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OWNER. DESPERATE ly Somewhere a small, kite-shaped blue blanket Pinellas Suit LOST: One light blue blanket In SECTION I CD t.Pftfrfibunj Simps Friday, June 22, 1962 NORTH SUN COAST snape of a kite. Please return. Owner desperate. Linus Van Pelt, Times Box R-449.

is flying among the clouds and Linus Van Pelt wants i it back. -1 Readers of The Times I who follow Linus' adven-I tures in the comic strip, 1 Peanuts, have been fall miliar with his plight. In desperation earlier 1 this week when his blan-: ket was used for a kite and flew away, Linus turned to the classified ad section of The Times for help. He wrote: "LOST: One light blue blanket in shape of a kite. Please return.

Owner desperate. Times Box R-449." Within hours after the ad appeared, telephone callers responded: They had found the blanket. They knew someone who had seen a blanket like that. I I I I I I rdeired ALTERNATIVE TO PARKING BAN Largo Annexation Action Threatens Keene Sewer Unit Businessmen Urge Traffic Control By DON PRIDE Of The Times Staff CLEARWATER Traffic control steps were pro By EDDIE CARHART Of The Times Staff LARGO Town Commission, overriding objections by the county, last night annexed the properties of six more persons apparently seeking escape from the Keene Forest Sanitary Sewer District. posed by a group of Ft.

Harrison Avenue businessmen yesterday as an alternative major north-south artery. Their proposal will be placed before city commissioners in a public hearing Monday and also will be sent to the State Road Board and Gov. Farris Bryant in Tallahassee. Fifteen aroused business and professional men met in Clearwater Attorney Robert Tench's office yesterday in protest of the road board ban. THEY APPROVED a resolu tion asking elimination of: The walk signal at Ft.

Harrison Avenue and Cleveland Street; right and left hand turns on Cleveland Street at Osceola, Ft. Harrison, Garden, and Railroad Avenues and left turns on Ft. Harrison Avenue between Drew and Turn er Streets. Also discussed was the possi bility of filing a circuit court in junction should the road board fail to heed protests from Clearwater. TENCH TOLD the group gov ernmental groups have broad authorities, and a court would probably have to find that one group is being discriminated against to uphold an injunction.

The attorney estimated 30 to 40 businesses would be forced to With all the calls, Li-nus' blanket has not been found. During its periodic scanning of the heavens, the St. Petersburg Sun-coast Moonwatch might still spot it. Meanwhile, a word of hope for Linus: Don't give up the blanket. Sheriff's Budget Cut By $75,505 In a compromising mood, Pi-n 1 1 a County commissioners and Sheriff Don Genung yesterday agreed to reduce the sher iff's budget by $75,505 instead of $89,390.

This still gives Genung 153 a net increase of $136,843 over the current fiscal year. Instead of cutting four uni formed deputies and two patrol cars, the commission budget committee agreed to restore two deputies and one car, plus car expenses. But Commissioners A. L. An derson and Robert A.

Freeze said emphatically they objected to Genung making a special deputy assignment to Tierra Verde. "THAT'S personalized law en forcement for one subdivision," reeze said. He said the area is entitled to protection on the same basis as any other county area. Genung hastily added that the new deputies were for county-wide enforcement, not mere ly for the Tierra Verde area. "I just used that as an example," he said.

As it stands, the budget re ductions agreed upon will see that Genung remains an earth bound sheriff instead of an air borne one. Eliminated was 510 for a four-place airplane- and its expenses. ALSO OUT was "one female psychologist" as part of a $30, 565 reduction in salaries connect ed with the county jail. Genung still intends to hire a male psy chologist to staff a new juvenile rehabilitation center. Most of these reductions are attributable to a later-than-ex-pectcd jail completion.

Here are the total cuts: Reduce jail salaries, eliminate radio purchase from capital outlay, cut air plane, eliminate 2 bailiffs, eliminate 2 stenographers eliminate 2 dep uties, reduce car expense, eliminate 1 auto, eliminate jail equipment, $1,025 -Total: $75,505. (Actually the radio equipment and jail equipment will be pur chased out of the county building fund instead of the sheriff's cap ital outlay.) FREEZE CONTINUED his ob lections to small towns which use the Sheriff's Department to make up for inadequacies in their mu nicipal law enforcement. "You're still the sheriff," he said, "but I'd like to see a crack down on some of these munici palities." Genung reminded the board that as a constitutional officer he is responsible for countywide en forcement, whereas municipal police forces work for a "corpora tion" and are responsible only to that body. County Demos Elect Knisely As Chairman CLEARWATER A. W.

(Jerry) Knisely, chairman of the Pi nellas County Democratic Exec- utive Committee for the past two years, was unanimously elected chairman for a full four-year term at the organizational meet ing of the committee in Clearwa ter last night. Mrs. Vera Noon Elphic of Dun-edin was elected vice-chairman. succeeding Mrs. G.

Adair of Palm Harbor, who did not seek re-election. She received 36 votes to 27 for Mrs; Warren L. Green and 2' for Mrs. James D. Olson, both of Clearwater.

Mrs. Margaret H. Cobbe of Gulfport was elected secretary over incumbent Warren L. Green by a vote of 48 to 36. Re-elected treasurer without opposition was Mrs.

Loretta Mc-Collum of St. Petersburg. Knisely was nominated by James D. Olson as "a dedicated Democrat qualified to lead us through the general election." The nomination was seconded by Col. Allen R.

Moore of Dune- din and Mrs. Judy Marshak of St. Petersburg, newly elected stale committee woman. "We'd go a long way before we found a better chairman than Jerry Knisely." Mrs. Marshak said.

Knisely said the party would "go forward with a purpose." 1 vThey wanted to know how much of a reward was being offered for the blanket's return. MINOR confusion was avoided when it a pointed out that a flying object in the heavens that same day was just an-' other Tiros weather satellite fired from Cape Ca- naveral. The action slices two subdivi sions with more than 100 homes from the proposed Keene Forest District, assistant county attorney Bruce Daniels said. The combination of Largo's annexation of the Keene Road right of way last week and the annexation of two areas last night separates the Keene Lake Manor and Parkway Estates, first addi tion, subdivisions from the remainder of the district, thus legally barring the voters from choosing if they want to join it, Daniels argued. Daniels said the district will have to be readvertised for the July 24 referendum by Sunday.

He did not rule out the possibility the county may take legal Steps against Largo's annexation moves. Approved on three readings by the town commission last night were ordinances annexing the following undeveloped properties: A 20-ACRE tract owned by Douglas Kearney on Keene Road; A FIVE-ACRE tract owned by Mrs. E. E. Curry, also in the Keene Road area: TWO LOTS in the Lake Palms subdivision along East Bay Drive owned by Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Wells. A neighborhood grocery store is on one of the lots. A 20-acre tract owned by Lou Glazier on the Dr. Bob McMullen Road.

A 25-acre tract owned by R. C. McMullen at Highland Avenue and Rosery Road. The annexation must be ad' vertised for four weeks before becoming final, town attorney John Bonner said. These an- (Please see LARGO, Page 15-B) will discuss the role of municipal government in encouraging tour ist business.

Viewpoint of hotel and motel owners will be offered by Hannaford, owner and man ager of the Frontenac Motel in Sarasota. MARTIN, assistant vice presi- dent of public relations for At lantic Coast Line Railroad, will represent the transportation in dustry. Attorney John J. DiVito will moderate the discussion. Suncoast Civic Workshop ses sions are free and open to the public.

After opening statements and discussion, an opportunity is offered for questions to be posed from the floor. Due to the limited space in the Workshop, those wishing to attend should write for tickets im mediately by filling out the cou- Don below and mailing, along with a stamped self-addressed envelope, to: "Workshop, c-o The ISt. Petersburg Times." Appeal Hinted By Attorneys By JERRY BLIZIN Of The Times Staff Walter Freeze's suit chal- lenging the validity of a Pinellas County tax revalu- ation program was thrown out of court yesterday. Circuit Judge Charles R. Scott of Jacksonville, on temporary assignment in Pinellas, granted summary decrees of dismissal on behalf of Hunnicutt and Associ ates, the Pinellas County Commission, Tax Assessor Mac S.

Haines and Clerk of Circuit Court Avery W. Gilkerson. Since the Freeze case involves constitutional issues, it may be appealed to the Florida Supreme Court. Attorneys Jack F. White Jr.

and B. J. Driver said they were planning an appeal de pending on consent of their client, a grove owner and father of County Commissioner Robert A. (Buddy) Freeze. Circuit Judge Scott, who cut through arguments of counsel with repeated incisive queries, held valid a statute under which the county commission hired Hunnicutt and Associates to be consultants in the tax revalua tion.

RULING THE contract with Hunnicutt was also valid, Scott first granted a dismissal decree as it pertains to Hunnicutt. From the record, he said, the evidence justified a similar rul ing as to other county defendants. The jurist indicated that in tax matters, as in others, you have to be hurt before you can holler. He said that plaintiff Freeze or any other taxpayer may "have some standing in court if, after the tax roll is adopted, it is found that the tax assessor act ed in an arbitrary or capricious manner. "But the tax roll is not before the court," Scott said.

Haines hasn't completed the tax roll yet, SCOTT'S DECISION opens the way for the County Commission to release payments to Hunnicutt and Associates, which have been held up pending a decision in the freeze suit. Similarly, the decision may en able the County Commission to re-determine whether it will hold its board of tax equalization hearing on July 2 or after July 16, as Haines has requested. Haines said he was pleased by Scott's ruling. Yesterday's hear ing was the second time around for the Freeze suit. In a May 30 hearing, Circuit Judge Charles M.

Phillips Jr. came up with an involved ruling in which he took wait and see stand on the ultimate validity of the tax roll, PHILLIPS ALSO declared the County Commission had a legal and constitutional right to i Hunnicutt and Associates to make a $391,500 tax study. But he claimed that the con tract, while valid at the outset, would be ruled invalid if Haines' rubber-stamped the Hunnicutt appraisals. He held the case open for further testimony. At the time, he denied County Atty.

Page S. Jackson's conten tion that Freeze's suit was premature while also holding there were insufficient facts to settle the entire case. i 1 1 and Associates, through Attorney Lemuel S. Hun nicutt, protested Phillips ruling at the time and indicated a pos sible appeal. earlier this week It was announced that Supreme Court Chief Justice B.

K. Rob erts had granted a request by Senior Circuit Judge John Bird to temporarily assign an (Please ee TAX. 15-B) contest drew more than 2,500 entries. Suncoast Invitational is The Times' annual late-summer greeting to readers in the north, inviting them to spend the winter in the 10-county area known as the Suncoast. For the past two years it has been edited by Sandy Stiles, at that time newsfeatures editor, now public service editor.

Stiles, who joined The Times in 1937 and who has held a number of editorial positions, organized a team of editors, writers, artists and photographers who presented in words and pictures the events, attractions and natural beauty to a parking ban on the State Formally Approves Bans TALLAHASSEE The State Road Board yesterday gave formal approval to previously announced parking bans for Clearwater thoroughfares. On July 1, according to SRD action, parking will be banned on portkms of Cleveland Street and Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard and on Ft. Harrison between Jones and Turner Streets. A second section of parking will be banned beginning 90 days from July 1. This will take in stretches of Fort Harrison Avenue.

close by the parking ban. The resolution approved yesterday are to be circulated among businesses for signatures before being placed before the commission Monday Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce executive committee yesterday opposed the ban, and said it would do so until adequate offstreet parking is provided. The south end work on 34th Street will be done in two sec tions, said Cason. The section from 54th Avenue to the Sun shine Skyway will be handled in a subsequent budget. The north Pinellas section proj ect als owill be put back in for a later budget.

The south 34th Street project move-up will be a boon to Florida Presbyterian College at St, Petersburg, lhe college new permanent campus is now under construction on a site bounded on the north by 54th Avenue South, The school is scheduled to start moving part of its opera tions to the new campus shortly, The 34th Street job will provide it with a four-laned approach from the north. Your Horoscope Page 14-D well as the thousands who received copies in the north. Another Suncoast Invitational Edition is in the making. This year's issue will be printed Oct. 16 and will have a Suncoast Holiday theme.

Second prize winner in the NEA's special issue category for papers with more than 3.000 circulation was the Columbus, Sunday Ledger-Enquirer. Third place went to the Liberal (Kan.) Southwest Daily Times. The San Jose (Calif.) Mercury won first place in the general excellence category of the daily division, followed by the Riverside (Calif.) Press and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A I rAl Ik oncoll New Phases Of Project Suspended Editorial on conflicts of interest, Page 12-A.

By BOB HAIMAN Of The Times Staff St. Petersburg's City Council yesterday directed City Manager Lynn H. Andrews to stop all work on the Central Yacht Basin marina, 5 except work al ready in progress and other work he determines can be done without harming the public good. They also directed Andrews to make an immediate study to de termine: 1. IF THE $800,000 marina can be built as designed with funds allocated in the bond issue.

2. IF THERE SHOULD be any changes in the marina design. 3. HIS FINDINGS and report back to the council as soon as possible. The directive motion to An drews came after a prior motion to stop all work on the marina passed four to two but was wi tered down on reconsideration by an amendment offered by Mayor Herman Goldner.

Goldner admitted the move "dumped" the marina situation in the manager's lap and said he wouldn't particularly like to be in the manager position. But he added he felt that only the manager, and not council, had the proper staff and sources to properly evaluate investigative information on the marina. "Whether the marina was a wise move originally is not the question," Goldner said. "The situation now is we are com-mited to build this marina and we must do it." During the day-long council meeting Councilmen Nortney Cox and Jack Burklew proposed first to fire Rader and Asso ciates, designers and consulting engineers for the marina, then to suspend them pending Andrews' findings and then to hold up all payments to them. All proposals were defeated.

THE ORIGINAL motion to stop all work on the marina was proposed by Councilman Jack Carey and seconded by Councilman J. Gerald Murphy. It passed with Cox and Burklew, who still want ed to fire Rader, opposing it. Goldner amendment allowing some work to continue came after Richard Misener, whose firm is driving the piles at the ma nna, spoke to council. Misener said his firm currently is driving piles in the west pier section of the marina with "no difficulties." Misener said the work could be completed in that section within two weeks and asked he be allowed to continue.

THE COUNCIL position against Rader boiled up in the morning (Please see MARINA, 15-B) LOAN ASSOCIATION OF ST. PETERSBURG Ti mtii -1. i- 0f 4t :.4 Street Project Labeled Urgent Parking Ban Public Hearing Set Monday CLEARWATER City Com missioners yesterday set a pub lic hearing for 1:30 p.m. Monday on the controversial parking ban planned for two major thoroughfares here. Some commissioners indicated they weren't certain what purpose a hearing would serve, but Mayor Bob Weatherly said he wants to get the public's reaction to the State Road Board action.

Weatherly is proposing the city put a resolution of protest before Gov. Farris Bryant at Tuesday's cabinet meeting in Tallahassee. Commissioners agreed yester day the best alternative to the Ft. Harrison ban probably would be to divert the through traffic to Myrtle Avenue, designating Myrtle as Alt. U.S.

19. BUT CITY Manager James R. Stewart said, "Being realistic, the state's not going to take over Myrtle until we get the right of way and extension to Ft. Harrison at the Sunburst apartments." He suggested the city try to get the right of way and ask the Pinellas County Commission to build the extension as a secondary road project. Myrtle, already a no-parking thoroughfare, now ends at Pal metto Street in the north side of town.

The city has talked from time to time about extending it either to Ft. Harrison or across Stevenson Creek to Doug las Avenue. COMMISSIONERS indicated they favor pursuing the Myrtle Avenue proposal but set no meeting with county officials. They agreed Monday's hearing will be limited to the parking situation in areas named in the state's ban, although the eastern portions of Gulf-to-Bay Boule vard also were discussed. Mayor Weatherly said many Gulf-to-Bay merchants are still suffering from the parking ban imposed on the thoroughfare two years ago.

Citing parking lanes allowed in major approaches to Tampa and Perry, Weatherly asked, "Why is Clearwater so different than anybody else? Commissioner Amos Smith said he could see little justification for fighting for one area and not another. "If we have a public hearing, we're liable to get people from all portions of town and problems we can pos sibly hope to solve. COMMISSIONER Joe Turner said traffic flow on Ft. Harri son hasn't been a problem since Garden Avenue was repaved, taking much of the traffic that had previously traveled Alt. U.S 19.

Pommissioners said they were worried about the economic ef fects of the ban on the city. "I'm afraid it's going to bank rupt a lot of people," Weatherly said. SANDY STILES he edited winner. that make this part of Florida an ideal winter vacation playground. Covered in the 158-page issue which appeared Oct.

17 were the fun spots of Pinellas, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Hillsborough, Manatee, Sarasota, kl Of- fcAKNINGS TO GET YOUR TICKETS NOW Summer Business Topic Of Workshop June 28 An early start was forecast last night on the four-laning of 34th Street South in St. Peters burg from Lakeview Avenue to the Bayway entrance at 54th Ave nue. The project has been tabbed urgent and placed in the 1962- 63 budget. State Road Board member Warren Cason confirmed last night he has removed from the budget a less-pressing U.S. 19 north-end four-laning project and substituted the St.

Petersburg job. The project that had been in the tentative budget was the four-laning from the Pasco County line southward to the Tarpon Springs Road. But Cas6n said that "due to the importance of the section from 22nd to 54th" the change has been made so the south-end stretch can be opened as soon as possible to handle anticipated heavy Bayway traffic. "It's more important right now," he said, "to get this section that opens up the Bayway." Charlotte. Lee and Collier counties.

Geographical areas of the Suncoast were treated in separate sections, each featuring a full-page color cover. The entire SIE was noted for Its lavish use of color photos, maps and drawings. Included in each section was a profile of each city, a map, calendar of winter-s i events, list of outstanding dining spots and schedule of civic club meetings, in addition to stories about tourist attractions. The section was enthusiastically received by Suncoast civic and business leaders, as PinPT FPrm "Summer Business: Are We Doing Our Part?" will be the topic for the St. Petersburg Times Suncoast Civic Workshop session on June 28.

The discussion forum will begin at 8 p.m. in the Workshop room, fourth floor of The Times building, 440 First Ave. S. i Emphasis in the discussion will be on tourism. Panel members will include Roger Stake, Dick Pope Herman Goldner, James Hannaford and Donald Martin.

STAKE, assistant director of the Florida Development Com' mission, will be representing commission chairman Wendell Jarrard. His opening remarks will be on what the FDC can do to promote tourism along the Suncoast. Approaching the discussion as the owner of a private tourist at traction will be Pope, creator and owner of Cyrpress Gardens. St. Petersburg Mayor Goldner 1961 Special Issue Of The Times Wins Top National Honors Rlease send tickets to The Times Suncoast Civic Workshop forum on "Summer Business: Are We Doing Our Part?" at 8 p.m., June 28.

Enclosed Is a stamped self -addressed envelope. From Wire Reports HERSHEY, St. Pe- tersburg Times, 1961 Suncoast Invitational Edition last night was named by the National Editorial Association as finest special issue produced by the American press last year. Presentation of the first place plaque was made at the award banquet highlighting the 77th annual NEA convention. Geoffrey Drummond, Times Washington bureau chief, accepted the plaque.

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