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HA 2-1963 Tupstlay, March 22, 1966 issimmee's Center POLK Wednesday Drainage Problem Seeps Into Focus Building To Begin In May By BOB BOBROFF KISSIMMEE The ceremonial groundbreaking for a new shopping center here will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, H. D. Remington, of Bay 'N Gulf Realty St. Petersburg, announced Monday.

Actual construction, the leasing agency's representative said, will begin in May, and the center should in ii Hum iiin' 'n in 11 ti is seeping water onto adjacent property to create un unexpected problem. Commissioner Bill Com-bee was concerned with the new problem to the extent that he felt something must be done to keep the city out of possible legal entanglement. SAID COMBEE, "Now is the time for us to get this thing straightened out once and for all." Introduction Dick Pope of Cypress Gardens introduces Gov. Haydon Burns at campaign rally in Bartow Friday night. Young Supporter Gov.

Haydon Burns meets one of his youthful supporters in Bartow. (Osceola-Polk Sentinel Staff Photos by Ed Bernd) Nov Land Deal Recorded Wauchula for $22,000. KISS IMMEE-Another real-estate deal involving a Martin Company executive has been recorded in the office of Harris In Winter ffftreii Citrus Firm Guard Killed In Aulo Mishap By SHEENY WHITE Sentinel Staff HAINES CITY The city commission appears to be in hot water again over the problem of drainage from the sewage disposal plant on the east side of town. It seems the "polishing jvinj" which was constructed near the disposal pkint Robbery Trial Opens Tuesday BARTOW Two former Mulberry police officers are scheduled to go on trial Tuesday for a robbery for which another man was convicted and then cleared. Former Chief a Branch and former patrolman Dale Kelley are charged with robbery and conspiracy in the holdup of two women at a drive-in grocery in Mulberry a year ago.

ROBERT Lamar Watson of Sanford was convicted last summer of the robbery, but later cleared when Dale Durden of Frostproof admitted he was the gunman. Branch was acquitted of robbery charges in a second holdup in Mulberry but Kelley was convicted. Durden also admitted being the gunman in it. The state claims Branch and Kelley helped arrange the robberies. A i 1 Daniel, clerk of the circuit court.

M. G. Megica has sold a parcel in Ingram Terrace to Investments of ditch, the trooper said. Reinherd's vehicle overturned twice, killing its driver when the car rolled over on him. Kinc said.

KING SAID Brown was charged with failure to yield the right of way. The Tampa man's death brings to a total of 19 persons killed in highway accidents on Polk County's highways this year. Church Women Set 3Ieeliii2 KISSIMMEE United Presbyterian Women's Association will meet at 8 p.m. next Monday in the a tional building of First United Presbyterian Church. Robert Whidden, counselor in Juvenile Court in Orlando, will talk on juvenile court procedures.

Miss Grace Collyer is in charge of the program. Hostesses will be members of the Jennie Hutton Circle. City Manager Bill Pierce and Burnew Cowden, engineer, Polk County Health Department, devised the polishing pond and felt sure it would solve the existing drainage problem. The pond serves as a settling basin for the water coming from the disposal plant. However, as the water raised higher in the pond, it began to seep to lower ground.

Commissioner Comhee said the water table in some spots is higher than he had seen in a long time. PIERCE was authorized by the city officials to look further (or solutions and come up with the best possible plan to eliminate the pesky problem. Property owners near the disposal plant have complained for a number of years about the odor coming from the water in the open ditch which crosses several pieces of property on its way to Lake Marion. City officials are fearful of having to lay a drainage pipe to carry the water off without offending the property owners. V.

LAST WEEK Megica, according to another filing, was disclosed to be trustee for a Martin Company group purchasing some $250,000 in real estate. The deals were handled by Ed Wall, of Sun Empire Realty. Six different parcels were involved. Biggest was the sale of 23 acres to the west and south of Sunrise Shopping Center. Selling the property was C.

H. Lucas. Buying it was M. G. Megica, of Orlando, as trustee.

Other deals now in the making include the purchase of property on East Vine Street, on Hwy. 441 near a i Settlement Road, and 441 and 530, east of Kissimmee. ANOTHER transaction was also recorded through Sun Empire. It was for 48. G4 acres of land purchased by William J.

Rci-gel, of Tarzana, Calif. Seller was John E. Carroll. This property rounds out several purchases Reigel has made on the east side of Lake Tohopekaliga. In the past he has purchased property from Evelyn Lawson and the Carroll estate.

These tracts combined are said to be destined to become a championship golf course, marina, and exclusive residential section. Bond Election Eyed By ED BERND Sentinel Staff BARTOW With time running out, the Polk School Board Wednesday may set the date for a bond election to cover a $15 to $18 million building pro gram. Board officials said Monday an "unofficial" copy of the state school survey of Polk's building needs has been received, but only about half of it has been "edited," so it is not complete or official. IN TURN, board personnel has been working overtime to prepare a list of tentative projects for the regular meeting Wednes day. Supt.

Shelley S. Boone and board members have been aiming at May 24 the date of the second primary for holding the bond election. The bond election must be called 60 days beforehand, so Wednesday has been considered the date for formal action. Board members figure that unless the bond election is held before school is out for the summer, it would be difficult to draw the more than 50 per cent of registered freeholders required to pass it. THEY THINK, too, that the second primary will pull out a large number of voters and that there prob ably won't be any local controversial issues to cloud the bond campaign.

All of the candidates running for the one school board seat to be filled in the primary have indicated their support of a bond issue. Over 400 Scouts Seen At Roundup KISSIMMEE Girl Scouts from Osceola Coun ty and Southern Orange County, known as Southern Pines Neighborhood, gathered Saturday for the annual roundup at Kissimmee Agriculture Center. More than 400 brownies, juniors and cadets registered at 9 a.m. along with 37 adults. The girls formed a huge double horseshoe in the arena for the opening flag ceremony conducted by the cadets of Kissimmee.

The three flags raised included the American flag, the state flag and the Girl Scout flag and it was an impressive ceremony. THE GAME period was conducted on a level basis with appropriate games planned for each level. After lunch the groups were instructed in making toys out of aluminum foil and given materials to work with. The particular craft seemed to be quite productive as dogs, bunnies, swans, horses, and many other toys were created by deft fingers and imagination. Johnston Requests Inventory KISS1MMEE -Commissioner John Johnston, continuing his move to "put the county's business in a business-like order," Monday asked the clerk if it had an inventory of everything the county road department has.

Road Supt. Jack Mangum said such an inventory was set up by him and is maintained at the road department office. He said he would furnish it to the clerk's office. JOHNS TON was also named to make a pre-1 i i a ry determination cone erning the county's operation of a nursing home. The commission is asking Mrs.

Eunice Tindall, owner of the property used as a county nursing home, for several weeks to determine a course of action. This she has granted, and Johnston will try to come up with some answers to report to the commissioners. CofC HAS 'JIA1L' TROUBLE HAINES CITY-The Greater Haines City Cham ber of Commerce has found i i burdened ith a backlog of unanswered mail as the result of a recent advertising campaign. Mrs. Thad Drake, CofC executive manager, told the board of directors here Monday the backlog of mail is somewhere about the 100 mark.

Members of the board disc ussed possible solutions to the problem, including a part-time secretary. BOB CROMER reported the newspaper part of the promotion has been completed, but there's more to come in magazines and the media. As the result of the advertising campaign, jointly sponsored by the CofC, and the city in cooperation with the Florida Development Commission, the mail poured into the chamber office. Meeting Announced KISSIMMEE The next meeting of the Orange Gar dens Livic Association is scheduled for April 14 Dorothy Beckwith, editor of the association's bulletin, be completed by November. THE CENTER will be located near the intersection of Vine and Bermuda.

Various dignitaries will be on hand Wednesday for the groundbreaking. Remington said. Among these will be city officials, county officials, and Edward Strang president of the Ohio Realty Investment owners of the property. Remington said already signed are publix and Eck-erd Drug. ANNOUNCEMENT of the new shopping center was made at a city commission meeting last December.

The property was sold by I Smith, Earl Schmidt, George Rocker, Calvin Woodward, Dick I. 1 Dick Luzadder, Olin Williams, and M. L. Yowell. At that time, Remington said the total cost of the center would be around $2 million.

REMODELING CONTINUES ON OFFICE KISSIMMEE Clerk of Circuit Court Harris Daniel Monday got further permission to continue his remodeling of the clerk's office. County commissioners authorized his removing a wall to expand the vault size. Daniel also was authorized to have a study made of getting more air into the new vault. This latter was constructed on the second floor of the courthouse annex. It has no windows, and at the time of design, it was determined not to do anything about air conditioning because that would come with a new system for the entire second floor.

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(Commercial Photogrophert) 704 N. Mattachutetti Ave. MUtuol 6-771? Tlw Star Companf WINTER HAVEN-Wil-liam H. Reinherd, Tampa, guard for the strike bound Cypress Gardens Citrus Products, plant here, was killed in an auto accident west of Winter Haven yearly Sunday. Four other guards who were passengers in the victim's car were injured and treated at the Winter Haven Hospital.

They were Peter Mendoza, Thomas Ross, Terry Rankin and James Todd Sr. CHARLES BROWN, Jan Phyl Village, driver of one of two cars involved in the accident, was also injured. Trooper K. Baking, Florida Highway Patrol, said the accident occurred at the i ction of Recker Highway and 1 a Road. The officer said Brown stopped his car at the road sign, then drove into the intersection without seeing the vehicle driven by Reinherd approaching.

Brown's car skidded off the road and went into a Star KISSIMMEE GIRLS AT WORK Linda Moncll, Jo Ann Johnson, Becky Parrish, and Judy Ebenstein (back to camera) For Home Delivery of The Osceola-Polk Sentine In Dundee, Davenport, tale Hamilton, Hainet City: HA 2-1965 Lot Alfred, Eagle lake, E'oiie, Winter Haven: CY 3-4194 Lake Wa'ei, Babton Park, Frottproof 4-5393 Bartow: 533-8635 Lakeland: MU 8-4397 Kittimmee: 847-3425 St. Cloud: 892-2689 Studcnt'Tcachcr Berlinsky, manager of the Kissimmee Chamber of Commerce. Crowe named Glenn Oglesby as his star teacher. The star student-teacher program is sponsored by the state chamber of commerce. (Osceola-Polk Sentinel Staff Photo by Bob Bobroff) Osceola County star students, Ros-lyn Goold, of Osceola High School, and Tim Crowe, of St.

Cloud High School, will be honored Tuesday at a chamber of commerce luncheon in St. Cloud. Miss Goold (above) selected Henry Ramsey (right) as her star teacher. They are being congraulated by Bob said Monday..