1609-3 Various Miami Beach 16 • $4,89 ,47o :tam! Beach Enjoying
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. ,Budget Set ..
ititi eco d T risf Season ,
I .i,:Mi8rt11 Beach today was rongec� ' the rest of the way to Miami Bea .Y FOr
Reach- :
••ith tourists in the full meaning-, Almost all of the 210 were t ,
i, ;,f that word--vacationists who breakfast in the hotel by 8 a. m.
Ii ave arrived in large groups under beach ortoday d S ttinghwhatey eTfor e nmost the
All Funds Increase
uided tour arrangements with of them as their first glimpse
avel agencies and railroads. Miami Beachwsites, They are scbed-of
t Except Publicity
�.` i At 1 a. m. today ,the intersection, uled to stay four days. -
f Washington ave. and Lincoln i Other hotels reported solid or'al- $Y WILSON McGEE
i d., was as populous as it is at sea-; most solid bookings. The Claridge
on's height, and Collins ave. be-1 management reported it turned " $e�'la"/$l�ttii-1141184e2
away a lleants for rooms the first -, 7
,4sw 23rd st., where several night hlial'�1i Beach city co Gil Sat
stay open until the early �Y
mpots • two days of the week and is booked urday approved a $4,899,470.16
tours was crowded with pedestri- solid again at the end of the week i ,budget. w h i c h schedules in•
ans and loungers, many of them with a large group of school teach-.1 creased expenditures in all de
new arrivals obviously seeing th ers scheduled to arrive over the
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sights. •partments except publicity.
There were even window s op 'w Thee Versailles hotel reported it'+ The operating budget of the ptlb- i'
ers along Lincoln rd. at the our. was
90 per cent booked and had as t licity department was set at $78,
i large Lincoln rd. cafete a was guests vacationists from 21 states 500. $i^600 less than the appropria- ! i
wded. in the U. S. and from four foreign tion for the, Current fiscal y
{ st night 210 persons} swarmed+countries. The Martinique report- which ends Sept. 30.
the lobby of the lackstone led it +vas about 85 per cent booked. PJ Essarn BLAMED
tel- all at one time. 1 The influx of Latin Americans, f
All from Philadelphia, they came'pgpecially Cubans, has necessitated Failure io levy a- full mill for : .
' ' to Florida by Atlantic Coast Line employment by s e v e r a 1 Miami publicity, as the city is empowered
i' and Florida East Coast trains Beach hotels of Spanish-speaking to do, apparently was the result'of
and ,special cars. They de bellhops, telephone operators and l pressure from citizens and or-
ined at West Palm Beach yes other employes. ganizattions protesting the possi- i
day afternoon and then boarded , bility that$195,000 might go to the
- busses for a sightseeing trip j department. under the new polic'
, - - of assessing property at a so-called j
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REALTY SALES- 1CD centvaluation.
Last year's appropriation was -
a full mill levy based on an as- i
6 667 goo•
AT BEACH cent
em ent of between 40-50 per y
,: cenn t market value. ;
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Despite the failure to levy more '
1 Witters Construction Co. Awarded - funds; the publicity department
;, , probably will have at least$100,000
- Contract To Build Home For ealtors to spend for 1947-48.
�- Tom F. Smith, publicity and
/'\tf 7 C,, e-# convewtion bureau director, said ,
1 b`�1 1 During June sales of real est a in Miami Beach i e hoped to save about $12,000
1 1 reached a total of $6,667,800, Mark Smith, president o• from this year's operating budget.
II j ;the Miami Beach Board of Realtors, announced Saturd, plus are undetermined amount from
a surpDus fund which.at one time
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This compares with past records as followers: June, '351 reaches $130,000. Mosftof that cur-
$590,675; . June, 1940, $3,445i008fi0, and June, 1945, $ ,475,. , ,
plus will he expended this year
but a.n estimated $10,000.$20,000
• may be salvaged.
Sales for June, 1945, were the real estate hurlrr 'l •in-lvaut4s4 Totals called for in the budget:
largest for any one month in thy, Beach is in a healthy condition. I General government s 275.045.65
sleety
entire history of the realty board. Prblle servic 1 022.401.08
"So confident are. the officers Paarkis atavice 1100666,195,00
• In June, 1946 and directors of the Miami Beach aids trs'eectionemaintenance 113.176.80
- „,,..i, .,„ Health.sad Welfare 76 522.00
11 - they were $il,� Board of Realtors that the city's Recreation 281.684.00
1,i _ 035,860. In May, growth is assured, they let a con- ; Water department 542.146.20
;! this year, they tract yesterday for the erection of Miscellaneous moan maintenance 155.000 00
Publicltt7 78,500.00
;' were $7,500,600 their own building. 'i Capital outlay for
' President Smith "The contract was let to Witte i improvements 127,249.00 r
��i ;;” Re ervta_ 132.458.47
std the following i Construction co. and 'tile building,'i • Ho td sere Dies obligations
334'497.04 t
Iassifications of on which work will be started right i so seasent to Homestead
+roperties were away, will be erected at a cost of exemption eass4ce 371.360.32
`:gold last month:. $75,000." R
Grand total $4.899.470.18
112 h o m e s, 139 The Realtors' building Will be Of this amount, credits and esti-
iots, 20 a par t built on Dade blvd. It wilt be a mated accruals from sources other ,
"Mints and fouri two-story structure and will Nous than Laxation will raise $1,55,000;
a a:$otels. The ho all the activities of the board. Ex leaving $3,344,470.16 to be raised
e,•enneze' tels were the Col-t ecutive offices will be-on the first ;
1 Smith ony, Alden, Troy, floor, while The main feature of the i by taxation en a net property't
valuation of$195 452.300.
and De Soto. In second floor will be a large audi- ' City iianager Claude A. Ren-
il 'addition to these sales, eight 99- : torium where meetings of the. ; shave was forced Co revise the
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ear leases were made on Beach board's members will be held, i budge! at the last minute to av Y
-properties.• The amount of these count for a $27,000 slash when
1'd leases is not included in the.figurescouncil refused to approve an in-
given above. Since most of' the crease in taxicab occupational a
leases were taken on valuable � licenses.
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Mii rties, if the amount of the l On the credits side, municipal