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Organizations are invited to list scheduled activities in the daily Riviera Time Table. Listings for this calendar of activities must reach the Riviera-Times editorial offices by 3 p.m. the day preceding publication. This Evening OPTIMIST CLUB-Ladies Night at Country Club of Coral Gables, 7 p. m. THANKSGIVING PARTY-Lions, YMCA at Coral Gables Elementary School, 7 p. m. JAYCEES-Meet at Country Club of Coral Gables, 6:30 p. m. GABLES THEATER-"Welcome Stranger," Bing Crosby. CORAL THEATER-"The Pretender," Catherine Craig. GROVE THEATER-"Nightmare Alley," Tyrone Power. PARKWAY THEATER-"Farmer's Daughter," Loretta Young. Tomorrow MUNICIPAL COURT convenes at police station, 5 p.m. LIONS CLUB meets at Country Club of Coral Gables, 12:15. GABLES THEATRE-"Welcome Stranger," Bing Crosby. CORAL THEATRE-"The Pretender," Catherine Craig. GROVE THEATRE-"Her Husband's Affairs," Lucille Ball. PARKWAY THEATRE-"Carnegie Hall," concert artists. RING THEATRE-"Dangerous Corner," by J. B. Priestly (University of Miami). BOX THEATRE-"The Glass Menagerie," (University of Miami).

These four new Twin-Coach 40 passenger buses were put in service today on the Miami-Coral Gables run by the city transportation department. The busses are of the latest design and called "the ultimate in comfort and convenience" by City Manager William T. McIlwain. Mayor W. Keith Phillips Phillips and City Commissioner Thomas C. Mayes turned out to inspect them before they were put in service. Also pictured is Chester Smith, superintendent of transportation and the drivers who will pilot the new vehicles.-Riviera-Times photo by Binner.

Sugar Chiseler Eases Mind

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (UP)-The death of OPA failed to ease the guilty conscience of one Pennsylvanian woman. Leo H. Akers, head of the Area Rent Office here, received a "To Whom It May Concern" letter from a housewife. It began, "I just wanted to write and tell you I had a boy that went into the army, and I used his sugar stamps. I understand I was supposed to send them in, but I want you to forgive me. "I wouldn't want a sugar stamp to keep me out of Heaven, for I believe the coming of the Lord is drawing near and I think everyone should be ready when He comes. "If you would be so kind as to forgive me, drop me a card." A postscript amended her confession: "P. S.-It wasn't all the time sugar was rationed; just a few times."

Henry Wallace, Backed by Communists Seen Readying Third Party Bid

By LYLE C. WILSON UP Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. (UP) It is beginning to look like Henry A. Wallace has decided that about next November would be the right time to pay off President Truman for booting him out of the cabinet. The Communist party is all set to aid Wallace in that chore. Wallace is talking third party louder than ever. He has been around too long to think he or a third party could win much of anything in 1948. Wallace would look to 1952 for more positive results. But a third party movement next year surely could sink Mr. Truman if it got a few breaks. One of those breaks came this month and was scarcely remarked. That was in Chicago where a rump slate of candidates for judicial office was entered in the Nov. 4 election and shell-shocked Illinois politicians by getting 116,-000 citizens to vote the rump ticket straight. The slate was in opposition to a coalition ticket, chosen by the Democratic and Republican organizations. The coalition candidates were to have been unopposed until Prof. Homer F. Carey of Northwestern University organized the so-called progressive slate of candidates. Carey's ticket won better than 16 percent of the total vote cast and probably has qualified as a party entitled to be on the ballot in the primaries and in the presidential election next year. Control Third Party It is not suggested that Carey or the Carey slate of candidates are for or against Wallace nor, of course, that they are Communists. But they now control the makings of a third party organization in Illinois and the Communists will do what they can to kidnap it. "The Worker," New York's Sunday Communist newspaper, revealed what the comrades have in mind in an editorial stating that the old line parties are beginning to worry about third party developments. The editorial said, in part: "They have looked at the election returns. These show such facts as these: In Chicago, a new party polls over 110,000 votes with one candidate getting 250,000. This fact has been nationally suppressed in the press. "In Cleveland, a Communist candidate, Krehmarek, gets nearly 65,000 votes. In New York the American Labor party held its own. In California, the petition movement for a third party is vigorously under way." Uneasiness Develops If uneasiness is beginning to develop because of the third party threat led by Wallace and sparked by the Communists, it is among Democrats, not Republicans. Any left wing movement of that kind would draw votes from what used to be the Roosevelt New Deal Democratic organization. If third party organizations went for Wallace in a big way next November in California, New York and Illinois, Mr. Truman's chances of winning would be reduced more than somewhat. Such a bolt probably would insure his defeat. The third party is a going concern in New York. It is a Communist-dominated outfit called the American Labor party, which cast 496,405 votes for the late FDR in 1944 when he ran for a fourth term against Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. Mr. Roosevelt carried New York that year by 316,591 votes, considerably fewer than the number cast by the American Labor party. It is reasonable to believe Mr. Truman could not carry New York without ALP help and it is beginning to look as though he won't get it. Mr. Roosevelt's 1944 margin in Illinois was 140,165 votes. A left wing party backing Wallace obviously would jeopardize Democratic chances there next year. In California Mr. Roosevelt had a bulge of 475,599 votes in 1944. Whether a third party could poll so many there remains to be seen. The significant fact is that a Wallace third party movement next year could hurt the Democrats a lot and could not hurt the Republicans much. New York, California and Illinois together have 90 votes in the electoral college. Only 266 electoral college votes are necessary to elect a president. Those three states represent more than one-third of a majority.

Colgate Classmen Study Government At First Hand

Washington (UP) - The ways of America democracy in action are being studied from behind-the-scenes by 10 Colgate University students of government. To combine "the advantages of reality" with classroom theory, the Colgate Washington study group has settled again in the capital for four months of "close contact with the administrators," said Dr. Paul Jacobsen, head of the political science department at Colgate and adviser for the group. "By conferences, interviews and general co-operation of government officials, the boys are learning the inside of government," he said. "They have the advantages of reality and of seeing government in operation, brought about by personal contacts." Splitting up among departments, commissions and other parts of government, the 10 students study the organization and problems of administration. Everybody Helpful Walter Steinmann, senior from Bloomfield, N. J., and a prospective law student, said: "Everybody has been very helpful. In the Civil Service Commission they reserved a room, phone and typewriters for us, besides arranging interviews." "They speak right across the table with no holds barred," said Tom O'Reilly, of New York City. "They don't speak down to us." In an interview with a member of the National Labor Relations Board, he said he learned more about the problems of labor and management than he had in the college library even though he had "debated the subject several times." However, the group has met some snags. George Whitney of Frankfort, N. Y., chose the State Department as his first area of study and ran into security trouble. "They wanted to give us the lowdown, but usually cut it short when we hit confidential topics." The students all were agreed that the time spent in Washington was more valuable to them than it would be studying back at the campus. "We see problems that are actually confronting these men," Steinmann said.

Cartographer Finds 'Gold' In Asphalt Gables Streets

By CHUCK WILEY Riviera-Times Staff Writer Thar's gold in the drab gray asphalt of Coral Gables' highways and byways-and Larry Larson got the jump on operating rights by chance. Way back in 1939 the well-known local radio engineer was prospecting for a novel advertising medium and hit upon the idea of publishing an up-to-date map of Coral Gables. Today the advertising "side-line" has become a lusty young business in itself - and one that brought Larry international recognition via a description article in the November issue of Coronet. In 1940, Larry's first map, drawn by a local architect, came out, but not as Larry had planned. It was difficult to read because the lines used in making the letters were the same size as those used in marking off the streets. Furthermore, since there was no advertising, with the exception of his own, used on the maps, Larry soon found that he couldn't afford to be giving so many maps away. So it was in 1942, that Larry drew his own version of how the Gables ought to look on paper. Full of local advertisements, this map covered territory even west of the Gables, showing Tropical Park. At first Larry gave 100 maps to each advertiser but soon found that grocers, for example, didn't need as many as did real estate men. Therefore he divided his advertisers into two groups; distributors, and non-distributors. To the distributors, who are classed as service stations, real estate offices, and restaurants, he sells maps with the name of their business on the cover. The non-distributors, such as beauty shops, groceries, and jewelery stores, receive one map from each distributor. In this way, the non-distributors can see who are distributing their ads free gratis. In 1947, when the map was revised, some changes were made in its appearance. The county section, between Avenue Majorca and the Tamiami Trail, were brought in, and the west part of the map was cut off to make more space for advertisements. When a new version of the Larson map comes out in January of 1948, many changes will be noted because of the many changes which have been made on street names, etc. during this year. A Gables resident for 16 years, Larry came here in 1930 on his honeymoon and, according to him, he hasn't finished it yet. Among his many professions, this Eau Claire, Wisconsin lad spent quite a bit of time as an instructor of sound gear for anti-submarine search craft at the University of California. Before the recent war, he was connected with General Electric at Bridgeport, Conn., where he worked on F. M. radios. When war was declared, he signed up as a radio instructor at Scott Field, Illinois. Soon he was assigned to Boca Raton as a radar instructor. His next job was teaching sound gear to the navy at Key West. Soon he drifted back up the state of Florida to Fort Lauderdale where he became a transmitter engineer for W. G. B. S. Next he became a radio instructor for the O. S. S. and he was stationed near Washington, D. C. Finally he ended up as a radio officer for the Merchant Marines. While serving in this capacity, he visited the Hawiian Isles, Australia, India, Colombo, the East African coast, and South America. At present Larry, who says he's "allergic to doing anything he doesn't like to do," is working on plans for a radio which he hopes will "revolutionize all present radio models." He's also planning to put out a map of Greater Miami soon. In the meantime, Larry is visualizing the day when his four children, Billy, Larry, Bobby, and Susan, will take over his map-making business and make it pay off in four college degrees for them.

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Veterans may obtain certificates of eligibility for GI home, farm or business loan guarantees from the Veterans Administration at any time and save many days in obtaining approval of their application for loan guarantee when they do decide to take advantage of that war service benefit.

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SELECT THAT WATCH OR FINE PIECE OF JEWELRY NOW! FOR CHRISTMAS Use our convenient LAY-AWAY PLAN for a fine selection of gifts to please the entire family. PAUL R. STEGEMAN 2304 Ponce de Leon Blvd. | Coral Gables

IMPORTANT! To Owners of a KAISER or FRAZER or other fine cars

We are fully equipped to give bumper-to-bumper service on all makes of cars. Drop by today for a check-up by factory-trained mechanics. Also expert body and paint work at reasonable prices. WHIDDEN MOTOR SALES, INC. Kaiser-Frazer Automobiles Ponce de Leon Blvd. and Bird Road CORAL GABLES Phone 4-6088

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