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'Daddy Told Him About Having a Motorcycle'

By MAURICE LABELLE Guide Managing Editor Two youths who rode a motorcycle secretly over the objections of their parents remain in Doctors' Hospital recuperating from the serious injuries they suffered in an accident they were not responsible for Jan. 17. They are Gary Van Smith, 19-year-old son of Miami News writer Howard Van Smith, 7800 S.W. 59th Ave., and Hugh Burke White, 19, of 5901 SW 60th St., owner of the cycle. Young Smith has undergone two brain operations to save his life. White, who was partially scalped, also suffered a serious leg injury. The accident began a series involving motorcycles in Coral Gables. "I wouldn't let him have it," said Howard Van Smith. "And his (White's) father wouldn't let him have it either." But the boys had their way. Gary originally owned the motorcycle, Smith pointed out. He heard about it from his brother after it had been in another wreck. He bought it, brought it home and fixed it. "I told him right off when he brought the bike home that he couldn't keep it," his father said. "I've never let any of my kids have any TWO EMPTY SHOES are mute evidence of the impact that jolted the riders of this motorcycle before it struck a car in front of Ponce de Leon Junior High School Jan. 17. Both the driver, Hugh Burke White, and his passenger, Gary Van Smith, are still in Doctors' Hospital. (Photo for the Guide by Bob Kelley). motorcycle or motorscooter," Smith said emphatically. After the bike was fixed, the father related, Gary sold it to White, whose father also refused to let him have it. But White didn't get rid of it and he and Gary took secret rides. Shortly after 2 p.m. Jan. 17 they were going northeast on South Dixie Highway when Mr. Brevard Nisbet Stewart, 47, of 424 Almeria Ave., made a left turn in front of them in front of Ponce Junior High School. Neither youth is able to tell much about the accident. But police say that the women driver would be charged with the near-head on accident. White was thrown into the car's windshield, bounced off and over and landed 28 feet away. Smith flew over the car and landed 38 feet from the impact point. Officer Russell Jones removed a piece of White's scalp from the windshield, which doctors were able to sew back on. A round-the-clock vigil at the boy's bedside began. "I told him he couldn't drive it," Smith repeated. Meanwhile, South Miami Policeman Philip Albert Frank, 38, of 3320 SW 106th Ave., was injured Friday morning in a similar accident — this one on Bird Road near Coral Gables High School. Frank, eastbound on Bird, slammed into the side of a car driven by Joseph A. Tucker, 48, of 3074 Indiana St., Miami, when Tucker made a left turn in front of him. The officer was treated at South Miami Hospital. Still another motorcyclist was injured and taken to South Miami Hospital for treatment Sunday night following a collision at Red Road and Venera Ave. Injured was Wellington B. Freeman, 20, of 10960 SW 55th St. As in the other two accidents, Freeman was going north on Red when Anna C. Mayes, 45, of Chickamauga, Ga., made a left turn in front of him and he struck the rear of the car.

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For an Education Their Children Risk Lives Daily

By MAURICE LABELLE Guide Managing Editor A Southwest area woman's one-man fight to get a safe school crossing at West Miami Junior High School and the Palmetto By-Pass is gaining momentum. A meeting of the school PTA was to be held last night (Wednesday) with Mrs. Maurice E. Glick, 8510 SW 20th Ter., to chart a further course of action. "I've gotten excellent cooperation from everyone," said Mrs. Glick, who got excited and concerned about the dangerous series of pedestrian crossing several weeks ago and has been badgering county and state officials to do something about it. "They realize the problem," said Mrs. Glick, but she's not satisfied that enough is being done fast enough. So far she's been successful, she says in getting the county and the state to admit that there's a problem, but the remedy is slow in coming. When she read last week that the County was putting (Continued on Page 2) -Map for The Guide by Red Robbins M AP SHOWS AFFECTED AREA AT BYPASS

Maurice Labelle Named Guide Managing Editor

Maurice Labelle, a journalist with wide professional experience in Miami and for four years a reporter with The Coral Gables Times, was named managing editor of The Guide this week. "As a writer on The Guide's sister publication, The Times, Labelle is well acquainted with the booming Southwest suburbs whose coverage he will direct," said Rolfe Neill, the paper's editor and publisher. The two newspapers go weekly into 40,000 homes south of Flagler Street. Labelle is 34, a native of Woonsocket, R.I., and a 1953 journalism graduate of the University of Miami where he was editor of the student newspaper, The Hurricane. His professional experience includes the West Palm Beach Post-Times, Lake Worth Leader, Hollywood Sun-Tattler, Mandell-Newman Public Relations, WTVJ and the Miami News. Since 1958 he has been with our newspapers. He and Mrs. Labelle and their two-year-old son, Robert, live at 2800 SW 105th Ct. MAURICE LABELLE

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Boy Helper?

Optimistic? Like to help boys? The Optimist Club of Olympia Heights is looking for members. A membership drive is underway this month to build the organization to boost their youth activities, according to Dr. Bernard Weiss, president. Weekly teenage dances, two more Boy Scout troops and two more interest clubs for local teenagers are planned. Persons interested in joining should contact Dr. Weiss at CA 1-3322.

MAILBOX

EDITOR: I noticed a news story where two boys were hurt in a car-motorcycle accident the other day and one of the boys' brothers commented that his dad did not want him to have the motorcycle. Seems to me that the father lost out around the home somewhere. I recall my father being the head of our home as long as us boys lived under his roof. One that I recall better than some was the one that dealt with motorcycles, he said there will be no motorcycles as long as you live under this roof even if you stay here 'till you're 50 years old. I'm not fifty yet but I still respect the rule. DOHN WILLIAMS 5700 SW 48th St. South Miami

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