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3 A Arrested On Tallahassee Bus uden rlannu frrnlinrl Sunday, January 20, 1337 ts Revenue Picture Brighter Budget Slash Still Needed ARC Slates Stale Talks WEST PALM BEACH W) Leaders from Florida's 80 Red Cross chapters will attend conferences in eight Florida cities beginning next week to discuss 1957 service needs and fund raising campaigns. Regional meetings will be held as follows: Bradenton Jan. 22; Winter Haven Jan. 23; Leesburg Jan. 24; and Gainesville Jan.

25. Stenstrom Attacks 'Quickie' Divorces Seminole Solon To Push jNch Law In Legislature TALLAHASSEE HD Sen. Douglas Stenstrom, Sanford, will sponsor legislation this year designed to end "quickie" divorces. Stenstrom, a former county judge familiar with domestic relations problems, said he will introduce bills next April to require a year's residence before filing for divorce in Florida and a 60-day "cooling off period before a divorce becomes final. THF.

STATE'S nrPsent rii- fMV4 ij titter )- "iV" Anti-Mix Statute Tested White, Negro out lis Jailed TALLAHASSEE OP Three Negro university students and three while youths who went for a city bus sightseeing tour in a body ere arrested yesterday in the first test of Tallahassee's unique bus seating ordinance. A Florida State University student and two Florida University students later were charged with refusing "peaceably" to leave the bus after rejecting the driver's demand that they change seats. FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ, Tampa, an attorney for the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, said the cases "lend themselves to a legal test of the seat assignment ordinance." The three who were charged vorce law provides only a 90-day residence requirement and Stenstrom said it is possible for a Floridian to get a divorce in one day. The 1955 legislature, ignoring recommendations from circuit judges and Gov.

LeRoy Collins to repeal the "quickie" divorce law. rejected bills lengthening the residence requirement to six months, nine months and one year. Students At Police Station Herndon and Leonard D. Speed, Talla-hassee Negroes, and Joe Spagna, St. Petersburg.

AP Wirephoto Three students are photographed at Tallahassee Folice Station yesterday after arrest on charges of violating new bus seating ordinance. They are left to right Johnny ,8 Douglas Stenstrom Stetson Sets Ceremony At Law Center ST. PETERSBURG tfl Ground will be broken Wednesday for the $500,000 law library building at the Stetson University law center here, Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, Stetson president, said yesterday.

Long Hassle Ends Friday As Sunshine Parkway Opens Leiisman Defies Klansmen GAINESVILLE Wt A crowd of 4,000 braved chill weather here last night to witness a Ku Klux Klan rally near here and offer spasmodic applause to three speakers as they denounced the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on segregation. About 300 hooded and robed klansmen, including some 50 women, circled the 20-foot Klan emblem a burning cross that was ignited as the members sang The Old Rugged Cross. THE FINAL speaker, a middle-aged man in civilian clothes told newsmen he was not a member of the Klan, but was willing to speak on the issue of state's rights. For this reason, he emphasized, he did not wish to be photographed.

The master of ceremonies, introducing this speaker, referred to him as "Number 199,742, From Middle Florida." THE SPEAKER concluded his address rapidly after a flash bulb from a photographer's camera briefly ignited the platform. Four hooded Klansmen, accompanied by three men in civilian clothes, approached several newsmen and wanted to know who took the picture. One Klansman asked a companion if the Gainesville Sun photographer's camera should be confiscated. SEVERAL SPECTATORS elsewhere Uncertain who took rh nWno. 1 The ceremony will follow ber of marriages which end in mid-term graduation exercises c.

quick divorces ght be saved scheduled for 2 p.m. at Stetson Inn, home of the Stetson we provided a waiting pe-lcge of law. riod during which the parties on the first day. But starting Saturday it will cost to go the full distance over the gray "asphaltic concrete" highway. And only when the cash registers at the toll gates start tinkling and traffic settles into a pattern, the tale of the turnpike's oft-questioned success will be told.

STENSTRO.M'S suggested i cooling off period between the granting of a temporary and a final divorce decree is novel in Florida law. But the senator said many other states have such a provision in their laws, and many Florida circuit judges require on their own a 10 to 14 day waiting period. "It seems to me that a num- might have an opportunity to reconsider," he said. "I DON'T feel that any particular hardship would be worked upon parties seeking divorces who do not wish to reconsider, and I can see the possibility that some couples, particularly our young people, might find they have acted hastily and reconsider," he said. Stenstrom said extension of the 90-day residence requirement would bring "favorable credit" to the state.

"People inrougnoui me nation minK oi Florida and Nevada when they think of quick divorces." FRANKLY do not feci MIAMI iIT The first mo-torists will speed away Friday over 110 miles of silk-smooth new highway that was the dream of a young governor now in his grave, a storm center of two legislatures and the answer to tourist prayers for a town-free gateway to the Gold Coast. With hopes high for the success of Florida's first major toll road venture, Gov. LeRoy Collins, at the head of a snak-ing motorcade, will cut ribbons at the various entrance-ways between Miami and Ft. Pierce to open the Sunshine State Parkway. MOTORISTS MAY ride free After Maraflinn Hearing Gl EST SPEAKER will be Charles Anderson Dana, New York philanthropist who gave $250,000 toward the library building on condition Florida lawyers and business men match it.

B. E. Webb, chairman of the St. Petersburg Citizens Committee which has aided in development of the law college since it moved here in 1954, and committee members will also take part in the ceremonies. THE DANA Law Library will be the first new building of the law center.

Dana, son of a New Yorker who pioneered in California gold fields, in banking in I Hawaii, and in North Pacific whaling fleets, is an attorney and industrialist. He is connected with indus- i trial enterprises in the United 4 States and four foreign coun- tries. LINCOLN SKIPS MOTIL WASHINGTON (UPI A distinguished miKst in town for the 1861 presidential inauguration skipped out without pay-ini all of ht bill for two weeks lodjin at. the historic old Wlllard Hotel, A month later th guest, offering no ex-(uses for tardiness, sent an aide with a note of apolosy and payment to the hotel. The letter wai ilgned by Lincoln.

Merit Council Okays New Stale Pay Plan TALLAHASSEE Stale Budget Dir. Harry G. Smith yesterday painted a glowing picture of Florida's economic growth in a new estimate that state general tax revenues will increase $105 million the next two years. Smith estimated that state income from existing general taxes would total $532,800,000 during the two-year period starting July 1. HE SAID that with an estimated $38 million carryover in unencumbered funds in the state treasury, that would give the 1957 legislature to appropriate.

However, money requests by state departments, agencies and institutions are expected to run well in excess of $600 million. So, despite the expected big increase the cabinet budget commission and 1957 legislature will have to do considerable trimming. SMITH MADE his report to Gov. LeRoy Collins and the budget commission for use in their consideration of budget requests. The commission is expected to start trimming the requests this week.

Smith's estimate is based on existing taxes and doesn't take Into account proposed new taxes. STATE COMPTR. Ray E. Green had estimated several weeks ago that general fund revenues the next biennium would run about $508 million. Smith said his $105 million increase estimate had been checked, rechecked and discussed with some of the state's top economists and forecasters.

"TO SOME this may appear to be a highly optimistic projection but I shall stand on our experience that any prediction on Florida's great potential, expansion and growth in the future can be nothing but optimistic," he said. "I am firm in belief st thia time, the estimates are good and sound and that you and the legislature can use them with confidence in providing for the state's needs for the next two years." Appropriations for the current two-year period total $440 million. Sec. Benson To Attend Exposition WINTER HAVEN High ranking state and national agricultural officials will accompany Agriculture Sec. Ezra Taft Benson here to make an address during a special farm day program on Friday, Feb.

15, as a feature of the 1957 Florida Citrus Exposition. Sen. Spessard L. Holland made the arrangements for Benson's appearance as a part of the exposition's "Agriculture Day." according to Winston Lawless, president of the industry show. This will be the second time within a few years that the Utah Mormon leader, as secretary of agriculture, has visited Winter Haven and Polk County the first when he made a personal inspection tour of groves affected by spreading decline and then talked at a mass meeting.

Winter Haven Youth Drowns WINTER HAVEN (M Ken Nesbitt, 13, drowned yesterday when choppy waves apparently caused his boat to overturn on Lake Howard in the middle of Winter Haven. A companion, Steven Mc-Roberts, 14, swam to shore. Firemen were dragging the half-mile-wide lake for Nes-bitt'i body. that this does anything at alllA tho nirtnr unarmed rapher was not molested. to take assigned seats.

for Florida's good name. It is i one of the few iehts rema n- ing on our reputation." it does not seem proper nor right for us to allow people to come to Florida, stay 90 days and have access to our already over-burdened courts. I am extremely hopeful this session of the legislature will do something about it." were released on $50 bonds posted by the Negro Inter-Civic Council and ordered to appear in city court at 9 a.m. today. They were Joe Spagna, 25, St.

Petersburg, an FSU students, and Leonard D. Speed and Johnny Herndon, 26, both students from Tallahassee. THE THREE others were released but were directed to appear in court as material witnesses. They were Harold Owens, 22, Tampa, an student; Jon Folson, Miami, an FSU student, and James Kennedy, 24, Tallahassee, a statistical clerk at the State Road Dept. office.

Herndon said the group met at a grocery store operated by Speed's father by agreement and started on a tour of the city by bus. He said they rode together on one bus without being disturbed. BUT HE SAID that when they started to board another bus downtown, the driver, Emory Elkins, ordered them to separate and sit in assigned seats after they had ridden two blocks. Police said Elkins reported ine ilx on me dus ai rant Monro St. and that police were nimoneu wnen uiey re THE BUS seat assignment ordinance adopted by the city commission last week was an outgrowth of a long bus integration dispute here, requires drivers to assign riders to numbered seats.

Two of the first persons at the police station following the arrests were Rodriguez and Dan Speed, who was transportation director for the Inter-Civic Council during a long bus boycott before Negroes started "riding integrated." RODRIGUEZ TOLD news-men the arrests were not set up "by the council or anyone else that I know of." The name of Jon Folsom, Miami, was signed to a letter to the editor in the Jan. 11 edition of the FSU student publication, The Flambeau, urging FSU students to attend mass meetings of the Inter-Civic Council. "WE URGE the FSU students who want to end racial segregation to attend the next Inter-Civic Council meeting and add their voices to the movement against discrimination," the letter said. Ellis Renamed To Bank Post W. E.

Ellis, Ocala, was reelected president of the Independent Bankers of Florida at a meeting in Jacksonville yesterday. Other officers re-elected were: S. J. Ferlita, Tampa, T. F.

Dunlay, Miami, and T. N. Humphress, Tallahassee, vice presidents; Julian Fant, Jacksonville, treasurer; and H. D. Smith, High Springs, executive secretary.

in the original estimate. It will probably be two or three years before engineers can look at accident figures andcauses and tell whether the highway, as touted, is th safest in the nation, and economists can speculate how soon it will pay itself off. IT MAY NOT be quite that long before commercial inter- ests along U. S. Hwy.

1 th owners of hundreds of hotels, restaurants, roadside stands and other tourist attractions-can say whether the new superhighway "ruined" their business. If they find business as good as before or better as has proved the case with three of the country's other big turnpikes, they are likely to be conspicuously quiet. For it was the commercial interests along coastal routes whose tumultous squawks almost killed the turnpike bill in the 1953 legislature in spite of the late Gov. Dan McCarty's strong backing and again in 1955 when Gov. LeRoy Collins, finishing out McCarty's term, slugged it out for a $74 million bond issue to pay for tha 1 rnuA 4 VUUi BUT IF the hotel, restaurant and roadside stand owners prove right, the howls will be even louder in the 1957 legislature to somehow do away with plans already approved to build a $185 million, 279-mile extension to carry the turnpike all the way to Jacksonville.

From the standpoint of the average motorist, the turnpike looks like an engineering dream whether it proves so in the future or not. The median strip, now black, new-turned soil but soon to be carpeted with green grass and trees, will be 20 feet wide at the narrowest point. The turnpike's straight stretches are few and between them are gently sweeping curves, carefully graded for the maximum turnpike speed of 60 mph. Minimum speed on the highway, and that only in the right lane, is 40 mph. SENTINEL CALENDAR inek ear racing, Sunbraci.

(peedvaTa 2 30 m. CAMCLLIA SHOW Annual camellia ihow. Municipal Auditorium, day. CONCIJT Band concert. Bocne Hitl chaol band.

Lake Eola, 2:30 p.m. fXHIRITS Research. Art Studio, Maltland, 2-1 p.m. Fellowship award wlnnera In Tuo" war An Fund. Tupperwart Orange Blossom 2-i p.m.

CONVENTION Veterang of World Wax of Florida, wid-wmter conference. Orang Court Hotel and VFW Home, all day. WEETINQS American Hibiacua BocKtr. wtd-rlort-da chapter. Ban Juan Hotel.

2 JO m- Auto Owners Insurance. Co tang for Hotel, all day with dinner. Florida Optametris Ann AflgaSUl Hotel. 10-4. ALREADY THE road has saved money.

It will be com pleted at a cost of some $63 million, a full $11 million less than the estimated cost. And the complete road will include around $5 million worth of construction not included of board of health employes by the Public Administration Service since a previous meeting last month. VOCELLE SAID the revi- slons had eliminated "a good many of problems" but contended that there still were a number of inequities in which he said some of his department heads were drawing less pay than those of other agencies doing similar work. Boy, 8, Hurt In Collision At Sanford SANFORD Eight-year-old Richard Ion Simas was hospitalized with a broken arm and other possible injuries when a car collided with the bicycle he was riding here yesterday. The youngster, who lives at 2649 Elm was struck by a car driven by Albert Crowley French, 75.

Longwood, according to police reports, on Park Ave. near 25th St. YOUNG SIMAS, along with two brothers was returning home from a movie when the accident occurred. He was taken to the Sanford Naval Air Station Hospital for treatment and transferred to Orange Memorial Hospital, Orlando. Gid Elect cons TAMPA Earl Lambert Tallahassee, yesterday was re-elected president of the Florida branch of Gideons International.

Mrs. Earl Huf-fingham, Jacksonville, was elected president of the ft ..3 DECORJtnOHS rally adjourned moments later. THE FIRST speaker made a public appeal to Gov. LeRoy Collins: Most of the cars outside the arena had Duval and Palm Beach license plates. Laid TALLAHASSEE The Merit System Council last night accepted a pay and classification plan for 9,200 state merit system employes after a marathon day-long hearing.

During the day, the council heard debates some of them heated over about 350 individual types of jobs embodied in the general plan which if finally adopted by the state will affect the pocketbooks of a big segment of state work-' ers. ANGUS LAIRD, merit system director, said that a few; changes in class descriptions needed to be completed, and that the plan will be ready to submit to the cabinet person- nel board Jan. 29. i In yesterday's action some of the revised recommendations of the Public Administration Service, Chicago, which drew up the plan were accepted. In some instances recommendations of state agencies were accepted.

In others the council made up some recommendations of its own. CHMN. JAMES Vocelle of the State Industrial Comm. and Dr. Wilson Sowder, state health officer, who had been' the most outspoken critics of the new plan, said at the outset the revisions had made the plan much improved.

DR. SOWDER said "vast improvement" had been made in the salary and classifications Pact Awarded MOBILE, Ala. tf Army engineers yesterday announced the awarding of a contract for work at Eglin Air Force Base. Blanchard Construction Pensacola, will build an encased control tower at Eglin under a $102,192 agreement. Presidential Carpet Across Pennsylvania Ave.

is high stand to be occupied by photographers. Reporters and other spectators will be in lower stands See Story on Page 1A. AP Workmen place carpet in front of White House stands from which Pres. Eisenhower will view inaugural parade tomorrow afternoon. Heaters are in place in open stand for day's expected cold weather..