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Apr 5, 1976
A Sci-Fi Faith — TIME Magazine
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TIME Magazine The mystery began to unfold last fall in sleepy, sun-drenched Clearwater, Fla. The Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. decided to buy the 270-room Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown landmark, and a nearby bank building. Southern Land stated that the hotel would stay open, but another spokesman announced that it would become a center for the United Churches of Florida, a new ecumenical outfit that soon won endorsement from twelve local clergymen. When 200 tight-lipped strangers moved into the hotel, rumors ...
Apr 4, 1976
Scientology: the 'Astounding' fiction that became fact — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Mar 26, 1976
Scientology called 'anti-God' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 25, 1976
Same-day resale of Fort Harrison hotel disclosed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 25, 1976
Scientologists name Sun, employe in suit — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Stephen "Steve" Advokat ,
Mark Sableman Source:
Clearwater Sun (Florida) Charging a reporter's enrollment in one of its courses caused members "extreme mental anguish, suffering and humiliation," the Tampa mission of the Church of Scientology sued the Clearwater Sun and a Sun employe Wednesday for $250,000. Bruce Harrell, direector of the mission, charged that Sun Assistant City Editor Tom Coat enrolled in the Tampa mission for the purpose of writing articles about the controversial group that has purchased the former Fort Harrison hotel. "Coat's unwarranted and surreptitious intrusion and invasion of ...
Mar 25, 1976
Scientologists sue Clearwater newspaper — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com , link
Type: Press
Author(s):
Jeanne Pugh Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) CLEARWATER — The Church of Scientology filed a $250,000 damage suit in Tampa Wednesday against Tom Coat, assistant city editor of the Clearwater Sun, and Clearwater Newspapers Inc., publishers of the newspaper, charging that Coat violated the "privacy and confidentiality" of the church by "joining" it under false pretences and then taking part in its "advanced training." Announcement of the suit, filed in Hillsborough Circuit Court, was made at a news conference in the former Fort Harrison hotel, now owned and ...
Mar 24, 1976
Former Scientologists vow fight against cult — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Mar 21, 1976
Hubbard in Heaven — Clearwater Sun (Florida)More: link
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) There can be no doubt Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard believes in heaven. He says he has been there—twice. In a 1963 bulletin, Hubbard wrote that although he had once been skeptical, his travels had convinced him heaven was real. "For a long while, some people have been cross with me for my lack of cooperation in believing in a Christian Heaven. God and Christ," he wrote. "I have never said I didn't disbelieve in a Big Thetan (Scientology's 'soul') but ...
Mar 21, 1976
Process R2-45 – An Inside Joke Or The Ultimate Retribution? — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
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Clearwater Sun (Florida) Through "auditing" (counseling), a Scientologist strives to separate the spirit from the body. The most mysterious — and potentially most macabre — auditing process is R2-45. Though a Scientology spokesman says it should not be taken seriously, auditing process R2-45 is a special order directing scientologists to shoot disruptive foes. John McLean, a former Scientologist, said he saw the order while a member and believed that is what it meant. His mother Nan, also a former Scientologist, said she was told ...
Mar 20, 1976
Celebrities testify for Scientology — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Celebrities from 1-B
Mar 20, 1976
Church says reporter infiltrated its mission — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: Infiltrate from 1-B
Mar 16, 1976
U.S. Postal Service probes Scientology mail activity — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 12, 1976
Clearwater lends Cazares legal support — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Feb 12, 1976
Scientology critic fired from radio job — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Feb 12, 1976
Times sues Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Jan 29, 1976
Cazares: 'They misused our ministers, misled the public and evaded the truth' — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology says it is real buyer of Fort Harrison / Controversial sect founder helped set up the financing — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Church of Scientology surfaces as Fort Harrison Hotel owner — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
Editorial: Why so secretive? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
NEWS RELEASE / Church of Scientology behind United Churches — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Jan 29, 1976
What is this Church of Scientology? — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 5, 1975
Fort Harrison buyer eyes Dunedin condo — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Dec 3, 1975
Fort Harrison Hotel sale is official — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Susan Denley Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) It's official: the Fort Harrison Hotel has a new owner. And the price that new owner paid, until now a well-guarded secret, was $2.3-million according to documents filed in the Pinellas County courthouse Tuesday morning. Speculation about the price has gone on in Clearwater business circles since Jack Tar Hotels Inc. announced in late October that it was selling the landmark on Ft. Harrison Avenue to Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp. of Jamaica, N.Y. Guesses have ranged from more than ...
Nov 22, 1975
Old Clearwater Bank building sale complete — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 18, 1975
New Ft. Harrison 'tenant' says weather forecasts success — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Nov 14, 1975
Fort Harrison leased to state church group — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) United Churches of Florida, a new organization dedicated to relating religious thought to a changing modern world, has leased the Fort Harrison Hotel and will operate it as a facility for seminars involving groups of all denominations. Sorel Allen, director of membership and public affairs for United Churches, says the non-profit corporation is leasing the hotel from Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp., which will complete the purchase of the 272-room resort from Jack Tar Hotels Dec. 1. Allen said he ...
Nov 5, 1975
Fort Harrison purchasers to buy Clearwater bank building — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
Type: Press
Author(s):
Chuck Albury Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp., which is buying the Fort Harrison Hotel for use as a vacation and conference center for religious groups, signed an agreement Tuesday to buy the old Bank of Clearwater building on Cleveland Street and bank-owned office space with about 200 feet of frontage on N Ft. Harrison Avenue. ALTHOUGH individuals from Southern Land wouldn't comment officially on the purchase, they indicated that the space will be used for offices in connection with the hotel venture. ...
Oct 29, 1975
Closing of hotel started — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Oct 28, 1975
Fort Harrison Hotel bought; new owner plan to close it — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)More: news.google.com
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) The Fort Harrison Hotel, a downtown Clearwater landmark for a half century, has been sold and the new owners plan to close it — at least temporarily in December. Southern Land Development and Leasing Corp., a Delaware corporation, bought the hotel from Jack Tar Hotels Inc. of Dallas, Tex. The Jack Tar chain has owned the Fort Harrison since 1953 except for 14 months in 1969-70 when it was the property of Osias Hotels Inc. The new owners plan an announcement ...
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