Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, May 4, 1961, page 26 (of 56)
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Father Knows Best
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GETTING AROUND Continued from page 2
A group of interested citizens have built a drag strip at Coon Rapids, Minnesota, to house the Minnesota Road and Track Association, Inc., a sort of sports-car club for people from four to 14 years of age who drive motorized "go-karts." The purpose of the group is to teach beginners in a go-kart the basic safety-driving rules and the discipline necessary in driving a powered car on a track especially designed to fit their requirements. Cars and drivers are under constant supervision, and plans are already underway to build facilities for quarter midget racers and miniature sports cars on both oval and road-course tracks. Anybody in the area interested in joining the association, please call Mr. Ed Freiberg, of St. Louis Park, Minnesota. In what seems an inspired fad, we hear that motorists around Dade and Broward Counties, Florida, are pasting a tiny snapshot of one of their children on their car speedometers—exactly at the 50-m.p.h. mark. Those little smiling faces are doing more to slow down drivers than any lecture or remote, grim statistic ever did! There's a road sign not too far from Bluff Park, Alabama, that reads: "Don't Race Trains To Crossings. If It's A Tie, You Lose." The latest craze among Chevy Chase, Maryland, partygoers is a drink called "The Tropical Itch." It's made of rum, brandy, gin, and mango juice, served on the rocks—with a swizzle stick shaped like a back-scratcher. The Peabody Home For Crip d Children in Boston recently got a great big collection of stamps and stamp albums from the Norco Stamp Club, of Norfolk, Massachusetts. The club sends hundreds of stamps and albums to needy and crippled children all over the country because it feels an interest in philately will help the youngsters to spend their free time both pleasantly and profita. Club members, incidentally, are all inmates at the Norfolk prison and want all of you to know that any "slightly used" stamp contributions mailed to the Norco Stamp Club, Box 43, Norfolk, Massachusetts, will be gratefully accepted. Thanks for the tip, Mrs. Florce Willett. Mrs. Willett, the beautiful and very busy mayor of Birmingham, Michigan, decided that washing eight or ten bushels of Swiss chard by hand was just one chore too many, so she filled her agitator-type washing machine with tepid water and Swiss chard, ran it for a dozen swivels or so, and then put the clean leaves in the sink to drain.