The Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1983 Page: 1 of 23
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P.O.
BOX 999
BELLAIRE,
H
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TEXAS 77401 • (713)660-7112
• West University Place*Stella Link# Bellairo
• Southside Place# South Hampton• Southgate
• Linkwood • Meyerland • Maplewood • Robindell
• Sharpstown • Braeburn Qlen • Braeburn Valley
• Bonham Acres • Larkwood
VOL. 29. NO. 14/NOV. 16.1983
Siruifiitu quarterback Scott McMuIIin 1151 coughs up the ball after being hit hard by a Wcstburj defender in last Saturday night’s
play-off game. Westbury won the contest 24-21. The Rebels now play Yales Nov. 18, 8:30 p.m., at the Dome. Photo by Tim Dorney.
Balloon messages take to skies
West University...
Budget adoption planned
By Ned Pedersen
Rarely has the
Bcllaire community
been in such agreement
at the polls.
Great American
SMOKEOUT
Thousands of balloons to get them before they
have been filling get hooked on smoking.
Houston's skies lately as a spokesman from the
part of the American American Cancer Socie-
Caneer Society's Great
American Smokeout
on November
17.
Students
from nine
elementary
schools in all
parts of Hou-
ston attached
messages to the
balloons urging those
who find them to quit
smoking or help a friend
to quit.
Fagli* stores furnish-
ed the balloons and
Magnolia Welding Sup-
ply. the helium.
Neighboring high
school FHA and HECE
students are assisting
teachers and younger
students with the lift-
offs. I.ast year a school
in Bcllaire had a lift and
messages were found as
far away as Cut 'n Shoot
in Montgomery County.
Traditionally the
Smokeout has concen-
trated on getting
smokers to quit. This
year, a concentrated
focus is on youth groups
ty said.
Many of Houston’s
major companies are
planning Smokeout ac-
tivities with their
employees. Contingents
from these companies
will be among
“quitters” planning to
gather at the Houston
City Hall rally at noon on
November 17 in front of
the reflection pool.
Smokeout chairman
Oscar L. Newton, Jr.,
vice president of
American General In-
surance Companies will
emcee.
City and council of-
ficials, celebrities,
sports figures and other
imporlant citizens w ill
join the festivities. The
Bellaire High School
band and drill team will
perform, Waltrip High
School FHA students
have made a flag with
the international “No-
Smoking” insignia
which will be
raised during
the rally.
A new
theme
‘ ‘ Adopt a
Smoker’' is
stressed this
year. Non-smokers or
ex-smokers will be
asked to “adopt" indi-
vidual smokers and offer
moral support, en-
couragement and in
centives to get them
through the day.
Smokers can also choose
to wear one of the six
new lapel stickers.
One sticker asks
friends and co-workers
to "Be Nice to Me...I’m
Trying to Quit,’’ and
another warns, “Be-
ware, Smoker Trying to
Quit.” Larry Hagman,
national Smokeout
chairman advises ex-
smokers to adopt a best
friend who smokes be-
cause “Good friends are
hard to find, and even
tougher to lose.”
By Karl Doemcr HI
West University Place
City Council plans to
adopt a $4,306,150 city
budget for 1984 on Nov.
28.
Council has scheduled
a first reading and
public hearing on the
proposed budget for
7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov.
21 at the West Universi-
ty Community Bldg.,
6104 Auden.
A second reading,
hearing and adoption is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 28 at
West Univcsity City
Hall, 3800 University
Blvd.
Copies of the pro-
posed budget will be
available for public
inspection at City Hall
beginning at 8 a.m.
Friday, Nov. 18. says
City Manager Dick
Rockenbaugh.
Rockenbaugh says the
city staff this week is
putting together the
final draft of the budget
after city council indi-
cated at a council work-
shop session last week
that they want to begin
the budget hearing
process on Nov. 21.
“It will be ready by
Friday morning,’’
Rockenbaugh says.
“Anybody can pick up a
copy in the finance
director’s office, city
manager's office or city
secretary’s office."
Copies will also be
available at the public
hearings, he says.
Any resident can
voice their opinions
about the budget at
either public hearing,
Rockenbaugh says. It is
not necessary to sign up
in advance to speak at
the hearings, he says.
Council will not adopt
a tax rate when it adopts
the budgel because the
city has not yet received
its certified tax roll from
the Harris County Ap-
praisal District.
Council plans to adopt
a tax rate as soon as the
city gets its tax roll,
which is expected to be
sometime early next
month.
The adoption on Nov.
28 will bring to a con-
clusion five months of
budget preparations for
next year by the city.
The city began pre-
paring the 1984 city
budget in July with
plans to adopt a final
budget by Sept. 1 and
get tax bills out by Sept.
15, as the city has
normally done in past
years.
However, council de-
layed adoption of a
budget because of a
delay in receipt of the
city’s tax roll from the
appraisal district, which
is doing the city’s tax
roll for the first time this
year.
Previously, the city
did its own tax roll.
However, a new state
law has put responsi-
bility for the tax roll
preparation in the hands
of the newly created
appraisal district.
The appraisal district
has been plagued with
computer and organi-
zational problems in its
first year of operation,
which has delayed pre-
paration of tax rolls for
many taxing entities
throughout Harris
County.
The district is now
trying to complete its
protest hearing process
so it can certify the city’s
tax roll. It had to hear
about 60 protests of
property valuations from
West University
properly owners.
In addition, city of-
ficials found “some
errors and omissions" in
the values placed on
some commercial
properties in the city.
When it became ap-
parent last month that
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Bellaire bonds pass
Four out of five Bel-
laire voters said yes to
an $8 million bond pack-
age that will allow the
city to fund a five-year
program of public works
improvements.
That the bond issue
passed was not a sur-
prise, since there was
very little opposition ex-
pressed publicly prior to
the Nov. 8 election. Still,
given Bellaire's tra-
dition of divided
opinion, the one-sided
result has to be viewed
as something of a
landmark.
“We felt in the last
week or two it would
pass by a good margin,
though we were a little
surprised it was by that
much,” Mayor Bill
Berryhill said. "We're
delighted. It indicates
that people want long-
range improvements
made and that they have
faith and trust in the city
council to carry it out.”
The overwhelmingly
favorable vote affords
city officials an ad-
ditional measure of
assurance as they
embark on a new era of
borrowing funds to
finance major capital
improvements, with out-
of-pocket funding be-
coming supplementary.
Historically, Bellaire has
done relatively little
borrowing.
Berryhill himself was
initially reluctant to
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Sharpstown to elect officers
The Sharpstown Civic
Association wiii nave
their annual election of
Board of Directors Nov.
17 at St. Paul Presby-
terian Church, 7200
Bellaire at the SW
Freeway.
Seven board positions
expire at the end of
1983; four of which are
for the offices of
president, vice-presi-
dent, secretary and
treasurer.
A nominating com-
mittee has been working
to prepare a slate, but
nominations may also be
made from the floor.
All board members,
who receive no re-
numeration for their
service, must be dues
paying residents of
Sharpstown.
After the election,
radio commentator and
author Ray Miller will be
the featured speaker.
Miller has written six
“Eyes of Texas Travel
Guides" to various
areas of Texas as well as
a book about Houston.
He is the former host of
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Herrera, Nick. The Texan (Bellaire, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 16, 1983, newspaper, November 16, 1983; Bellaire, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth638319/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.