News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

Published Every Morning Member Audit lurtau circulation AP Now and Wirtphotos N. Y. TlfflM Strvlc Thomas A. Edison Said 'Thar I nly ena Fort Mytrs and million paopla ara alng la find II nut." 83rd Year Fort Myers, Tuesday, February 28, 1967 5c Daily, 15c Sunday FORT MYE press EWS Still Imh iespnfie Men Faircloth Cons If Vackenhuf's Cops Are Legal Opinion Planned Soon on Kirk's Crime War For Peace Freeze Brings Heavy Damage To Crops Here Dour Farmers Report Tender Plants Nipped By JEWELL DEAN Hows Vietnam Ms TALLAHASSEE UP) Florida Atty. Gen.

Earl Faircloth has Monday's bright sun turned many leaves dark in Southwest Mi Wfc mm been studying questions on the Florida agricultural fields, tell legality of Gov. Claude Kirk's controversial "war on crime' tale evidence that the mercury's official touch at 32 degrees freezing Sunday for some time ana will com iliiiiillliiX iwu IT ment on his investigation soon, morning did heavy damage it was learned Monday. A spokesman for the attorney Small Primary Turnout Likely, Forecasters Say The damage ranged from very severe to none. It caught nearly all tender plants to some general said, however, that Faircloth would have no com' extent. Part of a field might ment now on a news story appear unburned and another saying that the war on crime portion scorched.

It was not a will require approval from the disaster generally but a single state cabinet or the Legislature before it can be legal. "There's been a lot of people Believes Strategy Best Calculated To End War WASHINGTON -President Johnson said Monday the United States has gone in for more far-reaching blows at North Vietnam but he doesn't interpret this as moving away from hopes of peace. In the aftermath of naval shelling of ground targets in North Vietnam, the mining of rivers and the use of long-range artillery against targets north of the demilitarized zone, Johnson told a press conference he believes he is pursuing up the course best calculated to lead to peace. At a question-and-answer session in his office devoted mainly to the conflict in Vietnam, he was asked whether the more far-reaching steps over the weekend were taken because bombing has failed to halt infiltration from the north. He said asking about its legality," said the spokesman.

He declined to Lorenzo Walker Faces Opposition From Housewife Little Enthusiasm At Polls Around Florida Expected grower could have been hurt disastrously. High prices which usually follow a freeze could provide a bonanza for numerous farmers. Comment generally was dour from those who Monday inspected fields of cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelons and identify those who had made queries about the privately- financed anti-crime campaign. The questions, he said, MIAMI Frantic last' With only one legislative con minute vote appeals by a mob test on the Democratic primary generally have been on the legality of using a private pquash. Usually they found the plant breakdown worse than in ballot in Lee County today, a of 546 candidates for Florida's new "one man-one vote" organization for a war on dicated Sunday.

Cloudiness Sun sum turnout of voters is ex crime. day and Monday would have Legislature appeared Monday to pected. Republicans have two Faircloth has said previously aided the crippled plants bounce Supreme Court Declines to Hear Hoffa's Appeal WASHINGTON UP) be falling on deaf ears among contests in their primary. Lee that it's a very delicate the electorate. back from their shock.

Bounce Back County is predominantly Democratic with 2 6,24 5 Observers predicted that two responsibility and should be exercised by officials of the state. He said that "at the very least" registered Democrats against out of three registered voters Resourceful growers, used to set backs, indicated they planned to bounce back. They 8,845 Republicans. tired of picking one Legislature the names of donors to the Teamsters Union President after another during the state's campaign should be made started Sunday to plant James R. Hoffa neared the end year s-long reapportionment public.

cucumber seeds in a row drilled of the road Monday in his fight struggle would sit out today's about six inches from reeling The Miami News said that a first primary. to stay out of prison. Rep. J. Lorenzo Walker of Naples drew a contest from Mrs.

LaDell J. Mitchell, a North Fort Myers housewife, in the Democratic primary. Republicans pick from seven candidates in the 3 4th Senatorial District and four he thinks it impossible to state with any great precision how many individuals were in South Vietnam because we did bomb or didn't bomb during some period. Bombing Benefits He added that "generally speaking, we feel that it has The Supreme Court cleared Pat Thomas, state section of the state's financial laws gives full control of money Democratic chairman, said less the way for his jailing for jury matters for "purposes authoriz than 40 per cent of the voters tampering by refusing to give ed by law" to the comptroller, would respond. In Dade County, him a second hearing on the budget commission or where the names of 80 1964 conviction and refusing to Legislature.

Democrats and six Republicans hear his claim of widespread No Funds Yet candiates in the 35th Senatorial District, all from Palm Beach County except Carroll S. Shaw of Fort Myers. The. GOP winner government eavesdropping at young plants. The fertilizer for a crop is in the ground.

With growing conditions favorable, the new planting could catch the earlier damaged one. Potatoes in the main came through. The Pontiacs (Reds) are nearly all harvested in a fair to better season. White Sebagos, much less in acreage, were hit hard as their season is only beginning. Those maturing first lost their leaves and will not attain the tuber growth an are on the ballot, only one in four was expected to go to the George Wackenhut, head of the Chattanooga, trial, the private detective agency polls.

in the 34th will oppose Sen Hoffa's attorneys, their backs that is in charge of the crime Elmer O. Friday Jr. of Fort against the wall, quickly en war, said ne naa not received Myers, Democrat, in the March After 10 years of fighting in the Legislature and of litigation in the courts, a three-judge tered pleas with Justice Potter done those things that we expected it to do," but no one ever expected bombing would stop infiltration except those who want us to stop it. "We do think," the President went on, "that there are hundreds of thousands of people who are busy trying to put the bridges back and the railroad ties back and the other things back. I would estimate that to any money to finance his in is election.

Stewart that he temporarily vestigations for Kirk, the Chairman Robert C. Brown of federal tribunal ordered new block the union leaders im News said. Wackenhut said he the Lee County Democratic elections of a 48 member prisonment. They said they will ticipated. Young fields can put had been underwriting the cost Senate and 119 member House Committee said Monday he ex so far through personal loans, out new growth and make later but fair harvest.

pects only about 4,000 based on Florida's 1960 popula ask the U.S. District Court in Chattanooga for a new trial based on the ''bugging" the paper said. tion census. This could be important as In a Miami speech Feb. 8,1 Democrats and 4,000 Republicans to vote.

Sheriff Flanders Thompson estimated No Clearcut Issues charges. have lost less than 500 men in our bombing experiences. Prob North Florida potato areas such With only a few days to woo And, in any event, they said as Hastings reportedly were Kirk said private donations to finance investigations by Wackenhut agents would be there would be the smallest the voters, candidates had no the sentence should be held up chilled until damp ground froze time to develop clearcut issues ably we have lost a billion dollars in planes. "We thought that we could make them pay a rather heavy until the U.S. Circuit Court in as much as an inch below the funneled through a trust foun turnout here in years.

"I don't imagine there will be 7,000 In a few areas, the vote could surface. Cincinnati rules on other new trial efforts. dation with Kirk as permanent chairman. The proposal has voting in the entire county," bring an expression of feeling "Older cucumbers, more Near-riot resulted when snow came to Fort Myers Monday as youngsters milled In the sticky stuff and hurled snowballs at each other. Lower, Terrl Hodson, recipient of carload from Chicago, shovels some out.

(News-Press photos by Lyle Byland) The court made no comment never 'been presented to the lhompson said. Lack of Interest on how Republican Gov. Claude Kirk has done in his two-month- hardened, were pretty well wiped out but young plants budget commission, which is as it announced, in a routine Thompson commented that the state cabinet, for a vote. price in manpower. They may have 100,000 busy on air defense.

They may have 100,000 or so busy on coastal defense. I don't want to be held to these figures. Some have estimated as many (Continued on Page 2-A) surprisingly did quite well," said Henry Witte manager lack of interest in the races. old administration. In the upheaval brought by the court's order, some way, that it will not reconsider its Dec.

12 decision upholding Hoffa's conviction, 8-year prison Kirk has made it clear repeatedly that his crime war satisfaction with incumbents Terri's Carload Arrives of the Fort Myers State Farmers Market. He was in a elected only last November and sentence and $10,000 fine. is an undertaking of the state. He says the Wackenhut detec lack of time for campaigns will combine to hold down voting group that inspected fields south to Naples and even The high tribunal rejected, legislative veterans were thrown into battle against each other and some who lost out in the elections last fall were given new hope of comebacks. tives will be agents of the numbers.

farther toward Miami in Collier without comment, Hoffa's "motion for relief" based on his governor's office. Although there has been only County. The same appraisal ap claim that Justice Department The Legislature elected last a brief campaign, some candidates have had heavy ex plied to tomatoes. 800 Acres Lost agents tapped his telephone. Snowball Fighf Erupts in City fall had just convened in a special session when the U.

S. those of his lawyers and "bug penditures, according to reports India Seeks Tourists CALCUTTA UP) The Indian Chamber of Commerce has urg Plant Here Hit By Costly Blaze Fire of unexplained origin broke out Monday night at the Glades Lumber Wood Treating Co. plant on Hardee Street east of Fowler Street. No one One Fort Myers grower reportedly lost 800 acres of pep filed Monday with the secretary Supreme Court ruled it an un ged" the jurors' hotel rooms during the Chattanooga trial. constitutional body.

or state. Friday had total contributions of J5.105 and ex ed improvement of the coun Plan Tossed Out In a futile, last minute at penditures of $3,313.40. Walker had contributions of $1,818.51 the tempt to avoid court reapportionment, the Legislature Hoffa, 54, was convicted of tampering with jurors at his 1962 Taft-Hartley conspiracy trial in Nashville. A mistrial had been declared in Nashville when the jurors there could not agree. By EDDIE PERTUIT The biggest (and only) and spent $1,451.88.

Mrs. prevent a riot among amateur snow warriors. Vanishes in Melee try's facilities for foreign visitors. The group contends India should be able to earn 5133 million a year from tourism instead of the current $26 million annually. was injured, but Carey Simmons, owner, estimated the loss snowball fight in Fort Myers Mitchell had $150 in contributions and spent $103.20.

adopted still another plan of its own and saw this one also tossed out by judges weary of the long numbers game that had Terri. the 13-year-old "Snow history erupted Monday afternoon as hundreds of By late Monday 61 absentee up to $250,000. The company supplies treated poles to utility companies in the area and has 25 full-time em Girl" of Fort Myers Beach ballots were on hand to be youngsters swarmed over a counted, Mrs. Clarence Clutz been played in Tallahassee. disappeared in the melee after brief ceremonious poses for half-ton snowpile.

(Continued on Pag J-A) Beote Slill Married Today's primary will be ployes. The snow arrived in tropical pers In an area between Fort Myers and Immokalee. Another farmer wrote off a large squash crop except his latest planting. County Agent Robert G. Curtis said many of the hardest hit cuke fields had plants in the heavy vining period with fruit setting heavily and represented a bad loss dollarwise.

He said most people he visited estimated 50 to 70 per cent of the normal spring harvest was destroyed. Peppers, a fairly cold-resistant plant, were not badly hurt. Fred Wesemeyer of Glads said all of his Iona area sweet corn came through. He has only some 15 more days in marketing 300 acres, staggered in planting to achieve a con-(Contlnued en Page -A) followed by a runoff March 14 Simmons said it was not Fort Myers peacefully enough, photographers. The snow was hers, the first she had ever seen, sent as a and general election March 28 Fort Myers Army in a Burlington Lines refrigerated car.

But the storm In most places, incumbents known Monday night where the fire originated. It was reported shortly after 9 p.m. by Jack gift from W. J. Quinn, president were solidly favored to keep broke the minute Terri Hodson their jobs because of the short DeBois, night watchman.

unlocked the door. time allotted to their Simmons said about 10,000 gal Snowballs and snow in lumps, challengers to campaign. lons of creosote and the pine Beauty Loses Suit Against Millionaire TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Beate Leber lost her $2.5 million breach of promise suit against a multimillionaire rancher Monday, and her attorney said she would return chunks and powdery handfuls of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad in Chicago. Plans for sled rides were thwarted by the near-riot of native youngsters of all ages romping in snow for the first But in a few districts, where sprayed amidst the royal palms poles soaking in it were destroyed.

Metal buildings crumb for more than an hour. The car veteran small county legislators saw their old districts tacked on Man Is Awarded Purple Heart Medal Pvt. Firbert Barnes, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Barnes of 2930 Thomas Fort Myers, received the Purple Heart Medal Jan.

31 in An Khe, Vietnam, the Army announced Monday. Barnes received the award for wounds received in action in door was shut again after about led under the heat. A 40,000 gallon cylinder of creosote in the to big population centers, upsets half a ton had been unloaded, to time. The ammunition, packed by the trip from appeared possible. vicinity of the blaze was saved.

jjemocrats in general were Three fire trucks from the Chicago, sparkled in 70-degree to Germany but not to her hus sunlight as the kids discovered band, who leased her for $3,000 less concerned with the primaries than the general elec Central Fire Department and one each from the North Fort the various joys of making a thorough mess of things. Lebers was based on an illegal document and therefore had no tion, when they face a mass Myers and South Trail Fire Departments fought the blaze. Vietnam. standing in court. assault by Republicans fired up by Kirk's election to the Dr.

Coppolino's Murder Trial To Open in Naples on April 3 Sled Appears Terri has a sled, a gift from Simmons and DeBois said an The private, a rifleman in Hayes argued that the dapper governorship. rancher was equally at fault electrical short was the probable cause. Company B. 5th Brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry's 7th Cavalry, the Eagle Army-Navy store here that received the toy unex- since he, too, signed the agree The wood treating company npotedlv in a shioment last will be shut down today but Body of Ferrie Still Unclaimed Silvertooth denied this, and nlhpP Another sled was in ment, and should not benefit from it while Mrs. Leber was punished.

Hayes said he would entered the Army in May 1966 and arrived in Vietnam last October from Ft. Polk, La. He graduated from Dunbar Simmons said he expects it to also refused Monday to grant aLritonce. a familv heirloom of defense motion that would have five-year-old Bryan Hastnick, be back in business in about three weeks. appeal.

He said Mrs. Leber believed High School in 1965. a month. U.S. Dist.

Judge John C. Bowen dismissed the 34-year-old German beauty's suit against William N. Brown, 65 on grounds she's still legally married to Ralph Leber of Heidelberg. He ruled that it's legally impossible for her to accept a marriage proposal from another man. Mrs.

Leber and the rancher heard the judge's ruling without a show of emotion in the courtroom where they had told how their meeting in a German nudist colony began a jet-set romance in Monte Carlo, Lausanee, Heidelberg and the Bahamas. "She is returning to Germany required ine prosecution to whose grandmother hailed from NEW ORLEANS W) The body of David William Ferrie who disclose every piece of physical Pittsburgh, Pa evidence it intends to produce herself to be single after she and Brown went to Juarez for the divorce Nov. 1, 1965. Even Dist. Atty.

Jim Garrison says was one of the key figures in his during the trial. The snow removed was hefted out by Fort Myers' enitre snow removal squad a front end loader deftly maneuvered (Continued On Page 3-A) investigation of the Kennedy as On the Inside sassinationremained unclaimed Monday at the city morgue. if it isn't admissible, Hayes said, there was sufficient evidence during the actionable period to permit the case to go to the jury. "The divorce was based on an Garrison, who says he'll prove a conspiracy was hatched in New Orleans which culminated in the Britain Plagued By Gales, Floods assassination in Dallas of Presi The prosecution suggested that the trial be held in Naples, Bartow or Fort Myers on the ground that these areas had been little exposed to the flood of publicity surrounding the case. Coppolino was acquitted in December of the murder of a former neighbor, William Farber, in a trial at Freehold, N.J.

Florida and New Jersey murder indictments followed immoral agreement," replied immediately," her attorney dent Kennedy, remained secluded. Raymond Hayes told newsmen Norman Hull, Brown's attorney. "Mrs. Leber got the di- There were no new develop later. "She will not go back to; SARASOTA UP) The murder trial of Dr.

Carl Coppolino in the death of his first wife was transferred Monday to Naples and set for April 3. Circuit Judge Lynn Silvertooth ordered the sensational case moved out of Sarasota, where Coppolino lived on fashionable Longboat Key with his physician i Carmela, when she died August 28, 1965. The state has charged that Coppolino, a handsome 34-year-old anesthesiologist, gave his wife a fatal injection of the drug succinylcholine chloride, which is difficult to detect after death. Silvertooth shifted the trial after both defense and prosecution agreed that pretrial publicity in Sarasota impaired the doctor's chances of a fair trial. But Coppolino's chief defense counsel, F.

Lee Bailey, had protested any location but Miami and asked Silvertooth to reserve ruling until an attempt had been made to seat a jury in Sarasota. ments reported in the probe. her husband, Ralph, but pro- vorce on grounds if incompati- Feme, 48, was found dead in bably will enter the import-ex LONDON UP) Gales gusting to 80 miles an hour swept much of Britain Monday, bringing floods and blocking roads. Ferry services were disrupted off western Scotland and Eng- bility. This was false.

She has testified that she had a happy his apartment last Wednesday. Coroner Nicholas Chetta says he Stock market suffers sharpest loss of year. Page SB. Rev. Horn honored as outstanding man of the year.

Page 10-B. Index Weather Amusements 9A Partly cloudy through Bridge 7A Wednesday. High today near Classified 6B-9B 75, Southeast and south winds Comics 4B 8.18 mlles per hour. Crossword 4B Deaths 2A East Gulf marine forecast: Editorial 4A Southeast and south winds 81S Financial SB knots. Partly cloudy.

(Fuu weathpp Sports 2B-3B TV 9A port business. She will return to the United States when her appeal is heard." Declining to allow her to talk to newsmen, Hayes said Mrs. marriage. Hull argued that a fraud was perpetrated on the Juarez court autopsies on the exnoumed died of natural causes a cerebral hemorrhage. Garrison insists it was suicide.

bodies of the victims whichjland's south coast. Guernsey when it wasn't told of the Sometime pilot, sometime pri agreement, under which Leber agreed that his wife should be Leber relied on what Brown's attorney had told her. authorities said they ordered me uianwa after Farber's widow, Marjorie, huge waves crashing over the told them she was suspicious of top of the Hamois lighthouse, the deaths. Huge seas breached the seawall vate investigator, Ferrie insisted in interviews before his death They told her she was divorc Brown's guest "or otherwise" for a year while he received the monthly payments. Mm Fnrher testified in tne ai ed," he said.

"She believed them." flooding scores of houses. Sea- he had nothing to do with the Kennedy assassination in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963. He said Garrison was trying to finger him as the The agreement, he said, New Jersey trial that she and Coppolino had been intimate. The doctor later wed a Sarasota divorcee, the former Mrs.

Mary Gibson. Judge Bowen ruled that the Mexican divorce obtained by Mrs. Leber under an agreement signed by Brown and the front roads at Douglas and Castletown in the Isle of Man were closed for fear vehicles would be swept away. resulted in "an illicit and weird relationship between the Lebers and Brown." "get-away pilot" in an alleged plot..