News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 2

29 MYERS (Fla.) Lake Drainage Ruins Fishing Protests Fired as Fresh Water Rolls Down River effect on (Continued salt water Enhing'in'this area. At Clewiston protest movement was reported under way over lowering of the lake level. Phil Francis, U.S. Sugar Corporation chemist, editor of Florida Outdoors magazine and conservationist, said, "People are up in the air over here." Francis said the current 15-foot level of the lake was decided on as "safe" at the start the rainy by engineers last year and season contended drainage is "unnecessary at this time." "It's going to ruin the bass fishing in the lake, as well as the salt water fishing around Fort Myers," Francis said. "I've done some investigating and as far as I can determine farmers on islands in the lake are the only persons who want a low level, Others don't, and there is movement under way to do something about it." Veteran Guide Eddie Fitzpatrick, one of whose favorite fishing spots is the Caloosahatchee above Fort Myers, was one of 1 the loudest protestors.

Lines Get Fouled "I've been fishing the river, for 26 years," said Fitzpatrick, "and this is the first I have been run out. It has been impossible to fish there since this drainage began. The fish aren't there, and every time you make a cast, your line is fouled up by moss or some other junk." Hal Lawin and George Hartman, couple of Gladstone, anglers, who have been coming here for six years, agreed. Lawin keeps his trailer at Fort Myers Beach, but has been doing most of his fishing in the river. "We kept boat up the river Just for fishing," Lawin said, "but FOR SALE 1951 Oldsmobile Super 88 3500 Miles "All the Trimmings" Substantial Reduction in Price! OWNER Dial 2-4051 NEWS-PRESS, Tuesday, March 4, 1952 I'm going to pull it out tomorrow.

There were some nice spots up there but it's no good now. The water is muddy and dirty." aren't biting," added "Hartman." John (Doc) Wilson, who operates a tourist camp the Beach, passed on complaints of guests and others over recent conditions in the river. "Quite few fellows down here fish up the Caloosahatchee when the weather is bad outside," said Wilson. "But now they all come back complaining that it is full of moss and other stuff. They say they can't get a plug in the river without having it fouled up by debris." Floyd E.

Alexander, who owns the Palm Oaks Trailer Park in North Fort Myers and operates a boat rental and bait business besides, said trailerites "have been moving out every day" since the lake water began showing up in the river here. Bait Shrimp Killed Alexander was one who lost bait shrimp because of the fresh water. Like other bait dealers, he pumped water from the river into his shrimp tanks. When the fresh water started flowing into the tanks, the shrimp began dying. Alexander said he lost 300 to 400 shrimp for two or three days before he realized the cause of the mass deaths.

"Now I have to haul salt water from Pine Island Bridge," he added. "In tanks addition, so the the cost water of re-pip; ing the circulate properly cost about $100." 0. G. Starkey, who operates Starlite Docks next door to Alexander's place, also got caught with dead shrimp and now must haul in his water. "I guess that altogether I lost 3,000 shrimp before I realized what was causing the damage," Starkey related, The bait shrimp, most of them brought here from the East Coast, cost $2.50 a hundred, or $25 thousand.

"The fresh water has completely knocked out fishing up river," Starkey added. Mel and Thelma Waite at the Cove in Iona said they lost about 3,000 shrimp when the fresh water first 1 reached that point near the mouth of the river between Iona and Punta Rassa, In addition, Waites said they had two cabins rented which would have brought in $50 a week through April 1. Refund the Money "These came here to fish," said the Waites. "But when this mess started they were dissatisfied and there was nothing we could do but refund their money for the rest of the season. They moved out right away." "Several boats from upriver have moved down here to dock," said Tommy Marvel of Port Comfort, near Punta Rassa.

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Ph. 2-1169 of them mentioned how dirty it is. The fishing has not been good. I'm not qualified to say whether the lake drainage is causing that, bat it could be. If they have to open up the locks, there should be a fair distribution of water between the river and the St, Lucie." "People come here from all over the state for salt water fishing," said Mrs.

Marvel. "They've got fresh water fishing home: but. they want salt water fish when they come here. If we don't have that to offer, then they have no interest in coming here." Clyde Williams at the Punta sa Fish Camp said he had lost only about 500 shrimp so far because of the fresh water, "but if it keens up I'll be in the same boat with the rest of them." Williams recalled that during the rainy season last summer he and his partner, Collier, lost 7,000 shrimp before they finally went out into the Gulf and hauled back salt water. Not Even Brackish Williams and this reporter tasted the water being pumped into his bait tanks at the mouth of the river.

It had slight taste of salt but couldn't be classed even brackish. "I know that fishing parties now have to go almost all the way to Sanibel Island before they can catch anything worthwhile," Williams said. "It looks to me as though they could split up this flow between Fort Myers and Stuart." If the water was less than brackish at Punta Rassa, it was "just like getting it out of the faucet" at the Daniels Seafood Co. plant on East Riverside Drive In Fort Myers. That was how F.

H. Hartman, owner of the plant, described the condition. Hartman has had to halt his purchase and resale of live soft crabs, although he is still packing crab meat. "We bring the live crabs down from the Myakka River, which is very salty," said Hartman, "They stay alive in the fresh water until they shed their shells, then die. We stopped buying crabs last Friday night, At that time we had about 3,000 on hand.

We're trying to salvage what we can by adding salt to the water; but that is not satisfactory and we'll probably lose 95 per cent. At 10 cents apiece, that runs into money." Lattimore Discussed Post With Russian WASHINGTON, March: 3 (P)- Senate investigators brought out today that Owen Lattimore discussed his assignment as a political adviser to Chiang Kai-shek with the Russian ambassador here before it was announced publicly and while Russia was still allied with Hitler Germany. The discussion occurred during Mayflower Hotel luncheon on June 18, 1941, just four days before the German invasion of Russia signaled the end of the HitlerStalin pact. A Senate internal security subcommittee hearing also disclosed that in June, 1940, an article written by Lattimore for the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR) was submitted in advance of publication to the Soviet ambassador, Constantine Oumansky. Lattimore was questioned for the sixth day by the subcommittee, which is searching for any subversive influences on U.

S. policies in the Far East. The investigation has centered on the IPR, a private research organization of which Lattimore is a trustee. When today's session was cut short by legislative action in the Senate, Lattimore, a Johns Hopkins University professor and Far Eastern affairs specialist, was directed to return tomorrow. Florida Democrats Opposed to Truman WEST PALM BEACH, March 3 (A) -Chairman E.

B. Donnell said the state Democratic executive today early returns from a poll of committee members indicated solid opposition to President Truman running for re-election. The 134 members are voting by mail on a containing a plank which effect -that platform, Mr. Truman shouldn't run again. Twenty of the first 21 replies, Donnell said, favored the platform.

The platform was submitted at a committee meeting in St. Petersburg Jan. 5 but no decision was reached then on whether to adopt it. Funerals DR. ADDIE PRINCE HARRILL Funeral services for Dr.

Addie P. Harrill will be held Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock from the McQueen Young Chapel with Elder O. H. Taylor, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, officiating. Interment in Fort Myers cemetery.

Pallbearers: Henry Hill, J. C. Byers, Arden Palmer, O. H. Taylor, L.

V. Harris and Arthur R. Pinkerton. EDWARD E. TAYLOR Funeral services for Edward Eugene Taylor will be held today at 2 p.

at Leo W. Engelhardt funeral home with Rev. Millard Cleveland officiating. Pallbearers will be Lester Fox, Frank Nodine, W. J.

Allen, Forrest Baumgardt, Lewis Barber and Julian Rogers, Interment will be in the Fort Myers Cemetery. CORA MAE PHILLIPS Funeral services for Cora Mae Phillips will be held today at 3:30 p. m. with the Rev. Charles Hamil.

ton of LaBelle officiating. Pallbearers will be Alto Hiers, Roy Brown, M. G. Silva, Earl R. Murry, Lewis Nobles R.

B. Waldron. Honorary bearers will be R. N. Miller, J.

D. McCloud, C. A. Murphy and R. J.

Moon. Interment will be in Fort Myers Cemetery French Unable To Check Reds (Continued Page One) 75 miles southeast of Hanoi on the Gulf of Tonkin. Even this is far from secure present, French and native Vietnamese: soldiers sta almost daily battling strong infiltrations into the delta by Vietminh regulars and guerrillas. Right now the French are pushing "operation leap year" -intended to push back two divisions of Vietminh who began Infiltrating from north and south in an effort to cut the Delta line in two. The general staff announced today that 531 guerrillas had been killed and 1,000 wounded in the operation since Feb.

29. The French say they can launch "an offensive" at any time now. But obviously they mean mop-up drive in the delta, not knock-out battle. little more than week ago the French pulled out of Hoa Binh, 40 miles southwest of Hanoi on the Black River. That meant the French have no immediate intention of trying to push the war into western Indochina where the bulk of the Vietminh is scattered.

Denies Defeat Gen. Raoul Salan, commander in chief who ordered the evacuation, doesn't seem to regard the withdrawal defeat, With breezy nervousness he told press conference Hoa Binh was no longer of any importance. It was Salan, however, who, along with the late Marshal Jean de Lattre de Tassigny little more than three months ago, hailed the capture of Hoa Binh as one of the biggest victories of the war in Indochina. It was over the highway through Hos Binh that the Vietminh had moved vast supplies from Communist China to their troops in central and south Viet Nam. Salan explained it wasn't any use to hold Hoa Binh longer since the Vietminh had succeeded in building new roads farther west.

Salan said, too, that the French didn't. have enough heavy bombers to continually blast the new roads and keep them out. That was hint that more aid was needed from the United States. The French, by giving up Hoa Binh and positions along the Black River, left the way open for the Vietminh to regroup on the eastern bank of the stream and prepare an offensive of which Hanoi itself may eventually by the target. Salan's objective now, he plained, is to hold Hanoi and the rice, rice-growing and manufacturing centers of the Red River delta, until it would be possible for the French to launch a big offensive, possibly in three or four months.

'Vienna Greetings' Tickets Go on Sale Tickets will be on sale today for the musical show, "Greetings From Vienna," which will be presented by group of touring Austrian students in the High School auditorium on March 10. Meanwhile, a committee of hostesses to entertain visitors was announced, including Mrs. George Allen, Mrs. Francis Campbell, Mrs. Frank Haneburger, Mrs.

Walter Edelblut Mrs. Walter Edelblut Mrs. George Bail and Mrs. Truman Wilson. Mrs.

Allen requesting anyone willing to house one or more of the Austrian students telephone her at 2-0191. The $1 tickets will be on sale the First National and Lee County Banks, Arcade Cigar Store, Gluckman's, Royal Palm and Washburn's Drug Stores, Royal Palm Photo Studio, and Martindale's. Tickets will also be sold at the high school for the special afternoon performance. Currently, an exhibit of colorful Austrian costumes is being displayed at the high school. GETS CITIZENSHIP TAMPA, March 3-Anastatios Demetracopoulos of Fort Myers, native of Greece, was granted U.

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eral of the diamond ball supporters and they are in favor of the change if it's not too far out. don't know if we could get it in this year's budget but we are going to need all the parking area we can get up town." Use of the Richardson Field area for parking was also one of the first suggestions made by Bernard Tuck, State Road Department sistant project engineer, now ing a traffic survey here. Ball fans have pointed out that if a site could be found on one of the major highways not too far from the center a town, Fort Myers would soon be able to offer suitable facilities for major league baseball training. In his recreational program, Edwards also suggested trading city land in the old municipal airport-industrial area for Dunbar Heights property which could be used for Negro recreational area. "The telephone company doesn't have a franchise and they seem little reluctant to ask for one," said Stevens when he brought up the utility tax question.

"I'd like to suggest levy on any telephone company using the city streets, say $2 a pole and 25 cents foot for cable each year. We could use the money to hire more policemen." "The telephone company has just never applied for franchise," said Holt. "I know they would like to have one if they just had to ask for it but they don't want to go through the rigors of an Holt pointed out the company now furnishes conduits and wires for parts of the fire alarm system and has also furnished several free telephones. "Let's pay for the phones and let the company pay for franchise," said Councilman R. G.

Williams. The question was held over for further discussion. Bids ranging from $15,900 to $20,700 were received from six companies on a new fire pumper truck. The successful bidder will be determined today by committee headed by Councilman Carl R. Roberts and including Councilmen Stevens and Melvin Frey.

McCarthy Suggests Tax Testimony (Continued from Page One) tax cases. He said he wanted Dunlap to return and testify under oath on that point. The Wisconsin senator said he understood the President's reorganization plan would give Secretary of the Treasury Synder greatly increased powers over the tax collecting machinery. In view of that, it was important to find out "the extent of the influence of the treasury over the bureau, and whether it has held up prosecutions or collections of New York Slightly Bored by Samia's Famous Midriff NEW YORK, March 3 Samia Gamal, perhaps the most publicised Egyptian beauty since Cleos patra, exposed her celebrated midriff to New York night club crowd tonight. The 37-year-old dancer went through the same hip-weaving show that charmed Egypt's funloving King Farouk in a command performance But, to sared habitues of Broadway, it looked simply like a glorified hootchy-kootchy.

Still, she got big hand from Manhattan's Latin Quarter crowd when her sinuous body stopped shimmying with clang of bals. Then she said: "I hope can speak very good English So I can tell you how wunderful you are." Backstage, she grinned and said she had put on a weak show because: I was so nervous. This is New York, you know." And her press agent remarked: The way you react to Samis is an indication of how you would have reacted to Cleopatra." Samis came here from Miami Beach where she made her debut in this country after marrying Texan Sheppard (Abdullah) King. who became Moslem to wed her. He is a lumper and cotton heir.

Fort the $8,000 week she is drawing, she walks out onto the stage in gold and purple costume, takes off most of it and proceeds to wiggle her hips in slow motion. Six minutes later the pare having quickened she's through. They call it the "Dance of the Nile" -and she has come up in the world with it since she first began dancing in chorus line at 16. Missing Fire Hose Mystery Pondered (Centiased Pare One) tion by Chairman Harry M. Stringfellow that railings similar to those at the Postoffice be placed on the use steps for the assistance of the aged and infirm.

It also approved request by Tax Assessor John M. Boring that the assessment on land of Leonard Santini at the south end of Fort Myers Beach be lowered from $70,000 to $41,000. Boring said improvements made on the land, after the legal time for making sashssments, had erroneously been included in the original value. The cut lowers taxes on the property from $3,189 to $1,867 this year. Commissioners approved an arrangement made by Parks with the Bonita Springs Exchange Club to buy and stockpile oyster shell for road-building in the Bonita Springs ares with the club furnishing the loading area.

The board also approved purchase by Parks of creosoted piling to reinforce the Bonita Beach bridge. Oliver Knauth of Beaufort, S. was given permission 1 to use county pits at Buckingham for a fresh-water shrimp raising prolect. EMERA CLUB TONIGHT PUNTA GORDA, March 3- -The Emera Club of the Order of Eastern Star will meet Tuesday evening at 8 p. at the Masonic Temple.

Mrs. Mabelle T. Baugher is president and Mrs. Anna Frederick and Mrs. Mary Curran are hostesses for this meeting.

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