Coral Gables Riviera-Times

CORAL GABLES Riviera Times

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 300 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929. Published daily except Saturday and Sunday. 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; Harry Hoshaw, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS REPRESENTED BY INLAND NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES, INC. NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION 1947 Active Member SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Six months, $6.00; one year, outside of United States, $15.00; local, $12.00; one year, city delivery, $12.00; daily delivery by carrier, 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter May 21, 1946, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 4073, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-0841. Classified Dept., 48-2631. The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

Those Planes Again

Coral Gables residents, long subjected to the annoyance of roaring motors of low-flying aircraft, will be interested in Saturday's decision of the state supreme court ordering the city of Miami Beach to revise its zoning laws to permit the operation of a sea plane base there. Of particular interest is the phrasing of a part of the decision in which the court stated, "The city's objection to having any airport activity within its boundaries is contrary to transportation progress. It cannot be found that the proposed air base operation on Lummus Island would be against the public morals, health, safety or general welfare." As news of the decision was coming over the United Press wire, J. V. Flock of 1403, Capri Street, called to complain that two planes were stunting over his house. The Riviera-Times office has received hundreds of similar calls as the city sought some way to eliminate the nuisance caused by low-flying planes. Now that cities may be forced to ask the question, "is the city's ordinance against low flying aircraft contrary to transportation progress?" City Manager William T. McIlwain thinks not and cites a United States Supreme Court decision giving any citizen the right to enjoy the air above his property. We are inclined to agree with the city manager. In most cases there is no reason for planes to fly over Coral Gables at an altitude lower than 1,000 feet. Coral Gables should continue to enforce its ordinance with vigor.

If We Care Enough

The tragedy in the world today is not that so many bad men are active in it but that so many good men are inactive and inadequate. There are too many who get burned up about everything wrong but do not burn to put anything right. There are doctors, to be sure, who burn to find the answer to disease—who even subject themselves to life-or-cure medical experiments. Healthy men submit to deadly infection to test the value of a remedy. But where are the men who care so much about the sickness of the world that they offer themselves to cure it? Many offer their plans, their money, their services. But who offers to change the way they live to see if there's a way of life immune to the world's disease and able to restore humanity to health and sanity? Even those far gone in the disease would rather stay the way they are than try the known remedy. It is not as if we did not know the malady. The world's disease today is known to be "materialism"—the false belief that possessions, pleasure, power, position or any material things will bring men and nations the happiness or the security they seek. The scramble for these ends, and their failure to give satisfaction when achieved, bring nothing but contention, disillusionment and death. The known remedy is the guidance of God—the creative upward tug which releases people from the fear, the hate, and the greed that first sicken men and paralyze effort, and then madden us and send us flying at each other's throats. Men and women who care enough to change and live the way God wants can pull the world through crisis. No one else is of any real service.

In Our Mail

Editor, Riviera-Times: In behalf of the membership of Coral Gables Post No. 98, The American Legion, I wish to extend our sincere congratulations to you and your associates on the fine new daily Riviera-Times. Our relations with the Riviera-Times have always been extremely pleasant, and your never-failing courtesy and co-operation in printing news items regarding the Post and its activities are deeply appreciated. We wish you every success in your new venture and offer you our co-operation in any way we can be of service to you. Sincerely yours, PAUL R. GREENAWAY, Adjutant Editor, Riviera-Times: The first issue of the new daily Riviera-Times has just come to my desk and I want to add my congratulations for the Miami Chamber of Commerce to the many which you already have undoubtedly received. We feel your new daily is a progressive step which will contribute to the prosperity of the Greater Miami area and will have an ever increasing influence in this area. We wish you every success and congratulate you again on your forward looking step. Very truly yours, W. SCOTT CHRISTOPHER, Director Public Relations Editor, Riviera-Times: I am very much impressed with your 1947-48 Progress Supplement of the Coral Gables Riviera-Times. My company represents several large insurance companies and we would like to have about five additional copies of this Supplement to mail to our principals. STANLEY P. FOSGATE, Mgr. Mortgage Loan Department, The Keyes Co.

OUR TOWN Tall Stories

By Al Harum Just what is it that makes a fish grow with each telling of the story by the fisherman? What is it that makes a person's losses more terrific with each telling—or his winnings greater? Why do we say the man was six feet six when we know he wasn't much more than six feet three? What would George Washington have thought about things like that? Well, as a matter of fact, GW probably wouldn't have thought the matter worthy of judgment on the standards of truth and honesty. Whether the tree that George chopped down was six feet or 16 feet high would have small effect on the moral of the story. Actually what causes these inclinations to exaggerate is our desire (1) to secure attention and (2) to entertain. The size of the fish has little bearing on the basic truth of the story—that we caught a fish. The fish is made big to claim attention and to entertain our friends who know darn well we have engaged in rhetorical embroidery. The man who exaggerates the length of a putt on the golf course is seeking attention in another manner. The long putters are few so he seeks attention at boasting himself in a small group. Emphasis is secured—whether by voice, pen, or printed advertisement—through comparison with certain agreed rules. The editor calls attention to his most important story by using large type headlines. The advertiser surrounds his magazine copy with lots of white space in order to isolate his message and secure emphasis or attention. So if our story-telling friends want to make the fish longer and heavier with the telling, let them! Who's hurt? They did catch a fish didn't they? And who knows, maybe some dark long night in the near future when you're pounding your heading on the pillow at a great rate, maybe that little fellow with the horns will be holding a great big pitchfork about 92 feet long right into our story-telling friend's brain. And he'll toss and turn for nine hours! Did we say nine hours?

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent Washington, Nov. 10—(UP)—You may have noticed lately the brief news items out of the west about Sen. Glen H. Taylor of Idaho and his cross-country horse back ride. They have told how he figured on clop-cloppety-clopping across the nation in the interests of peace, how he hit the horse—developed saddle sores at Tucson, Ariz., and how (according to Mrs. Taylor who issued bulletins in Los Angeles) he traded this beast in on a more comfortable steed. All this made amusing reading. "Smart Young Fellow" The gentleman from Idaho is a smart young fellow. An ex-vaudevillian and hill-billy radio troubador he may be, but Sen. Taylor is no dope. I got to wondering, as did his constituents, what was cooking beneath his handsome head of hair. We shouldn't have worried about him. The Senator is in with a report, scribbled from his saddle-bag, about what he had in mind. We may not agree, but at least we can listen respectfully: Horse Had Its Purpose People, he said, have been calling him "that crazy Senator on horse back." That's fine. He's been trying to call attention in the most spectacular way possible to himself and his idea on how to head off any more wars. He had to do it this way, he continued, because his hair wasn't white and his beard wasn't two feet long. Americans ordinarily don't listen to their Senators, he said, unless they've been on the job around 40 years. Hence the horse. It made headlines and drew audiences. Sen. Taylor's been asking his listeners to put themselves in the position of the Russians and then see how they felt about American policies. And again I repeat I'm trying not to take sides, but to report what a U. S. Senator is telling the people attracted by his horse. Cites U. S. Activity "In other words," he wrote, "how would we feel if the Russians suddenly began dredging the harbors of Mexico, building hard-surface roads to the borders of California and Texas and otherwise making military preparations for an unannounced purpose? I think we would be plenty upset. That is exactly what the United States has been doing in Turkey and, to some extent, in Greece." Sen. Taylor listed a number of similar suppositions, which he asked his clients to consider seriously. His thought was that the United States did not intend to make war on Russia—but it must have looked that way to the Russians. He said our relief work abroad couldn't have appeared otherwise in Moscow. Can Avert War "How much better to have turned all of these activities over to the United Nations and therefore made of the United Nations a strong body which could handle the problem," he wrote. "I believe that Russia is now firmly convinced that we are bent on total destruction of Communism, by war if necessary. I believe that Communism and free enterprise capitalism can exist in the same world. I believe that if we would retreat from our power politics assault and provide both Russia and the world at large with tangible evidence of our good faith that we can avert a war." This is not nearly all the Senator had to say, but it gives you the general idea. He's feeling fine, now that he has a horse that fits, but President Truman has ruined his trip by calling Congress back to work next week. Sen. Taylor said he'd have to abandon his horseback ride before it was half finished and get back to work, listening to his elders in the Senate speak.

"-And now, gentlemen, we shall hear from a doctor who has a remarkable fright cure for hiccoughs."

Always Here

Adam Adams called us the other day to say that he was ashamed of us. The reason for his feeling was a picture of George E. Merrick that ran in the Progress Supplement. It was captioned, "George E. Merrick and distinguished visitor." The "visitor," says Mr. Adams is Aquila J. Orme who played a prominent role in the financial picture of the Coral Gables Corporation. Perhaps Mary Helm Clarke can do a column on him. someday. Mrs. John DeNoon, who is first vice president of the Gables Corporation. Perhaps Mary Helm Clarke can do a "exclusive" story on plans to remodel the Community House and Library. The board of the club learned of the commission's approval of the idea by reading it in the Riviera-Times . . . Those irridescent fish and life-size paper mache mermaids that winked and beckoned to patrons at the Coco Plum Woman's Club society fair were the gifts of artists Grahn and Mendoza . . . A Coral Gables man irked his wife the other day when he journied to Miami to buy a used Victrola "case the varnished wood to convert into a bar. Priced at $3.00, the antiquated piece will be used to store glasses where the machine's works used to be, and bottles where the records were formerly kept. The wife's irkility policy was upset when the husband was so pleased over his find that he voluntarily paid $5.00 for the cabinet instead of the asked $3.00. Their thumbs are hammered flat, but Jimmie Henderson, R. C. Wylly, Ted Anibal, Bill Bails and Bill Gilbert in-sist they're ready to set up shop as master carpenters . . . they formed the crew that worked far into the night getting the booths erected for the recent Elementary School Carnival . . . Leo Frutkoff is now writing a gossip column for the Gables Elks bulletin. He calls it "Elk's Tooth Stuff" . . . If you're interested in the future you'll also be interested to know that Katherine Powell, Frances Schmits and Chet Davis are all accomplished amateur palm readers . . . Shelby Gaskin is writing a resolution deploring the mail service in Coral Gables. The resolution was passed by the Kiwanis Club's board of directors.

FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK

By Mary Helm Clarke HAPPY DAYS FOR THE MARTYRS The alarm that sent the Coral Gables fire equipment hurrying across the Rickenbacker Causeway to Biscayne Key made history in the Coral Gables story. The Indian mound discovered on the Key probably made history in the Ponce de Leon story. Both remind us that Los Martires are no longer lonely and sad. Happy days have come at last. From accounts of the voyages of Juan Ponce de Leon we learn that the Spanish explorer captured an Indian of the Ais tribe and took him along to teach them the Indian tongue and pilot the Spaniards around the "island" which they named Florida. The record says they followed a chain of islands "to which they gave the name of Los Martires, because, seen from a distance, the rocks that rose seemed men who were suffering, and the name has been perfect also because of the many who have been lost in them since." No doubt the Ais Indian told of lost tribes who had tried to establish homes on the lonely islands, far from the mainland; and of great winds and tidal waves that swept across Chasquescha (Tequesta point), Santa Marta and Aschecambey. The memory of storms at Miami and Matecumbe Key are fresh enough in our minds for us to appreciate the significance of the name, "Los Martires." According to Edward Lawson, the head of Los Martires was Santa Marta (Virginia Key), and the voyagers followed the chain past Aschecumbey (Key West) as far as "two white islets." Later geographers have been more realistic in their charting of the chain of Keys. Those composing the Coral Gables ocean front are known as Biscayne, Soldier and the Ragged Keys. As a part of Dade County, Coral Gables shares the pride of the County Park Commission and promoters of the Rickenbacker Causeway in Crandon Park. Lonely vigils around the sacrificial mound of stones are gone. Instead, there are happy parties cooking supper over campfires. 1947 explorers of "Los Martires", watching the snowy clouds forming on the horizon, can see in their mind's eye a fleet of Spanish sailing vessels. Perhaps Juan Ponce de Leon and the captured Ais Indian are viewing with astonishment the new view along the beaches of the "Martyrs"—thousands of happy people, of every nation and race, sharing a common fellowship in a public park.

FOR YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS SEE LESLIE H. COOMBES REALTOR

2312 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 4-2589

INTRODUCING THE SOROPTIMISTS Rose Horn, Native of 'Tall Corn' State, Collects Spoons and Executive Honors

There is a lot of humor packed behind the eyes of Miss Rose Horn, which offsets her exactitude and neatness of detail in her business associations. Miss Horn is probably calling on all of her humor to come to her assistance today in St. Petersburg, for as president of the Florida State Dental Assistants Association, she is presiding at the eighth annual meeting, and as she confessed to your reporter as she was leaving for the West Coast city, "I have butterflies in my tummy when I think about the speech I have to make before all of those people on Monday." Miss Horn, another personality in the Riviera-Times series of career girls and charter member of the Coral Gables Soroptimist Club, is secretary to Dr. L. D. Pankey and office manager of his dental clinic. She began her career in the state where the 'tall corn grows.' She attended the Iowa State University and was graduated from the Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls. Her formal business courses she took at the Bryant-Stratton Business College, Chicago, Ill. Trying her wings as a teacher, Rose came to Florida ten years ago as a teacher of commerce at the Fort Lauderdale High school. But teaching was not to her particular liking and so she took a job of secretary to the board of public instruction, Jacksonville. Ever mindful of improving her position in the business world, Rose has completed a course in parliamentary law and for the past two summers took income tax courses. Punctual in her club work as she is in her daily tasks, Rose, as immediate past president of the Coral Gables Business and Professional Woman's Club, attended the national convention held in Cleveland last June; and was delegate to the national meeting of the American Dental Assistants Association last summer in Boston. Reared on her parents' farm in Iowa, Rose shares the co-ownership, with her brother, of these lush Iowa acres, among her hobbies. "But what an expensive hobby!" she exclaims. "It was on that farm," she said, "that I learned to ride horse-back as a child, for my father raised the Percheron society horses." Collecting figures of horses and trying her hand occasionally on the accordion are hobbies. In addition she adds continually to her collection of silver souvenir spoons, begun when she was in school, and now has 32 representing as many states in the Union.

ROSE HORN —Pilkington photo

JUST BETWEEN US Take It Easy, Nancy Tells Non-Planners

By NANCY MOTTRAM It takes time to do a lot of things. There are a few projects that are ruined if rushed. And no one can keep up a steady speeding pace all the time. Impatience is common with most people. Instead of waiting for events now doing whatever you have on the fire in a careful and well-thought-out manner, you're likely to hurry it up, and regret your speed later. Many things take considerable working out to be successful. And if you try to hasten them, they might turn out badly. An ordinary boy-girl relationship, for example. Boy meets and likes girl. Boy calls girl and takes her out seven nights a week. Three weeks later, he's probably so tired of seeing her, he never wants to go near her again. Whereas, if he'd used a bit of common sense and good judgment, he would have moderated his dates. Too much of anything can become tiring, if a steady diet. If he'd taken her out once or twice a week, the romance might have lasted for a long time. Take It Easy You very rarely can do anything to your satisfaction by rushing it. If you think out what you'd like first of all, and then tackle the problem after giving it some thought, the chance is very good that you'll win out. But dashing through with a hope and prayer can end with you in the midst of a lot of wreckage. In this day, time is important, but the success of an undertaking is important, too. And as often, a sure thing has failed because someone was too confident, and didn't take the time to do it well. When you count up the casualties, you can realize that it's worth it to take a few more minutes and make sure whatever you're attempting has a solid foundation. Patience Has Virtues Impatience isn't hard to overcome. You may think you can't wait, but after a few blunders made after a too hasty job, experience will be the teacher. Looking forward to something is fun. There's always the excitement of not knowing what will happen next. And anticipating an event has almost as much enjoyment in it as the occasion itself. If it's worth doing, it's worth planning. Instead of being unsure what will happen next, and taking a chance of having everything go up in smoke, use your head. If you're really interested in what you aim for, you'll tackle your project with care. Patience is a wonderful gift. It enables one to succeed where so many others have failed. That's the way people get to be successful in our world. It takes time to do anything really well, and they realize it. It's not too much of a struggle, and the results are worth the effort.

HAYRIDE, BARBEQUE MARK BIRTHDAY

Miss Sylvia Greene, teen-age daughter of the S. M. Green's, 1026 South Greenway Drive celebrated her birthday anniversary Saturday by inviting young friends on a hay ride to her parents' South Miami farm, where a barbecue supper was held. Girls and boys in jeans and plaid shirts who were guests of Sylvia's, included Diane Baker, Marie Macalear, Jean Morehead, Mary Gleason, Dorothy Young, Melody Atherton, and Lisa Lewis. Bobby Nicholson, Michael Rinehart, Timmy Johnston, Bruce Mc-Cowan, David Bouse, Eugene Weahterup, Buster Nicholson and Co Vanderbrunt. Dancing to juke box music and the cutting of a huge birthday cake trimmed in large yellow sugar roses and silver balls and bearing 16 tiny yellow candles marked the evening festivities. Mr. and Mrs. Greene chaperoned.

Gablesgram

By HELEN REYNOLDS, SOCIETY EDITOR Distinguished addition to the music appreciation group in Coral Gables are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mehlin of 6920 Avenue Mindello. Mr. Mehlin stems from the famous Paul E. Mehlin and Sons of New Jersey, at one time the largest piano manufacturers in the country. He was educated in music abroad and the science of building a piano even to cutting the ivory by hand, and making the glue. For many years Mr. and Mrs. Mehlin came to Florida aboard their houseboat. After the sale of the great Mehlin plants just before the war, the couple sold their country home in New Jersey and recently decided to make Coral Gables their permanent home. Their former home in Bergen County, N. J., was a landmark and will now be pointed out to passersby, not only as the oldest house thereabouts, but as the new home of the celebrated Helen Jepson. Built in 1740, the ancient Dutch Colonial type home has hand-hewn beams 16 by 18 inches thick. The original fireplace, brought from Holland, is still in the house but among Mr. Mehlin's treasures, that did not go with the house, is his collection of signed Caruso caricatures. Of these Mr. Mehlin is justly proud, for the great Caruso, as well as many other famed musicians, was often a guest of the Mehlins in the ancient house. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Wilcox have been busy ever since their return from New York and Washington, D. C., readying their new apartment at 115 Avenue Mendoza. They sold their former home at 525 Avenue Navarre, in just three days, after their return. Attending school in Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, for six weeks this fall was among the interesting things Donald and John Murray did while visiting with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Murray, 2214 Granada Boulevard in Mrs. Murray's home town. The boys, 10 and 12, respectively, are now enrolled at their schools, Merrick Demonstration and Gesu parochial. Mrs. Murray and the boys left last June for the beautiful little Idaho town and were joined in September by Mr. Murray. Father and sons did a turn at fishing, hunting and horseback riding. Highlight of the visit for Mrs. Murray was the marriage of her brother, Eugene MacDonald, which took place in June. In October the Murray family trekked to the West Coast and they all enjoyed their very first California visit. "No," they say, "we still prefer Florida as the state in which to live." Mrs. Edith Dreesbach Rowe is expected home this week after a two months' jaunt to the North Carolina mountains and Louisiana. In New Orleans, Mrs. Rowe enjoyed tours through the old French quarter and in Charenton was a guest of the Lawrence Delhayes, who have visited in Coral Gables. She also visited Baton Rouge and the land of "Evangeline" along the Bayou Teche in Southwest Louisiana. Coral Gables will be losing, at least temporarily, the Herbert C. Craft family of 2517 Granada Boulevard. They have bought the former Felix Dupont home on Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, we hear, and shipped their Florida furnishings this week. Mr. and Mrs. Craft had many friends in the Miami area, who will regret to learn of their moving. They lived in Coral Gables for a number of years before moving down on the bayfront in Miami and then back. Their daughter, Nann Craft, is working in Washington, D. C., but commutes to her parents' home at Rehoboth Beach.

Miss Reynolds

Coombes To Speak To Gables BPW

Leslie Coombes, pioneer Coral Gables realtor, will be the guest speaker tomorrow night at the November meeting of the Coral Gables Business and Professional Women's Club. Mr. Coombes' subject will be "The Growth of Coral Gables Since Its Incorporation." The meeting will get underway at 7 o'clock with dinner served in the Civic Room. Miss June McKay, first vice-president, will preside. Estelle Richards, public affairs chairman, will have charge of the program. Dr. Horton Held will give a short talk in behalf of the Dade County Community Chest.

Dr. John Berry To Address Society

Higher educational assistance for severely handicapped adults will be the topic of the address to be given by Dr. John Berry, Dean of Education at the University of Miami, at the first open meeting of the Miami Society for the Hard of Hearing tonight at 8 p. m. in the Elks Clubhouse, 9 N. E. Third Avenue. The purpose of the meeting is to bring together all persons interested in establishing a local program of training and vocational placement for severely handicapped adults in the Miami area.

FOURSOME DINES

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Brown and their fellow Gableites Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Lucchesi formed a Sunday dinner foursome at Fox's Restaurant. Also among the diners at the South Miami restaurant were Mr. and Mrs. Ed Rogan