The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 3

Sriilinrl Friday, January 31, 1953 'Stop Nciv Appointee Ordered Collin ires Duval Sheriff. BI Agent Iiicoiiipctcncc Neglect Of Duty Charged By JIM HARDEE Sentinel Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Gov. LeRoy Collins yesterday fired Duval County Sheriff Al Cahill and appointed an FBI agent as his successor with orders to stop prostitution in Florida's second largest county. The governor said Cahill was and had "neglected 'the duties of his office," in which he has served only one year and 22 davs. Collins based his suspension order, which must be confirmed by the State Senate in regular session next year, on a secret grand jury report of an investigation the governor requested some months ago.

For 'Loose Talk Missile Test Worker Gets Suspension CAPE CANAVERAL An aircraft company worker connected with the Atlas missile tst program has been suspended for two weeks without pay for "loose talk," the air force disclosed yesterday. At the same time, the air force iaid other cases of suspected security violations involving employes of various missile contractors are being reviewed. Lt. Col. Sam Eruno, security officer at the missile test center here, said all contractors involved in missile testing have increased their programs for security education and security indoctrination.

Tftor And 'i--il'r 4 Its Grountl Equipment Except for the urban setting, this photograph illustrates how an air force Thor missile will appear when set up at an operational field base with its full complement of ground support equipment. One of the missiles with a range was successfully test fired at Cape Canaveral Tuesday. With the exception of simulated fuel tanks, all the equipment shown represents actual prototypes from production lines at Douglas Aircraft, Santa Monica, where the sample field layout is assembled. Trailer units provide electric power, fuel pumping apparatus and control centers. AP Wirephoto Freeze Dammie Committee Cold May Cause 3-Season Citrus Loss 5 fit Movies Nancy Walters, 22, whose mother, Mrs.

Delphia Driver, lives at 1000 E. Central Orlando, has been signed to a Universal-International contract and goes to work next week in a picture with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Nancy, who was brought up near Zcllwood and Mount Plymouth, was a New York model and TV actress prior to being discovered in Hollywood by Talent Scout Jack Baur. On Controls Milk Group Battles Suit TALLAHASSEE (.7) The State Milk Commission yesterday asked Leon County Circuit Court to dismiss a suit by Sealtest Dairy seeking to force the commission either to abolish price controls at all levels or to impose them at all levels. The commission petition contended that the law under which Sealtest was seeking a review of its order had been repealed by a section of the 1956 judicial amendment dealing with jurisdiction of circuit courts.

The Sealtest suit filed Jan. 9 challenged the validity of recent commission orders setting minimum prices which distributors must, pay dairy farmers for both fluid and surplus milk. THE COMMISSION abolished the price levels it formerly had enforced at the wholesale and retail levels, but broadened its controls at the producer level where distributors buy their milk for the retail markets. Sealtest contended that it was beyond the power of the commission to fix prices at the producer level after having abolished them at the retail and wholesale level. The suit also said the commission failed to hold proper public hearings before enacting the contested orders.

Edith Ringling Estate Sale Due NEW YORK (1H The Florida estate of a member of the Ringling circus family and the late Detroit industrialist Robert S. Brown will be auctioned, a New York real estate firm announced yesterday. Joseph P. Day, president of Joseph P. Day, said the auction of the Sarasota estate of Edith Conway Ring-ling, widow of the late Charles Ring-ling, would start on Feb.

22. It will involve 33,200 acres south-cast of Sarasota; the Ringling residence with more than 21 acres on Bayshore Road, and the personal effects and furnishings of the residence. The auction at Clearwater, of the 13-room Brown residence with its four acres of gardens and terraces will start on March 8. The property fronts on Clearwater Bay. A feature of the sale will be the auctioning of 23 original oils by George Inness Jr.

National Guard Has Practice Alert DAYTONA BEACH 3 Two antiaircraft batteries of the National Guard set up weapons in a secluded section of the city last night as 170 guardists took part in an annual practice alert. Capt. Robert Roper, post commander of the 143th AAA batalion, termed the routine two hour drill a success. Yacht Found MIAMI OH The coast guard reported last night they have located the racing yacht Ondine, four days overdue from here with three persons aboard. The vessel is aground in the main Miami channel HIS CHARGES of incompetence were predicated on an admission Collins said Cahill had made to him "that he had for his friend and self-styled confidential informant a.

notorious gambler." Also Collins said Cahill had recently put a stop to prostitution without even conducting a raid or making an arrest which indicated to him that it had been officially permitted before the grand jury investigation was ordered. A third reason for suspending him, Collins said, was that Cahill had declined to waive his constitutional right to immunity when asked to appear before the grand jury. TO THE SHERIFF post the governor named Dale G. Carson, who has lived in Jacksonville since 1952 as an agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Collins said Carson "has no political background with any group and is free to devote his complete energies to rigid law enforcement." At Jacksonville, Sheriff Cahill, who just last year ousted veteran Sheriff Rex Sweat from 24 years in office, said: "I had a reputation as a businessman of honesty and integrity and was elected by the people with backing of the churches.

I have had many problems and have dealt wjth them to the best of my ability. However, I have made no one mistake a second time. I do not care to comment upon the reasons why the governor suspended me. "THIS INVESTIGATION had gcjne on a long time and in an effort jto bring a distasteful and strained situation to a speedy close and not wishing to involve many of the fine local employes in this organization to any further pressure I refused to wave immunity only on advice of competent attorneys." CabiU's election last year over Sweat was considered a major political upset. Although Cahill hpd been known over the state as ciyic leader and as a former president of the Florida Junior Chamber jof Commerce, he had no previous political or law enforcement experience before being elected sheriff.

IT WASN'T LONG after Cahill assumed the office on Jan. 8, 1957, that charges of neglect, wide-spread prostitution and incompetency ba-gan to be hurled at him. Cahill Has claimed that they came from Cx-Sheriff Sweat and his employes, wiio under the county's civil service system could not be removed by the imi' rlinrnff I In firing Cahill, Collins yesterday set two new "firsts" for his adminis tration. It was the most important elected official he has suspended since he became governor three years ago and it was the first; tim3 he has fired an official who was Out under grand jury indictment -or official court charges. THE GRAM) JURY investigating Cahill said it had turned up nothing on which to indict the sheriff but was passing on its evidence for tjie governor's attention and action he saw fit.

Collins said that under Florida he could not reveal that information. Asked at his press conference if Cahill would be accorded a public hearing in order to face his unidentified accusers, the governor said, consider the matter closed" ahd added he did not believe anything would be gained by a hearing, jle said he had talked "to Cahill on tko occasions and he had every opportunity to bring out the SUSPENSION OF the sheriff will make the state senate ra-e in Duval County much hotter this year. Whiia the new sheriff will not be up for election, a senator, -who can reuv state Cahill, will be elected. HE SAID THERE has been a re-emphasis of restrictions against careless talk about classified missile projects. Bruno said the air force informed Convair Division of General Dynamics builder of the Atlas range ballistic missile, that a Convair worker not a technician had attempted to impress associates with his information about the Atlas program.

lie said this information, if tied to other technical data, could have resulted in a serious security breach. Convair suspended the worker for two weeks the equivalent of a fine between $200 and $300 and warned him that a further breach of security would bring summary dismissal. BRUNO ALSO provided additional details of a security breach announced last month, when a woman employe of the Govt quit her job at the test center after learning that she was under suspicion. He said the woman, who had access to secret information on a missile launching schedule as part of her work, copied that information and passed it to a male friend with whom she had a date. The man's estranged wife found the paper on the seat of the man's automobile, recognized the handwriting, and reported to security officers.

Plane Found Five Floridians Killed In Crash BRAD SHAW, W. Va. LT) The search for a missing airplane and its five passengers ended yesterday on a bleak mountain top at the West Virginia-Virginia border near here. The first person to identify the wreckage, Herman Lee Mullens, 25, of Faynesville, McDowell County, said four bodies were inside the plane, while the fifth, that of one of the two women aboard, had been thrown clear. There had been no fire.

The plane, a chartered flight from Florida to Charleston, had been missing since Tuesday night. OCCUPANTS OF the plane had been previously identified as: Beverly L. Michie, 43, former Charleston attorney but more recently a hardware merchant at Bradenton, his mother, Mrs. Bertha M. Michie, 72; a nurse, Mrs.

Louise Puck-ctt of Clearwater, and two co-pilots, Thomas Sternad and Robert Phillips, both of the Clearwater area. The two-engine white plane with blue markings had been charted at Clearwater from a commercial flying service for an ambulance trip to bring Mrs. Michie north for medical attention. Five Injured As Car Ranis Into Restaurant MIAMI (IB An automobile plunged out of control into restaurant yesterday, injuring five persons, one of them critically. Folice said Walter Lee Shadow, 74, had just pulled his car into an angle parking place when his foot jammed on the accelerator.

The vehicle lunged across the curbing, knocked down Shadow's 67-year-old wife, who was putting a coin in a parking meter, knocked over the meter and slammed through the restaurant's plate glass window. It came to rest against the counter, amid a shambles of broken glass, crockery, stools and shattered booths. Gloria Dclsestro, 32, sitting in one of the booths directly in the path of the car, was critically injured. Mrs. Sharlow-suffered a broken arm.

Tells Governor son's citrus crop probably will be reduced in volume and further weather damage will have grave effects on future crops. "It must be said, however, that citrus trees have marked recuperative powers, especially those which have had good care. Very favorable weather may tend to offset part of this serious damage, but a below-normal crop for the next three seasons is the only logical conclusion. The most logical estimate seems to indicate crops of 120 to 130 million boxes." FLORIDA'S agriculture was healthy and vigorous before the abnormal freezes, the committee said. "Because of this and the determination of its members to asume their own burdens insofar as possible, tha industry will be able to make the adjustments required by severe weather damage with a minimum of assistance from outside sources," the committee said.

Some individuals need special assistance, their resources having been exhausted by heavy losses, the report said. The committee said the situation with the laborers thrown out of work when the crops were ruined is bad and likely to get worse. THE FOUR-MAN committee said the labor situation will become "acute" about May 1 when most citrus activity halts. It suggested that temporary jobs be found for migrants on state road and other public works projects. It also pointed up the need for a program to efficiently move jobless CALENDAR Tonight' Movies A5.TOR: Siaujhter on Tenth Avenue, 1 01, 4 Ot, 7 OH.

10 IS; The Violators. 2 45, 5:50. 8 57 EEACHAM: Sayonara, 11:00. 147, 4 34, 21, 9 SV COLONY: Around the World in Eighty Davs, 8 00 FIAITO: I Was A Teenage Werewolf. 1:10, 4 05.

f. 9 50: Forty Guns. 2 30, 5 30. 8 15 APOPKA: MUNICIPAL: Fighting Trouble: Buffalo Hill WINTER GARDEN- GARDEN: The Nicht The World Exploded; 1964. DRIVE-IN THEATERS BtOPPOM TRAIL: Don't Go Near the WiW, 7 no, 12 no; The Pack.

9 15: The 11 00 COLONIAL: Battle Stripe, 7 00, 10 00; Armored Attack. 6.50 KUHL AVE: Baby Face Kelson, 7.00. 10.15; I Died a Thousand Times. 8 45. ORINDO: Battle Stripe.

7:00. 10 00; Armored Attark. 8 45. FINE HILLS: Don't Go Near the Water, 7 00. 10 40; Man on Fire.

8:55. rUMBIE LAKE: Parson and the Outlaw, 7:07. 12 01; Toward the Unknown, 8.25; Three Hours to Kill. 10 27. PI-MAR: Drasoon Weils Massacre.

7.00; Wines of the f.Ut. 40, Storm Rider, 10 40 WINTER PATiK: Baby Fare Nelson, 7 CO, 10 00; The Man. 9 04 WINTER GAFDF'N: STARUTB: Untamed V-u'h; Buckskin lady. COLORED THEATERS CAPVER: Ramrod; Hit and R'm. continuous ho 1 12.

UN COIN: The Van Behind the Gun; Prr.cA Seal. cr.t;nuo" shous fi 12. WINTER GARDEN: ANNEX: Hellcats of the Navy. workers to other areas where jobs are available. Federal, state and local agencies have done an excellent job in helping in these individual cases and a "large portion of those needing help have been cared for," the committee said.

"Some additional assistance will be needed during the next six months." THE COMMITTEE said it was unable to put a figure on the money losses in winter vegetable crops, but increased prices because of reduced supplies and increased spring plantings will moderate the losses. The severe cold hurt cattlemen badly in some areas. Cows and calves died at calving time, breeding results were poor, feed prices went up and steers being readied for market lost weight. The dairy industry's chief loss came from forced buying of commercial feed because forage was lost. Milk production loss was estimated by the committee at five to 15 pet.

The committee urged the creation of a permanent agricultural disaster committee, responsible to the governor to insure immediate and co-ordinated action when, and if, disasters strike Florida agriculture in the future. Migrants'' Plight 'Bail Aof Critical' IMMOKALEE (IT) Two personal emissaries of Gov. LeRoy Collins inspected the "shacktown" plight of 2,000 destitute migrant farm workers here yesterday and found conditions "bad but not critical." Collins sent Adj. Gen. Mark V.

Lance, commander of the Florida National Guard, and Dr. Wilson T. Sowder, state health officer, to the tiny Everglades town to personally investigate conflicting reports that the migrants and their children faced starvation, disease and epidemics. The two men found conditions better than expected. "It is not an emergency situation, no one is hungry," Lance told the United Frcss last night when he returned to his home in St.

Augustine. "It is something that state and federal agencies have in hand and is steadily improving," Lance added. "But there is no immediate emergency." H. P. Mclcalf Dies MIAMI BEACH IT! Houghton F.

Metcalf, 66, retired textile manufacturer and breeder of thoroughbred horses and black Angus cattle, died yesterday after a three-month illness. TALLAHASSEE UV Florida citrus trees suffered severe damage in the disastrous winter freezes and a below-normal crop for the next three seasons is in prospect, Gov. Collins' freeze-damage committee reported yesterday. But the committee said the industry will make the adjustments required for recovery with a minimum of outside assistance. The cold, which dipped deep into South Florida in mid-December with temperatures as low as 17 degrees, cut current crop estimates to 115 million boxes.

This is 27'i million boxes under pre-frceze estimates and more than 20 million boxes under the state's 1956-57 production. THEN CAME THE rain and wind storms of Jan. 2 and 3 in South Florida, followed by another severe cold wave Jan. 8. "Damage as a result of the January freeze has not been officially estimated," the committee said.

"Reliable information indicates additional damage, particularly in colder locations hurt extensively by the first freeze." "Trees and fruit already damaged were more easily hurt again. Young tender growth, which appeared between the freezes, was extensixely damaged by the second cold wave. "UNPROTECTED CITRUS nursery stock, particularly in Central Florida, suffered heavily. It will be approximately two years before a sufficient number of trees will be available for replacing one-to-four-ycar-old trees that were killed." The committee reported next sea SKMIMX ---RTS High s-hool basket Ie of JacVsonvi' v. Boon.

Boone vm. 8 junior varsity 7 30 p.m.; Jackson of Jacksonville vs. Edsewnter. pvm. 8 lunlnr varvltv 7 3ft pm.

po facing. Eanford-Orlanrio Kennpl Ciuv. 8:10 m. EXHIBITS B. Rittenhotlse collection of letter from noted poet p)u rare maps.

Mills M'rnortM library, Rollins campus, 8 am. to 5pm, 7-10 Research Art Studio. Maittand. 1-5 pm. Artists Leamie.

Barbizon Arcade, N- Park Ave. Winter Park, 10 am. to 3 pr. Orlando Art Hudson Art Ccr.ter, 602 Vashtneton, 10 a.m. to 5 pm.

ENTERTAIN WENT Th Piavers present Our Town, Annie Bussell Theatre. Eollins College, 8 30 0 m. The Shoestring Workshop players present Tlrt Work At the Crossroads, Kalry Elementary School auditorium, 8 30 p.m. Senile bus tour, Iv. Chamber of Commerce Bld.

1.30 m. GOVT Hall, 2:30 Orlando Park'n ference. room. City rrayor'i con- MEETINGS 8fir. XI Cl'ib of Rollins College annual din-per niceties.

Pearee'a Restaurant, 30 m. Alabama Pnluierlilnir Insimite Alumni Pan Juan Hotel, 7 3(1 pm. Florida Assn. ef Couniv Welfare eye ijiivs. Ancmilt Hotel, 9 a m.

to 5 m. Florida Waterways Committee, AnscMlt Hotel, 11 m. to 3 m. CLUBS Or'andn linns. CofC non.

Orlando Ktwanl. CotC ror.n. Orlando Optimists, Turquoise Room, Ft Eatel, Doaa..