The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 209

BUSINESS4B DEATHS3B BRO Wednesday July 13 1988 The Miami Herald Section wr SEES light on dazzle heavy on friendliness METRORAILand Metromover will operate later than usual tonight to accommodate people attending the premiere event in Miami Arena 721 NW First St a concert by Julio Iglesias Both systems will run until midnight late enough to bring people home from the concert SIX parking lots will be open to serve people driving to the 8 show Two lots between the arena's west stairs and the Overtown Metrorail station will cost $6 The lots south of the arena cost $4 MIAMI police plan extensive security for the event There are signs off Interstate 95 and 1-395 directing cars to the arena place giv en the thoughtfulness of most of the accoutrements phone booths light fixtures food pushcarts The French-made glass block windows that line the concourse show off downtown Miami as if it were a work of art: There is just enough visual distortion to turn the silhouette into something exotic The oval-shaped arena itself with its 14491 permanent seats is a pleasing space With an 81-foot distance between floor and ceiling grid a real sense of volume The architects a huge team of consultants led by the Houston firm of Lloyd Jones Filpot chose to make the arena tall and tight the way Italian opera houses are so that the highest most distant Turn to ARENA 2B By BETH DUNLOP Herald Architecture Cntic The new Miami Arena strikes an easy balance between sensibility and style It is an affable work of architecture designed a caring fashion with a kind of civility that is often missing in sports facilities Especially in the public concourses there is a sense of polish from the sparkle of the red terraz-zo floors to the shine of the brushed stainless steel on the concession stands Almost everything about it reflects the thought that went into it the exception being the tacky white-and-orange plastic trash cans that seem out of DAN CLIFFORDS ami Herald Stall Measles cases Watch for symptoms The reddish spotty rash that characterizes measles in many minds is just one symptom of the disease One or more of the following symptoms may be included as a case moves through its early stages: Cough Red watery eyes Runny nose These symptoms may be followed by fever and a generalized rash Prompt medical attention reduces the chance of such complications as pneumonia The Dade County Health Department recommends that children older than 15 months be immunized against the disease If children are suspected of having measles or are clearly diagnosed as measles cases their parents should call the public health disease control section at 324-2413 from 8 a to 5 More information on measles is available through the Special Immunization Program at 325-2554 By RICHARD WALLACE Herald Staff Writer Public health doctors issued a measles alert Tuesday after five cases of the highly contagious potentially dangerous disease were confirmed in Dade County The cases of five sick children presented a puzzling scattershot pattern There is a case in North Dade one Central Dade one in South Dade a case on Miccosukee tribal land far West Dade and a case in which a child visiting from England spent a week in various parts of the county before returning home A sixth child briefly passed through Miami International Airport on an airliner from Colombia while traveling to New York The boy developed measles in New York but children who had been in contact with him on the plane disembarked in Miami Health officials said there were no cases reported in Broward County outbreak is receiving our serious attention and should be considered a serious threat to our young said Dr Hector Garcia acting director of the Dade County Health Department Complications of measles pneumonia among others sometimes have serious or even deadly consequences Garcia said All children older than 15 months Turn to MEASLES 3B BRIAN SMITH Miami Herald Stall A mysterious bullet hit Tom Flowers in the arm half a mile from a police practice range Stray shot may have come from co Song featuring Miami wows country charts it turns out to be one of our officers someone obviously missed the Zywotow said all on the range doing firearms practice exactly what it is Flowers had been helping remove a tree stump from Murray yard at 10 50 a when he stopped to rest He sat in a rechner on porch shaded by an aluminum roof and opened a can of soda Suddenly Flowers felt his left hand snap The force of the bullet knocked him back in the rechner been standing it might have hit me in the he said be here Chinners called paramedics who cleaned the wound and sent him to Jackson Memorial Hospital Doctors took X-rays saw no bullet bandaged him and sent him home Metro homicide detectives said they found the bullet on porch at 2024 NW 111th St The police range is at 1701 NW 103rd St it was not a intentional situation from any officer if it did come from the said one of those unfortunate incidents Thank God the man was not seriously By JOAN FLEISCHMAN And CARLOS HARRISON Herald Stall riters A man doing yard work at a Northwest Dade home got shot in the arm Tuesday possibly by a Miami cop practicing at a police range more than half a mile away Tom Flowers 47 was not seriously hurt 1 he doctor said it hit me and went right Flowers SaBut Metro-Dade detectives are taking the matter seriously After finding the bullet they went to the range test-fired the Glock 9mm semiautomatic pistols of 15 Miami officers who were at the range and took those bullets for comparison Sgt Linda a Metro police spokeswoman said there is only about a 10 percent chance of a successful analysis She said lab technicians will begin comparing the bullets today She did not know how long it would take to complete the job bullet can travel that far depending on the caliber of the weapon and the circumstances" said Miami police spokeswoman Cori Zywotow said her department uses the range for firearms training The Miami Herald said Steve Brady program director of WQAM love it had no complaints a great The tune a somewhat unrefined voyage into the down-home Southern soul exploded onto Radio Records Top 50 country chart three weeks ago at No 36 and now stands at 25 What else would have happened If the South Wotilda Wont Well: The day Elms passed auay uould be a national holiday We'd hate all the cars made in Carolina and ban all the ones made in China (Which rhymes better than Japan) I'd make my Supreme Court dou it in Texas And ue hate no kilUrs getting off fne If tluy uire proun guilty Thin they uould sutng quickly Instead of rituig books and smiling on TV By MARTIN MERZER Herald Senior WnUr We'd all karn Cajun cooking in Louisiana And put the Capitol back in Alabama We'd put Florida on the right track ue'd take Miami back And throw all them pushers in the slammer An excerpt from George old marching song? Nope Just a verse from the hottest new tune on South Florida radio Called If the South Wotilda Won written and performed by Hank Williams Jr the song is running up the country charts and lighting up telephones at local stations WKIS-FM (Kiss 999) and WQAM-AM A spokesman for the sister stations expects the local popularity to grow despite the dose of Miami bashing phones are white hot on 12 shot dead in Kendall apartment shot and killed in South Florida in the last 12 months Police said the boy whose left arm was a cast and sling was playing with a group of five or six friends about 6 at 10899 SW 88th St Apt 443 when he was shot once with a 38-caliber him Help him Hurry help Another boy was heard saying "It just went An unidentified neighbor who heard the screaming called police No adults were home police said Investigators had to wait outside the Turn to SHOOTING 2B The boy fell where he stood near the front door apparently killed instantly paramedic Greg Morton said Witnesses said two of the children playing the apartment ran out immediately after the shooting A neighbor Carmen Shell said another boy screamed frantically By STEVE ROTHAUS And CARLOS HARRISON Herald Staff Writers An 12-year-old boy was shot the face and killed while playing with friends Tuesday in a Kendall apartment police said The unidentified boy is the 17th child 12 years old or younger to be Court orders a new trial Widow conviction throw out in death of fourth husband Elkin Wrecking ball dumps homely Brickell belle By GEOFFREY TOMB Herald Staff Writer For 30 years the roundhouse stood there looking like the top of a 1930s refrigerator The building began as a law office It was said the exterior was designed to resemble a human vertebra as whiplash Later it became the studios of WCIX-Channel 6 first independent television station and the first to try something new: broadcasts Spanish Tuesday it disappeared A 4500-pound wrecking ball put final Tyson-like body punches into the squat unattractive structure at 1111 Brickell Ave only the second office to be built on Brickell Turn to STUDIO 311 By FRANK CERABINO Herald Staff Writer Margaret Elkin whose husband Cecil died five years ago from a frying-pan clobbering as he watched Family Feud will get a new trial a state appeal court ruled Tuesday The reason The jury that con- victed Elkin for the death of Cecil husband No 4 have heard testimony that she also plotted to kill Sam Smilich husband No 3 Smilith drowned a Homestead canal in 1977 Dade Circuit Judge Mary Ann MncKenzie permitted testimony about his demise to be introduced at the murder trial of the fourth husband 10 years later Turn to ELKIN 2B i 1i4V JlL WA ALBERT COYA Miami Herald Staff What once was one of first office buildings is now rubble Carl Ihaasi column will resume Friday.