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MaBK 11 fB 'nJW imMn ynf VfiVW BMV7r'fi Da lone Dissatisfaction with salaries and benefits hasn't ended In the nalSGS UOn Rockledge Police Department despite this year's wage Increase of I cnficfu nWiVare percent phis Four officers have left Rockledge so far this year OiMllOiy UillUtJISi ior higher paying Jobs elsewhere In Brevard County. Story, IB. Section Saturday, May 9, 1981 State news, 4B HELP! Double bill departs MasterCard office We were double billed on our MasterCard account to March 18. We protested In writing and were assured that the problem would be Investigated and the account corrected. Thirteen months later, we still are getting dunning letters from MasterCard.

Every time we have been asked for Information we have replied with photocopies and we have received a form letter stating that records are being researched. We have called the Miami office three times, made photocopies and sent registered letters. In exasperation, we cut up our credit cards and mailed them In last December. We want nothing more to do with MasterCard except to straighten out our credit L.C.W. Cocoa Beach Your credit will not be destroyed because MasterCard has finally credited your account $26.09.

Mary Howerton in the firm's customer service department said because the problem has dragged on so long the account will be credited Immediately for the (22.32 erroneous charge and $3.77 for assorted finance charges. You 'will be receiving a letter soon, and your next statement should reflect the. credit and a zero balance. Games not released I sent a letter to Atari Consumer Division, HIS Borregas Suonydale, Calif. MM.

I asked about the. price list of the game programs "Aster old" and "Warlords." I also asked for a place where I could order the programs as our local department store does not have them. I have waited almost three months for a return letter but have not received one. Could you please HELPT John E. Fitzgerald IV Titusville Your letter may never have reached Atari.

You sent it to the wrong city and also had the wrong ZIP code on the letter. HELP! spoke with personnel at' Atari and learned the "Warlords" game has just been released this month, so it's not surprising that you haven't seen it in any of the department stores. the "Asteroids" game will not be released until the end' of July. The correct address for Atari is 1195 Borregas Sunnyvale, Calif. 94806.

Check with dealers Seyeral months ago HELP! printed the name and address to write to obtain open stock pieces of Havtland china. I misplaced the article and would sure appreciate It if you would please reprint the address and telephoae number again. I need a few pieces and since I have had my china a of years (the Annette pattern) I cannot find it locally. We enjoy your column very much and find it most HELPIfiu. Mrs.

C.P.R. Titusville The Annette pattern is not on the active price list and probably has been discontinued, said Irma Rivera in Haviland's customer service department. She is sending you a list of dealers who carry the older patterns and you'll have to contact the dealers to determine whether there is any of the Annette pattern around. Others interested in obtaining Havi land patterns can write to Haviland 11 E. 26th N.Y.

10010, or call (212) 686 4061. If the pattern is discontinued, you'll be sent the list of dealers, too. Parts unavailable I have a Hamilton Beach Mlrette mixer, model No. 17. I need replacement beaters.

Could you please print the address of the Hamilton Beach Millard Countryman won't HELP! to write to Hamilton Beach because the beaters are no longer available. The hand mixers underwent a design change and you will have to replace a couple of gears to which the beaters attach: and use a newly designed set of beaters. Margie Ruzzo with 'Reliable Small Appliance Repair at 111 N. Banana River Drive, Merritt Island, said she has the beaters and gears in stock. But she advises you might be better off financially if you were to dispose of the mixer and purchase another because, the beaters and gears will cost you $8.50 and with a minimum $8 repair charge it will run you $14.50 to get the mixer working.

For that price you could purchase another mixer. Can You HELP? Would, any of HELPI's readers be able to HELP! our children's church choir at Redeemer Lutheran Church on Merritt Island with the donation of a piano? We need one to accompany us when we sing during church, youth nights and apodal occasions. We would be able to pay a nominal If you can IIELPI please can 4S2 U7I. UndaSdrfer Merritt Island Sand your lattar. plan photo capiat of any nacaaaary documanta.

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It cost taxpayers more than $12,000 to hold the successful five day celebration, Titusville city officials said. The question is, who's going to pay for Festival organizers, working through the chamber, have been hit with a $10,650 bill for repair and cleanup at Sand Point Park. chairman Joe Building bombed atFJ.T. A guard escaped injury when a bomb was tossed into Florida Institute of Technology security building early Friday, scattering papers and supplies throughout the office. Security guard James Reynolds was making routine rounds of the Melbourne campus at about 2 a.m.; when he heard an explosion' coming from the direction of the security office, Melbourne police said.

A bomb apparently thrown through a window exploded inside the small empty office. Papers, furniture and supplies of an undetermined value were damaged, police said. Although the building suffered minimal structural damage, a wall was blackened by the Police said they have no suspects In the case and have been unable to determine the type of explosive used. The force of the blast would have been enough to Injure or possibly kill anyone who might have been 'inside, said police Capt. Frank Slaughter.

"Someone had total disregard for human life because there was no guarantee there wasn't anyone inside that slaughter said. The security guard had no set pattern for making rounds of the campus and 'could have been In the building at 2 a.m., Slaughter said. Inside lights were on at the time of the blast, police said. Police have received no calls claiming responsibility for the bombing. Any arrested suspects would face felony charges.

"This Is beyond the prank stage," he said. Security personnel have been moved into iui adjacent upstairs office until their building can be repaired. Catrambone has called the bill "ludicrous." But city Public Works Director Bob Buschman said it represents the financial facts of life. "I'd do anything for the festival, including having my people man booths. I just don't want the public to get the impression it's a freebie.

It came out of my public works budget," he said. "If the city wants to subsidize the festival.Jhat's fine. I just want people to be aware of what it costs," Buschman The bill, he said, did not include $1,300 worth of electrical wiring done, by city. I'd do anything for the festival, including having my people man booths. I just don't want the public to get the impression it's a freebie.

Bob Buschman, Titusville public works director crews or the $280 electric bill. It does include $1,280 for general park cleanup, $200 for miscellaneous patching in pavement, $8,600 for resurfacing of the newly paved south parking lot, $600 to repaint the graffiti marred walls of two new restrooms, $200 repair of an overhead door at the Upland Building, $150 for grading and tree trimming, and $160 to replace 19 circuit Buschman said the grading and tree trimming is nec: essary because of damage done by the movement of. equipment and vehicles inside the park. Chamber Executive Vice President Bill Lyerly takes exception to the largest part of the bill $8,600 to repave a new parking lot. Lyerly said festival organizers were given permission to drive five tent stakes into the parking lot on the promise they would have any damage repaired.

Although Buschman is recommending the entire lot be resurfaced to protect it from. water seepage and the resultant potholes, Lyerly says an independent paving contractor has assured him patching will work just fine. That, he said, would cost about $30. Festival organizers said they were shocked by the bill because they never have been charged in the past. Tons of trash generated by the huge crowd remained in the dumpsters at the park until Friday, almost two weeks after the festival had ended.

"We're not in the garbage business," Lyerly said. "We don't have garbage trucks to pick them up and dump them." Chamber and council members will discuss the bill at the city council meeting" at 7:30 p.mi Tuesday. WiiMiaaaaaam 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 7 laW3Smly? maalaJim JammmXmWaWaaWaaaaaaaaaaaWf "hm aWa 'laWWWWWWT innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnTA taaWBaaaaWmaaaaaamBaaaWXXSraaaaaWaWkaaWKBm TODAY VfM GENETICS SPECIALIST Dk. ADOLFb GARNICA EXAMINES 13 MONTH OLD like Michael Parrts of Cape Canaveral, this baby doesn't have rare disease Test shows baby eludes rare illness By ART SLAWSON TODAY Staff wrttor 6n4 Wirt Sonrlco ftofMrftf Thanks to University of Florida researchers and the Lord, Debbie and Donald Parris of Cape Canaveral have a healthy, noisy, active little boy. He's 3 months old today.

But getting there wasn't as easy as it sounds. University doctors had to develop an experimental test to determine whether mothers may be carrying a disease fatal to male infants. The disease is known as Menkes' Kinky Hair Syndrome. The rare" malady usually kills its young victims before they reqch age 3. Women may the genes of the disease but they aren't affected by it.

So when the Parrises considered raising a child, university doctors advised them of (he potential for problems. Since the defect already had claimed her older sisters' two infant sons, Mrs. Parris was told she could be carrying the fatal genes. The odds were 50 50. The.

couple's decision to marry' sparked her interest in the experiments. "I figured I'd better find out about it," the 24 year old woman said. "If it was male, I was going to abort Debbie came to us we already knew one of her sisters was a carrier," explained Dr, Adolfo Gamica, associate professor of pediatric genetics. "Suddenly, we were faced with the prospect of her three sisters possibly transmitting the birth defect to their male children and not being able to diagnose that likelihood until the women were already pregnant," he said. "So we started looking for ways to diagnose the carrier state before pregnancy," he said.

The disease is associated with a copper The symptoms are convulsions, physical and mental deterioration, blindness, abnormalities of the bone and kinky, brittle white hair resembling steel wool. It was dis covered by Dr, John Menkes In 1962. Since Mrs. Parris' nephews were treated for the disease at Shands Teaching Hospital in Gainesville, she asked University of Florida doctors if they could determine if she was carrying the hereditary disease. Garnlca explained an experimental test for' the disease involved snipping a small skin sample from the woman's forearm, growing additional skin cells in a laboratory culture See DISEASE, IB 'A.