The Sunday Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 23, 1949 Page: 1 of 12
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VOL. 5
HOUSTON, TEXAS, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1949 NO. 23
Ticket order forms for the Shamrock Charity Bowl, an all-star professional foot-
ball game in Houston December 17 at Rice Stadium with proceeds going to .charity,
are taken by volunteer ticket saleswomen. W. Stewart Boyle, Houston oilman and a
leader of the campaign to build and maintain Holly Hall, a proposed home for aged,
passes out the forms to, left to right, Mrs. G. B. Willhite, 834 Arlington; Mrs. R. V. East-
wood, 4300 Bellaire; and Mrs. H. N. Wahlberg, 820 Arlington. More pictures on what
Houston women are doing in the drive are to be found on Page 11 in today's Citizen.
Citizen Staff Photo.
Flood-Hit Area In Bellaire Joins
, Anti-Annexation Forces In City
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By JIM DAVIDSON
Citizen Staff Writer
Southdale, chief target of the
pro-annexation forces in dis-
cussing flood conditions in Bell-
aire, voted unanimously to op-
pose any movement to join with
Houston at an open meeting Fri-
day night in the Bellaire Com-
munity Center.
The Brae Burn Civic Club
voted a similar resolution earlier
in the week and more than 125
residents from every section of
the city attending Wednesday
night’s council meeting stood at
the request of Max Douglass,
chairman of a citizens’ commit-
tee to fight annexation, and
voiced disapproval of the move-
ment.
Proponents of annexation
were continuing this weekend
to circulate petitions calling
for a vote on Bellaire joining
Houston and scheduled a re-
port meeting tomorrow night.
The signed petitions, now re-
portedly containing more than
200 signatures, enough to force
an election, at that time are to
be delivered to Kellis Daniel,
attorney for the movement, for
verification of signatures and
presentation to the Bellaire City
Secretary.
This action originally was
icheduled to follow a meeting
last Wednesday night. Dr. John
Fillipone, spokesman for the an-
nexation movement, said volun-
teers requested at that meeting
they be allowed to circulate the
petitions for additional names as
a better indication of the move-
ment's strength.
The annexation battle, long
hinted in Bellaire, broke into
the open following the heavy
rains and flood conditions in
several sections of Harris
County two weeks ago.
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Meetings were held by pro-
ponents before high waters had
subsided and on Friday Of that
week petitions were circulated
calling for an election which
would force Bellaire to offer
itself to Houston if a majority
of the voters expressed this de-
sire.
Mayor Oscar Holcombe of
Houston, advised of the move-
ment, said he would "welcome
with open arms” Bellaire and
"any other municipalities with-
in the enlarged boundaries of
Houston’s proposed annexation
movement. This would include
West University, South Side,
Pasadena, Jacinto City and Ga-
lena Park.
Included in the county land
which is being annexed by
Houston is cffnsiderable unde-
veloped acreage north and west
of Bellaire.
Opponents of the move to an-
nex Bellaire charge this acreage
and land within Bellaire boun-
daries which is zoned only for
residences is the real reason be-
hind the annexation movement.
A multi-million dollar drain-
age. water and sewage disposal
system would have to be in-
stalled b.v Houston to give this
area full city utilities as pro-
mised by Mayor Holcombe
“within six months” to all areas
now being annexed by the city. .,
Under questioning at City
Hall the Mayor admitted utili-
zation of Bellaire water and
sewage facilities would assist
materially in properly and
quickly serving the area west
of the city.
At present Houston has only
one water main in this area. It
is parallel to the Houston-Alief
highway and Mayor Holcombe
reports this line carries “raw,
unsterilized water at low pres-
sure.”
It would be necessary to add
purification and pressure fa-
cilities to this line, Mayor Hol-
combe said..
Mayor Everal West of Bellaire
while stating he and the City
Council were "servants of the
people and would abide by their
wishes in the matter" unofficial-
ly has attacked bitterly the an-
nexation movement.
His stand is similar to that
voiced by every member of the
City Council, which Wednesday
night, unanimously passed a
resolution stating they were
“unalterably opposed” to any
annexation movement.
Similar stands have been
voiced by Leon Rosner, presi-
dent of the Chamber of Com-
merce, and the board of direc-
tors of that organization; R.
Glenn Chapman, president of
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A new and different possible
reason for the great extent of
the damage of the recent over-
flow of Brays Bayou was ad-
vanced by an engineer at the
meeting of the West University
Civic Club. The reason—and it
sounds logical—is published on
an^ inside page.
More watery news: Also in-
side is a story about the effort
of the Braes Heights Men’s Civic
Club to call a mass meeting con-
cerning the flood situation.
Do magicians often fool you
with their sleight-of-hand tricks?
If not, you're mighty hep. They
even fool each other. For gn un-
usual and interesting series of
pictures on the ancient art of
legerdemain, see the inside.
Residents of Braes Heights,
Ayrshire and other Southwest
area additions have heard a lot
about a lowered fire Insurance
rate. Maybe it’s a step nearer.
You can base your belief on
a story telling of the latest de-
tails Inside today’s Citizen.
Houston's style - conscious
women scored a ti iumph at the
opening of the theatrical season,
says Mary Clifford. The Citi-
zen's fashion editor, in a report
on what the Little Theater first
nighters were wearing. See the
TO THE LADIES section.
There are less shopping days
before Christmas than you prob-
ably realize. And this week The
Sunday Citizen brings you a pic-
ture preview of what the new
Christmas cards look like. You'll
find it Inside.
That big Treasure Hunt spon-
sored by the Village Association,
which is scheduled for Thursday
night, is looking bigger by tha
minute. If you want to win a
valuable prize, read the story
inside.
Chosen by popular vote of the student
body of the Southwest's growingest school of
higher learning to reign as queen of the Uni-
versity of Houston's annual homecoming iooi-
ball game Saturday was Billye Jean Taylor, a
Junior education major.
She was selected from a field of four final*
lsts, Including Frances Harwas, Joyce Mixon
and Jackie Hall — who Saturday afternoon
served as members of the queen's court at half-
time ceremonies during the UH game wMh Har-
din-Simmons University.
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Murphy, John H. & Daniels, A. Pat. The Sunday Citizen (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 23, 1949, newspaper, October 23, 1949; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth566940/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.