The Coral Gables Times

Thursday, November 8, 1962, page 4 (of 24)

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THE Coral Gables TIMES

Established Jan. 15, 1926 Second Class Postage Published at Paid at Miami, Fla. 364 Sevilla Ave., Coral Gables 34, Fla. JOHN T. WATTERS...President ROLFE NEILL...Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: $4.20 year by mail anywhere in the U.S.A.

Half a Loaf 'Tis Better ...

The question of where we'll put the new City library is no longer a question. The Town Fathers decided Tuesday to use a site on the west end of the City Hall block, now occupied by a parking lot, and directly across from the First Methodist Church. Among those appearing before the Commission this week to urge a different site was the editor of this newspaper. Our reasons now are the same they were months ago: 1. City Hall should have nothing further built on the property surrounding it. To do so will impair its architectural distinctiveness (are these Commissioners the protectors of a tradition of beauty?). 2. In this, the most mobile city of the country's most mobile county, the idea of Library pedestrian traffic is overrated. Chief users, by far, are adults and most of them come now by car. 3. A different site, the Le Jeune-Anastasia plot for one, would put the building where it could be seen and appreciated by thousands of passersby who never would use it. We could go on but it is only academic now. In fitting up a tombstone for our plea, however, we would note that we are satisfied that the City Commission was budged from its first site, the tiny lot immediately next door. Indeed, half a loaf 'tis better... Now that the issue is removed, we look forward to a fitting design from Architect Ed Rempe. And finally, we would commend the Commissioners for their willingness to listen. As we remarked at the session's end post-supper Tuesday night: "At least this Commission is as patient in listening to its opponents as it is its proponents." They laughed and we laughed.

Dr. Lyons' Investors Are Invited In

The Times applauds the wariness of the City Commission in, granting Dr. James Lyons and his South Miami Professional Building Inc. an okay for another tap onto a sewer line served by our own disposal plant. The matter will get further study, the Commission decided Tuesday. Dr. Lyons' corporation owns the building housing South Miami Hospital. For the hospital, Dr. Lyons' group installed a sewer main a couple years back after getting the Gables to agree to handle the sewage. The corporation pays the Gables a fair fee for the service. Now, Dr. Lyons asks for permission to let a laundry operation tap onto his privately-owned main with the Gables again handling the discharge. And again, we'd be paid. What appears to be the nub is this: How many such agreements should the City enter into with corporations and-or people outside its boundaries? When the previous agreement was made, the then City Commission was moved, we are told, by the plea to help a hospital. A laundry, or an office building, or another commercial property is a different story. The Gables has acted to insure that no citizen here subsidizes services for such corporations as Dr. Lyons. This is done by the fees established and conditions of the contract. We believe they may well want to turn down the permit for the laundry's tap. Basically, we have no business putting our municipal services into South Miami. If Dr. Lyons' investors like our services, we invite them into our city limits as resident taxpayers, where they can enjoy a multitude of other fine conveniences in addition to that of our disposal plant.

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS

by Rolfe Neill Campers Edwin S. Iversen is a research professor in marine biology at the University of Miami and his wife, Jane, a student getting her degree in English ("Got to catch up to that PhD, you know!"). They live here at 427 Majorca. When Mrs. Iversen was in the office last week we fell to talking about camping and she told me about an exciting 36-day trip they made last summer to the West Coast. Camping, as most people know, is enjoying renewed popularity, not so much among outdoorsmen such as hunters but among families. It is wonderful recreation, too. But I'm wandering...back to the Iversens. Mrs. Iversen said that Washington, California and Oregon have excellent public camp grounds. There, for around $1.50 a night, you come to prepared campsites with firewood already cut, a central showering facility and the like. Even the tenting ground has a prepared floor area. The closest one like that around here that I know of is Collier State Park, about 20 miles east of Naples on the Tamiami Trail. It is not as plush as the ones Mrs. Iversen described but is a nice facility. Open Wide In a discussion with a dentist this week, I asked him: "What is your opinion of the work of your colleagues which you see when new patients come to you." I was surprised at his answer, which follows: "If they're from the Mid-West or West, it's generally good dental work. Depending on where they're from in the Southeast, it may be good. "I've had dozens upon dozens from New England and I can nearly always tell if a new patient's from there without asking. Comparatively, the work is of the poorest quality." Any comments from the audience? TV or Not TV In a weekend social gathering of four couples there occurred a statistical phenomenon I doubted even existed: Three of the four families don't have a TV set. Two had had them and given them up. They frankly admitted they couldn't exercise the necessary selective control and preferred to use their leisure otherwise. The third has never had a set, preferring to spend their time reading or in other family activities. Then I read in The Wall Street Journal that 50 million American homes have at least one TV set which is 91% of all the U.S. homes. There are radios, incidentally, in about 52 million and phones in 44 million. All four families above qualify for radios and phones. 60-Second Review Most polls of working newspapermen would rate Clark R. Mollenhoff of Cowles Publications Washington's top investigative reporter. He has the proof: A string of impressive exclusives which he has gotten by the simple expedient of hard work. His most recent book is called "Washington Cover-Up" and details frighteningly how the Executive Branch of the government is covering up its mistakes. The dictatorial assumption of authority reached its peak under President Eisenhower and so far Congress has not been able to break the barrier, even though Ike's refusal of records pertained to as much as $50 billion of the national budget. As for Kennedy, Mollenhoff has his doubts, too, though he can't yet say for sure. The worst part, of course, is that the public generally is indifferent about it and indeed, so far, Congress has been, too, for the most part. The trick is for the President to declare out of bounds to Congress, reporters and everybody else the papers, contracts, notes, memos etc. involved in whatever executive decisions he or his associates may wish to hide. The list is endless — from the Teapot Dome to the days of Sherman Adams, errant foreign aid funds and the like — but the principle is the same: Protect yourself from exposure by denying the public access to its own records. The book is $4.50 and published by Doubleday & Co. It's a chiller. Read it and shudder.

FACES IN OUR TOWN by INK ED CROWLEY

OWNER OF THE PONCE SEED STORE, CAME TO MIAMI FROM PITTSBURGH PA. IN 1923 ED WAS BORN ON A FARM AND IS AN OLD HAND AT MILKING AND PLOWING. ED IS CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW COMMITTEE, THE UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE SPONSORED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. HE IS ALSO ON THE CHAMBERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE RETAIL MERCHANTS DIVISION. ED LOVES THERE'S TO FISH AND NO PUDDLE IN SOUTH FLORIDA HE'S NOT DROPPED HIS POLE INTO. THIS BEATS GETTING UP AT 4:00 A.M TO DO THE MILKING!

'Emancipation' At the University

"It's been 100 years since Emancipation, yet leok how slowly we've moved. My parents and grandparents always hoped for their children to have more freedom than they had. I can't wait for my grandchildren to have it. I want mine now."—Negro student William Generette of the University of Miami. So says a 21-year-old student at the University of Miami in a story carried elsewhere in today's paper. Despite the interventionist tone of this quotation, we think that the story basically is a compliment to the University of Miami. There have been virtually no "incidents." The most common thing that any of the nine Negro UM students reported in their first year was being stared at. This is understandable for awhile. Their biggest problem, they say, is the refusal of white students to accept the idea of Negro-white friendships, especially between members of the opposite sex. This is more understandable, and slated to last much longer than the staring. Happily, the entry has been achieved without difficulty. The Administration is not wishy-washy in saying it hopes the community will extend the same privileges to all UM students. We can't fault Mr. Generette on his 100 year statement but we do commend him to a review of the subject in only the last eight years.

MAILBOX

EDITOR: I have found a copy of The Coral Gables Times in my waiting room has resulted in a two-fold increase of people in the waiting room. As my nurse is having increasing difficulty pilfering a copy off the newsstand, I would like to become a subscriber. L. P. CARMICHAEL, M.D. 2295 Coral Way (Editor's Note: With pleasure, Dr. Carmichael. And out of gratitude, we won't prosecute the nurse.) EDITOR: I have read with interest, your story on the United Nations, as well as the comments of prominent Coral Gables residents. I especially liked the way you related the U.N. story with the one on the city's "foreign stock" population. Many people who have actually read the United Nations Charter realize that the United Nations Charter is diametrically opposed to the United States Constitution. Those who have read the U.N. Charter know that it is a godless organization. Overlooking the arbitrary and highly questionable statistics on "foreign stock" population — the fact that so many residents are of "foreign stock" is more reason why the U.N. should be soundly analyzed and then soundly condemned. The "foreign stock" (as well as the native "Indians") will readily realize that America was settled by individuals who were seeking freedom from the restraints of the Old World. Freedom-seeking people despised the oppression and tryanny of a one-world Roman Empire. Freedom-seeking people despised the oppression and tryanny of a one-world Napoleonic Empire. Freedom-seeking Englishmen despised the oppression and tryanny of the one-world British Empire (they settled America and gave us our Constitution and system of laws.) Freedom-seeking people presently despise the oppression and tryanny of the oneworld Communist Russian Empire. And freedom-seeking Americans despise the oppression and tryanny of the one-world United Nations. I am sure that if your readers knew more about the United Nations Charter — more of them would recognize the destructive nature of its organization, and its philosophy. If the suggestion meets with your approval, and the approval of your readers — and because the matter is so very important — I would gladly find the scarce time to provide your paper with information on the U.N., and thereby prove that it is opposed to our Constitution and our freedoms. GERARD PUCCI 4555 Ponce de Leon Blvd.

PRESBYTERIAN OFFICERS

Echo Choir of the Granada Presbyterian Church has elected new officers. President is Floy Hart; vice president, Anne Billings; and secretary, Christine Anderson. The choir of 4th, 5th and 6th graders is directed by Lin Mason.