The Coral Gables Times

4 CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, May 10, 1962 THE Coral Gables TIMES Established Jan. 15, 1926 Second Class Postage Paid at Miami, Fla. Published at 364 Sevilla Ave., Coral Gables 34, Fla. JOHN T. WATTERS | President ROLFE NEILL | Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: $4.20 year by mail anywhere

In Search of Relief

As an occasional user of Coral Way at rush time and with a continuing sympathy for those who must use it daily, we offer two suggestions toward helping with the hellish traffic problems there: 1. Station a traffic policeman at the Coral Way-Red Road intersection at peak hours. 2. Make Coral Way one way at peak hours. Traffic often backs up five blocks on Coral Way, to Madrid Street, as homeward-bound motorists in the afternoon suffer through that light at Coral & Red. An officer directing traffic in lieu of the mechanism would certainly speed matters. And certainly a man could be put to much better use than the one hiding behind the gateway at Granada Golf Course to nab motorists for minor infractions there while traffic chokes up a mile further west. It's obvious that something is going to have to be done to speed more cars along Coral Way at peak hours. The Times believes it can be accomplished without widening that artery and destroying the lovely arbor of trees as well as hacking at property fronts. The solution we have already outlined above; that is, make Coral Way one-way inbound in the mornings and one-way outbound in the afternoons. These are common sense proposals and don't necessitate a lot of public hearings, expenditure or anything else that need take a year to effectuate. Anybody interested?

A Long Way From Mark Hopkins

Next week, we are offered the opportunity to see the University of Miami — what it is, what it does and its relationship to Coral Gables. Its economic ties are obvious. Important as they are, however, they are not the chief contribution of UM to Coral Gables. That contribution is within the University itself. It comes from having a major institution of learning located within the heart of our town. The resources spill over us in many ways, raising the general level of life here. Just as the University was the dream of a dedicated man, so is this Know Your University Week. Ed Crowley, a small businessman, is the citizen responsible for initiating this excellent program, working through the Chamber of Commerce and the University. Maybe your only experience with UM is like that of thousands of others — you pass it at 45 miles an hour on South Dixie. Next week, it's all arranged — right on down to a free bus ride — for you to get an intelligent look at a great and growing University which is putting knowledge on the desks daily of 13,000 students, many of them adults. See you there.

Age of Overturns Is With Us; We With It?

By PHILLIPS RUSSELL Correspondent LeRoy Collins, former governor of Florida, told a Charlotte, N.C. audience the other night that we are living in an "age of revolutions" — technical, political, intellectual and social, and that we must have the thinking and education that are able to accept them and use them. Education, he said, should not be equated with an impressive acquisition of facts. It might be better to say we are living in an age of overturns. Revolutions are often violent and scary, whereas overturns, even basic ones, may be imperceptible and mild. History (it might be said) is a record of the failure of the human mind to grasp the evidence that a respected habit, method, or institution has been turned upside down and that the overturn cannot be reversed. The reactionary says it can. The conservative says there ought to be no overturn in the first place. The liberal says we ought to do it gradually. The radical says do it now. In a tolerant nation all four viewpoints ought to be represented by spokesmen who would be willing to state their case and then abide by the decision of the majority. But the continuing use of dynamite, mobs, boycotts, and economic pressure against the opposition show that although this country has many virtues, tolerance is not yet among them.

Reese Says 'Impossible' . . .

An oil refinery cannot be established without polluting the air and water of Dade County. This is the opinion of Miami City Manager Melvin L. Reese in a recent report to the Miami City Commission in which he gave 12 reasons why the refinery would be bad for Dade. Reese's report touched off a controversy within the Miami City Commission and with County Manager Irving G. McNayr. The Miami city manager compared a newly established refinery in Hawaii and another in California to point up the danger of pollution. Reese claimed that the proposed D. K. Ludwig refinery, located approximately seven miles south of Coral Gables and west of Homestead on Biscayne Bay, will produce twice the pollutants of the Hawaiian plant, which is half the 50,000 barrel capacity of the Seadade plant. Here are Reese's 12 conclusions based on what he said was an objective survey: — Caution should be exercised on the oil refinery proposal because a community's assets can only be spent once. — There is no way to measure how adversely the refinery would affect the tourist trade but it is certain it will not complement or help. — The Greater Miami area's assets are in terms of climate, terrain and manpower, the last of which is not akin to heavy industry. — Other dirty industries will migrate around the refinery and pressure to expand will be great. — Despite strict controls, the Hawaiian refinery still emits substantial pollutants. — Dade would enhance its status as a military target. — The seaport facet of the refinery would compete with the Dodge Island Port under construction between Miami and Miami Beach. — Rail and truck transportation would be burdened. — Oil refineries and allied industries are not compatible with tourism and retirement. — A serious collision or grounding of a tanker could seriously pollute a large water and shoreline area. — The probability of smog would be increased. — From a potential tax and long-range standpoint, clean industry is preferable over others. — Conclusions were based on study analysis of available materials.

. . . They Differ

These two articles were prepared By Maurice Labelle of our staff A study of three other areas indicates it is possible to have an oil refinery that will be safe for Dade County. This is the conclusion of R. F. Cook, director of the Metro Building and Zoning Department, and Robert Quick, director of the Engineering Division, Department of Public Health, following a 31⁄2-day tour of California and Washington state refineries. A $40 million refinery and $20 million seaport have been proposed by D. K. Ludwig, builder of refineries. Ludwig's Seadade Realty Company has gotten the Metro Commission to rezone a 3,000-acre tract from limited to unlimited industrial east of the Homestead Air Force Base and immediately north of Homestead Bayfront Park. Seadade owns 20,000 acres. Cook and Quick made their report Jan. 8 to County Manager Irving G. McNayr after their Jan. 3-6 trip. They inspected the Richfield Refinery at Wilmington, Calif.; Shell Oil Refinery, Dominguez, Calif.; and another Shell refinery at Anacortes, Wash. The last operation mentioned is the same one visited by a group of Dade citizens who came back with a favorable report about the operation there. In their survey, Cook and Quick contacted the following agencies: Air Pollution Control District, Los Angeles County; Building Department, City of Los Angeles; Building Division, Los Angeles County; Los Angeles Health Department; and the Pollution Control Commission, Washington State. Los Angeles County officials advised Dade County to conduct a comprehensive study of all environmental factors before approving the refinery design. A nine-month study has been ordered by the Metro Commission. "Inspection of the refineries in the above mentioned jurisdictions indicate that the regulations and enforcement were effective, and the enforcing agencies stated that the refineries were 100 per cent cooperative in the control program," Quick reported. Here are the conclusions of Quick and Cook: It is possible to build a refinery in Dade that will be pollution free. Rules and regulations already adopted in other areas would be effective in Dade. That controls, procedures and policies of the Los Angeles Air Pollution Control District plus any supplementation and modification as may be necessary would suffice. That industrial waste controls adopted by the Anacortes plant be followed plus any other controls that may be necessary. But that consideration must also be given to additional industrial wastes that would result from other petro-chemical plants in the 2,400-acre industrial park and proposed sewage treatment plant at Black Point. Seadade Realty Co. relocate the refinery site from alongside Homestead Bayfront Park to the center of the tract and that the area be expanded from 200 acres to 360 acres. "Our contacts with enforcement agencies and inspection of existing refineries indicate that petroleum refineries are not entirely free of odors, which may be intensified by infrequent malfunction of equipment or leaks in Pipe lines," said Quick. "Although such odors are usually confined to within the plant area itself, the relocation would provide a buffer area of at least one-half mile from the site to the property under different ownership," Quick added. Quick recommended conditional approval to permit Seadade to proceed with preliminary plans. This the Metro Commission has done.

FACES IN OUR TOWN by INKS

R.L. BUDDE, ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT, CITY NATIONAL BANK HAS BEEN IN BANKING ONLY 18 MOS. PRIOR TO ENTERING THIS FIELD, MR. BUDDE SOLD HEAVY CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY. A NATIVE OF RUGBY, NORTH DAKOTA, HE GRADUATED FROM WESTERN UNION COLLEGE IN LE MARS, IOWA. MR. BUDDE WAS A BOMBARDIER IN WORLD WAR II. HE WAS SHOT DOWN AND SPENT A YEAR IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP. BUDDE, HIS WIFE BETTY JANE, AND CHILDREN BABETTE 9 AND TINA 4 RESIDE AT 945 HARDEE RD. MR. BUDDE IS AN AVID GOLFER AN BOWLER

Disaster, Chanel No. 5

By ELVA CHARLTON Correspondent In mother's day, a Milltown was a town with a mill in it. There were no tranquilizers to ease the frustrations of women. And no lady was ever permitted any form of emotional release. Women of the Victorian period, (1837-1901) were accused of prissiness, yet many of them were flamboyant, revolutionary and fearless in leading lives of unorthodoxy. Even though their morals were delicate their chief concern in life was breeding and rearing. Following thie period came the early twentieth century, the Edwardian period. These women lacked the bedroom vitality of their mothers. Instead, they concentrated on their parlor graces. For physical possession, their price was high — marriage and protection. In our grandmother's day, a lady was marked by the tone of her voice (gently pitched), her knowledge of social graces, her ability to mask her emotions, and above all her complete submission to her husband. Rage was silent; weeping was done privately behind closed doors in fine linen handkerchiefs. The serious troubles of a woman's life, illegitimacy, drunkenness, adultery, etc. occurred then as now, but they were hidden and never spoken of. And no one could tell from the looks of a woman which one of these or all of them she battled with behind the closed doors of her bedroom. Sex was the forbidden subject. Women muddled through an unsatisfactory sexual existence and permitted her daughter no slightest inkling of what marriage was all about. Psychologists know that this early mystery of sex is the real cause of some women's emotional troubles today. At the Coral Gables Country Club over luncheon last Wednesday three young mothers and I were discussing the problems we mothers face today. We were weighing, very carefully, the importance of the mother's problem of keeping husbands happy and satisfied and still meet the ever increasing demands of our large growing families. Today, husbands have many (See MOTHER'S, page 5)