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fr4 BREVARD Star State Region i 1 01 ct Planners prescribe healthy ciiyhbart I Because U.S, 1 dominates the landscape, -downtown Titusville could never achieve the cozy ambience of Cocoa Village, Glatting warned. There the sidewalks were widened into the old street and one street was converted into a pedestrian plaza. Glatting doesn't view U.S. 1 as a problem, however. In fact, Glatting noted an encouraging sign: He never attended a meeting in Cocoa with as large an audi- ence as the one assembled Friday in Jftusville.

''You've overcome many of your negative aspects of the 70s," Glatting said. "I occasionally run into developers in OrlanA do who ask about Titusville." want it to sound too governmental." One woman asked what the commission would do if a property owner within the district doesn't want to make improvements. Glatting said downtown land owners will be encouraged to join the renovation effort when they see what kinds of rent they'll be able to collect from shop owners. As a last resort to nudge stubborn own-' ers, Lind said, the Would be able to exercise its. power of eminent domain to condemn derelict property.

The district boundaries will be decided Sfter a lengthy process of public hearings, he said. On Jan. 26, Lind will ask the city council to establish a redevelopment commission to carry out the downtown improvements. "Downtown just can't continue to deteriorate," Lind said. "Some people down there want to develop their buildings.

But they want assurance they won't be the only voice in the wilderness." The plan calls for raising public perhaps through a bond issue, to provide paiking and other public improvements'. Th bond money may also be designated as low-interest loans for developers willing to rejuvenate a building, Lind said. "We'll use the public money to stimulate private investment," Lind said. "We don't By SALLY GELSTON Sentinel Star TITUSVILLE When companies want to give prospective employees a good impression of the area, a city planner told a Titusville Chamber of Commerce audience Friday, they take the recruits to picturesque Cocoa Village. More than 150 people came to the luncheon at Royal Oak Country Club to find out how Titusville could build a quaint, shopping area of its own.

The answer-lies downtown in the desolate strip of vacant storefronts along U.S. Highway 1, said planner Jack Glatting, of the Winter Park firm of Glatting, Lopez and Cellen. The firm was responsible for the Cocoa Village improvements. While flashing through slides of Titus-ville's old downtown, Ray Magyar, also with the firm, remarked, "There's really nothing there yet to attract people." On the plus side, he downtown businesses have a natural clientele in the many employees of nearby City Hall and Brevard County Courthouse. And several lawyers and doctors have already started renovation by sprucing up their offices, Glatting noted.

Downtown redevelopment is a primary goal for the Chamber of Commerce and the North Brevard Development Commission, said NBDC member Richard Lind, who helped arrange Friday's meeting. I. li ii 1 i Barron unveils i -li r.t1 i it '4 district tr design By JOHN C. VAN GIESON' ''I I 'll'lll'' IT i 4 i i iff 1 i 'i SentinaJStar i TALLAHASSEE A Senate reapportionment plan that would create 40 single-member districts, prob-j ably assuring the election of two Hispanics and a black, was unveiled with dramatic flourishes Friday -by Sen. Dempsey Barron.

1 The chairman of the Senate Reapportionment Com mittee said he hoped to push the plan through the Senate within hours of the opening of the 1982 session on Monday even though few senators have seen it in its entirety. "Not one senator would write this plan like this," said Barron, a Democrat from Panama City. "Not one senator would prefer this plan over what they have now, but a vast majority of the Senate will vote for this plan because I predict they have to under the laW and their conscience." The scattered opposition to Barron's plan apparently does not include Central Florida senators. Area senators told the Sentinel Star they liked what it would do 111 I v1' i 1 J-" 4 to their districts. ilim 'TiMir' rTl f-f '1 "The process that we have gone through has been Andrew J.

HickmanSftntmel Star totally bipartisan," Barron told a rapt full-house, audft -New looks, more books ence in a packed Senate committee room. "It is mys strong opinion that this apportionment plan for this) state is the best in the nation. There's onlytiie state" that has a smaller deviation and that's Iowa, and I Barron, page 7-C i The Orlando Public Library will occupy an entire completed. The new facility is scheduled to open said library officials. Ground for the complex will city block and will hold more than 1 million vol- in the autumn of 1984.

Plans for the expansion start being cleared in late June. Circled is the cur- umes when its $22 million expansion project is are running right on schedule and within budget, rent library building. Argentina offers stowaway asylum Producer envisions a really big show By JAMES FISHER 'SnttnelStar li IJ i7Vi M'i i mi i 44 rrrl I' I i 1 1 nWi 'I ugee center than she might commit suicide. She had already spent 10 days in Cape Canaveral Hospital fat exhaustion before officials movla her to the Krome Avenue refuge! center Monday. The woman was expected remain in the hospital several moM days, following psychiatrti evaluations.

Nelson aide Ted Moreheatf said Moynelo-Nufiez had' applied for asylum while in Argentina, but had received no answer before she left the country. Morehead said the Argentine Embassy confirmed her status only Friday. 7 While Olivella was pleased by the news, he conceded it could have a negative effect on the woman's immigration case, which is being appealed to a federal The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has already denied Moynelo-Nunez asylum because of her residence in Argentina. One of his arguments in favor of American asylum, Olivella said, was fear that his client would be sent back to Cuba.

By JAMES FISHER Sentinel Star, '( COCOA The Cuban stowaway hoping to live', in the United States has been guaranteed -political asylum in Argentina if her immigration efforts fail, Argentina officials have promised. That guarantee would prevent Clara Moynelo-Nunez from being sent back to Cuba, where her new American friends fear she would be thrown in jail for her opposition to the government. An aide to U.S. Rep. Bill Nelson relayed the promise Friday afternoon, which pleased one of the woman's lawyers.

"That is such a relief to me. That brings a piece of mind," said Titus-' ville lawyer Miguel Olivella. Moynelo-Nuflez, 20, lived in Argentina for more than a year after escaping Cuba aboard a freighter in June, 1980. She applied for political asylum in the United States after arriving at Port Canaveral three weeks ago aboard an orange juice freighter. Moynelo-Nunez rested in seclusion Friday at a Miami hospital after telling a doctor at a Miami ref bring in more income.

Or there's a chance he'll catch big bands or pther acts who are driving through the area on the way to Miami, he says. "There's an excellent opportunity because of the timing to make good deals," he says. "I've got a good four or five months to negotiate with producers and fill slots." The theater's income will be supplemented by a "theater party" program, where large blocks of seats are reserved by special groups, program advertisement sales and a little piano bar and beer and wine lounge he plans to open adjacent to the playhouse, Leeds says. "Some shows in New York are kept going in the first few weeks just because of liquor sales," he says. Although he has taken Cocoa somewhat by surprise as an unknownLeeds, who is a decorated.

Vietnam veteran, has a record of experience producing plays and film in New York and the Midwest. Last September he. produced a documentary entitled "Citizen in Arms," according to Joseph Santi, of Screen Actors Guild in New York "He paid promptly and everything was handled very well' with us," Santi said. Howard Hauseman, executive vice president of the William Morris Theatrical Agency, was also listed on Leeds' resume as a reference. Hauseman said Leeds appears to have a good professional reputation.

"I know no negative things about him," he said. Hauseman recieved a letter this week from Leeds mentioning the playhouse purchase and offering him a chance to invest in a tax shelter, but Hauseman says he wasn't positive the two were connected. Leeds has previously been reluctant to explain just how the financing will be arranged. He has offered COCOA It is the fall of 1982, about the middle of October, and Robert Goulet is seen walking along the brick sidewalks in Cocoa Village humming to himself. A little farfetched, maybe? Don't say that to Mitchell Leeds.

The dashing, New York producer with the resonant voice scoffs at any doubts about his ability to transform the leaky Cocoa Village Playhouse into a professional theatr rical outlet. It can be just like it would be in New York only smaller he promises. And to prove he's serious, Leeds has put his money where his prom-, ises are. This week the Cocoa City Council accepted his offer of $125,000 to buy the theater. It was an incredible bid for an auditorium that was appraised at just $6,000.

Leeds won out over, the local Performing Arts Center (PAC) which now uses the theater for free. That group offered to pay $1,000 down and raise $30,000 over two years to pay for repairs. 1 i Although townspeople and even some city council members have privately expressed doubts about Leeds' ability to make a professional theater work in Cocoa, his bid was apparently too good to pass up. Leeds, who says he is currently involved in a company which buys the rights to films for cable television, has an extensive background as a professional producer and has "cherished the' dream of owning such a theatre." Professional theater of metropolitan quality will be possible in Brevard County with a little fancy wheeling and dealing, Leeds says. He said he can hire big name artists for an entire week, and subcontract their services several nights to other areas such as Jacksonville to Satcom rockets aloft The theater in Cocoa Village it was appraised at $6,000, but producer offered $125,000.

United Press International CAPE CANAVERAL A commercial communications satellite was launched aboard a Delta rocket that lit up the night sky Friday after bad weather forced a delay of 24 hours. Onlookers said the rocket lifted off exactly on time with roar and a flash that brightened the black sky for miles around. The launch had been postponed Thursday night because high-altitude "shear winds" of up to 130 mph that scientists feared could endanger the launch vehicle and the satellite. Designed, for use by the cable television industry, the satellite was scheduled to go into an elliptical orbit minutes after launch. On Tuesday, it is to be placed in a stationary orbit 22,300 miles above the equator.

Three other Satcoms, all owned by RCA, are already in orbit. Satcom IV has 28 transponders, 20 of which will be used for cable companies. duce two more shows this season. The producer expects to begin repairing the theater in June, when PAC's lease is up, and open his first show by mid-October, he says. He said he doubts he'll see a profit in the first year or so, but he 1 hopes to at least build a following and "get people used to coming to the theater," he says.

Leeds has taken an apartment in Cocoa and expects to commute often between Brevard and New York, he said. no reason for paying such a large sum. City Manager Bud Brocken-braugh said Friday that Leeds would be expected to pay in full as soon as the legal papers are ready. "People have been wondering about it," he says. "But you don't have to analyze a cashier's check." Leeds says he plans to offer PAC a chance to use the playhouse although not on weekends at the lowest price offered to anybody.

Leeds has already agreed to donate $6,000 to the group to pro- I.