The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 44

Miss Manners 2B TVRadio 4B Lively Arts 5B ram LJ The Miami Herald SectiorjB Wednesday April 10 1985 JS7 PACE shows gig private music biz The caller a supplier of sound equipment complains that PACE is putting him out of business PACE or Performing Arts for Community and Education is the nonprofit group that puts on 1000 concerts a year from the Big Orange festival to bluegrass pickers in parks to a single banjo player in an elementary school The caller complains that PACE is now doing paid gigs in shopping centers gigs he used to get tax-supported and they're competing with private industry" PACE spokesman Eva Reich says her organization is fighting for its life Ten years ago PACE got two-thirds of its $15 million annual from government and foundations Now only 10 percent corporate support is terrible in this So PACE must play shopping centers to support its free concerts whole reason PACE she says to give an audience to the arts and the arts to the Paradise revisited MAKEMYDff This is the Butterfly bringing to your attention the plight of the tender fragile sometimes endangered creature Remember this the next time you squash a caterpillar only people would stop killing every caterpillar they wishes Louise Hill director of the Dade-Monroe district of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs only people would realize that those miserable-looking little buggers turn into butterflies If only people would look around in their gardens they would see we have that many butterflies anymore because we are losing the plants they feed worry about a few leaves on your bushes Let the caterpillars gobble them up a natural pruning and you have just propagated a whole generation of Only one Florida butterfly the Schaus swallowtail of Key Largo is listed as endangered But many of the hundreds of other vari eties that live in Florida are considered under siege The gardeners are not alone in their determination to protect defenseless lepidopterans According to garden club official Eve Hannahs of Ormond beach State Rep Sam Bell D-Daytona Beach has promised to in traduce legislation that would make Please turn to Butterfly 2B i By MIKE CLARY Special to The Herald Poor butterfly Outside the giant swallowtail and the ruddy daggerwing flutter and flirt among the flowers of spring In delicate pas de deux pairs of orange-barred sulphurs gambol through the leaves of the lantana bush The angelic hairstreak and the Gulf frittilaries play in our garden like carefree children Still our flashiest flying creature faces mounting danger in South subtropical paradise There are poisonous sprays there are 1 the bulldozers of developers and there are unthinking gardeners who snip caterpillars in half with pruning shears Today however the world grows a little brighter By proclamation of Gov Bob Graham today is the Butterfly in Florida the first such day declared by any state Today some 30-000 avid gardeners get serious in efforts to raise the public consciousness about the butterfly so vulnerable and so terribly misunderstood a o0 MARCIA STAIMER DUGANMiami Herald Staff dence was a survey of 6928 young and middle-age adults conducted by researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles Survival was significantly longer among those who drank little alcohol never smoked cigarettes kept physically active maintained proper weight and slept seven or eight hours a night To see if these habits made a difference for old people as well Branch and Dr Alan Jette of Division on Aging questioned 1235 elderly Massachusetts residents about their physical activity smoking sleeping drinking and eating Then they went back five years later to see if there was any link between life style and survival Never having smoked cigarettes was the only significant factor among the elderly women and not even this seemed to make a difference for the men A Can older folks let themselves go? Poor Bill McWhirt-er His fame follows him McWhirter wrote the uh poorly received (around here anyway) Paradise story for Time in 1981 He since has been transferred to Germany but was back in Miami last weekend And that brought a slew of anonymous calls to The Herald: Paradise Lost guy is back in town he up Relax He was just vacationing Zoo goes bilingual Small miracles still happen This month three years after lawyer Robyn Greene donated the $3000 for them 10 months after County Attorney Bob Green-burg approved them nine months after County Manager Merrett Stierheim ordered it done those Spanish-language signs are going up at Metrozoo They had to be paid for privately you remember since Emmy anti-bilingual law prohibited using tax money Greene is so happy she says: they ask me for money for the rest of the zoo when built give that Bunker mentality said one Miami Beach Jewish source about The series on private clubs Five clubs in the Miami Beach area Bath Surf Indian Creek La Gorce and Bal Harbour and hardly a Jewish member among them It means he said there a single major private club in the Beach area that two-thirds of the population being Jewish can belong to Give me a break Movie critics debate whether The Care Bears Movie is really a movie or just a $4-a-head commercial If you have any doubts consider that Miami-based Florida Orthopedics Inc is introducing arm slings for broken bones in patterns: Smurfs Raggedy Ann and Care Bears Small summit If you saw Democratic US Rep Dante Fascell and aide Charles Intriago conversing intensely with a Latin gentleman at Miami International Airport Sunday the man was Leon Febres-Cordero the new president of Ecuador The three talked about the Andean hot-spot geopolitical location among the drug problems of Colombia the growing Soviet presence in Peru and the oppressive government of Bolivia Whistling in the dark Alan Rosenthal president of the slumping Tiger Bay Club writes this letter to Rosario Kennedy president of the competing (and booming) Manatee Bay Club: told me you have been attempting to start a political luncheon club similar to our 1 leading political forum A the Tiger Bay To Kennedy Rosenthal challenges her to a Rebate on a subject of her choice How about this topic: How should a club deal with fading food aging surroundings in the Dupont Plaza Hotel and the fear that luncheon speakers if they show up might outnumber the audience? Cutting remarks That new Super Cuts chain now has one of its $8 haircut shops in South Miami Just a block away a trimmery called the Haircut Co has put up a semi-permanent sign that reads: Repair $8 DAVID WALTERSMiami Herald Staff Carmen Fernandez (left) sews a coat sleeve lining at Coleman Clothes a Hialeah garment factory Following a healthy life style does not seem to help older people live longer concludes a new study that contradicts a widely held belief survived to 65 healthful practices at least in our data did not suggest a longer said Dr Laurence Branch The research conducted at Harvard University does not mean bad habits count Rather it suggests that an unhealthy life style takes its toll during youth and middle age not after people reach their 60s and beyond The results were published in the October 1984 issue of the American Journal of Public Health The notion that all people even the elderly are responsible for their own longevity has been in vogue for several years One often-cited piece of evi TODAY Best Bet WHO: Humoristentertainer Victor Borge WHEN: 8 tonight WHERE: Temple Emanu-Et 1701 Washington Ave Miami Beach HOW MUCH: CALL: 653-0450 Dade 428-0917 Broward 967-2277 Palm Beach Bracing for bores How do you deal with a boring spouse? Miss Manners 2B their suppers pray to God for having had a good day for my daily bread and for the pleasure it gives me to be with my Fernandez says Fernandez 60 has labored in the garment industry since she arrived in Miami two decades ago Until she left Cuba she had never held a job But she and her husband had three children They needed money Because she knew how to sew Fernandez thought it natural to look for work in the garment trade She has barely paused since Fernandez is not alone Today about 25000 of the 30000 people employed in garment factories in Dade County are of Cuban origin according to figures compiled by Barnett Bank Vice Chairman Carlos Arboleya in a study of the Cuban community Most of them are women Like Fernandez many have worked full time Please turn to CLOTHING 2B Sewing for Working in a clothing factory glamorous but Carmen Fernandez is content with what she calls work By ANDRES VIGLUCCI Herald Staff Writer The grandmother sews lining into coat sleeves for a living Just the sleeves 45 pairs an hour eight hours a day five days a week She has been on the sleeve detail at the garment factory six years Before that she stitched jacket sides shut every working hour for three years The job is monotonous noisy and tiring she admits But every afternoon when she gets home from work Carmen Fernandez gives thanks.