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If Birth Rate Soars Higher, A Space Home Will Help

(Continued from Page 1) ing to find a place to stand, sit or occupy. Still another article brought out the reasons for our space exploration. We've got to find other places to put the people who will be born in the future. CLOSER TO HOME, the predictions have been toward Florida's growth, the state's diminishing shore line, the draining of the Everglades, the growing lack of beaches for the resident and tourist bather and the congestion on the highways. Still closer to home, Dade County is pictured by the prognosticators as the probable largest county in the world. IT COULD well be, too, except for one thing - other parts of the world are growing, too. But Dade is growing at a tremendous rate, too fast, actually for its own good. And this brings us to our section of Dade County and what it will be like from 10 to 20 years hence. YOU CAN SUM it up in one word - GROWTH. Some of the greater strides in residential construction will be in West Dade, which will go deeper into the Everglades. Remember, with each drainage ditch that is dug, more land will be made available for development. WHAT WE recognize now as West Dade will be comparatively close in in the year 1972. There will be expressways running every which way, ones to take us downtown, one to take us west and others to zigzag crosstown. By the year 1972 it will become evident that Dade County chose the expressway system of moving people over the rapid transit system. WE FOLLOWED the example of Los Angeles over New York in this respect. Metro by that time will have tightened its hold on the County to such an extent that there are few municipal governments left. Included in this group are Miami, Miami Beach, Coral Gables, Hialeah, Homestead, South Miami, North Miami and North Miami Beach. RECREATION has become the by-word of Metro's functions. With the shorter work week, all of South Florida has looked to Metro for more swimming pools, boat marinas and recreation centers. Every high school has its own stadium. They say that Metro's recreation program kept the voters from voting the county government out of existence. BUT EVEN with the multiple expressways, the worst problem facing the county resident is the traffic congestion. Every family has two cars now. One is a station wagon. The other one is a compact model, much like the Volkswagen. When the family wants to take one of several yearly vacations, it takes the wagon. To go down to the supermarket, it takes the compact. SOUTH DADE? It has become an industrial giant. There are missile centers, oil refineries, shipyards and a new harbor, especially built for all those tankers that are leaving oil streams in once-beautiful Biscayne bay. The homes are getting smaller in South Dade. What was once estate zoning is no more. And the county finally has finally constructed a new road parallelling South Dixie Highway. It's called South Dade Freeway. And the elite? Where are they going to get away from it all now? To Naples, of course, Naples on Florida's west coast.

Newcomers in Our Town

BIRTHS AT BAPTIST HOSPITAL Feb. 12 Mr. and Mrs. George G. Settergren, girl, 5595 W 13th Ave., Hialeah; Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Christain, twins, boy, girl, 7300 SW 107th Terr. Feb. 13 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ayers, girl, 590 W 34th Place; Mr. and Mrs. Gustavo Velloldo, boy, 6075 E 15th Ct.; Mr. and Mrs. James J. Collins, boy, 6326 SW 37th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Orlen V. Bottlin, boy, 4231 SW 104th Ave. Feb. 14 Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Rice, boy, 5335 SW 17th Ave. Feb. 14 Feb. 15 Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Alvarez, boy, 12120 SW 185th Terr.; Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore C. Frosceno, boy, 870 NW 19th Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Richard I. Goodman, girl, 14621 SW 83rd Ct. Feb. 16 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Eksler, girl, 8870 SW 42nd St.; Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Bergquist, boy, 7281 Waterway Dr.; Mr. and Mrs. Jacob T. Kocis, girl, 8320 SW 27th Terr.; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Cara- gol, boy, 6860 SW 19th Terr.; Mr. and Mrs. Bernard M. Balsam, boy, 4260 SW 10th Ct.; Mr. and Mrs. David Toplin, girl, 10331 SW 55th St. Feb. 17 Mr. and Mrs. Billy Underwood, boy, 11041 SW 65th St.; Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Martin, girl, 1440 LaBaron Drive, Mi- ami Springs; Mr. and Mrs. Howard J. Trimble, boy, 11000 SW 69th Drive; Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Malner, boy, 814 SW 67th Ave. Feb. 18 Mr. and Mrs. James Lynch, boy, 138 NW 50th Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Cook, boy, 5711 SW 67th Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Hal J. Robbins, girl, 1514 Texas Ave., Homestead. Feb. 19 Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Stanley, boy, 8570 SW 127th St.

Granite State Alumni Meeting

There's not likely to be any "stone faces" in sight when the boys and girls from the Granite State convene at Miami Springs Villas March 2 for a meeting of the Miami chapter, Univer- sity of New Hampshire alumni. Randolph E. Churchill, direc- tor of quality control at Aero- dex and a U of NH graduate, said it is the first such meeting held in this area in many years. More than 60 "old grads" are expected at the Villas for cocktails and dinner, notes Churchill, a retired Air Force colonel. He said Col. B. V. Bryant, who heads the national Univer- sity of New Hampshire alumni program, will fly here to meet with the South Florida alumni of the school at the Villas meet- ing.

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