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Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 24

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Tampa Bay Timesi
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St. Petersburg, Florida
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24
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Sr. Tlmit. TaurttJey, AprH II. lfll LOCAL Florida Freedomland Rumors Continue tlilng definite. I'm not paihinf ll Tlien.

at a Chamber ot Com ity truth" to stories of aale hav MDXEV ASCIUK. public niene fxulivet' convention In ing been made. rfiiwior f.r the 2tt) arre recrea Awher said Freedomiana nai Clearwater Jat week, one delegate aald he had heard free rur now," Jtegikter aald. Hrrent negotiation! between Register and Freedomland have revolved around the attraclion'a hut huilt a ttfiu.OIJO "Jlaunled has domland bad been and lion comj.lex, aware of rent rcMrt Freedomland been or being wld. iu n.ld a Time reporter House" and plant to spend $3.5 million on new rides.

"Does thls would be moved to Florida. price tag. ConMrui-tion of the 'DUNEDIN Kor monfhi now reporta of the m1 of New York Ctry'a Freedomland attraction have blown along Florida' Sun-coaat from Dunedin to New Tort Rlchey, but a Freedomland pokeman ycicrday Mid no ale ha been made yet. He added bt couldn't predict the future. that Tliia rcjrt, loo, li unconfirmed.

entertainment complex four us sound like we'rt moving?" be "oilier paper hv called Meanwhile. In Dunedin said. iiurnal tlii Wall wrw II slo said attendance till railed a couple of day ago." yeara ago cost $17 million, but Freedomland a reportedly been operating at a deficit alnce it la only open In the aummer. where the psibillty of Kree-domuind'a coming to Florida first hit the new last fall no However, he aald there summer Is expected to be up 25 per cent as a result of the World's Fair crowds in New York. Freedomland Is on indications are that there'a Hill SCOTS WMISKY In any cae, Register aald any nosslbility of Us coming, but move will nrohably take a no sale has been made a of thousands and thousands' of couple of yearn to bring about.

lourIM tours, he said, and many yesterday. What about the rumors or faircnern are expecied to visit Woodrow V. Itcciteter. presi sale? insist on CUTTVSARK AMERICA'S NO. SELLING SCOTCH WHISKY! IMPCIUO IV TNI lUCKINGMA COHeOMIIOtl.

NtW Y0IK. I. IllNDtO IC0TCN drNISKT MOOf the attraction In the Baychesler relT.iv'f dent of Caladesi develop RegUter said he believe section of the Bronx. en of Dunedin Beach, aaid he County Safety Unit Has Central Group A central committee for a I yesterday afternoon at a i aperlal Plnellai County 13 Safety-4 meetins at the St. Petersburg Bureau was formed I Chamber of Comrnerre.

epwKen but fcy Jndus. trial Commission, the prime these have been atlrred up by TIIKRE WERK unconfirmed an article on Jrerdomiana in an amusement Industry trade ia still negotiating with the Freedomland interests to bring the attraction to Dunedin. reports circulating in laseo County a few weeks ago that magazine. Freedomland would be relocated Thev've called me for atate- TM HOrEtTL before the somewhere near New Tort Rich menis." he said. year Is out we'll have aome- ly.

movers In the statewide safety program, the meeting attracted gome 50 representatives from the City of St. Petersburg. Pinellas County, the Slate Highway Tatrol and area Industries and large businesses. LYNN IXCiRAIIAM, of the Florida Industrial Commission, and James Donna rd, adviser to the commission's 19 Safety-4 Slate Shakers Bureau, both from Tallahassee, and Russell Woods, local safely representative of the commission, were In charge of the meeting. RtSSKIX WtKMH to coordinate activities Named to the committee were: Ray Tost.

Bill Tarks. Roland Johnson. Charlie Mitchem. Russ Bevin, Charles Joyce and fieorce Weber. The croup will Resident City Sued In Death Of Man Feb.

18 have Its first organizational meeting next Wednesday at the Chamber. Idea behind the bureau, Den Mn Aniline Ahrens. 4030 nard exnlained. is to "bring all Highland St. Tuesday sued aspects of safety to Pinellas Charles Ray Haywortn, ana tne urnnry citizens.

The 19 Safety-4 Speaker's Bu Cirv of St. Petersburg for allcg edly causing the death of her husband, Harry, last Feb. 18. reau would contact all civic clubs, PTAs, schools and other groups letting them know speakers are available on all aspects of safety problems, Woods said. THE IMH'STRIAL Commission, Ingraham said, will supply the local group with litera-ture, bumper strips, safety films and olher materials need ed to carry on the safety pro gram In Pinellas County.

"If in the course of one year you cause just one person to live a year longer you will have been a success," Dennard said. Mrs. Ahrens asked more than $5,000 damages. She claimed her husband died as a result of injuries he suffered Jan. 6 as he crossed Ninth Street South at 53rd Avenue.

Mrs. Ahrens contended the city was negligent in parking heavy equipment, including trucks and wagons, on the roadway without placing warning lights and flares adjacent to the trucks. She said this was In violation of a city ordinance and obstructed the vision of motorists on Ninth Street. The suit claimed Hayworih. 2021 Barcelona Drive was negligent in that his car struck Ahrens.

Hayworth, yesterday said be had a witness to prove Ahrens "jumped" in front of his car. "I did the natural thing," he said, "and slammed on my brakes." Woods, of 6200 Fourth Ave. St. Petersburg, will coordinate the Pinellas County group's Lions Elect Harris President John W. Harris Sr.

has been elected president of the North gate Lions Club of St. Peters burg for 1964-65. He succeeds Charles A. Mitchem. Other officers elected are William A.

Quimby, Wallace A. Neel and F. Dick Tracy, vice Hendry To Attend Houston Convention Pinellas County School Board member James E. Hendry of St. Petersburg will be official delegate to thp 24th annual convention of the National School Boards Association in Houston, Texas, Saturday throuch Tuesday.

Hendry is president of the Florida School Board presidents; Choju Matsu, secretary; Ben 'Greenstreet, treasurer; G. J. Silbernagel, lion tamer; and Howard E. Cook, tail twister. New directors are Harold W.

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