Coral Gables Riviera-Times

EVENTS MEETINGS RIVIERA TIME TABLE

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 8 p.m. the day preceding publication. This Evening ELKS-Christmas party for veterans at Pratt General Hospital. LIONS meet at Country Club of Coral Gables, 12:15 p.m. MUNICIPAL COURT convenes at police station, 5 p.m. CITY HALL closes at noon to begin Christmas holiday. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE closes at noon to begin Christmas holiday. GABLES THEATER - "Merton of the Movies," Red Skelton. CORAL THEATER-"Adventure Island," Rory Calhoun. Tomorrow CHRISTMAS-Enjoy it as you wish, but have a merry one. COUNTRY CLUB-Annual egg nog party, 11:30 a.m. RIVIERA COUNTRY CLUB-Annual egg nog party, 11:30. GABLES THEATER-"Where There's Life," Bob Hope. CORAL THEATER-"Crossfire," Robert Mitchum. GROVE THEATER-"It Had to Be You," Ginger Rogers. PARKWAY THEATER-"Red Stallion," Robert Paige.

Bethlehem Still Holds Hope for Peace Despite Bitter Violence in Holy Land

By ROBERT C. MILLER UP Staff Correspondent BETHLEHEM, Dec. 24 (UP)-In this cradle of Christianity there is cold moonlight and bitter men are vowing violence and vengeance upon their neighbors. Christmas Eve comes again to the Holy Land. Once more shepherds are "abiding in fields keeping watch by night over their flocks." But there is no "multitude of heavenly hosts to proclaim peace on earth, good will toward men." Instead there is war and bloodshed. There is no Christmas truce between Jew and Arab. Since the partition of the Holy Land was voted by the United Nations the conflict has quickened. I have just filed a dispatch saying that 260 persons have been killed and 604 wounded since the UN action. But today I left this strife behind. Walks to Bethlehem I walked the winding road from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. This is the highway that Mary and Joseph traveled 1947 years ago. As I left the walled city of Jerusalem and descended into the Valley of Hinnom I met an aged Franciscan friar. He stood looking at the Jaffa gate and the ancient Roman guard tower. "Some things," he said, "change but little even in two thousand years." He had spoken a great truth. There have been outward changes, but the hills and rocks and rivers are here as they were when Mary and Joseph went the five miles from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. The road is macadam now instead of soil and gravel but it still winds through hardy olive trees. Soldiers are still along the road but now they are British troops in green armored cars instead of the Legions of Caesar Augustus. And as you pass them you hear the age-old complaint of soldiers-that they should be assigned to guard duty on a chill winter afternoon and evening. Men have fought for their religious faiths for centuries and as you pass out of Jerusalem you can see the outward signs of the struggle still going on. Members of Haganah, the Jewish defense force, are in rooftop nests with rifles and grenades near the walling wall. Arabs crouch in similar rooftop nests ready to die in defense of the Mosque of Omar. Little Change The Franciscan friar passes on, but his words stay with me as I go along the road to Bethlehem: "Some things change but little even in two thousand years." In that field to my right are furrows, plowed with the same plodding steps that men walked 1947 years ago. Rain was prayed for and the weather appraised in the same fashion as those two turbaned men over there are doing now. They squint toward the sky and shake their heads in discouragement. At the foot of the Mount of Zion an old man crouches on the stones. Just as cobblers down the centuries have set up shops along main roads where shoe soles wear thin, so this old man is hammering at leather with rude tools. Tiny burros, hidden beneath great piles of olive branches on their backs, crowd the road and I move aside to let them pass just as travelers on the same road must have done on this same day almost 20 centuries ago. Six New Graves I note that there are six new graves on the Mount of Olives today. Two of them are in the Moslem cemetery on the east slope and they hold the bodies of men who were killed by a bomb at the Damascus gate. On the west slope there are buried four Jews whose convoy was ambushed last week near the Pool of Solomon. On down the shiny macadam road you come to two dark splotches-the blood of two young Arabs who were shot down a week ago tonight. Half way through the journey you come to the Well of Rest, where, tradition says, Mary and Joseph paused on their way to Bethlehem. The same worn boulder is still there, still shaded by olive groves. This place is aptly named the Well of Rest, for under the olive branches off the road there is peace and quiet where the noise of traffic on the highway comes only as a faint hum. Tomb of Rachel On farther it is time to turn off the main road toward Bethlehem and that brings you to the Tomb of Rachel, an ancient reminder of the Valley of Shadow of Death into which each woman who is with child must enter. It was here that Rachel, wife of Jacob, died in childbirth while the family was moving to Hebron. The tomb was nearly 2,000 years old on the day that Mary and Joseph turned off the high road toward Bethlehem, and its solid square walls and white dome couldn't have looked much different than they do today. At dusk you come to Bethlehem. The streets still wind narrowly past shops; men still loaf in the doorways; children still scamper up and down the broad rock steps between the street levels and their mothers still shout at them to be careful. But the most important thing-untouched by time-in Bethlehem is the hope of peace that was brought here ages ago when two tired travelers slowly made their way toward a manger in the late evening twilight of the first Christmas Eve.

This little girl is all dressed up and ready for Christmas, and from the looks of those candy canes, it's going to be a sweet one for her. She is 2-year-old Ann Breeding, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey J. Breeding, one of the operators of the Breeding Drug Store here in Coral Gables.

Ginger Rogers goes wild over that wild man Cornel Wilde in a scene from the mad-cap comedy, "It Had to Be You" opening at the Grove Theatre tomorrow.

The smallest radio tube ever made is but slightly larger than a grain of rice. It was developed for U. S. military assignments.

LOWER NO MAN'S LAND Area Tag Said Misnomer So Change Is in Order

By DOT THAGARD Riviera-Times Correspondent According to the papers we are Coral Estates, and Coral Groves. This nation of our area, as we are not gotten spot, but are on the contrary Man business started a long time ago to name to describe us, but someone, bless him, dug up the origin al subdivision names, so from now on when you read those names, that's us, huh! With Christmas only two days henceforth known as simplifies the desig- off, and the whole area a hub of activity, houseguests are the rule rather than the exception. Bill and Betty Batte have as their houseguests, Betty's folks, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Keller of Philadelphia, Pa., who arrived last Sunday to spend Christmas with their only grandchildren, Paul and Susie, at the Batts' home at 615 Obispo. Mr. and Mrs. William Kane of 4365 S. W. 16th Terrace have John's, Mary's and Michael's paternal grandmother as their Christmas guest, Mrs. John B. Kane is here from Pittsburgh, Pa. The Wm. Kanes came to our area from Pittsburgh last fall in time for school's opening. Mr. Kane is a sixth grade instructor at the Coral Gables Elementary School. Seen among the many many children and doting parents last Sunday at the children's party at the Coral Gables Country Club, from our area, were Mr. and Mrs. Bracy Richardson and daughters Madge and Martha, Mrs. William Overbeck with her son and daughter, Maj. and Gail, Mead. Bonnie Ball Pickard, daughter of Captain and Mrs. Rod Pickard, of 4384 S. W. 16th Street, made us very proud as she danced in the review presented as part of the children's entertainment. The Wm. Cauley's of Zamora Ave., were missed this year at the party, because Mrs. Cauley and the two girls, Vicki and Susan, visited their cousins, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Garrison in Fort Myers over the week-end. Mrs. Ed Padgett traveled with them to have a reunion with her newest grandchild and namesake, Gaynelle Garrison. Robert Poat who with his mother, Mrs. E. A. Poat from Bay Point, Mich., are spending several weeks with the Dave Walkers, over in the Gables, is acquiring a sun tan the hard way by helping the Buske sisters, at 702 Obispo, recondition their lovely yard and garden. We have a suspicion that there is a different kind of bells ringing for Bob as he is expecting his fiancee down in a few days, for, so he says, a vacation Wally's in again, this time with a Christmas party. Of course we mean Wally Smith, teen-age son of Mr. Wallace Smith of 704 Obispo who entertained a group of his friends at a recording party, Saturday night, using his new wire recorder, with wonderful results, for the first time. The party sounded like and we are sure was, a huge success. Christmas carols were sung (and surprisingly good too) and recorded as was some little jewel of a song about Queenie who wound up in burlesque, (we eavesdropped)! Among those present or should we say, participating, were, beside the host, Jane Maxwell, Adrian Hoffman, Elizabeth Otto, Tom Mayes Jr., and Barclay Powers. Guess that's all now folks, and a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS, from dot DOT.

to you Merriest CHRISTMAS

1947 to you Merriest CHRISTMAS In Colonial times Christ- mastide was the gayest and happiest season of the year... and so it is today. It is our sincere wish that during this Christmas of 1947 the warm, sweet joys of this blessed sea- son may fill your hearts to overflowing. * * * * "An Exclusive Shop with a Personal Touch" EDITH ROYCE 222 Avenue Andalusia (3 Doors West of Former Shop)

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OPEN TONIGHT 'TIL SIX! THERE'S STILL TIME To Select That Gift for "Your" Man at Coral Gables' STORE FOR MEN ... THE UNIVERSITY SHOP

EVEN THOUGH it is the last minute, you will still find a wide selection of QUALITY GIFTS from such well known trade names as you will find at the University Shop ... WINTHROP SHOES B.V.D. PAJAMAS McGREGOR SPORTSWEAR DONEGAL Fitzhugh SHIRTS ESQUIRE Socks The smartest thing on two feet HICKOK BELTS AND JEWELRY Mayfair Slacks Wembley TIES. TAILORED BY GOODALL Palm Beach TRADE MARK OWNED & CLOTH MFD. ONLY BY GOODALL-SANFORD, INC. SUITS AND SLACKS Each Gift Individually Boxed At No Extra Charge University Shop 2828 Ponce de Leon Boulevard Plaza Building Phone Coral Gables, Florida Open 48-0684 Evenings

Christmas a Season Joyous

Christmas! No vaunting phrases can truly carry the meaning of that word, no marching adjectives picture its fulfillment. Its being and expression must ever lie in the simple words of the prophets, in the unpretentious but meaningful phrases of the Man of Galilee: "ON EARTH PEACE, GOOD WILL TO MEN." The WAGON 2607 Ponce de Leon Blvd. Phone 48-5335

hark the Angel Voices

...hark the Angel Voices We join with all your other friends of this community to extend to you a very sincere wish that this Yuletide season may enrich your life with its spirit of friendliness and beauty. MERRY CHRISTMAS Florida National Bank AT CORAL GABLES Officers GEO. A. CHATFIELD WM. C. SWAIN President Assistant Cashier R. C. BROWN E. W. RIPPLE Vice President and Cashier Assistant Cashier Directors C. Gordon Anderson Dean S. Campbell Geo. A. Chatfield Charles F. Miller Howe E. Moredock, Sr. J. Lamar Paxson Jerry J. Trevor Leonard A. Usina R. C. Brown MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION MEMBER FLORIDA NATIONAL GROUP