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41 FORT LAUDERDALE XEWS, Fridav. Mar. 21. 1969 Keep Minors Out, Race Tracks, Fronton Warned lawsuits are not uncommon resulting from the questioning of persons thought to be minors whoactually are not. They also say it is impossible for ticket sellers and guards to check on everyone who enters the building during the post time and opening game rush.

Questioned about the possibility that guards are not checking persons under the legal age, the track and fronton managers all said they believe they are doing everything possible to comply with the state The officials point out that A member of the Florida State Racing Commission said today the three county race tracks and the jai alai fronton will be asked to crack down on minors who may be gambling and drinking at the establishments. Dr. Fred Ackel said the rac The News story on the area tracks originated when high school students in Pompano Beach said it was easy for them to get into the harness track. Other minors indicated they have been to the dog track and to jai alai and were not asked to prove they were 21. ing commission is concerned that minors are being allowed in the tracks, as pointed out in News story yesterday.

"It is entirely the tracks responsibility to police the grounds although at this time of year the college students compound the problem," he said. A letter of "reprimand" is being sent to Gulfstream Park, Pompano Park, the Hollywood Dog Track, and Dania Jai Alai The four places where a 19-year-old walked in, ordered drinks, and placed bets last week. No one questioned his age or asked him for identification. "I have asked the office to send a letter to all the tracks mentioned in the story. We are asking them to tighten up security a notch or two because whenever something like that is revealed, there is more that can be done," Dr.

Ackel said. Dr. Ackel said it is possible if one teenager got into all three county tracks and the fronton, "there might be more getting in than we think. "The racing commission doesn't want this and we appreciate the fact that it has been brought to our attention," he added. TV Swindle Blue Cross Edict Get Plan Okay, Hospitals Told Ex-Officer Helps Foil Con Game Facility at Port Everglades.

Also taking part in command ceremonies were Capt. E. F. Shreiter and Commander G. H.

Griffin. Siljestrom is retiring. attempted grand larceny by fraud. Dold is expected to be transferred to the Broward Sheriff's Office today. Phiele said Dold's three "associates" were charged only with vagrancy because they were not in Dold's car at the time of the arrest.

The three were identified as George Lynch, 30; Robert O'Neil, 24, and Frank Snyder, 27, all of Massachusetts. Fthiele said the four were staying at the Thunderbird Motel, North Miami Beach. COMMAND CHANGE Lt. Commander Michael Lowey, left, a 29-year Navy veteran, has replaced Lt. Commander Gordon Siljestrom, right, as officer in charge of the Navy Ordnance Laboratory Test Hospitals that do not get prior approval from a local Community Health Planning Council for construction or expansion of new facilities stand to lose reimbursement costs from a nationwide health insurance carrier.

The National Assn. of Blue Cross Plans has put hospitals on notice that in such cases they won't be reimbursed under a patient's Blue Cross insurance but the reimbursement will go directly to the patient. William Stafford, secretary of Broward County's Community Health Planning Council, Incompetency Cited Dania Sergeant's Suspension Upheld HOLLYWOOD An ex-Hollywood patrolman has helped foil a confidence game involving 28 victims and $5,475 in, cash in the sale of color television sets. Four men were arrested when former patrolman Charles T. Widlak of 7070 61st and Gerald Cugno of 6111 Washington St.

acted as decoys yesterday in the con game at the Hollywood Mall. The four men were arrested in the mall parking lot after they reportedly said they would sell Widlak and Cugno 18 color television sets at a cost of $2,700. Widlak had contacted police after the team allegedly made the proposition for the sale to him while he was working in a cleaner's shop this week. The men arranged to meet in the Hollywood Mall parking lot yesterday to purchase the sets, Widlak said. The "salesmen" said they wanted "to get rid of the sets" because they were overstocked, Detective Joe Phiele reported today.

"During the last two weeks, 28 persons have been conned by the television gang," Phile said. The victims, mainly from the Miami area, told police that had paid $5,475 for television sets which they had never received. Two Coeds In Crash Extradition Of Trio Sought DANIA Extradition warrants for the return of three armed robbery suspects are on their way to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller. Sheriff Edward J.

Stack said the warrants were issued yesterday. No action has been taken, he said, about three Dania police personnel who, allegedly, are implicated in a bribery payoff by the three suspects. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING A special meeting of the members of First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Broward County will be held In Room 800 of the First Federal Building, 301 East Las Olas Boulevard. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on March 31. 1969, at 2:00 P.M.

The purpose of this meeting is to amend Section Six of the charter of "Kelly was in charge of keeping records," Parton said. "When Kelly was confronted with the incident he admitted he did wrong and that is the reason why I filed the incompetency charge," Parton testified. Kelly took the stand in his own defense and admitted he had driven the stolen car, but said: "I didn't conspire with Portelli." Kelly admitted lending Portelli $3 to buy oil for the car. He also said Portelli suggested to him that he drive the car home and bring it back the next morning. Gordon, who worked on Por-telli's ranch in Davie, is in Dade County jail awaiting arraignment on the auto theft charge.

Police Dispatcher Harry Ferry told the CSB that Portelli told him "the kid (Malcolm Gordon) took off with the car." The case developed when Gordon was arrested in Yee Haw Junction while driving the car to Ocala. It was Ferry who first informed Parton about the car being parked in the city hall parking lot in back of the police station. Parton testified Kelly knowingly conspired to remove the stolen car from the gas station. He said Kelly gave Portelli money to have a flat tire fixed and to buy oil and transmission fluid for. the stolen car.

i The most serious charge was leveled by Parton when he testified Kelly failed to make a report that. a stolen said yesterday "Blue Cross also will cancel contracts with hospitals." Aim of the a i i health insurance carrier is to cut costs and duplication in medical facilities, Stafford told a meeting of the Broward County Area Hospital Planning Council. THE 'BEGINNING' "It's a beginning of things to come," commented Edward Zalaznik, chairman of the Area Hospital Planning Council. Stafford said Blue Cross' proposal also could mean that a hospital could be cut off from federal Hill-Burton construction grants if an institution proceeded with expansion plans without the concurrence of a local Community Health Planning Council. Plans by the North Broward Hospital District to erect a new medical facility in Imperial Point and by a group of doctors for a hospital in the Pompano Beach area would not be affected, Stafford said.

Broward's new health planning organization, organized last November, is still not fully operational, he explained. GRANT AWAITED The new council is awaiting a federal planning grant of $20,000 and is seeking cash contributions and-or in-kind service donations to match the federal grant. When its funding is estab- lished and a director is hired, the new council will be in business to find out the health and medical facilities already available in the county, where they are located, what is needed. "Then the council will assign priorities" on new construction and expansion, Stafford said. Blue Cross of Florida has contributed money to two planning councils in the state and all of Broward's hospitals belong to the hew council.

Stafford also said contributions have been made by the Heart Medical Nursing Home Health Broward Junior College and Doctors General Hospital. fill i the association to provide for special vector, tvoes of savings accounts as authorized SGT. JOHN KELLY suspension upheld car had been brought to police headquarters. Arrested at 11 a.m. By GENE JANAS (Staff Writer) DANIA The Civil Service Board has upheld the 30-day suspension of Sgt.

John P. Kelly by Police Chief John Parton Sr. for incompetency in connection with the misuse of a stolen automobile and with failing to file a report. The board took only 15 minutes last night to decide that Kelly was incompetent in handling the stolen car incident which has resulted in the arrests of Detective Sgt. Joseph Portelli on a charge of unauthorized use of an automobile and of Malcolm Gordon on a charge of auto theft.

Parton said after the hearing that he was undecicied about what to do with Kelly when the latter returns to work April 3, the day the suspension ends. The chief indicated Kelly would be demoted to patrolman. This is the second suspension of Kelly during his 14 years on the police force. He was suspended for 10 days eight years ago in connection with a controversial burglary. Sgt.

James Connors testified he saw the car Jan. 20, abandoned at a vacant gasoline station on Federal Hwy. in Ft. Lauderdale, just north of the Dania city limits. He said he notified Ft.

Lauderdale police, but they did nothing about it. Connors also testified he saw Kelly drive the car which, a check later disclosed, had been stolen Jan. 14 from Spitzer Motors in Miami, -tiqn day was George Dold, 25, of e. thomas wilburn-Boston on a holding charge of resident -8, PLANTATION Two Michigan State University coeds, visiting here during the annual Easter college students' invasion, were injured in an automobile wreck with one of them listed in serious condition. Kathleen R.

Hall of Lansing, suffered a fracture of the skull, broken ribs and severe lacerations of the face and neck in what police said was a head-on collision at the entrance to the Westgate Shopping Center yesterday. She is at Plantation General Hospital. Her companion, Kandyce Kaye Brink of Benton Harbor, driver of her car, was treated for minor cuts. Both girls are 19 years of age and freshmen at the university, They were staying with a friend at 5581 SW Court. Patrolman Cecil Long, who still has the wreck under investigation, reported a car driven by Joel Thomas Creasy, 52, of 5741 SW First struck the coeds' vehicle as it turned from a northbound lane on State Rd.

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