Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Greater Fire Waste Threatens Nation

During 1946 national fire waste totaled $561,487,000, the highest losses in 20 years, and the second highest ever recorded. This destruction came within half a million dollars of exceeding the record year of 1926, when the waste totaled $561,980,751. Last year, the waste by fire was greater than in any of the years of vast city-wide conflagrations, such as 1871, when Chicago burned, or 1906 when fire destroyed virtually all of San Francisco. In 1906, by comparison, losses for the whole nation, including San Francisco, were estimated at $518,611,800. The great destruction in 1926 climaxed seven postwar years in which fire losses increased year by year. The nation now has nearly equalled the 1926 waste in just one year after another great war. If the losses continue this upward trend, the nation will be faced with the annual destruction of a billion dollars worth of valuable resources, nearly all of them irreplaceable, by the year 1953. We are now burning up at the fastest rate in our history. December's fire losses of $58,094,000 were the highest recorded in a single month since the National Board of Fire Underwriters began tabulating monthly losses in 1929. This is an increase of 30 per cent over Nov., 1946, and 17.4 per cent over Dec., 1945. These estimates of fire losses are compiled by the National Board of Fire Underwriters on the basis of losses incurred on fire insurance policies of the board's more than 200 member companies. Yet these estimates indicate only a portion of the real destruction wrought by fire. They do not include the jobs lost when factories, stores or offices burn; the businesses that fail as result of burned stocks, destroyed records, or impaired credit; the irreplaceable lumber lost when forests burn; the hunger caused by destruction of badly-needed grain and food stocks; or what is more important, the 10,000 lives annually lost due to burning buildings and burns. Of these fire deaths, four-fifths occur in private dwellings, apartments, tenements and rooming houses. Half of the more than 650,000 fires occurring annually in the U. S. start in these homes. More than a fifth of the fire fatalities are children under the age of five years. Records of the census bureau show that deaths in conflagrations and burning buildings have doubled in the past ten years, far out of proportion to the increase in population. In the past year, great fires, principally in hotels, have taken a terrible toll of lives. Virtually no class of structure has been without its devastating tragedies over a period of years. Approximately three out of four fires, of known causes, fall in four main groups involving human carelessness, negligence, inattention or plain accidents. Experts believe that nine out of ten fires in these categories could be prevented by good housekeeping and cultivation of habits of caution and watchfulness. Habits of caution in the home would prevent thousands of useless fires and save thousands of the 10,000 lives that are lost annually through fire.

Schools Promote Joint Exhibit

Fourth grade students and teachers of the Merrick Demonstration school and Coral Gables Elementary will join hands today in a week-long exhibit of Florida resources. Two Gables stores, Taylors Sport Shop and Dewey's Jewelry Store, will promote the project in their windows under the direction of the following teachers: Miss Helen Nielsen, Miss Miriam Dorney, Miss Helen Harrell and Mrs. Frances Sams. The Florida Exhibit program, which is the beginning of a county-wide demonstration scheduled for May 26 at the County Board of Instruction building in Miami, was coincided in co-ordination with the publication of a Florida History Workbook written by nine fourth grade teachers. The teachers are headed by Mrs. Francis Sams and Miss Luelle Shaw. The workbook, now being used by Dade county's fourth graders, contains information pertaining to points of interest, history, nature, and cities of Florida.

Elks Observe Mother's Day

Some 200 members of Elks Lodge No. 1676, Coral Gables, and their guests assembled at the Lodge Hall this week for a special program in observance of Mother's Day. The main address of the evening was given by the Rev. Harold D'day Talbot, after presentation of an opening ritual by Exalted Ruler Andrew T. Henley. Members and their wives and friends joined Tom Gilson in singing Mother Macree.

THIS FOURSOME makes "Carnival in Costa Rica" a two-hour technicolor vacation. They are Vera-Ellen, Dick Haymes, Celeste Holm and Caeser Romero. They'll be cavorting to the rumba rhythms on the screen of the Grove Theatre Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Sunday and Monday, May 17-19.

THAT'S JIMMY STEWART, THE MOVIE ACTOR, no less, and a lovely assistant at right, aided Dr. Neff, who will present his "Madhouse of Mystery" next Monday night, May 19, at the Gables theater as a midnight show. Stewart was with Dr. Neff when he first got out of college. Tickets for the show are on sale now at the Gables box office.

Gallivantin' Ghouls to Prowl Gables Stage Monday Midnight

Galloping ghouls, goofy spooks, lovely ghosts and weird spirits will be on hand Monday at mid-sents Dr. Neff's madhouse of Mystery" on its stage, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi due to be seen on the screen in "Body Snatcher." Dr. Neff, a world-famous practiioner in his line, offers a show which is reported to be without parallel in the annals of magic-spook extravaganzas. Working with a large company of thrillmakers and lovely models, he unfolds a rapid-fire program of uncanny illusions, weird voodoo and spooks on rampage, designed 10 scare the "yell" out of any audience. The doctor is also an authority on zombies, whose origins are shrouded in African mystery, but there are many well-established facts on their behaviour, many of which are brought out in Dr. Neff's "Zombie Nightmare." The presentation is only one number in the show which also includes the burning alive of Suttee and the Cabaret de la Mort.

Faultless Proves Value of Winter Racing

This past racing season proved that another famous colt to come out of winter racing at Hialeah could take the classic Pimlico Preakness race. Faultless, the horse in question, owned by Warren Wright, Miami Beach Calumet Farm owner, scored three victories and placed once during the recent Hialeah meeting. The most important victory for Faultless this year was the $50,000 purse he won in the added Flamingo. On that occasion the presentation was made by Governor Millard Caldwell. The new Preakness champion didn't miss a morning's workout while stabled at Hialeah from November to April. He learned his racing AB's in 1946 on the same track as his sire and dam, Bull Lea and Unerring. Thanks to the training he received from A. E. and H. A. Jones, Faultless became one of the fastest horses to run under the colors of the Calumet Farm stables.

Board O.K.s Switch of Residential Zones to Commercial Catigory

A large group of recommendations sent by the zoning board to the city commission for approval this week suggested the changing of several residential sections to classifications which will permit the erection of apartments, duplexes or commercial enterprises. There were no objections filed to the request of Harry Shank for the rezoning of two sections on the Riviera Waterway from residential to apartment use, and another section from residential to commercial use. Recommended for also went to the city for rezoning of areas in the Riviera section from residential to commercial. Change of certain sections from residential to apartment use was also suggested. Another area will be rezoned to allow the building of duplex units. In the Coconut Grove section of Coral Gables the board recommended that a three-block area be approved by the city commission as a duplex area rather than a strictly residential one. Under another recommendation, the zoning board approved a petition to rezone a portion of the Riviera residential section to permit the erection of a steel water tank. The VFW request for the placing of a 12x4 foot sign, designating the site of their Ray Remnart Memorial Building, was approved and sent to the commission. Action was deferred, pending further study, on a radio tower and studio to be erected on the University of Miami campus. The request came from the Peninsular Broadcasting Corporation. The zoning board was asked to reconsider its refusal to permit establishment of a parking lot adjacent to the theater at the northwest corner of Douglas Road and Tamiami Trail. The first request was turned down as a result of protests from surrounding property owners. The zoning board voiced the opinion that the movie theater required a parking lot, but it promised a review of the appeal in view of the renewed protest by the nearby residents.

MONSALVATGE PACES PONCE TO NET TITLE

Paced by the driving game of Gerald Monsalvatge, the Ponce de Leon High school tennis team this week steam-rollered Miami Beach High netters to capture the Gulfstream championship. The Gables players had little difficulty in disposin of the Beach team in title matches played at Flamingo Park. Monsalvatge took the singles championship from Joe Dunyan 6-0, 6-4 and then teamed with Tom Blakey to win the doubles crown from Beach courtsters, 14-12, 5-7, 6-3. Tom Blakey came close to making it an all-Ponce singles finals when he took the first set in semi-finals match with Joe Dunyan, but bowed to his Miami Beach opponent in the next two sets, 6-4, 6-3. Bill Merriam and Doug Sandberg gained the doubles semi-finals only to be turned back at that level, 6-4, 6-3. To appeal to men's self-interest is not to their best interest.

Salvadore Club Plans Barbecue

Teen-age masculine members of the Salvadore Park Club will swap tennis clothes and baseball uniforms for chef's aprons Saturday night when they act as hosts at a party for club members and their guests. The young men have promised to spend the evening slaving over a hot barbecue to provide hot dogs and toasted rolls for all comers. Shuffleboard, volleyball and informal games will highlight the party which is scheduled to start at 7:30 at the park. Doug Sandberg, Paul Setze and Al Harum are in charge of the festivities.

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Mayor Installs R-Club Queen

The gardenia crown and bouquet of gladioli were presented yesterday to Miss Mary Beth Boudreau in token of her coronation as Queen of the "R" Club Spring Frolic. Miss Boudreau was formally given her crown and flowers by Mayor W. Keith Phillips at a luncheon given by the Riddle Inter-American College at the Coral Gables Country Club. Reigning as Queen of the club's frolic last Saturday night, Miss Boudreau was attended by her "ladies in waiting," the Misses Polly Wolf, Dolores Williamson, Shirley Merlin, and Norma Freedman. She is the daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur E. Boudreau, 519 San Lorenzo Avenue. Colonel Boudreau is executive vice-president of the college.

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9 MORE NIGHTS OF DOG RACING

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