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Section Ije dUEiamt HLetulib More Local News Pages 2B 3B Tuesday July 18 1972 Complete Local News CHARLES WHITED FHA Ignored Pries tes Data Three Months Last Major Turkey Point Harrier 8 Nuclear Plant leared for Licensin By JIM SAVAGE Hirild Staff Writtr The local Federal Housing Administration office was notified more than three months ago of alleged misrepresentation in the sale of South Miami Heights houses but took no action The Herald learned Monday husband and I sent a letter to FHA about three months ago telling them that we had to pay a down payment for our house when our neighbors said they pay any down payment We wanted FHA to check into said Mrs Dewey Adams of 19663 SW 121st Ave Agreement that the letter was sent and that it contained sufficient information to institute an FHA investigation came from the attorney Roy Brooks WILLIAM PELSKI local FHA director started a hurried search for the letter Monday after telling The Herald he was not aware of it or its contents The letter was sent in April to Delio Cruz assistant Mrs Adams and her attorney said got no reply from Mr Cruz after sending our letter for some time Then he called us to verify it and we told him about the situation and he said he was interested in pursuing Mrs Adams said Instead of sending a further reply Mrs Adams said the FHA apparently turned the matter over to her mortgage company which sent a routine reply William Pelski not aware Staff Photo by JIM BIRMINGHAM Staff Photo by RALPH PAB5T John Clytus left and Eddie Slaughter verdict came after 14-hour closing day A1 Featherston left and Gary Slaughter BA MM leader commends judge in case 5 BAMM Men Convicted In Firehomhing of School Fischer Antics A Precedent? If Bobby Fischer's temperamental antics against Boris Spassky in the $250000 Iceland world chess match set a precedent I shudder to think of what might happen to big-time sports We soon may be reading newspaper reports like this: ANCHORAGE Alaska Seventy-two thousand football fans stared at an empty gridiron for six hours while the Miami Dolphins locked themselves in their dressing room protesting playing conditions The world champion Dallas Cowboys whiled away the time tossing Frisbees on the sideline as officials attempted to resolve disputes delaying the Super Bowl game Dolphins Coach Don Shula had disconnected his telephone and refused to talk for several hours Finally a Shula aide emerged saying that the Miami coach and his players were upset over positioning of TV cameras the noise of the crowd and the attitude of Super Bowl officials is a conspiracy against us Shula was quoted as saying Earlier the temperamental Dolphin coach who has already forced the annual January gridiron classic to be postponed until March had said not interested In it anymore I lost interest six months More Tan I rums THE SUPER BOWL crisis emerged as an apparent epi-t demic of temper tantrums swept the sports world up-( setting schedules and creat-j ing havoc among television I sports fans Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammed Ali refused to come out of his dressing room for a scheduled bout against Floyd Patterson charging that the lights over the ring were too bright Start of the big Doral Open Golf Tournament in Miami was delayed for three days when golfing pro Jack Nicklaus flew into a rage as Lee Trevino appeared at the first tee wearing lavender slacks and green suspenders deliberately attempting" fumed Nicklaus throw off my world champion Pittsburgh Pirates failed to appear for their World Series rematch against Baltimore complaining that Oriole players were up the field with tobacco and Crackerjack vendors in the stands made too much noise Disrupted weekend television sports schedules also threatened a domestic crisis During football season divorces rose sharply in Dade County Complained one wife in Circuit Court: stand it any more your honor We used to have a wonderful marriage sit silently all weekend staring at the TV Now all he does is talk talk talk driving me out of my 6Ice THE BELEAGUERED Super Bowl has been snarled for months amid skirmishes over a playing site (the game was finally moved to Anchorage when other cities refused to meet demands that they put up additional guaranteed prize money) and bitter exchanges between the teams On the eve of the scheduled kickoff the game had to be postponed when Shula and the Dolphins failed to make their chartered airline flight in time and locked themselves into the Miami Springs Villas sulking for a full day Finally the team arrived in Anchorage played the Cowboys one quarter and wound up trailing by a touchdown Shula complained about the positioning of stadium lights and noise made by the fans and charged that the presence of TV cameras was distracting to Quarterback Bob Griese Game officials anxious to get on with the gridiron contest have agreed to move the Super Bowl to an abandoned airfield near Anchorage with no spectators or newsmen i present The agreement came after Shula had complained that Super Bowl organizers seemed to "upset and pro-voke me" deliberately By JUNE KRONIIOLZ Herald Staff Writer A1 Featherston the of the Black Afro Militant Movement and four of his followers Monday night were found guilty of the 1970 firebombing of Dorsey Junior High School The Criminal Court jury deliberated 5 V2 hours Judge Alfonso Sepe who tried the three-week-long case delayed sentencing until 9 am today I can sleep on Featherston who acted as his own lawyer for the trial sat quietly as the verdict was read expected this sort of he said quietly as guards led him to a cell in the Dade County Jail Lawyers for the five defendants took the verdict less No Help Seen for Slimmer By MIKE TONER Htrild Environment Writer A three-man Atomic Energy Commission panel has declared Florida Power and Light Turkey Point nuclear power plant safe and ready for licensing probably too late for the long-delayed plant to help ease any summer power shortage in South Florida The AEC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's resolution of a challenge to the safety removes the last remaining major legal obstacle to start-up of the first commercial atomic reactor Licensing which would authorize the company to begin loading uranium fuel into the reactor could come within the week AEC officials said A FINAL statement of the environmental impact still is necessary before the license is issued but because the environmental issues at Turkey Point have been settled for nearly a year it is considered a mere formality The decision by the licensing board however removed what had been a five-monthlong roadblock to operation of the plant Miami attorney Paul charge that a non-nuclear explosion at the plant last December raised grave doubts about the nuclear safeguards at the twin reactors After a two-day hearing in Miami and two months of deliberation the licensing board agreed that the December steam-line rupture which injured 11 persons was due to deficient but did not warrant further delay in operating the plant The three-man board said it had decided the safety valve header system as now constructed and tested can operate without undue risk to the health and safety of the public" BUT THE board criticized the Bechtel Corp Turkey Point project engineers for failing to head off the possibility of such an accident despite the fact that a similar mishap had occurred and been widely reported nearly a year earlier at a South Carolina nuclear station that a comparable design error has caused a similar incident in another nuclear plant could have prevented the failure at Turkey Point" the board concluded FPL and Bechtel have been engaged in a running dispute over the Turkey Point construction including charges by the company that the contractor is responsible for as much as half of the two-year period that the generators are now behind schedule EVEN IF the AEC licenses the plant this week however FPL Vice President Gene Autrey says that chances are slim that it will be useful in easing the pinch on power expected late this summer depends on how the loading operation and low-power testing Autrey explained is a possibility of some power from the units this summer but it would be a very small Loading of the $30 million in enriched uranium into just one of the reactors is expected to take approximately six weeks and die necessary time to conduct elaborate tests of the reactor at low power have ranged from two to 12 months on other commercial reactors in the United States CRUZ CONFIRMED that he received the Adams letter several months ago but he said he never directed it to the attention of Pelski The letter was Cruz said and FHA records contradicted Mrs statements that some of her neighbors had brought developer John houses without making a down payemnt He said he think it was his duty to get in touch with the persons whose FHA case numbers were cited in the Adams letter to determine whether they paid the down payments credited to them in FHA records GET a lot of letters containing insinuations all the Cruz said Cruz said he replied to the Adams letter May 16 stating what the records showed and he considered it a closed matter Meanwhile Pelski said he was formally asking the FHA office of the inspector general in Atlanta to investigate the contents of Herald stories published Sunday and Monday In those stories The Herald disclosed that four South Dade homeowners said Priestes sold them houses without requiring a down payment which would be a violation of FHA rules and federal law Priestes suspended from participation by the FHA after earlier stories in The Herald has denied he sold houses without receiving the down payment required by FHA The letter sent more than three months ago to the FHA contained all the necessary information to initiate an FHA probe including the names of the four homeowners interviewed by The Herald Mrs Adams said THE FAILURE of the local FHA office to start an investigation based on the Adams letter is the latest in a series of facts uncovered by The Herald which show an unusual relationship between Priestes and the local FHA office Priestes was suspended from all FHA programs in March affter FHA investigators checking Herald stories told him they found which seriously re- Tum to Page 3B Col 1 Willie Harris former head of group calmly however have yet to give up the Hollywood lawyer Leonard Fleet told Featherston are 5000 pages John Priestes suspended Meat Pack Lobbyi Is Probed By SHELIA PAYTON And FRED TASKER Htrild Staff Writtr State Attorney Richard Gerstein said Monday that his office is investigating possible violations of laws on unauthorized compensation bribery conflict of interest and government in the sunshine The probe stems from the last-minute passage in June by Metro commissioners of ordinances weakening the clear-packaging law for meat Officials of Diamond International developers of a fiber meat tray that allows 70 per cent visibility of the meat said in sworn statements that prior to the commission vote on the ordinances the firm hired a Coral Gables attorney recommended by Metro Commissioner Harvey Reiseman THE LAWYER Frank Guilford Jr reportedly was given a $5000 retainer fee for his work in presenting case to the Metro Commission which then voted 7-2 to amend its meat packaging law Guilford was one of several lawyers Reiseman said he recommended for Diamond officials after the officials had been referred to him by Metro Commissioner A (Sonny) Dansyear Guilford was out of town Monday and could not be reached for comment Dansyear said Monday that he met Diamond sales manager Donald Voss when the two of them were invited to dinner at the Europa Restaurant on Coral Way by local marketing consultant Nicholas Ajhar Ajhar does con lting work for The Miami Herald and The Miami News but is on six leave of absence now while serving on the Dade Grand Jury he said just went to listen and see what they (Diamond) Dansyear said of testimony but yet to give up the FEATHERSTON was convicted along with Willie Harris former chairman of BAMM John Clytus an author translater and minister of education and brothers Eddie and Gary Slaughter of plotting to burn delapidated Dorsey Junior High School in May 1970 to prevent it from re-opening for classes Gary Mitts a former BAMM member-tumed-in-former told the jury of whites and two blacks earlier in the trial that Clytus Harris and the Slaughter brothers hurled six home-made molotov cocktails at the school Featherston a 1970 candi- Steve Clark cites unity date for Florida lieutenant governor was charged with helping plan the firebombing teaching BAMM members to make the beer bottle bombs and supplying the group with a rifle the night of the burning THE SAME case was heard in Criminal Court once before but ended in a hung jury on May 5 after eight weeks of courtroom proceedings Featherston who already is serving a five-year federal term for teaching the use of incendiary devices and six years for the firebombing of an Allapattah dime store commended Judge Sepe for his handling of the case Sepe tried this with a fairness unusual in an American he said But Featherston attacked the mob bunch in the State Office it has the money and the power and the men to do Featherston especially attacked Assistant State Attorney David Goodhart who prosecuted the case and who will resign soon to run for a Circuit Court judgeship going to be a judge some day in a hell of a lot of Featherston said the jury had found him innocent America would have been in big Goodhart retorted THE verdict read at 9:15 pm came after a 14-hour day of closing arguments and deliberations As a court clerk read the verdicts in open court one juror Susan Proctor a National Airlines stewardess wept Turn to Page 3B Col 2 Mayor Clark Files Again Ex-Engineer Opposes Him Metro Mayor Steve Clark filed for reelection Monday to the post he has held for the past two years and was joined in the race by a retired civil engineer Frank Roberts of 19510 Bel Aire Dr a newcomer to Dade politics who held an engineering job at Homestead Air Force Base announced his candidacy Roberts 54 said he would base his campaign on a call for a unified Dade Commission to the citizens of the community nine people in there going the way the majority want them to I Clark said that Metro in the past 18 months has made much progress the chaos and controversy that has usually accompanied change in the He said he wants to continue playing a major role in the development of such projects as planning mass transit and restructuring the Port Authority and operations of Jackson Memorial Hospital Jack I Green an advertising and Public relations executive and immediate past foreman of the Dade Grand Jury is the only other announced candidate for Metro mayor Husband Cracks Legal Whip Wife Beats Clock By CAROLYN JAY WRIGHT Htrild Stiff Writer business career which included singing with Bob Hope and Danny Thomas arrived on time to perform her civic duty Monday did I she said when an amused Judge Nathan read aloud her note in front of 150 fellow prospective jurors Despite her early-morning effort and admitted eagerness to serve Mrs Balaban was sent home without rendering a verdict The case assigned to Nathan was continued until Sept 11 Judge Gwynn Parker to whom she was sent next already had a jury impaneled Mrs Balaban said after two rejections in two hours think go ask my husband to take me to lunch But he probably do it" on time is not one of my Circuit Court Judge Henry Bala-ban said So when Marie his wife was subpenaed for jury duty in Circuit Judge Raymond court Monday Balaban sent a formal typed note to Nathan my wife Marie Balaban having been summoned for duty at 9 am this day fail to show up on time please in order to preserve the integrity of this court hold her in contempt will be (loing me a great favor Respectfully submitted Henry MRS BALABAN who became accustomed to sleeping late during her show- HE SAID the evening was primarily social but that the Diamond people did mention fact that this legislation December law re- Turn to Page 3B Col 1.