The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 16, 1964 Page: 1 of 28
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Texan Football Forecast Contest Starts Today
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This is the time of year I pause a
moment and listen for the rustle of
autumn leaves, the nip in the air,
feel bright sun mellowing and yel-
lowing and, perhaps, smell the smoke
of leaf fires drifting through the dusk.
These, of course, are scenes and
senses of my youth in a small Iowa
town where suddenly—as suddenly
as Summer came and barefoot days
beckoned—where suddenly the heat
°f summer blended into the hazy
days of Fall.
For with September came school
davs, no more barefoot days, a hint
> a nip in the evening and a glitter
of morning dew turned to jeweled
frost that left footprints to and from
silent front porches as I hustled’
through the dawn delivering the
morning papers.
How good are Texan
football fans at crystal-gazing?
We’ll find out during the next
12 weeks because with this
week’s issue the Texan is laun-
ching a Football Forecast Con-
test.
It’s fun to play, easy to enter,
doesn’t cost you anything and
your guess just may be as good
as the experts.
Each week one contestant will
win two tickets to the next home
game of either the Rice Owls or
the University of Houston Cou-
gars.
Only exception is the first
week when tickets will be avail-
able to the Sept. 26 Rice-LSU
game only.
Now here’s how the contest
works. Page 16 of today’s Texan
is this week’s ballot. Each adver-
tisement on the page contains
the name of two football teams
w'ho will be playing this week.
Circle the name of the team you
think will win in each of the
14 ads. Circle both teams for a
tie. Then pick the score of the
tie breaking game in the large
ad at the bottom of the page.
In the event of a tie, the con-
testant picking the score closest
to the actual score will be the
winner. Only one entry per per-
son will be accepted.
In the center of the page you
will find the Harmon Football
Forecast to help you in picking
the winners.
One of the most popular fore-
casting services in the nation,
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A COMMUNITY WEEKLY NEWSPAPEH
The evenings after school were
filled with the shrill orders barked
by the coach, the exhilerating cries
of young athletes turning suddenly
from undisciplined play to disciplined
and organized combat. And the groans
and cries of outraged muscles.
Came the heavy shoes, the thick
socks, the long underwear, the heav-
ior jackets. The Autumn colors
tinted, they colored, then burst in
riotous scenery. The hills stretching
on all sides thrust up their most
glorious front.
Came the evenings, the smoke of
burning leaves drifted throughout the
town and pinpoints of light twinkled
on every block. Courageous (or just
show-off) lads leaped the flames and
submerged themselves in smoke and
raced home to the inevitable greeting:
“John, you smell to high heavens.**
And then, if fortune smiled, came
the long Indian Summer and the Fall
hunting. Or, usually, the lengthy
visits to the bottomland and the bags
of walnuts, hickory nuts, hazel nuts,
Red Haws.
And that last rite of Fall—the
climbing up from our third-floor
attic to the Captain’s Walk on the
roof, lugging gunny sacks of nuts,
dumping them down onto the flat,
sloping roof, where parallel boards
stopped them, spread them and al-
lowed them to dry in the sun.
Them were the days we remember,
once in a while. About this time of
year, usually. And so we’ll take off
this week and drive through this
midwestern land ... a little early,
perhaps, for the true Fall. But, per-
haps, we’ll sniff a bit of that Autumn
weather and return refreshed.
Boy Scouts
Launch Drive
In Southwest
More than 250 Scout leaders
and committeemen met at the
Bellaire Community Hall Tues-
day evening to hold their 1964
“Southwest Frontier” roundup
kickoff. These Scouters repre-
sented the 112 Cub Packs, Scout
Troops and Explorer units in the
Southwest District.
Purpose of the meeting was to
launch the annual membership
drive among all the units, with
each group pledging to “round-
up” new members and leader-
ship.
Harry B’ovay, president of the
Sam Houston Area Council, Boy
Scouts of America, was the prin-
cipal speaker. In his remarks he
challenged the Southwest Scout-
ers to '“work to continue the
growth of the district by bring-
ing more boys into Scouting.”
“The Sam Houston Area Coun-
cil’s success,” Bovay told the
leaders, “depends heavily on the
sucess of the Southwest District.
You, the leaders and unit com-
mitteemen
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PROCLAMATION LAUNCHES TRAVELWENDERS ""
Mayor Robert Watts signs a proclamation
designating Senior Citizens Week in Bellaire
as members of the newly organized Travel-
., , wenders Club look on. They are, left to
make the d^erene'e ”e°P * MrS’ J‘ H* Petitfils' M.ry Laird,
Following the explanation of
the roundup methods by E. A.
Ehlers, Jr., the “stage was set”
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Mrs. A. E. Emmott. and Miss Vera Saxen-
meyer. The Travelwenders, sponsored by
the Bellaire Recreation Dept., will be mak-
ing periodic excursions to places of interest
in the Houston area.
SHOPS & SHOPPERS
Bellaire Child Dies
Of Accident Injuries
A five-year-old Bellaire girl
died Thursday morning in Me-
thodist Hospital of injuries she
received some 11 hours earlier
in a traffic mishap n front of
her home.
Terri Lynn Drake, daughter
of Capt. and Mrs. Edward Drake,
4608 Holly, received head in-
juries when a car she was hold-
ing onto started to drive away.
She fell and struck her head
on the curb, police reported.
Driver of the car, Larry G.
Mfllican, 14, of 4322 Pine, told
Police Sgt. James O. Terry that
he had warned Terri and anoth-
er little playmate a few min-
the car. He said he was parked
alongside the curb talking to
friends.
He said he did not see
the child as he started to drive
away but heard a noi§e and
stopped. It was only then that
He knew the child 'had been
holding onto the door handle of
the car, he said. No charges
were filed.
The child was taken to Bell-
aire General Hospital by her
mother and later transferred to
Methodist Hospital where she
died at 5" a.m. Thursday.
The father is a civilian ship’s
captain and returned home from
the Mediterranean when in-
formed of 'his daughter’s death.
Funeral services were held
Monday in the MoGowen Ave.
Chapel of George H. Lewis and
Sons Funeral home, the Rev.
James B. Argue and the Rev.
Jimmie Reese officiating. Burial
was in Forest Park West Ceme-
tery.
Survivors in addition to the
parents include three sisters,
Mrs. Norman Boyd Jr. of Hous-
ton, Betty Jayne and Diane
Drake, both of Bellaire; grand-
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Toplass of Bellaire and Mrs.
Fred Bigsby of Mount Dora.
Fla.
THREE WELL-KNOWN
INSTRUCTORS JOIN
DIANNE COX STODIO
Three well-known dance in-
structors have joined the staff
of the Dianne Cox Dance Studio
(10817 S. Post Oak at Willow-
bend Blvd.) as the studio opens
its sixth season.
The studio offers expert in-
struction in ballet, modern, tap,
jazz, acrobatic and ballroom
dancing under the direction of
Mrs. Dianne Cox, well-known
in the fields of the dance.
Herb Johnson, known as both
instructor and performer in
Houston dance fields tin* 10 years
has joined the studio as ballroom
instructor. Elizabeth Symmonds,
a Portsmouth (England) dancer
who trained in the Royal Acad-
emy of England, will instruct in
Ballet. And Jerry Schwender,
just returned from studies in
New York on a dance scholar-
ship, will instruct in tap.
Mrs. Cox herself directed the
Junior Company of the Greater
Houston Civic Ballet for two
years, guest directed the Houston
Youth Symphony.
And last year she formed her
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Travelwenders Take
First Trip Oct. 15
The Travelwenders are ready
to hit the road!
The club for senior citizens
sponsored by the Bellaiie Parks
and Recreation Department held
their first meeting Thursday
evening and some 35 interested
residents turned out.
The first tour has been select-
ed and is scheduled for Oct. 15.
It will be the Grey Lines Num-
ber One tour which will take
the group to points of interest
in the City of Houston.
In connection with the forma-
tion of the club, the City Coun-
cil at their last meeting pro-
claimed Sept. 7-12 as Senior Cit-
izens Week in Bellaire wishing
the group “all the pleasure and
happiness that they can possibly
absorb and pledging the city’s
best Efforts to make this project
an enjoyable one for them.”
Activities Director, D. L.
O’Keefe said it is important that
those making the Oct. 15 trip
make their reservations as soon
as possible by calling the Bell-
aire Recreation Department at
MO 4-9780 any time between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m.
Buses used for the tours will
be of the luxury type.
Groundbreaking Friday
For Bellaire Motor Inn
Groundbreaking ceremonies pate in the ceremonies,
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday for The motor inn, which will be
the Bellaire Inn, corner of Sixth a first for Bellaire, is being
and Spruce Streets. built by Mr. and Mrs.' John Gid-
City officials, representatives eon. Contractor for the project
of the Bellaire Chamber of Com. is Richmond Rd. and Engineer-
merce and other interested citi- ing Co.
zens will be on hand. The Rev. The public is invited to at-
Don' Pevey, pastor of Bellaire tend the groundbreaking cere-
Methodist Church; will partici- mony.
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Norton-Miller, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 16, 1964, newspaper, September 16, 1964; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521101/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.