The Coral Gables Times

2 CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, May 24, 1962

UM'S NEW PRESIDENT, Dr. Henry King Stanford, is shown at center. At left is Ed Crowley, chairman of Know Your University Week, and at right Chamber of Commerce President Albert Jacobson. Dr. Stanford made some brief remarks at the luncheon. (Times photos by Raymond Lang) BUSY MAN at last week's luncheon for new UM President Stanford was Dr. C. Doren Tharp of the University. Clapping at right is Kenneth Allyn, Gables Finance Director, and the two men on the left of Dr. Tharp are William S. Howland and C. Scott Fletcher (cigaret in mouth), both UM staff members.

Private School

Gilbert Johnson has received approval by the City Commission to operate a private school at 4023 Le Jeune Road. The private tutoring school will be staffed by teachers at nearby Coral Gables High School, who will instruct students having difficulty in grammer, speech and like subjects.

Dr. Robert Cherry, Coral Gables oral surgeon, has been re-elected president of Florida State Oral Surgeons Association. Dr. Cherry, 900 Hardee Rd., is serving his third term.

DR. RICHARD E. STRAIN, Gables neurosurgeon, will receive an Alumni Citation from Maryville, College, Maryville, Tenn., at commencement Saturday. This is the third such citation given in the history of the Presbyterian college, one of the South's 10 oldest.

Realtors Hit Hardest, Among Few Protesting License Hike

Years of deficit spending and inflation cropped up as the main "villains" in the "plot" to increase occupational licenses in Coral Gables. When Robert Davidson, president of the Coral Gables Board of Realtors, pressed Finance Director Kenneth Allyn for the reason for the increases, this is what Allyn told them at Monday's hearing before the Budget Advisory Board: For years the City lived on unspent wartime surpluses, rootteg after the war to live off these surpluses rather than levy additional millage. As a matter of fact, Allyn pointed out, the millage dropped from 22 to 17, until raised last year to 19. This came, at a time when the City paid off its bonded indebtedness accrued after the real estate collapse of the 20s. "By this time, said Allyn other forces — such as 30 per cent added inflation — had combined to cancel that gain. The City was blocked last year when it attempted to raise the occupational licenses in certain categories without first holding a public hearing. This year, a more systematic approach was used, but objections still came. But they were few. Only 27 written objections were received on 5,000 post card queries and only 15 persons turned up Monday night to protest at the Budget Advisory Board hearing. The Board of Realtors, led by Davidson, was hit hardest by the increase in fees. They jumped from $30 to $40 on brokers fees. This amounted to a 33 1-3 per cent increase compared to the 15 per cent general boost. Salesmen, who paid no fee before and $5 now, had asked to pay a fee to preserve their standing. Spelled out, this meant a boost from $4,500 to $6,000 for the 150 brokers in town and an additional $2,480 from salesmen. This accounts for approximately 28 per cent of $30,000 the City hopes to derive from this source of revenue. "We feel it was raised too high," said Davidson, who indicated that perhaps $35 would have been more reasonable. "We would like to feel that we are no better or worse than doctors or other proven professional men," he said. The only other major group of objectors was the Apartment Owners Association, which went up from $25 to $30, but no change in the per-room charge. George F. Henry, representing the group, said economic conditions in the apartment business did not warrant an increase at this time. The next move is up to the Budget Advisory Board. They will turn over their recommendation, probably the early part of next month, and the City Commission will then have the ball.

Jobs for CG Youth Arouses Comment

(Continued from Page 1) He said he remembered something vague about a conversation with Personnel Director Robert Harrison in which the subject was brought up but that the mayor had never discussed it with him. Commissioners George Willy and Frank Evans could not be reached for comment. Searle saw nothing unusual in the way the plan developed. He said he met with a group of local ministers six months ago to discuss ways to help young people. The employment bureau idea was kicked around, Searle said, and a second meeting held with interested groups. Later, Searle said, he contacted Harrison and Youth Center Director Jeannette Hunt and worked out some of the details. This is the plan that evolved: Three thousand letters were mailed out Monday to Gables businessmen asking for their cooperation in providing jobs to teenage youngsters between 14 to 19. Beginning May 28, students will be placed in temporary, part-time. After-school, evening, weekend and summer vacation jobs through the Youth Center employment program until school resumes next fall. A group of high school graduates will help handle the plan. They will be paid a small hourly wage and will earn a 50 per cent tuition scholarship at the University of Miami next fall. The Youth Center operation will open after school and Saturdays and after school closes Monday through Friday until resumption. The program is not concerned primarily with earning of money but provide an opportunity for young people to learn what an employer expects from an employe and help them acquire a sense of responsibility, the mayor explained. "The reaction I've gotten thus far has been good," said Searle. Murphy said the mayor has acted on his own before without getting Commission approval. He cited the commercial committee plan.

3 Students Are Injured On S. Dixie

Three University of Miami students were injured in crash at South Dixie Highway and South Alhambra Circle Sunday shortly before midnight. Injured were Steve Weiner, 22, and two 18-year-old twins, Jerold and Richard Berger, all living at 1226 Walsh Ave. They were treated at Doctors' Hospital after being given first aid by Gables firemen. According to Officer G. F. Rusk, the youths' car, northbound on South Dixie Highway, left the road for some unexplained reason and crash-ed into two parked cars, one owned by Mrs. L. R. Summerlin, 1418 South Dixie Hwy., and the other by Thomas Rudder, 1410 South Dixie Hwy.

Clubhouse Is Planned In Gables

A public hearing has been set for May 28 on a proposal to build a garden center for the Coral Gables Garden Club on a triangular piece of city-owned land bounded by San Amaro Drive, San Amaro Avenue and Campo Sano Avenue. The hearing has been set for 7:30 p.m. before the Zoning Board at City Hall. A change of zoning from R-7 single-family to special use to permit a club house and garden center is involved. Persons interested in the project may present their views either in person or in writing. Letters should be sent to John Vinsant, secretary of the Zoning Board, City Hall.

Amigo Plan OK by Us, Cav's Say

(Continued from Page 1) ment, acting as a group of students and a representative faction of the student body, express to the school's student body and administration, its desire to have Operation Amigo. "Furthermore: Let it be known that the members of the Student Government assembled here today are willing to support this program whenever the administration of Coral Gables High deems it feasible." The resolution was presented soon after Gables Principal Harry N. Rath ruled out the program for the school because of overcrowded conditions and the presence already of 400 Cubans in the student body. Many other area schools have supported the visits by Latin American students. Gables High is one of the few to turn down the program.

DEEDS

From Howland to William and Frances Pepper, 728 Maiorca Ave., $20,800. From Harrison to Carl A. Navarre, 727 Valencia Ave. From Merritt to H & B Construction Corp., 340 NW 23rd Pl., $11,500. From First Federal Savings & Loan Assn. to Harold T. and Charlotte Rowland, 332 Fluvia Ave., $20,500. From McInnis to L. Postal Associates, Inc. From Foland to Clark and Helen Bates, 226 Antiquerra Ave. From Gaston to Pauline Caplin, 35 Menores Ave.

Hotel on Coral Way Would Have 102 Rooms

(Continued from page 1) for one on the grounds that there's no essential difference between his place and the to-be-built Holiday Inn. Maurice H. Connell is doing both the engineering and architectural work. Sullivan said the Town and Country, which he and Wilhelm took over two years ago, has operated with an occupancy rate of 83 per cent. Sullivan said he has had to turn away many people who didn't want cooking facilities (Town and County is composed of 21 studio apartments; or sought facilities strictly like those of a hotel. This, plus an economic survey, convinced him, Sullivan said, that the Gables is ready for a hotel. It will be the first to have a liquor license since the Biltmore Hotel, now the VA Hospital. Wilhelm lives in Chicago but plans to move here. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan live here. Two of their children are in local schools, 14-year-old Tim a sophomore at Gables High, and 17-year-old Roberta will enter UM as a freshman this fall. Their other child, Maureen, is an overseas operator for Southern Bell in Miami.