Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • 22

Fort Lauderdale News, Thursday, April 1, 1971 23 Owner Indicted In Dade On Bolita Charge Sheriff Releases Cadillac As $5,000 Bond Is Posted Not Political, Wch say Of Regent Resignation A snazzy red and black hardtop 1968 Cadillac was re leased from the custody of the Broward Sheriffs Office yesterday after its owner posted $5,000 bond. Bond on the car was set at a special hearing yesterday afternoon before Circuit Court Judge L. Clayton Nance. The car's registered owner, Joe Bateman, 2171-B NW 22nd Fort Lauderdale, was indicted in 1967 by a Dade County grand jury for violation of bolita laws but never convicted, according to his attorney. The late model car was seized March 2, in connection with a bolita arrest of its driver, Robert Lee Hicks, 42, of 3000 NW Fort Lauderdale, who was charged with possession of lottery Hicks bonded out of Broward County jail by posting $1,000 but no information has been filed against him by the county solicitor's office.

At the hearing yesterday, prosecutor Ralph Ray told the judge the county solicitor's office has not filed the charges against Hicks because it was not satisfied with the evidence presented by the sheriff's of-f 1 selective enforcement squad. The Cadillac had been held since its seizure at Whltey's Garage in Fort Lauderdale. thought I could dedicate to it." Weir's resignation from the previously Republican-dominated board is seen as giving Democratic Reu-bin Askew his first chance to restore Democratic control to the board which governs the state university system. Weir's term expires Jan. 1, 1979.

BOCA RATON Milton N. Weir, whose resignation from the nine-man Board of Regents leaves nearly eight years of his unexpired term open for a Democrat appointee, said his action was not political. The Republican banker and real estate man said the job "just took more, time than I Body Washes Ashore Extension Of Pike Marcinkoski had been washed overboard from his small boat shortly after Monday midnight, while fishing about 1,000 ft. offshore from Ocean Ridge and some 500-ft. south of the Boynton Inlet.

GULFSTREAM The body of Joseph L. Marcinkoski, 25, of 1221 Miner Road, Hypoluxo, washed ashore near the Gulf-stream Bath and Tennis Club yesterday about 1:45 p.m. Start Due ummer Patrolman Reinstated IIP vYn Construction of the first 3.47 miles in Broward County of the 49-mile Homestead extension of the Florida Turnpike is expected to start in late July or August, an engineer for the state Department of Trans portation (DOT) said today. The timetable for building this first project of 15 construction projects scheduled for the turnpike extension was given after contractors' bids were opened yesterday. TooU Vacation nWJIa days before and failed to report the incident.

Acting council president Harry Rosen said the board believed a report was submitted the night after Capello drove the vehicle over a manhole cover and that he had said the car was running "rough" when he turned over the unit to another patrolman. Also, Rosen said, the council believed there was no evidence serious damage had been done at that time and, if there was damage, Capello had no knowledge of the condition. Capello is expected to return to work this week. MRAMAR The dismissal of a patrolman by Chief Sam Ramputi and subsequent confirmation of the firing by Mayor Richard Calhoun and City Clerk Joseph Tagg were overruled last night by the City Council. Anthony A.

Capello, 30, of 7765 DiLido was reinstated with full back pay in a unanimous decision of the council sitting as an appeal board. Tagg said back pay at $156 a week will come to $2,665. The patrolman was fired Nov. 19, 1970, after he allegedly damaged a police car two if 11 is a i S3 Strike's Leader Didn't Take Walk JZ.T!"'- wwiw Pah Rob Market Howard Chandler, the leader of the striking Fort Lauderdale city employes, didn't go out on strike with them. He didn't have to.

He was on vacation. "I had a lot of vacation time accumulated from last (Staff photo by Mel Kenyon) MECHANICAL MONEY-EATERS STAND AT ATTENTION AT BAHIA MAR ready for business from Broward visitors and residents Dade Meter 'Beatery Rule Has No Effect In Broward When the extension is completed, motorists will be able to enter the new turnpike road at a point just south of Hal-landale Beach Boulevard in Miramar. They will be able to drive westward until a point where the extension will swing southward into Dade County and it will hook into the future West Dade Tollway in Homestead. Apparent low bidder, Capel-etti Brothers of Miami, offered a cost of $4,903,347.61, said Jack Mueller, resident construction engineer for DOT. Mueller said that because revenue bonds, which will finance the extension, are just now being put out for sale DOT has 90 days in which to award the contract.

He added that hopefully the sale of the bonds will be completed in 10 days. Other work involved in the project won't permit construction to begin until late summer. The engineer also said the remaining 14 segments of the Homestead extension will be under contract before the end of this year. He added DOT envisions the entire 49 miles will be completed by January, 1973 "but this may be extended further" into that year. The entire cost is expected to be $100 million, including purchases of rights-of-way.

Although the first 3.47 miles to be built are in Broward County, in the City of Miramar, Mueller said DOT will "hopscotch" around and let contracts for segments in separate areas of its length. Most of it will be in Dade County. Eight miles of it will be in Broward County. pack of cigarettes. The attendant told police that when he looked up he faced a .22 caliber revolver.

The attendant said one of the robbers took him to a back room while the other made off with the cash and adding machine. OAKLAND PARK Two robbers held up the Pic-a-Pac store, 1574. E. Commercial last night and made off with about $50 in cash and an adding machine. Police reported one of the men' entered the store and asked the attendant for a Housing Project Planned Union Petition Issue year," said Chandler, president of local 532, American Federation of State, County and i i a 1 Employes, AFL-CIO, and a truck driver in the Parks Department.

Chandler said he had made arrangements to have vacation time available "since the union movement started" la? summer. That way, he said, he would not be "under pressure" from city officials. Chandler said he started his vacation Friday when 532 leaders called on all union employes, not just the sanitation workers, not to report to work. He said he didn't know when he would report back to work because "there are still many things to be resolved, and I have three more weeks (of vacation time) coming this year." City employes who were on strike will not be paid for those days they were absent from their jobs, but Chandler said the union would pick up the tab and reimburse the men. Pompano Beach Municipal Judge William Zamer stated, "Each case is judged separately." He indicated that during his four years as a municipal judge, he can recall only one parking ticket that was contested.

One of Hollywood's municipal judges, George Pallotto, also said the cases are judged on their own merits. He explained that the city's police check the parking meters and if errors are noted, tickets written on those meters are recalled. All judges contacted indicated very few parking tickets are disputed in court. One municipal judge, Fort Lauder-dale's Arnold Grevior, quipped, "In the ten years I have been on the bench, no parking ticket cases have been contested before me." MIRAMAR Although a union leader denies the existence of a petition by city employes in opposition to union membership, the petition is to be made public at a council meeting on Monday with about 40 signatures. Negotiations are in progress between the city and Local American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes (AFL-CIO) for rec- ognltion of the Miramar chapter as bargaining agent for union members.

It is believed that 25 city workers in the sanitation and public works departments are local members. City Clerk Joseph Tagg confirmed the existence today of the petition and said it will be handed to councilmen at the Monday meeting. Fire Chief Defends Stand On Long Hah Man Held In Shooting Engineer Hopeful On Sewer Grant A 29-year-old Fort Lauderdale man is being held in Broward County jail without bond today on a charge of aggravated assault after he told sheriff's deputies he shot another man March 28. The man, Jaul.June Sey mour, 120 NW 43 Fort Lauderdale came to the sheriff's office with his probation officer and told deputies he had shot Maxton Rogers, 348 NW 40 Fort Lauderdale. According to deputies, Rogers is in good condition.

POMPANO BEACH Black residents are cautiously optimistic today over word they have apparently won their fight to block the construction of warehouses north of NW IS street, next to the Sanders Park Elementary School. In the wake of strong objections to his warehouse plans, a Fort Lauderdale attorney, who owns 25.6 acres west of the school, told The News he intends to have his industrial property rezoned so an investment, group can spend some $7 million to build 252 town-house-condominiums for middle-income families and a shopping center for black retailers. TRADE HOMES John Bouvier the landowner, said the FHA will hopefully guarantee mortgages for the housing development, which is to have more than 10 acres of park space, a 500-s a auditorium-recreation center, and a man-made lake, complete with docking facilities for connection to the nearby canal that is to be built next to 1-95. As part of the project, some 70 low-income homeowners could "trade" their homes toward payment for a two-story townbouse. Prices will range from about $21,000 for a two-bedroom unit to about $32,000 for a five-bedroom unit, with down-payments ranging from about $800 to $1,600.

sure or preference of individual members thereof." "I have not had a legal interpretation of the judge's decision," Gerkin said, "but I have been advised that where the safety of a fireman is concerned, I have the power to act." Magee will discuss his dismissal with his attorney in preparation for filing an appeal before the civil service board. 3 Robbed In Gas Station By BOB HENRY Staff Writer People who think they will get out of paying for parking tickets received in Broward County because of a recent decision by a Miami Beach municipal judge had better think twice. "Nothing that happens (in a municipal court) in Dade County has any effect up here," explained Fort Lauderdale municipal Judge Wynne M. Casteel. The "happening" referred to is the decision by Miami Beach municipal Judge Robert Grover to dismiss 30 parking tickets issued to attorney Ellis Rubin on the grounds the city had failed to prove that its meters could keep accurate time.

Another Fort Lauderdale municipal judge, James Bal-singer, said, "The city has to show me first that the meter in question was operating properly." METERS DEFENDED He indicated that in the few contested parking meter violation cases which have come before him, the city has had someone in court to testify in behalf of the mechanical money-eaters. A spokesman for Fort Lauderdale's Traffic Engineering Department explained people have a recourse if they feel a parking meter at which they got a citation was not functioning properly. "Each of the citations has the number of the meter," the spokesman stated. "We check the meters on which complaints are received." Each time money Is removed from the meters, the spokesman indicated, the meters are checked for accuracy. If errors are found, they are corrected and the error is recorded.

When a complaint is received, the lists are checked to see if the meter had to be fixed. If no error is indicated on the list, a man is sent to check the meter to determine if it is wrong. If the complainant is correct, he is instructed to send the citation to the Traffic Engineering Department. If no meter errors are found, he is told this and asked to pay the fine. to the department prior to the expiration of the current fiscal year.

If this happens, they explained, the city is almost certain to be given the funds to begin the project. The sewer program is planned for all of the unsewered areas in the central part of the city and is financed additionally by a $1.5 million bond issue. Three people in a gas station on Griffin Road were held at gunpoint and robbed of $139 last night, by two men who fled on foot, firing two shots in the air, the Broward County sheriff's office said today. According to deputies, the two bandits, both carrying small guns, held up two gas station attendants at a Hess station at 4155 Griffin Rd. after asking one of them for cigarettes.

The two victims, Dale Smith, 4720 SW 42 Fort Lauderdale, and Quinton Furr, 214 SW 10 Hallandale, were robbed of a total of $124.40, according to deputies. Nina Trueman, 4411 SW 93 Fort Lauderdale, then walked into the station, deputies said, and was robbed of $15 she had in her pocketbook. OAKLAND PARK The city's application for a $500,000 federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sewer grant has been tentatively approved, but officials at the department's Atlanta office say they probably will have no more funds for this district until the start of the next fiscal year. However, Art Saarinen, the city's consulting engineer, returned from Atlanta with "a very optimistic belief that we may begin our sewer project within three to four months." Saarinen explained that HUD officials told him there is still a chance that some $200 million in unreleased d2-partment funds may be given State Solon Reseating Suit Filed HOLLYWOOD Fire Chief John Gerkin said today he thinks he is on solid legal grounds in firing a fireman for wearing his hair too long. dismissed firefighter Bryan Magee, a 29-year-old Fort Lauderdale bachelor, when Magee told him Tuesday he would not trim his hair.

Magee has been off duty without pay since Feb. 4, when Gerkin sent him home until he decided to cut his hair so that a portion of it would not extend below his helmet. Magee has been reporting to his firehouse on each working day and each time has been sent home by the commanding platoon officer. Gerkin pointed to a decision handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Zirpoli in San Francisco Sept.

11, 1970, in a case involving a California fireman. Judge Zirpoli said in his decision that the right and freedom of expression and right of privacy of a fireman are not without limit. The court also said, "When regulation of such freedom becomes necessary in the public interest for the safety of firefighters it is constitutionally permissive." The court further said, "There are no requirements that rules and regulations of the fire department shall be fashioned to meet the plea Assault Case Continued HOLLYWOOD Municipal Judge George Pallotto continued the hearing of Albert Clcopheus Clark, 17, of 14 NW 10th Dania, indefinitely yesterday after he was advised Clark is serving a one-year sentence in Dade County on a burglary charge. Clark was arrested March 16 following a fight on the campus at South Broward High School. He was charged with disorderly conduct by fighting and simple assault following the school incident while he was a student there.

Youth Held In Robbery Golf Course Gets 'Clipped' POMANO BEACH If golf-ers are finding grass on the Palm-Aire golf course fairways a bit long today, it could be the fault of a thief who climbed on a powermower and simply drove it away. Evidence in the crime re-ported yesterday indicates that a person, apparently familiar with the area, drove the mower across the golf course to a nearby rock road, loaded it on a truck, and took off, police said. The grass-clipping vehicle had been left parked under a storage shed at the golf course. A description was flashed to all South Broward police. Pembroke Pines police saw the car at Pembroke Road and Interstate-95 and gave chase.

Hollywood and Hallan-dale police also joined the chase and finally forced the car to stop in the 1000 block on Foster Road in Hallandale. Three occupants were seen fleeing from the car. Police staked out the area and when Brown returned to the car, he was arrested. HOLLYWOOD A 17-year- old Carol City youth was arrested on an armed robbery charge in connection with a holdup at Royal Castle, 2747 Hollywood early today, Detective Lt. Sam Martin said.

He was identified as Willie Lee Brown. Shortly after three persons took $140 from the night manager, police were given a description of the holdup getaway car. Alex Questioned By Investigators Federal District Judge Joe Eaton will be asked in Miami Monday to block the Florida Legislature from considering any other matter than reapportionment when its regular session opens next week. The request for a temporary injunction, to be heard at p.m., was filed by attorneys E. Clay Shnw of Fort Lauder-dale and George Bunnell of Miami, representing former State Rep.

Arthur Rude of Fort Lauderdale. Rude has filed suit In federal court asking that the legislature be reapportioned this year before voting on any state business. The suit will be heard later by a panel of three federal judges. In requesting the injuction, the attorneys for Rude alleged that "irreparable harm will occur due to Improper representation" If legislators consider any other measures than reapportionment In Its session next week. According to the official 1970 census, Broward County would be due at least three new representatives and one new senator under the existing makeup of (he legislature.

Tamarac Voids All Lawn Care Contracts jury has been investigating alleged profit-skimming at the Flamingo Hotel Casino in Las Vegas from 1960 to 1967, with Lansky believed to be the prime target of the probe. According to lawyers from the justice department, Lansky could establish the identities of persons who participated in the distribution of millions of dollars in profits. The Flamingo Hotel Casino was built in 1947 by "Bugsy" Siegcl, an alleged New York hoodlum. In I960, Miami Beach hotelmen Morris Lans-burgh and Sam Cohen bought the Flamingo for an estimated $11 million. The two were indicted lat week on charges of skimming profits from the Las Vegas casino-hotel.

(Continued from Page IB) dicate mobsters in the nation. In 1955, the U.S. Senate subcommittee headed by John McClellan of Arkansas named Alex as one of 26 alleged Chicago Mafia and Cosa Nostra figures whose names were made public by the subcommittee. In Miami, officials with the U.S. Justice Department's strike force refused to com-ment today on Alex's appearance before the grand jury.

Lansky, an alleged Mafia financial genius, is living in Israel. Last month, Lansky refused a $974 round-trip plane fare from the justice department to appear before the grand jury in Miami. For more than a year, the filiated. The trio charged that Behring Corp. illegally disposed of its obligations to provide maintenance as called for in Eurchase contracts with the idividual homeowners.

Knoll said today that approximately 32 of his employes are not at work today over a wage dispute. Knoll said he put his people on piece work instead of salary as of today because he wanted to instill Incentive it? them. "By were cut, houses were painted and clubhouses were kept in good condition. A suit has been filed in Broward County Circuit Court by three Tamarac residents seeking to have that agreement voided and the maintenance responsibility returned to Behring. The residents claim the city council which signed the agreement was influenced in its decision because at least a majority of 'the five member council was Behring Corp.

af TAMARAC Lawn and ex-terlor home maintenance operations run by the city since 1969 ceased as of today leaving numerous sections of the city without service. Under a resolution passed by the city in February, all lawn care contracts and house painting contracts which the city was responsible for since 1969 were voided. According to C. W. Knoll, president of the Lawn Valet Service, many sections putting them on piece work they can actually earn more than they are earning under salary," Knoll said.

Knoll said he will have no problem keeping up with his contracts despite the walkout. He said he has a long list of applicants for the job if the crews do not come back on the job soon. He said other workers have not left their jobs over the pay situation. His employes are not affiliated with any organized union. of the city have entered into private contracts with his firm as of today but several have not taken any action.

"I guess they thought it wouldn't happen," Knoll said of municipal operations close-out. Knoll's firm had been under contract to the city to take care of the homes in the city. Under a 1969 agreement between the city and Behring Corp, developers of Tamarac, the city assumed the job of making sure lawns.