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Journal Gulf coast Okaloosa Walton West Florida Saturday, June 2, 1973 Island, Cinco Bayou Lose Protection Policy Ht)g pnsMto imp! r.r-v were concerned with. As one candidate put it the voters see no reason why city taxpayers should furnish near tree fire WOteqt)it the Island while iV Mtf 2 property about $2,000 annually for fire protection. The advent of high rise buildings on Okaloosa Island plus complaints from Fort Walton Beach taxpayers helped bring the Council ac the incident." A check with Okaloosa Island Leaseholders Friday revealed the stalemate between the Authority Board and the Leaseholders continues and no further action on fire protection has been taken. However it was noted that the leaseholders are con- "This was determined as being within the guidelines set forth by the Council," Lee said. "Fortunately there was little gas in the tank and the man was not affected.

Our men put him in the bed and disconnected the tank from the stove. Then we called Family Services and related cerned over their fire protection since all insurance policies were issued on the basis of the agreement with Fort Walton Beach. The old agreement was that the city would furnish fire protection on the basis of $50 per call and $3 per man hour. This normally cost the Island Authority i iu Ur i Clarksvilk Graduation Biggest Community Event A fry I Mr A' ci fen'- fir m- :1 fir I i "-zA 1 I if iQ ui'otcction on to the two fffaces but the turned down. oficr was Dr.

Gerald Hollingsworth, chairman of the Island Authority and the Leaseholders Association have been at odds over who should pay for fire protection. The board chairman contends it is the responsibility of the Leaseholders and they should form the equivalent of a lire district. He bases his opinion on an interpretation from Attorney General Robert Shevin. The Leaseholders contend the Shevin letter did not specifically fix responsibility for fire protection but did state the Board could furnish it but not assess Leaseholders lor it. The Leaseholders further contend the Board has recognized its responsibility in the past by getting a surplus fire truck from the Forest Service in 1968 and by entering into the agreement with the City of Fort Walton Beach.

The fire truck was never activated due partly to a lack of volunteers. Further the small truck was deemed ineffective for use on buildings the way the Island has grown in recent yars. While nothing has been heard from the construction industry yet the general opinion is that builders and mortgage companies will enter into the discussions soon. The loan ior at least one new residence reportedly has been cancelled due to the fire protection tlei-airlfie baafl By BOB LOVELACE Jountil Stiff Writer FORT WALTON BEACH -The City of Fort Walton Beach implemented its new policy on fire protection for Cinco Bayou and Okaloosa Island Friday. In brief the policy is that the Fire Department will not respond to auto or woods fires or house fires unless life is endangered.

Both places had been given more than six months notice that fire protection would be cut off effective June 1 unless they paid the equivalent of city taxes for fire protection or organized their own departments. The City Council unanimously approved the shut down and established the basic guidelines. In short the Fort Walton Beach Fire Department would respond only if life is endangered. Thus if someone called regarding a house fire and stated there was no one in the building the department would not answer the call. But if someone were trapped inside the department would respond in the interest of saving human lives.

Expanding on this further Chief Lee said normally many fire calls are received from neighbors or passersby. In such intances he said the rescue truck would be sent to investigate and would decide if life were endangered. However the Chief reiiterated the first three minutes after a fire starts is the critical time. The rescue truck would radio for fire equipment if determined as needed. Chief Lee said he was discussing the policy with his aides Friday morning when a call from Cinco Bayou came in.

A lady reported that an 80-year-old man living alone in a trailer had stumbled trying to reach his bed and had lain on the floor all night. The butane gas stove was turned on when he brushed one of the burner controls in falling. The man had just gotten out of the By E. W. CARSWELL Journal Staff Writer CLARKSVILLE Graduation at Carr School here is a community event one in which mothers and fathers and grandparents take part with enthusiasm to equal that of their youngsters.

Neighbors, some of them from miles away, come to share in the festivities. It is a program that fills the last day of each school term, including the lunch or dinner hour. The dinner is no ordinary lunchroom affair. Delicacies, ranging from fried chicken to huckleberry pie, are brought by the school patrons and stacked in abundance on long tables. The students, teachers, parents and other visitors simply march down the table with plastic plates, choosing a little of this and that.

Nearly everyone then goes outside to sit on the grass and eat picnic-style. It was a pioneer day program, centered on a cabin that the students themselves built. It was, at least in the imaginations of the builders, a replica of a cabin that some of their ancestors built when they settled nearby. The students guessed rightly that their elders could relate to such an exhibit. Some of the girls conducted a p-making demonstrations and others churned and made butter.

George Atkins, Calhoun County educator and historian, called the names of perhaps two or three dozen of the Clarksville area's early settlers, with their descen-dants if in the. audience responding. Sometimes a half dozen or NURSERYMAN FRED PARKS DOES RENDITION from collection of country blues (Pensacola Journal photo by Judy Kaczor) Cancer Benefit Today BLESSING OF FLEET Acolyte bears cross over deck while the Rev. Forrest Mobley, pastor of St. Andrew's By The Sea Episcopal Church blesses the vessel inside.

A record" of 85 boats were blessed as they passed (if previously blessed) or came to dockside for receipt of a small wooden cross at the helm. A traditional fishfry "was dropped this year because crowds are getting so large. (Pensacola Journal photo by Bob Lovelace) tion. Candidates in the recent, citv election said this one was of the main subjects taxpayers more answered. He called some of these names as homesteaders: Friley Blunt Sexton, Henry S.

Capps, Gus T. McCIellan, Mollie E. Kinard Tucker, Francis L. Freeman, Joseph Chason, John Blair, Henry R. Pitts, Mclajah Tucker, Charles Johnson.

John E. Kinard, Dewey E. Lipford, Samuel L. Cain, Miller E. Warren, James H.

Chason, James W. Ayers, James L. Laramore, George C. Wal-den, Morris Hall Tom Land. Charles J.

Daniels, William Herndon, John Fletcher Se-well, John Clark, William Shelton, H. B. Gaskin, Burl L. Suggs, William Lewis, Jackson Shiver, Ennis and Solomon Pippin, John Griffin and William D. Cutts.

Valedictorian De Wayne Capps and Verlie I. Suggs, who presented class awards, were among them. Salutato-rian was Glen Miller. Darryl Taylor is principal. Descendants of some of the area's pioneers included Atkins, a former Calhoun County school superintendent, and today's Supt.

Howard Johnson and School Supervisor Andrew B. Ramsey, who were present. Getting Eighth grade diplomas were: Jeff Adams, Greg Bailey, Shawn Bailey, Rita Boyd, Anita Cain, DeWayne Capps, Jimmy Carr, Anthony Chambers, Wayne Chapman and Debra Conner. Eddie Dalton, Dolores De-Vane, Annetta Foster, Richard Fowler, Debbie Gawyrluk, Dennis Hall, Johnny Hamrick, Dvvane Holt, Buddy Mauldin and Eunice Melvin. Should Be sie Shackelford, director.

Mrs. accompanist choir. The tour Crestview United the following home church be stops in Music for Zebra Plant? Yep, And Hydrangeas, Too ettlement By JUDY KACZOR Journal Staff Writer FORT WALTON BEACH For Walton Suit uiuwihhiihii'iiiiiimiW'H i I' .1 Mil .111 I.I llll II Mill, 111 ll i -i. mi nun, dmm Now, what kind of music would you play for a zebra plant? "Jazz," wryly suggests har-monicist Fred Park, 22, who blends his music flair with plant life daily at Piper's Nursery where he works. And, what, then for a blossom with the eternal dignity of the rose? Classical melodies, of course.

And Park would serenade gardenias and hydrangeas with his soulful collection of country blues, what else? And what's more he does. Park, whose versatility on the harmonica can be witnessed in the upcoming Cancer Benefit Show to be staged at 8 p.m; Saturday, in the Civic Auditorium, honestly feels that plants fare "at least 100 per cent better with music." Boxwood, japonica, weeping willows, pyrcantha and day lilies don't need any "ears of corn" to tune into sound, Park insists. He also links his musical philosophy up to people attachment as well, the plant reflecting the "song" of its new owner. "You see some people who will come and they have no smiles look like they never smile and they buy a plant. And then they bring it back later and say it's not doing well," reflects Park on people psychology at work in the "green scene." If the potted plants in the landscaped wilds of Piper's back lot could talk, they'd be able to tell how Park's pcr-sonality rubs off on them how the lithe, strolling harmonicist in the Sears bib overalls and the felt vest relaxes with nursery chores.

"Plants and music are two-of many things I dig," Park would confess readily on his own. The young man, who appreciates the time slot of the medieval period when wandering minstrels were in flow-er as well as knights, launched into music almost at birth. Park was born and spent his first years near Look Out Mountain in Tennessee and when he jams on the harmonica today at festivals or with friends, there's always a trace of country pathos in his scund. He first appreciated vocal work and performed at the local Notre Dame School for six-years as a member cf the Boy's Choir. Somewhere in his early days, which were filled with art school and trips to see theatre and galleries in nearby Chattanooga, someone gave him a harmonica.

He put it aside, momentarily, intending to "sometime" get it out and play it. ally had been suspended and that the mother of the suspended student was advised the action would be taken in advance of the suspension. Ed Duffee, attorney for the students, said he was not concerned sq much about the constitutionality of the law on its face but rather the validity of the law as applied by King. He argued the child was entitled to a hearing an opportunity to tell the principal why she should not be suspendedbut was never given notice such an avenue was open to her. Andrews con-ten the girl left the campus voluntarily and was suspended after she left.

Duffee concurred with Andrews that only one of the three had been suspended. Arnow refused to convene a three-judge court and said he would not hear the case as a class action, which the students had sought. said students Car-lotta Whitehead and Frail Holmes were not suspended but Belinda Hogan was barred from the campus for 10 days. Boy's Body Found In Okaloosa Park CRESTVIEW The body of an unidentified male about 17 to 22 years old was found at 1:20 P.M. Friday in a sleeping bag at the state rest park one mile east of Crestview on Interstate Highway 10 by a national guard unit, the Okaloosa Sheriff's department reported.

Sheriff's deputies described the man "as a hippie type," and said he apparently had not been dead long when his body was discovered by the guardsmen. Officers declined to speculate as to whether the death was natural or as a result of other causes, but said an autopsy had been ordered by Okaloosa pathologist Dr. Jerome Cebula in Fort Walton Beach. Woman Remains Active at 101 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) -At 101, Hattie Steele of the nearby Monteith community still keeps house and tends her garden.

By CAROLYN SCIIANG Titt High School Schools today are striving to prepare students for a productive role In an evolving society. To do this, schools should place a great deal of emphasis on the studies of government and sociology. A student must be mature and able to accept responsibilities. The individual must concentrate on aspect of his improvement. High schools cannot be held wholly responsible for students' total development.

The high school student can 'best prepare himself by al 'Student ministre, center, will be tour Marjorie Cummings, left, is and Mrs. Dwight Allen, part of begins Sunday at 11 a.m. at Methodist Church and ends Sunday at 7:30 p.m. with a performance. In between will Leesburg, Melbourne and Gainesville.

"NATURAL HIGH" Taking the real or unreal paths in life is a sidebar message in "Natural High," a folk Bible musical "about God's Son" presented by The New Revelation Singers of the First United Methodist Church. The Bible-based musical will be the mainstay of a six-day road tour of the 45-voice "Singers" choir and cast of four. The group leaves Sunday for six locations in Florida including a stop-off at Disney World. Jes By MIKE HENDERSON Journal Staff Writer A suit asking that a Walton County school principal's authority to suspend students be declared unconstitutional may be settled next week, based on a conference held Friday before U.S. District Judge Winston E.

Arnow. Attorneys told Arnow they hope to settle the case by next Thursday after the judge said the only action he could take would be to remove indication of suspension from one student's school record. Three Walton High School students filed the suit against James King, Walton' High principal; John Baldwin, Walton County Schools superintendent; and the Walton County School Board. The suit originally was filed as a class action test of suspension procedures. But Arnow refused to hear it that way, and said he would consider it only on the basis of the current case.

Angus Andrews, attorney for the school board, said only one of the three students actu Ht ways mastering work assigned him. He should assume a receptive attitude toward school and knowledge. Part of maturity is being able to accept one's position in life. In order to function productively, a person must understand the people and their system of government. An Amer-i a government course should be required in high schools so students will be more aware of their government and its procedures.

An economics course should also be required. This would familiarize the student with production, distribution and consumption of wealth, and Government, Sociology Emphasized movin IHlimself mm This is the twelfth in a continuing series of essays being published in conjunction with The Pensacola News-Journal's schol-or of the year awards. Winners were awarded engraved plaques by the newspaper. Each student was asked: How can high schools best prepare students for a productive role in an evolving society? The guidance department should afford to all students an opportunity for a personal appointment. They should sponsor special assemblies, when it is possible, to encourage students to consider a particular field of interest.

Guidance counselors should also visit classrooms regularly to inform students of new job opportunity fields. Teachers can help the guidance department by recognizing the particular talents of individual students. They can then help counsel students. With both teachers and guidance counselors helping students in their search and pur- suit of interests, high schools would be preparing students for a more productive role in life. The study of American government and social science courses will assist high schools to produce students who are aware of the politics, economy and social structure of the United States.

In addition, schools should help students pick a job interest field and pursue it accordingly. If high schools could accomplish these things, they would find their students best prepared for a productive goal and role in an evolving society. later, he could possibly avoid their occurrence. If the above courses were required of all students, schools would produce a generally well-informed group of individuals. The school's only remaining job would be to allow students to pick their particular job interest field and help them prepare for it.

To do this a school should have a faculty that is interested in students and recognizes their needs. A well-organized guidance department, assisted by the students' teachers, can help each student investigate his particular field of interest. various related problems of labor, finance, and taxation. The student should also be acquainted with the functions and interrelations of -individuals in a society. Sociology courses have already been organized to do just this.

A home economics course for both boys and girls should be required. This should include not only various homemaking projects, but also a study cf relationships within the family. In this way the course would be an extension of the sociology course, with emphasis cn the family. This is important in today's society be- SCHANG cause of our high divorce and child abuse rates, and the large number of people with psychological problems. If a student is exposed to some problems he may encounter.