The Evening Tribune from Cocoa, Florida • 3

May 15, 1969 The Evening Tribune Page 3A Plant Bids in The company which received the contract to provide the pumping and water softening equipment for the city of Cocoa's operations In East Orange County is apparent low bidder for construction of the plant to house that equipment. Base plus alternate bids submitted by Charles M. Bohrer, Atlanta, were $3,114,000, $3,357,700 and $3,341,700. Bohrer last month received the contract for the equipment for a low bid of $3,717,465. Other bidders on the water plant building were Bumby and Stimpson, Orlando, and Sullivan, Long and Hagerty, Birmingham, Ala.

Bumby and Stimpson's bids were $3,296,000, $3,537,910 and $3,528,816. Sullivan's bids were $3,242,000, $3,488,500 and $3,479,300. All bids will be reviewed both by the city's consulting engineers, Black, Crow and Eidsness of Gainesville, and by the city council. Council will officially award the contract in two weeks. Two other sets of bids were opened at the same time as the water er plant bids.

They included bids on the 36-inch reinforced concrete or ductile iron water main and bids on the 54-inch concrete or iron water main. Apparent low bidder for the 36-inch pipe was Halpin, Venice, $450,786 for concrete and $465,942 for iron. Other bidders were Paul N. Greensboro, N.C. with $468,694 for concrete and $488,472 for iron; and Pratt Farnsworth, New Orleans, $495,335 for concrete and no bid for duetile iron.

Apparent low bidder for the 54-inch piping was Framat Construction of Florida, bidding $228,880 for concrete and $307,040 for ductile iron. Other bidders for the 54- inch piping included Sullivan, Long and Hagerty, $244,175 for concrete and $258,325 for iron; and Halpin, $290,035 for concrete and no bid for ductile iron. Couple Sues Ambulance For Injury A Cocoa couple has filed a $10,000 suit against Brevard Ambulance Service for allegedly dropping a stretcher on which the wife was being carried. Auzel C. Boone and his wife Hada claim that on Jan.

3, 1968, her Cocoa physician told her she required hospitalization. On the same day, the suit adds, she called Brevard Ambulance to take her from her home to the unnamed hospital. The firm, the suit adds, was under duty to use the highest degree of care in transporting" her, but "negligently" and "violently" dropped the stretcher on which she was being carried from her bed to the waiting vehicle. This was a "breach of duty" to the woman, the suit claims, because the firm was not using "skilled and proper personnel." MI's. Boone claims she suffered shock, bruises and lacerations to her head and nervous system.

She is asking a minimum of $5,000 for the injuries, and her husband is asking $5,000 for her medical expenses. The case has been assigned to Circuit Judge William G. Akridge. No hearing date has been set. It was filed by Council Wooten Jr.

of Orlando. Solicitor Asks $7,000 Pay Hike Brevard Solicitor David Porter Wednesday asked the legislative delegation for a pay raise from $15,000 to $22,000 a year. Porter, noting that attorneys can earn much more than $22,000 in private practice, said the raise is essential to keep a good man in office. "You might say I knew the job paid $15,000 when I ran for office so why did I run? Well, I like the job and anticipated the Legislature would raise the pay," he said. For Defense A Bomare air defense missile is among the permanent and special "bird ware" to be displayed at the Air Force Space Museum, Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, on Armed Forces Day, Saturday.

The museum, containing at least one of every United States aerial missile, will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Air Force Photo G. 'Bo' Rembert 78, City Pioneer burial will be at Florida Memorial Gardens with Masonic graveside services. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m.

Mrs. Rembert, a resident of the area for 64 years, died Tuesday at Wuesthoff Memorial Hospital. He was a retired plumbing, contractor, and a member of Brevard Lodge 113 and the Morocco Shrine Temple of Jacksonville. He attended the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa. A funeral service for G.

DuBoise Rembert, 78, of 2923 N. Indian River Cocoa, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday in the Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Donald M.

Survivors include his Mackay, pastor of the First widow, Mrs. Edith E. United Methodist Church of Rembert; two sons, Raymond D. and Richard E. Rembert; Cocoa, will officiate and a daughter, Mrs.

John W. Braxton; and a sister, Mrs. Julia R. Alexander, 'all of Cocoa. Leemon Hamby Service Friday A funeral service for Leemon Hamby, 54, of 1412 Paradise Cocoa, will be held at 10:30 a.m.

Friday at the Wylie-Baxley Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Hugh Beasley, pastor of Clearlake Baptist Church, will officiate and burial will be at Brevard Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m. Mr.

Hamby, who died Wednesday at Wuesthoff Memorial Hospital, had been a resident of the area since 1942, coming here from Cumming, Ga. He was the owner of Hamby Roofing Co. and a member of the Oak Grove Baptist Church, Cumming, Ga. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Donna J.

Hamby of Cocoa; three sons, Mitchell Hamby, Selma, and Thomas D. and Kurt Winning Hamby of Cocoa; three daughters, Joyce, who is in Turkey, Mrs. Shirley Phillips of Forest Park, and Sandra, Cocoa; four brothers, three sisters and his mother. 'IN GOD WE TRUST' 3,000 Back School Prayers By SUZI BEADLESTON Tribune Staff Writer More than 3,000 Central Brevardians have joined the campaign to bring voluntary prayer back to the public schools. The 3,000 are those who have signed a petition, or series of petitions, currently being circulated by Mrs.

Jean Bird, 6878 Astor Cocoa. "More than 1,000 additional petitions are still being circulated," Mrs. Bird said today. The petitions state: "We, the undersigned, protest the prohibition of prayer and Bible reading in our schools and propose a reversal of this ruling. "We further protest any legislation which would possibly remove chaplains from the armed forces, remove "In God We Trust" from our currency, remove God's name from the pledge of allegiance to the flag or remove God's name from any part of our American way of life." East petition contains room for 29 signatures and addresses.

The local petitions were patterned after a national petition which was started in Johnstown, by the Rev. Donald Wold. The petition was given the name "Operation: For God and Country" by the Johnstown Jaycees when they decided to sponsor it as a project. Coincidentally, the CocoaRockledge Jaycees voted unanimous support for the petition project at their Tuesday night meeting. Tuesday night meeting.

Sen. Edward J. Gurney said "I share your convictions wholeheartedly. Ever since coming to Congress I have worked long and hard for a constitutional amendment which would authorize Teacher Pay Index Vetoed Brevard School Board members approved a teacher salary schedule for the 1969-70 school year which gives all teachers a three per cent raise but eliminates the salary index. The index, defended by Classroom Teachers Association executive director Vincent Sanacore, is a set of graduating percentages of a base figure.

The percentages are added annually to the base figure, automatically raising a teacher's salary with each year of service or additional college degrees. The board voted to use the abandoned Monroe High School, Cocoa, for adult and vocational education classes and administrative offices. MOBILE HOME INSURANCE Call Jack Armstrong 636-7102 Superb Solid 14K Gold Jewel of a LONGINES THE WORLD'S MOST HONORED WATCH "JUBILEE INNOVATION" See our complete group oflady's Longines, including this exquisite 14K gold bracelet watch. none finer $150. a Open, A Zales Tailored to Gustom Your Gharge Needs JEWELERS 6464 COCOA MELBOURNE TITUSVILLE Byrd Plaza Brevard Mall Miracle City prayers and Bible reading in our schools:" "We don't want to teach religion in the schools," Mrs.

Bird commented. "We want to protect our children's right to pray in school if they SO wish." Mrs. Bird first became acquainted with the petition last February when her son brought a copy of the petition SEN. JOHNSON Bill vetoes 'plots' SIREN CALLS Following is a list of ambulance and fire calls in Central Brevard for the period from 9 a.m. Wednesday to 9 a.m.

today: BREVARD AMBULANCE Wednesday 6:05 p.m. 940 Cocoa Cocoa, house call. COCOA FIRE Wednesday 7:56 p.m. Peachtree Street and Fiske Boulevard, electric line overheated. home from Southeastern Bible College, Lakeland, where he was a sophomore.

"I read the petition and read about its history," Mrs. Bird said, "and I felt this was something I could and should work for." To date, in addition to the Jaycees, Mrs. Bird has received support from the Cocoa City Council, the Co a Rockledge Youth Advisory Council, Lt. Rollin Zimmerman with the Brevard Sheriff's Department and Silas Baker, Brevard School Board member from Rockledge. Also supporting the petition are the Salvation Army, the American Legion, the Gideons, the Christian sinessmen's Association, the Cocoa chapter of the Republican Women, the Moose Lodge, the Cocoa Junior Women, the Cocoa Elks Lodge and the Women's Missionary Council.

Directors of the Brevard YMCA have agreed to consider supporting the petition at their next meeting. In addition to the civic clubs and organizations, about 60 Central Brevard churches have agreed to help Mrs. Bird disseminate the petitions. Beth's Bill Girds Incompetent Rules Sen. Beth Johnson, R-Cocoa Beach, sees smooth sailing ahead for her bill which would put stringent safeguards on procedures involving an individual's legal incompetency.

"The bill is at the top of the calendar for consideration by the judiciary committee," she said, "and most of the people on the committee have assured me they are completely in favor of the measure." Sen. Johnson said she had received no negative reaction from committee members. "The bill was supposed to be considered Wednesday night," Sen. Johnson said. "But they moved all the television cameras and radio microphones in and discussed a unicameral legislature.

Tonight they'll have the same set-up and discuss abortion. But then we'll get back to the regular calendar and the incompetency bill is at the top." Sen. Johnson's bill amends the existing law which says any three persons may declare a person incompetent, forcing him to submit to an examination for competency. Her amendment would require the recommendation of a licensed physician before the person could be examined. Referring to other legislation in which she is involved, Sen.

Johnson discussed jai alai for South Florida and a "penny pop" tax statewide on softdrink beverages. "A new jai alai fronton in South Florida, where gambling, race tracks and jai alai already exists, would mean an extra $1 million to state," she said. But she's still opposed to jai alai for Brevard. "It isn't in this county yet and there is no reason to bring it here," she stated. "Besides, there will be a referendum in the near future for Brevardians to decide whether they want jai alai." The "penny pop" could bring $17 million to the state coffers to help finance Medicaid, she said.

"Because all counties will be squeezed by the 10-mill limitation I have been constantly trying to find ways to relieve them of additional expense," Sen. Johnson said. "We have to go into the Medicaid program. The federal law and regulations really leave us no choice," she commented. "I have not decided when to introduce this penny pop bill but I am the seriously considering think it is a good idea." MAYIAG MAYIAG 11 MAYTAG LIL MAYTAG MAYIAG MAYTAG LIL MAYIA MAY TAG MAYIAG WAREHOUSE SALE! FRI.

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