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Southwest Guideposts Country Club, New Homes Coming Our Way

By RON LEVITT Things To Watch For: A big boost to the social and recreation life of Dade County is coming in the form of Westbrooke Country Club which will be built at 8500 SW 8th St. Construction of the 20-acre country club will begin in several days. Developers Sheldon Kay and Harold Moss unveiled the plans to a few friends last week and have opened temporary offices at 8661 Coral Way in which there is a scale-model of the club showing all of its facilities. The $1,000,000-plus country club will be in operation by the time summer rolls around—and it will provide a welcome addition to the great recreational needs of Our Town. Some of the facilities, for example: tennis courts, regulation softball diamond, putting green, handball courts, basketball courts, dining rooms, lounges plus the most unique (and probably the largest) swimming pool ever built in Florida. There will also be private cabanas—each of which will have individual showers and a private patio. Plans are to provide a complete social-recreational program for members—as well as special programs for teenagers and youngsters. The West Dade Citizens Association which was recently formed has undertaken its first project—Child Safety. The civic group is seeking a means for better access to schools: For example, a safer way for youngsters to get to schools without walking along busy highways, or along unprotected canals, or across the busy outlets from the Palmetto By-Pass. The group has scheduled its general membership meetings the first Thursday of each month at the PBA Hall on Coral Way. Next meeting, March 2. Probable second project for the group will be stricter zoning requirements to cut down on the number of drive-ins, which the organization says have become the meeting place for gangs and a breeding ground for juvenile delinquency. Certain projects now on the drawing boards or in the preliminary construction stages indicate a big year for building in the Southwest suburbs. One group of builders is expected to announce shortly a huge new suburban development near Coral Way just west of Galloway Road—a development which may provide more than 500 new highly-styled homes. Several other building projects in the Southwest during the coming months could cause the suburban housing to double during the next few years. Parents in the South Miami area near 128th St. and 74th Ave. who have been worrying about the distance their youngsters have to go to get a junior high school have some good news coming. A contract has been awarded for construction of the new Palmetto Junior High School School there. Cost of the construction is estimated at $916,-000. Several more elementary and junior high schools are also under consideration for the growing southern half of Dade County. There will still be road construction on Bird Road and Coral Way for several more weeks. The road surgeons are four-laning all areas which provide entrance or exit to the Palmetto By-Pass. While major completion work on the By-Pass is now underway on the area between Coral Way and Bird Road, several important clearing jobs are also complete from Bird Road to U. S. One and the entrance-ways on U. S. One are half finished. If all goes well, by the first of the year you may be able to go from the Turnpike Entrance in the north to U. S. One in South Dade on the expressway. Miscellaneous Memos: University of Miami now offering a course in the evenings in interior decoration, designed for the housewife. Classes are Tuesdays in Koubek Center, SW 27th Ave. and 3rd St. . . . University of Miami tennis squad opens its season March 11 hoping to set a new all-time collegiate record. The record, now held by William and Mary is 82 wins. The Hurricanes already have 71 . . . Sign went up Monday on Bird Road and SW 112 Ave. announcing the new Concord Shopping Center so construction should begin soon . . . Deadline for 1961 license plates is less than two weeks away (Feb. 20) but thousands of Dade Countians still are driving around with last year's plates . . . If there's a potential opera star in your house, he or she can have a chance at the big time. The Metropolitan Opera is holding auditions in every state to find operatic talent. Information about the state auditions can be obtain from Mrs. E. B. Ludwig, 570 Woodvine, Metaire, La. The state winners will go to New Orleans in March and winners there get a chance in New York . . . Bowling in the Southwest: 90 alleys in the area are now going to remain open 24-hours a day. Owners say the public demand for bowling is greater than ever, even in the wee morning hours . . . Newest traffic light on Coral Way went up at 82nd Ave. in hopes of keeping down speed in the area and averting accidents along the unprotected canal there.

Gables High Notes Sweep Field of Science Honors

By LESLIE GROSS In late January, eight Coral Gables High School seniors were included in the Honors Group of the 20th annual Westinghouse Science Talent Search. Those listed in the Honors Group were in the top 10 per cent of those who completed entries in the Science Talent Search. This Honors list is distributed to all universities and colleges of the United States by the American Council on Education. From 399 selected for this group from students across the nation, 40 are chosen as winners of a trip to Washington. Among these, $34,250 in scholarships and awards will be distributed. Coral Gables leads the State of Florida with eight winners. Only five others made the honors group in the rest of the state. Gables, the only school in Dade County to have any winners, ranked fourth in the nation. We were exceeded only by Evanston Township and Jamaica High School (N.Y.)—13; Erasmus of Brooklyn—12; Bronx High School of Science—10. Last year Gables had three Honors Group members and one Washington trip winner, Robert Friis. Guides Students Much of the credit for Gables' amazing success should be given to Mr. Walter Bowlby, one of our chemistry instructors. Mr. Bowlby sought out the better science students in their sophomore year, and interested them in the Westinghouse contest. He gave these 25 students old tests, tried to interest them in projects, and held periodic meetings during the entire three year period. This fall, prior to the written examination, a 2 1/2 hour session, our scholars attended weekly briefing sessions on different fields of science. Mr. Bowlby gave advice for the actual writing of the scientific papers describing their research projects, and toiled for hours filing in the students' personal data sheets with them. In a preview to Mr. Rath, another driving force in Westinghouse success, Mr. Bowlby optimistically predicted six winners. To his surprise and delight eight of his charges were announced as winners. Of the 45 from Gables who completed entries, the following eight winners are listed with their projects: Donna Elizabeth Finerty — Embryonic Chick Heart as a Biological Thermometer. Norman Gravitz — Properties of the Hyaline Plasma Membrane of the Lytechinus Variegatus. Leslie Jay Gross — A comparative Survey of the Salinity Tolerence of Seven Species of Shallow-water Hermit Crabs of the Families Paguridae and Diogenidae. Katherine Marland Kamp — Fungal Infestation of Submerged Cordage and Concurrent Enzymatic Activity. Warren Robert Kirsch— Synthesis of Schiff Bases at Potential Anti-Cancer Agents. Donald Sinclair McCorquodale—Incidence of Staphlococcus in High School Students. Eloise Ann Melson — The Finite Solid Geometry System. Jeffrey Mark Platt— An Investigation of the Phenomenon of Tidal-Induced Fluctuations in a Restricted Estuarine Channel. Special thanks should also be given to the University of Miami. Seven of the eight students were associated with UM personnel, three of them at the Marine Lab.

Retain Bowling Margin

The Brothers Jacobson, Alan and Ronnie, have continued their ten pin supremacy in the Mr. Daniel Finora - sponsored bowling club. Alan, the younger of the two retained his league-leading average of 175 pins per game. Ronnie hotly pursues him with a 174 average. Jared Mayers leads Division II with an average of 156. Inter-team competition has placed the Sliders in an undisputed lead in Division II, while the Hot Rodders and the Pin Topplers are locked in first place for Division I. Susan Monan holds a high score of 212, the high for girl bowlers.

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