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entinel West Your Home An Edition Of The Orlando Sentinel Star APOPKA. 231 West Main 886-51 61 PINE HILLS CENTER. 299-7350 WINTER GARDEN. State Road 50. 656-5273 fCorn Popper9 Keeps Cooks Sane rserJ T' vr f-jrjj boxes wait to be opened, diluted and turned into 1,600 gallons of the refreshing liquid.

And, there's more to come, says Osborne. SITTING IN the center of it all is an 8-foot-tall, cigar-shaped, newspaper-covered pole which, by the end of the week, will be the world's biggest paper-mache corn cob and will go on display on U.S. 441 to point the way to the festival. Six hundred people will be working in front and behind the scenes according to Osborne. They include 100 St.

Cloud Ro-tarians who will cook, Apopka High School bandsmen who will husk all that corn, the Apopka Methodist Youth Group cleaning up, and the Bahia Temple Shrine motorcycle unit will direct traffic. All groups will receive a cut of the order of the day, but festival goers also will be served ham, cole slaw, bread and beans for their $2.50 tickets. Seconds on the corn are available, but not on the rest of the food. The NOCIA building is filling up with supplies to be used for the event. One entire wall is filled to the roof with boxes of plastic plates, glasses and eating utensils.

ON ONE of the many tables sits a case of sponges for cleanup; four boxes of big rubber bands, rubber gloves for food workers, a 50-gallon drum with a two-inch spigot for iced tea and red-white-and-blue flag bunting. On the floor in the corners of the big house-like building sit red and white corn festival signs to be placed along the roadways to the 55-acre festival site. Stacks of small iced tea mix hardly a shabby achievement for the average kitchen. This year a crowd of 25,000 is expected. THE BOILER operates with six half-moon wire baskets into which the corn is placed.

The 2 y2 -foot-tall baskets are lifted by two electric hoists. As one hoist is dipping the basket into the boiling water, the other is taking the corn out. The baskets will then be rolled to a dumpster container specially coated for the occasion. The corn then will be removed by the 100 food line workers to be placed into special covered plastic food trays. Six food lines will serve hungry festival goers in the NOCIA building on Poncan Road while two special corn-only lines operate under a tent outside.

ALL THE corn you can eat is (Sentinel Star Photo by E. B. Mitchell) the proceeds, says Osborne. enwooa testivai set tor noon to ousk Saturday ana bunday. Hospital To Gather Obstetrics Figures OSBORNE, LEFTAND CHARLES BOYLE SAID he should have figures on costs for the hospital within the week, but said the obstetrics unit wouldn't generate enough patients to pay for itself.

"But, we made an agreement with the (hospital) board. We're v. LJ ry? A i Hk Ambulance Decision Gets Good Response By LINDA LORD Sentinel Star Staff ZELLWOOD Question-What looks like a roof tarring machine, sounds like a jet plane, pnd feeds 25,000 people in 48 hours. Answer. The Zellwood Corn Festival corn boiler, affectionately known as the "corn popper" by the North Orange County Improvement Association which sponsors the festival annually.

THIS LITTLE machine not so little really has the capability of cooking six crates of Zellwood's finest sweet corn every three to six minutes. In case you aren't acquainted with corn talk, that amounts to 330 ears of corn every three minutes. Or, three ears every second. And that's a lot of sweet corn. THE "CORN popper" is probably what has kept the people of west Orange County northwest of Apopka from going cooking crazy around this time of year.

The Zellwood Corn Festival, which involves a good many residents, has grown from a liT 'ole corn boil at the NOCIA community center eight years ago to the all-out event it is now. The actual festival is only three years old. The corn boiler two. This year's festival will be held Saturday and Sunday. ON THE first year of the festival, according to this year's festival chairman Billy J.

Osborne, corn cookers cooked corn in small drums and "dipped it out with scoops." Last year NOCIA, the festival sponsors, went big time and spent $7,500 for the corn boiler. The mere acquisition of the contraption caused problems ac-' cording to Osborne. "THE IRS (internal Revenue Service) held up delivery for two weeks because they thought we were going to make moonshine in it," says Osborne. "They wouldn't let it go (from the Texas manufacturer) until they checked us out completely." In its first year, the corn boiler boiled corn for 18,500 people. At an average 4.5 ears of corn per person, that's 83,250 ears of corn Nancy Stilwell Leaves Girls Club PINE HILLS Nancy Stilwell, executive director of the Walsie L.

Ward Girls Club for three years, has resigned effective Tuesday. Mrs. Stilwell said she resigned so she could spend more time with her family. Jeanne Newman, assistant to the director for a year, has been appointed director. The position of assistant has been given to Marge Miller, club secretary for two years.

Rose Petrie, president of the club's board of directors, said a full-time athletic director, Jo Luciano, has been hired for the summer. Mrs. Petrie said the position of athletic director will become permanent if funds can be obtained. i Sixth, Hawthorne Takes Playground Title APOPKA The Sixth Street and Hawthorne Avenue playground 6oftball team won the playground softball league championship recently, beating Phyllis Wheatley Elementary School 6-5. Sixth and Hawthorne got first inning runs by Cynthia Huntley, Bobby Taylor, and Emma Swan-son who hit a home run.

Sylvester Smith hit a home run in the second and crossed home plate again in the fifth along with Kenny Johnson. Wheatley players Mary Smith, Wallace Swift, Kathy Massay and Kenny Grant scored in the fourth on a double base hit by Sandra Ashby. John Bellamy scored the other run. ADKINS READY CORN BOILEI going to keep our word but we don't feel it's in the best interest of the hospital." Boyle said the hospital will lose $400,000 this year alone and "there's no question about it. The obstetrics unit would be a losing proposition." chief, James Briggs, confirmed that his department would be splitting the 200-square-mile hospital district in half, sharing the rescue calls with Ocoee.

Briggs said he felt Carter Road would probably be the north-south dividing line. It is the dividing line for mutual aid fire calls, he said. "They could sure use both (ambulances)," Ocoee Commissioner Raymond Crawford said. SINCE WINTER Garden has assumed more rescue responsibilities, Crawford said, "It has sure helped us. The fire department feels the relief already." Crawford has been the strongest voice for splitting the district's rescue calls with Winter Garden or restricting Ocoee's firemen to only calls within town.

"It'll give us some relief and let us do more around here," he said. "The way it is right now the way everybody is doing their part is beautiful." Winter Garden To Decide On Planning Seat WINTER GARDEN An ordinance which will empower the planning and zoning board of Winter Garden to act as the city's representative on a county comprehensive land planning board will receive its first reading tonight at the city commission meeting. The meeting will be held at 7:30 tonight the city hall on Plant Street. City for seven years, the association is designed to fill gaps in legal services offered to the hundreds of chiefly agricultural workers living in the west Orange County and east Lake County area, Sister Gail said. "We are really into social change," said Ms.

England. "It's getting more and more where people need legal assistance just to get by. Not only can most of these people not afford professional services, they don't even know when they need it." (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1) West Orange County city officials said recently they are satisfied fire departments in Ocoee and Winter Garden can go back to fire fighting and rescue work, leaving ambulance calls up to the nearby hospital, which recently agreed to double its ambulance man-power. "It's a good development," Ocoee Mayor Bill Breeze said.

"We need it and I'm glad to see it." APPLICATIONS HAVE already begun to pour in for the four jobs opened recently after West Orange Memorial Hospital trustees approved a second ambulance and crew. "I feel its going to be the solution to the problem," Raymond Spears, Winter Garden's mayor, said. Officials in the area had been haggling several weeks over which organization should be responsible for ambulance and rescue services. OCOEE ASKED Winter Garden to share in the rescue operations and Winter Garden asked the hospital to beef up its ambulance service to keep fire departments out of the ambulance business. Breeze said the hospital's additional ambulance and crew "satisfies one part of the problem but our main concern was rescue." Spears said that the Winter Garden firemen would be "glad to be providing backup (and rescue) service" and that they are "all set up to do extrication." WINTER GARDEN'S fire By LINDA LORD Sentinel Star Staff APOPKA Prompted by hospital board entreaties, Florida Hospital-Apopka administrators will gather figures on the cost of operating an obstetrics unit at the hospital.

Hospital administrator James Boyle agreed Monday to gather cost estimates of running an obstetrics unit in the hospital although Boyle told the board at its monthly meeting the unit almost surely would run at a loss. THE BOARD asked for cost estimates after receiving a report from Dr. Robert Hoover, chief of obstetrics at Florida Hospital, Orlando. Hoover, a member of the board's obstetrics committee, reported five obstetrics doctors will be coming to Central Florida and said one of them may be encouraged to practice in Apopka if an obstetrics unit is open. Hoover said he has talked with the one obstetrician operating in Apopka Dr.

William Mitchell who said he will not under any circumstances practice in the Apopka hospital. Mitchell now sends his patients to West Orange Memorial Hospital in Winter Garden. HOOVER SAID that for the Apopka hospital to run an obstetrics unit, round-the-clock staffing must be provided for the labor and delivery rooms and for the baby nursery. Hoover said a nursery program could be implemented where a baby would be kept in the mother's room for 16 hours per day and put in the nursery at night, thereby reducing the need for a nursery attendant to one shift per day. The hospital has to have a nursery attendant who has no other duties to prevent spreading diseases to newborns.

However, fulltime nurses would be required for the delivery room. Mary Wheeler, head of nurses at the facility, said a registered nurse is paid $4.75 to $5 per hour and a licensed practical nurse who could be employed in the nursery is paid a starting salary. type headaches are getting more and more common with low income families," Ms. England said. MANY OF the problems facing clients of the program could be handled by the clients themselves, if they had a background in elementary legal procedure, she said.

"Most people know that they shouldn't say anything to a policeman if they are arrested until their lawyer is present," Ms. England said, "but they don't all know how binding rental contracts are or what to do if Home From The Hospital Captain Fred Blitz, Apopka Fire Department mascot, lies in forced recuperation after his collision with fire engine. Captain dislocated shoulder and tore muscles in accident. He is tied to prevent him from running after engines. Junior Volunteer Fireman Lynn Pettingill attends the ailing Dalmation.

Task Force To Meet On Crime Prevention (Sentinel Star Photo By E. B. Mitchell) Haberkern said he hopes representatives from service and civic clubs and churches will 'attend the meeting to learn how to encourage their members to help the police. "We aren't able to get enough money to put enough law enforcement people on every street corner, but if residents will help each other, the streets can become safe places to be again," he said. Workers Get Classes In Legal Problems OCOEE The first meeting of the western division of the Orange County Anti-Crime Task Force is scheduled for tonight at 7:30 in the Orange County Services building on West Story Road in Ocoee, said Sgt.

George Haberkern of the Orange County Sheriffs Department. The meeting will be to show county residents how to organize into neighborhood crime prevention groups to reduce neighborhood crime. "WE ARE getting the groups established all over the county to help the police forces cut down on burglary and make neighborhoods safer," said Haberkern. The United Way they think they are being discriminated against because of their race or sex. If we could just teach basics like that we would really be offering a service to the area." The People's Legal Action association is the product of the concern of a group of area citizens who recognized a need for legal aid for lower income area residents, said Sister Gail Grimes, one of the founders of the group.

HEADED BY MS. England, a lawyer who worked with a similar program in New York By JOHN GHOLDSTON Sentinel Star Stan WINTER GARDEN A unique legal assistance office for farmworkers and low income persons opened in Winter Garden recently and offers not only legal aid, but also a legal education program designed to help low-income families take care of themselves, said Susan England, supervisor of the new People's Legal Action program. "Problems with jobs, problems with credit, housing, getting money from governmental agencies and several other legal A.