BOX 1678 SI AUGUSTINE FLA The Weather January 15-19, 1966 Hi Lo Rain Sat. 80 62 Sun. 77 55 Mon. 70 46 Tues. 72 48 Wed. noon 72 45 BOCA RATON NEWS •m VOL. 11 NO. 18 Boca Raton, Florida January 20, 1966 30 "Pages PRICE Reorganization 217 'Disfranchised' Ordinances Get Approval Fourteen ordinances almost completely reorganizing the city government went whipping Must Register Again through Tuesday night, all with one grand motion. Not a voice was raised, either from councilmen or from the Notified public, as the definitive ordinances, authored by City Attorney John Quinn and based To Sign Up on the suggestions of City Man- ager L.M. McConnell, were passed. If Jan. 28 Council had already discussed the rules in detail, and Mayor The 217 people who were Sid Brodhead's solemn intoning omitted from city voting lists of "Are there any public com- when the "single registration" ments?" after each title was system started Jan. 1 will be r,et6 was only a matter of form. allowed to cast ballots in the The 14 ordinances gave auth- Feb. .1 primary, but must re- ority for revamping the build- register. ing, engineering, city clerk, City Attorney John J. Quinn budget offices, building inspec- said yesterday that a notice tion, personnel, city manager, would be sent each one of the 217 tax, public works, finance, and notifying them of the action and legal departments. asking them to re-register be- With no dissent from the pub- fore Jan. 28, when the voting lic, an act requiring the regist- lists must be prepared. ering fingerprinting and photo- Horace Beasley, supervisor graphing of persons employed of elections for Palm Beach by restaurants, bars, billiard County, who under the new parlors, and service employes agreement handles city elec- of hotels and motels as well as tions, has been in Tallahassee door-to-door vendors, caddies, conferring with the attorney fortune tellers, maintenance general about this situation and people, domestics and known other matters,, He will be asked or convicted sex offenders,, upon his return to include the Council authorized the man- re-registrants on the regular ager to spend $2,540 in eradi- precinct rolls. If this isn't pos- cating elodia weeds from Sabal sible, Quinn said, supplement- Lake in Boca Raton Square. The ary voting lists will be prepared 20-acre lake has become cov- in the city clerk's office and ered with the South American sent to all polling places. weed, council was told, and The Boca Raton News will it can only be cleaned by pres- print the names of the 217 in sure spraying six inches under Sunday's edition as a public the surface of the water. Chem- service. Criss-crossed footprints in the sand at the BocaRaton beach are a icals are to be applied by county personnel, with the county pick- The omission of the natre.s. t-,r inder of the heavy use to which the city's limited public beach which has been estimated a is^ut. The city hopes to be able to purchase additional beach with ing up the cost of labor. The high as 400, was pinned down funds from a bond issue. See editorial, page 4A. treatment should last about a to 217 after Mayor Sid Brod- year, according to the special- head personally checked voter ists of the Florida Department rolls, was caused when the city of Agriculture. rosters were sent to the super- Trend Is Reversed Again A suggestion from the ceme- visor of elections' office. The tery committee that the city 217 were registered in the city, adopt a plan to sell grave plot but when the lists were com- markers was referred to the "Swimming,*' but that's only one of the things you can do at the bined, were overlooked. Enrollment Shows Increase (Continued on Page 14A) beach. The City council's plans to purchase more public beach prop- Members of the city council erty adjacent to this property at the north beach will be on the ballot were emphatic Tuesday night Florida Atlantic University at over the second trimester of for the Feb. 1 election. that "no one must be dis- Boca Raton, which suffered FAU's first year of operation. Satyrday Mail franchised." budgetary cuts when its initial Enrollment last January was (Continued on Page 14A) enrollment did not come up to 1,092. predictions is rapidly gaining Largest increase in enroll- Delivery to Start ground in the numbers game. ment comes in the College of Acting on instruction of the Promises, Promises, Enrollment for the winter Education which has a 203.9 Postmaster General, the Boca i Bffalefown Files trimester just begun is up 135 per cent gain over January Raton Post Office will institute per cent over the same period 1965. Business Administration services discontinued for al- Another Tax Suit in January 1965, its first year is up 119 per cent; Humanities most two years. But Suddenly Ifs Time! of operation. is up 68.9 ; Science up 51.4; Beginning Saturday, all ser- and Social Science is up 56.5 vice windows in the post office Politicians, they say, will to allow the installation of two A suit contesting its 1965 Registration closed Saturday over January 1965. promise anything. Getting them press tables. tax assessment has been filed and figures released today show will be open until noon for the to deliver is another matter. Though Boca Raton will lose in Circuit Court by Bibletown a total student count of 2,570. sale of money orders, payments But with city elections just its distinction as the only city Community Church, Inc. Fall enrollment was 2,392. of box rent, parcel post and around the corner, members of in the state without press fa- The suit asks that the as- Over 1800 of the students are Loan Is Appro¥ed claims. These services have not the city council tossed out a cilities in its council room, sessment - for $1.3 million and continuing their studies at the been handled on Saturdays since plum for the press corps which it will gain happy reporters who taxes of $19,000 - be set aside. state's newest institution of May, 1964, when they were covers its activities: press will no longer have to write Also contested is a personal higher learning and the first in For New Dormitory discontinued as an economy property valuation of $108,400 the nation to offer only upper measure. tables. in their laps (some are fat, : Approval of a $2.2 million and it gets to be task). and taxes of $1,696. division and graduate work. construction loan for additional Full six-day parcel post de- Tuesday night, Councilmen In their efforts to please re- Bibletown claims that it Seven hundred and forty seven dormitories at Florida Atlantic livery has already been ordered Harold Maull and Robert I. porters (there are only a couple should not be taxed because of students enrolled for the first University was announced this for all the city delivery in Boca "Pat" Honchell, both candi- of weeks before election), Hon- its religious activities. Pre- time at FAU in registration week by Rep. Paul Rogers and Raton. These deliveries had dates for reelection, eagerly chell and Maull asked if there vious court decisions have been which closed Saturday noon. been restricted to a five-day Sen. Spessard Holland. week since mid-1964. agreed with City Manager L.M. was anything else the press handed down ordering that the Registrar Jack C. Guistwhite In a joint announcement, the McConnell's recommendation needed. taxes be paid, but the corpora- noted that some 50 applications Postmaster General Larry two legislators said funds will O'Brien issued the order after to spend $250 to change the Don't worry, we'll think of tion is still in the process of are still being processed and be made available through the front of the council chambers appealing. stated that he expects the final a direction by President Lyndon something! Federal Housing and Home Fi- Johnson, according to Cecil tally to top 2600. nance Agency,, An appropriation The 2750 enrollment figure Roseke, assistant postmaster of At Coffee Club Foryen Tomorrow marks a 135.3 per cent increase (Continued on Page 14A) Boca Raton. Seven Candidates Will Speak At least seven of the eight Gunn emphasized that the meet- cepted, according to William council candidates have ac- ing is open to all citizens of E, Worsham, president of the cepted an invitation to speak to Boca Raton, whether or not they chamber. the Chamber of Commerce's are members of the chamber. Another forum has been set "Coffee Club" at 8:30 tomorrow A series of seven issues, by the Boca Raton Square Civic morning at the Community chosen jointly by the chamber Association, It will be held Jan. Center. and the News, will be the subject 24, also at the Community William Gunn, past president of discussion by the candidates. Center. of the chamber, will act as Dr. John DeGrove, chairman master of ceremonies at the of the department of political event, which is jointly spon- science at Florida Atlantic Uni- sored by the Boca Raton News. versity, will act as moderator., Fire Department Each candidate will be given the same amount of time for each question, varying from Wins State Award one to two minutes per question. Gunn stressed that the pro- The Boca Raton Fire De- gram would be kept moving at partment won second place in Amusements Page10A a fast pace, and that all candi- Florida in the annual compe- Ann Landers 5B dates would be treated equally,, tition of the National Fire Pro- Church 15B C andidates who have accepted tection Assn.