Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 24

10b ST. PETERSBURG TIMFS TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1978 along ths suncoast Iciol More than just careless smoking caused blaze that killed 3 persons, firemen say M)W9 40 PeMOO MorftflMMflOf Cttrm. ISSiSwiush. Mmw an4 ypew Mmm soantiM 'The building contributed very little to the fire. wee the debris that wee In there the condition of the people.

There were a lot of beer cane, empty alcoholic beverage containers, lots of clothes piled and newspapers all over the Jerry Knight, St. Petersburg Fire Department commercial buildings." Firefighters can only advise persons on fire prevention in private residences, ha aid. The city's housing officials last inspected the building Oct 4, 1976, said Harry Diehl, the city's housing inspection chief. He said the house met minimum housing standards at that time. Lucille Crissey, who owns the Anchor Inn, said she wasn't aware of the conditions at the house.

She also owns and lives in the Bayou Castle, a huge boarding house at 5498 Fourth St S. "This morning (Monday) was the first time I've been in there" in five years, she said. "I didn't have anything to do with it I never even went in there. "These people drank bad. They got a big pension check, and they spent all their time drinking.

They just stayed up there and drank." She said the last time Breeden paid the rent, he told her that he would stay at the place until death moved him. 'Well you're a good Mrs. Crissey recalled Breeden saying. They didnt stay long did they?" she asked. "They just had that disease." By JOHNNIE ROBERTS It, Pmbm Tim StH Wtiw A St.

Petersburg fire official said it wasn't the fire or smoke that killed Helen F. Breeden, Luther Breeden, an unidentified third man and a dog Sunday night. "it was the moral hazard that killed them," said Jerry Knight, chief of fire suppression for St. Petersburg's fire department. Knight and many of his somber-faced fellow firefighters studied the "moral hazard" at length Sunday night when they went to extinguish a minor fire in an apartment at the Anchor Inn, '2904 Sixth St.

and found three bodies. Mrs. Breeden was between 50 and 70 years old. Luther Breeden was 49. They may have been husband and wife.

And careless smoking by one victim caused the fire. Knight said. same month firefighters aided a drunken Mrs. Breeden, who had been burned in minor fire at the address, Knight added. Although fire officials knew of the conditions at the garage apartment, they couldn't do anything about them.

"We have no authority (to inspect) in private home, and this was single family home," the chief said. "Our authority is in Firefighters, police and paramedics became acquainted with the victims long before Sunday night's lethal fire. Paramedics responding to a report on Feb. 3 of a woman who had fallen down at 2900 Sixth St. found Mrs.

Breeden drunk and sprawled on the ground, Knight said. Luther Breeden had been stabbed in the elbow when paramedics and police were called to the Anchor Inn last October. That Shots fired into home of Ku Klux Klan leader A Ku Klui Klan officer has told police that rifle and shotgun blasts were fired into his home and van at Dunedin. State Klan officer Jack Gregory, 52, blamed "Klan hater groups" for the attack early Sunday. Gregory said the shotgun blasts shattered windows in the front of his house and in his van.

Minutes later a rifle shot broke his kitchen window. A spokesman for the Pinellas sheriffs office said Gregory indicated that the gunman might have been a disgruntled Klan member. Gregory disputed that account. He said Klansmen from around the state would hold a rally in Palm Harbor Saturday to protest the shooting. Clearwater A Countryside High School compromise has won the tentative approval of the Clearwater City Commission.

The commission told its staff to proceed with the compromise, worked out last week, that would settle a lawsuit filed to delay construction of the school. School administration representatives have indicated that they favor the compromise, but the School Board also must vote on it Among other things, the compromise calls for the city to sell the School Board 1 St '1 1 additional land as a buffer zone between the school and protesting property owners who filed the lawsuit i It 11 11 Citrus (3 Li, Hernando Bookv Pasco ft. a -w-- ii rw ia av ai -y mm mm -a i. ihii xii tVi Jr-T New Port ftidwr Hillsborough Largo Largo electa two commissioners today. Candidates for Seat 1 are incumbent Mary Black and challenger Robert Martin.

Running for Seat 2 are Bob Bellin and George McGough. The incumbent, Virgil Sturgis, is not running. The campaign has had no fiery issues, no sharp divisions between the candidates and not much apparent interest among the voters. Seminole Seminole chooses a mayor and five City Council members today. Mayor Eugene is being I DuMdin ClMrwattr.

Urga Pinellas Manatee tZaMnton No one hurt in this fire It took firefighters about 30 minutes to drown a blaze Monday afternoon at 644 Vi Second Ave. S. A spokesman for the Fire Department said a dollar figure on the damage to the garage apartment was not available. No one was in the building when the fire began about 4 p.m. PMartfcurt TknM FftAKR MALI challenged by political novice William Hartatein, 31.

Competing for the council seats are Thomas McElwee, Irving Clement, Everett Allen and incumbents John Brady, James Hilliard and William Cheetham. Two of the seats are being vacated by incumbents who decided against seeking re-election, Holland Mangum and William Dodd. Bradenton A field of candidates for Manatee County administrator has been reduced to five. Only one is from Florida Peter A. Korn of Fort Lauderdale.

The others are Larry J. Brown, Madison, Robert R. Cant ine, Morganton, N.C.; Dean D. Hunter Lexington, and David B. Collier, Silver Springs, Md.

They are survivors of an original list of 184 applicants. Hudson When your house starts to crack, you naturally start to ask questions especially if you heard a big, window-rattling boom at the same time. Neighbors of a northwest Pasco limerock mine say dynamite blasts there are damaging their homes. But county officials may have a hard time doing anything about it. Apparently the miners are blasting within the legal limits, and some nouses are shaking whether the blasts are big or small.

More studies are predicted before the problem is solved. Hit-and-run suspect arrested after struggle budge. Barnes, police said, grabbed Welch. Welch in turn grabbed Barnes' throat and choked him, police said. The officers finally got the suspect outside, but the action continued.

Welch allegedly knocked Barnes to ths sidewalk, causing the officer to scrape his head against the concrete. Barnes was treated at Bayfront Medical Center but not before the officers finally got Welch behind bars at the St Petersburg jail. The man was jailed on $10,000 bail on charges of resisting arrest with violence, battery on an officer and disorderly intoxication. Police are still investigating the traffic parked car on 14th Avenue police said. Police said the Welc car was abandoned at 15th Avenue and 40th Street.

Investigating the accident, Officer Charles Barnes went to Welch's home about where he was greeted with a barrage of profanity, police said. Welch would not admit the officer into his home, police said. Sgt Hmhaker arrived, and Welch's wife admitted both officers into the house, police said. Brubaker arrested Welch. However, police said, Welch didn't want to go to jail so he laid on the floor, refusing to By JOHNNIE ROBERTS St Pate, sburg Timai StH Wrmi Bobby Welch cursed, kicked, choked and 'side walked' a St.

Petersburg police officer but still went to lail early Monday, a police spokesman said The 2H vear -old man may hase lieen involved in a hit and run ac cident too, polic said, hich is what led officers to Welch's home at I lth Ave. S. The accident incurred about 2am Monday when Welch allegedly drove his wile's car into the back of a Brooksville Suspected murderers Freddie Lee Hall and Mack Ruffin Jr. are expected to be the subjects of two grand jury investigations this week. One jury, in Sumter County, will see whether the pair should be charged in the murder of 20-year-old Carol Hurst, abducted from a Leesburg shopping center Feb.

21. Mrs. Hurst, who was sit months pregnant, had been raped, shot and dumped in a field in Sumter County. Hall, 32, and Ruffin, 22, have already been charged with first -degree murder of Hernando County Sheriffs deputy Lonnie Coburn. A Hernando grand jury will reportedly consider an indictment today.

Meantime, the two suspects are in Lake County Jail. Florida Power Regents from 1 -B from 1-B New Port Richey My lea G. Kelly, a Port Richey City Council member, has been charged with lewd, lascivious or indecent assault on a 10-year-old girl. Kelly, who is also a bus driver for the Pasco County School System, is accused of fondling the girl while babysitting Feb. 25.

After a hearing Monday before County Judge Dan C. Rasmussen, Kelly was freed on $1,500 bond. Kelly has been a council member since 1976. Trailways cuts far to $12 on St. Petersburg-Miami rout Trailways Inc.

President J. Kevin Murphy Monday announced a new series of reduced fares on but routes between major Southeast cities. Among the low-fare routes are those linking Tarn pa -St. Petersburg to Miami and Miami to Jacksonville and Tallahassee. The one-way regular adult fares between Miami and Tampa-St.

Petersburg have been reduced 35 per cent from $18.45 to $12, and between Miami and Jacksonville, 50 per cent from $21.70 to $10.85. The lower Miami-Tampa far has led to a slight reduction in the fare from Miami to Tallahassee. The new fare schedule applies only to one-way, regular adult fares on the no-stopover routes. The reduced fares for children age 5 to 12 are half the new adult fares. The rates will not apply the week of March 23-29 because of heavier Faster holiday travel.

Additional information may be obtained by calling Trailways in St. Petersburg, 894-7641, or by dialing the toll free Tampa line, 800-282-6611. Bradenton Computer voting was recommended Monday by Manatee Supervisor of Elections Jerome Davis. He urged the County Commission to get rid of massive old voting machines and buy about $35,000 to $50,000 worth of computer. Commissioners were interested to the point of asking Davis to in vite a couple of computer companies to demonstrate their units in the Courthouse.

But Weider said the PSC could not complete its much-delayed investigation of the St Petersburg based utility unless it could establish the amount of the overcharges "WE KNOW exactly what Florida Power paid (for the he said, "but we don't know if that was the price they should have been paying What pric that oil was original iy sold lor after the refining that's the price we need to know." ith the help of I Sen Lawton Chiles, I) Fla Shevin said the I Knergy Department and the attorney's office Tampa have all agreed the PSC can have the evidence it wants But he said an attorney in the Justice Department till ha to give his approval liefore the information can lie re leased. He said he expects that approval to lie granted later this week. Shevin calls for state energy agency Umtsd Prvii lntrnatKfal TALI.AHASSKK Atty Gen. Robert L. Shevin called Monday for creation of a new state energy agency as part of the utility and energy revision proposals in hisgubernatori 4 1 campaign Shevin, considered a leading democratic candidate to replace Gov Keubin Askew this year, proposed the new energy agency as a long range response to Florida's energy problems Shevin said Florida's place "at the end of the pipeline" jeopardizes two energy intensive backbones of the state economy, agriculture and tourism.

He also renewed his support for a constitutional amendment changing the Public Service Commission from a three memlier elective body to a five member appointive group That dispute was left unresolved and negotiators are to go back to the bargaining table Wednesday for another try. Although the union demonstration was orderly, it raised some hac kles for the universities' governing board. Gardener deplored the faculty union's "pressure tactics. "It is unfortunate that an organization that represents a faculty, whose profession is one of reasoned dialog and debate, should turn instead Ui these tactics," Gardener said. "We sincerely hope that the public and the legislature will not think less of our faculty and we hope that these misguided actions will not he counter productive." Regent Ferguson also scolded the pickets many of whom looked like dignified professors for "inappropriate" behavior and unjustified criticism of the regents in fliers distributed by the union.

The handbills proclaimed, "State university faculty are fed up with the Board of Regents. It has callously ignored our financial needs." Contending that university appropriations have almost quintupled in the past 12 years, Ferguson said that increase showed the regents' effort "I think the Legislature has been completely generous and fair to the universities," Ferguson said, "and I resent the assertion that we are callous to their needs Dan Miller, president of the Florida AFL-CIO, spoke for the faculty union, urging the regents to accept a special master's recommendation for a 7.5 per cent, across the-board salary raise THE REGENTS ARE proposing a 2 per cent across-the board increase, with an additional 4 per cent for merit raises and promotions. Carrying placards with slogans like "We resent 2 per cent" and "Professionalism doesn't pay my bills Money does." the pickets left quietly after making their appeal. If the wage dispute remains deadlocked, it will go to the legislature for a decision. Debate from 1-B tellectual development Shockley called the American Negro Tragedy of genetic inferiority "an undeniable reality." He quoted from a Midwest newspaper story about a group of blacks who were beating whites and burning houses, commenting, "These people certainly ought to be able to find better things to do with their lives." Goldsby got the only re set ion from the crowd of more than 300 a round of applause when he proposed the 20-year "Goldsby Plan" of giving blacks better job opportunities, schooling snd housing.

When he urged that schools "insist they learn something before they psss," the crowd loved it Ths debate moderator said that if enough people are interested, Shockley will stay on st the college for seminar on his theories at noon today. Where it will be held, if at all, was yet to be decided. Interested persons may find out by calbng the college at 867-1166. Goldsby, a black professor from the University of Maryland, said he has been on leave for two years while he works in the genetics department at Stanford University, where Shoc ley lives as retired engineering professor. He said he and Shockley have arranged to meet on the lecture circuit for debate on the Race I(J issue more than half a dozen times.

The Nobel laureate used a slide projector to display, segment by segment the statement "The moral obligation to diagnose the American Negro Tragedy of statistical IQ deficit" Goldsby, on the other hand, chose to spend his time detailing three bodies of research to show that the discrepancy between IQs of blacks and whites is negligible when blac children are reared in environments that aid their in Last medical forum tonight is on digestive disorders Digestive disorders will be the topic of tonight's panel discussion during the last erf this year's series of medical forums. The discussion is open to the public and will be from 7 to 8 p.m. at Christ I Methodist Church W7 First Ave N. Sponsored at a public service by The St. Petertburg Timet and Luemng Independent in cooperation with the Pinellas County Medical Society, the forum wHI be taped fcr broadcast by WSUN radio (AM 620) from 9:30 to 10:30 p.m.

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