MIAMI DAILY NEWS SPORTS CLASSIFIED State NEWS Tuesday, June 15, RADIO COMICS Monty Says By CARLTON MONTAYNE Hollywood, June 15. of the Hollywood chambavid, commerce, writes us that plans for the second annual South Broward Pioneer day are moving along smoothly and indications are that it will be an elaborate event. The Pioneer day celebration is under sponsorship of the Hollywood chamber of commerce in co-operation with the merchants and civic organizaof Hollywood, Dania, Hallandale and Davie. It will be held July 5. A full day's program is planned with a huge parade to highlight the morning activities.
The parade at 10:30 a. m. will be followed by patriotic observances in Young Circle park, Hollywood and the activities will then shift to Davie for the afternoon where the Davie rodeo will hold the spotlight. In the evening, the program will be resumed in Hollywood with bates parade, Pioneer club picnic, bathing beauty contest possibly fireworks. The late events will all take place at Hollywood Beach.
B. L. is the general chairman of the Pioneer Day program. His brother, Thomas E. (Ted) David, nominee for state representative, will serve as chairman of the patriotic program at Young Circle.
The Davie rodeo is under the sponsorship of the Gandy-Wig. gins American Legion post of Davie and Charles E. Davis, past commander the Davie Legion post, is liaison officer between the rodeo and the Pioneer Day program in Hollywood. County Commissioner C. B.
Smith has fore been named parade marshal the Pioneer Day parade. Already entered in the parade are a number of marching units and floats. The Greater Miami Boys' Drum and Buble corps, under the direction of Caesar La head the musical organizations. Mr. La Monaca was Hollywood's first bandmaster in the boom days when the city was being developed by the J.
W. Young company. Also slated to furnish music in the parade are the South Broward Rotary School band, directed by Jack Thompson and the Broward County 40 and 8 Drum and Bugle Corps in their colorful Seminole tumes. The Hollywood Junior Chamber of Commerce is going ahead with plans for their float which will be a golf theme. The Jaycees main project is the annual Women's International Four Ball golf tournament held each winter at Orange Brook municipal course.
Jake Watson, chairman of the Jaycee float committee, has presented sketch of the proposed float to the Jaycees for approval. Other floats are to be entered by the Hollywood Junior Optimist club, to be supervised by Peter Bluesten; the Pioneer Club, Hollywood Softball League and possibly the Chamber of Commerce. Civic groups and fraternal organizations in the South Broward cities are also invited to enter floats in the parade as well as business firms. It is expected that at least 20 floats be entered in the parade, according to the general chairman. Another feature of the pir rade will be the military units such as the American Legion guard of the VFW guard Jewish War Veterans and Amvets.
Plans are also underway to add a jalopy section to the parade, which will include old model automobiles decorated in bright colors. It is also planned to give a prize for the best decorated bicycle. The baby parade is under the sponsorship of the Hollywood Junior Woman's Club. Mrs. Henry Uecker has been appointed chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the baby parade.
The Junior Woman's Clubs will give a trophy for the first place winner in the baby parade. Other prizes will also be given. B. L. also tells us that Friday, will feature open house at the Hollywood Recreational Kiwanis sponsored youth center.
Carl Unger, who recently took over the chairmanship of the Rec committee after Leo Stetson resigned, has been working hard getting the Rec into condition for summer activities. New equipment has been purchased and repairs have been made. Carl deserves a lot of credit. He is one committee chairman who really functions. Worker Burned (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Fort Lauderdale, June 15.
Chester J. Erickson, a Southeastern Utility co. employe, was taken to Broward General yesterday afternoon after he was severely burned by a a a a a a a a livewire on which he was working. Zoning Board To Hear Pleas For Revisions (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Fort Lauderdale, June Three persons will ask for waivers of setback rules for building when the city planning and zoning board meets tonight. Several other hearings are scheduled.
Eugene W. Ballard will plead for permission to build on the southeast corner of SE 3rd ave. and E. Las Olas Philo Realty co. needs additional setback to build four shops planned for Bryan Arcade here, and the Presbyterian church requests a waiver to add a Sunday school room and a chapel, violatling setback rulings.
Federal Millworks will ask for permission to add to a building at 3300 S. Federal highway; G. C. Whisnant seeks permission to establish alignment service; the Loyal Order of Moose seeks extension of time for their use of a temporary building, and E. G.
Barnhill wants a to run a service station NE 6th permit, zoned for business Road Planned On Lake Front (The Miami Daily News Bureau) West Palm Beach, June All signs pointed to the eventual construction of: a permanent highway along the lake front, when the county commission made plans to condemn another section of badly-eroded Ocean blvd. yesterday. Pending an agreement to build a highway as a main artery along the lake, property owners in the southern end of Palm Beach have given Jake Boyd, county engineer, the go sign routing temporary road through the section. Condemnation of Ocean blvd. areas involves securing right-ofways for reconstruction in the Sloan section and others to make temporary roads available for winter traffic this fall.
State road department officials have indicated approval of the lakefront highway and according to Boyd will start construction on the extension of Range Line rd. north of Southern blvd. when all necessary right-of-ways are acquired. The commission moved to notify beach residents whose property is affected by construction proposed for the section of county policy in regard to development of Ocean blvd. Chairman pointed out that the commissioners must organize some definite policy for dealing with requests for donations to public projects.
The chairman noted that the county's funds for publicity were exhausted, and any donations would require reallocation of other commission funds. Miss Mary Loftus Dies In Lauderdale (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Fort Lauderdale, June Miss Mary Loftus, 67, of 617 SW 8th a 20-year resident of Fort Lauderdale, died Sunday while en route to the hospital. Miss Loftus, a milliner, is vived by one sister, Mrs. Myer of this city. Her body will be sent to Wilkes Barre, morrow Fannin Funeral home for burial.
NATIVIAE SHIRT SHOPS FUN-LOVING VETS AT PLAY -West ly game of chance on a downtown street Palm Beach, June 15. -Delegates to the 18th corner, as a representative of the police department and women of the VFW auxiliary state encampment of the Florida Veterans of look on. No traffic injuries or skinned Foreign Wars here take time out for a friend- knuckles were reported. Milk Delivery Complaints To Be Aired (The Miami Daily News Bureau) West Palm Beach, June Complaints against the threeday-a-week delivery of milk in this city will be considered by the Palm Beach Medical society, Dr. Charles T.
Bush, county veterinarian, told city commissioners today. Since the first of the milk has been delivered three" times every seven days instead of every other day, but Dr. Bush pointed out that he had evidence that the less frequent deliveries were not a health hazard. Condition of some streets here. particularly the one which caved in under a car with two women passengers Sunday, led the city to instruct Attorney Robert Burns to prepare an ordinance to regulate gross weight of vehicles which may use streets where sewers are underlaid.
Commissioners will meet at 1:30 p. m. Monday with the local civil service board to revise job handling schedules. Commissioner L. W.
Kelloway did not vote when the body appropriated $300 for July 4 celebration costs. The tax department reported almost 99 per cent of the fiscal year taxes already collected for a total of $1,249,963 State Sheriffs Open Convention West Palm Beach, June (P)-Opening sessions of the Florida Sheriffs' assn. convention were held here today with President Alex D. Littlefield of Volusia county in the chair. Today's program was given over to addresses of welcome and responses and introduction of prominent guests.
New officers will be elected and installed at the executive session tomorrow. -P Wirepnoto INDESTRUCTIBLE -Pueblow, June Nurse Betty Austin holds a 10-day-old baby found on a creekbank 20 hours after a flash flood hit the Pueblo region. Body of the infant's mother, Mrs. Sam Clingen, was found miles downstream. Hospital attaches said the baby suffered no apparent ill effects from the flood 20 hours without food-including also exposure to rain, hail and a cold night, followed by eight hours of hot sun.
VFW LEVELS CHARGES AT BAY PINES HOSPITAL By CHARLES B. FORBES (Miami Daily News Staff Writer) West Palm Beach, June Veterans of Foreign Wars lashed out at Veterans Administration personnel and facilities at their 18th annual department encampment here today. One resoultion calls on the VFW to name a committee to investigate conditions at Bay Pines VA hospital where, it is charged, examining physicians are not doing a thorough job. Refusal to admit tuberculosis patients at the VA hospital in Coral Gables unless they have reached the hemorrhage stage also was hit. A third resolution called for an increase in bed space at the Coral Gables hospital.
Another resolution urged the VA to expedite construction of the Lake City facility authorized by the congress. The VA also was asked to rerate dental cases so the backlog waiting for, treatment can be reduced reasonable period. An order of the VA denying hospitalization to mental cases unless service connected was 1 condemned. David L. Wiley, state service officer.
confirmed some of the charges levelled against Bay Pines, but stated conditions have improved. V. S. Parker, manager, VA regional ofice, Miami, who sat through the barrage of resolutions, pointed out to the convention that VA knows its shortcomings but hospital facilities in Florida are better than ever before. Indications are, Parker said, Delray Plans To Improve Beach Area (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Delray Beach, June.
Appointed by the city council to study primary steps toward improvement of the beach area here, a nine-man committee will meet tonight in the high school auditorium. The decision to investigate needs for beach improvement and beautification was made after a hot argument occurred in a recent council and a group of citizens made it plain that they were not satisfied with progress in beach improvement. Former Mayor Marshall De Witt, as a council member, moved that the municipal levy of $2 monthly be rescinded and the money aggregated in the beach fund be returned to residents. Unanimous approval of the motion was given. The committee is headed by Garland Thayer, and he will introduce John Breeze, C.
Y. Byrd and Mrs. Lauren Hand who will discuss beach improvement tonight. Other committee members are R. B.
Puckett, Estelle Decker, Mr. and Mrs. Van Ballagooien, W. A. Jacobs, Fred Link, John Lee and J.
T. McMurrian. Edison College Sessions Open (Special To The Miami Daily News) Fort Myers, June record summer enrollment of 40 to 50 high school students plus teachers and GI' students will attend Thomas A. Edison college for the session beginning today, Dr. H.
E. Cunningham, president, announced yesterday. Students from Lee, Charlotte, and Collier the do opening classes. Dr. Cunningham also announced the addition of two new staff members.
They are Mrs. Corrine Miller from Northwestern, who will teach languages, and C. F. Garnett of Randolph-Macon, instructor in physical science. She Wears Crown Of Florida VFW West Palm Beach, June Bettye Hilda Linda broad after quist of Jacksonville.
wears being selected "Miss Veterans of Foreign Wars of Florida" at the vets' state convention here. She will compete in the national VFW contest as Florida's representative. Wirephoto the VA will have plenty of money to do a thorough medical and dental job after July 1. The convention turned thumbs down on a state soldiers bonus in favor of a proposal for a continuous reteran aid fund. This proposal calls for an appropriation of $10,000,000, to be used for loans to veterans if and when needed.
It is planned to hare this proposal presented to the state legislature next April. The convention indorsed the national VFW program for "little man's RCF." in order to set young vets in business when banks refuse to finance them. It also voted against extending veteran benefits to members of the merchant marine, coast guard temporary reserves, civilian air patrol and Red Cross. Communism was condemned in another resolution which calls for registration and finger printling of all communists, if the party. is permitted to exist in this country.
The convention also voiced its objection letting down immigration bars. A torchlight parade swung through downtown streets last night, with representatives of all local military and civilian groups in line. The parade was followed by a military ball at the armory. Cities Ask For Funds To Deepen Inland Canal Fort Pierce, June Coast cities have asked congress deepening the inland waterway West. At a meeting here yesterday resolutions were adopted asking Atlantic Gulf Canals county and city commissions, chambers of commerce and other interests the route to press for early appropriations.
The resolution said congress in 1944 approved a proposed $11,789,000 for deepening the Jacksonville-Miami stretch and and $1,830,000 for the MiamiKey West section, but the money never was appropriated. Work of the Florida inland navigation district, administering body of waterway, was approved. Another meeting will be held in 60 to 90 days to hear progress reports. John 0. Shares, Daytona Beach, presided at the conference attended by representatives from Miami, Jacksonville, Daytona Beach, Melbourne, Vero Beach, Fort Pierce, Stuart and Key West.
Water Rates To Be Increased (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Key West, June of an increase in the rates charged for water in Key West and along the keys have been mailed to all consumers, the Florida Keys Aqueduct commission stated today. To meet rising costs water, from wells on the mainland, will which is, piped down the keys be charged for on following basis: The amount covered by the present 3 monthly minimum will be reduced from 3,500 to 3,000 gallons; quantities between the minimum amount and 22,000 galIons will cost 85 cents per thousand I gallons; the cost of the next 25,000 gallons will be 80 cents per thousand, and the cost of any amount over 50,000 gallons will be 75 cents per thousand. Robert Sullivan Funeral Held (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Fort Lauderdale, June 15. Funeral services for Robert Bruce Sullivan, who died suddenly at Broward General hospital Sunday, were conducted at the Fannin funeral home yesterday at 4 p. m.
Mr. Sullivan, 28, came here from New London, with his family five months ago and made his home at Berg's trailer court. He was a filling station attendant. He was a member of the Christian Scientist church. Surviving are: His wife, Margaret; one son, Timothy; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. William J. Sullivan, and Mrs. Bertha Dobbs, potisten; Newton, Conn. Pahokee To Start Music Course Soon (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Pahokee, 15.
ment of a six-week summer school of music to begin July 5, has been made by High School Principal D. D. Caudill. Robert 0. Lampi, school bandmaster and music director, will conduct the classes be held from 9 a.
m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at Pahokee High school. A recreation program, to be conducted at the same hours, in charge of Coach Claude Alley, will be held at Lair athletic field. Both programs are open to children from the sixth to 12th grades and to adults.
Delegates took on final bustness of the meeting today. St. Petersburg appears to have the edge for 1949 convention. Daytona Beach, only other city to put in a bid, is expected to withdraw. Two candidates for department commander, Robert W.
Wallis of Miami Beach and Herbert N. Evans of Lake Worth, were well out front. -Representatives of Florida East to approve an appropriation for between Jacksonville and Key Drivers Unhurt In 2 Accidents (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Fort Lauderdale, June Florida state highway patrol reported two accidents yesterday with no injuries to any of the persons involved. A car driven by Yvonne Tooney, 19, of 2206 NW 6th Miami, was apparently forced off the road while traveling south, two miles north of Pompano Beach on the Federal highway. The car sustained an approximate damage of $100 when it landed in a ditch.
Patrolman Quentin Fillingham investigated. Highway Patrolman F. G. Burghart was called to' the scene of an accident which involved a sedan driven by Joda Lee Bultman, Davie, and a coach driven by James Davis White of Route 1, Hollywood. Miss Bultman's vehicle slowed for the Hollywood blvd.
and West Dixie intersection when the coach collided with it from the rear. No charges were made. The cars were damaged to the extent of $100 each. A panel truck, reported stolen from Okeechobee was found abandoned yesterday at the intersection of Roads 84 and 25. The truck was damaged to the extent of $250.
Key West News Briefs (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Key West, June Sheriff Will Archer and Leonard Canalejo, of 903 Windsor 117. Lane, will be summoned to court this week for questioning on a 'collision between Archer's car and Canalejo's motorbike shortly before midnight Saturday at the corner of Division and Simonton Streets. Canalejo was slightly injured in the accident. Archer was arrested by patrolman Eugene Hernandez, who was sent to the scene. A baby boy was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Filer at the Key West Municipal hospital. Mr. Filer is manager of Charles hotel. Plans for a field day to be held July 4 by Scout troops in Key West were discussed last night at a meeting of Scout leaders at St.
Paul's parish house. Applications for marriage licenses were filed at the courthouse by the following couples: Jose Fernandez, 21, of 418 Amelia and Louisiana Mary Rivera, 18, who lives at 407 Amelia st. Both were born in Key West. Miss Rivera is the daughter of Mrs. Sophie Ferrer.
Frank Flukers, 22, whose address is 709 Chapman and Ceretta Thurston, 16, of 917 Center st. Miss Thurston is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Thurston. George Nick Dinius, 22, of Bismark, N.
now assigned to the submarine base, and Lucille Marie Risit, 23, living at 708 Emma st. 6307 NE Miami, and James Owens, 20, of Donald, Letha Louise Dedge, 19, 48-2 Poinciana pl. Joseph M. Ragovis, 45, Miami Beach, and Edith Mullman, 44 of the same address. Key West Grand Jury Rakes Public Buildings (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Key West, June grand jury has presented the circuit court with highly-critical report on conditions in public buildings in Monroe county.
The words "unsafe" and "inadequate" appeared again and again in the document, which covered recent inspection trips through schools, the jail, fire department stations and the county courthouse. The county home, a new building on Stock island, was the only structure to get off with a completely clean bill of health. The municipal hospital, another new building, drew no criticism except on the shortage of en and lack of a resident doctor. Starting with the courthouse, the grand jury report declared that the attic there is "dangerous from the standpoint of fire," and pointed out that "old county records are stored there in a very haphazard The jail was labeled "unsafe for occupants and unsafe for the Daniel Elected C. Of C.
President (Special To The Miami Daily News) Fort Myers, June 0. Daniel, Fort Myers insurance agent, was elected president of the Lee county chamber of commerce last night at a dinner meeting of the board of directors. Daniel succeeds A. W. D.
Harris and will be installed at a banquet July 12. Harris automatically becomes five vice president. George Allen, attorney, was named second vice president and treasurer. Following the board meeting the advertising committee approved a summer advertising program calling for expenditure of up to $900 in Florida newspapers. Master Zoning Plan Enacted For Lauderdale (The Miami Fort Lauderdale, June 15.
The master zoning plan for this city was finally passed after three readings yesterday by the city commission, ending the long series protests against revamped sections and continued postponement of action on the ordinance validating it. First presented to the commissioners eight weeks ago, the plan represented a full year of study, and services of City Planner George Simon hired by the city to work out necessary zoning changes. Action on the zoning plan came after a lengthy presentation by Florida Power and Light co. officials of reasons why the commission, should approve current power rates. Robert Fite, FLP vice president, outlined comparative Presi- inflation precentages, and dent McGregor Smith, of the power company, told of a plan to increase present facilities 100 per cent by poster Authorization of preliminary steps to float the proposed 000 water revenue bond issue proper retention of prisoners." The building should be condemned, the jurors said.
Schools, both in Key West and in other towns on the keys, were generally criticized. Key West high school, the report said, is not supplied with enough fire extinguishers and the lighting system is inadequate. At Division st. elementary school, the jury found the fire "unsafe and Further they reported roof of the building leaks, the lighting is poor and a large lunchroom is needed. The Harris elemen school drew only minor criticism, but the playground at Poincinana elementary school was found "deplorable," and a road leading into the grounds "a hazard." Lack of lights in classrooms at the Division elementary annex and at Douglas high school was scored.
Church Leaders At Conference (The Miami Dally News Bureau) West Palm Beach, June 15- The annual adult leadership conference now under way at Avon Park for Episcopal diocese of south Florida is staffed with West Palm residents. The Rev. Martin J. Bram of Holy Trinity church here, who is directing the conference, is being assisted by Nancy Alexander, Marvin Mounts, Chris Young, Constance Votow, Claire Martin, Dorothy Darrington Nancy Phoebus and Margaret Cordes. The Rev.
Charles Burgreen, past curate of Holy Trinity, now rector at St. Mark's in Haines City and St. Albans in Aburndale, is also assisting Mrs. Burgreen is attending the session as camp nurse. Retired Farmer Dies (The Miami Daily News Bureau) Lake Worth, June rangements are pending at the Smith funeral home here for John Clemont Unkerfer, 81, who died at his home, 609 S.
st. was a retired farmer who came here from Canton, Ohio, in 1913. Survivors are two sons, Paul, of DeLand, and Ray, Mobile, Ala. Daily News Bureau) was given by the commission and approval was indicated for. a Coral Ridge plat adjoining Bay Park subdivision, Roy McCrary.
Bay Park property owner, asked for quick action on the plat to allow him to get started on a yacht, club project for the section. Mayor Reed Bryan pointed out that study of the FPL hearing evidence and data would be necessary before a decision was made. George W. English is attorney representing the power company, and the former city atwith a brief statement to the torney opened the FPL, analysis commission which questioned their legal right to ask for a show -cause hearing, since they have been inactive on power rate schedule changes in the past. and the rates now under fire were scheduled in May 1946.
Inflationary clauses in the five schedules effected by FPL in 1946 provided for proportionate increases in rates with an increase in the price of oil per barrel. Portraits By JAMES J. METCALFE Steer Clear Vacation days are here again The lakes and mountains call And one way or other there Is happiness for all But also there is tragedy That lurks along the road For those who make no effort to Obey the traffic code Who try to hog the highway and Who never dim a light Or throttle down when hills or curves are coming into sight There will be many accidents And many hurt or killed And laughter on a childish lip Will be forever stilled Unless we watch the wind. ing road And exercise more care And in a sober manner take Our time in getting there..
