The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 19

Comic Dictionary BREAKFAST The meal during which the husband reads while his wife is talking or the wife talks while her husband is reading iKiamx Hetrali Section mjje Tuesday July 18 1972 Complete State News Shevin OKs Arming Off-Duty Police CHARLES WHITED Backtracks on Tougher Billing as the officer and his Shevin said in a three-page opinion for Chief Pomerance which he said the earlier ruling Shevin said this opinion is backed up by general law which exempts police officers from firearms licensing requirements acting at any time within the scope or course of their official duties or when acting at any time in the line of or performance of Since the statute has not TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Reacting to police protests and general law Attorney General Robert Shevin quickly backtracked Monday on an opinion that narrowly limited times when off-duty law officers can carry concealed weapons Shevin rushed out a new ruling that said off-duty policemen can take a concealed weapon anywhere in Florida including a vacation if their superior orders it He frankly told a news been construed by the courts he added he intends to ask the 1973 Legislature to reflect the legislative intent that concealed weapons may be carried anywhere in Florida during off-duty He also said that no special bond is required if a city canies liability insurance which adequately protects the public and the municipality against actions of its police otticers while off duty conference that he a when he interpreted a new law July 6 as allowing off-duty officers to carry concealed guns out of their home territory only when in of a law breaker or while serving process HE FAILED to consider a general law he said which upholds a practice followed by many Sheriffs and Police Chiefs which is to consider that their officers are always on duty even when off- gun would enable him to fulfill the arrest more BELIEVE that the carrying of concealed weapons during off-duty hours by police officers is not only authorized anywhere in Florida but is good policy for the safety of the public as well son Purdy and others of them tell me their best arrests are made by off-duty policemen who stumble upon a Shevin said He would have no authority as a police officer outside his own jurisdiction but Shevin said he could a arrest and having a Last Major Turkey Point Barrier duty and must be armed to react without warning Miami Police Chief Bernard Garmire requires his men to carry their guns at all times Shevin said He said he also had protests to his earlier opinion from Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance Dade County Public Safety Director Wil No Help Seen for Summer By MIKE TONER Herald 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 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 operated without undue risk to the health and safety of the 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 Fisclier Anlics A Precedent? If Bobby 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 spons 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 qway the time tossing Frisbees on the sideline as officials attempted to resolve disputes delaying the Super Bowl game Dolphins Coach Don Shula had disconnected hist 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 here" 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 Tantrums THE SUPER BOWL crisis emerged as an apparent epi-' demic of temper tantrums swept the sports world upsetting schedules and creating havoc among television sports fans Former heavyweight boxing champion Mohammed 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 fumed Nicklaus throw off my world champion Pittsburg 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 you honor We used to have a wonderful marriage sit silently all Veekend staring at the TV Now all he does is talk talk ialk driving me out of aiy THE BELEAGUERED 'Siper Bowl has been snarled Var months amid skirmishes ver a playing site (the game as finally moved to An-tnorage when other cities revised to meet demands that they put up additional guarantied prize money) and bit- ter exchanges between the teams On the eve of the scheduled kickoff the game had to be postponed when Shula arid 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 the 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 complained that Super Bowl organizers seemed and provoke lelibeiately Photo by HENRY McBRIDE pressway bridge The truck was headed south on 27th Ave shortly after noon when it got to the overpass at 1 67th St and tried to go under it Truck buckled the crankcase was split open and oil had to be cleaned from the street along with the remains of the truck Low Bridge A 15 feet 2 inch truck with crane tried to go under a 14 feet 5 inch overpass today totaling the truck injuring the driver and cracking the Palmetto Ex- No Camping Pot-Smoking Rule Sought for Convention Park during the Democratic Convention State Republican Chairman (Tommy) Thomas said he felt the problems of coping with non-delegates might be better handled if left in the hands of the police Rocky Pomerance is better qualified than I am and I have a lot of confidence in his Thomas said He added his personal view is that is sometimes better to bend (the law) a little to achieve the ultimate objective than not to give at But Thomas said the state committee interfere with the Dade action Robert Knowles coordinator for the Republican National Convention Aug 21-23 said the issue of encampments and non-delegates should be decided by local authorities POSITION is simply that we are guests in the community and should not be foisting our opinion not trying to give advice to the Sunset Fishing This castnet fisherman makes one last cast into Tampa Bay before the sun sets and brings to end another day Late afternoon brings hundreds of such fishermen out to the shallows of the bay to try their luck Deltona Denies Violations TALLAHASSEE (UPI) An attorney for the Deltona Corp told a House subcommittee Monday that Cabinet aides could not have concealed illegal Marco Island dredging and filling from their bosses simply because no such violations ever occurred The lawyer Jack Peeples angrily denounced a bulky report by former Natural Resources Committee staff director Edward Burgess Jr That report contended that the Cabinet had been hoQd-winked into trading off some state-owned land in exchange for preservation of another aiea on the Marco Island property without knowing of allegedly illegal dredging and filling that occurred in the area Marie Dalai city Knowles explained responsibility is inside the convention hall We look to law enforcement people to handle situations outside the Rosasco said Dade Republicans are concerned about youthful demonstrators being allowed to camp in Flamingo Park as they did during the Democratic Convention them assemble there gives them added opportunity to plan and he said they are kept dispersed they won't be such a He warned that hardcore leaders of the demonstrators would like to stage another like they did in Washington Rosasco said Attorney Edward Corlett is handlin' issue for the Dade Republicans CORLETT was out of the country Monday but one of his partners William Merritt said no final decision has Turn to Page 2B Col 4 did I she said when an amused Judge Nathan read aloud her note in front of 150 fellow veniremen When asked what time his wife normally gets up Bala-ban replied nothing normal about Despite her eagerness and early morning effort Mrs Balaban was sent home without serving The rape case assigned to Nathan was continued to Sept 11 and Judge Gwynn Parker to whom she was sent next' already had a jury impaneled By JOHN McDERMOTT Herald Political Writer A legal move to block nondelegate demonstrators from camping in Flamingo Park during the Republican Convention and requiring police to act against pot smokers and other violators was reported the making Monday by Dade Republicans Robert Rosasco county GOP chairman said the Miami attorneys had been instructed to take whatever action is necessary to ensure that laws are enforced and no special treatment is provided for yippies zippies and other demonstrators position is that everyone delegate and non-delegate be treated equally under the he said the Democratic Convention there was only lip service given to this equal treatment RASASCO SAID he was particularly concerned about how nudity pot-smoking public fornification and other violations of health ordinances had been permitted especially in Flamingo the integrity of this court hold her in the note said will be doing me a great favor Respectfully submitted Henry JUDGE BALABAN who retires from the bench in January is a notorious stickler for punctuality and an early riser who arrives for work at 7 am On the door to his private chambers is a gruesome lithographic drawing of a man being hanged Beneath it is the inscription: is the Court Intercession Sought Vets Seek Askew Help TALLAHASSEE (AP) custody in Tallahassee A delegation of Vietnam other arrested but later re-Veterans Against the War leased on bond in Miami and will ask Gov Reubin Askew two are still at large Tuesday to use his influence --Associated Press Wirepftoto Judge Balaban tent out note Wife on Time for Contempt Warning to lower bonds for three members in jail on conspiracy charges a spokesman said Monday Mike Oliver WAW coordinator from San Francisco said the group was unable to raise the $75000 necessary to free the three being held in Tallahassee on conspiracy charges and it was hoped Askew could help A federal grand jury indicted six WAW uembers here Friday on charges of conspiring to disrupt the Republican National Convention with automatic rifles and firebombs THREE WERE taken into fate of all who come To emphasize his penchant Balaban has also pasted a quote from Napoleon next to the scaffold reason I beat the the French emperor says that they understand the value of five minutes" MRS BALABAN who became too accustomed to sleeping late during a show-business career which included singing stints with Bob Hope and Danny Thomas arrived on time to perform her civic duty By CAROLYN JAY WRIGHT Herald Staff Writer on time is not one of my said Circuit Court Judge Henry Balaban So when Marie his exshowgirl wife was subpe-naed 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.