Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Coral Gables Riviera Times

Published every Friday morning by the Riviera Publishing Company, 300 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established January 1926: combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Florida Press Association, Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Gertrude Hardiment, Advertising Manager. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Six months, $2.00; One year, local, $3.00; One year, out-of-town, $2.75. Entered as Second Class Matter May 21, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address Box 704 Phone 4-1624, 4-1625 The Coral Gables Riviera is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears

Regulation Needed

Last week the Coral Gables police department announced a campaign to curb speeding and running through "Stop" streets. Arrests and fines were promised motorists who disobey these traffic laws. If the police department is planning on an effective safety campaign it should be made a complete one. Definitely it should include more stringent regulation of bicycle and scooters. Just two weeks ago a youngster, riding an unlighted bicycle at night, was struck by a motorist and suffered a fractured leg. He was lucky-he could have lost his life. Unlighted bicycles and motor scooters driven by under-age children provide one of the greatest menaces to traffic safety on Coral Gables streets today. No bicycle that is not adequately lighted should be permitted on the streets at night. The state law governing motor scooters should be rigidly enforced. Only if this is done will any traffic safety campaign be a complete success.

Put Back That Gold

A few years back, hard times caught up with Coral Gables. Pinched between the tag end of a long depression and the uncertainties of a war just begun, the City pared its yearly appropriation to the University of Miami from $25,000 to $15,000. Let it be emphasized that the City Fathers took the action only after having carried the full obligation through a bitter era of tightened belts and flat purses. It was a measure of desperation in a chaotic world. Hard times are over for the City but the rapidly-growing University continues to have trouble keeping itself decently covered by endowments available. Isn't it time to consider restoration of the lopped $10,000 and resumption of the full $25,000 gift yearly? We can spare it. The University needs it. And were the City able to afford four times that amount, it might still be in debt to the institution which brings 7,000 potential customers and prospective residents to Coral Gables yearly.

Glutamic acid has been found to increase human intelligence. It's smart to the taste, too. * * * President Truman thinks the market for newly built homes will last 10 years. Buyers fear the homes won't. * * * Apparently a very real need for workers is felt in Russia. Stalin has substituted 25 years at hard labor for capital punishment. * * * A Canadian psychiatrist says relatives of some mental patients ought to be treated right along with the patients. So maybe we ARE driving each other crazy. * * * Rep. Forest A. Harness, Indiana Republican, wants to investigate the government's $75,000,000-a-year publicity and propaganda bill. Apparently he believes that government agencies, like children, should be seen and not heard from.

YOUR TOWN | Thinking Big | -By Jim Moore-

H. H. Tchakarian, whose skilled fingers have turned out some of the finest organs in this country, is a man who thinks big thoughts. I guess any man who is closely associated with anything so magnificent as the full and sonorous tones of the open diapason of a mighty organ would be inclined to think big. At any rate, Mr. Tchakarian has an idea-naturally it's a big one. He came into the Riviera-Times office the other day full of enthusiasm about it. When he left, we of the staff were equally enthusiastic. I will admit that when he first started talking I wasn't too impressed. Mr Tchakarian thinks Florida needs an Oratorio Society - which to me meant little more than a bunch of people getting together to exercise their vocal chords. But when he expanded his idea, and pictured for me a choir of over a thousand voices, gathered together on Christmas Eve to fill the starry tropical night with the glorious notes of "The Messiah", I began to warm to the idea. He has already discussed the plan with the heads of the music departments of the University of Florida, Rollins and some of the other schools throughout the state. They caught his enthusiasm and have promised several hundred voices each. Mr. Tchakarian believes that the massing of these voices here in the Miami area each year on Christmas Eve could become an event that would attract thousands, I agree. I also heartily agree with him in some-thing else he proposes. The organization of such an undertaking should begin right here in Coral Gables, says Mr. Tchakarian. He points out that our town is the natural cultural center of the state. From the leaders of this community should come the leadership of such an undertaking. Mr. Tchakarian has a great idea - a magnificent idea. It is something that the musical-minded of Coral Gables should seize upon -nurture and bring into glorious being.

GYPSY SPRING

A day will come when eager April calls, And I shall not be here. Bright daffodils, Will dance their minuets on windward hills, And pink azaleas crown the water-falls, But other eyes than mine shall see gray walls, Bedecked enchantingly, when May time spills Wild cherry blossoms on elated rills, When mountains throw aside their misty shawls. Weep not for me, My dreaming heart holds dear The dogwood's veiled blossoms made for spring, And wild-flowers kneeling by old wishing wells, Though locked in frozen sleep I still may hear Fat robins and gay red-birds, when they sing, As gypsy April casts her old-time spells. Polly McKibben

WELL, JOE, GOOD LUCK

I am twenty-four, and I'm single still- The very thought of it makes me ill. All of my high school chums have married; I, only, along the way have tarried. Five years Joe and I have been "going steady"; My hope chest is full, I'm waiting and ready; There's no other girl-Joe loves me, I know. Then why don't he just up and tell me so? Mother says a girl should not make advances To expedite matrimonial chances, But I have decided now that I Shall not let many more months go by Waiting for someone else to decide Whether or not I shall be a bride. I'll make the decision for that guy Joe- He's mine, and I'm going to tell him so. J. L. BEERS.

It Says Here...

The happiest kind of birthday greetings go this week to Youth Center founder Harry W. Morgenthaler, who will celebrate 60 years on this old globe on Sunday. Harry is a Buckeye by birth, having first seen the light of day in Cincinnati, Ohio. He's also a granddaddy, in case he hasn't told you. Anyway, Harry, here's hoping that you'll be around to celebrate many more of them ... Incidentally, Bunny Cesarano celebrates her birthday on the same day and the two families usually arrange a sort of joint observance. We saw the proprietor of the ARCADE Record and Appliance Store standing in front of his place of business the other morning holding a miniature radio that was broadcasting a commercial for the Arcade Record and Appliance Store ... Carrol Daniels tells us that on numerous occasions greeting card customers have forgotten to bring their glasses and request him to read the printed sentiments on the cards so they can make a selection. He's always glad to comply ... Saw a woman in a lighter car over at Eddie Roffler's recently-is the "Flapper Age" on the way back? Somebody should give the young fellow who was driving the University of Miami bus (license 1K-56) Saturday a little talk on safe driving methods. About 1:30 p.m. he pulled away from the curb at the main building without so much as a hand signal or a look-around. Had it not been for the alertness of the driver behind him, there might have been a serious accident ... Sing Thiel learned to play poker Saturday night ... Mr. Art Weilnau is planning to play host to his fellow Kiwanians at a round-up and barbecue on his West Coast ranch about July 15 ... Leland Shepard records the story in his Rotarygrams of the husband and wife who couldn't speak to each other, except in sign language. One night when hubby came home vurra late the wife let him have her raging anger, her fingers flying a mile a minute. Just as he raised his hands to answer her, she turned out the light! Mr. Hedgepeth, who takes care of the Riviera-Times lawn, stuck his head in the door during one of the recent downpours and quipped, "I'm glad you people finally decided to water that lawn" ... The Country Club of Coral Gables has a new truck ... The J. Francis Hickeys move into their new house this week ... They'll be neighbors of the Bill Davies' ... We were sitting in the movie the other night when someone in the row behind us hissed in our ear, "If we'd have known you were going to sit in front of us we'd have bought pop corn. Twig Lib Cox and Laura Walter ... We still think there should be a national law against popcorn bags in the movies and we'll never be able to understand why the theaters sell the noisy stuff There was a funeral at the Paul H. Brinson household on Tuesday. "Butch" a pet possum owned by Paul, Jr. succumbed and was buried with "full military honors" with young Paul and Johnnie playing "Taps" on their harmonicas ... Jimmie Santacroce, who painted the benches in Merrick Park many years ago, says that the city ought to plant some Royal Poincianas there. He previously suggested the idea to a previous city manager in 1937 but it was vetoed ... Dr. E. H. Mullan tells us that some day he is going to build the "perfect house." Says the doctor, "It will be constructed like a fort so that rain and Florida bugs can't get in." We were intrigued by the summer address phoned to us this week by Laurence H. Grimes. It's "No. 1 Myopia Road" up in Winchester Mass. ... A prominent lady we know was asked at a recent dinner party whether or not she smoked. When she replied that she didn't drink either, her table companion commented he knew just what she did do to pass the time. "I suppose I'm a little strange," she replied, "I neither smoke nor drink, I have long hair and I'm married to the same man I started out with many years ago." From California this week came word that Katherine Louise (DeLong) Czaky and Andy have agreed to disagree via the divorce courts. Both are planning to return to Coral Gables.

In the Editor's Mail | THIS IS WHAT YOU SAID!

Editor, Riviera-Times, Due, I believe, to the publicity you have furnished and also to the efforts of Mr. Mellwain, City Manager of Coral Gables, there has been a marked decrease of low flying planes lately, at least over my home. It has been particularly noticeable in P.A.A. planes which used to be the chief nuisances. Now it is scattered among Panagra, E.A.I., and National with now and then some Navy combat planes. It certainly does not seem just that a plane holding say, only about 50 passengers should be allowed to make life miserable for anywhere from 5,000 be 500,000 home dwellers below by making an UNNECESSARY thundering racket over them, even if these planes have just made a speed record flying from North Pole to South Pole or something similar. The latest plane crash at La Guardia Field should have a sobering effect in showing some of these pilots that it might happen here, and that the wise thing to do, whether practicing takeoffs and landings, or on a trip is to stay up as high as possible to give that much more safety margin besides more comfort for the proletariat below. Yours truly, "AGGRAVATED, and HOW."

Editor, Riviera-Times The Legislature has enacted into law the major recommendations of the Citizens Committee on Education. The support your paper gave to this program did a great deal to shape public opinion and pave the way for favorable legislative action. On behalf of the school children and the teaching profession of Florida, I want to thank you for the great contribution you have made to education in our state. Cordially yours, Colin English, Supt. Department of Education

Editor, Riviera-Times: On behalf of the Board of Directors of the South Florida Children's Hospital, I am writing to thank you for your cooperation in publicizing details of the building fund campaign which they have carried on to complete the institution. Through the news and editorial columns of your valuable paper a wide coverage of readers has been obtained and details of the campaign have been carried to many homes, which otherwise would not have been reached. To the thanks of the Board, may I add my own personal thanks, recognizing as I do the value of the service which you have rendered the hospital. As a newspaperman, I am in a position to appreciate good coverage and so accept my thanks and best wishes for the continuing success of your publication. Sincerely, Ed Spill, Publicity Director

Editor, Riviera-Times: Regarding the story in the Riviera-Times about State Health Official Dr. Wilson T. Sowder's urging smallpox vaccination: It is tragically true that vaccination and in-noculation do not immunize but do cause much disease by poisoning the blood and weakening natural power of resistance. Many children now have cancer, rheumatic fever and other diseases that they did not have 50 years ago in spite of better sanitation and hygenic habits. Of course, if the truth were widely known regarding the uselessness and menace of vaccine and sera the million dollar fortunes of the vaccine and serum companies would be greatly reduced and also the incomes of those who "shoot" them; but surely that is of no consequence compared with the health of the people. Sincerely yours, Mrs. Arthur Wellesley 406 Aragon Avenue (Editor's Note: Mrs. Wellesley enclosed a tract authored by the late William Howard Hay, M.D. in support of her letter.)

Editor, The Riviera-Times: Why doesn't the city purchase some used antiaircraft guns from the War Assets Administration, place them strategically throughout the city, recall the air raid wardens to active duty and then really show those doggone low-flying planes that we mean business? Of course I'm only kidding, but it does begin to look as though that's the only way we are ever going to get a little peace and quiet in Coral Gables. Here's hoping your paper keeps after 'em. Elbert J. Kenniston

Norman MacKay Eulogized In Tribute by Rev. Fritsch | BY HARVEY JOHN FRITSCH

BY HARVEY JOHN FRITSCH Editor's Note: The following appreciation on the passing of Norman MacKay, commercial manager of WFAY, was written by the Rev. Harvey John Fritsch the evening following Norman's death in the Eastern Airlines crash, Friday, near Bainbridge, Md. It was read by Rev. Fritsch on a special memorial program on Thursday over that station, and is reprinted here following numerous requests from our readers. They say that Norman MacKay is dead. I don't believe it. Not that I doubt the report of Eastern Airlines to the effect that Norman MacKay was numbered among those aboard the ill-fated DC-4 that crashed in Maryland. No-it's all too horribly true to doubt. But if you believe that Norman MacKay is dead-you didn't know Norman. Radio is a young man's business and Norman was a showman. There are some people, you know, who can be in radio for years and still not be a showman, but that can't be said of him. He had a flair for the dramatic. He was constantly bringing forth new ideas, but his sometimes reckless flair was tempered by years of experience and the knowledge of what was good and bad in radio. Physically he was small, 'tho well put together; his features fine and well arranged . . . but what you noticed about him first was his personality. Of Scotch extraction, he had the hard wit of the Scots, and what's more, a vivaciousness that instantly marked him as a leader. Faults?-sure he had them-I have mine-you have yours. He was as full of faults as an old shoe-and just as comfortable to have around. But the pendulum of his personality could, and did, swing from the "make" believe" land of glitter and tinsel and things prosaic-to the deeper and finer things of life ... of God ... of home and family . . . of community pride ... and civic duty. If you could have talked with him as I have talked with him on many occasions, you would know -as I know-that Norman MacKay is not dead. You would believe -as I believe-that Norman MacKay is now in the Radio City of the Universe-Studio A of Heaven ... where the brilliant fanfare of Gabriel's trumpet gets the attention of all us-sooner or later-where the celestial orchestra and choir make music, the like of which Toscanini and Kostelanetz can only dream ... where God Himself is the sponsor ... and where the system cue is, "This is the Eternal Broadcasting System". I can not say, "I will not say he is dead. He is just away.

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Gables Pianists Are Featured in Beach Recital

Coral Gables and vicinity was well represented Monday evening when the piano pupils of Hope Dundas of the Coral Gables Branch of the Miami Conservatory presented a recital at the Beach Studio. The program was opened with a duet "The Spirit of the U.S.A." by Eva Helen Willix and Dale Crownover. Soloists included Johyna Okell, Winnie Ruth Waters, Lila Jean Folly, Nina Helen Koger, Sue Crownover, Joy Meyer, Dora Higgins, Dale Crownover, Marcia Monroe, Eva Helen Willis, Nancy Ann Ruse, Jacqueline West, Brent Bartlett, Patricia Carithers and Audrey Barnes. Linda Davis joined Miss Davis and the Misses Crownover in a double piano duet. Two selections by the Coral Gables composer, Mrs. Buenta Carter, "Whirling the Firestick" and "The Juggling Clown", were featured during the recital.

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Famous Homes | Thomas Jefferson's "Monticello" Home

Famous Homes Thomas Jefferson's "Monticello" Home In 1776, young Jefferson, just 33, left Charlottesville, Virginia, on a seven-day horse-back ride to Philadelphia to borrow the money to complete his new home "Monticello". His business trip became of national importance when he was appointed, with John Adams and Franklyn to write a "Resolution of Liberty". We owe our Declaration of Independence, as Jefferson renamed his masterpiece, to this trip to finance a home. Financing a home today is a simple matter with the methods that are available. And the purchase of a home is a personal declaration of independence from landlords and future rent raises. Why not see how easy it can be for you? CORAL GABLES FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION GEORGE B. CASTER, President 2501 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Telephone 4-7627 Member Federal Home Loan Bank Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation