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I Mike Morgan That Kind Of Day Stall photos by Ursula Seeminn Life can be unfair sometimes, 15-year-old John Warner reflects. There you are, skiing along easily in a canal near SW Ninth St. and 7Sth in Plantation, when all of a sudden you hit something or lose your tow rope and splash! But things could be worse. If John hadn't noticed that low sewer pipe in the picture on the left, he probably would have suffered more than just an annoying wetting. I You will be interested to learn I have just acquired the first part of a do-it-yourself acupuncture kit.

The subject of acupuncture has become fascinating to A i a and has been much in the news recently. If by any chance you don't know what I am talking about, it's the ancient Chinese art of practicing medicine by sticking very fine pins into assorted parts of the body. I have been given a large wall-size chart, sent out by a drug company, that depicts all the locations on the body where pins are deposited for treatment of various ailments. It now decorates a wall in my mini-office, and while it doesn't have the artistic merit of say "September Morn" or "Stag at Bay," it does add a certain style the office was lacking. Unhappily, all the information is printed in Chinese, which puts a sudden halt to the do-it-yourself aspects.

Nor did the company send along any of the very thin gold, silver or steel pins used. Though not a student of acupuncture, I can say that the common straight pin is not advised. Melchione: Someone Was Lax In Checking Patients SFSH Kscape Probe wer Ifar Fort Lauderdale News caped from Collier Ward at 3:30 a.m. yesterday after they had cut the screen and an outside wire apparently with wire snippers, Melchione said. One of the four was found wandering on the hospital grounds while another was picked up by Miramar police.

Two male patients as well as the two female patients have not been captured. FOUR IDENTIFIED Melchione said the four who escaped from Collier are Clifton Dennis, 34, being held on a disorderly conduct charge; Andreas Cancino, 27, held on a rape charge, Manuel Rodriguez, 17, held in auto theft, leaving the scene of an ac their version of the escape," the security chief said. The aides did not know that four patients had escaped from their ward until Dennis was found on the grounds by a security guard. TOLD OF ESCAPE Dennis told the guard about the escape, but he didn't know how many fled with him. It was not until a security guard asked for a bed check that it was discovered four patients had fled from the ward and what route they had taken to freedom.

Melchione said someone was lax in checking the patients. "I intend to find out who." cident and grand larceny, and Samuel Nickson, 26, held on grand larceny charge. All are from Miami and were committed by Dade County criminal court judges. Dennis was found wandering on the grounds while Nick-son was picked up by Miramar police. Melchione said he will not know until tomorrow whether the security guards or psychiatric aides were lax.

He said the four, after cutting through the screen and heavy mesh fence, climbed onto the roof and dropped to the ground. "Security has to be tightened on the minimum security By GENE JANAS Staff Writer PEMBROKE PINES An investigation was under way yesterday to determine how four patients cut their way out of a minimum security ward early yesterday and escaped, Richard Melchione, security i at South Florida State Hospital (SFSH), said. He is also pushing his investigation as to how two women patients smuggled a bottle into Hendry Ward, broke it, then held the jagged edges against the throat of a psychiatric aide who surrendered her keys to them so they could escape Friday night. The four male patients es Sunday, June wards for Dade, Collier and Flagler," Melchione said. The three wards are encircled on three sides with a 12-foot fence.

Howeverj the front of the wards are not screened by the fence. The fence was installed to prevent escapes from these wards Building Upswing Continued In May Parents' Group Will Pay For All-Day Kindergarten a 11, 1972 II after Pembroke Pines and Miramar residents complained to Gov. Reubin Askew about the many escapes from the state mental institution. Melchione said he does not know how a wire cutter was smuggled into Collier ward. "I am going to talk to the psychiatric aides today to get fered half-day McFatter said.

"I doubt if it would be practical to have full-day kindergartens in all schools next year," he said. "There simply aren't enough rooms." Lyle Anderson, school board chairman, said he probably would vote against full-el a kindergartens in all schools: "My first priority is for reg-u 1 a school programming, and, seeing that the money situation is rather tight, I'd like to see it go for the regular program. "Until we get regular education in Broward County to be quality or even good I don't think I'd be in favor of going to a full-day kindergarten classes." Curry says his proposal is primarily for the benefit of 360 Head Start pupils in the Construction of homes, duplexes and apartments in the five South Broward cities continued at a good pace during May. Building permits for 102 homes, 20 duplexes, four three-family units and 15 apartments calling for 321 units were issued last month. Hollywood had a good month with $8,486,768 in new construction in May.

It was more than $1 million ahead of May, 1971 when permits were issued for $7,086,108 in new-construction. Permits calling for in new construction have been issued for the first five months this year as compared with $26,657,327 for the same period last year. Miramar reported permits were issued for 12 new homes and four duplexes. Permits calling for $600,942 in new construction were issued in May, a decline from By MINDY ELLEDGE Staff Writer A representative from a group called Broward County Concerned Parents for Full Day Kindergarten said yesterday about 6,500 parents whose children qualify for Head Start programs would be willing to pay $3 or $4 a week to lengthen class days. The representative, Richard Curry, will present the group's proposal for full-day kindergartens in all public schools to the Broward School Board Thursday.

Dr. William McFatter, associate superintendent for finance, said he doesn't think parental contributions will be necessary to keep full-day classes going in some schools in the county. FIGURES CITED In the 1971-72 school year, 19 schools had full-day instruction, and 68 schools of He is also looking into the escape of two women, Rosalind Rauchelberg, 18, of 548 NE Ninth Fort Lauderdale, and Ellen McClam, 20, of Tampa, who escaped Friday night. "I just can't understand how a bottle could have been brought to the ward without some aide seeing it," Melchione said. "Glass is forbidden on the wards." Melchione said he is going to recommend that a barbed wire fence be installed on the roofs of Collier, Dade and Flagler wards to make escape that much tougher from the minimum security wards.

They've always said they don't have the money, but now the parents are willing to put up $3 or $4 a week to help, and the Head Start program is willing to furnish one qualified teacher's aide for each class." School board member H. Don Moore said he doesn't think the school system could charge parents tuition for kindergarten. "Even if we could, that wouldn't be enough," he said. "Why, it would cost $2 to $2.50 a day per student for a teacher alone. "A 'full-day' kindergarten doesn't cover a full working day, You'd send the same children without supervision anyway." Other school board members could not be reached for comment.

Boy Held As Youth Is Shot HOLLYWOOD An 18-year-old Hollywood youth was held in city jail yesterday on a charge of aggravated assault following a shooting outside a 7-11 store at 1801 N. 66th late Friday. The shooting victim, Ren-ford Stephan Dean, 19, of 6840 Farragut was reported in fair condition in Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound in the head. Gary Allen Harrison, 6333 Grant a store customer who allegedly fired the shot at 11:30 p.m. Friday, was being held without bond pending his arraignment in Broward County Court of Record.

Police said Dean and two companions were ordered out of the store for creating a disturbance. When the three did not get out immediately, one youth standing outside the store handed the store clerk a gun and said, "Here's the way to get rid of them," police said. The clerk refused the gun and the three then walked out, according tc police. While the three were walking to their car, Harrison allegedly took a .38 caliber revolver out of his car and ran after the trio. May, 1971, when permits were issued for $1,234,516.

Despite the slight decline in construction in May, Miramar stayed ahead in total construction for the first five months as compared with the same period in 1971. Permits for $6,319,734 were issue for the first five months this year as compared with $6,031,702 for the same period last year. Hallandale's figures are incomplete. However, permits for were issued last month. Included in this were permits for four houses, one duplex and three apartments with 56 units.

a i a reported a good month. Permits for $519,214 were issued in May as compared with $290,943 in May, 1971. Pembroke Pines reported permits for $1,607,500 in new construction were issued in May as compared with for the same month in 1971. trip to the National Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio really nothing new for her since her brother, Chuck, was last year's winner and the entire family made the trip. Anita, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Joseph Brisson of Bar-wick Road in Delray came by her win honestly, though. In going through six heats down the 15th Avenue bridge, she posted the fastest time of the day 19.6 seconds and had only one close race, edging Bob Stoffregen of Boynton Beach by a scant half-wheel in a semi-final heat. In going through the class BUT IF anyone is interested in pursuoing the subject, I suggest you have a chat with my Chinese philosopher friend, and oriental egg-foo-young promoter Gar Ming Wong who presides over the Hong Kong Palace and some of the best spare ribs this side of heaven. It will be remembered that at the time of the Chinese New Year, Gar Ming made me an honorary rat for this Year of the Rat.

So far, mv wife remarks, the honor has not changed my usual modest, loving personality.) Gar Ming has been acupunctured and will discuss it with you gladly. He is not as inscrutable as you would imagine for a Chinaman from Hong Kong. Some months past Gar Ming was enduring an acute pain in the neck and all the consolation of the indicated sayings of Confucius did not temper his problem. Nor did the style of medicine as practiced by Western physicians. I cannot give the conversation in the exact language Gar Ming gave it, so I will use my pidgin English.

He was examined by a U.S. trained doctor who gave him a variety of reasons, nerves being the prime one. The pain persisted despite whatever pills he was given. Maybe Gar Ming's calm and gentle childlike faith in Western medicine may have been slightly ruffled. So on a visit to California he sought out a Chinese doctor, a friend, skilled in acupuncture, but also trained in Western Medicine.

You could get prescribed from list one or list two. Gar Ming ordered acupuncture. SINCE I have not yet put together my full acupuncture kit, and have not mastered all the technical terms, I will not try to explain the "gate one" and "gate two" theory of acupuncture in which somehow the pins are thrust into the body at certain points and gate one blocks off the pain while gate two opens up and lets out all the excess biliousness. Or maybe it works the other way around. Rest assured the process is almost as complicated as putting together one of those easy-to-as-semble toys which turn normal parents into neurotics Christmas eve.

Gar Ming explained his problem, was examined, and then the needles were planted in his hand. I have read the reason why the needles are usually embedded a considerable distance from the source of the trouble such as patients with heart problems are frequently needled at the finger tips but I will not attempt to acquaint the reader anymore than I would try to interpret a bureaucratic-written regulation. Gar Ming says the needles are not painful. "You want me to show you?" he offered. I declined.

He further says that acupuncture relieved his misery as successfully as those pills advertised on TV wipe out a headache. I hope the reader now understands acupuncture, and will note how I avoided technical terms but presented the story in clear, layman's language. iiiiii Hollywood Man Jailed By Narcs HOLLYWOOD Under-cover agents of the Broward County Sheriff's Office narcotics squad climaxed a week-long investigation Friday night by arresting a Hollywood man on seven drug-related charges after the agents allegedly contracted to buy 5,600 LSD tablets from him. The man, 32-year-old James Joseph Carlo was held last night in the Broward County jail in Fort Lauderdale with bond set at $22,000. The agents, aided by the Police Department's narcotics squad, arrested Carlo at his home at 2411 Monroe St.

at about 9:30 Friday night. In the house, the agents said they found and confiscated mari-j a a amphetamines, narcotics paraphernalia and the 5,600 alleged LSD tablets. A eliminations for 14- and 15-year-old entries Anita left a trail of chagrined boys in her wake. Anita, as she outran all comers, found the experience a little incredible at times. On the run to the top of the hill atop a police car after winning the class championship, she threw up her hands as she passed her family on the sidelines and shouted "I don't believe it." She had allowed earlier in the competition that she was having a hard time seeing the track.

Driving in a reclining position an increasingly popular design pioneered locally by Steve Joy in 1969 she said the front of her car was too high. This was the first year girls have competed in the local derby, although five raced at Akron last year. Three other entries, Susan Milas and Den-ise Walczek of Boynton Beach and Debbie Spiegel of Boca-Raton were all eliminated in their first heats in Class competition. Since she's been to Akron before, some on the sidelines thought another trip will be sort of old hat for Anita. "Not really," she grinned.

"This year I'll be with the boys." Pretty Girl Reigns As Soap Box Champ LYLE ANDERSON money tight county, and another 3,200 who are eligible for Head Start. "They've had full health care in Head Start, and a hot meal at noon. Now, on the 212-hour program, they'll be sending them home to a mother who isn't there. And they'll be going home hungry," Curry said. Most of their parents work, he said, and need full-time care for their children: "We're trying to show the school board that if they can help us, we can help them.

Staff photo by Ralph Weinlaub By FRED LOWERY Staff Writer BOYNTON the prettiest champion we ever had," was the way the public address announcer described 14-year-old Anita Brisson after she convincingly outraced the boys yesterday to win the 1972 South Palm Beach County Soap Box Derby. "I didn't really mean to," said a dewy-eyed Anita in a a interview when asked how she felt about outrunning the boys. For her efforts, she received a $500 bond, a trophy and a Broward Traffic Deaths This Week Year To Date 1972yiT iM2fo 1971 5 1971 Drive Defensively National Safety Council ANITA BRISSON CROSSES FINISH LINE AS NUMBER ONE 14-year-old to compete in National Soap Box Derby in Akron, Ohio.