The crowning of the new Miss Cayman was the main story on the front page of the 15 May 1974 Cayman Compass. Dorothy McCoy, 19, of North Side, took the title to “tumultuous applause” from the audience of 1,500 people at the Holiday Inn. According to the article, McCoy placed first “by an overwhelming lead on the other five contestants”. The women represented each district of Grand Cayman plus Cayman Brac.
Also making the front page was a story about a hotel conference room (also at the Holiday Inn but on a different day) that was damaged by an “intoxicated sailor” off the HMS Nubian. Ceiling tiles, lights and doors were ripped out, with one person who saw the room saying, “I thought at first the that the room hadn’t been completed. Only the floor wasn’t damaged.” The estimated cost was $2,000 which, a government spokesman indicated, had probably been paid for already. No further information was offered about the drunken sailor.
Nurses were celebrated at the annual tea party at the hospital, an event enjoyed by visitors, patients and, of course, nurses. The party was part of Nurses Week events, which were attended by, among others, Governor Roy Crook and his wife, and hospital administrator John Whalen and his wife.
Once more, the issue of littering was addressed. The editorial, ‘Leisure and Litter’, said that ahead of the tree-planting holiday set for the upcoming Monday, a date previously celebrated as Commonwealth Day, “as citizens… a greater effort can be thrown into our approach to community life, so that as Caymanians we may prove to the rest of the Commonwealth and indeed the world that we are good trees very capable of bringing forth good fruit”. It also implored people to take care of the environment, noting that Cayman’s lovely beaches are often left in a “horrid state with… bottles, cans, and other containers making a somewhat despicable sight”.
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