The Coral Gables Times

THE Coral Gables Times

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Vol. 37, No. 35 24 Pages Thursday, Oct. 4, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c

New Look at Sunrise Problems

Hurry Up, Please!

FIVE-YEAR-OLD Laura Wepman makes no secret of her anticipatory feelings about the wedding cake shown here. For details, see page 14, plus a larger picture of the group involved.

Coco Plum Ahead

At the end of the first week of The Times' subscription contest, the Coco Plum Woman's Club leads the Coral Gables Woman's Club. The Coco Plum club had a couple days' early start due to its calendar of events. The two clubs are selling Times subscriptions to increase their treasuries as well as vie for individual prizes. The contest runs through Oct. 26.

Library Site Is Hanging

Negotiations are still underway for acquisition of a library site, according to City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. The originally proposed site just west of the City Hall has apparently been dropped by the City Commission, but Robinson said he could not disclose which sites the City is primarily interested in. No meetings of the commission have been set on disposition of the matter. The first choice of the Library Committee, headed by Dr. A. D. Amerise is across the street and west of San Sebastian Residence Hall on Le Jeune Road.

City Asks Views Of Planning Board

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter The question of what to do about development of Sunrise Harbour has been tossed into the lap of the City Planning Board. The board got the job Thursday after the City Commission met informally with members of the Sunrise Harbour Association at Tyler's Restaurant to thrash out a long standing dispute about development of the area. Later the same day, at the regular Commission meeting, commissioners rectified an oversight by voting 3-2 to deny developer Emil Gould permission to build a four-story apartment on Edgewater Drive. The proposed apartment had 40 units with one parking floor, three upper stories. Last week, the vote had been identical against a motion by Mayor Robert Searle and Commissioner C. L. Dressel Jr. to grant approval. City Clerk Loretta Sheehy asked for another vote to clear the status for the City after the owner indicated intention to sue. The commission decided to turn the thorny question of what to do about controversial Sunrise Harbour to the Planning Board after hearing from the Association that planning was necessary for orderly development of the subdivision. Mayor Robert L. Searle proposed turning the matter over to the Planning and Zoning Boards, indicating he had more confidence in these boards than in professional planners. The city recently paid $12,000 for an overall zoning and planning study by Rader and Associates which included a study of Sunrise Harbour. Rader recommended no apartments over three stories and holding down density of the area.

FIREMAN WILLIAM CUBBERLY Our Man's Work Traps a Firebug

A Gables fireman's alert work in tying down a female "crank caller" led to her arrest last week in Miami on charges of arson. William Cubberly, of the Gables Fire Department, was the fireman who kept June Ann Olsen, 38, 242 NE 80th St., talking while he contacted authorities to have her picked up. She is charged with setting a series of fires. Cubberly had two previous calls from the woman from a pay booth telling how she had just set two fires before he arranged for the pick up, according to Fire Chief Paul Matheson. The lady firebug told how she had just made a date with an unidentified man. They went to a room, she told Cubberly and she struck him on the head with a lamp and set the place on fire. Cubberly said he kept hearing a clicking sound over the phone while the woman spoke. When he asked her about it, she told him it was the clicking of a hammer in a revolver. Moments later she was picked up in a telephone booth at 68th St. and Biscayne Boulevard in Miami by Officers A. R. Brown and Rick Sanda. Miss Olsen had been picked up for arson before and was confined to South Florida Hospital as a pyromaniac, according to authorities.

Missing From Gables: $1 Million

Missing from the University: 500 freshmen and the estimated $1 million plus they would have brought into Coral Gables this year. Where does the $1 million figure come from? From the University's own figures of what a student spends here, admittedly conservative. There are tuition costs of $1,000 a year plus another minimum of $1,000 to maintain a student with room, board and incidentals. The number of people employed and the $40-odd million a year spent by the University make it the Gables' largest industry, by far. The University's freshman enrollment is down substantially, according to Dean of Admissions Darrell J. Inabnit. Last year the entering group totaled 2,300. This year it appears to be about 1,800, although final figures aren't yet available. The University attributes the drop-off to tighter enrollment restrictions; the Cuban situation; and the fear that the encephalitis epidemic around St. Petersburg might spread here. Also, tuition as been raised by $100 a year. The University turned away 1,500 prospects, a rejection rate of about 24 per cent compared to 13 per cent in the past. Applicants now must have graduated in the top half of their class, a requirement frequently waived in the past.

Few Cases Tried Here Are Citizens'

(Editorial on page 4) Coral Gables residents were involved in less than one half as many Municipal Court cases as were non residents over a period beginning June 1 and ending Aug. 31. Non residents were involved in 92 cases while residents of Coral Gables took part in only 39. Two of the most common offenses were loitering at the bus terminal, 34, and unnatural and lascivious acts, 39. The latter's large number resulted from a roundup of sex deviates. Drunkenness was the leader, totaling 42 convictions. Other offenses included: violation of off street parking, 13; disturbing the peace, 11. Disorderly conduct, 9; shoplifting, 3; doing business without a license, 1. Vagrancy, 3; petty larceny, 7; prowling, 1; indecent conduct to children, 3. Constructing and repairing without a permit, 2; disobeying a police officer, 1; discharging firearms, 1.

Smoking Less

Are Gableites smoking less and enjoying it more? The City dropped approximately $15,500 in cigaret taxes last year and the projection from Finance Director Kenneth Allyn is for no better than a leveling off this year. "It's a trend in all our cities," Allyn said in analyzing the drop from $271,486 in 1960-61 to $256,000 last year. "People are smoking less," said Allyn, in pointing out that he himself switched from cigarets to cigars. The sharp 5% drop in revenue in one year is expected to level off with the addition of the new Publix Market on Le Jeune Road, said Allyn.

'Informed American' Goal

The Coral Gables Bar Association in encouraging a re-reading of patriotic documents plus viewing some current literature in an effort to make local citizens "informed Americans." The idea is that of the parent group, the Florida bar. The aim is to reacquaint as many citizens as possible with our American political heritage and to alert them to the tactics, strategy and objectives of the Communist movement. Toward the latter, the group asks that you read J. Edgar Hoover's "Masters of Deceit" and see the film "Operation Abolition." In addition, they ask that you read the Declaration of Independence as well as the U.S. Constitution. After this is done, you'll be presented with a certificate, in color, suitable for framing designating you as an "Informed American." In charge of the project are Gerard Pucci and Tom Davison III. Details may be obtained from Pucci at 4555 Ponce de Leon Blvd.

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