The Coral Gables Times

You Can Now Do It Legally

Fishermen - here's news that's good for you. Coral Gables city commissioners have decided to relent on a policy of no fishing on bridges and canal banks to permit it on the banks alongside the Le Jeune Bridge at Sunset Road over the Coral Gables Waterway. In doing so, the Commission was recognizing the fact that some were braving the law to fis hthere anyway. Protective railing and parking will be provided for a limited number of fishermen.

Miami Says Go; We Say Whoa; What Happened?

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter A Miami plan for a thoroughfare through Coconut Grove will come to a sliding halt when it reaches the Gables. City Commissioners were flabbergasted Monday when they learned for the first time that the City of Miami had already let contracts on widening Grand Avenue to 70 feet from Main Highway to Douglas Road. They were even more shocked when City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. told them that Miami was asking Coral Gables' cooperation by widening its 1,200 feet of Grand Avenue to South Dixie Highway at an estimated cost of more than $200,000. The project would entail widening the narrow street-30 to 45 feet in sections - to 70 feet, purchasing rights of way, demolishing abutting homes, building sidewalks a n d curbs and repaving the entire surface. Coral Gables share of the project would be $125,000 for rights of way; $25,000 for building cutoffs, and $55,000 for construction. Miami's end would cost $200,000 for rights of way, $50,- 000 for building cutoffs, and $60,000 for construction. Paving, curb and gutter costs would be assessed to abutting property owners. The Commission, after hearing the plans, instructed Robinson to confer with M i a m i City Manager Melvin Reese. It also told him to say it believes the Gables' part of the project to be Metro's responsibility. A spokesman for the City of (See GRAND, page 5) -Map for The Times by Red Robbins DIAGRAM SHOWS AFFECTED AVENUE

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They'll Poke Around For Fallout Help

If you see men looking over your building and photographing it don't get excited. It probably means it is a candidate for a fallout shelter. Two engineers, James Owen Power and Charles W. Pemble, of Dignum Associates, 260 Palermo Ave., have been given a government contract to make a survey of potential shelters here. etropolitan Miami was divided into three sections in the search for suitable buildings. Dignum is surveying the sector which includes Coral Gables. They stress that they are only in the early stages of the project. The structures should be multi-story buildings with thick walls and partitions, small windows and a large floor area.

Best Shot in Gables Floyd Neff Qualifies for Rawhide

Lt. Floyd Neff surprised no one Sunday by shooting top honors in the first annual Fraternal Order of Police Associates pistol match and barbecue at the Coral Gables Pistol Range. Neff, a constant winner and nationally known pistol expert, shot a combined total of 491 to lead the Master Class and take the first place trophy. Officer L. W. Frederick was second in that class with 474 and Officer R. J. Smith took third trophy with a 472. Officers Glenn D. Arp and Gene Bell tied with 441 to take two trophies in the Expert Class. Officer Earle Callahan had 435 to win the third in the category. Joe Mantinan, administrative assistant to the city manager, topped the Sharpshooter Class with 387. Officer J. T. Charlesworth was second with 381 and Officer Thomas Quirk was third with 365. Lamar S. Gilbert topped the Marksman Class with a 320. Officers Kenneth Bush and Ralph Lichtenberger were second and third. Neff took first in the Police Course Master Class and the Slow Fire Match. Other individual class' winners were City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr., who won the Expert Class in both the Police Course and Slow Fire Match. Charlesworth was first in the Sharpshotter Class and second in the Slow Fire. Gilbert Renuart was first in the Sharpshooter Class. Officer Kenneth W. Bush topped the individual Marksman Class in the Police Course and R. Hynds was tops in the Slow Fire Match Marksman Class. LT. NEFF

First Aid

A first aid course is being offered at the Coral Gables Youth Center from 10 a.m. until noon on Tuesdays. Mrs. Pearl Mozo, a qualified instructor, is teaching. Those desiring to enroll must do so by next Tuesday. Call the Youth Center for details.

Arrest of 3 Men Solves 21 Thefts

Gables police say at least 21 recent burglaries and possibly as many as eight more were cleared with the arrest last week of three men. Many more were committed outside the City by the same men. Charged with breaking and entering and grand larceny are Eddy Szeles, 31, of 9980 SW 47th St.; Daniel F. Wagner, 27, no address given; and Wilbur Phelps, 26, of 321 NW 65th St. The three men, according to Det. Capt. E. H. McGough, took police on a tour of city to point out the various places hit. How much did they get? "I wouldn't even begin to attempt to guess," said McGough, "but it's been plenty." Part of the case was broken about a month ago when Miami Shores police apprehended Szeles as he was running out of a home. McGough gave much of the credit to Metro detectives, B. J. Gilbert and R. Pritchett, for breaking the case. Only a television set, belonging to Forrest Boyd, of 422 Cadima Ave., has been recovered.

We Turn a Ripe 36

We turned 36 this week (not a gray hair in sight) and not a soul remarked that we looked any older. In fact, as far as we know, nobody even knows we had a birthday. But if you look on page 4 at the top you'll see that The Times was established Jan. 15, 1926, only in those days it was a standard-sized sheet and bore the name, Miami Riviera. As for the intervening years, what can we say? Well, we can say they have encompassed all degrees of achievement and frustration, covered a Depression, the greatest war the world has known so far - extended through a "police action" which took 33,000 American lives and seen this promoter's dream of a city fill with 35,000 people. The joys of publishing are more intense because there's more going on and more challenge in putting out a superior product. We didn't have a cake - not even a present this week. Somehow there didn't seem to be time. Or is that common as you approach 40?

Murry Evans Is Named Our Circulation Manager

Murry Evans has been appointed circulation manager of The Coral Gables Times and The Guide. His new duties are effective immediately, according to an announcement from Rolfe Neill, the papers' editor and publisher. Evans succeeds Roy Speier who resigned. At 23, Evans is the most youthful department head on the publications. He is a native of Bradenton where he played end of his high school's championship football team. He is a graduate of The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., and recently served six months in the U.S. Army as a second lieutenant, a commission he still holds in the reserve. For the past six months he has been employed in the circulation department of The Miami Herald. At The Times, he will direct a carrier sales force of 40 boys. He and Mrs. Evans, who is a teacher at Citrus Grove Elementary School, live at 1958 SW 25th Ter. They are Methodists. MURRY EVANS

Hayes' Job

Hamilton Hayes will join First Federal Savings and Loan Association Feb. 1. He will hold an executive management position to be announced. For the past 10 years he has been the vice president of Daniel's Department Store here. He will continue to live in the Southwest. Whether he will resign the several civic offices he holds in the Gables has not yet been decided.

Big Push In Chamber Next Week

The Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce kicks off its 1962 membership drive Tuesday when 12 team captains meet with Chairman Joseph H. Murphy to start a drive for at least 70 new members this year. The chamber has 450 members now. Meeting will be at Tyler's Restaurant beginning at 8 a.m. Next Thursday will be the campaign victory banquet, set for the Coral Gables Country Club at 7 p.m. Here is a list of team captains and their teams: William Kerdyk, captain, Frank Kerdyk, Bill Gale, (See CHAMBER, page 2)

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