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The Times
Saturday, May 29, 1976, page 6 (of 31)
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TIMES/GUIDE Weekend of May 29/30, 1976
6 TIMES/GUIDE Weekend of May 29/30, 1976
opinion | editorials commentary letters | Where is Miami?
opinion | editorials | commentary | letters Where is Miami? Maintaining identity as Perrine, Westchester, Cutler Ridge, South Miami, West Miami, Kendall, Coral Gables, Palmetto, Suniland and South Dade has never been easy. Downtown Miami, working hand in hand with Metro, encroaches constantly, lumping diversity, individuality and community into one homogenous stew: Miami. A move that would serve to blot out community identity even more comes before the county commission Tuesday, June 1. There will be a motion to change the name of Dade County to Miami-Dade County. Most of us don't live in Miami. We live in South Dade, in communities built with our neighbors' devotion and attention. People who live in the Gables work hard to keep the city beautiful. West Miami residents have nurtured a small government that speaks to them. South Miami has a clear image of itself as a separate entity. And even those unincorporated stretches of South Dade, with their colorful names and their wide lawns, have neighborhood identity. And the neighborhood isn't Miami. Let the commission know, loud and clear, from our end of the county, that we live in Westchester, Kendall, Perrine or Cutler Ridge. By the way, where is Miami?
Teachers agree
The angry, frustrated voices on the telephone were shy about their names but not about their feelings. Teachers have been calling The Times/Guide for the last two days, endorsing Staff Writer Ana Maria Alvarez's interview with the anonymous young educator defeated by the lack of discipline in public schools. They are disillusioned. They went into teaching with high hopes of being educators, of providing guidance and knowledge, and they are finding that they are babysitters and victims. They are threatened at every turn with surly, disruptive students and weakened by the School Board's theft of authority from the classroom into the high and heady reaches of the administration. The teachers don't say, and neither do we, that all their students create problems. They do say that one problem student, uncontrolled and undisciplined, creates a mood that spreads throughout a classroom and a school. We urge school authorities to consider over the course of the summer the reinstatement of a teacher's rightful authority over a classroom by letting a student know that the first time he threatens violence or creates a disturbance, he will be dealt with fairly, but sternly.
the gables publishing company
serving south dade and coral gables since 1926 jim storey general manager bea moss managing editor gary gibbs news editor carole myers advertising manager bill mc hugh circulation address: 4627 ponce de leon blvd. coral gables, fla. 33146 telephone: 666 7961
bea moss | Through rain, sleet, storm the news must go on
bea moss Through rain, sleet, storm the news must go on This newspaper is being brought to you through some very peculiar and mind boggling circumstances. There is a saying; the mail must go through, likewise the show must go on and the sun must rise. And there is another saying that I just made up, the presses must roll. However, it seemed for a while late Friday afternoon as though nothing would roll. Hit with a storm in Coral Gables that would rival a Cleo or a Betsy, the power in The Times/Guide building went off leaving us not only in the dark but four hours away from a deadline with no phones, no lights, and seven silent Selectric typewriters. Oh, for the good old Underwood. From then on Murphy's law took over — everything that could happen did. The photo developing machine in the dark room stuck half way through printing a picture, the rain started flooding the back room, half of the advertising salespeople were stranded somewhere between South Dade and North Dade on South Dixie Highway and our two candles flickered and died. Florida Power and Light had no mercy. We called, they said they'd take care of our problem. Nothing . . . not even a glimmer. We waited. Nothing. We did what we could in the dark which was wait for the lights to go on. Finally, we threw ourselves on the mercy of The Miami Herald who offered to take us in out of the storm. About three hours behind time, we gathered up all of the proportion wheels, copy, rulers, photos and attendant equipment that it takes to put together a newspaper, rounded up the reporters, our typist, ran out in the rain to our various cars and sped off into the gloom of the storm. Murphy's Law prevailed. Once in the composing room of The Herald, we discovered we had forgotten some copy. So off into the night went one of our reporters, back to the office. Once she returned, we were in business. A number of the people at The Herald eyed us suspiciously as our motley crew trooped into their midst but quickly rolled out the red carpet and gave us what we needed. Which all goes to show that The Times/Guide will go to any lengths to bring you the news of South Dade. I understand the lights, at this writing, are still out in Coral Gables. Thank you FP&L. Oh, well, that's show biz. Goodnight.
People poll: What does Memorial Day mean to you?
"I'll be working on Memorial Day, so it's not even a holiday for me. In a way I feel for the dead soldiers, but I never have time to enjoy a holiday." Leerone Anderson Coral Gables "It's when we remember people who lost their lives in the wars. It makes us think, 'was it worth it, was it necessary?'" Terry Eisenberg Coral Gables "Memorial Day means to me a three-day weekend." Pam Schwarz South Miami "The bicentennial has been so overly commercialized that I just don't care about Memorial Day. It doesn't mean much." Lori Thomas Coral Gables "We Cubans remember all the people that died to get us free. We are very close to the people of the U.S. . . . we'll remember on Memorial Day." Lorenzo Barcena 7810 SW 31st St. "Not very much. I'm fed up with the bicentennial and being bombarded with patriotism." Dean Evola Coral Gables