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THE TAMPA TRIBUNE Section HILLSBOROUGH 7S TAMPA LOCAL NEWS TAMPA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1969 Red Tape Thwarted Arson-Ruined Firms Make Comeback Rebuilt Lido Bar is an v3 outstanding example of Latin styling Benitez appealed to Housing and Urban Development's Atlanta regional offices, pointing out that to refuse Arteche the same money which he could have obtained before the fire would be "penalizing him because his building burned down." Meantime the bar owner sank $6,000 into renovating the tiny section of the building which partially survived the blaze, to get his business operating again. He also put up $11,000 to be used strictly for construction. HUD APPROVED the loan, then Small Business Administration red tape held it up until the construction bid price increased $9,550. The money finally came through a $32,296 HUD loan handled through the SB A office. General contractor Severino Pandiella began work earlier this year and completed the $43,296 project a few days ago.

Arteche is happy because he got the 20-year loan for 3 per cent interest about one-third of the going commer-( Continued "age 2, Col. 5) By MARY ANNE CORPIN Tribune Staff Writer All it took was a little extra effort. Because Urban Renewal conservation officer Bill Benitez didn't stop at "reading the book," twov arson-destroyed firms are back in business and Ybor City has acquired one of its most eye-catching Spanish-styled buildings. IT ALL DATES back to the night of Feb. 9, 1968, when fire in a vacant house spread three doors to virtually destroy the Lido Bar, 1930 E.

Seventh and and adjacent barber shop. "It sure made a hell of a big hole in me," recalls Lido owner Raul Arteche, who had only $17,000 worth of insurance to cover $45,000 in damages. There wasn't enough left of the building to do anything with, so Arteche sought a low-cost federal loan. THE CATCH: According to federal guidelines, the low-interest rate loan available to Arteche could be used for modernization not for new construction. Staff Photo by August Staebler UNIVERSITY of SOUTH FLORIDA JL JL FOWLER County Budget Tapped AVENUE state no oert.

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5i I) ACRES METAL I IK-WUI RLASTIC CO. NIN(EIM COA IfctOIACKEt If II I I It I 0U6AIMVILLEA I I 7 PtIIIUTLVAHIA JCSO LOM UmOH INC Tt0M 04 MIOOUCTI IfLM ACRE IVIMMM-EOISOX COIirANT yf I7.lt ACRES 4.3 ACRES I I Ot MACRO I 7cMOER "i Ri CO. ACREI SUSCM tUSCN 3 SOU i 1 1 1 salary account for the 1969-70 fiscal year. Seven of the 16 inspection lanes have been ordered closed to adjust for the shift from semi-annual to annual inspections. THROUGH Sept.

30, the 96-man total work force had been reduced by 23 employes, according to the records. Don Holt, director of the program, is under commission orders to cut $177,000 from the of $34,500 which probably will be tapped to settle this difference. The only additional money on hand for the million dollar operation as of Sept. 30 is in a local bank. Late in August County Com-.

missioner John Glaros, who directed the MVI program from its inception, announced that 34 employes would be laid off in a cutback of operations and expenses. But Not This Year A bou A Year Ago, Flu Hit TAMPA INDUSTRIAL PARK TOTAL ACRES AVAILABLE 291.720 eoJ a ANHEUSER BUSCH INC. a 279.909 ACRES I CITY DERT. SUSCH APPARENTLY no new vaccines are being developed and the health officials in Atlanta are recommending influenza vaccine not be given to healthy adults or children. Officials working with private drug laboratories attempted to develop an effective vaccine for Hong Kong influenza and the B-2 strain which created so much havoc last year.

National attention was focused on Hillsborough County as local school teachers, librarians and administrators took part in a test to determine the effectiveness of the vaccine. Dr. Robert Waldman and Dr. Parker Small of the University of Florida Medical School devised an aerosol spray to get the vaccine directly into the respiratory tract, which doctors believe may be the key to an effective weapon to the disease. TEMPLE TERRACE HIGHWAY ir By ELEANOR JORDAN Tribune Staff Writer About this time last year, national health officials began talcing note of a new type of influenza.

Hong Kong flu, they called it. It turned out to be a killer. DESPITE earlier predictions that the country would escape a severe epidemic, the influenza outbreak for 1968-69 was one of the most widespread and deadly, considering modern medical know-how. Hillsborough County recorded nearly 5,000 cases of influenza and, according to the State Board of Health, 141 deaths from influenza or pneumonia. This year, the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta is recommending only the aged and chronically ill should get influenza vaccines since no substantial outbreaks are anticipated.

Site Of Neiv Manufacturing Plant In Tampa to be constructed on 40 acres in the Tampa Industrial Park Optics Firm To Build $3 Million Plant Here DR. JOHN NEILL, director of the county health department, said the results of the test have not been released. Meanwhile, health officials apparently are not expecting any new strains to develop and do not anticipate a recurrence of the Hong-Kong epidemic this year. Arsonists Take Their Toll By CHARLES HENDRICK Tribune Staff Writer County commissioners, directing the operations of the county Motor Vehicle Inspection system, have overspent nearly $65,000 budgeted for salaries and other accounts and have no immediate plans to pay back to the county's general fund $59,375 in tax money borrowed for the operation. THIS WAS reported yesterday in a check of year-end accounts for the system, which began functioning in September 1968.

Finance records show commissioners walking a fiscal tightrope: A fund created to store income for payment against interest and principal due April 1, 1970 on the $1.25 million revenue bonds which built the six inspection stations, will contain $184,380 by April 1. Due and payable on that date is $184,375, which includes $59,375 in interest and $125,000 in principal. The first interest payment of $59,375. which was due April 1 this year, had to be paid from tax funds borrowed from the general revenue accounts. Commission Chairman Ellsworth Simmons said there are no immediate plans to repay this money.

THE FUNDS WERE bor-rowed despite statements repeatedly made while the station system was in the planning stage, that no county funds would be tapped for the auto inspections program. The year end ds showed that while commissioners had budgeted $435,774 for salaries for full time employes, $473,515 was withdrawn from that account. Temporary help, budgeted at $35,500, was expended in the amount of $48,577. Overall in the year just ended, $522,092 was spent on salaries. Other accounts overspent included: auto allowance, $500 budgeted, $3,464 spent; Communications expense, $3,000 budgeted, $8,915 spent; Maintenance of the new buildings, $2,500 budgeted, spent; Utility cost, $3,500 budgeted, $9,784 spent.

AND A CASH carry-over item, funded Oct. 1, 196? at $695,000, stood at $23,000 Sept. 30. Most of these funds went for construction items in the 1968,69 budget year. While various accounts are badly overspent, accounts have been adjusted by transferring funds from accounts not expended, so that the operational budget ended the year actually only $20,277 overspent.

There is a reserve account i By EARL EMMONS 1 Tribune Business Editor i Tampa's affluent economy was given a substantial boost yesterday when Shuron-Conti- Fire, probably the work of Saturday, more than a score all, except for a single boxcar, arsonists, has taken its toll of of fires have destroyed or have been dwellings nental Division of Textron Inc. announced it will build a $3 The fires are believed to be vacant buildings in the Ybor damaged nearly 30 buildings the work of arsonists. "All the buildings were va- in the Latin quarter. All have been vacant, and City area the last 10 days. SINCE A WEEK ago last million plant to manufacture optical machinery and lenses in Tampa Industrial Park.

The plant is the largest to be constructed here since the of Westinghouse Electric $25 million nu intensive survey of the eastern seaboard. Cooper said the search narrowed to Florida and finally to Tampa. "We selected Tampa because we felt the city has more to offer than any other we looked at," Cooper said. A prime factor in the final decision to locate here was a plentiful and stable labor market, Cooper said, but he listed other reasons, including close cooperation from state and local government, the attitude of local businessmen, good transportation facilities and quality industrial sites. HE PAID special tribute to the cooperation afforded the company by the Florida Development Commission and local chamber of commerce.

Ed Hardman, chairman of the local Committee of 100, called the announcement a "significant day in the history of Tampa's industrial development." His words were echoed by Ellsworth Simmons, chairman of the Hillsborough County Commission, and Mayor Dick Greco. Gov. Ray Osborne, present for the announcement, said the decision to build in Tampa culminates three and a half years of negotiations with the company. SHURON-Continental is recognized as one of the world's largest manufacturers of ophthalmic frames, lenses and processing machinery. It was founded in 1864 as a wholesale optical business.

The company became a division of Textron, one of the nation's leading management corporations, in 1956. It employs some 1500 people and has 15 branch warehouses in major cities throughout the country. clear steam generator manu-. factoring facility on South West Shore Boulevard, which was dedicated last May. CONSTRUCTION will begin Immediately on the 309,000 square foot building with completion scheduled for mid-1970.

Tracy H. Calkins, vice presi cant," a spokesman in the fire marshal's office said, "so we suspect all were set." Though there were many buildings involved, the total loss is comparatively minor. Most of the buildings were condemned, according to the fire marshal's office, so they are considered of "no value." SO FAR, there have been two reports of persons involved with the blazes, one by officers of the fire marshal's office. Friday night, two officers were hidden in a building on 27th Street, when three men drove up in a 1960 or 1961 Cadillac, poured gasoline on the house, and left. They drove around the block, the officers said, and threw a torch into the house as they came back around.

The officers stamped the fire out, but were unable to catch the men. A FEW DAYS earlier, the fire marshal's office received a report of an adult and several teenagers running from the scene of a fire. But a spokesman in the fire marshal's office said yesterday they have made no arrests yet. dent-lens manufacturing and engineering, will be in charge of the Tampa plant. The plant will employ some 600 persons and will be the largest facility operated by the Rochester based firm which also manufactures frames for eyeglasses.

Other plants are located in Rochester and Geneva, N.Y., Indianapolis and Barnwell, S.C. GORDON M. Cooper, president, who made the announcement at a briefing at the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce building, said Tampa was selected the site for the plant following an Staff Photo by Charlie Mohn Eaves, Porch Roof Show Damage Caused By Fire vacant house at 119 W. Oak one of many recently hit by arsonists Tracy Calkins will be in charge Gordon Cooper president.