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r-S(iw5i) -s I Fort Lauderdale News, Thursday, April 1, 1971 2Bor Work Not Yet Star fed On Project 1 1 rf mtmfc IWal hfMto MLa.MtiMi i il otorisis Jump Gun On Circle Grass Not Political, Weir Says Of Regent Resignation I 1 1 I fi fc- a I ft CC I. rr 1 I ff I thought I could dedicate to it." Weir's resignation from the previously Republican-dominated board is seen as giving Democratic Gov. 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 can park, even though the parking all will be along one side between the perimeter road and the outer edge of the circle. Robert Bushman, design engineer, favors the lesser angle for ease of parking. Cornell said there may be a need also to make the perimeter road one-way to avoid having parked cars backing out into the traffic stream.

Cornell said the cars parking on the grass already have damaged the sprinkler system, but nobody seems particularly concerned about that. "The sprinklers will have to come out anyway when the parking areas are built," Cornell said. The new parking is designed to avoid the asphalt jungle look found, for exEimple, behind the county courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. A strip of grass varying in width up to some 20 feet will be left on the outside of the parking, between the blacktop and the outer edge of the circle. Some day no one knows quite when you won't have to circle city hall for 10 minutes to go to a city office or to the library.

JIM WHITESHIELD HOLLYWOOD Tha plan for expanded parking rrour.d the perimeter road at City Hall C'rde ccmp'cta jet, and construction, of cou-ss, ttarted. Ea: working or v'stfng in the circle already are us'ng the grass of the area to be converted parking. The new parking will extend around the northwest qundrent of the circle, north from the police station, and around the southwest quadrant, south from the police station. Traffic Engineer Fred Beeson said he estimates S3 to 69 new parking spaces will be added to the present 337 parking spaces now in the circle. About 45 of the present spaces, however, are reserved for city vehicles, cutting down parking available tcr private cars to about 260.

C'ty Manager Elwood Cornell said plans for the parkng expansion are being held up by a difference of opinion on whether the spaces should be aligned at 90 degrees to the perimeter road or at a lesser angle to make parking easier. Beescn wants the 90-degree angle so that cars traveling in either direction on the road Body Washes Ashore mmmvtm-mjm- ws 3 I '-V 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. 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. Assault Case Continued CARS ON GRASS AT CITY HALL CIRCLE sprinkler system damage cited Clark was arrested March 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. HOLLYWOOD Municipal Judge George Pallotto continued the hearing of Albert Cleopheus 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. Of Pike xtension -v Summer Due tart Seven File For Board 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 IS construction projects scheduled for the turnpike extension was "given after contractors' bids were opened yesterday. HALLANDALE Qualifying for the May 11 primary for two City Commission seats ground to a halt this week as the number of candidates stopped at seven. The last two to file (Monday) were Benjamin (Benny the Bug) Ross of the northeast section and John Saunders, a school teacher from the black northwest area. Only one incumbent, Ernest Pinto is seeking re-election. CommissionerJam.es O'Leary has said he will not run because he has been promised a state job.

Other candidates are Lucy Stone, who would be the first woman commissioner; Dr. Milton Weinkle, a consistent administration critic; Jacob (Jack) Spiegel, former planning and zoning board chairman who resigned his post in order to qualify, and Fred B. Zakrie, who has made three previous attempts. Horovitz' Move 5 Ci Nu iscince Trash Dump To Close (Staff photo by Mcl Kenyon) MECHANICAL MONEY-EATERS STAND AT ATTENTION AT BAHIA MAR ready for business from Broward visitors and residents WULFF Ctt-i I not concerned I Bade Meter Beater transfer station at 750 NW Ninth Hallandale; Central Disposal Co. dump in the south end of Port Everglades, or to the county dump at 4001 SW 142nd West of Davie.

All these dumps charge fees for taking trash. 1 City officials hope to be able to set up a new dump site and, install trash shredders, using -some of the proceeds from an upcoming $5 million bond issue to finance the facility, but, for the present, the only use the city dump will get is to dispose of noncombustible end products from the city HOLLYWOOD The city's overloaded trash dump, next to the incinerator on Pembroke Road, is being closed to public use Sunday, Joseph Bowman, sanitation supervisor, said today. No more hard trash nor brush will be accepted at the dump, Bowman said. City trucks will make pickups of hard trash at $1 a call, and the city's regular periodic brush pickups will continue, but there will be no more public use of the dump. Hollywood residents having trash to dispose of may take it to the Southern Sanitation Co.

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 hock into the future West Dds Tolhvay in Homestead. Apparent low bidder, Capel-etti Brothers of Miami, offered a cost of $1,903,347.61, said Jack 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. 1973 TARGET The engineer also said the remaining 14 segments cf 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-cf-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 Eroward County. Em J. JLJ 2 Patrolman Reinstated HOLLYWOOD Mayor John VVulff has termed a move by Hollywood Inc. to block a city federal grant application as "more of a nuisance than anything else." The land company, which is embroiled in one of the bitterest fights it ever has had with the city, owns most of the land on which Hollywood commissioners want to build a 23-acre waterfront park and boat ramp facility at Johnson Street and the Intracoastal Waterway.

Hollywood Inc. also owns most of the undeveloped land north and west of the pro-proposed park site. City commissioners voted last Wednesday to start condemnation of the land after a meeting with company officials broke down. Following the abortive talks, Hollywood Inc. President William Horvitz sent a letter to Ney Landrum, associate director cf the State Division cf Recrestion and Parks, advising Landrum that the company is concerned with the environmental effects the boat ramps would have on surrounding property.

Landrum's office must approve Hollywood's application iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiniDiiiiiinniniiiiiiniii State Solon Reseating Suit Filed for $375,000 in federal matching funds to pay half the estimated cost cf buying the park site. Wull said that he has talked to Landrum by phone and "I feel that our grant application is still valid." Maurice Connell, Hollywood's federal aid expert, agrees with Wulff's assessment of the current status of the application. "I believe (the Horvitz letter) does not affect Holly-wood's application significantly," CcnneM said. "The city planning department may have to come up with more details on the impact of the park cn the environment, but that's about all." "It seems to me that the Hollywood Inc. letter is more of a nuisance than anything else." Wulff said.

JIM WHITESHIELD 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. 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." 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. MIRAMAR 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 Fire Chief Defends Stand On Loner Hair 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 viola-lion 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 func-. tioning properly. "Each of the citations has the number of the meter," the SDokesman stated.

"We check the meters on which comprint'? are received." Each tima 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 Farmers Protest Food, Relief Work Horvitz Blames Error On Clerk (CortVu'id from Page IB) "I feel it was left out by design to suit Hollywood cor Vh! raid. The suit in which Hollywood will seek to intervene was filed Trx Assessor William Markham last December when Markham placed the streets of three subdivision, owned primarily by Hollywood on the tax rolls as private property. The comoany is using the 1959 resolution as an exhibit to prove that the streets are public property and not subject to taxes.

City Commissioners voted to intervene on the side of Hollywood saying that the 1959 resolution, which the company is using to prove it does not own the streets Markham wants to tax, also proves that the city, not the company, owns the street? on the beach. Horvitz commented that "there is no connection between the lwu; PTiot Markham ond the streets on the beach." Commissioners last month ordered the 13 cross rtrects rr.d Surf but not the Broadwalk, paved to provide access to the beach and parking for the public. Hollywocd Inc. wants the streets to remain undeveloprd and would 1 ke to have them abandoned. The streets cut the 131-scres rf the north beach area involved at about 250-foot intervals, and the company wants to consolidate its holdings in the area into larger blocks than that.

Horvitz said he has not decided what action to take to block the street paving when the city is ready to award a contract for the job. dom of exoress'on 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 pleasure or preference of individual members thereof," "I have not had a legal interpretation of the judge's decision." Gerkin said, "but 1 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. HOLLYWOOD Fire Chief 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 firchousc on each working dry and each has been ser.t home by the command-irf 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 free 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 5 p.m., was filed by attorneys E. Clay Shaw of Fort Lauderdale and Georg2 Bunnell of Miami, representing former State Rep. Arthur Rude of Fort Lauderdale.

Rude has filed u't 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 end one new senator under the existing makeup of the legislature. agency, would put them out of business.

But Joe Doyle, who runs the Range Line Farm Supply in Deerfield Beach, acted at times as their spokesman. Members of the Broward Migrant Council disagreed with the farmers' view. They had declared an emergency in the county because cf lack of work on the farms on March 15. At the same time, government experts called into the area reported that six counties should be declared a disaster area, the first time a farming area had been so designated. The farmers' argument is that while this might apply to Immokalee and Dade County it should not have included Broward and eastern Palm Beach counties where, they say, freeze loss was much less and farm prices have held up.

At the Economic Opportunity Coordinating Group, anti-poverty agency in charge of Operation Mainstream, another relief project, William Stone, EOCG director, said he disagreed with the farmers' view that there was plenty of work. He said Operation Mainstream had found plenty of jobless farm workers to employ at $1.60 an hour. MARGATE A group of farmers in North Broward and Palm Beach counties today called the present government food and unemployment compensation program for migrants the biggest racket of all time, with just about anybody who wanted it getting free food and money. Further, they sa there had been no disaster and calling their "range line" area a disaster area had been political. They said repeated calls to Washington sources to investigate what's going on had brought no results.

They claimed the disaster plan, where supposedly only migrants and season farm workers are processed at Pompano Beach and Delray Beach, had got so bad the money was going to crew-leaders, maids and anybody else who wanted to sign up without any check on their activities. They plso said some people were "going up the line" and collecting as many as four checks for one person. All eight farmers who spoke at The Catfish, a restaurant on Hammondville Road near Margate, said they could not let their names be published because the way things were going the Civil Liberties Union or the Florida Rural Legal Service, a government Areawide South Broward Library Plan Starts HOLLYWOOD A three-way joint effort to build a large library at McArthur High School to serve all of South Broward County is being launched by Hollywood officials. At the urging of City Commissioner Thomas Wohl, the City Commission voted yesterday to seek a meeting with county commissioners and school officials to set up the joint participation project in place of the smaller school library now being designed for the school site. Wohl said the school system 13 planning a one-story, facility at the school on Hollywood Boulevard between 63rd and 64th Avenues.

"Working drawings are being nude for this building now," Wohl said, "so it is important that we move quickly or it will be too late." Wohl suggested as a starting point for the talks, the concept of a four-story, 40,000 square foot building, "possibly with the school using the ground floor, the public the upper three floors." "We have talked about the participation, we could have one of the finest libraries in the area." The only objection came from Vice Mayor David Keating, who commented that, "It's a long haul all the way out to McArthur." But Keating joined in the unanimous vote to push the plan, need for a library for years," Wohl said. "If we can get the agreement of the School Beard, we can go to the county to ask them to participate, also. "The library would serve all of South Broward, not just Hollywood. "We're spending $150,000 on our city library this year. If each agency would match that.