The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 117

I '1 4 CLASSIFIED7BR ANOTHER LOOK2BR FOR YOUR INFORMATION6BR DEATHS6BR Monday April 11 1988 The Miami Herald Section BR BEKS i Outlaw on tape: Big talk little action :1 1 i tells of scars from life gangs on their own turf just out here playing with the Devil Disciples and the Dirty Nolan said laughing at his own powerlessness got surrounded Arizona is now an Outlaw state" Nolan and his co-defendants chuckled at some of the profane conversations as did the jurors who finally got to hear from the man at the center of the Outlaws trial after listening to detectives and a series of reformed for the first two months of the six-month trial in Fort Lauderdale Charges against Nolan include murder extortion kidnapping and prostitution Defense attorneys have unsuccessfully battled to get the tapes thrown out arguing they are irrelevant One conversation was especially incrimi- Please turn to OUTLAW 2BR By LINDA ROBERTSON Herald Staff Writer The voice on the tapes is a folksy bass Jim" Nolan spouts obscenities gossips about his buddies on Death Row and brags about his days as an Outlaw Motorcycle Club president But beneath the bravado jurors in the racketeering trial of six Outlaws heard the words of a lonely leader exiled from his South Florida headquarters cut off from the Outlaw nation and paroled to Tucson Hell's Angels territory Government prosecutors are using the 150 tapes played in federal court last week in an attempt to show that Nolan was still plotting with his club brothers long after he was ordered to stop and to show his involvement in prostitution and narcotics trafficking The conversations reveal a general without his troops trying not to ruffle rival enjoyed a lot of the good times I had down she said flipping through club photo albums and laughing at a picture of herself posed half-naked liked the club and a lot of the brothers I mind Jim as a person but he knows I like the Under cross-examination Wahler did not waver when she recalled Nolan's brutality She said he once hit her with chairs and punched her in the face his skull ring left a scar under her right eye She became an expert at repairing nosebleeds and cuts was terrified of him I have time to resent she said was scared to death of Please turn to INFORMER 2BR By LINDA ROBERTSON Herald Staff Writer Tammy Wahler looked at the man she accused of breaking two chairs over her head and smiled The accused James Jim" Nolan winked back The exchange between Wahler who now lives under the shield of the witness protection program and Nolan indicted for murder extortion kidnapping and prostitution was one of the strangest in the strange trial of the Outlaws Wahler 29 a former and an important informer for the government seemed to have mixed feelings about testifying in federal court against her ex-husband and his South Florida chapter brothers Jim Nolan have any pull at all anymore Convention rMinivnrnnn ubb 4 1 A 1 4 i negotiators ask for time Officials are upbeat despite some delays By NEELY TUCKER Herald Staff Writer Final contracts are due Tuesday for Broward $46 million convention center at Port Everglades but negotiators plan to ask county officials today for a two-week extension That would mean ground-breaking at the 26-acre site will be delayed But an official of Northport Venture Associates the company building the convention center said Sunday he is hopeful the center still will open in 1991 as planned wanted to get started late this year but I must admit time has moved said Richard Mooney project director for Northport which also is building a $200 million complex filled with dozens of upscale shops two hotels and an office building adjoining the convention center Mooney who formerly headed the Fort Lauder-dale-Hollywood International Airport expansion said it was possible the convention center might be able to be built on a He said a project review in the next six weeks would show if the center could still meet its scheduled 1991 opening The request for an extension in signing the contract will be sent to county commissioners Tuesday the day county officials had hoped to sign off on the $250 million private and public project designed to boost $17 billion-a-year tourism industry Though several construction and environmental questions remain unanswered Mooney port and county leaders say the contract is all but final finished said Phyllis Korab an assistant county administrator just needs a few days to look things But the project still faces some hurdles The site has yet to be approved by the South Florida Regional Planning Council A builder of a 2500-space parking garage has not been selected port officials are considering at least one other bid besides to build the garage now estimated at $144 million The port has yet to receive legislative approval to lease a waterfront site though that approval is expected Owen Beitsch a manager with Laventhol and Horwath the project consultants said work is on schedule so far $46-million project has innumerable twists and Beitsch said kind of delay at all unusual just a matter now of how fine you can sharpen your Korab said a final contract would be ready for county commissioners April 19 Mary McCahill stands before a Birthday for Ethel one of the works in a museum she helped build For art patron a display of affection 130 toast She moved to Fort Lauderdale from Madison Wis in 1964 a widow seeking a new life With a background of having helped start the Tucson Museum of Art in Arizona in the 1940s she gravitated to the Fort Lauderdale Art Center The Art Center the Museum of predecessor at 625 Las Olas Blvd was sorely in need of space and renovation She joined its board of trustees in 1967 and rose to its presidency by 1969 Current and past museum officials say McCahill was instrumental first Please turn to MUSEUM 2BR "She built a museum from said George Bolge executive director of the museum The praise left McCahill overwhelmed absolutely she said can face adversity very well But just a wreck People are wonderful The thing is I feel had more recognition than I McCahill 80 has been chairman emeritus of the museum board since -last year when she stepped down as chairman of the board She also is chairwoman of Nova University's board heaped accolades upon her for her work building the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale one of the cornerstones the foundation of the museum" said Edna Allen a Boca Raton artist who for three years was the interim director Michael Egan the board president said McCahill has will of iron A lot of people get involved with charities and good causes but very few are able to accomplish what she By DIEDTRA HENDERSON Herald Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE More than 130 crisply fashionable art patrons said thanks Sunday afternoon to Mary McCahill with a champagne brunch in a museum that began as her dream and became reality through her labor They pecked her cheeks enveloped her petite frame with hugs serenaded her with her favorite song Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries and New technology old-time religion Channel 45 exists to fill needs Up By Carolyn Mittermaier Herald Staff Writer Hundreds check out new library Imperial Point is multimedia pleaser By CAROLYN MITTERMAIER Herald Staff Writer FORT LAUDERDALE Hundreds of people were breaking a golden rule Sunday They were laughing and chatting and generally making noise during the long-awaited grand opening of the Imperial Point branch of the Broward County Library System can talk your heart out branch librarian Donna Riegel said smiling as she surveyed the curious mob milling about the $25 million library this is The branch one of 25 libraries in the county system is the last project from a $250 million bond issue voters passed a decade ago It took years for the county to work out a deal for a location that fit its budget and geographic needs The product is a 14500-square-foot library on the second story of the brand-new Imperial Square shopping plaza 5985 Federal Highway The library is a reflection of the electronic age With almost 200 compact discs 400 cassette tapes 225 videotapes and two personal computers the branch will cater to a media crowd Patrons can use Please turn to LIBRARY 3BR i Norma Widderburn 58 died Sunday morning as a fire swept her small Lauderhill home PEMBROKE PARK Tucked away in a scenic enclave off Pembroke Road is a Christian ministry quietly beaming its message to thousands of South Florida viewers The facilities owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network at 3300 Pembroke Rd go beyond a television station The ministry also includes a lakefront recreational vehicle park a program that offers food and clothing to the poor and a telephone counseling line With 13 paid employees and a legion of volunteers not-for-profit WHFT Channel 45 spreads its message from Homestead to West Palm Beach "We are very needed here Probably as much as any other city in said the Rev Charles Quinn Channel Southern-bred 62-yearold station manager see the station as an arm of the In his five years at Channel 45 Quinn has strived to make the station appeal to a wider audience by adding programs from Catholic Presbyterian and Episcopal denominations to its healthy dose of fundamental Christianity The station broadcasts such programs as Christian Life Style Magazine Jimmy Swaggart and Coral Ridge Presbyterian James Kennedy 24 hours a day "You have a particular i Fire claims vibrant matriarch said Quinn an Assemblies of God minister for 32 years like the fact that we reach out to all An illustration of success is the Rev Ricardo Castellanos of San Isidro Catholic Church in Pompano Beach Castellanos and his church started producing the program New Breed of Man at Channel 45 a year ago In that time it has gained a national audience on the Santa Ana Calif-based Trinity Broadcasting and the Catholic Network church has since begun a Spanish-language version of the program it were not because of Channel 45 we could not have a Castellanos said there has been a great difference between Catholic and non-Catholic but they have any Castellanos more comfortable with the term than show" said he has no sure way of telling the impact New Breed of Man is Please turn to STATION 3BR about 1 am Sunday by the smell of smoke Demonbrern said he ran to bedroom but her door was locked granddaughter Kinshasa Kirkwood was not home Once outside Demonbrern broke the windows to room and called out for her but there was no answer he told deputies After the flames were extinguished firefighters found body on the bedroom floor facing the door The Broward Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death accidental Officials were trying Sunday to determine Please turn to FIRE2BR By CAROLYN MITTERMAIER Herald Staff Writer LAUDERHILL Norma Widderburn danced at her wedding the night she died "She was talking about how great life is and how wonderful the future is" daughter Diana Rubin said Sunday "She would tease us about how old we were compared to how young she Hours after she got home Saturday night Widderburn 58 perished in a fire that started in the kitchen of the small home she shared with her granddaughter and a boarder The border Eddie Demonbrern 45 told Broward deputies he was awakened I.