Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 10

31 LOCAL St. Petersburg Times, Thursday, Dec. IS, FOR APARTMENT PROJECT FILE BILL WITH LEGISLATORS Negro Group Finds Mural 'Despicable' Mayor Herman Goldner says Site Plan Revamped, Zoning Is Reinstated Constables Ask $10,000 Salary Vi day by the zoning staff and It is art. each gave approval to reinstat ing the zoning. The developer The Student Nonviolent Coor from $4,300 to $1,800 a year.

had hand carried a copy of the Times Bureau CLEARWATER Pinellas dinating Committee (SNCC) The Pinellas County Govern new plan to each member. calls it "despicable." The applicant for the rezoning County's five constables are asking for $10,000 annual sala mental Study Commission, in a report to be submitted to the County Commission early next "It" is one of two murals on Is W. H. Lester, the current ries from the 1967 Legislature. owner of the property.

The the first landing of the main stairway at City Hall. 'The St. Petersburg Zoning Board has reinstated its approval of a zoning change to permit construction of apartments In the block bounded by Ninth and 10th Avenue North and by 51st and 52nd Streets. week, the board withdrew its earlier approval of the zoning when It learned the developer was not living up to promises he made to the board. BOARD was promised the apartments would be screened from single family landscaping around the four sides of the property.

The first site plan submitted, however, had commercial, row -type parking right up to the property line. A NEW SITE plan shown board members yesterday had 75 feet of landscaping on all sides of the property, with the bulk of the parking In the center of the site between two three story buildings. Each building would contain 39 apartments. The Zoning Board members were polled by telephone yester- month, has recommended the post of constable be abolished developer is Sheldon Rothman. This would nearly double the A public hearing on the rezon The mural in question shows and the position of supervisor of current pay of Claude Rigsby, ing will be held by the City a group picnicking at Pass- elections be an appointive rath Dist.

3, and Creston Thomas, Council today at 9 a.m. The a-Grille Beach. The group is er than elective one. Dist. 4, both presently $5,500 being entertained by a couple of council has the final word on zoning changes.

Sam Vance, Dist. 1, and Charles what Goldner described as SuUivan, Dist. 5, draw $8,000 "strolling troubadours." The troubadours are Negro. Sidney T. Laurence, Dist.

2, homes In the area by 20 feet of gets $7,000. School Shift Emotional THE CONSTABLES filed Sleepy Time Thieves Grab Sleep Ware OAI Staff Photo pay raise bill with the Pinellas THE OTHER mural is a fishing scene at the municipal pier. Both were done in the 1940's by St. Petersburg artist George Snow Hill. aiiii legislative delegation yesterday The Mural In Question The bill also would allow the The shelves were bare in constables to.

requisition pay the portrayal of strolling troubadours and picnickers at money (Negroes included) to inflict the pains of racism as demonstrated in the picture at ment of their office expenses di will bring to Pinellas a top edu Pass-a-Grille Beach cator administrator with fresh rectly from the County Commis approaches for a system that sion. The payment requests now "I do not think the type of by Dick Both well must be submitted by the jus City Hall." Hill was commissioned to do the murals in 1940 under a fed long has promoted from its own criticism you are making is ranks. tice of the peace in the consta helpful to the overall cause of ble's district. eral work grant. He received equal opportunity, but that Memories of sorrow at Dr.

Bauder's death last March 2, tends to take away from the both local and federal approval Why Not Foodoholics Anonymous? I A while back OAT advocated kindness and sympathy for people struggling to stay on their diets this holiday season. Ever salaries and office ex the result of auto accident inju for his sketches and started to real progress being made in this Both penses funds. are paid from county In explaining the beach mural, Hill once said: "It was quite common to see families picnicking on weekends under the thatched roof shelters while roving musicians stopped to entertain. The picnickers enjoyed the music and showed their appreciation by giving money to the entertainers." But SNCC didn't find the mural entertaining. In a letter to Goldner, Joseph Waller, vice chairman of the SNCC Florida Front, with headquarters in St.

Petersburg, said the mural "depicts Negroes in a most despicable, derogatory manner." ries. Today would have been area. Bauders first anniversary as the Pinellas school superinten "I THINK too that all of our minority groups must mature to the Plaza Inn linen closets yesterday morning. Thieves had stolen the motel's complete supply, valued at $1,800 sometime Tuesday night, police report. "They pried off the padlocks on two linen closets and then cleaned us out," said James Shepard, manager of the, motel at 401 34th St.

N. Missing were: 600 sheets and pillow cases, 200 towels and wash cloths, 100 bed spreads and mattress covers, 30 blankets, and 2 vacuum cleaners, police said. "Most of the linens had been returned from the laun- dry Monday afternoon," Shepard said, "and many items were stamped 'Plaza'." The constables' bill is the third pay raise request received dent. Gollattscheck's bonus was ap- work, but the project was canceled after World War II started. Hill continued the work at his own expense and presented the murals to the city.

WALLER asked that "the pic the point where self conscious ness is not a motivating factor proved unanimously, after School Board Vice Chairman since, well-fed individuals have been coming up to me with tears of gratitude and saying how nobody ever gave them a kind word before, just forced them to eat more fruit cake and swill down eggnog. Well, Charles C. Chevalier, 7242 11th Ave. has a likely suggestion. He believes Foodohol-tcs Anonymous should be formed, to operate just as" does Alcoholics Anonymous.

That Is, when the victim gets a mad impulse to raid the refrigerator at 2 a.m., he phones a fellow member who rushes over and by the delegation. Supervisor of Elections Wilda J. Cook is asking an Increase from $10,500 to $14,500. Her James Hendry submitted a res ture c-e either removed or olution expressing the board's "deep appreciation" for his able changed," for complaints. "While I have referred your letter to the chairman of the Community Relations Commission, I would urge that in light of the above, you give this matter further consideration in the best interests of our mutual present salary was incorrectly Goldner sent this answer: "I service.

"THANK YOU very much," THE LETTER went on to say: "It is the consensus of the black community of St. Peters reported as $9,500 yesterday. must admit that I have looked at this mural for the past 10 BOTHWELL said Gollattscheck. "I appreci burg that it was most unfair for years with nothing but admira ate those very fine words." THE JUSTICES of the peace are asking for raises ranging The board then authorized the city to use taxpayers' tion. I find nothing offensive in talks him out of it Or forcing him to eat something he loathes, like say liver or asparagus.

There is another possibility. Perhaps you read, recently, of Chairman William H. Williams to execute the six-month employment contract with Sou how a man over in England was cured of cheating on his wife. He got an electric shock every time he looked at a picture of his mistress. Well, it seems entirely possible that one could cure a glutton of certain foods by the same technique.

Only, you'd have to be careful or he'd waste away to nothing. And that would be thard, University of South Carolina education professor, who will become superintendent Jan. 1 at an annual salary of $28,500. Gollattscheck will revert to his former post as associate superintendent, the schools' No. 2 leadership position, while re A Real London Fog taining his current $20,000 annu al salary.

DECORATIONS GL( GUTTER AND THE 1967 School Board, to be reconstituted with three new members Jan. 3, then will execute a new contract with Southard, extending his term to 44 i OAT SECRET AGENT 023 got quite a shock Saturday about 9:30 a.m. That overcast morn he was driving past Coquina Key when out of the fog rolled a genuine London double decker bus. (Agent 023 has seen the originals in London). On the side, the bus proclaimed: LONDON AIRPORT.

For rent by day, week or month. Dear bus, if you are not lost, please get in touch! MRS. WILLIAM A. CUMBERLAND, 800 32nd Ave. has OAT's ancient vacuum cleaner topped.

Her upright Hoover 105 was purchased Just 44 years ago, in Akron, Ohio, on Dec. 12, 1922, for $65. Used continuously, it has never gone back to the factory! CHRISTMAS CARDS ARE FLYING and a gladsome sight .1 nit. sr years. His initial contract with the "wo- Wm mm! current board was limited to a six-month term because of con stitutional requirements.

.117 School Board Attorney Ed I ward A. Turville told board too, radiant in purple and gold as they are. Even the handsome members yesterday the law re- one from Certified Dry Mat Corporation. This column thanks kind readers who've extended season's greetings: they brighten quires them' to convene Jan. 3 for reorganization after the the holidays greatly.

three new members are sworn But $10 sent to Care Food Crusade, New York, N.Y. 10016, in. gives a child school lunches for a year, in 36 countries of the They are Dr. Charles J. Crist, world.

And that's what Christmas is all about. Calvin Hunsinger and the Rev, Arthur L. Albers. PROFOUND OBSERVATION by agent 070, after reading of recent mini-skirted weddings among the very wealthy: "The more money you have, the less you wear." (Agent 070 Is also MAIN PURPOSE of Jan. 3 WAMv'v.

I I i I I II I WlfC. meeting at 2 p.m. will be to exe launching a campaign for see-through neckties as a preliminary cute Southard's new contract and elect a board chairman and vice chairman. I Indications yesterday were that veteran Chairman Williams will retain his post, although Mrs. Jane Manson has been re ported as a possible replace ment.

to doing away with them entirely.) HAVE SOME FIGURES: National Menu Census says here a year long survey of food serving habits in typical U.S. households show 67 per cent of fish servings in Catholic households take place on Friday, only 33 per cent take place the rest of the week. Protestants serve more fish on Friday than any other day 25 per cent while Jews serve 19 per cent of their fish Friday. The Menu Census found that the average U.S. family serves fish a little more than once a week.

Protestants are about 9 per cent below the national average in fish servings; Catholics 11 per cent above, and Jewish families a whopping 111 per cent above, the latter serving fish 2.3 times a week. Now then, National Menu Census. Does anybody serve steak anymore? Mrs. Manson was re-elected Nov. 8 and will begin a second four-year term Jan.

3. Besides Williams and Mrs. Manson, other holdover mem Eton bers are Mrs. W. John Prowse of Dunedin and Ron Fisher of SSI Sdi tan St.

Petersburg. TODAY'S SMALL JOKE: Golfers! Here's a tip on how to get Ketinng board members are Hendry, Mrs. Marjorie Whitley more distance on your drives. Hit the ball and run in the opposite and Mrs. Mildred Day.

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