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The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, May 11, 1961, page 2 (of 24)
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2 THE CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, May 11, 1961
Smith Leaves 'Em Laughing And Thinking at CC Dinner
Toastmaster Warner Daniels set the pace early with his opening remarks at the annual (35th) Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce dinner Thursday night of last week. "The wonderful and gorgeous City of Coral Gables welcomes you," he said. It was that kind of evening - easy going, the business handled with dispatch and a featured speaker who pleased all, including wives who often complain of "dull dinners where all you talk about is business." Speaker Fred Smith talked about business, in a way, but the way was lively, spiced with anecdotes and jokes. It was low key with a theme that he worked at all the way through. Quit worrying, think of other people, do your best, apportion your time profitably - copy book maxims all but delivered with vitality and a personal sense of recommendation that sold the man and his message. In short, he merchandised what he had to say. Smith is a national sales and management consultant who lives in Cincinnati. Brief oral reports were given by Albert Friedman, re-elected president of the Retail Merchants Division of the Chamber, and Bernie Blanck, retiring Chamber president. New President Hamilton Hayes said members would be asked this year "for a fair share of your time - not just money." Hayes got a laugh when he said that he had been coming "to these affairs for eight years and tonight's the first time I've outranked Warner Daniels." Daniels is president of Daniels Department Store and Hayes is his manager. About 230 people attended the affair, held at the Coral Gables Country Club. Roast beef was served. Daniels promised at the beginning, 7 o'clock, that all would be ended at 9:15 p.m. At that time, chairs were scraping as the audience rose to leave. Friedman, Blanck, Hayes and Daniels - all delivered on time.
Royce A. Hill Is Elected President of Boat Show
Royce A. Hill, Miami branch manager of Detroit Diesel - a division of General Motors - has been elected president of the Miami International Boat Show Corporation. Hill resides at 152 Morningside Dr., Coral Gables. Other 1961-62 boat show officers include; Robert W. Gardner, secretary, 222 Andalusia Ave., Coral Gables. Hill became a member of the Boat Show board of directors in 1959 and served as co-chairman of the committee in charge of the inaugural Aqua Parade on Biscayne Bay in 1960. He was named show secretary last year. A veteran of 16 years with Detroit Diesel, Hill has been active in Miami boating circles since being assigned here by his company in 1955. ROYCE HILL
'We're Going to Miss You'
Chester E. Smith, retiring director of Coral Gables' transportation system, received a resolution from the Coral Gables city fathers Tuesday thanking him for an outstanding job. Reading the resolution, Mayor Robert Searle said that Smith helped make Coral Gables bus system one of the most outstanding in the country with one of the best safety records. "We are going to miss you," Mayor Searle told Smith. Smith has been an employe of Coral Gables for the past 34 years and Director of transportation since 1939.
Other Projects Listed More White Collars For Gables Is Goal
Attracting more white collar industry is the No. 1 project of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce this year. This and other goals were revealed last Thursday at the Chamber's annual banquet. The projects were chosen by the group's Program of Work Committee. Here are some of the other projects to which the Chamber will give special attention: CIVIC ACTIVITIES - Work for development of McBride lot as a park for use of the general public. The lot is next to the Woolworth building. Work for a program for construction of adequate low-cost housing in slum areas. Work for the construction of a new library building in a more central location. COMMERCIAL - Continue to work for a first class hotel offering facilities for conventions and large community meetings. Promote the construction of a municipal auditorium where large civic meetings, shows and conventions can be held. BUSINESS - Develop a closer liasion between Coral Gables merchants and Homestead Air Force Base.
Best Civitan Club in State Our Guys Win the Honors With Sweat & Fruit Cake
The Coral Gables Civitan Club - named the outstanding club in Florida, has behind it "a lot of hard work, a lot of sweat" and 26,000 pounds of fruit cake. The Gables club topped 76 other Civitan groups to win the honor Saturday at the 39th annual convention in Fort Lauderdale. "It took a lot of hard work, a lot of sweat," said president Ray Morrissey, telling what it takes to win such an honor. "We tried to build our program around the betterment of the community." Such efforts to better the community led the Civitan club to sell 26,000 pounds of fruit cake at Christmas to finance their different projects. In competing for the top honor in Fort Lauderdale, the Gables Civitan Club submitted a booklet listing about 35 community activities. One of the main Civitan projects was helping mentally retarded children and spurring the Junior Achievement program. The club donated $1,000 to the Haven School for Mentally Retarded Children and will send a mentally retarded Gables girl to summer camp. The Civitans also donated $1,000 to Junior Achievement, Inc., a program which gives business-minded high school students a chance to form their own companies, hold stock meetings, sell shares, make and sell a product. Another project is sending two boys to camp each summer. The Civitans also sponsor eight little league baseball teams. Morrissey, looking back on the year's activities, singled out several members whose contributions were outstanding. The president listed Phil Reagan, 149 Sevilla Ave., president of the Civitan Foundation which lends money to college students, Donald Hoffman, 3820 SW 58th Ave. H. Stanton Shaffer; projects chairman, Maxwell D. Streaker, 5510 SW 2nd St; Charles Crowder, 501 Alminar Ave.; Dr. Hugh Murphy, 8730 SW 41st Ter; and Walter Stephan, 1645 Tigertail Ave. The Gables Civitan Club was chartered in 1948. It has a membership of about 50 persons.
A Story About a President We Visit Ham Hayes And Find Him Watching TV
By ROLFE NEILL Times Editor When I called on Woodford Hamilton Hayes in his office at Daniels Department Store last week, expecting to find him busy with some perplexing problem of merchandising, I found him instead looking at television. He was not apologetic about it either, although it was 9:30 a.m., a time of day most store executives have already had their second cup of coffee. Hayes was watching the launching of America's first astronaut. WANTED MARINE "I kept hoping all along that the Marine would be the man but it looks like the Navy's going to get the honors," he said. Only a former Marine could be thinking that way, it seemed to me. "That's right," Hayes replied, "I was in the Marine Corps in World War II. I spent about 24 months as an instructor at Camp Quantico, Va., and then about the time the war ended I was shipped overseas to China. "I regret to say, now, that I didn't make much of my opportunities in China. Our first children - twin girls - were born while I was there and my only thought was to get home to Gerry and to them. "Even so, the girls were 10 months old before I ever saw them." Hayes excused himself to answer a phone call. It was about a Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce matter, which was the same subject which had brought us to see him. Here is what I found out about the Chamber's new president: W. H. Hayes, while born in Greensburgh, Pa., moved to Perrine when he was six weeks old and has grown up in Dade County. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Braden H. Hayes are retired in the Gables and live at 6900 Portillo St. When he came out of the Marines at the end of World War II, he took a job with a public accounting firm. He found it tough to live on the wages and readily accepted a position later as auditor at Hialeah race track, a job he kept three years. CHRISTMAS OFFER One Christmas he received a call from Warner Daniels, owner of the department store here. Daniels and Hayes had known each other in high school. Now Daniels was asking Hayes to come to work. Hayes agreed. The only proviso was that he be allowed to finish the season at the track. In March, he joined Daniels. That was 10 years ago. A person who has known him for some time says Hayes has changed since he came home from the war. "It's really been since he went with Daniels', in my opinion. Ham's more outgoing, uses more charm and personality. He used to be what you'd expect an accountant to be - sort of half social and withdrawn. "Now he's a new man." One thing about the man Hayes that hasn't changed is his quality of thoroughness. He excels in getting something done, in attention to follow-through. TWO QUALITIES For a chamber president who expects to strengthen the organization through committee work, this quality - plus the additional one of delegation - will stand him in well. Typically Hayes is a current project at home, 6300 SW 96th St. He's painting the house himself "just for the pleasure of doing the job." Helping supervise are the twins, Patricia Anne and Kathleen, now 15; Braden, age 3, and his wife, Gerry. You can guess the kind of job he will do as Chamber president. There's not a splash of paint on a single window pane.