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Section FORT LAUDERDALE NEWS Local News Features Turtles 'Predict' Big 'Cane For Area By tradition among the Indi- field Beach area "almost verans, Carlo said, this indicates tically" at times over pilings and structures along the beach the South Florida area is due to get to higher ground. for a big year. One thing that hurricane this might upset The egg-laying turtles have the old Indian proverb, howbecome a popular nighttime ever, is that the turtles may pastime with Broward residents be a year late and practicing who camp on the beaches and hindsight instead of foresight. wait until the creatures He last year the turtles come ashore to fulfill their nat- were laying their eggs at a norural destiny. mal distance from the water Wa- Carlo said the turtles this and the area experienced sevyear are climbing in the Deer- eral storms.

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1965 There may be a big hurricane brewing this year. Or, at least. the giant sea turtles seem to think so. The turtles have begun their annual trek from the sea to South Florida beaches to lay their eggs. a they are laying them high on Broward beaches, according to Harold "Hap" Carlo, agent with the Florida State Salt ter Conservation Commission.

Youth Drowns In Pool Pine Crest Star Was Practicing By GENE JANAS (Staff Writer) A 16-year-old Pine Crest School student drowned in a pool yesterday because he blew out all the oxygen 1 in his body while experimenting with underwater swimming. Dr. R. K. Haugen, county medical examiner, said "This is a common cause of swimmers drowning.

There have been several cases like this in Miami and doctors have reported others in northern cities. The drowning victims The latest victim was John Munsberg, a star Pine Crest swimmer, who died in the Coral Lakes Towers swimming pool at 1836 NE 38th St. The body of Munsberg, who resided at the Towers with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T.

Munsberg, was found at the bottom of the swimming pool by a 12-year-old Jacksonville boy who was vacationing: at the Towers with his father. BREATHED HEAVILY Gill Cuddihee watched Munsberg swim six laps underwater in the pool, then come up the steps and pause at the top, breathing very heavily. No one paid any attention to the youth because he was known to be an expert swimmer and a member of the Pine Crest team. Haugen, after making an autopsy, said the youth, while breathing heavily, was blowing off the gas in his body. This gas is carbon dioxide, a stimulus for breathing.

The medical examiner believes the youth used up all the oxygen in his body and that his brain did not operate properly, causing him to fall back into the pool. SUFFER AMNESIA He explained that swimmers suffer from amnesia when they lose their oxygen, adding that some of the victims who have survived the hyperventilation reported they had sensations that they could swim under water forever. The medical examiner also believes the witnesses, knowing Munsberg was a good swimmer, may have taken their eyes off of him and didn't see him collapse. The Cuddihee boy said it was at least five minutes before he spotted Munsberg lying at the bottom of the pool after seeing him standing on top of the steps breathing very heavily. When the boy saw Munsberg on the bottom of the pool, he told his father, Robert J.

Cuddihee, about it. Both thought the swimmer was resting at the bottom of the pool. When he failed to move for another minute the father told his son to check. The boy dove in and brought Munsberg to the surface. The father helped to pull him over; to the grass and started mouth to mouth resuscitation.

DEAD ON ARRIVAL Patrolman O. Von Behren applied oyxgen at the scene and had the youth removed to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Burial arrangements are pending at Baird Case North Federal Funeral Home. "We're all just stunned here," said Munsberg's coach Pine Crest, Jack Nelson. "Besides being a fine swimmer, he was probably the best liked boy on the team and one of the best students in the school." Nelson said Munsberg was a two-year letterman and had finished second in both the 200 and 400-yard freestyles in this season's conference meet.

The mama turtles, who lay from 100 to 300 eggs at a time, appear to be crying big salt tears during the laying process. The big loggerheads and trunkbacks will be coming ashore as prompted by nature from until September, and the activity seems to be more numerous on the night of the full moon. The Ft. Lauderdale recreation department, together with the conservation department and local Radio Station WWIL, have set a "Turtle Watch" July 13. When the turtles come up on the beach, the mama will dig a shallow hole with her flippers and then settle down to lay her eggs.

Until she settles down, she can easily be scared back into the water once come laying has begun nothing distract her. After she is through, she carefully buries the eggs and scatters the sand with her flippers and then crawls back into the ocean. The eggs later hatch and the babies find their way to the sea by themselves. The conservation department warns that it is against the law to molest the turtles or the eggs during the months of May through August and violators are subject to stiff fines. Joint Meet Slated On Indigent Care Hospital, County Problem By DORIS FORTUNE (Staff Writer) Clashing ideas on which political agency should be financially responsible for hospital care for the indigent will be aired at 3 p.m.

tomorrow when county and hospital commissioners meet. County commissioners tend to think the two hospital districts should budget for all indigent care except for those patients treated in private institutions. The county would pick up the private hospital bills. Hospital commissioners, on the other hand, want the county board to double the amount they've been allocating for indigent care. Tomorrow's conference meeting was set up at the request of the North Broward Hospital District.

MINIMUM BUDGETED County commissioners have been budgeting the minimum required by law under the Hospital Service for the Indigent (HSI) program: 50 cents per person per year. Using this formula, the county would budglet $225,000 for HSI care during the fiscal year that starts Oct. 1. The state would add $64,304 to this, according to the tentative 1965-66 budget prepared by County Welfare Director Arnold H. Hanson.

During a preliminary review of his budget with commissioners Hanson proposed that the county bow out of the HSI program and arrange to have it taken over by the North and South Broward Hospital districts. County commissioners still would have to budget something for indigent patients treated at private hospitals. But the bulk of indigent care is done at the tax supported hospitals. Hanson said the 1 public hospitals are as eligible for statesupporting funds as the county. He said the state spends about 16 cents for every 50 cents the county pays.

BETTER POSITION According to Hanson, the 1 hospital districts are in a better position to control indigent care than the county. Doctors, according to Hanson tend to put off seeing and discharging indigent patients and the hospital districts, through their contacts with the doctors, could speed things up. After Hanson made his veiws public, hospital officials countered with the suggestion that the county should budget $1 per capita rather than 50 cents, contributing an estimated 000 a year for HSI care. The state's share would not be increased. These opposing viewpoints will be discussed for the first time tomorrow at the joint meeting.

North and South Browlard Hospital District commissioners have already met and agreed on what they want the county to do. Also likely to be discussed is the budget for nurshome care. This year as in the past the county and state HSI funds were used up months before the beginning of the new budget year. The hospital districts have footed the entire bill with tax funds when county welfare did not. Graduation Problems (Staff Photo by Henry Fichner) STUDENTS MOURN AT BURIAL SERVICES FOR GREG CHASE Greg's girl, Jeanne Koprivec, had to be supported by his best friend, Ken Kline Solemn Rites Held For Mishap Victim By MAUREEN COLLINS (Staff Writer) Nearly 500 relatives, friends, and classmates crowded into a small chapel this morning to attend funeral services for Gregory Wayne Chase, 17, who died last week after an accident in his high school woodworking class.

The boy died Wednesday night, nearly nine hours after his skull was crushed by a chunk of wood which split and flew off a lathe he was working on in his last woodworking class. He would have graduated this Thursday night from Ft. Lauderdale High School. The first diploma will be awarded to him By School Officials Jackets Mulled For Shop Lathes Broward school officials may have to invent their own jacket for woodworking shop lathes for Holiday 'Messed Up' Pupil Count Broward School officials, investigating a request for help in getting children to stay in school by the NAACP, have reported a miscalculation in absenteeism figures by the NAACP. Mrs.

Mary Smith, coordinator of welfare and attendance, said today the department's investigation revealed the highest absenteeism was about 9 per cent, not 50 per cent as reported by the NAACP. The Rev. Samuel George, president of the Broward County NAACP chapter, said the figures were from a mix-up on the day the NAACP took the survey in North Broward schools. Rev. George said he doesn't know exactly what happened, but said he thinks perhaps the survey was taken on a day when students were out of school and teachers were there for a conference with The sparkling young lady who receives her high school diploma on graduation night is the pride of her beaming parents who sit in the audience and watch.

They quickly remember her first day of school, her first date, the junior. prom- crisis and, finally, the problems with her hairdo on graduation day. For, what style do you put your hair so it will look good under a mortar board? Only those proud parents know the secret as they see their offspring (above) in pre-graduation get-up and (below) ready to graduate from high school to another world. Karen Kelly, left, Bonnie Muirhead and Roberta Clarke experimented early for their graduation Tuesday evening from Stra(Staff photos by Bill Bates) nahan High School. posthumously at the ceremonies.

His classmates, members of the graduating class, filed past the open casket. The boys, viously shaken, tried to hide their tears but the girls sobbed openly. Greg's girl friend, blonde Jeanne Korprivec, stumbled as she walked past the casket and had to be held up by Greg's best friend, Ken Kline, who was working with him when the accident occurred. Her bright blue eyes were red, swollen and blurred by tears. The boy's parents, Norman and Mary Chase of 1180 47th Lauderhill, remained extra safety in school shops.

Steve Johnson, supervisor of industrial arts, said there is a jacket on the market, but he thinks it is probably not sturdy enough to protect students from wood flying off the lathe. An investigation into safety devices was launched last week after Ft. Lauderdale High School senior, Chase, was killed when a piece of wood struck him in the head. "We have the whole summer to work on it," Johnson said. The shops will be in limited use during the summer, Johnson said, and probably very few students will have occasion to use the lathes.

If officials decide to use jacklets, Johnson added, they probably will have to invent their own. School Board member John Calvin last week offered his assistance in making one. Meanwhile, the investigation into what caused the fatal accidient last week is still underway, said Don DeMauro, Broward schools safety coordinator. He said it would probably be at least a few weeks until the investigation is completed. Officials still do not know whether the wood became unglued or we ther the wood itself came apart.

GREGORY CHASE composed during the services, but broke down at burial services in Lauderdale Memorial Park. His mother moaned with grief as she received a rose from one of the flower arrangements. Greg's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Darrah who came from Bath, for the funeral, cried quietly through the services and burial.

A memorial scholarship fund is being set up at the First Bank of Plantation. Trustees of the fund hope a $300 scholarship to Broward Junior College, where Greg had planned to study, can be awarded at graduation ceremonies. B.JC Sets Term Broward Junior College offiare expecting a recording 1,000 students to enroll in Term Three a summer program starting June 22. Lester Trussler, director of admissions, said 422 students, now attending, have already ganed up for the second of the two summer terms. Stevens Attacks Registrar For Overtime Pay Practice County Commissioner J.

W. Stevens today charged so me courthouse employes get at least $1,500 a year more than is commonly known through the device of overtime pay. Stevens centered his attack on the office of Easter L. Gates, supervisor of voter registration. During a budget session, Stevens got out a file he had been accumulating since last November which showed that the county paid over $23,000 to employes in Mrs.

Gates' office for overtime and part-time work. FEUD OPENLY He particularly objected to the employment by Mrs. Gates of William Johnson, a county welfare department employe, as a part-time employe in the supervisor's office. Sterens Republican and Johnson a Democrat, have been actively and openly feuding since Johnson worked Stevens' election. Democrats and Republicans alike on the County Commission today agreed there was little to be gained from asking Mrs.

Gates to come in to explain her administrative poli- Commissioner F. R. Huma Democrat, said he spent much time discussing the department with Mrs. Gates, "but she's always got the answer." Commissioner J. Herbert Burke, a Republican, said, "in 13 years I've never won a an argument with her." Commissioners decided to leave Mrs.

Gates' request for $28,830 for overtime and parttime help in 1965-66 undisturbed. Man Burned Critically DEERFIELD BEACH investigation was underway toto determine the cause of fire in an abandoned house Sunday morning in which one man was critically burned and another escaped with minor injuries. W. E. Webb, 40, is in North District Hospital with second and third degree burns about the upper part of his body.

James William McIntire, 41, was burned about his hands. His condition was reported as good..