Fort Lauderdale News from Fort Lauderdale, Florida • Page 19

2A Fort Laiidf rdale fawn, Thursday, July 12, 1973 Building Permits Soar 'To $272 Million "Oh, said Kip Scharlow, a researcher with the Atlantic Federal Savings and Loan Association. "We just expected it to tighten up. There just isn't that much money to lend. I think some of these people are going to have a problem getting the financing." However, according to Davie building chief Bill David, builders in his city want to have permits in hand in case of any kind of moratorium. Building in Davie zoomed to a fantastic $32 million permitted, more than has taken place in all the four years David has worked there.

David said the largest permit was Realty Guild Developers which plans a 400-unit townhouse and apartment complex on 37 acres between College Avenue and University Drive. That development alone could mean the addition of mora than 1,000 persons to Davie. In comparison, the city issued $707,000 worth of permits in June of 1972. "This is mostly up around the Nova University complex. I don't think we're going to lose our charm because of this," David said.

Even in the coastal cities under moratorium because sewage treatment isn't up to par the construction crane is far from an endangered species. Hallandale recorded a $37 million increase over 1972 and Pompano Beach and $11 million increase. The May total for building permitted was $122 million, a 67 per cent increase over the previous May. "We were swamped under for a week or two before the June 15 deadline when the impact assessment ordinance went into effect," said pollution control official, Jim Eiias. "This place was just a madhouse." The $272 million worth of permits translates into 1S.21S housing units, almost twice the 8,656 permitted in April, a record in itself, according to the News market and research department.

The June living unit total permitted will bring the six-month total to 45,000, equal to the number of units permitted during all of 1972, estimates Jan Mink of the Area Planning Board. The totals staggered the imagination of at least one person in the real estate community. By PAT TONER Staff Writer Broward County builders, apparently trying to avoid paying the newly enacted impact assessment fee, took out a record-shattering $272 million worth of building permits during June. The total is far more than the previous one-month record of $193 million set last September when builders rushed to escape state and county-imposed sewage treatment plant moratoriums. The total does not include the value of permits given out in the unincorporated area.

That report is expected sometime next week, but building permits there have been running close to $20 million a month. That would push the total to close to $300 million, almost a third of the value of permits given out during all of 1972. When completed, the buildings will house about 40,000 additional persons in Broward County. VALUE OF PERMITS NUMBER OF UNITS Court Strikes No-Fault Section 1 1 i If 1 fi 1 LI Jl i'-tWkW-i-: Banker On The Roof Fiddling with jig' ures in his al fresco office is the vice president of a Pat' erson, iV.J. bank who has adopted, along with a pretty secretary, headquarters in the shy during construction activities.

Pretty cool! (in millions ot dollars) GOVERNMENT 1972 1973 1972 1973 Unincorporated $12,601 769 Coconut Creek .208 6 Cooper City 1.347 4 73 Coral Springs 3.658 8.930 116 396 Dania .753 5.370 14 9 Davie .707 32.620 33 2,072 Deerfield Beach .902 35.128 IS 2,717 Fort Lauderdale 18.303 18.632 594 454 Hallandale 6.262 43.165 159 2,526 Hillsboro Beach .008 .002 Hollywood 6.491 6.597 121 191 Lauderdale-by-the-Sea .210 3.127 1 20 Lauderdale Lakes .811 .996 0 0 Lauderhill .348 27.913 IS 1,863 Lighthouse Point .543 1.007 26 Margate 3.493 13.673 194 1,024 Miramar .477 1.101 27 7 North Lauderdale 1.736 5.820 114 334 Oakland Park 1.050 1.202 SO 6 Pembroke Park .880 .113 108 0 Pembroke Pines .159 6.818 1 128 Plantation 2.736 16.102 44 744 Pompano Beach 4.629 15.683 145 552 Sea Ranch Lakes Sunrise 2.888 12.882 127 981 Tamarac 2.913 14.181 98 1,092 Wilton Manors .391 Total $73,256 $272,409 2,760 15,215 AP Wirephoto Records On Military Men Destroyed In Kansas Blaze Tht Associated Preu TALLAHASSEE Florida Treasurer Tom O'Malley said today a Supreme Court ruling striking down a portion of the state's no-fault automobile insurance law did not invalidate the overall statute. "I don't believe there is any anticipation that the court is going to drow out the whole no-fault statute," O'Malley said in reviewing yesterday's court ruling. O'Malley joined deputy Atty. Gen. Barry Richard in expressing confidence that the remainder of the law would be upheld as constitutional.

"While they did invalidate a portion of the law, it is not truly the no-fault concept," O'Malley said. Insurance rates will go up if yesterday's ruling stands, but the amount remains to be seen, members of the Broward Insurance industry said today. In the landmark 4-3 decision, the Florida Supreme Court threw out the part of the no-fault law which prohibits persons without insurance from suing for property damage in minor accidents. But the decision does not become final until all avenues of appeal are exhausted, pointed out Tom Johnson, executive vice president of the Florida Association of Independent Agents. This probably won't be until late September or early October, he said.

When and if it does go into effect, there will be a further delay while the insurance industry assesses the added costs, said local insurance agent Robert Ross. "It takes a while for the statistics to be compiled and the losses to be paid. I don't think the insur. nee companies are going to come in the day after this goes into effect and say, 'Okay, we're going to charge you a few dollars more'," Ross said. The case which led to the court ruling involved a Miami woman who did not carry the optional collision coverage and had been told that she could not sue to recover her $250 in damages because it was less than the $550 minimum.

Under no-fault, claims under $550 are automatically paid by a person's own company if he is covered. (Liability and bodily injury coverage are required but physical damage coverage is not). Thus, under no-fault, a person could not sue for physical damages below $550 or bodily damage below $1,000. The fire apparently broke out a few minutes after midnight on the top floor of the six-story building. Fire officials said the blaze, was confined to the fifth and sixth floors.

Seven hours after the fire broke out, flames were still shooting from the top of the building. One center employe said the sixth floor of the building contained "boxes and boxes of Other employes said most of the records were on paper and were extensively damaged by water. Two firemen were overcome by smoke and were hospitalized. No employes were injured, authorities said. The center employes about 8,000 persons.

United Press International OVERLAND, Kan. Hundreds of thousands of military personnel records were destroyed early today in a fire that extensively damaged a huge building used for storing government documents. Employes said the only personnel in the building at time of the fire were those working at computer center on the fourth floor. No injuries were reported. The FBI and other federal agencies refused to admit reporters through the front gates of the U.S.

military personnel records center. Authorities would not speculate on the cause of the blaze. The giant complex contained records of 26 million past and present members of the U.S. military. fit It CnTV1 1 1 AP Wirephoto UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AND TINY BELFRY fugitive said he left only to go foraging at night Prepares For Congress Peking Purging Pro-Soviet Clique Fugitive Sought 2 Years Used Belfry As Hideout particularly does not want their possible infiltration into any new Politburo.

The prevailing secrecy was said to obscure the extent of the problem and the actual moves under preparation. But veiled hints in the official press and references to so-called "revisionist lies" signified continuing stresses. The Mao regime faces two specific immediate problems: The formal removal of President Lio Shao-chi, decried as "liar" and "swindler" and accused of pro-Russian manipulations; and replacement of the former defense minister, Lin Piao killed in an air crash allegedly while trying to escape to Russia after an abortive anti-Mao plot. Several high officers were with Lin in the plane, but mere have been official claims since suggesting the army stands firmly with the regime, presumably after so-called unreliable elements have been removed. The Russians, while disclaiming any direct contacts with pro-Soviet elements in China, nevertheless see in their existence an encouraging factor for a possible change of Peking's policy toward Moscow some time in the future.

United Press International LONDON The Mao Tse-tung regime is quietly removing pro-Soviet elements from the country's main political and administrative centers in readiness for the projected Communist Party congress next month, Allied diplomatic dispatches from Peking reported today. They said there are strong indications that pro-Soviet quarters are worrying the regime and that despite a long campaign against them they have not been eliminated. These elements, said to be difficult to pinpoint, favor reconciliation with Russia and a go-slow in the regime's current policy of accommodation with the United States. The 10th party congress, reported due to be held in August or September for the first time since 1969, is to prepare a new constitution, fill vital posts in' the depleted central committee and, not least, try to settle the difficult question of the succession to Mao. The Peking dispatches suggested that the regime does not want to risk an open clash with pro-Soviet factions, but United Preil Internailonal LEESBURG, N.J.

Nearly everyone in this small town knew William Hughes and about his troubles with the law. But when Hughes, who was awaiting trail for breaking and entering, disappeared two years ago, no one knew where he went. All that time, he was right in town, hiding in the bell tower of the Leesburg Methodist Church. Police said yesterday he told them he would stay out of sight during the day, emerging at night to hunt for food; afraid to spend his money lest he be spotted. Hughes, 28, was finally caught Monday night after the bell ringer saw him.

"He was relieved to be caught. He was half in tears, shaking quite a bit," said State Police Detective Warren Ferry. "It's good to be back with people. I've wanted someone to talk to," police quoted Hughes. Ferry said Hughes jumped ball shortly after his May 1971 indictment on several charges of breaking and entering.

Police were summoned to the church after he was spotted and apprehended him without a struggle. Ferry said Hughes told them he started hiding in the belfry of the small church in late 1971, when the weather turned cold. Before that he hid in woods near this town of 3,743 residents. High in the rafters, police found 50 empty soda cans, food wrappings and a cardboard box of cigarette butts, Ferry said. He said he would come down nights and walk the railroad tracks for exercise.

He would forage for food," Ferry said. "He had some money in his possession, which he claims was money he had when he disappeared some years ago. We're reluctant to believe that. But he couldn't spend it, he knew he'd be seen and arrested," Ferry said. The money came to about $50, most of it in change.

Hughes apparently washed his clothes in a basement bathroom of the church. Ferry said Hughes' hair "was light blond when hp took off. His hair now is brown, almost black." Hughes' estranged wife said the couple was married about three years and had two children before the trouble. Hughes was taken to the Cumberland County jail in Bridgeton to await court action on the original charges and additional counts of abduction and carnal abuse filed while he was a fugitive. Slow-Acting Virus Found Causing Cancer evidence that the vims can cause cancer in man.

But he said that the discovery could help determine whether viruses can cause any form of human cancer, as well as provide a clue to the solution of a strange but common type of brain tumor in children called "medulla blastoma." The Associated Press FORT DETRICK, Md. A slow-acting virus that causes a neurological disease resembling multiple sclerosis in humans has been found to be the most potent virus for producing cancer in animals. Relating this yesterday, a top government researcher stressed that there was no ao 15 13 72 42 71 67 79 71 it PTCLDY 14 4 .04 PTCLDY Is .27 FAIR 77 SHWRS 7 54 -PTCLDY 90 45 -TSHWRS 14 40 .11 TSHWRS IS 54 I i.m. Barometer (Inches) 30.02 Humidity (Per cent) 97 Temperatures Bahia Mar 82 72 Ft. Lauderdale 17 74 Plantation 84 71 Hollywood 18 74 PHASES OP THE MOON Weather Party sunny through tomorrow with thundershowers likely.

High mid to upper 80s, low mid 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 m.p.h., stronger and gusty near thundershowers. Shower probability 70 per cent. 71 2.04 PTCLDY 5 7 57 -PTCLDY lit? Albany Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Columbus, Dallas Denver Detroit Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Los Angeles Las Vegas Louisville Memphis Milwaukee Minneapolis 54 Iwl L14 ik-4 50 DM from NATIONAL WCAJHSU SERVICE, Dr. Donald Tower, acting director of the government's National Institute of Neurolo-gical Diseases and Stroke (NINDS) told about the discovery at a science writers seminar staged by the White House and the Department of Health Education and Welfare.

Dr. Tower said the discovery was made by Dr. Richard Johnson and associates at the Johns Hopkins Medical Center, Baltimore, Md. He said the virus has long been known to cause a human nervous system disease known as "progressive, multi-focal, leuko-encephalopathy," or PML. He said it attacks and erodes the myelin, the membrane that sheathes nerves emerging from the brain and spinal cord, which is an extension of the brain.

The process is similar to that found in human multiple sclerosis, although there's still no proof the latter disease is caused by a virus, Dr. Tower said. "When the virus is recovered from the brain of a person who has died from the disease it causes brain trumors in rabbits and guinea pigs and is the most potent tunor-producing virus in animals," he said. Dr. Tower said the brain tumors produced in animals resemble the "medulla blastomas" found in many children.

The scientist said the PML virus is one of four so-called "slow" viruses that are known to cause neurological diseases in man. They are described as "slow" because they apparently smolder in the body for several years before the disease symptoms-show. The first such virus discovered caused a disease called "kuru" among natives of the New Guinea highlands who were cannibals. Commerce ilSJ JL NOAA, U.S. 0pl 75 51 13 75 II 62 48 II 44 107 84 II 61 90 74 70 51 62 -CLOUDY 15 41 PTCLDY It 74 PTCLDY W74 -CLOUDY Ms PTCLDY 70 FAIR 15 42 PTCLDY 110 7 .01 PTCLDY 19 PTCLDY 1 70 PTCLDY 17 FAIR 12 (0 J7 FAIR 71 .11 FAIR 12 43 PTCLDY 105 15 .58 FAIR 14 59 PTCLDY 12 55 FAIR 87 44 PTCLDY 70 54 CLEAR 92 65 FAIR 71 52 .41 PTCLDY 15 62 if Rainfall t- Behia Mar 0.37 303 11.37 Fort Lauderdale 0 10 2.51 21.04 Plantation 0.33 2.91 23.43 Hollywood 0.11 5.53 21.70 TIDE DATA Today Bahla Hillsboro Mar Inlet a.m.

p.m. a.m. p.m. High 7:27 4:41 7:31 Low 12:49 12:51 1:21 1:32 Tomorrow a.m. p.m.

a.m. p.m. High 7:22 1:04 7:33 1:17 Low 1:32 1:41 2:04 2:15 MARINE FORECAST For the exposed Atlantic coastal waters from Port Canaveral southward through the Florida Straits including the western Bahamas; winds will be southwesterly 15 knots for me southern portion and mostly southwest 10 to 15 knots in the north. Seas 1 to 4 teet In me south and 2 to 1 teet in northern portion. For tht Inland waters Hong the southeast Florida coast trom Lake Worth southward through Biscayne and Florida bays winds will be mostly southwest 10 to 15 knots with a moderate chop on the waters except gusty winds and locally rough waters near thundershowers.

TROPICAL OUTLOOK Trooical storm development Hi not likely through tomorrow. New Orleans 93 71 New York 12 107 11 3 67 10 67 15 69 tl 52 IS 46 70 54 14 71 Phoenix Phlla Pittsburgh Raleigh San Fran St. Louis Seattle Washington 1st Otr. Full Moon Last Qtr. New Moon July 7 July 15 July 22 July 29 Moonset Today 4:03 a.m.

Moonrist Tomorrow 7:04 p.m. Sunset Today 1:15 p.m. Sunrise Tomorrow a.m. STATE WEATHER Partly sunny to cloudy through tomor. row with occasional thundershowers.

Highs from mid 80s to mid 90s, low tonight mostly in 70s. I Prtc Apalachicola 90 76 Clewiston 88 72 .02 Daytona Beach .....92 73 Ft. Lauderdale 86 73 .22 Ft. Mvers 89 73 .07 Gainesville 93 73 Homestead 85 71 1.63 Jacksonville 92 75 Kev West 83 74 1.57 Lakeland 92 72 Miami 86 75 .60 Naples 85 71 .16 Ocala 93 73 Orlando 95 74 Pensacote 95 77 Sarasota-Brandenton 89 73 St. Petersburg 92 78 Tallahassee 93 71 .32 Tampa 90 74 Vero Beach 96 75 .01 West Palm Beach 19 71 .23 FOREIGN 90 77 .64 70 zxbsra www Acamjlco Bermuda Edmonton Kingston Mexico City Montreal Nassau San Juan Toronto Winnipeg .47 "3 74 71 49 90 79 75 55 61 51 91 82 92 79 71 56 4 60 Figures Show low Temptraturn lipectedj SHWRS 90 79 Until fridoy Motninf, Isolated retiilli Not Indicated-Consult leiol fertioit AIR QUALITY INDEX GOOD.