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IS JACK 13ERTS I rnmmm -ju Costly Games Dad Of Student Killed By Horse Wins $25,000 Suit By MORTON LUCOFF Mltmi Niwi Riporttr The father of a 20-year-old student killed when his car collided with a horse was awarded $25,000 damages today by a circuit court jury. Lloyd E. Johnson of 11935 SW 187th died Oct. 31, 1967. The incident happened near the intersection of SW 95th Avenue and 112th Street.

The impact threw the horse in the air. It came down on the roof, crushing it and killing Johnson. Three other persons in the car received minor cuts. Johnson was on his way back from Miami International Airport and was going to his fraternity house at Miami-Dade Junior College South. The suit by his father charged John R.

Dawson, of 9280 SW 106th with negligently failing to keep the horse properly fenced in a pasture. The suit said Dawson also should have known he had an "excited and troublesome" horse that often "strayed and wandered." lie also should have known as an "experienced horseman" that the pasture fence was not in good condition, the suit said. Dawson's main defense was that the horse had been sold before the accident and he was no longer responsible. The alleged purchaser denied it. Johnson attorneys, Shelby Highsmith and Ralph Ezzo, asked the jury to award $100,000 damages in their final arguments to the jury at the end of the three-day trial before Judge Ray Nathan.

-Mlml Newt phots By SAL CR'SANTI Speed Sign Has Holiday Hangover Actually, the sign got that way two shopping frenzy. It's on our favorite height of the season. And some visitors weeks ago during the final Christmas tourist boulevard, Biscayne, at the do say our traffic signs are confusing. The Miami News See Page 4A January .3, 1969 3A I recognized my telephone caller as the' highly successful operator of a filling station in, my neighborhood. He is also' a world champion at the art.

of cussing and this day he was in his prime. "Doesn't that blankety. blank know that it's the customer who makes us spend all this blink blank money?" he asked, and I assure you he wasn't saying blankety-blank. He was offended because a nationally syndicated columnist had made fun of all the games being offered by the major oil companies. "Why don't you find out what those games cost us dealers? I paid out $1,030 for a ten-week supply of coins Shell was promoting.

It stepped up business but I never did get my $1,030 back before they canceled the game." Volume Is Key i My dealer friend was really getting himself worked up unnecessarily beciuse in the next breath he was saying that he spends a year on trading stamps to give to his customers, "I know it founds like a lot," he added, "but volume is the name of this game and we pump 16Q000 gallons a month, emplo 19 people. If I didn't give s.amps it would cut 30,000 to 40,000 gallons off my montlly volume." But I folbwed his suggestion and caled several of the major oil companies operating in thi. area to find out what your service station dealer pajs out of his profits to keep you In fun such as Sunny Dillars, Dino Dollars, Tigcrcno, Sweepstakes and Mr. and Mrs. NFL I discovered that, on the average most dealers pay 2 cents f(jr each piece of contest material he passes out.

If you went into the station and kept demanding contest material without buying any GRAND CAPRI REPUBLIC Nixes 'Nation' Off Elliott Key Judge port not only artificial islands and unpoliced gambling casinos, but even alien missile bases, all within a short distance of the Florida coast." In ruling against any such empire-building Judge Fulton held that the case involved "the preservation of our very security as a nation." Thursday on the suit going back to 1965, said evidence not only abounds that the reefs are "a priceless and irreplacable natural resource of this nation." But if they were colonized totally outside the control of the U.S. government, he said, "they could conceivably sup Republic." Another party to the suit, Bahamas-based Atlantis Development Ltd, wanted to build a $250 million "Atlantis, Isle of Gold" which included plans for a casino. The plans even envisioned a national mint. Judge Fulton, In his order north American outer continental shelf and under U.S. control.

It sued Louis M. Ray, a Louisiana dreamer who actually built three small cairns on the reef which were swept away by a hurricane, and Ray's contractor. Ray wanted to build a country named "Grand Capri reefs off Elliott Key. The area incidentally has been designated for part of the Biscayne National Monument and includes a natural reef formation said to be the only one of its kind In the world. The government contended the reefs were part of the A new and possibly warlike Atlantis will not rise in the Atlantic 25 miles southeast of Miami by edict of a U.S.

District Judge. Judge Charles Fulton thus apparently ended the empire-building dreams of at least two groups that wanted to build a "new nation" on the Ads Used To Trip Jury May Probe Rilling Of Teacher Scalper thing it would be the same as picking the poor dealer's pocket. When Lee arrived, he said, Mrs. Pierce was outside at a window and suddenly four shots came crashing through the door. He told the wife to run to a nearby house.

Lee said Pierce opened the front door and told him to "get out of here." Then, while Pierce was closing the door, Lee said, it looked as if the teacher was going to shoot again and he fired the warning shot. Officials said the bullet went through the door and into Pierce's back. Police said three of the Pierces' four children were in the house at the time of the shooting. Pierce has been a teacher in the Broward school system for about eight years. Dania Police Chief Donald Parton said he would ask the grand jury to handle the A grand jury investigation has been asked into the shooting death of a Broward schoolteacher by a Dania policeman who was responding to a domestic call.

Officials said Officer Alvah Lee, 29, has been suspended from duty as a result of the death of George T. Pierce, 33. Pierce was on leave from the Broward school system, and developing teaching programs for migrant children. He was shot to death at his home yesterday. Lee said he fired a "warning shot" through the front door of Pierce's home after Pierce fired four times through the door from inside the house.

Police had been summoned by Pierce's wife, Jeanette, who said her husband had a gun and was ordering her out of the house. If: I Sister, Slain With Frying Pan. Brother Charged Alert policemen who read newspaper ads tackled two, men as football ticket scalpers last night at a stake-out in Coconut Grove. A Metro fireman and a man who lists his occupation as "tourist" were arrested for selling Super Bowl tickets to plainclothes officers for as much as $55 for a $6 ticket. Five persons were arrested at the Orange Bowl Wednesday night for ticket-scalping to the Super Bowl game.

Police spotted ads in the classified section from persons who said they'd sell tickets with marked-up prices. They answered the ads, and directed the parties to go to a house in Coconut Grove. Four plainclothes officers, two of them women, tqok part in the stake-out. Arrested were: 1. Metro Fireman Richard Joseph Bennett, 31, of 4110 SW 102nd Ave.

Officers said they paid Bennett $50 for two tickets, then arrested for ticket-scalping. 2. Henry Mathuy Villalob-os, 56, who listed his work as "tourist" and local address as 1025 36th Plaza, Hi-aleah. Police said Villalobos charged them $110 for two tickets, including $10 delivery fee, and asked if they wanted to buy more. They declined, and announced the arrest.

Both men were booked and bonded out for $200 each. They will appear in court Monday six days before the Super Bowl game. The tickets are being held in evidence, and the seats will be empty if the case isn't decided by kick-off time. The plainclothes officers were Gil DeRubio, I. J.

Alvarez, Mikel Aydelotte and Betty Majewski. 1, 1 1 -I I ji' I I 1 I Profit lit Big I've been biying most of my gasoline af Pure Oil stations for the pist few months i because they' giving away a free glass with an eight gallon purchase. It's greedy fun to count my glasses. It's something I rot for nothing. I felt rath bad about the whole bit, lowever, when I called the Mai office of Pure Oil and foind out that the participatirg dealers were paying 10ents for each of those glaes they've been giving mej' Dealer profit on gas, I was told, is rut a big deal.

When gas reacles its highest price, the deafcr makes about 5'j cents a gallon. When the dealer I caught with half empty inks during a price war his profit dips down as low as tVz cents a gallon. "We doubt sometimes that people really understand what tie gasoline games are all abrut," said a spokesman for thj American Oil Co. in Atlanta. "It's a promotion tie same as advertising two ttes for the price of one, a special price on tune-ups or giving you an introductory offer to sell your paper.

Promote Business "It's our job to make th dealers successful. So come up with promotions, businessmen they should Je saving back a portion of etfh dollar to promote their business. We just show tiem how to spend that moiey. The better the dealer, the better he likes promotons. He understands the id of spending money to Jiake money." It would be nice tr think that if all the gasolin companies could get togeter and cut out the costly arrtests that gas might be cheper.

I Things really dot work that way. If they cu'out the contests, they'd be ompeting with one another ih equally costly promotinal gimmicks. I I learned my lesan on this the hard way. Ir several years I campaigrd actively against trading stmps at the grocery stores. Aen one of our neighborhoo" stores cut out trading starts my wife and I marvelled 'Ver the low prices.

But youknow what? After a few months the prices inched Kk up to the old levels. Alle had done was lose on' stamps to death with a frying pan. Evidence indicated the body had been dragged throughout the house. Police said Rhodes had been drinking, and a neighbor told officers she heard loud noises and argument until late last night. Police were still questioning Rhodes, whose only statement was that the victim was his sister.

Both were retirees living on Social Security, officers said. But Detective Robert Utes said neighbors told police the victim had told them that Rhodes was her husband. A Miami man was charged with killing of his 65-year-old sister with a frying pan early today. Police charged Ferrell J. Rhodes, 63, of 232 NW 4th with first degree murder in the death of Irene Rhodes.

Both live in a cottage at the rear of the 4th Street address. Rhodes called police at 8:07 a.m., and when officers arrived they found the woman's nude and beaten body lying on the living room floor. Investigating officer Joseph DeLeo said Miss Rhodes had apparently been beaten And You Think YoiCve Got A Well, consider the plight of Boca, this aptly-named pet belonging to Mrs. Joseph Grzybowski, of 11120 NW 62nd Ave. (Boca, i Spanish, means mouth.) The dog has a foot infection which wouldn't heal, because Boca kept licking it.

So when the vet suggested drastic action, Mrs. Grzybowski figured out this ploy. Pretty smart, huh? Miami Newt Photos By Charlei Trainor OFFICIAL HOSTESS for the Greater Miami International Auto Show Feb. 7-12 will be Dolly Read, 1969 Playboy Magazine Calendar cover girl. The show will be held at the Miami Beach Convention Hall.

1 a Boy Held In Killing Of Mom's Boyfriend i A' Memorial Offers Adult Classes FIREWORKS WILL SALUTE 3 MOONMEN A fiery salute to the three Moon-orbiting U.S. astronauts will be a highlight of the giant Fireworks Pageant in the Orange Bowl Stadium tonight. The 30-minute series of fireworks displays, put together at a cost of about is only a part of the two-hour show tonight. There will be a re-run of all the floats from the Orange Bowl Parade, a repeat of pre-game and halftime shows from the football game, and two dozen circus acts. Starting time is 7:30 p.m.

and prices are $2 and $1.50 with all seats reserved. er in federal taxation. Registration will be conducted from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. A 15-ycar-old boy is being held in Youth Hall for the slaying of his mother's boyfriend with a single shot from the man's own pistol. No formal charges have yet been made against the boy, who told Metro detectives he was "tired" of being beaten by the man, and of watching him beat his mother.

The victim was identified as Earl Myers Craven, 23, a steelworker, of 6795 SW 8th St. Mrs. Mary Lamb, a 36-year-old barmaid, told police she came home at 5 a.m. Wednesday with Craven, who had been living at her home a week or 10 days. They quarreled, she said, and Craven slapped the boy.

Mrs. Lamb said Craven returned to the home several times during the morning. Then, about 1 p.m., he struck the boy several more times and knocked her to the floor. A pistol Craven "always carried with him" fell to the floor and the boy picked it up. Craven died from a single shot in the back of the head.

After dark the mother and her son left the body on a dirt road near Palmetto Bypass, where it was discovered early Thursday. 1 Classes carrying college-level credit will meet from p.m. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Three-credit courses will be offered in educational psychology, library science, general mathematics, physics, American literature, early childrfood education and business one in business management and anoth- weekdays at the campus, 15800 NW 42nd Ave. Lamar said anybody interested can get further information by writing to the registrar.

If there are interested students who can't rrgister in the daytime, he said, the registrar's office may be opened in the evening for several days before the start of classes, Registration will begin Jan. 10 for Florida Memorial College's first evening program for adults. Classes will begin Jan. 21. James Lamar, assistant director for continuing education, said today the college which moved to Miami from St.

Augustine last fall doesn't have any idea how many adults will take advantage of the night classes. Coast Guard Dance The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Division 6, will hold its annual Change of Watch banquet and dance Jan. 11 at the Everglades Hotel. which were aiuisance any- way.

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