The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1955 Page: 1 of 16
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OUR SIDE
TRACKS
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J.K.eG.
Problems, problems, problems!
Zoning, parking, traffic, ju-
venile delinquency.
School shacks, floods, baby al-
ligators, recreation.
Letters to the editor that can’t
be printed, irate subscribers who
missed an issue, hot rods that
won’t run, flat tires with a load
of papers.
Makes a man want to go far
away for a while and ponder.
At least his thoughts. For ex-
ample, and at the risk of being
proven a damyankee, there is
a crispness in the air in Iowa.
Perhaps an early frost is on the
way.
No humidity.
The fall colors are running
riot ... a crimson flower and
vine splash livid along the fence
rows. The smoke of burning
leaves drifts pungent in the air
at dusk . . . soon the walnut and
hickory trees will drop their
Christmas goodies into stained
gunnysacks and the red haws
will give up their jeweled
fruit . . .
Just a refreshing thought in
this never-never land of no-
seasons that is Gulf Texas. Oc-
casioned, incidentally, by a
customer at Bellaire Food Mar-
ket who wiped the sweat from
her brow, grabbed her groceries
in one arm and her little boy
in the other and departed mut-
tering something about “how I
wish I was in Peoria” or Stevens
Point or Blue Barth, Minn., or
some such point nawth. Perhaps
some of my yankee friends have
these same yearnings this time
of year?
Presbyterians T©
Hear Dr. Morgan
Dr. F. Crossley Morgan, Bible
scholar, preacher and evangelist,
will lead the Week of Spiritual
Enrichment at the Bellaire Pres-
byterian Church, Sept. 18-23,
preaching at both services of
Morning Worship on Sunday,
and for the 7:30 evening services
Sunday through Friday. Also at
10 o’clock each morning Monday
through Friday there will be a
Bible study led by Dr. Morgan
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Kenney’s Restaurant (Rice
Ave. & Old Richmond) is
serving up a club steak dinner
these days that should titilate
the appetite — steak, salad,
French fries and rolls for $1.50.
Housewives Protest Bell-Hi Parking Jam
Irate Bellaire housewives
living on Holt, Holly, Valerie
and Maple in immediate vicin-
ity of the new Bellaire High
School kept the phones hot at
the Police Station last week
protesting parking of cars in
front of their homes while
some parking space provided
around the schqol remained
vacant.
“Give us time, we’ll work
it out,” pleaded Chief of Po-
lice Jack O’Brien.
He agreed with the women
that ample parking space has
been provided on the campus
and on Maple and Sixth
Streets.
His first step was striping
the parking area so more cars
can he accommodated, sunshiny
skies finally allowed that work
to proceed Saturday.
The second step is convinc-
ing students that it is not too
far to walk from the Sixth
Street in-parking to the school
buildings.
“Evidently not many stu-
dents know- there is a side-
walk paralleling the north
property line that leads right
into the vocational building.
It’s plenty close,” said the
Chief.
THE
Texan
BELLAIRE'S OWN WEEKLY COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Serving Bellaire, Kobindell, Brae Burn Terrace, I.arkwood, Willow Bend, Sharpstown
Volume 2—Number 31
Bellaire, Texas, Wednesday, September 14, 1955
5c—Subscription ?2.00 per year
Juvenile Problems
Facing Bellaire
MISS PERKINS
LEONARD
TERESA
SCOTT
HERE’S THE WORK OF NORWEGIAN CHILDREN . . .
Art and handwriting samples by fourth graders in Oslo, Nor-
way, are being shown by Horn School teacher, Miss Marylyn
Perkins, who studied for six weeks the past summer at the
University of Oslo in Norway. Looking on are Leonard Burton
of 4513 Brae Burn, Teresa King, 4620 Willow, and Scott Chase,
5031 Carew. With fourth graders in Miss Perkins’ room, these
Bellaire students are readying samples of their school work
to be sent to Unni Stryker, a Norwegian fourth grader, whom
Miss Perkins met while a student at Oslo.
Bell-Hi Launches First FB
Season With St Thomas
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Hefner,
owners and operators of Plaza
Cleaners at 5130 Old Richmond
Road, are celebrating the first
anniversary of their ownership
of the cleaning plant. During
this one year they have installed
a considerable amount of new,
ultra-modern cleaning equipment
and urge their many friends
and customers to come in and
inspect their cleaning facilities.
Bellaire High School sends its
football C-ardinals out tomorrow
night to launch its initial grid-
iron season with St. Thomas high
in Public School stadium.
A young team with only one
senior in the starting lineup,
Coach Scat Sullivan’s football-
er’s “will back up their inex-
perience with plenty of scrap
and hustle.”
At 8. p.m.
The game begins at 8 p.m.
at the stadium on Cullen at
Wheeler across from the Uni-
versity of Houston campus.
Bellaire boosters will occupy
the West stands.
The experienced Steve Boone,
a senior transfer from the
championship San Jacinto B-
Team, and Spencer Murchison,
a junior transfer from Lamar,
will lead the Red Birds at Cen-
ter and left guard respectively.
Lineup
The burden of the Bellaire
1955 football future, however,
rides with a sophomore-studded
lineup that won’t really begin
to 1‘incl itself experience-wise for
a season or two.
Coach Sullivan said his prob-
able starting lineup would be
as follows:
Charles Echols and Steve
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Order of Sunny
Side Or Scrambled?
Kids hack in school? Got
time to reminisce about your
vacation trip?
Consider the II. II. Mere-
diths of 501 South Avenue B.
Hank and Kay and their
four children were vacation-
ing in Kerrville and Ingram
this summer, scrambling eggs
now and then for the evening
mgal.
Came the deluge.
Five-year-old John scooted
too close to a display of fresh
country eggs in a Kerrville
grocery.
The total loss—23 dozen
eggs; unexpected egg-spences
—$8.
“It was an unbelievable
mess,” sighed Mama Kay.
1420 At Bellaire Hi
No Jam Now, But Shacks In ’56
Regardless of reports in Hou-
ston papers Bellaire High School
is not overcrowded, but maxi-
mum capacity is expected—and
possibly shacks—by next Sep-
tember.
So stated Principal Harlan
Andrews last week as he re-
leased the official figure of 1420
students registered in the new
high school at Rice and Maple
the first two days.
“This figure is 300 more than
we anticipated,” explained Mr.
Andrews, “but it by no means
caused an overflow in a school
plant built to accommodate 2165.”
26.5 Average
Class average stands at 26.5
with the traditional academic
classes filled to 90 per cent of
capacity.
Disappointing, however, has
been registration for the voca-
tional courses—woodwork, auto
mechanics, metal and machine
shop and vocational agriculture
—where classes to date are fill-
ed to only 30 per cent of their
capacity. The same is true in
typing and bookkeeping classes.
“We are not discouraged,” ex-
plained Principal Andrews. “This
versatile program is new to stu-
dents and to parents. It is only
a matter of time before these
classes are completely filled. By
next term all of these classes
should be filled.”
Lots of Sophs
Highest enrollment is in the
sophomore class having 14 sec-
tions. Next are the freshmen
with 10 sections.
Seniors number only between
90 and 95 students, all of them
future June graduates.
At midterm, according to Mr.
Andrews, Bellaire High anti-
cipates gaining 300 students, and
in Sept., 1956, 600 more.
Substraction of the 95 June
graduates, sets the anticipated
enrollment for Sept., 1956 at
approximately 2200 and the
necessity to truck in temporary
cottages.
Wanted: Six Women
For School Patrol
Attention, Bellaire women!
Police Chief Jack O’Brien is
looking for six Bellaire women
wanting work as school patrol-
men at Condit, Horn and Gor-
don elementary schools.
Those employed will be fur-
nished uniforms and paid on
an hourly basis. Hours will
depend on the school schedules
Those interested should con-
tact Chief O’Brien for a per-
sonal interview.
City Council
Votes ‘Nay’
On Rezoning
It, wasn’t a zoning hearing
Monday night at City Council
meeting but the tune was mighty
familiar.
Councilman John Cook brought
up rezoning of land on Old Rich-
mond Road, known as the Glos-
tson property, now owned by
'Houston Councilman Lee McLe-
mofe and was turned down, 4-3,
because no definite business plans
were forthcoming.
Need Plans
Councilmen Louis Ehlers, Har-
ry Reed, Virginia Newhouse and
Mayor Ii. L. Hodell lined up to-
gether against the rezoning. Each
admitted the “Glosson property”
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By CAROLYN MEIU ER Sh *-i
A serious juvenile problarn^xl^ ^
ists within Bellaire. .
So said Police Chief Jack O’CJ
Brien to the Bellaire Texan th$g ^
week when he revealed he i#~
about to hire a second juyeniljg
officer. h<
His records show more thaij^
three score Bellaire boys ana
girls picked up and taken to th&J
police station for questioning th^j
past three months. Q
... So Busy
Mrs. Janet Bryant, who be-
came Bellaire’s first juvenile of-
ficer Aug. 22, backed up the Chief
when she commented, “I’ve been
so busy, I can’t remember what \,
day I started working. Believe •
me my hours have been as long *"J
as three in the morning.”
Continued the Chief: “There’s
been a little of everything, beer
parties, runaways, drunks, nude
parties, thefts and last Sunday
assault to murder.”
This by 13, 14, and 15 year
olds—girls and boys—living in
Bellaire, he said.
No Pattern
“We are setting up a file on
each one,” says the Chief. “We
now have Mrs. Bryant to follow
up each case and we feel we
can do something about the sit-
uation.”
No definite pattern has emerg-
ed, the Chief said. No certain
section of town has the most up-
surge of juvenile trouble, nor
does it come from families where
both father and mother works.
This is from police records:
Sept. 4: Manager of the Bellaire
Swimming Pool sent over a list
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and bless THE
CAREFUL DR|VER!
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MR. AND MRS. JAMES K. LONG
FOR A SAFER BELLAIRE . . . Enthusiastic Jaycee and Jay-
cette, Mr. and Mrs. James K. Long of 4804 Valerie, are shown
nailing these safety signs over Bellaire at strategic places on
Bellaire Blvd., Post Oak, Rice and around elementary and
high schools. The big safety project of the Jaycees, 30 such
signs will dot the city with their important reminder. Chuck
Krise and Jim Gorman are giving Jim Long a helping hand.
Note Jaycette Long’s fancy western outfit. Texas spirit,
whoopee!
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Mercer, Carolyn. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 14, 1955, newspaper, September 14, 1955; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth522020/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.