The Sunday Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 16, 1949 Page: 1 of 12
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Bolh Camps
SayTheySpeak
For Majority
S CITIZEN
Petitioners Claim
Job Half-Finished
By JIM DAVIDSON
Citizen Staff Wrtwf
Baltle camps of the proponents
and opponents of Bellaire annexa-
tion by Houston today were more
sharply defined with both sides
claiming to repiesent the mass of
private Bellaire citizens in the no
man's land between the two
camps.
Officially, the city administra-
tion. headed by Mayor Everal R5.
West, has taken no stand in too
issue.
An aroused Braes Heights Mens’ Civic Club is pushing
plans for a mass meeting to discuss the flood situation in
Southwest Houston and seek relief for the victims of last
week’s overflow of Bray’s Bayou.
In a prepared statement released lo the press yesterday,
the board of directors of the club said that it will invite
Congressman Albert Thomas, Governor Allan Shivers, Sen-
ator Searcy Bracewell, Attorney General Price Daniel and
some Houston and Harris County officials to the mass
meeting.
The hoard of directors of the club, which said it has
assurances of help from other civic clubs in the South-
west area and officials of West University and Bellaire,
will meet Wednesday to discuss a time and place for the
mass meeting.
The complete statement follows:
"The Braes Heights Mens’ Civic Club has contacted
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Vol 3 HOUSTON, TEXAS, SUNDAY; OCTOBER 16, 1949 NO. 21
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“The Administration and the
City Council are servants of the
people and aie willing to abide by
the wishes of the majority,” Mayor
West said in an official statement.
Unofficially, several member*
of the administration, speaking
as private citizens, have been
sharply critical of the annexation
movement particularly at thil
time.
Meanwhile, Dr. John M. Fillip-
pone, officially appointed spokes-
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Holly Hall Rally
Set For Oct. 19
Walter Phillips of 4824 Bellaire Boulevard signs one
of the annexation-vote petitions now being circulated in
the city. Obtaining his signature is Mrs. D. O. Brewer of
508 South Chelsea.—Citizen staff photo.
Drainage Bottleneck
Will Be Cleared Soon
A city-wide rally of all Hous-
ton women interested In Holly
Hall will be held at 10:30 Wed-
nesday morning In the Fmerald
Room of The. Shamrock. Mr*.
W. S. Nicholson, president of tho
hoard of Holly Hall, announced
Saturday.
The meeting will he held
discuss important plans for ths
home. Mr*. Nicholson said, and
she said that all interested
women are “urgently asked to
he present,**
A drainage bottleneck whichCounty Flood Control Dis-
hes plagued Bellaire since the trict’s plans was made by R. J.
founding of the city soon will be Putney, chief engineer of the dis-
broken.
triet, at the regular Bellaire City,
Engineering surveys of the city's Council meeting Wednesday night,
main north-south drainage ditches •
are nearing completion and work Mr. Putney gave an extempor-
soon will be begun by the Harrisjaneous report to the Council andi
County Flood Control District to Bellaire residents present at tne
clean out these drainage arteries, open meeting held in the Bellaire
• !Community Center. He explained
At the same time the Harris Bellaire’s advantages and disad-
Countv Flood Control District will vantages in a county-wide drain-
deepen and widen Cypress Ditch age program and assured the city!
to provide a lower outfall for the of the district's cooperation in
more rapid dfalfffge Of the (Mty.jalleviafrrig potential hood condi-
Meanwhile, Mayor Everal E.,tions.
West has directed City Engineer! He said that, subject to the!
George Hillyer and City Managerjcommissioners Cpurt’s approval.!
Robert Geiger to begin engineer-lthe district would spend a “sub-'
ing work preliminary to the layingistantial sum” from the $9,000,000
Rev. Durwood Fleming will
speak. Stewart Boyle will he
chairman of the meeting and
Mrs. Louie R. Kier wjW sinv. A
short talk will be given by Mrs.
Nathaniel Kern, president of
the Houston Council of Church
Women. H. Merlyn Christie,
general chairman of The Sham-
rock Charity Bowl football
game, will tell about plans for
the charity game, to be held
here Dec. 17.
' Right here." Wesley Brown, commander of Burkett-Miller Post No. 77, American
Legion, tells Artist lose de Cortez, pointing to a portion of the Legion Hall walls where
Cortez will paint a mural of the famed Iwo Jima flag-raising. Cortez, whose murals
adorn the walls of some of the most famous buildings in the world, has offered his
services to the Legion post. Assisting him will be two of his students, Doris Bilbrey, 20,
306 Norwood, former University of Texas fine arts student, and Israel Cirilo, 6709 Myrtle,
16, Milby High School student.—Citizen Staff Photo.
Erogr^ss Week
More people are "oil-rich" than you prob-
ably think.
Not only do the luckier of "wildcatters" and
the owners of land where a dozen new wells
may shoot up almost overnight reap the profits
of the oil industry.
Today begins Oil Progress Week. And if
you are prone to think of such things, you
might consider how you and your neighbors
profit from the progress of the oil industry.
Thousands of residents of the Texas Gulf
Coast ar employed directly by oil compcfnies
and their subsidiaries.
Other thousands are employed in indus-
tries ancl businesses which are closely related
to the production, refining, processing or sales
of oil and oil products.
The proceeds of the oil companies and the
wages and salaries of their employes, and the
profits of the related businesses and the sal-
aries and wages of their employes—and so on
ad infinitum—give constant impetus to the
economy of this region—the "bright spot of the
nation."
And of course you use the products of the
oil industry, every day. without thinking about
it: the gasoline that keeps your auto going, for
instance, or the natural gas that heats your
home in the winter, and many others.
You might say that oil is in the bloodstream
of the mighty and still developing young giant
that this area has come to be.
You'd be getting somewhat rhetorical, for
everyday conversation, but you wouldn't be
kidding a minute.
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Murphy, John H. & Daniels, A. Pat. The Sunday Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 16, 1949, newspaper, October 16, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth566916/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.