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Thursday, May 24, 1962, page 1 (of 28)
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THE Coral Gables TIMES
THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Vol. 37, No. 16 28 Pages Thursday, May 24, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c
Mayor Acted Alone Youth Job Center Aid for Summer; Method Criticized
A youth placement program initiated by Mayor Robert L. Searle this week after six months of planning ran into criticism from Commissioner Joe Murphy because the Commission was not let in on it. "I haven't heard the first word about it," said Murphy after learning about it by reading it in a Miami newspaper. He said the plan had merits, but is "obviously a political move" in connection with the mayor's candidacy for state democratic committeeman in Tuesday's runoff election. Murphy has asked that the matter be placed on tomorrow's (Friday) City Commission conference agenda. He said he asked City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. about various aspects of the plan, such as costs, but that Robinson did not know. Said Robinson: "I knew the mayor was doing it." Robinson said he saw a copy of the letter sent out by Bert Burris, City advertising and publicity director, before it was sent out. "I hadn't given it any thought," said Robinson of the fact that it had not been presented to the other commissioners. "Personally, I think it's a good plan." Had Commissioner C. L. Dressel Jr. heard about the plan? "No, I didn't," Dressel said. (See JOBS, Page 2)
Rock Around the Clock Brings 24 Hour Cop, Too
A week-long, round-the-clock police watch of a group of South Dixie Highway apartments was to end Wednesday — if inhabitants there behaved. City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. said he ordered the stake out after a long series of complaints about the behavior of residents in apartments along 706 to 710 South Dixie Hwy. known as S-M Courts. Complaints stemmed from excessive noise, loud night parties, improper parking, tearing up parkways, driving over sidewalks and drag racing down an alley. Robinson said he talked to the owner, George Echarte, before he took action. He also discussed the case with University of Miami officials when it became apparent that many of the offenders are UM students.
5-Story Hotel Sought Near Granada Course
A 102-room, five-story hotel is planned for Coral Way, just west of Segovia Boulevard and overlooking Granada Golf Course. Construction is expected to start by Aug. 1 with occupancy scheduled for Jan. 1, 1963. Cost will be $1.1 million, including furnishings but exclusive of the ground. Owners and operators of the hotel, which may be called The Seven Gables after the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, are Robert E. Sullivan and Eugene Wilhelm. Sullivan and Wilhelm already operate the Town and Country Motel at the corner of Segovia and Coral Way. The new hotel will be located between them and the five-story apartment building on the west end of that block. The land is owned by Cal Kovens. It has a frontage of 300 feet and is 166 feet deep. The land will be leased for 99 years. Parking for 75 cars will be provided. The City Commission must approve any buildings of more than three stories' height. A public hearing is expected to be called early next month. The law requires all property owners within 500 feet to be notified, should they wish to object. The property is already zoned for hotel use. Sullivan said the administrative staff would require about 20 people with another 30 to 40 persons needed as bellboys, bartenders, kitchen help and the like. The hotel will have a public banquet room capable of seating 350 persons. The hotel will also have a dining room, coffee shop, men's grill and, the owners hope, a cocktail lounge. As outlined by the owners, their plans qualify the hotel to obtain a city-issued liquor license. Presently, no other public facility in the Gables has a license, although the Holiday Inn to be built on South Dixie Highway expects to obtain one and innkeeper Al Singer, next door to the Holiday, is pressing (See HOTEL, page 2)
Cavaliers Back Amigo
Approximately 220 Coral Gables High students have offered their homes for Operation Amigo participants in the future. It's up to the school to take them up, student leaders said this week. The offers came in response to a poll of the homerooms which revealed that "students are strongly interested in and want to support the amigo program," says Student Government President Jeff Tew. Consequently, on Tuesday the Student Government passed the following resolution: "Resolved: That the Coral Gables High Student Govern- (See AMIGO, page 2)
Grove Woman Is Beaten On Andalusia Ave. Friday
A 27-year-old Coconut Grove woman was severely beaten about the face and robbed in the 200 block of Andalusia Avenue Friday. Police were to hold a line up with a suspect picked up by Miami police Wednesday to determine if the victim, Marion Lightfoot, could identify her assailant. Mrs. Lightfoot was treated by Coral Gables firemen and later at Doctors' Hospital for injuries sustained in the beating. Officer Thomas Quirk said he found her lying unconscious with her empty wallet in the street. It had contained $27. An employe of the Marshall Insurance Agency, 222 Andalusia, she was walking back to her car shortly before 8:30 p.m. when the attack occurred. She described her attacker as a white man in his mid-20s, short and light.
Coco Plum's Mrs. Gramley Retiring Goodbye to 'Hysterical' Novels and Termites
By RAYMOND LANG Times Reporter A goat chews up one of your books. An old tool box, made into a book wagon, falls apart on Bird Road and all the books tumble out as cars speed by. A little girl, asked by her mother to get a "historical" novel, asks you in a sweet voice for a "hysterical" novel. These are some of the memories Mrs. Lois Gramley will take with her when she retires the end of May after 14 years as librarian at Coco Plum Women's Club library on Sunset Drive. Things haven't been dull since Mrs. Gramley, who lives a block away from the library at 7396 SW 53rd Pl., became the overseer of their then 2,000 books. It's now 12,000. About that book wagon... A neighborhood man gave the library his tool box, about three feet wide and 12 feet long. It was old, almost falling apart, but Mrs. Gramley painted the old tool box with little story-book figures, like Alice in Wonderland. She put in shelves for several hundred books and then hitched the whole affair to her Chevrolet and off she went, stopping at stores along the way each week. And from everywhere, people who didn't have a chance to go the library, let the library come to them. The fact that the book wagon had room for only one person at a time to step in and browse didn't at all faze our Gables and SW area neighbors. "It fell apart on Bird Road one day," Mrs. Gramley laughed," and all the books fell off the shelves. It was a rough day. "And we had to stop it. The termites," she added sadly," got to the wagon. Mrs. Gramley, 62, has no definite plans on what she'll do when she retires. She'll have more time for her three grandchildren and be able to drop in more often to visit her married daughter, Mrs. F.S. Alsobrook, 7720 SW 50th Ct. Mrs. Gramley's husband, John, was an athletic coach when Ponce de Leon was a high school. He died eight years ago. Sitting at one of the small tables the children use when reading in the library, Mrs. Gramley recalled one little boy who had a child's typical problem. He just could not keep quiet. He had so many important things to say to his little friends. "I had told him 'be quiet.' " And he said "Why? Nobody's dead!" MRS. GRAMLEY
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