The Coral Gables Times

THE Coral Gables TIMES

CHECKING COPY O J FORMAN & CO NEWS FILE DEPT MONMOUTH ILL 2 COPIE THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Vol. 37, No. 9 20 Pages Thursday, April 5, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c

New Apartments Fought In Sunrise Harbour Area

THREATENING GESTURE? No, just Harold B. Lewis, representing the Deering Estate, emphasizing a point to the City Commission Tuesday. (Times Photo by Maurice Labelle)

City Gives No Reply To Request

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter A tempest over a proposed four-story apartment building at Sunrise Harbour abated Tuesday as the City Commission voted to kill it. But another storm shaped up over a two-story, 28-unit apartment approved last week for the same subdivision. The Commission voted 4-0, with Commissioner Joe Murphy abstaining, to deny the request of Ben Adler to build the 54-unit apartment on Lots 2, 3, 4 and 5 in Block 2. Murphy said the Commission should await completion of the Rader and Associates zoning study. Adler and developer Emile Gould, the owner, sought the permission to go one story more than the three permitted back in June 27, 1961. The Commission had deferred making a decision until the Rader survey is completed. Adler and Gould wearied of waiting for the long-delayed report and asked for an immediate determination. Sunrise Harbour is one of the Gables' most expensive developments with homes in the range of $35,000 to more than $100,000. It lies east of Le (See APARTMENTS, Page 2)

Gables' New Library Is Getting Closer and Closer

The City Commission will sit down with Librarian Margaret Beaton and architect Ed Rempe next Tuesday to discuss the proposed $400,000 library and the report of Library Building Consultants Inc. City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. released a copy of the report this week which told us what we already knew about our library: it is sadly lacking. Recommendations call for a two-story edifice just west of City Hall on Biltmore Way to replace the Woman's Club Building site on East Ponce de Leon Boulevard. The present $90,360 operation would expand considerably from its present 12 employes to accommodate anticipated needs for the next 15 to 20 years. But the report does not spell out exactly how much in dollars and cents and number of employes this will entail other than to indicate what a good per capita average is. They suggest $3.50 per resident. We now spend $2.66. Robinson said he hopes to have ground broken this year.

And the Vogue Pattern Is Hers As 88 Beckons, ‘Life Gets Sweeter’

And the Vogue Pattern Is Hers MRS. LOSIER IN HER STUDIO As 88 Beckons, ‘Life Gets Sweeter’ By SANDY CALPINI Correspondent "I'm only a painter; an artist is someone of higher talent." This is modestly stated by Mrs. Frances Losier. The 87-year-old painter has lived in the Gables since 1925. She moved from her large, rambling home on 706 Greenway Dr. to her compact, duplex studio apartment at 131 Samora Ave. She admitted that she "got her love of painting" from her older sister who painted portraits, "but I didn't inherit any of the talent." Mrs. Losier, who paints these days when "the spirit moves me and the weather is nice," has had local art showings. Many of her pictures adorn the rooms of homes around town, and as far as California and Canada. "On my 87th birthday I didn't know what to do with myself, so I painted. I was going to give the picture to someone who could tell me where a certain passage in the Bible could be found." But in the excitement of the day and a party which was given to her by one of her (See SHE'S FULL, Page 2)

So, Who's Boss Of The Image?

(Editorial on Page 4) A Bargain Days TV commercial proved to be no bargain last week as it threatened to wreck the City's five-man Advertising Advisory Committee. An impasse between the Committee and Bert Burris, City advertising consultant, reached the City Commission Tuesday. Some of the Committee's members threatened to quit over Burris' refusal to accede to their demands. The Commission Tuesday backed Burris on two counts: It supported his position that a 55-second commercial on Bargain Days would not be in keeping with the high tone of the City's advertising program. It approved 12 seconds. It also reaffirmed its position that it cannot delegate its final authority to an advisory committee and agreed with Burris that the committee is his advisor, not his boss. The Commission's decision met with a cool reception from two of the board members who appeared before the Tuesday conference meeting to present their side of the controversy. Robert Hildreth and Al Jacobson argued that the board had supervisory powers over Burris. They fought hard for the board's position that its role must be established that it must not be regarded as a rubber stamp for the Commission. They said they represented the views of the other three members, Fred Hartnett, W. Hamilton Hayes and Vernon C. Hill. The controversy boiled over at the March 27 meeting of the advisory group. Concerned about the inroads shopping centers are making on Gables business, the committee said that the City's advertising dollars would be wise- (See Advertising, Page 2)

Vice Mayor

Commissioner Franklin Evans was named vice mayor by Mayor Robert L. Searle Tuesday. He replaces Commissioner Joe Murphy on a rotating basis adopted by the mayor when he took office.

IMAGE MAKER Bert Burris, foreground, tells the City Commission of the impass with the Advertising Advisory Committee that led to a blow up. Two of the five committee members are Al Jacobson (left), and Robert Hildreth.