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Injured 1 Widows Sought For Confederate Veteran Pension Florida Paying $100 A Month MilWJ. JOJ'J'-'- (tlWMW-'J-l Tl 1 TIT) Hum. 11 II I IT1 Vol. XLIV, No. 174 Section Two Monday, June 23, 1958 ft ranic Accidents I City Is -i Near Pensacola Naval Air Cadet Shot As Prowler PENSACOLA (AP) Sheriff Emmett Shelby today promised an investigation into the death of a naval air cadet shot as a fleeing prowler by deputies.

An inquest is planned by State Atty, Ed Wicke. Boy Unhurt In Soap Box Racer Mishap Three people were injured slightly ln accidents that occurred, within the city yesterday. Two of the Injuries were in single Car wrecks and the third waa In a two-car accident. A fourth accident occurred when a Soap Box racer went out of control and crashed Into a parked car. Morewenna Vack7.an was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital after the car which she waa driving went out of control and landed In a ditch at the Intersection of OrnnRe Avenue and Jim Lee Road.

She was treated for ctrts-and-f met uteri ltb.n. i' j. 'V. I I I Ay ,4 i I I I fJ I I I I 1 It A i A- I J. The cadet, Byron Hayden, 19 of Saufley Field, Pensacola, and Darby, died early yesterday after being shot when he foight his way out of the deputies' car and ran Into woods.

Deputy Pete Godwin and two other officer they found Hayden near the home of Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Hanks after Mr. IT HAPPENED HERE Charge In this column are indicated by these abbreviations RI), reckless driving; DW1, driving while lMolrted; assault; DC, dUorderl conduct; UK, drank; NDL, no driver license ipeedlng. FIRST DUTY: WRITE HOME Youths arriving here for the opening of Boys State had to deposit a letter to their parents In a box before they were admitted for supper last night. to A.

Lee Blitch, Miami; Phillip Owen. Cantonment; Victor Puty, Ocala; Thurman Whitley, De-land; John Cleveland counselor from Coral Gables looks on. State Local Boys Politics Started Boys Staters are selecting election boards and city officials today for the 16 cities into which Boys State is divided. During the afternoon they will go into county politics holding! I I county conventions by KAfninP-FfinH They will study the duties and 1 sa 1 1 1 1 uuu i 6 Die In State Accidents; 4 On The Highway By The Associated Pres Accidents, most of them on the 'ughways, gave Florida a violent ieath toll of least six over the A-eekend. Lamar Hayes Mims, J7.

whose Addresses were listed as Chipley nd Holly Hill, was killed in a traffic accident north of Daytona 3earh Sunday. Two Eglin Air Force Ba.se en-'lsted men perished in a Saturday collision between their automobile and a truck. The victims were Airmen Charles Martin Bond, 21, of Plateau, and George R. Len, 21, of Philadelphia. Alexander Dobak 28, a University of Florida student, was 'lectrocuted while working on a television aerial which touched a power line.

A collision near Daytona Beach Saturday between a Florida East Coast railway freight train and an automobile killed Jess Stoker of Holly Hill, riding in the car. Louis Frank Martin, 37, of driving a contract mall truck, was killed in a collision at Tallahassee Saturday. Boynton Beach Closed After Negroes Swim BOYNTON BEACH (AP)-The latest peaceful invasion by Negroes of municipal beaches for white people was docketed for discus-don today by the mayor and commissioners of this Florida gold coast city. Mayor L. S.

Chadwell, 72-year-old former San Antonio, army officer, said he would talk with Negro leaders as well as with the city commission. He said the beach which he closed after 30 to 40 Negroes used It yesterdays-might be reopened soon. Chadwell got the Negroes to leave after they refused to do so at the request of police. The mayor marched along the surf and talked with William H. Miller, apparent leader of the Negro group, who was in swimming.

Miller came out and left with the others. Miller said his group used only one end of the 9O0-foot bathing strip at Ocean Ridge. He said the Neerces only want a place to swim and do not want an Integrated beach. He said the city of Boynton Beach has turned down proposals for reserving Its Negroes a beach area. About white bather were at the beach when the Negroes arrived and went swimming.

There was no violence. The beach was closed to all comers after the incident. A week before, St. Petersburg closed two municipal bathing facilities after Negroes swam at the spots which had been exclusively used by white people. The Negroes said they would seek swimming rights in court If need be.

Carrabelle Phone Service Restored After Five Days CARRABELLE Telephone service here was back to normal today after the one switchboard last week burned out, curtailing service for some five days, a telephone company official said. H. L. McKinnon. superintendent of the St.

Joe Telephone said the board burned out Tuesday afternoon after a transmission line fed back Into It. No one was Injured. Emergency service was restored In the community within "two or three hours." he said, end local service was restored Friday afternoon after the telephone comnany trucked In another board from Alabama. Toll service was restored Saturday, he added. "We worked around the clock from the time It burned until the service was restored." McKinnon said.

He said if they had been unable to secure the board from a telephone company in Alabama "it might have been two or three months before service was restored." Pan-American Chamber Meets MIAMI (APt-The Chamber of Commerce of the Americas assembled here today for a meeting in which Pan American relations were sure to get thorough discussion in the wake of the Nixon i trip. The chamber tries to stimulate commercial relations among the nations of North, South and Central America and to work toward Improving conditions for Inter-American trade. WASHINGTON itf Members of Congress, particularly those from southern states, have been asked by the Veterans Administration to help locate widows of Confederate veterans. Congress recently passed legislation giving these widows pen-aions and the VA is trying to find any who still are living. It estimates there probably are in the United States.

Under the new law widows under 70 are entitled to $40.64 monthly pensions; those over 70 will receive $65 a month, and if the widow was married to the veteran during the civil war she is entitled to $75 a monlh. The VA recently called on congressmen from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North 'Carolina and Tennessee to spread the word in their respective states that the pensions are available for the windows to step forward. The State of Florida is paying $100 a month pensions to 119 widows of Confederate Army veterans. Mother Leaves Baby In City Phone Booth MALE AH Just left my baby in a phone booth in city hall. I can't provide for him.

Take care of him, please." That was all police got out of a distraught mother before she broke connection Sunday. They found a crying 16-months-old boy right where the telephone caller said he was. Thirty minutes later, the woman telephoned again. name Is Michael Anthony," she said. "I have pneumonia.

Please be good to him." Sgt. Lawrence Leggett pleaded with the woman to identify herself, offering help. But she hun? up. About an hour later a hospital nurse telephoned police that the woman was In a telephone booth nearby. Police who found her said she identified herself as Mrs.

Laura Jones, 21, of Birmingham, Ala. She said she was asked to leave Hialeah lodgings because Michael made too much noise. mother was hospitalized. Michael was placed under county care. Water Project Compromise Seen Likely WASHINGTON (AP) With President Eisenhower likely to (sign the bill agreed upon, a Senate-House conference committee meets tomorrow to try to draft a final version of a compromise measure authorizing l1 billion dollars of water projects.

Is the bill which Eisenhower has twice vetoed In recent years. The Senate version is understood to be entirely acceptable to the administration while the HQuse version has a few provisos the White House doesn't like. However, Republicans have said they believe Eisenhower would either version. Both include a 40 million dollar Central and South Florida flood control appropriation. There are actually about 15 points of differences between the bills but of these are tech-nf2al or Involve minor provisos.

The bills differ on five projects Including plans for Hendry County. Fla. Both bills call for a federal project of $3,172,090 in Hendry but the Senate bill requires a local contribution of 27'i per cent, and the House bill 20 per cent. The Senate bill thus requires local contributions of about more than the House. Tornado Cloud Seen In Kansas KANSAS CITY APi-A tornado cloud twirled its deadly snP' hove metropolian Kansas City yesterday in full view of thousands.

Passing from west to east and slightly south, the funnel swooped near the In Citv. Kan, It r'fted passed above the Union Station, the baseball park and on above the Harry S. Truman Library tn Independence. Then it disappeared. Only damage was in Kansas Ci'y, Kan.

A garage was sucked off its foundation, a trailer was overturned and some windows were smashed. Dog Bites Child A girl was bitten on the right leg by a dog Saturday evening, but not severely. Susan Henderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Henderson of 1514 Airport Drive, was bitten by a cocker spaniel dog owned by James A.

Land, 1402 Atkatfrire Dr. The dog had been vaccinated btjt will be held in the pound for 14 days for observation. responsibilities of county offi' eials. This is the first year the party convention system has been used in the annual exercise in democratic government. Several schools are underway today including schools of law.

peace officers- government and social economics, legislative procedures and public administration. Each boy must attend one- The school of law leads to a bar examination which is a re- Hanks spotted a prowler and her husband grappled with him. The deputies picked up Hayden and were escorting him to headquarters when he broke Godwin said he fired two shots over the cadet's head and fired another shot as he tripped. The third shot entered Hayden' kidney. Patrol Arrests Jim Maxwell Eubanka, Tharpe willful and wanton sneedin Robert Mills McNeal Miami, Improper passlna.

Cleveland Lynn Rt, Box 152, Rohert "Vernon Painter, Phoenix, Artrona, 6. Cleoiha Andrew Hall, lftld Abraham Hi falling to have vehicle under control, Benjamin Bryant, Rt. 1 Box 2.1, allowing unauthorised person to dilvt vehicle. Sheriff's Docket Doris Church, Oalle amault-lii an officer nd DK. John Kenkles.

Havana. DK. Wallace Blake, SI B. Blvd. withholding support.

Police Blotter Gilbert Shaw, W. Carolina liltnung. i Alton Brown 17 W. Vlralnla opermtng a vehicle while license I under suspension. I Raymond Mills, W.

Carolina fiKhting and makln gthreata to do bodily harm with a knife I Jams Authur Bharkellord, PPS ixmnviiia ik' John Henry Ash, SS5 Dover DK. James Marvin Johnson, IIS S. Bro-nough DWI and NDU State Bar Exam Hearing Delayed By The Aaorlated Preag Hearing on a petition by six fledgling lawyers who flunked a recent state bar examination for a review of their papers by the Florida Supreme Court has been postponed until Monday, June 30. The hearing originally was set for today. The six petitioners, graduates of the University of Miami Law College, contend the examination papers were graded by unqualified persons.

Bar examinations are con ducted by the State Board of Law Examiners. Considerable cloudiness with scattered mostly afternoon showers and thundershowers today, tonight and Tuesday will be the weather for the Big Bend, the U. S. Weather Bureau Forecaster predicts. The high today will be 90 and the low tonight 75.

Winds today will be from the southwest under 10 miles per hour except gusty in thunder-showers. During the past 24 hours the high temperature was 92 and the low was 74; the maximum relative humidity was 98 per cent and the minimum was 57 per cent. FL'TfRE OUTLOOK Temperatures are expected to average near normals of 91 and 70 with little day to day change. Scattered thundershowers are indicated nearly every afternoon becoming less numerous toward the end of the week. Hl'N MOON Rle Set Rite Set Today 5 7 42 12 m.

m. Tues 5 -a 4.1 lfltpm. APALAf HICOl.A RIVER DATA AT HI.Ot'NTSTOWN Today: 10 4 falhn. Tuesday: 11 ft stationary. Wednesday: 11.0 stationary.

WyM tare law Ttmnweeixw iKt1 Jy, 1 quirement to practice law in the Chjnes courts which the boys will hold; were filpd bv Can. ater in the schedule. All whojteen Mjlk Inc and canteen ire ambitious to become su-, of Soutnwn Fioridai both jreme court justices or attor-1 of rjade county ney general are encouraged to Thpv nsl. nf nf roucc! cnHigPU ner wan itcr les driving by falling: to have her vehicle under control and faillnir io obey a stop sign. Officers said she was drlvlnn at a fast rate of speed and was unable to control her vehicle when she approached the Orange Avenue deadend at Jim Lee Rond, David Jefferson Boyer, 432 W.

Gaines was driving his taxi south on Duval street early yes-terday morning when apparently he went to sleep at the wheel and crashed into the curb, accordtne to Investigating officers. Boyer suffered a bruised chest and bruises on the his legs. No charges were made. Approximately $2S0 damage waa reported on the taxi. Rohert M.

Peterson, FSU, complained of neck injuries after his car was struck by a car driven by Albeit J. Day, 1506 Rankin Avenue yesterday morning on Mlccosukee Road. Police said no charges were made and approximately $100 damage was done to each car. Alvin O. Stevens lost control of his Soap Box racer during a trial run on South Monroe street yes.

terday afternoon and ran Into parked car owned by Whitman Paradise. Investigating officers i said that approximately $5 dam-i age was done to each vehicle. No charge were made. Miami Pastor Is Re-Elected CLEVELAND (AP)-Pastor A. H.

Roth of Miami. wHLsej-v another term as president of ths Inter-American Division of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He waa re elected at ths 481h quadrennial convention. Circuit Court Works On Civil Litigation Trials of civil cases are scheduled to be held this week In Leon County Circuit Court. Hie only case scheduled today, a $5,000 damage suit brought by Thomas H.

Maxwell against ths City of Tallahassee, was settled out of court. Tallahassee: 92-74 FLORIDA Hich Low Prer. Apalarhlrola Homestead Jacksonville Key West Miami Oi-ala Orlando Pensacola Tampa 73 B5 91 00 St 1 as sa 92 ao si ai H2 71 7.1 74 69 71 72 S2 74 72 74 73 77 74 74 SO 74 85 55 61 Sfi S4 60 1 A4 .58 2S 1 Pft .25 .97 .32 ,2 .25 .23 VI. Palm Beach TAI.LAH ASEE 801'TH Atlanta Nashville New Orleana Savannah Boston New York Philadelphia Pilthurgh EAST .05 .04 Wahington 73 MIDWEST Chlcacn 71 .19 Cincinnati 72 Detroit 74 Inriinapoll 71 Milwaukee 7.1 WEST Albuquerque Denver 7a I.ne Angelea S7 Phoenix 13 Pan Francisco 75 Seattle 91 .03 RAINFALL Total 24 hr. ending 7:00 t.m Total this month Total since Jan 1 Ahovt normal aince Jan.

1 Below normal aince June 1 57J 28 3 ST 104 E3 E3 Tennessee and upper Mississippi area. Elsewhere It will be elear Dakota and Nebraska, (AP Wire Hospital News (This lilt of hnaplUI putlmU I NOT complrle. Th hospital Inr-nltliM Th Democrat only with tht patltnU who fita written permK-ilon (or their diiwi to pud- TAIXAHASSEE MEMORIAL ADMITTED JUNK 21: Knhrvn Cul-brrath, Mm. Patricia McNeill, Mia. Svbil Herndnn, Mra.

Juanlta Kills. Roy Kennedy, Mra Stella Miller, Jninea 8trgt, Harmon MiKenzle, BIllV DreUbarh. JUNG Davla Martin, UOranne; William Noma, Rt. 1, Boi David Rover, 4.12 (lalnm; Mra. Annie Cutter.

116 Branch 81; Mra. Delia Tlndelt, Auchlllr; Mia. Ruth Lee. 1VW Sunset Lane; Mra. Oma, Lynn, Perry; Leonard Melvln.

Altha; Robert Jack-on. Panama, Cltv; Wllburn Wallace, 814 Niplar: Howard Wlmberlv, Rt. S. Bon 4.i: Mra. France William, Rt.

3 Box W-C. DISCHARGED JUNE II: Ray Lynn, Doris Statford, Marlam Tear In Johnny Joyner, Mre. Alice Mathers, Ron-aid DavteoK, Mra. Astrid Jackson, Mil Edward Cox and baby. Mm.

Hannah McConnell, Mra. Harry Dean and bahv. Mra. Orena Pasenrd. Sarah Bevla.

Orlando Bonar. Wllburn Collier. Mra. Eunice Hickey, Mrs, Tom Nugent and baby. Albert Mills.

Mra. Louie McEwan, Thoma Owen JUNE 23: Charles Joiner, Nettle Wilson, Mra Alyce Vlckera, Mra. Helen Johnson, Thotrww Jonea, Sue Miller, Mra. Oeorco Olbba and baby, Mra. Joseph Frltc and baby, Martin Jonea.

Van Brunt Is International Group's Head Harry R. Van Brunt of Tallahassee was elected president of the International Association of Personnel and Employment Security at the association's 4.5th annual convention In Philadelphia, He succeeds George B. Ellison of Bay City. Mich. Van Brunt, who was elevated from first vice president, is chief of Personnel and Training for the Florida Industrial Commission.

He has been active in the IAPES, a personnel development organization since 1939. He served two terms as president of the Florida Chapter and has held various posts at chapter and international levels, Van Brunt began his agency career in 1338 as manager of the Tallahassee local office. He Is a member of the International Council of Personnel Development In Employment Security and is active In various other organizations including the American Legion and the State Association of Civil Service and Personnel Agencies. FSU Man To Join Talks On Schools' Use Of Psychology Dr. W.

Douglas Smith of Florida State University Is one of 60 educators who will attend a conference in Asheville, N. this week on use of psychologists In the public schools. The conference, beginning Thursday, la sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Dr, Smith is associate professor of psychology In the FSU school of education. Participants In the conference will be chief state school officers, heads of university departments of psychology and education, and representatives from large and small city, county, and state school systems.

Conferees will hear a report from Dr. Louis Cohen of Duke University's Department of Psychology and Psychiatry. Dr. Cohen has recently completed a series of Interviews with state and local school officials throughout the South to deter- i mine the extent and nature of the the use of school pathologists In the region. Dr.

Cohen's study was conducted under the auspices of SREB'g Commission on School Psychologists and also supported by the NIMH grant. Vendors Sue To Stop Tax Two suits have been filed in Leon County Circuit Court here seeking an injunction to stop State Comptroller Ray Green from collecting sales taxes on milk and fond dist.rihut.inff ma- $8,570.89 in sales taxes they have paid since July, 1957. The companies allege in the suits that under the provisions of the Florida satutes as amended in 1957 they are entitled to a sales tax exemption from "sales tax or use tax" because they are selling "food or food products or milk or milk products." They seek a declaratory decree "le milium iu the exemption and an injunction preventing the comptroller from collecting such taxes, as well as the return of taxes they have already paid. DAV Elects Robert Kelly TAMPA (APi Robert T. Kelly of Coral Gables is the new commander of the Florida Department of the Disabled American Veter- Hs was elected yesterday along with these officers: Robert Gonzales of Pensacola.

senior senior vice commander; Francis Benedetto of Hialeah, first junior vice commander; John L. Epping of Dade City, second junior vice commander; Roland B. Etheridge of Tampa, judge advocate; James F. Taylor of Hollywood, chaplain; Horace D. Johnson of Jacksonville, adjutant; Lon P.

Poston of Tampa, treasurer, Marie Waldeman of Hialeah was elected president of the women's auxiliary. Jacksonville was chosen convention city for 1959. Police Seeking Stolen Automobile A 1957 Ford, two door, light green, bearing license plate num- ber 21-2707 was reported stolen to the Tallahassee Police Department yesterday afternoon. Norman McMillan, owner of the car, said that the car was taken between 9 p.m. Piturday and 3 p.m.

Sunday from 832 W. Tennessee St. AH -local law agencies have been notified and are checking for the vehicle. attend it. Candidates for president of the Senate and speaker of the House must attend the school if legislative procedure.

Rudolph Barnett Dies In Greensboro o.orirvcnrtnft rt I Barnett. 62, died last night atj his home in Greensboro Mr. Barnett was born in Portland, had been a resident of Greensboro for 30 years and was a veteran of World War I. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the But-lrr-Morgan chapel with the Rev.

Renau Dominey and the Rev. Ray Gregory officiating- Burial will be in the Hatchers cemetery in Freeport. Mr. Barnett is survived by one brother. J.

W. Barnett of Greensboro; two sisters, Mrs. F. E. Worthington of Waynesville, N.

C. and Mrs. A. L. Coleman of Baytown.

Tex. I Avocado, Lime Crop Damaged i i MIAMI fAPi A crop forecaster said today adverse weather has shrunk Dade County's mango, av-locado and lime crop which sup plies national markets. John Campbell, county agent, said "a combination of every kind of bad weather" would leave little but salvage fruit. The harvest, Just beginning, should have started three weeks ago. IQ Answers Below are the answers to the Quiz questions printed on page t' 1.

Boston. 2. False. 3. "Shellbacks." 4.

Woodrow Wilson. 5. St. Helena 6. Bons.

7. Mule. 8. Jtoom -Temperature- 9. See.

10. Cuba. BOYS' GOVERNOR Speaking at the opening of 1958 Boys State here last nighi was J. Russell Gray of Marianna, whose term as governor of the mock state will expire Thursday after a new Governor is elected as the climax of a week-long exercise in democratic government sponsored by the American Legion and Florida State University. Three Sentenced In Circuit Court Three persons convicted earlier of various offenses were sentenced in Leon County Circuit Court this morning by Judge Ben C.

Willis. Bertham "Gill" Ouelltt, convicted of grand larceny, was sentenced to serve from six months to five years in state prison affr his probation was revoked for violation of restrictions on his behavior. Jimmy Lee Granger, charged in one cae with breaking and entering and in another with entering without breaking, was also given a six months to five years sentence- Judz Willis recommended the term be served in Apalachee Correctional Institution. Wilson James, who guilty to aggravated was given four years on probation on condition he pay court costs and medical bills of the man he injured. One Year Baby Pictures Tuesday Pictures of one year olds with birthdays through July 25 will be taken at the Democrat to- morrow between 3 and 5 p.m.

I The pictures are taken free and when possible, negatives are given to the parents. tkxlm frt U.l. mATMM tUtU WEATHER FORECAST Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected tonight In the north and middle Atlantic states, the Great Lakes region, the Ohio, yalleya and In the Gulf enast with some wermlng In South photo Map).