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The Miami News 4 I 0 The Miami News 3 5A 1 Tuesday, November 1 3, 1984 Tuesday, November 13 1984 Pailittn a .01,, 1 Ar gir $, -I J''' i I I Graham Hirschhorn glaimpEng CHRISTINE WOLFF Miami Mims Reporter Lavvyer's call nets 55 bales of marijuana Lavl net1 of Friday that the DOT erred in its interpretation of a state law regulating Silver Palm funding, according to Charles Dunn, a Miami physician who heads the Florida Coalition of Rail Passengers Inc. The coalition filed a lawsuit in an attempt to save the Silver Palm. Judge Willis said the DOT must include federal subsidies with passenger fares when computing how much revenue the train generates. With the federal monies included, the Silver Palm clears a state requirement that the train must pay for 60 percent of its operating costs to be eligible for more state money. Counting passenger fares alone, the Silver Palm takes in only about 50 percent of its costs.

Using that formula, the DOT told Amtrak in October that state money would stop Nov. 20, the day before the train's second anniversary. Amtrak agreed to operate the train without state aid for five days to cover the Thanksgiving holiday: Willis' order means the train is eligible for state money already budgeted for it until June 1985, but he allowed DOT time to appeal. Dunn said. "We won the train stays on," Dunn said.

"DOT hasn't got a leg to stand on. I don't see why they would appeal." Klein said DOT officials will be checking again with legislators who wrote the law before making a decision on the appeal. Dunn said ridership on the Silver Palm has been increasing steadily this year: September's ridership was up 63 percent from last year, and October's figures showed a 30 percent increase. The Silver Palm leaves the Hialeah Amtrak station every morning at 8, stopping in Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, Delray Beach, West Palm Beach, Sebring. Winter Haven and Lakeland before arriving in Tampa at 1:05 p.m.

It departs Tampa at 4:30 p.m., reaching Hialeah at 9:30 p.m. for state 185, but he aid. "DOT why they ing again making a has been ridership Dber's figak station Fort Lau-Vest Palm nd before Tampa at About two weeks before its scheduled demise, Amtrak's Silver Palm has been given a chance to stay on the tracks until June 1985 unless the state wins an appeal of a court decision granting another year of funding to the Miami-to-Tampa train route. Paul Pappas, who heads the state's Department of Transportation, has until Nov. 20 to decide whether to appeal the ruling.

If the DOT wins the appeal, state money for the Silver Palm ends. Ken Klein, a DOT spokesman, said yesterday a decision won't be made until later this week. Without the state subsidy $576,000, about half the cost of running the route Amtrak officials have said it will run the Silver Palm only through Thanksgiving, traditionally a time of heavy ridership. Tallahassee Circuit Court Judge Don Willis ruled KAREN PAYNE Miami Nowt Roper ler KAREN PA 'Aims Nowt Itiop 114111.1.11111.111 tr I 1 a 1 11 6 a It' 1 i 1 Gr 3 1 I A i 1 1 1 1 I Quit' I Only $1,000 collected to rebuild Brown House 100 use ADRIENNE MINER Mame Nowt Staff Joel Hirschhorn. one of Miami's premier drug lawyers, took his wife and two teen-age sons boating yesterday.

It was just a family affair at the end of a long holiday weekend. About three miles off Key Biscayne, a bale floated by the lawyer's good ship A Quit-All. For a brief monlent, Hirschhorn's wife Evie and the two boys -wondered if the bale might be coffee. Hirschhorn knew better. Coffee doesn't float at sea wrapped in plastic and burlap.

Figuring it was marijuana, Hirschhorn snared the bale, intending to haul it ashore and hand it over to the Coast Guard. But when another bale bobbed into view, Hirschhorn decided to call Coast Guard si ip-to-shore. The Coast Guard promptly dispatched a plane, a helicopter, a 41-foot utility boat and the patrol boat Cape Shoalwater to haul in the 55 bales of marijuana that eventually ringed the area of Hirschhorn's boat. As the Cape Shoalwater approached the A Quit-All, Hirschhorn wondered why there were so many photographers aboard until he learned that the Cape Shoalwater was carrying none other than Gov. Bob Graham, who was working for a day with the Coast Guard.

For Graham, the encounter with the "square grouper," as marijuana bales are sometimes called, was the big event of his day's labor at sea. "We ran into a school of marijuana bales," Graham happily reported last night. The 41-year-old Hirschhorn, who has handled some of Miami's biggest drug cases and is in demand nationwide to counsel accused drug traffickers, said he might have been tempted to ignore the marijuana but for the presence of his sons, 15- year-old Douglas and 12-year-old Bennett, aboard the A Quit-All. "You can't ignore your responsibility with kids," he said. "I have to teach the kids that just because I represent dopers it does not mean I approve of what they do It was a good learning experience for the kids." Joel Hir lawyers, tc ing yesterd of a long ho About 1 floated by brief monlo boys -wond schhorn kr wrapped in Figuring the bale, il over to thi bobbed into Guard a) ip The Coa helicopter, Cape Shoal na that boat.

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A 0, S. lop When the wind huffed and puffed and blew the Brown House down, the hopes of preservationists were not dashed in the rubble. Dade Heritage Trust members and volunteers are still pursuing plans to rebuild the 1916 home 190 tons of which fell off a moving truck last month and smashed onto the MacArthur Causeway. Since then, the public has offered to help, with donations from architectural drawings to coral rock salvaged from another old building. "We are still in the planning stages," said Don Slesnick, Dade Heritage Trust president.

"We are attaching the existing part of the home to the foundation and just starting to try and raise funds to rebuild." The I6-room home, named for its builder. Charles Munroe Brown was being moved from its original site on North Bayshore Drive to Watson Island, where it is supposed to become a historic display and a restaurant. A gust of wind caused one section of the home to topple from the truck, scattering coral rock, tile and lumber across the highway. Siesnick said rebuilding plans have been delayed so that legal liability for the accident can be determined and funds can be raised. To keep the public up to date on the project, the trust will have a Brown House display 4t the Harvest Fair Saturday and Sunday at the Youth Fair grounds.

The display will include photos of the home. a slide show and pieces of the fallen house. Donors to the reconstruction project will receive free membership in the Dade Heritage Trust, Slesnick said. "We've had architects volunteer to do free architectural drawings and another person is offering us the walls of an old coral rock house if they tear it down," Slesnick said. 1 and putvn House rubble.

members pursuing 1 home a movsmashed as offered 'om archioral rock old build-planning ick. Dade "We are art of the I and just funds to clamed for roe Brown from its Bayshore where it is istoric dis A gust of on of the the truck, and lumling plans a legal liamn be de-De raised. to date on have a the HarSunday at The disOs of the pieces of to the re-II receive Dade Hen-volunteer drawings ffering us oral rock vn." 11,1 I 'I oloommonon amaanalim 4 14 aliens land boat in Broward, aimed for Miami Fort Lauderdale police rounded up 14 illegal Cuban aliens yesterday after they landed irt a small powerboat on the beach along the exclusive Galt Ocean Mile, police said. The aliens, including two children, apparently had left Cuba about a week ago with a stopover in the Bahamas. The Cubans told police that they had meant to land about 15 miles farther south, hopefully in Miami.

The 20-foot Glastron, with Only a cooler and some bottled water aboard, washed ashore about 1 p.m. Officer Ron Fuchs said police found the group walking down Galt Ocean Drive. Torre Kiria, a resident alien who lives in Miami, was found with the group and charged as a smuggler, Fuchs said. Police said the immigrants were turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, which transported them to the Krome Detention Center. I si tv al T1 gi Scholarship offered for minorities A $10,000 architectural and engineering scholarship endowment for minority students is being offered by Spi Ills Candela and Partners in recognition of the 25th anniversary of Miami-Dade Community College.

The endowment will help train future architects and engineers and will provide an annual tuition scholarship and paid internship for the selected student. "These are fields where qualified minorities are in great demand," said Hilario Candela, president of Spit lis Candela. sc re er sc sti Ci He said they have gotten $1,000 1 sk, in.donations so far but that $1,000 ti," 1 1 will only go a short way toward '---0, 4.. 4- rebuilding the home. He estimates it -4 y.

4. the cost of the project at $250,000. 44 --7; 4 1 144 1 .1 Replacing the rare roof tile may be I er)t the most difficult task, he said. 4 .4 "The tile is still being made," he 6 :...,8 1.4! said. "You're talking about thou- r' 1 t-e, sands of tiles, maybe 22,000 I I.

I pieces. Somebody told me the tile costs over $8 a tile." None of the original tile was salvageable from to, 4 -4 the wreckage, he said. 4 4 Donations may be made to the Dade Heritage Trust Historic The "an" Nana '1E "41EnEa Preservation Center, 190 S.E. 12th Surviving section of Brown House is being placed on new foundation at Watson Island site Terrace, Miami, 33131. $1.000 at $1,000 5, toward estimates $250,000.

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st --q--' .4 A 4 ''''t- 'k I i 9- 4 s. 4 A. A 1: I 1 4 I I S. 120,000 sign up in favor of casinos Citizens for Jobs and Tourism, the group trying to put the casino gambling question on the 1986 ballot, has collected some 120,000 signatures, according to Rick Rendon, a consultant for the group. The signatures were collected on Election Day.

About 320,000 signatures are needed. Andrew Rubin. the group's chairman, said the organization was undecided on when it would next collect signatures. to be ac gr Di AT or ne Convict allegedly pulled off similar caper in Palm Beach jail Escape expert led Dade break, officials say ay ZITA AROCHA meow News Itinmorier The cuts were clean. It was not as though someone was hacking and hammering away 9 Agency seeks Thanksgiving food Thanksgiving and Christmas are traditional holiday celebrations where families Join together over turkey dinners with all the trimmings.

But some families can't afford three meals a day, let alone those holiday dinners, the Dade Department of Human Resources reminds us. The department's Office of Emergency Assistance is assembling holiday baskets to needy families In Dade County and is asking for contributions of food. Donations may be brought to the DEA main office during business hours at 1425 N.W. 10th Ave. until Monday, or call 547-7603 for more information on how you can help.

A ho ov so al( MI de as De to4 oti in' Metro detective Al Raffaele knew about Vitanza's previous escapes, but thought he was secure in the maximum security cell. After cutting through the inch-thick bar and squeezing through a hole in the cell, Vitanza and the other prisoners entered a sixth-floor bathroom used by corrections officers. They tied the braided bed sheets to the toilet bowl and let themselves down. jumping 10 feet to the ground. Raffaele said.

"1 took sky-diving in college and I'd think twice about going down that bed sheet." he said. Police later captured Michael Wendel Butler hiding in a stairwell of the jail. Vitanza and Oscar Rosario. who was charged with a prior escape and marijuana possession, were recaptured a day later in Northwest Miami. Fugitive John O'Brien was recaptured in Coconut Grove yesterday after a 10-block foot-chase during which he tried to elude police by dashing in and out parking lots and alleys near the Coconut Grove Playhouse, police said.

Miguel Alejo. Michael Grayer and Lasalle E. Wallace have not been found. Brooks said four years ago. two men escaped from the same cell by hacking through an iron bar.

The men were awaiting trial for murder and have not been recaptured. Brooks said. Raffaele said he has suggested that prison officials put bars on the window of the officer's bathroom to prevent escapes. thought bar and a and the Dom used )iiet bowl et to the Ink twice ler hiding Rosario. nahjuana orthwest Coconut 5e during and out Dye Play! E.

Walped from bar. The have not officials icials hroom to Vincent Vitanza speaks several languages and says he was born in Canada. He has been charged with more than 100 different crimes. A Dade Circuit judge recently sentenced him to 240 years in jail for armed robbery. Police and prison officials say Vitanza.

37, who also goes under the name David Wells. masterminded Saturday's jailbreak from cell 6A3 at the Dade County Jail. With the help of several inmates, police said Vitanza cut through a steel bar in his jail cell. then lowered himself six stories on 50 feet of braided bed sheets. Six prisoners followed.

So far. Vitanza and three other prisoners have been recaptured. But Saturday's flight to freedom isn't Vitanza's first escape. He pulled a similar stunt in Palm Beach County two months ago. In that escape, he used a diamond-studded jeweler's tool to saw through a steel bar.

shimmied six floors down braided bed linen. scaled a 12-foot barbed wire fence and disappeared into the night with two other Inmates. Vitanza also escaped from the Glades Correctional Institute where he was serving a robbery term, prison officials said. Metro detective Al Raffaele, who is Investigating Vitanza's escape from the Dade County Jail, said Vi Oldest Miami native sought If you remember the days In Miami before the railroad that of Henry Hagler, not Metrorail someone is looking for you. As part of this year's Miami's For Me celebration, a search is on for the oldest living Miami native.

So far, searchers report, a pair of 88-year-olds may be the winners. If you know someone older, or are a Miami pioneer yourself, contact the Miami's For Me office at 350-7700. The winner will be awarded a plaque during the "Best of Miami" celebration next Saturday at the Flagler Greyhound 0 rai so Mi ok rel If pi( ofi pk ne tanza may have used a jeweler's chain a foot-long stretch of thin steel embedded with diamond dust to cut through the iron bar. just as he (lid in the Palm Beach Jail. "The cuts were clean." Raffaele said.

"It was not as though someone was hacking and hammering away We're not sure how long it took him to do it, maybe a week's time. It was well-planned out." Raffaele said he found two hacksaw blades in the cell next to Vitanza's but is not sure if they were used to cut through the bar. The escape occurred between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. Saturday during visitor's hours at the jail when prison guards are busy supervising the inmates and their guests. There were about 20 prisoners in Vitanza's cell.

which houses maximum security prisoners. said Jail Security Sgt. J. D. Brooks.

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