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local News Section ff MASA Tour Guide 2B Brevardriefs 2B Brevard Dafebook 2B Florida TODAY 8B Section Sunday, September 27, 1870 HELP! Guest Passengers: Ride at Your Own Risk Please find out when the so called "guest passenger" law relative to motor vehicles was enacted, and whether the Insurance companies lobbied for it. J. A. Merritt Island The guest passenger law has nothing to do with insurance. It merely states that "guest" passengers being transported in another's auto accept all the hazards that go with such transportation.

This law, passed by the Florida legislature in 1937, refers only to those riding without payment therefore. It excludes school buses from its provisions. The law is part of Florida Statute Chapter 320, "Motor Vehicle Licensing." Exception: the operator of the vehicle can be sued if injury or death occurs to the passenger as a result of an accident, but gross negligence pr wanton misconduct must be proved. HELPl I would like to know if HELP! can tell me where to write in order to obtain tickets for the Oct. 26 fight in Atlanta between Clay and Quarry.

David A. Jones Melbourne Nobody knows. The fight is sponsored, by the House of Sports, Inc an organization of businessmen that has no office, no phone number. When they' Set good and Teadv they'll tell the news media how the public can get tickets, aria the mad rush vwll be on. IIELP1 You have an advertiser, Trans World Service Albany, Calif.

Are they legitimate? J. Melbourne. Beach Can you tell me If Trans World Service Corp. Is trustworthy? I do want to get employment overseas, but I can't afford to lose the $50 required to register. Yes.

they are legitimate. But the question is, can they HELP! you? Note that paragraph three of their letter says they are ''in touch with opportunities available to skilled1and professional workers on ovefseas contracts." Are you a skilled or a professional worker? If so, they may find you a job. HELP! HELP! What address can I use to get hotel and motel Information for Washington, D.C.? Robert D. Fisher Edgewater Write District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC HELP! Can you find an address to send for parts for my Filter Queen vacuum' cleaner? Clyde Cowlln Titusvllle Ackroyd Electric, 334 Forrest Cocoa, carries parts for just ajbout every small appliance imaginable. He either has what you need or can get it.

Can Your helpi I We at Reality Half Way House for alcoholics would IJke to thank Brevardians for their HELP! in establishing our home at 820 Forrest Cocoa. The house Is in dire need of paint. We would be grateful for donations of paint (white exterior, any color interior) and brushes, rollers, pans, etc. We will do the painting ourselves. We also need a large coffee maker.

Please nELP! us make our home something to be proud of. For donations call 636 9903. Reality Half Way Houie 4 Cocoa I need HELP! In finding a small bridge group of intermediates (about fortyish) that may need a fourth for bridge in the evening oron weekends, in the Merritt vIlsnd Please call 63M316. rt. r.

Aiernn isiana 1 HELPl is here' for you TODAY as a public seaiice to our readers. All communication mutt be in writing and phone cannot to accepted under any circumstances. and requests, can be answered oidy in the column! We will answer your letters and postcards as qukkly as space HELPl Box 1330. Cocoa, 32922. you request! we will withhold your name andjise only initials for1 Twins Thought Daddy Had Gone for Good By SUZI WIIJ50N TODAY Stotf Wrlttr Rita and Rosa's daddy came home (or good Saturday morning.

The 3 year old twins didn't really understand that Daddy, Gerald Wayne Lipke, could have gone away for 62 years Time isn't measured in years when you're tiny. But that was the maximum penalty Lipke, 30 year old truck drive from Colorado, was facing if the jury had convicted him of triple manslaughter charges in a June 20, 1969, accident that resulted, in the deaths of three persons. Rita and Rosa did know, however, he might have to go away for a long time. They knew all those people in the strange, solemn building (the courthouse) would decide. That's Vhy they were' so xgood, quiet and well behaved, durine i day trial.

They were scared. And when a neighbor's car starting at 4 a.m. Friday woke them up, they started 'I couldn't figure out what was going on Nobody ever gave me anything before. Anything I ever got I had to fight Gerald Lipke talking. They decided Daddy was leaving.

So they came crying into Mommy and Daddy's bedroom and wouldn't go back to sleep until Mommy showed them Daddy still sleeping. The incident occurred 31 hours before the Court of Record jury decided Lipke could go home for good. After that decision, Lipke admitted he believes even more in the power of positive prayer, miracles and the occasional, fantastic goodness of human nature Lipke's miracle began when two "angles" considered the other side of the accident when his tractor trailer truck slammed into a row of cars at. a traffic light. "We just got to thinking," said Augusta Schmidt, a crisp spoken, fragile looking, six tyish retired schoolteacher.

"We" is Schmidt and her long time friend, Mrs. Vida McGill, with whom she shares aV house on South Tropical Trail, Merritt Island. "Everybody was saying what a tragedy the accident was and people in our church were doing everything they could to help the families of the people killed. "But nobody was talking about doing anything for that poor man in jail In Continued on Page 2B Would appreciate HELP! in securing names and addresses of a qualified and reliable expert to appraise a very old stamp collection and a like agent to examine and advise as to a painting, also very old. E.

R. Rockledgc The most inexpensive way to check the stamp collection is to get a new copy of Scott's Stamp Catalog, available at stamp and coin stores and at libraries. As to the oil nalnfing, call TODAY'S Dick Schultz after 3:31) p.m. af262 l880. Dickls a collector and writes a weekly column in Sunrise lagazme.

HlsS5HHiiHBVKHKtSIHsHsHHs9 iiissssEiliitiHBsssssiiiiliiiSPVisssssss HSisHsHfsssBsH LbHh13HMIRhs9skI fcE'JLsBBiBiSisBssBsMsWBsMsi tissssHHHBHBiHBsllBssssB ilisSIEBsSHsiflBSssriiiyssslsH LmbbbbbbHh 9HHbobhHb1bmbWbmMM63b? 9BrnsfilBi? hRB SMBBCriifi? fssHIHssS'flSEBSSl bhbbbHembbIbm I. Skindivers Find Gun Suspected Used in Murder TODAY" Staff Photo by Tony Loptl LT. ROBERT SHUTTERA EMERGES, HOLDING REVOLVER ALOFT diver found suspected murder weapon near causeway Poor Tenants Smell Rats, Animal Human Types First 'of a series By EVERETT PARKER TODAY Stotf Wrlttr Daisy Lewis has a problem. She hates rats, but rats ap parently like her. The sneaky brown rats crawl into her Cocoa home almost every night and crawl in bed with her.

She wakes up and screams as the brown, ugly rodents run for a hole in a corner of the bedroom. "I'll wake up and there will be a big rat right on the covers," Mrs. Lewis said "I can't stand it; I'm a nervous wreck." Mrs. Lewis Is one. of AVL tenants living in Cocoa's six low rent housing projects.

She VSItffccthal sQf reaKJl lives the city's oldest, the Peter Young Project on Magnolia Street. The homes are operated by the Cocoa Authority. The authority is responsible for maintaining the homest "I've told them about the rats for 'three months, but they won't do about them," she said. Problems at the Cocoa Housing' Authority run by the city. are limited to tenants.

Officials within tbe organization are, calling for the administrator, Lloyd Ramshur, to be kicked out on misfeasance charges. Morale fs poor, work orders made a year ego for "emergency still practically ignored and there are irregularities within the office system, a TODAY probe indicates. One housing official, who asked not to be Identified, told TODAY' Use Cocoa and county housing authorities are being run by a "dynasty" composed of Ramshur, nls wife, daughter, son and brother in The housing authority In Cocoa is operated in conjunction with three other authorities, Brevard County, Melbourne and Titusville, forming "a fam 1 1 of authorities which share lnj administration, maintenance aud equplmenl," a' city report states. The same source said he would testify under oath, if a probe is launched by the city that Ramshur is falsifying his daughter's and son in law's employment records. Another source, a city official, said supervisors in the authority direct their employes to do one thing "and Ramshur tells them to do something else." One supervisor who objected to the policy was transferred from Cocoa to the Titusville housing office "where he will be out of Ramshur's way the source said.

Ramshur, a portly Merritt Island pioneer, denies the "The office has been investigated by the FBI and the federal Housing and Continued on Page 2B By AL MARSH TODAY Staff Kelt Skindivers found' a .32 caliber pistol Saturday in IS feet of water just south of the Melbourne Causeway. Melbourne police had been searching for a murder weapon of unknown caliber since the Thursday night slaying of service station' attendant Curly Gilliam, who was shot twice in the chest at his GIoco service station and grocery at the corner of Jernigan Street and Harbor City Boulevard. Charged with the killing is Lnn Blackman, 19. former Melbourne High School football star who turned himself in to police shortly after midnight Friday. Skindiver Lt.

Bob Shuffera of the Melbourne Fire Department discovered the pistol about 40 feet west of the auseway drawbridge Vis'billtv In the water was "IS to IS inches" an officer said. Police said the weanon apparently was thrown from a car as it crs" sjh Melbourne drnbr I tp traveling slightly over 20 miles an hour Pnlce loca'pr" the weapon drning over the bridge at that SDeed and tossing rocks from a cruiser to simulate the flight of the gun. The weapon will be hand carried Monday to Tallahassee for ballistics tests, Melbourne police said. Capt Dick Elliott and Lt Bill Marshal made the underwater search with Shut tera Elliott said the three were underwater for about 35 minutes of the one hour search Police said it is impossible to determine if the weapon found in the Indian River is th same used in the Thurs day rupht murder. Bullets taken 'rm the body were deformed by Impact, sa'd It was impossible to determine the ca'iber pf the slugs, a StrWrnn mM Elliott said the weapon was not buried or covered by sflt "It was easy once we knew wWe tojook," he said Bullets taken from the body also will be tested In Tallahassee by state ballistics pol'ce said The weaoon was discovered about 9 am, msWBmsssslMkWKm MHMIIwiffllfiniiWi' JTrssssssSa Wy 'UMB ZXSSSSsUBvK3S2r.w lBsBsBsBsBsBsBSSsV HHRU IBHflBHBCx yJL SKSBBBBBBBBBBBBfl tMMEBMi WjTism PvPiil RPPPPpflPjBBBJBBBBBBflB yB HKnHtHpA BBBBatBBBK pppppMii iZ3.

"rBBBI fe HBKe5b TODAY Stotf Photo by Tony Loom SHUTTERA GIVES GUN TO DETECTIVE Lt. C. W. McGee accepts weapon Schwartz Renews Jai Alai Pledge By PHIL HEVENER TODAY Stotf Wrlttr Jai Alai promoter Vance Schwartz tried Saturday to quell rumors he is, purposely delaying construction of a Jl 8 million fronton in Brevard, saying construction will begin within two months. Schwartz named Rep.

Clifford McNulty, West Melbourne, as one of several persons he charged are "lies" the project may not be built or may be moved to another county. Trie ironion nas to oe built on property named in a license issued by the state racing commission. "This is the law," he said It can't be any other way." Speaking of McNulty, who KKK Plans Melbourne Rally vt Robert Shelton, national head of the Ku Klux Klatt, will lead a rally of about 500 United Klans of America members Oct. 3 in Melbourne, state Klan leaders said Saturday) Shelton, the Han's imperial wizard, will speak about "a i Communist conspiracy 1 American government," said John Paul Rogers, the JOsn's 'Florida titan. "Mr.

Shelton will be our main speaker," Rogers said. "There will be several other speakers on the agenda and at least two films will be shown concerning the Com munist influence." The rally, scheduled for the evening, will be held at the Twins' ballpark in Melbourne. Recreation officials In Melbourne confirmed the park bad been reserved a political rally." United Klan members throughout the state will be on hand for the meeting, Rogers TODAY sources said many of the Southeast's top Klan leaders plajuto attend. Rogers, a Lake Wales barber, controls Klan activities throughout tbe state Klan membership in Florida has dwindled from in the early 1950s to fewer than 200 now, he said. The Melbourne rally will be I the first public Klan meeting In Brevard Jn two years.

"It's been some' time since a public rally was. held there," Rogers said. "We deckled lt was time, to meet." tBBBBBBBBBM IBBBW WV sLH ROBERT SHELTON to lead rally A msmsmsasMmismsMimsmim I has hinted Schwartz might like to move the fronton to Broward County, he said, "be (McNulty) is a fool. I'm sick and tired of people wbo are trying to use this as a vehicle on which they can ride to re electioiW' Schwartz, who afso operates a fronton in Daytona Beach, said work would be underway in Brevard "long before my time is up." The time he referred to is the 1J months he was given by the racing commission to get the fronton open or underway. His 12 months began Dec.

2 when Brevard Voters approved jai alai for the county. "Evidently people don't know how much planning is behind a project like 'this," Schwartz saidtaturday. "We have three separate sets of plans which have been changed several times and are not yet finished. "I even called the architect as recency as a few days ago while I was out of town to give, him a couple more sug gestlons." The fronton is planned for a site that fronts on Wlckham Road at the cornenof Santo" Road. Schwartz also denied that financing is a problem for the proposed fronton.

"You can tell him'i (McNulty) and everyone else that we do have the money," 1 be said. H' I ml.