News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

to to to to to to to Published Every Morning Thomas A. Edison Member Audit Bureau of Circulations "There is only one Fort AP News and FORT MYERS and 90 million people N. Y. Times Service going to find it Wirephotos NEWS-PRESS out." 82nd Year Fort Myers, Friday Morning, May 13, 1966 5c Daily, 15c Peking Charges Downed Aircraft FROSTBITE BOTHER. With crops throughout New England, early tomato plants in field unseasonal cold threatening Elliott Elmore covered 1,250 at South Windsor, with baskets to protect them.

Here them between rows to be put (AP Wirephoto) Price, Karl Backing High; Burns Hits 'Leftist' Tack Miami Mayor Has Suncoast in Pocket, Supporter Claims WEST PALM BEACH (P) Two of Robert King High's backers Ed Price and Fred Karl joined his campaign here Thursday and said his support for the governorship was "spreading like wildfire." "The steam generated for High is explosive," said Price, former state senator from Bradenton. "The suncoast is solidly in the High column." Karl, ex-senator from Daytona Beach and a candidate for governor in 1964, added: "There is an electrifying current running through the state that you can feel. It will show up dramatically when the votes are counted." High and Scott Kelly, who lost to the Miami mayor in the first primary, then joined him in a joint effort to unseat Gov. Haydon Burns, dropped down to the southeast coast after a swing across north Florida. Flood of Resentment Price and Karl met the cocampaigners when they arrived Daytona Beach and joined them in a four-way news conference.

Burns' charge that Kelly sources had sought to sell his support, Price said, "has sent a flood of resentment running through the ridge section to the West Coast. Kelly and Ben Hill Griffin Jr. (Kelly's finance chairman) are our friends." Taxi Drivers Are Out Strike Puts Travelers Back On Sidewalks of New York NEW YORK (P The books may well record that in New York City 1966 was the year of the big flat tire. The year isn't half over, but so far just about every form of public transportation in the city has had a strike-caused blowout. It started with the buses and subways then the hearses halted the airport buses stopped the Long Island Rail Road went out for an overnight toot and now the taxi drivers are out.

For residents and tourists alike it's been a tough year. The water shortage lingers on. A strike has kept three merged newspapers off the stands. Even the chorus girls at the Latin Quarter kicked up their heels and walked out. Said Myers are Sunday Gulf American Is Buying Own Charter Airline Planes Will Fly Customers to See Developments Here By JIM LONG Gulf American Land Corp.

is acquiring Modern Air Transport, a charter airline it has been using to ferry potential customers to Cape Coral and Golden Gate Estates. Leonard Rosen, board chairman of Gulf American, confirmed the purchase at his Miami office Thursday and said details will be announced today. It is reported the airline will have its headquarters at Page Field, although the airport, with medium length runways, is not designed to land fourengine, pure-jet airliners. Gulf American is believed to be purchasing several such a airliners. Selling Price An article in a Miami aviation newspaper of general circulation quotes the selling price as $3,850,000.

Transfer of ownership is only awaiting approval of the Civil Aeronautics Board. The airline's flying equipment consists of three, four-engine Douglas DC-7C's, each with a capacity of 102 passengers and a crew of six, including the pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and three stewardesses. Those planes have been visiting Page regularly since Jan. 1, ferrying Gulf American home site buyers to and from cities throughout the nation. Local aviation sources reported Gulf American has also purchased two additional DC-7's from a West Coast airline.

Those planes have been renovated and are parked at Miami International Airport to await the beginning of ferry service with the firm's new airline. Pure Jets An unconfirmed report said Gulf American has also bought several Convair 990's, four-engine pure-jet passenger airliners, which have been in service for several years on a major airline. Those planes are also expected to be made part of the flying equipment of the new Gulf American airline. The Convair 990 reportedly 140 passengers and a a a a a carries, nine. It requires a runway of at least 8,000 feet for takeoffs and landings.

The main runways at Page Field measure 5,000 feet. Local aviation authorities reported there are only two airports on the West Coast of Florida capable of accommodating 990's with runways of necessary length. They are Tampa International and St. Petersburg International, which discontinued scheduled airline service more than a year ago. The 990 price tag is about $9 million new.

Those reportedly being purchased by Gulf American are several years old. A sale price was not known here. Gulf American is constructing a new welcome station for home site purchasers at the southeastern corner of Page Field, which it has leased from the County Commission for 10 years with a five-year renewal option. The new building is about half completed. A Gulf American executive at Cape Coral said Wednesday the firm is conducting a contest among its employes to choose a new name for the airline.

Unseasonal Cold, Rainfall Spreads Into 42 States By the Associated Press May's cold, rainy weather spread farther around the nation Thursday reaching 42 of the 48 contiguous states, and its stormy center shifted into the South. Thundershowers dropped locally heavy rains on eastern Arkansas and western Tennessee, and severe storms were developing along a 300-mile front running from central Arkansas to northeastern Texas. In the Rocky Mountains, the precipitation came as snow. Central Colorado's covering varled from one to three inches by noon. In Arizona, 10 inches lay on the ground at Jacobs Lake north of Grand Canyon, where the morning temperature was 24 degrees.

The rains tapered off in the Mississippi Valley, but some flooding lingered in the Chicago area after more than inches in 36 hours. Florida and the Southwest desert region were about the only areas enjoying fair weather and seasonable New Car Sales Off 1965 Pace In Early May Ford Is Exception; Safety Hearings Believed Factor DETROIT (P) The auto industry reported Thursday that new car sales dropped in early May at the peak of publicity about auto safety. General Motors, Chrysler and American Motors all reported their May 1-10 sales were off the 1965 pace. Ford Motor Co. was the exception as its early May showing was the best in company history.

Preliminary sales reports showed 192,429 new cars were sold in the period, some 35,000 behind the industry pace in early May of 1965. The figures tended to bear out the prediction of AMC President Roy Abernethy who said Monday the auto safety hearlings would have "a negative effect on auto sales." Ford President Arjay Miller had referred earlier to the "harassment" of the auto safety issue. Industry sources had shown some concern when April sales fell behind those of April, 1965, and they had awaited the early May reports to see if the downward trend was reversed. Industry leaders generally had no immediate comment on the sales figures. One, who asked that he not be identified, said, "'We want to look things over carefully before we say any more about the auto safety issue.

After all, there may be other factors in the picture including a bit of softening in the economy." Auto stocks slipped on the New York Stock Market even before the late afternoon announcement of sales figures by GM, Chrysler and AMC. GM lost $1.50 at Chrysler declined $1.12 to $42.12 and Ford was off 12 cents to $46.87. Despite the early May easing by three of the auto companies, the general auto picture had a multitude of bright spots Thursday. Among them were: GM reported its auto sales for the current model year to date ran 374,504 above the same period of the 1965 model year. Chrysler calendar year sales of 521,165 were 6.3 ahead of last year's selling rate.

Ford Division reported its calendar year sale of new cars, to date passed 760,065 and was four per cent ahead of 1965. First Reports in Week The sales reports were the first since May 5 when auto firms gave to Sen. Abrahm Ribicoff, D-Conn, head of a Senlate subcommittee probing auto safety, a list of defects found in U. S. cars since 1960.

Many people within the inpredicted then that publication the reports would be reflected quickly in auto sales. They pointed to Thursday's sales lists as their argument. Chevrolet's Corvair, frequent target of auto safety critic Ralph Nader, took one of the sharpest percentage drops in early May. Sales of 1,899 cars contrasted with 6,213 in the 10- day period a year ago. Coons Given Zoo GUERNSEY, Channel Island (P) Two raccoons, a gift from Mrs.

Lyndon B. Johnson, wife of the American President, arrived safely Thursday. The raccoons are at the Guernsey Children's Zoo and have been named George and Martha after the Washingtons. The taxi drivers went on Wednesday night, leaving only a few of the city's 11,700 cabs on the street. The few cabs left headed for the airports to take care of some of the travelers stranded by the 7-day-old strike of airport bus drivers who work for Carey Transportation Inc.

The buses normally shuttle about 15,000 passengers daily the city and Kennedy, La Guardia, and Newark airports. New York Airways, with helicopters linking the airports and Manhattan, put on extra flights. Community relations advisors being called to New York for a conference by the Bell System are getting a little something extrasubway map. The taxi drivers struck the fleet-owned cabs for higher commissions. Harry Van Arsdale, U.S.

Over he removes baskets but places back over plants if needed. Chiefs Want New Manned Bomber, Rep. Hebert Says McNamara Insists Misunderstanding Caused Endorsement WASHINGTON (P) Rep. F. Edward Hebert, released secret testimony Thursday and said it proves the Joint Chiefs of Staff want fullscale development of a new manned bomber, contrary to plans of Secretary of Defense Robert S.

McNamara. But McNamara said a "badly drafted" Pentagon memo indicated to the chiefs that they had to endorse fullscale development of a successor to the B52 or forego development money for 1968. "Therefore, they felt compelled to recommend it," McNamara told reporters." This misunderstanding has been clarified." Now, McNamara added, the chiefs are "free to adopt the position they initially That commitment to full development of an advanced strategic aircraft should not be made at this time. Denies Misstatement "The allegation that a majority of the chiefs favor including in the 1967 budgets funds for is without foundation," McNadevelopment of a new. bomber mara said.

And, he added, the suggestion "that misstated their position is without foundation." This development was the latest in a running exchange between the House Armed Services Committee and McNamara over the future of manned bombers. China CHRISTOPHER J. DEAN JR. Young Graduate Of Dunbar High Dies in Viet Nam Victim Had Been In Embattled Nation Just Thirteen Days Thirteen days after he landed in South Viet Nam with the 25th Infantry Division, PEC Christopher J. Dean 23, of Fort Myers was killed in action against the Viet Cong.

His family was notified Thursday, by telegram and in person, that Dean "died in Viet Nam 11 May 1966 of mine fragment wounds received while on an operation against a hostile force." An Army major and a sergeant from Sarasota delivered the death message, said Miss Joyce Dean, a sister, who lives at 2946 St. Charles Ave. She is a teacher at Dunbar Senior High School. "Too Young to Die' Ironically, on the same day, that Christopher died, Joyce received a letter saying: "Don't worry about me because I'm taking good care of myself. Anyway, I think that I am too young to die.

Don't you agree?" The young soldier, a 1960 graduate of Dunbar High, apparently wrote that in jest. After that sentence was the word enclosed in parentheses. Foot Soldier The Army did not inform Dean's family where he received his fatal wounds. He was a foot soldier in Co. 2nd Battalion of the 14th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division.

He had been in the Army since last September, and was home in November after completing basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga. Dean is the fourth soldier with a Fort Myers connection to be killed in South Viet Nam. The others were SP4 E. M. Schultz III, Capt.

William L. Johnson and Pvt. Ronald W. Duckett. Two others have been wounded.

Dean is survived by his father, Christopher Dean Sr. of 3109 St. Charles grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Owens of 2984 Lincoln another sister, Janice Dean of 3209 St.

Charles and three brothers, Tommy Ronald 0. and Donald L. Dean. The Army did not inform the family immediately about the disposition of the body. Hedy Files Suit For $5 Million LOS ANGELES Actress Hedy Lamarr filed suit for $5 million damages Thursday against the May Co.

Department Stores for her arrest last Jan. 127 on shoplifting charges. The 51-year-old actress, who was acquitted by a jury April 22, filed the suit charging false arrest, false imprisonment, assault and battery, and malicious prosecution. The suit, prepared by her attorney, Jordan Wank, asked $1 million general damages, $2 million exemplary damages and $2 million for injury to her reputation and the "indignities and humiliation" she claims she suffered because of the arrest. Reds Denounce Alleged Attack As Act of War (Copyright N.

Y. Times Service) HONG KONG Communist China asserted Thursday that five United States fighter planes intruded Wednesday into Yunnan Province and shot down one of its military aircraft. Peking denounced the alleged attack as 'an act of war provocation." Neither the White House nor the Defense Department in Washington had any comment on the plane report. Hsinhua, the government press agency, asserted that the invading U. S.

fighters had launched guided missiles at Chineses Communist aircraft taking part in a training flight. The report asserted that one plane was shot down and "when Chinese fighter planes counter-attacked, the U. S. air pirates fled southwestward." The agency said that the clash took place northwest of Makuan, which is about 20 miles north of the Vietnamese border, at 4:17 p.m., Peking time Wednesday. Chinese Communist Mig fighter planes, based at the nearby base of Mengtze, range regularly over the Makuan Region in patrols along the North Vietnamese frontier.

U. S. fighterbombers have in the past flown close to the same section of the frontier during strikes at the rail link between Hanoi and Yunnan Province. Grave Incident High and Kelly Due Here Today Mayor Robert King High of Miami and his running -mate, Scott Kelly of Lakeland, are due at Page Field at 7:45 a.m. today for a campaign visit to Fort Myers.

The candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor and Kelly, who ran third in the first primary, will attend a reception at 8 at the Holiday Inn. Kelly will introduce High for a talk from the courthouse steps at 9 a.m. Al Gallman, former Kelly finance committeeman, will introduce the iting campaigners. High and Kelly later will go to Sarasota and Bradenton. Haydon Burns will be in Fort Myers for about 3 hours Saturday evening, Campaign Manager Lee Sims reported.

He will make a television appearance but there are no plans for Burns to meet the public. Burns Assailed By Sec. Adams TALLAHASSEE (P) Secretary of State Tom Adams said Thursday Gov. Haydon Burns "may desire to conveniently hide behind the cabinet" in questions arising over state pur-, chasing practices, "but he won't hide behind me." Burns, campaigning in Tampa, said "Tom Adams' political blast comes as no surprise. Mr.

Adams has been the maverick of the cabinet." Adams pointed out that Burns, as governor, is chairman of the commission, which includes all members of the cabinet. "It has been widely reported that the governor would like to lay the blame for his own purchasing irregularities at the feet of the purchasing commission," Adams said in a statement. "However, many of these have never been brought to the attention of the commission. "I will not be involved by in-. ference or association in anything that isn't as it should be.

The governor may desire to conveniently hide behind the cabinet but he won't hide behind me." Burns replied that if Adams had knowledge of any improprieties in the commission Adams "has a sworn obligation to make them public. This he has not done." The governor charged that Adams tried to sell to the division of corrections an airplane owned by a corporation he said Adams controlled. Opponents Have Reached Depths, Governor Charges TAMPA (P) Gov. Haydon Burns asked Florida Thursday to follow Alabama's lead in repelling what he called "the leftist approach to undermining the people's confidence in their government." Referring to the merger of the forces of Robert King High and Scott Kelly, his first-primary opponents, Burns told a Tampa luncheon audience: "Regrettably politics makes desperate men who use desperate means to accomplish selfish objectives. "My opponents alluded to your governor with the term hogpen morality.

This is indicative of the depths they reach for their objectives. method and slander and attack is the leftist approach to undermining the people's confidence in their government. "The people of Alabama two weeks ago repelled this type of attack. The bloc vote was as evident there as in the six counties of Florida carried by High (in the first primary)." Broadens Attack Burns broadened his attack on Kelly and High to include Secretary of State Tom Adams and Sen. Robert Kennedy, labeling High and Kelly "has-beens" and Adams and Kennedy "would-bes." Burns said Adams had finally "come to the surface and shown his antagonism to the governor." He referred to Adams' charge that Burns' administration was indulging in malpractices in purchasing and was holding up a cabinet committee investigation until after the election.

"No one can hide behind Tom Adams because everyone can see right through him," Burns said. Burns said that as a cabinet official it was Adams' responsibility to bring to light any improprieties in purchasing. "If he has not done this, he has been irresponsible," Burns said. Touching on Adams' repeated charges of undue political influence in the operation of the university system, Burns said Adams cast the lone dissenting vote in the selection of a president for Florida State University and a chancellor as the university system's top staff official. "Any political maneuvering in the university system has come from the source pointing the accuser's finger Tom Adams," Burns said.

Burns said if there was any manipulation in purchasing practices he would not have named Adams committee making the investigation. The Chinese Communist Ministry of National Defense, in a statement, described the reported clash as "an extremely grave incident, a deliberate, systematic action of war provoby the Johnson administration." The statement, distributed abroad by Hsinhua, did not indicate that Communist China intended any immediate retaliatory action. If the Chinese Communist version of the reported air clash i is correct, the downed Chinese plane would be the first Peking aircraft to be shot down by U.S. planes in air battle since the beginning of the war in Viet Nam. Strong Protest A ministry spokesman, in what was described as "the strongest protest" stated: "The Chinese people and Chinese People's Liberation Army are extremely indignant at this grave incident of provocation by U.S.

gangster aircraft. They have long been prepared against the sinister schemes of U.S. imperialism to extend its war of aggression. The debt in blood owed by U.S. imperialism to the Chinese people must be cleared." Problem Shipped Back to Soldiers SAIGON GIs in the 4th Battalion, 23rd Infantry, wondered Thursday what to do with three found in Viet Cong supplies they seized in a tunnel complex: Three brassieres.

"We sent them back to the intelligence people in division headquarters," said Lt. Col. Michael Barszez. "They sent them back to us and told us to solve our own problems." head of the taxi drivers organizing committee, said he considered the strike "more effective than we could possibly. have anticipated." Said one relieved office worker: "I commute by elevatorautomatic, thank goodness!" Another, asked for his thoughts on the strikes, answered: "How many expletives do you think we could get into print?" One man intimately tied to the labor picture thinks New York has gotten "an undeserved reputation as being strike happy." He is Theodore Kheel, the city's No.

1 labor troubleshooter. "I don't think our strike record is particularly bad- that I don't think it's good either," said Kheel. "But its impact on the nation is more severe because of our size." On the Inside Compromise truth in packaging bill drafted in Congress, Page 9-A. Committee chairman deals fatal blow to administration proposal to liberalize trade with Eastern European nations, Page 1-C. The Fort Myers Green Wave defeats Miami Senior High and will play Pensacola Escambia for State Class AA pionship at Terry Park tonight, Page 1-D.

Index Weather Amusements 90 The Fort Myers area will Bridge 6B be partly cloudy through SatClassified 6D-9D Comics 8C urday. Low this morning will Crossword 8C be between 65 and 70. Today's Deaths 2A high will be 85-90. Easterly Editorial 6A-TA and southeasterly winds 5-15 Financial 5D-6D miles an hour are forecast. Hollywood 50 East Gulf marine forecast: Society 28-108 Southeasterly winds 8-15 knots Sports 1D-4D today.

It will be partly cloudy. TV 9C (Full weather details P. 2A).