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Fort Lauderdale News Thursday, Jan. 19, 1978 Section CityCounty News Deaths, Page 4 For Sale: One Hotshot Horse That's Eating Pompano. Beach Into Bankruptcy is called basic main- That expenditure tenancc. I iy: nv-Ki' 1 change in his lifestyle. He has been living in the city-owned stables since he was 3 years old.

And he still has a constant flow of children visiting him each day, "He's a terrific animal," says stable manager Mrs. Sally Busch. "He's easy to handle and easy to ride. He's been well trained and he's in great shape." For a city that already owns a stable, Mrs. Busch says this is Pompano's first experience with owning a horse.

And still the city wants to sell him. A list of interested buyers is now being compiled and the new official owner will be decided next week when the sealed bids are opened. By Jeffrey Rodack Staff Writer The last check of the Pompano Beach motor pool showed 52 police cars, two marine boats, 17 sanitation trucks, six motorcycles and one 11-year-old horse. The horse is the newest addition. And Hotshot Freckles Is giving the city a little problem.

Seized from his owners two months ago for their failure to pay his bill at the city-owned stables, Hotshot has cost the city more than $150 in food and horseshoes. The problem is what to do with Hotshot before he eats the city into bankruptcy. Pompano officials have put him up for sale at a price of $500. Sealed bids only, and so far there have been no takers. Meanwhile back at the stables, Hotshot eats and eats and eats.

"We're not used to this," admitted City Manager John Schoeberlein. "Our previous experience in the livestock business has been limited to police dogs!" For Hotshot, there has really been no I 5 Staff Photo by NICK VON STADEN Stable manager Sally Busch and Hotshot Freckles at city of Pompano's stables. Broward -'Gets -WeaiDon Steve Weller Against Slialblby Biiildiii who'd been in the business 40 years but wouldn't be able to pass a written exam. "You mean they're functional il- literates," Commissioner Anne Kolb x. A nn l.riclwiu.

nt tne count cener- The new law will require countywide licensing for most employees in the construction industry, including many menial workers; make both businesses and individuals, such as a foreman, responsible for their work; make contractors financially responsible for finishing work and construction companies will to prove they are financially stable. The 67-page ordinance, supported by all six building and construction trades, was adopted with ho major revisions. Much of the opposition came from small builders and contractors, including the Margate and Deerfield Beach chapters of Associated Builders Contractors of Florida, and Nesca, an association of air conditioning contractors. Representatives testifying at the hearing said the ordinance would force the menial workers at the bottom of the scale out of work. "I won't have a legal employee left," Maurice Rushing, who represented 200 air conditioning contractors, said, take away the livelihood of thousands of people like duct workers." Commissioner Kenneth Jenne said top to bottom licensing was necessary to eliminate "moonlighting" problems that plague the industry.

Rushing agreed there were moonlighting problems, but said he was more concerned about the employee By Marilyn Weeks Consumer Writer The Broward County Commission listened to more than five hours of often-heated debate before they voted unanimously to give the consumer a bigger weapon against shabby and fly-by-night building practices. The new ordinance, which goes into effect in 30 days, brings the entire construction industry under one countywide licensing program. It will have special impact in communities and unincorporated areas, which offered little or no licensing protection against the door-to-door "contractor" who dispenses watered-down paint and driveway sealer from the back of a truck. the ordinance allowed each of the; industry's six examining boards to use oral exams and proven experience as well as written tests in the licensing procedure. 'David Mears, speaking as a mem ber of Associated Builders, condemned the proposal as, "discriminating against the little guy.

Please Turn To Page SB, Column 1 Maurice Rushing: Thousands to lose jobs. 'i I A 1 M. Ill: Wfoat's In A Name? Sometimes, Not Much i. Maybe there isn't anything illegal about it but somebody ought to look into the sad state of nicknames in the underworld. Shabby work is being done in a field where great pride supposedly is taken in a hooligan's handle.

That might not be serious enough to come under the truth-in-labeling laws but there ought to be some kind of punishment for lack of imagination. I'm not sure where they stand in the rackets, or even if they're in them at all, but the same people keep showing up in print and their sobriquets never get any snappier. Take Anthony Salerno. I don't care if he weighs 500 pounds, you ought to be able to come up with something better than, "Fat Tony." Not only does that designation not sing, it blows a shot at a friendlier Image. There might even be some endorsement money around for anybody called, Anthony "Butter Cookie" Salerno.

Another natural tie-in is being missed by Sebastian "Buster" Aloi. Anybody can be called Buster but hardly anyone is named Aloi. So why pass up the opportunity to be Sebastian "Aluminum" Aloi? Some labels definitely are misleading. The first time I heard the name, "Tumac," I thought of a bush that can cause a skin rash. But further research indicated this particular Tumac is a cartoon character who runs around in comic books knocking heads.

Strange. A surprising number of underworld hundles don't exactly reek with macho-ness. What would you think if somebody was introduced to you as George "Blah Blah" Smurra? As soon as he said hello, you'd be muttering, "For heaven sake, Blah Blah, keep it down." As befits a leader of his stature, Carmine Galentc has two nicknames. When he doesn't mind being identified he's "Llllo." When traveling incognito he's "The Cigar," which could be almost anybody in his circle of friends. At some point In a man's life all Please Turn To Page 7B, Column I A ft; 'You Cling To Any Rumor Uncertainty Plagues Boca Teens9 Parents By Jeffrey Rodack Staff Writer Police no longer call quite so much.

And at times the parents of Cindy Rediger and those of John Futch find themselves talking about the two missing teen-agers in the past tense. But their tears still flow easily. Their bitterness and fears are only compounded by the uncertainty. They want to know what happened to their children. Sixteen-year-old Cindy and 17-year-old John disappeared two weeks ago today after an afternoon picnic.

John's 1970 Pontiac Firebird was found submerged in a canal. But police have been unable to uncover little else on whut happened to the two Boca Raton youths. All four parents have returned to their jobs as they struggle to maintain somewhat of a normal lifestyle. But it is always with them. "It's worse In the evenings," Edith Rediger said.

"And then you wake up in the morning and you think maybe today But the days go by. And die hope that Cindy and John might somehow be alive begins to fade for their parents. "You hope and you want to believe," Mrs. Rediger said. "You cling to any rumor." Please Turn To Page SB, Column i Staff Photo by DOWN GOULD From left, the Cookmans and the Redigers survey poster that offers reward for Information on what happened to their teen-age children.

Local Digest Gore Newspapers Names Director Of Promotion Female Skeleton Found In Boca Fnverrary Fire Ruled Arson The Nov. fire In a golf storage shed at Inverrury Country Club has been ruled arson by Lauderhill fire Investigators. There are several suspects in the case, arson investigator Peter Vallas said today. "There is an Intensive Investigation still being conducted," he said. "Severul very Important leads are developing; also, there arc severul very Important questions that remain unanswered." The fire, which destroyed the storage shed and 59 golf carts, did an estimated $2:5,000 damage.

It begun in a laundry room and spread qulddy. "The building was well-ventilated, and there was no way the heat at floor level could have reached In excess of 1,500 degrees without some kind of accellerntit," Vullas suld. "We do have several suspects at this time," Vallas suid. Fire Investigators, police detectives and representatives of the State Attorney's Office are working closely on the case, he said. The skeleton of a young white woman was found yesterday by bulldozer operator clearing land in a Boca Raton housing addition.

Detectives said the remains were found buried off Natoyla Circle in the Boca Del Mar subdivision, Police have ruled out any connection between the discovery and the disappearance of two teenagers last seen two Weeks ogo in the western Buca Raton area. Wf 1 Boca School Defies Court As a court injunction was read over a police bullhorn, parents brought their children to the Woodland Christian School In Boca Raton this morning and were allowed to enter, apparently in violation of the court order that the school remain closed until It meets local fire safety regulations. A hearing will be held at 3:30 p.m. today In Palm Beach County Circuit Court to determine if the school should be held in contempt of un Injunction issued yesterday by Judge Lewis Kapner. Kapner ordered that the school be closed until it is reinspected by fire Inspectors, Pastor Jerry Peterson, church minister, could not be reached for comment.

The fire officials had attempted to Inspect the school yesterday, but Peterson refused to let them inside, Kapner scheduled today's hearing to consider contempt citations on both yesterday's refusal to admit Inspectors to the building as well as Us opening today, Thomas Griffiths, former director of public service, promotion and research for Gannett Rochester Newspapers, has been named director of promotion and public relations for Gore Newspapers Company, publisher of Tlie News and The Sun-Sentinel. Tlie appointment of Griffiths, 41, was announced by T.T. Gore, president and chief executive officer of Gore Newspapers, It is effective Monday. Gore, In making the announcement, said, "We are Indeed fortunate to have Mr. Griffiths join our organization.

Our newspapers will greatly benefit front his expertise In (he vital areas of promotion and public relations." Griffiths started his journalistic career In 19S6 as a radio announcer In Canton, Ohio. He graduated from Kent State University with a bachelor's degree In speech and Journalism and alo attended Columbia University' American Press Institute at Reston, Va. In 1W, Glffiths put radio station WNOB-FM on the air in Cleveland and was Its program and news dlrec- 1 Thomas Likes Elhies Commission Action Thomas E. Griffiths: New promotion director. tor.

lie later moved Into television with a Cleveland station and was second in charge of the Mike Douglas Show before it was syndicated. Griffiths also worked for other broadcasting stations In Colorado and New York before Joining Gannett Rochester Newspapers ns ad Sales promotion manager in March, 1972. In June of that year he was promoted Please Turn To Page ID, Column 1 were guilty of violating state law, but the senators then took the commission to court, claiming the panel lacked the Authority to make such charges. The court ruled In the senators' favor, Yesterday, tlie Commission decided not to appeal the ruling. Thomas praised the commission for its decision.

"It (the commission's original point of view) Is basically a lost cause," he said. "I'm glad to see they won't appeal It." The state Ethics Commission's decision not to appeal a court edict Involving the Financial Disclosure Law was hailed today by Sen. Jon Thomas of Fort Lauderdale as a matter of "common sense." Thomas, Democrat, Is one of five state senators who refused to comply with the disclosure law, They are testing the cotiHt nationality of the measure in the courts. The Ethics Commission had ruled that the senators Thomas.