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-lv ill If A i i ftUw hi i i Police Calls i thority to block erection of the business as contrary to their zoning ordinances. Moore said there was ample law to support Boynton Beach's position that it could build the snack bar on its own property but that a judicial decision would probably be needed to resolve the matter. lUi til Prepared, JKS5SS5S3 li 1 5 Whipple recalls he did what was then unique workmanship with bulbs, numbering more than 1,000 with prisms. "He said, "I'll say that $700 (the cost of the sign) in those days was a lot of money." Whipple was a charter member of the old Palm Beach Art League, and a i Parents Told (Staff photo by Chirlei Ctbanisi) 43-YEAR-OLD KEYSTONE HOTEL WAS DEMOLISHED FOR PARKING LOT the building once housed Palm Beach guests in the 'boom days' Boom Days And The Keystone Old Landmark Destroyed vv. It 1 i charter member of the local Rotary Club and Chamber of Commerce, both founded in 1914.

He recalls that in 1913 he had the chance to buy 100 feet on Datura Street extending from the FEC Railway tracks now by the Grand with John Wilson and Charles Conklin of the SRD traffic division, the need for improvements at the Lake, Lucerne Avenue, Dixie Highway intersections was pointed out. "Both agreed the long-time problem should be corrected," Kopp said. The often-discussed subject by city commissioners was By BYRON LIGGETT (Staff Writer) BOYNTON BEACH -Halting of free police and fire radio dispatch service provided the Town of Ocean Ridge by Boynton Beach may be the result of the continuing beach snack bar battle between the two communities. In a Friday night workshop session Lt. William Hamilton of the police department reported that about five per cent of the radio calls handled by city police dispatchers were from or to Ocean Ridge police cruisers.

As a typical example during the season Hamilton said, in February 1968, the city dispatchers received 609 calls from Ocean Ridge police and made 10 calls to the town police. He said many of the calls involved considerable work for dispatchers. Hamilton added the city base radio station was very busy handling their own calls and the service provided Ocean Ridge is an extra hardship on us." "In other words Boynton Beach acts as the Ocean Ridge police station?" asked Mayor Michael Michael. "That's right," Hamilton replied. Vice Mayor Jim Gallo noted with the cost of base radio station and salaries of dispatchers, the city was paying more than $15,000 a year to provide this service.

Mayor Michael asked City Manager Grady Courtney to look into total annual costs of maintaining the radio service including number of calls handled for Ocean Ridge and provide the council a suggested pro rata share of costs for the Ocean Ridge service for the next regular council meeting Monday night. In discussing the proposed beach snack bar which city officials want to bdild on the Boynton Beach public beach which is inside Ocean Ridge, City Atty. Gene Moore asked if Ocean Ridge had legal au By GARY GOODER (Staff Writer) DELRAY BEACH-Seacrest High School Principal Clifford Ripley urges parents to plan for possible civil defense emergencies with their children as schools will be closed and students evacuated if an1 emergency arises. "This information should not be cause for alarm," Ripley said in a newsletter sent to parents. He explained that it is provided only to give parents information as to the school's plan in the event of an emergency warning from the County Civil Defense office.

Ripley said that county authorities will instruct schools to close and evacuate the students and those who walk will be told to go immediately to their homes while those transported by school buses will be taken to the usual bus stops. Parents who are not at home certain hours of the day are urged to inform their children as to where they should go inasmuch as phones may be so tied up that they will not serve as a line of communication. To lessen the traffic confusion, Ripley said, parents should not plan to pick up students at school if there is time lor them to walk or ride home the usual way. "Plans have been worked out carefully and in detail for as fast and orderly an evacuation as possible," he said. Lake Worth Intersections Traffic Problem Study Set By NANCY POWELL (Staff Writer) LAKE WORTH Studies of a pedestrian-traffic problem at two main city intersections will be made within two weeks by the State Road according to City Manager Carl Kopp.

He said during a meeting 'IIJ BY JIM illtfU STINGLEY The Democratic party should demand an autopsy. The Chicago police did exactly what they were told to do allow the Democratic Convention to run without interruption from outside protesters and keep people from killing or getting killed. And those are my thoughts about the Democratic party and the Chicago Police Department. The television commentators had other thoughts about the police. I'm sure you heard them.

Some newspaper repor- ters thought likewise. I'm sure you read them. Don't place a whole lot of value on those who screamed and yelped "police brutality" when they or one of their men got blooded. Those guys haven't exactly endeared themselves to the police over the past few years but thats beside the point. The point is they were in the midst of protesters resisting police orders.

It wasn't exactly the calmest spot in the world. Did they expect the police, who were outnumbered by masses of people disobeying their orders and throwing bottles and rocKs at them, to single these repor ters out and say, "Excuse me, you're in my way, sir." Cops, contrary to some belief, are human. And when they re in the middle of something like that, they get a tad testy and are so busy trying to keep the masses back that they really don't have much time to figure out who in the crowd is bad and who is good. So they hit a few reporters, And that's too bad. But if they can keep the kill score at zero and allow a national convention that has been openly threatened by masses of protesters to con tinue uninterrupted then I'd have to say they did a fair job.

I have covered riots as a reporter and have been grabbed and pushed and threatened by policemen. And I have been a policeman and have been grabbed and pushed and threat ened by rioters. It helps to know both sides of the argument. It is all too easy to yelp loudly and wrongly if you do not. And I'm not saying people should not be allowed to protest any damn thing they please in this country.

But I will say that their protests should not ever be so strongly physical that the very safety of those whom they are protesting against is threatened nor should they be allowed to break up the private gatherings of those same people. Week after next the wave of gray print that tells the news on the right seven columns of this Saturday page will sweep over where these left-handed words are written and like water over sand, Saturday's Child shall be washed away. It would be interesting to know how many readers are going to be sorry to hear that- and how many will be glad to hear it. What will disturb me most would be the number who don't care one way or the other, but that's the chance you take when you write a column and wear your neart on a typewriter. Since I've got one more Sat urday's Child to write, I'll re serve my parting philosophy for then.

Meanwhile, I'll be going down to the river for a final bull session with the Cap'n, charter skipper Barry Cuda and my friend Allen the Poo. Maybe I'll get to see Blond Scotty and the rest of the characters that have made my stay in Florida kind of neat. Meanwhile, like I said before, if you're sorry, glad or don't care about the departure of Sat urday's Child, how about drop ping a card in care of this paper to that effect. I'm trying to decide whether to continue writing it where I'm going. "I can't recommend that you build the snack bar and let Ocean Ridge try to block you with an injunction because I can't guarantee the outcome," Moore said.

The final decision on what the council will do was also placed on the agenda for Monday night. Charged Death of five was placed on probation for 10 years for killing her husband, and a man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man who owed him 75 cents. Formally charged was Mrs. Kathleen Anna Ghidoni, 44, who allegedly shot and killed her husband, D. E.

Ghidoni, at their West Palm Beach home Thursday. Ghidoni died after ambulance attendants rushed him to a local hospital. His wife had called from the same hospital that her husband was dying from an "accidental" gunshot wound. Her bond was set by Criminal Court at $5,000. In another case Friday, Circuit Judge Culver Smith gave 10 years probation to Mrs.

Audrey Boyd, 38, who pleaded guilty recently to second degree murder in the Jan. 1, 1967, pistol slaying of her husband, Charles Boyd, at their suburban Lake Worth home at 7167 Oakmont Dr. Authorities said she told them shortly after her husband was found dead with seven 32 caliber automatic pistol slugs in his body that Boyd had been beating several of their five children. The third action in court Friday was the life sentence handed down by Circuit Court Judge James C. Downey to Johnny Mack Brown 25, of Belle Glade in the March 28, 1968, pistol slaying of James Earl (Bobby) Farmer, 18, in the Glades.

Brown, who was convicted by a 12-man jury several months ago of second degree murder, drew the maximum sentence. Authorities said Farmer reportedly owed Brown $1 and a few days before the squabble had paid 25 cents on the debt. But, authorities said, Brown took a 32-caliber revolver with him to get the 75 cents balance. They became embroiled in an argument and Brown whipped out his pistol and shot Farmer, authorities said. Market Robbery Nets $200 For 3 Bandits Hotel.

He said later it sold for $250,000 in the boom days of 1925, when the Keystone Hotel was built. A native of Quitman, Whipple said he has seen a lot of history made in South Florida and has a lot of mementoes of the Gold Coast's growth. renewed this week and Kopp was asked to contact the SRD for information regarding the installation of a new traffic system. The major concern in past years, as now, is that pedestrians must walk with traffic, without the protection of a separate walk-signal. But officials have been reluctant to appropriate funds for new lights because of proposed four-laning of a four-block section of the highway that includes the problem sites.

Commissioner Robert Small said, "I feel its time we do something about it. A large segment of our elderly population must cross the highway and the situation is dangerous." "Five years ago, I was willing to wait because I didn't think we should spend a lot of money on new lights just to have them become obsolete after the road is built. But at this stage, we still don't know for sure when construction will begin," he said. Kopp said that Arnold Ramos, SRD district engineer, assured him "that they will be able to provide the city with a system that can be salvaged." How soon or if the program can be implemented has not been answered. The traffic men said the two-week delay on studies was caused by previous commitments, and it generally takes, considerable time to get a feasibility report that will give city officials an estimated cost of the installation if it is apprcved.

Faculty Clinic Held At College PALM BEACH Palm Beach Atlantic College held a faculty clinic Friday, opening a week of activities at th tiswlv established institution of higher learmng. Day classes will start next Wednesday and night classes wiu Degin 9. The faculty clinic was held to acquaint the staff with the col lege aims and goals as well as By CHARLES CABANISS (Staff writer) WEST PALM BEACH A 43-year-old West Palm Beach landmark the Keystone Hotel is gone. The structure, when its walls came tumbling down, carried with it a story of the nostalgic days of pre-World War II. The history of its 40 rooms are headed for the inglorious finish of becoming a landfill, clearing the site for a half block of modern city buildings.

With the Keystone goes another reminder of the Florida "Boom Days" of the 1920s. The hotel was typical of turn-of-the-century architecture, with turrets and balconies and other oddities of an earlier era adorning its frame, clapboard structure. The turrets were actually gazebos whose sitting places were scarred by the use of thousands of guests who occupied its rooms over years. In its early heyday, the Keystone was considered among the more fashionable of West Palm Beach hotels, along with the demolished Salt Air Hotel in Lake Worth. The Salt Air gave in to progress in the early 1960s.

One Keystone Hotel gazebo was removed to clear the way for a garden setting or the city's new park on Clematis Street. A central figure in the early days of the Keystone was H. Clarence Whipple, who lives across the street in another hotel which once housed employes of the plush Palm Beach Breakers Hotel and was also once named the "Keystone." Whipple, 83, and an encyclopedia of memories, said he stayed at the first Keystone at 424 Datura built by Benjamin Cook in 1913. He said he remembers playing checkers with Cook on the front porch of the hotel. The "new" Keystone had guests coming back each winter for more than 20 years.

The original Keystone will remain. Whipple, who bought the first Keystone in 1942, stares across at the "new" Keystone and feels, "It's a shame." He admits the building is plagued with termites. When Whipple stayed at the present Keystone, he had the only sign shop in the West Palm Beach area. Museum Open WEST PALM BEACH The county science museum and planetarium in Dreher Park at West Palm Beach will be open Labor Day from 1 to 5 p.m. The featured presentation will be "Our Special Planet, Earth" at 3:30 P.M.

Monday. Woman In Man's WEST PALM BEACH In Criminal Court action at the courthouse Friday afternoon, one woman was charged with second degree murder in the pistol slaying of her husband, another housewife and mother was five feet nine inches tall and dressed in a light blue shirt with yellow horizontal stripes and blue dungarees the third was wearing a pale yellow shirt. Destroyed Bonds To Be Restored WEST PALM BEACH The Glades County Board of Public Instruction was ordered Friday in circuit court to get a new set of bonds for the $154,000 issue that became "lost, destroyed or stolen recently. Judge Hugh MacMillan ordered the Bank of Palm Beach Trust Co. and Security Ex change Bank to renew the bonds which the Glades School Board theorizes were stuffed into the superintendent's wastebasket and incinerated with trash.

The judge said in the order he was satisified that the certifi cates had not been assigned or presented for payment and or dered that duplicates be issued by the two banks. Hoiel Firm Sues Prince For Tab WEST PALM BEACH Socialite Prince A. (Alexis) Obolensky, 235 Dunbar Palm Beach, was sued in Circuit Court here Friday for $1,246.16 he allegedly owes Delmonica's Hotel in New York. The action was taken by Tankoos-Yarmon Hotels Inc, trading as Delmonica's Hotel. j' n---r 'lolli iii ffiff i mil mil in, iii LAKE WORTH Police have issued an all points bulletin for three Negro males who robbed the Central Market at 806 Lake Ave.

Friday noon, taking $200 in cash. According to Det. William Openshaw, as the men entered the store one went to the produce section, another stood behind the cash register and a third took items from the shelves and went to the check-out counter. He said that cashier Trudi Ramey reported that when she handed him change, he dropped it to the floor. As she turned to pick it up, the man near the cash register reached into the drawer and grabbed the money, all in $5 bills.

When the cashier confronted the men about the money, they fled on foot. Openshaw said a witness reported the men escaped in a 1965 blue Buick parked a block away from the store. Neither store manager William Rogers nor the produce manager were in the store at the time. The detective said all of the men were described as being in their early 20's. One was six feet tall, wearing a light blue or white tee shirt with blue bermuda shorts.

Another Offices' Closed WEST PALM BEACH The county courthouse and all its branches will be closed-Monday in observance of La-Dor Day. All county offices will reopen on Tuesday. All courthouse functions are closed regularly Saturdays and Sundays. (Staff photo by Nancy Powell) LITERATURE READY FOR SCHOOLS Sgt. Ed Eckert, (L), Willie Daniels Story About Safety Directed To Youth LAKE WORTH The Police Dept.

will distribute literature to local elementary schools this week as part of a comprehensive safety project to educate youngsters to hazards of traffic. Capt. Dan Majewski said that materials have been provided by the AAA Assn. for the stepped up safety promotion by the department. The most proficient safety patrol will be awarded certificates of merit at the end of the school year and badges will be given to individual youngsters who excell in their efforts in patrols.

Majewski reported the literature Includes coloring books and other items designed to stimulate interest and police will work with children throughout the year, in the safety education effort. cne community..