Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES RIVIERA TIMES

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 209 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper March 19, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1939. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION and Florida Press Association. Albert E. Harum, Editor and Publisher; Kenneth S. Reynolds, Business Manager; James E. Moore, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. UNITED PRESS AND SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE FULL LEASED WIRE; UNITED PRESS TELEMAT SERVICE NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION Active Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In advance): 3 months, $6.00; one year, outside of United States, $20.00; local, $12.00; single copy, 5c; Sunday, 10c; daily delivery by carrier in Coral Gables and vicinity, 30c weekly. Entered as Second Class Matter May 21, 1926, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 4972, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Telephone: Coral Gables 4-1621; 48-2615. The Riviera-Times will not be responsible for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Strange Action

Action of the city commission in approving the construction of a real estate office on a filling station over the heads of the zoning board, a church congregation and eight protesting property owners is hard to understand. The building had been operated as a service station before the war, then shut down. It was later purchased and made into a real estate office, after which the zoning in the area was changed to prohibit any more filling stations. With the sale of the property in view, the owner asked that the zoning be changed again so that a prospective buyer could once more operate a filling station. An open hearing was held, with opposition to the change so overwhelming that the zoning board turned a definite thumbs down on the deal. On Tuesday, when the case was appealed to the commission, four of our city commissioners saw fit to ignore the zoning board, the property owners and the church, and grant a temporary permit. If this is to be the attitude of the commission in the future, what reason exists for a zoning board and for public hearings? The four commissioners seem to have forgotten that in a democracy the desire of the majority is what is supposed to count. They also seem to have forgotten that they appointed a zoning board to safeguard property owners and the high caliber of the community. Fortunately, the permission granted by the commission on Tuesday is subject to revocation at any time, at the will of that body. They still have an out.

Thanks, Everyone

With this issue, the Riviera-Times completes its first week of daily publication. From the reports that have been coming in since Monday, we feel certain that we were right when we decided that Coral Gables had passed beyond the "weekly" stage and was ready for a daily newspaper. To the many friends who have written and phoned their congratulations, compliments and good wishes we'd like to say "thanks" from the very bottom of our hearts. We've been pretty busy here at the office during this inaugural week of publication, and sometimes we haven't had as much time as we would have liked to chat with readers who have called to say "good luck" and "well done." But even if we did seem hurried, you may rest assured that for every call we were filled with a warm, rosy glow of appreciation. A paper needs friends, and during this first, rather hectic, week we found out that we do have them. We'll need your continued support as we endeavor to continue giving Coral Gables a good, constructive and newsy daily paper. And from the indications we have received during the past five days, we know we'll have it. Thank you again, everyone.

Homecoming

The class of 1926, the first class of the University of Miami, has announced plans to take over the homecoming activities for 1948 and make it the biggest event ever staged on the campus. While we think they are tackling one whale of a big job, we feel also that they are going to make a success of it. Some of them have visited the Riviera-Times office to talk over the project and we haven't seen such enthusiasm in a long, long time. The University and the town both have progressed remarkably since that day the first graduating class walked out of the "the cardboard college." It is interesting to note, also, that most of the members of that class have already made their marks in the world as successful businessmen and careerists. Homecoming will tire dual rolls of learning and have not returned since will be amazed when they see the progress being made on the new campus, the thousands of students seeking learning, the enlarged faculty which has brought leaders in the sciences and teaching professions from all over the world. We think that this "biggest Homecoming ever" idea is a splendid one. As they make their plans they may rest assured that they have both the endorsement and the full cooperation of the Riviera-Times.

Race, color, creed or religion makes no difference if a child needs hospitalization. All will be eligible to the South Florida Children's Hospital which is now conducting a $500,000 building fund campaign to complete, furnish and operate the institution.

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Normal, healthy, happy children is assured for our youngsters with the completion of the South Florida Children's Hospital. Give generously to the $500,000 building fund campaign now under way.

OUR TOWN | Hinky Pinky

By Jim Moore Hink Pink—a sorrowful youngster! Does that mean anything to you? If it doesn't you're just not hep to the latest sillyism to hit Coral Gables, the game of Hink Pink, Hinky Pinky or Hinkety Pinkety. Maybe this will clear it up. The answer to the first line of the column is—"A Sad Lad." Now does it make sense? Doesn't, huh? Maybe I'd better start all over again. Hink Pink is a word game that has folks sitting around local parlors in deep silences, either trying to guess the answer to one Hink Pink or think up a super Hinky Pinky themselves Here's the way it works. You think up two words that rhyme such as the afore-mentioned "Sad Lad" or it could be "Fat Cat" or any two words of one syllable that rhyme. Next you think up a definition. For example, let's say you've selected "Fat Cat." Your definition could be "An obese feline." And now you're ready to play. Look up brightly from your brown study, smile at the silent company around you and proudly say "Hink Pink—an obese feline." It is now the job of your companions to guess the two words you have in mind. When they do, everybody returns to their brown studies and silence descends on the room until another person pops up with a fresh Hink Pink. If you say, "Hinky Pinky," that means you have rhymed a couple of two-syllable words, while "Hinkety Pinkety" means you have ascended near the zenith by coupling two rhyming three-syllable words. As silly as it sounds, it really gets you once you are entrapped into the first game. I saw Dick Thiel at the Kiwanis Club meeting, recently, and he had a piece of paper in his pocket on which he had jotted down various Hink Pinks, Hinky Pinkeys and a few Hinkety Pinketys. Folks think one up and then call another Hink Pink fan on the telephone to spring it on them. It's even reached the point when some fans limit the topic of their Hink Pinks to Coral Gables. For example: Moder. Fickey—a guy who runs through a Stop sign in Coral Gables. The answer—A "Brasher Crasher" (with apologies to Lieut. Floyd P. Brasher of the traffic division). Publicity stories sent out by the Chamber of Commerce become "Gables Fables" while Leland Sharpnil, who writes the Rotary Club Bulletin was described by a Hinkety Pinkety fan as the "Rotary Notary." Where's it all going to end? I dunno. But I predict that Hink Pink will soon reach it's peak and then go off to join its predecessors like "Handies" and "Knock Knock" in the Limbo of Sillyism Nevermore. And that's all, before somebody Hink Pinks me as a guy who writes too much in one column— A Word Bird.

In Our Mail

Editor, Riviera: You said in yesterday's paper that if anyone had anything to write about, to write it. So I am submitting the following article which I hope you will print. I am wondering when, if ever, Coral Gables plans to do something about its side walks. The Pedestrian seems to be the Forgotten Man of the City. Half of the streets do not have any sidewalks, and those that do are in such terrible condition it is almost impossible to use them. I have a two months old son and last week I bought a baby carriage in which I planned to wheel him around. Yesterday I went out with it for the first time but the going was so rough that I think it will be the last time. Coral Gables is a beautiful city and many people who live here enjoy going for walks along its many pretty streets, but I am sure they would enjoy the walks much more if they had nice, even sidewalks on which to walk! Disgustedly, MRS. A. E. CRAIG, 1204 Alberca St.

Editor, Riviera-Times: Heartiest congratulations on getting your daily started off this week. I am confident it will meet with success as I was impressed with your possibilities some months ago when I visited Coral Gables. With best regards, I am Sincerely yours, STANLEY WHITAKER, Southern Division Manager, United Press Associations

HOW DE LAWD MEK DE RAIN

See dem big black clouds up yundah? Heah dat growlin' lak? Dat's thundah, Honey-chile. See dat flashin' oh de lightnin' Dats so awsome an' so frightnin'? Now y'all lissen w'ile Ah spons 'Bout de makin' oh be rain, Honey-chile. We'en dem black clouds bump togethah, Honey-chile. An' dat bumpin' mek de spankin', We'en de heavens 'gin to dahken, An' dat bumpin' mek de gushin' Dat sta'ts off he sto'm ahowlin', Honey-chile. Dough dey looks lak inginss smokin' Dem black clouds am wet an' soakin' Honey-chile. W'en de Lawd look roun an' sees 'em, Quick he grab 'em an' he squeeze 'em Till dey drips all ovah hill 'an plain— 'An dat's how de good Lawd mek he rain, Honey-chile. —J. L. BEERS.

"I came prepared! Last week the usher put me behind a post."

Di Says Here

SEQUEL—Yesterday we told you about Doris Pountney calling the Army Recruiting Office to ask if the "emergency" were over and being unable to get an answer. Today we found out that her husband had written to Washington on the same subject and just got a letter that still leaves them without an answer. Seems that the question has too many ramifications to be answered by the Washington bureaucrats... Like names that roll right off your tongue? Then try saying the moniker of Coral Gables detective Hugh McGough (it's pronounced MA-GOO)... Speaking of the police, Officer Charles Gouvica stopped us yesterday to ask if this column were going to appear every day, adding that he didn't see how we'd get enough stuff to fill it. Of course he didn't know at the time that he was giving us an item. Heh, heh. It was good to see Joseph H. P. Klein in the office yesterday. He's just back from the North and already distributing the fruits from his bountiful Capri Street garden to all his many friends... One of the hard-working men in the Gables is Walt Kinney, the WBAY chief engineer. He even helped dig the ditch to run the direct line into the Riviera-Times news room... Gordon Taylor certainly seems to have the knack of getting members interested in activities over at the Country Club. Some folks who seldom came around there are now "regulars" on various committees... We'll lay you ten to one that Umps Clark gets the Biltmore pro job although City Manager McIlwain isn't saying a thing as yet... William C. Hill's reappointment to the pension board came with the unanimous and enthusiastic endorsement of every city commissioner... Thanks to Jim Hodges, city editor of the Miami Daily News for his phone call yesterday complimenting us on the daily and wishing us well... We like him, too. ...There's a printer in our composing room by the name of Jimmie Doolittle... Nan Ward, who holds forth on the first floor of city hall, walked into Tommy Blount's office on the second floor yesterday and said, "I just came in to pay a social call. It's the first time I've been on this floor in weeks" ...Burdine's had to depend on Gablesites for their new Miami store addition... Rodney Miller was the contractor and Ralph Wilkins is making all the fixtures. By the way Ralph's new name for his furniture firm is really a tongue twister. It's "Zermann Acme Granada Shops"...

FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK | By Mary Holm Clarke | THE SOURCE OF THE RIVIERA NOTEBOOK

Today we celebrate the birthday of the Coral Gables Library. Now a municipal project, it was started by the Woman's Club, and woman-like we shall refrain from telling WHAT birthday. It is only mentioned because it gives a chance to pay a tribute to the source of the stories in the Riviera Notebook. Our first home in Coral Gables was with a delightful "Oldtimer," Mrs. F. H. Briggs. When Mrs. Briggs saw the typewriter carried upstairs she said, "You'll find plenty to write about in the Gables. There's a story in every gateway." In pursuit of the story back of the Douglas Entrance we visited the Library in the west wing of the famous gateway. Peg Beaton was there and Helen DePampillis, assisting. Miss Beaton brought out the collection of first editions of the Miami Riviera which had been donated to the Library. As Mrs. Briggs had said, there was a story behind every plaza, public building and new development in the City Beautiful. An hour spent in the Library under the interested tutelage of Misses Beaton and DePampillis was almost as rewarding as an hour of sightseeing. It was pleasant to deeply at this bubbling source and many stories interested northern readers and visitors who marveled at the drama of the architectural scene. A few years later the Library outgrew the "palace of the ruling lord" (represented by the west wing of the entrance), and was the proud owner of a building all its own in conjunction with the Woman's Clubhouse. But the next time we sought the source of the Note Book the newspapers were not to be found. Volumes of the Miami Riviera for 1926-27 had been lost in some mysterious way when the Library moved from its original home. Notes taken from those first editions were the source of the columns appearing in the Coral Gables Riviera-Times for the past year. Subsequent stories were to come from the same papers on file at the Riviera "morgue." Perhaps it is co-incidence; perhaps it is history; but we found that the 1926-27 editions of the Miami Riviera had been "lost in some mysterious way" when the plant moved from Coral Way to Aragon. Whatever the explanation, the fact remains that the Riviera Notebook is the only collection, however abbreviated, of the stories given to the public as each phase of the development of Coral Gables was announced. Miss Beaton keeps a file of Note Book columns to help others who are interested in the story of Coral Gables. And so, as we say "Happy Birthday" to the Coral Gables Library, we offer our best wishes that seekers of knowledge will always find the personalized assistance and adequate information that the Riviera Note Book received at its source.

UP AND DOWN BROADWAY | Richard Himber Likes to Recall Time He Asked Whiteman for Job

By JACK GAVER | United Press Drama Editor NEW YORK, (UP)—Richard Himber, musical maestro, who hits Rudy Vallee just 15 years ago to strike out on his own, likes to recall the time he asked Paul Whiteman for a job as a fiddle player. "You're a little young, Red," the famous "Pops" told him. "Come back again." Himber went back a few times, but Whiteman never had an opening for him. One night Mr. and Mrs. Whiteman went into the supper club room at the Essex House. Whiteman spied Himber and asked him if he still played a fiddle. Dick said he did. "Well, I still can't use you," Himber quotes Whiteman, "but there's a new band around that uses a lot of fiddles and is sensational. I'll write you a letter of recommendation, if you want to look up the leader. Name's Richard Himber." "Paul," Mrs. Whiteman broke in, "I'd like to introduce you to—Richard Himber." Himber, as is his annual custom, is back again at the Essex House. He's as magic-minded as ever and still determined to produce that musical-magic show "Abracadabra" which has been taking up his spare time for the past three seasons. • • • The Broadway Association has announced that it is joining the court fight scheduled for Nov. 25 over the illuminated signs on the Broadway Theater. The association regards a recent lower court decision upholding United Artists, lessors of the theater, to shut off the signs at midnight, as "a curfew of lights which might change the entire complexion of the Great White Way." United Artists has appealed the case to Special Sessions. "The lights of the theaters along Broadway are a symbol of this great entertainment center which is known the world over," said Robert K. Christenberry, president of the association. "Virtually every important motion picture has its world premiere in a Broadway theater and the legitimate theaters are the goal of every aspiring young actor and actress. Dedicated as it is to the protection of the interests of property owners, business organizations and others who have helped to make Broadway the world-famous street it is, the Broadway Association cannot but be interested and an active participant in this issue involving the lights which are the very life-blood of the famous street." On Nov. 10 there will be simultaneous premieres in 100 cities of the first feature-length picture ever produced jointly by major Protestant denominations of the United States. The premieres will be in the United States and Canada and in the cities of London, Melbourne and Manila. "Beyond Our Own" is the name of the film, which portrays the need of casual churchgoers for greater participation through the church in community undertakings. It is the first of a series of seven screen dramas, which are to be made available for showing in churches throughout the world. Hollywood professionals made the picture.

SCIENCE AT WORK

By PAUL F. ELLIS | United Press Science Writer NEW YORK, (UP)—A group of scientists at Antioch College, Ohio, is conducting a research program to determine whether human nature can be changed. Their goal seeks also to find out what makes one person differ from another. Such questions should be answered, the scientists believe, so that parents may rear their children better; that physicians can detect danger spots before and where development begins to go wrong; and people generally can live more happily. The project is under the direction of Dr. Lester W. Sontag, director of the Fels Research Institute for the Study of Human Development. A group of children already have been "graduated" after having been under study since their infancy. The study now, however, is expected to be expanded in a new $000-room research building, recently dedicated. The scientists, including psychologists, physicians, chemists, anthropologists, specialists in anatomy and genetics, seek among other things, to learn more about "repressed and hostillesses." Dr. Sontag recalls that science knows that "both boys and girls exhibit different degrees of masculine and feminine personality traits. Some boys, he says, are markedly passive, some girls aggressive. Physically, some girls have bodies which resemble the average male body and some boys have broader hips and narrow shoulders generally characteristic of women, he said. The differences will be studied. A new plastic glaze which keeps bread and cake from sticking to the pan, thereby saving fats and increasing the cleanliness of bakeries has been reported by Dr. R. R. McGregor of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh.

HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP

By PATRICIA CLARY | United Press Staff Correspondent HOLLYWOOD (UP)—If your home town and the country around it inspires people to get out and take pictures, you may induce Hollywood to enrich your community by hundreds of thousands of dollars. That's the success story of a community in the Monument Valley in southern Utah. Harry Goulding did that very thing 10 years ago and a stream of gold has been flowing his way ever since. Goulding lived in lonely isolation with his wife at the post office address of "Harry Goulding's Trading Post." "All we had was some pretty good scenery," Goulding says, "and my wife and I used to sit on the front porch and comment that it was a shame we couldn't eat scenery." People used to come and see the place, take pictures and send copies back in the mail. Goulding hung them up around his place for the only other inhabitants, the Navajo Indians, to see. Then Goulding got an idea. He packed up his pictures and his wife and set off for Hollywood. Movie People Come As a result, a few weeks later movie director John Ford led a picture troupe to Harry Goulding's Trading Post, Utah, to make "Stagecoach," an Academy Award winner. One picture after another went to Monument Valley after that, the latest another John Ford production, "War Party." Now visiting movie companies are second only to the Santa Fe railroad as a source of outside revenue to the residents, Goulding says. Folks come from a lot of other places to Goulding's trading post and complain that movie companies ought to see their countryside, even more scenic than his.

Test Your I. Q.

1. What city s called "the biggest little city in the world"? 2. What are the seven nations of the Arab League, which is resisting partition of Palestine? 3. What is karate? 4. Is New York City divided into counties? 5. What is the new microseismic theory for tracking hurricanes? ANSWERS 1. Reno, Nev., pop. 30,000. 2. Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Trans-Jordan, Yemen. 3. A Japanese game of self-defense, consisting mostly of kicking an opponent or attacker. It has no relation to judo. 4. Yes, five, with the same boundary lines as the boroughs. Manhattan is New York County, Brooklyn is King's County, and the other three are Queens, Bronx, and Richmond Counties, which are also their borough names. 5. Scientists believe there is an association between the hurricane's movements and the tiny shiverings in the earth's crust that record themselves on seismographs.

LOOK WHO'S TALKING!

Englishman—Odd names your towns have—Poughkeepsie, Weehawken, Oshkosh, Oskaloosa, Natawaka, Pawhattan, Albuquerque. American—I suppose they do sound queer to English ears. Do you live in London all the time? Englishman—No, indeed, I spend part of my time at Chipping Norton, and divide the rest between Bigglewade and Leighton Buzzard.

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