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More Pictures of President's Visit on Pages 8-9B in Today's News President Heads List Of Dedication Guests A host of dignitaries, headed by President Lyn- don B. Johnson and tailed by Secret Service men, filled the platform Sunday for the dedication of Florida Atlantic University. Among the platform dignitaries in the front row visible in this photo during the president's speech are U.S. Repre- sentatives Claude Pepp6r, Dante Fascell, Paul ik Rogers, Senator George Smathers, FAU's Aca- demic Dean Palmer Pilcher, and Florida Secre- • 1 • * tary of State Tom Adams. Many others, of course, were there too ... FAU president Kenneth Wil- liams is immediately behind President Johnson in this picture. The program included brief talks by •. -"«y. Dr. Williams, Gov. Farris Bryant, and Baya M. Harrison Jr., chairman of the State Board of Con- trol. r^VLi>^::5 Home of Largest Circulation Of Any Newspaper BOCA RATON NEWS in Boca Raton Area VOL. 9 HO. 49 Boca Raton, Florida, Oct. 29, 1964 32 Pages PRICE 10* Amendments, Youngster's View Johnson Pleads for Expanded Bond Issue How does a presidential visit look to a 12-year-old youngster? The Boca Raton News On Ballot asked its children's book reviewer, Florence Opportunities in Education Beth Snyder, to write her observations of Sun- A total of 7,510 vot- day's dedication at Florida Atlantic Univer- ers in Boca Raton are The schoolmaster the 36th president of responsibility of meet- "every American boy sity. These are some of her views of the from Texas came to ing the future on its own and girl has a right to all eligible to cast ballots event. the United States re- next Tuesday, according town Sunday to deliver ceived an honorary doc- terms . and ours." the education he or she — "The whole day was a whopping suc- a major speech on ed- "You reflect," he told can make good use of .. to the Palm Beach Coun- tor of humane letters ty Supervisor of Regis- cess, and it was really something to see. ucation and receive the degree at the FAU ded- the university faculty and a responsibility to — "You had to have a special badge. I first degree ever con- and some 15,000 per- get it," tration. ication ceremony. This is an almost un- had one, of course, but they neglected to tell ferred by Florida Atlan- In his speech, hailed sons who attended the "To deny education to me I'd need it so early. So ignorant of that tic University. ceremony, "what I see the children of poverty believable 30 per cent by the FAU faculty as G. Bartlett Brownell hike above the 5,882 fact, I went out and upon my return found I Lyndon Baines John- a major policy state- of the new future for not only denies the most couldn't get back. I felt like a P.W. After my son, San Marcos State education in America. elementary democratic registered in April of ment on education, the this year. friends got my badge, I pinned it on and po- Teachers College--1930, president dedicated the " There are three ele- equality, it also perpe- Brownell Gets litely explained that I was on their side and Florida Atlantic-1964, new university "to the ments in it: first it is a tuates poverty as a na- They'll get their mon- survived to finish my story. future of full equity in tional weakness." ey's worth, too. — "It was a receptive and orderly crowd educational opportunity Pointing to this coun- Chamber Post A ballot has 59 names, who treated Mr. Johnson as a U.S. president. for all Americans; sec- try's "proud history" in 13 state constitutional They left political prejudices at home. Next on University Calendar ond, it is a future of new education, the president G. Bartlett Brown- amendments; another — "The faculty marched in wearing smart learning to meet new (Continued on page 16A) ell; 1065 Coconut Road, has the "school bond is- looking caps and gowns. It was fun trying to demands; third, it is a was chosen at Friday's sue. imagine how they must have looked at their Installation of Dr. Williams future of new methods special meeting of the Republicans still lead own graduation. which are necessary to Sunday Was Ho board of directors to the city's registrants, — "A good education is important today Florida Atlantic Uni- recognized for his con- teach much more to serve as manager of the with a total of 3,804, but when countries have the power to'blow up versity has scheduled a tributions in the field of many more." Day to Carry Gun Greater Boca Raton the Democrats have the world. For you and I, the children grow- two-d ay o b s ervance theoretical mathemat- Florida Atlantic, with Chamber of Commerce, narrowed the margin ing up right now, will soon have to make de- Nov. 11 and 12 to mark ics, is serving as a its computer based li- Sunday, the day of Inc. slightly and have 3,387. cisions on the fate of the world. Do you think the inauguration of its visiting professor at brary, electronic learn- President Johnson's A resident of Boca There are 319 classi- we'll be qualified to hold the world in our first president, Dr. FAU during its initial ing resources, and con- visit, was no day to be Raton for five years fied as independents, or hands without a good education?" Kenneth R. Williams. trimester. centration on a two-year seen carrying a rifle in and a regular member no party affiliation. Highlight of the period Governor Bryant, upper division curricu- Boca Raton. of the chamber for the The Presidential will be an academic con- whose administration lum built on the state's John Davis Mull found past three years, race, due partly to vocation Thursday, Nov. has advocated and ob- junior college program, out the hard way. Brownell succeeds Ed- President Johnson's 12, at 10 a.m. for the tained major support for has already attracted Mull was headed for ward N. Melvin, who re- visit here Sunday, has investiture ceremony in higher education, will be worldwide attention for North Carolina. Just an signed as manager after captured most of the in- Commission to Act onBibletown Auditorium. awarded an honorary its "new methods." ordinary traveler taking six years with the terest of the city's vot- The State Board of degree of Doctor of Stressing the impor- his rifle along to do chamber. ers. Few candidates on Education, headed by Laws. tance of education, some hunting this fall. Brownell, 57, came the state and county lev- Governor Farris Bry- Florida's Council of Johnson said that "as But when he boarded the to Boca Raton from New el have managed to City Sign Ordinance ant, and the Board of 100 and the Association the son of a tenant farm- Greyhound bus in Boca Bedford, Mass., where create the interest they Control will participate. of Florida Junior Col- er, I almost did not get Raton calls went im- he was connected with would have been able to Boca Raton's contro- types of signs: swinging State legislators and lege Presidents will be otherwise. versial sign ordinance, projecting, sandwich or a college education. For mediately to the police the textile industry. He delegates from colleges meeting in Boca Raton me, it was the only valid station. attended schools in the discussed for almost a sidewalk, billboards, and universities and have included the decade, comes up for those that move, flash or passport out of pover- After a thorough Greater New Bedford throughout the country FAU affair on their ad- ty." checking, Mull was al- area and belonged to Three Precincts second and final read- rotate, those on build- are expected. vance program. ing Monday night. ings next to residential "I believe," he said, lowed to leave. many civic groups areas. Main speakers for the Boca Raton voters will It will probably please occasion will beDwayne still vote at only three nobody. Also prohibited are Orton, editor of Teens Set Record Straight precincts, and with the Mayor Harold Maull, circulars, throwaways "Think" magazine, and length of the ballots, ob- most outspoken critic and handbills. L.A. Pars, president of servers predict long wait- against signs, has Rigorously restrict- Jesus College, Cam- ing at some times of the striven mightily to be ed are roof signs, and bridge, England. day. more stringent than the street banners. present rules, while Orton, who also Precinct 200 votes at The ordinance also serves as director of Panel Stresses Parents' Role J.C, Mitchell School; others — both on the ticks off the exact uses commission and off — education for IBM, has Precinct 207 and 212 of other kinds of signs been a champion of in- By Sandy Wesley books? vealing comments about discussed by a panel of both vote at the Com- have urged more and in subdivisions, resi- novation in higher edu- No. It was a statement today's teens, their par- four teens including bigger signs. made by Pamela Mac- Pam, Ron Sanson, and munity Center. dential areas, shopping cation. FAU is imple- "Teens go more by ents, and their problems Polls open at 7 a.m. The ordinance itself centers and other busi- menting many of the new what they are taught at key, a teenage girl who at a recent meeting of Rusty Schoenthaler, St. is 21 pages long and attends Boca Raton High Andrew's School, and and close at 7 p.m.