BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 15, No. 25 Sunday, Jan. 11, 1970 3.0 Pages 10 Cents YQUOAY Lowest in county T97O JANUARY 197a S M T W T 1 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 12 13 14 15 1G 17 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 28-degree low Rogers ties record here Some homes Sunday still wait Sunday's calendar includes an for gas appearance here by Boca Raton's representative in congress, the Hon Paul Rogers. ByPETEPEPINSKY The Congressman will be the The western horizon of Boca Raton guest of honor at the open house was shrouded in a gray haze Saturday at the new Boca Raton Con- as smudge fires fought the frost for the valescent Center at 755 Meadows life of area crops. Rd. across from the Community The city's overnight low tem- Hospital. Rogers and local perature, 28 degrees, tied an all-time dignitaries are slated to officiate recorded low for the area. Council candidate Covello at ribbon cutting ceremonies Incongruous icicles hung from palm about 2:15 p.m. Sunday. The fronds in parts of the city. Many facilities will be open to the shivered through the night under piles public from 2 to 5 p.m. of blankets, anxiously awaiting liquid Ex-policeman is sixth gas deliveries or heater repairment. It just seemed like no one could thrive in the cold. to enter council race Chilling movie "With moderating temperatures Sunday," read the local forecasts from Anthony T, "Tony" Covello, an ex- "The city should be ahead of the the U.S. Weather Bureau after the sad perienced law enforcement officer, people, rather than the people being temperature reports. The Palm hopped into the City Council election ahead of the city in providing services Beaches recorded 29 degrees Saturday If you decide it's too cold at The Turner Nursery & Landscape Co., 980 N. Federal Hwy. was the chilly picture yesterday by placing his name and facilities," Covello stated. morning, which set an all-time record home to watch television and scene of icicle-laden trees and plants Saturday morning as temperatures on the ballot with the other five He noted tax concessions for the low there. Their high for Friday was plan to see a good movie at your dropped to a record low 28 degrees. hopefuls. elderly, retired and disabled; teenage 47, another all time low for the high local theatre, bring a sweater or The likelihood of a runoff election programs to combat crime and nar- reading. two. Feb. 17, two weeks after the Feb. 3 cotics; a strong effort to lure industry A majority of theatres in South The mercury dropped to 28 in Boca voting, grows larger with the ex- to Boca Raton's industrial areas and Florida are built without heating County beach bonds Raton only once before in the records panded ballot. The six are trying for the rushing annexation west of the units. A spokesman at a local of Gus Hager, local cooperative ob- two vacancies on the Council bench, present city limits to add tax revenue. theatre said the cost in putting in srrver of the Weather Bureau, and that one being the spot of Deputy Mayor Covello also favors a central sewage heating units isn*. justified for was on Jan. 31, 1966. Harold Maull who says he will not seek treatment plant west of the city, rather the small period oi cold, northern validated by court Most liquid gas companies seemed re-election and Councilman Robert I. than an outfall to be jointly operated to t» staying pretty well on top of their Honchell who is running for his fifth with other cities. weather F'orida receives. Ail the county and will be used for the theatres, however, are equipped Valdication of Palm Beach County's delivery lists, with the exception of the term. purchase of an undertermined amount Prospective candidates have until with air conditioning systems for $6 million beach bond issue was or- Boca Raton Gas Co., which operates Covello, 39, 330 S Ocean Blvd., of new public beach. Issuance of the Monday at 5 p.m. to file their can- the long hot weather Florida dered Friday by Circuit Court Judge out of Oakland Park and services recently resigned after almost two bonds was approved by a 2-1 margin in didacy. Already in the running are acquires. Culver Smith. tanks ranging from Boca Raton to years with the Boca Raton Police a referendum Nov. 4, although Boca Miami. Their drivers went on strike Depart Department as a patrolmen. In Tore Wallin, Planning and Zoning Northern tourists were amazed The general obligation bonds will be Raton voters rejected the question by the first of the year, and office per- Suffolk County, Long Island, N.Y., Board member; William W. Moore, yesterday of the temperature repaid by taxes collected throughout the same margin, 2-1. sonnel stepped in to man the delivery Covello served as an investigator for IBM market analyst; Robert I. inside the Boca Raton Theatre for Boca Raton City Councilmen have trucks. Many local residents have been the district attorney's office, worked Honchell, incumbent Councilman; Dr. the matinee showing. It reached Worst fire was met with County Commissioners in the waiting for as long as two weeks for with the sheriff's department and Charles E. Waldner Jr., physician and a high of 54 degrees. hope of working out a plan by which their orders to be filled. served as assistant director of civil investment analyst; and James L. the county would participate in local defense. Dluzak, pharmacy store manager. in Missouri beach acquisition plans by spending (Continued on Page 6A) Quick facts Within the past century, the worst some of the bond issue money here. nursing home fire in the United States Local councilmen hope that the county occurred Feb. 17, 1957, at Warrenton, will authorize beach acquisition here Mo. where 72 persons died. to the tune of about 13-15 per cent of the WEATHER: Fair and cold bond issue, roughly the same amount Saturday with increasing On Nov. 23,1963, a rest home fire in It's colder up north of the debt service burden that local cloudiness and moderating Fitchville, Ohio claimed the lives of 63 persons. On July 24, 1931, 48 persons taxpayers will pick up. considerable damage to crops the temperatures Sunday. High perished in a nursing home fire at County Commissioners this week By United Press International "I can hardly see looking out the length of the peninsula. Sunday in the mid-60's low 50. Pittsburgh, Pa., and 35 died March 29, plan to appoint a committee of beach window right now," said Johnson. Saturday's low 28. Polar cold dealt Florida farmers a "It's too early to assess the "There was considerable firing all 1953 at Largo, Fla. Twenty persons appraisers to study costs of beach heavy blow today, sending the ther- BOATING: Small craft warnings died in a nursing home fire Dec. 18, property which might be available for damage," said Walter O. Johnson of over the place. Skies in Tampa are also mometer to all-time record lows in the Federal-State Frost Warning obscured because of the smoke." are in effect with seas 4-8 feet 1964 at Fountaintown, Ind. acquisition. some parts of the state and causing and higher in the Gulf Service at Lakeland in the heart of the Johnson said this could be the most Stream, decreasing citrus belt. "It's still below freezing. damaging freeze in Florida since the All I can say at this point is that it's somewhat Sunday. Inland winter of 1962. going to cause considerable damage to waters rough Saturday and 21 persons die, 23 injured all agricultural crops all over the "I've never seen anything like this, choppy Sunday. Sunday's peninsula." where we had three consecutive days tides: High at 10:53 a.m. and Temperatures this morning ranged below 30 in the town of Lakeland," he 11:23 p.m., low at 4:56 and from a low of 12 at Tallahassee to a 51 said. 5:26 p.m. in Ohio nursing home fire at Key West. The frost expert said there was a FISHING: Try the bridges for "big variation" from one spot to snook if you can brave the South Miami had a 31, Tampa 24, another. (Photo on page 6A) lived." It was the worst disaster at a nursing Ocala 18, and Orlando 26. cold. home in Ohio since 1963 when a blaze at "For some reason we had tem- MARIETTA, Ohio (UPI)— Fire Larry Steinel of radio station WMOA Thick smoke hung over the citrus TELEVISION: "How to Murder in Marietta said one of his reporters, the Fitchville Nursing Home near peratures in Polk County and the destroyed a modern, ranch-style belt as growers battled the freeze with Lakeland area of a longer duration at Your Wife" is the Saturday Mike Weber, carried out 10 dead Sandusky in north central Ohio killed smudge pot fires. Night Movie on channels 5 nursing home late Friday night, killing 63 oersons. 28 than to the north of us," he said. 21 aged patients and injuring 23 others. persons himself. and 7 at 9 p.m. It stars Jack Most of the dead were women bet- Lemmon and Verna Lisi. ween 85 and 94 years old, many of them Sunday the Super Bowl pits confined to beds with raised iron the Minnesota Vikings railings along the sides. Still other against the Kansas City victims were strapped in their beds or The Helper Chiefs at 3 p.m.