The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 159

nnrrY rrrrv r-rm-r 1 'rrynrrr-rvirryr rt rrrv r-rr rrrry rrrr rry rrrv irrTnrr-rTrvTTrrv-nry-y rrnrrr-r A SECTI03 EIjc iHiarai Hcralb Friday May 14 1976 Jndge Dismisses Case Holds Law Uiicoiislhiilional Mother of 10 Freed on Neglect Charge sponsible for the care of neglected or abused children As a result of that case Ms Henry served 90 days of a 120-day jail sentence was afraid have to go back to jail again" she said Thursday know if I could take that Her lawyer said that in this case there was no evidence that her children were unhealthy Five of her children some with sports trophies they had won were in court ready to testify for their mother on what was scheduled to be the first day of her trial Defense attorney Lida said I sent my child to bed without supper under this statute the state could come and say this is a crime because supper is necessary woman was saved the needless emotional trauma of going to trial and the taxpayers saved he said ASSISTANT State Attorney Ted Mastos had argued against dismissal He said police reported there was garbage on the floor and roaches everywhere and that the children were left alone unclean and complaining of not having adequate food is no doubt that (her home) was a said the prosecutor who argued that a jurv should decide if the children were receiving adequate care He said the state may appeal The ruling applies only to court until it is appealed Meanwhile Ms Henry wants custody of the five children wbo are still under the care of Proto tive Services She must return to Circuit Juvenile Divis on for that She currently is living with her mother and five other children and hopes to be placed public hous ing again The (alier has started paying $40-a-week child support she said By GAYLE POLLARD Herald Staff Writer A county judge found the child-neglect law unconstitutional Thursday and dismissed charges against Michele Henry who had been accused of inadequately caring for five of her 10 youngsters between the ages of three and 11 law makes reference to failure to provide necessary food clothing and shelter is not subject to ready definition and therefore could be treated as oeing over-broad said Judge Morton Perry is subject to he said might be marginal to one might be luxury to Perry said the state has related laws with specific stan-daids such as the child abuse statute which prohibit parents from endangering the physical or mental health of their children The child neglect law specified no standards and the prosecution Michele Henry charges dismissed Brownsville shack Her twin babies then nine months old were hospitalized for malnutrition each 'weighing less than half the normal weight for their age Her children were placed under the care of Protective Services a state agency re- Goode But Referendum Criticism Mounts Says a Transit Tax Could Replace Bond Cost million Decade of Progress bond Doard meeting of the Chamber money for rapid transit even CHAMBER OFFICIALS de-though the spending nounced pending state legislation was approved by Dade voters was that would authorize the sales-tax raised Thursday at an executive referendum in Dade but said they Navy photograph Columnist Charles Whited Secured in Jet shortly after that he viewed South Florida from far above failed to present "a bill of to support the charge he said granting a dismissal motion by assistant public defender Carl Lida Ms Henry 30 had been charged with one count of child neglect after authorities said they found her children untended in conditions and without proper a roach-infested littered four-bedroom home in the Annie Coleman Gardens public housing project at 2120 NW 54th St last January feel good I was said Ms Henry who had been found guilty of child neglect five years ago hoping to get a house so I can get the other five children she said we can start fresh all over again For once we can live IN 1971 authorities said they found Ms children alone and begging for food in a dirty CHARLES WHITED ground But Thursday he put Blue Angel Seven through some of its gentler paces high over the Atlantic From wing lifts and vertical loop we went into a barrel roll then a quick-snapping roll at 370 miles per hour then about a zero gravity THE SKYHAWK blasted straight up engine at maximum thrust but instead of rolling on our back Nile Kraft pushed the stick forward at the top of the climb forcing the nose down Gravity vanished For a couple of giddy free seconds you felt like an astronaut in space go of your Lt Kraft said I did The pad floated in air Blue Angel Seven turned for home Lt Kraft requested permission to make a low power-pass of the airfield Angel the Opa-locka tower replied The $14 million jet descended At more than 300 miles an hour we flashed over the runways at 100 feet and banked around the tower The roar of engine brought spectators running from hangars and offices below Then we zoomed skyward again impressive Blue Angel the tower radioed Nile Kraft circled for his final approach The lieutenant was having second thoughts about that power pass Looking down at the peaceful neighborhoods he said hope all those people mad at iSfi 'V Diving Sivaying With Blue Angels Was Fun-And Fast tfe Two of 10 Children Juan 3 Joseph 7 could support it as a last-ditch effort to fund local rapid transit costs if Metro commissioners would agree not to sell the $1325 million bonds Turtle Hunt Costs Life A small boy afraid of the water slipped off a bank and drowned Thursday when he went with two other small boys to in Naranja Lakes Gregory Burkhead four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Burkhead of 14065 SW 272 St was brought up by Metro Fire and Rescue members who dived in after being summoned by a mother of one of the other children Squad members established a faint heart beat in the boy and rushed him to James Archer Smith Hospital Homestead but he died within an hour Metro police said Family friends said that Gregory the youngest of five children was afraid of the water and stayed away from the nearby canal banks leading to the lake he slipped away with two other boys to get turtles from the lake about a block away and fell a family spokesman said Out-of-Phase Light Hacks Up Dixie If you were frustrated by slow rush hour traffic on Dixie Highway Thursday in for more of the same this morning Metro Traffic and Transporta-tion officials warned Weak cai bles caused the traffic lights at SW 27th Avenue to get out of phase thus snarling the traffic were giving the right amount of green time but they synchronized with the other said Ken Bynum assistant operations director for the department were just out there by Bynum said the cables should be fixed before home-bound rush but motorists will just have to be patient this morning Tuhle Turned On Contributors The Corps of the Papanicolaou Center Research Institute presented $100000 to the Institute Thursday the yield of a worth of soliciting by 2000 volunteers Institute officials had $100000 converted into Bicentennial silver dollars for the presentation and began pouring them on a table When they reached $8000 the table collapsed Standing amid $8000 spilled silver dollars the women decided not to pur the other $92000 anywhere Duplexes grants at the camp to own their own homes However the county has requested that the US Department of Housing and Urban Development help subsidize rents if the permanent units are built This County Manager Ray Goode recently told the Metro Commission would any commitment by the county to guarantee revenue losses created by the high vacancy rates associated with migrant Officer Manny Tortora Shows Police Files to Boys Adam Gissen left and Lewis Feigenhaum started oun patrol By JAMES NOLAN Heratd Staff Writer Top Metro officials said Thursday that the county need to float the $1325 million in tax-supported Decade of Progress oonds that Dade voters OKd in 1972 for rapid transit if the proposed local-option one-cent sales tax passes the Legislature and is approved by county voters Their comments came as more criticism was voiced Thursday by Miami business and civic leaders and at least one Metro commissioner that Dade Countians would be asked to tax themselves twice for rapid transit if the sale- sales-tax measure is also approved County Manager Ray Goode said revenue from the one-cent sales tax estimated to be from $40 million to $55 million annually would be enough to cover local costs to build the $2 billion 48-mile rapid transit system DENNIS CARTER an aide to Goode and manager of the $5531 million Decade of Progress bond projects said the one-cent sales tax would allow Metro to avoid the future increases in the property tax rate that otherwise would be required to pay off the rapid transit bonds Carter said that taxsaving could amount to about one-third of a mill in 1982 when the last of the $1325 million in transit bonds currently are scheduled to be sold That would mean an actual savings of about $17 a year on a house now valued at $35000 And Carter noted that a Dade consumer would have to spend more than $1666 a year on items subject to the sales tax before the cost of the one-cent increase would offset the projected property tax saving The extra-cent tax apply to items costing more than $1000 as the bill is now proposed Carter said revenues from the sales tax also would be sufficient to pay debt service of the county did need any of the $1325 million and later to provide a partial operating subsidy to the transit system in its early years of operation when built HOWEVER TIIE COMMENTS from Goode and Carter drew at least one strongly negative reaction from a Metro commissioner James Redford who said there a chance that county voters would approve the one-cent sales tax increase even if the prospect of paying additional taxes through the Decade of Progress bond program were removed statement echoed remarks made Wednesday by Lester Freeman executive vice president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce who said a sales-tax referendum would be and thoroughly by Dade voters The idea of not using the $1325 es at the Everglades Labor Camp in South Dade Dunng the farm season the camp houses 1300 migrant workers and their families in trailers provided on an emergency basis by the federal government According to Mel Adams the director of housing the construction of the 162 units would be the first step toward replacing all trailers with permanent CBS structures Pair of Sixth Graders Make Police-Play Real I if'' i -75 COYA Miami Herald Staff Officer Tortora said interested in helping and serving in the community They say they see wrongdoing and injustices and in their own minds they feel they should try to help They are very very bright for their Best friends since age four Adam and Lewis live three houses apart in North Miami quiet Pickwick Lake Estates bordered by the county State Road 9 and Snake Creek decided to try to cut down on the trouble around Adam says They called police asked if help was needed and got a flat no They persisted and got Tortora a couple of good kids I just imagine how they would feel if nobody would pay attention to says Tortora 30 the father Turn to Page 2B Col 1 by the fall of 1977 Dade has already spent $264000 for roads and water and sewer facilities at the camp in the expectation that permanent housing would be built there Long-range plans call for the construction of over 300 permanent units at the Everglades camp Adams said the county is also studying the possibility of developing a program which would enable mi- The sleek Navy Skyhawk II knifed through the morning sky at 350 miles per hour and the voice of Lt Nile Kraft crackled in the headset of my flight helmet are going to accelerate to 520 miles per hour to go into the loop You will feel the speed building and on the loop we will have a loading of 28 Gs I thumbed a toggle switch Bright sunlight splashed the canopy of Blue Angel Seven From 3500 feet the vast Atlantic spread beneath us To the west South coast was a ragged line of beach and jutting bone-white tow-rs IN HELMET and flight suit strapped to a parachute life-support belt and explosive ejection seat I was harnessed to a lightning bolt In front of me the yellow helmet of Lt Kraft turned as he scanned the sky The stick between my knees moved forward In a shallow dive the powerful J52 engine changed pitch hurling the swept-back delta wing fighter like a streaking dart our speed Up we go Gravity force mashed me down into the seat as the nose lifted Abruptly the sun vanished Blue Angel Seven swooshed into a vertical climb The voice of Nile Kraft was calm the loading we come out of the vertical If you look up you will see the horizon coming over AGAINST the gravity force my head was three times its normal weight Looking up was an effort even though actually I was looking down The line of coast came sliding into view My stomach gave a lurch but held down through the vertical at 250 knots In the brilliant air of Thursday morning this was a demonstration of jet fighter maneuvers as seen from the cockpit This weekend at Opa-locka Airfield thousands will get a view from the ground as six Navy Blue Angels stage their spectacular show of precision aerobatic flying for Armed Forces Day THE OBSERVANCE Saturday and Sunday features free open house band concerts and military equipment displays from 9 a to 4 The Blue Angels will perform at 3 each day show also features jumps by the Golden Knights parachute team at 2 pm Nile Kraft 28 a veteran of 223 combat missions over Vietnam will spend the weekend narrating on the By EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer Several months ago two sixth graders self-appointed police decided to stop and do the real thing They contacted a friendly North Miami Beach policeman to whom become a source of amazement with tips on fires trespassers vagrants and traffic Even so when Adam Gissen and Lewis Feigenbaum both 11 reported to Community Relations Officer Manny Tortora that they something going in reference to he casually told them bring in a They did carefully preserved in their own facsimile of an official cellophane evidence bag Inside was marijuana They found it growing in a cultivated patch in a yard they said Police are investigating of the Adams said Thursday not in the best of shape I know that they could last much more than another three years We need a permanent facility there This would guarantee good housing for migrants as long as long as they come to South If the request is approved Adams said the permanent housing would probably be ready Dade Hopes US Pays for By ANDY ROSENBLATT Herald Staff Writer Migrant workers and their families who come to South Dade every fall to live in trailers or shacks may have permanent housing if Dade County can obtain $4 4 million in loans and grants from the federal government The county recently asked the US Farmers Home Administration for the funds to build 162 duplex-.