Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1951 Page: 1 of 18
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SOUTH WESTER
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE.
BELLA!RE. SOUTHSIDE PLACE. BRAESWOOD. SOUTHAMPTON.
•OUTHGATE AND ADJACENT AREA.
(Official Publication for the Citiet of West University Place, Bellaire and South aide Place)
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Volume 8—Number 5
HOUSTON, TEXAS, OCTOBER 25, 1951
5c a Copy—Subscription $1.50 a Year
College Women Meet
The College Women's Club opened the fall season recently
with a luncheon. Some of the members from the Southwestern
section are pictured above. Standing left to right are Miss
Lura Albertson (vice president), Miss Antoinette Miller (recording
secretary) and Mrs. J. F. Gale. Seated are Mrs. L. V. Uhrig
(council member) and Mrs. E. M. Parrott (historian).
Photo by the Maurers
Announcement Names Additional
Southwestern United Fund Workers
WU Council Hikes
Wages Of Workers;
No Talk Of Strike
Without directly mention-
ing: last week’s one-day strike
of service workers, the West
University Place City Council
Monday night raised the
wages of city employees as
of November 1.
Mayor Pro Tem Dupree Hol-
man told the council the re-
sults of the study made by the
city’s personnel board and recom-
mended that the raises, incorporat-
ed in the budget to become ef-
fective January 1, be granted im-
mediately. A unanimous vote
adopted the action.
During the strike last week City
Secretary Whitt Johnson and Mi-.
Holman were quoted as saying
that city officials would not be
rushed into a twenty-four decis-
ion without the report of the per-
sonnel board.
Most of the workers reported
to duty the next day without the
25 cents an hour raise over their
specified 90 cents.
Office workers, paid on a month-
ly budget, will receive about $15
a month raises, and hourly work-
ers will be increased six cents
an hour.
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Blantons Named
To Head Bellaire
Library Friends
Friends of the Bellaire Library
elected Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Blan-
ton Jr. of 4812 Willow as co-chair-
men at an organizational meeting
held in the Bellaire Community
Building Monday night.
Other officers elected are Mrs.
Laurence Cowles of 5420 Brae
Burn as treasurer and Albert Stein
of 4800 Linden as secretary.
The meeting was arranged by
Mrs. Smith Mercer and Mrs. Car-
roll Camden.
Speaker for the occasion was
Mrs. H. Fletcher Brown, a mem-
ber of the Friends of the Fondren
Library at the Rice Institute, who
told how their organization was
started and what methods were
used.
Wheel Children
Will Ride Red
Fire Truck
All the youngsters in West Uni-
versity Place are being given a
chance to ride a great big, red fire
truck.
The volunteer fire department,
represented by Chief J. A. Met-
calf, asked the council Monday
night for permission to ride the
youngsters around for 25 cents,
which will be in the form of a do-
nation to a fund to buy radios to
transmit alarms into homes.
The council granted permission,
requesting that special precautions
be taken to protect the children.
The home radios, which cost ap-
proximately $25 apiece, will be put
in the homes of thirty volunteer
firemen.
Rides are scheduled for Friday
and Saturday from 3 p.m. until
5:30 p.m.
Announcement was made this
week of additional Southwest resi-
dents who are serving as volunteer
workers in Houston and Harris
County’s first United Fund cam-
paign.
Co-chairmen of region 72 are
Jack W. Doran of 4026 Amherst
and James A. Branch of 3103 Uni-
versity Boulevard.
Region co-ordinators are Mrs. J.
Sam Muckelroy of 3707 Wroxton
and Mrs. Pauline C. Kunze of 3614
Bluebonnet.
District chairmen and co-chair-
men include David Kegg of 2535
Times, Paul A. McGregor of 3320
Amherst, Walter J. Mansberger of
3766 Nottingham, L. J. Konecny of
6133 Annapolis, Henry Dudley of
2405 Notingham, Gus D. Lewis of
2720 Nottingham, J. P. Sawyer of
3720 Albans and Jacque De Coux
of 3706 Drummond.
Volunteers who are working as
captains and co-captains include
Ripley Woodard of 3751 Darcus, A.
Cliff Wadley of 2620 Nottingham,
Local Children
Will Appear In
String Concert
Members of the State Associa-
tion of Childhood Educators who
attend the three-day convention at
the Shamrock Hall of Exhibits will
see youngsters of the Southwestern
section in an elementary string
demonstration at 8 p.m. tonight.
The young people will be di-
rected by Mrs. Joan Taylor, who
teaches violin and cello in both
Roberts and West University Ele-
mentary Schools, as well as in two
other Houston public schools.
Pupils at Roberts who will ap-
pear are Susan Bradt, Alan Hau-
frecht, Jimmy Havens, Letitia
Kinzbaqh, Marilyn Orr, Patsy Todd
and Eudith Zindler.
Representing West University
School will be Alan Ahlschier, John
Allen, Henry Milam, Van Phillips,
Ralph Trigg, Delber Turner and
Jay Wood.
Jack Culbertson of 3732 Darcus, A.
M. Bogart of 2215 Dorrington, Jack
Comiskey of 4209 S. Judson Ave-
nue, Lynn G. Clark of 3751 Semi-
nole and Fred Williver of 3315
Robinhood.
Mrs. Charles Caldwell of 2134
Quenby is a team captain and
Mrs. Storey Lindsay of 2506 Mc-
Clendon is a co-captain as is
Charles Wilson of 3111 Jarrard.
Others are B. L. Richardson of 3735
Carlon, II. A. Tschumy of 3815
University, A. L. Bader of 3312
Tangley and Mrs. L. J. Konecny
of 6133 Annapolis.
Other captains and co-captains
are Miss Barbara Voorhees of 3414
Purdue, George T. Gibbs of 2820
Jarrard, Paul Andrews of 6707
East College, Ralph R. Newton of
3502 Purdue, Bernard Kay of 2632
Sunset Boulevard, Wayland Han-
cock of 3746 Tangley, Howard
Mercer of 3742 Tangley, Pliny del
Valle of 6719 Brompton, E. L.
McLeskey of 3766 Arnold, Mrs. M.
B. Peiser of 2708 Sunset, N. P.
Chase of 3832 Riley and Sam
Keeper of 4507 Larch Lane.
District co-chairmen include Miss
Marie Holmes of 2501 Sheridan,
Gus D. Lewis of 2720 Nottingham
and Walter J. Mansberger of 3766
Nottingham.
Team secretaries are Mrs. L. J.
Knoecny of 6133 Annapolis, Mrs.
S. H. Brown of 2228 Swift, Mrs.
Frank Ladin of 2423 Glenhaven,
Mrs. A. M. Bogart of 2215 Doi’-
rington, Mrs. Charles F. Luft of
3930 Purdue, Mrs. Lucille Gleason
of 2436 Times, Mrs. Herman
Wright of 6514 Mercer and Mrs.
Ripley Woodard of 3721 Darcus.
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Teen-Agers Dance
Club Sets Date
Of First Formal
Students of Lanier, Pershing
and Kinkaid, who belong to the
Paragons Dance Club will hold
their first formal dance on Oc-
tober 27.
The event will begin at 8 p. m.
in the River Oaks Recreation Cen-
ter.
Four New Bellaire Policemen Hired
When Dispute Causes Mass Quitting
Bellaire Police Chief John Hlavaty and five patrolmen quit
in a body Friday night, leaving the city with only two law
enforcement officers. And although the stories of the vari-
ous interested parties differ in some respects, all agree that
the cause of the mass resignation was a dispute between
Mr. Hlavaty an4 Sgt. Roy Ry-
mer.
Tlie trouble first came to a
head last Monday night when
the police force met with City
Bellaire To Issue
Time Warrants
For Improvements
Issuing of $125,000 worth of
time warrants was approved by the
Bellaire city council last Wednes-
day night, in the first step toward
getting additional water storage
facilities, more traffic lights and
acreage and equipment for a gar-
bage disposal system.
The warrants, similar to bonds,
will be repaid over a 10-year pe-
riod.
Of the $125,000, $80,000 is ear-
marked for a 500,000-gallon over-
head storage tank, $30,000 is set
aside for purchase of the garbage
dump site and a bulldozer and
other equipment for use in the
“sanitary fill” disposal method and
$15,000 will be used for traffic
lights.
The half-million-gallon overhead
tank, together with a 225,000-gal-
lon ground storage plant, both
planned for the site just south of
Avenue B and Old Richmond Road,
are expected to serve the needs of
Bellaire for the next two years.
Purchase of acreage and equip-
ment for garbage disposal has been
under discussion since the begin-
ning of 1951, when West Univer-
sity increased their monthly rental
charge for the use of the West
University dump from $100 to $350.
Plans for a city-wide traffic con-
trol system have not yet been
completed. However, the council
plans to install lights at Post Ook
and Pine, Post Oak and Bellaire
Boulevard, Bellaire Boulevard and
Avenue A, Bellaire Boulevard and
Rice and Richmond and Rice.
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Braeswood Garden
Club Holds Meet
In Maroneal Home
Members of the Braeswood Gar-
den Club held a luncheon meet-
ing Tuesday in the home of Mrs.
R. G. Cox, 2327 Maroneal. Mrs.
Micky Frost III was co-hostess.
Speaker for the occasion was
Mrs. E. G. Glasser, whose topic was
“Spring Gardening.”
Mrs. Hugh Ruthven, president,
served. She was assisted by Mrs.
H. P. Woolley.
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Manager John O’Neal to air their
grievances.
“I heard that the meeting was
going to be held and, although
I wasn’t invited, I dropped in to
hear what was going on,” Mayor
Everal L. West said.
At the meeting, Chief Hlavaty
and Patrolman John Yerby, John
Moore, Donald Stovall, Walter El-
sik and Gay Smith said that they
were unwilling to work with Sgt.
Rymer and that they would all re-
sign unless Sgt. Rymer was re-
placed.
Sgt. Rymer submitted his resig-
nation at the meeting. According
to the recently-resigned chief,
there was considerable friction be-
tween him and the city manager
for the next few days.
“On Friday,” Mr. Hlavaty
said, “Mr. O’Neal called me and
told me to reinstate Rymer. I
called Rymer Friday evening
and told him to come back to
work. Then, after meeting with
the other men, I called Mr. O’-
Neal and told him he’d better
get Rymer out here in a hurry
because he didn’t have a police
force. Some of the men even
quit in the middle of their pa-
trols.”
Mr. Hlavaty said that before he
and the other five men quit he
called the Houston Police Depart-
ment and the Sheriff’s Depart-
ment, asking that each send a pa-
trol car to Bellaire. He said that
both of them answered his re-
quest.
The only other man who re-
mained on duty was the humane
officer, who also serves as a part-
time patrolman.
Commenting on the mass resig-
nation, Mayor West said that he
had no dispute with any of the
men who resigned but that he
supported Mr. O’Neal’s position
because he did not feel that the
chief of police or any other city
employee should dictate who
should and who should not be on
the city payroll.
Mr. Hlavaty said that he had no
dispute with any member of the
city council either.
“I feel that he (Sgt. Rymer)
was after my job,” the former
chief said. “It got to the point
that he would agitate the other
boys against me. In front of me,
he told me what a nice fellow I
Bellaire TRA Sets
Meeting On Changes
Of Constitution
The five State Constitution
amendments to be voted on Novem-
ber 13 will be explained and dis-
cussed at the Bellaire Tax Re-
search Association meeting at 8
p. m. Monday, October 29, in the
lounge of the Bellaire Community
Building.
Most of the amendments will
have a direct influence on future
tax bills in the state. The public
is invited to attend the meeting,
it was announced by Floyd Ryba,
chairman of the organization.
was. The other boys came to me
and told me what he was doing.
They refused to work with him
or under him.”
Mr. Hlavaty said that he had
gone to the City Hall Saturday to
ask Mr. O’Neal for a public hear-
ing on the matter, but that the
city manager had left for Mineral
Wells to attend the Texas League
of Municipalities meeting. He said
that he submitted his request to
Mayor West and was turned down.
He made plans to meet with the
council at their regular meeting
last night.
Mayor West said that the mass
resignation came as a surprise to
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Brackman, Irvin H. Southwestern Times (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1951, newspaper, October 25, 1951; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576524/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.