The Naples Daily News from Naples, Florida • 9

i 1 '-i r- Section NAPLES DAILY NEWS Mon July 1R7C Marco Island Everglades City Immokalee Bonita Springs Estero Golden Gate Vanderbilt Beach nomia Florida Is National Leader Marco Notebook By TONY WEITZEL Settled southern states such Georgia and Alabama he added not true in Tennessee and it's certainly not true in the Northeast and Midwest" Alton said picked the Northeast and Midwest comparison because they hre the ona sending the most people down here to help a Six years ago there were no figures on pupils attending schools which were composed of 90 per cent of one race But Alton said that in 1970 114 per cent of the Mack pupils attended segregated schools compared with J1 pa cent in 1971 He said that tost year 277 pa cent of the Mack pupils in Florida attended schools in which they comprised the majority That compared with 55-5 pa cent in the South 80J pa cent in the Midwest and 91 pa cent in the Northeast Claud Anderson Gov Reu-bin Askew's education advisa said that a black he hu difficulty responding to the report becaum Macks now on whetha school desegregation is good it believed to be TALLAHASSEE Fla (AP) Education Department officials say the issue of school desegregation in Florida hu been settled and the state is now a national leader black and white pupils study side-by-side Only 74 per cent of Florida students attend schools which are 10 per cent or more black compared with 214 per cent for the South a whole 812 per cent in the Midwest and 57 per cent in the Northeast a department report says question of blacks and whites attending school together is simply Mid Ed Allen the department official who compiled the figures Education Commissioners Ralph Turlington said desegregation in Florida hu gone about far it can go He attributed the imbalances that remain to and common-acna school probably a question now of monitoring to oa that maintain reasonably what we he said Turlington said the smaller number of blacks In Florida might mb the state look better in desegregation than some 10 YOU READ THE COLLIER STORY in UthRL So did a lot of people I wiah known about when I wu naearching the piece back before the rainy aoaaoo One chap aays we were right about the "Trail Mewi" who crunched through the iwampa (nun Royal Palm Hammock to the Dade line back in 1921 But he wwt we give enough credit to a honcho named juidon HE HAS THE TAX ASSESSOR for Dade County back la ISIS when the county officials held a meeting la Orlando They woe moatly Juat flapping their guma becauae there many roada in South Florida and what roada there were Juat happened to be She goat tracka AS FOR THE GULF COAST OF FLORIDA if you wanted to get to anywhere aouth of Tampa you went by boat and worked your way inland from placet like Saraaota or Fort Myers You could get to a tiny flaking village called Naplei by boat and if your navigator knew Ms shoals you might even get into Captain Billy trading Hatton on Marco Captain Billy waa no relation flaaacWly or otherwise to Barron Collier the advertla- lag millianalre His daddy WD Collier found Marco in 1ST! or ao and decided to stay in apite of the eager moaquitoea and reluctant clams THERE WERE NOT IN 191S a thousand people between Fort Myers and Marco So when Captain Jaudon ventured the notion that Florida ought to have a road finertliig the East Coast and the Vest Coast he got Rnm cheers The rood he ventured could work its way south by easy stages pasaing through Landing and La Belle and maybe Immokalee Jaudon got so fired up with the idea he hired John Ring to survey a route flint would wend down to Dade County RING ORGANIZED A SURVEYING PARTY and started autThey got hopelessly last in the Everglades and a reacue party brought them out two weeks later It was almoat like finding Dr Livingstone in Darkest Africa aacept that the African terrain was easier RUT JAUDON WAS THE KIND OF GUY who refused to give up Ho hind another crew of surveyors and they ware smart enough to hire a brace of Seminole guides and in 17 days they had pounded a line of marker stakes from Royal Palm Hammock to the Dade boundary Hendon waved their report under the noses of the other good nods honchos and they decided a southern route might be okay Somebody even thought up a name for it "The Tamiaml because it would go Rnm Tampa to Miami AX ANDREWS THE EDITOR OF AN OUTSPOKEN JOURNAL published at Estero The American Eagle acrsaasad la Ms editorial column heavens that name sounds like a bunch of tincans tied to a tail and datteriag over cobblestones So why not call the Jacksonville to Miami highway The Jackiami Joypath? 1 DADE COUNTY THANKS TO JAUDONS ENERGY fbatod bonds lor 1171000 to build a road form the city of Miami to the Dade-line Road and Bridge District Number One came up with 1177500 just to acquire a right-of-way bom Fort Myers to Naples and a graded trail down to the Marco turnoff That waa IMS and it wouM be yean before the Trail broke through BY 1M1 THE AMERICAN EAGLE described the insults of sis yuan hard slogging as "two ruts and a alight elevation" What road there was would never have handed heavy traffic and the road vanished completely juat below Marco Junction The road was a limestone chip surface covered with shells The bridge culverts wen loo small to handle flood waters and too light to handle heavy traffic Then work stopped when the money Road Toll Rises to 15 Over Holiday Bonita Springs Buries July 4th Time Capsule The time capsule containing letters photographs and newspapers will be opened on July 4 2076 end will tell what kind of people lived in Bonita Springs at die time it was buried By KAY SMITH BONITA SPRINGS About Ml penons attended Sunday's ceremony at which Bonita time capsule was buried In the ground of the Community Hall on 41" As the last sounds of the horns and sirens faded away from the two-minute salute to the United States' 200th birthday Bicentennial Steering Committee Chairman Joeeph Attwood stepped to the podium to open the ceremony Attwood said the idea of tho time capsule came from committee member Hubert "Mac" Foster "HE WERE GROPING around for Ideas when our committee formed In October of last he aid "As It A West Palm Beach man wu killed when his convertible car (lipped ova to bring the weekend traffic loll to the Florida Highway Patrol aid earfy today The man whoa identity wm not released was pinned beneath the ar Sunday troopers aid A baby ala unidentified wu injured In another weekend accident a spading automobile careened off a Pensacola roadway Sunday The vehicle traveled toO feet and smashed into telephone pole and two trees killing two people The dead were identified pauengers Henry Ward Bishop and Mathew Willis Peacock III both 24 and from Pensacola troopers said Driver Donnie Treadwell wm reported in critical condition atahoepital GOOD OLD CAPTAIN JAUDON went back into action Ha got in touch with his friend George Staler of Everglade and they walked the uncompleted 40-odd miles of the Trail In a week Nobody paid much attention Than In the spring of 1121 the Trail Blazers set out to dramatise the Trail problem by navigating the to miles of Jungle between the unfinished end of the Tnil and the Dads boundary In a fleet of Jalopies THEY RECRUITED 21 TRAIL BLAZERS and two Indian guidBS and 19 can They had eight Model Fords one Elcar and an Overland Seven carloads of Blazers left FOrt Myers on April 4 and they picked up the other three can near Naples and started rumbling down the rutted Tnil They stopped for lunch at Royal Palm Hammock and then drove into the jungle to the East THE TRAIL WAS SO OVERGROWN that the drivers hat sight of each other when they were a dozen car lengths distant and they stopped often to let the flies catch up Captain Jaudon had warned of a tidal marsh between Royal Palm Hammock and the narrow gauge railway to Deep Lake The marsh wu even worse than Jaudon had pictured The Tnil Blazers made camp and sent out scouting parties One party hunted higher ground The other went to Everglade to uk George advice WHEN THE SCOUTS RETURNED THEY FOUND the Trail Blazer can scattered through the marsh They had brought a small tractor form Everglades and It pulled out cars up to their running boards in muck Nest morning with tbs tractor lending the way they got (ar as the Deep Lake Railway where a train waited with fuel and supplies They abandoned the Elcar because It wu loo heavy (1M pounds) qnd too cumbersome Then the Overland smashed a wheel on a stump and was left County Seeking Funds For Clerk's Computer was 'Mac's' idea ws made him chairman of the Foster told the audience that the time capsule containing tatters photographs and newa-papers will be opened on July 12071 will tefl the residents who come after us what kind of people lived here 100 years ho aid It have been nice had we had a the recommendation will he forwarded to Tallahassee for Anal okay approml The stale distributa federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) grants DEPUTY CLERK William Reagan who made the presea-tattan to the committee for the grant said tho $82J00 will be added to last already-approved SS700S grants for planning dalga and implomntatton of the Information system The project is a joint venture being organized by Mrs office and Sheriff Aubrey department to servo their staffs as well as other criminal justice agenda Bloody Vehicle Brings Arrests In 3 Slayings nation has always been ahead in the field of invention "We owe much to Henry Ford and his Foster said put America on wheels and he had a home just 25 miles from here" (In FOrt Myers) Attwood thanked Joseph Lukasco and his helper Cecil Izetl for their prompt completion of the concrete vault in which the time capsule is buried Also participating in the ceremony were the Rev Dari Reichard of Bonita Shores a retired Methodist minister and Stanley Miller vice chairman on the Bicentennial Steering Committee The Rev Reichard gave the invocation and benediction Miller lead the group In the Pledge of Allegiance the criminal Justia system unattainable without it And he called It unusual for a county this size to have a system of Its own a county this sin It is unique he said smelter counties when they need computer services borrow computer services from neighboring larga coun-tia We will he entirely independent The proceuing and programming will be done right here we won't have to depend on another county's compqter" Collier County now borrows La computer for much paperwak but usa It only at tho convenience of La County Another Sunday smashup killed 19-year-old Mary Sorell of Ormond Beach in ha Otha fatalities ova the -Suun Dahada 17 of Leisure City wu killed in a two-car crash just south of Punto Garda on State Road 45 Satruday Stewart 17 of Orlando died Saturday in a twocar crash In his hometown -Crawford Fisha 41 of Pahokee wu killed when his ar went into a anal early Sunday -Francis Decoursey 41 of Perrin wm fatally injured Saturday when ha ar went out of control and Mt a tree on Stole Rond 94 in Dade County -Adalberto Amaya 21 of Miami lost control of his motorcycle and hit a guardrail on State Road 828 Friday Dewitt of Thtea Okla and Steve Opella 28 of Fort Lauderdale Polla did not disclose which suspect led them to the graves Orrett Mid he spared the-Mood on the side of the ampa he were through a parking garage a Miami International Airport on Friday In the trunk of the suspects' ar parked nearby police said they found muddied ehovele guns and more than $51009 cash Pol tee Hid the amper belonged to om of the victims Unda questioning the suspects told polia the victims died in a drug rip-off and agreed to toad detectiva to the bodtos Saturday police said Pol tee found two bodies om atop the otha In a drainage ditch The third body was found In a shallow grave nearby Dewitt holds a degree in political sclena from the University of Oklahoma polla said Opella Is an unemployed dictating machine Htesman time capsule to open he asked Foster then took the audience hack through time with a kind of historical quiz "How many of you remember riding on a street car a subway? Did you see Babe Ruth play baseball? How many of you saw Bobby Jones play golf? Do you remember the FOSTER SAID the American in Codtor County including the state attorney public defender probation and parole Judges Naptes police city council and county commission Reagan said The system will include a computer and television screen-type monitors for each agency With It he aid an official can puah a button to determine the statue of any criminal caa find out when action must be taka in a cam before It will face automatic dtamlaal find out what caaa an da In court a particular days a wltnessa an be notified learn a criminal record as well as prepare dockets withnea subpoenas Jury summonsa and account for fine money and prepare storiettes for analysis Work hu already begun on tho system with money from a separate but related grant Reagan said Rogers hired a consultant two weeks ago who began working to prepare a five-year muter plan for the system a plan required under federal regulations Once the ptan is approved by the state work can begin on Implementing it REAGAN IAID the computer information system will provide epeed and efficiency In By JOE KOLUN Staff Writer Clerk of Courts Margaret Scott has won preliminary approval for a $81000 grant to continue work on a computer system to provide instant information to all law enforcement-related agenda In Collier County The Initial approval came last week from the Criminal Justice Advisory Committee of the Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council Tho recommendation now goes to the entire planning council which serves the five-county Southwest Florida region If the coundl approves THEN THE MODEL FORDS CHUGGED into the black muck of Ike Hook Cyprus Swamp On (he aisfli day they ran out of Indian trail to follow and they found a single stake planted two yean before by the surveyors They knew they were headed In the right direction but they had no idea where the staked-out route MIAMI (AP) An airport policeman who noticed blood smears on the aido of a parked campu ie credited with atchlng two men who were lata charged with murda Offlar Edward Orrett Mopped to queerion the men at an airport parking garage before police even knew that three people had been kilted police laid Polla Mid the three were murdered after they gave the euepecte $50000 In cash In an attempt to buy ISO pounds of marijuana polla Hid The cache of contraband never existed and the three men were The dead men whoa bodtos were recovered Saturday after om suspect tod officer! to the grava In south Dade County wetlands were Identified as Edward Wazenegger 28 of Danin Daniel I Bryman 20ol Hollywood and Ivan Baratz 21 of Davie Charged with three counts of first-degree munkr were Dim Voters To Register A representative of the La County Supervisor of Elections office will be in Bonita Springs at the sheriffs substation from 10 am to pm and from 2:20 pm to 0pm Tuesday -Enid Earie supervisor of etoctkms said Friday that the registration books will doa July 24 for tho Sspiember THEN ON THE EIGHTH DAY one of the Model fliwon blew a Ore It had hit one of the stakes They bad found the Trail and they were in norihsaat Monroe County A guide and two Trail Blazen won sent ahead on foot to get In touch with anxious hmilfoa and to bring back supplies Tho advance guard Ml tail the ninth day Back on the Tnil Porter Richards of EvergaldM found the Tnil Blazen and csnfldsd that GUu and Taylor on the Elcar had refused to give up end with the help of two tracton were Just a Mlh frffc AT NOON OF THE TENTH DAY the Trail Blazen hunt out of tbs woods and found their advance guard back with suppitu la a truck with huge dual tires Two can had mads it Behind them In the swamp were five other can bogged down and waiting for tractors Friday night aU the can but one were in camp Gitas staggered into camp oa foot Ms Elcar abandoned 12 miles back But tho Tnil Blazen had nude It And a year taler Barton Collier's men started dynamiting their way i the TiaM right of way "Tuesday is the last day tesidsnts of Bonita Springs will be abta to register or make changes in tho present registration locally until after September" she laid Registration! will continue at the etactioM office at the Lee county Courthouse Fort Myen until July Mn Earie aid.