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Safe Driving Committee To Extend Contest

The Coral Gables Committee on safe driving, formed to pick a winner for the 19 inch gold safety trophy to be awarded some lucky resident of the Gables, met Thursday at the offices of Charles Tutan, President of Tutan Motors and sponsor of the Image safety drive in the Gables. City manager A. B. Curry was appointed chairman of the committee, composed of Mrs. C. J. Susong, President of the Coral Gables Woman's club; Mrs. Gladys Becker, President of the Business and Professional Women's Club of the Gables; Mrs. Celia Smith, past president of the same club; Chief of Police Lewis Reeves; Al. Harum publisher of The Riviera; and Charles Tutan and ways and means were immediately devised to insure fair and impartial consideration to all contestants. It was decided to issue entry blanks to anyone wanting to enter the contest in order to make more simple the matter of judging and classifying the entries. These may be obtained at Tutan Motors showrooms at 216 Minorca Avenue or at Sam's Service station. It is not necessary to obtain a blank however, as letters on your own stationery may be sent in, so long as they contain a suggestion or suggestions for safe driving in the Gables. The trophy, a handsome gold plated pedestal bearing aloft the Red Cross Angel of Mercy, will be awarded publicly by a world famous screen and radio star to be announced shortly. Ray Turner, Truck Division manager of Andy Anderson, Inc., Dodge Distributor for the Miami area and "Andy" Anderson, President of Anderson Motors Inc., of Ft. Lauderdale, attended the meeting, representing the Miami and Lauderdale safety committees for the Dodge safe driving contest in those cities.

DR. NOBLE TO TALK

Dr Enrique Noble, professor of South American history at the University of Miami will be the guest speaker at the 3 p.m. meeting Monday of the Coral Gables Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution at old Fort Dallas.

R. A. F. Cadets Express Appreciation for Entertainment

As the latest class of R. A. F. cadets to graduate from the navigation school prepared to depart for active duty yesterday, Cadet leader Bernard Lush, on behalf of the detachment about to leave, visited the local Legion home and delivered a letter of appreciation to the organization and the citizens of the Gables who have assisted in entertaining the cadets while on duty here. "On behalf of the R. A. F. Cadets who are leaving Miami this week, I would like to put on record our appreciation for all you and the Legion at Coral Gables have done for us. More than any other organization, you have put yourselves out to help make our stay here a most enjoyable one. "From the first week of our arrival when we were your guests on the Boat Ride we have always felt very much at home, when visiting the Coral Gables Post. "The Barbecue on Armistice Day was an evening that we will always remember and we can only hope that it will not be too long before we have a chance to return, in peace time. The majority of the Cadets returning to their peace time occupations and saying goodbye to the R. A. F. "We hope that during our short stay here we have done something to help bring closer together the people of the United States and the people of Britain. After the war some of us will possibly visit Miami on holiday and I for one will make a bee line for the American Legion Bar."

Plan Christmas Party For Cadets

Civic club representatives of the Coral Gables Home Entertainment Committee will meet at 12:30 Monday, at the Tiffin to discuss plan for entertaining the R. A. F. and American cadets at Christmas. "We are asking that every representative make a special effort to attend this meeting as we want all clubs to have a part in this Christmas party," Mrs. M. B. Garris, chairman, stated.

Visitors Invited

Visitors are welcome at the great sugar house of the United State Sugar Corporation at Clewiston, now in operation. Tourists and winter visitors find it intensely interesting and each season the number of visitors increases. Guides are provided to show them through the huge plant and no charge is made for admission.

GIRL SCOUT NEWS

Troop 38 started its meeting with the laws and promise. We did some work on Flag etiquette and planned about out many Christmas activities. We talked about our camp for the week end. We chose Lulu Sherman to represent the troop at Girl's Council, a group of girls bringing together each month troop reports. Last Friday and Saturday, November 28 and 29 we worked on our primitive camp, re-lashing our table, erecting a lean-to, and protecting new out door activities. Friday evening we sang carols at Mrs. Sherman's. We are practicing for December 23 when we shall sing with all Miami troops in Bayfront Park. We slept inside, had good meals. Lulu Sherman, Scribe

Traffic Increases

Pan-American Clippers carried into and out of Miami during the first 10 months of this year a total of 78,425 passengers, compared with 65,009 for the first 10 months of 1940. Throughout 1941 air traffic in and out of Miami has averaged 25 percent above last year.

MUSIC STUDENTS IN RECITAL

John Paul Floyd of the Miami Conservatory, 138 Minorca Avenue, will present a number of his Coral Gables pupils at 4 p. m. Saturday in recital at the conservatory, 1737 North Bayshore Drive. Those taking part are Billy Campbell, Caroline Butler, Peter Hunter, Danette Gould, John Gould, Eloise Greene, Lawrence Taylor, Sally Paige, Dean Livingston, Marilyn Brown, John Sullivan, Rosalind Young, Monte Livingston, Donna Marxer, Harriett Quillian Sally Hunter, Shirley Dell, Gloria Simpson, Jack Dell and Witold Turkiewicz.

SERMON TOPIC ANNOUNCED

The Waiting World, an Advent sermon by the pastor the Rev. Paul Schroeder, will be given at the 11 o'clock service Sunday at the Congregational Church. A chorale, "How Lovely Now the Morning Star" and "The Song of the Angles" will be solos by Marion McCreedy. Mrs. Dorothy Moore will present music from Mendelssohn and Litz and tell of their life and works at the Young People's meeting at 7 p. m.

Schedule for Tropical Is Released

Robert S. Shelley, racing secretary and handicapper at Tropical Park, has received from the printer for distribution among horsemen, condition books for the first eleven days of the Gables Racing Association's meeting scheduled for opening on Saturday, December 20. This meeting, which will run through Tropical, January 10, will inaugurate Florida's 1941-42 season of racing. The condition book is a notable one for two reasons: First, because it lists appreciable increases in the value of each of the Saturday and holiday feature races and, secondly, because it reveals the new management's policy of emphasizing turf features throughout. Shelley has programmed a mile-and-one-half race for the opening Saturday of the meeting; one of a mile and three-quarters for the second Saturday, and for the third Saturday will list one of two miles and seventy yards. Of course, he cannot guarantee that each of these events will fill, but he has arranged his card so that distance-running thoroughbreds will have an opportunity to come again under conditions favorable to top performances at the distances considerably greater than is customary on American tracks. The condition book, attractively bound in blue and gold-the colors adopted by the new owners-shows an average daily distribution in purse money of $8,745. On the first, fifth, seventh and eleventh days, purses will run to $9,700. On the other seven of the first eleven days, the purse total will be $8,350. There have been increases over last year, as has been announced, of $1,000 to each of five of the meeting's most important races, and of $1,350 to the sixth. Shelley has designated his entire book with the idea of giving to each and every horse available for racing at Tropical Park, maximum opportunities to be turned, and thus to will be a popular book with owners and trainers of thoroughbreds, and that it will produce contests that will delight the visitors are lessons, is the consensus of those who have had a preview of it. The features for the first pical Park are, 1st day-Inaugural Handicap; 6 furlongs; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $2,500. 2nd Day-The Kendall; mile and 70 yards; 3-year-old and upward; purse $1,200. 3rd day-The Okeechobee; 6 furlongs; 2-year-olds and upward; purse $1,200. 4th Day-The Christmas Eve; mile and one-sixteenth; 3-year-olds; purse $1,200. 5th Day-The Christmas Handicap; mile and 70 yards; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $2,500. 6th day-The Davis; mile and one-sixteenth; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $1,200. 7th day-The Key West Handicap; six furlongs; 2-year-olds; purse $2,500. 8th day-The Miami Shores; 6 furlongs; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $1,200. 9th day-The Pompano, mile and one-sixteenth; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $1,200. 10th Day-The New Year's Eve; six furlongs; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $1,200. 11th day-The Orange Bowl Handicap; mile and one-sixteenth; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $2,500. The second edition of the condition book for the December 20-January 10 meeting will list two other important events. On January 3, the program will be topped by the Winter Handicap, six furlongs; 3-year-olds and upward; purse $2,500. And on January 10, the outstanding offering will be the $3,000 mile-and a-16th-of The City of Miami; for 3-year-olds and upward. On January 1, as has been the custom at Tropical Park the racing program-topped of course by the Orange Bowl Handicap-will be presented in the morning so as to give racegoers every opportunity to attend the Orange Bowl football game in Miami that afternoon.

Scanning the Screen

Sick man's ordeal: With his life hanging by a thread, Horace Giddens (Herbert Marshall) is harassed by his avaricious wife (Bette Davis) and her equally greedy brother (Charles Dingle) in "The Little Foxes". Produced by Samuel Goldwyn from the big stage success, the screen drama stars Bette Davis, and her support includes five members of the original stage cast. "Little Foxes" opens Sat. at Coral Theatre.

Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland score another hit in Paramount's "Skylark" the comedy of matrimonial errors which opens Sunday at the Gables Theatre It's their 1941 successor to "Arise My Love", the film which ranked them tops in filmdom.

Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in their latest Army musical, "You'll Never Get Rich". It is showing at the Grove this Sunday through Tuesday.

CHARLES SUSONG JOINS AIR FORCES

Along with 90 other flying students Charles J. Susong, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Susong, is now receiving pre-flight training at the new air corps replacement center at Kelley Field, Texas After graduation, thirty weeks hence, Charles will be a sergeant-pilot in Uncle Sam's Air Forces. Before transfer he was stationed at Moffett Field, Calif.

Date Extended

The famous singing tower will play one month longer this season, opening on Dec. 2 and continuing through April 30.

Announcing the Opening Soon of a New HARPER METHOD BEAUTY SALON

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Be the Man BEHIND this MASK

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HERE'S YOUR CHOICE READING AT NEW LOW PRICES

Contest Planned

The second Annual Florida Orange Picking Contest will be staged at Avon Park, March 7-8. Last year the event attracted 7,000 people and with an enlarged program the coming event is expected to draw over twice that number.

Fight Paralysis

Help fight infantile paralysis. Do your part by suporting the various events being arranged for the celebration of the President's Birthday. All funds raised through this humanitarian effort go to help wipe out this dread disease.

SERMON TOPIC ANNOUNCED

"A Continual Obligation" will be the topic of the sermon at the 11 o'clock service Sunday at the Methodist Church. Rev. Carlock Hawk is the pastor. Dr. R. Z. Tyler, district superintendent, will lead the second quarterly conference at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday in the church. Church school meets at 9:45 a. m. and the Epworth Leagues at 7 p. m.

PARAMOUNT THEATRES IN CORAL GABLES

| GROVE THEATRE Sun., Mon., Tues. BEAUTY! RHYTHM! SONG! FRED ASTAIRE RITA HAYWORTH in You'll NEVER GET RICH with ROBERT BENCHLEY JOHN HUBBARD SONGS BY COLE PORTER A COLUMBIA PICTURE | AIR CONDITIONED GABLES 2112 PONCE DE LEON Ph. 4-1221 MATS. 35c EVES. 40c FREE SMOKING LOGE | CLAUDETTE COLBERT RAY MILLAND BRIAN AHERNE in "SKYLARK" A Paramount Picture with BINNIE BARNES - WALTER ABEL MARK SANDRICH Production SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY Dec. 7-8-9 | Wed.-Thurs. Dec. 10_11 ROBERT YOUNG RUTH HUSSEY in "Married Bachelor" | Starts Friday Dec. 12 CARY GRANT JOAN FONTAINE in "Suspicion" | AIR CONDITIONED CORAL 2315 PONCE DE LEON-PH. 4-4422 MAT. 25c EVES. 30c | FRIDAY-DECEMBER 5 "INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON" RONALD REAGAN OLYMPE BRADNA | SATURDAY-TUESDAY-DECEMBER 6-9 SEE HER in Samuel Goldwyn's screen version of Lillian Hellman's famed stage success! Samuel Goldwyn presents BETTE DAVIS in "The Little Foxes" with HERBERT MARSHALL Teresa Wright . Richard Carlson Directed by WILLIAM WYLER | WEDNESDAY-THURSDAY-DECEMBER 10-11 "MAN HUNT" WALTER PIDGEON JOAN BENNETT