SANIBEL. CAPTIVA ISLANDS

DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF SANIBEL AND CAPTIVA ISLANDS

The Finest Shelling Be aches in the Western H e m i s p h e r e VOLUME 6 NUMBER 24 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY JUNE 16, 1966

ALMA'S DAMAGE SLIGHT/ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Predictions of 7 to 11 foot tides sent many Islanders hurrying to damage on Captiva consisted of broken palm fronds, twisted sea grapes safety in homes of friends, motels and hotels in Fort Myers Wednesday and broken Australian pine branches. morning, June 8, as Hurricane Alma began to move up the southwest An eight inch water main exploded at Crescent Farms, the water Florida coast from the Keys. spurting out high, wide and handsome and leaving three families with- A rainfall of 2.82 was recorded Wednesday and Thursday on Cap- out water. tiva Island; wind gusts up to 80 m.p.h. were reported briefly on near- One of South Seas's cottages was lifted off its foundations, a few ly Fort Myers Beach, but winds mostly stayed in the 45 to 65 m.p.h. shingles were blown from various houses, and the electricity was off range. until Friday afternoon at 2 p.m., but all in all, the damage was small. Thursday afternoon, all roads were clear with the exception of Sanibel Island motels seemed to be hardest hit by the gusts of winds. the Captiva road bend on the way to South Seas Plantation just past The Gallery motel lost part of a roof on the two story building near the corner after Mary Cunningham's shop. That road wasn't clear, the Gulf front, but had It repaired (and occupied by guests) by Sunday. because there wasn't any road left. Island Inn had several roofs blown partly away, half of an eight car With- the exception of eight full grown coconut palms down at South garage was swept away, quite a few shingles were blown from the bar- Seas Plantation (which must have been hit by twisters) most shrubbery racks and the rooms were plastered with sand. The new building there only suffered screen damage. As manager Jack Rushworth said, "They are all piddley little things, but with the shrubbery and everything, it will run into a couple of thousand dollars." Besides the ever-present palm fronds, the only trees down at Island Inn were three pine trees at the back of the property across the road. Casa Ybel, the Reef, Hiers By The Sea Motel and others along CHOCOLATE COVERED Gulf Drive reported mostly screen, palm frond and sliingle damage, although Casa Ybel also lost three roofs and a number of sliding glass doors. APRICOTS The power was back on Sanibel by Thursday afternoon. THE PERFECT FATHER'S DAY GIFT CAPTIVA FILL EFFECTIVE The Captiva Island road fill near the Post Office corner weathered Hurricane Alma with great success. FROM "I would call the nourishment program extremely successful," said Paul Stahlin, who directed the project for the Captiva Island F R A N C O I S erosion group. "What little nourishment washed from the fill was distributed on the beaches on both sides. As a matter of fact, it may JACQUEMOUX well be we have more nourishment than we had before the storm. "I would say this indicates we have found a solution to the problem. We'll now have to work on the upper road. The problem of course, is where to get the fill. The perfect place is from off-shore dredging, which would not Interfere with breeding or feeding grounds for fish. "Up until now, no one has been able to develop a dredge which is THE STORE WITH THE ISLAND FLAVOR workable off-shore—one which delivers enough nourishment to the shore line. Through our work with the other dredging, and the methods used, it looks like we may be able to develop such a dredge."

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SUNDAY Sunday School 10:00 a.m. SANIBEL SERVICE STATION Morning Worship. . .11:00 a.m. Young People'sHour. .6:30 p.m. Evening Worship. . . .7:30 p.m. ATLAS TIRES — TUBES — BATTERIES WEDNESDAY ACCESSORIES Realtor Prayer Meeting & Bible Study WRECKER — TOWING — ROAD SERVICE . 7:30 p.m. EXPERT SERVICE ****** SANIBEL ISLAND, FLORIDA STANDARD PEOPLE DO LIVE HERE GR 2-4961 GR 2-4501 Twenty years ago, John De- Glenn and four World War II buddies decided to go into bus- iness. They bought a sub-chaser S A N 1 B E:L AND CAPTIVA at New Orleans, ran up the coast t o Biloxi, where they turned down an offer to join the Coast Bl RD TOURS Guard, and finally made their WE WANT TO SERVE YOU way to Tampa, where they got NATURE & CfiHOB TRIPS a loan from a Tampa bank. CONDUCTED BY by offering every service The money was used to buy - a cargo load of onions and po- of the fine jewelry store tatoes for re-sale in Cuba. jea i»ne 4-$ a yet (Someone offered them 100 bales of barbed wire, which, consider- We carry an extensive assortment of watch ing everything, probably could For Reservations Call GR 2-2611 bands for both men and women, as well as have been put to good use on spring bars for nearly every watch. that island, but they had to turn down the offer after running into WE DO OUR OWN SOLDERING ON ALL the 1947 hurricane, which was a GOLD AND SILVER CHARMS, ETC. doozy.) OPEN 10 a. m. to 7 p.m. They finally got to Cuba— WE DO OUR OWN ENGRAVING SO WE CAN the first boat to land the re since OFFER MANY PERSONALIZED GIFTS" 1944—successfully sold their BRUNCH-LUNCH-SNACKS- potatoes and onions and took on WE BUY OLD GOLD IN ANY KARAT ANY FORM a load of pineapples. TAKE-OUTS The pineapples cost them $4.35 a crate. The pineapples lost them $4.35 a crate. The THE HOLTZ'S pineapples were completely ruined when they ran into more HOUSE OF TREASURES bad weather at sea and didn't Sanibd Wand, Florida make port in time to save the n mm tx& fruit. During their trip they had sailed up and down the west coast of Florida, passing our t islands but not stopping. After the pineapple fiasco, GR 2-3321 they sold the boat and all went into other businesses. Mr. De- Glenn went into the Insulation Closed Tuesday business in Parkridge, Illinois, One day, Mrs. DeGlenn an- swered an ad in the Chicago Tribune about Sanibel and Cap- tiva. Bill Newman of the Cham- INSURANCE ber of Commerce responded with a packet of literature. When Mr. DeGlenn looked over the ANPREW RMELLOPY brochures and information, he said "Why, those must be the SANIBEL- CAPTIVA islands we saw—but we never REAL. ESTATE OFFICE stopped. We didn't think any one GR 2-3i21 lived on them." So—they came, they saw, Office Phone: GR2-4011 jm. Hours 8 to 5 Closed Sunday and they were conquered—- • Home Phone: GR 2-3891 W Daily they're planning to come again AUTO- HOMES - BUSINESS -BONDS soon! 6-16-66 ISLANDER MRS H.J. (PATRICIA) WATERS Mrs. H.J. (Patricia) Waters of Captiva Island died suddenly Monday, June 6, In Columbia, Missouri. She was well-known on the Islands, and had been a winter resident for a number of years. She is survived by her hus- band, Mr. H.J. Waters, the ed- itor and publisher of the Colum- bia Daily Tribune. Well known in the fashion design field, Mrs. Waters was the author of two text-books on fashion design and set up the fashion design department of Stevens College in Missouri. In the early 1930s, she was chosen "Artist of the Year." Any friends wishing to make memorial contributions may do so by giving to the Ding Darling Memorial Foundation, in care of Roy Bazire, treasurer, Sanibel Island, Florida.

CLYATT-REDINGER The engagement of Jackie J. Redinger of Sanibel Island and Miss Linda Elizabeth Clyatt of Punta Gorda was announced this week. THE CAPTIVA FILL WHICH WORKED They expect to get married at St. Michael's and All Angela Episcopal Church by Father Thomas Madden in July, The bride-to-be is a cashier at Bailey's Store on Sanibel. Jackie, who is the son of Mrs. Margo O. Redinger of Sanibel, and the late Joe Redinger, is employed by Thomas Hines at the Gulf service station. The couple plans to make their home on Sanibel perman- ently. All wish Linda and Jackie a very rosy future and a lot of happiness.

LIBRARY FOOTNOTES In spite of the threat of Hur- ricane Alma, twelve children attended the first "Smoky the Bear Summer Vacation Reading Club" at the Sanibel Public Li- brary. This group and other children who are to enroll, will meet with Mrs. Harry Romlne each Wednesday morning from 9:00 to 10:30 at the Library. At last Wednesday's meet- ing, the pre-school children en- joyed looking at picture-scripts which were read for them by the older children—Later, under the direction of Miss Pauline Wilson, they looked at "View Master" pictures and played with building blocks and beads. OUR HALF-MILLION DOLLAR TURNER BEACH — NOT MUCH Mrs. Romine started reading WORSE THAN USUAL AFTER A BLOW "The White Camel" by Eden Philpott for the older children ISLAND INN BUILDING has been cleared on the back of moved in the next few years, and she continued the book at SWIMMING POOL the property on the other side he said, and the Inn is in the of the road for new employee yesterday's session. process of planning new guest Each Club Member has been Island Inn (not South Seas housing which will be started accommodations facing the Gulf, sometime this summer. presented a Smoky Bear pin, a Plantation, as reported else- but the exact site has not been reading record card, a Smoky where) is building a 40 by 25 ft. The old building will be re- decided. Bear book and a book mark. In swimming pool right in front of the Smoky Bear book there are the old building. pictures to be colored and among Manager Jack Rushworth other things, the Smoky song said the Inn is also buying a and the Smoky pledge. The chil- considerable amount of new dren are learning both the song equipment for the kitchen, re- Alma No Help To Shellers and the pledge. pair work is being done on the During the summer the Club manager's cottage, and an area Hurricane Alma, who passed the Islands at an off-shore speed of Members will read about con- 20 m.p.h. with winds gusting up to 60 m.p.h., didn't bring in the quan- servation—wood lore, trees, tities of shells normally expected after a blow. As a matter of fact, birds, insects, camping—all Alma swept the beaches on Captiva and upper Sanibel completely clear about the world of nature. of shells. Each member who reads ten "People have been driving by here all day," said Mary Cunningham books or more during the sum- Sunday, "looking for shells, but there aren't any good ones. There mer will be presented a cer- TA Pelican aren't even any bad ones. Not even dead ones. Just lots and lots of sea tificate by Smoky, himself. At life—sea cucumbers and hares and so forth." the first meeting, 24 books were Ede Mugridge on Sanibel reported absolutely no luck at all, Ad- checked out. fat miral Ed Konrad said his beach was also swept completely bare, but Priscilla Murphy reported good shelling between the steam boat and Announces that the Tulipaway (about half way in between, she said) and at the Lighthouse, New York Ti nes is on front porch where she said there were lots of miniatures. "I've seen lots of Florida Jewel boxes, live lady's ears by the for everyone to read dozens, live conches, plover's eggs, pectins, but a very few of those, and one woman found a live double angle wing, undamaged, by the FINE STATIONERY In Gift Boxes OPEN DAILY Lighthouse," Priscilla said. Macintosh BookShop Sanibel Island, Florida "And from the way the beach in front of me smells, I know there's something good out there." Sanibel Island, Florida GR 2-3041 for a nap under a coeoanut palm, ISLANDER 6-16-66 MATT GIVES A PARTY jugs of waterl For a long time saw ahead a group ot six men deliciously over his beach grill. by ethel snyder Charlotta and lhad been wanting approaching. Obviously Cubans, But we had a cold drink of to walk from Casa Ybel along They looked like the pirates on orange juice and a ten minute The first summer I spent on the beach to the light house. the colored cover of my Robert stretch out In a blanket all the Sanibel Island I lived at Island And here was our chance. Louis Stevensons stories I No time both of us telling them a- Inn. It was more like a story The station wagon let us out hats, heads tied up in bright bout our smugglers! They were book existence, a South Sea Is- at Casa Ybel and Dolly Varden kerchiefs, beards, well, we were properly impressed. land romance! That was before was on her leash. No running scared stiff! But we kept right Our party was delicious. Af- the days of electricity and kero- around I This was a long walk on walking towards them. Each t€t we had eaten and rested sene lamps fitted into the pic- and not a single cottage or man had a gunny sack slung Matt told us he had something ture. Granny Matthews and I stopping place on the entire way over his shoulder bulging with to show us. We had to take off drove In my match-box-size but we were rarin' to gof The knobby somethings. We thought our shoes as we had to wade Chevrolet all over the island and beauty of that walk is beyond it might be rum! They simply in the shallow water. After we had adventures. The cocker description. Wide stretches of beamed on us. They smiled were out knee deep Matt pointed Dolly Varden sat on her self smooth white sand beach, long broadly showing very white down in the water a bit farther back of us. Maria the cook knew turquoise blue rollers breaking teeth. They bowed. They said along and called "LOOK." We where we could pick up this over into foaming white as they "Buenos dias" and we said looked. And to our astonishment and that, and Charlotta had us neared shallow water. Thick "Hi!" and "Good morning" and saw where Matt had thrown the drive to the store. Bailey's, groves of tall cocoanut palms hurried on. We passed and went carcasses of several of the fish of course! along the shore all the way. It as fast as we could. he had cleaned and each was was heavenly! White herons Matt and Elinor Clapp were "Pirates" said Charlotta covered with live tulipas shells lively teenagers so there was stalking along the shore and feeding off the meat still left flying overhead. when we were out of ear shot. never a dull moment. One morn- "Smugglers" I said. Char- on the fish after he had cleaned ing at breakfast Matt invited us At one place there was an lotta said "Look over there" them. What a sight that was. all to a beach fish fry that inlet and the growth seemed and pointed to a six-oared row Matt had given us all a never- very noon at the light house thicker. A tumble-down brown boat pulled upon the beach. to-be-forgotten day. beach. He was catching the fish unpainted cottage was high on Empty! And on the horizon we Charlotta and I were thankful after he got there, and also fry- stilts and barely visible. We saw the colored sails of a Cuban to drive back to the Inn in the ing them. With alacrity we all had heard our bootlegger and fishing smack. "Well, wasn't station wagon. So was the cocker accepted and arrangements smuggler had a Cuban wife and that something said Charlotta who slept all the way! were made on the spot. they lived there. Nobody ever and we ran on as fast as we P.S. We found out later they We drove in the Inn station saw him there but every tropi- could! Finally we made a turn really were smugglers. So did wagon. Maria the cook and Char- cal isle should have at least on the beach and we saw the the sheriff! lotta saw to the luncheon de- one smuggler! We thought we light house towerl And never tails. Everything from skillets saw someone peeking out a were we more thankful to have CAPTIVA RAIN FALL to coffee cupsf And Douglas broken window but we hurried arrived! Clapp thought of the comfortable on. The beach path seemed more things like pillows and blankets well defined and suddenly we Matt had caught his fish, Allen Weeks of C aptiva re- cleaned them, and fried them ported .13 of rain on Monday, June 6, .74 on Tuesday, 1.22 on Wednesday, 1.60 on Thurs- MRS. MARIAN DUMOND BECK day, and none the rest of the week through Sunday. Word was received here of the death last week of Mrs. Marian Dumond Beck, age 60, of 5970 Clark State Road, Ga- hanna, Ohio. She was a member of Christ Luthern Church, Past President of the Board of Man- agers, Columbus Home for the Aged. She is survived by her husband, Nathan S., (President of Clark-Grey Vault Co.) and a SanibelIsland daughter, Mrs. William (Sue) Rock, of Bowling Green, Ohio, three grandchildren, a brother, The Island Store Richard Dumond, a sister, Mrs. Lawrence (Betty) Schaaf. Ser- CAPTIVA vices were held Monday In Ga- hanna. 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Hutton is exhibit- ing 45 original color photo- Of The Week graphs at the Sea Horse Art the Gallery, mostly of local wild- life in close-up or with a back- RICH'S ground of Sanibel scenery, In- CRYSTALLIZED cluding many shots taken in the Red GINGER Ding Darling Sanctuary. SHADES OF THE ORIENT Mr. Hutton has practiced photography seriously for a Pelican number of years and won his THE STORE WITH THE ISLAND FLAVOR first prize at nine, when he Sanibel Island, Florida placed second in a Junior Class Contest sponsored by the Zoo- logical Gardens of Rome, Italy. I Say They Are Damn Fools He has taken up wild-life photography during the past two EDITORIAL years, following his retirement in 1964. This new field led him The worst thing about Alma, homes—can you imagine the from New York to Sanibel Is- as far as we're concerned, is publicity damage to the Islands land. Two months ago he reached that a number of people who if major newspapers and tele- an agreement with two New York perhaps have never been through vision stations report "200 photographic sales agencies to a hurricane before will think killed on Sanibel and Captiva distribute his color and black "Oh, hurricanes are nothing. Islands?" Or even 20? and white pictures. Why worry about leaving?" Or Outside of scavangers who His exhibition is well worth "But I want to see a hurricane, feed on other people's tragedy, seeing—the finest single col- why should I leave?" we would bet such a report would lection of color photography we We'll tell you why you should kill the tourist trade for at least have seen. He gets exquisite de- leave. If that 11 foot tide had one year, if not two. tail in his shots of water birds arrived as predicted, major As one man who left the is- and waders—a rare shot of portions of Sanibel and parts of lands remarked, when asked roseate spoonbills in flight, a WHO'S WHO Captlva would have been sixfeet what he thought of people who pelican caught in the act of gulp- or more under water. stayed, "I say they're damn ing a fish and an absolutely beau- Mr. and Mrs. JAMES MID- Civil Defense officials said fools." tiful study of a lone white heron DLETON and son, JIM, of Bet- that this time they would not We agree. at the edge of foamy breakers tendorf, Iowa, are spending a evacuate by helicopter as the of grey-blue surf. week or ten days on the Islands. Coast Guard did during Donna Dog lovers {poodle fanciers They own property here and will ta? the "*isk df their lives and in particular) would love the sometime call Sanibel "home." poodle portraits. thousands of dollars of tax- ANOTHER HURRICANE? payers money), but we assume Besides a number of paint- Mr. and Mrs. ROBERT things really got rough, a boat ings on exhibit, another first- FORD were hosts to the Sara- One of the questions upper- time exhibitor at the gallery is ivacuation might be attempted, most in Islanders's thoughts sota Girl Scout troop Tuesday at a risk of their lives as well J. Wilbur Snyder, who has some the 14th. A number of activities right now is—will there be an- of his pairicings on display. as yours, other hurricane this year? An- are planned to make their sev- A number of people on Cap- We would like to commend eral day stay Interesting. swers range from "It looks bad" the gallery for putting on such tiva gathered at a home which to an anguished "Oh, I hope has not only withstood a number a fine exhibit for what will be ELSIE MALONE has re- not!" essentially a "native" audience. of rough hurricanes without Paul Stahlin of South Seas turned from her visit to Mary- damage, but is 17 and a half Plantation said, "Undoubtedly land and has gone to Marathon feet above sea-level. This is there will be another hurricane where she will spend the re- actually 6 and a half feet higher —-I don't know what year. But mainder of this month. than Fort Myers—and if the I'll tell you this—I'm in close people involved do not include touch with the Seminole Indians. PAT KONRAD was home any heart patients, or others It's a sure sign when the Sem- from college but left Monday for who might need fast medical inole Indians's toenails grow Wyoming to spend the summer help, this is fine. long, we'll have a hurricane. on his archaeology project. He But too many people we And when those long toenails NOTHING HIGHER will remain in the west until talked to just want to stay to THAN THE ALPS almost time to return to school turn pink, that's the year we'll in Boston in September. see what it looks like—and they have one for sure." stay in houses in many cases Would you believe he's put- Nancy McCann did indeed which are not very sturdy. Very ting us on? have a glowing account of her Well, ELSIE MALONE'stree frankly, the wind will blow just recent trip to Europe.* She ate snail has been renamed ALMA as hard in Fort Myers as it will buns at Banbury Cross; took in In honor of the recent bluster- on the Islands—the rain will the show at the Palladium; saw ing gal who must be responsible fall just as hard, the power lines Sammy Davis, Jr., at London for Alma the snail's return will snap just as quickly, so you COOL PLAY Airport; enjoyed the beauty of home. can get the "fun" of hurricane Italy and the Alps; boated on The snail had been at home party-ing by candlelight and The Pirate Playhouse on the Rhine and thought she saw In the tree behind Elsie's shell flash-light, and the trees will Sanibel Island has just been air- one of the legendary Rhine shop for many moons, then she fall just as hard. conditioned for opening of a cool maidens; and everywhere she (he or it) disappeared. The day But most killing hurricane comedy, "The Pleasure of His wen t—e verywher e—s h e after the hurricane passed by damage Is done by water, not Company," by Sam Taylor and found a wealth of flowers In Snail Alma appeared on the patio wind. The amount of water in Cornelia Otis Skinner. bloom. Europe seemed to be a porch. Priscilla Murphy picked Fort Myers will not kill you. Curtain on this play goes up veritable garden of color. These her (him-it) up and discovered The amount of water on the Is- at 8:15 p.m. on July I, 2 and 3, were the highlights for Nancy. that the snail had gorged to the lands will. Friday, Saturday and Sunday, When we asked her which point the head and body would Outside of all other con- As Floridians and visitors might be the highest of the high- not go back into the shell for siderations—taking into ac- from all over the country plan lights, she thought for a mo- an hour or more. Meanwhile the count, for instance, the hundreds their summer vacations in this ment and then said with a smile, white snail, on being indoors, of people killed on the New Or- area more and more, they will "I guess it was the Alps—all began to change coloring and Is leans waterfront last year by be able to be delighted by the covered with snow." And we now striped with yellow and has Hurricane Betsy, and the hun- good theater at the Pirate Play- guess it would be hard to dis- a pink tip. Alma eats pablem, in dreds killed in other low-lying house, converted two seasons pute this judgment. case you want to feed a tree areas in other hurricanes by ago from the old school house Nancy found touring seven snail! people who refused to leave their to an unique arena theater. countries in three weeks a tre- mendous undertaking but utterly Mrs. ETHEL PRESTON has rewarding. It was a special de- seen hurricane weather before- light to revisit the places she —and elected to spend Alma's had seen when she made a sim- visit at Holiday Inn in Fort FIN 1966 ilar marathon trip three years Myers. (Florida & Bahamas Edition) ago. This trip—the one she just made—was sparked by a Mr. and Mrs. AL MUENCH THE COMPLETE ANGLERS GUIDE notice in the paper that a group are in Rochester, N.Y., where 144 FullColor Fish — 2000 Spots to Fish from Lehigh Acres were plann- they went to attend the wedding Tide Tables-Knots, Baits & Rigs-Tackle Information ing to go and were inviting last weekend of their son 350 Pages Only $1.50. others to join them. And then STEVEN. During their absence FLORIDA FISHING CHARTS for a while there was a hitch; ROY BAZIER is playing host 6 Detailed Charts from Marco Island to Bradenton there were planes leaving fo,r to their pooch -Chauncy. Only 97(5. Europe from Tampa andMiami, but none from Fort Myers. 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