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Cold shorts- How South Dade coped with the cold

By KAY SEVERINSEN and ANA MARIA ALVAREZ Staff Writers With the mercury dipping down into the low 30s Thursday morning, firemen shivered in their stations, monkeys shivered atop trees and tropical fish shivered in icy ponds. It just goes to prove that the cold showeth no mercy. And here are some shivering shorts on how South Dade coped with the cold: Coral Gables firefighters on duty at the Riveria station on S. Dixie Highway found the unheated station a little too cold for comfort Thursday morning. They huddled around in blankets, turned on the oven and two firemen, Tom Healy and Pete Hope, shelled out $10 for longjohns. * * * The monkeys at Monkey Jungle were cold, too, reported manager Frank Dumond. They were given heaters, blankets and steaming cups of hot chocolate. Thanks to the special care they made it through the cold snap without any losses. * * * A transformer blew up at 1261 Algardi early Thursday leaving numerous Coral Gables residents without electricity during one of the coldest mornings in South Florida. There were scattered outages throughout the Gables, South Miami and South Dade areas as Florida Power & Light scrambled to meet the demands for power once the cold weather set in. "We can't believe it here," said a spokesman for FP&L. "We have never had a peak this high for such a consecutive period of time." See PLANTS, Page 16 Firemen Tom Healy (l) and Pete Hope spent ten bucks for their longjohns Gables fireman John Swanks huddles up

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Weekend Edition 24 Pages Vol. 51 No. 7 January 22/23, 1977 * * 10 Cents Gables officer arrested for sale of marijuana

By ANA MARIA ALVAREZ Staff Writer A patrolman with the Coral Gables police Department for the past seven years was arrested Thursday night and charged with two counts of sale and possession of marijuana. Solomon J. Gully, 30, was arrested at a Howard Johnson's at 10201 S. Dixie Hwy., after he allegedly sold Metro undercover narcotics agents 34 pounds of marijuana for $9,000. Gully had sold one pound of grass to the same undercover police officers on Sunday, Jan. 16 for $300, police say. The Coral Gables Police Department worked in cooperation with the Public Safety Department, Central District VIN unit in the latter stages of Gully's arrest. Under direct orders from Acting Chief Del Edwards, Capt. Kenneth Bush relieved Gully of his duties and badge at the scene of his arrest at 11 p.m. Thursday. He was transported to the Dade County stockade and a $7,000 bond was posted. Although the investigation is continuing and further civilian arrests are likely, no additional arrests within the Coral Gables Police Department are anticipated, said Lt. Robert W. MacArthy, Metro's lead investigator on the case. Gully, who lives at 8541 SW 89th Ct., has been with the police department since September 1969. While working as a patrolman, Gully arrested a woman in June 1975 for possession of 150 pounds of marijuana. He never worked for the Coral Gables narcotics unit, however, and that narcotics arrest was an isolated incident. "The investigation does not reveal any dealing See COP Page 4 Photo by FRANK TURSI Stone face Unlike some other Coral Gables firemen, (shown at top of page), this stone-carved liking atop the old Gables fire station didn't feel the cold.

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Yo-Yo whiz Paul Richardson was at one time king of the string. Now a cop, he can still walk the dog and do the shotgun. See story, page 2 Homey is . . . Barbara Lefcourt doesn't believe in the "perfect please-don't-touch house." She likes hers "lived in." See story, page 11