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Mobile Home Dealer Convicted In Title Failure Case investigation and Loveday was remanded to custody. Defense counsel asked that Loveday be declared indigent and the state was given 15 days to check into his solvency. Loveday's attorney, Christopher Ford, sought throughout the trial, which began Monday, to show that his client's appropriation of the $5,275 paid by the purchaser was a matter for civil suit and not a crime. Loveday testified his wife had left him, he had fired his bookkeeper and had no idea how to balance his checkbook. The mobile home was "floor-planned" by the First State Bank of Eustis, which held the certificate of origin, and the check given by Loveday to pay off the note was no good.

Stale Ally. Gordon G. Oldham handling the state's case, shot down l.ovrday's plea of ignorance of the state of his bank account wiih a reminder of testimony from a bank representative that the bank was asked to hold the check for a few days before processing. Boggs said on his several demands for the title, Loveday promised it. would be forthcoming within a week, or a few days, each time.

The first Boggs knew of any lien on ihe mobile home was when he found the bank's replevin notice affixed f.o the dwelling. Boggs and his wife lost in a civil suit filed by the bank to recover its money, because under the Florida uniform commercial code effective since 19(17 it is the responsibility of the purchaser to obtain the certificate of origin from the seller. Although the bank sacrificed its Volusia Parents Plan Meeting Today i' Sentinel lunii TAVARES A Lake County jury Thursday found Alvis Loveday, former operator of Leesburg Mobile Home Sales Service, guilty of grand larceny in a landmark case stemming from his failure to deliver title to a mobile home purchased for cash toy Orville Boggs and his wife, Carmie. Judge Troy Mall Jr. deferred sentence pending a presentence Truck This large truck owned by Rinker Sanford suffered about $15,000 Thursday when its driver, C.

swerved to miss an oncoming car on Enterprise. 4 fli wFw Ditches To Avoid Concrete Co. of Loaded truck damage early the narrow, fog-shrouded road and Lake Monroe. McDonald, 42, McDonald suffered only minor injuries and was not Osteen Road in charged by Florida Highway Patrol Trooper 0. L.

Volusia Grand Jury Seeks UF Aid On Tower OrlanboWfotl LOR A Friday, January 30, 1970 1 Get Involved In Strike, Students Told Sentinel Bureau DAYTONA BEACH Comedian Dick Gregory Thursday encouraged Bethune-Cookman College students to get involved in the four week old garbage workers strike. Speaking to a crowd of aboul 800 in the college gymnasium, Gregory said, "The issue is bigger than garbage." He told the students their "social issue for this semester" should be "to rally around your brothers." Gregory also said he was donating $500 to the fund for striking workers and their families. MEANWHILE, Mayor Richard Kane's special committee to ferret out facts of the garbage strikes began its work Thursday. Richard Youngman, who has been in the area for several days as a representative of the State Department of Community Affairs, said he felt everyone involved in the garbage strike has acted thus far with "admirable restraint." Youngman before assuming his present position was chief mediator for the state and labor-management relations. Ormond Apartment Complex Delayed Sentinel Bureau ORMOND BEACH Plans for a $3 million apartment complex and shopping bazaar on Granada Avenue at Seton Trail have been temporarily delayed for a few alterations, one of its developers said Thursday.

L. W. Grabe said the complex plans, for months the target of citizens' objections and also a pending legal suit over rezoning, were being revised. profit in the deal, the Boggs had to pay to, the bank for the mobile home they had already bought for cash. The state attorney placed on the stand another witness, Virgil Ludy, who testified he purchased a mobile home from Loveday for cash the same week and under identical circumstances had to pay the bank $2,500 to obtain title.

On Mix Governor Expected in Lounty Sentinel Bureau DAYTONA BEACH A group of parents concerned over Volusia County's school problems will meet at 7:30 p.m. today in here to organize chairmen for various area groups, a spokesman said Thursday. John Burger, representing a group of South Daytona parents, said the meeting will be attended by parents from throughout Volusia County. It hopefully will follow a meeting with Gov. Claude Kirk either in Daytona Beach or in Jacksonville, he said.

Kirk this week promised to intervene before the U.S. District Court Judge Charles Scott asking for more time in the desegregation plan, Burger said. ACCORDING to Burger, a delegation including Mayor Thornwell Jacobs, Ernest Couture, George Marlowe, Jim Humphrey, the Rev. Robert Cox, William Johnson and Burger, all of South Daytona, hopes to meet with Kirk. Burger said the group has compiled a report they hope will show the judge's Feb.

1 desegregation order would be fiscally disastrous to the county. Through Kirk's intervention, Burger said, they hope to prove the present school plan is a "unitary system" as called for in desegregation orders. Judge Orders Ritz Hearing Sentinel Bureau INVERNESS Citrus County Judge James E. Conner has ordered a preliminary hearing for Robert Ritz, Inverness city councilman-Conner previously had denied the motion by William F. Edwards, attorney for Ritz, for a preliminary hearing.

Ritz was indicted by the Citrus County grand jury in 1969 on a charge of petty larceny. Indicted with Ritz was fellow Councilman Eli White. The alleged offense with which both men were charged involved the use of city-owned limerock on White's private driveway. The purpose of a preliminary hearing is to determine if there is sufficient evidence to merit bringing a case to trial. Judge Conner set the hearing for Thursday, Feb.

5 at 9 a.m. 4 stisJi Concert Series Daytona Man Found Guilty Of Assault Sentinel Bureau DeLAND A 24-year-old Daytona Beach man, John Wesley Minis, was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the rape last July 7 of a youthful mother of two. Sentence was pronounced by Circuit Court Judge James Nelson after a 12-member, all-male jury returned the verdict for Mims, with recommendation for mercy. Without the recommendation, Mims could have faced a death sentence. The defendant, an attractive, longhaired woman of 23, testified Mims forced her into a car at gunpoint, drove to a spot near Daytona Beach Regional Airport and raped her.

Testifying in his own defense, Mims denied raping the woman, but admitted having relations several times with her, for which he said he paid money. THE JURY'S decision undoubtedly took into account testimony of a second woman that Mims had raped her at gunpoint only three weeks before the date of the offense on which he was tried. The witness said she did not report the assault "because no one would have believed me." Asst. State Atty. John Tanner alleged that Mims accosted the defendant at night and represented himself as a law enforcement officer.

He forced her into a car at gunpoint, the state contended. At one point in cross-examination, the defendant, a white woman, broke down. She was led screaming from the stand and given time to compose herself. Mims, a Negro, was calm during sentencing. Four Men Charged Sentinel Bureau DELAND Four men charged with robbery of a pair of hitchhikers were ordered held for Volusia County Felony Court of Record following preliminary hearing Thursday before County Judge Robert Durden.

Bonds for the defendants, Henry Esmond Frederick, 35, Willie James Shiver, 30, Larry Shiver, 24, and Charlie Lee Crunkleton, 23, all of Seville, were set at $10,000 each. The men are charged with taking money and property at knifepoint from Jeffrey Taylor, 18, and Joseph Connor, 19, both from Delaware. The robbery allegedly occurred on SR 40 at the Barberville Speedway turnoff. Siifipioiii; til yMIiitoiiUiit Sentinel Stall DELAND Volusia County grand jury has asked trustees of the State Jnternal Impovement Fund to consider attempting to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to halt construction of a 17fi-foot sky tower on Daytona Beach. The grand jury's request was contained in an interim presentment to Circuit Court Judge Robert Wing-field following an all-day session here thursday.

DELIBERATIONS ON the controver sial Skytower, being constructed at the foot of Main Street pier by Harry Doan who owns the section of ocean frontage, included reports from both the executive director and general counsel for the Aerospace Gets Cape Contract Sentinel Bureau CAPE KENNEDY THE National Aeronautics and Space Administration has elected Aerospace Division, Pan American World Airways of Cocoa Beach, for award of a contract to provide detail engineering and drafting support services at the Kennedy Space Center. This contract will cover effort previously provided by a number of contractors and relates to the Saturn IB and vehicles. Twenty-seven companies submitted proposals for this work. The contract period of performance is May 1, 1970, through April 30, 1971, with provisions to extend the contract in one year increments for four additionals years. Estimated value of the cost-plus-fixed fee contract is $2.5 million for the first vear.

Cur plowed into a deep ditch between Photo by Bernie Bishop) Sillia Pleads Guilty In Gem Theft Scheme Sentinel Bureau TAVARES David Gordon Sillia, returning to Lake County from Las Vegas, to stand trial on a charge of possession of burglar tools lodged against him, along with charges of grand larceny and entering without breaking in 1960, entered a plea of guilty in circuit court Thursday. A presentence investigation was ordered by Judge W. Troy Hall who ordered that Sillia's $10,000 bond could remain in force pending the investigation. THE FORMER jewelry salesman in 1960 proposed to Mrs. Alita Parrish, owner of the Jewelbox in Leesburg, that he "stage" a robbery, place the "stolen" jewelry in a safety deposit box in another city and when she shared the resulting insurance money with him, he would mail her the deposit box key and she could retrieve the jewelry.

Mrs. Parrish informed police of the proposal and agreed with police to go along with the plot. The staged robbery took place but Sillia was taken into custody by police awaiting him outside the store. New Apartment Plan Announced Sentinel Bureau ORMOND BEACH Sunland Retirement community's new high-rise apartment building here is planned for a S'i-acre site on Washington Street just north of the Vofusia County Naional Bank, a corporation spokesman said Thursday. Plans for the building were announced in conjunction with an announcement about a similar project to be built in New Smyrna beach.

Robert Matthews, New Smyrna Beach attorney and secretary of the company, said rezoning of the Ormond Beach site was granted last spring. George Krewson 111 of New Smyrna Beach announced plans for both buildings Wednesday. Association Kiwis Sentinel Bureau LEESBURG The Leesburg Hospital Association Thursday at its annual meeting elected three directors to serve three-year terms, one to succeed Parks Williams who asked not to be renominated. Reelected was Lex Deems. Also elected were W.

G. Tally Jr. and Norwood Locket. Knight. (Sentinel Internal Improvement Fund, according to the presentment.

Jurors also heard a report from State Atty. Steve Boyles, who only Wednesday was granted the right to intervene as a public representative in the suit filed by Tony-Rama Inc. "AS A RESULT of our consideration of this problem," the presentment said, "we find that in a real sense we are representative of the people of Volusia County and as such we recommend that all public agencies charged with the responsibility of representing the public's interest in such matters should persue this representation with vigor. Specifically, we recommend that the trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund of the State of Florida seriously consider the feasibility and advisability of attempting intervention in the litigation." According to the presentment, the grand jury probe into the sky tower, scheduled for completion within a week, is based on the "public's rights or title in and to that land area known as the World's Most Famous Beach ALTHOUGH THE grand jury submitted no other report, several Volusia law enforcement officials were known to have appeared before it during the day. Those known to have testified were Sheriff Edwin Duff, Daytona Beach Police Chief Oscar Folsom and New Smyrna Beach Police Chief Wallace Fer-reira.

DeLand Police Chief Wesley Farmer waited outside the grand jury room but did not go in. Just what the lawmen talked about was not made public but there previously was indication the topic might he continuing narcotics traffic in the county. The grand jury was recessed pending recall on a motion by Boyles, which he said would be made later. "uniform" she wore in the picture inappropriate and felt it damaged the image of women's service groups. The photo and story concerned WAF Lt.

Frances Bellis, a 22-ycar-ofd recent graduate of officers candidate school who is now in a recruiting office in Miami. The local WAC veterans began telephone poll of their members late Wednesday after the picture appeared in a local paper, Mrs. Norman said. The membership voted unanimously by telephone to telegraph their protest to the Pentagon. 1 4 WAC Veterans Protest Picture Showiny WAF Officer Hi Bikini AoVl ski fi-n mtJL mmir inirii rfihlwiif-f irt fig feltWlf A.

Sentinel Bureau DAYTONA BEACH A group of WAC veterans, members of one of the strongest women's veterans' chapters in Florida, have fired off an irate telegram to the Pentagon protesting publication of an Associated Press picture of a Women's Air Force recruiter in a bikini. "It's a beautiful cheesecake pic-lure," said Marge Norman, a member of the local chapter and an officer of the national WAC veterans group. But the WAC vets here found the Launches Youth Symphony Orchestra Thursday morning in Orlando Municipal Auditorium. More than 45,000 youngsters will learn about symphony music before season is over. (Sentinel rholo by Richard Williams) Group of sixth graders from Hiawassce Elementary School were among 2,674 fourth, fifth and sixth graders from seven Orange County elementary schools attending one of the 18 "Concerts for Young People" being given this season by the Florida.