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Fort Lauderdale News rXISIXfWSSMSi Saturday, May 6, 1978 Section CityCounty News Deaths, Page 3 School Scorecard: Phies A Winner; Melrose Center A Loser But The Battle's Not Over IfttSLITQ. By Wes Dvorak and James De Graci Education Writers The Broward School Board took away from the East yesterday and gave to the West. Now the battle lines are drawn. State Road 7 is the dividing line. The next offensive to garner construction money from the School Board is set for 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday at Piper High School in Sunrise. That will be a public hearing. On Thursday night, on familiar turf at the School Board offices, the board is scheduled to vote on how to spend $26.8 million in advance construction funds from the state. That's all the money the board expects to get for five years. Early yesterday, at the conclusion of a meeting that began Thursday night, the board reversed itself and authorized construction of a new $2 million elementary school for Pembroke Pines.

Only 10 days before, April 25, the board, after four deadlocked votes, had agreed to build a new $2.4 million center for Melrose Park, a school for socially maladjusted students in Fort Lauderdale. At the Thursday night meeting board members killed the center by refusing to put the project out for bids, and by using the $2 million for the new elementary school. James Vickers, a Fort Lauderdale resident, had greeted the earlier board decision to build the new. Melrose Park Center. "For once, we felt like you did something for us" he had told the board last The board voted April 25 on how to spend $8.2 million in school construction money that must be encumbered before the remaining $26.8 million can be spent.

The $2.4 million for the new Melrose Park Center was part of that $8.2 million. Now it is not. Legally, a contract must be awarded on a project to encumber the money. Because the request for the $26.8 million has to go to Tallahasse in early June, the contracts to use up the $8.2 million have to be awarded by then. Thursday's meeting of the School Board, which ran ov er into yesterday morning, was the last opportunity to authorize bidding for projects so contracts could be awarded before the June deadline.

The board can't reverse itself now on any other project without jeopardizing the remaining $26.8 million in funding for the county, according to School Board Chairman Estella Moriarty. Vickers, upset at the board's turnabout this week, has promised that East Broward residents will be out in force for the public hearing Tuesday night. West Broward parents are expected to be there, too, in large numbers. Among the West Broward groups, there has been competition between the north and the south. A high school is proposed in each area, the north at Coral Springs and the south at Davie.

Both high schools are expected to be built. Please Turn To Page 2B, Column 6 WW 7T v'- Sv' fr 't A Outlaw Leader Ordered Killings, Sheriff Reveals By Chuck Crumbo and Dave Casey Staff Writers James "Big Jim" Nolan, president of the notorious Outlaws motorcycle gang, ordered the execution-style murders of three rival Hell's Angels in apparent retaliation for the beating of an Outlaw, according to Broward Sheriff Edward J. Stack. Stack yesterday released the names of four Outlaws indicted last month by the grand jury in connection with the April, 1974 rockpit murders of the three men. I Indicted with Nolan were Henry Tim "Funky Tim" Amis, 30; Ralph "Lucifer" Yannotta, 37; and Norman Edward "Spider" Risinger, 36.

Each was charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Jury Awards Crash Victims' Kin $5 MUlion A federal court jury in Miami yesterday recommended the families and estates of two Fort Lauderdale city officials, killed in 1976 when their light plane collided and crashed with an Air Force jet near Lake Okeechobee, be awarded more than $2 million. Here's How Wish List Stacks Up Here is a "wish list" of school construction projects the School Board has yet to finance. This list adds up to about $45 million. But the board has only $26.8 million in advance construction funds from the state to work with.

Thus, the board has some tough decision-making ahead of it. The figures listed below are estimated, not actual costs, and inflation may already have increased the expense of some projects by as much as 20 per cent, according to school officials. Nova Middle School: $4 8 million for a new building in Fort Lauderdale. Currently, the middle school shares a building with Nova High School. Nova High School This project is dependent on construction of Nova Middle Extra space could be altered to proide among other classrooms, a medical lab, home economics suite, radio-television and a science lab.

Nova Blanche Forman Elementary: $378,129 for an air-conditioning hook-up. Rock Island Elementary: $826,589 for alterations and additions creating four kindergarten classrooms, six primary classrooms, a music suite, a reading lab, suites for exceptional students and more. Student capacity would increase by 670 students. High School 'CCC: building in the Davie-Cooper City area would pull off Cooper City High School from double-session. Coconut Creek High School: $203,206 for vocational additions, including a motorcylce mechanics room and horticulture room, additions, including a marine mechanics room and horticulture room.

Fort Lauderdale High School: $285, 582 for vocational additions, including a cabinetmaking room and a horticulture room. Northeast High School: $315,581 for vocational additions including rooms for business education, marketing and merchandising and home economics. South Broward High School: $375,126 for vocational additions, including child care area and two home economics rooms. Pines Middle School: $1.1 million for additions and alterations at the Pembroke Pines school. It would create three general classrooms, six science rooms, an agriculture lab, work experience and distributive education areas.

Pfease Turn To Page ZB, Column X'V yj -yV ti x-; i xf- X' 'N: Nolan, 34, currently is being held in the county jail while appealing a five-year sentence received for threatening the life of a Hollywood police officer. Both Amis ana Yannotta are behind bars, -while Risinger is at-large and the object of an intense, nationwide manhunt. The four Outlaws are accused of murdering Edwin Thomas "Riv-erboat" Riley, 34; George E. "Whiskey George" Hartman, 28, and Albert E. "Oskie" Simmons, 24, members of the Lowell, Hell's Angels chapter.

Each was shot once in the head with a shotgun and their bodies anchored with two concrete blocks and dumped in the murky, 20-foot-deep waters of a West Broward rockpit. The murders apparently were in retaliation for the beating an unidentified Outlaws member suffered at. the hands of a high-ranking official of the Hell's Angels' New York City chapter. All four suspects have lenghthy arrest records. Amis currently is being held in the Florida Correctional Institution serving a 15-year sentence for the Aug.

22, 1974 torture-beating of a young woman. Four other members of the Outlaws also were convicted in the same incident and are serving IS and 20-year sentences. Yannotta also is being held at the state prison serving a life term plus 15-year sentence for the June 8, 1974 abduction and robbery of three members of the Pagans, another rival motorcycle gang following a party. One of the victims escaped while the bodies of the other two Pagans, were found last December in Sumter County by an armadillo hunter. On Staff Photo by BOB EAST One of 12 wolves is ready for transport as a Davie couple moved their mini zoo Families of two other men who were in the same plane with the Fort Lauderdale officials, were awarded by the same jury $3 million.

Over-all $5 million was awarded to the families and estates of the small plane's pilot and three passengers. The federal government did not contest its Iiablility in the case and the only question before the jury in a week-long trial was the amount of damages awarded. Under federal court procedure, the findings of the jury are not binding on U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler, who presided. Hoeveler can reduce or raise the amounts awarded the families.

The families claimed the Air Force had been negligent in failing to keep a lookout for private airplanes. Killed in the crash were Paul White, 38, safety and insurance pervisor for the city and Charles Eggertsson, 55, White's assistant; the light plane's pilot, J. G. Ruel, 49, of Coral Gables; and John Conlin, of Homestead, a National Airlines flight engineer. Also killed was Air Force Lt.

Gregory Mellor, 23, of Torrington, a student pilot in the $4 million Air Force F-4 Phantom jet. White's wife and six children and the estate of his deceased mother were awarded $1,530,860. Eggertsson's wife Kathleen and three children were awarded $655,279. The Ruel family and estate were awarded a total of $1,935,000 and Conlin's estate and family were awarded $986,224. yesterday to Northern Florida.

Davie Couple Packs Up Zoo Barely Beating Council Deadline By Dick Powers and Ken Hoffman Staff Writer In mobile, transient Broward County hundreds of families move every day. But not with as much trouble as Barry and Larry Hand of Davie. Yesterday they packed their 12 wolves, two cougars, a pair of bobcats, a baby bear, two raccoons, a lion named Ralph, 200 birds and five children and left their home at J4250 SW 24th in a huff. "Oh, boy, am I glad to be getting out of here," Mrs. Hand said.

"I'd leave Davie if I had to cart my animals on my back." For the past 18 months, the Hands maintained the zoo at their two-acre property called Canis Lupus Ranch, but the enterprise of breeding wolves and caring for other beasts erupted into controvery two months ago when complaints from neighbors forced action by the Davie Town Council. The council, which boasts its town as a horse haven, threatened a court suit if the Hands did not leave by May 5. Please Turn To Page 2B, Column 3 Jan. 19, Yannotta, a former Pagan, and six other members of the Outlaws, including Sammie F. Nail, 32, of Hollywood, were indicted on first- Please Turn To Page 2B, Column 1 Nova Trustee Critical Of Goodwin Attorney 'I.

Was Beaten, Ex-Inmate Testifies NT By Dennis Powell Staff Writer James Richard Harris yesterday told a Broward Circuit Court jury how four of his cellmates in Broward County Jail beat him and held him in a bunk while three others raped him. The testimony came in the trial of the seven, all accused of rape. The four-woman, four-man jury was emotionless as Harris detailed how there were three fights in cell 7-3-E in the early hours of Dec. 21. He was asked by Assistant State Attorney Thomas Kern if "anything unusual happened that morning?" "I was beaten and raped; that's very unusual, I'd say," the soft-spoken, well-dressed Harris replied.

"I was grabbed by David Ritchie in the hallway," Harris said. "Then a guard came by. After the guard left, we started again. By James I. Helm Staff Writer A New York member of the Nova University Board of Trustees, in a statement to his fellow trustees, has sharply criticized both the management of the Broward educational institution and the attorney who is refusing to turn over a bequest to the financially strapped school.

Trustee David G. Salten, who has been a member of the Nova board since the Broward school became affiliated with the New York Institute of Technology, made the charges in a six-page statement marked "confidential" but obtained by The News this week. On Nova, Salten, also a member of the NYIT board, says: The school is constantly in need of financial help from NYIT and the aviation is becoming "increasingly uif ealistic." i Nova's financial reports are confusing and always have been, so much so that even a person trained in accounting practices can't understand them. Communications between the two schools are downplaying NYITs contributions "to the point of extinction" and exaggerating those of Nova "to such an extent that one is reminded of Stalin's rewriting of Russian history after the purges." School trustees have never been informed that Nova President Abraham Fischler is one of the trustees of the Leo Goodwin Sr. Unit-rust, the source of the $14.5 million bequest to the university.

Documents relating to the Unit-rust and the bequest by the late insurance millionaire had never been given to Nova trustees. Papers relevant to the Unitrust, the bequest, and related legal actions Please iCrn To Page 2B, Column Three then raped him. Even though only three are alleged to have committed the actual rape, all seven are being tried on the charge. The seven include: Carlton Mann, David A. Ritchie, Isiah Wilcox, Jerry Lee McQoud, Louis King Gigger, Samuel Sapp, and John Fred Pew.

Harris named Mann, Pew, and Ritchie as the three that violated him. "I just got hit all over," the victim added. Afterward, he said, he went to the front of the cell area and called for a guard. "Get me outa here, Harris quoted himself as saying. Finally, he said, guards came and removed him from the cell.

Harris was in jail on stolen car charges that were later dropped at the time of the rape. Staff fejr WALTER MKBOT A soft-spoken James Richard Harryi tells how be was bean and raped by cellmates in Bro-yard County Jail. He wafoined by two or three others..