SOUTH COAST I Husband Does Chores This Time wmmmmmsmmmmmm i Tables Turned: Mrs. America Breakfasts in Bed MIAMI BEACH lT) Mrs. Marilyn Mitchell said Saturday night a wife should get up first In the morning and cook breakfast for her husband. But yesterday, she got breakfast in bed. Mrs.
Mitchell, a beautiful 35-year-old brown-haired mother of three children, received the royal treatment on her first day as Mrs. America 1963. Husband Lyle, an employe of Taeific Telephone Co. in San Diego, served a tray of orange juice, bacon and eggs and toast, but no coffee. "I'm not much of a coffee drinker," the San Diego beauty said.
"I seldom touch it for breakfast and will have some occasionally during the day." Then the new Mrs. America admitted that she sipped some of the orange juice and left the rest of the breakfast because she was "just too nervous." After breakfast, the Mitchells went to church. They will spend a few days in Miami Beach before returning home to San Diego, and a gala reception being planned for them. Mrs. Mitchell will make her first post-contest appearance on May 10 at Memphis, Tenn.
There will be many others dur-Ing her one-year reign as Mrs. America. Lyle said, "I plan on going on gome of the trips. But I don't know how often I can get away from my job." Mrs. Mitchell was urged by her club, the San Diego Women's Club Juniors, to enter the Mrs.
California competition and said, "They insisted I enter, I Insisted I not." Mrs. California was selected by the Mrs. America Committee on the basis of interviews which followed preliminary competition. "I'm still sort of In dream." Mrs. Mitchell said yesterday.
"It's hard to believe, even after a week of trying for this." Mrs. Mitchell's three children, Shelley, 11, Rondey, 10, and Kirk, 8, sent their mother a telegram. It read, "Congratulations, Congratulations, Congratulations. Drop in and see us when you are In town." Last night after winning the crown, Mrs. Mitchell railed home and talked to her two daughters, who congratulated their mother, then to Kirk.
He said, "Mommy when are you coming home?" He then told his mother that his Little League team had won its baseball game Saturday. The Mitchells will receive an estimated $30,000 In prizes, Including trips to Europe and Mexico. Mitchell pointed out cash would go Into a separate checking account "to take care of income taxes." This morninr when Mrs. America went to put on her new crown a dazzling rhine-stone tiara she found it was broken. But she quickly made repairs, with a bobby pin.
Little Progress in Week Sou ght Spending By House, Accord Senate SECTION The Tampa Tribune Tampa, Florida Monday, April 29, 1963 Groups Proposed Revenue Short Of Anticipated Budget TALLAHASSEE UP) Like two hens, the house and senate start out today roughly where they were a week ago, grappling over an $837 million nestegg they want to grow to a billion dollar budget. The senate appropriations committee planned final approval of their $1,125 billion spending proposal, now in two bills, while the more cautious house committee retreated to an item by item reconsideration. BREAKFAST IN BED FOR MRS. AMERICA Miami Beach Mrs. America 1963, Marilyn Mitchell, of San Diego, is offered a slice of toast by her husband, Lyle, after he served her breakfast in bed following her selection for the title Saturday night here.
(AP Wirephoto) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmx 6 COUNTIES AFFECTED Controversial TB Merger Plan Set For Debate Here 1 1 5 SsCJ-w? I.I Seal campaign and all persons giving volunteer service. The meeting has been called to present the facts to the membership and obtain their opinion regarding the proposed merger. The Hillsborough board has not yet taken decisive action. Although more than two-thirds have opposed consolidation, rejection of the proposed plan would involve the probability of losing the Christmas Ll i mMH, FUNERAL SERVICES FOR REP. DAVID ANDERSON St.
Petersburg Funeral services were held Saturday for Pinellas County freshman State Rep. David Anderson at Holy Name Catholic Church here. AnJerson died early Thursday morning resulting from injuries in an auto accident April 19 near Perry. (AP Wirephoto) 1 State News Briefs TALLAHASSEE Florida State University Registrar Murray W. Kenna reported that 4,309 students were registered for Trimester III.
Figures showed 2,403 male registrants and 1,906 females. The trimester ends in August. SARASOTA A Sarasota resident, P. Edward Geldhof, 545 Freeling Drive, has been se lected by the Michigan Patent Law Association as one of Mich igan's outstanding living inventors. According to a spokesman from the association, Gel-hof's accomplishments will be recognized at a banquet May 28 in Detroit.
DELAND Dr. Gene Medlin, chairman of the Stetson University math department, said 49 high school math teachers from all over the nation would be on the campus this summer for a summer institute in math financed by the National Science Foundation grant of $62,100. JACKSONVILLE Florida cement imports from foreign lands amounted to 434,000 barrels last year, slightly less than the year before. While Florida imports were down, cement imports nationally were up 59 per cent. SARASOTA Kathy Neptune, a student at Riverview High School, was named winner of the Sarasota Women's Christian Temperance Union editorial con test for Youth Temperance Edu cation Week, April 21-27.
Two Brookside Junior High School pupils, Linda Plantholt and Faythe Merman, took second and third places. Runners-up were Pam Beydler, Ruth Trout-man and Kathy Walker, with honorable mention awards for Pat Wood and Terrilyn Fach. WINTER HAVEN Ground has been broken for the new $20,000 Junior Chamber of Commerce building to be constructed on the Cypress Gardens Road. Thomas Kincaid is architect for the project while Roy Beasley is in charge of AUTHORITY IN EYEING PORT Charlotte Co. Facing Primary State Need, Says Se Just one week ago, both 7 Die In Florida Accidents By Associated Press At least 11 persons lost their lives in accidents this weekend, with automobiles keeping pace with drownings on the list of fatalities.
Five-year-old Debbie Lynn Wade, Tampa, and her grand mother, Mrs. Myrtle 52, of Jacksonville, were killed yesterday afternoon in a head-on collision a mile south of Hawthorne on U.S. 301 which hospitalized three others. Roosevelt D. Raby, 28, form erly of Ranklin, N.C., became entangled in a conveyor belt at the Glades Sugar Cooperative Sunday afternoon and was dead on arrival at the Belle Glade Memorial Hospital.
He lived at Pahokee. John C. Chaplin, 22, of Lake Monroe, died Sunday of injuries suffered when the car in which he was riding overturned one-half mile west of Sanford on State Road 46. James Lon Busby, 19, of Gainesville, died Saturday night one hour after an automobile accident four miles north of Gainesville at State Roads 121 and 329. Alice Alida Pierce, 21, of Kis-simmee, died at midnight Friday in an accident 2.2 miles north of Kissimmee on State Road 600.
An unidentified Negro male was killed Saturday when he fell from a moving truck on Pine Hills Road, west of Orlando. The State Highway Patrol was investigating the accident. Melvin Arthur Lucas of Pinellas Park drowned when he and a companion were knocked from their 16-foot outboard motorboat by a large wave on Boca Ciega Bay Saturday. The companion was rescued. Hoover Robinson, 15 months, drowned Saturday in a shallow plastic pool at the rear of his home in Jacksonville.
A 14-year-old Tampa girl, Gwendolyn Dallas, drowned Sunday in Keystone Lake, northwest of Tampa. She had been on a swimming outing with friends. Mrs. Laura Williams, 72, a Pennsylvanian visiting her daughter in Miami, drowned Saturday when she apparently fell into a swimming pool while sprinkling a flower bed. a The controversial question of merging tuberculosis and health associations into area groups will be explored in Tampa tomorrow.
Affected by the proposed consolidation here would be associations in Citrus, Hernando, Levy, Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. Other county associations also would be dissolved under the plan projected by the Florida Tuberculosis and Health Association. They would be regrouped into 11 area associations. Mrs. Svend CanarSis, president of the Hillsborough County Tuberculosis and Health Association, said the discussion in Tampa would be in the form of a panel review during the annual meeting scheduled Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
in the Roman Room of the Tampa Terrace Hotel. The panel has been assigned the topic, "Consolidation of Tuberculosis Associations Advantages and Disadvantages." "Dissolving all county tuberculosis associations in Florida and merging them into eleven area associations has been proposed by Florida Tuberculosis and Health Association and approved by their board of directors," Mrs. Carariis said. The Hillsborough board has consistently opposed being included in area 8, which would be composed of Citrus, Hernan do, Levy, Pasco, Pinellas and Hillsborough counties." Panel topics and speakers are: 1. A plan for merging all county tuberculosis associations in Florida into eleven area associations Rabbi David Zielonka.
2. Reactions and recommendations of the Hillsborough County Tuberculosis and Health Association board of directors-Jean Beem. 3. The tuberculosis problem In Hillsborough County and how it fits into the picture Dr. John S.
Neill. Current developments in th: proposed plan of consolidation, the law, the contract Mrs. Al Yorkunas. Dr. A.
Hood Roberts will moderate. The Hillsborough Tuberculosis Association is a non-profit corporation, Mrs. Canariis explained. Under state law, a corporation can be merged with another only by (1) recommendation of the merger to the membership by the board of directors and (2) approval of the merger by a two-thirds majority of the members present and voting at a regular or special meeting called for the purpose. Members of the Hillsborough Association, according to the bylaws, are all persons giving $2 or more to the Christmas PUNTA GORDA (By Staff Writer) By contemplating the establishment of a development commission or port authority, Charlotte County is facing up to one of Florida's primary needs, State Sen.
Hayward Davis said yesterday. "Every county can benefit from a local governmental body charged with capitalizing on natural community assets," he declared. "By its very nature, however, such a body should probably be political. This is actually an asset, not a handicap. There are checks and balances in a sound political organization which is sensitive to public reaction.
Very often a political board or commission can get things done while an organization that is so-called 'non-political' and non partisan is so stripped of vitality it can accomplish noth ing." Davis made the comments as he summed up the effects' of a public meeting called here committees were ready to introduce their billion dollar bills for the 1963-65 bienniuml But both bills were hauled off the floor amid warnings a fatal vote was in sight. Leaders of the house committee agreed to cut back their $1,022 billion budget to $930 million, a reduction of $92 million. But senate fiscal leaders decided against making any cuts from their $1,125 billion budget. Instead they divided it into two bills, one including $950 million for state operation and the second totaling $107 million for items not listed by law. Both proposals were well above the anticipated $837 million revenue, and higher taxes were inevitable.
Legislators differed on the need for increased spending. Sen. Scott Kelly of Lakeland, most outspoken senate advocate for budget cutting, called for spending at $950 million. "This is all that Florida taxpayers can afford at the moment without extending the sales tax to food and medicines," he said. Sen.
Verle Pope of St. Augustine, vice chairman of the senate appropriations committee, didn't think the budget excessive. "As much as I want to see economy, I'm not going to vote for retrogression, he said. Pope blamed Gov. Farris Bryant for allowing the state's needs to balloon by calling on the 1961 legislature to trim expenses.
"Two years ago the governor said there was no need for new taxes," said Pope. "The governor made a mistake." Rep. S. C. Smith of DeSoto County, chairman of the house appropriations, said, "I've been here many years and I've never seen a spending session like this one." Smith said he had received telegrams from all over the state asking appropriations for particular projects.
"We haven't got single one asking us to cut down," he said. "But I think we went too far." Gov. Bryant said he believed the whopping bills originally drawn up were simply a compilation of individual appropriations, and legislators had not related each to an overall financial picture for the state. The governor warned if a huge spending bill was passed without sufficient tax increases to pay the cost he would either veto the proposal and send it back to the legislature or let the state cabinet cut down spending. Bryant recommended a bill calling for no more than $970 million.
ident Kennedy and Senator Barry Goldwater. Other best dressed awards and their categories were: Mayor Richard Daley, Chicago, civic affairs; Hugh O'Brien, screen; Tommy McDonald, sports; Samuel O. Newman, business; Bert Bacharach, press communications; Robert Strong, designer; David Merrick, Broadway; Enoch Light, recordings; Bernard Gray, realty; and Buddy Greco, night clubs. In announcing the annual awards, Ben Russell, chairman of the foundation's men's division, had this to say on trends: "Jackets will be shorter with suppressed waist lines and broaded shoulders. Long side vents are gaining in high style popularity.
The trend is away from narrow lapels. Trousers will have plain fronts and will continue to be narrow at the legs. Half tone hues with high sheen are in demand," he said. Davis Smoak Saturday evening to discuss changes in a proposed develop-ent commission bill for Charlotte County. Davis, who represents the new 40th Senatorial District composed of Charlotte and Highlands Counties and Charlotte Representative Frank Smoak attended the session which was held in the Scout House in Punta Gorda.
The session was actually a protest by the officials of the Seal contract with the Florida and National tuberculosis associations. Zoning Eved On AccessTo Interstate 75 OCALA (Special) Realtors and the zoning board here are being kept busy answering questions about land near the proposed route of Interstate 75 Marion County Zoning Direc tor L. John Hastings has been getting numerous telephone calls regarding rezoning of land on the access roads to the super highway. Hastings said most of the calls were coming from large oil companies, and chain restaurants and motels. The firms, who Hastings declined to identify, are interested in land along the access roads leading to and from the limited access highway which are now mostly zoned agricultural.
The new interstate road passes about two miles west of Ocala through an area now largely devoted to general farming, although the new road runs through some of the horse breeding lands, cutting one farm almost in half. Last fall Gov. Farris Bryant notified the local residents that Marion County would get three "full diamond" interchanges coming off the interstate. The local county and city officials had asked for the extra inter changes, even if they had to be built at county expense, in order to make it easier for tourist to get from the highway to the 10 million dollar tourist industry in this area. One local official said several weeks ago that S.R.
40 which runs east and west and will tie into the interstate on one of the full-diamond interchanges will carry more traffic than U.S. 301-441- and 27 through Ocala. Mcnu*tt said the car narrowly missed two small Negro children as it neared the end of its wild 455-foot journey. The church was shifted almost off its foundation blocks, Mcnu*tt said. The floor was split, all water pipes were broken, and plaster was knocked loose inside the building.
Watson and his passenger, Elijah Burton, 76, Pierce Negro, were taken to Lakeland General Hospital for emergency treatment, then placed in the county jail. Mcnu*tt charged Watson with driving while intoxicated and driving without a license. Burton was charged with public drunkenness and allowing an unauthorized person to drive. n. Davis Charlotte County Federation of Civic Associations over action regarding the bill taken by the county commissions.
The federation had drafted the proposed local bill setting up the new board. Seven non-salaried board members were envisioned chosen from the county at large. The commissioners, studying the idea, however decided this was politically impractical and, in a special night meeting last Monday, by a vote of 4-1, cut the number of members to five and specified one should come from each commission district so that all parts of the county would be represented. They also decided, by the same vote, that any commissioner could appoint himself to the board since the post carried no salary. Swift Reaction Reaction from the Federation was swift and bitter.
After declaring they had "lost faith in the county commission," Federation officials called for a public hearing. Saturday's session was accordingly arranged by the Punta Gorda Kiwanis Club. Federation President George Stookey of Port Charlotte delivered a lenghty prepared statement. He quoted Shakespeare and accused a majority of the commissioners of assuming the attitude: "I am Sir Oracle and when I open my mouth, let no dog bark." He delivered this line with quite a show of histrionic talent, too. Later he said 16 people had contributed to the preparation of his statement.
Copies were distributed to the press. Commission Chairman Roye Gray, in reply, said he felt the county commission had to exercise some measure of control over a development board "in order that a continuity of purpose be achieved and that the responsibility of the county commissioners (elected by the people) be an actual rather than a theoretical responsibility." Proposes 11 Gray proposed that the development board consist of 11 instead of five or seven. Five would be county commissioners, he said, five would be appointed and later elected) from each of the five county districts and one would be hired as a salaried director and chairman of the organization. He stressed the proposed bill had not been submitted in final form and invited the Federation to confer further with the county commissioners. He hinted that if no action is taken in this session of the legislature the resulting two-year delay in pursuing the idea could be devastating.
BRYANT, HALE CITED Two Trackers' Capture ao Pip i 'Best Dressed' Titles Car Jars Church Shortly Before Sunday Services NEW YORK (UPD Two prominent Florida men. Gov. Farris Bryant and Frank G. Hale of Palm Beach, were named yester day as among America's best dressed men by the Fashion Foundation of America. Gov.
Bryant was selected as the best dressed government figure of 1963, and Hale as the best dressed man of society elite. The foundation honored Florida's governor for his attire which "reflects the quiet, solid Hale, president of the National Yeast replaced Henry Cabot Lodge, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in the "society" category. The foundation said "his dozens of dinner jackets are the talk of the fashion world." Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was selected the best dressed man in public life, de throning his predecessors Pres BARTOW (Special) A Negro Baptist Church at Bradley was jarred loose from its foundations yesterday morning shortly before the congregation entered the building by an automobile careening out of control at high speed.
State Trooper Ronnie Mcnu*tt 6aid Ernest Watson, 43, Pierce Negro, was driving north on the highway through Bradley when he lost control on a curve. Watson's car swerved off the right side of the pavement, back across to the left knocking down sign, swooped back to the east shoulder, crossed a ditch, knocked down a post, traveled through a yard and across an Intersecting street before slamming into the side of the large frame church building. HOT TRANSMITTER Punta Gorda This charred shell is all that remains of the Rio Villa transmitter shack of radio station WCCF. The small building burned late Saturday night with a resulting loss of about $25,000. Manager Lynn Stephens said that, in addition to all transmitting equipment, the station lost its complete selection of tape recordings.
Deputy State Fire Marshal A. M. Willis of Miami is investigating the conflagration which occurred while the station was off the air for the night. The WCCF studios in Punta Gorda and Port Charlotte are muted by the blaze until emergency transmitting equipment is installed a matter of perhaps 10 days, Mrs. Stephens said.
WCCF has been on the air since the fall of 1961. Staff Photo) 9.
