The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 18

Hew Expansion of alter System Ur Sljje Restaurant Use Contract Prompts or to jerald tarot Inside i Broward Tuesday January 6 1953 Section 0 Link Asked For Study Of Bridge HENRY KINNEY JOHN SENNING Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDALE Decision of the city commission to sell water to a restaurant in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea led Mayor Lewis Moore to propose Monday that the city undertake another large water expansion program going to have to the mayor declared going to take care of all the customers we can get or limit think we should prepare ourselves to take care of the customers Bahia-Mar Equipment Promoters Seeking iBahia-Mar Besiege City THE POSSIBILITY of laying hands on such a juicy article as $2500000 Bahia-Mar Yacht Club has excited all kinds of promoters and schemers since the city regained possession of it All city officials have had to listen to a steady outpouring of proposals from all directions One man who buttonholed an official with a proposition for a lease tossed hundreds of thousands of dollars around with reckless abandon but wound up by asking for a job at the basin Another put in a handsome bid for a lease on the restaurant and bar considerably higher than the $20000 offered by the successful bidder Charles Knight Investigation of the connections showed however an unsavory background and a credit rating of pretty close to zero Sharp business heads agree with city officials incidentally that the Knight bid was a surprisingly good deal for the city He first bid $20000 for a lease but when the city commission decided to lease for only six months he quibble but offered the same amount for the shorter period 4 Bridge-Tunnel Fight May Return Home Associated Press Wirephoto forcement officer Dwight Yelvinson Daytona Beach Aubrey Martin Panama City Starry Ocala Robinson Orlando Wolfe Sarasota A Williams Jr Polk and -Pat Gallagher West Palm Beach LAYING DOWN THE LAW Sam Davis left new state beverage director wags a finger at district supervisors of the department at a meeting in Tallahassee He told them to enforce the law honestly From left are Davis John Stafford chief en- For Triangle Shooting Trial SE Third Avenue Project Involved I Herald Bureau FORT Mayor Lewis Moore asked City Manager Milton Link Monday to begin a study of whether the city could build a SE Third ave bridge over New river and a side causeway to the beach Moore said he also intends to ask that the city investigate the possibility of constructing a municipal parking garage on the site of the city-owned parking lot on Broyard blvd 1 Plans for such a garage were drawn by Philpott former city manager some years ago the mayor revealed Construction could be financed with an issue of revenue certificates without cost to taxpayers he pointed out Parking garages using automobile elevators have been adopted by numerous cities-as a solution to traffic congestion Moore said our traffic plans be much good unless we can get parked cars off the he added In the final seconds of a seven-minute commission meeting the mayor instructed Link to study the question of construction of a Third ave bridge and a south side cause-way with city funds the State Road not going to do anything the city will have to do Moore declared referring to the bogged-down $19-000000 SRD bridge-tunnel pm gram for the county which in eludes a bridge at SE 17th st Link pointed out that the new state road board has scheduled its initial meeting for Jan 7 Validation of a $15000000 bond issue for the entire SRD program was argued last week in Leon county Circuit court in Tallahas see but a decision has Pot been given Regardless of the outcome a Supreme court suit is expected to follow SRD engineers have calculated the cost of a south side causeway at $800000 to $900000 No official estimate has ever been made as to the cost of a' Third ave bridge but engineers have put the figure at about $750 000 Plans previously suggested for a span at this site have called for making Third ave a main north-south artery with one-way traffic through midtown complementing one-way traffic in the opposite direction over the Andrews ave bridge 2 Key Witnesses Missing THE BRIDGE-TUNNEL battle has been restricted to Tallahassee for the past few months because of the bond validation suit in Circuit court there However it may be back on the local scene in a big way Jan 13 when Tom Manuel of Fort Lauderdale this State Road Board member i County Solicitor Otis Farrington said Monday that he will proceed with prosecution despite the failure to locate the two Williams is charged with assault with intent to commit first degree murder The charge stems from a shooting July 1 in which Kokkins suffered a near-fatal wound The 39-year-old Williams own hears budget requests here County commissions from nine south Florida counties in the fourth SRD district will present their requests to Manuel over a two-day period Broward delegation scheduled to appear at high noon on the 13th The occasion is expected to draw a large delegation of local citizens invaluable in cases where people back home want to locate people who are down here and know where Of course he admits there are some visitors who come here hoping they be found At any rate there are some 1300 names on the books at this writing Winter Visitors Can Locate Friends Station Planned Ex-DuMont Heads Dale THE CHAMBER of Commerce has a registration book for all winter visitors to Fort Lauder-'dale and Secretary Dick Ward says there are numerous advantages to registering can find friends from their own cities or says Dick we file them that way And often Talks Due Judge Indicates Nature of Ruling Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDALE Negotiations for an amicable agreement between- the city and Bahia-Mar Caterers relative to the yacht basin bar and restaurant equipment will be resumed Tuesday morning If no agreement is reached it appears certain all equipment in the club will be removed In this case Charles Knight who has leased the club from the city for six months would be forced to close the club until he could the place himself He has previously estimated it would take him three weeks While no court' order was handed down Monday Judge Lamar Warren made it clear-to the litigants what his decision will be 'He said that he does nottye-lieve it proper for the city to use equipment and will issue a restraining order to prevent it On receipt of a petition from city attorneys- the judge said he would also agree to dissolve a temporary restraining order to allow Caterers to remove the equipment from the club The city obtained this order last week after claiming it has a valid lien against the equipment based on unpaid rent due from the xid Bahia-Mar Corp Carl Hiaasen attorney forrlhe city pointed out that if both restraining orders remained in force the city would be prevented from using the club premises in any way Judge Warren deferred his ruling pointing out that it would probably be to the advantage of both parties if some agreement could be worked out Conferences began with city officials and officials alternately consulting one another vice president Norbert Miller Indicated that his lem wants some cash He apparently has rejected a proposal to put the entire cost of the equipment in escrow pending settlement of the lien litigation If a final agreement is reached it will probably call for the qjty to buy4 a portion of the equipment for cash putting the cost of the remainder in pscrow Any such agreement would have to be approved by the city commission before it would be final Commissioner Charles White was present for much of negptiation talks Later he commented that He did not say what his attitude towards the suggested compromise agreement would be He has previously indicated that if any money is paid to Caterers for any purpose he would bring a suit as a holder of BahiaIaf bonds Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDADE Mortimer Loewi an organizer and former executive of the DuMont television network in New York has purchased a one-quarter interest in and become president of the Gerico Investment Co of Fori Lauderdale holder of one of the local television channels 0 The announcement was made by George English Jr promi- When Are Yule Decorations Coming Down? A VOLUNTEER SCOUT for this column suggests to responsible that about time for Fort Christmas street decorations to come down A motor trip northward by the by discloses numerous poor little Southern towns which did as good or better in their street decorations than one of the lushest resort communities in the world Denmark SC for example made our lighting look pretty picayune Solution Proposed' for Those Hard Floors BROWARD COUNTY schools differ from those in Dade county in one major respect all new schools here have hardwood floors instead of concrete (terrazzo) The wood is more or less attributable to teacher preference The instructors who stand on their feet most of the day in a classroom care for those hard stone floors the other hand there are two disadvantages to wood floors they cost more and they result in much higher fire insurance rates Which moved one critic to comment the teachers have rubber mats to stand on and accept concrete Chefs Illness Dampens Gala Opening CITY OFFICIALS and various people-about-town turned up at what was to have been a gala opening of the Out of This World Inn at Hallandale Saturday night It so gala Just about the time the first of the guests were arriving owner-chef Herb Brooks came down with a res-piratory ailment and was hustled off to a Miami hospital That was the end of the food partner in the venture is Bob Loei the youngest New York television producer on record He started in 1936 the TV stone age when only 24 er of a juke box firm allegedly shot Kokkins in a jealous rage because of the relationship between Kokkins and Mrs Williams At -the time of the shooting Kokkins was in the swimming pool of a Hollywood motel with Mrs Williams The Williamses were separated at that time They laterwere reconciled but are now again estranged Executive TV Firm nent Fort Lauderdale attorney and secretary of the corporation entry into the firm is subject to the approval of the Federal 'Communications Commission which must approve all such transactions English added Loewi is a member of the New York Stock Exchange and has had wide industrial interests He wras a close associate of Dr Allan DuMont pioneer television inventor in the early development of telecasting and was Dr assistant after he formed and became president of the DuMont network Loewi confirmed his purchase of an interest in the -local firm in Hallandale Saturday His son Robert a former producer and daytime program director for the DuMont network is part owner of a restaurant-hotel the Out Of This World Inn at Hallandale The Gerico Investment Co was formed last year by Eng-lish Judd Fort Lauderdale real estate broker and Richardson a local building contractor and holds a permit for TV channel 17 Judd was president before-Loewi and remains an officer The same individuals are also officers of the Broward Broadcasting Co which operates station WBRQ Plans are being developed for construction of the television station WITV on Peters rd west of State Road 7 as well as for two new transmitting towers for WBRD which has been granted night broadcasting hours and an increase in power from 250 to 1000 watts Arrested in Raid FORT LAUDERDALE Constable Dan Overton and a deputy picked up six men Sunday on gambling charges stemming from a carnival operation in North Broward west of Pompano Beach Overton reported that he confiscated three dice tables and three roulette wheels in the raid X-Rays for 30000 agrees that we're going to have 100000 people here in the next few years We have to he ready to take care of them before they eonie not wait until after they get here and then tell them we have enough Reversing its established policy of not selling water outside the city limits juntil all demands of local consumers have been met the commissioners Monday agreed to sell a small amount to a restaurant to be opened in Lauderdale-By-The-Sea in a building owned by Stephen A Calder Fort Lauderdale real estate developer Shelby Dale told the commission the enterprise would use only about 500 gallons a day The vote of approval was unanimous Moore in suggesting a further expansion of the water supply facilities pointed out that additional revenue bonds can be issued against the water income" water he added the best revenue producer the city has in the water business a utility and a utility must plan ahead We must plan just like the power company and the telephone The city is still in process of spending $1500000 realized from a water bond issue of 1951 The last of the money is to be used for construction of the new filtering plant at Prospect field aring Set Wednesday On Broadwalk Herald Bureau HOLLYWOOD Fla The Hollywood beach broadwalk extension hearing was extended Monday after a full day of testimony to Wednesday at 1:30 pm in Fort Circuit court The day was spent hearing testimony by beach apartment owners who took out a court order Nov 24 to halt broadwalk extension by the city The plaintiffs Frank Schissel and Louis Katz were joined in court Monday by the Dew Realty Co Stephen Micco Michael Weninger Yeager and Arthur Schaffer Jr The original plaintiffs Micco and Yeager testified in court The property owners claimed that in the past they were assured by the city that the broadwalk would not be extended Yeager admitted however that he signed a letter permitting removal of his private patio if the walk would be constructed The City of Hollywood has not yet introduced its case as to why it has the right to extend the broadwalk Fire Damages Dania Home i DANIA A fire which started from an undetermined origin raced through a six-room frame house Monday afternoon at 113 SW Park st and- virtually destroyed the interior of the dwelling before local fireman could even begin to fight the blaze The house belonged to Ralston whose wife Lillian discovered the blaze in one of her rooms Mrs- Ralston said that she and her three young children were outdoors when she saw smoke pouring through one of the windows Ralston said he estimate the loss caused by the fire but that the house was covered by insurance Tender Sails KEY WEST The -submarine tender USS Gilmore left here Monday for a three-day open-sea operational training voyage the Navy announced One of the machines will be permanently stationed at the Doric -Temple 100 SE First ave -in Fort Lauderdale and give examinations daily except Sunday and Monday between 11 am and 2 pm 3 pm and pm On Tuesday other machines will be at the Fort Lauderdale High School: the Deerfield Beach city hall from 1 to 4 pm and 5 to 8 pm and at Attucks Negro High school In Liberia during the same hours X-rays will be made at Fort Lauderdale High School again on Wednesday at Central Catholic High School on Thursday morn- Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDALE The state apparently will have to prosecute Gordon Williams on an attempted murder charge Tuesday without its two leading-witnesses The office reported Monday that neither the victim of the shooting James Kok-kins nor wife Nancy have been located for i service of witness subpoenas 2 Pedestrians Injured in Auto Mishaps Herald Bureau HOLLYWOOD Hollywood police reported Monday that the weekend the tail end of the long holiday season was relatively quiet except for several minor traffic accidents Two persons required medical attention Police said that a Dania Negro woman Ruby Curr 32 of 227 NW Fifth ave was attended for contusions and abrasions of the head and left hand in a Fort Lauderdale hospital Saturday evening after she stepped back in front of a moving car on Federal hwy The woman said she was crossing the highway and rfioved back to get out of the way of an approaching car when she was hit by the other auto driven by Mrs Maude Milner 64 of 1711 Washington st Mrs Milner was not held on any charge Also involved in a pedestrian-vehicle accident Saturday was Emil Paquette 59 of 910 N- 18th ave Paquette was struck by a bus driven by Clarence Lindsay 32 of Dania The accident occurred when Paquette who said he did not see the vehicle stepped in front of the bus as it was making a left turn at 18th ave and Garfield st Paquette was treated in a local hospital for contusions and abrasions of his right arm Police said that the bus driver was not held Groundbreaking Set for Drive-In FORT LAUDERDALE City and county officials will be present Tuesday morning for ground breaking ceremonies for a new drive-in Jtheater at North Andrews ave and Prospect -rd The drive-in is being built by Wometco Theaters It will accommodate 1000 cars and have seats for 300 walk-in patrons As part of the ground breaking ceremonies a time capsule filled with data and predictions for the next 25 years will be buried The capsule will be opened in 1978 Mrs Sawyer 87 Lauderdale Dies FORT LAUDERDALE Mrs Aliee Cora Sawyer 87 died Monday at her home 2614 Castilla Is The body will be sent to Lancaster by the Fairchild Funeral Home A native of Perry county Mrs Sawyer came here five years ago from Pleasantville Surviving are two daughters Mrs Ned Wolfe of Fort Lauderdale and Mrs Thomas Morgan of Pleasantville and a sister Mrs Frank Foye of St Petersburg four grandchildren and five great grandchildren She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale The family has requested that flowers be omitted 3Irs Rickey 62 Fatally Stricken FORT LAUDERDALE Mrs Cora Bell Rickey 62 Eagle Trailer Park died early Sunday en route to Broward General Hospital following' a heart attack The body will be sent to Wells-ville Tuesday by the Fairchild Funeral Home Mrs Rickey came here from Wellsville a month ago Survivors include her husband Clyde and a son Robert of Lauderdale Trace of Frost Cold Damage Slight For Broward Crops i Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDALE Broward multi-million-dollar fruit and vegetable crop came through Monday cold snap with negligible damage This was the opinion voiced Real Estate Sales Exceed 115 Million Herald Bureau FORT LAUDERDALE Real estate sales in Broward county in 1952 exceeded $115000000 according to the final report of the year from the Fort Lauderdale Board of Realtors 1 The total of $115269500 was a gain of some 15 per cent over the record figure of $99268700 established in 1951 Compared with the 1930 total of slightly over $75000000 the 1952 mark showed an increase of 53 per cent Sales during the last week of the year amounted to just under $2500000 compared with $1851-500 for the final week of 1951 Transactions averaged slightly over $2210000 a week for the year approximately $300000 more than the average in 1951 Clarence Snyder Engineer FORT LAUDERDALE The body of Clarence Snyder 72 of 1515 NE Sixth a visitor 'from Grosse Point Park Mich who died in Broward General Hospital Sunday was sent to Detroit by the Fairchild Funeral Home A winter resident for 12 years Mr Snyder was a retired execu tive of the Snyder Tool and Engineering Co of Detroit He was a 32nd Mason a member of the Shrine and the Detroit Engineering Society With him here was his wife Sarah Two daughters and two brothers also survive Winter Visitor Dies in Cleveland FORT LAUDERDALE Funeral services were held in Cleveland Monday for Silas Weygant Johnson 80 a Fort Lauderdale winter resident for many years who died Sunday in Cleveland Mr Weygant a retired college professor made his home in Hollywood from 1942 to 1949 He was a member of the Masonic lodge and Rotary International Surviving are his wife Julia three children Mrs A Taylor of Fort Lauderdale Mrs Harold Allsop of Pittsburgh and-Dr Lo-rand Johnson of Cleveland and three grandchildren Mrs Landymore Visitor Dies FORT The body of Mrs Jessie Pearl Landy-more 65 a winter visitor from Dawson Pa who died early Sunday has been sent by the Fair-child Funeral Home to West Newton Pa Survivors include her husband John a son and a daughter in Dawson and a sister Mrs May of Lauderdale Hitch Hikers Rob Marine FORT LAUDERDALE County authorities are looking for two young men who robbed an Opa-locka Marine of $70 and his car early Sunday The Marine Abram Perry Stryker reported that he picked up the pair north of Palm Beach where they were hitch hiking On state road 7 north of Fort Lauderdale one man stuck a gun in his ribs and ordered him to pull over Stryker said They tied him up with his tie and belt and left him lying along side the road after taking his money the Marine said Second Nevins Suit Thursday FORT LAUDERDALE The second of three suits brought to evict the Nevins Drug chain from three Broward county stores will be tried in County court at 10 am Thursday James Breeding is attempting to have the Nevins firm evicted from stores in Fort Lauderdale Hollywood and Dania for non-payment of rent He has already won a suit involving the Fort Lauderdale store However eviction has been held up pending an appeal to the Supreme Court trial will involve the In other appointments Crowells named Herbert Burke county commissioner as donations chairman for the Republican Club Col Joseph Watson city manager chairman of municipal donations and Mrs Eugene Gay chairman of Sinawik Club donations Pupils of the Temple Beth Sho-lem and Jewish Community Center religious schools have received dime cards and also will take part in the drive yield but the extent cannot be measured Cucumbers are most susceptible to the cold Hogan said with beans and squash also falling into the tender category Egg plants and peppers are hardier plants County Agent Lawton affirmed findings and added that other areas of the county particularly Davie also appeared to have escaped any serious damage Lowest temperatures reported were in the Davie area and northwest of Pompano Beach The mercury dipped to nearly 32 at these I Ingalls mayor of Hallandale in locations Nov 4 general elections Hollywood store Republican Victor Takes Seat Today HOLLYWOOD Fla Herbert Burke first Republican candidate elected to the county commission will take his seat on the commission Tuesday replacing Smith who was a commissioner for 16 years The Hollywood attorney defeated Democratic candidate Foster Kerschner Rites Set for 2 Today HOLLYWOOD Fla Mrs Me-rial Kerschner 53 of 2121 Van Buren st died Sunday in a local hospital A resident here for 27 years Mrs Kerschner was a native of Lincoln Neb She was a registered nurse a member of the local American Legion auxiliary and a charter member of the Pioneer Club Survivors include her daughter Mrs Robert Waitzman of Chu- la Vista Cal and a son Donald of West Hollywood Services will be held Tuesday at 2 pm in the Hollywood Mortuary with Dr Robert Fry of the First Presbyterian Church officiating'' Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery Fort Lauderdale irig Beach High School Thursday afternoon Lanier Righ School at Hallandale Friday' and South Broward High School Friday and Monday On Wednesday one machine will be in the Deerfield Beach Negro section from 4 to 8 pm On one will be at Grocery on Riverland rd Fort Lauderdale from 5 to 8 pm and another at the county health department clinic in Pompano Beach from 1 to 4 pm and 5 to 8 pm Those whose X-ray reports are negative will be notified by post card Persons whose films Indicate need of further examination will be advise- by letter Mass TB Survey To Open Today Monday by both County Agent Lawton and Hogan manager of the Pompano State Farmers Market Hogan said he noticed slight frost traces on an early morning trip into the vegetable growing areas of North Broward county It was not sufficiently heavy to do any damage he said The cold weather itself no doubt lias had an adverse effect on the crops the manager reported It has retarded maturity and probably cut the Special Events Set Dimes Drive Herald Boreau HOLLYWOOD Fla With the holiday season over the annual March of Dimes campaign in Hollywood is expected to pick up momentum according to Crowells chairman Crowells said Monday that with the Hollywood quota set at $10-000 virtually all committee and organization appointments have been made Several benefit dances and special events will be held this month and sponsored by local clubs and organizations Pushed in Hollywood Herald Bureau FORT A three-week mass survey of Broward population for tuberculosis will begin Tuesday starting simultaneously in Fort 'Lauderdale Deerfield Beach and Liberia An effort will be made to give chest X-rays to 30000 persons according to Mrs Nash Williams president' of the Broward County Tuberculosis and Health Association Four X-ray machines supplied by the State Board of Health will be able to make 2000 X-rays a day she said Only persons 15 years old or older will be examined The Black Forest theater-restaurant will present a dance and show Jan 13 at 8:30 pm with proceeds going to the dimes fund The local American Legion post also will sponsor a March of Dimes dance Jan 23 at the post home with A Schlein as chairman and Jerry Rumsey as co-chairman The Hollywood Club already has made a donation to the fund in memory of Charles Smith a elub member who recently died -v.