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Patti Griffiths Oklawaha...
...huge environmental blunder (TIME, April 13). By connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the 9-ft.-deep waterway would have saved shippers a 600-mile journey around Florida. But, as Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality noted, its construction would have inundated the Oklawaha River basin, a unique and beautiful area abounding in wildlife. Critics also charged that the canal would pollute nearby ground-water supplies and they insisted that the locks would be too small to permit profitable traffic loads...
Florida's conservationists disagree. In carving out the canal's first 27 miles, the builders created two dams and a reservoir that have already flooded 13,000 acres of forests in the Oklawaha River basin. Unfortunately, the basin forms a unique "hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators, panthers and wild turkeys. The hammock harbors this life because the river bed is periodically exposed to air, thus providing alternating wet and dry seasons that are essential to the survival of the wild, beautiful river-swamp system. With permanent flooding, ecologists warn, the system's rare creatures will...
...Pretty Boy Floyd was cornered on an Ohio farm and riddled with FBI bullets. Baby Face Nelson was trapped and shot down in a Chicago suburb. In January 1935 Ma and Fred Barker were killed after a two-hour FBI siege in the little Florida town of Oklawaha...
Herman was the first of the Barkers to go. He got his in 1927, the day after a stickup in Newton, Kans. His body was found in the weeds on the outskirts of Wichita. Ma and Freddie were next, shot down after a blazing FBI siege at Oklawaha, Fla. in 1935, a year after they, Doc and Alvin ("Old Creepy") Karpis pulled off the $200,000 kidnaping of St. Paul Banker Edward Bremer...