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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1. 1949 DAILY. 10c SUNDAY R3E Story of Dairy Beamed Abroad Punta Gorda Youth Senate Decides To Give Priority To Labor Battle Voice9 mil Isif mm Building Permits Exceed Million At End of May All-Time Record Forecast; Realty Deals Lag Slightly Fort Myers building permits for 1949 topped the million-dollar mark at the end of May and indicated yesterday that new construction here this year probably will break all records since the boom. The 1949 building pace is four months ahead of last year and five months in front of 1947, the best year since the lush days of the 1920s. Meanwhile county real estate sales declined slightly for the third successive month.

The total was $479,440, including. $33,900 record-ed yesterday. The May volume decline was the second in six years, the previous one being last year. The $608,955 in building permits Eggs fall Hat 10 Per Cent Cut Across the Board Favored 48-42 This white leghorn hen owned by Mrs. Charles Valek, of Valley View, a Cleveland, suburb, lays flat eggs.

But every now and then, the bird lays a normal rounded egg. Mrs. Valek doesn't know what to make of it The healthy hen seems to think nothing is odd at all. She cackles just like other hens and for just as long. Mrs.

Valek says she is going to put a flat egg under a setting hen to see if it hatches a flat chicken. A neighbor suggested it might produce a chicken pattie. Makes 'The By DOROTHY ROUXTREE Punta Gorda, May 31 The story of Jimmy Rose, 18-year-old high school boy who has developed a $10,000 dairy business here, was told recently on the Voice of America program. As a result, Jimmy today was answering fan mail a letter from an 18-year-old German girl, Luise Klatzbucher, who studies agriculture. The Voice of America is the state department's foreign broadcast service.

It beams to foreign countries to tell the story of America! One of its programs told how Jim my started his dairy with a single calf and built up a large business. Luise's letter said: "I heard from you by Frank Cample who spoke in Radio New York in the Voice of America to Germany. "He told about your cows. I am very interesting to hear from your animals. I like to study agriculture and I am 18 years old.

"Perhaps it possible to tell me a little aoout your work. II you want I am able to tell you about the German agriculture. I think 4here are great differences." City Clears Tax In Sale of Bidding Is Brisk; County to Open Auction at Noon The city cleaned its tax books of all except a negligible fraction or the 1948 real estate roll yesterday as a handful of bidders snapped up certificates for 250 properties on which taxes totaling $4,061.34 had not been paid. Despite the small crowd, the bidding was spirited, although good-na tured. The city was forced to bid in only five of the 255 parcels offer ed.

The total due on these was $105.32. Three involved proper ties on which taxes had been paid on the land but not on buildings owned by lessees. The other two were low value vacant lots. Owners redeemed 217 advertised par cels before Clerk Sara Nell Wil liams opened the sale at noon. The county sale will open at noon today, Tax Collector Jimmy Rob erts said it would continue with out a break from 12 o'clock until the last certificate is sold.

A tax certificate gives the holder a lien against the property on which it is issued. After holding a certificat" for two years, the purchaser may apply for a tax deed which is sold to the highest bidder at public auction. Bidding for certificates is based on the rate of interest the purchaser is willing to take. The price of the certificate includes the amount of taxes due, penalties and other costs. The property owner may redeem the certificate at any time by paying the cost plus interest.

Less than a third of -the certificates sold yesterday went for 18 per cent, the maximum interest rate allowed by law. Six parcels were bought in at no interest by owners or by persons with an invest other than investment. The others went for rates ranging from 3 to 17 per cent. Robert Cody Brown, representing the Atlantic Municipal Corporation, Mrs. Sara Douglass and Herman, Smith were the heaviest bidders but they ran into competition at times from Morgan Strong and C.

C. Cook. The Atlantic corporation was the heaviest buyer as Brown bought 55 certificates for a total of $1,776.55. Smith took the largest number of parcels, however, paying $1,098.87 for 79. Mrs.

Douglass bought 70 certificates for $512.66: Strong took 11 for Cook 10 for Howard Brown five for C25.77; Paul Franklin four for J. P. Loftin two for Lucian Thomas five for Mrs. Parker Holt (bid by R. C.

Brown) four for $70.02, and one each by N. H. Blasingim, George Goorley, Bert Pinkston, E. Riley and Mrs. H.

J. Stipe. Sarasota Bounces Its City Manager Sarasota, May 31 (JP) i Manager Carl Bischoff was fired by the city commission at a special meeting today. Mayor John Fite Robertson would say only that Bischoff was dismissed "for the best interests of the city." Biscnon said "tne action was a complete surprise to me." Actually the commission asked Bischoff to resign immediately, and he complied. Charles Pickett, city treasurer and tax collector, was named act ing city manager.

Bischoff had been under fire off and on almost ever since he took the job last July 1. He received much of the blame for an unpopular garbage tax the city adopted last fall. Recently Sarasota represents tives have been introducing bills in the legislature to cut the city manager power. Bischoff had been city manager at Asbury Park, N. and Rums ford, Maine.

He came here from army duty as a major in the mill tary government forces Taft-Hartley Repeal Coming up Before North Atlantic Pact Washington, May 31 (JP) Do mestic issues won the congressional right of way over foreign affairs today as administration leaders decided to open the Taft-Hartley repeal battle in the senate before acting on the North Atlantic security treaty. Senate Majority Leader Lucas of Illinois said this schedule was agreed on after democratic con gressional leaders conferred with President Truman at the White House. He told reporters he expects the labor fight to get under way before the end of the week and that a couple more weeks of debate would be needed to reach the vote showdown. Lucas rported that Mr. Truman had "raised no objection" to delaying action on the mutual aid Atlantic pact but a short time eariler, the state department had said Secretary Acheson was urging speedy consideration of the 20-year treaty, as well as the administration proposal to send European members of the alliance of American arm, Arms Plan Sidetracked Although the senate is expected to ok the treaty when it finally comes up for ratification, the arms aid plan appears sidetracked for this session since it was not included on the list of "must" bills slated for house action before adjournment.

House Majority Leader McCor-mack (D-Mass), who released this work-sheet, told reporters that he expects congress to quit "some time in August." Previously had been indicated that July 31 was the target date, but Mr. Truman said last week he thinks the lawmakers should stay on until they finish the major pieces oi legislation. McCormack observed that he "wouldn't say we would get through a tax bill," as the presi dent has requested, but he predicted that the house will approve labor bill, long range housing, bill to boost minimum wage standards and anti-lynching and anti-poll tax legislation. Filibuster Ready The last two items, however, are not expected to make any heirt. way in the senate where southern democrats stand ready to filibuster against the civil rights program.

Lucas, promised uiu President Philip Murray in a letter today that the administration will "try again to obtain action" on the civil rights bills as well as other parts of the administration's social welfare program now on the doubtful list for this session. But Lucas said "we can move only as fast as the determination and the endurance of the opposi tion will permit." If all the major bills are not passed by July 31, Lucas said, "we shall extend the length of the session until we have dealt with the most urgent proposals oi tne president." Girl Dies in Spite 0( 'Atom Cocktails1 Birmingham, May 31 Joyce Lee Hughes died today despite the "atomic cocktails" she drank in an effort to cure a glandular The 15-year-old high school girl was stricken last November with a rare malady known a3 Hodgkins' disease. She wasted away from her normal 132 pounds to 85 pounds. She twice went to Knoxville, where she drank the "atomic cocktails" at the isotope clinic of the University of Tennessee hos pital. The cocktails included radioactive phosphorus, in solution, from the atomic ovens of Oak Ridge.

Bryn Ma wr First Male Bryn Mawr, May 31 (IP) A 23-year-old ex-GI created history at Bryn Mawr College today when he became the first male graduate of the fashionable women's school. "I couldn't have done it if I'd been alone," said a grinning Richard Logan. How was it to spend three years among so many women? "Oh, it was all right," young Logan replied. "Everybody treated me nicely." "The thing 1 missed most," he admitted, "was getting into old-fashioned bull sessions." Logan became a Bryn Mawr student by a freak occurrence that grew from World War two, Before entering military service, Dick had attended the University of New Hampshire for one year. When he returned, his family moved from Quincy, to Philadelphia and under the GI bill of rights, he applied for college education.

All the available schools were filled up and so Bryn Mawr offered him the opportunity to enroll. While at Bryn Mawr, Dick married a fellow student She is the former May Warren of Shawnee, '3 JIMMY ROSE The letter was sent to R. A. Jungeblut of Miami, author of the Voice of America script, who forwarded it to N. H.

McQueen, Charlotte County farm agent. Rose began his 4-H work in 1943 Continued Page Five Books for 1948 Certificates Dynamite Hurling Strikers Battle Bolivian Troops 2 Americans Among 50 Dead in Tin Mine Violence La Paz, Bolivia, May 31 (JP) A detachment of 200 Bolivian troops battled 2,000 dynamite-hurling strikers today for control of the Patino Company's Huanuni tin mines. Superintendent Howard Keller, a U. S. citizen, was held captive by the miners, who struck, to enforce a demand -that the government return 26 men union lead ers and others deported to Chile Friday, It was a continuation of violence, which the government described as a politically inspired "state of civil war," set off at the weekend in the tin mining region of the Andes southeast of La Paz.

A state of siege, or modified martial law, was imposed last night. U. S. citizens and other foreigners were being evacuated from the mining area. Sympathy strikes crippled railway service.

Deaths Set at 50 Unofficial reports said the death list might total 50. The govern ment announced that 14 persons had been killed and 25 wounded, but its figures were incomplete. Two miners were killed and six wounded yesterday in an attack on the iederai ponce station at Huanuni. Several policemen were wounded. Troops were dispatched to the scene by Gen.

Ovidio Quiroga, com mander of the Oruro region. The miners threw sticks of dynamite from surrounding hilltops, as oth ers had done in a vain stand Sat Continued on Page Five Deflation Kits Stock Market New York, May 31 (IP) The winds of deflation blew hard in the nation's market places today. Stock prices in the New York ex change plunged $1 to around $4 a share and the market generally hit bottom since mifl-March last year. The stock declines represented a loss of more than a billion dol lars in all issues traded. Bonds cracked $1 to $8 per $1,000 bond.

Railroad and indus trial obligations made new lows for the year. Wheat in the Chicago board of trade tumbled nearly six cents a bushel before losses were trimmed. Corn, oats and rye joined the pa rade. Wheat in the Kansas City cash market dived around 10 cents a bushel. Cotton in New York was marked down $1.05 to $1.65 a bale, Wholesale butter in the New York and Chicago markets sold below 59 cents a pound, lowest since July 1, 1946, when the OPA price ceiling was in effect.

There was no direct link be tween sagging prices in the varl ous markets although declines in one had a psychological effect on trends in others. But the declines were additional lines in a pattern being etched with increasing clarity as 1949 rolls on. Here are some of the de flationary factors: Steadily declining industrial production, burdensome inven tories of unsold goods, increasing unemployment, supply balancing or outweighing demand for one after another scarce commodities, labor's promise to fight hard to keep or extend post-war gains, the prospect of good to excellent crop returns, declining exports. Business activity, however, re mains high compared to the pre war period Blow Climaxes Bitter Dispute on Racing Measure Tallahassee, May 31 LVt Senator A. G.

McArthur of Fernandina today struck a Miami Herald reporter, Steve Trumbull, a heavy blow in the face just outside the senate door as the aftermath of a day's hot debate over the rac ing1 dates bill. The altercation occurred after Senator W. A. Shands of Gaines ville took offense at remarks he said Trumbull made about the way the rules committee had pushed the bill up for floor consideration. McArthur is chairman of the rules committee.

The bill, which opponents said would result in putting Tropical Park of Miami out of business, was defeated by a 19-19 tie vote. (Senator Franklin was among those voting against it.) Trumbull said he had gone up to Shands outside to inquire, "Wasn't it a smooth play in there today?" He said Shands apparently under stood him to make a statement that "it was a smooth play." Started Cussing "He went to cussing me," Trumbull reported, "and said he would go get the chairman of rules committee." Trumbull said he went to the press room for a few minutes, returned to the senate chamber and as lie reached the door, McArthur and Shands came out. "McArthur struck at me twice. I dodged the first blow, but the second one hit me. Several people tried to separate us, and I was bejng held when he slugged me.

I'm just out of the hospital from a hernia operation and couldn't fight back." Trumbull received a cut under his right eye and a possible frac ture of a small cheek bone. McArthur told substantially the same story of events that led up to the fight. r. came to my attention he was out in the corridor talking about the way the rales committee had put this Gulfstream bill on special order. 'I went out.

We had a few words, and I got mad. It just flew all over me. I'm sorry it happened." Pulling Slick Trick Shands said Trumbull accused the rules committee of pulling a a slick underhanded trick in putting the bill on the calendar. "I resented it and went to two members of the rules committee and told them it ought to be stopped. I think it was an unwarranted charge without having the fact to go on." He said he had tried to separate McArthur and Trumbull but "Sandy (McArthur) got by me." Trumbull said he only meant to get information from Shands.

However, Shands insisted Trumbull was making charges of im- Contlnued on Pane FiTe Courthouse Paving Tilted by Big Roots Twenty-six squares of paving tilted by banyan roots were removed from the yard in. front of the courthouse yesterday. One root 70 feet long was responsible for destruction of most of the paving. The tilted squares had made walking dangerous and resulted in several nasty falls. The roots will be removed before the concrete i3 replaced.

Gra dua tes in Ex-GI Okla. May left school at the end of the winter term last February. The marriage took place in November. Dick said he went it alone the last year the only male undergraduate left at Bryn Mawr. "Luckily," he said, "my buddy, Eugene Galanter (from Philadelphia) was around quite a bit.

He transferred to Swarthmore." Swarthmore is a Quaker school near Bryn Mawr in this suburban Philadelphia area. Dick didn't take part in any sports activities at Bryn Mawr, but did help coach the softball team. A Spanish major, young Logan found himself in classrooms made up entirely of women students. it vasn so unusual as you might think, he said. Everybody treated me nicely." He said he'd like to enter the export business, preferably with a Latin-America firm "so I can put my Spanish to At any rate, there's little likeli hood any one will equal Dick's record at this 60-year-old institu tion.

No more male undergrad uates are around on the campus. And authorities don't expect any more unless there's another national emergency. Tallahassee, May 31 (JP) Th Florida house apparently put its foot down on any big new tax bill today, but the senate went ahead with plans to raise about a year. A three per cent modified sales tax bill was given a narrow 17-15 approval of the house finance com mittee, but came to almost a dead stop immediately. House members, given a ballot choice of making a token cut of 19 per cent all the way across tha $232,000,000 general appropriations act or proceeding with a financing plan, voted 4S-42 to make the cut.

A move immediately started to bring the sales tax bill back to committee in the morning, and per haps leave it there. Senate Ready for Action But a broader similar bill anl two companion measures designed to finance the senate's approved $249,000,000 appropriations bill is ready for floor action in the upper branch tomorrow. Senate Finance Chairman Shands of Gainesville said hadn't made a close poll of mera. bers, but "there doesn't seem to be any real serious objection to thenu I believe they are fair to all and will provide for the vital needs of the state for the next biennium. I hope to be able to dispose of the ednesday.

the session rapidly ap- roaching an end, it was another frenzied day in the legislature. The senate spent nearly the whole day in bitter debate on a bill to realign the system of allocating racing dates to horse tracks in the Miami area. The measure was beaten by a 19-19 tie vote. Few Minor Taxes In the house, finance committee leaders were talking about doing no more than passing a few minor relatively non controversial tax measures that would yield about $3,000,000 a year and letting the matter go at that. The move to cut the house appropriations bill a flat 10 per cent was led by two former speakers of the house Reps.

Simpson of Jefferson and Beasley of Walton. Simpson is chairman of the finance committee and Beasley was on the sub-committee which wrote the new sales tax plan. After the house had wrangled nearly all day on the big spending bill, they sent up an amendment to take Ihe cut and put the eliminated 10 per cent in a contingent fund for use only if money is mada available. The cut would come off every item except those for the state hospital for mentally ill and the farm colony for feeble-minded children. Another provision of their amendment woud prohibit making any cut in teachers' salaries.

That would mean that if the $100,000,000 school fund is trimmed by $10,000,000 it would have to be sliced off construction and expense money not teacher pay. Rep. Shepperd of St. Johns, ap propriations committee chairman who led a successful fight against a similar proposal the day before, opposed the Simpson-Beasley move. He argued that setting up contin.

gent appropriations still would make the money available for ex penditure if it were provided. Still ISot Enough, Even if it were a firm cut of 23,000,000, he said, it wouldn't be enough to prevent the need of new taxes. He said the state would need another $15,000,000 a year. He called the move "just a face-saving gesture for the finance and taxation committee." Finance Chairman Simpson said his committee had not been able ti get a tax program adequate to Continued on Pag. Five THE WEATHER In Fort Myers yesterday, May 31: high 93, low 67.

Humidity 90 per cent at 6:30 am. 54 per cent at 1:30 pm. Forecast: Cloudy and warm, Scattered showers. Tides at Fort Myers heach today: high 2:56 pm, 1w 11:13 pm; tomorrow: high pm. Sun rises 3:38, wt 7:18.

Moon rines 9:17 am, sets 11:51 pm. TEMPERATURES EL5EWHEBC liish Low Atlanta IWvn t'hicaco Cleveland Denver Detroit Duluth Los Ansele Nw Orleans York Philadelphia -Pittsburgh Portland. WishinEton 77 67 83 8.1 70 80 53 73 91 76 79 7S fi!) 81 65 50 58 37 52 58 41 52 66 5.) 52 54 41 for May, believed to be an all-time monthly record, sent the total for the first five months of the year to $1,032,375. This compares with $696,370 for the corresponding period of 1948 and $418,880 in 1947. It is only $397,330 short of the total for the year 1947 when the permits did not pass the million mark until October.

Build ing hit a million during September last year but the 1948 total was some $5,000 short of the previous year. The half million dollar junior senior high school made the May record possible. However, the in other permits was the best month of the year and the highest total since last November. A $13,000 permit went to the Orange State Oil Company yesterday for a new bulk plant and warehouse bounded by Union, Central and Liberty Streets. The concrete block warehouse will measure 24 by 60 feet.

Seven underground tanks will be installed, each having a capacity of 6,000 gallons. The plant will be constructed by M. M. Cornwell, contractor, The largest of yeserday's real estate sales was a double transfer involving York Manor and Valencia Terrace" homes with a combined price of $23,000. Mrs.

Winifred M. Shearer sold her home at the northwest corner of Gasparilla and Hibiscus to James E. Hendry III for $15,000. Hendry sold Mrs. Shearer a home on the north side of Al- meria between Valencia Way and McGregor Boulevard for $8,000 William H.

Reynolds Jr. handled both sales. Two Page Park warehouses were sold for a combined $8,500 by Mrs. Jessie B. Curtright, A.

W. Harris, Harold Alexander and Sam W. Johnston Jr. Ralph F. Perkins bought the cold storage warehouse at Sixth and Center for $5,500 and John L.

Kelly acquired the other warehouse just north of it for $3,000. J. B. Kelley made the sales. The warehouses will be used for glad and potato packing.

A house on the Bavshore Road was sold foV $2,400 by William T. Kelsall to Douglass-Chambers Inc. SI Bid Offered For $1,000,000 Henderson Place A million dollar nroDertv. the Henderson Place housing project at Buckingham Field, was nut uo for bids yesterday and drew but one offer of a dollar. The forme Edison College dormitories were offered for demolition with the un derstanding the high bidder would pay lor the right to do the job and be allowed to sell the ma terial.

The only bidder was Flovd A. Moraine who offered $1. Over 180 firms had been notified of the bidding. An informal offer from Prebilt Homes, Cincinnati, sug gested the firm would bid if il were to be paid for doing the work instead of paying for the rieht. Trustees of the defunct college opened the bid and voted to send it to the Housing and Horn Finance agency of the Public Housing Authority in charge the buildings.

The three committee members who have looked after dissolution and disposal of the college property, then voted to dissolve their and turn over all records to the government agency. Committee members were George E. Allen, Harold Alexander and Ed Simpson. Although not required to handle disposal of the property, they had served since the college closed. U.S.

Acts to Break Up Farben Combine Frankfurt, Germany, May 31 'Of) A major step toward breaking up the I. G. Farben chemical empire will be taken soon by offering one of its units for sale, Maj. Gen. George P.

Hays said today. Tlans for breaking up the huge concern which monopolized Hitler Germany's drug and dye industry were disclosed by the deputy U.S. military governor. MUMPS IX CONGRESS Washington, May 31 (JP) Rep. Hugo Sims Jr.

(D-SC), 27, youngest member of congress, turned up today with the mumps. A Bail-Jumping Red Nies TO iiuVSn In Czechoslovakia U.S. Gives up on Efforts to Get Eisler Back Prague, -31 (A) Gei-hart Eisler, bail-jumping communist, slipped out of England, to Czechoslovakia by plane today. Slated for a leading role in the Russian zone of Germany, he said he was enroute to Berlin and then to a university chair at Leipzig to "do everything I can to help the communist party." He said he left England without advance notice to avoid "Amer. ican tricks," and expressed gratification at being in Czechoslovakia "instead of in the America of that damn fool Tom Clark and the un-american activities committee." Clark is the attorney general of the United States who tried his best to extradite the 52-year-old communist from Britain.

Eisler had fled from New York on the Polish liner Batory while two prison terms were hanging over his head. One of the sentences was for contempt of congress in connec tion with Eisler's refusal to testify before the house committee on unamerican activities and the other on a passport fraud. A British court refused to extradite him on the grounds that he was not ac- Contlnne on Vamti Parolee Killed In Stolen Auto A parolee of less than 12 hours stole an automobile in downtown Fort Myers last night and two hours later smashed it into a bridge embankment six miles west of LaBelle. killine himself in stantly. Two young motorcyclists told the state highway patrol the ex-convict, Albert Jacob Faulkerson, 37, passed them heading for La-Belle at a speed they estimated to be about 90 miles an hour.

A few minutes later he missed Bridge No. 2 over a canal, left the highway and the car traveled 60 feet in the air before smashing into the embankment below the opposite side of the concrete bridge. Faulkerson was released from the Citrus Center prison camp at 8 am yesterday morning, on parole. He stole a 1947 Ford coupe belong ing to Arthur Flint of Fort Myers about 7 pm. The accident occurred at about 9 pm.

The two cyclists said they saw him stopped at a roadside bar before he passed them at the terrific rate of speed. Patrolman E. U. Wade said the car was a total loss. He said it "flattened" upon smashing into the rock piling.

The car had to be uprighted to remove the body. The Leo Engelhardt Funeral Home said Faulkerson suffered a broken reck and fractured skull. Flint said he had parked his car in downtown Fort Myers. Upon returning to go home, he discovered its loss but thought at first his' wife had returned from a trip to Miami and had taken the automobile. Later he reported it Full Scale Probe Of U.S.

Airpower Policies Ordered House Will Check 'Disturbing Rumors' On B3S Purchases Washington, May 31 -OP) A house committee today ordered a full-scale investigation of the nation's airpower policies and "disturbing rumors" about purchases of the huge B36 bombers. Admittedly worried by reports involving top defense officials, aircraft companies and democratic party politics, the house armed services committee ordered the study. It voted to ask for to do the job. "This will be no whitewash in vestigation," said Chairman Vin son (D-Ga). Rep.

Short (R-Mo), ranking minority member of the committee, said: "This is not a witch hunt. It is only fair that these matters be clarified." The investigation was demanded last week by another republican committee member, Rep. Van Zandt of Pennsylvania. He asked that a special house committee be created to do it. Van Zandt, a reserve navy offi cer, said he naa neara "aistuiDing reports" concerning the associations of Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, Air Secretary Symington, and Floyd Odium, head of the Atlas Corporation.

The Consolidated vultee Air craft maker of the B36, is controlled by Odium through At las, Van andt said. One report, he added, is that Symington plans to resign soon and become head of a gigantic aircraft combine "under the thumb of Floyd Odium." Symington hotly denied this, las Van Zandt said. One repprt, he Continued on Pnae Fir. Rep. Copeland Acts To Eliminate Pay Of Tag Inspectors Tallahassee, May 31 W-The house amended the appropriations bill today to provide that no mon ey could be spent on salaries of tag inspectors.

The amendment, offered by Rep. Copeland of Collier, also woul'd prevent the motor vehicle commission from spending more than two and a half per cent of its collections on administration. The limitation would cut the budget of the commission by about 50 per cent. The bill provided for the agency. Copeland told the house tags could be inspected by highway patrolmen and county sheriffs at non expense to the state.

Opponents declared the inspec tors bring in lar more revenue than the total of their salaries and expenses. Rep. Bedenbaugh of Columbia said the patrolmen and sheriffs have no time to check up on whether persons who hold jobs in Florida and have their children in school have Florida automobile license plates. Copeland countered by quoting the "chief executive of the state" as saying that tag inspectors are "nothing short of a political dumping ground and I hope they will be dumped out" missing, i.