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tljm i fiwml Local Section News NASA tour Guide Brevard Datebook 1 2B Brevard Briefs 2B 2B" Florida TODAY 7 Saturday, September 26, 1970 HELP! li You Attended Class Gl Education Bill Pays Can you HELP! me get my GI Bill payments due me? I am a veteran attending BJC and am entitled to receive a check each month I attench class. I haven't received one since late June and have been a full time student all year. Allan Lee Underwood Melbourne The VA in St Pete says their records show you were not attending class between June 20 and Aug 24 and therefore they owe you nothing for period. However, they do owe you for the last seven days of August, a check for which you should have by now. Further, after Oct.

1, vou will receive a check for a full montnof October. If you were attending classes June 20 Aug. 24, BJC must submit the proper forms to the VA for you to be paid for this period. HELP! Last March I mailed my income tax return to Hato Rey, P.R., and upon prodding was told they had lost it, I then sent copies to them, July 1. 1 have since written Aug.

4 and 20, but still have not received my refund. I'd appreciate your HELP! Jose del Aguila, West Melbourne IRS Headquarters, Washington, in the person of a HELPiful Mrs Adams, is now working for you, and will telephone results to HELP! shortly. Her address, if you'd care to follow up, is Director of International Operations, IRS, 1325 St, N.W. Washington 20225. HELP! I ordered backing sheets from Unifax, New York, and received hand lotion! The company refuses to pay return postage and insurance on the unordered item and refuses to ship the ordered item until I return the other at my expense.

This is the second time this has happened with this company. Buy Brevard! II. II. Franks Cocoa Yes, Buy Brevard. Looks like you are stuck for the postage.

They have what you want, you have what you don't want, and the only way to resolve the matter is to send back the hand lotion HELP! even suggests you send a letter under separate cover telling them you are mailing the package so they can be on the lookout for it. HELP! With football season upon us, please tell us how, when and where to get tickets to the Orange Bowl game. We aren't even fussy as to who is playing. We just want to go. Anne Constantino Satellite Beach Write Manager, Orange Bowl Stadium, 1501 N.W.

3rd Miami. HELP! I put two travel cases on layaway with a $10 deposit. When I lost my job I went to the store and was told I would have to pay the entire amount, $100 and that they would then return them to stock and return the purchase price. If I could pay the $100, I would buy the sultacses. Have you ever heard of a rule like that? M.

Melbourne HELP! never has. The refund has been made. HELP! I want to thank all those who answered my appeal and came to the bloodmoblle at the Bed Cross office Tuesday to donate blood for niyson Pedro. Thirty three persons gave a directed donation. Pedro Menendcz, Sr.

Merritt Island HELP! notes that Mr. Menendez also appeared at the bloodmobile to personally thank all donors. CanYourHELPn My son lost a pair of prescription glasses on Indialantic Beach last Saturday, Please call 254 1270 after p.m. HELPIing Hands 'VULTURES' BLAMED Park Officials Ban Rock Fests TODAY Staff Photw ky Tony Low DOCTORS PREDICTED JEFFY'S EYES COULDN'T BE SAVED his mothers terms his sight 'miraculous' Jeffy's But St. Eyes Cancerous Jude's Helps By MARGARET SltALEULY TODAY Staff Wrltir Blond, blueejed Jeffy Carlin can see And his mother thanks God and St Jude's Children's Research Hospital for her 22 month old son's sight In March, doctors told Mr.

and Mrs Carlin 6t 75 Bel Aire Dnve, Merritt Island, their only child had 12 cancerous tumors in his eyes The cancer could possibly spread to the brain, physicians said They would make no predictions whether the disease, retinoblastoma, was terminal Now Jeffy's diagnosis and treatment is called "miraculous" by his mother. Shortly after the family moved into their new Merritt Island home in February, Jeffy slipped and fell on the porch terrazo He became seriously ill lethargic, vomiting, sleepy, and obviously in extreme pain His eyelids drooped. "Jeffy would wake. up in the middle of the night just screaming with, pain And I knew there was nothing I could do," Mrs. Carlin said.

Local doctors could not pinpoint the problem. About a month later, the Carlins took Jeffy to the Hillis Miller Health Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville Physicians could find no damage from the fall But they did discover the cancer "Afterwards the ct told us they had never saved a baby's eyes in the case of retina tumors .4 jMMKBHsWiiH ssssssssn issiBoSSRSpsS mbBsssssssssssssU HlfypEi ifllisssssssssssssssn BSSSSSSSSSb xK3 ISSBSBSBSBSBJi Local police officials have advised HELP that door to door photographers are on the prowl again without proper occupational licenses. Legitimate door to door safes men will nave procured the proper credentials from 'the city or 'county and will show It to 'potential customers when asked to do' so. Homeowners should protect themselves and ask to see any salesman's credentials. The fact that he has, such credentials means the company he represents has, been check ed by police and found to be legitimate.

e1 'mRbbbbbmIr tmJ( flvRBBBBBs flBSSSSSvBSl sPsSSMiJli BscKiLHwi BBSBIBSSSSSSlfiBSSSSSl ssssssflsssBsssssssa3 Hflflfl TODAY Staff Phot fry Jtfty Cootw CAMPAIGNS 1 JEFFY'S EYES STILL SUN SENSITIVE he had 12 tumors In his eyes "They think because we found the disease so early and got treatment started, Jeffy's case was different Any damage from the fall evidently was not permanent the Carlins were told The family spent months at St Jude's in Memphis, Tenn where Jeffy was an out patient receiving daily cobalt treatments and chemotherapy When the Carlins arrvied in Memphis they knew there was onl a 50 50 chance of saving the ch'ld light ee and Continued on Page 2B USING FEDERAL FUNDS By TOM SANDER TODAY Sloff Wrltir Rock music festivals have been banned from North Brevard parks because a few "vultures" youths who push and use drugs and cause trouble have spoiled things for the "vast majority of good kids," a parks official said Friday Fred Bynum, general manager of the North Brevard Park and Recreation Commission, said the festival ban came because of last Sunday's unauthorized rockfest at Fox Lake Park There were complaints of beer drinking, auto and motorbike speeding, pill tak mg and public love making for a few of the nearly 1,000 young people present, Bynum said The Park Commission passed a new regulation "No live musical entertainment will be allowed in District 1 parks without written permission from the Park and Recreation Department Rock festivals or their facsimile are expressly forbidden "Nothing would please me more than to provide a place for the kids to sit and listen to music," Bynum said "But it's almost impossible without the vultures moving in "I have lots of faith in the teenagers But what worries me is when you have several Lipke Found Not Guilty In Fatalities By SUZI WrLSON TODAY Staff wrlttr A six member Court of Record jury found 30 year old Gerald Wayne Lipke not guilty of three counts of manslaughter and culpable negligence at 12 41 a.m. Saturday after more than eight hours of deliberations Lipke's wife Rosetta cried as her nervous husband stood and received the verdict without a word in the Rockledge branch courthouse The jury had begun deliberations at shortly after 4pm Friday Lipke, a former Denver, Colo truck driver now living in Cocoa, had been charged in the Junfe, 20, 1969 truck car crash l'whichkilled thTee persons While the jury was out late Friday Lipke, his wife and twin three year old daughters waited outside the courtroom Continued on Page 2B hundred good ones gathered together, you get 20 or 30 vultures who move in on them It's a shame the majority who are real fine kids have to suffer for the minority Bynum sajd the reason he stepped in to shut down Sunday's concert was no permission had been granted He said a Titusville youth had approached him five days earlier and was told he v.ould need permission from the county commission, health department and sheriff's department, as well as the park commission "I didn't hear from him again, but I saw bim out at the concert," Bynum said. He stressed "the vast majority of the kids were behaving themselves," but said he witnessed many youths as young 13 drinking beer, saw some unidentified pills being passed around, watched as several cars "scratched off" and tore up the grass, and saw some kids break limbs off trees. Bynum said other adults told him of similar incidents and said one couple was reported making love in the park. It Was Hard Not to Like Curly Gilliam By PHIL HEVENER TODAY Staff WrIUr The card on the wreath carried a simple message "Closed because of a death in the family Homer "Curly" Gilliam's Gloco Store was locked Friday.

The combination service station and grocery store at the corner of US 1 and Journegan Street in South Melbourne showed no sign of life nor the bloody death struggle on its premise? of Thursday night. GilhaTn, 47, 308 Dakota, Palm Bay, was found shot to death at his store Thursday night. He was working alone when he was gunned down during an armed robbery. "He was a jolly type Not real outgoing but you'd have a hard time finding any reason to dislike him," said Palm Bay mayor Dan Cameron, one of Gilliam's closest friends, of the 18 year Brevard resident. "When he did relax he would go to a movie and have a beer every once in awhile," another man said, "but he didn't drink much He liked to listen to country western music Gilliam served as a Palm Bay councilman from April, 1963, to November 1964 and was owner of Curly and Coco's Restaurant on Palm BSSSSSSSsWSl IibbbbbbbbbpSSbbbbbbbM Eckerd Supportspace Museum By AL MARSH 'TODAY Sloff Wrlttr Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Eckerd sloshed through Central and South Brevard Friday, sugg esting a new space" museum for the area and pledging personal efforts to bring the space shuttle to the county.

Eckerd pledged at a Cape Canaveral luncheon he will visit President Nixon in Washington if elected i to urge the space shuttle be located at KSC. "The only reason we might not get it is politics," Eckerd said. "This is the logical place to put it," he added. Eckerd said he gets cash register receipts from his Brevard drug store "every week" and is awareofthe economic situation in the 'county. He said tourism 'and industry for the area needs to be sold, "and I am an expert at selling.

"We could build a new, $10 million museum, at the spafce center using 80 per cent federal funds, yet we have not done Eckerd said Eckerd ducked showers he' campaigned fri private homes and spoke to a small banquet gioup at a Cape Canaveral motel Eckerd answered criticism that he and Gov. Kirk have "ignored basic issues' in i ace to face television debates "I don't want to talk about the petty, personal issues But Kirk, in his usual way, goes off on a tangent I want to lalkabout highways education and the high Florida crime rate," he said Eckerd ruled out political aspirations beyond the governor's office. HOMER GILLIAM with watchdog Bay Road until about two years ago. Coco was his wife, Opal's nickname. "But Curly got tired of the restaurant so he sold out and bought the gas station," said friend Millard Smith Gilliam and one of his twin sons, Tom, ran the service station I "The last time I saw Curly was about 7 Thursday night," Tom Gilliam said Friday.

"I was working at the store until 6 He came to relieve me and I stuck around and talked until 7 and then I left A dog given to Curly Gilliam by Smith about three years ago as a watchdog was crouched by Gilliam's body when police arrived at the store Thursday night. It jwas by llie man who killed Gilliam, but will recover, police reported. The animal kept police ft bay for about 20 minutes until it could, be led away. "I know that dog," Smith said "It's going to recognize whoever killed Curly, It's a good dog it could sense trouble BBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsPr'miTi I bbbbsbVbbbbbbh tJassssssPsWMsssf TIssb A asssssssssssssssssssBfls isssl Governor Lampoons Eckerd But Would Support Him GOV. KIRK spoke In Brevard Gov.

Kirk spent 15 minutes Friday saying his opponent Jack Eckerd is intent on destroying the Republican Party, then in grand Kirk style said he would support Eckerd if the drugstore magnate wins Tuesday's runoff election. Kirk spoke at 'a joint luncheon meeting of the Cape Kennedy Public Relations Association and Canaveral Press Club at Lee Caron's Carnival Club in Cocoa Beaph. "We, are finding ourselves in a runoff with a man bent on destruction of the. Republican Kirk said. Eckerd had charged Thursday Kirk and state GOP party leaders bankrupted the party.

"We've seen the surfacing of a man we cannot believe. A man by his qwn description whp has 'icewater in Ws veins," the governor said of Ecketd. He1 paused, leaned over and picked a paperback book which he described: as a "handbook for marijuana users vi: "The only place I know to is Eckerd's," he told his audienceg.