The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 16, 1973 Page: 1 of 28
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-LAIRE CITY
Flea Market offers 'something for entire family1
Are you looking for a place
to go to Saturday that has some-
thing for the whole family and is
free?
The BELLAIRE ART & AN-
TIQUE FLEA MARKET, held
Saturday, May 19, 1973, in the
5000 block of Bellaire Blvd.,
will have artists, sculptors,
antique dealers, and just about
everything you can imagine—
this includes the button man,
the shell lady, the doll woman,
a palm reader, the barbed wire
man, gymnasts and trampoline
artists, and adult and youth civic
groups.
Sponsored by the Bellaire
Chamber of Commerce, with
participation of civic organi-
zations such as the Bellaire
A.A.U. Swim Team, the Ro-
tary Club, the Friends of the
Bellaire Library, the Gymnas-
tics Southwest Parents Group,
among others, the proceeds of
the event go for beautification
of the City of Bellaire.
Over 35 antique dealers will
have booths in the THIRD AN-
NUAL ANTIQUE FLEA MAR-
KET; hours will be 9 a.m.
to 5 p.m. with hot barbecued
sandwiches and cold drinks
available.
Are you curious about the
button man, the shell lady, etc?
M. W. Speights is the button
man, and he is President of
Texas State Button Society. He
recently was awarded the Gold
Quinon Sweepstakes Trophy for
winning the most first place
ribbons on button trays exhi-
bited in competition at the 34th
National Button Convention held
in Reno, Nevada.
Speights entered button trays
in four divisions: antique, uni-
form and military, modern, and
age-has-no-factor (old and new
buttons together, such as cha-
racters from books, Kate
Greenaway, Bambi). The first
time it was given, he won the
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BELLAIRE LIBRARY
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A COMMUNITY WIIKIY NEWSPAPER
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 7
WEDNESDAY
MAY IB, llJ73
IOC - $3 PER YEAR
Attend the Bellaire
Art & Antique Flea Market
Topics turns down Bellaire project
Word was received last week
that the Texas Highway Depart-
ment, under the Traffic Oper-
ations Program to Increase Ca-
pacity and Safety (TOPICS) pro-
gram had turned down funding of
an "at grade” project at the
Bellaire Blvd.-Bissonnett inter-
section.
City Manager Tom Heffington
stated that the plans for the
$600,000 project had been turned
over to Bovay Engineers forfur-
ther study and recommendations.
Wiley Carmichael, district en-
gineer for THD, also stated in
his letter to Heffington that the
TOPICS program "would consi-
der funding a grade separation”.
The present plans call for widen-
ing of the present intersection at
the cost of $600,000. A grade
seperation endeavor, which would
call for either an overpass or an
underpass, would cost two million
dollars. TOPICS would fund most
of the needed monies with the
City of Bellaire paying for the
engineering fees, drainage, light-
ing, and additional right-of-ways.
Heffington said that Bovay’s
recommendations should be
ready May 21.
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'Tears in
my eyes"
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Traci Millsap, 5, is listening to "Dancing With
Tears in My Eyes",being played on anold fashion-
ed wicker victrola, owned by her grandmother
Earllne of Earline’s Antiques, located at the cor-
ner of Spruce and 5th Street in Bellaire. The rare
victrola will be in the BELLAIRE ART AND ANT-
IQUES FLEA MARKET, Saturday.
Rapping it up
Drug raid made
Three men were charged with ed. The drugs, said Detective
possession as a result of a drug MacGuire, were meant for dis-
raid May 10th in which seven bags tribution in Bellaire. The raid
of seven oz. of LSD, five live mar- which took place at 5900 Elm
ijuana plants, approximately 12 Apt. 549 at approximately 11:45
oz. of marijuana seeds, and three lr- ... in',
oz. of marijuana were confiscat- (J-onnnued on page IU)
Ferguson honored
by city groups
Miss Womack retires from Horn
As Miss Womack prepares to
retire after 24 years as prin-
cipal of Horn Elementary School,
she recalls her first trip to the
school, under construction in the
spring of 1949. A dirt road led
to the site on Pine, where she
promptly got stuck in the mud
and was rescued by a farmer
who lived at the corner of Ave-
nue A and Pine. Children pick-
ed berries in the fields that
surrounded the school, and it
was a few years before they
were able to watch paving ma-
chines as a science lesson.
Miss Womack will be re-
tiring from Horn this year and
the PTO has planned a recep-
tion in her honor. It will be at
Horn May 22 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The tree-planting and beau-
tification projects began soon
after she arrived at Horn and
were to culminate in 1957 with
Horn winning first place in the
Houston Chamber of Commerce
contest. Miss Womack says that
Mrs,
Ex-students and friends of Miss Zemma Womack
are invited to attend a reception in her honor at
Horn Elementary School on May 22, from 7 to 9
Womack p.m. Plans are in the charge of the P.T.O., with
and friends
Mr. & Mrs. Don L. Wilson, 4502 Birch, and Mr.
and Mrs. B. B. Berryhill, 4615 Birch, as co-chair-
men. Shown with Miss Womack are Becky Gaither,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gale Gaither, and Ben
Berryhill.
every tree has a special mean-
ing, from the liveoak planted in
1964 in memory of her father to
the "mop tree”, whose pheno,
menal growth was stimulated t>6
the maids’ mop water and whose
branches were always loaded with
wet mops. Mr. Edward Teas
installe d a rose bed in front
and gave two living Christmas
trees in December, 1949, which
are now large pines on each
corner of the campus.
As an educator Miss Womack
has stressed the basic skills,
creativity, indpatriotism.InI967
she received the American Ed-
ucator’s medal from Freedoms
Foundation of Valley Forge, and
the schoo’ and many individual
pupils haia also been awarded
numerous medals and certifica-
tes from this group, and from
the Daughters of the American
Revolution. In 1971 a specialpro-
gram was arranged by Sertoma,
a service club, to recognize
Horn’s achievements in citizen-
ship training. Horn students and
teachers have been featured in
art, science, and creative writ-
ing contests and workshops.
Horn’s chorus and its annual
Christmas pageant rank first in
Miss Womack’s happiest mem-
ories. Next comes the annual
family supper and open house,
which she claims is "the great-
est job of organization and the
finest example of community
spirit year after year” that any-
one has ever seen.
A Rice graduate, Miss Wom-
ack has spent her entire life in
Houston, except for globe-trott-
ing. Her professional career
started at Robert E. Lee Elem-
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Buford Ferguson, Fergi as he
is known, will retire from the
Bellaire Parks and Recreation
Department on June 1st. Three
special events have been planned
on Wednesday, May 16th to honor
him for his outstanding contri-
bution to the Recreational Pro-
grams for the youth of Bellaire.
Fergi will be the guest of the
Bellaire Womens Civic Club at
10:30 a.m. in the Community
Honorees
Mrs. Gladys McNamara, left,
and Mrs. Genevieve Webb, right,
were honored last week with a tea
at Condit Elementary. The two
women, whose combined years at
Condit total 50, were honored on
their retirement. Mrs. Webb
taught at DeZavala School for
13 1/2 years and at Condit for 26
years. Mrs. McNamar began her
teaching career in a one-room
school with seven grades in Huff-
smith, Texas. She has been at
Condit for 24 years and has also
taught at Garden Oaks, LaPorte,
Cedar Bayou, Trinity, and in out-
of-state schools. Together these
women have influenced the lives
of over 1,000 Bellaire students.
Building. A Retirement Party
will be held for him by the City
Employees at 3 p.m. in the Com-
munity Building. Little League
will hold a "Ferguson" Night at
7:30 p.m. at the Little League
Field.
These are all fitting honors
for a man who has spent 21
years taking care of the Base-
ball Fields, Football Fields,
Fountains, Swimming Pools and
many other recreational facili-
ties in the city.
Fergi was born in Glenmore,
Louisiana, and will retire to Win-
field, Louisiana, where he plans
to spend most of his time fishing
and gardening.
Holy Ghost Parish
dedicates park
Parishioners of Holy Ghost
Parish will gather this Sunday
at 4 p.m. to dedicate the land
located at Bissonnet and Atwood
as Zimmer Park. Planned as a
recreation area for the parish, it
is being dedicated in honor of a
long friend of the parish, Father
John Zimmer, CSS.R. who, in May
of 1969 celebrated his Golden
Jubilee as a Priest at Holy Ghost
Church.
A Barbecue dinner will be
served on the area, the proceeds
of which will go to beautify the
park and to provide playground
equipment for the children.
The evening will begin with
informal ceremonies which will
see the unveiling of a plaque of
dedication. The parishioners are
urging all in the community to
come and participate in honoring
a dedicated priest who continues
to serve his people and his com-
munity and to enjoy the good food
and company.
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Pettigrew, Terrilee & George, Sara. The Bellaire & Southwestern Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 16, 1973, newspaper, May 16, 1973; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth567556/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Bellaire Friends Library & Historical Society.