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wms- i- VOL. XCVI NO. 143 6 PAGES Copyright 1990 Palm Beach Daily News PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1990 i Business Legend Jack Massey Dies V- 4 A IV 6 7 Internationally known business leader and philanthropist Jack C. Massey of Palm Beach and Nashville died Thursday morning at Good Samaritan Hospital after a brief illness. Mr.

Massey was 85. Funeral services and burial will be Saturday in Nashville. Mr. Massey, who lived across the street from Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's Palm Beach estate, played a little-known role in that unusual property sale. Mr.

Massey owned 403 feet of oceanfront property directly in front of Mar-a-Lago, on which he could have built another house, spoiling Mar-a-Lago's ocean view. Mr. Massey publicly acknowledged he would not sell the beachfront property unless he approved of Mar-a-La-go's purchaser. After a convoluted series of events, Trump ended up paying $2 million for the beachfront property which Mr. Massey had purchased for $348,321.

A legend in the history of American business, Mr. Massey is the only entrepreneur known to have taken three companies to the New York Stock Exchange, and the only one to have effectively launched two of the nation's largest industries, fast food and corporate hospital chains. I Jack Massey Mr. Massey began his business career as a weekend delivery boy in his uncle's drugstore in Tennille, Ga. He attended the University of Florida School of Pharmacy, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega.

At an early age he established a chain of pharmacies, with Nashville as his headquarters. In 1935, Mr. Massey sold the drugstore chain and became a purveyor of surgical supplies to hospitals and physicians. In 1961, See MASSEY, Page 4 Garden Club Panelists: Action Or More Study For Lake Okeechobee? Designer Pamela Dennis (right) describes her designs as 'slightly fitted, accenting the waist My clothes are elegant and Simply Irresistible Pamela Dennis Creates Soft, Sensuous Look nesses that operate on thousands of acres of land bordering Lake Okeechobee. Periodic algae blooms have killed large numbers of marine life and left "dead" areas in the lake, studies show.

Citing a dearth of scientific information concerning the effects of phosphorus and other chemicals draining into the lake from agribusinesses, Barber and Williamson urged continued scientific research, and questioned whether Lake Okeechobee is, in fact, in danger of dying. "The Sugarcane League does not want the Lake Okeechobee issue studied to death," Barber said, "but we do believe that more study should go into a comprehensive environment program. The league has spent a tremendous amount of money on research projects relating to the health of Lake Okeechobee, and we will continue to do so." Williamson said: "Agriculture may have pressed too much on the environment with regards to Lake Okeechobee, but that See LAKE, Page 5 By CHRIS ROMOSER Dally Naw Stiff Wrlttr Thursday's panel discussion on Lake Okeechobee sponsored by the Palm Beach Garden Club examined the environmentally sensitive issue: How much scientific research is enough, and what should be done to halt the pollution to South Florida's essential reservoir? Panelists at the symposium, held at the Society of the Four Arts, included Charles Barber, vice president of environmental relations for the Florida Sugarcane League; Paul Parks, director of the Florida Wildlife Federation's "Foreverglades" project; John Wodraska, executive director of the South Florida Water Management District; and Frank Williamson, chairman of the Okeechobee County Planning Commission, who also is a cattle and citrus farmer in the Lake Okeechobee area. Since 1976, two state-sponsored studies of Lake Okeechobee have found increased phosphorus levels in the lake, attributed to cattle, vegetable and sugar busi By AGNES ASH Dally Nwi Publisher Lynn Manulis, president of Martha International, is conducting an experiment in fashion merchandising for the coming decade. She is showcasing young designers who offer creativity and quality workmanship at popular prices.

This the third in a four-part series outlining the project and introducing fashion's "New Faces of the Nineties." happened like a television script. "I was looking through a copy of French Vogue to get an idea for a dress I could wear to a wedding. I adapted some of the international trends, made the dress and went off to the wedding where the dress drew a lot of attention." There happened to be a photographer's stylist on the guest See DENNIS, Page 4 Pamela Dennis studied political science at New York University before going into the fashion business. She describes her current collection as softer, the hard edge is taken off. Sounds like she's discussing the international political climate.

Dennis created her first collection only three years ago. It all Bethesda Hosts Symposium On Religious Life In Eastern Europe events," Penfield said. "Over here, we know very little about the status of the churches in Eastern Europe," Penfield said. "We hear about the immigration of Soviet Jews, but not about what is happening to churches in Eastern Europe, such as what is happening to the Russian Orthodox Church in the Sovi the primary ecumenical body in the United States. "Father Kishkovsky is known in church and secular circles as an expert on religious and political life in Eastern Europe," the Rev.

William Penfield, associate for pastoral ministries at Bethesda, said Thursday. "We are quite fortunate to find someone not et Union today, with everything loosening up, as it seems to be." Kishkovsky was born in Poland and spent his early childhood in West Germany. After World War II, his family resettled in Los Angeles, where he grew up and was educated. See SYMPOSIUM, Page 5 Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church will host a two-day symposium Feb. 23 and Feb.

24 to discuss religion in Eastern Europe, with the Very Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky as the speaker. Kish-kovsky, 47, is an archpriest of the Orthodox Church of America, and was recently elected president of the National Council of Churches, simply familiar with the political and ideological struggles, but also knowledgeable about the impact all the changes going on now are having on religious life." Next week's presentation, scheduled for Feb. 23-24 "will be the first time in recent memory the church has been able to respond so quickly to current By CAROL WRIGHT Dally Nam Staff Writtr Since the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989 an event that set off political and ideological turmoil in Eastern Europe Westerners are curious about the status of religion in Communist Bloc nations.

Development To Accommodate Homes And Horses By MICHAEL STRAUSS Dally Nam Sportt Editor AT- adjacent to the new $12 million Palm Beach Polo Equestrian Club. Firestone, who serves as chairman of the board of Catoctin International Racing bought Calder race track in Miami last year, and now has a contract to purchase the Gulf-stream Park oval in Hallandale. His latest venture in Palm Beach County was triggered by Firestone's unsuccessful search for property with enough acreage to accommodate his family and horses. As a result, he decided to solve his problem with a new real estate development to be known as Grand Prix Farms. "During my search for a home in this area," Firestone said, "I realized there was a definite void in the Palm Beaches' real estate market for people interested in keeping their horses within easy reach.

While looking for a place where I could keep mine, I was able to identify a market need that we are now filling with the development of Grand Prix Farms." An important aspect of the project is that the sites will be planned and zoned for private stables and horse trails. As for the homes, they will have private lagoons, tennis courts and swimming pools. Firestone plans to start See FIRESTONE, Page 5 In a throwback to the times when stables, blacksmiths and horse and buggies were prevalent in our land, Bertram R. Firestone, the thoroughbred and show horse owner, has embarked on a plan that will bring more oat eaters and their owners to Palm Beach County. Firestone.whose horse Genuine Risk in 1980 became the second filly in history to win the Kentucky Derby and then finish as runner-up in both the Preakness and Belmont, has purchased a 330-acre residential community i.

near Palm Bertram Firestone's Grand Prix Farms is Beach Polo Equestrian Club..