The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 1962 Page: 6 of 24
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THE BELLA1RE TEXAN
Wednaiday, May 23,
A
Parson's
Perspective
By The Rev. Herbert Mc/.a
The Public Library reports
that J. D. Salinger’s “Franny
and Zooey” was the most re-
quested fiction last week. Dr.
Herman Taller’s “Calories
Don’t Count” led the non-fic-
tion. Who’s kidding whom? The
current craze for weight con-
trol, with all its fads and gim-
micks is nothing but pure fic-
tion,—at least for me. I can’t
seem to make much progress.
First 1 tried one of those
diet formulas. Somebody said
Metracal had won the No-
belly Prize, so 1 tried it. All
I got was a hunger pain. So
I tried mental discipline af-
ter reading Charlie Shedd’s
book, “Pray Your Weight
Away.” It almost ruined my
spiritual life. I guess I’ll set-
tle for “Give us this day our
daily bread.” “Eat,” they tell
me now. Eat your weight
away, because calories don’t
count! I tried it for a week.
It’s a lie—they count, they
even multiply!
However, I want to offer
tome comfort to those who are
losing the battle of the bulge.
Jesus said there is more dan-
ger from what “cometh out of
the mouth” than from what
••goeth into the mouth.” (Mat-
thew 5:11). If you must be
plump, then be pleasant; if you
must be chubby, then be cheer-
ful. If you must be heavy, then
be helpful. If you must bear
weight, ask God to let you
carry someone else’s burden al-
so.
Hindsight
SIX YEARS AGO
(From the files of the Bellaire
Texan, May 16, 1956)
"Thomas Bard Risser, son of
Dr. and Mrs. J. R. Risser, 5106
Pocahontas, has been awarded
a National Merit Scholarship
which entitles him to four years
of college work with all ex-
penses paid.”
THREE YEARS AGO
(From the files of the Rellaire
Texan, May 13, 1959)
“Harriett Schaffer and Judy
Bell of Bellaire High School
came home with the girls’ de-
bate title from Conference
AAAA Interscholastic League
competition last Saturday in
Austin.”
FOUR YEARS AGO
(From the files of the Bellaire
Texan, May 14, 1958)
"John W. Moseley, chairman
of the organ department at the
University of Denver, will join
the staff of St, Thomas Church
and Southwest Episcopal
School in August.”
A FATEFUL MEETING
In this scene from The Miracle Worker, currently playing at
the Alley Theatre, Annie Sullivan (Bella Jarrett) and Helen
Keller (Joann Rose! meet for the first time and the cour-
ageous young teacher begins a heroic struggle for the im-
prisoned mind of a child. Nina Vance is director of the
award-winning play.
Superb Production Of
“Miracle Worker” At Alley
When a powerful force meets an immovable object there ensues
an explosion. , , , ,
When the powerful spirit of a determined teacher meets a belig-
erant and bewildered spirit in a sightless and deaf child, there
ensues a drama of gripping and thrilling proportions and William
Gibson has told it truthfully and dramatically in “The Miracle
Worker,” which opened last Wednesday at the Alley Theatre.
The strongly written play, has no loopholes for boredom as
directed by Nina Vance, and the casting is superb, to create the
necessary combination for an evening of provocative and satisfying
theatrical experience.
The story of Hellen Keller and her teacher Annie Sullivan is a
well known one. The incidents which occured in their early as-
sociations are not so well known and the conflict presented makes
the plot for Gibson’s drama. ________
The beauty of the spirit of the '
woman who comes to teach the was this month proclaimed the
blind child, the hope she car- best actress in the state. This
ries in her heart and gives to is doubtless an understatement,
those in the family—and the This appealing young girl, with
audience—is the exciting value a petite body and an enormous
of the performance of Bella Jar- understanding has a talent for
rett as Annie Sullivan. Conclud- acting which is a rare gift. In-
ing her year’s work here as a tense concentration is required
Ford Foundation actress, Miss to portray a sightless and deaf
Jarrett has surpassed any pre- child through the period of three
vious role, and established her- exacting acts and never falter
self as a superior artist with or lose one second of conviction
depth, force and beauty. that she is indeed in the dark.
Joann Rose is a 16 year old The woman and the girl play
Bellaire High School student who (Continued on Page 8)
POTLUCK
Space May Be Cramped But Interest
Is Wide In Natural Science Museum
By CAROL COSSUM
One day last week the boys
and I paid an after-school visit
to the Houston Museum of Na-
tural Science. We had browsed
through its dis-
plays on many
previous trips to
the Hermann
Park Zoo where
the 55 by 100 ft.
old frame build-
ing which houses
the museum i s
located. But this
time we ignored
the zoo and gave our full at-
tention to the museum.
The history of the museum
dates back to the Houston Mu-
seum and Scientific Society
which was incorporated in 1909
to “establish and maintain a
free institution for the people,
for education, and for science.'
It persuaded the City of Hous-
ton to purchase a nucleus col-
lection in 1914 which was hous-
ed in the newly constructed
downtown City Auditorium. It
moved to the Central Library
after its completion in 1922. but
its growing collections neces-
sitated another move by 1929.
At this time, it was transferred
to a temporary building , in the
Hermann Park Zoo and placed
under the control of the Board
of Park Commissioners. In 1934
it wre-- moved to its present
quarto; which were deemed
inadequate by the Supei inlend-
,t oi Parks over 25 years ago.
1946, the City Council trans-
rred “possession, control,
aintenance and operation” of
e museum to a non-profit cor.
nation formed by a group of
iblic spirited citizens who felt
e museum could operate more
fectively if seperated from
When we arrived the other
afternoon, one of the instruc-
tors was readying the class-
room for a troop of Bluebirds.
Looking at the dark and nar-
row room where an average
of five classes are conducted
daily. I found it hard to be-
lieve that more than 33.000
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The |
Editor’s \
Notebook 1
BY MARY NORTON |
All sorts of charming stories
have been written about small
boys and their dogs, about
small boys and their horses . . .
But you don’t hardly ever
find a charming story about a
small boy and his snake.
I can’t imagine why.
Personally, 1 think it’s rank
discrimination against an an-
cient branch of the animal
kingdom.
After all, there’s really noth-
ing so terribly wrong about
snakes.
Even one of the principal
characters in the story I’m
fixing to write will admit
that. My story’s based on a
incident in the lives of a Bel-
laire family, the C. U.
Flinkers and their eight-
year-old son, Dan, of 803
Jaquet . . . and here goes.
Once upon a time there was
a mother, who, like most mo-
thers, didn’t really have any-
thing against snakes.
She’d just rather not have
them running around the
house, that’s all.
But when her son came home
one day with a small serpent
curled around his finger, she
didn’t scream, “Get that hor-
rid thing out of here this min-
ute.”
The boy looked happily at
the snake and the snake looked
back in beady-eyed content.
So instead of screaming the
mother smiled weakly and a-
greed that the snake could stay
—if the boy was careful to keep
him outside on the porch in a
box.
A few days later the boy was
playing with the snake on the
grass when his slippery friend
slithered away.
The boy was heartbroken—
but not for long.
He’d just go out anil catch
himself another snake, he
told his folks.
The boy’s father said this
might not be a good idea. His
son was not schooled in herpe-
tology find therefore did not
know a “good” snake from a
“bad” snake.
And then the father spoko
words he hardly recognized as
his own as he said them.
“Why don’t we just go
down to the pet shop and buy
one?” he said.
And so they did.
The boy and his father wen*
inside to buy the snake while
the mother stood outside and
watched through the plate glass
window.
The boy proudly carried
home his new pet—a 27 inch
hog nose snake— named Cub
because the boy was a Cub
Scout.
Now it seems that hog nose
snakes make a diet of frogs^—
two or three in a ten day per-
iod—and this presented a prob-
lem for the family.
The pet store didn’t have ariy
— explaining that hog nose
snakes are in such demand tho*
they are sold before they have
to be fed.
The food supply problem
was i puzzlement to the fa-
ther—such a puzzlement—in
(act, that he mentioned it to
a saleswoman in an automo-
bile agency while negotiating
for a ear.
“Why I just happen to have
some frogs in my flower bed
at home,” she said. “I’ll he glad
to share them.”
And so she did.
The food problem for the
snake was solved and the fam-
ily was happy.
But not for long.
There was the problem «*
food for the frogs.
Now the boy had observed
that frogs eat bugs—so to at-
tract insects a light was rig-
ged over the box where the
frogs were kept.
And as our story ends, the
family is making plans to build
a terrarium to house their scaly
boarder.
And everybody will obvious-
ly live happily ever after —
with the possible exception ol
the insects and frogs;
The Texan Classified’s repu-
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JUNE MEANS HORSE SHOW TIME
The Pin Oak Charity Horse Show is just around the comer
as the two lovely workers shown above can tell you. They
are Mrs. Milton Roper, Jr., 6261 Wickersham, and Mrs.
James R. Cody, 4951 Glenmeactow, who are serving on the
arrangements committee of the traditional Midnight Break-
fast Party for exhibitors. Dates of the show are June 5
through 10.
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 1962, newspaper, May 23, 1962; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521787/m1/6/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.