The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 719

DEATHS4B FLORIDA NEWS6B BRO Lookout facing execution never fired during Carol City massacre Charles Whited Death Row inmate By JAY DUCASSI 1 1 1 raid StaI Writer Beauford James White is a violent man a rapist a robber a thief But he never killed anyone He is scheduled to die Wednesday in the electric chair The execution would be a first for Florida: White 41 could die because he was in the same room gun in hand when two buddies shot eight people in the back of the head execution-style in a Carol City home 10 years ago says David Goodhart the law says a person who commits a crime in which someone dies even if unintentionally can be convicted of first-degree murder The penalty life in prison or death is then up to the judge with a recommendation from the jury Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 the state has only executed those who have killed someone or ordered that someone be killed Should White die because he was part of a robbery team that turned killer even if he Please turn to EXECUTION 4B lawyer who defended White at trial seem proper or logical that he should be sentenced to death" Death is what White deserves says assistant state attorney David Waksman who made the same argument in 1983 when White asked for clemency White was standing by the door with a gun in his hand to prevent people from running away while his friends were going around blowing heads Waksman said just as responsible for the deaths as the guys who pulled the Like a chairman of the board representatives of the Secret ALDIAZ Miami Herald Stall Monsignor Jude discusses plan for papal visit with Service and Miami Police Department Can we survive sausage-tainted national image? a dirty rotten thankless job fighting crime on the Metrorail But somebody's got to do it You thought the drug scandals were bad the bodies stuffed in car trunks and all those Miami cops busted for hustling dope and extortion Hah Out there where the commuters ride day after day in their gleaming squeaky clean trains with the polished floors and the stainless steel and shining windows other dastardly crimes are taking place every day crimes you even think about Like people sneaking snacks and dropping crumbs The latest scandal is a case in point The New York Times will have a field day with this one 1 can visualize the lurid headlines- Miami Save Itself from Vienna Sausage The Beacon Council will have to call another secret meeting The tourism people will have to spend another five or six million repairing our image which is gone to hell again 7 ou know the story of course God every bodv knows it by now Police i File No 87-73767: The Case of the Gummed Vienna Sausage Another seamy tale of South Florida crime amok July 28 1987 It was a hot Tuesday night in Miami Plainclothes detectives Judith Friedman and Ronaldo Dignazio were working the evening shift on Metrorail security The boss was Sgt John Carrel a dull job riding trains back and forth back and forth back and forth back and forth back and for A large family group subject Tobia Jinks her two children and visiting relatives from out of town boarded the last train from Dadeland on their way home They had dinner One small subject later identified as Quinton Jinks age 18 months was restless and fretful cutting teeth Suddenly the horrified detectives saw Tobia Jinks open a can of Vienna sausage remove one and FEED IT TO THE AFOREMENTIONED SUBJECT QUINTON JINKS It is against the law to eat smoke or drink on a Metrorail train Alertly Friedman and Dignazio sprang to action what you do in crisis: Move in cover your partner make your collar They informed Tobia Jinks that she had broken the law and before she could pluck another sausage from the can brandished handcuffs and placed her under arrest They then escorted her uncuffed off the train to a holding room The misdemeanor is punishable by up to 60 days jail and a $500 fine As a first offender Jinks can go into a pre-trial correctional program costing $125 not familiar with this program but I assume it consists of intensive rehabilitative instruction on the evils of feeding Vienna sausage to anyone on a noving train in Dade County She faces ariaign-ment this week The rationale of the law as articulated by Sgt Carrel is that we must keep our trains clean "Otherwise New York The Nobly stated Truly we must ponder this as citizens considering the larger consequences of the criminal act within the context of the society at large To wit: If we let this criminal Quinton Jinks and his co-conspirating mother Tobia get away with it what then? Eh? We could have people gorging themselves with food on the Metrorail trains bringing on picnic baskets of goodies Hot dogs with chili sauce and mustard Arroz con polio Pizza Pork chops Ice cream cones melting down and dripping on the seats have chaos organized gangs of outlaw eaters flaunting authority messing up our trains smearing grubby finger marks on the windows tracking stuff in and out Is this the image we want to project to the world? Do we want tourists whispering among themselves go to Miami the trains are full of pickle Of course not! Thank heaven for the transit police If it for that thin blue line be up to our keesters in Vienna sausage takes command Beauford James White: Made sure no one got away Boating accident kills one trip ends in tragedy By PATRICK MAY Herald Stuff IV rilcr Members of the Latin Builders Association a powerful lobbying group in Miami cut short their fishing tournament in Bimini Saturday after one man was killed and two others hospitalized in a freak boating accident the previous evening Witnesses said a speedboat traveling more than 50 miles per hour through the Bimini harbor ran over an 11 -foot Boston Whaler with four people either in it or snorkeling nearby The accident severed the arm of 20-vear-old Efrain Morera of 1190 33rd St in Hialeah He died from loss of blood 45 minutes later in a truck en route to an island clinic a half-mile away said Michael Kaboth general manager of the famous Big Game Fishing Club body was to be flown to Nassau Saturday for an autopsy before authorities would release it to family members Also injured in the 745 incident was Derek Barba 16 of 13850 SW 18th St Kaboth said he was told that Barba and Morera were cousins Barba was taken by Coast Guard helicopter to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was listed in critical condition Saturday night in an intensive care unit said Sam Cratis administrator on duty Also flown to Jackson 30 minutes later was stepfather Fernando Alvarez 51 Cratis said He suffered an apparent heart attack on shore when he saw how badly his stepson had been injured Kaboth said Alvarez was held for observation in emergency room Saturday and then admitted to the hospital No charges had been filed Saturday against the driver of Please turn to ACCIDENT 2B highest ranking black employee Many blacks came to the Monday night commission meeting to protest the suspension They said Grant was discriminated against and that his case highlights the need for a new election system Assistant City Manager Peter Horton suspended Grant for 20 days and has said he will ask the City Commission to fire Grant if Grant resign Horton said Grant violated the ethics code in allowing misleading postal dates to be put on federal grant applications filed past their deadlines He also said Grant may have created a conflict of interest by accepting a position as president of a radio station which would Please turn to POLITICS 2B Strong-willed parish priest directs plans for papal visit By DAVE VON DREHLE Herald Staff IV nter The next-to-last meeting of the papal visit coordinators is stalled not over security road closings or million-dollar budgets but over the question of a scrawny tree blocking the view from a press platform Father LaC-erra wants to save it Father Mulderry says move it or cut it down The debate has raged for six months Now three weeks before the arrival decision time Monsignor Jude renders a verdict: be better growing And so preparations pro ceed for Event of the Decade the visit of Pope John Paul II An event remarkable not simply for its scope and prominence but also because its success or failure is the hands of a few priests Early on some feared disaster They pictured committee meetings mired in musings on consubstantiation and the Ni-cean Council of 325 A But now the smart money is backing the priests while tree debates notwithstanding the last pieces of the project drop into place And this is due in large measure Please turn to PRIESTS 2B Most of his days begin with celebrating 6:30 am Mass at Epiphany Church in South Miami Key West blacks start push for political clout The renewed interest in single-member districts was sparked by anger last week over the suspension of Roy Grant Key highest ranking black employee By SUSAN ORNSTEIN Herald Stull IV rile Upset by what they see as a pattern of discrimination and indifference toward them by city government many Key West blacks are reviving the years-old call for single-member voting districts do we need single-member Charles Major Sr asked you get a black in office without it? that simple Though Major himself is a candidate in the fall City Commission races he and many other blacks said this week that a black has a chance in Key West of making it onto the historically lily-white commission It has happened only once recent memory: Lang Milian the owner of Grocery on Whitehead and alive and candidate must live in the district he represents though he is elected at-large In the second which would give blacks concentrated in Bahama Village the best chance of getting a black representative the candidate must live in his district and would be elected exclusively by those residing in the district The renewed interest in single-member districts was sparked by anger last week over the suspension of Roy Grant the federal programs director and the Virginia streets served from 1971 to 1975 With candidates elected at large throughout the city the voting strength of the black minority is diluted said Emery Major Charles son and the head of Operation Justice a local group dedicated to fighting discrimination Either of two methods of single-member districting would be preferable to the at-large system Emery Major said In the first single-member system the proud Overtown is Little Havana fans cheer US effort at Pan Am Games By REINALDO RAMOS Herald Stall Writer In the heart of Little Havana at a corner bar inside the venerable Centro Vasco it was much more than a Saturday afternoon baseball game Technically it was the United States against Cuba for the gold medal of the Pan American Games in reality it is much said Edmundo Robaina see it as a game between democracy and communism For almost five hours about 60 people ate drank and cheered as the "freedom-loving fought co munista The game was an emotional roller coaster USA 2-0 Cuba 5-2 USA 8-5 Tied 8-8 USA 9-8 Cuba 10-9 And finally after more than 20 base hits by both teams and an hour-long rain delay it finished Please turn to GAME5B 10 and Chenika Tom Acpo 4 all had a great time Saturday better than having a peg where there is lots of music and people dancing said Angel Ann-Marie Adker cultural association president said it was necessary to form the group to the pride in our younger Pride is something that was beginning to disappear from Overtown Adker said a person has pnde within themselves they are easier to educate" family has lived in Overtown since 1910 She has seen a deterioration that to divide a community that was once one family" Adker also encouraged residents to vote in local elections Before the close of party Elizabeth Washington was crowned Senior Overtown name was submitted to the association by her 13-year-old granddaughter Tashimba Andrews In her entry letter she wrote: "My grandmother was born Overtown raised Overtown and she has raised her family Overtown has taught me that not where you live the love and unity that a family has that makes them survive even in By STEVE ROTHAUS Herald Stull riter Overtown is a community divided by expressways Metrorail and broken dreams Saturday 500 residents got together to remind the rest of Miami that is still alive" An all-day festival at Theodore Gibson Park 401 NW 12th St attracted people who have lived in Overtown all their lives And it served as a magnet to draw back many who were born there but have moved away The festival used to be called is coming said Ron Lopez coordinator of the Overtown Cultural Arts Association sounds kind of nebulous Like half-dead and with one foot on a banana peel" Lopez said This year the name was changed to is still alive One of the cultural goals is to bring families to Gibson Park "There are nine beautiful acres here a shame nobody uses the said Lopez Angel Wildwood 5 plays in the park "every day every single day" She and her friends Kern McCloud Rhonda Washington bounces nephew Frank Sands at Theodore Gibson Park.