The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 3, 1957 Page: 1 of 20
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OUR SIDE,
TRACKS^
Seldom do I follow up one
treatise with another on the
same subject, since T feel be-
laboring a point is boring. How-
ever, I began to keep a “box
score” on the calls after last
week’s deal on the school board.
I was surprised at the re-
action, since experience in this
* business has been that only the
“againsts” react violently.
Rut. to the point, The TEXAN
received 37 nhone calls and
letters IN FAVOR of the senti-
ments expressed, while only two
calls were opposed and one of
the latter calls was to inform me
1 was a communist of the first
water for even thinking the way
I did.
Here is one comment that, I
think, sums up the situation as
I see it:
“She (Mrs. Maughmer) talks
r T about not influencing kids with
prejudiced information: that
is worse than KEEPING infor-
mation from people. It is worse
by far because it denies people
the right to weigh and decide
for themselves.”
One of the two opposition
calls stated that communism was
so insidious a thing that a per-
son didn’t know what was going
on when the Reds go into action.
So, according to this mad, we
shouldn’t publicize the commun-
r ist approach, just keep still
f about it so we wouldn’t get
people “excited.”
His opinion, apparently, was
that high school students aren’t
mature enough to learn about
or understand our present day
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The new Whitehill Stables &
School of Riding (foruyjrly the
Bellaire, Stables) offers a com-
plete program of lessons for
beginners and advanced riders
in both children’s and adult
courses.
Now under direction of Mrs.
Sandy Whitehill, who has 20
years of instructing and show
horse riding to guide her, is the
new owner.
Horace Alley is the new train-
er and instructor in gaited as
well as pleasure horses, and he
—as well as Mrs. Whitehill—is
a member of the American
Horse Show Assn.
Whitehill Stables’ School of
Riding will operate at all times,
Mrs. Whitehill said, under close
supervision with respect to the
safety of patrons.
Riding courses include lessons
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‘Kidnapped’ Tot Sleeps Through Frantic Search
For 20 terrifying minutes last
Thursday night Dr. and Mrs.
M. C. Frnka, 4931 Valeric,
thought their four-year-old
daughter, Janis, had been kid-
napped!
Rut while police, frantic par-
ents, and sympathetic neighbors
conducted a frenzied search,
Janis sndozed peacefully away
in a closet, comfortable snuggled
under a blanket.
She never even woke up!
“My wife had gone to a sor-
ority meeting and I was baby-
sitting,” said Dr. Frnka. “About
9:30 I put Janis to bed and went
in the den to watch television
and fell asleep.
“When my wife came in about
10:30, she peeped in on the chil-
dren (the Frnkas have a two-
year-old son, Mark) and found
that Janis’ bed was empty.
“We searched the house and
couldn’t find her and by that
lime we were pretty frantic so
we called police—we thought
she’d been kidnapped.
“Three patrol cars and six
I policemen were at our house in
| three minutes.
“When the officers started
( swinging spotlights into the
I shrubbery up and down the
[ street the neighbors came out
and joined the search.
“Our neighbor, Mrs. Archie
! McDonald, decided to look
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THE
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BELLAIRE'S OWN WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Serving Bellaire. Flack Estates, Roblndell, Brae Burn Terrace, Larkwood, Willow Bend, Westbury, Sharpstown, Bonham Acres
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VOL. 4—No. 8
Bellaire, Texas, Wednesday, April 3, 1957
5c—Subscription $3.00 per year
landfill Draws I
Protests From
Civic Group
The Braeburn Suburban Civic
Club, composed of residents
living near the city’s sanitary
landfill on Ruffino Road, filed a
five-point protest with regard to
operation of the fill with city
council Monday night.
The written protest, submitted
by S. L. Jacques and signed by
Elmer Johnson, club president,
listed the following objections:
1. Burning (residents have
charged, that not only trash
hut garbage is burned at the
fill sight).
2. Uncovered garbage—fail-
ure to cover garbage daily
with two feet of dirt breeds
flies and rats and encourages
parks of dogs.
3. Littering of roads (from
the City of Bellaire to the
dump.
4. Water filled trenches and
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Baylor Choir
To Sine/ At
Bellaire Baptist
The Baylor Religious Hour
Choir from Baylor University,
Waco, will present a special pro-
gram Friday evening 8 p.m. in
the sanctuary of the Bellaire
Baptist Church.
The Baylor Religious Hour
Choir was organized by Dick
Baker in 1948 to meet the need
for a choir to sing for Wednes-
day evening religious services
conducted on the campus of Bay-
lor University. This service, fea-
turing outstanding speakers, un-
usual lighting and sound effects
was designed to appeal to the
college students and to serve as
a mid-week reminder of relig-
ious and moral obligations.
This year the choir has been
under the supervision of Leroy
Yarborough.
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Piece About PoAtmcuiteAAtUp,
The Editor
Bellaire Texan
Bellaire, Texas
It makes me mad all over that anyone would suggest
that any man except the ohe who knows the correct way to
handle mail for Bellaire could possibly be made postmaster
to succeed Leon. Mr. Ambs has lived out here for a long time
and has worked in the Post Office longer than anyone except
Leon Rosner. He knows how to take care of the job.
I am the oldest patron of the Bellaire Post Offiee,
having lived here for 50 years come next December and
have just passed my 80th birthday. I can remember when
Bellaire didn’t even have a post office and we had to go
to Houston if we even wanted a loaf of bread. For years,
wc had to call at the Post Office for our mail. It is de-
livered these days.
Mr. Amos had a lot to do with building up the delivery
service out here and knows all about how to take care of
post office business. It’s ridiculous that anyone would even
think another person should be made postmaster when the
man trained for the job is right there in the office ready to
do it.
I am hoping the people of Bellaire will demand that
Mr. Amos be appointed to succeed Leon because he is just
naturally the best man for the job.
Mrs. Clemmie Crowell
924 S. Renwick
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YOUTH BURNED WHEN CHEMICALS.
MATCHES IN POCKET IGNITE
Martha S. Montague residence at
406 Sixth, playing records and
dancing with two friends, Gail
Kelly and Pat Coke, when the
accident occured.
A PROUD MOMENT FOR BELLAIRE METHODIST
The cornerstone goes into place at the new wood Crane, the Rev. H. J. Rhodes, the Rev.
Bellaire Methodist sanctuary. Participating W. Darwin Andrus, Cliff Wilkie, John Per-
in the ceremony are, left to right, J. Sher- shon, Dr. Homer T. Fort and Link Baker.
Lay Cornerstone
For Bellaire
Meth, Sanctuary
A crowd of more than 400
gathered Sunday afternoon at
Bellaire Methodist Church for
the cornerstone laying ceremony
for the .new church sanctuary.
Speaker for the occasion was
Dr. Homer T. Fort, district
superintendent of the Houston-
West District of the Methodist.
Church.
Those who participated in
the actual placement of the
cornerstone were Dr. Fort,
Link Baker. 4706 Laurel, chair-
man of trustees; the Rev. W.
Darwin Andrus, pastor of the
church: John Persohn, 105
Marrakech, vice chairman of the
official board; the Rev. H. J.
Rhodes Jr., associate minister of
the church; J. Sherwood Crane,
272 S. Post Oak Lane, chairman
of the building council, and Cliff
Wilkie, 4441 Oleander, charge
lay leader.
Inside the cornerstone was
a sealed box containing the fol-
lowing items: a copy of the Re-
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Sixtecn-year-old Ronald Kel-
ler, 5303 Jessamine, was severly
burned on his left leg Friday
evening in a freak accident.
Ronald was dancing to records
at a neighbor’s home when a
folder of matches and a package
of sodium peroxide in his pocket
made contact and burst into
flame.
The youth raced across the
street to his home where his
father, Guy Keller, pulled the
burning trousers from his body.
He was taken to Hermann
Hospital by Earthman ambu-
lance.
Second Degree
The Marian High junior suf-
fered second degree burns over
his left leg. His mother said he
would bo hospitalized for about
two weeks.
“He’s very interested in chem-
istry,” said Mrs. Keller. “I guess
he just put the package of sod-
ium peroxide in his pocket and
forgot about it.”
She said Ronald was at. the
Army Of Ants
Snafu Post Oak
Siynal Light
t hief .Lick O'Brien wasn’t
either suffering from “bats In
the belfry” when he attributed
Hu* signal light failure last
week at Pine and Post Oak to
“ants in the eontrol box.”
In answer to complaints
about the lights being out of
order the ehief and Consulting
Engineer Doug Byrnes investi-
gated.
They found that ants—some
20 to 30 thousand of them—
had eaten all the insulation
(a tasty pia<4ir) off the wires
and clogged up the time clock.
‘Operation Texan’ Begins Saturday
On Saturday, April 6, a small
army of Bellaire area house-
wives will begin “operation
Texan”. Armed with only a win-
ning smile and a sample Texan,
these busy ladies will have the
opportunity of making money for
themselves or the organizations
to which they belong.
Kick-off Meeting
Thursday evening, April 4, a
“kick-off” meeting will be held
in the Bellaire Texan office at
7:30 p.m. There are still some j
openings left and interested |
homemakers are asked to call I
the subscription campaign direc-
tor, Mrs. Cecile Keeper, at MA
3-3764 or the Bellaire Texan
office, MO 7-1701.
At the end of the contest, in
addition to a substantial com-
mission for each subscription
sold, the ladies selling the most
Texans will walk off with over
$600 in valuable prizes.
Big Prizes
The first three prizes of equal
value will be a room air con-
ditioner, a portable television set
and $100 worth of merchandise
from the Bellaire Record and
Camera Shop. Fourth prize is
$50 in cash.
Other contest awards include
a Lady Schick electric shaver,
a waffle iron, an electric skillet,
and a rotobroiler. Completing
the list of prizes will be a $10
gift certificate from the Bellaire
Mon and Boys Shop and a $10
gift certificate from the Wee
Modern Shop.
This simplified contest com-
pletely eliminates the time wast-
ing need of calling on the large
number of people who are al-
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 3, 1957, newspaper, April 3, 1957; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521171/m1/1/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.