Coral Gables Riviera-Times

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CORAL GABLES Riviera-Times

Published Monday through Friday afternoons by the Riviera Publishing Co., 200 Avenue Aragon, Coral Gables 34, Florida. Established as a weekly newspaper January, 1926; combined with the Dade County & Coconut Grove Times, 1929; published daily except Saturday and Sunday. MEMBER, NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION, FLORIDA PRESS ASSOCIATION AND CORAL GABLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ALBERT E. HARUM Editor and Publisher KENNETH S. REYNOLDS Business Manager JAMES R. SPOONE Managing Editor WALTER R. KRAM Circulation Manager HELEN REYNOLDS Society Editor BOBBY ROTH Sports Editor JULIA D. HARUM Woman's Page Editor PEGGY NORTH Classified Manager NEW YORK THEIS & SIMPSON National Advertising Representatives CHICAGO ATLANTA DETROIT MEMBER, AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Full Leased Wire, UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS SUBSCRIPTION RATES One week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 cents One month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1.00 Three months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.75 Six months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00 One year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.00 Out of Town: One month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1.00 Three months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.00 Six months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.00 One year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.00 Outside of the U. S.: One year, $15.00 Mailing address: P. O. Box 6978 Coral Gables 34, Florida Telephone: 4-1624 Classified Department: 48-7641 RIVIERA 56 The Coral Gables Riviera-Times is liable for errors in advertising only to the extent of the space in which the advertisement appears.

OUR TOWN

-By Jim Moore- Yesterday's mail brought a rather amazing communication from Mr. Hugh Emerson (he's the postmaster down in Miami) that to me seems to throw a great deal of light on the type of reasoning that is being done today by the folks you and I feed with our tax dollars. Mr. Emerson is concerned with our Four Progress Supplement that was delivered with the November 3 issue of the Riviera-Times. In fact he is so concerned that he has taken the trouble to bring it to the attention of no less a personage than the Third Assistant Postmaster General for a ruling. JIM MOORE For some reason or other friend Hugh got it into his head that the Supplement does not constitute a legal document within the meaning of that term as used in "Sections 548 and 550 Postal Laws and Regulations." Why he all of a sudden got such an idea I don't know. It could have been because we have pointed out in the Riviera-Times that Mr. Emerson's postoffice "does not constitute an efficient operation within the meaning of the term as used on page 188 of Mr. Webster's unabridged dictionary." Then again he could have had other reasons. Anyway our Miami postmaster thought the subject of sufficient importance to forward his information to Washington and the Third Assistant Postmaster General agreed with him and also advised "that as prepared, the Supplement is not a proper enclosure with copies of the Coral Gables Riviera-Times mailed at second class rates of postage" and the "postlet" subjects the copies of the Coral Gables Riviera-Times with which it is mailed to the regular third class rate. The stilted language is that of the postoffice-not me. Now per se, perhaps Mr. Emerson's research, correspondence and reasoning might have some semblance of logic. But what leads me to believe that the thinking in the postoffice department is as confused as is the postal service rendered Coral Gables is this fact: Last year we published the same kind of a Supplement-and last year Mr. Emerson, the Third Assistant Postmaster General and the rest of the people on our payroll thought it was perfectly fine, dandy, legal and okay. Figure that one out. But this year, we are not only illegal with our Supplement describing Coral Gables as the ideal community, but the postmaster has further troubled himself to figure out that we owe him the earth-shaking sum of $16.68 1/2! Now as the employers of Hugh Emerson, let's do a little figuring. Not only has our local postal worker completely and illogically changed his way of thinking, but he has used his time, the United States mails and the time of the well-paid Third Assistant Postmaster General to endeavor to rationalize his act and to enrich the coffers of the postoffice by $16.68 1/2. When you figure the time it must have taken and the salaries that you and I pay Mr. Emerson and the Third Assistant Postmaster General, I think that we lost money on the deal. And furthermore, as one of the employers of Mr. Emerson, I think he could better himself with figuring ways and means of improving the poor postal service his office is rendering Coral Gables than by enlisting the aid and time of the Third Assistant Postmaster General to help him reverse his own opinion. We have mailed Mr. Emerson a check for $16.69. He now owes us a half a penny. But just keep it, Hugh. Don't bother the Third Assistant Postmaster General to help you to figure out how to split a cent.

Gablesgrams

By HELEN REYNOLDS, SOCIETY EDITOR Miss Rosemarie Ferro, bride's-maid-elect for Miss Dorothy Theresa Smith, will entertain members of the Smith-Ahearn bridal party at cocktails Dec. 19 at her home, 528 S.W. 14th Avenue. Dorothy was honored at a lingerie shower last night by Miss Betty Turner. Dorothy and her sister Doris, who will be her maid of honor, entertained Tuesday evening at a china shower for Mrs. William O. Bozeman Jr. Mrs. Bozeman was the former Miss Gloria Conover before her recent marriage. About 15 guests attended the party held at the home of Dorothy and Doris, 2222 Madrid Street. Dorothy's fiance will arrive Saturday from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. The wedding will take place at 11 a.m. December 20th at the Church of the Little Flower. * * * Christmas eggnog parties, favorite Yuletide form of entertainment are in the making with Dr. and Mrs. F. E. Kitchens hosts at their annual, and one of the larger parties from 4 to 6 p.m. December 28th. Honor guests on this occasion will be Dr. and Mrs. Clyde Brooks who are newcomers to the Gables from Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dr. Brooks is on the faculty at the University of Miami. About 150 guests have been bidden to this traditional party at the Kitchens home, 6710 LeJeune Road. * * * Holiday decorations will prevail at the pre-Christmas eggnog-coffee Colonel and Mrs. Lynn Perry and their daughter Miss Betty Perry will give on the afternoon of December 21st at their home, 1424 Ferdinand Street. Mrs. Perry will honor her house guest Miss Cora Moore Rowzee of Cleveland, O., who is arriving Monday. Distinguished in welfare work, Miss Rowzee was southeastern division director of family welfare work for the government during the war. She will spend Christmas and most of the season in St. Augustine. More than 200 have been invited to the Perry party. * * * Something new will be added in the form of a musical treat tomorrow night when Mr. and Mrs. William A. Glass entertain at a cocktail buffet at their home, 4706 Alhambra Circle. Mrs. Glass has asked one of the guests, Mrs. William Buchanan to play an organ accompaniment to Christmas carols on the rare antique musical instrument that is one of the prized Glass possessions. The deep-toned organ is powered by pumping with the feet. Guests will include Mr. and Mrs. Sam Boyer, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Preston, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Forton and Mr. Buchanan.

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Marilyn Mayes wants to see some snow and she has even written her grandmother's backyard this Christmas. And what is more, she wants to pick "Lillies of the Valley" from that same backyard. The 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Mayes will take her first plane trip when she flies to Bloomington, Ill. on the 20th. She is going to be with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Read, for Christmas although the grandparents don't know about it yet. In fact they won't know about it until Marilyn and her cousin, Eloise Funk who is staying at the Mayes home now and who will accompany Marilyn on her trip, arrive in Bloomington. When Marilyn returns to her home at 637 Avenue Minorca on December 28 she hopes to fulfill a promise which she has already made to her mother. She intends to bring back a big bouquet of her mother's favorite flowers, Lillies of the Valley. What she'll really bring back with her is the snow! And blind old snow just don't go hand in hand.

Past Regents Participate in DAR Broadcast

Three former DAR regents will participate in the monthly radio program presented by the Coral Gables Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, over Station WBAY Monday, December 15, at 1:45 p.m. Mrs. Wade Livingston Street, former regent of the local chapter in 1940-1942 and leader in the organization of the Tequesta Society, Children of the American Revolution, will present a number of songs. Mrs. Street, who is at present chairman of American music for the organization, has just returned from study in New York. Mrs. Harry L. Ward, program chairman for the past two years in the Gables chapter, was formerly regent of the Fort Dearborn chapter in Evanston, Illinois, and has served in many capacities in both groups. Mrs. J. Riley Staats was regent of the Monongahela Valley chapter in southwestern Pennsylvania in 1946, and had served in many offices there previous to her election. At present she is radio chairman for the Coral Gables chapter. Mrs. Garland McNutt, a member of the program committee, is well known for her musical talents. She has held many offices in various music groups and at present is district president of the Florida Federation of Music Clubs.

Xmas Party Host

Mrs. J. R. Hinman will entertain the Friendship class of the South Miami Baptist Church at a Christmas party at her home on North Kendall Drive Monday night. The party begins at 8 p. m. and husbands of class members are invited. Gifts will be exchanged.

Personalities In The News

Mrs. Ira A. Lamont has found a new angle to the housing shortage. Of course she wasn't "houseless" before she found this angle but when she decided that her home on 610 Alhambra Circle was just too big for one person, the problem of a place to live had to be dealt with. As a solution, her son, Ira A. Lamont Jr., built her an apartment house. Now she's living in a brand new apartment at 3 Avenue Sidonia. * * * Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Koehler are entertaining the Clarence Ayers with a dinner Saturday evening at their home on 721 S. Ludlum Road, South Miami. * * * Flying in from Portland, Maine, December 19 will be Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Pickett and daughter, Charlotte. They will spend Christmas with Mrs. Pickett's aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Knappe, 3680 S.W. 28th Street.

FORMER FRENCH RESISTANCE LEADER FINDS COMPLAINTS, WASTE OF FOOD HERE AMAZING

By Mabel Meadows Staats (This is the second and final installment of the story of Mrs. George Bally, French Under-ground worker who parachuted 11 times into enemy-occupied territory and was once snatched from execution before a Gestapo firing squad at the 11th hour. An wife of a University of Miami professor, she now makes her home in Coral Gables.) It was not until after the war that Mr. Bally met his future wife in Biarritz. Remembering their wartime training they at first concealed their previous activities from each other until a mutual mention of London brought out the similar services. Mr. Bally was on sabbatical leave from Vanderbilt University in 1939, in France when he joined the French army. After his return to teaching in this country following the fall of France in 1942, he joined the United States Army and later was assigned to joint English and American OSS operations to brief agents who were to be parachuted behind enemy lines to ferret out necessary information and establish connections. He was discharged with the rank of captain at the end of the war. It is difficult to think of the quiet, poised, and charming French girl who speaks of her enjoyment of America in a soft pleasing voice as the daring leader who used a machine gun against the Germans. She is shy about speaking English and prefers that her husband act as interpreter most of the time. Sometimes when she can be persuaded to mention her war service her eyes flash and it is evident that her courage would be equal to any occasion that demanded it. Her remarkable memory, which evidently helped her to be so successful in her underground activities, is evidenced by the fact that she learned the names and numbers of all of the University of Miami football players after seeing them play just once in a game that was new to her. She was particularly impressed with the Coral Gables Welcome Wagon and Mrs. Hart's kindness in welcoming her and her husband to their new home last summer. She speaks often of the friendliness of Americans. When pressed to mention the differences she notices she says that the life of plenty we take for granted and the terrific waste of food stuff amazes her. She believes that we do not know what it is to be cold and hungry as is everyone in her homeland. We complain of eggless Thursday here yet for four years in France everyone was allowed only one egg in 3 months. She feels that Americans could save 20 percent of food expenditures by careful planning without hurting themselves. As wealthy and happy as Americans are in contrast with her friends in her native France their complaints at rationing or shortages are difficult for her to understand. Mrs. Bally is especially fond of cooking and her husband pays her a rare tribute by saying that she can cook even better than his mother does. She enjoys sewing and makes many of her own clothes. MRS. BALLY

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