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Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • 7

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1 Section Two Monday, June 4, 1 973 1 3 Local News Sports Classified Ads aiiaiiassee Sevenfh VcfiVn of Alday Suspect Is Found 1 fi MCCONNELLSBURG, Pa. (UPI) The body of a young man believed killed by one of four suspects charged in the mass murder of a Georgia farm family was found Sunday near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Maryland state police found the body of Richard Miller, 19, off a road about 10 miles from Flintstone, Md. The victim was returned to his home here where he was positively identified by Pennsylvania authorities. Miller was last seen alive May 10, when he chased four men who stole a neighbor's pickup truck.

In a confession to the FBI, Wayne Coleman, 26, said he shot and killed Miller after he and his three companions commandeered the victim's car near here. He said he dumped the body near a sign which read, "Welcome to Maryland." Miller's car later was found abandoned mear Donalson-ville, where six members of the Ned Alday family were slain on their farm May 14. Coleman, his half brothers, Carl Isaacs, 19, and William Isaacs, 15, all of Parkville, and George Dungee, 35, of Baltimore, all face murder charges in Donalsonville. They were captured May 17 and 18 near Welch, W. Va.

Miller was taken to Sipes Funeral Home in Harrison-ville, about 10 miles west of here. Funeral arrangements were incomplete. fir Wnnntifrm FAMU Needs Programs, Money Anderson Says large block of blacks" but "others are equally as guilty of violating desegregation orders." "Other universities have been trying to maintain a low profile in hopes the problem will blow away," he said. mEnrollment at Florida's eight other universities is 3.4 per cent black. Breaking up FAMU will not result in integration of the other schools, Anderson said.

"In every instance where a black university has been dis integrated, the staff has not been picked up by major white universities," he said. "And it is common knowledge that 80 per cent of FAMU's student body probably would not be admitted to any of the white universities." II-- St. Marks Oil Spill Contained ST. MARKS One of two barges owned by the Southern Terminal and Towing Corp. of Pensacola -struck a submerged object in the St.

Marks River Saturday causing an oil slick that was quickly contained. Major John Walker of the Florida Marine Patrol said the barges were headed for a St. Marks terminal when in the process of turning around one barge apparently struck a rock in the river. "THE TUG CAPTAIN imme-diately noticed the spill," Walker said, "and positioned the second barge so as to prevent the oil from escaping to the main body of the river." Walker said the uninjured barge remained in that position until the leaking compart-mentwas pumped out. "Local people pitched hay in the water to soak up the escaping oil," he said, "and a curtain was put around the slick." Walker described the oil -spill as a small one.

"It was contained quite well," he said. 'The department stayed on hand Saturday to see that everything was done according to the state's oil spill law," he said. aJ see what it was all about," said Mrs. Loretta White. "Marksmanship could come in handy for us too." On the first line above are Mrs.

White, Carolyn Spiers, Betty Smith, and Connie Tay-1 (Democrat Photo by Jan Wives Shootout Wives of Tallahassee Police Department officers held their own shootout Saturday at the Leon County pistol range east of town to keep their husbands honest." We just wanted to Leon Man Drowns In Cherokee Sink I yA fc-" II UllllJ .11 i ujuni, Vice Chancellor Phil Ashler Presents Army Award FAMU President B.L Perry receives highest civilian medal Perrs Work for ROTC Gains Army Recognition By The Associated Press Gov. Reubin Askew's education adviser, Claud Anderson, says there's nothing wrong with Florida University that money and programs can't cure. FAMU, Anderson said, has been "systematically kept financially and programmati-cally anemic." "A lot of shortcomings of FAMU can be charged as FAMU's fault," he said, "but an equal amount of fault is that of the community and the state that have not gone too far out of their way to make FAMU a viable and competitive institution over the last 80 years it has existed." Anderson, a black graduate of Wayne State University and the University of Illinois, said the Board of Regents needs to give money and programs to FAMU not any special role when it draws a new university system desegregation plan. The regents meet Tuesday in Orlando to consider a new plan to submit to the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department by June 11.

In rejecting the old policy, HEW focused on FAMU's enrollment, which is 2.8 per cent white, and said the schol's assigned role as a developer of "leadership in minority communities" discourages white enrollment. Chancellor Robert Mautz said FAMU's history as a black institution was important as a symbol of black pride. But Anderson said FAMU should have no separate role. "I think it would still be a source of pride to the black community while it is equally competitive with white universities," he said. "Blacks will still know black universities performed heroically, shuttle blacks from the cotton fields to the athletic fields, from consumer to producer," he said.

"If they want to save FAMU, they can simply give FAMU some priorities in contracts, new buildings, seed money or makeup money for past years, new dormitories and more attractive programs," he this occurs, white students will naturally gravitate to FAMU." He said, "FAMU is not a black university, it is a public university." FAMU is an HEW target, he said, because it "constitutes a ADMITTED June 3: Dianne Craft, 3271 Pennell Circle; Susan Wagner, FSU Trailer Park; Clain Tripplet, 517 Howard Bertha Black, 513 Fancy Eugenia Moore, Rt. 4 Box 381 Natalie Weller, Rt. 4 Box 369; Alfonzo Chetnut Quincy; Diane Ross, 402 Dupont Clara Bause, Quincy; Donna Sutton, Lee; Curtis Ward, Attapulgus, Richard Bis-chof, Bainbridge, Ruth Forehand, 1814 Portland; Gene Walden, Cairo, Martha Mase, Thomasville, Ga. and Thomas Seale, 2002 Myrick Rd. June 2: Early Mann, Claudia Young, Harvey Hutchins, Lisa Riddlehover, Grady Hardy, Stella Ward, Mary McDowell, Mattie O'Steen, Ivey Tillman and Walter Leverett.

June 1: Collie Earnest, Owayne Price, Joanne Parker, Margaret Allen, Stephanie Boyd, Winnie Hardy, John Willis, Lina Smith, Mamie Williams, Heloise Pound, Ethel Raker, Mary Williams, Paula Biggerstaff, Letha Walker, Carrie Winkler, Ruby Barkley, Herman Simms, George Link, Virginia Berry, Shelia Peterson, Charles Allen, Ollie Pierce, Pauline Burns and Joanne Fant. DISCHARGED Frazier Barnes, Jacqueline Oglesby, Heloise Pound, Richard O'Pry, Shelia Peterson, James Smith, Mamie Williams, Gussie Pierce, Bernice Welch, Shawn Gorman, Scott Angelo, Douglas Stone, Mary Aired, Paula Biggerstaff, Carolyn Adams, Lola Bice, Elizabeth Henry, John Willis and Owayne Price. Roland Stevens, Calvenia Johnson, Myrick Bucan, Alex Cawthorne, Willie Butler, Dorothy McNeal, William Hol-ingsworth, Lucinda Ford, Donald Merle, Alfred Lawson, Bertha Lee, Frances Courson, Louise Rentz, Maggie Watson, George Rankin, Viola Daniels, Ann Re-vell, Mary Randolph, Lisa Capperollo, Mary Williams, Mary Archobold, Minnie Shaw, Robert Pate, Amentha Black, Homer Tomberlin and George Carter. Joyce Mills. James Croder, Corder, W.

E. Clark, Ida Larwood, Nancy Smith, John Gaissert, Cindy Phipps, Elizabeth Jacobs, Lessie Byrd, Farris Parramore, Mertle Bodiford, Kathie Blaylock, John Laney, Eddie White, Phillip Jarmen, Yvelene Kelley, Stanford Culpepper, Katherine Miller, Edward Callaway, Robbie Perkins, Jerry Issler, John Roberts and Herman annually during commencement exercises. In another surprise presentation Dr. Leonard Johnson, president of the FAMU National Alumni Association presented Perry with a check for $49, 000, representing the amount of funds raised from alumni during the past nine months. Johnson said that Coach Gaither Retiring Page 14 more than $25,000 would be raised within the next week at two regional meetings in Orlando and Philadelphia.

Later in the ceremony, awards were presented to 20 FAMU employees who retired during the academic year. Included among the retirees was Jake Gaither who was moved to tears when he received a standing ovation from the audience. Gaither told the audience, people are always talking about what Jake has done for football and for FAMU but it has been what FAMU and football has done for me. They have provided me with the happiest years of my life and the opportunity to work with initials TK on his left arm and a star tattoo between his index finger and thumb. Class Is Set QUINCY Drapery making and other window dressing will be taught in the Cloverleaf Room of the Canning Center in Quincy the week of June 11-15, according to the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences.

Mrs. Ursula Williams, extension home economist, will teach the course. The training will be given at Havana Heights on the same dates. The program will include making of Austrian draperies, pinched pillow case drapes, kitchen or den curtains, decorative window shades, covering cornice boards and inexpensive valances for glass curtains. Lake Closed CRESTVIEW Hurricane Lake near Munson, in the Blackwater River State Forest, will not be opened to public fishing June 11 as planned, according to the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, which has rescinded its earlier order to open the new lake.

The lake will remain closed to all fishing until further notice, officials said. Jerry Banks, assistant chief of the Commission's Fishery Division, Tallahassee, advised the regional office in Panama City that decision to delay opening the lake is a move to improve bass populations in the lake. He said that the lake did not fill to desired water levels until Lanark Exhibit Opened By W.S. SCHLLEY Democrat Correspondent LANARK Frank Kirkner, a 77 year old marine ecolo-gist, Saturday opened at Lanark Village a "Wonder of the Sea" exhibit the first of it's type in Franklin County. Coming here from Destin in December 1971 after having developed and operaed the Sea and Indian Museum at Santa Rosa in Walton County, he planned to retire on his arrival here but said, "I got tired of loafing, I wanted something to do." So Frank Kirkner began collecting the wonders of the sea.

He gathered and preserved sharks, octopuses, goose fishes, crabs, lobsters plus whatever else he could find and started mounting them for display. Then last year, just before he opened, Hurricane Agnes struck and destroyed a great many of the items and exhibit buildings. While many younger men would have despaired at the wreckage, Frank started in again, rebuilt the facilities and recollected hundreds of items. Fortunately the famous Albert Bailey Shell Collection was not lost in the storm. Now the exhibit area contains six aquariums crawling with such salt water creatures as sea horses, starfish, anemones, batfish and many others which were provided by Gulf Specimen Company.

Jack Rudloe, president of Gulf Specimen Company, who assisted with the displays said, "I think 'Wonders of the Sea' is an excellent idea and that it is much needed in the Big Bend of Florida." Ex-PGW, Wife Obtain Divorce TULSA, Okla. (AP) Former POW' Hubert Clifford Walker and his wife Jana have been granted a divorce on grounds of incompatibility. Mrs. Walker filed divorce proceedings before Walker, an Air Force captain, was re-, leased after five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp. He filed a countersuit.

Mrs. Walker won custody of their two daughters, with Walker to pay $100 a month support for each child until they reach 18. A property division was included in the decree. CRAWFORD VILLE A Tallahassee man, 19 year oldHugh Bradley of 1665 May-hew EU i has apprantly drowned'in Cherokee Sink in Wakulla County, according to the Leon County sheriffs office. Bradley, accompanied by four companions, jumped into the sink about 4 p.m.

Sunday and started to swim across. He disappeared shortly after that. Divers from the sheriff's office are assisting the Wakulla County sheriff's department in the search. The sink is located in a wooded area approximately six miles north of Franklin Plans APALACHICOLA A preliminary meeting of a Comprehensive Planning Commission for Franklin County has been held here. Barry Boswell and James McCall of the Northwest Florida Development Council were present to explain the purposes and need for comprehensive planning, and the duties of the planning commission.

"Developers are buying up big tracts of land in Florida, if you have no control, (hey can do whatever they please. It is up to youto decide what you want," McCall told the group. A professional counselor will work with the local commission with the Department of Housing and Urban Development financing $15,750 of the total cost and the area chipping in $5,250. Dr. Photis Nichols, chairman of the Apalachicola Planning Commission, taking a pessimistic view of the situation, said that the county needs more taxable type properties because of the lack of industries.

Body Is Found CRESTVIEW, Fla. (AP) -Authorities are trying to identify the body of a white man found at a rest area off I-10. Okaloosa Sheriff Ray Wilson said the 18-to-20-year-old man apparently died of pneumonia. He said there were no identification papers on the body. The man.

found Friday by a group of National Guardsmen stopping to rest, was described as about six feet tall, 120 to 140 pounds, with hazel eyes and dishwater blond hair. He was wearing a small girl's ring, a gold man's ring with an oval black stone, a homemade ring with red, blue and silver glitter, and a couple of chains around his neck, Wilson said. Wilson said the man had several tattoos, including the heavy rains tell in early spring, and that bass particularly did not have sufficient water and food to grow and develop within the time table set for opening the lake. Bass Stocked PANAMA CITY An additional million striped bass fin-gerlings currently are being released in the Chocta-whatchee River and fresh water tributaries emptying into the river and Choctawhachee Bay, for the largest single stocking since the Northwest Florida Bass Project began in 1968, James M. Barkuloo, in charge, said Tuesday.

The stocking now in progress brings the total number of fish released to a whopping 2.6 million, he said. Power Company Disputes Nader MIAMI (AP) Florida Power Light Co. officials, reacting to a suit by Ralph Nader and environmentalists, say their Turkey point nuclear generators are as safe as technology will allow. Nader and the Friends of the Environment filed suit Thursday against the Atomic Energy Commission, charging that 20 of the nation's 31 nuclear plants were being allowed to operate without adequate safe-guards against potentially dangerous accidents. Turkey Point generators were among those cited in the suit filed in U.S.

District Court in Washington. graduated from high school, and moved to Thomasville with his family in 1912. He was a banker before opening an insurance agency in 1933, and he retired in 1960. He is survived by one brother, Hull Searcy of Thomasville, and a sister, Mrs. Louise Well-er, of Bartlesville, Okla.

Funeral Services will be at the First Baptist Church Tuesday morning, with burial in Thomasville. thousands of young outstanding men." Other retirees include: Mrs. Johnnie V. Lee, music; Sylvester L. Beasley, technology; Edwin F.

Norwood educa-t i Mrs. Willie M. Miles, high school; Dr. James Hudson, philosophy and religion; Dr. Leander J.

Shaw Education. Evelyn Kidd, mathematics; E. T. Brooks, agriculture; Irene V. Mandexter, business; Faleda Webber, high school; Elois J.

Wright, high school. Walter Houston, Aaron Whi-tehurst, Wilbert Williams, Phillip Sellers, W. O. Paul and Fred Warren, all maintenance; Queen L. Marshall, placement; Maggie McKinnon, laundry.

Paper Published MARIANNA Paul Huang, a biology professor at Chipola Junior College, recently published one of his research papers in the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. The title of his paper was "Experimental Infection of Mosquito Larvae By a Species of the Aquatic Fungus Lagenidium." Readers of the "Capitol News from Paul Steinberg," find out the Miami Democrat's newsletter has Steinberg's picture, a Democratic donkey, the state seal, and the caption: "He Cares About People." The legislature's only independent and the Senate's only woman, Lori Wilson writes her "Letter from Lori." The report is handwritten and occasionally printed in the form of paid advertisements. Freshman Sen. Don Gruber, R-Miami, writes, "don't worry about adverse comments in the press about me. They frequently feel specialy the editors that they should serve as the 'gadfly' and harass the legislators supposedly to keep us on the ball.

Florida University President Benjamin Perry was awarded the Army's highest medal given to a civilian during commencement exercises Sunday in Gaither Gymnasium. Dr. Philip Ashler, executive vice chancellor of the State University System and a re-tired admiral pinned "The Outstanding Civilian Service Medel" on Perry for his support of ROTC programs. Perry was cited specifically for numerous speeches, travel and outstanding efforts made on behalf of ROTC programs in general and his support of the ROTC programs on campus. FAMU has both Army and Navy ROTC programs.

Watching the presentation was an audience of more than 5,000 including the largest graduating class in the history of the university. Nine white graduates participated in the ceremonies. In a commencement address Dr. Richard Moore, president of Bethune Cookman college encouraged the graduates to have the courage of their convictions, to not be afraid of failure arid to work hard for the goals they hope to achieve. "It is through striving for perfection which is never attained and through the making of mistakes that we improve and better ourselves, for education is not a destination, it is a journey and we are always en route," Moore said.

He told the graduates, "you have a backlog of decisions left you by past generations, and only you can make them, for the true test of our educational system is not the size of our cities, the product of our factories or the crop from our fields, the true test is the type of leaders that we produce." A FAMU accounting graduate who was a victim of a tragic accident while working for he Cooper and Lybrand accounting firm had an award established in his name by the firm. Firm representative presented a plaque in the name of L.C. Sherman to this years outstanding accounting student Kever Conyers. The firm will present the award Legislators 'Score' Selves for Voters Thomas Official Is Cancer Victim By United Press International The Florida Legislature, going into more overtime, is still far from finished with its 1973 work. But there are already some lawmakers who are reporting their efforts to their constitu-tents in newsletters, flyers, and untitled assessments of their own achievements.

A random sampling shows a striking lack of self criticism and an unflinching taste for self congratulation. Sen. Walter Sims of Orlando assures his district that he has been "active and effective" this year. Rep. Barry Kutun of Miami, tops off his "legislative straight talk from Barry Kutun," with a picture of himself shaking hands with U.S.

Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla. THOMAS VILLE, Ga. (AP) Paul Searcy, retired insurance executive and former chairman of the Thomas County Commission, died of cancer Sunday at the age of 82. Searcy was also former president of the Chamber of Commerce and former commander of American Legion Post 31.

A native of Talbot County, Searcy spent his boyhood in Meigs and Pavo, where he was i.

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