The Coral Gables Times

2 CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, April 5, 1962

Apartments Stir a Protest

(Continued from page 1) Jeune Road down to the bay. Meanwhile, a group of 200 Sunrise Harbour Association members claimed foul on an emergency ordinance passed last week. It would allow builder Gerald Schainuck to build a two-story, 28-unit on lots 6 and 7, Block 2. They will have a meeting Monday to set their course. And in a letter to the town fathers this week, they asked that the City Commissioners rescind their action of last Tuesday. However, no action was taken on the letter. Clifford Gould, president, no relation to the developer, and Gerard Katcher, charged that the City failed to notify them of the proposal. They criticized an emergency ordinance voiding two previous resolutions and setting up new conditions for apartment construction. Mayor Robert L. Searle and City Clerk Loretta Sheehy said that no notification was necessary since no change in zoning or public hearing was involved. The association charged also that they were not notified on the four-story apartment proposal. Searle said that all the arguments had been heard at a previous public hearing and no further arguments were required before the Commission voted on the proposal. HAROLD LEWIS, representing the 400-acre Deering estate across the Coral Gables Waterway from Sunrise Harbour, took exception to the mayor's position. Lewis said he made no comment at the public hearing because he had been told no decision would be made until completion of the Rader report. "I was not allowed to present any arguments at that time," Lewis said. Searle said before the meeting that the ordinance changing the number of units required and parking on the two-story apartment was passed as an emergency measure because Schainuck had been unduly delayed by confusion over the intent of the Commission in 1959 in passing two resolutions recommended by the Zoning Board. These resolutions expired in six months, the City contends because they were never put into ordinance form. Further, they applied only to construction proposed at that time. The 1959 resolutions limited construction to eight units each on lots 8 through 20 and 7 through 9 in Block 2. Last week's emergency ordinance permits 10 units each on lots 1 through 5, 28 units on 6 and 7, and seven each on lots 8 and nine. No second reading was required this week and the ordinance becomes law in 30 days. The commission can, if it wishes, rescind the ordinance, thereby blocking the 28-units. No action was taken.

She's Full of Vitality and Looking Ahead, Not Behind

(Continued from Page 1) three daughters, Mrs. Roy Wilson of 127 Phoetia Avenue, she forgot all about it. Walking into the first floor studio is like finding a garden in the midst of an old curiosity shop. Beautiful floral paintings of all sizes rest against settees, lean against spindle chairs and perch on crude easels. "Flowers are my love in painting." Here in the fragrance of oil paints, musty old books and magazines, she works. "You know the day is too short. We never read all that we want to read (her eye glancing at the stack of books and old Good Housekeeping magazines), or dream all that we want to dream, or do all that we want to do." On the subject of age, Mrs. Losier confesses, "I didn't admit how old I was until I was 65. In growing older the more you depend on God, and the more God grows sweeter on you." Age hasn't stopped this spry woman from teaching herself the organ which she started two years ago, nor has it prevented her from adding to her colorful wardrobe. Mrs. Losier whipped up a Vogue Paris creation on her sewing machine for her 87th birthday. "When I get dressed up, I'm really a knockout," she chuckled. "You know, you can't buy an old ladies' dress in the store. The clerk will tell you there is no such thing." Mrs. Losier recalls the days when her mother wore only black, and black was the only thing sold. In her active schedule Mrs. Losier finds time to head her Friday morning study group at Shenandoah Presbyterian Church. "Life is like a school, and I have my studies too," she replied. Mrs. Losier's other two daughters are Mrs. Ralph I. Vervoort of 6520 SW 62nd Ct., and Mrs. Joseph F. Dussault of 7290 Davis Rd.

'Here's Ball, Now Run With It,' Our Leaders Told By Jaycees

Coral Gables Jaycees last week handed over their survey to City leaders and told them in effect; "Pick up the ball and carry it." They had just spent more than 2,000 hours knocking on doors, asking questions, compiling and analyzing answers and preparing their report for presentation. Their findings were reported in last week's Times. "You have here a document which will give you real direction," Vice President Landon G. Haynes, of First Research Corp., told the assembly of Jaycees and local leaders at last week's dinner at the Coral Gables Country Club. Haynes served as midwife in the birth of the Jaycee report. Evaluating the results, Haynes said it was 95-100 perfect. Larry Adams, who supervised preparation of the report, and Jaycee President Mort Guilford, tossed out a challenge to the leaders presented to do something about the things people had indicated dissatisfaction with. "What can we do to correct some of these ills?" Guilford asked. Mayor Robert L. Searle told the group that getting a peek at some of the report's findings a few weeks back was instrumental in speeding up the City's street repair program. At the same time, the mayor expressed "shock" that so few people knew anything about the City's plans. He wondered how communications could be improved. The mayor told the group that City Commission was taking a second look at the slum problem and was drawing up ordinance to create a housing authority to study how best to handle the problem. Although only 15.2 percent of the 520 interviewed indicated dissatisfaction with the City's slum program, many persons did not know that the Negro slum area is in Coral Gables. Searle said the City Commission is also concerned with recreation, something 28.3 per cent of the surveyed were unhappy with. He said the Commission is looking into a family education plan which has the blessing of the Dade County School Board and school administration. The question and answer period which followed the presentation, however, failed to generate much response. But, for the most part, leaders there were looking at the report for the first time and had not had a chance to study it.

Larry Adams Talks, Mort Guilford Seated

Advertising Role Defined

(Continued from Page 1) ly expended to help support the three-day Bargain Days. The advisors said the two major commercials on the show should directly aid Bargain Days. The Gables sponsors Ralph Renick's Wednesday night TV newscast every other week as part of the $143,000 it spends a year for advertising and promotion. Commercials are made up weeks in advance. Burris balked at killing the sound on the one scheduled for April 25 and substituting a "hard sell" Bargain Days theme. The theme of all the commercials on the program is one of "soft sell," emphasizing the quality and status of the Gables. When an impasse resulted, he suggested that the matter be placed before the Commission, but the committee balked indicating he should do as directed. He refused.

What Are They Doing?

THAT'S not a wake being held in the picture at left. It's members of the Coral Gables Rotary Club last Friday as they listened to a program on the history of jazz. Some of the musicians are shown at right beating out "When the Saints Go Marching In." (Times photos by Raymond Lang).