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Meted) An Fort Lauderdale News, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1982 3B 1 Local digest -fffcs study new program to help isruptive students Principals wanted a place to send youngsters who were creating havoc, showed extreme truancy and lack of motivation. I 9 Hal Jackson, south area superintendent officers, clergymen and social service agencies, said Mike Biance, administrative assistant to Jackson. 1 "The coordination of efforts of the community is probably the most essential ingredient," he said. As a result, school officials want to form a committee of Broward community leaders to help develop the experimental program and support it once started.

The Pittson program includes individualized instruction for students and many projects to get parents involved with their children's education and future and to reverse delinquent behavior. Board members also heard integration consultant, Gordon Foster warn them they could not not to assign all students to schools in their neighborhoods and maintain a desegregated school system, "You can't have neighborhood schools have desegregation," he said. "You can wish all you want to, but you can't do it." School principals also pleaded with board members, not to eliminate magnet programs next year because of decreases in federal funding which subsidized most of the programs. Board members will discuss the magnet schools again Feb. 18 and March 4.

Both meetings will start at 7:30 p.m. By Mary Hladky Education Writer Broward school officials want to involve business and community leaders in a new program designed to keep disruptive or disinterested students from dropping Out of school. The program will begin next school year if it is approved by the School Board, which will hear about it Thursday, and gets about $150,000 to hire specially-trained teachers. The program will be a "last chance" for chronic truants and other students who are so disinterested or unsuccessful in regular schools that they frequently cause trouble, said Hal Jackson, south area superintendent. "Principals wanted a place to send youngsters who were creating havoc, showed extreme truancy and lack of motivation," he added.

If the School Board or other agencies provide the money, that place will be B. F. James Adult Center in Hallandale, which houses adult vocational and basic education programs. The School Board has only two centers for disruptive or disinterested students North Point School in Pompano Beach, which serves about 160 students from the northern part of the county, and a much smaller program moved this year to B.F. James.

County waives employee rule The County Commission Tuesday waived county regulations to permit Robert Wallace to seek a seat in the state Legislature and keep his 11-year job as a count firefighter. County policy prohibits employees from participating in politics, but commissioners said they didn't want to stop Wallace, 38, a past president of the firefighters' union, from challenging incumbent Tom Bush for the District 84 seat in the state House of Representatives. Robyn Feldman Lakes docks recreation chief Lauderdale Lakes Recreation Director Robert Crum has been suspended without pay for three days on charges he improperly used the city's photocopying machine Dec. 23 to make 39 copies of city records of fines collected from violators of the city's parking ordinance. Crum had a running battle with the city for two years concerning the parking ordinance.

He was issued at least 25 citations for parking his recreation vehicle in front of his house, but was cleared of the citations late last year, when a County Court judge ruled the ordinance invalid. Alan Cherry Two die in Sunrise accident Two New Jersey residents died Tuesday in a three-car collision on West Sunrise Boulevard at Northwest 34th Avenue, northwest of Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Killed were Mary Appicie, whose age was not known, and Francis Riciliano, 58, both of Bloomfield, N.J. The patrol said the victims' car, driven by Mrs. Appicie's husband, Joseph, 69, was westbound on Sunrise Boulevard and making a left turn when it was struck by a pickup truck and spun into a stopped car.

Jim Rogers Other problem students attend alternative education classes offered in many middle and h'igh schools, but school officials have long wanted to start more programs for students who can't be helped in regular schools. Limited state funding for such programs has prevented program expansion. School officials now are eyeing an experimental program started two years ago in Pittston, as a model to replace the alternative education classes at B.F. James and serve about 50 students from the southern part of the county. The key to the Pittston program's success has been cooperation from business leaders, judges, police Trucker: Put brake on plan for 1-95 Nf is, I 4 I 5- ''Aw, I til i frKf far JLzT 11 ij I All I'ilfof mm I Av if Miamian charged in robbery A 29-year-old Miami man has been charged with the Jan.

14 armed robbery of a Dade County branch of First Federal of Broward Savings Loan Association. The FBI arrested Jerry Mack Denson about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at his home. Denson is alleged to have robbed at gunpoint the First Federal office at 11225 SW 152nd St. after herding the employees and customers into a back room of the building, the FBI said.

Joseph Cosco Youth to face adult court Broward Circuit Judge Frank A. Orlando has ruled that Michael Leonard Mack, 16, of Pompano Beach, must face his next trial as an adult. Between 1978 and 1980, Mack was arrested a dozen times on charges ranging from strong-arm robbery to burglary, and was eventually committed to the state training school at Okeechobee. But after his release in October 1980, Mack was arrested 10 more times, mostly on burglary charges. Joe Kollin Motorcyclist dies of injuries A Pompano Beach man whose motorcycle skidded under a Broward County bus on a curve at Northeast Second Street and 21st Terrace in Deerfield Beach Sunday night died Tuesday in North Broward Hosptial.

Danny Eugene Wayland, 36, of 1081 NE 26th died shortly after 10:30 a.m. from multiple head injuries, a Deerfield Beach police spokesman said. Dan Christensen Waitress shot in restaurant A waitress in a well-known Deerfield Beach restaurant was shot and critically wounded by her former boyfriend Monday night as horrified diners watched. Pearl F. Bowman, 54, of 200 NE 31st Court, Pompano Beach, a waitress at the Captain's Table, 1755 SE Third Court, was shot four times in the neck and back, police said.

Her former boyfriend, Santiago Prado, 47, of 3811 NW First Place, Deerfield Beach, was charged with attempted murder and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, police said. Dan Christensen By Marilyn Weeks SUff Writer Leon Turek is a little khy about his CB radio handle of "the Warlord" given him by fellow truck drivers. "I guess I just spoke out once too often," he said with a laugh. The independent truck driver is speaking out again, this time against the state's proposal to restrict trucks from the left lanes of Interstate 95 for a six-months study period. Turek, who lives north of Fort Lauderdale, called the Department of Transportation plan "a waste of taxpayers' dollars to duplicate a law already on the books.

"If they'd enforce what they've got keep right except to pass they could spend the money for more state troopers instead of new laws," said Turek as he eased his 55-foot rig into rush hour traffic on the heavily traveled expressway, The pros and cons of the issue will be discussed at a 7:30 p.m. public hearing Thursday at the DOT district office, 780 SW 24th Fort Lauderdale. The hearing was set after newly installed Transportation Secretary Paul Pappas said the pilot project should be re-examined before it was put into effect in Broward County. The experiment had been approved by former DOT Secretary Jake Varn and was scheduled to begin this month. More than $20,000 already has been spent by the state for regulatory signs for the 25 miles of interstate between the Broward lines, and Rep.

Larry Smith, D-Hollywood, who is pushing for the study and new regulations, estimated another $10,000 would be spent on installation. Turek, who with his truck driver wife, Geraldine, logged more than 125,000 miles In 1981, said the money would be better spent on law enforcement. "People run over signs," he said as he shifted down for a van going 38 mph in the center lane of traffic, "There's no better deterrent than another beige and black trooper vehicle." Though the new proposal would still allow trucks to use the left lane for passing, Turek said it Is often difficult for the larger vehicles to get back into the center lane in heavy traffic. "And how are those people going to get on the expressway if the right line is solid trucks?" asked Turek as he pointed to the jammed entrance ramp at State Road 84. Turek's concerns are included on the list of items DOT will address during the test period designed to gather statistics to see if the plan will: Inhibit ability of drivers entering the highway.

Result in congestion in two outer lanes because of slower speeds. Make enforcement difficult. Increase the number of vehicles changing lanes. Slaff photo by JOHN Cl'RPiV Leon 'the Warlord' Turek said he wants better enforcement in the passing lane, not more rules. Okeechobee fire smoulders Fire continued to smoulder on an island in drought-stricken Lake Okeechobee today, but a spin-off blaze that threatened a subdivision of 100 homes has been brought under control, the Florida Division of Forestry said.

The wind-driven flames were as close as 250 yards to the houses of a subdivision in Clewiston, but that blaze was brought under control between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tuesday by firefighters from three nearby municipalities, volunteers of U.S. Sugar and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The Associated Press similar bills failed to get out of committee last year. Advocates of regulations to deal with the growing problems of increasing traffic, larger trucks and smaller cars then turned to the DOT for administrative changes of a rule instead of legislative changes of the law, and opposition to this angered Smith. Turek points to the keep-right exrept-to-pass law in the Florida Handbook for all drivers, but Smith said the law is "not specific enough to be enforced on a road choked with traffic." "This is a study for collection of data and no different than putting a rubber hose across the highway (to count traffic)," said Smith. "If the result show it's not a good alternative, then we look for another." Improve car travel time in inside lanes. Increase travel time for trucks.

Decrease intimidation car drivers feel at hands of oversized trucks. Complaints of intimidation, the growing number of accidents involving cars and trucks, and the absence of state funds to widen the crowded artery first led Smith to introduce legislation on the issue three years ago. "The road is about 150 percent overused, we're being left out of the state funds, and about 15 percent of the accidents involve trucks," explained Smith. Supported by Rep. Fred Lippman, D-Hollywood, that bill failed to pass the Florida Senate, and Broward's bad roads noted Pinellas and Broward counties have the most congested roads In Florida, according to a study released Tuesday by Citizens for Better Transportation, which also said 51 percent of Florida's urban primary roads were congested.

In Pinellas, 83 percent of the state-maintained roads were carrying more traffic than they were designed to handle, the study said. Next was Broward at 61 percent. The Associated Presi Was skeleton a Broward man? been unable to track down the letter's sender. Wehrhahn said it will be all but Impossible for detectives to make an arrest in the case without knowing tho victim's identity. "Kven if 1 knew who the killer was, I wouldn't have a case unless 1 know who the victim is," Wehrhahn said.

"When we lind out who the victim is, we've got a person to deal with. Then we ran start looking for why someone would want to kill him." Gem heist tics in area woman A Hollywood woman was acquitted Tuesday In Toronto on charges of possessing stolen gems valued at $500,000. Ester Brrta, 31. maintained throughout a six-day trial, which ended Monday, that she had no Idea the gems, stolen from a downtown Toronto Jewelry company Aug. 28, were In the trunk of her car.

She was arrested by Toronto police shortly after three men one of them masked robbed the wholesale Jewelers at gunpoint. They tied up two salesmen and three clerks. The Associated Press fic from Broward County, Wehrhahn said. Add to that Wchrhahn's belief that (the victim, who was killed by a shotgun blast at least two months ago, is not from Palm Beach County. Investigators have checked missing person reports from all over the county, Wehrhahn said.

Still, detectives have little to use other than recovered clothing, a sketchy physical description and a piece of an envelope with a return address from an Atlanta minister. The county medical examiner and a Florida Atlantic ljversity forensic anthropologist bclievv the victim was a black man In his late 20s or early 30s. They also estimate he was between 5-feet-8 and 5-feet-lO and between 130 and 160 pounds. Because the body was decomposed, Wehrhahn said, detectives are unable to determine whether the victim had a beard or mustache. At the remote site where the bones were discovered, detectives also found brightly colored panUt, either orange or red, a pullover shirt, desert-type shoes and a floppy camouflage-colored hat.

Inside the man's pockets, detectives said, was a small amount of cash and an envelope thai had the name "Rev. Ewing" written on It. Detectives have By Rich Pollack Suff Writer The skeleton found two weeks ago in heavy underbrush In suburban West Palm Beach remains a mystery, but detectives now say their search for the apparent murder victim's Identity may be narrowing. "We have reason to believe he may be from Broward County," said Detective Jack Wehrhahn of the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. The site of the grisly discovery, Just west of State Road on Okeechobee Boulevard, Is readily jPcessible to traf Wehrh ihn Is asking anyo mav ofte wl U) vic who Urn to be able toJk'Mp identify call him at 837-2734..