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The Guide
Thursday, April 27, 1961, page 1 (of 28)
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THE GUIDE
local news for all South Dade Vol. 2, No. 46 Thursday, April 27, 1961 Price 5c
'She Says Metro Puts Paving Wrong Places
SM Streets Slighted -- Mrs. Willis By ED KNIGHT Correspondent Rough and bumpy county-maintained streets through South Miami, a conversation piece at almost any South Miami Council meeting, caught a blast again last week. Mrs. Jean Willis, the only woman on the Council, maintained that Ludlam, Miller and Red Roads and Sunset Drive through the city are being forsaken for the benefit of other less-needy, county streets. UNNEEDED WORK? Mrs. Willis charged that the county resurfaced Le Jeune Road from South Dixie Highway to Sunset Drive although the repaving was not needed. "I think it's a shame," Mrs. Willis said. "We have three county - maintained streets right here in South Miami that are disgraceful. They don't fix these streets but they do repave that portion of Le Jeune Road." Mrs. Willis, who said she travels over that portion of Le Jeune Road to work and back, said that street didn't need repaving. "There was nothing wrong with that street at all," she said. ASKED BEFORE The Council has repeatedly requested that Metro do something about Ludlam, Miller and Red Roads and Sunset Dr. Other Council members agreed with Mrs. Willis. Mrs. Willis said she will call each Metro commissioner to find out why those county streets through South Miami are neglected. "I don't know what the reason is, but I intend to find out," she promised. Following this, the Councilmen objected to Metro commissioners as a whole, Metro commissioners individually and those commissioners who represent District 4, Walter Weiss, of Homestead, and Winston Wynne, of Coral Gables. South Miami is in District 4.
Fair Weather
At Central Plaza this week you'll find plenty of country-style entertainment and old-fashioned bargains. The ads are inside your Guide today along with news stories telling of some of the events planned. About two dozen civic-sponsored booths are set up at the fair. You'll enjoy it.
'I Want My Area Incorporated!'
See South Miami Roundup on page 15
Ready, Set, Go! It's Jaycee Time
In South Miami South Miami Jaycees will serve as host club Sunday at a 9th District caucus to plan the Jaycee convention in May in another part of the state. Ninth District is composed of 13 Jaycees clubs in Dade and Monroe counties. About 400 Jaycees, their wives and children will attend the caucus to be held in Coco Plum Woman's Club, 1375 Sunset Dr. According to South Miami Jaycee President William Ussery Jr., the caucus will be an all-day affair. At noon, a buffet luncheon will be served on the woman's club grounds. In the afternoon, Jaycees will take in a South Miami attraction. Speakers will include Tom Seabridge of West Palm Beach and Mac McCurda of Pensacola. Both are candidates for the office of State Jaycee president. Other speakers will be Bob Wheeler of the Miami Jaycees and Bob Jones, of the North Miami Jaycees. Both are candidates for the office of 9th District vice president. City of South Miami recently granted the Jaycees permission to erect a banner at Sunset Drive and Red Road welcoming district Jaycees.
SW Girl Is Soloist On Violin
Ruth Schildkraut, 16, 8000 SW 18th Terr., as been selected one of several greater Miami high school student musicians to take part in a symphony concert Saturday night at Barry College. Ruth, a violinist and a Southwest High School student, was chosen at an audition recently to be a soloist in the concert to aid local music students. She is a member of the Miami Youth Symphony and is a student of Transylvania Music School in Brevard, N.C. Some 60 students auditioned for the concert. About six were chosen. The concert is being sponsored by the Miami Music Teachers Association and the Miami Symphony Society Orchestra. The orchestra is conducted by Billy O'Day. Ruth's number in the concert will be Beethoven's "Romance."
West Dade Dept. Store Is Building
A West Dade County department store, costing about $1,600,000 is under construction on the northwest corner of SW 87th Ave. and Coral Way. The store will be ready for business about Sept. 1. Zayre, a national department store chain broke ground for the one-story structure last week. Contractor for the job is Robert M. Merritt Inc. of Miami. The building will be 326 by 267 feet in size and contain about 80,000 square feet of space. The firm will hire about 175 persons regularly and from 50 to 75 others during peak shipping periods. Zayre has built 15 stores in the East, South and Midwest in the past five years. Officials say 11 more stores will open this year. The store will be self-service. It will be air conditioned. This is the first Zayre store in South Florida. The nearest store is in Atlanta. Architect is Donald J. Reiff of Miami Beach.
Hey! We're Moving
On Monday, May 8, we'll be moving to new quarters. On that date, our address will be 364 Sevilla Ave., just behind City National Bank and a half block off Le Jeune Road. The phone number will be the same, HI 3-1661. The box number will be the same, P.O. Box 580. Please address all communications to us through our post office box. Of course our aim will be the same: To bring you all the news of the South and West Dade area. And by the way, if you know any, please call us.
RUTH SCHILDKRAUT
MAKING A face as she gulped some water while learning to swim was four-year-old Yvonne Devlin, 5820 SW 16th St. She's one of scores of youngsters meeting for an hour each day to take swimming lessons at Matheson Hammock. Holding Yvonne is one of the two instructors for children 4-6. The class has two more weeks.
Schonfield Turns To Real Estate
Simon C. Schonfield, a former Coral Gables builder, has opened a real estate office at 101 Andalusia Ave. Schonfield headed Schoney-Bilt Homes between 1947-50 and once attempted to construct a 61⁄2-story apartment at 720 Biltmore Way, the site of the highly controversial 12-story apartment recently proposed by A. H. Sakolsly. The new real estate broker lost out in his bid because the city felt the building was too much structure for the site.
WEST of the City Limits with Ron Levitt
PAINTING THE TOWN: There's a story going around suburbia which is really true. It's about a certain block in a three-year-old subdivision where practically everyone has repainted their homes... that is, all except one resident. That person admits his house needs painting but adds . . . "I don't do anything just because my neighbors do it." He says he's against "conformity." * * * SCHOOL DAZE: Today is registration day at several elementary schools in Our Town for youngsters who will start first grade in the fall. Parents of youngsters who will be eligible to enroll in September (children who will be six years old before January 1, 1962) must go to the school (without the youngsters, preferably) and fill in the forms. However, if past experience is any indication, some parents will find themselves in a school daze. They will have to have official birth certificates with them. And that does not mean "hospital records of birth." These must be official certificates from the state. Those without such records will have to write to Florida State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics, PO Box 210, Jacksonville. * * * AMONG THE NATIVES: Officials at Bird Bowl, the big bowling alley on Bird Road, are now signing up residents to join their mixed summer league. Ditto, University Bowl in South Miami . . . A prominent local figure has taken an option on a screenplay about migrant laborers and has plans to film the movie right in South Miami. Several years back, three young men in the University of Miami Law School - all of whom have last names beginning with the letter "L' - used to joke about setting up a firm together. Next month, they'll be sharing new offices in a downtown Miami building. They are Burt Levey (from South Miami); Steve Lubow (Westchester), and Al Lupka (a non-South Wester). Then, of course, there's the suburban husband who describes his wife as a "model" -but he didn't say which year!! It pays to have talent in the family. Mrs. Wallace (Pearl) Lazarus - a resident of Century and one of the area's active civic workers-has a father-in-law who is a scenic designer in New York. While vacationing here, he did an original Oriental mural for the Lazarus home, and it's a beauty . . . Speaking of artistic talent, Charlie Jacobson of the Gables-well-known in Our Town's charitable and civic groups - is one of the top modern artists hereabouts. . . For several years there's been talk about the possibility of a theater being built in the western suburbs of Miami. Suburbanites now must either go to the Gables or South Miami for the flicks. But indications are now that a theater for the western area is beyond the rumor stage. Negotiations are ready to start for a theater on Bird Road - most likely in a new suburban shopping center . . . meanwhile, the Parkway Theater on Coral Way and 12th in South West Miami reopens as an art theater after several years of darkness. Suburbanite Lew Harder is busy as executive director of the Miami Board of Realtors. Two major chain stores with several suburban outlets may announce within the next four weeks that they will begin giving "trading stamps."
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