The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 109

1-BW Sports Crossword Financial Comics i Tuesday July 18 1972 0 No Down Payment Homeowners Now Say all afraid of the but we have decided trouble Mr Priestes told us we might get into going to tell the truth no matter what Mrs Mike Conroy self to lie avoided the question by saying she want to if she had made a down payment or not In a later statement Friday Mrs Norman called The Herald after Priestes left her house and in tears said she and her neighbors were telling the truth when they said they had not paid the down payments She urged The Herald to keep her second call the because of the decision of her two neighbors to chang their stories On Sunday morning Mrs Johnson and Mrs Conroy called The Herald again and said they were telling the truth in their original interview and they had not paid any down payments She urged The Herald to keep her second call the because of the decision of her two neighbors to change their stones On Sunday morning Mrs to buy one of his Mrs Conroy explained we moved into our houses and began to discover the poor construction that went into the houses we realized we getting any Mrs Norman told The Herald would have bought a VA-financed house from some other builder if we been led to believe Priestes was giving us a special Mrs Mason said PRIESTES LEARNED on Thursday that four of his customers had told The Her all be in trouble because we all signed the Mrs Norman said Priestes promised to repair the four houses and urged the three women and their husbands to call The Herald demand their names be omitted from any planned story and to say they were lying when they said they made no down payment Mrs Norman Mrs Johnson and Mrs Conroy told the Herald ON FRIDAY morning the three women said Priestes returned to their homes and stood near them as they placed a call to Herald re porter James Savage really had us shook Mrs Norman said While Priestes listened the three women asked The Herald reporter to omit their names from the upcoming story about Priestes the women said Two of the women Mrs Johnson and Mrs Conroy in response to questions recanted their parlier statements while Priestes listened and said they had actually made down payments for their houses MRS NORMAN who later said she could not bring her ald that they had bought their houses with -no down payment and had shown The Herald records indicating misrepresentation to the FHA The Herald asked him to respond to the statements At about 1 1 pm Thursday he drove to their South Miami Heights neighborhood and talked to three of the women and their husbands (A fourth couple the Masons are out of town on vacation and could not be reached by Priestes) was really upset and he shook us up He said the FBI would investigate and Chessboard Generals Ruthless War Wage By JAMES SAVAGE Herald Staff Writer Two South Dade home-owners said Sunday that builder John Priestes pressured them into recanting earlier statements that they had purchased their houses in apparent violation of federal law was standing there Friday morning pushing notes at us telling us what to say when we called The Herald" Mrs Harold Johnson of 11340 SW 203 St said Sunday all afraid of the trouble Mr Priestes told us we might get into but we have decided going to tell the truth no matter what her neighbor Mrs Mike Conroy of 11330 SW 203 St said Sunday THE LATEST statements by Mrs Johnson and Mrs Conroy means a total of four South Miami Heights home-owners now say Priestes sold them houses without requir- ing a down payment a violation of Federal Housing Administration rules and federal law Priestes and his companies are currently under suspension by FHA following an earlier Herald investigation of his dealings with FHA Priestes has denied he ever sold a house without receiving a down payment required by the FHA He also denied he applied any pressure on the four South Dade home-owners to induce them to chnge their story for The Herald Priestes declined to comment when informed by The Herald Sunday about the latest statements in the controversy Mrs Johnson and Mrs Conroy together with a third neighbor Mrs Marcus Norman had called The Herald Friday morning to change earlier statements they had given two Herald reporters IN INITIAL interviews with Herald reporters several weeks ago the three South Miami Heights neighbors plus a fourth woman Mrs Terry Mason currently out of town on vacation said they had all purchased their houses from company with no down payment The four women said they and their husbands had all signed Federal Housing Administration Receipt and Sales Agreement contracts which indicated they paid down payments ranging between $300 and $400 Priestes and representa- tives of his company also signed the sales contracts the four women said although the down payments listed on the contracts were never actually paid The FHA requires down payments under the program Priestes used to finance the home sales to insure the home buyer has an investment in his house and to discourage costly foreclosures The four South Miami Heights houses were sold in the first three months of 1971 a period in which Priestes told The Herald he was under pressure to sell houses quickly because of financing commitments DURING THAT period the FHA had temporarily suspended a subsidy program that did permit the sale of low cost houses like with no down payment Priestes said he had 120 houses to sell when the FHA decided to freeze all financing under its 235 (no down payment) program was desperate I was facing Priestes said The four South Miami Heights neighbors said they had all purchased their Priestes-built houses after answering classified ads in The Herald during the first three months of 1971 The ads offered houses for sale for money Although the ads appeared to offer a single private house for sale real estate sales office telephone num-' ber was listed IN EACH case the four South Miami Heights women said when they responded to the ad they were told by Priestes or one of his company representatives that they could buy a house with no down payment The women said they were told they were being given an opportunity to use a down payment made by a customer who had made the down payment only to forfeit his sales contract before closing the sale know we were doing anything wrong Who would think you were doing something wrong if a builder says going to let you use someone downpayment By JAY MAEDER Herald Staff Writer It is a field of black and white squares An old man and a younger one sit at opposite sides of the field marshaling their forces and peering warily into one motives Even as Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky a hemisphere away from this outdoor chess game on Miami Beach The old men play here often on these tables near the Beach Convention Hall Today it is Sunday afternoon and there are a half dozen games in progress The old man and the younger one are playing their fourth game of the afternoon The younger man has lost the first three THERE IS muttering and rumbling from the old man on several sides that idiot Fischer who does he think he is disgrace to America Mutter mutter Rumble rumble The old man and the younger one stare at their board Slam! Slam! The chessmen Staff Photo by BATTLE VAUGHAN Miami Game in Lull As Players Watch TV Fisclier-Spassky moves were magnet Visitors Laud Health Care John Priestes no comment Johnson and Mrs Conroy called The Herald again and said they were telling the truth in their original interview and they had not paid any down payments really worried about this whole thing but my husband and I are not going to lie for Mrs John-" son said apparently playing in a hermetically sealed room The Capablanca players are willing to forgive Fischer his excesses man is the greatest chess player who ever says David Brummer 27 state chess champion in 1966 can you Brummer and Henry Garcia are hunched over a board directly before the TV screen Their pieces are matched to the positions of Spassky and Fischer at a specific point in the first game International chess grandmaster Larry Evans on the air explaining the dynamics of the play look at what might have happened at this crucial says Evans Garcia frantically reassembles the board and watches intently Bishop to queen two King takes bishop! Bishop is lost! Chunga! old trick an old says Garcia Brummer shakes his head have to lose that game at he says should have taken a draw JUST A fascinating Brummer explains release all your aggressions Look at the utter horror on face when losing death dying Across town again: in the Miami Beach sunshine the old man and the younger one are going at another game fellow like says the old man should be with girls in the park rather than playing an old man chess the matter with girls the younger says on Slam! The young looks up His eyes grow dark going to get he says the LAST THING I DO Pres International Telephoto "In contrast to the situation in the US health care in China is a human right Medical Committee for Human Rights Transplanted Heads Ahead Doctor Says China Pat Murchie executive secretary of the committee which has headquarters in Chicago said: think in terms of the role of the woman The respect for people as individuals is Miss Moore added that there no regressive domination of the health-care system by the The nurse she said often has as much or more to say about patient care than the physician and is given indepen make flashing arcs in the old fingers and land noisily on the black and white squares check you says the old man Slam! check you The young hand moves like a striking snake He has saved his king again and captured a bishop to boot The young man smiles wanly he says does it amount to in the final the old man shrugs Slam! Die! You went in there you? And you died there you? the old voice rises He is grinning wickedly he cries hoarsely die die DIE DIE DIE THE OTHER side of town: a color television is broadcasting coverage of the Spas-sky-Fischer tournament at the Asociacion Fraternal La-tinoamerkano Inc where 24 members of the Capablanca Chess Club are gathered it is a game of ABC sportcaster Jim McKay is saying Fischer and Spassky are THE GROUP was often asked about the status of minorities in the United States she said and had some erroneous impressions Both Miss Fitts and James are black James commented: image of the United States to the masses at this point leaves a little bit to be James said that while the Chinese were eager to learn about American medicine from the delegation members of the group also learned from the Chinese He was particularly impressed he said with the great success the Chinese had had in reimplantation of several limbs ir wssae mmt is us 1JS 4W SY 77 YV vy 1 ij boons and we are on the right he said this is the track we will go He said he and his team in Cleveland had found that such transplants could be done if the operation was conducted at below-freezing temperatures which slowed brain activity enough to allow surgeons time to work without permanently damaging the organ Transplant specialists from all over the world attended the congress which closes today TT a vy FIUGGI Italy (UPI) Want a new head? Professor White of Cleveland says that is not an impossible question 1 all the problems are not resolved today we must we want to think of a head he told the International Transplant fifth convention transplant of a brain which until yesterday was the ultimate frontier of experimental surgery today has been he said done it with ba- I A Jar NK Crooks Turn Cooks In 10 Short Weeks dent authority to make decisions JAMES SAID only time and the size of the delegation presented any barriers to what they could see warmth and hospitality were Miss Fitts interjected Miss Fitts a community coordinator for Allegheny General Hospital said the Chinese always asked the group for criticisms of the system It was evident she said that the Chinese are self-crit-ical and they were frank to admit when they did not know the answer to a question finish up their jail sentences Some have eventually been paroled with at least a probable profession other than crime The small-scale operation in El Paso is a reaction to rising voices across the nation demanding penal reform so that convicted criminals can be molded into productive citizens rather than be bred into more hardened cases JOSE GOMEZ is an example To understand the cooks and bakers school one has to look at it through his eyes the eyes of a man who at 38 has spent most of his adult life behind bars Once an addict Gomez has been arrested twice for heroin possession He is awaiting sentencing on an attempted-burglary charge He has fears of being termed as a and being sentenced to life under Texas law WHEN 40 persons were sought (more than 20 usually drop out during the course) for a 10-week class that recently finished Gomez signed np By McDANIEL Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) Mainland China has a health care system is unsurpassed by any nonindustrial an American delegation just back from the country has reported And some members of the said they were impressed by against in the Chinese medical profession The delegation comprised of 16 health workers representing the Medical Committee for Human Rights reported traveling 3500 miles in 22 days visiting health care facilities in 11 Chinese cities and rural areas They reported interviewing more than 200 health farm and factory workers THE GROUP said in a formal statement: the end of the tour it was clear that new society has developed a health care system which is unsurpassed by any nonindustrial nation which excels the US in the delivery of primary health care and which has the potential for becoming the best in the world more the statement continued the pervasive evidence that health care was only one element of contemporary profound commitment to build a socialist society which would Benefit all its contrast to the situation in the the statement said care in China is a human right accessible to the 750 million Chinese whether living in rural areas or in the The American delegafon was made up of nurses physicians and other health-care workers and students from around the United States The Medical Committee for Human Rights is a national organization of health workers and consumers described as being in struggle to make health care a human right for FOUR MEMBER? of the 5V delegation which returned to the United States Friday night appeared at a news conference They said the hospitals have less sophisticated equipment than those in the United States and the medical education system is in flux But Katherine Fitts of Pittsburgh national vice chairman of the committee said the equipment is adequate for most purposes and added that the and distribution of care are the best any country is Andrew James of Houston a candidate for a doctoral degree in public health administration at the University of Texas said that ladders can be solidified and once the education system has stabilized ANN MOORE a nursing instructor at the University of Illinois Chicago vice chairman of the delegation said drug therapy combines herbal medicine and Western medicines She described as spectacular some of the results from herbal treatment She and the others found the results obtained with the use of acupuncture anesthesia even in major surgery The group said it witnessed a major stomach operation in which the patient ate an orange during surgery then walked from the operating table to his room They also reported watching a thyroid operation with acupuncture anesthesia performed by a nurse who had obtained physician status THERE IS no sex definition of roles the four said They reported that 60 to 70 per cent of dentists and about 40 per cent of physicians are women and again we were all taken aback by the nondiscrimination against Miss Moore said By BRAD COOPER Unittd Press International Writtr EL PASO Tex A waiter 'came over to see what Jose Gomez wanted for lunch He ordered prime rib It came with buttered peas and mashed potatoes Freshly baked bread was on the table and there was chocolate cream pie for dessert The scene was not a posh restaurant It was the seventh floor of the El Paso County Jail and Jose Gomez is a prisoner Law officers are trying to turn crooks into cooks THE EL PASO County Sheriffs Cooks and Bakers School is a pilot penal rehabilitation program From October 1970 to May 1972 it operated on a $101250 grant from the Justice Department When the program started in 1970 $58500 was spent to remodel and equip the seventh floor of the jail in order to transform it into a kitchen classroom Since the start of the program 85 inmates 16 to 18 at a time have completed 4Vhe training and gone on to ki jr Press International Telephoto MUDSLIDE WIPED OUT a stretch of Highway -3 near Azusa Calif three years ago Now to lessen the chance that it will ever happen again the state is installing over 2000 feet of corrugated pipe as it prepares for the reopening The pipe is designed to be watertight which will avoid exfiltration a major cause of erosion and the mudslides that develop rom it Jose Gomez I'J Display His Cake at ll Faso County 'ail.