Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • Page 3

Rebuilding Problems Reviewed Switch Canal Aids Hopes Courthouse Fire Details Told To History Society Section Two 11 Friday, October 12, 1962 "Now let editorialized the newspaper, "assess a two mill tax rate as the law provides." Congress spent several months burning brick for the building which rested on Kentucky stone. T. J. Rawls, a Tallahassee contractor, supervised construction. mmmmmmmm I sr.

I t) If Ia RAH, RAH, RAH A pep rally was held last night by Leon eve of the Lion-Miami game here tonight. The huge bonfire crowd which responded to the cheerleaders with loud yells to British Planning Eglin "Outpost' NEWER COURTHOUSE This was the first Courthouse built on the present Leon Courthouse site. This was in 1883. This picture Is owned by Mrs. John Griffin of Woodville.

This is Leon County's first courthouse which burned in 1879. It Post Office is now. After the Courthouse burned, the old site. It also burned, in 1925. Mrs.

Benson Skelton Jr. owns SRD Projects Aired By Director Davis By HALLIE BOYLES Democrat Staff Writer Following destruction of the Leon County courthouse by fire in 1879, county business was transacted for four years in the basement of the Capitol and some taxpayers wanted the arrangement to be continued indefinitely. Details of the fire and problems of building a new structure were related last night by Dr. Daisy Parker before the Leon County Historical Society. She is associate professor of government at Florida State University.

Fire was discovered in the basement of the old courthouse, located on the block now occu pied by the post about 3 a.m. Monday, May 19, 1879. Cries of an elderly woman who occupied a room in the base ment, alerted the citizenry. SOME RECORDS SAVED Volunteers, who answered the fire bell, were able to save only some of the public records. Loss was estimated at $10,000.

The fire brought a renewed demand from The Weekly Floridian for a fire engine. While the ashes were still being sifted, citizens were drafting a petition to County Commissioners to levy a two mill tax to rebuild. A Jacksonville architect was called in and said the brick walls left standing were too badly damaged for use. TO CAPITOL BASEMENT The few county officials of that time moved into Capitol basement quarters which were later described in a letter to the newspaper editor as having a "forlorn The writer criticized County Commissioners for failing to provide furniture or a safe with the result that valuable documents were "scat tered about." Commissioners set July 26 for a referendum on their resolution to sell a $10,000 five-year bond issue at seven per cent interest, for a new courthouse. A letter to the newspaper editor predicted defeat.

He said "capitalists" would purchase the bond issue at 50 to 60 cents on the dollar "keeping the poor man's nose to the grind stone to fill the rich man coffers." His prediction of defeat came true. The final vote was 279 against and 15 for the bond issue. Chipley Man In Crash Here Harold A. Overton, 49, Chipley, received apparently minor injuries in an accident shortly after noon yesterday in the 400 block of east Tennessee street. Investigating Officer Dorman Thomas said the accident occurred when Overton, driving east on Tennessee, slowed for traffic and his xk ton truck was struck from the rear by a car driven by Carolyn Sue O'Neal, 16, 1110 Carrin Dr.

She was charged with failing to have her vehicle under control, Thomas said. The Overton truck received $75 damage and the O'Neal car $350 damage. At 3:20 a.m. Thursday James Ray Dunn, 19, 2421 Meredith was charged with reckless driving by changing lanes of traffic. Officers John Sullivan and Theo Harris said Dunn's car struck a car driven by Aimer T.

Tid-well, 42, route 2, as the two can were driving west on Tennessee. Each car received $25 damage. No injuries were reported. MAN CHARGED Thomas J. Cheshite, 25, Chaires Cross road, was charged with reckless driving by failing to have his vehicle under control and driving without a drivers license after a 3 p.m.

accident in the driveway of a filling station at Tennessee street and Magnolia drive. Investigating Officer Mayo Da vis said Cheshitc's car and a car driven by Donald Ernest Hamp-son, 25, 123 N. Adams col lided head-on doing $25 damage to Cheshite's car and $100 to Hampson's car. Two other accidents yesterday were minor. No injuries were reported, no arrests made.

Charles Hampton, 28, of Box 69 Route 5, is in good condition in Tallahassee Memorial Hospital suffering from face injuries, re ceived early yesterday afternoon when a car upon which he was working, fell upon him. John Cobb, 5, of Lake Bradford was treated and released at TMH about 9: 15 a.m. for apparent minor body bruises suffered when he was struck by a car while en route to school. Gloria Jean Parrish, 9, of 42 W. Georgia suffered a borken lower left leg in a reported auto accident.

She was treated and re leased about 4 p.m. yesterday at Florida University hospital The three injuries were listed by hospital officials but no acci dent reports concerning them are on file with the City of Tallahas see Police Department or Flori da Highway Patrol. "A taxpayer" wrote the editor Aug. 5 contending a courthouse was not an absolute necessity and calling for postponement. He said the Legislative Hall could be used for Circuit Court sessions.

"If possible, let us have a little respite from crushing burdens of the past, the result of carpetbag domination," he wrote. "Before the war when we could have borne heavy tax burdens, two mills was more than the whole year levy for state taxes." TWO MILLS LEVIED Two mills were levied for the year 1879 and again for the year 1880 to get money to build a courthouse. The County induced the City to swap Washington Square, where the present courthouse is located, for the old courthouse site. Plans for the new structure were prepared by Pearkins and Burce, Atlanta, and the $20,985 contract went to D. J.

Oxford of Dalton, Ga. The result was a Victorian edifice complete with tower, mansard roof and ornamen tal iron grill work. Completed in 1882, the new courthouse was described by the newspaper as the most costly, ornamental and substantial structure of its kind in the state. There was pointing with pride at the 15-foot ceilings and fireplaces in every room. The contractor had leased the George Damon brickards and Jfr a OLDEST COURTHOUSE occupied the site where Leon Hotel was built on this picture.

Fuqua Lauds Holmes Creek Conservation GRACEVILLE Don Fuqua, Democratic nominee for Con gress, speaking last night at the Silver Anniversary meeting of the Holmes Creek Conservation District commended the organization on its "fine work in promoting good conservation practices." The Holmes Creek District was organized 25 years ago and is the oldest in the state. Fuqua traced the growth and development of soil conservation districts in Florida, saying that their work is even more important today in conserving the state's natural resources. "In these days," he said, American agriculture is called upon to play a most vital role in our continuing fight against Com munism, and in keeping America strong. And proper conservation practices are necessary for a sound agricultural economy." Earlier in the day, Fuqua spoke before the Washington County Cattlemen's Association. He asserted that "it is imper ative, in order for Florida to maintain its share of the beef cattle market, that we improve the quality of our cattle." He said Florida is now produc ing 50 per cent of its beef cattle, whereas five' years ago the state was producing only 20 per cent.

Senior At FSU Arrested For Shooting Gun A Florida State University senior was arrested by City Police early this morning for firing a 12 guage shotgun into a fraternity house. Bradley Munroe, 21, was turned over to FSU authorities after he admitted firing several shots at the Kappa Alpha Fraternity House. Police Officer Mardie Owens said. A window of the KA house was broken out. Munroe allegedly fired the gun from his room in the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity House on West Tennessee street about 7:30 this morning.

Police said seven shots were fired. Owens said Munroe admitted firing some, but not all of the shots. He was charged with discharging firearms in the City and destroying private property. I the the WASHINGTON (AP) Congress may vote $205,000 today for final planning and designing of the controversial cross Florida barge canal. A sudden switch in tactics by Florida members of congress late Thursday resulted in a successful attempt to get Senate approval of the planning money in a supplemental appropriations bill.

This bill will go to a Senate-House conference, expected today, and house conferees have indicated they will accept the item in the Senate bill. Sen. Spessard L. Holland, who called on the Senate Thursday night to include this money in the bill it later passed, expressed the view to a reporter that the House likely will approve this project in the supplemental bill. SIKES GIVES NOTICE But if it doesn't, Rep.

Bob Sikes, has given notice he will ask the House to accept this money as voted in the Senate public works appropriations bill. The unexpected maneuver to get the project included in the supplemental bill was to avoid a floor fight over the House conference report on the public works appropriations bill. The House appropriations com mittee and the House some weeks ago refused any money for the canal. The Senate voted in its public works appropriations bill the $205,000 President Kennedy had requested in his budget. With Congress rushing for ad journment, today probably will tell whether or not money will be appropriated for the canal and in what bill.

State Fights Appeal Of 2 Doomed Men By The Associated Press The Florida attorney general's office has asked the state su preme court to throw out a petition asking reconsideration for two Lake County Negroes facing death in the electric chair. Affidavits were filed with the court from several persons in an attempt to refute claims by attorneys for Jerry Chatman, 25, and Robert Shuler, 22, that they were convicted of rape on false evidence. Two former sheriff's deputies, N. E. Griffin Jr.

and Thomas Ledford, had said that other deputies made plaster casts as evidence from the shoes of the Negroes, rather than from tracks around the home of the white woman who was assaulted. The attorney general's office, in its arguments to the court, said that Sheriff Willis McCall reported he had fired Griffin and Ledford and that this would show a basis for bias. The court took the arguments under study. U.S. Award Won In Suit Here By Hospital Patient The U.

S. has been ordered to pay Robert E. Walsingham $6,000 and $1,200 attorney's fees for a suit filed by Walsingham against the federal government. Walsingham, in his suit, said treatment he had received April 10, 1958 at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in New Orleans, was negligent and that a wrong diagnosis was given.

The award has been made following hearings in court here before Judge G. Harrold Carswell. Sister Attending Capital Seminar Sister Mary Felice Lacayo. W.S, daughter of Dr. and Mrs.

Heberto Lacayo of Tallahassee, was among the 300 priests, nuns and laymen attending a three-day leadership training seminar con ducted in Washington by Douglas Hyde, former communist news editor for the London Daily Worker. Sister Felice Lacayo, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, White Sisters, is presently doing advanced studies at Catholic University in Washington. Star Farmer Named KANSAS CITY (AP) The 19fi2 Star Farmer of the Future Farmers of America, Warner A. Ross, is an enterprising 21-year-old from near Toone, Tenn. Ross, one of four finalists for the FFA's highest annual award, was named at last night's national convention session.

WASHINGTON (AP)-The British are about to establish an outpost in Florida. There will be a British school for their children and a British post office to handle mail for Royal Air Force officers and British aviation ministry men, their wives and youngsters. The advance party already is at Florida's Eglin Air Force base. The RAF and aviation ministry experts are there to join the U.S. Air Force in extensive testing of the new 1,000 mile range plane-launched Skybolt missile.

Next Tuesday, the first plane load of 80 wives and children is due to land at Eglin to join their menfolk. ABOUT 1,000 PEOPLE By a year from now, the Brit ish colony will total about 1,000 people. it will be housed In a new trailer court built on ground where excavators have found the remains of an ancient Indian village. The earliest arrivals of families will include 35 children. A British school now being built on the base, is due to start classes the first week in November.

Head mistress of the school will be Mrs. Joan Cox, the wife of an RAF squadron leader. Five other qualified British teachers, all wives of the missile experts, will help out. The school will be comparable to American elementary schools, the U.S. Air Force said, but the curriculum will be tailored closely to that of the English lower grade schools.

About 130 children from 5 to 11 years old will be enrolled when Weather High Low Pree 83 6A .00 Homestead Jacksonville Key West Miami Ocala Orlando Pensacola 8 87 87 89 87 88 78 78 80 fill 68 9 fill fiR 72 Sarasota TALLAHASSEE 85 Tampa 89 W. Palm Beach 87 OUT OF STATE Atlanta 80 S7 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .00 .08 .00 .00 .00 246 .00 .00 Boston 68 81 86 83 83 83 84 7i 81 83 88 78 79 79 80 65 57 85 Charleston Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Detroit Indianapolis Los Angeles Milwaukee Paul New Orleans New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis San Francisco Seattle Washington SLN MOON Rise Set Rise Set Today :10 :36a.m. Sat. 6:38 6:09 RAINFALL Total 24 hrs.

ending 7:30 i.m. .00 Total this month -M Total since Jan. 1 .93 Below normal since Jan. 1 6 80 Below normal since Oct. 1 -93 Arrest Clears Jook Looting Police Sergeant Vester Kelly said today the arrest of Itumel Dickey, 18, 1311 Indiana St.

had cleared up a breaking and entering committed early Wednesday morning. Kelly said Dickey admitted breaking into Rudolph Johnson's Cafe, Macomb and Fourth avenue, and using a screwdriver to pry open a jook box and a cigarette machine from which he admitted taking $43 in change. Kelly said Dickey is charged with breaking and entering to commit a misdemeanor. Dickey was convicted in City Court two weeks ago of throwing rocks through the windshield of a car occupied by six people. He served four days on bread and water in Leon County jail last week for refusing to comply with a City Court sentence that he go to church on Sundays and work on a city work gang Saturdays.

New Trial Asked By U.S. In Case Over Refuge Use The U. S. has filed for a new trial in federal court here against Lewis Wilson of Thomasville, and others, charged with trespassing on the St. Marks National Wild Life Refuge.

Last month. Wilson received a directed verdict of innocent and the case was dismissed following a jury trial before Judge G. Har-rold Carswell. Wilson and others in the suit were charged with placing a structure on federal property and failing to remove it. Big Bend There will be considerable sun shine with warm temperatures today and tomorrow with mostly fair and cool tonight.

The high today will be about 86 and the low tonight close to 68. The high tomorrow will again be about 86. The winds are variable but mostly east to southeast with velocities between 4 and 12 miles per hour. The high yesterday was 85 at p. m.

and the low was 65 degrees at 12 p. m. The maximum relative humidity was 90 per cent and the minimum was 43 per cent. Temperatures will average up to three degrees above the normals of highs in the low 80s and lows in the upper 60s through the weekend. There is hardly a chance of precipitation.

RIVER DATA AT BLOl NTSTOWN Today 4.0 stationary. Saturday 40 stationary. Sunday 4.0 stationary. PSfwsM ttxw im toiMi iat4 High School pupils on the was the center of a large boost their team. all the British families are in place.

The youngsters over 11, about 45 of them, will go to Amer ican schools in communities surrounding Eglin. The first foreign post office on U.S. soil will go into operation later this month to process the mail sent out by and received by members of the British Joint Trials Force. The British postal unit will be operated by British army men under arrangements made be tween the British general post office and the U.S. post office department.

The major testing of the Sky-bolt by the British will begin in February with the arrival of Vulcan bombers from England. The Skybolt is designed for use from U.S. B52 jet bombers and from the British four-Jet vulcans, the mainstay of the British strategic striking force. Firm Wins Portions Of Damage Case Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Ltd. of England has won portions of a suit it had filed in federal court here Aug.

16 against James E. Pendleton and Donnie Ray Porter of and has filed a new suit against Porter and Maurice A. Roberts of Apalachicola. Federal Judge G. Harrold Cars-Thewell ruled that Pendleton had breached a portion of an insurance policy issued to him by the firm after Pendleton gave a deposition and then repudiated it concerning an auto accident Aug.

22, 1961 at Carrabelle. The firm in its first suit was relieved of liability covering Pen-delton and authorized to withdraw as hrs defense in the accident tied up in litigation in Franklin County Circuit Court. It had asked for and was granted a tem porary restraining order concerning the Franklin suit which Porter was suing Pendleton for The court lifted the restraining order then the firm filed its second suit against Porter and Roberts asking the court to restrain Porter from court action. The firm also asked it again to de clare the policy breached and that it be not held responsible for any defense of Pendleton or liable for any judgment. The accident involved a car driven by Pendleton but owned by James Moses, with Parter as a passenger, and a car owned by Pendleton but driven by Rob erts.

3 Released By Hospital Three people have been released from Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, one hurt in an auto accident, the second in a shooting and the third in a football game. Mrs. Josephine Louise Hunt, 43, of 319 W. St. Augustine was released after being a patient since Sept.

5. She suffered head and neck injuries when her car left the Thomasville Highway and hit a tree. Dell Travis Ennis, 25, of 1505 Yancey was released after being a patient since Oct. S. He suffered a bullet wound in his lower back after a shooting at Clyde's Supper Club.

Barnes Kcndrick 15, of Box 1435, Route 7, was released after two-days' hospitalization. He suffered a nose injury in a football (ame. swap mile segment of US 90 between Live Oak and the Columbia County line will be "dressed out" in two weeks. Davis reviewed progress on Florida's Interstate Highway system but touched only briefly on the link through this area. "Nothing attracts industry as well as a new he said, "especially a new inter- stale superhighway.

Prospective investors will follow the path of Interstate 10 as it pushes its way across North Florida. You already can see that is happening on Interstate 10 coming west out of Jacksonville and between Lakeland and Tampa on Interstate 4. It means a change in land use. Agricultural and residential will become commercial and industrial land, with a great increase in values." It Happened Here Deaths BROWN. Mrs.

Bessf-Of Tallahassee. Died Saturday. Funeral Sunday. RUSSELL. Clarence Eastpoint.

Died Wednesday, funeral 10 a.m. tomorrow. BRYANT. William Augustus (Gus) Grand Ridge. Died Tuesday.

Funeral held yesterday. GL1SSON, Leo Sneads. Died Wednesday. Funeral 3 p.m. today.

STEPHENS. Leon-Grand RidRe. Died yesterday. Funeral 3 p.m. tomorrow.

Hospital News ADMITTED. Oct. 11: William Dill, 111 Richland Amalee Moore. 402 Fairbanks James Cornell-son, 3320 Thomasville Craig Dennis. 2116 Croydon Ray Wilev, 1S33 Stuckey Mrs.

Phyllis Barto. 317 W. Seventh Mrs. Margaret Stewart, 100 Chapel J. L.

Williams. Perry; Mrs. Pat Rivers. 1417 Sharon An drew Linton, St. Marks; Roy Beall Marianna: Charles Hampton, Rt.

Patricia Shupe, 1210 Fire-thorn Lane; Mrs. Ann Raker. 1249 Poinsett la Morris Lawhon, 3914 Cates Ave. DISCHARGED. Oct 11: Becky Bush.

Sally Buch. Mrs. Bernlce Lasseter. Mrs. Nursle Ashmore, Guy Smith, Katherine Powell, Sari Dyer, Mrs.

Kathleen Cumerlato, Barnes Kendrick Louie Lancaster, Jimmv Holland. Katheryn McClamma. Preston Rabon. William Wtngate. Mrs.

Rebecca Hick-ev, Holice Hampton. Mrs. Leon Vickerg. Mr. Pearl Hough, Charles Bradley.

Fire Alarms Thursday 12:10 a.m.. 522 Camp hell short in record player, no lire. Thursday 5:40 800 North Monroe, car fire, out on arrival. LIVE OAK Resurfacing of SR 49, a 27.4 mile project ex tending from the Gilchrist County line north to US 90 at Live Oak, will begin during 1963, Ralph Davis, executive director of the State Road Department said here last night. Speaking before the annual meeting of the Suwannee County Chamber of Commerce, Davis outlined other improvements included in the current road budget.

He said bids will be taken next month on two drainage wells to overcome the high water problem on US 90 and US 51 at Live Oak during heavy rain. Davis outlined completion of improvements being made on US 27 extending from Branford eastward to the Alachua County line. This $365,000 project, he explained, Ls one in a series to improve US 27 as it extends southward through Suwannee County and into Central Florida. The speaker said the $675,000 reconstruction project on the 11- Chemistry Post At FSU Is Given To Mrs. Hoffman Mrs.

Katherine B. Hoffman has been appointed associate chair man of the department of chem- 'stry at F'or' aa Mate uni- versity. re- places Dr. Rus sell Keirs ho is now as- sociate dean of Graduate School. Mrs.

Hoffman became a mem bcr of the rhpmistrv faculty in 1940. Since that time she has engaged in a number of educational activities in addition to her teaching duties, such as student counseling, Science Fair Committee, Phi Beta Kappa membership committee, National Science Foundation Summer Institute committee, FLACS editorial committee. Her publications include "Pi and Compounds, an Experiment with Models," "Journal of Chemical Education" (December, 1960; "Chemistry for the Applied Sciences" (Prentice Hall, Inc. 1963); "Vistas of Science, Biochemistry" (Scholastic Books Services, 1963). WEATHER FORECAST Rain heavy at times will cover the Pacific Northwest, northern Plains and Plateau regions tonight with scattered showers over the Mississippi valley and north Atlantic coast.

It will be' cooler over the Pacific Northwest and the northern and central Plateau regions as well as the Lakes region. The warm trend will continue over the southern half of the nation east of the Rockies with some warming over the feorUirrn Plains. (AP Wirephoto Map) 4.