The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • 9

Busing Students Growing Financial Burden For Taxpayers By D. G. LAWRENCE lanllMl TillihitM lurnu TALLAHASSEE The big yellow buses that tlo up traffic twice each school day are a big part of every county school budget and take a significant share of education funding by the state. Rising costs, higher salaries for drivers and the fast growth of Central and South Florida counties Is making bus transportation an ever more burdensome charge to the taxpayers. It could get worse if more counties force busing to achieve numerical Integration as Pinellas has been ordered to do.

In the 1968-69 school year, the lust for which complete figures ure available, the statewide- cost of busing children was $14,779 million. Tho figure of the year just ended, when it is finalized, is expected to be at least $2 million higher. Perhaps another $2 million additional for the 70-71 school busing can be anticipated. Cost of Orange County's busing in 1968-69 was $758,986. The state's share was $386,020, tho county's $372,466.

J. Pope Daird, who has run the sion. The state did not begin subsidizing bus transportation until 1938. On a complicated formula that includes density of population, the road mile-uge in a county, what percentage of unimproved roads the buses must travel, the first subsidy amounted to a range of $01.20 to $43.20 per pupil. Cost of the buses, of course has risen markedly, just as has everything else in the inflation that has gripped the country for a decade.

In 1955, for instance, the standard 66 passenger bus cost $2,900 for the chassis, $2,036 for the body. That is a total of $4,936. Current cost is chassis $3,898, body $2,521, plus delivery $84. 'I hat comes to $6,501. Uusing for Morida children started in 1898 In Duval County with Jacksonville, then the dominant city of the state.

The Duval Board authorized a fleet of horse drawn wagonettes to transport the children. There are no cost figures for that year but in the 1900-01 school year, seven more counties adopted school busing, for a total cost of $3,225.12. Orange was one of them, spending $347.02, Volusia was another at $24.50. Daird fears rising salaries for bus drivers and mechanics and higher fuel and maintenance costs, but his real dread is federally-imposed regulations that will push bus acquisition costs to higher levels. Currently under consideration is a requirement that all seats must have belts by 1974.

"We try to keep up with the regulations, but it is awfully difficult when they keep holding safety meetings in Washington, do not inform most of the states and impose new regulations," he complained. education department's transportation division for nearly 25 years, predicts cost for urban counties will spiral with urbanization. The laws provide only children living at least two miles from the schools merit transportation. Hut the school boards already are cm-powered to make exceptions and bus children from shorter distances if traffic conditions, along the roads they must walk, warrant it. Then too, there was a new attempt to reduce the minimum distance to a mile at the recent legislative ses 0 Die In State Weekend Road Crashe Details Faces Office Seekers Si ft frrf Bassett Padgett HERE IS what a candidate must do besides paying qualifying fees, which, incidentally, go into party treasuries two-thirds to the state executive committees and one third to the county executive committees.

Loyalty oath and qualifying oath pledging support to U.S. and state constitutions certify that he was not a member of another political party within a year, that he has submitted a statement of expenditures made prior to filing for the office and affirming he will not "actively and publicly oppose the election of any opposed member of his party." The back of this form contains a listing of campaign treasurers and deputies and campaign depositories. Orders for payment these forms are used like checks in paying all incurred expenses. Personal checks can not be used. Pre-election report This calls for a detailed listing of all cam Orlandoan Loses Life In Georgia By JAMES BACCHUS Stntlntl SUlf Independence Day weekend officially ended at midnight Sunday with state traffic deaths soaring past predictions, but Central Florida motorists observed a relatively sane holiday.

Traffic claimed 20 lives in Florida during the weekend, prompting Gov. Claude Kirk to say the Independence Day highway slaughter made him ill. TURNPIKE TROOPERS near Orlando indicated traffic was unusually heavy on the Florida Turnpike between Orlando and Miami, but said it was flowing smoothly. Police in Orlando and Winter Park reported only minor accidents, however an Orlando youth was killed in a Georgia accident. Richard Dale Adler, 20, died Saturday when his car struck a bridge on Interstate 75 at Tifton, Ga.

The Valencia Junior College student was returning alone from the International Pop Festival near Atlanta. GEORGIA STATE Patrol troopers said he apparently fell asleep at the wheel. Adler, a resident of Orlando since 1961, was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren W.

Adler, 4212 South Nashville Ave. He was employed by Akers Marine Supply, Inc. The only traffic death in Central Florida was that of Larry Daniel Watson of Catfish Springs near Sanford Friday morning. WATSON, 24, was crushed to death when his truck overturned on SR 419 south of Sanford. Four persons were injured, but none seriously, in a head-on collision at the intersection of SR 436 and Howell Branch Road in Cas-selberry early Sunday morning.

According to Casselberry police William A. Burke 28, 541 W. South Orlando was driving northwest on SR 436 in a southeast bound lane when his car collided head on with one driven by Mrs. Sandra Zimmerman Seawright, 25, 2903 Sanka Drive, Orlando. Burke was treated for minor bruises and a sprained ankle at Florida Sanitarium and Hospital.

He was released Sunday and is being held in Casselberry jail on a reckless driving charge. Burke's wife, Adell Burke, 27, and Mrs. Seawright were listed in satisfactory at Florida San Sunday night. A passenger in Mrs. Seawright's car, Linda Newlands, 23, of Orlando, was in satisfactory condition at Orlando General Hospital.

Halfway House For Emotionally Disturbed To Open Wednesday Maze Of By TOM TWITTY Stntlntl Stilt Candidates who file for public office beginning at noon Tuesday will face a formidable array of forms and detailed bookkeeping of their campaign expenditures for the next year. They will also have to lay cash on the line at the Orange County Clerk's office (or other home counties) amounting to five per cent of the annual salary for the office they seek. And absolutely no refunds. COUNTY commission candidates must fork over $700; county solicitor, $1,050 for the full time post paying $12,000 a year effective Oct. school board, $250; budget commission $60.

There is no filing fee for non-paying elective posts such as fire district boards. The filing period which will separate the "potential" candidates from the real thing will last until July 21. DEPUTY CLERK Oliver R. Chapman who has been placed in charge of the Orange County special "election desk" at the courthouse estimates there will probably be about 50 local candidates of both parties on the ballot exclusive of fire district boards, party committeemen and the like which will be voted on only in their own precincts. Offices up for contest and their present incumbents are: Volusia Jail Melee Ended By Tear Gas By BERME BISHOP Stntlml Staff DELAND Tear gas routed five inmates from the second floor of Volusia County's jail here about noon Sunday after they held a guard hostage for nearly three hours.

Sheriff Edwin Duff said one of the prisoners, Duayne Chevling, 18, Daytona Beach, overpowered jailer Leon Gillespie after he was let out of a cell to make a telephone call. GILLESPIE was roughed up, threatened with a crude knife-like instrument, and shoved in a cell, Duff said. Then Chevling, who was being held on a robbery charge, and four others, unlocked all the cell-blocks and broke jail fixtures and equipment, Duff added. Other prisoners on the second floor apparently refused to take part in the melee, according to the sheriff. Canisters of tear gas were lobbed into the second floor area after other efforts failed to persuade the inmates to surrender and free the jailer.

Duff said the five ripped off fire hose nozzles and used them to smash fixtures. They also damaged the jail floor's automatic cell-control device. ALL FIVE pleaded to come out when the tear gas took effect. Duff said Gillespie was released unharmed. Others involved in the brief rioting were: Clinton Farrel, 20, Freehold, N.

Paul Fasquez, 19, New Haven, Clyde Uptain, 21, Folkston, and John Henry Mullis 18 Ormond Beach. 3 Security Guards Face Burglary Counts MIAMI (UPI) Three security guards face charges of burglarizing a big downtown Miami department store they were hired to protect. In the second such incident in the city within two weeks, police say they caught the three guards hauling off about $1,000 in merchandise from a Jefferson's store on Biscayne Boulevard. WINDBLOWN LOOK Elaine Thompson, Miss Brazil Hamburger Diet Upsets Bonn Beauty MIAMI BEACH (UPI) The week-long Miss Universe beauty contest got underway Sunday and already one of the 64 contestants Mis; Germany is complaining. "We've been getting too many hamburgers," moaned Irene Neuir ann.

"I like hamburgers sometime but not every day for lunch." ALTHOUGH most of the girls hi been here for nearly a week, contest didn't officially open un Sunday, when there was a schedule parade down 13 blocks of Beach and then an official welcoming ceremony across Biscayne Bay in Miami. The contest ends next Saturday, when one of the women will be picked in front of national television to succeed 1969 Miss Universe Gloria Diaz of the Philippines. Today the girls begin rehearsals for the 90 minute television program that has the contestants singing a half-dozen songs and doing several dances. BETWEEN the rehearsals for the television show, the judges some how decide which of the girls they believe is "the prettiest girl in the world." Among this year's contestants are a pair who boast chest measurements of 39 inches. They are Miss Czechslovakia, Kristine Hanazalova, and 'Miss United States, Debbie Shelton.

Kristina claims measurements of 39-23-35 while Debbie boasts a 39-24-36 figure. Before the contest is over if history repeats itself several contestants will get angry at one point and complain about soma aspect of the contest. Contest directors, however, don't seem to mind the complaints and are always delighted to get the extra newspaper space and air time the complaints seem to generate. Winning the contest is worth $25,000. This includes $10,000 in cash, a $10,000 personal appearance contract and a $5,000 mink coat.

(Stlnl rhot if tUtr liout) I Powell Wood paign related expenditures (and collections) for 45 days prior to filing. And the same detailed report is required the first and third Monday of each month preceding the election. After election report this is an additional financial summary which must be filed within 45 days after the election if tha candidate participates in the general election. Final report this must be filed covering financial transactions during the 12 months after the election or by Dec. 3, 1971.

Affidavit of resignation this must be filed by candidates presently holding an office who have resigned to run for another office. Campaign deposit slip this is a letterhead size form itemizing where all the items in the deposit came from. The Clerk's office has also had prepared a summary of election laws and a state prepared booklet is available on campaign expenses. have been approved by a qualified psychiatrist. REGISTERED as a non-profit organization, the 20-member board of directors is presently engaged in a fund raising campaign.

The mortgage on the attractive Spanish house is $55,000 and Dr. Mullen estimates it will cost more than $3,000 a month to run. Parents or persons sponsoring the resident's stay at La Amistad will pay $60 a week. Several church and civic organizations have offered support with the idea of offering scholarships. WEDNESDAY, between 5 and 8 p.m.

city officials and the public will be shown the building and told about its purpose. A similar open day is planned July 15. Dr. Muller said since so many kids end up in juvenile homes, "I am hoping La Amistad proves such a success that more people will come forward and help us start another one." He added that the mimimum stay at the halfway house will be three months; "this way we hope to reach out to these adolescents and bring out the good in them." SANDY AND Clements Pickett County commission district 2, Paul Pickett; district 4, Sanford W. Padgett.

School board district 1, Louise Breeze (not running); district 2, Lowell Clements; district 3, Raymond Bassett. County solicitor Rom Powell, State representatives all eight members, Leonard V. Wood, Cecil L. Bothwell, W. E.

Fulford, David L. Lindsey, William D. Gorman, Lewis S. Earle, E. Pope Bassett, and William L.

Gibson. Budget Commission district 1, W. J. Buning; district 3, Hazel B. Johnson; district 5, John B.

Langley. None of the judicial offices, state senate seats and elective county department seats are up for grabs until 1973. The recent legislature passed a bundle of laws tightening the "who-gave-it, who-got-it" rules. Most of the paper work concerns campaign accounting. rlanbo FLLCDITS Monday, July 6, 1970 8 A Disney Visitors Reach 320,000 Despite intermittent thunder-storms over the long holiday weekend, visitors to Walt Disney World Preview Center kept turnstile counters busily clicking.

So busy in fact, that an excited official announced Sunday "we've just hit the visitor." HE WAS not referring to physical assault, but to the number of people who have toured the center since it opened Jan. 16. Over the three-day holiday period an estimated 9,000 in and out of state visitors toured the facility 15 miles southwest of Orlando at Interstate 4 and SR 535. Focal point of the presentation in the preview center is a detailed 625-square foot model of the "Vacation Kingdom" showing lakes, woodlands and man-made facilities. The theater presentation includes four 12 minute films every hour, which give a glimpse of what Phase I $3G5 million vacation kingdom will look like when completed late next year.

New Parly May Name lis Senate Candidate MIAMI (UPI) The liberal Florida New Party, a third party movement born during the presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, may file its own candidate for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Spessard Holland. Party Chairman Robert Kunst said the New Party would nut throw its support to former State Rep.

Joel Daves of West Palm Beach, the only peace candidate in the race. Sentmtl By LEIGH STANDING Stntinel Staff Central Florida's first halfway house for emotionally disturbed adolescents will open Wednesday. La Amistad (Spanish for friendship) is the brainchild of Dr. W. J.

Muller, a Winter Park psychiatrist. PRIMARY object of La Amistad at Canton and Knowles Avenues in Winter Park is for the youths to play a major role in the workings of the house. Cooking, shopping and overall domestic duties will, said Dr. Muller, "give the kids a sense of family-style living." La Amistad, designed to accommodate six boys and six girls between the ages of 16 and 22, is open to statewide entrants, providing they Kirk Speaks Today To Orange GOP Unit A talk by Gov. Claude Kirk will highlight today's dinner meeting of the Orange County Republican Executive Committee, according to Dr.

jack Beattie, chairman. Beattie said the governor will speak to Central Florida GOP workers at 8 p.m. in the Villa Nova restaurant in Winter Park. He is scheduled to discti.ss the recent legislative session in Tallahassee as well as issues in forthcoming election primaries. PlXiet byWohl So wfsw Sun Hou hap rme 7-6 VAr AL WILLIAMSON, RESIDENT PARENTS At ld Amistad Halfway House.