The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 12

AMTRAK Initial Stop In Kissimmee Orlando Area Briefs will also be on hand to sell hot dogs for 10 cents and soft drinks for 5 cents. -v- The new Denn John Middle SchoolBand will also be on hand for the old-time celebration from 1:30 to 3 p.m. according to Bethune. Kissimmee officials made a strong pitch to land the Amtrak stop when railroad officials decided to locate a terminal within the county. The downtown depot has now been refurbished to handle the stop.

Commissioners George Gant, Jim Dyer, Dale Lewis and John Spencer, Kissimmee Police Chief Jimmie Watford and Kissimmee Fire Chief Aarlo Lawrence are among the many local dignitaries planning to arrive in Kissimmee on the first Amtrak train to stop at the refurbished depot. CHAMBER OFFICIALS also will take part, including vice president of community development Sam Lupfer, and from the bicentennial committee co-chairman Helen Thomas and secretary Julia Sharpless. Two downtown merchants also will attend Harry Lowenstein and Harold Bethune. A short program will be held at the depot when the train makes its first stop. An Amtrak representative from Jacksonville will speak along with Clemons and Kissimmee Osceola County Chamber of Commerce president Bob Makinson.

Spearheading the plans for the ceremonies is the chamber. The Kissimmee-St. Cloud a service, Autotrak, at the Poinciana location. GAC properties had agreed to make the necessary land available for i i tracks and parking cars, In honor of the first stop, Osceola County dignitaries will catch the train in Orlando and will disembark at the Kissimmee stop, the closest to Walt Disney World, at approximately 2 p.m. Osceola County commission chairman Mack McClain and Commissioner Lin Boulineau, Kissimmee Mayor J.

C. demons and By peggy Mclaughlin Sentinel Star Staff I I MMEE Ceremonies marking the inaugural stop by Amtrak in downtown Kissimmee are scheduled this afternoon. L. A. "Skip" Bafalis announced on Nov.

14 the Amtrak stop location in Osceola County had been moved from Poinciana to Kissimmee. THE DECISION to change the stop location was made, Bafalis said, when Amtrak abandoned plans to provide an auto-train Cartoonist Given, John Young Award Roy Crane, creator of the internationally syndicated "Buz Sawyer" and "Captain Easy" comic strips, received the Orlando Chamber of Commerce's John Young Award at "the chamber's 6 2nd annual, dinner, meeting Thursday night at Sheraton Tow-; ers. The award is presented each year to an individual who has distinguished himself and brought national attention to the Orlando area. Crane has lived in the area since 1938. J.

Blair Culpepper, president of the Winter Park Federal. Savings Teacher Vote Down Pact School Board Sentinel gtar Orlando, Florida SECTION Osceola Dec. 12, 1975 ballotbox asadoublecheck indicating they had voted. Votes from both Beaumont Middle School and Michigan Avenue Elementary School showed 100 per cent of the voters there rejected the contract. Be- aumont's total vote was 29 to 0 and Michigan Avenue's vote was 36 to 0.

Other schools voted as follows: Central Avenue Elementary, 22 to reject and 3 to accept; Denn John Middle, 38 to Highlands Elementary, 28 to Mary Bryan Elementary, 20 to Osceola High, 66 to 2, Ross E. Jeffries Elementary, 20 to St. Cloud Middle, 33 to St. Cloud High, 33 to and a Avenue Elementary, 35 to 1. ONE BALLOT helper calculated that 94.5 of the voters favored rejection.

Ballots asked, "Do you approve and ratify the collective bargaining agreement negotiated between the school board of Osceola County, Florida, and the Osceola Classroom Teachers Association for the school year 1975-1976?" Coffman said he will send a letter today requesting resumption of negotiations, and said the possibility of strike action will depend on the school system's team's future negotiation. By TORREY PAULSON Sentinel Star Staff KISSIMMEE Osceola County teachers resoundingly voted to reject the proposed teacher contract school board has offered in a late afternoon vote Thursday. Final tabulations showed of 428 teachers 361 voted to reject the contract and 21 voted to accept. There were 382 votes altogether. EVEN TEACHERS who were sick came to school long enough to cast their vote, stated an elated Bill Coffman, president of the Osceola Classroom Teachers Association.

Teachers did not have to belong to the OCTA to vote, yet about 350 of the county's teachers do. Vote results show teachers are "all together," Coffman said, in their vote against the contract which provides frozen salaries and supplements, no paid holidays, and a workday only 15 minutes shorter than the eight-hour day they have been working. COFFMAN SAID only two of the votes could possibly be discounted, because in those cases the ballotbox had one more ballot than stub. Ballots were originally attached to the stubs which teachers were to also put into the (Sentinel Star Photo by Peggy McLaughlin) Grand Marshal "Ronald McDonald" handled the official duties as grand marshall in the recent Kissimmee Christmas parade which kicked off local holiday season. The 55-unit parade was rated a colorful and popular, success by officials of the sponsoring Kissimmee-Osceola County Chamber of Commerce.

Today the city will light its Christmas Tree. Osceola YMCA Sets Dedication Sunday KISSIMMEE The Osceola County YMCA will be host to a special open house-dedication of the new facilities Saturday from 1-3 p.m. The major portion of the administrative building has been completed and in operation since August at 200 N. Thacker Avenue. A short dedication program is scheduled and those attending are invited to tour the facilities.

Cookies and punch will be available. The YMCA facilities include the offices, restrooms and lockers and an Olympic size swimming pool. Golden Age Club Rummage Sale Slated ST. CLOUD The Golden Age Club will hold a rummage sale today and Saturday from 8 a.m. until noon both days in the Golden Age Building located at the corner of New York Avenue and 12th Street.

The public is invited to attend, and usable, unwanted items can be donated to the club, said M.L. Whitacre. Further Study Okayed On Generator Purchase and Loan Association, was installed as the chamber's 1976 president. He succeeds Wallace E. Hughes.

Comedian Sam Levenson was speaker for the meeting, which was a salute to Orlando, its people and their native states. Human Relations Unit Gives Special Awards Four organizations and five individuals received special awards Thursday night at the annual Orlando Human Relations Commission Awards Banquet at Florida Center Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge. Organization winners included Sears, Roebuck and Company, Walt Disney World, Valencia Community College and the Outlet Company, WDBO-TV. Individual awards went to Dr. James R.

Smith, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Smith, Joseph L.

Brechner and Mrs. Mable Butler. Associate Florida Supreme Court Justice Joseph W. Hatchett, the first black to serve on the court, was the speaker at the awards banquet, one of the highlights of the Florida Human Rights Week Dec. 8-14.

Winter Park Man Gets Medal 30 Years Later After 30 years of searching for something promised but never received, a Winter Park man who stuck pins in a map during World War II said Thursday he has finally-received his China War Memorial Medal. But that's not all. Because of Graham K. Kidd's relentless pursuit of the medal, thousands of other Gls, who were also promised the medals by the Chinese at the end of the war but who never received them, will also get their medals. Kidd says he's pleased.

Now all he's got to do is help pass them out. Kidd says he's got at least 300 of the medals at home. "They asked me if I'd help pass them out and I said sure. I've got a whole carton full of 'em now." Kidd says several thousand veterans across the country are eligible to receive the decoration a dark bronze medallion with a yellow ribbon. He says a few of the veterans live in the Orlando' area.

Kidd, who is now retired and lives at 1106 Village Lane, Winter Park, said he was a master sergeant with the Flying Tigers of the 14th Air Force during te war. College Still Taking Term II Applications Central Florida Community College will continue to accept applications for admission for Term II until enrollment limitations are reached. The term begins Jan. 8 and ends April 30, 1976. Director of Admissions Casius H.

Pealer said a limited number of out-of-state applications will be accepted. i pe" i generators which councilmen in Marceline, are trying to sell. 1 Difficulties may arise in funding the possible purchase, because as City Atty. Steve Miles explained, validation proceedings for the city's $3 million bond issue for expansion of electrical generator facilities were based on purchase of new generators. The possible "stumbling block" to the bond sale is the smaller, 1,250 kilowatt generator constructed in 1963, Newton said.

you would not buy a 1,250 kilowatt (generator) because it is not feasible to operate as a peaker unit'' for use when another generator fails, Newton said. Bonding agents will want to insure the engines can continue producing enough power to make it feasable to continue selling the bonds once they are marketed, he said. Newton was able to get Marceline officials to bring their original asking price down from $150 per kilowatt to $130, he said. ST. CLOUD City councilmen have agreed to allow more investigation into savings the city could make in purchasing three used generators for the city's electricity plant.

The engines "all look in good shape and well worth further investigation, with the exception of the smaller unit, possibly," City Manager Allen Rushlow reported to council. MAYOR GLENN Padgett, Councilman Robert Renick and Electric Utilities Director Rodney Newton recently returned from The club has many new items for sale and wishes to thank the people who have donated to the club over the past he said. "THE PROBLEM I see is that AT THE $130 per kilowatt events- Kissimmee Officials To Light Christmas Tree Calendar news- Marceline is asking, the three generators with combined 3,125 kilowatts would cost $1,186,250. Costs of disassembling and moving the equipment to St. Cloud as well as supervision, travel expenses and other costs, Newton estimated, would take another $211,500, for a total projected cost of $1,397,750.

Newton said he has not entered into more negotiations since the Tuesday council meeting because he is gathering needed facts and figures. SPECIFICATIONS have not arrived yet, Newton said, but said he anticipates their arrival by the latter part of next week. Newton said the $130 per kilowatt price is good and said he is seeking three generators for the price of two, just as when a seller will throw in a third unwanted dog for free if a buyer will purchase two. If Marceline officials would come down to $100 per kilowatt (which would also be accomplished by throwing in the smaller generator for free) St. Cloud could save from $500,000 to Newton said.

"SUBSTANTIAL figures like that could justify buying used equipment," Newton said, adding that such a savings could mean electrical rates remain at current levels rather than rising. City's answer to Marceline is due by Jan. 15. Other cities also are reportedly interested in purchasing the generators. Briefs raising evening today at the Lodge home on Nova Road.

The evening will begin with a free spaghetti dinner from 7-8 p.m. Following the dinner will be a Christmas dance starting at 9 p.m. with the "Four Clubs' providing the music. A surprise door prize also will be given away during the evening. A donation of $1 per person will be asked at the door.

Proceeds will be used to fill the Christmas needy baskets to be delivered on Christmas Eve. Anyone who also wishes to bring some canned or staple goods is asked to do so. Christmas chairman Ed Shumbera is urging all mmebers of the Moose in the area to attend the event with their guests. KISSIMMEE The annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony for the city will be held in front of city hall starting at 5:15 p.m. today, complete with holiday music and Christmas messages.

Mayor J. C. Clemons will light the tree at 6:30 p.m. and Santa Claus will arrive to visit with children in city hall. The public is invited to attend the event.

Veteran Group Plans Holiday Dinner Today KISSIMMEE In commemoration of the Holiday season the Veterans of World War One Barracks 1068 and Auxiliary will have' a covered dish dinner at 12:30 p.m. today preceding their regular monthly meeting. The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. and both will take place in the Osceola Room of First Federal Savings and Loan Association. Moose Lodge To Hold Fund Raising Today ST.

CLOUD The Osceola Lodge No. 2026, Loyal Order of Moose will hold a Christmas fund TODAY KAST Club Ice Cream Shuf-fleboard Tournament, KAST Club Courts, Kissimmee, 1:30 p.m. Bingo, Orange Gardens Community Kissimmee, 7-9 p.m. Public American Legion Makinson-Carson Post 10, Legion Hall, Kissimmee, early bird bingo 7-8 p.m., regular bingo, 8 p.m. AA, open, speaker, First Baptist Church, St.

Cloud, 8 p.m. Movies Arcade Theater, Kissimmee, "Call Him Mr. Shatter," starring Stewart rated 7:30 and 10 p.m. SATURDAY Berlin Memorial. Library, Orange Gardens Community Kissimmee, 2-4 p.m.

Steak Supper, Elks Lodge, Kissimmee, 6 p.m. St. Cloud Travel Club, Garden Room, First Federal, 7:30 p.m. KAST Club open, Community Kissimmee, 8:30 p.m. Movies Arcade Theater, Kissimmee, Children's Matinee, 2 p.m.

Arcade Theater, Kissimmee, "Call Him Mr. Shatter," starring Stewart Whitman, rated 7:30 and 10 p.m. Nathan C. Bryan Re-Subdivision, $9,200 Oscar R. Tesoroni and wife to Raymond G.

Cody and wife, Pine Lake Estates, $43,000 Condev Homes of Orlando Inc. to James Horace Wilson and wife, Heather Oaks $36,300 Real Estate Corp. of Florida to Luis Buenaventura Lakes, $45,000 Magda Tarrago to Booker T. Austin and wife, Benita Park, Eileen Milar and Edween L. Cor-bitt, $6,200 Gary L.

Speir and wife to First Federal of Osceola, $5,000 James G. Losinger and wife to First Federal of Osceola, $30,000 Gerald P. Morris and wife to First Federal of Osceola, $36,500 Raymond G. Cody and wife to First Federal of Osceola, $34,400 James Horace Wilson and wife to Stockton, Whatley, Davin and $36,000 Luis G. Rodriguez to Community Mortgage $40,000 DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGES IV.

WW of Record Joseph Clyde and Helen Jean Drummond Robert J. and Phillis E. Phillips MARRIAGE LICENSES Jessie Odell Prater to Karen Lee Jones Humiston, both Orlando Richard Lee Ragan, Kissimmee, to Leta Marie Anna Green Pruitt, St. Cloud Michael J. Terril, Springfield, 111., to Susan Costa, Kissimmee Glenn R.

Gardiner, Winter Park, to Berta Alicia Herrera Payne, Orlando Evan Arthur Tankersley Kenansville, to Wanda Kay Story, St. Cloud Ronald E. Howell to Debra Lynn Ware, both Kissimmee Elmer Lee Barton Sr. to Edna Maude Magoon Martyn, both Kissimmee Ronald Francis Aiello to Helen R. Warren, both Kissimmee William Carl Spence, Kissimmee, to Mary Patricia Brigmond Loranc, Oflando.

Thomas D. Matthews to Bertha Lee Willis, both Polk City. Real Estate Sales inN Osceola County rose this week to $327,900 compared to $296,000 the week before. Sales, according to deed stamps, included: Leighton T. Hall, trustee to Gary J.

Crofts and wife, Galion Gardens Subdivision, $2,400 Leighton T. Hall, trustee, to Kenneth Orr and wife, Galion Gardens Subdivision, $6,100 Daniel Hardin and wife to Vernon Gallagher and Daisy Gallagher Pierson, New Eden Lakes, $7,300 Ida S. Henderson to Herbert G. Bean and wife, St. Cloud, $10,000 J.

C. White to Marllo S17-25S-30E, $72,000 Howard W. Hearn and wife to Ralph D. Cobble and wife, St. Cloud, $28,600 E.

T. Johnson and wife to Albert Overly and wife, Orange Gardens, $38,000 Condev Community to Tompkins Development Oaks, $30,000 Eileen Milar and Edween Cor-bit to John S. Carlson and wife, Shopping $16,900 MORTGAGES Marllo Inc. to Exchange Bank of Osceola, $54,000 Ralph D. Cobble and wife to Sun Bank of St.

Cloud, $18,000 Ralph D. Cobble and wife to Howard W. Hearn and wife, $5,000 Thomas A. Bumford and wife to Tropicana Pools, $10,734.72 Henry G. Newton and wife to Estelle Pevney, $4,550 Central Florida Gas Corp.

to Bank of the Southwest National Association, $300,000 Tompkins Development to Corn-banks Mortgage, $43,275 John S. Carlson and wife to mm Days Till Lome William and Sandra Sue Allers Eugene E. and Phillis L. Downing Russell D. and Gurene A.

Stempson Richard C. and Pakizi Tetik Jones James Lee and Alma Charlotte Bodley William P. and Sherry L. Shields Vera Degtoff and Valerio A. Williams Christmas.