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Myers (Fla.) News- Press, Oct. 23, 1966 60 Data from U.S. WEATHER BUREAU 60 so 70 Showers Snow FORECASTI Flurries figures Show High Temperatures Expected for Daytime Sunday related Precipitation Net indicated Consult Local forecest WEATHER FORECAST Rain is forecast westward to Pacific coastal states. Cooler Sunday for northern Plateau region, South weather is in store for Great Lakes region, Atlantic coastal states and eastern Gulf Ohio Valley, Tennessee and Gulf Coast reCoast region. It'll be warmer in Mississippi gion.

(AP Wirephoto Map) Schedule of the Tides for Today Boca Grande 7:56 Bokeelia 9:06 Bonita Beach 8:00 Cape Coral 12:54 Edison Bridge 2:04 Everglades 10:12 Ft. Myers Bch. 9:00 Marco 8:50 Naples 7:50 Pine Is. Bridge 10:00 Punta Gorda 1:04 Punta Rassa 8:40 Sanibel 8:20 Strong Tide. High Low a.m.

10:50 p.m. 1:24 a.m. 3:48 p.m. a.m. 2:24 a.m.

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4:00 p.m. a.m. 10:38 p.m. 3:08 a.m. 3:50 p.m.

a.m. 9:38 p.m. 2:08 a.m. 2:50 p.m. a.m.

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Famed 'Red Dean' Dies in England (Copyright N. Y. Times Service) LONDON Dr. Hewlett Johnson, the former Dean of Canterbury who because of his, espousal of Communist causes was known as the Red Dean, died in Kent and Canterbury Hospital Saturday. His age was 92.

He was taken to the hospital last week after a fall at his home, the Red House, in Canterbury. Dr. Johnson preached his last DR. H. R.

SWEETLAND CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC Office Hours 9-12 2-8 Tues. 9-12 1570 Colonial Blvd. WE 4-2144 SAY IT WITH FLOWERS CARL GURTHA'S FLOWER SHOPPE We Wire Flowers 3250 Cleveland Ave. WE 6-1956 sermon in the Canterbury cathedral on April 7, 1963, a sermon about the powers of nonviolence. In retirement he devoted much of his time to completing his autobiography.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Michael Ramsey, sa.d after being notified of Dr. Johnson's death: "Dean Johnson was a good friend to me since I came to Canterbury. Disagreeing as I did with some of his views, I held in regard his many sided gifts and his keen human sympathy." Dr. Johnson leaves his second wife, the former Nowell Mary Edwards, whom he married in 1938, when he was 64 and she, a dancer and the daughter of a clergyman, 32.

His first wife, the former Mary Taylor, the daughter of a Manchester cotton merchant, died in 1931. New Jersey's Newark Airport last year served 1 4,867,800 passengers and its Air Cargo Center processed 98,900 tons of cargo. Willing Water gives: SERVICE WHEN 0 IT COUNTS THE MOST That's right, Florida Cities Water Company keeps Willing Water on the job and around the clock with service for you when it counts the most Dial MO 4-6051 from 9 a.m. 'til 5 p.m. or WY 5-2146 Anytime.

Florida Cities Water Company Sunset today 5:53 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:32 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 2:21 a.m. Prominent constellation: Cassiopelae, high in north at midnight. (In 1572, a star, brighter than any other, suddenly appeared in Cassiopeiae.

It later grew dimmer and it disappeared entirely early in 1574.) Weather Yesterday Local Skies YESTERDAY WEATHER In Fort Myers Oct. 22: High 81, low 72, humidity (per cent) 93 at 6 a.m., 74 at 1 p.m. Rain: .04 inch. Temperatures elsewhere: Albany 65 31 Angeles 78 Alpena 63 47 Louisville 67 Amarillo 55 39 Memphis 73 Asheville 68 33 Meridian 78 Atlanta 69 50 Milwaukee 58 Atlantic 61 48 Montgomry 70 Baltimore 66 35 Montreal 64 Birminham 72 47 Nashville 74 Bismarck 46 34 Orleans York 83 Boise 49 33 New 65 Boston 66 46 Norfolk 70 Buffalo 66 41 33 Phoenix Phildelphia 64 85 Burlington 62 Charlotte 56 44 Pittsburgh 67 Chatanooga 66 40 Portland, 60 Chicago 60 52 Portland, 0 67 Cincinnati 63 46 Richmond 70 Cleveland 65 48 St. Louis 66 Columbus 64 45 St.

Paul 52 Dallas 74 58 Salt Lake 52 Denver 62 31 San Antonio 86 Des Moines 58 41 San Diego 69 Detroit 67 49 Francisco 70 Duluth 40 37 San Juan 85 Fresno 72 38 Savannah 79 Houston 83 63 Seattle 57 Indianaplis 63 51 Toronto 63 Kansas Cty 65 48 Washington 70 Knoxville 70 43 Wichita 60 Little Rock 67 48 Wilmington 80 FLORIDA CITIES FLORIDA CITIES Aplachicola 86 76 71 65 Gainesville 77 66 Jacksonville 78 65 Key West 84 74 Miami 82 71 Ocala 80 66 Orlando 79 69 Pensacola 78 64 St. Pete 81 73 Tallahassee 82 65 Tampa 81 70 Equal Houses Rare In Assemblies LONDON Many nations have a federal assembly, congress or parliament in which one body represents the states and the other the people as a whole, but only in four nations are the two bodies equal in power; the United States, Switzerland, Brazil and the Soviet Union. Flowers ARE SO NECESSARY KINZIE'S Rose Gardens FLORIST We Telegraph Flowers 2900 Second St. ED 4-1149 Our Families need not know beforehand how many people expect to attend the funeral as we can satisfactorily accommodate groups of any size at a moments notice. Leo Engelhardt Funeral Home 24 Hour Oxygen Equipped Ambulance Service SERVING FORT MYERS AND AREA FOR OVER 50 YEARS TELEPHONE 2017 McGREGOR BLVD.

FORT MYERS, FLORIDA ED 5-1166 Deaths and Funerals CHRIS JENSEN Funeral service for Chris Jensen, 83, of Brown Road, North Fort Myers, will be held Monday at 3:00 p.m. from the chapel of the Harvey Funeral Home with Rev. Eugene F. Helms, pastor of St. Michael's Lutheran Church officiating.

Interment will follow in the Fort Myers Cemetery. ARTHUR CEPHUS BREEDEN Funeral service for Arthur Cephus Breeden, 68, a resident of Iona Gardens, will be held Monday at 10:00 a.m. from the chapel of the Harvey Funeral Home with Rev. D. R.

Hutchinson, pastor of Mt. Hope Presbyterian Church officiating. Selected to serve as pallbearers Basil Shaw, Fred Baker, Stewart Fabian, Huber Green, Dick Haney and Ray Reed. Interment will follow in the Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Friends may call from 2:00 p.m.

to 9:00 p.m. today. GEORGE L. STEWART PUNTA GORDAStewart, 72, of 227 Cross died Friday morning. He was born in Washington, D.C.

and came to Punta Gorda four years ago from Hyattsville, Md. He was a member of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church Port Charlotte. He is survived by one sister, Miss Annie Stewart of Washington, D.C. Funeral arrangements will be announced the Kays Funeral Home Charlotte Harbor.

WALTER N. KUNKLE PORT CHARLOTTE Funeral service for Walter N. Kunkle, 74, will be Monday afternoon in Battle Creek, Mich. Burial will be in Battle Creek. Kunkle moved to Port Charlotte eight years ago from Battle Creek.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Rita M. Kunkle, and a granddaughter, Susan, both of Port Charlotte. Kays Funeral Home of Charlotte Harbor is handling local arrangements. JOHN C.

HANSSLER PORT CHARLOTTE John C. Hanssler, 77, 474 Northeast Hernando Ave. died Friday morning. was born in New City came to Port Charlotte four years ago from Long Island, N.Y. He was a retired section head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and a member of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church of Port Charlotte.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gertrude B. Hanssler of Port Charlotte: three sons, John Alfred W. and Edwin D. all of Long Island, N.Y.: two brothers, William F.

of St. Petersburg and Edwin H. of Durham, N.C.; one sister, Mrs. Katherine Vincent of Crestwood, N.Y., and eight grandchildren. Funeral service will be held Monday at 11 a.m.

at the Kays Funeral Home in Charlotte Harbor with Rev. Harold Ahalt of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will be at a later date in New York. In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to make donations to the Memorial fund of the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Port Charlotte. MRS.

HELEN W. WILKINS PORT CHARLOTTE Mrs. Helen W. Wilkins, 73, died early Saturday morning at her home at 948 Ednor Street, Port Charlotte. She was born in Chicago and came to Port Charlotte six years ago from Hometown, Ill.

She was a member of the Episcopal Church. She is survived by her husband, John C. Wilkins of Port Charlotte: one Willard, of Illinois; one brother, Harold Lewis, and one sister, Mrs. Erma Dickson, both of Chicago, Ill. Funeral service will be held Tuesday at 10 a.m.

at the Kays Funeral Home in Charlotte Harbor with Rev. Robert W. Turner of St. James Episcopal Church officiating. Burial will be at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, friends are asked to make donations to the American Cancer Society. MRS. JESSIE K. WEAVER CLEWISTON Mrs. Jessie Kersey Weaver, 87, died Saturday morning in Clewiston.

She was a native of Florida, living most of her life in Parrish, and had moved to Clewiston four months ago. She is survived by her husband, Dilburn W. Weaver of The News- Press Published seven mornings a week News Press Publishing 2442 Anderson Fort Myers, Fla. Mail address P. 0.

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Entered as second class matter the Post Office at Fort Myers, Fla under act of March 3, 1879. Clewiston; five sons, Roland of Topeka, and one sister, Harley both of Clewiston, Mrs. John Sellon of LaGuna Lester L. of Odum, and Hills, Calif. Ernest E.

and Dilburn both Funeral arrangements will 1 be of Parrish; four daughters, announced later by the Edward Mrs. Juanita Crenshaw of Rus- R. Ponger Funeral Homes, Pun kin, Mrs. Murttie M. Heinkel of Fort Myers, Mrs.

Gertrude tin of Odum, Ga. and Mrs. Ruby L. Edenfield of Tampa, and 31 grandchildren. Graveside service will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m.

at the ner Cemetery in Parrish. Arrangements are by the Pattison Funeral Home in Clewiston. LEE T. KING PUNTA GORDA Lee T. King, 67, of 158 Crescent Punta Gorda Isles, died early Saturday morning.

He had been a resident of Charlotte County for the past two years, coming from Manhattan, Kan. He was a member of the Punta Gorda Isles Civic Association, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, past president of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce and a past United Fund director in Manhattan. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Geraldine H. King of Punta Gorda Isles; one son, Rannells King of Westbrook, one stepson, W.

H. Cole of Punta Gorda Isles: one daughter, Mrs. Charles Hinshaw of Hutchinson, one brother, Marion King Miami Negroes Attack Whites, Killing Youth MIAMI (P) Three white youths who were "looking around" in a Miami Negro district were beaten and stabbed Friday night, one of them fatally. The survivors told Sheriff's Lt. William E.

Armstrong that they made friends with three Negro youths and a Negro woman while "just looking around." They said the four Negroes suddenly attacked them and took their wallets. Armstrong identified the dead youth as Miller Snead, 18, of Homestead and said he succumbed to multiple knife wounds in the chest. Larry Williams, 18, of Miami, was stabbed in the abdomen and was in fair condition after surgery. Gerald Kerce, 18, of Miami was beaten but did not require hospitalization. Armstrong said the attackers fled after a resident near scene of the incident heard the commotion and emerged to.

fire a pistol in the air. Two were picked up later but have not been identified. Exchange Sprays SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (P) Robert Robles, a postman here, has filed a $6,000 damage suit against the owner of a dog on his mail route. Robles charges that she stopped him on his rounds and sprayed a poisonous substance at him.

He said the incident occurred after he had sprayed the woman's dog with a repellent that the post office had given to postmen to use as a defense against overly-affressive canines. Read Want Ads Garden Club Starts Season Soon at Naples JOHN D. GRAHEK PUNTA GORDA John D. Grahek, 70, resident of Punta Gorda died Friday afternoon in Bay Pines Veterans Hospital. He had lived in Charlotte County the past eight years, coming from Chicago, Ill.

He was a retired employe of city of Chicago, a member of the American Legion in Punta Gorda and of the Disabled American Veterans Association. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Thoro Grahek, of Punta and three brothers, Joseph, and James of Harbor Springs, and Edward Grahek of Decatur, one sister, Mrs. Joseph Likovich of Calumet, Mich. Funeral service will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m.

at the Edward R. Ponger Funeral Homes, Punta Gorda Chapel with Rev. Reese Y. Henderson of the First Presbyterian Church of Punta Gorda officiating. Burial will be at a later date.

(News-Press Bureau) NAPLES With their first meeting on Monday, Nov. 7 the Naples Garden Club will begin its 13th year of activities. The executive board with Mrs. Harry Wootton, president, has programs for the complanned, to please the more 100 members and, hopefully, induce newcomers in town to join, At each meeting members bring plants to exchange or donate along with pertinent information on care and propagation. Experts every field from palms potted plants may be found there ready and willing to help the neophyte gardner.

Featured speakers throughout the year will discuss water gardens, flowering trees, herbs and other topics of interest to subtropical gardeners. On the morning following each meeting a workshop is held at a home to explore a specialized field of horticulture of special interest to the group. The flower show, an annual attraction, will be held late in February. The herb luncheon will again take place early in March. The home and garden tour of some of the most beautiful homes and luxuriously landscaped gardens in Naples will be March 18.

field trip in April and the final meeting in May at the Caribbean Gardens will round out the club year. In addition to the many beautifully landscaped homes in Naples which are the result of the individual efforts of the members of the Naples Garden Club, city beautification projects undertaken include much of the landscaping around the hospital. library, fishing pier, Fifth Ave- nue extension and the Four Corners. New members are always welcome and may call membership chairman, Mrs. Robert Coe.

They are invited to the first meeting. Provost Guards To Meet Monday A meeting of the Provost Guards of the Araba Shrine Temple will be held Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Temple, 2010 Hanson to have a picture taken in uniform for the Araba Palms magazine, Robert Daubenspeck, provost marshall, said. The Provost Guard will act as policemen, firemen, and administrators of first aid at the first Araba Shrine Ceremonial, to be held Saturday, when over (150 new candidates of the Shrine will be initiated. The ceremonial, which begins with a parade at 10:15 a.m.

starting from Exhibition Hall, will be the largest assembly of local and out-of-state Shriners ever to assemble in southwest Florida, Daubenspeck said. ROLLIN C. COWPERTHWAITE PORT CHARLOTTE C. Cowperthwaite, 90, of 453 N.E. Felton died early Saturday morning.

He was born in Camden, N.J., and came to Port Charlotte four years ago from Haddon Field, N.J. He was a retired hardware store owner, a veteran of the Spanish American War and a member of the First Christian Church in Port Charlotte. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie E. Cowperthwaite of Port Charlotte; four sons, Theodore Cowperthwaite of Barringtonite of N.J., Clearwater, Everette Paul Cowperth- Cowperthwaite of Los Angeles, Calif.

and Rollin C. Cowperthwaite Jr. of Haddon Heights, N.J.; one sister, Miss Ethel Cowperthwaite of Philadelphia, and seven grandchildren. Funeral service will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Kays Funeral Home in Charlotte Harbor with Rev.

Harry Thomas of the First Christian Church officiating. Burial will be in Restlawn Memorial Gardens. The American Legion Post 110 will conduct the graveside service. Pallbearers will be Irl May, Arthur O'Neill, Rev. Harry Thomas, Perry Lance and Henry Royer.

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