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Pasco Times. Friday, November 2, 1973 Potjt 3 Citrus Springs To Hire Lawyer In Utility Fighf Times Correspondsht CITRUS SPRINGS By a vote of 54 to 6 at a hurriedly called special meeting, members of the Citrus Springs Civic Association authorized their officers to spend additional funds for an attorney to draw up a brief in their fight against proposed water and sewer rate increases. Deltona Corp. Is asking the Citrus County Commission, the regulating body, for a 100 per cent increase In sewer rates, to $7.50 a month, and smaller increases in water rates. Director Earl Rees reported that attorney Don Bradshaw charges $100 an hour and would require three to five hours for the charter study to determine if there' Is a "conflict of facts" in Deltona's petition.

THE company, by law, is entitled to 8 to 12 per cent profit on its utility investment. Should the case go beyond the commission's jurisdiction to the Appelate Court, the civic association could fight it, but would have to get up approximately $10,000 for attorney and accountant fees. The same 54-to-6 ratio prevailed when chairman Ralph Evans asked how many would go along with the court battle costs. The money would come from their own pockets. Evans has pointed out on several occasions that the community can no longer consider, through its civic association, battling for its rights on the proceeds of 25-cent-a-month dues and returns from its Friday bingo "We'll need lots of money for future battles," he said.

OPPOSING money-spending method alone and suggesting a militant picketing campaign, he suggested telling prospective home buyers brought down from northern areas about the rate increase. Thirty-three of those present signed up as members of the picketing committee, headed by Jim Blanda. The idea had been broached at a previous Town Hall meeting but commission attorney Bill Edwards suggested that such emotional appeals seldom work and that the pickets would have to be careful to avoid libel in the wording of their signs. A more passive resistance movement to the rate rise, such as nonpayment of bills, was suggested but not discussed. The rate increase will be discussed at a County Commission hearing Tuesday.

Reeves rift Imp nI p1k yai' a y-y 'itXtzrPryns Ufl TtfiKKtxaih rnoig oy susan ueniey 'Flying Saucer' Complex Created By John Reeves, Who Says He Was Whisked Off To Moon And Venus (Continued from Page 1) would return In 29 days, Reeves says. Reeves says he watched the robot return to the craft and take off. He hadn't planned to tell anyone about the experience. I thought, 'they'd think I'm he says now. But then he found a piece of paper with strange markings the robot had dropped.

With this evidence, Reeves became the subject of a full-scale Air Force investigation. He had letters from as far away as Sydney, Australia, and curiosity seekers by the dozens streamed into the woods to gape at concrete casts of the robot's figure-eight-shaped footprints and to examine the impressions left in the ground by the spacecraft. THE AIR Force concluded its rather extensive investigation by declaring the whole thing a hoax, but many students of the unexplained were convinced that Reeves' story was true. For one thing, he never faltered in the telling of his tale. He related it virtually thousands of times and never strayed from the facts as he originally told them.

He even passed a polygraph test. And, although the Air Force said the scrap of paper Reeves found was made of materials common on earth, believers could see no reason why vegetation similar to that common here might not be found on another planet. One researcher located a fisherman who said he had seen a saucer-like craft take off over the woods on the day Reeves claims to have made contact with the robot. But the fisherman didn't want his name revealed. REEVES said he didn't tell anyone the robot had said he'd return in 29 days because the creature had communicated that he wanted it kept secret.

So Reeves and a trusted newspaper reporter friend kept watch every 29 days for awhile. Although no saucer ever landed, they saw several mysterious objects in the sky, including what they decided must be a mother ship, Reeves said. A rather uneventful three years, during which Reeves worked on his saucer models and wrote a song titled "Flying Saucer," passed. Then one August night in 1968 he woke up with a com-' pulsion to go into the woods. He fought it off, but the next afternoon felt the same compulsion and this time gave in to it.

DEEP AMONG the trees he says he found another saucer and two spacemen. These two beings were not like the first, he says. They looked human and spoke in a tongue he could understand. Reeves says they forced him to accompany them inside the spaceship, where several other interplanetary beings waited. "They told me they were going to take me to the nearest planet, that they called Chachaya," Reeves said.

"That's the moon." He says there are moonmen, humanlike beings who live on the dark side of the planet. Reeves brought back a pocketful of dirt and a rock from the moon. His rock was stolen recently, but he is happy to show visitors the black and brown crystalline dirt he scooped from the moon's surface. WHEN HE WAS returned to earth, a place his space hosts called "trouble planet," he says he was told that the beings would come back and take him on a trip to their home planet. He was told he would know they were there to pick him up when he felt another compulsion to go into the woods, he says.

"Two months later they were back," Reeves says. He fought the compulsion this time. But in 1970, he says, he felt a compulsion that was too strong to resist. Once more he took a trip with the space creatures, he says, this time to Moniheya. "THEY HAD TV and radio 200 years ago, and they don't use cars," he relates.

"All the buildings and streets are made out of marble and the strawberries jthere are big as grapefruit," Reeves says. The 15-billion Moniheyans live to be around 175 years old, in a society that has eradicated such diseases as cancer, he says. The planet, as described by Reeves, is a virtual paradise where "nobody gets mad, everybody helps each other." Despite his admiration for Moniheyan culture, Reeves returned to earth after only one day. "They didn't want to bring me back, but I begged them," he says. SINCE THEN HE frequently has felt that the outer space beings are trying to contact him.

About five or six months ago the creatures tired of waiting and came looking for him, he says. He was awakened in the middle of the night by a knocking on his window. The next day he found strange and alien-looking footprints on the ground around his house. HIS MOST RECENT contact came about four weeks ago, Reeves says, when he woke up in the middle of the night with an almost overwhelming urge to go back in the woods. "I was afraid someone might break into the house, so I didn't go," he says.

And he adds, "I'm supposed to go to another planet before 1973 is over, but I don't want to go." reafr Cafe-Police Flap' Dies Quietly gy committed to paper," the mayor said. He added that Pharr told him that the incident "should never have happened." Lewis said Willis still has never admitted any wrongdoing and has continued to deny that he opened a closed door marked "Private" or walked into the Pharr apartment when Pharr's daughter was dressing. Willis says she was fully dressed and she em Bin city council Fire District vigorously denied "apologizing to Mayor Lewis or anyone else." "I have done nothing to apologize for," he said. Pharr added that he did assure the mayor that the curfew would be observed in the recreation room. "I SAID IF they'd keep off my back, I'd work along with them and let it go at that," Pharr said, "but the mayor was pleasant about the whole thing." City officials also agreed that additions of new areas to the proposed fire district would be allowed unless the extra areas would call for additional firemen to maintain the present city fire insurance rating.

The fire chief also pointed out that new additions to the fire district would have to be within a five-mile radius of the fire station, which would be operating limits for the Dade City department except in the case of a call for mutual aid from another fire opened the door wide after he pushed an already partly-opened door. "Willis says he was looking for boy truants from the high school, I've just decided to let the whole thing die down and let sleeping dogs lie, since there doesn't seem to be any trouble there now," Lewis said. THE RESTAURANT owner was very nice about the whole thing." On the other hand, Pharr service. The City is to draw up specificiations for the new truck for review by the coun-yt, and Fire Chief Red Moore said delivery of the truck probably would be at least nine months after it was ordered. MOORE SAD) the three new men would be hired as soon as the county gives the district money and explained that as long as the truck had been ordered, fire insurance ratings would not change while its delivery was Petition Author Says Times Story Sparked Crackdown On Trucks Timet Bureau CRYSTAL RIVER The "great flap," with the owners of the Crystal Restaurant on south U.S.

19 vs. former Acting Police Chief Clyde Willis has ended not with a bang but a murmur. Mayor Vinel Lewis, who also heads the city's police committee, was investigating after Thomas Pharr, restaurant owner, charged that Willis entered the private Pharr "There are eight troopers there, stopping trucks and lining 'em up," said Billy Black, the petition's author. He lives a stone's throw away from River Haven, the new Norin development on SR490A, also known as Grover Cleveland Boulevard. "AND SINCE the story came out Sunday, I've noticed that trucks have slowed down and the loads are lighter," Black added.

He said that since the sto- Smith said Port Richey's last water bond, in 1963, was for $175,000, and that the new bond money will be "equally ranking bends" of the same type. The interest rate on the bonds will not be known until they are sold, Smith said, but he estimated that it probably will be less than 6 per cent. The highest interest permitted by state law is V2 per cent, he added. THE POSSIBILITIES of the Port Richey bonds selling fast seems good because of the city's past history of stability and experience in bonding, he said. Kaltenbach is to report on the progress of negotiations with New Port Richey at the council's next regular apartment behind the kitchen restaurant without knocking and without a warrant while Pharr's 20-year-old daughter was dressing.

Lewis told Pasco Times this week that Pharr "apologized to me personally and promised to maintain a 10:30 p.m. curfew for youngsters under 18" in the recreation room Pharr set up for teenagers behind the restaurant kitchen. "IT WAS NO formal apolo Homosassa Springs CITRUS COUNTY ry's appearance he has had about 40 telephone calls from neighbors who were not asked to sign the petition. "They felt left out and disappointed because we hadn't asked everybody," Black said. "One man told me he wanted to be known in the community as one who supports worthwhile protests.

"But heck, after we got the 117 we thought it was obvious what the sentiments of the people who live along the truck route are. The route goes from three miles east of U.S. 19 to three miles west. BLACK ESTIMATES THAT more than 200 families live along the six-mile route from the fill-dirt pits to the River Haven site. "In general, I'd say that since the story came out, conditions on that road have been restored to what I'd call a more sane, normal operation," he added.

Turkey Shoot Planned Times Bureau NEW PORT RICHEY -The Optimist Club of New Port Richey will stage a turkey shoot at Southgate Shopping Center Nov. 15, 16 and 17. Hours will be from 5 to 9 p.m., Thursday and Friday and from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday. All proceeds will go toward furthering Optimist projects.

4 I ilila tfla fi it mm mik tli iljj Pasco Action WE'VE MOVED Our new office is presently if under construction. A new and larger complex to better serve you. Located just north of the First American Bank. In front of Weeki Wachee (Continued from Page 1) men necessary for the district operation and for maintenance on the county-owned truck. THE agreement would be a five year contract renegotia-ble annually by mutual agreement to make alterations to reflect changes in cost of operations.

Hamilton said early in the meeting that all commissioners had been polled and had agreed that the county should retain ownership of any fire equipment purchased with county tax money so that it could be transferred to a county fire service later. Bolan said that if the city was not to gain ownership of the new truck, "We'd like to see a little icing on the cake to entice the city to participate (in the fire THE "ICING" that city officials proposed Was the $20,000 addition to the fire station and an extra $5,000 on yearly county payments to finance the district, which would be tacked on to a $20,000 yearly payment previously proposed. Bolan told the commissioners that the three additional firemen would be necessary to preserve the city's present fire insurance rating, and both parties agreed that those three men would be transfer-rable to a future county fire Rummage, Cake Sale Timet Correspondent CITRUS SPRINGS A rummage and cake sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Nov. 5 at the Gulf service station in Dunnellon for the benefit of the Citrus Springs Catholic Mission's building fund.

Timet Stall Writer HOMOSASSA SPRINGS -The author of a petition signed by 117 persons who live along State Road S490A protesting the Norin Corporation's speeding fill-dirt trucks going to a new residential development about three miles west of U.S. 19 says Pasco Times' story on conditions there apparently brought out Florida Highway Patrol troopers to patrol the area I Thursday. Bonds (Continued from Page 1) Then the bond resolution would go before the Pasco County Circuit Court for validation. If accepted by the court, Smith said, the city must wait 30 days before selling the bonds to allow for "public appeal." Anyone objecting to the bond would have one last opportunity to stop the issue. A DEBT service, or re-- payment schedule, for the city will be set in the bond resolu-tin based on estimated revenues of the city water department.

Councilman Leslie Payne said he understood that any repayment terms would be based on what the city could afford from water re-I venues, and not on any tain length of time. WW INSURANCE (Continued from Page 1) money is in the till, the sucker can't do a legal thing about a broken promise. Does that sound about the way things are? "But since history began where there's progress the unscrupulous move in too. These people have knocked down all of our beautiful trees and after all, who encouraged immigration? So don't try to sell your readers on the idea these greedy corporation want to stem immigration. There should ba some measure of protection for a young, struggling family like J.

S. "Had to get this out of my system. Thanks for listening." Mrs. II. SchcU Holiday We're sure the targets of our needle will be delighted to note that it boomeranged.

And since you're the second reader to take issue with our tongue-in-cheek remark, we're sure others misinterpreted it. So to set the record straight, we've been fighting for protective measures for home buyers and all consumers for years. We work closely with state agencies, such as the Construction Licensing Board, feeding them complaints and opening our files to their investigators. The building situation in Pasco and other rapidly-growing counties is, as you say, deplorable. We'd have given our typewriters to have been able to help J.S.

Cut under existing laws there simply was nothing either we or his attorney could do except take a jab at builders for defeating their own ends for the "fast buck." Perhaps our caustic comment will serve an unintended purpose by making readers angry enough to bombard their legislators with demands for new game rules. If so, we'll happiy take our lumps. AGENCY, INC. in RninnanHani tuur mcioiucHi insurance agent SERVES YOU FIRST Call: (904) 596-2091 1 i i i omp nnrt vuntrh I grow 3 "A Membr of Unitv Inturane si Service! Inc. of St.

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