Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1952 Page: 1 of 12
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SOUTH WESTER
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 8—No. 37
HOUSTON, TEXAS, JULY 3, 1952
5c a Copy—Subscription $1.50 a Year
Polio Innoculation
In West University
The southwestern section has
been chosen as one of the repre-
sentative residential sections in
which the experiments in polio in-
noculation will be performed. Every
day from 8 a.m. till noon, and from
1 p.m. till 5, for ten days begin-
ning on July 3 the doctors will in-
noculate children up to six years
of age from West University
Place, Southside, and Bellaire. The
clinic will be set up in the West
University Community House at
the corner of Rice Boulevard and
Auden. Half of the children will
be injected with inactive gelatine,
half with the new “gamma globu-
lin” which has shown very satis-
factory results when administered
to polio infected animals. Records
as to which child got which injec-
tion will be kept in New York in
case future reference to them is
needed.
Mrs. Ida Haskell of 127 Bellaire
Court has been in charge of re-
cruiting the women who will help
with the project. It was originally
decided, she said, that 14 women
a day for each of the 10 days
would be needed; by Monday of
this week, over 200 had volun-
teered. Mrs. Haskell expressed ap-
preciation for the response to the
need given by southwestern women,
pnd added that more volunteers
may yet be needed. Anyone inter-
ested, she said, can contact her at
MOhawk 3322.
The eight clinic groups hope to
innoculate 500 children a day in
each area, a total of 35,000 from
Houston. Additional clinic centers
are being set up elsewhere in Har-
ris County in the towns, surround-
ing Houston.
Children must be accompanied
by their parents, and it is prefer-
able that the parents stay with
them throughout the procedure, ac-
cording to Mrs. Haskell.
Miss Elementary Of Bellaire
Miss Carolyn Lewis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Lewis of
4619 Oleander, was awarded the title of "Miss Elementary of
Bellaire" in a beauty contest sponsored by the Bellaire Recrea-
tion Department on June 27 at the Municipal Swimming Pool.
Other winners were Sandra Spiller, second, and Ann Cleary,
third.
VILLAGE ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW
OFFICERS, BOARD MEMBERS FOR YEAR
William H. Levy was elected
president of the Village Associa-
tion at the June 30 meeting which
was held in Carlos Mexican Res-
taurant. Chosen to serve with him
for the coming year are A. E. Mac-
Donald, vice president, and Joe
Gibbs Jr., secretary-treasurer. A
policy was adopted at the meeting
which provides that the vice pres-
ident will automatically become the
president of the Association the
following year.
Mr. Levy stated, in looking for-
ward to the coming year, that he
has great hopes of accomplish-
ment for both the merchants and
the shoppers of the Village. He
said that he looks upon the Village
Association as a joint chamber of
commerce and better business bu-
reau, and hopes that the Associa-
tion can accomplish the functions
of those organizations in the years
ahead.
Approximately 80 people attend-
ed the annual banquet which was
held on June 24 at the American
Legion Hall. The board of direc-
tors for the organization which
was elected by mailed ballot was
announced at the meeting. New di-
rectors, elected for two year terms,
are M. F. Daughtry, M. F. Foote,
David C. Kegg, Robert Levy, Mil-
ton Scheps, and A. E. MacDonald.
Directors elected in 1951 who
still have a year of their terms
remaining are Charles Robson,
Harris Cohen, Joe Gibbs Jr., Wil-
liam H. Levy, Mrs. Weenonah
Goldston and John Olson.
A resolution was passed to make
Lucille Gleason a permanent ex-
officio member of the Board be-
cause of the help she has rendered
while in the Association.
Annual awards were made to
members of the organization for
outstanding service to the prog-
ress of The Village. Finger Furni-
ture was cited for the exterior dec-
oration of the store’s new addition
in the old post-office building,
Mosk’s, for outstanding advertis-
ing and merchandising in the open-
ing of the new Village store, to
A. M. Bogart, for outstanding in-
terior decoration in his office in
the 2500 block of Times Boulevard.
William Levy was cited for his
“practical humanities” — for his
hidden charities, and Rodney Bowl-
ing for his leadership in merchan-
dising.
The biggest problem facing The
Village now is the lack of adequate
parking space. Mr. Levy suggested
that the merchants chip in and buy
a vacant lot, but no action was
taken that night.
Mayor Condemns
Private Residence
Sanitation In City
Mayor Everal L. West was a
shaken man when he appeared be-
fore the Bellaire Good Government
League on Monday night, June 30,
to discuss the polio problem in
Bellaire.
He had spent the day with Louis
Ogden, and Mr. VonZublin, Fed-
eral health authorities who have
been in Harris county to check up
on the situation here. After a gen-
eral tour of the city, in which busi-
ness establishments and animal
yards were visited, the men, who
voted Bellaire “in general, as clean
a city as we have seen,” began a
house to house inspection of per-
sonal property sanitation.
The biggest source of flies in
the city come from garbage cans,
they discovered. “It only takes a
piece of moist bread the size of
your thumb adhering to the inside
of a can to breed thousands of
flies,” the Mayor said—“and most
of the cans here are atrocious. Peo-
ple are going to have to wash and
spray their cans after every gar-
bage pick-up if we hope to do any-
thing about polio in Bellaire,” he
added.
“Our fogging machine kills a
lot of the insect pests—after they
are already on the wing,” hs went
(Continued on Page 11)
BELLAIRE GOOD GOVERNMENT LEAGUE
ENDORSES FOUR CANDIDATES AT RALLY
The meeting of the Bellaire Good Government which was
attended by approximately 300 people on June 30 in the Com-
munity Building was the first big rally of the eight men who
are running for councilmen in Bellaire. The candidates spoke
five minutes each after a short talk on the polio problem by
Mayor Everall L. West, a plea
by Councilman Bud Ward to
support the charter amend-
ments, and a history of the
organization presented by Harry
Reid, vice president. J. L. Wil-
liams, president of the organiza-
tion, introduced the speakers.
Harry Reid said that the League
was formed to encourage interest
in city government and its prob-
lems among the people of Bellaire.
“Apathy could lead to annexation,”
he said, “and things like the dead-
locked council lead to apathy.” He
assured that both council factions
were represented in the League,
and that the League was not con-
cerned with the political future of
any one man—only of the city;
that they were interested in men
only in their relationship to the
city.
School Committee
One of the projects of the
League is to coordinate the activ-
ity of all of the civic clubs in the
city, currently, on the school issue.
Reid introduced Bill Black, chair-
man of the new school committee,
who pointed out that cooperation
and continued work on the part of
some of the citizens of Bellaire
had won two new elementary
schools for the area. Now, he went
on, the city needs a junior and a
senior high school—if activity is
coordinated, if Bellaire votes as a
block, it can have a member on
the school board. After the meet-
ing, Mr. Black took the names of
about twenty volunteers to serve
on the committee. Then Floyd Ry-
ba, past president of the League,
introduced the candidates.
League Endorses
Following the talks, the Good
Government League stated the
basis for recommendation of the
candidates they had selected.
Choice was based on answers to
questionaires the League had sub-
mitted to each candidate, his past
record of civic activity, his geo-
graphical location in the city, ed-
ucation and practical experience.
On the basis of these points,
Don Cayton was endorsed for
position 3, Joe R. Spiller for po-
sition 4, Charles L. Jordan for
position 5, and Roy A. Ramey
for position 6.
Amendments Explained
Charter amendments were com-
mented on by Harry Dipple,
League attorney. He said that the
League wanted all of the amend-
ments or none of them. Number
one, he said, provides for an addi-
tional councilman—to prevent a
deadlock. Two and four establish
positions on the council, and pro-
vide that councilmen be elected
by a majority rather than a plur-
ality.
Three, which has received the
most vocal opposition, states that,
after the terms of those men al-
ready in office expire, all officials
will be elected in even-numbered
years. This will insure greater par-
ticipation in city elections because
of the tie-in with state and na-
tional elections held the same year.
As for the possibility of all of the
men being new at one time, “if a
man is not thoroughly familiar
(Continued on Page 11)
What’s What On
The Polio Front
JULY 3 THROUGH 12—Polio
innoculation for children one to
six in West University Com-
munity Building.
POOR FARM DITCH—Peti-
tions being circulated—to sign
one, contact your Civic Club
leader.
JULY 3 AND 7, BELLAIRE
—Films, discussions on polio,
fly and cockroach breeding pre-
sented at Community Building.
WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE
—Notices, then tickets, being
issued on inadequate garbage
containers in city.
BELLAIRE — WUP — All
ditches, vacant lots, b ei n g
cleaned thjs week.
EVERYWHERE — spraying,
fogging, clean-up drives.
West University Stages Clean Up Drive
On City Ditch, Lots—Garbage Cans
Sanitation measures have be-
come all-important in West Uni-
versity this week, according to
Mayor H. E. Terry. All street work
has been stopped since last Sat-
urday and the street crews are
working on the Poor Farm Ditch
and on all of the vacant lots in
the city.
Plans for the ditch, which are
already in operation, include clean-
ing and removing weeds and other
growth in the path of flow and
along the edges. Chlordane, rat
poison, and weed-killer are being
used in an attempt to reduce or
eliminate the hazards of disease
carrying insects and pests.
In addition, “before the week is
finished,” promised Joe Hild, city
sanitarian, “every vacant lot in
West University will have been
cleaned and mowed and burned to
destroy the breeding places they
represent.”
“However,” he stated, “the city
cannot do it all. One of the most
dangerous problems in the area
lies in the yards of our residents.
Compost heaps, garbage containers
that are in bad condition or do not
have covers that fit tightly, are
really dangerous. In order to cope
with this, garbage collectors have
been issuing notices to the delin-
quent home owners requesting
they be repaired or replaced. If
these notices have not been heeded
by the check-up date, approximate-
ly a week later, tickets will be is-
sued, and the guilty persons will
be asked to appear in court. The
court has the authority to fine
such person from $2 to 200,” Hild
said.
These measures, begun during a
time of stress, Mayor Terry as-
sured, will be continued through-
out the year.
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Brackman, Irvin H. Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 3, 1952, newspaper, July 3, 1952; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577347/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.