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RIVIERA-TIMES

PAGE FOUR RIVIERA-TIMES FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1947

Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Published every Friday morning by the Riviera Publishing Company, 260 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established January 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Advertising Manager. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Active Member 14 SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Six months, $2.00; one year, outside of United States, $3.50; local, $2.00; one year, out-of-town, $2.75. Entered as Second Class Matter May 25, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address Box 764 Phone 4-1634 4-1635 The Coral Gables Riviera is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Dollars—and Change.

America's philosophy of nationhood cannot be forced on the Greek people. Our money, given to Greece, can only give her time to recover and, in her recovery, find a new inner strength by which to ease the torments of her people. Dollars are a token of our democracy. But, without the follow-through of demonstration, the dollars will go down the drain. What demonstration are we giving to Greece along with our dollars? There are many simple but searching questions we might ask ourselves. Is the spirit of my home a pattern for a family of Greece? Is the democracy of my labor union a model for Greek labor? Does my school create sound citizens that pull together for the community, or proud, self-seeking people that tear it apart? Greece looks with a desperate hope on this land of ours and its people. We have set out to stop the on-rush of aggressive materialism that threatens the world. But unless our aid changes conditions it will not be enough. Economic stability demands more than a change of system. It demands a change of heart. Such a policy of moral re-armament, starting with ourselves, can turn a defensive strategy into a miracle of peace. For true democracy God-governed is the one idea big enough to penetrate the iron curtain and win the hearts of men and women—human like ourselves—on the other side.

Strictly Fresh

A man is always satisfied with himself and a woman is never satisfied with herself, says a family relations expert. Maybe that's where a woman's intuition comes in. * * * Joe Louis' trainer says the most effective formula for avoiding a "shiner" is to simply duck. That doesn't help much when it comes to the proverbial "running into a door." * * * The Bureau of Labor Statistics announces that the prices of rationed food in Soviet Russia have jumped upward of 166 per cent in the last nine months. Wonder how the Russians will white-wash inflation into one of the so-called advantages of communism? * * * The National Association of Pickle Packers recently came across something that looks like a pickle, tastes like a pickle, and smells like a pickle. "But it is not a pickle," they insisted, "unless it is pickled. This is pasteurized." So a three-man board decided on "quickie" as a substitute name. So just try that old tongue-twister—picked a peck of pickled peppers—substituting "qu." * * * A veteran in Connecticut found a nest and five young wrens in the pocket of an old pair of Army trousers he had hung on the line and forgotten about. It was the same pocket used to carry grenades. How's that for peacetime conversion? * * * Winifred Wagner, widow of the son of the famed German composer, Richard Wagner, is on trial before a German denazification board as a "major offender." We hope she has had time to pick a swan song out of her father-in-law's music album.

2 BEDROOMS — 2 BATHS

Sparkling, new, beautiful and well planned modern home. Designed by one of our leading architects. Built under owner's supervision, and intended as his lifelong home. No expense spared to make it the ultimate in comfort, convenience and lasting quality, with minimum effort and expense for maintenance. Some of the features are, a cooling and heating system; marble window sills and marble fireplace; well and pump for garden irrigation; barbecue fireplace and walled patio. NOW Change in owner's plans puts this choice property on the market. SHOWN BY APPOINTMENT LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR 2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586

OUR TOWN Flying Saucers

—By Jim Moore— Maybe I don't know the answer to all of the flying discs and saucers that have been making headlines from coast to coast; but I think I know the answer to most of them. In fact I know the guy that invented them, and is now sailing them through the skies and startling folks from the rock-bound coast of Maine to the fog-kissed shores of California. I met him first a long, long time ago; when I was six years old, to be exact. He wasn't experimenting with flying saucers when I first made his acquaintance. He was perfecting a device that converted the creaks of a settling old Pennsylvania house into burglars, bandits, beasties, hobgoblins and slithering reptiles. And he was quite good at it. I used to lie in my bed, very still, and listen to him at work on the floor below me. The old house would creak, and this guy would immediately transform that creak into a scar-faced burglar, working on the dining room window with a jimmy. There was no end to the variety of his conversions. A noise on the staircase would be changed in a flash to a sixteen-foot boa constrictor, slithering up to enfold me in his crushing coils. A dog, running across the lawn, became the insidious Hound of the Baskervilles; particularly if I'd been reading Sherlock Holmes. No doubt you've been a victim of his weird machinations. He's the man under the old maid's bed. He's the guy that makes you believe you're the reincarnation of Casanova after that fourth cocktail. Under a war contract he supplied gremlins to the USAAF. He owns a distillery that bottles pink elephants, polka-dotted alligators and cerise monkeys. James Thurber wrote about him in his delightful piece, "The Private Life of Walter Mitty." He was well-known to Edgar Allen Poe. Parents with mis-behaving children used to make use of him by calling him the "Boogie-Man." He turned your next door neighbor into a German spy during the war. This flying saucer business, or at least the majority of the flying saucers, are his latest caprice. It's the piece de resistance of a long career of experiments, during which Orson Welles almost got run out of the country for once working with him. You ought to know his name by now. It's "Imagination."

CORAL GABLES

Sylvan avenues And long green drives And homes touched with a dream. A sky immense With clouds so dense They're moving statues o'er the green. Where children play On bikes all day And in the pines a cool breeze whines. A boulevard of Miracle Mile Is lined with stores Where merchants smile. And mornings too So heavy with dew Keep this place forever new. Oh, Shakespeare's' Spirit Is lingering here In this sweet setting of Midsummers Night Or old King Lear. Somehow the forests of Avon grow Around wide drives and lawns aglow— With dreams. —ALMA JENNESS, '47

FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK

By Mary Helm Clarke EARLY IMPORTS OF VALUE The houseguest came to breakfast with a hand full of leaves. "I've been for a walk, she said, "and your trees are new to me. What are these? Between us, we identified most of them. The hibiscus, That came from China. Australian pine. The mango, originally from Yucatan. The Sacred Bo from Ceylon. Avocados brought from Central and South America. "Aren't there any native trees in the Gables?" she asked. "Why go to the ends of the earth for your natural beauties?" That gave us a chance to get out the Riviera Notebook and tell about Henry Perrine—the first commercial importer in South Florida. Seven years before Florida became a state, in 1938, an Act of Congress was approved to "encourage the introduction and promote the cultivation of tropical plants in the United States," and a township of land was granted to Dr. Henry Perrine and associates for homesteaders who would carry out the purpose of the act. It was a wise choice for a township, and still bears the name, Perrine—a land grant just south of a later "planned city," Coral Gables. Dr. Perrine began his importing from Yucatan, and the exotic tropical plants were received and distributed on Indian Key. In Yucatan and many other tropical areas he found plants that would prove valuable for crops and for home industries, so the homesteaders might become independent. For food, he introduced the mangoes, avocadoes, limes and sapodillas. For industry, he brought the "sisal" plant for making ropes and hammocks. (The swinging kind). These early importers also brought mulberry trees for a silk worm project, and rubber trees to compete with South American industry. With Charles Goodyear as vice president, Dr. Perrine formed the Florida Tropical Plant Co., and, although they were unsuccessful in cultivating commercial rubber, Goodyear dropped some rubber and sulphur on a hot stove in 1839 which led to the process of vulcanizing. Dr. Perrine was massacred in 1840 by a band of drunken Calusa Indians who resented intrusion into their hidden waterways and forests. It is said that Goodyear was saved by hiding in the leaves of a native rubber tree. Yes, there are native trees in the Gables, but the resources of the area have been enriched a hundred-fold by importing scores of tropical plants providing sustenance and industries for homesteaders. For these we are indebted to Dr. Perrine and those who have followed, including Dr. John C. Clifford and Dr. David Fairchild. Through Chapman Field and the Fairchild Tropical Garden we continue to import tropical treasures from around the world.

Gerald Monsalvatge Brooklyn Net Victor

Gerald Monsalvatge of Coral Gables went into the third round of the Eastern Junior Tennis Tournament at Brooklyn, N. Y. Monday when he defeated Berney Segal of Tampa. The tournament is being played at the Poly Prep Brooklyn Day School. Monsalvatge defeated the Tampa 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to take the match.

Visiting Kinsfolks

Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Hock, son, William, and daughter Sally are down from Ridgewood, N. J., for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Harum, Albert, Jr., and Davidson Harum of 2416 Columbus Boulevard. Mrs. Hock and Mrs. Harum are cousins.

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that on July 1, 1947, the Commission of the CITY OF CORAL GABLES adopted an Ordinance, the title of which is as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 533 AN ORDINANCE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXPENSES OF OPERATION OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES AND ITS DEPARTMENTS FOR THE PERIOD OF 1 YEAR COMMENCING UPON DEBT SERVICE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING JULY 1, 1947; PROVIDING FOR THE EXPENDITURE OF SUCH PROVISIONS HEREOF; AND DECLARING THIS TO BE AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. E. B. POORMAN, CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA 7/11-18

LEGAL NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that on JULY 1, 1947, the Commission of the CITY OF CORAL GABLES adopted an Ordinance, the title of which is as follows: ORDINANCE NO. 534 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING INSPECTION CERTIFICATES FOR MOTOR VEHICLES IN CORAL GABLES AND FIXING THE FEES THEREFOR; PROVIDING MINIMUM STANDARDS OF CONDITION OF SUCH VEHICLES; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONSISTENT OR IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; PROVIDING FOR THE SEVERABILITY OF THE PROVISIONS HEREOF; AND DECLARING THIS TO BE AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. E. B. POORMAN, CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA

LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES WILL MEET AS A BOARD OF EQUALIZATION AT THE CITY HALL IN SAID CITY (THE SECOND MONDAY IN JULY), ON JULY 14, AT THE HOUR OF 9:30 A.M. AND FROM DAY TO DAY THEREAFTER AS LONG AS MAY BE NECESSARY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF HEARING COMPLAINTS AND RECEIVING TESTIMONY AS TO THE VALUE OF ANY PROPERTY, AS FIXED AND ASSESSED BY THE CITY TAX ASSESSOR, AND ON THE THIRD DAY OF ITS MEETING THE BOARD WILL PROCEED TO EQUALIZE AND PASS UPON WITH IT IN RESPECT TO ANY ASSESSMENTS THAT SHALL HAVE BEEN MADE. E. B. POORMAN, City Clerk CITY OF CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA 6-20-27 — 7-4-11-47.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the "Fictitious Name Statutes, 1941," that the undersigned doing business under the fictitious name of Dewey's Jewelry, 2206 Ponce de Leon Blvd., Coral Gables, Florida, in Dade County, Florida, intends to register said fictitious name in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida. DEWEY H. KLEIN. 7/2-11-18-25

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the "Fictitious Name, Statute, 1941," that the undersigned doing business under the fictitious name of Miracle Mile Mimeographing, 220 Coral Way, Coral Gables, Florida, in Dade County, Florida, intends to register said fictitious name in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida. EVELYN PERKINS 7/3-25-47.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the "Fictitious Name Statutes, 1941," that the undersigned doing business under the fictitious name of Ed Hassen at 1727 S. W. 4th St., Coral Gables, Florida, in Dade County, Florida, intends to register said fictitious name in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida. EDWARD ROLAND HASSENTEUFEL. 6/20-274-7/2-11

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the "Fictitious Name Statutes, 1941," that the undersigned doing business under the fictitious name of Coral Gables Auto Driving School, 203 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, Florida, in Dade County, Florida, intends to register said fictitious name in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida. MAX H. GREEN. 6/20-27; 7/3-11-1947.

Now He Says Here

Signs of the Returning Buyer's Market— A young matron we know received a very plaintive note from Herb Jarvis, the Furstide credit manager, saying that he'd noticed that she hadn't used her charge account there lately and that practically everybody from the door man to the president missed her around the store. She told us that she had a difficult time subduing one of those crazy impulses to call him up and say, "Why Herb, I didn't know you cared!" And, speaking of impulses, Dick Thiel put his wife on the train for a trip North last week, and then while passing an airlines office succumbed to a wild idea. He got a ticket and hopped the next plane for Jacksonville. When Mrs. Thiel got out to stretch her legs at Jax, there was Dick on the platform saying, "Where in heck have you been? I've been waiting up here for days for you." Quite a favorite at Camp Blanding during the war, has tender feet. If you should happen along Alhambra Circle in the vicinity of the American Legion and see a man of military bearing carrying a small black bull terrier at arm's length, with the dog's feet sticking straight up in the air, neither the man nor the dog is crazy. It's Colonel Joe Byerly giving his dog "Spot" a lift over the hot pavement. Spot, who was Dr. L. D. Pankey and his associate, Dr. J. Reese Clawson took the new "Fisherman's Clipper" to Jamaica over the Fourth, but the weather was so rough that on the return trip, the local dentists returned with no fish. . . . Bob Ely and Jim Moore both celebrated their birthday on July 4th, which fact also used as an occasion for housewarming his new residence just South of the Gables. . . Over 100 friends were there to help them celebrate the dual occasion. And in addition to the large birthday cake for Bob, the thoughtful Elys had a smaller replica made for Jim. A lady we know was forced to slam on her brakes to avoid hitting another woman who came speeding through a stop street. As she paused for breath before proceeding, a truck driver who also had been forced to halt his vehicle to avoid a smash-up, climbed out of his truck and came up to her car. "That woman's husband must be either an undertaker or an insurance man," he said. "In either event she won't cost him anything." Freddie Daw, the orchestra leader, is heartsick over the loss of his complete musical library which was stolen from the rear of his car. In fact, he is offering a substantial reward for its return with no questions asked. It takes a long time to build up a music library for an orchestra, complete with special arrangements, and it represents quite a loss to Freddie. Elks Club Secretary Charlie Gobat lays no claim to being an expert fisherman and states, in fact, that he usually just goes along for the ride. Nevertheless, while fishing the Gulf Stream on Tuesday, Charlie landed a five and one-half foot sailfish on a light line and tackle. Gonna mount it for the club, Charlie?

In Our Mail

Editor: The Riviera-Times There is a condition existing in our city of Coral Gables which stands as a very dangerous threat to the health of the community. I refer to the way in which the Venetian Pool has been allowed to become filmed with "slime." Until six months ago the pool was kept in fine shape, but, since that time, the bottom of the pool has been increasingly neglected until now it is so covered with "slime" that one can hardly keep from falling. And, not only does this "slime" itself constitute a menace to health but so also do the water bugs which it has bred. There are at least three varieties of these that I have noticed—varying from long-legged ones to a large round type which swim beneath the surface and are are large as a "quarter." Surely this condition can be remedied—it must be! If the grounds of the pool can be kept clean, surely the pool itself can also. DAVID JAMES VOGT, 723 Camilo Avenue. Editor The Riviera-Times Now I wonder if you are going to throw this letter in your waste basket? I enjoy reading the Riviera-Times and look forward to Friday, when I know it will be in the mail. One of the chief reasons for my liking your paper is that you have the interest of the Coral Gables taxpayers and residents—in that you have the courage to say and get things done. Now, I want you to check into the Venetian Pool yourself and see how dirty it is—the bottom is slimy and a film is on top of the water, and bugs are all over it. It is a menace to the health of our children. What can you do to get this filthy pool cleaned? I am a property owner and am indignant at the way that the pool is taken care of. MRS. FRED A. WHITE, 1029 Seville Avenue.

ANNOUNCING 5-DAY BANK WEEK

BEGINNING SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1947 The Undersigned Financial Institutions Will Be CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK This revised schedule of banking days has been adopted for the following principal reasons: 1. Pursuant to the provisions of the Banking Law recently adopted by the Florida State Legislature, and to conform to the five-day week recently established by banks in leading financial centers, including New York, Boston and Atlanta, whose facilities are essential for telegraphic money transfers, clearing and obtaining final payment on many checks and drafts payable at points other than Miami and vicinity. 2. To provide a work week for employees similar to the five-day week as now observed by many units of business and industry. * * * We respectfully solicit the cooperation of individuals, business and professional firms, whom we are privileged to serve, in revising their requirements for payrolls, deposits and other banking transactions. FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK AT CORAL GABLES THE CORAL GABLES FIRST NATIONAL BANK COCONUT GROVE EXCHANGE BANK CORAL GABLES FEDERAL SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION