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Fort Lauderdale News February 9, 1979 Section MeTtiropoMtairai CityComity Newg Deatlis. Page 1 He Had 3 Reputed Associates Here County Connection For 'Porn Prince'? Steve Weller A Oneida County District Attorney Richard Enders told The News Mrs. Zuber and her mother were named along with Krasner in a two-count indictment handed up October 1976 by a grand jury. Also named in the indictment were Krasner's wife, Lillian, who did not accompany him on his ill-fated trip to Fort Lauderdale; his son, Philip; another relative, Diedre Krasner; five other men and five Krasner-controlled companies. Those five companies were identified by prosecutor Enders as: Thebest Builders and Contractors HELP Publications; Phil-Jon Corp.

Disco Lease Inc. and Lo-Ji Sales Inc. Please Turn To Page SB, Column I becca BoIIerman, of Fort Lauderdale, who currently is standing trial in Lebanon County, on obscenity charges. The three women were identified by investigators as officers of various Pennsylvania-based companies operating under the conglomerate umbrella of the 53-year-old Krasner's smut empire, said to have been the largest in the northeastern United States. Krasner died early Tuesday after being shot three times in the face, shoulder and stomach with a revolver after he had just parked his rental car at the rear of the motel parking lot.

Krasner was staying with his 25-year-old son, Philip, the son's wife, Sharon, 24, and their two small children at the Fort Lauderdale Motel, 501 SE 17th St. Fort Lauderdale police have arrested 29-year-old Solomon Webb as a suspect in the shooting claiming Krasner was shot to death during a bungled robbery attempt. But other law enforcement officials, who have been investigating Krasner since his first arrest in 1944, believe the self-crowned "prince of pornography" may have been the target of a paid assassin. Krasner, at the time of his death, was free on an appeal bond stemming from his 1975 conviction for trying to hire a hit man to murder a former business associate and competing porn peddler. By George McEvoy and duck Crumbo Staff Writers Pennsylvania "porn prince" John Krasner, who was shot to death this week in a Fort Lauderdale motel parking lot, had business links with at least three Broward County women, The News learned today.

The three, identified by law-enforcement authorities in Pennsylvania and New York, are Joyce Zuber, 43, and her mother. Rose Lamanna, about 70, of Pembroke Pines, who were indicted with Krasner and eight others by a Oneida County, New York, grand jury on obscenity and conspiracy charges, and Re-' Developers Say Escrow Accounts Mean Ruin The Moral: If At First You Don't By Andrew Fro man Staff Writer Some people would consider Kay Sanders a glutton for punishment. Others consider her a kook. Kay Sanders considers herself the savior of Broward's youth. A retired school teacher, Mrs.

Sanders has been trying to sell the School Board her book on how to teach children basic moral ethics. The Fort Lauderdale woman has heard the same answer repeatedly, from School Board members, administrators and teachers thanks, but no thanks. Mrs. Sanders says she is not swayed by the rejections, and plans to argue her case again before the board at its regular meeting a week from tonight. Teaching children moral ethics such as reliability, obedience, judgment, gratitude, punctuality and thrift from the day they enter kindergarten to the day they graduate from high school is the only way to stem the rising tide of youthful crime, she says.

"Isn't that what is causing our trouble? No character ethics?" she asks. "To me, it's as simple as it can be." Mrs. Sanders' book, "Quality Education and the Way to Achieve It," is not really her book she has edited, prefaced, appendixed and written an introduction for the original ethics manual by Minnesota teacher Agness Boysen. The problem with Mrs. Sanders' book is that the original version was written in 1926.

Many officials, including School Board Chairperson Estella Moriarty, consider the book and Mrs. Sanders outdated. Mrs. Sanders' plan for teaching ethics calls for establishing "Success Clubs" at each school in the county with "every room as a different chapter. Then every By James De Graci Staff Writer "I don't feel sorry for any of them," said a Davie homebuyer after a group of developers and builders claimed a proposed county law to hold buyers' deposits on new homes in escrow would destroy them and the homebuilding industry in Broward.

Leo Sullivan said he has had to hire a lawyer to force his home-builder to complete his new home properly. "All this wouldn't have happened to me if they had this law," Sullivan said. The law, proposed by Commissioner Anne Kolb, would require developers to hold homebuyers' deposits in escrow accounts until the new home was finished and both parties had settled. Based on an ordinance originally drafted for the city of North Lauderdale, the county's proposed law would protect the consumer from losing a deposit up to 10 percent of the purchase price when home-builders default or go bankrupt. Sullivan was one of the few consumers at yesterday's workshop session of the County Commission.

Developers, builders and bankers dominated the small meeting room filled with approximately 40 people. Ben Martz of MAP Builders told the commission, "we would simply be legislated right out of business in Broward County." He said the homebuyer's deposit has been used to buy land. Without the use of that money, Martz said, his firm could not afford to continue. Martz said his firm closed on 200 homes last year and has 250 more under construction. Builders and developers were careful to point out that they were local businessmen, noting that several cases of failure recently involved out-of-state operations.

In one such case, the Smoke Rise development, homebuyers were faced with the loss of deposit funds because of the default of the developer. County officials said this problem of default was widespread in the early 1970s. Then the state Legislature enacted a similar law to protect Please Turn To Page 1 A Tribute To Buffalo. If You Get My Drift A handful of craggy oldtimers, their bodies scarred by the telltale rings left by high snow marks, can remember when Buffalo Night in Fort Lauderdale meant something entirely different than it does today. They were there through all those years when the occasion meant round after round of chilling reminiscences, tales of epic battles with the elements, toasts to fallen friends who stepped off the front porch with shovel in hand and were never seen again.

It was a time to give thanks to the inventor of thermal underwear, to boast a little about tribulations survived, to bask in the kind of camaraderie known only to those who have huddled together for warmth and sacrificed young goats to the Big Thaw. All that will be changed on Monday, Feb. 26, when the 29th annual Buffalo Night festivities are beld in the Ballroom at Pier 66. The evening will be dedicated to the less fortunate, to the poor devils who live in cities that have bad winters. Such dismal snowdrifts as Chicago, Dallas, Fargo, N.D., Washington, and New Orleans.

Onecannotpickupa newspaper anymore without reading horror stories about the frigid trials being inflicted on the frostbitten citizens of New Jersey, West Virginia, Tennessee and even Georgia. I can't recall Buffalo being mentioned once. Now that the city has become a garden spot it is only fitting that those who remember how it was before the glacier moved on and Western New York became a resort area should get together and do whatever they can for the hapless victims trapped in underprivileged weather areas. A system of lottery drawings will be set up in the hardest hit regions. Lucky winners in Des Moines, Winnetka, 111., New York City and Oomps, W.Va., will be notified on the night of Feb.

26 that they have been awarded one-week, all expenses-paid, trips to Buffalo. While there they will be shown monuments to the old days a restored four-wheel drive Jeep found up on blocks in an abandoned towing garage, and a bust of Johnny Carson, who was pounded to death with copies of his own monologues during the Blizzard of 77. They also will be taken on a tour of the new industries moving into such suburbs as Lackawanna, Cheektowaga, Tonawanda and Depew the garfish hatchery, the marmalade factory and the sugar cane refinery. As a highlight of the week there will be a general amnesty granted to anybody anywhere in the country who has ever said anything, out loud or muttered, about second prize being two weeks in Buffalo. A number of special guests from Western New York have been invited to the Buffalo night party, including that city's mayor and three former snowplow drivers who have been retrained to pilot ski boats.

The only obstacle that could interfere with their arrival would be the closing of Buffalo International Airport. The terminal staff has been ravaged by an outbreak of sunstroke. Early arrivals will have the opportunity to loosen up for the main event. An informal reception for the Buffalo Club of Fort Lauderdale will be held from 2 to o'clock on Sunday, Feb. 25, at the Daiquiri Lounge on Hollywood Boulevard.

And those who plan to decompress gradually can take the Buffalo Day Cruise on Thursday, Mar. 1, aboard the Hidden Harbor Showboat. Cruise organizers originally planned a Nostalgia Day program and tried to rent a Coast Guard ice breaker. But one is trapped in the Chicago River, one can't get out of the Gowanus Canal, and another is an aspic centerpiece in Boston harbor. All of us old Buffalo types feel for cities that have winter.

T' It2' Staff PboM by TOMMY PRICE Kay Sanders has been trying to convince the School Board to buy her book on moral ethics so far without success. "I must use good judgment in the amount of television I watch and the kinds of programs I see." "I must be grateful that I live in a free country." "I must try always to be on time; not to be late or too early," considers important. Passages such as: "I must learn to think honestly." "I must strictly obey all laws of my home, school, city, state and county." morning they have a meeting of their success club and that is where the ethic is taught," says Mrs. Sanders. Children would learn moral ethics by memorizing the 56 commandments which fall under the 11 individual ethics Mrs.

Sanders Police Seek Two Gunmen Woman Shot In Apartment Robbery ago. He lives less than a block away in a second floor apartment at 321 Sunset Drive. Buckley, described by police as a yacht broker, was returning to his apartment late last night with a friend, Laurie Doornbosch, 26, of 1520 SE Third Ave. As he drove into the parking lot, Buckley saw Miss Deiss using a pay telephone booth directly across the street from his apartment. Knowing that she was looking for an apartment, Buckley and Miss Doornbosch joined the woman at the phone booth.

Miss Doornbosch decided to go up to the apartment and Buckley followed a few minutes later, telling Miss Deiss to join them so they could talk about apartment rentals in the area. As Miss Deiss walked up to the apartment door moments later after finishing her call, the door was flung open by a man who shoved a pistol against her head and asked, "Do you know what a silencer is?" He then ordered her inside to join the other prisoners "if you don't want your head blown off," police said. Miss Deiss panicked and began running back down the stairs from the apartment but was shot once in the leg. The gunman dragged her inside, bound her hands and covered her face with a cloth before ransacking the apartment with an accomplice. Please Turn To Page SB, Column 1 By Dave Casey Staff Writer A young woman was shot in the leg by one of two men who barged into a Fort Lauderdale apartment last night and bound and gagged the occupants.

Listed in good condition at Broward General Medical Center was Linda Deiss, 23, who had been staying with friends at 2313 East Las Olas Blvd. while looking for an apartment of her own. It was her search for housing that entangled Miss Deiss in the violence last night. While staying at the Las Olas home. Miss Deiss met 26-year-old Kevin Buckley in the neighborhood several days Inside 7" 7 Port Problems Merger In The Works Burning Mad He just couldn't stand Port Everglades Commissioner Ernie the ducks any longer First they walked School cafeteria workers in Broward Lauderhill resident Kay Vergnettus Pinto has accused some of his colleagues of across his lawn, and now they were earing his County are expected to decide today whether blaming the city for $35,000 worth of damage making a deal t0 hire Edward Quigley for the pets' food on the patio of his Miramar home to join with the Federation of Public done to her home in a fire yesterday.

She says vacant director's job solely because of The wild ducks, George Archambault told Employees, a collective bargaining group a 'personality conflict between Mayor mans connections. Pinto Broward County Judge William Herring involved in the controversial unionization Eugene Cipolloni and former Fire Chief Phil conceded he has heard only rumors of a deal, attracted cockroaches and rats So efforts of the Broward Sheriff's Office civilian Brewster delayed the construction of a third but he said the rumors are so strong and Archambault got his son's pellet gun and employees. The workers' current union fire station near her home. Had the station persistent that he feels they must be true, started shooting. That was the beginning of leaders say they now want more been there she says, the fire truck response There's no question about it," he said, the great duck battle that ended yesterday in "professional" representation at the time would have been reduced.

She also says. got to be blind and deaf not to see court Staff Writer Marion Hale reports on bargaining table. Staff Writer Andrew she may sue. Staff Writer Lynn Demarest has it Staff writer jeff Forgoston reports on Page 2B Froman reports on Page 4B. the story on Page B.

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