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1 1 i in' 7 I 3 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Thursday, August 9, 1973 FIVESTARJ To Puerto Rico Tm Bill, Fly Me i J' Supreme Court Ruling Lets Miami Man Become Steward "I KNEW WHEN I finished high school that I wanted to do what Dad has been doing for years. Dad liked his job. But then they wouldn't hire men," said Bill, 24. "One year after I completed college, the airlines changed the policy and I joined. "Flying just rubbed off on me.

When I was a kid, I'd fly with him and sometimes help him out," Bill added. Now the two Flores often fly the same route from Miami to San Juan, P.R. though seldom on the same plane. THE ELDER FLORES, who has lived in Miami since the early '50s, is among the most senior stews in Miami, flying about 15 days monthly on the most desirable flights, while still a fledgling with little chance to select his departure times. Flores said he often gets reports bout' his son's, activities, The only complaint tame, ''from" 1 an elderly womart from, his home town who was upset because, she didn't get special attention on a flight.

"She thought I was my dad, and I didn't even know her," young Bill said. BILL SAID HE GETS a boost from his dad's reputation because pilots, who "aren't the friendliest guys in the world," will say, "Oh, aren't you and that sets the tone of how they'll accept me on the trip." "At first I thought there'd be a lot of trouble because I was taking a typically female job," Bill said. "Bu there's a lot of guys trying to get into the airlines. "1 airlines decided only women were to on the planes," an Eastern spokesman said. "So, no more men were hired." However, men like Flores, 46, hired when there were heavy jobs to perform on the plane, kept their male twilight zone.

Then came the Supreme Court ruling that sex could not be a dis-" criminating factor in hiring, and airlines were ordered to give men a "fair chance and equal pay" for a job romanticized as being filled with travel, adventure, and fun. MIAMI (if) It took a Supreme Court ruling before Bill Flores could follow in his father's footsteps and take-over a job formerly reserved for females. Bill joined the airlines as a steward in 1972, nearly 20 years after his father, William Foles, started as a flight attendant aboard the old Super Constellations that carried about 80 passengers and "stopped in every cowhick town on the route." "BUT ABOUT 1958, business travel picked up and just arbitrarily the Pro duct Patent Tampans Yield Said. Crop i increase W'VhY 111 Wi i I fi -4" li creased the yields of cabbage, lettuce, corn, bell peppers and pole beans by 21 to 40 per cent in smaller scale tests, Grybek and Johnson reported. MORSE SAID a large chemical company would be testing the growth regulator on soybeans this fall in Florida.

Soybeans are a major protein source that has thus far defied the efforts of scientists to achieve" a production breakthrough. The grain is used in livestock and poultry feed in much of the world, and soybeans are consumed directly as ood by more than a billion people in East Asia. If the formula behaves on soybeans as it does, on other plants, it "would have quite an impact," said Bryan. Bryan also tested the product on corn and found that it caused the tips of the ears to fill out better. Beside increasing yields, the formula causes the fruit of crop plants to mature more uniformly, which facilitates mechanical picking, Grybek said.

change for one-fifth of its stock, financing some of the research, and about $12,000 in legal expenses in acquiring the patents. Morse said he would try to put the product on the market for use on tomatoes in about three weeks if UF's Dr. H. H. Bryan, who has been testing the product, agreed it was ready.

Bryan, however, said he wanted to do one more test on tomatoes as well as try it on potatoes and green string beans. The product already has in secretary-treasurer of Interment Corporation, 5025 Grace' St. It has increased yields from tomato crops as much as 60 per cent in tests done by the University of Florida's Agriculture Research and Education Center at Homestead. "WE THINK we have a very hot product," said Irwin M.D., president of Marketing and Research Services Inc. of Coral The firm was assigned the rights to the patent in ex By BOB BRINK Tribune Staff Writer Two Tampa scientists have been awarded patents for a plant growth regulator which has been shown to increase yields of vegetable crops, cause a more uniform rate of maturation, protect against freezing and aid plant growth in other ways.

The product, called Ag40, was developed over a period of about 15 years by Roland "Scotty" Grybek and F. Bertram Johnston, president and Following In Fathers9 Footsteps William A. Flores, 24, and Miss Bobbie Ash, 25, at center, are following in the footsteps of their respective fathers William Flores, at left, and Bob Ash, right. All four are airline flight attendants and pose in a jet cabin in Miami. J'Z "Mill Burglary Confession Described Search Sheriff Halts IT ALSO increases the resistance of the fruit of the plant to freezing, its developers said, which could have special-1 significance in Florida, where citrus crops especially, and also other crops, are grown in the winter.

The product's effectiveness is not due to any special process it causes in tbe; plant, its developers say. It simply makes the plant healthier, giv-. ing it added resistance to the conditions adverse to its growth and life. of the product initially was oriented toward use as a freeze resistor. Later, it was discovered that, the formula had the much For Little Oca la Girl From Page 1 cles which it claimed presented an in-depth examination of the city's operations, including the police department, and the political and economic forces at work in east Pasco.

It supported the move to oust the city manager. In publishing a photostatic copy of last montn's city telephone bills showing three long distance calls made by Nixon to Minneapolis, Pasco East asked "why?" adding that Nixon and Dexter had been close personal friends and constant companions. THE ARTICLE described Nixon's purchase of an airline ticket for Dexter (one-way from Minneapolis), Dexter's arrival at Tampa, being accompanied to the by Nixon, the burglary confession, the search of the radio station, the arrest of Webb and Dexter's return to Minneapolis. "Why, why, why, why," asked Pasco East, implying the entire incident was politically motivated. In reply, Nixon said he had shied away from the political controversy although his department had been attacked in a Pasco East editorial.

NIXON SAID he told Webb he (Nixon) was not a would take no' sides in the political struggle despite the fact that he had received word through the grapevine that he was marked to follow Pierce on the firing line. The chief admitted placing a call to Dexter July 18 and making the subsequent telephone calls. "Had I wished to keep the conversation a secret I wouldn't have used the city's telephone," he said. HE SAID when he returned Dexter's call, Dexter informed him he had committed a crime "and wished to return and wipe the record clean." "I went to the Dade City Travel Bureau in full uniform and bought a one-way ticket from Minneapolis to Tampa for Dexter," said the chief. "I had nothing to hide then and I don't now," he added.

NIXON CONTINUED: "On July 20, after Dexter arrived undergrowth, out of view of the aerial camera. Some stretches of the terrain are so thick some of the more than 2,000 searchers who at one 'time or another joined in the hunt could have passed within a few feet of the girl without being aware of it, Moreland stated. that took aerial photographs, of the huge search area between Ocala and Dunnellon. The pictures were examined yesterday. "They studied them very thoroughly.

They didn't see anything," Moreland said. He indicated the 2-year-old child could be concealed in dense here, I accompanied him to the state attorney's office in "the Dade City courthouse where his story was related to proper authorities." He said the former disc jockey cams here fully believ-, that in would be; charged with breaks ing and entering to commit a felony. "He had been informed by the state attorney's officet hat he faced a possibility "ef prosecution," said "and it wasn't discovered until later thatt he statute ofo imitations on the offense had expired," he said. Despite newspapera ccounts to the contrary, the chief said, Dexter remained here several hours in plain view of every-onea nd did not hirriedly, nor' was he "rushed to Tampa and put on a plane." "AND IT MIGHT surprise some people to learn that Dexter remained in Dade City at the home of friends until the following day," he said. "Pasco East wants to know the why of my role and I'll tell them," Nixon said.

"It's very simple. I'm an officer of the la and sworn to uphold my duty. When the time comes that I can no longer function in this capacity 1 1 will gladly resign my position," he said, adding that he would continue, to enforce the law in Dade City "equally and impartially regardless of whom it might affect." Phase One Of Starkey Well Field Is Okayed Garbage Rate Schedule Approved School Budget Gets Tentative Okay In Pasco wider benefit of increasing crop yields. AGIO'S MAIN ingredients are trash fish and lignin, material forming the skeletal structure in "plants and which gives them strength. Through a process called hydrolysis, the fish tissues are broken down into water-soluble fragments by boiling them in acid, and combined with the lignin.

A chemical reaction occurs, and alpha keto acids, the active ingredients, are formed. The product is produced synthetically treating amino acids, which are similar to alpha keto acids, with nitrite to form NIAA, or ni-trited amino acids. This process is less expensive. However, Bryan said he does not think NIAA would give resistance to cold as. does Ag40.

-i The developers and Bryan both said the product was made of natural ingredients and thus would have no deleterious effects. By AL LEE Tribune Staff Writer OCALA The long and te dious search for tiny Christi Davis, missing in dense wood- lands and swampy regions since July 29, was called off last night at dusk. Marion County Sheriff Don Moreland said it would be futile to continue the extended search another day. The girl could not have survived this long, he said, and finding her body in the dense wilds is considered virtually impossibleV He said the child's mother, 18-year-old Ruby Davis, ras-' "naturally very upset." But he said she was grateful for all the efforts that had been made to find her child. "I KNOW EVERYTHING humanly possible has been done to try and find my little girl," Mrs.

Davis said as she waited at the command post set up to direct the search for Christi Davis, Moreland said he had found no evidence to support the contention that the child might have been abducted. He called the abduction theory "a very remote possibility." "All the evidence points to the fact that she should be in those woods newhere, but just exactly w.iere we have never boon able to find. We may never," Moreland said. BEFORE GIVING UP searchers made a final attempt in the volunteer service of a U.S. Marine Corps aviation unit from Dallas, Texas, From Page 1 be left over," will probably Dunbar to lease the property to the county for use as a regional well field for west Pasco.

Chairman Derrill McAteer said the board would have to have further information available before approving the remaining two phases of the development program which. would eventually result in pumping 12 million gallons a day from the well field. He said the district would have to be sure the pumpage did not create a future shortage in city engineer to prepare paving and drainage plans for The Highlands. Also, the council authorized dog impounding officer Michelle Ebbecke to dispose of dogs who have' lived out their -15 day limit at the city pound by an injection. Council worn an Jean Borst iid Miss Ebbecke had re ceived training from Dr.

Charles Magill of Crystal Rivre who had agreed to sell the solution and hypodermics to the city. Tribune Bureau BROOKSVILLE The Southwest Florida Water Management District1 Governing Board yesterday approved the first phase of a three phase development of the Starkey Well Field in Pasco The initial phase calls for sinking a six-inch observation well and three 12-inch production wells on the property to supply four million gallons a day to the New. Port Richey water system. In conjunction with the well construction, the city will be required to conduct long term pumping tests on production wells as well as water table wells at different levels. The governing board turned down a request by Michael Gaylor, the city's consultant with Black, Crow, and i engineers, and Pasco County Atty.

Peter. "WIIAT WE'RE doing is NPR Not Liable For simply duplicating what na- Atty Boy's Injury- ture does in the topsoil," said Johnston. He said the formula has the same effect as "good, rich humus (organic part of topsoil)." Tribune Bureau INVERNESS The city council approved a commercial garbage rate schedule Tuesday night and turned it over to City Atty. D. J.

Brad-shaw to draw the necessary ordinance. The formula, worked out by Councilman Robert Ritz, is based oja a one-hour per week pick, up time at a cost of $31.20 per month. The rate is computed on a minute basis multiplied by 52 weeks. For example, if- it takes the city two hours and 15 minutes a week to pickup garbage at a commercial establishment, the 135 minutes are multiplied by 52, totaling 7,020 minutes a year. One per cent of this figure is used to compute the monthly rate of $70.20.

In other business, the council voted to spend $5,000 for aerial maps of 400 acres of Inverness Highlands South lying inside the city limits. The maps will be at one foot con-' tours and will be used by the Guest Minister Slated To Talk BAYONET POINT The Rev. David De Meza, United Church of Christ minister and English literature professor, will be guest minister at Saint Mark's United Church here for the last three Sundays of this month. De Meza, professor of English literature at Pasco-Hernando Community College, west Pasco campus, will conduct the 10 a.m. Sunday worship services for the three weeks beginning this Sunday.

Sermon subjects will be "the importance of little things," Aug. 12; "The Impor-. tance of Being Angry," Aug. 19; and "is there any word from the Aug. 26.

Canal Lawyers May Request set aside for that purpose. OTHER COST factors added to the budget included approval to air condition Pasco and Gulf Comprehensive High Schools at contracts totaling $65,468. Board members also approved a $6,500 bid price for the purchase of combination key-control locks. They will be used at Pasco High School and Pasco Juniod High School; Gulf High School and Gulf Junior High School; Ze-phyrhills High School and the Moore-Mickens Middle School. Officials privately predict the operating budget will come in at about $19 million and the capital outlay budge a abut $20 million.

They announced a public hearing on the budget will be held Aug. 21 at 9:30 p.m. in New Port Richey. THE EVENING meeting will be preceded by an afternoon session starting at 2 p.m. at which the public may register its feelings about the recommended 10-mill tax.

The millage hearing is in compliance iwth a new state law which in effect says the public must be given a chance to respond whenever the millage is in ebcess of the millage required to lroduce the dollar amount of the previoue A 10-mill tax last year produced $3,597,855. According to PWASCO County TXAX Assessor bted Williams, same amount, plus a 12Vfc per cent groath factor.can be produced ttis year with a school distric tmillage of 7.398. The schooldistrict tax roll of $561,913,308 is up 48 per cent over last year's tax roll of $378,721,639, Williams said. Presidential Aide Testimony SWFWMD Bans Irrigation During Day From Page 1 He said the farmers have it hard enough "and its things like this that are upping Woods said. A spokesman for a land developer adjoining St.

Petersburg's section 21 well field in northwest Hillsborough, questioned whether the board might not be penalizing the wrong parties. JAMES WADLEY, representing Cassa Properties said regulations should be directed at "consumptive users" such as Pinellas County and St. Petersburg. He added it appeared as if the district was attempting to stabilize a "bai situation" rather than correct it. "We realize the hardships this will cause, but we have no choice but to take every possible, step at our disposal," board chairman Derrill McAteer said.

The irrigation ban will be in effect from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. each day until the water crisis is over. Tribune Bureau NEW TORT RICHEY City Atty. Jack McPherson said yesterday a claim for damages of $5,500 for a 14-year-old boy allegedly injured in a fight at the city recreation center in 'April, cirriei, no liability as far as the city is cohcerned.

McPherson read a letter to the city council Tuesday night from the Clearwater law firm of Hcnninger and De Sano asking for the $5,500 settlement on behalf of their client Charles Burns Jr. BURNS WAS reportedly injured at the city recreation center, outside the building, by three other teen-agers. The letter claimed Burns suffered a contusion of the brain and cervical strain that he young man continues" to suffer from letter also said medical ex-' penses of more than $800 have been incurred. Terming the incident a "brutal beating," the letter claimed th recreation center lacked adequate supervision and city employes had erred in admitting three assailants "who had a known propensity for violence." MC rilKRSON SAID he had taken sworn statements from recreation director Robert Consalvo and other city employes present at the time of the incident. "There is absolutely no evidence that our employes knew a fight was going on," McPherson said.

"Nor was there any evidence that our employes were forewarned of the alleged violent nature of the assailants," the attorney said. "In addition the entire incident took place outside the building where our employes could not possibly have seen it," McPherson said. Neither Hcnninger nor De Sano was available for comment yesterday afternoon. ducted a study of the Oklawa-ha River Basin for President Nixon. In Tuesday's afternoon session, a college biology professor testified a U.S.

Forest Service environmental impact statement on the river basin was "emotionally-laden with poetry and pictures." DR. JOSEPH EDMISTEN of the University of West Florida said he approved of an alternate route for the if it were properly built and managed. The original route ran along, portions of the Oklawaha River between the St. John's River and Yanketcwn. to clarify a possible link between the House, the environmental group and the U.S.

Interior Department in blocking completion of. the canal project. Canal attorneys said if Johnsen refused to subpoena aide Robert Whitaker as "an equally valid alternative." JOHNSON SAID he would discuss the request for Train's testimony with canal lawyers but did not specify a date. Earlier in the trial, council chief scientist Lee Talbot had testified Whitaker advised him not to consider completion of the waterway as an alternative when Talbot con JACKSONVILLEIPi-Florlda "Canal Authority attorneys said yesterday they would call for testimony from a White House aide if they were prohibited from questioning the former chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality. The statement came in three-week old trial five suits aimed at settling the fate of Cross-Florida Barge Canal, which was halted by President Nixon In 1971.

CANAL ATTORNEYS told visiting U.S. Circuit Judge Harvey Johnsen that former council chairman Russell Train's testimony was needed 4.