Word: hialeah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hialeah Gardens, Fla. (pop. 180) has only one distinguishing feature. Fourteen miles northwest of Miami, it straddles U.S. Highway 27, one of the roads that carry thousands of money-loaded tourists to Hialeah Race Track, just six miles away. In 1955, unhappily aware that all this traffic was racing by-much of it trying to get to the track in time for the daily double-Hialeah Gardens set itself up a whopping new industry: a speed trap...
...speeding fines and forfeitures. When the anguished cries of Highway 27's motorists brought on a Dade County grand jury investigation and forced him out of office as police chief, Grimsley had a worthy successor. In twelve months new Chief William C. Geronimo and the Hialeah Gardens whistle-blowers racked...
...that fine income, Hialeah Gardens was unhappy-and last week it sprang its own trap. A reform ticket, voted in by 72-6, took over the government, with the new mayor, grey-haired Mrs. Hazel Shattock, pledged to abolish the speed trap. Major reason for the change: the people of Hialeah Gardens had seen hardly a penny of the speed-trap collections. Most of the money had gone toward a new jail, the cost of keeping traffic records, and ever-new, always souped-up patrol cars...
...Still scorning records and running simply to win. Ron scored his double victory for the second year in a row, took the team title for Villanova by just 2⅓ points over Manhattan. ¶Going down the stretch in a wild scramble to win Hialeah's $135,000 Flamingo Stakes, Jockey Manuel Ycaza whipped at his bay mount. Jewel's Reward, with understandable zeal. But Jewel's Reward flinched from the lefthanded slashing, carried wide and collided with Calumet's fast-closing Tim Tarn. And when Tim Tam, with Champion Willie Hartack aboard, was nosed...
...With Jockey Willie Hartack beating out his usual rib-rattling tattoo (TIME, Feb. 10). Calumet Farm's Iron Liege sprinted home by half a length at Florida's Hialeah to win the $65,700 McLennan Handicap and Calumet stable's first major purse of the 1958 racing season...