The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 13

Union Park To Incorporate Residents Call Parley For May 3 i Mn 3MEI3 WW I i i I I 1 Tuesday, April 1, 1969 1 i I T7' I'M if Apartment Plans Bared 0 Jr i Si Jr MiMCO SfitlUJfC 'I I i 1 IT SWS 'APRIL F00I- FOR EVEBYTWN6 IT'S TOU US TOPAY. Owner Of 5 Acres Set For Park Boosts Price By EARLE MARTIN Switliwl Staff Freeholders and property owners of the Union Park area will meet at Orlando Sports Stadium at 7 p.m. May 3 to incorporate into a city a mile section east of Orlando. The proposed incorporation will require the attendance of at least two-thirds of the area's 1,200 registered voters at the meeting. IF THE MORE than 800 voters are present, they will select a name and seal for tha municipality, designate its boundaries and elect a mayor, six aldermen, a city clerk and a marshal.

The city's government will be operated by the mayor and alderman, who will form the city council. Their positions will be part-time and unsalaried. They will serve one-year terms. The city clerk and marshal jobs will be full-time and salaried. THE NEW CITY will include roughly the area of Kawlige Lane, west of O'Berry-Hoover Road, south of Lockanotsa Trail and east of Chickasaw Lane.

It is bisected by SR 50. Population of the proposed incorporated area is about 2,500. Jaycees Told Legislature To Hold Tax Line Prospects look good that the 1969 Florida Legislature will hold the line against higher taxes for the next biennium, Orlando Jaycees were told Monday. State Sen. Richard Stone, of Miami, chairman of the taxation subcommittee and vice chairman of the ways and means committee, said chances are the budget appropriations will be contained within the current levels of revenue.

THE LEGISLATORS want to conserve Florida's present tax climate, which is conducive to the state's growth, Stone said. The present state tax setup is attractive to bcth new industry and new residents, he pointed out. Turning to conservation, Stone said passage looks favorable for a bill requiring dredgers to apply for a biological and ecological study to show their projects will not destroy the ecological Memorial Services Seamen fire 21-gun salute while flag flies at half mast during memorial services honoring former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at Orlando Naval Training Center Monday. Two services were held at recruit center Monday during national day of mourning.

Various other services honoring Gen. Eisenhower were held at Central Florida churches, schools and public meetings. (Sentinel Photo by John Turner) UA Leader Wants Stop To Individual Drives "REACHJNG $1 million had a magic that we won't have," he said, "so our emphasis this year won't be on the goal. Our emphasis will be on the need." Cooper also said the structure of UA on the division, level is virtually complete. rest of the land surrounding Wekiva Springs.

Landrum said the council, which includes the governor and the six cabinet officers, will ask the legislature to give it limited condem nation powers in such situations. "What we want," he explained, "is to be able to get a parcel that might be in the interior of an area we've acquired for a park. An owner, in a situation where we need the land to fill out a parcel, is in a powerful bargaining position as long as we don't have condemnation power." HE EXPLAINED that in some cases the state can use the county powers of condemnation, but a "county purpose" must be proved. Landrum reported that directors of the Apopka Sportsmen's Association, have voted to accept the state's offer of $365 an acre or $2,242 million for their 6,100 acres. As soon as Atty.

Gen. Earl Faircloth approves the sales contracts for this, for Kittredge and for several small contiguous parcels, the state will take title, said Landrum. "WE'LL HAVE it all cleared up in 60 days," he predicted. Also, to be approved is an agreement, endorsed in principle by the Orange County Commission, for joint management of the state park and the 200 acre Kelly Park owned by the county. The latter includes Rock Springs.

"The cabinet Landrum said, "the two parks should have the same operational staff so policy will be the same for both." By D. G. LAWRENCE Untlntl Tillihaiu Bvmv The owner of five of the 6,300 acres, being put together for a state park near Apopka, is asking four times its appraisal value. Robert Langford, owner of the hotel bearing his name in Winter Park, has advised the state outdoor recreational planning council in Tallahassee he will sell his five acres for $15,000 per acre. THE PARCEL is at the perimeter of the so-called Kittredge tract, the 200 acres immediately contiguous to Wekiva Springs.

Conway Kittredge, Orlando, owns the bulk of it, and has agreed to sell at $4,375 per acre. The appraisal was $4,000 per acre. "We will offer Langford the same price Kittredge agreed to and if he doesn't want to sell, we'll leave his five acres out of the park," Ney Landrum, council executive director, said Monday. In Winter Park, Langford acknowledged he is asking $15,000 per acre. "ITS THE best land in the Springs area, all waterfront, and I think the price is right," he said.

He recalled he purchased the property from the widow of a Confederate War veteran, about 28 years ago. "I won't say how much I paid, but it was a low price." He recalled during that period the Springs were a tourist attraction with glass bottomed boats available to view the depths. SUBSEQUENTLY, he said, he tried unsuccessfully to acquire the By SKIP JOHNSON StntlMl Staff A top-ranking officer of the Orange County United Appeal asked participating agencies Monday to -live withhv the appeal's framework. "I implore you to quit these Individual fund raising campaigns," Gen. T.

J. DuBose, president of the board of directors, told a luncheon meeting of UA directors. DUBOSE said he has received some 30 telephone calls from persons wanting to know why they're badgered for donations from individual UA members. "They all want to know why we can't support our agencies," DuBose said. He told the directors UA could meet the agencies' needs if the agencies would help convince employes to give their fair share.

"THAT ALONE would increase our budget by $250,000. Then you wouldn't have to conduct separate campaigns," he said. DuBose said UA's budget will be set within two months, but he warned them it won't be a 17 per cent increase as it was last year. He said it will be more than last year's $1 million goal. Floyd Cooper, the 1969 campaign manager, said civic pride was involved last year when the drive aimed for and got $1 million for the first time.

For Elderly By SUMNER RAND Itfltliwl Staff Plans for a fifth highrise senior citizens' apartment building in the Downtown Orlando area were announced Monday by Joseph A. Antink, president of the Magnolia Towers governing board. The new1 building would be an adjunct to the existing Magnolia Towers highrise at the southeast corner of Magnolia Avenue and Anderson Street, and would be constructed just east of the present structure. ESTIMATED cost of the building to be known as Magnolia Towers East is $2.6 million, Antink said. Plans, which are already being prepared by the architectural firm of Broleman Rapp, call for a 208 unit, 20-story building on property now optioned from the Phillips Foundation.

The existing Magnolia Towers is a 156-unit building 14 floors in height. It was the first of four senior citizen apartment buildings constructed here under the federal program. A survey authorized by the Magnolia Towers board of directors is currently being conducted among the 1,700 members of the Retired Citizens Association to determine actual needs for ad-d i i a 1 highrise apartment facilities, Antink said. HE SAID there had been a long waiting list for the existing apartment building since it was occupied in May of 1966. A turnover rate of only about 10 per cent annually "reflects the contentment of these senior citizens," he said.

Preliminary plans call for both efficiency and one-bedroom units, all to provide a view of nearby Lake Lucerne. The first floor would be occupied by administrative offices and recreational and operational facilities. Antink said financing arrangements are still being arranged since the original federal program under which Magnolia Towers was built, has been discontinued. The other senior citizens' apartment buildings erected in Orlando include the Orlando Central Towers built under the auspices of the Central Church of the Nazarene at 350 E. Jackson Street; Kinneret Apartments built under the auspices of the Central Florida Jewish Community Council on Delaney; and Baptist Terrace, now going up under auspices of First Baptist Housing Inc.

in the 400 block of E. Pine Street, to be completed by Jan. 1, 1970. Commissioners Will Discuss Insurance Needs Orange County's insurance needs, subject of a major study started recently, will be brought up by Commissioner Ralph Poe at Tuesday's commission meeting. Poe said Monday he ordered the study "to look into every facet of our coverage to see that Orange County is getting the most for its insurance dollar." CONDUCTING the survey are Guy E.

Sandberg, president of the Orlando Insurance Board which handles the county's insurance, and board members Sam Randolph and Otis Lundquist. Sandberg said the fact gathering "stage is complete and the writing will take 30 to 60 days. He said the study committee may recommend the board purchase employe health insurance which is now handled separately. Existing programs include pub- lie liability, workman's compen- sation, automobile, fire, wind, vandalism and riot insurance. DyzJ WALTER WINDSOR Replaces Joseph Brechner Kentucky Man Takes Charge Of Channel 9 Walter M.

Windsor, Lexington, replaced Joseph M. Brechner as general manager of Orlando television station WFTV at Monday midnight, when the manage rnent of the facility passed from Mid-Florida Television Corporation to Channel Nine of Orlando. Channel Nine of Orlando is a joint venture formed to operate the Channel 9 station until current litigation over the license is completed before the Federal Communications Commission. headed by Brechner and his wife Marion, has operated the station since it first went on the air in 1958. Irregularities in the hearing which determined the licensee at that time resulted in the FCC ordering a new hearing, which is still under way.

Until the litigation is completed, the station by court order will be operated by five applicants now contending for the channel Mid-Florida, Central 9 Corporation, Comint Corporation, Florida Heartland TV Inc. and TV Nine Inc. THE governing board of the joint operation consists of Gordon Gray, representing TV Nine, chairman; Robert F. Lilley, Central David W. Hedrick, Comint; H.

Guthrie Bell, Florida Heartland; and Lester I. Levine, Mid-Florida. Court To Rule If Apopka Group Can Intervene A U.S. District Court will hear arguments Tuesday at 10 a.m. on whether an Apopka group may intervene in the Orange County school desegregation suit.

The Apopka group has asked to intervene because it opposes closing the all Negro Phyllis Wheat-ley Junior-Senior High School, and converting it into an elementary school. THE HEARING, originally slated for Friday, was postponed when attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense Fund asked for time to study the petition for intervention. The attorneys have indicated they will oppose the intervention because they want the school closed. Another petition for intervention will be heard at the hearing from a group which opposes the desegregation plan because it does not call for integration of Negro schools. The petition was first; filed by a coalition of Orlando Negro groups, but is now being kept alive by the Orlando Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality.

Radar Locations Bared Orlando Police Department mobile radar units on Tuesday will be located on the following streets: Lake Highland Drive, Nebraska Street, Magnolia Avenue, and Smith Street. Rekindled Brash Fire Covers 120 Acres A rekindled brush fire. burned, about 120 acres Monday in an area bounded by Lake Howell and Howell Branch Road in South Seminole County. The fire stopped at a 12-foot wide ditch some 25 feet from the rear lot line of 20 homes on Lake Howell Road. The water filled ditch, a plow line around the fire, and units from seven fire departments, helped bring the' blaze under control about 5 p.m.

The. fire was rekindled from a Sunday blaze, according to Hoff, state forest ranger. (Hill m' 'Pleasures Of Poetry' Topic Of Library Talk Mrs. Jose Lacambra will speak on "The Pleasures of Poetry" at Orlando Public Library Auditorium at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, in the library's regular monthly book review series.

Precious Cargo Florida oranges on way to Guam with Orlando Mayor Carl Langford, get priority attention from Langford, who wants Central Florida citrus to reach servicemen in Western Pacific sunny and ripe. Langford loaded oranges as cargo on his flight to meet members of McCoy Air Force Base's 306th Bomb Wing as they prepare to return to McCoy from second temporary mission in Southeast Asia..