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Newspaper
Miami Times
Location
Miami, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1957
Page
11
A 1957 column notes resolutions to study harder, reach goals, improve academics, work for an integrated society, accept responsibilities, be thrifty, rise above the norm, aid world progress, seek divine guidance, and uphold justice. It recounts holiday reunions with Andrea Folsom, Alphonso Roberts, and others, plus injuries and farewells as students return to college life.
Judge John D. Johnson presided over a Monday morning session listing 92 trial cases. The lengthy hearing between Mrs. Essie Bell McCray and Mrs. Maude Elevine centered on a Christmas Day dispute over a skate key, with both women charged for disorderly conduct and Elevine also charged with resisting arrest. McCray was fined $50 or 20 days after a guilty verdict on disorderly conduct. Elevine was found guilty on both charges, totaling $150 or 60 days in jail.
Richard Widmark values artistic conscience over cash, turning down about a half million in contracts last year for roles he deemed not strong enough. He finally accepts a lead in Run For The Sun, filmed in Superscope and Technicolor, opening Sunday at The Capitol Theatre via United Artists.
Esther Prat reports on a youngsters bowling clinic held Saturday at 3 p.m after three weeks of training. The piece lists scores from a three-game total led by Henry Johnson with 403 and James Harris 261, along with other top bowlers. also notes league schedules and a sales party at Dotty McIntosh’s home to support the program.
The Business and Professional Club of Murrell Branch YWCA will hold its first 1957 meeting on Tuesday January 8 at the Reactivation Health Center suite 122 Sir John Hotel. All active and inactive B and P members are invited to attend and renew loyalty for 1957. Nurse Susan Harris will be guest of honor and demonstrate spot reducing and other Center services after the business session starting at 8 p.m.
Volunteers urgently needed to drive patients to and from doctors offices and hospitals in downtown Miami and Liberty City. Approximately three hours weekly. Call FR 1-6063 for information at the American Cancer Society in the Huntington Medical Building.
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