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FREEDOM FLIGHTS ROLL IN 1 I 1 Miami's Population is Bursting-of Seams 5 I ist, says the Latin population is a market within itself. Declares Guastella: "As far as income, the Latin group, fattened by a continuing influx of Cuban refugees, has more expending income than Laredo, added to Panama City in North Florida and Portsmouth, Va. The Latin population is larger than Las Vegas." Although the Spanish-speaking population was originally centered mostly in downtown Miami, it has now spread in all By CHARLES F. HESSER Miami News SUff Writer Special to Th Atlanta Journal-Constitution MIAMI Latin Americans mostly Cubans-in Greater Miami have a buying power estimated at $350 million a year and it is growing rapidly. The Spanish-speaking population of the area is almost 300,000.

With Greater Miami's population put at 1.1 million, this accounts for approximately one-fourth of the people. A thousand new Cuban refugees arrive each week on the freedom flights 75 per cent are routed to other cities and 25 per cent remain here. In addition, there are more than 300 flights between and Latin countries each week. A small number of those aTjoard these flights, not including Cubans, are coming here to stay. By 1980, the Spanish-speaking groups in this area wilj be in excess of 500,000, as big as the local American population in 1950.

MARIANO GUASTELLA, a Miami Latin market special Forty-three Latin drug stores are in operation, along with 26 American drug stores catering to Latins. Forty-one Latin jewelry stores compete with 10 American jewelers specializing in Latin clientele. There are several hundreds of other Latin outlets, including restaurants, bars, beauty parlors, flower shops, auto dealers, service stations, appliance stores, etc. Eight publications are now printed here in Spanish. Three radio stations offer 100 per cent Spanish programming, and 34 hours of television programs are telecast in Spanish each week.

Names, labels and packaging of goods are tailored to fit the Spanish market. THERE ARE NUMEROUS individual examples of Spanish business enterprise. Suave Shoe, for instance, opened in 1966 and grew to 12 million in sales 'last year, with 2,000 workers employed at its Hialeah plant Practically every bank in Miami has a Latin vice president. Two men, Carlos Arboleya and Amado Vina, are presidents. Greater Miami's garment industry has grown to be the third largest in the nation, thanks to a steady influx of Cuban refugee seamstresses.

A survey by the Florida Fashion Council shows 600 apparel manufacturing firms in operation in the area with a potential $300 million worth of goods in 1969. AND THE LATINS are here to stay. Dr. Horacio Aquirre, editor of Diario Las Americas, says that many Cubans would return to Cuba if and when the Communist regime is either neutralized or overthrown. "But, if Castro is overthrown, conditions will be chaotic in Cuba," said Dr.

Aguirre, "and people who have done well for themselves here will not want to give up the comforts they have acquired in Miami." The number of Cuban refugees receiving welfare throughout the United States, meanwhile, is expected to increase from 27,704 to 32,800 by the end of the next fiscal year, June 30, 1970. This will necessitate an additional appropriations of $165 million from Congress, up from the current $70.7 million to $87.2 million for fiscal 1969-70. Maximum benefits are $100 a month for a family and $60 for an individual. 1 1 i directions as the incomes of the families have improved. "You will find Latins and you will hear Spanish all over from Hollywood (15 miles north of Miami) to Homestead (20 miles south of Miami), and from Hialeah (on the west) to Miami Beach (on the east)," Guastella noted.

TO SERVE THIS MARKET, 315 Latin grocery stores have been established and more than 50 American food stores now sell to a large percentage of Cuban customers. iFLORIDA SEACOASTS GOP to Pour On Sfeam To Knock Out Sen. Gore Flood nsurance t. Long Way Off helpful THIS COULD be or harmful to Gore. Gore has stepped up his fence-mending.

He's politicking nearly every weekend somewhere in Tennessee. The possibility has also been raised that Gore will have some primary competition of his own. Gov. Buford Ellington is being strongly urged to make the race. Rep.

Ray Blaniton, of Adams-ville has also been mentioned, tioned. Kuykendall said they were inconclusive. Some Brock supporters said they showed the Chattanooga lawmaker would demolish the west Tennessean in a primary tussle. What has never been released is that Gore is much better known by the voters than either of the Republicans, according to some GOP sources. pi Mmmskm JiiiBiiiiiv ppiilllllilK iiippBllllili -Wj i--- St'V; I sv- mm-; x-d TALLAHASSEE (B Flood insurance for all of Florida's seacoast areas is coming, but is still a long way off, says a state official who did much of the work behind present federal law.

To date, four areas of the United States have been made eligible for flood insurance under a law effective Jan. 28. "I did the entire leg work on it, and it was put through by Broward Williams," said Gene Gallagher of the nationwide law. Gallagher works in the rating division of State Insurance Commissioner Williams. The law means that many areas such as in Florida will have to make flood control improvements before they can be eligible for a cent of flood Insurance coverage, Gallagher said.

THE LAW works this way, Gallagher said: An area applies to the federal government for flood insurance. The area is surveyed, usually by the U.S. Geological Survey, for conditions, flood control systems and other factors. In some cases, the area will be required to "clean up," meaning such things as fixing drainage ditches or canals. When this is done the area is approved for flood insurance.

This means the local area insurance companies can begin writing flood insurance policies. Current law provides this insurance can be provided for dwellings of four families or fewer. Gallagher said a north Broward County area is being surveyed for eligibility for flood insurance now. He said he feels other Florida areas will be checked later. Areas surveyed, and approved for flood insurance, so far are portions of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alaska, and Tennessee.

Gallagher said the federal government "was made a partner from the start." 'MEET FORCE WITH FORCE' Special Unit Eyed To Control Riots By JAY JENKINS Editorial Page Editor Winston-Salem Journal Special to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution WINSTON-SALEM-hGov. Bob Scott, speaking to a graduating class of highway patrolmen, recently revealed his plans to organize a special riot control unit of state troopers. "Force will be met with NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) The exit of Dan Kuykendall from next year's senatorial scene before the curtain was raised probably means one thing the national Republican leadership is going to pull out the stops in efforts to knock off Sen. Albert Gore, D-Tenn.

Kuykendall, the 9th District GOP congressman, announced last week, after some soul searching, he preferred to seek re-election to the House. A primary battle between Kuyendall and 3rd i i Rep. William Brock of Chattanooga certainly would not have enhanced the party's chances of knocking off the Democratic lawmaker. The fact that Kuykendall gave up his senatorial ambitions for three years at least probably means that party leaders feel that Brock has the best chance of beating Gore. The national party would like very much to defeat Gore, and the fact that he's a Democrat is only secondary.

THE VETERAN Democrat has been a thorn in the side of two presidents: Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. Gore is the second ranking Democrat on the Senate For-e i Relations Committee. This committee gives him the perfect forum to blast the Vietnam war, the controversial ABM proposal of President Nixon, and other issues sure to come up. If the GOP could unseat Gore in the Senate it would not only increase its numbers in the upper house but also be rid of one of the administration's most articulate critics. Expensive polls were taken to determine whether Brock of Kuykendall would have the better chance of unseating Gore.

The results were never released publicly. -rffiMi I I 1 1 III 1 Ill Associated Press Wirephots) WELFARE HUDDLE NEW ORLEANS Louisiana Gov. John Mc Keithen (left) confers with Archbishop Phillip Hannan to discuss the state's welfare prob lems. Meanwhile, a group of marchers was en route to the state Capitol in Baton Rouge to protest cuts in the welfare program. Tvo Boards Replace One In Juvenile Penal System 2-D Wfc Atlanta journal and CONSTITUTION SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 1969 NEWS OF THE overpowering force each time it is necessary," he said.

"Unfortunately, civil disorders and related emergencies have become a way of life in recent months." Since he took office in January, Scott said he has called the National Guard out seven times and sent troopers to trouble spots on numerous occasions. "There is no reason for anyone to flout our laws anytime or any place," he said. "I plan to develop a special highway patrol force whose role it will be to answer calls turned to testify at one of the committee's public meetings. As soon as practical, the committee will reveal in detail such further recommendations as it wishes to make. Some, no doubt, can be put into effect without legislative approval; others, however, especially if money is involved, will need Assembly action.

school, talk to inmates and officials, with no apparent effort to limit his inquiry. The resulting publicity and reaction sparked the tive inquiry that is now coming to a climax. The reporter who precipitated the stir rer ymmmmmmmmmmmmmm ews Brief From the Southeast Empire i North Carolina -Ti vt-fr? 1 1 3 3 rt iaiSBllfil IS for strong assistance in time of civil disorder." SCOTT SAID the force will consist of "50 or more highly qualified patrolmen" who will have extensive training and the best equipment. "The special unit will not necessarily be stationed in any one area of the state," Scott said. "Instead, it will consist of patrolmen from all six troops who can converge at the scene of a disorder in a matter of hours, often in less than two hours." Most of the state's towns and some of its cities are unable to cope with civil disturbances of any kind, he added.

One reason is that they don't have enough officers, he said, and the officers they do have have not been trained to cope with "new problems." "In a tense town, when a state trooper in riot gear tells a potential troublemaker to keep moving, he keeps moving," Scott said. STATE TROOPERS have the further advantage of not being influenced by local politics or petty rivalries, the governor said. "If the lid has blown off, it's their job to put it back on," he said. "If the lid is still on, it's their job to keep it on." The special force is needed, Scott said, so there'll be no question that order will be maintained, and he added: "I am concerned with law and order, and I shall continue to do all I can to see that order is maintained. We have seen in the past excuses for disturbance and disruption.

All kinds of excuses were given in attempts at justification. Excuses ae not reasons. They are merely excuses." The special troopers will be called upon to make critical decisions under adverse conditions, he said. Such decisions sometime will be questioned "by people sitting safely at home or living it up at the country club when you make that decision." GOV. SCOTT described the National Guard as the second line of defense "if the situation gets so bad we cannot provide enough patrolmen to handle the situation and still fulfill our mission across the state." He also told the graduating troopers: "I want every trooper to know that the power of the state your badge represents will come to your aid when you need it and it will provide as much power as needed." By S.

L. LATIMER I i Tit Colombia Kate Special to The Atlanta Joamal-ConiUtaMoa COLUMBIA Following a barrage of charges, the state's juvenile penal system is being revamped, the first major move effective this past week. The old supervisory board for the four reformatories was replaced with two boards, one to oversee the actual operation i of the schools and the other to be responsible for care and guidance of discharged individuals. Such a change was not in accord with Gov. Robert E.

McNair's thinking. He was in favor of some sort of reorganization, but doubted the wis- dora of a two-board setup. He had wanted the work with juveniles turned over to the State Department of Corrections, a move he said would be in line with the present trend nationally for unification rather than separation. McNAIR did not, of course, advocate the mixing of young offenders with adult offenders, but simply that all of the state's penal efforts be under the same over-all supervision. Despite his defeat, the governor signed the enabling acts promptly and did not delay action in naming members of the two new boards.

A legislative committee headed by Sen. E. N. Zeigler of Florence has been holding hearings at intervals for several months, listening to various accusations and refutations on conditions in the juvenile institutions. Committee members also personally visited the schools.

TOat they hope will be the final public hearing was held last week. It was on the committee's recommendation that the dual supervisory boards were set up. Conditions at the state's Ju- venile penal institutions came Into the public eye several months ago when The Christian Science Monitor ran a number of articles after a nationwide study of such institu, "lions. THE NEWSPAPER'S re-porter, when he visited South I- Carolina, was allowed to fully Inspect faclliticsat each increased prices up to 25 per cent. Republican members of the Florida Legislature are pressuring GOP Gov.

Claude Kirk to call a special session to implement the administration's proposed 16-year, $6.4 billion highway program The Florida Supreme Court has upheld the state's government-in-the-sun-shine" law. The law says that public officials may not bar citizens from meetings where public business is discussed. A commonly used anticonvulsant drug, phenytoin, may hold the key to ridding man's body of dangerous DDT buildups, a Miami research team has discovered. The drug produces an 80 per cent reduction of DDT residue in rats. Florida officials, determined to keep a tight grip on the cost of medical care for the poor, have approved use of a statewide computer network to keep Medicaid spending within limits.

Leaders of both major political parties in Florida refuse to count Sen. Ted Kennedy definitely out of the 1972 presidential sweepstakes despite the circumstances surrounding the fatal auto accident in which he was involved. Miami police have been given the go-ahead to drive cabs during off-duty hours. They will be armed in an effort to combat an increasing number of assaults and robberies, some of which have resulted in murders of drivers. Florida's new juvenile fingerprinting law is paying off.

Six juveniles, picked up and fingerprinted, were found to have been involved in 32 burglaries in greater Miami. Their prints matched those found at the places burglarized. South Carolina J. Bratton Davis of Columbia has become the first statewide federal referee in bankruptcy in South Carolina's history due to consolidation of the state's districts. The Scaiffe family of Pittsburgh has given the International Studies School at the University of South Carolina at $359,000 personal gift, the largest ever made to the 168-year-old institution.

State Sen. Robert Scraborough of Charleston has been named president of the National Exchange Clubs. A study shows that the average checking balance of South Carolinians with bank accounts last year was $1,135 with an average savings balance of $955. Rep. Y.

Lown Cox of Spartanburg has resigned his saet to become his county's first public defender, a newly created job. State Highway Patrol statistics show that alcohol played a part in 190 fatal accidents in South Carolina last year, or about one out of every, five, Three of Columbia's four city councilmen are likely candidates for mayor in next year's election. Mayor Charles Bates, after 12 years in the office, is not seeking reelection and likely will try for governor. his father, Gov. R.

E. McNair, gave the oath of allegiance, Robert McNair a recent graduate of Presbyterian College, became an Air Corps officer at Fort Jackson. Allen University of Columbia, a predominantly Negro institution, is abandoning football for financial reasonsafter 39 years with the sport. Conservationists are waging a campaign to have the state purchase Baldhead Island, at the mouth of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, to preserve it in its natural state. Frank Sherrill, Charlotte businessman, owns the island and developer Charles Fraser of Hilton Head Island, S.C., is negotiating to purchase it; $5.5 million has been mentioned as a possible sales price.

Charlotte Negroes pledged a boycott of white merchants and civil disobedience if the school board there does not heed Negro objections to a proposed desegregation plan that would close six black schools. Dr. Charles Lyons, former director of admissions at Howard University, took over as president of Fayetteville State University. Gov. Scott plans to ask the State Supreme Court to give him an advisory opinion on the legality of Scott's innovative nous-, ing program, authorized by the recent General Assembly, that will supply low-cost housing with self-liquidating revenue bonds.

James L. Southerland of Maxton was named to the State Board of Agriculture, replacing Richard Barber of Waynesville, by Gov. Scott, who also reappointed two veteran board members, J. Hawley Poole of West End and Claude T. Hall of Woodsdale.

The governor picked two new members of the State Wildlife Commission, Jack Hooks of Whiteville and Dr. Lathan T. Moose of Winston-Salem, and reappointed Commission Chairman Orville L. Woodhouse of Grandy. Tennessee Gov.

Buford Ellington politely but firmly declined the invitation of Georgia Gov. Lester Maddox to the 10-state conference in Atlanta to protest federal school guidelines. Gov. Ellington said that Tennessee was handling its own problems successfully and saw no reason to protest. Sen.

Albert Gore has added another plank to his 1970 platform for re-election support of the vote for 18-year-olds. He will propose a constitutional amendment to that purpose. The University of Tennessee board of trustees has named a special committee to find a successor to UT President Andrew Holt. The committee has a member representing each of the five campuses of the University and one from each Grand Division in the state. Holt retires in September 1970.

Nashville thanked the Interstate Commerce Commission for refusing to let the Railroad drop the last passenger connections with Atlanta and St. Louis, the Georgian. Marty Robbins, Nashville-based country music notable, is confined to a Cleveland, Ohio, hospital after a recent heart attack there. Three-time Gov. Gordon Browning of Huntingdon, 79, is recovering in a Jackson, UPI Telephoto STUDENTS 'IN ORBIT Tallahassee ohn Moser leaps from the "astro kids" space station after a 20-hour simulated flight with two companion "astronauts," Bob Diffendefer and Bruce O'Hara.

The students took part in the simulated trip on the campus of Florida State University. hospital from a broken hip as the result of a fall. A steel ball for a hip joint may give him mobility again. He is one of two living ex-governors of this state. Florida State Insurance Commissioner Broward Williams called a halt to hikes in auto insurance, pending a hearing, after the three largest insurance companies doing business in Florida.