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p.o. BOX 999 • BELLAIRE, TEXAS 77401 • (713) 660-7112
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• Beliaire •WeetUni varsity Place • Stella Link
• Southside Place • South Hampton • Southgate
• Linkwood • Meyerland • Maplewood • Roblndell
• Sharpstown • Braeburn Glen • Braeburn Valley
• Bonham Acres • (..arkwood
VOL. 29, NO. 3/AUG. 24,1983
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Alicia’s cleanup slow
By Karl Doerner III
and Nick Herrera
Southwest Houston
residents may be feeling
hurricane Alicia for as
long as eight weeks.
Beliaire, West Univer-
sity and Southside city
officials say it will take
up to eight weeks to
clean up all the debris
left in their cities by the
hurricane last week.
The storm, which
charged through the
area last Thursday mor-
ning with winds up to 94
miles per hour, left an
array of tree limbs,
broken glass and downed
electrical wires in its
wake
In Beliaire, new Public
Works Director Fred
Childs says it will
probably be two months
before all the tree limbs
are picked up.
The city is asking
residents to cut fallen
limbs into four-foot
lengths and to separate
them into trunks, limbs
and light brush to
facilitate pickup
Childs says there will
be no special schedule
for limb pickup.
West University of-
ficials have hired a
private chipping con-
tractor, Trees Inc., to
help city crews clear
debris from the city.
City Manager Dick
Rockenbaugh says the
contractor will pick up
and chip the larger limbs
that people put on their
curbs to be picked up as
trash.
Rockenbaugh says
this will cost the city an
extra $:>,000-$7,000
"It is money well
spent," Rockenbaugh
explains. “It will save us
landfill space and make
the cleanup go faster.”
In addition to the
private contractor, city
street and sanitation
crews will be picking up
debris. And the city is
providing four extra
dumpsters at the city
dump site in front of the
City Water Plant at 3825
Milton St. for residents
who want to take their
trash to the site them-
selves, Rockenbaugh
says.
Chris Magisano, West
University Public Works
Department spokesman,
says residents should put
leaves, twigs, vines and
small tree limbs in
plastic bags before
placing them in their
front yards by the street
curb to be picked up by
the garbage crews in or
der to expedite the
cleanup.
“If we have to pick up
the leaves and limbs by
hand, we won’t have
time to pick up the nor-
mal garbage,”
Magisano says.
She says the bags will
be picked up on the
regular garbage pickup
schedule.
I orger tree limbs that
are no more than four
inches in diameter at the
stem need to be cut into
four-foot pieces and
stacked at the curb with
the cut end facing the
street so the chipping
company can quickly
pick them up.
The chipping company
began picking up limbs
Tuesday.
“There is no schedule
for picking up the lim-
bs,” Magisano says.
"They will pick up as
much as they can as fast
as they can It could take
three weeks or longer.”
Logs and tree stumps
that are more than four
inches must be brought
to the city dumpster at
3825 Milton by the
residents.
"We are not equipped
to pick up the logs and
stumps,” Magisano
says
Is)gs and stumps can
be brought to the dum-
pster 8 a m. to 6 p.m.
Monday through Friday
and 10 a m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday,
Magisano says.
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Under new leadership...
Beliaire Senior High gets new Principal
Beliaire Principal Myrtle E. Nelson
By Nick Herrera
School starts today
and Beliaire Senior High
School has a new prin-
cipal.
Though the position is
new, the face should be
familiar, for Myrtle E.
Nelson former assistant
principal, has been at
Beliaire for a total of 20
years.
Nelson is replacing
David McLure who
retired last spring.
Nelson becomes one of
the few women in
Houston to head up a
senior high school.
“I really appreciate
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me mu tiiut it a
somewhat of a rarity,”
Nelson said, “and I feel
very honored
Nelson was approved
for the position by HISD
on July 21 and cut her
vacation short by two
weeks to prepare for the
coming year.
Even though she star-
ted early, her days have
been long ones. Among
the things she’s been
busy with include:
finalyzing and correc-
ting the academic
Civic Assoc, battles flooding
This falling utility pole on Edloe at Plumb was part of the destruction left behind
by Hurricane Alicia last week. West University officials closed off the street to
ti affic until the pole could be repaired Texan photo bv Nick Herrera.
program for this year,
filling vacancies in per-
sonnel, finishing copy for
the faculty and student
handbooks and over-
seeing an inventory of
the entire school
Some of Nelson’s goals
include increasing
community and parent
involvement and making
the school cleaner,
however, she admits her
ideas are still forming.
“I think it’s important,
in all my excitement, not
to rush in with a lot of
new ideas,” she said. "I
intend to move in very
slowly. We’ll work on
keeping what’s good and
then we’ll work on
making it better.”
Nelson started at
Beliaire in I95H as a
speech, government and
later economics teacher.
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of women or assistant
vice-principal, as the
title later became.
Nelson also served as the
school’s International
Baccalaureate Program
Director.
Though Nelson will be
working plenty of long
hours this year she
doesn’t seem to mind.
“It isn’t work," she
said, “it’s just fun.”
Nelson lives in
Meyerland, has four
children, four gran-
dchildren and is married
to H. Joe Nelson Jr.
Meyerland...
By Ned Pedersen
In the wake of west
Houston’s cyclonic con-
version from rural
pasture to concrete sur-
face, early settlers
situated to the east find
themselves downstream
from an advancing
likelihood flooding.
Their streets, yards,
even living rooms face
the threat oi submersion
anytime the clouds see
fit to burst. The same
scale rainfall that once
brought merciful relief
to parched farmers and
ranchers today heralds
potential disaster for the
downstream subur-
banite.
One of the more flood-
wary neighborhoods in
Houston is Meyerland,
where residents have
earned their education
about flooding through
hard experience.
In response to a 1976
ordeal in which nearly
300 homes in that neigh
borhood were flooded, or
very close to it, the
Meyerland Community
Improvement Associa-
tion decided thereafter
to take an active interest
in flood control.
A 10-member flood
control committee was
formed to become a
permanent and vital unit
of the civic organization.
One of the original 10
was Robert Marshall,
who went on to become
head of the committee in
1978 and has continued in
that role.
Now a retired chemi-
cal engineer, Marshall
spends his days at the
civic club’s 4999 West
Bellfort office handling a
variety of concerns in-
volving the Meyerland
community and its
welfare. A large part of
Marshall’s time is given
to flood control matters
"It goes in spurts,”
Marshall noted early
iast ween, only shortly
before Hurricane Alicia
became the focus of
everyone’s attention.
“We deal with flood con-
trol on a problem by
problem basis. It’s only
required about two or
three hours per week for
the past month and there
was nothing the month
before that, But as
problems develop, it
may take four to five
hours per day for weeks
at a time.”
Marshall’s in
volvement in flood con-
trol extends beyond the
purview of the
Meyerland Community
Improvement Associa-
tion. Besides serving on
Houston Mayor Kathy
Whitmire’s task force on
flood control, he is
chairman of the Harris
County Civic Clubs
Combined Flood Control
Commitf^v* u/hir*h jjefe
about 40 member civic
clubs.
"Civic clubs have
learned they can accom-
plish a lot more by
joining forces," Mar-
shall said. “The city and
the county have cer-
tainly been a lot more at-
tentive since we got
together.”
The combined civic
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