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Rocky Mount, MX Telegram Sun July 6, 1975-41 71 AUTOS FOR SALE The South Bronx Is Burning Look Silent Night CHARLOTTE (AP)-Instead of hearing firecrackers on the Fourth of July, Tommy Tiller, 60, heard "Silent Night." When Tiller suffered a stroke last Dec. 20, his family refused to break the tradition of family holiday gatherings by celebrating without him. They waited for his recovery. The Christmas tree stayed The wreath remained on the door. The presents were unopened.

Friday, his three children and five of six grandchildren gathered to open their gifts in traditional Christmas spirit. "This is wonderful," he smiled from his wheelchair, surveying the festivities. Judy Tiller, a daughter-in-law, said the children had not -minded the wait. "And I think it's been a good lesson for all of us," she said. "After all, Christmas is a time when you are supposed to think of others." Out their effort to encourage companies to stay in the area is just a holding action.

"So much more could be done if there were a positive policy of development, retention and rehabilitation," said John Patterson city-financed president of the South Bronx, Overall Economic Development Corp. PERRY Illilllr winied Wc alAN USED fl lll. CARS Jl jlTiM ill 1 NEW LINCOLN 4 DOORS ll MARK IV'S ill MERCURYS II COUGARS 1 1 M0NTEG0S ll COMETS .11 J6CAPR1S 1 42 In Stach I fill WIN WITH PERRY WIN basement Is flooded. The walls of the occupied apartments are cracked, and the plaster is crumbling. Last week, one of the apartments was broken into.

Three eimilarv buildings on the block are burned out and abandoned smaller homes are boarded up. A tiny garden behind one of the homes hints of life. The Mildred tenants say they stopped paying rent months go because of the conditions. One of them, 53-year-old Elnora Junious, recently received an eviction notice for nonpayment of her $70-a-month rent for the depressing four-room apartment in which she lives. A spokesman for the City's Department of Real Estate, which acquitted the Mildred 14 months ago, said the cify has spent $15,000 on the building.

He denied tenants' charges that the Mildred has lacked heat and hot water since last winter. He said the apartments will be scraped and painted as soon as new metal doors have been installed. Despite the problems, the South Bronx is being touted as an ideal location for business because of its proximity to Manhattan, Connecticut and New Jersey. The cost of land is lower than in Manhattan and there is a large labor pool plus access to transportation. The Hunts Point Market in the South Bronx is the city's major food distribution center.

The Coca Cola Bottling Co. of New York recently opened one of the country's largest soft drink distribution centers in the South Bronx. And there are smaller efforts all over the area to strengthen business. But promoters agree that ilN WITH PERRY WIN WITH 5 LIKE NEW 1973 VOLKSWAGEN uj Super Beetle, Green With Tan Police say that sometimes tenants fed up with lack of services burn their buildings because they get relocation money and priority for city housing. Probably less often, the fires are started by junkies or bored kids out for kicks.

Residents say it is not unheard of to see furniture out on the sidewalk before the firemen arrive, indicating that tenants were warned of the fire in advance. Sometimes tenants don't even bother to pull the fire alarm. Fear of looting causes many people to stay in their apartments until the flames or smoke force them to evacuate. Appeailing Results The results are appalling. Last year, 10,935 dwelling units roughly 730 buildings were declared unsafe in the South Bronx.

But demolition goes more slowly, which is the reason for the large number of building hulks. New construction and building rehabilitation are negligible. Last New Year's Eve, fire broke oiit in a Fox Street apartment adjacent to the one where Kirk Wallace, Bernice Gold-sboro and their five children live. "The fires are the biggest threat," said Wallace, a 24-year-old community service officer, who would like to be a policeman. "I sleep very light anyway.

Thre's not too much to move. As long as I get my family out, the rest can burn up. Wallace believes it is just a matter of time before he and his family are chased by fire from the four-bedroom apartment for which they pay $103.50 a month, about 15 per cent of Wallace's monthly income. Four of the five other apartments on the floor are vacant, an invitation for arson. The apartment buildings on either side of theirs already are abandoned and burned out.

Lutherans Split Denied By Official ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -The head of a controversy-embroiled Lutheran denomination discounts predictions that it is of walkup apartments and high-rise housing projects with great speed. Entire blocks are silent in many areas where abandonment, fires and vandalism have destroyed one building after another. Some of them are sealed up; others seem to stare numbly through scorched, empty window holes. The streets are still.

"It's a disaster area," said Hi Cohen, who owns a grocery store on the edge of one severely damaged neighborhood. "One look is worth a thousand words. There are no people here. Take a look across the street. All you see are winos and dope pushers.

It's enough to make you sick." Mary McLaurin, head of a merchant's association, put it this way: "We can't get police protection because there's nobody around here left to guard." Summer Sounds In less devastated areas of the South Bronx and there still are many the streets come alive with activity on early summer afternoons. Music fills the air as men and women congregate on stoops or at street corners, drinking beer and talking or shouting to friends. Cars are polished and engines tuned. Clothes hang out upper story windows, drying in the sun, and tots play in the spray of fire hydrants or fly kites ffomfire escapes. Neighborhood kids like Daniel Rosa and Frankie Cardone, both 13, play softball in a narrow dirt lot squeezed between two rows of shabby apartment buildings.

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The building has no heat or hot water. The Col. Bayard Murdered In Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) Col. Robert F.

Bayard, who helped pioneer night-vision equipment used by the UJS. Army sniper team in Vietnam, has been found shot to death outside a cafeteria in a fashionable Atlanta neighborhood, police say. Bayard, 56, was found shot in the left temple at close range with either a pistol, Detective D. W. Hensley said Friday.

Hensley said Bayard, who retired from the Army after the Vietnam War, was found with no money or wallet, and his pockets were turned inside out. The detective said he had no reason to suspect any motive other than robbery. Bayard was found outside the cafeteria at Ansley Mall Thursday, but police said due to lack of identification they did not know who he was until Friday. Bayard, who helped develop the night vision equipment used by Army snipers, had worked with the United Nations Arab-; Israeli peace-keeping mission on the staff of the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Ham-merskjold.

He also commanded the 1st Army Brigade of the 87th Division sent to the Dominican Republic in 1965. After retiring from the Army, Bayard worked as a private detective and became involved in security consulting. Annual Powwow CAIRO, Ga. (AP) Camping on symbolic tribal lands, members of the Creek Indian Nation are holding their second annual Powwow near here today. Neal McCormick, chief of the Lower Creek Indian Nation, said he expects 20,000 visitors by the end of the three-day festival, which began Thursday.

The Powwow is taking place on a 200-acre site where the Creek nation is recreating the village of Tama, including a trading post, dance arbor, archives building, animal farm, beaver lake and teepees. The Creeks, or Muskogees, were forced to leave their tribal lands east of the Mississippi in 1825 and march westward on the "Trail of Tears." McCormick purchased the site near Cairo several years ago to re-establish the tribe's symbolic home. KIDS DRESS FOR ONE-ROOM SCHOOL SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) -Second graders from the Lucas Valley School near here spent a day at the old one-room Dixie Schoolhouse to discover the difference in their modern education and that of the 1869 era. The children dressed in clothes of the period, long dresses, bonnets, caps and hats.

They sat and did their lessons at the old wooden desks. Missing was the old pot-bellied wood stove so typical of the small country schools of that day. The Dixie School was made a historical landmark several years ago. EDITOR'S NOTE Much of the sidewalk talk in the South Bronx these days is about the fires that have been devouring this ghetto for 10 years, and are now more frequent than ever today. By BERNARD COHEN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) There is a grave next to St.

Ann's Episcopal Church in the South Bronx that has become a symbol of irony for the poor Spanish-speaking people of that parish. It is the 158-year-old burial place of Gouverneur Morris, a lawyer, diplomat and statesman who helped write the U.S. -Constitution, and lived in a manor house near St. Ann's. "Morris would be flipping in his grave" if he could see what this area has become, says Armando Lopez a community housing coordinator.

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