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it 11 It' It The Tampa Tribune SECTION Serving Hillsborough's 451,113 People POLITAN SECTIOI METRO LOCAL NEWS TAMPA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1963 Was 300 Mutilated Mailboxes and Traffic Signs As Dump Truck Roared Over Gunn Highway The Score jiff" rcjllh-'? I' A 'I Tl.t "'j dinar off to the brush Smashed mailbox, traffic sign Edwar as Trail of Smashed Mailboxes, Signs Leads 2 to Jail Staff Photos by August Staebler, Ricardo Ferro Harold Grimes (left) and David Rau at county jail with Deputy Larry Dukes. it points Dr. Dr. Thomas longtime member Edwards, of the County Hospital and Welfare Board, resigned his post yesterday, giving "family and business" as reasons for the move. His resignation was received by Gov.

Haydon Burns yesterday morning with copies sent to other members of the board and to the director of hospitals. Edwards had served as chairman of the board for a won't stop here. my resignation effective immediately." The letter asserted that Edwards took the action "with regret," and conveyed his "best wishes to those presently serving and to my successor." Edwards was elected to a new four-year term during the November elections. It was the first time he held the office by election. His successor will be named by the governor and will serve by appointment until the next general election.

Post By BILL FULLER Tribune Staff Writer postman "good fortune" to serve the people of Hillsborough County, adding, "I have sought to do my best for the benefit of all concerned and with the aid of my colleagues on the board and the support of the people of this county I am formly convinced we have accomplished much." He added: "Now, family and business responsibilities make it necessary that I relinquish my position on this board and I therefore tender jk- it, On Islands Bridge Jim Fair Begins Questioning Mayo Two youths admitted going on a destructive drinking spree which ended early yesterday only after $1,000 worth of mailboxes and traffic signs were destroyed or damaged, sheriff's deputies reported. The arrests of David Harry Rau, 19, 3319 Jasmine and Harold Lee Grimes, 19, 3316 W. Colwell, ended an intensive day-long search. They were booked at County Jail on charges of destroying private property and interference with official traffic control or railroad signs or signals. 50 Boxes Destroyed Sheriff's Deputy Tom Littleton said 50 mailboxes were destroyed, and estimated another 200 were damaged.

About 35 traffic signs were knocked down. Deputy Larry Dukes said the youths used a dump truck to run over the mailboxes and signs on Gunn Highway beginning in Pasco County and continuing south for 18 miles to Linebaugh Avenue in the northwestern outskirts of Tampa. Investigator Johnny Caccia- 'J Stared Man Recounts Run-in With 'Saucer, Robot' BROOKSVILLE (DPD "It made a whistling noise and went straight up at 5,000 miles an hour or even faster," retired longshoreman John F. Reeves said yesterday in describing a flying saucer he claims to have stumbled onto while on a walk in the woods near here. Reeves, who admits to being "past 60," told a story Wednesday of coming onto the "flying saucer" in the woods between here and Weeki Wachee on Tuesday afternoon and of a robot-type creature that appeared to take his picture.

REEVES, WHO LIVES ALONE at a trailer park west of here, told of breaking through some bushes about a mile and three-quarters off Highway 50 at mid-afternoon and seeing the flying saucer about 700 yards away. He said he worked his way to within about 100 feet of the object when the robot-type creature appeared and walked toward him, stopping less than 15 feet away. Reeves said the robot wore a gray canvas-type suit with a glass dome helmet. He described it as being about 5-feet tall and stocky. "He walked over to within 15 feet of me and looked right at me," Reeves said.

"I stared back at his glass dome." He described the creature as appearing to have dark tan flesh, and added that everything except the face was covered. He said it had eyes farther apart than a normal human's and had a more pointed chin. "IT DIDN'T MAKE A SOUND, it just stared at me," he said. "I couldn't even blink an eye I was so scared." Reeves said' the creature then lifted what he believes court prevents the city from buying property to make way for the bridge. Fair asked Nucclo yesterday how long he has known Eddie Diaz, a partner of H.

Joseph Diaz whose firm is designing the new bridge. The mayor said he met Diaz during the second primary, the last time he ran for mayor. Nuccio admitted that both he and Diaz worked for Gov. Haydon Burns, but the mayor denied that Diaz ever worked for him. Fair also pointed out that a left turn onto Bayshore can not be made immediately by traffic leaving Davis Islands by the proposed new route.

"Didn't Discuss It" Then Fair asked the mayor if his son-in-law, Dr. Anthony Spoto ever "asked you to deny the taxpayers a left turn onto Bayshore, which would pass his office?" The mayor replied: "He never discussed it with me." The mayor is scheduled to appear again at 9:30 this morning when the hearing is resumed. Challenges Purchase One of Fair's main points is that the mayor plans to pay double the value of an apartment house on Davis Islands because it's in the bridge right-of-way. Fair said Mayor Nuccio will pay $190,000 for the Venetian Apartments. He said the three-story building is on the tax rolls at $48,000 and was up for sale at $75,000 to $100,000.

By JERRY WALLACE Tribune Staff Writer Tampa businessman Jim Fair yesterday began quizzing Mayor Nick C. Nuecio in an attempt to prove charges that "political fraud" Is involved in the proposed new Davis Islands bridge. Fair, a Tampa merchant himself as the taxpayers' friend, won a hearing before Circuit Court Judge James S. Moody on the charges. Meanwhile, a temporary restraining order issued by the PTA Group Elects Polk Woman LAKELAND Mrs.

James E. Sutton, Auburndale, was elected president yesterday of the five-county District Seven Parent and Teachers Conference convening here. She succeeds X. L. Garrison, Dade City.

Mrs. Sutton's election climaxed a half-day meeting of the conference attended by 650 representatives from Polk, Pasco, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Hernando counties. VICE PRESIDENTS elected were Robert E. Deen, Tampa; Mrs. J.

F. Johnson, St. Petersburg, and James Jones, Brooksville. The new leader currently is president of the Polk County Council and a district vice president. She is an eight-year veteran of PTA work in her community.

Earlier in the day the group heard addresses by Eastern Air Line executive Wayne Bevis, Tampa, and State PTA President Mrs. G. L. Barnard Tampa. Strike Cuts Into Supplies Of School Milk Cartons number of years, and when he was displaced in January by County Commission Chairman Ellsworth Simmons, there were reports he would resign.

However, Dr. Edwards stoutly denied any impending resignation and said at the time he had no intention of quitting, terming the reports "wishful thinking on some people's part." Edwards' statement to Gov. Burns said it had been his Craft Landed? tore said the arrests came on the heels of information of a Gunn Highway resident who saw a truck being used in an attempt to knock down some signs in the area. The three deputies and Deputy Bill matched the tracks at this spot against other tracks found along the highway, then traced the owner of the truck. Rau, who has a hauling business, proved to be the owner.

Truck Damaged The pair was arrested at his house. The dump truck was found in the yard with extensive damage to the fenders, deputies said. A part of a sign was found caught on the axle. Rau said, according to the deputies, that he and Grimes had been drinking, and went to his estranged wife's house to get his clothes. They left there and knocked down some mail boxes, stopped for more beer and continued their destructive southward trek, the deputies said.

Grimes is presently on probation for petty larceny and aggravated assault, the sheriff's office said. Weaver said that if the companies whose containers are made by the local can plants should run out, some other method of providing the youngsters with their daily milk must be found, but that health standards do not allow bringing in large metal containers of milk. Joe Campoamor of Modern Dairies reported an inventory of containers on hand which would last approximately 16 or 17 days. Carlos Cone, whose Cone Dairies furnishes milk to Plant City and some Polk County schools estimated his present stock as only adequate to last until Monday or Tuesday or next week. Several other distributors in Hillsborough County, among them Borden's, Sealtest, Foremost and Florida Dairies use a half-pint container made by someone other than the two local piants and thus are feeling no pinch.

Hunt Solution However, Cone supplies about 50,000 milk servings per week and Modern Dairies approximately 90,000 weekly to Hillsborough's school children. Campoamor said his company is exploring "several different angles" as means of keeping up the supply to the schools it services, and Cone voiced the possibility of either getting one of his more fortunate competitors to package his milk or delivering milk by the half-gallons to the schools, furnishing the children with paper cups in which to drink it. ma mi. wu Hi iii mi.i.mw. h.

-I Hillsborough County school children are facing a shortage of milk on school lunchroom tables, stemming from the strike now in progress at local can manufacturing plants. With both American Can Co. and Continental Can Co. out on strike since the first of the week, supplies of cardboard cartons on hand in several local dairies are dwindling. Roger Weaver, director of the county's public school lunch program termed the situation "serious," noting that the lunchrooms use about 10 million half-pints of milk per year, or about 65,000 per day.

tions when the pre-trial hearing resumes Monday morning. Judge Maxwell did grant Levine's motion to suppress evidence found in Babson's car when the judge ruled that stolen clothing and a power saw were taken from the car by illegal search and seizure. The judge ruled that the search was illegal since the evidence was not taken at the scene at the time of the arrest, but a day after the car had been impounded by police, who did not obtain search warrant. Footprints From Outer Space? to have been a camera to chin level, pointed it at him and it flashed. "He flashed again and I took off from the bushes," Reeves said.

Reeves said the creature flashed a third time and then returned and entered the machine. He said the thing that flashed was black and about six to seven inches in diameter. The flying saucer was described as 20 to 30 feet in diameter and six feet high and stood on a four-legged landing gear. "It was bluish-green and reddish-purple in color with two windows on top," Reeves said. Reeves said he saw only one robot and it dropped two pieces of cloth-like paper as it headed back to the saucer.

Reeves said he retrieved the paprsand they had "very queer writing" on them. "THEY WERE FROM outer space," he said. He said that after the robot entered the machine, some blades on the rim started to move like Venetian blinds, working open and shut. "Then the rim started going around counterclockwise," Reeves said. "It made a whistling and rumbling noise and then started straight up.

It was out of sight in 10 seconds." Reeves said he walks through the woods in this West Central Florida area often and this was the first time he had seen or heard anything unusual. The two pieces of paper were turned over to an investigating team from MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. OFFICIALS AT MacDILL said the investigation is a routine one made whenever any "aerial phenomenon" is reported. The Air Force team talked to Reeves and visited the wooded area. The base said the team will send Its report directly to Project Bluebook at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.

This unit investigates all reports of unidentified flying objects. Judge May Rule Monday On Transferring Babson Trial "This is grossly excessive," Fair said in his complaint, "so gross an abuse of discretion as to amount to fraud." City Atty. Reece Smith Jr. called the charge "scandalous" and replied that City Council had already approved it. Year celebration began.

The state made no attempt to block the move by court-appointed defense attorney Arnold Levine to transfer the trial of Babson to Orlando. Assistant State Attorney Mark Hawes told the court: "The state does not want to deprive either defendant of a fair trial. If the court is satisfied that they cannot get a fair trial in this county, we think the court should grant the motion." Judge Maxwell is expected to rule on the change of venue and other pending mo Circuit Court Judge Oliver C. Maxwell yesterday reserved ruling on a motion to switch the first-degree murder trial of Billy Ray Babson from Tampa to Orlando. Babson, a welder from Cincinnati, and his 33-year-old blonde wife, Janet, are charged with first-degree murder in the New Year's Day slaying of Tampa Patrolman William D.

Krikava. The policeman was killed In a gun battle with Babson during the burglary of a fashionable dress shop on S. Dale Mabry shortly after the New m5 Where Space.