The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 23

As Beach Buggy Goes nder Parked Truck Dies Million-Dollar Groth Institute Eyed For FA TALLAHASSEE (AFNS) Dr. Kenneth R. Williams Friday asked Board of Control approval for establishment at Florida Atlantic TTnivprorv nf the Groth Institute, which studies physical and chemical Accident Occurs After Warning; Gears Reversed properties oi crystal structures. Williams said the institute would develop into one cf the great retrieval (computer library) centers in itne world. 1 fl 0 lira 'f- FORT PIERCE A 13-year-old boy died at noon Friday of injuries received in a freak accident involving a beach buggy at Peeler Construction Company.

The St. Lucie County Sheriff's Dept. said that Steve Vencill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B.

Vencill, N. 39th was crushed to death when he started the beach buggy and it backed under a truck parked at the Okeechobee Road yards of the construction com Three Plead OSSIE WILCOX STANDS BESIDE DEACH Bl'GtiY IN WHICH BOY PERISHED He Warned Youth Not To "Fool" With Machine Photo by Jud Deakins yc Williams To Push FAU Oceanography TALLAHASSEE (AFNS) Dr. Kenneth Williams said Friday Florida Atlantic University at Boca Raton would continue planning on a program in oceanogra phy despite the Board of Control authorization of PH.D degrees at Florida State University. The granting of the program FSU was an extension of legislative approval. FAU received no such sanction.

Dr. Broward Culpepper, board director, said FSU would work in conjunction with the University of South Florida on the project Williams said he would work in conjunction with Dr. Lewis E. Walton of the Hydrographic program at the University of Miami. The board gave the program swift approval after Charles Form an, board member of Fort Lauderdale, complained of what he called a closed shop among Dceanographers in Florida.

He said he had been told that the national defense depended more upon oceanographic research than upon the space studies at Cape Canaveral. In discussing the oceanographic program. Dr. Gordon W. Blackwell, FSU president, told the board the program would offer a doctor's degree within three to five years after the award of a bachelor's degree.

The national average for all doctoral degrees, he said, was seven years. Dr. Form an said under the current program, students must serve an apprenticeship and study 10 to 15 years before getting a doctorate. Williams said such a program tit FAU Now would depend on 27 Year Old Housewife Attacked Boy Held On Rape Charge Deputies said the boy had confessed to the assault, and hud been turned over to juvenile authorities. He was reH-ted held In the juvenile detention ward of the county jail.

MillngcUpl.ltS St. Lucie County Voles Tax Boost pany. O. C. Wilcox, an employe of Peeler, said young Vencill told him he was going to start the vehicle.

Wilcox warned him not to do so because owner J. R. Peeler would be angered. Wilcox said that the youngster climbed on the vehicle anyway, and stepped on the starter. The bea buggy, apparently left In reverse, rammed underneath the rear of the track, pinning the boy.

Workmen at the construction company ana a macnine snop operated by the boys father in the construction yards were forced to lift the truck to extricate the youngster. Ho wbs taken to Fort Pierce Memorial Hospital, but was dead on arrival. Sheriff's Deputy Cecil Pruitt, who investigated, said no charges would be filed. TOrC.II DOUBLE DUNEDIN, Fla. (Uri) Last man to win the PGA champion ship and the USGA Open in the same vear was Ben llogan in 1918.

vear. with Fort Pierce memorial Hosnital absorbing a considerable amount of charity work them selves. A $13,000 Increase In mosquito control funds doesn't quite make up for the loss of more than that In state funds which were lopped off by the state. About $27,000 was added to county contingency funds by commissioners who were left out on limb this year through failure of the Florida East Coast Railway to pay its taxes. As the budget for the expiring year was based on tax collections including me FEC levy, a bottom-of-the-barrell scraping was necessary to pull the county through.

Addition of the new Courthouse threw nearly $30,000 in new ex penses on the county for mainte nance and supplies. Even with the "modest" Increase, commissioners explained, they were forced to cut certain budget Items anywhere from a small amount ot a huge sum below the allocations passed by the benefiting agencies. Adding to the overall woes of the commissioners was the 15 per cent devaluation this year of all South Beach property. Beach Post FORT PIERCE A 15-year-old boy was taken into custody Friday afternoon by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Department on a charge of rae.

The victim, a 27-year-old housewife, had entered her BRIIXJE IN pi-. wiunnn was alone, attacked her. The lctlm was Inken to Fort I'ierco Memorial llmpllal for examination and treatment, but whs later released, the Sheriff's Department rcxrted. BE REPLACED 1 -t: SS FT'---'! outside help, such as grants. The proposed new science building at hemic in the siNillmcst section of the city alxmt ono o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The hoy, dcsrrilicd as tall for his bk', hud been watching the woniun fur several days, deputies said, and when he saw the IX)WNTOWN STl.AKT TO consideration of incorporation at this time. The main objection to the first proposal, through the Legislature, was the large r-" lie- Army a new bridge new span wide with a side. Post Mobile The board turned the matter over to its executive committee and promised a quick decision. The action was tantamount to approv al, barring legal complica tions. The proposed new institute, which would be moved from Penn State, would contain about $1 million in equipment including two new computer-type retrieval machines.

Williams also asked for board permission to lease 5,100 square feet of space on the first Door of the University Park Sales and Exhibit building for $1,000 a month to house the equipment This also was referred to the executive committee. Williams said grants probably would repay the rent on the building space. The new retrieval facility will move with Dr. Raymond Pepin-sky, recently appointed acting head of the department of physics at FAU, who headed it at Penn State, Pepinsky, founder and director of the Groth Institute, said the institute was organized to revise and modernize Paul Von Groth's studies into the physical and chemical properties of crystal structures. He said also the Institute would help In the development of computers to record this and other information developed In the field of solid matter.

Dr. Broward Culpepper, board executive director, said great needs exists for more training in the computer field. Williams said the new institute could develop into a project simi lar to the science retrieval center proposed by the Council of 10 in the Cape Canaveral area. A Board of Control official said it was discovered in investigating the council proposal that although many scientists were interested in the project few knew much about it. Williams said the new Institute would also provide small lab facilities for members of the biological science staff, lead to the teaching of much-needed programmer and designers, as well as draw scientists working on grants.

Much of the work done by the institute, about $250,000 a year at present, is backed by the Air Force, Pepinsky said. He also did work for the Central Intelligence Agency. He said the project was almost entirely government backed. Pepinsky said his new program would be coordinated with the new automated library being planned under Dr. Edward Heili-ger, director of libraries at FAU.

The equipment would Include two analogue computers Rac and 8 Fac, as well as IBM 7010 and 1460 digital computers. Basically, Pepinsky is interest ed in the molecular structure of solid state matter. Pepinsky said part of the work would be the collection and ency clopedic organization of monographs. This information would be put on magnetic tapes, with one set Staying with the institute and the other sent to the Defense Documentation Center for scientif ic and technical information in Arlington, Va. Pepinsky would bring with him about $500,000 worth of files to FAU.

The proposed institute would provide employment for np to 60 graduate and undergraduate students (although Pepinsky said the work Is dull and students do not stay with It long). Dr. Charles Forman, board member from Fort Lauderdale, said the proposed center would have world wide significance and importance as a "manufacturing point to develop new informa tion." Foreman is on the executive committee, along with Gert Schmidt of Jacksonville and Baya Harrison of Tampa. Pepinsky said the center will save the government "billions of dollars a year." The institute resulted from in terest by Pepinsky in updating the classical encyclopedia of Chemi cal and Physical Crystallography of Von Groth. The original work was published in five volumes of about 5,000 pages between the years of 1905 and 1919.

Pepinsky said the total crystallography in formation had doubled every two years. This is in contrast to total information in science in general, which doubles in from seven to 15 years. Crystallography is the physics and chemistry of solids. Marches Continue CHARLESTON, S.C., Antl segregation marches continued here Friday as Mayor J. Palmer Gaillard met with Negro leaders in two conferences held behind closed doors.

There was no immediate word on results ot the FAU received legislative approval cf the type that could include space for oceanography. The Board of Control approved a loan agreement for financing of dormitories for $933,000 between FAU and the Federal Housing and Home Financing Agency. Williams called It a continued processing for the dormitory funds. The Interest rate, he said, will be 3.S per cent, despite a 'g per cent Increase since the agreement. The board took two actions which resulted in reducing authority granted Dr.

Culpepper earlier this- year. They were: Proposing (and delaying until the Sept. 12 meeting in Tampa) to shift to the university presidents the authority to hire and By Jl DEAKINS Post Correspondent FORT PIERCE Poor old John O. Taxpayer will have to dig even deeper Oils year to pay his St. Lucie County taxes, county commissioners revealed Friday, Called into special session to approve the publication of a ten tative 1M-64 budget, the commis sion announced that an increase of 1.143 mills in the county levy would be necessary to meet about $200,000 in increased county expenses.

With (he county following the pattern set by the Fort Pierce-St. Uicle tJounty Fire Board, and the 8t. Lucie County School Board In raising nilllage, the procrty owners may look forward, alhelt with apprehension, to an overall county levy of 20.313 mills, or J20.M2 on every $1,000 of property valuation above the homestead exemption. An overall beefing up of certain expense accounts, plus allocations not existing last year, made up the increase, which commissioners described as "modest." The hospital indigent fund, set at an insufficient $00,000 last year, was raised to $80,000. Even this figure was not enough to cover medical care for indigents last The Palm Innocent In Racial Case FORT PIERCE-Three of four young Negroes arrested Wednes day night on charges of disorderly conduct by driving along Orange Avenue and using obscene and profane language to white cus tomers at two business establish ments entered pleas of innocent in city court Friday morning.

Reginald Holliday, 17, of Fort Lauderdale, Carol Clayton, IS, and Alberta Smith, 18, both of Fort Pierce, were all returned to city jail in lieu of $250 bond. The fourth member of the quartet, Ixiuisa Steward, 17, also of Fort Pierce, had bt-en released under bond. She and the other three participants named In the chnrge have had their cases set for trial before Municipal Judge Royce C. Iicwl July 26. RoImuI James Maley, 20, ar rested early Monday morning at the Post House Cafeteria on disorderly conduct charges stem ming from another racial Incident, entered a plea of innocent.

Maley will be tried next Friday in municipal court. He is represented by attorney Jack L. Rogers, and is under bond. Nicholas Michael Constant, 18, and William Brooks Richards, 18, arrested In a Saturday night racial disturbance at the Greyhound Bus Station, failed to apiear for trial yesterday. The $.50 bond posted for each was estreated.

Rufus Franklin White, 19, and Donald Brannon Matthews, 18, two other participants in the Saturday night bus station dis turbance, had failed to appear In city court Monday. A bond of $20 for White was estreated, as was a $50 bond placed on Matthews. Architect Views Courthouse: Defects Normal FORT PIERCE Architect James Gamble Rogers assured St. Lucie County commissioners Friday that a number of defects and material failures found in the new courthouse were about normal, and that sufficient funds had been withheld from Clutter Construe tlon Company, contractors, to pay for neek'd repairs. Rogers, senior member of James (ianihle Rogers, lovelock and Fritz, had come from Winter Park at the request of the roniniltodoner to lurvey the reported defects.

He was handed a list of com plaints and taken on a tour of the affected areas, after which he gave his opinion of steps necessary to correct the defective conditions. Leaks in the courthouse roof, said Rogers, were covered under the 20-year bond placed by the roofing contractor with the county. The roofer will be notified to correct his work. A hollow, drum-like sound under the number two foyer floor, plus the cracked floor rile, reported R)(crn, was apparently canned by the settling of fill under the concrete subsurface. Rogers thought workmen could get to the fill from outside the courthouse and force concrete under pressure into various points to stabilize the sub-flooring.

The tile sections that had cracked would have to be replaced, Rogers admitted. Other Items relating to the air conditioning yntem were noted, with Rogers reminding the commissioners that the system was under guarantee by the subcontractor and the manufacturer. Water coming in under the exterior doors would be controlled, Rogers reported, by the installation of aluminum door stops. Vibration complained of in the County Commission room has been lessened, Rogers said, by shifting an electric motor which was running out of line. Further adjustment of the motor should eliminate the complaint entirely- Commission Chairman W.

R. McCain told Rogers that the commission (elt It had a "fine building." The old humpback bridge, long a bottleneck on U.S. 1 in Stuart, is scheduled to removal with the four-laning of the highway. State Road Department officials have applied to U.S. Engineers for a permit to build over Fra.ier Creek.

The is scheduled to be 8j'a feet five-foot walkway on each Ijib News Foto by Ernie I listed fire university personnel, subject to review by the entire board. Requiring board approval for all university salaries above Previously, the board had authorized Dr. Culpepper to handle these. Jensen Beach Incorporation Bid Revives, Meeting Set SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1963 PAGE 13 The 1963 Legislature raised from $10,000 to $12,500 for nonac-ademic and to $15,000 for academic personnel the maximum salaries the board could pay without review by the State Cabinet The Legislature acted after university and board officials complained that the need for such review hampered the hiring of top-quality personnel by forcing long delays between offering jobs and actually putting the personnel on the payroll. In other action, the board au- Ihorized.

The executive committee to -rV? srea which was Included, bring most of the north half of the county from Stuart, north-' ward. MHO'S AFIIAI pitui mi cuuiauun tfAJiiuii in uie Florida section of the New York World's Fair. The executive committee to provide information on the $75 million university expansion bond Issue in an effort to push It to passage Nov. 5. FSU to tighten its trttffic control regulations in an effort to reduce the number of student-" owned cars on the campus.

Raised from $5 to $10 the application fee for students beginning in September. By MARY HARTMAM STUART A second try at incorporation of the Jensen Beach area has been proposed through the Chamber of Commerce there, according to Chamber President Frank Fors-berg, who agreed Thursday night at an informal meeting of 40 Jensen-Rio residents to call a meeting of the board Monday night when a study group will be named. The next meeting was scheduled for Sept. 12 when the public will be invited to discuss the proposed incorporation. Since the last try at incorporation failed to the point of having the legislutive bill withdrawn before it was introduced, the issue of bulkheading the Indian River at Jensen Beach has become a controversial issue.

Many residents at Jensen Beach do not understand that the Martin County Commission had no choice in the matter of approving the 1,000 foot bulkhead line adopted by the incorporated Ocean Breeze (Trailer) Park which lies in the center of Jensen Beach. It is still being opposed by local conservation groups who requested an ecological survey of the area by the State Department of Conservation. The request was granted by Conservation Director Randolph Hodges and action by the Internal Improvement Fund Trustees on the 1,000 foot bulkhead has been delayed until tile survey can be completed. But many in Jensen Beach feel they should control their own bulkhead lines which is only one reason for a new Eight Await Sit-In Trials CHICAGO, Seven men and a woman arrested at the end of a nine-day civil rights demonstra tion in the Chicago Board of Education offices were granted Jury trials Friday. Judge Harry G.

Comerford of boys court set Aug. 21 as their trial date. The eight persons are charged with trespass and disor derly conduct. Two juveniles also were arrested. They were held overnight by juvenile authorities.

I) OF WHOM? mental addition to the Fort Pierce Memorial Park on the Indian River, but now finds he must first tame the new arrivals before they'll put on a typical "Peacock Show" for visitors. Post Mobile Lab News Foto by Ernie I listed Marcus Giger, Parks Department superintendent at Foil Pierce, makes a wary approach toward a peacock and peahen, newly acquired as "surplus" from the Dade County park system. Gier thought the two fowls and their six chicks would make an orna.