Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 15

Saturday, May 27, 1972 Hopes Kept Alive Funding remains to be worked out. Swartz's proposal is that when a site is selected a T-shaped building could be built to serve as the entrance to the zoo and a hostel for some of the smaller species of animals. Behind that could be built several areas for various species of larger animals, including a children's zoo, Swartz said. On" that foundation, he added, expansion could take place to the rear of the developed areas. The zoo's animal inventory could be increased 15-fold with an offer from Lion Country Safari Inc.

The firm offered to stock the zoo with By MIKE HENDERSON Journal Stiff Writer When the zoo closes its gates to the public at 6 p.m. Sunday it may be a long, long time before it reopens them. The Cantonment home of the Northwest Florida Zoological Society with its 72 animals and birds will be open to he public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Monday the camels, lions, the zebra, monkeys and birds will leave Pensacola, perhaps to entertain, fascinate and educate the children of other cities. The animals are being sold for about $22,000 well below the $28,000 debt the zoo has. society's animal-lee existence. Plans are under way to launch a fund-raising campaign to begin Thursday, in the same week of the zoo's closing, Swartz said. During the campaign, according to Swartz, cannisters will be placed in area businesses and other donations can be made to the society through the mail to post office box 1905, Pensacola.

Lack of funding and the zoo's location have necessitated the Sunday closing, he said. Several sites have been under consideration for a new zoo site but none has been selected to date. animals from its open-drive wildlife parks if the zoo can get an in-town location and approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Increasing restrictions on the types of animals available for import into the U.

S. make it profitable for the to stock zoos and receive a percentage of percentage of offspring in return, according to Bill York, vice president of the firm. "Animals of all types would be offered to the Pensacola zoo, not one-by-one or two-by-two, but in their natural groups as much as possible," York said. Swartz said Friday he does not know how long the offer will be open. "I don't want to be there when they start putting the animals in crates it would break my heart," said Leonard Swartz, society president, with the aura of a man who has been through an ordeal.

But in that heart there is the determination that the zoo will not die, that it will survive if only on paper for a while. And there are plans that the zoo will reopen. Even as the dismantling operation nears, the fountain on the 82-acre, woodland site will receive the coins visitors pitch into it this weekend and a receptacle for paper money also will be there. Zoo proponents will not be idle during the After 31 Years Jumped $300,000 if Housing Chairman esigns Post By EUGENE BOG AN Journal Staff Writer Preston W. Husted, Pensacola Housing Authority board member since 1941 and chairman since 1949, has submitted his resignation to Mayor Eugene Elebash.

"I think that it is time that I step down at this time so that a new member can be appointed," Husted said. "I have enjoyed my terms worry about buying it because the owners are going to do something," DeVries said. The Escambia Commission has not yet officially reacted to the Thursday night overture of City Council, urging reconsideration of the Ninth Avenue project. Councilmen cited the urgent need for the interchange, and Harold Rose expressed his concern that the deletion was made without prior warning or consultation with joint i y-county committee on highways, which Rose heads. of office through the years and have served with about as fine a group of men that one can be associated with over the many years," Husted said in submitting his resignation effective June 1.

Elebash said Friday he had requested suggestions from city councilmen concerning an appointment to serve the balance of Husted's term, until March 10, 1973. "I hope to make an appointment within 10 days," the mayor said. Husted is the second long-term member of the board to step down this year. Sister Carol Murphy was named to succeed Robert Box, who asked not to be considered for another term. The authority was established by act of the City Council, in accordance with state and federal public housing statues, in 1937.

When he was appointed in 1941 Husted became the seventh citizen to serve on the board. Twenty persons have served on the local public housing board in its 35 years of existence. I tHSillllllC -A irnJ yv J' AA--J 1 I 4 sirl rf -I if I i A Mf i-wS If i By EUGENE BOGAN Journal Staff Writer The mysterious $300,000 jump in projected right-of-way costs for an 1-10 interchange at Ninth Avenue was explained Friday by Department of Transportation officials. DOT gave local officials a $450,000 estimate at a March 23 Panama City meeting, but upped the cost of $750,000 in a report acted upon Thursday by the Escambia County Com-mission. Commissioners dropped the interchange from the five-year road program by a 4-1 vote with Chairman Henry Lane dissenting.

City Planner Peter DeVries said Friday he had been in touch with DOT District Engineer Bill Lee who told him that the higher figure was based on the assumption that the right-of-way aquisition would not be completed for five or six years and that property costs would rise in the interim. "If they wait five or six years they wouldn't have to PETER DEVRIES can't wait 1 What's the Rush, Mister? There was a rush on a rest-room at J. J. Newberry Department Store, 43 S. Palafox Friday afternoon.

City fire officials said a call was received about 5 p.m. and was answered by three fully manned trucks an insur ance requirement for the highly insured downtown area. Firemen found a roll of toilet tissue on fire in one of the store restrooms, fire officials said; the three fire trucks and all firemen returned to the station within six minutes of the PRESTON HUSTED time for change iliilliff-'-- IllllliSlla iSIllliiilil FCC Denies License Renewal Mapoles to Appeal Ruling FIELD DAY Students at Myrtle Grove Elementary School put their best muscles forward Friday in an end-of-the-year field day organized by their physical education teacher, Mrs. Geretha Hudson. Above, Susan Drew stays a hop ahead of Jackie Jackson in a sack race.

John Foster, (left) makes a grand leap in jumping competition. fully and knowingly false" statements made by Mapoles during the hearing, the FCC said it was denying the renewal request because "clearly Mapoles lacks the character qualifications to continue as a commission licensee." plaint by John C. Boles, candidate for public office, charging he was attacked in an editorial by the station in April 1966 and Mapoles failed to give him time on the air to respond. Citing what it termed "will POW-MIA Bike Ride Begins This Morning By MICHAEL GODWIN Journal Staff Writer Pensacola area high school bike riders will gather 10 a.m. Saturday in Molino for a 25-mile POW-MIA Bike-a-Thon to St.

Anne's Catholic Church in Bellview. The young cyclists will be riding to raise funds "to keep the public aware of the plight of 1,700 Americans who are POWs or MIA in Southeast Asia," said Mrs. John Ard of the Parents of POW-MIA Men Committee. "The money raised by the high school students will be distributed by our state coordinator for the National League of Families for POW-MIA work. We must keep the public aware of these men," said Mrs.

Ard. Each of the more than 150 students has collected pledges for donations to the POW cause from Pensacola residents and firms. "The kids have been going hard for two weeks contacting businessmen and townspeople for help," she said. "All of Pensacola has treated us great in helping with the Bike-a-Thon on Saturday," Mrs. Ard added.

Mrs. Ard and her husband, John, along with three other local POW-MIA families, Mr. and Mrs. Orvis Crowson, Mr. and Mrs.

Horace Fleming, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Kroske, are sponsoring the fund raising event. i I. a tv a By DON BATES Journal Staff Writer MILTON Clayton W.

Mapoles, owner of radio station WEBY, said Friday he would appeal the Federal Communication Commission's decision to deny renewal of the station's license. The FCC gave Mapoles until 12:01 a.m. July 3 to enable him to conclude the station's affairs. But the station owner said he planned to file an appeal and to keep the station on the air until the matter is resolved. Under the FCC ruling, Mapoles will be allowed to operate the station until 30 days after the final disposition of his appeal.

"I just want the people to know that we are not closing the station, Mapoles said. "We have a long way to go in the courts before this is all over," he continued. The hearing resulting in the decision originally began Aug. 1, 1967, as a result of a com- Washington Girl Wins Scholarship Named by Levin Hopkins Heads Pollution (Board By EUGENE BOGAN Journal Staff Writer A University of West Florida associate professor has been named to head a 23-member Technical Advisory Committee to the Florida Pollution Control Board. Dr.

Thomas S. Hopkins, UWF biology chairman, was tapped for the non paying post by David Levin, Pollution Control Board chairman. "These people are all volunteers, serving without compensation," Levin noted, "but they are concerned enough about our environmental problems and challenges we face to give their valuable time, knowledge and effort to help the board find some of the answers to these problems." Levin said he was particularly pleased that Hopkins had agreed to head the committee. The Inter-Institutional Technical Advisory Committee on Environmental Affairs is composed of 17 regular members from the faculties of universities and schools through out the state and six ex-officio members appointed for their knowledge and experience in environmentally oriented organizations. Other appointees besides Dr.

Hopkins include: Dr. Ted Allen and Dr. Kenneth Relyea, Jacksonville University; Dr. David S. Anthony, Dr.

William E. S. Carr, Dr. Samuel C. Snedaker and Dr.

Paul Uron, University of Florida; Dr. Sheldon Dob-kin and Dr. G. Alec Marsh, Florida Atlantic University; Dr. Robert C.

Harriss and Dr. Robert J. Livingston, Florida State University; Dr, Joe Simon and Dr. William Taft, University of South Florida; Mr. Art Marshall, University of Miami; Dr.

Ruth Weiner, Florida International University; Dr. Martin Roessler and Dr. i C. Tabb, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences; Mr. Carl C.

Booberg, Jacksonville; Dr. F. A. Eidsness, Boca Raton; Dr. Edward LaRoe, Naples; Dr.

Fred G. Pierce, Kennedy Space Center; Mr. Hal Scott, Maitland and Dr. Alex E. S.

Green, Gainesville. I A "two-year plus" scholarship of $500 to PJC has been presented to Miss Syliva Ann Harris by the Las Amagis Social and Civic Club. The check was presented by Mrs. Delia Redmon, club president. Miss Harris, the daughter of Mrs.

Burnetta Blocton, is a graduate of Booker T. Washington High School. The tuition to PJC is $110 per term. There are two terms a year, over a two-year period the tuition would totai $440. Thus, the "two-year plus" scholarship.

HOT OFF THE PRESSES William Gill (left), manager of Sears, buys a special Shrine Newspaper from Hadji Temple Potentate W. A. (Andy) Hibbert. Over 2,400 Shriners will be selling their papers Saturday in 12 West Florida Counties to raise funds for the 22 hospitals supported exclusively by Shrine activities and donations. Last year West Florida donated over $20,000 and Newspaper Sales Chairman Preston McArthur hopes to double the figure this year.

Seventy-eight children were afforded visits to institutions for the burned and crippled last year, costing over $125,000. (Pensacola Journal photo by Ken Ross) A A.