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That Hack Becomes Second Home Mike Morgan Cabbie Must Be A Philosopher Sunrise, drove a cab in Fort Lauderdale this summer and thinks it was one of the biggest adventures in his life. He drove for the Red Cab Co. and said the work, while hard, was broadening and a marked contrast to his duties as a substitute social studies teacher at Boyd Anderson High School. A cab driver, he said, can be sure of one thing: that no two days will be the same. Each trick, he says, is new and often challenging.

"Hacking through the Gold Coast has a certain 'uniqueness. It combines contrasting life styles. A cabbie must interact with both," Fingerhut said. "On one hand, he might be dispatched to the prestigious Le Club Internationale. His conversation with his fare might consist of a discussion of (Continued on Page 2B, Col.

1) By BRAD BREKKE Staff Writer The Gold Coast cabbie is a special breed of man. He enjoys driving, aches for the freedom of the open road, can withstand long hours of hassling and secretly dreams of the "big fare" which will take him to Fort Pierce or Key West. And it is this mystique this dream which -feeds the enduring spirit of this unsung man behind the wheel. He spends a lot of time in his hack an average of 60 hours a week and often eats in it, reads in it and sleeps in it. Of necessity, of course, he sometimes must leave his cab, but says he hates going to the bathroom because he might miss a customer.

He often works long hours for low pay and finds a grim humor in it all. The turnover of cab drivers, therefore, is high. He has street savvy and knows that service is the name of the game. He is a combination friend and psychiatrist who knows talking with you will increase his chances for a larger tip. He will listen to your problems, offer you advice and if you ask, share some of his burdens with you.

Gabby. Opinionated. He is almost convincing. He can be a wonderfully irreverent fellow in heavy traffic and should another driver, try to cheat him out of a fare, he is often surly and sometimes comes on like a wounded shark, using language which would frost a shot glass. Keith Fingerhut, a 23-year-old teacher from Staff photo by Ursula Srtminn KEITH FINGERHUT 'certain uniqueness' Death Ends Attempt To Hop Train Fort Lauderdale News to the Broward Hotel at 1:45 a.m.

after visiting a nearby bar. Beach" attempted to jump aboard one of the cars but failed. His body was dragged about 100 feet by the train. He died minutes later at Broward General Medical Center. A 23-year-old Illinois man was killed early today when he apparently tried to board a Florida East Coast Railway freight train at SW Second Street and Second Avenue.

Police said Robert Wayne Beach, 23, of the Chicago area, was returning mm OUR "Sign of the Complex Times" incident of the week comes from the News Business Editor, Paul Carson, who was trying to track down a. land developer in New York City. He called the NYC Informa-' tion operator. (Sorry, today's nomenclature is "directory In the course of i trying to track down the elusive number, Paul and the operator got to chatting about New York and some of its neighborhoodi where one might find the developer. "You know," he said, "because he is a land developer doesn't necessarily mean he's in Manhattan.

As you very well know, there are lots of them out on Queens Blvd." "I wouldn't know," came the reply. And then she added in a wistful tone, "I've always wanted to visit NYC." Which comment made Paul do a mental double-take. Puzzled, he asked: "What do you mean you've always wanted to visit New York? Where are you right now?" October 5,, 1973 1C Death Rate -I Blamed On Slums Normal Curriculum Asked Nova Concept- Faces Challen ge i If "NJUc. lt P-o A mt A X4P4 ttililV'fflft I Broward County has the highest infant death rate in the state because of slums, Dr. Paul Hughes, county health lirector, said today.

Twenty-two out of every 1,000 babies born here last year died before they were one year old, State Division of Health figures showed. "As long as there is poor sanitation, overcrowding, rats, flies, no rat-proof buildings, lack of screens and proper hygiene all these add up to babies dying," Dr. Hughes said, i Why does Broward have a higher infant mortality rate than densely populated Dade? "It must be that our slum housing is even worse than Dade's," he said. The state figures include ac-c i a 1 deaths but Dr. Hughes said 90 per cent of the babies die of disease.

Most of the infants who die are black, he said, adding: "Ninety per cent of them get pneumonia or dysentery or die because they were born prematurely because their mother's health was not good." Dr. Hughes said his department needs more space and more personnel for maternity clinics and that means more money. He predicted the infant death rate will go even higher because of the lack of "a good preventative medicine program By STUART ZIPPER Staff Writer Broward school board member H. Don Moore has challenged the concept of the Nova complex in West Broward. Moore demanded last night that Nova schools be given specific attendance areas, just like other schools in the county.

Moore also wants the experimental, and often controversial, Nova curriculum normalized and the successful parts of its program used in other county schools. The Nova complex of two elementary, a middle and a high school, now draws students from throughout the county. The complex is scheduled to be turned into a massive school for training teachers in special educational methods. Twenty five per cent of teachers there would have only one year at the complex for training, and all teachers there would be limited to a five-year tenure. The concept is that by moving teachers through Nova and on to other schools, spe-c i a 1 methods will diffuse throughout the county.

"I don't think you can carry he said. Tripp supge-ted the answer to the debate might be a special hearing, or a series of hearing. Milton Brantferger, board member, suggested hearings be at the Nova complex, where teachers, students and parents could become involved. "Niva's gomg to come back in the headlines," he predicted. Supt.

illl am Drainer agreed that maximum involvement in the hearings would be important if school board members were to really underytond the concepts involved with Nova. Board although agreeing on need for hearings end an evaluation of what Nova should do, set no date for start of the herings. In other bii' iness. the board ignored protests of Southern Bell Telephone Co. representatives and unanimously re-fected the ohone company's bid on an ultra-modern, computer-operated phone system, despite the fact much of the wiring has already been installed.

The new bids are scheduled for Feb. 21, 1974, to allow other companies time to compete with Southern Bell. it out ti the other schools," Moore flatly challenged the philosophy of the latest special program proposed for Nova. "Salvage what we can," Moore urged, demanding the complex be ured simply as a group of normal schools, like any others. "We're not in the educational teacher college he insisted.

John Tripp, board member, immediately objected. "That role (of training teachers) is very important," "Elmira, New York." Elmira is some' 200 miles from the Fun City. It seems, she explained there is an office of the phone company in Elmira that handles overflow calls when NYC information gets jammed lines. Which again proves that sometimes the longest way around is the quickest way to a busy signal. ANY TRIAL lawyer can recall; instances of where he thought he had trapped some' witness on the stand only to find he had set a booby trap for himself.

Recently I came across one of those examples which is so good it is for savoring. It happened during a celebrated" trial in Paris long years ago and concerned the authenticity of a painting owned by the Louvre. A woman claimed that the painting in the Louvre was not genuine; that she owned the authentic painting. This was denied by certain art critics who declared the one in the Louvre the real one and the other a fake. Outraged, the woman brought suit for half a million dollars.

The true painting was enormous value. Among the art critics called as expert witnesses against the woman and her picture was the autocratic art critic Bernard Berenson, the doyen in his field whose imprimatur of authenticity, or whose rejection, of a painting as a fake, was rarely challenged. Berenson testified the woman owned a fake. He was cross-examined relentlessly for three hours and was getting furious at the attempts to shake his judgement. The woman's attorney asked him: "You've given a good deal of study to the picture in the Louvre?" "All my life.

I've seen it about a thousand times." "And is it on wood or canvas?" Berenson thought it over then replied: "I don't know." The attorney leaped at this reply and asked in a thinly contemptuous manner: "Ah, you claim to have studied it so much, and you can't answer a simple question." Berenson icily shot back: "It's as if you asked a literary critic on what kind of paper Shakespeare wrote his immortal sonnets." The lawyer, and case, was destroyed. Staff photos Lou Toman BOY HURT Dean Holiday of 4500 NW 32nd Lauderdale Lakes, was trying to cross State Road 7 at NW 36th Street yesterday and was struck by a car, Lauderdale Lakes police said. Though his injuries were painful, the first aid he receives here showed they were not serious. Schools, Ousted Teacher May Settle Salary Claim Actions Of Council Face Board Inquiry A Deerfield Beach Elementary School teacher, suspended since 1969 on charges of immorality, has been offered a negotiated settlement of his back pay demands if he will agree to resign from teaching. School board members, by a 3-1 vote, instructed the board attorney, Edward Marko, to negotiate with Clarence Ray on settlement of his claims for back pay.

Ray was suspended Nov. 26, 1969, on charges of allegedly molesting students. The suspension was upheld by a hear ing, officer when Ray appealed. But last month the cabinet, sitting as State Board of Education, ruled Ray had been denied due process of law because the original charges against him were not clear. The Broward school board, the cabinet ruled, had to start over again in the case.

Marko and Supt. William Drainer agreed last night a rehearing of the case would not be desirable. "We're dealing with children whose possible recollec tions wouldn't be very good," Marko pointed out. In addition, he 4 noted, the case "had apparently some racial overtones" and a public rehearing could result in opening of old wounds for the school system. Ray was the first black teacher in the formerly all white school, and the students, he allegedly molested were" white school girls.

Only John Tripp, board member, refused to agree to a settlement of the case with Ray simply resigning. adopted by the City Council just a few weeks ago. The attorney, Morris C. Tucker, was also instructed to probe the legality of an Oct. 30 $1 million bond referendum to purchase a new city hall from Leadership Housing, Inc.

And the five-man elective charter board also said it would seek the help of the governor and Florida attorney general to determine why the council allegedly paid $79,000 for an audit, when only $12,000 was authorized. By JANICE LAW Staff Writer TAMARAC The municipal charter board has launched a three-pronged investigation of city activities by charging alleged charter violations in the city's $2.9 million budget, challenging auditing fees paid by the council, and questioning legality of a planned referendum on the -purchase of a new city hall. The board instructed its attorney to investigate alleged illegal items in the budget, Tucker told the charter board meeting last night he feels the bond proposal has "at least three violations of the state constitution and four violations of general law." Tucker said later he did not want to be more specific until he researches the matter at the charter board's request. A referendum ballot was released and many were very disturbed to learn the ballot fails to fully outline the com- Continued on Page 2B, Col. 6) 2 Strip, Rob Cabbie; Not His Idea Of Fmi 00 pltliilllllj Hero Has Drive, But Fame Is Just Bus(t) 9 -m-y -A downtown Fort Lauderdale along Las Olas Boulevard.

But before arriving back downtown, police said the men told Andrews to turn into a side street and ring the bell on the house of a girl the pair claimed they knew. When he returned to the cab after following their instructions, the pair jumped Andrews and then drove him to Powerline Road and NW 52nd Street. Once there, the pair forced Andrews to strip, tied a belt around his neck and told him he had three minutes to escape. He then ran to a nearby meat plant where an employe lent him a butcher's jacket and permitted him to call police. The two bandits, neither one of whom appeared to be armed, escaped with $40 and the cab.

A Fort Lauderdale cab driver who picked up a couple of fares looking for some fun found himself an unwilling part of the action by the time the ride was over. William Andrews, 18, a driver for the Yellow Cab Company, picked up the fares at the Greyhound Bus Terminal at 51S NE Third about 2 o'clock this morning. The two men told the cab driver to take them to a place where they could have some fun, so Andrews headed towards the Button Lounge, a bar at 3000 South Atlantic Ave. When one of the two was refused admission because of his age, police said, they returned to the cab and asked Andrews to find a location where they could purchase drugs. He refused and began driving them back towards SHORT SHOTS: Six books dealing with various aspects of sex that were missing from the Plantation Library were anonymously returned hmmm, there's got to be a human interest item there someplace A woman who married off five sons got along famously with the all of her daughters-in-law.

They adored Asked how she managed to bring about so much harmony, she replied: "In any argument between husband and wife I always agree with the Thanks to Evelyn Virzi, Alice Brayshaw and Ethel Anderson for that work of art to paste on my refrigerator to remind me to stop munching. At current prices you've got a real reason to cry over spilt milk. Raymond Frazier beat the Broward County transportation system twice. But now he wants anonymity again. First, he fought what he considered an unsafe bus stop at Broward Boulevard and NW Seventh Avenue, going over the heads of his bosses to BCTA director Houston Miller and getting the stop shifted.

The next day, he was assigned the oldest, most broken-down, non-air conditioned bus in the BCTA fleet. His superiors denied it was punishment for going over their heads; he claimed it. was. Today, the bedraggled bus he got is in the bus boneyard. When people rode railroads instead of driving cars, there was a folk hero named John Henry.

He beat the system by beating a steam rail-driver. Billy Mitchell. Jimmy Pier-sail. George Blanda. Now Broward County bus riders and drivers have an unwilling hero in Raymond Fra-zier.

"A lot of cars, as they pass me on Broward Boulevard, honk their horns and some of the drivers yell at me: 'Sock it to 'em. "Most of my passengers have been patting me on the shoulder and saying: 'You are right. It was unsafe back Frazier said. It failed before he made the first circuit of his route. "That bus should never -have been on the street," Walt Grumbles, chief of Fra-zier's garage told him yesterday.

"Everybody connected with dispatching you in it has been chewed out." Today, Frazier is back to business as usual and driving his air-conditioned bus on his same old route. "Now I hope if I keep a low profile they'll quit harassing is the last thing Ray- mond Frazier hopes he'll lay for publication. r3 4 SENTENCED Gerard John Schaefer, left, a former Wilton Manors policeman convicted last week in the mutilation-murders of two Broward County girls, leaves St. Lucie Jail in Fort Pierce on his way to sentencing. Judge C.

P. Trowbridge turned down Schaefer's request that he be sent to a mental institution and sentenced him to life imprisonment. Schaefer's attorney has already filed for appeal of the verdict..