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Our Town Getting a New Bank

TEN-FOOT HIGH WEEDS stand on the site of the area's new bank, The Guarantee Bank of Miami, scheduled to open in June at the southwest corner of Bird Road and SW 83rd Avenue. (Guide photo) A new bank-The Guarantee Bank of Miami-has been approved to serve an estimated 100,000 persons living in the Southwest Dade area. Bids were to be opened today, (Thursday). The "open for business sign" is scheduled for June. The $150,000-$175,000, one-story, state-chartered bank will be located at the southwest corner of Bird Road and SW 83rd Ave., according to L. H. Skeen, president. An area bordered roughly by Tamiami Trail, Snapper Creek, Kendall Drive and Red Road will be served by the bank. A survey indicates that there are more than 700 businesses in that area, all within a four and one-half mile radius of the new bank. Both Skeen and Paul F. Staup, vice president and cashier, came here from the Inter-City National Bank in Bradenton. Temporary offices have been established at 8399 Bird Road where personnel are being interviewed and final plans made for moving into the new bank. Approximately 12 to 15 persons will be employed initially, Skeen said. Total capitalization is reported to be $750,000. Of this $500,000 is in stock, $150,000 surplus and $100,000 in undivided profits. Eleven directors, including Coral Gables Mayor Robert L. Searle, will be led by G. D. Monroe, chairman of the board. Monroe is an investor. Other directors are C. L. (Jerry) Dressel Jr., also a Coral Gables city commissioner and owner of Dressel Dairies, Scott Braznell, owner of Trail Builders. Dr. Dwight Burley, M.D. Fred S. Wilson, retired real estate man. T. M. Pafford Sr., chairman of the board for MPS cement products. Edward A. Thompson, door manufacturer. W. Bruce MacIntosh, president of the Miami Laundry. Charles Kimbrell, Miami attorney and Skeen. All normal banking services will be provided - checks, installment loans, savings accounts and drive in teller service. Savings will draw four per cent on deposits undisturbed for one year or more; 3 1/2 per cent on deposit six months or more; and three per cent six months or more. Two drive in windows will be provided. Palns are to utilize only one of the five available acres, Skeen said. The modern structure which will face on Bird Road, will have 5,000 square feet of floor space. A parking lot will accomodate 33 cars.

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What Can I Do? Do Something Please!..

EDITOR: My neighbors completely ignore the Metro trash pickup schedules and just put their trash out anytime — all the time. As a result papers and other trash blow all over my property and I'm getting sick and tired picking up after them. Why doesn't the police or somebody do something about this problem? DISGUSTED Got a gripe? Tell us about it and let us investigate it for you. Wonder why a road is not paved? No sidewalk for the kids to walk on to school? Whatever it is, write us; we'll find out. Box 580 Coral Gables 34.

Skeen, Staup Top Men In Bank

Our town's new bank will have officials who are not strangers. Both came from the same bank in Bradenton to head the area's newest financial institution. They are L. H. Skeen, new president and former president of the Inter City National Bank there, and Paul F. Staup, vice president and cashier and former vice president at the Bradenton bank. Skeen, a native of Williamsburg, Ky., attended the College of Commerce, Bowling Green, majoring in accounting, commercial law and business administration. He also studied law. His first bank job was with the Citizens Bank of Frostproof in 1929. In 1933 he was made (See NEW BANK, page 3) SKEEN ...bank president

COUNTY LINE with Ed Knight

YOU MAY have seen one or two of them. They appear periodically in national magazines and newspapers. And they're usually written by noted authorities. They're predictions of the future, anywhere from five to 25 or 50 years hence and they take in every subject from space progress to the eradication of communicable diseases. INVARIABLY they're eye openers of what progress means to us. Sometimes they're a little weird. One national magazine article I read brought out that if science continued to wipe out diseases at the continued rate it is now, there will be no sickness, no need for hospitals and an exorbitantly long lifespan. ANOTHER ARTICLE brought out that if the birth rate continues at its present trend, we would be doing nothing in the future but try- (See BIRTH, p. 7)

The Mess That Can't Be Fixed

SIDEWALK BLOCK, TRASH piled up. It's a familiar sight in the unincorporated areas. And you can't get relief unless you chance it and take your neighbor to Circuit Court, Metro officials say. (Guide Photo). By MAURICE LABELLE Guide Managing Editor.... Do piles of trash stacked out in front of your neighbors' homes for weeks on end give you a slow boil? Metro feels for you but they can't reach. You see — there's no law on the books. Somehow the provision that would have taken care of that problem got left out of the ordinance and no one ever put it back in. "I don't know how to stop them," said Fred Stutz, Waste Division supervisor. It is the responsibility of each householder to see that their trash is not placed in front of homes until a few days before the scheduled pickup, he said. "There is no relief through the Metro Court or through the State Attorney's office," said Don Barmack, chief prosecutor for the Metro Court. And Louis Westbrook, director of sanitation for the County Health Department, added a ditto: "There is no ordinance on ( See MESS, p. 3) Here's How Do you know when the trash collectors are due in your area? You can help keep your neighborhood clean by placing your trash out only a few days before the scheduled time to be picked up. If you don't know or aren't sure, call TU 7-7393.

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