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8B Reports From TODAY Staff Writers, Bureaus and Wire Services TODAY, Monday, November 21, 1177 Florida Report John Van Gieson Associated Press Writer Fellow Inmates May Cheat Execution Environmental Uncertainty Is the Picture cMASELIl liard.Jo say if TritfTtoflunon will increase, in Florida under a proposed Environmental Regulation Commission rule that is opposed by environmentalists, says a state air quality official. yes, maybe no," said Walter Starnes, administrator of the Department of Environmental Regulation's bureau of air quality, management The rule, which the commission will consider at a Nov. 30 meeting in Orlando, 1sdeslgned to prevent 4sighificant tleter' ioriaUon." xLaic.qua1ityJJutJheenvin)flz mentalists say it would allow huge increases of air pollution in certain sections of the state. Realigns Regulations The proposal realigns pollution regulations for certain areas of the state, raising the permitted level of contaminants "A significant deterioration rule is needed in Florida, but the kind.of numerical standards, currently proposed by the Department of Environmental Regulation are so high as to make the rule ridiculous," said Charles Lee, Florida Audubon Society vice president, "The 'increments would allow clean areas, to become much dirtier," said David Gluckman; an Audubon Society at torney. "Increases in pollutants in the air By FRANCES WILLIAMS Oonntn Nw Sarvlct RAIFORD Convicted child killer Arthur Goode" III says he Is afraid he won't live long enough" "to Jn.

Chair. He's afraid one of the inmates in Florida "State Prison will succeed in satisfying a prison code that views a child molester as a "thing" that must be eli minated. Even T5mcTr guards admit hatred for Goode. "I'd. like to look the other way when I thought someone could get to the little bastard," one guard mumbled after being asked some questions about Goode.

There even are prison grapevine reports of a "hit fund" that inmates have chipped Into for. rewarding' the con who can kill him Goode, "a pale, sIIghT, pimply faced man who looks more like 17 than 23, enthusiasticaily: boasts of numerous sexual conquests of young boys from 7 to 15 years of age. Twoof them 11 year Old Kenneth Dawson of Church, and 9 year old, Jason VerDow of Cape Coral were sexually molested, tortured, and, then strangled to death. Goode was sentenced to life for the former, death for the latter. "Goode was a couple of cells down from mine when he first came on the, row," said James "Doug" Mc a.2? yeaT old Fori inan sentenced to: senger and errand runner) almost got Goode one he said.

"Goode was bragging about what tie did and how he did it, really proud know? And man, the guys went wild, "Some of them have committed murders and "similar, crimes; too, but there's no in. prison for a creep that messes with children and then brags about It." Goode. is despised here Inmates particulan; 'Goode was bragging about what he did arte) how he did it, really proud like, you know? And man, the guys went wild Prisoner Jon Miller test his penchant for sending obscene letters to is victims', parents. When Goode has to see the prison doctor or makes atrip to the prison clinic, special precautionsmust De Si'giyifc wsier 'guards: part of an hour. He usually Is moved after other prisoners have been locked awayTn their cells.

He is accompanied by at least two uniformed After the incident on Wing, officials took what they said is their last step In a move to protect Goode. He was transferred to an isolation area, or death watch, as inmates refer to It. It's a separate' building housing the electric chair, but also is equipped to hold, several maximum security prisoners Individually. It is the area inmates fear most. It Is where they are taken to prepaje for execu tion once trfe date has been set.

A Gannett News Service reporter recently made 'the trip to the prison to Interview; Goode. Special arrangements and clearances were made through the Division of Corrections. When the reporter ar rlved, John Anderson, assistant warden at the prl said officials in Tallahassee had canceled the scheduled Interview; narront i i i percent. compiled a chart that he said shows how the new rule would allow increased discharges of sulfur dioxide in 29 cities or counties! Sample Counties Some samples from. Gluckman's list include Bradenton with a 443 percent increase; Brevard County, 369 percent; Clearwater, 148 percent; Dade 604 percent; Fort Myers, 780 percent; Gainesville; 602 percerlt; Jacksonville; 241 "percent; Orlando, 264 percent; Lauderdale Lakes, 1,000 percent; Pensacola, 720 percent; and Sarasota, 549 percent.

Starnes said the rule may allow increased pollution at some, sources but Florida's ovgjall air quality should remain within current limits. "We're reasonably certain we're going, to maintain air quality well within the standards and this is particularly so for the cleaner areas," he said. "It gives us a tool to slow down the addition of emissions within a cleaner area, we think. Obviously David doesn't agree, but that's the way it goes." Starnes and Gluckman also differ over the. possible.

consequencest of increased air pollution. Air Standard "If the air is dirtier than it is now in a clean area we may not have any effect particularly," Starnes' said. "If it goes above the ambient air standard, we're going to have health problems, however." Ambient air standards measure the number of micrograms of sulfur dioxide allowed in a cubic meter of air. Current standards are considerably higher than the projected increases, Starnes said, so air could be dirtier without violating the new regulations. But GluckmatLsaid scientists Jiave not been ble to idetermine 1f low levelsof sulfur dioxide well within the ambient air standards are hazardous to health.

"Do school children in Tampa have Colds or are they suffering from the effects of air pollution?" he asked. "It's hard to tell what causes what' He hadn't "bejeh here but about, five minutes and he came to his door and started talking real loud about how he killed "those Juds and. Jiow muchJieJiad. enjoyed itr He had every man on the row all fired' up. We all signed a petition and got him moved to another floor." On May 2, a fellow inmate almost got to Goode.

Kenny Foster, a Panama City man convicted of stabbing another man to death during a. drunken frenzy, took advantage of a two hour social period to make the first recorded at; tempt on Goode's life, guards said. Reports say Foster tried to coax Goode up to the front of his cell. Goode remained crying and cringing against the back wall, so Foster grabbed the $40 radio Goode's parents had sent him, smashing it to pieces on the floor. Foster also ripped at the.

pictures of several small boys "Goode had cut out of magazines and pasted on the wall of his cell. As prison guards rushed to investigate Goode's shrill screams, they found Foster urinating on him. Prison officials decided to move Goode again. He was taken under heavy guard to the first floor of the gray concrete and steel structure. By this time, there was a heavily circulated rumor of an "Arthur Goode Hit Fund" with $34 in the kitty for any inmate who didhirn in, Jon Miller, a 38 year old man sentenced to death in Lee County for the rape and murder of a 61 year old woman cab driver, also is an inmate on the first floor of Wing.

"Our run around (mes TODAY UPI TtWMH At a Poston Fate Is rby POSTON Distance Joy Welborn, unable to attend school because she suffers from Cystic Fibrosis and allergies, doesn't let that get in the way of her school work. Through the use of a special telephone hook up, trie Plant City student made three A's and one in the first grade period to make the High Honor Roll in her ninth grade class. Florid fan Held in Kidnap GALLUP, N.M. (AP) A Florida man. charged by.

the FBI in the kidnapping of a truck driver, a hitchhiker and an FBI agent is to be arraigned today, FBI agent Richard Baxter said Sunday. Coiner D. Hendricks, 34, was" being held Sunday on an FBI complaint. Baxter said the arrest was made on a warrant from U.S. District Judge Howard' Bratton.

Hendricks is also charged with attempted murder and armed robbery in Ohio, the FBI said. of Orlandor was arrested at a trading post Michael's, last Friday after being overpowered by Baxter when Hendricks was distracted by other agents. Police and FBI agents described this chain of events: Jay Davis, a truck driver out of Los Angeles, lOalif.T picked up a hitch hiker identified as Charles Jackson of Baltimore, Md.r east of Barstow, on Interstate 40 Friday, TALLAHASSEE (AP) Sen. Ralph Poston will learn today if prosecutors plan to seek his removal from the Senate on charges he misused his position in the Legislature. Both prosecution and defense attorneys will, submit lengthy written arguments on what they believe to be the facts of the case and recom mend possible penalties.

The Judiciary Civil Committee has scheduled closing arguments and final deliberations on Tuesday after it receives the legal briefs. The six member Senate committee, the iFst ever to conduct a "trial of a collegue, listeneduo rt days of testimony last week. Attorney. James Whisenand said prosecutors would not abandon any of the numerous charges they have lod ged against But chief defense attorney Joe Jacobs said his brief would argue that the "prosecution's case" was very Wearen't going'to propose that the committee impose any penalty because we don't believe any of the charges have been proven," he said. Whisenand said the critical decision on what sanctions to recommend would' be' made late Sunday and disclosed today after the legal arguments are filed.

He said prosecutors are being particularly cautious because they have no guidelines to follow. These are the first charges brought against a legislator under the 1974 ethics law. "What we recommend will be setting a precedent concerning the discipline of public officials in the future. It establishes a standard," he said. The defense Is less concerned about history and more concerned with minimizing the impact of Pos ton's testimony.

After two days of tough questioning, he admitted that it was i'posslble' Jie' broke the ethics law. i 'SYSTEMS BETTORS' Jai Alai Inquiry Continues WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (UPI) State gam: ing commission hearings were" scheduled to continue today into activities of professional jai alai gamblers in Connecticut. Last week a series of witnesses painted a picture jfagrjBup of bettors who knew each other, commuting between Florida and. Connecticut to bet large sums on jai alai.

One witness said the so called "systems bettors" were catered to by officials at the Hartford fronton. Police officers identifed three Florida men as being linked in some way, although it was unclear the extent of their relationship. Only one of the three, Rodney E. Woods Jr. of Fla." appeared at the hearings.

He declined to. testify because he said he did not have a lawyer. The other two, David Herman' and Ronald K. Werner, whose addresses were not disclosed, did'not honor subpoenas authorities Agents Probing Sale of Futures TODAY Wirt Urvlctl MIAMI Federal agents are In Miami to investigate reports that fast talking south Florida commodities salesmen are misleading unsophisticated buyers; throughout the if ountry via he telephone 'r. strike force' from the.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission has already aided at least eight commodity options sales pffices in Dade and Broward jr "Whai you are seeing In the Miami area js a response to the number, of complaints of customers and the frequency of com plaints lodged against said Commissioner Jphn Ralnbolt. He said 11 percent of complaints received by the agency 'been about sales linked to! South Florida. the heart of a very trouble lome area," he said. i The commission has received complaints i'Hat glib salesmen were promising potential buyers quick profits for $2,900 or more Investment jn risky London commodity 6p tions; TODAY In Florida Agents have sized financial records, telephone scripts, and other sales materials from the offices where salesmen used WATS lines to telephone potential investors. Complaints indicate that many of the.

salesmen 'rarely describe the high risks in commodity investment. But officials said the' investigation was. not an' indictment of all the commodity sales, off ices in' South Florida. Strike Continues MIAMI Officials for Bahamasair, the Bahamian national air carrier, say a strike by ground personnel is likely to continue thought nexrweek; "It doesn't 'look very said Tom Hughes, the carrier's station manager at Miami International Airport. Hughes, said negotiations between the government, which controls 87 percent of the and some 400 members of the Airport, Airlines and Allied Workers Union ha been in stalemate since the walkout began on Friday when the old contract expired.

Hughes said the dispute centered wages. King Dies Former Rep. Carlton J. King, a Republican from upstate New 'York, died after stomach surgery at L.W. Blake' Hospital here.

He was 73. King was in Florida recovering from a hip operation in his home town, and died Saturday following stomach surgery. King is survived by his wife Constance two children. arrangements ereincompiete Sunday nlght said had been issued for them. Police officials said Herman and Werner were believed to be in Florida.

Harvey Ziskis of Ne wington, who said he is under police guard because of threats on his testified the three men were the "Florida syndicate," pooling their money and betting. Ziskis previously worked at' the Hartford Another witness whd worked for Woods claimed the only arrangement the three, men had was they agreed not to bet at the same fronton to increase the odds of winning. Ziskis told the gaming commission the three big bettors got free admissions, free parking and had access to computer information not available Jo the general public. He also charged the. so called ''systems, bettors" were allowed use of the arena's security personnel.

It is not illegal for a person Jto engage in. sys' terns betting, but gaming' officials conducting hearings into; the subject; are trying to decide whether some new regulations might be needed. Ziskis has been excluded from the Hartford fronton since September for being an "undesirable." We said officials made up the charge to keep him away because he knew of theTiiieged favortisnr. Davis stopped in Hol brook, later in the day where heand Jackson picked, up Hendricks, who also was hitchhiking. Davis told police that Hendricks, armed with two guns, said he was afraid, fee was being Upset Over Hendricks behavior, Davis stopped in Gallup on the pretense of getting gas.

He fled and notified authorities. Jackson and Hendricks remained in the truck. Police and FBI agents converged on the scene and convinced Hendricks to re lease' Jackson and take Baxter as a hostage. But when Baxter turned himself over to the armed man, Hendricks refused to release Jackson and forced the agent and hitchhiker into an FBI ye hicle 'and ordered them to drive back into Arizona where they stopped at the trading post. Several agents talked to Hendricks for nearly 45 minutes before Forrest Put man, special agent in charge of the Albuquerque office, distracted Hendricks, giving Baxter a Chance to disarm him.

Glisson Feels He's in Front TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Eustis Sen. Jim Glisson hopes and believes.i)ej the leading candidate to be come Attorney General Robert Shevin's running mate in next year's gubernatorial election. Glisson, according to aides and friends, belieyes Shevin narrowed the candidates to himself. Rep. Wayne Mixson, Mari anna, and Assistant Commerce Secretary Bette Wimbish.

Shevin, considered the front runner for the Demo traticjwmihation, is ex "pected to announce his choice for lieutenant gover nor irr Jantary; ft The 'defense has'argued" that none of Pos'ton's ac tions were willful. It said Poston's problems were due to negligence. "I think there were oversights and mistakes, but I don't believe any of it was a crime," said former Senate President Mallory Home, another defense lawyer. Prosecutors have charged Poston violated the law by using' Senate telephones, stationery and travel funds'and the power of his office in a blatant attempt to drum up business for his now' defunct ambulance firm, Central Medi Car, of Orlando. they presented testimony that showed Poston contacted more than 20 state and Orange County officials over a two year period.

Several witnesses tes tified they felt threatened and intimidated by Poston's repeated references to his committee chairmanships! Judiciary Civil Committee Chairman Mattox Hair said he believed his panel could reach its verdict 09 'Tuesday. Its recommenda' tioh then' goes to the full Senate which can remove a member by two thirds vote. Home predicts the committee will 'make Poston pay back any funds he Im 7 properly used, but won't remove him from office? The 13 year legislative veteran, is also accused" of failing to disclose his interest in the. ambulance company until almost one year after he launched the business; Such information "required by tawr.