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"Irjttami Wcdnasday Juni 1941 Station I Wankard Pooser Foe Is Way 9 Leader in Legislature made it here He's been a thorn House which returns Jackson By STEPHEN' TRUMBULL Herald Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE "Ninety-four 'ayes' Mr Speaker one nay" That has become a familiar call from the IKeiUnirjnis Tod IEnnirappe Jack Bell The Herald's Town Crier is off to Europe again He will report to Her aid readers what he sees of with something sounding more like a rural New England twang than pure Crackereese He was born in DeFuniak Springs giving that area as he says "a distinction of which few of them are He is quite the family man with six daughters five sons and six grandchildren "but don't call me grandpaw!" His wisecracks are legion and practically legend They are neatly turned Of a radio announcer who( had displeased him he said "he throws his jaws into gear before he gets his brain cranked up" His attack on Circuit Judge Clay Lewis here earlier in the session with Judge George Holt of Miami to lobby for the circuit judge's pay raise was a scorcher It halted the lobbying on this score but fast This is Pooser's second term here He served in the 1945 ses- Regarding that striking of the college educational degrees for the school superintendent he says that such degrees are no test that many holders thereof are "educated ignoramuses" In an unsuccessful campaign for state senator in 1935 he challenged John Wynn his opponent and a college graduate to a catch-as-catch-can educational test between the two of them with educators from the state university putting the questions Pooser was forced to quit school in the ninth grade but he did take some summer college courses while he was teaching The challenge was not accepted He then challenged his opponent for a contest on sixth grade examination questions That too was never publicly settled The cantankerous Pooser is Florida born though he speaks sion but left a week before it ended In a debate with his county colleague at the time over financial help for theix local hospital he made a faux pas which drew a storm of protest from fellow members Probably it was all in the heat of debate Probably he didn't realize the effect it would have on his college But in belittling the hospital he referred not unkindly to the then-recent death in that hospital of his colleague's baby He implied that bad hospital management contributed to the death The colleague broke into tears and the house roared its protest so angri-ly that Pooser asked to be excused for the remainder of the session In the current session he hasn't managed to arouse his fellow members to quite that pitch But he's come close The "nay" in all cases like that comes from one Rep Wankard Pooser a red-face bespectacled and often irascible 55-year-old member from Jackson county over to the west of here in the Florida Panhandle v- A self-educated school teacher-farmer for most of his life Wankard dropped the school teaching in 1937 and went into the house moving business as a supplement to the farming Now with all of the wrecking going on at old army installations in that area the tail is wagging the dog The house moving business is the number one business and Wankard is doing all right at it Apparently he's a pretty shrewd business man A large slab of his fellow members wish there had been so many houses to move that Wankard just couldn't have county to the school status it had before the passage of the face-lifting statewide educational bill of 1947 The bills return that county to the old multiple school districts and remove the college educational qualifi- cations for county superintend- ent But these died without a pray-L Alford of Grand Ridge which is in the th and then some and is in Pooser's county moved that the bills referred to the committee on Education Committee reference atthis late date is synon-omous with burial He has failed with a couple of general bills to help the house moving business Pooser's defense is that he is doing and has been doing all along precisely what he told his people he would do if elected in many a side The fellow has a barbed tongue and he is smart Some believe he is dangerously smart They believe that with a little build up and with his broad flair for demagoguery he might go quite far as a rabble rouser They even compare him to fel-lows who have made nationwide headlines in this field He's at his best when he is lambasting "these Tallahassee bureaucrats" (which covers everything from the board of education to the govrnor's office) He also has a favorite line about "these four star generals in the house" which is his term for some of the veteran house leaders Thus far his legislative achievement have been practically nil He got two local bills past the reading clerk as roll calls are taken on bills In the house of rep-r tatives here The number of "ayes" may vary according to the number of members engaged at the moment at the Western Europe's struggle on the road to recovery Bell will visit places he POSER saw as a war He'll com- soft drink stand in the corridor The lone "nay" doesn't vary-particularly if it Is a vote on any bill that would spend money i pare conditions there BELL Wazreiti's Decontrol Decision Awaited At Tallahassee -8 now with what he found during the fighting in World War II This time Bell also will go to Spain He will go to Madrid by way of Lisbon and visit Paris on the trip back to Germany Bell and his wife Nora left Miami Monday Thier schedule calls for a flight from Washington to Bermuda They will spend two days in Bermuda before flying on to Rome From Italy the Bells will go to Munich Salzburg Vienna Stuttgart Frankfurt and Berlin After the journey to Spain they will head for Hamburg Bremen and Bermerhaven to sail home Rollins College To Build Library Citrus Group Confused Over New Legislation WINTER PARK (JP) Rollins Reported Undecided On Veto Citrus Unit Is Renamed By Warren college will break ground for a $500000 library Wednesday Presi dent Hamilton Holt said Tuesday The building of Spanish-Mediter ranean design is the gift of Davella Mills Foundation Upper Montclair Hrrild Burean TALLAHASSEE Thursday is A five-story air-conditioned stack room will have space for 150000 volumes Further space for books the deadline for Gov Fuller War ren to act on the rent decontrol will be provided in the four reading bill and the latest word is he hasn't yet decided whether to veto TALLAHASSEE VP) Gov Warren named six new members of the State Citrus commission Tuesday and suggested the agency name Dodge Taylor as its chairman Warren also suggested the new 12-man group name rooms and reference rooms The building willbe finished in the summer of 1950 Dr Holt said it or let It become law without his signature I The regular session ends Friday (Funie) Steed of Orlando as its at noon providing time to override a veto if there is one Watch This Space Tomorrow For the start of a series of intimate and revealing articles about your favorite col-umnistn These profiles will take you back of the scenes with such famous writers as Pearson McLemore Winchell Billy Kose Ruark Bell Ko-foed Lippmann Pegler and others and tell you what makes them tick Interpretation of Florida's new cit-rus law left the industry mostly confused Tuesday George Copeland supervisor of the citrus inspection bureau in Winter Haven said his office would continue doing "as we were doing" until the Florida citrus commission issues regulations to put the new citrus law into workable form Because canners had large stocks of canned citrus on hand which would not -meet the law's qualifications for grade labeling legislators last week hastily amended the law to make its effective date Aug 1 Attorneys for Agriculture Commissioner Nathan Mayo ruled the effective date applies to "processed fruits" The amendment now is construed to include also fruit for fresh shipments because they are "processed" by washing grading sizing and packing With the industry operating as usual the provision of the new law allowing truckers to buy fruit 'direct' from groves and by-pass packing houses collides head-on with federal laws requiring fruit to be graded sized and labeled on the containers or lacking containers on each piece of fruit "Meanwhile the fede'ral marketing agreement committees recommended present size and grade regulations on both oranges and grapefruit be continued for another week Election of members to these two commitees the growers administrative and shippers advisory will be' held June 2 and Insurance Rates Drop Announced The five days in which the governor has to act on a bill after it reaches his desk extends on the rent decontrol measure until Thursday instead of Wednesday as first reported be cause of the intervening Sunday 4 A -t Passed 35 to 1 by the Senate and 60-22 by the House the de vS control bill has been resting on the governor desk since th House concurred Friday in Senate amendment exempting six coun ties and making Aug 15 the ef attorney Other than Taylor Warren named these new men to the commission: Tom Turnbull" of Winter Haven McDonald of Plant City and J-B Stephens of Lakeland Two holdover members were re-appointed by the government Minton of Fort Pierce and Bishop of Citra Taylor who was chairman of the governor's citrus advisory committee which drafted the new citrus law said he would resign his present post of chairman of the state improvement commission Meanwhile Nathan Mayo commissioner of agriculture said he would not enforce any provisions of the new citrus law until next season's crop The law becomes effective Wednesday The legislature already has "passed a law that would delay inspection" of processed citrus until Aug 1 Mayo said "we're going to finish up the season exactly as we are operating now" He added that inspection of- fruit now would "be too expensive and it wouldn't show a cooperative spirit" HERALD TOWN CRIER Jack Bell tmd his wife Nora wave a farewell to Florida as they board a plane for Washington from where they will depart lor a six-week trip through Europe Both Jack and Nora will write for The Herald while they are gone Senate Rebuff Blamed By Harris On Franklin KEY Senate refusal to accept Curry Harris as Gov Fuller Warren's choice for state attorney here brought a statement from Harris Tuesday that he was "not fective date Counties exempted are Monroe Bay Clay Santa Rosa Okaloosa and Walton all of which contain military bases Military authorities also 'sought to have rent control continued in four other counties with large bases Alachua Escambia" Orange and Volusia Senators representing those four counties cut them out of the exclusion amendment however Alachua contains not only a military- base but the University of Florida whose GI students have bombarded the governor with pro tests against decontrol Escambia county includes Pen-sacola with its network of navy bases and airfields and thousands During the tour of Austria and Germany and on the voyage home Bell will be traveling with the International Refugee Organization sponsored by the United Nations For the rest of the journey Bell will be on his own to tell Herald readers what he sees in Europe's highways and byways He plans to make' several recorded broadcasts for air ing over station WQAM This will be Bell's fifth trip to Europe He first went there as a machine gunner in World War I As a war correspondent in World War II he returned to Europe after covering the China Burma and India theater He was with American troops who fought through Italy and Western Europe and was almost captured during the Battle of the Bulge Bell went back to Europe to report the fall of Germany Last year he made another 'trip there to tell of conditions among displaced persons TALLAHASSEE (JP) of as much as 15 per cent in fire insurance rates on some properties were an-nounced Tuesday by State Insurance Commissioner Ed Larson They will mean premium savings of more than $1000000 for property owners in Florida Larson-said They were approved after he made a review of the experience of fire insurance companies operating in the state' (- The reductions apply state niilt on' new policies and renewals after July 1 Classes of property covered by the reductions are Mercantile and office buildings banks telephone ex-changes printing establishments and their contents Hotels boarding houses and clubs and their contents Public buildings (except schools) including hospitals and public homes and their contents Churches and their contents The reduction on churches is 10 per cent Reductions on the other classes are 15 per cent The reductions do not apply to risks of fire-resistive construe-' tion nor to those equipped with automatic sprinklers surprised" 'Deep Freeze White Check Forger Cools Off OCALA (TP) With what he calls his two-year "career" of check forging in Florida and Georgia at an end Charles Ross "Deep Freeze" White of Melbourne Tuesday had 12 years added to the mounting list of prison sentences he is receiving to make his total to date 31 years of servicemen Lake Worth Plans Action On Casino Military officials contend the servicemen rould not afford increased rents hich might come with decontrol Twenty-two counties headed by Escapee Held In $18000 Jewel Theft TAMPA VP) An escaped convict wanted in South Carolina and Mississippi was bound to federal court here Tuesday on a charge of transporting across state lines about $18000 in jewelry stolen from an Austin Tex store The defendant said he was best Dade Duval and Hillsborough-Miami Jacksonville and and more than 250000 living units are still under rent control in Florida "Such a move was not unexpected from a man of Jim Franklin's caliber" Harris said Sen James A Franklin Fort Myers is senator- from this district Harris received an iterim appointment as state attorney from former Gov Millard Caldwell The Senate in executive session this week refused to confirm his appointment by Warren to a full term "You can quote me as saying that I have a letter from Franklin dated April 28 in which he says he did not support the governor for election but that he would support the governor in regards to his choice of appointments" Harris said Political circles here believed either Harris will be given an interim appointment by Warren after the legislature adjourns or that will submit another name to the Senate probably that of Lancelot Lester former city attorney LAKE WORTH off icials said Tuesday that in all likelihood some action w'buld tee taken by the city commission on the matter Many communities have begun separate action through their city known as John Carlson but commission to decontrol rents of casino improvements at next admitted also using the names Forrest Van Loon Ryder and Fred Reagan He is 49 Monday night meeting The overall improvement prospect calls for an -addition to the old structure of a 50 100 ft State Highway Death Toll is 16 in April TALLAHASSEE UP) Sixteen persons were killed and 422 injured in Florida traffic accidents during April the state department of public safety reported Tuesday State Highway patrolmen investigated 703 accidents and gave first aid to 176 persons at the scene of wrecks Other patrol activities reported by the agency included recovery of 35 automobiles and Carlson pleaded innocent He White was given sentences of one year each in 12 cases of check forging In Marion county the sentences to run consecutively last year and this year He was arraigned before Circuit Judge Hocker and plead guilty to informations filed against him in 13 cases The judge suspended sentence in the 13th case The middle-aged forger who has been very affable and talk-ative since he was brought to Ocala on a tour of numerous courts had received sentences totaling 19 years in seven South Florida counties before arriving here He was arraigned in Sarasota Charlotte Lee Hendry Glades Desota and Manatee counties prior to his appearance in court in Marion county From Ocala he will probably be taken to Gainesville it was believed here Class of '33 Gathers in Lauderdale annerr the top floor to be used as told Commissioner Paul Pinterton he had bought the jewelry in good faith from various retailers in Oklahoma City a dance hall with several store rooms on the ground floor Some remodeling 'of' the old building erected in 1921 is ex Little Theater Play 'Laura' Opens Tonight Hrrald Bureau FORT A mur-der which backfires and a detective who falls in love with the" murder victim after her "death' are only a few of the situations which develop in "Laura" the He was arrested in St Petersburg in connection with another jewelry theft of which he has been cleared In his possession was pected in the plans The west wing severely hit by the September storm of 1947 probably can be saved according to Mayor Baker: He-with city commission 84 to Graduate At Vero Beach the jewelry which Austin Detective Ted Klaus said came from the looted store there Immediately after the hearing Wade Fined $500 in Court At Ft Pierce -vr Herald Srice FORT PIERCE Wade this city paid a fine of $500 and costs amouming to $56722 in Circuit Court here Tuesday in lieu of a six month' jail sentence on a charge of Assault and Battery Wade was found guilty in last Fall's term of court of assault with intent to commit rape Defense counsel filed motion of a new trial on grounds the crime was not committed in this county Judge A Kanner reached the conclusion that the evidence did not warrant the verdict of assault with intent to commit rape rather sustained a conviction of assault and battery denying the motion for a new trial and making the sentence other property worth $765 ers has been studying plans drawn by Edgar Wortman recent city commissioner VERO BEACH Eightv-four The entire front of the casino Carlson was turned over to Mississippi officers to be returned to the Parchman Miss prison to serve the three years remaining on a six-year sentence for bur students will graduate from the the Vero Beach High School this current play being presented by the Fort Lauderdale Little Theater at the flight deck theater would present a much better appearance than the old provides the mayor said Patrolmen helped 778 motorists with flat tires 714 who were out of gas 928 with engine trouble and 719 who needed a variety of aid They gave information including directions road conditions and points of interest to 12340 motorists during the month Laura was a smash-hit first as a serial then as a book then week The closing exercises all of which will take place in the high school auditorium have been announced by Willard Chinn su Cost of the whole improvement is expected to be $175000 met on the New York 6tage and final- through issuance of revenue 13' in the movies pervising principal as follows: certificates against casino earnings glary He also is wanted in South Carolina where he escaped from a prison after serving four of 10 years given for stealing rare books There was no indication when he might be tried on the federal charge Friday June 3 8:15 Class Night program including the presentation of awards Sunday June 5 2:13 Bac Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDALE The Fort Lauderdale High school class of 1933 held its 16th annual reunion' at the community building in Davie Saturday night Thirty-one class members and 29 guests gathered for a barbecue ribs and covered dish supper Edwin Pole acted as master of ceremonies Letters from some of the absent members were read The class mascot Barbara Long Mrs Max Chapman and Miss Dorothy Darrow were honor guests Class members present were Olive Alderman Sutton Helen Baird Brown Irving Beck Frank Pen-nett Howard Bromwell Carolyn Burba Long Mary Cabot Bailey Sam Cooper Ashton Coughenour Marion Davis Cameron Dr Clarence Edewaard Mary Elmore Molyneux Dr Charles Forman Emil Fossler Paula Gallagher Mac-namara Anna Eide Griffin Hammer Marie Holman Courson Maijor-ie Horton Hyde Fred Jones Long Elizabeth Malone Springer Allene Marshall Anglin Dixie Millard Carson Ruth Millete' Willie Mae Newton Cain Edwin role Karen Priest Smith George "Prue" Slaton Everett "Cappy" West Evlyn Whelan Kelley and George Young calaureate program with the Rev So demanding are the lines and situations and so much genuine acting ability is required that the local theatrical group decided to fill the cast entirely with experienced players Direction of the play was put Martin Bram rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal church of Sarasota Fires City 3Ianager Herald Service West Palm Beach delivering the Hospital Board Named hy Warren TALLAHASSEE (UP) Appointment of 10 men to the newly-created northwestern and southwestern Palm Beach County Public Hospital boards was announced Tuesday by Gov Fuller Warren For the northwestern board: Albert Premd Canal Point One year Geiger Canal Point and Thomas Pahokee two years: Orin Bacon and A Bat-chelor both of Pahokee three years For the southwestern board: Thomas Lake Harbor one year Herbert Beck and George Royal both of Belle Glade two years Stein Chosen and Harold Rabin Belle Glade three years Both boards were created by the current legislature sermon Wednesday June 8:15 Seaboard Gels Streamline Cars JACKSONVILLE Seaboard Airline Railway will add Carl Bischoff city Commencement program with presentation of diplomas Speaker will be DrJ Broward Culpepper dean manager since last July 1 was ousted Tuesday in a surprise move by the Sarasota city commission of Student Welfare Florida Slate 31 stainless steel cars to its stream Reprieve Granted To Ex-policeman MARIANNA (UP) A former Marianna policeman was granted a 60-day reprieve Tuesday before he begins a 20-year sentence to allow him to complete his agriculture training under the G-I bill of rights Gov Warren granted the stay of sentence for Andrew Austin 32 who was convicted of slaying Marvin Morse Morse whom Austin was arresting died of blackjack blows en the head Two trials for Austin ended in mistrials He was convicted and sentenced finally in July 194S The attorney who obtained the reprieve was Amos Lewis former state senator circuit judge and political advisor to the governor Charles Pickett city treasurer University Tallahassee 'Boots' Tibbetts The S0-acre grove and beautiful home of John Meadows and wife on Orange Avenue extension has been bold to Yates and wife at a consideration of $55000 Deed filed in circuit court clerk's of-fice Tuesday reveals Two other sizeable transactions on Fort Pierce beach both in the amount of $11300 each are filed also One is a residence on Binney Drive sold by Fort Pierce beach Development co to Edward Eden and wife The other is the two-story Ann Baker building on Seaway drive sold to John and Isaac Pitts iii the hands of Frank' Hainey the group's most experienced di-rector Hainey himself plays the male lead The feminine lead is taken by Marjorie Bane whose work in "Personal Appearance" The Man Who Came to Dinner" and "Dear Ruth" has proved her outstanding ability The remainder of the cast consists of Myrtle Higgins Helen Short Bob Berg Paul Taylor Tony Kozla and Marc Fountain all of whom have appeared with great success in recent local productions Beginning at 8:30 Tuesday the play will continue nightly through Saturday Gets Scholarship liner fleet general passenger agent Roland Bradley said Tuesday The cars vill be used with the silver meteor and the silver star on the New York to Florida runs and on the silver comet on its New York to Birmingham run Each car has 10 room-ettes and six double bedrooms Bradley said They weign one-third less than conventional Pullmans FORT LAUDERDALE Miss and tax collector took over as acting city manager effective immediately Bischoff 53 said the "action was a complete surprise" to him He told the commission he would like to remain until Nov 1 at least to complete work on sewer water and other improvement programs But the commission insisted he resign at once he said Major John 1 1 Robertson who presided at the special commission meeting said Bischoff's "resignation -was accepted In the Alberta "Boots" Tibbetts daughter of Mr and Mrs Al Tibbetts 1113 Second St has been awarded a LaVerne Noyes scholarship to Purdue University to become effective in September Lake Worth Seeks Rent Decontrol Miss Tibbetts will graduate this month from Pine Crest school where she was awarded the Beta best interests of the city" He gave 4-H Clubs Meet TALLAHASSEE (JP) The 2Sth annual state 4-h short course for Negro boys and girls began at Florida A and College for Negroes Monday with more than Club scholarship for this year no specific reason for the commission asking Bischoff to resign She is an outstanding student and an excellent diver having 300 delegates present just won a place on the All-Florida swimming team Medical School Gets TALLAHASSEE The Senate received a bill Tuesday which would et up a $150000 appropriation for the proposed State Medical College at Gainesville The measure was introduced by Sen John Matnews Jacksonville The money would be used for architectural and engineering work on the college so that plans for its construction can be ready for the 1951 Legislature which must appropriate the money for it Infant Dies LAKE WORTH Chester Van Fish Pond Owner Fined in Shooting MARIANNA Clyde Poston 53 co-owner of a fish pond near Bascom was fined $500 Monday In Jackson circuit court for aggravated assault in the shooting of his partner Arthur Jenson 28 Poston was found guilty May 26 of shooting Jenson a Greenwood Fla resident in the head arm and side following an argument over management ot the fish pond LAKE WORTH Lake Worth city officials" are hopeful that ent decontrol will be established in Lake Worth through the general decontrol act in the legislature Mayor' Baker said Tuesday However should that law fail to become operative for any reason he said that the city would at once hold a hearing and ask for decontrol He pointed out that nearby coastal communities both to the north and south of Lake Worth have been decontrolled and that he saw no reason why decontrol would be denied to Lake School Classes Slate Programs FORT LAUDERDALE The second in a series of closing programs will be given by grades three through eight of Trinity Lutheran school at 8 pm Tuesday at the high school auditorium The third and fourth grades will present an opera "The Pied Piper In Mexico" The fifth and sixth grades will give a playlet and a baton drill assisted by other grades Housewarining Party Is Held WILTON Neighbors of Mr and Mrs Frank Miller gathered at their new home 301 21st st Sunday night for surprise housewarming party Games were played and ther was a large cake decorated with the design of the honorees' new home and their name The Ilillers were presented with a firplact set of brass Garden Course Set GAINESVILLE (JP) Garden Line Opening Delayed Boren 18-month old son of Mr and Mrs James Boren Lake Worth rd JACKSONVILLE At died Monday Besides his parents lanta to Jacksonville-air service he leaves a brother James and a scheduled to begin Wednesday by Southern Airwavs Inc has been club members from all sections of Florida will attend a three-day course at the University of Florida starting June 7 It will feature development and maintenance of small home grounds sister Annie Private services will be at Pinecrest cemetery at 11 a Wednesday with burial by Lake Worth funeral home postponed until June 25-the company said Tuesday Worth.