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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1962
Page
4
The Silsbee Bee newspaper lists personnel and job titles for 1962 including Tommy Read Harold Leigh Mrs Ruth Stirling James Johnson Charles Green Foreman Printer Operator Linotype Operator Pressman Stereotyper.
The Silsbee Home Demonstration club met Thursday at Mrs. W. J. Davis home with Mrs. Robert Harp as cohostess. Fifteen members and two guests attended. Lorraine Marsalis became a new member. A hat style show by workshop participants preceded the meeting.
The Silsbee Woman's Club will meet at 2:30 p m today at Mrs C J Thorn's home with co hosts Mrs J M Huddleston and Mrs F M Bowers. A Celanese color slide program New Rooms for Old will be shown with Mrs I F Eldredge Jr reading the 56 slide commentary. Mrs L H Wade assists with the program and Mrs B L Moreland will preside.
The Silsbee High School Girls Chorus presents a Spring concert titled With a Song in My Heart tonight at 7 30 in the high school auditorium. Songs include works by The Sentimental Sophomores The Jabby Juniors and The Senior Six. Carole Cobble accompanies with a piano solo Sharon Rehkey narrates and performs a piano piece. Admission is free and all are invited.
Mrs Leona Whitman shares local ties and phone contact. Several families visit relatives across Texas and beyond including visits to Houston Port Arthur Beaumont Corpus Christi and Waco. Members travel for funerals doctors visits and weekend gatherings.
The TEXAS GAME AND FISH April issue profiles Henry Stowers on gun collectors and their prized firearms. It highlights a buffalo gun valued at 4500 dollars and notes collectors' focus on condition, restoration, and authenticity per National Rifle Association standards. Col Leon Jackson of Dallas provides illustrated examples.
Rho Upsilon chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met at Mrs. B D Banks home with cohostess Mrs. Joe Hignett. Thirteen members attended as Jack Evans ex Beaumont Art Museum executive board member spoke on Pictures. Plans set for April 23 pledge ritual at 7 pm at Mrs Buck Jones home and fall jewel ritual at 7:30 pm. Founders Day set for April 30 at Ridgewood Motor Hotel in Beaumont.
Tourists praise Texas for its highways climate and cheap living but a clever loophole lets them pay just 2.15 dollars a year for fishing licenses. By buying a commercial license for 85 cents and selling catches they fund their Texas stays while fishing in productive waters.
A 1962 fashion note describes a popcorn stitched suit with a red orlon knit back and a keyhole detail as an added attraction.
The Game and Fish commission invites young men ages 21 to 40 who are high school graduates and interested in wildlife conservation to apply. Applications are due by May 15, 1962, with written and oral exams in June. Selected applicants begin training at Texas A&M College in February 1963 for a 16 week course.
The piece highlights Blaise Pascal as a genius in math and science and notes his enduring religious influence. It credits a Port-Royal sermon of December 8, 1654 with sparking his religious experience and urges all Christians to witness, pray, and trust God to reap harvest in His time.
The Silsbee Little League season starts with a parade May 12 led by 5. M. Miears. The Ladies Auxiliary elected officers for the new season and set two fundraisers, a May 5 barbecue and sale of Marion K flavoring. Grady Tarver will head barbecue efforts. Major and Minor Queens will be crowned from team sweethearts after the season.
A monument in Palestine Texas lists Reagan's roles from 1945 to 1905 including Probate Judge Texas legislator District Judge U S Congressman Confederate Congressman Postmaster of the Confederate States Secretary of the Treasury of the Confederate States Delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission and author of Memoirs of Secession and Civil War. It proclaims that this man did his full duty.
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