The Guide

THE GUIDE the local newspaper for all South Dade

BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID Permit 742 Miami, Fla. Vol. 2 No. 21 William von Maurer, Editor Thursday, November 3, 1960 Published by TIMES-GUIDE 808 Aragon • Coral Gables, Fla. • HI 3-1661 Combined Circulation 44,095

South Miami Kiwanis Name Edwin Grout

Edwin M. Grout, 7270 SW 82nd Ave., a Florida Power & Light Co. advertising executive and a commander in the Naval Reserve, has been elected new president of South Miami Kiwanis Club. He succeeds John Brau. A club vice president this year, Grout has been a club member for five years. Married, he is the father of two children. Elected vice presidents were Walter S. Klements and James G. Stewart. The new Board of Directors includes John Barnes, Kenneth Horn, Ray Hefele, Malcolm Tait, James Ferguson, Art Pendlton, Mead Ferris, Dick Goodfellow and Joseph Johnson. The new officers will take office the first meeting in January followed by an installation banquet later in the month. South Miami Kiwanis meets at 12:15 p.m. each Thursday at Dixie Bella Inn, Kendall.

Four Freshmen Elected To UM Student Posts

Four area high school graduates are among nine University of Miami students recently chosen to serve in the student government of UM's new University College. All are freshmen. Ann English, 311 SW 55th Ave. Rd., has been elected vice president. Now an English major at UM, Ann was president of her sophomore and junior classes at Miami High, and a member of National Honor Society and a delegate to Girls' State. Toby Gail Grossman, 6221 SW 61st St., will serve as secretary-treasurer. Currently an education major, Toby was treasurer of the Miami High Student Council, president of the Florida B'nai B'rith Girls and winner of the National Honor Society scholarship. Jeffrey Randall, 5950 SW 10th St., will be one of five Student Government representatives from University College. A government major, he is a former president of the National Forensic League and is attending UM on a varsity debate scholarship. Art Rothenberg, 951 Sylvania Blvd., will also serve as a University College representative. He is a former writer and illustrator for the Miami High Times, student newspaper, a member of the varsity tennis team and winner of the Knights of Pythias speech contest.

A TOUCH OF PARIS with pretty, young girls flashing bright red and black Can-Can dresses and wearing plumed hats descended on Coconut Grove recently. The girls dancing here on the old, white piano, attend St. Stephen's Episcopal Church. At last Saturday's carnival, they and their partners performed that old Parisian number, the Can-Can. And Paris never looked so good. Sitting in foreground with her fingers touching lightly on the "88" is Dianne Shaw, 2540 SW 27th St. At top, are left to right, her sister, Barbara, and Susan Ward, 7521 SW 57th Ave.

South Miami Riding Club Will Rival Dinner Key

Riders and stables wishing to show horses in South Miami Riding Club's 15th Annual horse show slated for Nov. 25, 26 and 27 have until Nov. 4 to get entries into Show Secretary Mrs. Vincent Saurino, 7199 SW 124th St. This is the word from show officials who warned prospective entrants that post entries will be accepted—but that a fee and a half will be charged. Scheduled to be one of the riding club's biggest shows, the three day event will include 70 classes in 16 divisions in a total of seven showings. Showings will be held at 7 p.m., Friday, Nov. 25; 9 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 26, and 10:30 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 7 p.m., Nov. 27. Divisions include five-gaited horses, five gaited ponies, three-gaited horses, three gaited ponies, western, roadster-to-bike, fine harness, harness pony, walking horse, arabian, jumper, working hunter, working hunter pony, equitation, registered quarter horse and pleasure. This show is the first of the winter horse show season and second only in size to the annual Dinner Key show in January. Entries may be made by calling CE 5-1515, MO 7-6044 or FR 3-1287. Show chairman is Phillip E. Groh Jr. Show grounds are at 9200 North Kendall Dr. Admission is: boxes, $25 for the three-day event, and $1, general admission. Children under 12 are free.

Crackdown

A crackdown on overtime parking in Coral Gables' downtown business district has been ordered by the City Commission. The enforcement order was issued Tuesday to go into effect Nov. 1 after the Commission heard complaints about merchants parking all day in front of their establishments and depriving shoppers of space. Starting Nov. 1, police will mark the tires of all parked vehicles and issue overtime tickets to all those found to be parked after the alloted time regardless of parking meter indications.

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Hospital Tax ‘Whitewash’ Charged Mayor Tries To Bar Press From Conference

By MAURICE LABELLE Strong charges by attorney Bernard Weksler that the Doctors' Hospital tax exemption controversy is being whitewashed met with equally strong denials from city officials Tuesday. Meeting in a special conference following the regular meeting Tuesday, the City Commission directed City Attorney Ted Semple to write a denial of Weksler's allegation that the city ignored his charges when it met as a board of equalization in mid-July. After reviewing the series of incidents and letters between the city and Weksler, the Commission decided his complaint that the hospital did not warrant tax exemption had been considered by the city attorney prior to the Board of Equalization meetings, July 11, 12 and 13, and that Weksler had been informed it was Semple's opinion the hospital was entitled to exemption. The exemption has been estimated at approximately $10,000 to $15,000 a year. Weksler, they pointed out, failed to show up at the equalization meeting. Text of Letter Here is the text of Semple's letter to Weksler dated Oct. 26: "By direction of Mayor (John M.) Montgomery, I am writing this letter in reply to your letter to him of Oct. 21, 1960. "The answer to your question concerning the action of the City Commission with reference to Doctors' Hospital, is contained in your own letter of July 14, 1960, addressed to the City Manager. "You will recall that on the afternoon of June 29, you were good enough to come to my office. We had a discussion regarding Doctors' Hospital, and I told you that I had invited you to come at the request of the City Commission. "I then told you that you were welcome to go through my file on Doctors' Hospital, even to the extent of taking it with you; that my opinion as to its eligibility for tax exemption, based upon th decisions of the Florida Supreme Court, had remained unchanged; that I had so advised the City Commission." Press' Presence Tuesday, Mayor Montgomery sought to have the press barred from the special conference meeting set to discuss Weksler's letter, but Commissioner Joe Murphy argued in favor of having reporters present. It was finally decided to allow the reporter from The Times and a representative of WVCG to remain, providing the conversations leading up to the decision were not reported in full. The Commission has been vexed by Weksler's continuous attacks on their general policies which they say represents long established tradition. The attacks were touched off by the City's attempt to lease the Granada Golf Course to private interests for private use and have run the gamut from green fees to recreation activity fees. In his letter dated Oct. 21, Weksler charges that it was general knowledge that the city would do nothing about his tax freeloading charges against the hospital. "It was a matter of open and notorious knowledge throughout the community, and the consensus of opinion was that nothing would be done and that eventually everyone would forget about the issue," Weksler said. The Commission denies this and points out that the question may again be considered at next year's Board of Equalization meeting and taxes back assessed for three years, if it is determined by the board that the exemption is not warranted. Do Something "Although the city attorney has expressed his opinion that the city cannot do anything about the freeloading at this time and that the tax exemption should continue for another year, I suggest that you do something about it," Weksler said in his letter. "Since Doctors' Hospital did not file any tax exemption this year, or last year, it is not entitled to tax exemption and it is not in the position to complain. "I suggest and recommend that you direct the city manager and to direct th city tax collector to send an ad valorem tax bill to Doctors' Hospittl for the curret year and the past year. "If Doctors' Hospital wants to protest the bill, let them go to court and protest it. The burden of proving their right to tax exemption rests on the hospital, and since this is a clear cut case of the hospital failure to come within the statutary and constitutional exemption, the city cannot lose. "It is most unfortunate and (See Whitewash. Page 2)