Coral Gables Historical Archive
Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Friday, October 10, 1947, page 4 (of 12)
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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 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, Circulation Manager. NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1947 ASSOCIATION Active Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Six months, $2.00; one year, $3.00. (Plus 3% FLORIDA SALES TAX). 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 4-1634 4-1635 The Coral Gables Riviera is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.
DeGarmo's Charges
Walter de Garmo, local architect, has laid some very serious charges at the doorstep of the Coral Gables Board of Supervising Architects. In a hotly worded letter to the Miami Chapter of the A.I.A., he charged the members of this local board with totalitarian tactics and operating a "closed circle", passing only the work of architects held in favor by the board. So serious are these charges that the A.I.A. appointed a three-man committee to investigate them. This probe will be made public, we are told. On the other hand, members of the city commission have expressed full confidence in the work of the board and in its membership. H. George Fink, a member of the architectural board, has charged that forces are at work in the city trying to discredit the work of the board and to eventually eliminate it-throwing the Gables wide open to building without any check on the esthetic qualities of proposed construction. These charges and counter-charges add up to a situation that calls for speedy clarification. But despite what the findings of any committee may be, one thing is certain -Coral Gables needs and will continue to need a board of supervising architects. Miami Shores is the only other community in the area with such a board, and one has only to look at the two municipalities to see that they are outstanding in their architectural beauty. It is true that some builders of mass production houses would welcome a lowering of restrictions in Coral Gables. But once these restrictions are lowered- Coral Gables as a city beautiful is doomed. Already in certain areas there appears to have been a letting down of the rigid esthetic requirements that have always been synonymous with the name Coral Gables. Most of this occurred, however, during the war years when additional housing was needed to further the war effort. Now, as the Gables building program surges ahead, is a time for rededication to the principles of the city's founders. There is no place for the ugly and the commonplace in Coral Gables. Only a vigilant architects board can maintain the beauty of our city. It is hoped that the A.I.A. committee will pursue its investigation diligently, keeping in mind that Coral Gables is not just another suburb of sprawling, brawling Miami. When its findings are known, they should be given wide publicity. The charges are as serious as have ever been made against any branch of our local government. No board could function under such a cloud- and the board of supervising architects is one group that must operate with unquestioned authority for the sake of the future of the community.
None So Blind
To tempt men to indulge themselves - that's a funny way to fight a war. But those planning military war know that indulgences make men soft. And those fighting the "class war" know they cannot win unless they can get men to hate each other. They know they cannot get men to live and hate each other unless they destroy all moral standards. Be faithful to your wife? "That's old-fashioned bunk," they say, and urge you to indulge in the "new freedom." They know full well that if they can stir up a good stiff row at home, it is easier to get you good and sore at the boss. And they win one more battle in the "class war." Take responsibility for producing more-for shipping more food or fuel abroad-or for meeting any other of your country's or the other country's needs? "Don't be a sucker," they say. "Demand your rights." They know full well that "class war" is a clash war and that selfish demands always clash. There are none so blind as those who will not see. And those who do not see what these demoralizing forces have in mind, can-not meet them. Fight to keep our moral standards in the world if you want to keep democracy. And remember that fighting for moral standards means LIVING BY THEM! Unless I am sorry enough to quit when I do wrong, I will soon quit being sorry. Clarity also begins at home. If we would give the world to be different we would soon have a different world. Promising marriages fail by not keeping the promises. Greater than a position of power is the power to pass up position. Love holds people. Anything else either drive or disregard them.
OUT OF BOUNDS
Scooter Menace By Jim Moore JIM MOORE During the recent rainy weather a Riviera-Times carrier boy was pedaling through the downpour delivering the paper to the 150 customers on his route. Suddenly three lads on motor-scooters came tearing up behind him. As they whizzed past him, they cut in close and nudged his bicycle, upsetting him and his 150 papers into a puddle. Then, laughing gleefully, they sped out of sight. Perhaps it was an accident, you say. But it wasn't an accident. The same incident has happened at least twice before with a Daily News and a Herald carrier being the victims. Unfortunately our carrier was too startled to get the license numbers of his molesters. I say unfortunately, because I believe boys whose sense of decency and fair play has been perverted to that extent should be penalized to the full extent of the law. Without a doubt their motor scooters should be confiscated and they should never be permitted to ride them again. To my way of thinking, a motor scooter ridden by an irresponsible youth is a serious traffic menace. I feel that in the past police control of these putt-putts has been too lax. This newspaper has commented on that fact before. A bicycle, without the added speed impetus of a motor, can be a serious enough menace when it is ridden without regard for regulations, particularly at night without lights. When you add the motor, then you've really got something to contend with. This is not meant as an indictment of all kids who ride motor scooters. I have observed many of them driving sanely and obeying the law. This early training should make them better automobile drivers in the future. It is unfortunate that the record of the group has to be marred by the irresponsible ones-but marred it has been. If something is not done, and done soon, to curb the practice of skylarking on motor scooters, Coral Gables' death toll is going to rise. It is a problem that Lieutenant Floyd Brasher and his traffic division should give serious attention.
FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK
By Mary Helm Clarke THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE It was the summer of 1926. The scene was Burdine's Tea Room. The revellers were the first Freshmen enrolling in the University of Miami, scheduled to open in October. It was an occasion of dignity. Many important people in the educational world were seated at the Speaker's Table. With Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of Miami's citizen of renown, William Jennings Bryan, presiding. With her usual charm and vivacity, Mrs. Owen made the most of the importance of the occasion, but soon had the students and celebrities singing college songs and raising the roof with rousing yells for the University of Miami. Then Mr. John B. Orr was introduced. He was the contractor who had promised them at least one unit of the fifteen million dollar University campus in time for the first term. Said Mr. Orr: "We have the students, the songs, the yells, and all we need now is the college. The man who said you can't put the cart before the horse was wrong. WE'LL HAVE THE BUIILNDG. IT WILL FOLLOW." The building did follow - the horse behind the cart-but not the one Mr. Orr had in mind. The 140 mile gale of the September 1926 hurricane damaged the "blue-print" structure, only half finished, beyond hope of opening it for the fall term. When the BLOW was over, a great part of the fifteen million endowment was also gone with the wind. The University opened October 15, 1926 with 980 students. They attended classes in an unfinished hotel building, far from the original campus. October 1947 finds the University at last on its home site. The buildings, permanent and temporary, are modern with a capital M. They or fwhich) [?] directly to the solution of the practical needs of a University "as gracefully and economically" as possible. The new campus is thrilling. Permanent buildings were designed by Robert Law Weed, architect, and his associate, Miss Marion Manley. A portion of the skeleton building which was to be Mr. Orr's creation is being utilized as a University Book Store. Miss Manley, herself, has designed the "temporary" buildings, but the name itself is a misnomer. Every class room is an outside room; windows can be opened in the hardest rain; lighting is automatically controlled; portico walk-ways lead from one unit to another. From concrete and glass, the two architects have presented a study in "simplicity and frankness". The campus grows in beauty as it grows in size. After 21 years, Mr. Orr, the horse pulls the cart. We have not one, but a number of buildings on four different campus locations, to accomodate over 7000 students.
Frankenstein, No Less!
R-R-R-R-R INFLATION WASHINGTON'S ECONOMIC THEORIES INFLATION LABOR'S ECONOMIC THEORIES INDUSTRY'S ECONOMIC THINKING
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. IN CHANCERY. No. 88215-E OLGA BACH, Plaintiff -versus- ADOLPH BACH, Defendant ORDER FOR PUBLICATION TO: ADOLPH BACH, and if married, his wife, MRS. ADOLPH BACH, Defendants YOU AND EACH OF YOU are hereby required to file with the clerk of the above named court, in Miami, Florida, on or before the 13th day of October, 1947, your written appearance to the bill of complaint filed herein, as amended, for the establishment and enforcement of a lien on the property described therein, in default of which a decree pro confesso will be entered against you, and each of you. Dated at Miami, Florida, this 8th day of September, A.D. 1947. W. F. PARKER, Solicitor for Plaintiff. E. B. LEATHERMAN, Clerk of the above styled court. By: H. D. STOCKING, D. C. 9/12-19-26-10/3-10.
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE UNDER FICTITIOUS NAME STATUTE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the "Fictitious Name Statutes, 1941," that the under-signed doing business under the fictitious name of FASHION FAB-RICS, 357 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. GRAYCE HISSNER K. K. HISSNER 9-19-26; 10-3-10-17.
Si Says
With the school trustee election for the county coming up in November, we understand that there is a movement underway among local parents to find a Gables candidate for the job. Henry Clay Anderson has been mentioned as a potential. With his school background, Clay should make a good one... Carl Whelan, the police sergeant, has been hiding some hitherto unknown talent. Carl has quite a radio voice and is the commentator on the Veteran's News program at 8:35 every Monday evening over WBAY. The program is sponsored by the local post of the VFW... And speaking of commentators, that's Leo Frutkoff that gives out with the Elks news over the same station. The youngsters in the seventh and eighth grades at the Elementary School have dubbed their new 9:30 reporting time as the "Swing Shift"... "Doc" Moore has named Ann Rhodes "Lulubelle" because that she picked the win, place and show horses in that order in the last Kentucky Derby. She bet 'em, too. We'll be calling you when Tropical opens, Ann... Pat Hodge is taking a Nassau vacation following the recent fission job on her wedding knot... Ted Semple is proudly exhibiting his ticket stubs from last Friday's World Series game... Al Harum saw the Saturday encounter and also the Villanova grid tie in Philadelphia on Friday... Harry Morgenthaler is back from a summer spent on Lake Erie and has plunged right into plans for the Youth Center campaign. Alan and Virginia Connett, irked over a post office order changing their address, are mailing the following printed card to friends, "Through some jackasserie of the Miami Post Office our mailing address has been changed to 7210 SW 56th Avenue, Miami 43. In writing please use this weird address. Should you call we still live at the same old place, 210 Hazel Avenue, corner of Sunset Drive... the Mark Erwins moved into their new home on North Kendall Drive only to have Snapper Creek rise up and flow by their door step. Enjoying the high water immensely, however, are three ducks that the Erwins have purchased. We drove down to Goulds on Sunday to see Bob and Dottie Long's new place. It's as cute as that bug's ear they're always talking about. They're also having high water trouble, but the house itself is on a piece of high ground and is dry... Eunice and John Halifax are back from a short North Carolina vacation reporting that they didn't buy any property there as they had originally planned... Roff Eliot is in Nassau on business... Don Cuddy, our sports editor, almost got married while up covering the Villanova game. Jim Renuart of the Wheel Club tells us that they're going to have those monthly paper drives again this year... Dinty Dennis was a visitor at the city commission meeting on Tuesday, supplying morale for his brother-in-law, Eugene Rothman, who bought the Huddle Bar and was having the license transfer approved. Lawrence J. Tamm of 1260 Avenue Messina left the commission chamber with a dire threat after complaining about having to pay for trash and garbage removal while he was away during the summer. Said Mr. Tamm, "I'll pay it, but if I find out that somebody else is getting by without paying it, I'll send my wife up here the next time."
Concerning Consolidation
Proponents of the Dade-Miami merger claim that great savings to the tax payers will be effected. According to the last available statistics of the city-census department, the per capita cost of government in cities that have consolidation plans in effect was: Philadelphia | $49.99 Los Angeles | 72.02 St. Louis | 50.04 Baltimore | 56.24 San Francisco | 66.20 Denver | 66.80 DADE COUNTY-Without Consolidation, 43.58! Watch this space every issue IT IS IMPORTANT TO YOU!!!!
STORMY DAY AT SEA
When the sea Is wild and lonesome In a haze of blue and gray When the clouds Hang dim and heavy When the waves Have lost their way When the seagull Wildly crying Beats his clinging Flight against the wind And the tangled Brown Seaweed Is flung upon the shore And what is more There's a stormy day at sea There's an echo Of this loneliness In the heart of me, Alma Jenness
NEW DUPLEX DWELLING
At unusual price of $16,500 NEW AND UNFURNISHED One unit vacant One rented for $1200 per year. Owner will take good first mortgage as part of down payment. LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR 2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2595
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NATURE ON THE LOOSE The Recent Hurricane Demonstrates Again Southern Bell's Ever-Readiness to Serve You ... Come Storm or Fire, Hail or High Water
NATURE ON THE LOOSE Devastation caused by the hurricane in Bay St. Louis, photographed from the second-floor telephone office across the street. In this telephone office, operators stuck to their posts while windows in the building crashed in, water flooded the streets and giant waves demolished two buildings before their eyes. The Recent Hurricane Demonstrates Again Southern Bell's Ever-Readiness to Serve You ... Come Storm or Fire, Hail or High Water With the first warning of the approaching hurricane along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, all Southern Bell personnel in the Southeastern states was alerted for action. Orders for equipment were rushed to the Western Electric Company. Emergency crews from adjoining states poured into the threatened area by truck, plane and train. Every effort was concentrated on getting skilled men and materials there ahead of the hurricane. When the full fury of the storm struck, operators stuck to their posts hour after hour...maintaining communications throughout most of the storm-lashed section ... helping to save lives and avert injuries, to ease anxious hearts and minds and to bring a feeling of calm and comfort to those waiting out the wind. Typical of this devotion to duty were the two lone operators in a telephone office in Bay St. Louis, who stayed at their switchboard until the last lines went out-then prayed. As soon as the storm abated, emergency crews went to work repairing damage to telephone facilities that ran into hundreds of thousands of dollars and totalled more than 106,000 breaks in service. Skilled repairmen worked around the clock-wading through miles of swamps and marshes-battling wind, water-even snakes. It was a tremendous job. Yet within a few days after the wind blew itself out, more than 90% of the telephone service in areas affected by the hurricane was back to normal. Fortunately, hurricanes don't happen every day. But it's good to know that whenever and whatever the emergency, you can count on telephone folks to deliver that extra measure of power in a pinch. It's this tradition of service that gives a value to your telephone that cannot be measured by the price you pay. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Incorporated