The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 144

I I 9 II II I 0 'I 'lltdq911 cy () I Is lami 3itralb Pirates World Closed Again This Time Apparently for Good IltrosAarti Colons Section WILLIAM BAIL FRANK CAPERTON Manager DOUG CLIFTON -Editor City Editor WILLIAM McGOUN JOE CRANKSHAV News Editor JOE CPA NKSHAW Hollywood Bureau Chief ititreuu Adtire3Nei efrphfine iis wws ADvERTIsING CIRCULATION FORT LAUDERDALE 1520 Svotoe Blvd 525 0501 523 7341 HOLLYWOOD 407 5 Ave 927 1639 927 1631 POMPANO BEACH 525 0501 523 7341 960-Unit Piroject Planned 2-BR Sat Dec 15 1973 EDITORIAL Wolfe Jurors Let Us Down By SANDI REED Herald Stitt Writer Pirates World amusement park in Dania apparently has been closed permanently to be replaced by a 960-unit condominium community A spokesman for the park on Sheridan Street said Friday that he had been told not to open the park -this weekend Advertisements in area newspapers however say the amusement park will be closed permanently because the land has been sold so tio --z '-'4 ''4' 4 "17: ''4''f -44' 4 i oe fr1 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shots as a warning He was only protecting his property Wolfe said stressing that several cars had been broken into I The prospective owners Dr el Properties of Pompano Beach have said they didn't close the park "WE'RE not at all aware that Pirates World is closing" said a Drexel Properties spokesman Purchase price negotiations between Recreation Corp of America owners of Pirates World and Drexel Properties still are under way according to the spokesman Staff Photo by TOM MOSIER Photographers Fellow Students Greet Inertia Lab Crewmen After 'Splashdown' I 'Space Lab' Students Learned a Lot He was just firing the warning shots in case that's what the young Fort Lauderdale couple were up to There was simply no evidence that the couple were doing more than walking through the parking lot They were according to testimony only passing through the parking lot so they could walk to the beach ffIrg I 1 lalir: 4 )Ae I rather than cause a confrontation "Our food wasn't as good as it was supposed io be" commented Betty Smith "I guess that kept our weight down" I The development firm is buying only the 60-acre parcel of land and will require the Pirates World owners to dispose of all amusement-park equipment once the sale is closed according to the spokesman Drexel Properties plans to build Sheridan Cay Club a complex of 26 two-story buildings on the Pirates World property Over-all density of the project would be 16-units an acre homecooked food and space to move around in They said that although they thought they would miss television and radio they only watched the news One night on their tape TV console "There was too much else to do" observed one higher than does the Grand Funk Railroad" Nannette Goodman said that the major crisis came when ''the portapotty broke down and we had to use a jar" Eric Appel reported that the hardest part was keeping up with the schedule of testing and studies because the crew could not see the sun "But we could hear you out here" he noted The things the crewmen said they missed most were one last look at filmed segments of their stay Outside among the cheering crowd were parents and Lanny Neel Mrs Neel's husband "The nights were pretty cold at home while she was here" he said but he would let her do it again if she wanted "We are both scientifically oriented" he explained "It was 75 per cent quieter at home" observed Mrs Jean Fisher "I have two kids but I guess Rena is the noisy one" subjects" stammered Badger as the assembly broke into guffaws at his portion of the report And the crew members said they felt they had learned a lot about how to get along with people how to cope with critical situations and how to walk away As State Attorney Philip Shailer put it "It was a verdict of sympathy They may have said 'not guilty' but they knew he wasn't innocent" A jury that reaches such a decision helps tear down our system of justice It was the duty of the jurors to determine whether he was guilty or ENA Fisher who supervised the simple medical tests reported that music has an effect on the condition of a persons's body "I have to report" said Rena "that Handel's 'Messiah' raises the pulse rate faster and THEN the crew members got a chocolate cake and repeated their assurance that they would do it again and retreated to the lab to take i I These six jurors let sympathy keep them from their duty We hope they did not really mean to say to society at large that it is permissible to use a rifle the way John Eric Wolfe did Sunrise Residents to Get Heating Fuel During Cold Snaps Mayor Promises Inquiry On Seed Started lorrirt 10 eteller3 to the editor AROUND BROLVARD rs4 Pi II City Manager Robert Castenholz has said he will resign if those elected in February "don't want me" Filing deadline is Jan 25 Voters registered in Tamarac who have a campaign treasurer depository and $10 can file for office PRELIMINARY plans for the development were presented to the city's Planning and Zoning Board Tuesday' and Drexel Properties plans to make a formal application for the project's approval early in 1974 Pirates World was opened in 1967 as a "Coney Island" type of amusement park and at one time was the fifth largest theme amusement park in the United States The theme was based on five pirate areas: Port Royal New Orleans Spanish Main Barbary Coast and China Sea In 1970 Pirates World began sponsoring rock concerts which angered city officials who complained about drug use noise and traffic problems Two years later Recreation Corp of America asked the city to rezone portions of the land for multifamily housing but the request was eventually wjthdrawn IN June 1973 the rock concerts were halted when the city discovered the con- cert hall had never received a certificate of occupancy vote in February for mayor three councilmen and three election board members for the city of Tamarac's municipal election Tamarac's residents will City Clark Peggy Twichell will also accept charter board applications Dania Must Reconsider Decision On Golf Course City Clerk Says Sunrise Mayor John Lomelo said bis residents won't have to worry about future cold snaps The city has devised a system to keep its gas supply tanks from losing pressure Lomelo announced Friday In recent weeks gas supply tanks froze because petroleum was being extracted at a rapid rate About 1000 resi- dents were left without heat as a result Thursday the city placed its three gas tanks in makeshif "botboxes" Three kerosene heaters are being used to blow heat inside the boxes and 30 heat lamps are also being used to keep the tanks warm Friday the mayor said the system was operating "very well" lie said the heaters will be used until the city converts from liquid petroleum to natural gas Jan 15 Cold weather caused one gas line to burst Monday leaving south Sunrise without gas for 24 hours No Candidates File In Tamarac Election No candidates filed Friday during the first day of filing THE PROGRAM moved from a small church house in Fort Lauderdale to larger quarters at the former home of the Cromarty family on Andrews Avenue As the program grew in popularity it found still larger quarters on State Road 84 on a Nacre compound paid for by the program's hundreds of supporters Still later Barker decided to expand the program to serve Dade County and found a home in an airport hanger at Opa-locka Airport When the program outgrew those quarters it moved its Dade County branch to a facility at Tropical Park Racetrack Three months ago Barker announced that he would pull his program from Dade County because the drug rehabilitation "establishment" was jealous of his program and sought to deprive it of federal funds In the process he had a stormy confrontation with Metro Mayor Jack Orr Barker has since established satellite Seed programs in St Petersburg and has plans to establish them in other Florida cities as well Teenagers Due Praise I get so frustrated whenever I pick up a newspaper or a magazine and read about how bad our area children are For a change I'd like to see our teenagers praised The young men and women at Stranahan High School's Distributive Education Program are worthy of much praise Under the direction of Mrs Bruni their teacher these students provided a thoroughly enjoyable Christmas party for two of Broward County's Head Start Centers The party included a marionette show Santa's helpers candy canes toys and a delicious lunch The children were delighted As a Head Start staff member I felt that Stranahan's students de serve much more than praise for what they did Next time the community criticizes youth let's remember these DECA students and their desire to serve (V' irito e- 4 3 -tgt A 4( 7: it 4 "s43 VICE Mayor Duncanson was hooted down at that meeting when he tried to propose a conflict-of-interest law In other items Monday Commissioner John Kay will explain why he believes only persons who own land in Dania should be allowed to hold public office Kay said Thursday that he wouldn't propose such a requirement because City Attorney Walden had told him it was illegal "I'm working on a short speech to say why I think we should have only freeholders in public office" Kay said Duncanson said Friday that Kay's speech is probably aimed at him "since I'm the only commissioner who doesn't own land in the city" The commission meeting will begin at 8 pm in City Hall ulation of Dania Seadade Industries of Miami purchased the land to build the $40 million development The vote on the rezoning was 4-1 Mayor Kay his brother Commissioner John Nay Commissioner William Jackson and Commissioner Frank Adler voted in favor of the rezoning Only Vice Mayor Robert Duncanson voted against At a stormy commission meeting Dec 4 all commmissioners indicated they wouldn't change their votes when they reconsider the rezoning DONALD FEYEREISEN CT Robertson park operator 525 glefilD4 BRELIIAND ACTIIEM LIME: (0 I doctor's nurse told Action Line "I am returning the eye to New York today by registered mail I can't see why the package wasn't delivered the address on it is as plain as night and day" Now you can go ahead and request a refund Yup your personal effects that were shipped from New Orleans April 5th were shipped back to New Orleans by a Mrs David Riddle from Palma De Mallorca How your belongings got tangled up with hers is still a riddle but you told Action Line "Our belongings are on the way and are to be delivered to us here in Lafayette La:" At this point we sure are convinced you do move around a lot My husbands job requires him to travel a great deal Eight months ago my daughter and I went to the Island of Mallorca Spain to live while my husband worked in Algeria Our clothing and personal things were shipped to the wrong island and we never got them before we had to leave We still don't have them although I wrote and phoned the Harle Co Ocean Freight Forwarders New Orleans Can Action Line do the impossible and reunite us with our belongings? Mrs Donald Irwin Fort Lauderdale A notary public Is a person who Is authorized to authenticate someone else's signature but only It the notary witnesses the actual signing right? I have a notary who applied his seal to a document that I had signed In advance and not in his presence And on another occasion this notary refused to notarize a signature even though the person was present The notary refused because he knew the individual whose name was mentioned in the document Can he do this? Carl Michnay Lauderdale Lakes Sound Off We attended the Boy Scout Circus at the Miami Beach Convention Hail recently and it was a fine show But we have one question that is lingering in bur minds Who would have been in charge of opening the emergency exits in case of fire? The exits were cha'ned and padlocked! Mrs Dec kert Hollywood ---7 -7 COA TYOU'LL NCVER IL: kN(IN HOW MUCH 1- )1 MI6560 YOU 40 'o- 0 19f) -7 cog YOU'LL NEVER kNow F-101A1 MUCH I MI6560 YOU 1 I i In January I had a plastic right eye made for Inc by Mager and Gougehrian Inc of New York but when it was sent to me in March it was ill-fitting My Hialeah doctor's nurse sent the eye back to New York but I still keep getting bills from the New Wilk firm for $80 (11 paid $90 in January) I wrote and finally phoned the firm and was told the eye had never been received by them Pleasc help me find this lost eye because at the time the eye was made it was agreed that if it didn't fit some of my $90 would be refunded Mrs 11E Hollywood 1 fo4111 Chapter 11709 Florida statutes states that every notary public shall require reasonable proof of the identity of the person whose signature is being notarized and the person must be in the pres- ence of the notary public at the time his signature is notarized if convicted of not following the law the notary can be punished by no more than a $500 fine or six months in jail or both There is no law requiring a notary to notarize everything brought to him "In some instances it might not be wise for a notary to do so if he is familiar with a case and for some reason could be called to testify about it in court" a spokesman from the secretary of state's office Tallahassee said Our Readers Thanks for all your calls and letters Ire wish there were space to answer every request you make ii bile this isn't possible we will consider each request nnd publish the most interesting Telephone calls to ACtiOn Line ore limited to one minute each so more complicated requests should be written YECH-1? It was found in the lost and found department of a Hialeah Post Office Patsy your so'.