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al Expansion Strikes 'More Data' Snag INDIAN Orlanad Friday, February 16, 1968 Vero Beachcomber. By Jack Fay BEAM Good morning, class. This is a gorgeous day i in Vero Beach, so fit yourself into those slippers and put the coffee pot on the stove. Another day has been born. Once in awhile a newspaper will put in what is called a little filler to finish out a column of space.

And sometimes between the composing room and the press room, the end of the story and the filler are run together, like this one from the Portland Oregon Journal: "Robeson said the bus hit a solid sheet of ice and came to a halt upside down in the westbound lanes. "Fruits and vegetables went up 0.7 per cent." I understand that the tourist business in Vero Beach is pretty much at its peak right now, with motels full to overflowing. I can believe it. TRAFFIC IS overflowing, too. It takes a mite longer to get from "where you is to where you wants to be." If you want to improve your weekend, you might get yourselves over to the Vero Beach High School auditorium tonight or tomorrow night where the Vero Beach Theater Guild is putting on the play, "Man for All Seasons." IT'S A SORT of a cultural and religious type play about King Henry VIII, Martin Luther and some of the boys who were stirring up the populace back in the good old days of the 16th Century.

Those were the days. Henry got mad at the Pope and started up his own church of which we Episcopals are now a good healthy branch. Martin got mad at the Pope, too, and since Martin and Henry weren't hitting it off so hot either, he started up the Lutheran Church which also is a pretty healthy organization now. ANYWAY, IT'S all very cultural and refined even if Henry did lop off a few of his wives' heads. Besides, everybody needs a little "couth" these days.

The buckpassing in the statewide school situation stops today. Somebody better figure something out very quick or the atom bomb will feel like a pillow fight in comparison. I hope the civil defense stands ready. Maybe the National Guard, too. All those chiluns and no teachers make me shudder.

Fay views the news: I'm telling you sentiment can really get to a person sometimes even a bunch of hard-nosed truck drivers. ONE OF THE country's leading truck drivers, James Hoffa, now employed in the shoe repair department of the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg, celebrated his birthday on Feb. 14, which was Valentine's Day. Some of the Teamsters who still remember their revered leader got an airplane pilot to haul a banner skyward (and over the prison) which said, "Birthday Greetings to Jimmy Hoffa." At the end of the banner there was a big red heart, symbolic of St. Valentine's Day.

NOW IF THAT isn't just the sweetest thing I've heard of in a long time! It just goes to show you that those Teamsters may seem tough on the surface, but way down deep there is love and sentiment in great, big, gloopy amounts. I'm positively overcome. It's Friday. Stay on your toes and treat the tourist kindly. We'll open up another can of beans tomorrow on the old doorstep.

There's not too many more cans left just one for Saturday and another for Sunday, but we'll make the most of them. So be kind to yourselves and we'll see you then and there. Plan Board Denies Plea For Rezoning The Indian River Memorial Hospital ran into a stalemate with members of the city planning and zoning board Thursday with a request to rezone property north of the hospital for expansion of medical facilities. The hospital board wants the area as R-3, transient, which is the lowest zone classification for multiple dwellings. THE HOSPITAL has purchased 14 lots north of its location, or about half of a two-block area.

Architect Dave Robison and Hospital Board Attorney Marshall Mitchell, requested that the board grant a public hearing on the matter, which was denied until "all parties know exactly what is required." The board voted to conduct a special meeting next Thursday to discuss the matter. ROBISON AND Mitchell told zoning board members that the hospital can only expand in one direction "and that's north." Hospital plans call for an additional 400 beds during the next 10 years, auxiliary and mechanical buildings, mental health and rehabilitation center, nurses' quarters and additional parking areas. The new facilities would be a "motel type" addition for patients in a convalescent state, relieving beds in the main hospital for critical patients. HUGH RUSSELL, board member, said the area has "been rezoned too often since I've been on this board" and added that the Booker T. Washington area "has been bounced around so much that people think we're trying to put something over on them." Condemnation proceedings for the remainder of the property cannot begin until an immediate need is established and presented in court, according to Mitchell.

Property not acquired yet by the hospital is in the 'planning stage." According to Mitchell, it will be three to five years before the county will be able to finance the expansion. CHESTER CLEM, zoning board member, suggested that all of the property be purchased before any construction begins. "It would be penny wise and pound foolish to construct some facilities and then purchase the remaining land later," Clem said. He added that "once facilities are built on the property, the price of the remaining land will skyrocket." Mitchell replied that eminent domain procedures require a deposit in the amount of the appraised value of the property and that the money is not available. Spiderweb Headache this week.

Fortunately, the person was apparently automobile safety belts. (Staff Photo by Ed Dangler) Shown is the result of a collision between a not seriously injured, but it shows what can happen in passenger's head and a car windshield in Vero Beach a moment of careless driving along with not using Blood Bank Spat Hits Hospital's Directors By JACK FAY Staff Writer A king-sized furor over whether Indian River Memorial Hospital has an adequate blood bank broke out Thursday when Paul Goodridge, representing the Indian River County Blood Bank, tangled verbally with Trustee Roland Miller at a meeting of the hospital's board of trustees. Good ridge was particularly incensed regarding remarks credited to Miller in several newspapers that the blood bank buy blood from donors. "NO DOCTOR has ever been deprived of needed blood and we have never failed the doctors of this community in supplying the needed requirements," Goodridge stated. He criticized articles written in the Miami Herald, Fort Pierce News Tribune and Today and pointed out inaccuracies as he read various articles to the board.

He said no reporter from any newspaper approached him regarding the blood supply before printing their stories on Jan. 20 and Jan. 21. "OF COURSE, we can't keep on hand the blood needed for every Vero Travels To Ft. Pierce Friday Night Group 7AA Basketball Tournament Pairings 7 SATELLITE BEACH(Friday, 9 P.M.) VERO BEACH Fugitive Ends Manhunt By Surrendering Frank Paul McGinnis, 21 for several days the subject of an intense manhunt by city, county and federal law officers gave himself up Thursday saying he was "tired of running from the law." Vero Beach Police Chief Wallace Gossett said McGinnis was wanted by Maryland authorities where he escaped while awaiting trial for armed robbery.

McGINNIS ALSO was being hunted by the FBI on a charge on unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in Kent County, Md. Officers began the search for McGinnis last Saturday after it was reported he was seen fleeing from an automobile in Vero Beach. Chief Gossett said McGinnis had been considered armed and dangerous, but that he offered no resistance when arrested Thursday, McGinnis, whose local address was 1045 Old Dixie Highway, Vero Beach, is a native of Cheasepeake City, Md. McGINNIS reportedly phoned police saying that he had returned home and wanted to surrender. Charlie Russ also hit in the double figures with 12 points, while on Saturday night it was Ronnie Ford and Roger Evitt, with 11 points OTHER SPORTS MOVE IN Vero golfers traveled to Lake Worth Monday afternoon in a match that they split.

The boys won their match to while the girls lost their regular season match in three years. The girls score was 0-4. However, the win by Lake Worth was not quite as one-sided as the score indicates. The girls all went into the ninth hole tied and the Lake Worth team swept the final hole to post the 0-4 score. Medalist for the match was Vero's Carl Fetzer with a 37.

The girls medalist. was Janet Lester of Lake Worth with a 42. Fetzer's 37 EAU GALLIE (Saturday, 7:30 P.M.) CHAMPIONSHIP COCOA- DAN McCARTY(Friday, 7 P.M.) MELBOURNE (BYE) Vero Police Hunt Attendant Vero Beach police have issued an all-points bulletin on a 60- year-old service station employe missing since Tuesday night. The employe, Cliff Kilgore, was last seen about 9 p.m. Tuesday driving away in his car after closing the station owned by Bill Moody, 2546 Commerce Ave.

KILGORE WAS scheduled to open the station at 7 a.m. Wednesday but failed to appear. Moody told The Sentinel that Kilgore was to bring the day's receipts to Moody's home Tuesday night after closing, but that Kilgore never showed up. Missing along with Kilgore is about $90 in cash, $80 in checks, and two Daytona Beach race. tickets valued at $40, according to.

Moody. Police said Kilgore drives a dark blue 1961 Chevrolet sedan, tag number 32W-4495. Anyone seen fitting Kilgore's description is asked to notify the Vero Beach police department. Obituaries MRS. CLYDE ELIZABETH OWER, 65, Fellsmere, died Wednesday.

Survivors include a son, Richard C. Luke six sisters, one brother, nine grandchildren, one great-grandchild. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday from the Floyd Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at Sebastian Cemetery.

possible circumstance. Blood only keeps 21 days," he said. "In effect, what we have is a 'walking blood bank' which we can call on at all times." Miller protested that he was misquoted by the Today newspaper, and angrily denied that he was "talking too much to the newspapers." "You are the only one that gave any statements to the newspapers," he told Goodridge. After listening to both sides of the argument, the full board referred the matter to a committee of Goodridge, Dr. H.

L. Schofield Jr. and Hospital Administrator Francis O'Brien. Goodridge also invited the trustees to come to the blood bank office at the hospital and let representatives of the bank show the trustees how it operates. The blood bank director said he felt that many of the trustees were not well enough aware of how it operates and that they should familiarize themselves with its operation as a vital part of the hospital.

EYE WITNESS President Abraham Lincoln personally witnessed the Union defense of Ft. Stevens, near the nation's capital, during the Civil War. to the same ax by the score of 88-75. Vero led in both games from the opening whistle and never relinquished the lead in either game. In the Lake Worth game Gary Parris wrestled the individual scoring honors, which is a rarity, from Vero's Page Wilkerson.

Parris dropped in 20 points as Wilkerson dropped six points below his average with 19 points. However, Wilkerson made up from any slow moments in the Saturday night contest as he hit for his personal career high of 36 points. This places Wilkerson in a tie for second place in individual scoring honors for a single game in Vero High School history. The record 61 points was set by Dick Tansey in 1967. Parris found himself in second place in scoring Saturday night with 19 points.

Friday night TITUSVILLE MR. JOHN J. WARD, 83, 3439 21st Vero Beach, died Tuesday. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. M.

J. McNamara. Services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday from St. Helen Catholic Church with burial in Crestlawn Cemetery.

The Cox-Gifford-Baldwin Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. MR. WILLIAM C. DUNCAN, 85, 2221 8th a pioneer resident of Vero Beach, died Thursday. Survivors include one son, Ellis; two sisters and two granddaughters.

Services will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Cox-Gifford-Baldwin Funeral Chapel. Burial will follow in Crestlawn Cemetery. LEONARD DAVID YATES, 48, 630 15th Vero Beach, died Wednesday. Survivors include his widow, Melba; five daughters, his mother, three sisters, four brothers.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Forest Park Baptist Church. Burial will follow in Crestlawn Cemetery. The Floyd Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. By MARION BASS VERO BEACH Friday night marks the end of the 1967-68 regular season basketball season for the Vero Fighting Indians.

The locals travel to Ft: Pierce to do battle with arch rival Dan McCarty High in the Eagles gym. In the initial contest between the two schools in the Vero gym the Tribe downed their rivals from the south by a comfortable margin. The first game was not a spectator's game as Dan McCarty tried freezing the ball and the first quarter score was 5-1. However, with the game being played in Ft. Pierce this Friday speculation runs that the Eagles will attempt another approach to stop the high flying Tribe.

THE FIGHTING Indians will be gunning for victory number 21 to go with their three defeats in their final outing against the Eagles. As far as the record can be ascertained victory number 21 during the regular season will make this the winningest basketball season at Vero Beach High School ever. Over the last week the Big Red was able to win two more games. Both contests were played over the weekend with last Tuesday, a normal day for a game, open. The weekend opponents that fell to the Tribe were Lake Worth on Friday and Martin County of Stuart on Saturday.

Lake Worth felt the sting of the tomahawk to the tune of 80-59, while Martin County fell was his best score in a high school match. The Tribes' next match is in Boca Raton Monday. THE VERO tennis team is off to a good start this season winning both of their opening matches over Lake Worth and following up with two wins over Forest Hill. In the Lake Worth match the boys won 5-2, while the girls were victorious by the score of 6-1. Against Forest Hill both teams had even more success with the boys and girls winning by the same score, 6-1.

For the boys Eric Nuzzie is playing the number one position and Susan Gould is playing the same position for the girls. Playing second and third for the boys are Pete Smith and Frank Dent, with Sandra Nuzzie and Gwen Rollins holding down- the same positions for the girls. Vero coach Ed "Chubby" Bass welcomed 31 baseball prospects to the 1968 edition of the Fighting Indians' baseball team. With three regulars off of last year's baseball team still playing basketball the burden of play will fall on these early arrivals for the opening games of the baseball season. ALSO RETURNING from last year's team is right-handed pitcher Steve Kolb who posted a 5-1 record with the Tribe last season.

Three other regulars reported to practice Thursday and they were third baseman, Mike Lyda, leftfielder Otis Crocker, and all-conference centerfielder Gary Sanchez. San- chez starts his fourth year as a regular for the Fighting Indians in baseball. Other lettermen among the 31 reporting were Ronnie VERO SPORTS CORNER Selph, Steve Harp, and Dale Eichman. The Tribe open their 1968 season in Cocoa against the Cocoa Tigers at 7:30 p.m. on Feb.

27. MORE BASKETBALL The 1968 District 7AA basketball tournament will be held at. the Vero Beach gym Feb. 22, 23, and 24. The district 7AA area reaches from Titusville in Brevard County to Dan McCarty in St.

Lucie County and will involve seven class "AA" teams. The winner of this group tournament will represent District 7 in the 3AA Regional tournament. The Regional 3AA reaches from Gainesville, Daytona, Orlando, to West Palm Beach. The opening round of the Group 7AA tournament will begin at 4 p.m. Thursday between Cocoa and Dan McCarty.

The evening contest will find Titusville pitted against Satellite Beach at 7 p.m. and Vero Beach against Eau Gallie at 9 p.m. Friday night's contests will constitute the semi-finals which will begin at 7 p.m. The finals will be held Saturday night at 7:30 p.m..