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I ELECT nnnn SEPT. 2nd auuju 0 1 ETCOWARD COUNTY CO.W.USSION DEMOCRAT DISTRICT 2 Pd. Pol. Adv. By NANCY ROMAN Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE A road rally Saturday turned into a political rally of sorts when several political candidates showed up to shake hands with drivers and spectators, "I'm Bob Martinez, running for governor," the former Tampa mayor said at least 20 times in five minutes.

Jack Musselmao, running against Irwin Berkowitz for county judge, zipped on his black robe for effect, while about 15 people passed among the crowd wearing fluorescent orange passed out campaign stickers. About 30 cars and as many spectators gathered at the southeast corner of Southeast Third Avenue and Southeast Sixth Court. It was a road rally, put on by the Florida Region Sports Club of America and Tropical Sports Car Club, and sponsored by the Corner Court Deli and Nathaniel's New River Tavern to earn money for the Paralyzed Veterans Association of Florida. "It's simply for sport and for fun," said Bob Ricker, who organized. the.

rally. "If we make any profit it goes to the veterans." A rally, he reminds, is not to be confused with a race. The 22 entering cars, including a Volkswagen bug, two Ferraris, an antique bus, a van and a Nissan 300ZX, began the 50-mile course spaced at one-minute intervals. The object was not to be first but to get to the finish line nearest to the calculated time. "It's like living the time, speed, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, amc baoitiaii yu a ice noi-riiavi 3 rUCI I J4 i SUNDAY.

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THINGS. Industrial Pert) 722-8900 979-5103 973-9440 EVERGLADES "My goal right now is to learn all that I the former associate regional director of operations for 15 Alaskan national parks said. "Managing Everglades National Park is like managing a county." The park has its own fire and emergency services and a cadre of 150 employees. Finley's responsibilities include Fort Jefferson, the hexagonal, brick fortress on Garden Key, 68 miles from Key West in the Tortu-gas. In addition to his other duties, he has a preservation project to promote.

Finley plans to increase public awareness of an Everglades resident, the near-extinct Florida panther, with new exhibits and educational programs. An estimated 20 of the felines survive in the Everglades and Big Cypress Preserve after years of encroachment by South Florida's booming population, he said. "We don't know exactly where they live, or how many are here, or what range they cover when they are hunting for food," Finley said. "What we do know is that many of them die on roads as they cross." In conjunction with state and private wildlife agencies and some panthers are being captured and collared with radio-tracking equipment. Scientists are following the animals' movements.

After three years 6f primarily administrative work in Alaska, the chance to meet park visitors pleases Finley. The last time he had the opportunity was more than three years ago, when he was superintendent of Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland. "You must really force yourself and make sure you aren't losing touch with the people," Finley said. FROM PAGE 1B Park caretaker came" from Alaska to Everglades post Grass" has primarily come from a stack of ominously thick reports. There have been tours, but for now he lacks the time for excursions among the island-like hammocks, the pinelands and coastal prairies that together cover more land than the state of Delaware.

Unglamorous but important studies beckon as Finley educates himself about the complex water systems crucial to the park's survival. Environmental groups such as the National Audubon Society and the Friends of the Everglades have called water supply the park superintendent's major challenge. 3K DADE REPORT Ex-prisoners aid compatriots rr ii lii -''i' '''m ''j if 1 i i LIST PRICE ON ALL LIGIITOI.Ii: AND HALO TRACK LIGHTING 3 help, the Home is there. "Every time a group of prisoners arrives, we go to the airport and tell them about the Home," says Rodriguez. "When they don't have any family, we bring them here." Hundreds of prisoners have now passed through the refuge on the bottom floor of an old two-story home.

They have slept on the cots crowded into a small bedroom and been indoctrinated into the mysteries of Social Security cards and the Miami bus system. Some stayed only hours or days until their exiled families could be found. Others stayed a little longer until they could find a job, often with a company built up by another Cuban exile. Under the Home's rules, anyone who lives there must be of good character and willing to work. The Home even pays for plots in Memorial Park Cemetery so the prisoners don't have to worry about ending their lives in a pauper's grave.

A few older or ill ex-prisoners some of whom The Associated Press MIAMI The idea was born in the desperation of the Cuban gulag someday, the prisoners promised themselves, they would build a haven for those who escaped the brutality and kept the dream alive. It would be a home for men who remembered being locked naked in a 6-by-l Vi-foot cell jammed with six other prisoners, all waiting in line for a guard outside to open a single spigot and allow a few drops of water to flow. They kept the promise. Today, the Casa del Preso, or Prisoner's Home, exists in the center of Miami's Little Havana. "The idea for the Home was born inside the prison," says Nelson Eduardo Rodriguez, 52, current president of the non-profit group of 200 former prisoners who run the home.

"Now when an ex-political prisoner has no place to go, he can come here." Rodriguez has a family of his own, but lives in the small house anyway to take care of it. The home is supported by a generous landlord and the $5 dues paid by each member. There are some outside contributions, he says, but not many. The Prisoner's Home was founded in 1980 in the aftermath of Cuban leader Fidel Castro's release of hundreds of prisoners during a short-lived period of detente with then-President Jimmy Carter. In the early years many prisoners came through the home, but lately it has been a trickle.

They are waiting now for a new batch of political prisoners Castro agreed to free, but whom they say are still in prison. If any of them come to Miami and need Rodriguez says never recovered from prison hunger strikes still live in the Home. When they get sick, doctors who shared their prison cells in the 60s and 70s come to treat them for free. One permanent resident, Alfredo Pena, 47, wears a battered Detroit Tigers cap to cover his equally battered head. He says the beatings in the jail, when they pounded his head against the floor, broke things inside, He wears the hat because the doctors told him he should keep his head protected.

But he smiles when he talks about the Home. "I didn't have a place to sit down when I got here," says rena. "This Home was a blessing from God." DEATHS i Maj. Gen. William Chase, 92, WWII 'fighter' 5 ii 1 8BL ing the Japanese occupation there, In 1945, he led American troops into Tokyo after Japan's surrender.

He was in charge of the First Cavalry Division and led the successful campaign during the conquest of the Admiralty Islands. He then led his forces into Manila, end He worked with occupation and re regularly $144.96 construction forces in Japan. DEATH NOTICES INDEX The Associated Press HOUSTON Maj. Gen. William C.

Chase, who helped end the Japanese occupation of Manila and led a triumphant force into Tokyo after Japan surrendered in World War II, has died at age 92. Maj. Gen. Chase died In his sleep Thursday at his Houston-area home. The Providence, R.I., native enlisted as an Army private in 1916 after graduating from Brown University and by 1944 had been promoted to major general by Gen.

Douglas MacArthur during the World War II campaign in the Philippines. Maj. Ccn. Chase was "an unsurpassed front-line fighter," MacArthur said then. FLOOD, KATHLEEN KELLY, JOHN S.

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Arrangement by, GUT-TERMAN-WAHHEIT CHAPEL, Boca Raton. MA; and the late William J. Flood, slater, Maureen Morris, of Hanover, MA. A pro-burial Mass will be celebrated In St. David Catholic Church, Davie, FL, on Tuesday, August 26, 1986, at 6:30 PM, Interment was In Blue Hill Cemetery.

Brain-tree, MA. Arranooments by BAIRD-CAS6 FUNERAL HOME, Fort Lauderdale, Heritage Plan Chapel. KELLY John 8.. of Lighthouse) Point, died Suniitiy. Arrangements by KRAFF.R SAMPLE ROAD FUNERAL HOME, MAYO Helen of Boca Raton, died Friday.

Funeral FLOOO Kathleen 39, ot 10333 8.W. 49th Manor. Cooper City, FL, passed away Thursday, August 14th, 1988. She Is survived by her parents, William J. and Mary J.

(Egan) Flood of Plymouth, MA; two daughters, Allison and Danielle Clcchesa, of Florida-brothers, Robert E. and Richard J. Flood, both of Plymouth, 0.