a a a a a a a a a a 2. Myers (Fla) News-Press, Monday, January 27, 1961 Trial for Medgar Evers Slaying to Start Today JACKSON, Miss. (P) Under extraordinary security ments, Byron De La Beckwith goes trial today for the ambush slaying of Negro leader Medgar Evers. FBI agents arrested the 43-yearold Greenwood, fertilizer salesman 11 days after a sniper with a high powered rifle shot Evers the carport of his home. They said fingerprints on a telescopic sight linked Beckwith to the slaying.
The shooting occurred last June, at the height of Negro demonstrations against segregation practices in this deep South city. Field Secretary Evers was Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Sheriff Fred Pickett, recalling the racial bitterness in the city after the slaying, said officers will search everyone entering the court room. Nobody will be allowed to remain inside without a seat. The court room seats about 300.
Beckwith won't have to go outside to attend the trial. The jail where he is held is in the court house. He'll probably ride an elevator to the court room floor and enter the court room through the judge's chambers. Aaron Henry, state president of the NAACP, urged Negroes to turn out in large numbers for the trial. Charlie Evers, Medgar's brother who succeeded him as NAACP field secretary, said he planned to attend.
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A week later FBI agents moved in on Greenwood, a delta town in northwest Mississippi, inquiring about Beckwith. Gave Self Up Beckwith was on his fertilizer sales route, but he heard about the agents looking for him. He contacted a lawyer, then turned himself in to the agents. The FBI said it traced Beckwith through a Japanese telessight attached a 30.06 Enfield rifle Jackson police found in a field across from Evers' house. They said a fingerprint on the sight matched the fingerprints on file in Beckwith's military serv.
ice record. A native of Colusa, Beckwith lived most of his life in Mississippi. He served with the Marines in World War II and was wounded trying to wade ashore at Tarawa. All three of the major legal figures in the trial are natives of Mississippi Hinds County Circuit Judge Leon Hendrick, 69, a veteran of 10 years on the bench; Beckwith's chief counsel, Hardy Lott, 55, a former president of the Citizens Council in hometown of Greenwood; and District Attorney Bill Waller, 37, a seventh generation Mississippian serving his second term as prosecutor. Cigarette Handy Women's Weapon By JOY MILLER NEW YORK (P A lot of women manage to live quite happily without groping for a cigarette the first thing every morning.
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He can't reach around a glowing cigarette to get cozy and you can chain-smoke for hours. Having to keep lighting 'em up for you may distract, finally discourage him altogether. Holding a cigarette keeps hands from at your sides, gives something to do while you're waiting. When you smoke you often eat less, say use it as an appetite depressant. It could be, of course, that your taste buds curl up in disgust and refuse to be tempted by goodies.
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Mgr. 2161 McGregor Blvd. ED 4-1263 Opposite Boulevard Plaza Shopping Center Violence Breaks Out in Atlanta Raft With Missing Man Still Sought HONOLULU0 Fourteen search planes coursed the Johnston Island area some 750 miles southwest of Honolulu yesterday, still trying to find a man sighted waving from a tiny raft last Wednesday. Since then an unavailing search has been going on for the man, believed to be one of the crew of missing C124 Globemaster. The Air Force, while conceding hope of finding the raft is slight, indicated the hunt would continue.
The Globemaster disappeared Jan. 2 in flight from Wake Island to Honolulu. The raft was sighted from another military plane passing over the area. (Continued from Page One) dent by the actions of the extremists who have gathered in Atlanta to stage aggressive demonstrations calculated to upset the tranquility of our city; and we further protest the coercive pressures exerted by the city administration and certain civic leaders against the restaurant owners of Atlanta," the statement said. Most of those arersted in the first demonstration last night were Negro students.
Police said seven or eight were white. Those arrested were charged with disorderly conduct and creating a disturbance. Bond was set at $50. Among those arrested was Negro comedian Dick Gregory, oil, Gas Search Costs Billion DALLAS -The cost if finding, developing, and producing oil. and gas in the United States exceeds $6,500,000,000 a year, according to an industry survey.
Funerals JOHN R. BUNNELL John R. Bunnell, 72, died yesterday at his residence on 3867 Edgewood Avenue. He came here six years ago from Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a retired president of the Oil-Craft Company, Inc.
of Cincinnati, past president of a Savings and Loan Company, and past president of the Caloosa Bird Club. He graduated 51 years from the Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind. In addition to his wife, Mrs. Ruth Bunnell, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Edgar East of Cincinnati and four grandchildren.
Arrangements will be announced later by the Harvey Funeral Home on Colonial Boulevard. MRS. VIDA E. PERRY Funeral service for Mrs. Vida E.
Perry, 57, a resident of 2801 Griswold Port Huron, will be today at 2 p.m. from the chapel of the Harvey Funeral Home on Colonial Boulevard with Rev. Robert C. Asmuth, pastor the First Presbyterian Church, ficiating. Pallbearers will be, Creel, Ed Jolliff, Herschel Ramsey, James Williams, Chesley Perry and Manley Welsh.
Interment will be in the Memorial Gardens Cemetery. GRACE BERNICE CORWIN Funeral service for Mrs. Grace Bernice Corwin, 52, Cactus Iona Gardens, will be at 3 p.m. today from the Church of God, Hunter Street, with Rev. Gordon Howe, pastor, officiating.
Pallbearers will be Ernest Brittenham, Dan Woodhouse, Curtis Crosby, Henry Corwin, Thomas Corwin and Rev. Henry G. Howe. Interment will be in the Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of the Harvey Funeral Home, Coloial Boulevard.
CHARLES W. BOLAND Funeral arrangements will be announced later for Mr. Charles W. Boland a resident of 1924 French pending the arrival of relatives. Arrangements are under the direction of the Harvey Funeral Home, Colonial Boulevard.
MRS. HALEY ADELL DeVRIES Mrs. Haley Adell DeVries, 92, a resident of Fort Myers Beach since 1954, died here early yesterday. Mrs. DeVries was a native of Jamestown, Mich.
Her husband Lambert DeVries preceded her in death in 1944. Mrs. DeVries is survived by two daughters, Mrs. W. J.
(Luana) Eldridge of Old Hickory, Mrs. William S. (Adah) Milenz, Fort Myers Beach; two sons, Raymond O. Peet of Garden City, Frank H. Peet of Ossineke, five grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
Funeral service has been set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Harvey Funeral Home on Colonial Boulevard with Rev. John F. Few, pastor, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, officiating. Interment will be in the Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Peter G. VanderWaals, Ned Hills, Arthur Smith, Faud Carr, Richard man and Walter Richards. IRA B. WILLIAMS Ira Bedford Williams, 84, Moberly, father of Mrs. Leslie (Alma) Dix, 1374 Miracle Lane, Fort Myers, died yesterday at the Lee Memorial Hospital.
He had been visiting his daughter since Sept. 29, 1963. He was a retired general yard master for the Wabash and a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. His wife, Bertha Lee Williams, preceded him in death in 1950. Additional survivors include two other daughters, Mrs.
George E. (Carmen) Evans of Moberly, Mrs. Pauline (Mabel) Kincade of Bartlesville, son, Richard Williams, Moberly; a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Martin of Muskogee, three grandchildren, and seven great grandchildren. Friends may call at the Harvey Funeral Home on Colonial Boulevard today from 1 p.m.
to 5 p.m. The body will be sent tonight to the Million Funeral Home, Moberly, Mo. for funeral service and interment 10 from U.S. WEATHER BUREAU 50 8 78 Shewen FORECAST For Daytime Monday 79 Figores Shew High Temperatures Expected belated Her indicated Lacal fearest WEATHER FORECAST Scattered snow flurries are forecast for parts of northern Appalachians and Great Lakes region. Light snow and snow flurries are predicted for parts of central plateau and northern portions of southern plateau.
Light rain is indicated for sections of lower Mississippi valley and Pacific northwest. Snow flurries are expected over western parts of northern Rockies. ern plateau. Rest of U.S. Scattered rain showers are indicated should have clear to partly Schedule of the Tides for Today High Boca Grande 11:01 Bokeelia Bonita Beach 12:24 p.m.
10:55 Cape Coral 12:17 a.m.* Edison Bridge 1:27 a.m.* Everglades 12:31 a.m. 2:16 Ft. Myers Bch. 1:24 p.m. 11:55 Marco 1:14 p.m.
11:45 Naples 12:14 p.m. 10:45 Pine I. Bridge 12:01 a.m.* 2:24 Punta Gorda Punta Rassa 1:04 p.m. 11:35 Sanibel 12:44 p.m. 11:15 Strong Deadly African Snake Strikes Zoo Director SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (P)- Jerry Debary, 37-year-old director of the city's zoo, was bitten by an African puff adder, one of the world's most deadly snakes, ed as holding his own but Saturday night.
He was tical condition yesterday. Debary was treated with anti-, venin flown by a Navy jet fighter from San Diego. A doctor said this is the only specific antidote for the snake bite poison. He said the snake venom causes paralysis and blood disorders. Debary, director of the Hogel Zoological Gardens, was described as conscious, but in great pain.
Other Survivors Doctors said as far as they can determine there is only one other person in the United States known to have survived a bite by an African puff adder. They said he is Marlin Perkins in St. Louis, and they talked to him by telephone in an attempt to learn details of his case. He was bitten at the St. Louis Zoo in 1928.
Perkins, who has had "Zoo Parade" programs on TV in Chicago and St. Louis, was fanged in the left index finger when he was curator of reptiles at the St. Louis Zoo. Perkins served later as zoo director in Chicago. He returned to St.
Louis as director of the z00 there in 1962. Within 40 minutes after being bitten by the gaboon viper, or, puff adder, Perkins was SO close to death that he told Dr. Staley, the attending physician, that it was all over. Up to that point Perkins had been observing his own rapidly developing symptoms with scientific interest. While both he and Dr.
Staley were specialists in snake venom, neither one previously had known much about the poison of the viper. But before Perkins left the hospital three months later both he and Dr. Staley said they had learned plenty about the poison of the snake. Lamar Farnsworth, assistant director of the Hogel Zoological Gardens, said Debary was working alone late Saturday night cleaning the snake cages in preparation for expected Sunday crowds. He said Debary told him that just as he opened the front glass door of the adder's cage and fell forward.
He raised his arm to keep from falling into the cage, and the heavy five-foot-long snake struck him in the right forearm. Debary closed the cage door, walked into another room where a night watchman was, and collapsed. He was administered an antivenin at the zoo before being taken to a hospital. The call for the puff adder antivenin went to the San Diego 200 shortly after midnight. A Navy F10 jet fighter took off from a Naval auxiliary air station at Miramar, at 2:40 a.m.
and landed at Salt Lake City one hour and twenty-five minutes later. Virgil Robb Dies Here (Continued from Page One) Robert C. Asmuth of the First Presbyterian Church and the Rev. Dr. Thomas Craigie Smart.
The Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home is in charge. The body will be sent to Maysville for burial in the family plot. The family request that flowers be omitted. Robb was a past exalted ruler of the Elks, a Mason and a former trustee of the Presbyterian Church.
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Full Moon Jan. 28.0 Prominent Stars: The Twins, lead the Moon. (Pollux, the brighter Twin and nearer the Moon, is 35 light years from the Earth.) Weather Yesterday In Fort Myers Jan. 26, high 66, low 60. Relative humidity (per cent) 72 at 6 a.m., 45 at 1 p.m.
No rain. Temperatures elsewhere: Albany 40 24 Alpena 22 8 Amarillo 65 23 Asheville 52 34 Atlanta 61 33 At'tic City 49 36 Baltimore 53 34 Birm'ham 62 30 Bismarck 22 -14 Boise 37 29 Boston 45 35 Buffalo 22 17 Bur'ton 26 24 C. H'teras 55 44 Charleston 62 52 61 31 Chatt'ooga 64 36 Chicago 32 22 Cin'nati 42 32 Cleveland 31 28 Columbus 39 31 Dallas 68 32 Denver 54 22 Des Mo'es 25 15 12 8 Fresno 52 39 Houston 66 36 In'apolis 38 27 Jack'ville 61 44 Kan. City 45 27 Knoxville 65 34 Little Rock 70 27 Los An'les 58 48 Louisville 50 35 Memphis 64 34 Meridian 65 27 Miami Bch 68 Mil'kee 29 25 Mobile 61 37 Mont' mery 62 33 Montreal 35 19 Nashville 61 37 N. Orleans 62 35 New York 47 37 Norfolk 55 38 Phil'phia 47 36 Phoenix 67 31 Pittsburgh 38 32 P'land 44 31 Richmond 56 34 St.
Louis 46 29 St. Paul 15 S. City 38 21 San An'io 65 53 S. Fran'co 57 46 Savannah 64 40 Seattle 44 33 San Juan 83 68 Tampa 61 58 Wash'ton 56 35' Wil'ton, 60 39 'Tis a privilege to live i in Southwest Florida Old Barber Had Many Talents (Continued from Page One) were through they put some salt in their mouth and washed it out with water." Stewart cut the hair of the governor of Maryland and the mayor of Baltimore in the old days when he had a shop there. He worked in Baltimore for 35 years before coming to Fort Myers.
"The Van Dyke beard used to be the big Stewart said. "That was about the hardest thing to cut I've ever known." Stewart said he couldn't foresee beards ever coming back. "Only in my nightmares," he remarked. But haircuts were not the mainstay of the early barbershop, according to Stewart. "Saturday was exclusively shave day," Stewart said.
"I'd be jumping from one customer to the other as a lather boy. When the barber had finished shaving the man, we lather boys would have to clean off his face and comb his hair. A shave in those days cost 10 cents. "A haircut was a little more. They were 15 As for the future of barbering, "I think it will always remain pretty much as it is now," Stewart said.
"I had a dream once of a machine where a man would select the style haircut he wanted, stick his head in and presto, that was it. But I don't believe it will ever come to that. The man behind the chair is necessary." Stewart married Julie Alice Stewart Oct. 20, 1908, and they had 13 children, all still living. She died March 14, 1950, and Stewart married Ruth Stewart Dec.
4, 1953. Stewart can boast of 40 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Stewart serves an occasional Sunday as a preacher, having been licensed for over 40 years. He teaches a Bible class at the Church of God of Prophecy and he preaches there "maybe twice a month." Stewart lathered the face of all customer in his modern shop and slowly turned the straight razor on the strop. Stewart said quietly, "I don't believe we'll ever replace the man behind the chair." for southern portions of southcloudy skies.
(AP Wirephoto) MIAMI (P) Landscape architect Kingo Sakamoto says Miami is making a mistake by cleaning up the granite statues in its Japanese garden. The garden was donated by Tokyo industrialist Kiyoshi Ichimura as a gesture of friendship and was designed by Sakamoto. "Don't scrub the granite Sakamoto said during a recent visit to inspect his handiwork. "Let the moss grow on them. It is a sign of antiquity and age revered in the, Orient." MELLOW WITH AGE HEARING NOTES Harold A.
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HIERS Camuel C. Hiers, 71, a lifetime resident of Fort Denaud and owner of Hiers Grove, died Saturday. Survivors include one son, Herbert Hiers, Norfolk, daughters, Mrs. Grace Poore, West Palm Beach, Mrs. Bolton Henderson, Hollywood; great uncle, Alto Hiers, Fort Denaud; stepson, Alden Howard, New York; sister, Mrs.
Fannie Brown, Tampa. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home. LEON HAMILTON Funeral service He for Leon Hamilton, 77, Everglades City, will be today at 2 p.m. at Leo W.
Engelhardt Funeral Home with Father Joseph DeVaney officiating. Pallbearers will be Roy Priest, Glen Priest, Cody Priest, Clyde Gray, Ralph Weeks and Charles Whidden Jr. Interment will be in Fort Myers Cemetery. MRS. EDNA M.
NOBLE Mrs. Edna M. Noble, 82, 1721 Braman Ave. died yesterday. She had been a resident here 1 for the past five years.
Survivors include two brothers, Earl V. Teater, Davenport, Iowa, Albert S. Teater, North Chicago, sister, Mrs. A. E.
Knox, San Francisco, Calif. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star. Funeral service will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home with Rev.
William B. Petherick officiating. The body will be sent to Wheelan Funeral Home, Rock Island, Ill. for burial in Memorial Park Ceretery. The family requests that flowers please be omitted contribution be made to Masonic Crippied Children's Home.
MRS. ESTHER JOHANSON Mrs. Esther E. Johanson, 81, Orange River died day. She had been a resident here for the past 11 years.
Survivors include her husband, H. W. Johanson, Fort Myers; sisters, Mrs. Walter Patton, Chicago, Miss Rosa Wieslander, Miss Dagmar Wieslander; brother, Hjalmar Wiesland, Sweden. She was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church, World War I Auxiliary 547, Fort Myers, Fla.
Funeral arrangements will 1 be announced later by Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home. MERLAND M. AVERY Merland M. Avery, 66, 22 Schneider Morse Shores died at his residence yesterday afternoon.
He had been a resident here for the past four years. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Sadie Avery; one son, Hubert Avery, Fort Myers; daughters, Mrs. Laverne Bergen, Wolcott, Mrs. Arthur Conway, Mrs.
Jean Gracie; brother, Earl Avery: nephew, James Avery, Fort Myers; niece, Mrs. Charles Bradshaw, Prospect, seven grandchildren. He was a member of Mill Plain Union Church, Waterberry, Conn. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by Leo W. Engelhardt Funeral Home.
JAMES HENRY THOMPSON James Henry Thompson, 85, died yesterday at his home at Chokoloskee. He was born in Key West and had lived in Naples for the past 50 years. He was a pioneer fisherman in this area. Survivors include six daughters, Mrs. Belle House, Everglades, Mrs.
Rosa Brown, Chokoloskee, Mrs. Julia Sloan, Tampa, Mrs. Clara Smallwood, Everglades, Mrs. Esther Bass, Port St. Joe and Mrs.
Christine Hawes, Chokoloskee; three sons, Leslie Thompson, Chokoloskee, Jim Thompson and Rob Thompson, Everglades; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Knowles and Mrs. of Key West; 37 grandchildren and 47 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at p.m. at Chokoloskee.
The Rev. T. J. Wells of the Church of God will officiate. Interment will follow in the Chokoloskee Cemetery.
Friends may call today at the Richard A. Pittman Funeral Home, Naples, from 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. About 150,000,000, pounds of nickel have been used for coinage throughout the world in the (last 75 years. NOTICE NEW APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED FOR POLICE PATROLMEN An examination for new applicants for Police Patrolmen will be conducted by the Fort Myers Civil Service Board on Thursday, February 13, 1964, at the Central Fire Station at 7:00 P.M. Application blanks for Police Patrolmen may be obtained at the Fort Myers Police Station.
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