The Coral Gables Times

THE Coral Gables TIMES

Vol. 37, No. 45 32 Pages Thursday, Dec. 13, 1962 Phone HI 3-1661 Price 10c

Big Road Eyed on Plush Land

Venetian Drowning To Cost $185,000

A Circuit Court jury has awarded $185,000 to the mother of an 11-year-old boy who drowned in Venetian Pool 28 months ago. The enormous award — one of the largest in the city's 36-year history — went to Mrs. Nora Shaw, mother of Theodore M. Shaw. Mrs. Shaw lost her first husband, a German U-Boat officer, in World War II. The jury verdict was $60,000 for the loss of the boy's life and $125,000 for loss of future services. Judge George Holt presided over the suit. City Attorney Ted Semple said Tuesday that he will file a motion for a new trial, and if that fails, he will file an appeal to the District Court of Appeals. Young Shaw, who died a few days before his birthday, drowned in the municipally-owned and operated pool at closing time when he took a last dive. His body was found approximately 20 minutes later by a life guard.

Super Highway Would Slice CG

By MAURICE LABELLE Times Reporter (Related story on page 2) Details of a 30-mile long 300-foot wide landscaped scenic highway that would cut through the heart of Coral Gables' largely undeveloped south section were unveiled by Metro this week. The Bayshore Drive plan is headed next for the Metro Commission for its consideration. The plan is the offshoot of Metro's Planning Board and Planning Department Land Use Plan. It won approval of the Planning Board by 6-1, with one abstention and three absent. Member J. R. Brooks, who voted against, favors a mid-bay causeway. No timetable has been established for starting the ambitious project, according to Roscoe Jones, director of the Planning Department. "The idea has been under study for 11⁄2 years," said Jones. "It's not in the status of an approved alignment." Bayshore Drive, he emphasized, would be primarily a scenic, four-lane divided highway, although it would figure in County traffic plan projections to 1985 that envision a population of 21⁄2 million people. The highway, paralleling Biscayne Bay shoreline for long stretches, would be a ground-level road, as presently envisioned by the planners. Eventually, elevated crossings of the main east-west streets are considered, Jones said. The proposed highway would (See NEW ROAD, page 2)

ON CITY PARKING GARAGE So Eager to Save; Yet, Silence

(Picurte on page 2) A mystery surrounds a proposed construction "saving" of $12,500 on the new City parking garage. Why did the contractor propose the change in the midst of the job? And why did the City turn it down after first tentatively indicating that it would accept the change? The contractor, Caudle Construction Co., was not saying this week—not exactly anyway. The City says that it is not so sure the proposed change would have saved any money or have been practicable. The engineers on the job, Kononoff and Smith, tell the City they need more time to study the job before making a final recommendation. Before then the garage is supposed to be open for business. The City Commission decided in a conference meeting Monday to let matters stand as originally planned. In question is the guard rail and decorative grille which will ring the three-story garage. The contractor proposed that (See GARAGE, page 2)

READY ON MONDAY!

EUGENE HOLMAN, Caudle and Posey's boss on the parking garage job, is certain that the garage will have 100 of 300 spaces ready by Monday as promised. And the top two floors by Feb. 15. "As far as I can see we are ready," said Daniel B. Caudle, but he qualified his answer, "The weather may cause a problem." He was worried about the cold and its effect on laying of the black top surface.

Attendance Drop Have Gables Open in Trap?

This year's Coral Gables Open golf tournament won by Gardner Dickinson had a cloud thrown over it when attendance dropped to approximately half of last year's crowd. How did the $20,000 tourney fare financially? "We don't know yet," said City Manager L. W. Robinson Jr., but he indicated that the poor attendance would take a deep bite out of revenue. The tournament cost the City $3,000 directly last year, excluding other costs, $5,000 in 1960 and $12,000 in 1959. Bad weather plagued the four-day event which ended Sunday, but worse — few big name players showed up. "Big names showed up at Doral (Country Club)" Robinson pointed out, but attendance there was poor also. Dickinson, the 127-pound $2,800 first prize winner from Tequesta, hit a 274 to outshine the expected champ, Bill Collins, by one stroke after Collins lost control and was tied for second by Don Fairfield. Dow Finsterwald, Dickinson's boss at Tequesta, took third place. Failure of golfing's top stars to show up for the last Professional Golf Association-sponsored event of the year drew the fire of many area golf supporters over the weekend.

Post Office Will Pay Out $40,000, Take in $224,000

Our economy will get a $40,000-a-year boost next month when the 100 employes and officials at the Gables post office get a pay raise of that amount. Gableites also will be paying more to mail their letters. On the average, each of the city's 35,000 people will spend $3.66 more in 1963 to mail the same letters they did in 1962. There are additional increases for other classes of mail, too. The changes are made effective by the new Federal Postal Act which goes into effect Jan. 7. It was passed earlier this year by Congress. Here's how the salary figures look: Supt. Dave Foster, a $900 raise to $9,600. Assistant Supt. W. T. Smith, an $800 raise to $8,605. George D. Watson, foreman of the mail carriers, a raise of $745, to $7,965. The average, a window clerk or lettter carrier, will be making $7.31 a week more with the pay raise. For the 97 men (See POST OFFICE, page 2)

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