THE MIAMI TIMES—-The Peoples* NewspaperSATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1956

People-Places and ThingsBy LAWRENCE B. COOPER

THE MIAMI TIMES IS 33 yearsold. Beginning on Labor Day wewill begin our 34th year.

We (and I can very well say we,since I have been connected withthe Times for 30 of its 33 years)have weathered many storms. TheTimes was ibirthed when veryfew people read newspapers ofany kind, especially Negro peri-odicals. The “Chief” had a hardtime getting his paper into thehomes of the community. Not aneasy one to give up, Chief appear-ed before clubs, church congre-gations and groups, explain-ing the merits of a Negronewspaper, carrying news of so-cial events, clubs and news ofgeneral interest to the race.

Editor Reeves pioneered andset the pace for Negro newspapershere in Dade county and has seenmany others bloom and fade inthe local journalistic field.

Besides the Chiefs battleagainst the uninformed, he had tofight the elements of nature andthe financially lean years with-out missing a single issue. Hur-ricanes and breakdown of inade-quate machinery threatened can-cellation of publications.

We imagine that after every 1anniversary the Chief thinks back iand heaves a sigh of relief—theuphill struggle was hard, but itwas worth it.

The Miami Times had its light-er side, too, like the time whenFred Aranha (now a resident of’Washington, D. C.) in the late20’s, after being on the staff forseveral months assorting “pie”and didn’t know a line gaugefrom a hole in the wall, demand-ed a raise from $4 to $5; when E.E. Davis of the Excelsior Presshad “(printed” a half dozen ormore hand bills on the press be-fore realizing that he hadn’t putthe form on yet; when I moveda stool from under the Chief,resulting in his sprawling to thefloor, eye glasses .going one wayand his dignity going the other.This also resulted in my beingtermed a blockhead, and the jackof all male donkeys; when Ken-neth Robinson, studying to be ahypnotist from a mail order bookput Fred to “sleep” and be-gan demonstrating his prowess £sa hypnotist. He took a pin andinflicted a wound in Fred’sforehead. A yell went .u>> fromFred and we had to stop a near

riot. Kenneth gave up his career.Or like the time when I andGarth were playing cowboy andI lassoed him round the neck andattempted to pull him up in anavocado tree. A near hanging—-and a walloping for me from theChief.

From the first man that walkedinto the Times and started settingtype until our newest employee,Benny Edwards, there have beena long line of characters.

Os all the 25 or more employeesof the Times through the years,we were and still are hap(?y tobe members of the staff of oneof the institutions which hasbrought progress and understand-ing to our beloved community.We thank you, especially, and ourChief for this privilege.

THIS WEEK The Miami Timesintroduces a new column repos-ing along our other columnists.It bears the caption “Looking TheSports World Over” and Is author-ed by Leo Armbrister. We don’tthink an introduction of Leo isnecessary, but for those whodon’t know this personable chapwe give you a thumb nail intro-duction. Leo is a printer, havingbeen employed by the Times inthe early ’4o’s until _after WorldWar II when he joined EasternAirlines.

Leo has also been interested insports (baseball particularly theDodgers mainly). When his Dodg-esr ar engaged in a crucial seriesLeo msy take, off at the drop ofa pass ticket and wing his wayto the scene of battle.

For a real interesting piece onthe pennant race in the NationalLeague and the recent light-weight fight last Friday, dig Leo’sconcise jottings on another pageof this issue.

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Good Morning JudgeNews from Miami's Municipal Precinct Court

JUDGE JOHN D. JOHNSON, PRESIDINGBv ELLIOTT J. PIE2E. Times Staff Writer

Another excessive total of 108cases was listed for trial in JudgeJohn D. Johnson’s MunicipalCourt Monday morning.

The case of Alvin Waits of19308 NW 2nd court, chargedwith being drunk and with as-sault and battery on Mrs. Jeral-dine Kendrick, was only one ofhighlight cases of the day’s ses-sion. The incident occurred onFriday night at the apartmentwhere Waits and Mrs. Kendricklive.

Mrs. Kendrick told the 'courtthat she went to church Fridaynight and upon her return shelearned that Waits had beaten herthree children and had created aconsiderable amount of distur-bance at her home. Mrs. Ken-drick further explained that a

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little later when she reprimand-ed Waits for beating the child-ren, he jumped on her and be?anbeating her. Her father, who alsolives at the same home, inter-ceded in an effort to make peace,and Waits also jumped on himand began beating him. Mrs. Ken-drick said she was forced to biteWaits several times in order toget him off her father. The policewere called and Waits was arrest-ed.

Mrs. Kendrick’s daughter, Ben-ny Joe, also told the court howWaits had beaten her and the restof the children, Mrs. Kendrickand her father.

In his defense, Waits deniedbeating the family as charged, and

claimed that he could not beatboth the daughter and the father,whom he said jumped on him atthe same time. But Waits’ storycould not stand up in view of thetestimony of the. little girl, whomthe judge said was too young tomake up a story. Judge Johnsonfined Waits a total of $265 or 66days in jail on the two charges.

Among other cases heard anddisposed of were the following:

Hilda Mortimore, charged withdrunkeness, disorderly conduct,using profanity, dismissed forlick of prosecution.

Carl Ambrose, charged withdisorderly conduct, creating a dis-turbance and with malicious

"h'ef (destruction of a door—-valued at $10). Miss Betty Camp-bell, complainant, dismissed.

Wilbert Daniels, charged withassault and bettery on JackVh'tten fined $75 or 30 days.

Dudley Green, changed withassault and battery on Ellen Bell—dismissed but a bench war-rant will be issued for Miss Bell.

George F. Taylor, charged withiisorderly conduct, sleeping on

private property, fined .$25 or 10days.

Frank Junior Brown, chargedwith discharging firearms in theity limits fined SSO or 20

days.

Harrison Gordon, charged with•eckless driving and driving with-

out a driver’s license, fined S4Oor 16 days.

UNITED CHURCHWOMEN TO MEETThe Council ojt United Church

Women will have the first meet-ing of this current year Wednes-day, September 5, 5:00 pjn. atMt. Zion Baptist Church. AllChurches are invited and urgedto send representatives.

Among the many activities ofthe Council during last year wassponsoring a wedding of the Rosesfor equipping a dispensary at theBoy Scout in Princeton,Florida. The Colmcil extendssincere appreciation to allChurches and individuals whohelped to make the project a suc-cess.

Let’s make this another banneryear.

Mrs. E. M. Espy, presidentMrs. L. W. Mitchell, reporter

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