Coral Gables Riviera

- PAGE 4 - THE CORAL GABLES RIVIERA FRIDAY, OCT. 31, 1941

Taking Care of Coral Gables All in Day's Work for Harley Pittman

A chinch bug is a chinch bug, and we all have our troubles, but just imagine having 375 acres of grass under your care! Try to think of being charge of 17 square miles of park and you will get a picture of Harley Pittman, superintendent of the department of parks and parkways for the city of Coral Gables. Fifth of a Series By Coral Gables News Bureau Most of us plant one little rose bush, and cheer for all we are worth if it sprouts up into a nice looking shrub. At the city nurseries just west of Red Road now there are between ten and fifteen thousand annuals and perennials getting their start in life. And there are close to 20,000 trees and shrubs. It was just all part of the daily routine for Pittman and his crew of about 30 men to plant 5,000 poinsettias this fall, but like a mild disappointment when the storm took a toll of several hundred of these plants, shortly after they had been set out. Coral Gables is one of of the largest actual garden areas in the country. As a city it is unique because it is landscaped as a garden with miles and miles of well-kept parkways and many beautifully planted plazas, parks an dentrances. Parkways Maintained Pittman and his helpers maintain all of the Gables parkways, even to the unpavedand sections, where they are merely skept up but not beautified. As soon as a section is well on its way to becoming another builtup area, the parkways in that section are planted. This recently was done in the Biltmore section along Almeria and Sevilla avenues, and Hernando street. We asked this garden authority his choice of trees for all purposes, including shading, beauty, and hardiness. He told us he preferred Swietenia-Mahogany, Live Oak, Bucidia-Bucarius (black olive) and Tamorindus Indica, a large tree with a lacey leaf somewhat resembling the less hardy Royal Poincianna. Common Faults We asked him what some of the most common faults among amateur gardeners are. His answer was-over-landscaping, not planning the entire picture as it will be when finished, but haphazardly tossing in entirely too many shrubs, trees and flowers. He also thinks the general public could know a little more about pruning, that most gardeners prune too extensively and too often. For lawn grass, Mr. Pittman says the best bet is St. Augustine grass. That gets the chinch bugs avoid. When grass is first planted it should be watered every day, should be fertilized and top-soiled about three weeks after it is planted. The soil should be fertilized with light applications, every six to eight weeks, instead of heavy applications at more far-spread periods. The parks and parkways department of the city is called upon regularly by citizens seeking information. The department receives requests from residents for flowers to decorate for parties, etc .The latter request is impossible to fulfill. None of the flowers planted by the city are cut. They are for planting and showy purposes only. Grass Cuttings Pittman wishes that homeowners would learn to place their grass clippings in containers in the parkways, instead of piles of grass, which kill the parkway planting. He wishes that automobile drivers would learn to go around corners on the paved part of the street, instead of riding continuously on a parkway corner to the point of ruining it. The parks superintendent has been with Coral Gables (first with the old Coral Gables corporation) since 1923. He became superintendent in 1927. All the greenery and blooming at visitors who find Coral Gables the delightful garden spot that it is, owe their thanks to the hard-working endeavor of Harley Pittman, and to a city which realizes that natural beauty comes first.

Ask Ruling of Justice Dept. On Club House

Continued from Page One building has been and is being accomplished under the Woman's Club ownership and management, to the same or perhaps even greater degree than under City ownership and management. "The City has been forced, by a demand of the Works Progress Administration, an Agency of the United States Government, to demand title to all of to the property. The only alternative offered by the W.P.A. was the repayment to the Federal Government of the approximately $32,000 of Federal Funds spent in the construction. It would be impossible for the City to make this repayment, and even if it were, the Commission feels that it has no right to impose this burden upon the City's taxpayers so long as any other avenues are available. Throughout the negotiations with the Woman's Club for a suitable determination of the matter, the Commission has assured the Club that it does not desire the return and control of the property, and that to every extent legally possible it will preserve the present use and control of the building. The Commission has further agreed to contract with the Club that if it returns the legal title as demanded by the government, and later it is deprived of the use and occupancy of the building, the City will return the amount the Club spent in construction of the building, and further, that when the technical life of the building as set by Works Progress Administration is ended, the title will then be returned to the Club. W.P.A. has tentatively advised that it considers the technical life to be twenty years, of which more than five years has already passed. "The Commission is willing to agree further with the Club that if the title is returned to the City, as is now demanded by the Government, and should there later be a reconsideration and change of policy on the part of the government permitting the re-deeding of the property to the Club, the City will gladly and promptly do so. "The Commission sees no reason why the return of the legal title to the City should make any difference whatever in the use and operation of the property, or the personnel employed in that connection, and expects to continue the appropriations to the support of the Library, as granted for the past year, amounting to more than $50,000 since the inception of the library. The Commission feels that the Womans Club can do a better job in running the library and Community Center than could the City. "The controversy which now exists between the City and the Club has in no way been provoked by the City or any of its officials. The Federal Government commenced in 1940 investigation of misdirection of Federal W.P.A. funds, and the local matter was simply a part of that nationwide check-up. The facts of the Community House construction were deemed by the authorities in Washington to be contrary to the regulations under which the Federal contribution of some $32,000 was made. The position of the Government is that the City represented to it that the City owned the land and that the City was greatly in need of a community center and library which under ordinary conditions it would be unable to build for a great many years; that the project would be operated and maintained by the City; and that the funds for the operation would come out of public taxation, which, of course, would not be levied except in connection with city owned property. That, disregarding these representations, the City as soon as the Government money had been put into the community building, turned the property to the Woman's Club. The Government maintains that this is contrary to the agreement between the City and the Government and that it also constitutes a breach of faith on the part of the City, and, after prolonged negotiations has fixed, set November 15 as the date upon which the City must recapture the title, or failing in that, institute suit looking toward the retaking of the title. The Government insists that if this be not done the City pay to the government the $32,000 which the Government has invested in the building. "The present situation is of extreme embarrassment to the City in its dealing with Federal Agencies, and may deprive the City of much needed government aid in the future. "The necessity to return the $32,000 to the Federal Government would bring about an increase of approximately two mills in taxes, or about 10% of that present rate." (signed) JOE WHITELY Mayor

Seek to Solve Economic Problems Through Research

Continued From Page One Business in Dade County. Clearing House In making itself a clearing house of economic and statistical information on Greater Miami, the Business School has one eye directed to the welfare of the community on which its own progress depends. Another eye is cast upon the educational functions which are in its first line of duty. Take the student who comes to the University from another State. He will become familiar through local research with the particular conditions of this region which he is enable to visualize through the statistician's eye. The student who is a native of Miami will compare the local situation with national conditions and with those prevailing in neighboring states. Especially those collegiates who are directly connected with research projects will find their statistical activity tlink between the world of books and the world of business. They gain important experience in field work and learn how to collaborate with business men in gathering statistical data. In their subsequent careers this training will prove valuable not only to those young people who will specialize in statistical or economic work, but also to those who directly enter the realm of business after graduation. Cooperation Aim The School of Business is certain that civic organizations and business groups will turn many of their economic worries over to the school for further research. Within the field of their experience, members of the faculty will cooperate, and from year to year a larger body of trained student assistants will be available for developing such projects. Administration and faculty consider economic research a san important step forward in progressive service of Miami's University to its citizens. The rapid strides of progress already in evidence by the various accomplishments of this research group, has attracted much attention, which has given the essential encouragement for the group to carry on in its endeavor of offering educational economic aids to its community.

Diary of a Kiss - by Charles Boyer and Olivia de Haviland

Does your husband kiss like this? Or does he give you a quick little peck with his lips and dive into the morning paper? Try being a bit reluctant sometime. Lovely Olivia de Havilland shows how in No. 1 of the series above. You may be a hard-to-kiss woman, but could you resist Charles Boyer?. Neither could Olivia in "Hold Back the Dawn," Paramount's glowing romance opening on Saturday at the Coral Theatre. Note the dark-eyed screen lovers' direct approach, the mark of one with deep experience in love. Olivia is reluctant for a moment, weakens, slips into Boyer's arms in sweet surrender and then closes her eyes in bliss.

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Stoddarts Return

Mr. and Mrs. C. Murray Stoddart of 2603 Country Club Prado returned this week from their summer home in Gloucester, Mass. They did a great deal of traveling this summer and greeted Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Neale in Toronto, Canada, prominent winter residents

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ANNOUNCEMENT

We have had so many requests to sell retail from the public, who have visited our 50 acres of Ornamental Shrubbery and Palms, that we have decided to do so. We are now selling Retail as well as Wholesale. As an introduction into the Retail Field we are giving free One Double Old Rose Hibiscus with every $10.00 purchase. MANGUS LANDSCAPE NURSERY Established 1922 DIRECTIONS TO NURSERY Follow Route 1 (Key West Highway) to South Allapattah Drive, approximately 18 miles south of Miami. You will see our sign on left-hand side of highway. Turn left two and one-half miles to Nursery.

GIRL SCOUT SUNDAY TO BE OBSERVED

Girl Scout Sunday will be observed this Sunday at the Coral Gables Congregational Church at 11 a. m. with Scout Troops 13 and 59 taking a special part in the service under the leadership of Mrs. Edward Flipse and the Misses Christine and Patricia MacGill. Rev. Carl Stackman, the pastor, has chosen for his sermon topic, "The Permanancies of Life". Marion McCreedy will sing "Love Not the World" by Sir Arthur Sullivan.

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