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I Complete Leased AP Wire and WIREPHOTO Service, INS, Dow Jones, Reuters, Chicago Tribune Wires TAMPA MORNING TRIBUNE SECTION NEWS STORIES TAMPA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957 JUSTICE DEPT. ASKS BAN ON TRIAL IN JAPAN BE REVERSED Air Force Mercy Flight Takes Airman's Baby To Walter Reed Hospital Tampans Smith Study On Proposed U. S. Appeals Girard Case Decision To Supreme Court Fairyland Puts City Board In Fiscal Tizzy By PAUL MacALESTER Tribune Staff Writer Old Mother Goose and her nursery rhyme characters threw the city board of representatives into a fiscal tizzy yesterday afternoon. Representatives 'meeting in their weekly committee session 4 'i feast.

I 'A Quick Ruling On Trial Is Requested WASHINGTON. June 20. IT) The government went to the If THAT HE MAY LIVE Capt. Robert A. Melton, MacDill Air Force Base pediatrician, holds baby James A.

Dunkin in his arms just before the child and his mother stepped aboard a plane yesterday destined for Walter Reed General Hospital, where the child may undergo surgery. (Air Force Photo). SMITH PLAN FOR TAMPA EXPRESSWAY This is the downtown Tampa sector of the Tampa Expressway as proposed by Wilbur Smith and Associates in its current showing to the public. Most of this section would be elevated 14H feet above street level, with only ramps descending to street level. As can be seen on this map, one of those shown at the courthouse, the proposal is for the freeway to cross the river between Scott and Kay Streets, far to the north of the State Road Department plan.

Also a more flexible-type interchange is provided instead of the massive interchange in the Nebraska-Henderson area proposed by the State Road Department. 'AND HOW DO YOU GET A journey which could mean life or death for a five-month-old baby who has been ill since birth started yesterday from MacDill Air Force Base. Medical authorities at Mac- Dili flew seriously-ill James A. Dunkin from the base hospital to Walter Reed General Hospital at Washington for possible pul monary-heart surgery. The child, son of Mrs.

Shirley Dunkin of 4010 Fairoaks a Tampa native, and Staff Sgt. George H. Dunkin, has been un der medical care in various hos pitals since his birth. Capt. Robert A.

Melton, a base physician, said the infant has severe asthma and recurring pneumonia and bronchitis. HOT POTATO County Board Ever Try To Tell A Woman Just What Is An Expressway? This Engineer Did From New Pay Raise Deal fit the most In the long run, he said. "If we don't get this expressway, some other part of Florida probably will," said another engineer. "We've got to approve it and get started on it." What About the Kids? I sympathized with their problem, but what I really wanted to know was: How will my children get to school if they have to cross the expressway? Will they need to go to a main intersection, which might be two miles away, even if school is just across the road? No, there'll be foot crossings, I was assured. The maps showed a spaghetti-like growth, at intervals One arterial arm spewed out on Ashley Street, a nemesis to office workers at rush hours.

A secretary looked glumly at the sketch. "If any more traffic races down Ashley street, I'll move my toothbrush into the office." she said. But she was told the expressway would help her to get to work faster, and home quickly, without stops. One Tree: $1000 A thin woman in a navy straw hat shook her finger at an engineer. "Young man.

if you have to pay for my oak tree, it'll cost you $1000." "And you've got that road going right through my front porch." spent more than a half-hour mulling over ways of spending some $18,000 to $20,000 for construction of Fairyland a kid- oies amusement area to be lo cated in Tampa's Lowry Park. The basic problem was how to get around city requirements for competitive bidding where large sums of money are to be spent. B. B. Bradley, superin tendent of city parks, said the Building of giant-size three-di mensional nursery rhyme ex hibits is so novel and compli cated that he could not draw up specifications for bidding.

Law Requires Bids City laws require bidding on construction projects over $1500 and for purchases over $1000. Fairyland is to cover 1.5 acres of Lowry Park, and Bradley hopes to have it open by No vember, If we don get in volved in too much paper work." Bradley explained that con crete replicas of such things as the Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe and Humpty-Dumpty's Castle defy working drawings and detailed specifications needed to advertise for bids The general theme of the park is being taken from Storyland, operated by the city of New Orleans and built at a cost of about $35,000 Bradley showed the city board colored photo slides of the New Orleans layout. He said reve nue there and free-will dona tions from interested citizens are paying for the operation of the children park. Way Around Found The board members' finally decided, in conference with city attorneys, that if Bradley keeps the cost of individual construction items below the $1500 mark, he can choose the con tractor he feels can best do the work under his supervision. City Attorney Ralph Marsicano was asked about the legality of pur chasing $2300 worth of manne ouins without advertising for bids.

Marsicano said the work would be of an artistic nature he felt the mannequins could be boucht locally under a serv ice contract" which he said is xeirrnt from bid provisions, Money for the Fairyland pro ect was set up by transfer of $20,000 from a city unappro criated cash surplus on June 4 Bradley was toid he would be given a relatively free hand in spending for the project, as long as he first submitted drawings and details in advance to the city board, which will have to study and approve tnem. Call New Meter Bids The board also adopted resolution to re-advertise for tiids on the purchase of 850 new parking meters for the downtown area. Recently, the board instructed City Purchasing Agent W. P. McLeran to re draw specifications for the me ters because first specifications were so tight they attracted nnlv one bidder.

McLeran as fiured the board that the new specifications "should attract larcrp number of bidders." Rep. Jimmie Minardi asked the board to consider paying city policemen for the time they npnd in court in their off-duty hours. Minardi declared not as many cases are being brought to a conclusion because of the nrnciant lark ff extra Day. He said he feels added revenu from fines in more court cases would offset the expense ot extra pay for the policemen. I And Minardi also pressed for a local ordinance on the marking of ready-made meat sandwiches.

To underscore his point, he tossed a packaged sandwich on the board meeting table: "I bought this sandwich this morning. It's got a code on it, but I can't tell from it when the sandwich was made. "I think it's a shame when there is something as vital as this to public health, the public can't even figure out the code." The label on the sandwich identified it as made by the Rex Wholesale Sandwich Co. of Tampa. To Wait a Week The board voted to wait until vt w-pek to take any action on local sandwich-marking ordinance.

The board has asked for written advice on the subject from the U. S. Public JHeaiin Service headquarters in Washington, D. C. The board received and re ferred to the city legal department a request that zoning around the proposed Latin Plaza in Ybor City be required to conform with a "Mediterranean stvle of architecture." The request came from the board of governors of the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce It asked the citv to control the construction of new Expressway By GEORGE KNIGHT Tribune Staff Writer Tampans yesterday got their first full-scale view of Tampa expressway route proposals by Wilbur Smith and the firm that was hired by the State Road Department to review its idea of where the giant freeway should be.

Thousands of the vast por tion of Tampa's populace which would be affected turned out at Courthouse auditorium to view huge aerial photographs and maps which pinpointed the re lationship of the roadway to their property. Small homeowners showed up and so did known owners of large tracts of property in areas which would be affected. Concerned for Homes Paul Conrad, chief planner tor the Smith firm here, said most of the questioners wanted know how homes would be affected. They also asked what the procedure would be for condemnation. Many of them were aware of the disadvant ages of owning homes which would border, but not be taken by the expressway.

The route outlined yesterday the same presented by The Tribune on May 28, which showed changes from the plan previously made up by the State Road Department. Those major changes were: 1. Putting the main segment of the expressway in the down town area along a route between Scott and Kay in stead of between Tyler and Harrison. This shifted the loca tion of the main interchange to the west, and brought a more flexible type of interchange 2. Relocation of the West leg of the expressway between Herbert St, and the Hillsbor ough River, shifting It several blocks north to a route between Laurel and Green Sts.

instead of the earlier route between Memorial Hwy. and Cypress St. Still Not Final The Smith proposals still are not final and must yet meet the full approval of state, local and federal officials. Theoretically, changes recom mended by the Smith firm could be rejected in entirety, accepted in entirety or in part and com bined with the state's ideas. State Road Department of ficials have said that the state must be convinced that the Smith routes are better than theirs, which are based on years oi caretui study.

Showing Continues The present showing, in tended to sound out public opinion on the Smith routes will be continued today at the same place at the following hours: 9 A. M. to 12 noon, 2 to 5 P. and 7 to 9 P. M.

Then a public hearing will be held Monday at 10 A. also in the Courthouse auditorium At that time Conrad and hi associates are to go into further detail concerning specific rout ings for the expressway and discuss economic effects that may be expected. Conrad told The Tribune yes terday that the Smith recom mendations will bring the ex pressway cost to $90,000,000 figuring from current right-of way and construction costs. Thi is compared to a $115,000,000 to $20,000,000 cost the state made. he said.

The most radical change made in the Smith report is a different type of interchange downtown, more flexible to serve downtown, with ribbon-type approaches to surface immediately north of Cass St. to feed traffic to and from surface streets and the expressway. Would Eliminate One This would do away with the huge single interchange in the area of Nebraska and Henderson, which the State Road De partment was planning. Also this would shift the expressway feeder routes north of the Atlantic Coast Line tract the city has been wanting to condemn for public purposes and it would prevent interference with the site of the State Office Building at Twiggs, Jefferson and East Sts. Another change was In the original proposal for linking Adamo Dr.

with the expressway by a viaduct from 13th St. across the railroad. Conrad said this could not be made a part of the project, which would be financed by 90 per cent federal-interstate road funds, as the government would reject it on the grounds it would not handle enough traffic to warrant its cost. The Smith proposals do not make changes in the routes of the North and East legs of the expressway. The study is based on whnt it is thoueht Tampa traffic will be in 1975 and the design is to take care of needs at that time.

Car Plunges Over I wr, Savor! wv ST. PETERSBURG, June 20. UP) An automobile plunged over a four-foot guard rail on the Sunshine Skyway today into Tampa Bay, 15 feet below. The driver, Daniel Noonan 28, was unhurt. Augusta White, 21.

a student nurse, was treated iior a jeg injury. standing on the car when res- icuers arrived. zsoonan saia an approacning (car forced him to the side of the bridge just as he came down an incline. The Skyway con- jn.nects St. Petersburg and Imetto.

5. 1 Suspected to be underlying these troubles is a congenital defect of the lungs, Dr. Melton explained. He said the baby would have the more complete hospital facilities at Walter Reed and that the move was made "with an eye to possible corrective surgery-" Mrs. Dunkin accompanied the boy on the flight.

The father, serving overseas until recently, is now en route to an Air Force installation in Texas. The child, still as seriously ill after 47 days in the MacDill hospital, was provided with a special bed and oxygen equipment for the journey. Shies Away plained County Commission Chairman Ellsworth Simmons in accounting for failure to take up the question of officials' pay raises during the day's budget drafting sessions being held by the commissioners. He added that it is "the thinking" of the commissioners that they won't go at the matter "individually" as a board, but desire to tackle it together with the budget board. "We would like to have the budget board, representatives of the Hillsborough County Taxpayers' Association, and other interested groups in the meet ing when we discuss it," Sim mons said.

Under the provisions of the legislative act, the commissioners must, in effect, ask themselves for a hike in their pay, then recommend to the budget board that they be given a pay raise. Or they can decide not to seek a salary increase, which they sought from the legislature during the last two years, and proceed to act on requests from the other elected county officials. Can Set Amounts By terms of the legislative act. the commissioners and the budget board can fix the pay of elected county officials within the range of their present pay and a maximum set in the act, which would allow them pay raises averaging around $1500 for other officials and $3000 a year for the commissioners, if maximum increases were given. During the day, the commissioners continued their budget studies, writing in a $3500 appropriation for the purchase of tools and shop equipment for the county's central repair garage, and a raise in pay from $5200 to $5512 a year for the garage superintendent.

Other budgetary actions were the raising of the salary appropriation total for three assistant county attorneys from to boosted wage appropriations totals for Courthouse janitors from $25,900 to a total of and set up a salary of $6000 for the county purchasing agent, and dropped the $4800 yearly pay formerly set up for an assistant purchasing agent. international trade conference! urncw, iiiiiiiu, ir i- I I made cigar. At the same time the govern iment did nothing to lower the tariff rate on cuoan lODacco. Cuba also agreed to re iduce the tariff on some Ameri can produce which Cuba lm- ports. A series of negotiations were started last Summer and i culminated at negotiations Havana recently.

to is i Supreme Court today" ith a appeal for permission to, turn GI William S. Girard ever to the Japanese for trial on man slaughter charges. It asked that a federal district court decision barring a Japa nese trial be overturned. rubiic interest in an early disposition of the case, the Justice Department said, is so great that the high court should act as soon as possible. Presaea for Decision Attorney General Brownell and his legal aides were pressing for a decision before the Supreme Court adjourns for the Summer next Monday.

Without an early ruling, th government said in its petition. the overwhelming likelihood that the United States will be unable to fulfill its commitment to Japan for several trying months, even though the Japa nese government is very desirous of holding respondent's (Girard's) trial, without delay and expects him to be turned over promptly." In New Y'ork. attorneys for Girard said they were filing a cross appeal to the govern ment appeal. To Be rUed Today It was expected to be filed with the Supreme Court today. The lawyers.

Earl J. Carroll and Joseph S. Robinson, said they were in accord with a dis trict court ruling that Girard should not be. turned over to the Japanese but believed it "did "not go far enough." They said they believed a writ of habeas corpus should have been issued so Girard could be returned to the United States. Xo court-martial charges have been filed against him.

and even if charges were filed at some future date he may, under the provisions of the military code of Justice, be tried here." the lawyers said. "We see no reason for continuing to, retain him in Japan, where he may possibly become the victim of Japanese wrath, stirred up by the rabble rouse rs and Communist agitators." Accused in Death Girard is the 21-year-old Army specialist third class accused of killing a Japanese woman on a U. S. Army firing range in Japan, where he was on guard duty last Jan. 30.

In a decision approved by President Eisenhower, the government decided to let the Japanese try Girard. But U. S. District Judge Joseph McGar-ragby ruled against it on Tuesday. McGarraghy enjoined the government against surrendering the young Ottawa, I1L, soldier to Japanese justice, holding that to do so would violate Girard's constitutionar rights.

McGarraghy's decision was "clearly wrong," the Justice Department contended in its Supreme Court petition. An appeal had been filed in the U. S. Court of Appeals here, but it was decided today to go directly to the Supreme Court in the interests of speed. Officials in both the Justice and Defense Departments participated in the decision.

ROGERO AND OTHERS TO PAY $200,000 FOR 18 ACRES CLEARWATER, June 20. (Special) Al Rogero, State Road Board member, confirmed yesterday that he is one of four investors who have contracted to pay for an 13-acre tract in an area which a recent survey indicated will one day be the business center of Clearwater. The land, at the southeast corner of Belcher Rd. and Gulf-to-Bay Blvd, includes 660 feet of frontage on Gulf-to-Bay, considered the eastern gateway to the city. Purchase was from Mr.

and Mrs. Leo Martin, with terms reported as $6000 down payment and $3000 annually. Rogero's partners In the transaction are T. T. O'Brien and Carl A.

Roberts, both retired New Y'ork manufacturers, and Harry Kraly. president of the Crown Box Company. Wilmington. X. C.

Rogero, who said the purchase is an investment transaction, indicated there was a possibility of part of the tract being used for a new shopping center. O'Brien and Roberts, frequent Clearwater visitors, plan to retire and make their homes here permanently cext year. By BILL BLALOCK i Tribune Staff Writer The budget-making county commissioners twice shied away yesterday from tackling the knotty problem of what to do about pay raises for elected county officials under new procedure set up by the last legislature. It's knotty because the legislative act puts the commissioners in the position of hav ing to make recommendations for or against their own pay raise, since they also are elected officials. The act sys the commissioners can hike elected officials" pay, subject to approval of the county budget board.

Twice the commissioners called sessions to decide whether to recommend pay hikes as permitted by the act, then called them off. Sent Their Regrets The reason: commissioners said they wanted the budget board to meet jointly with them to discuss the matter, but budget board members sent back two explanations of their inability to get together for a huddle. One was that members of the board had other appointments to keep. The other was that they didn't have enough information about such things as comparative salaries paid such county jobs in other counties, and the work load being carried by the various elected officials. Meanwhile, Henrv Smoak.

ex ecutive secretary of the budget board, was busy getting together such information as he made the rounds of the Courthouse offices. last week, two members of the budget board blasted the new pay raise procedure, touched off by a school board request for a $2500 a year pay raise for County School Superintendent Crockett Farnell. Should Ask Voters Budget Board Chairman George Carey and Budget Board Member Paul B. Dickman declared elected officials should ask for pay raises when they campaigned for reelection, and not dump such requests in the lap of the budget board. "We couldn't get a meeting with the budget board." ex Reports Budweiser Plant To "Ah, you never sat on that front porch ary 10 times in 40 years," said her husband.

Visions of the future brought happy smiles to a business man whose property lies near an intersection. "It'll be good for my busl ness." he said. "Got to perk up out driv ing, said another. No more sitting in the hot sun, wait lng for the lights to change, when this goes through. How Do You Get Out? A housewife: "What I want to know Is, when you drive into all that network, how do you ever get out? If I cot absent-minded and made a wrong turn, I'd be likely to end up in Orlando instead of Palma Ceia.

One man whose property faces the expressway was gloating over the fact he could watch the cars go by. A Negro porter whohad been pouring over the map with some agony turned to him: "Those cars will be going by so fast, man. that all you'll ever see of them will be streak of light." Worried, I sought the young engineer. "About the speed on the ex pressway?" I began. Perspiration streaked his face.

"That'll be a local problem ma am. he said. As he fled. Unconfirmed tion of the brewery site had been made, "surely some of us would have been notified." Toland remarked. Negotiations on a Budweiser brewery for Tampa started in April, when President August A.

Busch, told a stockholders meeting that Budweiser's chief competitor (Schlitz) was building a plant in Tampa and he intended to take steps to lmect the competition. At 4i- At that time, a Budweiser 4V, Vu .1. ern area of the country for a new brewery "an educated guess is that the new-brewery will be in Florida." Word on whether Tampa actually is slated for a Budweiser bonanza was not available from President Busch. A telephone call to his home in St. Louis drew a report that Busch had retired (time of the call was 9:15 P.

and any statements should be solicited this morning at his office. Tornado Kills 7 And Injures 75 In Fargo, N. D. FARGO, X. June 20.

(JT A roaring tornado smashed through a residential area of Fargo tonight, killing seven persons, three of them children, and Injuring at least 75. Mrs. Gerald Muson, rear hysteria, identified the children as her daughters, ages six. five and one. Mrs.

Muson could not explain how she escaped unhurt. Her husband still was listed as missing. Gov. John Davis ordered a battalion of Xational Guardsmen, in Summer camp, into the storm tone. Bodies of four other victims, all reported to be adulfs, were not immediately identified at hospital morgues.

By LEE WINTER i Tribune Staff Writer It sounded like an awfully fast thing, to me, so I decided to find out about this express- i way business. The court- house audi- torium was buz zing with talk and people wandering about with worried expressions. Some engineers were tell- r. ing people about rights of The Man In way, and over-The Gray Suit passes, and such. I cornered two men who were taking deep breaths between questions.

What Is It? Their heads turned, in unbelief. "What Is the expressway? WHAT IS the EXPRESSWAY?" "Are you serious? Why, it's going to route traffic through Tampa, and it's going to cost about $100,000,000. that's all," said the engineers. I murmured that all fhat money didn't impress me except to wonder where it was coming from, and that if people on that expressway were going to drive right through or under my house, I wanted to know it. "If you'll just look at these maps," they said, gently.

"We'll help you find your house." Hastily, they added they'd help me find my mother's house and my maid's house, too. Biz Maps On Wall There were some big maps on the wall of the courthouse auditorium. They were light grey, aerials they called them, and plastic film over the top had lines on it showing the way the roads would go. The handsome young engineer in the grey suit was most accommodating about finding mother's house on the map, but he didn't know what to think about her camellia beds. It appeared that one of the big concrete strips would bisect her pink perfections and alba plenas.

"Appraisers will inspect the property and give an estimate of its value," he said. "But suppose we think it is worth more than that?" You Can Go to Court "Then, if you don't agree on terms, you'll end up in court and the court will decide an equitable arrangement," he assured me. "You hope," said a large, bristly chin that appeared over my shoulder, looking for Branch Avenue, and disappeared as quickly. People were milling around with faraway looks and tracing paper. You could hear people talking about the changes that would take place in their lives if the big road goes in.

"Mom's Tived in her place 50 years." said one man. "If she leaves her house, shell move in with us." Corners Handsome I cornered the handsome one. again, backing him into a map of the Fortune St. bridee section. "Where is all this money coming from, and who is going to pay for it in the end, and if they condemn all these houses and things, is that part of the overall cost" I asked.

Still patient, he explained: The Federal Government has got the money, and the state will only need to pay 10 per cent of the total cost. We'll need to cough up some money in Tampa, too, but we'll bene Be Built Here By BOB FELLOWS Tribune Staff Writer Reports that Tampa has been selected as the site of a new Budweiser brewery were unconfirmed last night by spokesmen for Anheuser-Busch, and tjie Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. John L. Wilson, executive vice president of Anheuser- Busch, makers of Budweiser Deer, was questioned Dy ine TiK. Tribune in a telephone call tol his St.

Louis home. Informed of the reports here, Wilson said. "We're not making any final selection of a brewery site but we're interested in Florida." Henry Toland, chairman the Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100, said any announcement of a Budweiser brewery "at this time is premature." "Over Enthusiastic" Toland added that "over-enthusiastic" proponents of the Budweiser brewery here prob ably were responsible for a re-j port that the deal was set for a $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 plant, and that definite plans would be announced later. "Two officials of Anheuser- Busch were in Tampa a week ago Monday, loiand saia.j "Thev inspected various sites the next day, and then left." The last understanding be tween Budweiser officials and the Committee of 100 was that information regarding water, taxes and other data on pro posed sites would be forwarded to St Louis, Toland said. "As a matter of fact, that information hasn't been sent as yet," he added.

"As far as I konw, there's been no selection of a site for the brewery, or anything like it," Toland said. Five or six members of the Committee of 100 have been in on negotiations with the beer company, and if any final selec- Cigar Makers Cheered By Duty Cut On Cuban Tobacco Tampa cigar facturers were chagrined to find (( received the best news in a the U. S. had agreed at OKyway, buildings and renovations of old and Cuba had negotiated a jduce the tariff on Cuban made ones in areas around the plaza treaty to reduce the duty on cigars 15 per cent over a three-fite Control area outlined injeigar tobacco 10 per cent over year period which gave the the" chamber's request is a period of two years. Cuban manufacturers a price hnunded by 7th Nebraska In return Cuba has agreed to advantage over the Tampa ear yesterday when they T' c- learned omciauy mai ine i.

cut by the same percentage its tariff rates on American tin plate, rolled tin sheets, artificial colors and some electric motors, The tariff reduction on' Under the bilateral trade The tide was out and the top Cuban tobacco was the result of (agreements the U. S. could notof the automobile projected a vear's work bv the Cigar reduce the tariff on the tobacco' above water. The couple was Ave Columbus Dr. and 24th Board Chairman W.

D. West expressed doubts that the law vould be workable in Tampa tven though there is a similar one operating in New Orleans: "I think we'd better have legal advice on this thing. Downtown Ybor City has already gotten away from the Latin theme in many of the new buildings along Broadway (7th Ave.) especially. "It's a fine idea but it's about 30 yeari too late." Manufacturers Association of TamDa made ud of manu facturers using Cuban tobaccos. President Eisenhower signed the agreement yesterday afternoon and the State Department made the announcement A year ago the cigar manu-.