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The Evening Tribune from Cocoa, Florida • 11

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4-11 Fashions Go on Display EVENING TRIBUN CLASSIFIED COMICS WOMENS TELEVISION Picture, Page ZB Local Front Page Monday, September 9, 1968 By GFORffl ALLEN -jweek past the deadline for sub-1 to fit the same millage limits of Tribune Staff Writer minion to the State the past year. Brevard Countys annual Comptroller, got another going! Commission Chairman Ie budget, already more than a I over today in an effort to cut ltwenner. who went to Titusville today to work on the cost sheet, said most county departments will have to operate on the same amount they received last year. Adult Vocation Impact Funds Now in House Parley Slated State effielals la Tallahassee told com-minioaers Friday that the millage frozei at the MS milla levy of last year, and that the ceding aO county -Til buna SMI Ptota ky EMtatt Part By SUZI BEADLESTON Tribune Staff Writer The Brevard County school board will have a busyl day of meetings following a brief business session Tuesday morning in Titusville. I ranges from 15J in District 1 to Major meeting among four, High School, Cocoa Beach, wfll 1 10jg miU jn Drict 6- The eu pending, including special tax districts mast be reduced to IS mills next yew.

The present total tax millage A five-day survey conducted iy the Brevard Economic levelovment Council will give local tourist-oriented attractions a better insight into the travel patterns of tourists through the county. The survey, conducted at the VASA Visitor Information Center, questioned 892 family groups about their- last overnight stop and by what route they arrived, their destination and departure route, whether they plumed to see Srevard beaches and how many days they expect to spend in the Brevard, area. The results ef the survey wiO be used by the council and ether. touristortented organizations to plan advertising aid promotional campaign. Of the 892 family units who answered the queationaire, 493 were northbound tourists, 209 were southbound and 190 were westbound.

Thirty six per cent' of those interviewed (322 groups) spent the night in Brevard 124 in Titusville, 106 in Cocoa Beach, 40 in Cocoa, 21 in Gallic, 16 on South Beaches, 4 on Merritt Island Historical Society Unearths Neiv Find la vertabra and jawbone from a extinct variety of whale that swam in the ocean when Florida was under water. C. F. "Bud Knoderer, Cocoa, president of the Brevard County Historical Society, Inspects bones of extinct, animals that roamed Brevard thousands of years ago. In the foreground, be reviewed for board members I cau8ed by Paul Krone, school plant Ly tax districts such as planning director.

The schoo Canaveral hospital nd has a number of rtructural are not cracks in.the walla. countywide In scope. Central Brevard topl which ulwill not suffer, Wenner said is Brevard County schools may set almost $90,000 ana freeholders a tax break if pro-' posed impact funds are a proved in full by the U. House of Representatives. The Senate voted Friday to exempt the binds from President Lyndon B.

Johnson's economy sweep, adding $91 million to the $395 million package. The Senate action, bringing the funding to $480 million or 100 per cent, states that visions 1 giving the Prei authority to withhold funds shall not amuy in this case. The Senate action also ex- tmpts hnpact funds from the requirement that Johnson must cut Us budget by $8 billion. SPEAKER BUREAU The Society for Brain Injured Children of Florida now has a speakers bureau and is prepared to accept requests of speakers regarding the society. Interested church or civic organizations may contact Mrs.

D. W. Engle or Ralph Faz. 1 KENT EXHIBIT -R. Clay Sent, artist, teacher, pastor of Grace Community Church of Port Malabar and president of" the Florida Federation of Art, will have Us painting exhibited all tills month at the Cocoa Public Library.

Six More Central Brevard Men Join Units in Combat si the sheriff. The cabinet told u. will have to give him what .7 y5. we have in the budget already, Merritt Island and Hans Chris-tian Andersen in Rockledge. wenner raw.

Next year the eennty departments wBl be eve more severely cut then tide year, Wener said and many services may have to be Rec Board Finances stops In North Central Brevard will be a 2 pjn. discussion with Florida Supt of Public Instruction Floyd Christian and the Brevard Junior College Board of Trustees. The school board and trustees will' discuss adult vocational education in Brevard with Christian in the first flow meeting room of the BJC student center. Christian recently turned down a school board request to set up an adult vocational-technical program, similar to the one now under the Jurisdiction of the BJC trustees. The school board appealed the decision to the Florida State Cabinet and Christian agreed to come to Brevard to thresh out the problem.

At tiie Titusville boar meeting room, Dale Weiienecker, assistant superintendent of education, will discuss the new readini program, set up in all schools alleviate poor reading te results reported throughout the Conditions at Roosevelt Junior Six more Centra! Brevard servicemen -are serving in and one in Cape Canaveral Ten vtetnamJ per Cfflt (W families) indicated I pyc. ANTHONY J. they will remain in the county I wnsy-MAW jrd, son of i Brevard Magistrate and Mn. Anthony Hoaemaim Jr. of 126 longer than overnight.

Cocoa Beach was the most Meeting Set popular overnight stop of the Northbound tourists, getting SS of the 112 who spent the night in the county, Titusville however wu the most popular overnight stop for southbound (37) end' westbound (27) of the 130 tourists headed in those directions. Antique Cocoa Beach, is a light weapons infantryman in I the 198th Infantry Brigade, I Americal Division, near Chu I Lai 1 1 Army 5 ANTHONY I J. SOLARI, son of Mr. and Mrs. I Anthony J.

Solar! of 730 I Jacaranda St, Merritt Island, la tw- --I 2f St More than half the tourists -P .1 County agencies are asking for $3 million more for the coming year than was budgeted for the present year. Wenner alio noted that (he Funding of the Co coa new state constitution also con-lockledge-Distrlct 4 Recreation tains the same millage limits-Board and travel allowances tions. and will have to be hS. Hi ltemi defeated in the November elec discussed at the monthly Mm at 5-30 SiTiSSwmGeom The C0Mtitutin reid the same way as the Imillage-limltatkra law, Wenner only hopes of everting financial crisis next provost Park. Wenner said is to have eSStodtaS fte Ltotare repeal the 10- STS toRkledge ffl 01 for the new constitutloD to bo The board requested $60,484.

10 1 from the city as Us the recreation boards budget, but city official Hllf 540,000 instead. That figure wail U11U further reduced action of the 1 Whether recreation should be paid travel expenses! mI $50,000 figure was iced to $35,000 by Co. ri study Grant aid travel expenses lYictims ip Force S. SGT. LARRY J.

GOEBEL, son of Mr. and Mrs, Jo8Ph P- GoA of 1785 Via KSL.5! Barrello Lm. Cocoa Beach, is a squad leader in the December to determine if the I SANDRA L. CALDWELL IEEE SPEAKER SET F. J.

Campa of the General Telephone Tampa, will be speaker et the Institute and Electronic Engineers meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Longhorn Restaurant, Satellite Beach. WILLIAMS PRESIDING Seminole County Circuit Judge Volie A. Williams Jr. has taken over as presiding Judge tiie five-judge 18th Judicial Circuit, replacing Judge Vassar Carlton of Titusville who step- down to devote more time i Us campaign for the Florida Supreme ATTENDS MEETING dark Maxwell chairman of the Brevard school board, Wednesday will attend the organizational meeting of the Florida Public Schoo Board which was established by the -1668 special session of the State Legislature.

by tiie mile or on a set monthly T1 4jlrograin oet Bailey said. same percentage true of Divisio all visitors at all times of the Marine PVT. JOHN yr- PARISH, 20, son of Mr. and 1 Primary I Mrs. Percy P- Parish of 150 route for entering the county I Brandy Merritt ja tte surveyrevealed, with 85 per serving with the First Marine cent of the groups using that Division, route.

An additional 14 per cent Marine PVT. EUGENE S. came via 1-95 or A1A and 21 WARD ion of Mr. Mrs. per cent came from the west Eugene S.

Ward of 1847 Baldwin over State Road 520 or 50. St, Rockledge, is serving with A 43-year-old Merritt Island man drowned Saturday while attempting to. recover a boat opeuer in the Banana River Brevard. sheriffs agents sail today. The body of James McAdams, Banana Rive Trailer Park, was pulled from the river early Sunday after members id Brevard Civi Defense, Sheriffs Department, Cocoa Cocoa Beach fire reserve units and divers searched throughout the night Satur- JOHN M.

McMURRAN TOMARCHIO, son of Mr. and (re; Mike J. Tomarchio of 420 McLeod Cocoa, baa completed basic training at Amarillo AFB, Tex. He has mm assigned to the Air Force Technical Training Center at Keesler AFB, for specialized schooling a com-unicationi-e lectronics specialist' MIDSHIPMAN FRYMAN ON TRAINING CRUISE MIDSHIPMAN 3.C. DONN L.

FRYMAN, USN, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Fryman of 117 N. Indian Circle, Cocoa; is larticipating in a six week raining cruise aboard the antisubmarine warfare carrier USS landolph.

the Force Logistic Command, Immunization Survey Slated The UA Census Bureau next week will survey of Central Brevard families to determine the number of persons against smallpox, polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, measles and mumps. Mrs. Marja M. McPherson of Cocoa is the area interviewer. Brevard Farm Bureau I.

i i- Slates Member Drive CALDWELL, ESCRIBA McMURRAN ASSIGNED Three Central Brevardians I have completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. A membership drive will highlight activities of the aonof Mrud Brevard Farm Bureau during Farm Bureau WeeldchwiesF. Escriba of 945 Bow-which will he celebrated throughout the state Sept. 15-21, ling has been John Crisafulli, president, said today. assigned to the Air Force men including McAdaihs, were diving for the propeller.

Three of the men returned to shore, but McAdams was not seen again, sheriffs agents said. Training Center at Sheppard for tain our membership strength I specialized training as an 1 aircraft maintenance Specialist CruafuHi added. AIRMAN SANDRA L. CAUL He said the Ftorn BureauWELL, daughter of Mr.1 and throughout the state and nation is becoming a more vital andlCx. mtforce for all Involved inutetSOIl detS agriculture.

Frank Sullivan IH, Cocoa, baa been Mmedlfk 11 campaign chairman of the 1868-Il fOffrfllH I fliK SO membership Present plans call for teains I Graduate programs members to visit potential at Merritt. Island High frlmol The week was proclaimed by Gov. Claude R. Kirk Jr. as a salute to the Farm Bureau, the states largest farm organization; and to agriculture in general As the largest general form organization in our county, state mid nation, we plan to contact as many potential new members during the drive as possible, Crisafulli Merritt Island, said.

'Last year, 402 Brevard families were involved in Farm Bureau work in the county. scholarship expected to $50,000 annually for eserving students who need aid to further their education has been announced the State Association of Commissioners. Lee' Wenner, Brevard County commission chairman, said the irogram would provide up 10 5,000 for four years of study at the university or college level and up to $1,000 for two years at a junior college. If 07 sheriffs sponsor the Florida Sheriffs Boys Rauch, then 330 county com-micsionen could surely sponsor a scholarship pregram such as this, Wenner id. No tax money will be involved, Wenner added, rather the foundation will be finanamj by subscriptions and contributions from private sources.

Since it is a charitable foundation, Wenner pointed out, donations will be tax deductable. The scholarships will be limited to the study of rnment admlnfob-ntinn ealth services, law enforcement and onginpwing, Applicants must be residents of Florida, Ugh school graduates and anut attead any of the private or state colleges, universities or Junior colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The program sets a $500 per year mamnm fa junior college students and $1250 a year toe those working towards a bachelors degree at a university or college. A selection committee is made up of representative of the State Department Education, Board of Beg president of the Florida daiy Principals Association, the the State Assocu. ADRIAN M.

ESCRIBA Mrs. Joel T. Caldwell Jr. of IS N. Wilson Cocoa, is assigned a communications specialist witii a unit of the Strategic Air Command at Fairchild Wash.

AIRMAN JOHN M. McMUBp RAN, son of William R. McMur-ran of 790 Pine Place, Merritt Island, is assigned to the Air Force Technical Training Center at Kessler' AFB, Miss for specialized schooling um i cations-electronics specialist. AREA SEAMEN COMPLETE BASIC Three more area men comp pleted nine weeks of Navy basic training at the Naval Training Center at Greak Lakes, HL APPREN. KENNETH.

W. DUNDON, 18, son of Mr. and 'Mrs. Dundon of 934 Bowing Rockledge; SEAMAN APPREN CHARLES T. RICHARDSON, 19, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gene T. Richardson of 1048 Illinois Rd. Cocoa; and SEAMAN APPREN DONALD E. GOLDSMITH JR.

20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donah El Goldsmith Sr. of 557 Orlando S. Cocoa Beach.

members during the week. 5 Years Ago? Taken From The File of The Mbane sponsored by Stetson University, DeLand, will be explained tonight by Station President Paul F. Geren. Dr. Geren will speak at 6:30 p.m.

in the MIHS cafeteria about the thru courses In business administration and two courses in education. Registration for the courses will follow Dr. Gerens talk. AIL course instructors will be present to answer questions after Dr. Geren speaks.

It is our firm intention to codtinue tide program and to see our beginning graduate students through to completion, Ik. Geren sail If student -interest, and private support is forthcoming, he added, we will recommend to the Stetson trustees the establishment of a branch of Merritt Island Fire Department Volunteers raised enough money to pay oft the coat of a utilityrescue truck, biggest In the department, to be named Big Ugly. Cocoa Chamber of Commerce directors voted to endorse local efforts to raise $100,000 to obtain matching federal funds for improvements at Merritt Island Airport. -King Mohammad Zahir and his queen, of Afghanistan, arrived in Cocoa Beach and were given a tour of Cape Canaveral, i days deep sea fishing and a regal banquet The guest in the United States of President John Kennedy, be wu greeted at his first stop by Dr. Kurt Debus and Maj.

Gen. Leighton David. Doyle Carlton chairman of (he board of directors of the First National Bank of Merritt Island, announced to'the board the- resignation of George C. Hopkins president. TUkum Staff I Wf bwv it rwnr CHAPMAN GRADUATES AT NAVY HOSPITAL hosphalman gienn CHAPMAN USN, 22, husband id the former Mis Barbara A.

Dickson of 110 Brairwood Lane, Cocoa, was graduated from the 14-week basic Hospital -Corps School San Diego, Calif. TOMARCHIO ASSIGNED TO SPECIALIST UNIT AIRMAN JOSEPH Police Reserve Helps Sight Work turn of County Commissioners end member from the Association named by the president The scholarships will not be available until tiie 1909 year. Applications must be submitted by March of each year. Rockledge Police Reserve earned $80 in traffic control dnty at the KIwanis Island boat races over Labor Day, and donated the money to the Lions. Stetson University in Brevard.

A Stetson office in the Merritt Island Professional Building open from 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and from to 12 njn. Saturdays. Rockledge Police Reserve CapL Rickard Nix, right, presents check to Sgt A1 Neal, immediate past president of the Cocoa lions Club, for the lions' eyesight conservation project. The Cocoa councilman voted to locate (be stadium for tiie Houston Astros baseball team on SR520, at the corner of Friday Road.

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