The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • 55

CBEXJUOGCO 4 1 nn it fi'im II KF i JETcifion 0 Your Complete NcWSpapCr We Oranto SenfiW SERVING PINE HILLS, ROBINSWOOD, PLYMOUTH, ORLO VISTA, LOCKHART, APOPKA, WINTER GARDEN, OCOEE, WINDERMERE, RIVERSIDE ACRES, LONDONDERRY HILLS, NORMANDY SHORES, MEADOWBROOK ACRES, CLARCONA Sunday, August 3, 1969 Apopka Fire Insurance Rate Goes Down weeK a 45-hour course In water rescue work. WITHIN THE last 18 months the city has added two 750-gallon high pressure pumpers to its equipment. It is these machines, with fogging capability, that enable the squad to extinguish fires with more efficiency and even with greatly reduced water damage. Hurst said the city had also put one fireman on full time and had appropriated money in other ways under advice of Gilliam and Walters to make Apopka's the best volunteer fire department in the state. Hurst said, it was his personal opinion, without consultation with other members of the council, that these and other city improvements have been and will be made without making necessary any increase in tax millage.

caught the ceiling when the Apopka equipment arrived. The house with historic value was saved. Gilliam estimates the damage is comparatively small. Outlying properties like Pirie Estate have an annual contract with the fire department which entitles them to fire department service. Gilliam said the insurance authorities had assured him that property owners outside the city holding these contracts would later enjoy a reduction on fire insurance rates.

One good feature of the Apopka squad is that it consists largely of young men. Every one of them had some special training in fire fighting. Milton Hill has just returned from a course of instruction given by the state of Ocala. Three other firemen finished this sification has been justified. Hurst said the city had attempted to spend money wisely in improving its fire fighting equipment and said a good part of the credit was due to the good advice given the city by Gilliam, and by Commissioner C.

M. (Mac) Walters, himself a volunteer fireman and the councilman immediately responsible for fire department affairs. Some, in discussing the happy development, said the recognition was well deserved by the Apopka squad. They cited their performance early Wednesday morning as an example. At 1:03 a.m.

Wednesday a call came in of a fire at Winonah Cottage on the Pirie Estate, a distance of approximately three miles. Of the 25 men members of the squad, 21 responded to the call, Gilliam said. By VIRGIL CONNOR Good news was received at City Hall last week when Mayor Leonard M. Hurst got a letter from Florida Inspection and Rating Bureau stating the fire protection classification in Apopka had been changed from a former N.B. 8 to N.

B. 7. This represents a substantial reduction in fire insurance rates on property in the city Hurst said. Some calculations are under way at the moment to estimate or "make an educated guess" (to quote Fire Chief Leroy F. Gilliam) of just how much will be saved by Apopka residents and business houses due to this development.

INSURANCE PEOPLE said the city should be congratulated for improving their fire defenses to the point that this change in clas- City Fair Funds Vill Beautify Apopka Fair Booth Committee has set aside $5,000 for a beautification project within the city, Mayor Leonard M. Hurst has announced. A representative group from all who had participated in fair booth work over the many years the fund has accumulated met to discuss disposal of the fund, Hurst said. The money will be spent, he said, for purchase of landscaping plants for beautification of city parks and of areas along U. S.

441 passing through town. The city parks department has an appropriation of $16,000 and three men working. Under this appropriation and the parks department, the WG Board Recommends Annexation CM. (Mac) Walters WINONAH COTTAGE was built in last century of long leaf yellow pine and is the kind of material contingent upon the annexation of the property adjoining to the north and fronting on SR 50. Emily Keller seconded the motion and the board voted unanimously for approval.

JIM NORRIS of Mid Western Camp Grounds gave a presentation of the proposed mobile home park, almost an exact duplicate of a park in Indianapolis." "We have tried to apply a plan, which makes for a spacious clean park we try to supply everything for the people including lawn 1 By MARVIN COHEN Staff Writer The Winter Garden Planning Advisory Board recommended a peti-t i from Mid Western Camp Grounds for annexation be approved provided the property to the north of the proposed mobile home park is also brought into the city. The proposed site is located approximately 660-feet south of SR 50 and west of the proposed extension of Park Avenue. DAVE TAYLOR, representing the planning and consulting firm of Milo Smith and Associates, Tampa, reported to the board by phone that he had reviewed the proposal and the problem, difficult to resolve. He said that the firm felt the city, at this point, is going a little too far with "leap frog" annexation, as this property is not contiguous to the city. The question involves whether or not the property between the city and the proposed mobile home park would someday become part of the city.

The term "leap frog annexation" is used to describe the method cities often jump boundaries with the intention of later annexing the areas in between. Board member Lew Warden moved that the board recommend that the area in question be annexed and approved for the use stipulated, City, County To Join Forces Mayor Leonard M. Hurst has announced that the city council and county commissioners, through their chairman Paul Pickett, have joined forces to handle the drainage problem on Christiana Street. Conditions on Christiana Street, he said, has been holding up for some months a large paving program which the city has planned. County and city crews will do the work using county and city equipment, he said.

Orange County Water Advisory Board, Hurst said, has appropriated $24,000 for drainage pipe; the county will furnish brick for manholes. The city will furnish part of the labor and most of the heavy equipment, except for a dragline excavating machine which will be furnished by the county. Fire Destroys Hay Barn Fire caused by lightning destroyed a barn filled with 14-tons of hay owned by James A. Grifin, of Winter Garden, near Old Winter Garden Road in Park Ridge recently during a fierce thunder storm. The Ocoee Volunteer Fire Department responded at 3:16 p.m.

and reported the fire under control in less than an hour. The Orlo Vista Volunteer Fire Department assisted. LeRoy F. Gilliam that makes a quick fire. The fire had started on the front porch, had burned through the floor and had maintenance and recreational facilities," Norris said.

The company officials spoke of attracting high-income construction personnel from the Disney World large project to another. "We expect some of these supervisory personnel to be with us for several years," Norris said. HE EXPLAINED that his firm would pay for the extension of the water and sewer services to the property. The city is to maintain the systems once they are installed. Moving To Jones nou" caid, "It will always be flexible looking to the future to changing property values.

"As a whole our plan is quite s'milar to the way the city is already la'd out. We've made provisions for apartment building areas and mobile home areas," Reitenour said. "Our main interest is for the future, to set aside the residential and commercial areas," he said, "in order to keen the areas from a fcouxse, jjrhlcJj bsmi tQ wty- THE PARK is to provide 350 spaces or concrete pads, seven to an acre, roads, laundry facilities, recreation facilities including pool, tennis courts and a putting green. If the plans are finally Improved by the city council, Norris said the mobile home park would be in operation in July 1970. The park, according to Norris, will be operated under strict rules and regulations to be signed by each tenant to help control any undesirable element.

Apopka Will Open Road Bids Bids for resurfacing a number of Apopka streets and for the construction of a detention and aeration tank are scheduled to be opened at the city council meeting Wednesday. Mayor Leonard Hurst said the cost of the paving, expected to be under way by the middle of the month, will be borne totally by the city. There will be no adjacent property owner participation, as in the case of paving projects which are now in course of preparation, the mayor said. FUNDS, totalling $25,000, have been set aside from the 1968 public improvement bonds to take care of the resurfacing. Estimates of cost projected by city engineers is $26,978, with the extra funds coming from the same source.

Streets to be resurfaced, as published in Sentinel West some months ago, are Magnolia, from Hawthorne to Forest Avenue; First Street, from Lake to Park Avenue; Caldwell Street from Lake to Wells; and Central Avenue from First to Fourth Streets. The half-million gallon detention and aeration tank will be constructed at the city's Apopka Heights well THE IMPROVEMENT has two purposes Hurst says. One is to aerate the water from the well to rid it of its hydrogen sulfide gas, which gives it an disagreeable odor. Ridding the water of the gas will also eliminate some other minerals absence of which makes the water more palatable for drinking and cooking purposes. The other purpose of the tank is to increase the amount of water carried at all times in above-ground storage.

The city has above ground storage at the present time in three other separate locations. Addition of this facility will increase this capacity to 650,000 gallons. It was urgently recommended by the Florida Inspection and Rating Bureau, who sets insurance rates, Hurst said. Youth Attend Eustis Forum Seven youths from the First Baptist Church of Winter Garden attended the leadership assembly at Lake Yale in Eustis last week, according to the Rev. K.

Fay DeSha, pastor. They are Phyllis Jane Hays, Bill Turnbull, Steve Hartsfield, Diane Clements, Jennifer Bruce, Debbie Bakemeyer, and Brenda DeSha. Norris has obtained approval for easement for the extension of Park Avenue south to the property line from the owner of the property to the north of the proposed mobile hame park. Norris pointed out that each space would have an individual water meter although the mobile home park would pay all water bills. Trash and refuse pickup would be on an individual basis for each space.

Total cost of improvements was estimated by Norris at $800,000, exclusive of the cost of the land. Plan happen without zoning policies. The idea is make Apopka a better place to live." AS SCON as hearings are completed and individual problems worked out, the city council will adopt the necessary ordinances to establish the zoning policies. The zoning board and the comprehensive zoning plan was the result of a plan originally proposed by Mayor Leonard Hurst in the last jc ampaign. 1 news Briefs city will assume responsibility for taking care of the beautification projects once they are planted and in place.

Hurst said matching funds for city beautification can be obtained under Federal Grant 702. He says he is working on this and hopes within the next few months to announce the city will have authorization for additional fund of $15,000 an for beautification. 23 Applications Received Twenty-three applications have been received by city hall for the job of chief of police which is about to be vacated by Ralph Jones. No interviews have been scheduled. Applications have come from as far away as Iowa and Bloomington, Mo.

Within the next 10 days, the applications will be combed thoroughly by the mayor and council members, assisted by Chief Jones. The field will be narrowed to three or five who seem to be best qualified and then the interviews will begin, with the view of hiring the new chief. Mayor Leonard Hurst said both he and the council would be greatly influenced by the judgment of Jones. Football Players Will Meet Coach Bill Spoone has announced that all boys planning to play football for Maynard Evans High School this year should report to the football field Monday at 7:30. This will be an organizational meeting and the junior varsity as well as the varsity boys should attend.

All new boys in the community who are planning to come out for football are also urged to come to this meeting and get acquainted with their Trojan teammates. Physical examinations will be given Monday night with the cost of the examination $2. Football practice will officially begin August 15. Cola Gives Service Award Lyle Wolfe is proud of his 20-year service award he received last week from The Coca Cola Foods Division (formerly Minute Maid) at Ply- mouth. Former Maynard Evans High teacher- gives Fred Reed, distributive education coordinator a coordinators of cooperative education are in the hand in moving equipment.

Students from Evans and process of moving operations to Jones High School, other Orlando high schools will be at Jones High for the new vocational technical center in the Orlando vocational programs next year, area. Fred Sibert, diversified training coordinator Council To Review New Apopka Zoning zoning board is an advisory group that makes recommendation to the city council. In the past the city spot zoned on individual requests. "The city has outgrown this method of zoning sometime ago and it has been a recurring problem ever Reitenour said. "We- feel the zoning is critically needed because of anticipated growth of the area," he said.

SPEAKING about the plan. Reite-f A comprehensive zoning plan for the city of Apopka has been accepted by the city council subject to final approval at the council meeting Wednesday. "We've been a little more than a year in the planning stage," George Reitenour, chairman of the planning and zoning board said. REITENOUR SAID the group was all set to go before the council and present the plan. The planning and.