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VOLUME 7 NUMBER 49 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY DECEMBER 7, 1967

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ST. MICHAEL'SAND ALL ANGELS

EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe Rev. T.A. Madden, VicarSUNDAY:

"Morning Service and SundaySchool 9:30 a.m.

WEDNESDAY and HOLY DAYS:Holy Communion . . . 9:00 a.m.

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ST. ISABELL'SCATHOLIC CHURCH

The Rev. Claude E. BrubakerSundays 11:30 a.m.Thursdays 7:30 a.m.Holy Days 5:30 p.m.CONFESSION:Sundays before Mass.

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CHURCH50th Anniversary Year

Dr. H.E. SheelyMorning Worship. . .11:00 a.m.Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCHThe Rev. Arthur Sims, PastorSUNDAY:Sunday School . . . . . 10 a.m.Morning Worship . . . 11 a.m.Training Union . . . . 6:30 p.m.Evening Worship . . . 7:30 p.m.WEDNESDAY:Prayer Meeting & Bible Study

7:30 p.m.FRIDAY:Youth Ranch 7:30 p.m.

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CHAPEL BY THE SEACAPTIVA

The Rev. T. Guthrie SpeersSUNDAY:Worship 11:00 a.m.

* * * * * *A.A. MEETING

An open meeting, of Alco-holics Anonymous will be heldat St. Michael's and All Angels'Episcopal Church at 8 p.m.Friday nights. For informationcall GR 2-3121.

ISLAND ACTIVITIES

Sanibel Community Associa-tion, Inc., Sanibel CommunityHouse — 1st Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.

Sanibel-Captiva Teen Club, San-ibel Community House — Sat-urday, 8 p.m.

Game Night, Sanibel CommunityHouse — Fridays, 8 p.m.

American Legion Post 123;American Legion Home — 2ndTuesday, 8 p.m.

American Legion Auxiliary,Members Homes — 2nd Mon-days, 8 p.m.Bingo Murex, American LegionHome — Wednesdays, 8:30 p.m.(No Minors)

Ladies' Guild, Sanibel Commun-ity Church, Members Homes —3rd Thursday, 8 p.m.

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WHO'S WHO AND WHYMiss NORAH COOPER of

Toronto, Canada, who is a guestof Mr. and Mrs . PAUL MAST,Tulipa Way, found a cloth ofgold cone while shelling on theGulf beach recently. MissCooper is Assistant Manager ofBriars Inn and Country Clubat Jackson's Point, Ontario.

) Mr. LOUIS G. BUISCH ofHornell, New York, is on theIsland to check on constructionof his new home in the SanibelEstates area near The Colony.Mr. Buisch is Editor of TheEvening Tribune in Hornell.

Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT J.PARCELLS, son and daughter-in-law of BOB and PEG PAR-CELLS, were guests of theirparents over the Thanksgivingday weekend returning to theirhome in Atlanta, Ga., Sunday.

Also visiting the Parcells._,•- was their daughter Mrs. JOANt JENKS from Biloxi, Miss. Joan

also spent a lot of her time help-ing with ideas, and some paint-ing, on their duplex on TulipaWay. Major Jenks joined thefamily for the Thanksgiving fes-tivities and then was put to work

** on the duplex until their de-. - parture for home last Wed.

Recent guests of the DELL-MAR REYNOLDS were herbrother and sister-in-law whomshe had not seen for severalyears. They came for a restand to see what we liked somuch about the Island. They

liked what they saw and saidthey would surely come backwhen they could. They are froma little town just south of thehome town, Middletown, Ohio.LUNETTE and LEWIS FUNKmissed seeing them as theywere on a vacation trip. Later,the GEORGE KEOPPELS anddaughter, DEBBIE, from Mid-dletown, stopped over on the wayhome from the Bahamas to seeher, staying at the Funks' GulfBreeze Cottages. While here,BARBBIE found a Lions Paw.Then came the niece of Mrs.Reynolds and Mrs. Funk, JANEand her husband and two daugh-te r s . Onthe way down, BARNEY,Jane's husband, said not togather any shells to take home.The first trip out to the beachthe next morning, what did hefind but an odd-spotted shell.And, guess who picked the mostshells to take home? Janiepicked up certain shells shewanted to take to her childrenas she calls them, for she worksin a mental hospital for delin-quent children. She left theIsland in tears for she did notwant to leave. She says she iscoming back to live some day,just as soon as she can. VIR-GINIA and LEE MATTHEWS,now staying at the Funks' GulfBreeze, have a Junonia whichVirginia found in front of GulfBreeze. Thursday night, theFunks and guests took the Rey-nolds out for Thanksgiving din-ner to celebrate their 40th wed-ding anniversary. How aboutthat?

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FORT MYERS SYMPHONYORCHESTRA TO PLAY

Original orchestration ofSeven Anthems of the Churchwill highlight the performanceof the Annual SymphonyChristmas Season Concert of

\ h e Fort Myers Symphony Or--xhestra and Chorus. The con-cert entitled "The Church Yearof Music" will present 13 an-thems arranged to follow thegeneral church year in music.It will be joined together bynarrative appropriate to the an-them with Mr. Brad Lacey theNarrator.

Since very few church an-thems have been orchestrated,it was necessary to call uponthe combined talents of Mr.Bill Hayley, Mr. Ed Syms andthe conductor of the Symphony,Mr. Arlo Deifaler.

Mr. Hayley plays the tubain the Symphony and sings tenor

in the Symphony Ghorus. Ofspecial interest is that Mr.Syms has written and orches-trated his own anthem, "TheTwenty-third Psalm," whichwill be presented. Mr. Syms isa professor at Edison JuniorC ollege and a bass player withthe Symphony.

The concert, to be presentedSaturday, December 9,8:00 p.m.at the Fort Myers Senior HighSchool Auditorium, will feature3 soloists; Philinda Young,Louise DeCaran, and Mr. C.L.J arvis.

The presentation of a seriesof anthems this year repre-sents a departure from the usualC hristmas program by the Sym-phony and Chorus. In the pastvarious great oratories havebeen presented. Planned fornext season is Handel'sMessiah. The Chorus, 75 mem-bers strong, is made up ofindividuals from the general

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The Captiva Civic Associa-tion will again show movies atthe Captiva Community Centerevery Friday evening thiswinter, according to HerveyRoberts, program chairman.The shows, beginning at 8o'clock, will start December 22with the Walt Disney cartoon"Three Caballeros" and aDis-ney Cartoon Parade.

This will be the third yearthe association has shown films.This year, however, in additionto the movies the program willinclude the world premiere of aspecial Mario Hutton slidepoem, "CaptivaRediscovered."Hutton, of Sanibel, has de-veloped a new technique that hasresulted in his being booked forprograms as far away as Nas-sau. The complete schedule isas follows;

Dec. 22. Three Caballeros-Disney Cartoon. Cartoon Pa-rade-Disney Cartoons.

Dec. 29. Flipper's New Ad-venture-Adventure; Flipper thePorpoise.

Jan. 5. Up in Arms-Comedy;Danny Kaye.

Jan. 12. MidsummerNight'sDream-Musical; Dick Powell,Olivia DeHavilland, Jimmy Cag-ney, Joe E. Brown, MickeyRooney.

Jan. 19. Return of Mr. Moto-Mystery; Henry Silva, SuzannaLloyd.

Jan. 26. All at Sea-Comedy;Alex Guinness.

Feb. 2. Silk Stockings-Musi-cal; Fred Astaire, CydCharisse, Peter Lorre, JanisPage,

Feb. 9. At the Circus-Come-dy; Marx Brothers.

Feb. 16. Captiva Rediscov-ered-Slide Poem; Mario Hut-ton. WORLD PREMIERE.

Feb. 23. Fancy Pants-Comedy; Bob Hope.

March 1. Billy Rose's Jum-bo-Musical Spectacular; JimmyDurante, Doris Day, MarthaRaye, Stephen Boyd.

March 8. Raffles-Mystery;David Niven, Olivia DeHavil-land, Dame May Whitty.

March 15. When ComedyWas King-Old Comedies; Chap-lin, Turpin, Keaton, Arbuckle,Beery, Normand, etc.

March 22. Fiesta-Spectacu-lar; Esther Williams, RicardoMontalban.

March 29. The Geisha Boy-Comedy; Jerry Lewis.

VALANCE OFMRS. J. P. MORGAN

The Hunters have decoratedtheir new Olio in Pirate Alleywith the valance from a baywindow of Mrs. J. P. Morganwhich hung in her bedroom inthe J . P. Morgan mansion atMorgan Island, Glen Cove, theformer home of the Hunters.They decided to use-the valancebecause it closely follows theart work on theater curtainsthroughout the country, a r e -minder of their days in vaude-ville.

Ruth and Philip Hunter aredelighted with the advertisingposters for the Olio alreadysent in to the Pirate Playhouse.

Tickets for the opening play"My Three Angels'* are onsale at the Box Office, GR2-3943. Curtain 8:15.

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NEW CONSTRUCTIONAT BEACHVIEW

If you've passed the Woo-ster 's Beachview Cottages onGulf Drive lately, you may havebeen wondering what Dave andMarge are up to again, withconcrete blocks piled up highnext to their office and earthmoving equipment digging intothe sand.

Ever since Dave and MargeWooster, living in a mobilehome at that time, built theirfirst two guest cottages alongthe beach they have made im-provements year after year,creating what one of theirguests described as "tropicalhomes away from home"17 units all told so far, allfinished inside in natural pineand furnished in bright modernstyle that befits the sunny, in-formal beach atmosphere. Mostof the units have modern elec-tric kitchenettes.

In addition, Dave has builtup television dealership onSanibel, employing four servicemen, as well as a sales andservice outlet for air condition-e r s . And, of course, he is oneof the sheriffs on the Islands.

You may think that this isenough to keep a couple busy,and Dave andMarge agree. SaysMarge:

"This will be our last ex-pansion. If you get any larger,you can't take care of yourguests as well as you should.After completion of this job, weare going to take things easier."

And to enable them to takethings easier, the Wooster'snow have the help of a mana-ger and his wife, Dick and RuthJones, who came to the Islandfrom Nashville, Tennessee, lastsummer.

The final fling of construc-tion at the Wooster's will addfour more units for a totalof 21 two efficiency apart-ments and two one-bedroomapartments. A swimming poolwill be built opposite the of-fice, from where the youngsterscan be better supervised.

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ISLANDER 12-7-67

TO THE ISLANDER:As both a visitor to your

beautiful island and a scientist(Ichthyology), I was quite in-terested in the account, in theNovember 11 issue of yourpaper, of Mrs. Holden Hill'sencounter with quote: "a snake-like creature, fifteen incheslong, with a thick body and aflat head, covered with brownspots," which Mrs. Hill, whileon a shelling expedition, dis-covered lying dormant on thesand near Tarpon Bay.

The creature terrified Mrs.Hill by jumping four feet in theair in her direction when, ac-cording to the account, shejingled a bag of shells at itto see if it were indeed alive,following which it chased herfor some distance down thebeach, apparently with sometype of salt-water mayhem inmind.

Upon returning home, for-tunately unharmed, thanks toher fleetness of foot, Mrs. Hillreferred to her Fisherman'sEncyclopedia and found that thebeast was a Moray Eel. (Note:This species is also called an"Electric Eel" due to its abil-ity to store up, and to re-lease at will, a lethal voltageof electricity.)

The Encyclopedia stated thatthe Moray was "vicious anddangerous to tamper with," asMrs. Hill had already found outfor herself.

I have done considerable re-search into the habits andcharacteristics of this Eel andam in a position to commenton Mrs. Hill's experiences.

First, I will venture a guessthat the confrontation took placeduring the early-morninghours. At this time of day,the Moray s may be found sleep-ing on beaches after having left

their normal watery habitat toclimb mangroves and otherwaterside trees in search ofFlying Fish's nests from which,in the absence of the parents,they remove and eat the eggs.Gorged on these delicacies theythen fall into a somnolent stateapproaching catalepsy, fromwhich they can only be rousedby someone jingling shells atthem.

Naturally this annoys them,but even so, the "four foothigh" jump is a bit puzzlingto me. My sole conjecture asto its cause is the possibilitythat the eel was sleeping withits tail in its mouth; and then,when it was startled and itselectric current came on auto-matically, a short-circuit oc-cured. Under such circumstan-ces, assuming my analysis willhold water, I would suggest thata four-foot jump might be min-imal.

Finally, as to the brownspots on the eel's body theseare certainly not normal in ahealthy Moray, and it is en-tirely probable that this par-ticular eel was suffering fromsome type of liver complaint,which may have added an in-crement to his usual vile dis-position.

/ s / R. Ungerdunger.P .S. Did you know that Moray

Eels produce a delicate fibroussubstance highly prized inChina, where it is taken byweavers and made into MoraySilk? I didn't know this eitheruntil just recently.

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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Adoption of an annualbudgetfor the coming 1968-69 fiscalyear was approved by the Sani-bel-Captiva Islands Chamber ofCommerce at the regular meet-ing of the Board of Directors,November 27. The budget whichis now being prepared by theBoard, will be presented to themembership for their consider-ation at the semi-annual meet-ing of the Chamber on Monday,December 18.

The possibility of a volun-tary sign control program bybusinesses on the Islands, tiedinto the proposed new direction-al sign project under consider-ation, was also discussed. Aspecial committee on signs,recently appointed by theBoard's President Mark Mc-Clintick, and headed by PaulStahlin, was asked to investi-gate and make recommen-dations for a voluntary signcontrol program.

REAL ESTATE NEWS

Priscilla Murphy, Realtor,reports the sale of a parcelof more than 200 feet onCayoCosta Island by Mr. and Mrs.Warren Rice of Sarasota toMrs. Muriel Lesser of Wash-ington, D.C., and Mrs. VeraCantor of Stamford, Conn.

NEW CONSTRUCTION

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Across the Gulf Drive, Dave isinstalling two shuffle boardcourses and chipping and put-ting greens for golf fans. Forboth decorative and practicalpurposes, Dave is also plant-ing an orchard, including or-anges, grapefruit, tangerinesand pineapples.

All of this is slated to befinished by February 1,1968the start of the main season—when the Wooster's are fullyrented, including the four newunits still to be built.

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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Fort Myers area, Cape Coral,Lehigh Acres, Bonita Springs,Fort Myers Beach and Immoka-lee and will present the entireprogram again at the Art Hallof the Koreshan State Park inEstero on December 17. The

Chorus pianist, Mrs. LinnieMae Werne, comes from PuntaGorda.

The complete program is asfollows;

The "Creation" from God'sTrombones by James WaldanJohnson, narrator Chorusand String Orchestra. "MyLord, What a Morning" Ar-ranged by H.T. Burleigh.

"Gloria in Excelsis," Chor-us and Orchestra, Louise De-Caron, soloist. Words by Mar-tin Luther, music by FlorenceJolley, arranged by Lars Hag-gard.

Christmas Suite For Strings,String Orchestra Alex Rom-ley.

"Consider the Lilies of theField" Chorus and StringOrchestra Clifford McCor-mick.

"Man Shall Not Live byBread Alone" Chorus andFull Orchestra Louise De-Caron and O.L. Jarvis, solo-ists Don Gardner.

"The Lord's Prayer"C horus and String OrchestraLeroy Robertson.

"The Twenty-third Psalm"—Chorus and Full Orchestra

Edward A. Syms."In the Night, Christ Came

Walking"—Chorus and FullOrchestra Noble Cain.INTERMISSION"Hear My Prayer" Chorusand Full Orchestra, PhilindaYoung, soloist FelixMendel-sson."Were You There?"—Chorusonly arranged by H.T. Bur-leigh.

"Go to Dark Gethesmane"Chorus and String Orches-

t r a — T . Tertius Noble."Greater Love Hath No

Man" Chorus and Full Or-chestra Louise DeCaron andC ,L. Jarvis, soloists JohnIreland.

"Battle Hymn of the Re-public"—Chorus, Full Or-chestra and Audience. (As re-corded by the Morman Taber-nacle Choir and the Philadel-phia Orchestra). Words by JuliaWard Howe, music by WilliamSteffe, arranged by Peter J.Wilhousky.

This is the second of theSeason's Subscription Concertspresented by the Symphony.Tickets are available at the doorand are $1.75 adults-.75 stu-dents.

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SANIBEL-C APTIVA AUDUBONSOCIETY

The Sanibel-C aptiva Audu-bon Society will resume its win-ter programs for the 1967-68season December 7 with theshowing of two Walt Disneyfilms, "Water Birds" and''Mysteries of the Deep." Theregular meetings will be held atthe Sanibel Community Center,in most cases on Thursdayevenings at 8 o'clock.

In addition to the regularmeetings the society willconduct a series of field naturetrips both on and off the I s -lands. Among these will be all-day motor trips to FakahatcheeSwamp and Fish-eating Creek,a canoe trip on the SanibelRiver, two nature walks, and a"roughing i t " walk "back intothe boondocks." The annual Au-dubon bird count will be heldDecember 30. All events willbe open to the public.

Among the programs will bean Audubon Screen Tour,"Everglades, Sea of Grass,"by Robert Hermes of Miami;a film talk, "My Greatest Wild-life Adventures," by Hal H.Harrison of Cheswick, Penn.,and Sanibel; and three slidetalks: "Birding Safari in NewZealand," by Karen Eastmanof Minneapolis and Sanibel,"Guest Ornithologist in Tai-wan," by Leslie Severinghaus ofCoconut Grove, and "NativeIsland Trees and Shrubs," byHervey Roberts of Captiva.

Mario Hutton of Sanibel, so-ciety president, will give two ofhis unique slide poems. One,"Birds of Many a Feather,"will be combined with a BillBaird puppets film, "The Spir-it of Christmas," for theChristmas program December21. The other, "Southwest Flor-ida Color Saga," will be anentire program. Hutton gave oneof his slide poems before theFlorida Audubon Society annualmeeting at Nassau recently, andas a result has been booked be-fore eight Audubon Societies asfar away as Orlando.

Other programs will be theDisney film "YellowstoneCubs," and, jointly, the films"Painted Reefs of Honduras"and "Twilight Reef." The twolatter contain excellent under-water color photography.

HUMANE SOCIETY OFFICERS

The officers of the Sanibel-C aptiva Islands Humane SocietyAuxiliary-#2 want to extend theirthanks to the many Islanderswho have joined the Societyas well as those who have con-tributed so generously to ourworking funds. For example:The personnel of The IslandBake Shop, just a few days ago,put a cute little ceramic"Kitty" on their cash registerfor the donations of animallovers, and yesterday we r e -ceived a call from Jack VanBell to come and pick up theproceeds, as the "Kitty 's"stomach had already gotten toofull for comfort. We respondedpromptly and now "Kitty" feelsmuch better and is busily lap-ping up more contributions fromJack's compassionate cus-tomers.

The Lee County Humane So-ciety has extended to all I s -lander Humane Society Mem-bers an invitation to an OpenHouse at the animal shelter,at Anderson Avenue off ArcadiaStreet, in Fort Myers, on Sun-day, Dec. 10, 1967, from 2 to4 p.m. Do attend, you mighteven find a little "All Alone"puppy or kitty that you couldfind a place for in your homeand especially in your heart.

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POST OFFICE

We, at the Sanibel Post Of-fice, would like to remind ourpatrons that during the monthof December, rural routepatrons are required to affixstamps to all greeting cards andletter mail left in the boxesfor carrier pick-up. Do not putmoney in for these items. Thecarrier has for sale stamps,envelopes, and postal cards.

We would also like to remindyou to please mail early forChristmas, and to mail earlyin the day. To insure deliveryby Christmas, Parcel Post todistant states should be mailedthis week for surface mail andby Dec. 10-15 for Air Mail.Local and nearby parcels shouldbe mailed by Dec. 13. Lettersand cards to distant statesshould be mailed by Dec. 10for surface mail and by Dec.10-15 for Air Mail. Local andnearby letters and cards shouldbe mailed by Dec. 15.

Savings stamps and booksare now available at the PostOffice in denominations of 10£,25£, 500, $1.00 and $5.10 foryour convenience in saving forBonds.

We would like at this time,to thank you for your co-opera-tion and to wish you all a veryMerry Christmas and a mostJoyous New Year.

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The Sanibel Community Library wants to ex-press its sincere thanks to Mr. Paul Simondsfor the revamping of the shelves in the Li-brary building. This work will make it mucheasier for the youngsters to find the books theyare looking for.

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Even though Mrs. James (Gail) Maguire hashad an argument with a tree the other day---and lost she said that she will keep the RedPelican store open as usual. Get well quick!

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If anyone has somethingwhich does not fit, or doesn'tlike, the girls at the House ofGood Shepherd would appreciateit as a Christmas present. Sendit to: House of Good Shepherd,Mother Mary Patrick, St. Phil-amena's Training School, Hunt-ington, L.I., N.Y., or phoneGR 2-3943.

POTLUCK SUPPER

A potluck supper and get-together will be held by theCaptiva Civic Association at theC aptiva C ommunity C enter Sun-day, December 17, at 6 o'clock.While plans have just started,Jo Reddy, who is getting a com-mittee together to put on thesupper, says, "Make a note ofthe date to keep it open." De-tails will be announced later.

There will be a sheet atthe Post Office so you can signup and list the dish you wantto bring.

Back to their favoriteIslands are FRANK and LIL-LIAN ELEAZER, who just es-caped the heavy snow thatblanketed Washington, D.C.,last week. Frank is with UnitedPress International and ischairman of the Standing Com-mittee of Correspondents, Con-gressional Press Galleries.

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Recent guests at Gulf BreezeCottages have been Mr. andMrs . BARNEY SALLEE and twodaughters of Dayton, Ohio. Mr.and Mrs . RAY POLAND of Ran-toul, 111., are back for theirsixth visit. Mr. and Mrs. R. E.BAER and granddaughter of De-catur, 111., are here for theirthird visit. Mr. and Mrs. LEEMATTHEWS of Indianapolis,Ind., are here for their eighthvisit, and Mr. and Mrs. HOW-ARD MALLORY of Lancaster,Ohio, are here for their thirdvisit. Mrs. ALICE WOOD whowas here with her husband forthe month of March, is backagain for a month while herhusband has been duck huntingin Ohio. She expects him tofly down next week, and aftera short vacation for him, todrive back north together. Shehas helped in many projectswhile here, such as at theChamber of Commerce, P r i s -cilla's office, etc.

NMr. and Mrs. JIM HOFF-IV.AN are here for six months.They had bought a new Chrys-ler to come down in, and wasrammed in Alabama and it wascompletely destroyed. Mr.Hoffman's 85 year old motherwas hurt and is still in thehospital there. LEW FUNK hadto go and get them and alltheir trunks in his car.

Mr. BARNEY SALLEE founda perfect junonia right out infront of the Cottages, and a weeklater VIRGINIA MATTHEWSfound another junonia in almostthe same spot. This is

inia*s first junonia, al-^ last year she and Lee

found several golden olives.They got a lot of other goodshells, including one 20" horseconch, although several otherswere very large. They alsocaught a lot of fish while here.

Mrs. Howard Mallory alsofound a junonia, although itwas not quite as perfect as theother two.

Mr. and Mrs. HARRY BED-FORD of Middletown, Ohio,guests at The Colony, found agolden olive on the Gulf beachin front of The Colony.

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ROBERTS GIVES TALK

An illustrated talk on thenative trees and shrubs of Sani-bel and Captiva was given byHervey Roberts of Captiva tothe Edison Garden Club of FortMyers November 15. The talk,at the home of Mrs. SalyatoreGeraci on McGregor Boulevard,was Illustrated with color slidestaken on the Islands.

Roberts, pointed out thatmany of our native plants haveflowers or fruit every bit asattractive as cultivated varie-t ies. The geiger tree and marl-berry, for example, haveflowers that rival anything ob-tainable from a nursery. Thecocoplum and wild guava haveedible, attractive fruit. Andthese are only examples of along list.

In addition, native plantshave one great advantage overmost exotics. They are adaptedto this area's difficult growingconditions, and will thrive underthe drouth, sand, and salt thatmake many cultivated plantshard to handle. Because theyhave had trouble getting exoticplants to grow, most Islandersleave good vegetation on theirlots. And there's a growingtendency to plant seeds of at-tractive varieties not present.

As a warning, however,about fifty of Florida's bestplants are protected. It 'sagainst the law to just go outin the woods and dig them,or take orchids and wild pine-apples off trees. But it 's legalif a person has written per-mission from the owner or man-ager of the land where theyare growing. It's also legal togather a reasonable number ofseeds for private planting, andmost native plants grow readilyand rapidly from seed.

Fishing is exceEent in our local waters as the above paoto shows.Clyde Smith of Herculaneum, Mo., and Harold Alford of Leesburg,Fla., got these 28 Redfish and 2 Trout while out with Guide BobSabatino of Captiva.

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DEMOCRATIC CLUB

Members of the Sanibel-Captiva Democratic Club whoattended the 11-County fund-raising dinner Friday night,December 1, in Fort Myers,were privileged to have a pr i -vate conference prior to thedinner with the guests of honor,Congressmen Paul G. Rogersand James A. Haley. Severalmatters of local interest werebrought to the attention of thetwo Congressmen, who ex-pressed interest in acceptingthe local Democratic Club'sinvitation for them to visit ourIslands at some time in thefuture.

Following the talks withCongressmen Rogers and Haleyat the Holiday Inn, the Islandgroup went on to the Exhibi-tion Hall to attend the highlysuccessful dinner, a kick-off forthe 1968 elections. Sponsoredby the Lee County DemocraticExecutive Committee, the din-ner brought together more than

500 Democratic officials andworkers from 11 counties inSouth and West Florida to honorCongressman Rogers in whoseNinth District Lee County isnow included, and CongressmanHaley, whose Seventh Districtwill include Lee County in 1969under court-ordered reappor-tiontnent.

Those who attended includedMr. and Mrs. George Winter-botham (Ann is president of theSanibel - C aptiva DemocraticClub), Mr. and Mrs. KennethBryant, Mrs. Max Hayford,Mrs. Peggy Maloney, NormanChambers, Wilb Snyder, Wil-liam Macintosh and Roy Bazire.

The local Democratic Clubinvites the support of all i s -land Democrats—just ask anyof the members of the Boardof Directors about joining. Theyare: Ann Winterbotham, Mo-zella Jordan, Elsie Henderson,Peggy Maloney, Jean Hayford,Norman Chambers, Joe Gault,Bill Macintosh, Grif Bancroft,Leon Levy and Roy Bazire.

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