The Southwest Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1950 Page: 1 of 20
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Watch him. now. That's Jim Malone, instructor at Lanier
School and Southgate Place renters. The youngsters are. left to
right. Vincent Reina. 1808 West Webster. George Rice. 3020
Locke Lane, and Carolyn Roberts, 2510 Morse.
Having fun and heating the heat too. That's the Jot of
swimming. Mrs. Marjorie Long is showing David Gluech. 4000
Spruce, how to float as part of vhe swimming program in tha
Beilaire pool
Five thousand Houston youngsters are taking part in the
Southwest YMCA's entertainment developing program this sum-
mer. Here Vic Driscoll, athletic instructor, riven some self-de-
fense lessons in his own backyard, 4903 Beech.
Craft classes are fun—and helpful, too. At West University
School, left to right, are Denny Allen. 3906 Cniversity; John
Wood. 6016 Auden. Johnny Holman. 3777 Nottingham. Marty
Zinn, 3130 University, and Lyndon Harper, 2037 Browning.
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Citizens
In Tlie News
•
While the city’s downtown daily newspapers kept up a
relentless barrage of sensational war headlines—designed, but
failing, to sell newspapers—Houstonians were obviously more
Interested in politics or how they could stock their pantry
without being tagged “hoarder.”
It wasn’t that they weren’t interested in the war. They are.
During the past three weeks it had come closer and closer.
Young men from more and more families were going off to the
Marines, the Army, the Air Force or the Navy. And to some
families came those terse, tragic, telegraphed words: “The De-
partment of Defense regrets to inform you . . Not many, yet
far too many.
So, as July faded into August, 1950, Houston was like a city
with a hangover; it wanted to get up and do business as usual,
but the war, the summer heat and just plain worry had their
effect.
About the most stirring news of a drab news week was the
Democratic! county convention. The rebel conservatives out-
voted, outmaneuvered and outshouted the liberals with Con-
servative Ralph Lee winning out over Liberal Bob Tucker. Re-
sult: Once again Harris County will send two delegations to the
convention.
In other ways these citizens made this news:
These Were Honored, Promoted:
Rose Maria Hanania, 802 Reid, Richard Harvey. 2210 Keene
and John William Jones, 318 Eastwood, were awarded $100
Wilbur S. Davidson Freshman Scholarships at the University of
Texas, along with 61 other students at the university.
James W. Templeton. 1817 W. 14 Vfe, has been named general
auditor of The Texas Company and C. N. Ferguson. 2406 Live
Oak has been advanced to assistant general auditor.
These Made Business News:
Alfred J. Knapp, 3223 Milburn, president of the Beilaire
State Bank, announced plans for the construction of a 12-story
bank and office building on Holcombe Blvd. between the pro-
posed Prudential building and The Shamrock Hotel.
Stanley W. Shipnes, Old Post Oak Road, general man-
ager for Sears Roebuck in Houston, announced that his firm’s
new store in Garden Oaks would open soon. It will give Sears
three big Houston stores.
Anderson Clayton A Company, international cotton firm,
announced that it had purchased a half block site for $160,000
for the future construction of an office building on Prairie.
F. M. Davis, manager, announced that the Gulf State
Tomato Corp. will build a new tomato packing plant here, on
Homestead Road.
Leopold L. Meyer, 3308 South MacGregor, vice chairman
of the finance committee of the Houston Fat Stock Show and
Rodeo, said that the show for 1951 will have a budget of $339,-
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WUP Party Political
Season Opens Aug. 14
Chairman Bryan
Due To Resign
New York's East Side?—Nup, this is Greenbriar Drive in
Southgate, high-class subdivision in Houston, Harris County,
Texas. The youngsters aren’t Just posing either. They are playing
baseball on the only space available to them—being locked out
of the Roberts School playground by that big fenre in the hark-
I First gun in West University*!
biennial attack on politics will
be fired at 8 p.m. Aug. 14 when
• jthe “WUP Party” holds its inaug-
msgnf ,uraI meeting of the election year
,in the West University Communi-
By JOHN H. MURPHY |ty Building
I Today’s treatment won’t mean The chairman of the “WUP
'n thing to lots of folks, but if! Party,” which has dominated West
I you’re an ex-G.I. you’ll feel a I University affairs since 1946, will
offer his resignation at this meet-
ling.
j little worse when
you get through
Ireading this.
Onto
square
ground. The players: catcher. Bob Brooks. 2335 Southgate: hitter.
Don Porter. 2247 Goldsmith; pitcher, Henry Powers, 2321 South-
gate; 1st base. Chuck Coates, 2120 Goldsmith; eoaching on first
base. David Light, 2246 Goldsmith, and third baseman, Jim
Coates, 2120 Goldsmith.
Symbol Oi Silliness:
llolierts School’s Ijickedivate
Eight hundred children attend CltiZGIl BgHgVCS!
1 Roberts School, 6000 Greenbriar,;
for eight hours a day, nine months1
i a year.
The other 16 hours of the day
| —and all the other three months
of the year—these 800 youngs -
I ters are locked off of their own
! playground.
Not having one single play-
ground and practically no vacant
lots, the youngsters of the South-
gate-Roberts School area there-
fore are listed as about the No.
1 sufferers in Houston’s list of
recreation needs.
Joint Recreation Work
Need Of Cityf Schools
decided a fence would be
nv4’
the last 1^. ^
inch of KS '
clear desk space
we had has just,
come a copy of
the official paper
of the 2 2nd
Armored Divi-
sion, “The Blast,” MURPHY
He k Chilton Rrvan. Houston
attorney who in July moved
from 2702 Cason out of West
University Place to a new horn#
in Braes Heights, making him
ineligible to take part In “WUP
Party” activities.
Former Mayor Ralph B. Lee,
I first elected under the then new
lovely little mimeographed me-i Party, and other wheel-
men to sent to us by David Bruce horses of the tour-year-old “poli-
of the Humble Company, who js tic_le,s ref°rm group expect a
in training at Camp Hood. '*ood crowd at the meeting.
... . . ,, . . „ “We hate to lose Mr. Bryan,
We appreciate Captain Bruce ’
,, .u u . »and we want every possible West
(for the benefit of those readers!T- . .. . . .
University resident to come to tha
born during the last 30 days, a
captain wears two bars) sending
us “The Blast” but we must ad-
meeting," said Mr. Lee.
derf.il in that it would keep the|mit that he darned near shocked! N*wsPaPf Publicity is our
elementary-school ch.Idren, intent^, to death. The enve| bearing!only(. met*od ot ur*'"« P'OP1*-
at play from dashing into heavtlyL paper wag ,he f.[st w( had|;»v.tm* th<™' “ we,r'-‘° «‘*
traye lert Greenbnar or one of received ln some years and the!^nd ‘ ^ ^
the other streets around the large, return addre,„ o( ,he us. GovJW« hope to have at least 600, and
playground' 'ernment. plus th? situation in K ^ .taJtvt ”?*’ JT*
"We understood that the fence, Korea, just about did us in. For! e*ls‘*red ln ,he ,?arty by the No‘
Go to a Houston city official and begin to talk about the was to keep the children in—.'one brief fleeting moment we hadi>vember el®ction, said Mr. Lee.
need for a neighborhood recreation program and you’d think So we supported it eagerly. It re-the sickening feeling of someone'"The „party is open to 8,1 resi"
you were talking to Amos ’n Andy. presented to us a safety measure'laying their hand on our shoulderj
“Ten million—15 million—50 million dollars.” for the children. and breathing down our neck. . 1Pn rj, '** an our r*~
Big cost figures fly around that frighten and halt you. “When I saw them putting But to get back to “The Blast” mT^hey'TeeeJved g***
The size of these figures is caused largely by the other- barbed-wire on the fence, I What do these excerpts do to1 cent ^ vote ^ ' PW
wise—welcome high cost of Houston real estate. became worried. you, dogface? j '
" j In 1948, the four councilmen
Especially is this true in the so-called “silk stocking’’ “When I saw them installing “3. All morning reports sub-
Postscript On Politics:
San Felipe Court Vote
Goes For Robert E. Lee
The chairman wa$ calling out
each of the 171 precincts in the
Democratic County convention
last Saturday and asking how they
stood—were they for the Liberal-
Trumancrat, Bob Tucker, or for
the Conservative-Dixiecrat, Ralph
B. Lee?
“Precinct 29? — how do you
vote?”
“Precinct 29 votes Its 24 votes
solidly for ROBERT E. LEE.”
shouted the precinct chairman.
Hubert Amos, from the conven-
tion floor.
City of Houston keeping funds
needed for proper permanent re-!
creation behind another fence.
The effect of these fences,
Truman Administration stalwartsl js to leave nearly all the chil-
who support the principle of fed- dren of Southeast and Southwest
eral housing that they enjoy is Houston in the middle,
just another one of those quirks!
of modern politics.
j nominated by the “WUP Party”
The six-foot steel fence, toppediSouth End, that whole area ranging from Riverside around!gales. I became more woiried. mitted to Division Headquarters ihad no opposition. However Way-
with four strands of barbed wire, to River Oaks. “When they began locking the (Continued on Page 4) i (Continued on Page 4)
is the most outstanding single; Now go to the School Board and try to talk to one of|Sates early after school and leav-i —--—.........—
..ymbol of the policy now being them about the schools taking on part of the organized rec- lnS the schoolgrounds locked up
followed which finds the Houston reation load. To most folks, that seems a natural assignment.'311 Saturday and Sunday and now
School Board keeping the public You'd think you were talking to Mumbles with a tooth- during the summer, we protested,
property behind one fence, the|ache, the way the school people snort and groan with pain ! “We were l°° late- 0n top off
Two Against It:
Yet if Houston would only adopt the simple plan
now being worked out in Dallas—let the city use school
land and develop it permanently for after-school-hours
recreational purposes—one of our most pressing prob-
lems would be on the road to solution.
I that, we were on record in favor
Inf the fence — even though we
thought the fence was to keep
I the children in, not out.
| Last week, Bill Adams as chair-
The Citizen believes the Dallas school land-city moneyiman, Mrs. H. L. Hodell of Bell-
Irecreation program is sound. ail,e, and Harold Nichols and
How Roberts School playground! The Citizen suggests that a joint hoard—for invest!- |Natalia White, “Y” officials, re-
became what Mrs, George Hale, gation, then later for development and administration— [leased a recreation survey of
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Bus Riders' Cash Up
For 'Grabs' On Aug. 8
similar to the Port Commission he considered.
that’s
12231 Shakespeare, likened to
believe-it-or- “Concentration Camp” is an in- Let the School Board name two members, the city two,
jteresting story. and the board and the city jointly, a chairman. And let this
' Let another longtime Roberts five-man board be known as the Greater Houston Recreation
School supporter and Southgate Board—with power, land and money, to live up to its name.
the southwest metropolitan area
A real scrap over whether
Houston's bus fares are going up
seemed on the way this week.
Undoubtedly Mayor Oscar Hoi-
Think
not?
Listen to this.
One of the many boxes that cash , ,, _t .
,. . . , mother, Mrs. Normal Charlton
a big vote against public housing „„ ........„ .u.......
in July 22 was Precinct 48.
Precinct 48 is Bruce School
on the North Side. Its voters
are all Negroes who live in a
report rapped school
combe will hold the key to Hous-
contends that the raised rate*
are "vitally necessary” to its
maintenance of a fair margin
of profit on investment.
“I don’t think I am for thil
rate increase,” said Councilman
2345 Watts, tell the story. She Mrs. Charlton—and the other get a fence if we petitioned the
should. She is recent past presi- mothers of the area -breathe fire, school board properly,” said
dent of the Roberts P-TA and “The school officials came to
when she thinks of that fence, the P-TA and told us we could
The crowd rocked with laughter ! pretty grim old area around the
It was a slick, timely play on! school.
names—hooking up the great Con- Only four blocks away from
New Streamlined Plan
federate states-right champion to
the standard bearer of present-day
•tates-righters in Harris County.
But there was an even more in-
teresting angle to this vote.
This Precinct 29 which voted
for ROBERT E. LEE is at San
Felipe Court, the federal public
housing project on Buffalo
Drive.
That the folks of San Felipe
Courts would vote for Ralph B.—
or ROBERT E.—Lee against the
?,™csi". SSS." For Village Association
slum clearance and public housing! a streamlined program of work,
for Negroes. [and membership solicitation has
So the voters of Precinct 48|been approved by the Village As-
were voting against the comfortsjsociation.
of their neighbors—and their own! •
:hances of getting equal comforts! In its regular meeting this week
hrough federal housing. jin the American Legion Hall
• 5507 Kelvin, the association voted
Speaking of Precinct 48, it To increase the association’s
-eems that K. D. Wright, the con- directors to 12, adding H. B.
(Continued on Page 4) | Sachs, manager of Mever Bros. (Continued on Page
White House Store at 2525 Uni-
versity: Charles Schep’s, Schep’s
Ladies Ready-To-Wear; Hugh
Whiteside, official of the Uni-
versity State Bank, and Rodney
Boling of Rodney’s.
•
To hold only four general mem-
The _______
hoard policy of locking off |ton s attitude toward the Houston
chool pla>grnunds. mentioning h fare within five miles, 17 said that it needed the 10-cent
Roberts, Horn, Condit and u u * * ......
cents for a second area which;fare to meet its raised expenses,
probably would include Beilaire. but when we gave them that rate,
In Dallas, a very successfuljSouthdale, West University, Braes the number of bus riders fell off.
recreation campaign is underway Heights, and most of the new de- I am inclined to fear that if w*
Mrs. Charlton. which is just the reverse of this.Jveloprnents in Southeast Houston set a 12-cent cash fare, it might
“We P-TA people had long since! (Continued on Page 4) beyond Riverside Terrace. well mean the lick that breaks
Mayor Holcombe was In the camel’s back. Too many peopl®
Washington when the bus com- j will quit riding buses. The com-
pany filed its rate-raise request, jpany will lose, not gain, in rev-
| A hearing was set for Aug. 8 by enue.”
'city council Wednesday, at which •
time Mayor Holcombe is due back However, Mr. Holmes indicated
Lowell Oswald, director of the University Elementary school will to preside. he did favor the zone system of
Tax Research association of Har- be discussed. * rates which in itself would give
• j The bus company set children the bus company a chance of a
WUPLionsToHearTax
Research Head Monday
ris county, will speak before the
West University Lions club mem-
bers, according to Collis P.
Haynes, president.
The meeting is set for 7:30 p.m.
The dedication will take place and student fares at five cents for,much larger gross income,
at 7 p.m. August 17 The Scoutthe central zone> two cents extra Councilman Tom Crawford
house is to be named the Joe
for rides from beyond five miles, agreed.
The possibility that the bus “I am strong for better service,
Henry Dannenbaum Scout house, company will try to establish a but they are going to have to
jership meetings per year, two Monday at Farnhan House restau-lin honor of the late Mr. Dannen- third zone in which a 22-cent fare show me before I can go for th*
ocial and two business, but giv-|rant. At this time plans for dedi-|baum, a former president of the would be charged also exists. lincrease in basic rates they ar*
4) j cation of the Scout house at West [local Lions.
The bus company's petition asking.” said Mr. Crawford.
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Carroll, Jim & Murphy, John H. The Southwest Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1950, newspaper, August 3, 1950; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth522775/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.