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August II, 1867 rlatibo rntlnrl cnm wn 1 Craft Delayed In Mexico Beach iGulfwind' Ships Out Again tflvxi' "ej i -y-" Zone Bid On 'City' Postponed Orange County Planning and Zoning Commission members continued to cast wary eyes on proposed apartment and other large development projects Tuesday. Action on multiple zoning changes necessary to a multi-million dollar, suburban "city" adjoining the Disney World site again was tabled following considerable discussion at a public hearing. THE PROJECT, which would require some $9 million in initial stage I opment funds and some $15 million for additional county roads, is headed by William L. Can-ole, a Californian who now claims residence here. ty Commissioners Cliff Freeman and Sanford Padgett appeared in person.

Freeman addressed an "Orange County Board of County Commissioners Inter Office Memo," dated Aug. IS, to all planning and zoning board members, in support of the project. He also spoke in Canole's behalf from the floor. PADGETT ORALLY cautioned the zoning commission to carefully look at the roads and schools aspect of the venture. Canole presented additional sketches and assured the board he had the financing to proceed.

But, after much deliberation, the zon-ers decided to deliberate further. A REQUEST by Central Florida Investments, Inc. for a zoning change from R-1A to R-3 that would (Sentinel Phot by Jerry Cooper) CODY (LEFT) AND CHILCOTE ABOARD 'GULFWIND' During pretrip cruise at Lake Underhill the pair has spent one night aboard her. Other nights they spent in sleeping bags on beaches, on the Europeans Tour State This Week Two participants in the State Department International Visitor Program will visit Central Florida this week. Alfredo Diana, Italian a i ulturist, and Bodo Adolf Baars, German lawyer in training, will arrive in Orlando Thursday.

DIANA WILL visit the Plymouth plant of Minute Maid Co. Friday morning. Later he will inspect the U.S. Department of Agriculture research and development program in Leesburg. He will visit the Judge Dairy and observe Osceola County beef cattle operations Friday.

Baars is studying local government while in this country. In Orlando he will interview Mayor Carl Langford and attend sessions of the city council and other governmental bodies. Preliminary Hearings Set TAVARES Four charges of breaking and entering and one of resisting arrest with violence against Poe Billingsley, Orlando, were set for preliminary hearing on Sept. 11 in county court Tuesday. Five similar charges against Speedy ea ton, Orlando, were scheduled for preliminary hearing the same day.

Wade T. Timbs waived preliminary hearing on a charge of escape and the public defender was appointed to handle the case. Permit Sought For Minors OCOEE City Council decided Tuesday night to seek an ordinance that will permit minors to use the American Legion recreation center. The ordinance was inspired because of the presence of billiard tables in the facility. Youths using the center will be required to present a notarized permission card signed by their parents.

SEE TV TON I GHT Check the Classified Ads now for bargains in '67 Event Set Record Central Florida Fair Charter Change Voted LAURA JOHNSON Sought Mother, Two Tots Missing The Orlando Police Department has been asked to help locate Mrs. Laura Johnson, 23, and her two children, who have not been heard from since Aug. 6, when they left Miami for Orlando. Mrs. Johnson is 5 feet 5, weighs 115 pounds and has blue eyes and blonde hair.

Her children, a daughter, 2, and a son, 1, also are blonde. Her husband, Gerald, 4613 Edgewater Drive, said it is not known what transportation his wife and children took from Miami, where they also have a home. County Hikes Dumping Fee SANFORD Seminole County commissioners Tuesday raised fees for use of county sanitary land fills for dumping of rubbish and garbage. Fees will be raised 5 cents to 15 cents per cubic yard for commericial users of the dump. County Commissioner John Fitzpatrick discussed a request from the city of Sanford for a contract price to use the dump, but commissioners turned down the request, saying the city should pay the same rates as anyone else.

There is no dumping charge to individual property owners. Fees collected are used to bury the rubbish and the board attempts to operate on a break-even basis. The fee rise will become effective Oct. 1. Anniversary SEOUL (UPI) South Korea Tuesday observed the 22nd anniversary of its liberation from Japanese occupation with colorful parades in the capital and other major provincial cities.

COMMERCIAL PORTRAITS fr i MRS. MARY METCALFE, .88 lerrace. died Monday. She wai a native of Ky. Survivors: son, Albert S.

Metcalfe, Macclenny, and sis- ter, Mrs. Ben 1 'Louisville. Franklin- Cole Funeral Carey Hand Chapel, in charge. MRS. ISABELLE N.

IVEY, 75, 611 Shannon Road, died Monday. rf A native of Pennsylvania, she was a Baptist. Survivors, daughter, Mrs. Magee Orlando; sister, Mrs. Bessie Douglas, Aldan, Pa three grandchildren five great-grandchil-J dren.

Hawthorne Funeral Home Is in charge. MR. ALLEN WILLIAM DOR IT 51, 4000 N. Orange Blossom Trail, died Tuesday. He was a carpenter supervi- sor and a native of Elloree, i C.

He came to Orlando in 1924 and was a member of the Baptist Church. Survivors: widow, Mrs. Vera B. Dority, parents, Mr. and if Mrs.

D. W. Dority, and sister, Mrs. Dorothy E. Robertson, ell of Orlando; sons, A.

William, Stephen W. and Ronald D. Dority, all of Charleston, S. and David Dority of Turkey Franklin- Cole Funeral Directors, Carey Hand Chapel, in charge. MRS.

ANNA BARBARA MUTZBAUER, 68, 501 Ventura Parking Space Due At Jetport About 400 additional parking spaces may be available at McCoy Jetport Jate this fall, members of the Orlando Aviation Ad- Board were told Tuesday. Chairman A. B. Herndon said the board hopes to have a plan for parking developed by city Traffic Engineer W. L.

Thomas In time for the board's meet-t ing Sept. 5. After reviewing Thomas' plan, the board will ask co uncil to take immediate steps to secure 'the much-needed additional spaces. "Parking is most critical i right now," Herndon said, by this fall the situation will be tragic unless additional space is de-' veloped." Baytonan Identified In Robbery V. A secretary with a "pho-'lographic memory" Tues-i (day identified Eugene Hat-ten, 38, Daytona Beach, as the armed robber who took from the Lincoln 'Loan 2614 S.

Orange Aug. 22, 1966. But Assistant Public Defender John Robertson told a six-man jury in Criminal "Court the secretary's "unique mind" wasn't "infallible" and urged them to believe Hatten who testi- fied he was at a girlfriend's home in Orlando when the robbery occurred. HATTEN admitted giving Elmo Hicks of Orlando for a car the afternoon of the robbery. But the de-fendent said he had saved "about $200 by doing yard work and polishing cars in Daytona Beach.

Judge Warren H. Edwards will give the case to the jury Wednesday. Baptists Eye Apartments Feasibility of a fourth Downtown Orlando high-rise a a for the elderly is being studied by a special committee of the First Baptist Church of Orlando. George Stuart, chairman of the committee, said Tuesday the project is in the investigative stage and the congregation will not make a final decision until the availability of a site is determined. Several sites are under consideration and the price will be a factor in the choice, a ccording to Charles Clayton, head of the site selection committee.

If the project is authorized, it probably would contain more than 200 apartment units and cost more than $2.5 million. By CHRIS SHEAROUSE Sentinel Staff What was expected to be a five- or six-day voyage from Bayport on Florida'i Gulf coast west of Orlando to New Orleans for two Orlando adventures aboard the tiny wet sailor "Gulf-wind" now may take 17 or 18 days or more. The pair, Bob Chilcote, 30, and Bill Cody, 17, set sail again from Mexico Beach east of Panama City with good winds Tuesday morning after days of delays because of poor wind, squalls, torn sails and a broken rudder. Chilcote and Cody said they expect to set some kind of a distance record for this type of craft by their 500-mile journey to the heart of Creole country. The pair left Bayport the morning of Aug.

2. Tuesday morning they told Cody's father, Bill Cody, they expect to reach Louisiana by the weekend, if winds and luck hold out. Although the "Gulfwind" was not designed for sleeping it is only 13 feet long FCC Firm On TV 9 Hearing The Federal Communications Commission in Washington Tuesday decided to go ahead with a hearing Jan. 8, 1968, on eight ap plications or TV channel 9, Orlando. The commission dismissed a petition by Central Nine Corp.

and TV-9, for reconsideration of a March 30 order designating the channel 9 case for comparative hear-ing. It also denied a petition by Central Nine Florida Heartland Television, and TV-9, requesting further FCC proceedings be delayed un til the U.S. Court of Ap peals has acted on an appeal by Consolidated Nine against the commission's decision authorizing interim operation of channel 9 WFTV. by Mid-Florida Television Corp. Mid-Florida is one of the eight applicants for the channel.

THE COMMISSION also denied the petition of Orange Nine, for oral argument before the full commission and dismissed Orange Nine's motion for a stay; rejected Orange Nine's motion to decide the effect of a channel 9 grant on UHF stations in the area before going ahead with the hearing and dismissed as moot Custom Electronics opposition to the Orange Nine motion. FCC spokesmen made clear pre-hearing conferences would be held with the interested parties before the January hearing date. Drowned Tot's Name Revealed Orange County's 15th drowning victim of the year was identified Tuesday by Sheriff Dave Starr's office as Josephus Postell, 2. The youngster was the son of citrus workers residing at Reddick's Labor Camp near Tildenville. He fell into a small pond while playing with other children Monday.

LOOKING for something special? Turn to the Want Ads NOW! COCOA BEACH PORT CANAVERAL PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE CAPE KENNEDY EUSTIS LEESBURG GROVELAND OCALA KISSIMMEE ST. CLOUD WINTER HAVEN' LAKELAND SANFORD DAYTONA BEACH DELAND COCOA NEW SMYRNA BEACH MELBOURNE TAMPA ST. PETERSBURG CLEARWATER died Tuesday. A native of Chicago, she came here five years ago. She was a member of St.

James Catholic Church and was in the real estate business. Survivors: daughters, Mrs. Eileen Morgan, Orlando. Mrs. Vera Fina, Riverside, Mrs.

Anna Mae Mercer, Chicago; sisters, Mrs. Mamie Zimmerman, Mrs. Harriet Sullivan, Miss Margaret Goeo, all of Chicago; 12 grandchildren. Cox-Parker Funeral Home in charge. MRS.

CLARA M. CUN-NINGHAM, 84, 1411 Ridge-wood Winter Park, died Monday. A native of Roaring Creeic, she came here 18 years ago. There are no local survivors. Cox-Parker Funeral Home in charge.

MRS. HAZEL A. STRIPLING, 74, 1100 Lewis Drive, Winter Park, died Tuesday. She came to Winter Park 18 years ago from Dearborn, and was a member of Aloma Baptist Church. Survivors: husband, Walter Winter Park; brother, Donald Davis, Clara, sisters, Mrs.

Frank Newman, Mrs. Donna Nunn and Mrs. Marie Lawler, all of Michigan- Cox-Parker Funeral Home in charge. MRS. MINNIE H.

BOENER, 91, Lawrence, died Friday. She was a native of Wal-tham, Iowa and a former resident of Orlando-There are no local survivors. W. Guy Black Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements. MRS.

RUTH G. HELMKE, 78, 2611 E. Nancy died Monday. A native of Brighton, Ohio, she moved here a year ago from Toledo, Ohio. She was a teacher in Ohio public schools and a member of First Congregational Church, Winter Park.

Survivors: daughter, Mrs. Macon M. Hough, Orlando; two grandchildren. Ramsdell Colonial Funeral Home in charge. MR.1 JESSE R.

FULS, 81, 5620 Lunsford Drive, died Tuesday. He was a carpenter, a native of Brookville, Ohio, and a member of Jehovah's Witnesses. He came to Orlando in 1945 from Dayton. Ohio. Survivors: widow, Alice G-, Orlando; sons, Luther Fuls, Brooksville, fc.

i-uis, Dayton, Norman Fuls, Fort Smith, and Walter Fuls, Orlando; stepson, Ronald V. DeBoard, Orlando; daughters, Mrs. Thelma Severs. Piaua. Ohio, Mrs.

Bertha Alice Smith, Cheyenne, and Mrs. Joyce Ann Ayers, Orlando; sisters, Mrs. Florence Erbuauga, New Lebanon, Ohio, Mrs. Emma Good, West Alexandria, Ohio, and Mrs. Clare Brower, Bradenton, 13 a ildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Hawthorne funeral Home in charge. MRS 7FI DA MARCYANNA MITCHELL, 61. 12 Country Club Drive, Winter Park, died Tuesday. A native of Kenosha, she came here in 1958. She was a cffrrctnrv a member of Central Florida Florists As sociation, Park Lake Presbyterian Church and the Women's Club of the church.

Survivors: husband, Elmo of Winter Park; son, James of Orlando; daughter, Mrs- Dora N. Goodman, Pensacola; brother, Ed Mallon, Wilmette, sister, Mrs. A. Aiden Elliott, Detroit, 10 grandchildren. Cox-Parker Funeral Home in charge.

MRS. HELEN FRIEDEL, 81, 605 E. Marks died Tuesday in Perry, Ga, A native of Wheeling, W. Va she came here 20 years ago. She was a member of Cathedral of St.

Luke Episcopal. Survivors: husband, Harry daughter, Juliet, both Orlando; son, John Warwick, R.I. Fairchild Funeral Home in charge. Funeral Notices ATKINS, MRS. CLARA Funeral services tor Mrs.

Clan g. Atkins, Si, Mount Dora, who died Tuesday, wih held at the First Methodist Church ot Mount Dora at p.m. Thursday with the Rev. Leo Lacy flciatlne. Interment with Eastern Star rites will follow at Pine Forest Cemetery, Mount Dora.

Zeller Kennedy and Hamlin Funeral Home. Eustls, In charoe ot OOIS, MR. CLARENCE M. Funeral services tor Mr. Clarence M.

Souls, e7, LeesUura and Kilmarnock, who died Monday, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at tha page-Theus Chattel with the Rev. Knud Larsen officiating. Burial will be at 1 Friday at the Grace Episcopal hurch, Kilmarnock. Mr.

Bouls was formerly with Chrysler Corp. He had dilry Interests In Virginia and citrus Interests In Florida and was president ot Florida Fruit Co. Ha had been an active member of Rotary, Club and tha Grace Episcopal Church In Virginia. Page-Theut Funeral Home, Leesburg, in charge ot arrangement. DORITY, MR.

ALLIN WILLIAM Funeral services tor Mr. Allen William Dorltv. ago 51, residing at 4000 North Orange Blossom Trail, who died Tuesday, will be held In the Carey Hand Chaoal Thursday at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Leonard Branton of Lake Hill Baptist Church officiating.

The Interment will follow In Woodlewn Memorial Park. Mr. Dority, a Baptist, attended Orlando public schools and was a graduate of the Orlando High School. He Is survived by his widow: Mrs. Vere B.

Dorltv, Orlando, sons: A. William, Stephen Wayne and Ronald Dwlght Dority of Charleston, C. and David Dorltv of Turkey, his parents: Mr. and Mrs. O.

W. Dority and sister: Mrs. Dorothy E. Robertson HI of Orlando. The services tor Mr.

Dority are under tha direction of Franklin. Cola Funeral Directors, Carey Hand Chapel, West Pin Street, Orlando, Fla. CARD OF THANKS Charlie Alexander and family would like to thank their many friends and nelohbors In Altamont Springs tor their kindness during the recent illness of Mrs. Plnkay Alexander. Members of Central Florida Fair Inc.

unanimously approved minor changes in the organization's charter Tuesday during a speedy, five-minute special meeting. Grover C. Bryan, president of the corporation's Two Accused In Shooting, Knifing Fray KISSIMMEE Two brothers were arrested here Tuesday following a shooting and cutting scrape, which also involved four Orlandoans. Arrested, according to Sheriff Bob Best's records, were Lawton Donald Daniels of Kissimmee, and his brother James R. Daniels.

Lawton aniels was charged with shooting into a vehicle, his brother with aggravated assault. ACCORDING TO testimony from witnesses, the melee took place around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, shortly after Jack Phillips, Robert McCallister, Shirley Bishop and Patty O'-Cain, all Orlando, left a local bar. The four told Sheriff Best they were followed up the Orange Blossom. Trail and someone (later identified as Lawton Daniels) fired a gun into their fender and headlights.

The victims said. the car then turned and sped back towards Kissimmee. THE ORLANDO foursome said they pulled into a service static- where another car, i i by Dorothy Stubbs i Kissimmee, pulled up. According to testimony, James R. Daniels cut Phillips across the chest.

Phillips was taken to Kissimmee Medical Center where his condition was listed as fair. Both brothers posted $1,000 bonds. Since 132 tin Central Flenda Hoe Selected I lL H. Selected II porch of an abandoned house, and even in an occasional motel, Cody Sr. said.

board of directors, said the amendments were mainly alterations in wording and "up-dating" the charter of 1917. DIRECTORS HELD a business session following the general membership meeting and: Approved appointment of City Commissioner Doug Barnes to the board to replace the late George A. Barker Jr. APPROVED auditor's report presented by Charles M. Potter of Potter, Bower who reported paid attendance for the 1967 fair was 12,000 higher than previous year and was largest total in history.

OKAYED operating budget for fiscal 1968, including proposals of 15,000 for "free" entertainment during the fair's 12 days, $27,000 for premiums to exhibitors, and other expenses. Agreed the fair should have a handsome new entrance on Livingston Street and that Secre tary-Manager H. H. (Pete) Par-rish be authorized to approve design and spend for work. ADOPTED Amotion, made by Mayor Carl T.

Langford, second vice president, to accept recommendations of a joint CFF and Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce convention department committee that "every encouragement" be made to bring large groups here which wish to use the fair's exhibition halls. Heard a new report from County Commissioner Donald S. (Don) Evans, chairman of fair board's long-range planning committee, on remodeling "building at a cost of nearly $150,000. IT'S EASY to find the furniture you want. Shop the Classified ADS today.

pmnriaPlark SCRATCHEX Pawnor aw spray for dog i saaclal powder for cats permit a six-story apart ment complex on Chick- a a Trail and Lake Underhill Road just west of Rio Pinar Country Club, following earlier tabling, was denied. A letter strongly opposing the venture was received from the Rio Pinar club. Frank L. Hudson's request for a zoning change from R-1AA to R-3 that would allow building of an apartment on a Lake Hold-en peninsula also was de nied. So was Raymond J.

Jaszczak's reauest for a zonina. change from R-1A to R-3 that would permit a a ent construction near the Florida Technological University cam-pus on Alafaya Trail. He had no definite plans to show, as required by the commission. A WINNER was Kenneth Pearcy, who requested an R-1A to R-2 zoning change on property in the same area. Pearcy plans to build 115 one-story duplexes, along with recreation facilities, on an approved portion of a 34-acre tract.

He built a similar complex in Tampa. A Datson Brothers. Inc. request for zoning change from R-1AA to C-l on 18.5 acres on McCoy Road near Lake Conway was tabled. Plans call for a major chain motel.

A group of residents protested. Would-be chicken farm operators' requests were tabled in four instances, turned down in another. Irene M. Reeves' and Doris I. Crawforri's reouest for A-l to A-2 zonin? near ADOnka was denied; the commission wants to keep the chicks farther north.

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