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VOLUME 6 NUMBER 44 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1966

COUNTRY CLUB FOR ISLANDSNEED A RIDE?

Transportation to the polls November 8th will be provided anyoneneeding it by members of the Sanibel-Captiva Democratic Club, Mrs.George S. Winterbotham, Chairman of the Club's Voter Registrationand Education Committee, has announced. Just phone Mrs. Winter-botham at GR 2-2182 or Roy Bazire, GR 2-4501. Another service beingprovided by the local Democratic group is information on a number ofproposed amendments to the Florida Constitution which will be onthe ballot. A condensed summary prepared by the League of WomenVoters of Florida, with summaries of pro and con positions, has beensent to members of the Club, and copies are available to any voterfrom Mrs. Winterbotham or Roy. Phone them, or stop by the Winter-botham home on Gulf Drive, or Priscilla Murphy's office.

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A PICTURE OF PROGRESS

ANOTHER NEW ISLAND HOMEphoro courtesy of

SANIBEL-CAPTIVA- REAL ESTATE

James S. Pickens & Claire T. Walter, RealtorsPhone: GReenleaf 2-4011

We Islanders can have a country club IF we want it. Come tothe meeting sponsored by the Sanibel-Captiva Islands Chamber ofCommerce tonight, Thursday, at 8;00 p.m., at the Community Center,Sanibel.

According to F.H.A. (which already has made possible our watersystem) the money is available. All that's basically necessary is theapproval of the Islands' residents by providing subscribers—onefor each $1,000.00 of borrowed funds. That was the report given byJohn Kontinos to the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors ata special meeting, October 24th. He has arranged for Mr. ClemmieWilliams of the F.H.A. to come to the islands for this meeting andexplain how we can accomplish the project. At its October 24th meet-ing, the Chamber Board named John chairman of a committee toinvestigate the proposal. The project would probably include swimmingpool, tennis courts, croquet field, clubhouse and 9-hole golf course.

' SANCTUARY EXCHANGEPOSSIBLE

Exchange of lands between the State of Florida and the L\Sa De-partment of Interior, Fish & Wildlife Service, to give the latter owner-ship of all the area to be included in the Ding Darling Sanctuary, willbe possible under a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.Action had been taken earlier by the Senate. Our own CongressmanPaul G. Rogers, in a recent letter to Roy Bazire, Vice Chairman ofthe Jay N. (Ding) Darling Memorial Committee, stated, "The Honor-able John Dingell has had his bill passed and I believe that it wouldcover the situation in regard to a land exchange at the Sanibel NationalWildlife Refuge. Mr. Dingell*s bill, entitled the 'Endangered SpeciesBill", provides for land exchange such as is the case with SanibelIsland."

Washouts and potholes in the dike-road access through the Sanctu-ary are to be repaired in the near future, so that it may be reopenedto the public. Canoe launches are to be installed before the winterseason, and the canoe trail re-marked where numbered signs weredestroyed by Alma. A formal dedication of the Alice O'Brien Towerin the Sanctuary will also be arranged by the local Ding Darling Sanc-tuary Committee, to take place during the winter season. A bronzeplaque memorializing Miss O'Brien's contribution to the developmentof the Sartctuary has been completed and delivered to the Committee,and will be placed at the tower.

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EPISCOPAL CHURCHthe Rev. T.A. Madden, Vicar

Summer Schedule of ServicesSUNDAY 9 a.m.

Par ish EucharistWEDNESDAY 9 a.m.

Holy Communion* * * * * *

ST. ISABELL'SCATHOLIC CHURCH

Father MIGUEL M. GONI

HOLY MASS:Sundays .11 :30 a.m.Thursdays 7:30 p.m.Holy Days 5:30 p.m.CONFESSIONSundays before Mass

* * * * * *SANIBEL COMMUNITY

CHURCHThe Rev. TAD ALLEN, Pastor

Morning Worship. . .11:00 a.m.Sunday School. 9:30a.m.

* * * • * *FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

The Rev. W.A. McCain, Pastor

SUNDAYSunday School 10:00 a.m.Morning -Vorship. . .11:00 a.m.Young People's Hour. .6;3O p.m.Evening Worship. . , .7:30 p.m.WEDNESDAYPrayer Meeting & Bible Study

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BOWLING JEM OVER

Jim Jack took Doc Bryant 'splace in the Beach ClassicLeague since Doc wasn't feelingwell, J i m , bowling for the SeaHorse Shop, held his own. EdLegel , for Legel Supply, wasin anchor position and saved thelast game by five points. GoGo,bowling for Dotti, was slightlyunder his average.

All three bowlers had onebad game, but fortunately notall at the same t ime. Encour-aged by the resu l t s , they a reworking for another advancenext week.

The Sanibel Sailors bowlingteam (or one-half of the team)took four points from the Sea-horses of Fort Myers Beachlast week.

Capt. Paul Adams of SevenSeas had a high game of 234and a 607 s e r i e s . F i rs t mateIrene didn't fare so well, butdid have a high game of 175and 480 s e r i e s . The other halfof the Sanibel Sa i lo r s—Cla i r eand Ken Walter of Sanibel-C aptiva Real Estate a re va-cationing in Europe. TheAdamses will be glad to seethem return this month.

THRIFT SHOP

St. Michael 's and All AngelsThrift Shop will reopen nextThursday (November 10) from1 to 4 p.m. at the usual placeon Tulipaway. Evening hourswill be announced la ter .

(JNCLASSIFIEDSFOR SALE:Only $1,600! Fine Pontiac"Chief" house t ra i le r , 49 x9 ft., very fully furnished.Telephone GR 2-2182 or GR2-5301.

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THE MEANINGOF IT ALL...

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What do the Islands mean? Well, Islanders are free as thewinds , , „

restful and dim , „ .

For novice or pro..,

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Jigsaw dabblers and devotees.,. sharpen your eye andyour intellect as you test yourprowess on -"BUTTERFLiES,"a circular montage of 25species in magnificent color.

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SAN FRANCiSCO: Circte-iour ofthe sophisticated city.

CONVERGENCE by JACKSON POiXQCK;world's most difficult jigsaw puzzle.

Water Birds by Arthur SingerSong Birds by Don Eckelberryand many others

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Shell Shop in the PriscillaMurphy Building Is open forbusiness. Both Elsie MaloneSenior and Junior returned lastweek from Marathon, and Danjoined them over the weekend.

Another new home on Sani-bel's Gulf front is under con-struction. It 's on Gulf Drive,near the West end of that road.Owners are Mr. and Mrs.JOHANNA PFEIFFER of Chi-cago, Illinois, who purchasedthe lot through Priscilla Mur-phy earlier this year.

PRISCILLA MURPHY'Sback on the job. She returnedto the Islands last week withher sister, Mrs. THERESAMc-CLOY of Detroit, Michigan,after a month's vacation in theNorth, including "shelling" atthe Smithsonian, Washington,D.C. Theresa, well-known tomany Islanders, will spend thewinter on Sanibel. Happy to haveyou with us, and welcome home,Priscilla.

Mr. and Mrs. A.C. SAIL-STAD of Houston, Texas, arespending their usual fall vaca-tion in their home in The Colony,"Bali Hi."

Mrs. GEORGE K. SCRIB-NER, Boonton, N.J., writes thatshe has been elected HonoraryPresident of the Seniors GolfAssn., which incidentally, shefounded 15 years ago and ofwhich she is still president.Mrs. Scribner is a long-timewinter vacationer on the Islandand is now a full-fledged mem-ber of the community, havingpurchased a home in Palm Lakelast spring.

Dr. and Mrs. RICHARDWIEBE are back from theirVermont home and are nowin their Sanibel home on Sun-set Bay.

Mr. and Mrs. ARTHUR R.McNAMARA have returned tothe Hare SeaShell duplexforthewinter, but you may not recog-nize Mr. McNamara. He'sminus the beard that distin-guished him last year, and de-spite all urgings, says it 's gonefor good.

This is the time of yearwhen visitors and winter res i -dents start trickling back to theIslands. 'Tis true that businessIs spotty—sometimes onemotel will be completely fullone week and have just threevisitors the next but thingsare getting better.

The JOHN RACKES are backat their home on Captiva Is -land. The COBBURNS have r e -turned to their home near thepostoffice on Sanibel Island, andMr. and Mrs. RICHARD WIEBEare back from their Vermonthome enjoying Sanibel life onSunset Bay.

Sanibel-Captiva Real Estatereports that Mr, and Mrs. L,G.WINANS, of Hartland, Vermont,who purchased a lot last year,have rented an apartment in theHeaders* duplex on San CarlosBay for the season and plan tobuild while they are here,

A residential lot on Cap-tiva was sold to FRED V.GEB-HARD of Lakeland, Florida,from BAILEY BROTHERS.

ATTENTION VOTERSof Sanibel-Captiva

IslandsMY OPPONENT SAYS HE IS NOT IN FAVOR OF OUR

HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION LAW.PEWETT IS IN FAVOR OF HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.Houston L. Pewett, your successful Democratic Nominee

for County Commissioner from District 2, is worthy of yourconsideration.

He was a successful contractor in Nashville, Tennesseefor 10 years prior to moving to Fort Myers in 1958.

He has successfully established his own real estate businesssince moving to Fort Myers ar.d has built and developed thePewett Center on McGregor Boulevard.

He is a Past President of the Fort Myers Board of Realtors,a member of the Board of Directors of the Cancer Society,a member of the Board of Directors of the Young Men's

• Christian Association and a deacon of his church.PEWETT IS A BUSINESS MAN a man of VISION

a man who is FORTHRIGHT and ENTHUSIASTIC in everyjob he undertakes; rhe type of man who is needed to run thebusiness of Lee County.

Pewett is a man of integrity and will take a PERSONALINTEREST IN THE PROBLEMS OF ALL OF LEE COUNTY.

Pewett's past RECORD, ACTIVITIES, and PERFORMANCEshow him to be WELL QUALIFIED for this position.

Regardless of the district in which you live—YOU CANAND SHOULD

VOTE FORHOUSTON L. PEWETT

Democratic Candidate for County Commissioner fromDistrict 2.

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The traveling WALTERS,from Sanibel-C aptiva Real Es -tate, reported this week fromRome, Italy, where they wereto spend several days beforemoving on to Spain. CLAIREsays, "We are taking picturesall over the place." Perhapswe can get them to give a slideshow when they return.

"DOC" PIC KENS informsus that work is progressingagain at the new Sanibel-C ap-tiva Real Estate building sincethe second shipment of teakpaneling has arrived. The firstorder was too badly damagedin transit to be usable andsince it comes from CaliforniaIt has resulted in considerabledelay.

MARIO HUTTON is back onSanibel Island after attendingthe annual conference of theheads of the Florida AudubonSociety at the Grand BahamaHotel in the Bahamas.

Besides taking an active partin many panel discussions, gen-eral and committee meetings,he was presented with an en-graved scroll certifying the e s -tablishment of the Sanibel-C ap-tiva Audubon Society Chapter,which has increased 64%duringthe past year to a membershipof 92.

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DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER

The registration for theadult evening classes will beheld November 7 (Monday) forConversational French andCurrent Events; November 9(Wednesday) is the date for Con-versational Spanish, and Draw-ing and Painting. It takes placeat the elementary school at 7:30each evening.

Since the success of thisprogram depends upon the r e -sponse of Islanders and visi-tors, it is most important forthose who have shown an in-terest so far to register. Theonly fee for the course (out-side of art materials) is $2for registration.

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BIRDING GIRL SCOUTS

The Island Girl Scout Troopwent on a bird-watching triplast weekend with Jeanne Hayes,assisted by Mrs. Al Muench ofthe Periwinkle Trailer Park.

Fourteen girls went throughthe Ding Darling Sanctuary andup and around the FrancisBailey Bird Tower. They sawherons, many kinds of egrets,water turkeys, comerants, ibis,some gulls, hawks and ospreysand various song birds.

This was the grade schooltroop and we're glad to reportthere were no casualities, eventhough the vultures almost gotthem! (Or the snacks'the girlswere carrying.) In spite of all,they had a very good time.

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HURRICANES and the LIKESby ethel snyder

Hurricanes, typhoons, andtornedoes are terms for thehighest velocity of wind forces.Webster says about typhoons,"A tropical cyclone in the r e -gions of the Phillipines or ChinaSea... A storm 50 to 900 mileswide moving 20 to 30 miles anhour. Has violent wind and heavyrain. Wind has counter clockmovement and a calm center."He also calls it a hurricane.

A tornedo has a whirlingwind accompanied by a funnelshaped cloud. It is very violentand destructive in a narrowpath often for many miles overa land area.

Typhoon is probably fromthe Chinese word meaning"great wind." First mentionof typhoon was made by Wil-liam Dampier in Ms log bookdated July 4, 1687. This is theearliest European descriptionof a typhoon (or tuffoon, if youplease!)

Here in Florida we all havefirst hand accqualntance withhurricanes. From 1935 the U.S.Weather Bureau has maintainedspecial hurricane forecast cen-ters which advise the publicconcerning the position, inten-sity, and probable movement

of hurricanes and what type ofprecaution is necessary.

Any and especially all ofthese manifestations are highlyundesirable but if there is anygood quality in the behaviourof them it lies with the hurri-cane! And that of course isreally highly negative, but ahurricane doesn't sneak up onyou unannounced like a tornedo,for instance. You know it iscoming, it is on its way andgenerally one does have anopportunity to get out of its pathor to prepare for the duration.Food, water, shelter, etc. Neverunderestimate a hurricane!

Since living on Sanibel I s -land I have been much moreintimately accquainted at firsthand with hurricanes and it iswiser to leave the island to goto the mainland than to stay on.

You had to depend on theferry in the early days, andnow on the causeway. I seldomleft though I regretted that Ihad not gone in 1948. But toolate!

When I first met up withhurricanes I was living on theocean front at Miami Beach.A book written by Joseph Con-rad called TYPHOON got worn

out by reading during hurri-canes while living over there.I still read it when weatheringthrough those storms! It is thestory of a Scotch sea captainpulling his vessel through a ter-rific typhoon in the China Seas.He had never met up with onebefore. He had a big cargo, anda large group of Chinese coolieswith pig tails. Each man had abox of gold coins after beingpaid off after work on the main-land. His first mate, a seasonedfirst mate, helped save the day.

A real hurricane suppliesa background for this amazingstory and I always keep a volumehandy for those occasions.

This captain had to makehis way inside his cabin duringthe typhoon and read the navyinstructions on what to do andhow to do it, then go outside anddo it. Several times he nearlygot blown away, or washed away!But he brought his boat and allthe coolies safely to port. Hisvessel was battered and dam-aged, but didn't sink! That is onestory I always enjoy and alwaysread to help me through a hurri-cane. Lamp light has sometimesbeen the only light.

My only cyclone experiencewas a terrific surprise. I wasspending a summer in Topeka,Kansas, as house guest of ahighschool pal whose father wasRoad Master on the Rock Is -land Railroad. This cyclone hitwith no warning in the middleof the night at Topeka and we allrushed to the cellar and itroared over us for an hour!

A hurricane woundn'tbethatthoughtless. You would get ad-vance notice and could get outof its way or be prepared.

But we'd rather do withoutany at all thank you very much!

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AN EDITOR'S JOB—

Getting out a paper is nopicnic.If we print jokes people say

we're silly.If we don't, they say we're too

serious.we use stories from otherpublications, we're too lazyto write 'em ourselves.

If we don't, we're stuck on ourown stuff.

If we make changes in the otherfellow's write-up, we're toocritical.

If we don't, we are blamed forpoor editing.Now, like as not, some guy

will say we swiped this fromanother sheet.

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TEENS IN ACTIONby kenan flshburne

Who says that old fashionedHalloween parties aren't fun?The Teen Club party Saturdaynight was a combination of old-time games and modern musicwith some surprises thrown in.

The first activity was a raceto see who could eat their dough-nut first sound easy? Not ifyour doughnut is suspendedfrom the ceiling and you mustkeep your hands behind yourback. While everyone was r e -cuperating from this game un-fortunate members were mys-teriously singled out and takenthrough the spook house.

Next on the agenda was anactivity best described as "seewho can put more makeup ontheir partner," A boy and agirl were seated at a card tableand proceeded to make eachother up. Thank goodness itwashes off,

"Limbo" came next with aprize for the champ. It wouldbe hard to say how many peoplewere there because halfwaythrough the party a bus loadof kids from Green ValleySchool, near DeLand, joined us.They had been on the Island allday and on invitation by thedeputy sheriff joined the party.

Pool and ping pong tableswere brought out and therewas also a dance contest.

Mr. and Mrs. Orloff savedthe day by providing us withmore food and also helpedchaperone, along with Mr. H.Pardy, Mrs, T. Mitchell, Mrs.D. Balanger, and Mr. and Mrs,M. Holtz.

Don't forget the white ele-phant and bake sale on Novem-ber 19, It will be at the Com-munity House, The time willbe announced later. This is forthe Teen Club also.

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