is in charge of arrangements. Middlebrooks Funeral Home 653-4355 Apalachicola JAMES "GLENN' Mr. James Newman, of 108 Avenue, Panama NEWMAN "Glenn" N. Bonita City, (lied Monday, March 22 in a local hospital. Mr.

Newman had lK a resident of the Panama City area for the past 14 years. He was a TV repairman with Sears and Roebuck Company for many years. He served with the U. S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and was of the Protestant faith.

Mr. Newman was also a member of the Panama City Moose Lodge No. 1389 and the Panama City Elks Lodge No. 1590. He is survived by his wife, Mrs.

Irene A. Newman, Panama City; two daughters, Miss Glenda Rene Newman, Panama City, Mrs. Paula Ann Soehl of Fairfax, one son, Glenn Paul Newman of Brevard, N.C.; one grandchild, James Barrett Newman, also of Brevard, N.C.; his mother, Mrs. Bertha Mae Durden of Panama City; one sister, Mrs. Hazel Armstrong of Panama City; and one brother, Mr.

Bruce Newman of Parker, Fla. Funeral Services for Mr. Newman were held, Wednesday, March 24 at 1:00 p.m. in the Southerland Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. L.

E. Taylor officiating. Active pallbearers were Mr. Bruce P. Newman, Mr.

Jini Warr, Mr. James Certalich, Mr. Glen Snyder, Mr. Charles Novota, Mr. Gene Majors and Mr.

Don Kirkland. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. R. P. Cameron, Dr.

John Kapp, Dr. Ted Wilson, Dr. Adrian Rivard, Dr. Dixon McCloy, Mr. F.

R. Gesling and all Sears Employes. Interment followed at Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Garden of Masonic. The family retpiests that in lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Daymond Runyon Fiuid, c-o Ochsners Clinic in New Orleans, La. Southerland Funeral Home 1123 Harrison Ave.

Trial Delay For Dickinson Sought TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Former Comptroller Fred O. "Bud" Dickinson's attorneys, saying their client might not survive 12-hour court asked Wednesday. for a delay in his retrial on evasion charges. The trial is scheduled to begin Monday.

U.S. District Judge William B. Hand had notified the attorneys that he expected the trial to run from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. starting Tuesday in order to complete it in a week.

In a motion, Dickinson's attorney, Walter Arnold, said the triaJ should be delayed Judge Grants Firm Seizure TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) The Bankers Fire and Casualty Insurance Co. has been siezed by the state because of its financial troubles. Insurance Commissioner Philip Ashler announced Wednesday. A Leon County circuit judge granted Ashler's petition for seizure of the St.

Petereburg- based firm. He also has asked to be appointed receiver so an attempt can be made at rehabilitation. The company's 1975 financial statement showed assets $1.2 million short of liabilities and an operation loss last year of $1.9 million. Ashler said! Bankers Fire and Casualty did about $2.4 million in auto- liability and property-damage business in Florida last year. until Hand can arranfje for a trial to run two weeks.

A physician who has been treating Dickinson, 53, fordia- betes and heart trouble said the former comptroller's health would stand only six hours a day In court, Arnold stated. "In view of the defendant's present condition, it would in all probability be dangei'ous to the health as well as the very life of the defendant to undertake a trial which would required attendance from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. during each trial day," Arnold said. He pointed out that Dickinson's first trial in January ran weeks and had to be recessed one afternoon and the next day after Dickinson developed a nosebleed.

In the first trial, the jury acquitted Dickinson of two counts involving income and taxes for 1972, but deadlocked on four other counts. Hand, a visiting jurist from Mobile, last month dered a retrial on the four remaining counts, which involved allegations of concealing $55,450 in income and evading taxes of $30,101 in 1971 and 1972. The government claims the money came from unreported campaign contributions converted to Dickinson's personal use. Dickinson was defeated for re-election in 1974 aftfer a federal grand jury in Tampa indicted him on extortion charges. He was acquitted of those charges in a 414-week trial in Jacksonville last year.

Falling Roof Injures Man Comer Smith, 2104 West Game Farm Road, Hiland Park, was injured Wednesday when the roof of a bam 6n which he was working fell in. He was taken to Bay Memorial Medical Center by ABC ambulance for treatment of a possible fracture of his right leg and lacerations. HELP WANTED YEAR-ROUND JOB LEAVE and OTHER FRINGE BENEFITS Will Train Suitable Prospects APPROVED for Retired Service Personnel O.J.T. Gall 769-1420 1 P.M. Ill 4 P.M.

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