The Coral Gables Times

'Fidel's Pad -- No Place for a Honeymoon'

THE Coral Gables TIMES THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Vol. 36, No. 24 24 Pages Thursday, July 27, 1961 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c

3 Gableites On Pirated Airliner

By BECKY DOYLE-QUINN Times Reporter "I wouldn't recommend it for a honeymoon," said Raymond Waller, 817 Wallace St., one of three Coral Gables residents who took an unexpected trip to Cuba aboard the hijacked Eastern Air Lines plane Monday. Waller thought he was going to Tampa on a business trip when he stepped aboard the plane. But he didn't quite make it. "One of the passengers wanted to go to Cuba, and he had a gun, so we went to Cuba." Also planning to go to Tampa on business was J. H. Laher Jr., 915 Alfonso Ave., district general manager for Florida for Sealtest Corp. The third Gableite among the 37 passengers and crew was Mrs. William Conn, 4800 Riviera Dr. She was on her way to Dallas, Tex., and then to New Mexico where her daughter, Sug, 20, is a participant in the Miss New Mexico beauty pageant. HERE BRIEFLY Mrs. Conn, after a day and a night in Cuba, stayed in town Tuesday only long enough to answer questions for the press and the F.B.I. and assure her husband she was all right, and then boarded another plane for another try at getting to New Mexico. Waller, an employee in the supply department at Eastern, spent Tuesday evening answering phone inquiries and telling neighbors and his worried father about his ordeal. "We were treated fairly decently," said Waller. "Can't really complain except about the agitation and the fact that the whole damn thing was planned in advance. Even the hijack. When we landed the field at Jose Marti Air Port was swarming with Cuban soldiers armed with guns." After Waller and the other (See Gableites, page 2) LAHER CONN WALLER

4 Heliports Here Asked by Firm

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter Gableites could wing their way from various heliports in the city to transportation centers throughout the county if a proposal is accepted by the city. The City Commission Tuesday ordered City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. to conduct a feasibility and desirability study and report back. Four possible landing and takeoff areas have been proposed by Sun Line Helicopters. They are the bus terminal, an area behind the Coliseum, the Granada Golf Course and the Biltmore Golf Course. No date was proposed for beginning the service. Among the obstacles to the Sun Line Helicopters proposal is a city ordinance prohibiting heliports and airports. The proposal met with a lukewarm reception from the City Commission. Commissioner C. L. Dressel saw the plan as a sign of progress providing no great nuisance was created. Commissioner George Wilson hoped that a need would be shown some day but feared that the helicopter would be a "tremendous nuisance." Commissioner Franklin Evans said he was opposed to establishment of heliports in residential areas. Mayor Robert L. Searle felt that the study should be made before any final decision is made on the proposal. The Commission said that Sun Line would have to pay all expenses incurred if the plan is approved. "The roof of the bus terminal would be highly desirable as a permanent heliport for Coral Gables," said Ellen M. Gilmour, public relations director for Sun Line, in a letter to Robinson. Robinson told the Commission that a means would have to be found to get passengers to and off the Bus Terminal rooftop. The service would link Coral Gables to other heliports elsewhere in Dade County. The main base is located on MacArthur Causeway.

City Gives Pay Boosts At Top, Too

Coral Gables' top administrative personnel have received pay boosts ranging from a few dollars to nearly $1,500 in the 1961-62 fiscal budget. Other city employees have received boosts amounting to $197,000. The largest increase went to the Youth Center Director, Mrs. Jeannette Hunt, who jumped from $5,269 to $6,708—a difference of $1,439. Biltmore Golf Pro William Tinder remained at $5,512 when the City Commission decided to change his status from (See Pay Raise, page 2)

REFLECTIONS of swimmers poised to dive and the towering Veterans Administration Hospital are captured here. The trio are members of the teen-agers' swimming team at the Coral Gables Country Club. Organized in May and coached by Thomas Buckley, the team participates in local swim meets. Left to right are Nancy McLeod, 1233 Alegriano Ave.; Rick DeBaere, 1021 Placetas Ave.; and Vicki Hessen, 4750 Davis Rd. (Staff photo by Raymond Lang)

And the Name's Barnum, Sir

By JOE MORRIS Correspondent On a bombing mission over Osnabruck, Germany, during World War II, group commander Colonel Marshall Barnum, a great nephew of circus king P. T. Barnum, saw the plane in front of him dropping thousands of calling cards instead of bombs. Breaking radio silence he asked the pilot for an explanation. The reply was startling. "Colonel, sir, you may courtmartial me for what I have done but I had to do it." The cards read, "You are now being air conditioned under Barnum's Big Top." Marshall Barnum is a 210 pound man with a six foot frame. He married a conservative New Englander named Gwadlys, 28, years ago. They moved into the small house at 706 Palermo Ave. in 1959. Now he would have you believe that he's just an ordinary guy, this man who now is a printing equipment distributor. But ordinary guys are not selected, as was he, to become a military intelligence officer, then chief of counter espionage for the Supreme Allied Command. From first hand knowledge he can relate how on May 11, 1944, he participated in top secret arrangements for the No. 3 Nazi, Rudolph Hess, to land in England without being shot down. Hess missed the prearranged markings on the field and parachuted elsewhere. Surviving the crash, he divulged his plan for Germany to make peace with the Allies then turn on the Soviets to knock out Communist Russia. "He claimed Hitler concur- (See His War, page 2) COLONEL BARNUM . . . in war days

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