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Mail Delivery Approved
ForOpa-Locka Projects
Postal service for Opa Lock*. and
the recently erected veteran and
civilian housing development have
been approved by the United States
Poet office. The letter from the Opa
Locka postmaster follows:
Mr. H. E. S. Reeve*
Editor
The Miami Times
Miami, Fla.
Dear Sir:
I understand that your newspaper
the Miami Times has a wide cover
age in the Bunche Park, Magnolia
Gardens, Eleanor Park and Biscayne
River Gardens subdivisions, and
would appreciate it if you would
publish the following article.
“Mail delivery has been approved
for Bunche Park, Magnolia Gar
dens, Eleanor park and Biscayne
Denial Os Building
Permit Brings Suit
Mr. and Mr*. Oscar Magnuson,
White, sued In circuit court Wed
nesday to enjoin the Village of Bis
cayne Park from lnterferring with
their plans to remodel nine houses
they own In the Negro section of the
surburban Negro town.
They charged the village building
inspector had refused to issue an
alteration permit on the ground the
projected work contemplates “struc
tural changes’’ and therefore must
meet a new construction rule re
quiring 20,000 cubic feet.
Their attorney, Franklin Parson,
■aid that is twice the size of the
present buildings and “uneconomi
cal for Negro occupancy.”
The suit says the buildings, 15-
year-old duplexes, are on a 6 and a
half acre tract adjoining the Florida
East Coast railroad right-of-way at
NE 119th st., which has been occu
pied by Negro housing for 35 years.
And all that the owners contem
plate now, it adds, is remodelling
and not re-building. It asks the court
to direct the building inspector to
issue the permits.
Slum Committee
Asks For Interested
People
The Coconut Grove Citizens Com
mittee for Slum Clearance asked
Monday for all people interested
in slum clearance to join in help
ing to reach that goal in Miami.
“We feel that federal aid alone
cannot do the job,” Mrs. Elizabeth
Vlrrick, chairman, said at a meet
ing of the group in Bt. Albans Parish
House.
The committee decided to ask per
sons interested in slum clearance
to join in making plans for a uro
gram to supplement the federal-aid
portion of the project.
Those interested should contact
members of the committee, Mrs.
Vlrrick said.
River Gardens.” All residents desir
ing this service are requested to ap
ply at the Opa Locka Post Office,
and fill out a form giving the names
of all persons who are to receive
mail at their homes. Mail boxes
must be erected on Xhe residence or
cut in the door for the mail, and
house numbers installed. All resi
dents in the above areas should
commence to notify their correspon
dents of their complete street ad
dress so your mail can be properly
handled.
This service is expected to start
within 60 days or when the neces
sary equipment has been received.
The above requirements have to be
met before the service is startd.
Respectfully,
W. S. Griffiths, Postmaster
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Bunche Park
Burglers Busy
Two watches, a .32 calibre re
volver and $455 cash comprised the
loot of burglers who entered two
homes and a filling station in
Bunche Park Tuesday.
Biggest haul was at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson,
15080 Bunche School House drive,
where $450 in cash, a SIOO watch
and the revolver were stolen.
Archie McKay, 16120 E. Bunche
Park dr., lost $5 in cash and a $44
watch. Screens were cut to gain en
try to the houses.
Haitian
Recent reports from Port-au-
Prince Haiti reveal that the inter
national exposition had turned out
to be a failure. It was a mammoth
efTort on the part of the little Ne
gro republic to land world tourists.
Col. Antoine Levelt, member of
the ruling military junta, says the
exposition grounds will be maintain
ed as “an attraction,” but he makes
it plain there will be no re-opening
of the world’s fair as such.
When the fair closed a six-month
run in June, it had played to an
estimated 5,000 visitors. That was
twice as many people as had visited
the Carribbean country the previous
season but still far short of the
throngs expected.
And any hope that the fair would
get a second chance faded in May
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Mrs. Claudia H. Adams, R. N.,
formerly of 1129 NW Fifth ave.,
was recently elected supervisor of
nurses for Provident hospital in Ft.
Lauderdale.
Mrs. Adams was formerly private
nurse for Dr. W. B. Sawyer and
later was colored night supervisor
of medicine al Jackson Memorial
hospital.
Quintuplets Born;
All Die
WILDIAMSTON, N. C. Viola
Rogrs Brown, 21, who bore qua
druplets when she was 17, Wednes
day gave birth to quintuplets, but
all died within a few minutes. Three
were boys and two were girls. Their
weights ranged from one to one and
a half pounds. The quadruplets did
not live more than a few minutes
either, doctors reported.
Exposition Fails
Freedom House To
Present Symposium
The popular Freedom House
Forum will present a symposium on
“Path-To-Peace,“ Monday evening,
July 17, at 8:30, at the Jewish Cul
tural Center, 425 Lenox Avenue,
Miami Beach.
when the military bounced out
President Dumarsais Estlme, crea
tor of the exposition which in the
end contributed to his downfall.
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VOL. XXV, NO. 45
PRICE TEN CENTS
City To Install New Lighting
Urban League Cooperates
With Fellowship Foundation
The Greater Miami Urban League
announces its cooperation with the
John Hay Whitney Foundation in
screening applicants for 1951 Op
portunity Fellowships.
The specific purpose of the Fel
lowship is "to give opportunity for
special experience or advanced
study to persons of exceptional
promise who otherwise might not
be able to reach their fullest de
velopment or make their fullest con
tribution.”
The Fellowships are open to any
citizen of the United States (in
Among the speakers on the panel
will be the Rev. Holmer T. Zack,
visiting minister of the First Uni
tarian church and Alan Woutin, de
bating champion.
The program will concern Itself
with peace movements of the cast,
in various fledls: labor, religion and
political parties, etc., as related to
the present situation. The public is
invited.
MIAMI, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1950
The Times Are Changed And We Are Changed With Them
i eluding residents of territories) who
1 has given evidence of special ability
and who has not had full oppor
tunity to develop his talents because
of arbitrary barriers such as racial
or cultural background or region of
residence.
Although the awards for 1950
have already been granted, it is not
too soon to apply for the 1951
grants.
1950 Awards were made to the
following groups: Negroes, Spanish-
Americans. Indians, Chinese and
Japanese-Americans, resident of the
Trust Territories and the Appala
chian Mountain area, and to a nat
uralized Displaced Person. An Ur
ban League staff member, Mrs.
Marion Forrester, Executive Secre
tary of the Englewood. N. J. Urban
League; and a former Chicago Ur
ban League staff member, Ralph W.
Anderson, were among the winners.
FILES 4100,000
SUIT AGAINST
BUS LINE
CHICAGO A woman is suing
for SIOO,OOO damage* from Grey
hound bus lines on grounds she was
discriminated against on a trip to
Ruleville, Miss.
$
Mrs. Jennie Lyons charged in a
suit filed in federal court that she
and other Negroes were segregated
In a rear section behind a curtain
when the bus reached Paducah, Ky.,
on a trin last December 9.
She said she was forced to stand
throughout the 150 mile* from Mem
phis to Ruleville because the Negro
section was overcrowded.
For complete information and ap
plication forms for the 1951 Fellow
ships, contact the Greater Miami
Urban League at the Youth Center,
340 NW 13th st.. immediately. *
Louis May Fight
To Cancel Tax
•Retired heavyweight champion
Joe Louie may come out of retire
ment to fight Ezzard Charles In Sep
tember It was revealed In New York
Thursday.
Jim Norris, president of the In
ternational Boxing Club, said that
the Brown Bomber would oppose
Charles if he could straighten out
his tax problems with Uncle Sam.
Louis' comeback, Norris said, will
hinge on the negotiations with the
Internal Revenue Department.
The retired heavyweight champion
owes the government more than
$5k,000, said Norris. "The only way
he can ever pay it and get straight
ened out again is to fight.
He has asked the government to
accept whatever his purse would be
for a Charles fight in full settlement
of the government’s claim," said
Norris. "That would hold whether
the purse amounted to more than
what he owed or if it were less.
“Louis got into tax difficulties a
couple of years ago,” Norris explain
ed. "BBs auditors and counsel ad
vised him to make certain deduct
ions and he did. The government
disallowed these deductions. So now
he owes the money.
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Mayor William Wolfarth an
nounced Tuesday that an entirely
new lighting system will be Install
ed in Miami's central Negro distreit
in the next few months.
A study of the business and re
sidential areas is being made to work
out the system. It will be three to
five times brighter than the present
lights.
The new lights. Mayor Wolfarth
said, will increase the city’s power
bills about $3,000 anually.
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The Dade County Blood Bank located adjacent to the
Jackson Memorial Hospital is still accepting donations
from Miamians. Seen in the luxurious reception room are
three donors waiting to make a “deposit/* The blood is
used in emergencies. Anybody can open an account. It*s
a right handy thing to have when some of your friends
or relatives need a couple of pints. Nurse Merline Bullard
is in charge of the colored division of the bank.
William
liams ave.. Coconut Ohme/was kitt
ed and his body when
he was struck by a hit-and-run driv
er early Monday while he was walk*
In* at NW Seventh ave. and 113th
His body was drenched by five
gallons of gasoline he had bean
carrying in a can.
Dade County Road Patrolmen who
found the body, rsported that Bethel
was returning with a carload ot
friends from a baseball game in
Stuart when he ran out of gas at
XW 7th ave. and 140th st. He was
on his way back to the car with the
gas when he was struck.
Sheriffs Deputy B. F. Shields
was piecing together the shattered
glass and frame of a headlamp,
which he found at the scene of the
accident. He believed that they were
from a 1940 Ford.
Apartment Building
Permits Issued
The building boom in Miami re
mains in high gear.
Building permits were let Wed
nesday for three stores and seven
apartment units at 1034 XIV Third
ave. The permit was in toe name
of Charles G. Thompson and was
listed at 336.000.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Ldndsey obtained a
permit for a six-unit apartment
building at 210 NW 9th st.. vali»ed
at 20,000.