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THE Coral Gables TIMES

CORAL GABLES TIMES Thursday, May 31, 1962 4 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 Robert Collins | Advertising Manager Murry Evans | Circulation Manager Subscriptions: $4.20 year by mail anywhere

The City's Blind Eye & Deaf Ear

It was with no great surprise that we read a story in our own paper this week to the effect that the City Commission, led by Vice Mayor Evans, is reluctant to give details about the profitability of City-leased recreation concessions such as the golf course and Venetian Pools. The Vice Mayor said before such information is given to the City's own Recreational Advisory Board, he thinks the town fathers should be told why the board wants it. This is public information. The facilities under dissension are open to abuse by either public or private officials although certainly no one has suggested or is suggesting that this is occurring. But because they are sensitive areas and because many of us recall vividly the shenanigans on Miami Beach recently along the same line, it is entirely proper that any citizen or group should want to know the facts about our own operations. That the City Commission is chary about its own creature, the Recreational Advisory Board, is but one more evidence of why good folks are increasingly hard to find to fill these jobs. These increasingly are posts full of sound and fury and, alas, too often signifying nothing. The City just can't get over the idea of being Nanny.

Time to Raise Prices

There are other questions pertaining to the Public Library here besides where it should be located (we hope it won't be squeezed into a hole behind City Hall as now planned). Among these questions is the charge for non-resident borrowers. We currently are spending $2.66 per capita to maintain our public library. The library consultants hired by the City say we should be spending $3.50 per capita. The Library's own figures show 80% of their borrowers to be adults. Interestingly, 14 % of the people who use our library do not live in Coral Gables and do not pay taxes here. These people are now charged $3 as an annual fee for non-residents using the Gables facilities, only slightly more than the per capita cost to Gables taxpayers and less than we will be spending when the Library is enlarged. We would suggest that it's time to raise prices on non residents.

Our Liquor Law Needs Amending

If the City Commission intends to grant anybody here a liquor license — and indications are that it will soon grant two — The Times believes that Al Singer's University Inn should have one, too. Under the terms of the existing ordinance, the University Inn, nee University Court Motel, would be denied a liquor permit. This is because it does not meet a technically-worded section defining "hotels." We are of the opinion that it is time to amend the City's liquor laws as they pertain to public eating establishments. Private clubs have for years enjoyed the right of a liquor license and as far as we know their possession of them has done nothing to offend public morals or the good name of The City Beautiful. The reason we believe Al Singer is entitled to a license is because of the operation he has conducted here since opening his big motel, hotel, inn or whatever you may wish to call it. It has been a credit to the City of Coral Gables and to the University of Miami, its nearest neighbor. We believe the City Commission begs the issue when it tells Singer to go to a referendum. The Commissioners have amending powers of their own should they choose to use them. We would like to hear from our readers on the subject.

Truth in a Girdle

By PHILLIPS RUSSELL Correspondent If University of Miami officials were asked whether they believe truth moves only through official channels, they would doubtless answer no. If the University of Miami administration was asked whether it believes that it alone in an imperfect universe is perfect in all its deeds and opinions, and never made a mistake or took a wrong path, it would doubtless also answer no. It the University of Miami president was asked whether he considers his administration above criticism, beyond fault, and free of imperfection, he would doubtless likewise answer no. Yet anyone examining a recently-proclaimed policy of the UM would be bound to conclude that the official answer to each question would be yes. For the University has prohibited to issue news or statements within its jurisdiction except to issue through the official Office of Public Information. On the canvases of great artists, Truth is often painted as naked. The Library of Congress at Washington has such a painting on its walls. Yet the University of Miami declares, in effect, that on its campus Truth is not to appear except with a girdle on. By so much has the University of Miami sought to beat down the American tradition. Freedom is thereby the loser, and free speech, free utterance and free communication become something to be suppressed behind closed doors. It is a part of the American tradition that a guide to action comes out of discussion, that every citizen is free to take part, and may the best opinion and the best speaker win. Such a theory of civilization does not obtain in Russia, where all information must come through official channels. The UM has done a disservice to its own tradition in suggesting that because it may have suffered at the hands of newspapers and other periodicals, it believes error is stronger than truth, and will always prevail over good sense, good judgment, and good taste.

MAILBOX

EDITOR There is and has been for a long time a great need for a play center for handicapped children in this area. Therefore I was extremely surprised and shocked to learn that the City of Coral Gables is planning to give public lands to a private club. It is my feeling that the needs of handicapped children should have preference over flower arrangements. It would interest me greatly to know how your readers feel about this subject. Perhaps some of them might have time to write or call your paper. Name Withheld by Request

He's Elected

JAMES BROWN The James Browns of 1450 Cecilia Ave. had a lot to talk about when they recently visited their son, James Jr., at Florida State University. James' parents found out their son, a junior, had been elected to the Senior Honor Court during a recent college election. He also was recently elected corresponding secretary of his fraternity Beta Theta Pi. This summer he will be a student at the University of Monterrey in Mexico.

Pioneer Program At School Ok'd

An all-year, family type recreational, cultural or educational program has been approved for Ponce de Leon Junior High School by the City Commission. Costing $5,000 and called the Mott Plan, the setup will take on the nature residents want it to. It will be tailored to fit the needs of the community. The plan is to be placed into the 1962-63 budget and go into effect sometime this summer. The $5,000 cost is entirely administrative, with the school system furnishing the building and other facilities needed to carry out the program. City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. is to inquire about the possibility of an early cut-off date in the event the program proves undesirable. A similar program is already underway at Ada Merritt School and other communities are planning to go ahead.

FACES IN OUR TOWN by INK

Dr. Philip J. CHASTAIN WELL KNOWN GABLES PEDIATRICIAN WAS BORN IN THOMASVILLE,GA...HE WAS GRADUATED FROM THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AT THE U. of GEORGIA, AND DURING W.W.II SERVED IN THE MEDICAL CORP, SEEING ACTION IN FRANCE AND GERMANY. DR. CHASTAIN AND HIS WIFE DR. MARTIELE TURNER, ALSO A PEDIATRICIAN, HAVE AN OFFICE IN THE DOUGLAS ENTRANCE TO CORAL GABLES. MAY I CUT IN? DR. CHASTAIN AND HIS WIFE MET OVER A CADAVER THEY HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO DISSECT WHILE IN MEDICAL SCHOOL. DR. CHASTAIN AND HIS WIFE LOVE FISHING... SHE'S A BETTER FISHERMAN THAN HE!

Scholarship Choices Revealed by Cavaliers

Mounting scholarship offers to members of the Coral Gables High graduating class of 1962 have piled up in the guidance office. Although records of the scholarships which were not accepted are not being made available, here is the list of college scholarships accepted by this year's graduating class: National Merit Scholarships — Brant Brown (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and Anthony Ira Wasserman (University of California). H. N. Rath Science Scholarships, — Robert Harris Frank. First National Bank of Coral Gables, — William C. Foster. Agnes Scott College — Josephine Ann Morris and Emily Alice Airth. Antioch College, — Leslie Howard Halpert. Dartmouth College — Gilbert Lee Sandler and Jeffrey Allen Tew. Duke University — Barry Bruce Boyer, Joel Alan Goldman, Allen W. Imershein, A. Edgar Miller Jr., Robin Pyne. Emory University — David Rimland, Ira Jeffrey Strumpf, Dorothy Joan Warren. Florida Presbyterian College — Warren Munro Johnson. Georgia Institute of Technology — John Franklin Douglas Jr., Charles Nichols and Ruth Scally. Goucher College — Georgette Kathryn Farkas. Harvard University — Herbert Owen Bachelor. Mars Hill College — Judy Lynn McCormick. Massachusetts Institute of Technology — Gervassio Prado. Northeastern University — Oscar Kliten. Ohio Wesleyan University — Arthur Thomas Charlesworth. Reed College — James Michael Joyce and Michael Axel Machtey. Sophie Newcomb College — Faye Yvette Angel. Stetson University — Paul Randall Hird, William Schneider. Tulane University — Jack David Brown and Robert Joseph Potts. United States Military Academy — Stephen Phillip Clifford, Lawrence Kenneth Blum. University of Alabama — Karen Lynn Valentine. University of Chicago — Lee Paul Groth. University of Florida (athletic) — Jack Dennis Card. University of Georgia (athletic) — Ronald George Panzo. University of Miami — James Aubrey Mansene (athletic), Marianne Ankrum (band), Martin Lee Goldberg (debate), Karl James Edward Pond (faculty), Marilu Claudette Garella (honor), Stephen Edwin Scherer (honor), Scott Edwin Songer (honor), William Oliver Brown, III (music), Mitchell Jay Fruitstone (science), Katherine Irene Kurtz (science), Carol Ann Conlan (symphony). University of Wisconsin — Rafael Valiente. Vanderbilt University — Stuart Elden Rich and Dennis Brown, Wesleyan College (Macon) — Sandra Ann Lucas. Western Carolina College — Frederick H. Goldsmith. Wittenburg University — Carol Louise Hagglund. Yale University — William Wade Cole. Florida State Teachers — Judith Ann Blum, Valerie Linda Camfield, Gail Winslow Cleveland, Edith Ann Gonnung, Josiah Calvin Hall, Adrienne Katz, Randolph Minton Plotts, Nancy Margaret Smith, Eugene Earnest Stearns and John Neal Strange. Florida State Nurses — Carolyn Patricia Butler and Stephanie Maye McNulty. Key Biscayne Women's Club — William Edward Sadowski and Betsey Badger Warren. Queen's College — Judith Evelyn Broadaway and Carol Diane Cole. Chicago — Stephen Mark Dubrow and Lee Paul Groth. University of Tampa — Kenneth Mascari. University of Wisconsin — Rafael Valiente. Valparaiso University — Marybeth Peters. Vassar College — Nelda Kay Randall.