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1674-14 Louis (Red) Snedigar 1— 1 The Governor M - . ake ne i.gar May An Appointment ' Quit Beach THE POLITICAL implications in the j 'r"4 appointment of Harold Turk, Miami Counc• Today Beach councilman, to the County Com-11 r mission by Governor Warren,have caught ; ` Afiami ch's city council ma public attention rather than the adequacy W have na chair b'to let today � Cma of the selection 1 ei man (Red) Sned resigns 4) oun- © g� , , % . �� • i the term o the.:.` • e c ty fathers meet at . FSI'.'! -' 1kiiiA ` hick• expires' in 10 a. m. January, OA o 1 owing Snedigar's, Tuesday night death last December, the Governor said Snedigar called his departure he would appoint the high-man in the from the group May primary in Snedigar's district. today "not at'all h, improbable;' but Up to now, Grant Stockdale, former denied he had state legislator, has been the only- can-` anything to do didate to file for the district,•.which in- with picking his; eludes all Miami Beach and the area east Political circles i of Biscayne Bay to the Broward county speculated that , line. R"O"BOTH . of some 20 hope- What made Warren reverse himself? Eula for the job, Attorney Burnett Roth may stand • Local political sky-scanners figure the `the best chance of garnering the about-face stems from a news report last councilmen's votes. week naming Stockdale as a member of Roth surprise at being a Kefauver-for-President club. being or-. Rthprofessed 1n "rumors"surprise as ganized here. The rackets-busting Senator gar's mentionedneessor, but he was quick Snedi- Kefauver is anathema to Warren. to say he will accept if named. "r"IQDt f0 be` caitgiil'"off iiase, Stockdale "I've had a lot of calls today," immediately denied the report Local poi he said. "It's the first time I've itical diagnosticians Say-even to be }nen- heard of it." tioned in the same breath as Kefauver Snedigar repeated his previously announced reason for quitting the was to invite gubernatorial wrath, city job: That his new post as However that may be. the Governor Dade county commissioner, begin- has suddenly determined .. that "it ning Jan. 1, will be a fulltime seemed unfair to Miami Beach to,leave .. position. it so long without a representative on He has been identified with city the County Commission 44.4 the citizens of, Miami Beach affairs for 22 of this area pay approximately 40.per . years. cent of Dade county's taxes and to de- lay appointment of a County•Commis` sioner would further aggravate an al- ready acute condition of 'taxation with- out representation.' " • Sound, though belated, reasoning. " 19 51 Turk wired his resignation to the Gov-:,• ernor as a member of the non-salaried Florida State Improvement Commission. County Board A County Commissioner's salary is$12,000 a year. ; . :. A Miami Beach councilman draws $3,- Member Has 000 annually. ' Turk says he will not give up his Heart Attack council sob. a result he will draw public pay at the rate of $15,000 a year. iasis Louis F. Which will make laim one taf the high- (Red) Snedi uffei east eat paid office-holders in the county. • • ay morning at his home, 1912 Collins ave., Mi- r"`±? ami beach, and was removed to "."—":".L-----...—:-.......aaaws"""-6".--, \ , St. Francis Hos- FINDS - ,lt' . w.• -e his BEACH MAN ,yIon was de. HE WAS FIRST TO ��ttt PRACTICE LAW THERE A n Corney, Snedigar has liv- ed �'cettri'""an�r Louis '• ed for 31 years at nett -am: Miami Beach and 1 �` claimed the ,6i\EDIGAR is the only man '. es er a being the first in the history of the city to.have distinction of in the resort been elected four times as mayor. licensed attorney '' He was named th Dade county's •"^" -^, f•,.y.a• board of commissioners in 1948. city. Snedigar was placed in an oxy- , Snediga who has been in real"estate business for gen tent immediately upon arrival Beach at the hospital and kept there all man i discovered he was day Monday, but no improvement , fl er there the. lc�aed wY ll to in his condition was reported by ` i when he a too tl�e attending physician. act�ce get another licen irat II-as an attorney His cense was issued Sept. 8, 1924. '7-.: 411:tigne.wiit"Iln diav office is located