The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 33

'yrryTTn rr rt rrv? yr rrt'y yrTTTTTW'yT yYryfyrVTTTyyy Section More Local News rages 2 4 SB Saturday October 23 1971 Complete Local News "I don't think we ever could have proved them said Holober The only evidence police had he said were two chicken sandwiches found in the street can you tell one chicken sandwich from Pollack charged that Hialeah police shot two robbers to death and then blasted a passing car with a shqtgun Oct 25 1969 mistaking the occupants for'the dead accomplices In addition no police witnesses showed up to testify 1 1 Holober said Officer Raleigh Jordan' who sprayed the Biglow car with his shotgun struck a 69-year-old pedestrian with his motorcycle in Hialeah Friday morning and was unable to appear Another witness Det Dennis Wallace is away at school and Det Connell is on By EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer A state attorney faced with prosecuting charges of assault to commit murder and robbery on the strength of only two chicken sandwiches for evidence rested his case without testimony Friday and it was dismissed State Attorney Dennis Holober attempted to drop the case against Roy and Daniel Biglow but defense attorney Paul Pollack insisted that his clients who spent more than three months in jail go to trial on the charges which could have resulted in a 60 year prison term HOLOBER agreed The defendants were sworn in Holober announced: state and Judge Ellen Morphonios returned verdict of innocent HIALEAH LT Joseph Myles angrily called the acquittal miscarriage of justice Our men captured them at the scene They lie" He said the police witnesses were available but not subpenaed playing games down at court They fiddle around with these continuances until there are no state's witnesses in court I think a Roy Biglow a carpenter apprentice at the time of his arrest said after his minutes-long very happy been almost three years that been going to court I lost my car lost my job and my self respect NEVER knew the men involved in the robbery I never was in that store I was scared when they shot at us but more scared after the Smith 22 wounded in the leg fled around a counter in an escape attempt Another shot hit him in the neck and he died Jordan raced back outside and saw a blue Camaro coming from the direction in which the fourth suspect fled He opened fire on the car blasting 19 holes in the door The occupants were the Biglows who careened into a nearby gas station shouting for the attendant to call police Pollack said the brothers thought the gunman in civilian clothes was a maniac Police said the Biglows were identified as two men who bought chicken sandwiches in the store shortly before the robbery The sandwiches were found in the street nearby arrest It was an all-white neighborhood The police kept threatening to kill us They said it matter They already killed Jordan and Wallace in plaineclothes spotted two men acting suspiciously in front of Delicatessen 496 25th St Oct 25 1969 As they approached the men fled in opposite directions The officers started shooting and one youth Wesley Johnson was wounded and captured nearby Inside the store police said two robbers were beating the owner William Ray Smith 45 with shotguns as his two small daughters screamed JORDAN OPENED fire A shotgun blast caught one suspect Donald Bernard Evens 16 in the face killing him instantly Arthur Lee To Blunt of Vote Hade Con Teacher of the Year After 6 Years Best Teacher 0 ecu By LAWRENCE MAHONEY Herald Staff Writer A young mathematics teacher only six years into the profession and whose and impact are felt everywhere at Rockway Junior High was chosen Friday from among 11000 teachers here to be Dade of the He is Albert Soriano Jr an energetic and enthusiastic instructor who puts in as many hours outside his ninth grade classroom as he does before the blackboard He was the teacher chosen from among six Dade finalist nominees to compete for teacher of the year After the state-level competition one teacher will be chosen to represent Florida for national teacher' of the year HAS a remarkable grasp of his subject and of how to get it across to said Rockway Principal James Davis has an attitude so positive that it is absolutely infectious has written excellent individualized learning packages for general math algebra and geometry He has conceived and developed a brilliant new plan for the selection and operation of the Student Council The improvement of the quality of student leadership under his sponsorship far short of a "The single most important qualification is that selected teachers possess a superior ability to inspire love of learning in students of all backgrounds and The five other district teachers of the year are Miss Turn to Page 4B Col 1 av i if Staff Photo by RALPH PABST Albert Soriano 23 Willi Clas teaches mathematics at Rochway Junior High More Laws Needed to Clean Miami River Conferees Told Group System Proposed By SUSAN BURNSIDE Herald Staff Writer The spectre of University of Miami students winning a majority bloc on the Coral Gables Commission was raised Friday as one reason for commissioners to change their election procedures before the next city election in April 1973 Mayor Keith Phillips Jr proposed a charter change requiring commission candidates to run in groups rather than at-large as they do now He also asked for the removal of a segregation clause from the city charter The group election method used by Metro by Miami and by other major Dade County municiplaities the most democratic way to get elected the only way to get the issues Phillips said UNDER THE existing system where all candidates run against all others and the top three vote-getters are elected have a horse race complete with win place and show the mayor said An election by group also would make it more difficult for UM students to a slate of candidates into office as University of California students did in city election Commissioner Robert Brake said minority candidates were elected (in Berkeley) and the radical group has taken over that council With 18000 students down there (the University of Miami) theoretically this could happen he added sort of minority group could come in and control the Brake continued think the students will have that much ef- Turn to Page 4B Col 1 By DON BEDWELL Herald Staff Writer At midstream in their campaign to clean up the Miami River river restoration conferees Friday called for additional legislation to complete the job is no question that we are halfway through after just a declared Secretary of State Richard Stone who called the conference as the latest in a series to restore the faded natural beauty Staff Photo by BATTLE VAUGHAN and hosed down the blazing discarded tires and other material A Maule Industries spokesman said the company site near NW Seventh Street and 51st Avenue was not supposed to be a dump but passing motorists had been throwing trash there and it sometimes ignites Dump Doused Smoke billowing aloft from a dump on the shore of Maule Lake was spotted by Dade pollution control officer Gary Cohen Friday as he drove south along the Palmetto Expressway Miami firefighters responded and a target date of May has been set for the over all sewering of the industrialized west end at a cost of $1 million to $15 million A crackdown is being ordered against individuals who litter the river by throwing trash into it Richard Jones of the Dade Planning Advisory Board said the Marine Patrol will seek the maximum penalty of a $250 fine and six-month imprisonment for violators Jones raised the possibility that auto junkyards along the river three of whose owners were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for polluting the waterway might be encouraged to move to less sensitive areas HE SAID the owners who no longer use the river for transportation might be receptive to moving to a less restrictive part of the county my opinion that land is much too valuable for that Stone agreed would be wonderful for high-rise Dade Pollution Control Director Peter Baljet expressed concern about the discharge of raw from live-aboard boats particularly in tributaries He also spoke of the need to filter drain pipes and storm sewers feeding into the river County Manager Ray Goode said department has" filed 30 notices against those responsible for drains and pipes leading into the river with 10 cases already heard in Criminal Court Building and Zoning Department has served 36 warrants against 18 corporate violators since the clean-up began Goode said STONE named a study team to close existing legislative gaps by proposing needed ordinances or statutes to deal with pollution and eyesores now free from legal reproach The group headed by Dennis of the University of Miami will consider such questions as the removal of abandoned small boats which be touched under an existing derelict ordinance and new authority to permit county crews to clean up unsightly debris on privately owned riverbanks Various local state and federal officials attending the conference also heard that: Dade Public Works and Marine Council members will be asked to plan a tow-out service and marine dump to give boat owners an alternative to merely abandoning their decrepit craft in the river Marina operators are being called together to end the piping of effluent into the river by finding ways to link docked craft with sewage systems Pollution from Miami International Airport has been Sidney Ansin Dies Owner of Channel 7 Them tore Fires Youth 17 and His Wig Sj vt a Sidney Ansin 68 the frequently honored owner of WCKT-TV Channel 7 died Friday night of a heart attack at the Miami Heart Institute Ansin who was in the Heart Institute in May suffering from heart trouble was stricken at his Miami Beach home and rushed to the hospital by the Miami Beach rescue squad He died at 9:17 pm A FORMER president of the Miami Crime Commission president of Sunbeam Television Corp the owner of Channel 7 and on the Chamber of Commerce Board of Governors Ansin was noted for his philanthropic activities Rated as an affable man of middle height with white hair Ansin a New England shoe manufacturer became an investor and developer of Florida real estate in 1941 His Interest in television was started in the early 50's when numbers of people tried to buy options on some fairly barren south Broward tracts that he owned for antenna towers of the United Fund in 1964 as a director of Variety Hospital and as President of the Crime Commission in 1967 he initiated a program called "Operation Crime designed to citizens to report suspicious activities He was honored with a silver medallion brotherhood award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1967 for his United Fund charitable work and his work in promoting Israeli bonds Radio Free Europe and the Greater Miami Jewish Federation He was honored the same year by Community Magazine a publication for United Fuds for his "tradition of and by Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity which gave him a scroll as an honorary member for his civic work In 1971 he was named an "outstanding by the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association He is survived by his wife Sophie two sons Edmund executive vice president of Sunbeam Television Corp and general manager of WCKT-TV and Ronald of Boston and four grandchildren Services will be conducted by Riverside chapel Monday By JUNE KRONHOLZ Herald Staff Writer The day Winn Dixie fired Bill wig was the day Bill Field said goodby to the grocery business was a good job liked to have kept said Field I could have worn my Field neer liked short hair but last May for the sake of a college education he decided he would give it a try When Robert Marcoux his boss at a Hollywood Winn-Dixie supermarket told the 17-year-old Norland High student to trim his locks Field dug into his savings and bought a $25 wig that his mother arranged and parted for him every day for five month The wig allowed him to meet store stan- The answer from the state was HAVE been the state announced in a form letter misconduct connected with your asks Field stealing or drinking on the job I was only wearing a wig father William Field Sr of 19710 NE 12th Ct answered the letter by filing a complaint with the American Civil Liberties Union situation goes to the very core of why our young people are so unhappy with the Field says corporations ask don't the kids like At the same time they are pulling grossly unfair actions such as this" was a good Marcoux says had no complaints" Someone apparently had a complaint though On Sept 11 15 montns after he began work at the store and five months after he began wearing the wig Bill Field was fired was because of the wig" Marcoux admits nothing against it in the regulation book but someone along the chain of command decided they like FIELD and a second wig-wearing worker had the choice of removing the wigs and cutting their natural hair or looking for another job wouldn't cut Field says had met them half Sidney Ansin dies at 68 owner of Channel 4 bought one tract and Biscayne Television which operated Channel 7 for seven years bought another Ansin made a bid for Channel 7 then but it went to Biscayne But Ansin got to take it over with his Sunbeam Television Corp in 1962 He was chairman of the board and president when he died A natice of Lynn Mass Ansin and his father Abraham founded the Ansin Shoe Manufacturing business in Athol near Boston in 1925 Bill Field ii ith his uig dards and grow his hair long at the same time knew about it it was no Field insists Marcoux rated Field superior on his job performance too Bill Field with ou hair looked for another job for a week after he was fired they even taking applications" he says "I needed money I want to go to Miami-Dade so I filed for Wolfson ANSIN served as chairman MITCHELL 't.