Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Coral Gables Times
Thursday, November 1, 1962, page 1 (of 24)
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Moral: Before Printing Answer, Be Sure It Is
(See Letters on Page 5) Fraud! Deceit! Cheats! What a deluge we have received since last week when we printed the answers to a mathematical puzzler involving 12 coins, all of equal weigh except for one which is heavier or lighter. You have but three weighings on a balance to find it. At least we thought we printed the "answers." We didn't, as legions have told us. The supposed solutions we carried were child's play, as diagrams since submitted show. It would take considerable space to give the correct answer. We'll tell you that it involves grouping the coins into three groups of four and then switching some coins after the first weighing. You'll have to contact personally some of our analysts for the lengthy explanation. These may be had from: Norton Greenfield, 5800 SW 80th St., South Miami; Dr. Reinhold Wolff, 1455 Alberca St.; Francis X. Bradley, 2158 Ponce de Leon Blvd.; J. E. Glass, 435 Loretto Ave.; John D. Armstrong, 1444 Mantua Ave.; and Jim Paisley, 525 Giralda Ave. Svensen Woodworth, 5363 Orduna Dr., did send in the correct answer last week. However, he was misidentified. Dr. Wolff says a friend of his once worked it out for him and said it was an old math book classic. Bradley, a lawyer by training, said it took him four hours, at home and office. Both Glass and Armstrong are attorneys, too. Paisley once worked for Dr. Wolff and had been exposed to it there. Greenfield is a Gables High senior. The man who started it all, Ham Hayes, still hasn't solved it. His secretary reported Wednesday he's on a week's vacation. Maybe he'll finally find his answer.
THE Coral Gables TIMES THE CITY BEAUTIFUL
Vol. 37, No. 39 24 Pages Thursday, Nov. 1, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c
Look Again On Library Site Here
Unable to decide on a library site, the City Commission Tuesday tossed the problem into the lap of a new five-man Library committee. The impasse resulted when Commissioner Franklin Evans abstained on votes on two separate sites and a 2-2 tie resulted. Evans said he favored deferring a decision. The two sites were the location immediately west of City Hall, once the favorite of the Commission, and the Le Jeune Road-Anastasia Avenue intersection site picked by the Library Committee headed by Dr. A. D. Amerise. Dr. Amerise, City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr., Librarian Margaret Beaton, Architect Ed Rempe and Chamber President Al Jacobson are on the new committee. In charging the committee, Mayor Robert L. Searle broadened their field by throwing in as possible sites the many downtown off street parking lots.
We Get First Public Bar
Inventory Tax Study Is Slated
The inventory tax, a perren-nial trouble maker for both City and merchant, will be investigated by the Gables Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber's aim, with a committee appointed last week, is to explore several areas: —Should the tax be abolished? —If so, what are alternate sources of revenue? —If retained, how can it be made uniform in its collection? The inventory tax brings in approximately $67,298 on an estimated $5.6 million in values, according to Tax Assessor T.C. Blount. What gave immediate rise to (See CHAMBER TO, Page 2)
"THE KENNEDYS" got quite a laugh at the costume party last Saturday night at the Gables Country Club with President John F. filling his whole cabinet with likenesses of himself, all married to look-alike Jackie's. For the Gableites behind the masks, see page 18.
Holiday Inn Gets Okay From City
(Editorial on Page 4; Al Singer's Reaction on Page 2) Times Reporter By MAURICE LABELLE The first liquor license to be given under the 1947 Charter revision qualifying hotels of 100 rooms or more was issued to Ben Gaines, owner of the Holiday Inn Hotel by the City Commission Tuesday. Commissioners acted unanimously in granting the license. They included the proviso that no package store be established and all liquor be consumed on the premises. In effect, the Gables will get its first public bar. No public hearing was required or held by the Commission. Gaines becomes the first person to get a license to sell liquor in a hotel since the old Miami Biltmore went out of operation. Actually, final granting of the license was made subject to FBI clearance for Harold Gaines, the owner's brother, who will be part of the management of the hotel a-building on South Dixie Highway. When asked if Gaines could be refused the license, City Attorney Ted Semple said: "I don't know of any reason in the world... He is qualified beyond question. Gaines said he had no intention of running a retail package store in the hotel. "I'm not in the retail liquor business," he said. "I just want it on the premises." Opponents of liquor did not appear to oppose granting of the license. There had been no public announcement that the matter would be on this week's agenda.
No Candles Are Lighted On UN Day
(See Editorial on Page 4; Anti-UN Celebration Story on Page 2) United Nations Day, scheduled here Wednesday of last week and so proclaimed by the mayor, never came off. There was too much opposition to it, said Terrell Tumlin Jr., the man in charge of setting up official observance activities. He is president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. A number of directors of the Gables Chamber of Commerce expressed surprise when Tumlin made his report to them Thursday night of last week at their monthly board meeting at CG Country Club. "It's a tremendous shock to me" — Frank Kerdyk. "The UN may very well be (See BIRTHDAY, Page 2)
INTERESTING CENSUS FIGURES Third of Gables 'Foreign'; Russians Lead, 2-1
With the talk of Russians in Cuba it may surprise you to know that one of every 20 Gableites is of Russian extraction. In fact, Russians constitute the largest group by far of the foreign stock counted in the 1960 U.S. census here. That same census showed that one of every 31⁄2 persons living in the Gables is of foreign stock — 10,077 out of 35,000 people. Foreign stock means that the citizen is either foreign born or one or both of his parents were. Of the 10,000 foreign stock here 3,459 were actually born in another country. The Russians outnumber the next largest group—the United Kingdom — by more than 2-1. According to Dr. Reinhold P. Wolff, of Economic Research Inc., (himself German born) these people are often Russian Jews who migrated in large numbers to this country to escape religious persecution and for other reasons. The fact that some 3,000 University of Miami students, many of them from New York-New Jersey area settled by this religious group, are counted in the census also was a factor. A recent Jaycee survey indicated that Jews make up 8.5% of the Gables population While only 906 Gableites were born in U. K., or of one or born parents who were born there, the Russians claim 1,817. German stock was right behind United Kingdom with 899, and Canada had a relatively large number—803. While other Eastern European countries Poland (680), Czechoslovakia (112), and Hungary (332) had a significant combined total—a much larger Western European country such as France had to be lumped together with the remainder. And the only other Western European country with a worthwhile representation was Italy with 668. While Coral Gables had a large percentage of foreign stock compared to Miami (92,819 out of 291,688), Miami Beach recorded 42,000 of a population of 63,145 as foreign stock, of these 17,991 are of Russian extraction. Here is a breakdown of the 10,077 foreign stock in the Gables: United Kingdom | 906 Ireland | 272 Norway | 86 Sweden | 186 Germany | 899 Poland | 680 Czechoslovakia | 112 Austria | 394 Hungary | 332 USSR | 1,817 Italy | 668 Canada | 803 Mexico | 22