Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 39

Crime Report ID State News 2D Eternal Optimist Pitts-Lee Ruling 2D Dental Aid 3D Living Section 1-14E Sunday, August 29, 1971 Section Pensacola Reports 1,060 Offenses 'Statistics will give us an idea of what accomplishments can be made and what serious type crimes are being W. A. Ambrose. DTO Wo-otes 'When system is in effect for any length of time, it will give officers information on where most crimes occur and what types of crime are most prevalent Personally' I like it very much' D. P.

Caldwell. By CLAUDIA BRINSON News-Journal Staff Writer Did you know that in Florida most violent crimes occur in May and most property crimes in March? Be also warned that 23.1 per cent of the murders committed in Florida between January and June of 1971 involved the murder of one family member by another. Of these murders of family members, 69.2 per cent involved one spouse killing the other. These and other facts for Escambia County and the state are included in the first Uniform Crime Report compiled by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE). The report covers the first six months of 1971 and is funded on a 60-40 federal-state match.

Information is received by the FDLE from county and municipal law enforcement agencies on a monthly basis and is, according to the report, "recorded, examined and reviewed for mathematical accuracy, and possibly more importantly, for reasonableness." Among the purpose the introduction states the report is intended to fulfill are to "inform the government, legislature, other government officials and the public as to the nature of the crime problem in Florida, its magnitude and its trends," and to determine "social attributes in order to find the proper focus for crime prevention and enforcement." Total offenses reported in Florida in the six month period numbered 138,253, according to the study. Escambia County reported 2,710 and Pensacola 1,060. During the first six months of 1971, 20.3 per cent of the major crimes committed in Florida were cleared by arrest. In the county 13.6 per cent of the major crimes reported were cleared, and in Pensacola 25.5 per cent were cleared, according to the statistics. The report records a total of 5,995 narcotics possession arrests and 1,530 narcotics sales arrests in the state.

Narcotics arrests of all types totaled 119 in Escambia County and 64 in Pensacola. Further statistics on state drug arrests reveal that 64.6 per cent of all these arrests involved persons under 21. Marijuana is noted as the drug most frequently found in drug arrests, accounting for 62.6 per cent of the total drug arrests. Locally the report's statistics also show marijuana leading in possession arrests with 54 arrests in the county and 37 in the city in the six month time span. Statistics show 84 per cent of all persons arrested in Florida to be males.

Sixty-nine per cent of all persons arrested in the state were white, 29.7 per cent black and the remaining 1.3 per cent included all remaining races. According to the study, most violent crimes (murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault) committed in the state between January and June were by blacks and most property crimes (breaking and entering, larceny of $50 and over and auto theft) by whites. The statistics show 61.6 per cent of the violent crimes committed by blacks and 37.1 by whites. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3D) keen ai enforcement officials eccgo Si ope ater Search Scientists i fry iff- 1' ''f-. i '1 If -1 I j- A f' i University of West Florida scientists, other state university system schools and Florida state agencies will sail with the tide Tuesday in search of current and water quality along the Escambia-Santa Rosa coast.

On three oceanographic research vessels, the scientists will seek data reflecting the effect of Escambia and Perdido Bay outflows on Gulf of Mexico waters up 'to nine miles offshore along the Escambia and Santa Rosa County coastlines. 7. The expedition will be preceded by a one-day conference at UWF, Aug. 30. Attending the conference will be K.

K. Huffstutler, Florida Department of Air and Water Pollution Control, Tallahassee; Dr. E. F. Corcoran, oceanographer, University of Miami, Miami; Dr.

Thomas S. Hopkins, chairman of the faculty of biology at UWF and local coordinator for the cruise; Dr. John W. Winchester, Florida State University Department of Oceanography, Tallahassee; Dr. H.

K. Brooks, Department of Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville; Murice 0. Rinkel, State University System of Florida Institute of Oceanography, St. Petersburg, cruise coordinator; Fred Barloga and Bruce Johnson, Coastal Coordinating Council, Tallahassee, and Dr. George Crozier, the Institute of Marine Sciences, University of Alabama.

Rinkel, Dr. Corcoran and Dr. Brooks will serve as chief scientists aboard the three research vessels. The study is financed by the Coastal Coordinating WSRE-TV has received a video tape machine that will enable them to telecast network programs in color. The machine, which will be put into operation in September, was purchased by Pensacola Junior College with the assistance of funds from the State Department of Education.

Dr. T. Felton Harrison, president of Pensacola Junior College, said, "Not only will this allow us to broadcast in color to the general public, but it will also allow us to telecast additional classes through our campus closed circuit system." Station manager, Eric C. Smith said, "our viewers have been requesting color programming for a long time, and now we are happy to be able to provide it." WSRE-TV, located on the campus of Pensacola Junior College, provides Pensacola with a variety of services. The station telecasts in-school educational programs to area school classrooms; closed circuit TV classes on the PJC Campus; college credit courses that are telecast to the general public and programming from the Public Broadcasting Service.

waftiwiiMHrtamtfiwwiwfWmttiffiBMiiiii PJC PRESIDENT T. FELTON HARRISON (R), WSRE-TV MANAGEP. ERIC SMITH unwrap new color video tape machine (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3D) w-wt rf A T-m-L-- i i 1 i -in i i--i r-r-T-T rVi "-i m-n rn hi fiiiiBrn 1i iiwm VESSELS RV GEORGE BELLOWS, RV DAN BRAMAN AND RV TURSIOPS TO BE USED IN ESCAROSA TRIP one vessel will run repeatedly a track south from Pens acola Pass, others will flank the center ship on first trip out.