The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 184

2DR commentary news THE MIAMI HERALD Wednesday July 16 1980 Sljc fttiami ifrralti Broward News Section Dress Rule Petition Offenses CAROL WEBER Editor ROBERT (BO) BRYAN Advertising Manager Don't Merit Swats Board Says DOUG CLIFTON Managing Editor PATRICIA REDMON Circulation Manager News: 527-8400 Circulation: 462-3000 Advertising: 527-8940 OFFICE FORT LAUDERDALE 1520 Sunrise Blvd Fort Lauderdale Fla 33304 HOLLYWOOD OFFICE 5555 Hollywood Blvd News: 987-3244 Hollywood Fla 33021 Circulation: 462-3000 Advertising: 987-3241 MAILING ADDRESS: PO BOX 14638 FORT LAUDERDALE 33302 By BRIAN RICHARDSON SUM Writer Broward County students who wear T-shirts emblazoned with four-letter words to school no longer will be rewarded with swats on the backside the School Board decided Tuesday Board members gave final approval to amend-1 ments to the schools' con- duct code that remove pad- dling as a punishment lor violating dress rules The board also forbade paddling students who circulate petitions without informing their principals I think is absolutely absurd for high school said Board Member Patsy Ceros-Living- CEROS- ston who introduced the LIVINGSTON amendments The conduct code applies to all public school students Ceros-Livingston urged schools to conduct training sessions to teach guidance counselors how to deal with disruptive students without paddling them BOARD MEMBER Estella Moriarty also questioned the effectiveness of paddling older students general paddling teenagers only makes them Moriarty said Moriarty said she favored sending improperly dressed students home to change clothes The conduct-code amendments were passed late in the meeting They were among several changes the board made in the county conduct code and attendance policy Few people attended the meeting which began during a heavy thunderstorm Art Kennedy president of the Broward Classroom Association the bargaining unit left before the board considered the amendments limiting paddling Kennedy said Monday he planned to urge the board not to pass the amendments THE ATTEND ANCE-policy revisions allow students with unexcused absences during one 45-day grading period to make up the missed time and schoolwork by staying after school during the next grading period The board tentatively approved the conduct code amendments July 3 by a 3-2 vote Board Member Tom Evans who missed that meeting said before vote he favored paddling for some offenses and was afraid the amendments would outlaw it in all instances Evans decided to support the amendments when other board members convinced him they applied only to the dress code and circulating unauthorized petitions The board retained paddling as a punishment for other offenses including hitting other students But Ceros-Livingston said she understand why students who hit others should be disciplined by paddling find that very Interesting from a learning point of she said EDITORIALS Tacky Logo Issue Resolved With Tact Update California Firm Buys Channel 45 SANDPIPERS AND SANITY returned to the Broward County Commission Tuesday The sun-backed birds on the county logo squeaked by on a 4-3 vote that said less for the love of the birds than it did for the lack of love generated by their proposed successors The vote slim as it was nevertheless will save the county thousands of dollars that it -would have cost to change the logos on vehicles stationery and plaques Considering that the county manager presented the commission Tuesday with a $55 18-million budget that would raise taxes 30 per cent to provide fewer services we need to look for every savings we can It's not that residents should resent the contest to replace the county logo We must not be narrow in our Although many of us disagreed with Commissioner Fran description of the current logo as we defend to the death her right to think anything is tacky Besides good to examine our institutions now and then to see whether we can improve on them This time it was decided the competing logos were no improvement certainly not thousands of dollars worth of Improvement And it only cost $500 (first prize for the least tacky logo) to examine the possibilities Alas the hot logo issue is now resolved Now the county commissioners can turn their attention to trimming that tacky budget Marsh Resignation Was Proper Thing By CRAIG MATSUDA Hml Stall Writer WHFT-Channel 45 station has been sold to a California group that plans to offer an expanded schedule of religious broadcasting officials said Tuesday The price for WHFT sold by Le Sea Broadcasting Co to Trinity Broadcasting Co of Tustin Calif was $10 million according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) records in Washington The FCC approved the sale in May But purchase won't become final until July 21 said station general manager Bob Brown LE SEA plans to use the money from the sale to improve its two religious stations in Indianapolis and South Bend Ind Brown said In Broward the station's sale will mean more religious programming said Trinity president Paul Crouch goal is to touch as many people as we can with the message of the Crouch said Channel 45 which now signs off at midnight will offer 24-hour Bible broadcasting starting July 22 he said The station also will drop all its nonreligious programming might have been several years before Le Sea could offer this extensive a level of religious Brown said TRINITY ALREADY owns television stations in the Los Angeles and Phoenix areas Crouch said Lester Sumrall a well-known television evangelist and Le Sea executive approached Trinity about purchasing Channel 45 a year ago Crouch said A purchase agreement for the station was finally reached but not without some complicated dealings Sumrall for example insisted that Trinity not be charged interest on the financing of its purchase Crouch said Sumrall whose syndicated show will continue to air on Channel 45 after the sale cited Biblical prohibitions against usury agreement calls for it to pay $3 million down and the remaining $7 million over the next eight years said Crouch ANOTHER Broward television station WKID Channel 51 was sold recently for $425 million by C-B TV Corp to Oak Television of Fort Lauderdale The deal which received FCC approval in February became final April 22 said Eugene Keys Oak senior vice president Oak Television began negotiating to buy Channel 51 in January when it started using the Pembroke Park transmitter to broadcast ON TV ON TV is an over-the-air pay television service Its subscribers get an electronic box that strengthens Channel reception and unscrambles the coded ON TV signal Nonsubscribers who turn to the station while ON TV is broadcasting get only a wavy tricolor band and a fractured snippet of ON TV programming Oak a subsidiary of the Los Angeles-based Oak Industries also offers some free broadcast service as required by the FCC HALLANDALE CITY MANAGER Aaron Marsh resigned rescinded the resignation resigned again At last word Mr Marsh will be out by early January finally resolving the conflict that had grown between him and some members of the City Commission particularly Vice Mayor Arthur Rosenberg The way things have been going the resignation is in order No city manager can work when some members of his City Commission meddle directly in the day-to-day operation of the city If commissioners had so little confidence in Mr Marsh that they felt they had to end-run him to operate the city then they should have asked him to leave long ago Crewmen Prepare the HJW Fay for Trip to Search for Titanic ship pulled out of Port Everglades early Tuesday LETTERS Rotten Ship With Titanic Mission Finally Begins Its Journey On June 6 the Sunrise City Council renewed the present contract with All Service Refuse for an additional five years The present contract still had two years to run but was renewed early lock in the present and save the residents money At the council meeting a representative of another garbage firm asked the council to table the contract until he could submit a proposal that would beat the rates charged by All Service This representative advised that the new firm already serves Tamarac and residents there pay about $1 less for condos per month and that the firm could also beat our present single-home rate of $465 per month The council initially agreed to table the contract but later In the meeting after all opposition had left Councilman Da-noff brought the contract back up for consideration Councilmen Danoff Montgomery Pearl and Shaw all voted for the existing contract What was the rush to approve a contract that still had two years to run? Why the council at least wait until the new firm had submitted a proposal for its review? If the real reason for renewing the present contract was to get the best rates for the resident it doesn't make sense that they wait two weeks to hear another proposal that promised to beat the All Service Refuse rates rotten in Sunrise The residents are again the losers Our councilmen seem to forget that they are elected representatives Next March when three council seats are up for election the residents will remember who voted for this contract The council voted in favor of All Service and against the residents MICHAEL ROONEY Woodstock Homeowners Association Sunrise crew will radio its location to Tracor Marine Inc officials at Port Everglades twice daily at 9 am and 3 pm Using sonar equipment designed for the search scientists aboard the Fay hope to pinpoint the Titanic's location by bouncing sound waves off the ocean floor Expedition leaders Jack Grimm a Texas oil tycoon and Mike Harris a Tampa filmmaker hope to photograph the Titanic and make a documentary film of the adventure Shortly after midnight on April 15 1912 the liner struck an iceberg about 380 miles off the coast of Newfoundland sending 1490 guests aboard the maiden voyage' to their graves After months of preparation and weeks of fine tuning the crew of the HJW Fay began a pilgram-age to locate the Titanic early Tuesday Led by Capt Norm Halvorsen the 175-foot research ship equipped with sophisticated sonar equipment 14 crew members and 22 scientists slipped out of Port Everglades at 12:30 am The Fay had been scheduled to depart Monday but scientists aboard the research vessel wanted a backup generator installed in case of an emergency By mid-morning the ship was reported about 70 miles due east of Fort Pierce By July 22 the crew expects to reach the North Atlantic location where the fabled luxury liner sank more than 68 years ago Linda Salt Capt secretary said the Road Rerouted for the Blimp From Evil i Good Comes set the record straight Since The Herald published my letter upholding the reality of patronage In the American political system since 1830 I have been vilified as a Lomelo stooge a lover of bosslsm and guilty of the inflammatory phrases used by Mr August May I remind my good friends Friedman Byrne and August that all bosses (including my father in his sweatshop) are devils incarnate by definition but let us remember (see World our Fathers) some good came out along with the evil from political bossism le the loaf of bread the 1 ton of coal for the desperate needy from Smith Walker Daley etc legislation established good working conditions health laws compensation unemployment insurance etc I submit the statement taken I believe from Dante made by our revered John Kenndy (he too a product of bossism) hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in crisis periods refuse to take a Those who extoll fall in that category HERMAN ROSHWALD Pompano Beach By MARILYN MILLOY HrM ItaH Wrltar Set on moving ahead with plans to accommodate the Goodyear blimp Pompano Beach city commissioners refused Tuesday to scratch a proposal to reroute NE Fifth Avenue to make room for blimp facilities At the same time commissioners sharply reprimanded the president of Sand and Spurs Stallowners Association for erroneous to the public and other stallowners about problems the rerouting would cause Plans call for rerouting NE Fifth Avenue westward beginning near NE 14th Street The road would run parallel to the Florida East Coast Railway track behind the Sand and Spurs Stable then veer efu-tward behind an arboretum to intersect with Copans Road AT THE MEETING stallowners association President Larry Clauss said commissioners violated certain provisions of a master plan for development of Pompano Beach Air Park site of both the Sand and Spurs and Goodyear facilities He noted that trees have been uprooted for aeronautical safety and a 'few scheduled for removal In the and on the south side of the stables had conservation defaced and will continue to be defaced got a desert on the east side of Fifth Avenue I facing Sand and Spurs you're going to rub salt into the wound by relocating Fifth Avenue which will then be lesac- cessible more dangerous and a longer Clauss said HE ALSO SPOKE against the planned removal of the police plstolf range which eventually will be replaced by a Goodyear administration building and hangar Mayor Emma Lou Olson scolded Clauss for making "erroneous and ridiculous She said he did not understand what was happening because he was not a Pompano resident Air Park Manager Morgan Rankin then explained: The commission never formally approved the so-called master plan which has served merely as a working model for development The Federal Aviation Authority approved use of the air pad by" the stable and pistol range many years ago with the stipulation that both could be relocated if the prop-erty was needed for aeronautical purposes Rankin said Only a handful of endangered sand pines if that many In the arboretum are scheduled for removal Rankin said The pistol range scheduled for relocation in three years under the Goodyear lease already has been included in plans for a new police facility But because it Is not known when that facility will be ready Commissioner Herb Skolnick said he disagreed with setting a three-year date for relocation For that reason he became the only commissioner to vote against the new Goodyear pact.