Coral Gables Historical Archive
Coral Gables Riviera
Friday, March 14, 1941, page 5 (of 12)
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CORAL GABLES RIVIERA
AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Published every Friday by the Miami Riviera Publishing Company, 306 Coral Way, Coral Gables, Florida Established January, 1926 Combined with the Dade County and Coconut Grove Times, 1929. JOHN D. MONTGOMERY President JAMES B. MOORE Editor and General Manager Mailing Address, P. O. Box 704 Telephone 4-1634 SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year by Carrier, Coral Gables and immediate vicinity $2.00 Six months $1.25 One Year by Mail $3.00 Entered as second class matter May 21, 1926, at the Postoffice at Miami, Florida, under Act of March 3, 1879.
Wanted: Action
Many Gableites are becoming impatient with the delay in reaching a decision of some kind on the proposal to plant palms in our shopping section, thus beautifying Coral Way and Ponce de Leon Boulevard. About two months ago, Frank Holley, speaking for the Chamber of Commerce, made his first plea for public donations of trees, saying that the city had offered to plant the palms if they were furnished by the citizens and businessmen. Feeling, both pro and con, has run high ever since. Many of us feel that the planting program would add immensely to the beauty of Coral Gables; others see the idea as a potential traffic hazard and public nuisance. The city planning board held a joint meeting with the Chamber of Commerce meeting February 12 to discuss the project with members of the chamber; but at that time, stating that more study of the proposal was needed, they did not attend the conference. No word has been said about the matter since then. Frank Holley and his associates have received many donations of trees to the meantime, and are at a loss to know what to say to the donors. Arguments continue to surround the subject. It's about time that the planning board met and told the people just what their search into costs, advantages and disadvantages of the project has produced. This delay is doing nobody any good—neither Holley, opponents to the plan, nor the board itself. It would be a fine thing, we matter, what the findings, if the planning board met immediately to inform the citizens of its research and allow an open discussion of the project by both sides. The planting program has hung fire too long.
Sponsor Needed
On Tuesday, January 7, an ordinance was read at the meeting of the city commission, which would require all domestic servants working in Gables homes to be examined by the health department and to receive a card certifying good health before going to work. That ordinance, which passed its first reading, must be read again before it becomes a law. Two months must have gone by, and no further action has been taken on what is an important piece of legislation. One thing is needed to bring the matter to a head and to a second reading. Although a poll conducted by The Riviera showed that a great majority of Coral Gables housewives favor the ordinance and would like to see the law passed, nobody has come forward to sponsor it; and the ordinance needs a sponsor to push it ahead to an early hearing. The city fathers are kept busy with many pressing matters which require each commission meeting. Unless somebody goes to the fore and demands action on the domestic health ordinance, it may not come to the attention of the commission for months. In order to end this delay, won't one or more of the Gables women's clubs or organizations step forward as sponsor of the measure, and bring it to an early hearing? Whether or not the project becomes a law, both its backers and its opponents have a right to a public hearing. Only by active interest by a group of citizens can the matter be brought to a head.
Accident Boom
In January, 1941, Coral Gables police were worried by an accident toll heavier than that of any month since Coral Gables was founded, with 48 motor accidents recorded in the 31-day span. A program of increased official severity began. Summonses replaced warnings, and arrests increased. In the 28 days of February, 1941, the accident score jumped again. In the shorter month, the accident total was 49. The first four days of March brought eight more accidents to the Coral Gables record. One was fatal, involving the death of four persons. Another brought injury to six. If the same pace continues, there will be an accident toll here of 62 for the month of March, and another record will be shattered. Why all these increases in the grim totals of wrecked cars and hospital fodder? What is bringing these added wrecks to the police score sheet every month? The police are certainly powerless to prevent a driver fault such as the one which made a car miss a gentle curve in a street and crash headlong into a tree. They can't eliminate driver faults that send a car hurtling across a stop sign at 50 miles per hour. Only by the drivers themselves could these accidents have been prevented. The police campaign to improve drivers' sense of responsibility and make the public more careful on high speeds and stop streets has improved the situation somewhat in Coral Gables; but the trouble is that the offenders are rarely Gables people. Our situation here as a near neighbor of a larger city has proved a curse insofar as our traffic problems are concerned. Police records show that time after time the participants in our worst car crashes residents or visitors from Miami. These drivers from other cities are not under the influence of a Gables police campaign enough for them to derive any benefit from it. Their first contact with Gables police is when they appear in traffic court on charges of reckless driving, or are taken to the University Hospital to be treated for injuries that are the result of criminal carelessness on Coral Gables streets. Actually, we should have little of this accident problem. Our streets are wide and well-paved. Dangerous intersections have traffic lights or officers on duty. Stop streets are marked to show right-of-way beyond all doubt. Police cars cruise endlessly in an effort to apprehend anyone who is menacing other drivers by recklessness or drunkenness in his handling of his automobile. Perhaps it's a Miami attitude that's responsible for many of the injuries and damages here each month. Perhaps some Miamians believe that Coral Gables, being a smaller city, is comparatively an empty desert, where they can drive without caution or common sense. Don't misunderstand that statement. Gableites are not quite as white as the driven snow as far as their use of the public streets is concerned. They, too, fall deservedly afoul of the authorities for speeding and failing to heed stop signs. But if we had not the problem of a large and boisterous resort town as a next-door neighbor, we might see a very different figure posted on that blackboard at the police station each month. All that Gableites can do to guard against this menace is to exercise special care in driving during the winter months. The drivers who careen through our streets every night are bound to slip through the protective net of police frequently. Don't insist on your right-of-way with a driver who may not be in a condition to pilot a car. In the meantime, it's up to our police force to tighten up on irresponsible driving, and try to teach Miamians that recklessness and wild speeding will not be countenanced in Coral Gables.
LEGALS
NOTICE OF INTENTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES TO PROPOSE A LOCAL LAW TO THE LEGISLATURE. Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Florida that The City Commission of The City of Coral Gables will propose to the Legislature of the State of Florida, at its regular session convening in April, 1941, a contemplated law amending the Charter of The City of Coral Gables, Florida, (Chapter 13972, Special Laws of 1929, in the following particulars: 1. Amend by adding thereto another section to be called 10-A, reading as follows: "10-A. In the interest of public health, safety, order, convenience, comfort, prosperity, or general welfare, to examine into and investigate any matter affecting The City of Coral Gables, or the City and its citizens and property owners, and in connection with investigations to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and interrogate the witnesses, and/or compel their answers for the general purpose of getting facts to assist the Commission in taking any official action authorized by or under this Charter, and by ordinance to provide a penalty for failure of a witness to appear and testify." 2. Amend Sections 8 and 15, relating to the election and term of office of commissioners, so as to fix the date of the biennial election as the second Tuesday in April, 1943, and the same date each odd year thereafter, and so as to provide that in case of vacancy in a commissionership, that the same until the next general election in which event if the term thereof has not expired, it shall be filled by the election of a commissioner for the remainder of the uncompleted terms. 3. Amend Section 10 as follows: so as to reinstate the original sub-section (c) and eliminate the present section 10, provide for voting by mailed ballots, and so as to provide in sub-section (d) that no candidate for the office of commissioner, in qualifying for nomination shall request his name to be placed upon the ballot as a candidate for Mayor or rather no name to be printed on the ballot as such candidate for Mayor, and to eliminate or not require each hold-over commissioner who may wish to run as candidate for Mayor to file a written request with the City Clerk to place his name upon the ballot as such candidate. 4. Amend Section 56, authorizing the Commission to organize and regulate departments, so as to eliminate their authority by ordinance to make any change in the Charter or in the Civil Service provisions. 5. Amend Section 56 by requiring the Commission to publish and financial affairs of the City. 6. Amend Sections 67 and 67-a by adding another classification of work which may be done by special improvements, as follows: "Class J: Canal and waterway improvements embrace the digging, clearing, deep, and improving of waterways, and waterways and the widening and extension of existing canals and waterways, and the maintenance and improvement of canals and waterways, and may embrace the acquisition by purchase, condemnation or otherwise of land, rights and easements therefore;" and Amend Section 68-A and sub-paragraphs (1) and (i) of Section 67 so as to make the same provisions with reference to canal and waterway improvements, as to assessments for local improvements in connection with waterfront improvements. 7. Amend Sections 92 and 101 of said Act so as to remove the provision that no contemplated act shall be placed upon property until approved by the qualified electors at an election. C. H. SHAW, City Clerk The City of Coral Gables
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED Chapter 17402—Acts of 1935 File A 4633
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The Magnolia Company, holder of State and County Tax Certificate No. 1920, issued the 5th day of July, A. D. 1937, has filed same in my office, and has made application for a tax deed to be issued thereon. Said Certificate embraces the following described property in the County of Dade, State of Florida, to wit: Lots 3 to 6, Blk 6, Orange Ridge Sub., Plat Book 4, Page 129, Dade County Records. State of Florida. The assessment of said property under the said certificate issued was in the name of: Unknown. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed according to law, the property described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the Court House door on the first Monday in the month of April, 1941, which is the 7th day of April, 1941. Dated this 18th day of February, 1941. (Circuit Court Seal) E. B. LEATHERMAN, Clerk of Circuit Court, Dade County, Florida. By: F. L. McCLINTOCK, D. C. Feb. 21, 28; March 7, 14—4t
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED Chapter 17402—Acts of 1935 A 4627
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Chelsea Investment Company, holder of State and County Tax Certificate No. 1918, issued the 1st day of August, A.D., 1927, has filed same in my office, and has made application for a tax deed to be issued thereon. Said Certificate embraces the following described property in the County of Dade, State of Florida, to wit: Lots 1-2, Block 6, Orange Ridge Subdn., Plat Book 4, Page 129, in the County of Dade, State of Florida. The assessment of said property under the said certificate issued was in the name of: Unknown. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed according to law, the property described therein will be sold to the highest bidder at the Court House door on the first Monday in the month of April, 1941, which is the 7th day of April, 1941. Dated this 18th day of February, 1941. (Circuit Court Seal) E. B. LEATHERMAN, Clerk of Circuit Court, Dade County, Florida. By F. L. McCLINTOCK, D. C. Feb. 21, 28; March 7, 14—4t
BUNCO PARTY WEDNESDAY
• Drill team of Hibiscus Grove Woodmen circle will sponsor a bunco party at 2800 Bird Road, Wednesday at 8 p. m. Proceeds will go toward expense of sending the team to the Woodmen National Institute in Omaha, Neb., in June. Mrs. Eleanor Hanson and Mrs. Lucille Westmoreland were hostesses at the Tuesday party this week when Mrs. Westmoreland, Alma Flowers and Mrs. Barbara Carter were awarded prizes.
REPAIRS
HOME REPAIRS — Loans arranged. Plastering, painting, roofing, carpenter work, floor sanding. JOE POHNL, 3640 S. W. 14th St. 15 years in Gables. Phone 4-1064.
GARDENING
GARDENING: LAWNS fully cared for, resetting, bitterstem grass and soil furnished. Ph. 4-7474. R. M. Poteet.
DRESSMAKING
ALTERATIONS and Dressmaking: See Mrs. Kerns at DANIELS. You'll be pleased with her work and with our prices. Opp. Gables Theatre.
FUNERAL DIRECTORS
MIAMI'S LARGEST and finest. Costs no more. Complete funerals for $75 and up, wooden casket; $200 and up, metallic casket; $500 and up, solid copper casket; $800 and up, solid bronze casket. Inspection invited, 2987 W. Flagler St. Dial 4-6414. Flagler Funeral Home.
AMBULANCE SERVICE
$3 PER CALL IN GREATER MIAMI. DIAL 4-6414, FLAGLER FUNERAL HOME.
CREMATORIUMS
$50—Cremation service—Flagler Crematorium, Florida's most modern. Dial 4-6414. Flagler Funeral Home.
FOR RENT
Centrally located: Ideal for business couples furnished bedroom apartments. Priced for yearly tenants. LeJeune at Aragon Ave. see manager or phone 7-2962—owner. 1tp
FOR SALE
By owner lots 1 and 27 Blk 44 C. C. section in rapidly growing section of Gables. Very reasonably priced for quick sale write Albert Horn Box 243 Hollywood or see your broker 2tp
WIRE HAIRED PUPPIES
WIRE HAIRED PUPPIES, Pedigreed, Registered, Show-winning stock. Reasonably priced. 2320 Segovia Circle. Ph. 4-6751.
Plymouth 1941 de Luxe 4-door
sedan $795. Brand new, just delivered and registered. Must be sold, can finance. Owner—4-2629 1tp
British India hand woven goat's
wool wall Hanging or shawl. Has original Mohammedan inscription in cashmere center, worked on by 3 generations, perfect condition. Will be glad to show to interested person. Phone 4-3132 or call at 2785 Grand Ave. Coconut Grove
Kuykendalls Return
• Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Kuykendall, and their daughter Miss Billie Marie, have returned from Hawthorne and Gainesville, where they enjoyed a short visit with relatives and friends.
YOUR HOME IS YOUR BEST
asset. Painting and preserving it not only adds to its beauty but makes more pleasant living—See Warth Paint Company for advice on your painting and waterproofing—Dealers in Fine Paints Varnishes and Decorative Water Proofing. If in need of Reliable Contractor call us, Warth Paint Co. 1911 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-0267.
Etzwiler Roofing & Painting Co.
FHA Loans for Roofing, Painting and Waterproofing Etzwiler Roofing & Painting Co. PHONE 4-2244 - 42 ALMERIA AVE. - CORAL GABLES, FLA.
MRS. CORAL GABLES HAS MORE TIME FOR PLAY!
Sports opportunities abound here, where year-round sunshine is an invitation to play out of doors. The green fairways of two golf courses, bridle paths, tennis courts, two famous pools...these are only a few of the reasons why we say, "Our Town Is Best." Even more important is the fact that Coral Gables housewives have leisure to play every day...secure in the knowledge that their electric household services are functioning safely and dependably in their absence. For in this all-electric city refrigeration and water heating are automatic, with out a thought on your part...even your dinner cooks automatically in an electric range, while you enjoy hours of freedom out of doors. Coral Gables leads as the "all-electric" city, with a higher percentage of electric homes than any other community served by Florida Power & Light Company. Homes in our town are clean, safe, convenient. ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP! HELPING BUILD FLORIDA SUNSHINE SERVICE COMPANY W. D. FULLER, Manager OUR TOWN LEADS IN BETTER LIVING