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rr ik jo 'v W'w 9 I I A. 2B TODAY, Sunday, December 28, 175 WIllinTfrillTTTirIllT TTTI iiiusviiieuiuce: 1100 Hopkins Ave, 267 4711 Notes Homemakers i Cater Meal i For Husbands Sunshine Homemakers Club members celebrated Christmas with a catered dinner at Imperial Towers Tuesday evening, their husbands being guests for the affair Those attending were Hazel and Mack Lucas, Helen and Art Bailey, Lillian Carver, Helen Wentworth, Sharon and Tim Gross, Marilyn and Chuck Cudgel, Rose and Earl Witt and Anette and Jim McCol lum. Madison Middle School Principal Floyd Messier reports' need for parent volunteers to help in the classrooms and in clerical tasks. A grant from the Neighborhood Youth Corps program has made one student cleri cal aide available to the school each day. In addition, parents who are currently helping are Mrs.

Pam Pendleton, Mrs. Vander werken, Mrs. Barbara Be cille, Mrs. Dorell Ferguson, Mrs. Anna Marquart and Mrs.

Sonia Ris ner. Interested persons may call Hessler at 267 4077. Basketball Games To Start Jan. 8 TITUSVILLE North Brevard Parks ajid Recreation Department will sponsor an intramural basketball program for high school boys, grades 9 through 12, beginning Jan. 8 at Jackson Middle School gym.

Tate DeViese, coordinator, said the commission decided to sponsor the program again this year due to its big success last Winter Players will be selected for teams the first night, beginning at 6:30 p.m. and games will thus be started the following week. DeViese' will make a regular game schedule, and trophies will be awarded first and second place teams at the end of the season. Registration is $3 each. Contact DeViese at 269 8354 for information.

PWP to Meet Monday TITUSVILLE Parents without Partners will meet with Flo Midkiff, 190 Olm Stead from 8 to II p.m. Monday for coffee and discussion. Call Ms. Midkiff at 267 7305 for information. Coffee donation, 25 cents.

PAFB to Sell Surplus TITUSVILLE The Department of Defense, Defense Supply Agency, will hold a spot bid sale at Building 1391, Patrick AFB, Jan. 6. Registration will begin at 8 a.m. with sale time at 9 a.m Among the 243 items listed for bids are Automobiles, calculators, electrical equipment, electronic items and copying ma phines. Excluding weekends and holidays, inspection is open from 8am to 3 m.

daily. Contact Lowell Johnson, 494 7911 for information. Auto Repair Classes Set TITUSVILLE Two courses in auto repair are offered by Brevard Community College Continuing Education division. Beginning Jan 20, a course in basic auto care, including mechanical principles, emergency repairs and preventative maintenance designed for the uninformed will meet Tuesdays for five weeks from 7 to 9:45 p.m. at Titusville Center Mechanics Shop.

Jlap Mulvaney will be instructor. Registration fee is $10. Additionally, an auto tune up course is offered at Astronaut High School beginning Jan. 19. Principles and operations of engine 'tune up, understanding components, "opera lion of ignition coils, distributors, spark 'plugs, timing, carburetors and emission icontrpl devices, will be covered in this 12 Nveek class, which will meet Mondays, 7 to 3:45 p.m.

Registration fee for this course is $5. Jlap Mulvaney will be instructpr. Call 269 5664 for information concerning these BCC classes. MDateb.o.oKMM Monday TITUSVILLE i Duplicate Bridge Session, Orlando Utilities pldg U.S. 7.30 m.

Will furnish partners. Cair 783 1038. Art Classes', Daybreak Outreach Center, 404 Main 7 10 m. "Civil Air Patrol, Ti Co Airport, 7pm AA, Gateway group, 105 Julia closed dtfcusslon. 267 3411.

Weight Watdhers, Searstown Mall, 7 p.m. SIIARPES Four Communities Volunteer Fire Department, bi Ago, 7:30 Detention Center Needs Volunteers By ROBERT ROTHMAN TODAY vm WrUtr Marilyn Chasteen wants to give the kids at the Brevard Detention Center something to do. After a month as the VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) coordinator at the detention center, Mrs. Chasteen has reached the conclusion that she needs help in terms of manpower and materials. The first few weeks at the center, she said, have been spent getting to know what the kids would like to have and what the rest of the staff and administration feel would be best for them.

No Stop By Police 'Routine' By ROBERT ROTHMAN TODAY Holt Writer Most people don't spend much time thinking about how they would react if they are pulled over by a policemanjor a traffic violation. Some would' automatically get out of thew car and up to the officer Others would remain in their car, perhaps nervously thinking back to whatever it was that brought them to the officer's attention. Harry Sands spends a little more time than most thinking about how motorists react The three year veteran of the Titusville Police Department says tie doesn't expect people to know how to react when the blue lights come on behind them. As a result, he says he would favor educating the people to a single procedure a suggestion made to the state Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles recently by State Sen. John Vogt, Co coa Beach And although there are general procedures for a police.

officer to follow when he pulls a motorist over, he said individual circumstances, instinct and discretion all play a role in how he handles each one "I don't think there's any such thing as a routine traffic stop," Sands said But, he said, there are situations that instinctively appear less serious than others For instance, he said, a 60 year old woman who is driving five miles over the speed limit is not likely to pose any problem But when a driver jumps out of a car as soon as he is stopped, more caution is tali en. "He's ready to either really put up an argument with yoir," Sands said, "or it's the type of person who really realizes he was wrong." Depending on the person being stopped, the type of car, time of day or night and (he number of other people in the car. Sands says he will try to avoid making the stop until he can radio in the license tag number and find out whether the car is reported stolen. Then, he said, he prefers the motorist remain inside the car until he approaches him and has a chance to look inside the car And, he said, he tries to have his mind made up about whether he will be writing a ticket before he gets out of the patrol car But again, he said, discretion must be used depending on what the motorist says and in determining whether a warning is sufficient "But in order to have volunteers come in and conduct a she said, "you need materials." So Mrs. Chasteen is looking for boxing equipment, tumbling mats, ping pong tables (along with paddles and balls) and anything else that might keep young people busy on a long Saturday afternoon.

After the contributions start coming in, she said, it will' then take some volunteers to make use of materials and organize everything from ping pong mjlEOTtfiS to cbess tournaments. Mrs. Chasteen said the state budget for the detention center has run dry. And, she said, the needs for the child ren are far greater than just toys or arts and crafts. "They love to have visitors, just people to rap with'them," said Mrs.

Chasteen. "They may be a little reserved at first, but they are willing to talk." Communication with the kids at the detention center is not difficult, she said. But there is" a need for people who are willing to take the time to come in and listen to what they have to say. Much of the problem, said Mrs Chasteen, is that many people don't even realize the detention center exists. But there.re anywhere from 20 to 30 children on the average at the center, located on DeLeon Avenue north of Har rison Street in Titusville.

The center can hold to '36 children, Mrs. Chas teen said. Their stays at the center, she said, can range anywhere from 24 hours to 30 days. Some of the children there now will still be in the center fdr New Year's Eve. And, said Mrs.

Chasteen, she Is hoping to get someone to donate pizza and soft drinks so they can have a little party. When Mrs. Chasteen first arrived at the center Nov." 24, she said there wasn't much in the way of organized activity or a volunteer program going on. ON HAM SET For 50 Years, He's Radioed Across U.S. Just Quaking TODAY Hon Pdol.

Woll johnion This pair of young animals appear tti be discussing what Santa Duck brought them for Christmas. The concrete contraptions were spotted at the city's Marina Park. Although youngsters are out of classes for the next week, they apparently aren't flocking to this playground. The playthings were all alone. Titus vile 's 'Superteen 'Building Plane in Utah A Titusville teenager recently named one of the year's "Superteens" by "Seventeen" magazine for his internationallyrecognized wofk in mechanical engineering is now at work building an airplane Foch.

270 Christmas Hills Rd says he Is working by correspondence with a friend in Salt Lake City, Utah, on a plane he designed using the engine of a Volkswagen automobile. j.7 JElsewhere In Brevard ymftjsts Foch, who is now a freshman mechanical engineering student at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) in Melbourne, said he designed the "flying wing" type plane after being contacted by Doug "Kluender of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Although it may be three or four years before the plane gets off the ground, Foch said the work is progressing. However, he said that since he and Kluender are both full time students the work on the plane must move slowly The project got its start, Foch said, when KJuender spotted his name in a science magazine He said Kluender has similar interests to his Foch also said he and Kluender are receiving some assistance from professional 'engineers in areas such as stress, with which they are not familiar By ROBERT ROTHMAN TODAY ltoff WrU.r To America, it may be a 200 year anniversary. But to Harold'Wier of Titusville, 1976 will mark his 50th year as an amateur radio ham Wier set up his first ham station in 1928 in Lincoln, Neb after his discharge from the Army, He had received his first radio license in 1926, 'after a little training while in the service.

But the training didn't come accidentally In fact, when Wier was first sent to Hawaii In 1925, it was as a member of the infantry. But the man who's been talking around the world for some SO years now began talking then and managed a transfer to a communications outfit. His interest in communications had begun a few years earlier in a drug store where he used to hang out. One of the men who worked in the store was also interested in radios, recalled Wier, and taught him how to build a simple one tube receiver "But a tube back then cost about $7," said Wier "I had quite a time getting Dad to buy me a tube." And once he got the tube, there were other accessories to go along with it. Somehow within the next year, though, his first receiver was put together The late 1920's and then the 1930's was spent experimenting with radios and an tennaes, he said.

Together with a cousin who also had a little "ham" in him, the pair built antenna towers to heights of G5 and 70 feet. "I did school myself pretty well in radio (electronics)" Weir said. "I wasn't a radio engineer at all." Visits to broadcast stations and reading electronics journals provided much pf the information he needed over the next few years to build up a system which Wier said has made him friends all over the world Many ham operators, Wier said, send cards with their call letters to other "hams" with whom they talk over the radio as an after the fact confirmation of their conversation. Wier said he still gets cards every now and then. "But I don't send cards any more because it's too costly," he said CAPE CANAVERAL" The Cape Canaveral City Council will give it one more try Monday night in Its attempt to balance the city's general fund budget.

The special 5pm meeting will be devoted to considering a schedule of new garbage collection rates for city residents to raise some $50,000. Councilman Harry Rhame has put the schedule together based on the need for the revenue and the equity of collection rates. Rhame, who has been a strong council advocate of maintaining city services at their present levels 'instead of cutting back, proposed the collection rates as a last alternative to massive employe cutbacks several weeks ago. Although the council philosophically endorsed the plan to maintain services and raise rates, it has not come up with specifics that would enable It to do tbat. Currently, the city's three mill property tax goes almost entirely to support garbage collection by an exclusive franchise with a private firm.

Rubbishman, Inc. COCOA The first Cops vs, Coaches football game will be held Jan. 17 at Mustang Stadium at Merritt fstand High School beginning at 8 The game, according to Cocca police officer Everett Parker "will pit weary, out of shape policemen from the Co coa Rockledge area' against those well trained and much in shape coaches and faculty members from area high schools and middle schools." Proceeds from the game will go to the Cocoa High School athletic program. A special half time program will feature the Cocoa High School Tiger Band, Parker said. The concept for' the game was sparked by several members of the Cocoa Police Department and coaches at Cocoa High in an effort to establish closer harmony between the police agencies and the public they serve, Parker said.

MELBOURNE The Melbourne City Council's two "freshmen" members said last week they've stiU got a o( to learn about their roles in ci. ty government. But Mik'e Gatto and Ed Keller said JwpeMthe' council has behind it many of the problems that lead to deep divisions in 1975. Both are holding their first political office. "There are bound to be differences of opinion," Gatto said, "but we have a viable" council." "It seems the council doesn't have a great deal of controversy," Keller added.

MELBOURNE Alex Cassity, a member of the Platinum Coast Amateur Radio Society, has been working since September to have an amateur ham radio training course. Sponsored' by Brevard Community College's (BCC) Continuing Education Division, the course will finally begin Jan. 5. The 16 session course In code, basic radio theory and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations costs JST Classes will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 9.45 m. In Room Wl 2 of'the Ruth Henegar complex at 615 New Haven Ave.

The BCC coursewilI train persons for the novice license, one of five amateur FCC licensing classes. All five Involve proficiency in the International Morse Code, knowledge of electronic theory and familiarity wth U.S. and" International radio laws, Cassity said. Each session will have l'i hours pf work, and Vt hours of theory. Winter Wading TODAY ItoH Photo John Dlckorun 7 did school myself pretty well in radio.

I wasn't a radio engineer at all. Harold Wier That long winter trek to the southlands was sunTworth" It, this fowl seems to be saying. Where else but Florida can one wade In the water at the end of December, the coldest time of the year? Sure not like this up north. The 60 foot tower Wier now has outside his house at 169 Jackson St. is not the result of just boyhood experiments.

Several years as a teacher for Army Air Force radio operator instructors and a few more years as chief radio operator tor Douglas Aircraft operations' 1n Chicago during the 1940's has all gone into his current set up. The antenna was built in 1958, Wier said, a year after he moved to Titusville. His receiver now spans a wide range of frequencies that at various times of the day, depending on atmospheric conditions, can pick up points throughout the United States and the rest of the world Several times, Wier said, he has used his radio station to help someone in Titusville talk to a friend elsewhere in the world who can get to another radio station All he needs to do that, said Wier, is the time of day during which the other station can pick up signals from Florida and the frequency on which the station is operating At 68, Wier stiil holds the boyish enthusiasm for his hobby and at times, profession, that existed 50 years ago in Lincoln. How' often does he sit down to converse with other parts of the world? "Whenever the spirit moves me," he says. Architects' Office Fires Are Probed An early morning and two late night fires at the offices of Titusville architects" George Megginson and Richard Lemon have been called arson by Titusville Fire Chief Jtm Brown.

Brown said the first fire broke out around 3 30 a Saturday in the area of the furnace room and quickly spread into the loft, severely damaging the attic. There was smoke damage throughout the building at 2222 S. Washington Brown said, although water damage was kept to a minimum. DuringDuring the 30 minutes it took three fire units to put out the blaze, Brown said heat inside the building built up enough to melt office machines and fixtures. He estimated fire damage at "several thousand dollars." Two more separate fires were discovered about 10.15 p.m.

in the' building's large drafting room, the chief said. Chemicals stored in the room produced toxic odors but Brown said no firemen were Injured and the odors presented jio dangers to other city residents. "There's ho question In my mind we've got arson Brown said. Again, three units had the later fires under control In 15 minutes. No nearby buildings were damaged, but smoke slowed traffic along U.S.

1, Brown said he is still Investigating the cause of the said he had received a report of an ind'ividual seen leaving the scene about 15 minutes before the first fire broke out: Neither Lemon nor Megj ginson could be reached for comment Saturday, A.