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RfOGE PEACE VrtLLtY The Tampa Tribune POLK HIGHLANDS Hardee DeSoto Edition 'Guys and Doll' At Lakeland Smash Hit See Page 6-B SECTION LOCAL NEWS TAMPA, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1965 When Polk Desegregation Plan Implemented in Fall- I All -White 204 cnoo. eeroes JUL students will be enrolled in grades 11-12. THE PLAN CALLS for, in a four year setup, the desegrega in the remaining grades, 1-3, in 1968. The largest number of Negroes assigned to a white proved by the federal district court at Tampa and having the stamp of approval of the U.S. Office of Education, the dents apparently will attend previously all i high schools this fall.

Under the county plan, ap school officials said yesterday that under Polk County's new plan for desegregation of schools at least 204 Negro stu Polk Board Seeks To Curb Stench, Sinkhole Woes tion of grades 7-10 in the fall of 1966; for desegregation of grades 4 through 6 in the fall of 1967 and for desegregation Alligator Nest minal facilities. Seaboard and ACL officials have indicated they would move their phosphate loading facilities from Tampa to the new site. Railroad officials have been reported in Manatee during the past few days holding discussions with county officials. McClure said no decision had yet been reached on who will be hired as consulting engineer on the port-industrial park project, but commissioners gave it some study during their conference. They were equally quiet about further developments in the proposed $13.5 million water system.

According to McClure, com Fish and Game the alligators the play nearby. Johnston) Lake Boomerang in the Oakland section of Haines City is about dry and overgrown with hyacinths. Officials say two large alligators live there. They have asked the Florida Commission to remove for fear they may attack many small children who (Staff Photo by Vance Manatee Holds Secret Talks On Proposed Port Facility i A- (L Surfing Saga 7wo-year-old Lisa Stone, with tears aflow and loud jells, showed her mother, Mrs. John G.

Stone, what she thought of posing on surfboard with old-timer Billy Howard, a composed veteran of four. Winter Haven's Lake Silver was scene and Lisa was adamant, refusing lure of ice cream in return for cooperation. (Staff Photo by Charles Hendrick) school and electing to attend that school, is at Mulberry High, where some 55 are expected to attend. These students will come from the Union Academy at Bartow. IN MANY CASES throughout the county, many Negro students assigned to white schools under the plan which eliminated dual attendance boundaries, have elected not to attend the white schools but to return to Negro institutions.

At Winter Haven, for example, a total of 48 Negro students were assigned to that high school. But 22 of these elected to attend Jewett High here, a Negro school. Only 26 are now scheduled to attend the previously all-white high school. At Auburndale, 17 of the 38 Negro students assigned there from Jewett High have elected to attend Jewett, leaving only 21 Negro students expected at Auburndale. SOME WHITE students have been assigned to Negro schools in the county but officials said it is expected that most or all will elect to attend white schools.

Under the court approved plan students have an option and may apply for reassignment to a school outside their attendance area where a majority of students are of their own race. There has been no definite word from school officials regarding placement of teachers in schools attended by stu dents predominantly not of their race. SHELLEY BOONE, county school superintendent, has said there would be no such assignment of teachers simply for the sake of integration. In the Bartow area, 22 students now attending Union Academy will attend Bartow High School this fall. Nineteen of the Negro students will be juniors and the other three seniors.

All three white students living in the Union Academy attendance area have exercised their option to remain at Bartow Senior High. THIRTY-FOUR Negro students from Union Academy living in the Fort Meade at-tenance area will attend Fort Meade High School this fall. In the Lakeland attendance area, it has been indicated that 15 Negro students will attend previously all-white Lakeland Senior High. It has also been indicated that those Negro students in the Eaton Park-Medulla area, now attending Rochelle High but eligible to attend Lakeland Senior High, will remain at Rochelle. ALONG POLK'S Ridge section, area supervisors said it appears several eligible Negro students will continue at Negro schools they presently attend.

At Frostproof there will be some seven Negro students en-rolled. However, a definite count will not be known before this afternoon. Lake Wales area Supervising Principal F. S. McLaughlin, said some Negro students who are eligible to attend Lake Wales have elected to remain at Roosevelt High.

About eight students are expected to attend Lake Wales, however. IX THE Haines City area there will be about 16 Negro students at the local high school, previously all white. May 21 was set as the deadline for filing applications for reassignment and exercising the option provided in the desegregation plan. In future weeks students new to the county school system may make application to exercise their attendance options with the school board. THOSE STUDENTS now enrolled in the Polk system who will be juniors and seniors in September and who have not exercised the option, will attend the school in their attendance zone, regardless cf race.

School officials emphasized that last Friday's deadline will be observed. By CHARLES HENDRICK and PETE SCHMIDT Tribune Staff Writers WINTER HAVEN County David LAKELAND Not too long ago three Lakeland policemen on routine duty were shot down by a gunman without apparent provocation. All survived and recovered, fortunately, but it might not have been so. It certainly wasn't the intent of the gunman. In Tampa a man pointed a cocked shotgun at three officers who answered a telephoned call for help in a neighborhood scrap.

They got it away before it was fired. A MOTORCYCLE policeman was motally wounded checking out a burlgary. A highway patrolman acquaintance of mine got caught in a fire-fight with a carload of hoods on U.S. Highway 301 while making a routine checkout, And in New York a grocer who ran to help a policeman undpr attack by a mob was stabbed in the back with an icepick. In my opinion there must be something entirely wrong with the thought processes which allow a man or a woman to make a policeman's tough and dangerous job even more so.

In many quarters concern is mounting for the protection of policemen busy protecting others. UNFORTUNATELY, not much can be done except in the way of stronger laws with solid penalties to be invoked against those who attack policemen. One of the latest moves is In California, where the legislature is in session, even as it is here in Florida, Lawmakers there are considering a measure to make it a felony to attack a policeman. It's simply a misdemeanor now. The difference is in the penalty.

The new law would put an attacker in prison for at least a year. If he used a deadly weapon, he could go behind bars for 15 years. WEST COASTERS decided to act after authorites came up with a report that 963 attacks on policemen were made in San Francisco alone in a single year. Injuries inflicted by assaults disabled 157 policemen to various de- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6) Fresh Citrus Supply Level Is Lowering LAKELAND (By Staff Writer) Less than three weeks' supply of fresh Florida citrus remains for "certified" use, if shippers continue to meet present volume requirements.

According to Growers Administrative Committee reports, 1,218 cars of oranges and 731 cars of grapefruit remain for Interstate and intrastate commercial shipment. This is an estimated 5 per cent of the orange and 2.6 per cent of the total crops, respectively. Chinmonte rj hnth nrarcroc anI grapefruit since May 2 have averaged slightly more than 500' cars a week. Percentagewise, orange shipments this season are running about one per cent behind those for 1363-64, while grapefruit shipments are lagging about 2 per cent. I Commission Unsettled By Settling BARTOW (By Staff Writer) The Polk County Commission yesterday concerned itself with the elimination of two things sinkholes and stench.

The sinkholes will have to wait until a ruling by the county legal department and the stench will be settled it is hoped in about 60 days. IN THE PAST few days, sinkholes have been appearing with unsettling regularity throughout the county and have brought a new problem to the commissioners. Commissioner L. W. Dunson brought up the matter yesterday with a question of whether or not the commissioners can lease county equipment to a citizen to fill in a sinkhole on private property.

Dunson said one Polk Coun-tian has offered to pay the county for use of a dredge needed to fill up a sinkhole some 100 feet across and 85 eet deep on his property in the Winter Haven area. THE OFFICIALS delayed approval of such a lease until the legal department can check into its legality. The elimination of odors from a Lakeland tannery was also discussed by the commissioners, who finally granted a 60-day period to Imperial Polk Leathers Inc. for construction of a "pilot plant" designed to eliminate odors coming from the works. Bernie Cowden of the Polk Health Department recom-mended time be given the firm, saying, "the new treatment plant proposed will not completely eliminate odors, but it will reduce constantly objectionable odors." COWDEN EXPLAINED that the pilot plant is a new engineering proposal dealing with an electro-chemical treatment method rather than the conventional treatment method.

He said the pilot plant would need some 60 days to get into operation and would represent an investment of some by the tannery in its efforts to eliminate odors. In other action, the commissioners: APPROVED budget transfers totaling $1,124, including $122 for the clerk of circuit court, $400 for juvenile court and $602 for District 1 constable. Granted a permit to Jer-rold Electronics to install its cablevision equipment along county rights-of-way. A simi- (Continued on Page 2, Col. 3) Solicitor BARTOW (By Staff Wrriter) The Polk County commissioners decided to study for one week whether or not they need a set of "Shepards' Florida citations." County Solicitor Gordon MacCalla apparently thinks the county could use them.

The commission- MacCalla Polk Fire Situation Said 'Still Critical' BARTOW (By Staff Writer) A member of the Florida Forest Service's Tallahassee staff told county commissioners yesterday that the muck fire situation in Polk is still critical. Bill Moody, fire control asistant, said, "Although cooperation in Polk County since the proclamation by Gov. Burns has reduced the number of new fires per day from 17 to 2. the situation is still critical and will remain so until a general rain." LAST WEEK, THE GOVERNOR declared a state of emergency in Polk and called an immediate halt to burning of any kind. Moody said since that time "six cases have been made against people in Polk who violated the order." The FFS officer said at the present time there are 26 muck fires burning in Polk County.

The service has suppressed five and three "went out on their own accord." "We have pumpers at ten fires," Moody said, "and are working on seven others. Nine fires are in a low priority classification." Moody said the 400 acres burning near Bartow Air Base and another 50 or so acres near Lake Ned in Winter Haven are the worst fires in the county. THE OFFICIAL COMPLIMENTED the assistance given the fire service by Polk County Commission, Civil Defense, law enforcement agencies, various fire departments and the Civil Air Patrol. missioners reviewed conferences held during the past week with officials of various municipalities in the county. The county hopes to obtain tentative agreements from the city officials to use water from the county system.

He said Russell and Axon, consulting engineers on the water project, had been instructed to provide details on administration and operation of the system. He also reported the commission plans in the "very near future" to hire a manager for the water system who will help work out organiza-t i a 1 and administrative problems. Maybe al set of his that he no longer wanted and would like to sell to the county." "DO WE NEED them?" asked Commissioner Floyd Woods. "They're a good set of books." Tillis replied. "We've bought some books from him Lewis added.

Vice Chairman Aldine Com-bee suggested the sale be held up until the state auditor could be consulted. The ether commissioners agreed. By DON MOORE Tribune Staff Writer BRADENTON Manatee County commissioners yesterday held a secret meeting to discuss details of adding $27.5 million to the county's debt. The result, Commission Chairman Dan McClure informed newsmen later, was that a contract between the county and railroad officials on a proposed port terminal will be signed "real soon." Although no officials of the Atlantic Coast Line or Seaboard Airline Railroads were identified among those meeting in McClure's office, all commissioners were on hand. In addition, Richard Hampton, county attorney, and Al Siiepard of Potts and Shep-ard, the county's fiscal agents, were behind the doors.

Newsmen on hand before the discussions started were asked to leave. Although there were no details made public, McClure said later the discussion centered around the proposed $14 million industrial park and port facility planned at Piney Point and the proposed $13.5 million county water system. Both projects are to be financed through the sale of bonds. Commissioners announced more than two weeks ago they were working on an agreement to lease a $10 million phosphate terminal at the proposed port to the railroads. Hampton said then the legal work on the contract should be completed and the agreement signed by the end of the month.

McClure said after yesterday's secret discussion there were still legal problems, but the proposal was fairly close to Hampton's timetable. If the port is developed and the railroads lease the ter Yes, Book ers are not too sure they can. ASSISTANT County Attorney Monte Tillis told officials yesterday, "Gordon would like to be reimbursed $155 for a set of law books." Tillis went on to say MacCalla had purchased the books out of his own pocket, has used them and now wants the county to buy them from him. COMMISSIONER Wilmer McCutcheon mused. "I think we shoula get clarification from the state auditor about making a personal check in payment to Mr.

MacCalla." STUDENT RIOTER ARRESTED-Two Denver policemen take youth identified as Frederic J. Steven, 23, Des Moines, Iowa, a student at the University of Denver, to paddy wagon during the third straight night of riots in Denver Friday night. Friday's disturbance consisted mainly of high school students. Riots began Wednesday night after an abortive panty raid by Denver University students at Colorado Women's College. (AP Wirephoto) Salesman Tillis replied, "If we make it out to Gordon MacCalla, county solicitor, it won't be a personal check." "That depends on where he deposits it," McCutcheon replied.

TILLIS NOTED the books in question had been purchased more than a year ago by MacCalla. Cecil Lewis, head of the county purchasing department, added. "He (MacCalla) said the books were a person WINS FIGHT TO OUST ATTORNEY Jack Ruby, convicted slayer of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, talks to newsmen as he left the courtroom after winning his battle to have Joe Tonahill, a member of his original defense team, removed as his counsel in the forthcoming sanity hearing. Tonahill's removal was ordered by Judge Louis T. Holland of Montague, after a day-long hearing in Dallas.

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