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The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • 37

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Edition Of Your Complete Newspaper 7Vie Orlando Sentinel Sunday, Aiifput 9, 1970 Sewer, Water Rates Raised By Apopka City Council Sewer and water rates were raised Wednesday by Apopka City Council to costs recommended following the recent public hearing. City fathers say the new rates will not cover new construction, but will allow the city to meet costs of operating both sewer and water plant facilities and continue the present schedule of upkeep and repair. Rates approved at the council meeting are: mum apartment houses, minimum $4.20 each apartment; commercial, minimum $0.00 plus 20 cents per 1,000 gal. water used over 10 million gallons with a maximum of motels, hotels, tourist homes, office buildings, laundries, commercial rales; churches, residential rates; schools, $15 plus 10 cents per pupil no maximum; hospital, $15 plus 25 cents per room no maximum. OUTSIDE CITY Residential, minimum apartment houses, minimum $5.20 each apartment.

Commercial and all others fixed by city council at time of application. An inspection fee of $10 will be charged for any disconnection as a result of buildings being moved or demolished. NEW WATER RATES INSIDE CITY LIMITS Residential Minimum 1M-5M .50 per 1000 6M-10M .25 per 1000 11M-100M .20 per 1000 over 100 .15 per 1000 gal. COMMERCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL Minimum 1M-5M .50 per 1000 6M-10M .35 per 1000 11M-20M .30 per 1000 21M-30M .25 per 1000 31M-100M .20 per 1000 over 100M .15 per 1000 gal. OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS Residential and Commercial Minimum 1-M-5M .90 per 1000 gal, 6M-10M .35 per 1000 11M-100M .20 per 1000 over 100 .15 per 1000 gal.

Million. NEW SEWER RATES INSIDE CITY Residential, minimum agricultural, mini- 'J- Ordi inance Junke On rs 'r nm, 'Z Almost in I fit mil 'nz4 IV "4 n'linmtiifttiiinmiiiMiiiHi jC I Apopka Police Chief Ray Size-more's handcuffs the pair which hampered him from doing anything about junked automobiles were removed this week by city council. The first reading of a new junked -or wrecked property ordinance was read by the council. The second and final reading of the ordinance, which Sizemore requested months ago, will be read at the council's next meeting, Aug. 16.

CITY POLICEMEN will be able to assure removal of unsightly junked cars by giving the owner and property owner 10-days notice. Cars on public property as well as those on private land will be removed. The ordinance protects officers from trespassing charges when acting under the provision, and makes it a crime to obstruct an officer or interfere with his actions when trying to enact the rule. COUNCIL also passed at the Wednesday meeting an ordinance authorizing the licensing of peddlers and itinerant type salesmen. Permits issued to such solicitors will be temporary, but the ordinance 4 CHIEF RAY SIZEMORE i i i i i ma nanus iiccu nrflllidlf ff fl.A I.AAM.A0 irw i 'mi rMm Permits will be issued only after the; applicant provides local references and has been satisfactorily checked hv the office of the citv rlerk as being known to be honest.

All other licensing provisions will apply to the roving salesmen. 'Everything Is Beautiful' At Lake Fairview Park, where hundreds of area families, teen-agers and small children enjoy the sparkling white sand beach, group of admiring boys lift their oars and delay rowboat voyage for lingering view of sunning beauties. Swimming, skiing and boating are great sports on huge West Orange lake, and flocks of sun-worshippers are seen lounging there daily. See Page 2 for more Lake Fairview beauty. (Staff Photo by Ed Stout) Rom Powell To Speak To Apopka CofC Rom Powell, Orange County solicitor, will be guest speaker at the Apopka Area Chamber of Commerce kaffeeklatchat8 a.m.

Wednesday in the First Federal Savings and Loan Association Community Room. news Post To Observe Birthday Briefs 4 '4 am par value and the firm will deal in equipment. Incorporators are George J. Traywick, G. Malone Traywick, both of Winter Garden, and John H.

Rhodes Orlando. Citrus Growers Garden, will speak on "Hand Harvesting A Thing of the Past?" from a.m. on Aug. 19. Motorists Urged To Hear Pickens To BuY Ta9s Soon be noted as American Legion Early Birds.

Membership in the all women's post is open to all honorably discharged veterans. The post is composed of women from all branches of the U. S. armed services, including those who served in World Wars I and II, Korea and Meetings aro held the second Wednesday of each month. Equipment Company Chartered By State The Traywick Equipment Corp.

has received its charter papers from Secretary of State Tom Adams. The firm is located at 1045 Vineland Road in Winter Garden. Authorized stock is 100 shares at no ROM POWELL To talk about his office Powell, a 1957 graduate of Dartmouth College, and a native of Atlanta, received his law degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1963. Powell, who was admitted to the Florida bar in 1963, will discuss before the chamber meeting the operation and duties of the county solicitor's office. The solicitor, his wife and three sons reside in Winter Park.

"Powell is one of our most interesting speakers to date," chamber president Jack Drummond said. Drummond urged both old and new members to attend. Earl K. Wood, Orange County tax collector, today urged all motorists to purchase auto tags as quickly as possible in order to avoid the inconvenience of long lines the last week to tag sales. West Orange County residents may purchase their tags at the Winter Garden Tag Agency located at 1055 S.

Dillard Street in Winter Garden. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Wood said. Curtis Pickens, production manager, Roper Brothers Growers, Winter Garden, will be a featured speaker at the forthcoming 37th Annual Citrus Growers Institute to be held at Camp McQuarrie Aug.

17-20. Pickens has chosen as his topic, Aerial Sprays Are Doing the Job For Us," and will speak from p.m. Aug. 19. In addition, George M.

Howard, Southern Fruit Distributors, Winter JACK DRUMMOND Urges attendance The 24th anniversary of Marion Clark Phillips Post 227 All Women's American Legion will be celebrated Wednesday at the post home, 4800 Deauville Drive, Pine Hills. Post commander Claudia Triola said the birthday party will be held in conjunction with the King Pinners dinner of the male auxiliary of Post 227. DINNER will be served at 6:30 p.m. Entertainment, door prizes and birthday cake will be included in the party. Mrs.

Triola said the post's membership drive officially will open at the event, and all legionnaires paying their 1971 membership dues will receive a special gift and Jaycees To Seek New Members The West Orange Jaycees are launching a membership drive and Jerry Baker, first vice president of the organization is leading the 1970 recruitment activities. Assisting Baker in the drive are team captains Gerald Brantley and Dale Morgan. DESIGNED FOR young men between the ages of 21-35, the West Orange Jaycees are centered around leadership training through service to the community. The West Orange Jaycees last year had 53 members, president John Terrell said, and the goal thins is for 60 members. ff Fire -Ban Efforts Pushed I 1 (protecting groves from freezing weather) just as well without smoking up the atmosphere," Pickett said.

No method of disposing of the old crossties has been found by railroad officials. However, Pickett said the injunction remains in effect and permits the county to instruct the railroad on how to remove the ties. The ties, which burned for two miles along the tracks, were stacked in preparation for burning from Orlando to Wildwood. New ties had been set down on the tracks and old ones were to be burned in sequence all the way to Wildwood. After seeing dense smoke from fires pointed out by GilHam, County Commission Chairman Paul Pickett asked Circuit Court Judge Claude Edwards for an injunction.

Within a matter of hours, the railroad was ordered to smother the fires and refrain from burning the remaining creosote-soaked tie piles. County ordinances should be ready in about three weeks, according to Pickett. The new regulations will ban smudgepot burning as well as tire fires. "THERE ARE a lot of heaters available that will do the job Crosstie burning near Apopka last week has prompted Orange County officials to speed up efforts to enact ordinances banning air- polluting fires of any kind, including burning of old tires in citrus groves during winter freezes. A Wednesday hearing into the crosstie burning by Seaboard Coastline Railroad was postponed when railroad officials agreed to cooperate with commissioners.

APOPKA VOLUNTEER Fire Department Chief Roy Gilliam initiated action against the burning by calling The Orlando Sentinel. CHIEF ROY GILLIAM He started tie-quenching.

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