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Code violation check on land sales proposed By MORTON LUCOFF Miami Nawi Reportar Metro Commissioner Earl Carroll wants all property sold in Dade County checked first to determine if there are any violations of the county's Minimum Housing Code. "Slumlords are getting out from under," Carroll said, "selling properties loaded with code violations and the buyers suddenly are confronted with repairs that cost them thousands of dollars." Carroll said today he has asked the county attorney's office to prepare an ordinance for him to introduce to the Metro Commission con cerning the problem. It would require that before any property Is sold Metro's Housing and Urban Development Department must first be notified. Housing Code inspectors then would check their records to see if there were violations listed against that property. "If there are violations," Carroll said, "then the buyer will become aware of them and he and the seller can decide on who has to pay the cost of bringing the property in question up to standard." Carroll said it has often happened that new owners are suddenly handed pages and pages of code violations by county inspectors.

"And these violations have been on the books for months and years and suddenly the new owner is told to correct them," Carroll ample the experience of Dr. Joseph Poitier, a prominent Negro civic leader here. He said Dr. Poitier bought a small apartment house and a few months later "got an eight-page list of violations from code inspectors." Dr. Poitier said he bought the eight-unit apartment house at 6950 NW 8th Ave.

Last September for $30,000 from Lincoln Center Realty Corp. Dr. Poitier said he was "going to scream to high heaven" to the county about being held responsible for violations the code inspectors knew existed for a long time. said. He pointed out as an ex 1 The Miami News JACK ROBERTS i wr.

mm Miami, Tuesday Afternoon, December 30, 1969 Classic weather, so just stay put Look at the weather map on Page 2A and you'll see how all those little arrows marked "cold" have the northern United States in a sort of hammerlock. Down FBI nabs I as strike ends am- 2.vT yy( jr I i 4 f. and David Lee Wiesen, 27, of 631 NE 59th both of Fort Lauderdale, in connection with strike sabotage. They were released on personal recognizance bond pending a hearing to-Continued on Page 6A, Col. 1 Miami News Photo By EMIL FRAY Ilock fans huddled in blankets prepare to leave festival at dawn: 3-day rock fest ends; venture may cost promoter $250,000 here it's warm and sunny during the day and cool enough for a coat at night.

It's one of those classic years. Ed Dean of the South Florida Hotel and Motel Association fairly chor ties when he tells you that most of his members have full houses. "We'll get a lot of rub-off from this," said Dean. People come here this Christmas-New Year's holiday and get what they want good weather and you can bet they'll be back new year." Hank Meyer, the Miami Beach publicist, says the area is not only packed with tourists but an undeter -mined amount of a new breed of tourists the semi-residents. These are the people who have bought high rise apartments and stay here a good bit of the winter or loan their apartment to friends and relatives.

The good weather should hold out Best of all, from the standpoint of keeping Florida green with Yankee dollars, Leonard Pardue at the Weather Bureau says it looks like the good weather will hold here at least through New Year's Day. Saturday a lot of our visitors will be going back home. I pity them. Not for their cold weather back home, but the rigors of travelling during a holiday season. I've always stayed home at Christmastime, but this year the marriage of my niece required a trip to Atlanta the day after Christmas.

Normally, I would have gotten in the car and pushed the gas pedal for 11 hours to get there but the record Thanksgiving on the Florida Turnpike scared me. I went out and bought three fairly cheap airline tickets. Going up it was beautiful. The plane was less than half full. But 1 had to lug those two clothes hanger bags loaded with suits and dresses all through the airport.

And there were rather tense moments over whether or not Delta would accept an antique scythe I was carrying as a present for my brother. I looked like Father Time trying to beat it out of Miami. And, did you ever notice that the airlines make It a point of honor to park the plane you're boarding at the last pier at the farthest corner of the airport. That intrigues me. Wears me out also.

Cold lingered in Greenville, Ga. Anyway, it was cold as blue blazes and worse at the farmhouse where we stayed looking out over the North Georgia mountains. There was a hard freeze Friday night and the plumbing quit working. Back in the city, life was more bearable for the wedding, but the cold lingered as we drove south Saturday afternoon to my wife's parents' home in Greenville, Ga. I kept thinking how clever I had been that Sunday night we'd drive back up to the airport in Atlanta, get on the plane at 10:30 p.m.

and be asleep in my own bed in Miami shortly after midnight. That's where things went wrong. The plane was an hour and a half late and the airline people kept shifting us from one waiting area to another until they had us where they wanted us back at the end of the docking pier. The Dobbs House restaurant at the airport had a hostess skilled in discouraging customers. People kept milling around the restaurant while she warned that you Continued on Page 6A, Col.

4 By WILLIAM TUCKER Miami Nw Reportar Linemen and field workers began returning to work in the Florida Power and Light Co. system today after approving a new contract by almost 2 to 1 to end a 10-week strike. The strike ended on a jarring note, howevpr, as the FBI announced the arrest of two strikers on charges of causing a 55-minute Broward County blackout by shorting a high-tension line. said that more than 150 Incidents of "purposeful damage" to the company's equipment or facilities were counted during the strike, 70 of them resulting in power losses. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members involved in the strike in 35 counties voted to 963 yesterday to accept 83 cents an hour raises spread over two years.

"All pickets came down at midnight, and their workers will go back to their jobs today," said J. H. Niies, IBEW business manager. The strikers are returning In time to get New Year's Day off as a paid holiday, with those assigned to duty that day to be paid holiday overtime. Provisions of the new contract, which includes increased pension and insurance benefits, are retroactive to Oct, 21 when the old pact expired.

The new one runs to Oct. 21, 1971, providing 46 cents an hour raises the first year and 36 cent raises the second year. This will bring a journeyman lineman's pay to $5.37 an hour. The FBI arrested Billy Joe Nobingcr, 27, of 2716 SW 9th Thomas, manager of the festival, called it an artistic success. "We worked so hard on organizing this thing that we had a solution for every conceivable thing before it happened," he said.

"Hundreds of kids have told me we did this one right." Midway through the 72-hour rockfest, when it was obvious he was not going to get the expected crowds, Johnson bitterly blamed political harassment, legal problems and a police stop-and-frisk order for his troubles. The fans, he said, did not know until the last minute whether the event would come off as scheduled. Johnson had to go to fed eral court to hold the event at his auto raceway at the edge of the Everglades, 15 miles west of Hollywood. The Broward County Commission had passed a special ordinance barring outdoor musical events. Police arrested 47 persons during the three days, mostly for possession or sale of drugs.

Metro gets new requests for $1 million Metro had to slash $8.5 million from its current budget because of state law, and since it went into effect Oct. 1 rpqussts have come in for about $1 million more in expenditures. The "estimated $1 million" in new budget requests was revealed today by Metro Budget Director William Hampton In response to a question from Assistant County Manager Hoke Welch. Welch asked for the amount because Public Defender Hughlan Long will go before the Metro Commission Jan. 7 to ask for $25,000 so he can hire two investigators for his office.

The cuts in this year's budget were forced because of the state law putting a ceiling on the property tax rate. Hampton listed the biggest new budget requests as for the foster home program. $260,000 for senior citizen centers, $36,000 for the veterans' service officer and $35,000 for rehabilitation of alcoholics in halfway houses. By IAN GLASS Miami New Reporter Speedway promoter Norman Johnson said a thankful goodbye to the hippies today as his three-day rock music festival straggled to a close. The boondoggle, which saw fewer than half the attendance of 50,000 he needed to break even, may have cost him a quarter-of-a-million dollars.

About 5,000 fans were on hand at the Miami Hollywood Speedway for the final day, which was marred by one death. Allen Ollis, 20, of Sumter, S.C., fractured his skull and died in Hollywood Memorial Hospital after falling from a 60-foot-high searchlight tower which he had climbed to get a better view of the performers. A cut in the price of yesterday's ticket price, from $20 to $10, had helped to boost attendance slightly. Although it was a failure at the box office, Larry Channel 10 shakeup starts By HERB KELLY Miami Newi Radle-TV editor The new ownership at Channel 10 started swinging the broom today, and some popular TV personalities have been affected. Allen James, former president of Westinghouse TV stations and now vice president and general manager of Post Newsweek stations in Florida made the announce to become an announcer.

Tom Nugent, who had been sports director, now Is a member of the news depart-ment under Carl Zedell, the new news director. Nugent is known to be unhappy about the situation. Rick Shaw's morning show is canceled to make room for a CBS 70-minute news block Continued on Page 6A, Col. 2 ments at a press conference. Ken Taylor, who had been news director, was informed he no longer is anchorman on the news shows and was given the option of becoming an investigative reporter.

Taylor has been with WLBW-TV for three years. Bob Harnsih, who's been with Channel 10 since it started in 1961, was removed as an on-the-air personality Junior Orange Bowl Parade takes a tumble for the better fy av 1JC A)? 1 fyv i V- 0 4 -y -f 1 i fmn-. A a Miami News Photo By SAL CRISANTI boy at right solved it the same by getting astride the neck of someone tall enough to provide a suita can produce, a string of 38 floats, 16 bands and 25 special units. The usual problem for the little ones to gain enough altitude to $ee over all the adults at the curb. Lisa Reinhof 3, at left, and the colorful of the 16 staged up to now, and It brought out more spectators than any of the others somewhere between and 125,000.

They saw, in some of the sunniest, best weather Florida ble observation platform. (Photo fo the queen is Agile tumblers get themselves and their shadows in some strange positions as do their act for annual Junio Orange Bowl Parade in Garal Gables. The parade yesterday was the largest and most on Page 8C.).