Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, July 13, 1961, page 28 (of 44)
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GETTING AROUND Continued from page 2
Goodness does not go unrewarded for long. Witness the performance of the people of Poland, Ohio, and how they responded when Baz Wellman's greenhouse was destroyed by fire. Baz, for many years, quietly remembered hundreds of sick and shut-in people with flowers, at his own expense. When the people of Poland heard about his misfortune, they immediately took action. Each church in the village held a dinner, which brought in a total of $3,000. Other greenhouses in the area stored his plants, while a number of skilled private citizens chipped in their time and talents to help Mr. Wellman build his greenhouse again. • • • Pam, a dog who lives on Martha E. Burke's block in Lutherville, Maryland, is one of the most frustrated creatures in the world these warm days. Pam, it seems, likes to bury ice cubes. A few months ago, Bill Katz, who owns a dry-cleaning store in Plainview, New York, was given a set of oil paints by his mother-in-law, and since then wonderful things have been happening. He'd never painted in his life before but decided to try copying a magazine cover. He liked it, hung it over the fur-storage vault, and in a matter of days had sold it to one of his customers. Pretty soon, still life followed portrait followed landscape, till his store turned into a cleaning shop-art gallery—and what's more, the paintings began to sell for $35-$60 dollars each. You can get a painting faster now than you can get a suit pressed. When one customer commissioned a painting at 9:00 A.M., "I had it wrapped and ready to go at 10:45," says Mr. Katz. • • • Joyce Williams, of Lyndon, Kentucky, says she lives next door to a lady who is that most unfortunate of gardeners, a person who loves flowers but whose every attempt to grow them turns into disaster. Finally, this year, the neighbor's garden began, miraculously, to grow. Where there was once despair, there were now little stems and leaves pushing up through the ground. One late afternoon, after about nine hours of gardening, the rains began to fall, so the neighbor ducked into the garage, where her husband and Mr. and Mrs. Williams had also taken shelter. "I'll have to get more fertilizer," said her husband. "We're all out again." "Why, I didn't use it all," she interrupted, pointing to a big paper bag full of white, powdery stuff. "I used a lot just before the rain, but there's plenty left." The two men looked at the bag, then at each other, then at the rain. The bag was full of cement. • • • A visitor, riding in a taxi through Shelby County, Tennessee, noticed that the driver slowed down twice and even stopped once to let pedestrians get across the street. The visitor was even more impressed when the driver, figuring that such unusual courtesy called for an explanation, turned to his passenger and said, "See, if you hit them you've gotta fill out a report." SUBURBIA TODAY "Want to see something cute?"
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