The Coral Gables Times

After 2 Winters in the Garage, Nothing to Do

By RAYMOND LANG Times Reporter THE Clem Hagglunds have their family history written across the living room wall at 1136 Andora Ave. The history is in the form of a tile mosaic made by Mrs. Hagglund. Its large size - 10 feet in length and three feet deep - covers the wall. Each tile tells part of the history. "I rolled them out with a rolling pin and then stuck them in a kiln," said Mrs. Hagglund, telling how she made the mosaic. "I wasn't going to make it this big, but then we moved into this house." She laughed. "And there wasn't anything to put on this wall." Mrs. Hagglund, who studied ceramics and sculpturing at night school, shook her head. "I worked on it for two winters in the garage. It took me a long, long, long time. "And when I was done, I was lost! So I began making little cushion cases." She pointed to some of her handiwork laying on a sofa. She moved closer to the mosaics. "This is our circle of family activities," she said, motioning to a large circular tile in the mosaic's center. "This is the bell (brown) I ring for our children to come home. This is the Welcome Wagon (brown covered wagon) I used to belong to. "And this is Claxton fruit cake (brown). Clem used to belong to the Civitan Club (they sold the product at Christmas). "And these are Clem's tennis racquets and these are the scales of justice (her husband's an attorney). "These," Mrs. Hagglund went on," are the stockings the kids hang up at Christmas and this is a Girl Scout emblem." There are lines that are wiggly and brown. Mrs. Hagglund points to them and begins a roll call of names. It seems they're not lines at all, but symbols for relatives. There are even three, green, key-shaped tiles for the Florida Keys and a yellow tile with holes. This is the moon over Miami, complete with craters. But if this mosaic tells the history of the Hagglunds and their children, Carol, 17, and Pau, 12, then what do those blob-like tiles represent on each of the mosaic's four corners. Mrs. Hagglund laughed again. "Oh, that's to cover up the bolts!" MRS. HAGGLUND CAROL PAUL DETAIL FROM RIGHT END OF WALL MURAL BELOW THIS MURAL IS 10 FEET LONG

Bus Change Put Off By Metro

(Continued from page 1) routes, improve routes and schedules and adopt a zone fare system. The Coral Gables Zone-C will be bound roughly by Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Le Jeune Road, Sunset Drive, Snapper Creek Canal and Tamiami Trail. Another zone is to be set up in the Southwest section, including South Miami, Reynolds said. Other zones are Miami-Hialeah-Miami Springs; Miami Beach and towns north; the Key Biscayne area; and North Dade. Within 90 days to a year, the authority hopes to complete the coordination or integration of all seven transit systems operating in the county, extend the basic core system where feasible, initiate a rapid transit system. Between one and two years from now, the authority plans to develop outlying park-ride lots and new terminal facilities, build new shelters and bus stops at transfer points and analyze the results of the rapid transit system. Two to five years from now, the authority hopes to develop a commuter train system between Homestead and West Palm Beach. Finally, in five years the authority plans to begin the implementation of the rapid transit facilities.

Room Policy Under Fire From Apts.

(Continued from page 1) could not be amended by a resolution. The City Commission then changed the June 27, 1944, anti-room renting ordinance to permit renting under limited conditions with an amending ordinance. Brinkman and members of the Apartment Association felt that the Commission should have enforced the 1944 provisions and not extended the right to rent to 1960. Under the terms of the new ordinance, owners of property used for room renting prior to 1944 may continue to do so providing they owned the property before March 1, 1960. But the owner must also agree not to pass on the rights to heirs, assigns or successors. He must also pay the City $10 per year per unit, not exceeding three rooms. This is also conditional on neighbors within 300 feet not complaining. A board has been set up by the City to hear complaints. "I'm not fighting with the Commission," Brinkman said Tuesday. Brinkman said he thought the room renting question should have been turned over to the City's planning consultants, Rader and Associates, for their study and recommendation. Brinkman said that properties involved in room renting are generally those paying little tax which must be made up by other property owners.

Sewers' Priority Shifted to Industry

A $356,000 plan to expand the sewer system in the area across South Dixie Highway from the University of Miami Main Campus has been tabled by the City Commission. The Commission decided rather that the industrial and Coconut Groves section of the Gables needed sewers more. City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr., who presented the plans for two new areas of sanitary sewer system SS-8, is getting up figures on costs of extending the system to the areas designated by the Commission. The SS-8 extension would have provided collection lines and laterals in the area south of the Highway and west of Maynada and another area southwest of the University Waterway. Finance Director Kenneth Allyn told the Commission there would not be enough money in the $1 million capital improvement program to complete both sewer jobs. Approximately $350,000 of the improvement program has been earmarked for sewer extension. The money would eventually be returned through hookup charges and usage.

New Arrivals

BIRTHS AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL Dec. 18 Mr. and Mrs. Laurence R. Weiss, boy, 1460 Alegriano Ave. Dec. 21 Mr. and Mrs. William Vallenilla, boy, 4951 Alhambra Cir.

Seek the Hard Way, Award Recipient Says

About 180 guests watched pretty Junior Orange Bowl queen Bonnie Burkhart kiss Dr. James W. Parrish when she presented the vice president of Stetson University with the annual Service to Youth Award Wednesday. The presentation was made at a luncheon at the Coral Gables Country Club attended by civic club members. Dr. Parrish warned that parents today are doing too much for their children and not allowing them to mature in an environment of self-reliance. "Our young people are trading security for opportunity. "Rather than going out into the world and saying, 'World, I owe you something,' they are saying, 'World, pay me and pay me quick.' "If I were to make a plea to our youth," Dr. Parrish continued, "it would be for them not to seek out the easy places, the smooth places but to seek out the rocky places. For it is these which will build character."

Sunday Line Holds Fast

Work by the Committee to Preserve Our Traditions last week end apparently was successful in preventing a rash of Sunday retail openings in the Gables. A half dozen merchants who were planning to stay open for the day before Christmas voluntarily observed Sunday closing after being approached by the committee. Several did stay open to complete deliveries promised for the day but were pledged not to make any retail sales.

STUDYING HER FINGER after pricking it with sandspur while working in her rock garden is Mrs. Jerry F. Lauck, 531 Sevilla Ave. She and son, David, 10, piled into the station wagon, drove to Le Jeune Road and lugged rocks home after laborers dug up the street for widening and repavement. (Staff Photo)