The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1973 Page: 2 of 32
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At the Council meeting Mon-
day night, discussing the allo-
cation of various funds to be made
available for municipalities, the
Bellaire Public Library came in
for considerable discussion. As
readers know, the library has
outgrown itself and soon will
be expanded to meet demands not
only for the people who use the
library but for storage space.
I like libraries. Until I
got out of high school, I think
I spent most of my life in
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Wednesday, April 18, 1973
Few people in my home towi
had read more books than I,
and that included some of the
books that were sort of held
back by the librarian--as is the
case today tn some libraries,
I suppose--until their friends
wore them out or the courts
caught up with people's desire
to read certain books, and they
were placed on the shelves. The
library was a marvelous place,
especially on rainy or snowy
days, and almost any time I
was wanted at home and failed
to show up, my mother would
call the library or send a sis-
ter to fetch me home to eat or
chop wood.
* * + *
1 also like lo run whether
on the track team or along the
river. A childhood friend, Paul
Boswell, once challenged me to
run from Chariton to Russell
(about five miles) and while he
beat me by about 50 yards, the
coach chastized me because Paul
was his best half-miler and got
sore ankles from the race. But,
there is a difference between
cross country, which is hard on
the ankles, and flat racing on
cinders (in those days) and about
all I ever ran was cross coun-
try.
Our coach really was a
football coach. He taught high
school civics and we all took
his course and we all got an
automatic “C” though I could
never understand this because
it was so easy I thought I
should have gotten at least a
“B”. Anyhoo, the coach really
didn’t think I was as dedi-
cated as he would like, being
a book reader than an athlete.
One day he decided to build
me up for the mile run, develop
stamina and the desire to win
into me, and ordered me out for
football. I weighed all of about
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130 pounds. The uniform weighed
more than I did, which wasn't
unusual in those days when uni-
forms weighed more than I did,
forms weren't as streamlined as
they are today. My helmet alone
almost broke my neck. Now,
every Saturday morning I would
repair to the library and look
over the new books, and the
coach insisted we concentrate
as a team on the impending strug-
gle of Saturday afternoon. We
got to a parting of the ways one
snowy November Saturday after-
noon when he decided we should
run “old 23" against Creston.
Then, of course, sophistication
was unheard of—we just lined up,
backfield in box formation, the
quarterback standing back about
eight feet, and at the signal
we all ran single wing to where
we thought we could pick up a
yard to two. 1 was an end, too
light for a wet track, and when
everybody unpiled, my arm
screamed at me that it was hurt
bad. Dr. Jarvis said I had a
fracture, and he put it in a cast
and that eliminated football and
allowed me my usual Saturday
mornings free to case the lib-
rary stacks. My feeling is that
a community without a library is
indeed a heathen community--
or, at least, is within the frame-
work of an ignorant community.
And that community life is en-
riched greatly by not an adequate,
but a damn good library. And
Bellaire has one and should keep
it so. These thoughts were oc-
casioned by the rain outside my
window and the view of a little
kid pumping down the street on
his bicycle, water splashing,
yellow slicker flying, and one
arm steering, the other flopping
akwardly in a cast. I’m sure
the coach would rather it be in
a cast in the Spring than in the
Fall.
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Pettigrew, Terrilee & George, Sara. The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 18, 1973, newspaper, April 18, 1973; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth567757/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.