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54 Pages IS Cents 10nd Yiar No. 1M 'O HI Stnllnt) star Company Orlando Florida, Tues day, May 16, 1978 How to tackle quivering deck The troubled T-Bowl Last in a series I HIUMIIM 1t 111 I1, 11 hM "'fr 1 lull II flmwAttmiaL Mlt t-yV TTtir-iBWiniiii tMiffllllll "immr rnV'TiM'. By LARRY GUEST Snorti Editor While contemplating a solution for the Tangerine Bowl's controversial east side upper deck, a frivolous twinkle flashed in Oru Bose's dark, East Indian eyes. "You could take it down and put it in a park somewhere," grinned the young architect, "and call it, Carl Langford Son of Tangerine Bowl." Bose was only half-kidding. Removal of the T-Bowl's controversial upper deck and its various problems is an invariable alternative offered by several architects and engineers interviewed by the Sentinel Star.

Cost: $50,000 to $100,000, depending on what would be done with the dismantled deck. Supporting columns and bracing could be bolstered with additional steel to stop the upper deck's perceptible sway, which has cloaked the entire stadium in infamy. Cost: $200,000 to $250,000. VIP booths, a first-class press box, rest rooms and a concession stand could replace the top rows of the upper deck, thus eliminating seats with poor sight lines and relieving the traffic in lower-level aisles. Cost: an additional $100,000 to $200,000.

However, steel columns supporting the upper deck block some parts of the playing field from the view of fans sitting behind them. Adding to these columns would make the view worse. Dennis WallSentiml Star Support oliiiniis already Mock ans' view of llie field Deck, Page 10-A eeailte OK Mideast jets Cave tribe found in Philippines V. d.t jtitdimA iB'tinai of I -fa AS I' -If 4 4 i I 'No sale' rejected by 54-44 By NICHOLAS DANILOFF United Press International WASHINGTON The Senate voted Monday to let President Carter sell $4.8 billion worth of sophisticated warplanes to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel in a new foreign policy victory for the administration. The close Senate decision came after a full day of debate on the controversial deal when legislators voted 54-44 to reject a resolution to disapprove the sale.

The Senate's decision means the president now can go ahead with the controversial sale, because it takes a concurrent resolution of disapproval by both the House and Senate to block a major arms sale. The House International Relations Committee had scheduled a vote for today on the issue, but'the session was rendered moot by the Senate's decision. Opponents of the sale argued that pumping $4.8 billion worth of advanced arms into the Middle East would complicate peace negotiations and threaten Israel's security. Sen. Lowell Weicker, who last week attacked the White House for undermining Israel's security, told the Senate gloomily: "The national posture is kneeling, the backbone is spaghetti and the heart is for sale!" But another staunch supporter of Israel, Sen.

Abraham Ribicoff, became one of the most eloquent pleaders for the sale in both public and closed sessions of the Senate. Ribicoff had requested the secret session which lasted two hours and 23 minutes to consider the impact of the sale on the balance of power in the Middle East. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minority Leader Howard Baker had predicted the Sen-Jets, Page 10-A Las-'- wTLji Li 1 1 AnocialM) PrtM Oitoatch MANILA, Philippines A tribe of primitive cave-dwellers wearing loincloths made of hammered bark has been discovered living inside the crater of an extinct volcano in the jungle wilderness of the Philippines, the government announced Monday. A government spokesman said President Ferdinand Marcos visited the area, 430 miles southwest of Manila, during the day by helicopter. The spokesman said it could not be established if the tribe, which has been the subject of legends, had ever been in contact with other people.

The crater is in Palawan province on a narrow, 275-mile-long island that juts out into the South China Sea. The crater area is remote, surrounded by deep ravines and gorges and accessible only by helicopter, the spokesman said. The palace announcement said the tribe, whom it called or stone people, lives in cave? clustered at different levels on the walls of the crater. The men and bare-breasted women wear loincloths made of pounded bark. The palace said the tribe is comprised of 30 families, but it did not give the tribe's total population.

For food, the cave-dwellers engage in rough forms of agriculture, planting casava, sweet potato and other root crops in' the fertile valley more than 1,000 feet below the crater's mile-wide rim. Their source of water is a river that flows through the valley from a huge cave, the palace said. Another group of cave-dwellers, the stone-age Tasaday, was discovered in 1971 in a rain forest in the center of Mindanao Island in the southern Philippines. The. Tasadays numbered only 25 people when discovered and had fashion-, i ed loincloths out of the broad leaves of a ground orchid.

Page 8-A Andraw J. Hickman and Gordon Williamson Sentinel Star wr -m Smoke billows from a Volusia County brush fire the 1,000 acres at Edgewater. One firefighter suf- Of tfSICf OItISIt at Edgewater Monday as residents rush toward fered burns but damage to homes was minor. Au- flames that at one point threatened a subdivision, thorities say dry conditions and high winds con- Iff ft! flflfllf'V Tw0 other major fires burned 500 acres in the Holly tributed to the large brush fires. Story, Page 4-C.

Hil area flnd 200 acres at SamsUa jn additjon t0 Increasing convention center use expected But County Administrator James L. Harris said Monday that county officials will not know exactly how large the center will be until architects and engineers have been hired this summer. Joseph Varga of Laventhol Horwath said a scaled-down center would probably reduce the projected numbers by 15 to 20 percent. The center will be financed with revenue from a 2 percent resort tax approved by voters April 25. The tax is a levy on hotel and motel rooms and certain other accomodations for transients.

County officials expect construction to begin in about a year and to be completed by February 1981. The consultant's report will be presented Wednesday to the Center, Page 7-A By JANE HEALY SwitlMt Star Staff Fifteen major conventions and 100 local events are expected for the proposed Orange County convention and civic center in its first year, a report by an economic consultant firm said Monday. By its fifth year, the center would be used by 32 major conventions and 147 local events, said the report by Laventhol The report, however, Is based on a center, the size the Orange County Tourist Development Council originally proposed. County officials have since estimated the center would be about 75,000 square feet less. Junket costs defended: Florida's not cheapskate Legislature IS Page 3-C sive hotel suites in Europe and the Orient.

During the committee hearing, House Speaker Donald L. Tucker challenged Lewis' motives. "At some point in time you need to realize, Mr. Lewis, statesmanship may end and demagoguery begins," Tucker said. "I know you don't mean to do it but a lot of people might think you're being political." Tucker defended Commerce Secretary Philip Ashler, who has borne much of Lewis' criticism for the department's spending.

Lewis has accused Ashler of setting the pace by flying first class and staying in plush suites too often. lations of law on any of my travel expenses." Askew said some of the expenditures were distorted, appearing as $11,000 booze bills when they also included food. Lewis reported that Askew spent an average of $414 a night on hotel suites during two weeks in the Orient. One suite at Tokyo's Imperial Hotel cost $456.21 a night for three nights. Askew said he needed two adjoining bedrooms, one for the security guard he must take everywhere, and a sitting room in which to greet industrial pros-Junket, Page 7-A By PETE SPIVEY Sentinel Star Start TALLAHASSEE Battling criticism of loose spending by the Department of Commerce during industry-hunting trips abroad, 12 business leaders Monday pleaded with a House committee not to overreact by attacking Florida's economic development program.

State Comptroller Gerald Lewis has criticized the department's division of economic development for excessive spending in its overseas program, particularly for its use of first-class air travel and expen "I've known him (Ashler) to be a very ethical and a highly competent man, but he's not a cheapskate," Tucker said. "And we don't need a cheapskate representing Florida because Florida is not a cheapskate state." Lewis' criticism was attacked on another front Monday. In a speech to a labor union group, Gov. Reubin Askew praised Lewis for ferreting out alleged wrongdoing but said "there have been no vio 1.