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10A (Tlif ffirnaarola 3ourn.il Wednesday, June 17, 1970 Victim Bludgeoned to Death Autopsy Indicates Murder; Bodv Still Unidentified Oil Talk High (CONTINUED FROM PACE good dreams that oil will be brought in on their places." A weathered farmer in Segrest's store laughed. "1 laid in bed dreaming this morning about them hitting oil on my land," he said, "and I darned near didn't get up in time to go to work." trash, the road is also used as a lover's lane. Identification Officer Dick Barlow said that getting fingerprints will be unlikely and identification will depend greatly on the man's teeth. Powell said that he has assigned most of his investigation bureau to the case, including Monroe Matheny and Adrian i along with identification officers Barlow and John McGlothern. yards past a small dirt lane where people had dumped trasn.

The pair told investigators they saw a refrigerator abandoned near the tree and were attracted to the gravesite by an unusual odor. The body was buried in approximately five- or six inches of soil. The burial site is off a side road with only two houses in the vicinity. Powell said that along with being a dumping ground for abandoned appliances and 1 Ji A P- '7s, I I I i "ffrr I a i I if. Commodity Chiefs Suspension Upheld SEGREST said his station and store were about 12 miles south of Jay.

"The further north you get," he added, "it gets a little hotter in leasing, while they're still just paying $20 an acre down here." Hatfield butted in that all of the county has started to benefit from the money which the oil companies have begun to spend around Jay. "Just Saturday," he remarked, "a Jay hardware man told me that $3 million already has been spent by the oil people for royalty rights. That money's helping everybody." If the oil bonanza struck on St. Regis Taper Co. pineland west of Jay extends deep in the south end of the county, not everybody there has been contacted about a lease.

A black haired woman and two children inspected tomato plants behind their house a couple miles north of U.S. 90 on State Road 197-A. "1 haven't heard' of any leasing of land down this way," she said. "I haven't heard any talk about it I'm just concerned with the worms in my tomatoes." Frank Enfingcr, who owns a service station and store with his brother at the intersection of State Roads 184 and 197, said people around there are just hoping. He wasn't overly optimistic.

"If there was any great amount of oil in this area," he declared, "we feel there'd be a beehive of activity by oil people signing leases. "The farthest south of any leasing I've heard of is near Elizabeth Chapel (Methodist Church). "I own 20 acres just north of here and if they come and want to lease it for a dollar or so an acre, I'll just sit down on it." ELIZABETH Chapel Methodist Church sat calmly in the warm June sun, its serenity giving no indication of excitation over possible oil wealth in the vicinity. Magnolias fronted the church on the highway and an arc of palms stood between them and the tall pines shading the church. The next turnoff to the north led east and to the unpretentious home of the Ralph Aid family, owners of 10 acres.

Mrs. Ard sat on the edge of her porch, some of the planks in need of repair, and shushed a ficsty dog which was chased by two barefooted youngsters. "Nobody has contacted us about leasing our land," Mrs. Ard shrugged. "I think they're talking to the big property owners.

"But those oil people don't know what we know, that our 10 acres are right in the middle of the big properties. "In the past, some of them 10 years ago and some 5 years ago, wells were drilled all around us. They'd put down the wells and leave them. "I know they smell something because they've been through all these woods around here. Most of them are St.

Regis timberland." Mrs. Aid commented thai a lot of people she had talked to had said they were going to "hold on to their land." JAY GETS GREEN LIGHT FOR MORE OIL WELLS IN AREA boom may put more than one traffic light in West Florida town (Pensacola Journal photo by Tom Bell) Out-of-Florida Students Backed By JOHN WAITE Journal Staff Writer The Escambia County Civil Service Board Tuesday upheld the five-day suspension of Commodity Department Superviso James 0. Campbell. He was suspended by the County Commission on May 25. Campbell was suspended for failing to carry out an executive order of the County Commission by closing the Commodity Department warehouse to the public between 12-1 p.m.

during the week prior to May 25. The Civil Service Board's ruling was in three parts. The board upheld the suspension by agreeing with the contention of the commission that Campbell should have understood instructions issued at a May 15 County Commission meeting. The ruling also said that if Campbell found himself unable to comply with the commission directive, he should have sought assistance from Commission Administrative Assistant B. B.

Murphey. On the third point, the board chastised the commission for not using proper administrative channels in issuing its directive to keep the warehouse open. County Attorney Jack Green-hut representing the commission attempted to establish through testimony by Campbell, Murphey and Commis-sioners Henry Lane and Sam Armour that Campbell was present at the meeting May 15 and understood the commission's directions. Campbell, who was not represented by an attorney, contended the warehouse was never entirely closed to the public although the doors were shut during the lunch hour on three occasions following the May 15 meeting. He also contended that the commission instructions were unclear and that Murphey, who he said was present on at least one occasion when the doors By MIKE COULTER Journal Staff Writer A man whose body was found near here Monday was apparently beaten to death, sheriff's investigators said Tuesday.

"This is definitely homicide," said Sgt. Don Powell an autopsy report. "We are try ing now to establish the victim's identity. Powell said that an autopsy performed by Dr. Albert Drlicka at Baptist Hospital revealed that the cause of death was several blows to the right side of the head by a baseball bat type of instrument.

"The autopsy also revealed that the man had several bruises on the arms where he attempted to ward off the attacker. He suffered from a broken right wrist and broken fingers on the left hand," Powell said. The man was approximately 40 years old, balding, with dark brown hair; six feet, one inches tall and between 180 to 190 pounds. "We have also found out that the man had been dead between eight and 14 days. The body was found beneath a tree three-fourths of a mile west of Bronson Field by a man and a woman looking over the area with the intention of buying it, Powell said.

Powell said the body was buried in a shallow grave several The James interview was carried over WSRE-TV as a special service. It originated in Gainesville with Mark Damen as producer and questioner. James, who saw action in Korea and Vietnam and is now stationed at the Pentagon, said young people were more advanced and know more today than in his generation. "It strikes me as a natural part of the times," he said when asked about protest movements. "They (young people) are l' out.

mmmmjk were closed, failed to contridict his decision to close. Murphey indicated in his testimony that while he had not di- rected Campbell not to close the warehouse, he had informed Campbell that by closing the doors he was acting in direct conflict with the commission's instructions. Greenhut and Civil Service Attorney Hobart Worley, who acts as hearing examiner in such appeals, disagreed several times during, the proceedings over the admissability of testimony. Greenhut entered exceptions to testimony of commodity warehouse employes by which Campbell attempted to show that he did not have sufficient personnel to carry out the instructions. Commissioner Sam Armour, who initiated the suspension, said the instructions to Campbell could not have been misunderstood.

Lane agreed that Campbell, who was present for most of the discussion pertaining to the commodity program during the May 15 commission should have understood the instructions. However; he contended also that proper administrative channels were not followed. Lane said the instructions should have been implemented through a written directive by Murphey, whom he referred to as "a $17,000 man while Campbell is a $5,000 employe." He said that Murphey should have, as a part of his duties, seen that Campbell obeyed the instructions. Campbell contended in his testimony that a change in personnel ordered by the commission and an inspection by a federal team placed a heavy workload on his department during the period in question. He also said that two employes which the commission agreed on May 15 to provide him were of little help since they were not trained in commodity distribution.

been unable thus far to find sufficient melons to fill their needs, a condition attributed to the slow ripening. That is credited with reversing a downward price trend over the weekend. Some growers were reported selling for a low as $1.50 per hundred pounds in the field late last week. The price Monday was reported to be ranging from a low of $1.75 per hundred to a high of $2.50 per hundred pounds. Highest price reported paid thus far was $3.50 per hundred pounds for the first trailer-truck load that moved from the Holmes Fruit and Vegetable Market in Esto on Monday of last week.

"We expect harvesting to be stepped up gradually through this week, but we don't anticipate full-scale activity until about next Monday," said Bob Deal, manager of the Chiplev market. Markets are usually maintained at Esto, Bonifay, Chip-ley, Graceville, Cottondale and Marrianna, serving the Washington Holmes Jackson County area, where the bulk of the West Florida commercial crop is grown. Leading the popularity parade again this year is the Charleston Gray, but its dominant position is being distantly challenged by the Jubilee it is a long, green melon with distinctly darker green stripes and well-rounded ends The rind is faintly grooved, hard making it well adapted for shipping When fully ripe the flesh of the melon is uniformly brieht red in color, with fine texture and flavor. It appears to be a little less prolific than th old reliable" Gray 'laiicsion which has many 0f the same nnalitioc li lit ani 'ing J131! been nn portation hnttlpmu tk.t i has developed in the pas" Melon Ripening Slowed by Weather ft iff fen Ji inflow i 'ti sin I HERDS OF cattle grazed and lush fields of corn stretched tall in the sun alongside soybeans and other crops on either side of 197. Maybe oil is underneath the land but on the top of the soil everything was green, green, green growth of one kind or another.

Mrs. Ard sheltered her eyes from the glare as she gaied across the fields, of which nine acres, mostly in soybeans, were rented of the family's 10. "We're going to got some of it, some of this oil money, and gosh knows we need it," she sighed. "I'm telling you right now that our price is $50 an acre. "It's about time something happened to stir up this section.

"I was born up the road and this knucklehead came by and I married him and never got out of the county. My husband works for St. Regis." A man in overalls, a baseball-type cap and a long sleeved shirt to protect him from the sun halted his tractor for a minute north of Chumuckla. "Oil excitement?" he paraphrased a question. "1 guess so, but I ain't losing any sleep waiting for it to bring me money.

"I been through these things before. But this could be it. If they got oil at Jay, and reports say it's a real find, it has to stretch outward in some direction." John G. Hudson, 88, rocked at ease on his porch which resembled a breczeway as cooling breaths of air ran across it from trees he planted 65 years ago. By MAURICE MARLING Journal Staff Writer Presidents of the nine universities in the Florida system agreed Tuesday during a meeting of the Council of Presidents at the University of West Florida that having 10 per cent of the student body composed of out-of-state students is desirable.

The university presidents will $307,000 Conlracl For Arts Center byPJC Bv fWWF HENDERSON Journal Stall Writer Fulghum and Hinman Inc. of Pensacola was awarded a $307,000 contract for the of an arts building by the Pensacola Junior College Pord of Trustees Tuesday nipht. The firm's bid was the lowest of six which ranged up to $36.000. Dr. William Moore, PJC vice president, said that if constructs begins within 10 days the hni'ding which will house instructional facilities for art forms nther than the performing arts should be completed about Jan.

15. The board voted to uphold the (tensions of its ad hoc committee on personnel affairs not to honor the requests of two PJC employes. Robert E. Stan'ey, a nhysical education instructor whose contract 's not being renewed, was denied requests that his contract be renewed, that he be paid salary reparations he Haimed he was owed and that he be promoted to the rank of assistant professor. Dr.

Hiram Smith PJC di-rec'or of research, was denied pcrm'ssion to transfer to a teaching position. Following the board's action, a member, James Lay, asked that a committee be formed to adopt policies and procedures for hearing staff and student grievances. PJC President T. Felton Harrison said the two occurences the board acted on were the first of their and that nrior to these instances no procedures for handline requests or grev-ances of that nature had been necessary. In other action the board: Approved a retainer of $5,000 per year for board's attorney.

M.J. Menge. Approved the appointment of Dr. Frank E. Williams as a consulting physician.

A document listing Dr. duties said he would be on call "during normal school hours or as conditions may warrant," outline procedures for school nurses, conduct physical examinations for the school's personnel department and perform ether functions. Allocated $2,500 as the college's contribution to the Inter-nat'onal Conference on the Relationship of Junior Colleges with Upper Level Universities now in progress a' the University of West Florida. make this recommendation to the Board of Regents. The presidents agreed that at least 20 per cent of those out-of-state students should have a tuition waiver.

(Tuition waiver means that they would pay the same tuition as "in-state students" and have' a waiver from paying out-of-state tuition, which is consid erably higher than in-state tuition.) The university presidents explained that Florida schools' have attracted many out-of-state students. Among them have been athletes, music and honor students and'others of special interests in specific fields. The presidents also held a lengthy discussion on graduate programs at the universities. It was pointed out that the Legislature during this last session did not increase the number of graduate students for the entire university system. As a result of that action, the newer universities such as the University of West Florida find that the quota of graduate students is entirely too small in order to accommodate all the various applicants.

The presidents agreed to conduct a campaign to get the Legislature durng its next session to remove the graduate study' quotas. It was also agreed that there would be no reduction in the current number of graduate students in any of the schools. The university presidents also agreed that the newer universities, such as University of West Florida, must have a major masters program in order to dcve'op the potentials of the type of education which is urgently needed. Shuemake Visits Pensacola H. D.

Sam Shuemake, of Graceville, an announced Republican candidate for the office of congressman from the First District composed of nine West Florida counties, was in Pensacola Monday and Tuesday contacting supporters and making plans for a fund-raising dinner. The. dinner will be on Julv 23 at Oscar's restaurant in West Pensacola. Shuemake made his candidacy public on June 6 during a news conference held at the Hotel San Carlos. "I am running for this office because I feel the politicians have left the people and because long-term lawmakers are no longer producing answers to our nation's problems," he said.

Shuemake said he will rely on personal contacts rather than big money to win the congressional seat. "I shall begin my campaign on July 1 at the Chattahoochee River and travel west, walking through each town making personal contact with West Florida voters. Moreover, I shall travel with a new broom which I shall carry with me to Washington. This broom will tell the people that a new broom sweeps better than the old one and that it is lime to make a change." Ava Sfc Mil I vri I auuJt MARIANNA Some rains, followed by dry but cloudy weather and cold nights have slowed the ripening process for watermelons in this area, according to Jackson County extension director W. W.

Glenn. In some ways that's good, according to Glenn. The extra time is used to add flavor and overall quality to the maturing melons. Glenn's conclusions were repeated by Washington County Extension Director J. E.

Davis. Both men agreed that "we have fewer melons planted this year, but it appears that we will produce as many melons and that they will be of better quality." Holmes County growers, like those in neighboring Washington and Jackson Counties, have tewer acres oe- voted to watermelons mis year. But in Holmes County, too, thp outlook for higher yields and better quality holds true. Buyers in the area have faced with a different situation. More young people are qualified to speak out today," said James.

He described his bringing-up in Pensacola under a strict school marm mother and father who died early. "We didn't have time for the privilege of demonstrating," said James. JUC 3CUU IIC IVIICW inav i 11 he did not finish his education He said he knew that if would be no money to continue. DERRICK TOWERS OVER MACHINERY it will go, separator stays (Pensacola Journal photo by 6erld Hayden) Communications Between the Races Musf Be Kepi Open, James Asserts HUDSON WAS Santa Rosa County agent 22M: years and has lived in his present home 67 years. Now retired to the porch, he glances at a stately sycamore and its bark and leaves in the yard and is sorry he ever brought it home from a swamp.

"1 brought it home in my buggy and planted it," Hudson comments. "I guess it's all right because it's nice to watch something you've planted grow for so long." Hudson has 97 acres of rich farm land left. "I owned 400 acres at one time, he says, "but I wasn't getting anything out of it and I sold all but the home place." Hudson sold his lease for $25 an acre two years ago, plus the usual $l-an-acre yearly thereafter for five years. "I don't really know who has my lease," he says, as if it has never been a concern until now. "I don't really expect to benefit by the oil, but my children should.

no doubt in my mind that this will have a big impact on the entire community." Hudson, who played with a flyswatler as he rocked and talked, said his acreage is only about 4Vi miles, as the crow flies, from the St. Regis oil well near Jay. He tells of a "young fellow" he knows in Jay who sold the royalty rights to half of his 130 acres for $200 an acre. "We're going to have it good," Hudson says. Farmers and others who own land which may hold riches deep in its bowels are going ahead with their work, though.

Right now, producing from the topside of the soil is still taking precedence over anything way down under. Brig. Gen. Daniel (Chappie) James Jr. of Pensacola told a Channel 23 educational television audience Tuesday night that communications between races must be kept open.

The black general the first Negro to win a star since World War II hit hard at the need for understanding between races, generations and other areas of the nation. "What is at stake is our country," said the 50 year-old fighter pilot, who was raised on North Alcaniz Street here..