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fr' i Saturday June 8 lsitifl ME MIAMI IIEUALI 10 I i i TTymyTTTI" W'T-'A 1 Overpopulation A-Threat Cited 1 For Home Delivery tarot Section The Miami Herald Melbourne--AL 4-2851 (m fc) NE 6-4044 287-6151 Saturday June 8 1963 Brevard Complete Stale Nchs All Actor Learns a Lesson Cape Comments Oli How 'Load Will Shift to Somebody Else shoot cam springing up out of my corner made two lunges and fell exhausted on my face including Day's Journey Into on Broaduay with Frederic son many major TV shows and a host of motion pictures that? Well he ate me up in the next scene he's a powerful actor you know and then gave me some good advice two most important things for an actor he said are confidence in yourself and the humor to enjoy your predicament He was right If you W'ork too hard no one will see black tights soft felt boots and stripped to the waist thought we were having a big duel Then Lee Thompson the director came up to me and said to put on a suit of armor coat of mail and cepe he said to it be nimble be figured I was supposed to be the with all that on I weighed my own 175 plus another 175 so I got mad and went into a warmup in the corner determined not to be sluggish in the swordfight It was time to the son of Frederic March was very impressed and I guess I decided to become an actor he smiled between coffee sips Following a stay at the University of Miami where he majored in drama Rust attended the Neighborhood Playhouse a two-year professional acting school in New -York first professional acting job was in summer stock at the Southbury Playhouse in Connecticut where I had a part in "The Milky in Since then he has appeared in numerous plajs Presently known as Hank Taber on show Rust called working opposite Edmund of my most stimulating day when I was just starting the show sat down with me while we waited for some tapes He said only as good as you think you I asked myself why had he told me To illustrate the point Rust told of an earlier experience while filming had a sword fight scene with Tony Curtis who came out of his dressing room in Counties Out in Cold? Mimici Bv BILL DurRIEST North Brevard Bureau Chief MERRITT ISLAND Movie 'and TV Actor Richard Rust turned clear blue eyes to the Indian River and talked about his acting career Looking like a leading dream in slacks open-necked shirt and sneakers the young 28 in July S'x-footer relaxed in the riverfront home of his sister Holly (Mrs Bob Harper) spent five years here with Holly and Bob between terms at a boarding school in he recalled of my classmates was Leaves of Cisaret Tax Funds A Bright I By BILL DurRIEST North Brevard Bureau Chief BOY DID I hot-foot into a faux pas Friday! Movie-TV-theater Actor Richard Rust did seem a little surprised when I asked if the charming young i lady his sister Mrs Holly Harper had intro- duced me to was another sister Sandra? No my he said mildly I re plied brightly over my second DuPRIESX cup of coffee Later I discovered I had met Sandra Dee probably the biggest Hollywood name in the movie-starlet circle And although I seen a movie in months I should have perked up at the first name only I had just driven past the big Bam Theater marquee blazoning Dee and Peter Fonda in Tammy and The just have to take Edmund adage to heart have the humor to enjoy my predicament But if my two teenage sisters ever hear I sat next to Sandra Dee and recognize her never dare put my persona non grata in the house again Boohside ONE LITTLE-publicized area of moonboom impact is the Cocoa Public library circulated nearly 100000 volumes last year That's an increase of roughly 23 per cent over the previous total Borrowers bounced from 6 410 to 8520 which my rusty reckoner reveals to be a thump ing 75 per cent upheaval Cramped TO HANDLE the library's some 20000 cataloged volumes Librarian Mrs Goodrich has three full-time assistants and two part-time pages After a view I don't see how they did it Mrs Goodrich does her cataloging in an unventilated closet with coats hanging around her One bare bulb hangs from the ceiling Back rooms show neatly boxed periodicals stacked from floor to ceiling with scarcely room to wriggle a toe "We're constantly asked for business and technical journals we subscribe to now for leek of Mrs Goodrich said sadly The 2400 square feet of usable floor space admit a single unneces-sary volume so new books 5000 added last -must be those that are much in demand Photo by BILL DuPRIEST Center in Cocoa Information on grass types for various applications is one of the services available through the center for homeowners and farmers in Grass In Cocoa Brevard Agricultural Agent James Oxford points to a stand of improved ber-muda grass at the County Agricultural Road Plan Target: Inlet Job Will Cost $275000 JACKSONVILLE (AP) -Army engineers Friday award ed contracts totaling $419120 one for closing an inlet in Martin County another for Okeechobee Waterway dredging and a third for construction of a building at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa The inlet job went to Gahag-an Dredging Corp of Tampa for $275000 District Engineer Col Parfitt said the contractor will be required to dredge a dike to close an inlet opened by a March 1962 storm The inlet is 27 miles south of St Lucie Inlet between the Atlantic Ocean and Peck Lake The eight-foot project depth of the Okeechobee Waterway between the Intracoastal Waterway at Stuart and the Gulf of Mexico at Fort Myers will be restored under a $77920 contract awarded to the Hendry Corp of Tampa Shoals which have developed along the 140-mile waterway will be removed Col Parfitt also said a $66 200 contract went to Peter Brown Co Inc of Clearwater for construction of an aircraft weapons calibration shelter at MacDill Air Force Base Comic Dictionary PARENTHOOD: Spending part of your time keeping the wolf from your door and the rest of the time keeping the wolf from your daughter finally let me take off some equipment but Lee Thompson a top director had some important words for me later he said you become a star be the ether way around The load will shift to somebody Then the sun-tanned star looked up eyes looking far up in the blue Brevard sky "You might say the load has started he smiled a Family by Dozens offered a three-day sampling of his standard behind-bars menu On Monday there's pork sausage grits bread butter and jelly with coffee for breakfast A sandwich is served for lunch every day vary the Thomas said Corned beef and cabbage is served up for dinner accompanied by green beans corn-bread apple butter and ice tea On Wednesdays corned beef substitutes for the breakfast sausage Smoked neckbones bean soup creamed corn cooked greens cornbread apple butter and iced tea are for dinner topped by peaches for dessert breakfast is usually pancakes and fried fish baked beans and cornbread are on the supper menu The April food costs averaged out to 56 cents a person Thomas said food stores left over from month to month might make two or three cents he explained get very few complaints about the food probably as good or better than food In other Thomas said Gun Riles Today MERRITT ISLAND Funeral services for John Robert Lawson 15 will be held 2:30 pm today at Wylie Funeral Home Chapel Lawson died Tuesday night of a gunshot wound inflicted May 31 when his mother wa Every City Street 'is i Richard Rust it's hi fling Eye Officials Are Hoping It Passes By HOMER PYLE and BILL DUPRIEST Htrald Staff Writart Eau Gallie official were hinting at a tax reduction Cocoa at holding the line and all cities were eying big revenue increases as the bill was studied by a joint Senate-House committee Friday At this point It was uncertain whether the counties would also benefit from the three-cent hike proposed primarily for the cities Governor Bryant has urged that the cigaret taxes collected outside municipalities continue going to the general fund Mayor Milton McGrath of Eau Gallie a director of the Florida League of Municipalities which proposed the bill said the increase would innumerable things for the cities of Florida are so many thing this cigaret tax is going to mean for the people" he said will hold ad valorem taxes as well as reduce them only things the citle get now from the slate is the five cents a pack The extra three cents can mean a hell of a big difference In a city's being Brevard smokers only those living in incorporated cities about 12 million packs last year largest benefactor from the cigaret tax because of its huge commercial got $154 225 last fiscal year It could look for $246760 a year without additional growth Many large commercial establish-ments have been built however since the fiscal year ended Eau Gallie which got $115 140 last year would collect $184224 without additional growth about $70000 a year be a sighed City Manger Roy Amos of Cocoa when he considered an additional $85000 in revenue Hints were heard around city hall that the sum might prevent an increase in taxes during the next fiscal year Last cigaret income was $120 000 In Titusville the former city of 7000 saw $96137 to-taled from cigaret taxes that the city's 15 square miles Instead of five your guess is as good as on the total tax revenue from said Mrs Margaret Cooper assistant deputy city manager Indialantic in South Brevard received $14797 last year and can expect at least $23672 if the tax hike is approved Rockledge's revenue from smokes would jump $25000 above last year's $42647 Cocoa Beach coffers would contain another $42645 Last year the 14 million packs sold there brought back $71075 Feeding Cheaper Herald Bureau TITUSVILLE How would you go about feeding a of 76 on 48 cents a day for each? Chief Jailer Thomas flid just that at the Brevard County Jail last month He spent $114168 for food in a monthly total of 2361 prisoner-days which averages to 762 prisoners daily For housewives who wonder how her did It Thomas paving equipment' wouldn't be available until they had finished current projects such as Dixon Boulevard He suggested the city let private contracts for short streets stating they were impractical for the heavy-duty equipment Bids for 26000 cubic yards of paving to cover 25 city streets are now being solicited Amos said The streets vary from 142 to 1273 feet the longest being the two sections of St St Amos said he did not know yet which streets would be paved first or later get them he told one homeowner who called i 5 Even the community bulletin board had to come down to make way for the library's daily visitors no workroom mending department or reference desk An estimated 60 information-seekers a' day could keep a fulltime reference desk hopping easily library workers say The staff spends many hours over cramped desks writing the Library of Congress and Florida State Library for replies to technical queries One-a-Day Rate Set On Missiles CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) The US is building its awesome force of Minute- man missiles at the rate of one a day with confidence they will work if needed The Air Force Wednesday night demonstrated the striking power of the new killer rocket in a spectacular shot from underground at tl test center The 54-foot Minuteman roared from the bottom of a concrete-lined launching silo shot to the edge of space and sent its nose cone squarely into a planned target area in the South Atlantic Ocean off the west roast of Africa less than 30 minutes later It was a 5000-mile success for the Minuteman a test model of some 150 similar rockets that already are on station with nuclear warheads ticketed for enemy targets should World War III ever come about The Air Force called the shot a The nose cone carried by the rocket carried instruments to radio information about the flight Under wartime conditions the nose could carry nuclear destruction equal to nearly one million tons ofj TNT The Minuteman is the bulwark of land-based missile striking force Theoretically all Minuteman rockets now on station could be launched toward their targets oil 32 notice and the Air Force is working to reduce that to 15 seconds or less In this area it ranks as the first truly intercontinental ballistic missile Congress has appropriated funds to build more than 900 Minuteman missiles to be stationed in protected underground silos throughout the country Arraignment Is Postponed TITUSVILLE The arraignment of Mrs Genevieve Wilt former Cocoa city employe charged with embezzlement was postponed Friday George Ritchie attorney for Mrs Wilt said the county solicitor notified him of the postponement shortly before noon Ritchie requested a preliminary hearing prior to arraignment A hearing on his motion is expected soon i 1 Herald Bureau COCOA Every unpaved street in the city is the target of the present all-out paving program City Manager Roy Amos said Friday know if get the mall paved this year but he declared County Commissioner Lee Wenner told city commissioners and Amos last month the Merchants Meet COCOA The Downtown Cocoa Association meets Mom-day at noon at the Brevard Hotel Plans for back-to-school promotions are in the offing said Tom Beasley Jr president Lf Waiting LAST YEAR Cocoa Public Library budgeted $27000 for salaries equipment books supplies and utilities The county pays the two-thirds library expenses not borne by the city cut that by 10 per cent City Manager Roy Amos and other city officials realize the need for space and technical material Amos said Friday the city is now awaiting a report from City Planner Milo Davis concerning the library Traffic Snarl Is Averted Herald Bureau CAPE CANAVERAL Nearly 70 truckloads of rush-order paving material helped prevent a traffic snarl Friday on State Road 401 southern gateway to the Missile Test Center The emergency measure furnished material for a third lane for the heavily-traveled loop at Port Canaveral where construction on the new Canaveral Causeway has sections blocked Many Cape workers were believed late on their jobs Thursday due to a traffic pileup for several miles along the route- i Photos by BILL DuPRiEST Super Snoopers the Holiday office building in Cocoa Beach A quick look behind the facade however shows that the two National Aeronautics and Space Administration secretaries probably would upset an heartbeat recording even without the believed to have also mortally wounded his brother David before shooting herself Robert's 16-year-old sister Sandra was shot in the forehead She is reported in good condition at Orange Memorial Hospital Orlando Cape Canaveral cigaret tax-producing revenue would go from $8000 to nearly $13000 Palm Bay's would jump from $12228 to at least $19568 Melbourne from $2182 to $3488 and Satellite from $7078 to $11312 Superlative sidewalk superintendents Kuth Ann Mac-Lean at left in left photo and Evelyn Hammond are on the inside looking out from the new extension to 4" MB rtiii--iooc i-.