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Elects Lewis Mayor
Thomas Lewis was selected
by the North Palm Beach Vil-
lage council to serve another
year as Mayor, Thomas R.
Bell will be the vice mayor. The
vote was taken at the council" s
yearly re -organizational meet-
ing and was unanimous.
Incumbent Allan Everard and
newly elected David C. Clark
were seated as concilmen.
Evarard, Clark and Lewis were
sworn in by Village Manager
Joe J. Eassa, Jr.
Councilman Herbert Watt
was reaffirmed as Village
Treasurer, Tax Collector and
Assessor.
The previously established
boards, clerk, attorney and
judge were also reaffirmed by
the counc' 1.
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Boating Woes
Special To The Post
JACKSONVILLE — "Uncorrelated" bridge openings
along the Intracoastal Waterway in Palrn Beach County was
one of the complaints heard in Jacksonville by government
officials probing the problems of boaters.
Willard Bowman of Jensen Beach, representing the Mar-
tin County Commission at the Thursday .meeting, asked the
U.S. Coast Guard to review the bridge schedules, claiming
some boats are held up as much as 20 minutes for each bridge.
Bowman was one of many individuals to speak at the
meeting which resulted in a move to come up with uniform
laws to control the state's crowded waterways.
The committee is composed of representatives of the U.S.
Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Florida Inland
Navigation District and state, county, and city officials.
The group also heard Herb Watt of North Palm Beach who
told them water skiing in the waterway between North Pah
Beach and Jupiter was very dangerous. �.
On complaints about wakes, A. L. McKnight of the Corps
of Engineers, said owners are responsible for the safety of
their own boats when they dock them along seawalls.
He said it was not the fault of the boatman who created
the wake but the fault of the owner who didn't secure his boat
properly for damages in that situation.
Many of the complaints about wakes came from south
Palm Beach County and Broward County.