The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 30, 1961 Page: 1 of 28
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Serving Bellaire, Meyerland. Flack Estates, Robin do 11, Brae Burn Terrace, Larkwood, Willow Bend, Westbury, and Sharpstown
The police are touring the
areas on the lookout for “blind”
corners caused by overgrown
shrubbery, are polishing up the
school crossing “flashing light”
signs, and Bellaire City Manager
Gary Summers is looking for
two more women to serve as
school crossing guards.
All this indicates the annual
return trek to school by the
hosts of little moppets whose
safety must be protected by
all means available.
The search for “blind corners”
usually finds a hedge or bush
too big for clear vision at inter-
sections. Motorists have to ootch
out into the street to see what
traffic is coming. And at times
bikes crash into them because
the riders can’t see around corn,
ers either. Or more serious traf-
fic accidents occur.
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Many homeowners plant
shrubbery or hedges over onto
the city-owned easements and
clear to the curb. Then, in the
press of business, or during Sum-
mer vacations, either neglect or
forget to trim these hedges and
other shrubbery down and back
to improve vision of motorists,
bike riders and walkers.
In Bellaire, when such haz-
ards are discovered, the pro-
perty owners are notified by
police to do something about
correcting the situation. If
nothing happens, other meth-
ods of insuring cooperation are
tried.
However, it should be in the
interest of not only the school
kids and the motorists, but the
community as a whole, what
homeowners check their shrub-
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Vol. 8 ■ No. 27
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1961
5c—Subscription $3.00 per year
Richmond
Boosters
Organize
T h e Richmond Elementary
Boosters Club named Wayne
Scott president during its Fall
organizational meeting Friday
night.
Jim Wilkerson was named
vice president and Mrs. Jane
Regal, secretary treasurer.
At the well-attended general
business meeting, the club de-
cided to erect a billboard in
the stadium and sell subscrip-
tions for $10 each.
Each subscription entitled you
to have your name listed on the
billboard. The money so raised
will be spent for team equip-
ment such as blocking and tack-
ling dummies.
Chapman Says NR*.-
Drainage Ditch
If Bonds OK'd "6!,!S
The long-needed Railroad
Ditch deepening and lining pro-
ject will definitely be taken
care of if a proposed county
bond issue for drainage passes
this fall, County Comissioner
Kyle Chapman told a gathering
in the Bellaire Community
Building.
“Rest assured that if these
bonds carry, Railroad Ditch will
be fixed,” Mr. Chapman told the
gathering of approximately 50
who attended the meeting ar-
ranged by the Lamont-Mulberry
Civic Club with the cooperation
of the Bellaire Chamber of Com-
merce.
Prior to Mr. Chapman’s talk.
Bill Kellogg, vice-president of
the Chamber of Commerce said
the Chamber had been working
closely with Mr. Chapman for
some time in connection with
a number of needs “which are
of real importance to this entire
area” and expressed apprecia-
tion for the commissioner’s co-
operation.
Other Projects
In addition to Railroad Ditch
as the Number One project, Mr.
Kellogg listed a courthouse an-
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RAYMOND L. SHANNON
Master Sergeant
Top Air National
Guardsman In
Nation For 1961
33 YEARS OF SERVICE
Fred Byrd Fund
Benefited by
Spcgbeffi Supper
The spaghetti supper held at
the Bellaire Community Center
Monday night for the benefit of
the Fred Byrd Fund was a very
successful affair and netted
$811.97 according to Bill Kellogg
who banked the entire proceeds
Tuesday morning. Since all the
food was donated by area mer-
chants, E. Garcia of the Triangle
Barber Shop, cooked the spa
ghetti, and the Community cen-
ter was donated for the evening,
there were no expenses.
Bellaire High School student
friends of Fred, Bellaire High
teacher Jim McBride assisted
with the serving.
Fred, in Methodist Hospital for
over a month now, was serious-
ly injured in a dive at Turner
Falls, in Oklahoma. He has
shown some improvement from
the partial paralysis and it is
reported traction will be remov-
ed soon.
Shops & Shoppers . . .
Ann Keene, Dianne Cox
Dance Studios Join Forces
Two of the Southwest area’s
finest dance studios have joined
forces to bring to their students
the best in faculty and courses.
The long-established Ann
Keene Dance Studio of Bellaire
— 5505 Old Richmond — and
the Dianne Cox Studio of Dance
at 10817 S. Post Oak Rd. are
the studios.
Both Mrs. Cox and Mrs. Keene
have a wealth of background
in dance instruction and in oper-
ating their own studios. Both
have owned and operated their
studios in the Southwest for
some time.
Both teachers worked together
closely the past year in the
Greater Houston Civic Ballet Co.
In their joint efforts to make
the civic company a success,
they hit upon the idea of having
children take advantage of the
best of both their studios in
instruction and curriculum.
“Under this arrangement our
studios can offer the student the
talents of the good faculty with-
out leaving out present, conve-
nient locations,” said Mrs. Cox.
Mrs. Keene and Mrs. Cox
will offer full schedule of cour-
ses in contemporary and classic
ballet, tap, jazz, special classes
for pre-schoolers, acrobatic, ba-
ton included courses for be-
ginners to advanced and special-
ty twirlers, ballroom for adults,
and social dancing for teenage
children.
The list of instructors, all
well-known and teaching courses
at both studios, include Mrs.
Cox and Mrs. Keene; Lance
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Charles Williams
New Principal Of
Johnston Jr. High
Johnston Junior High School
10410 Manhattan, will be losing
its first principal this fall. John
W. Brandstetter, 9801 Cedardale,
who opened the school as its
principal in September 1959, has
been appointed as supervisor of
the secondary department of the
Houston Independent School Dis-
trict by the Houston School
Board.
The School Board has named
Charles Williams, 6010 Saratoga,
as the new principal of Johns-
ton. He was formerly the prin-
cipal of George Washington Ju-
nior High School, 4710 Dickson.
Brandstetter will replace Van
R. Viebig of 7906 Richmond Ave.,
who has become an assistant to
Superintendent John W. McFar-
land.
Msgf. Shannon Timothy Mary Louise Mrs- Shannon
M-SGT. RAYMOND L. SHANNON looks over scrapbook at
the Shannon home at 4633 Beech with son Timothy Martin,
9; daughter Mary Louise, 7; and wife Margaret. On the line
(above left) with the 147th Fighter Group, Texas Air Nat-
ional Guard, Shannon stands ready for any eventuality. His
full-dress parade picture is to the left.
Service Spans Modern
Military Aviation History
Braeburn Scotties
Registration
Registration for the Brae-
burn Scotties Drill Squad will
be from 9 a.m. to 12 noon
Friday, Sept. 1, on the Brae-
burn Elementary School play-
ground area.
Registration is for girls in
the 4th, 5th and 6th grades.
The regular practice sche-
dule will be announced after liable as a company employe as
registration. he has been as a citizen soldier
Top Air National Guardsman
in the nation for 1961 is Master
Sgt. Raymond L. Shannon of
Bellaire.
The awarded was announced
by Maj. Gen. Winston P. Wilson,
Asst. Chief, National Guard
Bureau, Washington, D.C.
And presented by Lt. Col.
Robert H. Taylor, commander
of the 147th Fighter Group (AD)
of the Texas Air National Guard.
33 Years
Mstg. Shannon, who lives with
his wife Margaret and the Shan-
non’s two children — Timothy
Martin, 9, and Mary Louise, 7 —
at 4633 Beech St., has served 33
years of unbroken service to
state and nation.
His service as an enlisted man
spans most of the modern history
iof military aviation.
So it was with high regard
of that Col. Wilson wrote:
“It is with a sincere feeling
of great pride that I forward this
letter informing you of your se-
lection as the outstanding airman
of the Air National Guard for
1961. This is truly the most
honorable distinction ever
awarded an airman of this group
during peacetime operations.”
The Texas Co.
Sgt. Shannon, an aircraft
maintenance mechanic for most
of his years in the Air Guard,
has worked virtually every type
of fighter aircraft since 1928 —
from the 0-34 to the 102.
Throughout these years he has
worked for The Texas Co. in
Houston and has been as re-
through 27 years of peace and 6
years of war.
Because of the great change in
military aviation, Sgt. Shannon
admits he sometimes is a little
bewildered by differences in to-
day’s supersonic Air National
Guard and the old 111th Observ-
ation Squadron organized in
1923 —• just five years before
Shannon joined it. The 111th,
now a part of the 147th Group
and called a fighter interceptor
squadron, started out with World
War I “Jennies.” But Shannon
has grown and changed with the
Air Force.
Born in Sherman, Texas, July
6, 1969, son of stonecutter who
worked with the men who cut
the stone for the State Capitol
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 30, 1961, newspaper, August 30, 1961; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521418/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.