The Guide

THE GUIDE local news for all South Dade

V. 2 No. 43 ROLFE NEILL, Editor ROBERT SLANE, Adv. Mgr. Thursday, April 6, 1961 Published by TIMES-GUIDE 308 Aragon Coral Gables, Fla. HI 3-1661 Times & Guide 40,095

Street Work In W. Miami

Work is under way to re-pave eight streets and install three storm water drains in West Miami. Streets to be repaved include SW 10th Ter. from SW 62nd Ave. east to 300 feet; SW 10th Ter. from 64th to 65th Ave.; SW 15th St. from 63rd to 65th Ave. and SW 18th Ter. from 63rd Ct. to 65th Ave. Also, SW 19th Ter. from 63rd Ct. to 64th Ave.; SW 19th St. from 65th Ave. to 66th Ct.; SW 63rd Ct. from 18th Ter., to 19th Ter. and SW 66th Ct. from 18th Ter. to 19th St.

DR. JAMES A. VAUGHN Jr. received an award at the first anniversary party of South Miami Hospital.

The New Guide From Us to You

This is your new Guide, spruced up and perked up in both typographical appearance and content. Since some readers are seeing the publication for the first time a few words of explanation will be helpful. The Guide will come to your home each week. In it will be news about your neighbors, news you'll find in no other Dade County publication. That is not all. Also in The Guide are dozens of advertisements of leading merchants in this area. Theirs is the news of merchandising and we are delighted to bring it to you. We feel sure you'll enjoy The Guide. Perhaps you can add to its interest by sending in items about your friends, your church, your organizations and clubs. Elsewhere on this page we tell you how. Thank you, Rolfe Neill Editor & Publisher

South Miami Roundup with Ed Knight

A PICTURE IS worth a thousand words, they say. A clinche? Perhaps. But I felt the full meaning of the expression last week when I viewed a picture in one of the dailies. It was a show of a drowned youngster being carried from a canal. THE CANAL WAS Tamiami Canal. But this makes no difference. What is pertinent is that this youngster, along with six other little fellows, drowned needlessly in either canals or waterways or rockpits in Dade County last week. THE PICTURE was a cloup of a diver carrying the lad limp from the water. Respiration was tried. But it was of no use. It was an accident. All rock-pit and canal and waterway drownings are accidents. ONE OF THE SEVEN boys to die in drownings last week was a seven-year-old lad who went too near the Coral Gabi Waterway at SW 74th Ave. The picture and this drowning hit home to me. We, too, live near canals or waterways. And we, too, have young boys. FUNNY, IT'S SELDOM adults or teenagers or even little girls who are drowned this way. It's almost always a little boy who went too near the water. He is too young to swim or be a good swimmer. And he's too young to know that he shouldn't be near the water in the first place. BUT THE LITTLE fellow does go near the water, his companion runs back to tell of his having gone in the water and then — tragedy. WHAT'S THE answer? How do we stop these drownings? What hasn't been tried? IS IT THE school's place to teach the children about canals, rockpits and waterways? Or does the instruction begin in the home? HOME IS THE place for all basic instruction. Home is the place where the danger must be made quite clear. Home is the place through which swimming instruction is realized. HOME IS ALSO THE place where tragedy strikes if a youngster is drowned. DADE'S SCHOOLS are doing their part in averting these accidents. One means is the rockpit danger slogan contest which each year draws slogans from nearly every child in the early grades. JUST THE OTHER week our young-uns brought home from school their slogan entry blanks. I THOUGHT AND they thought of slogans. One of the slogans we finally submitted was "Rockpits are pits, not pools." I HOPE these slogans are read aloud in every classroom. I hope the teachers help us impress upon their students the danger of canals, rockpits and waterways. ROCKPITS, CANALS and waterways are as much a part of Dade County as are the dikes of Holland. Without these canals and waterways, we would have fewer homes in south and west Dade. THESE waterways and canals are nothing more than drainage ditches. They aid in draining off water to make the land suitable for homes. AS DADE GROWS, there will be more of these canals. They are something we must live with. ROCKPITS are another hazard. They are pits from which rock was taken to use in construction. With the added construction of homes, buildings and expressways, there will be more rockpits. AS SLEEP IS the best opposition to insomnia, so is swimming the best antidote to drowning. IF WE must resign ourselves that children will go near the water, then we must teach swimming. Mass swimming instruction was taught several years ago in an effort to curb some of these rockpit and canal drownings. BUT THOSE children are older now. A new set of children are coming now.

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Your Guide Asks News Of Area

Dear Readers: To make The Guide a more local Southwest newspaper, more news is needed of your school, your church, your club and your family. Each area school, civic club and church is asked to appoint a publicity director to inform The Guide of news regarding that organization. The Guide also is seeking correspondents in the numerous subdivisions scattered throughout the area. Don't worry about style or writing ability. We want the news. Simply drop a note to The Guide, P.O. Box 580, Coral Gables, Fla. To call news in to The Guide, the phone number is HI 3-1661.

West Dade Gets Office Building

A two-story office building, slated to cost some $80,000 will be constructed on Bird Road at 92nd Ave. by Stand Inc., owner of the property. According to Architect Sidney L. Kotkin of Miami the building will be constructed just east of a roller skating rink at the location. An apothecary will occupy the bottom floor, with the second floor to contain offices. The structure will be 104 by 35 feet and be ready for occupancy in about three months. Contractor is Spector & Sons of Miami.

Miniature Golf Course Slated

A miniature golf course, perhaps the first one to be constructed in West Dade County, will be ready for use in about a month. Owner and builder will be Scott Braznell, owner of Trail Builders Supply, 7004 Bird Road. The golf course will be constructed immediately west of the builders supply, according to Braznell, on a 246 by 200 foot tract.

Professional packers and wrappers for shipping or mailing. "The Barefoot Mailman", 234 Valencia Ave., C. Gables-adv

Meter Checker Firings Cause Stir In Gables A 'Sham,' Say Girls; Plan Appeal

NORWEIDA BARROW WRITES TICKET . . . one of two meter maids fired A long standing controversy involving Coral Gables City Commission parking policy, merchants and meter maids came to a head last week, when two of the girls were fired. The girls, Shirley Searle and Norweida Barrow, hired an attorney and asked the City of Coral Gables to list the dismissal charges. "It's just an excuse to get rid of us," Mrs. Searle said. Miss Barrow could not be reached for comment. "We expected it," said Mrs. Searle. The meter checkers were on regular policeman status until recently when the City Commission placed them under the authority of finance director Kenneth Allyn. Allyn interrogated the women about alleged falsification of parking tickets and recommended to city manager L. W. Robinson Jr. that they be relieved. Robinson reviewed Allyn's findings and made the firing official. Robinson said he fired the women "For failure to answer questions concerning discrepancies in a number of overtime parking tickets they issued." Allyn recently blamed the transfer of the four meter checkers from the Police Department to his department for their low morale. The women, who were not reduced in pay but whose future pay and other benefits were affected, were disgruntled, Allyn said. The two dismissed checkers were paid $87.68 a week for 40 hours work. Another facet of the controversy is the charge by some merchants that the city placed the girls on quotas. This was denied by both Robinson and Allyn. Robinson said the checkers had been instructed to ticket all violations.

Bryan Memorial Plans Seminar On Family Social Problems

"The Family in a World of Rapid Social Change" is the title of the seminar in minature at Bryan Memorial Church, 3713 Main Highway Wednesday, April 12, beginning at 10 a.m. The seminar, part of a national program of the Woman's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist Church, is designed to afford a quick, realistic look at some aspects of social change on the world level and on the local level, to redefine the roles of families and churches in relation to the changing world picture, and to emphasize the eternal values that constitute our spiritual resource. Since the seminar is a pilot project for the South Florida area, representatives from each of the Methodist Churches in the area have been invited to join with the congregation of Bryan Memorial Church. Mrs. T. M. Rickards, Secretary of Christian Social Relations for the Florida Conference of the Woman's Society, will present the spiritual challenge: "Eternal Values in a World of Change." Mrs. Rickards lives in West Palm Beach. Rabbi Irving Lehrman of Temple Emanu-El will address the combined group on "The World in Rapid Social Change." Mrs. Rickards lives in West Palm Beach. Rabbi Irving Lehrman of Temple Emanu-El will address the combined group on "The World in Rapid Social Change." Dr. Dean G. Epley, Chairman of the Human Relations Department at University of Miami will serve as moderator for a panel of three resource people who will present local aspects of the changing world picture.

Church Renamed

Red Road Baptist Chapel, which relocated to Blue Lake School last fall, is nearly ready to start building its own structure at 97th Ave. and 64-66th St. Blueprints are in the final stages of preparation. Because of the relocation the congregation has chosen a new name, The Gateway Chapel of the University Baptist Church.

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