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St. PtUrtburg Tinr, Monday, January 13, 11-8 pinellai suncoast florlda DDITIiHniFS3 Byl From 1-B me Progress in the field? It depends on point of view 'IIUIIWII I world I 1 I 'We're getting 'em from all walks of life inquiring about picking. And inflation has set in to where people who were living off food stamps and welfare have had to go to work some Grady Sweat, citrus grower 'Don't nothing ever change about fruit picking, only one thing. When you start picking you got a new bag and when you quit you got a raggedy James Goodman' citrus picker II, Tillie Booth, 78, related to pioneers of Pinellas County Miss Tillie Booth, 78, a great-granddaughter of Dr. Odette Philippe and a granddaughter of the Booth and McMullen pioneers, died Saturday (Jan.

11, 1975). A native of Florida, she lived just north of Safety Harbor on the old Booth homestead. She attended Southern College, formerly in Palm Harbor and was a graduate of the Gordon Keller School of Nursing, formerly in Tampa. Miss Booth retired from the State TB Hospital in Tampa and formerly was a nurse at Morton Plant and at Mease Hospital. She was a member of the Safety Harbor O.E.S.

and of the Methodist Church. Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Arthur P. McKeown of Brooksville and Mrs. D.

E. Wilcox of Safety Harbor. Visitation today until service time at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Moss Fort Harrison Chapel, Clearwater. Burial will be in the McMullen Cemetery.

Victorin Moltchanoff, former Russian general Former Russian general Victorin Michailovich Moltchanoff, 88, who fought for Czar Nicholas II against the Communists, died Friday in San Francisco. Mr. Moltchanoff was a member of the Siberian Army and the last commander of the "White Troops." He left Vladivostok for America in 1922. He became an American citizen and worked as custodial head of a downtown building until his retirement 10 years ago. flation has set in to where people who were living off food stamps and welfare have had to go to work some." Grady Sweat is one of the biggest growers.

He is president of Balm Grove Services and manages some 1,200 acres of citrus groves clumped around Balm and Riverview and Brooksville and Dade City. Being that big, he doesn't have to worry as much as some about the volume of the crop. Being that big, he knows his industry. IN T1IE PEAK months of January, February and March and again in June, the citrus industry in Florida needs about 26,000 pickers. There are 18,000 to 20,000 veterans, men and women, in residence and available here.

The rest have to be found elsewhere, and most years it is a problem. And the growers and packers who contract for the picking make their decisions depending on the kind of crews they like, which depends on the kind of service they've had over the years. A crew is usually 20 strong, and there are basically three sorts of crews: black; mixed black and white; and the Mexican Americans from Texas, the migrants who circle the nation each year with the crops in constant search of work. Of the last, a good many have-quit making the circle from Virginia apples to Minnesota asparagus and Texas cotton. They have settled here, where the climate keeps them warm, and the tomatoes and the money trees give them work almost the year around.

They hire on in season with crew An orange tree doesn't care about the price of money or housing starts or Arab oil An orange tree cares about water and sun, fertilizer and pruning. There has not been a cold snap to speak of in west central Florida since 1970, and the mild winters have made the trees warm and grateful. WITH NO COLD weather to drive them into dormancy, they have grown the year round, budding and bearing, more each year, and the Florida Citrus Mutual figures that the retail value of this year's record crop will be pretty close to $900-million. That is not an entirely happy prospect for the grower. If orange trees responded to reason, he would probably tell his groves to cool it a little, because the more oranges there are to market, the lower the price he gets per box.

But with the price of frozen, concentrated juice working out to something under a penny an ounce on the grocery store shelves, the demand is still good. The crop will sell, and the crop needs picking. THE SMELL OF all that money and all that work has brought an unaccustomed competition to the hiring of pickers. Desperation has made the hard and lowly work of the orange picker the envy of the unemployed. That competition has destroyed his job security and made him work the harder to keep his job.

It is an employer's market. "We're getting 'em from all walks of life inquiring about picking," Grady Sweat was saying Friday afternoon. "And in to stay on the stem, and plugged oranges don't count. There are eight 90-pound boxes to the bin, and a good man can pick eight or 10 bins a day and a good woman six. At 50 cents a box, that is $32 or $40 day for a really good man before you take out for shredded gloves and clothes and bags and the crew chiefs portion.

SUBTRACTING for rainy days and the part of the year when there's no picking to be done, it's a subsistence living, and no one ever said it wasn't. James Goodman knows that. He's been picking for 37 years, he says. "Don't nothing ever change about fruit picking, only one thing," he says. "When you start picking you got a new bag, and when you quit you got a raggedy bag." It may be the steadiest work in Florida right now, and the hardest, and there are hungry men trying to get on.

But there are only 5,000 or 6,000 extra jobs in the groves this year, and for the rest the new men are going to have to compete with the folks who work for Tony Alvarez and Evelyn Patterson. That's stiff competition. Youth kills policeman at St. Augustine Beach ST. AUGUSTINE BEACH (AP) A St Augustine Beach police officer was shot and killed while attempting to question a man who abandoned a car, officials said Sunday.

St. Johns County Sheriff Dudley Garrett said Deputy Ron Parker, 27, was shot several times by a young man late Saturday. The young man was wounded in a gun battle with another officer, and was in fair condition at a local hospital, Garrett said. THE SHERIFF said officials still were attempting to identify the suspect. He said several aliases were found in the man's car and his wallet.

Parker had gone into the lobby of a local hotel looking for a man seen leaving a car on the oceanfront, officials said. Witnesses told police that Parker and the young man left the lobby and walked toward a squad car, where they were sitting when the officer was shot. Swanee or Suwannee this is Foster week JAMES GOODMAN chiefs like Tony Alvarez and his son Tony who live in Palmetto and hire pickers under contract to men like Grady Sweat Sr. NO MATTER WHAT complexion, no matter what sex, it is work that needs a strong back and a strong will, if it is to put bread on the table. Bread today sells for 50 cents and more a loaf, more usually, than a picker gets for filling a box with 90 pounds of oranges.

It is no work for newcomers and the uncommitted, even in recession. And it begins early in the morning. Evelyn Patterson doesn't like to work on weekends, but she was in her husband's white van driving the crew out of Lakeland by 6:45 Saturday morning. She was in the groves south of Riverview by 8, she and James Williams, James Goodman, two couples who had come in their own cars, and two generations of her own progeny-There were about 15 of them in all, counting Evelyn Patterson and her daughter Viola Smith and her grandson Regi- aee Zl tmm oinnoiincenienfa Dix, Howard A. FOR INFORMATION CALL EjjLHELm C.OHURST0I HURSTOn Jfes US I nald Jerome, age 8.

It was her husband's crew, but her husband was sick in bed with fluid in his knee, and Evelyn Patterson had brought the crew over to pick up a Saturday morning for Lakeland Packing because her electric bill was so high. "I GOT A $94, almost a $100 light bill," she said. With her washing machine broken for six months and kerosene for heating, Evelyn Patterson didn't understand why it should be so much, but the Lakeland municipal electric system assured her it was right, so it was a bill to be paid. Some packing houses and growers are giving only 40 cents a box for fruit this year because there are so many people who want the work and so many oranges on the trees that the boxes fill up faster. But Lakeland Packing was giving 50 a box and Evelyn Patterson and her crew were in the groves at 8 a.m.

Saturday with their gloves on. GOOD WORK gloves cost $4 a pair, and the thorns on an orange tree tear gloves and clothes and picking bags to shreds. But they don't slow you down if you're looking for bread on the table. You take a row, and you throw your ladder against the first tree in the row and start picking from the top down. You don't pull them straight off the tree, either.

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1. Oa-hVWoV CreseeV 1 Afl-ia-lie-eer Zeeette 1 tu Near KPenney 343-M1 4. TV I LEAHY, MILDRED, 2937 Beach Blvd. Gulfport, Thursday (Jan. 9, 1975).

Arlington-Rice Funeral Home. MATHEWS, NEIL LAW. TON, 81, of 4301 31st St St. Petersburg, retired mail carrier, Sunday (Jan. 12, 1975).

Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home. McCarthy, mrs. marguerite, 76, of 2645 Fourth St. St. Petersburg, Sunday (Jan.

12, 1975). Simmons Funeral Home. McCORMACK, CHARLES 58, of 6140 42nd Ave. St. Petersburg, retired supervisor at Pratt-Whitney Aircraft Co.

with 31 years service, Friday (Jan. 10, 1975). Thomas J. Brett Funeral Home, P.A. METZUNG, MRS.

MILDRED 80, of 4540 50th Ave. St. Petersburg, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975). R.

Lee Williams Funeral Home. NALLY, MRS. ISABEL 63, of 6000 Second St. St. Petersburg Beach, Sunday (Jan.

12, 1975). Baynard-Thompson Beach Memorial Chapel. RENO, OTTO FOREST, 85, of 4000 24th St. St. Petersburg, retired farmer, Saturday (Jan.

11, 1975). Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home. SCHOCK, ROBERT W.f 64, formerly of St. Petersburg, retired barber at Parson's Barber Shop, St. Petersburg, Sunday (Jan.

12, 1975) in Inverness. Suncoast Funeral Chapels, North Chapel. SPENCER, JOHN, 83, of 1911 20th Ave. St. Petersburg, retired inspector for Fisher Body Saturday (Jan.

11, 1975). Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home. STAMBAUGH, ELDON RHEA, 70, of 820 17th St. St. Petersburg, retired tool and die maker for the U.S.

Navy, Thursday (Jan. 9, 1975). Sun-coast Funeral Chapels, North Chapel. SWALLEY, MRS. MAGNOLIA GRACE, 88, formerly of St Petersburg, Friday (Jan.

10, 1975) in Hendersonville, N.C. Callahon Funeral Home, Terre Haute, Ind. YOUNG, MRS. MARY 78, of 4832 First Ave. St.

Petersburg, Friday (Jan. 10, 1975). Thomas J. Brett Funeral Home, P.A. ALLEN, CURTIS 4321 22nd Ave.

St. Petersburg, retired supervisor for the U.S. Post Office in Chicago, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975). Arlington-Rice Funeral Home.

APPLEFIELD, MRS. ANNA, 76, of 6960 20th Ave. St. Petersburg, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975).

R. Lee Williams Funeral Home. BOGARD, ERNEST 76, of 10200 122nd Largo, retired owner of Bogard Fuel Oil St. Petersburg, Sunday (Jan. 12, 1975).

Fred H. Ken-field Funeral Home. BROWNE, FRANK 91, of 6200 Central St. Petersburg, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975).

Feaster Colonial Chapel. BUBB, HARRY 63, of 12100 Capri Circle Treasure Island, formerly a salesman, now associated with Holiday Inn, St. Petersburg Beach, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975). National Cremation Society.

DARMODY, MRS. CLAIRE, 79, of 4200 62nd Ave. Pinellas Park, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975). R.

Lee Williams Funeral Home. DEDERER, FREDERICK 65, of 9975 41st St. Pinellas Park, filing station owner, Sunday (Jan. 12, 1975). Thomas A.

Cooksey Funeral Home, Pinellas Park. GODDARD, MRS. MARY 71, of 10550 74th Ave. Seminole, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975).

Osgood-Cloud Funeral Home. HAMPSTON, ROBERT 92, of 2603 58th St. Gulf-port, retired business agent for the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 105, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975). Feaster Colonial Chapel.

HOSTAD, OLAF of 7414 110th Lane Seminole, retired soil conservationist for the State of Michigan, Muskegon area for 31 years, Saturday (Jan. 11, 1975). Osgood-Cloud Funeral Home. JURMU, MRS. WINONA of 4450 93rd Ter.N, Pinellas Park, retired medical technician, Sunday (Jan.

12, 1975). Osgood-Cloud Funeral Home. KRIVACS, LOUIS 75, of 2560 62nd Ave. St. Petersburg, retired printer for the Long Island Daily Press with 50 years service, Sunday (Jan.

12, 1975). National Cremation Society. Foster died in New York City 111 years ago, Jan. 13, 1864. He was 37.

Musical groups and individuals from Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Madison, Lake City, Orange Park and Green Cove Springs will present programs each afternoon through Sunday. Florida Secretary of State Bruce Smathers, whose agency supervises the 250-acre park and music shrine, will make opening remarks at the program today. pilot identified was flying too long with his wings straight up and down. I saw the plane go completely over in the air, then nosedive and crash." There were no other injuries as a result of the crash, and no damage to ground installations, airport officials said Sunday. "WITH REGARD 10 A CARD OF THANKS" Very ohto card of thanli in the Si.

Petersburg Timet one1 Indtptndtnt meets need which con hardly solved in any other way. No) anly it it graciaut eioressiofi ol gratitvda le thai who hove itnl floral tributes or memorials but courteously acknowl-odgot th services and kindness ol the many to whom a personal note of thonks cannot be moiled or whose names and addresses are not known. A card of thonks may be arranged by calling Mr. Eugene Weller, 893 8518. HEARING AIDS LOW, LOW PRICES MOST MAKES AVAILABLE Factory Service Available for: DAHL8ERG, DANAVOX, OTARION, ElECTONE, AUDIOT0NE, QUALITONE, SIEMEN'S, REXT0N, FIDELITY, OTICON, VICON, AUDIVOX, ETC.

Rental Purchase Plan $10.00 I $15.00 per month Rent applies to purchase AUTHORIZED DAHLBERG DEALER COMPLETE CREMATION SERVICE LPhoneJ6-3141 WHITE SPRINGS (AP) -Stephen Foster misspelled the name and, as far as anyone knows, never saw the little North Florida river that comes out of the Okefenokee swamp and meanders down to the Gulf of Mexico. But his rich heritage of unforgettable melodies such as "Way Down Upon the Swanee River" will be recalled in a series of programs this week at the memorial dedicated to him on the north bank of the Suwannee. Opa-locka crash Compiled fram AP, UPI Reports OPA-LOCKA -The pilot of a twin-engine plane killed in a crash shortly after takeoff from Opa-locka Airport Saturday has been identified as 24-year-old Michael Champion. Champion, a pilot for the Hollywood Flying Service avoided an Opa-locka residential neighborhood by 100 yards, and crashed just inside an airport fence. Noah Slaughter, 44, who was working on his own plane on the ground said Champion "got off all right But once he was about a quarter-mile from the airport and a few hundred feet up, one of his engines started skipping it was missing and making noise." Slaughter said the pilot tried to bring the plane back to the runway, swinging around a residential neighborhood, "but he Births BAYFRONT MEDICAL Mr.

and Mrs. Danny Nickels, 5500 Fourth St. a girl, 8 pounds 2'i ounces, 7:16 p.m. Jan. 11.

Mr. and Mrs. Perry Joe Smith, 6700 First Ave. a girl, 4 pounds 13'a ounces, 2:35 a.m. Jan.

12. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Gerhart, 1868 Mississippi Ave. NE, a girl, 6 pounds 6 Vi ounces, 6:31 a.m.

Jan. 12. Mr.and Mrs. Durmond Williamson, 4841 83rd Ter. Pinellas Park, a boy, 5 pounds 13 ounces, 7:34 a.m.

Jan. 12. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Constable, 9180 55th St.

Pinellas Park, a boy, 7 pounds 6 ounces, 12:59 p.m. Jan. 12. official, 'hoods' ANY ONE OF THE 4 FOLLOWING TmsmmM THE QUALITY GOES IN UFOtE THE NAME GOtS ON Funeral APPLEFIELD Anna, 76, of 6960 TOth Ave patted awey Saturday, Jan. II, 1975.

Born New York City, the moved to St. Petersburg 10 yeert ago from Long Island, New York. Mrs. Appletieid It survived by her husband David, three tons, Alvln end Aaron, both of St. Petersburg, Lawrence, Safety Harbor; five brothers, Joseph, Harry, Hymen, Michael, end Abraham ai of New York City; three sisters, Mrs.

Mlnme tsrael Mrs. Rose Erich, Mrs. Betty Goldstein, al ot New York City. Funeral servtc.1 wi be conducted at 1 p.m. today at the R.

Lee Wliams Funeral Home, 49th St. at 15th Ave with Rabbi Morris Koberlneti officiating. Interment wi be In Farmingdale, Long Wand, New York. BUTLER Catherine M. Graveside services wi be held today at 1030 a.m.

In Memorial Park Cemetery with Rev. J. Ralph Burton officiating. A native of Cumberland, Indiana, Mrs. Butler came to St.

Petersburg 34 years ago from Miami and resided at 2319 15th Ave N. She was of the Protestant faith and a 50-year member of the Order of Eastern Star In Newport, RJ. Survivors Include several nieces and nephews. The Palms Memorial is in charge of arrangements, i DAVIDSON Edith Carter, 85, widow ot Perry Davidson, passed away Saturday, January II. She resided at 6909 9th Street coming here nineteen years ago from Los Angeles, Calif She Is survived by a sister, Mrs.

Esther Stark, Temple City, Calif. Friends may cat at Rhodes West Chapel, 900 49th St. where services wi be conducted by a Christian Science Reader, Tuesday afternoon, January 14, at 2:30 o'clock. Interment wB be In Memorial Park Cemetery. DVORAK Charles, 71 of 10921 91st Ave.

Seminole, passed eway Saturday January 1 1, 1975. Born In Vienna, Austria, came here in 1963 from Berwin, Mr. Dvorak was a retired machinist, Feedway Electric Tool Company of LaGrange Park, He was a member of United Lodge No. 927 Park Ridge, Medinah Temple Shrine, of Chicago, Rldgewood Grove, Barracks No. 2533 Veterans of WWI USA Seminole.

The Ciechotlovakian Tourist Club and CS A Outo both of St. Petersburg. Surviving are his wife Mrs. Anna Dvorak; three brothers, Jerry, of Ontario, Edward of Pem-brook Pines, Ervln ot Montdair, four sisters, Mrs. Silvia Bedrova of Naples, Mrs.

Carol Belt, Mrs. Betty Ryder, both of CNno, Catf Mrs. Hermina Phiet of San Francisco. A Masonic funeral service wi be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 1 p.m. from the Lewis W.

Mohn Funeral Home, 9700 Seminole Brvl, by the GuM Beech Memorial Association ot GuM Beach Lodge No. 291. Entombment follow In Serenity Gardens Memorial Park, Largo. Friends wi be received et the funeral home Monday from 2 to 4 1 7 to 9 o'clock where Rldgewood Groves Barracks No. 2533 wi conduct services at 3 p.m.

and services also conducted by The Ciechotlovakian Club the CS A Oub at 2 pm The farrify requests expressions of sympathy be made to The Shrews Crippled Children's Hospital, Oakpark, or the Knights Temple Home for the Aged Paxton, MOHN FUNERAL HOME SEMINOLE 393-3411 HAMPSTON, Robert 92, of 2603-Hth St. S. Gulfport, Fla. died Saturday, Jan. 11, 1975.

Mr. Hampston wes born In Philadelphia, Pa came here years ago from Schenectady, N.Y. Retired business eoent for the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 105, Catholic and a VVorld War I veteran. Member of the Knights of Pythias Truth Lodge and the American Legion, both of Schenectady, N. Y.

Member of the Gulfport Shuffle-board Club, Gulfport. Survived by a daughter, Mrs. AHce Winchester, Gulfport, Fla ton, R. Wiis Hampston of Poland, N. Yj four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.

Mass of the Resurrection wi be celebrated at Holy Name Cathoec Church, Tuesday morning, January 14, 1975 at 10 o'clock am. Father Frank Goodman, Celebrant. Interment wi be Wiiamantic Cemetery, Wit-mantle. Conn. Casket bearers will be Knights of Columbus, Council 5131.

Friends may cal at the Feaster Colonial Chapel, 1099-49th St. Monday afternoon and evening, 2-4 and 7-9prrv FEASTER COLONIAL CHAPEL 347-4151 JONES Victor C. 67, of 5300 21th St. N. Died Friday, Jan.

10, 1975. Born in Washington County, Ohio. Winter visitor here for 7 seasons from Vincent, Ohio. 40 Year mem ber of I Vincent, Ohio. Survived by wife, Nina 2 sons, Gary V.

Ramsey, New Jersey, Roger N. Largo; daughter, Mrs. Carrel Knott, Marietta, Ohio; brother Frank, Feirbom, Onto; 2 sisters, Mrs. Grace abend! sh, Montgomery, West Virginia, Mrs. Helen Burchi, River Wes, grandchildren.

Friends may cai at the OsgoodOoud Funeral Home, 4691 Park Blvd. this afternoon, evening from 2-4, 7-9pm, where funeral services wi be held Tuesday, Jan. 14th at 2pm with the Rev. Norman F. Brotherton officiating.

Interment wl foiow in Memorial Park Cemert-ery. KNACHEL Mr. Lesle 13 of 6190 62nd Ave. Plnetat Park, died Friday, January 10. 1975.

Bom Ashley, Ohto, here 19 years from Mt. Geeed, Ohio. Retired farmer, member of First United Methodist Church. Plneeas Park. Survived by wife Cora, 2 daughters, 2 step-daughters, brother, 4 vandchttdren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Friends may cai at Osgood-Ooud Funeral Home, 4691 Park Btvd, this evening from 7 -9pm. Where funeral services wl be held Tuesday, January 14th at 930am, with the Notices Reverend Cherles Kinder, officiating, titer-ment wi be Columbus, Ohio. LINARO Mrs. Agnes. 66, ot 10636 Gandy Blvd.

passed awey Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1975. Born In Wisconsin, she came here several yeors ego from there. A registered practical nurse, the It survived by five brothers, Walter Hansen of Omaiaske, Wit Victor Hansen of Toledo, Ohio, WWiam Hansen ol Tomah, Edmond Hansen ot Shenang- '( ton. Wit.

and George Hansen ot Carpen- tertvMe, and three titters, Mrt. Mabel Haat of Omalaske Wis. Mrt. Juia Dahle of naadaia. Wli anri Mri Mjwv Hoffman af Tomah, Wis.

Friend! may cal at Simmons Funeral Home, 4th St. N. at 35th Ave. Monday from 2-4 and 7-9pm where funeral services wi be held, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1975 at 11am with Rev.

Edward H. Stammel officiating. Interment wi be in Crethawn Cemetery, Vero Beach, Fla. SIMMONS FUNERAL HOME IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS McCORMACK Mr. Charles SI, ol 6140 42nd Ave.

passed away Friday Jan. 10, 1975. Mr. McCormacfc came to St. Petersburg years ago from Springfield, Matt.

He was a former employee of Prott-Whltney Aircraft, Hartford. Com, for 31 years. Mr. McCormack was member of Mefhe Temple, Springfield, Man and Eden Shrine Lodge, Ware, Mass. He it survived by Ms wife, Mrt.

Franc et Haley McCormack of St. Petersburg; 2 sons, Lt. Comm. James E. McCormack of Gales Ferry, Conn.

Robert P. McCormack of St. Petersburg; I daughter, Kathleen F. of Springfield. 1 brother.

of Age-warn, I sister, Mrt. Doris Quirn ot St. Petersburg; and 4 grandchildren, Bryan and Raymond of Gales Ferry end Patricia and Linda of St. Petersburg Friends wi be received et the THOMAS J. BRETT, FU- NERAL HOME, A 4110 Central Ave Monday Jan.

13, 1975 from 7-9 Funeral services wi be conducted in the Funeral Home chapel Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1975 at 11 a.m. with interment fcowlng In Memorial Park Cemetery. THOMAS J. BRETT FUNERAL HOME, P.A.

3454101 METZUNO Mrs. Mildred fW, of 4540 50th Ave. passed away Saturday, Jan. 11, 1975. Born In Lima, Ohio, she came to St.

Petersburg 15 years ago from Cleveland, Ohio. She was a member of The Trinity United Church of Christ. Mrs. Metiung it survived by 2 sisters, Mrt. Helen Watkits, St.

Petersburg, Mrt. Minnie Bushfield, Lakeland, end several nieces end nephews. -Funeral services wi be conducted I p.m. Wednesday, Jan. IS, 197S at R.

LEE WL- -UAMS FUNERAL HOME, 49th St. et 35th Ave. with Rev. Donald W. Hefner offt- elating.

Interment services wi folow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends wi be received from 6-1 pm. Tuesday at the R. LEE WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME. NOTARI Mrs.

Ela M. Notarl, 19, widow of Joseph J. Notarl, passed awey Thursday, December 2. She resided at (41 4th Avenue North coming here 30 years ago from Bethel, New York. Mrs.

Notarl It survived by lister, Mrs. Stephen (Marie) or mirth of Lake Huntington, and St. Petersburg Friends may cal at Rhodes East Chapel, 635 4th Street North, after 1:00 o'clock Mon- day, where Services wi be conducted by Rev. Herleigh M. Rosenberger, Tuesday af- ter noon January 14 at o'clock.

Inter- ment wi be in Woodewn Memory Gar- dent. SWALLEY Mrt. Magnolia Grace, (led Friday, January 10, 1975, at her residence, 600 Lakewood Rd Hendertonvie, N.C Services Wednesday, January 15, at the Callahon Funeral Home In Terre Haute, ana. with Interment In Rotetawn Cemetery. Survived by one daughter, Mrt.

Mary S. Tuttte of Ashevie, N.C; three titters, Mrs. Eliabeth Newport ot Terre Haute, Mrt. Ore Stephant of Bowing Green, Ind Mrt, Gotdla Fruntt of Indianapolli, two grandchildren and great-orandchUdren. Member of First United Methodist Church of St.

Petersburg and tved In St. Petersburg for 14 years at The Bond Hotel before corning to Hendersonvie In 1974. WALDEN John 79, of 5219 14th Ave. died Saturday, January II, 1975. Bom In Leroy, moved here 17 years ago from Urbana, i.

Mr. Watden was retired real estate Broker, a member of North tide United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife, Mona; three tons. Nelson, Largo, Duane, Champagne, Donald, Chicago, 9 grandchildren, 6 great-grarrichildren. Funeral services wi be held Tuesday, Janu- ary 14th 2 p.m.

at the Gee and Pitts Funeral rMiw, lev jwm v. wim Reverena k. Warren Wesson officiating. Interment wl foiow In the Memorial Park Cemetery. Famlry prefers donations to the Methodist Chltdrerts Home.

Friends may cai today, frnm Al IK. ru mA OlMa Cm! Home. YOU NO -Mrs. Mary 071, of 4632 ltt Ave. passed away Friday, Jan.

10, 1975, Ornaha.Neb.Mrt. Young had been a St. Petersburg resident for 29 years having com here from New York, New York. She is survived by her step-mother, Mrs. John Opitt of Omaha; two brothers.

Mr. John Opiti of Spcarfith, and Mr. Bernard Opitt of Omaha; and three sitters, Mrt. Frances Horrtgan, Mrt. Gertrude Uaa.

and Mist Theresa Opiti, al of Omaha. Mass ot Christian Burial wi be celebrated Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1975, In Omaha with Interment later in Memorial Park Cemetery, St. Petersburg, The John E. Johnston and Son Funeral Home In Omaha It In charge et arrangements.

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Gun in hand, Green yelled to the commissioner to swing the car around and cut them off while he chased them on foot. Plummer roared off. As he rounded a corner, he confronted the biggest of the three suspects. "WE HAD HIM boxed in between J. Ls Cadillac and my gun," Green said.

"He had nowhere to go. He didn't want be a hood ornament" The commissioner manacled the husky, 15 -year old youth to a telephone pole with Green's handcuffs while Green took off after the other two. BUT CRUISING police cars joined the chase, and the youths were caught The three boys are juveniles and their names were not released. Their victim, 78-year-old Humbert Pinola, was being beaten after resisting the youths' demands for his money. He had $2.

MIAMI (AP) Miami City Commissioner J. Plummer has joined the drive against crime by chasing three robbery suspects in his Cadillac, rescuing their victim and handcuffing a husky attacker to a telephone pole. Miami policeman Gerald Green, called the nation's top policeman in 1973, was Plummer's chance partner in the drama Saturday afternoon. Plummer was driving in downtown Miami when he sighted Green, in plain clothes, walking along the sidewalk. He invited Green to ride along for awhile, noting that no one would think a Cadillac would be used as a police undercover car.

Rounding a corner, they drove up to the scene of a robbery. -IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE," Green said. "There was this old man on all fours on his hands and knees trying to get away. These three hoods were beating him like a dog. They had knocked his false teeth out of his head, out into the middle of Second Street" 0 OFF REGULAR PRICE In ON EACH BU.

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