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2-B THE MIAMI HERALD Friday July 29 19fi6 'Messy Miami Pipe Job Halted by Hia leah I if By MATT TAYLOR Herald Staff Writer Hialeah Mayor Henry Mi-lander called a Miami waterline job "a terrible Thursday and 01 derod the contractor to stop right where he was "Not another inch of work until he cleans up his mess" Milander said "One of our main thorouu'hlaies Ninth St has been blocked lor weeks" totally get to talk to each other Sloan was in a City Commission all day while the mayor was trying to reach him A lot of people have been complaining about the job Milander said MB Construction Co of Hallandale is laying a large pipe from the Miami Water plant on Okeechobee Rd across 13th St in Hialeah and then east to unincorporated Dade County- "In every other Mi-lander said lane of traffic is kept open If going to get blamed for this sorry project forced to take control of it and that we Crooks to revoke permission for the contractor to continue and to get a performance bond from any other firms doing Miami business in Hialeah ods and have smelly unsanitary water standing under their front windows water director was anxious to accommodate Milander know been a fair amount of complaint" Sloan said been pushing the contractor to settle them and he has done a great deal This situation on Ninth St is very bad table "These are difficult working he said MB Construction executive Cecil Loy said he been out on the Hialeah job that it would be necessary for any statements to come from Raymond Meares Meares he added has an unlisted phone and be reached am not opposed in any way to anything Mayor Milander has said do everything we can to work with hini Certainly been most cooperative with Miami Water Department director Garrett Sloan agreed with Milander that the situation was unfortunate do any tiling we can to work with Mayor lie said The mayor said residents along the construction route have no front lawns left get to their own home by car for unreasonable peri He ordered Hialeah Public Works Director Earl Sloan said the area has sandy soil and a high water Milander and Sloan didn't Dade Flashes Florida City Told Green Light For High-Rise To Buy Fill the same property but not Troutman was rejected When the waiting period elapsed the ZAB again recommended approval leading to go-ahead by the Metro Commission Dade Smith Phone Nos: Circulation 235 Lump-Sum IliMiiirid Rules Out Tax Installments Staff Photo bv JOHN WALTHER Hialeah Street Muddy Me6S Because resident tiptoes to auto at Jet Ace Recalls Old Days Of Dogfights by 6Novices County taxes must be paid in one lump sum quarterly a county tax official said Thursday The statement was in answer to a question raised by Homestead Mayor Bill Dickinson Dickinson asked the county office if it would be possible under Florida or Metro law for taxpayers to pay their taxes in quarterly installments County Attorney Thomas Britton is out of the county and he answered Dickinson's question but Assistant Tax Collector Joseph Roberts described the county policy on collecting taxes "We do not accept paitial payments of tax bills unless by court order" lie said and not "Taxes are due and if they been paid by April 1 they are delinquent and subject to Roberts said Dickinson said that with the 100 per cent assessment now in effect in Dade County many persons are paying taxes for the first timo or their taxes have been increased "The 100 per cent assessment works a hardship on senior citizens and people in low-income Dickinson 1- i "This is particularly true of citizens on Social Security or retirement funds which continue shrinking due to the inflationary trend of he added 0141 News 247-9333 Clarifies Dialing changes" he explained "It was never intended that Homestead could have North Dade sen ice" 1 True said the Public Ser-v ice Commission spokesman "It was not asked for and was not contemplated" he said The PSC official also supported claim that no need for a toll-free connection between far South and lar North Dade exists is no substantial need for lie said Eventually Dade and even its bordering areas in other counties probably will be in a single phone zone he said but now not enough Iraffie to justify the investment" Freeman also cleared up this PSC order amending its October 1965 mandate for lemoval of a d-to-Miami and Mira a r-to-Mianii phone charges Dickinson said taxpayers in the lower income brackets would be helped if their taxes could be paid quarterly When the county begins collecting municipal taxes as well as the county taxes It would be possible for taxpayers to pay the county tax in November and wait until January or February to pay the city tax By BILL DuPRIEST Homestead Bureau Chief Fighter plane pilots have kept pace with the missile era No 1 active jet ace said Thursday "We were all novices back in the old days of World War II and said Col James Jabara Col Jabara who also holds the titles of America's first jet ace and first triplejet ace recalled aerial combat during three wars from his desk at Homestead Air Force Base The 48-year-old commander of iite 31st Tactical Fighter Wing returned only days ago from a combat mission over Viet Nam was a strike mission down in the south part of Viet Nam" he said The target was a Viet Cong camp of a vv-thatched which intelligence officers said concealed a supply depot Despite monsoon thunderstorms his flight of four F100 Supersabres found the 1000-yard diameter target with the aid of a forward air controller a pilot in an unarmed light plane who directs air and ground fire was a random-type said Col Jabara The Supersabres repeatedly Dirt State Says Not For Free By BILL BLOSS Herald Staff Writer Florida City was refused free spoil from a South Dade canal for use at the South Dade landfill trash dump Central and South Florida Flood Control Director Ed Dail offered the material at 125 cents per square yard which he said is half the com-mericial price Florida City Manager Cecil Woodcock had asked the FCD to give the spoil to Florida City or sell at a low figure Dail said the FCD governing board offer the spoil on a gratis basis because it "would set a precedent not in the best interest of the district Woodcock said that 35000 cubic yards of fill would be needed over the next two years at the dump The city manager said he would talk with Homestead City Manager Olaf Pearson about the possibility of the two cities sharing the cost of the fill material if it becomes necessary to buy the spoil at the FCD price Pearson said he is fairly sure Homestead would agree to the purchase of the spoil because fill dirt will be needed for continued dump operation "Whether we remain at the new dump or go back to our old one we will need some Pearson said A special committee of the Homestead Council asked tlve city manager to check into the possibility of land fill operations at the old dump Pearson said test holes will be dug at the old dump to see if it can be converted to land fill not much doubt the old site would be more i i Pearson said "The road is better the dump is high and dry and several trucks could dump at the same time and not have to wait for a bulldozer to shove the trash in the At the county-owned landfill dump only one truck can dump at a time Pearson said there is swale about eight feet deep between the old Homestead dump and the old Florida City dump which we could dump He said using the land fill method is only buying time until the county builds an incinerator in South Dade Roost Dr (SV has been there root Like the other 27 they no buses Court that Metro th benches rraam-EB li i objections sparked away Although regulations call for maximum building heights of 100 feet in the area Developer Walter Troutman won a variance permitting him to put up 250-foot structures which previously fireworks faded zoning consultant Jesse Yarborough explained that Troutman wants elaborate landscaping around the tall buildings rather than having more and smaller apartment structures dotted on the tract This would be prettier he said Staffers agreed It was the second time through the zoning mill for Troutman onetime partner of Mrs Connie Dinkier in the exclusive Palm Bay Club He and Mrs Dinkier had a falling out partly over Mrs decision to put gold-plated hinges in the ladies room Last November just before new plan came before the Metro Zoning Appeals Board ZAB member John Darling was arrested and charged with accepting a $250 bribe to influence the decision An association of Troutman cooperating with officials as an undercover agent allegedly paid Darling the "down in home on Nov 6 After several delays the Darling ease is scheduled for a jury trial in Criminal Court on Sept 12 Darling denies guilt With Darling absent the ZAB recommended approval of the Troutman project two days after the arrest Metro commissioners turned away the issue in December when it was discovered the proposal had come too soon under Metro rules after a previous zoning request concerning Budget Hiked pools Reese had recommended free use of the city's pools Budgetary adjustments Reese said were responsible for $462000 of the $1 million cut The Water and Sewer De-partment revenues irked commissioners who have little control over the semi-autonomous department About the only control is to approve the budget and should the commission not approve it the department would operate under the previous year's budget High and Water Department Director Garrett Sloan exchanged sharp words as High insisted the department could return a greater surplus to the treasury Sloaji balked and High said if he refused find the taxpayers on the side of the City Commission After a lengthy debate the water attorney said the commission could legally insist that the water department return a bigger surplus So the commission approved the water budget and showed a greater- revenue for the city The commission also approved budgets for the Downtown Development Authority which will levy a tax on downtown property owners Refugee Held A 27-year-old Cuban refugee has been bound over to the federal grand jury action on charges he passed about two pounds of raw marijuana to a man at a drive-in restaurant Bound ox-er by US Commissioner Edward Swan after a preliminary hearing Wednesday was Pedro Reno Alonso Swaji set a $5000 bond Siren Chasers At Work waspB i know If you are taken to a lawyer and you know anything about law you think the lawyer will guide you John Finney director of investigations for the Metro Transit Authority says that always so "In a great number of cases people do need counsel but we feel and we always tell people no harm to their case by waiting first to see what we are willing to Finney said If an accident victim takes the word of a lawyer out to make a buck "we end up paying more money and the injured party ends up receiving Legal fees for a damage suit often run to 30 40 and even 50 per cent of the court-awarded dollar figure or the pre-trial settlement a settlement the client might have been able to keep entirely if he had not agreed to let a lawyer take his case Finney and others who work to keep insurance claims and insurance premiums down also are worried about inflated sometimes fradulent claims coming out of a solicited case an individual will be dishonest in obtaining the business not an unfair assumption that he will be dishonest in the handling of the Finney said A former grand jury member cited a prime example of how a fraudulent claim begins One of his employes narrowly avoided striking a little girl who ran into the street from in front of his truck By the time the driver was out of the truck a runner who happened to be there was telling the little girl to down lie A retired Boston detective and his wife were injured last March in an MTA bus accident that also hurt about a dozen others The accident brought hustlers out in force Finney said the detective told him he was solicited 11 times before and after his wife arrived at JMH men found tun runners in hospital halls One runner tried to hustle business from two victims telling Finney that one of them was his uncle The Florida Canons of Ethics prohibit ambulance-chasing but the bar has been criticized in grand jury reports and elsewhere for not enforcing the code Since 1959 there also has been a state law carrying a maximum of six months in jail and a $500 fine The law survived its first court test of validity in the Florida Supreme Court last February With that victory behind them the State Office is ready to prosecute about a dozen remaining cases that had been held up pending a Supreme Court decision Those cases begin going to trial in October But Dade County has led Florida in the number and rate of injury claims filed for years The last available figures show that for every 100 accidents in Dade in 1964 there are 47 bodily injury claims filed For every 100 accidents elsewhere in the state the number of injury claims filed was only 27 of Water Job Second Ate and 13th St of a P51 Mustang dubbed Ceegar in which he flew his first European combat in 1944 Ceegar and its pilot are credited with gunning down 95 enemy planes in Europe during 108 combat missions (Another pilot helped on the half-plane credit) Use of forward air controllers radar-aimed rockets and updated air tactics impressed Jabara as much as the "14 or 15 hours a day everybody over there seems to be He said one story remains the same: "Whenever you see a soldier over there and he finds out you fly with a fighter-bomber outfit they dearly love Jabara said the same old said the veteran pilot City OKs Tax Bills rm gins Oct 1 and plan would have given the workers their pay raises effective then By waiting until Jan 1 the commission was able to cut the cost of their package by 25 per cent The plan they agreed upon will cost $212 million still somehwat higher tha proposal Recommended jointly by the commission the new plan will give: POLICE and firemen 15 per cent raises at lower ranks and 10 per cent for higher ranks $45-A-MONTH pay boosts for general city employes who earn less than $500-a-month TEN per cent increases for all other employes The commission also handed a five per cent raise to Reese commending him for his budget efforts The raise will bring salary to $27562-a-year He also is given a $2500 annual expense allowance The long budget session began at 9 am ran past 6 pm and had commissioners alternateelv happy perplexed and angered The budget cuts had them smiling Monday High asked Reese to show how the commission could slash $1 million from the budget Thursday he brought in some suggestions Major cuts all in the recommended proposals but none representing a cutback in services included: ELIMINATION of 45 police jobs Reese wanted to create CUTBACK ui proposed expansions of rubbish collection building inspection and park maintenance services REINSTATEMENT of the fees fdfr municipal swimming Channel 6 Awaits Tower Go-Ahead By BILL BLOSS Herald StaH Writer Channel 6 television awaiting final approval from the Federal Communications Commission to begin construction of its tower in the Redlands Station Manager Bob Johns said Wednesday that Coral Television Corp ex James Jabara lots of memories swept across the canip with explosive 20 mm shells and bombs "I made about 11 he said count them all but what we were told we The veteran pilot summed up the present state of combat flying in a few words: come a long Jabara flew his last Korean combat mission on July 2 1953 when lie downed 15 MIGS and earned the jet-age titles At the base his cigar smoke drifted within reach of a souvenir on his office wall: a photo of his first combat plane A leather-helmet-ed Jabara stands by the nose pects the FCC decision by late August or early September Federal Aviation Agency and the county have approved locating the antenna in the Redlands but the FCC given final approval to moving the site from Ragged Key to the Johns said The Redland Citizens Association objected to the Zoning Appeals Board's approval of the tower location in a 105-acre site near Coconut Palm Dr and Tennessee Rd Following County Commission approval of the television site the Redland group let the appeal period pass without filing a complaint Johns said Channel 6 plans to be a good neighbor to the community and has offered use of part of the land to the Boy Scouts and to the adjoining Redland Golf and Country Club our antenna is built the Sheriffs Department Highway Patrol or other agencies will be offered use of the Johns said The 1000-foot tower would gixe improved coverage to the police broadcasts he added The tall tower will be equipped to handle two FM antennas but Johns said the television station doesn't have any immediate plans for FM broadcasting Call letters for the television station will be WCIX Toll-Free Bv BtlL DuPRIFST Homestead Bureau Chief "Countyividc dialing for the e-stead area will not include 40000 phones in Carol City and North Miami Beach Southern division manager said Thursday The NAtional (B2 and Wilson (94 1 exchanges in far northern Dado still will be a toll call away from Homestead and Florida City after the deadline lor lifting the charge between Circle (24 1 exchange and Miami according to Lester Freeman The Public Service Commission which ordered Hnmestea d-tn-Miami ami Miramar-to-M i a i tolls scrapped by September I9H7 confirmed that the widely heralded "county free telephone use will halt at Carol City and North Miami Beach for the 11000 phone customers in and around Homestead Only Pcrrine will have countywide telephone 'ervice without paying extra for it After all the connections are made next year the CEdar (23) phones there will be toll-free anywhere in Dade Among those wondering why the "countywide'' reference was never corrected was Irxnig Peskoo the Homestead lawyer who led nine years of legal scrapping against the long-distanee charge between Homestead and Miami "I feel the telephone company has left the situation deliberately Pes-koe declared "and it may well call for a remedial clear-cut order on the part of the Public Service Southern Bell's dixKmn manager said he was surprised anyone misunderstood the PSC orders and that the company did not want to smokescreen its tolls within Dade County "It was not our inier'im to mislead said Freeman "It never occurred to me that there was any "Vfc deal in terms of cx- Sprounting Photo by A MITCHELL benches along State Road serxe no bus riders there are for the public there The District of Appeals ruled this week has the legal right to remove This bus bench at Quail 20(1 St) and Krome Ave so long it's almost taken lA WAfc.