Coral Gables Historical Archive
The Times
Thursday, December 1, 1960, page 28 (of 51)
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GETTING AROUND ... to Our Pleasant Places and People
IT'S JUST about time again for the good people of Bainbridge Island, Washington, to collect their annual Christmas Fund - a unique affair if there ever was one - and, in their words, "the best thing we do on this Island." What makes this so different from any we've ever heard of is that no donation - not one, ever - is acknowledged publicly. True, the records are always open for inspection, but in all the years that the fund has been collected for "neighbors temporarily down on their luck," no one has ever asked the Bainbridge Review, which manages the fund, for an accounting. Last year's total: $1216.04. • • There's a brand-new ladies' bowling league now being organized in Hallandale, Florida. The only qualification for getting on a team is grandmotherhood, and the lady to see, grannies, is Reta Baker, of 113 N.W. 1st Avenue. • • Other Police Departments, please note-Miss Mary Boyde Ayer of Chula Vista, California, hurried back to her overtime-parked car to find, instead of the expected ticket, a message from the police explaining that they realized she had been inadvertently detained, and they were therefore placing a penny in the meter for her. Along with this intelligence, there was a gentle reminder that she be a bit more careful in the future. When Mrs. V. M. Hawksley went through customs on her way from England to settle in Shawnee, Kansas, the customs man pulled out a photo of Mrs. Hawksley's son, an actor, dressed as Hamlet. "In the service, eh?" commented the inspector. • • A bright red sticker, observed on an automobile bumper near Mountain Brook, Alabama, read: "Help Stamp Out Bumper Stickers." • • Mrs. W. H. Thomas, of Warrenville, Illinois, writes to tell us about an exclusive drive-in theatre she visited in Buffalo, Missouri-the world's first with a private screen for each of the 250 cars the lot holds. • • Every Wednesday the air-raid sirens are heard in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. The Civil Defense test also touches off a cooperative cleanup in which merchants, housewives, and citizens in all walks of life from around Philadelphia get together and spend fifteen minutes ridding their area of litter. • • The late Vice-president Alben Barkley once did a hitch as assistant janitor in a Clinton, Kentucky, school. The site now bears a commemorative marker which reads, "Al Barkley Swept Here." Continued on page 6 Suburbia Today, December 1960 5
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