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Thomas A. Ediion Said "There is only one Fort Myera and 90 million people are going to find It out." Tka Ediion fefata In Fort Mrert hu been given the City as memorial and ia now open te the public. SIXTY-NINTH YEAR FORT MYERS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1953 6c DAILY, 10c SUNDAY Fort Myers Mews-Pie Mies Comes itack M(DiigiiuSDin)g Pib of Koram ImkmKQ (Fdg Trouble; fiflondsiy Johns to Keep Bevis on Job; Praises Work Denies Asking for Resignation of Health Officer Millage Rate Pared Slightly By City Council i Budget Adopted; $102,811 Surplus Is Forecast 4 ft i L- miijimimii i hi mi ma! Red Delegates Quit Korean Commission PANMUNJOM, Tuesday, Oct. 20 (IP) Angry Czech and Polish members reportedly wslked out on the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission yesterday, a break that may portend collapse of Communist attempts to persuade 22,400 anti-Red pris-oners to return home. Reliable sources said the two Communist members stalked out when Swiss and Swedish members snd the Indian chairman refused to force North Korean prisoners to sttend persuasion sessions.

The hour for the regular daily repatriation commission session passed today with no delegates on hand for the meeting. A spokesmen said it wss not certsin there would be a FJRE SWEEPS THROUGH CRASHED PLANE. Flame engulf wrecked Eastern Airlines Constella-tion sfter the four-engine crsft plunged to the ground during takeoff from Idlewild Airport in New York. The crash was the first fatal one since the airport, the world's largest, was opened in 1948. i Entertainers and Newsmen 20 Die in Mexican Plane Crash While Presidents Meet on Border FALCON DAM, Oct.

19 fV) More than 20 persons, including some of Mexico's top newspaper reporters and entertainers, were killed in an airplane crash today while en- Reds Insist on Discussing Nations At Peace Parley TOKYO, Tuesday, Oct. 20 (JP)r The Communists yesterday agreed to meet with a S. envoy next Monday at Panmunjom to arrange for the Korean peace con ference, originally scheduled to begin Oct. 28. But in accepting, the Communists in a note broadcast by Peiping Radio once more insisted on discussing which nations shall attend.

This is the very issue that has balked all efforts to get the momentous sessions started. A U. S. spokesman at the United Nations said the U. S.

representative, Arthur Dean, would fly to Washington tomorrow for conferences with Secretary of State Dulles and other top officials. The spokesman said Dean would leave Washington for Panmunjom Wednesday, Oct. 21, ac-compained by half a dozen advisers. He said Dean would pick up othera in Tokyo and Seoul. The United States, after consulting its Allies in the Korean war, sent the Communists a note last week proposing a meeting at Panmunjom to select a time and place for the peace conference.

The U. S. note said the Allies would be ready to discuss the question of neutrala attending the peace conference "to the extent consistent with" previous decisions made by the United Nations. Stalemate Seen The Communists want Russia, India, Pakistan, Indonesia and Burma to attend. The United States would agree only to Russia, and then only if the Soviets were invited by Red China and North Korea.

The United Nations backed the United States. Thus it appeared likely that the Panmunjom meeting would bog down in an argument over the neutral nation question. In yesterday'a note. Premier Chou En-lai of Red China made clear he believed the question of neutral nations participating was more important than settling the time and place. He said that his government "deems that in these (Panmun-j 2 Die, 25 Saved As Airliner Burns At New York Field Heroic Stewardess, Purser Cut Through Wall of Flames NEW YORK, Oft.

19 MP) A modest purser who braved a white-hot wall of flame was praised today for preventing disaster in the blading crash of an airliner at Idle-wild Airport. Only 2 of 21 persons aboard died. However, the purser, Albert Fol-li, 29, of Clifton, N. passed all credit for heroism to the stewardess of the four engined Eastern Airlines Constellation, She is Anne Krause, 33, a willowy brunette from Philadelphia. "The purser just leaped through the flamea and opened the door," said one passenger, who said he owed his life to Folli's leadership in the split second between salvation and death.

As Folli lead the passengers out. Miss Krause stayed behind to see that they all made it. Both crew members were painfully but not critically burned. "If there is any "credit duegive it to Anne," Folli insisted. Plans to Report to President Today On 'Big 3' Session WASHINGTON, Oct.

19 JP)- Secretary of State Dulles returned to his desk today with a new stack of troubles piling up over the proposed Korean peace conference and the potentially explosive crises in Trieste and Palestine, Back from the Big Three foreign ministers parley in London, Dulles said he plans to report to President Eisenhower "first thing tomorrow morning." The secretary, expressing' cautious optimism about the outcome of the London talks, was greeted by these rapid-fire developments: 1. Communist China agreed to meet with the United Nationa Allies at Panmunjom next Monday to arrange the time and place of the Korean peace conference but insisted that the Panmunjom talks must also Bettle the question of what nations will join in the full-scale conference later. 2. Mounting; tension between Israel and the Arab states, stemming from bloody Israel-Jordan border incidents, came under dia-cussion at an argent meeting1 of the United Nationa security council in New York. U.

S. Aid Cut Off 3. The United States, in a move to ease another Israeli trouble source, announced it is cutting off American aid to Israel until that republic halts work on a project to divert the waters of the River Jordan along the Syrian border. 4. The Belgrade Radio broadcast a statement saying Yugoslavia would refuse the West's invitation for a five-power conference to dis cuss the burning Trieste issue, if it is a foregone conclusion that Trieste's Zone now occupied by American and British troops, will be handed over to Italy, The West has suggested a meeting among Britain, the United States, Italy and Yugoslavia to settle the Trieste dispute.

5. Communist reaction indicated a eold shoulder to the latest western proposal for the Bis; Four foreign ministers American, British, French and Russian to meet at Lugano, Switzerland, on Nov. 9 to discuss the future of Germany and Austria. The Soviet-controlled East German news agency ADN said the newest proposal "contains no concrete reply" to Soviet proposals and "confines itself to Diplomatic experts said that once more the Russians appeared to be stalling. New Twist in Parley Amid these problems, Dulles was confronted with a new twist in setting the stage for a Korean peace parley.

This time the Chinese Com munists accepted a proposal to meet at Panmunjom a week from today, but again insisted that neutral nations be allowed to Join i'arinnra paaa Tm) CHICAGO HOT Chicago, Oct. 19 MP) A new high temperature record for the date was set in Chicago today. The reading at 11:30 a.m. was 82. The old mark, set in 1924, waa 81.8.

The weather bureau, noting this, commented "One year ago on the morning of Oct. 20, 1952, there was three inches of snow on the ground." The Weather Tuesday, Oct. 20 FORECAST Partly cloudy little change in temperature today and Wednesday, Gentle to moderate easterly winds. TIDES Fort Myers Beach: high 11:41 a.m. and 11:36 p.m.; low 5:26 a.m.

and 5:45 p.m. Punta Rassa: 20 minutes earlier. Marco: 10 minutes earlier. Naples: 1 hour 10 minutes earlier. LOCAL SKIES Sunrise 6:29 a.m.

Sunset 6:55 p.m. Moonset Wednesdsy 5:24 a.m. Full Moon Thursday a.m. The planet, Mercury, now appears very briefly in the southwest after sunset. Next month (Nov.

14) we will see Mercury pass over the face of the Sun. YESTERDAY -Fort Myers tempearture: high 83, low 65. Humidity (per cent): 93 at 6:30 a.m.; 62 at 1:30 p.m. No rain. Temperatures elsewhere: jom) discussions there could be Rob Knowlton, steward of the Cor-included the aettlement of the llnin r.ii;nir the action an Killed rout to the meeting of U.S.

President Dwijrht D. Eisenhower and Mexico's President, Adolfo Ruiz Cortinez. The government-owned C-47 plane left Monterrey at 7 a.m. with a load of newsmen and officials for Falcon Dam for the meeting of presidents. The 23-passenger plane, completely wrecked on the side of a deep ravine, was sighted this afternoon 16 miles northeast of Monterrey.

There apparently were no survivors. The National Fine Arts Institute listed six male and seven woman dancers and three other persons of the Gloria Mestre ballet who-' were aboard. The dancers were to participate In the entertainment for the presidents. The festival ended nearly half an. hour before the scheduled time.

Th only explanation given at the moment was that some of the performers had failed to arrive. Broiling Border Sun Three thousand United States and Mexican citizens faced the broiling border sun and cheered today as their Presidents dedicat ed a great new dam to their peace and wealth. Artillery pieces bellowed a 21-gun salute as the chiefs of state returned to their own nations at 3 p.m. Presidents Eisenhower and Ruiz Cortines both spoke of -the five-mile Falcon Dam as a strong link in the endifring friendship of both. Eisenhower wound up the dedication with a denunciation of totalitarianism in any form and a promise of friendship and concern for well-being of all neighbor American nations.

Verdant Valley The dam lines the United States and Mexican borders at the upper end of the verdant Rio Grande Valley, the rich lands of citrus and vegetable farms it was built to irrigate and protect from flood. The brilliant sun struck gleaming silver light from a V-shaped atainless steel shaft that marks the border about a- third of the way over from the United States side. Flags of both nations flanked the shaft. President Ruiz Cortines, speaking first, said in Spanish the dam is above all "a source of prosperity for a vast group of human beings men, women and children without distinction of nationality, race, language or religion." President Eisenhower called the stark gray dam "living testimony to the understanding and cooperation binding our two peoples." Before the dedication. Eisenhow er visited the Mexican President at the new town of Nuevo Guerre ro.

A crowd estimated by the Mex- CaHaw Twt), PAINTER PLUNGES EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Oct. 19 (JP) A 89-year-old paint-er plunged 26 feet to his death from a warehouse today onlv IK minutes after he had been hired to work a job. The victim was J. B. Foley, of Florala, Ala.

TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 19 (JP) Florida politics remained unset tled today as acting Gov. Charley E. Johns said he will ask resignations from some top McCarty ap pointees, but wouldn't name them. He also left unanswered ques tions about when he might move against t'ie officials and when or how he might seek a test of his eligibility to run for the last two years of the unexpired term of Gov, Dan McCarty, who died three weeks ago.

Johns clarified the situation in the State Conservation Commission by rejecting the resignation of Di- him for the "spirit which prompted" rector Charlie Bevis and praising the McCarty appointee to submit jt. In rejecting Bevis' resignation as conservation supervisor, Johns said he consulted the state cabinet board of conservation and found Bevis is "doing a conscientious and dili gent job" before deciding to re ject the resignation. Bevis, al though appointed by the governor, works under the cabinet. Health Officer The acting governor said he has n't asked State Health Officer Wilson T. Sowder to resign and hadn't authorized anyone to suggest it.

Dr. Sowder, who has held office under three governors, said he had "been given to understand" by Dr. Carl C. Mendoz that Johns wanted him to resign. Dr.

Mendoz denied it. Dr. Mendoz was named to the board of health by the acting gov ernor last week. There was no indication that any more of the major' McCarty appointees would voluntarily turn in their resignations in compliance with three publio statements from Johns which started as a suggestion and grew into a declaration that resignations "may have be come imperative." Firings Hinted The Miami Dally News quoted an "authoritative source" as say ing Johns will fire several top McCarty men "in short order, probably with the next few days." It mentioned Chairman Richard H. Simpson of the State Road De partment and moat of the road board members, Hotel Commissioner Mack Humphrey, Industrial Commission Chairman James T.

Vocelie, Chairman Curtis Haggard and members of the Racing Com mission and Chairman Earl Powers and other members of the Turnpike Authority. However, Johns at Tallahassee indicated he will take no action to ward point blank resignation requests for at least another week. He had speaking engagements in Pensacola and Callahan for Monday and Tuesday and plans to leave Thursday for the University of Florida homecoming at Gainesville. "I will ask for some resigna tions," he said in response to a re quest for amplification of his Sat- urady prepared statement that resignations may have become imper ative "to prevent the creation of a political machine the like of which this state has never seen." Face to Face "I wouldn't want to say at this time who," the acting governor added. "I want to talk with each of them personally.

I said previously that those I want to resign I will ask and I will ask them personally, face to face." Since he first said he would ask personally for any resignations he wanted, Johns has conferred with (Coatlaacel rate Tm) Republican Women Charge Alexander Ignored Meeting ST. PETERSBURG, Oct 19 JP) The Florida Republican women's harmony meeting planned in Lakeland this weekend struck a note of discord today. Mrs. Harold McGeorge, president of the Florida Federation of Republican Women, criticised Harold Alexander, chairman of the state GOP executive committee, for ignoring the Lakeland meeting of the state federation. Mrs.

McGeorge, who lives here, said Alexander, of Fort Myers, sent out a two-page newsletter to all parts of the state and failed to mention the Lakeland meeting. "The Lakeland meetings' purpose," she said "is to bring harmony back to all levels and factions in Florida and it appears unpleasantly significant that the state chairman ignored the Lakeland session in his newsletter." She said the Lakeland meeting to be held Friday and Saturday would be the first in more than two years at which party leadera on all levels and groups could get together and plan for next year's congressional campaigns. "We can't understand why Alexander should ignore this meeting in view of his announced harmony move," she added. One of the top features at the Lakeland meeting is a panel discussion of the question: "How can the differences existing among the factions of the Republican party be resolved!" The Citf Council la night adopted a budget for the isa year ending March 31, 1964, and Bet the tax rata for the year at 13.8 mills on the dollar, Laat year's millage was 13.92. Income for the fiscal year was estimated at $1,899,740, of which 1340,000 is from ad valorem tax and 11,659,740 ia expected from other sources.

Estimated expenditures total leaving an expected surplus of $102,811. The spending was broken down into operating ex-pcnses of utilities fund, additions and betterments, and others, 207(-000. It is the 16th year in succession that the millage rate has been lowered, the last raise being in 1938. The greatest drop over the 16 years followed the 1948 reassessment when the rate was dropped from 25 mills to 18. The decline since 1948 has been more gradual.

Bar Death Traps The council also adopted a stiff ordinance designed to protect children from the death traps of abandoned iceboxes, similar to those recently passed in other cities. A score of children have been suffocated in recent months throughout the nation after crawling into abandoned refrigerators to clay and having the doors locked on them. Nolan Mathis, city sanitary inspector, reported last week he had found a large number of such discarded iceboxes around Fort Myers. The Fort Myers ordinance requires that all iceboxes and "other containera having airtight doors be made inaccessible to children or have their locks and closing devices removed before being abandoned. A maximum penalty of $500 fine and 90 days in jail is provided for violations, with each day of a violation to constitute a separate offense.

Give Time to Comply The council decided to give any persona now in violation of the law a reasonable time to comply with it before beginning strict enforcement. No mention was made of tht request by the Fort Myers Ministerial Association that the council repeal the new ordinance requiring the consent of adjoining property-owners before a new church may be built. The request was presented at the last meeting and councilman had indicated they wanted to atudy the matter before acting. A Lions Club request for a beer license, without fee, for its circus No. 7 waa granted.

Other beer licenses were approved for Julius Carter, Otis Harris and Isabelle Stephens. D. K. O'Mahoney, who plans to build an office building here asked the council to approve a building material known as Cemesto panels for use in Business Zones 1 and 2, where, according to present ordinance, only masonry construction ia permissible. O'Mahony said he wanted to use the material only for non-loadbearing walls.

Decorate Panels "These panels, cost more than concrete block," O'Mahony said, "but they have decorative structural and Insulting qualities that the block doesn't have." He stressed tests that showed the fireproof nature of the material and said a two-inch thick panel would provide as much in-(Caatlaa- Fas Two) Paris Cutie Gains 'Miss World' Title PARIS, Oct. 19 mA. slinky Paris cutie, 18-year-old Denise Perrier, won a "Miss World" title tonight, but a flashing eyed Egyptian beauty said an American girl should have had the $1,400 prise. Six judges gave the unanimous nod to Denise, the "Miss France of height 5 feet, 6 inches, weight 119, bust 33, waist 22, hips 35, thigh 17, calf 12V4. The discord came from third place Marina Papaelia, 20-year-old "Miss has a 36-inch bust and a fast line in broken English.

"She very pretty Rirl," she said of the winner. "But she don't look so good in see mornings. These beauty competitions, they all the same. I been Miss Egypt two times so I know." She said ahe thought first priae should have gone to "Miss U.S.A." 23-year-old Mary Griffin of Florence, S. who took fifth place and said she was happy.

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Phone 6-1146 for an ad-writer nbw. Young Engineer Killed in Crash Near Carnesfown Dies In Father's Arms; 2 in Hospital, Cars Total Wrecks pHt to ihe fYi.PtMil EVERGLADES, Oct. 19. Edmund Joseph McEnany, 24, Los Angeles engineer, died in the arms of his father, E. J.

McEnany, of Sarasota, following two-car crash today on the Tamiamj Trail about three milea west of Carnes-town. McEnany's car skidded sideways across the front of a car driven by Fred Allen Small, 44, of Tipton, Ind. Small and his wife were taken in a Young-Harvey ambulance to Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers where authorities described their conditions as suffered multiple bruises and required X-rays to determine fractures and possible internal injuries. Highwsy Patrolman G. R.

Ben nett, who investigated with Depu ties Joe Hunter and Bert Morris, said McEnany was driving alone In a car following another driven by his father toward Miami. Bennett said both cars were travelling at high speed as the elder McEnany passed a semitrailer truck. The younger man attempted to pass the truck but braked and swerved suddenly when he saw Small's uncoming vehicle. Car Skids Sideways "McEnany lost control, the front of his csr turning to the left so that he skidded aideways, his right aide crashing with a terrific impact across the headlights of the other ear," Bennett said. "McEnany's father looked back in the rear view mirror and braked (Coatlaned race Two) Dior's High Hemline Has Gone Far Enough NEW YORK, Oct 19 JP Chris tian Dior's higher hemline 1ias gone up just about as far as it should go, for he said today: "When it starts to show the knees it becomes ugly." I he Parisian designer said he doesn't believe in "exaggeration" of his shorter skirts.

His new skirt length is about 1V6 inches from the floor "a little above the calf not so short as some people think." Arriving here aboard the French liner Liberte, Dior indicated hie new skirts filled a "need for some thing exciting." "Of course, when you have irood legs you want to show them," he said, adding the clincher that he thought, too, men wanted to see "more of women's calves." Mullet Fishermen Go Out on Strike Along Gulf Coast Union Demands 10 Cents a Pound From Wholesalers Commercial fishermen of the entire West Coast have gone on strike to enforce a demand for a minimum price of 10 cents a pound for mullet, union officials reported yesterday. Fishermen recently nave been organized in the United Packinghouse Workers of America, a CIO affiliate. Russell Wade of Pine Island, field representative of the union, said fishermen from Everglades to Steinhatchee in North Florida met Sunday at Cortez, near Bradenton, and "voted unanimously to refuse to sell mullet to wholesale dealers for less than 10 cents a pound with no grading." "The fishermen further agreed," Wade announced, "to curtail production of all fish until this price waa met." Aa Airtight Strike Tt AnuuMAted Preaa nuoted outright strike. Knowlton was reported as saying that some fisher men are at sea now and will not begin the strike until they reach port but most of these are expected to join the strike by Tuesday night The AP added that stewards from 21 locals voted the strike Sunday after meeting at Cortes with dealers who refused to meet the 10-cent figure. Wade said in his statement: "It was pointed out in Sunday's meeting that fishermen are now offered prices as low as three cents a pound for fish weighing up to one and a half pounds and nine cents for those weighing one and one half pounds and larger.

"The fishermen expressed a deep dissatisfication at being forced to grade their mullet catches at this time of year, and they also de-. clare that grading causes such a confusion among dealers and fishermen that a decent price eannot be maintained. The fishermen further feel that it is impossible for them to pay for their gear and make a living at less than 10 cents for mullet. Some Dealers Agree "Several dealers present at the meeting approved of the plan and proposed to pay the 10 cents. The fishermen immediately agreed to sell their catches to those dealers who would meet the 10 cent price, "Fishermen reached the conclusion that inasmuch as mullet would soon be in full roe that they themselves could split the fish and (Cnaltaaed Pave Two) Workers because a federal law "prohibits the salaries of government employes being attached." Williams said the loss in taxes thus uncollected might run Into millions of dollars.

Like other taxpayers, most federal employes are subject to government withholding tax which keeps income taxes paid on a month-to-month basis. But in some caaes, Williams said, the withholding tax ia not enough to cover all the tax due. Williams said the rules of the Civil Service Commission do not count the non-payment of bills or taxes as a demerit, and the Civil Service haa ruled that employea "cannot be disciplined or fired" for that reason. The senator said he will ask Congress to pass a law authorising fe attachment of federal workers' pay checks for non-payment of taxes (CoBtlaaa rage Twe) At least 12 passenger suffered burns or injuries and three were reported in critical condition. Gas Tanka Explode The airliner waa taking off tot Puerto Rico at 12:56 a.m., an hour late because of a heavy fog.

Aa it left the runway it ahuddered, bounced down again and skidded 1,500 feet across the runway and into a grassy marsh. Its 4,200 gallons of high octane gasoline went up in a series of explosions that made the wreckage a torch against the blackness of early morning. The dead were George B. Fisher, 38, a prominent Hartford, insurance fcroker on a business trip to Puerto Rico, and Dr. Juan Boy-ondos, not further identifed.

Early reports erroneously listed three desd. A woman's pink scarf fulttered like a penant amid the wreckage, a lioitiaari Pag Tm) Pepper Doesn't Plan Race for Governor ORLANDO, Oct. 19 (JP) Claude Pepper today told the Orlando Sentinel that while he may have political plans for the future, he has no thought of entering the race next year for the two-year term of governor of Florida. The former U. S.

Senator, here for an address at the Orlando Jun ior Chamber of Commerce meeting, declared he is being kept too busy building up his law practice, which he had abandoned during his long tenure in Washington as senator from Florida. In response to a question as to his availability for a draft as candidate for governor, Pepper said: The people of flonda have been very good to me. If the occasion were to arise whereby the people of the state demanded that I run I could not but consider my obligation to them. "However, there is no indication of that situation developing, and I don think it will develop. There fore' I am giving no thought to be ing a candidate for governor." place and time" but that "what is more essential, these discussions should settle the question of composition of the political (peace) conference." Indian sources at the United Nations said the U.

S. note's reference to a discussion of the neutral nation even though it showed no sign of a weakening of the U. S. attitude was a strong factor in Peiping's agreeing to go to Panmunjom. A high western diplomat at the United Nations declared the U.

S. note as phrased did not bar a discussion at Panmunjom of neu-i tral nation issue. Little Boy Buried With Patrol Badge TAMPA, Oct 19 (JP) It was just a few days ago that Jimmy Curlin a member of the schoolboy patrol told his classmates that if he died he wanted to be buried wearing has patrol belt and badge. Two days ago Jimmy celebrated his 11th birthday. There was a cake with 11 candles.

After cutting the cake Jimmy wanted to take a piece to a neighbor. He got on his bicycle and set out on his neighborly mission. A few minutes later he was dead, victim of a traffic accident. Today Jimmy was buried. He wore his patrol belt and badge.

Government Unable to Attach Salaries 25,000 U.S. Branded Tax Dodgers 365 Trucks of Trash Collected After Storm Mess for City Crews Hazel Made Cleaning up after Hazel was a bit" job and it left WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (JP) Sen. Williams (R-Del) said today an estimated 25,000 federal employes are evading payment of in come taxes and the government is powerless to collect, from them. Some of the tax dodgers, Williams said, work in the Treasury Department itself.

Terming it "a shocking and dis graceful situation," Williams said in a statement he will ask Congress to enact corrective legislation when the lawmakers return in January. The Delaware senator, who haa long been conducting a one-man checkup of tax frauds, said the 25,000 federal workers have found a "loophole" enabling them to com ply with the law technically by filing their income tax returns, but then refusing to pay the taxes due. Filing the returns makes them safe from prosecution, he said, and the government can't collect the tax ing that one crew of about 12 men, the departments under public works operated as usual. Total manpower on the cleanup was 24 men. Regular cleanup crews there are three of them include 12 men, a driver and three leaders on each truck.

Three of the trucks are kept busy in normal trash pickup. Grimes said trash collections over an eight-day period normally would average under 100 truck-' loads. "I think we've done a good job and a fast one considering we didn't spend any money for extra labor," Grimes said. "Of course, there probably will be a few loads more to carry out, stuff that people didn't get out along the street before we picked up their district, but we have most of it now," Grimes wants householders to put out trash the day before the pickup and not let it stand along the street between pickups. The collection schedule is set up according to districts.

Each district is serviced on a certain day. Leaving trash on the curb between collection days is illegal. a big pile of trash. About 365 truckloads were picked up by the city sanitation department during eight days of cleaning after the Oct. 9 storm, Public Works Director William Grimes said yesterday.

Thats nearly 1500 tons of trash, all from inside the city limits. It made a pile 250 feet long by 200 feet wide averaging about 10 feet deep. Working double crews but no extra hours, the sanitation department started picking up the litter left by the blow about 3 p. m. Friday, Oct.

9. For the next eight days six trucks and crews worked full time gathering and hauling tree limbs, palm fronds and other trash left In the storm's wake. Last Thursday Grimes put on three extra trucks and crews from the street construction and maintenance department. Except for that one day, though, all the cleanup work was done without pulling any special crews off other jobs. Grimes said he assigned a general labor crew that usually is employed at clearing ditches and other manual tasks to the cleanup.

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