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nt of the Anahuac Lions Club presents the outstanding con-the year in the Trinity Bay Soil and Water Conservation Dis-Devers farmer and rancher. Seen in the picture with them is e District Board of Supervisors, of Stowell.r Devers’in the Trinity Bay Soil and Water Conservation District.The award was presented by Sherwood Blair, president of the Anahuac Lions Club, at the annual banquet honoring those who have made distinctive contributions in the area of soil or water conservation.The Anahuac Lions Club cooperates each year with the Trinity Bay Soil Conservation District to honor the outstanding conservation farmer of the area. This year, W. S. Edwards of Stowell, chairman of the District Board of Supervisors, summarized the many contributions which Mr. Boyt has made to farming and ranching in the Chambers-to Five YoorsWalter Lee Hill, theft, five years probation;Mrs. Bobby Baker Clements, under indictment in connection with a fatal atuo accident on Interstate Highway 10, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of murder without malice, and after serving five days in Jail, was sentenced to five years, on probation.. BoytLiberty Counties area.In addition to serving as supervisor of the Trinity Bay Soil Conservation District from 1943 until 1964, Boyt was the founder of the Texas Rice Improvement association, the organization of farmers and businessmen which supports the work of the Texas Rice Experiment Station at China. He was charter member of the board of directors of the association, and has served as its president for the past ten years.He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Gulf Coast Cattle Improvement association, which supports an experiment station at Angleton.He has served as commissioner of the Liberty County Drainage District Four since the di st rict was organized in 1944, as a member of the board of the LibertyCounty Kersting Hospital since 1944, and as president of the Devers Independent School District board since IS30, He was selected as one of 100 distinguished Texans to serve on the Texas AM University Century Council in 1962.network of storm sewer lines which lie in alleys in many areas.Some connections have probably been made to the storm sewers without the use of a septic tank, and insomeareas where there are no storm sewers, septic tank outflow dumps into open ditches along city streets.These are the conditions which the bond election proposes to cure, with a modern sanitary sewerage disposal system that would cost about $787,000, according to engineers’ estimates.Not all of the total costFiMral Strvicts Held At Liberty For Mrs. ThorpFuneral services for Mrs. Floy Alice Thorp, 34, of Houston, were held at Hankamer last Friday.Mrs. Thorp, a native of Hankamer who had lived in Houston for the past 10 years, died on May 2 in Northshore Hospital, after a short illness. She was a member of the Baptist Church.Surviving are her widower, Walter K. Thorp of Houston; her mother, Mrs. J. C. Weaver of Hankamer; a daughter, Karen Marie Thorp of Houston; a brother, L. W. Weaver of Hankamer; and a sister, Mrs. C. R. Bynum of Hankamer.The last rites were said in Allison Memorial Chapel in Liberty, by Rev. Billy Dagle and Rev. L. C. Roots. Burial was in Barrow Cemetery in Hankamer, under direction of Allison Funeral Service of Liberty.Pallbearers were Sam and Charles Wingate, Arnold Rains, J. H. Stewart, Tom Black and Gene Issack.at the annual Chambers CountyPremium Award Winners Named At ShowWinners ot purple premium award ribbons for outstanding exhibits at the 12th Annual Chambers County Youth Project Show last weekend were the following:Timmie Bauer, East clumbers school, first year woodworking;Allen Hensley, East Chambers school, first year drafting;Kenneth Thibodeaux, East Chambers school, second year drafting;Tommy Jannise, Anahuac High School, industrial arts metalworking,Tommy Kole, East (lumbers High School, vocational metal working;Don Patton, East Chambers School, fifth grade, art;David Davis and Richard Pate, G. W. Carver School, seventh grade, art;Richard Perkins, Anahuac School, fifth grade, art;Leonard Gau, Anahuac school, second grade, art;John Banks, Anahuac school special education, handi-c rafts;Charlene Kreuzer, Anahuac school, sixth grade, art;East Clumbers special education class, handicrafts;Leroy Whittington, G. W. Carver school, special education, handicrafts;Bertie Jackson, Anahuac school special education, handicrafts;Helen Knupple, Anahuac elementary school, art;Lee Watson, Barbers Hill High School, science;Roberta Smith. East Clumbers school, home improvement;Trese Turner, Anahuac High School Future Homemakers. food*;Niiu Jackson, Double Bayou 4-1 i Club, foods;Sluri Veiurd, Anahuac High School Future Homemakers, clothing;Johnelle Roelse, Barbers Hill 4-H Club, clothing.In the livestock, poultry and rabbit divisions of the Youth Project Show, judges gave premium ribbons to the following entrants:Larry Bollich of Winnie, showing die grand champion heel animal, an Angus heifer, and the beef showmanship a-ward;Skippy Bettis of Winnie, sliowing the premium award dairy animal;Stewart Highberg ol Winnie, the dairy showmanship award;Danny Dick of Monroe City, showing the premium hog show entry, a Landrace sow widiA TEX AS-SIZE barbecue cooker attracted a lot of attention Youth Project Show in Anahuac. It won a premium award ribbon for the young craftsman who welded It—Tommy Kole of East Chambers High School.E.c ity off ic u Is e xpect on charge to be at !The sewerage colit stem would feed ti lines leading to a treatment plant, to t on a site already of the city, about a mi east of the city limit All of tlic system, which are to Iks prc consulting engineer C. Walsh of Anglet be subject to appro rat .iith Depart other state and agencies regulati sanitation and water sources.The system wouh Strutted with trunk 1 enough to serve the lt;area, .liter every nlt; lot Is occupied, with to install larger li treatment plan wil signed for populatloi with provision for that capacity at mini itional cost.Since the City ol las an existing rev obligation of $186,0t t lie bond is sue prop 1 ’ i 'i a tew rev« Issue to retire that combine it with a pro sewerage system I: nother of die three posals listed on I will be a revenue $286,000. which is tf of tlie sewerage syj which nan be finance city revenues.A dvird p r op os, ballot is for a tax b of $190,000, to pay tl of sewer construct!For the first two sues, revenue only ged, and taxes ca levied to retire dux The dnrd bond issue Airies a tax pledge officials lave propo increase ol 25 cent: valuation to pay ou bunds, if tlie issues proved by the voters Details of tlie bom lave been worked o city by Texas Secunt oration, San Antoni merit bankers, and pects of die bond being handled by i toward *• ! lax ria o tonilt;J.Tlie bond electioi held at City Hall in Saturday, and polls at 7 a in and close A'.l rena* i lave met oilier reqi to be eligible voters in this election, prov own taxable proper! real or personal, v city limits ol Anahua Aiahuac Mayor H has been joined in recommendation tla Anahuac voters app bond issue proposa five city councitmei Klrkham, ; 1 Cecil Fuller, ( . 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Anahuac Progress
Anahuac, Texas, US
Thu, May 11, 1967
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