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Fort Myers News-Press Charlotte Commentary Whither Schools immh fmhhm tLsrest Florida Ne7D PosDog 1 By Fred Farris SEC. FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1967 PAGE 1 (Ntwt-Pms Bureau) NAPLES Collier County's water management board voted Thursday to recommend that the County Commission permit the 40-acre Donovan subdivision to empty its drainage system into Gulf American Gordon River canal. 1 rsw The action followed a report from County Engineer Harmon Turner that Gulf American has asked the county to "accept some of its canals as complete and ready to turn over to the county." IBM imhb i Viiiim5i However, Turner added, the Gordon River outfall canal runs through an easement granted by the Collier Company, "and there are still a few points to clear up." Among those points, said Turner, are how much of the spoil from the digging shall go to Gulf American for its own use, and who shall level and clean the spoil banks after the fill material has been used. Canal Not Accepted The management board agreed, on an opinion from County Attorney James Adams. that permission for Donovan to empty drainage into the big canal would not affect the board's future decision on ac ceptance of the Gulf American given a miniature outboard motor with a watch attached, a parody on a live television commercial Swayze made during which the advertised watch was lost from a real outboard motor.

(News-Press Photo by Bob Duffey) outfall. John Cameron Swayze, center, shows off a gift from Gulf American Corp. to Cape Coral Chamber Manager Mrs. Eula Smith and Chamber President Edward Quirk at the chamber's annual banquet Thursday night. Swayze, the banquet principal speaker, was People Same All Over lurner said he would not recommend yet that another canal of Gulf American, the one running along the west side of Golden Gate city, be accepted.

There is still a wier to be built in that canal Turner said. Board Member Meredith Strong also a member of Naples City Council said "we Commentator Spellbinds Cape Chamber Audience are still getting debris from GIRL IN THE HEART. Miss Jonl Larabee of Fort Myers Beach, a big hit at Edison Pageant of Light stadium show last year, will be performing every night next week at Terry Park for the Southwest Florida Fair. The fair will open at noon Monday and Miss Larabee will present matinee performances Monday and Tuesday. upstream drainage into Naples bay." What about tomorrow? What does the future hold in store; for us? The questions currently are being explored by a large segment of the scientific community along with world leaders, authors, planners and others who express some misgivings about our burgeoning population which will have doubled in the United States by the turn of the century.

While historians searching in the past for helpful clues, deal in centuries, modern planners deal in decades as they plan for the future. No one has really scanned Charlotte; County, but it is the prototype of tomorrow's community. The county has already undergone a population explosion. In one decade, from 1950 to 1960, the county's population tripled. By 1970 the school population, too, has more than tripled and schools now are becoming overcrowded.

Educators mostly project increases on at five per cent basis, yet in Charlotte County last year opening day enrollments represents a 10 cent increase over the previous year. Stay In Longer Dr. Herbert Grosch of General Electric who engages in long-range planning for the future, predicted that within the next 20 years a student will remain in school until he reaches his thirties. Other educational planners predict that schools 20 years from now will be as different from today as the little red schoolhouse of yesterday is to modern schools. They predict that schools will be grouped In educational parks ranging from pre-kindergarten through college and will also serve as community centers for adult education and recreational purposes.

Again Charlotte County is the Local educators are proposing a school complex on the same order as predicted by educators for the future. In Charlotte County education doesn't stop when a student reaches his thirties at Port Charlotte there are students who have passed 80. Add to this current efforts by local educators to utilize the schools for community functions and it is readily evident that Charlotte County has already stepped into the future. The multiple use premise is based on the principle that schools are community property and these expensive holding should be utilized as much as possible for public functions long as education of the young is not hindered. Continuing Process Those who look into the statistical crystal ball of the future predict that education will more and more become a continuing process and that "brain banks" will be established.

With automation reducing the need for a large labor force, the student of today must bet trained for the future, so that thinkers can be withdrawn from the brain bank to help solve the many complex problems that will face the nation in the future. In Charlotte; County there is already a brain bank available to help with current problems in the form of the many retirees who have successfully attended colleges and universities and still are capable of effective cogitation. For the future, though, new ideas and new arts, skills and trades will be needed to carry the county forward. In 1870, according to census figures, only 12,778 of the, state's 187,748 people were enrolled in school. According to the 1960 census, 2,071 Charlotte County residents had completed high school, 1,513 had attended college and 2,053 were enrolled in elementary and secondary schools.

Current surveys give the county a median educational level of about grade 12, far above the national average. Local educators, both in the public school system and at Port Charlotte are trying to raise the median education level even higher. World Changes The median age in Charlotte County is somewhere between 50 and 64, meaning that most of the county's residents attended school more than 30 years ago and most of them are not aware of the new trends in education and the new subjects being taught. Students 30 years ago were trained for the world of that day. The modern student must learn the needs of tomorrow because events today move so rapidly that today's occupations and basic knowledge will be old stuff by the time he graduates.

This places educators in a position where they must forsee what the needs will be and to try and prepare the students to fill the gaps. For example, 30 years ago television was an almost unknown industry. Today electronics are an important part of many undertakings. When television mushroomed over the nation, there were few people who understood the workings and fewer who had been trained to handle the problems. Whatever is new tomorrow, educators hope that they have prepared the students to cope with it.

Private industry and government is lending a hand along these lines by keeping educators advised of future trends. He asked Turner if the Army Corps of Engineers had taken derful world," a world "that How the world looks depends any action on the Gulf ice street vendor, the perilous proximity of Portuguese Macao needs all the little help we can American request for For Pine Island Chamber give it and the people who live to Red China all blended into a on how you look at it, documentary specialist John Cameron Swayze said Thursday night. permission to blast in Gordon River where their Gordon River logical sequence of illogical com in it." Causing Revolution canal empties above the bay, The reknowned commentator parisons reflecting the tendency of humans to be humans what Turner said the permit had ever their language. After reliving colorful points of contact with others along the road of documentary filming (or not been granted "and won't be until the corps and the city "What counts," he said, "is not one big thing you do for people, approve or the plan. at least events related in Swa but the little things you do as Six-Year Review Given by Hudson By PHIL KEYES Ithat won architectural acclaim was Dehind the Lape txrai Chamber of Commerce rostrum, and the rapt annual banquet audience was spellbound on an elbow to tabletop tour of places quaint and curious.

The world, Swayze said, still contains all that is wonderful and beautiful, made even more "Gulf Amerfcan has been told to come up with an alternate you go along." A person's greatest contribution yze' colorful language), he said that America is causing revolution around the world. But they are "friendly revolutions," with hot dogs and ice cream sodas as plan," said Turner. Silt Outflow to others can be some little thing "that makes life better for your i he dynamiting request followed an objection last accessible by world shrinking weapons. Chairman Julian L. Hudson all over the country and to look having done it." This, he said, "Still is a won- winter that high water over travel means.

But to enjoy it, of the County Commission gave Gulf American's salinity barrier "When you can get a banana split or an ice cream soda in he said, one has to remember that people are people, and to at the new Caloosahatchee Bridge," Hudson said. "I'd tell him to drive east from the city and soon he will come to a a resume of Lee County accomplishments during the past dam had filled the silt collection basin allowing silt to flow into Bankok, Thailand, how American six years to memoers or tne can you get?" he asked. American Tobacco Tries to Acquire Eorget at times that there are "tragedies such as Vietnam." Swayze exhibited that rare the river and bay. When the request was made. Greater Pine Island Chamber "I never met the so-called Ugly huge dam across the river behind which an abundant sup of Commerce Thursday evening Councilman Joel Kuoerlbersr American," he said, while pok quality of being able to bring at their sixth annual dinner ply of fresh water is stored." Royal Crown Cola ing the nooks and crannies of asKea mat tne permit be denied the smell of a South China Sea He said he would also tell meeting.

earth. tramp steamer back with the Commissioner Bruce J. Scott the stranger to look at the big Swayze was introduced after story of his trip on it. His trip started with stepping over peo the Comish hen dinner by master pile driver on Cleveland Avenue which is putting down some 300 pilings on which a new hospital will be built. ple in repose in the dirty ship's of ceremonies Jerry Smart, and served as master of ceremonies for the meeting and presented awards for the Pine Island Woman of the Year and Man of the Year to Mrs.

Margaret Nelan and Henry Kareff. after a performance of the eight- dirtier lounge, and no one in the audience appeared willing to woman vocal group, the "Cape "Neighbors who live in that Chords." area will tell mm about the get off the tour until it ended in Venice. until it could be determined whether dynamiting might allow contamination of fresh water 6trata. Council, Strong said, has not ben informed of the situation (of Gulf American being requested to propose an alternate.) Vince Wood and Bill Savidge were at the meeting," said Turner. Wood is Naples city manager; Savidge is head of public works.

The board heard presen Mrs. Nelan was selected as Election of six new directors, pile driver, too," Hudson said. "They have already told us Lee Countians, however, don't woman of the year for her work as the chamber's publicity five to serve three-year terms, was announced after ballots were have to go to other places exotic about it. It is a necessary bit (Copyright N. Y.

Timet Sirvice) NEW YORK The American Tobacco Company announced Thursday it is negotiating to acquire Royal Crown Cola Company in a $100 million transaction. American, Tobacco is the nation's largest cigarette manufacturer after R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and had sales of $1,231,628,000 in 1965. Royal Crown, with sales of $54 million in 1965, is the third largest soft-drink manufacturer in the country after Coca Cola, and Pepsico, Inc.

If American Tobacco's latest and enticing, he said: "You are of discomfort which must be director and Kareff was counted during the meal. Elected already here." selected for conducting the Pine Similarities Cited endured in order to have a badly needed medical center to serve our residents." Island fishing contests last were Chester Grunsten, Dick Crawford, George Gascon, John West, Dr. E. L. Risley and, for His talk, wending from Ma year.

Hudson has been a com cao to Hong Kong to Shanghai Hudson said he would tell the a one-year term, Harry Nesbit. to Singapore to Venice, dealt stranger about Edison Junior tations from two consulting engineering companies asked to appear to help the water The 18 member board will not with the politics of the peo College and mention that missioner for six years and this was the chamber's sixth meeting. He invented a story about a stranger coming to Lee meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at ground will be broken Tuesday management group determine a the Chamber of Commerce offi ple but with the people themselves, and not with differences but similarities between the on a new learning resources firm for consultant purposes for planned acquisition is consum center. He also said that the ces to elect officers for the com' ing year.

County on a dark night and asking him what Lee County merchants of India and the NASA tracking center south of the board. Consultants appear tradesmen of Venice. Fort Myers is a credit to Lee mated it will be on the basis of one share of its new convertible preferred stock for each share of the common stock of Royal Such touches as his wife's ruby County. The chamber, ending its second year of existence, currently is by Edward R. Quirk has to offer a prospective resident.

Has About Anything Appearing were Dr. Fred Eidsness and Bob Ghiotto of Black, Crow and Eidsness, con hunt in a bathroom of an Indian By this time the stranger rajah's palace-hotel (she found "Sometimes it is good for us as president and Mrs. Eula Smith Crown, which has 3,721,202 com mon shares outstanding. two), the shyster trick of a Ven is going to stop me and say he has been to Pine Island and that bridge certainly isn't new," sultants for the city of Naples and, at times, for the county. as manager.

and Jim Ruth, vice-president of Hudson said. "Then I'll tell him to stop and look back to see what has been accomplished and to find out exactly where we are," Hudson said. "I think I would tell the stranger that Lee County has about anything to be patient that there is Humane Society Work Force to Total No Honor going to be a new bridge to Gee and Jensen, consultants for Lehigh Acres. Ruth told the board of some plans his company now has in DURBAN, South Africa JB Robbers and murderers have he wants." 100 Million In 80 WASHINGTON The U.S In Naples Broke, Treasurer Says connection with the Disney project planned for Central Hudson said the stranger could travel down the Punta no honor or so a young policeman discovered here. Florida.

labor force will reach 100 million by 1980, the Labor Pine Island. The working plans are about 50 per cent complete and rights of way are being acquired. I'll also tell him that pretty soon Pine Island is going to have a public beach. By this time next year, these two items will be at the top of my list." Hudson also mentioned the juvenile detention home at The young policeman Among those plans, he said, Rassa Road and soon he would come to a beautiful new causeway which would lead him Department predicts. The total discovered him inside the van, (News-Pren Bureau) NAPLES Edward J.

Oates, implies a 15-million-man in strangled to death and robbed are the clearing of murky waters from a big lake, which is now supplied by flowage to Sanibel and Captiva Islands. of the small amount of money crease in persons seeking or holding jobs in each of the The county is developeing the from a cypress swamp. causeway into a park for the prisoner was known to have carried. decades up to 1980. treasurer of the Humane Society of Naples, Inc.

gave what he termed a "brief concise report" at the society's annual luncheon Thursday. ''We're The Disney plan is to make Harlem Heights and the fact that' a youngster usually can fishing, picnicking, boating and water skiing. Increases will be from 69.9 The other prisoners professed the waters as "clear as Silver Springs," and the method pro innocence although the man was alive when he boarded the million to 85.3 million between 1960 and 1970 and from 85.3 to broke," he said. posed is to dike off the cypress "At the north end of Sanibel I would tell him about Turner Beach and its five miles on 100.7 million from 1970 to 1980, van at the jail. swamp, drain the lake, drill be straightened out there rather than kept in the county jail or sent to a state institution.

Library in Operation "Pine Island's public library The report of the actual balance of $55.56 led to the wells to clear waters, and refill the Gulf of Mexico," he said kick-off by Vice President the lake so that it can be used "I'll tell you, too, that as the William Gracely for the annual Sale Aids Fund Drive for submarine trips, Ruth said. will also be mentioned," Hudson car traffic on the Sanibel February membership and Both companies meeting the Causeway increases, a building fund drive. board have offices in South causeway connecting Pine In her president's report, Florida and wide connections Island draws a step nearer. Our Mrs. Walter Keller thanked 860 with water engineering pro consultants have told the com members and a "few angels" missioners that this is not the Two More Cruisers Given to Hospital blems.

"I have told the board. for their donations in the past right time to begin thinking which enabled the society. Objections Over Cost The most frequent objections to new steps in education concern cost. Some people complain that they already have paid to educate their children and are now being asked to pay to educate others. While this is true so far as some of the older citizens are concerned, most of them never consider that the younger people are helping to pay for Medicare and Social Security with their tax dollars.

Modem urban planners have begun changing previous practices of scattergunning school sites around a community. In Port Charlotte General Development Corp. placed many school sites on their plats, but all of these proved to be too small for actual use. This does not indicate any scheme or plot on the part of GDC. At the time the plats were drawn the sites would have sufficed.

Today, only 10 years after the plats were drawn, the education picture has become so drastically altered that the small neighborhood school is no longer practical. Today the emphasis world-wide is on a large complex where the greatest amount of good can be reaped from the lowest expenditure and where educational facilities can be grouped on the site for better utilization. Tomorrow Yesterday Urban planners also are beginning to tie in community recreational facilities with educational complexes. With the ever expanding population in mind, the modern planners try and affect a composite to obtain the highest and best use of the land. In Charlotte County officials Have the available financing for great steps forward in recreation, but are somewhat hindered by lack of financing for the schools.

If the millions of dollars available for recreational programs could be coordinated with the school improvement effort, the county would already be several steps ahead of the situations scientist predict for tomorrow. Charlotte County has already undergone and survived the impact of greatly expanded population and solved most of the problems that are attendant on such growth. It is making great steps in the social process called education and well preparing its students for whatever the future holds. Its school system has been held up as a model for other areas and the only thing that is needed now is a resurgence of the community spirit that made this possible. In Charlotte County tomorrow was yesterday.

about building or financing such among other things, to complete "Turner said, after the representatives had left, "that I can work with 'either one of a causeway, but we haven't discarded the idea." construction of a $25,000 shelter addition. (New-Pr Bureau) said. "It is for all the people to use because it is a part of a county-wide library system. If the people an't go to the library, we are taking the library to them with a mobile unit." The airport crash station, new Florida Highway Patrol Building, Fort Myers Beach Coast Guard Station, Shady Rest Nursing Home and the chapel which citizens built for the residents there, jet service at Page Field, a civil defense emergency hospital ready to be set up if needed, county-wide fire control, a surplus food pro Crone, assistant hospital ad' these companies." Hudson said he would tell the NAPLES Two outboard The late C. C.

Carter, one Consideration of a selection cruisers have been given to the of the founders of the local will be an agenda item Thurs ministrator, advised that the final transfer of the many hospital services to the new Naples Community Hospital humane society, was eulogized stranger to travel to Fort Myers Beach and cross the new causeway there to Bonita Beach and Bonita Springs. "Along this day, Feb. 9. building fund, Mrs. F.

W. Snick, by Mrs. Keller as an wing is under way and will be treasurer, announced at a inspiration to all who worked completed early next week meeting of the board of with him." causeway he see some of the most beautiful scenery in the when the housekeeping depart Society Portrait trustees. The slate of officers world. I'd also tell him that These two boats, a 17 foot presented by Cliff Wenzel of ment under the supervision of Mrs.

M. E. Hanner, will move Painter Turns 90 Owens equipped with a 40 the nominating committee and the county is developing both sides of that causeway into a recreational area for the use horsepower motor with an elec elected unanimously at the MONTE CARLO, Monaco tric starter and generator and meeting included Mrs. Keller gram for needy folks, a county-wide water system being built, health services and other county services all were mentioned by Hudson. into their new quarters.

"The transfer of our services into the new wing," Crone said, "has been a difficult one since such moves had to be made of Lee County citizens," Hudson said. a lb loot renormer powereo by a 60 horsepower Gale motor Dutch-born society portrait painter Klees van celebrated his 90th anniversary Hudson said he would tell brings to three the number of president, Gracely first vice-president, Tom Morgan, second vice-president, Miss Jospehine Wharton secretary and Oates treasurer. about the Cape Coral Bridge "The stranger is going to tell Thursday with a quiet party in in a manner as to not disrupt boats given to the hospital and that in the near future the his Monaco apartment. within the last six months. the normal carry-on of the me I'm a liar," Hudson said.

"He is going to tell me that six years ago he lived in Lee east end of the bridge would The artist was born Jan. 26, All three boats, given Directors for the coming year 1877 in Delhafen, The hospital's routine and operations. We greatly appreciate the sincere and painstaking be connected to a beautiful road which probably will be called College Parkway. Netherlands, and settled in anonymously, are on display at Skippers Marina and the proceeds of their sale will be County and none of these things were here then. And I'm not include Mrs.

Ed Cope Smith, Mrs. Denton Woodward, Mrs. W. Powers, Mrs. Robert Keeley, Mrs.

N. L. Wallingford, Paris when he was 20. He took cooperation of our staff who "I'd tell the stranger to look going to blame him for doubting credited to the hospital's space French nationality in 1929 and came to Monte Carlo in 1949. worked many extra hours under difficult conditions to bring my word because these things program.

around downtown so he can see the new county office building John Slater, Norman Bowes, Fred Lowdermilk and Oates. i were not here six years jHe has stopped painting. about a smooth At the same meeting, W. R.i.