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Wednesday, April 18, 1984 17) The Miami News i Wednesday, April 18, 1984 3 5A 03 avirrins iLDS: Se VS leafid tualtal) ed Ms adobrt rill Itre6.o,Aro MOS BILL CADRE PAleml Nowt leporfor Memo: Ex-police chief may file for disability Police 'find car used in fatal N. Dade abduction Police hope they will get new leads by examining a car stolen by a man who abducted and stabbed to death the 18-year-old daughter of a North Dade attorney. The bloodstained Mercedes-Benz 450 SL was found yesterday about 10 blocks from where Erinn Abramson's body was found, Metro police said. The college student was kidnapped from her parents' home at a 19105 N.E. 21st Ave.

on Monday by a man who also robbed her parents and took their car. The body of Abramson, daughter of lawyer Herbert W. Abramson, was found in an open field five hours after she was abducted. The car was found in a community center parking lot at Northeast 169th Street and Fourth Place. The knife used in the slaying was not found in the car but other items discovered could be related to the crime, said Metro homicide Sgt.

Doug Buttshaw. Juries due solely to emotional stress were not compensable and, accordingly, we would not be in a position to voluntarily accept his claim for compensation." On Gary's orders, Harms returned to work on March 26, two months after he was demoted. lie worked nine days, but has been absent since then, said Maj. Jack Sullivan, head of police information. Harms took a vacation day on Friday.

April 6, Sullivan said. Since then he has used seven sick days, Sullivan said yesterday. Sullivan said Harms will continue to be out sick at least until April 261 le said Harms has submitted information from his doctor stating that he has "stomach problems." Gary demoted in a 3 a.m. phone call on. Jan.

27, saying the former chief had been insubordinate. Upon his return to work. Harms was assigned to the records division. Sullivan said Harms, upon his return to work, will be told to report to Assistant Chief Clarence Dickson for assignment. Dunlap sent his memo to Carlos Garcia, the city finance director.

Dunlap said he was required by law to open a file of a possible claim, based on his conversations with Harms. Former Miami Police Chief Kenneth Harms says his feud with City Manager Howard Gary has so aggravated his ulcer that he's exploring the possibility of being placed on the police "disability" list, according to a city memo. If Harms does file for disability because of his stomach ulcer, the city is not likely to accept his claim, said Donald Dunlap, director of the city's Risk Management Division. Ailments related to "emotional stress" do not qualify an employee for disability, Dunlap said. Harms declined yesterday to discuss the matter, utying only that he has not yet filed a disability claim.

Gary demoted Harms from chief to captain in January. Now suing to get his chiefs job back, Harms has since tried to obtain vacation time he says is owed him so he can work on his case with his lawyers. But Gary's staff has maintained that Harms is not owed time. Dunlap said he wrote the city memo detailing the disability issue last week after speaking with Harms. He said Harms, who says he has missed work because of his ulcer, asked about the possibility of counting the time he missed as "disability" days as provided under Florida Workers' Compensation law rather than as sick days.

City employees are authorized one paid sick day per month, although paid sick days not used are allowed to accrue. If Harms' name was placed on the "disability" list, days he missed because of the disability would not draw from his authorized sick days. "Capt. Harms stated that he felt the stress of his job, his relationship with the city manager and his current work environment were reasons for the aggravation of his ulcer," Dunlap's memo says. "I informed him that it was our understanding of the Florida Workers' Compensation Statutes that in Riley elected Opa-locka mayor The city of Opa-locka has a new mayor today with the election of John Riley, 39, a commissioner who won the six-candidate runoff election yesterday.

Riley, a first-term commissioner, gar- nered 732 of the 5,432 votes cast. Riley replaces former Mayor Helen Miller, who stepped down from the post but remains on the five-member commission. Others who won two-year terms on the commission were Brian Hooten and Stuart Susaneck. i Bay of Pigs remembered Player gobbles Ms. Pac-Man, wins machine )'' PEDRO FONTEBOA Miami News Staff Banker seeks lighter sentence Former banker Leonel Paytuvi today asked a federal judge to reduce his eight-year sentence on a drug possession charge because of his cooperation in the prosecution of Great American Bank In a money laundering case.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Gregory Baldwin told U.S. District Court Judge Sidney Aronovitz, that Paytuvi had cooperated fully with the government and would have testified against Great American at trial. On Monday a guilty plea was entered on behalf of the bank, admitting its failure to file required reports for cash deposits related to drug money-laundering in 1980 and 1981. Paytuvi is set for sentencing in the bank case on May 17.

Aronovitz did not rule this morning on the reduction of sentence request. TVs "That's Incredible" brought together some of the worlds best video players last year to try to outplay a Ms. Pac-Man machine. None could. The conclusion was that it couldn't be done.

But Chris Ayra proved otherwise at a South Dade arcade, apparently becoming the first person to take a Ms. Pac-Man to its limit, playing all 133 mazes in the machine's memory. That's the limit 133 mazes. Rather than click back to maze No. 1, the machine went berserk flashing numbers and symbols, turning off, turning on, and finally shutting itself off.

Even more amazing to Video hounds, Ayra, 20, finished off the machine by using only one Ms. Pac-Man character. out of the three allotted, in over nine hours of play. His final score: 820,320 points. "What Chris did is the equivalent of pitching three consecutive no-hitters or rushing for 15 touchdowns in one game," exclaimed Robert Ban-field, co-owner of the arcade, Game Room, at 15365 South Dixie Highway.

"It just isn't done. First, he did all 133 screens and, second, he did it all on one character." Hundreds of people have been trying to do what Ayra did last night since "'That's Incredible" dedicated one segment to the people who were trying to "break" the Ms. Pac-Man machine. Until yesterday no one had even come close, acPlease see Ms. PAC-MAN, 12A Cyclist killed on Old Cutler A motorcyclist was killed today when his bike smashed into a utility pole and a tree at Old Cutler Road and Davis Road.

Metro police said William Michael Maier, 19, of 6951 S.W. 105th died at the scene of the 4:30 a.m. accident. Maier was apparently speeding when his 1977 Honda went off the road, said police spokesman John Jones. Police ask anyone who might have seen the accident to call 681-3535.

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The highest average prices for gasoline in the state were found in Tampa and Fort Lauderdale, where full-service unleaded was selling for $1.459. The lowest average price was in Pensacola, where self-serve regular was selling for $1.041, the report said. HU plans to fix dorm violations before fall session Suspect hunted in bar slaying PEDRO FONTEBOA Miami News Staff Miami police are searching for a suspect in the slaying of a Northwest Dade man outside a bar early today. police said Jesus Alvarez, 55, of 2751 N.W. 22nd was killed by a white about 5-foot-7, 130 pounds, after an argument shortly after midnight inside the Lucky Bar at 2800 N.W.

22nd Ave. Witnesses told police that Alvarez and the other man stepped outside after arguing. After a scuffle, Alvarez was found stabbed to death. Florida International University officials hope to have the $5.2 million dormitory complex on the Bay Vista campus ready for students by September, despite its problems with fire code violations. The new dorms, FIU's first, hit a snag yesterday when Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter who also serves as the state fire marshal informed the state university system that students couldn't be housed there until numerous fire code violations are corrected.

An April 5 inspection revealed many violations, including ceilings that were too low, windows that were too narrow and fire walls that were too thin, Gunter said. A $750,000 sprinkler system must be installed in order to compensate for the problems, he said. The 550-student complex had been scheduled to open in January, but construction delays because of poor weather delayed opening until May. Yesterday's announcement set the date back to September. "I can't see why the dorms wouldn't be ready by The Miami News JOE il '11 11 i 111' 1 1 1 I 1 i 1 1 I 1 lit i I i 1 1 I 11 i 1 1 1 Fatigue-clad Eugenio Rodriguez, of the Brigade 2506 Joint Military Command, stands guard by the Bay of Pigs Monument at the corner of Southwest Eighth Street and 13th Avenue.

Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre and City Commissioner Demetrio Perez joined the more than 100 people gathered at the Memorial yesterday to honor the men who died in the CIA-backed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961. Colombian jewelry displayed Nose rings, funeral masks and wrist cuffs may not be popular items in most Miami households, but they are Just a small part of the $4 million gold display on exhibit at the University of Miami's Lowe Museum next week. The 300 pieces of gold on loan from a museum in Bogota, Colombia were crafted by 'Indians there between 500 and 1500 A.D. They will be on display from April 26 through May 27. The museum, 1301 Stanford is open from noon to 5 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $3 for adults, $1 for children ages 12 to 18 and $2 for senior citizens Please see HU, 12A John Crittenden Miami Agricultural School brings country to the city Li We stopped growing tomatoes because our neighbors kept coming over the fences and helping us harvest 9 Reward offered in jewelry heist A $600,000 heist at a Miami Springs jewelry store last month has prompted an insurance company to offer a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of thieves who broke into Uraril Jewelry Manufacturing at 8025 N.W.

36th the FBI announced. Joseph Corless, FBI special agent in charge of the Miami office, said evidence indicates the burglars crawled through the ceiling into the jewelry store on March 17, a Saturday. The burglars torched open a vault containing jewelry, he said, and escaped by cutting out a doorway through a wall in an adjacent office. The burglary went undetected until Monday, when the business reopened. Anyone with information about the heist can contact the FBI at 573-3333, or Adjusto the insurance company offering the reward, at 652-8110.

Miami Agricultural teacher Quentin Duff fish that makes a very efficient use of feed one pound of feed produces one pound of meat. We're going to show people how to grow 50 pounds of fish in their back yard." Tours, from adults to nursery school students, are part of the daily routine at Miami Agricultural. Many youngsters see livestock for the first time here. Pigeons camp on the roof of the barns. Wild ducks are frequent visitors.

Although the school is 15 miles from the ocean, a pelican dropped in the other day, trailing 20 feet of fishing line from its beak. Johnson removed the hook and the pelican flew off toward the east. "We'll take any kid who behaves and tries hard," says principal Wes Ries, son of a South Dakota wheat farmer. "And you'd be surprised at the sophistication and volume of knowledge that comes out of our programs." Students start with a general course, then move into specialization in nursery operations, livestock or landscaping. "When we want something done, we do it ourselves," says Johnson.

Students built the school shade-house and the pig barn. "I'm teaching in the only red portable classroom in Dade County," says Meuser. "We painted it red to match the barn." There are things at the farm school that would amaze my grandfather. who grew tobacco in Virginia. At Miami Agricultural they inject steroids into the ears of steers for more efficient feed conversion: they chemically castrate livestock; they spray insecticides by remote control.

The school has produced 20 video tapes on farming subjects. from birds to bees. Miami Agricultural School has no band, no athletic teams and no senior prom. but its pupils are devoted. Fifty students have keys to the front gate and come on weekends, when school is not in session, to care for their livestock.

Duff claims he moved to Broward County in self-defense. "I still get calls from students with questions on weekends." he says with a smile. -but now they have to call long distance." Because there is chlorine in the city water, the fish tanks at Miami Agricultural School have to be filled with water from a well. Shots ring out from a pistol range nearby and drift across the barnyard. te7rt Occasionally, a youth parks a su 14, permarket shopping cart at the 7 foot fence across from the shade- house, climbs over the barbed wire to help himself to a few plants in hanging baskets and races away, pushing his loot in the cart.

Miami Agricultural is a 17-acre -Jr farm school in a most unlikely location smack in the heart of the Crittenden city. In 1922, when the school moved to its present location, the campus was considered so far out in the boondocks that students boarded at a dormitory, going home only on weekends. Now the thoroughfare in front of the school, Northwest 103rd Street. has become one of Dade's busiest traffic arteries. Three hundred students are bused in daily for three hours of classes from high schools as far away as South Miami and North Miami Beach.

It's a learning center for the serious and the curious, says Don Pybas, the Dade marine advisory agent now running an experiment with 300 fish in nine tanks on the ag school campus. "If students are serious about farming, they can learn a lot here," Pybus says. "If they're just curious, they can learn enough to satisfy their curiosity. "In an urban area, it's a unique experience for kids." At Miami Agricultural School. many of the teachers wear jeans and go home with manure on their shoes.

Some of the classrooms are so isolated that instructors carry two-way radios for communication. At a roadside stand, students sell 400 eggs daily and plants and vegetables grown on the farm. The school has its own hens. "A lot of people don't even know this is a high school," says guidance counselor Bob Johnson. "There are people in the school system that don't know we exist." Land for the school was donated by the Florida East Coast Railroad.

The first principal was J.W. McArthur, later to become Dade's best-known dairyman. Quentin Duff, a teacher at Miami Agricultural since 1952, has raised bell peppers, eggplants, squash, strawberries and beans in the school's fields. "We stopped growing tomatoes," he said, "because our neighbors kept coming over the fences and helping us harvest." The school has eight teachers, three tractors. sheep.

cows, rabbits, chickens and a pony. There is a citrus grove and a patch of collards. Two years ago. thieves butchered six cows and six pigs at night. "A very professional job," says Johnson.

"They had rifles and radios." Now a maintenance man lives on the campus at the edge of the Little River Canal. adjoining the grounds of Central High. The school year is winding down now many student projects, cows and pigs. were sold at the Dade County Youth Fair. But something's always happening on this campus.

Bill Meuser's livestock students are building a show ring. Pits are being dug for construction of rabbit pens. which will have worm farms underneath. Beehives are on the way. "Take a look at our talapia," says Meuser.

"It's a Diabetes groups set meetings The Diabetes Research Institute Foundation has expanded its monthly support group program for families of diabetics to include six meetings each mnnth throughout Dade County. The first meeting this month will be at 7:30 p.m.,'April 24 at Cutler Ridge Junior High, 19400 S.W. 97th Ave. On April 25, meetings will be held at South Miami Junior High, 6750 S.W. 60th Lillie C.

Evans Elementary, 1895 N.W. 75th St. and Nautilus Junior High, 4301 North Michigan Miami Beach. On April 26, meetings will be held at Oak Grove Elementary, 15640 NI. Eighth Ave.

and Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High, 7977 W. 12th Ave. The sessions are conducted by professionally trained group leaders and are free. For more information, call the institute at 888-3437. Luisa Yanez i.