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4 I 3-3 St. Petersburg Times, Monday, February 8, 1971 Piraf iV Tampa Prepares For Attack Today Timti Stair Writer TAMPA Fifty floats and 25 marching bands strong, the 1971 Gasparilla Parade steps off at 1:15 p.m. today. The annual Gasparilla Invasion and parade are the high points of two weeks of attractions in what is billed as the ration's largest mid-winter festival. The parade will come on the heels of the invasion itself, scheduled to begin about 10 1 "7, If; if 1 Hit' Tornadoes Is 7, a.m., as the pirate ship Jose Gaspar leaves the Ballast Point area and heads upchan-nel into downtown Tampa.

The advance of the pirate ship and its flotilla of nearly 200 boats can be watched from along Bayshore Drive from Ballast Point to the Piatt Street Bridge. The parade is to last three hours. Annually it draws nearly a half-million people. It can be watched all along From l-B to help with a family problem," he said. "I was a block away when it struck English Cove.

The area was a mess and God only knows how everyone survived." He said he saw a pregnant woman in her ninth month crying as she was trapped on the second floor of an apartment building. "She suffered cuts on the side and legs," he said. DR. RAMSEY MELLETTE, a resident of English Cove, said his second-floor apartment collapsed and fell through to the first floor. "It was a gentle ride down," he said.

"We were stopped by the furniture below. All we had were a few abrasions and a laceration." -v I passed within 50 yards of the county jail after smashing into a stockade, which is used as a storage plant for road building equipment. An asphalt plant in the stockade valued at $50,000 was levelled, as was a $35,000 metal barn, Wells said. Sever- al smaller sheds and garages suffered about $15,000 dam- age, he said. i IN TASCO County, heavy 'I rains swept the roads, flood- ing some areas and stalling at least 50 cars.

In Dade City, New Port Richey and the Holiday area, police blocked off several streets but said they had re- ceived no reports of wind -damage. AP On Crutches Surveys Remains Of His Gulf Breeze Apartment iFrom l-B i. them and we got a lot of criticism in this office." Crimmen declined to discuss the Lanning rejections without specifics. But he acknowledged, "Builders from out of the area wanted to come in. We felt they wanted to charge excessive prices for the houses after renovation.

Now until the moratorium last month as a result of the abuses in the program up north, FHA has never been charged with the responsibility of limiting prof it. "BUT in this office we did Florida Wants To Attract Clean Manufacturing Plants Jr. Fa 1 Tornado Victim fied property manager, says, "The 235 program is beautiful. When it was first announced, we thought it could clean up the whole south side (slum and blighted areas in south St. Petersburg).

We attempted to get FHA 235 Rehab commitments for several groups of five houses on the south side through a nonprofit charitable organization. Our mortgagee told us FHA officials said they 'couldn't be "Here was a chance to rehabilitate older homes for families with 10 to 12 children. I have one application from a family with 17'. children. There's the highest vacancy rate ever in the black area for two-bedroom rentals.

What we need are houses with five, six, seven bedrooms. There's a crying need for these. I could put 30 to 40 families in houses anytime. "THERE'S one house in this area with' eight- bedrooms. It would cost $8,000 to renovate for a big family.

But But FHA won't approve it so I'm going to tear it down. From Ninth to 34th streets through the Lakeview, Avenue area there are lots, of large two-story homes which could meet this need. The 235 interest assistance program (which often cuts monthly payments to lower-than-rent levels) combined with the 237 which provides for 'sweat eq FHA for $3-million, was hardest hit. Gulf Breeze Mayor Pro Tern James Lee, an insurance man, said the facility appeared "50 per cent wiped out." ESCAMBIA County Sheriff's Deputy Donald Parker said, "It looks like a bomb hit. And that cottage area across the beach road was flattened." Gulf Breeze Cottages suffered extensive damage to 18 of 20 units according to state investigator Charles Schuler.

"It awakened me and I saw trees bent to the ground," said Navy Mathison, veteran of 218 Southeast Asia fighter missions. "There was a lull for a minute, then it really hit. Flashing lightning lit the sky like it was daytime." Heavy hail pounded English Cove just ahead of the tornado, he said. The complex is- occupied mainly by naval officers and professional people. It is five miles from Pensacola Naval Air Station.

rOLICE SEALED off the area and guards were posted to control looting of the storm-shattered apartments. E. E. McGovern, civil defense coordinator for a four-county area, said at least 1,000 rescue workers saw duty. Four hospitals admitted at least 43 injured persons.

The chief nurse at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, three miles, across the bay said, "the worst had minor factures and deep cuts from glass." "It sounded like a rocket," said Marine Capt. John Bren-nan, a Vietnam veteran. "There was a whistle, then it got louder and then we were hit. I was knocked off the bed. My family is away, but our apartment goods were practically wiped out." MANY OF the less seriously injured were taken to an elementary school and the United Methodist Church where Rev.

Munday is pastor. "I was called out at 3 a.m. consider this because we've found low-income persons aren't knowledgeable buyers. They're so thrilled at the idea of owning a house, they're easily oversold. We tried to avoid this.

"It people think we haven't been fair, tell them to bring their proposals back in here. We have many persons on the staff. A determination may have been made not based on all available information. If so, we will be glad to reconsider." Largo. Cans are accepted there Monday through Friday from noon to 3 p.m.

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Keep tabi on 'the tub. Read TV-Radio Dial. MOtlM'l Mil MWIMfft uity' means families could own a home by painting it inside and out for the down payment and then paying monthly what they could afford. "But the Tampa office of FHA just doesn't care for social programs." Asked if the Tampa office was in sympathy with the social programs of the national office, Crimmens offered, this perspective: "A lot of different pe'ople are working for FHA. Some have different opinions on our programs.

When these social programs were initiated, a lot of our top officials in Washington resigned because they felt they were not economically sound. Until then we dealt strictly in economics. If people couldn't afford to buy a property, we couldn't have cared less. We lost some good men when the policy changed. Now we real-' ized we we have an obligation to those who, through no fault of their own, don't qualify for regular FHA loans." IS THE Tampa office perhaps more cautious than it might be otherwise because of the glut of FHA single- and multi-family repossessions it was stuck with in the early 1960s? 1 he answered.

"A lot of other FHA offices haven't had this kind of experience. These foreclosures occurred here. It took us a long time to liquidate From l-B the route, beginning on Doyle Carlton Drive just north of Curtis Hixon Convention Center emerging on Madison Street, turning south on Tampa Street to Piatt Street, then west on Piatt across the Hillsborough River. From there it follows Bay-shore Boulevard to Magnolia Avenue, turns northward and disbands at the Florida State Fairgrounds, where Mayor Dick Greco will officially surrender the city. Gulf Breeze has about 5,000 permanent residents.

It is bordered on one side by Pensacola Bay and on the other by the Gulf of Mexico. POLICE in St. Johns County said the twister there touched down near St. about 3 p.m., injuring no one but causing some property damage. "We haven't got all the reports in yet, but it looks like it smashed down three or four buildings in the old county stockade area and ripped off.

the roofs of a couple of garages, a barn and a house," said Deputy Sgt. Wayne Tanner. County Commissioner Her-bie Wells said the tornado The per-capita personal income of Floridians is $3,525 compared to $3,687 for the United States. Citizens of 26 other states, when measured by this standard, are better off than Floridians. Dade, Brevard, Monroe, Palm Beach and Broward have per-capita incomes equal to or higher than that of the United States.

35 Florida counties have per-capita personal income below that of the Southeast. THE STUDY also showed that more than 50 per cent of all working Floridians are Four of the most handsome styles in fine footwear by RNCH Each style shown is stocked in black and brown. $3200 $4900 adi 320 I) R6NCH TALLAHASSEE in Florida's employment is concentrated in the three lowest paying industries and promotional efforts in the 1970s should be aimed at attracting stable manufacturing jobs, a new State Department of Commerce report concludes. Clean, pollution-free manufacturing can provide high-paying jobs and thus this field should be upon rather than the lower-paying trade and services industries, the report said. It was prepared by the Commerce Department's Industrial Development Bureau at the direction of Lt.

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Pointing out that more than 800 persons signed petitions against the Belcher applications, Norman 'said the commission's action "displayed a complete disregard for the feelings of the neighborhood." "It bordered on contempt as far as I'm concerned." he added. There is no doubt that the board had authority to grant the zoning changes, he said. "The Nursery Road case, just bears out that we're at the mercy of our elected officials," he declared. "If they don't represent us, the only recourse we have is at the polls." ON THE COMMISSION side, Charles E. Rainey, who was chairman when these matters came up, explained that his decision in the Belcher-Nursery case was based on the fact that precedent had been established for the high-rise zoning on three of the intersection corners.

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