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SECTION Aliami Herald Local News GARDENS Friday, May 6C 27, 1977 Raindrops Keep Falling on Miami By ROBERT LISS Herald Staff Writer Thunderstorms and hail fell on Miami Thursday, and more turbulent weather is expected for the next few days, as the city inches toward a record rainfall for the month of May. With five more potentially rainy days left in May, the city now stands about 4 inches short of the 1968 record 18.54 inches. "One good rain could do it," a forecaster at Miami's National Hurricane Center said Thursday. THE HURRICANE Center received citizens' reports of pebble-sized hail at about 1 p.m. Thursday in the areas of NW 32nd Avenue and 45th Street and NW 37th Street and 22nd Avenue.

Storm-related equipment failure caused about a dozen scattered power outages in Dade County Thursday evening, Florida Power Light Co. reported. About 100 households were affected by blackouts of as long as about an hour, a company spokesman said. The precipitation, forecasters CHARLES WHITED Area's Growth Just Won't Quit We were discussing population growth. If John DeGrove were a less optimistic sort his predictions would chill your spine.

As it is, one Shockers a strong sense of future "Growth pressures are going to be strong for the next 10 to 15 years along the Gold Coast," he was saying. "There is no way the population can't double. We'll have six million people in southeast Florida by the year 2000." That's another three million on top of what we have now, flushing water, jamming transportation facilities, burning electricity, going into hospitals and all the rest. BUT DeGROVE thinks we can handle it. He talks of expanded political sophistication to enforce enlightened land and management.

He points abundant resources, water and the happy results of regional management of its storage and flow. He says, buoyantly, "We're getting our act together." Dr. DeGrove has an inside view. He is a fifth-generation Floridian who has seen, in his own lifetime, the people multiply, the waters and air polluted, the fish and wildlife dwindle. He laments the passing of sand dunes and the march of what he calls "sluburbia." Today he is also director of the Joint Center for Environmental and Urban Problems.

This is a thinkof applied research in urban development by Florida Atlantic and Florida International universities, anticipating tomorrow. IN EFFECT, we'll be dismantling the old, building the new. "What's the next Gold Coast going to be like?" he mused. "We can't take pride in the one we've been building up to now. It's peanut-butter development: spreading a thin layer over a lot of land; or a thick layer of highrises, which is even worse." Tomorrow's urban South Florida will be something else.

In theory, more and more of us will live and work in clusters of habitat-recreation-shopping, called "planned unit developments." Major planning, now generally countywide in scope, will shift to the regional level. This will be especially of water resources and transportation. Said DeGrove: "We are roughly a 75-mile urban strip along the Gold Coast. Transportation thus is a regional question. You can't confine mass transit, for example, to Dade County alone." AT THIS point, I tossed in a clinker.

Our talk, after all, followed by a week the latest vast power blackout of the southern Florida peninsula. My own sense of energy dependence had been sensitized further by fuel-wary men such as Dr. George Alexandrakis, physics chairman at the University of Miami, who had told me: "This is probably just a taste of things to come." But barring catastrophe, growth is inevitable. change will be profound in way we live. Althen ready the once-sacred rights of private property are giving way to the larger necessities.

Growth and change. And one of the major changes may well be required in our economic base. Where will the jobs come from to support a doubled population? "We've got to have good, clean energy. Up to now we've depended too heavily on construction. That can't last forever.

"We've got to come to some point where we stop building like mad." COMICS 8C PERFECT said, was caused by a low-pressure system in the upper atmosphere over North Florida and Georgia. That system is contributing to a pattern of afternoon and evening thundershowers that should continue for the next few days. The system is causing southwest winds, which direct showers formed the interior of the peninsula drift to the east. over, ONLY .15 inch of rain were recorded at Miami International Airport Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The forecast for Miami and vicinity today is for considerable cloudiness and warm temperature, with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers likely.

Highs will be in the mid to upper 80s this afternoon. The low temperature this morning was expected to be in the low 70s. Winds will be variable at 10 miles an hour or less, except strong and gusty near, thunderstorms. Seas will feet or less, with Biscayne Bay waters smooth to a light chop. JOSE AZEL Miami Herald Let an Umbrella Hide Your Smile on a Rainy, Rainy Day Tornillo Refuses Big Pay Hike By STEVE STRASSER Herald Staff Writer Teacher leader Pat Tornillo refused his $19,001 pay raise Thursday rather than put it to a union vote a maneuver that outflanked his opposition in the United Teachers of Dade, but does not kill his chances for a big pay raise.

"My has never been up for sale," Tornillo said, explaining why he didn't want to go along with a referendum. After Tornillo's surprise announcement, Miami High social studies teacher Richard Loerky was left holding a handful of sudden petitions for a union vote Tornillo's raise. Loerky is the leader of the anti-Tornillo forces. TORNILLO'S strategic retreat leaves his salary at $33,000 a year and returns pay raise question to UTD's Council of Representatives, the same council 340 teachers representing every Dade County school that awarded Tornillo a raise to $52,001 last week by a vote of 126-97. Tornillo said he would call another meeting of the council on June 9 to reconsider the union's salary policy.

Loerky is worried that the council will adopt a new policy giving Tornillo a similar big raise, but his group likely would be unable to organize a new petition drive and referendum on the new policy by the time school dismisses for the summer June 14. Tornillo acknowledged Thursday night that the council could offer him another raise "That's very possible," he conceded and said he would accept it. If Tornillo ultimately gets his raise and avoids a vote, Loerky self-respect has never been up for Pat Tornillo, UTD Leader said, "I think there will be massive cannot hold these people and keep them from resigning." BY THURSDAY, 113 union members had resigned over Tornillo's 58 per cent pay the union's support of Falstrand gay rights ordinance. Loerky estimated that 1,500 teachers had petitioned for the salary referendum more than enough to force one had Tornillo insisted on the raise. Tornillo has not had a pay raise in three years, but last year the UTD let him move into a unionowned two-bedroom house on Bric- Dade Aviation Pioneer Chalk Dies By ROBERT LISS Herald Staff Writer.

Arthur Burns (Pappy) Chalk, the aviation pioneer who founded Chalk's the world's oldest airline died early Thursday at the age of 88. A model of self-reliance who numbered Ernest Hemingway and the Wright Brothers among his acquaintances, Chalk was alert and active until a fall from a tree hospitalized him April 13. "After he fell out of that goddamned tree he just kept getting worse," said Dean Franklin, Chalk's 31-year partner in the Watson Islandbased airline. Chalk died at 3:30 a.m. in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.

CHALK LEAVES as a legacy to Miami the 58-year-old airline he and Franklin purposely kept small. Chalk's International Airline the smallest entry port in the United States, was bought in 1974 by Resorts International; it retains the name of the man who watched and participated as Miami aviation grew from one plane and an umbrella stand to the city's second-largest industry. JOHN PINEDA Miami Herald Staff Teachers' Union Leader Pat Tornillo salary policy to be reconsidered Arthur Chalk, born on an Illinois farm in 1889, was a young victim of wanderlust. He left home at the age of 11 and went first to St. Louis, then to Paducah, Ky.

In Paducah he was operating: a small garage when a French pilot touring the United States developed engine trouble and asked Chalk to repair plane. It was 1911, and the beginning of Chalk's aviation career. CHALK learned to fly from the pilot, daredevil flyer Tony Janus, in exchange for the repair job. He flew as an amateur for six years before coming to Miami in 1917. "Pappy set up his flying service in 1919 with just an umbrella and a desk near the bottom of Flagler Street," Mary Grace Plumridge, Chalk's niece, said.

"'He just had one plane, giving flying lessons." Chalk charged $5 for a sightseeing tour of Miami and $15 for an hour of flying lessons. In 1920 he moved the operation to Watson Island, where it is still located. Chalk and his wife, Lillie Mae, who died in 1964, built the present office in 1936, with the Eight Are Stranded As Elevators Stick Stranded Stick help of Franklin, who had moved to Miami with his own plane a year earlier. business, Franklin lot of BY THEN, the airline, was doing, a good money on both sides of the bootlegging business in those days. We didn't do any bootlegging, but we flew bootleggers to the Bahamas, and we flew revenue agents, too." Gradually the business grew until there were six Grumman Gooses (Chalk never referred to them as and there it stopped.

Chalk retired from the airline in 1966. He had 16,800 hours of flying in his log book and still had a valid commercial flying license at the age of 76. Chalk survived by his neice, Mary Plumridge, of Miami; a stepson, Richard Wells, also of Miami; a brother, Robert, of Little Rock, and two nephews, Ralph and Richard Duggin, both of Miami. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Bess Combs and Son Funeral Home, 10936 NE Sixth Ave.

Entombment will be at Wood-. lawn Park Mausoleum, preceding the service. kell Avenue and live there rentfree. The union also gives him a car to drive, an expense account and a $200,000 life insurance policy with a $3,000 annual premium. If Tornillo dies, the gets half the "key man" insurance benefits and Tornillo's family the other half.

a press conference Thursday, Tornillo said he was rejecting his own pay raise so that the controversy would not overshadow educational financing battles in the Legislature and upcoming collective bargaining negotiations between the union and the School Board. THE POLICY governing Tornil- lo's raise had been to give him a salary equal to that of Dade Superintendent Johnny Jones plus one dollar SO that Tornillo would have the same stature as Jones at the bargaining table. Tornillo dismissed the reasoning of some teachers that he should be awarded only a 13 per raise, the same as he recently negoticent, ated for teachers. Tornillo called that reasoning "naively simplistic." "In terms of demands upon time, scope of responsibility, and (openness) to public criticism and personal abuse, there is no comparison" between a teacher and the union leader, Tornillo wrote in a letter to the UTD membership. Arthur B.

Chalk kept firm small Slaying Suspect Dino Longed to Be a Cop By ROBERT BORK Herald Writer AVERILL It might have been a new Hollywood disaster movie Elevator '77 as three persons were freed Thursday night after being trapped for three hours in an elevator just below the 26th floor of One Biscayne Tower. others in 'another elevator were rescued at 8:45 p.m. after being cooped up between the AVERILL lobby and first floor for an hour and a half during a building power failure. "I was beating on the elevator with my left shoe to get someone's attention, but (building personnel) kept telling us to shut up. They said, 'We're working on said Miami attorney Joseph P.

Averill. "We asked them why they didn't call the fire department, but they told us just to be Dante AVERILL and his wife were among 200 persons attending the investiture of U.S. District Court Judge William Hoveler at The Bankers Club on the 14th floor. But Joanne Holshouser, who was trapped with Averill and three others for hours, said, "We just took our shoes off, sat down and played backgammon. We couldn't hear, them doing anything.

Just every once and a while a voice would yell at us to shut up and stop banging. 'We'll be with you they said." Building and fire officials said they did not know the cause of the power outage that stalled all 18 elevators only two occupied between floors at the posh office building. The Tower lost all power at about 6. p.m., according to building officials. Immediately, the buildTurn to Page 2C Col.

1 By DOROTHY GAITER Herald Staff Writer Dante Dino the son of a businessman and former Opa-locka city commissioner, has almost everything he ever wanted, except what he most wanted to be a policeman. Obsessed with police work, he monitored the police on his radio at home and arrived at crime scenes at the same time as police officers, begging to be DINO of some assistance, police said. "He would have paid the city to let him be a policeman," said one city official. FINALLY, almost two years ago, he became a police reservist. He purchased his own uniform and was issued a badge, an identifica- Offices to Close The Memorial holiday will shut down all city, county, state and federal offices Monday but those served by Dade County, Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables and Hialeah garbage collectors will have pick-up as usual.

However, North Miami Beach garbage collectors will be up only "commercial garbage," from restaurants, hotels and other businesses. Maybe your children can do something about that, as public schools will be closed countywide. If you're planning a day-trip Monday, better get to the bank today; they're closed for the holiday, too. tion card and an official patch. He demanded that residents respect the authority that came with his long uniform.

But, at the same time, he insulted the officer in charge of the reservists and was suspended for a short time. He left the reserves after about four months to run unsuccessfully for the City Commission. But he continued to behave as though he wore a uniform, said one Opalocka police officer who asked not to be identified. "He would stop cars that had run red lights and pull them over. He would tell them he was a policeman and sometimes pulled his gun," the officer said.

Now the 31-year-old man who suddenly became obsessed with law enforcement after a string of arrests for assault and battery, vandalism, domestic quarrels and aggravated assault is Turn to Page 2C Col. 4 DINO.