Ikki Matsumoto the Islander Sanibel's Resident Artist Celebrity This Week: Page 12A 2A Tuesday, June 29,1982 the ISLANDER A
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Total Island information Page 22B Islander sports! Page 4B Volume 22 No. 23 Tuesday, June 29,1982 Two Sections, 15 cents The Fund for Animals Anti-cruelty organization needs members, money See story page 2A Original artwork by Molly Eckler S; Harlequin Nature Graphics. Copyright—all rights reserved. City, Wulfert Point owners Tests show salinity up in river The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation samples of water from various locations in agree on 465 units Foundation conducted salinity tests of the the river system. Dr. Herbert Rhinesmith Sanibel River system last week and for- tested the samples and found the following By Barbara Brundage offered to up the density on a 415-acre tract warded the results to City Manager Bernie salinity in milligrams per litre: A City Council appointed fact finding team of land at Wulfert Point to 465 dwelling units: Murphy on Monday. On San-Cap Road south of Tarpon Bay at the eleventh hour Monday came up with This is 50 more than permitted on the site Foundation Chairman Rose Rogers weir - Total dissolved solids test yielded no what is hoped will be the magic number for under the city's Open Space ordinance. thanked Murphy for his assurance that answer; salinity of water, also no answers. an out-of-court settlement in the Chianelli Monday's offer climaxed a 3V2-hour repairs to the Tarpon Bay Weir will be made At junction of Sanibel River and Lock lawsuit that has been hanging fire for more negotiating session with attorneys James following the overtopping of that weir during Street canal - Total dissolved solids, 5,500; than six years. continued page 23A heavy rains that flooded Sanibel June 17-18. continued page 23A The city's three-man negotiating team The salinity testing last week involved Inside Ikki Matsumoto The Islander Sanibel's resident artist celebrity this week: Page 12A 2A Tuesday, June 29,1982 The ISLANDER a Non-profit group strives to stop cruelty to animals By Peggy Dailey may have been necessary to its present status as a sport. The Fund for Animals is an anti-cruelty organization Although some furs are valuable, most skins, such a nutria dedicated to, among other things, stopping the slaughter of and squirrel, fetch from $1 to $3 each. baby harp seals and fit bull fighting, psychological ex- He discusses the "fake-fur" campaign of the early 70s, periments on monkeys inlaboEatsries and leg-traps to catch which enlisted the sincere efforts of Doris Day, Angle fur-bearing animals. Dickinson, Jayne Meadows, Gunsmoke's Amanda Blake Island naturalist George Campbell, a member of the Fund and popular Mary Tyler Moore. for Animals and, and international coordinator for the Perhaps the most astute comment was made by group, says the organisation needs more members and Meadows, who said, "I feel very sad for women who con- more funds. tinue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in The founder of the fund, Cleveland Amory, well-bom woman's most important qualities -- heart and sensitvity." author (The Proper Bostonians), TV critic for some years Amory is perhaps most effective in his case for banning and now animal activist, is both loved and hated. leg-traps. Perhaps one of the most fiendish tortures either Amory's seminal book about the anti-cruelty fund, Man intentionally or unintentionally devised by man, leg- Kind? Our Incredible War on Wildlife, was published by trapscatch a small annual's leg. It is required by law that Harper and Row in 1974. traps be checked every so often, but the law is not enforce., Campbell's hard-cover copy is inscribed in blue-fountain and animals often starve, die of injuries or are eaten by pen, "For Jean and George - with thanks and admiration predators. for the best planned and executed day in the life of this book, One possible solution Amory mentions is practiced by the weather excepted! Cleveland. Sanibel, Nov. 30, 1974." state of Mississippi - poison-tipped arrows that contain a And the book, which has been reprinted in several powerful muscle relaxant that kills the animal within about paperback editions, is a muckraking, potboiling expose in 30 seconds. However, Amory maintains poison is still loo the best tradition of Lincoln Steffens and Upton Sinclair's primitive and painful, in most cases, to be "humane." TheJungle. One could never read it and still want a fur coat. Amory's non-profit group, The Fund For Animals, is The book begins with a chapter wryly called "Support located at 140 West 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019 Dues are Your Right To Arm Bears," in which, among other things, around $15 a year. More information is available from Amory demolishes what he sees as the the "sportsman'1 Campbell at 472-2825 or at the SCCF. arguments - the main one being that hunting '"harvests' Campbell says action is needed in the form of letters to animals and thus keeps a specific population strong. congressmen and senators, especially in the U.S. Congress, However, Amory points out, harvesting by hunting takes to prevent weakening or loss of important legislation such the large and good and strong animals, while predators take as the Endangered Species Act, which comes up for renewal the weak and ill. this year. He also talks about hunting in the past and famous hun- In a recent laudatory article (Fall 1981) on U.S. Secretary ters such as Ernest Hemingway and Teddy Roosevelt and of the Interior James Watt in American Opinion magazine, his sons, who often fished in Southwest Florida. the offical organ of the John Birch Society, Watt was Amory quotes some truly nauseating passages about praised for his efforts to combat years of efforts by Com- hunting from Hemingway's writing and says Teddy munist-inspired environmentalists to take away the land Roosevelt was possibly psychopathic in his attitudes about from whom it originally belonged to - the males of America. Original artwork by Molly hunting. The article concluded that the environmentalists would Amory notes the astonishing record Roosevelt ac- like a country in which there are "200 million whooping Eckler S; Harlequin Nature cumulated in terms of numbers of animals. His son, Kermit, cranes and 47 people/Let's give the land back to whom it Graphics. Copyright—all fights for instance, shot seven cheetahs in one day.. belongs - people." Amory then traces the history of trapping, from when it reserved. The ISLANDER Tuesday, June 29,1982 3A County plans to implement Simpson hurricane system By Barbara Brundage puting and evaluating strike probabilities make a decision on evacuation it was retain Simpson until the warning system is Within the next two weeks the Lee County for any tropical disturbance that may be comforting," he said. "Neil Frank (director implemented by the county. It was approved Commission will be asked to approve an headed this way. of the National Hurricane Center) didn't tell by a 3-0 vote with Mayor Porter Goss and $8,600 appropriation from reserve funds to His fee will be determined at the rate of us anything," Valtin added. Councilman Duane White absent. implement the Saffir-Simpson Probabilistic $300 a day, as in the 1981 hurricane season, Valtin made the motion for the city to Hurricane Warning System at the county's when his services cost the city ap- Emergency Operations Center. proximately $1,500, Murphy said Assistant County Administrator Bill Simpson will be out of the countrj. until Neron said the monies will fund the initial mid July. In his absence an associate Bill cost of computer software as well as on- Frank, will fill in for him, Murph\ said going operational expenses of the innovative "We received some very helptul and on system developed by Dr. Robert Simpson, target advice from Dr. Simpson earh on former director of the National Hurricane when Sanibel appeared to be direcllv in Ihe Center in Miami and currently a private path of Hurricane Alberto," Murph> pointed weather consultant. out. Neron said county emergency disaster Although his system was not tull> officials regard the system as a "major aid operational at the time Alberto threatened in making a decision to evacuate when a the Islands, Simpson advised Sanibel of- hurricane threatens the area." ficials not to over-react, Murph> said The system extends the warning time to 72 Simpson said the storm at most would be a hours in advance of predicted landfall of a minimal hurricane with top winds ot 80 mph threatening storm. Currently the National with the expectation of three-foot tides, he Hurricane Center can promise only 12 hours added. Evacuation, except possibl} tor some warning. waterfront areas, would not be necessar> Neron said that when the money becomes Simpson told Murphy. available the system can be implemented in Vice Mayor Mike Klein, who was acting a very short time. ."Everything's set to go>" mayor during the Alberto crisis, at the June he said. "Hopefully we'll be in business 15 council meeting recommended the citv before (the next hurricane) blows in." retain Simpson on the same basis as last Simpson tested his system for the first year, not relying completely on the counl> s time last year when he monitored for the being able to implement the system for use city of Sanibel the approach of Hurricane this season. Dennis, the off-again-on-again hurricane Councilman Fred Valtin, who was skep- that eventually fizzled out in Florida Bay. tical of the value of "Simpsons scheme' Last week City Manager Bernie Murphy when it was first introduced as a part of the 1%* Uaftted Way fund drive m "The United Wa> is a good informed the City Council that Simpson has city's Hazard Mitigation.study a >ear ago Saaibet H $2SO closer to its goal cause.