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Largest Circulation Boca Raton News Bldg. Of Any Newspaper 34 S.E-, Second St. In Boca Raton Area CA RATON NEWS Phone 395-5121 VOL. 7 NO. 22 Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, Thursday, April 26, 1962 18 Pages PRICE TEN CENTS Police Continue Study of Poison Deaths of Children Deborah-Rand Hospital Fund Gifts RBults of m lab Tests •8 Waited by Police Here Mount-More Than $2500 Received Results of an FBI deaths. Preliminary reports put Checks for the Deborah- drinking a milky liquid analysis of the liquid contributed.All donations the amount of the arsenic Rand Hospital Fund containing an arsenic which apparently caused will be appreciated, Flem- compound in the container reached over $2,500 here compound. the poison deaths Easter ing said. at 16 per cent, a highly Tuesday. Thomas F. Fleming is Saturday of two local Bethesda Memorial Hos- lethal amount. In memory of the death treasurer of the fund and youngsters are expected pital, approximately 15 Investigators said the of Deborah and James contributions may be sent today by the Boca Raton container arrived at the Rand Drummond, and at to the First Bank of Boca miles away serves South Police Department. home of Mr. and Mrs. the request of their par- Raton. Palm Beach County. As local police in- Robert Drummond, 8 Ca- Eggs were just about everywhere last Saturday at Memorial Park - including ents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Contributions, so far, North District Hospital vestigate the deaths of mino Real, sometime be- a few that wound up underfoot. Members of the Boca Raton Teen Age Center Drummond, the fund will have ranged from one is in Pompano in Broward Deborah, age nine, and tween 11:30 a.m. and l bought 300 dozen eggs with the proceeds of their Spring Bazaar, boiled and be used to launch a drive dollar to hundreds of Count y. James Randall Drummond, p.m. Saturday. Whether colored them and hid them in the park early Saturday morning. Additional pic- for a hospital to be built dollars. A hospital here might age three, Police Chief it contained the poison tures of the annual City Easter Egg Hunt are on Page IB. here. A list of donor names save the lives, of other W. Hugh Brown said the at that time has not been The Drummond children will be sent to the Drum- children in the future, a possibility of accidental determined. died Saturday night after monds but not the amount spokesman said. poisoning has not yet Befhesda Wing been ruled out. However, Investigation by the Special Meeting on Ceremony Mon. Brown added, the investi- police department has de- Elected Charter Board Plant Four Accidents gation is including the termined there is no way Groundbreaking cere- possibility of premeditat- that the contests of the monies will be held at Here In Two Days ed introduction of an milk container could have CIP Coordinator 10 a.m. Monday for the Foils te Pass C@§ngnissi®gi arsenic compound into been contaminated in the A special meeting to Capital Improvement Pro- new wing for Bethesda Police had some busy the liquid found in a milk processing plant. consider the employment gram. Memorial Hospital. A resolution calling for of all meetings of the hours Friday and Saturday container in the family re- The milkman was found City Commission and oth- of a coordinator of infor- Tuesday's Commission The ceremonies will be an elected board to checking a series of four frigerator. to have a good reputation er city boards. In effect, mation for the city's pro- action follows on the held at the construction amend the city charter accidents which included FBI tests are expected and good character re- Honchell's resolution posed Capital Improve- heels of a "call for ac- site at the south side of was defeated at Tues- a motorist stalled on a to determine whether the ports, police said. would prohibit executive tion" issued by Porter at the present hospital build- day's City Commission track with a train approach- arsenic compound was The two children drank ment Program has been sessions of the city com- ing. meeting. ing, a baby falling from a dissolved in a water or some of the liquid, think- called for May 3 by the the Monday morning work- mission and would open Rev. William Deutsch- Originally introduced by car seat, a collision on milk base and point the ing it was milk, around City Commission. shop session. to the public all delibera- mann, pastor of Advent Commissioner Robert I. Federal Highway and an 4:30 p.m. They told their The meeting was orig- Porter outlined four tions of the civil service way for a more detailed Lutheran Church here, Honchell, the resolution overturned pickup truck. mother it "didn't taste inally requested by the proposals. board and others. investigation of the City's Capital Improve- 1. A board of Boca Ra- will give the invocation would have started the The first accident occur- good" and within five Commissioner Leo Fox ment Committee. Acting . ton architects to be ap- at the ceremonies. Among wheels in motion to hold red Friday at 5:25 p.m. on Warning issued minutes were violently ill. other local persons ex- an election to pick board indicated there might be N. Dixie Highway near Following the poison- A maid, Romain Bau- on a motion by Commis- pointed by the mayor im- occasions on which the sioner Richard Porter, mediately. This board pected to participate in members, and would re- N.E. 10th Street. Accord- ing of two local children con, told police she had the ceremonies are Col. quire the board to hold best interests of the city ing to the police report, last Saturday, Police drunk a milkshake made the commission approved should apportion the work would be served by clos- Chief W. Hugh Bro^n urg- calling the- meeting with on various projects among J. W. Mollaun, Boca Raton open meetings during the Tevis Brown was round- with contents from the representative and vice ed meetings. ed that anyone ijfiing an only one item — the infor- its members. This board preparation and drafting ing the corner from 10th container and also put president of the South- arsenic compound, or mation coordinator — on of architects should ap- of charter changes. A ref- Honchell countered that Street when a baby in his some in a cup of tea. She eastern Palm Beach Hos- any other poisonous the agenda. Also schedul- point a chairman as a ser- erendum would be required his proposal was "simply car started to fall off the substance, to make sure also became ill and was pital District Commission, ed for special invitations vicing and contact agent to ratify the charter. a small extension of the seat. He reached for the that it is kept under rushed to Bethesda Me- and Mayor John Brandt. right of the people to to the meeting are local as the one to talk and deal Establishment of a new infant, let go of the steer- lock and key at all morial Hospital along know the business of their architects and the city's with the City Commission appointed charter board ing wheel, struck a tele- times except when being with the children and a 3. A meeting should be elected officials." used by a properly qual- fiscal agent. and Capital Improvement is being considered by phone pole shearing the sample of the liquid put held within one week with "I'm against secret ified adult in a safe A subsequent meeting, Committee. the Commission. Commis- pole off at the base. in a jar by an attending the CIC to settle the mat- meetings," Honchell said. manner. perhaps a week later, 2. A meeting with the sioner Leo J. Fox sug- Brown, who had six physician. ter of a coordinator of in- gested at Tuesday's meet- "It should never be may be called to discuss CIC to discuss replies formation. Traffic Up Over children passengers in the Despite efforts of a ing that a "good, capable left where children can more concrete items such from owners of proposed 4. Out of a meeting of car, was arrested for fail- team of physicians and committee" can be select- 1961 Figures get at it," he warned. as specific sites for pro- sites who are willing to minds on these three im- ing to have his vehicle Brown did not imply nurses, James Randall ed with each member of jects recommended in the sell and the price asked. portant matters, a deci- Daily average traffic under control. He pleaded that the Drummond case died at 7:45 p.m. and Deb- the Commission submitting sion can be made on an through Boca Raton was guilty in Municipal Court. involved youngsters orah died at 9:10 p.m., four or five names for on the upswing the first playing with poisonous just a few minutes before approximate date for the Saturday at 6:36 a.m. membership. two months of this year, substances, but said the a preliminary laboratory referendum — to be had if Freddie Taylor of Delray Commissioners Honchell according to a report is- case simply calls atten- report from Miami identi- possible — this year. Beach was driving a pick- tion to the lethal charac- and Joe DeLong voted for sued by the traffic and fied the contents as an up truck on Dixie Highway ter of many common in- the resolution while Mayor planning division of the arsenic compound. Art Center Starts nearly opposite the Advent secticides and poisons.

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