The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 65

Miami Mtv alb dLMro mtnfmt in inr i section rwiwij a iau ana sienaer fellow who has now devel- oped a big waste Saturday June 14 1969 Comple te Local News Board Vetoes Site for Miami Edison High Comic Dictionary vv-jp would have only 42 blacks in white enrollment while the proportion of black students at the old school would in- 'Might Run Afoul of US Laws9 Consultant Warns school for more than two years A more southerly site selected two years ago went by the boards when the county couldn't find the money to buy it Board members after their vote reiterated a previous request to Stoiee that he come up with another acceptable site as soon as possible Stoiee wis retained by the board in antcipation of an HEW report which is expected to be critical of Dade's integration progress By BOB SHAW HtraW Stiff Wntr The Dade School Board Friday vetoed the purchase of a Miami Shores-El Portal site for the new Miami Edison High School after a de-segregation consultant warned it might run afoul of federal civil rights laws Dr Michael Stoiee head of the Florida School Desegregation Consulting Center said a new school on the proposed site at all-white primarily residential NE 87th and NE 91st Sts would have a 95 per cent the projected enrollment ot 995 he added FEDERAL guidelines generally prohibit the construction of a new school which would decrease the degree of integration at another facility or which would itself be ostly all-white or all-black The decision however once again leaves the board without a new site for Edison which has been scheduled for either relief or switchover to a middle ii Johnson be used to house kindergarten and first grade students from both schools while an expanded Bright would handle grades 2-6 The School Board on June 4 ordered the purchase of the 75-a site in Miami Shores-El Portal to build a high-rise relief school for Miami Edison However the proposal was hotly attacked "We have talked to the US Department of Health Education and Welfare" he said "and they agreed that if the proposal is implemented it would make it much more difficult for the county to be in compliance with federal guidelines "THOUGH THESE opinions are unofficial" he concluded "we would recommend that the proposal be rejected" Under his proposal the 188 ail-black students at the Johnson Elementary School at 735 23 St Miami will marge with the 768 students most of them Cuban at the James Bright Elementary School onlv five blocks awav at 2530 10th Ave Hialeah TO LEE URGED that' Stoiee whose University of Miami center was retained by the board June 4 to review both the Edison proposal and the county's general compliance with HEW guidelines also recommended that the county immediately integrate the last school built under Dade's former "separate but equal" segregation plan Plans Are Cut Unless Programs Building Did He Next School Budget Rules Out Pay Hikes 19 Staff Photo by JOHN PINEDA Ted Owens Beckons Skies to Pour Rain on Miami he claims record of success at this sort of thing Heap Big Rain Pours Staff Photos by BOB EIGHMIE flying about four miles offshore outside from the Queen when the door cime open began losing altitude" Passengers Jenis Hillestid of North Leslie Parks of Opa-locka unhurt "Just like I teach Sherman kept muttering told a beach crowd how he plane Crash Landing Bob Sherman right a flying instructor from Opa-locka attracted a crowd at Dania Beach Friday evening when he was forced to ditch his plane in the ocean After a malfunction he put down in water 10 feet deeo where the plane sank Sherman said at a community meeting earlier this week by local residents who feared they would lose their homes Stoiee warned that Edison's black sudent population now projected at 577 out of a student body of 2-0U6 would drop to 504 out of 1525 if a new school were built And the second school change into his golfing togs Next stop will be the home of former US Sen Harry Cain on Bay Harbor Island to join his links partners A third member of the party will he William Paul president of Family Finance and an old friend of Cain's IT WILL BE Agnew's first round of golf in Florida He has been playing the game only "about six years" according to Cain and "feels lucky when he breaks 100" which puts him in a class with many other Florida duffers The vice president will THE BOYS will be instructed in swimming fishing rowing and canoeing on Lake Huckleberry and will be free to use the lake for recreation For those with an eye to three square meals a day 'rcre's all a hoy can cat at the central dining hall All the youngsters will be provided with spending money and there'll be a place to Spend it for refreshments and knick' knacks If anyone feels like doing some serious or semi-serious learning there will also be instruction in botany astronomy camping first aid life-saving nature study reptile study and a battery of other subjects designed to appeal to the young And there will be hikes and campfires and singing ancy no asphalt "I was just (Elizabeth) and we were Miami and All were my students" as he ditched the If Paleface's PKs Work Cause' This? III Agnew to Visit State For Workin Holiday Whigham: 4We Can't Afford It' By SHAW HcraM -ff ler T' Vi'l be no money in -ir's Dade school bud-'t any salary increases without a drastic cut in either 'programs or construction plans Superintendent Whigham said Friday "As things stand now I will not recommend any salary increases for anyone" he said "Unless things change we can't afford it" The superintendent's statement came several hours after he presented a precariously balanced $1769 million operating budget which later was found to be $1 million in the red to the School Board and heard the board discuss teacher salary increases which would cost at least $3 million more IN ADDITION Assistant Superintendent for Personnel Jack Prance is pushing hard for a 10 per cent salary increase for the system's 4000 clerical and maintenance employes at a cost of $16 million and has presented a five per cent $208000 proposed increase for the board's 200 top administrators But any salary increases will mean further inroads into an already minimal budget which has been slashed by $56 million since first presented 10 days ago And even at that the 1 769-million figure up $21 million from last year is already over anticipated revenues and will finance only existing programs built-in teacher salary increases and the 400 additional teachers needed to cope with an anticipated 6000 increase in enrollment next fall "There's no water in this figure" warned Whigham "Any more cuts and you're eliminating programs" NONETHELESS a majority Turn to Page 2B Col 7 25 Leave Donor List 6B By JACK TODD Merita wriUr It's a long way from an asphalt playground in Miami to the rolling hills of Camp Sebring To most people it's a o-and-onc-half hour drive 160 miles something less as the crow flies To a kid with no money Camp Sehring might as well be Mars The Herald's Scnd-a-Kid-to-Camp fund however has brought Mars a little closer for 25 youngsters aged 11 to 13 who will depart Sunday for a week at Sebring THEY ARE the first of 225 boys who will attend the Boy Scout camp through nine sessions this summer for a week of canoeing and archery hiking and swimming fishing and plain old goofing off Camp Scoring is located By FRED ANDERSEN herald stalf writer ag Vice President Spjro Agnew flies into Miami at 1 pm Sunday for a busy 48 hours of Florida golf speech- making and possible sponge diving The vice idential plane is due at Miami International Airport in time for the Agnew party to motor AGNEW to the Eden Roc in Miami Beaih where the eueSt of honor will By THIRLEE SMITH Herald Staff Writer Somebody up there wasn't listening Chubby balding Ted Owens stood there on the MacA Causeway bridge his arms pointed skywaVd forked in a peace symbol "Let there be lightning" he commanded There was none Owens shrugged "I can't understand it Perhaps my PKs are looking out the wrong window" BUT THEN Owens was not a total failure Among his 102 occupations knife thrower radio announcer author etc he lists rainmaker And after all it was raining And had been with irritating regularity since Owens arrived from Philadelphia several days ago That June is one of Miami's rainiest months may or may not have any bearing Owens has vowed that "the rain will pour and pour until someone here takes me seriously" The inclination might indeed be not to treat Owens seriously But he is a card-carrying Mensa a member of a select group intellectuals whose brainpower is reputed to be in the upper two per cent of the world population WHAT'S MORE when he got mad at his hometown Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League in 1966 he put a hex on them Football in the City of Brotherly Love hasn't been the same since although the Eagles did manage to beat two teams last year What Owens did was put his PKs to work PK means Psycho-Kinetic force or Psychokinesis Basically says Owens this is a power from another dimension he has learned to control I Gerstein Switch Extended Gov Claude Kirk continued Friday the exchange of state attorneys Richard Gerstein and Gordon Oldham at least until the conclusion of a perjury trial scheduled to begin June 23 The original order which sent Gerstein to Leesburg and brought Oldham to Dade would have expired Tuesday Kirk's new order said the exchange would continue until the conclusion of the prnding trials of Howard Edwards and Max (Mikej Diamond The two Broward men are scheduled to stand trial here June 23 on charges of perjury in connection with their sworn statements that they saw Gerstein get a $1500 bribe in 1960 or 1961 The governor first ordered the exchange in March but it was delayed until April when the Florida Supreme Court upheld his action Need a Teen? See Section Need a hardworking clean ambitious intelligent bright talented dependable neat or anxious teenager? You'll find all types described in their own words looking for work in The Herald's free Student Want Ads section on Pages 6 7 and 8C On Page 81" you'll also find things practically anything you can buy at a bargain from local teens STOCK CAR RACES late modetc Tonuhl I ts Hialeah Spaedwav Sunday for Camp spend Sunday night in his hotel suite drafting remarks he will make at 9:45 am' Monday to an oceanographic conference at the Fontaine-bleu Hotel Immediately after the talk Agnew will fly to St Petersburg landing at the airport there about mid-afternoon That night he will be the principal speaker at a dinner in St Petersburg's Bay Front Center honoring Rep William Cramer who just might take the occasion to make an official announcement of his 1970 candidacy for Democratic Sen Spessard Holland's seat INTIMATES of the longtime St Pete congressman say however he will just smile when Agnew Republican Sen Fd Gurney and other GOP bigwigs toot his horn and wait a while longer to say what politicos have known for two years Cramer reportedly wanted to run for retiring Sen George Smathers' job in 1968 but stepped aside so Gurney could make the race Agnew will go lucsday to keep a long-standing promise to visit Tarpon Springs the Greek-American settlement about SO miles north of Tampa Bay and has been invited to Join in the sponge diving there Tuesday night he will fly to Pittsburgh for the National Mayors Conference Agnew originally was scheduled to address a Metro Community Relations Board dinner Monday night but the previous commitment to Cramer forced him to cancel that invitation which also had been tendered by Cain Mrs A Strikland and Pup Rliett they have own way to combat Miami's heavy showers Fund Reaches on the shores of Lake Huckleberry just outside Sebring it is a 540-acre Scout reservation with facilities for just about everything a boy might want to do except be bored 1 At the camp the youngsters on the Send-a-Kid-to-Camp program will be teamed on a buddy system with experienced Boy Scout campers and will be assigned to existing troops "No one else has this ability but Owens was living in Phoenix Ariz in 1963 he said when he discovered that a combination of ESP (extra sensory perception) and the Apache Indian rainmaking act would produce violent storms "It nearly wrecked that part of Arizona" he lamented So now he iust travels from place to place creating rain and using his ESP powers to direct big time treasure hunters Owens who lives at the Casa Loma Motel 210 NE Biscayne Blvd says he came to Miami to make a deal "I want to make the Miami Dolphins World Champions" Which may take more than some PKs.