Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 21

t. pp teraburg ufiiwfl Friday, March 21, 1949 COUNCIL PASSES TORCH AND BUCi( lllMllSilil mm CITY EDITION 1 urn i tSrfA.7..' -1 5 i iiiii. iiinr i luiaiiiiiijwiiLii ijumi illiu By PAUL SCHNITT saxsss ipio Mil Waits In Wings Ad Curtain Call His connection with the apartments. But the DFS the construe- green room next to tion firm handling devel- the con chambers pro- Spicer For 1st Mayor-elect Don Spicer waits In the wings at his rehearsal meeting of the cil yesterday with not even the lines of an off- A Good Landing The Pilot Walked Away vides "wait-reducers" i stage voice until the ses- tending the discussion of coffee breaks and friend-sion's end. a rezoning ordinance for ly doorman Drina Butler, suc as quiet meditation, the mayor's, secretary, and William Johnson of Hank Meyer Associates, to aid his entrance.

No Runway; Sancfy Landing "A beautiful landing," said the Coast Guard, and pilot Robert Tyler had to agree with the old aviation adage that any landing you walk away from is a good one. Tyler, 29, of 8697 92nd St. Larjp, walked away yesterday after a dead-stick landing of his light plane on a land fill on Mermaid Point, Shore Acres. He said the plane lost power at 1,500 feet on a flight from St. Petersburg to Tampa.

"I've come close before, but that's the first time I've ever had to put one down," said Tyler, charter pilot for the Tampa Air Center at International Airport. Quick as he got down, Tyler went up again in a Coast Guard rescue helicopter which airlifted him to the St Petersburg station. The Coast Guard said a state plane with Lt. Gov. Ray Osborne of St Petersburg aboard overheard Tyler's distress call, spotted the crippled plane and helped direct rescue helicopters to it.

Osborne was en route to St. Petersburg from Miami. Staff Photos by Georgt Trabant and Dan Hlghtowar 5 -X Tyler (Right), Coast I i 4 1 if Finally, Spicer plays his 1'; 'I 5 role beside Mayor Don Joncs (lcft) whom he'll ikX' hU succeed April 1, Then cT l( he'U really get into the part, in which as in A vu- some plays a lot of the 1 action takes place off- stage. py "'V Itin Pholoi by frtur Hal rlli IrX'fl rryr-pr-j- a- rw rn vrr Finally, Spicer plays his role beside Mayor Don Jones (left) whom he'll succeed April 1, Then he'll really get Into the part, in which as in some plays a lot of the action takes place offstage. I Cabinet Control Voted For 2 New Departments Of Ike Timet Staff The St.

Petersburg City Council sat through two hours of controversy over a Park Street rezoning case yesterday, then tossed the final decision into the lap of the new council which takes office April 1. The action came over the mild protest of outgoing Mayor Don Jones, who saw it as an effort to "pass the buck." Councilman Gerald Murphy, also participating in his last meeting, viewed it differently, however. '1 FIGURE if this zoning case leads to others out there, the same City Council should be making those decisions," said Murphy. Two of the newly elected council members, Barbara Gammon and C. Bette Wim-bish, sat alongside the incumbents throughout the public hearing one of the longest in years on rezoning for an apartment complex.

The council chamber was packed with a standing-room-only crowd for the hearing. Mayor-elect Don Spicer stayed out of the council chamber until the hearing was over. Spicer's firm, DFS performed the marketing survey for the proposed condominium development, on a five-acre tract at Fifth Avenue and Park Street, and appears to be in line to build it if the rezofning is approved. THE COUNCIL passed ylhe rezoning ordinance on second reading 5-2 but backed off from proceeding directly to final passage on third reading as is traditionally done. City Atty.

Frank McDevitt couldn't remember the last time the council deferred final action on an ordinance until a later meeting. The delay sets the stage for the April 3 session when the pressure will be on Mrs. Gammon and Mrs. Wimbish. Based on yesterday's vote lineup a no from either will kill the rezoning.

As an appeal from the zoning board, the case requires at least five affirmative votes rather than a simple majority of four. THREE holdover council-men voted for the rezoning yesterday William Allison, Claude Greene and James Stephenson while a fourth, Horace Williams was opposed. Spicer apparently will abstain from voting. The owners of the land, Dr. Phillip Benjamin and H.

Miller, proposed to build 104 luxury type condominium apartments ranging in price from $40,000 to $100,000. The development would include five buildings with the tallest, in the center, rising seven stories. OPPONENTS called the request "spot zoning" of their fashionable, single family neighborhood. They pointed out that 18 months ago the zoning board unanimously rejected a similar effort to permit apartment development at the site. One homeowner, Irving Sohon, 7633 Fourth Ave.

ar- (Pleaw See ZONING, 3-B) LittU Comfort From tr 'S Mini iii I rjtoMrtj i firm by the name given on the harvlhill. CKUBtnTES are sold in North Carolina, where there Li no cigarette tax, for $1.90 per carton. Florida isn't so generous. It charges $1.50 per carton in taxes. Add $1.50 to the $180 charged by the North Carolina company and the Florida smoker will find he's paying more and enjoying no saving.

The total price Including sales tax. which is also certain In Florida is about $4.50 per carton. Cigarettes normally mU for $3.65 per carton in the St. Pete ntburg area. Commerce reported numerous telephone calls from anxious consumers who had made deposits on appliance at the stores and were worried at the turn of events, which the company has not explained.

Marge Freeman of the chamber said the attempted to contact Oliver Fretter of Fretter Appliances Detroit. hkh purchased Tyree's in January 1368. -Mr. Fretter has gone home. He does not have a home telephone." his office said.

For the past week rumors had drifted among Tyree's personnel that the chain was (IVaae Sr TYREE'S. S-B) i i Guardman THE MERGED department of conservation and natural resources was earmarked for the Cabinet after Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Lakeland, said the agency would have vast power to buy and sell public land and allow dredge-and-fill projects, "which really ought to be in the public arena." Voting for Cabinet control of the general services and conservation departments were the subcommittee chairman, Welborn Daniel, D-Cler-mont; Sen George Hollahan D-Miami; AlaaTrask, D-Fort Meade; and Chiles. Senators Kenneth Plante, R-Oviedo and Kenneth Myers, D-Miami, voted no. Member Richard Dee.b, R-St.

Petersburg, took part in neither vote, but said he would have been with the minority anyway. He was out of the room for one vote and missed most of the debate on the other. EARLIER, Deeb had been a minority of one in opposing Myers' bill to create the Department of Community affairs which, he warned, "has the potential of being the biggest department in the state." The bill, approved 6-1, would incorporate the governor's Office of Economic Opportunity and take over the functions of the comptroller's county finance and assess MAIL-ORDER CIGARETTES TAXED i Park Street condominl- urns, kent him from at- culating handbills In St. Petersburg which offer to sell cigarettes, "delivered, postpaid and insured," for $2.80 per carton. It limits the number of cartons to two per person and asks customers to send their orders to a post office drawer address in Wilson.

In small type it requires the customer to certify that he is 18 years of age and plans personal use of the cigarettes. Marge Freeman, manager of the better business department of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce, says recipients of the handbill are being informed that it will State Fair Fine Arts Show Dies By CHARLES BEN BOW Timrs Art Wrttrr TAMPA The Florida State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition is dead after years of steady professional growth. The Fair Directorate Committee voted at its last meeting to cancel the exhibition from future fairs, it was revealed yesterday. But the Rlngllng Museum of Art, the University of South Florida (L'SF) and the University of Florida are working on plans to sponsor a similar competition which, however, cannot be staged at the state fairgrounds in Tampa, according to James W.

Camp, director of the Florida Center for the Arts at USF. The (Drue Sre ART, Page S-B) Smokers Strike Poor Bargain not be necessary for Florida residents to pay tax on a two-carton order. BUT THE State Beverage Commission says differently. The commission advises that 15 cents per cigarette pack will be collected on any orders. "Any firm shipping cigarettes is required by federal law to send the beverage commission a list of names, addresses and quantities of cigarettes purchased by anyone In Florida," Mrs.

Freeman said. She says the Wilson Chamber of Commerce has reported It has no knowledge of a ments standards office, the railroad assessment board, local planning assistance du ties of the development commission, the governor's vision of comprehensive health planning and a few obscure agencies. Bankers Urge Ending Banks' Tax Exemption HOLLYWOOD, Fla. W-Directors of the Florida Bankers Association yesterday urged their congressional representatives to close a loophole exempting banks from paying taxes on sales, documentary stamps and intangible property. The loophole in the law already has meant a bonanza for state bankers since last July 1.

Closing their annual convention, the bankers said they could find "no moral or economic justification" for the exemption. State Comptroller Fred 0. Dickinson said Wednesday that if the loophole remained open, the state may be forced to rebate up to $20-million in taxes. mals, declined to comment yesterday on whether the dog deaths are the work of a poisoner. BUT BESSMER noted that while Parathion like Mala-thion and Chloradane is widely used as a garden insecticide, recent heavy rains would probably have washed poison residues from meat bones or other foods exposed to accidental spraying and eaten later by animals.

The most recent victim in the series of dog deaths was "Pinky," a mixed breed, tan and white female, owned by the John E. Kelly family at 1660 San Helen Drive. "Pinky" was found dead in the Kelly yard Tuesday. He was the special pet of King Knowles, Mrs. Kelly's son.

Other committee ac- twn, 5-B By MARTIN DYCKMAN Times Bureau "TALLAHASSEE The Cabinet system won votes on two important departments yesterday as a Senate subcommittee began action on who should manage what under a reorganized state government. But the subcommittee on state government reorganization also approved the creation of a department of urban affairs under the governor, and voted also to put the gov-ernor alone in charge of rehabilitative agencies and pollution control The Cabinet system's big victories came on identical 4-2 votes concerning authority over new departments for general administrative ser-vices and conservation-natural resources. IN EACH case, the subcommittee recommended that these functions be managed by boards made up of all six Cabinet members. General administrative services would consolidate purchasing, personnel, date processing, motor vehicle and airplane usage and a host of minor functions. of them are already administered by full-Cabinet boards.

Dog By ALAN HOPKINS Times Bureau CLEARWATER The third of four dogs poisoned in Dunedin since March died in an animal hospital yesterday. The fourth may be dying. Pet lovers in the North Dunedin area have posted signs warning of possible activity of a dog poisoner, and two rewards one offered by the Clearwater Society For the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) now total $650. 'DUNEDIN police are investigating the incidents which veterinarians said involve "an organic, phosphate-type poison," probably Parathion. Dunedin Police Sgt James Stangle said the probable identification of Parathion as WHODUNNIT CASE Poisonings Alarm Dunedin Florida smokers who think they've struck it lucky with an offer from a North Carolina" firm to sell cigarettes at $2i0 a carton can expect the Florida Beverage Department to send their savings up in smoke.

The only things certain in Florida are still death and cigarette taxes, one observer has noted. AND THE State of Florida Isn't about to let a North Carolina company help residents avoid cigarette taxes. The company, which calls itself National Suppliers, of Wilson, N. has been cir Sign For King Knowles Tyree's Closing Stirs Confusion '-V 'Pjf a vehicle In the deaths of the three dogs "concerns" his department because of the proximity of the San Jose Elementary School to the poisoning locations. The Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Elementary School is also nearby.

All four animals poisoned in the Dunedin Isles area since early March are owned by residents of a compact, seven-block-square area near the elementary school. A dog poisoned Monday night but still clinging to life in an animal hospital is owned by the Donald J. Turner family, 1701 San Mateo Drive. The residence is immediately adjacent to the San Jose school. Dunedin Veterinarian Richard Bessmer, who has treated several of the poisoned ani- Is Tyree's to be or not to be? Trucks backed up to loading ramps and the men from Westinghouse started carrying off appliances from the sales floors and storage areas of the two SL Petersburg Tyree stores yesterday, giving the city a commercial whodunnit.

By midaftemoon the store at 412 34th Street was empty and locked. Trucks and movirg men were still removing appliances from the Crossroads Shopping Center store at 7 p.m. Meanwhile, the better business division of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of 1.