Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 11

I SECTION 0) t. Petersburg $imt Saturday, December 14, 1968 Manatee Charlotte Sarasota Lee DeSoto Collier SOUTH SUNCOAST 7 mm Boyd Icz I kV i inn hi 1 1 mam mii iii ii nil iiiimn rf--- Approves Mm TOtSSM By CHARLES STAFFORD Of The Times Staff WASHINGTON Secretary of Transportation Alan Boyd yesterday approved a 252-mile extension of Interstate 75 from the Tampa Bay area down Florida's West Coast to Miami. His action could doom efforts of some Florida officials to build toll highway in the lower West Coast traffic corridor. The secretary's office notified Florida congressional offices of his eagerly awaited decision in late afternoon. Not approved were requests for two much-shorter interstate extensions in the Miami area.

APPROVAL of the Tampa Bay-Miami route, under a extension of the interstate system to provide for critical missing links, came as little surprise. Congress had left no doubts it consid- ssj Slafl Pholo by Robert Bowden if Singletary House Provides Moveable Feast For Onlookers Happ radenton enmg 1-75: A Step Closer To Miami Full House raws Court Orders Schools To Intectat 3 Or Close The crowds edged back as a man in a red flannel shirt climbed aboard the towing truck. The engine coughed to life in the 58-degree weather and a murmur went up from those assembled. Then it moved. It moved five feet, six feet, seven feet.

Bang! Hissssssss. The teenagers among the spectators set up a roar of whistles and applause. A tire (one of 42) had burst. ROBERT JOHNSON, LOCAL moving Contractor supervising the job, put both hands on his huge hips and frowned. "It'll only be a minute," one worker said.

The minute became a half hour. Then 1 a.m. rolled around and the quarter moon broke above scattered qlouds. The crowd continued to swell. Young couples held babies in Teenagers Vuddle together under rout al blankets; several youths sirfctched out on Manatee.

Avenue, using the curb as a pillow. Elderly citizens shuffled in the their hands together against the cold; 1. Meanwhile; the workers were having problems.How do you jack up a truck carrying 125 tons? All the jacks (See SINGELTARY, Page 3-B) By ROBERT BOWDEN Times Bureau BRADENTON The Friday the 13th moving of the Singeltary house got off with a bang shortly after midnight yesterday. The bang was a right rear Inside tire of the truck towing the house, however. It all was part of Bradenton's 'happening" at 26th Street and Manatee Avenue W.

The "happening" got under way for many persons about 11 p.m. Thursday when crowds began to gather for front row curb seats. BY MIDNIGHT, MORE THAN 1,000 persons corded a block-long area on both sides of Manatee Avenue. Parking spaces in nearby businesses (and some residences) were jammed with onlookers' cars for three blocks. The moving was scheduled to begin shortly after midnight.

Crews worked positioning timbers beneath the mammoth wheels of the Masonry Movers equipment. Flashlights searched up and down the walls, under the floor, along the ground for any pre-voyage oversight. All was "go" at 12:15 a.m. ered the project of prime importance. Boyd's decision represented a legislative coup for Rep.

William C. Cramer of St. Petersburg. Cramer, ranking Republican on the House Public Works Committee, tailored a piece of legislation to fit Florida's need for a Tampa Bay-Miami interstate link. In the House version of the 1968 Federal Highway Act, Cramer added 3,000 miles later reduced to 1,500 in conference committee to the 41,000 mile interstate system.

It was designated for critical missing links that would increase the system's Several examples were given in the conference committee report, and heading the list was the Tampa Bay-Miami route. The Transportation Department received applications totaling more than 10,000 miles for the extension. APPROVAL of Florida's application might well have blocked the persistent efforts of Charles Rex chairman of the State Turnpike Authority, to build a toll road. Rex has insisted an interstate freeway would take too long to construct, while a toll road could be opened to traffic by 1971. The turnpike authority proposed a Tampa-Bay-Naples toll road to tie-in with Alligator Alley.

The toll-road block could be an amendment to the Federal Highway Act adopted by the last session of Congress. It reads, All agreements between the secretary (of transportation) and a state highway department for the construction of projects on the interstate system shall contain a clause providing that no toll road will be constructed after June 30, 1968, on the interstate highway route involved without the official concurrence of the secretary. The secretary shall not concur in any such construction unless he makes an affirmative finding that, under the particular circumstances existing, the construction of such road as a toll facility rather than a toll-free facility is in the public interest." THREE MONTHS AGO, Gov. Claude Kirk ordered Rex to "build that toll road now." He back-pedaled, however, when his order raised a storm of protest from toll-road opponents and eyebrows among members of his own State Road Board. But Kirk asked Secretary Boyd for assurance tha approval of the interstate application would not strip him of his power to decide whether the state builds a toll road or a free road.

Rex said Boyd gave that assurance. "We are not bound to wait for interstate money until we sign a contract," the chairman said. BUT that apparently was Boyd's interpretation of the toll road amendment, and he leaves office Jan. 20. Cramer said flatly yesterday the Republican transportation secretary-to-be, Gov.

John Volpe of Massachusetts, will interpret the amendment as it reads. By BETTE ORSINI Of The Times Staff All-Negro public schools in Florida and six other southern states "must be integrated or abandoned" by the start of the next school year the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled at New Orleans. Compliance with the sweeping ruling would mean that school officials serving hundreds of Pinellas and Hillsborough County children in all-Negro schools face massive enrollment realignment. AT TALLAHASSEE, State School Supt.

Floyd T. Christian said the fedral court order calling for abandonment of all-Negro schools affects at least the 16 counties in Florida that are currently under BULLETS, ROAD The Open Road 2,000 To See Dedication Of St. Johns Lock Today FLOYD CHRISTIAN studying ruling. court order: Pinellas, Hillsborough, Sarasota, Alachua, Bay, Brevard, Broward, Duval, Escambia, Indian River, Lee, Leon, Orange, Polk, St. Johns and Volusia.

U.S. Rep. Edward P. Bo-land, will give the keynote speech. He will be followed by several others before the Putnam County Chamber of Commerce stages a free fish fry for all attending.

A SPECIAL feature of the dedication will be passage of several hundred small boats Wild Chase On i I Christian said he will study the decision and reserve further comment until later. He referred to a ruling issued Thursday by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans stating that all public schools in its jurisdiction must open to integration or be abandoned by September. The ruling said any school plans that provide for all-Negro schools are unconstitutional. 'IX PINELLAS, Deputy Supt.

Gus Sakkis said thaf if the ruling is being interpreted correctly, "then it would take quite a job of planning in order to alleviate this situation we have now." Sakkis said he believes Pinellas has at least six all- (See INTEGRATION, Page S-B) through the lock. All boatmen will be given mementos of the occasion. Boland is the ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee and senior member of the public works subcommittee. He will be in-, traduced by U.S. Rep.

Charles E. Bennett, Jacksonville. Lt. Gen. William F.

Casidy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Florida Secretary of State Tom Adams, representing the governor and Cabinet, also will give brief addresses. The St. Johns Lock is part of work costing $16-million completed on the eastern end of the Barge Canal, which eventually will connect Yan-keetown on the Gulf of Mexico with Jacksonville on the Atlantic. OTHER FEATURES include the Rodman Dam and Reservoir, which provides water for the St.

Johns Lock, seven miles of excavation between the lock and St. Johns River, and a 2-million State Road 19 bridge. Engineers have cleared a channel through debris in the Rodman Reservoir, but boaters traveling down the Okla-waha River from the Ocala area have been advised to use caution. Today's dedication will mark completion of the first segment of the $162-million barge canal. Ceremonies will be held near the point where President Lyndon Johnson broke ground for the project in February 1964.

The Inglis Lock, located near the City of Inglis on the Gulf coast, was completed several months ago, but will not be usable until bypass and connector canals to the With- lacoochee River are finished next summer. police reporting that a camper body unit had fallen into the street and skidded into his front yard at 2150 28th Ave, N. A few minutes later, the Pinellas Sheriff's Department received a call from another citizen reporting two other camper units lying in the street at 46th Avenue and 49th Street. All three campers were identified by police as having been manufactured by Open Road Campers 2530 30th Avenue N. Police found that someone had climbed over the company's fence and into the parked tractor-trailer and driven it through a 6-foot-high chain-link gate.

Apparently the three campers, loaded earlier in the day, weren't tied down, AT 21ST STREET and Avenue North the first camper bounced off followed by the (Please See CHASE, 3-B) BLOCKS oral arguments in the controversy. EVEN THE fact that a governor has asked for an advisory opinion has been a closely guarded secret in the past but the new State Constitution effective in January requires that they be public information, along with the reply. The court ruled in a 4-3 decision earlier this week that it would put the new open-disclosure policy into effect immediately rather than wait for the new provision to be-' come law. Khk said that as an attorney he already has decided Staff Photo by Bob Hannah Open Road Employes Examine Truck Joel Goetz (left) and Ron Whitlinger, A 20-year-old kitchen helper dodged police bullets and two road blocks in a tractor-trailer truck before finally being curbed early yesterday. Three $3,000 campers spilled off the big flatbed truck as it raced around St.

Petersburg's near northside. When it finally was stopped, police said the driver casually asked for a cigarette. It wasn't clear whether he got a smoke, but police did tag him with six charges, and within hours he'd been sentenced to 130 days on three of them. The other three charges were felonies and bond was set at $1,000 on each. THE MAN WAS identified as Samuel Henry Williams, 4525 41st Ave.

N. truck loaded with campers was taken from Open Road Campers 2530 30th Ave. N. The episode started about 2 a.m. when a resident called that he has the right to appoint the newly-created official, a lieutenant governor.

BUT IT WAS reliably reported that no one he has approached wanted to accept the appointment without a legal go-ahead from the Supreme Court. In his written request, Kirk said the new constitution contains no language that would seem to negate a vacancy in the new office or that would restrict its being filled by the governor. "On the contrary, the language as well as earlier decisions by this court-would seem to indicate a vacancy Court epf mi ON APPOINTING LT. GOVERNOR PALATKA More than 2,000 people, including many high-ranking federal, state and local officials, are expected here today for dedication of the St. Johns Lock on the Cross-Florida Barge Canal.

Dedication ceremonies at the lock, located eight miles southwest of here off State Road 19, will begin at 11 a.m. Jacksonville DEDICATION CEREMONIES eureka Qcalq I JSL Whera 1st Segment Of 7 Starko Polatko qjf! i WW Seeks 1 I A ST. JOHNS LOCK MAKIl I II ft I KuumAfi mm Kirk GOV. CLAUDE KIRK even though he's sure. h9 el If TALLAHASSEE (UPI) -Gov.

Claude Kirk has asked the Florida Supreme Court if he can appoint a lieutenant governor next month or if the office must remain vacant until filled by the people at the 1970 elections. In a precedent-shattering disclosure yesterday, the court made public the governor's request for an advisory opinion, filed with the high tribunal Wednesday. The court will decide shortly whether it will rush out an immediate opinion or allow interested members of the public to present written or will exist upon the effective date of the new constitution and the vacancy is to be filled by a gubernatorial appointment," he said. Kirk reportedly has offered the position tentatively to three persons Miafltf Mayor Chuck Hall, Development Commission Chairman Milton Weir and State Road Board Chairman Michael. O'Neil and been told they were not interested.

HE DISCUSSED the job this week with former Rep. Ray Osborne, St. Petersburg. L. A.

Bafalis, Palm has expressed an interest in LOCK mM I Barge Canal Will Open.