The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 7

Why Apopka Battles For Own School 'VY-tr' -S II V' I the 1,503 Wheatley students walk to school, APOPKA MEMORIAL now buses about half Its 1,589 students. If juniors and seniors were moved from Wheatley, an additional 740 students would have to be bused. band and raised $4,000 to uniform it. They saw that a new football field was built and raised the money to light it. In short, they are not only happy with their school, they are proud of it.

In addition, all but 178 of lando, which has become a symbol to the entire community, of an Institution which has offered the Negro a chance to establish an Identity and achieve something for himself and his race. THE PHYSICAL structure of Wheatley is excel hi aMBrt- i i I a M. kirn i3 WAREHOUSE SALE FRIDAY, MARCH 21 SATURDAY, MARCH 22 From Page 1 to serve the black community until the new central high school Is built. This would replace both Apopka Memorial High School (this Is pre'doml-nateiy white with but 20 Negro students out of a total enrollment of 1,589, and but two Negro faculty members out of a total of 78), and Phyllis Wheatley (all Negro, with an enrollment of 1,509 in grades 1-12)." The state's eventual plan is to convert both Apopka Memorial and Wheatley into junior highs and put all 9-12 students', both black and white, into the central high school. NOT ONE word of dissent has been voiced to this plan, incidentally, so you conclude that regardless of how slow Apopka citizens of either race have been to accept integration, they have made up their minds to go along with it when the proper facility is ready.

As a matter of fact, they have already where the new A pka Elementary is concerned. It is a 50-50 school, racially speaking. The case of Phyllis Wheatley is a special one, almost identical to that of Jones High School in Or Getting Rcmhj For PESO lent. It is no older than Apopka Memorial, and except for the fact the school board five years ago cut off all funds for Wheatley's Improvement, it would today be in fine shape. As It is, all it needs is a coat of paint and some minor repairs.

What the school wants to do is maintain Phyllis Wheatley as an elementary schools, send its junior high students along with those now at Apopka Memorial about 1,000 In all to school in a series of temporary, portable classrooms to be placed on the playground of Dream Lake Elementary, which already has 800 students. There would be inadequate lunchroom play ground facilities for the total of 1,800 students. NEGRO CITIZENS have done a great deal to upgrade Phyllis Wheatley, despite the school board. They have formed a fine ON THE decor, 'MALL' dinner will be from 8 to 10 p.m. Door prizes will be awarded at 10 p.m., 11 p.m., midnight, 1 a.m.

and 2 a.m. PESO beneficiaries are Florida Symphony Orchestra, Loch Haven Art Center, Central Florida Museum and Central Florida Civic Theatre. (Sentinel Photo by Jim Muncaster) Decorations for PESO auction dinner at Orlando's Exposition Hall. Saturday night are put In place by Mrs. Richard Hart, decorating committee chairman, and Richard Crowell, co-chairman of auction operations.

Hall will open at 5 p.m. for viewing of sale items, auct'on will begin at 7 p.m. and SOFAS CHAIRS TABLES LAMPS RUGS ACCESSORIES FABRICS 40 WAREHOUSE AT CORNER OF DAUBERT AND HUMPHRIES TURN NORTH OF EAST 60 AT MC DONALD'S NO DELIVERIES 2 A Orlatifin fcfttttarl Cltitmw OA Mill Friday, March 21, 1961 Almost Like Home In Capital From Pago 1 Force colonel in addition to the $8,400 a year pay house members get. The state salary breaks down to $100 a month plus $600 expense money (twice what senators get). The expense money does not have to be accounted for.

In addition to that, all legislators get $25 per day living expenses while on legislative business, which has become almost continuous, plus 10 cents a mile for travel. BASSETT, Gibson and Lindsey put their spouses on the state payroll almost immediately upon authorization of secretaries or aides by last February's special education session, (at that time Bassett's present wife was his law firm secretary too. He and the former Mrs. Joyce S. Walker, Sanford, were married Feb.

14.) Mrs. Bothwell and Mrs. Earle landed on the legislative payroll as soon as their husbands were elected last November. Four are paid $435 a month. Mrs.

Bassett is paid $477. Earle, a Maitland dentist, notified the legislative personnel office two months ago that he plans to replace Mrs. Earle with a former Orlando newsman, James C. 1 now working in Sarasota. BLEYER would have been paid up to $800 a month as a legislative aide but he is not on the payroll yet.

"I wanted to get him on the job," Earle reported Thursday. "But we couldn't work out the per diem expenses I think the house will authorize for aides during the session." Another Oronge-Seminole Rypublican has refused to break every 1 i 1 1 1 a n's campaign pledges: economy in government. Rep. Gorman, Winter Park, said he doesn't believe there's enough work between sessions to require ward about acquiring help. Sen.

Lawton Chiles, Lakeland, has only a secretary, Arleen Meehan of Lakeland, at $47 8 5 0 Alan a the other Polk-Osceola senator, has an aide at $720 a month, John Paul Currie of Lakeland, but no secretary. SEN. JIM Williams, Ocala, has only a secretary, Marjorie R. Mc-Bride, also of Ocala, at $337.50. Sen.

Fred Karl, Daytona Beach, has Betty Jane Carter, Holly Hill, as secretary at $300, the lowest staff salary in the senate, and a part time aide, H. Radford Bishop, Tallahassee, at $175. Sen. C. Welborn Daniel, Clermont, has only a secretary, Betty Tower, I might be distant cousins but we've never been able to trace the relationship," he reported.

All three Orange-Semi nole senators have snapped up the chance to have both secretaries and aides, granted by the senate leadership in lieu of the extra $300 a month expenses house members get. Sen. John Ducker had no help when he was a house member (first elected in 1960), but hired a secretary at $436 a month in December. She is Mrs. Ruth Orwick of Orlando.

Six weeks later he acquired an aide, Ted Phillips Coleman, at $748 a month. I 1 tally, Coleman comes from Merritt Island, outside the district. BILL GUNTER, the only Democrat in the two-county In the ard-Indian River senate district Sen. Cliff Reuter had his wife as his state-paid secretary until Feb. 1 when he hired Juliana Slade Pope of Ti-tusville at $325.

On Feb. 24 he acquired an administrative aide at $748 a month: beautiful Dawn Mari Tucci of Cocoa Beach. SEN. ELIZA BETH "Beth" Johnson replaced her male aide, Ralph Bates, March 1 with a 2 3 ar-old from Cocoa Beach, Jeanette Hartman at $748. She had been an assistant to Sen.

Johnson's late husband, Peter, in public relations. On Jan. 1 she employed Elizabeth M. Pichard of Tallahassee as secretary at $478 per month. Some Central Florida senators have been back- SALE ENDS SATURDAY MARCH 22 senate delegation, acquired a secretary as soon as authorized a year ago.

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Bill Ful-ford, has Mrs. Betty Ful-ford of Orlando, on the payroll at $357.75. But he emphasizes that she is no relative. "I think her husband and TV Tower Topples, Ice Weight Blamed HUD DERSFIELD, England (UPI) One of Europe's tallest television transmission towers collapsed near here Wednesday night, smashing a church roof and barely missing two homes. As the tower fell, its heavy support cables hit and partially demolished the roof of a Methodist church.

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