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Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 71

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Tampa Bay Timesi
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I pa TIMES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1981 Skeleton, tifoougD-ti tio be of young female, is found By DERALD EVERHART ual battery on a child leas than 11 years old, 24 counts of lewd and lascivious acta on a minor, and two counts of procuring for prostitution. All but four of the charges sifting by hand the dirt in a four-foot radius from where teen-age girl. the remains were found about 25 feet behind the house. The excavating team has already found what they believe to be an arm bone, Kelly said. IDENTIFYING the body may be difficult if there are no dental records for the body, he said.

Kelly said the entire three-to-five-acre parcel of land will be searched before the department finishes its investigation. Investigators did not say how long the remains had been in the yard. No arrests have been made in connection with the search. Maj. Chuck Crosby said investigators are looking for one, and perhaps more, bodies that may be buried on the property, Crosby said.

One of the bodies, he said, may be that of a missing INVESTIGATORS dug around the Mansfield house Monday and Tuesday in three different locations, using large construction equipment from the Hernando County Road Department to tear down a plywood and tarpaper storage shed during the search. After digging under the shed, investigators shifted their search to an area behind the house where the bone was found. The search is the culmination of "many, many months" of police work, Adler said. In exchange for dropping most of the charges, Mansfield pleaded no contest to three charges of lewd and' lascivious acts in the presence of a minor and one charge of soliciting for prostitution. WEEKI WACHEE ACRES A ikeUton, thought to be that of a young female, wai uncovered Tuesday by investigator! from the Hernando County Sheriff! Department, using backhoet and bulldozers at the home of a convicted sei offender.

Hernando Sheriff Melvin Kelly said Tuesday his deputies and three investigators from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Tampa crime lab spent the day sifting through the sand and dirt around William Mansfield's home in Weeki Wachee Acres. Mansfield, 55, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Nov. 26, 1980 after pleading no contest to four sei-related charges involving young girls. He was originally indicted Aug. 18 on 40 sex charges, which included 12 counts of sex were aroppea in me piea Bargain arrangement.

THE SEARCH began Monday morning after the sheriffs department obtained a warrant from the Hernando state attorney's office to search the Mansfield property on Central Avenue. Jerry Adler, an investigator with the state attorney's office in Brooksville, said Tuesday the warrant was issued based on information from a confidential informant "We suspect (the body) may be that of a young, white female," Kelly said. "We may be out there a week. But we want to make sure we get all there is out there." Kelly said members of the FDLE crime lab team are I PHCC chief unhappy with Graham's budget Trial of man accused of sexual battery on daughter is delayed by JOHN HEAQNEY Paaoo Ttnwa Staff Wrttar By JAN GLIDEWELL Pueo TtmM Staff Writer 'My main concern is that the governor's budget does not allow for growth, and this is a growth-oriented college. Milton O.

Jonas would work toward salary parity with other states. However, the proposed budget seems to run counter to any such move, Jones said. "It's true that the $650 would move us up four slots or so to 28th (in the rankings) but the plan was to get Florida's community colleges into the (top 25 percent) in the country," he said. "The governor's budget just won't do that." A FURTHER complication comes in the form of increased student fees, which Jones said already are excessive for community college students, particularly when compared to what is paid by university students. "Our students already are paying about 24 percent, and by the end of this two-year (budget) period, that figure will increase to 30 percent," Jones explained.

"In the meantime, university students pay about 17 percent, and by the end of that same period will be paying only 24 percent." Jones has been invited by the Division of Community Colleges to attend Senate subcommittee hearings on the budget in Tallahassee Thursday, where he may be able to plead his case before state legislators. But Jones indicated to the trustees Monday that he doesn't expect the going to be any smoother with the Legislature than it would be with the governor. "From what I've heard, some members of that subcommittee think that the governor's recommendations are too liberal as it is," he said. nality. The man is charged with only one incident having intercourse with his 15-year-old daughter, who is now 16 and not living at home.

Two older daughters testified before Ulmer in chambers Tuesday that they also had had intercourse with their father. One daughter, who is now 22, said she had intercourse with him shortly before her 18th birthday. The other daughter, now 18, testified that she had intercourse with him when she was 12. BOTH WOMEN, under questioning by Burton, said they had not cried out for help and that their father did not have a weapon, but the state is charging in part that the man used his authority as their father to demand sex from them. 4 The 18-year-old, testifying Tuesday, said her father became a "different person," when he approached her sexually.

"It scared me," she said, "but I loved him and I still do because he is my father." The trial is expected to take at least two days. The father faces a possible life sentence if he is convicted. BROOKSVILLE Gov. Bob Graham expects Florida's 28 community colleges to tighten their belts by quite a -few notches during the next few years, and Milton 0. Jones, president of the Pasco-Hernando Community College (PHCC) doesn't like it one bit.

In fact, at the PHCC Board of Trustees' meeting Monday night, Jones decried as "a slap in the face" significant budget cuts proposed by the governor for community colleges and their employees during the next two years. At issue is a budget requested by the state Division of Community Colleges for the 1981-82 school year, and a budgetary recommendation made by the governor's office. Worse yet, Jones told the board, is how Graham proposes to undercut by nearly $30-million the requested statewide community college budget for 1982-83. THE 1982-83 budget submitted by the Division of Community Colleges is $307-million, while the governor's office countered with $277-million. Jones said the disparity between these two sets of figures poses a "serious situation" for the state's community colleges in general, and PHCC in particular.

According to Bob Austin, PHCC's director of business affairs, "The governor's budget is going to kill us. We haven't figured out exactly what it DADE CITY Trial for a 43-year-old Zephyrhills man charged with sexual battery on his 15-year-old daughter waa delayed Tuesday after Circuit Judge Ray E. Ulmer Jr. decided a jury will be allowed to hear testimony from two other daughters who say they also had sexual intercourse with their father. The trial, originally scheduled to begin Tuesday, was delayed until Thursday after the man's attorney, John Burton, said he needed more time to prepare his case.

The name of the man is being withheld to protect the identities of his daughters. STEVE RUSHING, the assistant Pasco-Pinellas state attorney prosecuting the case, was successful in his efforts to get the other two daughters' testimony declared admissable under what is commonly known a's the "Williams Rule." The rule, in some instances, allows testimony about similar crimes allegedly committed by a defendant for the purpose of establishing a pattern of crimi would do to us, but going on preliminary figures, PHCC would need $200,000 more in our budget (for the coming year) just to keep even academically, and to give minimal cost-of-living increases to our staff." Jones termed a proposed annual salary increase of $650 for community college employees "a slap in the face," adding that such an increment doesn't even keep pace with inflation. "MY MAIN concern is that the governor's budget does not allow for growth, and this is a growth-oriented college," Jones said. "We're talking about 14 percent growth next year, and the governor is not willing to budget any extra money to cover it." Austin said because of this lack of growth money, those portions of the budget that would have been earmarked for new projects now will haye to go to employee salaries. Jones said salaries in Florida's community college system "are way down," ranking 32nd in the nation when compared to other community college systems.

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