Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Guide
Thursday, March 8, 1962, page 1 (of 20)
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Metro Yawns While You Boil
MAIN ENTRANCE to this property near Coral Way and SW 100th Ave. is blocked by approximately 50 old tires which have been there for several weeks. County residents blame Metro for the condition. (Guide photo)
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Do Something Please!
. . . a gripe? The Guide to know. Tell us and we'll check it out. Write Guide, Box 589, or phone HI 3-1661.
EDITORIAL Your Voice Is Heard
You're stronger than you think you are. The flood of documented complaints you're giving us about Metro's faulty, trash and garbage pickup are going to get results for you. We intend to insist until proper service is given you, as promised and as you paid for. The Guide believes Metro Manager McNayr was sincere in thinking there weren't many complaints. He now knows otherwise. We await with anticipation his remedies. Thank you for standing up to be counted. Keep those letters coming.—THE EDITOR.
Readers Name Dates, Places On Poor Collection; We Tell McNayr
By MAURICE LABELLE Guide Managing Editor Trash and garbage complaints continue to mount from unincorporated area residents despite statements by County officials that complaints to them have dropped off to virtually nothing. In response to a Guide editorial a week ago asking complainants to identify themselves, the office has been busy answering calls and letters from readers. Some of these letters have been turned over to County Manager Irving McNayr for his reaction. Other letters are to be found inside this issue of The Guide. The readers' response was touched off by a story in the Feb. 22 Guide which cited unsightly trash conditions on county parkways. Indignant readers called The Guide to say they were not to blame for this condition and blamed the County trash pick up system. Many extended their gripes to garbage collection. Boiled down, the complaints are these: —People are confused about the time pick ups are to be made. —Garbage pickups are often made irregularly and changed without notice to customers. —Garbage men haul away valuable containers. —No pickups in six weeks or more. —Employes break fences and hedges in gathering garbage. —Trash and garbage are left behind. —Pickups are made ahead of time, confusing customers when they do not return on scheduled times. —Some people are afraid to give their names and addresses to The Guide because when they've complained to Metro before they later were "overlooked" in collections while neighbors to the left and right and behind them were served. —Employes sass the customers. —Cost — $28 — is too great for service rendered. Three of the letters and calls received by The Guide were complimentary to the County trash and garbage system. These persons laid the blame for the complaints to "anti-Metro" individuals who gripe about everything Metro does as part of a harassment campaign.
South Miami Wants To Double in Size
A plan to increase the size of South Miami by approximately one-third — possibly more than double — was to be presented to the City Council this week by Mayor Paul U. Tevis. The alternate and more ambitious plan would run into a group called "CITY" which seeks to incorporate an overlapping area east of the Palmetto By-Pass. Present population of South Miami is 10,000 people. There are about 2,711 single family homes, 167 apartments—an undetermined number of duplexes for a total of 4,000 families. "That to me is the most pressing need of the city," Tevis said of the need to straighten out the irregular boundaries. Tevis was to present his annexation plan to the Council Tuesday night too late to be reported in The Guide. Metro administrative officials have already given indication that they favor both the plan to create a shell city west of South Miami and the plan straighten out South Miami's irregular boundaries. The hodgepodge of islands surrounded by unincorporated areas has created problems for the city, Tevis said. His plan would be to add all the area north to Bird Road, east to Red Road, south to Kendall Drive or SW 88th St., and west to Ludlum Road. The western boundary, however, was left open by Tevis. Present fire and police forces could handle everything as far west as the Palmetto Expressway, Tevis said. Adding this extra area would approximately double the size, but not the population of South Miami and it would overlap at the F.E.C. railroad tracks. The city proposed to be incorporated west of South Miami would have the Palmetto Expressway as its eastern boundary, either Snapper Creek or North Kendall Drive as its southern boundary, either Galloway Road (SW 87th Ave.) or Snapper Creek as its western boundary and Tamiami Trail as the northern boundary.
New High School May Come for Us
A new $1,260,000 high school complete with fallout protection central heating and air conditioning apparently has the approval of Dade school administrative officials for Coral Park subdivision. The last obstacle — opposition by a group of Miami Springs residents who also want a high school — was to be tackled Wednesday afternoon, too late for The Guide. "I don't believe you should get politics into this thing," said Mrs. Arnold Gordon, 1840 SW 92nd Ct. Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Sandy Goldberg, 8910 SW 17th Ter., were to appear before the School Board Wednesday to support the need for the Coral Park High School. "If we don't get that school, (See NEW, Page 5)
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Mile Bargains
Miracle Mile in Coral Gables is Sweet Sixteen this weekend and is celebrating with stores full of bargains. The official sale days are Friday and Saturday and in note of the occasion, the Miracle Mile Association is providing free parking on the Mile.
Westbrooke
Jerry Sholdar has been named health club director at Westbrooke Country Club. The health studio, newest addition to the club, contains exercise room and equipment, steam rooms, massage rooms and lounge. Sholdar previously was health club director at Miami Springs Villas.