Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, June 8, 1961, page 24 (of 50)
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Vacation Cruises to South America
Sail with Moore-McCormack for 31 days for as little as $36 per day All first class. All outside staterooms. Sail from New York across the Equator in air conditioned luxury in America's newest cruise liners. ss Argentina JULY 7 • AUGUST 11 ss Brasil JUNE 14 Much more is offered: 4-deck playground with 2 outdoor pools. Superb food. Expert staff. Special facilities for teenagers and supervised play areas for youngsters. Ample time for sight-seeing and shopping, with the ship your hotel in every port. Remember... 31 days for as little as $36 per day. BARBADOS • TRINIDAD • BAHIA • RIO DE JANEIRO SANTOS (SAO PAULO) • MONTEVIDEO • BUENOS AIRES Ask your Travel Agent for literature or write to: Dept. ST-3, at address below. Much More WITH Moore-McCormack Lines Two Broadway, N. Y. 4 DIgby 4-5000
GETTING AROUND
Continued from page 2 When Judge George T. Martin patiently inquired of the Romulus Township, Michigan, resident why he was weaving back and forth in front of the local beauty shop at 2:45 in the A.M., the militant citizen replied that he and his wife had had an argument about her going to the salon too often. "So," he told the judge, "I went for a few drinks to cool off. Next thing I knew, I was picketing the shop while waiting for her to come out." Fine: $15.00. Sentence: Go home and arbitrate the matter with your wife. • • • The Motor Corps Service of Long Island Jewish Hospital, in New Hyde Park, New York, is a pretty fancy title for a pretty wonderful group of women who contribute their cars and a lot of their time getting disabled people back and forth for treatment. These chauffeurs travel as much as 30 miles to pick up their charges, take them to the clinic, wait for them, and then bring them home again. The ladies collectively make an average of 60 calls a month, and their helping hand-at-the-wheel is the pride of the hospital's out-patient department. • • • A little Indian boy at the Cerebral Palsy Institute in Norman, Oklahoma, was overheard protesting to his playmates that he was sick and tired of being the Indian, and couldn't he be the cowboy for a change? • • • The ladies of the St. Matthews, Kentucky, Episcopal Church believe that charity begins where it is needed. One of their projects is collecting clothing for needy children in Louisville, a few miles from their parish. Since many of the needy live in the center of the city, they have set up a shop (the "clothes closet") in the basement of centrally located St. Luke's Evangelical and Reformed Church, open each Thursday from 10 A.M. till 1:30 P.M., from which clothing, bedding, and blankets are made easily available to nearby families who need them. • • • A sign at a railroad grade crossing near Wheat Ridge, Colorado, reads: "It takes a train only 14 seconds to pass this crossing—whether your car is on it or not." • • • Jesse Cornish, a man who believes in following his dream, has left Garden City, Minnesota, and is now in the heart of darkest Africa... looking for the place where elephants go to die. Although most people think this elephants' graveyard is a myth or legend or part of the plot of an old Tarzan movie, Mr. Cornish thinks it's really there, and he has gone to find it. The venture has a practical side, too, since, as Mr. Cornish says, "whoever finds that graveyard can lay claim to perhaps a million tons of ivory—a million tons at $8,000 a ton." • • • We hope the next time the auxiliary of the Abington, Pennsylvania, Fire Company holds a dinner, they put enough food aside for the volunteers. At the last spread, after a record 1293 roast-beef suppers were served, it was discovered that there wasn't anything left over to feed the hard-working—and hungry—workers. • • • They now have machines, out in San Diego County, California, that do all the work involved in getting report cards ready and out to the students. The machines do everything but take the exams—they sort the cards, type the student's name and address on four separate cards, record the grade on the report card, put it in an envelope, address it to his parents, and stamp it. Out of 70,000 cards that went out last term, only one mistake was made. A straight-A student got a card that had a string of F's on it. He reported the error immediately—but nobody's heard a word from the failing fellow who got a straight-A report card. • • • "It looks like my husband isn't going to come home from Irving (Texas)," said the lady to the judge. "How long has he been gone?" asked Judge Hoyet Armstrong. "Forty years," came the plaintive reply. Divorce granted. • • • What have you heard that's new, unusual, or funny? We pay $10 for each item we accept. Write to "Getting Around," SUBURBIA TODAY, 60 East 56th Street, New York 22, New York.