IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA. No. 791-M-CIVIL   UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Petitioner, -vs- ) NOTICE OF CONDEMNATION   ( PROCEEDINGS 1036 acres of land, more ) or less, in Broward County, ( Florida ,(A.O. T.B); North ) Pompano Field), (   Defendants, ) ----------------------------------- ------- ( TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, AND TO:     (a) The following persons who   are residents of the State   of Florida ************************************************************************ A JUDGEMENT FOR TAKING 1036 ACRES OF PRIME LAND   $26,917.00   THE US NAVY   160 PEOPLE     By Bud Garner     On October 16, 1942 this property, located in Pompano Florida, county of Broward, comprising an area one and one half miles North from what is now N.E. 6th St. along US Highway 1 to Copans road.. West one mile on Copans road to the FEC railroad tracks. South along the East side of the tracks past the blimp base to N.E. eight Street a distance of one and four tenths mile and East one and four-tenths of a mile to US # 1. Was deemed essential for an air operational training base (A.O.T.B.) For the establishment of North Pompano Satellite field in connection with the Naval Air Station, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. on authority of James V, Forrestal, acting secretary of the U.S. Navy. (On June 14, 1943, after this property, today known as Pompano Air Park and Pompano Beach golf course) had already been confiscated , the runways built and the field operational., the owners of this property were paid the "Just " compensation amt. of $26,917.00 for the entire 1036 acres..   The partial list of individuals and companies that shared in this "windfall," were: E.E. and Mary Allen, Pompano. Victoria Benson, Pompano. George L. Blount and Blount Bros. Reality, Pompano.Blount Brothers, Pompano. Mrs.C.S. Bock, Pompano. H. Campbell, Pompano. Thomas H. Chapman III and Anna Belle Chapman. Pompano. H.S. Cheshire. Pompano Kenneth and Anna Finigan, Pompano. W.L. Kester, Pompano. W.H. McNab Pompano Robert A, and Aleene Mc Nab. Pompano. G.O. Mills. Pompano. Elias Roukous. Pompano. Thomas and Josephine Sumpter. Pompano. S.B. Skeene. Pompano. Foster H. and Loretta Speir. Pompano. G.B. Walton. Pompano. W.A.Walton.Pompano. R.L. Walton Pompano. T.S. Pridemore. Pompano. H.R. Barker. Miami, F.H. Anderson. E.I. Bernard. H.G.. Benson. Vera Beck. H.D. Bunn. Iva. M. Crim. J.A. and Lena Dorman. Pompano J.H. Donalson, Neely Porter Erwin, H.L. Farquahar. James H, Goodwin, Clyde Hipple, Pompano William Higginson, Lena v, Hibbard, C.W. Haines, E. Wolcott Hopkins, Z.V. Kendrick, Florence M. Keyes, H.L. Lyons, Pompano. Alphonso Marcette, George and Josephine Marcette. Estelle Marcette, B.G. Parks. Elizabeth Pegrams, J.R. Erwin. W.M. Pitzer. Charles A. Portwood. J.L. Richardson. Walter and Rebecca Smith. Lawrence Wiig. George Henry Watt. H.L. and Susie Trueblood. J.T. Elder. J.S. Mc Clelland. H. Smith. J. Harmon and Emma Wensinger. Caroline Zahn.. H.B. Phelps. Stephen A. Calder. Hattie E. DeLozier, Ft. Lauderdale. F.R. Oliver, Ft Lauderdale. William G. Goodrich. Ethel M. Hendricks. E.E. Hardy Pompano. E.L. and Marie Montgomery. Edgar and Catherine Patterson. C.G. Rodes, Ft. Lauderdale. H.M and Margaret Sutton. P.J. McGrath. B.H. Van Zandt. Della M Bonnett. Eleanor and Michael Wielandt. George O. and Mary Butler. Jesse and Alma Hardy. C.C. Chillingworth. Ellen J. Warde. Christina Dahlberg. A.D.V. Bailey. Albina Archambeault. Emma Bacon. L.L. Blackburn. David and Ethel Drummond. D.L. Feick. J.F. Hirt. John W. Knopp. Ellen and Wilfred De Duc. A.D.F. Miller. George and Harriat Miller. Ruby Meeks. Frances Mecklem. Loyal S. Marcott. H.P. Pfaff Emily Quinn. Henry L. Robbins. Albert and Karl Storch. Anne and C.L. Sadler. Ben Stiber. Robert Slidders. A.M. Swanson. W.A. Smith. Edward A. Stults. E.H. Turner. Willie G. and Hazel Tate. and Josephine Wood.   There were 160 individuals, more or less and approximately 60 corporations, companies, estates, trusts and municipalities involved in the "taking" of this property. The legal descriptions, procedures and instructions were comprised of 12 pages of legal size documents.   The 1036 acres involved had been platted and lots and parcels bought by the people listed sometime in the early , mid, late twentys or thirtys .There were no streets or sidewalks built. There were names of streets listed, such as Myrtle street, East 7th st. Pompano avenue, Broward avenue and State road # 4 (now US # 1.)   This property was bought and taxes paid on it for reasons known only to the purchasers and now years later, war broke out and the hopes that was held for these property owners was terminated abruptly.   Now, more than a half century later, the 1036 acres, that was condemed and taken for "national security reasons" for the "just" sum of $26,917.00 is in jeopardy of being relinquished to the "private sector" where office buildings ,apartments, stores, hi-rises and also as a requirement of government owned properties relinquished for development a "proportional " number of low-income housing units built.   Any monies, over and above the original $26,917.00" confiscated amount" should be paid to the original owners or their heirs from whom this land was "taken."   They were hard working people, farmers , merchants and people with vision, therefore should be paid , even at this late date for the land they could only watch taken from them and now watch others attempt to profit from.     (T.S. ( Little Jack) Pridemore a Pompano resident , received a check from the government for $12.00 for the 12 acres he owned in this parcel. Jack returned the check with the notation that they probable "needed " the money more than he did.) BG.