The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 51

sr-sr-w mmw sc--r "-r- V'TmV-Tm rrrrr yy1 r-r-i rVfr-oT ynrr i Alike Morgan Says Complete Ioral News Section I) i Thursday September 21 1967 i Tic Cross irVs Ready slovy in exf- Beach Council A I J' ay I vVkx 5 Quote from a 1 4 Herald: "The find CiOhS snd it had shelters open for 500000 As this is 4 vV 4 'Z 'Jr rtnf 6 I 4t acts "If apcarrfLv if i 1 4 1 I 5V 4 i 1 i South Hsrald Staff Plwfo by EAMON KENNEDY ISeach Council on Your Grove Youngsters Told 0 Authorizes Purchasing decision at Wednesday's Ing too and the word out By the time Irwin Christie said "No one can tell me any of the problems in the Grove are being caused by the old theater was three-quarters full And when it was time for the kids to ask questions there was talk of jobs in the and night recreation and something to do and you get them to open the old Ace Theater again? went Outside Agency To Do Job Hall Contract OKd 8D Bv MIKE PETIT HtraKI Staff Writar City Manager Jack Duf-field got unanimous Miami Beach Council backing Wednesday for a full probe of the controversial purchasing practices Duffield said he will hire an outside investigating agency to check past buying procedures "as far back as we have kept The city action followed disclosure of a highly critical report on purchasing made last February by just fired purchasing director William Chambers and new criticism by State Attorney Richard Gerstein Gerstein said Monday the practices prior to reforms instituted by Chambers were and that his eight-month-old investigation is continuing request came at the informal brief- ing prior to meeting The city manager said he was considering bringing in a Chicago investigating firm Mayor Jay Dermer said the audit investigation something that should be done in the best interests of the He said he had only recently seen the report and felt It was not as detailed as it could have been Chambers audit report covered only a small part of the city's purchasing involving several hundred trou-sands dollars worth of buying over a three-and-a-half year period It showed there were no records to indicate? bids had been taken on more than $100000 worth of purchases and cited handling of buying by several departments "It was nothing nothing at all 1 was shocked when I read it They only had this Dermer said holding his thumb and forefinger an half inch apart Councilman Leonard Weinstein suggested that Duffield provide the council with a semi-monthly list of purchase orders so they can keep informed on the buying He also asked Duffield to compare the purchasing procedures with those of Dade County Other councilmen criticized past and present practices which allow purchases of up to $2000 to be made without formal bid Duffield agreed that the $2000 limit provided in a purchasing ordinance passed earlier this year as part of the reforms allows "a lot of He said he is considering recommending this be reduced to $1000 Channel 6 Takes to Air i jo ij Newest TV Channel still some bugs to hang of daily broadcasting in new surroundings Following the benediction was a two-hour movie "Fear Strikes which seemed a nicely appropriate title for the traumatic opening of a new TV station Indeed the first minute of the film showed a frantic Anthony Perkins pounding on a hotel room wall and screaming for his neighbor to "shut off the Channel 6 executives are hoping Miami housewives will click off their home radios to tune into the mid-afternoon movie The White Baron decked out in spotless flying togs ushered in his kiddie show and was almost shot down in his first sortie The premiere cartoon lost its sound track and a very solemn announcer instructed the audience to stand iVi Claude Pepper Member rf Congress being written I ane Beulah that great erratic whirling dervish smashing at Texas with its storm- mus-clod flails of rain and winds Tuesday night thousands of people evacuated from Gulf Coast areas spent the night in shelters A Red Cross emergency plan was put into operation as soon as the danger became imminent It just happen by accident The disaster relief plans of the American Red Cross are always at the ready And for all manner of emergencies Some days ago when Beulah was prowling Caribbean watprs only several hundred miles from Miami the Red Cross here was quietly preparing to rope with an emer-genry if Beulah should veer this way Supplies were checked Plans brought up to date Red Cross was ready to move into action instantly if necessary OVER THE years Red Cross has come to the swift assistance of thousands of families here during time of hurricanes and other disasters It has provided relief during emergencies and where necessary later provided cash assistance and rehabilitation The disaster relief work of the Red Cross Is of course only a part of Us manifold activities Its projects w'ith youngsters its water safety program the invaluable work with servicemen and their families the Red Cross First Aid program the effective home nursing training pro gram mother and baby pro' gram these are a few of the areas in which the Red Cross contributes richly and fully to our community Directly or indirectly there one of you who reads this who benefited by Red Cross Red Cross of course is one of the 43 United Fund agencies And United Fund now asks you to help with a contribution WHEN YOU are called upon to give please remember that the United Fund and its agencies like the Red Cross are always ready with their services if you should suddenly find a need Nor can I impress upon you too deeply that those who-find help in various UF agencies come from all strata of society and economic levels Bet me remind you again United Fund is NOT a welfare agency It cannot nor does it intend to supplant gtate and local welfare functions It is not a charity organization It provides a tremendously important spectrum of services that help weld and knit a community together that help people of all ages with all manner of problems As Fund Campaign Chairman James Knight constantly explains: "United Fund is the modern extension of the pioneer concept of neighbor helpiftg neighbor with open heart and hand" YOU think this a at people to people en-vor let me cite one im-ssive statistic cross section check of 14 of 43 agencies dialed that in these 14 agen-i last year 14234 volun-rs contributed nearly two lion man hours of work a big statistic A small one the final paragraph in a letter from a mother who sent partial payment to the Red Cross 1ft repayment for a loan Money loaned so the family could go to New York for the burial of son killed in Vietnam "Thank you again for your kindness to me and my family at a time when it is most sorely needed I think that sums up United Fund It's around for you when it is most sorely nea In Bumpy First 4 rtf I v-1 Herald Staff Photo by RAY FISHER Is on the Air iron out at Channel 6 Flight Channel 6 appears to be unique at least in choice of headquarters It occupies a five-story round building at 1111 Brickell Ave originally designed as the law offices of a Miami lawyer The vertical core of the building is open and each landing Is glass paneled which gives the illusion of a 1 a s-paneled ant farm where all levels of operation can be observed from any one floor Studio crews have met the challenge of confining pieshaped rooms The newscaster for example sits at a microphone in one room while the camera crew shoots him through an open door from an adjoining room No sooner was the daily programming launched than the technicians got busy editing tape and films trying to build up a backlog of shows Although taken 10 years to get Channel 6 on the air little programming was done beforehand because of the uncertainty of FCC approval to begin broadcasting Station exocuthes hope to get deeper into live shows once the channel catches its breath Sunken Venture Mystery By ARNOLD MARKOWITZ Herald Staff Writer The once-proud hulk of the good tugboat Venture dived on Tuesday to Davey locker came back on Wednesday to haunt the Coast Guard and now must set sail again In the eerie midnight gloom a fisherman came upon the floating remains of the old boat and notified the Coat Guard The Coast Guard found a deckhouse 12 feet of deck and feared the worst A warch continued for almost 12 hours Alas bo sign of survivors from Government Cut to Port Everglades Then around noon the Electrical Inspector Testifies Builder Unlicensed By FRED BRUNING Herald Staff Writer The old Ace Theater on Grand Aye opened again Wednesday night and just like in the days of the Saturday matinee the kids found their seats and settled back But the house lights never dimmed and instead of a 50-cent feature on the little screen there was Steve Clark mayor of Miami asking for just a little quiet came to be with he said nodding toward vice mayor Irwin to break a little bread with you to listen to you to try to help you just a minute now If hear got to be quiet The before-movie sort of chatter slipped a little and the 300 youngsters heard Clark say: don't believe what we hear! We believe it! We know good! We're on your Clark came on like the cavalry at Fort Apache and the kids roared in approved Recently merchants in Coconut have been complaining of an increase in robberies and they say young Negro kids are pulling most of the jobs But In a campaign called Coconut Grove citizens white and 'Negro have been meeting to figure a way to deal with what they say Is a deepening problem Then the other day somebody at the Grove Economic Opportunity Office thought the kids should have a meet- 5 By JON NORDHEIMER Herald Staff Writer The White Baron's vintage biplane finally made a safe landing in Miami Wednesday after a 10-yoar aerial dogfight with the Federal Communications Commission Channel 6 South first commercial television station in some 13 years wm on the air At 1:50 pm sharp a young engineer punched a button in WCIX's Brickell Ave studios and sent a reel of video tape spinning Four local clergymen appeared on the screen one by one to give the new station their blessings They didn't exorcise the devil seemingly because an assortment of "technical hit the station all day long The management expects to exterminate the bugs once everyone gets the Why I Give To The Practice Probe meeting ms unanimous Side Is a possibility that we can intercede with the said Clark The Rev Theodore Gibson came to the Ace stage to say the presence of Clark and Christie marked a day in the history of Miami and the lives of the Negro boys and girls "You should never forget this night when a mayor of one of the largest cities in the country came and he said on Job the Metro Building Examining Board Wednesday to show cause why his license be revoked for allowing unauthorized persons to use his license and subcontracting work to a firm without a' certificate The city claims Szaboky when his Optimo Construction Corp developed financial difficulty sold the plans property and permit for the job to Tremblay Tremblay is listed in the Secretary of State's office as secretary and resident agent of Dimun Investment Inc 6500 Miller Rd Neither he nor the firm have a license from the Metro Building and Zoning Department Miami-Dade Junior College graduate Jeff Lippman of 9251 SW 20th St was electrocuted on the jobsite June 29 Records In the Secretary of office also show Optimo old company was dissolved the day after death of back "If he (Szaboky) had written us and told us he was no longer the contractor of record he would have been home Miami Building Department Director Robert Ferencik said first began to get complaints of job conditions from the workers And they were not complaining about Mr Szaboky They were complaining about Warren said Ferencik Ferencik testified he first learned Tremblay had taken the job oxer from Szaboky during an investigation into the electrocution The hoard continued hearing until next week Floats Back to Life Boy Died By MIKE TOWER Hsrald Staff Writer Miami's chief electrical inspector testified Wednesday that a subcontractor on a job where a 20-year-old college student was electrocuted told him the project was being run by an unlicensed contractor Ivey Johnson said Raymond Brown owner of Brown Electric Co told him the general contractor on the apartment at 6270 Flagler was Warren Tremblay Tremblay does not have A county license The building permit on the job was issued by the City of Miami to Bela Szabnky Szaboky was called before The Venture had floated at his dock for two years when he decided to tow it to Compass Cay in the Bahamas There it would rest on a rock bar its deckhouse protruding at high tide as a channel marker for the searchlights of ships that pass in the night But seven or eight miles from Miami Venture began taking on water So a crewman was lifted from the listing deck the tovUinos were cast off and the Venture slipped under bad" said Latbrt Smith He said he was surprised to find out it had come back He said he'd dispose of it again tf the Coast Guard asks' him to United Fund Tugboat Has Ups Downs Coast Guard called Latham timbers spoiled the mystery Smith shipbuilder and re- of the ghost ship by explain-pairer And Smith shiver his ing it like this: 'A gift to the United Fund is a gift from the heart to help someone in need Through the United Fund we are able to help many agencies extend a helping hand to those who are less fortunate than ourselves In this way we are able to help make this a bet' ter community and a better orld Join the Good Guys 5 -A ArfVrS.