The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 23

Sentinel SECTION Stoch Markets XtCEl 11StRlG-Ju Land Sales Kiiiltling News Sept! 25," 1966 Daytona Beach Adds Home For Retired Citizens KTI 1 fi --W, i in in i 111 Units Contained In 7-Slory Manor Louttit Manor, a $1.8 million home for retired citizens, has been launched in Daytona Beach under the sponsorship of the Episcopal Church. Groundbreaking cere monies were held Sunday Tor the seven-story apartment located on U.S. 1 at Cedar Street which will contain 177 units and be home to an estimated 275 persons. The project has been named for the Right Rev. Henry I.

Louttit, bishop of the South Florida Diocese, who officiated at tne cornerstone dedication services last Sunday. The diocese will be the overall sponsor of the project which will be the particular responsibility of the Daytona Beach-Melbourne Deanery, a part of the Orlando Archdeanery. The Rev. J.R. (Knox) Brumby, rector of St.

Mary's Episcopal Church, has been the guiding light in the planning of Louttit Manor. The manor is located adjacent to the church in downtown Daytona Beach. Designed as a low-cost home for aging persons, rents will ranpp Looald In Downtown Daylona Beach, Slrurliire Should Be Completed By AupuM, 1967 efficiency and bedroom apartments. All utilities, even air-conditioning are included. Apartments are carpeted and are fully kitchen equipped.

federal housing funds and is expected to be completed by Aug. 1, 1967. Project consultant is Richard L. Fullerton, Orlando, who has Daytona Beach. Land for the project was purchased from George Lubke and Dr.

Perry Sperber for $82,200. ning details of several retiree homes including the completed Magnolia Towers in Orlando and the due-to-start Orlando Towers. Fullerton has aided in retirement home Wesley of Florida, a Jacksonville firm, was the low bidder on the project with a bid of $1.5 million. The buildinc was de from $67.50 to $93.50 per month lor Inquiries about rentals can ba I he building will be built with handled the financial and nlan- Wabash Life Insurance Launches Regional Office Here ed in Orlando, Tampa, Jackson ville, Atlanta and Birmingham. Wabash both underwrites and reinsures all forms of life insur-ance, accident and health, hospitalization, franchise and trus 1 1 1--- I- -'i ini.L.

i i i.i i ni. I i.i i i in. i i i. ii i.umum ml mm u) i 11 Construction has started on a regional home office for Wabash Life Insurance Company at 1419 E. Colonial Drive.

Florida, Alabama and Georgia will be served in underwriting, police issue and claims under George D. Heaton, regional vice president. The company's present regional brokerage office, located on Bum-by was opened in Feb. 1964, the first of 23 brokerage offices opened by the company, and is under the management of John E. Thomas.

The brokerage ofiice also will be located in the new building along with the functions of Cecil Farris, brokerage supervisor, and Ellis G. Mabray, brokerage consultant. C. J. Underwood, president and founder of Wabash is also owner of Underwood Stables and is a nationally known breeder of Tennessee Walking Horses.

He spends his winters in Orlando and partici-pates In area horse shows. When in full operation, the Orlando regional office will have a staff of 25 and will serve five J. Underwood group, and through its brokeraga department, specializes In the issuance of rated and hard-to-place coverage. Rogers Engineering and Con struction is building the new office designed by Allan Berman which will contain two stories and 8,400 square feet. John Allen, realtor.

regional brokerage offices local KSIU handled the property sa e. handled the property sale WBhash Hits ucceM Target Like Cannonhall nni yHf i ilnul inings ItIow Digger Ual In lexas, Avenue That Is 1 ywpi rrrr np MtJfc.taji.-fc I li '-II ii I 7T 1 6 I "if If 4 it I 1 1 5- -T7-T7 Illt M.M.wm"-; Trr.jxr: 'Z--- i i' --''i-'1-" St" i mt '-a' ii 1111 in iMiitmwiM i ni-rillll tgmK By JEAN REIMAN Sentinel Staff The utilitarian but cramped WDBO television studios at 950 Texas now boast a handsome anl spacious addition which adds 4,400 square feet of needed space to the building's original 10.000 square feet. The CBS affiliate was established as the Orlando Broadcasting Company in 1926, but actually began broadcasting on the Rollins campus in 1924. THE PRESENT radio station and general offices are at 30 S. Ivanhoe in a designed specifically for radio broadcasting in 1947.

Starting with an output of 250 watts, WDBO now has a strength of 5,000 watt3. The TV station was built off W. Colonial in 1954, and from the beginning the station has programmed local as well as network shows. A representative from the New York offices of CBS visited the station recently and stated it was "the most functional news setup in the country." THIS STATEMENT news direc-tor Hartwell Conklin echoes. Ben Aycrigg, associate news director, points proudly to the smoothly rolling imp drawers and long-needed ng boards.

WDBO Television Boasts Spacious New Addition Of 4,400 Square Feet points out, "Everyone drew" hr his own working area. Frank Voutht, our sports editor, r-Jcd a different layout than Dick Weaver and I did, for example." The wire room, where all important state and national news comes in continually from the state and national news is now directly off the newsroom, and the former newsroom is now a comfortable lounge for employes. The newsroom has separately antennaed monitors for each of the Orlando area stations and a closed-circuit monitor for viewing vldei tape recordings as they are made. Cameramen Charlie Greco and Charlie Robbins can bring thtir film in as short a time as 15 minutes before broadcasting, and (Continued Page 2-B) News reporter Fred Bishop 4.