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J. Florida. TODAY Reports Bureaus From and TODAY Wire Staff Services Writers, TODAY, Monday, November 21, 1977 Florida Report John Van Gieson Associated Press Writer Environmental Uncertainty Is the Picture It's hard to say if pollution will increase in Florida under a proposed Environmental Regulation Commission rule that is opposed by environmentalists, says a state air quality official. "Maybe 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, is designed to prevent. "significant deterioriation" of air quality, but the environmentalists 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 at individual sites. "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 attorney. "Increases in pollutants in the air in some areas could be more than 1,000 percent." Gluckman compiled chart that he said shows how the new rule would allow increased discharges of sulfur dioxide in 29 cities or counties. Sample Counties Air Standard Some samples from Gluckman's list include Bradenton with a 443 percent increase; Brevard County, 369 percent; Clearwater, 148 percent; Dade County, 604 percent; Fort Myers, 780 percent; Gainesville, 602 percent; 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 overall 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 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 Starnes and Gluckman also differ over the possible consequences of increased air pollution. "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 Gluckman said scientists have not been able to determine if low levels of 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 he asked. "It's hard to tell what causes what." Fellow Inmates May Cheat Execution Execution By FRANCES WILLIAMS Gannett News Service RAIFORD' Convicted child killer Arthur Goode III says he is afraid he won't live long enough to die in Florida's electric 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 eliminated. Even prison guards admit hatred for Goode.

"I'd. 1 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, pimply-faced man who looks more like 17 than 23, enthusiastically boasts of numerous sexual conquests of young boys from 7 to 15 years of age. Two of them 11-yearold Kenneth Dawson of Falls 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. was a couple of cells down from mine when he first came on the row," said James "Doug" Mc- Cray, 28-year-old Fort Myers man sentenced to death for the fatal beating of Mrs. Margaret Mears. "He hadn't been here but about five minutes he came to his door and started talking real loud about how he killed those kids and how much he had enjoyed- it. -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 attempt: on Goode's life, guards said. Reports say Foster tried to coax Goode up to the front of his cell. Goode remained crying and cringusing Foster against the back the wall, $40 SO grabbed 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 did him in. Jon Miller, a 38-yearold 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- attend school telephone from Cystic student doesn't let the first of her school High Honor of a special class. senger and errand runner) almost got Goode one day," he said. "Goode was bragging about what he did and how he did it, really proud like, you know? And man, the guys went wild. "Some of them have committed murders and similar. crimes, too, but -there's no respect in any.

prison for a creep that messes with children and then brags about it." Goode is despised here, Inmates particularly At a Distance Joy Welborn, unable to because she suffers Fibrosis and allergies, that get in the way work. Through the use 'Goode was bragging about what he did and how he did it, really proud like, you know? And man, the guys went Prisoner Jon Miller test his penchant for sending obscene letters to his victims' parents. When Goode has to see the prison doctor or makes a trip to the prison clinic, special precautions must be sine better: After the incident on Wing, officials took what they said is their last step in a move 1 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 prepare for execution once the 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 arrived, John Anderson, assistant warden at the son, said officials in Tallahassee had canceled the -scheduled interview. part of an hour. He usually is- moved after other prisoners have been locked away in their cells. He is accompanied by at least two uniformed TODAY- -UP Telephoto hook-up, the Plant City made three A's and one in grade period to make the Roll in her ninth grade 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 recommend possible penalties. The Judiciary-Civil Committee has scheduled closing arguments and final deliberations on Tuesday after it receives briefs. The six-member mittee, the first ever to trial of a collegue, listened days of testimony last Deputy Attorney. James Whisenand said tors would not abandon numerous charges they ged against Joe Jacobs said his prosecution's case was "We aren't going to tee impose any penalty any of the charges have Whisenand said the sanctions to recommend Sunday and disclosed ments are filed.

He said prosecutors cautious because they low. These are the first a legislator under the Floridian Held in Kidnap 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. Hendricks, of Orlando, was arrested at a trading post in St.

Michael's, last Friday after being overpowered by Baxter 'SYSTEMS BETTORS' 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. Collier D. Hendricks, 34, was being held Sunday on an FBI complaint.

Baxter said the arrest was 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, picked up a hitchhiker identified as Charles Jackson of Baltimore, east of Barstow, on Interstate 40 Friday, Jai Alai Inquiry Continues WETHERSFIELD, Conn. (UPI). State gaming 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 of a group of bettors.

who knew each other, commuting. between Florida and Connecticut to bet large sums on jai alai. One witness said the socalled "systems bettors" were catered to by officials Agents Probing Sale of Futures TODAY Wire Services MIAMI Federal agents are in Miami to investigate reports that fast-talking south Florida commodities salesmen are misleading unsophisticated buyers: throughout the via the telephone. A strike force from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has already raided at least eight commodity options sales offices in Dade and Broward counties. "What you are seeing in the Miami area is a response to the number of complaints of customers and the frequency of complaints lodged against firms," said Commissioner John Rainbolt.

He said 11 percent of the complaints received by the agency have been about sales linked to South Florida. in the heart of a very troublesome area," he said. The commission has received complaints that glib salesmen were promising potential buyers quick profits for investments in risky. London commodity options. Poston Fate Is Nearby the legal Senate comconduct a to fiveweek.

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decision on what be made late the legal argu- particularly guidelines to folbrought against law. we recommend setting a precedent the discipline of officials in the fuestablishes a standsaid. defense is less conabout history and concerned with miniimpact of Postestimony. After of tough questionadmitted that it was he broke the 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 Juno, 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 "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 airline, and some 400 members of the Airport, Airlines and Allied Workers Union has been in stalemate since the walkout began on Friday when the old contract Hughes said the dispute centered on wages. King Dies BRADENTON 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 and, two children. Funeral arrangements incomplete Sunday said had been issued for them.

Police officials said Herman and Werner were believed to be in Florida. Harvey Ziskis of Newington, who said he is under police guard because of threats on his life, testified the three men were the "Florida syndicate," pooling their money and betting. Ziskis previously worked the Hartford fronton. Another witness who 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 to the general public. He also charged the socalled "systems. bettors" were allowed use of the arena's security personnel. It is not illegal for a person to engage in systems 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." He said fronton officials made up the charge to keep him away because he knew of the alleged favortism.

Davis stopped in Holbrook, later in the day where he and Jackson picked, up Hendricks, who also was hitchhiking. Davis told police that Hendricks, armed with two guns, said he was afraid he 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 release' 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 vehicle 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 Putman, 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 he is the leading candidate to become Attorney General Robert Shevin's running mate in next year's gubernatorial election.

Glisson, according to aides and friends, believes Shevin. has narrowed the candidates to himself, Rep. Wayne Mixson, D-Marianna, and Assistant Commerce Secretary C. Bette Wimbish. Shevin, considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, is expected to announce his choice for lieutenant governor in Jandary.

defense has of Poston's ac-. willful. It said problems were negligence. think there were and mistakes, believe any of crime," said former President Mallory another defense law- Prosecutors have Poston violated the using Senate telestationery and funds and the power office in a blatant atdrum up business now-defunct ambufirm, Central Mediof Orlando. presented testithat showed Poston more than Orange County over a two-year Several witnesses tes-.

they felt threatened intimidated Poston's references to chairmenships. Judiciary-Civil CommitChairman Mattox Hair believed his panel reach its verdict Its recommendagoes to the which can remove by a two thirds predicts the comwill make Poston any funds he used, but won't him from office. 13-year legislative is also accused. to disclose his interthe ambulance until almost one launched the Such information by it 20 ofpe- his TODAY In Florida 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 offices 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 next week. on full a im- of comyear busiis A.