The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 9, 1959 Page: 1 of 32
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I wish people woutd quit send-
ing me things that look like
checks. Gets me all excited and
the letdown is terrific. Makes
me cuss, too.
Picked up the mail the
other morning and riffled
through the stack. I note that
others do this, too. They rush
in. advance upon their P. O.
Box with expectant air, pur-
posefully work out the combi-
nation, reach in, grab the mail,
hurry to the table, sort it, hold
some envelopes up to the light
to look through.
Then their face either expands
into a smile or gets real glum
looking. This is a daily ex-
perience at the post office and,
I. must confess, I, too, quite often
go through that routine.
And often, this happens: I
hustle up to the box and extract
my mail and hustle to the table
and proceed to arrange it in
sizes of envelopes, the better to
carry it to the office. In the
process (if times are tight) I
hopefully squint at the letters
with what I wished were X-ray
eyes to learn before I get to the
office if that big check is in-
cluded.
There, then, is this official
looking envelope. It has an im-
posing signature on the upper
left hand corner. It has a
w i n d o w pane aperature
through which I see the Tex-
an’s name and address.
The name and address is
printed on yellow or green paper
of the exact tint and texture
of a check. In fact, there are
those little wavy lines that as-
sures you it IS a check. In fact,
you tell yourself, it is the check
you are waiting for to make the
payroll or pay the rent. You
quickly arrange the mail, hop in
your car, perhaps stop off for
a cup of coffee on the way back
to the office, sink happily in your
chair and open the mail. Tsk.
Weekend Spotlight On Bellaire Junior Bowl
BY VIC DRISCOLL
The Eleventh annual Bellaire
All-Star Jr, Bowl Football
Game, sponsored b.y the Bellaire
Recreation Dept, and the Bel-
laire Optimist Club, will open
Friday at Feld Park with an all-
southwest area cast.
The teams are from the Bel-
laire Recreation Dept, and from
Fun Inc. alt from this area. This
should draw a very large crowd.
Area schools represented are
Red, Sutton, Lovett, Richmond,
Parker, Condit, Horn, Brae Burn,
Cunningham, Gordon, Long, and
Johnston. Boys from, these
schools make up the teams.
Bowl Schedule
Here’s the evening’s schedule:
At 5:30 p.m. two Junior Teen-
Age teams will start the action
on the field as the Bellaire Red
Birds meet the Bellaire Bull-
dogs.
At 6:30 p.m. the Bellaire third
and fourth grade champs, Cun-
ningham, will meet the FUN Inc.
Third and Fourth Grade All-
Stars.
Eight o’clock will signal the
start of the “main event'’ of the
evening as the Bellaire All-Stars
meet the FUN Inc. All-Stars. |
Halflime activities will feature
the Bellaire Recreation Depart-
ment city championship drill
squad, the Brae Burn Scotties
from Brae Burn Elementary
School under the direction of
Mrs. Olin Bass.
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BELLAIRE'S OWN WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Serving Bellaire, Meyerland, Flack Estates, Robindell, Brae Burn Terrace, Larkwood, Willow Bend, Westbury, and Sharpstown
Vol. 6—No. 42
Bellaire, Texas, Wednesday, December 9, 1959
5c—Subscription $3.00 per year
This (Tuesday) morning, sort-
ing my mail as usual, I noticed
a tall, ruddy-faced, husky man
and a companion enter the post
office. The guy bent himself into
a pretzel to peer into the box,
fiddled with the combination,
opened the little door, crammed
his big paw into the box, ex-
tracted a few letters and quickly
fanned them.
His face lit up. He gave that
knowing nod to his friend as
he held the envelope up to the
light. He thrust a finger under
the flap, ripped the envelope
open and looked lovingly at
the check he extracted. Then
his face dropped. His eyes
glared. He uttered a fierce
oath. He ripped the “check”
in two, hurled it at the waste
basket, lie and his friend de-
parted, muttering.
I picked up the two pieces of
the torn “check” and found that
all you had to do was sign your
name on the hack side and it
did, indeed, become a check.
Then send it back to the sender
and you would shortly receive a
booklet on tax information that
would save you untold sums of
money. I sympathize with that
man. A pox to those who would
so rudely awaken us to reality
on a frosty morning.
Christmas Music
Rings Out In
Area Churches
The joy of the Christmas sea-
son finds its most thrilling ex-
pression this week in song as
church choirs recount again the
glorious story of the birth of the
Christ Child.
The‘combined choirs of Geth-
semane Methodist Church will
present a special program of
Christmas music at 8:30 and 11
a.m. services on Dec. 13.
The program will include
J‘Rise Up Early," by Kountz sung
by the combined choirs; "What
Strangers Are These?” an old
Scottish carol sung by the Junior
Choir; "March of the Wise Men,”
by Evans, sung b^v the Adult
Choir, "The Snow Lay On The
Ground,” a traditional carol sung
by the Youth Choir; a solo by
Miss Kathleen Holm, "The Holy
Child” by Martin; "In Bethle-
hem’s Lowly Manger’ by Wil-
liams, sung by the combined
choirs; "Two Shepherds Fast
Asleep’ by Davis, sung by the
Adult Choir; "The Sleep of the
Holy Child” by Anderson, sung
by the Junior and Adult Choirs;
a solo by Mrs. Shirley Wiss, "The
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SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE
Santa Arrives
Saturday At
Community Bldg.
Bellaire small fry have a
date with Santa Saturday.
St. Nick will arrive at the
Bellaire Community Building,
300 South Rice, at 9 a.m. and
for three hoars lie’ll bend an
ear to hear the Christmas
wishes of the little ones. He’ll
also be passing out gifts of
candy.
To add to a morning of mer-
riment there’ll be a program of
movies which your little one
won’t want to miss.
This is the Bellaire Recre-
ation Department’s Christmas
gift to the youngsters and they
hope the Santa fans show up
in droves!
Tough guys like these from throughout
the Southwest area will be giving out with
plenty of excitement for the spectators
Friday night at Feld Park as the Bellaire
Parks and Recreation Department stages
the annual Bellaire Junior Bowl. Meeting
in the main event of the evening will be the
All-Stars from the Fifth and Sixth Grade
Leagues of Bellaire and of Football United
Inc. Here taking each others measure for
that big contest are, left, Sugar iee of
the Bellaire All-Stars and Gary Myrow of
the FUN Inc. All-Stars.
—Photo by David's—Bellaire Circle
Jteq, Quyt! Put MiltUtae
Ok ^llud GUnlUmai Jliit!
Kiwanians will herald the
Christmas Season with their an-
nual Mistletoe Sale Saturday.
Final plans see the service
club salesmen working with
members of the Recreation De-
partment’s Anchoreltes in man-
ning major traffic centers in
Bellaire. Key Clubbers will be
at posts in the Meyerland Plaza
shopping center.
Launched last year, the project
met with a fine reception by
local shoppers. Nearly 2,000 of
the attractive and colorful little
boxes weresold during a one-
week period. Profits from the
sale were used in defraying ex-
penses of Kiwanis welfare and
youth projects in the local area.
Inclusion of the Anchorettes,
girls precision drill team, and
the Bellaire High School Key
Club in the activity, will bene-
fit both of those organizations.
Bob Martin, Kiwanis President
said, "All sales made by the
Anchorettes and the Key Club
will result in the young folks in
those organizations sharing in
the profits of the project.” The
Anchorettes expect to use the
money to purchase honors
trophies.
Mistletoe will also be sold
by local businessmen who are
Kiwanians. These sale points
will include Bill Kellog’s Hum-
ble Service Station, Bellaire Men
and Boys’ Shop, Junior Miss
Shop, Foote’s Cafeteria, Bill
Massey’s Phillips 66 Service Sta-
tion, Anderson Pharmacy, and
Madings Drug Store in the Tri-
angle Center.
Mistletoe will be priced at 30
cents per box.
At The Council Table
Speeder Harassed Resident ASK
For Bump In Middle Of Street!
It’s not unusual for the city
fathers of Bellaire or any other
municipality, for that matter, to
get complaints from the citizenry
about bumps in city streets.
However, Bellaire council
Monday night was faced with
the unusual request that they
"install” a bump on Magnolia
Street.
Seems the residents of the
block-long street running be-
tweeen Avenue A and Avenue
B feel that blob of asphalt in the
middle of the block would serve
as a speed break for motorists
who residents say use the street
as a drag strip.
John Goss, 4530 Magnolia,
presented a petition bearing the
signatures of 17 Magnolia St.
residents asking that the asphalt
"bump” be installed.
’Mayor Louis Ehlers said he
didn’t think much of the pro-
posed solution.
Salem Lutheran To
Dedicate New Building
Dedication services for the
new home of Salem Evangelical
Lutheran Church at 4930 West
Bellfort will be held at 3 p.m.
Sunday.
Phillip Walberg Jr., of Austin
president of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synod of Texas and Lou-
isiana will be the dedication
speaker.
The new building will be used
for worship the first time for
Sunday morning services.
The newly completed $75,000
unit is a parish house which con-
tains a fellowship hall, nine Sun-
day School classrooms, church
office and the pastor’s study. The
fellowship hall which will seat
about 300 people will be used as
a temporary sanctuary until a
permanent sanctuary can be
built, according to the Rev. My-
ron K. Blackman, pastor of the
church.
Members of the building com-
mittee are Doyle Clemmer, 2838
Almeda Plaza, Edward Krause,
4903 Imogene, Edgar Mueller,
4857 Kingfisher, Roger Swinson,
4069 Nenana, and Harold Wolff,
4131 McDermed.
"Those speed breaks have
been tried in other places,” he
said, "And it’s just made matters
worse. The faster you go over a
bump the less you feel it.’
Councilman Henry Hodell ex-
pressed impatience with the
whole idea of speed breaks.
"That’s no solution,” he said.
"We’ve got enough bumps on
other streets where, people are
complaining about them. A few
tickets is what we need to cure
that sort of thing.”
Police Cooperative
Mr. Goss said he wanted to
make it clear-that the depart-
ment had been very cooperative
in following up on residents’
complaints to try to stop the
speeding. ^
"But they’ve got a real prob-
lem,” he said. "Some streets
are a lot worse than ours and
it’s a problem we’re going to
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Soops & Shoppers
Brittain's Broiler Burger
Opens Doors Saturday
Brittain’s Broiler Burger, fea-
turing "South Texas’ First and
Finest Charcoal-Broiled Ham-
burger,” opens for business
Saturday morning at 5216 Bel-
laire Blvd. at Old Richmond
Road.
Hours for the new Broiler
Burger are 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.
weekdays and 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Sundays.
The third of a group of Brit-
tain’s Broiler Burgers in the
Houston area, the Bellaire con-
cern is housed in a modern new
building equipped with the new-
est facilities for serving the
public, according to C. L. Brit-
tain who, with wife Mary, oper-
ate the growing chain.
The building, in modern decor
and featuring a huge mural pic-
turing the Old West, contains
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 9, 1959, newspaper, December 9, 1959; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521982/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.