1674-3 Herbert FrinkCANDIDATES FOR SEA
Frink, Gold.
'
i-Tanc�rf a �.•.� , member of the
Council for the
rs, will stand for re-
Miam each for 231
yea s, Frink, a
na e Floridian,
tw ce has been
el cted vice -may-
or a n d garnered
the highest num-
be of votes in
th4 city's history
during h 1 s cam-
paign four years
ago.
Owner and op-
erator of the
FRINF Vann Cleaners,
fought vigorously for the building
of a municipal auditorium, city hos-
pital, purchase of ocean -front prop-
;he
erfoyer (u�blic parks. I �icted,
he htlth >fACr. r� t ng of
a ,yo rest' n e r and
work for better municipal lighting
and needed repaving of streets and
• sidewalks.
• Frink is a member of the Elks,
Masons, Scottish Rite, Shriners,
Odd Fellows, Kiwanis, Miami
Beach Junior Chamber of Com-
merce. Member of the Methodist
church, he lives with his wife and
two children at 1700 Jefferson ave.
��H rbe rin , ex -mayor,
w
a e,.fi•
193irrs_t..,k rr Sltnan in
Jur9. In t election
Frink's cot tci s began
wh oui i n im to fill
th • oc pied by Art Childers,
res ned holdover. In 1941, Frink
was second high man to Bur -
bridge and was elected to a four-
year terns and
repeated this
V< in 1945.
Thus, when
his present
term expires in
*June, 1949, he
w f 1 1 have
served as coun-
cilman for 10
cons ecutive
years. In 1943
`r FRINI{ he was elected
to a two-year term as mayor.
Frink gained the reputation of
being the most active mayor in
history of the city, often devoting
as much as 18 hours a day to his
job. He owns a highly successful
laundry and dry cleaning estab-
lishment.
I DON'T KNOW whether ayor Herb Frin - of
Miami Beach took advice (fYfISTTe rela-
tions consul, or whethe he proceeded on his own -
when he wrote to,ent Harry S. Truman,
suggesting thus% mic bombs to break up
hurric s, but'the'results haven't been so good.
ii- with, Herb's letter got a whale of
a ,1 • publicity. But a considerable segment
of h s constituency doesn't like that kind of pub-
licity, and is saying so with some 'teat. On the
other hand, he finds support from some theorists,
but for the most part writers point out that the
letter tied up Miami Beach with hurricanes, which
they don't regard as too wholesome an idea.
The mayor's letter was an extension of a long-
standing argument as to whether these disturb-
ances can be destroyed by counter disturbances.
In the early years of the discussion the sending
of warships to fire salvos in the middle of the
storms was suggested. Then the flight of bomb -
dropping airplanes came next, after which the
atomic bomb. Weathermen generally are agreed
that such suggestions are interesting but futile.
LT. MICHAEL ROBBE of AAF Redistribution
Station No. 2, Miami Beach, has a theory
which takes that of Mayor Frink a little further.
Instead of dropping the bomb in the center of the
storm, he would drop it far out at sea on the per-
imeter to create a new low pressure area.
"Atmospheric conditions inside an area of an
atomic bomb explosion," he says, "may be inviting
enough for the hurricane to enter this area. The
hurricane may lose its potency, in fact it may be
further activated, but it will have changed its
course."