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Sally Price - Correspondent
Permit No. 14
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Squawk Box
Remembering
My Father
With Doug Johnston
My Father, Clyde
Julius Johnston was born in
Wauchula, Florida to Ernest
and Cornelia, (Trowbridge),
Johnston in October of 1918.
His paternal twin, Ernest,
and he were the youngest
and last children in the fam-
ily which included three daughters.
He was raised in Inverness where
he and his brother were integral parts of the
Citrus High School football team that won
the old Gulf Coast Conference in 1934, 35
and 36.
He was a fullback and his twin
brother was the quarterback on those
teams. Long time football coach at CHS
and Brooksville High School, (where he
played and later coached) Eddie McIntire
played against my Father. He once told me
that my Dad was the toughest player he
ever faced.
My Dad married his high school
sweetheart, Irene Forbes Johnston, right
after high school. My Mother was the
homecoming queen at CHS not once, but
Flag Day - This super sized 28 by 40 foot U S flag was flown over Citrus County Fire Rescue Station #2 opposite the Citrus County Court House
twice. They moved to Jacksonville after
June 14 for National Flag Day on their 100 foot ladder truck. The flag was donated to Citrus County Fire Rescue by the VFW’s in District 7 for
marriage and in December of 1941 my
ceremonial purposes This day commemorates the adoption of the United States Flag which happened by Resolution of the Second Continental
oldest sister was born. Mom and Dad were
Congress in 1777. Newscaster/Sally Price Photo
WAR Files Suit 17 Alligators on the loose in
inseparable: Until Hitler marched across
Poland and Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
Daddy and Uncle Ernest entered
Against Levy Hernando, Farm Owner Cited
Officer Training Corp and were commis-
sioned in the United States Army in 1942.
They marched off to war and both the very
Commission
Continued on page 8- Squawk Box
the 2.5-acre farm. The alligator farmer was
From The Florida Wildlife Commission
surprised to learn that of his 18 alligators,
CATTAIL CREEK RV PARK
Seventeen alligators escaped from an
only one remained in the enclosure.
In Charming Yankeetown, FL
alligator farm in Hernando, Citrus County,
Withlacoochee  Area  Residents
The alligators made the mass escape
according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Con-
Minutes to River and Gulf!
headquartered in Inglis have filed for an
through a hole they had dug under the fence,
servation Commission (FWC) investigators.
Full Service Hook-up
injunction in Levy County circuit Court
according to Smith. He cited Spiegel for
FWC Investigator Jim Smith received
against the Levy County Commission for
All Wooded Sites
maintaining wildlife in an unsafe/unsanitary
a call from the local nuisance-alligator trap-
it’s approval of a development order on May
condition, a second-degree misdemeanor,
Pool
per, saying his agent had captured eight 4- to
5th, 2011 approving a 2700+ acre limerick
Laundry
6-foot alligators over four days in a housing
Continued on page 4 - Alligators
mine operated by Tarmac America near
Clubhouse
development with no nearby natural water
Inglis. The suit was filed May 27th.
sources.
WAR contends that the Levy Coun-
STAY 2 NIGHTS
Another alligator was found dead. It
ty commissions approval of Tarmac’s mine
& GET
had been struck by a vehicle.
is inconsistent with the County’s Compre-
3rd NIGHT FREE
Smith knew of a licensed facility
hensive Plan, and thus state law, and seek a
352-447-3050
in the area that had alligators in a fenced-
permanent injunction against any construc-
41 Cattail Ln.
in area. The farmer, Albert J. Spiegel, had
tion, mining or related activity pursuant to
Yankeetown
recently acquired an alligator farm license.
the Development Order.
RV Lots
Smith met with the alligator farmer
RV Rentals
One of the remaining gators-FWC
Continued on page 3 - Lawsuit
and conducted an inventory inspection of