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THE COCOA TRIBUNE THE WEATHER: Showers, warm Details, Page 2A Crippled Tots 9 Clinic Planned Story, Page IB Vol. XLVIX, No. 361 Published at Cocoa', Fla. -r Center of Cape' Kennedy Area Thursday, August 4, 1966 Red Streak Edition 5c MAY TRIPLE BREVARD TV RECEPTION Giant Tower Going Un mf4m t- fi 1 a s-a-sw" 1 ,5 Channels 6 and 9 In Joint Venture $4,8 Million Courthouse Bids Let. Wilmington Charleston By BOB MORLEY Tribune Staff Writer A broadcasting tower is expected to be completed within a year some 20 miles west of Cocoa that may triple television reception of both WFTV and WDBO television stations into Brevard County, The Tribune learned today.

WFTV station manager Joseph Breckncr told The Tribune that both Channels 6 and 9 are going into the joint venture for the two candelabra tower," proposed to be built near the Bithlo Cutoff on Stale Road N. Exactly what effect it will have on the new 5506,606 TV Cable system In Brevard County can not be measured, but a spokesman of that organization says it shouldn't affect the business." The advantage of the cable is the number of stations it serves and the consistency of reception, said Kenneth Hanson. With the new lower there will be only two signals belter than there are now. Hanson said TV Cable would still pick up the same signals and re-transmil them, plus sig R. L.

MURRELL Living with it Neither Rain nor Slum nor TribuM Staff Photo by Mary Ann Walter Airline Strikes Central Brevard residents got their money on schedule airlines strike or no airlines strike. A few checks always reach the post office later than others, a spokesman said. Cocoa postman Richard MacIntyre delivers r. social security check to Mrs. Mary Curothers, 219 Oak this morning.

Although the check was scheduled to be delivered yesterday the post office estimates 99 per cent of BY NIGHTFALL? Plan Rushed Rocldedge Holds Line Ou Millagc Subject to the board of equalization meeting set for Aug. 17, Rockledge City Council last night authorized city administrator Gus Hipp to begin fig-; uring the 1966-67 budget no increase over 12 mills. Well live within the 12 mills, Councilman R. L. Mur- roll said.

The tax levy amounts to $380,504,40 computing both real' estate and personal property on a record busting $41 million tax roll this next fiscal year. COMPROMISE Strike WASHINGTON (AP). The; Senate hopes to act by nightfall on a compromise plan aimed at getting striking airline machinists back on their Jobs for up to six months. The proposal would divide responsibility between Congress and President Johnson in these three steps: 1. Congress would order the strikers back to their jobs for 30 days.

2. The President could special airlines dispute panel to serve as mediators in contract bargaining. This action NOW, WHOSE IS IT? International law question raised on manganese Manganese Find Poses a Problem i Long as We Want would freeze the situation and keep the men on their Jobs for another 60 days. 3. If an agreement is not worked out in that period, the President could extend the panels efforts and the back-to-work freeze for another 90 days.

This is a proposal that seems to have the greatest amount of support, said Sen. Jacob. K. Javits, who helped turn it out Wednesday in a hectic series of cloakroom conferences and later described the compromise to newsmen. 1 1 The Senate was to meet earli- space craft evaluators" flying practice.

Flight simulators for the Apollo, similar to those used for the Gemini and Mercury flights, are not yet available for. the crew. Grissom has had experience in flying a spacecraft without practice in. flight simulators. Before the Gemini 3 mission simulators of the Gemini spacecraft were not yet available.

Chaffee, the rookie ou the flight, explained the series of experiments to be performed on the mission. On the Apollo mission, a new experiment will attempt to measure the duit particles inside the space- i craft. The stages for the Saturn I which will be used to boost the Apollo spacecraft into orbit will this month, with the Apollo spacecraft itself due to arrive before September. James McDivitt, a veteran of the Gemini 4 mission, David Scott, veteran of Gemini I and Russell L. (Red) Schweickart, back-up.

crew for the Apollo flight, also attended the for By KARL IIUNZIKER Tribune Staff Writer County Commissioners today awarded a $4,830,227 contract to Butler and Oen-brink Inc. of West Palm Beach for construction of a multi story government complex at Titusville. The 1 commissioners also received a recommendation from a Jacksonville Engineering firm, retained to study the county trash and garbage disposal status, that an incinerator program should be seriously considered. Cocoa Beachs request that its share of road and bridge next year be paid' in cash in lieu of county services was accepted. The major action on todays regular meeting agenda was the new courthouse contract-letting.

The formal1 contract will be signed in the near future, turning the key on the new courthouse complex expected to be ready in January, 1968. The high-rise courthouse, planned for ultimate expansion to 11 stories, will be six stories high to its first phase project. It will tie into and augment existing county jail and courthouse space, and will be linked with existing facilities through elevated corridors, Also to be constructed will be a three-story Jab addition and extensive remodeling of the present fadUtp-w -i1 4 The commissioners will schedule a hearing to September tor an additional $3 million bond Js-sue to supplement the present $3 million issue. The issue will -provide additional funds to complete the Titusville facility, build aq addi-tidn to the county juvenile center to Titusville, and construct branch courthouse in Indian Harbour Beach. Both 30-year bond issues Would be financed by a halfmill construction levey, a slight increase over the existing three-tenths mill that the county has been using for construction of governmental facilities.

The county Is authorized to levy up to five mills for construction. The firm of Smith and Gillespie of Jacksonville, retained to make a trash and garbage disposal study, has presented its preliminary report that focuses on the use of incinerators. It also carried a strong recommendation that land fill (open dump) disposal operations be curtailed and eliminated in any areas where incinerators can do the job better. The study will later provide cost factors involved to switching, and the commissioners are taking no action until they have the full information. In other action, a 25 mile per hour speed limit on all streets of Port St.

John, north of Cocoa, was established. Last in a tion. Capturing such shows as Fred Waring, Maurice Chevalier, Victor Borge and a host of others has kept the St. Petersburg auditorium alive" financially. It didn't.

show a profit, like all the other auditoriums In Florida. VerPlank said, but auditoriums are a service facility such as streets and sidewalks. Theyre not, supposed to make money for a city. VerPlank said that if a community has a facility large enough tp seat 5, ON or more people, tt is not difficult to entice any. top performer to Other revenue sources to the city is expected to swell the op- I erating budget in excess of Hipp predicted.

City Council set Aug. 9 as the first and conceivably only day for a workshop session on planning the new budget. Hipp informed council that higher wages may have to be in order this year for city em- ployes in order to keep them. He suggested raising the po- licemens pay to a minimum $5N monthly, with higher incre-5 ment raises for sergeants and lieutenants, and up to $450 monthly for the two fire cap- tains. I Hipp also added that he ft doubts if the city can hire aa: tax assessor this next year.

The city administrator had, planned to hire one at a salary of annually. HUBERT GRIGGS Tribune City Editor 1 Reynolds Metals Corp. officials today specifically located their massive new manganese ore deposit discovery as portion of the Blake Plateau stretching from North Florida up to South Carblina but they noted there is something of a problem. Just who owns it, apparently, will have to be settled by international law. The discovery, lying to the sub-surface area 150 miles off the southeastern U.S.

coast, -100 miles wide and 150 miles long, outside the territorial limits of the U.S. What arrangements will have to be made to mine the deposits and what countries will be Involved will have to be determined by International law, before the Reynolds corporation will know how to proceed, A1 Wagner, public relations representative for Reynolds, aaid today. The deposits of manganese, a strategic metal used in steel alloys which is in limited supply in the U.S., were discovered by experts aboard the Aluminaut, Reynolds deepdiving submarine. The Blake Plateau, a submarine formation located along the continental shelf east of the U.S. Coastline, would be considered part of the continental shelf if it did not lie so deep, on the Atlantic Ocean side of the shelf between the IN and fathom line.

The plateaus depth, is 2.4N feet to 3,600 feet, and it runs fairly smoothly out to sea until it terminates in a sleep escarpment. it extends along the southeastern coast of the U.S., covering 15,000 square nautical miles. Its biggest bulge Is at a point off Jacksonville, Here it Is 156 nautical miles wide. Its distance from shore varies from 50 nautical miles from Cape Kennedy and IN from Jacksonville, to IN southeast of Savannah. The sea bottom is either rocky or covered by a hard, calcareous material, with little or no soft sediment.

Rocks from the plateau's edge have been dated back to Cretaceous or Miocene times. Robert C. Cowan, author of Frontiers of the Sea, a 1960 Doubleday publication, described the plateau as looking as if the top of the shelf had been sliced off with a great knife, like the frosted top layer off a cake," thought to be the result of the flow of the Gulf Stream. nals from Channel 2, and two educational" channels, Orlam do 24 and Tampa 3. TV Cable proposes to charge a $5 fee for installation and 14.95 monthly for its service in Central Brevard from Lgke Poinsett West to the ocean.

Meanwhile, the Federal Aviation Agency has already given the green light of no hazard determination in the construction of the massive tower expected to cost half a million dollars. In Washington, this morning, a spokesman in the broadcast bureau of the Federal Communications Commission said the FCC relics upon FAA determination and I would believe the applications may be expected to be granted within six months. WDBO reportedly has run into a snag with its application from the Maximum Broadcasters Association, but may get formal approval from FCC before WFTV does, sources say. Regardless of who gets the approval first, it still will be joint venture between the two stations, and there will only be one tower despite the fact that both have submitted applications, according to Breckncr. WFTV reportedly has a more severe snag in getting the sta tion license renewal.

Some nine different corporations are intersted in getting the license, Breckner said. Two corporations specifically have taken more drastic ste to show the determination. Central Nine Corporation and Comint Corporation, comprised mostly of Orlando investors have also requested a tower be built at Bithlo, and FAA has issued a no hazzard" determination for both. The FCC office in Washington, however, said regardless of how many applications are pending, only one tower will be' built. The increased visual power into Brevard County would result in reception as clear as a bell.

Reportedly, high antennas fastened to homes would be unnecessary and "rabbit ears would be in. Meanwhile. WESII-TV with offices in Orlando and Daytona are contemplating on raising the height of its transmitting tower at Orange City from 1.639 feet to 1.566, sources say. Continued on Page 2-A a 1KUI TIGHT money ease seen I er than usual, in an effort to act before the day is out. It will be the duty of the members to labor with this matr ter until wq complete it," said Senate Republican Leader Everett M.

Dirksen. But Sen. Wayne Morse, indicated there may be alterations in the compromise plan, advanced as an alternative to legislation which would leave to Johnson any strike-ending decision. labor a potent political force to a congressional election year is opposed to any legislation bo end the 28-day strike against Eastern, National, Northwest, Trans World and United airlines by 35,000 members of the AFL-CIO International Association of Machinists. In the Senate, Javits insisted that Johnson should make dear the administrations view on strike-stopping legislation.

We ought to know from this administration what it wants," Javits said. Dirksen had said' Johnson certainly wanted Congress to act. But when he was questioned about it, Dirksen replied: The senator was correctly quoted and the senator was abysmally wrong. The question was posed by Sen. Joseph S.

Clark, who advocates putting the entire decision in Johnsons hands a move the President doesnt favor. That is the course endorsed by the Senate Labor Committee. Clarks proposal is still alive and would be voted on if the three-step compromise is rejected. The compromise, one in a bewildering succession of revisions, emerged from conference that brought Atty. Gen.

Nicho-as Katzenbacb to Capitol Hill. Among other participants: Dirksen, Javits, Morse and Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. It takes a coordinator to keep the programs going and this person needs the full cooperation of the municipality. 'The city doing its own pro-. motion work receives a great- er income from the auditorium than one merely taking a percentage of the groups renting it," VerPlank said.

Melbourne City Manager Gordon Dillon said that his city auditorium is a losing proposition and that it strictly rents the audtorium out to groups needing space." YerPlank said big-time eh-' tertaimnent is the key to a successful auditorium opera- Weather Mcii Walcli Faith MIAMI (UP1) The National Hurricane Forecasting Cen-jp ter said today there is evidence that a tropical storm may be developing far out in the At- i 8 4 i By GEORGE ALLEN Tribune Staff Writer The first Apollo flight may establish another record, other than being the first American three-man spacecraft to orbit the earth. It may also set the record for length of time in orbit. Astronaut Virgil (Gus) Grissom said yesterday the Apollo spacecraft will be launched into orbit with no limit on how long it may stay in orbit. It will stay aloft, Grissom said, as long as the spacecraft and crew members operate properly. The' remark came during a press conference in Downey, when Grissom and fellow crew memers Edward White and Roger Chaffee briefly discussed their up-coming flight For planning purposes, project officials expect the men to fly for 14 days in the Apollo craft, but It could be shorter or longer depending on conditions.

The previous record was established by Astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell when they remained aloft for 14 days in Gemini 7. White the senior pilot for the mission, discussed the training of the crew members. Veteran of the Gemini 2 space walking mission, said they were getting acquainted with the space craft, seeing how it works and using Satellites Launch Off The launch of the second set of eight military communications satellites from Cape Kennedy, originally scheduled for Aug. 11 has been postponed for at least two weeks. The Air Force announced the delay, saying leaks in the upper stage of the Titan 3C booster rocket had developed, and that a thorough' checkout of the system be required before any iauiich could be attempted.

lantic. The distrubance was located some 2, ON miles east of the I-Windward Islands which would' put it closer to the coast than any land in the ern Hemisphere. If the disturbed area docs; produce a storm, it would be? the sixth of the 1966 season and would be dubbed Faith. j. Tribune Spotlight Series Auditoriums Arent Supposed to Make Money am f- i i as a must for Brevard 1 ii og programs, recital groups, religious groups and organized clubs.

A combined 10, NO seating capacity building should have parking available for at least 4, ON automobiles, VerPlank said. Special interior consideration should be given to the stage and adjacent dressing rooms, acoustics, voice amplification and open arena floor space, he said. A complete auditorium one suitable for any type of event drawing 10 to 5, ON people can be kept full daily, if it is given proper promotion and backing by the city, the expert said. the area whether it Be Li-berace in the theater section or the Harlem Globe Trotters in the arena section." i The St. Petersburg adutio-rium official recommends dwo major buildings under a single roof.

These include a theater and arena, plus small meeting rooms. The point is," he said. have two sections and utilize both by scheduling programs or shows as regularly as possible." He said the other smaller rooms to the complex are the ones to rent out fqr local function! such as lectures, travel By BOB MORLEY Tribune Staff Writer Once a city decides on the type of auditorium best suited to meet its needs, it will take a lot of work to keep it filled, according to experts asked by The Tribune. Russell VerPlank, administrative assistant of St. Petersburgs Bayfront Center, said that a city should bear one thing in mind dont underbuild an auditorium." And when an adequate facility is opened, it takes promotion to keep all of the rooms filled seven nights a he added.

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