The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 194

C2-Th Post, Thursday, April 24, 1980 Accused Bigamist Has 'em Puzzled Almost By John Paroell Pwt Stiff wrfMr The prosecutor doesn't want to prosecute. The defense lawyer wants to quit the case. Nobody except Circuit Court Judge Lewis Kapner seems to know what to do with accused bigamist Charles Colaes. The judge yesterday ordered the 41-year-old Tequesta man to jail, saying that Colaes also known as Charles Prosper failed to appear in court Monday for his scheduled jury trial. He is being held in the County Jail on $5,000 bond.

Charged with bigamy a third-degree felony punishable by as much as five years in prison Colaes, a 5' 8, ISO-pound blue-eyed, brown-haired house painter has pleaded innocent "He says he will testify that he got a divorce," said defense attorney W. Dave Womack. That's not what authorities say in court records. According to investigator Vally Houston, "there is no doubt that Charles Prosper and Charles Colaes are one and the same person" and married to two different women. Ruth Colaes, of Tequesta, filed a complaint with the State Attorney's Office in November, alleging bigamy.

The woman said the couple was married in Lake Park on Dec. 30, 1978. In Watertown, N.Y., Carolyn Prosper said she married the man on Aug. 10, 1957, and had never been divorced. According to investigators, Colaes telephoned Mrs.

Prosper in Watertown several times and also talked to one of his daughters by that marriage. "What do you do with a guy like this?" asked Assistant State Atty. Moses Baker. "No one was ripped off but the ladies (wives) might feel differently." The prosecutor said Colaes Prosper had caused no apparent economic loss to either woman. "I don't think he ought to be in jail.

He ought to be divorced," Baker said. "I'm trying to plead this case." Womack said his client has an alcohol problem and communicating with him sometimes is difficult. The defense attorney who Kapner barred from quitting the case said he, too, wants to work something out with the prosecutor. After all, Womack said, "Hell hath no fury like a woman spurned." Area News 1 7 Decision Due In Beck Case ill i i I Sf Cultural Event Rebecca Hogg, of Jensen Beach, obviously enjoyed her 1.1 ounces of yogurt but she was far off the pace in a recent contest to see how much culture the yogurt kind 7 i a body can absorb -4 1 In 90 seconds. Kevin Compare ate 20 ounces to win the top spot at Shade of Yogurt In Stuart.

i B' VivtK.pF Jupiter 1-95 Hearing a Quiet Contrast meeting was a marked contrast to Tuesday's meeting in Stuart when angry residents protested being relocated by the highway. DOT spokesman Loren Midgett said the 30.2-mile extension is scheduled for construction in 1984 at an estimated cost of $188 million. He said the route, known as 10-A, was selected because it would cause the least adverse environmental impact of the six routes originally considered. Route 10-A includes five interchanges, three in Palm Beach County at PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens, Donald Ross Road and Indiantown Road in Jupiter. Representatives with the county's traffic and zoning departments spoke favoring the extension and urged DOT officials to begin as soon as possible.

Traffic Director Charlie Walker set up a meeting with DOT to discuss several proposed modifications the county would like included in the project. "We strongly support this construction project," Walker said. "It's something that's badly needed in Palm Beach County." Only four people spoke against Route 10-A. Elizabeth Calley of Jupiter said she is concerned about the wildlife and wetland areas that will be destroyed by the road. "That's a lot of agricultural area that will be ruined," Ms.

Calley said. "I'm worried about the animal life and the cypresses that are going to be hurt by this." "There's no way to get from point A to point without doing that," Midgett said. "We tried to find the best area and the best way to get around (destroying the environment) and this is it." By Claudia L'Engle Post Staff Wrlttr JUPITER Design plans for the 1-95 extension between PGA Boulevard in Palm Beach Gardens and Martin Highway near Stuart were presented to a quiet crowd of about 50 persons at Jupiter High School last night by Department of Transportation (DOT) officials. Although several people spoke against the proposed route, running east of the Florida's Turnpike in Palm Beach County and west of the turnpike south of Stuart in Martin County, the Jupiter Cuts From CI MOORE HAVEN An attorney for Gov. Bob Graham yesterday said he expects Graham to make a decision by Friday on whether to have Gary Beck's death investigated by someone outside Fort Myers State Atty.

Joe D'Alessandro's office. Dick Schoditsch, one of Graham's general counsels, met yesterday with Beck's father, Glades County Circuit Court Clerk Jerry Beck, and Donald Brown, supervisor of elections in Glades County. Schoditsch said Beck and Brown gave him a petition signed by 1,700 Glades County residents, which asked for an outside "impartial" investigation. "I'm going to evaluate the information they gave me, talk with (D'Alessandro) and make a recommendation to the governor," Schoditsch said. "I hope the governor will make a decision by Friday.

It involves an active investigation and we'll need to proceed as quickly as possible." Schoditsch said Beck and Brown "did not say anything bad about D'Alessandro" during the 30-minute interview in Schoditsch's office. "They just thought that under the circumstances it would be better if someone else handled it," Schoditsch said. Gary Beck, a 17-year-old senior at Moore Haven Junior-Senior High School, was killed last Thursday night when Glades County Deputy Jack McMunn drove his car over the boy following a 10-mile chase through rugged country west of Lakeport. Florida Highway Patrol troopers reported McMunn and Deputy Mario Avila, who was riding with McMunn, were "answering a citizen's complaint about a vehicle causing a disturbance at the Lakeport Grocery prior to the chase." Jury Awards Pair $137,000 A couple injured in 1973 when their car was hit by a dump truck yesterday won a $137,000 jury verdict from the truck's driver and two insurance companies, court records showed. The Palm Beach County Circuit Court decision gave $136,000 to Maureen Hoyt and $1,000 to her husband, Hal, as a result of the Jan.

23, 1973 Lake Park collision. A dump truck owned by PGA National Golf Club, now JDM Country Club, and driven by Eugene Tiull Hodg-kins hit the couple's car at the intersection of Northlake Boulevard and SR Alt. A1A, said the couple's lawyer, Dan Jones. The Hoyts sued Hodgkins, Bankers Multiple Line Insurance and Bankers Life Casualty which owned the club. Mrs.

Hoyt complained of back injuries and, a ruptured spleen and Hoyt claimed an injured knee, Jones said. "They (Bankers Life) had offered $70,000 settlement and the jury came up with $137,000, so we almost doubled it (the settlement)," Jones said. "We're pleased with it." League To Probe Panel's Role Palm Beach County's two chapters of the League ot Women Voters yesterday voted to examine the role of parent advisory committees in public schools and reaffirmed their support for a county charter. The West Palm Beach Area and South Palm Beach County chapters had their second biennial meeting at the Palm Beach Ocean Hotel to discuss their priorities for the next two years. Susan Shulman, the outgoing president of the South Palm Beach County chapter said the legislature has authorized a parents committee for every school.

The league, she said, wants to see how many committees have been formed and how they have operated. League member Ingrid Eckler said the charter will not be a league priority, but she added the group will be ready if someone else launches a charter drive. The leagues supported, unsuccessfully in both cases, the proposed 1972 and 1978 county charters. Man Charged in Shooting PAHOKEE A Pahokee man was arrested last night for attempted first-degree murder after he shot another man in the neck, police said. Oliver Lee Morris, 53, of 171 Daniels Place was arrested at his home shortly after 7 p.m.

following the shooting of James Lee Copeland of 177 Daniels Place, a police spokesman said. Morris had gone home after Copeland had beaten him in a bar, the spokesman said. Morris walked out his front door, saw Copeland stand up in the yard and shot the man in the right side of the neck with a revolver loaned by a friend, the spokesman said. Police Sgt. Ulysses Kerr and Patrolman David Alderman arrested Morris at his home.

He was taken to the County Jail in Belle Glade. Copeland was treated at Everglades Memorial Hospital. Two Arrested in Holdups Two men police believe robbed three suburban West Palm Beach convenience stores Tuesday and yesterday were arrested by sheriff's officers, a spokesman said. Randy Schumacher.f 21, and Steven Davenport, 20, both of 4311 Melaleuca Trail in suburban West Palm Beach were arrested by deputies Earl Hill and Paul Wilson and Detective Steve Newell shortly after 2:30 a.m., Detective Sgt. Chris Proper said.

The men were charged with robbing the Forest Hill Grocery, at 4000 Kirk Road at 11:04 p.m., the Majik Market at 1069 N. Military Trail at 12:20 a.m., and the Li'L General at 1030 S. Military Trail at 2 a.m., Proper The men left all three stores via pickup truck after spraying the first store's clerk with Mace and threatening clerks in the other two stores with a knife, Proper said. Both men were held in the County Jail under $31,500 bond each. Train Hits Car; Man Injured LAKE WORTH An 82-year-old Lake Worth man received minor injuries yesterday when his car was struck by a train at 10th Avenue N.

near Street. He was reported in good condition at Doctors Hospital. Police said Aniello Romano, of 1753 3rd Ave. was eastbound on 10th Avenue N. and unable to stop when he saw the FloridaEast Coast Railway crossing gates lowering.

The vehicle skidded under the gate and stalled on the track. It was struck by a southbound freight train and dragged about 39 feet. IV -U say is inadequate health education in the schools and are developing teaching programs. They are advocating the establishment of a crisis nursery for abused and neglected infants and a shelter for runaway teenagers. The board could lose $30,000.

Duvall, who directs the county's Criminal Justice Department, said these agencies have nowhere else to go for money. "Our first hope is that Congress returns to their senses and reinstates the (LEAA) program," he said. The threatened termination of LEAA funding is a radical turnabout from President Carter's earlier budget plans. The program was to receive a 15 percent increase in funding on Oct. 1.

The increase later was trimmed to 5 percent. When the budget-cutting bandwagon began rolling, Duvall said, everyone including Carter jumped on. John Burke, director of the Florida Division of Public Safety, Planning and Assistance, said the impact "could be severe." The budget cuts should be known by May 15, Burke said. Duvall said police and criminal justice lobbyists are working hard in Washington, D.C., to keep the LEAA funds there and is a chance the program will not be cut from the budget. Jane Thompson, a county criminal justice planner who will lose her job with the cuts, said things don't look good for LEAA.

"We've always gone through this in the past to some degree. LEAA has always been threatened to some degree, but this is the first time it's gone this far," Ms. Thompson said. Jim Zalanka, a criminal justice planner who will also go with the cuts, said the budget cuts may be good for the taxpayer, if not for the justice system. "It's about time Congress is doing something about this increased federal spending," he said.

U.S. Senate candidate Richard Pettigrew is unhappy with ex-boss Ex-Carter Aide Pettigreiv Criticizes Economic Policies Movies From CI- "We can no longer sit back and hope the free market system, which is no longer free in some basic areas, is going to solve these problems for us," Pettigrew said. He said the steel, auto and oil industries are among those where competition is no longer the dominant factor in setting prices. Carter, he said, is following the policies of former Presidents Nixon and Ford inducing a recession to slow inflation. "In both cases it failed to stop the underlying rate of inflationary creep.

We're accomplishing nothing at horrendous pain," Pettigrew said. On other issues, Pettigrew said he favors the Panama Canal treaties, public financing of House and Senate campaigns and opposes an amendment banning abortions. He also favors federally funded abortions for the poor. He favors national health insurance, but added, "I think because we are in a period of fiscal restraint, we are going to have to phase it in." Pettigrew criticized U.S. foreign policy in Latin America, saying it includes high tariffs against sugar imported into this country.

That protects a handful of people in the Florida sugar industry, he said, which gets government price supports. Pettigrew, along with state Sen. Kenneth (Buddy) MacKay (D-Ocala) and state Treasurer Bill Gunter, face incumbent Sen. Richard Stone in the September Democratic primary. Pettigrew finished third behind Stone and Gunter in a 10-person 1974 Senate primary.

Violet Doummar of Moralty in Media said her group will picket the theater starting at 11:30 Friday night. "We have 7,000 signatures on petitions we got last Sunday and we have 25,000 signatures on petitions on record with the County Commission and they have done nothing," about outlawing pornography said Mrs. Doummar. "We tried to get a referendum, we want the people to vote on this all these porno films are just pandering to sick people. I certainly have been educated and shocked at the things I've seen.

"We'll put our signatures behind you," she told the commissioners, adding that no one at the county level has been able to determine how to establish community standards that would eliminate pornographic films as the U.S. Supreme Court "says cities may do." She criticized State Atty. David Bludworth for not challenging a ruling on pornographic films by County Court Judge Michael Shalloway. By Gary Blankenship Pest Staff wrlttr To hear U.S. Senate candidate Richard Pettigrew talk, a person never would guess he used to be an aide to President Carter.

Pettigrew, a Miami Democrat, has released his economic program, which is critical of Carter's attempt to halt inflation With high interest rates, tight money, tight credit and a balanced budget. Carter's program is aimed at curing inflation caused by excessive demand, he said. "The current inflation is not caused by excessive demand, it is caused by basic cost pressure," Pettigrew said yesterday. "Prices are set in corporate board rooms and not in the marketplace," he said. "By use of excess market power in concentrated industries, inflationary price increases continue in face of a recession.

That is why the current solutions aimed at excess demand will not work." He called for wage and price controls on about 1 000 of the country's largest companies. Smaller companies already are regulated by the marketplace, he said and controls there aren needed. Some controls should be reimposed on the oil industry, Pettigrew said, and the government should look at ending support payments for some agncul- also can be lessened by deregulating several industries, such afr trucking and railroads, and lightening government regulations, especially on smaller companies, he said. One resident objected that the ordinances were not all-endamDassine. 4 uoin just limit the footage inside the city to schools," said John Szymanski.

"It should exclude them from anywhere the city.".