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Indian River TODAY Florida TODAY 5 6B 90s, lows thundershowers. in TODAY's 70s. (Tides Highs with a in on Weather low Page chance to 2A) mid of Tuesday, August 26, 1975 TODAY In Indian River- City Announces Sports Program VERO BEACH Registration for football and cheerleading sponsored by the city recreation department will be held Sept. 4 and 5 at the Community Center. Described as one of the largest and best offered by the department, the program involves over 540 boys and girls and is made up of 20 football teams in three leagues.

Scott Chisholm, assistant recreation director, is assisted by some 50 volunteer coaches and interested citizens. The program is designed for every boy participating to play every minute of the game and every girl is offered an opportunity to cheer. It's a good opportunity for every child to play "whether he is a Joe Namath or not," said Mrs. Pat Callahan, recreation supervisor. Football players must bring with them when they register proof of insurance, birth certificate or baptism record and the player must be present in person to be weighed.

They, and the. cheerleaders may register from 3 to 6 p.m. either day. Schlitt Elected Chairman VERO BEACH Ed Schlitt of Vero Beach has been elected chairman of the Florida Real Estate Commission, the first resident of this county ever to serve on the regulatory board in its 50- year history. Schlitt has served as a member of the commission the past two years.

He was -vice chairman last year. ED SCHLITT He has been active in local, state and national realtor activities for the past 20 years and currently serves as a national director. The commission, with headquarters in Winter Park, serves as the administrative and regulatory arm controlling activities of over 110,000 registrants in Florida. The commission handles over 20,000 examinations per year for real estate salesmen and brokers in the state and acts as a quasi-judicial body with power to revoke or suspend licenses. With 140 employes including a staff of 46 investigators and a legal staff of 13, it is the largest licensing board in Florida.

Taxpayers Write Corps VERO BEACH If the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers does not agree to what is believed to be a cheaper, faster system of beach erosion control, the Taxpayers Association obviously intends to know why. The association sent the corps a package of information on the local proposal to use a system of jacks rather than the more expensive sand pumping method and asked for detailed information in return. An association letter signed by Secretary Ted Brown sent a copy of a presentation made earlier by former marine contractor Roger Jeeves to the county commission, a letter of support from Mayor David Gregg and an association letter to the county commission asking that Jeeves presentation be heard.

Although two commissioners did not appear in support of the jacks system, they agreed to forward Jeeves presentation to the corps for comments. In his letter Friday, Brown asked the corps to send the association a copy of their evaluation study report of the jacks system together with cost data and sources of such data. In addition, he asked the corps, to send a report, along with estimated costs and time to complete, of the methods the corps recommends to control beach erosion in this area. He also wants the corps' reasons for their recommendations and any subsequent or continuing costs after completion of the first phase of the erosion control. Some local supporters of a method other than pumping sand argue there will be high costs for many years after the initial sand pumping to keep the sand on the beach.

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DAILY SUNDAY WEEKLY 1.10 .75 .35 MONTHLY 4.77 1.53 School Board Approves Tentative Budget By DUKE NEWCOME TODAY Staff Writer VERO BEACH The school board stamped its approval on a tentative budget of $16,894,611.69 Monday night, an increase of $344,668 with local taxpayers destined to pay more than $6 million of the total. Although the approval was only tentative and a public hearing must be held before it can be finalized, no changes are anticipated in the budget that will require a local tax levy of 8.41 mills. Tilden Davis, school finance director, pointed out that fringe benefits for employes accounts for more than the total budget increase for the new year. Benefits jumped $396,887, which includes some $200,000 in workmen's compensation the local school board must pay in full for the first time. Ad valorem taxes will make up a total of $6,006,581 of the budget with state and federal funds accounting.

for the remaining $10,888,030.69. The increase of the 1974-75 budget could have been as little as $60,090 but the board opted Monday night to include construction of a warehouse costing $105,172 boosting the difference to almost a quarter million dollars. Salaries make up the biggest single expenditure in the budget, totalling $7,952,207, followed by employe benefits of materials and supplies, 011; and purchased services of $760,066. Other costs include a capital outlay of $3,548,609 and $1,021,949 for interest and sinking funds to retire 1956 and 1962 bond issues. The school board has $181,000 in its salary accounts which can be used for small adjustments in salaries, Davis said.

An attempt to dip into that fund Monday night by adding a sixth period at the high school failed. Mrs. Ann Robinson, Vero Beach resident, asked the board to include the sixth period for the 350 students who requested it and won support from Board Member Mrs. Lois Kramer. School Superintendent William McClure said the additional period would cost $30,000 since the state pays for only five periods.

Assistant Superintendent Bill George said students take advantage of the 'Zero' period using it as an enrichment program during their first two years of high school so they can attend class a half-day during their senior year and work parttime. The board agreed that the administration can consider starting the extra period during the second semester of this school year. McClure said the tentative budget will be advertised and a final public hearing on it set for 7 p.m. Sept. 22.

Police Seize Tons of Pot By DUKE NEWCOME TODAY Staff Writer VERO BEACH An estimated one and one-half tons of marijuana with a street value of over $1 million has been seized here and nine persons have been arrested in the largest drug raid in the county's history. Four law enforcement agencies led by the sheriff's department acted on a tip late Sunday night that led to the seizure of the Latin American pot and confiscation of a 40-foot yacht from Coral Gables, two cars, one U- Haul truck and several 9mm automatic hand guns. Six of the nine suspects were arrested at the scene after sheriff's deputies, Florida Highway Patrolmen and Florida Marine Patrol officers sealed off escape routes about one mile south of Wabasso Bridge and moved in on the supects. Three other men, including one who left his identification on the yacht, were arrested by Vero Beach city police who did not know the raid had been made. The nine suspects, each of whom were placed under a $75,000 bond in a preliminary hearing Monday, are from other Florida cities, according to Sheriff Sam T.

Joyce. The sheriff said they received a tip on the yacht that came through Sebastian Inlet Sunday afternoon and docked along the sparsely populated Jungle Trail just off the intracoastal waterway. The suspects were reportedly unloading the bags of marijuana estimated at 50 to 70 pounds each and stacking them alongside Jungle Trail. Sheriff's Capt. Doyle Stroud dispatched men to surround the area and at 11 p.m.

the officers closed in, grabIncrease bing escaped. At six 6:45 of the a.m. suspects. Monday, Three city patrolmen spotted two men, died on the house floor," Baf- "wet and dirty" hitchhiking on alis said. SR 60 and turned them over to city detectives after they told House passage of the new different stories.

giveaway came after an appar- Det. Capt. Carl Pease said ent last minute vote switch. he contacted the sheriff's deThe bill had failed by one vote partment but no one would tell after the regular 15 minute him anything about the raid. voting period had elapsed.

He said he learned later from But House members broke an investigator about the out in shouts, some claiming drugs, and the two men plus the electronic voting machine third that had been picked up had malfunctioned. Then, meanwhile were turned over House Speaker Albert delayed to the sheriff's department. announcing the final vote and Sheriff Joyce termed it the one member er switched his posi- biggest haul in the county's tion, Bafalis noted. The end history noting it is comparable result was passage of the pay to other large seizures made raise bill by a razor thin 214- along the Florida coast in re213. cent weeks.

TWO SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES STAND GUARD police say street value of seized Bafalis Critical By I DUKE NEWCOME TODAY Staff Writer, VERO BEACH There are times when Congress can act quickly, moving a legislative proposal from committee to the President's desk in just five days. Unfortunately, it usually, happens only on bad legislation, said L. A. 'Skip' Bafalis, U.S. representative.

In his newsletter to the district, Bafalis cited as an example the recent congressional pay increase. "This ridiculous pay hike first surfaced July 25 in the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee as an addon to a minor bill." Mosquito Control Up to Commission VERO BEACH of the Mosquito Control District do not need the permission of land owners to form mosquito impoundment areas, the commission was told Monday by board attorney Ken Sharp. The county has about 1,000 acres that were once flooded but ordered drained, which is creating a problem of mosquito control. Sharp researched the charter and told the commission the document gives them the right to take whatever steps necessary to control mosquitos, including flooding private land if they chose. Sharp said he doubts that the commission will take that strong action without property TODAY Staff Photo by Duke Newcome OVER IMPOUNDED 40- FOOT YACHT MONDAY marijuana could be over million of Salary By July 30, it had cleared the committee, the full Senate, the full House and was quickly dispatched to the White House for either signature or veto, Bafalis said.

Those who will benefit are some 17,028 top-ranking government officials, from Vice President Rockefeller to the 435 congressmen and 100 senators to federal judges to highranking military. officers, he added. Many of the raises were justified, he said, noting federal judges have gone without a pay hike since 1969 and for many, usually the better ones, this has meant leaving the federal bench for private practice. But if the pay hikes -for judges and others were justified -the pay boost for congressmen "most certainly were not," he said. The inflation which drove up the consumer price index 47.5 percent in six years has affected congressmen and senators the same as everyone else, but it was Congress which caused the inflation, he said.

"It was the Congress, dominated by those who delight in spending money which isn't there to please every special interest group imaginable, which refused to even try for a Peters Rites Wednesday VERO BEACH Catholic wake services will be held Wednesday for Florence A. Peters, 68, 220 S.W. 6th who died Sunday at Indian River Memorial Hospital. She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. C.

Heley, New York, N.Y. and Mrs. Julia Seabury, Lindenhurst, N. Y. balanced budget and thereby bring inflation under control," he added.

Bafalis said he has advocated a 10 percent pay cut for all members of congress who vote for budgets which do not balance. The latest pay hike bill will cost taxpayers $34 million to $49.7 million, depending on whether the cost of living boost this fall is five percent or eight percent: As dismayed as he was about the "sly, backdoor tactics used by some members of congress to give themselves a pay hike, I am more dismayed over the way the vote was han- owner consent, but noted it has been done in other counties. All it would amount to, Sharp said, is the commission flooding the unused land and keeping it flooded until the owner decides to develop it. Once that is decided, the owner would have to fill the low lying areas which would solve the mosquito problem, he said. John Beidler, district director, said at an earlier meeting the 1,000 acres represents about 20 percent of the area the district wages war against mosquitoes and said treating the area with chemicals is not effective.

Wake services will be at 8 p.m. at the Cox-Gifford-Baldwin Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the St. Helen Catholic Church.

sand TODAY Staff Writer VERO BEACH Dr. David Owens, director of Curriculum and Research in Brevard County schools, outlined some of the things school children can become involved in for the Bicentennial celebration. Dr. Owens was guest speaker at a meeting of the local Bicentennial Committee and school teachers from around the county. Pool" The purpose of the meeting Monday at the Community Center was to explain how the teachers' and their students can participate in the county tion.

Plans of various organizations were outlined by Mrs. Irene Menser, co-chairman of the bicentennial steering committee, to avoid duplication by various groups. Teachers were told by Mrs. Pat Callahan, recreation supervisor, and chairman of festivals, of a contest in the schools for proposing the county logo. It was suggested local teachers may borrow an idea from Broward County teachers, whose task force prepared a source of information for research by the teachers.

The program involves the classroom, the entire school and all of the schools in the county as a group. BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Teachers Urged to Involve Students By DUKE NEWCOME ARTHUR J. LEE VERO BEACH Services were held Monday for Arthur J. Lee, 72, 604 3rd PI. S.W.

who died Sunday at Indian River Memorial Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elsie Lee, Vero Beach; one brother, Gerald F. Lee, South Africa; and one sister, Miss Bessie I. Lee, Zion, Ill.

Services were held at the Cox-Gifford-Baldwin Funeral Home Chapel. TODAY Staff Photo by Duke Newcome TEACHERS TOLD HOW TO INVOLVE- STUDENTS IN COUNTY CELEBRATION meeting called to avoid duplication of Bicentennial activities DEATHS He said he is not certain where the marijuana came from but markings on the burlap bags indicate they are of Spanish origin, perhaps, Columbia or South America. He said they appeared to have been packaged in a factory. Sheriff Joyce estimated the value of the yacht, the 'Sea Streaker' from Coral Gables, at $35,000. He said they will hold the yacht and vehicles until a court determination is made on their disposition.

Also seized during the raid were walkie-talkie radios the suspects were using which were tuned into the sheriff's department frequency. Being held in the county jail here and charged with conspiracy to commit a felony, possession, sale and delivery of marijuana, are: Charles Gallagher, 34, Donald W. Elrick, 29, Henry Villar, 46, Alfred E. Quartermaine, 62 and his son, Allen E. Quartermaine, 32, and Paul William Bower, 30, all of Miami, Leonard C.

Jolly, 50, of Sanford, Frank Lee Owens, 37, of Tavernier and Danny Lee Wright, 42, Defuniak Directors Dividend VERO BEACH A dividend of 20 cents per share has been declared by the directors of First National Bankshares of Florida which holds controlling interest in two Vero Beach Banks. In a semi-annual report from the firm, assets of $60.7 million are shown for First Citrus Bank of Indian River County, down almost $5 million from last year The report shows the bank with 18,209 deposit down 17,558 last accounts, year,.