Coral Gables Riviera-Times

Riviera Times

CORAL GABLES Riviera Times Published every Friday morning by the Riviera Publishing Company, 200 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established January 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1973. MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, Florida Press Association, Miami Beach Board of Realtors. E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James B 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, $5.50; local, $2.00; 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, 1897. 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.

Biltmore Course

The Veteran's Administration has announced that it plans to lease the Biltmore golf course and has called for bids to be filed with its Atlanta office by August 4. Among the bids filed will be a bid from the City of Coral Gables for the operation of the course as a municipal links. Undoubtedly there will be other bids filed, too. But the VA has announced that it is reserving the right to reject any and all bids. A certain amount of agitation has been evident in the city of Miami to either have that municipality acquire the course itself, or to have the Miami Country Club lease the property. A City of Miami bid, to operate a course within the limits of another municipality seems definitely out of order. It does not seem consistent with good policy to allow the lease to be given to the Miami Country Club for operation as a private enterprise for its members. The City of Coral Gables has suffered a large tax revenue loss ever since the Biltmore property was taken over by the government. Operation of the links as a municipal enterprise would not only enable the city to regain some of this loss, but it would also make the 18-hole course available to the citizens of this community. With these facts in mind, it appears evident that there is but one logical course for the, Veteran's Administration to follow when the bids are filed in Atlanta. That is to award the lease to the City of Coral Gables. Any other action would not reflect sound judgment and would be unfair to the citizens of Coral Gables.

No Tax Protests

The absence of protests at the recent meetings of the board of equalization seems to indicate that residents are pretty well satisfied with the tax situation in Coral Gables. In contrast to the county hearings, which saw numerous taxpayers present to protest high assessments, Coral Gables commissioners received only one petition, which was a request for additional services rather than an actual tax protest. There has long been a misconception that because Coral Gables is an ideal community, a city of beauty, that it is also an expensive city in which to live. Tax Assessor Blount is presently working on comparative figures that indicate how much it costs the tax-payer to live in Coral Gables as compared to other municipalities in the area. He says that when the analysis is completed, local residents will have a pleasant surprise in store for them. In addition, we have heard plenty of residents say that living in Coral Gables would be worth paying a premium-which they do not have to pay.

If you can always give your heart you do not have to be able to give all the answers.

There's still a bit of dust to be shaken out of industry.

A plan without a man is like milk without a can-no one can carry it out.

OUR TOWN Neighbors

By Jim Moore The line-tapping, bickering turmoil in which the police force of our neighboring city of Miami finds itself lends an interesting contrast to the forces of law and order that serve our city of Coral Gables. While black headlines scream of a probe of the police force in Miami, with charges of graft, gambler control and other unsavory innuendoes, two or three Coral Gableites arise at a luncheon meeting to report that they have cause to believe that some Coral Gables patrolmen might look the other way when they find a friend's car parked overtime. Jim Moore And that's about the most serious charge you'll ever hear made about our police department. In addition it's common practice to pick up the telephone here at the Riviera-Times and hear some resident or visitor tell about some nice thing a Gables police officer has done for them. That's the way it is all down the line when you try to compare Coral Gables with Miami. Miami has always had to contend with charges of graft, gambling, political corruption, bribes and the like. Out here in the beautiful there are complaints too-but of quite a different nature. One citizen wants a street light, another desires his parkway trimmed a little more often, and sometimes the rain water stands a little too long in the streets and somebody calls the city manager about it. But do you ever hear anyone going around saying that the police are being slipped bribes by the gambling syndicate or that someone in our detective bureau is cooking up a nice little frame-up on another city official? I've never heard it, and I doubt very much if you have either. It just goes to show that it's possible to run a nice, clean town that is free of the undesirable element, even though it's located right next door to a city where citizens just yawn when another graft or gambling probe makes headlines. And yet, to my continual amazement, I still hear of someone every now and then that kind of thinks it might be a good idea to consolidate our city of beautiful homes with our big, brawling next door neighbor.

THE STORM

The lightning flashes, the thunder will roll, The driving wind will take its toll, The trees crash down, The wires hang, As the sleet cuts them down like an iron fang. The spray is flung, A branch flys by, The wind is blowing, now in high. From every throat there is a cry As the lighning flashes through the sky. The bushes sway, The hugh trees bend, Oh when, comes a cry, will this terror end? The rain lashes down, it begins to decrease, The sun comes out, the world is at peace. The people look up to the sky "Look quickly" cry they, "It is coming night"! And the clouds are gone, In the sky of blue, Where a rainbow appears in brilliant hue. -Sidney E. Lewis, Solana Hotel.

Christianity is a way of life where nobody can be disappointed in anybody but himself.

When people talk a lot it may be because they don't know what to say.

Is education the engine or the trailer of our thinking today?

COUNTRY GENTLEMAN ESTATE

In the Redlands • THE HOME is roomy and comfortable, with four bedrooms and two baths, plus servant quarters. It has spacious porches, an attractive bar, and two car garage. • THE GROVE is planted mostly to Avocadoes, with some citrus. It has 2 eight inch and 13 three inch wells for irrigating. The income from the grove should more than pay all carrying charges, even with all maintenance labor hired. • AN EXCELLENT BUY at $23,000, with ten acres of grove. • There are ten additional acres planted with young trees, which can also be bought. • FOR APPOINTMENT please call Helen Pennock, at 4-2586 or 48-2903. LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR 2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2586

FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK By Mary Helm Clarke WHO LIVES THERE?

Occasionally we drive by a home with a personality-an individualism that makes us wonder, "Who lives there?" The Riviera Notebook hopes to introduce a few of these places from time to time. Today we call attention to a homplace just south of the Coral Gables Women's Club and Library. The address is 36 Avenue Phoenitia. A wall shuts in the spacious lawn, but over the wall peer exotic trees and shrubs. In the southwest corner is a tree with pink blossoms. A pink poincian, we thought-but it wasn't a poinciana. The tree and its owners have distinction all their own. Morgan Jones Residence 3 Phoenitia is the residence of Major and Mrs. Morgan Jones, both residents of the area since before the turn of the century. Mrs. Jones, known to old-timers as Mary Jane Douglas, came to that spot with her parents and her brother, Frank, when they came to settle on a relinquished land grant. Mr. Douglas had made a previous trip to look over the land before he signed the deed, and found a house that would shelter his family until an adequate home could be constructed. When he returned, bringing his brood by wagon from the Indian River section of Florida to south Dade County, he found that the house had been destroyed by fire. Lumber Was Shipped In those days men were not aware of the layer of limestone just beneath the surface, and lumber had to be shipped from Pensacola. The Douglas family had quite a period of "camping out" before the two story house, with wide verandas across the front, was ready for occupancy. Meanwhile, John Douglas had to cut a road from the land grant he had bought to Coconut Grove. His family had to get mail from the Grove and shop at "Mammy Shones." House Replaced The two story clapboard house has been replaced by a concrete block, hurricane proof residence, but the garden has many of the original shrubs planted by Mr. and Mrs. Douglas. The pink tree (cassia javanica) and a rare antidesma, however, were gifts from the University of Florida's Horticultural Gardens at Redlands. It would be difficult to "keep up with the Jones" on Phoenctia Avenue, for they have behind those walls a rare collection of historical as well as horticultural treasures. It is well to remember that the Douglas Entrance and Douglas Road pay tribute to these enterprising pioneers.

Famous Homes Eugene Field's "LITTLE BOY" HOME

"Little Boy Blue", "Seeing Things at Night", "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" and all of Field's other poems could only have been written in a true home atmosphere. Field loved his home. Every marr and dent and scratch had its story and its meaning. Field wrote about his home. What he said was but an echo in the ears of everyone who read. Homes are something that grow out of houses... they never just happen. You can't have a REAL home unless it's yours. You'll get more pleasure and security out of life if you put your rent money to buy a home. It can be done, with our financing plan. 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

It Says Here

A couple of weeks ago we reported to you how some folks were beating the parking meters by depositing two pennies plus a whack with the flat of the hand and getting 60 minutes time. Since then Lieut. Floyd Brasher said that most of the devices have been altered to prevent that sort of thing. But here's a new angle. We were walking along Coral Way on Monday and saw a motorist drive up, get out of his car and place an old parking ticket under the windshield wiper and then walk off. Button-holed by your reporter, he confessed that he used this dodge frequently and so far had been successful in avoiding any additional tickets. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brock entered the summer blanket derby this week, writing from Fontana Dam, N. C., that they are sleeping under two blankets and could use four. The natives, they reported, term it "unusual weather"... Mrs. Sam Elcock says she wishes that our incognito benefactor was still handing out orchids to courtesy drivers. The other morning she couldn't get her car started and six or eight people passed without stopping to help her. Then along came a driver in the opposite direction, stopped and turned around and helped get her started. She didn't get his name but she did get his license number, 1D-54245. We checked up on it and found that she can thank Louis E. Lanford, 4401 Avenue Palmarito, for his courtesy. Here's a verbal orchid to you, Louie! (Louie gives all the credit to son Bruce, who spotted the distressed car.) Camille Ockert got a letter with a suspiciously hard lump in it the other day from her son, Richard, Jr., who is attending Camp Pinnacle. On opening it she discovered one of his baby teeth with a note, "Here it is, mother. You said you wanted to make a necklace out of my teeth." Somebody with a perverted sense of humor is making a nuisance out of themselves by calling up folks and giving them a phony story about some bad news. One Gables woman was phoned this week and told that her husband was killed in an air-line crash while another was warned that her spouse had a "girl friend." It's too bad that it isn't possible to do something to nuts like that. If you want to hear an amusing story, ask Harry Morgenthaler to tell you how he got his new car... Herb Jarvis tells us that he had about 20 people call him about the item that ran in this column... Obie Sutton has been working on his boat this week, in case you haven't seen him around. Arthur Brigham brought Al Lambert by the office for a brief visit on Tuesday. It's swell to see Al up and around again after a serious operation in Philadelphia ... It seems the whole day brighter to get a subscription notice back like the one we received this week from C. W. Meyers, 2418 Country Club Prado. In addition to his check, he had written on the bottom of the renewal form, "Thank you for a swell paper." Memo to parents whose children are enjoying the privileges of the Coral Gables War Memorial Youth Center: Do you know that over 50 per cent of the children are in arrears on their dues? Actually it seems like parents would take a little more interest in the Center and see that the dues are paid up. And that includes some members of the board of directors.

In Our Mail

Editor Riviera-Times: In the name of the Ray Renyart Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Public Library, I want to thank you and the Riviera-Times for your fine cooperation in publishing material furnished you relative to the collection of a Military History section in the Coral Gables Public Library. We hope this Section will in time be comprehensive, and contain books on general military history, but we more particularly should like to see it reflect the hometown participation of our boys and girls who served in World War II. For this reason we are very eager to receive books on Unit Histories. One or more volumes will be gratefully accepted-perhaps in memory of a loved one who gave his life for his country, or in gratitude for a safe return. Whatever the reason, such a Section should be an interesting and permanent record for the Public Library, and should serve as an integral part of the role played by Gableites in World War II. If any reader of the Riviera-Times wishes to make a gift of one or more volumes, the donor may place his order through the Coral Gables Public Library and thus receive the benefit of the library discount. With all good wishes to you and the Riviera-Times, I am Sincerely yours, Margaret M. Beaton, Librarian, Coral Gables Public Library. Editor Riviera-Times: The news story in the Riviera-Times of July 18th reporting the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce meeting this week may have created a mistaken impression that the Chamber of Commerce as an organization re-charged the Coral Gables police department with favoritism" in traffic enforcement. Actually, three city officials were invited to attend the meeting to discuss with members a number of traffic regulations. Only two or three merchants present were of the opinion that there are instances when police officers are guilty of favoritism in issuing traffic violation citations. The Chamber of Commerce is an organization of 600 members and the number of members attending the meeting this week did not represent a majority. Furthermore, the opinion was expressed by several members present that Coral Gables has a very excellent police department. William Kimbrough, director of public safety, requested that all reports charging favoritism be brought to his attention. Thank you for your cooperation in publishing this letter. Sincerely, Mary T. Moore, Executive Secretary.

All that's good in paternalism must be transferred to partnership.

The world's greatest wastes are selfishness and inertia.

A philosophy can be drawn up in words but an ideology must be built up with people.

To feel right, live right.

Strictly Fresh

A New York weather bureau was aghast the other day when a lady called up to ask, "Will it be too hot to wear my girdle to work?" They maybe thought that was stretching things a bit too far. Sign of the times on a Glens Falls, N. Y., barber shop: "Closed on account of improved financial condition-may open next week." Sounds like the barber made a hair-raising exit! Juliet St. Armour obtained an injunetion in Detroit against her husband, Romeo, who, she said, locked her out of the house at night in her bed clothes. True, true-what's in a name. Coast Guardsmen at Long Island station found a postcard which had drifted 10,000 miles out to sea. A week later the same dead whale washed up on the shore again. That ought to make a whale of a ghost story. Shades of men's shoes for next spring will include boulevard brown, brandy tan, Indian tan, tawny tan, golden harvest, deep vintage, ruddy brown, white, light tan, golden tan, cocoa tan, light grey, and dark gray. Anything in the conventional black? Mrs. Winefred B. Loggans, a home economics expert, told the National Food Show in Chicago that "to hold those fat porkers and holding a husband is good cooking. As we all know, many a man's head can be turned by an attractive dish. John Ebersole, president of the National Restaurant Association, states that surveys show restaurant coffee is better than coffee made at home. A lot of housewives may call him a drip, but remember, he urns his living on coffee.

MOON LIGHT IN MIAMI

Heaven strews forget-me-nots In her sky of blue Or mayhap it's the memory Of the stars lingering through; Then I thought as I lay me down In the golden sands by the sea, So low and so deep Stretched the infinite blue It literally blanketed me. Round face to the sky the moon arose And the hours dreamed through the day, Soon overhead a star whispered to me, "The moon is on her way." Oh, Luna Devine! Oh, Sun of Night! Oh, hush the world in wonder, Soft shadows and pale light And beyond and yonder and yonder The sheen upon the coconut palms Means a tropical night in summer. Oh, hush the step, Oh, whisper the word. To-night there'll be no yawning. No senses slumber on this sweet night No eye to beauty closes The soul is dead, no music is dumb, No mind can say it dozes. Romance awakes! Adventure gleams! And Autumn lizards anew, So sweet the stars, How clean the moon, All is silver and eternal blue. -Alma Jenness '47.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the "Fictitious Name Statute," that the undersigned, signed doing business under the fictitious name of Dewey's Jewelry, 2307 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 Phillips Typewriter Co., 235 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. E. M. PHILLIPS. 7-18-25 -- 8-1-8-47.

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. ELEANOR HAWKINS ALICE L. BENNES 7/25-8/1-8-15-47

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 Flamingo Furniture Shop, 1422 Aragon 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. MARVIN BARROW 7-18-25 -- 8-1-8-47.