The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, June 22, 1961, page 6 (of 20)

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Soft Soap Becomes The Hard Sell And All Smells Sweetly

By JOE MORRIS Correspondent Mrs. Blanca Osorio Shedd, a Colombian by birth and an American now by marriage, owes her command of the English language to the delightful smell of a bar of soap. Dr. Ralph Boggs, international student director of the University of Miami, took a bath in Belem, Brazil, one night two years ago and the bar of soap he used changed the course of this lady's life. Returning from Rio de Janerio to Miami, Dr. Boggs stopped over for a short visit in the jungle town of Belem, nearly a hundred miles south of the Equator. Sitting in his hotel bathtub, he was delightfully impressed with the sudsy, soft and sweet smelling soap named, "Phebo." The label read: Odor do Rosas para toilette. Believing the Biblical quotation, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness," the doctor slipped a dozen cakes in his suitcase for some Saturday night bathing in the States. When the last soap suds disappeared he wrote the soap manufacturer in Belem and said, "Ship me more of that sweet smelling soap." The newspaper there thought it strange that an American would order soap from South America for use in the United States so they printed a story about the "Clean American" who was connected with an American university. Mrs. Shedd read the article and remembered it. Some months later she left Brazil to visit her husband's family in Texas. She stopped in Miami to talk to the "Clean American" and maybe soft-soap him some way into giving a scholarship to her son. But the tables turned. Dr. Boggs personally conducted her on a deluxe tour of the campus then introduced her to international student counselor Dr. Walter Allen who recalled living in Kuling, China, one summer with Mrs. Shedds father-in-law. This coincidence convinced her to cancel her trip to Texas and she signed up to study intensive English herself. This week she finished her first semester and starts straightway into the summer school session. She lives at 131 S.W. 52nd Ct. If you are ever on campus at UM and someone near you has the Odor do Rosas, just walk up to him and say, "Dr. Boggs, I presume!"

Wilson Heads Fuchs Baking

George M. Wilson has been elected chairman of the board of Fuchs Baking Co., bakers of Holsum bread and cake. Wilson is presently a city councilman for Coral Gables and has been active in civic work here. In 1960, Mr. Wilson was named Coral Gables Outstanding Young Man. He was born in Lincolnton, Ga., and moved to Dade County when he was four years old. He attended Miami Senior High, the University of Florida and the University of Miami. He is married to the former Jane L. Fuchs.

Freeman Is Dade Chief Of Appeals

Walter M. Freeman, 1235 Al-gardi Ave., was elected chair-man of the Metro Zoning Ap-peal Board June 17. Freeman has served on the five-man board for the last year. Prior to the creation of the present board he was member of the Dade County Board of Adjustment, appointed by for-mer Governor Collins. The board voted by resolu-tion to open its meetins to pub-lic attendance. The public may not participate because all hearings are on the court rec-cord. The resolution is subject to final legal confirmation by the county attorney.

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'Tobacco Road' to Open Wednesday at Studio M

"Tobacco Road" will open at the Studio M Playhouse Wednesday June 28 at 8:30 p.m. The change in the customary opening night was nec-essary to help director Ruth Foreman complete her duties with the film "Sextette." The "Tobacco Road" cast includes as Jester Lester, Cy Hayworth; Ada, Beryl Taylor; Dude, Hagan Powell; Sister Bessie, Thelma Winget; Pearl, Judith Swann. Ellie Mae, Honey Cudahy; Grandma, Agnes LeBarron; Banker Payne, Allen LaLande; and, Captain Tim, Rik O'Neil. The Pied Piper Playhouse production "Sleeping Beauty" re-opens Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

New Library Is Pushed

Construction of a new library building in Coral Gables was recommended 4-1 recently by the Recreation Advisory Board. A start on a new library is expected to be made this year with the appropriation of be-tween $4,000-$5,000 recom-mended in the budget for a lo-cation study, plans and speci-fications. Voting for the library were Mrs. Stanley Fosgate, William Bernard, B. Weksler Kerdyk, and Charles Rogers, William Charlton voted against.

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