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BOCA RATON NEWS 26 Pages Thursday, June 5, 1969 Vol. 14, No. 80 Council votes pay hike, emergency fund transfer Will cost $150,000 for current year Boca Raton's municipal em- ployes won a pay increase Tues- day and they'll begin reaping the benefits with the payroll week that starts today. Cost of the pay hike, deemed necessary to keep the city in a competitive position in the lo- cal labor market, will total $150,601.91 between now and the end of the current fiscal year. Most of the required total will come from the general fund and City Council Tues- day adopted an emergency or- Boca Raton School officials dinance to permit budgetary transfers to me#t the pay- took advantage of the warm roll expenditures. City Man- weather and held their awards ager Alan Alford said assembly on the lawn Wednesday School's out, not the laundry. With classes ending today, were hung out in the event a forgetful owner might want to $130,173.11 will come from the morning. Besides students who J.C. Mitchell School administrators decided it was high time claim them. general fund and $20,428.80 received awards j teachers! and to clean out the lost and found box. These items from the box from the water and sewer fund. parents also attended the pro- The new pay plan, proposed gram. by Alford and moved for adop- tion by Councilman Pat Hon- For Boca Raton High School chell, will raise to $2.50 an hour the starting salary for New cluster laborers in the public works department and includes hour- ly wage increases for all other Faircloth is graduation speaker workers. Alford had told Coun- code gets cilmen earlier that upgrading of the whole pay scale would schools. six years. university school, Alexander be necessary to permit the city Florida State Attorney Gen- to compete with business and .more study eral Earl Faircloth will add- Doors will close after classes Meanwhile Sunday Dr. Rob- Henderson will continue class- today at J.C. Mitchell, Boca ert C, Wood, director of the es until June 12 when it will hold industry for new employes as ress Boca Raton High School's well as retain the personnel ••fourth 'jratV'Mtion clafs FrMjW Raton, Addison Mizner'and Boca joint Center for Urban Stud- its commencement jexercises City Council deferred a de- at commenct-r.'viiiL uxercisus. Raton High ''Jo'As. ies, Mssaachusettes, will ad- *.nd av/ards program*; j/""\ already on the city payroll, cision Tuesday *-n a propos- The high school; commence- dress 671 graduates in ex-, Alford said the plan adopted ed cluster development con- ment program, slated for 8 p.m. For some students the doors ercises at FAU. It will be the Meanwhile back in the city this week is essentially the cept which would allow single- in Bibletown Auditorium will be of their school will close on second annual ceremony at its four public schools today same as he would haveproposed family, duplex and multiple- followed by commencement: them for the last time. Next FAU, which formerly held com- will round up awards ceremon- for the next fiscal year, start- family units in one zoning area. exercises Sunday for Florida year students who will enter mencement exercises at the end ies today with assemblies at ing Nov. 1. Adoption marks The plan was proposed by Atlantic University.: The uni- seventh, eighth and ninth grad- of each term. Addison Mizner School and the first time that the city has the city Planning and Zoning versity graduation will be held es will attend Boca Raton's Dr. Wood's subject | will be at Boca Raton High School for approved mid-year pay in- Board as a means of provid- at 2 p.m. on the lawn east of newest addition to the educa- "The Generation of City the junior high students. Boca creases. ing for a multiplicity of resid- the university's administration tion system, Boca Raton Jun- Builder's." Raton and J.C. Mitchell schools ential units without requiring ior High School, fifth public Although the university term awards assemblies were held rezoning. building. school, third one to be built in Tuesday and Wednesday. Dr. A.D. Thorp, vice chair- came to an end last week, the Hearings on If approved, the proposed or- man of Palm Beach County dinance would apply only to School Board, will present dip- single-family (R-l) zoning lomas to and estimated 198stu- classifications. dents at the high school exer- hoard agenda Under the proposed plan: ciese, which will mark the end All addition, no subtraction —Density could be increas- of a week of awards programs The city Planning and Zon- ed only up to 20 per cent over and beginning of summer vaca- ing Board will hold public hear- single-family requirements. tion for tin- iMiy'1: lour bh ings tonight on three Board pe- —Cluster development would titions to rezone land abutting (Continued on Page 12A) as tax roll passes first hearings Dixie Highway. m The Board is asking; meet again June 30 to close 111,200. —To rezone a parcel of land Boca Raton's estimated 1969 Bennion noted that the figure tax roll swept through its first the t$x roll with only minor at Southeast 12th Street and business, pending. compares to a net tax roll last Ann Landers Page 2B three board of equalization year of $245,745,710. Ten years Dixie Highway from R-l-D to Church Newt; 8B hearings with little opposition. City Tax Assessor Owen Ben- R-3-D. nior said the estimated tax ago, the 1958 net tax roll was June 2 - 4, 1969 Classifieds, 12-13B And as the third session end- $38,569,663, only slightly lar- —To rezone land at South- Editorials 4A ed yesterday, the only chang- roll is $310,620,100. He esti- east 15th street and Dixie high- mated exemptions for widows, ger than the increase over the Hi Lo Rain Public Notices 10-11-12B es approved" by the board were 1968 roll. way from R-l-D to B-l. Mon. 90 78 .00 Real Estate 6-7B minor additions, not substrac- disabled veterans and home- —To rezone a parcel at South- 77 stead at more than $29 mil- Since last year, the tax roll Tues. 88 .00 Sports 10A tions, to the roll. The Board east 1,6th street and Dixie high- Wed. 88 73 .50 \ Travel 5B in reality the City Council, will lion for net valuation of $281,- (Continued on Page 12A) way from R-l-D to R-4. Women's News 1-2-3-4B The facts of life It's that time of year again. Spring has sprung and along with it the birds and bees have been rather busy, especially the birds. But what a bunch of nuts. They pick the craziest places to build nests. In a neon light Cozy up here but this indirect lighting is"real wild. is bad enough, but a trampoline? Wow! Yes, I'm watching you. Just keep your fiiif»«rM out of my nest! Sorry, photographer, I'm too young to be a pinup girl. i don'J mind being in Ihis g, but the ups and downs are Sure am glad Boca Raton has a flash- ing light ordinance. murder. 2A BOCA RATON NEWS Thursday, June 5, 1969 Zone board shifts Airline Tickets to summer schedule COMPLETE The city Planning and Board will meet every FOREIGN & DOMESTIC TRAVEL Zoning Board will follow second Thursday — July and CRUISE SERVICE City Council's policy of 17, July 31 and Aug. 14, AMPLE PARKING holding summer meet- Aug. 28. DUGAN TRAVEL IN REAR ings every other week Public hearings will ESTABLISHED 1956 instead of weekly. be suspended from July Beginning July 3, the 15 to Sept. 1- 75 S. FEDERAL 395-2112 STOCK REDUCTION SALE Save 25% On All Stock Frames With the Same Savings of over 200 Original Oil Paintings. See Us for Ail Your Framing needs. OPEN 10-5 MONDAY THRU FRIDAY. Dr. Albert S. Smith, left, tours Aquatic Sciences lab with Research Director Frederick Kalber. Pathology program expands Smith joins Aquatic Sciences Appointment of Dr. done with mice." tine laboratory handling in the eye lens, there are' Albert C. Smith as pro- He mentioned jelly- procedures and, be- no dietary variations in gram director in path- fish and sea urchins as cause there is no blcod the proteins. ology at Aquatic Sci- possible subjects for ences, Inc., was an- study. Not only adult nounced yesterday by fish, but larval and de- Dr. Frederick A. Kal- veloping organisms are ber, ASI's director of very sensitive to pol- research. lutants and contami- Dr. Smith comes to nants in their environ- Boca Raton from the ment and express their Hilo Campus of the Un- sensitivity through the iversity of Hawaii where development of various he was associate pro- pathologies — devia- Buy of the Year fessor of biology. In his tions from normal — new post here, he will such as tumors, can- direct ASI's programs cers, slow healing and in pathology, histopath- other "sickness." ology, and experimen- Such signs of sick- tal pathology. ness during develop- Dr. Kalber pointed out ment in genetically uni- that not many path- formi aquatiqorganisms ological studies — re- , would be useful as indi- lating to "sickness" Jn cators of pollution in animals and tissues' •— man's environment. * have been conducted on • Furthermore, Dr. Smith aquatic animals. With said, the types of disor- Dr. Smith's arrival, ASI ders which are produc- FOOT plans a new emphasis ed would be important on pathology, including in focusing attention on more experimental stu- those systems of man dies to determine ef- which are most sus- fects on aquatic animals ceptible to sickness NO FROST of pollutants, tempera- from pullutants.