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Coral Gables Riviera-Times
Tuesday, November 18, 1947, page 4 (of 8)
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CORAL GABLES Riviera Times
PAGE FOUR RIVIERA-TIMES TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18 CORAL GABLES Riviera Times Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Company, 200 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Fla. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1930. 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; Rolfe A. Neill, Managing Editor; Helen Reynolds, Society Editor; Edward W. Wright, Circulation Manager. Theis & Simpson, Inc., New York-Chicago-Detroit National Advertising Representatives MEMBERS OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS FULL LEASED WIRE UNITED PRESS SERVICE NATIONAL EDITORIAL Association Sustaining Member RIVIERA 36 SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By months, $6.00; one year, outside of United States, $15.00; local, $12.00; one year, out-of-town, $13.00; daily delivery by carrier, 25 cents per week. Entered as Second Class Matter July 25, 1928, at the Post Office at Miami, Fla., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Mail Address, Box 6973, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Phone 4-2521. Classified Dept., 4-2527. The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.
Unfortunate
Coral Gables lost a lot of valuable publicity on Saturday morning when cameramen from three major newsreel companies and NBC television showed up at the Youth Center to take boxing pictures, only to find that there were not enough youngsters there to film. After viewing the situation, they left without shooting one foot of film. Not only that, some of the men gave up a trip to the Bahamas to make the shots and will probably be very hesitant to ever come back to Coral Gables to film future stories. Ed Beckman, athletic director, tells us that the reason that the younger children, who were to take part in the bouts, were not there was because parents who had promised to bring them, failed to do so. Not all the blame falls on them, though. Older Youth Center members, who were supposed to form an enthusiastic background audience, didn't appear either. Harry Walsh, a Gables resident who films for Universal Newsreel, had gone to a great deal of trouble to arrange for the set-up, working through the Chamber of Commerce. It was he who persuaded the other cameramen to come out to make the pictures. It was embarrassing for him, the Chamber of Commerce, the Youth Center and for Coral Gables. It is hard to point a blaming figure at any individuals for the incident. Nevertheless, something was definitely haywire. It seems to us that the youngsters themselves, if they were properly informed, should have shown enough interest in their Center to turn out by the hundreds to get into the pictures. The sad fact is that they didn't—the Youth Center lost some valuable publicity and Coral Gables lost face.
Science at Work
NEW YORK (UP)—The crust of the earth is pulsating with feverish throbs every few seconds. The ordinary person can't feel such tremblings—but the new seismographs can, according to the Rev. Joseph Lynch, S. J., director of the Fordham University Observatory. He said the feeble earth tremors are the result of reaction to turbulence over the Atlantic. "Instrument development," he said, "now makes it possible to keep a daily record of every slightest whimper of Mother Earth. Not only the geographic position of every quake, but its precise depth below the surface is now a matter of daily routine." He said that "like the big fleas that have little fleas, and these little fleas still smaller fleas upon their backs to bite them—these microisms (feeble tremors) have still smaller brethren in the form of earth pulses due to deep bursting when large-scale excavations relieve stresses in certain localities." The new instruments can now track down such feeble tremors, he said. That means that even hurricanes can be spotted in advance, and miners can be warned of rock bursts. * * * A war-time developed technique of vacuum-gas packing soon may be used for domestic purposes, assuring housewives fresher and better tasting canned foods. Engineers of the American Can Co. report that the vacuum-gas packing operation consists of the removal of atmospheric gases from a filled container by means of vacuum, and the dissipation of the vacuum with an inert gas prior to the hermetical sealing of the container. They reported that among the dried food products successfully preserved by the new method are whole milk powder, dry-milk base baby foods, whole egg powder, nut meats, potato sticks, dehydrated cabbage, dehydrated carrots, cereal, flour and popcorn. Chief advantage of the method, according to the engineers, is in the preservation of flavor, aroma, appearance, taste and nutritive value of the foods. * * * The demand for new sources of lead goes on. Great supplies are now being found in Missouri, Idaho, Utah and 15 other states, but scientists are now surveying Alaska. The National Geographic Society points out that while the United States uses half of the world's output of lead, only about one-third is mined in the country. Consumption of lead in this country was estimated at 1,000,000 tons. Scientists now are turning to Alaska so that the country can keep up with its post-war demand.
On Borrowed Time
MINNEAPOLIS (UP)—Grandma Pennyer, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday, apparently has been living on borrowed time for 27 years. At least that's the opinion of a doctor who, when Grandma was 83, told her she was suffering from a serious kidney infection and gave her one week to live.
YOUR TOWN | Important Dope | By Al Harum
YOUR TOWN Important Dope By Al Harum AL HARUM I can remember the time when you could buy a person's thoughts for a penny but those days are gone forever—like nickel bread, five-cent hot dogs and the free-lunch counter at the local saloon. Now we have a group of mental wizards who are pulling down big-bracket money to find out what you and I are thinking. With the 1948 elections just around the corner these high salaried nose counters have called up the local furniture company to order new thrones from which to pick at the brains of Joe Public. It'll be all plush and lush for the pollsters from here on in 'til the last vote is counted. Not that these boys have nothing to do the rest of the time. Gosh, there's no end of important matters that they can compile public opinion on—like for instance whether you prefer milk or cream with your coffee, or do you Rhumba because you like it or for the exercise, or do you prefer galluses to a belt or are you pessimistic enough to require both? These things—and many others of equal importance—are settled by "cross-section" polling or "samples" of public opinion. Let's take a rather ridiculous example to show you how it's done. The boys visit 25 families who are living in similar circumstances with approximately the same income. Their feelings on a given subject are multiplied a thousandfold or a millionfold in accordance with the number of people all over the nation who are in that particular class. The resulting figure is said to be an accurate index as to how these people are thinking on or feeling about a certain subject. What has always astounded me is that these monied recapitulators (we should take a poll to see if there is such a word) encounter so many folks who "haven't made up their mind yet." I think the nose counters should turn their efforts in the direction of forcing everyone to have a thought—even though they're not willing to sell it at the pre-war price of one penny.
HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP | United Press Staff Correspondent | BY PATRICIA CLARY
HOLLYWOOD FILM SHOP United Press Staff Correspondent BY PATRICIA CLARY HOLLYWOOD (UP)—Getting a poke in the nose is worth $35 in Hollywood today. There are a lot of people in movietown who go around looking for trouble, and they get pay checks for it from the movie studios. Hitting the bar room floor in a brawl, tumbling down stairs, jumping off a cliff pays well, if you live to collect. There's a $70 price tag on a stunt done in MGM's "Bfighton [Brighton]—always a good trip, a swift river, being washed into the current and being dragged out by the hair. Gloria Grahame, who plays the top feminine role in "Roughshod," had never handled a team of horses, driven a wagon over rough ground or forded a river. "I can swim in a swimming pool," she remarked, "but I don't know about a rushing river." So a stunt girl drove the wagon into the stream. But Miss Grahame went under with it and then floundered around until Robert Sterling rescued her. Dragged Out by Hair A corps of men stood by during the scene to rescue her if Sterling failed. Sterling dragged her out by the hair all right, but not before she was flung against a rock and badly bruised. "It hurt, but it made a swell shot," she said gamely when, still nursing a bruise, she saw the rushes of the scene. Bill Cerny, who plays a rancher in the picture, got a stunt check in addition to his regular pay because his role calls for him to drive a surrey down a narrow mountain road. The road was only car-wide and Cerny hung on the edge until even director Mark Robson held his breath. Shawn McGlory, of Dublin, Ireland, Abbey players, took a terrific beating in "Roughshod" but got a big stunt check in his salary envelope. Next day, he offered to do the scene over again.
REMEMBER
Remember when you were a kid, long ago, And the boys next door were rough in their play, And you felt the force of an average blow, Because you just happened to get in the way? Remember how grandma would wipe away tears, How her magical kiss would drive pain away? Ah, there was a solace that passed with the years, For grandmothers aren't homebodies today. Remember when one of you children was ill, And the doctor came 'round with his little black bag? Who was it administered potion and pill, Or bound up a wound with a clean linen rag? Who promised of sweets and she'd stay up all night And bathe you to fend the dread fever away? But if you ail now there's no grandma in sight, For grandma has other diversions today. Remember the cookies that grandmother made, And other rare goodies she gave you to eat? Ah, those days from memory never will fade— When a visit to grandma was Saturday's treat. But Saturday now is her special day out, And she's playing golf, or at some snappy play, Even though grandpa's laid up with the gout, For grandma must look after grandma today. J. L. BEERS
YOUNG INDEED!
By Paulson "There—see what I mean, Boss? Salesmen are BORN, not MADE!"
It Says Here
The paper hadn't been off the press but a few minutes yesterday when we received a call from Sid Casell concerning our iteming Leon LaSalle yesterday as being an honest guy and returning our football tickets and money that we'd left in the pants we sent to be cleaned. Sid says we should give the credit to Leon's employes. Okay, everybody over there'd make old Diogenes happy . . . The No Man's Land folks who want to be taken into the Gables aren't saying too much about their plans these days. Seems they want to get everything squared away over there before making official pronouncements about the proposed election . . . That bandage that Sports Editor Don Cuddy is sporting over his eye is a result of falling down a hatch on a week-end fishing trip. And he's an ex-Navy guy, too, tch, tch, tch. Freddie Daw's daddy, Fred Daw, Sr., was in yesterday to remind us of the coming bird show in Miami. He's an amateur ornithologist and knows a lot about our feathered friends. More about him in a later issue . . . Talk about getting blood out of a turnip. You should have been our city hall reporter yesterday trying to dig up some stories with City Manager McIlwain, Finance Director Poorman, City Attorney Semple and two commissioners, all in St. Petersburg at the Florida League of Municipalities meeting. Whoeee . . . Memo to the sports desk: Karl Schmitz has missed only one Hurricane home game since they started playing football . . . Director's Dick Marshall is an excellent chef and can turn out a fish chowder that will keep you shoveling it in 'til its running out of your ears . . . Harry Walsh, the Universal newsreel man, showed us an interesting invitation from the White House the other day. It was an invitation from Neptunus Rex to present himself at the mansion of the chief executive for an evening of fun . . . It seems that Harry was a member of the official party when the President and his family went to South America recently and took part in initiating the Trumans into the Order of Shellbacks when they crossed the equator.
FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK | By Mary Helm Clarke | PAN AMERICAN CLIPS OFF TWENTY YEARS
FROM A RIVIERA NOTEBOOK By Mary Helm Clarke PAN AMERICAN CLIPS OFF TWENTY YEARS The Riviera Notebook glories in the twenty year triumphs of Pan American Airways, Inc., Latin American Division. Since 1927, P. A. A. pilots have blazed trails and circled the globe with Miami as a starting point, but sooner or later, the flight personnel comes home, and Coral Gables is home to many sung and unsung heroes of the airways. Senior pilot of the Latin American Division, in point of service, is Captain George W. Snow, 2522 Madrid Street. He was co-pilot on the first Pan American plane to carry paying passengers from Miami to Havana. The Pan American "fleet" taking off from the 36th Street Airport, consisted of 2 Fokker tri-motored monoplanes (carrying 8 passengers and a crew of 3), and a few 6 passenger Sikorsky twin-motored amphibians. There was no base at that time on Biscayne Bay. Master Pilot Basil Rowe, chief trail blazer for the airways, comes home to 743 Alhambra Circle. He joined the company soon after Snow, and his log reveals a mileage equivalent to 132 times around the world. He surveyed the West Indies for possible air-routes and blazed the trail to Port of Spain, Trinidad in 1929. He also pioneered the first long, over-water route in the history of commercial aviation, the 674 mile over-water hop from Jamaica to Panama. Small wonder they chose Basil Rowe to survey the now famous "Cannonball Run" to the Near East, over which men and machinery and military supplies were sent in spite of dire peril from Nazi submarines during the last war. Do you remember when Basil Rowe crossed the Atlantic Ocean six times in five days, during this period? Eighteen years ago today, G. J. Ekstrom, 1251 N. Greenway Drive, joined P. A. A. as a co-pilot. By 1932 he was a full captain, taking his turn at piloting a 20 passenger "Commodore" or a 40 passenger Sikorsky S40 which at that time was the largest commercial aircraft in the world. The intricacies of controlling these big Clippers never kept the sharp-eyed pilot from seeing trouble in the open seas. Five men clinging to an upturned boat, and a sailing vessel pounding against the rocky shores off Colombia were rescued without a single loss of life because Captain Ekstrom spied them in their plight. These veteran pilots, and many others, enroll from time to time in the Personnel Training School on Andalusia Avenue (formerly Pamsco) to check up on the latest aircraft design and direction-finding devices and rubber raft equipment, for theirs is the chief responsibility for maintaining the remarkable safety record which PAA has chalked up. The Personnel Training School is under the direction of Captain "Charlie" Lunn, who developed the teaching technique by which PAA taught aerial navigation to 500 cadets during the last war. But that is another story! Anyway, you see why we are proud to salute Pan American Airways, Inc., and its Latin American Division as they clip off the first twenty years of progress.
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Grove Church Groups Map Social Events
Swimming and picnicing are in store for the young people of the Coconut Grove Baptist Church Saturday night. Sponsored by the Young Women's Auxiliary of the church, a beachparty will be given at Miami Beach near Baker's Haulover. The group will leave the church at 6 p.m. Transportation will be provided for all young people who wish to attend. Margaret Ripley, social chairman, is in charge of arrangements for the party. * * * Three circles of the Coconut Grove Plymouth Congregational church have chosen Friday as the day for their meetings. At 2 p.m., the Emily B. Stimson Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Walter Page, 3348 SW 3rd St. At this same hour, the Alice Meade Swing Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. C. H. Wilcox, 3226 Gifford Lane. Circle 4 will meet at Plymouth Hall at 3 p.m. * * * Delving into the past will be the theme of the program to be presented tonight at 7:45 when Circle 7 of Plymouth Congregational Church of Coconut Grove meets at the home of Mrs. Hollice E. Plotts, 3238 Day Avenue. Mrs. Fred A. Kent and Mrs. J. B. Overstreet are in charge of the program. * * * Technicolor slides on "Teaching Children To Worship" will be shown to church school teachers and officers of the Coconut Grove Plymouth Congregational church tomorrow night. The meeting has been called for 8 p.m. in Plymouth Hall. * * * A benefit tea will be given by the-ladies of the Bryan Memorial Methodist church Friday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. in the home of Mrs. J. E. Custer, 3735 Day Avenue. It is being given for the benefit of the Christian-American Relief for Europe.
GABLEITES HEAD PARTY COMMITTEE
Mrs. J. Fritz Gordon and Mrs. Gladys B. Sutherland, both Coral Gables and members of the Miami Woman's Club hold important chairmanships for the club's annual bridge party at 1 p. m. today. The club will also sponsor the opening night performance of "The Late Christopher Bean" at the Ring Theatre tomorrow. Thanksgiving dinner at the club on Saturday will be followed by the presentation of "Revision of Rose Marie" with the club's chorus in costume and action. Mrs. Will H. Pence, widely known in musical circles and president of the Fraternity of Music, will take the part of Rose Marie.
Church Celebrates Harvest Home
A Harvest Home Festival will be staged by the congregation of the First Christian Church tomorrow from one in the afternoon until eight in the evening. The Fall festival will wind up with a supper dinner, served by the United Council of Women and other organized groups in the church, from 5 to 8 o'clock. All Gableites are invited to attend the Harvest Home, which is being directed by Mrs. James Andrews, general chairman. It will take place on the church property, 222 Avenue Menores.
Antiques On Display At Silver Tea
Interesting antiques will be displayed at the Silver Tea being sponsored by the Quiet Hour Class of the First Presbyterian Church of Coral Gables Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Joseph W. Fuller, 1505 S. W. 12th Street. Mrs. Parks C. Hunter will greet guests at the door. Mrs. Fred Preston will preside at the tea table. Mrs. Nicholas Hodsdon will have charge of the antiques. Members and their friends are invited to attend.
A. L. Vollmers Return From St. Pete Confab
Recent returnees from St. Petersburg are Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Vollmer, 225 Alhambra Circle. While there, Dr. Vollmer conducted a dental clinic on painless local anesthesia for the members attending the 64th annual meeting of the Florida State Dental Society. Accompanying the Vollmers was Margaret Ernst, the doctor's assistant, who attended the eighth annual meeting of the Florida State Dental Assistants Association.
Physician Addresses Kellogg Health Club
Mrs. John E. Norman, president of the John Harvey Kellogg Health Club at the Miami Springs Battle Creek sanitarium will preside at the first fall meeting of the club at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Dr. Estelle G. Norman will address the group and Mrs. Carlton Ellison will give a talk on meatless diet.
A Word to the Wives | By Julia Harum
A Word to the Wives By Julia Harum MRS. HARUM Mrs. Frank N. Holley Jr., was sitting at the Country Club after dinner one evening minding her own benedictine and brandy when a woman acquaintance joined her and started chatting. Conversation was interrupted a bit later when someone asked Helen if she would mind answering a very, very personal question. Coral Gables' favorite whodunit author declined to commit herself to an answer—but said she wouldn't resent the asking, in any event. Helen waited, in suspense. The friend hemmed and hawed. Then she finally got up courage to stammer: "Are those your own teeth?" The author hooted, but managed with tears streaming down her face to assure the friend that they were all her very own. The response was a sigh of doubt. "Can I feel them?" asked the doubting Thomasina. Helen permitted her an investigatory tap on an upper front incisor and off she went—happy as a lark and finally convinced! * * * LEGITIMATE BEEF—In his new book "Our American Language" Richard D. Mallery may have put his finger on one reason for misunderstandings in Anglo-American war marriages. In Britain, he explains, when a bride wants to treat her husband to a juicy sirloin steak, she asks the butcher for rump. Even a top sergeant would find it a tough proposition to try to chew broiled rump, American cut. * * * TREE FOR TEA—Some day Mrs. Bowman F. Hinckley hopes to get to-gether over the tea cups with Mrs. Bowman F. Ashe and find out once and for all whether their husbands are twigs on the same family tree. "Those duplicate Bowman F's have bothered me for years," she admits. Mr. Hinckley's immediate forebears deserted the land of Gabots and cod and emigrated to the middle west—an episode that is treated with kindly silence when the family returns to visit Down East relatives and friends. "We are introduced simply as members of the New England Hinckleys who married into a branch of the New England Bowmans," the Gables woman explained. The "F" in her husband's name stands for Fleming. Well, we know that Dr. Ashe came to Coral Gables from Pennsylvania and that his middle name is Foster. As for the Bowman—you'll have to take it from there, Mrs. Ashe! * * * ON BORROWED TOME—If Mrs. Don Peabody had been intimidated by the old proverb "neither borrower nor lender be" Coral Gables might be celebrating National Book week without a library to its name. Back in 1926, the then president of the Coral Gables Woman's Club found members possessed of a set of second-hand shelves, an earnest desire to start a library—and no books. Mrs. Peabody assigned a committee to burn the midnight oil listing titles of modern works they'd like to see on the library shelves—provided they had a library. Then committee members wrote each of 300 selected authors, asking the "loan" of a copy of his work. They batted an even 1,000 percent. Back came 300 volumes, gifts in most instances, and the Coral Gables Public Library was launched on a proud career lending learning to all who sought it.
JUST BETWEEN US | Want To Break The Ties That Bind? Be Subtle About It, Nancy Advises | By NANCY MOTTRAM
JUST BETWEEN US Want To Break The Ties That Bind? Be Subtle About It, Nancy Advises By NANCY MOTTRAM NANCY One of the many uncertainties of this time of life is going steady with someone. Instead of a casual friendship, it involves deting only him, ignoring all other males, and, in short, being attached to a ball and chain. You can have a wonderful time with him. You like being with him, and you feel a flutter inside when the telephone rings around 8 o'clock. But does it ever weigh on your mind that your actions are predetermined? It's not just the fact that you have to depend on his whims to go the places you'd like to go. You probably know what was going to happen, and you tied yourself down with your eyes wide open. And if you don't like it, what are you going to do about it? Going steady is a pact. There are certain rules that you're supposed to observe. If one partner breaks a rule, there are usually hard feelings for a while. The gal that sports a fraternity pin is a one-man woman. She doesn't dare to show any attention to anyone but the owner of said pin. And should she wish to stray from that fold, there'll be an argument, and maybe anger that will last for some time. But if the girl would like to be on her own again, or where she wants to, when and with whom she prefers, how does she break the tie without causing a scene? There are two ways to do it. One is to hand the pin back, and let that be all. But the reaction on his part won't be at all pleasant. The other way is bloodless. Instead of rushing off all at once, you can be subtle about it. Instead of hanging on to his every word depending on him, act as if he came closest to your ideal of the perfect man, over a period of time bring the friendly angle into play again. Instead of putting stars in your eyes, kid with him a little and work into a policy of friendship. If you do it gradually, he'll hardly realize what's happening. You were on a purely romantic basis once, before he began dating you, and with a bit of clever management you can go back to it—at least as far as you're concerned. Chance are that when he find that you no longer take him seriously, he might agree to top things your way. There's no abrupt ending, no angry words, unless you try this tactic overnight. It's a little too shattering to the boy's ego, and unless you wish to do it, it's a lot easier than breaking the news to him out of a clear sky. Going steady is a lot of fun. You're sure of a date to all the important events, instead of having to wait and hope that someone asks you. But it has its drawbacks, too. And when you think that you've had your fling at this great American practice, you're faced with the problem of ending it without getting burned in the process. It's much wiser to have dates with all, and no serious "going together" with one. If you're feelings get a jolt that's not quickly forgotten. If you want to give him back his pin, think twice before you dash in his direction. You know him, and you can think of some way to solve your problems that won't involve a long, lasting grudge.
Coral Gables Is Travel Destination Of Winter Residents, Visiting Friends
Back for home keeps. That will be the case of David Yaeck, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Yaeck, 334 Avenue Alesio, when he arrives November 24 from San Diego, California. He will be released from the navy, as Yeoman 3/C on that date. * * * Mrs. Richard A. Buser arrived home yesterday after a visit of three weeks in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Washington, D.C. Mrs. Buser is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd D. LeMan of 5854 SW 28th Street with whom she and her husband reside. * * * Happy over the prospect of moving into their new home this week are the P. B. Wachtells of 123 Avenue Zamora. Their new home is located at 5960 SW 45th Street. * * * George Moredock, who summers on his vast farms in Indiana, has returned to reopen his home at 1252 Avenue Sorolla for the season.