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2,000 tickets left More than 2,000 ticket remained untold today for Sun day's Dolphin game, but spokesmen at the ticket office pre dieted a "sellout later today or tomorrow." A blackout of the game with the Cincinnati Bengals became Inevitable for the Miami area yesterday at I p.m. when tickets remained unsold 72 hours befora klckoff. (Earlier story on 2C.) EXCLUSIVE BLUE STREAK FINAL TIN CfNTS Tho NewYork Times Nqws Service Miami, Friday Afternoon, Dec. 21, 1973 48 Pages csts Living sharp 'LAj IT 'Hi' -v v. again 'A 1 YOU rar.n i i tW-el UwmJ LJl lnwj I I I 1 'V I i L.

staff Photo by JIM FORBES her trailer after twister tossed it 50 feet in the air Miami News under Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth Reed, his wife and three children moved into their new mobile home in Gateway Estates 10 days ago. Yesterday, with only their two poo-d 1 keeping watch, the trailer was listed and tossed 40 feet down the street where it came to rest across a neighbor's home. Both homes lay in splinters with debris and yellow fiberglas insulation marking the path of flight. One dog was found safe at a neighbor's, the other was missing.

"This 62-by-12 baby was sits near ruins of wrecks mobile ing with it a 4 -year-old boy and his teenaged babysitter. Now it is a crimped, scrambled garage sale of bargains, but both people survived -the boy with only a cut forehead. The girl's injuries were not believed serious. Debbie Pittman, 26, whose home made that 50-foot vertical takeoff, routinely picked up her family's remaining belongings and stood momentarily awed by the sight of her $35,000 (including interest) home of Debbie Pittman After twister Christmas is buried i rubble! r-Assoflialad Prtsl Wiraptalt) ITS LONELY 'round the old welcome center at Jennings these days. It's not that people aren't still heading to Florida.

They're just taking a different route like Interstate 75. Once a hub of activity, this old center on U.S. 41 hasn't seen a tourist inside In many a day. However, its counterpart on 1-75 does a thriving business. Askew orders cut in fund requests during fuel crisis over there where those stsps are," he said.

"There's your pillow, i Mom," said daughter Peggv, ii. Would Reed get another mobile home now? "I'm afraid you can say no," he replied, "you can say hell, no!" "Don't say h-e-l-l," his wife said. "Don't curse t- this was an act of God." Florida Highway Patrol- i) man Donald Works, who is Continued on 6A, Col. 4 ii 30s due in Dade tonight rent problems and the economic outlook." for appropriations should be held to a bare minimum consistent with meeting the mandatory requirements of law, and providing essential services for the protection, health -and welfare of our citizens." The governor also said state employes were going to have to work harder because of the possible shortage of funds. Dickinson said he expected a recession next year but not a "downright depression, because our economic fiber is of such strength to withstand an all-out assault which would lead us to the hard times of the early '30s." Grande Valley, citrus growers eyed temperatures dropping into the upper 20s with alarm.

Crop damage can be sustained if the temperature remains below 26 for more than five hours. The Midwest was still digging out from a heavy snowstorm. Icy highways snarled traffic and caused hundreds of minor accidents in the St. Louis area. The thermometer plunged to zero overnight, following the city's fifth heaviest snowfall of the century.

Table Associated Prats GENEVA Israel nearly boycotted the opening session of the Middle East peace conference here today because of an empty table, Israeli officials disclosed. The Israeli complaint about the table, wedged between the table of the Israeli delegation and those of the Egyptians and Jordanians, arose minutes before the scheduled start of the Combinid Miami Ntwi Sarvlcei WASHINGTON It cost a lot more to live last month, at least for anyone who had to eat, travel or warm a home. The cost of food and fuel shot up sharply and the cost of almost everything else climbed at only a slightly slower pace, the government said today in another grim inflation report. The cost of food climbed 1.4 per cent in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The cost of fuel zoomed, with gas and oil prices Jumping 4.5 per cent while coal and heating oil prices showed an astounding 10 per cent increase.

And, experts warned, the November fuel prices increases did not fully reflect the energy crisis and even sharper fuel prices hikes are yet to come. Prices rose in most other areas too, though at a somewhat more moderate rate. Among other things, it cost more in November for clothes, new cars, medical service, mortgages and most household services, The latest hike put the overall cost of living in November 8.4 per cent over the same month last year. The report was more bad news for the Nixon administration's inflation fighters, even though the administration is deliberately allowing fuel prices to go up to try to dampen consumption because of the shortage. The figures, adjusted for usual seasonal pricing patterns, mean that the Nixon administration is far from its original 1973 target of reduc ing consumer price increases to an annual rate of 2.5 per cent by the end of this year.

The news was not only bad on the price front. The bureau said that real earnings figures, or earnings adjusted to subtract the effects of declined in November. Real average weekly earnings dropped five-tenths of one per cent. Over the year as a whole, real average weekly earnings were down 1.9 per cent. Highway flooding was reported in New Jersey from the heavy rains.

The rains, accompanied with mild temperatures, melted the snow and ice from the previous strom and heightened the flood threat to the Northeast. Connecticut's Gov. Thomas Meskill said he planned to telephone President Nixon today to ask him to declare Connecticut a disaster area. Thousands in the state were still without electricity after an ice storm knocked out service for 250,000 persons. splits historic talks and delayed them by 40 minutes.

Seating arrangements appeared to pose no problem here until last night Then, claimed the Israeli officials, Egypt and Jordan demanded that Israel be kept at a distance from them by an empty table set aside for the Syrian delegation, which is boycotting the conference. "We saw this aa an Associated Press TALLAHASSEE Gov! Reubin Askew today ordered state agency heads to reduce spending requests because of possible revenue losses from the energy crisis. Comptroller Fred (Bud) Dickinson, in his annual year-end economic report, also called for a leveling off of state spending in the face of "a definite economic slowdown" in Florida next year. Askew sent a letter to all department heads telling them to make their budget presentations to him Jan. 3 and 4.

Because the budgets were prepared several months ago, he said, "I am asking you to review your budget request with me in light of the cur By RICK GARR Miami Nawt Rtaartar The sun streaked through the heavy gray clouds Gateway Estates Mobile Home Park and a stunning double rainbow glistened in the misty sky above. But the people weren't noticing. Silent, meticulous, they picked through the chaotic remains of their former homes now strewn across the South Dade landscape looking collectively like a brand new junkyard. Mobile homes were nbw disheveled hulks or twisted -carcasses, spilling out broken metal, wood and plastic upon the pavement and the soggy little lawns. Walls split, cupboard doors slung open, broken dishes sitting in a rubber drainer poking through the wall and everywhere clumps of people in twos and threes trying to make one another believe it was really real.

Christmas was five days away. Now the brightly wrapped gifts lay in the puddles, and the trees were blown to the other end of the park, leaving an occasional metallic ball in the debris. Dallas Harner, 45, was tying down one of the trailers a little after 2 p.m. yesterday when the wind came up. Then it got so strong it pushed him into the side of the wall.

He had been through Betsy and Camille, but they were just hurricanes. He didn't want to go through anything 'like this again. "The clouds were dark and just sitting right over the park. I looked up and saw the funnel it was going up and down, up and down, like a top. It picked up that trailer over there about 12 feet in the air, and then I saw the roof of another one go flying over my head," he said.

That aluminum roof now is a contorted ball of silver junk sitting atop a '65 Ford. Another trailer nearby was blown 50 feet in the air, tak homes four months now turned into a wood and metal helping of a giant's alphabet soup. A green stuffed doll in-one hand, a boy's cowboy boot in the other, she muddied her white ankle-lace shoes and tasteful blue suit but kept putting the items into neat piles. She sorted the perished keepsakes quickly into a yellow plastic trash can, which sat amid the rubbish of what used to be her living room. "My husband is gonna freak out when he sees this," she muttered.

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The weather bureau said that showers and thunderstorms in advance of the cold front raked the entire state yesterday. Heavy rains fell throughout the county with Homestead registering 2.50 inches, 2.38 inches at Coral Gables, 2.10 at South Miami and 2.13 in downtown Miami. Do you favor new jetport? Should a new jetport he built for the Greater Miami area? That's the question we're asking on our People Line. Phone our tape recorder at 379-9022 and give us your opinion. We'll print as many answers as possible in Wednesday's Miami News.

The People Line will remain open on this question until p.m. Sunday. Miami News Staff Photo by JIM FORBFS STAFF SGT. Kenneth Reed surveys the wreckage of his mobile home. The Air Force non-com moved in only 10 days ago.

Yesterday's tornado also destroyed other mobile homes when it touched down in Gateway Estate Park near Florida City, then skipped northward through Dade. Atsociattd Press 'Za topsy-turvy weather pattern brought snow and freezing temperatures to much of tfie Southeast today and Jteavy rains and flash-fiood warnings to the storm-weary Northeast. Forecasters said that rivers and streams in New England and parts of New York were rising rapidly from the dpwnpour that dropped nearly two inches of rain in some parts of the region. The heavy rain came on the heels of asnow and ice storm that loiffS'd out heat and elec-trlil thousands in the arealfiionday. The rain promised to slow efforts to return power to thousands still without it in Connecticut, hardest hit by earlier storm.

'Meanwhile, a storm that buried sections of the Midwest under foot-deep snows, pushed winter into the usually! balmly Southeast. Snow of the one and two-inch variety were reported in sections of Georgia, Lousiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Caroli-rias. In usually mild San Antonio, the thermometer dropped to 17, breaking a record set in 1937. In Texas' lernitropical lowejr Rio talks Inside ipaaro peace would not attend the session," an official said. The conference was delayed for 40 minutes before agreement was reached.

The agreement stipulated that UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim and his aides would be flanked by Israel on their left and Egypt on their right. The empty table was shifted to the left of the Soviet Union. attempt to ostracize us," charged an Israeli delegation official. "It concerned our status as equals at the conference." This morning, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban entered the conference chamber and reportedly found the empty table dividing him from the Arab seats. "Mr.

Eban announced that unless this was changed, he Colder. Complete weather on Page 9B.