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Dying girl may never get her wish I he Hiverlns "Nicky won't be coming They took her to intensive care Friday she has gotten very worse her blood count is lower than ever before," TDA official Al Capttano quotrd the telegram. "Her doctors," Capilano said, "won't allow her to travel unless therp is marked improvement. We're waiting to hear from London now Nicky and her family were to have left for Disney World yesterdav after spending a night as a guest of the Crystal House Apartments at Miami Beach. 111 I liwnii vw Express, helped to raise money and to make arrangements for the three-week trip The TDA arranged for Nicky snd her family to stay overnight. "We don't know her parents' names," Capilano said.

"We understand, however, thai she also would have been accompanied by her 17-year-old sister. "Right now, all we can do is Capitano said. "Going to Disney World is the little girl's dream." By RIC ABRAWS Miami News Reporter A 5-year-old girl in England may never be granted her dying wish to see Disney World because leukemia does not wail for such things. Nicola (Nicky) Franks was to arrive with her family in Miami Beach Monday morning on the first leg of a trip to the amusement complex near Orlando, Arriving instead was a telegram from Ixmdon to the Miami Beach offices of the Tourist Development Authority. METROPOLITAN EDITION TEN CENTS Miami, Wednesday Afternoon, Feb.

21, 1973 62 Pages urged ddys soar as Miami News Staff Photo by GEORGE KOCHANIEC Leroy Griffith in front of one of his theaters Skin-flick king thrives despite legal hurdle age about 6 per cent higher than in 1972. That would hp the biggest one-year advance since an 1 1 per cent boost in 1951. Farm prices are averaging the highest nn record, particularly for livestock. But, however, said critics "are chasing the wrong rabbit' when they blame farmers for food bills. Ho said middlemen get 60 cents of each food dollar and could stand a lot of improvement in the way they manage their costs.

like that." Further, Butz said, some i -city reporters will interpret the rise as even larger, at an annual rate of 24 to 36 per cent, which would be "grossly unfair" because such a projection does not explain seasonal variations and volatility of farm prices. Government economists say that supermarket food prices will begin to slow down later this year but that for all of 1973 they will aver more on cheese," Burns told a congressional committee. "On a purely voluntary basis, I think we would be just as well off if we had one meatless day a week," Burns said. Butz, speaking to the opening session of an annual National Agricultural Outlook Conference, said the consumer Price Index to be announced later this weeK would show that retail food prices went up last month "2 to 3 per cent or something nounced later this week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. On Capitol Hill, Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said that consumers worried about the high cost of meat might try cheese until President Nixon's actions to curb food costs become effective.

"I have nothing to suggest in the meantime except possibly that the American public will be just as well off if it spent less on meat and Associated Pratt WASHINGTON The Nixon administration, disclosing that food prices last month took the biggest jump in a generation, says consumers might consider going meatless one day a week, or may be switching from hamburger to cheese. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz said yesterday that retail food prices in January rose the most in 20 to 25 years. The increase, he told a farm meeting, will be an IPO lrJ 1 llHol'1 The moment they've savored in liiii second of a three-part series on pornography, Miami News Reporter Ian (ila talk to tdull theater owner Leroy Griffith, who has Inul more than 150 encounters with the law over the laM decade. By IAN GLASS Mumi News Reporter On the second floor of his Rnxy Theater at 1527 Washington Miami Beach, just past an attractive blonde secretary named Kelley, and surrounded by an ornate, crescent -shaped desk, sits, Lcroy Griffith. Griffith, a stout, 41-year-old father of three, has been the undisputed king of the Florida skin-flick market for the last decade.

His assets, which include ownership of 12 adult-movie theaters, have long since put him in the millionaire category. It is a financial bonanza that has not come easily to Leroy Griffith. He has had more than 80 brushes with the law; police are constantly seizing his films and closing his theaters. He bears no real grudge, though. Jn fact, four years ago, he made a $2,200 contribution to the Miami Beach Police and Firemen's Benevolent Association, a gesture that incurred the wrath of the Beach's police chief, Rocky Pomerance.

Now he rides the crest of the porno wave. Untouchable you're OK," the agent has told Griffith. "Transport it over the state line and I'll get you." Says Griffith: "Personally, I wouldn't go to see that crap they show on the screen these days, but an awful lot of nice people do, even attor-n and off-duty cops: What's the law trying to do anyway turn this place into a graveyard?" Griffith has been twice divorced. Pictures of his children a girl of 6, sons aged 10 and 12 are on his desk Continued on 6A, Col. 1 by the long arm of the law are the $3-a-peep flicks like.

"Wet, Weird and Wild," "Pledge Sisters" and "Theater Games," which were showing at his Roxy last week. The Florida obscenity law was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional last month, so until the court eventually finds a definition for obscene virtually anything goes unless, of course, municipalities enforce their ordinances. Griffith's only nemesis is a certain FBI agent here whose field is the pornography racket. "As long as you keep your stuff in Florida, Leroy, U-M ends in the block Search on for boat off Key West The Coast Guard searched the waters off Key West today for a missing 20-foot boat with four adults and four children aboard. The children range in age from 3 to 12 years.

The search started last night when the grup, from Kingsport, failed to return from a fishing trip which began yesterday morning from the Garr! on Bight Marina at Key West. Three planes and several surface craft were dispatched at dawn today to resume the quest. 2-18-1 N. Dade fire N. Dade fire damages judo school Fire caused considerable damage to a judo school and two adjoining stores in a North Dade shopping center early today.

Firemen were called to the Nang Sei Judo School at 18342 NW 7th for a blaze which spread to a Fredericks Discount Center on one side and a barber shop on the other. The cause of the fire was not immediately determined. Late break doctor Inside The Miami News kxB mm Associated Press WireoHotM hold a joyous reunion embracing for the first tile since he was shot down over North Vietnam six years ago. (POWs debriefed in Jacksonville. Story Page 10A.) There isn't an unhappy face at Travis Air Force Base in California as American prisoners of war return home to their loved ones and to the small pleasures that were denied them in years of North Vietnam captivity.

At left, an exulted Mrs. Hubert Flesher leaps into the arms of her major-husband: at top right. Capt. John R. Nasmyth delights in a sip of cold boor, and at bottom right, Capt.

Henry Fowler and his wife rty in shambles Meany: Dem Amusements U) aNj By ALAN GF.RSTEN Miami News Business Writer The University of Miami revealed today that it managed a sharp turnaround for the 1971-72 fiscal year and took in over $1 million more than it spent. In a report that sounded like it was written by a financial environmentalist, the U-M announced it raised million in revenue and spent $85.1 million for the fiscal year ended May 31. That's an improvement over the prior school and fiscal year when U-M spent $800,000 more than it took in. The school then had revenues of $79 million and expenditures of $79.8 million. While the U-M recorded gains in the 1971-72 fiscal year, total education and general expenditures rose $4 million to $67.3 million, compared with the prior year.

There were no large jumps in individual categories but rather small increases in nearly all. Despite a decline i students, total tuition rose $1 million to $28.7 million from a year earlier. Sponsored research grants was ahead $1.5 million to $15.9 million, hospital and clinic revenue was up $1.4 million to $6.9 million and gifts to the school jumped from $1.3 million to $2.7 million Last month the University announced it would raise tuition, effective in September, 1973, $100 per semester, making the academic year cost $2,500. In September 1972, Unsmess l.v Classified 71) Comics 6C a Although Strauss is trying to revitalize the party after the presidential defeat in November, Meany said, the Continued on 10A, Col. 7 conference when newsmen tried to suggest that the labor bosses were overly friendly to President Nixon "it Monday but were keeping Strauss at arms' length." Meany previously has been critical of the parly's leadership and direction in recen' years.

He became annoyed at the Contact oi. m. WLmi Deaths 5 A 7 KilitnrinL I6A "ml 1 1 By BILL GJEBRE Miami News Reporter Labor boss George Meany says the Democratic Party still is in shambles. Meany, president of the powerful AFL-CIO labor group, made the statement here yesterday in response to newsman's questions at an afternoon press conference Food IB Lifestyle IH 1ovies 4D cool. Sports 1C Complete weather Television 6C on Page 2A Blight can kill all coconut plains here by 1977, plant expert says The conference was held at the American Hotel in Bal Harbour where the AFL-CIO Executive Council has been meeting since Monday.

Meany said his political posture toward the two major political parties was that of "neutrality." The disparaging rem, irk about the status of the Democratic Party seemed like a setback for Robert Strauss, chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "I am not going to talk to him (Strauss) about politics," said Meany. Strauss was at the hotel yesterday, trying to muster labor's support for his part He acknowledged earlier that labor's support was "lost" during the November presi- tary School wire told that $100,000 is needed to keep the control program alive until the 1973-74 budget becomes effective. They were urged to write their legislators and appeal to them to meet the Plant Continued on I OA, Col. By AL VOLKER Miami News Reporter Within two weeks, a thousand Dade County coconut palm trees will be infected with lethal yellowing; their removal will exhaust state funds available for that purpose, state plant experts said here.

Removal is the only way yet discovered for preventing spread of the epidemic At the present rate of infection, Dade County's 400.00(1 coconut palms will all be dead by 1977. About 150 persons who turned out last night for a "Save the Palms" town meeting at Coral Galjs Elemen C2 Basketball Full details on Page 1C cntial election. Continued on ISA, Col. 2 1.