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SOUTH BROWARD 4AS Fort Lauderdale News, Monday, March 18, 1985 Green beer, parades mark festivities in Ireland, U.S. South Broward Hospital District The South Broward Hospital District is soliciting proposals in accordance with a specification for (1) specific and aggregate excess insurance for our self-insured health plan, (2) individual health conversion insurance, (3) group life insurance, and (4) group andor individual long term disability insurance. The South Broward Hospital District is willing to consider proposals on an individual basis or in combination with each other. The public specification will be available on Wednesday, March 20, and may be obtained at the office of the Personnel Director, Ronald L. Wise, at Memorial Hospital.

Proposals will be received until 2 p.m., April 15, 1985, by Ronald L. Wise, Trustee; Memorial Hospital Employee Benefit Trust co Memorial Hospital, 3501 Johnson Street, Hollywood, Florida 33021. Proposals will not be accepted after the specification date and time. ma Uiitcd Prat bterutioul Ireland turned to an American tradition to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year.

For the first time, green beer a standard for holiday guzzlers in the U.S. was shipped to pubs across the Atlantic. It's a bit of a gimmick, but it's going down a treat," Dublin pub manager Tony McMahon said Sunday. "Ev- eryone's insisting on green beer. It's the 'in thing' this year." i In Beverly Hills, two blocks of the high-priced shopping district on Rodeo Drive were covered in Kelly-green carpeting for a parade, which included a Giorgio's float spraying 1200-an-ounce perfume on 1 spectators.

More than SO celebrities rode on floats and in antique cars, including Milton Berle, Red Buttons, Jennifer O'Neill, Gene Kelley, Ernest Borgnine, Phyl-j lis Diller, Michael York, Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor and Bozo the Clown. A parade in Hartford, drew the wrath of some i fans who were delayed getting to the NCAA basketball tournament Sunday at the civic center. "I want to know who planned to have the parade and the tournament on the same day," grumbled one miffed fan, a half hour late getting to the game. Workers in Ireland were off today to observe St. Patrick's Day while most Americans were back at their jobs, savoring or recovering from a weekend of celebrating.

In the U.S., Saturday night parties dissolved into traditional Sunday parades, with smiling politicians working the crowds that lined the streets of Boston, Washington, Detroit and scores of other towns. Traditional parades also were held Saturday in Chicago, New York and St. Louis. About 225,000 people turned out Saturday for the official parade through downtown Chicago, traditionally a platform for local politicians. The naturally olive-drab green of the Chicago River was dyed a brillant kelly green for the party.

Whether they were Irish or not, thousands of people joined the frenzy along the famed Rush Street entertainment strip, spilling out of bars and into the streets lined with police barricades and patrolled by officers on horseback. More than 1 million New Yorkers watched the parade down Fifth Avenue. The New York parade, the nation's oldest and largest, is held on Saturday whenever St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday to avoid conflicts with Roman Catholic church services. lordain Jmarsn FLORIDA fjrh Vfr- '1 i i i i ENTIRE STOCK OF ROUND THE CLOCK HOSIERY 11 20 25 OFF 30 I AP photo REG.

2.75 TO 6.95 A Venice, family looks through what was picture window before Sunday's tornado. Choose from all your favorite Sheers, shimmering Ultra Sheers, Control Top, Support and a variety of fashion textures in a wide array of beautiful colors. Sizes Demi, Trim, Model and Stately. Hosiery, all stores VJ A.i NOTHING SAYS MORE ABOUT YOU THAN YOUR FACE i Tornado Continued from page 1A Jaqub Sieniawski, 66, died in his 1 sleep when the roof of his home fell in on him, sheriff's officers said. His wife was treated for lacerations.

Dorothy Taravella, 65, of Steu-benville, Ohio, was killed and her husband, Salvador, was injured when the tornado smashed their mobile home as they slept in a department store parking lot More than 200 volunteers were conducting a house-to-house search today for more possible victims, while scores of other people including 30 convicts from the Sarasota County Jail began the massive job of cleaning up after the county's worst storm ever. Gov, Bob Graham declared a state of emergency. A spokesman said 55 homes were destroyed in Venice, 122 others were at least 50 percent destroyed and more than 120 sustained minor damage. Another 30 businesses were either damaged or destroyed, the spokesman said. Electricity was still off in most of the area today.

Florida Power Light officials cut power Sunday to reduce the danger of fires or electrocution. Many residents boarded up their homes and shopkeepers did likewise with their damaged storefronts. The Venice tornado was one of three to strike south-central Florida Sunday. Twisters at Fort Og- Nov you can look young again in just 8 days AP pkolo Helen Walz inspects her mobile home Sunday after a tornado swept through her Venice, neighborhood. AGE W.

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Workers boarded up damaged buildings Sunday to protect against looters and further bad weather. Sarasota County Commissioners met where the tornado had cut through and approved funding for owners of homes damaged. They said funds would be available from the state under the governor's declaration of the county as an emergency area. "Some of the homes were so totally destroyed, there's nothing to do but shovel the rubble into a neat stack," said Jacobson, who scanned the area from a helicopter. Behind the shopping center, the twister skipped a small lake, then smashed into the rows of homes, uprooting trees and overturning cars and trucks along the way.

Searchers finished poking through rubble Sunday evening. Police Capt Earl Jacobson said authorities were reasonably assured they would find no one else injured in the debris. Of the 42 injured, eight were in fair condition at Venice Hospital and the others had been treated and released. Most of the injured suffered lacerations from flying glass and debris while In bed. Police said 38 of those left homeless were being housed by the Red den, 40 miles to the southeast, and along the northern edge of Lake Okeechobee, 80 miles east of Venice, caused minor damage.

A police officer watched the tornado develop. He said it dropped from the clouds beside the airport, skipped over Highway 41 and smashed into a Publix food market, the biggest business in the shopping center. Huge, gaping holes were torn in the Publix roof and everything inside was destroyed. Two or three stores on each side of the food store were demolished. A sign supported by steel girders outside the shopping center was wrecked, the girders bent over like twisted drinking straws.

BEFORE TREATMENT. AGE 4S I YEARS LATER, AGE 90 Rain- DfJ WORLD MtAHH LW'WiOGY SYSTEMS The rainfall provided relief for forestry officials, who have battled the worst outbreak of wildfires in the state's history over the past three months. "I think it put out most of the fires we had," said Evelyn Shrewsbury, of the Division of Forestry's South Florida district. "If we could just get some more it would really help." But there is no more rain in sight according to the weather service. Temperatures will dip to the middle to upper 50s tonight and will peak in the lower 70s under sunny skies today and Tuesday, forecaster Emmett Ricks said.

Winds will continue from the north at about 15 to 25 miles per hour, and a small craft advisory has been posted, he said. Staff Writer Jon Peck contributed to this report to impose rigid water-use restrictions in Broward, Palm Beach and other South Florida counties if residents do not cut their consumption by 15 percent in the next two weeks. Mandatory restrictions already are in effect in Collier and Lee counties. Fort Lauderdale received 0.60 of an inch of rain on the beach and 0.22 of an inch at the Dixie Water Plant on State Road 7 near State Road 84. It was the heaviest single rainfall since Jan.

18, when 0.46 inch of rain fell at the water plant and one-half inch fell on the beach, the National Weather Service said. Hollywood had 0.20 of an inch Sunday, the most there since a quarter-inch fell on Jan. 19, the Weather Service reported. Pomp-ano reported 0.50 of an inch of rain. Continued from page 1A when a strong wind blew down trusses for the roof of a new sanctuary.

No one was injured in the collapse, which occurred shortly after 11 am Sunday's downpours were a welcome sight to South Florida Water Management District officials. But they warned that much more rain is needed to avert an area wide water-shortage crisis and cautioned residents to continue conserving water. amount of rain is helpful, biit I wouldn't want anybody to believe our problems are solved," said Tilford Creel, deputy director of the water management district "What we really need is a good soaking over five or six days," Creel said. The water district has threatened World Health Exodermology Center 660 South Federal Pompano Beach, Florida 33062 Hours: Monday Friday 9 am 5 pm (305) 781-9500.