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The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 4

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The Miami Newsi
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Miami, Florida
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4
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4-A MIAMI DAILY NEWS, Tuesday, June 15, 1954 Fellowship Awarded Miamian fs Given Dr. Tesches served on the student council at the college, was vice president of the Florida Club, a member of the Illuminat. Optometry Degree Car Fugitive's Shot Misses Detective A Miami detective sergeant was the target of a bullet Bernard H. Palay, of 9472 Car-lyle Surfside, a student at Emory University School of Medicine, has been awarded a fellowship for two months of study by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. fcdwara rsoei lescher, son of ling Engineering Society and Mrs.

Irma Tescher, 1930 SV 33rd Omega Epsilon Phi, national has graduated from the tometric fraternity. He was also Southern College of Optometry, on the dean's list for scholastic Memphis, Tenn. I attainment. last night during an auto chase but escaped injury, hej reported early today. I ''it FLORIDA'S FIRST AND LARGEST FIBERGLASS AWNING SHUTTER MANUFACTURERS Sgt.

Royal A. Clarke was dnv- "there was a flash of light and ing to headquarters at 10:20 p.m.!a 'pop'." yesterday when he noticed a carj Realizing he had en being driven in a reckless at clarke reached for his ner as he headed south on. NWown ist0, and firedf endeavori 10th Avenue near 36th Street. oc i to hit the gas tank. He said he pulled up alongside Holdup Link Seen the ear and told the driver, a The other car pulled ahead Negro, to pull to the curb aaain.

careeninz and turninz at Fiberglass I 1 I warm IwXli liHSS' 'rn PROTECTION jiLJp lUiSS Redwood Aluminum NO MONEY DOWN FOR FREE ESTIMATE rz' Clarke reported that he was an-; swered with a stream of profanity. Driver Speeds Awiy Twice more, he said, he told the driver to pull over. The car intersections and then stopped sharply in front of 1044 NW 27th Street. The driver leaped out and escaped. Police said that from the descriptions of the car and driver, mm PH.

sped south at a high rate of the fugitive may be a man sought speed and at 29th Street turned by Ocala police for the beating Ft. Lauderdale, Ph. 3-7781 and robbing of a service station operator there a week ago. The right. The next time Clrake came abreast of the car, he reported.

1001 24th ST HJALEAH (Ml off 79th Miami victim was severely injured and i i it ill nillLdl tuiiuiuuil luuaj. I Store Hours 9:30 to 5:30 See Miami Fashions Modeled Tomorrow! Walter Davis, left, assistant to Chief Forecaster Grady Norton at Miami Weather Bureau, looks over an old map on which one of last year's storms (it spent itself at sea) was plotted. At right, Robert Pinder, electronics technician for the U. S. Weather Bureau, overhauls the bureau's search radar set located in the offices atop Lindsey Hopkins Vocational Building.

Miami Daily News Photos by Freeman. 7954 SEASON OPENS OFFICIALLY. Weather Bureau Here Goes On Hurricane Alert Today wwm Print Cotton if Black or Blu fklfJi'A by Palmetto 'I? prin, Whil ffijiEjL Green and. Jt Ir'i cotton. 5fT Coral 't IA hr Gir, I iW v' Sties 10 to II rLyi MSiies 10 to 20 7" 'jtlZfir- 'VV Separate! by Deala Toreador Pants 4.9S Caribbean, have been ''wet said Davis, who spends time each year checking stations in the Bahamas and Cuba, and "there have been storms although they didn't reach Miami." This area's Iat hurricane was Oct.

17-18 in 1950, the worst one since 1926. Weather Bureau records show it was a vet spring and a wet year. Same Naming System Again this year, the storms will be given women's names in alphabetic order Alice, Barbara. Carol, Dolly, Edna, and so on. Until Nov.

18, a fleet of Navy Hurricane Hunter planes will stand ready to fly out and meet all approaching tropical storms to gather information. Fliers have been getting special training in Jacksonville. It may be a little easier on the pilots this year, who last year flew into six bad storms. New radar equipment permits them to by a storm at safe distance and clock it. The Weather Bureau, ordinarily operating from 6 a.m.

to 11 p.m. daily, will have three of last year's extra men back Jack Cox, Rollo Dean and Oscar Norman, plus Harry Yates. Stationed at La.keland with the frost warnint service during the winter, they go on hurricane duty here in the summer. Today was a rather significant one in Greater Miami to start the hurricane season. It was raining, the wind was howling around the 16th floor quarters of the Weather Bureau on Lindsey Hopkins vocational building and the bay was churned up and gray.

Apparently, the 1954 hurricane season has a better than average chance of producing a storm. This has been the rainiest Spring since 1947. That was the year the area had two hurricanes Sept. 17 and Oct. 12.

5 Wet Years Weatherman Davis pointed out "we actually don't know" whether a rainy Spring is a sign there will be hurricanes, but "according to records for Florida and the southeastern United States, there is a greater frequency of hurricanes during wet years. Whether there is a tie-up between the two, we do not know." The past five years in the By ROSE MALLORY Miami Dmily Staff Writer South Florida along with the southeastern United States and the Caribbean went on the alert today as the 1954 hurricane season officially began. A round-the-clock hunt for the howlers over a huge area extending from New Orleans along the coastline to Charleston. S. and into the South Atlantic was launched with the take-off of an Air Force plane from a Bermuda base.

Around-thc-Clock The Miami Weather Bureau will go on 24-hour duty beginning at midnight tonight with four extra personnel aboard. This will continue until the season ends Nov. 15. A flick of a switch at midnight tonight will send into operation a 24 hour special hurricane information circuit linking Miami directly with 34 other weather bureau stations. 6 Navy, two Civil Aeronautics Administration and one Army weather station in the southeastern area.

Howling Winds The station's radar search et was being overhauled today, hurricane warning flags were being dusted off for dis- tribution to the proper spots, and additional charts, to show weather as far east as the coast of Africa were being dug out of the supply room. Walter Davis. forecaster and first assistant to Miami Weatherman Grady Norton, said that for the first time hurricane warnings flags will fly from Dinner Key sometime after July 1 when the city gets the pole up. The flags also will be flown at the Coast Guard station. Miami Beach, and Pier 5 Miami, as usual.

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Hy PA. 2 1211 Why guess what to give a man? Righf-Of-Way Deeds Received lFSt at Richards Then on fl to Tour the United States, the 8 ff fWfK sr Florida Foster Girls IWMMl Dade County Commissioner Preston B. Bird announced today-county engineers have received the necessary deeds to right-of-way for improving Tallahassee Road, four miles south of Florida City. Construction of the new roadway, he said, will cost in the neighborhood of $70,000 and will open up "several thousand acres" of new farmland. It will also provide better access to markets and shipping points for farmers already in the area, he added.

Work will proceed on the project immediately. Bird explained, and it is expected the commission will advertise for bids later this month. MB II alii I 3Iodeling Exciting Made-iii-Miami Fashions Wednesday Afternoon Give him something he's CERTAIN to want. Even if he happens not to indulge, a bottle of I Jb A Gallagher Burton will help his reputation as a host. easis? Gauss -V' GjOuSEEO 2:30 to 4:30 Richards Fashion Floor, 3rd (no charge, of course) make it mellow make it CERTAIN make 4f Yoy'll see them on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town 6th Anniversary Television Show 4 Ik AND Iaci Coot fl hj Daliy'i Orialnal S' Free To everyone attending the irJormel Fashion Showing Ounce Bottle of Coppertone Suntan Lotion.

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