BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 15 No.# Dec. 1969 14 Pages 10 Cents 1969 DECEMBER Board OK's S M T W T F 1 2 3 4 8 9 10 11 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 zone change Basketball opener on highway is tonight Child care Tonight's the big night for the Boca Raton High's basketball team. Cager coach Garry plans are Ghormley sends his boys into approved ByKATHIEKEM Boca Raton High Coach Public hearing on more stringent „.->• Ghormley zoning regulations along Federal high- way wiU be held Jan. 22 by the Plan- ning and Zoning Board. The Board Thursday approved a draft ordinance tightening and their new season against Miami clarifying ambiguous language hi the Military. The jayvees hit the floor present code. The change will affect at 6:30, with the varsity following property along both sides of Federal —UPI Telepholo at 8:00. highway, in the north part of the city, as well as other parcels now carrying Greek Foreign Minister Panoyotls the R-B-l (hotel-motel-business) Pipinelis announced at today's zoning label. meeting of the Council of Europe, an international deliberative body for the Tennis, too.,. No major changes in permitted uses, promotion of European unity, that floor area, and open space were made. Greece was resigning from the group If tennis is your thing, the The changes came in the form of and included a veiled threat to with- Social Spectator tournament will redoing passages the board thought draw from NATO or curtail Greek be held tomorrow at the Hotel would be more easily understood if NATO activities. and Club starting at 1:30. Seven they were reworded. Setbacks and amateurs and seven front and side yard requirements also professionals will battle. were refined and standardized. Permitted uses remained un- Gainesville changed, including the allowing of ...and football hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill. 12-day school Present R-B-l ordinances allow the Then for the beer and pretzels building of mental hospitals in R-B-l crowd, we've got football. The districts, and the board decided that liberty BowJ gets, underway at such facilities would continue to be boy moth ends 1:15 p.m. tomorrow, followed by permitted. Baltimore and Dallas at 3 They are, however, not specifically o'clock. Kansas City takes on itemized, since board members felt GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI)—About Oakland's Raiders at 4 p.m. John Anderson, 13, carries on a four-year tradition In program at 4 p.m. Sunday In the school chapel, John is they are now and would continue to be half of Lincoln High School's 1,286 his role as the new drummer boy at St. Andrews School. the brother of St. Andrews faculty member Rob An- included under the heading of black students showed up for class The eighth grader will be featured in the drummer boy derson. The Scotsmen also entertained today at the Royal "hospitals, sanatoriums, and in- today but said the other half ap- Give us a call number of the chorus in the annual Christmas vespers Palm Plaza. Photo By Jack Hutton stitutions for aged, indigent, or in- parently did not know a 12<lay boycott firm." had ended. Daily publication of the Boca Vice Chairman Robert Rodgers "About half of our students are Raton News adds something asked the board to consider putting in bused to school," said assistant extra to your day — and we want an explanation as to why mental principal I. H. Caff ey, "and apparently Original 'yes, Virginia' girl they didn't attend a meeting Thursday to make sure you get the paper. If hospitals were not specifically your carrier hasn't delivered the itemized as a permitted use, but Tore night when it was decided to end this paper by 5:30 call the circulation Wallin, who presented the draft of R-B- thing." department (395-8300) and we'll 1 revisions, said he felt it wasn't He said 555 students showed up for send one right out. But please call will spend Christmas in bed necessary. early classes and a few more trickled before 7:00.... that's when we go Wallin and Chairman James Becker in later, with parents escorting them. home. said the board had considered the The students agreed Thursday night NORTH CHATHAM, N.Y. (UPI)— community for a number of years. Claus. He exists as certainly as love present wording adequate and that to "show our faith" in concessions by Seventy-two years ago a newspaper Virginia retained her faith in the and generosity and devotion exist, and "hospitals, sanatoriums, and in- the Alachua County School Board. editor reassured 8-year-old Virginia spirit of Christmas throughout the you know that they abound and give to stitutions for the infirm" were in- Juvenile Judge John Connell said Quick facts O'Hanlon with the famous words "Yes, years. your life its highest beauty and joy. clusive enough to permit the erection that he would drop truancy charges Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." "People at my age may have the Alas: How dreary would be the world if of mental hospitals in the district. against more than 200 students under This year, Virginia will spend heart of a child, but not always the there were no Virginias. There would "We delete it (specific mention of 16 years old if the boycott came to an Weather: Skies will be fair Christmas in a hospital bed. physique," she said last year. Her be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no mental hospitals) every time we come end. through the night, becoming Now 80 years old Mrs. Virginia Christmas wish was no longer that of a romance to make tolerable this to it," Becker said. The school board, by a 5-2 vote, partly cloudy tomorrow. O'Hanlon Douglas, the ailing great- child's —she said she prayed for peace existence. We should have no en- The board also agreed it would keep agreed to meet with black leaders and High yesterday was 73, low grandmother is in "fair" condition at in Vietnam. joyment, except in sense and sight. the present requirement that a their attorney to discuss the feasibility this morning 50, high Columbia Memorial Hospital in As a little girl, Virginia was upset by The eternal light with which childhood minimum 25 per cent of the land area of joining an appeal to the federal tomorrow 75, low tonight 48. Hudson. the doubts of her friends and wrote a fills the world would be extinguished.". be reserved for open space and that it courts to maintain Lincoln High as an Noon today was 71. Her granddaughter, Patricia letter to the New York Sun. She was Church ended with this paragraph: be properly landscaped. academic school rather than a Boating: Seas offshore 2-4 feet Temple, said Mrs. Douglas "is doing answered by Assistant Editor Francis "No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives Accepted was a proviso that all technical school as provided by a except from the Gulfstream very well. It's nothing serious, just P. Church in an editorial that has and he lives forever. A thousand years landscaping would have to be main- federal desegregation plan. eastward where seas will be age." become a part of Christmas tradition from now Virginia, nay ten times ten tamed and "kept tidy" and not block The board also agreed to name a 4-5 feet, increasing Mrs. Douglas, a former New York since its publication in 1897. thousand years from now, he will the view of traffic. Such landscaping council of black and white students and tomorrow. Inland waters City school principal, has lived with In part the editorial read: continue to make glad the heart of parents to set up guidelines and help have a moderate chop, in- her daughter in this Columbia County "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa childhood." (Continued on Page 8A) select a name and principal for a new creasing to choppy school being built to replace Lincoln tomorrow. High tide tonight High, at 10:35, low tomorrow Apollo 12 astronauts tell press morning at 5:08 and high again at 11:17 a.m. Fishing: Calm seas mean good bottom fishing, so try for Instrument moon landings possible snapper, yellowtail, and grouper offshore. Television: Death Driver, a SPACE CENTER, Houston across the surface while Gordon or- special documentary, at 8 (UPI)—Apollo 12 commander Charles bited alone hi the Apollo 12 command p.m., on Channel 4. "Pete" Conrad, who set his Intrepid ship, said they found working the weak Movies: de Sade, rated X, at the landing craft down on the lunar sur- moon gravity easier than expected. Do you think It might be Boca Raton Theatre, face in a blinding cloud of dust, said But they said future lunar landing possible to get the traffic light showing at 6, 8 and 10. today future moon crews can land crews will have to be prepared to cope put up again at the in- safely using only their instruments if with a fine gray cloud of dust around tersection of Boca Raton Rd. necessary. their feet everywhere they go. and 2nd Ave.? We had it there "I feel there's no problem what- "You always had a little dust cloud a few years ago and now only soever in making a completely blind flying whenever you had your feet a stop sign. At the southeast landing up there as long as you have a going," Conrad said.