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Published Every Morning: Mitnbir Audit Buraiu of Circulation AP Ntwt and WIrophotot Phoiw EOlton 4-2351 Thomas A. Edison Said "Thra Is only en Fort Mytrt and million popla ara going to find It out." 82nd Year Fort Myers, Friday Morning, February 23, 1966 5c Daily, 15c Sunday Fort Myers Iews-Press I Ann Hoppbd ijxJKSD'noDunayD Canal Network To Aid Glades Park Planned Engineers Seek To Divert Water From Okeechobee By Suift iMita Modioli I v.fkv U.S. to Intensify Leader Ousted While in China; Thousands Join in Merriment As Rebel Chiefs Take Control WASHINGTON (fl -The Army Engineers announced Thursday that work will begin promptly on a temporary network of can als to divert water from Lake Okeechobee In Florida to Everglades National Park and to wa ter-conservation areas which serve the Miami area. Viet Assaults, Congress Told Emergency Foreign Aid Authorization Passed by House The work, which will be done under an emergency plan, is to protect the park and nearby urban areas pending a long-range solution to South Florida's ACCRA, Ghana (AP) An army revolt toppled the government of President Kwame Nkrumah Thursday while he was being feted thousands of miles away by the Communist Chinese in Peking. The Ghanaian rebel leaders said after their quickly won victory that they acted because Nkrumah abused individual rights and liberties.

One leader said he had run Ghana "as if it were his own personal propeily." While firing was still going on between paratroops who spearheaded the revolt and the presidential guard, thousands of eelcbrators poured into the streets of Accra in a carnival of drinking, dancing and merrymaking. Leader of Revolt Col. E. K. Koloka.

identified in a Ghana mdin water shortage. Prolonged drought, the an win fRi "Vy? nouncement said, has critically WASHINGTON UPl Vice Presi-ident Hubert H. Huirmhrcv. re porting to congressmen on his I ii nor to Secretary of State Agnes Raggett In KWAMR NKKl All Hussion io Asia, saia inursuay American and South Vietnamese fighting men are going to intensi Gov. George Wallace of Alabama watches hi wife hand qualifying papers to run for gover (AP Wlrephoto) Montgomery Thursday.

I fy their assaults on the Vict Cong. affected the park and has caused a water deficiency in the adjoining Central Southern Florida Flood Control District conservation areas for sustaining wildlife and meeting water needs in Miami and its environs. Rainfall Help Most of the water for the park and the conservation areas romes from rainfall, the announcement pointed out. Recent Students Under Pressure "The tide of battle has turned," Humphrey said, echoing Prcsi-ident Johnson. But the vice president said no quick or easy solution is in sight in the Vietnamese war.

The House passed, 350 to 27, a California MOL Launching Site Given Support Defense, Civilian Officials Agree On Polar Orbit Wallace's Wife After Governor's Post in Alabama Promises to Let Her Husband Run Show If Elected rains, the engineers said, have alleviated a critical water short emergency foreign aid I broadcast as leader of the revolt, announced that the army had taken over the government, dissolved parliament, dismissed the president and outlawed Nkrumah's Convention People's Party. "The myth surrounding Kwame Nkrumah has been broken," he said. In the streets, enthusiastic crowds tore down 1he si a lues labelled "founder of the country" that Nkrumah had had erected to himself. They also gathered around the waterfront Usher Fort Prison when the colonel announced political prisoners held there would soon be liberated. Casualties I'nelear Casualty figures for the well planned pre-dawn coup were unclear.

One source at tliel Youngsters Seek Money, Success authorization bill, most of the money destined for South Viet age at least temporarily. But, they said, the importation of additional water is necessary to Nam. The administration has $275 million will be used to bol help the park recover and to protect it and adjoining areas from possible continuation of drought. ster the Vietnamese economy. Criticism Missing Democratic and Republican WEBSTER GROVES, Mo.

(AP) Educators, par MOPJTYVYvnrRV Aln WASHINGTON tfl Defense and civilian space officials ents and students in this upper-middle-class suburb leaders joined in backing the io urge Wallace's wife, juwi tv ai ate wuc-. mi i a Ai a. itr i measure. The four-hour debate agreed Thursday that a polar or- military hospital said he saw Kit io a hnnncon fr I rf tkn frail' nn1 tt iBimmrln.) nit Lurleen, became a candidate for a governor of Alabama Thursday 4 16-year-olds are in a with a forecast of victory from 'desperate fight for good grades her husband and a promise CMmlu CmmM Dr. Arthur Barron reported Air Force's projected manned 'soldiers.

Other sources esti- COCOO Curtain produced no criticism of U. S. policy in Viet Nam. But the Senate argument about oi iaKe waier, me engineers said, will require increasing the capacity of an 85-mile-long network of water channels including use of existing canals aid improving pits, from which material has been excavated to orbital laboratory. mated the dead at 18.

Among those lielieved killed the U. S. course swirled on. The Air Force told the Senate let him run the show if she is1 I to tlie suburban St. Louis com- about four Snare Committee at an M'VI- tn.

Charles Harwah, elected. Humphrey spent hours rciMM'ting at niimitv VVerinesilav thiil the a series of, closed session that the manned army commander, rcfmrtedlyj The Mrs. nllnv.pr. hp nveri White House briefings on his nine-! shots can lest be launched from in his darkened bouse by Support Skyway Four-Lane Plan Ousted Leader Viewed Himself Man of Destiny jlold cheering throng which a six.month ppnod have lost' I jammed the historic House of fhDip of build levees, to serve as supple fental canals. Tumping Necessary Because the land is ex Vandenherg Air Force Uase in young olttcer when be refused California.

ia command to surrender. I Sen. Spessard L. Holland. D-! A later broadcast said na- she will seek the Democratic tensive pumping will be nee nomination in the May 3 essarv.

Also a canal and water- dous pressure to make good grades, get into college and be a "success." He said the main goal in life for 77 per cent of the 16-year- nation Asian journey. The vice president said he returned with "a spirit of restrained optimism and confidence" that the Communists can be beaten in South Viet Nam and a better life created for the people there. "We have now readied the stage," Humphrey told newsmen after briefing some 200 senators Reduced Driving Time, 1-4 Link Cited in Action said Pentagon and Nation- tional revolutionary council had al Aeronautics and Space Ad-jbeen apiointcd but did not ministration officials were in; name the members. The broad-agreement on this. But.

be said cast, said also that Maj. On. various scientists were not con- J. A. Ankrah, deposed by Nkm-j retaining levee extending about 100 miles along the east park She said she would run as a "stand-in" candidate for Ijer NEW YORK Thursday's upheaval in volatile Africa snatched from the stage one of the continent's most enigmatic leaders, a man with vaulting ambitions who seemed to see boundary to move water to cri olds is "a good-paying job, mon- tical points in the park will beinuanl who is Darred by lawpy( success He said love of vinccd that a polar (north-south) i man last July, had been rein- III 11 111(111 U1KIII t-J.

lL4V4-Tll orbit was necessary or that thestated and promoted to lieu-drvice could not be successfully tenant general. term ends in January. learnmg ana Cou Commission bemg lost in the shuffle in fl and representatives, "where our Construction, the announcement said, will cost about $.1.5 himself a redeemer destined to Wallace, standing at his wife's military forces military lorces ster uroves anu pernais oin-imjssion T. aftornoonl can sustain a launched rrom cape Kennedy (in I okyo the Japanese Kyo-lead all Africans to unitv million and will require about side, predicted to the hundreds planned 1 i-i ii uwiiuuuuinca miv jfl adopt a resolution in support lKjl 1 ixui- twwy it-jHiit-u uum; Shy and often charming In year to complete. Pumping will of placard-waving followers that nation.

nf rironosal movement. noriiimim Nkrumah would Prnciljmf KM KducatnrM Disturbed r.fin..n... iunJ 'p u- s- and South Viet- Holland had requested thellikelv remain in tin "Mrs. Wallace will win." He promised at the same time that IIKIII 1,1 IO toucaiors seemed oisiui ncu inamese iorces are aiming con-ineanng 10 near me Air orceicaimai lor several davs Sunshine i. nana a cult built around of personality Skyway.

uy ulr rpunlutifin wa iitenl ienl i "i auuiin i.iun, i lie n- The rewnhitinn u'n idi.nl "This has been invaluable to Viet Cong guerrillas who once disturbed by plans to bold cy also reported lhat 'wia In nnn nH.wiloH I ha hrarH Con8 gUerr: Stalin in the Soviet Union. or facilities (including cars and planes) will be used" in the campaign. Political Convention The honey-blonde first lady, was considering flying to London.) Discussing the revolution. Radio Ghana said: ine," said Miss Esther Re-plogle, a high school teacher. "I'm terribly distrubed at their sense of values.

Nkrumah's tight dictatorship earned the label of "the Cocoa Curtain," behind which his na begin soon. Construction will be started this spring. The state government and the Central Southern Florida Flood Control District will share 20 per cent of the construction cost. The cost of pumping the water to the park, estimated at up to $1150.000 a year, depending upon the amount pumped, will be paid for by the federal government. The stale and district, the an- all Air Force manned launches at Vandenberg and none at Cape Kennedy.

He said a second issue centers on whether a the Fort Myers Lee Countymll( rhoose whrn and whpre Chamber of Commerce at its fount-noon luncheon which was at- W'll Be Intensif.ed tended by Hudson and Commis-1 And wlU sioner Kenneth Daniels. I Humphrey said. Hudson said the commission's! sad military operations tion struggled with near-bank- 'This act has been made ne Apparently in some respects who abandoned a childhood am payload is necessary as the Accessary by the economic and rll'cy caused by over ambi- bition to become a nurse and we a-e missing me noat. Kilitical situation in the industrialization, misman- will be coupled with a drive to Force says. instead married a young lawyer "We are not encouraging dis- resolution will be sent immedi- "There are some who think'trv.

The concentration of powcrlnpr'1'nt, corruption and ronfus- who was destined to become questions among our atojy lo the state Road Board in said Ed Eggers, jIe saia 1he dustily. the Air Force out in this reouire-in the ImnHs nf nn nmn h.Ki 'on. win economic and social reforms for the South Vietnamese people. On another front, the protest ffnifprnnr hnr nnrrvJ1rn- pupils, ment so that the launches would led to abuse of individual rights nouncement said, have agreed announcPmcnt of her candi. io move Lake Okeechobee water at conference principal.

called meeting, prompted by the "I think we've pushed board's action, was have to be from of a Johnson critic blocked an ad 1 1 -11 and liberties. Power has been exercised by the former president capriciously. The opera- ministration Did to speed Senate nunano. saio. which resembled a nnlirirnl rain, kids," said Dr.

Charles Garner, necessary because a nublin iiniiiii nu- Bjninii 11. 1 i. lie explained that the Titan vention. in charge or curriculum ai hearing on the Skyway plan will the park. Also, the announcement said, oul rocket can lift a tion of the laws has tx-cn sus- Molcnt AntiMithy Then he sought and received significant help from the United States, Nkrumah's public iosture was one of violent antipathy to Washington.

His philosophy, called "Nkru-mahism," taught the youth of the nation that the Ameri can Webster Groves Hign scnooi. be held by the State Cabinet in oinion in new war spending. weosier u.uv neia ny me state caoinet in Wall hA invito thp ni.h.! "Tim, nuch thmncp vps and They push Tallahassee Wednesday. I the state and the district have agreed to release water to the park, consistent with water The chamlwr's resolution was Uaimnh recommended for adontion fcWM3CJ payload into jiolar orliit fronvpended to the advantage of the Vandenberg but that a dogleg favorites and he has been rtin-change in course would le the country as if it were essary to place the rocket into his own personal property." Hjar orbit from Cape Kennedy! their parents push us." Members of the Student Council to which Barron spoke lie to attend and they came from every corner of the state. Placards pledging support In each of the state's 67 counties fluttered above the crowd.

Jim Ruth, chairman of the high-! seemed to agree with Barron. ways committee and host to thei False Complaint BOISE, Idaho i.H A middle- "Generally I agree with the va-State Road Board which held its without flying over populated areas in Florida and that this Mrs. Wallace told her whoop- lidity of the survey," said Jim first meeting in Fort Myers last! ing followers, "My election winSna uire additional weigh, Teenager Dies Of Meningitis system was "Facist imperialist and neocolonialist." It is to be countered, he taught, by an African Socialism which would he a beacon for "activists and freedom fighters of the African slmggle." needs for the entire area, when the lake is below critical flood stages but above the minimum permisible stage of 12.5 feet, mean sea level. A water-release schedule is being worked out. The work Is being undertaken by Col.

R. P. Tabb, the Army district engineer in Jacksonville. council. enable my husband to carry on his programs for the people." 1 riil a muTA "Personally, I don't go along chamber's Won't Duplicate Holland said the Air Force SUPPOIT.

I'VUnu ckl.ll. 1m, cA with some of the ideas on values She promised to continue the progress, prosperity and hon lll Two Hour Drive don work, she told a clerk, In reporting on the road board said it docs not plan to duplicate Miss Patricia Anne Day, IS, VIi'i ai and money, but representing many of the facilities now at daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ArthurU 1 1 Vl.r ll'Kltlrl ha VP I mnnf inrr hnro at 11 l-rtl. est, efficient government which in winmiH'i-u wn-sav- nen iihv ann npr fiei'K 'inn hnnmuii, I r.n,u.L..P k' 17'n unmnM i o.

iirn He will work in cooperation with nas oeen so mucn in eviuenue; t0 Sav that wnat ur. tsarron unanimously approved Burns meaning the National Park Service, the state and the flood control dis during the administration of my! Is generally h-uc." Skyway proposal, Ruth 1old na a customer d. nco sne aunch pad and the necessary died early Ihursday in n'- ind permitted himself he nVr husband. The overwhelming! Fred zhm, Webster Groves Ichamber directors that. four-Ian- pu hpr fanhties for a Titan rocket.

Walton Beach n'oningi- i -j -j nul ed the tl'ieCCr. The silO I He salH a kn lhat the iii.rsiin. a senilis rnnlarr nils sea so rt "ICSSian lor ITtt support oi nis auniHusuaiiun uy chief of police, to a earron, ing uie span anu extending 1-4 ack rji -Mimci licit pH her ns ant no al rinu Irii, in race. controlled trict. Canal capacity will be provid me Deonie indicates tnev want "Thnco ore regimented toito The north end throuch St.

i i m' Petershnrcr uiii mil Vnrt Tvnrc woman was identified ASTcdticed by only relatively jsas Pass, with her sister rcien-ea mm in and demand a continuation of death." ed for moving up to 1,000 cubic feet of water a second into the ai within two hours drivintr time Mrs' Arma L. Warren, 52, of(smalI number if the manned in a car, Mrs. Omar Stevens the policies and practices he has Nampa, Idaho. and Mrs. Stevens' two children (Continued on Poqt 4-A) Minis Hi niiiue hi iiniieiiuei park, the engineers said.

inaugurated and conducted. Test Popularity Wallace told the crowd that The system will be part of a long-range plan to meet southern Son of Winter Residents Killed Parts Packers Now Order Fillers Florida water problems. when the swift fatal disease struck. Miss Day apparently contracted meningitis in Fort Myers prior to leaving for Texas. Dr.

Joseph W. Lawrence, Lee Coun the campaign will be a test of his own popularity and that he will continue as governor for all African I-niit Bui the man who evidently aspired to lead a federation of African states he spoke of a "United States of Africa" also seemed to picture himself as an Afican Lenin. He called himself a Marxist Socialist. The newspaper which proounded his doctrines was called "Spark," the name Ienin gave his pre-revolulion newspaper. However, Nkrumah's pan-Afrl-can leader image was becoming The son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert V. Duckett of Trafalgar, ty health director, said however practical purposes if his wife wins. He said he would be her "No. 1 assistant at $1 a year." Wearing a tiny American flag winter residents of Fort Rights Law Boost for Women Sparks Ohio Plant Shutdown Myers for the past four years, was killed in action in Viet Nam lie did not know where the girl may have been to become exposed.

Miss Day had held some babysitting jobs and persons for Indian Dies at 106, Fathered 36 Children NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -Osborne W. Joseph, a Tuscarora Indian whose four wives bore iiim 36 children, died Thursday in Memorial Hospital at the age of lOfi. He had been a patient In the lapel of his dark blue suit, Wallace also renewed his Wednesday. The soldier, Pvt.

Ronald W. Duckett. had been promise to expel any student at I. I I NEW CONCORD, Ohio iP) discrimination in employment! But the men complain that wik'' nave oeen in fnrmcH anH rirnrniHmnc oUn tarnishnrt rimmitnlut The General Llectric Co. was because of sex.

Men order fillers1 wnmnn ran Hn on Thp nnvsipal in Viet Nam "not more than a week," according to Mrs. Ber-nice Nanney, manager of the Jo- a state-supported college who is caught signing petitions or donating clothing or blood in support of the Viet Cong. surrounded Thursday by a fed-at the warehouse say that dis-1 l)T- salrt- Sn, made ing in Arrica and Ghana's cwvn eral equal employment law, a criminates against them, be-iWork nPrpssar-v- women order her home with Mr. and Mrs. enormous internal difficulties stale limit on women's work cause women are being given havp ssiT1Pl to Omar Stevens.

Omar is a step-'curhed Nkrumah's influence. Ray Trailer Court in North Fortj for three weeks. Joseph was 60 when he married his fourth wife, Katherine, then 16, on Jan. 10, 1920, at Hatchler, Ont. Until this year, no woman had Myers, ever run for governor of AJa-l The soldier hA npvpr visited! a union contract.

jjobs as order fillers now. P-'Tts while; mother. I Westerners in Ghana often naa nevei vimu imnn lift I rr. T.ufenc ail -u -j ha ma Mrs Wallace already has F'ort Mvers Mrs Nannev said 11 ma-v a icaerai inter-i in Washington, v. m-i i oi bama.

Iirs. waJiace antauy nnsir on myeis, iu. ixniim-y saiu t. i- 1 nrnWc fnr hnm vens and the two eh Hien nnv niiiir, nameHiPiciaiion oi i lit; i.jiw iivu i iius i hiimiii u. rnxjsevoil jr.

or the muuni, nun. one feminine opponent, Mrs.lHe was one of five like motors. law to end a walkout which shut Equal Employment Opportunity located at a motel in Pcnsncola He was, indeed, the target of and were treated after the pub-jfive assassination attempts and Ralph Price, but few if any pol- Thursday by the Defense Do-Iticians have taken her candi- partment as having been killed Hanv sprious lv. She is only 23lin action in Viet Nam. Coinci- Mrs.

Joseph, a Mohawk Indian, survives, She and Joseph had 13 children, eight still living. Joseph's oldest child, a physician, lives In California. was once injured by a grenade, but he appeared to have a charmed life. Commission said the law "does give women the right to apply for all previously 'male' jobs in which 'maleness' Is not a bona-fide occupational qualificatTon. and the state constitution says Putting women on the easier Jobs "left men with the dirtier, heavier, more hazardous work," Pryor said.

What triggered the walkout early Wednesday, Pryor said, "was the fact that a man was a governor must be at least 30. lie health department in Pensa-cola was notified of the case. The highway patrol located them through the car Mrs. Stevens was driving. Dr.

Lawrence said spinal men- ini'itiH Hovplnne U'ithln Ifl nirc down General Electric's warehouse here, world-wide supplier of replacement parts for its major appliances. "I have ordered the people back to work but they have refused to go," said Hurley Pryor of nearby Cambridge, president of International Brotherhood of I'vri If such is the case in New Concordthat the women is quali Newc.PrfKC InrJpy I transferred off his light job that jand any rerson havi he had he five years and Misg Day niore tha 10 dentally, a Marine killed in action had the same surname. He was Marine PFC Arlen J. Duckett Jr. of Lake Worth.

Mr. and Mrs. Duckett left Thursday afternoon to return home to await the arrival of Pvt. Duckett's body from Viet Nam, expected in a week to 10 days, Mrs. Nanney said.

They have three daughters living in Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Duckett leave Electrical Workers Local 2111. woman with a year and a half days ag0 is not in danRcr Tnm? fied for what was formerly called a 'man's' job then there is no violation of the act." That statement seemed to leave unresolved the key question: is an order filler's job one Paid for Roving Eye BANGKOK, Thailand UPl Her husband Sumit, 40, had been married eight times before and "continued to look around at other girls," wife No.

9, Mrs. Rachani Sea Lao, 23, testified at her murder trUJ. She told the is no danger of an epidemic, he service was put on his light job." The company won't negotiate until employes return. In dispute is how the civil added. There are sporadic cases of meningitis from time to time, Even the light jobs aren't rights law affects putting women; in which male physical ability The Weather Cloudy with some early morning ing becoming partly rlomly today and Saturday.

High In 70s, low 55 to B2. Mostly northwest winds 5 15 mile per hour. Kant iulf marine forecast Viiriuhle mostly northueftt wimN 8 to 15 knots. Cloudy to partly cloudy with soma lix-al fog. (Full weather details I.

JA) i son. rryor. wno operates a lift Dr. Lawrence said. Amusements 6B Bridge 3B aassified 4D-7D Comics 4C Crossword 4C Deaths 2A Editorial 4A Financial 8C-3C Hollj-wood 6R Society 2B Sorts 1D-4D TV 6B into jobs that only men used to, is required? trucK as one bz order in ers.

Alsr. do. Both sides would like a clari- Mine women have been nro-'Said the women sometimes must couit she warned him about the their trailer year-round at the t.no iciiiuiiv oit vi'n ill in i i moled from parts packer to or- push four-wheeled carls with up Mvers roving eye but he paid no heed! Jo-Ray Trailer Court, 1555 North fication. so she shot him with a 22-caliberlTamiami Trail, and spend about) This is the first walkoul le-juei iiuer. ine new ions nav to pounds of nails anH pay to l.aiHi pounds of pails and Funeral arrangements will be pistol last August.

She got an six months of each year there, ported under the law, an hour IB cents more -casinnally must lift lOO-jKiund announced by the Harvey Fu- 18-year prison sentence. I without qualification prohibits! than th women made before, i cartons i Mrs. Nanney said. Home. 41.