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2-B THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Monday, December 29, 196S New Shift Means Inefficiency Regents Vice Chairman Claims A i ill I ning of new university build- not believe the services' staff sideration recommendations which contained "data for a solid decision." IN THE PAST, he explained, the budget committee worked closely with the state budget commission. "We went, directly to the budget commission to resolve difference" in order to come up with a budget that would (it within money available, Murray said if cuts had to be made, the committee generally could reach an agreement with the budget commission which would place the money where most urgently needed. "Now we are in the dark about the budget" because the regents no longer see the budget he explained. Pointing out the Department of Education now reviews the university budgets prepared by the regents, he described this step as "putting another layer of air pollution between us and the sun and sky." THE CURRENT budget being prepared has been held up for a long time, according to Murray, because the De-partment of Education's "mechanism (for drafting budgets) is different than ours." Concerning budgets, he insists the regents "are more in tune with the legislature than the staff people in the Department of Education." He believes that taking on university matters will create "too big a load for the Department of Education to handle efficiently," Murray warned that problem will be compounded because the school-age population is "exploding." Another area in which Murray and the other regents for-see problems concerns plan By SAM MASE Tribune Staff Writer Dr. Louis C.

Murray, an Orlando physigian who is vice chairman of the Board of Regents, said placing the regents under the State Department of Education results in inefficiency in guiding destiny of higher education in Florida. Comparing the new system to the manner in which federal government operates, he said: "Federal government today is so big and complex, so many agencies and levels of responsibility, that the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. That type of inefficiency results in more costs, which in turn means more taxes." MURRAY SAID he is not complaining about the competency of people Involved under the new plan, just the structure of the plan. He fears that in future years, a Department of Education may exercise all its powers, reducing the regents to nothing more than advisors." One of the problems he said has developed by placing the regents under Commissioner of Education Floyd Christian's department, is the budget situation. He said the regents' budget cpmmitee worked long hours to develop for the board's con- mgs.

"WE HAVE BEEN able to do our program planning, and design the buildings to conform with the program. We built buildings around the (education) programs for which they would be used," he said. "Basically, now the Department of General Services prescribes what should be done (regarding building design)," he explained. Still, he pointed out that the1 regents architects will recommend preliminary plans to the general services department, and when that agencies drafts its specifications they go to the cabinet for approval of disapproval. "I don't think it is efficient for the Department of General Services to be writing the specifications and standards for new university buildings," Murray said, because he does Staff Photo by Dale Schilling John F.

Reeves Shows Relics Of 'Moon Visit' in space creatures' flying saucer He Claims To Know Plenty About UFOs VilSS A Typical Fraternity House? and at one time it was even considered for use as a small hospital by a group of Tampa businessmen he said. The original black cypress doors, door jambs, and mantle, rare items today, were utilized in the new Reed building on Henderson Boulevard. "We took the charm of the old said Reed, "and put it in the new one." The property is being put up for sale. This pile of rubble was indeed a fraternity house at one time, and before that a stately home, and since 1938, the J. L.

Reed and Sons funeral home. Tampa landmark for nearly 70 years, the old house at Bayshore Boulevard and the Davis Islands Bridge took a year and a half to build and was first entered on tax rolls in 1900. It served in a variety of roles in its history, according to Joe L. Reed III, is laminar enougn wiui such things as necessity of a special, more costly type of floor for qertain laboratories. Murray fears that under the new -system, with one more step to go, there will be longer delays in, getting buildings underway, "THIS INCREASES cost, and the biggest cost is time9 he declared.

According to Murray, the regents would not object if tha Department of General Sep vices put out the bids and supervise construction of university facilities, "but we don't want them to mess with our specifications." With all the extra" steps which the regents must now take to get university programs underway has resulted in board members being "stiffled in decision making Murray said. Photo by Bruce Montgomery The package would abolish the assigned risk plan with its limited minimal coverage and replace it with a mandatory plan in which all auto insurers would participate, giving policy owners option to buy a plan offering immediate payment of hospital and medical' expenses, and changing thev rate classification system so, that a rate would be based on the individual's driving record for which he was responsible. Another proposal would sef up a post assessment fund in case of insurance company solvency, double the capital and surplus requirements lot insurers, provide summary1 powers to remove officers and directors of financially ailing insurance companies and to take immediate possession of property and records of insolvent companies to expedite claims. WILLIAMS, who is state fire marshal, said that over 4,000 buildings were in spected for fire hazards this year, and 750 fires of "suspicious origin" were invest! gated. Educational programs for enforcement personnel were conducted in Cocoa, Milton, St.

Petersburg and Orlando. Looking ahead to opening in late 1971 of "Disney Williams said he sent three deputies to Anahiem, to study fire prevention meth ods at Disneyland. Some of his deputy marshals have attended fire and police seminars around the country, "I firmly believe in programs of continuing education for our personnel," he said, expressing pride in the fact' that several of his deputies were chosen to instruct in the junior college system. The fact that his "dust" resembles that brought back much later by America's official envoys to the moon only adds to the credibility of his story, in the eyes of some neighbors. WITH ALL THIS behind him, it perhaps is not surprising that Reeves insists the Air Force is assuming the posture of an ostrich, with a hcad-in the-sand approach.

"The Air Force knows very well that beings from outer space frequently have visited earth, just as I know it, but it is afraid to admit this because the people might panic," he declared. "The American people are entitled to know the facts, and they will get them from other sources," he continued. 4 THE AIR FORCE "blue book" project was an expensive scientific study carried out in Colorado.lt concluded that the many sightings could be explained by natural phenomena. But Reeves points out that the Air Force scientists never questioned him, that instead they branded his story a "hoax" and held that he was crazy. Actually, the Air Force experts are not the only experts, self-styled and otherwise, who have snubbed Reeves.

Maj. Donald Kehoe, a retired Marine who directs the National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena and who Reeves calls the chief critic of the Air Force "clam-up" hasn't questioned him. NOR HAS Robert Loftin, author of "Identified Flying Saucers" which was published by David McKay Co. of New York and London. All this lack of official attention has caused Reeves to become a bit shy about his experiences.

He no longer seeks to capitalize on them, although at one time he tried to set up a tourist attraction with a wood and silver-paint-' ed fabric reproduction of the spacecraft. Next month, he will be 71. He lives alone with an elderly black and white dog, with his memories and mementoes, and with his belief that the world is missing the moonmen's message. 1 "I feel that they have been trying to contact us and are trying to tell us something. "Somehow, I think it is far more important to us than to them," he concluded.

By DALE SCHILLING Tribune Correspondent WEEKI WACHEE -Uncle Sara's Air Force may have closed its "blue book" investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects as the product of too-fertile human imaginations, but John F. Reeves isn't buying that. To him, the Air Force move is just a "snow Job." JOHN REEVES claims to know more about UFOs than the Air Force, and his claim is based on he says first-hand experience. He insists that since March 2, 1965 he has been visited five or six times on his acreage east of here by eight humanoid "robots" who were about five feet tall and of general human configuration (except they had eyes on the sides of their heads). The two most recent visits, he reported, occurred in June and September of this year.

He sought no publicity for either one, he added. ONCE, he said, he was induced to accompany the "moonmen" on a 36-hour roundtrip to the moon. That was on Aug. 6, 1968. Never mind that it took American astronauts three days for a one-way lunar trip.

Reeves sticks to his 36-hour roundtrip account. He also reports that these spacemen called the moon "Chachey." Reeves' account of his unusual trip is embroidered with a wealth of detail, and his neighbors, who might be expected to doubt his story stand squarely behind him. They say they too are convinced about UFOs and some say they have seen strange manifestations in the sky hereabouts. REEVES IS NOT without "evidence" of his rjioon experiences. He displays a pinch of J'moon dust" and a plaster cast of a spaceman's footprint found on his property.

He also possesses a carbon copy tracing of a written language or code he said he found on a scrap of paper after he was returned by his 'hosts'' to a spot only a mile and a half from -he alleged takeoff area. Reeves said he could have brought back additional moon souvenirs but didn't want to "iake anything while the moonmen were watching. The "dust" he secreted while the little were looking the other way, he explained. Cash, Goods Stolen From Gas Stations Police yesterday reported two service station burglaries in which more than $2,000 worth of currency and goods were stolen. Saturday night or early yesterday morning, Bob's Enco Service Station, at 3601 W.

Hillsborough, was broken into via a two by three foot window in the front door. Officers said the burglars pried open a desk drawer containing the keys to the outside oil racks and took 250 quarts of oil and transmission fluid contained there. In addition, the culprits took 16 tires, a pistol and $914 in cash. The total theft equalled $1,742.78, police said. Burglars broke into a Tampa service station sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, opened the safe, and fled with $540, police reported.

Officers said an unknown person or persons broke into the Kwik Pep Station, 4802 N. 40th entering through the front door, and opened the cylinder-type floor safe. The thieves then fled unseen with the money, they said. Banks Pay $8.6 Million In 1969 State Earns Record Interest "Of perhaps the greatest significance to Floridians, however," he said, "is progress in solving some of the many problems that beset the automobile insurance business." The department is proposing a legislative package for 1970 which Williams terms "one of the finest consumer protection proposals ever submitted." HE CLAIMS it will cure many problems in regulating this complex business. A RECORD more than $3 billion in tax funds ran through the state treasury in 1969, reflecting a prosperous year.

Another guage of economic growth, Williams said, is insurance and he predicted insurance will provide greater economic opportunities in 1970. The commissioner said he feels a major achievement of the past year was the availability of sinkhole insurance for most parts of the state with flood insurance soon to be a "reality." By BARBARA FRYE TALLAHASSEE (UPD-Banks in which state funds are deposited are paying interest rates at. an all-time high, Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Broward Williams said in a year-end report. "These banks paid into the treasury interest in an amount exceeding $8.6 million during 1969." He said time deposits currently are earning at the maximum interest rate permitted by the Federal Reserve Board regulations. Airport Going Up The new terminal complex at Tampa International Airport continues to rise.

Work Is at various stages on the main building and Us four satellite buildings, some showing only their steel skeleton frames. In the foreground, road paU terns are beginning to take shape. This is the entrance from Memorial Highway to the south (below). The present terminal is out of the picture to the lower right as is one of the present runways to the left. A portion of one runway is visible at the right.

Construction on the mammoth complex Is scheduled for completion late 1970. Photo by Morris of Selbypic i fHp.yf-L.f smjifBir 1 1( iff i imiii'T'-T 4 ft ffnr fctlm. nam kuwiiiiii ii fnnw.