The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 24, 1971 Page: 1 of 44
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THE BELL AIRE A SOUTHWESTERN
A COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPER
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Swim Team
Grabs Third
Bellaire High School’s girls
swimming team grabbed third
place honors this weekend in the
state high school swimming
championships held in Austin.
The Cardinals successful
coach, Jim Altman, was named
top swim coach in the state.
The girls 200 yard medley
relay team* composed of Patty
McDaniel, Nancy Marter, Maggie
McLean and Pat Reeve finish-
ed first in that event.
MISS Reeve capped off a find
effort by pulling in first in the
girls 100 yard backstroke and
Miss Marter took sixth in the
girls 100 yard butterfly. The
girls finished sixth in the 400
vard freestyle relav.
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Bellaire artist, stands beside the nearly
j , ' finished Aztec calendar he made for the El Patio restaurant.
Bellaire Artist Sculpts
i Aztec Calendar Stone
P.A. WILLIAMS, of the Texas Industiral Commission presents As-
sistant City Manager Tom Heffington with a citationfrom Gov. Pres-
ton Smith and Harold Cowdin of the Bellaire Chamber of Commerce
looks on.
Commission Cites
City, Chamber
ROBERT A. GARDINER, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Allen Gardiner,
8118 Leader, has been commis-
sioned a second lieutenant in the
U.S. Air Force upon graduation
from Officer Training School
)OTS) at Lackland AFB, Tex.
Ten Bellaire business and civic
leaders received citations
Thursday from the Texas Indus-
trial Commission and Governor
Preston Smith for having made a
“significant contribution to Tex-
as’ industrial development.”
The citations were presented
by P.A. “Pat” Williams of the
commission staff in a meeting
culminating nearly a year’s work
towards incorporating peritnent
industrial location information
on Bellaire into the nation’s most
sophisticated computerized site
location data bank.
Called “Insta-Site,” the com-
mission’s computer program has
already received two distinguish-
ed awards itself from the South-
ern Industrial Development
Council.
Participation of local leaders
in gathering information for “In-
sta-Site,” means that informa-
tion on BeUaire Industrial assets
ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER Tom Heffington received 32 dozen coo-
kies from representatives of the Bluebirds last weekin commemor-
ation of Camp Fire’s 61st Anniversary. Making the presentation
were (1. to r.) Jeannie Rethewisch, Jennifer Bland, Vivian Hill, Ju-
lie Cherry, Rebecca Garza, Christie Kauffman, Claudia Knebel and
Diane McQuay.
will be instantly available to all
industrial firms considering new
plant sites in Texas.
Williams presented Roger
Westrup who served as the com-
mission’s local coordinator for
the project, a massive 88 page
printout containing 1444 items
PLEASE SEE PAGE 10
X-Ray Unit Due
In Bellaire
A community X-ray survey will
be held on Saturday, March 27
from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. The Mo-
bile X-ray Unit of the San Ja-
cinto TB & RD Association will
be parked before the Weingar-
ten Supermarket in the 5100block
of Bellaire Blvd.
The unit’s visit is being spon-
sored by the ladies’ Little Lea-
gue group of Bellaire, chaired
by Mrs. James Williams, 4815
Tammarisk.
A part-cost operational fee of
$2 will be asked and no children
under 12 can be screened.
Residents of the Bellaire area
are urged to take advantage of the
Unit’s visit to invest in a quick
and inexpensive chest check up.
Last year 578 cases of new,
active tuberculosis were found in
Harris County - 306 of these in
Houston. Estimates are that for
every such case reported, five
go undetected. An air-borne,
highly contagious disease trans-
mitted from person to person,
tuberculosis demands constant
and consistent case detection ef-
forts, the year-round work of the
Christmas Seal Agency.
No one knows how many per-
sons worked on the Aztec Calen-
dar Stone in Mexico City, but the
one created in Bellaire was
sculptured by Manuel Salazar
Tellez with the help of his fam-
ily, (his wife Lucille and daugh-
ters, Elizabeth, 11, Nancy 10, and
Choline 9). Of course, Manuel
did most of the work.
Mr. Tellez, who lives at 4401
Lula in Bellaire, has just finish-
ed the Aztec sculpture, fashioned
after the original in Mexico City,
using a malleable substance call-
ed “Claycrete.”
The Calendar Stone, created by
Manuel Tellez, is eight feet in
diameter, and is now in the El
Patio Restaurant #4 on West Gray
Street. Weighing 500 pounds, it
took 5 months to finish, and is
part of the pre-Columbian decor
that Manuel is executing in the
restaurant. His calendar stone is
the largest in the United States.
.Tie original Calendar Stone is
on exhibit in Mexico’s National
Museum of Anthropology. Dating
from 1479, the 24 ton basalt
monolith stood at the base of Az-
tec religion and way of life. By
its weird carvings, priests set
their rituals and guided farmers’
sowing and reaping.
The sun god, feared and rever-
ed as Lord of Heaven, glowers
fiercely from the stone’s center.
F our rectangles around his face
stand for the earth, air, fire,and
water, destructive elements be-
lieved to have ended the world’s
previous four ages. In the encir-
cling band March 20 symbols,
one for each day of the Aztec
month. Beyond, mythology and
astronomy symbols represent
time, gods, man, and nature.
Eighteen 20-day months made
up the Aztec solar year, leaving
a five day period into which the
whole year’s bad luck was crowd-
ed. Major time cycle was 52
PLEASE SEE PAGE 10
Karen Adams Wins
Condit Spelling Bee
Karen Adams, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C.L. Adams is the win-
ner of the Condit Elementary
Spelling Bee that was held on
March 16.
Karen is 12 years old and is a
member of Mrs. Lancaster’s Cth
grade class. She is a member of
the safety patrol and was a cheer-
leader for Condit’s football and
basketball teams.
Bellaire Rec Egg Hunt
The Bellaire Community Service League (CSL) is sponsoring the
2nd annual Easter Egg Hunt. All Bellaire children ages 3 to 7 are
invited. There is no cost.
It will be held in the Bellaire Park (behind City Hall) at 10 a.m.,
Saturday, April 10. Any donations of eggs, vinegar, dye, or candy
would be greatly appreciated.
Any donations can be brought by the Recreation Dept., office be-
tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Please bring or mail the registration slip
to the Recreation Dept. Office by Thursday, April 8. Or, you may
sign a slip at the Recreation Office.
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Royal, B. E. & Cronin, Carolyn. The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 24, 1971, newspaper, March 24, 1971; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth567712/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.