BOCA RATON NEWS Vol. 15, No. 60 Sunday, March 1, 1970 48 Pages 10 Cents Legal hazard cleared City golf course out of the rough By PETE PEPINSKY future. oil, mineral, road and canal right- of - Don't be surprised if you hear the The City Attorney reminded that a ways, ditches and other easements people in.City Hall shouting "Fore!" quiet title suit must be filed to assure from the Lake Worth Drainage as they go about their duties next the marketability of Tract 16 of the District and the I& I Board. He con- week. .because the last hazard in the propery, as well as applications for sidered these tasks, to be performed path of the municipal golf course has releases of reservations concerning been cleared. All that remains is City Council approval of the land purchase. "The anticipated jeopardy of a ' reverter clause' is conspicuous by its absence," City Attorney John Ruff wrote Friday in a memorandum to the City Council He referred to the quit claim deed to a 36-acre portion of the Harrison Tract, the proposed site for the city owned and operated golf course. The deed will be presented to the city by the State Internal Im- provement Fund, which held easements in the area. Ruff, Mayor Emil Danciu and City Engineer Jean Vansant traveled to Tallahassee two weeks ago to ask the Internal Improvement Board for a clearance of the title to 36- acre's sector in the tract. The owner of the land, Gelon F. Harrison, has given the city an option to purchase the property at the price of $2,500 per acre. The option extended several times, must be acted upon by Friday. The Harrison AC-DC a furry mascot for the local Optometric Assn., advice she's getting is timely since this week is Save tract comprises 195 acres of land west is all ears and eyes as she reads up on how to save her Your Vision Week. For a story on how people and felines of the Florida Turnpike and north of eyes while watching the eclipse March 7. The purr-feet can safely watch the eclipse next weekend, see Page 8A Glades Road. The "reverter clause" mentioned by Ruff referred to an anticipated stipulation in the deed that the city Prosecutor sees could not use the 36-acre portion for YOUR DAY any other than municipal purpose nor 1970 197O could the city ever sell the property, MARCH without the interests going back to the S M T W T -F s state. ll ! 2 3 4 5 6 '7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 no charges in In i- p memorandum, the City At- 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 torney continued, "the usual rever- 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 sions for oil, minerals and right-of-way BD 30 31 easements are always included in boat fatality these deeds, but they present no problem. In due course, and after plans for improvement of the affected Sports 36 acres are formalized, request will Lt. Gov. Ray C. Osborne inspects petroleum asphalt which washed ashore The County Solicitor's office doubts for a report from the operator of the be made for waiver of same; no in St. Marks Game Preserve. that any criminal prosecutions will Polo won't be the only sporting Somahul to begin his investigation. By problem is anticipated in this come out of the case involving the activity going on at the Royal the motorboat laws, the report to state request." boating death . of Mrs. Barbara authorities is due Sunday. Palm Polo Grounds Sunday Sheaffer Feb.19. Ruff told the Councilmen that the afternoon when the Milwaukee The investigation conducted by written confirmation of what the city team travels to Boca Raton to John Paul Jones, the assistant county solicitor, after taking sworn Police Chief Hugh Brown placed Day, will receive cleared the title to the Spill take on the local fellows. Gary testimony Friday from the three Stevenson, Mrs. Sheaffer and Miss property for marketability. He added Dolphus, who teaches the judo Bedard aboard the Somahul, which that "several prominent people have class at the Community Center persons who were aboard the 41- footcruiser Somahulthe Feb. 18 and 19, Stevensan had borrowed, from 11 p.m. contended that the city should accept will bring 10 of his students out to stated that he was having trouble Feb. 18 through approximately 5 a.m. title to these 36 acres without this II Kirk spreads trouble put on a judo exhibition at 2:30 determining who was at the helm of Feb. 19 Stevenson and Miss Bedard Board deed, but the legal department p.m. in the afternoon, half an the vessel when Mrs. Sheaffer, 37- were still aboard when the police has not agreed with this contention hour before the polo match is year-old divorced mother of three, was boarded the vessel at 6:30 that because of basic legal conclusions as td on oily waters scheduled to begin. struck by the propeller of the boat. morning. the definition of 'marketability' of title, which is not the same as 'in- The persons answering to subpoenas Mrs. Sheaffer's lacerated body was Quick facts surability.' " JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI) —The seen on the river by morning and at the County Courthouse in West Palm found in another boat late in the officials reported a skimmer barge afternoon of the 19th. Day was found He stood behind his actions in op- Coast Guard sounded an all clear Weather: Partly cloudy and mild Beach yesterday were: today for northeast Florida's beaches, and three tank trucks with vacuum Robert F. Day, 43, of the San-Mar an hour earlier sitting in the Lake Boca position to the acceptance of a title not through Sunday, with a slight considered marketable. Ruff felt that threatened by an oil spill in the St. attachments were making significant Apt., North Ocean Boulevard. William Raton section of thelntracoastal progress in clearing up the oil, spilled chance of showers. Low the delay caused by the clearance of Johns River. R. Stevenson, 35, of the Boca Mar Waterway 1,500 feet from the boat Thursday when the Danish freighter Saturday night 62, high the title will be "well justified" in the Only small patches of oil could be Sunday 78. Apts., North Federal highway; and where the victim was found. Merc Buccaneer collided with a barge. Boating: Seas three to five feet. Miss Ann Marie Bedard 37 of The 7,000 gallons of oil dumped into Inland waters will have a Deerfield Beach. the St. Johns six miles from the ocean moderate chop. Jones reported no discrepancies was the third instance of mass Fishing: Some kingfish and among the three testimonies. One Appeals court orders bail pollution of Florida waters this month, dolphin are still running out in point that the three agree on is that and Gov. Claude Kirk vowed "to put a the Atlantic, and bass fishing "nobody know who was behind the stop to this." continues^ to be good at wheel of the yacht when Mrs. Sheaffer "It's giving us a bad name up Loxahatchee. was killed," according to Jones. for 7 Chicago defendants North," Kirk said. Television: The Doral Open Golf Florida motorboat law requires that Tournament is televised on in a case involving the Channel 4 Sunday, and for "disappearance of any person from CHICAGO (UPI) —A federal The five who were found guilty- eligible for bail immediately. If the those who missed it the first on board under circumstnces which appeals court today ruled that all David T. Dellinger, 52; Rennard ruling stands up the lawyers may not t lime, "The Man Hunters," a indicate the possibility of death or members of the "Chicago conspiracy" Davis, 29; Thomas E. Hayden, 29; have to go to jail at all. special on the evolution of injury," the operator must report to group may be freed from jail on bail. Abbott Hoffman, 32, and Jerry C. The Appeals Court said Dellinger, modern man, is being the State Board of Conservation or Five of the seven men brought to Rubin, 31— were jailed on the Davis, Hayden, Hoffman and Rubin rebroadcast over channel 5 at other authority. The state issues a trial for conspiring to incite riots contempt charge before the jury could go free on $25,000 bail each. Bail copy of the report "auomatically " to 4 p.m. Sunday. during the 1968 Democratic National verdict was rendered. So were the for Weiner and Froines was set at Can you please tell me the Coast Guard in these cases, a Movies: "The Kremlin Letter," Convention were convicted last week other two defendants—John R. $15,000, as it was for the lawyers. where one has to turn in the spokesman at the Coast Guard's and sentenced to five years in prison. Froines, 30, and Lee Weiner, 30. with an all-star cast, con- Ten per cent of the bail amount is license and registration tinues at the Boca Raton Marine Inspection Office in Miami Those five and the other two plus The lawyers, William M. Kunstler necessary for the prisoners to go free. stated, and an investigation is made numbers issued for a 14-foot Theatre. Shows at 2, 4, 6, 8, their lawyers earlier had been handed and Leonard Weinglass, were told they Presumably their supporters have the boat that has now been when a boating accident results in a did not have to begin serving contempt and 10 p.m.