The Coral Gables Times

And Wins a Prize She Says S-o-o-o-e-y!

MRS. WILSON . . . a champion A HOG . . . someone's calling him The late Saturday evening quiet of Granada Golf Course was split with a sound familiar to all ex-farmboys, stockyard workers and dude ranch visitors. It was s-o-o-e-y. And if you're such a city slicker that it's foreign to your ear we'll tell you that it's the way to call hogs. The Coral Gables Country Club was having a weekend square dance with part of the fun being a hog calling contest. Nobody was more surprised, said the gal who won first prize, than she. The 1962 champion female hog caller in Coral Gables is Mrs. Jane Fuchs Wilson, wife of City Commission George Wilson. Where'd she develope such a talent? "I've never done it before, to tell you the truth," said the good-natured Mrs. Wilson. "During the war, daddy bought a 40-acre farm across the street from South Miami — that was in the country then — and we lived on it. "He had lots of hogs and I remember him calling them but I never did." The Wilsons live at 510 Barbarossa Ave.

Ya'll Come

Dr. Irving Muskat, chairman of Interama and vice president of the University of Miami in charge of research, will speak March 8 at 8 a.m. at the Chamber of Commerce Coffee Club. The meeting will be held at Polly Davis Cafeteria. Door prizes will consist of eight pairs of tickets to UM football games next year.

THE Coral Gables TIMES THE CITY BEAUTIFUL

Vol. 37, No. 4 16 Pages Thursday, March 1, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c

City Moves Quickly on Slums; Mulls Several New Approaches

(Editorial on page 4) The end of Coral Gables' slums may be in sight. City Commissioners Monday launched a study to determine the best way to proceed in the eradication of the slum condition at the edge of the Gables in the area known as the Coconut Grove Negro section. The Commission's action follows a Coral Gables Times study of Negro housing conditions and the publication of the first of a series of articles last week. The series will continue today and for the next four or five weeks. Mayor Robert Searle told the Commission that he is conferring with area fiscal experts to determine how and where to proceed following conversations with The Times about its findings. Searle said he was enthusiastic that a financial solution to the problem could be found. Commissioner George Wilson, a financial expert in his own right (he is a securities broker and businessman), said he would broach the subject at (See CITY, page 2)

Gulf Over Hurdle On Site

(Picture on page 3) (Editorial on page 4) The way was cleared Tuesday for Gulf Oil Corp. to establish its Latin American oil head quarters in Coral Gables when the City Commission voted 3-2 to approve a change of zoning on a downtown piece of property. Commissioners Joe Murphy and Franklin Evans abstained from voting. The request was by former Commissioner Ed Rogers to convert a piece of property on the southeast corner of Alhambra Plaza and Galiano Street from apartment zoning to commercial. Rogers made no request for a seven-story building, but he said at the meeting that long-range plans call for a seven-story building that would have five stories of office space a manager's apartment house on top and the first story reserved for parking. Gulf Oil Corp. would be chief tenant. As approved, the plan allows Rogers to go three stories, but Rogers will have to go back for permission to go seven stories. Rogers got a little hot under the collar at one point as he ran into strong reaction from the Commission when it sought assurances that the change of zoning from apartment to office use on some lots would not result in other construction in the future. When they insisted on a parking provision, Rogers heated up again. "If I have only a three-story building you won't be able to make me furnish the first parking space," Rogers said. But in the end he agreed to tie up the land in a convenant to provide parking and the Commission put the ordinance on first reading. Commissioner Evans indicated he needed more time on the matter and Commissioner Murphy pointed out the matter had come up as a "blue streak item" (not submitted on schedule) on the City Manager's agenda after being recommended by the Zoning Board Monday night.

Renewal Ruled Out Slums Prolonged by Patching?

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter (Second in Series) Back in 1957-58, the City Commission decided something had to be done about the deteriorated Negro section. They created an Urban Renewal Committee named Charles Finkelstein to head it and told it look into this and other housing problems. Almost immediately a stigma attached to the project. This was because of the fear of federal funds and interference. The group became known as the "Committee of 33." There were seldom that many on it, sometimes more, as names drifted in and out. Few of its members were active and the bulk of the work fell to Chairman Finkelstein. By the end of the year and a few personal conflicts later, Finkelstein turned in the recommendations. They hit the Commission and the community hard. If adopted they truly would have created a "City Beautiful" — a "City of Beautiful Homes" — for it would have meant an end to sub-standard housing everywhere in the community. However, Urban Renewal died a quick death. In its place, rehabilitation was adopted as the policy. Renewal is a more drastic form of correction than rehabilitation. In March 1960, after much (See THE HOVELS, page 2)

FEEDING THE DUCKS at Fuchs Park in South Miami are five-year-old Laurie Buxton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Buxton, 11450 SW 60th Ave., and Robert Baucom, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baucom, 435 Barbarossa Ave. (Times photo by Raymond Lang)

Double Deck Car Parking Is Studied

Further action on proposed double decking of the city parking lot No. 1 behind the Miracle Building awaits reaction from that building's owner on a City counter-proposal for a rental lease agreement. The City has offered to rent 100 spaces to Miracle Building Corp. for $8 a month per space — $3 more than the firm had offered to pay for the space. "We don't have any plans to double deck anything," City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. said Tuesday. Double decking of the lot would create 250 spaces as opposed to 114 now. The lot has been filling up for several months and was recommended to be enlarged by the City's parking consultants M. H. Connell Associates.

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