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Dm 'Emm To Begit. ace mm a ft I a 't I ROBERTS mJSt ckW0Jrkcrs her went on strike for two IR? ended up roakln $3-98 Hour -Pius $1.25 Jn pension and medical benefits. Two years from now that figure wilf be upped to $4.56 an hour plus $1.65 In benefits. vatJfL pretty ood Pfly 'or walloping TT Therl' many a colIe8 graduate who would envy the longshoremen for their $6.21 an hour in pay and benefits. They got their raise by teaming up with ome 75,000 other longshoremen to shut down ports stretching all along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.

Some 650 ships had to tie up In port and sweat out the strike. The cost to shipping: an estimated $15 day or $900 million for the strike's duration. Like an iceberg, however, the strike had some devastating effects below the surface. Take the New Port of Miami for example. It may take the port three years to get over the strike.

This is rather difficult to believe until you hear I. J. Stephens' explanation. Stephens is the energetic, highly competent ex-Coast Guardsman who runs the port. The port an innocent victim since it does not contract with longshoremen lost an estimated $100,000 to $120,000 in revenue during the strike.

This, explained Adm. Stephens represents the 3 cents a gross ton the port receives in docking fees plus a 40-cent- Adm. Stephens, but there was a net gain of around. $13,000 In parking and. head taxes which wasn't figured in projected revenue.

If the port could keep on showing such gains through September, the loss of $100,000 conceivably could be offset and the port's borrowing power kept intact Adm. Stephens Is not a boastful man, and his role in keeping the strike as cool as possible has been Ignored. As I explained earlier, the port does not contract with longshoremen. That's left to some 14 shipping and stevedoring firms here and in Port Everglades. But if pickets had been thrown up at the Port of Miami, all Continued On Page 4A, Col 1 a-ton "wharfage" fee the county gets for cargo passing over the docks.

How could the loss of $100,000 affect the port for three years? Simple. The entire concept of building the port is based on borrowing money to be paid back by In order to borrow this money, however, the port must live up to a rigid schedule of pro jected revenues. The loss of $100,000 could knock the port's borrowing power winding. The only bright spot It the fact that during January the revenue from cruise ships Jumped from last year's to a whopping $44,000.,,, Part of this Increase was anticipated, said STEPHENS ,1 The Miami News 9 1. 0 3A Friday, March 7,1969 See Page 4A tudents Central.

8 GRB Adopts New Policy: listen, Act By LOUISE BLANCHARD ExDelled For Kow '''iifelllllSr not to expel Clayton and Lingo. Chairman Holmes Braddock, who votes only to break a tie, voted to expel the two. Crutcher Harrison was the only board -'member who voted to expel Vassar. She, Helene Vosloh and Ethel Beckham yoted to Porter, but Braddock broke 1' the tie by voting to readmit him. On the remaining five students, Harrison, Mrs.

Vosloh, Mrs. Beckham and Lehman all voted for expulsion. The board voted unani mously to allow the eight expelled students to obtain textbooks from the school and continue their studies if they wish. Lehman- prompted the decision to reconsider the policy, in order to give the young men a quicker oppor- tunity to return to classes. "I cannot support the built-in rigidity that prevents a student from applying into some other program in the school system," Lehman said.

"I want this student out of Central, I really do, but I don't want him shut off completely from the education process," he added. and we must realize that as board members. I think this board must consider the effect these expulsions will have on the boy and family and the community." Cleared by the board 'were Richard Lee Vassar, 17, and Clyde Benjamin Porter, 16. Expelled, besides Williams, were Oliver Gregory -Austin, 17;" Nathaniel Brown Nathaniel Willie Bush, 16; Willie Lee Clayton, 16; Alex Garrett, 16; Perry Henry King, 16, and Eddie C. Lingo, 17.

Board Member William Lehman Joined Mrs. Meyers and Dr. Sheppard in voting Noiv Hear This! University of Florida President Stephen O'Con-nell borrows a bull horn from a student militant to talk to about 200 protesters who lined both sides of the hallway in front of his office yesterday af ter-; noon. They were protesting O'Connell's refusal to grant official recognition to the Southern Student Organizing Committee. FSU Students 1 ill i Not Backing MMini Newt Reporter The Community' Relations Board began its new attempt to serve as Dade County's combination ombudsman, catalyst, telephone switchboard and all-pur-fpose public ear.

Chairman Harry Cain was pleased with the first meeting under a new policy: To listen to com-Jplaints, investigate them, refer them to the appropriate public agency, and try for a solution or at least a clear within a month. of the board and staff talked for "only about 20 minutes of this meeting," Sen. Cain said with Satisfaction. "We listened to the public the rest of the time. That's just about the reverse of what has hap-t-Jened at previous meetings." We want to become defined in the public mind," he -said, "as a serious, official public body that will listen to complaints and get the answers." i It will take at least a month, he said, to learn bow well the CRB and its administrative staff can handle the Jew approach and several months to learn whether it is Successful with the public.

4 The CRB announced at its February meeting, that inhere now are other community agencies to deal with he racial f'brush fires" that have occupied much of its 4ime and energy. The board said it will attempt a broader program of communication with the public mean--Jing everybody. The CRB is an official agency of Dade. County, supported by public funds. Board members arei Appointed by the Metro Commission; "'n Anybody who wants to speak to the CRB can do Jo, Sen.

Cain said. A would-be speaker must notify the in advance; "otherwise-iwe handle' it." And representatives of the agency or organization to be triticized will be invited to attend the CRB meeting at which the criticism is first voiced. The CRB has three functions," Sen Cain said, "to Inform the public, to involve the public and to listen to thepubiic "This is our first deliberate attempt to If I were smarter we'd have started this long ago but I've learned a great deal in the past 18 months." In a l'-hour meeting yesterday, the board heard nine speakers discuss eight problems and promised each speaker as specific an answer as posible ast the April 3 meeting. Ronald Slump said mental patients frequently are held in Dade County Jail for as long as 90 days awaiting transfer to hospitals for treatment He said psychologists have told him time spent in jail makes mental illness more severe. "Funds have to be expended to keep these people in jail," he said.

"We need to find some other facility, some other way to handle the problem of mental illness." Odell Johns, a bail bondsman who has often served as a spokesman for various groups of Negroes in southern Dade, said: "We're the stepchildren of Dade County. Once In a while you hear about South Dade and usually it's something tragic-" Johns said the area has many problems, including Continued On Page. 4A, CoL 1 Rebel Gfdup 1 By ELLIS BERGER Miami Niwi Reporter The Dade School Board voted today to expel eight Miami Central High students for their part in a disturbance at the school Jan. 30. Two other students recommended for expulsion by the school administration will be readmitted to school tomorrow.

All 10 have been out of class for five weeks." Philip attorney, for seven of the young men, Including five who were expelled, said he will take the five expulsions to court Edelman, a director of the Greater Miami Urban League, was asked by the League to defend those who did not have other legal counsel. Attorneys for the other -three could not be reached -immediately. Indications were that those expelled will be given the chance to enter adult classes. The board will' meet Wednesday to consider a change in its present policy that would not permit the 'students to reenter the school system until next January. School Board Attorney George Bolles said the board can change its policy at any time and if it does so the change would apply to the students expelled today.

"What stuck in the board's craw is that the expulsion policy is not flexible," Bolles said. He said it was possible that students could be enrolled in an adult education class by March 20, the day after the second reading of the policy change. The board voted separately on each student, and only once was the vote unanimous -n in expelling Dwlght V. Williams, 17, who was singled out as the one who threw the first punch that started the ruckus in the school cafeteria. In every other case, Anna Brenner Meyers and Dr.

Ben Sheppard voted against ex-' pulsion. "While there's no doubt in my mind these boys were involved," Sheppard said, "I feel very strongly that these youngsters should not be deprived of a chance to get an education." To do so, Sheppard said, would be "to decapitate steps taken all over the country." Mrs. Meyers said, "I am not criticizing the administration or condoning any other things that were alleged to have happened. And I say 'alleged' because there, was no cross examination. In these days and the past few years, things have changed iMiami's Newest Water Treatment Plant Dedication Tuesday For 3rd Water Plant By DICK HOLLAND Miami Nw Reporter TALLAHASSEE A strike by dissident students at Florida State University 59 ARRESTS ASSAILED BY STUDENTS TIN Associated Pratt TAMPA The University of South Florida student government condemned today the "tyrannical and repressive" arrest of 59 Florida State University students at a Students for a Democratic Society meeting.

The student government said display of bayonets by deputies participating in arrests infringed upon of assembly andfree speech. By AL VOLKER Miami Newt Science Editor i Miami's third water filtration plant an 280,000 installation on 15 in Hialeah-? will be dedicated formally at 3 p.m. Tuesday in a cere-mony headed Jyt Mayor ended here today without really ever getting started, and a legal showdown over FSU student rights was postponed indefinitely. The separate but closely related actions seemed likely to maintain a state of "uneasy calm" on this sprawling campus where turmoil erupted Tuesday night. The dissidents, mostly members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), had welcomed today's dry and zippy weather here, where their pickets were routed by thundershowers yesterday.

As classes got under way this morning, however, a statement by SDS leaders was circulated on campus to the effect that the "strike" was meant to be for "The Week of the Bayonet" only, and would end today. The SDS, with about 50 active members, had called for a wholesale boycott of classes until its grievances were resolved. But it was obvious that support for such a move was lacking among the 16,253 other students. As one student told this reporter, "I may sympathize with them but I'll be damned if I'll destroy my education with them." By midmornlng today, under sunshine and a breezy 47 degrees, no picket lines and few placards were in evidence. million gallons and today 23 wells supply the plant with about 80 million gallons a day.

The second plant, the Alexander Orr Jr. facility on Galloway Road, south of Miller Drive, has 20 wells producing 130 gallons a day. Plans for expansion are under consideration. The Water and Sewer Department serves metropolitan Miami but not all areas of Dade County. Independent of any City agency, it meets its own payroll and pays its own bills.

It even turns over hundreds of thousands of dollars from income to the City General Fund. The new plant uses lime i softening and rapid-sand filtering. It has an electric pumping station with a diesel power generator on standby in event of power failure. aievewarK.i i Water will gush from the plant into mains when valve is turned, by E. Preston, former Depart-' 'ment of Water and Sewer Board chairman for whom the plant is named.

5 '-S ri (, i -4 The John -E. Preston Plant, which actually operation last April, treats up toT60 mil-" lion gallons a day. Before' 1973, the capacity will be Increased to 100 million -i gallons. JOILV E. PRESTON 'near the old Hialeah Water Treatment Plant Hialeah plant was.

built in. 1925 by the Miami Water Co. It was purchased by the City of Miami in 1941. That plant originally was designed to treat 40 million gallons of water a The plant has six water wells which produce about day from the wells in the 9 million gallons1 each. It In 1947 the- plant's ca-is located at 100 W.

2nd pacity was increased to 60 Health Fund Controls Urged fxL: j- By "The Week of the Bayonet," the SDS referred to the entry on campus Tuesday night of outside lawmen brandishing carbines and bayonets under the command of Leon County Sheriff Ray Hamlin. The lawmen broke up an SDS-sponsored lecture and arrested 60 persons. Those 60 were hauled before Leon County Circuit Judge Ben and charged with contempt of court The judge earlier had issued a temporary injunction against SDS sponsorship of the lecture. A hearing was scheduled for next Monday morning, but late yesterday Judge Willis ordered a continuance Continued On Page 4A, CoL 5 penses. A lormer accountant in the Metro Court Clerk's office, Lippincott had been a state employe for about 18 months before his arrest The auditors, Merlo said, found that the business office kept no record of currency and checks received in the mail, that custody of funds and record keeping were not separate and that during Merlo said a "surprise cash count" in the business office was ordered the night before payday.

He said the audit was ordered because of two thefts from the office last" August one of the other of JUS- 1 The Internal auditor said f. the thefts were an insile job. He said the. lapse of time'; between the thefts and the audit was to lull suspicion by the one responsible; 5 Merlo said Lippincott told hir investigators he took the money "personaL. By MORTON LUCOFF Miami Newt RtMrter Tighter money handling at the County Health -Department is being planned following the recent arrest of its business manager for embezzlement' Metro Internal Auditor Thomas J.

Merlo said today he will be making the mendations shortly to County Manager Porter Homer. It was on a surprise audit by Merlo's office that resulted in the arrest Feb, 6 of John R. LIppincott 35, of 1998 NW 24th Ct The auditors Reported, that LIppincott who was officially a state misappropriated $2,815.20 from Jan. 1, 1968 through Feb. 6.

He resigned that same day on request Assistant State Attorney Robert Brown said that Lip-pincott officially has beep charged with embezzeling $384 of county funds and giving the Health Department a $300 bad check. He is free on $1,000 bond pending trial in criminal court -Miami Newt Photo by ED ME VIS Horror And The Kiddies9 Matinee Not for kids? "Corruption" Is not even for women, according to the ads, and "Payment in Blood" is also rated (nobody under 16 unless accompanied by a parent). Despite its ambiguous sign, what the Concord has for the kiddies' matinee Is the relatively tame combination of "Fantastic Voyage" and "Jungle Giant." Lippincott's time as many as three employes had access to the office safe, with no one solely responsible for its contents..