Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 11

TARPON SPRINGS-BOUND fi-t. Trtrrsburg GTimra NORTH SECTION Thursday, July 6, 1967 SUNCOAST Pasco Counties hass CLASSIFIED 6-B 7-B Xtro Lfi Granted U.S. Entry Some Like It Wet TARPON SPRINGS The U.S. Immigration Department has approved a measure which will bolster the lagging sponge fishing industry here. Sponge fishermen from Greece will be brought to Tarpon Springs to help harvest the underwater crop.

So far, about 22 sponge divers and helpers have been approved for special visas. More may become available. LAST MARCH, Louis Smit-zes, president of the Tarpon Springs Sponge Exchange, announced that the Department of Labor had issued clearance orders for 20 divers and 30 helpers. The 22 who have been approved by the Immigration Department are a part of the overall total of 50 men. "If the Department issues visas for the balance and all arrive within the next six to eight months we expect (sponge) production to double or triple," commented Smit-zes.

He said the Gulf of Mexico sponge beds are "very prolific." The Tarpon Springs sponge fleet numbers 13 boats now, he said. Each will offer jobs to four or five men. THE SEARCH for foreign help to harvest the sponge -I 'v -'fl fJi -V r-S' "it Staff Photo by George Trabant crop was necessitated be Dog Days Run In Cycles i v'l Honestly, officer, we were Jus! pup-pup-pupping along but this car was right on my tail, see? I'm Chieo Chihuahua and my sidekick here is J. L. Green, who's a patrolman at the University of South Florida when he isn't with me at 209 17Gth Redington Shores.

We've been co-pilots for two years, since I was 10 weeks old and traded my doghouse for the sidecar on a scooter. I yelp J. L. bone up on the law and take the dogwatch on the side with all those poles Some Don'f cause of an acute lack of domestic help. Smitzes and others had sought divers from other areas of the country, but without success.

Tarpon Springs young men, despite their sponge fishing heritage, seemed to prefer to go into other walks of life rather than the relatively harsh seafaring existence of the sponge fleet. The Sponge Exchange is busy processing applications for the overseas help. Get Funds aOnt fLasr Jf acuities rl SPONGE FISHING nearly Times Bureau TALLAHASSEE Clearwater was awarded a $70,000 grant by the Land and Water Conservation Fund of the U.S. Department of Interior for development of facilities at the Seminole Street boat launching area, the Florida Outdoor Recreational Development Council announced yesterday. The city will match the federal grant on a dollar-for-dollar basis." The project includes construction of four modern boat launching ramps, car and trailer parking, picnic facilities, a concrete bulkhead, catwalks and landscaping.

The launching area is two blocks west of Alt. U.S. 19, adjacent to the intra-coastal waterway. City Manager James R. Stewart will direct the project.

State outdoor recreation director Ney Landrum is the state liaison officer to the bureau of outdoor recreation. The Clearwater project is the second local assistance program funded by the Department of the Interior. died out in Tarpon Springs when, between 1943 and 1949, a blight hit the Gulf sponges, Rain is wonderfully impartial. It doesn't care whom it soaks. Soft water from heaven is received in many ways.

When you are you tend to gallop about and enjoy the wetting as much as a bullfrog witness the Waterfront Park celebration! But when you become an adult, rain makes you run for cover and worry about ruining your clothes, like the sprinter at left. Source of all the excitement was a heavy rain that dumped .84 of an inch on downtown St. Petersburg between 1 and 2 p.m. yesterday. (See weather story, Page 2-A.) Before that time, production had been in the millions of dollars per year category.

Since 1960, sponge produc tion has risen, averaging some $400,000 worth yearly. This year, according to Sponge Exchange officials, the crop is excellent In fact, they say, it should be harvested to prevent overgrowth Staff Photos by Weaver Tripp and Bob Hannah which would seriously affect the beds. The General Van Fleet, L-J -j TRANS- LUX THEATRE 1 2 A Eleni, Niki, Socrates, John Delekis, Agatha, Independent, Magdalene, Eleza, Katherine TO TREAT FAIRCHILD WASTES II and the Renee distinctive little sponge boats have all Pollution Ready eporf been noted at the Docks. Thirteen boats in all, according to Sponge Exchange figures, whose captains will offer jobs Board of Health in Jacksonville Plans for treatment of wastes rine life from the northern end of the canal and from the adja to 4 or 5 men each. and Henry hopes to put the drawings and specifications into cent waters of Tampa Bay.

from Fairchild Hiller aircraft cleaning operations will be presented to the Pinellas County THE SPONGE Exchange of the state's hands early next week. fice is busy acting as agents for the men who are being A The state already has given processed. Applicants must tentative approval. have 5 years or more in the Ralph Gardner of the Health Department's Environmental Health Division said the plans for treatment will be presented by Allen Henry of the St. Petersburg architectural engineering consultant firm of son Parrish.

If a final okay comes by next sponge industry ever there as helpers or divers. Local rela week, treatment facilities could be in operation by November. Clearwater Theatre Will Be Similar To This One In Harrisburg, Pa. Clearwater To Get Another Theatre Henry yesterday did not re tives are assisting the Sponge Exchange in providing the names of applicants who must Health Department on Friday. The plans could receive approval next week from the State Board of Health and construction of treatment facilities is possible in the near future.

The wastes from Fairchild Hiller's operations at Pinellas International Airport have been allowed to drain into the Cross Bayou Canal for about 18 months. THE ACIDS and other materi be documented. Gardner said his department has been working closely with veal the nature of treatment, saying he preferred to have final approval before announcing any details. Sunshine Mall is anticipated in New York and other states. Some of the applicants are coming from Symi and the Henry ever since the engineer was engaged by Fairchild Hiller this month.

The mall will be anchored by a 135,000 square foot Richard A. Leandri, general manager for Sunshine Mall, balance from Calymnos, ALTHOUGH still in its design1 stage, the Trans-Lux theatre will be similar to others recently built by the chain in New York City and shopping centers about four months ago. C. Penney department store There were no applications from the other Grecian says he hopes to announce addi and include more than 50 other tional tenants for the center FINAL APPROVAL of the als in the effluents reportedly tenants. soon.

have driven fish and other ma (Please see U.S., Page 3-B) I plans must come from the State YOU DOLL OF A READER YOU Times Bureau CLEARWATER Trans Lux Corp. of New York City has signed a lease to build an 850-seat, first-run theatre at Sunshine Mall, the new air-conditioned shopping center planned on South Missouri Avenue opposite Scars Town. The theatre will go up at the north end of the Sunshine Mall property, near the southwest corner of South Missouri Avenue's intersection with Druid Road. THE OPENING is planned for next summer according to Alex orit Lose Your Buttons USCG Goes To Rescue Of Sinking Shrimper The Coast Guard dropped pumps to a disabled and sinking shrimp boat last night after the vessel, the "Miss Virginia" out of Tarpon Springs, radioed a plea for help. A Coast Guard spokesman said another vessel was stand-, ing by to take the shrimp boat's two crewmen, Capt.

U. M. Young and Robert Dod-son, aboard if efforts to save the craft were unsuccessful. The boat was found about four miles west of No. buoy off the mouth of the Homasas-sa River, in the Gulf.

Water depth in the area was about 12 feet, the Coast Guard said. A search for the boat began shortly before 9 p.m. when members of the citizen band radio network in the New Port Richey Tarpon Springs are picked up her distress call. Stern, president of Gambest Corp. of New York City, developers of Sunshine Mall.

She said she had felt a lot better in her time, and that it was management's idea the staff should wear I Feel Great buttons. Well, one thing leads to another. First thing you know, people who serve the public will be appearing in shirts and blouses covered with little love notes to the customer. Like, You Were Simply Grand To Wait On, or maybe It Is A Thrill To Have You In The Store. Or perhaps Just Stand There And Let Me Look At You, You Doll You Of A Customer TOE TROUBLE is that the button-and-badge boys are trying to hold one sustained note indefinitely.

Which is not only inhuman but well-nigh impossible. The start of construction on ADVERTISEMENT DON'T STORE IT SELL IT! Robert W. Jeffrey of 247 1 76th Terrace Drive knowt the wisdom ef those words. By DICK BOTHWELL Of The Times Staff If you are a customer, you are loved. Maybe you didn't realize it, but it's true.

In fact, it may be a growing trend. Maybe business was really first to invent the Love-In. Like the other day in the supermarket, there's this big badge on the bill-making girl's uniform. Not only does it say something about It's A Pleasure To Serve You. It also says this badge does Thank You and finally it says Have A Good Day.

Only it is about 5 p.m. and the girl is tired and a bit glum. I keep expecting her to say God Bless You Sir or something but all she does is hand me the change and reach for the next customer's purchases. EVEN SO, this is a trend. It was only a couple of months ago I noticed all the employes of a local dime store running around with little buttons on that said I Feel Great.

This seemed strange to me, since the lady I first noticed wearing this button looked like she wished she was home in bed. I asked her if she really DID Feel Great and she snorted. Any thinking customer knows this. We thinking customers would appreciate a bit of down-to-earth variety. RANGE Electric.

Ittn ltord. Like new, 3T2-377B. Let management simply provide a variety of buttons and badges so that employes of a morning can select something fit l.dav run. Mrs. Jeffrey sold her range through a Family ting their mood.

For example: Don't Talk To Me Ever. You Don't Look So Hot Yourself, Went Ad. Whether you re looking lint nresDect for a ranqe. Never Mind The Chatter I Have A Headache. My Feet Hurt, Do You Mind? Please Count Your Change.

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