The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, September 28, 1961, page 4 (of 26)

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Coral Gables TIMES

THE Coral Gables TIMES Established Jan. 15, 1926 Published Weekly at 304 Sevilla Ave., Coral Gables, Fla. | Second Class Postage Paid at Miami, Fla. ROLFE NEILL | Editor & Publisher JOHN T. WATTERS | President Robert M. Stene | Advertising Manager Roy Speier | Circulation Manager Maurice Labelle, Reymond Lang | Reporters Mrs. Kay Squires | Classified Manager Miss Helen Reynolds | Society Editor Mrs. Eleanor Newsholme | Office Manager Subscription: $3.00 year by mall anywhere

A Draft Board's Idiotic Statement

So Charles Kamen has been turned down by the Peace Corps. He was weighed and found wanting. We don't quarrel with the outcome and are confident he was given a fair hearing. The matter was done with for us when we came across a paragraph in the Herald's story which quoted Kamen's draft board. The substance of the quotation was that the young man should be drafted as a penalty and that rather than teach Americanism in the Peace Corps he should learn it in the Army. We are sorry that no one has used a billy club or lead pipe on the draft board for such an absurd statement. Whether Kamen needs a course in Americanism is no concern of his draft board's; that board's task is non-political, non-advisory and doesn't call for preachments. It was enough that Kamen should make a scene at a Rotary Club meeting. Now his elders come along and out-do him for juvenile action.

The Lord Helps Those... Your Invitation

Merchant friend of ours over on Ponce was having his Sanka yesterday (coffee makes him nervous) and was griping about the poor quality of the store help he has. "I don't think some of my people could give away money," he said, munching an English muffin. We couldn't feel too sorry for him. Has he bothered to enroll his employes in that excellent sales course being taught Wednesday mornings at the Miracle Theater? Why no. In fact, he said, he wasn't really aware it was going on - this he says after three retail merchants division mailings and a deluge of newspaper publicity. Any of you other slugabeds would find it a wise investment if your people hear only the last two lectures these following two weeks. The way we figure it, a 50% sales person is certainly better than none.

Remember The Times

ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK The City Commission is pondering a move to sell the municipal bus system to a proposed county-owned transit system. It has been decided that there will be no recipro-city agreements made with other communities for occupational licenses. 10 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK A permit has been issued for the construction of a 110-room hotel on Ponce de Leon Boulevard between Phonecia and Santillane Aves. UM registration is near the 9,000 mark this fall. Ground is also being broken for the first on-campus fraternity house. It will be the Pi Kappa Alpha House on San Amaro Drive. During a party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Ruffe, 6271 Coral Lake Drive, $2,351 worth of gems were stolen. TWENTY FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK From now on, Gables residents will be surcharged one dollar a month for the newly-established garbage removal service. Robert W. Smith, has been re-elected president of the Coral Gables Real Estate Board. The Police Department announces that 3,342 Driver's Licenses have been issued to residents and 2,196 cars have been inspected for the year. Gables Jaycees, have recently included in their resolutions to the state legislature, one for a uniform state Driver's License law.

Fast Reading for What? Jump Phrases, Not Words

By PHILLIPS RUSSELL Correspondent If you can read a printed page at the rate of 250 words a minute, this is close to the national average but nothing to brag about. In fact, for an educated person this is quite slow. If you can read 250 words in 45 seconds, that rate is fair but with practice you can do a good deal better. If you can do the 250 words in 30 seconds, you are a fast reader and can cover lots of material in the course of an hour. Your rate then would be 500 words a minute, which is considered good, but with practice your speed can be raised to 600 words a minute. Watch any group of persons reading intently and you will notice that their eyes cross the page in a series of small jumps and pauses. We learn these facts from the Columbia University program in rapid reading, which might have added that amny persons cannot read without pursing their lips, grimacing, scratching their hair or necks, and even mumbling. Probably the fastest and most skilled readers in the world are the experienced proofreaders on a big newspaper. They have to be not only fast but accurate, and know almost as much as an encyclopedia. Why is fast reading so desirable? Good question. Without it professional people, technicians, and of course editors of all kinds would never be able to get through the mounds of material that daily confront them and that enable them to keep abreast of modern developments in all fields of activity.

Two-in-One

Real estate agents make only 50 per cent as much as their clients think they do. Here's why: In any given transaction, the buyer feels that the realtor's fee has been contributed by him in his purchase price. Yet, the seller believes he'd have been richer the amount of the fee had he only not had to pay his agent a percentage. * * * pu 14 ital womans world? As I listened to Gables banker Art Lundeen talking over the table at Kiwanis Club the other day I was struck by the fact that men are really more interested in babies than women imagine. Art's fourth child arrived only last month and he and his seatmates were talking about fatherhood, naming children and baby matters generally. "I believe December is the best month for having a baby," Art suggested authoritatively, adding that in addition to being a pleasant month for weather it offered the advantage of an income tax deduction for the nearly 12 months preceding.

Suggestion

Why don't our City Commissioners suggest that the Food Fair that's open in the Gables on Sundays close its doors? Six days shalt thou labor. * * *

Imaginative

Fellow we know has our admiration. A neighbor continued to trouble this man and his family late at night by playing a Hawaiian steel guitar, an electrically-operated instrument. The man of our admiration called on his old Air Force radar training and devised a jamming device by which he could originate signals which caused the across-the-way strains of "Mountain Dew" or "Steel Guitar Rag" to sound like a mixup between Radio Moscow and Peiping. Best of all was the fact that the inventor discovered he can also cure his affliction of late evening TV movie watchers who put the volume on maximum. He reports his most obstinate neighbor gave up after 6 1/2 minutes' of TV jamming. * * *

Addendum

In abbreviating some cutline data on page 1 last week about the old tent city here we did an injustice to our dollar-a-year historian, Jimmy Wells. We quoted Jimmy as saying the tents were for construction workers. Actually, he says, the tents were for all types of workers and personnel, including Merrick executives. Lesl Coombes even sojourned there once. * * *

Postscript

Here's something which shows you why it's difficult to establish even a simple fact as the truth: Remember when Alan Shepard returned from his space trip, UPI quoted his first words: 'Man, what a ride!" AP used "Boy..." Now comes Marine First Lt. George Cox, co-pilot of the helicopter which picked Shepard up saying: "Well to tell the truth, Shepard didn't say either one. I told reporters he said, 'Man, what a ride.' Actually, he said, 'God, what a ride,' but I decided that might get him in trouble with some church group so I changed it to 'Man.' "

Language Study

Whether you say Si, Si or Oui, Oui it means the same thing - "yes," you can learn Spanish or French in courses being offered at the Coral Gables Youth Center. Spanish classes for beginners will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; intermediates, from 1 to 3 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, under the direction of Pedro Benetiz. A beginners' course in French will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Mondays and Wednesdays, with Joseph Tucker as instructor. Courses in both languages are open to adults only at a fee of $2.

EVERYBODY'S Business

By Rolfe Neill

INK-SPOTS by INK SALUTES THE UM

DURING WORLD WAR II, U OF M WAS ONE OF THE FIRST SCHOOLS TO OFFER SPECIALIZED MILITARY COURSES, JOINING PAN AM TO TEACH AERIAL NAVIGATION THE U. OF MIAMI OPENED ITS DOORS IN THE AUTUMN OF 1926 TO 560 STUDENTS. AND ALL IN ONE BUILDING! LOOKS LIKE A CARDBOARD COLLEGE! ENROLLED IN THE COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS, A SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND A SCHOOL OF LAW. 14,000 STUDENTS NOW ATTEND THE UNIVERSITY OF THESE 4,000 ATTEND EVENING CLASSES AND ARE HOLDING FULL-TIME JOBS. zzz AN' THEY WE'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT THE WAY WE DRESS! THIS WEEK I'LL BE GOING AFTER MY OWN 100th VICTORY. 25 ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD THE HURRICANES HAVE WON 322, LOST 127, AND TIED 16. THEY'VE PLAYED 8 POST-SEASON GAMES AND WON 4 OF THEM. IN THE FIRST PALM FESTIVAL (FORERUNNER OF THE ORANGE BOWL CLASSIC) MIAMI BEAT MANHATTAN COLLEGE 7-0. THEY RANK 4TH BEHIND OHIO STATE, MICHIGAN AND MINNESOTA IN THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE ATTENDING HOME GAMES.