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Building Project By Ti-Co Airport Authority By KEEFER TODAY Staff Writer The Airport Authority has launched a major building program, including new hangars, resurfacing runways, installing new landing systems at Ti-Co and commissioning a 20- year master plan for the authority's three airports. The authority Wednesday gave its new executive director, W. Lloyd Lane, the go-ahead to construct four, 1-plane T. hangars, two at Merritt Island Airport, to replace those destroyed by last year's tornado, and two new ones for Ti-Co. Ti-Co already has two of the $50,000 structures, but both are filled, and 13 planes are on the' waiting list for hangar space.

Lane was also instructed to work on engineering designs and grant applications for a $100,000 -resurface job to Merritt Island Airport. If a' strengthen the runway, at grant for the project is approved, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would pay half the cost and the state Department of Transportation Gas Shortage Forces Sheriff's Budget Review Brevard Sheriff Leigh Wilson said Thursday he will try a budget-juggling scheme to make sure the sheriff's department doesn't run out of gas next year. "For the first time in preparing a budget, I'm going to ask for a special category for gasoline," Wilson said. "I don't know how much it will be, but I can assure the (county) commissioners that this money will be set aside. They can hold on to it except if there is a price increase," he said.

The department uses more than 300,000 gallons yearly and racks up more than 3 million miles on its 80-car fleet. Currently, the sheriff's gas is bought through the courity at slightly less than 24 cents a gallon. Wilson's men were almost stranded last month when Citgo cancelled its contract with the department. No other firms bid on the contract because "they didn't know if they could take care of us," Wilson said. Now the green cruisers are using Chevron and, in case of a shortage, they have priority over other county vehicles.

LEIGH WILSON for first time' Body Found in Woods An empty Michelob bottle and a glass half-filled with beer, the keys to a new gray Porsche and his wallet were the only clues pharmacist Dwight Tinsley left behind when he vanished from a Stuart motel room 20 months ago. Until Thursday, when road workmen found a body near Stuart in a woods, the 27-yearold former Merritt Island resident had appeared to have stepped off the earth's surface. Martin County Sheriff's Department spokesmen said they think the decomposed corpse is the missing Tinsley. Sheriff James Holt said there would be no word on the discovery or the results of an examination by Dr. H.

I. Schofield, 19th Circuit Medical Examiner, until this morning. Tinsley, a quiet young bachelor, failed to report for work at a Stuart drugstore Nov. "Tinsley had been scheduled to open the drug store at 9 a.m., but he failed to show up, and Francis W. Collins, also an employe of the store, went to his apartment.

There, he found Tinsley's wallet on a table, the television set turned on, the stereo set playing, a glass of beer on the table and Tinsley's locked car, a Porsche, in front of the apartment. The body was found near the location of the apartment. A Vero Beach man offered a $500 reward for information leading to discovery of Tinsley, or his body, at the time. The offer was made by Roy Schick, whose citrus plant in Vero Beach employed Tinsley's father, John Tinsley. The search for Tinsley, who was also an airplane pilot, led to contacts in New Mexico and many Florida cities, all fruitless.

The body is the second found buried in Martin County in the last few months. The decom-. posed corpses of two Ft. Lauderdale girls were found just inside the St. Lucie County line on Hutchinson Island in April.

Former Martin County Sheriff's Department Deputy Gerard Schaefer has been charged with those two deaths and is investigated in connection others. being, On Jan. 3, the badly decomposed, butchered body of Leonard Masar, 45, a Riviera Beach restaurant owner missing from his home since August 11, 1972, was found buried on Hutchinson Island in Martin County. Masar's body was wrapped in a rug and white plastic and buried in a shallow grave just off the old beach road. Brevard.

Deaths JOYCE L. PETERSEN Services for Mrs. Joyce L. Petersen, 38, of 210 Brandy Lane, Merritt Island, will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. today in the chapel of Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home, Cocoa.

Mrs. Petersen died Tuesday at the Adare Medical Center, Rockledge. She was. a telephone operator. Survivors include her husband, Robert four sons, Robert F.

Petersen Randell Lawrence K. and John L. Petersen; one daughter, Joyce E. Petersen, all of Merritt Island, two brothers, Lewis Adkins of Miami, and Charles B. Adkins of Austell, three sisters, Mrs.

Marion A. Herndon of Merritt Island, Mrs. Geraldine A. Vance of Cocoa, and Mrs. Betty J.

Ownes of St. Petersburg; and her mother, Mrs. Katie L. Adkins of Merritt Island. NANCY KING Services for Nancy Lee King, 38, of 984 Miracle Way, Rockledge, will be at 1:30 p.m.

Saturday at Rockledge Baptist Church. She died Wednesday at Wuesthoff Memorial Hospital, Mrs. King was assistant office manager of the Prudential Insurance Cocoa. Survivors include her husband, Cecil two daughters, Miss Susan K. and Miss Mary S.

King of Rockledge; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert E. Smith of Fellsmere; and one brother, Phillip J. Smith of Vero Beach.

Brevard Funeral Home, Rockledge, is in charge. TODAY, Friday, June 8, 1973- 3B Inquiring Photographer Do you think the school board was right in firing Supt. White? would pick up another 25 percent. Work has already started on land acquisition and preparation for a runway approach lighting system that will stretch more than a half-mile beyond the end of Ti-Co's main runway. The lighting and an ins-4 trument landing systems will be installed and maintained by the FAA during the next year.

It will allow the airport to operate under more adverse weather conditions than is now permissible under FAA regulations. The authority must purchase a 50-foot-wide strip of land extending about 800 feet past the current airport boundary to accommodate the lighting system. The authority has also agreed to build a new hangar to house AFTEC Ti-Co operation. Cape Kennedy Communications Inc. will move into the AFTEC hangar once a new one is built for AFTEC.

Lane was also directed to revise the revenue bond sinking fund to dislodge unnecessary fund surplusses in the account. Some $60,000 will be transferred to the Airport Improvement Fund, raising it to $165,000, Lane said. "We're not real hot to spend it, but when we find something that has to be done, we can do it," he said. The authority has also sent out "statements of work" to six engineering firms so they can bid on a contract to draw up a 20-year master plan for the airport. The firms have until June 20 to respond.

Lane said the FAA requires master plans before it will participate in major airport construction. Swindle Scheme Gets Man 4 Years No arrests have been made in connection with this death. Sheriff James D. Holt, Martin County, once was asked if the county planned to conduct a search of Hutchinson Island for supposedly still yet undiscovered bodies buried there. A 47-year-old Indialantic man was given four of a possible 90 years in prison Thursday after he was found guilty of engineering one of Brevard's biggest swindles.

Malcolm Roberts, an officer of the Southwest Title and Abstract Co. of Melbourne, was sentenced to four concurrent four-year terms by Circuit Court Judge Robert B. McGregor. Auto Crash Suit Asks $1 Million A $1 million-plus suit hasbeen filed against a Mims man and his insurance. following a June 11 car crash that allegedly injured a Titusville youth.

Attorney William H. Roundtree filed the suit for F. D. Kilbreath of 1405 Country Club Titusville, and his 17- year-old son Floyd who, the suit said, suffered extensive and permanent brain injuries in the crash. The suit is against Charles H.

Hollmann of 1122 Sweetbay Mims, and the Government Employes Insurance Co. Floyd Kilbreath was a passenger in car when, through "negligence and carelessness," Hollmann hit another car on Holder Road, the suit said. The suit asks $1 million in damages and another $20,000 in medical bills. Roberts, charged with swindling $170,000 from escrow accounts with the firm from Oct. 6, 1972 to Jan.

8, 1973, was sentenced on four of nine counts of grand larceny to The other which five he prosecution counts. pleaded no dropped contest. the SAMSONITE Roberts, a Little League coach, is free on $5,000 bond pending appeal of the case. Judge McGregor passed the sentence after turning down a dismissal motion on claims the jury selection system in Brevard is illegal. Roberts contended the county jury system doesn't follow state law by asking prospective jurors if they are qualified to serve, McGregor said jurors are asked their qualifications in court, 'in addition to questioning by attorneys when selected as jurors.

"You knew what you were doing was wrong," McGregor told Roberts prior to sentencing. "That tends to make the crime worse." However, McGregor said he took Robert's years of public service, including Little League coahing, into account before sentencing. JACK ELLISON Cocoa I don't think he should be fired. SUSAN GLENN Titusville He never did anything. LISA TURNER Fort Pierce I don't think he should have been.

ALBERT O. DENZEL Cocoa Well, yes. He was weak in his renditions to the board. But the whole thing is more than Dr. White.

JOHN THOMAS Satellite Beach They didn't have very strong grounds for firing SELAH DAY Cocoa I didn't know they'd fired him. That's a squabbling board. Waste Facility Bids Opened By TOM SANDER Assistant Metro Editor Bids were opened Thursday on one of the largest single county governmental construction projects ever planned, the central disposal facility for 1 the solid waste disposal system. Apparent low bidder was Peabody Petersen Co. of Orlando with a $5.63 million bid.

Other bids were $5.77 million from Butler and Oenbrink of Rockledge, $5.89 million by Reinhold Construction Co. ofCocoa and Korndoerfer Construction Co. of Wisconsin, and $6.02 million by Diversacon Industries Inc. of Winter Park. County Purchasing Director DAVID WILKINSON Cocoa I think they should.

Ed Caldwell said it will require several weeks to study and this analyze the bids before supervising engineers are prepared a to make a recommendation on awarding a contract. The matter will be placed before county commissioners for a final decision. The waste disposal system, to be in operation late next year, includes a planned giant shredding machine to grind up 75 tons an hour of garbage, trash and even old refrigerators. The four -inch pieces left would be spread on a controlled landfill behind the disposal facility, to be built on Adamson Road off SR 528 west of Cocoa. SAMSONITE SUMMER SPECIALS SAVE NOW! Samsonite Silhouette the lightweight that can take heavyweight handling.

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King We regretfully inform you that she passed away at 5:00 a.m., June 6, 1973. The family wishes te express their deepest preciation for all these concerned. Also, a special thanks to the hospital staff of Wuestheff for their sincere dedication and comfort. The Cecil King Family 984 Miracle Way Rockledge, Florida JOE WICKHAM very happy' CORA WILLIAMS Services for Mrs. Cora Williams, 73, of Hempstead, N.Y.

were held at the Church of God, Sharpes. She died Friday in Hempstead, N.Y. Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Mattie Washington of Sharpes; Mrs. Ethel Park of Cocoa; Mrs.

Mary Mitchell of Plant City; and Mrs. Magdaline Williams of Hempstead, N. three sons, William Wallace and Samuel Mitchell both of Merritt Island; and Henry Mitchell, out of state; 69 grandchildren, 37 great grandchildren, and two great, great grandchildren. Gainey Funeral Home, Titusville, was in charge. ELMO T.

GODSEY Services for Elmo Thomas Godsey, 101 N. Washington Titusville, were held in Arcanum, Ohio. He died Wednesday in Titusville. Survivors include his wife, Alice; seven brothers and five sisters, all out of state. Smith Funeral Home, Titusville, was in charge of local arrangments.

ARCHIE CUMMINGS Services for Archie Cummings, 84, of 925 Orlando Titusville, will be at 2.p.m. Saturday at Smith Funeral Home, Titusville. He died Thursday. Survivors include a son, Leonard of Titusville; a daughter, Mrs. Marie Thompson of Titusville; one grandson and three granddaughters.

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