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EVENTS | RIVIERA TIME TABLE | MEETINGS

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 CITY COMMISSION—Meets at City Hall, 8 p. m. OPTIMISTS CLUB—Meets at Country Club of Coral Gables, 6:30 p.m. ARCHITECTS—meet with Producers Council for exhibit and dinner at Country Club of Coral Gables, 7 p.m. GABLES THEATER—“Carnival in Costa Rica,” Dick Haymes. CORAL THEATER—“San Quentin,” Lawrence Tierney. PARKWAY THEATER—“Farmer’s Daughter,” Loretta Young. GROVE THEATER—“Nightmare Alley,” Tyrone Power. Tomorrow MUNICIPAL COURT—Convenes at police station, 5 p.m. LIONS CLUB—meets at Country Club of Coral Gables, 12:15 p.m. MEN’S CLUB of Congregational Church meets at church, 6:15 p.m. GABLES THEATER—“Carnival in Costa Rica”, Dick Haymes. CORAL THEATER—“San Quentin”, Lawrence Tierney. GROVE THEATER—“Pursued”. Robert Mitchum. PARKWAY THEATER—“King of Wild Horses”, Gail Patrick. RING THEATER—“The Late Christopher Bean” (University of Miami) BOX THEATER—“The Glass Menagerie” (University of Miami)

LOWER NO MAN’S LAND | Cocker Spaniel Will Make Trip South Via Airlines

By DOT THAGARD Riviera-Times Correspondent With the Christmas holidays just around the corner now, and the school children counting the days until the Christmas vacation, Lower No Man’s Landers are readying homes for house guests and homecoming college students. Also, with the colder weather, the few seasonal residents are fast returning. The Misses Edyth and Clara Buske have reopened their home at 702 Obispo for the winter. The Buske’s originally called Rockford, Ill., home. They still have a home there although they spend their summers at their cottage at Long Lake, Wis., and their winters here. Pal, a year-old Cocker Spaniel puppy, recently acquired by the Buske sisters was to make the trip down with them but at the last minute, caught a cold which developed into influenza—so Pal is making his trip down via Eastern Air Lines as soon as he has recuperated. Clara and Edyth also report a phenomena for this year on the reopening of their home—no mildew on walls or household furnishings. Either they closed up at a good time or they have practically air tight shutters. We are looking forward to seeing the familiar sight of Edyth and Clara working again in the soon to be loveliness of their garden. Car Wrecked Frank Esslinger of Madeira Avenue, greeted his wife, on her return from a visit of several weeks in St. Louis, Mo., with news of a smashed car and displayed a painfully broken leg suffered when the car was wrecked. Mr. and Mrs. Popovich are anxiously awaiting the completion of their new home at 4236 S. W. 16th Street. Started on July 4th, there has been one complication after another hindering the project, which has been their own way of attempting to solve the housing problem. We all hope they find themselves settled by the end of the week. Wally Smith is building a nice basketball practice court in the rear of his dad’s home at 704 Avenue Avenue. It looks like the young people will have an excellent opportunity to turn into championship material. Is there a coach in the neighborhood?

Married Couples Find Talking It Out Pays

ATLANTA, Ga. (UP) — This country’s high divorce rate has prompted married couples here to form the “Mr. and Mrs. Club,” whose purpose is to work out marriage problems by talking them over in public. Even the lineup of officers is in couple formation. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Swanson are president, every other office is doubly filled. The 40 couples who are members range from newlyweds to grandparents. While their discussions center chiefly on a “constructive” approach to marriage problems, they also discuss any other subjects which interest them, including Bible history, world affairs—and spend a fair amount of time in the purely social pastime in eating and talking.

CORAL LAKE NEWS | Winter and Racing Bring More Visitors Southward

By VERA BARNES Riviera-Times Correspondent As the weather gets colder up North, the number of winter residents here in the park increases in proportion. Not only those folks here for the winter season of racing, but also those here to find new jobs and to make their homes here permanently. Among those here for the racing season are Mr. and Mrs. George A. Ury and Mr. and Mrs. Jess Kemp and son from Lindsay, Oklahoma. Mr. Ury is a horse trainer, and Mr. Kemp owns some horses. Also here is Jack Watson, an electrician from Greensburg, Indiana, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Rogers and their two boys from Bowdoinham, Me.; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Robbins and family from Cream Ridge, N. J., where Mr. Robbins is an electrician. Also, we have, Mr. and Mrs. J. O’Neal and family of Michigan; Mr. and Mrs. George Lage and their two children from Ann Arbor, Mich. Mr. Lage is a musician. From Wheeling, Ill., comes Joseph Krieter, a plumber. And from Michigan, we have Mr. and Mrs. G. Corte and their two children. Then there are Mr. and Mrs. Russ Applegate from Las Vegas, Nev., and Mr. and Mrs. Mike Flora and their boy and girl from Crafton, Pa. Mr. Flora is a salesman. From California Hart and William Brandon are here all the way from Menlo Park, Calif. Mrs. Clyde Pardue has her two daughters here for the winter, and the girls arrived in time to make Thanksgiving a real holiday for their mother. Mr. Frankt’s mother came down in time to spend the holiday with them. She brought her trailer along and plans to stay indefinitely here. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Haumneher now have Lu’s mother here for the winter too. Her dad came down last week. If they like Florida, they plan to make their home here. Thanksgiving Sidetrips Mr. and Mrs. George Heath went up to Vero Beach to be with his brother for Thanksgiving, and George tells us that their baby daughter is doing just fine after her recent operation. Among some of the other travelers were the Stephens. They spent the holiday at West Palm Beach with relatives. Carlton Johns went all the way up to Winter Haven, Fla., to spend a few days with a friend of his that is a student at Rollins. Bob Hutton, Bill Mundis, Preston Eisensmith, and Jim Jennings drove up to Ft. Lauderdale to visit a home town friend. This man works in a hotel up there, and stood treat for Thanksgiving dinner. That was a break for the boys who would have had to cook their own dinner or go out to eat, and either way it would have been a strain on their limited budgets. Yep, even the college boys have to worry about a budget! Sick List We are so glad to report that Fred Wilkins is at last up and around. He’s had such a long seige of illness since he was operated on for a troublesome appendic. He had Thanksgiving dinner with Leon and Ann Barnes, and their son, Don. He wants to go back to Michigan so badly to see that new son of his, but his doctors say no, not until he does a more thorough job of recuperating. Another person down here to recuperate in our Florida sunshine is Miss Jose Mattison, daughter of Jack and Lu Haumneher. She had a rather nasty appendix operation too, and had to give up her job as chief clerk at the Fannie Farmer shop in Irvington, N. J. Color Notes: Several folks are busy painting their trailers, and they’ve gotten brave and picked out some luscious colors. The Freemams have a lovely coral color on their trailer, and the Barnes, Leon and Ann have painted theirs a soft turquoise. It sounds a little unusual, but it really looks nice down here in our climate. I can’t say what it would look like in the North’s snow and ice, but down here it is very appropriate. The Mitchells have just finished painting their trailer a soft gray and their porch a nice green. All in all, this place will really be colorful before the season is up. Embarrassing Moment One day last week, Lu Haumneher went down town to apply for a beer and wine license for their place of business. She had with her a letter of reference (she thought!) from Lyle Mattson. She went up to the clerk in the right department, stated her business, and presented her letter. Needless to say she was a little astonished when the clerk burst out in hearty laughter. When he was able to tell her about it, he told her what the letter contained. It seems the boys in Lyle’s trailer had concocted a ditty of a letter thinking that he would be sure to read it before he took it down town. Lu hadn’t and had just turned it over. In the letter, they told whomever it would concern, that she was a jailbird, that she had messed a Florida policeman and had to be threatened with a jail sentence before she would keep still; that she didn’t know one brand from another, and furthermore that she sat up till 3 in the morning changing the labels on the bottles. Then they added that the only license she should be issued would be a dog license. In conclusion, they finally added that she kept the boys from doing their homework. You can imagine her surprise when she found out what was in the letter, but it did her no harm because she got her license with no trouble at all. Furthermore, the clerk asked permission to keep the letter and plans to send it to the higher ups in Tallahassee.

A. L. Reynolds Outlines Needs For Chest Drive

(Special to the Riviera-Times) While the 1948 Community Chest of Dade County campaign Feb. 2 to 17, has a tentative goal of $845,897 the national total of nearly 1,000 similar Red Feather drives in as many cities will be in excess of $170,000,000, it was pointed out today by A. L. Reynolds of Coral Gables, president of the county unit. “The annual Community Chest of Dade County drive is held on behalf of 22 Red Feather services and brings together 22 potential campaigns in a single effort,” said Reynolds. “It makes for greater efficiency and economy of operations. It conserves the time of unpaid volunteer workers who campaign to raise funds by each of these Red Feather services separately, which would occur if they were not federated for fund raising in the Community Chest.” Minimum Goal The goal of the Community Chest of Dade County is the minimum amount on which the Red Feather services can operate during 1948, Reynolds explained. “The budgets of these services were carefully screened by a committee of representative citizens,” he said. “Not even in business is such painstaking care exercised in the expenditures of funds. The cost of operating the Community Chest, year round and through the campaign, amounts to less than 10 percent of money raised. Any business would be happy to operate on such a low overhead. Unpaid Volunteers “All but a handful of professional people who work on the campaign are unpaid volunteers. Much of the Red Feather service also is possible through the use of volunteers willing to give their time and talents without charge,” Reynolds added. “Community services made possible through the annual Community Chest campaign are of benefit to everybody in the community. “Studies indicate that four out of 10 families benefit directly each year from Red Feather Services. Everybody in the community benefits when families are held together, sickness in cared or prevented, young people are kept from being delinquent and the aged are given care. “Since everybody benefits, then everybody has a responsibility to contribute to support Red Feather services,” asserted the Coral Gables civic leader. “I hope that the response to the Community Chest of Dade County appeal will be so great and spontaneous that we shall surpass our goal.” Red Feather agencies of the Community Chest of Dade County are American Children’s Home, Boy Scouts, Catholic Welfare Bureau, Children’s Service Bureau, Council of Social Agencies, Southeastern Branch, Children’s Home Society of Florida, Day Nursery, Family Service Society, Girl Scouts, Jewish Social Service Bureau, Legal Aid Society, Miami Beach Welfare Board, Negro Service Council, Negro Welfare Federation, Traveler’s Aid Society, Visiting Nurse Association, Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A.

PONCE NEWS | Wheel Club Scrap Drive Slated For Next Sunday

By DENIS O’DONOVAN and PAULINE MARKS Riviera-Times Correspondents Ponce’s Wheel Club will collect paper all over Coral Gables next Sunday, December 7. Gableites are asked to leave bundles of paper on the curb in front of their houses. The Wheel Club is sponsoring tonight’s performance of “The Glass Menagerie” at the University’s Box Theater. Curtain time is 8:30. Ponce’s much-discussed coke machine will soon become a reality, the Student Council announced today. Final arrangements have been made, and now the only problem is “where to put the thing.” Proceeds will go into a special fund for worthy projects. Tapped by Key Club Jimmy Dunn, Dick Hollenbeck and Neil Glassford will become the newest members of Ponce’s Key Club at the honor-service organization’s next formal initiation. They were chosen by the members to fill the club’s quota of 25. Key Club Sunday was observed Sunday at Country Club Christian Church. The Rev. Harvey John Fritch prepared a special sermon, and friends, and families attended. Ponce boys will have trouble looking for telephone numbers in the future, since Student Directories go on sale today. The directories are an annual project of the Hi-Y club. Each semester there is one assembly which is more nerve-wracking and awe-inspiring than any other. This assembly is the National Honor Society’s tapping ceremony, which will be held this semester, December 10. Throughout the country being tapped by NHS is considered the highest high school honor. Women faint and strong men weep when ushered into the high school version of Phi Beta Kappa. To Give Talks Officers of the Ponce Chapter will give brief talks on the four goals of NHS, leadership, scholarship, character, and service, and then members will circulate about the auditorium, pinning blue and yellow ribbons on those chosen by students and faculty on the basis of the four attributes. Girls with a gleam in their eye will be seen roaming the Ponce campus this week, because the Hula Hop to be held at the Coral Gables Women’s Club Saturday night will be hag-drag. Gene Lockhart’s band, which made such a hit at the Hi-Y dance, will be featured, with Betty Lou Pullman vocalizing. Senior girls are selling the ducats at $1 per couple. New pledges, a dance to be held during the Christmas holidays, and plans for an alumni association were discussed at the last Quill and Scroll meeting at President Ted Slack’s house. The honorary journalistic society decided to call the alumni together for the dance, and Pauline Marks, John Gould, and Frank Baker were chosen to make arrangements. Gail Schwartz, Betty Ruth Geiger, Japie Theed, Johnniee Lou and Betty Jean Caudell, Blanch Doelling, Jean Mack, Nancy Albury, Tootsie Arias and Peggy Moore will receive silver volleyballs for their part in the tournament played at Ponce. Florence Stewart, Camille Ocklers, Japie Theed, Pauline Marks, Martha Warren, Gloria Johnson, Diana Metts, Helen Johnson, Gail Clark, Jayne Kultau, Joan Greene, and Nancy Jo Taylor are a few of the girls practicing for the Orange Bowl Aqua Follies to be held at the Venetian Pool, December 29 and 30.

Men’s Club To Hear Foss

The Men’s Club of the Congregational Church will meet for a 6:30 p.m. dinner tomorrow in the lounge of the church. Ernest L. Foss, advertising manager for the Pan American Airways will speak on “Advertising”. New officers recently elected to serve the club for the coming year are: Herman Hoff, president; Walter Gilmore, vice president; Charles Radway, secretary treasurer and Walter Van Nort, program chairman.

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★ Ponce de Leon discovered the real “Fountain of Youth” in the tropical fruits of Florida MR. PONCE SAYS: This Christmas, TAKE A LOOK DOWN Memory Lane

BRING a smile to every face along your avenue of memories—your loved ones, friends, and business associates. There's a COBBS gift package of luscious golden sunshine fruits and tropical delicacies to bring joy to each of them. Lest you forget anyone, LOOK AGAIN... and take your list to the nearest COBBS store, TODAY! Remember you pay no more for COBBS quality! MORE THAN 2,000,000 1,500,000 GIFT FRUIT PACKAGES SAFELY SENT! Cobbs FIFTEEN CONVENIENT STORES MAIL ADDRESS: BOX 1, LITTLE RIVER FLORIDA MIAMI 243 E. Flagler St. 8240 N. E. 2nd Ave. 400 N. E. 79th St. HOLLYWOOD Hollywood Beach Hotel CORAL GABLES 2114 Ponce de Leon Blvd. MIAMI BEACH 345 Lincoln Road 819 Lincoln Road 400 41st St. 1151 Washington Ave. 761 Washington Ave. 137 23rd St. (Roney Plaza Hotel) SILVER SPRINGS State Highway No. 40 CLEARWATER 514 Park St. BOCA RATON Boca Raton Club WEST PALM BEACH 323 Clematis St. FLORIDA’S LARGEST SHIPPERS OF GIFT FRUITS & MFR. OF TROPICAL DELICACIES

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 4-6988

New for December! RED RASPBERRY TARTS The Dessert-of-the-Month

Sealtest ICE CREAM 4 for only 59c Order Individual Tarts for Dessert at Fountains and Restaurants ... Buy Boxes of 4 for Home Serving. Enjoy this new Sealtest Ice Cream treat all this month—when you entertain, and for your regular family dessert. It’s made of creamy-smooth Sealtest Ice Cream with a topping of crushed-real red raspberries and a delicious whipped-cream decoration. P. S. Also enjoy the Sealtest Flavor-of-the-Month ... Peppermint Stick Ice Cream ... and the old holiday favorite Sealtest Egg Nog Ice Cream. Southern Dairies, AND JERSEY Sealtest ICE CREAM RADIO’S NEWEST LAUGH HIT: The Sealtest Village Store, starring JACK CARSON—guest Jimmy Stewart—Thursday, 9:30 P.M., WIOD