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4B Fort Myers News- Press, Saturday, April 1, 1978 Dateline: Florida Victim not dead; murder charge dropped LEESBURG (AP) Aaron Rucker remained in jail Friday, but now the charge wasn't nearly so serious. Instead of murder, he faced an aggravated battery count after officials learned the man he struck wasn't dead. He only had a bump on his head. Rucker, a 45-year-old Leesburg fruit picker, allegedly bashed Joe Temple in the head with a steel pipe during an argument Tuesday. Rucker went to jail originally on the battery count.

But it seems a funeral director went to the police to find out about the next of kin for a dead man who had been stabbed 12 times. And somehow, things got confused. The police apparently thought the funeral director was talking about Temple and called the Lake County Courthouse to make sure Rucker wasn't released on bond. The man who died was Eldridge Mosley Jr. 51.

He was stabbed in an argument in the same part of town Sunday. "The confusion of them both happened at the same time set up the mixup," Leesburg Police Capt. Charles Graham said Friday. In the Mosley slaying a roommate, James Stewart, 43, was charged with first-degree murder. Meanwhile, Rucker remained in the county jail waiting for the paperwork on his battery charge carrying $2,100 bond to be processed.

As for Temple, he was treated and went home to nurse the bump on his head. Osceola Forest mining needs U.S. OK TALLAHASSEE (UPI) Federal approval will be required for phosphate mining in Osceola National Forest under a crucial ruling by a Washington court, Attorney General Robert Shevin's staff said Friday. Assistant Attorney General Marty Friedman said the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overruled a district judge and determined that mining in the forest can't begin without a permit from the U.S.

Department of Interior. The March 3, 1977, order was reversed without comment. "At least we've stopped it for a while. It means the phosphate companies are going to have to let the secretary of the interior finish his review of the environmental impact," Friedman said. Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp.

sued the state and interior claiming it was entitled to mine phosphate deposits it had discovered in the national forest with or without a federal permit. Then-Interior Secretary Rogers Morton ordered studies on the environmental impact of the proposed mining made while the issue was fought out in the courts. Studies released this week by the U.S. Geological Survey and Fish and Wildlife Service conclude that mining probably would cause only minimum environmental damage to the forest. Cecil Andrus, the current secretary, will use the reports when making decisions on some 40 applications for mineral leases for the forest, located in north central Florida between Lake City and Glen St.

Mary. Osceola has an estimated 120 million tons of phosphate reserves, one of the biggest deposits in the state. The USGS says mining in Osceola won't damage the Floridan Aquifer or cause other major environmental damage. Girl's slayer sentenced to death BARTOW (AP) A 19-year-old citrus worker was sentenced Friday to death in the electric chair for the rape and murder of a 7- year-old girl abducted from her home last November. Polk Circuit Judge William Norris ignored the recommendation of a 12-member jury that Robert Lewis Buford be given two life sentences.

Buford was convicted Thursday in the death of Toni Annett Wright of Lakeland. Norris sentenced Buford to death on each of the murder and rape counts and to 15 years in prison for burglary. During his trial, Buford admitted raping the girl, but said he did not kill her. The defendant showed no emotion as sentence was pronounced. While the jury deliberated on the sentencing recommendation phase earlier, he collapsed and had to be carried from the courtroom.

Testimony at the trial indicated that after the young girl was sexually assaulted, a 35-pound concrete block was dropped several times on her head. Buford's mother, Elizabeth, told the court her son was not a violent person, but had changed in recent months after becoming heavily involved with drugs and alcohol. Marijuana-laden freighter scuttled MIAMI (UPI) The Coast Guard cutter Steadfast pulled eight Colombian seaman from the Atlantic Ocean Friday after they apparently set fire to their small freighter, which was laden with an estimated 10 tons of marijuana. When the Steadfast came on the scene, near San Salvador Island in the eastern Bahamas, a Coast Guard spokesman said, crew members of the 65-foot coastal freighter Lemar III were observed dousing their vessel with what appeared to be gasoline. The seamen then set their ship aflame and jumped over the side.

Tampa man gets fish-game post TAMPA (UPI) Insurance executive Nelson Italiano, Gov. Reubin Askew's patronage chief in Hillsborough County, confirmed Friday he has accepted a five-year appointment as district commissioner of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission. Askew is expected to announce the appointment Monday in Tallahassee. "Appointment to the game commission presents a new challenge," Italiano said. Italiano will succeed Sonny Burnett of Brandon.

Alfred J. Love, 81, of 435 Van Buren St. and Montgomery, died Thursday. A native of Castiglione, Italy, he had been a regular winter visitor to Fort Myers for several vears. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy Love of Fort Myers and Montgomery, two daughters, Mrs.

Florene Johns and Mrs. Dorothy Pysber, both of Montgomery, and seven grandchildren. The body will be sent to the Snyder Funeral Home, Montgomery, for service and burial. Local arrangements are by the Anderson Funeral Home, 3654 Palm Beach Blvd. LETTIE F.

FLYNT Southwest Florida Deaths, Funerals ALFRED J. LOVE Lettie F. Flynt, 77, of 1947 Ricardo died Thursday. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and had lived here for the past five years. She is survived by two sisters, both of I Winston-Salem, N.C.; a niece, Larona Hauser and Inez Blakeley, Mrs.

C.B. Hauser of North Fort and Myers, James and Utt. two ne nephews, Colin Utt Memorial service will be held today at 7:30 p.m. at Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home with the Rev.

Bryan Robinson officiating. Memorials may be sent to the heart fund. CLEVEY C. FOUTS Funeral service for Clevey C. Fouts, 81, of 2117 Cottage will be held today at 10 a.m.

at Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home with the Rev. Rae For The Record Lee County LEE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS Bernard W. Friedman, Grace M. Haase, Gladys E.

Connor, Harold J. Smith, Edward P. Moriarty, Urmel Powell, Kathy Franklin, Joan Koenigs, Harold Tayntor, Auttie Barber, Morgan L. Jordan, Verda Mergenthaler, Roy Marmon, Flossie Lutz, Elaine H. Casale, Charles Cogan, Ilah Schoals, Anna Jablonka, Wilma Hale, Charlie F.

Stone, Shaurie Hughes, Kara Wallace, Ethyle Clevenger, John B. Brumbley, William Nowling Edgar D. Crumpacker, Carlota R. Elizondo, Glenda Abney, John L. Bleau, Norberto Matias, Alfredo Regalado, Jennifer D.

Davis, Kelly W. Schelquish, Willard (Bill) Newton. DISMISSALS William F. Wilson, Blanche Smith, Mike Devivo, Claretha M. Miller, Smith A.

Dodson, Amelia H. Tunnell, Katrina Gardner, Jose Rivera, Ruth A. Cryder, Fred H. Griswald, Louise M. Haney, Alice M.

Kresse, Melvin Ray Collis, Ruthmary Mercer, Gale Frazier, George Bain, Mariorie Bohannon, Dorothy S. Riggs, Michael Szalay, Dorothy Williams, Andrew Davis, Louise E. Pritchard, Carol A. Marano, Robert E. Waldron, Leta A.

Himschoot, Ben Counselman, Kelly A. Henderson, Shirley Louise Crump, Dorothy Rover, David P. Miller, Nancy Chandler, Vickie C. King, Alice Pridgeon, Denise Huguet, Pedro Milton, Rotino, Barrozo, George Lee Shannon J. W.

Murphy Sweeney, Wildrick, 11, Joseph Fran Tony ADO Isley IV, Helen G. Pizzi. BIRTHS AT LEE MEMORIAL To Mr. and BROWN, Henry, Apt. A-13, Sabal Palms, boy, 8 pounds.

March 31. HOERNER, John, 3000 N. Tamiami Trail, boy, 7 pounds, 9 ounces, March 30.00 MOSLEY, Albert, RT. 14 Box 115, girl, 7 pounds, 12 ounces, March 31. PLONSKI, Scott, P.O.

Box 4193, girl, 7 pounds, ounces, March 31. SUTTON, Gene, 201 Utah Street, boy, 8 ounces, March 30. MARRIAGE LICENSES Joe L. Melvin, 20, and Kim Marie Dickson, 20. Sampson Dean Eckhart, 54, of Orlando, and Janet R.

Gardner, 42, of Columbus, Ohio. Joseph Nathaniel Allen, 31, and Madie Betty Thomas, 29. John E. Ranieri, 29, and Carlotta Narvaez, 22. Danny Lee Alvarez, 18, and Cynthia Ellen Young, 18.

Joseph Anthony Rogers, 21, and Pamela Lou Blake, 19. Kevin Harold Schuman, 24, and Carol Jean Stauffer, 23. Phillip Lin Ambler, 34, and Evelyn Fay Peterson, 25. DIVORCES FINAL JUDGMENTS Carolyn E. Webster and Jerry L.

Webster; Debra G. Barnes and Boisie A. Barnes; Barbara Leete Silver and Steven Andrew Silver; Ocie B. Peterson and Willie C. Peterson.

BOOK FAIR AND PETTING FARM SAT. SUN. April 1st 2nd 1 to 4 P.M. Books For Children Ages 2 to 6 Years LEARNING CENTER OF FORT MYERS 1300 CYPRESS LAKE DR. FORT MYERS OPEN HOUSE The Steadfast picked up the freighter's crew then put a crew of Coast Guardsmen aboard the Lemar III, who doused the flames and discovered the cargo of marijuana, estimated to have a street value in excess of $6 million.

The Lemar III is of Venezuelan registry, the spokesman said. The Steadfast took it in tow toward Miami where it is expected to arrive Monday morning. Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department was checking with Venezuelan authorities to determine the. disposition of the freighter and its crew.

The spokesman said the Lemar III apparently was a smuggler's "mother ship" used to supply illegal marijuana shipments to smaller vessels bringing the contraband into the United States. OPEN HOUSE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY, APR. 1 and 2, 2 to 5 p.m. CASA BONITA I1, Apt. 703 Hickory Bonita Beach Master bedroom and living room overlook Gulf of Mexico, Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach.

Guest bedroom overlooks Estero Bay. Great area for boating, sailing, fishing, shelling and swimming. World's most beautiful sunsets just outside your window. Two bedroom two bath apartment completely furnished $69,500 JUST OFF ESTERO BLVD. Broker Main Office: 1724 Cape Coral Pkwy.

542-8712 Or Associate, Helen Larocca, 1-992-1443 Means officiating. Pallbearers will be Roy Wallian, Bill Wallian, Ceicel Wallian, John Wallain, Dwayne Fouts and Roland Hopper. Burial will be, at Memorial Gardens Cemetery. WILLIAM E. ZINNEBAUER William E.

Zinnebauer, 90. of 8400 Beacon died Friday. He was six-year resident of this area and formerly was from Detrioit, Mich. He is survived by one son, William C. Zinnebauer of Fort Myers; one daughter, Mrs.

Elsaline Clarke of St. Petersburg, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The body will be sent to the Charles Verheyden Funeral Home, Detroit, for service and burial. The Harvey Funeral Home, 1600 is in charge of local MARION. WILMA SUTTON Funeral service for Marion Wilma Sutton, 48, of Sanibel will be held today at 10:30 a.m.

at the Kiser-Belcher Fort Myers Funeral Home, 1280 Cypress Lake Drive, with the Rev. Bruce E. Milligan officiating. Burial will follow Royal Palm Memorial Gardens, Punta Gorda. FAITH E.

SUTPHIN Fort Myers Villas, died Friday at Naples Community Hospital. tive of Fort Hood, Texas, she came here years ago from Hawaii. "Sha was a member of the Cypress WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN 89, the only son and last surviving child of famed orator William Jennings Bryan, has died at a nursing home in Santa Fe, N.M. Bryan served as collector of customs for port of Los Angeles during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt and was an assistant U.S.

attorney in Arizona from 1915-1920. ROGER WILLIAMS, 47, national advertising manager of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News was killed by a van being pursued by police while walking on a downtown sidewalk near his home in Philadelphia. ABE M. BARANOFF, 73, a lifelong New Yorker who had charge of road bookings for the Shubert organization for the past 15 years, has died at St. Clare's Hospital in New York.

LAWRENCE GUBOW, 59, U.S. district court judge, who served as U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Michigan from 1961 to 1968, has died at Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital in Detroit. EDWARD E. "CRASH" THOMPSON 80, former operator of an auto thrill show that was one Vessmer, YOUR EXTRA TOUCH FLORIST MEMBER F.T.D.

3366 CLEVELAND AVE. Ph. 936-2131 AND GARDEN MALL MYERLEE SQUARE Ph. 481-2421 Lake Presbyterian Church. She School, was a senior at Cypress Lake High member of the school band and a member of the Pantherettes.

She is survived by her parents, Charles and Ruth Sutphin of Fort Myers; one brother, Charles R. Sutphin Jr. of Fort Myers; one sister, Jennifer Ann Sutphin of Fort Myers, and her grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. Charles Stahl of Syracuse, N.Y., and Mr.

and Mrs. B.H. Sutphin of St. Albans, W.Va. Memorial service will be held Sunday at 3 p.m.

at the Kiser-Belcher Fort Myers Funeral Home, 1280 Lake Drive, with the Rev. Robert Veley and the Rev. James O. Holbrook officiating. Burial will be private.

Friends may call Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m. at the funeral home. WILLIAM ARTHUR RESINGER William Arthur Resinger, 67, of 223 Redcliff Lehigh Acres, died Thursday. He was born in Philadelphia, and had moved to Lehigh Acres one year ago from Huntington Valley, Pa. He was a member of Quaker City Lodge 724 in Philadelphia, the German Social Club of Cape Coral and was chairman of the Republican Century Club.

in Abingdon; Pa. He is survived by his wife, Evelyn Resinger of Lehigh Acres; three daughters, Patricia Ann Hyman of Roanoke, Lynn LaPlant of St. Petersburg Beach, and Billie Adair of Willow Grove, one sister, June Macintosh of Huntington Valley, and five grandchildren. The body was sent today to Jenkintown, for funeral service and Deaths Elsewhere burial. Farley Funeral Home of Lehigh Acres was in charge of local arrangements.

PAULINE H. STEWART Pauline H. Stewart Bonita Springs died Friday at Naples Community Hospital. She was born in Cook County, and had been a resident here for years, coming from Sumner, Ga. She was a member of the Sumner United Methodist Church.

She is survived by two daughters, Edith S. Lanier of Bonita Springs and Martha of Aniston, one Miami, enduring four grandchildren. brother, Norman of Pittman's Bonita Springs Chapel, 2116 Old 41 Road, is in charge of arrangements. J. CARL SALISBURY J.

Carl Salisbury, 79, of 1241 Gramac Drive, North Fort Myers, died Friday in Punta Gorda. He was born in New York and had been a Florida resident for eight years. He was a member of the North Fort Myers United Methodist Church and B.P.O.E., Wolcott, N.Y. R. Salisbury of North this Fort Myers; He is survived by wife, Bertha one son, Carlton Salisbury of Boca Raton, one daughter, Mrs.

Albert (Susan) Miller of North Fort Myers; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be held Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the North Fort Myers Memorial Funeral Home with the Rev. Don Mizell officiating. Burial will be in Wolcott, N.

Y. of the most famous in the ton, nation, has died at St. Mary's appeared Medical Center in Racine, Wis. cluding CHIEF CLEMENS KAPUUO, a HENRY F. pro-South Africa leader of the ior vice Herero tribe, was assassinated officer in Windhoek, South-West Africa, Gulf police reported.

bella, director WILFRED PICKLES, 73, a well- South known broadcaster who ran the nois "Have a Go" radio show for 21 minal years for the British Broadcast- and the ing has died at his Brigh- Harvey, England, home. Pickles had in several films Liar." DAVENPORT, 51, senpresident and operating of the Illinois Central Railroad, has died in MarSpain. Davenport was a of the Pullman Co. Chicago Railroad IlliTerminal Railroad, the TerAssociation of St. Louis First National Bank of Ill.

FORT MYERS MEMORIAL GARDENS Southwest Florida's Most Beautiful Burial Estates IS THE ONLY CEMETERY (AS FAR AS WE CAN ASCERTAIN) THAT 1) PLACES FLOWERS ON EVERY MEMORIALIZED SHRINE AT EASTER (17,000 GLADIOLI THIS YEAR) 2) PROVIDES MEMORIAL EMERGENCY ASSOC. 3) OFFERS AN 84 MONTH PAY PLAN AT INTEREST PUBLIC NOTICE A meeting will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers at 9:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 4, 1978, to review the Flood Insurance Study recently completed by the Federal Insurance Administration. The Flood Insurance Study will be used as a basis for the community's adoption and enforcement of flood plain management criteria required in connection with the National Flood Insurance Program. All persons interested in obtaining information concerning this Program are requested to attend the meeting. A copy of the preliminary Study is available for inspection in the City Clerk's office.

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