Coral Gables Historical Archive
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Thursday, August 24, 1961, page 1 (of 15)
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Of a Summer Gone...
Overheard at a polling place as a mother with a young child entered the booth to vote yes or no on the reassessment: "Mother, are you going to vote for Nixon or Kennedy this time?" * * * IT'S PRACTICALLY over now, except for the shouting - the summer we're talking about. In about a week and a half the children will be back in school. Already mothers are taking their young-uns downtown for their back-to-school clothes. LABOR DAY is just around the corner. It's the last of the hot weather holidays. For some, it's a welcome holiday. For others, a day of regret. It depends upon what kind of a summer you have had. One thing is for sure. It has been a hot, dry summer. FOR THOSE who didn't soak their lawns down, it's been a summer of combat, a fight against chinch bugs, army worms and other lawn pests. But for those with pumps and plenty of hose, it's been a sprinkling good summer. OF COURSE, there have been those who spent a great amount of their summer in the cool Carolinas and missed what Miami has to offer in the hot months. For those people, let's say "welcome back, you
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with Ed Knight lucky dogs." There is not much we can say about the news in the southwest during the summer. THESE THINGS did happen, though: the Palmetto Expressway opened from South Dixie Highway to Tamiami Trail, Metro assured Coral Gables Stadium Board that the Stadium would be put in top-notch shape for the coming football season and South Miami took parking meters off the city's streets for an indefinite period. YES, THE summer days came and went. They were long days, hot during the middle of the day and cool in the evening. Shorts were the apparel of the season and neighbors were revisited. For those of us lucky enough to have traveled on our vacation, Miami was cool compared to the places we visited. BUT FROM looking behind,
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let's turn around and take a glance at the coming months. Fall, I believe, is my favorite season. For one thing, it's football time with football cool galore in South Florida. There are the University of Miami games in the Orange Bowl and plenty of high school games at Gables Stadium, Coral Way at SW 74th St. TROPICAL PARK opens on Thanksgiving Day for those who don't mind dropping a few on the bang-tails. Don't think there will be the crowds on Bird Road and Coral Way there were in past years now that the Expressway is open. IT'LL START to get a little cooler toward the end of September and the sweaters and jackets will emerge from the trunks and closets. Doesn't seem now that we'll ever use this wearing apparel again. FOR FOOTBALL fans, Miami plays its first game on Sept. 16. It'll be Miami versus Pittsburgh in the Orange. And it'll be on nationwide television. Yes, the game will be shown locally and if you want your youngsters to see some extra good football, take them to the game. Students will be admitted for about 50 cents because the telecasters want to fill up the north stands with as many home-town folks as possible. FOR YOU football followers of a high school nature, Coral Continued on Page 10
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Bird Rd. Zoning Upheld by Court
A suit against South Miami, in litigation since June to have 33 separate pieces of property bordering on Bird Road rezoned from a residential to the highest commercial zoning, has been won by City of South Miami. South Miami City Attorney George B. Hardie Jr., reported to Council during a meeting last week that the city's decision to deny the rezoning has been upheld by Circuit Judge Robert Anderson. Judge Anderson, in a lengthy ruling, said in effect that the courts have no right to interfere with the decisions of legislative bodies in zoning matters of this nature. Judge Anderson further ruled that the city complied in every way with a former court order to rezone the property from the highest residential to a lower residential category. Plaintiffs in the suit were 11 property owners of some 33 separate lots extending from SW 60th Pl. to SW 64th Ave. on Bird Road. In list of plaintiffs were John and Frieda Trabold, Raymond Bierbaum, Fred and Thelma Knocke, Maye Taylor, Dorothy Schoenfth, Ber-Mar Corporation, May Rotolante, Larry and Virginia Roehner and Allen and Dorothy Defidaugh. The plaintiffs asked the court to rezone their lots from an RU-2 (duplex) zoning to C-1, the highest commercial zoning. The value of the property could have been increased by such a rezoning. The suit followed an appeal to the city's Planning and Zoning Board and the City Council earlier this year that the lots be rezoned. The advisory board recommended to the Council that the rezoning appeal be turned down. The recommendation was made because of the large number of objections. Council went along with the Planning and Zoning Board and also turned down the petition. The suit followed.
South Miami Has Right Approach On Tourists, He Says
Tourists - who provide Dade County with 65 per cent of its earned income - should be welcomed with opened arms, James LeGate, director of the governor's Tourism Committee and former newspaper executive, told South Miami Kiwanis last week. Speaking to the Kiwanians at their weekly luncheon, LeGate asked South Miamians to set up welcoming committees to greet conventioneers and other large groups coming to the area. LeGate decried the reduction of local budgets to help promote tourism. He praised the actions of Miami and South Miami in making special concessions to conventioneers by placing hoods over meters in certain areas or abandoning meters completely. An estimated 11,000,000 tourists came to Florida last year, LeGate said. These visitors spent an estimated total of $1.5 billion dollars. Their average expenditure was $9 per day and of the total number, 31 per cent came to Southeast Florida, LeGate said. August, the governor's man said, was the best all-around tourist month.
SM Methodist Youth Put Their Religion to Work
A group of South Dade students are spreading goodwill on a small Bahamas Island this week. They are members of the Senior Methodist Youth Fellowship at the first methodist church of South Miami. Fifteen of them and two adults are spending 10 days on the island of Abaco. There they are conducting Bible school, prayer meetings and work projects. The idea began about three years ago, according to Dorothy Jackson, a spokesman for the group. "We planned to go to Cuba but then things happened there. "Our costs per person will be less than $25 each out of pocket. All the rest of the money we earned as a group with rummage sales, dinners and things like that. "Part of our work projects are painting the church, two rest houses and landscaping." The group left Monday and will return next week. They went by plane, accompanied by the minister, Dr. Ralph Huston, and their fellowship adviser, Mrs. William Hooper, 5961 SW 49th St. Students going in addition to Miss Jackson were Jack Rains, Raleigh Bailey, Joyce Killian, Pat Kennedy, Bill Rabert, Susan Holmberg, Mary Holmberg, Tom Smyth, Catherine Teets, Bill Hoover, Bob Hatch, Patsy Hall, Mike Garrard, and Bob Eckert. Ages range from high school juniors to college sophomores.
You, Too, Judge
Metro Judge Charles H. Snowden had a red face one day last week. His car, while backing out, bumped into a Coral Gables police car in the police station parking lot causing minor damage. When Officer Lamar Gilbert arrived to file a report, Judge Snowden discovered he had forgotten his license.
No Action On License For Liquor
An appeal from State Liquors to transfer a liquor license from 888 Red Road to a store on the northeast corner of Stevens Market, 6600 Red Road, was tabled by South Miami Council last week because the license does not fit the city's zoning requirements. Hughlan Long, attorney for State Liquors and formerly South Miami city attorney, asked the city for either a variance or an amendment to the city's liquor license code to permit the license transfer. Council tabled the request to consider it an informal meeting. Reason for the tabling was the city's code which stipulates that liquor bars or stores must be more than 500 feet from a church or school. The intended location on Red Road is less than 500 feet from South Miami Methodist Church, on the corner of Red Road and Ponce de Leon Blvd. Following the 1960 census, it was found that South Miami was allowed two additional liquor licenses. Out of the 10 applications for licenses, six had to be turned down because of the 500 feet factor. In other action, Council: HELD in abeyance an order to South Miami Crane Service, 6792 SW 62nd Ave., to cease violating the city's zoning code by permitting the parking of cranes in a C-1 zone.
Mt. Olive To Get New Building
Mount Olive Baptist Church will have a new building at SW 59th Place, in South Miami. Bids for the new church are now being accepted and are due by Aug. 31. Six area firms are bidding on the building on a closed list basis. The one-story concrete block structure was designed by Architect O. H. Houstoun Jr. of Coral Gables. Classrooms, an office, kitchen and a sanctuary are included in the plans.
West Miami Rotary Club Awards Attendance Pins
At the recent installation banquet of West Miami Rotary, Ed Cox, Gordon Craig, Alex Fabri, Carl Irwin, Dave Kennedy, Bill Meyer and Bob Sturthers were presented with perfect attendance pins. Alex Fabri and Bob Struthers were presented for service plaques for their outstanding service to the club and community during the past year. Fred Salisbury and Bill Meyers were presented for service plaques in appreciation of the leadership they gave the club during their respective terms. The following two men recently became members of West Miami Rotary: Gabriel F. Bifano, Building Construction, Fabri and Associates, 8609 Nervia St.; and William S. Maurelis, Service Station owner, West Miami Sunoco Station, 1241 SW 76 Ave.
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