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SPORTS LIFESTYLES SCORES Dolphins, Bucs lose1B CHARLOTTE DIG EASV Looking at life on Easy St.1F EDITION A GANNETT NEWSPAPER SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1988 FORT MYERS, FLORIDA ONE DOLLAR 17 3 1 State's newest cash crop gators Lee man calls alligator hunting 'nice second paycheck' 18 If you have these 15 17 31 12 42 Lotto numbers, you can quit your job "When I won $5,000 in the lottery in April, everyone told me I was going to win" the alligator-hunting license, Shealy said when reached by telephone at her one-room post office along U.S. 41 in the heart of the alligator-rich Big Cypress Preserve. Unlike Shealy, most of the other 1 1 Southwest Floridians who will join in the special hunt in September never have won anything before in their lives. "It's amazing," said A. Mark Johnson, 37, a carpenter from Bonita Springs.

"I've never won anything." While the hunters have to pay the state $250 for the special license and $30 for each alligator they snare, a good-sized alligator is worth as much as $500, said Scott Ball of the Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission in Tallahassee. Arlie McMillan 37, of North Fort Myers, figures that if he can take some big ones, he'll be able to make $8,000 to $10,000 during the month-long hunt. "It'll be a nice sec-See GATORS, back page this section ByJANEMUSGRAVE Gannett News Service TALLAHASSEE Evelyn Shealy wasn't totally surprised when she learned her name was one of 238 picked to get one of the coveted and potentially lucrative state alligator-hunting licenses. It's been that kind of year for the Collier County woman who oversees the post office in Ochopee, long heralded as the smallest post office in the world. Lotto ticket in May to the biggest prize-winner so far.

Since Josie Moore of Port Charlotte won $14.1 million, the store has been swamped, workers there say. The crowd swelled Saturday behind a man who waited for the machine to record and spit out his 300 Lotto tickets. He declined to See LOTTERY, back page this section Gold in the greens Golf courses: The community center dream will come true. Those were the Lotto numbers drawn Saturday about 11 p.m. in Tallahassee for the record-breakinggrand prize.

Earlier in the day, about 25 people stood in a row that lined the length of the frozen food aisle at Convenient Food Mart in Port Charlotte, to see whether Lotto lightning could strike twice in the same place. The store sold the first winning Iraq By The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq Iraq's president said Saturday his country will agree to a cease-fire with Iran if Iran promises that it will hold direct talks immediately after the truce. The announcement marked a reversal in Iraqi policy that could clear the way for peace. There was no immediate response from Iranian officials. U.N.

Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who has been meeting with the Iraqi and Iranian foreign ministers in efforts to arrange a cease-fire, called it "a very important step forward." He said he hoped to declare a cease-fire early this week. Iraq previously had insisted on direct talks before a truce, which Iran rejected. The result was an impasse in the U.N. talks. In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Anita Stockman said: "We certainly welcome this positive statement of Saddam Hussein which moves the peace process forward." President Saddam Hussein said his country could not forgive "the bitterness of (Iran's) injustice," and repeated his accusations that Iran began the conflict in 1 980.

"Nevertheless, we extend a hand of friendship and tolerance to the Iranian people despite the hardship we suffered from their rulers," Hussein said. The statement was read by an announcer on national television. A color photograph in the background showed Hussein in military uniform. "I declare that we are ready now to cease fire, on condition that Iran agrees to enter direct talks immediately after a cease-fire takes effect," Hussein said. He said another condition was that Iran announce its approval of "the implementation of all aspects of p)irpsa Below is a diagram of a typical green at the Gateway golf course.

"Tift-Dwarf" is the type of grass used on many Florida greens. 12 inches of sand mixed with peat moss. (15-20 of mixture is peat moss.) 2-inch layer of coarse sand. 4 inches of stone over 12-inch trench encasing pea stone and perforated pipe. 4 inches of pea stone (14 to 38-inch in diameter).

4- inch diameter perforated plastic pipe. 4 inches of pea stone By BRIAN WHITE News-Press staff writer hey're moving dirt onSanibel Island, hauling rocks in Naples and clearing trees out by the airport evidence herein Southwest 1 Florida that the state is undergoing a phenomenal golf course boom. Florida is quickly becoming a golfer's fantasyland. Everywhere you look, bulldozers are clearing the way for duffers. Close to home, Pelican's Nest is adding on.

The Dunes is rebuilding. And out by the Southwest Florida Regional Airport, by gosh, a community is being planned around a spectacular golf course, now under construction. The numbers tell much of the story. Florida, with 734 courses, ranks second behind California, which has 740. According to the National Golf Foundation, Florida has 42 courses under construction while California has just eight.

In 1 987, 33 of the 1 1 0 courses opened nationwide were in Florida. Ten were in California. if if HUSSEIN de CUELLAR vlraq President Saddam Hussein has agreed to direct peace talks with Iran following a truce. Iraq previously had insisted on direct talks before a truce, which Iran rejected. Javier Perez de Cuellar, U.N.

Secretary-General, called it 'a very important step v'A United Nations peacekeeping force of 250 soldiers will be sent to the troubled area to monitor a cease-fire and troop withdrawal. United Nations Security Council Resolution 598." Resolution 598 calls for a ceasefire, withdrawal to international borders and an exchange of prisoners of war in advance of talks on a final peace settlement in the 8-year-old Iran-Iraq war. Perez de Cuellar told the U.N. Security Council Friday he planned to send a U.N. peacekeeping force of 250 soldiers to monitor a cease-fire and troop withdrawal.

Hussein said the observers should remain until a "comprehensive and permanent peace is achieved." Florida, No. 4 among states in population, soon will be No. 1 in golf courses. Why? On the surface, the answer seems to lie quite simply in the fact that more people are golfing than ever before and Florida's weather makes it ideal for growth. The golf foundation says the "golfing population" in the U.S.

was 21 .2 million last year, compared to 20.2 million in '86 and 17.5 million in '85. People need places to play, a situation which keeps course designers such as Jim McCumber happy. "When you look at the weather and the fact that a lot of people have second homes in the state, that's a big part of It," said McCumber, who works alongside his brother, PGA Tour player Mark McCumber. "People are taking up the game in greater numbers than ever before, and it'sa game you can play from 8 to 80. They've churned their way through participatory sports and have found out how great golf is.

"It's just a heck of a way to spend an afternoon." But even McCumber admits that pure love for the game can only carry the upswing so far. A more telling factor is that people aren't just spending their afternoons on courses these days, they're living on them. "Is it just golf? No, It's housing," said Tom Fazio, one of the top golf course architects in the nation. "When interest rates are low and See GOLF, page 6A WW WW 11 By AMY BECK News-Press Staff Writer A lot of Lotto players feeling lucky Saturday haunted hallowed ground in Port Charlotte to purchase a piece of what looked like at least a $24-million-plus dream. If it turns out that if any of them chose the numbers 18, 15, 17, 31, 12, 42 on a single $1 ticket, the of the '90s GARTH FRANCISNews-Press look of the Southwest Florida course as its focal point.

State Sen. Fred Dudley. "1 'itiMlfftlllilMlitHIIItlliMtMMMiii Nativesoilorfilld rf 3 ft i SOURCE: Fazio Golf Course Designers, Inc. iSl i HOST i I t-W GST VZZT l- 1 Yonkers, N.Y.: A city pays for its division CANADAy MAINE (''new YORK VYONKERS PENN. k1! Atlantic Ocean No.

1 1 at Gateway. Native grass has been left to grow between the tee and green, giving it a environment. Gateway will be one of the numerous communities throughout the area that has a golf Dudley 'embarrassed' by By The Associated Press YONKERS, N.Y. City Manager Neil DeLuca outlined his "doomsday scenario" as fines levied by a federal judge mounted: First he would lay off non-essential workers, then sanitation workers and then police and firefighters. Finally, he'd fire himself.

"It might be the best thing that ever happened to me," he said. A dispute between a defiant City Council and a judge who ordered it to desegregate housing has split this already divided city, which has been hit with fines that double daily and could bankrupt Yonkers this month unless the council complies with the order or gets an appeals court to intervene. "The city moves from crisis to crisis and this is the worst yet," said former Mayor Angelo Martinelli. "It's one thing to have the coun-cilmen go down. It's another to see the city go down the tubes after all everyone has done in the past to save it." Yonkers hovered on the brink of bankruptcy in 1984 because itunder- pfQ tjorwelease letter News-Press funded its school system.

In 1985, U.S. District Leonard Sand, who last week found the city in contempt and imposed the fines, found the city liable for 40 years of intentionally segregating its schools through segregated housing. The racial divisions evolved through the city's shape split by the Saw Mill River Parkway, with the older, more industrial section on the west and the affluent area, which includes Sarah Lawrence College and houses with manicured lawns, to SeeYONKERS, back page this section Charles Franta, the 61 -year-old North Fort Myers man was under investigation by the Lee County Sheriff's Department for running a new roofing scam that allegedly was grossing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The investigation ended in May with 23 felony charges against workman-it -squiz WinS 4th-straight game over Boston.1B Classified 10-20B Dear Abby 2F Deaths 6C Lottery numbers 2A Movies 5F Opinion 2-3G Stocks 3-7E Weather 20A Copyright 1988, The News-Press By WILLIAM SABO News-Press staff Writer state sen, Fred Dudley recom- mended that a man with a 14-year history of preying on the elderly, bilking them out of thousands of dol- lars, be released from his probation after serving one year of a five-year term. While Dudley was writing the Feb on of John See DUDLEY, back page this section mmMmmM 4'.