Coral Gables Riviera

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.

A Healthy Boom

Work was started this week on dredging a 6,000 foot channel from the entrance to the Coral Gables canal system out into the eight-foot depth of Biscayne Bay. When the work is completed, an operation that is estimated to take about 40 days, large yachts can sail up the waterways into the Riviera section of Coral Gables. Later on, the bridges at Cocoplum Plaza, Hardee Road and Granada Boulevard will be raised to give the boats clear passage at these points. The importance of this dredging to Coral Gables cannot be underestimated. For a long time, owners of large boats have expressed a desire to build homes in this city, but have hesitated because we did not have the facilities to moor their craft. Soon it will be possible for them to build homes on the canals and dock their yachts right at their doors. One large home, that provides a boat house connecting with the main building, is already under construction. Several owners of Miami Beach homes, long desirous of finding a less carnival atmosphere in which to enjoy life, are planning to sell their homes and build new ones along the Coral Gables waterways. Through this dredging operation, the way has been opened for a healthy boom in large residences.

You Can Defend America

Through the courtesy of F. T. Sargent, 737 Navarre Avenue and L. C. Middlebrook, 1043 Avenue Obispo, a booklet entitled "You Can Defend America" was placed in our hands this week. It's a small book-only 32 pages including the cover. But it's powerful. It emphasizes the importance of participation in national defense through moral rearmament. It points out that the building of a "ring of steel around America" is not enough. It advocates that behind this physical defense there must be three more defense lines: "Sound homes. "Teamwork in Industry. "A United Nation." Pointing out that America needs "guts as well as guns" and that "national character is the core of national defense," the pamphlet declares: "Congress can't vote it. Dollars won't buy it. It's your job to build it." The plea is a simple one. The booklet can be read in a few minutes. But its message should do a lot to eliminate the "human nature bottleneck" in our national defense program. It can be obtained at most any news stand and is available at the Coral Gables public library. We urge every serious thinking American to read it.

Adamson Household Effects to Be Sold

Mrs. M. E. Adamson who has been a Coral Gables resident for past several years has sold her home on Fluvia at the corner of Salzedo and with the sale tomorrow of her house hold effects will leave for Asheville, N. C. to make her permanent home. However, Mrs. Adamson plans to spend at least three months during the season in the Gables each year. Included among her effects, which will be offered at auction, will be a genuine Winthroy desk, the date, 1796 being scratched on one of the drawers. The desk was bought by John Folwell an Adamson ancestor. An antique mahogany poster bed, bureau and drop leaf table are interesting pieces. A rococo china cabinet with six secret drawers brought from Germany by Dr. and Mrs. Adamson in 1900 is another unusual and beautiful piece to be sold.

Another year was added to the career of Harry E. Gaylord, youthful mayor of Eustis, on April 29, when he celebgrated his 27th birthday. Elected at 24, Mayor Gaylord still retains the distinction of being the youngest mayor of any city in Florida.

The Sebring championship high school band has been officially named by Florida Lions Clubs to accompany them to New Orleans for the Lions International Convention.

EVERYTHING for the LAWN or GARDEN

There's no better hobby than growing things... your garden or lawn, for instance. And you'll derive a lot more fun out of it if you have the proper garden tools to work with. Visit our Hardware Department here in the Gables and see the complete line of quality garden tools on display. RE-NU-ART LUMBER YARDS, INC. "Everything to Build Anything"

Florida Exhibit To Open

DeLand, May 15 (Special)—Florida's exhibit will open May 24 on the Heinz Pier at Atlantic City while the exhibit on the Steel Pier will open on the 30th, according to Earl W. Brown, manager of Florida National Exhibits. Artists at the dioramic studios at DeLand are rushing last minute preparations of the giant spectoramas and dioramas for shipment north. Electricians are designing new lighting arrangements to provide "Florida sunshine" for the exhibit halls. Mechanical engineers are devising new contrivances to amaze the public. Model builders, color experts, mechanical engineers, ornithologists and sculptors are putting final touches on their work. Already the first carload of tropical plantings is on its way to decorate the gardens on the two piers. The garden crew has scoured Florida for trees and shrubs hardy enough to withstand salt spray, cold ocean winds and sand and have chosen sea grapes, coconut palms, Australian pines and 25 other plantings indigenous to the Florida coast. These experts say it will be even more difficult to make these marine gardens flourish than the exotic gardens at the Chicago, Cleveland and New York World's Fairs at which visitors marveled. "We intend to present Florida so attractively that a good proportion of the 32,000,000 people who circulate annually on Atlantic City's Boardwalk will want to come south next winter," said Brown.

Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney, as they will appear Saturday, Sunday and Monday on the Gables Theatre screen in "Men of Boys Town," long-awaited sequel to the memorable "Boys Town." The new picture presents further heart-stirring adventures in the City of Little Men, with Tracy again enacting his Academy Award-winning role of Father Flanagan, and Rooney playing the Mayor of Boys Town.

Student Soloists Will Give Three Musical Events

The University of Miami School of Music will present three musical events before the end of the school semester. All of them are featuring student soloists, and the public is cordially invited. Tonight at 8:30 in the lounge of the administration building, there will be a program of Choral music, under the direction of Robert Reinert. Assisting with solos will be Florence Geschwind, 'Cellist, and Dan Gordon, Pianist. Monday night, May 19th at 8:30, the following music students will give a recital in the lounge of the Administration Building; Marion Freed, Frances Mallory Power, Walter Wertheimer, Herbert Levinson, Carol De Monserrat, and Jean Godard. The Annual Commencement Concert, with Tom B. Steunenberg conducting, will be given at Miami Senior High School Auditorium on Sunday afternoon, May 25th at 5:00 p. m. Soloists for this event are Thomas Powell Smith and Sarah Bergh, pianists; Dorothy Cross and Carmel DeSantis, violinists; and Edwin Ginsburg, Dean For-thman, Virginia Marshall, Roberta Rymer, and Fred Riebel, vocalists. Anyone wishing invitation tickets for this concert may have them upon calling at the University of Miami School of Music, 3409 LeJeune Road.

Work on the complete repainting of the Huskamp Motor Co. building at Salzedo Street and Alhambra Circle, has been completed.

Young People's Day Will Be Observed

Young People's Day will be observed in the First Presbyterian Church of Coral Gables at the Morning Worship Service at eleven o'clock Sunday. The theme of the service is "Study", with particular emphasis upon the forthcoming Presbyterian Summer Youth Conference, at which the local Church will be represented by selected delegates. Miss Margaret Ann Thompson, President of the Christian Endeavor Society, will be in charge of the service. Other participants will include Miss Betty Ellis, Miss Barbara-jane Mayhew, Miss Marjorie Clark and William Pierce. Miss Jean Butcher, representing the Young People's Society will be heard in the vocal solo. "Thanks be to God." Members of the Society will act as ushers and will receive a special offering, contributed by the congregation to the Society's Conference fund.

May Stage Fiesta Here

Plans for staging a gigantic fiesta in down-town Coral Gables during the annual convention of the International Conference of the Pan American League, which is expected to be held at the Miami Biltmore hotel the last week in December, were discussed by directors of the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday night, when Judge J. B. Cozatt, member of the League outlined its possibilities to attract thousands of visitors to the city, both from the United States and Latin American countries. Judge Cozatt declared that the Fiesta would not be in the form of a float parade but each Latin American country would send numerous representatives who would be dressed in their native costumes at their own expense and the two days celebration would resemble the big events of similar nature held annually in these nations. The directors authorized a letter of invitation to Mrs. Stearns that the Conference be held at the Miami Biltmore, and suggesting the Fiesta be staged in the down-town section.

To Graduate At F. S. C. W.

Tallahassee, May 15-Four young women of Coral Gables are among the 277 students who are candidates for graduation May 26 at Florida State College for Women. This marks the highest number in the history of the college, surpassing the two hundred fifty-four graduated last May. The candidates include one for the Master's degree-Mrs. Estelle Jones McKay, of Tallahassee, in line for the degree of Master of Science; 143 in the College of Arts and Sciences; 81 in the School of Education; 42 in the School of Home Economics; and 10 in the School of Music. Speaker for the Commencement exercises this year will be Mrs. Ruth Bryan Rohde, former congresswoman from Florida, former Gableite and former minister to Denmark, who received an honorary degree here in 1935. Candidates must fill requirements set forth in the college catalogue before obtaining their degrees. The candidates from Coral Gables and the degrees which they will receive are: Miss Patricia Jean Brandt, Bachelor of Arts in College of Arts and Science; Miss Mary Helen Connell, Bachelor of Science in Commerce; Miss Mary Jane Lambeth, Bachelor of Arts in Education; and Miss Margaret Ann McGarry, Bachelor of Arts in Education.

TROOP 38

Regular meetings are now being held on Thursday night, 7:00 p. m. at The Coral Gables Methodist Church. Test passing and Scout training Saturday morning across from the church. Any boy over the age of 12 will be welcome at any of our meetings. Gordon Craig, Jr. Troop Scribe

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Statement From S. DUFFIELD HOPKINS, Jr.

A considerable number of citizens have urged me to accept nomination for the offices of Commissioner and Mayor of Coral Gables, and I have accepted such nomination. To those twenty-five persons who nominated me I extend my appreciation of their confidence. The reasons they advanced for my nomination may be summed up as follows: 1.-I can devote a major part of my time to the study and administration of the affairs of the City of Coral Gables. For this purpose I would maintain an office in City Hall, where I would spend a substantial part of each day. 2-I have no private business interests in Coral Gables and own no real estate other than my own home. I do not represent in any capacity whatever any other party owning real estate or having business interests here. I would have only one interest to serve, the interest of the City of Coral Gables. My decisions would be free and unbiased, without favoritism or antagonism. 3-I have no political obligations whatsoever, and no association or organiation has furthered my nomination or given me its backing. I would enter office absolutely free of obligations and entanglements. 4-My nominators believe that my previous business experience-as president and manager of two corporations, as a director in others, and as a trustee and adviser of several large trusts-would qualify me to give a thoroughly business-like administration. My administration would be distinctly a business administration, not a political one. 5-I am particularly desirous of maintaining Coral Gables as the delightfully homey city it now is, free of public bars, free of cocktail lounges, free of night clubs, and free of pool rooms or hangouts; in short, a wholesome, family community. I have no desire for personal gain of any nature from this office. The salary, fixed by law, is very low, and utterly out of proportion to the amount of time required to properly administer the City's affairs. But Coral Gables is my home and I have many friends here. If, as my nominators believe, I can serve the City to advantage, I am willing to do so. On that basis I accept the nomination. S. Duffield Hopkins, Jr. May 14, 1941 (Paid Political Announcement)