The Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 31, 1947 Page: 1 of 12
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Kirby Drive
Paving Move
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The movement to get ac-
tion on the proposed paving
of Kirby Drive gained mo-
mentum this week as the pe-
tition to the Houston City
Council was completed and mer-
chants and land owners along the
street were contacted for signa-
tures.
Among the first to sign the peti-
tion were many of the outstand-
ing business men of The Village.
Heading the list is Robert Levy,
president of the Village Associa-
tion, who says that he is 100 per
cent in favor of the project.
Others who have already signed
are Arnold Ahrens, Edwin M.
Smith, Mrs. L. L. Whitehead and
Bob McFarland, an instigator and
one of the leaders of the move.
Knowledge of the petition has
also had its effect on the Houston
City Council. Harry Holmes, coun-
cilman from district three, who has
already stated he is in favor of
the move, reported that he has re-
ceived several calls about the ac-
tion that is being taken.
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One lady, he stated, who owns
four lots along Kirby Drive, called
him and informed him that she is
very interested in the movement.
Mr. McFarland, who is handling
the circulation of the petition, said
early in the week that some of the
people think that they are not
• eligible to sign the petition if they
do not own property. He explained
that this is not so and has ex
tended an invitation to all con-
cerned to sign up.
At the present time there are
only three copies of the petition.
As soon as more are printed they
will be distributed to the differ-
ent stores in The Village and along
Kirby so that everyone will have
a chance to sign, Mr. McFarland
said. The petition reads:
“To The Honorable Mayor and
City Commissioners,
“City of Houston, Texas
“We, the undersigned, being
property owners and business men,
residing and/or operating busi-
nesses at the addresses shown be-
low, respectfully petition your
body to proceed, as soon as pos-
sible, with the paving of Kirby
Drive on such portions that are
unpaved, extending from West-
heimer Road to Bellaire Boule-
vard.
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CITIZEN CALENDAR GIRL—With 1948 calendars blossoming on all sides featuring the
beauty of lovely girls, Citizen Staff Photographer Jerry Maze couldn’t resist getting into the
“swing of things” and came up with the above origination. Highlighted is the blonde beauty of
Pat Geraghty, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Geraghty, 4407 Acacia, now a full-time model with
the Powers agency in New York. Pat posed for the Citizen Calendar picture while spending the
holidays with her parents at their Bellaire home.
Kirby Drive will be of great that zoning is an answer to Hous-
benefit to the residents and busi-
ness men of both Houston and
Jtfest University Place and assure
you that we will cooperate in every
way w’ith the City of Houston if
this project is undertaken.”
SouthamptonCivic
Group Will Meet
Plans will be made to fight the
proposed Houston zoning ordi-
nance by the Southampton Civic
Club at its regular meeting next
Monday night, Charles C. Wo-
mack, president of the club, an-
nounced this week.
The meeting Monday night will out zoning thus far,
be the first meeting of the club
since Mayor Oscar F. Holcombe
announced that the City Council
has decided against including in
the ordinance a special residential
Dangers Of Zoning Cited
In Report By Committee
By JOHN CHAMBERS
There is a considerable number
of people who are not sure at all
ton’s development problem,
They put up some pretty strong
arguments that zoning would do
much more harm than good.
They fear what they term beau-
ratic control of property.
They decry the fact that a prop-
erty owner will be able to have
little to say about the usage of
his own property.
dinance and make a report to the
City Council.
It was felt that such a study
was needed because of tne zoning
commission which dratted the pro-
posed ordinance was made up only Shipp reportedi
of men who favored zoning.
Wesley W. West was made
chairman of this committee. Other
members were J. G. Miller, M. W.
Lee, Meredith James, Joseph H.
Meyer Jr., John E. Price and J.
A. Phillips.
This committee, in reporting to
the City Council, pointed out that
They doubt that there is any it; had had only a very short time
man, or group of men, in Houston. *n which to make its study, where-
who can accurately predict the
growing trends of Houston for the
next 20 or 30 years.
They say that Houston, the
growingest city in the nation,
seems to have done all right with-
They fea rthat a lot of property
owners in Houston do not fully
understand zoning and what it will
do.
Such a group of men was ap
West University Volunteer Fire-
men had their holiday spirits
dampened just a little on Christ-
mas Eve when they were called
to a fire and in quick succession
had a flat tire, a truck break
down and a bystander at the fire
classification requested by theipointed by Mayor Oscar Holcombe
residents of Southampton. to study the proposed zoning or-
Trouble Comes All At
Once For Firefighters
The hose then had to be carried
by hand to the nearest plug, and
Assistant Chief Claude Reynolds
reported that about five minutes
were lost, during which time ?
nearby resident complained bit-
insist that they didn’t know what terly about the way the situation
was being handled.
After the fire the firemen look-
ed for the complaining bystander,
but as yet have not been able to
find him.
Later in the week Mr. Reynolds
said, “All the firemen would like
this man, whoever he is, to come
to any of the meetings, wttich are
held on Tuesday night at the City
Hall, and show us how we can do
a better job. We are always open
for advice, but we believe that
this man could also use a little
advice.”
they were doing.
The fire, which was at Amherst
and Buffalo, was called in at
7 p.m. Christmas Eve, and as the
new truck left the station a tire
caught on an exposed manhole
cover in front of the City Hall.
Firemen quickly transferred to
the large White truck, which broke
down before the fire could be
reached. Meanwhile, the small
jumper truck had gone on ahead.
* and when the bulk of the depart-
ment arrived all the water from
the pumper had been used.
as the zoning commission had had
a year and a half in which to do
its work.
Nevertheless, the committee
made a strong stand against zon- a
ing.
Two Burglaries
Reported in W, U.
In Past Week
West University suffered two
burglaries last week—one occurred
Christmas Eve, the other Christ-
mas Night, Police Chief H. E.
been purchased, but two small
pieces have not yet been obtained.
Nagle said he did not know
when the paving would be done,
but he said it was being planned.
He did not estimate the cost.
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He said there had been consid-
erable protest from residents along
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The burglary Christmas Eve
was at 6216 Community Drive,
where someone broke into a house
by cutting and removing a screen
and then crawling through a win-
dow. Several articles were taken
from the house and Chief Shipp
said that the loss has not yet
been estimated by the owner of
the house.
It pointed out, for example, that
zoning allows many objectionable
uses in residence districts and
could not prevent a shotgun shanty
from being built in the most ex
elusive residential area.
Private restrictions, on the other
hand, can prevent all offensive
uses in residence districts and can
control even the cost and quality
of the homes, the committee ex-
plained.
“This ordinance imposes rank
discrimination upon the majority
of Houston home owners.
This is a blue law delving into
private affairs,” it was argued.
In addition to damage to home
owners, the committee listed
other damages it said would re-
sult. They included the following:
Damage to the central business
section. This damage will largely
result from clogging the all too
few traffic arteries the city has
See ZONING WOULD
Page 4, Col. 3
VA TO MEET TUESDAY
It is the opinion of Chief Shipp
that the burglary was staged by
professional, because it was
handled in such a smooth man-
ner.
The burglary Christmas night,
however, was obviously a pure
case of vandalism done by mis-
Green briar
Extension
Due In ‘48
Long Delayed Lin\
To Shepherd Pushed
For a long time there has
been talk of linking South
Shepherd into Greenbriar to,
provide a through north-
south route, and now it ap-
pears the job may be done in 1948.
The way it is now, Shepherd dead
ends at Rice Boulevard, and
motorists wanting to get through
to Main Street have to wind
through a maze of streets near
Rice Institute.
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The plan to eliminate this calls
for angling a road off from Shep-
herd to open into Greenbriar, the
street which parallels it.
This branch street would begin
at Shepherd just below Richmond1
and would enter Greenbriar at!
Danville.
In addition to the paving of this |
strip, Greenbriar itself would be
paved from Danville down to
South boulevard, where the pres-
ent pavement begins.
The street would be paved 36
feet wide.
A 60-inch storm sewer has just
recently been installed from South
boulevard to Lexington, and the
paving of Greenbriar was delayed
until the sewer was in. The sewer
was a $98,000 project.
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The linking of Greenbriar to
South Shepherd will provide a
traffic artery to ‘points north,” J.
M. Nagle, city director of public
works, said.
“One can go from South Main
up Greenbriar to South Shepherd, !fjP
into North Shepherd and into the
Airline road and the Dallas high-
way,” he explained.
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W. U. Paving
Work Makes
Rapid Gain
Job Nears Finish;
Auden Is Completed
Taking advantage of the
jgood weather, West Uni-
jversity paving contractors
jlast week laid almost all the
J concrete on the already-ex-
Icavated portion of University
'Boulevard and finished p a v
:Auden Street.
HAPPY NEW YEAR—ROLLY-POLLY, healthy and happy
little Lea Stahl, four-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ottis
Stahl, very appropriately represents the bright new year, 1948,
which is just around the corner. The picture was made by Poppa
Stahl.
$200,000 Village Store
Space Addition Outlined
The linking of Greenbrier to An expansion program designed space is being made available to
Shepherd has been talked of lorIto add 30,000 square feet of of-
many years. In the 1941 bond issuejfice and store space to The Vil-
funds were set aside for buying;lage shopping center at a cost of
right-of-way. jabout $200,000, was announced
Most of the right-of-way has this week by the Olson brothers,
John and A. E., developers in The
Village.
The vwork calls for construction
of second story units over the
present buildings in the 6100 block
of Kirby Drive and the 2500 block
of Amherst, buildings owned by
the Olson brothers.
Work is scheduled to commence
Greenbriar for the residents do not 0n the first of January, the Olson
“We are in the pro-
want to see their street become a
traffic artery.
“I can see their point,” he said,
“but we have to build streets some
place.”
COUNCIL TAKES HOLIDAY
Mayor Madison Rayburn of
Bellaire announced that the city
council is taking a breather dur-
ing the holiday season and will
not hold a regular meeting until
one is called after the first of the
year. The last regular meeting
was held the Thursday before
Christmas.
brothers said.
cess of ordering materials now,”
A. E. Olson added.
Some of the space has already
been spoken for by local firms,
while other new firms and profes-
sional men are also negotiating for creased space,
space.
Keenan’s has contracted for
about 50 per cent of the Am-
herst addition which will be di-
rectly above their present loca-
tion. The space will increase
the size of the furniture store
by about three fold.
“We are very happy that this
us for expansion,” said W. S. Kee-
nan. “We are indeed grateful
for the fine patronage given us
by people of this area, patronage
which makes this move to im-
prove our store possible.”
Harry A. Turner, local archi-
tect, will handle the interior deco-
rations for the new Keenan’s. Mr
Keenan announced. A stairway
will connect the present and the
new sections.
“When completed we expect to
have a furniture store second
to none in the city and one that
will compare favorably with any
in the South,” said Mr. Keenan.
Mr. Keenan and W. S. Keenan
Jr. will make a trip to the mar-
kets in Chicago January 5 for pur-
chases of new stock for the in-
ng
After an almost complete shut-
down since Dec. 2 because of un-
favorable weather conditions, the
contractors ignored the holiday
season to get the work done.
C. A. Durham, supervising engi-
neer on the University and Auden
paving job, which is being done by
the Holland Page Construction
Company, reported that if the
weather holds, the contracted work
will be completed by the end of
this week.
The only work that is not com-
plete, is the intersection at Auden
and University Boulevard and
University Boulevard from the
City Hall to Weslayan Street. This
territory has already been exca-
[vated.
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The contract calls for the paving
of University Boulevard from the
35 hundred block to Weslayan
Street and for the paving of Auden
Street between University and
Rice Boulevards, including the in-
tersections at Rice and Auden and
all the intersections along Uni->
versity Boulevard.
So far, Auden Street and the in-
tersection at Rice and Auden, the
35, 36 and 37 hundred blocks of
University, including the Edloe
and University intersection, have
been completed.
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If the weather permits the com-
pletion of the paving work reports
indicate that a large sigh of relief
will be heaved by the contractors,
city officials and residents of the
city, who have been struggling
with the paving since Sept. 5 when
work first began on the projects.
First of the numerous delays on
the paving work was due to the
material shortage that took place
late in September when gondola
box cars to haul the material could
not be obtained.
During that period, the workers
and contractors stood idly by un-
der blue skies and bright sunshine,
and when enough material finally
did arrive, the rains set in before
much could be accomplished.
As they waited for the weather
to break, enough material was
stockpiled to do the complete job
The buildings are expected to be|and at intervals when the weather
completed in about 60 to 75 days permitted small amounts of work
after actual work coommences.
Olson Brothers are planning to
were carried out.
During the first few days of De-
establish their local offices in one cember, work was again started in
of the new sections and a group oljearnest, but was stopped when the
doctors is interested in obtaining:concrete pouring machine broke
one of the leases for a clinic, Mr. down, and before it could be re-
rn— ipaired, the rain again set in.
Olson said.
Southside Man Constructs Violins As “Easy” Hobby
By ORLAN JONES
R. E. Owen of 3762 Ingold in
Southside Place says that making
a violin is very simple, and ho
should know, because for nine
years violin making was his hob-
chievous children, Chief Shipp by and *n that time he constructed
stated. In this case, someonejn*ne °* the delicate instruments,
broke into the West University In the words of Mr. Owen all
Real Estate office at 3202 Uni-it; takes to build a violin is
versity Boulevard.
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Chief Shipp stated that he sus
pected children were responsible
because other cases of vandalism,
such as broken street lights and
stop signs, where discovered near
the real estate office.
Annual Banquet
Set For Firemen
The annual banquet given for
the Bellaire Volunteer Firemen by
the City will be held next Mon-
day night at 7 p.m. at the Santa
Anita Restaurant, 1919 Louisiana,
it was announced this week.
Mayor Madison Rayburn, who
announced the forthcoming event,
said that city councilmen, city em-
The first regular meeting of the ployes and all the volunteer fire-
Village Association for the year
1948 will be held next Tuesday
night at 7:30 p.m. in the Ameri-
can Legion Haall, 5505 Kelvin, of-
ficials of the association an-
nounced this week.
men and their wives have been
invited to attend the affair.
He added that former governor
and federal judge, James V. All-
red, will be asked to deliver the
principal speech at the banquet.
“little study, a lot of time and
a great deal of patience.”
Mr. Owen’s unique hobby was
discovered this week when he
placed an advertisement in The
Citizen announcing the sale ofj
one of the hand-made violins.
When Mr. Owen was interviewed,
however, it was learned that he(
intends to sell the major portion
of his violins.
He has built nine of the in-j
struments and he reports that it:
is getting to be too much of a
job keeping them strung and play-j
ing all of them so that they retain1
their quality.
Mr. Owen is an accomplished
violinist and at present he is man-
aging to play on each instrumen
often enough to keep them in turn
and in good repair.
Four of the instruments arc
copied after the famed violin:
made by Antonio Stradivari, the
other five are patterned after the
'•enowned Giuseppe Antonio Guar-
See LOCAL MAN
Page 11, Col. 3
VIOLIN MAKER—R. E. Owen, who makes violins lor a hobby, can be seen above with sev-
eral of his own creations. The instrument he is holding is a copy of the famed Stradivarhu.
Mr. Owen favors this violin most because of its mellow tone. To the left of the violin maker
can be seen the mold that is used in construction of the delicate instruments.
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Murphy, John H.; Daniels, A. Pat & Farley, James L. The Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 31, 1947, newspaper, December 31, 1947; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth567377/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.