News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

Thomas A. Edison Said "Thara Is only ona Fort Mysrt nd 90 million paopla ra colng to find It out." 5c Daily, 15c Sunday Fort Myers, Sunday Morning, February 24, 1963 TheU County Fishing Crisis 2 Edison College Students Hike to LaBelle and Back Published Every Morning Mambai- Audit Buraau of Cireulitlem AP Nawa and Wlraphotoa Phons EDIton S-U4 79th Year. MYE1S NSWS-P1ESS km Subzero Record Low Cold Castro Claims Venezuelan Pirates Going to Rest Camp RIO DE JANEIRO Highjackers of the Venezuelan freighter Aiuoategul passed through here yesterday en route to a navy rest camp where they will be Interned while diplomats decide their future. Airport guards kept newsmen and photographers away from the Brazilian Air Force plane carrying the nine pro-Communist Venezuelans who seized the ship as a demonstration against the government of President Ro-mulo Betancourt. They will be held at Nova Friburgo, AO miles northeast of Rio.

Officials in Caracas said the hijacking of the freighter cost the government owned shipping company more than The vessel, expected home Tuesday, will have been out of service 15 days. BtesSrey Fisbooagi (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is the first of three articles by the fishing editor of the News-Press detailing a critical fishing situation here. This Initial article deals with the sports fishermen's complaints. Monday's article will cover the commercial fishermen's side and Tuesday's will explore suggested legislative and other remedies.) By BILL MILLER Many Lee County' resort owners, tackle shop and marina operators and non-resident as well as resident sports fishermen complain that commercial netting operations are depleting the spotted seatrout and channel bass populations of inshore waters and threatening the tourist economy Some sports fishermen claim the decline in sea-trout started with the advent of the fast, outboard-powered net skiffs about 1958. These boats, ideal for one-man operation, allowed the netter to cover wide areas and strike repeatedly at small concentrations of fish in pot-holes formerly ignored by the larger net crews.

There has been a corresponding increase in the number of single man gill net operators. Other anglers say the decline in the fisheries is due mostly to illegal netting, such as stopping creeks with the net stretched from one bank to the other, allowing no free passage; or by dry-stopping shallow bay areas during the spring tide periods. Several arrests have been made in the past month on these charges. Boats Surrounded by Nets Sports fishermen in the Fort Myers Beach area contend that the conduct of some netters toward the sports fisherman is causing some visiting anglers to leave I Xl 1 '-yr VMnajtaB.aMflaMBBBMwmBBBBMl Richard Chipley, left, and Joe Grimm, Edison Junior College students, rest their aching feet atop car trunk after completing 50-mile hike to LaBelle and return. By SYDNEY MAGILL Two Edison Junior College students met President challenge yesterday by com Lee County for other parts of Florida.

Instances nave been reported in which netters have moved in on a party catching fish and have run their nets around the fish and sometimes around the anglers' boat as well. U.S. Violated Cuban Waters Premier Denies His MIGs Attacked Fort Myers Boat HAVANA (B Cuba yesterday accused the U.S. Navy of violating its waters Thursday and released a photograph of an antenna-studd ed ship cruising off Havana. A caption accompanying the photograph identified the vessel as the U.S.S.

Oxford and said it "penetrated Cuban jurisdictional waters." In the foreground of the picture was a Havana seaside drive landmark. The hazy photo appeared to be that of a converted! merchantman that often can be seen from the Haxana waterfront cruising across the horizon. The charge followed a midnight speech by Premier Fidel Castro accusing the United States of creating artificial tensions and making the seas off Cuba unsafe for navigation. Castro denied that his planes had attacked a Fort Myers shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico three days ago. Eight Captured The Cuban press also published pictures of eight men whose capture the government reported Friday, accused or launching counter revolutionary raids from Key El bow, a tiny British island in the Kev Sal croup, about 30 miles north of Central Cuba.

The Cuban Navy said the group hijacked two 33-foot trawlers which were recovered as the eight attempted to land arms. The group in the photos appeared to be dressed in fatigue uniforms. Also photographed were rifles and ammunition alleged to have been used to organize rebel bands in Las Villas Province and Nicara- guan, American and Cuban money and emblems of counter-revolutionary organizations. Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa called on British Ambassador Sir Herbert Stanley Marchant Fri day night to discuss government charges that rebel raiders are using the British-owned key. An em bassy spokesman described the session as "amicable, however, (Continued en Post 1-A) Hit and Run Driver Kills Pensacola Boy PENSACOLA A Pensacola boy died yesterday about six hours after he was struck by a hit-and-run motorist.

Robert B. Quarrier 14, was found unconscious on the side of a street. He aiea in a fensacoia hospital. He apparently was returning home from his morning newspaper route when the accident happened. Police said the boy was knocked from a bicycle.

Capt. Luke Gates, a Fort Myers Beach guide and commercial hook-and-line trout fisherman, said he was casting plugs on White Rock Shoal recently when a net fisherman ran his gill net and then told him he could completely around nis Doax lift up his outboard motor to get out over the net. Householders are vexed by commercial netters com-w i-nn th man-made canals at Fort Myers Beach and Jll A1 Matlacha at night and removing all the fish from their back doors. The home owners object not only to their fishing being ruined for several days, or even weeks, but gay the netters pound on docks, boats and otner oo-jects to drive the fish into the nets, disturbing their sleet). There is no law against netting in man-made Kennedy's physical fitness pleting a 50-mile hike to Chipley, 21, and Joe Grimm, 18, were two of a group of 23 stu- dents and faculty who left on the hike at midnight Friday.

They trooped wearily to the college campus at 7:10 last night. They covered the distance in 19 hours and 10 minutes. "My legs tell me it is an accomplishment," Grimm declared as he and Chipley successfully returned to their starting point. Both students declared they were going to their homes and rest their legs and then tumble in the sack. Sleep Until Monday "I think I will sleep until Mon day, and get up thtn only because I have to com back here for classes," Grimm, the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gaude L. Grimm of Naples said. Chipley, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred S. Chiley of Bokeelia, said his leg muscles were sore, but otherwise he was all right. He said a scar across the right side of his face was the result of being scratched by a branch of a tree. Donald Hayes, a member of the college faculty, almost suc ceeded in making it. He finally yielded at the Orange River bridge which is only seven miles from the Gwynne campus.

He was taken home by one of the group of students who went in cars to escort the hikers. Several others made it to the half-way point which was just west of LaBelle. They included faculty member Rod Lane and Burt Dezarne, Bill Braisted and Chuck Mouehow. The walkers arrived at the half-(Continuad an Peg J-A) Americans Bar Red Bus Entry To West Berlin Technical Incident Holds up Russian Memorial Ceremony BERLIN Four busloads of Russian soldiers were barred by U. S.

officials from entering West Berlin yesterday, delaying a wreath-laying ceremony with high-ranking Communists at the Soviet War Memorial. The Americans took the action at the request of British authori ties, who had told the Russians that groups of military personel going to the war memorial, near Brandenburg Gate, could not enter West Berlin at the U.S.-manned Checkpoint Charlie. Instead, a U.S. spokesman said, the Russians were told to use the Sandkrug Bridge British checkpoint, shortest and most direct route to the memorial. Played Down In Washington State Department officials played down the incident and said it had no real impor tance.

They said the United States insisted on the Soviet buses crossing at a different point because arrangements had already been made for them to cross there. The buses were held up more than one hour while American and Soviet officials negotiated. Two other buses carrying a com pany of Red Army soldiers and officers and a band passed through the British controls at the wall dividing this city without trouble. A number of passenger cars car-(Cantinued an Peat J-A) Negro Driver in LaBelle and return. Richard Contests Mark Today's Shrimp Festival Opening Beauty Judging, Art Highlight Gala Beach Week By CLARE TAYLOR The fifth annual Island Shrimp Festival opens at Fort Myers Beach today.

The week-long festival, sponsored by the Beach Lions Club, will include a beauty contest, flower and art exhibits, a parade, street dance and fish ing tournament. Highlight will be the blessing of the shrimp fleet next Sunday. Starting today are a bowling tournament and a fishing contest. A fish fry will be held at the Legion Hall. The Estero Island Garden Club holds its Flower Fiesta Wednesday in the Bigelow Shopping Center.

There will be a display of fresh flower arrangements and a sale of dried arrangements, plants end garden supplies. Or ders will be taken for birdcage flower hats. Shell Exhibit A shell exhibit, the first at Fort Myers Beach in many years, will open Thursday in the Garl building across from the Beach Park under the direction of Carl and Doris Chandler, well-known con- chologists. The exhibit will fea-(Cantlnuad an Poga J-A) canals and their only recourse is to mane a the peace" complaint to the sheriffs office. Snook Taken in Nets nf Dirk and Rov's Marina, Fort Myers Numbs Parts of CHICAGO Arctic cold numbed parts of the South and East with record low temperatures yesterday and threatened Lake Superior, the world's larg.

est fresh water lake. Subzero temperatures were re corded in the Midwest and Northeast. Northern Florida had freez ing weather with Tallahassee re cording 23 degrees, a record low for the date. A new push of Canadian air hit the northern plains assuring continuation of the deep-freeze weather in the midcontinent that has made this winter one of the coldest of the century. As far as is known, Lake Superior never has been completely frozen over.

But Arthur Myers, U.S. meterologist at Sault Ste. Marie, said an airline pilot reported that the only water visible in the 400-mile long, 100-mile wide lake was in scattered patch es not more than one to two acres in size. Freeze to Continue Myers said the lake freezing weather is expected to continue for a week or possimy two weeKs and "we could have a complete freeze-over." Until the advent of the air plane, there was no convenient way of looking at the entire lake and no one kows for sure whether there ever was a complete freeze-over. Scattered light snow fell from the northern Rockies eastward through the Missouri Valley and into the middle and upper Mississippi Valley.

Hazardous driv ing warnings were issued as sleet or freezing rain spread into eastern Missouri and southern Illinois. Cold Records Topple Cold records for the date toppled for the third consecutive day in Charleston, W. and Louisville, Ky. Charleston had a -2 reading and Louisville 5 above. At Albany, N.

the -4 record for the date was set 87 years ago was shattered when the mercury shriveled to -16. Other low records set for the date included: Pittsburgh, -1; Philadelphia, Hatteras, N. 15: Norfolk, 13. More than 18 inches of new snow fell in the Watertown and Lowville areas on western New York on the lee side of Lake Ontario. Watertown has had 14 feet of snow so far this winter and subnormal temperatures have kept much of it around.

City streets are lined with cavernous snow banks up to 10 feet tall and many motorists have tied flags to their extended radio antennas to warn motorists on turns. Midday temperatures were be low freezing in the northeast with the teens or lower from the Da-kotas to the northern Great Lakes and from Pennsylvania across New England. The 30s and 40s covered much of the rest of the country except for some 50s and 60s in Florida and the desert Southwest. Man Wanted Here For Shooting Tice Woman Is Captured Woodrow L. Hawkins, 47, want ed in connection with the shooting of Mrs.

Ruth Moore at her house trailer in Tice Feb. 13, was arrested yesterday in Tampa. A hold order was given to Tam pa police by Sheriff Flanders Thompson and Hawkins will be brought here early this week. He was apprehended in Tampa on a charge of vagrancy and worthless checks. Hawkins is charged with pump ing three or four bullets into Mrs.

Moore at 5:30 a.m. Feb. 13, severely injuring her. Leo Moore. her husband, was shot at twice and missed as he arose and came out of the bedroom.

TRADE TALKS LONDON -Prime Minister John Diefenbaker of Canada and Britain's Prime Minister Macmil-lan conferred for 90 minutes last night on trade problems and de fense. TIrc Weather Considerable cloudiness. A little warmer with low S4-M, high In low 70s. Easterly 13-30 miles per hour. East Gulf marine forecast: Easterly winds u-33 knots Coo aidei-able cloudiness.

(Full weather report P. 4A.) Beach, said he believes gill fishing even though snook are not a legal commercial species. He said many of the small snook caught in the nets failed to survive even when released. Leonard said he had seen net skiffs pull up to his dock with "numerous small snook" in them. He reported that when he asked the fisherman why he kept the snook, the man replied that since he wasn't allowed to sell them, he would kill them before he would release them for someone else to catch.

H. S. Melbourne of the Pink Shell Cottages, Fort Myers Beach, believes the money spent by sports fishermen far surpasses that derived from the commercial fisheries in Lee County. "It seems to me, with all the money that is being spent for boats, motors, bait rods reels and all kinds of sports fishing equipment, that enmpthlne would be done to Brazilian Navy Called to Defend Coast Lobsters Radioactive Sand Stolen by French, Official Charges RIO DE JANEIRO AV-The Brazilian navy cancelled pie-Lenten carnival leaves of hundreds of officers and men yesterday and ordered them to report to their ships immediately. Brazilian tempers were rising in a dispute involving French harvesting of lobsters crawling the Atlantic floor off Brazil's northwest coast The order cancelling leaves came after Foreign Minister Her mes Lima conferred with mili tary chiefs in Rio de Janeiro.

All elements of the Brazilian fleet were reported being readied to sail at a moment's notice. France has sent a warship to protect French lobster boats operating off northeast Brazil The Brazilians say the French are encroaching on Brazilian lob ster grounds but the French in sist the lobsters being caught are far outside Brazilian territorial waters. The Brazilian navy has threatened to arrest the French lobstermen. Earlier, the Brazilian foreign ministry had reported President Charles de Gaulle of France had agreed to find a peaceful solution to the dispute. This apparently did not soothe Brazilian wrath at the dispatch of the French war ship.

Recife city councilmen demand ed Brazil break relations with France. Stealing Sand A Jornal do Brasil columnist, Pedro Muller, and the afternoon newspaper Tribuna da Imprensa claimed the French weren't fish' ing for lobsters at all but stealing radioactive sand from the beaches of the northeast. The sand has a high monazite content which produces thorium, used In mak ing atomic bombs. Both Muller and the newspaper noted France is making atomic bombs. They quoted a Brazilian admir al, Jose Luis da Silva Junior, as telling the government that the French lobstermen had hauled away large quantities of the sand.

A foreign ministry spokesman said he hadn't heard of such a thing. The navy ministry was closed and the admiral was away for the pre-Lenten carnival holiday. France says the area in which the Frenchmen work is 100 miles off the Brazilian coast. Brazil's answer: The lobsters crawl on the Brazilian portion of the continental shelf which extends more than 100 miles out into the Atlantic; therefore, the lobsters are on Brazilian soil. Colombia Confiscates 40,000 Acre Estate BOGOTA, Colombia The government has expropriated, without payment, San Roman Plantation, one of the larger estates in Colombia.

The government issued a decree Friday night turning over San Roman, with about 40,000 acres of land, to the Institute for Agrarian Reform for parceling out to landless farmers. By law, the government may expropriate without compensation idle land or land not adequately used by Its owners. The value of the plantation is estimated at several million pesos. Hospital After Fleeing From Deputy Passenger Killed in Drag-Racing Car netting is hurting the snook III CApiUUCU miaaiic Identified Here Sgt. W.

B. French and Sgt. F. C. Conner of MacDill Air Force Base arriving at rort rayers Beach yesterday afternoon identified the object brought in by the David shrimp trawler as the tail end of a Bormac Missile, Type B.

The missile, shot into the Gulf from Eglin Air Force Base annarentlv went off course and exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the officers said. Thp nhiect unidentified until yesterday, was found by Joe Ba tista, captain and co-owner oi me David 68-foot shrimp boat owned with his father-in-law Chris 01-sen. Batista and his crew member Joe Fernandez pulled the heavy object aboard the boat by winch. It will be lifted from the shrimp boat to the Diesel Corporation dock by crane. A six-ton truck win spnt todav from Eglin to haul it back to base, Olsen said.

HELICOPTER CRASHES INDIO, Calif. (B A helicopter crashed in flames yesterday 400 fpet from a crowd of 25,000 at tending the National Date Festi val. Two women passengers were killed and the oilot critically in jured. The husband and two chil dren of one of the women witnessed the crash. Dead are Mrs.

Kay Marilyn Parrott, 27, of Ocean-side, and Margaret Mary Posechl, of Camarillo, Calif. this said Melbourne. Dr. Fred F. Snider, wen Known sports fisherman at the Beach, said: "Our community has had a reputation of having excellent sport fishing.

This has attracted a great many people to the area on which much of our economy is built I believe the illegal taking of fish here is ruining the reputation we have enjoyed in the past." Fish Netted From 'Front Yard' William C. Eberhardt, owner of the Sandrift resort at Fort Myers Beach, is also worried about the impact commercial fishing practices are having on visitors. He said many of his guests are fisher-men and although some explore the back bays, others are content to fish the surf in front of the cottage court. Directly in front of the Sandrift Is a spot called Gilligan's Hole where anglers can usually pick up a few seatrout and channel bass. At times the hole is filled with mullet and during these periods, Eberhardt says, the commercial boats will come in and lay their nets completely around the hole, (Continued on Poaa 1-A) News-Press Index A passenger in a drag-racing car was killed and the driver severely injured and charged with manslaughter after their car went out of control at 90 miles an hour and crashed early yesterday on the Buckingham Road extension of Anderson Avenue.

The dead man is Cleveland Upshaw, 25, Negro laborer of 2609 Prather Court. He was riding with Abe Randall, Negro, also 25 and a laborer, who is in Jones-Walker Hospital with a broken ankle and internal injuries. Randall lives at 2939 Dunbar Ave. Trooper Charles Wise said Ran dall admitted he came to grief when he floorboarded the gas pedal of his 1956 Buick in an ef fort to outrun Deputy Sheriff Bobby Rogers who was pursuing him and another racing car neaa- ed east on Anderson Avenue about 30 a.m. The fleeing racers separated at the divergence of Immokalee Road.

One, never identified continued toward Immokalee while Randall went straight ahead toward the old Gunnery School with Rogers in pursuit. Randall lost control about a mile east of the fork and went crashing across the ditch and for good distance into the woods near a creek. When the tail lights disappeared Rogers decided he (Csntinutd an poet z-ai Amusements 8B-9B Classified Crossword 6A Deaths iA Editorial 6A-7A Financial 8A-9A Hollywood 8B Society 3B-10B Sports 1D-4D TV 9B Here is wreckuge of car In which pssftenger whs killed and driver injured early yesterday when they crashed at canal while trying to outrun deputy sheriff..