The Naples Daily News from Naples, Florida • 1

IFm IHMgh-fflises After a series of discussions over a three-year period City Council voted today to require two parking spaces per living unit in high-rise buildings along Gulf coast The change which will go into effect in buildings for which permits are obtained after January 1 1971 in-creases parking requirements from 1V4 spaces The matter was taken up by Council on a Planning Buard recommendation several years ago and reconsidered about a year-and-a-half ago but both times was tabled in a veil of heated discussion Council was to act later this morning on a change in high-rise setback requirements that would allow accessory buildings to be placed closer to lot limits Out-buildings now have the same setback limits as high-rises much larger usually than main living units along the beach Several councilmen questioned the Planning Board recommendation that the new ordinance not go into effect until the first of next year Naplcs-on-the-Gulf Board of Realtors President Ad Miller explained that this length of time would be needed to begin construction on projects now in the planning stages are plans for several apartments on the drawing board now" Miller said are being prepared in good faith according to the old ordinance requiring 12 parking spaces per unit would be unfair in my opinion to make developers scrap their plans because they cannot obtain financing within the deadline you set" MILLER STATED it often took as much as eight to 10 months for drafting final (Continued on Page 8A) The Weather Fair through Thursday Low in Ms high mid-Ms Winds variable at 10 mph Northerly today on Thursday Sunset: 6:52 sunrise: 6:02 Drive Carefully! Collier County Traffic Toll: 10 Serving Naples Marco Everglades Immokalee Golden Gate Bonita Springs ir ko rag 47th YEAR No 224 20 PAGES ASSOCIATED PRESS NAPLES FLA WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 1970 AP NEA PICTURES 10 CENTS DAILY 20 CENTS SUNDAY 'No Margin For Error Trouble In Oxygen Tanks nkgodls it ID Long Way Home For Apollo 13 Astronauts McDonald Gets Violation Notice APOLLO Land Friday In Pacific This Is The Judge Holds Kopechne Testimony BOSTON (AP) A federal judge has barred the Marv Jo Kopechne inquest transcript which was to have been issued today US Disk Court Judge Andrew A Caffrey stopped publication by granting a temporary injunction Tuesday to Sidney Lip-man court stenographer at the inquest who claimed in federal court that he alone Jiad the right to sell copies Edward Keating clerk of the Suffolk Superior Court had planned to distribute the transcript to newsmen at $75 a copy rate for the 764 page document is close to $1000 There was no immediate indication when Judge Caffrey would take further action on the record of the hearing into Miss death in Sen Edward car which plunged from a Chappaquiddick Island bridge HARMON TURNER County manager ABOARD USS IWO JIMA (AP) A tropical storm that could give birth to a hurricane lumbered toward fee Apollo 13 splashdown site today but recovery ship officials said they expected no weather they could not cope with Observers aboard the Iwo Jima kept a close watch on Tropical Storm Helen as it moved across the Pacific at less than six miles per hour If it keeps up its present course and speed forecasters said the fringe could be as near as 230 miles to the target point when Apollo 13 returns to earth Friday Winds near the center of the storm were clocked at nearly 50 miles per hour and gusts up to about 35 mph licked out from the center for 150 miles The meteorologist Lt Otis said the storm probably will intensify could very well become a he said He added that Helen traveling southeastward could take a more southerly course and speed up SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) The rest of the Apollo 13 mission may be a washout but scientists are elated with the moonquake created by crashing the Saturn 5 booster rocket into the lunar surface The impact at 8:09 pm EST Tuesday sent a four-hour shudder through the moon that was recorded by a seismometer erected in the lunar Ocean of Storms last November by the Apollo 12 crew now have a powerful and effective method for investigating the lunar interior even if we never get a big meteor impact and even if we never get a said Dr Maurice Ewing of Columbia University SPACE CENTER Houston (AP) Apollo astronauts nursed their disabled spaceship back toward earth today as confidence built among space officials that they would make it But the dangers remained clear The men have no margin for error or further malfunctions They are living and flying on emergency supplies James A Lovell Jr Fred Haise Jr and John Swigert Jr were hoarding their vital oxygen water and power supplies effectively as Apollo 13 escaped from lunar gravity and sped into the sphere of influence at a point 219000 miles in space The spacecraft was going 2650 miles an hour The astronauts rested and did little activity as they conserved their consumables They were in good spirits after the tense hours of Monday and Tuesday An oxygen tank rupture late Monday aborted their moon landing plans and placed them in the gravest danger ever faced by American astronauts Although confidence was building that they would land safely in the Pacific officials cautioned there is always a possibility something could go wrong in the remaining two days The astronauts have been reduced to dependence on the power and other resources of the attached lunar landing craft On the performance of the lunar module flight director Eugene Kranz said think the LM spacecraft is in excellent shape and I think fully capable of getting the crew back I feel we are much better off than we were last night as far as consumables and everything is concerned We have a better margin to work with and we have more flexibility" The astronauts will ride the command ship through the atmosphere to a planned splashdown near Samoa in the Pacific at 1:04 pm EST Friday some 46 minutes later than earlier estimated by the space agency IF 9 four-Lane Project Seen Gaining Steam TALLAHASSEE A campaign to get some notice of the deplorable road situation from Venice to Naples is picking up momentum in capital city Rep Donald Heath of Nokomis who spearheaded a telegram to Governor Kirk urging immediate four-laning of 41 between Venice and Naples announced today that the telegram was delivered to Governor Kirk on Friday April 3 and was a total of 64 feet long and contained approximately 1200 signatures of concerned citizens of Charlotte Collier Lee and Sarasota Counties HEATH ALSO said that he has had considerable good luck in obtaining cointroducers on his bill which provides for the four-laning of 41 immediately To date a total of 40 Representatives from all over Florida have signed on this bill Efforts are still being made to obtain the signatures of other Representatives on this bill know where this bill will go but we sure are raising quite a ruckus up here with it so far My fellow House members have been most cooperative in my efforts to get them to back me up on this legislation I think we are all in agreement that something must be done for our coastal residents before they all move back North!" Commission Names Turner Beatty To New Positions The Collier County Commission yesterday named Harmon Turner as county manager and Rhys Beatty as county fiscal officer The vote was unanimous and followed a motion by Vice Chairman A Hancock Turner has been functioning as public works director and Beatty as administrative assistant It is understood that both men will continue to perform their past duties in addition to whatever duties are involved in the new positions until an adequate assessment can be made of work loads Hiring of new people to take over some of the former duties may be necessary Commissioner Jack Kurke in Monday Daily News indicated the commissioners were but a bunch of when it came to handling administrative matters In making his motion for appointment Hancock made obvious reference to this statement but also indicated that the idea of such appointments was nothing brand new The need for such appointments has been discussed informally for years Hancock indicated At meeting Kurke praised the Hancock initiative in making the motion All members of the Commission were present for the vote Turner moves from $17500 to $19500 and Beatty from $13500 to $14500 under the new appointments there was no privacy in toilet areas deficiency notice to McDonald was the first filed under the Minimum Housing Code adopted November 20 1968 McDonald has once before nullified attempted city action on the living units The city in 1966 served notice that 15 units were not up to (Continued on Page 8A) Republican Wins State Senate Award TALLAHASSEE Fla For the first time ever a Republican was named the most valuable member of the Florida Senate Tuesday But Sen Young the award winner was in a Tallahassee hospital recovering from injuries suffered in the crash of a light airplane earlier in the day Young from Seminole Sen Tom Slade R-Jacksonville wife Corliss and their pilot 62-year-old Hilliard DuBois of Fort Lauderdale all were injured early Tuesday when their plane crashed about a mile from Tallahassee Municipal Airport Rep Richard Pettigrew D-Miami was named the most valuable House member ID 'Vi 3 RHYS BEATTY Fiscal officer Passed Mr Shaw is willing to take on tigers and wildcats barehanded but I don't think he is willing to take on a big ole bull alligator with a frog Another bill allowing corporations to enter into partnerships passed the House 80-2 and became the first measure to clear both chambers in the 1970 session War-Time Mask Seen As Filter For Pollution PENSACOLA Fla (AP) A gas mask filtration process that saved WW I soldiers may be resurrected to save rivers from wood pulp pollution and conserve water according to the SL Regis Paper Co Pulp and paper mills may be able to recycle their water through activated carbon said company officials in the preliminary report of a three-year study funded jointly by the federal government An experimental plant will be built at Pensacola Jacksonville or Monticello Miss this year said Roy Miller manager of research Planning Board Will Number Five Poaching Bill McDonald Fort Myers owner of McDonald Quarters housing development said he had this morning received notice that at least one of his units is in violation of the Minimum Housing Code McDonald said he no comment at this time I have turned the communication over to my legal advisor for action" A lengthy notice to McDonald stated a unit that had been inspected by City Building Official Gil Oliver was structurally unsound Oliver who checked the unit March 31 said interior walls and ceilings were unsound and some building materials were substandard that electrical wiring was insufficient for fixtures served from it and that heating facilities were inadequate The report continued that in the single unit bathing facilities were inadequate that water-heating units were insufficient and that five-man board could accomplish more with less argumentation and a meeting of the minds" than seven City Attorney Tom Trettis was ordered to draw up a new ordinance calling for a five-man board and deleting the requirement that an architect and a real estate broker serve on the board Vice-Mayor George Reardon and Councilman Bryant Hampton voted against the measure Reardon stating is easier for three men to control a five-man board than for four to control a seven-man board" BOARD MEMBER George Huntoon countered with the statement that all Planning Board decisions are subject to council review thereby providing a check on possible control of the Planning Board Arabs Wreck 'U Embassy Arab demonstrators stormed the US Embassy in Amman Jordan today then tossed a bomb into the American Cultural Center First reports said there were a number of casualties City Council this morning accepted a Planning and Advisory Board recommendation that the board be reduced from seven to five members On a four to two vote with Mayor Lloyd Easterling not voting the council decided the board would be reduced by resignation rather than arbitrarily one member to cut it to five men ONLY SIX members are presently on the board since an appointment has not been made to replace Henry Watkins who resigned January 1 Board Chairman Bob Braido told councilmen a What's Inside Editorial 4A Women's News 7A Sports 1-2B Classified 7-9B TV Listings Theaters Horoscope 6B 2A 6B Tides Solar Lunar 2B Obituaries 8A Crossword 6B Comics 6B TALLAHASSEE Fla AP) A bill providing that possession of lights and weapons in alligator habitat at night would be evidence of poaching passed the House 80-19 today The bill previously passed the Senate 46-0 but since the House added a minor amendment it must now be referred back to the Senate for concurrence before going to the governor Rep William Fulford D-Orlando urged passage of the antipoaching bill protect the alligator as an endangered the present time Jury To Hear Murder Case A jury was being impaneled in the Circuit Court of Collier County this morning to try Marcilio Maldonado of Immokalee on a charge of second degree murder Judge Archie Odom of Fort Myers is presiding Maldonado is represented by Attorney Schryver of the Public Defender's office and Assistant a State Attorney Robert Hagaman is in charge of the prosecution virtually impossible to convict anybody of alligator added Rep Gerald Iiewis D-Miami Rep Eugene Shaw D-Starke said the poaching bill would make anyone caught in the woods with a frog gig and a light subject to arrest Fulford replied sure ickv THIS IS IT! The filing deadline for your 1969 Federal Income Tax is midnight tonight Forms mailed to the IRS must be postmarked not later that April 15 The Naples Post Office reports all mail dropped in their office letter slots before midnight tonight will carry an April 15 postmark SMILES WREATHE the faces of (1 to r) Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce President Bill Ryan Foster Barr of the United States Chamber of Commerce consulting service and President-elect Walter Rogers as they talk over an in-depth study of the Naples Chamber just completed by Barr The study which included interviews with more than 40 local business leaders was a comprehensive examination of the Chambers role and operation in the community A report on the findings is expected from Barr by mid-May (NEWS photo).