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eral Hwy'. starts. Similar timing consideration will be given all projects. Meanwhile, he urged city officials to give serious consideration to early construction of approaches and piers at SE Third Ave. and New River which could be spanned with the bascules now serving Federal Hwy.

"The state, I'm sure, will be willing to give these bascules" to the city and if -they could be placed in operation at Third Ave. coincidentally with the beginning of our job on Federal Hwy, it would further relieve the north-south traffic problem which will Manuel said. If ths piers were in position, Winston Carlton, district engineer for the State Road Board, said, Third Ave. traffic over New River could be moving within about 60 days. Mayor C.

Malcolm Carlisle and City Manager H. Milton Link of Ft, Lauderdale were cautious in their reaction to Manuel's proposal. Both pointed out that, while desirable, the fact that approach construction might cost $600,000 may make it prohibitive as an immediate undertaking. Construction of the SE 17th St. Bridge cannot be completed, Manuel, estimated, in less than a year and a half even if sale of Broward County bonds can be made by November a goal that is now being aimed at.

Present of the County Commission call for approval of two resolutions authorizing the program at its next meeting Aug. 18. A majority of the commission has been out of the city for several Chairman Tony Salvino is slated to return Wednesday night. This will provide a quorum, if, one is necessary for emergency action, on the resolutions, but state and county attorneys, in cluding County Attorney John Lloyd, see no need for it. 'Detailed plans already have been completed for the south-side causeway, but building of approaches and piers will require about eight months.

Fabrication of the steel in the bridge Itself will take about one year. With the tSE 17th St. span assuming first place in the program, and the Fed- eral Hwy. bridge consigned to the last spot, study is being made with no decisions reached on the schedule for most of the remaining portions of the program. The bridge replacement over the Waterway on Las Olas will be one of the latter items, although in this instance it is possible to complete some construction without interfering with traffic.

"Most of the rest of the program probably can proceed simultaneously," Manuel said. "We believe that work could be started on the Dania bridge by Jan, Turning to another important segment of Ft. Lauderdale's traffic program, Manuel said that the State Road Board is gearing its plans for early com mencement of work of Federal Hwy. from Gateway to NE Sxith St. a segment of work which is the last remaining link in the four-laning of the highway from the North Broward limits to Hollywood Circle.

Other stretches, from Gateway to Pompano Beach and from Ft. Lauderdale to Dania, are already under contract. "This will be the most modern and beautiful stretch of highway in the whole state of Florida," Manuel enthused. "There will be nothing newer in design in the United States." As revealed today the blue prints call for two uninterrupted eight-foot lanes of traffic in each direction with a ''third lane ex-, clusively for left-hand turns. A four-foot, grassed parkway will divide north and southbound, traffic.

Right-of-way procurement by-, the city is the last remaining; obstacle in getting the project under way, Manuel said. "We're willing and anxious to get going," he added. Appraisers named by Circuit Judge George W. Tedder have until Sept. 15 to submit their recommendations, and a hearing on their report has been set for-Sept.

22. By CLAUDE MARKLE Daily News Staff Writer) Broward County's $10,723,000 lC-brldge program -will be timetabled so that there will be the least possible interference with normal traffic flow, Tom Manuel, Ft. Lauderdale member of the State Road Board, promised today. Pointing out that the span over the Intracoastal Waterway at SE 17th St. holds first place in the construction schedule, he said that traffic on Federal Hwy.

can be channeled over State Rd. A1A and SE 17th St. when construction of a new span over New River on Fed Children Arrestee! tg6ywi.iiipiiwniiniim -mmmmmm ham ul.jium iniunwiiwiiiiMMim -ww 1 jp-W, Fronton Keeps Its Bar Man Is Fined Iii Daiiia For Shoplifting Fort Lauderdale Daily Ntovs Hollywood MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1953 Dfly Ntwi photo by Dob White) Susan Hightower, 5, third, and Barbara and Pamela Desmond, 5-year-old twins, first. They are pictured above with Mrs. Jerry Dowdy, one of the judges.

More' than 40 children from 3 to 12 took part in the six-week program. PLANTATION COSTUME PARTY Plantation's summer recreation program, sponsored by the Woman's Club," ended Friday with a costume party and judging of craft work. Winners of the costume event were Steven Hightower, 7, second; -AS' jPj 1 IVyly i Second South Broward GI Dies In Korea 1 D.Oy N.w. phot Dick DUIm) HOW TO SPEND IT Henri Louis Trudead 21320 Mooney and Moonie Kong, 29, 539 Vz Fifth haven't yet decided how they are going to spend the pile of greenbacks they ere expecting from sonne salvage work they're doing. Moonie may go back to his native Honolulu, Hawaii for a visit and show off his wife of three months.

Trudeau may go into the salvage business himself. But Can They Keep It? i VjV- 3 I 1 I Passed Bottle Through Window, Police Say DANIA Christy Minchoff 35, barkeeper at "Howard's Bar, 350 W. Dixie was fined $100 today by Judge Archibal M. Black following his second conviction for illegal liquor sales in a month. Minchoff 'was arrested Saturday evening after three witnesses, including Police Chief William N.

Horgan, saw the bartender pass a half-pint bottle of whiskey out a back window to Tom West, Dania newspaperman. The illegal selling was called to police attention by Bud Smith, former Dania police of ficer and brother of ex-eblef Montie Smith, who reported it to Patrolmen Harry H. Brock and Ed Smith. They notified Chief Horgan, who was off duty at the time, and the men together retained to the bar. West said his part in the arrest was a coincidence as he was "just passing by." He volunteered to.

make the purchase although ne felt certain that Minchoff would recognize him. As West approached a small window in a rear wall of the bar, Horgan stationed himself around the comer, and Ed Smith, and Brock were parked in a squad car nearby. The chief later testified that he saw the money change hands and saw change being made. Following the arrest Saturday night. Jack Scarberry, owner of the bar, went to police head- nuarters with the group.

An altercation between Chief" Hor Bad Smith, and Scarberry was calmed before the arrival or Commissioner Felix Williams, called to arbitrate the dispute. Counsel for Minchoff asked leniency for the barkeeper because he had lost his Job, but Judge Black decided that two arrests in a month's time on similar charges was one to many. A Resorting Plea To Get Airing At Pomp ano POMPANO BEACH The city's planning and zoning board will air a proposal at a public hearing tonight designed to rezone a major portion of property along Atlantic Blvd. west of Federal Hwy. from residential to business.

The action was called for by a large group of property owners between Fourth and 19th Avenues in a petition submitted to the city commission last month. At present property owners along the boulevard, which represents this city's only thoroughfare to the beach area, are restricted to potential business construction. The board will submit its recommendation following the public hearing tonight which will sound out sentiments of residents affected by the proposed zoning change. According to the petition requesting the action, more than 75 percent of affected property owners want their property re-zoned. Negro Sought In Stabbing POMPANO BEACH Charles Flovd.

Neero. is being sought by police for questioning in the stab-' bing of another Negro, wuiiam Glover, here Saturday night. Police said Glover suffered an abdominal wound received during a fight with Floyd in front of the Nassau Bar on Hammondville Rd. Glover was treated at the local clinic and was released yester- day. Two Lauderdale Men Diving For Million Dollar Cargo HollywoodMan Identified In Sheriff Lineup George Walter Blount.

45, of Hollywood, was picked out of five-man showup line in the sher iffs office Sunday and identified as the man who robbed a Fed' eral Hwy. bar at 5:20 p. m. Sat urday. Sheriff's Deputies Claude and W.

E. Woody 1 Tindall and Ed Fletcher today charged Blount with the unarmed robbery of W. J. Newberry, proprietor of the Candle Lite Inn. Blount was arrested at 7:15 p.

m. Saturday as he slept while propped on a bar stool in an other club. He was drunk, the deputies stated. The deputies said Blount stole about $20 from the Candle Lite cash register. When he entered the place he had.

one hand con cealed inside his shirt. Newberry said that Blount ordered him to lie on the floor. He complied. thinking the man had a gun. Blount ran from the inn after the holdup and hailed a taxi.

Tom Coran, who drove the cab, was contacted by the Tindalls. He said he drove Blount to Dania and let him out at a motel. He said he didn't know Blount was a robbery suspect. When the Tindalls Investigated they found Blount's suitcase on the steps. They checked Navy dis charge papers found in the bag, then searched several bars until they located the suspect.

Hollywood Beach Teen Dance Slated HOLLYWOOD BEACH About 300 Broward County teen-agers are expected to attend a free dance at Hollywood Beach Hotel at 8:30 pjn. Thursday, sponsored by the hotel and the city's recreation de partment. PAGE 1-B attemntinar to find what evervbodv Henri Louis Trudeau Jr 21. 320 barracuda, amberjacks weighing up to 80 pounds and, according to Kong, "the biggest snappers I ever saw in my life." The divers have not been both ered by sharks and barracuda yet and they arent scared of them, particularly. They sidestepped question on when sharks attack with the reply: "You can't make a general statement on that.

The only thing you can say Is that they may attack. So far, they haven't. Water jobs aren't new to the young men. Kong did a lot of spear fishing in his native Hawaii, had some diving training when he attended submarine school when he was In the U. S.

Navy, taught swimming one year at sev eral Miami Beach hotels and, for a year prior to his present job, was engaged in Independent div in? work here, mostly routine salvage and repairs. He was the diver hired by the city to recover the body or a British seaman who pear Port Everglades last Aoril. -Trudeau, who's been living here since 1941 swam with the Ft Lauderdale swimming team, was a lifeguard at a beach hotel and has done considerable off-shore diving among the reefs. LEGION POST MEETS HALLANDAlLE. American Legion Gulfstream Post 310 meets at 8 pjn.

today at the Derby Club on Federal Hwy. in Hallandale. Phone Workers 3 a By FRANK nOGAN Dafly Newt Start Writer) License Supreme Court Refuses Miami Firm's Plea TALLAHASSEE The Florida Supreme Court today refused to void a jai alai perv mit issued to the Monroe Operating Company in Dania. The court in an opinion by Justice John E. Matthews said the Fronton Exhibition Miami, had failed to show that the new jai alai fronton at Dania is less than 20 miles from the Biscayne Fronton when meas ured by road travel over the most practical route.

The Biscayne Fronton had asked the court to order the racing com' mission to revoke the jai alai per mit given the Monroe Operating Co. of Dania. J. Lewis Hall, Tallahassee at torney, representing the Biscayne Fronton, contended the Dania Fronton is less than 20 miles from the Miami operation. The jai alai law says 20 miles must separate frontons.

Assistant Attorney General George Owen, arguing in behalf of the racing commission, told the court the Broward County fronton is more than 20 miles from the Biscayne Fronton by road travel over the most practi cal route. Although the jai alai law says no permit can be issued for fronton within 20 of existing fronton, it also says the dog and horse racing law ap plies to jai alai. Owen said. The dog and horse racing law says distance limitations between tracks must be measured by road travel over the most practical route. Justice Matthews said the miles the Biscayne Fronton claimed a3 the distance between it and the Dania fronton was measured as the crow flies.

He said that, since there was non showing that the Dania location was less than 20 miles from the Dania fronton by highway as is required by the racing laws, the Miami operators had no case. Owen also contended that in an earlier court action challenging constitutionality of the 20- mile jal-alai limit the operators of the Biscayne. Dania and Tampa frontons joined in a petition in which they stated the Dania Fron ton is more than 20 miles from the Biscayne Fronton. Marines Take Ship For The Far East A squadron of the Third Marine Air Wing boarded a Navy transport at Port Everglades Sunday for shipment to the Far East. The group, consisting of about 350 officers and men, formerly stationed at Opa-Locka, are accompanying the Third Marine Di vision ordered to overseas duty by President Eisenhower.

Twenty-four Panther jet fighter planes were flown from Opa-Locka to Norfolk earlier for loading there. Negro, drowned in the Gulf while swimming near Fort Walton Beach. Douglas Mitchell Forster, 5, of Jacksonville, drowned in the lake at Gold Head State Park near Keystone Heights during a family, picnic." Thunderstorms played around the Pensacola area during the hot Sunday afternoon. In one of them, a lightning bolt struck and killed Navy Lt. John M.

Thomas of Whiting Field as he fished from the stern of a cruiser in the Gulf of Mexico. Billie Gautney, 52. a farm work er from Loxley, burned to death when fire destroyed the three-room home of his employer near Free port. Gautney escaped the blaze but died when he ran back into the house to retrieve his clothing. On Miami Beach, Lester J.

Boland, 54-year-old went to work yesterday on a rush wire installation job at a restaurant. A live wire touched him over the heart, killing him instantly. The traffic victim was Grover Cleveland O'Stee, 60. of Tampa. He was killed and his wife Injured seriously when a tire blew out and his car overturned near Lake City.

Two Ft. Lauderdale men are is looking for a way to make a hunk of money. Diving for a million dollar cargo off Cape Canaveral are Moonie Kong. 29. 539 Va SE Fifth a native of and Mooney Pt.

Directed by Capt. Albert E. Jones, the salvage work has Cops Nab In Act Alert Shopper Traps Trio By Using Mirror By HAROLD FLAGG (Dally New Staff Writer) HOLLYWOOD Police to day said a juvenile shoplifting ring, composed of four girls- two ten years old and two 12 years old was broken up here baturday when an alert woman shopper using a mirror-caused their arrest. The woman shopper, who prefers to remain unidentif ied, turned her back to three girls and used mirror to observe the trio while they removed Items from a count-er at Richart's five and ten cent store. Though three of the girls wer actually caught stealing, Detective Roy Longbottom said, they Identified the fourth girl who had helped them In previous robberies.

The woman said she was sus picious about the imitation dia mond solitaire rings which all three girls displayed. The trio also sported bright red fingernails. Juveniles admitted stealing Items which they carried la large purses, Detective Longbottom said. The 10-year-old "ringleader" expressed fear of being sent home to her mother, police said. She Is currently in custody of grandparents.

Nearly all the stolen items were recovered. Groceries stolen from supermarkets, however, were eaten at the girls told police. Stolen items ranged from cos metics and a doll's nursing bottle to four "lucky clover" keys, which apparently proved unlucky after all. The confessed shoplifters will not be prosecuted "If they have no past record at Juvenile court," Detective Longbottom, who Investigated, said. Stores raided by the girls during the past week include a drug store and a department store.

The "diamonds" In the collection of jewelry taken from the juveniles proved of little value. More than 45 items stolen since the first of last week were confiscated by police. 7 The shoplifters were observed in action at 3:41 pjn. Saturday, according to the police report. Casino Lease Decision Seen- POMPANO BEACH Final disposition of the Pompano Beach casino which has been Inactive since June 1 will be decided by the City Commission tomorrow.

City Manager Carl Burbridge je-ported today. Burbridge announced that bids for leasing the structure will be reviewed by the commission at its regular meeting at 9 a.m. The board will also consider bids to lease the Pompano Beach municipal airport on a one-year basis. According to city stipulations, casino bids must contain commitments to outfit the casino with suitable rest-room facilities for beach bathers and to institute moderate renovation program. The city is desirous of leasing the structure for three years to private interests who will establish a restaurant.

Lease on the casino held ty Harold Menard, local businessman, who operated a snack bar there last year, expired June 1. At Hollywood Mrs. Hester Burgess of Hollywood, a company employe. Armstrong managed the union's policy, during the walkout, assisted by President E. D.

Fincham, of Local 3104. Other meetings at which grievances will be discussed are still In prospect. Mrs. Burgess stated. Emoloyes have said that they consider the firing of Miss White for failing to report charged long distance telephone conversations makes them feel their own Jobs are insecure, and they protest this action by the company.

Boy Who Shot Tot Wants To Donate Blood A White 19-year-old Oakland Park grocery store clerk today asked if he could give a blood transfusion to a little Negro girl he says he shot by accident Saturday. Winfield Greek volunteered to Deputy Sheriff Claude Tindall in behalf of 11 -year-old Gloria Lock-ett. who is in Broward General hospital where authorities this afternoon described her condition as "fair." A bullet from an old .45 calibre pistol passed completely through the girl, puncturing her lung and several ribs. TindaU said that young Greek "Is completely broken no as a result of the incident." Tindall quoted the hoy as say ing: "I'd like to give her a blood transfusion." Hospital authorities, informed of Greek's willingness to give the transfusion, said they would con tact the sheriff's office if his blood were needed. Tindall said that after question ing Greek he was fairly well convinced the shooting was an accident.

The deputy said he took state ments from witnesses to the shoot ing. These, he explained, pretty well confirmed Greek's account of the Incident. All statements will be turned over to County Solicitor Otis Farrington this afternoon. He will determine final disposition of the case. In the event Farrington agrees the shooting was entirely an ac cident, he could place a charge of "reckless display of firearms" against the youth.

Tindall said that friends of Greek's indicated they would pay the Negro child's hospital and doctor's bills. According to the story, given Tindall, Greek was handling the gan in the Oakland Park Grocery when it accidentally dis charged. It had five shells In the chamber. Jerry Coats. 12.

Gus Ross, 12 and Matty Lou Ross, 9. were on the porch outside the front door of the store. Tindall said they believed the shooting was accidental They said Gloria was just inside the store door. BROACH STOLEN HOLLYWOOD. Police are ii vestigating the reported theft of a $12,000 broach from a safe in the home of Mrs.

Thomas Mahon at 1435 Harrison St. Mrs. McMahon said she made a trip to St. Augustine and claims her home was entered and the brooch stolen during the weekend. ing and electrical department last year oy a special investigating commitee appointed by the City Commission.

The committee revealed that contractors were dissatisfied with the building and electrical codes. The committee advised revision. The action was ordered by the City Commission which incor po rated revision of all building ordinances of which the electrical ordinance is the first to be com pleted and ready for approval. City building Inspector Howard Lane said that modernization of the building ordinance is still be ing studied. Nine Persons Lose Their Lives During Weekend In Florida been going on for three weeks and might take as long as three years to complete.

What is expected to give the men a sizable nestegg is a million dollars worth of lead, tin and zinc 80 feet below the surface of the ocean in a shipping lane due east of Cocoa. The metals are aboard the ship Ocean Venus, a 450-ton vessel sunk during World War II by German TJ-boats, Kong said. The ship was bound from Vancouver, British Columbia, to a northern east coast port of the U. he added. But while Kong and Trudeau decide how they are going to spend the money they Federal Court in Miami is to rule Thursday on who will legally get the lead out of the ship.

Jones, of West Palm Beach and owner of the schooner Wilfrid, filed a S25.000 suit last week azainst Eberhard W. Dietel of Miami, and Arthur L. Adamson of Rumson, N. charging they had infringed on his salvage rights. Jones said In his suit he had a license from Federal Judge John W.

Holland to perform salvage operations on the Ocean Venus. He said he attached buoys to the Ocean Venus after locating the vessel and his divers started to remove its cargo. They piled 40 tons of lead on the ocean floor and six and a half tons were loaded on the Wilfred, which re turned to port. When the Wilfrid returned to the Ocean Venus, Jones said, he found the Edina, a 52-foot work boat, tied up to his buoys. He asks $9,000 for the lead removed by the Edina plus other damages.

Judge Holland issued a temporary restraining order against Dietel and Adamson. Deep sea diving may be a Quickie method of becoming wealthy but it's a dangerous and painstaking job that doesn't appeal to every one. Four men already have quit the Ocean Venus. Kong and Tru deau intend to stick it out Kong because of the money: Trudeau because he likes lt. Thirteen fathoms down the underwater specialists go about their work but there's also op portunity to observe sea life What they see mostly are sharks, PFC.

FRED SCOTT K1A The Department of Defense today released the name of the second South Broward County soldier to be killed In action In Korea. He was listed at Pfc. Fred Ed' ward Scott, 26, of Bailey's Apts. in Dania, a worker in a Dania brick yard. Records in the U.S.

Selective Service Department here show that Scott was inducted into the Army in Miami, July 15, 1952, and received his training at Ft. Jack son, S. C. His wife, Sarah Mae Sanders, and son, Willie Joe, who live in Iron City, along with his mother, Lulu H. Scott, have been informed of his death.

Only other fatality in South Broward In the Korean war was Lt. Bruce Jackson, 27, of Holly wood, killed on night patrol duty on Memorial Day. His wife, Mari lyn, and a son. Larry Bruce, 2, of 2464 Arthur survive. The Defense Department, in announcing the death of the Dania soldier, said it would be several more weeks before a complete Ko rean war casualty list "will be available.

Hallandale Plans of Revamping HALLANDALE The reorgani zatiorr of a Chamber of Commerce here was discussed at a meeting of business men this afternoon. Hallandale's chamber has been Inactive for several years. This city of two racetracks and famous restaurants is the only South Broward municipality which does not maintain an active chamber. The meeting was at Hallandale's Sportsman's Club, 821 N. Federal Hwy.

Sponsorship of a "Hallandale Day" or some other celebration similar to Hollywood's Fiesta Tropicale and Dania's Tomato Day is being considered. Another major Chamber of Commerce event in South Broward is Davie's annual Orange Festival and Rodeo. Hallandale proposes to use its racetracks or its Swed ish-American heritage as a theme for an annual event. Pompano Electrical Ordinance Gets First Reading Tomorrow Nine persons died violently in Florida over the -eekend. Five drowned, one died in a traffic accident, one was electrocuted, and the others were killed by lightning and fire, the Associated Press reported today.

Barbara Lee Rank, 15 months old, learned to walk just three months ago. Yesterday, she used her new-found legs to toddle out the back door of her Miami home. A half block away, she fell off a seawall into Biscayne Bay. Her body was found in the water by her father, Fred T. Rank.

At Pensacola, Samuel N. In gram, 51, went swimming in Pensacola Bay, seeking relief from 96-degree heat. People standing on a wharf saw him struggling in the water, but when they pulled him out he was dead. Joseph S. Lewis of Oak Hill, W.

went fishing in Biscayne Bay on a sailboat owned by his friend. L. R. Chandler of Miami. A small skiff broke loose from the sailboat and Lewis jumped overboard to retrieve it As he rose to the surface, he called for help and his son, Joseph IV, went to his aid, but when he was pulled aboard he could not be revived.

Lucius Preston, 41, Bonlfay File Protest With Officials POMPANO BEACH A new city electrical ordinance which brings up to date present outmoded and controversial electrical codes will be considered on the first reading by the City Commission tomorrow. The new ordinance, which revises old codes termed "no longer applicable" and eliminates "am-biguous regulations," has been under study by the city electrical board and electrical inspector. Ernest Smoak. for the past few months, according to City Manager Carl Burbridge. Inadequacies in the present ordinance were brought out during an investigation of the city build HOLLYWOOD A formal protest in the form of a union grievance has been filed with the traffic de partment of Southern Bell Tele phone and Co.

in Ft. Lauderdale, Manager H. M. Mac-Donald said, today, but the oper ator whose dismissal caused last Thursday's wildcat walkout beauty contestant Miss Arlene White was still without a job. Jack Armstrong, president of Communications Workers of Amer ica, CIO, has returned to Jacksonville, according to union secretary.