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Member Audit Bureau of Circulations FORT "There is only one Fort Myers AP News and Wirephotos and 90 million people are Published Every Morning Thomas A. Edison Said Phone EDison 4-2351 going to find It out." MYERS NEWS-PRESS 82nd Year Fort Myers, Friday Morning, February 25, 1966 5c Daily, 15c Sunday Canal Network To Aid Glades Park Planned Engineers Seek To Divert Water From Okeechobee WASHINGTON (P -The Army Engineers announced Thursday that work will begin promptly on a temporary network of canals to divert water from Lake Okeechobee in Florida to Everglades National Park and to water-conservation areas which serve the Miami area. The work, which will be done under an emergency plan, is to protect the park and nearby urban areas pending a longrange solution to South Florida's water shortage. Prolonged drought, the announcement said, has critically 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 i in Miami and its environs. Rainfall Helps Most of the water for the park and the conservation areas comes from rainfall, the announcement pointed out.

Recent rains, the engineers said, have alleviated a critical water shortage at least temporarily. But, they said, the importation of additional water is necessary to help the park recover and to protect it and adjoining areas possible continuation of drought. To transport large quantities of lake water, the engineers said, will require increasing the capacity of an 85-mile-long network of water channels inand improving which eluding use of canals existing, material has been excavated to build levees, to serve as supple- fental canals. Pumping Necessary Because the land is flat, tensive pumping will be necessary. Also a canal and waterretaining levee extending about 100 miles along the east park boundary to move water to critical points in the park will built.

Construction, the announce. ment said, will cost about $3.5 million and will require about year to complete. Pumping will begin soon. Construction will 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 $150,000 a year, depending upon the amount pumped, will be paid for by the federal government. The state and district, the announcement said, have agreed move Lake Okeechobee water, through the project system to the park. Also, the announcement said, the state and the district have agreed to release water to the park, consistent with water 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-re-ing lease schedule is being worked out. The work is being undertaken Col.

R. P. Tabb, the Army district engineer in Jacksonville. will work in cooperation with the National Park Service, the state and the flood control district. Canal capacity will be providfor moving up to 1,000 cubic feet of water a second into the park, the engineers said.

The system will be part of a long plan to meet southern Florida water problems. Indian Dies at 106, Fathered 36 Children NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. Osborne 1 W. Joseph, a Tuscarora Indian whose four wives bore him 36 children, died Thursday in Memorial Hospital at the age of 106. He had been a patient three weeks.

for, Joseph was 60 when he married his fourth wife, Katherine. then 16, on Jan. 10, 1920, at Hatchler, Ont. Mrs. Joseph, a Mohawk Indian, survives.

She and Joseph had 13 children, eight still living. Joseph's oldest child, a physician, lives in California. News-Press Index Amusements 6B Bridge 3B Classified 4D-7D Comics 4C Crossword 4C Deaths 2A Editorial 4A Financial 8C-9C Hollywood 6B Society 2B Sports 1D-4D TV 6B Nkrumah Toppled in Ghana By Swift Military Rebellion U.S. to Intensify Viet Assaults, Congress Told Emergency Foreign Aid Authorization Passed by House WASHINGTON (P) Vice Presiident Hubert H. Humphrey, reporting to congressmen on his mission to Asia, said Thursday American and South Vietnamese fighting men are going to intensify their assaults on the Viet Cong.

"The tide of battle has Humphrey said, echoing Presiident 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 $415-million emergency foreign aid authorization bill, most of the money destined for South Viet Nam. The administration has $275 million will be used to bolster the Vietnamese economy. Criticism Missing Democratic and Republican leaders joined in backing the measure.

The four-hour debate produced no criticism of U. S. policy in Viet Nam. But the Senate argument about the U. S.

course swirled on. Humphrey spent about four hours reporting at a series of White House briefings on his ninenation Asian journey. The vice president said he turned 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 reached the stage," Humphrey told newsmen after briefing some 200 senators and representatives, "where our military forces can sustain a planned, methodical forward He said U. S. and South Vietnamese forces are aiming continuous and effective operations at Viet Cong guerrillas who once could choose when and where they fought.

Will Be Intensified "And this will be intensified," Humphrey said. He said military operations will be coupled with a drive to win economic and social reforms for the South Vietnamese people. On another front, the protest of a Johnson critic blocked an administration bid to speed Senate action on a bill to authorize $4.8 billion in new war spending. Woman Lodges False Complaint BOISE, Idaho (P) A middleaged woman walked into a Boise pawnshop Thursday and pulled out a pistol. "These shells you sold me don't work." she told a clerk, Chuck Davis.

Then as Davis, another clerk and a customer watched, she put the gun to her head and pulled the trigger. The shot killed her instantly. The woman was identified as Mrs. Arma L. Warren, 52, of Nampa, Idaho.

Gov. George Wallace of Alabama watches his nor to Secretary of State Agnes Baggett in wife hand qualifying papers to run for gover- Montgomery Thursday. (AP Wirephoto) Wallace's Wife After Governor's Post in Alabama Promises to Let Her Husband Run Show If Elected MONTGOMERY, Ala. (P) Gov. George Wallace's wife, Lurleen, became a candidate governor of Alabama Thursday with a forecast of victory from her husband and a promise let him run the show if she elected.

The 39-year-old Mrs. Wallace told a cheering throng which jammed the historic House Representatives chamber -she nomination will seek in the May Democratic 3 mary. She said she would run as "stand-in" candidate for husband who is barred by law from seeking re-election. His term ends in January. Wallace, standing at his wife's side, predicted to the hundreds placard -waving followers that "Mrs.

Wallace will win." promised at the same time that "not a single dime of state funds facilities (including cars and planes) will be used" in the campaign. Political Convention The honey-blonde first lady, who abandoned a childhood ambition to become a nurse and instead married a young lawyer who was destined to become governor, made her unprecedented announcement of her candidacy at a news conference which resembled a political convention. Wallace had invited the pubto 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. Mrs.

Wallace told her whoopfollowers, "My election will enable my husband to carry on programs for the people." She promised to continue the "progress, prosperity and honefficient government which been so much in evidence during the administration of my husband. overwhelming support of his administration by people indicates they want demand a continuation of policies and practices he has inaugurated and conducted." Test Popularity Wallace told the crowd that the campaign will be a test of his own popularity and that he continue as governor for all practical purposes his wife said he would be her wins. 1 He assistant at $1 a year." Wearing a tiny American flag in the lapel of his dark blue suit, Wallace also renewed his promise to expel any student at a state-supported college who is caught signing petitions or donating clothing or blood in support of the Viet Cong. Until this year, no woman had ever run for governor of Alabama. Mrs.

Wallace already has one feminine opponent, Mrs. Ralph Price, but few if any politicians have taken her candidacy seriously. She is only 23 and constitution says a governor must be at least 30. Paid for Roving Eye BANGKOK, Thailand (P -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 trial. She told the court she warned him about the roving eye but he paid no heed so she shot him with a 22-caliber pistol last August. She got an 18-year prison sentence. Leader Ousted While in China; Thousands Join in Merriment As Rebel Chiefs Take Control KWAME NKRUMAH California MOL Launching Site Given Support Defense, Civilian Officials Agree On Polar Orbit WASHINGTON (P Defense and civilian space officials agreed Thursday that a polar orbit is a necessary feature of the Air Force's projected manned orbital laboratory. The Air Force told the Senate Space Committee at an all-day closed session that the manned shots can best be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Sen. Spessard L. Holland, D- said Pentagon and National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials were in agreement on this. But he said various scientists were not convinced that a polar (north-south) orbit was necessary or that the device could not be successfully launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida. Floridians Disturbed Holland had requested the hearing to hear the Air Force case because Floridians a ve been disturbed by plans to hold all Air Force manned launches at Vandenberg and none at Cape Kennedy.

He said a second issue centers on whether a payload is necessary as the Air Force says. "There are some who think the Air Force put in this requirement so that the launches would have to be from Vandenberg," Holland said. He explained that the Titan 3C rocket can lift a payload into polar orbit from Vandenberg but that a dogleg change in course would be necessary to place the rocket into polar orbit from Cape Kennedy without flying over populated areas in Florida and that this would require additional weight fuel. Won't Duplicate Holland said the Air Force said it does not plan to duplicate many of the facilities now at Cape Kennedy. It proposes one launch pad and the necessary facilities for a Titan 3C rocket.

He said also that the personnel at Cape Kennedy would be reduced by only a relatively small number if the manned shots are made at Vandenberg. Parts Packers Now Order Fillers Rights Law Boost for Women Sparks Ohio Plant Shutdown NEW CONCORD. Ohio (A) The General Electric Co. was surrounded Thursday by a federal equal employment law, a state limit on women's work and a union contract. It may take a federal interpretation of the 1964 civil rights law to end a walkout which shut down General Electric's warehouse here, worldwide supplier of replacement parts for its major appliances.

"I have ordered the people back to work but they have refused to go," said Harley Pryor of nearby Cambridge, president of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2111. The company negotiate until employes return. In dispute is how the civil rights law affects putting women into jobs that only men used to do. Both sides would like a clarification. This is the first walkout reported under the law, which without qualification 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 property." While firing was still going on between paratroops who spearheaded the revolt and the presidential guard, thousands of celebrators poured into the streets of Accra in a carnival of drinking, dancing and merrymaking. Leader of Revolt Col. E. K.

Kotoka, identified in a Ghana radio 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 the statues 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 Unclear Casualty figures for the well planned pre coup were unclear.

One source at the military hospital said he saw four dead and 30 wounded, all soldiers. Other sources esti- In 'Cocoa Curtain' Students Under Pressure Youngsters Seek Money, Success WEBSTER GROVES, ents and students in this pondered Thursday a Groves' 16-year-olds are in a desperate fight for good grades for the wrong reasons. Dr. Arthur Barron reported to the suburban St. Louis community, Wednesday that the 688 youngsters he studied over a six-month period have lost their youth because of tremendous 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-yearolds is "a good-paying job, money, success." He said love of learning and intellectuality are being lost in the shuffle in Webster Groves and perhaps in other such communities across the nation.

Educators Disturbed Educators seemed disturbed by the report. "This has been invaluable to said Miss Esther Replogle, a high school teacher. "I'm terribly distrubed at their sense of values. Apparently in some respects we are missing the boat." "We are not encouraging disturbing questions among our pupils," said Ed Eggers, a principal. "I think we've pushed the kids," said Dr.

Charles Garner, in charge of curriculum at Webster Groves High School. "They push themselves and their parents push us." Members of the Student Council to which Barron spoke seemed to Barron. "Generally I agree with the validity of the survey," said Jim McDonald, 17, president of the council. "Personally, I don't go along with some of the ideas on values and money, but representing the student body, I would have to say that what Dr. Barron found is generally true." Fred Zinn, Webster Groves chief of police, told Barron, "These kids are regimented to death." Son of Winter Residents Killed The son of Mr.

and Mrs. Robert V. Duckett of Trafalgar, winter residents of Fort Myers, killed for in the action past fouler years, Nam Wednesday. The soldier, Pvt. Ronald W.

Duckett, had been in Viet Nam "not more than a week," according to Mrs. Bernice Nanney, manager of the JoRay Trailer Court in North Fort Myers. The soldier had never visited Fort Myers, Mrs. Nanney said. He was one of five named Thursday by the Defense Department as having been killed in action in Viet Nam.

Coincidentally, 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 their trailer year-round at the Jo-Ray Trailer Court, 1555 North Tamiami Trail, and spend about six months of each year there, Mrs. Nanney said. Mo.

(AP) Educators, parupper-middle-class suburb sociologist's report that Webster County, Chamber Support Skyway Four-Lane Plan Reduced Driving Time, I-4 Link Cited in Action Chairman Julian L. Hudson of the County Commission called a special meeting missioners Thursday afternoon to adopt resolution in of Gov. Haydon Burns' proposal to refinance and four-lane the Sunshine Skyway. The resolution was identical to one adopted by the board of the Fort Myers Lee County Chamber of Commerce at its noon luncheon which was attended by Hudson and Commis-1 sioner Kenneth Daniels. Hudson said the commission's resolution will be sent immediately to the State Road Board in Tallahassee.

He said the hastily. called meeting, prompted by the chamber board's action, was necessary because a public hearing on Skyway plan will be held by the State Cabinet in Tallahassee Wednesday. The chamber's resolution was recommended for adoption by Jim Ruth, chairman of the highways committee host to the State Road Board which held its first meeting in Fort Myers last Friday. Ruth said members of the road board had requested the chamber's support. Two Hour Drive In reporting on the road board meeting here at which members unanimously approved Burns' Skyway proposal, Ruth told chamber directors that four-laning the span and extending I-4 to the north end through St.

Petersburg will put Fort Myers within two hours time (Continued on driving, mated the dead at 18. Among those believed killed was Maj. Gen. Charles Barwah, army commander, reportedly shot in his darkened house by a young officer when he refused a command to surrender. A later broadcast said a national revolutionary council had been appointed but did not name the members.

The broadcast said also that Maj. Gen. J. A. Ankrah, deposed by Nkrumah last July, had been reinstated and promoted to lieutenant general.

(In Tokyo the Japanese Kyodo News Agency reported from Peking that Nkrumah would likely remain in the Chinese capital for several days to await developments. The agency also reported that Nkrumah considering flying to London.) Discussing the revolution, Ra-1 dio Ghana said: "This act has been made necessary by the economic and political situation in the country. The concentration of power in the hands of one man has led to abuse of individual rights and liberties. Power has been exercised by the former president capriciously. The operation of the laws has been suspended to the advantage of the favorites and he has been running the country as if it were his own personal property." Teenager Dies Of Meningitis Miss Patricia Anne Day, 18, daughter Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Stevens 1721 Braman of died early Thursday in Fort Walton Beach of spinal meningitis, a serious contagious disease. Miss Day was on a trip to Aransas Pass, with her sister in a car, Mrs. Omar Stevens, and Mrs. Stevens' two children when the swift fatal disease struck.

Miss Day apparently contract-: ed meningitis in Fort Myers prior to leaving for Texas. Dr. Joseph W. Lawrence, Lee County health director, said however he did not know where the girl may have been to become exposed. Miss Day had held some babysitting jobs and persons for whom she worked have been informed and precautions taken, Dr.

Lawrence said. She made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Omar Stevens. Omar is a stepbrother.

Dr. Lawrence said Mrs. Stevens and the two children were located at a motel in Pensacola and were treated after the publie health department in Pensacola was notified of the case. The highway patrol located them through the car Mrs. Stevens was driving.

Dr. Lawrence said spinal meningitis develops within 10 days and any person having contact with Miss Day more than days ago is not in danger. There is no danger of an epidemic, he added. There are sporadic cases of meningitis from time to time, Dr. Lawrence said.

Also surviving are a sister, Miss Tammy Stevens of Fort Myers. Funeral arrangements will be announced by the Harvey Funeral Home. Ousted Leader Viewed Himself Man of Destiny NEW YORK (P) 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 himself a redeemer destined to lead all Africans to unity. Shy and often charming in private, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana built around himself a cult of personality rivaling the adulation once paid Stalin in the Soviet Union. Nkrumah's tight dictatorship the label of "the Cocoa Curtain," behind which his nation struggled with near-bankruptey caused by over ambitious industrialization, mismanagement, corruption and confusion.

Violent Antipathy Then he sought and received significant help from the United States, Nkrumah's public posture was one of violent antipathy to Washington. His philosophy, called "Nkrumahism," taught the youth of the nation that the American system was "Facist imperialist and neocolonialist." It is to be countered. he taught, by an African Socialism which would be a beacon for "activists and freedom fighters of the African struggle." Nkrumah adopted the title of Osagyefo (pronounced Oh-say'jue-foh), meaning "redeemer." and permitted himself to be pictured as a new Messiah for the black race. Ghana's controlled press often referred to him in terms. African Lenin discrimination in because of sex.

Men order fillers at the warehouse say that discriminates against them, because women are being given jobs as order fillers now. In Washington, Chairman Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the law give women the right to apply, for all previously 'male' jobs in which 'maleness' is not a bonafide occupational qualification. If such is case in New Concord -that the women is qualified 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 in which male physical ability is required? Nine women have been promoted from parts packer to order filler.

The new jobs pay $2.40 an hours, 36 cents more than the women made before. But the man who evidently aspired to lead a federation of states he spoke of a African "United States of Africa" also seemed to picture himself as an Afican Lenin. He called himself a Marxist Socialist. The newspaper which propounded his doctrines was called "Spark," the name Lenin gave his prerevolution newspaper. However, Nkrumah's pan-African leader image was becoming tarnished.

Communist blundering in Africa and Ghana's own enormous internal difficulties curbed Nkrumah's influence. Westerners in Ghana often said Ghanaians could get rid of Nkrumah only by killing him. He was, indeed, the target of five assassination attempts and was once injured by a grenade, but he appeared to have a charmed life. But the men complain that women can't do all the physical work necessary. Women order fillers have been assigned to work with lighter parts while men, some driving lift trucks, fill orders for heavier parts, like motors.

Putting women on easier jobs "left men with the dirtier, heavier, more hazardous Pryor said. What triggered the walkout early Wednesday, Pryor said, "was the fact that a man was transferred off his light job that he had held five years and a woman with a year and a half service was put on his light job." Even the light jobs aren't soft. Pryor, who operates a lift truck as one of 62 order fillers, said the women sometimes must push four-wheeled carts with up to 1,500 pounds of parts and occasionally must lift 100-pound cartons. The Weather Cloudy with some early morning fog becoming partly cloudy today and Saturday. High in 70s, low 55 to 62.

Mostly northwest winds 5 15 miles per hour. East Gulf marine forecast: Variable mostly northwest winds to 15 knots. Cloudy to partly cloudy with some local fog. (Full weather details P. 2A).