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1 rK CV v- tX- pr Dny News Daily News photos by Frank Ciccone 'iV VW WELL-FED OSTRICH STRETCH NECKS AS THEY AMBLE ALONG ROADWAY IN BOCA RATON JUNGLE HERD OF ZEBRA GRAZES CONTENTEDLY ON FLORIDA GRASS AT AFRICA, U. S. A. African Animals Prospering In Florida Plan To Fiaht I i 7 chool Closing I fc i -(si ftJ lffh foil 4 7 Fort Lauderdale Daily NTews THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, Parents Say They'll Send Their Children To Locked Building DEERFIELD BEACH Deerfield Beach Negroes reported today that their children will return to school Monday in spite of the decision of O. K.

Phillips, superintendent of education to close the school until Feb. 9 for the bean Orattfjc Howl Queen? Float Catches Fire In Parade But 2Vo One Is Burned MIAMI. UP Fire flashed around the Orange Bowl queen during the mammoth King Orange Jamboree parade last night but neither she nor the junior princesses were injured. The dress of Sally Ezell, a princess of the queen's court and a companion on the float, caught fire, but it was quickly extinguished. Queen Marion Ettie and all fifteen maids and princesses had to abandon the elaborate float when flames flashed through the tinsel and crepe paper decorations.

No one was injured, A rain a few hours before the parade wet the wiring and may have caused a short circuit. Electricians worked swiftly on the float as It fell into the line of march, and someone inserted a penny in a fuse to get the lights going. The float moved past the reviewing stand and up Biscayne and was southbound toward Flagler St. when the hot wire caused the flash of flame. Queen Ettie and her princesses got into taxicabs and were ridden to the Orange Bowl dinner which followed the parade.

Several Negro parents informed The Daily News that a mass meeting is planned tomorrow or Saturday to inform families that Negro children The school probably will parents have been designated to conduct activities for the children on the school grounds. They will keep regular Full 31oon Havers Tourists From Every State Watch King Orange Parade MIAMI. JP) Tourists from every state joined home folks last TAME ZEBRA night to make up a throng estimated at 325,000 who watched the mammoth King Orange jamboree parade in downtown Miami. aj tHi- A By FRANK CICCOXE (Daily News Staff Writer) BOCA RATON Animals from Africa have adapted themselves to Florida and apparently are here to stay. It appears likely that, if freed, the zebras and ostriches which now roam Africa, U.

S. a vast animal and botannical exhibit west of here, would probably prosper and reproduce. They're thriving on the Florida vegetation and seem to have no complaint against the climate. The colorful miniature but complete piece of darkest Africa transplanted here is not only taking an indisputable hold but shows signs of flourishing in all its primitive splendor. It will be opened to the public this of the zebras actually has enjoyed a short-lived freedom.

It escaped and while it was free was spotted in a field by a farmer who is reported to have since given up drinking. In the two months since John Pederson, owner of Africa, U. S. brought the animals to the 350-acre tract, most of the animals have become tame enough to be fed by hand. Candy striped zebras, both common and greavy, are romping among the palmettoes, having the time of their lives.

Ostriches scurry about in food-hunting flocks. There's lots to eat and no mortal enemies to bother them. Abyssinian asses find life Jfree and easy in Florida. They Ye growing sleek and fat under the warm sun. The twin male cheetahs, the sleek-looking relatives of the panther, seem quite content in their new occupation as domestic pets.

Pederson calls them "the laziest creatures in Africa." "All they do is lie around and sleep in the sun," he says. "Have a devil of a time getting them to exercise." They live and play in their fenced-in enclosure. This is a far cry from their pursuits of a few months ago stalking and killing small game in Africa. If the animals could talk, they'd probably say they never had it so good. Of the 40 zebras, the largest group in the country in captivity; six Abyssinian asses, 14 ostriches, two cheetahs and one highly unusual animal iftermed "Zeehorse," none have been ill or even showed the slishtest sign of maladjustment.

The ostrich eats roots and leaves and occasionally corn, which Pederson gives them to vary their diet. Zebras dote on the Florida thistles. They also eat grass and occasionally get handouts of barley and corn. Cheetahs, being carnivorous, don't eat off the land. They're fed meat.

They probably could A'xist by themselves on rabbits, ''raccoon and other small game. Pederson gives creait for the good health the animals are now enjoying to 16-year-old Richard I. Cade, son of one of Kenya's most renowned hunters. Cade detected ailments amons the animals before they became serious and successfully com-batted them with medicines. Cade accompanied the first shipment of animals which ar--fvrived here Nov.

1. pel forming the kind of a job that most American youngsters dream about is routine for Richard. He likes animals and seems to have inherited the savvy which makes them thrive. When the one zebra, escaped, it was Richard who caught it. He improvised a lasso at the end of a fishing pole, then rode in a jeep alongside the speeding animal and nabbed it.

For all the fun he's having Vnere, Richard is anxious to return to Africa so he can resume hunting with his father. "The only thing that has kept him here this long is television and the movies," Pederson said. The unusual animals are not the only attraction this project offers. More than 55,000 plants, trees and shrubbery are thriving after being transported from virtually all corners of the earth. They line the banks of approximately six miles of winding canals.

It was Mrs. Peder-son's green thumb that rtured the plants from seedlings over a period of years. The animals don't appear to appreciate the plant life, except that part of it which forms their diet. Most of that is native to Florida. It's not at all unlikely that if any of the animals ever gained their freedom, they ould become a permanent feature of the Everglades scene.

Order 1953 PAGE LB Over Spectacle patches of clouds while bands, units and 52 floats swung along Warren Asks Pay Raise For McCarty TALLAHASSEE. UP) Gov. Fuller Warren, who will leave his position Tuesday, recommends his successor, Dan McCarty, be paid $25,000 a year. He also recommended in a letter to the State Budget Commission that a new executive mansion be built to replace the one he once called "the state shack." Warren submitted budgets pro posing much more money for operation of the governor's office and the governor's mansion during the next two years than the legislature allowed for the current biennium. His requests will be subject to review by the budget commission, of which McCarty will become chairman upon being inaugurated Jan.

6. Warren said the big white colonial executive mansion "is nearly 50 years old and in a dilapidated condition. Its chimneys have been condemned as unsafe for use. Decay has made other parts of the mansion unsafe. "It is not believed that repairs can put the mansion in condition adequate and safe for human habitation." He suggested the improvement commission be asked to recommend the type of building to be constructed, estimate the cost and report to the legislature when it meets next April.

Hollywood office, Florida Power and Light revealed today there were 2,295 new electrical services for the 12-month period ending with November. December figures are not available at this time. The new electrical services represent an increase of 23 per cent, or 441, over the preceeding 12 months. H. M.

MacDonald, telephone company manager, said that Southern Bell had added 1,767 new telephones in the area during the last year. As of Dec. 31, 1951, there were 9,399 telephones. As of today there are 11,166. he stated, adding that "30 or more telephones will be installed today or tomorrow." Water department connections in the three cities show similar increases.

STRIKES A POSE FOR THE Sift A. school hours. There has been speculation closed, it would furnish the parents with the basis for a civil rights action against school authorities to force opening of the schook As far as could be learned, the Negro parents so far have no plans for a suit. They have no attorney. Negro parents here have been attempting to persuade the Broward County school board to discontinue split sessions which are designed to make children available for work in the fields during the winter.

Parents said yesterday they were determined to keep their children out of the fields this winter and win for themselves the same school schedule followed in White schools and in Negro schools in South Broward. "We don't know how successful we will be, but we nope tnat higher school officials will realize that we intend to stand by our convictions," one Negro mother said. Parents indicated that if no action is taken by the school board to resume school after the demonstration, they will endeavor to enlist outside help to instruct children until school opens again in February. "We feel very strongly about keeping our children out of the fields." a mother said. "If the school board does not consider our pleas, there will be a lot of Negro families who will either send their children to another school or move out of the com munity." Parents claimed that most Ne gro families do not need the money earned by children to live through the winter as farmers have maintained.

It was the school board's deci sion that only a minority of Deer- field Negro parents are against sending their children into the fields. According to parents here, there are only a few Negro families in and around Deer field Beach who rent their dwellings from growers or are under some other form of obli gation to farmers which will influence them to send their children into the fields. When the school board heeded the protests of growers last summer and reversed its decision to discontinue the split sessions. will return to school Monday, be locked. However, Negro that if the school remained Negro families kept their children away from the school when it opened in the first week of Au gust.

Enrollment until the open ing of the rest of the schools in September never rose above 20 out of a normal attendance of more than 350. Parents are not sure what their children will do when they arrive at the locked-up school Monday. But they said that adults will be! present to keep them in orderly groups throughout the day. Several Negro mothers report ed that a movement is in progress I to stop children from obtaining identification cards required before they are allowed to work. "If they are given identification cards that, means they can work in the fields and we have lost all we have strived for these many months," one said.

Deerfield Negroes first soueht last spring to induce the school board to discontinue its practice of opening their school early in August, then keepmg it closed in January and part of February so that school children could work in the fields. The school board granted the request. After Pompano Beach Negro parents made a similar re quest, growers protested, telling the school board Negro parents would not be able to pay their rent and would face eviction if the children didn't work. The board reversed its decision and all North Broward Negro schools opened Aug. 9.

During the fall, the board left the decision whether to close the schools this winter up to Phillips. Two weeks ago he decided to keep them closed. Stolen Car Recovered In Miami Springs HOLLYWOOD The 1951-model car stolen while parked on Young Circle Tuesday night has been found in Miami Springs, Police Capt. W. W.

Malphurs said today. Thieves had stripped the car and taken clothing, suit cases and golf clubs from it. The car belonged to L. Applehans, 1959 Jef- ferson according to police. landale and Dania receipts are running substantially ahead of last year.

School enrollment In the South Broward area is currently at an all-time high. The peak for the current school year will not be reached for another month or so. Bank deposits for the area will reach a new high on the Dec. 31 statements to the comptroller of the currency. South Broward dis-.

trict bank officials state. The 100-bed. $1,000,000 South Broward Memorial Hospital, built with funds approved at a bond issue referendum, is probably the crowning effort of the combined area. The hospital will not get in operation for another month. Thousands of dollars have been put into improvements in Dania Hollywood and Hallandale during the past year.

These include new PHOTOGRAPHER ABYSSINIAN ASSES Hollywood Water Lines Completed HOLLYWOOD Installation of a special water pipe joint connecting the 24-inch and 30-inch water mains at 28th Ave. and Hollywood Blvd. early this morn ing virtually completed water pipe installation work in the city. While the city was waiting for this special water pipe joint, a temporary connection sprung a leak which caused pressure to fall over the city. Sludge that entered the pipes at that time resulted in a rumor that the water was con taminated.

The rumor was un founded. City Manager J. W. Watson has said the next step is to fill the hole and begin paving Hollywood Blvd. between the City Hall circle and the Seaboard Air Line railroad.

Paving of this section of Holly wood's 120-foot wide street will complete the Hollywood Blvd. paving project. Watson announced that paving along 19th Ave. between Tyler St. and Hollywood Blvd.

was com pleted yesterday. A full moon peeked from behind drum and bugle corps, marching palm-lined Biscayne Blvd. and outr Flagler St. to the Miami River. The crowd started assembling in early afternoon.

A sudden shower sent some scurrying to shelter but the rain stopped an hour before the parade began at 7 p.m. A Marine band led the whole parade, as usual, and from the Dominican Republic came the first foreign float ever entered in the parade. It was a replica of the Columbus lighthouse being built in that Caribbean island. A green dragon 50 feet long slithered among the palm trees, breathing smoke, and a pink elephant squatted between a kangaroo with a child in its pouch and a pelican with a child in its beak. Six tiny black ponies pulled a circus wagon carrying children, and a policeman in uniform played the calliope for a float with a whirling ferris wheel, merry-go- round and swings.

Seminole Indians poled tiny dugouts beside a flock of live flamingos, while other Indians, riding ponies and waving tomahawks, circled an embattled prairie schooner front or a blockhouse. umiaren sat in pews before a huge gold cross on the first religious float in the parade's history, Orderly New Year HOLLYWOOD Not a single person was booked here by police for intoxication last night, as the first 12-month period in several years ended in Hollywood without a traffic fatality. Police Capt W. W. Malphurs said today that the city's New Year celebration was orderly.

streets, improvements of sidewalks, public parking lots, water department expansion, and new schools. Inquiries concerning tourist accommodations received at the Chamber of Commerce in Hollywood this year are approximately 1,000, or 14 percent greater than 1951. James P. Schopler, secretary manager said today 7,251 inquiries were received last year, while the total this year is $8,200. Schopler stated also that the merchants had just experienced a holiday shopping season greater than Christmas, 1951.

In Dania, the Chamber of Commerce reports that tourist in-j quiries are also "considerably higher" than last year. OWNER JOHN PEDERSON, RICHARD CADE FEED 1952 Was Greatest Year For South Broward 'ri. By STEVE K. IIARMAN (Daily New Staff Writer) HOLLYWOOD The year that ended last night was South Broward County's greatest from the standpoint of construction, postal receipts, tourist inquiries, increased bank deposits, utility meter installations and telephone service expansion. A number of new records in all phases of activity in this area will be set.

Hollywood naturally leads its two smaller neighbors, Dania and Hallandale, in all forms of growth. In Hollywood alone, it is ex pected that construction permits will top $14,000,000 better than $1,000,000 a month. Postal receipts in Hollywood are at an all-time high, with the final tabulation expected to be approximately $300,000. Hal RITA ANTHONY, CHEETAHS GET ALONG FINE A. O.

Wickham, manager of ths.