Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1946 Page: 1 of 24
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE, BELLAIRE
SOUTHSIDE PLACE, BRAESWOOD, SOUTHAMPTON, SOUTHGATE AND ADJACENT AREA
Volume 2—Number 43
HOUSTON, TEXAS, JULY 18, 1946
5c a Copy—Subscription $1.00 a Year
Business Structure Planned On Robinhood
Shown above is an architect's sketch of the new building to be erected by J. R. Jones of 2722 Pern-
berton Drive at Robinhood and Kelvin Drive near The Village. Mr. Jones owns and operates the Supe-
rior Distributing Company and is a dealer in school coaches, funeral cars and city busses. The building
is to be of modern design with the display room encased in glass. The offices and the service depart-
ment will bo built of rock. The entire structure will have 2000 sqtfare feet of floor space.
Times Boulevard To Get
Water Mains, Houston
City Council Agrees
The Houston City Council
agreed last week to participate in
installing water mains on Times
Boulevard, one block south of Rice
Boulevard in The Village, in co-
operation with property owners,
according to a letter received by
L. Goldston, chairman of the Vil-
lage Association, from M. H. West-
erman, city secretary.
It was agreed to install a fire
hydrant at the corner of Kirby
Drive and Amherst with the city
paying the entire cost of $300.
The cost of installing water lines
on the north and south sides of
Times Boulevard will be shared
equally by the city and property
owners with the owners paying ap-
proximately $40 for each 50-foot
lot.
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Memorial Services
For Sgt. Charles Saur
Will Be Held Sunday
Memorial services for Staff Ser-
geant Charles Douglas Saur, 22,
son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Saur
of 6125 Annapolis, will be held
at 11 a. m. Sunday at Grace Lu-
theran Church.
Missing in action in the Philip-
pines since January 21, 1945, Ser-
geant Saur has recently been offi-
cially declared dead by the War
Department. He participated in
the invasion of Munda, New
Guinea and the initial landing at
Lingayen Gulf at Luzon.
Besides his parents, he is sur-
vived by a brother, Stanley; a
sister, Mrs. Margarete Jeppesen,
and a brother-in-law, Richard J.
Jeppesen.
First Issue Of Times
Rolls Off Our Own
Press In The Village
This is the first issue of
the Southwestern Times
printed in our new plant, The
Times Printing Co., at 2510
Times Boulevard, one block
south of Rice Boulevard in
The Village.
While our offices are not
yet completed due to the
building strike, the printing
plant is now in full opera-
tion. Temporary offices are
still in the small building at
the rear of the lot. Job
printing is being done in ad-
dition to printing the paper.
Superior Distributing Company, Motor Coach
Firm, To Be Housed In New Modern Building
The rapidly expanding boun-
dries of The Village shopping area
will soon include more new terri-
tory, it was learned this week.
The Superior Distributing Com-
pany, owned and operated by J. R.
Jones and now located at 5505
Kelvin Drive, will move to another
building to be constructed at 2504
Robinhood. The company is a dis-
tributor of Superior school
coaches, funeral cars and city
busses, and serves South Texas.
The building now occupied by
the company has been sold to John
Burkett Post 77 of the American
Legion.
The new building which will be
at the corner of Robinhood and
Kelvin Drive, will be the third
business house to be constructed
on that block.
Mr. Jones' project will occupy
three lots, the first unit to house
offices and show rooms. Another
building will be erected later for
a service and parts unit.
Construction will start as soon
as building restrictions are lifted,
Mr. Jones said. Architects will be
Harry A. Turner and Clark R.
Kjorlaug.
The new buildings will be of
the latest modern design and will
occupy approximately 2000 square
Firemen From Section
Attend Annual School
At A. & M. This Week
Representatives of volunteer fire
departments of Bellaire, Southside
and West University Place are
this week attending the annual
School for Firemen at A. and M.
College. The state insurance com-
mission allows a three per cent
credit on the insurance key rate
for sending a representative to the
school, provided he successfully
passes the examinations.
Emil Miller will represent Bel-
laire; Jimmy Egloff, Southside,
and W. E. Fitzgerald and J. D.
Allstot, West University.
★
Rice Temple Church
Holds Vacation School
A vacation Bible school is being
conducted this week at the Rice
Temple Baptist Church under the
direction of Rev. J. Vernon
Wheeless, pastor.
Superintendents are Mrs. Whee-1
le s, Mrs. C. E. Wilson and Mrs.
Burt Barry.
feet of space. The show room
will be entirely surrounded by
glass. There will be three offices
and the entire structure will be
air conditioned.
The complete building will have
a rock and glass front with as-
bestos siding. The entire lot on
which the building is to be erected
will be paved, Mr. Jones said.
*
Lions Club Delegates
Leave For Convention
West University Lions Club del-
egates to the International Lions
convention in Philadelphia left by
train last Friday night. The
meeting opened Tuesday and will
continue through Friday.
Representatives from the local
club were Dr. and Mrs. William
Frank Cole of 3201 Amherst, Mr.
and Mrs. Ottis Stahl of 3901 Mar-
quette and Paul Burton of the
Sutherland Road.
Grady Smith Nominated To Head
John R. Burkett Legion Post
Grady Smith, West University
chief of police, recently was nomi-
nated for the office of Post Com-
mander of the John Burkett Amer-
ican Legion Post 77 by a nomi-
nating committee composed of post
members Kerby Miller, Ed Arnold
and Shelley Blewster.
A general election of officers
will feature the regular meeting
of the post tonight. The nomi-
nating committee named one man
for each office but nominations
from the floor will be accepted
prior to the election.
Other members named by the
committee were: R. K. Young,
first vice-conunander; Kerby Mil-
ler, second vice-commander; E. A.
Calvin, Jr., adjutant; Richard
Matthews, finance officer; James
Smith, sergeant-at-arms; Frank
Carek, service officer; Sidney A.
Judson, chaplin; M. Seth Kerby,
historian; W. C. Havner, judge
advocate.
E. H. Barziza, retiring com-
mander, was nominated as fifth
member for the central council.
Nominated for the executive com-
mittee of the po.»„ were C. W.
Kraft, Fred Miller and E. W.
Dechman, Sr.
Post officials announced that
the proceeds from the Legion's
Fourth of July carnival have more
than paid the final installment on
the new post home located at 5505
Kelvin Drive. The deed to the
structure will be presented to the
post tonight, they said.
The post now has a reported
surplus of $1300 with which to
begin the proposed $20,000 addi-
GRADY SMITH
tion to the building which will
consist of an added auditorium and
a second story.
Cub Pack 346 Sponsors
Lawn Party For Scout
Units Of Southgate
The Roberts School Scout House
lawn was the scene Monday of a
get-together for all members of the
Roberts Dads Club, Cub Scouts,
Intermediate Girl Scouts and
Brownies of this section.
The party, sponsored by Cub
Pack 340, featured games, songs,
folk dancing, stories, music and
movies.
Basket lunches were served at
the family party, and cold drinks
were furnished by Pack 346.
Sheriff Candidates Stage Heated Race As Five Men
Fight For Vital Harris County Law Enforcement Post
The five candidates comprising the race for the office
of sheriff have produced some of the most vigorous cam-
paigning seen in the pre-election ballyhooing. Usually domi-
nated by other offices, the race for sheriff has devolved into
one of the most hotly contested and highly publicized con-
tests in the Democratic primary.
Candidates seeking election to the sheriff's office are
Capt. J. R. (Bob) Davidson, Fay Woolley, Angus Morrison,
W. P. Haley and Neal Polk, in-
cumbent.
J. R. Davidson
Capt. J. R. (Bob) Davidson,
head of the Morals Division of
the Houston police force, has
called attention to the soaring
crime rate as evidence of the need
for an experienced and energetic
officer as sheriff.
Basing his candidacy
years of experience in the police
department, Captain Davidson has
promised to eliminate what he
terms the outmoded, careless and
unbusiness-like procedures in the
conduct of the sheriff's office.
While head of the Morals Di-
vision, Captain Davidson directed
the arrest of 30,175 law-breakers
in the past 40 months. Of this
number, 257 were sent to the peni-
tentiary. He has personally cap-
tured and convicted 328 criminals
who now repose in state and fed- BOB DAVIDSON
eral prisons.
He has served as instructor in investigation, conducted by the
the Houston Police School and in State Department of Public Safe-
the advanced school of criminal ty. He is now serving as a spe-
cial lecturer on narcotics at Uni-
versity of Texas Medical School
in Galveston.
Captain Davidson, a veteran of
World War I, is a member of the
American Legion, Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Texas Police Asso-
ciation, Texas Sheriff's Associa-
tion and the International Asso-
ciation of Chiefs of Police. He
is married and has a 16-year-old
daughter.
Fay Woolley
Fay Woolley, who has been con-
stable of Precinct 1 for five years,
says that strictly on the record,
there is room for considerable im-
provement in the sheriff's office.
As a peace officer of 10 years
experience, as an executive in va-.
rious administrative posts for the
last 25 years, and as the "man for
for the job, who will stay on the
job," as he puts it, Constable
Woolley feels he is competent to
correct existing mistakes in the
county's law enforcement system
and guard against future mis-
takes, he says.
Ten years ago he became chief
deputy sheriff in the department's
civil division. When the office of
constable, Precinct 1, became va-
cant in January, 1942, Deputy
Woolley was appointed by the
Commissioner's Court to fill it. In
August, 1942, he was elected over
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Brackman, Irvin H. Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 18, 1946, newspaper, July 18, 1946; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth409874/m1/1/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.