Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1951 Page: 1 of 20
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50UTHWE
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE
BELLAIRE, SOUTHSIDE PLACE, BRAESWOOD. SOUTHAMPTON.
SOUTHGATE AND ADJACENT AREA.
(Official Publication for the Cities of West University Place, Bellaire and Southside Place)
Volume 7—Number 42
HOUSTON, TEXAS, JULY 12, 1951
oc a Copy—Subscription $1.50 a Year
Bellaire People
Will Elect Three
In Saturday Vote
All three incumbents are run-
ning for re-election in the Bellaire
municipal election this Saturday.
In the mayor’s race the present
council head, Everal L. West, is
asking for reelection on the basis
of his previous record of improve-
ments and a promise of more of the
same. He is being opposed by Er-
nest R. Keeton, a newcomer to the
Bellaire political scene. Stories on
the mayoral candidates are found
on Pages 6 and 15 of this issue.
In the race for the two council
posts, incumbents William T. Burks
and Jack Lawler are facing J. H.
(Jim) Blair, Emil (Doc) Miller,
James A. Treybig and W. J. (Bud)
Ward. Their stories appear on
pages 12 and 13.
All of the candidates have been
invited to appear at a “town meet-
ing” which will be held tonight
starting at 8 o’clock. Admission to
the rally, which will be held in the
Civic Center, is free. The City of
Bellaire is sponsoring the event.
The polls will be open from 7
a.m. until 7 p.m. Persons who hold
a 1950 poll tax receipt or exemp-
tion and who have resided in Bell-
aire for a minimum of six months
are eligible to vote.
Those living in the part of Bell-
aire bounded on the north by Bell-
aire Boulevard and on the west by
Post Oak vote in Precinct 182, the
polling- place for which will be
Horn School, located at Pine and
Avenue B. Voters in the precinct
are warned that paving work is
being done on Pine between Av-
enue A and B. As a result they
must enter the school by the side
entrance on Avenue B.
All other Bellaire residents vote
in Frecinct 128, the polling place
for which will be the Bellaire Civic
Center, located at the corner of
Rice Avenue and Laurel Street.
Legion Post 77
To Name Officers
At July 19 Meet
New officers of Burkett-Miller
Post 77, American Legion, will be
elected at the July 19 business
meeting of the organization, it was
announced by Charles Drnek, re-
tiring commander. The session,
called for 8 p. m., will be held in
the post home at 5505 Kelvin
Drive.
Nominated for officers during
the coming year are Andrew
Jackson as commander, Jerry Se-
basta as first vice commander,
Eddie Thayer as second vice com-
mander, Gene Graves as adjutant,
Edward Arnold as finance officer,
Clarence Oliphant as chaplain,
Frank Ney as service officer, E. A.
Moreno as historian and Mr. Drnek
as fifth member of the central
council. Mr. Graves is also nom-
inee for judge advocate.
Commander Drnek said that
nominations will also be accepted
from the floor at the meeting.
The Village Legion Hall was a
busy place last week. In addi-
tion to the July 5 meeting at which
new officers were nominated, a
special Independence Day celebra-
tion was held on July 4. About
150 Legion members and their
families attended the program,
highlights of which included a
reading of the Declaration of In-
dependence by H. J. Bernard and
the singing of the “Star Spangled
Banner” by Betty Miller.
It was a great day for the two men in the middle of the
above picture last week. A. P. Robb, second from right, 80-year-
old water department storekeeper was the first to retire under
the provisions of City of West University cooperation in the
Texas Municipal Retirement System. George Ashcraft, second
from left, will retire at the end of this month. That's West Uni-
versity Mayor H. E. Terry at the left and Dean Gorham, director
of the statewide retirement program, at the right. Mr. Gorham
came here from Austin for the ceremony honoring the two men.
Photo by the Maurers
Ordinance To Control Condit Shacks
Studied By Bellaire City Council
To Bee Or Not To Bee:
Casting a disapproving eye at
the “temporary shacks” at Condit
School, the Bellaire city council
last week ordered the city engineer
and fire marshal to investigate
non-fireproof gathering places
prior to presenting recommenda-
tionse for changes in the building
code.
“They put the little children in
the shacks,” Mayor Everal L. West
said. “It doesn’t seem right. Old-
er children might know what to do
in case of a fire, but chances are
the little ones wouldn’t.” The
council was also unanimous in ask-
ing that the school district replace
the hazardous gas-steam radiators
which are now used in the shacks
with vented heat systems and that
an extra door be built into every
shack.
Extra Code Section
Under the plan discussed at the
meeting last Thursday night, the
council would incorporate the two
Class Locations
Needed For Civil
Defense Courses
Civil Defense home nursing and
first aid training of citizens in
West University Place, Bellaire
and Southside Place is being held
up pending permanently assigned
locations for classes, it was an-
nounced by Mrs. Pauline Taylor,
Three-Cities Civil Defense Head-
quarters secretary.
Several class rolls have been
e mpiled from volunteers who have
registered and many calls are re-
cei rd daily at headquarters from
citi vs desiring training and in-
qui) up about the delay. Mrs. Tay-
lor aid she will notify registered
pel’s ns as soon. as definite ar-
rant iments are completed for Civil
Deii lse training centers.
Information concerning the
otht Civil Defense educational
trai ring will also be announced
late she said.
officials findings into a catch-all
section in the building core, thus
controlling schools, churches and
business in non-conforming areas.
At present, only businesses in
business zones are required to use
fireproof construction.
The council again heard James
N. Thomason of 5407 Brae Burn,
who complains of inadequate police
protection in his neighborhood. Mr.
Thomason was told that matters
concerning police department op-
erations should be directed to City
Manager John O’Neal. He was
also invited to submit any testi-
mony to the police investigation
committee, formed several months
ago, members of which are Wil-
liam T. Burks, Don Cayton and
Jack Lawler.
New Garbage Truck
In other business of the evening,
the city fathers voted to send two
firemen to the short school at
Texas A & M College this summer,
ordered advertisement for a new
garbage truck with an eye to more
efficient trash pick-up, agreed to
pave the south half of the 5200
block of Pine by assessment and
ordered a complete investigation
of the faulty paving in the 4500
block of Elm.
WUP Council Rules "Honey" Question
A Personal Matter; Takes Ho Action
Bee-lovers of West University Place descended on the city
council Monday night, armed with a petition asking that the
council not pass an ordinance preventing the keeping of the
honey-making insects.
The group came up following the appearance of Dr. C. B.
Skaggs of 4253 Albans on
June 25, who said that the
bees kept by Carlos S. Pinnix
of 4244 Lehigh at the side of
his garage constitute a nui-
sance and a danger to his chil-
dren.
The neighborhood dispute seem-
ed well on the road to a mutually
satisfactory solution, however,
without the need of any controlling
law, when Mr. Pinnix indicated his
willingness to move his hives well
into his own yard.
Moving Isn’t Easy
Moving isn’t just a matter of
picking up the hives and locating
them elsewhere, Mr. Pinnix'pointed
out, because if the hive is moved
from its previous location, the bees,
like homing pigeons, will return to
the old spot and fall to the ground.
At that point Mr. Pinnix, who
was accompanied to the meeting
by his neighbor bee-keepers, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Akkerman of 4130
Amherst, came in for some advice
from some of the other bee owners
of the city.
Others Advise
Mrs. Ed H. Luckett of 3721 Not-
tingham pointed out that the hives
could be moved a mile or more
Local Elks Lodge
Sends Two Men To
National Meeting
West University Elks were rep-
resented by Chilton Bryan of 2309
Bluebonnet and Frank Conklin of
3114 Sunset Boulevard at the 87th
Grand Lodge Convention, held
earlier this month in Chicago,
Illinois.
Highpoint of the convention was
the election of Howard R. Davis,
veteran Williamsport, Pennsyl-
vania, newspaperman, as grand ex-
alted ruler of the national organi-
zation.
away and then brought back to
some other location in the yard.
She also suggested that the yard
be surrounded by flowers or flow-
ering shrubs to induce the insects
to stay near home. Mrs. Luckett
gets 60 pounds of honey a year
from her single hive.
Bill Veale of 4030 Marquette
said that the hives could be moved
a few feet a day to the new loca-
tion. Bill, a teen-ager, is a honey
bee man on a major scale. With
eight hives at his home, 40 more
on a clover field out in the coun-
try and four at a place on the bay,
he nets between 1,500 and 2,000
pounds of honey a year.
Getting back to the ordinance,
Mrs. Akkerman stated that prop-
erly-kept bees do not constitute a
nuisance or a hazard. “They won’t
sting unless they are provoked,”
she said. “If a person has a ‘wild’
hive, it’s because the queen bee is
wild. In that case, all you have to
do is write off for a new queen.”
The council took the view that
the matter was strictly a neigh-
borhood one and suggested that it
be settled privately. They took no
action.
Renew Contract
In other business of the evening,
they began discussions of an or-
dinance to restrict the activities of
peddlers in the city and renewed
the contract with Moroney, Beiss-
ner and Company in connection
with refunding of all or part of a
$32,000 time warrant issue which
was sold in 1936.
WUP Will Be Host
For County Meet
The City of West University will
be host to the Hams County
Mayors’ and Councilmen’s Associa-
tion tonight, it was announced by
Mayor H. E. Terry.
The dinner meeting will be held
at Kaphan’s at 7:30 p. m.
Who Does City
Manager Tell It To?
When the Bellaire city coun-
cil issued a “tone it down or
shut it off” order to the op-
erators of the public address
system at the Bellaire ball field
at the request of nearby resi-
dents, City Clerk Burgess Pool
was in complete agreement.
Mr. Pool, who lives at 5210
Linden, about a block and a half
from the field, called the an-
nouncer one night to tell him
that the noise was too loud.
The
who was an-
youngsti
nouncing, without realizing to
whom he was talking, said “Tell
it to the City Manager.”
Fossler Installed By WU Lions
West University Lions held their annual installation meeting
last week. Pictured at the celebration are, left to right, Collis P.
Haynes, retiring president; Dr. William Frank Cole, the club's
first president and installing officer for the occasion, and Andrew
M. Fossler, newly-elected president.
Photo by the Maurer*
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Brackman, Irvin H. Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 12, 1951, newspaper, July 12, 1951; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576649/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.