Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

Published every Friday morning by the Riviera Publishing Company, 220 Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established January 1926; combined with the Coral Gables & Suburban News, March, 1940. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James R. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Active Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Six months, $2.00; one year, outside of United States, $5.00; local, $3.00; one year, out-of-town, $3.75. Entered as Second Class Matter May 31, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address Box 164 - Phone 4-2544-4-2545. The Coral Gables Riviera is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Capital Investment

On page three of this edition you will find a detailed financial statement of the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center. You will also find a story, relating how the board of directors have eliminated one room from the proposed building in an effort to cut down the loan requirement to $40,000. The financial statement, with its cold facts and figures, can never begin to tell the story behind the building of the nation's first living war memorial. Nor does a factual report of a director's meeting stress the need for finishing this project. Local financial institutions have expressed a reluctance to handle the loan, because it has been pointed out that they could never foreclose on such a project. Yet the city commission has pledged $5,000 a year to the capital fund, with the almost positive assurance that future commissions will follow their lead until $50,000 has been allocated to the building fund. On top of that are the unpaid pledges of Gables residents, which will further swell the figure. What finer investment could a financial institution make than in the youth of one of the finest communities in the nation? If this investment, backed by the word of the city fathers, is a poor one-then no investment in this town is worth one plugged nickel. This loan must be secured, even if the loan groups require the individual endorsements of public-minded residents. It is a challenge to the town's integrity that must be met.

Terminology

In observing the talks between members of the Coral Gables parent-teacher association and school board representatives, one point becomes increasingly apparent. The local mothers and fathers are talking about Coral Gables while the school board is talking about Dade County. It is true that we have a county school system here and the school board must think of Dade County as a whole. But it is equally true that we have a community here, a separate, corporate entity, and its residents will continue to think in terms of Coral Gables forever more. That is why, many years ago, we Gableites asked for a school district that coincided with our city boundaries. That is why we are still asking for such a redistricting. Board Member James A. Henderson, himself a Gableite, warns that the "people of Dade County" have to agree to give better financial support to their schools. He paints a gloomy picture of prospects of floating a county bond issue to build more schools. That may be true of Dade County as a whole. But Coral Gables has always wholeheartedly supported its schools, and there is little doubt that a bond issue effecting schools in this community would pass by an easy majority. That is the unfortunate aspect of a county system, in which progressive, school-minded communities are penalized because other sections of the county are loathe to get behind their schools. And that is why the parents of Coral Gables will always think of our schools in terms of this community and not in terms of the county system.

OUR TOWN -By Jim Moore- Down with Popcorn

What is there about a movie theater that makes people want to eat popcorn? And why do the operators of the motion picture houses want to sell the dogonne stuff in the first place? Why do a couple of hundred people want to spoil the enjoyment of the rest of the audience by crunching, crackling, crushing and rustling popcorn bags while their jaws play an accompaniment to the noisy exploded maize? You tell me. I'm sure I don't know the answer. And maybe I'm all wrong. Maybe the rest of the cinema goers enjoy having a tender piece of dialogue drowned out by a noisy popcorn eater behind them. Maybe the crackle of the cellophane bags adds zest to the movie script. Maybe I'm a sore-head to be griping about it all. But it certainly has become a pet peeve of mine. One time during the past week I went to see two good movies. At the first one that little stinker Reddy Kilowatt was up to his old tricks of shutting off the power and interrupting the film at frequent intervals. But that wasn't the fault of anyone in the theater. And this column isn't supposed to be about the failure of the Florida Power and Light Company to provide proper lightning arrestors or whatever is needed to prevent that sort of thing. But the next day, with no electrical storms in prospect, I again went to the movies. The candy counter in the lobby was doing a land-office business in the noisy stuff. The bags were new and crisp. To me the screen dialogue sounded something like this: "Sure I know the murderer. It was CRACKLE CRUSH CHEW CRUNCH and I can prove it"! "You're a liar. What you don't know is that CRUSH CRACKLE CHEW CHEW CRUNCH the night that the murder occurred! And furthermore the whole secret of the crime revolves around CRACKLE CRACKLE CRUNCH CHEW!" And it went on like that all through the feature until the travelogue came on. Then everybody had finished cramming popcorn down their gullets and I could hear all about the quaint native customs of Lower Slobbovia-as if I cared. Maybe the answer lies in noiseless bags and soggy popcorn, because evidently a lot of people enjoy munching the stuff while watching the movies. But personally I'm for eating enough at home before going to the show and then total abstinence-at least while the feature's on.

In Our Mail

Mr. James B. Moore Managing Editor Coral Gables Riviera-Times Dear Jim: The Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors held its first business meeting of the new fiscal year this week and it was unanimously voted by the directors to thank you, Mr. Harum and others associated with the Coral Gables Riviera-Times for its excellent cooperation during the past year. Particular mention was made of the publicity given the Biscayne Key project, the Citizens' Tax Committee and our campaign to urge local residents to shop in Coral Gables. It is gratifying to see our local newspaper making such progressive strides in its growth. May I personally compliment you on the quality of the newspaper and its benefit to the community as a whole. With every good wish, I am, Sincerely yours, C. B. Tutan, President. Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce.

Get Together, Folks, Get Together!

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FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK By Mary Helm Clarke GREAT OAKS FROM LITTLE ACORNS

This story is inspired by two items of current interest: The Golden Wedding Anniversary of Dr. and Mrs. George B. Laird and the installation of the first minister for a new Presbyterian Church. The events remind us that "great oaks from little acorns grow." Dr. Laird is revered as Pastor Emeritus of First Presbyterian Church of Coral Gables. He is also honored as the first ordained minister to serve the new Presbyterian congregation which started in 1926, meeting in the Kindergarten room of the Elementary school. The church group had moved to larger quarters, in the Coral Gables Country Club, when Dr. Laird was called and several more moves were made before the Pastor and his congregation-corporation purchased the triangle at Alhambra Circle and Ponce de Leon, the present site. The bank and the post office were constructed there, and the bank was immediately converted into a church auditorium. The post office continued to lease the other building for a time, but in later years the church school has occupied and outgrown the structure. The new Presbyterian church has just taken root in Coral Gables, meeting temporarily at Merrick Demonstration school. They plan to build as soon as possible. The Congregational church was the first church to convene in its own temple of worship. It was designated the choice location in the original blueprint of the City Beautiful, to commemorate the original owner of Coral Gables Plantation, Dr. Solomon G. Merrick, retired Congregational minister. Although the Congregational Church functioned as a community church, denominational groupings were inevitable. Methodists were organized in the auditorium of the Elementary school, the Christian church began its services in the military school (now Merrick Demonstration school), and the Baptists erected a wooden tabernacle for their first convenings. The tabernacle was destroyed by the '26 hurricane, but the Baptists moved to a structure built for commercial purposes and have steadily progressed toward their goal. They have been spurred on by the architect's drawing of their proposed structure which has adorned the walls of the temporary structure throughout the periods of growth and building restrictions. Dr. and Mrs. Laird and the other spiritual leaders of Coral Gables are not so concerned about dwindling congregations and abandoned church structures. They are more concerned about the expansion of present facilities to provide adequate housing for church schools and adequate auditoriums for church attendance which overflows all existing facilities in mid-winter. Great oaks from little acorns grow, and the city of Coral Gables, which planted one tree, now boasts a dozen others spreading over larger and larger areas. A city of homes, it is also a church-going community.

In These Days...

It takes all kinds of people to make a world-unfortunately. At least that's the opinion we formed after hearing the tale of the six gals who barged into the Granada Club on ladies' night for a dinner on the house. No sooner had they been served when four men, who had obviously been waiting outside, joined them. The "ladies" demanded extra plates and shared their dinner with the boy friends thereby avoiding any check at all. Fortunately we can report that they were not folks from Coral Gables, but from that lush island city of Miami Beach. After his "Saucer" ad in last week's Riviera-Times, liquor dealer Carl Singleton is working on another gag concerning the flying discs ... City Commissioner Frank Halley sends us a postcard of the San Francisco-Oakland bridge with the comment, "I don't believe it is 8 1/2 miles long. I jumped out of my 14th floor room last night and almost made it to Oakland. Those Californians are-as ever-great." ... The gang of Kiwanians who journeyed to Dr. Arthur Weiland's ranch last week found the road well marked. At one point where a bridge had been washed out they found a sign, "Go Around the Damn Thing." Hiram Ricker got stuck twice, the report says. ... We took a trip out to "Central Miami" on Sunday and watched "Mayor" Bill Davies directing community improvements there. It's getting to be quite a town. Maybe we can get Mary Hickey, our former staff member, to do us a piece on it now that she lives there ... We also drove down and looked at the site for the new Mark Erwin home on North Kendall Drive. They poured footings there this week ... Editor Cliff Wilmath of the Trailer News headed for Sarasota, Fla. on Tuesday. There's a big super market going into that store under construction at 23rd Ponce. It's being built by a Chicago man, but just which company will get the lease has not yet been ascertained ... Cy and Marion Washburn are trying out the J. P. Riddle "intravenous" method of learning conversational Spanish in 16 easy weeks ... Petty McGill has gone into the kennel business. We just printed some pedigrees for the pups. Has the day of the long, drawn-out commission meetings ended? The commissioners got through at 10:30 on Tuesday night. We've sat through some that lasted until 2 a.m. ... Dave Hendrick wants the city to look into some crossing lanes in the middle of the blocks on Miracle Mile ... We hear that Carroll Daniels got the shoe department lease for his department store squared away this week ... They were able to scrape up only three bouts for the Jaycee boxing show on Tuesday night, but the customers agreed that they got their money's worth, anyway. The Chamber of Commerce handled an odd case recently. It concerned a man who flew all the way from the North just to get his panama hat cleaned, and the cleaner lost it. No, it wasn't a local firm ... The Whidden Motor Sales is demonstrating a brand new fire engine. Mr. Whidden drove it by the fire station the other day and you should have seen the mouth watering. He says he's going to keep it as a demonstrator for as long as he can, as he's had a yen to drive a fire engine ever since he was a kid. Fred Bendinger of Jephson's is strutting around proudly these days all because he got delivery on the second refrigerated candy case in the United States. It has a humidifier that keeps his Whitman chocolates at just the right temperature. The only thing we didn't like about it, is that the moving in, uncating and placement of the case disrupted our coffee club for several mornings. It really is a honey, though. Jimmy Santacroce was a visitor at city commission meeting on Tuesday night ... Bill Gray is said to be a dead ringer for one of the assistant prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials ... Ed Bowler, the circulation manager, tells us that he's really keeping busy these days, changing Coral Gables addresses to ones in vacation spots in the North ... But no recent entries in the great summer blanket derby ... If any of your friends have-wire the. He's in the lead for der blankets at Lake Oskowitcheepo, tell us about 'em ... Pete and Willa Robinson are back in circulation again after an extended vacation trip ... Rub-a-dub-dub, four men in a tub-at least that's the report we got from the Lion's Club installation on Tuesday night. Seems that their fellow Lions put Johnny Rosasco, Del Colburn, Al Harum and Gus Lancaster in a' big wash tub and tried to give them a push ride around the floor. The tub collapsed ... Leon LaSalle is our informant. Those of you who have missed "Rex" the dog who has been a familiar figure around the Printz Pharmacy, for many years, will be sorry to hear that he died recently. Rex was owned by Jewel Arnold.

Strictly Fresh

A hotel in St. Paul, Minn., now offers its guests a chance to sleep vaporly under automatic electric blankets recently installed in every room. Now that's just the thing for summer! An ultra-soundproof room, 35 feet long, 28 wide, and 28 high, has been built at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N. J. It's so well built that even a hushed heartbeat can be heard. But now that they've got it, what are they going to do with it? Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York City refused to umpire a baseball game between the newspaper reporters who cover city hall and the city councilmen. That's one way to keep friendly with both sides. Years ago in some American Indian tribes it was the custom for a husband to show respect to his mother-in-law by never meeting her face to face or speaking to her. Oh, to be an Indian long, long ago. Political leaders all have something in common-they believe it is more blessed to give than to receive conversation. Members of Congress are reported to be losing hair in their search for the real Russia. Symptoms are an abundance of viewing with alarm and a deficiency of pointing with pride. Frank Hocevar, a 56-year-old engineer from Gary, Ind., set a new transcontinental speed record by driving from New York City to San Francisco in a 20-year-old model T Ford in four days and 13 hours. Next time you pass one up in your 1947 model, do it with reverence. The Edinburgh, Scotland, College of Art opened an exhibit in London which only half the usual number of nude paintings. Reason: Models refused to strip during last winter's coal shortage. Art for art's sake-but not when it comes to downright discomfort. A 17-year-old high school student went fishing in Lake Michigan and fished out a small boy who fell out of his buggy and into the lake. Now there's a fish story that will bring many a raised eyebrow.

THE ROAD TO HAPPINESS

There is many a road to the Highway of Life, Some are rough, some are smooth, some are fair. Some lead to the heights far from noise and from strife, And some end in vales of Despair. If we only could know just the road we should choose, So no time would be lost on the way; How much of the pain and the sorrow we'd lose, And Life would be sweeter each day. And there's a way we can learn just the way we should go If we take Old Experience as guide, For He's been o'er the road and its pitfalls will know, So we're safe, long as He's by our side. The roadways to Pleasure, to Power and Fame, Lead not all to the palace of Joy, For some learn too late that they're only a name, Where sorrow and grief out alloy. The Happiness Road is lined all the way, With the flowers of Love and Good Will, Unselfish devotion holds absolute sway And the voices of envy are still. Love's daily sacrifice makes smooth the path, While a smile and a word of good cheer, Turn to fond adoration the glances of wrath, And Trust takes the sting out of Fear. The way to be happy is just to be good, To be kind, to be loving and true, To do unto others in hearty-tender mood, Just what you'd have them do to you. May you follow this road to the end of the way, And drink of its pleasures your fill; And you'll find every day is a far better day, And that Love will abide with you still. -J. N. GREENE.

The various arguments that President Truman's new foreign policy leads toward war, or leads toward franker understanding with Russia, to most people's thinking, just don't get to the point. What really distinguishes this new U. S. foreign policy is that it leads. The desire to make living better for the other fellow can be as strong as your wish to make a better living for yourself. Sound men produce sound systems. No system in itself produces a sound man.

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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 Dewey's Jewelry, 2200 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. 7/5-11-18-25

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 Phillips Typewriter Co., 205 Alcazar Avenue, 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. J. W. PHILLIPS. 7-18-25 - 8-1-8-47.

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