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Sebring Man Slays Estranged Wife, Then Kills Self I THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Saturday. April 25, 1964 Grads Told 'Look to Future' 46 Get Degrees a "noiier" rrom insiae just as a shot was heard. She saw Collier shoot the woman who fell At Florida College I a i 1 il lull 1' vl Ll Ml 4 Jt' q' Tp" 5 i y.y t- t.A yf I san Ann Gill, Zephyrhills, James Michael Hall, Port Charlotte, William P. Haney Temple Terrace, Gary Lynn Hargis, Limona, Hector Harima, Lima, Peru, Lillian C. Harwell, Tampa, Judith Hayman, Birmingham, Gerald R.

Hickman, Graham, North Carolina. Jannis R. Hill, Hillsboro, Ohio, Ronnie Hoyt Houchen, Abilene, Adam Petrus Joubert, Johannesburg, South Africa, Michael R. Malone, Port Charlotte, Rodney Miller, Tampa, Windell Neil Mohon, Louisville, Jack R. Owen, Memphis, Inda LaNelle Patton, Orlando, Allen T.

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Woolf, Tampa and Rebecca Lynn Trimble. By VERXON BARCHARD Tribune Staff Writer Forty-six students received Associate of Arts degrees at commencement cere monies last night at Florida College and were challenged to "look to the future" by the president of Orlando Junior College. An audience of more than 800 was on hand for the ceremonies at Hutchinson Memorial Auditorium. Commencement speaker Morris S. Hale, Orlando Junior College president, recommended three books to the students which he said would provide them with guidelines for the future.

The books were Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon," "The Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engles, and the Holy Bible. He said the first would provide Imagination, the second would invoke caution and the third a guidance of faith. With these three guidelines imagination, caution and faith he charged the graduates to "look to the future." Acting Dean Louis Garrett presented the class and College President James R. Cope conferred the degrees. Leading his class and graduating summa cum laude was David Edward Pratte, of Gary, who completed two years of pre-engineering with a perfect straight-A average.

Miss Kay Davis of Memphis, Raymond Gilbert, Jacksonville, and Mark Lloyd of Melbourne were graduated cum laude. Other graduates are Frances A. Amos, Tice, Max L. Beach, Alachua, William V. Beasley, Louisville, Judy Bowman, Valrico, Cheryl M.

Brock, Jacksonville, Norma Lou Brown, Pompano Beach, Janet L. Byers, Valley Station, Charles G. Caldwell, III, Columbus, Georgia. William D. Carter, Guthrie, Nick C.

Comatl, III, Tampa, Gail Ruth Davis, Lake Wales, Kenneth E. Embry III, Leitchfield, Sara Flan-nery, Gainesville, Dean Maurice Gampp, Sciotoville, Ohio, Marilyn Geer, Bradenton, Su Staff Photo by Vernon Barchard At Florida College's Commencement for 46 Graduates Morris S. Hale Jr. of Orlando Junior College spoke to crowd of 300. Confederate Memorial Day Services Slated Tomorrow Southern Health Group Picks Leaders By WILL LAXD Tribune Staff Writer SEBRING A 47-year-old construction worker shot and killed his estranged wife, also 47, and himself yesterday morning at a downtown Sebring coffee shop, the sheriff's office said.

According to Highlands County Sheriff Broward Coker, the man, Kenneth Collier, shot the woman five times before shooting himself in the head. Mrs. Lucy Randall, a sis'er of the woman, Mrs. Cora Collier, was in the Rose Coffee Shop on North Ridgeway Drive at the time of the shooting. She told officers Collier came into the coffee shop at about 9 a.m.

and talked with Mrs. Collier before shooting her once while inside the shop. Ran Out Back Door Mrs. Collier ran out the back door. Collier followed her around the building to the front, shot her four more times in the back and then shot himself, Mrs.

Ran dall said. Collier apparently bought the gun, a new Army surplus .38 caliber revolver, about 30 minutes before the shooting. Robert Wolfe, Sebring sporting goods store owner who sold the gun, told officers Collier talked about buying the gun last week. He said then and yesterday that he had a night-watchman's job and needed the gun. Collier had been employed for the past year by the Lionel La-Grow Well Drilling Co.

in Lake Placid. He installed overhead grove irrigation systems. Gun Cost $48 He reportedly borrowed $65 from the company yesterday morning and got the day off. He said he was going to Tampa, and that he didn't feel well. Wolfe said the gun cost $48.

Mrs. Collier filed suit for di vorce on Feb. 26, charging Col lier with jealousy toward her three minor children by a former marriage. She also charged he abused the The Colliers were married in Sebring in April, 1960. County records show both had previous marriages.

Mrs. Randall said Collier entered the coffee shop and "said something" to her sister, who owned the shop. And he told Mrs. Randall to "get in the kitchen, Lucy." Saw Shooting Instead, Mrs. Randall said, Mrs.

Collier rushed past her into the kitchen. Collier fired into her back, and went out the back door after the wounded woman. Mrs. Sylvia Burkett told offi cers she was leaving the coffee shop when Collier entered. He said "Hi," she said, as he en tered.

Mrs. Burkett said she heard Recruiters Thanked The Gulf Coast Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society hosted a thank-you luncheon for recruiters of 3,500 volunteer workers at Hillsboro Hotel yes terday. Mrs. Eloise Cozens, chapter executive director, said the $9,000 residential goal had been exceeded. The commerce and industry portion of the drive, aimed at a $20,000 total quota, continues through May 15.

The nine honored at the lunch eon had spent "seven weeks on the phone" recruiting workers, Mrs. Cozens said. The Gulf Coast chapter encompasses Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Polk, Manatee and Sarasota counties. dead at the doorway. She then saw Collier shoot himself.

Joseph McBeth, assistart state attorney of the 10th Judicial Circuit, ruled the shooting murder and suicide. Riverfront Urban Work Under Probe The Atlanta offices of the federal Housing and Home Finance Administration has ordered a' check of the Tampa river front urban renewal project on reported irregularities in moving of property owners displaced by the program. a 1 1 Erickson, director of relocation in the riverfront project and number four or five man on the local renewal agency's administrative staff, was asked to resign recently, according to Thoma. Fox, administrative di rector of the Tampa Urban Renewal Agency. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was called in for the probe into relocation practices the moving of residents and businesses out of the project area after the HHFA's Compliance Division in Atlanta had made its own investigation.

Authorities in Atlanta praised the local urban renewal program and said the present investigation appeared to be a small local problem. Fox said the investigation Is "primarily into irregularities dealing with moving of people and business out of one project area. Also being checked are rents established for persons and businesses temporarily remaining in buildings acquired by the agency." The agency has expended $42,671 for relocation costs in this project. Erickson was hired by the Urban Renewal Agency in November of 1962 and worked on the Maryland Avenue Project before taking over as the head of field work on the riverfront project. State Briefs HAINES CITY The first annual bicycle rodeo sponsored by the Jaycees and 14 local business firms will take place today, starting at 9 a.m., under the supervision of the police de- partment.

BRADENTON Although yes-, terday was the deadline for; budget requests from more than a score of county offices, Deputy Clerk Bruce Cox said more than a dozen of the of- fices had failed to submit their proposals and requests. ARCADIA The Peace River Basin Board was reported yes- 1 terday to have begun an in- quiry into complaints that ob- noxious odors and discoloring' have developed in the Peace River in recent days. GAINESVILLE Mrs. Alma Bethea, registration supervisor for Alachua County, filed a petition in circuit court yesterday challenging the recent grand jury report criticizing operations of her office. She said the report was based on laws prior to 1959, when her office installed the permanent registration system.

uments of the UDC and president of Jesse Carter Tyner Chapter, and Mrs. Lamar E. Crevasse, state recorder of crosses, Florida Division, UDC, and president of the Julia Harrison Norris Chapter. The group in charge of this year's arrangements is the Jesse Tyner Chapter. Others taking part are Tampa Chapter 113, Vallie H.

Perry Chapter, Julia Harrison Norris Chapter, Capt. John Wesley Whidden Chapter, Brandon-Riverview, Chapter, Annie Carter Lee Chapter, C. of Ferdinando Wood Campbell Chapter, C. of and Lillian B. McRae Chapter, C.

of C. The program at the cemetery will consist of the presentation of the Cross of Military Service Don't Make Children Your Salesmen, Ad Men Advised Branch endorsement for president-elect of the American Pub lic Health Association. Individ. ual state groups were asked to followup with their endorse ments by May 1. The major project this year for the Southern Branch will be a study project to coordinate continuing education for public health workers, Miss Holley said.

A $48,000 federal planning grant has been obtained for this purpose. Summing up the meeting, Robert L. Johnson, director of the division of state and local services, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, noted the need for sharper, more streamlined teaching methods in medical fields, saying teaching machines, educational and closed circuit television could help in amassing information. Section Chairmen These section chairmen were announced for the coming year: Health education. Miss Sara Stice, State Department of Health, Frankfort, biology and epidemiology.

Dr. Rodney C. Jung, New Orleans, dental health, Dr. Edward Campbell, Public Health Serv ice, Atlanta, Health officers, Dr. John Neill, Hillsborough County health director, Tampa; laboratory, Reuben Wende, Houston City, laboratory, Houston, medical care, Dr.

Alan Kopkin, Knoxville, nutrition, Miss Mary Brice Deaver, State Board of Health, Jacksonville; Public health nursing, Mrs. Mildred Howard Frederickson, Memphis, records and statistics, Thomas Lesesne, Co lumbia, S.C.; sanitation, Robert W. Brown, Asheville, N.C. and mental health, Dr. John Ains- lie, department of psychiatry, University of Florida, Gainesville.

The 1965 meeting of the Southern Branch will be April 7-9 in New Orleans. Confederate Memorial Day, a time given over to the memory of the Confederate dead, will be observed tomorrow at Wood-lawn Cemetery, Ola and Plymouth Streets, under auspices of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). Services at Woodlawn will be held at 3 p.m. Mrs. Leo Stal-naker is chairman and Mrs.

Ambrose Hesoun is co-chairman. Before the program at the cemetery, members of the UDC will place a wreath in honor of the dead at the Confederate Monument at the Hillsborough County Courthouse. Taking part in this phase of the Memorial Day will be Mrs. Stalnaker, member of the state committee on Confederate mon Air School Decides On Daytona The large Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute of Dade County has chosen Daytona Beach as its new home, the Plant City Industrial Committee has been informed. Committee chairman Alex Hill said an official of the school told him by telephone that the deciding factor was the belief of the school's directors that Daytona Beach would be more attractive to northern and foreign students.

The Plant City Industrial Com mittee, with the help of the City- County Planning Commission, Hillsborough Rep. Woodie Liles and others, made a strong bid for the institute and remained under consideration by the school after it had winnowed its list of possible new sites to four of five. World Flier Delayed By Weather AGANA, Guam VP) Joan Merriam, attempting to fly around the world over the route charted by Amelia Earhart, postponed her flight yesterday from Guam to Wake Island tomorrow because of bad weather. The Long Beach, avia-trix said she will fly her twin-engine Piper Apache to Wake, then to Hawaii and from Hawaii to Oakland, where she began in mid-March. To State Dept.

Apathy On Citrus Charged DADE CITY (By Staff Writer) A leading grower representative charged yesterday the U.S. State Department, through lack of interest or lack of understanding, has failed to show any sympathy for Florida citrus in the fight on tariffs. Herman Steele, assistant general manager of Florida Citrus Mutual, made the statement as other citrus leaders had converged on Washington to continue the fight to strike citrus from the agenda when nations from all over the world meet at Geneva for trade talks next month. The citrus representatives In Washington had met with the Florida congressional delegation which yesterday reportedly offered its 100 per cent support of the industry position. Robert W.

Rutledge, executive vice president of Mutual, said in Washington that the attitude of the delegation was "enthusiastic and cooperative." Steele's statements came during the 19th annual Gulf Coast Citrus Institute where he substituted on the program for his boss. He warned growers that unless tariffs are maintained, "Other citrus producing nations will take over our domestic markets." He said what Is happening in Washington is that the State Department is "willing to sacrifice this great industry on the altar of a Utopian free trade bargaining point." The Mutual executive added that just as other nations have pushed U.S. citrus out of the Canadian markets they will be able to push it out of domestic markets. Steele called the citrus Industry too important "to our economy" to be used as a trading point in the top level negotiations at Geneva. More than 150 growers attended yesterday's all-day session at the agricultural center.

Dr. E. T. York, another of the principal speakers, outlined agriculture's new Operation DARE. The provost for agriculture at the University of Florida ex.

plained' the basis of the plan is "developing agricultural re sources effectively." At present, he said, special committees are at work in each commodity area developing ground work to be used in determining future market potentials of agricultural products and what can be done to meet the market demand. The committees will meet in Gainesville beginning May 13 for a two-day intensive work session during which the market potential for the next 10 years will be projected and rec- by Mrs. Crevasse to Ernest Reid Kirkland World War II. Confederate flags will be presented to Real Daughters and Sons, and there will be a roll call of Confederate ancestors. Mrs.

P. G. Crawford will introduce the speaker, Leo Stalnaker Sr. The Rev. John R.

Finkell of Christ Methodist Church, will give the invocation and the benediction. Flowers will be placed on Confederate and Union graves by the Children of the Confederacy. They will include Pamela Swilley, Kay Brown, Patti Sue Crawford, Gianna Russo, Shirley Jo Whelchel and Diane Merle Bedingfield. Assisting will be the Boy Scouts from Christ Methodist. vision's Ding Dong School, and has written a number of books on child care and education.

The advertising men from over the state are meeting at Tampa International Inn. Tops on the program today will be a legislative conference at 2:20 p.m., featuring State Sen. Ed Price of Manatee County, State Sen. Tom Whitaker of Hills borough County, and State Rep. John W.

Hasson of Sarasota County. The three-day convention will conclude tonight with an annual installation dinner. Mosquito Fighter Due His mail and household furniture have arrived and so have people applying for jobs, but George Kent isn't due in Tampa until about May 1. Kent, apparently coming here from Phoenix, will be area supervisor in Hillsborough County for the mosquito control program of the aedes egypti species which carries yellow and dengue fever. The Florida project (some 300 inspectors will move into Dade, Monroe, Palm Beach, Manatee, Pinellas, Broward counties, as well as Hillsborough) is being supervised by the State Board of Health.

Kent may share space with Hillsborough County's Mosquito Control Unit on Seddon Island, Dan Gorman, who heads the county unit said. jacent to one of the fastest growing sections in the Tampa area, which makes possible the reduction of productive travel time. The center's electronics and dispatching building cost Constructed under a separate contract of $270,000 were an operations building, garage, guard building and a small equipment storage building. The new dispatching quarters replaced an out-grown facility at the company substation at 11th Avenue and 28th Street. By MICK O'HEARN Tribune Staff Writer A former Floridian, Miss Elizabeth S.

Holley, associate professor of public health nursing at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, became president of the Southern Branch, American Public Health Association, as meetings attended by 961 persons came to a close yesterday in Tampa. She succeeds Dr. Harry W. Bruce dental division, U.S. Public Health Service, Washington, D.C.

Six years before moving to North Carolina in 1959, she was associate profes sor of nursing at Florida State University and four years earlier, director of public health nursing in Volusia County. Neill Elected Hillsborough County's health officer, Dr. John S. Neill, was elected second vice president of the group which has a member ship of 1,700 in 16 states and the District of Columbia. New president-elect and secretary-treasurer is Dr.

Russell E. Teague, Kentucky's state commissioner of health, Frankfort, Ky. Dr. H. P.

Hopkins director of health education, Tennessee Department of Public Health, Nashville, is first vice president and Dr. Joe C. Chambers, health officer, Birmingham, third vice president. For Fluoridation Passing three resolutions, the Southern Branch reaffirmed its 1961 support of controlled fluoridation of water supplies and urged "renewed effort on the part of communities to bring this public health benefit to their citizens." The other two resolutions were' directed at federal legislation: to increase" the supply of professionally trained nurses and in support of the Surgeon General's consultant group on nursing which recommended doubling the number of graduates from college programs by 1970 (HR 10042 and SB 2529) and to continue public health traineeships (Sections 306-307 of the Public Health Service Act) which ends in June unless Congress extends it. Sowder Supported Dr.

Wilson T. Sowder, Florida state health officer, Jacksonville, received Southern eDay Care vPlanning The planning committee for a May 13 countywide meeting on day care for children will have a second meeting Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Community Coordinating Council office, 511 Morgan committee co-chairmen, Mrs. Peter J. T.

Taylor and Mrs. Stephen E. Trice, announced. Mrs. Taylor is a District 7 welfare board member and Mrs.

Trice, chairman of the im plementation committee on day care through the county Chil- On the Dlannim committee ire; Ar thur Allen. Tampa Urban league; Lorenzo Brown. Garland V. Stewart, public aohools; Dr. Harold Buell, Tarn, pa Minlaterial Aftflciation; Mrs.

Robert J. Carter, Community Coordinating Council; Mr. Norma Curry, Mrs. O. D.

Howell, county PTA chairmen! Mm. Jamea Eyerldge, Plant City repreaenta-tlve; Mra. Alice Foreman, Tampa Recreation Department; Paul Martin, county health department; Mra. T. S.

Newman, Jewish Community Center; Rudolph Spotn, hospital and welfare board; Mrs. Hester Tubbs, HillaboroiiRh County Pre-School Association: Mrs. Henry Willis, Kuskln Women't Club and Mra. Phylin Woods, Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce. I tfTS An authority in the field of child education yesterday objected to advertisements which seek to sell adult goods by appealing to children.

Dr. Frances R. Horwich, director of children's activities for the Curtis Publishing Company, spoke to the annual conv i of Florida District, Advertising Fed eration of Amer- Dr. Horwich ica. She said advertisers have no right to sell goods for adults through appeals to children.

"We should not make them our salesmen," she said. On the other hand she said the 60 million persons under 16 in the nation comprise a great advertising market for chil dren's products. But the educa tor said that even then the ads may be handled in such a way that neither parents, children nor merchants may be harassed. Dr. Horwich is best known as the "Miss Frances" of tele- Goldwater Office To Open The Goldwater for President Committee in Hillsborough County will open an office today at 204 Tampa chairmen Clarence Eatman and Ken Hard-castle said.

Literature will be available at the headquarters and refreshments will be served. The public is invited, said the chairmen. will be the station of all com. pany crews involved with con struction and maintenance of lines at transmission voltage, except those at Mulberry. It consists of an operations building and a dispatching and electronics building, both de signed so that the number of crews can be almost doubled before expansion will be necessary.

Maclnnes said the location of the center was chosen primarily because it is central in relation to transmission lines and ad- i I 'I Tampa Electric Opens New $470,000 Operations Center ommendations made on how toden'? Committee Tampa Electric Co. has com. pie ted its new $470,000 operations center at Palm River Road and 78th Street and has put it into service. W. C.

Mac. Innes, company president, an flounced. The new headquarters for line, electronics and communications crews and for systems dispatching will also offer distribution services to the east ern section of Tampa and to Brandon. Developed as a working base for about 100 men and 40 ve- incies. the Palm River center meet the challenge in each commodity area.

Operation DARE started several months ago under the leadership, of Dr. York. Many consider the effort of the citrus committee headed by Dr. Herman Rietz of the Lake Alfred citrus experiment station, as the one which will attract tha most interest. SOUTHERN BRANCH LEADERS New officers of Southern Branch, Amerl-can Public Health Association, used Florida greenery at Sheraton Tampa Motor Inn pool as a backdrop for a first "family portrait." From left, Dr.

Joe C. Cham-bers, Birmingham, third vice president; Dr. II. P. Hopkins Nashville, first vice president; Miss Elizabeth Holley, Chapel Hill, N.C, president; Dr.

Russell E. Teague, Frankfort, president-elect and secretary-treasurer; Dr. John S. Neill, Tampa, second vice president and outgoing president, Dr. Harry W.

Bruce Washington, elected to the executive committee for the next three years..