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Pete's Team Lost

CRYING BECAUSE his team lost the 95-pounders championship is Pete Murphy, an end on the Coral Gables Youth Center team. They were whipped, 6-0, by West Dade Boy's Club last Saturday. Pete is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George L. Murphy, 5355 SW 78th St. (Staff photo by Raymond Lang)

Song of the Open Road (Partly) As Le Jeune Work Moves Along; February Finish Date Confirmed

The open road beckons-two wide lanes each way - on Le Jeune Road now from Tamiami Trail to Bird Road after the first stretch of binder covering was laid this week. The finish paving on this same stretch will be laid after New Year's, completing this part of the project, according to Frank C. Palmer, superintendent for Troup Brothers Construction Co. And the remaining portion of Le Jeune, between Bird Road and South Dixie Highway will be completed by the end of February - in time to meet the extended 48-day deadline granted by the State Road Department after numerous changes in plans, Palmer said. Sidewalks, lack of which had caused some downtown merchants to howl some weeks back, are all completed except in the Bird-South Dixie portion, he said. "I could have built a road in half the time had traffic been stopped," Palmer said in citing the slow process of road construction while cars worked their way between men and equipment. But the delay was granted after it was found that the plan to use heavy concrete ditch covers over a deep drainage ditch was not feasible beyond a certain point. Concrete pipe had to be ordered and substituted. Other delays resulted from changes in the island at University Drive and Le Jeune and the location of a drainage outfall behind Coral Gables High School.

Room Rent Policy Set Once More

The City Commission did Tuesday by ordinance what the courts said it couldn't do legally by resolution-set up a policy on room renting in Coral Gables. Back in July of this year, Judge Ray Pearson ruled that the City could not amend its ordinance prohibiting room renting in residential and other areas not zoned for the purpose. The suit was brought by Mr. and Mrs. James W. Nichols, of 225 Salamanca Ave. Under the terms of the new (SEE ROOM, PAGE 2)

Blue Road Pipe Cost Tops Bridge

Item: Blue Road Bridge, $25,000. Item: moving water pipe for new Blue Road Bridge, $50,000. These are the estimated costs involved with construction of the new bridge over the Coral Gables Waterway between Granada Boulevard and University Drive. City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. said Tuesday he expects bids to be called on Jan. 18 for the bridge project. The schedule calls for completion by July 15. Meanwhile, the City of Miami Water and Sewer Board, which has a 48-inch water pipe going over the canal, will have to remove approximately 176 feet of it and replace it with 193 feet of pipe under the canal. In addition to this, Robinson said, Consumers Water Co. will also have to remove a small feeder line. The new bridge will allow boats with a 10-foot clearance to pass underneath.

Jack Tees Off on 35c Hot Dog

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter Editorial on page 4 Thirty-five cents for a hot dog? Even former mayor John M. Montgomery found that hard to swallow at last week's Coral Gables Open at Biltmore Golf Course. Montgomery, who was tourney chairman, indicated that he wasn't happy about the price, but he indicated it was a matter to be taken up at a future tourney. Said Guy H. Williams, 19th Hole Restaurant manager: They've been 35 cents in the restaurant. He put out a cheaper and smaller version of his all-Kosher dog for 30 cents, which he sold on the course. Inside, bottled cokes stayed at 10 cents and small cup-and-ice cokes went for 15 cents and large cokes brought 25 cents outside. These prices compared with the 30-cent dogs put out by Jack Spiegel, concessionaire for the tourney. Spiegel got 15 cents for small cokes and 25 for large. He got 25 cents for an ice cream stick, said William Kerdyk, concessions committeeman. Kerdyk estimated the city made $1,000 after it got 30 per cent of gross from Spiegel. This defrayed part of the costs of the $20,000 tourney. Miami Springs Golf Course gets 25 cents for a dog comparable in size to the 30-cent Biltmore dog. Their Cokes are 10 cents for small and 20 cents for large. King size hot dogs are 35 cents at the Orange Bowl and regular 25 cents. Small Cokes are 15 cents and large 25 cents.

Riviera Day School Told By Court: Pay Tax Bill

Riviera Day School has lost its appeal in Circuit Court on exemption from City real estate and personal property taxes. Judge Ray Pearson has upheld Tax Assessor T. C. Blount in ruling that the school, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lorin E. Coppock Jr., does not qualify for exemption as a non-profit institution. Blount has estimated the tax at $800 for this year and a comparable amount for each of the three years he is allowed to back tax under the law. Coppock maintained that Blount ruled on a technicality. The Coppocks operate the school on a lease with the corporation that owns it. But they are also owners of the corporation. This was done to offset the possibility of a heavy liability action, but Blount, backed by the City Commission, ruled that this took the operation out of a non-profit category by separating ownership and operation. The school is located at 6800 Nervia St. Deerborne School, 311 Sevilla Ave., initially ruled not exempt by Blount, was later reinstated after an audit by the City's Internal Auditor Paul Gleman.

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