The Coral Gables Times

Gables Band Drive Hunts Dollars

The Coral Gables High School band's drive to raise $15,000 for a trip to Chicago during Christmas is in full swing with the recent appointment of a paid solicitor. He is C. E. Rodgers, chairman of the Parents Committee of the Band Patrons Association. He lives at 4315 SW 13th St. He has taken leave from his real estate and insurance business to run the financial campaign, he said. He has a child in the band. Rodgers said it is an honor for the Gables band to be invited to the 16th annual Mid-West National Bank Clinic, to be held Dec. 19-22 in Chicago. He said only about a half dozen high school bands are invited each year and that it's been some years since a Florida group participated. Rodgers said the Presidents' Council and the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce have endorsed the trip which will include 106 student band members under Director William Ledue plus a dozen adult chaperons. The band would play a concert Thursday evening, Dec. 20, before several thousand professional band directors and musicians. There are 220 students taking band work at Gables High, Rodgers said, and their parents help them financially through the Band Patrons Association which annually disburses between $7,000 and $8,000. This money is made on a variety of projects. The $15,000 sought for Chicago would have to come from other sources. Already, the students are busy selling candy to earn profits and other projects are in the offing, he said. Here's how Rodgers' budget shapes up: Transportation, 118 at $71 each $8,378. Meals in Chicago, 12 per person 3 Breakfasts at 76 cents 3 Lunches at $1.25 3 Dinners at $2 $1,316 Hotel, 3 nights at $3; 118 at $9 $1,062 Sightseeing 118 at $5 $590 Souvenir Program (estimate) $1,500 Stationery, Postage, Printing, and Rodgers' expenses $1,300 TOTAL $14,146 Rodgers siad that while this comes to $14,146 the desired goal is $15,000. He said his contract with the Band Patrons Association provides that he may be paid up to 10% of collections for his expenses. Are parents of band members being asked for any money? "We hope we won't have to ask them. However, we are pledged as an association to make up any deficit. The band's definitely going."

City's Parking Garage Can't Keep Year Ahead

The City of Coral Gables' own parking garage helped boost the monthly and annual construction statistics, but the total is still more than $2 million behind last year. The 10-month total stands at $10,672,045, compared to $12,740,561 for the same period last year. Last month's total was 1,250,128 — of which the parking garage accounted for $574,000. The total for October 1961 was $793,962, considerably less. Behind the parking garage, 12 residential permits accounted for $307,500 of the monthly total; two duplexes, $76,000; nine additions, $49,134; one apartment, $35,000; four alterations; $15,200; two pools, $5,900; one seawall, $5,400; one fallout shelter, $1,500 and 235 miscellaneous permits, $180,094.

Lenient Meter Check Discussed

A policy of soft enforcement for overparking violations was discussed Thursday of last week by a subcommittee of the Chamber of Commerce Traffic and Parking Committee. Postive action was deferred until the next meeting. Bernard Weksler said he favored leaving the parking meters on the streets but wanted the penalties removed. He added that the city is famous for having ordinances which it does not enforce, so why enforce giving parking tickets? But Nat Winokur pointed out that the meter revenue is needed to pay off the present bond obligations of the city. As soon as the people became aware that they could overpark without being fined, they would stop putting any money in the meters, he said. He proposed changing, what he called the "harrassment methods" now exercised by the meter men to a policy of "enforcement." He suggested a spot check once or twice a day, but added that times should be changed constantly so that the citizens would not know when they were being checked. He said the fear of not knowing the specific time would cause people to still put money in the meters, so that the City would realize an income to meet its bond obligations. Ed Dowling, director of Parking Meter Division Supervision, denied harrassment by his men. He said he did not feel that even adequate enforcement is exercised now. He has broken the City into four zones, which are checked once approximately every hour and 20 minutes. He also added that the graphs he keeps shows traffic increasing in Coral Gables instead of decreasing.

Holiday Monday

All city offices and the Post Office will be closed Monday in observance of Sunday's Armistice Day, but business establishments will remain open. Lee Smith, executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, said according to his survey all stores will be open, but the results are inconclusive for professional offices. Some doctors and attorneys will close, depending upon their individual work agenda.

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Bookworms (and Others) Invited to Take Note

By HARRIET DARE Catalog Librarian Dr. Gerald W. Johnson, historian and author, said recently, at the Southeastern Library Association Conference, that the one thing missing from libraries is parents. Parents go with their children to movies, baseball games, zoos, but very seldom to the library. Dr. Johnson felt that is a mistake. So much depends on the child's desire to read outside of his school work that this lack of family interest is unfortunate. Perhaps a visit to the library sounds dull, or perhaps there is no special occasion which calls for a visit. But the week of Nov. 13-17 the Coral Gables Public Library will have an interesting and really special occasion. The library is celebrating "I Like Books" Week by displaying the latest children's books. This display will charm adults as well as children. There will be picture books, beautifully illustrated, for the preschooler, "I can read" books for the one first trying to read "all by myself." Adventure stories, romances, interesting biographies, poetry, science and a wealth of other subjects. As Phyllis McGinley says in her verse "The Riddle" specially written for this National Book Week: "What's as gay as a carnival, handy as chalk, Jolly as puppies just learning to walk, Useful as Band-Aids or money to spend, Warming as fire is, kind as a friend, Tempting as hamburgers ready to cook, Far more exciting than flying? A BOOK!"

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Boy's Thrown Out of Auto

A faulty door was blamed by Gables police for injury to a four-year-old boy who was thrown out of a car Tuesday morning at Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Giralda Avenue. Blair Howard Somberg, 2021 Coral Gate Dr., was reportedly taken to Variety Children's Hospital for observation after he fell out of the car, driven by his mother, Mrs. Louis S. Somberg. Mrs. Somberg, southbound on Ponce, was making a left turn on Giralda when the accident happened.

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