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More Brevard Families Derive A Living From The Brevard Sentinel Than ill Other Brevard Papers Combined FASTEST GROWING COUNTY IN THE U.S. Gateway To Tlie Moon COMPLETE! Vcro Beacli, Indian River News Sentinel. MAIN OFFICE COCOA 28 Forrest Avenue-NE 8-5331 MELBOURNE-EAU GALLIE 706 New Haven 3-0331 TITUSVILLE 406 MAIN Street AM 7-2633 Thursday, July 16, 1961 Valuation Changes Planners Hired To Survey Melbourne Downtown Needs II '4 i New Life Object Of Action I- 1 HOME-A-RAMA OPENS TODAY Weldon Woodcraft features kitchen equipment Show Opening Toiliiy OCALA Curtain Rises IAKSLAND kZSS Today Is 'GO Day Follow The Crowd Hastened By BLANTON McBRIDE Brevard S-S Staff TITUSVILLE The reduction in millage assessed by the Central and South--em Florida Flood Control District caused by the court-ordered 100 per cent evaluation in Dade County will hasten 100 per cent evaluation in Brevard County, according to Commr. Gus. Faulk.

"Not that I am against this in any way," Faulk told The Brevard Sentinel, "I would like to see tax-paying shared more widely." 'THE RE-EVALUATION of the 100 per cent level in Dade County increased Dade's contribution to the flood control district by about $1.3 million with the resulting saving of the amount in the other 17 counties of the 18 county district. In Brevard this will amount to about $179,000 as the flood control district reduced the one mill assessment they are allowed to .7 of a mill. Faulk said the court-ordered full value assessment in Dade and the resulting effect on other counties in the same tax districts will probably result in similar orders in the other counties in the state next year. "ALTHOUGH IT does my heart good to see Dade paying a little more than their share this year after getting so much more than their share of flood control funds for so long," Faulk said. It has long been the contention here that little benefit has reached Brevard County from the efforts of the Central and Southern Flood Control District and that most of the monies spent have been expended in the southern counties of the district.

Dessert Card Party Slated TITUSVILLE A dessert card party is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Masonic Temple. The event will be sored by Titusville Chapter No. 6, Order of the Eastern Star. Mrs.

Betha Demond, worthy matron, said game tables will be available for those who do not wish to play cards. Ordinance Keadiet! Police Eye Drunk On Home Curtain rolls up today at 2 p.m. on the first annual Cape Kennedy Home-A-Rama at Cocoa National Guard Armory. Exhibitors burned the midnight oil and will toil through the morning today to put finishing touches to their exhibits which add up to the biggest show of its kind ever staged in Brevard County. MORE THAN 100 exhibitors have "moved in" with boats, sewing machines, organs, patio furniture, all kinds of building mate rials and supplies, home furnishings and everything for better under the Florida sun.

The show goes on for four days. Opening at 2 p.m. each day exhibitors will demons trate and hawk their wares in a continuing bazaar-like atmosphere until 10 p.m. today, tomo-row and Saturday. On Sunday the show will open at 1 p.m.

until 6 p.m. Prizes galore will be offered by many of the exhibitors as door prizes elong with all kinds of favors, gifts and souvenirs. There will be automobiles displayed, hardware items, mobile homes, flowers, feed, books St3Ut 1 i A Rama in almost an endless list of variety. The Armory will be transformed into a giant merchandise mart with all the gala excitement of a country fair. The Home-A-Rama gives merchants, craftsmen and vendors an opportunity to meet the public in one, big, colorful arena where show-goers will see many items never before displayed, Demonstrators will show how their products work, other exhibitors will rely on movies and film slides to provide an aye-filling display keyed to attract attention.

BOBBY DAY, the enthusiastic, experienced showman who has a Home-A-Rama circuit in the major cities of Florida, has geared the show to appeal to the public in every way. His shows in other major metropolitan areas and some smaller Florida cities have in the past years attracted close to a half-million visitors. Says Day: "We expect this first annual show for Brevard County to emerge as one of the greatest crowd-pulling events ever stajged here. We anticipate capacity crowds each day of the show." control should slacken. A list of capital improvement priorities includes a new fire department substation in the western part of the city, expansion of the sewer plant, a new city barn near the sewer plant, a new city hall and police station possibly near the branch court house, improvement of arterial streets including South i xie Boulevard, Fiske Boulevard, Barton Avenue, and Barnes Boulevard, industrial redevelopment of the Negro residential area, and establishment of a cultural center and library in the present city hall.

FIVE MILES OF residential streets are in need of paving at a cost of $25,750. This work should start at once, the report says. Smith calls for a new zoning ordinance, already in the works. Renewed efforts should be made to annex the unincorporated area completely surrounded by the city on the east side of Fiske Boulevard south of Pennsylvania, plus the Silver Pines area and the land south if the city as far as Barnes Boulevard. The time is not yet right for annexation to the west.

Rockledge needs more neighborhood recreational parks, the report says, and six new elementary schools will be needed in and Cocoa 1 I i' iir.nfMfcnuar Am mm skiing will be permitted in canals. Careless operation of motorboats can result in up to a $100 fine. No motorboats can be operated within 25 feet of the shoreline of any canal, with a six m.p.h. speed limit set for the canals. Swimming will be prohibited within 50 feet of the center of any waterway, unless he swimmer is accompanied by a boat, and divers will be required to place a marker bouey in the area they are diving.

THE LIFEGUARD chief will have power to eliminate surfboarding from any part of the beach he thinks is not safe. It will also be unlawful for anyone to operate a boat or waterski while under the influence of alcohol, and no person under 12 years old will be able to operate a motorboat if the total horsepower of the motor exceeds the total length of the boat in feet. Judge Robert McGregor presented it to the com "PIT AM- -fTZZn OPENS I 1 Surfers mission Tuesday a waterway and canal map for the city which will be used in conjunction with the ordinance. OTHER AGENDA items include a first reading for the much discussed and considered per car charge to drive on the beach i a nee, and second reading and adoption of ordinances regulating the growth of weeds and al-lowing packaged goods sales on Sunday. The liquor on Sunday deal has been highly opposed by church groups in the city, but it has been the feeling of a majority of commissioners the business should be kept in the city rather than pushed out to county establishments.

Adopted tonight will be 1 ut i ons requesting Southern Bell Telephone Co. to initiate a study concerning a combined free toll area for the central and northern areas of the county, and one commending Col. Henry Dittman of Patrick AFB. a. iff "i an eyewitness, told police there were no other cars in the northbound lanes when the accident occurred and that Buschell's car left the highway and ran along the shoulder for an appreciable distance before striking the pole.

Officer C. E. Quillen investigated the accident with Wade. No charges were placed against Buschell, an advertising salesman with the Washington (D.C.) Daily News Co. Bv JACK SNYDER Brevard Staff MELBOURNE Down-town businessmen are investing in a comprehensive survey aimed at producing ideas to revitalize the city's central business district.

Two professional planners, Dr. Ernest Bartley, professor of political science at the University of Florida, and Frederick H. Bair consultant on economic development and planning, have been hired. Cost of the survey will run from and hopes are to complete the project by Nov. 1.

DR. BARTLEY said mmendations to the businessmen to inject new life into the area would fall under the following three general categories: Efforts undertaken by individual merchants. Co-operative action by all the downtown merchants. Governmental action. First phase studies of the survey are already underway and starting July 27, merchants will distribute questionnaires to downtown shoppers.

The questionnaires attempt to uncover the shopper's residence, work locality and purposes for coming downtown among other items of information. THE PLANNERS have printed 10,000 of the questionnaires for distribution. Following this the planners will ask all 279 downtown merchants to com-p 1 a comprehensive questionnaire about their operations. Also included in the information gathering process will be in depth interviews with 2 5 0-3 0 0 downtown shoppers. Dr.

Bartley said he felt it was significant that Mel-, bourne merchants were putting cash on the line in an attempt to solve their problems without running to governmental agencies and crying help. And prior to starting the project, he warned that "A meaningful report and recommendations on the Melbourne central business district probably will contain some material that will not be very pleasant reading." Meeting Off MELBOURNE BEACH The town commission meeting scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed until July 24 at 7:30 p.m. The mayor and clerk-commissioner are out of town. EXPBESH YOUR FRIENDtY FREIGHT AGENTS COCOA' 26 Fomst Avanu NE 6-5331 MELBOURNE- 706 Ntw Havan Ave. Parkway 3-0551 TITUSVILLE.

Wood's Tonncce Station 1314 So. Waihington Ava, 267-9803 Sntinl-Star Express "Tho Jock Rabbit Lino" -7 Zrn wssr Committee To Mull Building TITUSVILLE Next meeting of the County Budget Committee will be Tuesday, according to Commr. Gus Faulk. The committee will take up the county building program for the coming year. i 1 i to be considered include an annex to the courthouse, a building to house county voting machines, an addition to the juvenile home, and a possible addition to the county jail.

THE COURTHOUSE annex will probably be a four-story structure, but all four floors may not be i diately completed. "We'll plan a foundation for four stories," Faulk said. A warehouse to store the voting machines was discussed last year and Supervisor of Registration Mrs. Edna Carlile his been pushing the project. In order that the 125 machines belonging to the county may be properly cared for, Mrs.

Carlile advocated a humidity controlled building in the centra! part of the county. An addition to the juvenile home was indicated shortly after the home was opened when the designed capacity was exceeded during the first month or so of operation. Additional equipment has been purchased to provide some additional accommodations but an addition to the present building will become necessary soon if not this year. THE ADDITION to the county jail was discussed with Sheriff Leigh Wilson at the time he submitted his budget and he told of continued operation "in excess of 100 per cent capacity." Wilson attributed part of his overload to municipal prisoners but said he would1 probably remain at full1 capacity without city pris-; oners. There has been dis-; cussion of converting the entire building into a jail and moving the sheriff's office to the new annex.

Some relief may be expected next year as the City of Titusville moves their city hall to the Bayview1 School, purchased this1 week from the school board. i Plan For Rockledge Shown City Council Family Hurt When Dad Falls Asleep By STEVE VAUGHN Brevard S-S Staff COCOA BEACH Police here soon may be hauling ho-daddies off their surfboards and into the pokey for SWI (Surfing While Intoxicated). On tonight's city commission agenda is second reading and adoption of an all-encompassing water safety ordinance designed to regulate all phases of water sports. One of its points makes it unlawful for anyone to surf while under the influence of alcohol. Boaters, swimmers, and skiiers as well as surfers may find their water wings somewhat clipped following adoption of the ordinance.

It lays out specific areas in the city for specific activities, and provides penalties for violations. UNDER THE terms of the new law: No water skiing or surfboarding will be allowed from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, and no i i impact and ran into a wooded area to the east of the highway. Otha Scarborough, superintendent of public works for the City of Cocoa, said the concrete pole was the ninth to be felled by motorists since the "white-way" lighting system was turned on in December 1962. Cost of the poles was placed at approximately $500 each. Wade said Buschell told him he was driving north ROCK LEDGE City planner Milo Smith unveiled his 272-page comprehensive planning report before the Rockledge City Council last nigiht.

The report, made over a two-year period simultaneously with one for the City of Cocoa, points to street paving, construction of municipal buildings, and redevelopment of the Negro residential area as some of the city's big needs. The city's population, which was 3,481 in I960, is con servatively estimated to hit 8,660 by 1965, 20,000 by 1975, and 22,500 by 1980, the report says. Residents are comparatively wealthy, with 21.9 per cent of families having income more than $10,000 a yir compared with 18.6 per cent for the county. Only 13.1 per cent earn less than compared with 17.6 "per cent for the county. ROCKLEDGE HAS only 5.2 per cent Negroes, compared with 11.2 per cent for the county.

Rockledge does not ihave excessive commercial zoning the way Cocoa does, according to Smith's report. Present commercial development is about average. And it does not have Cocoa's problem of extensive strip commercial development along highways, although this could develop into a problem if By DICK YOUNG Brevard S-S Staff COCOA Five members of a vacationing Maryland family were injured shortly before noon yesterday when the driver of their northbound car went to sleep at the wheel on U.S. Hwy. 1 and mowed down a concrete light pole.

Lt. James Wade of the Cocoa Police Department identified the injured as Barry Buschell, 31; his wife, Joyce, 30; three daughters, Lisa, Cindy, 4, and Laurie, 6, all of Rockville, Md. BUSCHELL AND THE three children were treated at Wuesthoff Memorial Hospital and dismissed but Mrs. Buschell was to be held overnight for observation of possible head and internal injuries. Foremost in the minds of the children as they emerged from the emergency room at Wuesthoff was the whereabouts of their pet, a black miniature French poodle answering to the name of "Jocko." The dog apparently leaped from the car after the I ANOTHER LIGHT POLE HITS DUST Family of five injured in wreck from Miami when the accident occurred, but he was unable to recall details.

"I don't remember anything until after I struck the pole," Wade quoted him as saying. Police said Buschell apparently went to sleep at the wheel. THE ACCIDENT occurred just north -of the intersection with old U. S. Hwy.

1 and almost directly east of the Astor House Restaurant. Louis Huser, Titusville,.