State News Tuesday, February 27, 1962 Five Arrested Bolita Ring Linked To Syndicate By REX NEWMAN Sentinel Staff BARTOW The chief criminal deputy of the Polk County sheriff's department charged yesterday a Haines City bolita operation broken up Saturday "blends in with dicate operation, partially headed up in Orange County." "It's an operation similar to the one we broke up four years ago, Chief Criminal Dep. Claude Tindall said. Tindall, who headed the raid Saturday which rounded up five Negroes, referred to a bolita tion which spread into eight Central Florida counties before it was broken up four years Arrested Saturday were Bessie Mae Waiters, Gladys Jackson, Delola Cope, Aaron Tavek, Nora Peavy and a 14-year-old girl who was the bolita ring's pickup girl. THE FIVE adults were charged with possession of a lottery and having an interest in a lottery. Ironically, the Peavy woman pleaded guilty yesterday in criminal court to a similar charge following a Dec.
9, 1961, bolita raid in Haines City. Sentence was withheld pending a pre-sentence investigation. Tindall said this is part of a countywide effort by Sheriff Monroe Brannen to clean up bolita in Polk County. He said several other cities are under surveillance for similar operations. The Waiters woman's home was under surveillance for "several weeks," Tindall said.
He said that besides the deputies who were "peeking out of every corner," a movie camera was used with a telescopic lens. HE SAID someone tipped the suspects about the stakeout, however, because the money and much of the tickets were "sneaked out" on Friday night. "We got enough tickets, though, to make a case," he said. He said since the sheriff took office 14 months ago some 20 bolita cases have been made. "We want them (bolita operators) out of here, and we are working on these cases with an eye for the big fellows (bolita bankers)," he said.
TV Blamed Trooper Slaying Trial Delayed JACKSONVILLE (P) A circuit Judge criticized Sheriff Dale Carson for circ*mstances which brought postponement yesterday of the murder trial of two men accused of killing a state trooper. Judge Albert W. Graessle granted a defense motion to postpone the trial for at least two months on the grounds the defendants had been exposed to prejudicial treatment through a television news program. The postponement came as the trial of Dewitt Addison, 33, of Lake Butler and Rudolph John Pavlas, 46, of Hialeah was about to begin with selection of a jury. The judge said he will set a new trial date later.
ADDISON AND Pavlas, both exconvicts, were indicted for murder in the rifle slaying of Trooper Edwin Gasque in a wooded area west of Jacksonville last Oct. 26. Gasque was part of a posse searching for two men who tied up a Duval County patrolman earlier that day. Zach Douglas, attorney for Addison, complained that television accounts of an FBI interrogation and lie detector tests of the defendants would tend to prejudice any jury panel selected at this time. Two Enter Pleas In Drug Thefts TAMPA (P Ralph K.
Miley, 49, former head of the Tampa General Hospital pharmacy department, pleaded innocent yesterday of grand larceny charges involging thefts of larceny charges involving thefts of L. D. Hall, 20, owner of a drug store, pleaded innocent at the same of buying, receiving and aiding in the concealment of stolen property. They were arrested by city and state narcotics agents after Miley left the hospital with a package of drugs valued at $232 and took them to Hall's drug store. No narcotics were involved.
Funeral Services Set TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Funeral services are tentatively set for morning for Dr. Glen C. tomorrow, pastor of Trinity Methodist Church here since 1953, who died of a heart attack Sunday night. He is survived by his widow and daughters, Mrs. William O.
Cullom, Tallahassee, and Mrs. Alfred B. Vaught, DeLand. Orlando Third Front Page 1-B First Degree Murder Hearing Faces Folds Wife Slayer Indicted By Brevard Jury By BLANTON McBRIDE Sentinel Staff TITUSVILLE Leonard Folds will be tried on charges of first degree murder. A grand jury returned the indictment yesterday after deliberating only a few hours.
Nine state witnesses appeared before the members of the jury. And in the jail only a few feet away, Folds sat in his cell with no apparent interest in the outcome. ASST. STATE Atty. A.
J. Hosemann presented the state's case against Folds, who is charged with killing his wife, Betty Jean, in a co*cktail lounge in Cocoa Beach on Jan. 28. As far as it can be determined, Folds has not secured a lawyer to represent him. According to witnesses and his own confession, Folds shot his wife to death after talking to her for a little while in the lounge where she worked as a co*cktail waitress.
Following the shooting, he fled across highway, stole a car and was the object of a tremendous manhunt before he surrendered at the Orange County Sheriff's Dept. FOLDS HAS made a confession which, according to Sheriff James Dunn, "covers every moment from Sunday morning until he surrendered to the Orange County sheriff Monday night." He indicated when he was brought to the Brevard County jail that he just wanted to plead guilty, he did not intend to hire a lawyer. When his mother visited him in jail, she told The Sentinel she and Folds' father and brother would find a lawyer to represent him. So far as the sheriff's department is concerned, no lawyer has been engaged. It is expected that the trial will be set for March 27 before Judge Vassar B.
Carleton in the circuit court. This is the only criminal case to come before this court for the spring term. Kellenberger Charge Dropped WEST PALM BEACH (P) Charges against suspended Sheriff Martin M. Kellenberger were dropped yesterday and the Palm Beach County Commission recommended that he be reinstated. Gov.
Farris Bryant said he would have no comment until he has seen a grand jury report. County Solicitor Joel Daves dropped the charges contained in a grand jury indictment. The grand jury said last Friday its indictments were no longer worth prosecuting. Kellenberger was suspended last August after a previous grand jury indicted him on charges of perjury. Kellenberger, a Republican, was acquitted, but Bryant continued the suspension and appointed Peter A.
B. Widener 3d to succeed Kellenberger. 16 Cubans Seek Asylum MIAMI (UPI) Sixteen Cubans arrived here yesterday in a hired fisherman's boat and asked for political asylum, immigration officials reported. Welcome To The Fair Charlotte Beach (left) and Gayle Wortham welcome State Agriculture Commr. Doyle Conner to the Central Florida Fair yesterday as the 50th anniversary event got under way at Exposition Park.
Nonchalantly feigning unawareness of the whole thing is clown Emmett Kelly reposing on the bench with his fair program. (Sentinel Photo by Jack McCollum) Daytona Republican Files To Oppose Rep. Syd Herlong Chanel '62 Chanel's suit look for spring, 1962, features a shorter narrower jacket with a bit more fit. Suit skirts are short and easy, with low inverted pleats front and back. This version of the Paris designer's spring collection, is red and black, i is lined and faced in red pongee to match the blouse.
Lapels and pocket flaps are trimmed in the same red pongee. (UPI Color Photo) Deputy Injured, Car Battered 26 Negroes Face Charges After Frostproof Uprising Sentinel Staff BARTOW A Frostproof Negro fruit picker, charged with being the central figure in a near riot Sunday night in the Negro quarter at the Minute Maid plant, was held in county jail yesterday in lieu of $2,025 bond. Twenty-two other Negroes were placed under $250 and $50 bonds yesterday and three Negro juveniles were turned over to juvenile authorities for charges of unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct. By REX NEWMAN Johnie Lee Gaines was charged The Sentinel's Shad Rack Earl Wheeler, Annapolis, Harry O'Berry Baltimore, Clarence Whittaker, Annapolis, 40 (12 roe). M.
Knight, Roy Alder, Cocoa, 16. (5 roe), Mr. and Mrs. Ray Alder, Cleveland, Ohio, 17 (6 roe). Paul Holloway Clementon, N.
'String (5 roe). Nelson Wilhamm, Dick Fiet, Andree, Ray C. Bennett, Glenwood, 7 Orlando, 18 roe). (1 T. M.
Walthin, Roanoke, S. T. Preston, Orange City, 8, (3' roe). Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Winner, Mt. Holly, N. 10 (2 roe). Mr. and Mrs.
W. M. Mitchell, Hampton, 30 (19 roe). W. B.
Gray, Maitland, Ivan Bays, California, 12 (4 roe). E. F. Kaderabek, M. Baughman, Winter Park, 10 (4, roe).
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Valle, Larchmont N. (4 roe). Mr.
and Mrs. W. E. Fitzgibbons, Indian Lake Estates, 19 (9 roe). Ernest Mueller, Henry Raup, Washington, D.
24. (11 roe) Thomas Doster, W. Parker, Buckroe Beach, Va. W. P.
Vincent, Onanco*ck, 21 (9 roe), R. H. Chouffet, W. B. Gleason, Orange City, 10 (4 roe).
William 'Hair, Gastonia, N. Carter. Arthur Young, Plymouth, Tom Burlington N. Dr. J.
J. Colavita, Trenton, N. 16 (3 roe). A. Mineur, Oberg, Nicholson, Leesburg, Starks Park, E.
3. Ferry, Garmarger, 3. Rockford, 111., 10. Bert Meyer, Mickey Sylvain, Phil Streit, Winter Park, 8 (5 roe). David Masters, Winter Park, 3 (1 roe).
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Catoe, Mrs. Ferd Mueller, DeBary, 8 (3 roe). Marybelle Griffin, Liz White Howie-in-the-Hills, 23, John (5 roe).
Gland, 12 (4 Teaches, N. roe). Mr. and Mrs. George Groth, Belmont, Max P.
Standke. Tangerine, 4, (2 roe). Hal Hansberger, Wayne Hansberger, Harold Bigler, Shreve, Ohio roe). N. B.
Heaton. Stanville, 4 (3 roe). Tom Gordy, Lake Mary, 3 Edward Verboys, Orlando, 4. (1 roe). Dr.
and Mrs. Harry Yergin, Jacksonville, 17 (8 roe). Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Andoots, Jacksonville Mr.
and Mrs. S. S. Mack, Jacksonville, 5 (2 roe). Blaine Thorpe, Welaka, C.
W. Burnette, Hollywood, 10 (4 2 W. Carr Shaffer and Crescent party, 9 Crescent (5, roe) City, 18 (6 roe). Mr. and Mrs.
Russell' Rinklin, Jefferson City 8 (4 roe). Orville Jones, Frank Stoney, Herbert Richards. DeBary, 7 (3 roe). Bruce, Bryan and Bobby Buinak, Orlando, 5. C.
B. Mahaffy, R. Ware Jacksonville. 10 (4 roe). Freeman and John Benton, Winter Park, 8 (4 roe).
Joe and Buddy Rawls. Sanford, roe). Mr. Stone, L. R.
Foy, Winter Park, (3 Mr. and Mrs. H. Showell, Arsecon, N. 15 (5 roe).
Mr. and Mrs. A. Pederson, Arsecon, N. J.
(4 roe). James Jackson, Oviedo, 9 (3 roe). with being drunk, resisting arrest and inciting a riot. SHERIFF'S DEP. Ed Dice and Frostproof Policeman Leon Respress said Gaines started the fracus when be became obnoxious with them outside a bar known as Willie Gardner's.
The two law enforcement officers were making a routine check when Gaines became unruly and insulting as they were leaving the parking lot. Dice said when an attempt was made to arrest Gaines and put him in the deputy's car he became violent. "Then the lights went out in the bar and bottles, rocks and bricks started flying at us from all directions," he said. RESPRESS RECEIVED a badly bruised left arm, the car was dented and the windshield broken. Following the outbreak at the bar, a group of Negroes marched on Frostproof Mayor John Maxcey's home to protest the arrest of Gaines.
The mayor asked the group to leave, telling them it was a police matter. The group did not leave. Reinforcements from the sheriff's office and the state highway patrol arrived and the 25 Negroes were hauled to jail. Kissimmee Asks For Radio Station WASHINGTON (P) The Federal Communications Commission received applications yesterday including the following: Kissimmee Edward C. Allmon, radio, Florida Broadcasters, 824 King Richard Eau Gallie, construction permit for radio station, 1080 kilocycles, five kilowatts, daytime.
Gainesville Man Dies GAINESVILLE (P Hugh C. Chandler, 70, prominent Gainesville businessman, died yesterday after an apparent stroke at his office. TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Republican Hubert H. Hevey Daytona Beach, qualified yesterday to oppose veteran Democratic Congr. A.
Syd Herlong of Leesburg. Hevey paid the $1,125 qualifying fee to become the fifth GOP contender for a seat in Washington from Florida. Congr. Bob Sikes of Crestview filed for re-election to his First District seat, while State Sen. W.
Herrell, Miami Springs, and Ernest Busker, Miami, filed for the new Third District seat in Congress composed of North Dade County. TWO SUPREME court justices qualified: former Gov. Millard F. Caldwell, who will seek his first six-year term, and veteran Justice Elwyn Thomas, who has served on the high court since 1938. Caldwell was appointed 10 days ago to serve out the unexpired term ending next January of retired Justice T.
Frank Hobson. For the state senate, Jim Thomas filed to oppose Sen. Harry Stratton in the 16th District, and Rep. Robert Williams, Graceville, qualified to run for the fourth District seat vacated when John Rawls was named to the district appellate court. THOSE QUALIFYING for the state house of representatives included: Frederick B.
Karl of Volusia, Group Lawton Chiles Polk, Group John L. Ayers, Hernando; Art Karst, Indian River; Allen R. Lormann and Joe Davis, Seminole, Group II; and Charles L. Nergard, St. Lucie, a Republican.
Wallace E. Sturgis, Ocala, filed for re-election to the North Florida Caroline Kennedy Rocks Glenn With 'Where's The WASHINGTON (P) Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. reported that Caroline Kennedy really cut him down to size yesterday by demanding to know: "Where's the monkey?" The anecdote, which brought one of the biggest laughs of his talk to Congress, began with Glenn being introduced to Pres. Kennedy's 4-yearold daughter just before taking off from West Palm Beach for his Washington reception.
"I think Caroline really cut us down to size and put us back in our proper position," Glenn said, "when after being introduced she looked up and said: 'Where's the When the laughter subsided, Glenn added: "All this and I didn't get a banana pellet on the whole ride." The rest of the story came from onlookers at the Palm Beach airport. They said that Caroline's inquiry about Enos the chimpanzee that orbited the earth last November, District Court of Appeals. Qualifying for circuit judgeships were: Guyte P. McCord, Tallahassee, Second Circuit, Group II; William L. Durden, Jacksonville, Fourth Circuit, Group II; and J.
H. Willson, Bartow, 10th Circuit. Animals Unmarked Hunters Cleared Of Hog Theft By SID PORTER Sentinel Staff DELAND Five wildhog hunters, including two Lake County law officers, yesterday at a preliminary hearing were cleared of hog theft charges. The defendants were Noel Griffin Eustis, Lake County sheriff's deputy; Tom Ledford, Mount Dora policeman; Carl Benson, Orlando; David Shelly, Mount Dora, and Jim Adkerson, Tavares. County Judge John S.
Byington ruled no probable cause shown, after testimony that the defendants hunted openly with airboats on Feb. 4, a Sunday, brought their fivehog bag openly to a fish camp and that the hogs weren't marked on their ears with a registered mark, or any mark at all. Defense Atty. John Godbee Jr. also brought out that the men had told Sheriff's Dep.
Harold Cooper that a wildlife officer, Grady Phelps, had told them they could hunt wild hogs on the St. Johns River up to the high water mark on the east bank of the river south of State Rd. 44 and the Astor Bridge area. German Journalists See Cape Tomorrow WASHINGTON Twenty topranking German journalists will visit and inspect facilities at Cape Canaveral tomorrow. The Florida space installation will be the party's second stop on a 30-day tour of U.
S. military bases and cities, the State Dept. said yesterday in announcing the itinerary. While on tour, the German newsmen will be guests of the State and Defense Depts. and the U.
S. Information Agency. CAROLINE KENNEDY Question amuses Glenn brought a roar of laughter from Glenn, and the reply: "He's eating bananas." During his two circuits of the globe Enos was rewarded with bananaflavored pellets when he pushed the correct levers. The 37-pound chimp was last reported in good health at Holloman, Air Force Base, N. M.
Caroline remained at Palm Beach with her mother. Park Attendance Up TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Attendance at state parks. in the first eight months of 1961-62 shattered all previous records in Florida, the Park Service said yesterday. Attendance passed the two million mark between July 1-Feb. 18, which is 60,000 ahead of the same period a year ago..
