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II ST, PETERSBURG TIMES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25. 1981 3B tors! Bid to save wetlands relies on tax on deeds 2 reprimanded after Manatee jail escapes fly ARDITH HILLIARD fawilwi Jim Staff Wrhf By BETTY KOHLMAN St. Ptf tbwj Tim 8W Wrlf 'Pi Ira Hi 3 Ml 12 Creek land and portions of the Green Swamp in Central Florida, said Pajcic. WITH PAJCIC Tuesday for a meeting with the editorial board of The St. Petersburg Timet and Evening Independent was Victoria Tschinkel, secretary of the state Department of Environmental Regulation (DER).

This agency would run the program if it is approved this spring by the Legislature. The DER would disperse the money from a trust fund to the five regional water districts in the state and the districts would actually purchase the land. The districts would have to match each dollar from the program with $4 from other sources such as local taxation and federal money. The Southwest Florida Water Management District, which regulates water supply for Pinellas and surrounding counties, would receive 25 percent of the money, with similar shares going to the South Florida Regional Water District and the St. John's district in North Florida because of the pressing need to acquire threatened land in these areas.

The other two districts would receive 10 percent each and 5 per cent would be held out for special needs. "I believe there is a growing awareness among the growth people, probably because of Sports Illustrated, that the healthy growth of the state is limited by its water supply," said Tschinkel. She was referring to a recent story in the sports magazine that depicted Florida as the victim of uncontrolled growth, a "paradise lost" choking on its own waste. The magazine said that many of Florida's once-famous recreational areas have been destroyed by indiscriminate building, its rivers and lakes poisoned by agricultural pesticides and industrial wastes. GOV.

BOB GRAHAM, who since taking office in 1978 has seemed preoccupied with the issue of bringing more industry to Florida, included the Save Our Unnerved by visions of paradise lost, frtate officials began a statewide campaign this week to preserve Florida's water supply by saving some of its fragile, vanishing Wetlands. Their tool is to tax harder the very Ihing that poses the biggest threat to the state's fresh water real estate. I Dubbed "Save Our Rivers," the proposal is to collect $320-million in the next 10 years by raising the documentary stamp tax imposed on deeds when property is sold. The money would be used to purchase marshlands and areas surrounding Florida's rivers and lakes to preserve them in or restore them to their natural states. Hunting, camping and fishing would be permitted.

THE TAX increase per property would be slight 5 cents for every $100 of Value, or $25 on the sale of a $50,000 house. The existing tax is 40 cents per $100 of value or $200 on the same house. Traditionally, the buyer pays the tax. Although this tax would go virtually Unnoticed by most property owners, it would give the state the money needed to preserve and perhaps retrieve valuable water resource areas threatened or despoiled by development, said State Rep. Steve Pajcic Tuesday.

Pajcic heads the State House Committee on Finance and Tax and is the prime sponsor of the Save Dur Rivers program in the Legislature. At worst risk, Pajcic said, is the upper St. John's River in North Florida, heavily polluted by industry, and the Everglades in South Florida, depleted of its water by development and polluted by pesticides from agriculture. Among areas affecting Pinellas County's water supply, prime candidates for Smrchase would be about 7,700 acres of and included in the Starkey Tract in Pasco County, land around the Hillsborough and Withlacoochee rivers, Cypress BRADENTON Two inmates who escaped from the Manatee County jail last week remained at large Tuesday, but two of their jailers were reprimanded by Sheriff Tom Burton. Burton said he had suspended Corrections Officer Ray Moran for 15 days and removed his name from the sergeant eligibility list for a year.

And Sgt. David Graham, senior officer on duty at the time of the night escape, was given a letter of reprimand that will remain in his personnel file for a year. Ricky Reed, 22, of Parrish, and Gregory Montgomery, 23, of Palmetto, escaped from the jail on the top floor of the courthouse last Wednesday by breaking a hole through the outside cinder block and brick wall with barbells. They had been exercising with the barbells outside their shared cell in an area believed to be secure. They lowered themselves to the ground with a rope fashioned of strips of blankets tied together.

Burton said he and everyone else connected with the jail had assumed the wall was built with reinforced concrete. In justice to Moran, Burton said, "he never dreamt they could punch a hole in the wall." But Moran 's error, Burton said, was in leaving the two alone. And Sergeant Graham, who was out of the building taking a prisoner to the hospital, should have made sure that Moran was supervising the two prisoners. Capt. Sally McCammon, who runs the jail, also got a letter from the sheriff, but only asking her to re-evaluate and make sure regulations are being followed.

Gulfport woman killed by car A Gulfport woman died Monday after she and her husband were hit by a car, Gulfport police reported. Marian Kalnajs, 76, of 5925 Shore was walking with her husband west across 58th Street at about 31st Avenue shortly before 5 p.m. The couple was struck by a southbound 1976 Buick, driven by Sidney Israel Lubin, 65, of 6025 Shore Blvd. Mrs. Kalnajs suffered head injuries and died at about 6:30 p.m.

at Palms of Pasadena Hospital. Her 77-year-old husband Alfred was taken to Palms for a broken pelvis and legs. He was listed Tuesday in fair condition. No charges have been filed, and the accident is still under investigation. St.

Patariburg Tlm DAVE MORRISON Pajcic and Tschinkel inspect the Starkey Tract in Pasco County Tuesday afternoon. Rivers proposal in his $20-billion, two-year proposed budget released shortly after the article appeared. Tschinkel said the Florida Home Builders Association has given its informal approval and that no organized opposition to the proposal has yet surfaced. Yet, Pajcic said, the proposal will need a hefty push by supporters to make it through a Legislature more interested in recent years in cutting back taxation rather tlftn increasing it. "We have got to preserve a clean and adequate water supply.

This program is essential to that preservation," Pajcic said. THE PROGRAM would have no connection to the scandal-ridden En vironmentally Endangered Lands program begun in 1972 and administered by another state agency, the Department of Natural Resources, Pajcic said. The former administrator of that ill-fated program, Harmon Shields, was convicted last year of soliciting bribes in connection with purchases of land under that program. This program would differ drastically, Pajcic said. "For one thing, the lands that should be purchased are already clearly identified," he said, in contrast to the leeway the Department of Natural Resources had in deciding where and from whom to buy.

Also, the regional water districts have the power of condemnation that the other agency did not have, he said. More human bones found on sex offender's property Ml ill III Junk litters macabre site By BILL STEVENS and OIANNE STALLINGS St, Ptf ibuf Tim Sftf Wrttf WEEKI WACHEE ACRES Wrecked cars, abandoned refrigerators, broken bottles and an assortment of other junk are strewn throughout the five acres at the home of William and Virginia Mansfield. Two Doberman pinschers seem subdued as investigators continue their macabre duty of digging for bodies. So far the digging has yielded the skeleton of a young girl. Bones of another human body have been discovered in the fireplace.

Authorities say they are convinced they will find even more bones. It's an incredible story for this tiny community just north of Spring Hill, one that William Mansfield can only keep up with through the hundreds of news reports that began when the first skeleton was uncovered March 17. While his wife and part of his family of seven keep sheltered in their modified mobile home, the 56-year-old former air-conditioning repairman is in a prison cell at Lake Butler where he is serving a 30-year sentence for sex possible burial sites. However, the investigators were concentrating their search on burnt debris from the Mansfield fireplace, Crosby said. He added that he believes the bones may have been burned in the fireplace of the house and dumped under the house.

"IF THEY burned one, they might have burned 10," Crosby said. Crosby said he did not suspect any of the family members other than Billy Mansfield, William Mansfield's oldest son, of being involved in any foul play. He did not rule out the possibility that charges may be filed later against other family members, however. Billy Mansfield, 25, is the Tampa police department's No. 1 suspect in the Tampa woman's disappearance.

Police spokesman John Barker has said that witnesses testified that the younger Mansfield was seen in the company of the woman the night she disappeared. Billy Mansfield is in the Santa Cruz, Calif. County jail in lieu of $250,000 bail awaiting trial on a charge of first-degree murder. He is accused of the strangulation Dec. 7, 1980 of housewife Rene Sailing, 29, of Watsonville, Calif.

By DERALD EVERHART St. PfuburQ Tim 8tf1 WrKf WEEKI WACHEE ACRES -Digging on the property of convicted sex offender William Mansfield, Hernando County investigators Tuesday discovered a "small sack" of human bones beneath the fireplace at the family's mobile home, Sheriffs Maj. Chuck Crosby said. Meanwhile, dental records examined at the Tampa crime lab of thS Florida Department of Law Enforcement showed that a skeleton discovered on the property March 17 is not that of Elaine Ziegler, a 15-year-old girl who disappeared from the Brooksville KOA campground New Year's Day 1976, Crosby said. The examination also ruled out the possibility of the skeleton's being that of Sandra Jean Graham, 21, of Tampa, who was last seen April 26, 1980 at Pam's Liquor Lounge on Hillsborough Avenue, Crosby said.

Both the Ziegler and Graham names had been on the search warrants issued for the investigation. "WE HAVE a negative identification on the body," Crosby said. "The dental records do not match." Crosby did not speculate on the identity of the skeleton found last week on a five-acre tract of land owned by Mansfield on Central Avenue in Weeki Wachee Acres. Mansfield, 56, is serving a 30-year prison term after having pleaded no contest Nov. 26, 1980 to four sex-related charges involving young girls.

He was orginally indicted Aug. 18 on 40 sex charges. The second set of bones, apparently blackened and charred from burning, was recovered from beneath the fireplace of the Mansfield home Tuesday, Crosby said. Investigators first found a bone fragment late Monday as they dug with shovels at the base of the eastern end of the house. The bone was later identified by medical examiners as a fragment of a hip bone from a female under 18 years of age, Crosby said.

TUESDAY morning investigators recovered more small bones as they washed the ashes of the fireplace through a screen, Crosby said. They also removed some of the concrete blocks from the fireplace to facilitate digging and climbed on the roof to look between the walls. Nearby, a large backhoe from the county road department dug in another part of the property for other St. Patariburg Tim DERALD VERHART Virginia Mansfield and one of her sons talk with Hernando investigators. ual abuse of young girls.

MANSFIELD WAS originally charged with 40 sex-related offenses involving young girls. Plea-bargaining last November allowed him to plead no contest to four charges in Hernando County Circuit Court Then there is Billy 25. He is in jail in Santa Cruz, awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge. Back in Michigan, where the family lived before moving to Weeki Wachee Acres about 10 years ago, Billy also has a police record. He was convicted of criminal sexual conduct in 1977 and 1979.

With Billy Mansfield in California is his brother Gary 23. He's been charged with accessory to a crime in connection with the murder for which Billy is charged. Their mother Virginia is a former waitress at a local motel. She also has sons aged 18, 21 and 22 and a daughter, 19. A few young children also live in the cluttered house that is the subject of the massive investigation.

"It's hard for me to believe any of the kids could be involved in any crimes," Phyllis Mansfield told The St. Petersburg Times by telephone from Grand Rapids, Mich. Tuesday. She is the former wife of Billy having married him when she was 16 in March 1973. "There was nothing wrong with Billy as far as I was concerned.

At least nothing like the stories I'm hearing. But the parents they're another story. I've been asked by the Hernando County sheriffs people not to say any more right now." OTHER PERSONS contacted by The Times Tuesday were quick to comment on the family and on the elder Mansfield, who in 1975 spent a year as maintenance manager for Lykes Memorial Hospital in Brooksville. "He was cocky," said Gator Alligood, a maintenance employee at the hospital who worked for Mansfield. "But I can never imagine talking to women the way he did.

He would throw around all kinds of sexual comments to all the women. His arrest didn't surprise me a bit A former Hernando County sheriffs deputy who said he had been to the Mansfield house on Central Avenue "many times" recalled Mrs. Mansfield as pleasant 1 "When she was behind the bar, she wore makeup and pretty with a ready wit," said the former deputy, who asked not to be identified. "I enjoyed talking to her. On the other hand, no matter what the boys or old man did, she would back them up.

She is a smart woman. She knew what was going on." MRS. MANSFIELD has consistently declined to talk with Times reporters. A call placed Tuesday was referred to the family's attorney. Glen Greenfelder of Dade City.

Hernando County building official Billy Orr said he met the boys on two occasions as they worked on air-conditioning projects. "We had several complaints about the junk piled up (at their bouse), and I talked to one of the boys," Orr repealled. "I told them and it makes me feel awful remembering I told them with all those old lying around, there could be little kids' bodies in the re I A RESIDENT of Bayport, who also asked not to be identified, noted that the elder Mansfield was "jovial and pleasant to my wife and He used to bring us fish. "He was always laughing; the last person I would expect to be involved to sex crimes. I didnt even know be had a family.

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