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Celebrating Our 47th Year Voice Of South Marion Ocklawaha TOPS Chapter Installs July 13, 2017 New Officers.... Page 12 Volume 47, Issue 42 • 1 Section USPS No. 787-320 Published Weekly - Read Daily Since 1969 www.thevosm.net. 25 Cents City To Manage Community Buildings Walter Reaves, Popular The City of Belleview will be changing the locks on July 20th at Cherokee Park and The Lion’s Den. It will begin managing the properties. Cherokee Park was ran by the Cherokee Park Association and The Lion’s Den was Belleview Barber, Dies At 83 ran by the Belleview Lion’s Club. Both of the organizations have been managing the By Bryce Abshier properties for many years and would lease the buildings to other clubs, people and Walter Reaves, or “Walt the barber” as many locals knew him, passed away on groups. Belleview’s City Commission voted to start managing the community buildings Friday, July 7. From 1956 until the time he retired in 2001, Mr. Reaves gave countless for the benefit of all the citizens, rather than leasing to one organization that controlled haircuts to South Marion residents. For many years, he was perhaps Belleview’s most the use of the building. popular barber. Mayor Christine Dobkowski stated “Some of the pros of the city managing the build- Walt’s Barbershop was more than just a place to go for a haircut. Before modern ings are that people and groups will have easier access to reserve these buildings and ev- communication devices, Walt’s was a place to socialize, laugh and discuss the small- eryone will be charged an equal amount, depending on non profit status and residency.” town happenings of Belleview. It had been reported that it was very difficult for an individual citizen to lease either Former Voice of South Marion publisher Jim Waldron interviewed Walt in 1992, of the buildings due to the various organizations already having it booked. The City when the barbershop had recently celebrated 36 years in business. At that time, Reaves (Continued on Page 24) estimated that he had already given over a quarter of a million haircuts. During that interview, Walt recounted some of his favorite haircuts.“When Greg McWhite and Arthur White (now owner of White’s Furniture in Summerfield) were playing football at Lake Weir High School, they came in one day with some of their other teammates and they all wanted Mohawk haircuts, with just one strip of hair down the middle of their heads,” said Reaves. ‘’I’ll never forget that day.” “The Reedy family is one of several that have been my regular customers since I came to Belleview,” Walt said during the 1992 interview. “I have been cutting the Reedy family’s hair since the first day.” Reaves was born and raised on a farm in Ocala, near the current location of the Pad- dock Mall. He loved to coon hunt and mule ride. Once he finished a tour in the Navy in the 1950s, Mr. Reaves went to Florida Barber College in Jacksonville. Walt was notified on February 10, 1956 that he had passed his State Barber’s exam and he went to work at the Belleview Barber Shop that very same day. He worked for the original owner, a man by the name of Anderson Gillard for 2 and (Continued on Page 2) Zombies At The Library! Local children participated in a fun “Zombie Escape” game at the Belleview Library on Tuesday. The youngsters were “trapped” in the laboratory of an evil scientist. They then had to search for clues to create an antidote that would save the world from a zom- bie apocalypse. In the photo above, Susan Yocom, Judy Alderson and Kim Drexel pose for a picture while kids frantically work to crack the case. (Read more on Page 13 of this week’s Voice.) Free Haircuts, School Supplies At Shores Back-2-School Bash Mark your calendars for an upcoming “Back 2 School Bash” on Saturday, July 29th from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The fun will take place at the Silver Springs Shores Com- munity Center, 590 Silver Road, Ocala. This is a free event to all, where food, family and fun will all come together. The event will feature free food, bike raffles, water slides, swimming pools, music, clothes, free haircuts, face painting, a 3-on-3 basketball tournament with awards and a martial arts live demonstration. Most importantly, backpacks with school supplies will be given away. This is a great opportunity to start the new school year off right, by looking good and feeling great. _________________________________________________________________ Back-To-School Tax Holiday Starts August 4th The 2017 Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday has been announced. This tax holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, August 4, 2017, and ends at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, August 6, 2017. During this period, Florida law directs that no sales tax or local option tax (also known as discretionary sales surtax) will be collected on purchases of: • Clothing, footwear and certain accessories selling for $60 or less per item. • Certain school supplies selling for $15 or less per item. • Personal computers and certain computer-related accessories, selling for $750 or Missed By Many less per item, when purchased for noncommercial home or personal use. Walter Reaves, pictured above in his barbershop, certainly left an impression on the _________________________________________________________________ community. Mr. Reaves operated Walt’s Barbershop in Belleview from 1956 to 2001. Inside This Letters & Opinions .... Page 2 Obituaries..... Page 7 Police Reports ..... Page 11 Week’s Voice Around The Area ..... Page 6 & 7 Church Listings..... Page 8, 9 Classifieds ..... Page 14 VOICE OF SOUTH MARION, July 13, 2017, Page 2 Letters & Opinions Walter Reaves Dies At 83 (Continued from Page 1) Amendment 1 - “Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ... or the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” a half years. Walt then bought the shop and Gillard worked for him for 2 and a half years before retiring. The content in the letters and opinions is not necessarily the opinion of The Voice of South Marion Walt saw his share of change over the years. In 1956, the shop was in a wooden building that stood at the in- tersection of US 441 and CR 484. Reaves would later Opinions move his business to a shopping plaza off of 441, near the current location of Belleview’s CVS. When Reaves There’s No Good Reason for Your started in Belleview, haircuts were only 90¢ and shaves were 60¢. Boss to Make 347 Times What You Do According to Walt, Haircuts did not change a lot over CEO pay at America’s 500 largest companies averaged essentially flat. the years. Styles got longer and shorter, but they are $13.1 million in 2016. That’s 347 times what the average Where did the money go? It went to the 1 percent, and stayed pretty much the same over the years. employee makes. So CEOs make a lot of money. But, especially to the 0.1 percent. Last March, the Voice of South Marion shared an old some say, so do athletes and movie stars. Why pick on The latter group, a mere 124,000 households, pock- file photo of Walt Reaves on Facebook. It didn’t take corporate bosses, then? eted 40 percent of all economic gains. Business execu- long for memories from locals to start flooding in. “I First, because the market sets compensation for ath- tives, CEOs, or others whose compensation is guided by was real young when my mom and grandmother would letes and movie stars, but not for CEOs. Teams and mov- CEO pay constitute two-thirds of this sliver. take us there for haircuts. Even when I left for the Navy ie studios bid for athletes and movie stars. CEO pay is In other words, it’s business executives — not movie I would make a point to stop in and get a fresh cut while set by a rigged system that has nothing to do with supply stars, professional athletes, or heiresses — who grabbed I was home on leave. I miss it, can’t beat it,” wrote for- and demand. the dollars that once flowed to the American worker. mer barbershop customer Keith Lefebvre. NBA teams bid for LeBron James because his skills Outsize CEO compensation harms American compa- “I remember sitting on a wooden plank that slid into are portable: He’d be a superstar on any team. CEOs’ nies, and not just in the tens of millions they waste on place to act as a booster seat. He had a ferret or some- skills are much more closely tied to their knowledge of a executive pay. The effects on employee morale are much thing like that mounted on top of an old bottle Coke ma- single company — its finances, products, personnel, cul- more costly. When the boss makes 347 times what you chine,” shared Fred Malito, another customer of Walt’s. ture, competitors, etc. Such knowledge and skills are best do, it’s difficult to swallow his canard that “there’s no I in gained working within the company, and not worth much team.” Worse, CEO pay encourages a short-term focus. One of the former customers of Walt, named John Pen- outside. In fact, a CEO jumping between large companies Instead of making productive investments, companies buy nington, wrote “I got more cuts in his old wooden build- happens less than once a year.

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