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FLORIDA ATLANTIC STATE UNIVERSITY OPENS IN BOCA RATON IN 1964 Largest Circulation Boca Raton News Bldg. Of Any Newspaper 34 IE. Second St, In Boca Raton Area BOCA RATON NEWS Phone 395-5121 VOL. 7 NO. 44 Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, Thursday, September 27, 1962 16 Pages PRICE TEN CENTS Feb. Date for CIP Vote Commission Will Study Dickinson Speaks Here-Sees FAU Organization of-Ballot A referendum on Boca In the past the City Becoming 'Cambridge of America' Raton's proposed Capital Commissioners have indi- Former State Senator He said the Council is Improvement Program will cated a desire to provide Fred O. "Bud" Dickinson, now working on the three- be held next February. as many categories as chairman of the Florida acre Florida exhibit to be The City Commission, possible on the ballot. In Council of 100, was guest set up at the New York at its regular . meeting this way, voters would be speaker at the Rotary Club World's Fair in a choice Tuesday, set the second able to express different yesterday. location. He told how tele- Tuesday in February as opinions on many of the vision shows such as the date for a referendum individual projects pro- "The glory of Florida is Arthur Godfrey's were in- on the program. The date posed. State laws require not what happened yester- duced to come to Florida coincides with the date of certain divisions on the day, but what is happening and how the show "Today" the primary election for ballot, today and the even great- is televised from the RCA City Commission candi- The City's Board of er and brighter happenings Building in New York dates. Architects currently is of tomorrow," Dickinson where the Florida Show- Setting the date follow- working on a presentation said in outlining some of case is on display. ed action on a motion by of the various aspects of the projects of the Coun- cil. The Council is now pre- Commissioner Richard the project and the items paring an industrial ex- Porter. which are to be included The Council of 100 FRED DICKINSON works continuously on Mbit for the showcase to Still pending before the in it. As last estimated many subjects such as be displayed for three commission is study of by the architects, im- "This university here new and wanted indus- weeks and to be seen on proposed ballots for the provements would cost means much not only to tries for Florida, tour- "Today." referendum. Commissioner about $1.9 million and this community but to Dickinson highly com- Joe DeLong asked that land acquisition costs ism, higher education, America," Dickinson Aside from nearly flooding a few sections of the city, last week's rain mended hard working mem- City Attorney Leon Weaver would run to about $1.5 water conservation, hunt- said. squalls, damaged a few trees and signs around the area. High winds Friday ing and fishing preserves, bers of the Council and submit samples of how the for a total of some $3.5 morning toppled a large ficus tree on Northeast 3rd way in Winfield He told how, on a plane said not one had ever items in the program could million. The breakdown inland waterways, and trip with Governor Farris Park. The same Friday morning story provided a bolt of lightning which felled many others. turned down a request for be listed on the ballot, is: the seven and one-half-year-old Florida Holly tree (above) in the rear yard of Bryant, he put forward the aid, each traveling at his In the field of higher idea of a council compos- LAND IMPROVEMENTS Fire Lt. Dan Andrews' home on Northeast 6th street. The tree narrowly missed OWn expense tO dO the Municipal Centeme r Costs $350,000.00 $350,000.00 the home and blocked half of Andrews' patio. education the Council ed of 100 top business best job possible and he *>• l*™'Z % 106,000.00 recommended and sub- men engaged in every top- ,~.,., ... F^ Dept. Mainstation 125,600.00 (Dickinson) had been re- Sub-station Boca Square 48,620.00 mitted a report to the flight business and profes- Sub-station Hidden Valley peatedly told that this Sub-station Beach Area Heavy Rainfall to Ask Dr. Williams f © State Board of Control sion t0 serve as a group 5 7,240.00 grOUP WaS One Of the mOSt Public Works Department 140,000.00 for the need of a Space for free enterprise to work 100,000.00 active, most alert, and ££«,»., P.* at. (ao .«.) Technical Institute in witn> not for> the govern- 1 7,500.00 61,500.00 Recorded Here fell St@rf of FAU Oct. 31 most dedicated in thNeew Beach LocationflOOO frtag 800,000.00 241,000.00 Florida with the top men men{;. Old Beach 150,000.00 From late last Wednes- The City Commission apartment areas. One country, Right of Way Acquisitions 50,000.00 in the country on the The governor liked the day to midnight Friday a Tuesday scheduled a would be in the Lake Rog- Members of the Council Offstreet Parking Facilities 100,000.00 faculty. idea and named Dickinson Trash Dump 40,000.00 total of 6.57 inches of Halloween meeting with ers Isles area and two Recently President even went to Nice, France, Inlet 250,000.00 chairman. to the World Travel Confe- Police 135,200.00 rain fell on Boca Raton, Dr. Kenneth Williams and others east of Northeast John F. Kennedy said Recreation Center 85 Pool No. 1 198,175.00 according to Gus Hager, residents of the City. 5th'avenue and running to Thomas Fleming Jr. of rence~ where there Vas" an Recreation Center & Pool No. 2 49,300.00 that Florida stands to Boca Raton is on the edu- Small Patks chief water treatment plant The commission chose the Intracoastal Waterway. exhibition of Florida at- 100,000.00 50,000.00 gain more in the coming department of this tractions (including orange Totals operator. A public hearing on the cation $1,547,500.00 $1,962,635.00 Oct. 31 as the date of a 10 years than any other - ^ f \ GRAND TOTAL $3,510,135.00 Heaviest fall was on special meeting at which ordinances is scheduled Council and works close state if t e move is made Dickinson. Friday when 2 inches fell Dr. Williams, president of for 7:30 p.m. October 16. ly with t deal ofattentio n from in the field of higher edu- council in a two-hour period. Florida Atlantic Univer- The tracts east of Fifth Members of the travel concerns 11 over sity, will address citizens avenue drew three letters cation such as the space not only pay all their own Europe, The idea is to The community is be- field, Dickinson said. expenses but contribute t New City License Law on the future of the Uni- of protest from residents prorno e more European hind the average for the is possible, be- $800 a year each to the year so far, Hager said. versity here. The meeting of the area west of Fifth 'It is possible, tmvel here and it was cause of Florida Atlantic general budget for the At this time rain should is scheduled for 8 p.m. in avenue. The commission well received. Studied by Merchants average 55 inches and the theater at the Boca Ra- agreed to hold the letters University and its excep- Council, "It's not yesterday, not only 41 inches have regis- ton Hotel and Club. for reading at the public tional planning, that Boca Dickinson pointed out yet tomorrow, but today, A committee of Boca tee. The ordinance, they tered at the water plant. Other action at Tues- hearing. Raton could be counted in how, by working as a team, ^hen the hc-ri^cm is bright- Raton's retail merchants said, would in some in- "However," Hager said, day's meeting included In other action at this gain. 'Boca U' is be- the Council has been most er and wider tnat countSi is studying the city's stances increase from $35 "the recent rainfall help- the first reading of three Tuesday's meeting, the ing talked about all over instrumental in bringing and our service (tne Coun. new license ordinance. to more than $300 the cost the country," he said, much favorable attention cil,s) will be'even more Some 35 members of the °f occupational licenses ed to bring the average up ordinances establishing Commission: ful1 quite a bit." zones for R-3-A high rise "and may be known some- to Florida, not only in meaningful as we continue Retail Merchants *°r ^^^ merchants, CLOSED the bridge over day as the 'Cambridge of the field of education but to g0 forward for the glory Committee of the Boca The new ordinance in- the El Rio Canal at 35th America.' in industry and tourism. of Florida," he concluded. Raton Chamber of Com- eludes additional fees street "until it is put in merce objected to the ordi- based on the inventory proper repair by some- $330, Register Are nance at last week's regu- whicn a store carries, one." Cost of a full re- Local Scouts Will Sell lar meeting of the commit- Following last week's pair job by the city was Taken from Station meeting, the merchants placed at about $3,000, BY OLIVER B. JAYNES First Aid Kits in City Police are investigating Kibbe to Speak appointed a special com- but the future of the a breaking and entering at mittee to study the ordi- BLUE RIDGE TO BETHESDA - Like clicking a bridge, which leads to Boca Raton Boy Scoutlowner may choose the kit a service station at N.W.