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urf in Loses s. Interest In Federal Post A ri.i. hi ll ft, "5 rinnioStntuul 4M V-V't Job Offers Fail To Stir Enthusiasm FORT LAUDERDALE Republican State Chairman William Murfin said Friday he is Retting less interested in the possibilities of going to Washington to take a post in the administration of President-elect Nixon. Murfin said he has talked about several jobs in the new Nixon administration but so far has found nothing he likes. "I WON'T go just for the sake of going," he said.

The chairman said earlier there was a 50-50 chance that he and top Nixon aides would be able to mutually agree on a Washington position. Top Republicans have said it's virtually certain Murfin will resign and the party will elect Orlando citrusman Duke Crittenden to replace him. Crittenden Monday was named Orange County's state committeeman qualifying him for the state chairmanship. Murfin's resignation had been expected at Saturday's meeting of the GOP State Executive Committee meeting here, but some Republicans hinted he might prefer to attend Nixon's inauguration as a state chairman and then resign. ri.

WW I i 1 1, ,1, i i ft STEWARDESS JOYCE ANN JERNIGAN (CENTER) AT PRESS CONFERENCE IN MIAMI After being held at knifepoint by hijacker. Other stewardesses on plane were Donna G. Steiger (left) and Sandra Kay Gipson Knife Wielding Hijacker Identified Then he added: "I hate to tell you this, but we're going to Cuba." Thinking the young man was joking, the 21-year-old stewardess said "Oh no we're not." MISS JERNIGAN said she then heard a "snick," and the hijacker put the point of an eight-inch switchblade knife in her ribs. "It was terrible," she said. "He warned me that if someone called his bluff, he'd have to kill me but that I wouldn't feel a thing." A short time later, the pilot of the Boeing 727, Capt.

James E. Hord, headed the plane carrying 72 persons to Nassau toward the south. When asked by the Miami Air Traffic Control Center to explain the change in course, Capt. Hord replied that "I guess we need Consolidated FCC Awards Channel 9 It A Saturday, -Jan. 11, 1969 Gulf Land Buys Set For Study ItnMnil Burttu KISSIMMEE Osceola County has called a joint meeting of area planners to discuss recent land purchases by Gulf American Corp.

in Osceola, Orange and Brevard counties. Osceola County Planning Director Al Lewis told Gulf American, "No change in present subdivision regulations will be allowed for Gulf American or anyone else until a joint meeting is held with planners from our surrounding counties that may be affected by what we do here." LEWIS HOPES to meet with representatives of the Orange-Seminole-Osceola Joint Planning Commission, East Central Florida Regional Planning Council and the Florida Land Sales Board. Gulf American in the past few months has either purchased or entered in agreements which, if completed and deeds transferred, would make it sole owner of almost half the available land mass of Osceola County sixth largest county in Florida, At president Gulf American and General Acceptance Corp, are planning a merger which would be followed by the purchase of the 260,000 acre Deseret Farms the Mormon ranch, with 181,300 acres in Osceola County alone for $100 million. GULF AMERICAN already owns 25,000 acres in the west section of the county and says it plans to buy at least 100,000 or more acres in the south part near Lake Marian. That would make its Osceola County holdings total more than 300,000 acres.

Gulf American contacted the Osceola County Commission recently about building a complete city near Lake Marian on a section. The firm indicated it would build a core city with lots ranging from normal city size up to five-acre tracts on the outlying areas. It was in these five-acre tracts the question came up Gulf American did not want to be required to pave 26-foot-wide roadbeds in an area which will not be developed for several years. OSCEOLA SUBDIVISION regulations require the roadbeds in new subdivisions be put in by the developer. Gulf American said it will be seven years before it develops the five-acre tracts and wants to wait until then to pave the roads for dedication to the county.

"I don't think we should make any definite decision about allowing any changes to be made until we have had a chance to meet with other area planners," Lewis said. He said any decision Osceola makes will have a definite effect on the rest of Central Florida during this period of rapid growth and huge land speculation deals. Poseidon Due Third Test CAPE KENNEDY tfl A third test flight of Navy's multiple-warhead Poseidon missile has been scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, the Navy announced Friday. clearance to Havana." IT WAS the second hijacking of a U.

S. plane this year both of them Eastern jets and the seventh hijacking of an Eastern plane since 1961. There were 17 hijackings of U.S. planes last year. Purdue University records show a student named Ronald T.

Bohle attended one of its branches at Michigan City, said he last saw his course. Bohle's father, contacted in Oichigan City, said he last saw his son two days ago when he left the house saying he was going to the laundry. MISS JERNIGAN I said the hijacker, who held her at knife point outside the cockpit while another Atne Gets Mod will be presented to the commission in a March 3 hearing. Parti cipants in Consolidated Nine are Orange Nine Central Nine Florida Heartland Television and TV-9 Inc. Other applicants are Mid-Florida, which has been operating it under interim authority since 1957, and Comint.

Kennedy Heads Pallbearers At Baggs9 Funeral MIAMI (UPI)-Scn. Edward J. Kennedy headed an imposing list of friends serving as pallbearers Friday at the funeral of William C. Baggs, editor of the Miami News. The divergent backgrounds of the hundreds who gathered on a rainy morning in the downtown Trinity Episcopal Church was a fitting reminder that Baggs numbered thousands of friends in many corners of the world ranging from panhandlers to heads of state.

HIS HUMANITARIAN writings and activities for peace and justice won him numerous awards, including nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. The 48-year-old editor, one of the nation's best known newspapermen, died Tuesday evening of 1 pneumonia and complications brought on by influenza. Private burial services were held following the funeral. Baggs' newspaper, the Miami News, published only one edition Friday so that members of his staff could attend the funeral, THE EDITOR is survived by his widow, Joan, and two sons, Craig Calhoun Baggs and Robert Maho-ney Baggs, State Urban Renewal Plan Wins Approval By D. G.

LAWRENCE Jtnllntl Slitf SARASOTA Voluntary participation of all Florida cities and counties in federal urban renewal projects was approved by a legislative committee Friday. Lawmakers and top state officials, including Gov. Claude Kirk and most of the Cabinet, were here enjoying the hospitality of the city's chamber of commerce at the 11th annual legislative weekend. SEN. ROBERT Shevin's urban affairs committee was the only interim legislative group to meet.

It approved eight bills. Only Sen. Bill Gunter, Orlando, Voted against urban renewal. Shevin described the bill as "enabling legislation to permit our own communities to get their share of federal money." FOR A county or city to participate, a majority of electors would have to favor it in a referendum. Under current state law, communities can participate in federal urban programs only under special local legislative acts, Hillsborough and Dade Counties have been authorized to do so.

Under the bill approved by Shevin's committee community officials could issue bonds to provide the money to match federal funds if the voters approved overall participation. OTHER BILLS approved were creation of a department of community affairs to be headed by the new lieutenant governor; a stop and frisk law to permit police to question and search citizens they feel are acting suspiciously, and a constitutional amendment proposal to permit, private industry to join with government in rehabilitating blighted areas. PIXieS by Wo. WHAT WALL asm? stewardess informed the pilot of his demands, said the young man told her his name was "Ronnie" and that he was from Indianapolis. "He said he was a communist, and that he loved his state, and that he loved Russia and he loved Cuba," she recalled.

When he left the plane at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, stewardess Sandra Gipson said the hijacker turned and said: "He hoped we enjoyed Cuba and that he was going to have a steak dinner." THE PLANE was allowed to return to Miami Thursday evening with the crew and the passengers were returned on another flight from Varadero at 12:07 a.m. Friday. Dorr Field Future Vague After Visit ARCADIA The future of Dorr Field either as a center for mentally retarded or. a minimum security prison remained vague Friday after a visit to the facility by members of house committees on state institutions and mental health. The legislators' opinions ranged from sharply for or against to non-committal on phasing the field out as a retardation center.

PRIOR TO the tour, it was learned an evaluation report prepared by the American Association on Mental Deficiency was strongly critical of the facility. The report states, "Sunland's isolation from communi resources and services will seriously impair its effectiveness as an adult training center. It is remote from rehabilitation services, adult a tion programs, sheltered workshops, industry, universities and medical schools." The report said a decision must be made whether to spend money to renovate and equip Dorr Field or seek other facilities. It also found a sizeable segment of its patients to be currently psychotic and, on the basis of psychiatric examination, recommended they be returned to mental hospitals. REP.

TED Randall, of Fort Myers, said there is a bill before the senate to repeal 1965 legislation which switched Dorr from the Division of Mental Health to the Division of Mental Retardation. Switching it back would enable the Division of Corrections to use it as a minimum security prison. Randall would not comment on the present use of Dorr Field or its effectiveness as a prison facility. Palm Beach legislators, Reps. Ray Mouldrey and Dave Clark, favored retaining Dorr Field as a Sunland facility, saying it is too valuable to lose.

MIAMI (UPI) The acne scarred young man who pulled an eight-inch switchblade knife on a stewardess Thursday and diverted a Nassau-bound Eastern Airlines jet to Cuba was identified by the FBI Friday as Ronald T. Bohle. Bohle was identified by the FBI as a 21-year-old resident of Michigan City, and a part time student at a branch of Purdue University. WHEN THE young hijacker sat down next to stewardess Joyce Ann Jernigan shortly after the Eastern jet left Miami for Nassau Thursday afternoon, he told her he carried two big hates in his heart "the United States and Eastern Airlines." 2 Planning Bills Asked By Council By VERNE TIETJEN Stnllntl Staff Two state bills to assure coordinated planning and development in Central Florida, along with improved methods for obtaining population estimates, were urged Friday by the technical committee of the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council. The committee recommended: A GENERAL enabling act permitting creation of various planning and zoning boards without special act, as now required.

A bill enabling formation of city, county and intra-county public corporations or authorites empowered -to deal with airport, sewage complexes and other problems of area scope. Both would facilitate what planners see as a critical Florida need for "compact urban development" rather than "urban sprawl." GORDON D. Wagner, executive director of the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council, pointed out that millions in taxpayers' money could be saved by avoiding spread-out development calling for extra and extended roads, sewers, schools and other facilities. The group called for a work session with University of Florida officials, designated by the Census Bureau to estimate present and projected area populations on which all basic planning hinges. Federal grants also depend on population figures, the group pointed out.

Committee members said they felt University of Florida figures so far were "ultra conservative." Stnllntl Washington Buruu WASHINGTON The Federal i ations Commission (FCC) said Friday it has given Consolidated Nine Inc. interim authority to operate Television Channel 9 at Orlando pending final award of the channel permit. The FCC action, subject to of an agreement for all "regular applicants" for the channel to participate in the interim operation, will for the time being take control of Channel 9 away from Joseph Brcchner's Mid-Florida Television Corp. CONSOLIDATED NINE, the commission said, can begin operations on the channel "as soon as it can assume control." However, it ordered the firm to submit for approval within 30 days an agreement to lease the facilities from Mid-Florida as well as an agreement by Mid-Florida members to participate in the interim operation. i The commission rejected a bid by Mid-Florida to require retention of the existing WFTV staff, assumption of a labor contract with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers covering 40 employes, use of tower being built for joint use by WFTV and WDBO-TV, Channel 6.

It also rejected Mid-Florida's request that a rate of return be fixed for investments and loans, with remaining profits going to civic, educational and charitable institutions. FCC SAID it felt conditions should not be imposed on the interim operator. FCC said it hoped the interim operator would "keep job loss and dislocation to a'minimum." It said it was "encouraged by a Consolidated Nine statement that "it may well retain most if not all of the present staff." Consolidated Nine is composed of foi of the six regular applicants whose bids for Channel 9 AA.