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5 Seminole Sentinel OrUnrio, Horul Thursday, July 12, 1973 REFUSE' fcolLECTION SERVICE? Maverick Car Repairman: Customers Like Him Raiidantial Commercial Industrial throughout Seminola County SEMINOLE COUNTY DISPOSAL, Inc. Ph. 830-9649 AUTO are harvested," he added. "I service a lot of trucks. I enjoy having the guys come in and mess around and talk while I work on their trucks.

"AND IT'S a good feeling, knowing you're your own boss." And for Lomax's customers it's a good feeling knowing they're getting their repair work done at a reasonable price. Billy Lomax. A throwback. But a man who brings smiles to faces of his customers. Almost as wide as the one he carries on his own face.

recalled, "was a hose line connecting the transmission. Billy told me 'he reckoned' 50 cents was a fair price to connect it. I gave him a couple of bucks and you can bet if anything goes wrong with my cars I'll be back." And that's the way most people with troubled cars find Lomax's garage, an op building with "about three inches of sludge" for a floor. "Most of my customers find out about me through word-of-month or just stop by," Lomax said, flashing a gold-cappel tooth through a wide smile. "I stay pretty busy.

Since I don't have much rent to pay I can charge less than most places. I work alone." A MECHANIC since 19fi8, Lomax used to work for Winter Park before opening his own business. However, the city didn't pay enough. "I figured I could do better on my own," he said, tinkering with a car manifold. "My kids are growing up and I've got to start planning for their futures as well as my own." His "kids," a pre-teen daugher and son.

"BUSINESS IS good," he said, although, admitting it "gets slow" in the summer. In the summer, he said, people are on vacation and don't seem to need work done on their cars. "My best time is during the winter when oranges By RHONDA ABRAMS Santlnal ttar Staff ALTAMONTE SPRINGS Nestled in between a conglomeration of restaurants, office buildings, auto-mobile dealerships and used car lots stands one lone shack. "Billy's Auto Repairs," the sign placed just off bustling Semoran Boulevard says. BROKEN CARS stand idle in an accompanying lot, waiting for youthful Billy Lomax to find needed parts and patch them up.

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Billy Lomax. A maverick. IN A DAY and age when automotive repairs have skyrocketed Lomax is a throwback. Back to the days when an auto repairman knew his customers by their first name, not by a number stuck on a repair ticket lodged under a windshield wiper. And his repair prices? They, too, are a throwback.

But a throwback that keeps his customers coming back for more. An Altamonte man in need of transmission repair found Lomax last week. After he had received estimates for the repair work ranging from $45 to $65. "ALL IT was," the man Sausage Shop Delicatessen Our 1 3 varieties of sausages are made from Polish. German, Italian and Swedish "Old World" recipes right in our shop.

We also have German and Swedish breads, salt herring, homemade sauerkraut, and rye flour among other specialty foods from different nations, Retail and wholesale foods Take out service Party trays, etc. Phone 838-5529 OPEN Mon. thru Sat. 9-6 230 No. Highway 17-92 Cauelberry I (Sentinel Star Photo by Ray Powell) SEMORAN BOULEVARD ENTREPRENAUR Billy Lomax operates private auto repair shop mm Prisoners Like Working: Stewart The Bank That's On Your Side (Sentinel Star Photo by Ray Powell) I TRUSTY PREFERS SUN TO CELLS Prisoners are allowed custodial or road detail work while serving sentences County Courthouse as a maintenance man.

Having previous experi chores, he said, because of the room and board money paid to the general funds. Sanford Police Depart- They wash the sheriff's departments's cars, scrub the office and help in the jail's kitchen. It saved Seminole county money, Stewart said, since the jobs would go to custodians. TRUSTIES ALSO help the county road department. Assigned road details at 8 a.m., the men work until 4 or 5 p.m.

with members of the department, supervising them. Their work consists of patching roads, cleaning ditches, picking up litter ''and a tever else the department wants them to do," said Stewart. By BETH WEILENMAN Sentinel Star Staff SAN FORD Many prisoners serving time in Seminole County Jail are not left to sit in a cell. They are put to work, cleaning roads, washing cars and keeping the county sheriff's department clean. Far from objecting to work, most prisoners seem to appreciate the opportunity to do something besides sit, said Lt.

Max Stewart, confinement officer for the jail. TO QUALIFY for the job of trusty, a prisoner must be serving a sentence in the jail and not be committed to the Florida Division of Corrections. J. C. LAVENDER, department superintendent said, "Over the years the trusties have saved the department as much as $15,000 to $25,000 in labor.

Of course we never know how many we are going to have sometimes two and sometimes 10. But the program has helped us," he said. Occasionally there is an escape, Stewart said. "This does happen. In fact, a man released this week escaped for a short time last September," he added.

BUT AN ESCAPED man is given another chance to be trusted, said Stewart. ence in that work, Cham- bers said conditions at the ment does not have such a courthouse are similar to program, according to Ben Butler, police chief. dp other jobs he's had. AFTER MORE than a month on the program, he said he recommended it to anyone who would qualify. To join the work release program, a confined person must have approval of his probation officer.

"I think the work release "Our prisoners do not stay here long enough," he said. "Most of our prisoners are out by 10 days at the longest, and many judges give them credit on their sentences for time already served in jail." However, men in city jail are allowed out of the cells to do the same "There are a lot of pressures on these men. You can't say, 'This is the way it will be Although the men may not find all the work i 1 a ting, "they do appreciate the opportunity to get out on the cells," Stewart emphasized. "THIS GIVES them a means to occupy their time. Most people would rather be doing something rather than sit around and wait," he said.

"We rarely have a man who doesn't want to do the work." One specialized portion of the program is a work-release plan. During the last three months of a man's sentence, he may be allowed to hold a job "on the outside." He returns at night to jail. "The men often return for lunch, too," said Stewart. MONEY EARNED goes toward a savings account set up for the prisoner. Some will go to his family, if he has one.

He has $5 free spending money, and the jail charges $3 a night for his room and board. This charge is returned to the county's general fund. One man right now is in the work-release program. He is Nathaniel Chambers, who works in the Seminole FIRST NATIONAL RANK OF DcBASTMsiDie Hospital To Host Cof Meeting program is excellent for a man who wants to help eeping jobs that mmsen. ne win nave en- some of the county trusties ough money to find himself do in the sheriff's office.

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And it ne doesn't keep the job he is working in during the program, he can find another job he can keep, rather than take the first thing that comes along," said Stewart. THE TWO-YEAR-OLD work-release program has caused few problems to the county, said Sheriff John Polk. However, it does increase bookkeeping VI i rmms You got a chotc mi ONE WEEK ONLY! UP TO J1 OFF on all sofas, chairs, love seats, and family room furniture in Early 1 American. Contemporary, and Traditional styles. Featuring quality fabrics in stripes, prints, plaids, solids, and velvets.

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