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Beach Post, Tuesday, May 21, 1974 Approval of Extra $60,000 Manpower Funds Awaited The grant is federal funds, administered He said less than $20,000 is spent on ad- "There are through the state and distributed by Regio- ministration of the program, which will be for allowances in nal Manpower Service Councils. The extra handled by the school system because it afford to take care $60,000 for Martin County is to be added to works with the majority of those to be improve themselves. the original $129,212 from the Martin-St. Lu- reached by the program and because it has transportation for cie council. the administrative staffing to work as the berts said.

Roberts said the program is aimed at local sponsor. The program the family of four or more making $4,800 or with Indian River less per year. The program includes active recruiting referral service Roberts said the total $189,212 package of those deprived and either "puts them in agencies. is what was left after an "eight-pronged at- the world of work" or in a training pro- Roberts said tack" totaling about $1 million had to be gram, followed by placement and evalua- 000 will be served pared down. tion, he said.

low -up aspect of OLD AND NEW Fort Pierce's newest generator is being installed at the power plant (below) but the city isn't forgetting old friends like the first generator which supplied power to the area. Old No. 1 (above) receives its annual coat of paint from Edward Abramowicz. It was retired in 1971 after 50 years of service in L.A. (SKIP) BAFALIS opposes 'postcard' bill 0 STUART Local officials are waiting for word this week that approval has been given to the $60,000 Manpower grant to provide jobs, placement and training for the economically deprived of Martin County.

'The program, being sponsored by the Martin County Public Schools, is a first for the county and "could be a landmark," in such programs around the state, according to Ray Roberts, director of career education at the high school. Fire Seen As Arson INDIANTOWN A fire at the Southern Bell Telephone Co. office Sunday morning apparently was set off when burning paper was slipped through an outside deposit box. Martin County sheriff's detectives are investigating the fire, which was reported by an Indiantown woman. Detective John Roberts said yesterday curtains were burning and a sofa smoldering when he arrived at the office about 11 a.m.

Sunday. He said burned paper was found inside the deposit box, and burn marks were "obvious" outside. Area and Local News Inspection of Jail Reveals Marijuana FORT PIERCE Deputies pulled a surprise inspection of the St. Lucie County Jail Sunday and said they turned up some marijuana. The marijuana was found in a basement storeroom to which trusties have access.

Charged with possession were Robert Baggett and Arthur Bell. both serving sentences for grand larceny. The Sheriff's Department said the marijuana apparently had been smuggled into the jail and said they pulled the inspection acting on a tip. Possum Playing Burglar STUART The culprit in a suspected breaking and enter ing at Palm Terrace Mobile Home Gardens yesterday turned out to be a possum. according to the Martin County Sheriff's Department.

Violetta Kuhfahl of Palm Terrace phoned the Sheriff's Department at 1 a.m. to 1 report she heard "some banging underneath her mobile home. Sheriff's deputies found the noise came from a possum and advised Mrs. Kuhfahl to set up cinder blocks around the skirting of her home. Area Deaths Martin, Maude, 84.

of 4160 Lebanon Road. Fort Pierce. Baird Funeral Home. Fort Pierce. Funeral services at 2 p.m.

today at Community United Methodist Church. Hinote, Arthur, 72. of 35 Mediterranean Port St. Lucie. Port St.

Lucie Funeral Home. Funeral services at 11 a.m. Wednesday. Tobias, Florence, 68. of 801 S.

Sixth Fort Pierce. Fort Pierce Funeral Home. Services and burial in Rye. N. Y.

Krause, Florence, 64. of 26 Golf Drive. Spanish Lakes. Port St. Lucie.

Port St. Lucie Funeral Home. Services and burial in Evergreen Park. Ill. Morris, Allen, of 1401 N.

22nd Fort Pierce. Sarah's Memorial Chapel. Funeral arrangements incomplete. Kerekes, Lola 60. of 202 Jeanette Jensen Beach.

Aycock Funeral Home. Jensen Beach. Services today at St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Stuart.

Stratton, Charles (Nat), 80. of U.S. 441 Okeechobee. Funeral services at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Suddreth Funeral Home.

Movie Clock FORT PIERCE Sunrise Theatre: Spikes Gang. 7:30. 9:15 Village Theatre: Jeremiah Johnson. 6:30. 8:30 Fort Pierce Drive-In: "Executive Action." 8:30: Wednesday.

10:15 OKEECHOBEE Brahman Theatre: and Let Die. 7. 9. STUART Mayfair Theatre: Johnson. 7.9 Indigent Hospitalization Plan Offered in Martin By LINDA HARBISON Pest Staff Writer STUART Martin County commissioners will be asked Wednesday to approve a new policy for hospitalization of indigents.

An old policy which said indigents must have lived in the county at least a year to qualify for hospitalization payments was suspended recently after the U.S. Supreme Court declared minimum residency requirements unconstitutional. The court said such requirements limit freedom of travel, said County Atty. Terrence McCarthy. Now, said McCarthy, eligibility for county assistance must be based on "'intent to become a also funds in the program than 500 will benefit from the actual traincash, for those who can't ing and retraining programs.

of themselves while they Although not confined to youth, the We will also provide young people represent the largest body of those who need it," Ro- those who are expected to use the "This is the first time we have had, af also includes counseling Manpower grant. Last year it was non-exisCommunity College and a tent. This can be a landmark for Martin with the state employment County and an example to the rest of the state because none of the other programs he believes more than have such an extensive follow program, by the placement and fol- to evaluate what is being done for improve. the program, and more ment in future years," Roberts said. County Bike Path Plan To Be Sent For State Funds FORT PIERCE St.

Lucie County Recreation DErector Thomas Kindred told the County Commission, yesterday that a 40-mile system of bike paths joining with Indian River and Martin counties has been laid out by a local committee. Kindred said the report and a map showing the paths. will be sent to the state. "Some funds may be available after July 1," he said. He said the routes chosen were not specific but the "backbone" of a proposed system linking the neighboring counties and providing access by bicycle to nearly all.

populated areas within St. Lucie County. The state eventually wants all counties in the state to. be linked by bike paths, he said. HrS The proposed routes run through Lakewood Park on the Kings Highway extension south to Indrio Road then east to Old Dixie Highway and south down Old Highway to Juanita.

The paths or designated routes would then go down Juanita to 25th Street then over to, 13th Street for the trip through Fort Pierce. South of Fort Pierce, the system would run along, CITY oF Staff Photos by John Bartlett the electric plant on Indian River Drive. The old generator, which only supplied a fraction of the power the new $700,000 machine will produce, has been installed in a place of honor in front of the plant reminding everyone that small beginnings often lead to big endings. either the proposed 25th Street extension or Sunrise and Oleander boulevards to Port St. Lucie then into Martin County along South U.S.

1. Not all of the route, which includes spurs to the northand south beaches, would be separate bicycle pathways, said Kindred. In some areas sidewalks may be used and in some the street may be specially striped to warn motorists they are sharing the road with cyclists. County Planner Gary Ament repeated that the committee studying bike paths has tried to stay away from specifics at this time. He said, however, that pathways can be expensive.

90VE his VI Dm gil -Voter Registration Plan Panned- By MICHAEL TSCHUDI jury Post Staff Writer STUART Proposed postcard voter registration for federal elections "would create havoc" in local election offices, Martin County Supervisor of Elections Sandra Randolf said yesterday. Mrs. Randolf made her comments in response to opposition to the plan voiced by U.S. Rep. L.A.: (Skip) Bafalis Bafalis was one of 204 congressmen who recently opposed introduction of the bill on grounds it would "interject the federal government into local elections." Mrs.

Randolf said registration in the county is not difficult enough to discourage people from becoming registered voters. "Personally I don't feel this is the way to effect the turnout. We try to make registration as easy as possible. We're open five days a week and often we're open on Saturdays. We don't have a mobile unit but we go down to the south county and out to Indiantown," Mrs.

Randolf said. "I think other than apathy, the biggest detriment to registration locally is that it makes a person eligible for NE duty and they just don't want to take the time," she Mrs. Randolf said in addition, her staff would "have; to triple" in order to handle the Postcard Plan. 'Think of the difficulties you would run into. You know how difficult it can be to read peoples' handwriting, and then we would have to verify all the signatures.

I. would hate to have to disenfranchise someone and disqualify their vote just because I couldn't read their signature," she said. Mrs. Randolf said there is also the "wide range of, possibilities for fraud." The Florida Association of visors of Elections, she said, shares the same fears. Bafalis said under the provisions of the bill, which has passed in the Senate, "anyone who wanted to couldregister under a different name in every different precinct of the county i in which he lives and could register.

people who don't even exist. It would be almost impossi ble to detect such fraudulent registrations. "Even worse is the fact that any massive registration fraud would certainly translate itself into an equally" massive voter fraud perhaps even enough to bring back the age of political bosses," Bafalis said. 6D 101 McCarthy said "intent" could be measured by whether an individual has established a local address, a place of employment, a local bank account and voter registration. "The county will pay for its own this is an attempt to be within the law and still have a workable system," McCarthy said.

He said under the new resolution each case in which a person could not pay his hospital bill "would be judged on its own merit." McCarthy said that before the one requirement was suspended, the county paid hospital bills of "people who couldn't pay their own as long as they met the durational residence.