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THE Coral Gables Times

THE CITY BEAUTIFUL Vol. 37, No. 41 24 Pages Thursday, Nov. 15, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c

We Take 8 Prizes In Press Contest

The Coral Gables Times won eight Florida state press awards last weekend, including second place for the coveted General Excellence prize. It was the highest number of awards ever received by the newspaper. The prizes were given out at the 83rd annual meeting of the Florida Press Association at Silver Springs. The Times won: FIRST PRIZE — Best Feature Picture. SECOND PRIZE — General Excellence. This is a division prize and papers are divided according to circulations. THIRD PRIZE — Typography and Makeup. HONORABLE MENTION in five categories: Best Editorial, Community Service, Best Use of Illustrations, Best Classified Page and Best Feature Story. The first prize, for Best Feature Picture, was the second year in a row this class has been won by The Times. In both instances, the photographer was Raymond Lang. It also is the second year in a row the classified page has received a prize. All judges are from out of state. The awards were accepted for The Times by its editor and publisher, Rolfe Neill. Neill also was elected a vice director of the state press association. Others attending from The Times were members of its editorial staff Lang, Maurice Labelle and June Gray. RAYMOND LANG ... FIRST PLACE AGAIN

In Judges' Own Words, How The Times Excels

The judges making the General Excellence Award were quite complimentary of The Times, to whom they gave second place. They said in part: "An admiring writer to the editor calls this paper 'plain spoken.' It certainly is. As a result this is the only paper to get maximum score for its general service to its community. "The editor attacks the closed meetings of the City Commission, its budgetary discrepancies and Sunday selling, all with forthright arguments. His views generate vocal reader comment and healthy volume of letters to the editor. "But this paper does not just scold, it pats too—in excellent features on City officials. One on the finance director had the best lead yet: 'Money.' "Pictures are good and imaginatively handled . . . This is a lively, well-edited and well-written newspaper, which it certainly must have to be to prosper in the competitive Miami market."

City Says No Thank You To UM Surplus Land Sale Two Big Tracts Involved

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter The University of Miami's offer to sell or trade all its North Campus holdings to the City of Coral Gables has no taker. City officials, who only two weeks ago indicated interest and enthusiasm for the offer, had apparently cooled in the interval. "We have no plan for use of the property," said Mayor Robert L. Searle Tuesday night at a conference meeting. Searle indicated that the Commission's choice last week of the City Hall parking site for the new library had solved all the City's present problems on land acquisitions. Although the purchase or selling price was not revealed, City officials indicated earlier that the university was ready to make a reasonable sale or swap to dispose of all its North Campus holdings. The University had indicated interest in acquiring the triangle on San Amaro Drive and also Block 135 near Ponce de Leon Junior High School. The former site could have been used as a residential site for the home of UM's new president, Dr. Henry King Stanford. UM has been trying for more than a year to dispose of its San Sebastian Men's Residence Hall at the corner of Le Jeune Road and University Drive without much success. The building was proposed as a site for an elderly persons home, but nothing has come of plans. During the feverish search for a library site, one proposal was made to create a civic center at the site of old "Cardboard College" on University Drive. The same location has been suggested by the Planning Board for a new home for Coral Gables Elementary School, now on Ponce de Leon Boulevard. The university must now find new buyers for its land.

THEY BUILT SHELTER Kids Took Crisis Seriously

THE GANG'S all here, huddled in the fallout shelter in Richard Higgins' backyard. A little girl looks on while the boys try out the shelter. That's Richard in the white tee shirt. THEY BUILT SHELTER Kids Took Crisis Seriously By RAYMOND LANG Times Reporter From solid rock that caused muscled workmen to say "It couldn't be done," seven neighborhood children — all swinging pick axes the past two weeks have hacked out of the earth a fallout shelter. Of course, the oldest neighbor is only seven. And as for the shelter, its only protection is a khaki blanket tossed across some wire covering a gaping hole. But for the kids who flock each day to the backyard of Richard Higgins, 6816 SW 68th St., that shelter is just as sturdy as one poured in concrete. It all started a couple of weeks back when Richard came home, excited about what his teachers had told him and his classmates about shelters during the Cuban crisis. Richard started digging in his backyard, behind his folks' screened patio. And his friends came to help him. The result: a hole eight feet long and almost three feet deep. What is most amazing about all this, Mrs. Higgins said, is that several workmen once hired to dig a hole in the same spot for a tree threw up their hands in failure. They just couldn't get through the solid layers of rock, Mrs. Higgins said. But the boys did. Among them were Clifford Neill, Steven Seltzer, Jim Floyd, Rossi Garay, David Reinmoth and Riley Alter. "Well," Mrs. Higgins sighed, thinking of her son, "It kept him out of trouble for one or two weeks."

Robinson Growls at Metro's Sticky Fingers

City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr. threatened Tuesday to arrest any Metro personnel who go around picking up the City's "No Parking" signs. The city manager's reaction came upon the heels of a charge by City Commissioner Joe Murphy that the Metro Traffic Enginering Department has picked up 45 signs in recent weeks. The signs were mostly on parkways in the neighborhood of various City churches. They were placed there generally at the request of property owners. But Metro Traffic Engineer Clyde Rusk has told the City that they are illegal, and since Metro has the responsibility, it has removed them. Murphy said Tuesday that the action came without the knowledge of the Metro Commission. The sign removal by Metro followed a complaint by the Gables that Metro officers were issuing illegal parking tickets to Sunday worshipers parked in the no parking zones. The City's policy had been to look the other way on Sunday's. Commissioners said they would put the problem of the vanishing parking signs on next Tuesday's City Commission agenda.

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