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SECTION St. Petersburg uJimr NORTH SUNCOAST Monday, March 5, 1962 Police Arrest Boy, 8, After Nan Is Slain By DOUG TRl'SSELL Of The Times Staff $173,524 SPENT Hugh (Ilootsie) Herring, 36, was shot to death yes tcrday in an alley off 22nd -7 'f Some Land Held For Four-Laning Gulf Boulevard Street South in a bizarre shooting spree which left another man gravely wounded and led to the arrest of the injured man's 3-year-old son. St. Petersburg Detective Set George M. Brown said the boy son of James (Jodie) Sanders 59, apparently shot Herring with his fathers .38 caliber automat ic after watching Herring pump at least two bullets into Sanders By JOHN GARDNER Of The Times Staff A section of Gulf Boulevard in St.

Petersburg Beach may or may not be four-laned some day but if the State Pwoad Department (SRD) gets around to as he sat behind the wheel of his station wagon. Herring, 2245 17th Ave. was rushed to Mercy Hospital at 1:45 It u' 1 lr; V' 4 A 1 7 i 1 If it, the right of way will be there. p.m., and died in the emergency The SRD has been acquiring room a few minutes later. Doc- right of way for the project tors said a bullet had pierced his even paying lor property wnicn ported spent for Gulf Boulevard right of way.

He did have comment to make side near the ribs and passed owners once offered to donate. If Marchers Would Drive Ves, it's already March 5, and if you were born in Hie month of March, it's time to get jour new Florida driver's license. If you were born in an even-numbered year, you will renew for 2 years. If born in an odd-numbered year, you will renew for only 1 year. These latter drivers will renew again in 19C3 but then for 2 years.

License renewals are handled in the offices of county judges. In Pinellas, these offices are in the County Building, St. Petersburg, and the Pinellas Courthouse, completely through the body. In Tallahassee, George Meier, SANDERS, 2161 16th Ave. concerning Gulf Boulevard at a Feb.

20 Pinellas County Commission meeting. head of the SRD rights of way division, reported this week that was treated for chest wounds. and listed in serious condition $173,524 has been spent in ac Cason proposed that the county He was questioned by police at quiring Gulf Boulevard right of the hospital. way. A Feb.

15 report of the SRD The boy, James Sanders eliminate from its $16.8 million Bayway bond package a requirement to four-lane Gulf Boulevard and double-span Corey Causeway. indicated $560,000 has been spent, was given a paraffin test to de or is committed, to purcnase termine if he had recently fired Gulf Boulevard right of way. a gun, and taken to police head The projects had been included In an effort to speed the proj quarters for questioning and in the Bayway bond issue. That ect, the City of St. Petersburg signing of a formal statement, Beach last year began a push portion of the bond issue dealing with such primary roads has bogged down in controversy.

Sgt. Brown said testimony pieced together by himself and a to get right of way donated for the project. A former State Road Board team of detectives showed the ONE OFFICIAL estimated the shooting apparently happened this way: city had "70 to 80 per cent" of the right of way promised at had promised to repay Pinellas 78 per cent of the money used on primary roads from the Bay-way bonds. Cason has said this promise isn't binding on the present board. CLEARWATER CITY HALL REPORT Rivalry Appears In Many Claims Of Longest Piers SANDERS had driven into a one time but not all of the promises were in writing.

dirt alley and parking area behind the Cozy Inn Shoe Shine parlor, 837 22nd St. of which "As fast as we get to one IN HIS FEB. 20 talk with end of Gulf Boulevard," the official said, "we'd have to go back getting the ones we had promised to promise again." county commissioners, Cason said if the Gulf Boulevard four- Herring is manager. With Sanders in the station wagon were his two sons, James Jr. and Ros-coe, 7, and a friend, Nathan lane and double-span Corey The deal was that if more than Adams, 52, 1210 22nd St.

S. Causeway projects were dropped, this would free $3.3 million of Sanders said he observed Her 70 per cent of the property owners deeded needed right of way, one official said, the rest would Bayway band funds for county ring and another man, unidentified, with a third man, who ap secondary roads. go along with the plan. He said that the State Road The official said the 70 per peared to be drunk. Sanders said the pair seemed to be trying to Timet Photo by Jack Ramtdcll DEC.

13, 1961 WAS IMPORTANT date at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport. That day, a Northwest Orient jet arrived to signal the port's "graduation" to the status of jet terminal. cent was never actually firmly signed up. roll the drunk (take money Board would decide when the Gulf Boulevard and Corey Causeway projects would start, but would give no assurance By DON PRIDE Of The Times Staff What? Another entry in the pier six battle? Just as Clearwater's plans for a concrete fishing pier are revealed, there comes a claim that Pensacola can boast two "piers" of 7,900 feet.

The plans shown by developers Harold F. Heye and W. from him), according to Brown. Then in November, the state Sanders yelled at Herring to announced it would pay for right of way, even if it had been when, or if, the projects would begin. SHARE SAME HISTORICAL BACKGROUND stop, and an argument flared.

Brown said Herring was quoted as saying: "I'm Hootsie I'll do what I want." County commissioners were up set by the state's move it's the county's money from the Harry Armston last Thursday call for a 600-foot addition to the 500-foot municipal pier on Clearwater Beach. HERRING then ran into the Bayway bond issue that is being shoe shine parlor and emerged spent for the right of way. This will make the facility longer than the with a pistol, went up to the sta Indian Rocks Beach wooden structure of 1,044 LATER THAT SAME month Three Suncoast Airports Offer 120 Daily Flights tion wagon and fired at least feet which is advertised as the longest fishing Bayway bond funds belong to the county, but are being administered by the state. During Bayway bond proposals, $300,000 was reported to be set aside for acquisition of Gult Boulevard right of way. In Tallahassee, Meier was asked whether right of way purchases would continue if the state didn't intend to four-lane Gulf Boulevard.

"That," he said, "is a matter for Mr. Cason's comment." Cason again wasn't available State Road Board member War twice at Sanders, according to pier on Florida's West Coast. ren Cason, representing Pinellas and 13 other counties, said who Clearwater's waste-no-time pier builders arc, ever made the statement that the of course, planning to take over that claim. Comes now a Joseph L. Gillespie of Talla CfA SRD would pay for previously hassee with the information that the center donated right of way wasn't Brown.

Brown said Sanders groped for the glove compartment in an effort to grab his automatic, but was too weak to return trie fire. At this point, James a stocky, 110-pound youngster, apparently jumped into the front seat, picked up the automatic draw on a 3-mile bridge scanning Pensacola speaking for him. Cason wasn available for com riuut gay was removed. leaving two long concrete By FRANCES PROTIVA Of The Times Staff The three Suncoast airports have common historical ground. All were taken over and improved by the Army Air Corps during World War for comment.

ment on the $173,524 already re structures jutting out from each side of the bay. "I'll admit it docs not extend into the Gulf, but it is prob and fired twice at Herring, hit ably the longest fishing pier in the world and certainly the CLAIMS GOP SUPPORT II, and became major commercial fields after the war. And all three received ting him once, Brown said. Her ring stumbled to the rear door of National Airlines as their first tenant, followed in each case by Eastern Air Lines. longest on the West Coast of Florida," says Gillespie.

Well maybe it boils down to a definition of a pier. the parlor, which has a pool hall With these points, the similar in back, and collapsed on the FLIGHTS, PASSENGERS ities end. Tampa International And anyhow longest or not the proposed beach facil floor. now has 10 commercial airlines. Emerson Rupert Seeks Seat In U.S.

Senate Adams and the younger boy TELL GROWTH STORY ice after October, 1957, moved right into the $400,000 terminal building that replaced the old Army built terminal. Then on Until last September St. Peters fled from the vehicle when the Growth of Suncoast airports shooting started. Brown said. Oct.

17. 1959, the county dedicat Herring is survived by his in terms of flights and pas ity with its observation deck, colorful flags, and food concessions, seems destined to become a major Clearwater attraction. Tollahassee Trip A Busy One In order to be on hand for last Tuesday's state trustees' ed a $300,000 addition to the ter sengers tells its own story: Emerson Rupert, 47, St. Pe burg Clearwater International had five; now it has two. Sara-sota-Bradenton still has National and Eastern.

The seeds of Tampa International's modern jet port were planted in 1927, when the City minal. The future looked bright wife, Rosetta: his father, Horris; five daughters, Carolyn, Ruth, Elaine, Debra and Lynette; a sister, a brother and eight aunts. tersburg hotelman who was an unsuccessful candidate for the Tampa International From 12 daily flights in 1946 to 87 in 1962; from 148,734 passengers indeed. Then came September 1961 and operates the family-owned Fairfax Hotel in St. Petersburg.

In announcing his candidacy, Rupert said he wants "to help save our American heritage before it is lost to welfare state GOP nomination for governor in when the Civil Aeronautics Board in 1952 to 987,253 in 1961. 1960. yesterday announced his meeting in Tallahassee, five Clearwater officials left by car Creel Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. of Tampa leased 160 acres in the St. Petersburg Clearwater (CAB) allowed National and Del candidacy for the United States Rocky Point section northwest of From three daily flights in ta to consolidate their Tampa programs of the present admin Senate.

Monday afternoon and spent the night in a Tallahassee hotel. City Atty. Herbert Brown flew up Tuesday morning. Bay area service at Tampa In Rupert said he will leave for istration. The people of Florida, and the people of our great na 1945 to 21 in 1962; from 27,000 passengers in 1954 to 130,212 in 1961.

Peak year 1959, with ternational. In December Mack- Tallahassee today to file for the town. Two years later the airport boasted an $18,000 hangar, but planes had to take off and land in the grass. In 1933 the city bought the. 160 acres: the next ey's daily flight to the Bahamas But officials hardly had to open their mouths to get the trustees' approval of routine submerged land conveyances for tion, have been listening too long to empty oratorical leadership through a fairyland 'New Fron also moved to Tampa, which had 71 32 daily flights brought 200, 719 passengers.

been a stop on its route. Sarasota Bradenton From tier' to a socialized promised year it built three runways, additional hangars and run 3 Clearwater Patrolmen To Resign CLEARWATER Three vet ALSO IN DECEMBER, how land," he said. two flights in 1946 to 12 in 1961, ever, M. Petersburg-Clearwater carrying 64,854 passengers. way lights with a $78,000 allocation from the federal He said, "endless socialization International became a jet airport.

On Dec. 15 a Northwest Or EMERSON RUPERT says he'll file today tendencies by government lead to more and more taxes and ultimate loss of our American way ient Boeing 720B fan jet touched the Depression put an end to the IN 1910 THE CITY leased 240 down on its way from Minneap- eran patrolmen are scheduled to leave the Clearwater Police De service about a year later. acres to the Army for the possi olis-St. Paul and Chicago to Mi the Drew Street extension project. (Back in Clearwater one or two grubby city hall reporters were wondering, in typical rabble-rousing fashion: "Was this trip necessary, Later, Mayor Weatherly revealed the officials also visited the State Road Board during the trip and suggested there may be more need for sidewalks on Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard now that the Florida Employment Service office is located there.

Also, road board members were invited to hold one of their future meetings in Clearwater and board chairman John Phillips was invited to be a guest at the city's Fun 'N Sun Festival in April. Making the Tallahassee trip with Weatherly and the attorney were City Manager James R. Stewart and Commissioners Cleveland Insco, Herbert Fields, and Joe Turner Sr. ble duration of the war, 25 years. partment within a week, citing ami, and has been flying the of life." He also said he "will push aggressively for a positive program to take the offensive in the cold war." THE HISTORY of St.

Peters um The Army's five-year stay added southbound route since then. And burg Clearwater International personal reasons for their resig nations. despite the loss of airlines, the Airport is a bit more compli 400 acres, administration build ings, more hangars and a con The resignations of Monroe Mil post, and said he has endorse airport's passenger figures for cated. In 1941 the Army turned ler, Pete Scott and Glen Fen ments of leading state Republi January, 1961, showed an 18 per it into Pinellas Army Air Field nimore increase the gap between cent increase over January, 1960. cans.

After the war the county again A vice president of the St. Pe took over the airport, then called LEGION POST MARKS BIRTHDAY MARCH 31 ZEPHYRHILLS The Amer- Sarasota Bradenton Airport 2nd Of Fcur Articles the department's actual strength and the strength authorized by Pinellas International, and like began with a WPA project on the city with the initiation of a tersburg Republican Club, Rupert was born in Pittsburgh and is a graduate of Penn State Uni Tampa used the Army's adminis 620 arces. The Army leased it 40-hour week for department in July, 1942. bought 230 addition ican Legion Post 118 will stage tration buildings for its terminal. National, founded in St.

Peters members in January. versity. From 1925 to 194a he its annual birthday party at 8 al acres and began construction trol tower. When Drew Field (as the airport was named then) was Scott, with the department burg in 1934 when board chair of Sarasota Army Air Field. p.m.

March 31 at the Post home. held Pentagon assignments as economic editor in the Army Service Forces and chief of the some four years, is leaving to go man. G. (Ted) Baker obtained transferred back to the city with Melvin Dixon, state service IN MARCH, 1946. the govern into private business with a rel March 1, 1946, commercial avi officer of the Veterans Adminis a government contract to fly the mails on the 146-mile route to ndustrial news office in the War ment partially released the field ative.

Police Chief Willis D. tration regional office at St. Pe Department. During the Korean ation was ready to roll. National began operations from Booth said yesterday.

Daytona Beach via Tampa, be tersburg Beach, speaker. conflict he was recalled and came the first commercial car to the Sarasota Bradenton Aviation Authority, and the first civilian aircraft (two daily National Lodestar flights) operated from MILLER IS leaving to enroll in the airport April 25, 1946, with Legionaires will assist in the rier at Pinellas Airport. served in the office of the Secretary of Defense. He was director the Southern Baptist Seminary to 12 daily flights using Lockheed Lodestars, which carried 14 pas it. Eighteen months later the au ALIHULt.H NATIUNAL was study for the ministry.

He has been with the department more than six years. A New Postal Facility? There's been no public announcement, but Clearwater may get a new postal facility soon. One of the items scheduled for a public hearing at city hall Thursday evening is a zoning exception request from Gulf-to-Bay Properties Inc. to construct a building on property fronting on Rainbow Drive, between Yelvington and Keystone Avenues, "to be used as a U.S. post office facility." City Manager Stewart says real estate people have been seeking a suitable site for a mail handling facility in Clearwater, and the zoning movejikely is related to that.

There have already been some inquiries about the request at City Hall from residents of the area, which is a block north of Gulf-to-Bay Boulevard, and Thursday's hearing could be a lively one. Founder's Day parade, with Charles Aim and W. Dana Miller named as color guard, with Lucy Mae Knox and Irene J. sengers. Eastern followed May 1.

For four years these two air thority secured a quit-claim deed and cancellation of the lease. born and reared in St. Petersburg, Eastern Air Transport, pre of information for the National Blood Program in the Executive Office of the President in 1952-53. He has been an industrial designer and management engineer Fennimore has been with the with all government main lines were the only ones serving department almost four years Popp, color bearers. decessor company of Eastern Air Lines, got there first.

Eastern Transport began service to tenance and fire fighting equip the Tampa airport. Then came Trans-Canada Air Lines in 1950, and is leaving to become man ment remaining on the field. ager of a citrus grove in Man the area at the old Grand Central National remained the sole followed by Mackey Air Lines and atee County. Airport on Weedon Island in 1932, Booth said normal procedures with one flight that turned at St. commercial tenant until Jan.

17, 1961, when repeated petitions to the CAB resulted in Eastern's Northeast Airlines. In rapid succession these were joined by Trans World, Northwest Orient, Delta and Capital Airlines. The will be carried out to fill the va Petersburg and flew to Daytona Beach via Tampa's Drew Field. cancies. Nine men nave just certification for the area.

East completed the recruiting school Two years later the government Capital-United merger June 1, ow mm UT PEPPIf at smidgens ern added seven daily flights to National's five. for new patrolmen and are now canceled the air mail contract, 1961, brought a new name in uniform. and Eastern Transport ceased From these beginnings, THE INSIDE STORY serving the area. United into the area. Riddle Airlines, an all-cargo carrier, served Tampa until Feb.

21, 1962. I HOPE THE civil service three airports have grown to provide a total of 120 daily flights. From 1945 to 1951 National was board will continue the recruiting the only airline serving Pinellas program to fill tne vacancies that must be filled to bring the June 1, 1951, Eastern established service. Mackey followed in 1955 department to full strength, GOP In East Pasco To Meet Thursday ZEPHYRIIILLS The East Booth said. He described the va cancies as "quite a few." and Northwest Orient in 1953.

Delta staged twin inaugurals at St. Petersburg and Tampa Jan. 18, 1959. In the 1950s Pinellas also SlliCKER St. Pag 15-D In Today's Lprtrrsburrj eimrs Now the only all-cargo flight is a daily National flight to Philadelphia and New York.

The last airline to begin service to Tampa Pan American World Airlines, which started Tampa-Mexico flights last November also was one of the first. Tampa became the third U.S. city to be served by Pan Am when the airline began Tam- The department detective Court to hear arguments for new trials in three securities eases. Page 12-B. First public screening program for glaucoma in Pinellas County will go into effect March 12.

Page 4-B. Pasco Report Page 2-B Sylvia Porter Page Obituaries Page 15-B Weather Page 15-B Pasco Republican Club will meet force also is shorthanded with the recent resignation of a de was served oy an all carrier Thursday at the Florida Power Service Center, according to A. Chapman, president. Mr. tective sergeant and the demotion of a detective.

No announcement has been made on how or when te vacancies will be filled. cargo Aerovias Sud Americana. The latter pulled out in 1960. The amines that started serv and Mrs. John Goodrow will be in charge oi a buffet supper.

1 pa-Hjana flights in 1933." But1 ji.