The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1962 Page: 1 of 32
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BELLAIRE'S OWN WEEKLY
Texan
COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Serving Bellaire, MeyerTand, Flack Estates, Robindell. Brae Burn Terrace, Larkwood, Willow Bend, Westbury, and Sharpstown
Vol. 9 No. 43 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1962 IOc—Subscription $3.00 per year
Timeless Christmas Story
Told Anew In Area Churches
GANGING UP ON SANTA
Santa gets a Christmas list in duplicate as he listens to the
Christmas dreams of four-year-old twins Jimmy and Johnny
Vanderhider, 5719 Dumfries. It was that way all afternoon
at the Bellaire Community Building for the occasion was the
annual childrens Christmas Party of the Houston Mothers of
Twins Club. The twins are the sons of Mr and Mrs. C. C,
Vanderhider. Merry Christmas, all!
Photo bv Peter Whitney
I $200 In Savings Bonds, Gif*
Certificates Await You
Here it is Christmas and an
item I read in the papers about
Israel and Syria border troubles
reminds me there has seldom
been peace in the Holy Land.
Since recorded time this area
has been a crossroads of the
world, and history rings with
the clash of arms in, over and
through Palestine.
Pondering this I am remind-
ed of a bus ride I made from
Tel Aviv to Tiberias a couple
of years ago, and the conver-
sation with the mayor of
Nazareth during the ride.
“We could throw up a de-
fense of half a million over-
night/’ was his terse answer to
tn.y questions. As the bus plung-
ed suddenly down into the city
of Tiberias, some 700 feet below
aea level, the man waved his
arm in the general direction of
the rocky heights looming across
Ahe Sea of Galilee ... in the
general direction of Jordan and
Syria . . . and added:
“If they come, we’ll be ready.”
And I presume he still is of that
feeling, as are the rest of the
Jews who returned to what they
consider their homeland to make
a life for themselves as an in-
dependent nation.
AH during that three-week
trip (as a delegate to a world-
wide convention of state and
local officials) I was impres-
sed with the state of this na-
tion as an armed camp, so to
speak. Men. women and child-
ren fought and, presumably,
will fight for what they con-
sider their own.
For example, a scene in the
lobby of the Ramat Aviv hotel
comes to mind. Through the
door came an unusually attrac-
tive girl witn sun-streaked hair
and blue-violet eyes.
Her name is Leahani Oshman
of Tekiner, Israel—a community
near Tel Aviv. She is the cousin
of Mrs. Meyer Simon of 5467
Maple in Bellaire, who had asked
City Manager Gary Summers of
Bellaire to deliver a gift to her.
She is the 18-year-old daughter
©f Mr. and Mrs. Yona Oshman
and Mr. Summers had invited
the couple and their daughter in
for the evening.
(Continued On Page 31)
The Christmas season is here
again bringing its unchanging
story of hope and love to a
changing world.
And the wonder of the time
will be interpreted in many ways
in churches throughout the area
on Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day.
Two churches in Bellaire will
be presenting living Nativity
Scenes for several days prior to
Christmas Day.
Bellaire Presbyterian’s tableau
will be seen on the church lawn
Dec. 21 through Dec. 24 from 7
to 9 p.m. Students from the
ninth grade, the senior highs, the
seventh grade and the eighth
grade will enact the scene on
successive evenings.
At Bellaire Methodist Church,
members of the senior high de-
partment will present the Nativ-
ity Scene on the evenings of Dec.
22 and Dec. 23 from dark to
10 p.m. and on Dec. 24 from
7:30 to 10 p.m.
Bellaire Methodist will have
its traditional Christmas Eve
communion on Dec. 24 from 5:30
to 7:30 p.m.
Bellaire Presbyterian’s Christ-
mas Eve service will be held in
the sanctuary at 9:30 p.m.
First Christmas
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church
—celebrating its first Christmas
in its new building at Lymbar
and Mullins—will have a Choral
service by the choir at 10:30 p.
m. on Christmas Eve followed by
holy communion at 11 p.m. On
Christmas Day there will be a
family holy communion service
at 10:30 a.m.
At St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
a special tableau worship ser-
vice will be presented by the
third and fourth grades for small
children and their parents at
6:30 p.m. on Dec. 23.
Choral Communion
On Christmas Eve there will
be Choral Communion services
at 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. On
Christmas Day there will be
Holy Communion at 11 a.m.
The Sunday School of Faith
American Lutheran Church will
present a Christmas musical pro-
gram at 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 23.
The Teen Choir will sing a can-
tata, “Song of Christmas”, and
the Cherub and Junior Choirs
will sing carols. At 11 p.m. on
Dec. 24 Faith Lutheran will hold
a candlelight service and there
will be a Christmas Day service
at 10 a.m.
Christmas Masses
Christmas masses will be said
for St. Thomas More Catholic
Church at 7, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 a.
m. and 12 noon. The services will
be held at Parker Elementary
School.
St. Francis de Sales Catholic
Church will hold midnight mass
on Christmas Eve in the gymna-
sium at Jesuit College Prepara-
tory. Christmas Day masses will
be at 6, 7:30, 9, 10:30 and 12:10.
Midnight Eucharist
At The Church of the Epiph-
any Episcopal, there will be a
midnight eucharist at 11:30 p.m.
on Christmas Eve, Holy Com-
munion on Christmas Day at 10
a.m. There will also be holy
communion at 10 a.m. on Dec.
26, 27 and 28.
At St. Martin’s Lutheran
Church, a Christmas Eve Candle-
continued On Page 30)
Bellaire Depts.
To Stay Open
On Christmas Eve
City Departments in Bell-
aire will be open for business
as usual on Christmas Eve
with the exception of the lib-
rary.
“Thai department just doesn’t
do any business on Christ-
mas Eve,” City Manager Gary
O. Summers said.
Garbage trucks will run on
Christmas Eve and will get
into high gear again Wednes-
day to take care of the Christ-
mas day residue of ribbons and
wrappings and boxes.
Westrups To
Spend Christmas
In Sweden
Bellaire Chamber of Com-
merce Manager Roger Westrup
and his family will be spending
Christmas in Sweden.
Mr. and Mrs. Westrup and
children, Diana, 7, and Eric, 6,
leave Friday via KLM Royal
Dutch Airlines for Helsingborg,
which is Roger’s home town.
They’ll be home for the 80th
birthday of Roger’s mother who
; will be seeing her Texan grand-
children for the first time.
Mr. and Mrs. Westrup made a
trip to Sweden 4% years ago
but left the children with rela-
tives in the States.
It will be Roger’s first Christ-
mas in his homeland in 20 years
and will be the occasion for
; quite a family reunion. A sis-
ter who lives in France and who
had not spent Christmas at home
in 30 years wfll be joining the
family gathering.
The Westrups will be away
about a month. While in Sweden
Roger will show films released
by NASA on Col John Glenn’s
flight and other films on Ameri-
ca’s astronauts to civic group*
This is the final week of the
Bellaire Retail Merchants Com-
mittee’s Christmas Shopper pro-
motion, and the thought occurs
that—in addition to the many
bargain prices offered—there is
a $100 savings bond at First
State Bank and a $100 gift cer-
tificate at Southwestern Sav-
ings to be won.
So as you hurry about your
business of shopping, don’t for-
get to drop in at both these
financial establishments and
register for these valuable
prizes.
Earl Kelly, longtime Bellaire
businessman, was elected presi-
dent of the Bellaire Chamber of
Commerce at a dinner annual
meeting of the board of directors
Friday evening at the Braeburn
Country Club.
Other officers elected were
Harry Hastings, Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co., first vice-
president; Pat Emmott, First
State Bank of Bellaire, second
vice-president, and Hershell Cor-
bell, Earthman Southwest Fune-
rals, treasurer.
Howard Trout, administrator
of Bellaire General Hospital, was
elected a director to fill the un-
expired term of Bert Thompson.
Mr. Kelly, owner of Kelly’s
Hardware, 5105 Cedar, and his
slate of officers will be installed
at the annual banquet of the
Chamber on Feb. 27 at the
Braeburn Countfy Club. Mr.
Kelly was named Bellaire’s Out-
standing Citizen of the Year at
last year’s banquet.
At the Friday night meeting,
BELLAIRE THEAIKKS an-
nual Free Christmas Kiddie
Show is on tap for 10:30 a.m.
Monday, Dec. 24, featuring Doris
Day in “Twinkle & Shine" plus
cartoons and, of course, gifts for
all. Don’t miss it, kids.
KAY-RAN PAINT CO. on
Chimney Rock next to Mading’s
Drug in the Triangle has a herd,
or pack of stuffed animals such
as poodles and lions and bears
in such colors as pink, lavender
and the like that might make at-
tractive Christmas presents for
the kids.
new directors were welcomed
and introduced to the board.
(Continued on Page 30)
EARL KELLY
New Chamber prexy.
MISS MERRY CHRISTMAS
And a radiant young lady she is, Miss Beverly Enderle, daugh-
ter of the B. B. Enderle's, 5222 Warm Springs, who was
crowned Miss Merry Christmas at Friday night's dance at
Bellaire High School.
Photo by Gary Graham
Bellaire Chamber Board
Names Earl Kelly President
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Norton, Mary. The Bellaire Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 19, 1962, newspaper, December 19, 1962; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth521873/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.