The Coral Gables Times

16 CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, January 18, 1962

Freedom Bell Rings And East Berliners Know...

By JOE C. MORRIS Correspondent BERLIN: The sound of the "Freedom Bell" ringing every day at noon from the city hall tower in West Berlin reminds East Berliners they have not been forgotten. Based on a sampling of the German spirit, expressed by three West Berliners, the bell's sound rings true. Paul Glatz is a 59-year-old engineer. He was born in northwestern Germany. But ever since the 1948 Berlin blockade he's considered himself a Berliner. His machine shop and printing press manufacturing plant employs 800 Germans in West Berlin. Arms Maker During the war he manufactured parts for bombs, guns and communication equipment. Then he became a soldier. Captured by the Russians in Prague he was given the choice, at war's end, of managing a machine shop for his captors or leaving the country in two hours. He and his wife Erica fled within the hour. Without money or possessions of any kind they started on the hard trail upward to wealth, position and responsibility - which they enjoy today. He says he was against Hitler from the beginning but his wife openly admits she was a Nazi. Believed in Hitler "I believed in Hitler. I thought he was doing a great thing for Germany. And I don't try to hide it today," she said. "Now of course I see things differently. But then it seemed right." Glatz, bald, round faced and slow of speech is a stocky German who thinks the future of Berlin depends on men like him. "The people of Berlin will not leave the city in face of the Russian threat if families such as mine stay in Berlin. We have been here a long time. Our business and our future is here. "If we leave, others will become frightened and leave too. People in my position must stay, not only because we want to, but to prevent a mass exodus. That would hand Berlin to the Russians." A young bartender atop the Berlin Hilton Hotel spoke the sentiments of young people in West Berlin. This Is Home "This is our home. If we leave what will happen? The number will become small. But as long as 2.2 million people remain here something will be done. "I have been away and returned. I don't want to live anywhere else. Most of the young people feel like I do about living in Berlin. We are not interested in politics. We are interested in education and in making money. We don't like militarization. "I am 24 and I have a good job. I can't afford the expense of moving to West Germany and starting over. Besides, it's my duty to stay here." Minister's View Edwin Brandt, a Baptist Minister with 500 parishioners spent his early life in Russia. His Baptist minister father rode a circuit of small villages preaching to German residents. Returning to Berlin before the war he entered the ministry in 1930. "I think the German people are through with war," he said. "They are fed up. No soldier of the last war wants to be one again. But if it becomes a question of fighting the Russians on the basis of 'fighting for our freedom' they will do it... as a duty."

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Verna Fossum Engaged To New Jersey Boy

Mr. and Mrs. Magnus S. Fossum of 1750 SW 63rd Ave., announce the engagement of their daughter, Verna Lucille to Stanley Robert Mueller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Mueller, 27 Cranmoor Dr., Toms River, New Jersey. A July wedding is planned by the couple. The bride-elect was graduated from Coral Gables High School where she belonged to the National Honor Society, the Cavallettes. At Wesleyan College, Macon, Ga., were she graduated with a B.A. degree, she was member of and secretary of its Fine Arts Club. She belonged to the League of College Voters, was chosen Miss Junior Class, and mentioned in Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. She took graduate courses in Education at the UM and taught at the Henry M. Flagler Elementary School. She is presently teaching the third grade in the Public Schools of Wellesley Hills, Mass. Her fiance is a graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., and earned his M.A. degree at Boston University where he is presently studying for his Ph.D in Psychology. MISS FOSSUM

Police Ask and Find

It pays to advertise. Gables police last week located a theft victim through a newspaper story. All they had to go on were the initials C.M.C. and C.C.M. on some silverware - part of the loot recovered from James Brown, a Goulds Negro. The owner, Celeste Meyer Calhoun, of 4039 Crawford, Ave., Coconut Grove, saw the story in the paper and called police. Her husband, F. H. Calhoun told Chief William Kimbrough that they had been out of town and that they learned about the recovery when they got back. Brown, a former employe of the Calhouns, was sentenced to 15 days for vagrancy when he refused to tell police where he got the silverware and jewelry he tried to pawn at a liquor store.

4% Coconut Grove Bank

4% Interest on savings left on deposit continuously for one year. On savings left on deposit continuously for six months, 3 1/2% will be paid. Coconut Grove Bank South Bayshore Drive at 27th Avenue Officers A. D. HARRISON President | J. D. REEVES Vice President | F. S. SMITH Vice President | LELAND HYZER Vice President and Trust Officer | JOHN P. PRITCHETT Cashier | AMAURY P. BETANCOURT Assistant Vice President | EARL C. KUNNY Assistant Vice President | ROBERT D. YOUNG Assistant Cashier and Assistant Trust Officer | CHARLES B. HEWEKER Assistant Cashier | DOROTHY COSTER Assistant Cashier | LOUISE URBAN Assistant Cashier | EDNA SALBERG Assistant Cashier Directors W. T. PRICE Chairman of the Board and Chairman of W. T. Price Dredging Corporation | JAMES W. EATON Vice Chairman of the Board | A. D. HARRISON President of the Bank | J. D. REEVES Vice President of the Bank | JOHN T. LEWIS President of Lewis Manufacturing Company | JOHN W. PRICE President of W. T. Price Dredging Corporation | LELAND HYZER Counsellor | J. ABNEY COX Commercial Grower and Packer | EDWARD E. ALGER Retired | CLARENCE J. PARMAN Architect and Grower | LAWRENCE A. PEACOCK President of Peacock Lumber and Supply Company STATEMENT OF CONDITION DECEMBER 31, 1961 ASSETS Cash and Due From Banks | $2,570,063.30 U.S. Government Bonds | 9,753,799.04 State and Municipal Bonds | 2,583,548.53 Other Securities | 24,718.75 TOTAL | $14,932,129.62 Loans and Discounts | 9,376,086.37 Furniture and Fixtures | 274,310.02 Other Bank Properties | 144,023.91 Other Assets | 901.83 TOTAL | $24,727,451.75 LIABILITIES Capital Stock | $ 600,000.00 Surplus | 600,000.00 Undivided Profits | 206,401.02 TOTAL CAPITAL | $ 1,406,401.02 Reserves | 737,954.54 Deposits | 22,583,096.19 TOTAL | $24,727,451.75 Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation