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Not The Kind To Plot, Say 8 Viet Vet's Family Pines Narc Fired; Still 4M 18U1; Fort Lauderdale News Ml Perdue would not guess. His brothers and sisters are "all upset, but they don't know anything either," she added. Mrs. Perdue is also worried about losing her Own job as a barmaid at a local American Legion Hall over the incident. "They haven't said one word to me," she was hensive, "I may lose my job over this bit." Monday, July 17, 19721 PEMBROKE PINES EhK sive Fred Sams, an undercover narcotics agent of the Pembroke Pines police, was fired yesterday by City Manager Charles McNally.

Police Chief Orlando Nastri is considering filing a charge DONALD PERDUE shock to family "I can not believe that would do anything like that," she declared. As to where her son is, Mrs. a h' 1-4 By STUART ZIPPER Staff Writer Government charges that antiwar activist Donald Perdue planned to use violence to disrupt the Republican National Convention have his mother puzzled. The former Marine, a Vietnam veteran wounded on a night patrol while serving there, had condemned war because of its violence, said Mrs. Daisy Perdue of 4560 SW 32nd Lake Forest, southwest of Hollywood.

She insisted today she cannot understand why her son, a member of the Vietnam Veterans. Against the War, (WAW) would be involved in the convention plot. HAS BEEN INDICTED Perdue and five others have been indicted by a federal grand jury in but he still remains at large. Mrs. Perdue also charged the indictments may have been a political maneuver.

"I feel that maybe they're going to Tceep them up there until after the Republican convention, I just have this feeling," she added, questioned about her view of the timing of the incident. WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN The mother of the WAW activist said she hH lint THE FIRST man to hold the office of vice president said of the job; "It is the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." Attesting to the truth of this evaluation is the fact that a surprising number of Americans can't tell you offhand the name of the nation's first vide president. (Just ask a dozen people offhand and learn this truth for yourself.) You, of course, are one of the exceptions and knew he was John Adams who became our second president. However, Adams also said when he was Vice president: "In this I am nothing, but I may be everything. 'V For, as regularly pointed out, the veep stands a heartbeat away from the most powerful office, the greatest concentration of power vested in one man." I reflected upon this while looking at the picture taken at the end of the Democratic convention of Senators Mc-Govern and Eagleton, holding clasped hands aloft following heard from her son, since against Same, of making a false report of a commission of a crime.

Sams, who was the object of a massive police search for seven days when he vanished into thin air July 7, is still eluding Nastri. Nastri and Hollywood Police Lt. James Prigodich, head of the intelligence unit had gone to Fort Mills, S.C., Friday night to talk to Sams, who is staying with his step-grandfather, J. Edge, and his grandmother. HAD DEPARTED However, when they arrived at the home, Edge told them Sams had left with his pregnant wife, his father and mother.

Edge did not know where they had gone. The next anyone heard from Sams was Saturday afternoon, when he called headquarters from a pay station. Nastri said the policeman receiving the call said he could hear money being, dropped into a coin slot. Sams told the Pembroke Pines policeman that he was working on a case and would report to headquarters within 72 hours. Nastri said he has informed the dispatcher that if Sams calls they are to tell him to come to the police station, "for I won't talk to him over the phone." BELIEVED IN AREA Nastri said' he is satisfied Sams is in the Miami area at present.

"We have his house under surveillance," Nastri said. Nastri said he is carrying Sams on the roll as being away without official leave, "until he comes in and ex-, plains what has happened since he was last heard from July 7." Both McNally and Nastri said Sams had $70 of city money at the time he.disap-. peared. McNally said, "It was marked money which Sams was supposed to use to make a narcotics buy." i "As far as I am concerned be absconded with city money (Continued on Page 2C, Col. 8) respective nominations shortly after he testified be- as candidates to president and vice president.1, is Over the years a whole literature has been written about the lack of power given by the Constitution to the vice fore the grand jury in Tallahassee Tuesday; He was indicted Friday, but an FBI search has failed to find him.

Perdue, 23,. is the youngest of five children. His brother Richard, 34, served with the presidency. The veep is total- Stilt photo by Urtuli Seemann ly the creature of the pres- Airborne, at the end of i. i 1 The Kiesters and their From left, Dr.

Kiester; Kirk, 6, Dwight, 7, Mrs. Kiester ident. Only one function is as the Korean War, a twin signed to the yice president by the Constitution. He presides over the Senate and votes in case of a tie. As Republican PMWUP.I 1 i I If Enclave Irks City Man No Island But Home Is Youth, 19, Files For School Board Nineteen year old Jeff ery University, B6ca Raton, M.

Cohen of Fort Lauderdale, where, he has only two 'more who was graduated last year years, to go to receive a bach-from Pompano Beach High' elor's degree. He earned ad-School, filed ah affidavit today vanced placement at the uni-in a bid to become the young- versify by scoring high in the est candidate ever for the flonda 12th pde placement Broward County school board. ZfslZ Cohen, 6601 NE 21st is another test, seeking to be the Republican JEFF COHEN PBHS, Class of 71 Robbery Suspect Held brother Ronald was in the Navy, but never saw combat. Mrs. Perdue said the entire sequence of events, starting with the grand jury subpoena and ending with her son's indictment, had taken her by surprise.

'A SURPRISE "He doesn't smoke, doesn't drink. just can't understand all this," she said. Donald's involvement was even more of a puzzle, she continued, because the only demonstration he took part in was the massive one in Washington D. C. several years ago.

A quiet boy, she said her son rarely had friends visit him at her house. His major love, she added, was the sea. PAST ACTIVITY Donald is a member of the board of directors of the Broward Artificial Reef Project, and was recently accepted to the marine biology program at the Florida University of Technology. Donald's anti-war sentiments started after he returned from Vietnam, his mother said. While i in the Marines he wrote letters home regularly, but "he never said much at all." IN HOSPITAL "He was supposed to come home in 53 days," but added, "then didn't hear from him until he called me from a hospital in Jacksonville." It was at that time Donald started displaying antiwar sentiments he refused the Purple Heart, a decoration.

"He told me those Purple Hearts don't mean a whole lot, a lot of guys get it without deserving it," Mrs. Perdue explained. TALKED LITTLE But even so, her son didn't talk about the war except on rare occasions. On one occasion he told his mother "they don't want us BY 'ACTS of Congress he has a seat on the National Security Council, and a membership on the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution the latter duty not exactly a power base. Eight vice presidents have succeeded to the presidency after the death of a oresident and of these, onlv four were later elected to the office on their own.

The Speaker of the House, the Senate majoritv leader, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, or the chairman of any of the influential committees, wield more clout, more political leverage, than the vice oresident. This fact is cogentlv pointed out in the act'on of Congressman Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Wavs and Means Committee whence tax legislation is controlled who without hesitation spurned Mc-Govern's offer to the nomination of vice presidential candidate when Mills' long shot bid for the presidency failed. No vice president exerts the political strength than does a chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Oddly enough, as political scientist Robert A. Listen notes: 1 "The people of the two largest states, New York and California, have not an iota of say about electing him.

He comes from Kensett, a hamlet in Arkansas, and represents the smallest congressional elec-tion district in the nation. Representative Mills is known to be a thoughtful and statesmanlike man, greatly concerned about the welfare of the nation, but legally he is responsible only to a rural area in Arkansas." End of today's history lesson. he had killed Barkalow. Office Cheatham assured him Barkalow had survived and then asked to speak to a police officer at the Deerfield Beach station. He told It.

Lee Magnuson his brother was wanted on a robbery charge and Arthur was jailed. "He could have bonded out if Officer Cheatham hadn't told us," Magnuson said. The message to hold Cheatham didn't come until half aa hour later. "I respect the man for it," Magnuson said. Magnuson said the older Cheatham didn't appreciate his brother's action.

Patrolman Cheatham was working on a robbery case in which a man offered to drive Frank Barkalow, 64, home from a bar. Barkalow was instead taken to an apartment where he was beaten, robbed and his car After Patrolman Cheatham examined the apartment, he wrote in his report book: "The occupant of this apartment is Arthur Cheatham" the police officer's older brother. Six hours later, after he had gone off duty, the policeman brother received a call from his brother from the Deerfield police station. The older brother asked if By PAT TONER Staff Writer DEERFIELD BEACH A Miami man who was turned in by his rookie policeman brother on robbery and auto theft charges, was held in jail here today until he is released to Dade County The Miami man, Arthur Cheatham, 27, was arrested and fined in Deerfield Beach on charges of having no license, speeding and an improper start. 1 When he called his brother, Miami Patrolman Bobby Cheatham, after his arrest early yesterday morning, his brother asked to speak to the officer in charge.

When Dr. Kenneth Kiester, a psychiatrist, his wife Frances, and their two sons, Dwight, 7 and Kirk 6, decided to buy property in "the country" five years ago, they found a large white Georgia pine frame house on an acre and a third of grass and trees, ringed by a wood rail fence. It was a place where they could keep live stock and filled Dr. Kiester's prescription of "a place where I can have some privacy I like being able to feed the chickens in my underwear." But that was before Tamarac happened. The developer-city has grown up around the Kiesters' retreat.

Now, the acre and a third is an island, not part of Tamarac but surrounded by its condominiums, golf course, and a highway lined with shopping centers and flashing signs. i 'A POLLUTION The visual pollution is awful, the doctor says. The Kiesters' property is not part of Tamarac. They pay no taxes to the city and can not ask police or fire services from Tamarac. The Kiesters last year decided to move there permanently, although they still own a "city" house in Fort Lauderdale.

Meanwhile, Kenneth Behring had bought up surrounding parcels and developed a community of retired people. Dr. Kiester views the development with alarm. "When I bought this piece of land," he said, "this was country, the city has grown up around me. It is really frightening." "I really wouldn't mind paying (city) taxes," he says.

"We already pay them to the county. It would probably be worth it just to get police protection." Tamarac Police Chief Milton Stocker says "We'd probably go over there in an emergency" and says his men once did help Mrs. Kiester catch one of the family pigs which escaped last year, running through the neatly manicured backyards of the developer city. Besides the pigs, the Kiesters have chickens, a couple of turtles and a swarm of bees. They also have a produce garden where each member of the family is learning to he a MANY RULES The Kiesters are hard pressed to find too many reasons to give up their independent status in the city where deed restrictions rule out fences such as the Kiesters have, and impose other rules necessary in the close-packed condominium community.

In some sections of town, children are prohibited by city ordinance. "An enclave like that should not exist," City Manager Robert Castenholz said with a chuckle. "We would like to annex them but our hands are tied." Short of an act of the Florida legislature, annexation cannot take place without the Kiesters' consent. And the Kiesters are wary, to say the least. An annexation hearing to talk it over was held a few weeks ago at city hall.

Dr. Kiester is still considering the city, manager's words spoken at the hearing. The city manager was the only person smiling during that meeting," Dr. Kiester says. "I liked him instantly.

He laughed and said to me 'Dr. Kiester, no man is an island." candidate for the School Dis-trice 2 seat now held by Mrs. Laura Jones, who has filed for re-election. Cohen, who will have to submit by July 25 a petition signed by one per cent of the county's (not. to exceed 3,000) filed an affidavit in lieu of paying the $275 filing fee.

for the 1 board race.He said he appreciated the recent court ruling which enabled him to file without paying the fee because, he said, "I couldn't have afforded to pay the fee." He said he is "looking forward" to facing Mrs. Jones in the Republican primary on Sept. 12. Jeff said he has three major reasons for filing for the school board. "Youth should be represented on a governmental body whose decisions primarily affect youths," he "It's better to work within the system than against it.

I had quite a few suggestions when I worked with the student council at Pompano High but, if I were on the school board, I'd have a better op-, portunity to get things done. 'FRESH IDEAS' "My third reason for filing is I would like to introduce the fresh ideas I have for improving the school system. I intend to discuss these ideas within the next few weeks," he said. Asked if his age is a handicap, Jeff replied, "On the contrary, I think my age is a benefit. I'm closer to the problems of education today." Jeff attends Florida Atlantic Lightning Kills Doctor, Second Stunned On Links over there, they, don want our help over there," Tshe re called.

Another time, "he said 'Mom, how would you like sol diers coming over War is nothing but she repeated her son's final conclusion. ankle and numerous abrasions. His condition was reported as satisfactory at Memorial Hospital today. The lightning victim was Dr. Sol Kramer, 63, -who was pronounced dead on arrival at Memorial shortly after 9 a.m.

yesterday. The other doctor, Benjamin Littman, 63, was treated at Memorial then transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach, where he was treated for shock, then HOLLYWOOD One North Miami Beach doctor was killed and another was stunned when a bolt of lightning struck a golfing foursome standing underneath a cluster of trees at, Orange Brook Country Club yesterday. A police sergeant, Kenneth Kapacka, 41, responding to the call to the country club, was involved in an accident at 28th Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard. He suffered a compound fracture of the left and It is statements like that which have confused Mrs. Perdue.

She can't conceive of her son being guilty of advocating the violence he is charged with planning for the Republican National conven tion. SHORT SHOTS: I'm with Airport Manager Lee Wag-ener who is firmly against imposition of any head tax that would be paid by incoming or departing passengers at the airport. This tax, now in effect at the Philadelphia Airport, has air passengers who have been forced to pay it furious by extension one can envision a time when every motorist from out of the area coming into the county would be charged a head tax. Chess player Bobby Fischer has accomplished one thing I thought I would never live to see: an attitude of most people in the U.S. that they would rather see a Russian win than the U.S.

competitor in a head-to-head competition but then, I never thought I would see a chess match make front page news in this country, or get prime coverage on national TV incidentally, I don't know how well King Farouk of Egypt played chess but he once owned what must have been the most expensive set in the world the board and chessmen were made of The other two in the foursome who escaped injury are Dr. Harold Goldburg, 66, of North Miami Beach, and Dwight Garrison, 59, of 1845 Jefferson Hollywood. Garrison was added to the threesome so that there would be a foursome playing golf. When they reached the No. 3 tee, it started to rain verv hard.

The foursome walked underneath a cluster of trees to await the passing of the rain when the bolt of lightning struck the tree and the two victims, according to Patrolman Eric Schmid, who investigated. IN COLLISION At the same time, Sgt. Ko-packa was rushing to the scene to offer assistance. He was en route west on the boulevard when he figured in a collision with a car driven by Dr. Donald Bullington, 45, of 4110 Lincoln which was en route south on 28th Avenue.

The impact hurled Kopacka out of the car for more than 45 feet. The police car ended up being wrapped around a concrete utility pole. 15 Don'ts' Can Prevent Dread Lightning Hit Lightning kills between 300 and 600 people a year in the United States, more than are killed by hurricanes and tornadoes in an average year. Here are 15 "don'ts," any one of which may save your life during a thunderstorm. These guidelines were compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: STAY Indoors.

STAY AWAY from open doors and windows, fireplaces, radiators, stoves, metal pipes, sinks, and plug-in electrical appliances. DON'T USE Dlue-in electrical eauiDment such as hair lightning protection. SEEK SHELTER in buildings. If no building is available, the best protection is a cave, ditch, canyon, or under head-high clumps of trees in open forest glades. WHEN NO shelter is available, avoid the highest object in the area.

If only isolated trees are available, your best protection is to crouch in the open. Stay twice as far from isolated trees as height of the tree. AVOID hill tops, open spaces, wire fences, metal clothes lines, exposed sheds and electrically conductive elevated objects. WHEN YOU FEEL the electrical charge if your hair stands on end or your, skin tingles lightning may be about to strike you. Drop to the ground immediately.

DON'T WORK on fences, telephone or power lines, pipelines or structural steel construction. DON'T USE metal objects, such as fishing rods or golf clubs. Golfers wearing cleated shoes are particularly good lightning rods. DON'T HANDLE flammable materials in open containers, such as capless gasoline cans. STOP tractor work, especially when the tractor is pulling metal equipment.

Get off the tractor. Tractors and other metal implements in contact with the ground are often hit by lightning. GET OUT of the water if swimming. Get out of small boats. STAY in your car if traveling, utomobiles are excellent '4 rare jade and encrusted with emeralds, diamonWSddryers, electric toothbrushes or electric razors.

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