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Sun-Sentinel, Friday, December 1, 1983 80 IJ OBITUARIES Panel finds Pines mayor guilty on ethics charge Faye Million longtime teacher schools. She also worked as a real estate agent. In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Million is survived by her husband, Larry Million of Fort Lauderdale; two sons, Larry Jr. of Fort Lauderdale and Marshall of Salem, Oregon; five grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

Friends may call at the Jor-dan-Fannin Guardian Chapels, 5110 N. Federal Highway, Fort Lauderdale, today between 2 and 4 p.m. or between 7 and 9 p.m. Services will be at the funeral home on Saturday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, 200 W.

Copans Road, Pompano Beach. By BOB KNOTTS Staff Writer Faye Million, who taught ceptional and handicapped students for nearly 20 years in the Broward County school system, died on Wednesday after a long fight against cancer. She was 59. "She was really an outstanding teacher," said her daughter, Marcia Million of Lantana. Mrs.

Million taught for about 15 years at Rickards Middle School in Oakland Park. When that school closed, she moved to Lauderdale Lakes Middle School. Along with her work with gifted students, Mrs. Million taught mentally and emotionally handi-capped children. She also 'V.

worked for the Special Olympics, an athletic contest for mentally handicapped children, and was president of the Council for Exceptional Children in Broward. The state Department of Education presented Mrs. Million, a Fort Lauderdale resident, with an award for outstanding teaching, her daughter said. "I think teachers can really affect people's lives. And she was a very special one," Marcia Million said.

"She was very friendly and5 hard-working and really devoted to her students and to her, family." Before working in Broward, Mrs. Million taught for 10 years in Jacksonville and in Tennessee husband's death but returned to Fort Lauderdale around 1962. Mrs. Cork also returned to work on the Jungle Queen. During her time on the boat, she became one of the cooks, said Bauer, who described her mother as a woman who liked to help others.

"She lived in a retirement home for a few years and she always helped everybody. She even helped in the kitchen and helped prepare meals," Bauer said. "Oh, she was fun-loving. She liked to have a good time. She liked to dance." paper work and having Storer Cable, then the city's only cable-TV vendor, supply and install the dish' and other equipment for $1,837.

Testimony at the hearing indicated that Storer made no profit from installing the dish, a point, that raised questions from some; members of the ethics panel. Uhl-felder, however, defended the transaction. "The fact that they may not! have earned a profit is immaterial," he said. "But the fact that he paid fair market price is." Ethics commissioners also ques-; tioned why Flanagan paid a Storer; employee $50 for installing the dish, asking for an invoice and making initial payments of about: $925 only after a newspaper story: said he had erected the dish with-: out a permit. Flanagan also back-, dated one of the checks because "embarassment over the newspaper article," according to; testimony.

The commission ruled that there was no clear wrongdoing in Flana-s-gan's order to the city manager to, "take care of" his permit request. Instead, commissioners focused' solely on Flanagan's letter-writing', request to his secretary some--i thing that took about l'i testimony indicated. "It may seem a tiny infraction-! of the law," said Ethics Commis- sioner Debra Zappi. "But if Flana-; gan were steering a true course-and a proper course, none of this would've come to the surface." i Staff Writer Joe Kollin contributed to this report. By JOHN KENNEDY TdlahatM Bureau TALLAHASSEE Pembroke Pines Mayor Charles Flanagan was found guilty on Thursday of violating the state ethics law, capping a two-year battle over his purchase of a home satellite dish.

In a 5-1 vote, the Florida Ethics Commission said Flanagan misused his authority by having his City Hall secretary type a personal letter for him as part of his acquiring the dish from the city's cable franchisee in 1987. However, no penalty was imposed on Flanagan, who was cleared by the commission of three other more serious corruption charges tied to his purchase from Storer Cable. The Broward County State Attorney's Office has already investigated the charges and found no criminal wrongdoing. Commissioner John Kalajian cast the dissenting vote, saying he was unconvinced that Flanagan was innocent of all but the letter-writing charge. "To me it just shows there's a lot of smoke here.

Something is just amiss it just doesn't seem right," Kalajian said. "The problem here was absence of proof," said ethics Commissioner Maria Elena Prio. "For us to say there's some smoke here and we can't find it but still act on the three other charges would be improper." Flanagan's attorney, Steve Uhl-felder, said he was pleased with the decision. R. Cork, worked on 'Jungle Queen' Mrs.

Cork is also survived by her brothers, John McCort of Ohio and Ralph McCort of California; her granddaughters, Linda Schilffart of Gainesville, Susan Collins of Fort Lauderdale, Pamela Lunstrom of Hollywood and Janet Bauer of Fort Lauder-dale; and seven greatgrandchildren. Friends may visit the Fair-child West Broward Chapel, 3501 W. Broward from 6 to 8 p.m. today. The service will follow at the funeral home, conducted by the Rev.

Thomas Cumming of Plantation Presbyterian Church. vv'mA y'v IS i ii it in ...1 liMiiit; 'MI ft won. Mayor Charles Flanagan is "tickled" the case is over. "He may not be a perfect white knight, but he's a human being who made an innocent mistake," Uhl-feldersaid. Flanagan, who did not attend the hearing, said he was "tickled to death" that the ordeal was over.

"It dragged on longer than it should have because it was a little bit of a witch hunt, an expensive witch hunt," Flanagan said. Flanagan said he has not decided whether to ask the City Com-' mission to pay his $40,000 legal bill. Flanagan was charged with misusing his public post by installing the dish without a permit, having city employees prepare permit Boat Parade -Fireworks 8 By BOB KNOTTS Staff Writer Services will be held today for Ruth Cork, one of the original waitresses on the Jungle Queen cruise boat. Mrs. Cork, 79, of Fort Lauderdale, died on Saturday after suffering a stroke two weeks earlier, said her daughter, Joanne Bauer of Fort Lauderdale.

Mrs. Cork was a waitress on the Jungle Queen when the tour boat was built in the early 1950s, Bauer said. She left the area in 1959 for Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, after her Quake aid plans reviewed WPB firm to build homes in Armenia By STEPHANIE SMITH Staff Writer With thousands of earthquake victims in Soviet Armenia still thomeless one year after the disaster, Armenian officials were in Palm Beach on Thursday to review a local company's plans to 200 homes for victims. Up to 30 South Florida and New Jersey construction workers will flying to Stepanavan, one of Jour cities devastated by the quake, in March to teach Armenians how to use American know-how to build quake-resistant buildings, said Kevork Hovnanian, chairman of KHovanian Enterprises a home-building company. I Two Soviet Armenian ministers and Stepanavan's mayor and vice mayor were at KHovanian's of-, fices in West Palm Beach to go over plans and coordinate logistics bf sending U.S.

building materials to Armenia. The 200 homes will be built with the $7 million raised by the Armenian Diocese in the United States, said Hovnanian, who emigrated from Armenia 30 years ago and now heads the largest home build-, ing company in New Jersey and one of the largest in South Florida. In South Florida, $100,000 was raised for Armenian relief efforts. The region has an Armenian- American population of about 2,000 people. i The Droiect will help rebuild a part of the region devastated by the quake that killed at least 25,000 people.

But even with the effort, many people will remain homeless, Hovnanian said. "That's nothing," he said of the 200 homes. Stepanavan's mayor, Aram Ba-bajanian, said through an inter- Sreter that 21,000 people were left omeless in that city. Since the earthquake struck, 310 apartment units have been built. I Many of the city's residents left Stepanavan, but 9,000 have remained.

Most of the people still live in makeshift shelters and tents, Babajaniansaid. Eighty percent of the buildings in the city were leveled by the quake, including all schools and hospitals. Schoolchildren continue to attend classes in temporary shelters, he said. Razniv Alboyadjian of Margate whose family is in another quake-devastated city, Kirovakan said on Thursday she does not know whether her mother, brother and two sisters have found a place to live. "I have heard a couple of times from them.

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