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THE BELLAIRE TEXAN
Wednesday, January 16, 1957
Editorial Features
THE HOMETOWNER
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Bellaire Family Home Again
After Sixteen Months In Germany
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C
McDaniel have recently return-
ed to Bellaire after spending
sixteen months in Germany.
One day last week we dropped
by the McDaniel residence at
4518 Brae Burn where they liv-
ed 3% years prior to going to
Germany to chat about their
experiences in general while in
Europe and housekeeping prob-
lems in particular.
“The housekeeping situation?”
said Mrs. McDaniel who’s the
mother of three children. “Right
now I wish I were back there.
Fulltime maids are very inex-
pensive.”
Maid Situation
Salary for a fulltime maid
(working a 10 hour day) runs
about $27 or $28, Mrs. McDaniel
said.
If the maid situation is ideal,
the electric power situation isn’t,
Mrs. McDaniel reports.
If anyone cares to hear a lec-
ture on the mysteries of current
cycles, voltage, transformers,
etc., the petite Mrs. McDaniel
can oblige.
“I didn’t know anything about
such things before I went over
there but I certainly had to
learn—or ruin all my appli-
ances,” she said, .
“Everything over there is set
up on 50 cycle current com-
pared to 60 cycle current in
the United States so we had to
buy transformers in order to
use our appliances.” .
Items ranging from musical
beer steins to Spanish blown
glass are much in evidence in
the McDaniel home.
Comparing Prices
“I*ve always been a bargain
hunter so itis quite a thrill com-
paring prices on imported items
in shops here with the prices I
paid in Germany, Italy and
Spain, “Mrs. McDaniel said.
She’s also proud" that of the
dozens of glassware pieces she
brought back none were even
cracked.
The McDaniel family was
stationed at Kaiserslautern, in
the forests of West Germany
where the U. S. Army has stock-
piled a vast military arsenal.
Life Article
“At first when we’d tell peo-
ple we were stationed at Kaiser-
slautern, they’d just look blank,”
said Mrs. McDaniel. “Then in
December, Life magazine came
out with quite a spread on the
place including the housing unit
where we lived.”
Mr. McDaniel—who is no long-
er in the Army—was school’s
officer for the base.
Now he’s getting set to go
to school himself. He’ll enter the
University of Houston at the
beginning of the next term.
The McDaniel children,
Freddy, 11, Susan, 9, and Gretta,
8, who are now renewing old
acquaintances at Horn School,
adjusted quite well to the change
in schools, said Mrs. McDaniel.
German Lessons
“They had fifteen minutes of
German instruction every day
but it didn’t “take” very
well,” she said.
However, Mama obtained
quite a good speaking knowl-
edge of the language, taking pri-
vate instruction for a ten month
period.
Of course, among the family’s
happiest memories of the 16
month stay are the sightseeing
safaris made to Venice, to Flor-
ence, to Milan (which Mrs. Mc-
Daniel says has the “most
beautiful” policemen she’s, ever
seen) to Baris, to Spain, and to
Garmish, the American rest and
recreation center in Bavaria
where the family took up skiing.
Oops, we forgot to mention
one very important member of
the cast of this European adven-
ture. He’s Fritz Von Wildzag, the
4-year-old Boxer who’s enjoying
roaming his “own backyard”
after more than a year of apart-
ment living.
WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Food Fish
HORIZONTAL
1 Depicted fish
6 It is a young
3 Pole
4 Atop
5 Sand hill
6 Sleeveless
garment
7 Mouthwar
8 Remove
9 Field officer
(ab.)
10 Sick
13 Old woman
14 Interstices
15 Color
16 Kingdom in
Asia
; 18 Falsehood
19 Advertisement 11 Mariner 20 Mourn
j (ab.) 12 Listened 33 Eats away
20 Draws back 17 From (prefix) 34 Satchel
22 Lord (ab.) 20 Mended 36 Ohio city
23 Heap 21 Wages 37 Wild ass
125 Century plant 24 Written ■ 42 Fish sauce
i 27 Pace
28 Animal fat
29 Tantalum
(symbol)
30 Part of “be”
31 Palm lily
32 Anent
33 Always
35 Preposition
38 Infrequent
39 Famous
English school
40 Chemical
suffix
41 Copallike
resins
47 Musical note
48 Expire
50 Climbing vine
51 Lower limb
52 Respects
54 Self respect
56 Sittings
57 Flavor
VERTICAL
1 Leav"
2 Trust
message
43 Mimic
44 Bulk
45 Any
46 Knocks
49 Greek Iettc
51 Mouth par.
53 Half an em
55 Sun god
THE REV. N. L. WHITE
Pastor,
Bellaire Assembly of God
Psalms, 149-4; “He beautifieth
the meek with salvation.
‘Salvation” is a word which
is used by men to represent very
different things.
The lowest conception and the
realization of happiness—this
conception being a selfish one.
The highest is perhaps this,
the attainment of Spiritual beau-
ty, becoming like Christ, find-
ing our beauty supplied in the
spiritual realm through Christ.
Salvation beautifies human char-
acter and life.
I fear we are not sufficiently
alive to the importance of beauty
in the culture of character. God
has made the soul receptive of
the beautiful, capable of appre-
ciating it, and profiting by it;
and “He hath made everything
beautiful in its time’ to minister
to man’s thirst for beauty.
The beautiful in character is
for many reasons the highest
beauty. This God promises to the
meek. How many blessings come
to the meek which the proud
never receive; “The meek will
he guide in judgement, and the
meek will he teach his way.”
“The meek shall inherit the
earth, and shall delight them-
selves in the abundance of
peace.” .
Divine Beauty
SALVATION promotes physi-
cal beauty. Sinds moral ugliness;
and it tends to produce physical
ugliness. Sin banishes true re-
finement, purity, and the beauty
which is both earthly and last-
ing as eternity.
Purity of heart gradually and
silently molds even course fea-
tures into refinement and comli-
ness for salvation curbs and con-
quers evil passion, and imparts
calmness and peace and love,
gives repose and sweetness and
beauty of deed and countenance.
If truth and purity, spiritual-
ity and meekness, peace and
love are ours, they will inform
the features with a spiritual and
divine beauty.
Spiritual Beauty
Salvation is spiritual beauty.
The beauty of salvation re
sembles the beauty of God him-
self. Moses prayed, “Let the
beauty of the Lord our God be
upon us.” Meekness and pa
tience, love and truth righteous
ness and purity, these constitute
the infinite loveliness of the
ever blessed God.
This beauty is ever varied.
The beauty of creation is varied.
Each of the seasons has its own
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HINDSIGHT
Five Years Ago
(From the files of the Bellaire
’exan, Jan. 17, 1952)
“Despite building restrictions
nd other setbacks, City of Bell
ie officials totaled up the
Two Years Ago
(From the files of the Bell-
ire Texan, Jan. 20, 1955)
“The J. S. Fultons of 5203
One Year Ago
(From the files of the Bellaire
exam, Jan. 18, 1956)
“The wheels are beginning to
jrn on widening Old Richmond
,d. Last week Country Com-
Richmond from Mulberry Lane
to the Bellaire Circle."
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By
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JOHN K. GURWELL..................................Publisher
MARY NORTON .......................................Editor
EARL BROWNING............................General Manager
DICK NUNN ...........................Advertising Manager
JINNY LANDES......................................Classified
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or repu-
tation of any person, firm or corporation which may appear in the
columns of The Bellaire Texan will gladly be corrected when
brought to the attention of the Publisher.
Bellaire, Texas, Wednesday, January 16, 1957
• •
• •
The Book Mart::
CAPTAIN LITTLE AX—
James Street (Lippincott) $3.95
—A really fascinating tale told
as only a truly skilled story-
teller like James Street could
tell it.
It is developed in such a be-
lieveable, truly plausible manner
that I still cannot help wonder-
ing if it could have been based
on truth. Could there indeed
have been a Cradle Company—
fighting with the Confederate
Army against the North, which
consisted of mere boys from ages
14 to 17? That’s what this book
is all about.
At Corinth
Captain Little Ax Trowbridge
was a boy. 15 years old and
fresh out of the Mississippi Mili-
tary Institute, and as the story
opens, we find him wandering
around the battleground at
Shiloh in the thick of the fight-
ing, looking desperately for his
father, Big Ax Trowbridge.
He had followed his father to
Corinth, in his military school
uniform, to try to force him to
enlist him in his company, which
was Company C of the 13th
Mississippi Regiment.
His father enlisted him as a
private then outsmarted him by
immediately detaching him for
duty on their plantation and
Little Ax was sent home, com-
pletely disgusted.
However, on his way, he al-
lowed himself to be swept along
the road to Shiloh and awoke to
find himself in the midst of con-
fusion and death far worse than
he had ever imagined. He felt
that he had to find his father.
When he finally did find him, it
was in a hospital on his death
bed.
Yankee Patrol
Because of his size and age,
the Confederate officers threw
him into a group of under age
ruffians, who were trying to
fight for the Confederacy but
were much too young to be ac-
cepted as regular Army men.
These thirty odd boys were to
be escorted away from the battle
lines to prison or home, and
every one of them was rebellious
and unruly. On the road back,
however, they were overtaken
by a Yankee patrol and their
guard and escort shot. Little Ax
seized the opportunity and cap-
italized on his military school
training and his position as the
only one among them who was
actually a legimate member of
a regular army unity.
The Bushwackcrs
He persuaded his motley crew
that if they would accept him
as their captain, he would be
able to make them also legi-
mate regular army men of his
father's company.
He and his “company” made
several successful stands against
the Yankees at Shiloh and help-
ed some of the Rebels retreat.
In the process, however, they
found themselves branded as the
Cradle Company and outlawed
as bushwackers by their own
Confederate officers.
Tough Raiders
Nothing daunted, and still de-
termined to serve the Confeder-
ate cause. Little Ax whips his
crowd of insolent under age ruf-
fians into tough raiders who soon
earn quite a reputation for
themselves. Because of their size,
no Yankee guards ever saw or
heard them until it was too late,
and their skill in such raids
brought camparison to Bedford
Forrest’s and Morgan’s Raiders.
This tale rings so true in the
telling that I found myself read-
ing avidly to the end, as only
one does with truth that is
stranger than fiction. And
though there is not one indica
tion anywhere in the book that
it is based on fact, I still can’t
help asking the question. “Could
it possibly have happened this
way?'* -_e. Linda Urbantke
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 16, 1957, newspaper, January 16, 1957; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521186/m1/16/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.