News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 29

ters-PRESs SEC SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1972 PAGE ONE For Spring, Summer Bloom for Holidays To Christmas Cactus Special Treatment Needs Now Linen, Fruity Prints Favored for Fashions Fi ly illy tied loosely round the wrist, and little crocheted wool bonnets. For men, Valentino offered bright blue suspenders and two-tier rubber soled shoes with strong high heels. Gipsy skirts, striped or checkered in all the colors of the rainbow, and smocked shoulderless tops leave a bare midriff for the evening. Other dresses in pleated white silk or linen, are de-corated round the yoke, sleeves and bodice with open work patterns. day wear, reach down to the ed, they are gathered with elasticized thread from the waist to the hips which designers have decided are back in business.

Milk and 'coffee could be the name of Valentino's latest print design showing coffee beans in all sizes on white shirts and dresses. An-other favorite shade is bronze. Accessories Included hornrimmed glasses, which the models wore on the tips of their noses, a printed scarf posed to cold drafts, If they get too much or too little water, if there is artificial gas in the air from an un-lighted pilot light, or from rough handling. The botanical name of the Christmas cactus is Schlum-bergera Bridgesi there are several varieties. The botanical name of the Thanksgiving cactus is Zygocactus Truncatus there are several varieties, some of which bloom for Christmas.

The botanical name of the Easter cactus is Schlumbergera Gaertneri there are several varieties. The Christmas cactus is a native of Brazil where it grows on the decaying bark of tree branches. Obviously, the roots must not stand in water and perfect soil drain- By TOM STEVENSON Gonnett News Strvlc The Christmas cactus will not bloom for Christmas unless it is given a certain kind of treatment at this time of the year. If the plant has been outdoors, bring It back inside. Put it in a sunny window but shade it a little from sunlight until about the middle of November (sunlight then will not be as bright as it is now).

Force the plant to rest now by giving it only half as much water as it has been getting. About a month from now resume the regular watering schedule. Flower buds are developed during the resting period. With a night temperature of 55 degrees, flower buds will develop regardless of length of night period of darkness. On the other hand, flower buds will develop at night temperatures of 60 to 65 degrees if the plant gets 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness at night.

At 70 degrees during the night, there will be no flower, buds regardless of length of night. Daytime temperatures are not a factor in flower bud initiation. Christmas cactus drops Its flower buds if they are ex Soaring' Hi Chapter Holiday Fashions Shown at ABWA Dart Queen Jacque Eagan, of Washington, retrieves her darts after throwing a practice round at her husband's restaurant-bar in Washington. Mrs. Eagan, who has only been throwing darts for two years, won the woman's national championship and the right to compete in London later this month.

ROME UP) White openwork linen like that used for sheets is what Rome designer Valentino has in mind for next year's spring and summer wear. The designer, in his ready-to-wear offerings Thursday, also favored fruity prints with pear and apple designs, a sober use of white, navy blue and brown for day time and an orgy of flamboyant colors for evening. The open work patterns decorated the side of pants, like the band on a tuxedo, or the bodice of blouses and dresses. Although pants are not excluded, there is no doubt that the skirt, with wide pleats stiched down halfway to shape the hips, is back in fashion. So is the shirt waist dress in which the designer accentuates the sports look with a breast pocket and buttons.

Striped cashmere vests with a matching bow-tie and white cardigan top wide-legged pants. Pleated skirts, sometimes in pure white linen or wool that uncover the knee the ground at night. If not pleat- Spencer Tracey, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith and others who are recognized by the 250,000 BSP members in 20 countries. Mrs.

Leonard Freed, dent, announced that the chapter will participate In Project Cheer, a program of gifts for patients in mental hospitals in the state. Miss Carol Brumbach was selected as Valentine Girl. Miss Brumbach, hostess, used yellow hibiscus around the cut glass punch bowl and yellow candles on the table which was covered with an Italian cutwork cloth. Guests were Mrs. Eva Mullins, Mrs.

Ann Wilke and Miss Fredrica Owens. Omegas Told Youth Problems Universa Jacoby on Bridge Analysis: Where's Queen age is a must. It needs a soil rich in organic matter, good light and a constant supply of moisture. It can be grown in the dry heat of the average home but will not be as handsome as it would be in a location where temperatures average between 60 and 65 at night. Congratulations Birthdays Marian Turano, Susan Giddens, Pamela Garrison, Dot Gray, Beth Cardullo, Imogene Stout, Alice Vivas, George Long, Chester McGee, Gary Heath, Jay Franklin, Mike Powell, Dean and Dale Williams, Russ Land, Randy Rutsky, bill Grimes, Ginger Khayat, Lasso Edwards, a 1 1 Williams, Patsy Fearins, Jimmy Spurlin, Ed-wina Parkinson, Bobby Rhea, Bobby Tatum, Clyde Conrad, Buck Jeter, John Husz, Thomas Loyd, Tangley Walker and Lawrence Fox.

Anniversaries Jean and John Bess, Shirley and Harold Johnson, Sandra and Clifton Cochran, Linda and Bobby Rambo, Melinda and Randy Kelley and Carolyn and Howard Wills. NORTH 21 A86 V8532 75 498642 WEST (DX EAST AQ A7432 VQJ964 VKIO 1092 QJ864 AKQ10 J7 SOUTH AAKJ1095 VA7 AKS 53 Both vulnerable West North East South IV PasS 1N.T. Dble 2 Pass 2 4 A Pass Pass Pass Opening lead ft South was right. He also had shown the validity of our theory that if you want to overbide you should be sure-to play well. Had 'Ik- I Aitocioted Press Wlrephoto own rights In school rules and student life.

Miss Peters showed slides of foreign life and scenes. She is a senior in the program at Cypress Lake High School. Mrs. Ernest Jasmin explained some of the sorority aims as "equipping one to think, express oneself and lead a fuller life culturally, socially and spiritually. It is many things to many people." Traditions and friendship were themes of the program with the exchange student program in the theme of friendship.

Mrs. Charles Varnell, sponsor, said that sorority hon-o a members included Mrs. Pat Nixon, Mrs. She said she became interested in selling because she liked meeting the public, and had found it a very satisfactory position. Miss Helen Morris spoke on the National Convention of the ABWA held in Miami last weekend.

She said that there were 786 had given $85,0000 in scholarships. Mrs. Iris Rudy, woman of the year of the chapter, also attended the convention. The Soarin' Hi Chapter received the Standard of Achievement award at the convention. Winner of the $50 Bond, given as a fund raising project by the chapter was Mrs.

Minnie Stransky and Harry Stokes won the $100 bill. In the drawing of the 50-50-Club, Fay Richmond won first prize, Marge Blanchette won second prize and Betty O'Shaughnessy won third prize. Halloween costumes added to the gaiety of the evening with prizes being won by Edna Miller for the prettiest, Mary Borek the most unusual and Kathleen Terry won the prize for the ugliest. New members Installed were Marilyn Jordan, Lois Buletti, Edna Jordan, Edna Miller and Adelia Gibbs. A holiday fashion show was presented to the Soarin' Hi Chapter of the American Business Women's Association Tuesday night in the Golden Grille with Mrs.

Gl-loria Haiser of the Sisters Bridal and Gowns Salon of Fort Myers, as moderator. Three models presented the show with the spotlight on eveinging fashions. "This year is a very feminine year with long gowns back in the limelight, back interest and especially beautiful fabrics," Mrs. Haiser said. One of the gowns shown was white chiffon with silver inserts at the waiste and neckline and another was a Polynesian print.

"Today's working girls want elegance along with a moderately priced gown, and designers are trying to give them what they want," Mrs. Haiser said. "It is hard to believes that the holidays are almost upon us and now is the time to get your wardrobe ready for the Christmas parties. Mrs. Eleanor Roehling was, vocational speaker.

She told of being a representative for the Amway-Distributing Company and selling products for the care of the home. Sh rine oaie A White Elephant Sale will be held from 8 a.m., to 5 p.m., today at the Araba Shrine Temple at 2010 Hanson St. Proceeds will be used for the support of the temple and for the Shrine projects including the Crippled Children Hospitals and Shrine Burns Institutes. with his ace; dropped West's singleton queen and claimed game and rubber. "Nice guess!" remarked North.

"It wasn't a guess," re-plled South. "West had opened the bidding with one heart and rebld two clubs. His club holding was ace-king-queen-10 and he would have opened one club unless his heart suit was a five-carder. That accounted for nine cards and he had followed to three leads of diamonds. That left him with just one spade.

If it were anything but the queen East would have a sure spade trick and my only chance was for West's singleton to be that card. Family South's jump to four tpades was a distinct overbid. The odds were against his partner holding as much as one queen and South was looking at four probable losers outside the trump suit. On the other hand, the game was rubber bridge and rubber bridge players tend to overbid a trifle with hands as strong as the one South was looking at. The dummy didn't even hold a 10-spot, but the doub-leton diamond was like money from home.

South ruffed the thrid club and prmptly payed ace-king-three of diamonds to ruff in dummy. Then South led dummy's last trump; thought a while; went up "Many of the youth problems such as smoking, the drug menace and the generation gap seem to be universal problems of the time," German exchange student Barbara Peters told Iota Omega Chapter members of Beta Sigmi Phi Sorority. The group met Tuesday night in the Cypress Lake Manor Clubhouse. Miss Peters, who is from Hamburg, Germany, and came under the sponsorship of the Youth Understanding International Organization, lives in Cape Coral with the Edwin B. Hutzler family.

She said that in Germany, students have more rights and more expression of their Stamina 4 Twice Upon A Time Luckey and Courage, Too i his own and affections are mutual. Willie Dora married to Jesse Hires is the mother of two daughters and a teacher at Riverside school. Margaret, also has two daughters and lives with her husband, Thomas Georgeades in Santa Maria, Calif. Richard, the father of two daughters and twin sons, is a resident of Naples where he has his business. Jesse's parental pride extends beyond his step-children to grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and even to in-laws, one of whom, a grandson by marriage, Major Larry Brugh, is an instructor at Annapolis.

The Luckeys are now enjoying a leisurely and companionable life in the bungalow on Lora Street nestled in the spacious yard they long ago transformed into a miniature paradise. More than 1500 varieties of exotic plants grow in their three-tiered garden on the ground, from the trees and in between and the many tropical fruit trees indigenous to Florida shade the delicate blooms that are in profusion summer and winter. To make sure nothing is neglected they have "his and her's wells" to facilitate their daily rounds of watering. A hospitable and friendly couple, Jesse and Dora (who calls him Lucky) welcome visitors and seldom a day passes that someone doesn't come to feast on beauty. Their home is also the first port of call for out-of-town kin.

"There was a time," laughed Dora, "when there seemed to be progeny of Grandfather Sam on every palmetto patch in South Florida. Now they are scattered everywhere and the only ones in this area are his great-grandsons, Stafford Jr. (J.R.) at Alva, Owen on Palmetto, their mother, Mrs. Irene Luckey of Luray Street, Oby at LaBelle and three great-great-grandsons, William on Daniels Road, Larry at Ortona and Franklin in Naples." Tending their growing things Is not work to the Luckeys and the hours spent in the garden are sheer relaxation. Each has a separate hobby, too.

Dora sews, makes patchwork quilts, does pretty needlework and fashions rugs from odds and ends of carpeting she collects. Jesse In spite of his years on the range when he led a rugged life drinking from water holes, foraging for food and staving off predatory animals is a man of artistic bent. In his woodworking shop he turns out exquisite replicas of antique chests, china cabinets, book racks, ornamental metal silhouettes and numerous useful as well as beautiful Items for his wife. His various pastimes are so fulfilling that he scarcely has time for his favorite sport, hunting. A pioneer himself, Jesse Luckey is the descendant of early settlers on both sides of the family.

In 1890 his maternal grandfather, Mack Lewis, homesteaded 160 acres at Still Lake Hammock which are now the heart of the budding metropolis, Lehigh Acres. to a fault, but often obstreperous was mostly admired for his handsome appearance and few persons saw the kindness beneath his gruff exterior. Early in 1926, at the age of 80, virile Sam Luckey died in the big home he then shared with his grandson, William Golden, and the latter's wife, Dora, a native of Camilla, Ga. During his final weeks Sam reminisced over the past and he and Dora exchanged stories handed down from her grandfather, Obadiah Powell, who came from England, explored America from Oregon to Georgia and raised 15 children along the way. Filled with strength almost to the last, Sam Luckey was proud of the sturdy stock from which he had sprung and repeated often, "Only the strong survive the weak just die." Even more durable than he, however, was his sister-in-law who lived to be 106.

The Goldens and their little daughter, Willie Dora, left Fort Myers after Sam's death and settled in Moultrie, Ga. They had three more children, Vivian Grace, who lived only five years, Margaret and Richard, then William died. Sam had bequeathed her husband considerable property and Dora returned to Fort Myers with the idea of disposing of it, but the country in the grip of a depression there were no buyers. Despite the disappointment she liked the town and in 1936 negotiated for a house and sizeable plot of ground on Lora Street which was modestly priced if she made repair sherself. In a financial bind, Dora held her home together by dressmaking, working at the library and practical nursing.

She carried a heavy load as mother and provider until her husband's aunt, Mrs. Clifford Luckey (Susie) came to live with her and assumed management of the household. It was a tender, equable relationship that lasted for 27 years up to Susie's death in her 90's. Although they had met previously, it was not until after his mother made her home with Dora that Jesse Luckey and his cousin's widow became friends. A rancher at Devils Garden on his trips down river he always stopped by to visit Susie and was much favored by the young Goldens.

Love followed friendship and after her children were in high school Jesse and Dora married in 1941. At the end of his service in World War II, Jesse went back to ranching for a brief time before resuming the trade of metal craftsman he had learned earlier by apprenticing to specialist, William Balke. For 22 years in all he worked at Lee County Metal and Roofing, then prior to his retirement in 1970 was employed 10 years by young Golden who is owner of Richard's Roofing Service. Even though Jesse and Dora had no children he knows the joy of fatherhood through her family who have been as By BETTY HAWKINS Lack of transportation was no hindrance to a sturdy Irish lass and her young brother when in 1861, orphaned by the death of both parents, they left home in Texas to join their father's countrymen hundreds of miles away. No other means of travel available, Anne Luckey and 15 year-old Samuel took to the road with only necessary belongings in a knapsack and journeyed across four states on foot to their destination in Georgia.

Shortly after being united with friends, the Civil War erupted and Sam enlisted in the Confederacy. Living up to the connotation of his surname the six foot-two, broad shouldered boy survived four years of battle without injury, and grown to manhood set out to seek his fortune. At Savannah he worked until he had money enough to buy a boat, married a pretty southern belle and soon after sailed down the coast to Florida. Reaching the mouth of the St. Johns River he followed its tributaries to Orlando where with the not so fabled luck of the Irish he was commissioned to establish a sawmill for the government and made his home base.

Everything Sam touched, like Midas, turned into gold and in time one of the wealthiest men in the region, he built the first hotel in Orlando and sent for Anne to help run the housekeeping end of the inn. His wife bore him five children, William, Josephine, Clifford, Samuel and Nellie, who were" his pride and joy. When the eldest was six and ready for schooling which was non-existent, he sent for a private tutor, a widow with three children of her own. Differences of opinion and personalities eventually caused the Luckeys' marriage to dissolve and a lonely man, Sam was attracted to the woman who had been teacher and governess. After their marriage, Luckey got homestead fever and selling the hotel located a 160 acre claim at Fisheating Creek.

For a while he ran cattle and raised live stock, then still beset by wanderlust was on the move again. He bought an "Island" in the cypress swamp near the Indian Reservation and contented himself with just hunting and trapping as he had ample reserve funds. The rustic life, however, did not appeal to his spouse and she accepted a teaching position In Fort Myers. On his own, Sam indulged his wim for frequent change and moved to 80 acres he purchased at Corkscrew. Loneliness finally caught up with him and wanting to be nearer civilization he bought 80 acres on the south side of the river at Alva in the late 1890's.

Sam had a penchant for big houses and- although he was alone much of the time since his wife continued her teaching career, he built a roomy two-story dwelling. How- SAM LUCKEY'S SON, CLIFFORD At Corkscrew Marsh In 1918 ever, his children came at intervals for visits with him. William married Flossie Blount and made his home in LaBelle, Josephine became the wife of Radford Blount and the youngest, Nellie, married William N. Golden. Clifford and Samuel went off to Spanish-American War and returning home after the brief fray, the former wed a young widow, Susie Lewis Tillis.

Samuel married Anna Christian, moved to LaBelle, raised cattle and later was prominent as a builder-realtor. Self-sufficient by the time he was 16, Clifford, born in 1880, had been working for Dr. Franklin Miles. Versatile in his abilities, after marriage he not only farmed, raised stock and trapped, but traded in real estate and acted as guide for sportsmen. As a consequence he furnished a good living for his growing family, Irene, Jesse, Cassie, Eloise and Oby as well as Susie's children by her former husband.

They were one big, happy family until childhood diseases deprived them of the three Tillis boys and their own infant, Neoma. After some years, Sam Luckey sold his Alva property and came to Fort Myers where he had acquired the River-view Hotel. He bought a city block bordered by Dora and Jackson Street, built another substantial house and started a poultry and hog ranch. A buddy of Thomas Edison, he was gifted with so many rare plants from the inventor's estate that he set aside a portion of ground for a picturesque tropical garden to which he kept adding other unusual specimens from his friend, Fairchild of Miami. A colorful, unforgettable character, Sam was generous i m.

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