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VOL. XCVI I NO. 54 14 PAGES Copyright 0 1989 Palm Beach Daily News PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1989 -iQtliMiUli lift 1 I- 111 i Millions For Manet H. Marshman Dies At 91 By KEVIN McGLYNCHEY Daily Nm Staff Wrltar i Homer H. Marshman philanthropist, retired Cleveland attorney and former owner of the Cleveland Browns football team, died Wednesday in his 1 I i it 5, HJ Palm Beach home.

He was 91. Mr. Marshman, a successful Cleveland attorney and businessman, quit practicing law and moved to Palm Beach in 1970. But he never really retired. He was active in Palm Beach banking, town government, clubs and charity.

He served as committee chairman of the Palm Beach Chapter of the American Cancer Society for 20 years, and was a charter member of the cancer society's 19th Hole Club, which sponsors the Palm Beach Golf Classic. 1 Homer H. Marshman Sr. I i If i i 1 1 1 1 Ealier this year the society honored Mr. Marshman by awarding him the first Chairman's Cup for his outstanding contributions.

Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Paul Williams, who replaced Mr. Marshman as chairman of the society, said he was "a good friend and one of the finest gentleman I've ever known. He was greatly admired and respected for the substantial contributions he made not only to the (Palm Beach) community, but also to the entire nation." Lamar Harmon, a founder of the Beach Club, said he and Mr. Marshman were friends since the late 1940s. "I couldn't say enough.

He was one of my very dearest friends." Palm Beacher Nathan Appleman said Mr. Marshman was a was "a great citizen" and "a wonderful man." Another friend, Oklahoma oilman Raymond Kravis, said Mr. Marshman always had a smile on his face. "He was a true friend of so many people," Kravis said. "He was very sincere in whatever he did." Mr.

Marshman, who lived at 101 Worth was a member of the Everglades Club, Bath and Tennis Club, and the Beach Club. He was once vice president of the Beach Club, and a member of the board of directors. Mr. Marshman served on the Mayor's Charter Study Commission, which made suggestions for revisions to the Palm Beach Town Charter in 1971. In 1973, he was named director of Worth Avenue National Bank.

He remained director when it became Royal Trust Bank, and later Florida National Bank. He retired as director in 1986. Sports fans will best remember Mr. Marshman as the former owner of the Cleveland Browns. Marshman was one of the founders of the Cleveland Rams in 1937, and was president until the team moved to Los Angeles in the mid 1940's.

In 1953, he bought the Cleveland Browns and sold them to current owner Art Modell in 1962. Mr. Marshman practiced law in Cleveland from 1927 to 1970 as a partner in the firm of Marshman, Snyder and Seeley. Mr. Marshman was born Aug.

3, 1898 in Jackson, Ohio. He served with the U.S. Navy in 1918. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Ohio University in 1920, and received a certificate from the alumni association 40 years later. He played three years of varsity baseball at Ohio University and was president of the first Varsity Club.

Mr. Marshman receieved a degree in business law from Harvard in 1923. See MR. MARSHMAN, Page 5 i J. Paul Getty Museum spent a record $26.4 million for Manet's 'Rue Mosnier, Paris Decorated with Flags on June 30, Sales Leave Small Impression On Auction By CHRIS ROMOSER Daily Ntw Staff Wrltar Picasso's 'Self-Portrait, a work in charcoal, sold for $990,000.

The presale high estimate was $900,000. However, half of the 14 works offered from the Paul Mellon collection did not find buyers. NEW YORK The underlying theme at Tuesday night's record sale of impressionist and modern art seemed to be a questioning of the market's ability to convince buyers of the credibility of continually higher prices. By the time the hammer had fallen on the final lot at the $232.4 million evening sale at Christie's, 10 works of art had brought better than $7 million a piece, and another 36 had fetched more than $1 million each. Although there were paintings that realized their presale publicity, and the sale total represented a record for a single session sale of art, the final take was well below Christie's estimate of $241.5 million to $320.5 million.

Christie's See AUCTION, Page 6 Increased Seasonal Boat Traffic Causing Damage At Docks I Bridge Opening Schedule, Page 5 By CAROL WRIGHT Dally Nam Start Wrltar Thanksgiving we'll probably be at 100 percent," said Karen Lane, the town's dockmaster. "Usually we are full by October, but what held it up this year was Hurricane Hugo," she said. The town's three docks at Brazilian, Australian and Peruvian avenues have a total of 78 slips. Many of the owners are seasonal visitors who live on their boats. traffic.

The bridge opens on an "as demand" schedule year-round. Without timed openings for boaters during the season, cars kept waiting at the bridges would increase. "They see the bridges close and think if they rush up, the bridge is going to wait for them, said Uzelle Ellis, who lives on her boat that is docked af the Australian Avenue docks. "They ignore the 'no wake zone' and we're left with a lot of damage." Dock ladders, boat lines and pilings can get smashed in a wake caused by speeding boaters. "Sometimes the boats are forced into the pilings by the wake, which damages the boats," Lane said.

A sign by the Peruvian Avenue docks says Slow Minimum Wake, but it is in an See BOATS Page 5 Their biggest complaint is inexperienced boaters who speed through the Intracoastal Waterway to beat the timed bridge openings. Three of the four bridges into Palm Beach began their regular winter timed schedules Nov. 1, which will continue through May 31. The fourth, the Lake Worth bridge, is higher than the other three so it doesn't open as much to boat One sure sign that the Palm Beach season is back in swing is the increased boat traffic along the Intracoastal "We re almost full now, and by ARCOM Requests Landscaping Plans Tellers Vital Link To Bank Customers By SARA TOLLEY Dally Nam Start Wrltar A The Sloan's Curve Homeown ers Association wants to tear out Australian pines and under growth and plant native vegetation. But that plan has upset neighbors on Ibis Isle, who claim mangroves will be destroyed ana the shoreline will be damaged in "This plan is conceptual," said commission member Lesly Smith.

"We need a listing of specific planting material. This plan isn't complete enough for the commission to make a decision today." The association, represented by attorney Jim Wearn, was asked to submit a detailed landscaping plan that outlines each tree to be removed and each one that stays. The plan also must list types of vegetation to be planted. And Wearn will have to outline federal and state permits needed if mangroves are affected by the project. Landscape architect for the project, Jeff Blakely of Blakely and Associates, said the homeowner's association wants to plant mahogany and buttonwood trees, palmettos and coco palms.

Less than 50 percent of the pine trees on the lot will be removed, Blakely said. The remaining pine trees will be trimmed to 35 feet in height. Town building ordinances require no more than 50 percent of the trees on a lot be removed, and trees can not be trimmed lower than 35 feet. The trees slated for removal, which shield the Intracoastal Waterway from South Ocean Boulevard, tower 50 to 70 feet in the air. The trees will be replaced with vegetation and trees ranging in height from 36 inches to 16 feet, Blakely told the commission.

See TREES, Page 5 By MARIAN KING Daily Nam uilnaw Idltor Just a few years ago, dealing with a grumpy, short-tempered bank teller who didn't know your name let alone your business was pretty much the norm in most commercial banks. These days, as competition for dollars heats up among commercial banks and other institutions, banks statewide have realized that their tellers are a vital link in getting and keeping customer accounts. The tellers have become the sellers, essentially, in today's banking industry. "The role of the teller has become one of diversified customer service," said Ralph Hodg- See TELLERS, Page 6 the area from Sloan's Curve west to Lake Worth. town's Architectural Commission, which must approve the association's landscape plan, is the mediator in the dispute that has raged for two months.

The matter was put on hold again yesterday because the association failed to submit a detailed landscaping plan. DaHy Naw Phota a ROBERT YORK Pierre Rodriguez, First Union National Bank.