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6b ST. PETERSBURG TIMES FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1988 Tampa Theatre rises to occasion when ceiling falls By MILO GEYELIN Timet Start Writer The crash sounded like "someone had taken a big bag of ice and dropped it in a cooler," said Art Keeble, arts council director. To Art Keeble, director of the Arts Council of Tampa-Hillsborough County, it sounded like "someone had taken a big bag of ice and dropped it in a cooler." Keeble was on stage introducing the quartet and was not close to the scene. Victoria Yarbrough, sitting in the center of the balcony's front row, thought it sounded like an earthquake. "We were sitting in the balcony when, all of a sudden, one piece came down, probably one-foot by one-foot," Mrs.

Yarbrough said Thursday. "Thirty seconds later, another piece came down. At that point, I stood up and said, 'I think we the chamber music in concert halls, lamented Mrs. Yarbrough, whose brother-in-law Paul, formerly of Largo, plays the viola for the prize-winning quartet. But the plaster collapse did not diminish the concert, she said, and at intermission Keeble went on stage with an announcement: "I said the noise they heard before the concert was the ceiling crashing," said Keeble.

"Everyone chuckled. I said, 'When God gives you lemons, you make Outside in the lobby, theater employees began selling the biggest chunks at the concession stand for $10, $25 or $50, de pending on size. The plaster raised $170 for the historic theater, known best for its domed, midnight-blue ceiling studded with small, sparkling white lights. About 270 people attended on Wednesday, raising more than $1,500 for the city-owned theater. Keeble said that the reason for the ceiling crash was still a mystery Thursday, but he speculated that Hie fallen plaster was a patch filled in when the building was restored in 1978 and 1979.

Perhaps, said Keeble, after city engineers inspected the ceiling Thursday, "the old plaster and the new plaster didn't come together." TAMPA World-class string quartets are known for bringing down the house after their performances, but at a benefit concert for the Tampa Theatre Wednesday night, it happened the other way around. The house came down first. As the Alexander String Quartet was being introduced offstage for its premier performance in Tampa a benefit for the old theater part of the ceiling above the balcony came down with a thud. Actually two. should leave the Twenty people did just that, as more plaster about six square feet fell on empty balcony seats and dusted some of the seats below.

Balcony seats are the best for listening to State citrus agency seeing red over use of oranges in ad By KIMBERLY D. KLEMAN Times Staff Writer "I couldn't help but wonder why. you chose to highlight the apple, since the orange appears to be the nutritionally superior fruit. Dan Gunter of the Department of Citrus i 1 1 TAMPA The ad is striking. A succulent, dewy apple emerges from the peel of an orange.

Blurry oranges fill the background. The written message: "Comparing The Tampa General Hospital to other hospitals is like comparing apples to oranges. There's just no comparison." Now a hospital in Delicious or Macintosh apple country might win widespread praise with the ad, which appeared Jan. 3 in the Tampa Tribune. But this is Florida, and the state Department of Citrus was not amused.

"I couldn't help but wonder why you chose to highlight the apple, since the orange appears to be the nutritionally superior fruit," wrote Dan Gunter, executive director of the Department of Citrus, in a letter the hospital received Thursday. "Since Tampa is located in Florida's citrus belt I would think it would be more logical for you to compare your hospital's superior care with the superior Florida orange," Gunter continued. Enclosed in the letter was a nutritional chart pitting the apple against the orange. The orange won. Hospital president Newell France said the ad campaign was produced in-house and began in 4 Timet photo JOE WALLES A good day to stay inside late November.

Each ad is different, but the "logo" is the same a lone apple among the oranges. France said he's received many compliments about the marketing pitch and then the letter. "I guess I have to say that the cliche is not comparing oranges to apples," France said. "The cliche is comparing apples to oranges. "But I'm rather flattered that it's of such significance to bring it to our attention," he continued.

France said he hadn't decided how he would respond. Others were apologetic. "My motto is, an orange a day keeps the doctor away," said Robert Williams, chairman of the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority, which runs the hospital. "We here at Tampa General love Lisa Cave gazes out at the rain Thursday as she waits for work to start at Christo's Cafe in downtown St. Petersburg.

Lender's attorneys criticize jail conditions By RON WORD i Associated Press JACKSONVILLE Attorneys for accused drug kingpin Carlos Lehder Rivas complained to a federal magistrate Thursday that Lehder is being held in the U.S. Courthouse here under unconstitutional conditions and "is not being treated like a king." U.S. Magistrate Har confined under inhumane and intolerable conditions even assuming, without conceding, that there is a need for special security in the case," Shohat wrote in his motion on the issue. Assistant U.S. Attorney Ernst Mueller responded, "He is being held constitutionally in a manner better than everyone else is." Mueller said Lehder had private bathroom facilities, a color television with remote control, an exercise bicycle and dumbbells and was allowed unlimited phone calls within the United States.

Two inmates escape for second time Associated Press vey Schlesinger heard arguments over Lehder's detention conditions in a hearing before Lehder's trial resumed Thursday morning with the testimony of key prosecution witness Ed Ward. Lehder, 38, and co-defendant Jack Reed, 57, are charged in a 1981 indict "There is no reason why Lehder must be confined under inhumane and intolerable conditions. 366-day term for escape from Hillsborough County. Emmett Holliday, 25, was serving a 10-year sentence for robbery from Hillsborough County. He had served a five-year sentence for aggravated assault from Hillsborough County and a three-year sentence for escape from Gadsden County.

Law enforcement officials used tracking dogs in their search, but the inmates were still missing late Thursday. PALATKA Two inmates with previous escape convictions scaled a 15-foot fence and escaped from the Putnam Correctional Institution, officials said. "You just never would suspect it would happen," assistant superintendent Randall Mobley said of the Wednesday escapes. Joseph Landreth, 19, was serving a two-year sentence for sexual battery from Duval County and a extreme escape risk, and this precaution is being taken to protect detail personnel and public." Schlesinger did not immediately rule on the confinement conditions. In his testimony Thursday, Ward described making three cocaine flights to the island from Colombia with co-pilot Leverett Francis and Lehder and other flights to airstrips in Florida and Georgia.

The smuggling trips testified to by Ward are the acts described in count one of the federal indictment against Lehder. Ward testified that although he and Lehder had agreed to limit each load of cocaine to 250 kilograms, the first trip in January 1979 carried 530 kilograms and the second the next month carried 500. On a third flight in March 1979, Ward said he picked up 250 to 300 kilograms of cocaine. Ward testified that he was worried about the weight on the first trip. "I had serious concerns that the aircraft would get off the ground," said Ward.

But he said Lehder told him: "It's here and we've got to move it." The plane's wheels struck bushes as it took off, he said. On each of the trips, Ward said they would fly to the Turks and Caicos Islands, spend the night at a place owned by Chief Minister Norman Saunders, fill the plane will fuel and leave at 3 a.m. to arrive in Colombia at sunrise. Lehder is charged in Jacksonville with conspiracy to smuggle cocaine, importation of cocaine and operating a continuing criminal i. LEHDER Defense attorney Edward R.

Shohat ment with smuggling 3.3 tons of cocaine into 'Jthe United States from Colombia via Norman's ay in the Bahamas from 1978 to 1980. Lehder's attorney, Edward R. Shohat, complained to Schlesinger that Lehder was being ilield in "total isolation" in a cell on the fifth floor of the federal courthouse, just around the corner from the courtroom. It was the first public disclosure of just where Lehder is being held between court sessions. Shohat complained in court that Lehder was "hot permitted private visitation with his family, that his confinement is different from others on trial and that he is not permitted outside exercise.

"There is no reason why Lehder must be 'King Carlos' is not being treated like a king," said Shohat, who complained that all of Lehder's conversations with his family are being monitored by government agents. "There is no reason why Lehder cannot have the simple benefit of private contact," he argued. The attorney also complained that Lehder is kept in leg irons before court, during breaks and during the noon hour. The government's response to Shohat's motion said, "Carlos Lehder is considered an 1987 SERTA JAMISON BEDDING iCLOSE-OUT Acquitted couple sue FBI over arrest SALE Slaying blamed on plot to fix jai-alai games Associated Press SAVE 50 TO 70 ON DISCONTINUED Associated Press OVERSTOCKED MODELS Jai-Alai and several other frontons in Florida, was killed May 27, 1981, outside the clubhouse of the Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. He was shot once in the left eye at close range as he sat in the front seat of his Cadillac after a round of golf.

A composite drawing of a person seen leaving the scene of Wheeler's slaying looks "remarkably like" Villageliu, McAdams said. McAdams also identified Villageliu as a suspect in the deaths of former World Jai-Alai president John B. Callahan, Miami real estate agent Jorge Marrero and a former cellmate of Villageliu in the pretrial hearing before U.S. Magistrate Lin-nea Johnson. Villageliu, 39, was one of 24 people indicted in Tucson, in March 1984 in what authorities said was a scheme to smuggle 25 tons of marijuana and quantities of cocaine and other drugs.

The ring operated from May 1980 to March 1984 and spanned several states and several countries in the Caribbean, Central America and South America, authorities said. Villageliu was identified as an enforcer for leaders of the drug ring. He had been sentenced to life in prison in 1975 for. beating a man to death with a baseball bat in Miami Beach. Although he was sentenced to life in prison plus 99 years, he was released four year later and freed from probation restrictions a year after that.

Jamison LOS ANGELES A couple acquitted in Florida in 1985 of charges they conspired to export missiles to Iran have filed a $40-million malicious prosecution suit against the FBI. Fadel Norman Fadel, 56, and his wife, Farhin Sanai, 54, were arrested in the conspiracy case in July 1985 following an undercover FBI investigation in Orlando. A Florida jury acquitted them in December of that year. "It completely demolished their lives," attorney Michael Artan, who filed the suit Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court, said of the FBI investigation. FBI spokesman Jim Nielson of Los Angeles declined comment.

The suit charges that during the investigation an FBI informant who had a criminal record and ties to a New York organized-crime family threatened and coerced the couple into going along with the missile sale. According to the suit, the FBI knew of the threats but did not intervene. Artan also said the couple remained in federal custody between the time of their July arrests and their December acquittal. Because they were not working and had to pay legal expenses, he said, they lost their home and a condominium they owned. The criminal trial also prompted investigations by the Internal Revenue Service that the two are still fighting, Artan said.

MIAMI A prosecutor suspects World Jai-Alai owner Roger Wheeler was murdered because he refused to go along with a scheme to fix games, a newspaper reported Wednesday. No one has been charged with the 1981 slaying, but Assistant U.S. Attorney Jim McAdams said Luis Villageliu is a prime suspect. Villageliu is a convicted killer who was declared a fugitive last week after he failed to show up for a hearing intended to revoke the $400,000 bail he posted for a drug conspiracy charge. The investigation "connected Mr.

Vil- lageliu and other persons to efforts to fix jai-alai games, various jai-alai games," McAdams said during a Nov. 6 hearing. Transcripts were obtained by the Miami News. "Apparently Mr. Wheeler refused to go along with the scheme after learning of it and was subsequently found murdered in Tulsa, McAdams said.

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