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Youths Find Old Cannon Page 2 THE PALM BEACH POST, Tuesday. Sept 10. 1957 DaiTl Boone Runs Into Snake Trouble ST. PETERSBURG, Sept 9 (UP) Daniel Boone, 7, was bitten on the thumb today by a ground rattlesnake he spied on the way to school and decided to capture. Patrolman Hugh Hart said the and after much pulling and tugging managed to loosen it from the ocean bottom and get it into their boat.

The customs inspector passed the relic, and they plunked out a tidy $25 to get it home. Now they're spending their spare time clean-it up and checking on Its possible age and history. a half feet long. Guesses as to its age range from 100 to 850 years, pending on whos guessing. BAIT CLIMBS TREE CLARKSVILLE, Tenn.

(UP) -Mrs. Mode Hampton's uncle baited FT. PIERCE Two Ft. Pierce youths who spent several days skin-diving in the waters off Nassau are home again, and mighty proud of their "catch." August was the banner month a fishing line with a frog and left boy emptied his lunch bag and crammed the small snake inside. for construction since county zon lng went into effect last May, Zon it in the river over night.

The next morning when he checked the line The catch is an ancient 175-pouna The youths are Raymond Spencer He was bitten while putting the tag Director G. H. Schultz reported rust-encrusted cannon. They found the cannon in about 15 feet of water off Dclaporte Point and Ronald Robinson, both 17. The weapon was a swivel-mount snake in the bag.

Young Boone was treated at a hospital and released. he found the frog perched high in Monday. Permits for 100 struc tures, 87 of them single family er, muzzle-loader about three and a tree the hook still in him. I dwellings, were issued, and total construction value of all August projects reached $1,341,770. In his report to the Zoning Com- mission, Schultz pointed out that since May 13.

when zoning official ly became a law In Palm Beach County, a total of 308 single fam ily dwelling permits has been is- tued. Have Family Fun, Sports Car Fun in the Economical SILVER HAWK V-8 "This definitely indicates the growth trend of the county," said Schultz. He further cited state sales tax figures as being 25 per cent great er than a year ago this time, and also that gasoline tax receipts are County Buildin Permits Boom During August jag. 1 jttSL. 1 Try a rxr bM -mi 1 wwi 10 per cent over a year ago "This means people are coming here to stay, not just to visit, aid Schultz.

A total of 337 building permits was issued by the Zoning Dept during August, covering all types Photo by T. P. Wyatt GROUNDBREAKING Bethesda Memorial Hospital District Commission Chairman Emory Barrow, left, aided by Dr. Merrill Steele, administrator for the new Institution, right, breaks ground for the new hospital to be constructed on Seacrest Blvd. in Boynton Beach.

Witnessing the event Monday were goverment officials of the area and physicians. The hospital la expected to completed by the middle of June, 1958. of construction operations. It was also pointed out that 76 per cent of construction applications came from platted areas during August (Continued from Pan Om) Continuing a debate involving aetbacks and rezoning of Congress Ground Breaking Ave. from Belvedere to Okeecho Negro Minister Is Attacked At Birmingham White School bee the commission tried for 30 minutes to settle upon a soiu private institution, working in tion to meet setback regulations cooperation with Good Samaritan Earlier, while sitting as a County Hospital, but the plan had to be Commission, the board established a center line and setbacks for Con abandoned.

inridge, all of Birmingham, in gress Ave. as presented by Coun BIRMINGHAM, Sept. I (UP) White men on anti-integra "It was then decided to try for connection with the attack. ty Engineer Stephen K. Mioaieion.

tax-supported hospital, This Shuttlesworth told United Press tion patrol at a Birmingham high school attacked and mauled a Ne Attys. F. O. Dickinson, and at the hospital where he under made it necessary to create a hos Ted Prior, representing E. M.

By gro minister today when he at- pital district. The district was ers tried to work out a grocery temped to enroll several Negro went X-raya that "I am not bravt man. I just know what have got to do." created through a referendum children, store site to fit new setback standards but the commission and applicant could not agree. The mat ote in November, 1955. To govern The Rev.

F.L. Shuttlesworth Shuttlesworth is head of the this newly-created district, the Alabama movement for human governor of Florida appointed sev suffered cuts and bruises but apparently no severe Injuries when rights, successor to the outlawed ter was referred to me tuning Board of Adjustment and will be advertised for a hearing within 15 en commissioners from nomina-Hons made to him by the Gulf- NAACP in this state. slugged by what his wife, Ruby, said were chains and brass spacious, beautifully appointed interior. And, the Silver Hawk actually costs lest than many low priced cars. Yet, it offers more driving fun and more distinctive, handsome styling for the money.

See for yourself! Test drive a Silver Hawk V-8 or the Six at your Studebaker-Packard dealer today! This unique automobile combines fun for the family with the pleasure of driving a car with sports car feel and styling. The economical Silver Hawk V-8, companion car to the supercharged Golden Hawk, performs like a thoroughbred, corners with the readability of a sports car, and offers your passengers relaxed, comfortable travel in its He and his family escaped un stream Hospital Barrow knuckles. harmed when a dynamite blast said. A daughter, 12 -year-old Ruby shattered their home Christmas The commissioners immedi days. Capital Schools Free Of Incidents He also was not harmed when he ately set into motion plans for a referendum to float a bond issue Frederica, received a foot Injury when a white man slammed a car door on her leg.

Mrs. Shuttles- tested a city segregation or dinance prohibiting integration in of $975,000 which was carried by worth found later that ah had railway stations although a white vote of 13 to 1, thereby assuring two-inch cut across her back. integratkmist was atoned. us that the people of this area wanted a hospital. Following pas Television camerman Jim Atkins WASHINGTON, Sept.

9 -Some 110.000 students in Washington's public schools returned to Shuttlesworth led a group of of WBRC-TV. Birmingham, was more than 100 Negroes in a mass sage of the bond issue, the com racially Integrated classes today defiance of bus segregation the mission hired Dr. Herman Smith with a minimum of confusion pushed about by the crowd when he took films of the melee against warnings by the white men not to day after Christmas but he was of Chicago, one of the top-ranking not on of the 22 persons arrested THE SUPERCHARGED GOLDEN HAWK the pace-setter in style and engineering. For the best car values ever hospital consultants in the United States, to guide us in the planning do so. Officials said actual enrollment figures won't be available until later but at least 70 per cent of for violating the ordinance.

Police arrested three white men of the hospital. Our next specific in connection with the attack on step was to sign a contract with: the associated architects of the Larger Postal the Negro and charged them with assault with intent to kill. The latest of several racial Incidents involving Shuttlesworth, area with Herrick Hammond as chairman, to begin the plans for the hospital Quarters Seen (D "The architects Immediately set Studebaker-Packard CORPORATION up an office for drawing plans for the hospital and after months FT. PIERCE-Possibllity of en one of the Souths more active integration leaders, cam three weeks after he and several Negro families filed petitions with the city school board for admission of their children to all-white schools. larging the Ft.

Pierce Post Office drawing and redrawing and constant consultation with Dr. this year's public school population will be Negroes. Schools here were Integrated soon after the Supreme Court ruling against segregation. Frigid Reception Given Mountbatten VALLETTA, Malta, Sept 9 V-Adm. Lord Mountbatten got a frigid reception from politicians today on this mid-Mediterranean Island base.

As Britain's first sea lord, the Earl arrived by air for a five-day visit Jn British warships and ihore bases. Maltese leaden said they would boycott all functions for him. claiming he meddled In the Smith, the final plans of the is being checked into by Hep. Paul Rogers. Rogers has advised local interests that a report on the area needs The board last week referred the petitions to the city schools super architects were put out for bids on July 1 of this year.

Bids were is being studied in the Atlanta re returned August 1, at which time intendent who is empowered under a state segregation law to assign pupils as he sees fit. four bids were received ranging jxmMt-Mihit'U-iimM JK.Mrmrar w-aapp mwaP from $806,000 to $835,000. After gional office and would be "carefully surveyed" in Washington. Need for the expanded facilities is emphasized by the tremendous growth of the community, Rogers careful study of the bids by the architects, they recommended that the commission accept the Mrs. Shuttlesworth said she and her husband, their two children, Ruby Frederica, and Patricia Ann, 14; Nathaniel Lee, 17, and Walter Wilson, 12, went to Phillips High School in an automobile GULF STREAM MOTORS, IXC.

mo south olive west palm beach low bid of $806,000 submitted by said he had advised the postal au Berbusse, of Palm Beach thorities. and New York." political affairs while serving as Mediterranean e-in-c three years ago. Some social events arranged driven by Rev. Ralph B. Pfelffer, Several hundred people from all Postmaster C.

W. Peters said that investigations and surveys had revealed a 85 per cent under-space- another Negro minister. seven communities In the hospital "There were atleast 100 white ment the local office. district attended the ceremonies, viewed a scale model of the hos for him have been cancelled. INSTALLMENT THIEF men around the school," she said.

"The had been there since school pital and its grounds. started last week and there was County Commissioner Ben Sundy OMAHA, Neb. WV-An "Installment burglar" is making regular a policeman on each corner, opened the ceremonies with a brief i address and introduction of the "I assume they were just wait mayors or representatives of the ing there for this to happen." When they drove up to the front of the block-long school, located on the fringe of a Negro section seven cities and towns associated with the hospital district: Boynton Beach Mayor Mott H. Partin, Boca Raton Mayor John L. Shores, Del-ray Beach Mayor George V.

Warren, Highland Beach Mayor Ar of Birmingham, about 20 men sur rounded the car, Mrs. Shuttles- monthly payments for mercnan-dise stolen from a local firm, but at the rate he's going the debt won't be paid until 1993. The burglar opened his unorthodox account with the Nebraska Sheet Metal and Hoofing Contractor Dec. 26, 1956. That's when tools worth about $127 were stolen.

I The firm received two payments of 50 cents each in January with a note saying "This is for the tools I took." Since then similar notes and monthly payments worth said. Five of them pulled Shuttles- thur Eypel, Ocean Ridge Mayor Paul Dunbar, Lantana Mayor L. worth from the car and began pummeling him with crude' fist Irving Ashaur and representing Gulfstream, William Koch, Jr. armor. Mrs.

Shuttlesworth said he was knocked to the ground at Others introduced Included Dr least once. Merrill Steele, administrator for The fight ended when Shuttles- Bethesda Memorial Hospital; Kelly, representative of William worth, who led a mass attempt to integrate the city's bus system and who was bombed 'out of his Berbusse, contractor; C. H. Hammond, representative of the Associate Architects; County Reg- home last winter, managed to get back in the car but not before the door had been slammed on istration Supervisor DeWitt Upthe- grove, Warren Grimes, who flew his daughter's foot in from Ohio ot attend; Mrs. Ray Police arrested W.H.

Cash, B0; f. mond Metzler, co-chairman, rep I.F. Gauldin, 42, and J.E. Breck resenting the Bethesda Memorial 3PE Fund; Tom Woolbnght, president, Gulfstream Hospital Mrs. H.

Anderson Hubbard, represent ing the Ladies Auxiliary; Dr. Thit thOd Thomas Whitehead, representing the doctors group. Others included presidents of the Chambers of Commerce of towns that aided, and members of the Hospital Commission, Emory Bar Slf 1 lit row, chairman; Mrs. Charles Spalsbury, W. J.

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