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25 Years For Israel Page 5-B Serving Naples Marco Everglades Immokalee Golden Gate Bonita Springs 50th Year No 243 Three Sections 48 Pages NAPLES FLA MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 7 1973 Associated Press 10c Daily 25c Sunday Immokalee Mopes To Lure Mon-Farm Industry government agencies to determine what the manpower potential and other possibilities are he indicated Continuing efforts to promote Immokalee as a good place to live and do business are made through the chamber's information pamphlets These are available from local merchants They are also sent out by the chamber whenever a query is received concerning the Immokalee area IMMOKALEE Means to obtain a more diversified economy are being considered by members of the Immokalee Chamber of Commerce Acting as this fanning community's only quasi-govem-mental agency chamber officials are discussing the possibilities of making attempts to bring in other forms of industry other than those connected solely with agriculture according to Jones Jr a member of the chamber's mokalee has to offer looking for something to come into this area and help us diversify We have a lot to offer any company that does" he said Pointing to almost equidistant location between Tampa and Miami he called attention to the fact that Immokalee is situated on two good highways and on a railroad line with an excellent airport capable of supporting air freight operations He stressed that chamber had expressed an interest in seeing a made However he Indicated that no one was interested in an expensive master plan study such as Is under way In other parts id Collier County He said local merchants could handle an investigation adding that they know what is in the area and what the capabilities are better than anyone else will probably check with local businesses and board of directors Jones said the chamber is considering sending one of It's members to talk with representatives of industries seeking to move to Florida Florida Industrial Commission has a listing of all industries which have sent queries about moving to the explained Jones The chamber is thinking about sending a representative to them to tell them what Im tributable to this But when the weather is not good farmers have a difficult time meeting their financial obligations This is reflected In area businesses This is among the things that lead businessmen in the Immokalee area to seek diversification Jones indicated Just when attempts to promote Immokalee as a good area for light industry will be made Jones was unsure He said several chamber officials members are interested in seeing airport property developed and an industrial park developed without having industry encroach upon the landing field therefore cutting down on its usefulness as an airport 'There is a lot of land he pointed out Recent moves to improve appearance were also praised by Jones Doc Brown has helped us a lot cleaning up the area He has had several burned-out old buildings real eye sores removed along with other improvements" Right now the unincorporated area of Immokalee depends on agriculture with its growing seasons and harvesting cycles for its economy This year Immokalee enjoyed a $25 million harvest among the largest and best ever according to agricultural experts Good weather and a long growing season over the winter and spring were at ifelhisiird A Highlights State WASHINGTON (AP) Atty Gen Elliot Richardson said today he will heed suggestions that he name a special independent prosecutor to head the investigation of the Watergate scandal Richardson said however that he has not yet found the right man to head the probe dined to answer questions after readings three-page statement Of the search for a special prosecutor Richardson said may take some time to find the right person" He made no estimate of how long that might be A number of prominent names have been mentioned as (Continued on Page 3A) TALLAHASSEE The State Capitol was evacuated this morning when the fire alarm system went off but Tallahassee Fire Chief Earl Levy said there was no fire State officials legislators secretaries and capitol workers streamed out onto the lawn and surrounding area as fire trucks roared up in front Levy said his men had examined the building and found no sign of a blaze He said the alarm apparently was set off by a malfunction in the system PENSACOLA Veteran driver Bill Townley was killed when his car went out of control and crashed during a race at Five Flags Speedway Sunday night the Florida Highway Patrol reported super modified stock car was going about 100 miles an hour when it rammed into a dirt embankment on the second turn officials said Townley 37 of Sarahland Ala was on the seventh lap of a $5000 feature 30-lap event KEY LARGO A New Jersey father has identified the bodies of two girls found slain last week as those of his daughters Thomas John Jenkins of Gloucester NJ identified the bodies Sunday as Margureit Jenkins 18 and Mary Jenkins 16 police said The girls one nude and the other barefoot but clothed were found Thursday in a thicket about 100 yards off US 1 on Key Largo the uppermost island on the Overseas Highway to Key West Both had been beaten and shot police said Acknowledging worries over likely choices how the Watergate investiga- One is Lawrence Walsh a tion would be pursued Rich- deputy attorney general under ardson said "After much care- President Dwight Eisen-ful thought about how best to hower He is a former US Dis- NEWS phots bp Normal ARRIVING AT THE PROM John Atkiuon and hit date Dianna Wood (hidden from view In car) arrive at the Naples High School Junior-Senior Prom held Saturday evening at the Marco Beach Hotel The event included a prom banquet dance at the hotel and the crowning of the king and queen The king was Bill Johnson nnd the queen was Ann Miller Several of the students including Atkinson wore top hats and carried walking sticks with their tuxedos ter an old-time flavor Doormen at right are on the staff of the Marco Beach Hotel (Additional Prom Photos on 3A) County Dump Fires Bring Complaints Demands increased In Kidnapping Case The Nattori A 3 call from the kidnapers Sunday young people accused of bomb-afternoon saying new instruc- ings bank robberies shootings tions would be phoned later and subversion Some had been The second call had not come held since 1971 without trial by midnight The kidnapers a revolution- officials of the state and fed- aiy guerrilla group called the eral governments and of the Armed Revolutionary Forces of US Embassy in Mexico City the People also demanded na-waited with Mrs Leonhardy A tionwide publicity for all corn-special telephone line was in- muniques they issued In a stalled at the house apparently statement Saturday night the to keep the government in Mex- kidnapers complained because ico City in close touch not all the newspapers in Mexi- Outside the house nearly 100 co City published the commu-newsmen photographers niques on the front page neighbors and onlookers waited Leonhardy has spent 30 years through the night in government service and is Thirty persons were released scheduled to retire next year from jails in six Mexican states He is the first foreign diplomat Sunday afternoon and flown to to be kidnaped in Mexico Havana in a Mexican air force There have been two kidnap- GUADALAJARA Mexico (AP) The kidnapers of US Consul-General Terrance Leon hardy were reported making more demands today following (he transfer to Cuba of 30 prisoners whose freedom had been' demanded in exchange for the American diplomat situation has become extremely complicated There are new said Gov Alberto Orozco Romero of Jalisco state Sunday just have Jo wait now It could be hours or days" lie did not say what the demands were Shortly before the governor received a note from Leon-hardy saying he was being treated well and his kidnapers promised to release him the proper moment" Leonhardy's wife at home with the couple's two young daughters received a telephone JUDGE MATT BYRNE is expected to disclose today the contents of an affidavit by former White Houe aide Egil Krogh in efforts to clarify reports linking the Pentagon papers trial to the Watergate affair Convicted Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt has said Krogh ordered a break-in at the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg a defendant in the Pentagon papers trial in US District Court here Krogh is on leave from his job as undersecretary of transportation NEGOTIATORS FOR THE GOVERNMENT and Indian militants are optimistic that the disarmament agreement which was signed will bring an end this week to the occupation of Wounded Knee Negotiators announced on Sunday the signing of a disarmament pact that calls for weapons to be surrendered and nonresidents to leave the village at 9 am EDT Wednesday ELLIOTT RICHARDSON Naples and yesterday paint cans and tires were observed burning there early as I am The city used to operate tie dump Turner said and trash was burned routinely ten But when the county took over several years ago the dump was turned Into a land fill and the Arcs were stopped The space for the land fill at the airport is going to run out soon Turner said and the county is considering either finding a site for a new land fill or constructing an incinerator similar to the Marco Island incinerator The Marco facility is a pilot project Turner pointed out and if it operates satisfactorily incinerators will be used throughout the county to replace existing dumps Burn Acres Fires burning on both sides of Alligator Alley and other fires scattered about the county accounted for the remainder of the acreage burned she said Rain that began late Sunday aid moved from the Miles City area toward Naples and Marco Island extinguished the blazes not put out by fire fighters she' reported today TMCS BOWEN I SCHWAIZ You'll Laugh With Them In The New Double Comics Of Your respond to these concerns I have decided that I will if confirmed appoint a special prosecutor and give all the independence authority and staff support needed to carry out tasks entrusted to With special emphasis Richardson said the special prosecutor would report only to him as attorney general This seemed to imply that President Nixon would have no direct hand in the investigation The two largest news weeklies say ousted White House Counsel John Dean III is prepared to testify that Nixon personally congratulated him last September for covering up administration involvement in the Watergate incident Time and Newsweek gave slightly different accounts but both said Nixon's purported remarks came in a meeting among the President Dean and another top White House aide Richardson currently the secretary of defense was chosen by Nixon last Monday to become the new attorney general and take personal responsibility for the Watergate investigation would welcome in addition an expression by the Senate as a whole of its confidence in him" Richardson said There have been numerous calls in the Senate for someone of the caliber of a Supreme Court justice with no ties to the Nixon administration to personally investigate the Watergate scandal have taken into account the fact that because I have held office in this administration from its beginning my objectivity may be Richardson told a Pentagon news conference Richardson appears before the Judiciary Committee on his nomination as attorney general on Wednesday Because he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate for that job Richardson de- is typical of most long time residents of the cypress woodlands He owns a home in the wilderness that isapproachable only overland by swamp buggy or all-terrain type vehicle or by private aircraft Henningsen like several East Collier landowners owns his own aircraft which hie uses to Fires at the airport land fill during the past few weekends have brought a number of complaints and County Manager Harmon liner said today it may be necessary to post a 24-hour guard there hate to see fires there just as much as anyone else Turner mid appealed to people to stop setting them but we had much success so far We had a guard there in the past but it looks like going to have to have somebody there all the Turner said he may bring up the subject at county commission session For the past three weekends fires at the land All have caused smoke over Wildfires 670 More Forest fires burned 670 acres of woodlands over the weekend according to Florida Forestry Division officials in Naples A 30-acre fire near Henderson Creek in the Isles of Capri Area Sunday was extinguished by forestry division fire fighters as was a 100-acre fire that began Saturday northwest of Golden Gate This blaze destroyed 50 acres of woodlands Saturday and was rekindled Sunday to burn an additional 50-acres according to Mrs Mary Widner of the forestry division Speak fly in and out of a strip built near his home Despite this Improvement to Ms property Henningsen says he is vehemently opposed to roads being cut through the wilderness want to see roads and canals in the he remarked An operator of an Everglades (Continued on Page JA) The World Walker Adds Coral Ridge To Agenda ings of Mexican officials a university rector and the director of federal aviation but both were released unharmed after the demands of the kidnapers were met members of Collier County's delegation to the Florida Legislature The hearing originally was scheduled to hear views of citizens with respect to local legislation requested by attorney Dave Spingler of Naples Spingler is seeking to restore the runoff system to city elections Rep James Lorenzo Walker D-8Mh Dist of Naples said today another Hem has been added to the agenda of the legislative public hearing set for 8 pm Friday at city hall The additional Item Is the discussion of proposed legislation relating to the establishment of a special THE FIRST MEKONG RIVER convoy to reach Phnom Penh in two weeks arrived today after losing a tanker to Communist fire Meanwhile reports reached Phnom Penh that Cambodian insurgents overran a post 34 miles northwest of the capital last Friday captured about 100 troops and slaughtered them Port authorities said the convoy of three tankers three freighters and three munitions barges from South Vietnam came under heavy attack from shore fire 26 miles from Phnom Penh One of the tankers carrying petroleum was sunk and two of the freighters were set ablaze by rocket fire But the freighter crews put out the fires plane meeting the ransom demand of the guerrilla group that seized the 58-year-old consul-general Friday evening as he drove home alone Most of those released were water and sewer district for Coral Rklge-Collier Properties Inc The special district would Include the 22N acres of land between the Gulf and US-41 extending from Seagate to Vanderbilt Beach Walker said interested parties will be given an opportunity to be heard by hand for the hearings Thursday and Friday by the House Of Representatives Subcommittee on Interior and Insular Affairs headed by Sen James Haley D-Fla -Planning to leave Wednesday to be in Washington in time for the hearing are Ellis Chism chairman of the East Collier County Landowners' Big Cypress Landowners By DOLUE GOLDMAN Staff Writer Private landowners in the Big Cypress Swamp area of Collier County are geared for a public hearing to be held this week in Washington Members of two landowners' groups conservationists and private citizens are planning the trip to Washington to be on Improvement Committee James Pace president of the Conservation and Protection Association and numerous landowners including Ron Henningsen who owns 60 acres of land near Monroe Station A 20-year-resident of Collier County's Big Cypress and Everglades areas Henningsen.

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