News Tribune, The (Newspaper) - April 29, 1975, Fort Pierce, Florida The News Tribune Tuesday April 29 1975 Page 2 Arvida Big Developments Have Dim Future MIAMI BEACH UPIl The push for environmental re- straints and controlled growth has put a crimp in the land development industry and large-scale developments may be a thing of the past experts agree In my opinion the mentalists are going to get us There's no way to avoid Charles Cobb president of Arvida Corp grimly told a national conference of ers and builders Monday Cobb was one of various speakers to address he 7th annual Apartment Developer Conference here Arvida a firm is one of the largest residential developers in the country We're scared to death to invest in these large land Cobb said The whole future in new towns in this country is not very bright The way for the development industry to protect its interests is to cooperate and compromise with labor groups and local political entities Cobb added He pointed out that Arvida recently secured building and zoning permits by agreeing to provide school sites park sites and other public areas We've even had to ute towards building schools and improving the parks which I feel is just part of the compromise Cobb said Another speaker Robert A Mallow a Coral Gables ney who specializes in real estate and zoning law said although environmental re- straints are here to stay my FACTORY AUTHORIZED BUY THE BEST FOR LESS SAVE ON ANY SUPERBA DISHWASHER Built-in convertible or Adjustable racks Seven pushbutton cycles including Soak Cycle for pots and pans An Energy Saver feature And lots more SALE ENDS MAY 31 Open Man thru Sat 10 til Closed Sundays Drive 3 little Save A Lot Across front Chevrolet guess is there will be some easing up Mallow said however lopers should be prepared for some sort of federal land planning to be passed this year which will invariably mean developers will have to wait six months to a clear the necessary mental hurdles and permits Tate To Adopt Daughter ORANGE PARK Fla Retired Rear Adm Jackson R Tate will appear in Clay County courl next Monday to sign the necessary papers needed to formally adopt his daughter film actress Victoria Fyodorova Tale's son retired Navy Capt Hugh Tate said Monday his half-sister and the admiral will appear before Clay County Judge Thomas J Rivers in Green Cove Springs to go through the procedures of legal adoption under U.S law Victoria 29 saw her father for the first time March 23 The green-eyed actress is the product of a World War II romance between Tate now 77 and Russian film star Zoya Fyodorova My father's attorney James E Yonge of Orange Park says that by adopting Viki Victoria it will give her dual citizenship and she will be able to travel between the two countries at will the younger Tate said However a Stale Department spokesman in Washington said if Tate adopted Victoria she would become a U.S citizen and the matter of dual citizenship would be up to the Soviet Union Tate said his father had decided to adopt his daughter as soon as he learned in early March that she would be permitted to come to the United States The elder Tate got a noncommittal response to a note he sent the Soviet embassy in Washington asking about adopting her Capt Tate said Victoria plans to visit her father at least once a year Her current visa expires June 20 Victoria and her father are currently touring Florida in a mobile home Conferees Tackle Ecology Issue GOV REUBIN ASKEW right jokes with Dr Will Bechman of Miami as the governor gets his blood pressure checked Doctors are checking legislators blood pressure today as a kickoff to a statewide program to detect hypertension With the legislature in session it's a bad time to check my blood quipped Askew Telephoto PSC Must OK Passing On Utility Promotion Costs By SAM MILLER TALLAHASSEE Fla UPI The Public Service sion has voted rescind its order of last January and not prohibit electric companies from passing along to ers costs of advertising and civic or charitable tions PSC Chairman William T Mayo and Commissioner liam Bevis voted Monday lo prohibit electric companies from including civic tions and organizational dues as well as advertising expenses without prior PSC approval in their bases The action rescinds a PSC order of last Jan 17 I believe the commission went a little too far in that order and I would like to get my hands back on Bevis said I don't believe the staff can cope with for advertising Mayo agreed but warned the PSC probably will continue prohibiting the of most Transcripts to Affect Ousting Public Defender LAW DAY MAY 1st U.S 1 Ft Pierce PHONE By WILLIAM COTTERELL TALLAHASSEE Ma UPI The Senate's committee on executive suspensions is ing a transcript of grand jury testimony in the suspension of public defender Mile I Thomas Jr while lawyers on both sides look for some middle ground punishment short of banishing him from office Attorney General Robert L Shevin asked the committee Monday night to get the transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in which Thomas was exonerated of complaints thai he pulled a pistol on a black woman in the Lake City courthouse and threatened her with it Gov Reubin Askew ed the Third public defender from office Jan 28 despite the grand jury's refusal to indict him The Senate committee is considering whether to confirm that sion by ousting him ly or return him to office with back pay for the months of his suspension Chairman Edgar M Dunn D- Daytona Beach agreed to subpoena the grand jury transcripts as soon as they are typed up so the committee can look for material differences in testimony of Thomas and You earned 6 Benefits Now LEARN with New Monthly Benefits Available BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING ATTEND DAY OR EVENING CLASSES AND KEEP YOUR PRESENT JOB No of Classroom hours per of Dependents 0 1 2 EACH over Full Time 12 Class Time Class Time Class JONES COLLEGE FT PIERCE CAMPUS 121 North Second St Direction other witnesses what they told the grand jury to what they told the committee in two previous hearings Dunn also asked Shevin and Avera representing mas to research the law on executive suspensions and see if the Senate has any tive to ousting Thomas or reinstating him with back pay Shevin said that judging from past experience on suspensions there is no middle ground as sought by Dunn Shevin said that sometimes if both apee to forego back pay a public official has been returned to office without reimbursement for time he forcibly lost He said there is no legally binding way to make waiver of back pay a condition of statement Thomas maintained before the committee that an phere of racial tension and fear caused him to carry the gun in the courthouse because of threats of violent reprisals against him and his family Avera said Thomas was hospitalized at Lake City with a back injury and he did not attend the committee meeting Final arguments by Shevin and Avera had been scheduled but were postponed indefinitely because of the subpoena for the grand jury testimony Avera said the local court might resist the committee request on the legal principal of secrecy in grand jury proceedings Dunn said there is precedent for transcripts being released to legislative commit- tees with the understanding that they would be kept confidential by the investigating lawmakers Sen Vernon Holloway D- Miami said he could not understand how the could consider ousting a public official when no criminal charges were made against him and no indictment had been returned by the grand jury Dunn who was Gov Reubin attorney before his election lo the Senate replied that there is a legal difference between commission of a and conviction for one He said the Senate can act without the strict legal rules of evidence binding on a court case We're not sending anyone lo jail said Dunn The most we can do is take away his right to hold a public office utility promotional expenses in rate cases saying it will still ban most such expenses on a basis This in no way restricts the ability to rigidly look at all promotional Mayo said This does not in an way indicate a relaxation on the part of the commission The commission denied a petition by Maule Industries a concrete firm headed by Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre for a cheaper electric rate than authorized in a million rate increase package the PSC approved for Florida Power and Light Co last month John a Tampa lawyer representing Maule said the PSC unjustly raised rates 18 per cent for the special class of electricity consumers in which Maule soon plans to be He said a rate increase of 10 to 12 per cent is more appropriate in that class of industrial consumer Maule is not one of five customers in that special industrial class now but it has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment lo convert lo that class er said PSC rale analyst Don ander recommended against the change He argued the rate of increase is only 11.5 per cent when the fuel adjustment charge is included and the actual increase over interim package approved by the commission early this year is only two per cent The third member of the commission Paula Hawkins is in California and did not take part in the decision Almanac By United Press International Today is Tuesday April 29 the day of 1975 with 246 to follow The moon is approaching its last quarter The morning stars Mars and Jupiter The evening stars are Mercury Venus and Saturn Those born on this date are un- der the sign of Taurus The Duke of Wellington the British general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo was born April 29 1769 On this day in In 1878 Boston newspapers ran the Telephone guaranteed to work one mile Five miles In 1931 President Herbert Hoover received the King of Slam first absolute monarch to visit the United Stales In 1945 American troops liberated prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp in Nazi Germany In 1974 President Nixon said he would turn over pages of edited Watergate transcripts to the House Judiciary Committee and make them public A thought for the Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen said Baloney is flattery so thick it cannot be true and blarney Is flattery so thick we like It By MICHAEL GOLDMAN TALLAHASSEE Fla UPI House and Senate conferees meet today to begin work on an environmental revamping com- promise conferees have been appointed on other tion and a conference struggle now is likely on still a third issue Conferees headed by Senate Natural Resources Chairman Phil Lewis Palm Beach and House Natural Resources Chairman ford begin work on a compromise Both Houses have passed bills merging three environmental agencies into an expanded Department of Natural Re- sources and a Department of Environmental Regulation but the House damped some budget restrictions on a fourth agency the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission and made other changes that cause trouble in the Senate The House and Senate refused the other's plans Monday to reorganize the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services and create a Department of er Rehabilitation out of the HRS prison system A conference committee was named headed by Senate HRS Chairman Jack Gordon D- Miami and his House counter- part Rep Barry Kutun D- Miami The Senate approved an omnibus plan incorporating six House passed bills to ensure doctors and hospitals tice insurance at reasonable rates but rejected a House plan limiting malpractice claims through normal nels to The House will insist on that provision said Senate Com- merce Chairman Childers and a third legislative conference commit- tee will have lo reach some middle ground Under House plan normal malpractice suits would be limited to Suits over would be settled from a patient's compensation trust fund to be administered by the Insurance Department Physicians would have the option of paying to get protection from the fund Rules Chairman Lew ley got the Senate to strike the provision so Senate conferees will have flexibility in working for changes in the fund Brantley Sen Buddy MacK- ay and others argued that the fund would be financially unstable could he challenged by the courts and Tougher Minimum By WILLIAM COTTERELL TALLAHASSEE Fla UPI A House subcommittee has approved tough minimum on sentences for all felons voting to require offenders to serve at least of their terms before becoming eligible for parole consideration A discussed and adopted by the prisons panel of the House Health and Rehabilitative Services Com- Monday proposes the minimum parole qualification for life sentences or nate terms would be a mandatory 20 years Rep John W Lewis D- Jacksonville sponsor of the said it would be a deterrent to all kinds of crime violent and He said he sponsored because the people in my district are fed up with the crime rate Lewis admitted however the would require heavy state expenditure for prison tion Attorney General Robert vin told the committee 1972 capital punishment law requires a minimum mandatory 25-year sentence for all present death row inmates if the U.S Supreme Court again knocks out death sentences nationwide Shevin said he felt there was a chance the nation's highest court would throw the death penalty Shevin said the requirements of 20 years in the Lewis or 15 years as proposed In a Senate sponsored by Sen Dan Scarborough le are equally acceptable as deterrents would not contain enough money to handle all tice settlements over Childers and House leaders had hoped the Senate would make few major changes In the House bills so a conference committee could be avoided The House and Senate both passed provisions allowing physicians or health care facilities to join together to self- insure against malpractice and establish a medical malpractice risk management trust fund to provide financial protection The allows the chief judge of each judicial circuit to name special mediation panels to try to settle malpractice suits out of court Claims would have to be filed within two years after the date of discovery and four years after the treatment except in cases of fraudulent ment or intentional presentation of facts when the limit would be seven years Companies offering general liability coverage would have to join a joint underwriting plan to share the high risk medical coverage The legislation is designed to end the medical malpractice crisis caused when Argonaut Insurance Co of California increased rates by as much as 300 per cent and began cancelling coverage for doctors and hospitals refusing to pay the higher premiums Jaworski Feels Nixon Overrated His Power GAINESVILLE Fla Former Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski says that from listening to the While House tapes he fell former President Richard Nixon thought he was more powerful than he actually was Jaworski speaking Monday before law students at the University of Florida said the Nixon presidency was only one of the presidencies in recent years during which the power of the president grew H was obvious to me that after listening to the tapes he Nixon thought he was more powerful than he actually Jaworski said He saw his big election win as a mandate and did not appear to feel that he could lose executive privilege and be forced to give up the tapes Jaworski said he thought Nixon had a few unstable moments after the Supreme Court ruled that he would have to give up the tapes In his of the minute gap on one of Nixon's tapes Jaworski said he found there were five to nine segments where there had been some stop and start action which was done deliberately and manually Jaworski who now practices law in Houston said he did not believe the constitutional sion which allowed Nixon in effect to choose his successor should be changed at this time It worked out much better than many thought it would and it could have been a lot Jaworski said Jaworski also defended statements that justice was served despite the relatively short jail terms of those convicted of offenses The disgrace and notoriety is the same whether the terms was six months or two Jaworski said in response to a question concerning how he could argue the punishments were fair in view of the crimes Wf U 111 Jj n FOR PERIOD ending 7 EOT Wednesday Tuesday night will find snow activity from the northern and mid Rockies eastward thru the Dakotas changing to rain In Minnesota Rain and showers will also occur from Louisiana northeastward thru the Tennessee valley and into most of the Northeast Mostly fair elsewhere Minimum temperatures approx maximum readings In Atlanta 60 Boston 42 Chicago 47 Cleveland 45 Dallas 57 Denver 27 Duluth 34 Houston 66 Jacksonville 68 Kansas City 48 Little Rock 57 Los Angeles 53 Miami 75 Minneapolis 39 New Orleans 67 New York 44 Phoenix 52 San Francisco 48 St Louis 50 and Washington 54 High Low High Low SOUTH BRIDGE TIDES Today p.m p.m Tomorrow p.m p.m Jelly Tides Two Hours Earlier LOCAL DATA YESTERDAY High Low Rainfall April To Dale Barometer Sunset Today Sunrise Tomorrow 87 66 None 1.44 30.05 p.m Zones Forecast Zones 11 14 15 16 and Partly cloudy and continued warm through Wednesday Chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers Highs in the upper 80s and low 90s Lows mostly in the upper 60s Variable mostly southerly winds 10 to 15 miles per hour diminishing tonight Rain ability 30 per cent tonight and Wednesday Zones 17 and cloudy and continued warm through Wednesday Slight chance of a few afternoon or evening thundershowers Highs mostly in upper 80s lows in the upper 60s and low 70s Mostly southeast and south winds 10 lo 15 miles per hour decreasing tonight Rain probability 20 per cent tonight and Wednesday
