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"If only I had a typewriter." How many times have you heard somebody make that statement? Hundreds, we'll bet--for a typewriter is one of those things that everybody wants, yet hesitates to spend the money. Consequently, for the most of us, the desire for a typewriter resolves itself into wishful thinking and letters to Santa Claus. Because a typewriter is a rather expensive instrument, it's rather difficult to buy. If only we had one though. My, if it could be done, we'd venture to say that practically every family in Coral Gables would have one. The youngsters in school, by using the machine, can better their grades. Dad can write that business letter he meant to the office and send it off post haste. Even mother can find a hundred and one uses for it. Now the expense item can be banished concerning that typewriter! Now it is possible for every family in Coral Gables to have the best machine for not one penny's cost. Here's the idea: Like every publication, The Riviera is always desirous of gaining new subscribers. It feels that through its readers, it can best gain other readers. Our regular subscribers know the paper, read it and enjoy it--therefore they are best qualified to bring others into the "Riviera Circle of Readers." Therefore we are offering a ROYAL VORTABLY PORTABLE TYPEWRITER retailing at $44.50 to any person in Coral Gables who gets 25 new subscribers for The Riviera. That all there is to it. You can probably think of that many friends who will be glad to subscribe to the paper and help you get your typewriter. Renewals will help too, counting as half a subscription. If you sell over 25 subscriptions, we pay you the regular salesman's commission on any over that number, so you have an opportunity to get some extra spending money. YOU CAN'T LOSE. Remember THIS IS NOT A CONTEST! If one hundred persons qualify by selling 25 subscriptions each, we'll give away 100 typewriters. The more the merrier. Boys and girls in school should be doubly glad of this opportunity. There's nothing like typewritten themes and homework to step up those grades. Come in today, and get your subscription blanks. A little effort and you'll have that typewriter before the week's over. It's important to remember that you must register with the Riviera before starting out to get your subscriptions. We provide you with receipt pads that make you our authorized agents. Don't waste another minute. Hurry right over.

CORAL GABLES RIVIERA

AN INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER 16TH YEAR NO. 36 | CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941 | PRICE FIVE CENTS

Push Vote to End School Crisis

$57,150 for Building in Three Weeks

Building permits since September 1 total $57,150, according to a report issued yesterday by L. W. Robinson, Jr., City Building Inspector. September construction brings the total for 1941 to $1,082,679, Robinson Stated. Permits for new residences were issued to: Samuel Church, $9,000, 845 Avenue Catalonia. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ashmore, $8,000, 3282 Riviera Drive. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lambert, $12,000, 2411 Granada Boulevard. Mr. and Mrs. Jean Jacques Pfister, $6,100, 614 Avenue Alava. Miss Louise Cunningham, $6,000, 1229 Avenue Castile. W. Clayton Getty, $10,000, 1800 Granada Boulevard.

PUBLIC OPINION POLL Do You Say 'Tomato' or Tomahto'? Gables Grocers Give The Answer

Into a world fraught with momentous questions, public opinion surveys and the like, came a refreshing note this week. Miss Dorothy Greig, a member of Ward Wheelock Company's research department, requested us to make a "very important" survey. For reasons that still are a mystery to us, Ward Weelock wants to know whether more people in Coral Gables say "tomato" or "tomahto." But an advertising agency has many problems, and this is no doubt one of the least. With the assignment clearly defined, your inquiring reporter set out to find the answer to the vital question. Obviously to stop folks on the street and ask them how they pronounce the word would be an endless task and also the most improper procedure. It seemed logical that the most qualified authority on the subject would be the men who sold tomatoes or "tomahtoes" to the citizens of Coral Gables. It was to them that our question was directed. "Tomato" Is Winner The result was more or less expected. In the opinion of the majority of Coral Gables' vegetable purveyors, from 75 to 95 per cent of their customers say the conventional "tomato." A very small percentage of the "tomahto" pronounciation, and it naturally, the grocers opine, the rest are just "putting on airs." Pat Mayes, at the Coral Gables Grocery Company, was the only grocer who reported that a majority of his customers pronounced it "tomahto." Pat inferred that this indicated a high-class clientele, and backed up his claim by saying that when he had worked in a Tip Top store in Miami, this "tomato" had the upper hand. Malcolm Turner McGoogan and Dewey Wood at the Gables Market also threw a different light on the question. They claimed that it all depended on the current market price of the shiny red vegetable. "If the price is high," they stated, "people ask for 'tomahtoes.' If not, and they are down at a nice low price is low, they call 'em 'tomatoes.' " P. MacGarron at Margaret Ann reported that 75 per cent of his customers ask for "tomatoes" and that the majority of the dissenters were "just trying to be smart and really knew how to pronounce it." He said that most "tomahto pronouncers" were visitors from the North. Randy Dowling at Dowling's estimated that "tomato" won out by a 75 per cent majority. At Lovett's, Johnny A. Webb concurred with MacGarron of Margaret Ann on the 95 per cent usage of "tomato." Seasonal Theory Advanced W. Smith at the A. and P. advanced the theory that the use of the "tomahto" pronunciation was seasonal. He said that only four out of every ten customers pronounce it that way now, but that at the peak of the season almost the same numbers may be in the majority. Oscar Bare at Tanner's brought the r' less pronunciation into the picture. He told us that several of his customers said "toemater" and that he believed that this way of saying it originated in Tampa. But like the other stores, "tomato" won here, too. Mrs. William M. Casterlin at the Coral Way Market said that she had never paid much attention, but she believed that "tomato" predominated. Our quest for the truth about "tomatoes" and "tomahtoes" also brought to light an amusing little anecdote concerning concerning the S. T. Laytons, Country Club Hampton. When Major and Mrs. Layton took out their American citizenship papers (they are Canadian and British born, respectively), their daughter, Betty, nine, asked, "Daddy, do I have to say 'tomato' instead of 'tomahto' now?"

Navy Drive For Recruits Is Slated

Pressed by the need for men to equip battleships which are rolling off the ways months ahead of time the United States Navy will extend its high-powered recruiting campaign into states of Florida and Georgia beginning next week. Participating in the drive in the Miami area, the Coral Gables Riviera will carry advertising recounting the advantages of joining the Navy and will, through its office staff, make available to those of Navy service age the booklet, "Life in the Navy," which explains in colorful details the possibilities of learning any one of half a hundred trades, of seeing the world, or of making the Navy a career in itself. The drive in these two states was launched at a luncheon of 186 newspaper publishers in Orlando this week and a similar gathering in Macon, Ga. Explaining the aims of the campaign at the Orlando luncheon were Captain F. F. M. Whiting, director of naval recruiting in Washington, D. C.; Bruce Barton, former Congressman and head of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne, the advertising firm handling the Navy campaign; George Gauge, in direct charge of the campaign for that advertising firm, and Lieutenant S. A. Jones, in charge of recruiting for Georgia and Florida. "We have found that the calibre of men recruited from the small town is of the highest and that they make the best material for the Navy," former Congressman Barton told the gathering. "The campaign has been most successful in the eight states in which it has already been conducted and we have the highest hopes for its success in Georgia and Florida." Quota Increased Captain Whiting said that the present 10,000 recruits a month must be increased to 13,000 for the next four months and to 15,000 a month after the first of the year. "The present personnel of 265,000 must be brought up to 367,000 men," he said. Attending the conference from this area were Albert E. Harum, publisher of The Riviera, and John D. Montgomery, former Riviera publisher and publisher of the Miami Beach Daily Tropics.

Parents Ask New District Be Created

Circulation of a petition, asking for an election to create a special school tax district coinciding with the city limits of Coral Gables, will be circulated the early part of next week, Gene Hunter, chairman of the Citizens School Committee, announced today. The petition comes as a result of a meeting of 75 parents and school officials Tuesday, following the temporary shuffing of 135 Coral Gables eighth grade students to schools outside the city, but resulting in a planning session for better school facilities in the Gables. The group was temporarily satisfied with an arrangement whereby fifth grade students will attend the Merrick Demonstration School, thereby making room for eighth grade students at the Elementary School. Stating that the underlying cause of the city's inability to solve its school housing problem is because the municipality lies in two school districts, 2 and 5, the group named a committee to take necessary steps toward creating a separate district for Coral Gables. Headed by Hunter, the group includes Frank N. Holley, City Manager A. B. Curry; George M. Shaw, director of finance; Major Cushman Hartwell, Mrs. J. A. Wright, Mrs. J. W. Cocker and Mrs. Sidney Harris. Hunter said that in his opinion a petition signed by 35 per cent of the qualified electors in the proposed district would be sufficient to call for the election. To be qualified, signers must pay either real or personal property taxes, he said. Voters on the question, in Hunter's opinion, would be limited to Coral Gables residents. Although another theory, that the petition must be signed by 35 per cent of the qualified electors in all of districts 2 and 5, has been advanced, Hunter states that he has looked up the law to substantiate his claims. A meeting of the committee with School Board Attorney John Lindsley is scheduled for Monday or Tuesday. At that time, the plan will be gone into in further detail.

Cop Rivals Galahad, Says Curry; Suspended

Officer A. E. Tipton of the Coral Gables police force is just a little too much of a Sir Galahad, if charges that have been lodged against him are true. Tipton has been suspended for ten days to give City Manager A. B. Curry and police officials sufficient time to investigate his alleged all-out courtesy. The police officer, according to Curry, insists that he was only trying to help a damsel in distress was certainly within the bounds of police good conduct. So, according to the story which he told, a pretty sad young woman into a Gables police car after hearing her story of estrangement with her husband. Also, according to the allegations, Tipton drove the young lady to her former home in Miami where she proceeded to repossess herself of some of her furniture. The husband, made a demanded to know of her authority for such goings-on and the Coral Gables officer then stepped forward and is alleged to have said: "I'm a police officer and you let this lady have her furniture." Curry declared that all this took place despite Tipton's knowledge that a dispute existed between the estranged couple over the property. In addition to the charge of using a police car for private purposes, Tipton faces the accusation that he left his post of duty. William J. Pruitt, attorney for Tipton, denied the charges in full, and said that his client would demand a hearing before the City Commission.

Gables Youth Commissioned By U. S. Navy

CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 18.--After three months of intensive study in the Naval Reserve Midshipmen's School at Abbott Hall, Northwestern University, Randolph Dickins, Jr., son of Captain and Mrs. Randolph Dickins, 1036 Avenue Obispo, was commissioned as ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserve at exercises full ceremony here today. He is expected to be called to active duty aboard one of Uncle Sam's men-o'-war. He was one of a class of 587 who received their commissions. Under the tutelage of naval officers of long experience, all of these youths have qualified as deck officers. They hail from forty-two states of the union. Abbott Hall is one of two Naval Reserve Midshipmen's schools. The other is in New York, aboard the U. S. S. Prairie State, which re-educated officers as well as deck officers are schooled. To qualify for midshipmen training, a young man must be a native born American citizen and must not les sthan 20 nor more than 28 years old. He must be physically and morally fit and must have earned a degree in arts, science or engineering at an accredited college or university. His studies must have included two semesters of mathematics. One course in plane trigonometry must be included in, or have been taken preparatory to, the college mathematics courses. The midshipmen receive ordinary marry during his three-month training period, but he may marry afterward. When called to active duty, he remains with the fleet until the present emergency is declared ended. Dickins has a great deal of naval tradition in the family. His father, Captain Randolph Dickins, is an Annapolis graduate. His uncle is Colonel Randolph Dickins, U. S. M. C. Young Dickins attended the University of Miami, where he played on the varsity football and boxing teams.

City Warns Against Theft Of Plants

Five thousand poinsettia plants have been placed by the parks and parkways department of the city of Coral Gables on the city parkways, according to Harry Pittman, director of the department. Country Club Prado Entrance, Granada Entrance, LeJeune Road and the corner of Coral Way and Alhambra Circle have been beautified by the plants, Pittman said. "We are having trouble with the thievery of the plants and shrubs in Coral Gables, Pittman said. "Several beauty spots have been disturbed recently, with plants removed. The entrance at Country Club Prado is most affected, with the removal of some of the poinsettias." City Manager A. B. Curry said that a penalty of $100 and thirty would be imposed on any person caught stealing city-owned shrubbery. The City Manager added that the employes have orders to watch carefully for such culprits.

Jimmy Gilmore, Lifeguard at The Venetian Pools, turned pilot this week to assure the presentation of the Coral Gables Riviera at the Orlando conference...

Jimmy Gilmore, lifeguard at The Venetian Pools, turned pilot this week to assure the presentation of the Coral Gables Riviera at the Orlando conference. Flying a Cub coupe, the former Gables resident, arriving in Orlando shortly after noon. The return trip was interrupted, however, by storms over the Everglades and they were unable to get back to Coral Gables until 8:30 A. M. Wednesday. The Orlando Airport was closed to transport planes due to construction.

Merchants Will Meet

Calls Merchants [PHOTO: Andrew N. Houston] Andrew N. Houston, chairman of the Merchants' Bureau, has called the first fall meeting of the group for next Friday at the Country Club of Coral Gables. Members of the Merchants Bureau of Coral Gables will start their winter season meetings Friday, September 26 at the Country Club of Coral Gables, Andrew N. Houston, chairman announced this week. One of the principal matters to be discussed is that of Christmas decorations for the streets, prizes to be offered for the most attractively decorated stores and traffic problems. City Manager A. B. Curry and Police Captain Lou Reeves will attend the meeting and offer suggestions and aid. "The Merchants Bureau hopes to make the Christmas decorations of the down-town streets the most attractive ever attempted and we urge every merchant, business and professional man and woman in Coral Gables to attend the meeting next Friday", Houston stated.

Legion Directory Due In November

Plans for the publication of the official Business and Professional Directory of Coral Gables, issued annually under the sponsorship of the Coral Gables American Legion Post, were announced yesterday by Chairman Leland C. Shepard of the committee in charge. According to Mr. Shepard, the directory, containing all available information of interest to visitors and residents regarding this city, listings of apartments and hotels, places of business, a map of the city and a wealth of descriptive matter, will be ready for distribution by November 15. "This will mark the earliest date of release of the directory since its inception several years ago," Shepard stated, "and we feel that its service to this community will be greatly enhanced by the advanced date of publication." Contract for the printing of an initial edition of 4,000 copies, containing 36 or more pages, has been let to the Riviera Publishing Company of Coral Gables.

Motorist Hurt When Car Skids

Three accidents, in which one injury was sustained, were recorded during the week by the Coral Gables Police Department. Allan J. Edwards, 877 S. W. Second Street, was taken to the University Hospital Wednesday for treatment of injuries sustained when his car skidded on the Dixie Highway and overturned. George Haller, 5545 S. W. Fifth Terrace, and Jack Adams, 2440 S. W. 27th Street, were involved in a collision Tuesday at Avenue Navarre and Salzedo Street. Neither driver was injured. Two slightly damaged automobiles resulted from a collision at Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Avenue Almeria on Monday. Ernest Clayton Holland, 304 Calusa Street, and James Q. Powell, 4341 S. W. 14th Street, were the drivers of the automobiles.

Sixty-Nine Join Legion Post 98

Sixty-nine 1942 members were reported as during the first week of the Coral Gables American Legion Post membership drive, it was announced yesterday by Sheldon C. Grebe, chairman of the membership committee. According to advices from Department of Florida Legion headquarters, the local post is now the eighth ranking post in the state, in point of 1941 membership. At the regular post meeting held last Wednesday evening, Chairman Al Lambert of the organization's National Defense committee, urged all members to renew their membership for the coming year at the earliest possible moment. Lambert cited the growing demands for more Legionnaires in the civil and national defense set-ups and pointed out that they were still short several officers in this city who had not as yet joined the post. A membership goal of 300 by Armistice Day, November 11, has been set by Chairman Grebe.

Medical Bulletin Prints Article By McKibben

An article by Dr. William L. McKibben, 641 North Greenway Drive, entitled "Epidemiology of the 1941 Outbreak of Poliomyelitis in Greater Miami" has been published in the September issue of the Bulletin of the Dade County Medical Association. Dr. McKibben's article discusses all the various manifestations of the infantile paralysis outbreak last week.

New Members Introduced By Optimists

The drive for members, now being conducted by the new Optimist's Club, gained additional impetus last night when five neophytes were taken into the organization. Five teams, with Mayor Joe Whitley acting as "major," are conducting a contest for the most new members. The new Optimists, introduced at last night's meeting at the Country Club of Coral Gables, include Chester S. Deisgaard, Delguard & Proctor; John Elmore, publisher, 816 Granada Groves Court; Albert J. Starmann, life insurance, 1223 Ingraham Building; Ernest Galloway, Lehman Transfer and Storage Co., 222 Avenue Aragon, and E. D. Rogers, Rogers Electrical Company, 2303 Ponce de Leon Boulevard.

Roumanian Will Act as Supply Baptist Pastor

[PHOTO: Dr. Ladislau Biro] Dr. Ladislau Biro has been secured by the University Baptist Church as supply pastor, until such time as a new pastor can be called by the church. He will preach Sunday. Dr. Biro fills the place of Dr. V. Ward Barr, who resigned to accept the pastorate of the First Baptist Church at Corinth, Miss. Dr. Biro was born in Hungary, but became a citizen of Roumania by the ceding of the section of Hungary in which he was born to Roumania at the close of the World War. He was educated in Hungary and Roumania, coming to the United States to complete his theological training, where he received the degree of Master of Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky. He also received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in 1935 with distinctive honors. Dr. Biro was ordained to the ministry in 1935 and returned to Roumania in that year. During the four years that remained in Roumania before returning to the United States in 1939, he was a member of the faculty of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Bucharest, Roumania; editor of one of the Baptist religious magazines, and president of the Hungarian Baptist Young People's Union in Roumania. (Please Turn to Page Six)

Police Seek Negro Robber

Gables police are searching for a Negro who held up P. E. Roberts, 47 N. W. 5th Street, on Monday and robbed him of $50. Roberts told police that he was driving on Grand Avenue when the Negro jumped on the running board of his car, stuck a knife in his ribs, and ordered him to drive to the water tank on Jefferson Avenue, where he relieved him of his money. Roberts described the robber as being about six feet tall and estimated his age at 30. Sergeant William Kimbrough is investigating the case.

Firemen Inspect 3,143 Vehicles

With the deadline for obtaining auto inspection stickers approaching, Coral Gables firemen reported yesterday that a total of 3,143 cars had been examined since the inspection began. Firemen will continue inspection at the city hall and on weekdays and until noon on Saturdays. They estimate that approximately 6,857 remain uninspected. Police Captain Lou Reeves said yesterday that officers had been instructed to start issuing citations to motorists who are driving cars that do not bear the new stickers. Persons who bring their cars to the fire station before a citation is issued to them will not be penalized.

MISS GREEN HOME

Miss Betty Green, who graduated in June from Duke University, and who spent most of the summer as swimming instructor at Crabtree Camp for Girls in the mountains, has returned to reside with her mother, Mrs. Carl Green.

MRS. WALKER RETURNS FROM HIGHLANDS

Mrs. Josephine B. Walker and her daughter Miss Mary Louise Walker have returned to their home, 111 Avenue Salamanca after a summer at Highlands, N. C. Miss Walker also enjoyed a trip to Boloxi, Miss., to Zeta Tau Alpha sorority's convention as delegate from the alumnae chapter, of which she is president. Later she visited New Orleans and Washington, D. C. Miss Alice Walker, another daughter of Mrs. Walker's at present working in Washington, D. C. came south for a visit in Highlands with her mother and sister.

Ensign Winegar Visits Gables On Navy Leave

Ensign and Mrs. Howard Winegar, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Edward Winegar, is visiting his parents at the family home, 403 North Greenway Drive, during a leave of absence from the U. S. Navy. Ensign Winegar received his commission in the U. S. Naval Reserve at Chicago on September 12th, after an intensive course of training. He is a graduate of the University of Miami business administration school. Last November Ensign Winegar was granted a month's leave of absence from the university to make a cruise on the battleship New York as a pre-training course. He entered his final training at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., on June 16. Ensign Winegar has been placed on active service and will shortly report for duty at Charleston, S. C. His father is commander of the local American Legion Post.

On Fishing Trip

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Miller, 1227 Pizarro Street are on a fishing trip to the West Coast of Florida.

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Club Members Get Set For New Series of Square Dances Saturday

Knowing that a great number of their members were in the Carolinas during the summer enjoying the old-fashioned dances, the dance committee of the Country Club of Coral Gables will inaugurate a series of "North Carolina Square Dances," the first of which will take place Saturday night at the regular club dance. The famous Bud Rucker will be the "caller," so get out your trusty old flat-heeled evening shoes and prepare to "swing" your partner on the corner at this popular club. Occupying one of the important tables tomorrow night will be a group of 25 cadets from the Opa Locka Air Corps Training Field and their dates. New members of the club include Dr. Bernard T. Bell, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Victor R. Browning, Mr. and Mrs. Charles DeCamps, Howard Doane, Mrs. W. N. Frost, Dr. Joe B. Fuqua, Douglas A. Harrison, James E. Henry, Lieutenant Charles W. Higgins, Wade H. Johnson, John William Landrum, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Leach, Miss Carlotta Lewis, Joseph Lewis Schultz, Lieutenant William McAfee, Lieutenant Alpheus O. Powell, and Mr. and Mrs. Rly H. Sullinger, Jr.

Experiences In Nazi Air Raid Recounted By Pan-Am Navigator

His experience as an observer with the R. A. F. were related at the Lions Club luncheon yesterday by Charles Lunn, chief navigator for Pan American Airways, at the Kiwanis luncheon Tuesday at the Country Club of Coral Gables. Lieutenant Lunn had just returned from Great Britain, where he observed the British flyers in action and experienced an air raid. "Youth," he said, "is being stressed by the English in the air corps, because their reflexes under fire are much quicker than older men." "During an air raid one feels utterly helpless," Lunn said, speaking of being trapped in an airdome that was being bombed by Nazi flyers. Lunn also paid tribute to the women of Great Britain, saying that they were all engaged in some branch of the service and were doing a great job of boosting the morale. "Every Englishman is confident of winning," he said, "although they have no definite plan." Lunn criticized many of the planes we are sending to Britain, stating that they were not armed well enough and were vulnerable to attack from too many different places. He said that the "PB-Ys," being used by the coastal control were the only planes adequately armed.

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