Coral Gables Riviera-Times

RIVIERA-TIMES

FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947 RIVIERA-TIMES PAGE ELEVEN

Gables Vet New Owner Of Sky Club

ROBERT MINERVINI Purchase of the Sky Club, 8604 S. W. Eighth Street, was announced this week by Robert Minervini, 27-year-old former University of Miami student, bomber pilot and war prisoner of the Germans. The former pilot, a principal in one of the war's most dramatic rescues, was separated from the army last April as a first lieutenant after more than five years' service. While flying over the Ploesti oil fields of Rumania in May, 1944, Minervini's B-24 was mortally wounded by flack. The 11 men in the crew bailed out and a German anti-aircraft battery took them prisoner. Russians Advance Three months later the onrushing Russians surrounded the prison camp near Bucharest where the survivors — Minervini and two others—were quartered. The Germans forgot their prisoners and ran. It was then that Army Flying Fortresses flew into the area and evacuated the prisoners, even while the Germans held the area. It was a feat immortalized among the daring sagas of the war in Europe. Assigned to ATC After his return to the United States, Minervini was assigned to the Air Transport Command and in that service saw duty at the Miami air depot. Illness and after-effects of flack wounds sustained in the experience over Ploesti, however, sent him to hospitals, and he was confined for a period at Coral Gables' Pratt General. That was home to Minervini. For, before joining the army in 1942 as an infantryman—an assignment that sent him to Hawaii prior to his transfer to cadet training—he had lived in Coral Gables and had attended the University of Miami for three years. In fact, the youthful Purple Heart veteran has always had such a kinship for his home town that he did not even hesitate after his separation to return to the area and go into business. That's when he decided to acquire the Sky Club. "This gives me not only a chance to have a business of my own but to meet the many friends I've missed for so long," Minervini declared. "This section out here, Coral Gables and vicinity, is my home. I like it. I intend to stay here. It's got a wonderful present and a great future," he said.

Hill-Billy Band Entertains Jaycees

"The Orange State Boys" a hill-billy band and entertaining group, were presented at the dinner meeting of the Coral Gables Junior Chamber of Commerce last night at the Country Club of Coral Gables.

To Waynesville

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stubbs will leave Aug. 1st to spend the month of August at the Waynesville Country Club, Waynesville, N. C.

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SEVILLA HOTEL

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Nat'l Cemetery Expansion Plan Is Opposed Here

Opposition to Congressional proposals for creating new national cemeteries was urged today by W. D. Thurmond, head of Thurmond Monument Company, 3253 S. W. Eighth Street, Miami, who declared in letters to Senators Spessard Holland and Claude Pepper and Representative George Smathers, that "they are unnecessary, unwanted by veterans, burdensome to taxpayers and they would subvert American traditions of family interment and memorialization." Creation of a national cemetery, adjacent to Chapman Field on the southern border of Coral Gables, was recently proposed by the auxiliary of the Coral Gables Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans. Referring directly to Senate Bill 47 and House Resolution 872, Thurmond pointed out that the bills ask over $120,000,000 initially and many millions more for upkeep. He said his own opposition and that of his national association, Monument Builders of America was not based solely on grounds of federal economy although "there already exist 77 national cemeteries in great part unused and additional ones would be utterly useless." Used by 3 Per Cent According to Thurmond only 500,000 or less than 3 per cent of all veterans of past wars are buried in these 77 cemeteries which still have space for 600,000 interments. "The fact is very few veterans wish to be buried in a national cemetery," Mr. Thurman said. "The most recent survey among members of the armed forces disclosed 94 per cent favored burial in a local, private cemetery of their own choosing and 48 per cent already owned lots or their families had purchased plots." He concluded: "The most compelling reason for this manifest disinclination of veterans is their adherence to the sacred, long-standing American custom of burying members of each family group in the same cemetery or plot. Uniformity of burial and memorialization is repugnant to the American people who resent regimentation in any form and certainly where it touches their religious practices and spiritual strivings."

JOSEPH COTTEN, Loretta Young and Charles Bickford get mixed up in some hilarious political hi-jinks in "The Farmer's Daughter" which opened Thursday and runs through Monday at at the Gables Theatre.

Cuban 'Queen' Feted At Luncheon

Miss Ritally Aguero, chosen "queen" of Holquin, Cuba, was the guest of honor at a luncheon Thursday at the Coral Gables Country Club, at which the host was the Riddle Inter-American college. Among the guests invited to the luncheon were Mayor and Mrs. W. Keith Phillips, Coral Gables; Cuban Consul and Mrs. Manuel Velasque; Mr. and Mrs. James Moore, Coral Gables; Dr. and Mrs. Ricardo Plasencia of the Liceo Society; Mr. and Mrs. Leoncio Serpa, president of the Comite Pro Culba, which sponsored the goodwill trip; and representatives of Riddle college. Miss Aguero and her maids-of-honor, Miss Fela Mendez and Miss Divina Perez, were attended by Spanish-speaking students from the college. Following the luncheon, the group visited the college on Coral Way.

ACE GLASS AND MIRROR CO.

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To Memphis

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hanson of 1110 Pizarro Street plan a vacation of several weeks in Memphis leaving about August 1st, and, following two weeks visit in Tampa. Mrs. Hanson's brother Sam McCullouch of Memphis has been their guest.

ROGERS ELECTRIC CO.

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Increase in Kaiser Output Is Predicted

The output of 90 000 automobiles by Kaiser-Frazer Corp. during the last half of 1947—barring basic material supply shortages—was forecast this week by Edgar F. Kaiser, vice president and general manager, in a mid-year resume of K-F's production progress, according to a report received by Albert S. Whidden, Coral Gables dealer. Kaiser, who announced that Kaiser-Frazer produced a new monthly high of 12,039 cars in June, said that the company earned a substantial profit in the quarter ended June 30. Sales approximated $22,000,000 as compared with $11,700,000 for the entire year of 1946, he said. The company's June output, which represented a 16 per cent increase over the May figure of 10,387, was exceeded in volume only by the industry's "Big Three." Production of the Kaiser, Frazer and Frazer Manhattan automobiles totaled 49,203 in the first six months of this year, Whidden said. Scheduling of 90,000 units for the balance of the year has been made possible by increased supplies of raw materials and engines obtained through subsidiary comservice parts among its 146 distribution centers throughout the U. S. to insure prompt servicing of the more than 56,000 Kaisers, Frazers and Manhattans which are now in the hands of private owners.

Hot Rods Gables Untroubled By Racers

"Coral Gables has had no trouble with 'hot rod' racers," Safety Director William G. Kimbrough, said today "and we don't expect any." Kimbrough was referring to the stripped-down, souped-up, Jalopies driven by high school kids. Public indignation was aroused when one such contraption was recently involved in a traffic death. "A few stripped-down cars have been een," he added, "but they are not the souped-up jobs that are causing the controversy. However, police have been advised to keep a sharp look-out for them. They'll be no racing around here." He reported that the company this month completed stocking of service parts among its 146 distribution centers throughout the U. S. to insure prompt servicing of the more than 56,000 Kaisers, Frazers and Manhattans which are now in the hands of private owners.

To New York

Accompanied by her two sons, James and John, Mrs. Edwin Mairs of 4116 Douglas Road left by train last week end for New York to spend the month of August.

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