The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 1

Wometco founder Mitchell Woli son dies Story below Partly Cloudy Details on 2A Final Edition 66 pages Saturday January 29 1983 25 cents Adoring fans rally one last time The Bear amas Students with tears streaming down their cheeks reverently held up one finger for a last No tribute to The Bear privacy-loving wife state police had asked people not to take pictures of the funeral cortege It was an impossible request for residents of a state that treats its football teams with a fervor and reverence normally reserved for fiery tent revivals As the 400-car cortege including six Greyhound buses bearing Crimson Tide football players and their families headed up 1-59 motorists keeping tabs on the ceremonies by radio screeched to a halt on the shoulders got out of their cars and saluted the procession as it passed Truck drivers contacted each other on citizens band radios and halted in long caravans on the roadside to show respect for The last Please turn to BRYANT 15A By BILL ROSE i Herdd Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM Ala Paul (Bear) Bryant 69 a gruff lovable symbol of winning football was laid to rest Friday in a southern pine casket as 5Q00 adoring fans pressed around his simple gravesite beneath a budding oak tree" In a startling emotional display of just how deeply this state loved the wrinkled old man with the gravel voice and the tobth hat thousands more stood outside the overflowing First Methodist Church in his hometown of Tuscaloosa for a brief funeral service Countless others ignored pleas of state troopers and lined normally deserted stretches of 1-59 between Tuscaloosa and Elmwood Cemetery for one last salute to the winningest coach in football history a man whose gridiron leadership was so renowned that to many in this recession-ridden state of coal mines steel mills and hardscrabble farms he is seen as Alabama incarnate At the request of Mary Harmon The Associated Press Funeral procession rolls toward Birmingham for Coach Paul burial On the to victory Reaffam Bolsters Fiscal 1984: The 15th straight federal deficit 4 i -j I Mf 1 A flood of red ink (billions of dollars) JERE WARREN Miami Herald Staff Domestic outlay cut 2 per cent By ROBERT BOYD Herald Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON President Reagan is sending Congress an $8485-billion budget for 1984 that proposes nearly 10 per cent real growth in defense spending and a 2 per cent real cut in all other programs after adjustment for inflation According to a summary of the budget provided to congressional leaders Friday over-all spending would rise by $433 billion in the 1984 fiscal year beginning Oct 1 Of the increase $30 billion would go to the Pentagon and $13 billion to the rest of the government In dollars the over-all increase amounts to 53 per cent but when inflation is taken into account it works out to no growth at all If Congress goes along this would be a far more severe cutback in federal spending than Reagan has achieved so far in his presidency In fiscal 1983 spending is projected to rise 106 per cent in current dollars or about 5 per cent in real terms The sharpest cuts proposed in the new budget fall on postal subsidies energy research mass transit and Amtrak the budget documents reveal Unemployment compensation also is expected to fall as the jobless rolls shrink A few high-priority domestic programs would be increased including law enforcement and antidrug programs Head Start science and math education and a program to help displaced workers The budget which officially goes to Congress Monday shows an all-time record deficit of $208 billion this year (1983) If Congress goes along with tax and spending plans and Please turn to BUDGET 18A Hastings meets accusations head-on denies everything ly was less a friend than a sometime political ally in the black legal fraternity Borders he said is a curious fellow Although influential he is overly the kind of man who heartily meets his friends at the airport then stands them up at dinner one thing I do know is that a lot of times when you talk with Bill on the telephone you know what saying but you may not always know what Hastings said Hastings volunteered the comment in answer to the most important detail in the case: an Oct 5 1981 Hastings-to-Borders telephone call He placed the call the afternoon before he signed an Please turn to HASTINGS 4A By PETER SLEVIN Herald Staff Writer US District Judge Alcee Hastings appearing calm and confident met a federal bribery-conspiracy charge head-on in a Miami courtroom Friday He denied everything Taking the stand as the 50th and final defense witness Hastings discussed the pieces of the conspiracy theory one by one in a virtual monologue lasting four hours and 29 minutes His studied and careful testimony had a theme: The FBI and the Justice Department confused the innocent attempts to help a friend with the skulduggery of two partners in crime The true culprit in the $150000 bribery scheme Hastings insisted was William A Borders Jr a Washington DC lawyer who real wuixmBi BRUCE GILBERT Miami Herald Staff Dolfans hang banners and Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann in effigy over the Palmetto Expressway Mitchell Wolf son 82 Saturday Sample dies of a heart attack Key economic index climbs 15 cent per The index of leading economic indicators climbed a strong 15 per cent last month the biggest improvement in more than two years 4B Rain of for LA during bowl weekend Supsf Cowl Countdown Dolfans prepare for game 14A Selling of the Dolphins 14 A Kuechenberg the lion-hearted 1C Den windfall 1C Super Bowl survival kit ID Mitchell Wolfson the man who shaped Miami-based Wometco Enterprises Inc into one of the leading leisure-time industries died Friday evening at Mount Sinai Hospital of a heart attack He was 82 Wolfson had been hospitalized Thursday after complaining of chest pains The bespectacled Wolfson was active until the end both in the company that entertained millions and in the civic endeavors that laid equal claim to his energies Wolfson served as chairman of the board of trustees for Miami-Dade Community College from 1960 to 1980 In 1981 the college honored his 20-year commitment to its growth He also was a founder and served as chairman of the Miami Off-Street Parking Authority The board manages the downtown Gusman Cultural Center at 174 Flagler St The reason for that incongruous pairing was that millionaire philanthropist Maurice Gusman said that he would donate money for the facility only on the condition that Wolfson manage it By JOE STARITA Herald Staff Writer LOS ANGELES If the weather gods forced feverish Super Bowl officials to cast imploring eyes heavenward Friday why were so many other mortals smiling beatifically? Simple answer i The rain of Superbucks pouring into Los Angeles-area hotel coffers restaurant cash registers the palms of cabbies and the hands of barmaids has begun in earnest By midmorning Friday local officials reported about 50000 of 63000 available hotel and motel rooms in Los Angeles and Or-' ange County were booked Restaurant owners from chic Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills to managers of more modest cuisine along Century Boulevard reported weekend waiting lists reservations made months ago and private rooms bulging with pri- Amuse 4D Fla News 10A Business 4B Goren 25D Churches 22D Horoscope 25D Classified 8D Landers 2D Comics 24D Lat News 3A Crossword 24D Movies 4D Dance 25D Pope 1C Deaths 3B Television 16A Editorials 22A Weather 2A Contents Copyrightl9C3 Th Miami Hrild Mitchell Wolfson: Shaped Wometco Enterprises The hard-working businessman also found time to serve as a trustee of Mount Sinai Hospital where he died at 8 pm Friday His other civic activities included membership on the Orange Bowl Committee and the Florida Thoroughbred Association He was a former director of the United Please turn to WOLFSON 17 A today mean millions of dollars for local businessmen Super Bowl weekend and completely booked through Sunday gasped Jim Kring manager of a plush Los Angeles eatery offer- Please turn to SUPER 1 5 A vate parties Limousine and charter bus agencies were bolstering their fleets by ferrying in additional vehicles from San Diego and San Francisco Thousands of Dolphin and Redskin fans already encamped here and many more set to arrive Chuckle Sign on the back of a small foreign car: honking pedaling as fast as I.