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Serving The City Beautiful Since 1926 4627 Ponce de Leon Boulevard Coral Gables Florida 33146 Florida's Best Suburban Newspaper Phone 665-7981 44 Pages Vol. 50 No. 73 Wednesday, September 8, 1976 * * 10 Cents

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SD man stunned; girls 7, 8 'selling' drugs

Two little girls — one about seven and the other eight years old — appeared at Thomas Pompeo's home at 8553 SW 144th Ct. last Saturday, Sept. 4. When he opened his door, the girls held up a bucket and asked him if he wanted to buy some drugs. When he looked into the bucket, Pompeo could hardly believe his eyes — it was filled with prescription and none-prescription drugs of every description. The girls told him they had found the drugs in a trash pile near a construction site at SW 147th Avenue and 88th Street. Pompeo persuaded the pair to leave the drugs with him and he promptly called police. Metro officers — who confiscated the drugs — were unable to find who had dumped them. It is the second case The Times-Guide has reported in recent weeks of children finding discarded drugs. In the Aug. 21/22 issue. The Times-Guide published a picture of a group of five children and a poodle rummaging through a trash pile in the yard of a house on the corner of Medina and Pizarro in Coral Gables. There, too, youngsters. found old bottles of prescription medicines amidst a heap of discarded books, clothes and papers. — ELIZABETH OWEN

CG police use two-way mirror to bust 50 for lewd conduct

In a rash of acts that have provoked strong police retaliation, more than 50 people have been arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior at the Coral Gables Bus Terminal since July 1. Although police have posted a large sign in the restroom warning that the facility is under 24-hour police observance, the arrested men — most between 20 and 35 years old — were easily apprehended by police using a two-way mirror. There is no two-way mirror in the women's facility at the bus station, a Coral Gables police spokesman quickly assured The Times/Guide. The men's room mirror was installed only after a number of citizens complained about walking into the facility and finding people inside engaging in offensive behavior. In most of the cases, the arrested men are taken before Dade County judges. Although a half dozen requested jury trials, most were fined anywhere from $100 to $200 and released without adjudication. The withholding of judgement means that if the individual involved goes a year without again being arrested for a similar offense, his criminal record is cleared of the lewd and lascivious conviction. The addresses of the arrested men show that most come from outside of Coral Gables, though not from very far away. Coral Gables police officers who made the arrests, mostly between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m., were reluctant to discuss the incidents. "We became aware that we needed to control this problem after there were a couple of complaints involving minors," Coral Gables police information officer Dennis Koronkiewicz said. "Some kids had seen this going on and were offended by it. This is not something to do in a public place with a lot of kids around and there will be even more kids around when school starts. "We intend to have it cleaned up by then," Koronkiewicz said. "Chief (William) Kimbrough has taken a very firm stand on this. "There seem to be more arrests now than there have been," he said, "but this is not a problem unique to Coral Gables. See MEN'S, Page 36

Power to the worker

Coral Gables dentist Dr. William Schiff occasionally puts down his drill and picks up his camera to take what have proven to be award-winning photographs. Schiff's lens captured this FP&L workman in the dentist's back-yard and the photo was judged one of the best in a pictorial salute to American workers. See story, Page 8.

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