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2B THE PALM BEACH POST WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1994 sl Joyride in '65 Mustang leaves man dead, roommate hurt the injured man had been hired to repair the restored classic car, which hit a pole. By CAROLYN FRETZ Palm Beach Post Staff Z. PALM BEACH One man Kas killed and another injured when the restored 1965 Mustang convertible one of them was supposed to be repairing hit a pole on Southern Boulevard near Parker Avenue early Tuesday. Eugene Conner, 25, of 4939 Gun Club Road died in the 2:15 a.m. crash.

An automobile restorer, Warren Clark, also 25 and of the same address, was taken to St. Mary's Hospital, where he was treated and released. The red Mustang convertible GT they were in belonged to attorney Lawrence Chandler. He bought the car for $8,000 and was having it restored to give to his daughter, Kimberly, on her 16th birthday. The car was insured for $20,000, and Chandler was in the process of submitting photographs and receipts to his insurance agent to increase the coverage, he said.

Clark was supposed to be fixing an oiU leak in the Mustang, Chandler said. "The problem with owning a car like this is you can't trust anyone with it," Chandler said. No charges have been filed, but West Palm Beach police are investigating the accident. Moments before the wreck, a West Palm Beach police officer said he saw the car and heard the driver rev its engine at Southern Boulevard and South Dixie Highway. Witnesses to the crash said the car was airborne for at least 75 feet as it roared off the railroad track overpass on Southern, Clark said investigators told him.

Clark told police he was a passenger in the Mustang, but the passenger side of the car was the most heavily damaged in the accident. Neither Clark nor Conner was wearing a seat belt, police said. "The investigator believes the person with the fatal injuries was the passenger in the crash," Sgt. John English said. "And we strongly suspect alcohol was a factor in the accident." Chandler said he was almost sick to his stomach when he got in to work Tuesday morning and learned of the crash.

He had lavished money and attention on every detail of the car's interior and exterior installing red and white pony upholstery, a hand-built 289-cubic-inch engine and 2'2-inch tailpipes. "I had every part painted twice," he said. The car was totaled in the accident, said Mark Montgomery, Clark's State Farm Insurance Company agent. "You could tell it used to be a Mustang by some of the larger pieces," English said. etro Report County, schools swap land Fifteen acres slated for a new St.

Lucie school will be preserved. LAKE WORTH A head and body parts found Saturday belong to a torso and pelvis found last month in a refrigerator, Palm Beach County investigators learned Tuesday. Metro Dade police, who drove up Sunday to retrieve the parts, matched them to Mary Lowe, 70, of Miami, said Palm Beach County Sheriffs Detective Sgt Ken Deischer. Metro Dade police have charged Lowe's husband of 34 years with the murder. Edsel Lowe, 66, allegedly used a hack saw to cut up his wife after killing her, then drove up Florida's Turnpike, pulled off in Lake Worth and dumped five garbage bags containing parts of his dead wife's body in a yard at 3775 Lyons Road, Deischer said.

A WEST PALM BEACH Israel Fest '94, featuring representatives from various Israeli organizations and music from the rock group SHACHAR, will be from 6-8 tonight at the Harold and Sylvia Kaplan Jewish Community Center, 3151 N. Military Trail. Admission is free. For more information call Kevin Weiss or Sandy Konigsburg at 1-800-257-ISRAEL or 640-0700. By SARAH K.

DURAN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer FORT PIERCE The St. Lucie County School Board narrowly approved the concept of swapping land with the county to save 15 acres of environmentally sensitive land slated for a middle school after collectively slamming the environmentalists who stepped in to protect the land. Board members Tom Coss and Connie Ostrowski voted against the plan, with Judi Miller, Karen Knapp and Chairman Sam Gaines in favor. The district is trying to build a middle school next to an elementary school that is under construction near the North Fork of the St. Lucie River.

The middle school CAROLINE E. COUIGStaff Photographer Taking Down The Tent WEST PALM BEACH Kevin Cranford of Ma-haffey Frame Tents walks on the roof of a tent before taking it down Tuesday. The tent was used during the Greek Festival at St. Catherine's Greek Orthodox Church. The tent took three people four hours to dismantle.

WHERE: 2616 S. Dixie Highway, Stuart (State Road A1A just north of Indian Street). Parking on east side of Dixie. TODAY Kids Day (Ride all rides with Burger King coupon, $10) 3 p.m. Fair opens 4 p.m., 6 p.m., 7:30 p.m.

Granpa Cratchet 5 p.m., 7 p.m., 9 p.m. One Man Show 7 p.m. Dairy Show 8:30 p.m. One Way 10 p.m. Fair closes Flood protection called inadequate Shark River (826) Ts Slough Stations' parent company proposes financing plan Frog Pondl) Mr 1 1 EVERGLADES NATIONAL Homestead Xs rArlrv m.

A Cape Taylor Slough Sable probably will open later than August 1995 as originally planned, school officials said. Superintendent David Mosrie said after the meeting that the odds were still better than even that the district will need double sessions in the 1995-96 school year to accommodate the district's growing middle school population. Before the vote, the board railed against county Commissioner Cliff Barnes without mentioning him by name and other environmentalists who opposed building a middle school on the 15-acre site. They stressed that they will not be to blame if there are double sessions. "We're now placed in this dilemma," Ostrowski said.

"And it's not even our fault but we're going to get blamed for it One of my campaign promises was I would never vote for double sessions. Therefore I cannot agree to it (the concept). This is just a protest vote." Barnes was not at the meeting and no one spoke on behalf of the environmentalists. The concept, approved last week by the county, includes allowing the county to build a library in the future on the new middle school site. Florida Bay Alto Miles, I By KIRK BROWN Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH After several days of heavy rain last month, arguments have increased over water levels in a canal separating Everglades National Park from a fertile tract of farmland.

An attorney for tomato growers in an area known as the Frog Pond accused water managers Tuesday of causing millions of dollars in crop damage by failing to provide adequate flood protection. "You are destroying a valuable industry," said Sylvia Alderman, a Tallahassee lawyer representing the South Dade Land which owns the Frog Pond farmland. The firm has gone to federal court three times since November seeking to force the South Florida Water Management District to lower the level of the L-31W canal, which provides drainage for fields in the Frog Pond. None of these efforts has been successful. Everglades National Park Superintendent Richard Ring also is unhappy.

He blames water managers and the Army Corps of Engineers for harming a nearby slough by maintaining low canal levels that benefit growers. Ring is threatening to halt a nine-month experiment involving Jacksonville office, disagreed with Ring's comments. He said the experiment has succeeded in sending more water into Taylor Slough and Florida Bay. Salt said he believes the dispute with park officials can be resolved. Otherwise, he said, the Corps will revert to a prior schedule of canal levels that would send less water into both Taylor and Shark River sloughs.

Tuesday's three-hour discussion of the canal dispute was prompted by storms that dropped more than 7 inches of rain on parts of south Dade County last month. Frog Pond growers complained that their fields were flooded because the canal level was too high. Park officials were upset that millions of gallons of water drained out of Taylor Slough when the canal was lowered too rapidly. Conflicts over the canal will continue until the Corps completes a $100 million project to retool South Dade's network of canals, said Peter Rhoads, the water management district's Everglades restoration coordinator. Work on the project, which calls for acquisition of the Frog Pond, is scheduled to start in about three years.

forced into bankruptcy protection, all deals with INB are off. "We are done with Feltner personally for now, yes, as long as the terms of the settlement are applied," said Isaac Jaroslawicz, lawyer for INB. "It's going to let the bank, the companies and Feltner work together and get the joint plan for reorganization going," said Agnes Hollingshead, the Boynton Beach attorney representing Feltner in the state lawsuit. An Oct. 14 agreement that forestalled the appointing of a trustee turned over daily operations to the stations' chief operating officer, Dan Dayton, until a reorganization plan is approved or the stations are sold.

In January, a federal examiner questioned whether the stations are making money and called on the court to oversee the selling off of the Florida stations and the Birmingham station. TELEVISION From IB ton has argued the syndicators -inflated the claim by figuring in income from future showings, Under that plan, Krypton would pay another $1 million to several other creditors and $1 million in administrative and operating expenses, said Daniel Bakst, Krypton's attorney in the bankruptcy cases. INB was able to make deals with Krypton separate from the other creditors in the federal bankruptcy case because it is the only secured creditor. The other creditors still could reject Krypton's plan, which would scuttle Monday's agree-; ments. If Krypton could not get financing by the end of April, it would not fight creditors' putting the two stations and Krypton's film libraries up for auction, according to the settlement.

Under Monday's agreement, if Krypton International obtains or is varying canal levels that was meant to increase water flows into Taylor Slough. Experts say a reduction in the amount of fresh water reaching the bay has contributed to the loss of sea grass and widespread algae blooms that have caused lobster and shrimp harvests to plummet. The canal experiment has produced few positive results and also has sparked constant bickering among park officials, water managers and the Corps over how the canal should be operated, Ring said. Col. Terrence "Rock" Salt, the district engineer for the Corps' But Bakst said, "We're making money.

We ve had the best quar ter we've had in years." tin nil Tim mn mm lifflil i mv mm What The County Commission Did The Martin County Commission addressed these issues Tuesday: SOLID WASTE: Commissioners voted unanimously to appoint Wendy Harrison as the county's director of the Department of Solid Waste. Harrison has been acting director since December 1992. FURNITURE: Commissioners paid $30,542 for furniture for the temporary judicial center. This furniture was bought as 'savings' to the county, which had been paying $3, 1 38 a month to rent the goods, Acting County Administrator Peter Cheney said. MEETING TIME: Commissioners briefly addressed their marathon commission meetings held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month.

Cheney discussed the findings of his review of Palm Beach County Commission meetings. The commissioners did not take any formal action to shorten their sessions. POPULATION REPORT: Commissioners accepted revisions to official county population estimates. The population report was prepared by the Department of Growth Management and will be submitted to the state Department of Community Affairs. In the report, the population of Palm City showed the largest increase 2,444 residents for an estimated total of 15,069 since numbers were last compiled in 1991.

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Exciting sports reports from arenas everyway. You '11 find it all, and more, inside the daily Treasure Coast editions of The Palm Beach Post. V726) crT Martin County Landfill 2 Miles LANDFILL From IB 400-acre site, about half of which now is filled with garbage. A portion of the 400-acre site will remain undeveloped. Stuart West includes 250 lots, but only 45 are developed.

Stuart West homeowners, who spoke out for privatizing the county's landfill needs, did succeed at getting county commissioners to explore granting some concessions to their expansion decision. "We're in a no-win situation here so it would be nice to get some concessions out of it," said Diane Mastalski, a representative of the Stuart West Homeowners Association. It costs the county $3.5 million per year to operate the landfill. Sending garbage outside the county was estimated at $5.5 million. Resident Jenette Busch told commissioners her family is suffering from an "awful" smell and noise because they live near the landfill.

"It's persona to me," Busch said. "Don't put it next to my house.".