Naples Daily News (Newspaper) - May 5, 1975, Naples, Florida Optimism Follows Dean's Golden Gate Tour By FRANK PETTENGILL Writer Chairman Norman Bacon of the Golden Gate Estates Study Committee is optimistic today that overdrainage of the vast central county area can be corrected after the weekend visit of Florida's top water management legal expert Dean Frank Maloney The dean of the university of Florida's Holland Law Center was briefed Friday by local experts and the study tee and toured the stricken area Saturday He talked Sunday with County ly David re- turning to Gainesville where he will write a report on the legal aspects of the problem was by the Collier County Commission to find a solution to the canal system that is carrying off millions of gallons Returns to Gainesville to Write Report of water per day from the tral county aquifer causing ecological changes in the area Three members from each of the county's established advisory boards Coastal Area Planning Commission Advisory Council and Water Advisory Board have been assigned the task to seek ways to correct he overdrainage problems Maloney was called into ad- vise on legal matters that might bar a complete turing of the canal system to slop the water runoff Bacon said this morning that Maloney's weekend lour of the estates area turned up no legal problems that would bar cor- rective action but cautioned that the solution may take years We may not be able to do quite as much as we hoped to but he Maloney is optimistic we can do a substantial amount of Bacon said We will have to take the next step THAT STEP lie said is to select a consultant to further define the problem and ble solution The county commission ready has received a tant report from its water management consulting firm of Black Crow and Eidsness that suggested a project to erect dams in the existing canals and change or add several canals to control drainage in an area greater than that being studied by Bacon's committee The believes the solution to the problem is to restructure the entire canal system by returning to the tive water courses and land plan as if the canals and roads that have been constructed by GAG Properties the developers of the area did not exist A new canal system based on more advanced planning would then be planned to retain sufficient summer rains within the estates area to prevent recurring spring droughts This restructuring in many instances would involve wholesale changes in canals Continued on Page Bowling Tennis Top Local Sports Page 1C Serving Naples Marco Everglades Immokalee Golden Gate Bonita Springs Regional News Can Be Found Every Day In Section B Year No 243 Four Sections 28 Pages NAPLES FLORIDA MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 5 1975 UPI Wire Service Daily Sunday Ky Blames Saigon Fall On Thieu AGANA Guam Former South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky absolved the United States today of all blame for the fall of the Saigon government and placed it all on ex-President Nguyen Van Thieu He said he would lake physical action if he ever met Thieu on the street The American people have done a lot for Ky said They have sacrificed men and money and I don't think we can ask for anything more Asked who was to blame for the collapse of the South government Ky replied Only Mr Thieu is to blame Only Mr Thieu is at fault Ky the former flamboyant air force commander appeared at a hastily called afternoon news conference under a tent in He said he was among those who asked for a change in Saigon's military and civilian administration after Thieu rendered the Central Highlands during tensive last March Ky said that at that point he something could still be done to turn the tide He told of dropping big which he said stopped the for three days Asked what he would do if he met Thieu on the street Ky hesitated then replied 1 would react in the old Prompted for a more direct answer he said I'm afraid 1 would take physical action He Thieu sold out Vietnam and he sold out the people Asked about his plans for the future Ky said he had nothing definite in mind and was not even sure if he would seek asylum in the United States I will look for a job for 1 am a very poor he said In reply to a question about what kind of a job he would seek Ky replied I don't know Maybe an aircraft driver a taxi driver or even a farmer The conference was held to 15 minutes at his own request because he said have to It was later explained that Ky was being transferred to Andersen Air Force Base to await a flight to the U.S mainland 90 May Be Dead Cambodian Brass Wives Are Killed SUPER BACK PACK Spike Sousa They were photographed Adam Sousa enjoys his daily outing with a recently pedaling on the East Trail minimum of exertion That's up to his dad stall photo by Viet Cong Frees Van Minn By United Preis The new Viet Cong rulers of South Vietnam have told former President Duong Van Minh and other high-ranking officials of the deposed Saigon government they are free to return to their families Radio Saigon in a broadcast monitored in Bangkok said Minh and 18 other top officials of the government that fell last week were given a send-off during talks with the military management now running Saigon The comrade representative of the Dinh military management committee spoke of the great victory of our people's cause of national liberation and announced the decision of the revolutionary government to allow the in the puppet machine to freely return to their the broadcast said He ex- pressed the hope that they would contribute to the struction of the country ing to their capabilities Waves of applause rose up The broadcast which took a conciliatory tone did not say where or how the officials were detained The radio said the other freed officials included President Nguyen Van Huyen and Vu Van Mau The Viet radio also ordered former members of the South Vietnamese general staff to turn themselves in to the Communists or face death Radio Saigon said a large number of officers and enlisted men of the general ters of the Saigon puppet army have already registered with the new rulers and ordered the rest to do so by this afternoon The broadcast said those who fail to check in with the new regime and turn in their weapons will be severely punished -a Viet Cong euphemism for death The radio also announced the publication of a new newspaper Liberation first in the capital since publications were suspended after the surrender The broadcast ordered boys in Saigon to pick up copies of the new newspaper It said the paper would be on the streets within hours DUONG VAN MINH last leader For Sake SAN FRANCISCO UPI Edgar B Speer chairman of United Stales Steel Corp said today he does not expect an increase In steel prices during the first half of this year Speer addressing the annual stockholders meeting defended steel price increases last December as and noted the company had said then it would not raise steel prices during the first six months of 1975 unless we encountered major and unforeseen problems I felt hen and I believe he said that our assessment of the forces In the economy was and our price actions were in the best Interests of nation As inflation continues to moderate and consumer confidence returns and with government program there Is good reason to believe that the sion will bottom out within the next few Energy Crisis Called Worse Than Inside Today Bridge 2D Classified SB SB 2D Deaths Horoscope SB Regional News 1B Sports Section C Stocks 3B Theaters Tides Solar Lunar 1C Women's News WASHINGTON UPI The energy situation is worse today in United States than it was before the Arab oil embargo says Federal Energy trator Frank Zarb And a new embargo would be worse than the first he said Sunday If it happens his agency has a plan lo make gasoline rationing operational within 90 days Everything is going the wrong way in America's energy equation Zarb said in an interview with U.S News and World Report Production in this country is declining and al the same time demand is rising Imports make up the difference The crisis when you look al the facts is worse than before the Arab oil embargo of We are now vulnerable to the extent that 38 per cent of our supply comes from abroad and this soon to 10 per cent Another embargo which we FRANK ZARB situation worse could have at any time would be more crippling that the first Zarb said in the event ol the major U.S goal would be to minimize unemployment The first step would be immediate implementation of a fuel allocation WASHINGTON UPI The United States has intercepted a radio transmission in- that 80 or 90 Cambodian officers and their wives have been killed by the Khmer Rouge since the fall of Phnom Penh White House spokesman Ron Nessen said today Nessen said President Ford was deeply bothered by the report particularly by the executions of the soldiers wives He said the radio report indicated that the assassinations directed primarily at tary officers of the Lon Nol government are continuing Secretary of State Henry A Kissinger was referring to the radio trans- mission when he said today in a televised interview NBC's Today that in Cambodia very tragic and inhuman and impoverished things are going on Kissinger cited these events as the reason why the United States has not immediately recognized the government of North Vietnam or the new Cambodian regime Nessen said Ford had informed some White House visitors last week of the bodian executions Time and Newsweek magazines reported the executions in their issues published this week Time in this week's editions said Ford told the Republican congressman 80 ranking officers of the defeated Cambodian army have been killed They killed the wives Times quotes Ford as saying They said the wives were just the same as their husbands This is a horrible thing to report to you but we are certain that sources are accurate Time quoted a congressman at the meeting as saying there was a gasp arund the table The magazine also said refugees have reported executions of 100 wealthy or religious figures and lhat four monks reportedly shot to death on the steps of a pagoda when they refused to leave First Rebate Checks To Be Mailed Thursday WASHINGTON UPI The first income tax rebate checks will be mailed this Thursday The administration hopes they will lure tight-fisted consumers into the marketplace once again and help fight the recession The checks will be between and for most taxpayers In the first week the Treasury Department's regional offices plan to send out billion in 13.7 million green checks The first recipients will be those who filed 1974 federal tax returns early Those who mailed returns in January should get rebates in the next week or so Those who filed around the April 15 deadline will not get their checks until June or early July A total of 66.8 million Americans are expected to receive billion in rebates When other benefits of the tax cut package signed in late March by President Ford are added lower holding on 1975 federal taxes and a bonus payment to Social Security recipients about billion will go back to consumers in the next few months Government economists are betting most of this money will be spent on new cars appliances clothing and other goods If this proves true it will increase demand in a sluggish economy which should boost production plan with fairer distribution than we had the first time Zarb said The most extreme step if necessary would be gasoline rationing We have a plan for hat which could be fully operational within 90 days Ha disputed Treasury tary William Simon's prediction oil prices will fall saying a sustained world economic recovery would mean heavier demand for oil and little incentive for producers to cut prices Simon predicted Sunday reign oil prices would drop by the end of decade as consuming nations discover fuel supplies In a related development freshman Rep David Emery has his own energy conservation program one he said is a middle ground between president Ford's un- popular oil import tariff and the import quoins favored by many House Democrats MOE HOWARD the last Stooge Three Stooges Comedy Star Dies LOS ANGELES UPI Moe Howard last member of the slapstick comedy group the Three Stooges died Sunday night of lung cancer He was 78 Howard the kicking slapping leader of the group was admitted to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital Sa turday evening Big Gets 5 Years An employe of Big Lounge who was found guilty March 13 laughter was sentenced today to a five-year prison term by Judge Richard M Stanley Karle Charlton 27 of Miami was convicted in March by a three-man jury The jury found that Charllon was guilty of pushing Arthur Messick 52 down a flight of stairs at lounge Oct 31 He died several days later in the Naples Community Hospital During the trial the defense argued that Charlton was ing to escort the victim from lounge when the incident occurred The defense con- tended that the victim fell down the stairs Defense attorneys George Vega and Martin said at thill lime thai they will appeal the conviction On the face of it the verdict is Martin said Either it was manslaughter or it wasn't Vega said Charlton is not guilty in any way shape or form The jury deliberated for about an hour before it re- turned with its verdict after hearing the testimony of 23 witnesses Tracy Bolesky assistant stale attorney who prosecuted the case said he was satisfied with the verdict He said the jury's verdict was one of the lesser included charges con- in original charge of The maximum penalty for attempted manslaughter Is five years in jail and a fine of
